Contexts in which the word community was used in the Senate during the 1970s

• He may recall that last Wednesday, 4th March, I asked him a question about the increase in bank overdraft interest rates and about the effect that such increase might have on certain sections of the community. [More…]

• The Minister may recall my request to him that the increase in interest rates be not applied to borrowers in the rural sector of the community. [More…]

• For the edification of honourable senators and, indeed, the community at large, will he provide definitions of the expressions currently used to describe Government activities, namely, the ‘Ginger Group’, the ‘Mushroom Club’ and the ‘Political Cave*, the last of which, I understand, has replaced what was formerly termed the ‘Cocktail Cabinet’? [More…]

• In view of the further publicity given to the Motor Marine and General Insurance Co. Ltd, can the Minister now report on allegations made by me some months ago emanating from complaints made by members of the Lebanese community in Sydney about car insurance policy misrepresentations? [More…]

• In view of the expressed concern of the Government regarding overheating of the economy will the Government agree to this practical proposal for an inquiry into the necessity for an increase in the prices of these commodities because the increases will affect the whole cost structure of the community? [More…]

• Dealing with the first part of the honourable senator’s question, as he knows and as we all know, the question of the various grants that are made to organisations doing good work in the community is dealt with at Budget time and is considered in the context of the Budget proposals. [More…]

• As local government performs a very important and necessary function in our society and as councillors, in carrying out their responsibilities, incur certain expenses, will the Treasurer give consideration to the introduction of an income tax deduction or allowance for councillors to offset to some extent the financial contribution that they make for the benefit of the community in their areas? [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the fact that the S2,000m a year Australian finance industry will soon increase the consumer and credit rates it charges to the public and industry, thus adding to the financial difficulties which are being experienced by those sectors of the community? [More…]

• It is concerned with the allocation of the revenues to be derived from the Australian community as between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]

• Supporters of the Government have also contributed to the debate, which is an examination of what is surely one of the most urgent problems facing not only the Australian community today but virtually every country in the world. [More…]

• The difference between the return obtained by any other person in the community and the return obtained by an agriculturalist for his labour and the capital he has devoted to his industry is causing serious concern. [More…]

• This is the last opportunity this Parliament will have to launch a health and medical scheme which will be accepted by all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• I think that during this debate he has proven that he has a complete grasp of the health requirements of the community. [More…]

• Some time ago 1 asked the Minister whether the Government would give consideration to the preparation and presentation of a White Paper on the economic consequences to Australia of Britain’s probable, and probably imminent, entry into the European Economic Community, ls the Minister in a position to indicate whether the Government is so disposed? [More…]

• I am aware that the whole impact of a prospective entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community is under constant study by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Primary Industry. [More…]

• In view of the announcement on the radio today that European Economic Community countries have invited the United Kingdom to apply for membership of the organisation, and the fact that this means so much to Australia in the matter of trade, will the Australian Government endeavour to have an observer present at any negotiations between Britain and the countries of the European Economic Community which are not held in closed conference? [More…]

• So much so that i have been interested enough to ask my Department to prepare for the general information of the Australian community a simple pamphlet on what is offering in charter Hying and the rules and the protection afforded people who want to avail themselves of charter flights. [More…]

• I do not think there is anybody in Australia who would not want to see, after all these years, the defence forces retirements benefits legislation have a thorough going over with unbiased people trying to help this section of our 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, ro a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should 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…]

• Pre-school and After-school education facilities are in urgent need within the Australia community. [More…]

• It will perform its true function of a community service. [More…]

• Is the Commonwealth able to make regulations in relation to the height of buildings adjacent to aerodromes not owned by the Commonwealth but which are in very real general use and which are filling a community need. [More…]

• That (here be referred to the Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade the following matter: The problems of the rural industries of Australia now and in the foreseeable future; and [hat the Committee be requested ro recommend as soon as possible what immediate steps should be taken to meet the existing crisis in the rural industries and what long term measures should be taken to restructure and achieve the utmost efficiency in the rural industries in order to ensure as far as possible the prosperity of rural industries and of the community based on them. [More…]

• If exemptions are granted to certain sections of the community, people down at the bottom of the scale will have to fill their places. [More…]

• f repeat that the Labor Party believes that other sections of the community should not have to fill in for the exemptions which are granted to the privileged classes. [More…]

• Does this appear a paradox in view of Britain’s proposed entry into the European Economic Community? [More…]

• The responsible Minister and the officers of the Department of Shipping and Transport have all been trying very hard to protect the interests of the Australian exporter and the Australian community. [More…]

• Will the Leader of the Government in the Senate affirm that the Government supports the right of people in this community to dissent? [More…]

• I think it was for assistance in setting up a community centre. [More…]

• We are progressing a long way in our attitude to Aboriginals in really absorbing them as part of our community. [More…]

• Now that it has done so, will he, on behalf of his Government, apologise to the pensioners and all the other sections of the community that have already been damaged by the Budget and will be damaged further by the unwise and panic measures that the Government has indicated it proposes to introduce? [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that such action on the part of some medical practitioners is certainly not in the best interests of the health of the Australian community, especially those people who are too ill to get out of bed to attend the doctor’s surgery? [More…]

• Has the Treasurer’s attention been directed to comments by a number of municipal officers and councillors in Victoria and in other States in which criticism has been made of the fact that a deduction for income tax exists for those land improvers who clear land and undergrowth in watershed areas and water catchment areas to the disadvantage of the community generally? [More…]

• Can the Minister for Health inform the Senate of the facts which influenced him to make the statement that fees at the Canberra Community Hospital would be raised by 44 per cent in public wards and 52 per cent in private wards? [More…]

• Does this, together with allied statements, indicate that the Labor Party believes that the doctors are the only section of the community which is not allowed to increase its fees? [More…]

• The result of that revision of their recommendations on the total cost to the community was a reduction from $35m to just over $9m. [More…]

• the community need assistance, in the view of the State, no doubt the States will come to the Commonwealth with a plan seeking some financial assistance in that way. [More…]

• He claimed that the Labor Party proposed to deny the rural community of Australia the assistance of $100m to be made available by these Bills. [More…]

• The proposition put forward by the Opposition is consistent with the observation made by Senator Webster, that it will be found that 5 times the amount provided by these measures would be required to meet the situation, I merely explain that the Opposition has no intention whatever of taking away from th rural community- the assistance of $100m. [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Now that the Opposition’s policy on Vietnam has been vindicated by the Government’s decision to withdraw most of our troops by Christmas, will the Leader of the Government tell us what has been achieved by our involvement there, apart from death and misery both for Australian troops and Vietnamese, bitterness and division in our community, the cost to us of more than $2,000m and a reputation in Asia and most of the world which will harm our nation for decades? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is the Government ready to answer publicly the pleas from Community Aid Abroad - an organisation under the patronage of Sir Garfield Barwick - for additional aid for the Pakistani refugees? [More…]

• Honourable senators will be happy to know, I am sure, that our colleague Senator Fitzgerald, who was admitted to Canberra Community Hospital last week, is convalescing well and is quite comfortable. [More…]

• In a Christian community the means of grace to attain to eternal life is something of absolute paramount importance. [More…]

• As Senator Little said, it is an advance which will be welcomed by all sections of the community. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say that I have shown as much willingness as has anybody else in the community to hear the view of the other fellow, irrespective of whether he threatened violence. [More…]

• This persistence in procedures which were appropriate to the last century is quite out of date in a modern, complicated industrial community. [More…]

• In view of the statement by the PostmasterGeneral that cigarette advertising on television should not be banned because the commercial stations need the revenue, I ask: Will the Minister confirm that in this matter the Government places a higher value on commercial profit than the health of the community? [More…]

• It is important that unions have their proper function within the community and that they be given their proper status and recognition. [More…]

• This is part of the propaganda put out by some elements in the community opposed to national service who, for their own purposes, endeavour to mislead young men into thinking they can break the law of the land with impunity. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry, concerns the projected entry of Great Britain into the European Economic Community and its consequential effects on our rural exports. [More…]

• As there is therefore no Government control of ABC news and information services what safeguard has the community against the danger that persons conducting such sessions on the ABC may not misuse their positions to slant information or present it unfairly, in accordance with their personal views. [More…]

• Fifteen of the .33 trade representatives currently in Europe are stationed in European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• My- question, which is directed to the- Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry, relates to Australia’s- future trade with countries in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services whether the Government is aware that Australia spends only about 5 per cent of the gross national product on social services whereas some European Economic Community countries spend about twice that percentage and Canada spends just less than twice that percentage? [More…]

• What are the prospects of exporting these commodities to the European Economic Community? [More…]

• In view of the considerable increase in the earnings in recent times of other sections of the community, will the Minister give consideration to a review of the fees payable by the Commonwealth to pharmacists under the National Health Act? [More…]

• The Opposition believes that the public interest demands that there be some strong law against the improper use of monopoly power in this community. [More…]

• It is intolerable that the Australian community should be left without any protec tion against the use of monopoly power which is demonstrably against the public interest. [More…]

• It was nothing less than that Senator Webster considered Mr Martin a ne’er-do-well and one not fit to take his place in the society of this community. [More…]

• I want to refute that implication in its entirety and to inform the Senate that until his trial Mr Martin was gainfully employed on a fruit block earning an honest living and paying his way in the community. [More…]

• The Netherlands was the only country in the European Economic Community area in which the cow herd increased. [More…]

• Taking into consideration the assistance that is granted to nursing homes which care for the elderly and taking into consideration the savings to the community when people care for their parents in their homes, will the Minister give consideration to making some form of assistance available to those who care for their aged parents so that such people are not disadvantaged when compared with those who place their parents in nursing homes? [More…]

• I hope that other committees will do their work with just as much enthusiasm and with just as much value, in the result, to the Senate and to the community. [More…]

• Those changes probably will be brought about by Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community, which could have serious implications for Australia’s butter and cheese trade with Britain. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that there is a growing opinion amongst doctors that the number of elderly people in the community is growing and that, with the exception of the new-born, illness occurs more frequently in the elderly than in any other group; if so, has the Commonwealth Government initiated any project designed to ascertain the need for future geriatric services. [More…]

• Pre-school and after-school education facilities arc in urgent need within the Australian community. [More…]

• The project arises from the longstanding 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…]

• In view of the fact that the Attorney-General has clearly failed in his duty and responsibility to ensure protection of the Australian community will he- [More…]

• This measure, as has been outlined by the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood), relates to the provision of nursing hostels for aged people which is, as we all know, an urgent need in our community. [More…]

• However, because of its importance to the community we find no reason to delay this measure. [More…]

• Dr McBride’s role in alerting the community to the association between thalidomide and congenital abnormalities is acknowledged. [More…]

• If the fragmentation of the Republic of Yugoslavia were to occur, as favoured by a minority of the Croatian community of Australia, would not the possibility arise that the Red fleet could have permanent access to Rijeka and other Adriatic Sea ports? [More…]

• These include community of interest 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, and the density or sparsity of population and the area of the division. [More…]

• A further project by Professor A. S. Henderson of the University of Tasmania, Department of Psychiatry, also includes work on the evaluation of community counselling services. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has been advised by the Public Service Board that the decision not to introduce daylight saving in Queensland is not expected to create problems for Commonwealth Departments which, of course, are required to provide a service to the community and therefore observe hours of duty which as far as practicable reflect community standards. [More…]

• We can justify it to the community. [More…]

• As the Minister’s advisers obviously well know, and as the trade union movement and, no doubt, government departments know, many agreements providing for that now exist in the community. [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Because of the obvious necessity for the community to have clear knowledge of the Government’s policy, will the honourable gentleman clarify a statement by Prime Minister Whitlam that the Australian Labor Party federal authorities - the Executive and the Conference - can be expected not to alter policy on which the Government was elected, at least until after the next general election? [More…]

• In reply to the series of questions directed to me by Senator Maunsell, it Ls a fact that telephonic communications for people in remote areas are virtually essential, but because of the financial policies that were pursued by the previous Government so far as postal services were concerned, the financial burden became quite heavy on the ordinary citizen in the community, lt is the policy of the present Government that the cost of telephone lines should be more a matter for payment from consolidated revenue than, as was the case under the previous Government, one for payment in a heavy manner by the subscribers. [More…]

• The amendment gives an unlimited operation to an Act of the Parliament that has features which are repugnant to all decent sections of the community. [More…]

• He would have regard to its effect on all sections of the community, including the rural sector. [More…]

• I think it should have become apparent to everyone that the Government will not tolerate terror or violence in this community, and steps certainly will betaken, either in the way that the honourable senator suggests or, perhaps even better, by some kind of notice being sent to the various newspapers as well as by whatever other means are available, to ensure that those who may not have got the message do get the message. [More…]

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

• I feel that we are discussing an emotional subject - the taking of life on behalf of the community. [More…]

• No, nobody in the community is immune from prosecution. [More…]

• Basically, the aim was to improve the utility value of directories by aligning the Directory coverage with trunk switching boundaries so that each book would contain an integrated alphabetical list of subscribers located within a community of interest who could call each other without the need for special dialling procedures. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report from the National Hospitals and Health Services Commission Interim Committee titled ‘A Community Health Program For Australia. [More…]

• During the course of the last Federal election campaign the Leader of the Australian Labor Party - the present Prime Minister - gave an undertaking that upon election to office a Labor Government would establish a schools commission to inquire into the needs of all sections of schools in the community. [More…]

• There is provision in the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations for the Minister for Customs and Excise to prohibit the importation of goods which, in his opinion, are of a dangerous character and a menace to the community. [More…]

• In fact, I am quite surprised that it is claimed that doctors have the highest suicide rate in the community. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Health been directed to the statement in this morning’s Press that doctors have the highest suicide rate in the community, namely 1 in 30? [More…]

• Perhaps the Government’s policy is that if airline travel is not within the reach of a small percentage of the community its charges should be so high that no one in the community can afford to travel that way. [More…]

• If this is a fact, how does the Government reconcile this attitude with the statement of the Minister for the Capital Territory on 21 August last that ‘the provision of more land should help those people in our community who prefer to help themselves with housing’? [More…]

• When that examination is completed the Government will decide what measures are desirable in the interests of the community. [More…]

• As the legislation is sectionally directed against one important section of the community for discriminatory impact, contributing to centralisation as the Government depresses the economy of the outlying areas and foments extravagant expenditure to create cities artificially, I content myself with saying that I was particularly impressed with Senator Webster’s speech. [More…]

• I believe that these allegations are so .cr mis that the Parliament and the Australian community will be satisfied with nothing less than the royal commission which has been advocated by Senator Laucke. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister agree that the average sum insured of $4,000 per policy is evidence of the fact that the ownership of policies is wide-spread throughout the community. [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…]

• If the answer is yes, we can, as can the whole of the community, disregard the first Bill and no longer study it. [More…]

• -And no confusion amongst the whole business community of Australia. [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Health concerns the free community health centre in Melba, Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• -There is no doubt that the Government will have the taxation situation as it affects all sections of the community under constant surveillance and if it thinks changes should be made they will be made. [More…]

• I think that everyone in the community would like to see price rises contained and, particularly price rises by some substantial corporations, justified. [More…]

• After paragraph (a) of sub-clause (1), insert the following paragraph: ( aa) 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…]

• -I understand that the decision on the new national anthem is to be made by a selected group of persons who will comprise a fairly substantial sample of the Australian community. [More…]

• How does the Government expect the rest of the community to resist copying this example which, in the face of the state of the economy, can only be described as gross mismanagement? [More…]

• I challenge any member of the Opposition to say that this is not what the Austraiian community wants and needs and will get. [More…]

• The National Health and Medical Research Council and the Government are aware of the personal problems and the cost to the community arising from mental disabilities. [More…]

• -Does the Minister for Primary Industry agree that the Australian farming community is confused by the situation which has developed over the future of the superphosphate bounty? [More…]

• Will the Minister introduce a system whereby a birth certificate will be required for identification before any claim is received or compensation paid, so putting a check on this practice, stopping these people from bludging on the community, particularly on the working man, and offending the genuinely unemployed? [More…]

• That the undersigned persons believe that some literature and films being published and shown throughout Australia arc detrimental to the wellbeing of the Community. [More…]

• Your Petitioners thereby humbly pray that the Government will take steps to sec that the publication and availability of pornographic and other material of that nature is restricted and that the people are made aware of the dangers to the Community from such literature and films. [More…]

• 1 ) I am aware that in Canada, America and the United Kingdom community centres involving the use of videotape and film have been encouraged and successfully established. [More…]

• Film Australia has completed its first community involvement program, ‘Whatever happened to Green Valley?’ [More…]

• The residents supervised the editing of the films and their presentation to a community audience. [More…]

• A result of this exercise was the establishment of two community action groups. [More…]

• Film Australia plans to go further into this field of sociological community film making. [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Minister aware that community involvement in film production overseas is being encouraged. [More…]

• That it is inequitable, inefficient and does not satisfy the needs of the community. [More…]

• That the undersigned persons believe that some literature and films being published and shown throughout Australia arc detrimental to the wellbeing of the Community. [More…]

• Your petitioners thereby humbly pray that the Government will take steps to see that the publication and availability of pornographic and other material of that nature is restricted and that the people are made aware of the dangers to the Community from such literature and films. [More…]

• That it is inequitable, inefficient and does not satisfy the needs of the community. [More…]

• That it is inequitable, inefficient and does not satisfy the needs of the community. [More…]

• I can tell the honourable senator that my Department is very much aware of the importance of the role of women in the community generally and is also particularly aware of the importance of the role of women in the media. [More…]

• Is this the precursor notoriously of general depression throughout the community? [More…]

• That it is inequitable, inefficient and does not satisfy the needs of the community. [More…]

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

• 4KQ does an outstanding job in community services and charitable matters. [More…]

• We were told that the Government was specifically applying those restrictions to the private sector and it was stated that that action was being taken for the very purpose of enabling the Government to expand the public welfare section of housing which it claimed was for the more needy persons in the community. [More…]

• We think that in the interests of the Australian financial community that would be desirable. [More…]

• This will be a landmark in occupational medicine and an example to other employers of community service and enlightened self-interest. [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Tourism and Recreation relates to federal assistance to community youth centres. [More…]

• Can the Minister indicate whether the old Post Office building at Streaky Bay in South Australia will be made available to local bodies interested in the preservation of the building for community activity purposes? [More…]

• that Pensioners transport be made free within the Federation where the Government has constitutional powers, to make all Government and Private transport free within the Federation to Pensioners and all other underpriviledged members of the community. [More…]

• In addition to what Australia has done already about Cypriot relief, what are the recent new decisions to accommodate the wishes of the Cypriot community in Australia as regards specific relief arrangements? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for the Media whether he has recently received a request from a coalition of groups based in Melbourne named the Community Radio Federation for an early decision on its application for a metropolitan AM broadcasting licence? [More…]

• One of the expressed aims of the community health program is to improve the quality of health care. [More…]

• Did Mr Barry Read, Chairman of the Community Committee of the Melba Health Centre, issue a press statement on 22 July 1974 concerning the resignation of Dr David Jarvis. [More…]

• In many areas there are opportunities and the Government is encouraging industry and the whole community to take advantage of the enormous resources we have and our skilled manpower. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• In view of the serious concern expressed by the general community over the misuse of fireworks, will the Minister be prepared to prohibit the importation of exploding fireworks? [More…]

• 1 ) Are five new Community Health Centres planned for the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney; if so, will the Centres be staffed by second-year resident medical officers seconded from teaching hospitals [More…]

• Over the- years he has made an incessant cry about the power of the Arbitration Commission and about elements in the community that he feels put their own rights above the public good. [More…]

• If ever there was such an element in the community, it is the hierarchies of the commercial broadcasting and television stations. [More…]

• It is stated on that page that no pensioner, or indeed any other member of the community, will be required to pay for the privilege of using his own radio or television set. [More…]

• The Community has had more than adequate opportunity to examine its contents and implications. [More…]

• It may be accidental or coincidental that his concern occurs at the same time as there is talk in the community of an election. [More…]

• But we on this side of the Senate suggest that the increase is not sufficient because of the rate at which costs are increasing in the community. [More…]

• It seems to me that this is a legitimate figure and one that can be supported by the rate of inflation and, hopefully, some productivity increase in the community. [More…]

• But I cannot see how Opposition senators can reconcile their advocacy tonight to spend many hundreds of millions of dollars more of the community’s funds as I imagine Senator Baume ‘s advocacy would mean. [More…]

• I assume that what is contained in this amendment is a promise to the community by the Opposition if it comes to office in the near future or in the longer period of time. [More…]

• In the same way I take it that the amendment moved in relation to the grants to Tasmania was a promise to the community. [More…]

• And whereas such assistance is in keeping with that provided in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and New Zealand, and United Nations Organisations such as UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, FAO and WHO, and such non-Government organisations as the World Council of Churches, the Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign, Community Aid Abroad, and some Roman Catholic Aid Agencies in Europe; [More…]

• The community has had more than adequate opportunity to examine its contents and implications. [More…]

• And whereas such assistance is in keeping with that provided by Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and New Zealand, and United Nations Organisations such as UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, FAO and WHO, and such non-Government organisations as the World Council of Churches, the Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign, Community Aid Abroad, and some Roman Catholic Aid Agencies in Europe; [More…]

• The Community has had more than adequate opportunity to examine its contents and implications. [More…]

• In view of the Government’s final realisation that it is the private sector of the economy which provides the wealth of a community and allows a government to carry out its social program, will the Government provide a further impetus to the private sector by not proceeding with its capital gains tax and its misguided tax on what the Government is pleased to call ‘unearned income’? [More…]

• As I understand it, the headquarters or the office or the administration centre of this organisation dealing with young people and rendering a community service of some particular significance and value is placed outside the defined boundary area. [More…]

• 1 ) Did Mr V. Bukevicius, President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community in Australia ask the Prime Minister, by letter, dated 28 April 1974, what was his policy regarding the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• Clarke, Gazzard and Flower, put forward a plan for re-housing the Aboriginal Community at Mowanjum. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware of the recent criticism made by Mr Ralph Hunt, the Opposition spokesman in the House of Representatives, that the Department of Aboriginal Affairs has been negligent in assisting the Aboriginal community at Moree in establishing a housing society? [More…]

• 1 ) On what date was Mr A. J. Grassby appointed to the position of Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• Leave out all words after ‘Order of the day’, insert ‘ for the first sitting day in March 1975 to enable the Government to consult with the Aboriginal people living in the reserve communities in the State of Queensland and their elected councils and other bodies and further to ascertain by poll taken within those communities the wishes of those people in relation to future restrictions upon the right of entry to those community areas’. [More…]

• I had no knowledge that Aborigines were employed in such activities until it was reported to me by the Aboriginal community at Leonora. [More…]

• That the parents to benefit most relatively from educational income tax deductions, in the past and even more in the future, are the parents of children in government schools and this has a divisive effect in the Australian community. [More…]

• I hope that when the motion is passed there will be rejoicing in the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The fact is that other factors have been principally the cause of unemployment at the present time in the community. [More…]

• The question of interest rates is a general matter of government policy and naturally applies to all sectors of the community. [More…]

• It seems to me that people in the community should be free to lodge objections. [More…]

• 1 ) Are Community Development Officers needed for the proper functioning of the Australian Assistance Plan especially to ensure effective and representative community participation. [More…]

• Are sufficient Community Development Officers available for recruitment at the present time. [More…]

• It will obviously affect that member not only in the amount involved but also in what it does to his standing in the community. [More…]

• Is it correct that the Aboriginal people in the area desire to reside there once again, although the State Government has not agreed to hand ownership of the land to the Aboriginal community? [More…]

• I refer the Minister representing the Attorney-General to the statement which appeared in the ‘Australian Women’s Weekly’ on legal aid which said that offices of the Australian Legal Aid Office are opening outside ordinary business hours at times that are most convenient for the local community. [More…]

• I would not imagine that any calls for people to cancel insurance from any particular society on the basis of statements which may be made by anyone in the community will have much impact. [More…]

• On the one hand, we have a desire in the Senate and in the community to protect, to assist and to preserve. [More…]

• I suggest to you, Mr President, and to my colleagues that here is an occasion when the Senate needs time to make sure that the whole community understands what is involved in this legislation and that all those affected have a chance to put forward their views. [More…]

• An Australian Government grant of $3,196,000 will help provide a comprehensive, modern community centre at Angle Park (Electorate of Port Adelaide). [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/senate/1975/19750605_senate_29_s64/#subdebate-59-13)

• A great deal of disquiet has been caused in the community as to the propriety of that action and of the people involved. [More…]

• 1 ) As Community Video Resource Centres make it possible for members of the public to make video tapes on community based projects and that community groups wishing to keep a tape for later use can do this on payment of $12.00 towards the cost of the tape, with whom does the copyright for the tapes remain. [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that community groups using the video resource centres and willing to pay for their tapes should be allowed to keep the copyright and thus keep their entitlement to performing rights for any tapes with entertainment value. [More…]

• Unemployment figures in respect of refugees who arrived in 1974 and are now in the community are not available, but among those residing in hostels throughout Australia on 4.8.75 there were 27 breadwinners of Chilean nationality both refugees and non-refugees not in employment. [More…]

• Under the previous Schemes there was no provision for community groups to initiate worthwhile projects; this aspect has been stressed under the RED Scheme. [More…]

• One of the factors in a situation such as the present one is confidence in the community generally. [More…]

• I do not think we do service to the business community, to the country, to the Government or to the Opposition if we attempt to stir up further lack of confidence. [More…]

• Do these facts or physical isolation make the provision of a telephone for this community of several hundred people an urgent necessity. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators 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…]

• 1 ) What publications have been regularly produced by (a) the Australian National Gallery; (b) the Historic Memorials Committee; (c) the Australia Council; (d) the Film and Television School; (e) the Australian Exhibit Organisation; (f) the Australian Archives; (g) the Office of the Australian War Graves; (h) the Australian War Memorial; (i) the National Library; (j) the National Advisory Committee on International Women’s Year; (k) the National Advisory Council for the Handicapped; (1) the Australian Assistance Plan; and (m) other bodies responsible to the Prime Minister in the areas of the arts, cultural affairs and community development. [More…]

• What other publications have been regularly produced by the Commonwealth Government and the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory in the areas of the arts, cultural affairs, national heritage and community development not referred to in ( 1 ). [More…]

• What has to be seen and has to be seen clearly is that we have to bring about a psychological change in the thinking of the Government that you support, Sir, and support for proper reasons, so that it accepts that we cannot advance our social structure any faster than the wealth is created in the community and that once the demand in the form of welfare upon the productive resources of the community exceeds a given point- I suggest that it is reaching that stage now if it has not already reached it- the economy begins to sag. [More…]

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

• Secondly, the Tasmanian community is groaning under the huge increases in freight charges that this Government authorised to the extent of 40 per cent within the last 2 months. [More…]

• However, with the achievement of adequate active immunization cover of the community the need for human tetanus immunoglobulin should gradually decrease. [More…]

• Guests invited by Qantas to travel on its inaugural flights to Belgrade on 28 May and 11 June 1975 comprised representatives from the travel industry, news media and other community and commercial organizations. [More…]

• While he is obtaining those figures I ask him to give the Committee an assurance that under this Bill there is no possibility of unemployment being created by the Government’s action and that those industries which are affected by this high government impost will not find that they are disadvantaged to the extent that unemployment may increase in the community. [More…]

• to widen access to, and the understanding and application of, the arts in the community generally’, in respect of his Department’s access to information on the creative and performing arts. [More…]

• 1 ) How many individual offices for community information and help like taxation, legal aid, et cetera has the Government established since December 1972 in (a) Launceston, (b) Hobart, and (c) other places in Tasmania. [More…]

• ls this the most severe Budget cut affecting any group in the Australian community? [More…]

• lt is intended to appoint a special Adviser to the Australian Housing Corporation to represent the interests of those members of the community who qualify for benefits under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Social Security: Can he say whether a study of the pattern of calls to the Department of Social Security’s Telephone Interpreter Service has been made and, if so, is he able to say whether there is sufficient community awareness of the service to justify its continuance? [More…]

• This Regional Council has access to administrative and community development officer funds, but does not yet have access to capitation funds for the support or initiation of welfare services within the region. [More…]

• 1 ) Can the Minister list all individual centres within Australia where citizens can be referred for social security and welfare, legal information and other advice in what are generally known as community aid centres. [More…]

• If there are hundreds of thousands of Australians who want an answer to that question, let me assure Senator Greenwood that there are millions of Australians waiting for an answer from the Opposition as to whether the growing apprehensions in the Australian community are to continue because of the attitude taken by the Opposition. [More…]

• and (3) Ethnic Radio was initiated under the Attorney-General’s Department through the office of the then Consultant for Community Relations, Mr A. Grassby, for an experimental twelve week period. [More…]

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

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and relates to the inquiryintoFraserIsland.CantheMinister inform the House of the present state of that inquiry and of the present position of the Government in relation to the report of such inquiry if and when it is tabled? [More…]

• As the Minister for the Northern Territory has previously indicated the amount of cuts for this financial year and the deferment of further amounts to the next financial year, will the Minister comment on those news items, having in mind that there is considerable apprehension in the Northern Territory community with many firms in the building industry retrenching staff because of their uncertainty for the future? [More…]

• I have listened to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood), who represents the Attorney-General in this place. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development inform the Parliament whether it is the intention of the Department of Defence to allow nuclear powered vessels eventually to use Cockburn Sound facilities? [More…]

• Can the Minister advise further whether his Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has recommended that such facilities should not be made available for the use of this type of vessel? [More…]

• The use of falcons in this way is being carefully co-ordinated with the appropriate State National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Commonwealth Department of 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…]

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

• Did the Minister have discussions with the Aboriginal community at Aurukun relating to the dispute between the community and the Queensland Government on the Queensland Government’s decision to allow mining on tribal lands in the Aurukun region; if so, what were the results of those discussions. [More…]

• When will the Migrant Community Services Branch of the Department of Social Security be transferred to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]

• As a matter of fact I have become increasingly aware that the Australian Labor Party as a whole has repeatedly indulged in this organised hate campaign against certain sections of our community. [More…]

• The amendment points to one section of the community. [More…]

• Is the Opposition wanting to list all those wage earners who are affected by the tariffs which this Government has rightly imposed on every industry or is it once again just seeking to hit one section of the community and stir up the whole of the Australian population? [More…]

• The Association is already receiving support under the Community Health Program for the conduct of a nursing clinic at Karumba. [More…]

• Has the Minister received a submission from the Karumba Progress Association requesting funds totalling $9,000, this amount being 75 per cent of the total cost of the construction of a new clinic; if so, will the Minister undertake to give priority to this submission so that the Aboriginal community of Karumba will not be without a clinic should they lose the use of their present premises. [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…]

• What role does the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development play in water pollution monitoring. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• The Opposition, as a political Party, some time ago gave consideration to the terms of the motion now put forward by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood). [More…]

• I am sure that he will agree with me that the BorgWarner plant at Albury is an integral part of the community and that the future of the AlburyWodonga growth centre would be severely affected if the plant were forced to close. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable senator that, at no time, have I instructed or hinted to my Department, either orally or in writing, that it should give any section of the community, including people living in my electorate, any special consideration. [More…]

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

• 1 ) To the best of my recollection, members of the deputation expressed concern at what were alleged to be actions committed by a section of the Croatian community in Australia. [More…]

• Did a deputation from the Sydney Yugoslav community, which Senator Mulvihill introduced to the AttorneyGeneral several weeks ago, express concern at the rising pressures developing from ultra right wing elements in the Croatian section of the community. [More…]

• On behalf of Senator Greenwood, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, pursuant to section 8 of the Urban and Regional Development (Financial Assistance) Act 1974-75, I present an agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of Western Australia over the provision of financial assistance for Urban Expansion and Redevelopment (Moore River study) 1 975-76. [More…]

• Against the background of community practice in other areas, detailed studies, involving the staff organisations, were conducted. [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…]

• What role does the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development play in air pollution monitoring. [More…]

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

• What regulations or other provisions exist in the Australian Capital Territory for the provision of aids for the handicapped in (a) community facilities and (b) other buildings, such as shops and public transport. [More…]

• Let me address myself, as Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar), to the matters raised by Senator Mulvihill. [More…]

• What expertise do persons conducting the inquiry have for assessing the needs of the Australian community in broadcasting. [More…]

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

• For the information of honourable senators, 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…]

• Does the Department take any special action to overcome the problem of unemployment in the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Is such a proposal contrary to the recommendations of Mr Justice Woodward that mining on Aboriginal lands should be with the complete agreement of the Aboriginal community concerned, unless it was in the national interest and approved by both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]

• My Department has received no request for financial assistance but is represented on an Interdepartmental Committee, appointed by the Prime Minister and serviced by the Department of Social Security, to estimate the numbers of South Sea Islanders in Australia and examine their demographic distribution; assess the economic and local characteristics of the Islanders and to decide if they are in any way disadvantaged as a group relative to other groups in the Australian community; evaluate their special needs, if any, and to recommend appropriate forms of government assistance to meet those needs. [More…]

• I am advised that within the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the information comes into a central computer and is available to be fed back to the States and to various bodies at the decentralised levels. [More…]

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

• Is the Minister for Social Security aware that there has been concern in the community that people have not yet received their family allowance cheques? [More…]

• I again refer the Senate to the explanatory memorandum that was circulated by the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Senator Greenwood. [More…]

• Conscious of the fact that most of the unemployed apprentices will never be able to complete their training (thus creating a continuing problem for the industry, and indeed the community as a whole) unless immediate urgent measures are provided for in the Federal Government ‘s Budget; [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a statement in the Canberra Times dated 13 July 1976, by the Senior Medical Officer of the Central Australian Aborigines Congress, Dr Trevor Cutter, that three government Health Departments have failed to recruit a medical practitioner to establish a community health service for the Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal tribe in central Australia. [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…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’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…]

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

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

• 1 ) Which statutory authorities come under the control of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

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

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

• If so, does such loan carry with it any conditions disallowing expanded social welfare programs and benefits to the Australian community, such as have been laid down in the past to dictatorships such as Chile which received funds from the Fund after the coup which overthrew the elected Allende Government on 11 September 1973. [More…]

• 1 ) The Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations is the only statutory authority controlled by the Department. [More…]

• The present appointee of the office of Commissioner for Community Relations is Mr Albert Jaime Grassby. [More…]

• The community has to pay. [More…]

• Nevertheless, if there is restraint by doctors and they maintain an admirable ethical standard the health care cost of this country can be kept at around $2,000m; and the community will pay. [More…]

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

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

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

• Will the Government, in line with its stated policy of support for community environmental organisations, be prepared to subsidise the Council on a realistic three-to-one basis as it is not able to raise sufficient funds to continue its vital work. [More…]

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

• I ) How many staff members from the former Departments of (a) Urban and Regional Development, (b) Environment, (c) Housing and (d) Tourism and Recreation, who were listed on those Departments ‘ establishments on 1 1 November 1975, are currently positioned with the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• ) How many staff from the former Departments listed in ( 1 ) have not been employed in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, and what arrangements have been made to employ them in alternative Federal Government Departments. [More…]

• But in a modern community the total cost of providing all the services that people want- I use the word ‘want’ rather than the word need’- is likely to be so prohibitive that a line has to be drawn. [More…]

• Has the Order, Comalco Ltd, or the Aboriginal community of Weipa approached the Department of Aboriginal Affairs about this matter since the Annual General Meeting of Comalco in Melbourne on 14 April 1976. [More…]

• Does the Minister, or the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, intend to intervene in the discussions on the suggested renegotiation of the agreement between the Aboriginal community and Comalco Ltd. [More…]

• What assistance has (a) Comalco Ltd, (b) the Australian Government, and (c) the Queensland Government given to the Aboriginal community of Weipa since the date mining rights at Weipa were first granted to Comalco Ltd. [More…]

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

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

• They give their services free and willingly to the service of the community. [More…]

• In view of the fact that large sections of the Hay report appeared in an article by Anthony Hill in the Financial Review dated 15 August 1976, will the Minister agree to release the entire report so that the Parliament and the community can gain a balanced view of its contents and recommendations. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development I present for the information of honourable senators the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development I present for the information of honourable senators the final report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry. [More…]

• I have some information concerning the water supply to the Aboriginal community at Point McLeay. [More…]

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

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

• Grants for community-based services, which encompass paramedical services to aged persons, are made to all States under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• Total State expenditures of Commonwealth funds provided under the Community Health Program in 1975-76 were: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development relating to the Fraser Island environmental inquiry. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development relating to the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]

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

• Did the Brotherhood of St Laurence submit a proposal to the previous Labor Government in November 1975 for a community based job creation program. [More…]

• During an Estimates Committee hearing the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) indicated in relation to the Kakadu National Park that in the national interest the Minister for the Northern Territory and the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development would be the ultimate deciders on the boundaries of that park. [More…]

• Simply to recapitulate, I am anxious to know in relation to the Northern Territory the roles of the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Minister for the Northern Territory to whom reference was made in the Estimates Committee hearing. [More…]

• In the light of the exposure that applies to that Commission, will the same thing apply in relation to negotiations between the Australian Heritage Commission and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development or even the Prime Minister? [More…]

• I use that expression because, as the Minister would be aware, as late as last Friday the State Ministers for Wildlife and Conservation conferred with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman. [More…]

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

• What is the projected staff ceiling for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development as at 30 June 1977. [More…]

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

• As to his last suggestion, I will certainly bring that to the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• Mr Boden Between the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Minister for the Northern Territory. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I table the report entitled ‘Indicators of Community Well-being’. [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 senator’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…]

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

• I am aware of the concern of the Australian community about alcohol and the dangers associated with its misuse. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that this Senate in Parliament assembled should help the Hungarian speaking community to regain confidence in the democratically elected Senate known for its conscientious and wise judgement in restoring peace and faith in democratic principles, which unfortunately are missing from the present management set-up of the Ethnic Radio broadcasters. [More…]

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

• I will give it the widest currency in the community. [More…]

• I am sure many people in the community would like to know what Senator O’Byrne, the Australian Labor Party senator for Tasmania, said tonight. [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, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs relating to that report. [More…]

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

• Does the Minister intend to leave these pre-schools under-utilised or will some be made available for other forms of child care or other community use. [More…]

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

• He made great play of the fact that during his period of office as Minister for Labour and Immigration in 1975, he brought to the attention of the then Government the need to reduce the pressures of inflation on this community. [More…]

• Senator Melzer as usual has made a very thoughtful speech concerning the disadvantaged people in the community, especially those former members of the Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force in particular. [More…]

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

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’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…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question from information furnished by the respective State housing authorities. [More…]

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

• In view of the extremely serious nature of this comment by the Director and the appalling conditions of large sections of the Aboriginal community, will the Minister investigate the matter immediately and ensure that the staff ceilings are altered in order that the Department may meet its commitments effectively? [More…]

• The Inquiry is the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who may be able to provide additional information on this matter. [More…]

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

• 1 ) How often is the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development’s publication Environs to be published. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development: ‘Environs’ Magazine (Question No. [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…]

• 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…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for National Resources or the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, whichever is concerned. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Treasurer seen recent Press reports that there is uncertainty in the business community as to whether applications for overseas borrowings for the development of new projects and the expansion of industry, including the purchase of plant and equipment in the mining and manufacturing industries, are eligible for exemption from the variable deposit ratio scheme? [More…]

• What I try to do is to maintain a balance in the situation between the manufacturer, those who work in the community of manufacturing, consumers, importers and retailers. [More…]

• Mr President, one thing should be said over and over again: The proposition that increased imports of clothing and textiles into Australia would decrease the cost to the Australian community was not brought on by this Government. [More…]

• 1 ) Why has the Bailey Task Force allowed so little time for State governments and community organisations to prepare submissions to the Task Force inquiry. [More…]

• The main objectives of the Institute would be to foster the development of the maximum potential of mentally retarded persons, their inclusion into the mainstream of community life and the development of services for the retarded as part of comprehensive general community health and welfare services. [More…]

• The distillate was required urgently to replenish stocks for the generator supplying power to the island’s civil community. [More…]

• asked the Minister represent ing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• During 1976 sections of the community made some attempts to decentralise, and I should stress that the majority of outstations about Papunya are new. [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• The new educational commission, with the new levels of financial support, will combine opportunities for a better development of balanced educational programs in our community. [More…]

• It is an expression of our present and continuing commitment to education in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a community station established by the previous Government and, as I am advised, with particularly strong trade union and, I think, Labor Party membership. [More…]

• I am aware from the brief opportunity I have had by way of inquiry that, in fact, the Jewish community has asserted in the past that 3CR appears to be anti- Jewish. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• 1) In what trades have apprentices been employed in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development since 1 July 1970. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

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

• 1 ) The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development was formally created on 22 December, 1975. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

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

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

• Already, a beginning has been made through the Community Health Program which has provided support for some services specifically designed to cater for the health needs of migrant groups and for other services to be located in areas of high migrant population. [More…]

• The Government is presently considering the recommendations of the Inter-departmental Working Party set up to examine future requirements for interpreters and translators and to make recommendations for the improvement of interpreting and translating services available to the Australian community. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 10 March 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister seen a statement in the First Annual Report (1976) of the Commissioner for Community Relations that ‘the greatest inadequacy in public services in Australia lies in the field of mental health’; if so, is this statement correct. [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Minister aware that social security cheques being forwarded to Aboriginal settlement missions in Queensland are being opened by community officers and deductions are being made from the cheques for rental and electricity costs and that the balance is then handed on to the Aboriginal addressee. [More…]

• Housing and Community Development announced the Government’s policy on growth centres. [More…]

• In April 1976 my Department was approached by the Redlynch community for assistance in the acquisition of land which could be used in the short term as a caravan site and in the longer term as an aged persons home. [More…]

• If it is not too voluminous could it be incorporated in Hansard for the information of honourable senators and the community? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 3 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: 1 have had correspondence with Mr Justice Fox on a number of issues. [More…]

• Can the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) indicate at this point what funding will be available for the Community Relations Office, the establishment of which was provided for in the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]

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

• I refer to a question asked by me last week in respect of the continued funding of new projects under the Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• Does he also accept that the reason why it is necessary to have such legislation and to improve upon such legislation is that high interest rates exist in the community at the present time for those who wish to purchase homes? [More…]

• Furthermore, does he not accept that the Government, by making special loan issues to the community at high interest rates has forced up to record heights the interest rates that building societies have to pay and therefore have to charge? [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Minister aware of widespread dissatisfaction that exists within the Australian rural community, particularly within the United Farmers and Woolgrowers’ Association, with the Government’s failure to proceed with substantial reforms in the areas of meat and wool marketing. [More…]

• ls the Minister further aware that the rural community is waiting on a definite statement from him on the Government’s attitude to the future of the Australian Meat Board. [More…]

• How many persons are currently receiving assistance in each State and Territory under (a) theNational Employment Training Scheme, (b) the Community Youth Support Scheme, (c) the Special Incentive for Youth Employment Training Scheme, (d) the National Apprenticeship Assistance Scheme, and (e) the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprenticeship Full-Time Training Scheme. [More…]

• The honourable senator’s question refers to a project approved for funding under the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• I do not think there is any industry in which it came as such a surprise either to the industry or to the community as a whole. [More…]

• Community Youth Support Scheme (CYSS). [More…]

• Those institutions could be expected though to pay regard to contemporary community needs and aspirations in determining their research priorities. [More…]

• There have been debates at schools throughout the whole of the community. [More…]

• The first reactor has been working for 35 years now and that is something of which I do not believe the majority of the community are aware. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill I am introducing to the Senate 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 provision of services to the Australian community, and to 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 wellbeing of a modern day community. [More…]

• I do not need to remind honourable senators 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…]

• The Aboriginal community in Queensland, however, is assisted by regular visiting services twice monthly to outlying areas and missions from departmental officers situated at Cairns and Mount Isa. [More…]

• Senator Colston raised a matter which concerned what appeared to him to be an apparent difference between the briefing data provided by, presumably, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and replies given through myself from the Minister concerned in relation to questions put on notice by Senator Colston. [More…]

• As the matter can only be clarified within the jurisdiction of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and his Department, in response to Senator Colston’s request I shall draw the attention of the Minister to the matter and seek clarification. [More…]

• ) Has the Federal Government considered conducting a nation-wide campaign to (a) alert the general public to the rising incidence of venereal disease in the community, and [More…]

• As Senator Carrick has indicated that officers from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development will be present at hearings of Estimates committees the week after next, I will reserve until a future date my comment on this review. [More…]

• Does not the Minister agree that the public should be aware of the actual costs which the community pays in the protection of specific industries? [More…]

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

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

• -I suggest that that table, when read by the Australian community, will undo the remarks of the Minister in his reply to the second reading debate. [More…]

• It related to a journey to Canberra which has been undertaken by members of the Aboriginal community who are now living at Lockridge. [More…]

• In the process, of course, I hope that it will continue to lead to a further understanding of public finance both by the Senate and by the community. [More…]

• I believe, as I said earlier, that the Senate is a very good institution in which some of these matters can be examined and discussed in the hope that we will learn more, that the Government will be a better government in the process and that gradually the community will understand these matters. [More…]

• If they are to remain in Australia, where will they be accommodated, and what action will be taken to assimilate them into the Australian community. [More…]

• What is the Government’s attitude towards the offers made by State Governments and community organisations to provide accommodation and sustenance for these refugees. [More…]

• to (5) I am informed that studies made of the incidence of mental illness amongst migrants in Australia over a period of years indicate that the rates are not, in general, abnormally high compared with the community as a whole. [More…]

• In addition, single persons, have in the absence of family or community support here, developed mental illness requiring hospitalisation. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of a statement in the First Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for 1976 that some ethnic groups have 19 times the average rate of admissions to mental hospitals. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and /or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969, [More…]

• 1 133 to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the answer to which confirms the existence of the Leadbeater possum, the fact that certain problems are presented but that in the final analysis the preservation of its habitat is a matter for the Victorian Forestry Commission. [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Minister aware of a statement in the Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for 1976 that if problems relating to mental health services for immigrants are to be overcome, three approaches should be taken: ( a ) encourage the migration of more bi-lingual professionals; (b) adequate professional interpreter services: and (c) every Australian professional in the mental health field should, as part of that person’s training, undertake a course to provide some appropriate background on this problem. [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 the second reading speech on that Bill, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) 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…]

• Will the Minister agree that many sections of the community, including supporters of the Government who have left the Government in despair, have been and are critical of the Government for its own severe restrictions on public sector expenditure and for some time have been urging the Government itself to stimulate the level of economic activity in Australia and, by so doing, create more jobs? [More…]

• Has the Queensland Government refused permission for departmental officers to visit reserve communities in order to compile community profiles? [More…]

• -As one of those who signed the majority report, and ap- parently did soin a state of drunkenness and de- li rium, I hope that the rest of the community, the Parliament and the Press will take a serious look at what is a very serious report. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 April 1 977: [More…]

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

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development explain to the chamber the safeguards entered into by the Whitlam Labor Government when it organised the mining and export of Australian uranium just two years ago? [More…]

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

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

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Social Security say whether the term ‘community based’ when applied to child care centres can be taken to refer to the working community? [More…]

• 1) On what date did the Aboriginal Community Centre of South Australia Inc., seek funds to purchase a building. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 18 October: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1977: [More…]

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

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 September 1 977: [More…]

• We have consulted UNICEF and other bodies active in promoting the celebration of the International Year of the Child and I would hope that the announcement to which I have referred will lead to the formation of a committee to undertake this work and to ensure that this Year is celebrated in the community in a way that represents a fitting contribution by Australia. [More…]

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

• Therefore it does raise, of course, the question of individual values and whether the programs conform with what the community feels ought to be desirable. [More…]

• There is, I think, a genuine public interest in matters relating to social education and social science as well as in the question of social values, community values, and whether, in schools, programs exceed the limits that one may judge. [More…]

• Are tax cuts a necessary part of the Government’s program to stimulate consumer demand and thus assist the business community to restore full economic activity? [More…]

• During the regime of the Whitlam Government, the Government formed by the party to which the honourable senator belongs, nominal wages went up about 37 per cent in a period of 18 months, tariffs were cut across the board by 25 per cent and a complete depression was caused throughout the community. [More…]

• I am not capable of deciding what the understanding of the Opposition would be but perhaps I am able to help the community at large. [More…]

• Taken as a whole, the slowing down of the upsurge in costs will do two things: It will increase the purchasing power of the community by delimiting inflation and reducing interest rates and, as a spinoff, will preserve savings whereas they were deteriorating rapidly in years past; and, of course, it will help to reduce the cost of a home. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is that statement not a clear indication by the Commission that it views the Government’s tax cuts as unjust and as a transfer of wealth from the poorer to the wealthier sections of the community? [More…]

• Thirdly, in view of the Government’s oft repeated concern for community involvement and parent choice in education, what action will the Minister take to see that the parent organisations of all those Queensland schools which have sought to retain the MACOS program will not be denied freedom of choice in this matter? [More…]

• As I have pointed out, the factors referred to by the honourable senator, including isolation and lack of community facilities, are taken into consideration in determining the value of the accommodation to the employee. [More…]

• Does the Minister realise that the beneficiaries of these schemes are people who are part of the more productive sections of the community, for example, mining towns, cattle and sheep properties and railway settlements, and that these reduced rents are to compensate for the isolation and lack of facilities that urban Australia takes for granted? [More…]

• The aim is to have the community study the material so that we may have value judgments made upon it. [More…]

• achieve sustained growth in the Australian economy through balanced development of Australian industries with a view to providing increased opportunities for employment and investment; (aa) improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used, while ensuring that any measures to achieve changes in the structure of industry are taken only after having due regard to the capacity of the economy to sustain those changes and to absorb any members of the work force displaced by those changes; [More…]

• My understanding is that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is currently examining this issue and expects to make recommendations to the Minister in the near future on the subject. [More…]

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

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that some 14 home owners in Salisbury, South Australia, are now placed in financial difficulties, with some of their homes being sold, because the building contractor to whom they were making loan repayments has become bankrupt? [More…]

• The Minister will be aware that the Commission was appointed following debate in the Parliament and that its report was the product of considerable representations from a wide cross-section of community opinion covering numerous issues of public importance. [More…]

• The Department pays unemployment benefits to people in the Australian community who satisfy the terms of eligibility, that is, that they are available for work, are seeking work, and accept offers of work. [More…]

• Due to litigation by community bodies against the establishment of the two centres in Brisbane, funds were not required as originally anticipated. [More…]

• Mr Southwell not only gave great service to this Parliament in his capacity as an attendant, but he was also renowned in the community as a coach and great follower of Australian Rules junior football teams. [More…]

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

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

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

• As the dispute amongst Yugoslavs in Australia has been aired on so many occasions in the Parliament most of us are conversant with the bitterness that exists not only between the apparent rival groups who have their origins in that country but which, unfortunately, has spilled over into the Australian community. [More…]

• I trust that these people will abandon what is, in fact, a sore in our community. [More…]

• I am sure that they do not wish to see continued, even within their own community, the sorts of troubles and bitterness of which, unfortunately, they have been victims in years gone by. [More…]

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

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

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

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

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

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

• As a result of an earlier question on this matter asked by the honourable senator, the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development wrote to the Victorian Minister for Conservation, Mr Borthwick. [More…]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• -The Minister representing the Minister for Health will no doubt remember that late last year I asked the Minister in the interests of the health of our community to seek consideration by the Treasurer of a differential excise on beer with a low percentage of alcohol. [More…]

• Does the Minister feel that the health of our community is more important than the protection of the excise that the Government presently receives from beer sales? [More…]

• Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 7 March 1978: [More…]

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

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

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

• Was an organisation formed in Sydney last Sunday, by about 200 members of Sydney’s Vietnamese community, known as the New South Wales Chapter of the Greater Overseas Alliance for National Restoration of Vietnam which has as its aim the ultimate overthrow of the Government of Vietnam? [More…]

• 1 ) An Adelaide firm of chartered accountants, Wallace, McMullin and Smail, was commissioned by the Aboriginal Community Centre of South Australia on 13 April 1976 to investigate the operations of a Special Work Project funded by my Department. [More…]

• The Aboriginal Community Centre was asked to take appropriate action where the evidence indicated that a misuse of funds had occurred. [More…]

• Did the Aboriginal Community Centre of South Australia Inc. commission the firm of Mount & Brown, Wallace, McMullin and Partners, chartered accountants of Adelaide, to investigate the use of monies made available by the Government to the Centre as a Special Works Project. [More…]

• I remind the Minister of recent statements by the Prime Minister to the effect that it is the responsibility of the business community to get the economy moving again and I refer the Minister to reports that the Special Youth Employment Training Scheme is becoming increasingly susceptible to abuse by companies. [More…]

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

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

• It is assumed that the Press Release to which the honourable senator refers is that released by the former Minster for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the honourable Kevin Newman, M.P., on 1 4 October 1977. [More…]

• A meeting was held on 2 June 1977 between the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman and the Queensland Premier, who is directly responsible for the environment in that State. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development advise the progress to date of the housing cost inquiry and an estimate of when the report is likely to be presented? [More…]

• l ) to (4) The Government has undertaken to develop in consultation with the States a scheme to bring Australian art out of the galleries into the community. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that the only way fully to avoid the disturbing consequences of rubella is by implementing a compulsory program of rubella vaccination for relevant sections of the community? [More…]

• Squash Centres, 3 out of 7; Ten Pin Bowling Centres, 2 out of 2; Public Libraries, 2 out of 7; Community Halls, 2 out of 26: Basketball Stadiums,1 out of1; Sporting Clubs with Premises, 15 out of 44. [More…]

• I draw the attention of all honourable senators and the community to the table which I have incorporated in Hansard. [More…]

• Despite a too widely held belief in the community to the contrary, there are many unemployed persons in the community who actively seek out work, even to the extent of travelling vast distances in looking for work. [More…]

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

• 1 ) Inspections of the rehabilitation of areas disturbed by mineral sands mining on Fraser Island were carried out by officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development on 15 June 1977 and 19 January 1978. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 4 April 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Were inspections carried out, by officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, of the rehabilitation of sandmined areas on Fraser Island since 3 1 December 1976, when sandmining ceased; if so, when. [More…]

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

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

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development inform the Senate of the progress that has been made in the rehabilitation program for the Glebe Estate in Sydney? [More…]

• I understand that the Government will be suggesting to the Legislative Assembly in each Territory that it consider the recommendation which calls for a review of health, welfare and community development programs in the context of moves towards selfgovernment and that the Government has offered assistance to the assemblies for any follow up of that recommendation. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, refers to the second report of the Bailey task force which deals with various welfare and community services and which was tabled recently. [More…]

• the implications for the community, for the environment, for industry and for Government policy of developments in science and technology: [More…]

• Which communities in Northern Territory and Queensland are receiving funds under Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1 978: [More…]

• I will, of course, refer the question to my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, and seek his reaction to the suggestion. [More…]

• The honourable senator had alerted Senator Carrick as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development of his concern on these matters. [More…]

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

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

• I will refer the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and will get a reply for him. [More…]

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

• The Commonwealth Government, through the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, provided $250,000 towards the travel costs of the 1976 Olympic team to Montreal and the Winter Olympics team to Innsbruck. [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1978: [More…]

• The Committee has come to a unanimous conclusion and the evidence was overwhelming, from the business community and professional persons who came before the Committee, liquidators and receivers who had had the problem of trying to work with the conflicting laws which exist in the areas of bankruptcy and company liquidation. [More…]

• Our report shows that the cost of eliminating this priority is not great and that the saving of expense to the community is very considerable. [More…]

• Will the Federal Government undertake to provide the requisite extra funds to the State governments if they agree to end this inequitable system by which one section of the community pays for a service available to all. [More…]

• the Government adopt the theme of access to community life and the prevention of disability, with public education as an integral part of both themes; and [More…]

• My question was concerned purely with the commercial elements involved in the sale of sugar to the European Economic Community, which was subject to an export subsidy of approximately $350 per tonne. [More…]

• As the Government wishes to provide maximum employment opportunities for the local community, contracts for the supply of services will also be negotiated wherever practicable with the Cocos Co-operative Society which is to be formed by the working population to operate the copra plantation and also undertake other commercial activities on the Islands. [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1978: [More…]

• Participants include representatives of trade and business associations and of the small business community, academics, experts in management and other disciplines and government officials. [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 13 September 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 17 August 1978: [More…]

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

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

• What is the intention of the Government in regard to ethnic community participation in the future administration of the Special Broadcasting Service, in the appointment of co-ordinators for the service and in the development of programming policy by the Special Broadcasting Service. [More…]

• On 1 1 October the Tasmanian Minister for Environment, National Parks, Wild Life and Water Resources wrote to, I think, the Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development regarding the future use and management of The Nut. [More…]

• 1 ) Woorabinda is a community managed by the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement and inquiries about employment arrangements there should be addressed, to that Department. [More…]

• Have senior officers of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs working with the Aboriginal community at Woorabinda refused to accept apprentices; if so, what action is proposed, to ensure that apprentices are employed. [More…]

• I think that the Minister will understand that when legislation like this comes forward following the presentation of a report rumours and queries abound in the community particularly the scientific community. [More…]

• An evaluation study report on the Community Youth Support Scheme is being prepared for publication. [More…]

• Will the Minister make available to the Senate: (a) the national evaluation study which was recently completed on the Community Youth Support Scheme: and (b) the evaluation study which was recently completed on the Special Youth Employment Training Program; if not, why not. [More…]

• His words will be impressed upon the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom).I am sure that he will take note of them. [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…]

• I inform the Senate that the Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland) left Australia last Sunday for Europe to have discussions in the Multilateral Trade Negotiations and for other talks with representatives of European Economic Community member nations. [More…]

• In the light of the Treasurer’s commitment to ensuring that the supply of finance for housing is maintained, can the Minister inform the Senate of the present situation with respect to this matter which is of vital concern to the building industry and to the entire Australian community? [More…]

• What were the reasons for the decision to remove the Institute of Cultural Affairs at Oombulgurri on the North West Coast of Western Australia, from a management role in the local community development project, and the subsequent reinstatement of the Institute in its former role there. [More…]

• If a review is undertaken, will the Government review also the policy relating to eligible organisations, taking into account the passage of time and new community trends, and seek to provide an incentive for organisations in a wider sphere than at present to help themselves and to depend less on government grants for financial development? [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• I will place the matter before the Minister for Enironment, Housing and Community Development, as Senator Mulvihill has requested, and seek a response from him. [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1978: [More…]

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

• I will refer that question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and seek a reply. [More…]

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

• 1 ) Firm and static criteria are not used to determine the languages into which community information should be translated. [More…]

• 1 ) What criteria are proposed for the determination of the languages to be regarded as ‘main community languages’ following the Government’s acceptance of the recommendations on pages60-65 of the Galbally Report that various facilities be publicised in the ‘main community languages’. [More…]

• That we protest at the Federal Government’s failure to provide all sections of the Australian community with conditions of retirement more comparable to that section who now retire in comfort under superannuation and long service leave schemes. [More…]

• cost of living adjustments, which is applied to all other sections of the community. [More…]

• The community rightly demands a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• If so, and in view of both government and community obligations in these areas, has the Government plans for providing appropriate funding and, in particular, any incentives to encourage community contributions? [More…]

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

• Remarks have been made regarding his political contributions and his contributions to the community. [More…]

• He was very much a man of the community. [More…]

• They have made interesting remarks in relation to various aspects of fitness in that they see some of the factors in the community at this time as being either encouraging or discouraging to both our youth and to our more senior citizens. [More…]

• Senator McLaren spoke at some length on energy pricing policy and its effects on the community, particularly the farming community. [More…]

• Did the Commonwealth Government increase by 250 per cent the fee for the analysis certificate that is required by the European Economic Community to accompany imported wines. [More…]

• Did the Australian Wine Board request the Government to reconsider this decision in view of the harmful effect it would have on exports of wine to the European Economic Community, especially the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Nevertheless, it will cause a considerable amount of discontent in the community. [More…]

• He possessed that great attribute of some politicians of being able to draw support from sections of the community outside his own party. [More…]

• what will the benefits be Tor the Australian community and in particular Tor people living in the outback and in such isolated areas as homesteads, mining centres, and Aboriginal settlements. [More…]

• Were opinions sought from any community organisations about the proposed re-siting, if so: [More…]

• Were opinions sought from any community organisations about the proposed re-siting; if so, (a) what were the names of any such organisations; and (b) what was the response of any such organisations. [More…]

• I suspect that there is a lot of apprehension in the community about this issue. [More…]

• Departmental staff receive many written and personal approaches from representatives of ethnic organisations, community agencies, business firms, on behalf of individual clients of the Department. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on Australia-European Economic Community trade negotiations. [More…]

• On behalf of the Attorney-General (Senator Durack), for the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland) on Australia’s bilateral negotiations with the European Economic Community in the context of the Multilateral Trade Negotiations. [More…]

• Approaches to staff of my Department by lobbyists are not treated differently from approaches by any member of the community. [More…]

• The Government’s decision to pursue this matter should not in any way be interpreted as an act of discrimination against the Croatian community. [More…]

• The Government has no wish to stop or hinder members of the Croatian community forming their own clubs, groups or associations. [More…]

• The Croatian community has, and continues to demonstrate it by its contribution to the development of Australian society and culture, a strong loyalty and commitment to its new homeland and the Government welcomes this contribution. [More…]

• Despite the need to restrain public expenditure the Government has been able to improve significantly benefits available to the needy members of the community. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the growing resentment in the community at the unauthorised use of letter boxes by major business houses? [More…]

• Its quarterly journal ‘Contact’ is issued to staff and customers as a community activity. [More…]

• Occasionally an item of general community and international interest- such as Australia ‘s performing arts centres- is used. [More…]

• That is the change that ought to be welcomed by the Australian community. [More…]

• My worry is that some pharmacists in the community, especially in outlying areas where they do not have fellow pharmacists to speak to or are not in touch with the daily papers- that happens in a number of outlying areas- might not know on Saturday that the charge has been increased to $2.75. [More…]

• I ) How many members of the Greek community in Sydney were charged in connection with alleged Social Security frauds. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister for Post and Telecommunications given any further consideration to an application by 3CR, Community Radio, Melbourne, for increased transmission power. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975,I present the report of the Commissioner for Community Relations 1979. [More…]

• Surely we are an independent nation in the community of nations. [More…]

• The Australian Government ought to be able to say to the world community: ‘Michael Tate is an Australian. [More…]

• I regard the Minister’s remarks as not coming to terms with the sort of status which the Australian Government ought to enjoy in the community of nations. [More…]

• Has Australia, together with South Africa and New Zealand, agreed to limit the export of apples to the European Economic Community (EEC); if so: (a) what were the terms and conditions of the agreement, and when does the agreement expire; (b) by whom, or by what organisation, was the agreement negotiated; (c) what has been the effect of the agreement on apple exports from Australia to the EEC; and (d) is it expected the EEC will ask for the agreement to be extended to operate in 1980. [More…]

• The strikes to which Senator Lewis refers are of great concern and will have serious effects on costs to the community. [More…]

• I am hopeful on present plans, that legislation will be introduced during this session, but there is a need for consultation with States and a commitment that it should lie on the table for some time for a response from the community. [More…]

• It has thumbed its nose at the experts in the community. [More…]

• I think it would be quite wrong for this community to have two groups of people: Members of parliament who get things free and legitimate groups, such as welfare organisations, who are charged. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs been drawn to statements reportedly made in the New South Wales Parliament by the New South Wales Minister for Youth and Community Services, Mr Jackson, concerning the Aboriginal settlement at West Brewarrina? [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…]

• One example, of course, is the use of the term Jew ‘ in a passport or document, a practice which brands the holder for all time as one who is somewhat separate from the rest of the community. [More…]

• At this stage I do not intend to say more, but I believe that the Senate and the Parliament are indebted to Senator Wheeldon and his SubCommittee for the tremendous job that they have done in producing this monumental report, which should be read by all honourable senators and members and, indeed, should be widely read in the community - [More…]

• By the community of Australia- I thank Senator Young- for a better understanding of the real problems of people who are denied what we regard as fundamental human rights. [More…]

• The Department of Social Security will be in touch with a wide range of community welfare agencies in the course of administering the new emergency relief provision. [More…]

• Does the allocation by the Department of Social Security for emergency relief of $500,000 as grants to community welfare agencies mean that: (a) such funds will not be made available to State Governments as requested by the Council of Welfare Ministers; and (b) local government bodies will be excluded from applying for such funds, as they are not voluntary agencies. [More…]

• What action is proposed, such as the establishment of a standing committee to provide continuing evaluation of the need for emergency relief in relation to social security payment procedures; the efficiency of new special benefit guidelines; and the effectiveness of the distribution of funds to community welfare agencies. [More…]

• Croatian Language: Recognition as Community Language (Question No. [More…]

• Why does the Federal Government not recognise Croatian as one of the community languages spoken by ethnic groups in Australia. [More…]

• The Government ought to consider seriously the fact that it has in Mr Grassby, as the present Commissioner for Community Relations, a man who has a valuable body of experience concerning human rights issues throughout this country and it ought to use him in that role. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware of the alleged pollution of drinking water and an outbreak of gastroenteritis in the Aboriginal community on Palm Island off Townsville? [More…]

• We regard it as quite appropriate that a person with any kind of interest of the kind set out which could conceivably bring him into a conflict of interest situation or involve him in something which could be perceived by the community at large to involve a lack of probity should be precluded by legislation from possessing such interest or dealing in them. [More…]

• It does not matter what it is; Senator Walsh will try to denigrate some member of this community or some member of this Government. [More…]

• Nevertheless there will be real benefits to some sections of the community. [More…]

• Under the guise of being a sensible rationalisation of human rights institutions, what it really amounts to is a destruction, for political reasons, of the political and social effectiveness of Mr Al Grassby, the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• It is an exercise which the migrant community for one certainly will not forget. [More…]

• I believe that the history of this Government shows that it has directed its attention to the need for ameliorating the conditions of the less fortunate people in the community. [More…]

• That the proceedings on the occasion of Speeches are televised and may therefore be seen by a substantial section of the community is, I believe, an excellent opportunity for all Australians to witness that which is both impressive and important to every one of them. [More…]

• I am sure the promise which was made then and the action which has been foreshadowed in His Excellency’s Speech will provide a great deal of encouragement to a section of the community which is in need of encouragement, that is, young men with families. [More…]

• I am sure the GovernorGeneral’s Speech will give great encouragement to the people of Australia and that we shall go into the 1970s with a Government which has feeling, which is responsible, and which is showing consideration for the general welfare of the community in a way which will bring about the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people. [More…]

• The Australian community must face the fact that the present buoyant economy and the affluent society in which we live are irrevocably dependent upon the infusion of overseas funds. [More…]

• At present power is being generated in western Queensland by the Central Western Regional Electricity Board and generating plants are situated at Longreach and Barcaldine, from which the power is transmitted to other small centres and to the regional community. [More…]

• This indicates that renewed pressure from the Communists’ and their fellow travellers is being exerted on the most vulnerable section of the community. [More…]

• They called for the appointment of a royal commission to inquire into the total effect of the cost-price pressures, inflation, tariffs and marketing methods on primary production and the rural community, with emphasis to be placed on the appraisement and assessment of new longterm development programmes to secure the retention of the family farm as a major part of Australian agriculture. [More…]

• I think that it would be better for the Government to retain the tax rates as they are and to provide for those people in the community who are underprivileged and for the family man. [More…]

• That is something that has to be faced up to in this community where there is a prospect of equal pay being introduced. [More…]

• The present system gives us the Australian Democratic Labor Party which votes for issues on their merits and, whether people like us or not, honourable senators will find that, throughout the community, people will say that since the Australian Democratic Labor Party has been represented here the Senate has never functioned better in its capacity as a House of review. [More…]

• I am very pleased that the Government is now taking care of those sections of the community who have found hospital and medical insurance a problem. [More…]

• I think that evidence given to the Senate select committee which inquired into health insurance benefits brought out that there was a degree of either non-insurance or under insurance which varied between 10% and 15% in the community. [More…]

• Therefore, it is with satisfaction that 1 note that the Government has extended a free cover to those people not only in their own interests but of course in the interests of the finances of hospitals which incur very heavy debts because of the inability of a section of the community to pay their bills. [More…]

• But I believe that it should be indicated that the Government is aware of the very difficult problem that the Leader of the Opposition has raised and has taken these steps to have the matter continually before it, to go into it as fully as it can, to remain as flexible as possible and to seek the co-operation of the professional and trade groups in this country so that the maximum use may be made of the skills and professional qualifications that the migrant community brings to us. [More…]

• It might be beneficial to get across to some sections of the Slav community that if group A is meeting in a community hall and group B is meeting somewhere else both groups should be able freely to assemble without impeding each other’s proceedings. [More…]

• I believe that the community is under an obligation to offer much higher remuneration to the individuals who are sent overseas. [More…]

• Some people may say that the community would be burdened by higher payments. [More…]

• One obligation the community has which it has not met so far is to provide much higher repatriation benefits for those people who are injured in the service of their country. [More…]

• The large export value of the industries I have mentioned places emphasis upon their importance to the community. [More…]

• I would suggest to the Senate that, as a small group in the community, the potato growers throughout Australia have more to complain about than any other sector in the community. [More…]

• It was said that there needed to be a readjustment of social services to help those people in the community who, -perhaps through no fault of their own, find themselves in indigent circumstances. [More…]

• One could suggest that the minerals which occupy such an important place in our community at present have always been there but just have not been discovered. [More…]

• The primary industries - those involved with wool, cereals and dairying - must be kept healthy in the community. [More…]

• Perhaps he suggested my thinking on this matter when he issued a sound warning to the community against depositing too much faith in mineral exports to the detriment of primary products. [More…]

• Perhaps what I have said could serve as an .endorsement of a short summary of Dr Bell’s remarks; that is, that the maintenance of our primary industries in this community is of great importance. [More…]

• But the whole community has also a responsibility for the economic health of the primary industries. [More…]

• 1 have grave doubts about the demands which will occur from the wage earning community in the ensuing years. [More…]

• I queried whether there was wisdom in the government sector trying to take bodies out of the community while the private sector was also attempting to do so. [More…]

• My point in suggesting that is that at the moment if there is an escalation of cost to the primary producing sector of the community it is very much through an increase in local government rates. [More…]

• Insufficient attention has been given to this in Parliament and by the community generally. [More…]

• Those who, over the years, have attempted to gain political capital from the situation in New Guinea or have tried to find people in the community who would demand independence for the Territory have done a great disservice to the Territory. [More…]

• On several occasions over the past 4 years or so it has been suggested that young Papuans and Tolais could be brought to Australia and given leadership training so that they could return to the Territory and give great encouragement to other young men to take some part in the community. [More…]

• No matter to what sector of the community we belong we would accept that the training and philosophy of a body such as that are what is required in the Territory. [More…]

• He was selected out of a country community in the hope that there would not be much opposition or demonstration. [More…]

• Prominent citizens in the community, including members of Parliament, virtually go out of their way to break the law in regard to national service, knowing that it is unpopular and knowing that no action will be taken against, them. [More…]

• There are aspects of Aboriginal social practice or custom which would not be acceptable in the general community. [More…]

• The result is that the Aboriginal community is taking action against Nabalco and the Commonwealth Government claiming that under Aboriginal tradition and law this land belongs to the Aboriginal people and is not to be bulldozed for mining ventures. [More…]

• As a result it was decided to do away with that system and rely on the volunteer system - a matter which is being discussed at considerable length throughout Australia at present by various sections of the community. [More…]

• In the community are widowed mothers who starve themselves so that they can buy books and uniforms for their school children. [More…]

• An historian, writing, of the existence of the squirocracy in England in the 18th century, said that members of the squirocracy believed that they were born into the world booted and spurred and that the mass of the community were there waiting, bridled and saddled, to be ridden. [More…]

• All of the Opposition’s comments in relation to Papua and New Guinea are directed to the belief that all the money that can be screwed out of the Australian taxpayers should be placed in Papua and New Guinea so that it will reinforce an elite community inside Papua and New Guinea which will then begin to ride the already bridled and saddled rest of the community which, if I can vary the simile, will become the dumb driven oxen to satisfy the elitists’ capacity for power. [More…]

• It is a sad commentary on the morality of the community. [More…]

• I am glad that my colleague from Tasmania has brought this matter to our notice, because the dislocation of this service is causing acute concern to the island community of Tasmania. [More…]

• I refer only to the fact that in modern circumstances this dispute has a reaction not against the shipowner, which in this case is the Government representing the people, but against other sections of the community who are wishing to travel in their holidays in the same way as the cooks and stewards would wish to travel in their holidays. [More…]

• Will the Minister have the situation examined and take the necessary action to protect the health of the community? [More…]

• Of course, such action would have an adverse effect on our farming community. [More…]

• A prominent member of the Maltese community in Australia has told me that the decline is due to two reasons. [More…]

• It seems to me that over the years the Government has been preoccupied with two things in particular, firstly, the alleged threat of Communism to Australia, and secondly, the just demands of the working people of our community. [More…]

• Whilst I do not discount for a moment all other types of legislation which are important either directly or indirectly or which to a lesser or greater extent affect every person in the community, no Act of Parliament has a greater effect upon a greater number of people than has the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]

• I remind the Senate and the listening community that the adjustments to the basic wage were based on a formula known as the C series index, the information being drawn from the Commonwealth Statistician. [More…]

• Altogether, the Commonwealth is providing about S265m a year for housing, a large part of it directly going to the disadvantaged and the economically or physically weak in our community. [More…]

• Continuing assistance is to be given to our young people in the field of education and to the aged and ill in the community. [More…]

• Thirdly - this is the point I am trying to make because this is what these people want wherever you go in Queensland and whatever settlement you visit, whether it be Thursday Island, or Bamaga, or Palm Island - these people are asking us to take the responsibility of looking after the island community’s employment problems out of the hands of the Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs. [More…]

• At a time when considerable sections of the community have been demanding and receiving adequate remuneration for their services - some sections have received this under the threat of direct action - we have the spectacle of postal employees threatening what amounts to sabotage of the mail services of this country. [More…]

• the postal workers have ignored a course of action which is freely available - an appeal to the Arbitration Commission - and have taken direct action which hurts the whole community. [More…]

• But that goes hand in hand in that country, in the European Economic Community, with the position where the powers- that- be in that Community are subsidising farmers not to produce. [More…]

• Might T say in passing that this hocus pocus - this is the only description for the position that pertains in the European Economic Community today - is the organisation which the British Government proposes to join and about which farmers in the United Kingdom have expressed the very gravest misgivings - and no wonder! [More…]

• It is of interest to note that, while the Labour Government of the United Kingdom is hell bent on joining the European Economic Community, so too is the Conservative Party. [More…]

• I believe that the splinter Liberal Party is in favour of the proposition to join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Yet, it is a fact, I understand, that substantial majorities at gallup polls have expressed direct opposition to United Kingdom participation in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• But, when in the doing of this one important section of the community is left behind and cannot participate, something is very wrong with the system indeed. [More…]

• I believe that men with industrial and commercial experience should be included in the Arbitration Commission because they would examine the effect of their decisions on the economy of the country as a whole and would not have regard only to the simple act of adjusting wages in according with the cost of living, particularly having regard to the fact that one important section of the community is left right out of calculations and cannot share in the cutting up of the cake. [More…]

• The Government tried to trick the people by saying that it was necessary to have effective laws to protect the community against restrictive practices which were forcing up costs throughout the community. [More…]

• But the trade unions are the one group which is severely controlled in the community. [More…]

• Trade unions cannot get increases for their members unless the increases are granted under the conciliation and arbitration laws of the community. [More…]

• It is not prepared to take the steps that it should take on restrictive practices; instead it is pushing up interest rates, the effect of which will bear down on all the ordinary people of this community. [More…]

• The Government with this stupid policy is pushing interest rates up to this extravagant level against the whole of the community. [More…]

• Associated with this we have the problem that about one million people in this community are living in sub-standard conditions, that is, sub-standard as to their housing, as to their food or as to other conditions under which they have to exist. [More…]

• I refer to the postal workers and others throughout the community. [More…]

• Nothing but harm and bad can flow into the community from a profession such as school teaching whose members are unsettled and dissentient. [More…]

• Or does the Government believe that measures of this nature should be applied only to industrial unions of workers whose members are on the lower levels of income within the community and should not be applied to professional associations whose members are on the higher levels of income? [More…]

• From the time that the Senate Select Committee on the Metric System of Weights and Measures was set up, throughout its sittings and for months afterwards the business community was forewarned. [More…]

• It was obvious to members of the business community that the. [More…]

• No-one in this community, especially members on the Government side of the House, is prepared to have anything to do with price fixing. [More…]

• General practitioners are in the highest taxed group in the community. [More…]

• I do not believe that we should bring another social disease into the community. [More…]

• In this way and in many other ways he is identifying himself with all sections of the community. [More…]

• A glance at the material that already has been presented to Parliament, a glance at the Governor-General’s Speech and what we know is coming forward as a legislative programme, indicates that if the Parliament was not meeting certainly the Government was meeting and conferring with all sections of the community. [More…]

• This has a regenerative effect throughout Australia at both the State level and the community level. [More…]

• It is becoming increasingly busy as it endeavours to put together a report based on material that has been presented to it throughout Australia by all sections of the community. [More…]

• The question now is whether or not the Government is strong enough to make sure that the doctors take their place in the community in the same way that members of the work force and the unions have been made to take their place in the community. [More…]

• Large sections of the South Australian community including such respectable groups as the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce have complained about the failure of the Federal Government to settle the question of the rail connection between Adelaide and the standardised railway system. [More…]

• I mention these statements because they indicate to me the bankruptcy of the approach made by members of the Labor Party on this matter and the blame that must attach to them for the way in which these statements pass through the community so that many gullible people are taken in. [More…]

• I am not referring to Government supporters, the hawks and the bloodthirsty warmongers that we have in our community. [More…]

• For example, the position of representatives of local government would need to be considered with that of other persons who incur expenses in a particular way without reward in a wide variety of activities which are beneficial to the community in general. [More…]

• This will require not only more competitive promotion overseas, but also a marked development of Australia’s attractions and visitor facilities, through the co-operation and activity of governments, the travel industry and the community. [More…]

• This is not within the scope of this legislation, but honourable senators may be assured that the Department of Civil Aviation is extremely active in the international field in doing what it can to make possible effective measures to lead to greater air safety and a greater use of air transport both in its own selfish interests on behalf of the Australian people and for the international community. [More…]

• The waste involved in the public investment that will become obsolete is another tax on the community. [More…]

• I want to deprecate the spirit of gloom that seems to exist throughout a large section of the community over the fact that we had such a record crop. [More…]

• If there are to be strong arm tactics in this community every time there is a demonstration or when some person wants to interview another person, I am afraid that we will finish up in a situation like that which exists in New York and in other cities of America and that finally guns will be used and innocent people will be shot down in the streets. [More…]

• The Commonwealth and State governments have adopted a common policy of assimilation which 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 as other Australians. [More…]

• Any person who enters or remains on a Reserve or in a community without authority of the Manager of such Reserve or community shall be guilty of an offence and may be summarily ejected from the Reserve or community by or by order of the District Officer or Manager. [More…]

• Subject to these Regulations an Aboriginal Council shall be responsible to the Manager for the conduct, discipline and well-being of assisted Aboriginals residing within the Reserve or community. [More…]

• But what was also discovered when they attempted to do this was that the Aboriginal people wished to retain their own reservations; in other words, when the Government of Victoria sought to dispense with one reservation known as the Lake Tyers settlement where attempts had been made over the past 120 or 130 years to establish a farming community, the Aboriginal descended people demanded the reestablishment of this reservation system. [More…]

• From the outset the Commonwealth Government has been concerned that as much as practicable of the Commonwealth grant should be spent on housing located within the general community where work opportunities are available. [More…]

• From the information provided by the States and from inspections carried out by Commonwealth officers I can say that a great deal of care has been given not only to the quality of the homes themselves but also to their location in the community and to the provision of welfare support for their occupants. [More…]

• Because of the limitation of time one can touch only on a few of the things that are being done, but as you go round the community, as you see these young people attending school, as you see them taking part in sports, as you see them taking part in the life of the community, as you see them growing and developing and as you see them planning their future in a variety of ways you must recognise that the work which is being done by the State governments with the assistance of the Commonwealth is doing a tremendous amount for them and for the future of the Aboriginal people of this country. [More…]

• Both prospecting areas were pegged after it was well known that there was considerable unrest among Aboriginals in the area and the Committee found it particularly difficult to understand why Constable Pense did not attempt to ascertain for himself the feelings of a part of the community over which he had authority before he proceeded to take actions which were directed towards his personal self advancement [More…]

• This Co-operative was registered as a Community Advancement Society at the Office of the Registrar in Brisbane on the 17th instant. [More…]

• It endeavoured to involve as many responsible Aboriginals as possible - and, in considering the difficulties, 1 believe that the responsible people in the Aboriginal community must have been absolute geniuses to emerge at all from the pack in the manner in which they did, in view of the opportunities available to them. [More…]

• Some anomalies may have been correctly stated by Senator Keeffe and Senator Georges, but such anomalies occur in every walk of life in our community today. [More…]

• I am one of those who approve of the idea that we must extend to the Aboriginals as much responsibility for themselves as is humanly possible if they are ultimately to develop and become assimilated in the general community. [More…]

• We can point to many people in our community who do not quite make the grade. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman to whom the honourable senator has referred is entitled to his view, but I remind the honourable senator that following a discussion in this chamber on the partial lifting of the embargo on the export of merino rams the Minister for Primary Industry gave all sections of the community an opportunity to place their views before the Australian Wool Industry Conference. [More…]

• The statement shows that a behavioural problem of 3 young girls which was concerning the Aboriginal community was handled in the way chosen by the parents and the Council, and which certainly did not involve the use of rape as a punishment. [More…]

• All of the profits of the store go to community purposes at Yuendumu. [More…]

• On the other hand, married people have paid their taxes throughout the whole of their lifetime and have received poor allowances in terms of child endowment and taxation deductions for keeping a wife and rearing a family, which contributes so much to our community. [More…]

• The premises are that the pensions that are paid to people in our community should be the minimum that is capable of sustaining life and that if people happen to be married and can lift their standard slightly by living together they should be penalised whilst other pensioners have the opportunity to do precisely the same thing and to live above the standard that is imposed upon the married couple. [More…]

• We believe that this all boils down to the use of a wrong premise in the beginning, namely, that no pension should be paid which can possibly give anybody a standard slightly above the absolute minimum that the community can provide. [More…]

• We believe that the very virtue of marriage itself and of rearing a family in this community should give the married couple the right to the advantage derived from their standard being increased slightly because their rate of pension is the same as that of single people and they pool their resources as they have done all their lives in rearing their family. [More…]

• They set out to do the same thing for different sections of our community. [More…]

• In no way can legislation ever give a completely fair deal to all members of the community who for various reasons suffer hardship, illness and other problems. [More…]

• On this occasion the Government had an opportunity to bring before the Parliament amendments to improve the lot of many sections of the community. [More…]

• But many hundreds of people in the community are unaware of their rights to social service benefits. [More…]

• The Government and the Department could achieve a lot by regular publicity, not just by paragraphs in the Press but also by using radio and television facilities to advise the community periodically of the extent of social service benefits. [More…]

• The wheat stabilisation scheme was intended to provide some sort of future and continuity in the wheat growing section of our rural community. [More…]

• This is only one example of the many injections into the community of financial aid. [More…]

• A panic phase has been reached in this industry, but nothing at all has been heard from the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony) or from the responsible people in this chamber as to the future that is possible for that very conscientious and hardworking section of our community, the traditional wheat growers. [More…]

• The real interest of the Labor Party in the rural community lies in ensuring that the rural industries are denied sound political support. [More…]

• I think Senator Poyser should take an opportunity to spell out to the rural community his beliefs on rural representation. [More…]

• I have just pointed out that I believe that the Labor Party’s socialisation objectives and policy of detracting from political representation for rural areas do not augur well for the rural community. [More…]

• In addition to that we have had in this community, clue to our type of banking and financial structure - that is. [More…]

• We have a community and we have a situation which are particularly subject to that type of practice, because we have the unsophisticated investor with a little money and with the incentive to try to make a little more free of taxation, and we have investments which will sell on their appearance to him, and he is very vulnerable. [More…]

• Deceit of the public in any circumstances in the investment of its capital has not only a personal consequence; it also has a social, community and national consequence, because in a country such as ours the mobilisation of investment capital and its direction and orientation to the best purpose is vital for a country in our stage of development. [More…]

• There is nothing wrong with that if they act on information which is open to every member of the community. [More…]

• I mention these things only to indicate the continuing concern which is apparent in the community and by the State governments as to the problems involved in company defalcations. [More…]

• I suggest that this Senate at no time will be in a position to control fraud in the community, nor will it be in a position to control adequately the investments of private individuals. [More…]

• If he desires to question me in this way I am prepared to answer him, but certainly 1 am not prepared to answer the new back bencher who has shown no attitude of justice or humanity to any person in the lower or middle class income groups in the community. [More…]

• Only the fullest investigation can resolve this question to the satisfaction of many people in the community. [More…]

• If that attitude is adopted this incident will be a blight on the community for evermore. [More…]

• Will the Minister take whatever action is necessary to protect the health of the community? [More…]

• There is a delay in one area.I make again the pointI made this afternoon, that even with the slight delay in respect of the purchase of existing homes, applicants for war service home loans are in a much better position to become home owners than other members of the community. [More…]

• Unfortunately this Division caters for a section of the community to whom we owe so much. [More…]

• We find that these people, ex-servicemen, are being put on a par with other sections of the community to whom we do not owe so much, people who are in a much better position than others to own their own homes. [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 is ample scope for the development still further of the type of service which community effort can best provide. [More…]

• He asked whether funds should continue to be made available by the Australian community, through its Parliament and ratified by the Senate, to keep Qantas Airways Ltd in the big league of international airline operators. [More…]

• At this stage I would not want to comment on any accusation of pilot greed, as suggested by the honourable senator, except to say - I think fairly - that so far as one can determine, Qantas pilots are paid quite well and they seem to be paid at a rate which many people in the Australian community have some cause to envy. [More…]

• The purpose of these has been to give, as much as we possibly can, a general community viewpoint to this problem which we believe is a general community problem. [More…]

• Finally, will the Government immediately intervene to give protection to all sections of the community being disavantaged by this practice or otherwise relieve the company of an obligation to take Australian crude oil which it is not able to have refined here? [More…]

• It is true that a slight delay will occur before some applicants will receive their loans, but even so they will be better placed in acquiring homes than are other members of the community, because the war service home loan is of $8,000 for a period of 45 years at 31%. [More…]

• Although there might be a slight delay before loans can be provided in some cases, applicants for assistance from the War Service Homes Division are in a much better position than other members of the community to become home owners, especially when we consider the benefits under this legislation which enable ex-servicemen to borrow $8,000, repayable over the long period of 45 years at 3-3 %. [More…]

• The purchase of a home that is already erected, whatever the market price, can have no relationship to any inflationary tendency in the community. [More…]

• Instead it only adds to costs in the community generally and increases the rate of inflation. [More…]

• Previously, reference was made to the fact that these men are being made the bunnies of the inflationary squeeze that is being imposed on people, unjustly, because so many other sectors of the community are escaping their responsibilities. [More…]

• I think you are weakening the value of the Committee if you argue the proposition that once the Committee brings the matter into this place we, as the Senate, should proceed to deal with it forthwith and force the Senate into disallowing something which might be a very valuable and wonderful thing for the community at large, thus destroying it until such time as the Parliament can bring in a piece of legislation. [More…]

• I would always hope that this would be a Committee in which matters are approached on the basis that all members are residents of the Australian community, rather than essentially members of parties. [More…]

• I refer to the reconciliation of individual rights with community rights. [More…]

• We are considering a violent assault against the rights of a number of people in an aircraft and against the community at large. [More…]

• But we must not forget the question of community rights and that justice is justice to all, not only to an accused person but also to people who have been injured. [More…]

• The community at large is entitled to see that offenders against the public law are punished. [More…]

• But since this agreement has been made and since it is acceptable to the Minister, I do not intend to pursue the point further, except to say that it is perhaps going further than is necessary and may, in the words of Senator Byrne, leave the community at large at a disadvantage. [More…]

• I regard the activities of the Meals on Wheels organisation, which this legislation sets out to assist, as one of the finest instances of community service by people who desire to help their fellow citizens who require kind consideration. [More…]

• She pioneered an avenue of community service which, over the years, has proved to be of real value in the maintenance of an atmosphere of thought and consideration for those people who needed the kind consideration of others. [More…]

• It is, I hope, the beginning and centre of a home service scheme, a scheme which could meet all the needs of the aged and enable them to live their lives as part of the community with the maximum of independence, freedom, and comfort possible to old age. [More…]

• I think Senator Mulvihill in suggesting that this was a fragmentary idea was speaking of the needs of a community today which are decidedly different from those of earlier communities, because by medical knowledge and other knowledge human life is being preserved much longer and with this is coming a whole crop of quite new and distinctive problems. [More…]

• They will not all be 100% successful but the Meals on Wheels organisation has made a considerable impact on what was a big and growing problem amongst aged people in the community. [More…]

• In the very new suburbs where most of the people are very young there must be pockets where elderly people are not receiving quite the same attention as in those suburbs where the average age is much higher and the need has become more obvious to the community, this has stimulated the formation of organisations necessary to give .this sort of care. [More…]

• I too commend the Government for introducing this measure which, as the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) has said in the second reading speech provides another opportunity for voluntary organisations and other bodies to participate in the programme of caring for people in need of community support. [More…]

• I have acted as chauffeur in driving my wife around and I suggest that Meals on Wheels has opened up a completely new and interesting field of community work and Commonwealth Government responsibility. [More…]

• There is a great amount of comfort in this, particularly for the type of people who engage in these community activities which should be encouraged because they give that little bit of extra brightness to the lives of the people who are in the twilight of their lives. [More…]

• In a small community you would not have available the hospital facilities which often are used in the larger cities for the bulk preparation of the meals, so the meals would have to be sent from a larger centre in heaters or cooked locally. [More…]

• I wish to add my congratulations to the Minister and to the Government for this piece of legislation which will provide to many needy people in our community perhaps a higher level of service than has been possible in the past. [More…]

• I know that the subsidy will apply only to delivered meals but I hope that in the foreseeable future it will be extended in respect of meals which organisations, in many instances, provide on the spot to pensioners and needy people in the community. [More…]

• Certainly it must be expensive to deliver a meal, but I am sure that every honourable senator knows of the great work which church institutions are doing in providing on the spot 3 times a day a parcel of food for homeless men and others in the community. [More…]

• Estimates of meals required were based on a survey in South Australia where MealsonWheels Incorporated provides service to most parts of the community in Adelaide. [More…]

• Senator Sir Magnus Cormack referred to an elite and the highly divisive elements, ethnic, cultural and economic, in the Territory community. [More…]

• We must see that they get independence as quickly as possible and we must provide them with the machinery to enable them to become independent, to take their place under the sun as equals in the community. [More…]

• As I have said, education is at the grass roots of any community. [More…]

• The claim for trainee nurses alleges that unlike some other Administration trainees, trainee nurses are actually performing work of considerable value to the Administration and the community generally for 80% of their time and it is fair that this work should be paid for accordingly. [More…]

• I have doubts, but I would hope that the steps which are being taken by the Australian Government at the moment will lead the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea towards self government by way of increasing education opportunities, economic development and an economically viable community. [More…]

• I speak on behalf of the Kurnell Community Progress Association and the Kurnell Anti-Pollution Committee. [More…]

• The more important measure provides, in effect, statewide industrial zoning regulations: Instead of just moving into any community where it has land, an industry first must have its plans approved by Maine’s Environmental Improvement Commission. [More…]

• Inquiries showed that the ‘private lease’ is held by the Yuendumu Social Club, a non-profit community organisation. [More…]

• It is accepted practice at these remote settlements that assistance may be given to voluntary community efforts to provide sporting facilities, which are available for use by all residents, by way of use of plant and equipment and supplementary labour where this does not interfere with the work requirements of the Settlement. [More…]

• I cannot help thinking that the very essence of the amendment which has been moved and the proposed amendments which have been circulated in the Senate this afternoon do nothing else but delay and deprive the South Australian community of its extra entitlement in terms of both the quantity and quality of water. [More…]

• Prior to the suspension of the sitting I was tracing some of the relationship between the resources of the River Murray system and the South Australian community, and the prospects that were presented by the process of ratifying the Dartmouth Dam agreement. [More…]

• To ratify the agreement, build the Dartmouth Dam and get the extra water is surely the best policy under the circumstances in which we find ourselves and in which that section of the Australian community dependent on the River Murray finds itself. [More…]

• I say that the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign savours more of the mob rule stormtrooper tactics of the Nazis prior to the Nazis coming to power than does .anything else we have seen in our democratic community since then. [More…]

• We are discussing a matter of great moment to the community. [More…]

• The war in Vietnam is of great importance to our community, but so also is a call to anarchy within the community. [More…]

• In other words, it is a call to the people of Australia to stop business as usual within Australia, to prevent the community going about its affairs. [More…]

• It is a cull to dislocate industry, community services and transport and to reduce the right of the people to enter into the streets where they are entitled to passage. [More…]

• The document asks people to commit themselves, to organise and to promote this effort in our work places, our campuses and our community, lt is a deliberate attempt to disrupt the community and to create a situation of lawlessness. [More…]

• Each one comes down to a personal decision and a decision which cannot be related to the good of the community or its wishes. [More…]

• After all, the good of the community and its wishes are intended to be reflected in a democratically elected Parliament. [More…]

• It seems extraordinary, if the call really does come from a natural and spontaneous motivation of such a significant section of the community, that such a strong body of unionists should call on its members to treat it with contempt. [More…]

• The Government has been criticised for the statement which it made yesterday through its Attorney-General (Mr Hughes) warning the community of the possibility that this type of action would lead to violence and loss of property and possibly to loss of life. [More…]

• Surely a community is entitled to be warned of any matter which may lead to violence in that community. [More…]

• If there was a situation where fire or flood could spread to an urban or populated area and cause loss of life or loss of property then a government aware of that would be recreant to its duty if it did not give due warning to the community and take such steps as were reasonable to see that there was no violence, no loss of life and no loss of property. [More…]

• This is the sort of thing that is being advocated again by the Labor Party in its support for anarchy, in its support for a moratorium on ‘business as usual’, its support for a disruption of the work of the community - the right to work - a disruption of the right to study on the campuses and a disruption of the right to go about the streets and enjoy life in whatever way people see proper, taking such concern as they see appropriate. [More…]

• That was a meeting in a public area which did not set out wilh the specific intention of bringing to a stop business as usual’ within the whole of our community. [More…]

• If the honourable senator went to Vietnam and saw the way in which those people have made a magnificent effort in recovering their country from destruction and foreign control by the North Vietnamese, and from the control of the disruptive elements in the community which are attacking the lawfully elected Government, he would know that of the more than 1 million troops which the South Vietnamese now have a very large number have been recruited and trained since the Tet offensive. [More…]

• If the honourable senator is prepared to say that he did not mean what I heard him say I am quite prepared to accept his withdrawal because I would hate to think that any person in this chamber or in the community would make such statements or hold such beliefs. [More…]

• I am concerned not with name calling but with the preservation of peace in our community as well as peace in other parts of the world. [More…]

• I do not see that a call to anarchy and a call leading to the probability - not just the possibility, but the probability - of violence in Australia on 8th, 9th and 10th May can achieve anything towards world peace or anything towards peace in our community. [More…]

• I can only hope that honourable senators opposite who do earnestly and firmly believe that there will be no violence and who believe that every step should be taken to ensure that there will be no violence at this period will take every possible step to ensure that the people whom they have brought together and incited to the action of dislocating the community will be guided from taking any action which could result in violence, the loss of life and the destruction of property. [More…]

• It has been repudiated by a wide variety of people, whom the Australian Labor Party will attack, having seen to it that a large number of trade unionists will be fined a day’s pay over an issue in which they have no particular interest; having seen that parents have learned that their children ‘have been approached outside the authority of their parents, and asked to take part in this demonstration; and having done everything that they possibly can to antagonise the general community in Victoria. [More…]

• The Government can justify and accept responsibility for legislation only if it is in keeping with popular will or for the benefit of the community we represent, it has been demonstrated by gallup polls andIthink by the last Federal election that the National Service Act has no support in Australia. [More…]

• Although every effort has been made by various people, including people in this chamber, and by certain sections of the community in Tasmania to convince the Federal Government that it should provide some subsidies in order to bring Tasmania into the service, we have received no assistance whatsoever from this Government. [More…]

• I was prompted to send the telegram because the vast majority of the Yugoslav community in Sydney are fed up to the teeth with a series of incidents. [More…]

• I point out that 85% of the Slav community have been clamouring for action by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• I would say without fear of contradiction from free thinking people in the community that not one of these youngsters ought to be gaoled. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that, bearing in mind this state of affairs, the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party met in Brisbane on 26th February 1970 and proudly carried the following resolution to give leadership to the Australian community insofar as opposition to the Government’s policy on Vietnam is concerned: [More…]

• This Executive pays tribute to those in the community whose efforts are directed in a peaceful manner towards awakening conscience and stirring compassion in the minds and hearts, of the Australian people in the tragic horror that is Vietnam. [More…]

• on primary production and the rural community, emphasis to be placed on the appraisement and the assessment of new long term development programmes to secure the retention of the family farm as a major part of Australian agriculture. [More…]

• I might say that on every occasion that I have had the opportunity to speak to representatives of the farming community I have assured them that my Party would co-operate in desirable short term measures and would vote for them at all times, in the interests of the rural community, because we realise that short term measures of a drastic nature are urgently required. [More…]

• If that is so, we are faced with the situation that if we used our numbers to defeat both propositions nothing would be done for the farming community. [More…]

• Therefore, if we do not have the numbers for our proposition we propose to examine the 2 propositions put forward by the other parties and to decide which will be better in the interests of the fanning community. [More…]

• Although we have to admit that there is a grave crisis in our primary community, it would be most unwise of us to allow statements that there is a crisis to develop to the stage that they might almost cause panic. [More…]

• The proposition which I have put forward was suggested originally by members of the farming community. [More…]

• Whatever happens, I hope that Parliament in its wisdom will bring into effect those measures which will do most good for the farming community in the present crisis that it faces. [More…]

• Turning again to this valuable little brochure, which is the sort of document that those who are interested in the farmers’ problems can put in their pockets and carry with them, we find that, giving a value of 100 to the prices paid by the rural community in 1961-62, the figure for prices received in that year was -97. [More…]

• The rural community received rather less than it paid out in 1961-62. [More…]

• The amount of butter stored in the countries forming the European Economic Community could eliminate Australian butter from the United Kingdom market indefinitely if that country chooses to join the European Common Market. [More…]

• 1 believe it is important to do something which will give a lead to the community. [More…]

• They have shown up at a time when most of the community is in affluent circumstances and when sections of the community are demanding, and are receiving, added increments, lt is a most unfortunate feature of our economic setup that when those things happen the costs accruing to primary production increase with them. [More…]

• A good long look at the position which exists in the European Economic Community leads one to believe that subsidisation by itself is not a solution to the problem. [More…]

• 1 consider it imperative that we maintain in this community the right of every individual to speak what he has to speak. [More…]

• The imposition of a ban on the export of rams by one section of the community, the Transport Workers Union, is only the first of many actions that could be taken if the Government is going lo persist in its attitude of defying the Senate and defying what the Australian Labor Party believes is the wish of the majority of woolgrowers in this country. [More…]

• If the Government realises that there is a strong division of opinion in the community, why does it not present legislation on an issue such as this? [More…]

• lt means that if this tendency is permitted to continue the Government at a future date on a new issue on which there is a division of opinion in the community can say to the House of Representatives, where it has superior numbers: ‘What is your opinion?’ [More…]

• Knowing there was a strong feeling in the community the Conference was entitled at least to give some consideration to that feeling, rather than to brush it off. [More…]

• It may have appeared that way; but when voices in certain sections of the community were raised against the lifting of the ban the Government said: ‘We will hold this until these people have had an opportunity to go to the Australian Wool Industry Conference and raise their objections’. [More…]

• If Senator Murphy cares to look at the gallup polls, which can be the only basis on which he sustains his belief, he will find that in relation to immediate withdrawal of our troops from Vietnam, which is one of the objectives that the Moratorium is seeking, the latest gallup poll showed that 29% of the community favoured it. [More…]

• As he has said, and the record bears it out, in every part of the community he is looking for decisions to be made which determine or influence the lives of the people. [More…]

• 1 always think when I look at close-up photographs of the victims of most of these Asian conflicts, that one of the reasons there is not enough of this Vietnamisation about which the Government is talking is because such a big segment of the community is more interested in bread and peace than in what government happens to be in power. [More…]

• I refer to that gratification which would be shared by those in this chamber who for a long time have thought that for many reasons - not only from the point of view of the encouragement of recruitment of officers to this important section of governmental administration but also for other reasons - this branch of the executive should be elevated to a new position consonant with its increasing importance and status in the community. [More…]

• State intervention in the lives of the community is brought about almost invariably by statute. [More…]

• We know that the regulatory operations of the Administration, because of the development of the principles 1 mentioned earlier, are becoming wider and wider and penetrating more and more deeply into the community. [More…]

• The monetary restraint which is operating to curb a tendency for spending to run to excess applies to all forms of spending and investing in the community and is not being directed mainly to home building. [More…]

• His previous experience included 6 years primary and post primary teaching and 12 years in senior administrative posts in the fields of physical and health education, youth welfare and community recreation, and in-service training. [More…]

• Although the Commonwealth Government has been pressured by sections of the Tasmanian community from both sides of the political fence and has received representations in this Parliament it still remains indifferent to the fact that Tasmania is left outside the container shipping service. [More…]

• That the Australia-European Conference Line immediately decided not to increase the freight rate, notwithstanding the indication to the community at large that an increase was necessary, provided that all the freight was carried by ships of the Line. [More…]

• I believe I would be justified in making the general comment that in the Australian Federation when one State feels that, because of a particular position or situation, it is disadvantaged as against the rest of the Australian community - its living standards are not as good and it does not have the resources to maintain an equality of opportunity - the body that exists for handling the problem is the Commonwealth Grants Commission. [More…]

• It was intended that the total Australian community would have, as far as possible, equality of opportunity. [More…]

• I might say that 1 asked him to receive a deputation from the responsible section of the Yugoslav community to pinpoint these cases. [More…]

• I do not think that any useful purpose would be served by me seeing any particular group within the Yugoslav community. [More…]

• I repeat there have been no answers given to the question why moderate sections of the Slav community have to tolerate this sort of thing and why Australians in high positions refuse to stand up to the situation. [More…]

• On the Kurnell Peninsula - this is rather appropriate at this time of the Captain Cook bi-centenary celebrations - a small group has been formed which calls itself the Kurnell Community Progress Association. [More…]

• In the first case to which I referred - that relating to radio station 2WL Wollongong - I think it is time that the Attorney-General either saw me and the deputation or wrote me a letter to this effect: ‘We have stood up these people who are trying to intimidate other sections of the community’. [More…]

• The proposal to erect a statue was part of an overall scheme of development of the church site submitted by the Free Serbian Orthodox Chruch St George Inc., for construction on land leased to the Eastern Serbian Orthodox Church Community, Parish St George Diocese for the United States of America and’ Canada Inc. [More…]

• lt is an attempt by members of a minority to impose their will upon the balance of the community. [More…]

• In addition the Moratorium is to be condemned because it is a deliberate promotion of community and social dislocation for political purposes. [More…]

• We call upon our Churches, Trade Unions, Universities, political parties, business houses, industries and press to support the Moratorium, and we commit ourselves to organise and promote this effort in our work places, on our campuses, and in our community. [More…]

• This activity is a strike for political purposes, as much to be condemned as if a militant trade union were to hold the community to ransom, as we have seen from time to time. [More…]

• The reason is that Australian troops are in Vietnam and there is conscription of a very small section of the Australian community. [More…]

• It had for its aim not only the banning of the Communist Party but also to deprive of their livelihood 2 sets of people in the community - the civil servants and the trade unionists- if they were Communists, if they agreed with the teachings of Marx and Engels or if the Attorney-General thought they would think about the teachings of Marx and Engels. [More…]

• Neither is anyone else in the community. [More…]

• It is cheap in money and it is cheap in votes because if every 20-year-old or every 22-year-old or every young able bodied man in the community were conscripted there would be a wave of reaction through the families which were affected. [More…]

• As we have known democracy to date, it consists of an organised community under a constitution that has been accepted by the people. [More…]

• We are opposed to the hypocrisy of this war which is shown by the policy of ‘business as usual’, whereby there is no declaration of war and whereby, as Senator Willesee has said, there is no general demand being made on the Australian community to make any sacrifice for the Australian participation in the war. [More…]

• It must be receptive to all sections of the community.’ [More…]

• This Government is not receptive to anything like all sections of the community. [More…]

• The whole tradition of the Australian community, from the time of its birth in those sections of the dissent movement about whom Senator Prowse spoke and from whom we are descended, has been to fight for freedom. [More…]

• The Australian community has never been prepared to accept conscription other than in respect of a small area in the Pacific at a time when we were engaged in a war in defence of what the whole population thought was a vital principle and when our country was being attacked. [More…]

• When we have failed in the past to stop wars, then we have failed to stop Australian participation in conflicts and when we have not succeeded up to now in this campaign to stop our involvement in the Vietnam war, which in the opinion of the Australian public is no concern of Australia, some members of the community hold the honest opinion that we should demonstrate and continue to demonstrate until the mass of demonstrations is such that we can influence governments on this matter. [More…]

• The second group to which 1 refer is composed of those in the community who turn over the chamber pot each night before using it, to make sure that it does not contain a Communist. [More…]

• I agree with the Premier that the Vietnam Campaign is pollution of the Parliament of South Australia, pollution of the community and, as he said himself, pollution of the environment. [More…]

• Senator Greenwood has done well in putting a case for the law abiding Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that he has done so at a singularly appropriate time because at present and for some time in the past there has been within the Australian community an area of contentment because of full employment and the various opportunities occasioned by the high standard of living. [More…]

• Statements attributed to Senator Keeffe have appeared in the Press urging those people taking part in the Moratorium to be peaceful, not to incite violence and not to do anything which would disturb the order of the community. [More…]

• With every move of the Moratorium there will be elements which will be inconsiderate and deliberately antagonistic to the community at large. [More…]

• Past demonstrations in this country certainly give the community no comfort whatsoever in regard to what might happen during this one. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Australian community to the violence which he has infused into his whole argument tonight. [More…]

• There has been every indication from the members of the Opposition that they feel that professors, teachers, industrialists and other people should leave their universities, schools and places of work simply to engage in the wholesale disruption of the Australian community. [More…]

• I draw the Senate’s attention to the fact that this Moratorium is designed to disrupt the Australian community, so it is typical of the Communist philosophy that has been followed in China and through Europe and elsewhere during the years. [More…]

• When the Communist world cannot win on the battle fields and when it cannot win in orderly ways, then it embarks on propaganda to seep its way nefariously into the community. [More…]

• I was interested to hear ‘the comments of Senator Buttfield who has just resumed her seat in respect of a number of propositions which could assist the housing industry in Australia and assist in this tremendously important business of housing the young people of the Australian community. [More…]

• That is one of the most undesirable things that could happen in any community. [More…]

• The Liberal Party bases its outlook on social and economic matters on the concept that it is correct to put a restriction on wages but on no other factor which affects the community. [More…]

• I was surprised to hear the Leader of the Government (Senator Anderson) say that the increased interest charge of 1% would apply to the whole community, but whom does it affect most? [More…]

• ft affects the young folk of Australia, the people who are entitled to some consideration from we older members of the community, the members of Parliament who are responsible for the allocation of the nation’s financial resources to enable people to develop this country and to share in its profitability. [More…]

• I believe that as we can raise loans of substantial amounts of money in time of war for the sort of things that people claim are to be used in the defence of this country - and I am not arguing about that matter at this stage - surely we can strain a little nerve and muscle here and there in order to provide a sufficient amount of money at least to meet the urgent housing needs in the Australian community. [More…]

• T commend, so far as it is necessary to do so, the Government’s step in providing these additional benefits under the Homes Savings Grant Act, but I suggest that they do not by any means meet the case, lt seems to me that the Bill will not confer any great measure of benefit on those people who are in such need in the Australian community, and 1 should hope to hear from the Minister that something is in contemplation at the present time to meet the very urgent need of those people in the community for whom 1 and, I believe, the bulk of the Australian people have great concern. [More…]

• I think all of us in politics and those who give leadership in the community, should think a little more deeply and a little less politically about housing and about the emergency cases that confront us all the time. [More…]

• This has the effect of reducing the supply of money available in the community. [More…]

• Any industry which represents such a significant proportion of total community expenditure cannot escape the effects of overall monetary restraint. [More…]

• On the other hand, if there is not I should have thought that such a body could be created, because there is a community of interest which could achieve certain common objectives by action which an association of that character could promote. [More…]

• Very much of the good which this Office could do for the community would be lost. [More…]

• The Bill that is now before us will, without doubt, create a lot of interest throughout the rural community and I think that it is advisable when we are having a look at a Bill of this nature to examine the attitude of members of the public generally who are involved in it. [More…]

• Possibly people in the rural community and in small businesses will feel that in the light of the increase in land values this is not a reasonable variation. [More…]

• This is a very small amount we are dealing with but it is a matter which is of tremendous concern to the farming community and people with small businesses. [More…]

• This is something that the rural community is concerned about, ft is very difficult to separate State probate duty from Federal estate duty. [More…]

• This would help the rural community. [More…]

• lt represents a big concession in a tax which has been very detrimental, especially lo the primary producing section of the community. [More…]

• While the Bill applies mainly to primary producers it also applies generally to other sectors of the community. [More…]

• There is another reason why I say that the Bill applies mainly to the primary producers of the community. [More…]

• One of the great myths that resides in the community is that if one dies without a Will the Government takes the whole of the estate. [More…]

• It is a rather peculiar attitude that has spread throughout the community. [More…]

• This would be a service to the community. [More…]

• I suppose that income tax could hardly be imposed when the system within the community was basically a barter system. [More…]

• At that time there were for our people none of the practical problems which now face the people of this country, whether they were politicians in the State or Federal sphere or whether they were tradesmen, businessmen or professional men in the community. [More…]

• Nevertheless, it left the States with tremendous problems of development that they had not expected, and the financial agreement with the Commonwealth left them little margin to continue with what was required in terms of hospitals, schools and all the other requirements of a growing community. [More…]

• of family life in the community in the State in which they are applied. [More…]

• If we have not got the courage to face up to the situation, -to learn from our experience of 24 years of application of the present system and to realise that unless some of the right to levy the only just method of taxation that exists in our community - income taxation - is returned to the States, then the problem will always remain with us, irrespective of the patches that we may apply to the system. [More…]

• I believe that local government throughout Australia is to be highly commended for the manner in which it undertook its tasks in the face of extreme difficulties imposed upon it, very frequently imposed upon people who gave their services willingly and voluntarily and put up with the brickbats and the abuse and so on of the community at large but who went on undaunted, nevertheless, to provide the sinews for this form of government. [More…]

• I have seen local government institutions in the situation of having inadequate funds, or an inadequate back-up of potential financial support from the community to warrant the raising of sufficient funds to carry out a job to the standard to which it should be carried out, so it has proceeded to do work which by no means will meet the needs of the community. [More…]

• It was not very long before water usage rose, as it inevitably will when a scheme is installed in a community. [More…]

• Works can be undertaken and the community at large can be saved a tremendous amount of money. [More…]

• Perhaps we do become involved with breathalyser and milk inquiries, but I am proud as an Australian and a member of that Committee of what is happening in this community. [More…]

• There is a great clamouring and urging in the community for local government to fulfil its role and to provide all manner of services which are not provided by the Commonwealth or State governments. [More…]

• Rates have reached the point where they have become punitive and as a consequence great hardship is imposed on the Australian community. [More…]

• I wonder what sort of reaction one would get in the community to a committee which was composed wholly of representatives from the national Parliament with, one would expect, a majority of its members coming from the Government parties, looking into the question of Commonwealth and Stale financial relations. [More…]

• I do not want to write down the importance of the role of such a committee or the integrity of its members, because I think there is a high level of integrity in the functioning of these committees, but 1 wonder what sort of response one would find in the community if it were suggested that the question of Commonwealth and State financial relations was to be resolved by representatives solely from the Federal Parliament. [More…]

• I think that almost everybody in the Australian community will agree that there are serious shortcomings at the various levels of government in regard to financial arrangements. [More…]

• What is being done to see whether we can provide inducements to retain the scientific community of experts in the field of satellite communications? [More…]

• How docs the Government salve its conscious when it introduces laws which require its citizens to fight and possibly to die in battle against the forces of the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese and yet takes no action to rid the community of such subversive activity as I have mentioned? [More…]

• What does the Government intend to do to stop the galloping inflation that is hurting those in the community who are defenceless against such inflation? [More…]

• I do not propose to answer those except to say that I share the concern of all members of the Australian community about any method by which disease might be brought into the country. [More…]

• But there is now a very big section of the community that is prepared to demonstrate its loyalty to particular causes. [More…]

• Firstly, I pay great attention to the fact that Dr Cairns has suggested to the people of this community that if there is a law to which they find objection they should be free to break that law. [More…]

• I saw for the first time a section of the community which is prepared to carry the Vietcong flag and the standard of the North Vietnamese. [More…]

• [ gather from Senator Cavanagh’s comments that he supports those people in the community. [More…]

• If our policy is to have an army and a National Service Act which calls on some young men in the community to go overseas to support the defence of this country, I do not believe that we can stand for people marching in the streets behind the Vietcong flag. [More…]

• Is it laughing off the fact that we have in our community people marching in the streets openly carrying the flag of the people we are opposing in war? [More…]

• Is this the type of thing we are going to stand for in the community? [More…]

• I ask that the attention of honourable senators be directed to further insidious activities in the community.I ask whether any honourable senator happened to view the ‘Four Corners’ programme on Saturday night? [More…]

• If that person holds the view that Anzac Day marches and the activities of the RSL are a glorification of war, then surely he must be the one person in the community who holds that view. [More…]

• If the Government takes any notice of my comments at all, I believe that in the future it should ensure that the community is not divided by some who suggest that their respect for the honour of Australia is so great that they have forgotten to bring an Australian flag to a march, and that instead they have brought the North Vietnamese or Vietcong flag. [More…]

• This was not a peace march; it was a march of war, and it will divide the Australian community. [More…]

• In this community we have a double standard. [More…]

• In view of the virtually certain and apparent imminence of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community and the great economic consequences of it to Australia, particularly to the rural industries, will the Prime Minister arrange for the preparation at an early date of a White Paper on the implications to Australia of Britain’s entry? [More…]

• There is hardly a section of the community in America which would not have a lobby to represent its interests. [More…]

• This document clearly indicates that kangaroo meat is very dangerous to the health of the community as has been proven by laboratory tests. [More…]

• Attention is drawn to the public health problems arising from the continual sale of this meat, and the possible transmission of infection to the community. [More…]

• Let me put it this way: Full employment in the community - that includes potential shooters - and low prices for skins and kangaroo meat mean a build-up of kangaroo numbers because they are not being shot in the same quantities. [More…]

• The Government’s decision was taken having regard to extensive inquiries 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…]

• This Bill is the first of a number of legislative and administrative steps which will be needed to facilitate and encourage orderly and efficient conversion to the metric system, lt is stressed, however, that conversion cannot be implemented by such actions, for this must be effected in the main by detailed planning and action at ali levels and in the places where changes will need to be made, and this means throughout the whole community. [More…]

• The Government is convinced that conversion is nol 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 with the minimum of difficulty and inconvenience. [More…]

• Let us try to keep them as they are - small, mutual type societies which work on a voluntary basis to assist their various members, especially young people in the community. [More…]

• He will have noted that the Opposition amendments concentrate on the aspirations of the credit unions but we must remember, however, that the legislation is not for the benefit of the lending institutions but is meant to benefit the individual couples and the community at large. [More…]

• I say again that the Government’s action, together with that of the DLP, denies justice to the small credit unions that are providing a service to the community. [More…]

• According to even the most generous estimates of some newspapers of the people who were in the streets of the capital cities last Friday, the number would not reach 100,000, which means that there is no support when less than 1% of the community is concerned to indicate its feelings. [More…]

• Gallup poll figures indicate that 19% of the Australian community wants Australian troops to remain in Vietnam without any withdrawal at all until the original objective is achieved; that 52% agree with the Government’s present policy of withdrawing as the occasion and the situation in Vietnam permit; and that only 25% favour the policy which is being currently espoused by the Australian Labor Party, contrary to its own policy, of immediate withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. [More…]

• by Senator Wayne Morse (Oregon) and Ernest Gruening (Alaska) on September 23, 1965 and was endorsed by eminent figures in the academic community. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry consider a request that, immediately the Estate Duty Assessment Bill, under which the estates of rural primary producers will be allowed certain concessions and rebates of estate duty not generally available to other sectors of the community, becomes law, in the community interest a booklet be published giving details of the Bill’s provisions, or that the publication entitled ‘Income Tax for Primary Producers’, which is made available by the Minister for Primary Industry jointly with the Treasurer, be re-edited in order to incorporate the general provisions of the amendment to the Estate Duty Assessment Act? [More…]

• After all, estate duties bear just as heavily on all sectors of the community as they do on primary producers. [More…]

• This Bill is one of a series of pieces of legislation of this type which have particular application to the rural community. [More…]

• We live in a community in which there is a gradual flight from the land and in which the old and very satisfactory type of rural settlement - that is, the small family farm with the diversified rural economy - is disappearing. [More…]

• It is regrettable that a sector of the community is in such a position as is the farming community that this particular solicitude has to be extended to it. [More…]

• I feel that they are one of the most iniquitous and unfair types of taxation which have ever been burdened on all sections of the community. [More…]

• This creates many injustices for many people in many sectors of the community. [More…]

• On a monetary basis I would suggest that the return from estate duty is not very great when one considers the problems caused and the costs to so many families in the community. [More…]

• I favour the abolition of death taxes not only on primary producers but also on all members of the community. [More…]

• I believe that to take from capital assets in the community and to use that money for current expenditure is a bad taxation principle. [More…]

• I pay tribute to honourable senators on both sides of the chamber who support the view that the provisions of this Bill which apply purely to the rural community are acceptable to the Senate. [More…]

• To the Minister in charge of this Bill, the Minister for Supply (Senator Anderson) who in this chamber represents the Treasurer, I would suggest, as would so many honourable senators from every party in this Senate, the elimination of estate duty from all sectors of the community. [More…]

• This Estate Duty Assessment Act is considered of great importance to the rural community. [More…]

• This is some 20% higher than the exemption allowed to other sectors of the community. [More…]

• I would suggest to the Minister that he take note of the suggestion I made during question time today, that is, that on the passing of this Act something should be done to alert the community or that section of it which is most involved in this measure. [More…]

• This will alert the primary producing community to the benefits which this Government has made available through this legislation. [More…]

• But the $62m is collected from right across the community - from businessmen, farmers and primary producers. [More…]

• Senator Prowse referred to the incidence on people in primary industry as a section of the community. [More…]

• That is a significant variation in relation to other estates in the community on which probate has to be assessed. [More…]

• The Australian Country Party supports the application of taxation at the lowest level compatible with the financing of national obligations and the maintenance of private initiative and borne equitably by all sections of the community but with minimal use of indirect taxation where the effect is to increase the cost of production. [More…]

• The time has long passed since death duties, succession duties and estate duties were a means whereby the wealthy people of the community could contribute in some way to the maintenance of State services because in that form it represented some redistribution of the wealth of the community. [More…]

• I understand that primary producers pay approximately $21m of the $60m, so whilst the primary producer pays a significant part, let it not be forgotten that approximately $40m is paid by other members of the community. [More…]

• If the Commonwealth is to forego $62m, or $69m as Senator Greenwood indicated would be the amount next year, we must consider whether people in the community who have not been able to accumulate money would be given any relief. [More…]

• There are so many areas in which the Government has assisted the rural sector of the community by providing subsidies, long term loans and so on. [More…]

• I have always been opposed to this area of taxation not only for the rural sector but for every sector of the community. [More…]

• 1 have the responsibility of trying to rectify some of the wrongs which occur in our community. [More…]

• Only last week I read where, by action of the governments of certain countries which form the European Economic Community, some primary producers are being paid to get off the land. [More…]

• Overproduction of primary products is occurring in the European Economic Community, the United States of America, Canada and in most other areas in the world. [More…]

• Until the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission takes into account the economic effect of its findings on the whole community then costs are going to go on increasing. [More…]

• What has happened in the European Economic Community, in my view, has cast a different light upon the subsidisation of products because the European Economic Community has subsidised the primary producers to an extent seldom if ever attempted anywhere else in the world. [More…]

• The conclusion that one can draw from these figures is, according to Dr Mansholt, that the main element of European agricultural policy, i.e., the guaranteed minimum prices for nearly all agricultural products produced within the Community, has been introduced for social and not for economic reasons. [More…]

• Only a complete reform of the structure of the farms themselves can solve the problem of very intensive production by the farmer to get a minimum income from the guaranteed prices, while, at the same time, consumption lags far behind production, so that the Community has to pay for enormous surplus stocks. [More…]

• There is in the European Economic Community the type of problem that is facing the Australian agricultural economy. [More…]

• Until we do that and face that proposition in Australia we will have these spasmodic attempts to plug a hole in this industry and a hole in that industry, causing frustration and concern, tremendous political differences, great concern and worry among the agricultural community and even greater concern to economists and to those in charge of the Australian Treasury. [More…]

• He may believe that the problems in the European Economic Community, to which Dr Mansholt referred, and Dr Mansholt’s suggestion that a complete review of agriculture was needed in that part of the world, are appropriate to the Australian position and in line with the royal commission proposed by Senator McManus on behalf of the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party policy is not necessarily directed towards earning the goodwill of the primary producing sectors of the community. [More…]

• I think honourable senators opposite would agree that their philosophies and their main reasons for being in existence do not reflect enormous goodwill towards the rural sectors of the community. [More…]

• A very large number of people within the non-rural sectors of the community depend on rural Industries either directly or indirectly for their existence. [More…]

• Most importantly at this moment, whilst declining in its total percentage of export earnings, primary industries provide between 50% and 60% of our export earnings which are necessary to serve the demand for the growing needs of this community. [More…]

• The problem we face is that too many vocal people in the community do not understand the production of rural industries and rural primary production because we have such a changing market. [More…]

• We will not overproduce if we are willing te do what the European Economic Community is doing. [More…]

• The experts and the economists in the community who point to the inefficiency of the dairy industry on one page of a newspaper and on the next page refer to the inefficiency of the wool industry or of one of the other primary producing industries seem to forget about the efficiency of the rural industries. [More…]

• On the figures 1 have quoted production per person within the community has been boosted greatly. [More…]

• Indeed, we had an example of this today when the Senate firmly and unitedly supported the provision of certain benefits to our rural community in relation to estate duty in order to prevent the breaking up of family estates. [More…]

• Recently we had the example of the Government earnestly coming to the assistance of the rural community when it was beset by the problem of servicing a $ 1 ,900m debt which had been incurred because of the inflation which is occurring not. [More…]

• I suppose in these days of inflation almost any person in the community faced with the sudden loss of the bread winner would find himself up against the world financially. [More…]

• I believe that the Department and the Commonwealth have been endeavouring to avoid that in the interests of the Australian community as a whole and of Tasmania in particular. [More…]

• Will the Minister undertake to have an immediate investigation conducted to ensure that Mrs McAvoy, who is held in high esteem by both white and non-white sections of the Townsville community, has complete freedom of movement restored to her? [More…]

• In every possible case where I can avoid these flights I will avoid them, but if they are in the public interest, in the interest of the community as a whole, I will give permission. [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…]

• The advances made possible by the National Health Bill now before us, 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…]

• As the Honourable Senator will know the declaration of a park in the Mount Kelly area of the Australian Capital Territory has been the subject of discussions with a large number of community bodies. [More…]

• In all the considerations of the legislation now before the Senate it appears that the interests of patients - of the Australian community which is primarily involved - have been pur last. [More…]

• It eases from the shoulders of wealthy people their share of responsibility for the health of the Australian community and a heavier burden is consequently placed on the shoulders of the poor people or men supporting large families. [More…]

• The Nimmo Committee heard evidence from a large cross-section of the Australian community. [More…]

• The contributions have increased to such an extent thai they are beyond the capacity of some members of the community and involve considerable hardship for others. [More…]

• The Committee closely considered all the suggestions placed before it and finally decided, by a majority vote, that ite Report should be framed with the intention of recommending ways of extending and improving the existing voluntary health insurance scheme, and of providing the maximum levels of health care generally throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• But I suggest that if the Government had waited for the Senate Select Committee’s full report it would have found that there is still much to be done if voluntary health insurance is to cater adequately for the health needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• In other words, if he cannot have his own way, if the Government is not going to have voluntary health insurance and dares to bring in a universal health insurance scheme, there will be no co-operation from such people as Sir Ronald Grieve and that so far as they are concerned the Australian community can be thrown to the wolves. [More…]

• Under our scheme every member of the Australian community would be assured of comprehensive medical and hospital care. [More…]

• The right to choose where and from whom to receive medical care is preserved for all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• We say that Australians arc entitled to a health scheme which will provide proper service at a cost that all sections of the Australian community can afford to pay. [More…]

• The Australian people need a scheme which meets the requirements of the entire community regardless of age and income. [More…]

• It appeared that the groups in the community which most needed assistance in these matters were frequently not in a position to take advantage of them because of the cost of insuring for benefits. [More…]

• I believe that there is abundant evidence of the truth of their claim that if the Bill is passed as it stands it will discourage young medical men from undertaking one of the most important duties in the community, the duty of the general practitioner. [More…]

• I am informed, and I believe what I am told, that there are already signs of a falling off in the number who are prepared to undertake that career, and in those circumstances I would not be prepared to do anything which would so gravely prejudice the position of the general practitioner that within a few years we could be deprived of what is a most important element in our medical community. [More…]

• I, for one, because 1 feel that it is vital that the position of the general practitioner should not be prejudiced because he is most important in the community, believe therefore that we should hold this Bill over for a couple of weeks until the Australian Medical Association has reached a determination and then we will be able to go on in a much better situation to reach a decision. [More…]

• So far as the general provisions of the Bill give a better deal for the ordinary member of the community my Party fully supports it but we say that this is a case where haste is not justified and when negotiations ought to take place. [More…]

• We believe that the claim of the ophthalmologists for the remedy of a provision which they claim is unjust and inequitable from the point of view of the ordinary member of the community is justified and we will support the amendment which will be put forward in the interests of the ophthalmologists. [More…]

• He made strenuous efforts to get information but he had as much chance of getting that information as he had of finding out what goes on at Pine Gap, because of the security embargo that the Government places on particular matters relating to the health of the community. [More…]

• He goes out to the community time and time again trying to denigrate the doctors by saying: ‘The Government is thinking of the interests of the patients.’ [More…]

• The Commonwealth has not played its part with the result that there has been dissent throughout the community. [More…]

• Therefore I do not think it would be correct for the national Parliament to stop legislation that in the whole is aimed at all Australians, and in particular amendments is aimed at 284,000 people in the community. [More…]

• Our Government has always shown that when a united case is put to it on behalf of a section of the community - whether it is an important, powerful section or otherwise - it will listen to that case. [More…]

• This Bill sets out the machinery by which specialists will be registered and accepted as specialists under the legislation, although the Minister pointed out in the second reading speech that the actual registration of specialists in the Australian community is the responsibility of the States. [More…]

• But, if the Commonwealth pegs the fees of Tasmanian doctors; - both general practitioners and specialists - at those operating How, when (he doctors have kept their fees down in fairness to the community and in an effort to make the national health scheme work, it will create a financial problem as far as the income of general practitioners and specialists in Tasmania is concerned and in the years ahead we will have the problem that there will not be the enticement for specialists in particular to come to Tasmania because under this system their fees will be pegged if. [More…]

• Not only is it a basic human right, but it can make a contribution to the economic welfare of the nation, because a healthy community can produce greater economic productivity in the welfare of the country. [More…]

• Canada is a country which most recently undertook a complete investigation of the health needs of the community. [More…]

• It embraced not only medical care but also the training of dentists, the training of nurses, the research requirements of the community, the remuneration of practitioners in the field of health and so on. [More…]

• The royal commission in Canada had a permanent staff of 167 researchers engaged full time researching the health requirements of the community. [More…]

• We have to find the limit of the burden that the community is prepared to bear in relation to increasing medical costs. [More…]

• Perhaps it might be beyond the capacity of the community to pay. [More…]

• He has inherited this legacy from his predecessors and in the near future he may seek to correct it and provide a full and worthwhile health service for the community embracing health, hospital and ancillary services. [More…]

• Some few years ago when we took out the cost we found that it would cost something like Si, 155m to provide these services for the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a question of what the community is prepared to find. [More…]

• Whether it would be by way of compulsory levy or by way of voluntary insurance is for the people to decide, but I think it is justifiable that we should be in possession of full information relating to the legitimate requirements of the community, It is up to the Government, as the controlling instrumentality in the [More…]

• Consequently we must realise that in the final process it is the individual in the community who bears the burden of the financial cost of all the services. [More…]

• What is more necessary than a healthy community; a community which can live happily enjoying good health; a community which can face up to economic burdens more efficiently: a community which can make a greater economic contribution to the welfare of the nation? [More…]

• The provisions of this Bill are the product of many years of study by the Government of the question of health in the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that this legislation will eventually result in giving great financial protection to the Australian community against the cost of medical and hospital treatment. [More…]

• The core of this legislation and the provision which the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) said he intended to see brought into effect is the general provision that the Australian community can feel assured that when this legislation becomes law no medical treatment will cost a patient more than S5. [More…]

• Surely the medical practitioners are not going to be the only ones in the community who will not require or take - whichever way one likes to put it - an increase in their remuneration, and there is no provision in this Bill for an escalation of the benefits that are provided by it to catch up with the increase in medical charges. [More…]

• Like everyone else in this community under this inflationary spiral that this Government loves so well they will be wanting an increase in their fees. [More…]

• It is designed to ease the burden on those in our community who are most in need of help. [More…]

• The second alternative is that the Government should in some way provide medical and hospital services for every citizen in the community. [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…]

• If that happened they, would become a burden on the community. [More…]

• In those circumstances they become a burden on the community inasmuch as they cannot attend their work place and therefore do not receive any wages. [More…]

• Although a minority of the community may over-use the services, I believe that that minority should be overlooked in view of the fact that the people who comprise this minority can go along and receive adequate treatment which will enable them to be productive units in industry. [More…]

• Consequently, it is not easy to nominate a figure and say that X number of workers or people in the community will benefit. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party does not see any reason why these very needy people - the most needy people in the community - should be delayed 1 day longer. [More…]

• 1 emphasise again that they strike at the very people in the community whom we all want to help; that is those people who are on the minimum wage today, lt is a great disgrace to our wage structure that the minimum wage is $43.50. [More…]

• The contribution to the share capital of that company made by the Australian Government on behalf of the Australian community was $40m. [More…]

• It has been necessary for this section of the community - the Flight Crew Association - to take drastic action to protect the position of the appointee of the Minister because the Minister has not made any provisions for the payment of his salary. [More…]

• I feel that the Government would have been much better advised to have sought an arbitrator from the ranks of those people who are available in the community and who have had experience in the handling of industrial disputes such as this. [More…]

• I am one of a number of people in the community who are disturbed at the fact that an industry which is of vital importance to Australia appears to be in a situation where, when the employees’ side desires certain action, it is becoming par for the course for it to say ‘We threaten to go on strike’, or to go on strike with the full realisation that the immense losses involved in every day of strike can enable them to force capitulation .There must be a point to which their demands are justified, but the feeling in the community at the moment is that they have now reached a situation where, like Alexander, they are looking around for fresh worlds to conquer, trying to think out new demands to make and to enforce because they have a stranglehold on the community. [More…]

• I think we have reached the stage when we have to consider whether the community can stand by while an essential service is treated in this way. [More…]

• I believe that they are destroying the sympathy of the community for their cause by the manner in which they are ali the time standing over the community and saying: You do this, or else.’ [More…]

• I would nol wish lo be placed in a position, it’ it can be- avoided, in which the services of the Tribunal would be denied to the Australian community to help to settle an industrial dispute in the airline industry - a position which could be brought about by the Senate in its own wisdom, which I fully accept, setting the regulations to one side. [More…]

• But, looking at the matter from a layman’s point of view, I believe that it would be absurd if an ordinary member of the community were referred to an ophthalmologist, who prescribed the wearing of spectacles for that patient, and no Commonwealth benefit was payable in respect of that consultation. [More…]

• At this particular time when the Government is saying that it does not have sufficient finance to support all people’s health requirements which may be for dental, for optical, or for other medical problems which may be experienced, the Government is stating that it cannot support a proposition which leads to one particular sector of the community being able to prescribe glasses and attract a Commonwealth benefit. [More…]

• I distributed literature explaining how legislation had been enacted for the preceding 3 years and the effect that the legislation had had or was having in the community life of the State. [More…]

• There are certain issues upon which, as Senator Gair has said, the Government has an obligation to the community to publish the facts. [More…]

• Similarly, when there is an issue of moment in the community a government would be falling down on its job if it did not publish the facts of that issue. [More…]

• There is in the community a viewpoint that no harm conies from smoking marihuana. [More…]

• I say that if the Government is prepared to do this for one section of the community it should do it for all sections of the community. [More…]

• If the Government can do this for one section of the community it can do it for other sections of the community. [More…]

• But all sections of the community pay taxation and all sections of the community are entitled to have the expert advice of the Taxation Branch, which this booklet contains in respect of primary producers. [More…]

• Therefore, if what the Government has done has not been designed to protect the health of the community but rather to tell the community how beneficial the new legislation will be, and if public money has been used for that purpose, the opposing party surely is entitled to a similar right to use public money. [More…]

• But nevertheless this is only just a recent thing and - who knows - tomorrow there may be another immunisation procedure that would be of benefit to the community. [More…]

• The Opposition asks: Why should the community have this kind of equipment left lying idle, as it were, while a valuable hospital bed is taken up merely because, as the Government intends by this clause, the dental specialist is trying to assist the patient to qualify for benefit? [More…]

• 1 should like the Minister to answer these questions for the benefit of the Opposition and for the benefit of the community generally. [More…]

• In short, the Labor movement believes in a fair economic return to all sections of the community, and that as a matter of common justice this amendment should be carried by the Committee. [More…]

• Practically every group in the community which earns salaries or wages is entitled periodically to an adjustment after a hearing by a tribunal which considers the adequacy of its remuneration. [More…]

• We believe that by the deletion of the words ‘in an operating theatre of an approved hospital’ an extension would be achieved of the proposal now contemplated by the Minister for the benefit of the majority of the community. [More…]

• It is in the interests of the Australian community that the amendment proposed by the Opposition be carried. [More…]

• It is in the interests of the Australian community and contributors to health funds. [More…]

• The Committee in its wisdom has said to the Minister that it does not agree with this and that a dentist can cany out this work within his own surgery with the same competence and the argument that we are to have stick orderlies appointed by some person in high authority which will give some section of the dental community the right to do work in hospitals is eliminated because we have eliminated the necessity to go into the hospital. [More…]

• This will give the people within the community some rights under the National Health Act and that is all we are asking. [More…]

• In short, the Opposition suggests that the health scheme should take into account all the health needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a Christian community which consists of people who are descendants of Pacific islanders. [More…]

• Whilst I think we all accept the proposition that in the world in which we live it is necessary to have a whole series of questions posed for our good government and for the ultimate good of the community at large I think we also accept the point that the honourable senator makes, namely, that the document that seeks the information should not pry into the personal behaviour, habits and way of life of people any more than is necessary. [More…]

• Government policy has been applied in the concept of taking steps to get a reaction against inflationary tendencies which may be occurring in the community. [More…]

• Government policy is stability in all things for all people, and particularly for the working community. [More…]

• [11.46] - As Senator McClelland said, this amendment would make Commonwealth benefits available to everyone in the community, whether insured with a registered organisation or* not. [More…]

• Why should persons in this community be forced to do something - that is what it amounts to if a sufficient financial penalty is imposed - as a condition of receiving one of the benefits? [More…]

• The Minister probably will reply that the Government has set up a scheme whereby people within our community will not have to pay into a medical benefits scheme. [More…]

• If health schemes develop, as inevitably they must, and become totally financed by the Government, the cost to the community will be enormous and so the cost to the taxpayer will be enormous. [More…]

• Indeed, it would support the proposition of a strike throughout the whole of the community if in fact some poor devil, regardless of whether he happened to be earning say only $42 a week, refused to join a union. [More…]

• But let us take those people divorced from the ordinary humble members of the community who are not in a financial position, whatever may be the reason, to contribute to voluntary health insurance. [More…]

• If they can afford to take the risk so far as health insurance of themselves and their families is concerned they are paying taxation at a pretty high rate, much higher than the ordinary family man in the Australian community. [More…]

• But what is the situation of - for want of a better term - the more humble man in the community, the man who cannot afford the $1.80 a week or whatever the amount is to insure his family? [More…]

• Of course there are some people in the community who are mean, as Senator Gair said. [More…]

• But bearing in mind the circumstances I have set out and looking at the situation from the point of view of the humble man in the community, this amendment will mean a great deal and certainly it will give the underprivileged man, the ordinary working man in the community and the family man his just entitlement; he will receive something back for the amount that he contributes to the public purse by way of taxation. [More…]

• The Government insists on compulsory third party insurance for people who have motor vehicles, it insists on compulsory taxation for all sections of the community, it insists on compulsory registration for all youths under 20 years of age who the Government wants to conscript for service in this war in Vietnam and all the banks insist that any person who goes to them for a loan to build or buy a home must insure the property before the loan is arranged or negotiated. [More…]

• We believe that if this amendment is carried it will be of great assistance to a very large number of people in the Australian community who are entitled to receive some benefit from the Commonwealth even though they might not be members of voluntary health insurance funds. [More…]

• For that reason the Government found it necessary, as with many other sections of the community, to subsidise medical costs. [More…]

• As the Minister said, we have to make arrangements for the really indigent people in the community to have their contributions paid for them. [More…]

• The suggestion that the wealthy people in this community like our nickel millionaires or our air pilots should have a Commonwealth benefit paid for them without any contribution at all means, I think, imposing a burden upon the ordinary taxpayer because that wealthy person would get a contribution without paying for it and the other people would have to put in the money. [More…]

• Anything that is conducted in any community where there is no responsibility soon gets to a state of decadence. [More…]

• I am sure that the Australian community is perfectly willing to make a small contribution that will give all people, including their children, protection against sickness and ensure the security and welfare of families. [More…]

• The pensioner community totals, roughly, 10% of the Australian population, lit evidence before the Senate Select Committee Dr Selle, Chairman of the Hospitals Commission of New South Wales, had this to say: [More…]

• The amendment is in the interests of all sections of the community. [More…]

• But some sectors of the community do not. [More…]

• community a strong national desire that means could be found to devise and put into effect a consistent policy which would be directed towards both maximising our industrial development and maximising Australian participation in it. [More…]

• The Government gave support and assistance to the banking community in the formation of the Australian Resources Development Bank and is continuing to give it financial assistance and support through the role of the Reserve Bank. [More…]

• May 1957 to advise the Commonwealth Government through the Prime Minister on matters concerning the effects of ionising radiation on the Australian community. [More…]

• The Queensland Government’s policy gives full effect to the Commonwealth objective of affording the community adequate financial protection against the cost of hospital treatment. [More…]

• We believe it is fair and just, particularly for those members of the Australian community who are resident in Queensland. [More…]

• We believe it is in the interests of the health of the community generally. [More…]

• They would have the effect of making the Commonwealth benefit of S2 a day payable in respect of every person in he , community who is hospitalised in an approved hospital whether or noi that person was insured against the cost of hospital treatment. [More…]

• The Bill will not result in the community receiving the type of health service to which it is entitled. [More…]

• The Queensland Government’s policy gives full effect to the Commonwealth objective of affording the community adequate financial protection against the cost of hospital treatment. [More…]

• 50 and the insertion instead thereof of the amount of $2 only brings this provision into line with provisions affecting everyone else in the community. [More…]

• Some of the most seriously afflicted people in our community such as paraplegics, quadriplegics and victims of multiple- sclerosis, who have ceased to bc hospital cases, arc in need of facilities and treatment which they cannot afford. [More…]

• Handicapped children are under a great disadvantage compared with the normal child in the Australian community and we believe that the handicapped child should not be further deprived of benefit by having the amount of $1.50 included in an Act of this nature when the general provision for all other sections of the community is $2. [More…]

• It will place the handicapped child at least on the same basis financially as other sections of the community which are receiving benefits under this Act. [More…]

• The Nimmo Committee said, amongst other things: ‘The operation of the health insurance scheme is unnecessarily complex and beyond the comprehension of many’; ‘The benefits received by contributors are frequently much less than the cost of hospital and medical treatment”; ‘Contributions have increased to such an extent that they are beyond the capacity of some members of the community’: ‘The rules of many registered organisations, including the socalled special account rules, permit disallowance or rejection of claims for particular conditions’; The application of those rules has caused serious and widespread hardship’; ‘An unduly high proportion of contributions received by some organisations is absorbed in operating expenses’; and The level of reserves held by some organisations is unnecessarily high.’ [More…]

• This refers to the interpretation section of Division 3, the subsidy provision for the underprivileged section of the community. [More…]

• We believe that this discriminates against those in the community who already are in need, the people who are receiving some form of sheltered employment allowance, people who are receiving a Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service training allowance, people who are receiving some form of assistance under the Tuberculosis Act and indeed a female who is in receipt of a social service pension where the spouse of a claimant or a pensioner is not in receipt of such pension. [More…]

• The assistance with health insurance for low income families is directed to those groups in the community which are not otherwise assisted by way of pensions or allowances under the Social Services Act, the Repatriation Act or the Tuberculosis Act and by virtue of the payment of those pensions or allowances are usually eligible for medical, hospital and pharmaceutical care under the pensioner medical service. [More…]

• In any given circumstances one could go across the board in any community and find what would appear on the surface to be situations where there is imbalance: but that would be a very dangerous thing to use as an argument to destroy something which the political parties, and notably the Australian Labor [More…]

• ; United Kingdom entering the European Economic Community? [More…]

• The projected entry or non-entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community is a matter which has been before the eyes of Australia for some years now and which has been constantly under review by this Government. [More…]

• Not only is Mr Limb a man of great fame throughout the Australian community but 1 have the honour of being able to say that he and his wife and family are very close personal friends of mine. [More…]

• A serious position has been created in our community in relation to the. [More…]

• relativity of the emoluments which arc being paid to certain groups for the services which they are performing in the community. [More…]

• 1 think it is all bound up in what I might term a break down in the system of wage regulation which has operated in this community over the last 30, 40 or 50 years. [More…]

• The situation has been, bluntly, that the airline pilots and their organisations have decided that the way to gel what they want is to go on strike and cause the maximum amount of inconvenience to the community. [More…]

• 1 read the other day that the younger section of the air pilots organisation were suggesting that in future if air pilots intended to go on strike they should do so without warning- in order to cause the maximum amount of inconvenience to the community and to prevent any moves being made by the companies concerned to enable people who were travelling to complete their journeys. [More…]

• He gave service in accordance with his beliefs to the community, the Parliament and the nation. [More…]

• We suggest that these people, perhaps more than anyone else in the community, need a comprehensive range of health services, both medical and hospital. [More…]

• The viability of a voluntary health insurance scheme depends on its being practicable for every person in the community to secure coverage under it. [More…]

• We say that it is in the interests of the Australian community that these people be protected and I have therefore moved the amendments proposed by the Opposition. [More…]

• We believe that it is a very vital and important committee, so far as the health and well-being of the Australian community are concerned. [More…]

• All I can say is that everybody knows that there are many people in the community who feel that on a matter such as this it is their duty to get in touch with the individuals, to seek interviews with them, to write to them and all the rest of it. [More…]

• The names of men serving on health, industrial and commercial committees are known to the community at large, lt is true that pressures are exerted on those men. [More…]

• It has a grave responsibility to the community as a whole. [More…]

• The official reply, as it appeared in Hansard, was that no triple compound drug was suitable for every person in the community because each of the ingredients might need altering. [More…]

• This is the action of a Government which keeps on telling us that this Bill is for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• Therefore we have a community of drug takers in Australia today. [More…]

• I suggest that surely honourable senators will reject an amendment which would deprive a significant number of pharmacists in the community from their existing representation on the Committee of Inquiry. [More…]

• In this Bill the Government recognises the professional services of optometrists and the service that they render to the community in their profession. [More…]

• -The Opposition believes that it is in the interests of the community generally, of patients and of optometrists as well as ophthalmologists that any discrimination now existing should be done away with completely. [More…]

• 1 do not wish to imply by this that the provision of assistance in this field by the Government may not be a good thing and of great advantage to the community, lt probably would be. [More…]

• The extension of Commonwealth and fund benefit payment to all types of ancillary services is no doubt an ideal solution to the problems raised by ma’ny conntributors, who lend to believe they should have insurance for every possible service, but the Committee believes that it will continue as an ideal rather than a reality because such an extension would obviously increase contribution rales to a level which is unlikely to be acceptable to the insuring community. [More…]

• I ask: Has the Government over past years had any standing committee or any area of investigation to provide information lo itself regarding any level of poverty within the Australian community? [More…]

• As the Minister would know, there have been various reports as to the level of poverty in the community. [More…]

• Nevertheless the measures proposed in the Bill will materially help some handicapped children to take their place in the work-force and to join fully in the life of the community; it will help others to enter sheltered employment or al least to become more a part of our society. [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 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…]

• All in all, the Bill has received publicity at all sorts of levels in the Australian community and in the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]

• There has been a great deal of controversy in the community over the establishment of the Corporation. [More…]

• I believe that it will come to provide something that is not available from the community at the present time. [More…]

• No-one could doubt that there is throughout the community a strong national desire that means could be found to devise and put into effect a consistent policy which would be directed towards both maximising our industrial development and maximising Australia’s participation in it. [More…]

• However, as the Leader of the Opposition Mr Whitlam in another place said quite recently a Labor Government will be able to make these adaptations to make sure that the Bill will set out to do what it ought to be doing for the community. [More…]

• Consequently, I discount the fear held by some people in the community that the AIDC could be the beginning of something which will lead to a nationalisation of our financial resources. [More…]

• We are elected to make the laws which govern the community. [More…]

• The point that I make and have made in this chamber on a number of occasions is that currently Australian networks cannot afford - and this is a matter of business within our community - to pay more than from $14,000 to 20,000 per episode for an Australian drama series, even with generous terms including, in some instances, the Australian playing rights in perpetuity which are granted with the sale of such a programme. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I want to submit to the Senate for its thinking that in addition to the matters of programme content and entertainment, and indeed of control and representation which have been raised by speech and interjection this afternoon, the measures which this Bill intends to implement are related very much to our development and community life. [More…]

• Having those two factors side by side, I suggest that this measure is a little different from those we have been discussing recently, lt is a measure which is involved within our community life and national development. [More…]

• I draw attention to the significance of the fact that within the Australian Council for the Arts, which is a particularly significant council in the Australian community, there is a Film Committee. [More…]

• Our cinemas and our television screens are involved in our community and in our national development. [More…]

• They also have an intimate relationship in the development of family life, community life and personal life in a period of Australian history which is changing and which is particularly significant both at home and in our relations abroad. [More…]

• It is worthwhile to observe, in passing, that the writers, actors and film makers who are referred to specifically in this report are not the only people concerned for from these groups of people flow a large number of industries, a large number of groups and a large number of personalities who, in a variety of ways, are involved in and contribute to our economy and to our community life. [More…]

• The matter of a film industry involves the complete life and environment of our community and of our people. [More…]

• In considering the provisions of the Bill we should appreciate that there is a relationship between the pattern of population growth in our community and the trend in housing and other accommodation, the proximity to each other in which people live, the areas in which they live, the areas in which they work and the occupations which they follow. [More…]

• In spite of our reputation as a community of the great outdoors, we are one of the most highly urbanised countries in the world. [More…]

• public money is involved in an area in which the general community has every reason and every right to expect that the returns will not only reflect perfection in production but also efficiency in results. [More…]

• Throughout the world today there is a widely accepted philosophy of treating the film industry - the cinema, as I prefer to call it - as a form of art; not only an entertainment, not only an ingredient in our social round in the community for a week, a fortnight or a year, but more specifically as an art form. [More…]

• When I talk about an art form I am moving into an area with which I am not particularly familiar but which, because of my involvement, like all other honourable senators I come to appreciate as a direct ingredient in the total development of a people’s life and a community’s outreach and a community’s relations within itself. [More…]

• It is interesting to note the figures but, more particularly, it is interesting to note the activities of the film industry, not only in terms of numbers of films, not only in terms of attendances, not only in terms of income and not only in terms of economics, but also in terms of its contribution to the general activity of the British community. [More…]

• The world of the arts cannot be studied here because it involves so much that reflects creative disciplines but any film industry established in the Australian community and involving governmental interests, governmental endorsement and public money must have ingredients in it that take people beyond themselves to stimulate the senses that are critical and to stimulate the senses that are appreciative and that provide enjoyment. [More…]

• We are a strange community in many ways. [More…]

• Because of the political state that we are going through we on the executive of the Australian Labor Party are becoming inundated with various sections of the community wanting to have their matters put before the Parliament. [More…]

• I recall the honourable senator asking a qi.ies.ion in which he invited the Government to give some consideration to the preparation of a White Paper concerning the proposed entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• But before one ascertains the implications to Australia one has to consider the hypothetical entry of the United Kingdom into the Community. [More…]

• In view of the fact that this will occasion considerable inconvenience to people in rural areas and, in addition, will reduce the volume of buying, which obviously must have a snowballing effect on business in the main centres and also create unemployment throughout the community, will the Government give consideration to making credit available to country firms in order to tide them over for the period when we hope the crisis will be past? [More…]

• One thing that concerned members of the Committee was the great impact the conversion would have at the level of workers within the community who throughout the years, have worked solely with the imperial system. [More…]

• The Committee believe that a woman representative on the Board would greatly assist in presenting the point of view of females in the community and, what is probably far more important, would protect the consumer interests. [More…]

• I am pleased to see the way in which the community in general has accepted the conversion to the metric system. [More…]

• I should think that, although no undertaking is given in the Bill, it would be obvious that trade union representation and representation of the interests of the female sec’ i hi of the community will be always at I1”’’ forefront of the Government’s concern. [More…]

• I suggest that we will confuse a perfectly good principle if we insist upon the statutes being cluttered up by too much detail and if we require a statutory expression of the remuneration in relation to the less important officers of government, particularly when they are part-time, when there are as many as perhaps 10 officers ranging over various employments in the community. [More…]

• We want this development to take place and we want these industries to come to Australia in order that we can derive export income for Australia, but we also believe that the advantages should not be gained at the expense of other people in the community. [More…]

• There have been a number of questions about the possible entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I recall that Senator Byrne asked whether a White Paper which would reflect the implications to Australia of Britain’s entry into the Community should be produced. [More…]

• Senator Lawrie now has suggested that at any discussions between the United Kingdom and countries of the Community, and where it is legitimate for Australia to do so, Australia should have an observer present. [More…]

• It would be appreciated, of course - I would assume this to be the case - that when the United Kingdom sat at the table with members of the Community for purposes of negotiation, the discussions would be a matter for the parties only and certainly not something at which outside observers would be encouraged to be present. [More…]

• These included future participation in a trust for the welfare of the Weipa Aboriginal community by taking up 10.000 shares at issue price. [More…]

• Since the question was whether the Government supports the decision my answer is yes, the Government does support the decision because it believes it was taken in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government: Is it correct, as I assume it to be, that implicit in his answers to a number of questions is the fact that the Government is considering currently the impact of the increased interest rate where it has become burdensome to sections of the community? [More…]

• There are also references to public education, professional training and the encouragement of a responsible community altitude. [More…]

• This attitude is supported not by just a few people in the community but has the strong support of many good Australians. [More…]

• looking at the position independently, can say what ought to be clone in fairness to the community. [More…]

• I think it is important to members of Parliament not only that salaries be dealt with fairly, taking into account what is done in other sections of the community, but also, and more importantly, that we be provided with the resources and the facilities we need to carry out our tasks properly. [More…]

• In other parts of the community people in executive positions, even in minor positions, easily obtain the equipment they need. [More…]

• We should make a determination, not only by ourselves, as to the provision of resources and facilities: we should have the assistance of others who are expert in these matters when it comes to a general reconsideration of salaries and allowances, so that justice may be done to members of the Parliament and to the community. [More…]

• Incidentally, when we realise the tremendous sums spent on research to meet the agricultural and pastoral requirements of this community and the tremendous sums spent on industrial research, it appears that $3m will be all too little. [More…]

• Newcastle, Geelong, Hobart and Launceston where, because of the absence of recruiting units, they are required to establish contact with the community. [More…]

• The Government is sympathetic in 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…]

• This is a community undertaking, and States have no fear of an impersonal bureauracy in Canberra. [More…]

• We want an inquiry into this matter, not because we feel that this Government or any other government has been deficient in its duty towards the mentally and physically iti but because we feel that such an inquiry could yield results which could help not only in the treatment of those who are ill but, much more importantly, in the prevention of a great deal of such illness in the community. [More…]

• If Australia claims with some pride that it contains an affluent society, there is surely reason for the Government of that society to devote resources to the cause of assisting the less fortunate in the community. [More…]

• In many other measures we look most appreciably at this type of assistance, i his measure perhaps directs our attention to the fact that society is becoming more aware of the problems that we face in our community. [More…]

• I. feel - in fact I am certain - that Victoria and I believe every other State have not achieved a sufficient survey of this problem within the community. [More…]

• There is a particular problem, but I wonder whether it strikes the Senate that perhaps the community is not directing its attention to doing all it oan to halt the problem within the community. [More…]

• I believe that there is in the community today a problem which has direct reference to the Bill which we are discussing. [More…]

• One of the problems concerns drug companies attempting to promote a particular drug on the market and to have it accepted within the country without knowing what the eventual effect of the drug will be on the community. [More…]

• I believe that we are filling the community up with pills, drugs and chemicals when I suppose we have absolutely no idea what their effect will be on the community in JO or 20 years. [More…]

• These drugs have been approved by what I should imagine is a most wonderful body of men who are attempting to do their best by releasing particular drugs to the community, although they do not know what the effect of the drugs will be. [More…]

• I do not believe that drugs should be released to the community for the purpose of testing the result of taking them. [More…]

• Some of the potents that we have in the community today, and some of the chemicals which are being applied on rural lands and which are flowing into the water that we are likely to drink may result in the birth of handicapped children in the future. [More…]

• I make an earnest appeal to all in the Senate, whether Government or Opposition - for this is not a party matter - to support a thorough inquiry into this question to see whether there is a solution, whether we know all the problems and whether we can contribute anything to preventing an increase in the number of disabled children in our community. [More…]

• Many of these people can become highly useful members of the community. [More…]

• The Australian Democratic Labor Party supports this Bill for the reasons 1 have given, lt supports the legislation not because charily will bc extended to a section of the community which needs it but because we will be giving the community an opportunity to grow and develop into a more worthwhile community which will be lo the well being of each and every one of us. [More…]

• We have all seen the tragedy of children who are born nol so well equipped as other children not being able to take their place in the family circle and in the community at large. [More…]

• These young children have had to be trained so that the) can take a part in the community and can live a happier and fuller life. [More…]

• But some very good brains in the community, with a particular bent in a certain direction , were, because of the bonding, informed that they would have to go in another direction because there was a shortage of teachers in that direction. [More…]

• Surely the burden should fall on the whole community of compensating a person who suffers such injuries. [More…]

• If we can have a system whereby people can be adequately compensated in relation to road transport, with our shocking rate, then surely as a community we can afford to provide adequate compensation to people in the air transport field where our record is excellent? [More…]

• This report relates to the Australian Dairy Produce Board, the Canberra Community Hospital, the National Library of Australia and the Superannuation Board, in respect of matters arising from the Supplementary Report of the Auditor-General for 1968-69. [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…]

• It purports to uphold certain liberal theories as to the rights of a citizen in the community. [More…]

• I cannot see how any honourable senator opposite can contend that it is consistent with the rule of law in our community to do other than give a right of appeal to a citizen when the power is given to a Minister to make such a determination. [More…]

• It tries to ensure that opportunities are given for air traffic, both international and domestic, to be programmed in the most efficient operating manner possible for the Australian community. [More…]

• This Committee was appointed because members in both Houses had become completely frustrated at their inability to find their way through the jungle of parliamentary papers and government publications, and that frustration extended ‘ to persons outside this 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…]

• If the other place rises the Senate will be placed in the position of being unable to amend legislation or to request legislation to be amended without denying to sections of the community the benefits which would accrue as a result of the implementation of that legislation or obstructing the administration of the Government. [More…]

• The Opposition would then be accused of holding up legislation that affects the community. [More…]

• we thoroughly recognise that Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson has given outstanding service to this community, ve are pleased that he has been so recognised and we hope that he and Lady Anderson will live long to enjoy this honour? [More…]

• to serve his community. [More…]

• 1 hope to be able to serve my community and the people of Australia for a long lime to come. [More…]

• Is the Minister fully conversant with the crisis that exists in the Canberra Community Hospital where unprecedented action has been taken by nurses to get home to a complacent community and a stubborn Government the message concerning their conditions of service and the recognition of their status and wage justice? [More…]

• This necessarily means that quite a large burden is placed on the Australian community in supporting the facilities to support aviation in this country. [More…]

• The fact that he becomes a Minister does not mean that he has to go and live in a tent on his own and take no part in community life. [More…]

• Obviously it would be completely subversive of his duty to represent the community - the duty which a member of parliament undertakes when he is elected to parliament - if his right of freedom of speech were to be restricted or .subordinated by a party caucus or junta, unelected by the people. [More…]

• Will the right to full frank public discussion be made available, without prejudice, to these officers, who possess the scientific competence to take part in such discussions and who have a particular degree of social responsibility to the community. [More…]

• I said: “Outside of what I am required to do in relation to the provision of schools, hospitals and other community essentials, I spend the money on these items in this order - water, power and transport, including road transport. [More…]

• The third objection is that the Bill does not provide for what could be necessary retraining of the farmer when he has left his dairying property to make him a useful member of the community. [More…]

• This seems to be extremely important; otherwise we will have people with very little knowledge of technology or of a trade moving into the community and not taking up positions where they will be of value to the community. [More…]

• my view the situation is extremely serious because of the probable entry of Great Britain into the European Economic Community and also in view of the fact that the European Economic Community is moving into the area which has been considered to be our market. [More…]

• For instance, in Ceylon and Indonesia, where we have had quite considerable sales of butter, we are being beaten because the European Economic Community is now selling butter at 23 per cwt. [More…]

• The European Economic Community has in store over 300,000 tons of those 600.000 tons. [More…]

• At the same lime the supply has been increased so much that the European Economic Community is embarrassed by the amount of butter produced and is proposing now to slaughter dairy cows in order to bring the problem into manageable limits. [More…]

• We cannot have a situation in which people in one form of production - that of basic necessities - are compelled to exist on a lower living standard than the rest of the community does and are compelled to accept conditions that the rest of the community does and are compelled to accept conditions that the rest of the community would not accept but are still expected to carry out an essential part of the economic life of the community, the production of our food requirements. [More…]

• The position is that this system of handouts not only in Germany but also in other parts of the European Economic Community has resulted in a mountain of butter; so much so that 12 months ago a German scientist set to work to examine whether it would be possible to turn some of the butter into stock feed and to feed it back to the cows. [More…]

• I think that a considerable number of dairy farmers in the community are in that position. [More…]

• I say that I believe that if this country loses its small farmers - if this is the first step in that direction - the whole community loses something that is very worthy and substantial to Australia. [More…]

• It is happening at a time when considerable sections of the community are demanding and receiving more for their work and services. [More…]

• The reconstruction scheme proposed for the dairying industry is particularly important in view of the standard of living that the Federal Government apparently is seeking to provide in the Australian community. [More…]

• Their remarks would lead the community - indeed many honourable senators - to believe that dairy products are being overproduced. [More…]

• We hear of the possibility of the entry of Great Britain into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• While we are asking the dairy industry to reconstruct and reduce levels of production to face the very serious consequences of Britain’s entry into the European Economic 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…]

• 1 believe that not only is this an injustice to a certain section of the community but also it is only a makeshift measure. [More…]

• lt was inevitable that the coming of the European Economic Community, the restriction of other markets and our rising costs in this country would have been against the interests of the dairy man. [More…]

• All the time the Government’s policy of imposing these extra charges to pay for the subsidy is increasing the cost of living and so we have a vicious cycle in the community today. [More…]

• Instead of that we are nol only behind many other parts of the world but the struggle we will have to maintain our standard of living will be greater, particularly for those sections of the community involved in primary production. [More…]

• We are all aware of the tactic of moving into villages and destroying people who are responsible for making the village viable, thus taking away from the community the capacity to manage its affairs, f agree with the honourable senator that this suggests an intensification of those terrible and shameful tactics which have been employed in the past. [More…]

• I believe that those 2 schedules demonstrate the efficiency within the dairy industry, so far as cost to the community is concerned. [More…]

• These adjustments should just not give in to the demands that people within our community and overseas express, that Australia should lose her valuable overseas markets just because in these years foreign governments can adjust their economic policies to price the Australian product off world markets. [More…]

• No allowance is paid to this section of the community which actually incurs an expense of office. [More…]

• Improvements commensurate with the improvements in salaries and conditions of other members of the community have not been made in the salaries and conditions of members of the armed forces. [More…]

• As I said before, this walling ofl” of the armed forces from the rest of the community in regard to the right to make adequate representations on wages and conditions is a relic of a past age. [More…]

• I commend Senator Cavanagh’s proposal to the Senate, f think we should set out to see that there is proper relativity in salaries and allowances throughout this community in the area for which we are responsible. [More…]

• We want people to serve in the armed forces and to be satisfied that they are not at a disadvantage compared with people who serve the community in other avenues. [More…]

• In Australia in recent times approval has been given to increase the interest rate with a very damaging impact upon the section of the Australian community which is least able to bear it. [More…]

• Upon close examination the Bill, in its present form, in a number of respects manifestly fails to accord lo Commonwealth employees the level of benefits and standards of equity which prevail, and should prevail, in the Australian community. [More…]

• But I doubt whether the community at large is receiving in compensation anything like a fair proportion of the premiums that are being paid to insurance companies. [More…]

• I suggest that the Government should give serious consideration to this point because the level of workers’ compensation is a measuring stick by which we may gauge the progress ot our community and our economy. [More…]

• But, when the only possibility is of injury being caused to a worker, the state does not take the criminal action that it takes in respect of other sections of the community. [More…]

• 1 am saying that the Government gives less consideration to members of the work force than to any other section of the community. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, when the sitting was suspended, I was dealing with the most neglected section of our community, that is, the dependants of dead and injured workmen. [More…]

• The wealth of our community is derived from the labour activities of those in this work force. [More…]

• What we should see introduced is a new Bill along the lines of the type of legislation about which Senator Bishop spoke in which the need for justice for this section of the community is recognised. [More…]

• However, let me say that in Australia today we face a situation in which tariffs represent a substantial cost to the Australian community. [More…]

• They are, in effect, a tax on imports that the community must bear. [More…]

• Therefore the Tariff Board announced its policy of reviewing areas of high protection to see whether the industries concerned still require the high level of protection which was granted to them, in some cases many years ago, and whether they can exist efficiently with a lower level of protection which will impose a correspondingly lower cost on the Australian community. [More…]

• If an industry cannot compete on reasonable terms with due regard to our cost structure we must question, as the Tariff Board questions, whether it is an industry worth saving in view of the effect it is having on the cost structure of the Australian community. [More…]

• I can see the point made by the Opposition that there may be the suggestion that there is a tendency for some private consultant’s fee to be added to the cost of a work but I think it is essential in our community that we do all possible to support private enterprise. [More…]

• The mayor and the officers of the Cooma Municipal Council have pointed out that the loss of such a large number of residents will have a multiplier effect on the nonAuthority section of the community because purchasing power will fall and employment opportunities will be reduced in proportion to the fall in expenditure in the district. [More…]

• As strike action reacts against the whole community but chiefly against the wage earners, 1 think it is most advisable in the interests of the whole economic structure, in which 80% of the people are wage earners, and to the advantage of the wage earners in the industry to have disputes settled by arbitral means rather than by direct action. [More…]

• In view of the virtual certainty and apparent imminence of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community, and the great economic consequences for Australia, particularly for the rural industries, will the Prime Minister arrange for the preparation at an early date of a White Paper onthe implications to Australia of Britain’s entry. [More…]

• The countries that make up the European Economic Community said only a few days ago that there must be the greatest flexibility in the selling of the Australian wool clip. [More…]

• But I say to both those communities - the Japanese community and the European Economic Community - that if there is to be the greatest flexibility in the selling of the Australian products there must be the greatest flexibility in the buying of them. [More…]

• The community may be led to believe that we are doing nothing to establish a new system that will make this place more workable. [More…]

• First, they seek to impose unfair taxes; taxes which are of an inequitable nature in that they will fall ultimately on the consumers, the family men, the people least able to bear them in the community. [More…]

• A number of people in the community, taking that view, have not paid the tax, especially since the decision of the High Court. [More…]

• If it was intended to have a tax which would grow so that the revenues of the States would increase as community needs increased, this is not the appropriate vehicle for it. [More…]

• The State also has to provide him and his family with hospitalisation and all the other things that are required in the community life of the country. [More…]

• It is an economic fact that the poorer groups in the community - the pensioners and the low income large families - find it hard enough now to cope with food costs. [More…]

• Some time ago other Australian States increased stamp duty on receipts to lc in $10 with no exemption, despite numerous protests from the business community. [More…]

• The legislation has not the support of the Chambers of Manufactures, the Chambers of Commerce and all the other organisations that represent the business sections of the community. [More…]

• The Commonwealth was faced with the position that it could not out of ils revenue simply provide another S50m for the States unless it ran counter to the general course it was following with regard to inflationary development in the community. [More…]

• Can we accept the argument of Senator Greenwood that all we have before us is an absolute agreement that has been all lovey-dovey since 19th November 1969, when on 26th February of this year the Premiers were fighting the Prime Minister to have returned to them the capacity to collect at least some income tax in some shape or form so that they could gain the advantage of the growth rate of taxation in our community? [More…]

• The honourable senator picks out one aspect of the problems in the community and the work force. [More…]

• If we want to get into the area of collective bargaining and collective agreement, which has its own ethics, its own procedures, its own benefits and its own demerits, I am not prepared to say out of hand that that is a system that would not work well and achieve benefits not only for the workers and for the employers who from time to time have to make the concessions that are demanded but also for the community that has to live with the situations that arise from lime to time when agreement cannot be reached. [More…]

• When the contending parties are working out over perhaps a very long period who is the strongest there is one large group of people which is suffering and that is the community itself. [More…]

• All of these disputes are based upon a situation where he who provides services is contending with the persons who helphim to provide these services and the community which is the beneficiary of these services never receives them. [More…]

• They cannot work out between themselves, in a way which is satisfactory, the differences which have divided them, but in the meantime it is the community which depends upon their services which is suffering. [More…]

• Yet every other section of the community has the right to put its own price on its commodities. [More…]

• There is an undercurrent throughout the community and throughout the world and this undercurrent is against the views that have been expressed by Senator Greenwood tonight, that is, that there is a great plot to try to undermine the arbitration system. [More…]

• But the flow of history is such that this undercurrent will sweep away injustices and sweep away court authority if it is unjust and if it does not allow a man to be able to aspire towards the great principles of the expression of his desire to be able to improve his own position in the community, to widen his environment, to widen his beliefs and to be able to aspire towards a better life and a higher quality of life. [More…]

• It is not satisfactory, and if there is to be industrial dislocation it will affect everyone, not only those on the bottom of the economic scale but everyone else in the community. [More…]

• Accepting this there must be a limit to the kind of industrial lawlessness a sophisticated community can be expected lo tolerate. [More…]

• This is particularly so in a community where there is highly developed machinery for the determination of wages and conditions of employment and where the unions use that system to secure the maximum benefits for their members. [More…]

• The remarks with which I desired to conclude my overall comments in support of this Bill were that notwithstanding what attitude the Government may take with a view to remedying areas of the conciliation and arbitration processes which are under attack, it ought to be recognised that there are some people in this community who are determined to overthrow the arbitration system. [More…]

• I am not suggesting for one moment that those people are members of the Australian Labor Party, nor am 1 suggesting that they represent the bulk of the union body in the community. [More…]

• If that means travail, if that means in the words of other people a polarisation, a divisiveness in the community, and if the civilisation which democracy has created is worth while having, then its preservation should require the enforcement of the law. [More…]

• As an ex-railway man Senator Gair will agree with me that a shunter working in a marshalling yard at midnight is more important to the community than somebody selling used cars on a car lot. [More…]

• But this is a false sense of values, lt does not matter what code of industrial legislation is brought down in this community; while the Government is fighting the people who make a more important contribution to Australia’s work force those people find they are getting further and further behind. [More…]

• We must be concerned with the interests of the public because the situation is such today that industry plays an important part in our community life and if one section of trade unionists is out of work for any length of time the public suffers. [More…]

• There should not be attempts to penalise one section of the community. [More…]

• Then national group organisations, such as the Good Neighbour Council, advisory services attached to banks and other community organisations, frequently render valuable assistance in interpreting for patients. [More…]

• There is an ever increasing recognition by the community of the needs of non-English speaking migrants, and departmental staff assist in this regard by lecturing to community health nurses attending New South Wales Department of Public Health in-service training courses. [More…]

• Has an appraisal been made of the detrimental effects on our dairy, meat, dried and canned fruits and other primary industries, in the event of United Kingdom entry to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It is not possible to assess accurately the implications that United Kingdom membership of the European Economic Community will have for Australia’s primary industries until the terms of Britain’s entry are known. [More…]

• The Minister for Trade and Industry has recently left for Europe - and of course he has now returned - to personally assess the situation and to bring the position in relation to Australia’s export interests to the attention of the British Government and to the authorities of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Council considers that adequate private or meter parking accommodation is available to cater for the needs of motorists in the area concerned and indicated that it would not make parking facilities available for the specific use of any section of the community. [More…]

• and (2) As the honourable senator is aware, there was dissatisfaction in the nursing profession generally, as well as among Repatriation nurses, with the level of salary increases granted by the Arbitration authorities in May 1970, for nurses employed at the Canberra Community Hospital. [More…]

• These are the ones who are gaining all the advantages of this Government’s concessions while another substantial and reliable section of our community is suffering so much as a result. [More…]

• Precautions needed to be taken at the time when there was a strong prospect of Britain joining the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Surely it is not beyond the wit of the Government and its advisers to lift this industry which has been such a vital segment of our economy back to where the people in it can feel with confidence that they are recognised in the community. [More…]

• In typical fashion and according to conservative thinking the Minister seemed to adopt the attitude that when something goes wrong with one section of the community or some economic area the blame has to be cast on the Australian Council of Trade Unions or the working class generally because of their attempts to get wage justice from the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• All sections of the rural community are very much concerned about the economic situation that confronts them, the economic welfare of their families and future job opportunities for their children. [More…]

• The concern is not only in the farming section of the community; it is also in the retailing section of the community in country towns and in the work force in country towns. [More…]

• But, quite obviously, very little has been done to satisfy the rural section of the community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that there is despair amongst the farming community and, as I have said, there is a feeling of despondency and gloom lurking in the shadows of these country towns. [More…]

• It is on behalf not only of primary producers but of all sections of the Australian community that we demand quick and positive action by this Government. [More…]

• But we in the Labor Party and the primary section of the community want to know when that consideration will be brought to finality. [More…]

• Another factor is that the United Kingdom is likely to enter the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I challenge them to invite Mr Bob Hawke to their respective States and to debate with him any subject affecting the Australian community that they choose. [More…]

• Has an appraisal been made of the detrimental effects on our dairy, meat, dried and canned fruits and other primary industries, in the event of United Kingdom entry to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• lt is not possible to assess accurately the implications that U.K. membership of the European Economic Community will have for Australia’s primary industries until the terms of Britain’s entry are known. [More…]

• The Minister for Trade and Industry has recently left for Europe to personally assess the situation and to bring the position in relation to Australia’s export interests to the attention of the British Government and to the authorities of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Surely sufficient notice has been given of the more than likely entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If they talk to some of their supporters and to business people in the community they will be told that price control has to be introduced. [More…]

• Now I turn to the workers and to members of the business community in these country areas. [More…]

• I think we should appreciate that their problems are within the European community. [More…]

• They have the opportunity to sell their produce inside the European community, an opportunity which we would not have. [More…]

• Yet until recently theirs was an agricultural community. [More…]

• It is the Governments job to assess the needs of the nation as a whole and it is perhaps inevitable that some sections of the community will feel that some interest should have been given greater prioity. [More…]

• As regards the call by the Australian Council of Trade Unions for a strike over the Budget, I cannot see how this could advance either the general welfare of the community or the welfare of that section of the community represented by the ACTU. [More…]

• They are certainly not my views and certainly not the views of the overwhelming majority of the community in relation to what the Government has done in terms of social service benefits. [More…]

• But when one is confronted wilh the situation in which a quite considerable section of the community is going to be disfranchised and placed in a difficult position, it places a senator and a member of the Committee in a problem situation. [More…]

• It sets out to try to examine the total effect of the cost to the Australian community of creating facilities for civil aviation and the opportunities that exist within the Australian community, and amongst the operators who come to Australia, to recover some of the costs borne by the Australian community. [More…]

• The other committee is the National Radiation Advisory Committee, known as NRAC, which is serviced by the Prime Minister’s Department and advises the Commonwealth on matters concerning the effects of ionising radiation, whatever its origin, on the Australian community. [More…]

• In each country, arrangements will be made within the community of astronomers 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…]

• In other words the Government appears lo accept the baby, it having arrived, but does not want it to grow so that it will have teeth and, eventually, an expression of opinion not only within the Parliament but also throughout the community. [More…]

• At every meeting of primary producers which one attends and in every hotel at which one stays in country towns one is constantly asked the question: ‘Why has there been no organisation set up to help us over the difficulties through which we, the primary production section of the community, are going at the present time?’ [More…]

• I suggest lo the Leader of the Government in the Senate that if the Standing Committees do not inquire into special and certain subjects which are of grave concern to large sections of the community - I refer in this instance to the primary production section of the community - the people who put us here will think very little of the worth of our .Standing Committees. [More…]

• In reply to a submission that had been made by the Leader of the Government in the Senate I was saying that it is the responsibility of the Parliament and committees of the Parliament to consider, discuss and debate matters concerning large sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• What is the state of the savings in the community over that period? [More…]

• On all hands the people of this community, whenever asked about this matter, say lt is a wonderful idea to have such a national body. [More…]

• It would be a very great tragedy if, when the Senate has the opportunity to embark upon an inquiry which would be of real assistance to this community, not only to primary producers, it again failed to take advantage of this opportunity. [More…]

• for their petty partisan reasons, fail to support this pro posal deserve the censure not only of the primary producers and those who will suffer from future disasters, but the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the indigenous community on the Island is most concerned about the closing of the hospital and the departure of its trained nursing sister? [More…]

• In view of some questionable conduct by people masquerading as travel agents, as instanced by a case in Sydney involving imposition on members of the Lebanese community by a person purporting to sponsor a charter flight, will the Minister consider the licensing of travel agents, together with a sizable bond being lodged by each such licensed travel agent? [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Treasurer advocate to his colleague a request that financial assistance be offered promptly to all Stale governments to allow their various rural finance authorities to make an immediate survey of the growing incidence of indebtedness in the rural primary producing and business community which in the main is due to drought, controls of production, lowered export prices and variations in exchange rates - all matters over which producers have no control? [More…]

• I would like to see the Minister for External Affairs occasionally get up and say that what is good for Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd or some other Australian or worldwide private concern is not necessarily good for all the community. [More…]

• The pensioners have become used to callous and contemptuous treatment, but this 50c per week handout was a sadistic lash at these old, poor but dignified citizens of our community. [More…]

• In this community we have workers organised into trade unions which are trying to do their best to obtain justice for those workers. [More…]

• Those pressures arise at a number of key points in our total community and total society. [More…]

• Under these circumstances -we should not yield to whatever whim any section of the community may like to air at any given time. [More…]

• Today all sections in the community make more and increasing demands upon Government for assistance, for subsidies, for endowments and for grants. [More…]

• When the Government, in an endeavour to keep a situation in which it could have a reasonable degree of satisfaction at the financial condition of the community, adds this indirect taxation it provides an opportunity for people to make a judgment upon it and also provides an opportunity for those who so desire to exercise their principle of thrift. [More…]

• One of the problems within the Australian community today is the problem of the rural economy. [More…]

• We have a phenomenon in Australian finance in that in the third term of the year we get an amount of liquidity and spending in the community which does not reflect conditions in the rest of the year. [More…]

• This pressure came from various parts of the community. [More…]

• It is the body which represents those people in the community who have nothing but their labour to sell, those people who are on the lower rung of the taxation ladder. [More…]

• It feels that they are the slaves in the community. [More…]

• The first is that by not amending the taxation laws for 15 years the people in the lower income bracket have been disadvantaged more than any other section of the community. [More…]

• The Government has deliberately set out to help its supporters, the wealthy people in the community. [More…]

• Small wage earners have been kept pegged down by deliberate Government policy on wages and direct and indirect taxation policy over a long period, lt is a shame on this community that a Budget like this should be brought down. [More…]

• Until something is done about this taxes are being dishonestly raised in the community. [More…]

• To the wealthiest man in the community, the man who is earning so much that he has to pay the maximum rate, the Government, says: ‘We will remit to you $213 because you have the responsibility of looking after a wife’. [More…]

• We charge the poor man in the community nearly double the charge on the wealthy man who is best able to afford it. [More…]

• Most people in the community do not need a telephone for business purposes but have it installed because they have elderly mothers or married children living in another suburb or another town. [More…]

• If honourable senators look at their neighbour’s telephone bill - we probably use the phone more than the normal person in the community - they will find that the big slug is the rental and not the cost of calls. [More…]

• Let these senators come forward now on a major issue and say what they believe in their hearts - that they are supporting a Government that has no right to govern, a Government which time and again, day after day, is proving its arrogance and cynicism towards the ordinary person in the community. [More…]

• I believe that the Budget is sound and provides for all sections of the community. [More…]

• However, after listening to Senator Lawrie speak about the installation of telephones for a fast dwindling section of the Australian community - the people in the outback areas - and his attempts to bolster the lamentably poor performance of the Government by referring to a microwave system or an improved telephone service, one can well understand the criticisms which have been levelled at this approach throughout the rest of the Australian community. [More…]

• So we have the situation where the Budget has been produced and is inflicted upon the Australian community with all its inequities, inequalities and injustices. [More…]

• Yet here we see that a niggardly, miserly increase of 50c a week is given to a section of the community which cannot any longer help itself. [More…]

• Not only have we got a run down in practically every sector of primary industry, but we are prepared so heartlessly to dismiss this section of the Australian community which has, very largely, built this community and which has made tremendous sacrifices for the nation over the years. [More…]

• This is a further example of the penalties which this Government inflicts upon the Australian community. [More…]

• For a period of time I have been quite concerned to note that there is a privileged section in the Australian community. [More…]

• In the Australian Capital Territory, at the present rale of expenditure, about S50m of public funds is being expended on the provision of water, sewerage, streets, buildings, recreation reserves and all the other systems that are provided in the Canberra community such as magnificent schools and an excellent university. [More…]

• The services available to the people in Canberra are very much superior to the services available to the rest of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is wrong that it should make a profit on its service to Tasmania, where our industries are being hard hit; where, as I have demonstrated, the apple and pear industry is in an extremely vulnerable position; where new challenges are being faced and where possibly as a consequence of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community other problems will arise. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that the people of Australia, many of them not very closely associated with the problems of pensioners, are incensed beyond words at the callous disregard by this Government of the plight of the unfortunate members of our community who are pensioners because of age or as a consequence of invalidity and who have been handed out this insult of 50c a week? [More…]

• This is what has been produced and I think that in all the circumstances it has tried to equate the varying needs of the community in a way which serves as well as possible all those interests. [More…]

• We hu e seen displayed perhaps the most irresponsible action imaginable on the part of PlO.pIe whom we might think were responsible organisers of the trade union movement, people who are supposed to be leaders in the community, such as Mr Hawke. [More…]

• I believe that the demonstrations played a significant part in protecting the interests of those sections of the community which the ACTU exists for the sole purpose of protecting. [More…]

• I believe that the Senate and the Australian community are entitled to have this information. [More…]

• So, the Australian community - .the taxpayers in the broad - have lo find for aviation purposes, apart from the other demands on them, something of the order of $55m. [More…]

• It is admitted that it is a high cost, but after all, it is a free country and we expect that the operators who want to come here will share the burden that is imposed on the Australian community to support those services. [More…]

• The Health authorities state that there are several conditions and illnesses which have contributed more heavily than other conditions and illnesses to deaths during the period that the community has been settled at Yuendumu. [More…]

• We would like to see increased productivity and to see the benefits of that flow not only to the community by having the printing done here but also in better wages and conditions for those who are working in a highly skilled trade. [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 most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should 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 most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature aDd radio and television programmes is so framed and se administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• It is noteworthy that the Budget has not received ready acceptance by any section of the community. [More…]

• However, this reduction will mean an increase in telephone rent charges and telephone connection fees, and we should consider whether there will be an effective reduction at all or whether this is really shifting the burden to another section of the community. [More…]

• If deficiencies are to be made up should the people with telephones be made to provide the extra money rather than other sections of the community, such as the private industrial section? [More…]

• Like any other Socialist in this community I would be very resentful of what happened in Prague. [More…]

• What is needed is a vigorous drive for new markets, particularly with the possibility of Great Britain joining the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We may be a little disappointed that they did not receive more but, as I said, this is a holding budget and other sections of the community have to receive benefits. [More…]

• It wants a peasant community. [More…]

• If one wants to hand out social service benefits and high wages to the community and maintain the standard of living in this country which compares more than favourably with that of any other country, productive industry must be maintained. [More…]

• If necessary the Government could subsidise local governments for special purposes - as is done in Queensland - such as sewerage and water reticulation which are required for community living. [More…]

• He referred to those people and organisations who said that this Budget was wrong and did not meet the needs of the community. [More…]

• 1 remind the honourable senator that, in addition to the organisations I have enumerated which have rightly exercised their proper function in this community of criticising something with which they do not agree, the Young Liberals Association of South Australia, an organisation which supports the Government, has criticised the Budget. [More…]

• 1 think I have demonstrated that those who have criticised the Budget outside are by no means a rabble but are a very wide and responsible cross-section of the Australian community. [More…]

• It includes motor cars, radios, television sets and a host of other consumer goods which are considered everyday necessities of life to the ordinary person in the community. [More…]

• The increase in excise on petroleum products will account for another $79m in a full year from the pockets of the ordinary people in the community. [More…]

• The Treasurer’s airy statement that the Government has made more than good its promise to the Australian community before the last general election means nothing. [More…]

• They are another forgotten section of the community The value of their superannuation has been eroded by the galloping inflation in the community. [More…]

• They have no bargaining power to use to induce the Government or the community to assist them in their cause. [More…]

• During my visit to the United States I was able to observe at first hand how deeply this dissent and division of opinion had eroded the confidence and moral fibre of the American community. [More…]

• 1 took part in a protest demonstration in Adelaide on behalf of the rural community which Senator Webster represents in this chamber. [More…]

• All I want to say in concluding the last speech that I will make in a Budget debate in this chamber is that in the 17 years I have been here I have probably put a few thousand words into Hansard, and these may be some of the last few I will put into that long suffering document; but I hope that some of the things I have said, particularly on matters of injustice in this community, have been noted. [More…]

• At least I will have the satisfaction of knowing that in the last speech I made in a Budget debate in this chamber 1 dealt with the raw issues, the basic issues, the issues that affect the ordinary people of this community. [More…]

• In retrospect, the Budget Papers undoubtedly represent an enormous amount of work on policy matters by senior Ministers, supported by the best advice that can be obtained in this community. [More…]

• That advice is given and put in writing by men who, I believe, have every desire to see the Australian community progress and improve the very high position that it has obtained in world circles as at 1970. [More…]

• I find myself in agreement with the Budget because, as I see it, the Government has attempted to take the advice received from all sectors of the community. [More…]

• Since the era of Prime Minister Menzies, all sectors of the community have been able to come to Canberra and discuss with the Government labour problems, primary industry problems, mining industry problems and secondary industry problems. [More…]

• Prior to Budget time the various sectors of the community are able to come and represent their views to the Government. [More…]

• I do not know whether that would be the position under any other government; but I am confident that in Australia every major sector of the community has been able to put its view. [More…]

• I believe that, if a sector of the community has a particular point that it considers needs expression in the Budget, on balance the present Government will give it a measure of support. [More…]

• Undoubtedly it attempts, within this free enterprise community - this is certainly not a Socialist community - to lay a basis for the continuation of those policies which have been promoted by this Government and for which a basis has been laid over the past 10 years, whether they be for the growth of primary industry, the growth of secondary industry, the growth of our great minerals industry or to increase the population of Australia by the induction of an enormous number of new Australians to this community. [More…]

• I believe that the proposals will lead to our continuing elevation not only for the benefit of the Australian community but in the eyes of other people in the world. [More…]

• Perhaps I could adopt those words and suggest that there is some substance in the comment that a disease does exist if that statement indicates that there is, as 1 believe, a large level of inflation in our community. [More…]

• In our rather free community employees go on strike or on extended lunch hours, or whatever the term may be, to indicate their dissatisfaction. [More…]

• The governments and the people in some of the countries in which such rates of depreciation have occurred will not permit the disruption to industry and the great extra cost and burden which is placed on the community by strike action. [More…]

• Whilst it provides benefits - I believe some sections of the Community will receive excellent gains - a question arises as to the general planning and the general economic provisions for the next 5 or 10 years which 1 believe should have been given greater attention by the Government. [More…]

• Indeed, the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and the Treasurer (Mr Bury) have spelled out that in expending money on capital items and in meeting the requirements for increased labour for the various Commonwealth departments, this Government will not be found wanting in attempting to ensure that there is an evening out of the availability of labour to those sectors of the community which in truth are the sectors which provide the real growth in taxation revenue in the community, which we require to enable Australia to grow. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite have said that inflation is one of the matters besetting the pensioner sector of the community. [More…]

• My sympathy lies very much with those people in the community on fixed incomes. [More…]

• 1 believe that the message contained in the Prime Minister’s words prior to the last Federal election should be followed - and 1 believe that this Government is attempting to do this - and that is that those people who of their own accord attempt to provide for themselves will be the ones within the community who are encouraged. [More…]

• In one case he has asked that a Senate select committee investigate the whole question of mentally and physically handicapped children in the community. [More…]

• It should not deal only with Bills, the estimates of a department or something which can be done quickly; it should be also able to deal with the extremely important matters which concern the community. [More…]

• We must retain the profit motive within a system of law which has been developed by society over many years and which is imposed by that society upon the entire community. [More…]

• Freedom is freedom within the law, within that system of legal restraint developed by society and imposed by that society upon the entire community. [More…]

• But in January, only a month before the Association held its conference and 2 months before it received a reply to its telegram, ministerial action was taken by the Minister for the Army because of increased costs in the community to pay to Army personnel, from the rank of private to the rank of brigadier, increased salaries. [More…]

• In that report Mr Justice Eggleston recommended that in order to keep pace with the cost of living that had taken place in the community, an increase of 20 per cent in salaries should be awarded to professors and a 17 per cent increase should be awarded to lecturers. [More…]

• Practically every section of the Australian community has resorted to a demonstration of strength and has exerted pressure to show that the people are not satisfied with what the Government is doing. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that protests are mounting in every section of the community when the Government refuses to heed the plea for equity and social justice? [More…]

• As well as the sections of the community to which I have referred, our artists and writers are now protesting and are demanding the right to employment in their own industry, in their own profession, in their own country. [More…]

• the Budget offers no adequate provision for decentralisation; and (SO the Budget fails to ensure that the tax burden is equitably distributed over the community by action to prevent evaders employing legal technicalities to avoid their responsibility’. [More…]

• We took steps in recent weeks to poll members of the public, supporters of our own Party, representatives of business and representatives of the rural community. [More…]

• I have rarely found a more overwhelming feeling in our community against any legislation than there is against the receipts tax legislation. [More…]

• Yet it is a greater cause of morbidity in the community than any aspirin, phenacetin or any other drug that the Department of Health starts to worry about., takes off the list and puts on again to try to pacify someone or other. [More…]

• As a maiden speech, in this chamber or in any other place - and I have heard or read many of them - I regard his as one of absolute importance, insofar as it was given with a depth of consideration for fundamental matters of concern to our community. [More…]

• Further, the entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community could be a blow to an avenue of exodus for our surplus dual purpose grapes. [More…]

• Although it may perhaps satisfy a minute section of the community, it will not benefit the community as a whole. [More…]

• Senator Drury mentioned that rising wages had been blamed for the inflationary spiral and for the increasing costs incurred by primary producers and the whole of the community. [More…]

• But the point I make is that not only is an increase in wages vain and useless without accompanying increases in productivity but also the spate and growing number of ruinous, wasteful, useless strikes which seem to have become the order of the day in the Australian community have done more to erode the value of pensions and people’s incomes than anything else that I can think of. [More…]

• The Government has attempted to prevent individuals coming to Australia who may be harmful to our community. [More…]

• At the present time they are very vocal in their support of strikes which are rampant within the community. [More…]

• This matter we are discussing has been raised by the Labor Party as being the most urgent consideration in the community today. [More…]

• The Opposition has not raised, as matters for urgent consideration, pensions or anything to do with the aged or infirm in our community. [More…]

• This is the Party which, as ( say, supports the strikes which are rampant in the community today. [More…]

• No reference is made to the people within the community who do not wish to strike but who have strikes forced upon them. [More…]

• They are being deprived of their freedom because the Labor Party says that a strike is a good thing and that it will achieve something for somebody in the community. [More…]

• lt is a deprivation of the freedom of some individuals - this freedom which honourable senators opposite suggest will be eroded if Dick Gregory is not allowed into this community. [More…]

• Yet theirs is the Party which says that in our community we must have freedom for Dick Gregory to come in. [More…]

• The Labor Party says that it will force its views on the community and will let the freedom of the individual go to the winds unless the individual supports the Labor Party view. [More…]

• In this community there are all sorts of people who are in favour of absolute freedom for their side and no freedom at all for the other side when they happen to have the numbers, lt is a matter of numbers. [More…]

• If that kind of activity is engaged in throughout the community, it will be better for all of us. [More…]

• This Government ought to be ashamed of its trampling on human rights, especially those of the Aboriginal people in this community. [More…]

• Will a statement be made to allay, in some measure, an existing disquiet in the community concerning the state of the economy. [More…]

• Because one section of the community is so constituted that it is in a position to bring unified pressure of a lawless nature on the rest of the community, it can hold the rest of the community to ransom. [More…]

• It is generally accepted that the building industry, like the motor vehicle industry, is a very good barometer of the economic health of the community. [More…]

• J. K. Galbraith calls people poverty stricken when their income, even if adequate for survival, falls markedly behind that of the rest of the community because they then cannot have what the larger community regards as the minimum necessary for decency and they cannot wholly escape the judgment of the larger community that they are indecent. [More…]

• The line of poverty is where a person can live with decency and with dignity in this community. [More…]

• People who are living in poverty in this country are degraded in the literal sense of living outside grades or categories which the community regards as acceptable. [More…]

• I ask the Minister to consider the position of the person who in this community should be the most important - the man with a wife and family. [More…]

• This means that while the bulk of the community faces rising expectations - I still say that the bulk of the community is affluent but there is an increase in the area of poverty each year and we must concern ourselves with this increase because it can affect the stability of the whole economy - those on social services face the prospect of a continuing fall in their standard of living relative to the rest of the community. [More…]

• Perhaps it is too much to expect of this Government that it should apply the ordinary rule of justice when it comes to providing for the needs of the ordinary people in the community. [More…]

• I have been fascinated by the new found interest of some the honourable senators opposite in the rural community. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite do not like me quoting his remarks, but 1 think it is a duty of all honourable senators who really represent the interests of the rural community to keep reminding members of the rural community of what was said by the Leader of the Opposition so that they will be awake up to the nonsense of honourable senators opposite. [More…]

• I am mighty interested in our rural community. [More…]

• Mr Berinson is being critical of the Parliament for devoting so much of its time to rural problems, yet at the same time the Opposition is saying: ‘We are doing nothing for the rural community.’ [More…]

• So what the Labor Party really feels about the rural community is exposed. [More…]

• On the one hand it gives to some sections of the community supposed relief from taxation but on the other hand it increases hidden taxation to such a point that it nullifies any advantage which may appear at the initial event to be gained. [More…]

• Not only are members of the Australian Labor Party condemning it: all sections of the community are condemning it. [More…]

• There could not be a broader cross-section of the community to condemn this Budget as being unworthy of the Government of Australia. [More…]

• That is exactly what is being done by all sections of community. [More…]

• A broad crosssection of the community has condemned the 1970 Budget because it does not meet the requirements of the 1970s. [More…]

• That kind of behaviour is not in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• If honourable senators opposite move among the cross-section of the community among which I move, I am sure that they must have heard people say: ‘It were better that the Government gave the pensioners nothing than the miserable pittance of 50c that has been offered to them’. [More…]

• What wife of a worker or ordinary person in the community does not do work of that nature for charitable organisations, sporting organisations and bodies of that nature? [More…]

• It has been said - and I think properly said - that this Budget could be described as a savings and an incentive Budget designed to encourage savings in the community and designed to give tax relief so that people will, in effect, have incentive to save more and produce more. [More…]

• In education, people are striving to get in first with ideas to help teach all age groups and all sections of the community of the dangers that face Australia if this question is to be faced in a definite manner. [More…]

• 1 am concerned about the people of Canberra and about the service to the community. [More…]

• I suggest that this is a matter of importance to the local community and deserving of a very close investigation in the shortest possible time so that some sort of justice is given to the local population, and so that departmental officers, members of Parlia ment and others will be able to go about their jobs with the speed and efficiency to which they should be entitled. [More…]

• In view of the justifiable dissatisfaction being publicly expressed by nurses employed at the Canberra Community Hospital, will the Minister meet representatives of their organisation and objectively discuss their grievances, with a view to rewarding them with a decent standard of work- ing conditions and a wage that more adequately represents their undoubted worth to the community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister and I met with representatives of the nurses employed at the Canberra Community Hospital on Tuesday, 26th May 1970. [More…]

• Subsequently, on 8th July, my representatives and representatives of the Acting Minister for Labour and National Service and of the Canberra Community Hospital Management Board met with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Federal Secretary of the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia. [More…]

• This system has been well received by the community and it is proposed to continue it. [More…]

• Do publications which are published by co-operative organisations and which aim at promoting safety factors, explaining laws of general interest to a wide section of the community and explaining planning schemes and their implications to the community, attract priority, and would such publications qualify for category ‘A’. [More…]

• Faced wilh the possibility that the United Kingdom may enter the European Economic Community Australia will in the future have greater difficulties than it now has in disposing of its products. [More…]

• That would be a bad thing for all sections of the community. [More…]

• If the community condones such contempt, this will be an attack on the institution of Parliament from which judicial powers stem and which we have long regarded as being part of our democratic way of life. [More…]

• I saw the great march in Adelaide which upset the whole of the community in the middle of the day. [More…]

• lt is of no use trying to divert attention away from these matters by saying that it is a law and order issue in the community. [More…]

• I want to deal with wider issues, but I take time to remind Senator Bull that the sorts of things that are occurring in the community are the result of the intentional policies of the Government. [More…]

• We may have moved away from the stop and go Budgets of the 1950s, when the Government applied economic sanctions to stop an industry and to shut down factories, to the more sophisticated policies which pass the burden on to the ordinary people in the community to pay for mistakes in economic planning. [More…]

• In this economic climate of which I have spoken, although the Government has modified the tax scales to assist the middle income earners, it has also thrust the burden of indirect taxation on all people in the community. [More…]

• The harder you go with a deficit Budget and the more money you pour into the community, the more you tend to let loose the reins on inflation. [More…]

• The Budget sets out to give income tax relief to the middle and lower income groups in the community. [More…]

• I want everyone to realise that of the people in the community who pay income tax approximately 4,950,000 will get a benefit under these proposals. [More…]

• Contrary to what Senator Murphy said, I point out that in truth it can be demonstrated that the community is enjoying the rewards of improved living standards. [More…]

• The Opposition, in its discussion of the Budget proposals, shows where it believes the Government is falling short of meeting the needs of the community. [More…]

• In the main those charges fall directly on individuals in the community. [More…]

• Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson quite correctly said that the increases in social service payments cover more than just the base rate pension and are spread around the community. [More…]

• This would be one way in which we could help to solve the difficulties of our farming community. [More…]

• I have not yet heard anyone on the Opposition side try to produce some ideas that would benefit all sections of the community. [More…]

• I believe that if we find more and more leaders they must be allowed to retain as large a portion of the fruits of their labours as is possible, commensurate with the need to share their earnings with the less fortunate people in the community. [More…]

• 1 applaud the Government for its efforts in giving consideration to every section of the community. [More…]

• But they are the ones who are providing the resources in the little budget of which I spoke earlier, for distribution throughout the community in the form of economic and social wellbeing. [More…]

• 1 am delighted that this section of the community has been considered by the Government in this Budget. [More…]

• I hope that this section of the community will be considered more and more and that the $2 for $1 granted for hostel equipment will be extended to cover recreational facilities for people not only in the hostels but also in the sheltered workshops, if these people are to be returned to industry - and this is what we certainly hope for, for more reasons than one - they must be built up as a whole person. [More…]

• It should be recognised that Australia is a developing, affluent community which expects from its Government an extensive and growing range of public services. [More…]

• What sort of an attitude is it when the leader of a State or the leader of any community imposes taxes and challenges individuals in the community to take legal action to prove their invalidity, as has been done in Western Australia? [More…]

• The Commonwealth is sending migrants to the various States after encouraging them to come here and work in industry, thus imposing on local government authorities the responsibility of supplying the various facilities and amenities required in the community. [More…]

• At this time the whole of the country is in a state of crisis and there is dissatisfaction throughout the whole community with the inflationary spiral that exists. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that the whole community is disturbed? [More…]

• The worst feature of current developments, as I see it, is that while young people in the community are growing up believing that they should have some useful, purposeful future, this is being denied them. [More…]

• The taking over of industry by monopolists to satisfy stock exchange investors and such people is a negative development that does not meet with the approval of those in the community who have a responsibility for the future. [More…]

• If these great forces are directed in the proper way we can have an affluent society in this country but the policy of this Government is so negative and so encourages inflation and deprives the underprivileged people of the community that it just cannot be tolerated. [More…]

• the Budget fails to ensure that the tax burden is equitably distributed over the community by action to prevent evaders employing legal technicalities to avoid their responsibility’. [More…]

• Therefore, if in this Budget we accept the rigidity of an adequate defence provision, limiting opportunities that might otherwise be given to a government for expenditure in other fields which it might be the wish of any government to engage in - to extend the social and cultural life of the community - this is one of the inescapable facts of Australian life at this period of our national development and this period of our history and of the world around us. [More…]

• I commend it to the Senate because of the positive nature of its proposals and because it puts forward suggestions which could be considered by the Government and which, if adopted by the Government, would in future years give it the opportunity to present Budgets which could be taken as a reflection of real advances in the community and which could inject into the nation that element of hope which is always so necessary. [More…]

• The Budget fails to ensure that the tax burden is equitably distributed over the community. [More…]

• The paragraph states: the Budget fails to ensure that thetax burden is equitably distributed over the community. [More…]

• So, one of the conclusions which were inescapable to the Committee, having sat and listened to the evidence that it heard, was that this impossible situation will continue if enforcement continues to be placed in the hands of those who are living in the same community as the people they have to prosecute. [More…]

• This is essential for a national problem when the future of the community in which we live depends upon the success or otherwise of the measures that are taken to overcome the problem. [More…]

• He said that it was necessary to go further tha a any of the universities had gone in the training of officers and in all aspects involved in the control of environment and its relationship to the administration and development of a community. [More…]

• More and more local government authorities concerned with the development of our community have been paying attention to pollution, but we were led to believe that throughout Australia they are experiencing great difficulty in finding trained operators, let alone skilled assistants. [More…]

• At the moment the number of trained technicians is rather sparse, and the extent to which our community is prepared to devote a proper sector of its public finance towards solving this problem is limited. [More…]

• Most unfortunately - I do not necessarily mean by some Ministers in State governments - it has been adopted by some sectors of industry and by a host of people in the community. [More…]

• But if they continue to pollute and to add to the pollution which is natural to their simple existence - pollution which is created by all the other activities in which man engages in order to be able to live in the so-called affluent society, al] the industries and all the other effects of the development which has taken place - without taking proper steps and spending a proper percentage of the income, which is the national income produced by all the people within the community, on treating that pollution, they will find themselves without a country to live in because they will have destroyed it. [More…]

• That is what has been happening in this community and it is what has been happening in other parts of the world. [More…]

• I trust that honourable senators in accepting this report will also individually and collectively take steps to endorse the action necessary to motivate people to adopt a collective approach towards solving on a national basis what is one of the very real problems which our community faces in this day. [More…]

• The Minister for Health in the State of Victoria has overcome this problem by deciding to set up a telephone in Melbourne so that every person in the community can become a policeman; when a person sees an act of pollution in the Bay or in a waterway he can ring a central telephone number in the city of Melbourne. [More…]

• This is another instance of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, as happens in respect of so many issues which face the community. [More…]

• If the type of enthusiasm which Senator Mulvihill has manifested is shared by many in the community, it gives promise that any coordinated efforts in this field will find considerable public support. [More…]

• Without doubt the attention of the community has been drawn much more effectively to the problem by the work of this Senate Select Committee and its report. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service, and I take this opportunity to welcome the Minister back to our community. [More…]

• Since the announcement of the changes in social service benefits proposed in the Budget, the 50c a week increase has been condemned strongly by every section of the community. [More…]

• Nothing makes one feel worse in old age than to feel that one is useless and is being kept by government handouts and not con tributing anything to the community. [More…]

• We should also have a look at other people in this community. [More…]

• It is a problem for government policy but, within the framework of such policy, the outcome will be determined by judgments formed, decisions made and initiatives taken at innumerable points throughout the community. [More…]

• The cost of keeping the child of a widow or a deserted wife at school is just as great as the cost of keeping the child of a politician or any other member of the community. [More…]

• 1 come back to this Bill and the amendment moved by my colleague which states that the pension is totally inadequate and that the Government ought to establish a national superannuation fund to ensure that nobody in this community wants, regardless of age, regardless of physical or mental ability to work, and regardless of any other political or social factor that may influence this community. [More…]

• As desirable as it is to eliminate poverty, it is a fact that while there are improvident people in the community - we will have them with us always - there will always be poverty. [More…]

• When costs are surpassing productivity it becomes more and more difficult to provide the amenities that I believe are desired by everyone in the community. [More…]

• One section of the community is going through depressed times. [More…]

• I am speaking of a crosssection of the community and if honourable senators opposite have not heard that expression they must move in totally different circles from mine. [More…]

• The community is being robbed of money which should flow to the coffers of the Treasury by way of taxes. [More…]

• most difficult to influence anybody in the community to believe that 50c is an adequate increase in the age pension. [More…]

• lt was not of a particularly high standard, and we still had an army of unemployed in our community. [More…]

• Should we take away from national development that which will give rise to a higher income, and therefore a growth in gross national product with a corresponding growth in the available amount in the public purse which can be directed towards the needs of the people who are aged or who fall into any of the other categories of persons in this community who receive social service benefits of one kind or another? [More…]

• May it not be a very shortsighted belief that we must take all now to give the maximum possible to those who are in need, to the detriment of the growth of the country and of the people in the community who in the future will be in need? [More…]

• Anyone who wants to complain or who wants to lay the ills of any section of the community at someone’s feet can say that it is all because of what the Arbitration Commission has done. [More…]

• I hope to see many things achieved, but they will be achieved only by a continuation of a responsible approach to an equation of the division between those elements of expenditure which are productive of future income and those elements of expenditure which are to keep those who are in need of assistance from the public purse at a level at which they can get the maximum advantage available from the present community. [More…]

• I welcome and applaud the wide range of benefits that this legislation will bring to various sections of the community which this Government has endeavoured to serve, while displaying a sense of responsibility towards the other sections of the community which it also serves. [More…]

• Therefore we must give added protection to the impoverished sections of the community in declaring their entitlement. [More…]

• These people are not asking for charity; they are asking merely for assistance to which they are entitled after a very long period of work for the whole community. [More…]

• It all becomes a matter of interpretation, of how much the country and the community can afford and of what the particular needs are in a given set of circumstances. [More…]

• There will always be debate and contention of opinion as to whether a thrifty person should be penalised or whether a person should spend his money to come within a bracket in which he will be entitled to receive a pension or, indeed, whether someone who through the years has wasted his income, his assets or whatever he may have had is entitled to receive assistance at the expense of the community and the taxpayer. [More…]

• The fact is that there are in our community aged and needy people who require help. [More…]

• I put forward the contention which has been put forward many times of course, that the most desirable thing is that care and assistance for needy citizens within our community should come from both the Government and the community. [More…]

• I think it would be most unsatisfactory for the nation if the Government were expected to provide all the care required and similarly it would be more unsatisfactory if the Government provided none of the care and the community were left to do everything. [More…]

• Because of their very participation in this particular work they perform the valuable service of discovering the needs of our community and of assisting the Government to find and meet them. [More…]

• All of this has an impact not only on our community but also on our community life and community relationships. [More…]

• I refer to the areas in which the Government contributes, and has contributed over the years, to assisting that section of the community known as the pensioners. [More…]

• There are changing demands on the Australian community, there is a changing purpose in the total field of social services, a changing outlook and a changing attitude towards them. [More…]

• Therefore there are not only changing needs but there is also a clear call for a constant review and a recognition of those changes so that those in the community who are in need may receive something adequate. [More…]

• in its planning, both in the immediate future and in the long distant future, take into account that there will be in the Australian community people who, at a certain stage of life, need to be in a situation where they can maintain their standard of living, their life and their interests, not in affluence but at least at a level which will enable them to continue in the pride, dignity and usefulness that they have had all their lives. [More…]

• I join issue with Senator Davidson and ask him why we have not had a proper, complete survey of the problem and of the plight of the section of the community to which this debate is directed. [More…]

• He said that he doubted that a formula could be devised which would give sufficient in the way of pension to meet the needs of the different sections of the community involved. [More…]

• I approach this from an entirely different angle because it is my view that, despite other priorities, there is an obligation on the community towards our aged people to ensure that their standard of living is held at a level at which their basic requirements are provided, and that the inflationary trend which is continuing in Australia is equated periodically with the pension to allow them to share in the so-called affluent society in which we are living. [More…]

• Throughout the community there are people whose cases, as far as I can see, never come to the surface. [More…]

• The point I am making is that, in view of the development of our resources and the claim that we are an affluent society, we should be able to give more thought and a higher level of priority to this section of the community. [More…]

• In regard to this very important section of the community, he made certain points that should be enlarged upon. [More…]

• These people who comprise quite a big proportion of the community today lacked many of the advantages of modern society. [More…]

• It is necessary to realise that the people who have contributed to building up the wealth of this nation, whether they have contributed through the use of their brains or through the use of their muscles, have made a considerable contribution to the development of Australia as a viable country and should be able to expect the attitude of the rest of the community to be that they can live their lives with a modicum of comfort and with their fear of being without the necessities of life reduced to the absolute minimum. [More…]

• During the last month or so, since the Budget was introduced, the reactions to it have been that the Government was mean in giving so little to alleviate the plight of such a substantial part of the community which needs social service assistance. [More…]

• People in other sections of the community are able to protect their interests. [More…]

• I emphasise that when increases in expenditure are planned by a government, in order to pay that money to the people it must first of all find means of collecting it from the community as a whole. [More…]

• I have in mind legislation dealing with homes for aged persons, nursing subsidies, nursing home benefits and financial assistance for organisations such as Meals on Wheels - the Government has entered the field to help this brainchild of an association formed within the community. [More…]

• The fact that a person is living in misery or poverty may be partly a fault of our society, it may be partly a fault of the personality of the person concerned and it may be partly the responsibility of the Commonwealth and/or State government, but it is a problem to which the community as a whole and parliaments in genera) should give serious thought instead of saying to the Commonwealth Government: You do not pay enough pension each fortnight to give these people a happy, healthy, comfortable home life’. [More…]

• Government can only legislate to provide certain amounts of money and trained staff to oversee some of the community; it cannot get right into the pockets of poverty and solve or even attempt to solve the problems which exist there. [More…]

• It is because of the reasons T have given, and the fact that the Government has increased its expenditure this financial year on health and education as well as in many other fields which are of interest to the Australian community, that I am prepared to say that this Bill to amend the Social Services Act is a satisfactory one. [More…]

• lt is very serious when any section of the community, particularly the most defenceless section, is continuously permitted to fall into a position of indigence and of social dependence on the goodwill and solicitude of those who might have the ability to make some sort of financial handout. [More…]

• In this case not only has the economic freedom and viability of a group of aged people in the community been gravely impaired but the personal dignity of these people is being brought under grave criticism. [More…]

• by the contribution of their long lives and individual participation in the economic life of the community, have contributed to the building up of the modern Australian economy with its wealth, its affluence and the availability of all those things which go with the affluent society such as full employment, adequate hours of leisure, social conveniences, recreation, reduced working hours and things of that character. [More…]

• Therefore I say that there is operating in the community an arbitral system the decisions of which are of tremendous consequence and which affect the whole economic life of the nation. [More…]

• In no sense would that be accepted in the modern Australian community. [More…]

• In the absence of something of that character, increasingly every year this Parliament is to be asked to examine in this rather horrifying detail the lives and dispositions of this great section of the community which is dependent on the solicitude of a government of any political persuasion from year to year and from time to time. [More…]

• In the field of pensions, if that same conflict arose we would find that pensions may be the subject of the Treasury technocrats who would put economic stability over the whole community before a reasonable entitlement, in humanity, to the pensioners. [More…]

• In the modern community those conflicts are inescapable. [More…]

• The provision of any social service benefit today is as much a matter of economic determination as of arbitral decision, and an independent body adequately equipped with those with trained judicial minds and those with economic experience and expertise, and being of course a body which would have regard for the financial capacity of the nation and the consequences of a determination on the national financial structure, ultimately must earn the respect of the community and of the recipients of social welfare. [More…]

• Other legislation introduced by this Government, such as the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act and the States Grants (Home Care) Act, has also been instrumental in assisting needy groups in the community. [More…]

• This progress will be maintained in the future with the object of removing poverty from the community as far as possible. [More…]

• But I have noted that, although I have been waiting for it all through the debate as I am sure other senators have been, no reference has been made to the finances involved which, of course, must come from the pockets of the general community or the taxpayers. [More…]

• ne great contrast between increases in the general standards of the community and increases in repatriation benefits illustrates the injustice of the position. [More…]

• There are 2 sections of the community which are vitally concerned with repatriation benefits. [More…]

• Each of these sections of the community in its own particular sphere is receiving some assistance under various clauses of the Bill now before the Senate. [More…]

• The greatest pity of it all - this adds to the irresponsibility, in my belief - was that not one word of constructive advice was given by the honourable senator as to how and if this money could be rightfully collected, from what section of the community and by what means it could be collected from the community to pay the pensions and the benefits that he so blithely suggests should be paid. [More…]

• If this, in the eyes of the Premier, is one of the treasonable acts in this community, then I shall continue to participate in them. [More…]

• He is a man who has contributed a great deal to the co-operative movement and to many other voluntary organisations and is a loyal and eminent citizen of this community. [More…]

• That is your perfectly democratic right in this community.’ [More…]

• Yet men like Senator Greenwood and others like the Premier of Queensland are setting out to undermine that democratic right in this community. [More…]

• One would hope and assume that it would accept the responsibility of seeing that the laws of that State are obeyed and that no organisation, no matter what it is, should be given an opportunity to bring the city, the community and the life of a people to a standstill. [More…]

• As all honourable senators appreciate, the Australian community has a huge investment in Qantas and that investment is growing very fast. [More…]

• The only way to do that is for Qantas to be as efficient and as capable as it has been in the past and for it to get adequate help from the Australian community and from the Australian Government and, in airline negotiations with countries wishing to fly into this country by various routes, for the government to be watchful that the interests of Australians are being safeguarded in the fullest sense. [More…]

• As part of the Post Office programme for meeting the changing postal needs of the business community, government organisations and the public at large, 2 new services are to be introduced. [More…]

• As an integral part of the community, Mr Deputy President, the Post Office is subject to the same pressures in relation to wage increases and rising costs as is any other business. [More…]

• No-one can deny that prices generally in the community are trending upwards and a look at individual charges for well known services over the past .10 years shows this pattern of increase. [More…]

• I would say that is a very hypocritical attitude to adopt in relation to the needs of those people in the community who have no one to fight their causes for them. [More…]

• The Government is adopting an attitude to a very large section of this community that it does not care about, except for those from which it thinks it may be able to buy votes in a political campaign. [More…]

• 1 do not think that many other organisations in the community can avail themselves of this kind of opportunity. [More…]

• In those days it was not a necessity for businesses although nowadays the business community uses it more than do governments. [More…]

• Perhaps they will not affect greatly many people in the community, but the telephone service which is to be increased appears to have a considerable amount of impact. [More…]

• There is a demand by private industry, as well as by the Government, for the manpower that is available so there is a great increase in the wage structure within the community. [More…]

• I believe that under the structure of our Commonwealth Public Service Board there is great benefit to be derived from the various wage levels in the community. [More…]

• If there are problems in the post Office arising from increased costs in the community which have an effect on the Australian Post Office, despite the management of the Post Office to which great credit must be given, [ believe that those problems have been caused by the Government which has introduced certain factors into the financial affairs of the Australian Post Office which are completely unfair. [More…]

• We accept that they are worthy organisations in the community. [More…]

• For the life of me I cannot understand how we can regard the Budget as being a good measure when people in the community will have to suffer fairly heavily as a result of provisions contained in the Budget. [More…]

• If Senator Young believes that is a good service to the community, it is not my understanding of a good service. [More…]

• I repeat that I think it is most unfair that we should have to debate a measure which increases charges to the community generally without having before us the profit made or the toss incurred by the Post Office for the preceding 12 months. [More…]

• This is a typical example of things which, in my view, could be reduced substantially without any loss to the community. [More…]

• As far as the Australian community is concerned, this financial year the Department will make a profit of $30m and in a full financial year a profit of $53m. [More…]

• Can the Minister advise whether the Department of Health is making any investigation in this field to make possible this wonderful mechanism 10 the blind citizens in our community? [More…]

• Because this journal devotes much of its space toroadtraffic problems and has as its objective the welfare and safety of the motoring community of New South Wales, will the Postmaster-General be prepared to reviewthe rates of postal charges for this and similar organisations. [More…]

• They are medium sized businesses in the community. [More…]

• I believe that the Government should review the position of those sectors of the business community which will find that their postage expenses have escalated by over 100 per cent as a result of these proposals. [More…]

• I believe that the Government should acknowledge that an unfair burden is being placed upon this sector of the community. [More…]

• Any reduction in our activities will materially affect these important sections of the community. [More…]

• However, it is not the role of the Post Office to subsidise the printing and publishing industries or the activities of a wide range of institutions, organisations or societies, desirable though their activities in the community sense may be. [More…]

• The Post Office provides a community service. [More…]

• We cannot look an item in isolation and say: ‘We lost $9m here’, and fail to look over the page where we can see that another section of this community service has made a profit of, say, S30m. [More…]

• It uses that comparatively small loss as an excuse for imposing unjust and anomalous postal and telegraph charges on the community. [More…]

• In that letter Mr McBride who represents the business section of the community, not the trade union section, pointed out: [More…]

• It seems to me absurd that while for one publication of a club or an organisation there is a charge of 6c for another publication which is designed to contribute to the business and economic life of the community the charge imposed will be 24c. [More…]

• That is the position as far as the business community ls concerned. [More…]

• It is what one does to obtain results for the community. [More…]

• A considerable amount of space in the columns of their journals is used for the purpose of educating these people on various problems which arise in the community. [More…]

• Senator Milliner made an apt point when he spoke about trying to suppress the smaller groups in the community. [More…]

• Quite obviously this is an imposition that ought not to be made on any rural community. [More…]

• They point out what is going to happen to this community if these increases are passed. [More…]

• They are the result of an election promise by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) to grant taxation concessions to certain sections of the community. [More…]

• The Australian community does not categorise the losses incurred on postal charges and the profits received by telecommunications activities. [More…]

• In contra-distinction, the accounts of the Postmaster-General’s Department for the last financial year have not been made available to the Parliament at this stage, although important legislation which will affect the well-being of the Australian community is being discussed by the community’s representatives in the Parliament. [More…]

• I would suggest that prima facie it would be worthwhile if this Parliament were to give consideration to whether, having regard to the best interests of the Australian community, the Australian Post Office, which is the largest public enterprise in Australia, with capital assets at its disposal of. [More…]

• The workers in the Postmaster-General’s Department perform homeric tasks in the carrying out of their duty in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• It has been done in a very sincere endeavour to ascertain whether it is in the best interests of the Australian community to have this great public enterprise operating in its own right or whether it should be shackled to the rigidity of the Public Service Act and Regulations. [More…]

• As valuable as the white paper is, I suggest to the Government that with Bills of this nature, Bills that are vital to the Australian community because the results coming from them will mean that heavy costs will be imposed on Australian consumers, the accounts for the previous financial year of the department involved, in this case the Postmaster-General’s Department, should be available to members when the Bills are being debated. [More…]

• That is a large burden for the Australian community to have to bear. [More…]

• I do not question the efficiency of workers in the Post Office - I think that the ordinary workers in the Department do a tremendous job on behalf of the Australian community - but certainly when one hears of matters of this nature and sees them paraded publicly there is cause - without having the accounts before us - to query the efficiency of some of the modus operandi in the general administration of the Department. [More…]

• I refer now to what I describe as the excessive charges to be imposed on the Australian community and on organisations in relation to the posting of registered pub lications. [More…]

• I should have thought that a much more direct way of expressing that would have been for the Department, which obviously and undoubtedly prepared the second reading speech for the Minister, to say that charges so far as the Australian community is concerned will be increased. [More…]

• I understand that the time available to me has expired, but one could go on setting out in great detail instances of heavy charges and costs being imposed on the Australian community. [More…]

• In short, I say that the case made out by the Opposition is unanswerable and that it is in the interests of the Australian community that this matter be referred to a select committee to inquire whether the Post Office should be removed from the. [More…]

• Surely we must be guided to a great extent by the opinions, based on experience and knowledge, of men who have seen the Post Office grow from something comparatively small to something great in its ramifications and its services to the community. [More…]

• But the Post Office is no different from any other undertaking in the community. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party has made up its mind that it should oppose increased charges placed upon the community as part of a Government policy. [More…]

• After all this Bill is dovetailed into a Government design to place increased charges on the community as a result of its own financial arrangements. [More…]

• Other speakers have referred to the very savage charges imposed on the community. [More…]

• On this occasion, as happens always when attempts are made to put the Post Office on a more profitable basis, the increases fall on the small men in the community. [More…]

• It could happen that as a result of the proposed inquiry it would be proper and feasible for a new administration or new corporation to determine to what extent progressive charges might be applied in order to make the burden on the community less- onerous and more equitable than is proposed on this occasion. [More…]

• As has been the case with other Government policy decisions, there is a tendency to make heavy charges on the community in 1 year. [More…]

• If we establish no more today than that it is necessary to examine the increases in charges we will be doing a service to the community. [More…]

• On the occasion of each new Budget, at a time when the Treasurer usually refers to a period of threatening inflation, the Government makes no attempt to curb inflation but places new charges on the community. [More…]

• Sir Robert Menzies then described exactly what the Government is now doing and asking the community to pay for it. [More…]

• Thus public employment is a significant part of total employment, and industrial relations in the public sector are an important part of industrial relations in the community as a whole. [More…]

• The new priority paid mail service for urgent inter-capital mail has been welcomed by the business community and is growing quickly. [More…]

• While the Post Office provides a wide range of services to meet the needs of the community, it promotes only those which are not a burden on the ordinary taxpayer. [More…]

• I cannot think of anybody in the community who would not come within that exclusion. [More…]

• Without going into the very highly emotional things which affect youth today, it is obvious that they will shortly have the vote at 18 years of age and it is a disappointment to me that this Parliament, unless I can coax the Government into slipping a Bill through in the next few weeks, will not give the vote to that section of our 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…]

• 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 itas 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 the light of this statement, will the Government reconsider this policy which is imposing a dreadful burden on the people of this community, especially those who are attempting to acquire homes or are in the process of paying off mortgages on them and those who are involved in various other transactions where the interest rale becomes a factor either directly or indirectly? [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…]

• However, in the ACT the following numbers of cases were treated at the Canberra Community Hospital: In 1966-67, 4 ACT residents and 2 non-residents; in 1967-68, 2 residents and 2 non-residents; in 1968-69, 1 resident and 6 non-residents; in 1969-70, no residents but 6 nonresidents. [More…]

• Has the Attorney-General’s attention been drawn to recent statements made in the Sydney Daily Mirror’ by the Australian Translation President, Captain Rudolf Dezelin, concerning approaches he received from ultra-right wing Croatians about assassination attempts on members of the Yugoslav community who oppose fascist political groups; if so, doesthe Attorney-General intend taking any action in respect of such information. [More…]

• Should we discount the total sum expended for navigational aids by the benefit to community services? [More…]

• What amount should be discounted from the cost of navigational aids for the provision of this community service? [More…]

• This is perhaps something which is not discussed generally in the community, but we must surely be proud of our safety record. [More…]

• national development and community benefit. [More…]

• I presume this means that it is now possible to say how much of the cost of facilities should be directly charged to defence and how much the facilities might be charged to community services, etc. [More…]

• What the working group is now trying to do, as proposed by the Government after receiving many complaints from the operators, is to put these matters into special categories and to decide to what extent airports in various isolated parts of the country, for example, are more a defence or national development facility than a commuter or necessary community service. [More…]

• It is trying to decide to what extent intrastate services might be purely community services or to what extent certain airports are defence establishments. [More…]

• Serious doubts have been expressed as to whether this kind of charge is beneficial to the community. [More…]

• As a result of these articles 1 have had a large number of phone calls and a large number of telegrams from a great section of the Australian community which is very interested in this subject asking me to raise the matter on their behalf in Parliament this evening. [More…]

• These new fees do not seek to cover costs associated with Commonwealth Government services and certain services deserving of special consideration as a result of the community interests involved. [More…]

• But this is not necessarily the last word to be accepted by the Australian community through its Government. [More…]

• However I have the responsibility, as indeed, we all do, of representing the public benefit in the broad in the Australian 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…]

• 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. [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…]

• The Government believed that such increases were necessary for the community. [More…]

• We know what a disaster it was to the community. [More…]

• Here is a tax which is clearly inflationary and which runs against the feeling of this community. [More…]

• They affect businesses throughout the community. [More…]

• Of course, we have been a car community for a long time. [More…]

• 1 was saying we are still a relatively high carusing community. [More…]

• We may have slipped a little but, nevertheless, we are a high carusing community. [More…]

• All of this bears heavily on the community. [More…]

• But the amount represented there is only a drop in the bucket compared with what is going on in this great community of ours which is one of the treasure chests of the world. [More…]

• J think most economists and other people who consider the matter would say that by increasing sales tax you increase the total monetary value of goods in the community without any increase in real value because there has not been any increase in productivity. [More…]

• You add to the cost of goods an amount which is not reflected in increased value but which is simply reflected in increased prices which go right through the community. [More…]

• We know that it was an inflationary impost, but to increase sales tax at this time when the community here and communities all over the world are concerned about inflation is deplorable. [More…]

• Although the amount returned in tax throughout the community will be increased in money terms, the Government is not satisatisfied with that but proposes to push the rate even higher. [More…]

• The reductions will benefit the richer persons in the community but will be of very little benefit to those at the bottom of the scale. [More…]

• In effect the Government is deriving the same amount of taxation from the community but it is deriving it in a more iniquitous manner. [More…]

• This is one example of a range of indirect ways in which the Government has taxed the community. [More…]

• Senator Greenwood may think that these increases are unimportant, but they will not be laughed off by the community. [More…]

• It is striking at the standard of living of every person in the community. [More…]

• The whole lot ought to be thrown out by the Senate if it is in fact a self respecting legislature which is concerned about acting on behalf of the citizens of the community. [More…]

• I suppose there is nobody in this community today who does not use a taxi cab, probably at least once a week if not more often. [More…]

• I do not think there is a woman in the community who would think that jewellery is a luxury these days unless it is of the class of diamond that Richard Burton is able to purchase for Elizabeth Taylor. [More…]

• The sales tax is being increased, as is made apparent from the Treasurer’s Budget Speech, because there must be a recognition by government, in a discharge of a responsibility which it has to the community, that it must ensure that there is as far as can be achieved a balanced budget. [More…]

• Be that as it may, when you have an acknowledgement in that way that income tax cuts are what the electorate wants - indeed it is an offer which is put to the electorate by the Government and the Opposition - it indicates a recognition of community feeling, in those circumstances I do not see how government can avoid carrying out what the parties have promised. [More…]

• This $29m will be an imposition on the whole of the community, lt will be an added imposition on the 25 per cent rate which the Government has already imposed. [More…]

• The prices start to impose further pressures throughout the community. [More…]

• It is these pressures which are causing so much unrest in the community. [More…]

• I suggest there are many other avenues for raising finance in this country which would avoid the necessity of imposing sales tax which, irrespective of what the Government says, bears down upon the ordinary people in the community. [More…]

• If it achieves nothing more than bringing the election of the Senate and the House of Representatives together it will have achieved something indeed, lt will put the policies of all parties completely to the test at the right time; that is at a time when so much dissatisfaction is found in the community. [More…]

• In order to bolster the war-mongering sections of the community members of the Government are deliberately suppressing information that ought to be made available. [More…]

• He is reported to have said that a condition of total disaster .faces the Queensland sugar industry if the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement is not taken into account by Britain upon her entry into the European Economic Community, and which in turn would have very grave repercussions on the stability and continuance of the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• As to the implications of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community in relation to its responsibility to the International Sugar Agreement, I am not in a position to answer. [More…]

• 1 can assure the honourable senator that in the statement that I shall present to the Estimates Committee there will be ample information as to the survey which is constantly made to ascertain the experience of trained indigenes for thevarious public duties that will be required of magistrates, surveyors, engineers, lawyers and other people who would be regarded as having special responsibility in the community. [More…]

• Its purpose was mainly to assist the Kalgoorlie community which has been heavily dependent on gold mining. [More…]

• They are owned by the Australian community and exist to serve as a public utility. [More…]

• Mr Acting Deputy President, as you will notice from the list of items the increases are not an impost just upon the community, the users of the airlines, of road transport and the operators but will also impose heavy duties on the wine industry, particularly in South Australia. [More…]

• It has only just reached a state of profitablity and its profitability is related to the general living standard of the community. [More…]

• If the Government’s financial policy barms the living standards of the community, obviously it also affects industries such as the wine industry for a start. [More…]

• They are increasing to such an extent that the collections make it imperative, it seems to me, that the Government face up to the demands of the community. [More…]

• But it cannot be done if the Government places extra charges on every process of transportation or imposes extra charges that make each process of movement within the community dearer. [More…]

• Prior to the suspension of the sitting I referred to the 4 Bills which impose heavy increases on the community and on industry. [More…]

• All that legislation of this kind does is to place extra burdens on the community generally. [More…]

• It has a multiplier effect throughout the whole community which should be resisted. [More…]

• By these Bills it is proposed to increase the excise on many items which affect all persons in the community. [More…]

• The simple truth is that the more indirect taxes are imposed on the community the more the ordinary people are being hurt. [More…]

• Everybody in the community knows that if one has enough cash in one’s pocket one can walk into the shop of any electrical retailer and get -at least one-third - 33$ per cent - off the price of most electrical goods. [More…]

• But I am concerned about the imposition of extra charges on other items which place a burden on these people in the community in the lower income bracket. [More…]

• This is another example of the burden which the present system of indirect taxation is placing upon a section of the community. [More…]

• Every item which is brought into this community for retail sale is increased in price because of freight costs. [More…]

• The people who were formerly a specialised class in the community, who dictated the terms of purchase and who in the final analysis dictated the level of production and consumption in the society have been almost extinguished. [More…]

• I believe it is in the interests of the Senate and of the community to take the evidence of these witnesses who have come to Canberra today if this can be arranged. [More…]

• I think the committee system is of tremendous advantage to the Australian community but it could become bogged down through the great amount of work involved at the one time. [More…]

• The industry should be able to take its place in a community such as ours which is based on the primary industries. [More…]

• A lot of people are under the impression that the old ties of the British Empire and the British Commonwealth will continue into the future, that arrangements will be made to soften the effect of the entry of Great Britain into the European Economic Community and that Australia will get some of the crumbs from Great Britain. [More…]

• It is my view that Australia will be left very much out in the cold if Great Britain enters the Community. [More…]

• other organisations are urging upon the industrial community that there should be new industrial relations procedures and the consummation of agreements where possible, how does the Government justify its action in preventing the operation of an industrial agreement which has been approved by the operating body? [More…]

• Will the Attorney-General allay the fears of Sydney residents that the Commonwealth Bankruptcy Court seems to give to wealthy bookmakers dispensation from being called in cases under investigation, while people in less lucrative positions in the community would be subpoenaed to attend or risk possible contempt charges. [More…]

• Persons from all sections of the community are summoned to appear before the Court or the Registrar and no exemption is granted on the basis of wealth or occupation. [More…]

• I refer to the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• What has been done to try to overcome or to prevent the damage that will be done to Australia in many industries as a result of the inevitable entry of Britain into the European Economic Community? [More…]

• The situation is that every major industry, perhaps with the exception of the wool industry in this instance, will face almost ruin overnight if we do not do something to combat the position of Britain when she becomes a member of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The preference that will be given for sugar in the British Isles after Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community will be for European beet sugar. [More…]

• 1 apologise to some degree if I have wandered a little in my remarks, but I am very annoyed to see members of this House running away from an issue of such importance, not only to individuals in the community but also to the economy of this country generally. [More…]

• Tt should not interfere with the Senate’s attempt to help the farmers of our community. [More…]

• We can obtain a decision from this Senate as to what it believes is the best way to help the rural community of this country. [More…]

• We know equally well that points have been raised in this chamber and in the other place about the wish of the Australian community to make perfectly sure that because it was short of capital at a particular stage it will not in effect lose its equity. [More…]

• This opportunity is now provided to the Australian community to a much greater degree. [More…]

• Convertible notes can be used for the time being to take, in effect, some of the Australian community’s savings out and in later days the community can. [More…]

• All honourable senators are very well aware of the substantial capital inflow into Australia through the years and of the strong state of the Australian reserves because of this; but equally they all are well aware, I know, that Australia is a high saving country and that it does make a great contribution to its development from its own savings, it is most desirable that the Australian community should have thy opportunity to keep up this equity investment. [More…]

• This is why this measure is important to the Australian community. [More…]

• In drawing up the series of approved conditions, it has been necessary 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 amending the law and a scheme that will be found useful by the business community. [More…]

• The demands which are made from time to time for reductions in taxation come up against the fact that large sections of the community are calling for increased Commonwealth assistance. [More…]

• As I said before, a considerable section of the community - the lower paid people - will derive a little or no benefit from these taxation concessions which have been handed out by the Government. [More…]

• In my view, direct taxation is the fairest means of taxing people, particularly those who earn least in the community. [More…]

• On the other hand, the other charges that were imposed upon the ordinary man in the community, in the form of increased sales tax, increased customs and excise charges, increased postal charges, increased petrol charges and increased company taxation which, of course, will again be passed on to the consumer, will yield to this Government revenue totalling SI 96m, according to the Budget. [More…]

• I conclude my remarks on this particular quarter by saying that the small people in the community, those who look to their parliamentary representatives to defend them, those who look to their parliamentary representatives to help them, have said in essence to Senator Gair: ‘See that the Government coughs up or get out.’ [More…]

• I want to refer to a lol of other people in the community who suffer and will continue to suffer as a result of the Government’s attitude to the Budget generally, to the fixing of the taxation rates and to making up lost revenue from other sources. [More…]

• Taxation hits hardest that large group in the community which does not receive large incomes. [More…]

• I believe that if one is prepared to examine courageously all aspects of what is happening in the community one will find that this is the basic cause of most of the problems being encountered today. [More…]

• When he became Prime Minister of Australia Mr Gorton made some enthusiastic statements about being the champion of the underdog, particularly of those people in our community who are in receipt of social services. [More…]

• The honourable senator is entitled to believe that the granting of a 50c a week increase in the age pension proves the Prime Minister’s claim up to the hilt, but there are not many people in the community who will agree with him. [More…]

• If this is an equitable way to distribute the tax burden within the community then I have still a lot to learn about it. [More…]

• I would think that if the Government wanted to do something for the middle and lower income group within the community it would have revised the taxation scale by commencing at the lower level with a reduction of something like 20 per cent, with gradual decreases in the percentage of reduction, the reduction cutting out at about $20,000. [More…]

• Yet when the Treasurer is questioned about greater reductions in taxation to assist those on lower incomes or about increases in benefits paid to those less fortunate within our community he says that the Budget is finely balanced and to do anything more with it would throw the economy into chaos. [More…]

• We have plenty of examples, 3 think, of cases where people have received such assistance on the occasion of returning to Australia but Mr Bould, who was an ordinary worker in the community and a valuable’ asset to this country, has now placed himself 1,000 or more in debt in order to bring his family back to Australia. [More…]

• I am word perfect in both spoken and written English and also, having been brought up in the Australian way of life, T am very sure that I will fit into the great Australian community. [More…]

• I would have to be convinced that any system to take its place would confer more benefits to the community than the present system has done. [More…]

• to replace the present system and to confer greater benefits on the Canberra community than the present system has done. [More…]

• So, the growth of any community that grows as dramatically as Canberra has grown in recent times will naturally bring in its train a substantial increase in the value of property. [More…]

• While there have been inquiries into freehold land use, fruit and vegetable marketing, the milk industry, breathalyser tests and Sunday observance, the great problem affecting the Canberra community - that is, the problem of land tenure - has not been subjected to examination by a parliamentary committee. [More…]

• Will loans be made available as they are to municipal authorities to provide the facilities and amenities that a community needs? [More…]

• But then the Leader of the Opposition in the other place went on to say that it would be possible in rural industries to achieve much better results for the community and for individuals without an increase in our present financial outlay. [More…]

• The Government is the greatest employer of labour and the greatest spender of money in the community. [More…]

• It shows very clearly how little Opposition members know about primary industry and about the intelligence of the farming community. [More…]

• If they think for one moment that the waffling they were putting over the air yesterday, and wanted to put over the air yesterday, would convince the farming community, then they are not giving the farmers due credit because the farmers are intelligent people. [More…]

• I would have loved Ihe farming community to hear his remarks tonight, so many of which were irrelevant. [More…]

• They wanted to get some kind of message over to the farming community in an endeavour to convince the farmers that the Labor Party is the farmers friend. [More…]

• on primary production and the rural community, emphasis to be placed on the appraisement and the assessment of nen long term developing programmes to secure the retention of the family farm as a major part of Australian Agriculture. [More…]

• If there is one time when farmers and members of the rural community should get behind their organisations and industry leaders to come to a common agreement on how to tackle these problems, now is the time. [More…]

• We have heard from Senator Poyser from Geelong, a great authority on this subject about rural industries, about the European Economic Community and about the sugar industry, lt is a matter for the United Kingdom whether it enters the European Economic [More…]

• Community. [More…]

• The countries of the European Economic Community have indulged themselves in what I believe is an unsound policy of agricultural self sufficiency. [More…]

• The countries of the European Economic Community have built up tremendous surpluses of dairy products and they are increasing at an alarming rate from year to year. [More…]

• What could any Australian Government do about this deliberate policy of the countries of the European Economic Community? [More…]

• If the United Kingdom enters the Common Market it will enter on the conditions laid down by the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If the United Kingdom enters it will have to take these products from the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government has done all it can to point out to the United Kingdom and the countries of the European Economic Community the position which will be faced by the rural producers of Australia if the United Kingdom enters the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Will the Minister have a prompt survey undertaken by his Department or by Treasury officials to ensure that adequate facilities exist and that attention is given to the problems which exist in this important sector of the community? [More…]

• Amongst other things these efforts are designed to alleviate potential problems associated with the possible British entry to the European Economic Community by broadening the basis of our trade. [More…]

• The higher income group, up to $32,000 a year, covers relatively few fortunate members of the community. [More…]

• One section of the community which will have to pay this increase in the cost of fuel consists of the people who use their motor cars to travel to and from their place of employment. [More…]

• There is no doubt that a proportion of income tax does not cover social service contributions and therefore this section of the community is being deprived by the means test of benefits from funds to which they have contributed throughout their lifetime. [More…]

• I believe that even now a review should be made of the impact of this ever-increasing inflationary spiral on this section of the community. [More…]

• I move on from the superannuitants to the aged, invalid and widows in the community. [More…]

• This is where a really raw deal has been given to a very deserving section of the community. [More…]

• I hope that widespread support will be given by Government members to the movement for a Little Budget whereby a review can be made of the Budget in the near future and some redress given to this section of the community. [More…]

• There has been only a little complaint, which demonstrates a great responsibility by companies generally towards the community. [More…]

• We of the Opposition believe that the Government could have done considerably more for the community if it had reduced sales tax, because people on different incomes have to pay the same price for a commodity. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators that there are people in the community who do not pay direct taxation. [More…]

• The whole of this regressive system of taxation has been exposed and highlighted through the combination of a hasty deci sion made during an election campaign and a system of taxation which operates so that the people who are best off in the community will receive the greatest taxation concessions. [More…]

• When something is given back, it should be given to the weaker section of the community, to the middle and low income earners. [More…]

• The Ordinance will give the green light or the approval of the Senate to the introduction of anew system of land tenure in the Australian Capital Territory commencing on 1st January 1970.I expressed the view of the Labor Party that before this measure was implemented there ought to be a full and comprehensive inquiry into the whole system, not only to determine its merit or its superiority over the present system but to give to the residents of the community who, after all. [More…]

• Can anybody tell me that a system that has operated in this community over the years in this way has had any basis of equality? [More…]

• I believe that the Minister should answer the questions which have been posed and also should indicate clearly in his reply why the system to be instituted in the future is better than the one which is provided at the moment having regard to the need to institute a new administrative practice - in other words, a system based upon frequent reassessment whereby all citizens of the community would be placed on a reasonably equal footing. [More…]

• Once the peg is removed and reality prevails the growing burden of land rent must fall on the community in very unequal amounts as between different landholders. [More…]

• Premature announcement of the details could well give financial advantage to some members of the community. [More…]

• The fact that it is before the chamber highlights the strangely dual character of this Parliament as the governing body for the nation and as the landlord in the Australian Capital Territory, just as it highlights the dual position of the Australian Capital Territory itself as a community of people striving towards the elements of a normal municipality and at the same time being required to assume the character of residents in the national capital. [More…]

• I suggest that we could very easily come to the same basis of assessment of a reasonable figure to be paid in the community by having more frequent re-assessments. [More…]

• This gives them a product which enables them to carry out the services and provide the facilities they are obliged to provide to the community. [More…]

• The community of Canberra is hopelessly unrepresented. [More…]

• The people should know what sort of authority it is which sets out to determine the need for and level of services to be provided in the community rather than the Government saying: ‘You are going to have this’, or Your are not going to have this’, or something of that kind. [More…]

• It is totally unfair and unjust for a community of 130,000 people to have to submit to the will of the Government in this way. [More…]

• They will go into competition with all the people in the metropolitan area for all the community services such as water supply, sewerage, roads, education and health services. [More…]

• These people will be moving into areas where there is competition for housing and essential community services. [More…]

• All these facilities are available at present in Kalgoorlie but they will be lost to the community because they are not things which can be picked up and transported from one place to another. [More…]

• It should be looking at Kalgoorlie as a community, 375 miles from Perth, which requires to be sustained. [More…]

• In the health field, while we have made some contribution to the provision of more bricks and mortar in the States, the 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…]

• I think the workers’ compensation legislation is completely and utterly unfair to the workers in this community. [More…]

• If this Government has had the consideration it claims to have had for the under-privileged in this community, it ought long ago to have set out to reform the laws, especially the social laws of this Territory which are within its province. [More…]

• The attraction of the moneys provided by Commonwealth borrowings for housing at 1 per cent below long term bond rate over a period of 53 years has given the States an incentive to seek allocations to the maximum of their budgeting capacity, bearing in mind the many and diverse interests and requirements of government to provide the needs which the community requires through the whole gamut of provisions. [More…]

• No member of our community ought to be expected to live on charity. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of every able bodied person in the community to ensure that those less privileged than themselves do not have to subsist in want. [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…]

• 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 most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should 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…]

• Your Petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should 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 of 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 Petitionere most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship Rims, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• I would want to satisfy myself as to the total base of the objection and to know whether il was from some people only or from the community as a whole. [More…]

• If it was not then known but has been decided since, does this not indicate that details of the proposed new land tenure system are being worked out from day to day and justify the strongly held view in the Canberra community that the plan is by no means clear cut and its consequences therefore not precisely predictable, despite the many assurances we have been given to tha contrary? [More…]

• In view of the recent serious thefts which have transferred a vast quantity of dangerous drugs from the legal market to the illegal market and having in mind the danger to the community, especially young people, of the illicit trafficking in drugs and the fact that large surpluses of drugs have been accumulated because of recent State legislation, will the Department of Customs and Excise take urgent action to have these surpluses destroyed in order to avoid the possibility of further thefts. [More…]

• One of the greatest problems facing the Australian public, our rural industries and people engaged in trade and commerce in this country is the unjustified price increase system operating throughout the community. [More…]

• When one looks at what are unjustified increases and what can be done to prevent them, one comes to something which is agreed on all sides - that one of the main factors in bringing about unjustified price increases in the community is the existence of price rigging, collusive arrangements of many kinds and other harmful practices. [More…]

• The Federal Government attempted to do something about this but there was no doubt that these practices were operating throughout the community against public bodies. [More…]

• This shows the profits which are to be made and the incentives there are for people to make great profits by indulging in harmful practices which are extremely injurious to the community and force up the prices of commodities elsewhere. [More…]

• We will facilitate a debate on a 35-hour week; we are more concerned about the Government’s failure to protect the people against the price rigging which is rife in this community. [More…]

• He spoke knowing full well that a form of price control is in operation in the community today, but the Government will not attempt to relieve that price control in any way in favour of the housewives of Australia. [More…]

• The Minister chided the Australian Labor Party for voting against a tax measure which purported to reduce the taxation burden on the community to the extent of $228m. [More…]

• A survey of the reduction in income tax and a survey of the increase in indirect tax reveals that the community will benefit to the extent of only about $30m, not $22Sm. [More…]

• Has the Government done anything useful to solve those problems which face the community? [More…]

• The Labor Party is criticising the rate of cost increase but proposes to load those costs with a 35-hour week which would cost the Australian community between $2,000m and $2,700m annually. [More…]

• Far more importantly to the Australian community, he did not mention the increased costs which lead to price increases. [More…]

• Then there is a large section of our community engaged in rural industries who are not earners at the moment; many of them are losing money. [More…]

• It is trying to get to the grass roots of the problem and to find out what can be done to assist the people in those sections of the community most damaged by the present situation. [More…]

• I do not know that a rigorous implementation by the States of complementary legislation to the Commonwealth legislation on restrictive trade practices would alter greatly the circumstances of the pensioners or the people in primary industry - the 2 sections of our community that are suffering most today. [More…]

• Time and again the Government - fallaciously, in my view - has accepted an economic concept that a persistent increase in interest rates offers in some way a long range solution to the inflationary tendency in the community. [More…]

• It is true that most economists would agree that some immediate increase in interest rates at a particular time may curtail the desire to borrow temporarily, until the community adjusts to the Increase. [More…]

• Yet the increase in interest rates is supposed to be some deterrent to the inflationary tendency in the community. [More…]

• We members of the Democratic Labor Party believe that these problems are tremendous problems that require the application of the minds of all members of our community and that some prearranged prescription from somebody, which is supposed to be a cure-all, should be examined very carefully before it is accepted by any of us. [More…]

• Our economic complaints need noi necessarily be caused by a high ratio of employment in the community. [More…]

• That must be the objective of every decent minded Australian, whatever his politics may be, if he wants to see a better Australia and to give a better life to all members of this community. [More…]

• But what we must decide if we are sincere and responsible is: Are they any more harmful in the cost structure or in the price structure than the unauthorised forsaking of work, which is advocated by Senator Murphy and his colleagues in the Australian Labor Party, for the purposes of moratoriums and unauthorised strikes in a community in which we have an industrial arbitration system and in which strikes should be a rarity and not an every day occurrence? [More…]

• That is the very thing against which people are fighting for their liberty and freedom in many countries today and the sort of activity that everybody condemns when it is applied to international airlines and somebody wants to hijack an aircraft and use it as a terrorist gesture against the rest of the community in order to gain his ends no matter what happens. [More…]

• What difference in principle is there between that ami the unauthorised stoppage of industry for half a day or a day for the purpose of labour blackmailing by terrorist activities the rest of the community into conceding a demand, whether or not it can prove that the demand is justified? [More…]

• We, like other responsible people in the community today, are trying our utmost, exercising our political knowledge and experience, to gain knowledge throughout the country so that we may offer to people in primary industry some help in solving the problems which affect them so tremendously. [More…]

• The costs of unemployment are to be measured in terms of the economic and social suffering of the individual workers affected; and the loss of output, particularly affecting investment goods and consequently future productivity, and the unease of social conscience suffered by the community as a whole. [More…]

• This is a further indication of the worry amongst all sections of the community in this direction. [More…]

• When it sees, as the whole community sees, that the largest single item in costs - that is, wages - is being increased constantly, it follows inevitably that there will be some increase in prices. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party has voted against every revenue gathering measure which the Government has introduced, lt has indicated that it wants a slackening in the taxation of the community. [More…]

• I assert that many of these elements in the community should be made to live off their economic fat. [More…]

• Since his motion includes the words ‘and other harmful practices’ I believe that we are entitled to examine all of the harmful practices which operate within this community. [More…]

• Such practices run right throughout the community. [More…]

• Again they were prepared to pursue their own selfish interest, no matter how it affected the community. [More…]

• The impact has varied on different sections of the community. [More…]

• This is another area of increased productivity, but where has the benefit been conferred on the community? [More…]

• There are many areas of the community which feel the effect of the disinclination of the Government to exercise its proper jurisdiction. [More…]

• We know - I think the Australian community knows - that when d case goes before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission the Commission makes a determination on the justification for a claim for a better return to the work force of the productivity of the nation. [More…]

• The British say that the main objective in imposing a levy system on imports is to reduce the claims on public expenditure caused by their present subsidy system for supporting their agricultural industry, lt 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…]

• It also underlines one other thing: About 5 or 6 years ago we had debates here on the question of Britain entering the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The entry of Britain into the European Economic Community has now come much closer, and this is one of the first warning shots across our bow. [More…]

• We now find that Great Britain, for its own purposes, seeks to enter the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Some time ago I put questions on the notice paper asking the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen) whether he was in a position to indicate what would be the implications for Australia and our primary industries in the event of Britain joining the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In my view this situation reflects very badly on the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen) who was closely associated during the negotiations with the previous British Government in its expectation of joining the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We have been badly informed of the implications of Britain’s entry to the European Economic Community in relation to the basic commodities referred to in the statement. [More…]

• To many people the matter that I am raising might seem to be a trivial one but to me it is important because it concerns the right of members of the community to raise matters with Ministers and to ask members of Parliament to raise matters on their behalf with members of the Executive. [More…]

• This is a matter of extreme urgency which involves the rights of the community, including the rights of workers claiming workers’ compensation. [More…]

• To keep up with community demands for improved services the States have had, at the same time, 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…]

• I hold very firmly to the view that the community is best served by having an opportunity of access to barristers if the people want done the work which barristers can do; or access to solicitors when they need the work which solicitors can do. [More…]

• I cannot see anywhere under the provisions of the Act why it is not open to anyone in the community to come to the conclusion that a question has arisen and to refer the case to the court. [More…]

• AsI see it, there could well arise a case involving a person of very high repute in the community who refused absolutely to comply with the National service Act, who then was required by the invocation of section 32 to go to the threshhold of a court which, as in the case of the special magistrate in Western Australia, might make a judgment that he is not a conscientious objector. [More…]

• On the other hand, of course, it may verywellbethatcircumstancesarisewhere a person having a similar regard for reputation in the community refuses to comply with the regulations. [More…]

• I suggest that the great majority of the people in the community are overawed by the courts. [More…]

• It is a stand that very few people in the community would take. [More…]

• Perhaps I should end my remarks by shortly making a comment about what some people assume to be their rights in the community. [More…]

• This is the imposition that has been placed on working class people in the community who have been purchasing their homes under long term agreements. [More…]

• This should be part of the inquiry into the housing needs of the community. [More…]

• Within the next 12 months there should be a broad examination of the housing needs and requirements of the community, how various housing operations are working not only in relation to Commonwealth and State agreements but also the war service homes and the anomalies which exist under the Homes Savings Grants. [More…]

• In the long term I am asking for a complete examination of the housing needs of the community. [More…]

• I suggest that insufficient finance has been made available to meet the housing needs of the elderly people in the community. [More…]

• This is not to say that there are not sections of the community, such as families on low incomes, which are facing hardship in obtaining adequate accommodation and which must look to the State housing authorities for assistance. [More…]

• It would have borne very unfairly on a section of the Australian community which at the moment is not in a position to bear such a burden. [More…]

• They come into competition with all the people in the cities for all the community services such as roads, power, water supplies, hospitals and schools that already exist in the centres they have left. [More…]

• I am sure that the matter we are now debating would be regarded by every thinking person in the community as being of the utmost importance to the future of Australia because involved in it is one of Australia’s great industries. [More…]

• 1 could not believe that there would be anyone in the community, much less in this Parliament, who would not bc conscious of the great deterioration which has taken place in the economics of the industry. [More…]

• He has had practically no intimate association with the industry but, as a thinking man in the community, he would have some knowledge of its great value to the economic life of this country and would be conscious also of the fact that today the industry is suffering because of low prices, lack of markets, increased overhead expenses, higher wages and increased cost of materials, equipment and all the things necessary for the successful management of a farming property. [More…]

• When one has regard to the number of people who are employed in rural industries and the others who are engaged in businesses such as stores, transport firms, garages and other activities in a country community, I suppose that ii can be estimated conservatively that 1 million of our people are engaged directly or indirectly in the primary industries. [More…]

• The Government and particularly the Country Party has been recreant to the trust which has been reposed in it by that section of the Australian community which has been supporting it for so long. [More…]

• In many ways he becomes slightly different from the ordinary member of an urban community. [More…]

• But today the wool grower is living in a so-called affluent society in which he sees the people associated with the mining industry, those operating on the stock exchanges and those in other fields of industry and distribution, including retailing, sharing in the affluence while he is the forgotten man in the community. [More…]

• In addition - I will develop this point later - he cannot be absolutely assured that even this instalment of assistance will be able to restore his morale and restore him to his previous financial position in the community. [More…]

• In 1960 economic measures were introduced because the wool industry, and the rural community generally, said that prices were starting to get away from them, that costs were increasing. [More…]

• But as the Minister representing the Attorney-General in this chamber, the Minister for Works and the Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities was speaking on the Australian Wool Commission Bill I could not help but compare his remarks as a Minister with the remarks that he enunciated front time to time when he sat up on the back benches as a private member espousing the cause of the community at large, the rights of the Parliament and the responsibility of the Executive to the Parliament. [More…]

• Would the Minister for Primary Industry deem it wise to promote immediate action between Federal authorities and all appropriate State government departments which are interested in the maintenance of the good health of the Australian community and also in the sustenance of a healthy meat producing industry, with the object of prohibiting all imports of synthetic meat and the manufacture of such products in this country? [More…]

• We in Australia especially have the fantastic mineral, agricultural and industrial wealth of this community. [More…]

• There is absolute poverty connoting the absence of food, clothing and shelter necessary to maintain life; comparative poverty, the absence of those things necessary to maintain the minimum standards that the community will accept as decent; and personal poverty, the absence of those things to which a particular individual is accustomed. [More…]

• We have a responsibility to understand what is happening to a great segment of our community and to take whatever steps are within our powers to deal with it. [More…]

• We know that they serve as a forum for experts and interested persons representing bodies in Ihe community who can come before the committees and put material before them in a way which cannot be done elsewhere. [More…]

• He can take almost unilateral action with respect to a wool clip worth $800m and the livelihood of a large number of people within our community. [More…]

• still is not the type of home unit accommodation that we- believe will settle migrants more ‘ quickly in the community. [More…]

• You are not one of the underprivileged in the community and I suggest you do not interrupt during this part of the debate. [More…]

• The brother seeking to bring him to Australia is a qualified sugar chemist in permanent employment and married to the former Glenda Mae Gee Kee, a daughter of a highly respected Innisfail family who are well known in the local business community. [More…]

• If the sponsorship of his brother is considered insufficient then I am prepared to take the responsibility of ensuring that he fits satisfactorily into the community without displacing any Australian in employment. [More…]

• In addition provision also exists for the admission for residence of persons not of European descent, who, as well as having the capacity to integrate into the Australian community, have qualifications which are in demand and of positive value to this country. [More…]

• Again may I reiterate that there is no suggestion that he will become a charge on the community as both accommodation and employment for him will be attended to by his family. [More…]

• There is provision in immigration policy for ihe admission of persons not of European descent, who as well as having the capacity to integrate into the Australian community, have qualifications which are in demand and of positive value to this country. [More…]

• I have many friends particularly among the young Chinese community as the result of the semi-adoption of a young Chinese lady who had a problem some years ago. [More…]

• But we would not assist them or assist this country by bringing them here to form a second class community. [More…]

• I can well understand the fear of the English Government today about persisting with an assisted immigration policy in a community which itself has been permeated by a large number of people who, culturally and economically, are not capable and were not capable of being smoothly inducted into the British community. [More…]

• It is a disgraceful situation when, because he chose somebody he desired to spend the rest of his life with and because he chose to have a family and bring young children into this community, the Government says ‘No’ because the colour of his wife’s skin is different, and because the colour of his children’s skin will be different, from the colour of his own. [More…]

• This, as you may realise, does impose a burden on the patients concerned but is unavoidable in the present circumstances as the hospital has a responsibility to all sections of the community and must strive for economic operation. [More…]

• The field of hospital operation and the increasingly important role that it plays in the maintenance of a desired health standard in the community should not become a subject for Commonwealth and State bartering but should be viewed with the correct focus on the needs and rights of the population in general. [More…]

• It is a procedure that we have, by conciliation and in some cases by industrial action, eliminated from the industrial awards of the community. [More…]

• I am equally sure that the National Capital Development Commission and the Minister are conscious of the aspects to which he has referred as well as the needs of the community. [More…]

• Any increase in the freight on our products reacts against the Australian community. [More…]

• Against this background it is obvious to us all that there are inflationary pressures which do affect costs in both this community and the overseas community. [More…]

• I have never seen an increase granted to any sector of the community that did not lead to added costs by the time it reached the primary industries. [More…]

• ‘A very reputable person in the Sydney community - I refer to the Mayor of Burwood, Alderman Doug Sutherland, one of the officials of the Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board - told me that, when the ‘Century’ newspaper asked the Board for advertising an inquiry to the Bureau responsible for audit circulation revealed that the Bureau could not give any information on the newspaper because the advertising content of the Century’ newspaper was below the minimum circulation that justifies any rating by the Bureau. [More…]

• We hurry to pass legislation which protects every other section of the community, but we do nothing about changing the provision of the Commonwealth Employees Compensation Act which are far inferior to those operating in all the States, lt is true that last session we passed an amendment to the Aci which was designed to increase the present rates provided in the Act, but we have not for years had a look at. [More…]

• Honourable senators are familiar with the great controversy which is concerning people in the community. [More…]

• One is that the present Committee might be able to cope with the general disabilities of ex-servicemen in relation to the Services and to the community generally. [More…]

• In these days it must be considered as a matter of great importance to what extent the prestige of the soldier in the community ought to be reassessed and somehow improved. [More…]

• It is an inquiry set up for a special purpose when what is needed is an examination of servicemen’s pay and conditions and of all the things that go to make up their role in the Services and in the community for which they should be adequately compensated. [More…]

• New consideration must be given to civil retraining and to the needs of the serving officers and the other ranks when their time is up, so that they can be placed in the community. [More…]

• We must see that because of their service they are not discriminated against relative to people in the community generally. [More…]

• Whether these 2,418 young people had been, in effect, left off the hook, if I may put it that way, or whether there was no positive action by the Department to prosecute them in the light of the current feelings of the Australian community was not fully explained. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of everyone in the community - it is not to be left to the States, the parents, the churches or anyone else - to see to it that Australian youth get the education they deserve. [More…]

• We are all aware of the disgraceful conditions under which children in our community are getting education. [More…]

• Is the Government going to go on from year to year, from election to election, doling out some kind of electoral bribe that it thinks will satisfy this section or that section of the community? [More…]

• It is unfortunate if an impression is created that it is using its powers and its representation in order to have foisted on the Territory provisions which are objectionable and which ought not to be tolerated in a community in which we are seeking to establish a set of laws and a constitution which will observe at least a minimum of the basic human rights. [More…]

• At least we ought to leave a legacy in that community of those basic human rights enshrined in a Constitution. [More…]

• It is clear that, even though there are some consultations in the Territory with a necessarily small number of persons in that community, the main responsibility for the type of Constitution they are to have will be on us. [More…]

• I am entitled to say to the committee that I purposely asked not to read it until it was concluded, so that it would not be pan of any speculation which is widespread that might bc going on in the community. [More…]

• The question of pollution, the question of a community burying itself in rubbish and the question of poisoning the atmosphere are things which, a few years ago, came within the province only of Jules Verne. [More…]

• It will be discussed early next year with community organisations having any interest in the conservation of flora and fauna. [More…]

• On that occasion the Minister said that the Aboriginals in the Northern Territory or anywhere else could have title to land as long as they competed on the open market and bought it in exactly the same way as the more privileged white section of the community. [More…]

• Breaches are seenas failing to obey ‘lawful instructions’, behaviour which is offensive, threatening, insolent, insulting, disorderly, obscene or indecent’, wilful damage, being either idle, careless or negligent al work or ‘IN ANY OTHER WAY OFFENDS AGAINST DISCIPLINE OR GOOD ORDER OF THE RESERVE OR COMMUNITY’. [More…]

• R.21 defines their role as that of ‘local government of the Reserve’ and, as such they are responsible for the ‘good rule and government’ of the Reserve or Community. [More…]

• All communal income (rents, fines, dues) is paid into a Community Fund (R.45) and ‘A disbursement shall not be made from a Community Fund unless the manager approves’ (R.46). [More…]

• The courts are to consist of at least two Aboriginal Justices of the Peace (if the community does nol have 2 J.P.’s then at least three members of the Aboriginal Council will then form the Court). [More…]

• Their role is seen as that of assisting the maintenance of good order and discipline on and supervision of a Reserve or community’. [More…]

• In addition to the Community fund already mentioned, the Aboriginal Welfare Fund is set up, which is to be ‘maintained for the general benefit of persons having a strain of Aboriginal blood’ fR.4). [More…]

• The list below gives powers the department can exercise over the assisted Aborigine that no official has over the white community without court intervention. [More…]

• As this was their only source of cash income for the families, the persons concerned were left to fend as best they were able, off the charity of the rest of the community. [More…]

• He claimed that there had been a good deal of misunderstanding throughout the community. [More…]

• But the Government believes they should secure land ownership under the system that applied to the Australian community and nol outside it. [More…]

• 1 was there a few weeks ago, and what I saw is a disgrace to the Australian community. [More…]

• Education is vital if we are to train these people to a state of responsibility that will enable them to take their place in any phase of our community life. [More…]

• I want to inform the honourable senator that the Aboriginal Advancement Council of Western Australia requested these funds so that a nearby building could be acquired and converted into a community centre. [More…]

• The services of community health nurses are being provided at Bourke, Moree, Dareton and Wilcannia. [More…]

• I believe that this programme will equip them to live happily in the community. [More…]

• But the point I make is that with the challenges of modern life, a much greater proportion of our community will be assisted vastly by this expanded expenditure on education than was the case in the days when Senator Kennelly and I were youths. [More…]

• They are the Australian National Advisory Committee for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation; the Committee on Education of Aboriginal and Disadvantaged Children in the Northern Territory Community Schools; the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Standards for Science Facilities in Independent Schools; the Commonwealth Secondary Schools Library Committee; the Australian Research Grants Committee to Administer Scholarships; ihe Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship Committee; the Queen’s Fellowship Committee; and the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education. [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…]

• It is our view that education is part of a total process which involves the whole community in which that education is taking place. [More…]

• The members of the community at large, whether or not they are versed in the sciences or the arts of education, are entitled to have a substantial voice in the education which is being given by the institutions which are controlled by their government in the city in which they live. [More…]

• The proposal that elected members of the community should be a component of the board of a college of advanced education is quite anomalous, because this is not a provision which prevails in the general pattern of colleges of advanced education throughout the country. [More…]

• That could embrace representatives of the community who had a particular interest in the College or a particular competence to be members of the board. [More…]

• Again, there is ample scope for the Council itself to co-opt or appoint members of the community to the board. [More…]

• However, the present provisions of the Act permit flexibility and leave the way open for community representation of whatever type seems most appropriate at a particular stage of the development of the College. [More…]

• There is great controversy within the Australian community as to whether the provisions of section 9 of the Petroleum Submerged Lands Act in fact extend the laws of the States to off-shore areas. [More…]

• I am quite sure that all of us are pleased that these things are getting stronger consideration and will be of some service to the community. [More…]

• We are making a law for the community of Australia. [More…]

• If the Minister could tell me what the word means and whether other words could be used that would be understandable to the general community, I should be pleased. [More…]

• They are an important integer in our community life and so long as they accept responsibility to maintain a community the members of which have an opportunity for advancement by access to knowledge that they should provide this Bill is an earnest of our resolution to support them. [More…]

• As I inferred there was a grudging assent to the levels of remuneration that Mr Justice Eggleston recommended and we approved for the university community of this country: a professor, $14,400; an associate professor, $11,880; a senior lecturer, maximum $10,500; and a lecturer, maximum $8,760, minimum $6,318. [More…]

• I was speaking to people who belong to the most conservative community in Australia. [More…]

• It will live as an everlasting tribute to John McEwen, who has exercised responsibility for that Department since 1956, that, foreseeing the gathering storm of the European Economic Community, he has been able to obtain access to Pacific markets to such an extent that more than 50 per cent of our export markets at the present time are in the Pacific area as a substitute for European markets. [More…]

• The decision to utilise the news media in recent postal disputes arose from the Department’s concern at the inconvenience caused by the disruption of such an important community service, and the need to inform the general public of the circumstances surrounding the disputes. [More…]

• The assessment is that the existing bore, together with new and potentially productive bores, will supply the immediate domestic requirements of the resident community there. [More…]

• The 1976 Noise Exposure Forecast for Sydney (Kingsford-Smith) Airport is intended to provide those concerned with the airport and its environs with an indication of whether or not the community around the airport will or will not be subjected to additional noise exposure by 1976 and, if so, how much. [More…]

• The terms of the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement provide for the modification of the United Kingdom’s obligations under the Agreement after 1974 inthe event of British entry to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Public Service Board reported to me that a routine statistical projection made prior to my instructions indicated an increase in 1970-71, in full-time employment under the Public Service Act, of 4.6 per cent on the numbers employed as at 30th June 1970.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…]

• They registered their protests in some form or other and are continuing to register their protests at the inhuman approach of the present Government to the widows and the aged and invalid in our community. [More…]

• But the point that I want to make tonight is that everybody appears to be able to improve his own salary and the trade unions are able to get recognition from the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, but nobody seems to be concerned about the pensioners, the poorest section of our community, particularly those who rely wholly and solely on the pensions that they receive. [More…]

• It is easy to make sweeping statements about what should be done to benefit the community, or sections of it, in one way or another. [More…]

• The Government’s policy is to use available funds to the greatest advantage of the community as a whole. [More…]

• The Government also increased the excise on another range of commodities which would inevitably affect the costs of goods and services throughout the community. [More…]

• as we see it, the best interests, of the community require am inflation shall be overcome. [More…]

• If this is the basis upon which the Government is going to proceed heaven help the community. [More…]

• It is not the pensioners who are neglecting to see to it that Arm action is taken against the restrictive practices which are admitted on all hands to be a powerful inflationary factor in the community. [More…]

• We have allowed the restrictive practices to go on in the community without any real check until 1 think even the Government is becoming frightened of what is happening in the field of restrictive prac tices. [More…]

• It would not be a bad idea if the Government went across to Norfolk Island and started to deal with some of the tax lurks that are operating to a shocking extent in this community and to deal with some of the other ways in which people gain revenue. [More…]

• It would not be a bad idea if we got out of the Vietnam war, which is costing hundreds of millions of dollars and which is one of the most powerful factors in producing inflation in this community. [More…]

• 1 deplore the fact that the pensioner, the person who is perhaps i little less well off than some others in the community, is being used for political purposes. [More…]

• This is the wrong motive for debating in this chamber the needs of any one particular section of the community. [More…]

• The Government’s responsibility, and prime responsibility, is to consider all sections of the community, and this means the whole of Australia. [More…]

• If we cannot control inflation at this present time the pensioner, along with all other people in the community, will stiffer. [More…]

• 1 think it is most unreasonable to ask that the pension rate should be increased at the present time when we are devoting our attention to checking inflation and thereby eventually benefiting every section of the community. [More…]

• If wc arc to judge ourselves, surely we ought to be looking at who are the poor people in the community. [More…]

• She said that there were many needy people in the community, such as transport people. [More…]

• The Government is discriminating between the private and public sectors and those who work in the Public Service and are beholden to the Commonwealth Government will become the second eleven in the working community and pensioners will drag behind them. [More…]

• If the Government curtails expenditure in the Government sector we will reach the situation that Professor Galbraith referred to when he said that there could be private affluence and public squalor, because the public side of our community will run down. [More…]

• lt has become increasingly obvious that the community was shocked by the last Budget, as taxpayers were not really to receive a handout and pensioners were to receive an increase of only a miserable 50 cents a week. [More…]

• In a large and complex social service programme it is natural that one or more sections of the community will invariably want more services, more concessions, more favours or more money han are provided for by current legislation. [More…]

• An enormous section of the community today receiver social service benefits. [More…]

• Other sections of the community are crying out for additional benefits. [More…]

• Who has a word to say for the farming community in its dire need today? [More…]

• This is a section of the community that requires benefits. [More…]

• All of these items are forms of care and of practical concern for the pockets of needy people within our community today. [More…]

• T do not intend to press the point that fringe benefits are worth $X in addition to the pension, but the fringe benefits of transport, radio and television licences, medical services and all the other tilings represent elements of security with.n the community. [More…]

• But in addition, allied with the Government’s programme of subsidising various institutions, they provide the opportunity for the community to accept its responsibility and help io care for people who are in need. [More…]

• There are influences, there are community associations and there are community services, some of which I have mentioned. [More…]

• In the area of need in Australia there is the pensioner community. [More…]

• If people wish to think that that was the motive of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, what wc would want to do is not to disillusion them but to remind them that the letter to the President proposing that this matter should be discussed in the Senate today - that letter was sent to the President on 15th December last year - came several days after a judgment which increased wages throughout our community by 6 per cent had been handed down in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• If one was charitable and not cruel in one’s approach to other politicians, one might say that the Australian Democratic Labor Party had been inspired by ils economic knowledge that this 6 per cent increase in wages must deprive further the most poverty stricken section of our community and increase the hardships that people iti this section were suffering already. [More…]

• We do not want the Liberal and Country Parties to judge us on this question: we will allow the community to judge us. [More…]

• We have moved for the entire pension area to be taken out of the political arena and placed in the hands of an independent tribunal which would assess what actually can be afforded by this affluent community to those people who have created such a community. [More…]

• In view of the Prime Minister’s appeal to industry and to all sections of the community to maintain stability and to keep prices down, will the Minister ask the . [More…]

• With the share market in a bad way and with the rural community’s purchasing power gravely diminished, is there not need for great care lest austerity get out of hand and lead to a lack of confidence, unemployment and depression? [More…]

• Each Advisory Committee comprises about 10 leading members of the community concerned with the various important aspects of the change in that sector and is chaired by a member of the Board and has on it at least 3 other Board members. [More…]

• Board and its committees and provide advice on conversion to those throughout the community in need of it. [More…]

• It seems that be sought to get an audience who would provide more plaudits for him than he receives at the average Labor Executive or community meeting. [More…]

• It is therefore, in my view, desirable to give effect now in a short Bill to a reform recommended by the Manning Committee - doing away with the unnecessary indorsement of cheques.This is a reform that has been widely sought with Che community and I consider it to be the most important of the reforms recommended by the Committee. [More…]

• T believe that its implementation will be of real benefit to members of the public, to the commercial community and to bankers. [More…]

• On-4th January 1 was approached by spokesmen for the Lebanese community in Sydney on behalf of 2 Lebanese seamen named Jacob Kabra and Elia Konzamee, who had been members of the crew of a Greek tanker. [More…]

• They were given sanctuary by the Lebanese community of Sydney who then came to me for advice. [More…]

• 2010, a prominent member of the Lebanese community in Sydney, who seeks sanctuary in Australia for two former crewmen of the Oi! [More…]

• Under the circumstances I make a very strong plea backed by the Lebanese community that the two boys be given permanent domicile in Australia. [More…]

• Mr. Hakim has pledged his community have been able to provide them with permanent employment. [More…]

• I immediately phoned, the Department of Immigration and said that I had these 2 boys with me and that the members of the Lebanese community did not want to be breaking the law. [More…]

• I want to make a comparison between his attitude to the plea from the Lebanese community for sanctuary for these 2 boys and what happened when the Czech Consul-General rightly sought sanctuary from some manifestations of Stalinism in his country. [More…]

• I will be seeing members of the Lebanese community this weekend. [More…]

• ls it also a fact that this procedure has been adopted as one means of combating the trafficking in addictive and dangerous drugs in the community? [More…]

• At the point of time at which these pilots were no longer being employed by the Jetair company I was being told that a recruiting programme for pilots was being conducted by Qantas Airways Ltd and other airlines, lt is not part of my proposal, my purpose or, indeed, my authority to direct companies to employ people or to direct people to work for companies; but it would seem to .me that if these people were competent pilots - skilled and capable - within the normal operations of employment in the community there ought to have been a place for them. [More…]

• If so, can the Minister give us any reason why, at the same time that these changes in expenditure are proposed to be dealt with, the Government cannot deal with the question of the shockingly low pension rates and make the adjustment, which the whole community would like to see made in order to relieve pensioners, at least to some extent, from bearing the brunt of inflation? [More…]

• I should imagine that no Government Department does that, nor would I imagine that it is done within the commercial community. [More…]

• As foreshadowed in the statement on 23rd April the Government has approved the detail of a major review of the adult education programme in source countries where pre-embarkation instruction is given, during the journey to Australia and 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 to participate in the social life, a knowledge of English is essential. [More…]

• They are cast in the role of policemen protecting the interests of the community against very powerful business interests. [More…]

• We of the Labor movement want to see a greater spread of influence throughout the whole community on the matter in which these broadcasting and television licences are controlled and administered by the licencees. [More…]

• Frankly, I find it incredible that the general manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission who has enormous responsibilities to the Australian community has to approve the appointment of every permanent officer of the Commission. [More…]

• I suggest if it does settle down at 6 per cent it will be the old story of the weak being hit very hard, the smart boys in the community getting away, with it, and businesses that are tied up in certain contracts being badly dealt with, lt will be a very undesirable state of affairs, particularly for our export markets. [More…]

• Because of all this it is said that those sort of people in our community are reasonably well looked after. [More…]

• I am pleased to note that the conscience of the Australian community is being aroused and the community is becoming concerned about people on fixed incomes such as those receiving superannuation payments and pensions. [More…]

• Those people in the private sector of the community who have not come under the modern system of superannuation obtain no relief. [More…]

• Unfortunately the problem is masked fairly badly by 2 things, one of which is the 2 pay packet economy in our community and the other is hire purchase. [More…]

• Inflation is always a worry in a modern community; let me concede that, immediately. [More…]

• Even the fact that the Government had armed itself, wilh this power would aci as a deterrent to the business community. [More…]

• On the matter of the wage freeze, the Government’s pleas to business will not mean anything because the business community, by and large, has an inbuilt regard for and some benefits to get from increased prices. [More…]

• There is a certain section of the community which gets tax cuts because the Government has written into the Act deductions for such things as advertising and has permitted the splitting and spreading of income - the old swindle sheet that we all know so well. [More…]

• If the Government took the power to control credit and sent those people, who at present are lining up at hire purchase offices for loans on which they pay exorbitant rates of interest and hidden charges, and suffer the heartbreak of losing the goods if they get into trouble, back to the legitimate banking system it would be attacking high costs in Australia with no detriment to the legitimate business community. [More…]

• It is completely useless to attack one section of the community. [More…]

• I invite Government supporters to consider how much stronger the position of the Government would be in claiming that wages need to be controlled because they are the cause of all our troubles - which I completely deny - if it attacked the rest of the community and, for example, cleaned up the Stock Exchange. [More…]

• Inflation hurts everybody in the community and control of inflation helps everybody. [More…]

• One is astonished very often– happily, not here today, because Senator Willesee has highlighted the problem of inflation - at the lack of understanding of the fact that inflation is harmful to the whole community. [More…]

• Recently representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions came with a body of other people to talk to the Government about their ideas on what should be done in the community to keep economic conditions under control. [More…]

• Once again one has to say that this is a community responsibility, a responsibility of a total Senate and not a divided Senate, and one in relation to which governments must lead and in which we all must make contributions rather than condemnations. [More…]

• Some people in this debate today will make, and some outside in the community already have made, the comment that we have mistaken the nature of the problem, that we have seen this as a cost-push inflation and blame everything on wage increases - I have tried to be fair and not do that - whereas in truth it is a demand inflation. [More…]

• I come back to the fact that this is a community responsibility; We have to join together and recognise a community evil which affects everybody. [More…]

• The Treasurer said that no budget framed with a full employment policy can do the whole job and the problem of containing inflationary pressures is a problem for the community at large. [More…]

• end up with a situation in which what we are looking at is a well run community, involving the whole country. [More…]

• With the construction of railways, rebuilding programmes and so on we get a lot of money coming into the community from things which the community cannot buy. [More…]

• The community cannot buy the large multi-storeyed buildings which are being erected at a tremendous cost in all the capital cities of Australia. [More…]

• Throughout the community a premium is placed on superficial activities such as land speculation and dabbling in speculative shares on the stock market, to the detriment of productive investment. [More…]

• In the community there is general agreement 18 February 1971 on the evil of inflation, even though there are differences as to the priorities that should be given for the treatment of it. [More…]

• It is the problem of inflation within this community which honourable senators wish to draw to the attention of the Senate. [More…]

• Certainly at the present time there is within the community an inflationary tendency. [More…]

• We have a situation where the cost price of most goods and services is increasing at what appears to the community to be an unreasonable rate. [More…]

• Indeed in the world today we have a position which should be worrying to each individual who is concerned with economics in the community. [More…]

• The document reveals the underlying problem facing our community. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, this pinpoints the problem of inflation in our community, and I indicate that this is the view which I hold very strongly. [More…]

• I impress upon honourable senators also that the community has at the present time built up an inflationary psychology. [More…]

• This outlook is very important because it is having an enormous effect in many areas of the community. [More…]

• The inflationary psychology within the community has led to a 2-level economy in this country. [More…]

• From the experience of inflation occurring in the community over some 10 or 20 years, one can be assured that governments are not opposed to inflation, but they are opposed to an unreasonable escalation of inflation. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has pointed out that the Government is taking action in this regard and that it is the responsibility of other elements in the Australian community - that includes the State governments - also to take action. [More…]

• Big business is hurt by inflation as much as anyone in the community. [More…]

• Any instability of the economy disrupts the whole business life of the community. [More…]

• None of these people has explained to us the fundamental causes of the inflation that is rampant in our community today. [More…]

• The whole pattern, as it develops, shows the absolute insanity of what is going on in the community and yet we cannot seem to get anybody to take the lead in the proper areas and do something about it. [More…]

• The increase in interest rate did not lessen demand by the tremendous number of borrowers throughout our community. [More…]

• Public spending has been rising at a rate faster than consumer spending and it is believed that many, of the pressures which are at present evident in the community are the result of public spending. [More…]

• Indeed, one hears throughout the community constant complaints about increases in public* spending, despite the fact that the community is putting great pressures on government for increased spending in every area. [More…]

• Appropriately for a document that proved too hot for the OECD to handle in its original form, the report contained a dire prediction of the social and political consequences of continued inflation: ‘Because resentment against inflation is incoherent and diffused through the community, it provides favourable terrain for extremists at both ends of the political spectrum, lt gives ammunition to those who favour more authoritarian forms of government relying on extensive wage, price, and production controls, and to those who hark back to earlier times before governments had accepted their present responsibilities for growth, high employment, and social justice.’ [More…]

• The whole community is responsible for what now threatens, and 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…]

• The wool growers, along with all primary producers, have to face, up to the highly significant dark cloud facing Australia - the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• They will continue to be imposed when the British arrangements are concluded, lt is estimated that $200m worth of Australian exports to” Europe and the United Kingdom are at risk following Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• This resulted in further confusion in the community. [More…]

• The meeting condemned the Federal Government for having failed to consult properly and listen to the wide cross-section of the community opposed to the lifting of the embargo on the export of merinos. [More…]

• What basis is that for a union or a group of unions of this country to say that they will take industrial action which could bring this country to a standstill in particular circumstances just because that union or that group of unions suggests that it believes the Government has not consulted or listened to a wide cross section of the community? [More…]

• The real issue before the Senate is not whether rams should be exported - that decision was made constitutionally in a proper place - but whether the elected representatives of the people or the people outside who are not responsible to the community should govern the country. [More…]

• Will the Leader of the Government in the Senate, by some suitable procedure, provide this House with an opportunity to debate the consequences to Australian trade of the emergence of the European Common Market, more particularly in the event of Great Britain joining the European Economic Community, with the resulting need to develop new patterns of trade especially in South East Asia? [More…]

• There has been a lot of publicity in more recent times in relation to the proposed entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Indeed on a recent delegation overseas of which I was the leader and Senator Byrne was a member, we had an opportunity to go to the headquarters in Brussels to be given an exposition of the various aspects of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• For example, we have been reading that the United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer has been in negotiation with the Ministers of the European Economic Community in relation to the financial aspects of British entry. [More…]

• We have been told of certain developments between the parties as to whether or not the Parliament at Westminster will decide whether Britain will join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Is it a fact, as it appears to have been reported, that the likelihood of Britain joining the European Economic Community is less today than it has been in more recent months? [More…]

• Does it appear that the majority of people in Britain are opposed to joining the European Economic Community? [More…]

• Would it appear to the Government that now is an appropriate time for the Australian Government to send to Britain a high level delegation to make known more clearly and precisely the great difficulties which would face a number of Australian primary industries should Britain’s application to join the European Economic Community be approved? [More…]

• I am being invited to enter, or am being drawn into, a discussion on Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We believe that because the Commonwealth has not been able to assist sufficiently to overcome the housing lag that still exists in the community an investigation in depth should be made. [More…]

• Commonwealth financial assistance for housing is largely directed towards assisting the less fortunate groups in our community. [More…]

• There is a significant minority in the community which is concerned with radio. [More…]

• I do not pretend to be the official spokesman for that section of our community but I do know that a lot of people are concerned about radio. [More…]

• There are other things which are much more important and which a significant section of the community wants to hear with the up-to-date technological equipment which frequency modulation can provide. [More…]

• The community seems to run hot and cold on this issue. [More…]

• we did discuss the matter in this place; but it appears to me that when there is great excitement in the community and there is a demand for some change, at that point something is done. [More…]

• I suggest that any ideas that we need to look at the volume of imported film, at the employment of more Australians in this industry, or that we should be encouraging the public to take a greater interest in the types of films produced by Australian producers and should be encouraging television stations to give consideration io Australian productions are left until there is a great cry in the community and there ‘ a demand for some change. [More…]

• I believe we can be proud of many aspects of the establishment of various private enterprise companies in the community. [More…]

• The other matter that 1 wish to put to the Senate relates to the importance of the radio and television industry to the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that sufficient has been said about the importance of this industry to the community, in the Senate and in another place as well as in the many recommendations that were made by the Senate committee that inquired into television, to indicate that a request for the appointment of an assistant Minister to the PostmasterGeneral should certainly be given some consideration. [More…]

• Had Inez lived in a white community she would have been alive today. [More…]

• As I told the Senate, I spoke to representatives of the Lebanese community in Sydney about this subject. [More…]

• Thirdly, there was gross discrimination against the Lebanese seamen and the Lebanese community has said: The Minister now has had his pound of flesh’. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Health been directed to a report that a collection organised by various community service organisations in Launceston last weekend resulted in over 1000 lb of unwanted medical drugs being collected from homes in that area and that the drugs were subsequently buried? [More…]

• Further, will this mean that countries within the European Economic Community will be able to sell or to dump their heavily subsidised surplus production on overseas markets? [More…]

• There was widespread support at the conference for international orderly marketing of wheat by all wheat exporters including the United States of America, Canada and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Does the Minister not consider that such drastic actions are likely to create panic in the business and rural community and are not in accordance with what should be expected from a banking system which has a monopoly in this country? [More…]

• In the interests of the protection of the community and the other interests served by the police for the community it is unreal to occupy the time of policemen in process serving. [More…]

• Are we such lawmakers that we pass legislation recognising the possibility of inflicting injustices on the community? [More…]

• It fascinates me that an illiterate, if there are any in our community - I suppose there are still some,- and perhaps the trouble is due not so much to illiteracy as to a misunderstanding of the English tongue, if migrants are involved - for some reason is at a disadvantage if he gets a summons through the post but is in a stronger position if a process server gives it to him. [More…]

• I commend the Australian Broadcasting Commission for the manner in which it is going about, and has gone about in recent times especially, its task of trying to present effectively to the Australian community indigenous programmes and Australian-produced programmes. [More…]

• But are we to take it that these great institutions, which are supposed to be the fountains of intellectual progress in our community, are prepared to condone the kind of publication which has been produced in the last week and which in my opinion merited the severest action by the authorities of the university themselves? [More…]

• Could we have any confidence in placing people in a position where they could exercise influence in the control of a university if those people showed themselves completely irresponsible and not prepared to take action in cases which have brought down upon their own university a feeling of disgust as far as the general community is concerned? [More…]

• There is an economy drive at present to help control the inflation that is current in the community. [More…]

• I do not suggest that salaries and allowances are too high for members of Parliament of qualifications, energy and integrity: 1 am simply suggesting that we should set an example in saving to the business world and the community in general. [More…]

• In view of the cardinal importance to the community of a properly paid and efficient police force, will the Minister consult with the Victorian Government and perhaps consider action under section 96 or whatever may be the correct constitutional provision to enable the emergency to be met? [More…]

• What flows from it is the restraint which it will encourage, the example which it will set in the community at large in a free enterprise economy, and the benefit it will bring to the housewife and, in fact, to everybody who is confronted with the problem of inflation. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Treasurer agree that a programme for economies which operates at the level of turning out lights, tightening taps and reducing community services can only lead to a psychology of economic depression and a trend that may be irreversible? [More…]

• Can the Minister for Civil Aviation indicate the Commonwealth Government’s attitude to the financial compensation of persons, companies or community bodies which currently own property in areas adjacent lo the Tullamarine jetport, where the CommonwealthState investigation committer has decided that land use will be restricted and, as applies in many instances, the. [More…]

• Some deal with policy and some involve the Victorian Government, which is joined with the Commonwealth in the Victorian Airfields Committee, the purpose of which is to try to protect the community and its investment in airfields, not only at Tullamarine but in Victoria generally. [More…]

• Now other sections of the community arc very wary indeed of the Government’s action. [More…]

• If the Leader of the Government in the Senate is not prepared to come out with further statements I shall agitate in my Party for the tabling of every document associated with this transaction so that the Senate can ascertain where the area of profit lies and what individuals have been able, because they know people in high places, to get away with something that ordinary members of the community would not be able to get away with or who, if they were able to get away with it, would be described as shady people. [More…]

• is right and proper that we appreciate that however important and however significant a university and university students may be in the community, they are not above the law. [More…]

• J know that probably a majority of people in the community at this point of time would say that the censorship laws ought to be gradually relaxed, but the modern trend throughout the world is to abolish censorship laws. [More…]

• In those countries where censorship has been abolished the local people are no more corrupt that we are in this community. [More…]

• God only knows, our own Australian community needs to be looked at seriously because of the great decline in its moral fibre, yet we live in a rigidly censored society. [More…]

• I think it is a good thing for alt sections of the community to meet in that type of forum. [More…]

• 1, too, think it is most unfortunate that a publication of this type should be put into the hands of the community by students. [More…]

• What disturbs me more than anything else is the fact that taxpayers’ money is being put into universities lo keep students there in order to produce better citizens for the community. [More…]

• We are approving oi: the fact that they may be appointed and saying that they should show a sense of responsibility and not ask for undue freedoms for those in universities which would not be granted to other sections of the community. [More…]

• To start putting out proscriptions which have no basis in fact and which refer to an odd section of the university community is not the way to achieve communication and responsibility. [More…]

• In other words, what is meaningful in the repercussions throughout the student community of (he association with the administration which a number of students on the Council can have? [More…]

• Governments are therefore bound to give to universities what assistance they need to perform their proper functions; but in their turn universities are bound to be vigilant to see that they give the services to the community that are required by the necessities of the a’ge. [More…]

• Extreme right wing sections of the American community have been able to establish private armies, particularly for the purpose of subduing the coloured races. [More…]

• She was able to do this not because of any clairvoyance on her part but because she was operating and working among a section of the community which was engaged in sabotage and connected wilh security forces in Australia. [More…]

• But it is obvious that a big section of the Australian community - accepts that a further inquiry is needed into the Bogie case, and does not accept the official report on ‘the disappearance of the late Harold Holt. [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI am sure we all agree with Senator Bishop’s suggestion that this was a monstrous outrage, even against any person, lt is even more terrible when it happens to somebody who has been democratically elected to be a senator or to a person who has been democratically elected to any office in which he serves the community. [More…]

• I think it will be acknowledged on reflection by honourable senators that the appropriateness of such concessions in the Australian community must be considered in relation to the Australian system of taxation for other industries. [More…]

• It is an interim measure in anticipation of a final Bill which will deal with the whole system of the drawing, negotiation, presentation and honouring of cheques in the commercial community. [More…]

• Cheques are more liberally used throughout the commercial community and the social and domestic communities, and if we remain addicted to ancient and obsolete commercial processes the time consumed in processing them will reach astronomical proportions. [More…]

• We know full well that overall there, generally has been a bipartisan attitude to the fundamentals of our immigration policy, but we feel that in this very vital matter of the attainment of a reasonable form of communication between all Australians and a better appreciation of the English language by certain sectors of the migrant community, something further should be done. [More…]

• In the Concord area of New South Wales which is in the Lowe electorate Mrs Miller, who is extremely active in the parents and citizens organisation, and many other mothers have been trying to get members of the Greek community and others to meet together on a coffee and cake basis to break the ice and lead eventually into the attendance of those people at night English classes. [More…]

• The fact that the Scottish community in Australia may celebrate New Year’s Day or the Irish community in Australia may celebrate St Patrick’s Day does not mean that their Australian nationalism suffers. [More…]

• They have pointed out, as the Minister knows, that we have a Turkish community. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council is one of the institutions associated with the Department of Immigration whose special task and assignment is the integration of new settlers into the Australian community. [More…]

• The Bill which is now before the Senate is one of the vital measures associated with the integration of the new settler and the integration of the migrant community into the total Australian community. [More…]

• It is important from a psychological standpoint and also it is most important from an educational point of view that a new settler should be able to communicate adequately with the native-born Australian population and with all the institutions that go to make up the Australian community [More…]

• This has an effect on the parent and child relationship and on the total family integration into the Australian community. [More…]

• Australian community groups of people, newcomers or migrants, who are isolated from the rest of the community by one or other of the language barriers. [More…]

• This puts them outside the mainstream of community activity, but also it deprives them of regular communication with the general Australian community. [More…]

• These flow from the process of integration of a newcomer into the Australian community. [More…]

• Australian community. [More…]

• This would mean also a very welcome growth of the ethnic groups in the Australian community as they assist to make the migrant feel at home and to feel a greater degree of stability as he moves into the Australian community. [More…]

• I suggest that the main objective of the Bill is the human well being of the new citizens in the Austraiian community, to enable them to take advantage of the opportunities which Australia provides. [More…]

• I think the Bill has been forced upon the Commonwealth because of the growing deficiencies in State educational systems which have dealt with the problem of integrating new settlers into our community and with the problem of educating children who have a deficiency in the English language. [More…]

• Their integration into our community is much more difficult because of the communication barrier. [More…]

• One has to live in a community before one can become fluent, able to understand and to be understood in that language. [More…]

• Most of her communications with our community have been through her children or her husband. [More…]

• Although he might not pass a standard test in English, after mingling in the community he knows sufficient of the language to get by. [More…]

• Instead of tourists or migrants going from country to country and being understood by very few members of the community in which they find themselves, they should be able to be understood by the majority. [More…]

• But there has been sufficient success to justify our saying in the international sphere that Australia as a whole has done a good job in this field and, having done a good job, we now seek to do a better one as other problems are beginning lo emerge and to become more obvious to all of us as a community. [More…]

• I think all of us recognise the work done by these bodies throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• Classes at work sites have been part of the normal continuation programme for migrant education in the Australian community. [More…]

• I suppose that in the future there will be problems associated with the European Economic Community and that if Great Britain joins the European Common Market we in Australia will be in difficulties in a substantial number of our industries. [More…]

• One of the great problems that faces Australia is the emergence of the European Economic Community and the probable and almost certain participation of Great Britain in the European Common Market. [More…]

• We feel that this industry is making a tremendous contribution but we are concerned about its future in the light of the advent of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I think we can do something to try to persuade the community to accept a longer phasing out period. [More…]

• But this prestige is not acceptable to the Australian community. [More…]

• In view of the deep concern of wide sections of the Australian public about current trends in the national economy, will the Minister endeavour to prevail upon his colleague the Treasurer to make a detailed and comprehensive statement to the Parliament on the present state of the economy and thereby provide much needed reassurance to the Australian community that the difficulties being encountered over wide sections of national endeavour are not as serious as they appear to be? [More…]

• Is it correct that it is within the capacity of the Government to introduce legislation to give some partial justice at least to the pensioners in the community? [More…]

• ls the Minister aware that there is consider-, able agitation on the far north coast of New South Wales for the sealing of the uncompleted section of the coast road between Cabarita and Hastings Point, amounting to a mere 3.8 miles, but which when completed will greatly improve, road facilities in thai area, thus reducing costs of production for the local farming community. [More…]

• The Mission is administered by the Benedictine Community of Western Australia Incorpor ated, New Norcia. [More…]

• The serious stage has been reached at which local government institutions are very seriously hampered in their operations and their standard of performance in the community has dropped and is continuing to drop. [More…]

• That may have been an unusual attitude to take but I have long held certain views, which Senator Keeffe referred to earlier today, about the gross black marketeering going on in sectors of the South Vietnamese community. [More…]

• However, I believe it to be an important matter which needs careful consideration by the community. [More…]

• We have it in the community. [More…]

• Its effect is to a lesser or greater degree dependent upon the economic health or health of the community, lt undermines the working efficiency of the community. [More…]

• There are indeed many likenesses between inflation and the common cold, but the most notable similarity is that nobody in the community can be sure of immunity from detrimental effects. [More…]

• I congratulate the Gorton Government and previous governments for the moderate rate of inflation that the Australian community has experienced under their management. [More…]

• In the early part of January it led to a wage rise of from 15 per cent to I7i per cent in the community generally. [More…]

• Although the problem is particularly deep, I do not doubt that the Australian community by its own enterprise and with the help of the Government will reduce the incidence of inflation in the community. [More…]

• 1 acknowledge the difficulty in attempting to adjust this situation prior to the problem being demonstrated physically in the community. [More…]

• The Government, in introducing this measure designed to reduce a $60m allowance to industry by eliminating the tax benefit previously granted has sought to dampen inflation in the community. [More…]

• The Government and equally the community at large would be aware of what the allowance for depreciation really means to industry. [More…]

• That is an entirely untrue statement but it is a statement which is accepted generally in the community today as being correct. [More…]

• I have noted some of the comments from sources of importance in the community, including the Chamber of Commerce in my own State of Victoria. [More…]

• I believe an opportunity was presented to review this decision and to withdraw it, to the benefit of the taxpaying sector of the community. [More…]

• Here we have the local authority, the State government and the Commonwealth Government working together in the interests of the community, in the interests of our national heritage and for the preservation of the soil which is of tremendous importance to any country which is so largely dependent on agriculture as is Australia. [More…]

• This is the first year in which the Commonwealth has provided its own teachers in Northern Territory community schools. [More…]

• Commonwealth employed teachers in community schools were required to commence duty on 4tb February 1971. [More…]

• People are the most precious resources of any civilised community. [More…]

• I understand that those young people who can obtain a loan from the Commonwealth Bank for housing - they are hil by inflation just as much as anyone else in the community - are paying a much higher rate of interest. [More…]

• On my objecting lo farmers paying for reciprocity instead of the community he assured me that the intention was for the Government to make up the difference to growers subject lo any stabilisation arrangements that might be entered into. [More…]

• the policies of the European Economic Community; [More…]

• the possibility of a South East Asian Community; [More…]

• He pointed out that, if we want clean air and water, the community will have to pay. [More…]

• 1 hope that the report will not cover too much of the canvas of the forms of pollution that we have in the community today. [More…]

• The stage has been reached where the services required in an expanding community cannot be provided. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Health aware of the difficult financial situation in which many privately owned and community directed hospitals find themselves in providing accommodation for pensioners? [More…]

• Since that time there have been significant increases in salaries and wages throughout the community. [More…]

• This Bill is not one of any great moment, but nevertheless it is important to a fairly restricted number of people in the community. [More…]

• I ask: Is the Leader of the Government aware that the extremely high interest rates which are prevailing in the community are bearing very heavily on those young people who are endeavouring to purchase a home and on others who are paying off hire purchase commitments? [More…]

• Will he inform the Senate of the effect that this is having on increasing the cost of living throughout the community? [More…]

• When can the public expect to receive some relief from the extraordinarily high interest rates which have persisted for a very long time in our community, notwithstanding the fact that interest rates are falling in other parts of the world? [More…]

• I believe that such provisions in a Bill of this nature are necessary, but 1 ask honourable senators on the Government side to re-examine the minimum fine of $200 in the light of the fact that other sections of the community can be fined anything up to SI, 000 or be imprisoned, or both, for misdemeanours of a similar character. [More…]

• Members of the Opposition have flouted the directions of the court and have thought of promoting strikes and adopting all sorts of major methods of influence in the community in an endeavour to avoid paying the penalty which applies. [More…]

• The Australian Government has been criti cised for the inflation that has occurred throughout the community. [More…]

• This was during the time that the Government took some action in relation to taxation and when there were demands for wage rises throughout the community. [More…]

• The benefits will go to the community at large. [More…]

• The hopes of the growers are that increased production will result in increased returns, but, if the history of other primary products is repeated, benefits may be returned to the community but it is doubtful that benefits will be passed on to the producers. [More…]

• As I was in thai country recently I know that this is a matter which is of considerable interest to Turkey because of the emergence of the European Economic Community into the field of demand. [More…]

• Dried fruits are not produced in the countries which are strictly within the European Economic Community, but they are produced in countries which are associate members of the Community. [More…]

• It is possible that Turkey and these other countries will be able lo supply dried fruits in sufficient quantities to meet the demand of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• A pattern is being established and honourable senators realise what happens with such patterns.I believe that the legislation ought notto contain such an unlimited provision, changing the basic law of the community against the citizens and in favour of the Crown. [More…]

• This is a reason for community shame. [More…]

• I have no doubt that if this matter is referred to the Committee it will take into consideration the notions he has proposed as well as those proposed by other persons in the community. [More…]

• If the community decided that it wanted a scheme related to earnings at the time of retirement, the Downing scheme seems one which might be considered. [More…]

• Also it may be questioned whether the state - I use the word ‘state’ in the sense of the organised community at large - has the right to decide the retirement level income for each group in society. [More…]

• If implemented it could do much to right many of the injustices that are suffered by a lot of people in our community. [More…]

• When speaking on my urgency motion on 16th February, 1 said that 1 hoped that the pensioners would not be the only section of the community required to carry the burden of solving the problem of inflation. [More…]

• I always will have to remind myself and the Senate whenever we talk of a pension increase in this affluent country that we are giving benefits to 1 person in every 13 in the community and that is true of the legislation we are debating today. [More…]

• He then claimed that there are large numbers of people in the community who are in receipt of social service benefits and who. [More…]

• The Government carries its so-called, economy measures to the extreme in some directions, but it is not prepared to make concessions to those most in need in the community. [More…]

• And if the business community pays for the compassion. [More…]

• In looking at any total programme to meet the needs of the Australian people and acknowledging, of course, that it is the nation’s very high responsibility and obligation to care for its senior citizens and its needy people, one must agree that pensioners and the aged arc not perhaps the only needy ones in the community today - not the only areas of very great need. [More…]

• One might mention in passing, but without developing these subjects, the education sector, the rural segment and other segments of the community all of which are part of what I will call ‘a wave of needs’ which is being presented to the Government. [More…]

• The Government must take into account the whole spectrum of the development of the Australian community prior to making a decision on the question of increasing pensions. [More…]

• As a result of advances in medical science there is a greater number of senior and older people in our community today than previously. [More…]

• The Prime Minister also said that the Government is undertaking ‘a fundamental review of: social services and related pensions and also of methods of adjusting such benefits, and that this review, which has already been commenced, will be under consideration in the near future with the object of bringing emerging decisions into effect for the year 197l-72 So, F hope that the Bill will be passed and that, as it is passed, the support given to it by the Senate will remind the Government that if has given this assurance that these investigations and reviews arc taking place and that it will be able to meet this need in the Australian community wilh as much satisfaction as it possibly can. [More…]

• Earnings are the true reflection of the standard of living within the community. [More…]

• There pensioners wander around neglected, in search of reasonabe accommodation, in search of reasonably priced goods and depressed in such a way that the young students in that area have found it necessary to establish a community aid centre. [More…]

• Government supporters feel so deeply about the position of .pensioners in the community they should ‘. [More…]

• It should be remembered that those in most need in this community are the pensioners who, through no fault of their own, do not own their own houses but have to pay rent. [More…]

• If every member of the community worked in a capital city he would be better off in many ways. [More…]

• All this means that the conditions under which men serve, especially those relating io compensation, medical treatment and re-establishment in civil life, must be the best the community can afford. [More…]

• A commitment, freely and unreservedly given by the community in time of danger, cannot subsequently be repudiated. [More…]

• This is an undertaking which the community must honour to the full, in spite of the pressure of opinions originating frequently from those who in many cases were loo young to appreciate the circumstances of total war . [More…]

• Since some in the community are seeking to confuse the situation regarding breaches of the National Service Act it may help ifI explain matters in some detail. [More…]

• Perhaps as a hangover from the days of Marxist analyses, many people still think of our community as divided between workers and capitalists or between wage earners and profit earners, to use less ideological but otherwise similar terms. [More…]

• That is one aspect of inflation which has an effect throughout the community because it merely increases and enhances the difficulties involved in the initial situation. [More…]

• This is the area in which the Government has been seeking by example and dictum to impress upon the community that inflation is not a matter solely for the Government to deal with but a matter which affects everybody. [More…]

• It is the way in which the community has been managed and there has been a rising standard of living and an avoidance of those booms and depressions which were the constant fear of the 1930s and early 1940s. [More…]

• It is that type of co-operation which must be engaged in if the inflationary problems in the community are to be met. [More…]

• Only within the last week the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) has indicated that there will be amendments along the English lines to control resale price maintenance, li is believed that these steps will have an effect upon the factors influencing costs and prices in the community. [More…]

• If that means an inflationary rate, the situation has existed in this community at least since I was born. [More…]

• I, as a Government senator, whilst criticising the effect of inflation in the community, take some comfort from the fact that Australia demonstrates a better record than nearly every other like country in the world. [More…]

• Perhaps we can hear from him at some stage as to what policy which would be acceptable to the Australian community would eliminate inflation. [More…]

• We saw the previous Prime Minister take some action in an attempt to keep government finance from the pockets of the community for as long as possible. [More…]

• The urgency motion, which has received the attention of a number of honourable senators, highlights the situation that is now developing in Australia as a result of the economic inflation and the cost of living inflation that are operating in the community. [More…]

• Therefore, on this occasion we are ‘ dealing with the second of the trilogy of motions relating to particular segments of the community. [More…]

• life of the community. [More…]

• The life work of these people is still operating at a level in the community. [More…]

• The consumer price index is a better indication of price movements within a community and a better indication of what might be supposed to be the needs of people who have to buy the commodities of which the prices are a reflection. [More…]

• wa.ge and salary earners throughout the community. [More…]

• It is not a criterion of productivity movements in the community and it is not a criterion of what represents the needs or the change in needs of persons who are dependent on the pension. [More…]

• That was extremely unusual and not applicable to the rest of the community, but because it was what might be called a rural Bill and was not examined as carefully as it should have been, these matters gol into the legislation. [More…]

• All over the world there are limitations of time for prosecution of minor offences because it is thought from everyone’s point of view- that includes the individual citizen and the community as a whole - that these things should not hang on. [More…]

• I see no reason why the persons concerned in these rural matters should be singled out and subjected to treatment which is different from that meted out to the rest of the community. [More…]

• After all, as Senator Young has properly said, this is a levy imposed on participants in this industry for the benefit of other participants and the industry generally, and to the extent to which default is made by any individual participant the whole community in that industry must inevitably suffer. [More…]

• For those reasons, allowing for the fact that we do not like to see legal vulnerability unduly prolonged and levelled against any individual but consonant with recognition of the fact that, within the primary community of which he is part and from which he earns his living, the individual has duties to others participating in it, that there are practical difficulties and that this provision is an advance by the Commonwealth Government in restricting the formerly limitless time within which such prosecutions could be launched, and having in mind that it may be opportune at some stage to have a complete look at this type of proposition as it appears in statutes, I support the amendment moved by the Minister and commend its adoption to the Committee. [More…]

• It is unreasonable to equate the work that doctors do with work performed by other sections of the community. [More…]

• Equally it- is unreasonable to equate the work that one section of the community does with what is done by another section without giving any real relevance or depth to it but just looking at the renumeration and seeking to make a point in this way. [More…]

• The essential export requirement for dairy products is the diversification of markets and types of product to provide for the likely developing situation in the event of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, 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…]

• It is right that we should have brought out of the darkness the question of salaries and allowances, especially when so much attention has been paid to the appropriateness of salaries paid and amounts of income received by various sections of the community. [More…]

• When everyone else in the community is prepared at least to ask for what he regards to be a just salary, it is out of all reason that we should sit here like meek mice who are frightened because the Press barons of this country will have something to say about us. [More…]

• I think the question of wheat trade with China is a matter which has interested many sections of the community, and many people have had a lot to say ‘ on the subject. [More…]

• If the honourable senator has in mind the special classes established in the community for the instruction of Greek children in Greek language and Greek culture, I can inform him that no Commonwealth funds are being expended for this purpose. [More…]

• These people fall within a totally unrepresented section of the community. [More…]

• All these people are in a position to seek at any time professional help to protect their economic position, but who speaks for the large families in this community? [More…]

• It is not without significance that, because nobody speaks for these people, they are the ones who have received the least consideration of all in the community. [More…]

• If one takes into consideration the fact that there has been a grave erosion in the value of money; that this erosion has been going on year after year; that steps have been taken in all other sections of the Community to hedge and to buttress against the effects of this erosion; and that there is one group in the community that is completely at the will and mercy of the government of the day and has not had any steps taken on its behalf for 4 years to alleviate its position one will agree that the use of the expression ‘culpable neglect’ is completely and totally justified. [More…]

• What is the position of the larger families in our community? [More…]

• I wish to quote a few excerpts from it to show that there is irrefutable evidence, as a result of expert technical investigation, that the large family group is one group which is a victim of the current inflation and that it is a group which is providing one of the gross and grave areas of poverty in our community. [More…]

• That was found to be the position of one of the most worth while groups of citizens in our community, the large families with the little children, in the city of Melbourne. [More…]

• lt is quite obvious that there are pockets of poverty in our community. [More…]

• The Democratic Labor Party expects its propositions, particularly this proposition, to be taken into consideration by the Government when it is considering Australia’s financial future, as expressed in the annual statement of accounts, and it will look forward with keen anticipation to whether the Government will be finally able to discover some solicitude for this area of want and drastic need in the community because, as I have already said, these people have nobody to speak for them. [More…]

• Surely we should be encouraging large families, not merely because they will provide men and women in this community but also because of the very grave social and economic consequences if we do not do it. [More…]

• Instead, they tend to provide the unskilled work force of the community. [More…]

• In many areas of social welfare a prudent community with a social conscience can suggest improvements. [More…]

• Knowing the poverty that exists in our community, we have always thought along these lines. [More…]

• I believe in the importance of healthy, happy children, in a home ownership community and in child endowment to go to the mother for the direct assistance of the child. [More…]

• We believe in a home owning community. [More…]

• I repeat that T hope that the Government can increase child endowment, but T would not like to see it sacrifice other community interests and community services to achieve an improvement in one area only. [More…]

• This money will be spent in our community. [More…]

• The increased child endowment would merely circulate more money in the community. [More…]

• They have formed their own trade union, the European Economic Community, and they are not going to worry about our future. [More…]

• If we go into the field of agriculture, if we go into the field of Federal power and the conservation of all the resources of this United States, we find this same community of purpose with the necessity of division of responsibility obtains. [More…]

• B. Webb, Director of Community Aid Abroad, that Holland gives nearly twice as much to Indonesia as Australia, that West Germany gives more to Indonesia than we give and that Canada gives more to South East Asia than we give although geographically we are part of the region? [More…]

• The Committee became aware, early in the inquiry, of the desire of some sections of the community for change. [More…]

• Some of our recommendations are aimed at bringing an end to this favouritism and to legislate for all sections of the community. [More…]

• On the Government side of the chamber we have always affirmed our hope that Peking would one day be drawn into the international community. [More…]

• It has been stated before and it needs to be stated again, especially in view of what we have heard from Senator Turnbull, that Australia attaches great importance to the interests and rights of Taiwan as a member of the international community. [More…]

• The academic community has swung round heavily. [More…]

• But it is necessary to point out that the isolation of China from the international community has been largely the result of its own international attitudes. [More…]

• The status and rights of Taiwan as a member of the international community must be protected. [More…]

• We constantly find reasons advanced why these 800 million people in China are not to be trusted and should not be welcomed into the community of nations, although Senator Wright early in his remarks said that the Government has always recognised that at some time the People’s Republic of China would be drawn into the community of nations. [More…]

• What is meant when the Government says that at some time these people will be drawn into the community of nations? [More…]

• Senator Wright, speaking on behalf of the Government, said that China will be brought into the community of nations at some time, and now Mr Anthony says that sooner or later we will recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]

• community of nations that is the IPU. [More…]

• I would think that the recognition of Red China would depend a great deal on the admission of that country to the United Nations - an international community of nations and an organisation of which Red China has not been able to get membership up till now. [More…]

• These issues were considered to be of importance to the community and worthy of examination in ‘Four Corners’. [More…]

• This is the system of rating based upon an assessment - a judgment - of the cost of providing services and amenities in a community based on a period of only 12 months. [More…]

• If no more revenue will come into the Government’s coffers as a result of this and there is ample evidence that the business community of Australia stands to gain by a change in the system, the ordinary property owner or householder of Canberra will be required to pay substantially more each year into the national revenue than is currently the case. [More…]

• When we depart from the leasehold system as it has applied here in the past, when we bear in mind that this is a city in which there must be an availability of land and no impediment to the ability of a Government to carry out redevelopment programmes or to provide for changes in the development of an area to enable it to conform with changing patterns in society and changing needs of the community, and when we bear in mind also the dramatic growth of the community of Canberra we realise that there must be no impediment to the Government’s resumption of land for redevelopment and things of that kind. [More…]

• I have every reason to believe that the reports which have been provided and the judgments which have been made, as embraced and embodied in these reports, have been very helpful to community life in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• I would think that, by and large, the Canberra community would be very happy to see the Committee - wilh the expertise, the knowledge and the interest that the Committee has - undertake such an inquiry. [More…]

• I refer to people such as engineers, researchers into urban development, town planners and people concerned with social matters and matters which affect the everyday lives of the ordinary people of the community. [More…]

• I am not concerned if their capital is not meagre but by and large the average workman in the Australian community has not a great deal of money available to him. [More…]

• Because of the complexity of the system, because of the lack of answers to many questions raised about it in the past, because of the general discontent of the people in the Canberra community - now numbering about 140,000 - it would be proper in all the circumstances to look into the land tenure system. [More…]

• If the Government believes that the community in general accepts its proposals, it has nothing to fear about an inquiry because it would come down in support of those proposals. [More…]

• I urge the Senate to give this Australian community a bit of a go. [More…]

• The people of Canberra should not be required to carry the total burden - I do not suggest that they will be - of the cost of developing the high standard of facilities provided for the Australian community in this city. [More…]

• An attempt should be made to put the people here on some sort of rational basis with the rest of the Australian community so that a proper judgment can be made as to what they ought to pay and what the Administration of the nation ought to pay. [More…]

• Indications were that increases in the value of land falling due for reappraisement in the 1970s and 1980s would dramatically increase land rent revenue from selective parts of the community. [More…]

• system could not stand up to the hard movement of prices in the modern economy, and what was intended to be a matter of distributive justice to land holders in this community was going to become an intolerable burden of injustice. [More…]

• In the developing Canberra community we now have young people coming along who want to buy land. [More…]

• However, I do not recognise - those risks having been stated and made known - that the gentleman who made the statement referred to by the honourable senator have any greater ability than have others in the community to determine what are appropriate measures to be taken. [More…]

• As I have always understood it, the policy of the Government and of the Australian Labor Party has been directed to the preservation of a homogeneous community and the avoidance of those problems which have caused difficulties in other countries. [More…]

• It certainly does not enhance the Parliament in the eyes of the intelligent people in the community who examine’ the hours of sitting. [More…]

• Finally, I should like to make it plain that I am not advocating that violent demonstrations should be tolerated by the community. [More…]

• I think members of the community regard them as very important words. [More…]

• Everybody concedes that, but what is needed today is protection of the rights of those in the community who are not demonstrating against those who are demonstrating. [More…]

• People who talk about a police state in Australia demonstrate to the community their complete lack of responsibility. [More…]

• I think it is time for the community to take a stand on this kind of action. [More…]

• Senator lames McClelland made a good point when he said that, in some degree, this is a reaction, lt is a reaction to wrongful action and in any community when people act wrongfully the community will protect itself. [More…]

• The Crimes Act is already very sweeping in its cover, and it can be made to apply to cover almost every situation where some danger to the community may be possible. [More…]

• After saying that this Bill was born of panic Senator Keeffe proceeded to threaten not only the Senate but also the Australian community that a whole lot of moratoriums and mass demonstrations later on this year would prevent worthy citizens from getting into their own homes send offices or going about their lawful occupations and undertakings. [More…]

• These mobs have had no reason at all to be there save to satisfy their own desire completely to impede society, disrupt the community and disorganise the lives of freedom loving citizens. [More…]

• It is important to note that all discussions pertaining to this legislation on law and order and the community reaction to it have undergone a series of what I will call developing emphasis in recent times. [More…]

• The query put to the group of people in the community that the gallup poll surveyed was whether we need stronger laws for controlling demonstrators or we have enough laws for controlling demonstrators. [More…]

• This developing process iri the community has found expression in the public media. [More…]

• If one looks at a selection of newspaper headings which appeared at the time this Bill was introduced in the other place, one gets some idea of the community response. [More…]

• This legislation is a response to this need in the community. [More…]

• Throughout this community, as part of a kind of international reflection, we have had calls for law and order within our society. [More…]

• I refer now to the protection which this Bill provides for what may be called the diplomatic community within our midst. [More…]

• There is no reason at all for people to make offensive telephone calls to the wives and members of families of the diplomatic community, as has happened in this Canberra community in the last. [More…]

• I am sure that this Bill will be passed and that it will be supported and endorsed by the community. [More…]

• He condemned the Bill clause by clause, showing that it is unnecessary in our community. [More…]

• We remember how that leader in tactics, Sir Robert Menzies, always produced a Communist spy and said that his Government should be returned to office in order to protect the Australian community. [More…]

• Governments can justify legislation only if it is for the protection of some of their citizens against an act of another section of the community. [More…]

• That is a law that has no respect in the Australian community. [More…]

• Everyone who has a concern about the enactment of bad laws has a duty to organise demonstrations against a bad law in the Australian community. [More…]

• The reason that some honourable senators need protection from the general public is that they have not the respect of that section of the community. [More…]

• I believe that the general provisions and principles of this Bill will attract those people who wish to maintain a basic freedom in our community. [More…]

• I do not know whether the honourable senator will agree with what I am saying, but I believe it is the desire of every citizen to see that the opportunity is maintained in the community for each citizen to express his or her view on any subject, whether social or political. [More…]

• I agree that that position should be maintained in the community. [More…]

• It attempts to maintain the right of dissent by the individual and the right of freedom of expression by the individual, and to see that people within the community do not prohibit others from going about their lawful business. [More…]

• 1 believe that youth in our community should be encouraged to argue both sides of any matter of interest. [More…]

• Provided that I am within my rights in my movements and they are within the law of this country of which I am a citizen and which has given me my infant nurture, I believe that I should not be interfered with by other people in the community who wish to press their views on me. [More…]

• People who come from overseas tell us on many occasions of the great freedom we have in this community compared with that which is found in other countries. [More…]

• Undoubtedly in a responsible community such as ours the great majority of the people have an enormous respect for the way in which a person goes about this undertakings. [More…]

• There is always a need for lawmakers in our community. [More…]

• Those views are absolutely abhorrent to the average citizen in this community. [More…]

• Undoubtedly there are honourable senators on the other side, experienced as they may be, who do not realise the cost to the community of the idiots who walk along the street handing out pamphlets all day. [More…]

• As Senator Little has said this creates great litter in the community. [More…]

• But there should be basic rights for individuals in the community not to be interfered with by others. [More…]

• Much as I support his view that an individual has a right to strike, I have the greatest abhorrence - of that type of labour blackmail which has been very evident in our community in recent years. [More…]

• They are blackmailing not only the State government but also the Commonwealth Government in an attempt to have their rights forced on the community. [More…]

• He wishes to have the laws made for the community himself - not laws made in the Parliament but laws made by Mr Hawke - and the band of individuals - probably a very excellent band - is going to follow what the leader says because it would not like to disagree. [More…]

• We have seen Mr Hawke impress his views on business; we have seen him impress his views on the labouring community, on the public generally and, I would say to his credit, he is impressing his views on government. [More…]

• Undoubtedly his activities react against those who are interested in other businesses in the community. [More…]

• What we are seeing throughout the community is some attempt at blackmail. [More…]

• What we are seeing in relation to this Bill is the attempts of individuals, supported in many instances by that faction within the Labor Party, to blackmail the community into adopting their views. [More…]

• I believe that he should have the right to strike but I believe that he should be responsible to the community for his actions. [More…]

• I have indicated that I do not believe in this mass strike action or this forcing of one’s views on the community. [More…]

• I believe that the strike threat has done untold damage to pur society and has been one of the major causes of the inflationary trend which is adverse to the interests of the working community in this society. [More…]

• Senator James McClelland expressed his attitude as to the law enforcement bodies in the community. [More…]

• That is a pretty forceful sort of comment to make about a force which attempts to uphold the rights of citizens in this community. [More…]

• I can only say, however, having regard to the prefatory remarks with which he addressed himself to the point of his question, that increases in doctors’ fees and possible increases in chemists’ charges represent one of the concomitants of an inflationary situation in a country and that what the Government is concerned to do is to impart, as far and as extensively as possible, a sense of responsibility that claims for increased remuneration - whether they be in the form of increased fees, increased wages, increased charges or increased prices - threaten the security of everybody in the community and when they occur they are to be regretted. [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…]

• teacher training is causing great stresses and strains in .the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government is taking young fellows out of the community, by its famous ballot box method and the people of Australia are up in arms in protest. [More…]

• community must be protected from harm and undue inconvenience in demonstrations, but in the long term it ls the community which will be harmed if dissent is unduly suppressed. [More…]

• He referred to royal visits and other occasions when the police have found it necessary, in the interests of the community in general, to ask persons tq move on or groups to disperse, and he said that on those occasions the people have always obeyed the authority of the law and there has been no trouble. [More…]

• If we analyse the situation I think we must appreciate that there is current in our community a philosophy that if a person holds strong opinions of a specific character the ends justify the means. [More…]

• Demonstrations are now reaching a stage where the community, as well as the Parliament, has proof that it is necessary, to take some steps before the situation deteriorates still further, if we are to pre* serve a semblance of the law and order which we’ have known during great public celebrations* and as part of our public life. [More…]

• unfair to” a particular section of the Austraiian community to which I have always belonged. [More…]

• I believe that we, who are charged with the public responsibility of making the laws of the country, should be the last to undermine the respect of the community at large for a very hard working body of men in all the States of the Commonwealth who happen to have the obnoxious task of maintaining the law and order that all of us wish to see maintained and who are employees of ours. [More…]

• I believe that we, in the Parliament of the nation, should be the last to help to undermine the confidence of the community in the police forces that we employ to do the job which the rest of the community desires them to do, , which needs to be done and which we are not in a position to do ourselves. [More…]

• We as politicians and members of political parties have not the right to disrupt the lives of families throughout the whole community by using blaring loudspeakers so that people would have to hear whether they wanted to hear or not. [More…]

• However, I do not believe that people should take over the streets when the rest of the community wants to use them to get to and from their places of employment. [More…]

• In the course of his remarks he referred to the people against whom we now seem to be reluctant to protect ourselves and the community. [More…]

• If you enunciate in this community the philosophy that when you do not like a law you do not try to have it changed by legal and orderly methods, but you illegally and unlawfully go out and break that Jaw, and if there are distorted minds with the idea that for personal satisfaction and to indulge their personal instincts it is necessary to ‘kill a chick’, you stand condemned that you concede to them the same right to break the law that inhibits them as you concede to yourself the right to break the law that inhibits you in another, and perhaps in your opinion, less serious situation. [More…]

• If the basic philosophy is accepted that a law considered as bad should be broken by the person who holds that view, we have no law; we have no law on public order; no law on property; no law on the rights of man; no law against rape; no law to protect women and children and the weak in our community and no law even against murder itself. [More…]

• She is entitled to protection first as a woman in the community and second as a worker doing her job, irrespective of whether she was working for Senator O’Byrne, for me or for Senator McManus. [More…]

• The situation with which the community and the Government is trying to deal is not one that has arisen casually, lt is a highly skilfully organised campaign which has behind it some of the best propaganda brains in the world to teach these demonstrators bow to go about their tasks.. Sena. [More…]

• If the laws of the community are broken, we should be as vulnerable as is any other person in the community. [More…]

• Bill when it becomes law there will be no special rights and privileges for those who consider themselves above the law and for those who have a greater responsibility to obey the law because they are entrusted by the community with the responsibility of making laws. [More…]

• I believe that the necessity for our community to re-examine the laws governing law and order has been proven because of the frightening blackmail of individuals that has occurred. [More…]

• But what was the recourse of the community at large under the law as it existed on that occasion? [More…]

• But instead of seeing evidence around us that we are approaching a phase in the development of mankind when we can do that, almost with bitter disappointment in our hearts arid certainly with great concern we are forced to strengthen and make more stringent the laws regarding public order and the protection of persons, particularly the weak and the womenfolk in our community. [More…]

• Down through history it has -been said by many philosophers that the civilisation which cannot protect the rights of the babes, the weak and the women in its community fails to be a civilisation at all. [More…]

• For my book, much as it gives me remorse, I shall support this legislation because there is evidence in our community that there are those who are organised behind the banners of the philosophy that the ends justify the means and behind the slogan that if one does not like a law then go out and break it. [More…]

• I am sure that the Government will administer it with full weight until we make it quite obvious to those who will break our laws that the rest of the community will not tolerate that standard. [More…]

• I led this deputation from the Yugoslav community and we had senior police officers with us. [More…]

• However, they were of nuisance value to the community. [More…]

• We start from a position in which that absolute freedom has, in the circumstances of the organisation of society, to be restricted to an extent necessary to keep the balance in the community between freedom and order. [More…]

• it does accord with that which has been acceptable in the community for a very long time, then again I wonder what all the noise is about. [More…]

• There is a great generation gap as well as a gap between the minds of the younger and older people in the community. [More…]

• Members of the DLP know very well that they appeal to only a very small section of the community, but it is sufficiently large to give them the position they hold in the Senate. [More…]

• This measure is not only unnecessary but could also lead on to a situation in which a government could become more and more fearful of its inability to cope with community tensions. [More…]

• This factor adds to the tensions that I have already outlined as forming the background to and described as being the cause of the atmosphere that prevails in our community. [More…]

• The average person in the community who can afford to pay cash for commodities is much better off than the young people - the newly marrieds with young families - who have these heavy commitments. [More…]

• Under the practice of resale price maintenance people could, on the one hand, get together and arrange to withdraw, if necessary, their goods from the community unless a usurer’s price was obtained whilst, on the other hand, the very same people said to the men working in industry: ‘If you do not deliver up your labour at the price that we set we will not only fine you but also gaol you’. [More…]

• This adds to the theme that I am developing that these pressures are continually building up in the community. [More…]

• That is why we find today that various sections of the community are looking for some form of national purpose and some form of society to which they can devote their energies, where their energies can be absorbed and where they will have an ideal. [More…]

• If it is drenched into the minds of people from the time they are young that not even the State itself for the most vicious, depraved or dreadful acts will take life because it considers life to have such great sanctity, one can conceive that this would have an important pervading effect throughout the whole community. [More…]

• She did not spare herself for one moment and, as a result of the deliberations in which we took part, I came to have the highest personal regard for her and her desire to see the health standards of the Australian community improved.I said in June 1970, which is the last occasion on which this matter was debated before the Senate, that the report - the document which is now known as the senate Select Committee report on Health and Hospital Costs - should be referred to as the Wedgwood report in order to do justice to the work thatthat senator has done. [More…]

• Since the tabling of this report the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare has been established in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that the report of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare relating to the problems of the physically and mentally handicapped will be of tremendous advantage to the public in that the report will enable the public’ to have a better understanding of this unfortunate section of the Australian community. [More…]

• From speaking to leaders of the Slav community and to some diplomatic representatives, they were stunned when the company failed to win any of these contracts. [More…]

• They are of tremendous concern, not only to those whose discipline is the law but also to many others in the community. [More…]

• It should be of concern to the community at large that the laws of the country should be available in an accessible and up to date form. [More…]

• I should imagine that no Government Department does that, nor would I imagine that it is done within the commercial community. [More…]

• Honourable senators should realise that this could perhaps spill over into the community generally. [More…]

• But I think all of us would agree that there is a too ready availability of drugs in the community. [More…]

• At the moment I am referring to ex-servicemen because the Repatriation Department is concerned, but I believe that the problem is much wider in the community at large. [More…]

• Perhaps I should hasten here to say that my purpose in raising this matter was to endeavour to alert the community to the sort of things that are going on and to get those who have a responsibility in this direction to do something about it. [More…]

• My comments relate to a small number only who are principally in the capital cities and whose activities bring discredit upon their profession and are seriously prejudicial to the treatment and cure of those unfortunate members of the community for whose welfare they seem to have such scant regard. [More…]

• As I have said, one hesitates to raise this question because of a deep feeling of obligation to ex-servicemen, but one cannot remain silent while a section of the community whose actions should be beyond reproach, since its members operate largely on trust, proves unworthy of the trust and responsibility reposed in them by the system. [More…]

• Enterprise Hostel at Springvale took place, in the period from 1964 to 1966, it was not proposed to conduct migrant education classes’ in the Hostel itself but to rely instead upon the facilities available in the community. [More…]

• There is a great danger that finally they will get into trouble and the search and rescue work which is done magnificently has to be carried out at great cost to the community. [More…]

• I know this is a very important department which is expanding because of certain events within the community. [More…]

• In each of these, the Commonwealth is increasingly assuming a role in community affairs at the national level. [More…]

• It is in line with a number of other attempts to erode civil liberties in our community. [More…]

• Indeed, it is a fundamental right of every person to disagree with the Government of the day, but there are other rights in the community. [More…]

• This is a right to which every person in the community is entitled. [More…]

• But in the rest of the community we have had examples again and again such as the Waddington case where the Returned Services League attempted to deny freedom to express political beliefs. [More…]

• The people will not tolerate being pushed about in this community, and all the Government will be able to do is do as it did with the Crimes Act, which is to try to use it as a deterrent to frighten people. [More…]

• The Opposition agrees that the rights of the community should be protected and that people, should not be harassed and subjected to violence; but there should be a balance and that balance is strongly against the right of peaceful assembly and free expression in this community. [More…]

• Allegations that there are such things must create some disquiet in the community. [More…]

• Committees are for the purpose of exploring and elaborating matters in which there is a degree of community of interest in respect of which the hot ideology of politics is not inclined to exacerbate differences . [More…]

• A position was available for her in the Preston and Northcote Community Hospital, the administration of which was very anxious to have her services. [More…]

• The immigration policy of the Government has been relaxed to permit the bringing in to this country of people who have particular skills that the community needs. [More…]

• Australia’s immigration policy could not be termed a racist policy in this respect; it is a policy of selective immigration in thai only those people who have skills which would enable them to be readily absorbed into our community are permitted into Australia. [More…]

• Restrictions should be placed upon her only if she is an individual who will not assimilate into our community or if she has a particular skill of which there is an over supply on the labour market. [More…]

• and (2) When detailed planning of the Enterprise Hostel at Springvale took place, in the period from 1964 to 1966, it was not proposed to conduct migrant education classes in the Hostel itself but to rely instead upon the facilities available in the community. [More…]

• I realise that the report will be placed under the very keen scrutiny of the Minister for Health, the Government and government departments, and many organisations which provide aid in many ways to the ill and infirm members of the community. [More…]

• If an innocent bystander happens to be caught up in a group of persons he is not assembled for a common purpose because he has no community of interest with the other persons who have assembled together. [More…]

• However, I think it must have shocked the whole community to think that this young girl could be bundled into a police waggon and taken away to a police station when she was not doing anything that anyone could reasonably take objection to. [More…]

• I think it is this kind of attack that makes the community very concerned about provisions which enable people to be arrested when they are not doing anything that calls for the intervention of the law. [More…]

• The whole crux of that Bill was that you could not have thought police in the community; you could not imagine what somebody was going to do. [More…]

• In the community in which welive, until a crime is committed, then and only then can the law step-in. [More…]

• The Labor Party ignores completely the fact that in the community today is an organised force that is undermining our society by using the weaknesses that exist in the present law to carry demonstrations far beyond the peak they have ever previously reached - far beyond the limitations of reasonable and peaceable assembly to the stage where violence has occurred. [More…]

• 1 reiterate the point I made at the beginning: When anybody argues that this clause is unnecessary or that this law is unnecessary, it is a valid argument if you ignore what is going on out in the community today and if you ignore another incident that happened to Senator McManus, which he has not recounted but which I will recount. [More…]

• Whatever may have been Senator McManus’s capacity in a political meeting of any shape or form, or even in a lecture at the university, to protect himself, do we want the type of community and the type of behaviour which means that his wife can be subjected to such degrading experiences by young people who are supposed to be the intelligensia of this nation? [More…]

• Some sections of our community may have the belief that physical action in these circumstances is justified. [More…]

• The very fact that this Committee was established has, I believe, already proved of benefit to the community. [More…]

• Many sectors of the community were at least partly informed of actions they could take to help people suffering or on the threshold of the illness of drug dependency and perhaps they could save others from becoming drug dependent. [More…]

• Our Report suggests a revolutionary recasting of the present approach to education in schools and if those concerned are strong enough and big enough to accept it I believe Australia will become a far happier place, not only in terms of defeating drug abuse but in the contribution education can make to what I call ‘living in the community’. [More…]

• We recommend the strongest measures against those parasites in our community who commit, in my mind, the heinous offence of trafficking in drugs. [More…]

• In regard to the legally and socially acceptable drugs, and the admittedly greatly needed and beneficial therapeutic substances, we advocate the means of decreasing promotion of their sales and earnestly hope the unwise prescribing, which is apparently doing great harm in the community, will be eliminated as far as is practicable. [More…]

• The priority being placed on growth, development and material wealth should be critically examined so that greater resources may be devoted to improving the living environment of the community. [More…]

• I spent about 4 months in the United States of America and I would not like to have reared 4 sons to live in a community such as I saw there. [More…]

• Perhas I was able to take a more humane view of every day affairs and personalities because since I was born I have mixed with all sections of the community. [More…]

• It is also of major social importance to the Australian community. [More…]

• That is the answer to a lot of the questions that have been raised during the course of this debate and elsewhere in the community. [More…]

• That they are bound is in the law books but it is not the standard that prevails under the Anglo Saxon system because that is where the people in the community are involved in the administration of justice. [More…]

• Bringing a sample of the citizens into the court room to see whether in the ultimate they will apply the criminal laws has meant that there has been a means whereby bad criminal laws are in fact not executed in this community. [More…]

• That is why juries over a long period consistently refused to find men quilty of it and eventually, with the approbation of the judiciary and the whole community, they point blank refused to enforce the law because it was a bad law. [More…]

• Neither the authorities at the top nor the members of the police force who would be administering this provision could let their heads go and start to prevent reasonable assemblies, peaceable assemblies and proper protests in expressions of dissent in this community. [More…]

• We do not think that that is a proper balance in this community. [More…]

• We know, and the Government concedes, that there is a right of people to assembly peaceably in the community and to use public places for the purposes of dissent and protest. [More…]

• If the Government wants to stop real damage occurring during some great civil commotion, tumult or riot and stop the development of something which we would say was dangerous to the community - there need to be laws to prevent occasions of great riot or tumult - why does it not write a clause saying that where this kind of thing happens action could be taken? [More…]

• He rather gives the impression that the community is composed entirely of agents provocateur who go around heaving bricks through windows. [More…]

• Having read clause 8 of the Bill I am concerned at the effect it will have on decent citizens of this community, who make a personal decision - it is a personal decision - to take part in a demonstration, be it against some government policy or for the purpose of trying to get the Government to adopt a certain policy. [More…]

• By this legislation the Government is encouraging that sort of attitude and is encouraging other members of the community to get in and use force and bash. [More…]

• This measure is against the interests of ordinary decent members of the community, of young children and students who decide for a personal and private reason, because they are opposed to this Government’s policy and want to influence a change of that policy, to take part in demonstrations. [More…]

• In the interests of the Australian community and civil liberties this clause should be rejected by the Senate. [More…]

• When laws can be made in the way in which these laws are being made, how can the Government except that there will be respect among the younger generation or anyone else for the laws in this community? [More…]

• I do not believe there should be any exceptions made for any people in this community. [More…]

• While much of the land in many areas may be privately owned, it is accepted as land in common inasmuch as there is no fence and it is used by the community. [More…]

• I think the whole community objected to their going to prison, but it was an example of the kind of things that can be lawfully done to people. [More…]

• I should express the view that I think the community is reaching the stage where it will be considered that no 1 person should be deciding the guilt of another, which guilt may result in the person being sent to gaol. [More…]

• We in our own community, should be able to provide a bench of justices or magistrates in cases where persons are liable to be sent to gaol. [More…]

• I inform the Minister that the thugs to whom I was referring, are the thugs who .already exist in the community and who have demonstrated their, desire to break- up peaceful assemblies. [More…]

• We find that in this community arrest is being degraded and is being used for purposes which have never been the aim of the law. [More…]

• There is no group or society in our community that does not have authoritarians, and they have a way of getting to the top of our government. [More…]

• We have had a number of authoritarians in high places in our community over the years. [More…]

• All I ask is that what he said be spread far and wide throughout the community. [More…]

• So this concerns not just one sector of the community. [More…]

• It may be any sector of the community which may be dealt with in one way or another by the provisions of this Bill. [More…]

• I am simply saying that there is a breadth right throughout the community of potential situations in which we may have people who may be subjected to this Bill. [More…]

• After all, the whole purpose for which the Bill is conceived is that there should be an ability on the part of the community or on the part of the Government to carry out its responsibility to the community to keep order within the community. [More…]

• There is then the maintenance in the best possible way of the view in the community that an impartial system of justice is being administered. [More…]

• We must in a community maintain a respect for the law, and something which can denigrate the law is something which we must consider very carefully. [More…]

• I believe that in these sorts of circumstances the discretion being vested in the Attorney-General is something which can in the ultimate bring about a denigration of the law and a disrespect for the legal system which is not in the interests of the community. [More…]

• I simply submit that, when taken overall, the interests of the community are best served if this discretion, which has been known to the law for more than 150 years in this type of circumstance, is vested in a senior Crown Law officer as opposed to the member of Parliament, the Attorney-General. [More…]

• This is a political Bill to which objection is taken by half the community as represented by the Opposition. [More…]

• These increases, if they had been implemented, would have cost the Australian community some $35m a year. [More…]

• The outcome of these discussions is that the fee increases will be limited to general practitioner surgery consultations and home visits, and will cost the Australian community $9. [More…]

• The cost of medical and hospital insurance for workers in the community is getting completely out of hand these days. [More…]

• Because of the uniqueness of the community and the history that goes right back to the settlement, as we now know it, on Norfolk Island, we have endeavoured to ensure that we should pay proper regard to the passage of subordinate legislation dealing with the affairs of Norfolk Island. [More…]

• I believe that the visit to Norfolk Island will provide an opportunity to the members of the Committee to get to know and understand the functioning of the Norfolk Island Legislative Council and to get to know and take in some of the atmosphere of the Norfolk Island community. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt spoke about the need to give the railways a footing again in the community, having regard to relationships with other forms of transport and to efficiency. [More…]

• Moreover, the railway system does suffer under a fairly complicated debt structure which flows out of the past, when a great number of lines and facilities were established and capital commitments were made that do not bear much relationship: to : the -present needs for rail transport of the Australian community. [More…]

• I should mention that I have made no public statement on fee increases at the Canberra Community Hospital. [More…]

• This has been brought about by the poor season in Bri tain and Europe and the depletion of the stockpile in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry aware that Mr Geoffrey Rippon, Britain’s chief Common Market negotiator, is now in Brussels to commence talks on what could be the decisive phase of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community? [More…]

• Are Press statements true that the main issues will be New Zealand’s butter exports, Commonwealth sugar and Britain’s financial contribution to the European economic community? [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…]

• An industry disintegrated is at risk whereas one which is well organised has great potential to assist its members and to serve the interests of the community generally. [More…]

• for the community in general. [More…]

• By way of argument and votes in this Senate we have almost corrected this situation and protected the rural citizen from being subject to having his house searched under circumstances in which other members of the community would not he liable to have their houses searched. [More…]

• Here is another case where persons in this industry are being dealt with differently from the rest of the community. [More…]

• All these phases of our community life have become more prominent and their activities have grown into sizeable functions. [More…]

• It showed that he was a man who understood not only his colleagues in this chamber but the problems of the rest of the community, especially those in the younger generation who are much misunderstood because their elders and those outside their sphere do not take the trouble to understand them. [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…]

• Does the Minister agree that it is terribly important to ensure that this report is widely read and fully comprehended and that its findings are disseminated throughout all sections of the Australian community? [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 life 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 their accumulated 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…]

• All this means additional expenditure for the Australian taxpayers at a time when, as I have said, the Govern meat is crying out and is pleading that austerity measures be enforced not only in the government sector but in the private sector of the community. [More…]

• I am talking of the pattern of elections now discernible in this community. [More…]

• At the same time I deprecate the capacity of another section of the Parliament to vote separately, secretly and hurriedly to enforce its will on the Party and marry itself to the bureaucracy in order to impose its will on the community. [More…]

• All honourable senators are aware that the Senate is a necessary element of the legislative process in this community and that no measure of any kind, whether financial or otherwise, can pass into law without the concurrence of both Houses of Parliament. [More…]

• The Government which had perpetrated the injustices, which I think were felt by the whole community to be injustices, did not do very well in the Senate election, but it was able to survive in some kind of fashion because of the support that it received from other quarters. [More…]

• Australian Labor Party senators as well as Democratic Labor Pary senators were able to express their concern and, perhaps, their annoyance at the failure of the Parliament to make proper provision for the social service benefits which were being paid in the community. [More…]

• So much has been said in this chamber and so much has been written in newspapers and articles about the poverty in this community that it is not necessary to make up a case. [More…]

• We know from statements made by many experts and learned people that there are suffering and poverty in this community The number of people affected is estimated variously at between 500,000 and 1 million, and this is not contested. [More…]

• No-one in this community should be living at that level yet this is what is happening in Australia, this extremely wealthy country. [More…]

• We have reached the stage which was dreamed of by philosophers in past times; a stage when society easily is able to produce the material goods needed by our community. [More…]

• But what is happening in this community? [More…]

• Mr Justice Nimmo also adverted to the problem of the poverty which exists in this community. [More…]

• How is this Government able to justify its management of the economy, of its distribution of the wealth of the community, when in a country which is suffering from overproduction of food we have people who cannot afford to eat enough. [More…]

• Is there any justification for people in this community - substantial numbers of them - not being able to afford to eat properly? [More…]

• He also will find a lot of material on the existence of poverty in this community. [More…]

• I understand that it was not contested that there is a level of poverty in the community which has resulted in people living below subsistence level. [More…]

• They are not getting enough to eat and are living in conditions which should not be tolerated in this community. [More…]

• Yet the Minister here apparently is unaware of this and demands to know where is the authority for what has been said and what is accepted throughout the community. [More…]

• Most of the community, except the Government, is concerned about the matter. [More…]

• It does not matter to him that another Minister has been saying for some years that they exist and that other people in the community accept beyond question that we have poverty problems and that the social service benefits are inadequate. [More…]

• The Government may not accept the fact that these problems exist, but a majority of the community does. [More…]

• I would point out to the Australian Democratic Labor Party, which agrees that there is social injustice in the community and has been demanding that there should be legislation to overcome this injustice, that now is the time to act. [More…]

• The fact is that it is the Government which has the obligation to apportion, from the revenues which are available to it, the moneys which should be allocated to the various social objectives which the community wants. [More…]

• His performance since he has become the Minister has been to agree to the increase in doctors’ fees which will in turn increase the charges to the poorer people of the community who, when in ill health at the very time they need assistance, find this added burden placed on their shoulders in the way of higher contribution charges to hospital and medical insurance funds. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party objects to the method that they have been using because they are defeating the very purpose of the Senate and the Parliament - particularly the Opposition - in trying to bring before the Government continually the needs of the community. [More…]

• I would like to refer to the member of the Government who interjected while Senator Murphy was speaking and said that there was not hardship or hunger in the community. [More…]

• The Governmnt should be forced to understand the need in our community. [More…]

• Let these senators come forward now on a major issue and say what they believe in their hearts - that they are supporting a Government that has no right to govern, a Government which time and again, day after day, is proving its arrogance and cynicism towards the ordinary - person in the community. [More…]

• Now the Government says that it knows exactly what is happening in the community and that pensions are more than adequate. [More…]

• The Corporation is helping to insure the exports of Australia for the benefit of the Australian community and operates in areas which many other commercial insurers would not touch because of the risk. [More…]

• One interesting feature is that the European Economic Community is both an exporter and an importer so it has a double vote. [More…]

• lt is interesting to see the considerable power that could be exercised by the European Economic Community, the United States and Canada in the operation of the Agreement. [More…]

• The United States, European Economic Community, Canadian, Japanese and Argentinian contributions are also unchanged. [More…]

• The voting patterns would be those one would expect in a situation with the European Economic Community being a large importer of wheat as well as a producer of wheat products and Canada and the United States of America being large producers. [More…]

• But we do live in an integrated community where no man is an island and each is dependent upon his fellow man. [More…]

• After intense individual planning for each community it could sell the land to developers. [More…]

• It is common nowadays to see land that is not in the most plush areas of the community but in the outer suburbs fetching up to $6,000 and $7,000. [More…]

• I refer to difficulties which are experienced by Canberra citizens in obtaining visas from the American Embassy and the representations which have been made by a number of community groups, including tourist agencies in Canberra, to the American Embassy. [More…]

• I need not remind you, Mr Deputy President, that the terms of reference under which this Committee was set up have charged us to work in an area of our community that is crucial to the future growth of the Australian economy, for it is through the securities market in the wider sense that the financial savings of Australians and overseas investors are marshalled and then allocated both to growing companies and to government. [More…]

• Who wants to produce goods the production of which would help us curb inflation by meeting the amount of currency and credit circulation in the community when, as a result of investing their capital in the production of goods they would be very lucky to get a return of 7 per cent or 8 per cent on their money over a period of years, they can sit back and invest their money in the money lending market! [More…]

• I refute this argument that higher interest rates will encourage the production of goods to meet the amount of money and credit that is circulating in the community and so help defeat inflation. [More…]

• I appreciate, as Senator Poyser said, that no matter how sincere one may be about the interests of the people - and he wants the interest rate for housing to be 4 per cent - one can never reduce the rate of interest on money available for one project when an excessive rate is current in the community over the rest of the field of finance and borrowed money because if the rate for housing is 4 per cent and the other general rate existing in the community is 8 per cent there would not be any money available for housing. [More…]

• I am amazed that this suggestion should come from the Labor Party because there are so many people in the community today who suggest that land should be returned to the Aboriginals. [More…]

• It would have made more money available through the War Service Homes Division to this section of the community for their homes. [More…]

• On other occasions, particularly during the Budget session of this Parliament, the Labor Party will be moving other motions which will support a fairly large number of people in the Australian community both in relation to land rights and in relation to the questions of health, welfare and job opportunities. [More…]

• These people have special techniques and skills in aeronautical engineering but they are being dispersed in the community. [More…]

• I believe the picture would be completed by having this very important section of the community, the trade union movement, represented directly on the Board. [More…]

• The overall economic development of Australia is of great importance to the labouring sector of the community, the manufacturing sector, the distribution and servicing sector and to the rural producers. [More…]

• It may be possible to demonstrate that savings to the community may be gained from a lower level of protection being granted to some industries, there being greater competition being created within the Australian economy. [More…]

• But it would be many years before a body could review all industries and issue sufficient reports to the Government for some effect to be noted in lower prices in this community. [More…]

• The cherry industry, as a primary producing industry, is adopting the same attitude as has been adopted by many other primary producers who are making comments at the present time about the great effect which lower tariffs will have on the community. [More…]

• This surcharge is hitting those consumers who can least afford it; that is, those in decentralised industries and the rural community. [More…]

• I submit that we should not be in a situation in which this lew cost, high grade fuel is made available to the Australian community only in an emergency, whereas our Japanese and Argentinian friends are purchasing huge quantities at bedrock prices. [More…]

• the policies of the European Economic Community; [More…]

• the possibility of a South East Asian Community; [More…]

• There can be no doubt that the Australian farming community is in a state of acute and chronic crisis. [More…]

• Australia has to devise policies for the rural community based on a cold, pragmatic assessment of the likely future, where the trends are for increasing difficulties in selling and declining prices or growing surpluses. [More…]

• Among, the things that we would want to be examined by this commission would be the expected export demand for Australian rural products, taking into account the policies of the European Economic Community, the possibility of Australian associate membership of the European Economic Community, and reciprocal trading agreements on the basis of securing constant markets for rural production by tariff concessions for consumer countries exporting secondary products to Australia - Japan in particular - and the possibility of a South East Asian Community. [More…]

• However, there are some aspects about which I am worried, because I am one of those members who went through the depression, one of those who knows something about the operation of the Loan (Farmers’ Dept Adjustment) Act and one of those who knows the disastrous situation in which that legislation was accepted by the farming community of that time. [More…]

• We are experiencing a so-called booming economy in some sectors and the present difficulties arise primarily from inequalities within the farming community. [More…]

• I refer not only to the farmers but to people living in the small towns, the businessmen, the machinery agents - all those who make up the structure of our social existence as a community. [More…]

• Therefore it is right that the Commonwealth is con.cerned and should be prepared at this time to venture the taxpayers’ money in their own interest and not solely in the interest of the farming community. [More…]

• The Government should ensure that the industry has at least time to readjust, where possible; time for it to get back to some basis whereby those engaged in it can live decently as members of this community. [More…]

• That illustrates fairly well the extent to which the farming community can be bound by any State which attempts to administer this scheme under the old basis of the Loan (Farmers’ Debt Adjustment) Act. [More…]

• I feel deeply that we need urgently to look at this whole question of probate in relation to the farming structure and also its effect on the general community. [More…]

• It makes one wonder at the gross imbalance ki our community. [More…]

• I say without hesitation that if prices keep going up there will not be many farmers in the community who will be in a viable condition. [More…]

• I noticed 3 outstanding things in today’s Press so far as Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community is concerned. [More…]

• I hope the New Zealanders do get those safeguarding clauses if Britain joins the Community but the fact remains that apparently there will be no safeguarding clauses for the primary producers of this country. [More…]

• It will be a disaster to the whole farming community….. [More…]

• Does not what was said in that article bring home the fact that no section of the community can live to itself in this integrated society and say: ‘We will get all that we can for ourselves’ without that having a disastrous effect on the rest of the community. [More…]

• The article stated: lt will be a disaster to the whole farming community already impoverished by rising costs and falling incomes. [More…]

• If in the present state of the economy and in the atmosphere of general affluence which exists in the community we failed to give a reasonable increase we would be failing in our duty. [More…]

• If these people - and I mean all the people because they are all part and parcel of the industry - had contributed nothing to the progress and wealth of this nation the rest of the community might be excused for saying: Well, it is just bad luck’. [More…]

• It has its effect on all sections of the community, not only those in rural areas. [More…]

• The wool industry is probably the most important industry to the rural section of the community and has been over many years. [More…]

• The decline of the farming community in the United Kingdom was a remorseless process which went on for nearly 100 years. [More…]

• The news tonight concerning the European Economic Community would seem to indicate that Great Britain has almost achieved her objective in being accepted as a member of the EEC. [More…]

• I say in response to what Senator Bishop said that this Government is concerned, as far as it is competent to do so, to maintain within the community competitive processes which tend to promote efficiency and tend to reduce prices. [More…]

• We will have to look at this as soon as possible to see what is absolutely necessary to carry it on and get money to these people so that they can get their properties to the stage where they become as asset to the community. [More…]

• We are faced with the position of either voting for an amendment which has positive attitudes and positive means of assisting the rural community or voting for 2 amendments which will not, in my view, be given any consideration by the Government. [More…]

• We have an affluent society in which the farming community throughout the Commonwealth has debts amounting to something near $2, 500m. [More…]

• It is equally tragic to me to examine the whole aspect of the viability of the rural community over the years. [More…]

• We have a situation now in which land values in the farming community are far in excess of the value of production. [More…]

• There are many hundreds of such farmers throughout the community - doctors, dentists, lawyers and all kinds of people who have not the ability to operate these farms. [More…]

• All of these problems will continue to exist until there is elected a government which has a real national policy which is designed to cater for all sections of the Australian community and to make this nation a unified, concerted nation working as a team for the benefit of all Australians. [More…]

• It is only by the attainment of that which we seek so keenly that we will arrive at a balanced population throughout the community. [More…]

• In other words, we must accentuate that the most undesirable move towards cities would be detrimental over all to the way of life of the community as a whole. [More…]

• Consideration has to be given to the distribution of potential income earning capacity via secondary and primary industries, but consideration must be given also to a well balanced basis for that which we are all seeking, that is, a life of happiness and cooperation as a community in an environment which has consideration for all sections of the community. [More…]

• But then the insidious onward march of increased costs, increased interest rates, increased transportation charges and increased problems of living in a rural community caught up with me, swallowed me up, steamrolled me, overcame me despite the fact that I was working from the very early hours of the morning until late at night, as one must do when operating a small family farm. [More…]

• Proper regard must be given for the special position of farmers in the Australian community. [More…]

• The mere movement of masses of people from the rural community into towns does not seem to me really’ to solve the problem, lt does not get to the heart of the problem at all. [More…]

• I suppose most honourable senators who have connections in the rural community will have come across similar problems. [More…]

• I wonder what would, have happened to the rural community had they not in fact come into this quasi financing area. [More…]

• I know of instances in my own State of Tasmania where a whole community which has had its own entity and viability, with shops and schools and the like, has practically gone out of existence because a big entrepreneur has come along and bought up farm after farm. [More…]

• There is a gradual taking over of properties and a movement away from those properties of the pioneers who went on to them and cut down the bush, tilled the land, planted and grew crops on it and took it to the point of production before having to move off it because they have been caught up in the passage of time and the economic movements in our society which have shattered any chance they may ever have had of staying on and keeping their family together as a community. [More…]

• He is beset with these problems which receive inadequate consideration in the total outlook on the economic affairs of the rural community. [More…]

• I think that when we make a cold and abstract financial approach to the affairs of the land we overlook the fact that many people in the Australian community still love farming. [More…]

• I believe the intention of this measure is very worthy and that it can be said to be one of very many measures which the Federal ‘Government has adopted in conjunction with State governments to bring about agreements for the relief of this sector of the community. [More…]

• At that time the Federal Government, with all the information available to it, was faced with the prospect of -the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• But perhaps for the first time - certainly for the first time to my knowledge - every sector of the Australian community acknowledges the difficulties which face the man on the land. [More…]

• I said that every sector of the Australian community acknowledges the difficulties of the producer, but we find the Australian Labor Party has now moved an amendment the initial words of which state that ‘the Bill should be withdrawn’. [More…]

• It is not satisfied to be helping other people in the community. [More…]

• I question whether the facts which were given have really come home to members of the Parliament or people m the community generally. [More…]

• It is - also of major social importance to the Australian community. [More…]

• Nobody in this chamber, in fact nobody in the community, would say that a man earning less than $2,000 to. [More…]

• There is no reason why, after an evaluation of their financial situation, it would not be possibleto make a living payment to them as is done with other individuals in the community when they are out of work. [More…]

• Itis a pity that he spoilt it by making a couple of irrational outbursts at the end , I. think, too, that he was unnecessarily pessimistic, and despite the urgent problems’ which everybody agrees face the rural community at the moment, it seems to me to be an extraordinary situation that the Australian Labor Party wishes to withdraw$ 100m from the rural producers. [More…]

• It does not matter what the intention is; the practical effect is that the rural community would not receive the money. [More…]

• Without a rural community living in frugal comfort at least, the city cannot be supplied adequately or properly. [More…]

• It is believed that it will be necessary to overcome the structural problems of small farm sizes in order to allow farmers a reasonable standard of living commensurate with that enjoyed by the remainder of the community. [More…]

• the policies of the European Economic Community; [More…]

• reciprocal trading agreements on the basis of securing constant markets for rural production by tariff concessions to consumer countries ex porting secondary products to Australia (Japan in particular); (4) the possibility of a South East Asian Community; [More…]

• The need for this commission has been highlighted today because of the announcement yesterday that Britain is almost certain to join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• While the newspapers as yet have not had the opportunity of canvassing the implications of that entry, from what I heard on the radio this morning rather deep dismay is expected in the Australian rural industries because apparently almost complete priority and preference will be given in the EEC to the agricultural products from within that community. [More…]

• I direct attention to paragraph (a) of the amendment which relates to the expected export demand for Australian rural products, taking into account among other things the policies of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If there has not been a reduction in the security and protection of our troops in Vietnam, on what judgment did the former Prime Minister operate when he emphatically claimed that to reduce troop numbers would expose our remaining troops to a risk which could not be tolerated, which proposition the community at large accepted in good faith? [More…]

• It we look at a particular tax we should not confine our consideration to a section of the community. [More…]

• We should look at it as it applies to all sections of the community. [More…]

• It should decide whether relief should be aimed specifically at the primary industries or whether the rest of the community should be placed in the same position. [More…]

• Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson pointed out at question time today that no matter whether the amount of tax be big or small, if we remove It from one section of the community, we must put it back on another section. [More…]

• That would not help the wealthy, the poor farmer or anybody else in the community. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party has said that the Government should alleviate taxes imposed on those people who can least afford to pay them and not the wealthy people in the community, whether they bo farmers or big business people in the cities. [More…]

• I ask the Government to take these matters into consideration with all the other requests which will be made from all sections of the community for the alleviation of taxation. [More…]

• Representations on probate duty have been made by organisations representing all sections of the community, both political and rural. [More…]

• We are way behind in our endeavours to improve the general health of the community. [More…]

• I have some regard for what Senator Byrne said about the necessity to amend the Banking Act because of the change in the pattern of money in the community and because of the tendency for outside institutions to grow in strength in the money market. [More…]

• Indeed, the State was threatened with the loss of needed income by way of the CommonwealthState financial agreement if it exercised the right to levy an income tax properly based on a capacity of a person to earn an income with the proper type of remissions for responsibilities that are of essential character in our community such as rearing a family. [More…]

• How can there be any justification for the Government to obtain its revenue through this method of income tax if, in the hazards of business life, one shows a loss and one has to pay a tax because one is participating in community activities for the purposes of trying to make a living for oneself and one’s family? [More…]

• However, because this tax was levied in the aura of respectability, which was mentioned in the Minister’s second reading speech the tax is now becoming an accepted fact in the community. [More…]

• But income tax is based on a different set of principles altogether and it provides proper allowances for those people in the community who are faced with family responsibilities. [More…]

• The family man who is the most valuable asset that this community has and those young couples who are setting themselves to rear 3, 4 or 5 children will be the people paying the greatest amounts as a result of turnover tax because this tax will reflect in everything that is purchased by these people for the purposes of rearing their children. [More…]

• Whereas I accept the principles of income tax, why is it that in a community such as ours the Government has camouflaged at all ‘ levels the right to tax? [More…]

• This should be done in a way that is fair and just to every member of the community.. [More…]

• I will reserve my right to judge payroll tax for its morality in the general taxation structure of this community. [More…]

• We on the Opposition side will support the Bill because the principles which are included in it are necessary for any community acting as we are in the latter half of the 20th Century. [More…]

• I do not think there can be any real dispute that restrictive practices and agreements of the nature of resale price maintenance are widespread throughout Australia and that they are injurious to the community. [More…]

• The Tasmanian royal commission referred to agreements and practices to hold up to an artificially high level the price of electric lights, beer, hot water systems, paint, cement and steel pipes all of which affect every family in the community. [More…]

• Actual practices are operating through the community and determinations would be made in respect of an existing situation. [More…]

• There is no need to dwell upon the damage which is done to the community by this practice. [More…]

• It affects all sections of the community. [More…]

• I know that this Bill does not apply to services, but if we in the Senate are to criticise various practices that we see in relation to manufacture and resale, I think it would be a very good thing if Senator Murphy - I prompted him once or twice - attempted to give some examples of where he sees the public interest being disadvantaged in the Australian community. [More…]

• In making my comments, I wish the Senate to bear in mind that I do not think that Senator Murphy instanced an example where the public interest is put at detriment by the general practices that we see in the community, which I would prefer to call not uniform selling but perhaps stable selling- [More…]

• I doubt whether the public generally understands the influence that such a law will have for the good of the community. [More…]

• I have questioned the reason for this legislation because, not being a legal person, but at least being involved very much in manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing over many years, I have some knowledge of the various practices that may go on in the community. [More…]

• I refer here to the force of union power that perhaps prompts the community to think that the type of thing that the Government is engaging in at present is a particularly good thing and it will do something to dampen inflation. [More…]

• I have grave doubts as to whether Mr Hawke did anything to benefit the community. [More…]

• I believe that if one looks at the benefits which will flow to the ACTU, to Mr Hawke, to Mr Revelman and to the community, one will be inclined to think that Mr Revelman will come out in front. [More…]

• The rest of the story surrounding this deal appears to be quite farcical, but it could have quite harmful effects upon the community. [More…]

• In looking at a maintained price that may apply particularly to important items in the community it can be seen that a manufacturer has his distribution costs built into the price. [More…]

• I am one who sees in that a healthiness in the commerical community. [More…]

• I see in it the continued existence of the small and rural community. [More…]

• There seems to be a spirit abroad that all the ills of the community so far as trade and commerce are concerned can be cured by the unrestrained, unbridled and vicious competition. [More…]

• I feel that since this Bill has the fairly general support of the whole Senate it is a matter in relation to which both sides of the chamber are interested in securing the best and most advantageous provisions for consumers without - I emphasise the word ‘without’ - ruining the trade and the stability of the commercial sector of our community. [More…]

• One of the steps that is being taken, along with action with regard to the Tariff Board which, of course, is long-range in its potential benefits, is to amend the Trade Practices Act to remove those practices which prevent the competitive processes from operating in the community. [More…]

• In Thailand Australian aid is directed towards development of the transport system, which benefits all members of the community. [More…]

• For my part I feel that the principle of competition ought to be the life-blood of the enterprising community. [More…]

• No-one apologises for the trade union movement exercising force for the simple purpose of reducing retail prices and whether or not this action was to enable Bourke’s store to make a profit, it has had the effect of reducing retail prices to the community, so it is not true that the action has benefited Bourke’s store alone. [More…]

• the community - the retailer could be liable under other provisions of the Trade Practices Act. [More…]

• There appears to be much misunderstanding in the community about these matters. [More…]

• From that the community must benefit. [More…]

• But the wool industry must receive every assistance that is possible from the Australian community at this time. [More…]

• Whilst the alleviation proposed by this Bill is necessary and is an immediate gesture which must be made by the whole of the community to share the burden being carried by primary industry the solution to the problem does not lie in a short range plan. [More…]

• If one looks at what is happening to State education throughout Australia one can only be forced to the conclusion that the policy of the present Government is for electoral purposes to maintain the Catholic educational system at a subsistence level, a non-Catholic private educational system for the purpose of training some sort of elite, and a State educational system educating - if educating is the correct word - the children of the most underprivileged elements of the community to be nothing but hewers of wood and drawers of water. [More…]

• Kobeelya Church of England Girls School is attended mainly by the well to do children of the local farming community, lawyers, dentists and people like that. [More…]

• I do not know, but it enabled me to take a place in the life of this community and I have been very grateful for the limited educational facilities that were available in my school days. [More…]

• I smiled when listening to Senator Wheeldon because he was endeavouring to tell the Senate and the community at large what is virtually a lie; that is, of course, that private schools are receiving more from the public purse than are State schools for the construction of science laboratories. [More…]

• That situation still obtains in our community. [More…]

• Perhaps it was prepared carelessly or in haste, or it may have been framed deliberately to mislead the community and to whip up a wave of sectarian hatred, or class hatred. [More…]

• There would not be a private school, whether it has a religious background or not, in this community that would not be thoroughly satisfied to receive from the public purse per pupil the amount that it costs to educate each child in a state school. [More…]

• At least that would bring a substantial measure of justice to that section of the community, that section of my Australian brothers and neighbours who have paid their taxes for a lifetime for the education of their children and have then paid out of their own pockets as well for that education. [More…]

• I have never wanted to receive any advantage in the Australian community because my parents paid taxes. [More…]

• Any suggestion that the Bill should be withdrawn on the basis set out in the amendment is a falsehood aimed at misleading the people and at whipping up in our community prejudices of the very worst kind and of the most un-Australian character. [More…]

• lt is to withdraw the States Grants (Science Laboratories) Bill and redraft it to make provision to meet what we believe to be the situation which exists.- Surely no-one would criticise - an Opposition which believes that a -section of the community, is being treated unfairly. [More…]

• In the very near future - according to Press reports, in 1973 - Britain will join the European Economic Community and the advantages that Australia has gained in the marketing of its fruits in Britain and in other parts of Europe will be lost. [More…]

• Really I suppose that the necessity to make this loan available to the Shepparton Preserving Company in order to rescue this industry in its present circumstances is almost as great as the reasons which drive us to make available at rates of interest which are lower than those applying generally in the community money for the purpose of building homes for the men who served this country in the hours when our freedoms were being challenged. [More…]

• I make the point that in all interpretations of rules, ordinances and so on we must be cognisant of the fact that the Australian community is diversified and that there are a lot of problems that cannot be solved by regarding them in the same way as we regard cases that occur in Melbourne or Sydney. [More…]

• If the inter-departmental committee is to consider anything, the first appeal I make is for the establishment of a parliamentary committee that will have an independent chairman and will represent the Government and the Opposition, which claims to represent that section of the community which comprises the applicants under this legislation. [More…]

• There is a limit to the amount which any community can reasonably provide for the compensation of persons who are injured in the course of their employment. [More…]

• But as far as this country is concerned, we would be faced with an expenditure which is not in the interests of the type of community we wish to see evolving having regard to the various other items of expenditure on which available resources could be expended. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the Australian High Commissioner in London is reported to have made a statement strongly criticising Britain’s proposed entry into the European Economic Community? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that Sir Alexander Downer, the Australian High Commissioner in London, also made a lengthy statement on Papua New Guinea in which he said that Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community would eliminate the primary industry export markets for Papua New Guinea? [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Can he inform the Parliament whether, in fact, the export market of Papua New Guinea for primary products will be lost in the event of Britain joining the European Economic Community? [More…]

• If benefits are to be conferred on the community at large by way of such provisions we should be promoting them and setting the standard rather than gasping, puffing and blowing in pursuit of public opinion as we so often seem to be doing. [More…]

• A person who has not been able to make provision under a retirement scheme or by some other means - this situation would apply primarily to tradesmen and other members of the work force in the community who because of the wage level and other factors have not been able to obtain a cover - will find this a matter of increasing concern because, generally, people have come to expect higher living standards. [More…]

• The serious question facing the community is: What are we going to do at the end of our working lives? [More…]

• We agree with their contention, not so much because they should be able to move out into private employment but because they should be allowed to broaden their knowledge and so be of more value to the community. [More…]

• For this reason, although we have had little chance to examine the full effect of the proposed amendments, we feel very much disposed to the point of view that 10 years is a much more suitable period than 20 years which has up to now been quite acceptable to the community in general. [More…]

• Thus the community, the university and the person concerned have to forego the great advantage which the Government intended should be achieved by this legislation. [More…]

• In any advanced community the arts and associated amenities, serious or comic, light or dramatic, must occupy a central place, and should be available to and be encouraged to be appreciated by every citizen. [More…]

• In the event of Britain joining the European Economic Community under the terms agreed upon at Brussels recently, resulting probably in a drastic reduction of exports of primary products from Australia to that country, is it proposed that Australia should continue to import considerable quantities of goods from the United Kingdom, or is it contemplated that these imports, as far as possible, will be placed with countries which will trade with us on a reciprocal basis? [More…]

• I am quite sure that the Minister and the Government will have very much, in mind the various points raised by the honourable senator, as they will affect us when the British people join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• As this matter is of extreme importance to the business community, particularly to those involved in export, would the Minister entreat the Treasurer to submit to the Senate as soon as is possible a statement on the present situation? [More…]

• It is, as the honourable senator has said, a difficult matter, but it has to be approached in the fullest sense of what the community requires in total. [More…]

• However, the area has to be considered in the full community sense. [More…]

• We have to decide what should be done, not only in the interests of the community in the area but also in the interests of Sydney as a whole because it provides parkland area for a population much greater than that now living alongside it. [More…]

• In any advanced community the arts and associated amenities, serious or comic, light or dramatic, must occupy a central place, and should be available to and be encouraged to be appreciated by every citizen. [More…]

• The truth remains that the United Kingdom Government itself is still in the grip of disputation which is taking place throughout the nation over the proposals for British entry into the European Economic Community and, if I understand the situation, will not take a definitive decision on it until some time in October this year when there will be a special line vote in the House of Commons. [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Is it correct that Australia was promised by the British Government that there would be a period of adjustment for exports of primary products from this country to Britain after Britain entered the European Economic Community, or was it that Britain undertook to place such a proposition before the conference at Brussels? [More…]

• Australian Government about Britain’s projected entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I repeat that the United Kingdom has not yet entered the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Harris, Community Aid Abroad, [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that Sir Alexander Downer, the Australian High Commissioner in London, also made a lengthy statement on Papua New Guinea in which he said that Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community would eliminate the primary industry export markets for [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Can he inform the Parliament whether, in fact, the export market of Papua New Guinea for primary products will be lost in the event of Britain joining the European Economic Community? [More…]

• Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community without appropriate arrangements for Papua New Guinea, would mean the loss of preferences in the United Kingdom market and in some cases would erect Community Tariff barriers in their place. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government has sought at every appropriate opportunity to direct the attention of the authorities in Britain and of member Governments of the EEC to the serious damage to Papua New Guinea’s trade likely to result from enlargement of the Community unless appropriate provisions are made to accommodate that trade. [More…]

• Mr Rippon, the British Minister in Charge of negotiations with the Community subsequently stressed the unique nature of the Papua New Guinea case in addressing the Council of Ministers in Brussels during February’ 1971. [More…]

• Under policy which came into operation in September 1964, the eligibility of people of mixed descent for entry to Australia is dependent firstly on whether the applicant is judged to be capable of ready integration into the Australian community and secondly on whether: [More…]

• I refer to difficulties which are experienced by Canberra citizens in obtaining visas from the American Embassy and the representations which have been made by a number of community groups, including tourist agencies in Canberra, to the American Embassy. [More…]

• To assist it in doing this it has established an extensive system of committees, the members of which are leaders in their own fields to advise regarding the formulation of plans for conversion throughout the whole spectrum of activities in the community. [More…]

• If the benefits of conversion are to become available as widely and as quickly as possible it should proceed simultaneously in all sectors of the community, each at its optimum rate and the Board’s planning is on this basis. [More…]

• I understand the Board hopes to submit to me before the end of the year programs for conversion in a number of key sectors and that, if adopted, their implementation could commence in 1972 so that by 1973 active conversion would be proceeding in many sectors of the community. [More…]

• In addition it must be recognised that many industrial and other establishments are already, embarking on their own programmes so that during the next year the community will be increasingly exposed to metric units but not, I believe, in such a way as to disadvantage it or to cause significant inconvenience. [More…]

• The trade union movement is part of the political process of this community. [More…]

• The right of the trade unions to engage in political decision making and to pursue political purposes was the subject of challenge in this community not so long ago. [More…]

• It is reasonable and natural that in this community they should take part in the democratic process. [More…]

• There are books written on the lobbies, the interest groups of the 4 continents, edited by Professor Ehrmann, setting out the lobbies which are operating in this community, and there are- some very heavy lobbies indeed. [More…]

• When one has, as in South Australia, a situation that can only be described as democratic, then one has bodies going out and properly seeking to effect political change by persuasion of the whole community and, if necessary, engaging where they consider it proper in strikes and stoppages. [More…]

• It is true that in recent times the trade unions have complained about the failure of governments to provide properly for social services in this community. [More…]

• ls it wrong that trade unions should join with the other groups in the community, the churches - not all the churches but a number of them - to protest against something which is against their social conscience and which is important enough for them to say to their members: ‘We ask you to stop work, to lose wages and to show how much you disapprove of this evil war, this genocide being committed against the Vietnamese people’. [More…]

• 1 counsel organisations in this country not to think that they can use their industrial strength for the direct coercion of other people in the community in order to get their way or to implement a decision they would wish to gain in the political field, unless they can persuade the franchised people of the country, through the medium qf .the ballot box, to send to this Parliament in sufficient numbers representatives and here, by law, change any injustice that they feel they have, because organisations are constituted for the purpose of dealing with industrial issues. [More…]

• At that time Parliament was acknowledged as the place in which all sections of the community should have such representatives as the franchise entitled them according to their policies. [More…]

• I would have thought that, so far from espousing this line of operation, those who had any solicitude for the existence and welfare of the trade union movement would see in this course of conduct a most divisive factor which, if persisted in, cannot be tolerated by any democratic community that puts its faith in a parliament elected by the majority of the people. [More…]

• With regard to the Springboks’ tour, although the trade union organisations were effective in creating dismay, engendering international illwill and creating a. good deal of resentment on the part of the members of our Australian community who desired to afford the ordinary Australian hospitality to visiting sportsmen, we have seen a divisiveness on the part of the Australian trade union movement that ought to be quite obvious to those who have the goodwill of that movement at heart. [More…]

• I hope that as the debate continues this Senate will show in no uncertain way that it stands for the prin ciple that Parliament, and not any section of this community, should be the dominant influence with regard to the laws under which Australians shall be governed. [More…]

• 1 am one of those people who believe that a trade union or any other organisation is quite entitled to express its opinion on any matter, but when it converts that opinion into an onslaught on the general community and on the economy of this country, when these people inflict hardship upon their fellow workers and fellow men in an attempt to advance a particular political view I do not go along with them. [More…]

• It has been mooted that primary producer organisations be so organised as to be able to say to the rest of the community: ‘Unless you do this, that and the other we will cut off your food supplies.’ [More…]

• Now he is the champion of this system of law and order because a section of the community, which is fighting for. [More…]

• They have said that they see some danger, and some disadvantage to the Australian community, arising from political strikes. [More…]

• There is no doubt about what the Senate is debating and that many of us are concerned about strikes in the community. [More…]

• I refer to the great incidence of strikes that are being generated in the community. [More…]

• I wonder whether members of the Opposition are as concerned as the Government is about the great harm that is being done in our community. [More…]

• This is very serious for our community and I imagine that responsible members of the Opposition feel likewise. [More…]

• It would be most interesting to take each point, debate it at length and discuss what are the very serious implications that they have in our community. [More…]

• 1 believe the actions of Mr Hawke in many instances and the power that an individual in his position can take over the whole community, or sections of the community, can wreak havoc within this society. [More…]

• If, indeed, in another country ‘ an individual had power to demand that employees of a business join an industrial organisation and pay dues to it so that he could act in a political way, many of us would regard it as one of the worst things that could happen in that community. [More…]

• His comments in this regard will go down as perhaps the worst of any leader of the Labor Party, a party which should be reflective of the views of the whole of the union movement - indeed, of the whole of the labouring force in this community. [More…]

• We have a peculiar situation in which an attempt is made to deny me the opportunity to quote the statements of leaders of various unions who oppose political strikes in our community. [More…]

• If members of the community, trade unionist and others are prepared to continue to permit the development of this trend, then the day must come, of course, when there will be retaliation, when others in the community must have the same right to break the laws and to try to force the hand of Parliament in order to have their wishes imposed upon the community as a whole. [More…]

• He has to be as sure as Hitler was that only he has the right to misuse the power that is tied up in the organised strength of the trade union movement and in the organised strength of other sections of the community - religious if you like, friendly society if you like, employer organisations if you like. [More…]

• But whatever may be our point of view on this matter, the question before the Senate is whether there should be industrial action to force the Government, the rest of the community or anybody else who may not agree with us on this matter. [More…]

• It is when those 2 are welded and fused that we get good administration and progress in the community. [More…]

• It is spending considerable money in America educating all sections of the community to eat more meat. [More…]

• Are the drugs prescribed for mental illhealth extremely expensive and would the Minister agree that, in many instances, patients should be given ‘hope’ instead of ‘dope’, but that the health services available for the community support of the emotionally disturbed are so limited as to force dependence on medicines. [More…]

• We must have a nice balance, always in issue, between individual rights and community rights, between the facilities that a government must have at its command if it is to function in the interests of all as against the rights and entitlements of individuals. [More…]

• Allied with sensitivity to these rights must always go a recognition of the practicalities of the situation and the rights of the community at large. [More…]

• In a sense it could be said that what we bring to the consideration of these measures is the collective folk wisdom and experience of the Community. [More…]

• It is a familiar spectacle to see the highest legal minds in the land - the judges of the High Court - divided 4 to 3 on matters of the utmost importance to the community - matters on which the layman might imagine that there could be such certainty that the judges would be unanimous. [More…]

• With 4 people in support of a mover attacks can be made on individuals in the community at a personal level. [More…]

• I have sitting behind me 3 independent senators who represent a very substantial section of the community. [More…]

• On that issue they see a community of intention and desire. [More…]

• The Committee is requested to report from time to time on the operation of Australia’s international trade agreements and the development of trading relations and, in particular, upon (a) the probable consequences to Australia of United Kingdom entry into the European Economic Community and (b) the advantages and disadvantages to Australia of the New ZealandAustralia Free Trade Agreement. [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 session. [More…]

• I am not seeking leave to incorporate the statement in Hansard because I believe it would be the wish of the Senate to have the statement read, having regard to questions that have been asked and comments that have been made here from time to time in relation to the impact on Australia of the European Economic Community and its development. [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, the problems that would arise for Australian trade interests if reasonable conditions of entry for Britain were not achieved. [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 products 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-tn 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 hy 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…]

• If we face the restriction on our markets in Europe following the entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community, we will need to place increasing reliance on our established ties with Japan, and we must attempt to ensure that this relationship is developed as much as possible. [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 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…]

• For a large segment of the farming community the wool price is an important determinant of income. [More…]

• for example, who has a view that certain types of crimes are more serious than they are regarded by the community at large. [More…]

• In New South Wales in quite recent times there was functioning in the Wollongong area a magistrate who took a view of driving offences which was quite out of touch with the general community view of the seriousness of such offences. [More…]

• I think it is one that would be shared by all those in the community who are interested in this developing science of penology. [More…]

• If we agree that the basic idea common to all of us is that the regeneration of prisoners in the best way and in the shortest possible time is what should affect our decision, it seems to me that the question is whether that is more likely to be affected by the provisions of this ordinance than by an attempt to create a parole board in this community. [More…]

• That is an unfortunate trend in our community. [More…]

• From every point of view there is, I think, an urgent necessity to have a focussing of attention by our community on the problems concerning the prevention of crime and the protection of society, especially the rehabilitation of those people who have offended against the laws of society. [More…]

• One would imagine that there are no pressing national problems within the community. [More…]

• Because there were such men in our community we amended the National Service Act so that where it comes to the knowledge - or some other word with which I disagreed at the time - of the Department of Labour and National Service that there may be a conscientious objection, the Minister can set up the procedure for establishing the existence of a conscientious objection, even where there is no application by the person. [More…]

• That is important today in a modern complex community in which strike action on the part of a few damages in the main an overwhelming majority of other unionists, because the costs of that dislocation are carried into the economic structure. [More…]

• Wage earners comprise the great majority of the community today. [More…]

• These eminent economists agreed that some cost anomalies would be involved in distributing rural aid on a needs basis, but said that it would be preferable because a subsidy on all wool produced would involve far greater costs to the community. [More…]

• Why should they be given anything by the community? [More…]

• It is the Federal Government that has to go to a taxpaying community called Australians to get that $3,200m- to get that increment of $800m over the figure that was allocated to the States 2 years ago. [More…]

• When after 72 years the Labor Party comes forward with a unification policy and wilh a proposal in which it criticises us for not balancing the finances and functions of the Commonwealth, the States and local government, what its members have to remember is that in a Federal system there are 2 governments - Federal on the one hand and State on the other - both requiring support from the one community of taxpayers. [More…]

• A simple reflection will remind them, as every taxpayer will be alert to tell them, that any money we send back to the State governments comes out of the very same community of taxpayers as we in this Budget are asking to pay $3,200m which we will pass straight back to the State governments. [More…]

• on the other hand, treat social service increments as something to be adjusted according to alterations in the economy as an inescapable national obligation to that section of the community. [More…]

• That loss is being suffered not by one section of the community; the effect is being multiplied and suffered by all sections of the community. [More…]

• No community can be stronger or more prosperous than when the wage earning community is prosperous and doing a fair share of the work. [More…]

• Last year rural income, by comparison with the incomes of other sections of the community, was deplorably low. [More…]

• Social services involve those members of our community whose need is greatest. [More…]

• It could be said that what we bring to the consideration of these measures is the collective folk wisdom and experience of the community. [More…]

• This would be of great advantage to the trade unionists, who comprise a very important section of the community. [More…]

• At any rate, it is competent for anybody, whether he be a medical practitioner or not, representing a particular member of the community, to write to the Minister, raise the issue, express a view and give reasons of the type given by Senator Devitt. [More…]

• Recognising that the provision of airports, sea ports and other Commonwealth installations is an important national requirement, will the Government consider the establishment of co-ordinating bodies or at least consultative bodies embracing Commonwealth, State and local authorities so that the total needs of the community, including preservation of the local environment, are given every consideration? [More…]

• It is one of the features of the Business Jets organisation that it has this air taxi cab arrangement which I think will serve the Victorian community quite well. [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…]

• If, as stated by the present Prime Minister, the appointment of Assistant Ministers will mean that they receive no extra salary but purely a reimbursement of out of pocket expenses and some allowances for extra travelling, I, believe that the community will receive value from the appointment of Assistant Ministers. [More…]

• The survey indicted that an average of between 7 and 8 per cent of the population is living below the poverty line in the community. [More…]

• Its officers and members are continually engaged in community service. [More…]

• They sit on committees, more often than not unpaid, which deal with employer-employee 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…]

• This matter has received a great deal of criticism from different sections of the community and, to some extent, from members of the Opposition. [More…]

• That the nation should have to help an industry as great as the wool industry is something that we would hope would not happen, but because of the position of this industry this assistance is absolutely necessary at this stage in order to allow the wool industry to remain a force within the community. [More…]

• People have had enough of this business of the dog chasing its tail and I am quite sure that measures that may not have been accepted some years ago will be accepted now, provided they are not too drastic and do not affect certain sections of the community at the expense of others. [More…]

• They have to be felt through the whole community and then I believe the public will accept them. [More…]

• As we go through the Budget papers and the Budget Speech we see an increase in expenditure in nearly all directions, especially for those items that the public feels are necessary such as social services, education, external aid, the advancement of the Aboriginal community and retirement pensions and allowances for superannuitants and ex-servicemen. [More…]

• I feel therefore that the measures taken to obtain more revenue such as increases in company tax and personal income tax - although most of us may not be happy with it we would agree that it is spread over the whole community and we are all in the same boat - are a welcome way of collecting the extra revenue. [More…]

• They will receive a subsidy from the poorer section of the community. [More…]

• How are we going to stabilise an industry when the best we can do is to carry a section of the farming community in a state which permits it to have interest payments outstanding to money lenders until such time as the industry becomes sufficiently buoyant and it can make its own payments of interest for the debt? [More…]

• There is no attempt to stabilise the farming community by establishing viable properties for the purpose of profitable production and marketing. [More…]

• Across the board subsidies are granted which will provide payments for interest and payments to the wealthy farming community. [More…]

• One cannot help thinking that because poverty exists to the extent that it exists today in certain sections of the community, that question should receive a high priority. [More…]

• The survey of educational needs undertaken by all States recently shows clearly that to cope with increasing enrolments and to improve standards to the extent that the community and governments regard as essential vastly increased sums needs to be spent for both recurrent and capital purposes in the next 5 years. [More…]

• In view of the fact that last week Community Aid Abroad could not locate in Australia a supply of skim milk powder for forwarding to India, can the Minister say whether any supplies are available in Australia? [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that this reflects a growing awareness by the Australian community concerning the Australian environment? [More…]

• I think it is healthy for the community that the High Court has not only indicated the legislative power to deal with trade practices but also has incidentally said that the particular enactment is invalid for a drafting reason. [More…]

• 1 have no doubt that the work of the Committee has been and will continue to be extremely valuable to the community. [More…]

• We have to remember that the Budget is brought down against a background of a crisis in world finances and of the near certainty that Britain will join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• For a long while it has been a case of speculation whether the United Kingdom might join or be allowed to join the European Economic Community but it seems now that it will be a fait accompli in the near future. [More…]

• It has been forcibly brought home to us that we must look for other markets and that the transition period is short - this is the period in which we can adjust our trade with the United Kingdom, the European Economic Community and other areas. [More…]

• We cannot continue to exist as a community if the prosperous section of our community is not prepared to share some of its prosperity with the less fortunate section. [More…]

• There is no question that it has deflated many people within the community. [More…]

• It has deflated those who believe that something should be done for the sick, the aged and the needy within the community. [More…]

• Because the Government believes there is inflation in the community it has decided that the people who will pay and who will deflate our economy will be, not the people who have it, but the people who do not have it. [More…]

• This position applies throughout the whole strata of the community. [More…]

• All the problems which this Government has created over the last 20 years it has blamed on the workers of the community. [More…]

• The trade union movement will never reach the situation where it will sit idly by and allow its membership throughout the community to absorb all the increased costs which are built up by a system which has allowed inflation into the economy. [More…]

• There is no planning by the Government to ensure’ that this type of cost structure can be brought back to a situation where the ordinary people in the community can look forward to some kind of future in relation to the purchasing and furnishing of a home. [More…]

• One of the major reasons why the farming community is in trouble today is that it is a section of the community which has not been able to pass on costs which have continued to rise. [More…]

• Tonight I will show conclusively that if it has not actually broken a promise it is taking so long to implement it that it is causing untold tragedy amongst the aged people within our community. [More…]

• At a time when we are budgeting for a domestic surplus of $630m the Government allows a situation such as I have described to continue within our community. [More…]

• But I say that when those wages become fictitious, when all they represent is inflation and when they advance at a greater rate than production advances, then that does harm and damage to the whole of the community and the whole of the economy. [More…]

• That is a job for the whole community. [More…]

• It has been often said and is often currently stated that if increases in salaries and wages are kept within increases in productivity the community in which this was done would have stable prices. [More…]

• Australia is threatened with Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• When Mr Marshall came home from his negotiations with the European Economic Community all the diplomats in New Zealand from the European Economic Community countries were in Wellington to meet him as well as several other Ministers. [More…]

• Surely the weak in the community should not have to pay for these goods. [More…]

• There are few in the community who would benefit from, and most industries and the average citizen are greatly disadvantaged by, rampant inflation. [More…]

• Individuals who are placed on fixed incomes must surely be the most hard hit in its community. [More…]

• lt is harmful to those whom we would seek to encourage, that is, the thrifty in the community. [More…]

• I believe, is the main problem that we see in the inflationary trend in our community. [More…]

• If we are to take notice of the comment made by the Treasurer in relation to the great loss that has occurred in the community as a result of strikes during that period - I recall that Mr Hawke denied that the Treasurer’s figures were correct, but I suggest that the Treasurer’s figures are correct when he says that in the past 3 years the annual losses of working days have been 1.1 million, 2 million and 2.4 million - we cannot be anything but gravely disheartened as to what the trend may be in the coming year. [More…]

• Anybody in the Senate, whether he supports the labouring section or whether he supports any other sector of the community, cannot be anything but very concerned as to what that situation will bring about. [More…]

• One only has to have some recognition of our interest in the problems that are created for the employer section of the community today, in attempting to find productivity that will return to a business an average of $100 a week for each employee that business has on its staff at the present time, to realise that that is an impossible task. [More…]

• We heard that figure, and we hope that it is being adhered to because it must have encouraged many individuals within the labouring community to go along to the ACTU store where, they were led to believe, prices would be belter or cheaper than those they would find in the great stores that were grinding the poor worker into the ground. [More…]

• When the Senate adjourned last evening I was expressing the view that extreme wage rises in Australia were not in the interests of the community and were in actual fact the main basis of the inflationary trend. [More…]

• I believe this not to be the case and indeed I think that in the system which we have in Australia we have found that industry generally has acted in a proper fashion and that profit ratios are not extreme compared with those in other countries.I believe that the unions generally, and particularly the activities of the leader of the Australian Council of Trade Unions enforcing his views and the views of some of those who support him in respect of industrial matters, have certainly been of disadvantage to the community. [More…]

• Another factor which is against the interests of the community is the demand by unions that the employees of certain firms shall become members of unions. [More…]

• I believe that these activities should be encouraged if they are to bring competition into the community. [More…]

• Senator Georges

  makes well the point that we should not have in our community the situation where a person can go into a store and say: ‘I see the price is $100 but can I haggle with you to get it down to $80?’. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, the Commonwealth must look to its own efficiency in many areas before it looks to private enterprise and says that there must be greater efficiency by business in the Australian community. [More…]

• Greater assistance - more than that which State governments can provide - will have to be given to church institutions and other bodies which are looking after unmarried mothers, homeless men, and children who have been displaced as a result of the break up of marriages in our community. [More…]

• The greatest problem in our community at the moment is in this field. [More…]

• I said that the Government will have to pay close attention to the interest rate being charged in the community at present, to the term of loans being granted under the rural reconstruction scheme and to the total amount of money being made available by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• At the present time the greatest problem which is facing us in various areas is the proposed entry pf Britain into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• 1 would like to direct some of my remarks to these aspects, but 1 would like also to direct my remarks later to certain attitudes which unhappily are ingrained in this community and which 1 believe, more than any fiscal instruments and more than any Budgets, unhappily shape conditions in this country today. [More…]

• I refer next to the central banking system which has such an enormous quantitative and qualitative control of credit within the community. [More…]

• Some 20 years ago the trading banks of <this community handled 94 per cent of all commercial credit; today the merchant banking system handles more than 50 per cent. [More…]

• To make the symphony orchestra complete we add the challenge of the European Economic Community and its effect on our trade. [More…]

• I believe that they have been divisive in the community. [More…]

• I believe that profitability is a sign of health and a sign of progress in this community. [More…]

• It is the one way in which this community, as an egalitarian community, can grow richer. [More…]

• I do not stand for any section of the community. [More…]

• It is the vital co-operative interest of the people of this community to ensure that this country’s productivity is increased so that we all, including the farmer, will be better off. [More…]

• It has been condemned by most editorial writers in the land - by spokesmen from employer, employee, consumer, rural, pensioner, ex-service and many other community groups. [More…]

• It fails to provide funds for the myriad of community needs. [More…]

• The Budget fails because it does not re-direct this great new wealth of our country to the areas where personal and community needs are greatest. [More…]

• Yet when people become concerned and involved on matters of conscience, the conservatives in our community, whether in government or in the media, cry out in the name of law and order. [More…]

• We have become an interdependent world community as a result of this evolution. [More…]

• This highlights the need for us to give greater consideration to what is taking place within our community. [More…]

• A new financial deal will not just be an answer to Councils’ complaints; it should be a national policy to provide Australians everywhere with acceptable community standards. [More…]

• I believe that social services are not a charity to a less worthy section of the community. [More…]

• Let me make this quick observation to him: I say in all humility that he has no need to feel humble in this place because many people who came from humble beginnings have made worthwhile contributions in this Parliament, and if he keeps in mind the 2 very important qualities to which he referred - understanding and compassion for the people in the community who need them - I am sure that he also will make a worthwhile contribution. [More…]

• There are 2 matters to consider here: Do we as a community pay enough, and is the money taken from those who can best afford to pay it? [More…]

• What we are concerned about is not the tax on those things but looking at the priorities for investment of the moneys that are available in the community. [More…]

• What we are endeavouring to do is to provide assistance for those sections of our community which, in fact, need it most. [More…]

• He comments that the unions which represent mostly the lower income people in the community are compelled, as a result of this pattern, to seek increased wages through the arbitration system. [More…]

• I make this comment with reference to the community generally. [More…]

• These increases, with the supplementary provision made soon after Mr McMahon became Prime Minister, clearly indicate that the Government is paying some regard to the welfare of the older people and the needy in our community. [More…]

• The calls on this service in Australia have increased to the extent where it is virtually impossible for community organisations to raise voluntarily this sort of money. [More…]

• Every conservative thought that was present in the Australian community at the turn of the century was presented to the Senate again tonight. [More…]

• I think it is safe to say that if honourable senators read the history of the Industrial Revolution they will find that the worker never has been accepted as a member of the community of the world. [More…]

• Does this Government attempt in any way to control the other excesses that exist in our community? [More…]

• The working class has given so much to this community. [More…]

• Nice people these- and politicians are remarkably, sensitive when it comes to revealing what they cost the community 1 am not afraid to tell the people what I cost the community. [More…]

• But apart from the role of Parliament, I believe that we need to evolve at least another institution to protect the rights of the individual in the community. [More…]

• I believe that in the long term there is only one way of meeting these great social demands that we have - the proper demands of this community for things such as improved social services, the abolition of poverty as far as we possibly can as a Parliament, the provision of better housing and better education, and so on. [More…]

• These things can better be provided by policies directed to increasing the total wealth of this community. [More…]

• I have consulted people in the trade union sector of the community such as Bill Nowak, Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the - Pastrycooks Union and Henry Pietracci, a senior official of the New South Wales Health and Research Union, the former being of Polish origin and the latter of Italian origin. [More…]

• As far as Senator Greenwood, as AttorneyGeneral, is concerned, this problem may involve only a small sector of the community. [More…]

• Petrol increases in particular are passed through the community. [More…]

• This conference wishes to draw the attention of the community at large to the situation created by the decision. [More…]

• I think that the whole community - capital and labour alike - has to realise this. [More…]

• If the Government can save the non-government schools from closing down by doing this I feel that it would be doing a service to the community by not imposing as great a strain on the State education system as would be imposed if these schools had to close down. [More…]

• I suppose that most of us, because we are in public life, are committed to community projects and committees in our home towns. [More…]

• I believe that the only way that this community can look at life is to recognise all forms of human life as inviolate. [More…]

• When we look at something that is horrible we all do a social ostrich act; we tend, because of the very horror of it and because of a sense of outrage to us and to the community, to put our heads in the sand and feel that if we could only rid ourselves of it by capital punishment it will disappear, like the old lady looking at the hippopotamus. [More…]

• Nobody sympathises more than I with the members of the police force and the gaol custodians of this community because most of them do a first class job. [More…]

• They are parasites on the community.’ [More…]

• But I am bound to say that anybody who has taken an interest, as indeed 1 have over many years, in the delinquent and in the creation in this community of a colony of people living temporarily or semi-permanently in penal servitude would realise that it is no simple problem and that, indeed, the attitudes of mind at the time of committing an offence are seldom subject to any thought of deterrent. [More…]

• There are, of course, today many people who have served their sentences and who, by remissions or by parole, are out in the community, yet recidivism in murder is still very rare. [More…]

• Both were beyond doubt clinically quite inadequate to meet the challenge of living in an ordinary community. [More…]

• One of the tragedies of our community is that so many go back to gaol because they are not equipped to live outside. [More…]

• Indeed, it is an enormous challenge to the community to find what we should do. [More…]

• Of course that is an extraordinarily important social question because the preservation of law and order, the preservation of the rights of people, the insistence on the responsibility and the observance of the rights of others are things - and those alone - which make the conduct of a community possible. [More…]

• Where there is a disturbance in the most violent way by the destruction of human life then there is a tremendous trauma and a tremendous violation of public order and of individual and community rights. [More…]

• 1 am speaking of punishment duly inflicted according to the courts within a properly organised community. [More…]

• I merely express my own horror at the perpetration of this crime against individuals, against the community and particularly against the young. [More…]

• I thought: What should a community do to a person of such a character? [More…]

• The arguments for the death penalty, I believe, have some considerable weight and value in our community. [More…]

• Indeed, capital punishment would act as a most positive deterrent to certain crimes in the community. [More…]

• There must be crimes committed in the community on the spur of the moment which would lead to murder and undoubtedly there would be no consideration of the deterrent effect of capital punishment. [More…]

• We as a Christian society adopt a critical attitude towards unmarried mothers in the community. [More…]

• I suggest that a great portion of our financial resources needs to be spent in that area to assist young people who are disadvantaged in the community because of the circumstances I have outlined. [More…]

• It is necessary to compensate the community for the type of murder that is carried out - in that instance, the slaying of 6 people. [More…]

• I suggest that Thou shalt not kill’ is a commandment to which the community should adhere. [More…]

• Again that is one of the arguments that is put forward, but if in actual fact it is a case of the allocation of resources in the community I think there are sound grounds for us to say in relation to the person who is unable to live in our society, who offers violence to another person, who in actual fact does not hold life sacred, that there is reason for retaining on the books capital punishment so that he may be dealt with in an appropriate manner if it is so adjudged. [More…]

• Perhaps this attitude that you offend only against the laws of Parliament is more prevalent in our community because most criminal matters are expressed as the Queen against X, which indicates that the Queen is the prosecutor. [More…]

• Therefore we should look at the question of whether a person should be punished if he offends against the laws of the community. [More…]

• There are certain persons in the community who are entitled to protection. [More…]

• the doubt that capital punishment may be a deterrent, because I think that those 2 of all groups in the community are entitled to that protection. [More…]

• I know it is a sort of common cult amongst a lot of the community today to downgrade the. [More…]

• Police officers have a very difficult task to perform in the community, which people tend to forget. [More…]

• They perhaps perform some of the most difficult and dirty jobs in the community. [More…]

• Police officers have to be involved in some of the most heart rending jobs in the community, such as informing a woman that her husband has been killed in a motor vehicle accident. [More…]

• Because of the nature of their work and particularly its dangers I believe that they are entitled to the protection of the community. [More…]

• It should be remembered that the laws have been framed to protect the community and not to protect the offender. [More…]

• I do not believe that lawyers, by their training or anything else, are, once they become judges, necessarily more competent to impose a punishment than many other groups in the community. [More…]

• As I have said the Bill is of very grave concern to the whole community, but particularly grave for any of us with the responsibility of making a decision on its terms. [More…]

• be allowed to be at large again or would have accepted that the community was safe as long as he remained alive. [More…]

• Does the Government fully recognise that a high rate of interest is a factor that is conducive to the high cost of manufacturing goods in this country and, in general, has the effect of increasing costs to all sectors of the community? [More…]

• The living standards of the Australian community as a whole have risen, and pension recipients should share in that rise. [More…]

• As every honourable senator knows, there are so many needs on the part of so many segments of our community that the Budget, as I said, makes enormous demands upon’ the Government and the skills of its Ministers and officers. [More…]

• Every honourable senator knows that there is in every State- in this country and in every community a group that feels it has particular needs. [More…]

• The Senate standing committee system, to which I refer particularly, provides the opportunity for involvement of the community in that it provides the opportunity for the community to place matters before the Parliament generally. [More…]

• It enables the community to be heard on a wide range of subjects. [More…]

• I suppose this is one of the facts of life and the community accepts this situation. [More…]

• The gap now is in the area of upgrading services and extending facilities to an even greater number and an even wider range of people within the community. [More…]

• A larger section of our community has a new need which it expects the Government to meet. [More…]

• The attitude of the community to these problems is significant. [More…]

• In an age of some affluence these questions might well be asked: Is the community prepared to pay for the extension of these services? [More…]

• How would the community respond to the imposition of a special social or welfare tax? [More…]

• Lonely they may still be, but the growth of the population and the development of mining and other communities place an extra load on the service which, of course, has to bear the same salary increases as every other section of the community and also the flow-through from certain inflationary spirals that are part of our total economic development. [More…]

• The whole sphere of medical and other operational activities is changing into modern, sophisticated and contemporary styles just as any other section of the community is changing. [More…]

• I hope that there will be a continuing inquiry into this segment of Australian industry, particularly in South Australia, so that this industry may take its place with the other industries in the Australian community, particularly the rural industries, and continue its growth and contribution to the economy. [More…]

• If anyone disputes that, let him get to his feet and say that the trade unions are not an important segment of the community. [More…]

• We have long needed somebody to interpret for us the needs of his people and in turn to take to them the ideas and the aspirations of the rest of the community. [More…]

• This amount is correctly attributable to the fertiliser industry and not to the farming community because the prices charged to the farmer are on a scale equal to imported nitrogenous fertiliser costs. [More…]

• As expressed through the newspapers of Australia we see that the community at large has some idea that the taxpayer is being required to provide some fantastic amount of money as assistance. [More…]

• I think this is a miserable and contemptible attitude from people who have benefitted enormously because people have taken the risk to develop Australia to the stage where there is a measure of prosperity in the general community. [More…]

• Will the Minister ascertain whether existing medical science sees any clear link between the growth of stress and stress diseases and the increasing resort of the community to drug taking? [More…]

• It would be difficult to assess the cost of these illnesses to the community because they are poorly defined and overlap with other physical disorders. [More…]

• Fully realising that this was a matter of great importance to the whole community I have, when questioned over recent months, pointed out that I would report on the matter as soon as it was practicable for me to do so. [More…]

• It 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 statement shows that very little vision has been displayed and that very few steps will be taken to protect the people of Sydney from the new dimension of aircraft noise and pollution which today is exciting a great deal of concern in all sections of the community. [More…]

• It is true that he did not commit the Government to that consideration but I felt entitled to conclude that the Government was not adverse to the principle of loose consultation with a local authority, representing as it does a local community. [More…]

• With all deference to travel agents and kindred groups, there may have to be a time -I instance this as a possible example in the case of New South Wales - where Mr McCusker, the Commissioner for Railways, the airlines people and others will have to agree that for the sake of quiet and a better way of life there should be less noise in the community. [More…]

• Too many people are endeavouring to distribute goods - and make a profit out of that distribution - within the community. [More…]

• In spite of what Senator Webster said, increased and unfair profit margins impose a theft upon the community. [More…]

• But one of the dangers of discounting, of course, is that the quality of goods can be reduced to shoddy; and this is a danger which is ever present in the community. [More…]

• The community is left to bear the burden of progress. [More…]

• The community - and a very resilient one it happens to be - has been able to manage in spite of the efforts of this Government, not because of them. [More…]

• The importance of the Budget, which now has been accepted with resignation by society at large, pales and becomes insignificant to the responsible citizen of the community when he views the disasters which are occurring overseas. [More…]

• I can but express my disappointment that a matter which is regarded by the community as one of very considerable importance, a matter which is regarded by government as being of considerable importance, a matter in respect of which Senate committees have spent a considerable amount of time in gathering together a vast body of opinion and fact evidence and have prepared a report, has not yet really been put into the public arena for debate as a result of any action of the Government. [More…]

• I hope it will continue to receive adequate support from the Commonwealth Government and from the other bodies in industry and elsewhere in the community so that it will continue its work in relation to the question of computers and the reorganisation of the rural sector to provide re-training for people who no longer can be gainfully employed or gainfully engaged in the rural sector. [More…]

• In due course it is proposed to consider the present level of navigation charges, but it can be expected that those charges will be increased and that any increases will be passed on to the community. [More…]

• One should add to that gloomy picture that has been painted by interested and influential elements in the community outside the Australian Labor Party the statement made only yesterday by Mr Blyton, President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, about the latest unemployment figures. [More…]

• What it has done is to register concern among business, commercial and manufacturing interests in the community at this time. [More…]

• During the period I was out of office, from the day before the last Senate election until 1st July this year, I was engaged by the store to act as a public relations officer, as one commissioned to speak to groups within the community and to detail to them the facts concerning the ACTU acquisition of this store. [More…]

• The report of the Australian Mining Industry Council released in March 1971 stated that Australian mining companies had spent $5 1 5m on ancillary transport and town and community facilities compared with $285m on productive mine development and ore handling facilities in remote areas. [More…]

• To have as an integral part of our community life a strong support for the arts will, I believe, involve our human resources in a greater degree of development. [More…]

• The Council for the Arts has placed a great deal of emphasis on professionalism, on training and in seeking to find those areas where government can give support to a creative sector of our community - in a financial way to give the support of the people of Australia to this new venture which is being undertaken to develop and to foster the creative part of our life. [More…]

• In the area of entertainment we would have to say that third rate entertainment is just not good enough for Australia, lt would not be tolerated in any enlightened community. [More…]

• People in the community suggest that, with the Government and bank rates at their present levels, they can obtain these rates of interest - and they can do that. [More…]

• In this Parliament and throughout the Australian community as recently as 6 years ago such interest rates were described as rates of usury. [More…]

• Now, because of Government policy, it is a fact that in our community these rates of interest are paid on gilt-edged securities such as a newly built home. [More…]

• The Budget is calculated to preserve the policy of full employment and the prosperity of the Australian community. [More…]

• I do not want to get into the political arena in replying to the question because I consider that I gave a fair answer recently when I said that the Government’s Budget strategy was to arrest inflationary trends in the community which operate more heavily against the pensioner superannuitant and low income earner than against anybody else. [More…]

• The Government will continue to adopt that approach, as it has done since 1949, and in that way it will retain the confidence of the great mass of the community. [More…]

• I respond in this way because I believe that this is a total community problem. [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…]

• Also one would have hoped that some general consideration would have been given to what is described as ‘prosperity movements’ in the community. [More…]

• At end of motion add: ‘but the Senate is of opinion that - (1) the increases proposed are inadequate; (2) social services payments generally are inadequate to maintain an acceptable standard of living; (3) steps should be taken immediately to eliminate poverty: (4) a national superannuation system should be established and the means test eliminated; (5) pension payments should be a proportion of average weekly earnings adjusted annually; and (6) 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 given an undertaking, of which he should be reminded, that the Government would be prepared to give serious consideration to the establishment of a joint select committee to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• I commend to the Senate the amendment (hat I have moved on behalf of the Opposition and I hope that it will be carried, particularly insofar as it relates to the establishment of a joint select committee to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• Opposition senators, whilst in their hearts believing that the proposals are inadequate, Undoubtedly endorse the Government’s” proposal that additional social service benefits should be granted to a large sector of the Australian community. [More…]

• These days the mark of an advanced society is the level at which it can afford to provide assistance for those in the community who are less fortunate than others. [More…]

• Increases to be granted by this measure will go to more than 1 million people in the community. [More…]

• Despite the comments of my friends opposite, we all should support the proposal that the less fortunate in our community should benefit from the advantages that have come to this wonderful country in past years. [More…]

• It is of credit not only to the Australian Government but also to the Australian people that social service benefits at this level should be granted to those in the community who require them. [More…]

• In a community such as ours, the fact that we are able to allocate such an enormous sum of money for the alleviation of the problems of those who are less fortunate than others is something of which all of us can be proud. [More…]

• No method of overcoming it has been put forward: I think the honourable senator’s silence now indicates that there is no way in which there will be complete satisfaction in the community in relation to social services. [More…]

• I think you would agree with me that over the past couple of years the greatest efforts have been made, at least by the Gorton Government, in an attempt to upgrade the level of social services in the community, and Mr Gorton had great success in that regard. [More…]

• However, it is unlikely that we will ever get a situation in which everyone in the community will be catered for and will be satisfied. [More…]

• It is not good enough that in this community we allow such a situation. [More…]

• But surely some action must be taken when a person is permitted to have such a large amount of assets and still receive from the community, not the Government - it is the whole of the community, not the Government, that gives the benefit - some money each week to keep him going. [More…]

• I think it can be argued that a very wealthy person in this community, in which we are all contributing to the Commonwealth purse to enable benefits to be given to the less fortunate, should not be saying that he needs a pension. [More…]

• way out of this situation, so that thrift would be encouraged in the community. [More…]

• Surely this must be one of the greatest problems we have in our community. [More…]

• It is entirely unacceptable to me that areas of poverty should exist in our community. [More…]

• On that basis 1 would prefer to say that the change in our social services structure - whether it is achieved through the Department of Social Services or other departments - should be aimed at the problems that are generating the maladies in our community, the problems that bring about poverty, the problems that cause people to be in gaols and the type of society we have bred in which the community frowns on the unmarried mother. [More…]

• Whether it is a Catholic institution or an institution such as the Presbyterian boys’ home at Burwood in my home State, such institutions have been doing a wonderful job for the youth of the community. [More…]

• Church institutions depend on the community for the major part of their aid. [More…]

• This is a vast improvement and indicates that something basic has been done to get real homes for State wards so that they can lead a life similar to that which their brothers in the community are living. [More…]

• I think they should instance where funds should be spent in the community. [More…]

• There is a need for government cash to flow to religious and other institutions which are catering for these various areas of poverty in the community - whether it be homeless men and women, former prisoners who need aid, babies who need homes or societies which at present are looking after physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]

• I believe that alcohol is at the base of 90 per cent of social problems in the community today and is the cause of many broken homes. [More…]

• I would not advocate prohibition but I believe that the alcoholic content of some popular beverages should be reduced to help the community. [More…]

• I hope that the Party he represents, when it is in power in any of the States, will take effective action in the local community. [More…]

• The greatest problems are created in our community and our future is dimmed in respect of the cash flow for social service requirements by the very build up of enormous cities within Australia. [More…]

• These types of social problem are being encouraged and it seems that there is not enough interest in the community generally to overcome them. [More…]

• This is a very important part of the social welfare field in the community. [More…]

• I have pleasure in supporting the Bill because I believe that the Government has gone the second mile in assisting those people who are less fortunate in the community. [More…]

• I ask that the comments I have made about financial assistance for a variety of institutions which over the years have shown a great interest in the alleviation of community problems be noted so that in future it may not be necessary to spend such enormous sums for the alleviation of the problems of the less fortunate people in the community. [More…]

• The pertinent observation that was made by Professor Henderson was that if the $100m which would be made available if the Government were to restore the percentage of the gross national product spent on social welfare to the figure of 5.9 per cent that was spent between 1960 and 1964 it would go a long way towards alleviating the problems of the 8 per cent of the community which it was found in that survey to be living below the poverty line. [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…]

• He has variously described the Government, Ministers and the Government’s policies over the years as cruel, vindictive, inconsiderate, downtreading minorities and having no consideration for people who are the poor and needy in the community. [More…]

• I point out with emphasis that this service has found the approval and the appreciation of the Australian community because it has returned this Government year after year at election after election. [More…]

• The measure before us is an indication of the Government’s concern for people and its continuing ever widening range of amenities and services for a section of the community that stands in some need. [More…]

• 1 express again my sense of disappointment that in the current Budget season there has not been provision for additional assistance to those institutions which care for that section of the community we describe as the frail aged. [More…]

• Mention has been made of the figure of 5.3 per cent - the proportion of our gross national product that we spend on social welfare - being lower than figures in other countries but I submit, Mr Deputy President, that no other country involves its citizens in a total programme of voluntary and personal concern for their fellows in the way that the Australian community does. [More…]

• This has meant that the social service programme in Australia is not just a Government handout programme; it is a programme in which the entire community is involved and concerned. [More…]

• All these things are having an influence on the needs and the general and changing concern of the community towards the total social welfare programme. [More…]

• I have some inclination to subscribe to the argument for some form of automatic cost of living adjustments for people receiving a pension so that they may have an opportunity of sharing in any rise in prosperity because, after all, the social service and pensioner community have the least possible margin in which to absorb and take up increases in the cost of living. [More…]

• Senator Webster would be well advised to look at the underprivileged sections of our community on a much broader plane. [More…]

• As I was saying, the group of people to whom I referred suffers most in the community today. [More…]

• The ACTU played a very good role in publicising the needs of people in the community who should be receiving higher pensions and other social service benefits. [More…]

• Countries in the European Economic Community budget 15.2 per cent of their gross national product for social services. [More…]

• Referring to the proportion of the gross national product allocated to social services by Australia compared with the amount allocated by countries in the European Economic Community, a correspondent has written to me in the following terms: [More…]

• Surely the presumption on which any family allowance system is based is that people are important, but it seems that to some sections of the community people matter little. [More…]

• However, that does not console me any for the Budget not providing more for the less fortunate sections of our community. [More…]

• He is educating his children and helping them to go into a profession or calling so that they might serve their community in their own time. [More…]

• Theoretically there are many ways in which a family within the community may be provided with the normal material means necessary to sustain it. [More…]

• That invitation is extended not only to the Leader of the Opposition but to anybody in the community. [More…]

• For administrative and statistical purposes beneficiaries under the plan are divided into 3 separate community groups eligible for assistance, namely, low income families, unemployed, sickness and special beneficiaries, and migrants. [More…]

• The statement reads: 1 present to the Parliament a statement on a matter of great importance to the Post Office and the community it serves. [More…]

• Whereas the existence of primary poverty - the absence of sufficient basic food, clothing and shelter - will within some subjective limits be recognised in the community, the situation is less clear as far as the relative standings of persons in particular circumstances are concerned. [More…]

• It could be said to exist where a perron or a family is unable to maintain a standard of living which is generally accepted as adequate by the community in which he lives. [More…]

• Yet this standard will vary from one community to another and from one part of a community to another. [More…]

• The standard which a community accepts is no more than a subjective judgment of the observer as to the community standards [More…]

• Once one eliminates, as I think we have done in Australia, the pockets of poverty which were typical of an Australia 30 or 40 years ago one has a new situation which can be described, particularly in an affluent community, as a poverty situation. [More…]

• The more affluent the community, the greater will be the rates and payments allowed. [More…]

• a Joint Select Committee should be established to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• Pensioners have always been the forgotten section of the community. [More…]

• Just as in the days of the Scullin Government and because of the economic crisis pensions were reduced, it would appear that the pensioners comprise the only section or the major section of the community which is today required to carry the inflationary trend. [More…]

• Hence he carries the burden of inflation to a greater extent than any other section of the community. [More…]

• It has been suggested that that same Prime Minister was out to eliminate the pockets of poverty in the community. [More…]

• I only hope that governments in the future will be more generous than they have been to the indigent and pensioners of our community. [More…]

• The purpose of the proposed amendment is for the Senate to express an opinion on what we consider to be a very important principle in assessing the rates of pensions to be paid to people in our community. [More…]

• The only bar to acceptance of our proposition is the fact that the Government is still moving within the mental limitations of a practice that has developed over the years by which governments have paid members of a section of the community a rate of pension to enable those people to live reasonably according to a government’s assessment of their requirements. [More…]

• We try to get representatives of the affected sections of the community on to those bodies. [More…]

• I suggest that at the moment the decision is made usually by the members of a parliamentary party, none of whom is a recipient of a pension but all of whom are salaried members of the community paid from the public purse. [More…]

• Ultimately the cost of these bodies must be met from taxpayers’ money because the Government has to foot the bill provided that the cause is in the interests of the whole of the community and provided- [More…]

• All we know is that the method of deciding pensions in the last 15 years has been unsatisfactory and has brought no joy to any section of the community. [More…]

• The thing that mystifies me a little is that when debating the second reading of the Bill we moved that a joint select committee be established to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• If an independent tribunal, however constituted, in its judgment quite honestly arrived at - even if it were, as Senator Willesee said, politically influenced one way or another - decided on an amount which would cost the community in any one year $300m, $400m or $500m is that to say that the Government must accept that decision without question? [More…]

• He is adding to the wealth of the community. [More…]

• The pensioner - and I do not say this in any derogatory fashion - is not adding to the wealth of the community. [More…]

• The pensioner has a claim upon the wealth of the community, lt is always a question of what is an appropriate sum to be paid. [More…]

• I think the House should be reminded that in the flush of victory after World War I the community and the Parliament were prone to look at the question of pension entitlements in a very benevolent way. [More…]

• Is it a part of the modern thinking that we have exceeded our population target and that we should ignore the value of our children to the community? [More…]

• Having had responsibility for many years I am always slow to be critical of the administration of a department because it has been my experience that the average public servant is a civil, courteous and solicitous person, particularly in departments such as the Repatriation Department and the Department of Social Services where they are required to take care of the less fortunate people in our community. [More…]

• I am advised that this is a general community problem. [More…]

• I understand that plans have been approved for a community college in Darwin which is expected to be ready for occupation in 1974. [More…]

• It is with some pleasure that I hear the honourable senator bring to notice the proposal to establish what is I think a unique institution in Australia - a community college in Darwin. [More…]

• But I should like to think that the debate also is a response to the fact that within the community there is a public debate, the content of which has extended considerably in recent times. [More…]

• Community service committees exist. [More…]

• I am not too sure what the community is doing about this problem but it does exist here in 1971 and will exist in 1972. [More…]

• The hungry are far away and consciences, if they should stir, can be stilled by ascribing to some particular symposium or some particular community body which may be attempting lo do something for distressed people. [More…]

• There has been a continual reduction of service for country people and a continual increase in charges, for all types of services, for the community. [More…]

• I forecast that if this sort of non-planning continues for many more months the Government will go out of office, but the great tragedy is that the economy of this country will collapse while the Government is engaged in this sort of non-activity in all sections of the community, not only the Postal Department. [More…]

• Those people in the community who in fact cannot afford a telephone and must limit the number of letters they post, must cut their trunk line calls to a minimum and make fewer local calls than they want to make in order to bear the burden of the increased costs. [More…]

• Brigade, perform a life saving community function both as vital agents in carrying an ever increasing number of road accident victims to hospital and in the transport of urgent domestic medical cases? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for’ Trade and Industry: What current action is being taken by the Government to meet the situation which will arise in relation to Australia’s overseas trade should the United Kingdom enter the European Economic Community? [More…]

• Not very long ago I put down a statement in this Senate on behalf of the Minister for Trade and Industry which alluded to a number of matters concerning the Australia-United Kingdom trade position, particularly the possible entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Equally T am sure that Australia, for its own part, has to make a stronger stand in the Community and I am sure that steps are being taken to that end. [More…]

• If the public servant, or, for that matter, anyone in the community believes that he can maintain his standard of living and not contribute to it by his own personal effort and by giving a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay, which is good old Labor policy, he is not doing justice to himself, his fellow citizens or the community generally. [More…]

• I refer to organisations such as Boys Town which are doing an excellent job in trying to rehabilitate the youth of the community. [More…]

• Anyone who had a telephone when I was a lad was among the rich in the community or was a business executive whose firm or company had paid for the installation and other costs. [More…]

• These are not a profitable activity, but the Department is prepared to charge that reduced rate because it believes that those items are part of the cultural education of the community. [More…]

• In the circumstances which I have been outlining there has been a need to provide the extra revenue which will enable the Post Office to function on a basis where the charges made will enable it to continue its existing services and also to maintain that development which is necessary to ensure that an expanding operation gives community service. [More…]

• The Post Office over the years - I think Senator Willesee certainly conceded this - has been providing a growing range of services and meeting a vaster range of community demands. [More…]

• Of course, in recent times a number of new postal services have been introduced to meet the new and varied needs of the community. [More…]

• Changing community habits place less reliance on small shopping centres with a consequent effect on the patterns of postal business. [More…]

• On the other hand, interest is a cost and is treated as such in fixing charges for Post Office services otherwise the service would - to the extent that interest is not paid - be underpriced in comparison with other community goods and services. [More…]

• I understand that some of the great superannuation funds operating in the community are probably unable because of inflation to meet the demands of social justice and will be unable in the future to provide the same value of pension as they have provided in the past. [More…]

• I believe that the community will have to endeavour to achieve the result that people retiring through illness or age receive as superannuation benefits or retiring allowances amounts sufficient to enable them to live at the standard at which they lived when working. [More…]

• A standard lower than that should not be acceptable in the community and I do not think we have achieved it. [More…]

• Compulsory military service is traditionally a subject of controversy in Australia: in that context the national service scheme has general opposition in certain sections in the community. [More…]

• Reserve of more than 20,000 fully trained men that national service maintains in the community, indeed the number will increase. [More…]

• I had commenced to speak about the situation which arises when some people convicted of murder are a threat to the community even though they are incarcerated for life - they are a threat to their custodians, possibly to the police who are required to come into support their custodians, and to the community if they escape. [More…]

• I put forward the view quite seriously and firmly - that this is not a fanciful proposition - that in this day and age where there appears to be in the community an increase in violence of all kinds and for various purposes we should take note, very serious note, of these aspects of the problem and the people that we and governments have to deal with. [More…]

• If one is honest with oneself one has to face up to the fact that these factors inevitably play a part and certainly play a part in the minds of ordinary members of the community who look to the legislators, the law makers and law enforcers to satisfy some of their innermost feelings on these problems. [More…]

• It may be called rationalisation, but I believe that capital punishment should be retained as a last resort to deal with the type of murderer I have mentioned already in some detail - the man who is not going to be controlled, who is not going to be a meek and mild prisoner for the rest of his life and who may revolt in prison, may escape and may be a threat to the community, to the lives of other people, including those who are required to keep him in custody as best they can. [More…]

• The law is the real protection of the members of this chamber, their families and the community. [More…]

• The fact that the victim was a policeman acting in the execution of his duty may have a sentimental connotation and may invoke the sympathy of those of us who recognise that we as a community give these men a horrible job and pay them inadequate wages to apprehend criminals and to preserve law and order. [More…]

• There are those in our community who want to demean the hard working men who happen to be policemen and who hold that those men are less than the best in the community although they perform one of the finest and most difficult tasks on behalf of the rest of us. [More…]

• If we wish that moment of terror or those moments or hours of extreme terror to act as a deterrent against crime in our community, we must go back to the more primitive age when executions were displayed publicly. [More…]

• I believe that everyone in the community has a right. [More…]

• If the amendment will lead to a clearer understanding of the reasons why we do things in our community I would be prepared to consider supporting it. [More…]

• What kind of effect does it have upon his thinking, upon his life, upon his relations with his fellow citizens in the community and upon his own home. [More…]

• Are we to continue in this day and age with a situation whereby we of the state, we of the government, we of the parliament, we of the community appoint a person to carry out something that we would not do ourselves? [More…]

• I return to my reference to the fact that a higher standard of education, wider knowledge and a deeper understanding of the whole purpose of living and of life gives more people within our community greater powers of discrimination and wiser judgment. [More…]

• I hope the Bill will provide ways and means for further community activity and study on the subject for I think quite firmly that capital punishment should be removed from our statute book. [More…]

• Of course this is an area in which opinion throughout the community has been changing through the years. [More…]

• In 1947 a gallup poll in this country showed that 68 per cent of the community favoured the death sentence for a person convicted of murder, 24 per cent favoured a gaol sentence and 8 per cent were undecided. [More…]

• was the last year in which a gallup poll was taken on this subject in this country, 43 per cent of the community answered that they favoured the death penalty, when asked what should be the penalty for a person convicted of murder, 46 per cent favoured a gaol sentence and 11 per cent were undecided. [More…]

• In those circumstances one can only say that opinion in this community is much more evenly divided than it was before. [More…]

• On the other hand f feel that this is an issue upon which a fairly evenly divided community is no guide or criterion, nor should it be accepted as a criterion, as to what should be the prevailing penalty. [More…]

• This is an area in which, for the sake of society, one would hope to have a view which is widely held and is representative of the community at large. [More…]

• I would remind the Senate also that, notwithstanding the prevalence of the view throughout the community for abolition of the death penalty, recent events have occurred which have caused thinking people to ponder. [More…]

• There is also the type of situation, referred to by the Minister for Works (Senator Wright), the Minister for Health (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) and others, in which there are crimes which the community regards with horror and about which society must sense that its own sanctions and rules demand that they be stamped with society’s abhorrence. [More…]

• We know there is a widespread feeling in the community that if the death penalty is to be invoked it should be invoked sparingly. [More…]

• There is a disquiet in the community about events which have occurred in the United States of America, such as those recently occurring at Attica prison. [More…]

• There is a disquiet in the community at the horrible crimes which occurred in California and for which Charles Manson and his associates were convicted. [More…]

• We must recognise that on this issue there is a risk of polarising opinion in the community where it would be inadvisable to do so. [More…]

• In any advanced community the arts and associated amenities, serious or comic, light or dramatic, must occupy a central place, and should be available to and be encouraged to be appreciated by every citizen. [More…]

• In addition to the questions which the honourable senator raised is a question involving the whole of the Australian community, and that is whether it wants the operations of the Post Office to be conducted with greater efficiency. [More…]

• If so, will he take steps to eliminate it, especially as it would weigh heavily on the chronically ill and the poorer members of our community? [More…]

• They have no special dispensation to create disorder and chaos within their community, whether academic or nonacademic. [More…]

• Does the Minister know of any member of the Commonwealth Police Force, or for that matter any of the State police forces, who is not a good Australian citizen and who does not hold the distinction in the community of giving protection against those who wish to breach laws made by this and other parliaments? [More…]

• Will the Minister convey to the Commonwealth Police Force the information that there are many members of this Senate and, indeed, of the Australian community who heartily endorse their actions? [More…]

• In this community those who pay wages enable our economy to exist. [More…]

• Then, of course, this phosophy was extended by the States to general trading as a desperate means of obtaining some form of income which would grow with the general growth of turnover within the community. [More…]

• It was forced upon the community by circumstances of war. [More…]

• Those honourable senators should realise that they would be imposing upon those people who had the initiative to start businesses in the community - manufacturing, retail and others - a situation they would not attempt to impose on people simply working for a salary, whether they be professional men or employees in industry. [More…]

• Certainly nobody enjoys the incidence of tax; it is disliked by all sections of the community. [More…]

• Senator Little indicated that payroll tax has been one of the forms of taxation considered unacceptable in the community. [More…]

• We are a comparatively small community in a vast country, and in our time some nations have assumed that might is right. [More…]

• One must realise that the community is interested in obtaining government administration at the lowest possible cost and as the Commonwealth is vacating a field of activity it should be able to effect a reduction in employment. [More…]

• I suggest that neither the Commonwealth nor the States have indicated to the community that in handling taxation on its behalf they are developing a truly economic situation. [More…]

• This means that ratepayers’ money has been filched by the Commonwealth and spent in areas under Commonwealth control, thus reducing the effectiveness of local government authorities and semigovernment bodies to provide the many facilities which are so desirable in our community. [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…]

• Despite the statement of the Minister, I do not think it could be said that this aid represents a fulfilment of our obligations to the international community. [More…]

• To call it a fulfilment of our obligations to the international community is, I suggest, a farce. [More…]

• It would have been of benefit to the world community if we had been prepared to make some sacrifice. [More…]

• A community which is in a free society, a democracy, running through the parliamentary system, has some very basic principles which it must follow. [More…]

• Any government - Labor or Liberal- must have as its first duty the defence of the community. [More…]

• I believe that the community at large let the volunteers down because the community at large did not have the foresight to vote for conscription. [More…]

• Let me say that something which, I feel sure, is motivating these people, just as it is everyone else in the Australian community who cares, is the great tragedy that faces the people who are starving. [More…]

• Anything that can be done to keep costs down and to make certain that the buyers of the products get delivery would, I think, be very important to the whole community. [More…]

• Universities are not regarded in this community as havens for lawless conduct. [More…]

• But while hoping that there is as wide a recognition as possible of that position, I think we have all recognised that traditionally universities have been places in which there has been a freedom of inquiry and investigation and a breadth of opinion held which is in the interests of a developing community. [More…]

• It would be a great misfortune if, because there was a resistance to authority, those freedoms of universities were sought to be challenged by the mass of the community who felt that students were going too far. [More…]

• I say emphatically that to hold that view is the very negation of the parliamentary system and the judicial system and that a parliamentarian espousing that view is recreant to the oath he takes as a parliamentarian and, indeed, has no place inside a parliament because the making of the law in a sovereign parliament depends entirely on the fact that when it is made the people who make it - the lawmakers - have a binding responsibility to encourage and to lead the rest of the community to uphold that law. [More…]

• No minority has a right to assume more power for itself than others in the community have. [More…]

• There exists within the community a campaign to denigrate the police and law enforcement officers. [More…]

• By and large, the law enforcement officers in this community are fine people who need to be assisted and encouraged in the discharge of their duties. [More…]

• It has spread disquiet in every sector of the community. [More…]

• It has the business sector of the community in a cold panic because it is not providing a lead. [More…]

• This Government believes in conscription of only one section of the community. [More…]

• Bill, which in the eyes of the community today is a most important Bill, we find a complete division within the ranks of the Labor Party. [More…]

• He referred to a section of the Australian community which happens to be banded together under the name of the Australian Labor Party - although Mr Bowen forbore to give its name - which, with the support of highly influential Communist led unions constituted in Australia a body of opinion which that audience might not wish to subserve. [More…]

• the probable consequences to Australia to the United Kingdom’s entry into the European Economic Community; and [More…]

• He is the author of some well known 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 VicePresidency of the Marriage Guidance Council in New South Wales from 1963 to 1 968, membership of the New South Wales Medical Board from 1966 until his appointment to the Bench, and membership of the Asthma Foundation. [More…]

• I am claiming that while the Queensland Government is ignoring homes for the aged, though professing to be a government which represents the ordinary person in the community, it has engaged in a bewildering number of costly and in many instances unnecessary expenditures. [More…]

• He has dealt with the situation of people who occupy positions ia the Australian Labor Party and he has addressed himself to the position of persons in the community who may or do face criminal charges. [More…]

• Politics have made a militant person out of a member of a small farming community who follows Christian principles and whose family had Liberal Party philosophies. [More…]

• The honourable senator now suggests that this increase in the Government’s contribution should be used to stimulate the general community to make additional contributions also. [More…]

• Notwithstanding Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Committee surveys that arc now under way on certain aspects of migrant community integration, does the Minister contemplate a crash programme involving a corps of social workers to enter the area pinpointed by the Melbourne Children’s Hospital’s recent report and apparently defined as a domestic disaster area? [More…]

• I am satisfied that the overall effect of the establishment of the Facility and the absorption of the associated population into the community has in no way, adversely affected the environment at Alice Springs. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a statement by the Associated Chambers of Commerce which said that transport systems in Australia’s major cities will soon reach strangulation point and essential community services will be prohibitive? [More…]

• On the other hand it has to be remembered that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board has a very important responsibility to the community lo ensure the acceptability of television programmes. [More…]

• Surely primary industry is so important to Australia that a higher degree of consideration should be given to matters affecting adversely that section of the community. [More…]

• But the Federal Government has an obligation to the Australian community to make a definite attempt - let me say a greater attempt than has been made in the past 3 or 4 years - to confine the rate of inflation in Australia. [More…]

• The problem of disposal of the crop, the problems involved in marketing at the present time, the grave problems that face producers of the many varieties of apples and pears and the fact that the traditional base of their overseas market apparently is being eroded by the proposition that Britain will enter the European Economic Community, are pointed out very dramatically in this excellent report. [More…]

• The Senate should bear in mind that within a few years there is a likelihood, should Britain join the European Economic Community, that this organisation will create the largest trading bloc in the world. [More…]

• I note that the report of the Board suggests that production in the northern hemisphere, particularly in haly and France, is increasing and, because of the growing protectionist attitude among European Economic Community members, grave difficulties face the Australian industry. [More…]

• Today there have developed in the industry, firstly, freight demands that are very critical; secondly, internal production costs have dwarfed the economy of this primary industry in comparison with the economies of other industries of Australia so as to reduce the apple and pear producer to a level of economy that is not respectable from the point of view of parliamentary performance in relation to other strata of our people; thirdly, the industry is beset with unsurpassed marketing difficulties, accentuated by the probable advent of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• 1 wonder whether it is the viewpoint of members of the community. [More…]

• I wonder whether it is the viewpoint of those who, according to gallup polls, are relied upon as constituting that percentage of the community who favour the abolition of the death penalty. [More…]

• I venture the opinion that the report will not be debated in this session although it contains very important recommendations to combat the terrible operations of drug trafficking within the community. [More…]

• I am talking about building up our own self-reliant community with our own independent trade policies, with our own policies of peace in South East Asia and the whole world. [More…]

• The community there is largely not literate. [More…]

• In September 1950 a scheme was introduced by the Government which provided certain life-saving and diseasepreventing 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- There have of course been substantial increases in incomes since I960 when the existing patient contribution was first set. [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…]

• I admit, and I think that all honourable senators would admit, that this is a community problem which has to be solved by community action because plastic packaging is increasingly being used and the same problems as arose with beer cans on country roadsides are starting to arise in relation to plastic products. [More…]

• In the rural community there appears to be widespread uncertainty as to whether those rural producers who qualify for assistance under the terms of the rural reconstruction scheme will continue to have their financial affairs directed through their usual bank or stock firm, or whether there will be a direct Government to producer provision of funds. [More…]

• It is true that a large part of the cost to the Australian community, particularly the primary industries, flows out of transport costs. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that the imposition upon such a person of an additional charge of the type intended by this legislation could in many circumstances, because of the limited financial means of that person or that person’s family, delay him or her from seeking the necessary attention and could keep him or her off work longer than is necessary, thus depriving the community for a much longer period than is in fact necessary of the value of that person’s productivity. [More…]

• That, In short, is the philosophical ground on which the Opposition asserts the doctrine that all members of the community, irrespective of their position or income, should be entitled to all possible assistance available to overcome their illness and get them restored to good health again. [More…]

• It is true that there are some hypochondriacs in any community, but the overwhelming majority of Australians go to a chemist only when it is absolutely necessary in the opinion of the doctor for that person to have a prescription. [More…]

• It is all very well for the Government to pass this excessive charge on to the community at large. [More…]

• That overprescribing by medical practitioners is costing the Australian community, I would suggest, millions of dollars. [More…]

• Certainly if that Bill of 16th September had been before this chamber and not been withdrawn, as it was in another place, the Opposition would have been strongly opposing the measure because, on philosophical grounds, the Labor movement believes that those who are sick are those who are most in need and therefore it is the general responsibility of the whole community, through the government, to assist them to meet the financial cost of the medicines prescribed for them by medical practitioners to get them restored to good health and working once again. [More…]

• The provisions of that Bill have been incorporated in the present Bill, which contains the Government’s proposals for an increase in nursing home benefits, and it is only because it appears that certain benefits will flow to an important section of the community - namely, patients in nursing homes - that the Opposition is not opposing the second reading of the Bill now before us. [More…]

• I say to the Government here and now that it must do something very rapidly to overcome the situation in which thousands of people in the Australian community who are eligible for assistance under this scheme have not been made aware, because of lack of communication by the Government, of the ramifications of the scheme. [More…]

• The Labor movement wants to place it on record that it does not mind any doctor receiving a proper fee for the very high services that he performs for the community, having regard to the long hours he works and the value of his work to the community. [More…]

• The Government put forward the proposal that, because it is now concerned at the continuing sharp increases in the cost of the pharmaceutical scheme, it is not unreasonable that the community at large should bear the cost of increased patient contribution. [More…]

• But according to the Minister’s figures this added burden will cost the community$24.6m in a full year and $15. [More…]

• We all know that they complain about the costs of production which inevitably are passed on to the Australian community. [More…]

• The Labor Party says that all these matters have to be looked at and should have been looked at before the Government decided to embark upon this process of imposing an additional burden of 50 per cent for every prescription on the Australian community. [More…]

• Nursing homes within our community fill an essential need. [More…]

• So it is that we have a basic community necessity for nursing homes. [More…]

• I am hopeful that that sector of the community will avail itself of this very beneficial part of the Act which provides that within the first 2 months of their arrival they are covered for medical services. [More…]

• We think perhaps of the increasing development through local government authorities of social welfare officers who are in touch with persons living in a community and who, for various other reasons, are aware of many needs of families throughout the community. [More…]

• These benefits have a priority with the Government in providing a service to the community, but they need to be looked at and balanced against the other aims of government. [More…]

• I want to direct my mind and my remarks mainly to the position of private, public and charitable nursing homes within the Australian community. [More…]

• We as a Parliament, collectively, have a responsibility to ensure that the aged people in our community receive a far better deal than they are receiving at the moment. [More…]

• I propose to read from that article at length because of the tragedy that runs right through it and the need to bring home to every member of this Parliament the urgency of the need to assist the aged persons within our community. [More…]

• I ask him to make a very close examination of the figures that I have given about the needs of the community. [More…]

• Members who joined during that period are on a par with the rest of the Australian community so far as paying a prescription charge to friendly society dispensaries is concerned. [More…]

• In the economic sense the recipients under the scheme would be influenced by the economy and by the very nature of the earnings of the community. [More…]

• As I was saying, the Labor movement believes that if a person is sick, no matter who he may be or what his income may be, he is entitled to all the treatment he can receive to restore him to good health and to get him back to work earlier so that the Australian community can reap the value of his productivity. [More…]

• Be that as it may, let me say this in relation to the argument that Senator Cavanagh has been putting: Because this increase will impose a very heavy burden on a great number of wage and salary earners, having regard to the half empty bottles in their medicine chests it could well be that the health of a large section of the community will suffer because the worker on a limited income and with family responsibilities, rather than seeing a doctor after having a recurrence of an illness that he had 2 years ago, might well decide to use the contents of that half empty bottle. [More…]

• Senator Webster also spoke of the tariff position if the United Kingdom were to enter the European Economic Community and how we would go from a position where we have a slight preference to a position where the preference is against us. [More…]

• Further, I ask the Minister: As China is now to become a member of the community of nations, will the Government as a member of that community ensure that Australiansited bases are not used to spy on another friendly member country? [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 one 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.I commend the Bill to honourable senators. [More…]

• Will the Government give an assurance that the executive producer and journalists employed on the programme This Day Tonight’ will be allowed to remain unbridled and to carry out their journalistic work of producing and presenting programmes of an adequate and comprehensive nature serving the best interests of the Australian community, and that no political pressure of any kind will be tolerated in any circumstances on the ABC’s current affairs programmes? [More…]

• The present Attorney-General has been in office long enough to know what other people in the community know, that is. [More…]

• Is it said that in this community people, when they pay their premiums in good faith, are not entitled to have the elementary right of laws and administration which see te it that the people are protected? [More…]

• The position has been made plain throughout the community by credible authorities that more firms are heading for ruin. [More…]

• In this era of rising levels of insurance premiums and the extension of the motor car ownership market, in the less affluent sections of the community - particularly the younger section - great disability is experienced by those who, with some difficulty, purchase a car and then are required to insure it at this increasing level of premium cost. [More…]

• Those are the people who are most likely to be attracted by an insurance company which offers adequate protection and holds out the offer of adequate security for that protection at a lower premium rate than applies generally throughout the insurance community. [More…]

• In the community there must be hundreds, perhaps thousands of these people - particularly younger people - who are not adequately insured because of these circumstances. [More…]

• The implications of a lack of insurance cover are very serious to the individual and quite serious to the community. [More…]

• If the development of Australia continues as widely and as rapidly as it has in the last 10 years and the general opulence of the community continues, as I believe it will, we are going to experience added problems in respect to motor vehicle insurance. [More…]

• Both sides of the Parliament and all elements in the community should give serious thought to not being destructively critical and petty party political about this matter but to looking at it from a national outlook. [More…]

• The fact that the taxpayers of Australia are prepared to pay this subsidy is an indication of the gratitude that the community feels towards the rural industries which have been the mainstay of the economic situation in Australia over a great number of years. [More…]

• Despite the fact that over the years the workers of Australia have grizzled about the cockies, they have appreciated the standard of living that the exports of the rural industries have been able to provide for the Australian community. [More…]

• The modification to the original arrangements will enable the benefits and advantages of area management to be substantially achieved whilst ensuring that community needs are met. [More…]

• Whilst it is only a short Bill, I believe it is a measure that is of particular importance to not only the farming community and the industrial section of the meat industry but also the whole of the Australian community and the national economy. [More…]

• In fact it is a levy which is applied purely at the point of slaughter of cattle and the farming community is not involved in any cost at all. [More…]

• The statement explained nothing to the people of Australia about what the Government has in mind about taking all forms of Australian culture - music, literature, theatre and drama - to the great bulk of the Australian community and really developing a spirit of Australianism throughout the community by the extension of our forms of cultural and artistic expression. [More…]

• Had the recommendations of that committee been implemented Australia would now be well along the road towards achieving an effective creative and performing arts policy for all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry: Can the Senate be assured that the Government and those government agencies involved in Australia’s export trade are alert to the problems which may confront certain Australian primary industries upon the entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community? [More…]

• Industry about this whole matter and the opportunities that exist in the European Economic Community for further export of Austraiian products. [More…]

• I understand that plans have been approved for a community college in Darwin which is expected to be ready for occupation in 1974. [More…]

• The Darwin Adult Education Centre, which is to be absorbed by the Community College, provides some tutorial assistance for students enrolled in such courses and it arranges periodic weekend schools. [More…]

• Detailed planning of the Community College’s education programme will not be competed until the senior members of its academic staff have been appointed during 1972. [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 do not know whether I would agree with the honourable senator that there is discontent throughout the rural community because of the matter to which he refers. [More…]

• This further adjustment to its services was a reflection of its desire to provide the community with the service it required. [More…]

• In addition, I have instructed my Department to examine more effective means of assisting eligible persons to use the help available, 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…]

• On what grounds are Ministerial allocations of funds made from community and cultural grants, and what method of applicationis required to achieve a Ministerial allocation. [More…]

• and (2) Applications for grants from community and cultural organisations are treated on their merits, having regard to the purpose for which each grant is sought and the benefit which is likely to accrue to the community from the organisation’s activities. [More…]

• its activities are of benefit to a significant section of the community or it is providing a service which would otherwise have to be provided by the Government; [More…]

• Continuation of a grant is made only if the need for assistance is established each year and provided the organisation continues to perform a worthwhile community activity. [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that the control of broadcasting in the Territory should pass to a local statutory authority which is representative of all sections of the community and free from direct control by the government of the day? [More…]

• The implications for Australian defence and security of Britain’s decision to enter the European Economic Community and the decision of the United Nations to seat the People’s Republic of China in the General Assembly of the United Nations and on the Security Council in place of the Republic of China and to expel the Republic of China from the world body. [More…]

• The 2 decisions to which I refer are, firstly, the decision of the British Parliament, through the House of Lords and the House of Commons, by an overwhelming majority to enter the European Economic Community and, secondly, the decision of the United Nations General Assembly to admit the People’s Republic of China as a member nation of the United Nations, to seat it on the Security Council and to expel the Republic of China - that is, Taiwanese China - from the world body. [More…]

• The European Economic Community must be regarded not as a purely trade and customs union. [More…]

• We must recognise that once Britain embeds itself in that Community it must necessarily pursue political objectives quite diverse from ours and if the occasion should arise it must take attitudes different from ours, have alliances perhaps different from ours and put emphases on policy different from ours. [More…]

• We may be a smaller party in the community. [More…]

• Another threat developing in this area is connected with the admission of Mainland China to the United Nations and with Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I refer to the entry of Great Britain into the European Economic Community and to the decision of the United Nations to admit the People’s Republic of China and to allow it a seat in the Security Council. [More…]

• I would like to deal quickly with the vote that was taken to decide whether the United Kingdom would join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say that Australia did not seek to influence the British Government on whether it should or should not join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• By a vote in the House of Commons in recent days Britain has taken the step to join the Community. [More…]

• With that background I want to come to the context of the matter of urgency motion, which says that the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community and the vote taken in the United Nations on Communist China’s admission to that body are linked to the defence of Australia. [More…]

• They will work, I am sure, from within the Community - that is the whole Community - to ensure that it becomes more outward looking. [More…]

• The second point is that Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community will by no means spell the end of her political, commercial, investment and defence interests in the rest of the world. [More…]

• It is significant that the Arrangements came into effect after the date on which the United Kingdom Government decided by resolution of the Mother of Parliaments after the drama of a vote to go into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In short, while Britain has contracted somewhat her security commitments and responsibilities in South East Asia - I do not argue that she has contracted them - this has not been done because of the decision to join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The first concerns Britain’s decision to enter the European Economic Community and the second concerns the implications of the decision of the United Nations to seat the People’s Republic of China in the General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations. [More…]

• The membership of the PRC in the United Nations will remove its isolation - this is the critical thing - from the world community and will bring it into contacts with the whole community of nations. [More…]

• The entry of Mainland China into the United Nations will remove it from its isolated position and will bring it into much closer contact with the community of nations, particularly those which arc members of the United Nations. [More…]

• It could well be that things are changing more quickly in our part of the world than elsewhere, perhaps with the exception of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We had the opportunity to talk to parliamentarians from the United Kingdom and from other nations that are members of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I obtained the clear impression while there that although the United Kingdom desired to enter the Community it was not .coins to enter a closed shop, as it were, but that it was going to make a real contribution to the defence of Europe. [More…]

• The clear view was expressed that Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community would strengthen the defence of Europe but never at any stage was it suggested in the United Kingdom - rather it was to the contrary - by those for and against Britain’s entry that Britain’s ties with the Commonwealth ultimately would be given up; that its entry would mean separation from those ties of blood and brotherhood with Commonwealth countries such as Australia and New Zealand. [More…]

• So I say that I cannot accept the view that there will be a threat to our defence as a consequence of Britain’s entry to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• ; for Australian defence and security of Britain’s decision to enter the European Economic Community- [More…]

• On the one hand there is the conspiracy of Great Britain and the European Economic Community to join together, and on the other hand there is the conspiracy of the United Nations to admit the People’s Republic of China and to expel the Government of the Republic of China which is based in Taipeh. [More…]

• I do not think that one could believe seriously that there is some conspiracy in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I do not think anybody could seriously believe that Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community will make any difference whatsoever to Australia’s security. [More…]

• I cannot see that it has been either hastened or slowed by Britain’s proposed admission to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• For a great many years there has been discussion in Britain about joining bodies such as the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Particularly I remember debates inside the British Labour Party; but debates were taking place inside the British Conservative Party and elsewhere as to whether at that stage Britain should join the European Defence Community. [More…]

• In fact, had Britain joined that community there would have been more serious implications - if indeed there are any serious implications - for Australia’s security. [More…]

• In some respects that is a very wise decision although one may well criticise the composition and constitution of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Every one of those countries is an important member of the Asian community. [More…]

• I do not believe that Senator Byrne put forward the proposition that the European Economic Community was some form of conspiracy but rather he tried to argue, on a reasoned and logical basis, the import to Australia of the entry of the United Kingdom to the EEC. [More…]

• Having said that, 1 wish to concentrate on the great significance of the historic and momentous decision of the House of Commons to take the United Kingdom :i-to the European Economic Community, lt was a decision which was momentous not only to the United Kingdom but also, I suggest, to the world. [More…]

• Senator Byrne was correct in reminding us that the European Economic Community is not just a customs union. [More…]

• She is o longer able to exercise a major influence in the world, but there will be with the United Kingdom, Denmark and other countries as part of Europe a community of 255 million people - a population far greater than that of the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Japan. [More…]

• 1 believe that most European countries wanted the United Kingdom as a member of the Community, not for any economic reason but because of the political influence that she would wield - a political influence that would introduce into the Community outward looking influences with regard to the world situation. [More…]

• I believe that we and others will suffer short term disadvantages but that in the long run - this is what we must interest ourselves in - the development of the European Economic Community into a community of 10 nations will exercise a balance of power influence throughout the world. [More…]

• I believe that it will be a counter to the other super states and that a community with the great experience of Europe cannot be other than a beneficial influence on world affairs. [More…]

• Economic Community, the effect of that decision upon us and its effect upon the world. [More…]

• The matter of urgency refers to the implications for Australian defence and security of Britain’s decision to enter the European Economic Community and the decision of the United Nations to seat the People’s Republic of China in the General Assembly of the United Nations and on the Security Council in place of the Republic of China and to expel the Republic of China from the world body. [More…]

• He gave very little time to the crisis which he alleges has arisen because of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The other event referred to by the mover of the motion was the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• That part of the matter of urgency dealing with Taiwan is tied up with another part dealing with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Explicit in the definition of the principal part of the matter of urgency is the British decision to enter the European Economic Community, the decision of the United Nations to allow the People’s Republic of China to take its place in the General Assembly and in the Security Council and the expulsion of the Republic of China from the United Nations. [More…]

• Equally, Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community will not spell the end of its political, commercial, investment and defence interests in Australia and countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. [More…]

• The British decision to participate in this arrangement was taken after the decision to join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Republic of China continues to be a respected and valued member of the international community and the ties between us remain unaffected by the action of the United Nations. [More…]

• First of ali, one point must be borne in mind in regard to the European Economic Community: Australia, by itself, is a country of very considerable economic strength. [More…]

• We are in a financial position to withstand some of the problems of adjustment that the United Kingdom’s entry into the European Economic Community, without doubt, will force upon many peoples. [More…]

• Let us look at the European Economic Community situation, because it is quite interesting. [More…]

• In the last year on record the European Economic Community was a bigger trading partner of this country than was the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Our exports to the European Economic Community were greater than those to the United Kingdom. [More…]

• So we have, within that community, our foothold, our lodgment and our opportunity. [More…]

• When we talk about Britain’s entry into the Community, we also talk about the problems that will be experienced by some Australian primary industries. [More…]

• There is no doubt that they will, and that there will be problems within the Community itself. [More…]

• I have in mind the North American continent, the Soviet Union and its satellites, and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We have opportunities for change and growth with the North American continent, Japan and the European Economic Community so we are not without ability to diversify and change. [More…]

• Who would attempt to deny that Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community will make an enormous difference in the Pacific area, a difference that will grow with the years if history is to repeat itself as it has the happy knack of doing? [More…]

• To date it is only an economic experiment and it is nol known for how long the European Economic Community will endure. [More…]

• Senator Sim dealt with the political aspect of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Because Britain is on the periphery of the circle, they claim that the trend will be to centralise in the middle of the Community, probably in the Ruhr or somewhere else. [More…]

• If the United States sinks more and more into isolationism and withdraws its forces or part of them from or substantially reduces them in Europe, it does seem reasonable to think that this action might speed up the further federation of the countries that comprise the European Economic Community into a real, virile defence unit as a counterpoise to the influence further east of the Soviet Union. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that the political influence of the United Kingdom amongst the members of the European Economic Community will be such that the EEC can be built into a force in the world that will be a counterpoise to the forces of the two great communist blocs which I and a good many others believe threaten the security of the world. [More…]

• the United Kingdom - readjusted its trade with Australia, in the Iona term Australia could profit bv the entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I suggest it is a very loose proposal because it refers to the implications for Australian defence and security of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community and also raises the subject of the entry of the People’s Republic of China into the United Nations. [More…]

• I accept that Britain’s entry to the European Economic Community clearly will make a complete change in the idea of the Commonwealth of Nations. [More…]

• lt seems to me that whether we like it or not Britain will go into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It seeks to examine the implications to the defence and security of Australia of 2 epoch making events - the potential entry of Britain into the European Economic Community and the entry of Mainland China into the United Nations. [More…]

• I want to put my view on the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Ever since the Treaty of Rome I have believed that that Treaty is potentially the greatest and most exciting adventure in long term and imaginative peace making over a region or over a community of nations upon which this world has ever embarked. [More…]

• I believe that the fact that we have called it the Common Market, the fact that we have called it the European Economic Community, the fact that we have talked of customs unions has obscured the truth. [More…]

• Some comment was made today about the fact that although Britain is entering the European Economic Community it will still have forces in Asia. [More…]

• For that reason I was pleased to listen to the contribution by Senator Carrick who welcomed these 2 great events - the entry of Great Britain into the European Economic Community and the entry of the People’s Republic of China into the United Nations - because he indicated that here was represented the greatest hope for peace. [More…]

• These influences include increasing costs to the community. [More…]

• Wool growers have seen their incomes disappear while the rest of the community is prospering and getting increased returns. [More…]

• A similar principle has applied to the Tariff Board where payments are made to economic members of the community, people who can show some chance of standing up economically to the price level determined. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Because of the public involvement in this form of international aid and because of the fine community work rendered by Apex and other service groups, will he inquire whether any steps can be taken to facilitate the distribution of such money and other assistance so that those in need do receive this assistance? [More…]

• Tn addressing a question to the Minister for Health I ask him to recall that he supported the suggestion that there was a danger to the health of the community in mercury poisoning. [More…]

• Will his Department carry out a survey to ascertain how much mercury is imported, who uses mercury in industrial processes and whether any of the mercury which is used escapes to the environment and so enters the food chains in a manner which leads to a danger to the health of the community as a whole? [More…]

• How can these conflicting interests assist the rural community? [More…]

• The upsurge of costs that is taking place in this community is lessening the chances of the continuance of employment and of new employment in industry. [More…]

• What it really amounts to is something like this: The problem must be considered in the light of its total impact on community resources. [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 Gninea, but will also develop the bonds of personal friendships between Papuans and New Guineans and Australians. [More…]

• Honourable senators who travel in the outer metropolitan districts are well aware of the part played by the proceeds of sales by skin depots being injected back into the community they serve. [More…]

• It is rather ironical that such a complicated Bill will have to be studied and comprehended by the ordinary farmer in the community. [More…]

• This legislation is of the utmost importance to everyone in the Australian community. [More…]

• The Company has a proposal to develop a community living area on the property which will provide married accommodation for employees and suitable accommodation and facilities for other people who reside on the property. [More…]

• But the Government is careful to ensure that despite the challenging opportunity for worthwhile legislation opened up by the judgment, the legislation will remain without teeth and will be incapable of protecting the community. [More…]

• Perhaps we can now hope that when the strengthened Act is introduced, it will be along the lines of the Preservation Act, making the various injurious restrictive practices unlawful, perhaps with the exception that only the Trade Practices Commissioner could give approval for certain practices where their social and economic value to the whole community can be demonstrated without doubt. [More…]

• It would indicate that a coordinated economic system would operate much more effectively in the community interest. [More…]

• It is abysmally clear that the Government does not intend to give this country the legislation we need to meet one of our great national problems - business practices which adversely affect everybody in the community. [More…]

• The High Court has cleared the way and the Government can now elect to act in accordance with its expressed principle of free competition, or it can stand by as in the past and allow our community to suffer the unhindered forces of commercial iniquity. [More…]

• Actually, unless the administrative structure is strengthened so that the provisions of the Act will be able to flow through and the adequacy of its operation in the community can be assessed over a reasonably short period, it is improbable that the Government will have before it the information necessary to enable it to make an assessment on which the necessity for strengthening or widening the operation of the legislation can be determined. [More…]

• Because of the sensitivity of the legislation and because of the challenge it poses to certain sections of the community, it must be given immunity from successful challenge, so far as it is humanly possible to do so and so far as drafting ingenuity can provide. [More…]

• They may regard this not as a matter of exploitation of the community but as an achievement owed to the shareholders of corporations or to those who own the operating interests. [More…]

• Sometimes practices can be developed within the law which, while of advantage to those people, can in the ultimate have a very adverse effect and influence on the whole life of the community. [More…]

• We must understand that this type of legislation is now inbuilt into the disciplined economy which we have come to accept and which all sections of the community now project as being the type of economy desirable. [More…]

• We freely concede that it is a complex task to produce before Parliament a Bill which would meet what this Restrictive Trade Practices Bill is allegedly claimed to meet - the existence of practices in the business community which are detrimental to the building of competition and which, by common consent, have a very adverse effect on prices. [More…]

• I think it would be agreed among them that the decision of the High Court was expected by lawyers throughout the community who had had anything to do with constitutional problems over the years. [More…]

• The Government, having been furnished with the results of my efforts in this connection, has concluded, and I think few, if any, will deny, that there are practices current in the community which by reason of their restrictive nature are harmful to the public interest - that interest being in the maintenance of free enterprise under which citizens are at liberty to participate in the production and distribution of the nation’s wealth, thus ensuring competitive conditions which tend to initiative, resourcefulness, productive efficiency, high output and fair and reasonable prices to the consumer. [More…]

• It ought to be recognised that this register is a secret register, and the secrecy provisions have been one of the factors which have induced the business community to place its trust in the Commissioner and to cooperate in a way which has facilitated much of his work. [More…]

• Equally there are other practices which should be regarded as being able to meet criteria which suggest that on balance they are more beneficial to the community if they are allowed to remain. [More…]

• I feel, therefore, that we should tread cautiously before we reach a sweeping conclusion that all practices should be proscribed outright, because there are cases and situations in which there are benefits to those engaged in the industry or in the particular business which is involved and situations in whichthey can show some benefit flowing to the community. [More…]

• I think it should be mentioned also - this bears in part on what Senator James McClelland said - that we have in the community trading practices which are engaged in by businesses which, in various ways, would appear to run counter to the purposes of the trade practices legislation. [More…]

• The pattern of the trade practices legislation in the Bill before the Senate is not to affect those activities which can have as detrimental an effect upon prices in the community as can the trading practices of certain business. [More…]

• I am leaving aside the shipping matters altogether; 1 am dealing with the broad spread of restrictive trade practices throughout the community. [More…]

• Would it not be wise to have the Australian Industries Preservation Act as some protection to the community against the practices which are covered in it? [More…]

• But another point of some great principle in the community has arisen from his amendment. [More…]

• If that doctrine is to apply in the community is it not detracting from the position in which the Federal judges should be? [More…]

• lt is not unknown in this community for members of the judiciary to hold shares in great public companies. [More…]

• I would have thought that what we want to promote in the community is the ability of persons to compete - the ability of a person to go to the supplier and to ask that supplier, to contract with that supplier, to enter into negotiations with him to get goods a little more cheaply because he is prepared to go to the trouble to do things which his competitors are not able to do. [More…]

• It would prevent people from being able to make deals by their own initiative which will enable the community to get the benefit of that type of competition. [More…]

• They have been a form of inducement to enable the business community to provide him fairly readily with the particulars that he has wanted. [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that in contrast to the positive proposals of the Australian Labor movement his government, despite 22 years in office, has not yet developed a comprehensive health scheme which embraces the dental health of all members of the Australian community, particularly the younger generation? [More…]

• We have the advent of the European Economic Community, the full consequences of which may not be known or apparent to Australia, but obviously that also will affect the flow of capital with the emergence of the new European economic unit and again the movement of capital across the world. [More…]

• The accumulation of Australian savings and the amount of over seas investment in this country, about which I am talking, provides the total amount of resources available to Australians, to governments, to the community, to semi-governmental authorities and to private industry for the development of Australia. [More…]

• The Australian Government has taken a number of steps to try to make it possible, through time, for the Australian community, when it is satisfied that it is prepared to do so, to have a go itself to a greater extent. [More…]

• The governing influence is whether the Australian people demonstrate through time their own willingness to continue a high savings rate in the community and to put those high savings into the development of their own country by investing in Australian Resources Development Bank securities or by taking shares in some of those companies to which I have referred to a greater extent than they now do. [More…]

• I think that is a fair indication of the way in which the community should regard this offence. [More…]

• After ail, there are many other agreements in this community which are not so accommodating in terms of recompense to an individual who wants to take action. [More…]

• This also would be helping those in need in the community. [More…]

• It is about time that the Government put into effect the words of the Acting Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) who, upon his return to Australia after his talks on the European Economic Community earlier this year went on record as saying that we must think and act as Australians more than ever before. [More…]

• When it comes to dealing with those who are breaking the laws in respects which injure the whole community - those rt is predicated who would be breaking laws which are set there to prevent inflation and prevent the sickness which is destroying the rural economy and which is going right through our community hurting us all - the Minister starts to speak with great tenderness. [More…]

• It is prepared to act with the great tenderness towards not only what the Australian Labor Party wants done but also what the business community as a whole wants done. [More…]

• The business community as well as the consumers are saying: ‘Let us have some action against those who are entering into these restrictive practices, driving the smaller people out of business, forcing up prices and injuring the economy right across the community’. [More…]

• All I desire to say is that the Government is as concerned as, if not more concerned than, the Australian Labor Party to promote a freedom and a development of competition under which the Australian community can prosper. [More…]

• I think there is merit in the Trade Practices Commissioner being able to reveal to the community at large the work which he is undertaking, the examinations which he has made and the results at which he has arrived. [More…]

• Indeed, in the broad general sense, this is by far the fairest way of taxing the community to meet the commitments of the community by collecting revenue to meet the expenditure that goes with government and particularly with the social service commitments with respect to which we feel the Government, in the interests of the whole community, should enter into. [More…]

• But we do not think that these anomalies are of sufficient importance at this time for us to obstruct the Government in the performance of its proper functions including the raising of revenue to meet commitments although we believe that the Government’s measures are insufficient to meet the requirements of those in the community who are deprived of certain needs. [More…]

• (.3) Will the Minister take action to recommence these classes forthwith, as the classes, especially those teaching English, are vital to the assimilation of migrants into the community? [More…]

• Somehow or other these questions have a habit of equating themselves in a modern prosperous community that is continually introducing new techniques, labour saving devices and bigger equipment for the purpose of carrying passengers or anything else at a cheaper rate in order to compete with others. [More…]

• All the workers associated with these industries in the outer areas of the 2 States I have mentioned are at present housed and supplied with most of the community services which small towns are able to offer. [More…]

• In doing so they will bring further pressure to bear upon the community services provided in the cities. [More…]

• As a South Australian I am concerned at a situation which exists in the community of Brukunga. [More…]

• The community is involved. [More…]

• Where a community is involved there is always a problem when an industry ceases and there is a transfer of personnel. [More…]

• We should not now be taking actions that will bring greater pressures upon the community services in the cities. [More…]

• Resources should be available within the community to be used for education on marriage and to cope with the crises which promote the circumstances later aired in the courts. [More…]

• A variety of suggestions are contained in that Bill which I believe should find great merit in the eyes of the Australian community in the light of present circumstances. [More…]

• There is a general community acceptance of the fact that marriages which have broken down should be dissolved. [More…]

• I believe that the important consideration in all these areas is that this Act which we are amending to some extent has acknowledged - but I think this has to be acknowledged a great deal more by the community at large in the future - that the way in which the children of broken marriages or divorced parents are provided for by those who have in a sense yielded up the responsibility- [More…]

• I think that that is not so much a departure as a recognition of the fact that for all the efforts and expense involved in marriage conciliation procedures there has been a generally increasing divorce rate in the community. [More…]

• One of the features which led to this legislation was the team work of a community of people who were prepared to dedicate themselves to the achievement of an objective which had eluded them for more than half a century. [More…]

• A large number of community organisations were involved including the Marine Board, the Northern Tasmanian Development League, the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce, the Launceston City Council and a number of others which put forward the idea with varying enthusiasm and support at different times, but who never lost sight of the objective through the long fight towards success. [More…]

• I think the Senate could spend a few minutes thinking about the history of this achievement through a combined community effect. [More…]

• It is the realisation of a dream of a community for almost three-quarters of a century. [More…]

• When average earnings throughout Austalia are in excess of $80 a week and we find that people in the community have to pawn their beds, their television sets and their radios in an effort to obtain food for their wives and families, we are in a pretty sorry state. [More…]

• The Government has decided, probably wisely in view of the prevailing views in the community, that the tenure should be fixed at 70 years of age. [More…]

• I do not think the relationship between the judiciary in this community and the other arms of government is as good as it ought to be. [More…]

• Such restrictions are not generally regarded as a manifestation of apartheid which is concerned with the separation of races within a community. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a statement by the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia that transport systems in Australia’s major cities will soon reach strangulation point and so render the cost of essential community services prohibitive. [More…]

• In the end do we want to present to the Australian community worthwhile, well thought out, consequential and serious examinations of affairs? [More…]

• Since some in the community are seeking lo confuse the situation regarding breaches of the [More…]

• This is part of the propaganda put out by some elements in the community opposed to national service who, for their own purposes, endeavour to mislead young men into thinking they can break the law of the land with impunity. [More…]

• Those who are making an ass of the National Service Act - the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) and the Commonwealth police - today are jetting public support to justify their action in victimising sections of the.. community selected out of great numbers. [More…]

• Alternatively, the Commission is being influenced by statements made from time to time by Government Ministers, backbench members and other influential members of the community. [More…]

• Why is it that representatives of the Labor Party are concerned to protect those people who run away from the obligations adhered to by 99 per cent of the young people in the community who are required to register for national service? [More…]

• These will be held in the light of the undertaking given by the Community to take action to deal with any abrupt dislocation of trade in agricultural products in the transitional period. [More…]

• when spoken to, sufficiently well to enable an applicant to earn his living in an English speaking community and to engage in conversation on every day topics. [More…]

• We want to put to him and his Government serious suggestions for immediate measures to relieve the hardship of growing numbers of the community and at the same time give a much needed fillip to the economy. [More…]

• To that body of information must be added the ability of the Australian community and its leaders, which embraces an extremely wide range of people, lt includes the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Employers Federation, the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council, the Wool and Meat Producers Federation, the bankers, chambers of commerce, and chambers of manufactures. [More…]

• Immediately the Budget Speech is brought down a great number of people in the ‘ communityeconomists, newspaper editors, newspaper article writers, specialist writers and, as I said before, various people who have views - express either agreement or disagreement with the Budget. [More…]

• I do not need to labour that point because any honest man in this chamber would realise that the disquite about the economy is not confined to this side of the chamber and is not confined to financial writers but is spread right throughout the community. [More…]

• The very first thing that the Labor Party must do is to understand that in this community full employment will come when we reduce costs and increase productivity, lt will come when the Labor Party stops peddling class conflict and stops trying to make political capital by driving a wedge between management and employees. [More…]

• It will enter with the community into an attempt to increase productivity. [More…]

• Unless we reduce costs and increase productivity there will be unemployment in the community. [More…]

• We would not have the abhorrent spectacle we have had tonight of attacks on the farming community. [More…]

• Let me make it abundantly clear that no person can be safely employed in secondary industries in our cities unless the farming community, including the wicked farmers and the big wool growers, is prosperous. [More…]

• I invite the Senate to look to the constructive elements of teamwork in the community, particularly in increased productivity. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the minimum wage has increased by $19 a week and the unemployment benefits for a man, his wife and one child have increased by only $7.25 a week, we members of the Democratic Labor Party suggest that, if there i to be any increase at all - or even if there is not to be any increase - in the numbers of genuinely unemployed people who want to work and who are desirous of keeping themselves and not becoming a drain on the community, that increase of $7.25 a week over the last 10 years should be looked at very seriously by the Government. [More…]

• The present rate is not enough -o keep a family that finds itself in the situation of temporary unemployment on the standard on which we all would expect an honest, hard working family to be kept in this community. [More…]

• It may be argued that this is one of the inflationary tendencies in the community and that the matter cannot be dealt with on the basis of a comparison between unemployment benefits and wages. [More…]

• When the leader of one of Australia’s great political parties brings a matter of urgency to the Senate, I think members of the public are entitled to believe that he will be able to present that matter of urgency in terms that they can understand, that he will be capable of instancing the problems that exist in the community and certainly that he will be able to state those measures which he regards as solutions to the problems that he says beset the community. [More…]

• In the years I have been in this place members of the Opposition have never on any previous occasion - 1 challenge any member of the Opposition to say to the contrary - pleaded for the payment of higher unemployment benefits to the unemployed in the community. [More…]

• The reason is that there has not been any unemployment in the Australian community in 22 years. [More…]

• In fact the management of the Australian economy has been such that those who have been anxious to work have been able to find employment in this community. [More…]

• Perhaps it is a matter for congratulation of the Australian Government or perhaps this community is very lucky, but certainly we have noi the unemployment rate that exists in any other like economy. [More…]

• That is something which this anti-Socialist Government would not stand for in the Australian community. [More…]

• Indeed, this Government has demonstrated for 22 years that it will pursue a policy of maintaining as full a position of employment as is possible in this community. [More…]

• Business is faced today, as it has been during the last 3 or 4 years, with a progressively increasing strike attitude, in order to advance the demands of what the labour forces require in the community. [More…]

• One of the bases of the problem which we see in the Australian community today, and indeed one of the points which are conducive to unemployment, is the enormous escalation in wage rates which has occurred within the last 15 to 18 months. [More…]

• Perhaps it is the Labor Party’s wish that there should be total socialisation in this community. [More…]

• But not one mention was made by Senator Murphy or by Senator James McClelland, who was the second speaker for the Opposition, about the problem of inflation in the community. [More…]

• I do not know whether there are other people in this community who have driven through the desolation of closed down mining towns, but I was in Wittenoom Gorge 2 days before the announcement of the close down of the blue asbestos mine. [More…]

• We find that our savings bank deposits are at an all time record level which indicates that there is an ability in the community to put money aside tor a rainy day. [More…]

• Senator Murphy said in his address to the Senate that we should make money available to those sections of the community which of necessity must spend their money to purchase the goods that are being stockpiled in the factories. [More…]

• How can this help the economy when the money goes into the hands of a section of the community which does not spend it? [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 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…]

• 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…]

• Representations were made to me as the Minister for Health by not only Government supporters and people in the community but indeed by many members of the Parliament who sit on the opposite side of the chamber to myself and who were concerned about the claims which were being made to them that many nursing homes had either put up their fees or were in the process of doing so. [More…]

• I had said that we applied a series of standards before we accepted contributions from certain groups in the community. [More…]

• They will examine thoroughly and discuss with representatives of the wool industry and the community as a whole the problems of the wool industry, and then put a report before the Government. [More…]

• I trust they will receive the assistance of the community and, of course, members of Parliament in doing that work. [More…]

• It would be wrong to inflate these lists and disadvantage the most needy elements of the community. [More…]

• But as I have said here before, the main responsibility for maintenance of law and order in the community rests with the State authorities in this country and the police forces of the States. [More…]

• Government in the Senate inform the Senate of the Government’s view of the plan proposed by 10 of Australia’s leading economists to rectify the economic recession now afflicting the community? [More…]

• Non-Government social welfare agencies receiving assistance from my Department under the grants to community agencies scheme, and the current annual rate of assistanceasat31st October 1971, are as follows:’ [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, in the colleges of advanced education becoming firmly established in the Australian community as an integral part of the fabric of tertiary education. [More…]

• If we are concerned with people -I believe that is what life is about - we cannot ignore the tremendous pressures building up in the community today for reasonable accommodation. [More…]

• Today that is the way in which many sectors of our community seek solace in the problems that they face. [More…]

• It was accepted in the community and the Menzies Government had no course other than to accept it and to continue to expand it. [More…]

• For these reasons we believe that the Senate is entitled to be asked to support our amendment expressing our concern that the most needy people in our community are not properly provided for under this Agreement. [More…]

• However, I must express my personal view that it would seem to be unlikely that we could accept it as it widens unnecessarily the application of this CommonwealthState Housing Agreement in a manner which may not be desirable in the interests even of the sections of the community mentioned in the amendment, particularly the low income earners whom the Bill was principally designed to assist. [More…]

• Although in most instances the States do not arrange for migrants to come here, when a migrant has become integrated in our community and has become a successful man within his Scale, he is then a success for the State and of benefit to the State, so why should he be required to pay more than anyone else towards the cost of educating his children? [More…]

• It has been in trying to meet these rates of interest that they have gone broke, because the interest rates have got out of hand to such an extent that local authorities are now paying as much in interest on accrued debts as they used to pay for the whole of the municipal services that they provided for the community. [More…]

• I do not know that grants to be provided under the legislation will be adequate; I doubt verymuch that they will be, particularly when housing for many people in the community has fallen into a very sorry state. [More…]

• During the Budget debate we contended that no case had been made out for increasing charges on not only the community but also the economy generally. [More…]

• They flow on and increase every charge associated with production and the necessary work of the community. [More…]

• On the other hand it has imposed these very heavy increases on the community generally - on consumers and on the economy. [More…]

• 1 have said thai there are heavy burdens on transport in the community. [More…]

• The result is that a number of ordinary people in the community are buying a motor car of a smaller capacity than one they would buy normally, such as a motor car that is produced by the Chrysler or General MotorsHolden organisations in Australia. [More…]

• Governments seemto think that they can put large imposts on the motor vehicle industry without considering its value to the community. [More…]

• I suggest that the Government is only placing strains on the economy and I put it to the Minister andto the Government that there is growing evidence from people in the community who specialise that what the economy now needs is stimulation and not the heavy charges about which we are speaking tonight. [More…]

• The recent investigation by the Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse indicated that alcohol is Australia’s most dangerous drug of abuse, leading to untold misery in the community and not only to great personal costs but also to costs to the community as a whole. [More…]

• As the Government has such a vested interest it will be less inclined to engage in the necessary education and prevention programmes to reduce the quantity use by the community. [More…]

• That is whyI appreciate now that he is one of the nonsmokers in the community. [More…]

• My , only wish is that every man who is out of work in the community today could have heard the remarks uttered by the honourable senator. [More…]

• The Australian Democratic Labor Party has once again in very typical fashion betrayed the trust reposed in it by a section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Yet when the rural community is going through its toughest period ihe honourable senator questions whether allowances for these increased costs should be passed on to the wheat growers. [More…]

• ls he also aware that many medical practitioners feel that general practice has lost its professional status and community standing in recent years, and that this, according to many doctors, is largely the reason for this drift away from the ageing within general practice? [More…]

• He is more than a medical adviser: very often he goes far deeper in the performance of his role in community life. [More…]

• Indirectly, it will benefit the whole community by enabling more persons to obtain a home of their own. [More…]

• But the Australian Labor Party wishes to use this opportunity to say to the people of Australia that its policy is that every student who is capable of benefiting from an education, whether it is a primary or secondary school education or a teritiary education, should be able to do so under the best possible conditions; that the resources of the community should be mobilised so that they are shared in such a way that the best use is made of those resources; to ensure that we are not wasting those resources on the unnecessary proliferation of schools and systems of schools; and that the needs of the Australian people are taken into account. [More…]

• I regret that there appears to be a kind of assumption in the community that we should push for these astronomical sums for education and that more and more academic education is necessary for every young person. [More…]

• There may be factors other than the ones we are told about in relation to what is happening to the youth of the United States, but it would appear that spending more and more money on education and making it easier for people to go to tertiary institutions free of charge has not produced in the United States the kind of community that we would want here. [More…]

• I suggest a little more gratitude and a little less moaning and complaining about their alleged grievances would be appreciated by the community in general. [More…]

• This constitutional question has been raised in this community before and a lot of people have threatened to get legal advice. [More…]

• I believe that in so doing parents like mine and many others lifted from the community a burden which it otherwise would have had to support by way of a taxation levy to finance the schools. [More…]

• I have always felt that it was right and proper to have a dual system of education, for the community to allow that facility and for the community to support those who provided those resources. [More…]

• If these funds were denied to the Australian people - if the Bill were not passed by the Senate or if the Labor Party amendment were carried, which would result in the Bill not being passed - the community and the whole education process would suffer. [More…]

• I think this is essentially fair and bears a relationship to the community’s situation with respect to government and non-government schools. [More…]

• I know that at present (here is certain heat within the community about the health aspects of cigarette smoking. [More…]

• Since the discussion in the Estimates Committee I have had long and serious talks with members of the Aboriginal community in Brisbane regarding the extension of this legal service to them. [More…]

• They pattern as a perfect example of something which would be workable and would be a progressive move among the Aboriginal community in Queensland an Aboriginal legal service which would be similar to the one set up in New South Wales. [More…]

• The proposed committee should comprise people representative of the faculty of law at the university, the Aboriginal community and scholarly people in all walks of life who will be able to co-ordinate the procedures as between the committee and the legal profession. [More…]

• But if there is a need, because of an Aboriginal community reluctant to apply to a general legal aid scheme, and with a need for legal services to be provided for it specifically, then that is what the Office of Aboriginal Affairs is there for. [More…]

• I think that, for the purposes of Commonwealth law, some assistance should be afforded to that section of the community who find that they may be charged with being in breach of Commonwealth law and who do not have the necessary money to enable them to defend their case before a legal tribunal. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services whether he has any information on any grant in aid schemes for social service workers to work with counselling centres and other community organisations. [More…]

• Department give consideration to such surveys with a view to assisting those agencies which are intimately involved with community well being? [More…]

• When I say that anyone would be astonished, I think the whole of the community was astonished when a high officer of one of the Commonwealth corporations announced that it was nobody’s business when half a milion dollars were given away, that it was the corporation’s money and no affair of anyone else. [More…]

• Subject to this Act, the Commission shall provide, and shall broadcast or televise from transmitting stations made available by the PostmasterGeneral, adequate and comprehensive programmes and shall take in the interest 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…]

• Subject to this Act, the Commission shall provide, and shall broadcast or televise from transmitting stations made available by the PostmasterGeneral, adequate and comprehensive programmes 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 programmes. [More…]

• It is required mandatorily to take into account the interests of the community and all of such matters, as, in its opinion, are conducive to the full development of suitable broadcasting and television programmes. [More…]

• Today we have established in our community a kind of liaison between the so-called intellectual left and certain persons of importance in the ABC, particularly in the programming field. [More…]

• There seems to be a kind of strange feeling in the community that’ intellectuals - people who have been to universities or similar institutions - are, as it were, above the common herd; that they possess some inherent impartiality; that they are politically sexless; and that they are just the right kind of people to control an institution such as this. [More…]

• I have found that the ordinary plug in the community often has a greater bump of fair play in him than the man who has moved in highly intellectual circles. [More…]

• these new emanations in the community, the public corporations. [More…]

• The Community allows them a large measure of public ownership yet preserves the aspect of commercial competition. [More…]

• The Minister is aware that the Dutch community is very sensitive about this issue. [More…]

• I do not think any honourable senator would deny that Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community has raised difficulties in our country areas. [More…]

• running down of displaced persons camps and the effect of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• They are not representatives of organisations or sections of the community. [More…]

• I merely put the two together and remind the Committee that involved in this work are not only people representing sections of the community, in the case of the Advisory Council, but also people with special skills, in the case of the Planning Council. [More…]

• 1 have in mind particularly some sections of the Italian community in Leichhardt, who have been tricked by money lenders. [More…]

• He is fully qualified and could fit into the community without any problems at all. [More…]

• Since Senator Greenwood was exalted to the position of Attorney-General a few months ago, significantly he has devoted most of his iterances, both in public and in the chamber, to the protection of the conservative group in the community. [More…]

• Senator Webster is trying to interject, ft is interesting to hear these little interjections from the Country Party because supporters of that Party have gained more from the exploitation of coloured labour in Australia than has any other section of the community at any time. [More…]

• But we say to them that we want them to help our development; that we want them to assimilate in our own 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 aud by the community at large. [More…]

• What assurances, if any, can the Minister provide to the Parliament either that the present scheme will be made workable or that it will be scrapped and a new scheme which is both comprehensible and acceptable to the community at large will be provided in its place? [More…]

• But it is a scheme which is acceptable to the community at large. [More…]

• I ask: How much notice is the Government taking of the repeated pleas from important sections of the community about the urgent need to stimulate the economy? [More…]

• by agreement with the Western Australian authorities, will provide health and medical services for ihe Aboriginal community al 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…]

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

• This is an area of our Australian community which has received a great deal of attention and a great deal of public discussion. [More…]

• If it takes so long to get under way and past the one-and-a-bit stage, or two subject to one appeal stage, of appointments to what is regarded by most members in this place andI think, the community generally as something urgent, there must be something seriously wrong which should be looked at. [More…]

• Although there is an establishment of 75 in the Department - in fact the establishment within the division of the Environment is only 7 - the Australian community would expect in a period of -8 mon:hs more than ‘one-and-a-bit’ officers would have been created to deal with matters relating to the Australian Water Resources Council, the Australian Forestry Council, the Australian Agricultural Council, the Australian Fisheries Council, the Australian Transport Advisory Council and the Australian Minerals Council, just to name those that were mentioned by the Minister. [More…]

• The second aspect is that the Govern ment is concerned to promote awareness in the community in the way that Senator Rae expressed it of the need to be conscious of damage to our inheritance and our future in what is happening to the environment which we have taken for granted. [More…]

• Can the Minister give an undertaking on this matter which is of great concern to the community and particularly to residents in the vicinity of Adelaide Airport? [More…]

• I have said around Australia that the principal city airports of Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide - I do not except Adelaide - are good airports; they are well located; they serve the community very well; they are there to s’ay; and they are there to be utilised efficiently and competently within the limits of the demands upon them. [More…]

• The airport in Adelaide is a very good one, It is well and most efficiently located for the purpose of serving ihe community of Adelaide and South Australia. [More…]

• They are all competent airports and they all serve the community well. [More…]

• I understand that the outlook in the European Economic Community is not bright at present. [More…]

• But on all the evidence which is available in relation to this matter, the Department is keeping back progress in relation to a most deserving section of the community. [More…]

• We apologise every time we seek an increase of salary which is far less than those received by other sections of the community. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that the control of broadcasting in the Territory should pass to a local statutory authority which is represent ative of all sections of the community, and free of direct control by the Government of the day. [More…]

• and the frequency pf thefts from chemists’ shops are indicative of the need for this Government to take every possible step to provide the community with the maximum protection from the unscrupulous persons involved in this insidious traffic. [More…]

• But, as I say, there are 121 private employment agencies catering for other sections of the community. [More…]

• The administration of the Department of Labour and National Service is concerned with matters of fair wages and conditions throughout the community and especially the execution of the laws made by the Parliament under the conciliation and arbitration power for the settling of those industrial disputes which extend interstate and generally concern wages and conditions. [More…]

• We are living in a time when many calls have been made by prominent people for restraint to be exercised on the part of all members of the community in order to combat inflation. [More…]

• That seems to be a reasonable interpretation of the editorial but let us assume that it is not and that along with other persons no increases in salaries should be granted to backbenchers and that the community generally should assist in the extension of this principle. [More…]

• It is suggested that if a ceiling is to be placed on wages in the community, those who are earning in the region of $85 or $100 a week and trying to exist on that, must not ask for a few more dollars. [More…]

• Why has not the suggestion been made by this Government, through the Department of Labour and National Service, that a ceiling be placed on incomes right throughout the community and let people such as the editor of the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ be in the forefront of this campaign? [More…]

• Proposals are brought In for legislation to crush the wage earners who receive pitifully small incomes, but no attempt has been made to fix a ceiling on incomes for those in the community who enjoy enormous incomes. [More…]

• I ask the Minister to give some thought to this matter so that when the Senate re-assembles in February a firm policy can be put to the Parliament for a ceiling on incomes right through the community, not a ceiling restricted to public servants or other wage earners by means of a heavy enforcement of the conciliation and arbitration laws. [More…]

• Although I doubt whether that should be the situation, there is a complete falsity throughout the whole community in relation to wage restraint. [More…]

• It must be realised that the return to private industry is particularly imporant because it is from that sphere that we find revenue to enable the Government and the Australian community to economically continue. [More…]

• Throughout my time in the Federal Parliament I have heard from the Opposition great claims about the Government not doing sufficient to prevent a brain drain from Australia to other countries, and in relation to nearly every sphere of science and education the Leader of the Opposition in this place has criticised the Government for not doing something to ensure that those particular abilities which are required in this community were retained. [More…]

• I suggest that there has been developing in our community within the last 10 or 15 years an entirely erroneous concept of what should be demanded from those individuals on high salary levels and those individuals whom we may consider are conducting their personal affairs, and managing on what could be considered a basic wage. [More…]

• I know that there is a feeling among many individuals in the community that a flat percentage increase is entirely wrong, but in many documents today we see the Government, the Public Service or private industry advancing the proposition that there should be a salary increase of $2,000 or $3,000 a year for certain individuals because there has just been a $300 or 6 per cent increased granted to some worker at the basic level. [More…]

• They are not the only people in the community who are in this situation. [More…]

• But no attention has been given to the general economic necessity to give stimulus to the community. [More…]

• The fact is that the Labor Party and the organised union movement, as well as other people in the community, have always contended that at some stage in the economy price controls must be introduced. [More…]

• Everybody in the community who puts a substantial case for a salary increase following cost/ price pressures is challenged. [More…]

• I suggest that the Government ought to be looking at loss of production in the community and determining whether curbs should be applied. [More…]

• The trends are there and the effect will be felt by the young people in the community. [More…]

• That figure is available only at the time of census taking when there is an actual body check of the total community. [More…]

• Too many people in the community are attacking the way in which workers get wage increases. [More…]

• Getting back to what Senator Mulvihill said, it seems to me that there is a general need to give stimulus to the economy and to watch very closely unemployment trends in the community, because these trends will cost the country a lot of money. [More…]

• I remind the honourable senator of the programme for training women for employment, which is an initiative which I think he would agree was directed to a special section of the community and a new programme. [More…]

• It is obvious from the speech that was made in another place the other night by the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) that a lot of the time of the Department of Labour and National Service has Seen devoted in recent months to evolving what is put forward as part of the Government’s answer to the problem of rising prices in this community. [More…]

• I find it nauseating))’ hypocritical for example, that a Prime Minister should glibly put to the Parliament a proposition that his emolument should reach $51,000 a year but that there should be restraint on the part of the members of the community who get something like $80 a week. [More…]

• Do not such people as Sir Warwick Fairfax and Sir Frank Packer and their highly paid executives exert some pressure on the goods that are available in the community by virtue of the enormous and largely hidden emoluments they get out of their interests? [More…]

• Yet as soon as the trade union movement or the pensioners seek increases which will give them a just return for what they put into the community we are told by the Government - 1 remind the Minister - that the increases would wreck the economy. [More…]

• That is why we on this side find ourselves in constant conflict with the Government when in particular the Treasurer and to some extent his representative here seek to attribute all the ills associated with inflation to those in the income groups who are seeking to get some part of the so-called prosperity that exists in our community. [More…]

• It should suggest that a policy be adopted which will show that the whole community is prepared to make some sacrifices to get us out of the financial impasse in which we are in at the moment. [More…]

• One finds it difficult to appreciate the sentiments expressed by a spokesman from the Chamber of Manufactures who suggested that there should be wage restraints at all levels of the community, including Parliament. [More…]

• I cannot understand how the impression could have been created among estate agents and other persons in the community that we were responsible for delaying this legislation. [More…]

• There are dozens of people in the community today who are waiting for the increased loans so that they may be able to commence the building of a home. [More…]

• This proposition has more support in the general community - it certainly has a great deal more support in the ex-service organisations - than I believe the Government would care to admit. [More…]

• But it is apparent from the title of the principal Act itself that the war service homes legislation is designed to cater for a specific section of the community, that is, those people who have served in a war, which would not apply to all members of the armed forces. [More…]

• They are marketed at firm prices in the same way as secondary industry everywhere in the community markets its products. [More…]

• I have said previously in this chamber that any government that sits on its backside and expects a consensus from the thousands of wool growers throughout the community, or expects them to come down with a firm decision at any given time, will sit there forever. [More…]

• Governments should have the courage to take the bull by the horns and say ‘We will do this’, and tell the brokers, the buyers and the graziers of this country that they will not be considered because the governments believe that in the interests of the Australian community - not only those of the wool growers - a statutory marketing authority system is the only one that can operate. [More…]

• The cold hard fact of the matter is, as we on this side of the chamber see it, that not only the Government but also many other people in our community have lost faith in the wool industry. [More…]

• Not only does it contribute to employment but it means that workers and their families who have had a lifetime in isolated areas will be required to seek employment in the metropolitan area, thereby creating a demand on ail the community services provided in the metropolitan area - houseing, water supply, sewerage, power, roads and other services, in addition to schooling for their children. [More…]

• 1 believe that as one of the constituent members of the 3-tier system of government we should exercise proper authority in this Parliament to ensure that we take action which the community at large wants us to take so that there will be restoration of balance to the functions of the 3 levels of government. [More…]

• Men with capabilities and qualifications to run the affairs of local areas will not offer themselves to an institution which is poverty-ridden and which cannot provide the services, installations and other things that they see as requirements of the community to be provided at a standard which is acceptable and economically right. [More…]

• The reason for this is that we are in an atmosphere of wage restraint, an atmosphere in which the Government talks about the need for restraint in the community, and because yesterday in the House of Representatives the Government by deliberate action decided that an arbitral determination dealing with parliamentary salaries and ministerial salaries should be reduced by two-sevenths. [More…]

• At a time when the Government is saying that there should be restraint in respect of the normal arbitral decisions which most people think of as being based on the metal trades industries in the national wage case, where so many people are affected but where the smaller salaries of the community are being dealt with it is important that there should be restraint in the upper echelons. [More…]

• It is very difficult to ask any section of the community to accept the sacrifice which is now being imposed on the people who are affected by this Bill, or other people who were asked similarly to make sacrifices so very recently. [More…]

• Surely, if the Government is going to move into the field of wage restraint, and its own people have said that it is necessary to exercise wage restraint in the national wage case, it is on very untenable ground if it says that the community cannot alford wage increases to be given to people earning around $70 or $80 a week - those on the bottom of the rung - while it does not restrain those on this salary level. [More…]

• If there is to be constraint on the wages of ordinary persons and if members of Parliament are to be asked to exercise restraint for the purpose of creating a good impression outside and of setting an example to all sections of the community, is it not consistent to ask that people receiving $30,000 a year or thereabouts should also be asked to exercise some restraint?’ [More…]

• 1 do not know whether that is true, but if it is and if that is the reason for inflation, let the restriction apply to all sections of the community. [More…]

• When are we going to hear the Government’s proposals for restraint by those earning high incomes, especially those in the area of extremely high income who are lecturing the rest of the community upon the need for restraint? [More…]

• We have heard a good deal of criticism, suggestions and ideas about what will happen to Australian primary industries when Britain becomes a member of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• But I feel that these problems can be overcome if we set to work to try to obtain markets to replace those that we could lose in Britain following its entry into the Economic Community. [More…]

• More importantly still, the entire market in the United Kingdom and on the Continent could be lost to Australian growers if Greece and Turkey prove capable - I have no doubt that they would be capable - of supplying all the European Economic Community’s requirements. [More…]

• They produce an item of food which is of great importance to the Australian community, an importance which is expressed by the fact that Australians are among the highest consumers of this product in the world, ranking only behind Ireland and New Zealand, both of which countries consume 6 lbs a head annually whereasin Australia we have sufficient support for a consumption figure of 4 lbs a head annually. [More…]

• That is not a point with which 1 have agreed over the years, but it is amazing how the whole of the community would suggest that there should be some orderly marketing scheme in the world for an industry such as this, yet we attempt to ignore this on the local market. [More…]

• There are enormous problems facing this industry because of the emergence of trade blocs, particularly the European Economic Community. [More…]

• This position will be further aggravated when the United Kingdom joins the European Economic Community; we will not have the export opportunities to the United Kingdom which we have enjoyed over the past few years. [More…]

• The continued uncertainty regarding the entry of the United Kingdom and other European countries and Ireland into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I mentioned previously that Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community must and will affect our export sales of dried vine fruits. [More…]

• As a result, everyone is jumping on the band wagon and it is commonly believed that a huge section of Australian youth is corrupt and is a menace to the community because of drug taking. [More…]

• Drug abuse by youth would be insignificant compared with harmful drug taking by older sections of the community. [More…]

• But between 2 per cent and 5 per cent of people in the community do not give up drug taking at the age of 25 years. [More…]

• The Government shows no consideration for the health of the community. [More…]

• Here again we are doing insufficient for the treatment of these people and we are doing nothing to stop the spread of drug taking in the community. [More…]

• I am condemning the consideration of commercial interests coming before the health and welfare of the community. [More…]

• Yet we are not prepared to do a thing about this drug question except to have a voluntary control on advertising of drugs which are very dangerous to the Australian community. [More…]

• I do not think there is any necessity for me to try to convince honourable senators of the dangers that face the Australian community because of drug abuse. [More…]

• In the short term there is a need to undertake research to educate the community and to rehabilitate those unfortunates who are drug dependent. [More…]

• His concern for the drug problem and the health of the community is such that the catching of a plane is more important than the welfare of those who are dependent upon drugs today. [More…]

• Nevertheless, since the television equipment has been installed at Nyngan, an investigation will be made to establish whether a temporary though substandard service can be provided to this community, by ‘off air’ pick-up of the weak signal at the transmitter site, pending the completion of the permanent microwave relay. [More…]

• The question of an inquiry is being kept under review as are the views expressed by community groups in the Australian Capital Territory with an interest in education. [More…]

• Under the State Grants (Home Care) Act, which was introduced in 1969, the Commonwealth is now able to subsidise State expenditure incurred in connection with the provision of housekeeping or other domestic help services, conducted either by the State, a local governing body, a community welfare organisation or a joint body, wholly or mainly for aged persons. [More…]

• The late Ben Courtice was a man who rose from the ranks of the people to a most distinguished position in this community. [More…]

• Senator Courtice was highly respected by all sections of the community in Queensland. [More…]

• He often told me of the experience of his own father in the darker days when unemployment was considered to be a personal disgrace rather than a community failure. [More…]

• opportunity to exercise that right, and he carried those ideals through a long career in community and public life. [More…]

• If such is the case will the Minister agree to meet representatives of the people living in the Cribb Island area at an early date to discuss details of the future of this community? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry, relates to the need for long term, low interest finance for the rural community. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Shipping and Transport ask his colleague to request the management of the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission to come clean immediately with the Australian public on proposals for re-organisation of the Australian National Line’s operations, thereby removing the serious doubts in business and community circles as to the future intentions of the Line which are currently clouded in mystery and uncertainty? [More…]

• In view of the apparent acceptance by the community generally of the laws which currently exist in relation to the sale of alcoholic liquor, it is considered that the present restrictions on the advertising of alcoholic liquor on radio and television should continue. [More…]

• What further steps might appropriately be taken in regard to the small community at Wattie Creek will lie considered in the light of this report. [More…]

• By arrangement, schools in the Australian Capital Territory and the community schools in the Northern Territory follow the curricula of New South Wales and South Australian schools respectively. [More…]

• What further steps might appropriately be taken in regard to the small community at Wattie Creek will be considered in the light of this report. [More…]

• The Minister said that the water supply to Wattie Creek would be connected in the interests of the health of the community as soon as funds became available. [More…]

• is a clause which, in brief, provides that the enlarged Community will be ready to take prompt and effective action to remedy any difficulties arising out of the transitional arrangements for agriculture and horticulture or any threat of abrupt dislocation lo Commonwealth and other third country suppliers. [More…]

• They provide information on particular occupations and careers, counsel students and participate in careers nights, careers weeks and other community activities in relation lo employment of young people. [More…]

• That recommendation simply urges the development of a Pacific economic and defence community, which my Party urged, advocated and propagated in 1958. [More…]

• It is equally true - this can be documented - that the deposits of members of the working community in our savings banks are at an all time high. [More…]

• lt is pretty easy to pick a section of the community in isolation and to build a story loaded with emotional implications around it in relation to variations in the taxation and health scales. [More…]

• These things affect the whole community. [More…]

• These two agencies are also involved in the development of new homes and the financing of commercial activities, community problems such as the redevelopment of power, water and sanitary systems. [More…]

• There would be a national plan to deal with the various eventualities to cope not merely with the incidence of death and wounding in disasters but also with the other aspects, such as financial matters, which need to be dealt with in order that the life of the community may go on. [More…]

• We must accept these disasters as part of Australian life and we must move to accommodate them, to provide against them and to alleviate the consequences of them, both in a national community sense and in an individual sense. [More…]

• Recently in Townsville there was a disaster of tremendous financial consequences, of very great community and social consequences and one which brought many personal disasters in its wake. [More…]

• I appreciate that many people in the community cannot alford the high cost of insurance cover against storm and tempest or flood damage. [More…]

• Let us face it, primary producers are as much entitled to the taxpayers’ money as any other members of the community. [More…]

• Surely these are the people to whom, we should turn initially to restore normal living standards within a community. [More…]

• The local community assists. [More…]

• We disagree as to whether a responsibility rests on the individual in the community to help himself or whether a person just yelps to Canberra to do the lot while the individual sits on his backside. [More…]

• The community at large was warned to be very careful with fires and so on. [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 SO-year lease of land at a nominal rent Ibr a variety of purposes. [More…]

• It does not mean that if the community still has the some needs it can not 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, the Minister saw Aborigines engaged in making bricks, sawing timber and erecting their own homes; in fact, entering into a 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…]

• With the proliferation of administrative agencies in the community and with the aggregating and accumulating demands of society that more and more disciplines shall be exercised in the social order, a proliferation of administrative tribunals is inevitable and their operation can have a very big effect on the rights of citizens. [More…]

• The purport of this report is to discover whether the existing traditional common law or royal prerogative processes of appeal from the decisions of administrative tribunals are any longer appropriate in the modern age, whether other procedures should be devised, whether administrative tribunals themselves can any longer give to the citizens in the modern community that protection which once they were able to give, or whether there should not now be made available the services of what is called a public counsel, or what we familiarly call on ombudsman, to represent the rights, demands and entitlements of citizens to the administrative structure. [More…]

• That seems to be the fairly generally accepted viewpoint in the community. [More…]

• However, these were very isolated cases which you will find in all sections of the community. [More…]

• I do not doubt that on every occasion many members of the Labor Party will encourage strikes in the community, even by the police force, to see that they do not carry out their rightful duties on particular days. [More…]

• We have a division within the community. [More…]

• Do you mean to tell me that the Attorney-General, holding a very responsible position in this community, should not be told what political action the Commonwealth Police were taking? [More…]

• Whether he regards the matter as political or not, the fact remains that individuals in the community are being subjected to undue pressure by the Commonwealth Police. [More…]

• Will the Minister afford me an early opportunity lo make the fullest representations to remove this wholly unacceptable discrimination against a certain section of the Australian community whose work and dedication are of the highest order and who must surely be entitled to some social service benefit in the circumstances? [More…]

• Comments were made, also by 2 other gentlemen who are well known in the community. [More…]

• No responsible national organisation, whether engaged in an economic activity or otherwise involved in ‘he community, had other than criticism of the Budget. [More…]

• This means that during the time that we were debating the Budget, when the Government was being advised and warned by all sections of the community, there were 2 people seeking every job available. [More…]

• How would they like to be confronted next week with a wage packet of $35.50 and have to meet all the commitments which, by and large, other people in the community have to meet - those who have family commitments, those who are making their way as newly weds, or those who are not married but who are hoping and intending lo wed and who are trying to put aside the wherewithal to reach that stage? [More…]

• I believe that it is timely and most appropriate in view of the increased number of unemployed at present in the community. [More…]

• Whilst 1 have the utmost sympathy, I repeat, for the genuine unemployed - that is, people who are unable to obtain work and who are out of work through no fault of their own - I am conscious of the fact that there are some people in our community registered as unemployed who are not very anxious or desirous of obtaining employment. [More…]

• Why should he say that when the whole theme of the Government has been lo instil confidence into the community? [More…]

• What Mr Whitlam was doing was seeking to establish within the community an attitude that, unemployment was out of control. [More…]

• Has mere been any recent change in the Government’s approach to encouraging, financially and otherwise, the activities of small arl galleries and community sponsored cultural centres, whose future, in many cases, is uncertain due to increasing costs and other problems associated with their operation and maintenance. [More…]

• Small ari galleries and community sponsored cultural centres are principally the responsibility of local communities and authorities. [More…]

• For example, the Australian Council for the Arts assists the arts at a local level, including festivals, theatre, music and special projects, which are sometimes associated in their production with local galleries and community cultural centres. [More…]

• Indeed, I 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, 1 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…]

• 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…]

• It could be that in the operation of that power authority might be discovered through which a discipline could be exercised over this other financial empire which is operating now and which is aggregating such enormous amounts of committed moneys in our community. [More…]

• Dress reform has become a matter that must be considered at all levels in the community. [More…]

• Th: British Masterman Committee’s report suggests that the main argument for liberalisation is based upon the fact that the Public Service now contains a larger proportion of the population than ever before and a highly educated section of the community. [More…]

• The motion that he has brought forward is part of the exhibition of his concern that the Public Service, in the interests both of those who comprise it and of the role it plays in the community, should be at all times appropriately and efficiently structured, and that it should always bear the most modern image it is possible to attach to it. [More…]

• I say with great respect to all who are members of standing committees that I think that a great number of us have fallen into the trap of commonly regarding standing committees as select committees and taking detailed and voluminous evidence from a vast section of the Australian community so that at the end of the receipt and consideration of the evidence a detailed and voluminous report is tendered. [More…]

• This man has the background of a small farming community. [More…]

• 1 remind the Senate that the provision whereby compulsory military service for defaulters was repealed and compulsory civil imprisonment was substituted, was passed with the approval of the Labor Party, upholding a claim by several seclions of the community at that time. [More…]

• Whatever might be said by others, even hy the defendant, at least the Attorney-General ought to adhere to those standards which constitute the rule of law in our community. [More…]

• 1 believe, and other community bodies. [More…]

• Amongst his other duties it is legitimate for him to bring widely to the attention of the public the fact that the police of the community are willing to assist and are duty bound to arrest Mr Johnston. [More…]

• The Attorney-General has not only duties which embrace not only this young man in question but also a responsibility in relation to the community which must be observed, too. [More…]

• I think, therefore that if the Attorney-General calls on any section of the community - it may be a conservation group, the Australian Labor Party, the Australian Democraic Labor Party or any other group - to help him in the administration of the law, or at least not to frustrate him in the administration of the law, it is part of his duty to do so. [More…]

• Was it a national disgrace in this freedom loving community for Mr Whitlam to say, as he did: ‘lt is not for me to gel him’ - thai is, Mr Johnston - ‘before the court and it is not for the AttorneyGeneral to assert his guilt.’ [More…]

• If members of the Government parties have not indoctrinated the community in this regard, they certainly appear to have indoctrinated themselves into the belief that once a law is proclaimed it must automatically be obeyed and that any flouting of the law is a threat to society as a whole rather than to this Government. [More…]

• I think the Attorney-General has been playing for cheap political publicity at the expense of denigrating the high legal position he holds in our community. [More…]

• 1 refer - .1 do this because Senator Murphy engaged the Senate interestingly this afternoon with some quotations from reports - to the decision in the Attorney-General v. Harris in which it was said by the Court of Appeal, taking a wide view, that the AttorneyGeneral ‘was to be regarded as representing the whole community, the Court of Appeal rightly emphasising’ - in my view also that society has a general interest in seeing that laws are obeyed and in putting a stop to continuing and deliberate flouting of the will of Parliament’. [More…]

• They fought to over-rule the principle that certain people in the community had particular privileges because the law did not apply to them. [More…]

• I believe there is a danger to the Australian community in the reckless indifference of the ALP to the laws of the land and to the observance of those laws. [More…]

• As a lead to the rest of the community, will the Minister ensure that all Commonwealth vehicles are checked for tyre safety and that all vehicles are fitted with only specified tyres which match their performance? [More…]

• My question, addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry, concerns the current visit to Australia of Dr Ralf Dahrendorf, a member of the Commission of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Is the Minister in a position to comment on the progress of talks with Dr Dahrendorf and of the possibility of a commercial agreement with the European Economic Community? [More…]

• We are seeking good negotiations and good representations with the new Community, which is the largest trading bloc in the world. [More…]

• I do not have the figures in my pocket - I used to carry them - giving the Australian trading position on imports and exports with our various trading partners in the world, but I think it is correct to say that the latest set of figures I saw showed that the Community, excluding the United Kingdom, was a greater buyer of Australian goods than the United Kingdom at that time. [More…]

• We do have some privileged situations within the Community which we can exploit. [More…]

• Dr Dahrendorf, as I understand the position, can be regarded as the external relations officer for the Community in the sense that he is following the French principle that the total body of external relations should be conducted through one office rather than tend to be fractionated as is the case in Australia. [More…]

• In a sense he is representing the relationship which the Community will have with the rest of the world and with potential trading partners. [More…]

• We are in serious discussions with the Community through him. [More…]

• We are hoping to see results come out of these discussions - perhaps not immediately - and certainly a greater understanding by the Community of our particular situation and our particular problems. [More…]

• lt is supported widely throughout the community. [More…]

• Well, I am Leader of the Opposition in this chamber representing 26 honourable senators and putting a viewpoint which is widely held throughout the community. [More…]

• But every day death sentences are being imposed on this community through drug trafficking. [More…]

• Some people are prophesying that within a few years Australian dairy produce will be sold within the European Economic Community while others are saying that the Common Market countries are already again building up surplus stocks. [More…]

• This has been brought about by a number of factors such as the restriction on production in Europe and some exceptional efforts on behalf of the European Economic Community to dispose of its previous surpluses. [More…]

• Some 2 or 3 years ago the dairying industry faced the situation in which a mountainous stock of butter was supposed to be surplus to European Economic Community requirements. [More…]

• For the past 10 years the dairying industry has been conditioning itself for the shock of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Now that the very important decision has been made in principle by the United Kingdom to enter the European Economic Community at the end of this year the Australian dairying industry is confronted with a significantly different market situation from the one anticipated some years ago. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the States will now have the right to place restrictions on the sale of a particular product which contains components which are decided by a State as not being in the good health of the community. [More…]

• The changed situation, which enabled many factories in Australia to sell their 1971-72 export products forward at very attractive prices, came about because of lower production in the major exporting countries and the European Economic Community as a result of bad seasons and weather conditions in that area, coupled with a large reduction in the Community’s stocks due to an extensive surplus disposal programme. [More…]

• Under the terms of access recently agreed to by Great Britain and the European Economic Community, the Australian dairy industry faces the possibility of being excluded from the British market as from the end of 1972. [More…]

• I had not intended to rise at this stage of the consideration of this Bill until the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman) wound up the second reading debate with a speech in which he said - 1 do not decry him for saying it because it is a very popular misconception - that the reason for the present shortage of dairy produce throughout the world is a decline in production in the European Economic Community and elsewhere. [More…]

• My memory of the debate in the House of Representatives, from reading the Hansard report, is that a member of that chamber stated that in fact the huge surpluses that were stated to exist in the countries of the European Economic Community 2 or 3 years ago were only book entries: that that surplus produce did not exist in fact. [More…]

• For some considerable time, indeed many years, members of this Parliament have been confronted with dealing with the problems of the elderly section of the community. [More…]

• In 1970 a standing committee of this Senate was directed to inquire into the problems of mentally and physically handicapped people in this community. [More…]

• If anything at all is done to ameliorate the alarming conditions of the physically and mentally handicapped in our modern society, set out most eloquently in that report, the hard work of the members and staff of that Senate committee and the expense to the Australian community of establishing the inquiry and having the report presented will have been quite worthwhile. [More…]

• I suggest that the same situation exists in relation to the aged people of the Australian community. [More…]

• I am far from satisfied that all that can be done for the elderly citizens of Australia, the pioneers of this community, is being done. [More…]

• I think it was my colleague Senator Poyser who, in his maiden speech in this Parliament as long ago as 1966 or 1967, drew attention to the shocking exploitation of the aged section of the community that takes place in some of those private homes. [More…]

• Indeed, in a great number of cases it is necessary for the children of the elderly people of the community to contribute, sometimes substantially, towards the cost of maintaining their parents in these places. [More…]

• The figures reveal also that in the Australian community, which consists of about 12 million people, 1,300,000 people arc of pensionable age. [More…]

• That is a substantial proportion of the Australian community. [More…]

• About 10 per cent of the Australian community are of pensionable age, but 807,000 people only are receiving age pensions. [More…]

• I pay a personal tribute to the officers of the Department of Social Services who I think perform an outstanding service to the Australian community in trying, as best they can having regard to present Government policy, to assist the elderly people in the community as much as they possibly can. [More…]

• A number of the social service organisations advanced the proposition that because there was an insufficient number of homes to accommodate the elderly citizens of this community, the Australian Government should do something to provide domiciliary care for these people. [More…]

• It was suggested that the Commonwealth Government should play its part in financing home care services for the elderly citizens of this community so that, instead of shifting them from their own home environment and transplanting them in a home where they were completely strange because the situation was completely foreign to them, the Commonwealth could be engaging in a scheme to keep them in their own homes so that they could live in the environment to which they had been accustomed over the years. [More…]

• I again ask honourable senators to bear in mind that there are 807,000 age pensioners in our community. [More…]

• Anyone who knows the training that social workers have to undergo in order to become au fail with and expert in the very magnificent and humane tasks they perform must wonder whether those 20 people left the Department laM year because of the frustrations they experienced in handling and coping with the problems of the aged section of the community. [More…]

• For years people have been crying out for a thorough investigation to be made of the problems of the aged in the Australian community. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that it is in the interests of not only the aged people in our community but indeed Australia itself, having regard to its reputation, that there should be a thorough inquiry into the provision of facilities and accommodation as well as health and other services for the aged persons in our community. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that the elderly people of Australia - the people who did so much in former years to make Australia what it is today and who have lived through 2 world wars and one depression - should be assisted as much as is humanly possible by government so that they can enjoy healthy, active and useful lives in the Australian community. [More…]

• The extent of the measure before the Senate is relatively short but its implications, particularly for certain sections of the Canberra community, are quite wide and have a quite substantial effect. [More…]

• My membership of that Committee has from time to time brought me into pretty close contact with various sections of public endeavour and public services in the Canberra community. [More…]

• He receives from time to time deputations, submissions and representations from sections of the community when they feel aggrieved by a proposal which will affect their daily lives and he interprets, quite well I suggest, the needs of the community and the implications to and the effects upon the community of any measures which are taken here. [More…]

• Therefore, honourable senators ought to br:ng their minds to bear upon the advisability and the suitability of increasing these fares and whether in fact in the prevailing circumstances this action might not have a detrimental effect upon the Canberra community in other directions. [More…]

• It is necessary to have that system related to what is happening in Canberra and other parts of Australia where public transportation will have to be provided absolutely free to he community. [More…]

• Surely it would be completely unacceptable to an enlightened community if it were to bc suggested that, because a family, through economic circumstances, was not able to provide the funds to enable a child to get to school, that child was to be denied for the rest of his life something which otherwise he might have had. [More…]

• It has always been my view - I see no reason whatever to move from this position - that, if we can educate a person to the full extent of his intellectual capacity, make him a complete person and enable him to rise to his full height and dignity in the community, his future life is enhanced considerably, and not only is the benefit conferred upon him but the community itself benefits by 9 or 10 times the extent to which he benefits. [More…]

• I believe that, if we deal in that way with the question of education or, to come right down to this minuscule question, 5c per bus trip, we are failing to lake account of all the co-related factors which go to make up the total life of a community. [More…]

• I believe that it would be the judgment of the community of Canberra at large that this approach is thoroughly bad. [More…]

• community believe, wilh a certain amount of validity, that once this Government makes a decision and promulgates a regulation or ordinance that is the end of it. [More…]

• So, maybe, that is one of the very real reasons why we have not heard more from the local community. [More…]

• Already those people are loaded beyond the normal capacity of human beings to discharge their function in the community. [More…]

• Admittedly, he is a man who has worked in the field of university education but a man with great experience in the practical work in a community of running enterprises. [More…]

• I closed that part of my comments by saying that in the increasing independence of Australia, its increasing size and the increasing wish of the United Kingdom to become part of the European community, we are thrown much more upon our own resources and the focus of Australian nationalism and Australia’s consolidated interest must increasingly reside in Australia. [More…]

• I looked back through my old figures and found that in 1949-50 governments per se were taking in total, for government spending, 20 per cent of the resources available to the community. [More…]

• lt is common in debate, and has been for the last decade or more, to regard the States as being inferior in the type of work they do and in the type of impact that they make on the community, and as being merely the petty cash boys of the governmental systems of this community. [More…]

• Any alternative tax or group of taxes is neither collectively enough to give the States the total amount without a reimbursement formula nor would such taxes be of a quality that it would be fair for this community to impose. [More…]

• These were causing undesirable increases in the cost structure which affected not only the farming community and those engaged in secondary industry but also consumers generally. [More…]

• We know that the inquiries by Sir Garfield Barwick when he was AttorneyGeneral disclosed that across the whole range of commodities and services in this community undesirable restrictive practices were operating and that it was in the public interest that there be legislation to deal with these practices. [More…]

• Is this a fair dealing with the community which was told by its most distinguished Attorney-General in 1963 what was happening to it? [More…]

• We say that something must be done about it, and I think the community has come to this realisation. [More…]

• It is no longer acceptable for the Government to say to the community that the reason for price increases is that the trade unions are villains, that they are asking for increases in wages and this is the sole or only substantial cause of price rises, or that if only the trade unions could be told not to ask for any wage increases there would be no further trouble. [More…]

• The suggestion seems to be that somehow the wage earners would be doing the right thing if they asked for a decrease in their wages, that somehow this would provide an even better solution to the problems of the community. [More…]

• Perhaps as a temporary solution a better way to get money into the hands of the community and to overcome the lack of demand would be to put it into areas such as social services, by increasing pensions and so on, where it would not add to the cost structure. [More…]

• Much of the trouble in this community stems from a lack of efficiency. [More…]

• We should have far more planning by the Government, in consultation with the rest of the community, so that the community may know what is happening, so that it may be involved in the planning and so that it may make decisions for the future, confident of what the Government has in mind. [More…]

• A Labor government would establish a price justification tribunal to control the prices of basic commodities which are of general importance in the community or which affect the secondary structure of prices and costs. [More…]

• This was a time, leaving aside the tact that this was an emergency situation, during which there was a severe shortage of labour and the community was trying to restore itself. [More…]

• The notion is that such a system will be restricted to the basic commodities or to something which might affect generally the cost structure in the community. [More…]

• All these measures form a collection of legislative authority from which any government ought to endeavour to seek the administrative capacity to act on behalf of the people and to see that we have a scheme of price justification to put alongside the system of wage justification, so long as this is the approach taken by the community. [More…]

• Yet its price increase affected the basic cost price structure throughout the community. [More…]

• It is the problem of corporations being able to act arbitrarily, the problem that there is no body which can look to see the justification for the determination of these prices which greatly affect the economics of this community. [More…]

• Every part of our community suffers from this. [More…]

• Let the committee say what the position is and let it recommend any legislative or administrative measures that might be thought necessary to deal with the kinds of prices which affect the community generally. [More…]

• This problem is of great importance to a great trading nation where the ravages of inflation impact severely upon the productive and thrifty people in the community, and upon the trading future of a great trading country. [More…]

• I am a person of such years that I can remember very clearly 1948 and 1949 and the bank nationalisation proposal, and saying to Labor Party people both in the Parliament and in the community: ‘You have no mandate to carry out bank nationalisation*. [More…]

• All I am saying is that as a community we have to achieve an efficient resource utilisation in order to make the best of things. [More…]

• I know of no problem that engages the attention of the nation more today than the question of the state of the Australian economy and the inflationary situation in which we find ourselves and its impact on all sections of the community. [More…]

• No doubt exists that these 2 matters are causing great concern and bewilderment to the community. [More…]

• When lawyers get together to draft specialist legal concepts in their own inimitable legal jargon it is time for members of the community in life, limb and pocket to consider themselves in peril. [More…]

• I also understand that the next test of the millenium is when the community as such by way of real wages has increasing real wages - that is increasing real purchasing power, and increasing at a rate higher than other countries and where in fact the distribution of wealth is egalitarian across the board. [More…]

• They know - those of them who are listening tonight can judge me when I next come up for election - that every wage increase they receive which is not matched by an increase in productivity takes from them the standard of living that they want to enjoy, and that every advantage they gain, in terms of increased leave, which is not matched by an expansion of the economy and an expansion of production only makes it more difficult for the pensioners and superannuitants on their fixed incomes to survive in our community as it is today. [More…]

• We know that we cannot stop progress, but this matter of poor quality goods stings the community at large, whether it is related to Crosby casual shoes or some other product. [More…]

• The farmer has produced more per man for less return than any other section of the community. [More…]

• If the farmer adopted the same policy, outlook or attitude towards his work as do the great majority of other people in the community, most of them would have been Walking down the road long ago. [More…]

• There is in the community, I believe, at the present lime a strong sentiment, to which I for my part subscribe with firm conviction, that it is just not correct to place all or nearly all of the blame- [More…]

• One of the amendments which we on this side had attempted to introduce into the Trade Practices Act was designed to meet that sort of immoral conduct which is prevalent throughout the community. [More…]

• As the Senate is well aware, action was taken to gag a debate which was proceeding on Senator Murphy’s advocacy that a standing committee investigate the determination of prices and the methods of fixing prices which affect the structure of costs in the Australian community and recommend legislative or administrative measures that might be taken. [More…]

• He and the Party behind him gave senators very little opportunity to speak on this very important matter which refers mainly to inflation within the community which in turn is posed by the Opposition as a problem arising from unjustified price rises. [More…]

• I see it as one of the great employers of labour within the Australian community, one of those companies which have a truly Australian flavour, with very nearly total Australian ownership, and one which has taken a most responsible attitude towards the Australian community over the years. [More…]

• For instance, members of the Opposition suggest that there should be some investigation of the prices of companies which are involved in basic commodities which are of importance in the price structure in the community. [More…]

• No, but I do know that of every $1 profit that company made it ploughed back 50 per cent into the affairs of the Commonwealth for the benefit generally of those less fortunate in the Australian community. [More…]

• Would its inquiries be based on discussions related to stabilisation schemes which you, Mr Deputy President, and I are so interested to see supported in the community? [More…]

• It may proclaim today that its investigations would be into large corporations, but of necessity the investigations would flow into the production and costs of small companies, and it would be as big a threat to the Australian community as the disintegrated policies which have been spelt out by the Labor Party over the years. [More…]

• The undue haste with which the Commonwealth Police decided this appeal would be heard and the undue haste with which he was tried without proper opportunity in Bendigo to consult legal advice, is something that would not be done to the most hardened criminal in the community. [More…]

• I want the Attorney-General to have a complete investigation made of the circumstances I have outlined tonight and to give this lad full and ample opportunity to prepare the appeal he has lodged so that we do not have a situation in future where he can on 2 occasions at least be forced into conducting an appeal in a court without the opportunity of the advice that any person in this community is able to obtain and have the protection of the courts to obtain. [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…]

• At a meeting of the chairmen of agencies which advise the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) on support for the arts, it was agreed that our programmes should have the following broad aims: The promotion of a standard of excellence over the whole field of the arts; 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 the presentation of Australia’s cultural achievements abroad. [More…]

• As the Minister said, as we live now in a more sophisticated and better educated community when jury trials, apart from the coram jursidiction, are subs’antially disappearing, with lay people bringing their minds and jugments to matters in courts, because these people are better equipped and better educaed and are able to make a better assessment, even within the refinemen’.s of evidence as it is presented, it is not necessary to surround the adduction of evidence with all the formalism that formerly was attached to it. [More…]

• That is, if the evidence under the old principles would not have been strictly admissable, if it comes in under some new principle it is left then to these new qualifications found in the modern community to say, under judicial direction, that it has this weight or has not that weigh’. [More…]

• New approaches such as this approach in the Australian Capital Territory reflect changes that have been taking place in England over more recent and even more remote years, changes which have tended to bring the laws of evidence into a modern format and to make them more appropriate and relevant to the modern community. [More…]

• I can only hope that we will be able to discharge the task of dealing with the measure clause by clause before 3 1st March, which is the date by which the measure must pass through this chamber and the other chamber if the Territory is to avoid being without a law of evidence adequate for the purposes of a growing community. [More…]

• The community is pretty well satisfied that these documents are kept in a satisfactory way. [More…]

• Every layman and every lawyer knows that so absurd are our matrimonial laws - they are held in such low regard by the community; they are so completely out of tune with modern reality - that they are flouted day in and day out by respectable people who otherwise would never think of telling lies, let alone telling lies on oath. [More…]

• There are some much married people in the community and therefore a wide range of protection is afforded. [More…]

• T think that the clause with which we are dealing is one about which, if extended throughout Australia or perhaps even left in this Bill, we are certainly going to hear a great deal more in the community. [More…]

• It has not created the situation which he is fearful may occur in a small community like the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• But if the police receive such material I think it is only appropriate in the interests of the community that that person should have to face his trial. [More…]

• The prerogative of mercy has been exercised in this field with what I would think was fairly general satisfaction to the sense of justice of the whole community. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I think that we have reached a stage where the greater part of our community thinks that it would be far better if the state were to set the proper example and to say that it will abolish this form of punishment and do that in the general public interest not only on grounds of humanity but also because of the example that it sets to all citizens. [More…]

• Let me add that all members of the community who have a potential for crimes of violence would be deterred, and the police would have that encouragement which comes from justice in that al least they would feci that their assailant had the deterrent of capital punishment if he thought that he would murder a policeman whose duty it is to secure him and arrest him. [More…]

• So, there was no penalty whatever to deter this life sentence murderer from taking such revenge or such action as he saw fit against tho.>e people in society who were discharging their duty of protecting the rest of the community. [More…]

• As far as I am concerned in this human race of ours we might as well take an example from some of the lower order of animals which get rid of parts of their community which are not worth while. [More…]

• I know that he is thinking of the welfare of the community. [More…]

• I think he believes that in having this Bill on the statute book he will be improving the quality of life in the community. [More…]

• When he settled in Queensland at the end of the war he quickly became prominent in community affairs and was well known, amongst other things, as Sea Scouts Commissioner for Queensland and New Guinea. [More…]

• Even then, although he was aging, he did a lot of community work. [More…]

• Apparently the legislation has been introduced as part of comprehensive government measures to effect an increase in the number of people employed in the community and to activate businessmen into earlier decision regarding the ordering, receival and installation of plant and equipment than may have applied in current years had this allowance not been available generally to manufacturers. [More…]

• members of Parliament, to make us believe that a Federal government of a Labor complexion is to be resisted by all businessmen in this community. [More…]

• Dealing with some of the economic problems and the basis of concern in the business community, I believe that the Government must be alert at the present time to the influence of high taxation in the community. [More…]

• The Government should see that the Public Service wages and salaries bill is not beyond the means of the community to support it. [More…]

• Interest rates must be examined carefully if the Government is to promote a strong economic climate in the community. [More…]

• I am dissatisfied with the answers that have been given in relation to the level of interest rates in the community. [More…]

• was said that if a measure like this were to be reintroduced it would be necessary to give businesses a lead time in which to place orders; and thereby stimulate manufacturing within the community. [More…]

• If we are to encourage employment in our community, if we are to maintain our high rate of employment, if we are to sustain the high wages that have been granted to employees in our manufacturing industries and if we are to be able to compete on overseas markets that are new to this country, it will be necessary to find other measures to encourage efficiency in our manufacturing industries. [More…]

• Surely the burden of my earlier comments is that in this community we should encourage higher profits from every organisation if this can be achieved by greater efficiency. [More…]

• One thing I said to many of them - I repeat it - was that to a degree it is the fault of the business and the manufacturing community that this kind of action is taken because, in my belief, the business and manufacturing community has failed to contribute its quota of experienced people to the Parliament and to the Cabinet. [More…]

• It was interesting to find that 16 of the 27 came from the legal fraternity or from the rural community. [More…]

• When one looked in the list of the Cabinet for people who belonged to the business community, who had experience in manufacturing or- in administering large organisations, one found that one would be lucky to find perhaps two people who could claim to have had that experience. [More…]

• I believe that a parliament and a cabinet to a degree should be a cross-section of the community. [More…]

• I believe, therefore, that the Parliament and the Government suffer from the fact that the business community has not contributed its quota in those sectors. [More…]

• When members of the business and manufacturing community complain to me, as they frequently do, that they cannot get their case put, that they are unable to have adequate consideration given to their views, my answer to them is that perhaps the community is getting value. [More…]

• I say straight out that I believe that the business and manufacturing community have let the side down by not playing their part in the legislative and representative sphere. [More…]

• They have neglected completely their obligation to provide their quota, the same as other organisations in the community. [More…]

• When a government lacks the necessary admixture of that type of person the tendency is for the bureaucrat to take over and to make decisions as a bureaucrat, rather than for the decisions to be made by a person who has to answer to the rest of the community. [More…]

• I believe that this will be a good thing for the business community. [More…]

• But I say again to the business community and the manufacturing community: If you expect to have your interests reasonably regarded, it is necessary for you to provide a quota from your area for the Parliament, rather than think, perhaps, that because you make a donation at election time your interests will be safeguarded. [More…]

• It will be recalled by honourable senators that earlier in the day I received a reply in response to a series of questions I had asked about measures which the Government could take in an endeavour to get some idea of the possible onset of economic difficulties in sections of the community so that some government institution could be set up to deal with it. [More…]

• Various assessments are made of trends within the community so as to provide some forewarning of the onset of economic difficulties of the type that this country has been through in fairly recent times. [More…]

• This raises the question of other allowances to assist other sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• If the Government is to assist the whole Australian community rather than a relatively small and particular section of industry and activity throughout Australia it ought to be looking at taxation in a much broader context than is dealt with in this Bill before us. [More…]

• A further benefit of employment of this kind is that it introduces them into the Australian community in a way which is familiar to them and on a level that is known to them. [More…]

• When we investigate other sections of the community and see that prices can be increased and that inflation has a snowballing effect, the claim that the workers are the cause of the problem sounds pretty hollow. [More…]

• The chemical industry has, over the past few years, reached a situation whereby it is producing less profit on its shareholders’ funds than the average industry in the community. [More…]

• What must be taken into account by the Government and by the wool industry is the calculation by, I think, the Committee of Economic Inquiry that the disadvantage created by the Government’s policy or by protective policies in the community represented some 8 per cent of the wool industry’s costs. [More…]

• This country witnessed a situation in which the whims of overseas buyers - it has seen the same thing in relation to the whims of overseas sellers - could create disaster in a community. [More…]

• Indeed, a large sector of the Australian retailing community would be most anxious to see the doors opened so that overseas materials might be imported. [More…]

• On the strength of the legislation which was encouraged and spoken of in the community, to a large extent we have defeated that situation because we know now that the average large retailer is not permitted to enter into that type of arrangement with a manufacturer. [More…]

• I believe that those comments are not in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• But it follows through that some of the statements which have come from the Tariff Board are not in the best interests of this community. [More…]

• But something is creeping into the Tariff Board which I believe is having a direct influence on the economic health of the Australian community. [More…]

• I am fearful as to what the result will be in respect of some of the most vital and important industries in the Australian community. [More…]

• These are industries upon which so many of our other manufacturing industries are based or, in the case of textiles, these industries are the very basis of employment, particularly female employment in our community. [More…]

• Let me say this to Senator Greenwood: I hope that in our dealings with the United States and when discussing matters with the United States President it will not be infra dig for us to raise matters that concern a very important segment of the Australian community, particularly at a time when job security is not what it used to be. [More…]

• Having regard to the problems experienced by farmers in South Australia in hearing news broadcasts during the recent operation of daylight saving, will the Postmaster-General give consideration to leaving the actual time of news broadcasts and farmers’ sessions broadcast on regional stations in South Australia unchanged if daylight saving is introduced in South Australia next summer, to fit in with the working patterns of the farming community and so enable farmers to hear their broadcasts which otherwise are too early? [More…]

• That this conference expresses alarm at the growing tendency of certain sections of the community who resort to actions of organised violence and lawlessness at demonstrations in the streets and other places throughout Australia and that this motion be brought to the attention of all members of Parliament throughout Australia. [More…]

• Whether the problems with which it is concerned are to be met simply by the provision of financial assistance is not a matter upon which I can give any final answer, I believe that the important thing is to assure the police forces that they have the support of the community and, above all, that the leaders of the community - that is, members of Parliament and others - indicate to the police forces their support of them. [More…]

• Did a recent conference of Commonwealth and State Transport Ministers recommend the adoption of safety design rules for the construction and the use of passenger car tyres; if so, (a) is the Minister aware that some Commonwealth cars are fitted with recapped tyres which have a tendency to peel off, and (b) will the Minister ensure that all Commonwealth vehicles are checked for tyre safety and fitted with tyres which match their performances, so giving a lead to the rest of the community. [More…]

• It has been freely said in our community, particularly in farming circles, that we will be able to sell large quantities of wheat to Communist China provided we take action which some people call ‘recognition’ and for which others use the nicer phrase of ‘normalising relations’. [More…]

• The committees should see to it that the questions directed to the citizens who are before them are put in a manner which is compatible with the standards of fairness which exist in the community. [More…]

• I think that he ought to be afforded all the traditional protections which have been evolved in this community to surround a person who is on trial. [More…]

• We know that notwithstanding the separation of powers in this community we have incidental administration and judicial powers. [More…]

• She was told by the Aboriginal people on that settlement that mini skirts or skirts worn so short were regarded by the Aboriginal people in that community as immoral. [More…]

• They believe there are many things that should not be used by the mission’s community. [More…]

• This woman admits that she was not gaoled but was cautioned by the councillors of the community that to wear a skirt of that length was regarded by the Aboriginal people as being immoral. [More…]

• She was asked to lower the hemline of the skirt, as other members of the female community had done. [More…]

• This, I think, is a tremendous disgrace, when he is the first member of the Aboriginal community to be elected to a Parliament in this country. [More…]

• I have now been given the question to ask on behalf of Aborigines who want to know what their rights are in this community. [More…]

• We wish to see a standard of education available to all members of our community regardless of whether they are black or white. [More…]

• Senator BONNER (Queensland)- I have been misquoted by Senator Keeffe in that he said I represented the Aboriginal community of Queensland. [More…]

• Surely the world should not be informed maliciously and falsely that a man of his standing in the community plays Aborigines off as political issues. [More…]

• I have not suggested forcing anyone to have this, but only to make it free to those who ask for it, when it is clearly in the community interest not to have multitudes of problem families. [More…]

• I come back to the point that if false statements are made by members of the Australian Labor Party and if those statements can be nailed and proved to be false, I believe that every member on the Government side owes it to the Australian community to nail them when he can. [More…]

• I draw attention to the fact that the questions asked posed a number of alternatives, and if one examines all those alternatives one sees that there is an overwhelming majority of the community who feel that some penalty, deprivation or compulsion should be imposed upon persons who do not undertake their national service. [More…]

• Equally a problem has arisen in access to a new market in the European Economic Community as against a perhaps shrinking market in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• In other words - I wish to make this clear - government must provide education for all and not for one section of the community. [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…]

• There has been over the years fairly strong argument by the opponents of State aid as though the principles of State aid were some unique principles which cut across the general attitude of governments and the community to religion. [More…]

• Throughout the whole of our community, governments and the community have recognised that many people express the desire throughout their day in various occupations to absorb and to associate with religious doctrines as well as with secular action. [More…]

• The community was entitled to believe, if it wanted to, that the hand that held the scalpel might indeed be better in both its spiritual and its medical philosophy if it had within the 24 hours of the day a concept of religion as well. [More…]

• This community is bound to observe these rights whether they be in relation to hospitals or whether money is provided for homes for the aged, for child welfare or for social welfare. [More…]

• We are dealing with a whole community. [More…]

• We are dealing with an independent system which educates 22 per cent of the community and, in doing so, saves <he State and the taxpayer tens of millions of dollars by the voluntary contribution of parents to the independent system. [More…]

• Let anyone deny that this Government has not been brave and courageous in this field, with half the community breathing down our necks and saying that the tax scale today is too high. [More…]

• In our view, he shows an admirable conception of the need to treat children in this community not as 2 separate groups according to the type of school they attend but rather as young Australians who are all entitled to fair play. [More…]

• Apparently in those days there was a lack of trust among political leaders in the fair mindedness of the Australian community. [More…]

• So far as the general body of the community is concerned, gall up polls have shown that the great bulk of the Australian people are fairminded enough to endorse the principle that independent schools should obtain justice. [More…]

• But there .is a high quality of government schools in our community and a high standard of scholarship which is available to the students per medium of their teachers. [More…]

• But there is also in the independent school system the element of choice, elements of experimentation, elements of innovation and backgrounds of tradition, religious teaching and other connections which provide for some sections of the community the opportunity for a variation in expression and a variation of association as well as a greater range of subjects of learning and extra curricular activities. [More…]

• If it was carried it would undoubtedly make for contention and divisiveness within the community, particularly within the schools. [More…]

• After all, the system that exists at present has to respond and be responsible to the community at large and it has to measure up to the same kinds of State requirements and the same kinds of public examinations. [More…]

• However much a Labor government may wish to reduce students in all education systems to a common level, there is a desire on the part of a considerable section of the community that there should be within our education system this opportunity for the expression of an independent line of education and an independent administration of education. [More…]

• This is the area of community interest. [More…]

• It was the best evidence that I have seen in recent times of community interest, co-operation and personal sacrifice not only to the members of their own families but also to the education community at large. [More…]

• If all commercial broadcasting stations adopted the type of programming arranged in the Brian White programme, the Australian community would be very well served by the commercial broadcasting system. [More…]

• Has the personal decision of the Minister for Civil Aviation to permit the Concorde’s entry into Aus tralia caused considerable community con*cern, particularly in the areas close to Mascot and Tullamarine? [More…]

• The Government recognises the significant contribution made by air/sea rescue organisations and similar community service groups. [More…]

• In addition to requests from similar community service organisations, it could be expected that other groups in the community, who believe they have special grounds for exemption, would feel justified in renewing previous requests for concessions. [More…]

• The Department considers existing arrangements for the sponsorship of overseas students by community organisations are generally working well and that no changes are warranted at this time. [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. [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 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, therefore, will be to make immediate provision for Commonwealth staffing of the two school systems for the Northern Territory, that is, the community schools conducted by the Department of Education and Science, 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 of the community it serves. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has said that he 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…]

• The Department is, at present, responsible for the operation of community schools in the Northern Territory and, as such, is an authority under clause 1 6 (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…]

• I do not know whether this is because of petty jealousies where a district thinks it is getting a raw deal and that another section of the farming community is getting a better deal. [More…]

• Members of Parliament know, and 1 suspect that the journalists who write the articles know, that the enormous amount of time that is involved in representing the people of the community in their Parliament has no ida.tionship whatsoever to the number of days on which the Parliament actually meets. [More…]

• Another aspect of this legislation which has stimulated some argument in the community is whether an owner of 200 hives or more should have the right to vote in this matter. [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 certain deprecate and deplore the activities which are occurring among members of that community in Australia. [More…]

• The Grants-in-Aid are planned to cover the basic administrative costs of the Councils in order that they may most effectively co-ordinate voluntary community effort in the integration of new settlers. [More…]

• Financial assistance is also made available to Good Neighbour Councils under the scheme administered by my Department whereby a grant amounting to some $8,000 annually is provided to community agencies engaged in a direct service to the migrant community, to provide for the employment of a qualified social worker and associated costs. [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…]

• for 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; and [More…]

• It is the opinion of the Labor Party that education ought to be regarded, if it is not so regarded, as a profession; that the people engaged in teaching in the primary and secondary schools of this country are performing one of the most valuable occupations within the community; and that there ought to be a level of expertise possessed by teachers at least equal to the expertise which is required of lawyers, doctors, architects and members of other learned professions. [More…]

• We also believe that as education is a concern of practically everybody in the community there should be in addition to the commission to which we have already referred an advisory council to assist the commission in its deliberations. [More…]

• It has a responsibility, first of all, in the Northern Territory for its community schools and Aboriginal schools; it has a responsibility in the Australian Capital Territory for its government schools; and it has other quite significant responsibilities for teachers, some of whom have been appointed already - the number is growing - both in Papua New Guinea and elsewhere. [More…]

• The arrangement proposed by the Bill gives the commission an enormous flexibility to draw upon the whole community. [More…]

• Therefore, teachers have recourse, as is the case in other sections of the community, to the arbitral processes to settle any disputes, assuming that they have gone that far. [More…]

• The fourth paragraph of the amendment paragraph (d) says that the Bill should provide: for the provision of an advisory council to assist the commission, this council to be representative of the community and of educational research and of administrative bodies; . [More…]

• They include the community schools and the special Aboriginal schools. [More…]

• I detect both in the second reading speech of the Minister and in what has been said by speakers in this debate tonight some sort of extension of that principle into a suggestion that the teaching service which is being set up by this Bill should not in any way concern itself with the actual training of teachers but should be content to draw on the other sources which are at present available in the community; they are the universities, colleges of advanced education, teacher colleges and so on. [More…]

• The Department of Education and Science is at present responsible for the operation of community schools in the Northern Territory and as such is an authority under the Bill. [More…]

• After all, there is widespread movement in the community for participation, especially in spheres such as education, of wide layers of the community. [More…]

• The larger corporations in this community do not insist on anything like this, and I suggest that it is out of date for this Government to be doing this sort of thing. [More…]

• In the Northern Territory, the other mainland Territory of the Commonwealth, we have community schools. [More…]

• Those figures relate to the community schools in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• for the provision of an advisory council to assist thi commission, this council to be representative of the community and of educational research and administrative bodies. [More…]

• An advisory committee of thai sort recruited from the community and the other bodies referred to would be quite appropriate to those authorities which actually conduct the schools, prescribe their curricula and subjects, set out the standards and conditions of entry and such like. [More…]

• Without a scrap of evidence members of the Croatian community have been convicted by this journal, and certain members of the socialist Left of the Australian Labor Party in Victoria, of being fascist terrorists. [More…]

• There is a good deal of evidence from the Yugoslav Croatian community that Jurjevic has threatened some of his compatriots who disagree with him with deportation when the Labor Party comes to power, lt looks as though they will be staying here for a long time. [More…]

• There is a widely held belief in the Melbourne Croatian community that the bomb which recently exploded at his Carlton flat was put there by himself. [More…]

• The crux of the article in the Sunday Review* to which Senator Hannan referred was not on A or B but on the unmistakeable fact that there have been at least a dozen attacks with the use of explosives to demolish the residences of Yugoslavs who had little or no time for people using the veneer - and t use that word - of anti-communism in order to smear every other person in the Slav community who differed with them and were largely of the moderate section of the Yugoslav community. [More…]

• Senator Hannan knows - and I think we would agree on this point - that between the wars the Yugoslav community was centred largely or initially on Broken Hill and Kalgoorlie and that it had a very excellent record. [More…]

• But many of the moderate Slav community want to see some of these people gaoled. [More…]

• I come back to members of the Slav community. [More…]

• I challenge you to find one case where somebody to the left and centre in the Slav community has been arrested for any extreme cases. [More…]

• There are many black people in this community who say that they make complaints to Senator Bonner and write to him but cannot get replies to their letters. [More…]

• If the Government wants to clean up this organisation and make it a real Aboriginal organisation instead of one that is going to serve the Uncle Toms in the community then I shall be the first to help. [More…]

• It related to the problems which I hope will not develop in this country of disputes among members of the Yugoslav community which certainly resulted in 2 bomb explosions in Melbourne last Friday morning. [More…]

• If they are to be pursued in the forms of violence of which we have seen instances, this strikes at something which undermines what we all regard as being most precious in our community. [More…]

• He has given chapter and verse of a defamatory allegation which is being used as part of a political campaign by some with the, purpose of smearing the Croatian community simply because the Croatian community in this country is a vigorous anti-communist community. [More…]

• 1 do not think the sneers which have come from Senator Keeffe are worthy of a parliament which is genuinely si riving to achieve the best for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• These are people of integrity who have status in the community. [More…]

• As a result of the survey, does the Government intend taking any further action towards getting better coverage of the underprivileged section of the community by way of the subsidised medical service? [More…]

• I ask: Will the inquiry include a full scale investigation of federal estate taxes and gift duties and their disastrous effects on the community and while that expert body is in existence will the Government offer the services of that expert body to the various State governments with the object of it inquiring into their probate and succession duties and the disastrous effects of those duties on the community? [More…]

• If any more particularised information becomes available to me I will be delighted to make it available not only to the Senate but also to the community at large. [More…]

• If people feel badly enough about a community problem and several hundred of them put their signatures to a petition - sometimes several thousands - they must want something to be done about that particular problem. [More…]

• Indeed, the review supports my belief that the scheme will be of real longterm benefit to all Australians, not just the farming community. [More…]

• Traditional fiancial 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…]

• On the other band, increased monopolisation can be to the disadvantage of the public - in most cases it is to their disadvantage - and that is something that most people in our community consider undesirable. [More…]

• The transport industry is one of the most important industries in the community life of any nation, lt is something over which all governments with any sense of responsibility at all times must exercise a very close supervisory interest. [More…]

• It is quite unsatisfactory that takeovers of corporations which have a tremendous effect on the trade and commerce of this community should be allowed to go on in the way that is happening now. [More…]

• The first is to try to build up within the Australian community a notion that the only cause of rising costs is the militant unions - the over-active unions - and not Government policy. [More…]

• But let us have a look at how those stoppages have worked out in their repercussions on the general community. [More…]

• I will need to make a value judgment, when I see the cost figures, in relation to the benefit which the Australian community may have obtained from that programme. [More…]

• He talked also about day hospitals, community health centres and paramedical services, all of which have yet to be costed. [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…]

• 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…]

• This has been done in the interests of the general community following the misuse by some people of a power that they suddenly realised they had against the community at large. [More…]

• Trade unions are composed of ordinary, normal human beings; our trade union officials are no better and no worse than other members of the community. [More…]

• University administrators have not enforced the normal community standards that are provided by law. [More…]

• If that privilege is given to one section of the community it should be given to all sections. [More…]

• But let them be warned that if ever we get a government - of whatever political complexion - with enough moral courage to stand up to the situation, that government will see that Acts are passed to terminate the capacity of public servants to rob the rest of the community of money that they have not earned. [More…]

• If this legislation is used for the purpose that the Government has defined and if it is not misused in accordance with the fears which are being expressed by the unions - we see no intent on the part of the Government at this point to misuse it and I am conscious of the fact that any government that did so misuse it would very rapidly cease to be a government in a community such as ours - we feel that at this point of time it should pass. [More…]

• How can a community tolerate a situation in which a group of employees or a union dictates communication policy? [More…]

• The situation was one that no government and no community could tolerate. [More…]

• Contrary to the intention of this Bill as stated by the Minister - that is the settlement of disputes and other incidents undefined - this Bill will give rise to unnecessary irritation and disputation in the Public Service to the disadvantage of those employed in the Service and to the community as a whole. [More…]

• The manner in which industries are interwoven is such that strikes are to the detriment of the public interest and to the community generally at the present time. [More…]

• If it is desirable to have more closely knit or comparable incomes, the Commonwealth has the responsibility by means of taxation to reduce salary levels to an equitable standard throughout the community. [More…]

• If the Attorney-General wants to accuse the Western Australian Government of encouraging a breach of the law merely because it is allowing a young man to attend a university one afternoon a week, then 1 suggest that the Commonwealth Government by not taking action against the Rhodesian Information Centre is deliberately encouraging others to peddle propaganda throughout this community. [More…]

• With relatively few exceptions, the community at large gained considerable benefit from this development. [More…]

• It seems evidence shows the appellant is a conscientious individual doing good work in the community,. [More…]

• The TPI pensioner, who is a person who has suffered to the extent that he is no longer able to be employed in the community, will receive approximately half or less than half of what is accepted as the average weekly wage in the Australian community. [More…]

• It runs in the university as throughout other sections, of the community. [More…]

• If what I have said is true, is the Government to permit this section of the community, over which it has full power at the present time to make any order through the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, to become separate from the rest of the community? [More…]

• As the honourable senator knows, the time that I have held the portfolio of Minister for Health would not allow me off the cuff to give the history of investigations which may or may not have taken place in the Department of Health in relation to the overall question of the nutritional standards of some 13 million people in the community. [More…]

• The need for social progress is particularly evident in such areas as personal and community hygiene and sanitation. [More…]

• What has to be understood is that whilst one can do all the nest things in the world in the way of providing medical care the real essence of the problem which exists in the Aboriginal community, particularly in relation to babies, is one of prevention of disease. [More…]

• But I am concerned - very concerned - with the general allegation which Senator Murphy has raised in premise, that is, that the nation ought to be alerted to the fact that there are groups in this community which will seek to manipulate the democratic processes for ends of which Australia would not approve. [More…]

• I also regret that I have not been able to make a statement about it earlier, but I assure Senator Murphy, as I assure the Senate, that the study which is being given to this matter is designed to unravel as many complexities in this area as possible so that the legislation will be strengthened, and also to ensure that it is legislation with which people can work in a manner consistent with the objectives of promoting competition and the benefits which flow from competition to the community. [More…]

• In addition, it is planning to introduce an on-call telephone interpreter service to provide, in the languages causing the greatest problems, a 24- hour service for urgent community needs. [More…]

• In addition to these, one must have regard to the fact that there is an extension of migrant education services - and interpreters are part of this extension - in the community at large in a variety of places which provide interpreters such as banks. [More…]

• In 1971 the Department of Immigration completed an Australia-wide survey of interpreter needs in the community. [More…]

• Bui I do believe that if leading people in the community, particularly the Leader of the Opposition Party and many of his supporters, were to be giving encouragement to Jaw breaking, giving encouragement to action which is contemptuous of the lawful processes and generally creating an atmosphere in the community that one can resist the National Service Act with impunity they would be encouraging lawlessness. [More…]

• I would assert also that it is important that in this country we should recognise that university students are not different from members of the community and that university premises are not different from other public places to which the people may resort and upon which the police may go in order to pursue their inquiries. [More…]

• I think we would look a bit stupid in the eyes of the Australian community if we changed course suddenly because Sir Henry Bolte or another Premier had decided that he would take some action within the area of his own competence. [More…]

• In the intervening years the Senate has taken on a completely new significance which is of very great importance to the Australian community. [More…]

• The Senate has been engaged on some of the most searching and interesting inquiries possible into all aspects of human life and performance in the Australian community, lt has gone to very great pains at times to get all the information that is available. [More…]

• It seems to me that the great omission in all of this has been that while we have, as I have said, gone to great pains to prepare our reports and to give to the community at large the benefit of the judgments we have made on the basis of all the information available to us we have never had an opportunity to come back to the Senate and debate, justify and spell out the reasons why we have made these judgments. [More…]

• But it seems to me that, although so many honourable senators from this chamber are becoming more and more deeply involved in committee work, the value of that work is not really being made known to the community at large. [More…]

• In that way everybody in the community will know the reasons why certain decisions are reached. [More…]

• There are those in the community who believe that honourable senators come here occasionally in autumn and spring and then go home for a form of agistment. [More…]

• I have heard it said thai the debts of State governments in the past several years - certainly in the postwar years - have increased fourfold, seriously diminishing the ability of that level of government adequately to perform its proper function in the community. [More…]

• Surely this position must suggest to any thinking person who is concerned for the welfare of the 3 levels of government in Australia that the time has arrived, if it has not passed, for a get-together of the 3 elements of government in Australia to attempt to arrive at a proper basis of judgment of the constitutional limitations of those 3 levels and the means which may be found to enable them adequately to discharge their functions in the community. [More…]

• Surely no honourable senator or any thinking person in the Australian community would consider for a moment that the 3 levels of government are able adequately to discharge their allotted functions. [More…]

• Surely it is the responsibility of government to attempt to establish some proper form of balance in the area of revenue raising which would not unduly burden certain sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• I know it is not accepted, yet it is a fact that in the Australian community there are areas of poverty. [More…]

• The consideration that should be given ought to be a type of consideration which can be demonstrated to every man, woman and child in the community in order to show that the particular situation is accepted in the total Commonwealth context, and some adjustment should be made to off-set that disability. [More…]

• the whole matter will be revealed to the community as it should be. [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…]

• My question which is addressed to the Attorney-General arises from correspondence which I have received from Mr N. S. Manos, the president of the Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia Incorporated. [More…]

• I think that the interest which the Senate has indicated is reflected throughout the community. [More…]

• The subject is of very great importance to any person who is interested in the Australian business community as well as to many other citizens. [More…]

• I suggest that what has been said by Senator Murphy - indeed, what has been said also by Senator Douglas McClelland and Senator McAuliffe - is just so much humbug to the Australian community. [More…]

• In fact, 40 per cent of that investment came from the United States of America and no doubt it has been of significant benefit both to the business community and the private citizens of Australia. [More…]

• I would dearly love to see this community with the capacity to control every Australian company and every Australian industry, but I certainly believe that private citizens should have the right to accept an offer if it is made. [More…]

• Finding that this policy is not popular with the community, they now turn to this matter to try to say that they are consistent. [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…]

• The traditional activities of this body in those areas of physical, mental and spiritual uplifting was impaired by the attitudes of various ethnic groups and individuals in the local community. [More…]

• Young men who have shown ability as leaders in the community have been further involved in YMCA activities and have been given advanced training in the National YMCA’s Youth Leadership College in my State of Victoria. [More…]

• The community and business leaders in the Territory, and in Port Moresby in particular, have been encouraged by the grassroots work which the YMCA conducted to supply funds for the continuing work of the YMCA. [More…]

• But is someone to have the worst type of Aboriginal community dwelling placed next to him because he is prepared to champion a cause? [More…]

• In view of the fact that I was informed on the morning of 11th April 1972 by the office of the Minister for Primary Industry that Professor Grant has not tendered a report on his inquiry into wine excise and its effect on the community, will the Minister advise the Senate (a) who authorised the Federal member for Angas, Mr Giles to make a statement, reported in the ‘Advertiser’ of Saturday, 8th April 1972, predicting that wine excise would be substantially reduced, (b) did Mr Giles have access to Professor Grant’s report to enable him to make this prediction; if so, will the same privileges be granted to other members of the Parliament who are vitally interested in this matter. [More…]

• 10% of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• There is no special privilege for anyone in the community in problems such as this. [More…]

• One thing that comes through loud and clear in the Prime Minister’s statement relates to the Prime Minister’s philosophical approach to the general question of employment in the Australian community. [More…]

• Once again the Prime Minister has indicated his failure to appreciate the problems in the Australian community. [More…]

• In this statement, as always when the Prime Minister makes statements, great emphasis is placed upon the factor of wages in relation to the control of the national economy, but it is significant that the Prime Minister gives scant regard to the factors upon which wages are based, that is, the costs of goods and services in the community. [More…]

• It is manifestly unfair for anybody to promote that thought in the community when so many people know that it is not the true situation. [More…]

• Right at this very point in our history leading people in the Australian community - church people and people in responsible positions in our society - are drawing attention to the very great problems of the less privileged and the underprivileged people in our community. [More…]

• If that is not an acknowledgement of a serious economic situation in sections of the community, I do not know what is. [More…]

• As I have said, what was decided on that occasion was that other things in the way of increased borrowings for local government and semi-government instrumentalities in the metropolitan areas, which are referred to specifically in the Bill, provided an opportunity for the amelioration of the suffering of distress and hardship of people in the Australian community. [More…]

• This had a relationship, which I fancy from memory the second reading speech of the Minister touched upon, to the downturn in the economic circumstances in the rural areas of the community. [More…]

• One can appreciate that the Government does have substantial difficulties in relation to the primary industry sector of the community and that it has taken measures which it believes, and I sincerely accept this, would relieve these problems. [More…]

• Too many good Australian families in this community of ours are not getting sufficient of this world’s goods while a limited number of people are getting too many. [More…]

• It is a question of distribution of the national wealth so that the whole of the Australian community is served and so that the benefit is not confined to the relative few who already have their share. [More…]

• It is not really a very funny matter for those people who are suffering hardship, who have families and who are not able to put those little things on the table that one would expect in this day of enlightenment, in this age, in this technological era when we hear so much about the benefits derived from what is happening in this community of ours being passed on to the community at large. [More…]

• If we have any sense of responsibility in relation to our obligations to the society around us there ought to be, and there has to be, a complete right across the board look at what is happening in the Australian community so that we have something in the way of an evening out. [More…]

• Yes, the whole community, but- [More…]

• While we on this side of the chamber approve these measures we feel that a more responsible attitude has to be taken to the whole general question of the affairs of the people in the Australian community. [More…]

• My Parry has had a particular interest in this area and I do not think it is unfair to say that the interests of the rural community should be a prominent part of the Country Party platform. [More…]

• Honourable senators may recall that through recent legislation the amount of exemption allowable to rural estates was raised by 20 per cent over that allowed to the general community. [More…]

• This is a benefit which has applied to a particular sector of the community. [More…]

• It is a blight on our community that for the past 40 or 50 years rural holdings have been broken in two and families have been divided. [More…]

• I have been asked by certain members of the Russian Orthodox community of Melbourne to bring before the Senate the question of a journal called ‘Voice of the Homeland’ which, as far as can be ascertained, is printed either in Communist East Germany or in some other Sovietdominated country. [More…]

• But Metropolitan Nikodim left earlier than it had been originally announced that he would leave when he found that his endeavours to divide the Russian Orthodox community had failed. [More…]

• It is notable that as a result of his firm stand against this attempt to divide the Russian Orthodox community and to set up a breakaway church here, he has been attacked and maligned by ‘Voice of the Homeland’ ever since. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government has it within its powers to assist this industry by quickly acceding to the request, not just of the company itself but also of a committee representing all sections of the community in Benalla, for consideration of the imposition of quantitative restrictions on cheap imports from overseas. [More…]

• A community of 8,000 people will lose something like 10 per cent of its number. [More…]

• When one takes into consideration the effect of the loss of this industry on education, hospital, medical and other facilities one can appreciate the situation in which this community will find itself. [More…]

• Early in March I received representations from the Mayor of Benalla concerning the effects on the local community of any major downturn in chain production at the Renold plant. [More…]

• The Immigration Project in which the Council is at present involved began in late 1967 as a 5- year study aimed at assessing the contribution made by immigrants to the Australian community since World War II, and studying the problems associated with this large-scale influx of people. [More…]

• Whether the concern ought to be reflected in the provisions of legislation ls difficult to answer because the legislation only reflects the needs of the community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: In view of the Prime Minister’s proposals at the moment to stimulate the economy, will he agree to raise again the question of child care centres with the Cabinet so that the Commonwealth can play a meaningful role in the immediate provision of these essential community facilities? [More…]

• However, we dug sufficiently to realise that the problem is one of great magnitude for the community, particularly those who are vitally affected by the Committee’s recommendations. [More…]

• I am particularly concerned about handicapped children in the Australian community. [More…]

• It would be of enormous benefit to them and to the community generally. [More…]

• If the Commonwealth could see its way clear through the proposed co-ordinating division of rehabilitation to set up proper, efficient and modern rehabilitation units on a regional basis, obviously there would be a great improvement in rehabilitating people into the work force and into the community in general. [More…]

• The second consideration is that this group of people, the mentally and physically handicapped, are unlike any other group in the community. [More…]

• It is very important that that should be done, no matter what we as a community have to put up with in the form of some compulsion being exerted upon us. [More…]

• Another point which has been highlighted in the report and which I hope the Government will take up post-haste is the part that the imposition of a means test on the incomes of handicapped people plays in preventing them from making the enormous attempt, as it is to them, of becoming members of the community again in a true sense and of working at some form of employment for their own wellbeing as well as the wellbeing of the rest of the community. [More…]

• The discouragement is probably not quite as obvious to those of us who have not had to face the challenge as it is to anybody who has been through the situation of seeing before him years in which he realises that he is handicapped by comparison to other people in the community; yet these people are being asked to learn skills that may interfere with their right to the basic subsistence income which the pension provides to them. [More…]

• Indeed, it would be a very worthwhile investment of public funds if people who are so handicapped were to know right from the very beginning that the pension they get is, as with the example stated in the report of a pension to a blind person, theirs by right to balance their life alongside another person who is not so handicapped, that we as a community accept a responsibility towards their handicap and that we will help to adjust the difference between ourselves and them by the payment of a certain amount to begin with and what they earn over and above that is theirs by right. [More…]

• That in itself is a justifiable reason why the public purse should help to spread the load over the whole of the community. [More…]

• I believe that we should try to rehabilitate them into our community and that the means test in this respect could well be forgotten. [More…]

• The remarkable advances in medical treatment, rehabilitation procedures and techniques of education surely will contribute towards an era in which mentally ill or retarded people will be able to become useful and satisfied citizens in the community instead of just being left to languish in institutions and homes. [More…]

• Perhaps some of them might well have been grouped together for the purposes of general description, but I think it was important that a Senate committee which was charged with bringing to the Senate a story on this very sensitive and needy area in our community should put down clearly and in detail, even if it involved as many as 85 recommendations, the feelings of the committee so that they would be clear to the Government and to the community at large. [More…]

• More handicapped people within our community are becoming increasingly aware of their potential. [More…]

• The occasion highlighted the fact that there needs to be not only greater Government awareness; if we proclaim that there should be greater Government awareness surely we should call for greater community awareness, greater community involvement and a greater sense of community responsibility. [More…]

• This report highlights the work of voluntary organisations and the needs of people, and calls over and over again for increasing awareness of the problems by the community at large. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall from their reading of the report that domiciliary nurses, or people who are engaged in domiciliary nursing, form part of what we call the community health team in which the general practitioner provides the essential continuity to the health care for each individual and family whilst domiciliary nurses operating from either a hospital or a community based service ensure that specialised nursing is available in the home when necessary. [More…]

• As 1 said earlier, it is a way in which they can play a satisfying and meaningful part in our community. [More…]

• They arc able to obtain employment and lend a relatively normal life in the community. [More…]

• But, at the same time, they do have a great claim on the assistance of the hearing community. [More…]

• If we expect the Government to do things for these people, there is equally a call for the community to show a greater awareness. [More…]

• I think she was fortified by a lengthy career attached to various groups that were aimed at improving the sectors of the community that have suffered these terrific hardships. [More…]

• Senator MURPHY (New South WalesLeader of the Opposition)’ - We are all grateful to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare for the admirable report which it has presented to the Senate on a subject of great importance to the whole community and of special importance to persons who are physically or mentally handicapped and those associated with them. [More…]

• In the rounding off of the figures in relation to what the Commonwealth will collect in one full year as a result of this conversion I think that 3c in every $1,000 is being taken off the annual income of the community from excise and customs duties collected. [More…]

• This matter has been brought to the notice of the Government by not only Senator Keeffe and Senator Poyser but also other people in the community. [More…]

• There are people in the community who wonder about this aspect. [More…]

• But perhaps more so than many other members of the Federal Parliament I have had a deep connection with the indigenous people and with expatriates who live in the Territory, in many instances expatriates who are devoted to the progress of the Territory in a manner which they think will be for the good of the community. [More…]

• He referred to attempts to equate a cash economy with general community living. [More…]

• There would have to be an onsite inspection of areas in which the poorer people in the community live. [More…]

• One of the references we have made to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare could well include an investigation into poverty in the community. [More…]

• More than anything else in the relief of distress in this community is there a need for people to communicate, to go to somebody who they believe is a person of some authority and reliability and, more important, to confide in him. [More…]

• What I am saying is that whilst I would of course be keenly interested in the undertaking given by the Minister for Social Services to raise with State Ministers for social welfare at a conference in Brisbane on 5th June this year one half of this motion - that is, the relationship, delineation and partnership of Commonwealth and State associations in this field of poverty - whilst I would support that, and whilst I would indeed support the concept of the Government’s setting up an inquiry, what 1 want to press is that we as a Parliament and we as a community should look not only to the material things - and I do not talk in any starryeyed way about this - but also to the intangible and abstract things of the community which in my judgment are far more important. [More…]

• What we have to understand as an Australian community is that most of these problems arise because of the isolation of the individual from a family or, if I may use the phrase, a tribal group, so that in adversity he is incapable of banding together with others and solving his problems. [More…]

• What these people need more than anything else is relatives or friends, or, in their absence, for the community to band together and help them. [More…]

• It is a job for voluntary organisations and for every member in the community. [More…]

• What we have done inside the Western community, including the Australian community, is to believe that we can solve human problems by institutional means. [More…]

• But this community which puts aside the aged, isolates them and virtually quarantines them has nothing to boast about. [More…]

• We must accept with a sense of shame that such a policy is destroying a most valuable and precious part of the community. [More…]

• They need warmth, friendship and to be gathered inside the community. [More…]

• But I shall spend a few minutes explaining what I mean by ‘community participation’. [More…]

• In recent months and years I have taken part in various discussions at various seminars with members of the medical profession who are feeling more and more that they are getting out of touch with the community. [More…]

• They feel that the fact that psychosomatic disease is developing so rapidly in the community is a reflection on their own practice of medicine. [More…]

• If they are to do their job properly they have to reach out into the community. [More…]

• They have to have contacts with the community so that the community can bring to them people who need help and they can go to them. [More…]

• More and more we are looking into a community which will have not just a group practice of doctors but also social workers creating what we have shattered - small integrated communities. [More…]

• We have the opportunity to be involved in matters of great public importance and interest in our community. [More…]

• I think it would be an excellent step to postpone this reference so that the Government can give an indication of its views and the Minister for Social Services can put forward his own ideas about an inquiry into pockets of poverty in the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Services is a man who has a deep concern for the welfare of the community, particularly for those who are in special need by reason of absence of an income, poor housing, old age, infirmity or some other handicap. [More…]

• I am only repeating what others have said when I acknowledge that there are pockets of poverty within the Australian community and that it is no credit to our affluent society that we have these pockets of poverty. [More…]

• There is a need for us all to have our share of concern and for us to encourage the community to have its share of concern. [More…]

• The community owes a great deal to the dedicated superintendents, social workers and so on who are counsellors in the field of social services. [More…]

• The Government has over the years given a great deal of time and attention to the needy in the community. [More…]

• Anyone who has had anything to do with homes for the aged - I had a great deal to do with them in earlier years - will know the benefit derived from a sense of belonging to a community. [More…]

• There is something to be said for the wellbeing, stability and security that comes from living in a community. [More…]

• It is perfectly obvious that in a community that is devoted to this sort of thing there is a need for hospitalisation as well as for welfare workers. [More…]

• Great advantage is* derived by involving a range of voluntary workers, and by voluntary workers I mean people within the community who, because of their concern for others, lend their assistance in this way. [More…]

• Also there are advantages for people to enjoy community functions and community recreations which are not available in a small settlement or when a person is living in a single unit. [More…]

• Therefore, there is every reason why this Committee probably would be in a better position than almost any other body in the community to investigate this very important matter of the incidence, distribution and causes of primary and secondary poverty in Australia and the adequacy of existing Commonwealth and State social welfare legislation. [More…]

• When an inquiry is being conducted into an important subject matter such as this the ball starts rolling and people throughout the community begin to gather material on the subject matter. [More…]

• Had this reference been made to the Committee when it was first proposed to the Senate on 2nd November 1970, the community would be in a far better position today to deal with this problem. [More…]

• We discover that in our socio-economic strata of society, in proportion to their numbers, doctors are the greatest addicts of any section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Why does the Government tolerate this deliberate defiance of the law on the part of one of its licensees when it calls upon others in the community to recognise the general principle of law and order? [More…]

• 1 regret that we are now seeing the culmination of a general policy which, I feel, in the interests of maintaining the rule of law in the community, is to be deplored. [More…]

• But I certainly hope that members of the community will take every opportunity to read the various conflicting statements which have been made by members of that Party. [More…]

• This development has attracted considerable interest, and indeed concern, in the community. [More…]

• In view of the increasing violence in the United States of America and in other areas of the western world, will the Minister say whether he is prepared to re-examine the admission criteria of films depicting undue violence and keep out of Australia such films until his Department or some other department has had a study carried out to establish possible links between violence seen on the movie and television screens and violence that occurs in the community? [More…]

• To my knowledge there are no inhibitions on the Aboriginal community in that sense. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration aware of a document published in the name of the Immigration Control Association and forwarded to many members of the community, including members of Parliament? [More…]

• In that statement the Minister emphasised 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 of 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 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 the Senate as a warranted recognition of the valuable service given to the community by the holders of that office. [More…]

• I want to indicate to the Senate that it is the Government’s intention that these provisions be administered in accordance with our belief that a person who institutes bona fide proceedings in the Industrial Court is not only protecting his own interests but also the interests of his fellow members and indeed, therefore, he is carrying out a community service. [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…]

• One could probably double those figures because very many people in this community do not register for unemployment benefit. [More…]

• With Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community it is to be expected that our exports will suffer. [More…]

• Prospects in the industry do not appear too bright for our export markets in apples due to the increasing competition, increased local and shipping costs and the likely effect of British entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is it a fact that more than 90,000 people, viewed as being employable and registered as unemployed, are receiving unemployment benefits from the Australian community? [More…]

• Is it a fact also that the potential work which these people could do, to Australia’s benefit, is being entirely lost because no community use is being made of their nonworking week? [More…]

• Does the Minister consider that this action may be in the interests of the person concerned, the municipalities and, indeed, the whole of the Australian community? [More…]

• Nothing can be more damaging to the fabric of a democratic society, of a properly conducted State, than to have laws which are openly defied, laws which a very substantial section of the community believe should not be applied and which in fact are nol applied. [More…]

• I do not think anybody could deny that the use of alcohol is undesirable and that it has caused considerable suffering, hardship and cost to individuals and to the community generally. [More…]

• Already action has been taken by governments in this country to ensure that certain of those drugs are no longer as freely available in the community as they used to be. [More…]

• That makes it more important that in the community steps should be taken to guard and warn young people against the evil possibilities of drug taking. [More…]

• In view of the evidence that we had from medical men on what LSD can do to people, I think it is criminal that in our community there should be permitted a book which tells young children, who are not equipped to make their own decisions on these matters, that it is possible to take LSD regularly over long periods without any bad effects. [More…]

• If that kind of information is disseminated widely in the community and if it is accepted widely among children, I have no doubt that if we have not a drug problem now we will have one before long. [More…]

• But, while they are making that decision, it is our duty as members of Parliament not to shrink from the task of taking action against those people who, because they think there is money in it, want to produce books, drugs and other things which could have grave social effects upon our community. [More…]

• But it is going to take time to train the necessary number of people to do the educating in the schools, throughout the medical profession and in the community generally. [More…]

• Educated young people come to us and say: “We know the effects that alcohol has on people in the community. [More…]

• We know also that it is estimated that approximately S800m is lost each year because of working hours lost, sickness and associated problems arising from the over-indulgence in alcohol by some people in the community. [More…]

• The inquiry enabled senators to investigate in depth the problem which confronts the community. [More…]

• At the present time what is happening in the community is that analgesics are subject to impulse selling. [More…]

• I am of the opinion that drug usage in the community - no matter what drug - has to be considerably reduced. [More…]

• It is unusual for a committee to reach such a conclusion after outlining so clearly the health hazard that these drugs present to the community, especially to people in the lower income bracket and women of middle age and over. [More…]

• It was in my mind when suggesting the establishment of this Committee that the Committee would look at the problems in proportion to their effect upon the community. [More…]

• Nevertheless, it seems to me that the problem of this and the other 2 major drugs may require greater measures by the community. [More…]

• I am expressing a personal view when I say that I think the magnitude of the major drug problems requires, by the community, even greater steps. [More…]

• I speak for myself when I say that I think our problems have been exposed by this Committee in a very strong way, but I think that the community will be forced to take more far reaching measures, not only by way of education but also by way of other inducements, to cope with these problems. [More…]

• If one is to accept the proposals that have been propounded by Ministers for Primary Industry, the Government and other conservative elements within the community that the only future role for the dairy industry is constant contraction, one would believe that some of this research money should be expended in looking for new markets; but it would seem that the Dairy Industry Research Committee has a totally different approach to the industry from that of the Government and other conservative elements in the community. [More…]

• I believe I am quite justified in saying that the Dairy Industry Research Committee has a totally different approach to the dairy industry from that of the Government and other people in the community who appear to see the future of the industry as only of constant contraction. [More…]

• The decision was made in the light of a build-up of dairy prodducts, particularly in the European Economic Community and generally across the world. [More…]

• One is the fact that the average age of dairy farmers in the European Economic Community is 60 years while that of dairy farmers in this country is 50 years. [More…]

• On the other hand, despite the bleating of the critics across the nation, the armchair strategists and some dairy farmers in the community, the industry is now earning export income. [More…]

• At the present time, the European Economic Community countries are subsidising exports to the value of SA342 a ton. [More…]

• It will be recalled that when the first intimations were given that Great Britain was to join the European Economic Community a great deal of distress and alarm was expressed. [More…]

• Many people in the community do not object to that. [More…]

• What sort of a community are we becoming if it is said that the production of an industry like this must be confined? [More…]

• We fear the circumstances that will develop as a result of Britain entering the European Economic Community but what it will mean to Australia is as nothing compared to what it will mean to New Zealand. [More…]

• Theses factors make it necessary that assistance by the community as a whole be granted to those who are producing wholly and solely for an export market. [More…]

• The surplus was held mainly in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Community started to unload, at ridiculous prices, butter and cheese in areas where we had considered we had quite a fair market, with the result that the tremendous sale of these products brought about the situation in which the previous surplus of 70,000 tons was so reduced that we could again come into the market. [More…]

• My great education on those matters came from Senator Mulvihill long before those topics were popular in the community. [More…]

• National service is an unpopular and devious way of attaining the numbers to carry out this unpopular policy which not only is resented throughout this community but also is a policy that this Government will live to regret. [More…]

• The police having been told either directly or only very indirectly that this gentleman claimed to be Wood, that he had told the Press throughout the morning that he intended to come to Parliament House for this particular < performance - the Press was warned; the i Press was there - and then having claimed that he was Wood but upon arrest claiming 1 that he was not Wood, I can imagine the horse laughter throughout the community if it had turned out, upon the police releasing him, that in fact he was Wood. [More…]

• Fortunately we have not reached the stage where the police have a dossier on every person in this community. [More…]

• They are not necessarily able to identify every person who happens to a tuppeny-halfpenny draft resister or some other relatively unimportant member of the community. [More…]

• I hope that the situation never arises where the Commonwealth police or any of the State police can turn up a file and automatically identify any person in the community. [More…]

• The National Service Act has been a matter of great contention in our community for some time. [More…]

• There are in our community today many young men who have not registered, or who have registered and have refused to attend for call-up or in some way or other refused to comply with the National Service Act. [More…]

• The police exist in this community to carry out the lawful processes that this Parliament exists to make. [More…]

• There is a final body of people which makes the judgment and it is the community. [More…]

• The community makes its judgment when the proper processes of law have taken their course and the facts have been heard. [More…]

• Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that at Wandoan, a country town in Queensland, there is a serious plague of mice which is ravaging the community? [More…]

• Whilst there have been within the general Yugoslav community instances of lawlessness and violence in times past, the police have not been able to identify the individuals responsible. [More…]

• Until such information is available all I can say is that one cannot, in a general sweeping condemnation, accuse a community or a group of being responsible. [More…]

• Those figures indicate that observance of the National Service Act in this community is at a tremendously high rate. [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…]

• 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…]

• 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 both in resources and money. [More…]

• It is the arbiter of what should be done within the community and what should be done within the economy. [More…]

• It was going to declare that all the problems in the economy resulted from the pressures of the wage earning section of the community. [More…]

• There is no other group in our community which is subject to so many restrictive laws. [More…]

• The Government sees the real inflationary pressure as coming from the wage-earning section of the community. [More…]

• But 1 am pointing to the fact that the Government, with the employees and the employers and everybody in the community could make great savings because every Party and everybody in the community declares their objective to be to reduce accidents on the job. [More…]

• This is an area where with co-operation from other sections of the community, from the great trade union movement and from the employers a satisfactory result would be produced. [More…]

• That is the great crime in the community. [More…]

• This is, from the community and industrial point of view, a service by the Commission generally taken for granted although it is of immense value to the community, needs patient and efficient organisation and dedication, and takes up a great portion of our time. [More…]

• Reading that statement, can anybody believe that the Arbitration Commission or the specialists in the community have supported what, the Government proposes in these laws? [More…]

• The community should gain but surely it would be helpful also to organized employers and employees. [More…]

• On most occasions, their work is felt also in getting agreement with employers because, extreme right wing employers apart a great number of employers in the community are willing to do a deal with the trade union movement. [More…]

• He said that amalgamations were beneficial to the community. [More…]

• The main thing was to ensure that pensions and other social service benefits kept pace with the increases taking place in average community earnings. [More…]

• The effects of industrial disputes on the community are not simply measurable by the loss of man days. [More…]

• lt was the same Mr Hawke who, some months ago - 1 am speaking in the general context in which this Bill was introduced - said that the cry of the primary producers about rising prices and costs affecting their productivity was only a whinge from a pampered section of the community. [More…]

• In short, they want to create a small community empire. [More…]

• Is it to be that people can come out and subject the whole community to sabotage? [More…]

• I say that if it is fair for one section of the community by means of strikes to blackmail and hold the rest of the public to ransom to better its own conditions then surely it is just as reasonable for professional men, people in every other walk of life and for primary producers if they could be so organised to come out on strike and say: No, you are not going to get any more food to eat until you give us this, that and the other’. [More…]

• I think that possibly he has some vested interest in that section of the community. [More…]

• Therefore my sympathy goes out because of the honourable senator’s lack of knowledge of how to assist the very section of the community which I think he is earnestly trying to assist. [More…]

• By his very action in supporting the Government, which has reduced the primary producing sector to its present state of pauperism, Senator Lillico is acting to the detriment of the very section of the community for which he is responsible and which he should desire to assist. [More…]

• I came up with the conclusion that at the present stage of industrial activities in Australia it is undesirable for the employers, the employees and the community generally to have strikes in industry and that we should do everything possible to prevent them. [More…]

• With the proposed intrusion of supermarkets into the field of certain pharmaceutical lines previously regarded as specialised chemists’ lines, can he say what steps can be taken to protect pharmacies, particularly the small ones, against the unwarranted intrusion of big chain stores which could have a serious effect upon the livelihood of chemists who render such a valuable service to the community? [More…]

• If the result of competition is to ensure that the prices at which stock proprietary lines are made available to the community are reduced, I am sure that that is something which the Government welcomes. [More…]

• Excessively rising wages have been highlighted, correctly, as contributing greatly to the inflationary trend and the Government has acted, within its powers, to try to alert community consciousness to the problem and to persuade wage-fixing tribunals and employers to act responsibly when confronted by excessive wage demands. [More…]

• They are a blot on our community and affect the living standards of lis all. [More…]

• The business community is entitled to protection against them. [More…]

• Numerous amendments have been made to the legislation with the intention of trying to save the community from the problems created by strikes. [More…]

• Would the settlement of such a dispute have repercussions on another section of the community? [More…]

• So we progressed from that stage, and Australia was part of the progression because in the early days of settlement of this country some of the people who were sent here from England as criminals were people who had been audacious enough to try to form industrial organisations to protect themselves and their families from the circumstances that can so obviously emanate from a completely undisciplined and uncontrolled community with no laws to guide it in relation to manufacturing and other industries, whether they be coal mines, boot factories, spinning mills or the more modern versions that we have today. [More…]

• I recognise, as earlier unionists did, their absolute right to organise as a trade union - that right was challenged in this country, too - and to have a legal award, a wage that was theirs by right of legality in the community. [More…]

• Because of the open slather - if I could use the vernacular - in industrial relations, it was easy to illustrate to many employers that ultimately the intense competition to obtain more production while paying less wages to employees reduced their industrial enterprises to a stale of profitability in which the margin very often was not sufficient for them to survive in a highly competitive type community. [More…]

• To continue the history of the trade union movement, we began to find that challenges to arbitration and conciliation started to come from another organised force in the community. [More…]

• This was a political force; it was the growing political force of communism throughout the community. [More…]

• The Government has said and, I feel, with absolute propriety, that in the last resort any system of arbitration, as we have here, in which any attempt is made to regularise industrial relations for the good of the parties and for the benefit of the community must have some sanctions ultimately. [More…]

• That is a very good example of the pious hones of having a system of arbi tration with all its great benefits for the employees as well as for the community and employers operating without some system of ultimate sanctions on those who want to breach awards which are arrived at by the processes of conciliation in the first place. [More…]

• This legislation is rightly concerned to ensure that wages will increase reasonably and not against the community interest. [More…]

• There is always this community interest which must be observed in the fixation of wages. [More…]

• Apart from the Bill which we are debating today we have had 2 other measures introduced in the Senate today which are part and parcel of that broad attack upon inflation which is made in the interests of the community generally and everybody in it. [More…]

• The Government and, i believe, the community are opposed to compulsory unionism. [More…]

• I know that we have to reconcile the demands of the community as a whole to the rights of individuals in the work force. [More…]

• It appears to me that there are few people in the community who fully appreciate the cetain future impact of inflation which will be eventually hardest felt by those in the community who can least afford to stand that hardship. [More…]

• I have believed all of my life that it is very necessary that this community pay to employees the maximum return possible for their labour. [More…]

• Increased wage returns must surely be the base from which to judge an increase in the standard of living of the majority of people in the community. [More…]

• We would be very wise to see from every angle, whether it be from the business or employer angle and no matter to which community interest one may look that the highest wage that can be paid to employees in this community should be paid. [More…]

• I believe that in these times it is still the hope of reward that sweetens labour and this community should seek to make that reward the very maximum. [More…]

• With the encouragement of many areas of interest in the community many benefits have been attracted to the employee in this community over the past years. [More…]

• There are many satisfactory areas of compensation for employees in the community today. [More…]

• Such demands are one of the contributing factors of unemployment in the community today. [More…]

• On the basis of what I have just outlined, goods must become very expensive - and well we know that this is the case at the present time - and services in the community must become particularly expensive. [More…]

• I believe that the erosion of the benefits of these community achievements - benefits such as those I have mentioned - will in the end result in a situation of disastrous wage induced inflation. [More…]

• Again I say that the ultimate seriousness of this situation is brushed aside by most people in the community. [More…]

• But to me this is a very serious matter which flows further to other individuals in the community whom I represent in the Senate. [More…]

• The problem of agreements negotiated outside the court has been one of the disasters in our community. [More…]

• Substantial sections of the community have condemned this legislation for various reasons. [More…]

• I am quite prepared and willing to concede that there are avaricious employers who are quite prepared to take the community for a ride if given the opportunity to do so. [More…]

• But in the face of all this, in the face of the obviously common sense tendency in the community to amalgamate, the Government has confronted unions which wish to amalgamate with what amounts to an obstacle race. [More…]

• Its interference in voluntary organisations as expressed in proposed new section 153a, I suggest, will alarm similar voluntary organisations throughout the community. [More…]

• The Parliament has recognised its special duty to the coal-miners but they in turn owe a duty to the community. [More…]

• They cannot wage economic war on the community and at the same time claim the rights of the arbitration system. [More…]

• Let me make this clear: Unless an arbitral authority acting, as it does, as the community and for the community, can say to the employer if he is in the wrong: ‘You will stop your lock out while I hear this matter’ or say to the employee: ‘You will stop your strikes’, what we have is community blackmail because no judicial authority can be placed under pressure and duress of lockout or strike in order to force it to give a judgment it would not otherwise have given. [More…]

• Nobody in the community would accept otherwise. [More…]

• This community has a habit of committing industrial hara-kiri. [More…]

• I felt that honourable senators represented the community as a whole. [More…]

• There is no doubt in this world that the only way an employer can be prosperous is to have prosperous employees, and they are the working section of the community. [More…]

• Those procedures are being juggled about in some endeavour to prevent flow-ons and to prevent real wage justice being done throughout the community. [More…]

• It is very dangerous for this to be permitted in the Australian community. [More…]

• The way in which this operates is unfair because the rest of the community is free of such regulation and control. [More…]

• This means that those who are subject to the control are placed in an impossible position because they are controlled and yet are trying to meet the demands that are placed on them by inflation in a community where other restrictive practices go unabated, unregulated and uncontrolled. [More…]

• There is a feeling in the community that no man ought to be given the power to make very great decisions concerning the rights of persons without some form of appeal being available. [More…]

• Congress expresses the belief that the stage has been reached when all sections of the community, and particularly the Government, employers and trade unions must decide whether the long established system of conciliation and arbitration is to be allowed to be destroyed. [More…]

• As the Democratic Labor Party sees it the community has the right to insist that some penalty should be accruing for breaches of an arbitrator’s decision. [More…]

• Th Government, and 1 believe, the community are opposed to compulsory unionism. [More…]

• Here we have an organisation which embraces the whole of the community, which disburses contributors’ funds as well as Commonwealth funds and in which the contributory members - that is, the membership - have no say in the administration. [More…]

• The amalgamation of trade unions has not just mushroomed in this community, nor is it something of the 1970s only. [More…]

• Whenever the subject of conciliation and arbitration is raised attacks are levelled at the trade union movement by almost all sections of the community. [More…]

• They are continually concerned in community affairs. [More…]

• The trade union movement cannot and will not accept restrictions on its right to involve itself in the political life of the community. [More…]

• The entire role of the Government has been to create a situation in which only one section of the community pays for the Government’s sins over 23 years that have produced inflation. [More…]

• I refer to the speculative type of investment which takes place in the community, particularly in the commercial area. [More…]

• The sooner the Government looks to this area in order to reduce these pressures within the Community, the better. [More…]

• I am not prepared to say whether there have been direct political appointments, but one of the things which has flowed from this Government’s being in power for about the last 22 years is that the appointment of people to important positions in the community is influenced in some way by the political philosophy of the Party which has been in power too long. [More…]

• Without reading the rest of the statement, let me say that the community should be able to rely on the Commission for satisfactory judgments when matters are properly litigated, whether in the national wage case or in an application for shorter working hours. [More…]

• I have the comforting knowledge that whereas the Government may have the numbers in this place we of the Opposition have the numbers outside in the Australian community. [More…]

• I am conscious of the fact that the people I represent and with whom I have been associated for over 38 years must be very harshly affected as a consequence of this amending Bill, at least until the Australian community has the opportunity of exercising its democratic vote. [More…]

• We on this side of the chamber have said - I believe that we have been able to show this with facts and figures - that contrary to the opinion held by Government senators wages are responsible for the inflationary trends in the community, and it is our view, which we believe is based on sound reasoning, that wages are always chasing prices. [More…]

• Will the Government agree that on an electoral basis 100,000 Australians unemployed roughly represents the total population of 2 electorates out of work and that much more has to be done by the Government to put confidence back into the economy and to restore full employment to the Australian community? [More…]

• Against this background, the cost of continuing to supply every telephone subscriber with a directory containing entries for areas with which there was little or no community of interest could not be justified, particularly when the majority of calls made by telephone users generally are to subscribers within their own particular district. [More…]

• Increased wage costs necessarily require increased prices throughout the community for goods and services and they, as the honourable senator pointed out, flow back to the small consumer and the section of the community at the end of the line, as well as having an important effect upon our export ability. [More…]

• I have said before that there is evidence of terrorist activities amongst groups in the Yugoslav community and, on other occasions. [More…]

• We think that it is contrary to the interests of the legal profession and of the community that there should be this absurd division in the legal profession. [More…]

• But as the population of this area has grown, so has the importance of the practice of law grown and so has its consequence for the people of the community. [More…]

• If the Senate will bear with me I think it is important that I set these things out in detail so that honourable senators will have a full understanding of what is involved and perhaps can appreciate more the need not to wipe out the ordinance as a whole but to deal with the particular sections of it which are found to be offensive to certain sections of the community. [More…]

• There must be some control and there must be some limitations on the areas in which people operate in this profession so that the community at large can rest assured that the people from whom they seek advice are qualified and experienced. [More…]

• A person doing this would be indicating to the community at large that he has some expertise, professional background and knowledge in this particular area of legal practice. [More…]

• Members of the community at large should be able to feel sure that when they seek legal advice they are getting the best advice possible. [More…]

• However, when the legal system is broken up into the departments suggested in this ordinance, I suggest, the cost to the community is going to be substantially greater than it is at the present time. [More…]

• One goes to some lesser legal luminary in the community who then goes to the Q.C. [More…]

• which adds very substantially to the cost to the community of legal advice. [More…]

• What I am saying is that when the movement generally these days is against this sort of practice, we are endeavouring to import into the Australian Capital Territory a practice which has fallen into disuse in other areas of the Australian community. [More…]

• There is a restriction in the availability or accessibility of lawyers where these different levels are established and there are increased costs to the community, for the reasons that I have spelt out. [More…]

• I suppose the legal practice in the Australian Capital Territory has grown in much the same way as it has developed over the years in other parts of the Australian community. [More…]

• I do not deny for a moment that, at this stage, it is proper for the Government to provide laws regarding the operations of the legal profession which regularise that profession and which provide the best service possible to the Australian community. [More…]

• Of course, the deposits from their trust accounts may be used for various purposes in the interests of the profession and the community’s relations with the profession. [More…]

• There are growing complaints in this community about inefficiencies in various spheres of life and some of those complaints are directed to the legal profession. [More…]

• When legal proceedings are instituted in a court, there is a doubling up of costs which ought not to be accepted in the modern community. [More…]

• It wants traditions and practices which are based on the principle of service to the public in carrying out the proper role of the profession in the community. [More…]

• I want to see that persons are able to practise properly as advocates in the community. [More…]

• lt is like other things in the community. [More…]

• It is very important how the legal profession is conducted in this community and it Ls important that people in the Australian Capital Territory should have the right to an efficient legal profession. [More…]

• After we find out what is the definition of a high level in industry we find that to be appointed a person has to have another qualification, which is set out in the Bill in these terms: 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 would have thought that an applicant who, by reason of his qualifications, experience and standing in the Australian community, was consideerd a fit and proper person to discharge the duties of a deputy president should be entitled to appointment. [More…]

• If a person by reason of his qualifications, experience and standing in the Australian community is a fit and proper person he should be appointed, whether the Governor-General believes he is suitable or not. [More…]

• The Senate and the Minister will no doubt remember that at that time a great need existed to ensure that recognition was given to the right of people who wanted to transfer from one industry to another or from one job to another particularly where their services might be more advantageous to the community or to the Government in the new position. [More…]

• It takes some gall to ask a parliament, the members of which have not had an increase in salary for approximately 4 years but for whom the cost of living has gone up just as it has for every other section of the community, to award a pay rise of $84 a week, retrospective to last November, to a class of persons who have recently shown their attitude towards the rest of the community by claiming that a $2 a week increase is sufficient to overtake the rises in the cost of living and who also delivered themselves of the opinion that a man, his wife and his children can live on a wage of $54 a week. [More…]

• Quite apart from the rights and wrongs of parliamentarians salaries to which Senator Bishop has referred, we on this side of the House, who consider that we have a responsibility to the lower paid sections of the community, could not in conscience support a wage increase for Commissioners which is so vastly out of proportion to the treatment which those people themselves have meted out to the persons whose wages it is their task to fix. [More…]

• I remember the days, when I was a lot younger, when there were discussions about how the value of a conciliation commissioner would be defined in the community’s wage structure. [More…]

• If it was right to penalise some people in the interests of setting an example to the community in relation to wage restraint, I believe we should be consistent and continue with that approach until we feel that the danger of inflation has abated to such an extent that complete justice can be done to all. [More…]

• I think it reveals - I say this with some hesitation - a concentration upon the position of members of Parliament to the execution of what are the needs of the community and the rights - and I repeat the word rights’ - of other people. [More…]

• When the Government can assure us that this is so and demonstrates that it is so by no longer appearing before arbitration tribunals to plead poverty of the country and expecting the lower paid section of the community to make every sacrifice, then we will be glad to raise the salaries of officers affected by this clause and of other highly paid officers. [More…]

• They will come from all sections of the community. [More…]

• The community should decide that it will put a restraint upon the lot or none. [More…]

• In this place or in the community will he appeal against it - whether it is for professional officers, judicial officers or the trade union movement? [More…]

• Senators all represent people in the community. [More…]

• Can any honourable senator, in conscience, vote for this particular section of the community to receive this substantial salary increase retrospective to November - a salary increase of 54,400 - and then go amongst the common people of Australia and say: You have to be satisfied with $2 a week’? [More…]

• Yet a month or 6 weeks later the Government introduced legislation to provide a salary increase of $4,400 to a section of the community and, what is more, on a retrospective basis. [More…]

• May I assure my good friend, Senator Carrick, that I have no sense of pique because I have no objection to members of Parliament setting for the rest of the community an example which, I may say, has not been followed. [More…]

• If the Government, through its legislation, grants substantial salary increases to certain sections of the community, then I fail to see, in all conscience, how the Government can object to or restrict wage or salary pressures elsewhere. [More…]

• As the Attorney-General said, there may be very good reasons for increasing the salaries of Conciliation Commissioners, but each of us could find very good reasons for increasing the wages and salaries of any other section of the community. [More…]

• I have heard honourable senators opposite - not all of them but some of them - say, when the Canberra Community Hospital dispute was before us. [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…]

• This is within 3 weeks of a decision which gave to the lower paid workers in the community an increase of $2 a week. [More…]

• I do not know why it should not operate throughout the length and breadth of our community life and our commercial life. [More…]

• Implicit in the amendment which he has just proposed is that there is some burning social evil which immediately must be eradicated under threat to the safety of the community. [More…]

• This Government saw nothing wrong with the procedures that were being adopted - they are difficult enough - by unions in this community before it introduced this code. [More…]

• In the eyes of this Government there was nothing sinister at that stage - as recently as a couple of months ago - in the idea that the prevailing legal procedures were sufficient protection for the community in any amalgamations which were then on foot. [More…]

• Having been thoroughly worsted in debate yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Murphy), and having had his legal limitations so thoroughly exposed to the community- [More…]

• Do we want any better illustration than this that this is a biased, partial government which is not concerned with industrial relations but which is concerned with serving its friends, with seeking votes, and to hell with the rest of the community. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the current practice toy governments of nations within the European Economic Community trade bloc to pay what is called frontier price adjustments to exporters of certain agricultural products? [More…]

• This is part of the general problem of the Community as a whole. [More…]

• Our own Minister has been involved in discussions overseas on this particular problem, amongst many others that flow out of the Economic Community arrangements. [More…]

• Having said that, and recognising that a number of the signatories on reflection at least have changed their minds, one does not deny to clergymen the right to express their views in the way in which other members of the community express their views. [More…]

• We wanted to give portability to those who have worked in the Australian community irrespective of whether they had become formally naturalised. [More…]

• It has an army of vigilantes which, by threat and fear, forces its will upon the building community of Australia and does so with success. [More…]

• If we are to have an efficient community, then those changes must be reflected in the organisation of the trade unions. [More…]

• I know that the Attorney-General will get up and say that in this case a retrospective date is not involved, but I repeat that men of equal standing in law in the community say that it is. [More…]

• Throughout the history of this Act there have been some very fine and dedicated commissioners who have achieved a mastery over the detail of the industries to which they were allocated and who have served the community well both as conciliators and as arbitrators. [More…]

• Certainly in those cases I believe that it is to the advantage of the public that we should be able to say: ‘Well, it does not matter what 2 parties might agree between themselves; if the result is to add to inflationary processes in the community we should be able to say that, in the public interest, it is not advisable’. [More…]

• I can only conclude, as I said before, that the purpose of this section is not to ensure industrial peace; it is to aggravate industrial relations in the hope that this Government can emerge before the electors as the champion of law and order, as the custodian of all the righteousness of the community and as the people who come in and clear up the chaos which has been caused by these wicked unions. [More…]

• Will the expert body to be set up to conduct a full-scale public inquiry into the taxation system (a) include in its inquiry all aspects of Federal Estate and Gift Duties and their effect on the community, and (b) be available to assist the various State Governments with inquiries into Probate and Succession Duties and their effect on the community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration: In view of the lack of jobs available for Australian graduates, as revealed by the number of applications for graduate employment recently refused by the Public Service, which is typical of the rest of the community, will the Minister say whether the Government intends to continue to allow overseas graduates access to Australia or can some more sensible restriction be applied to graduate immigration until the present Australian graduate surplus is employed? [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…]

• 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…]

• Despite all this I believe that this Bill is in the best interest of our community. [More…]

• Venereal disease is making an alarming comeback as a major health hazard in our community, lt is doing this all over the Western world. [More…]

• The anti-censorship drive has produced great changes in community standards in the past decade, as may be seen from the type of literature for sale in our bookshops, and the plays and films advertised. [More…]

• Gallup Polls have shown that the community wants its standards upheld against the advocates of porn and moral subversion, whose propaganda undermines the roots of ordered freedom by the pollution of the people, and those in power would do well to give more heed to real public opinion than to mass media writers who do not reflect it. [More…]

• This is the sort of thing that the Government, with an ear to the ground to determine what is happening in the community, might have been aware of and it might have taken some steps in last year’s Budget on the lines that I have suggested to try to smooth over this most regrettable situation. [More…]

• The Government should be considering some other ways in which it can help the community and smooth over this most difficult period through which we are going. [More…]

• Why does the Government tolerate this deliberate defiance of the law on the part of one of its licensees when it calls upon others in the community to recognise the general principle of law and order? [More…]

• He is aware, as we all are aware, of the problems within the Yugoslav community in Australia. [More…]

• With a huge Territory like this, with one centre in the north and one in the south, one can see the need for the development of what might be called separate community facilities. [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…]

• because it is now so socially intertwined in the community. [More…]

• It seems to me that it is consistent with every other step this community has taken in respect of every other product which we permit to be manufactured and sold legally that we do not ban its advertising on the ground that it is dangerous. [More…]

• Firstly, we put upon1 1 the product such a warning and, secondly, we place the onus which now rests upon the public sector of the community, upon governments and the medical profession who issue separate, warnings to the public that the excessive consumption of .these products could be dangerous. [More…]

• I have expressed here before my great concern - indeed this concern has been echoed strongly by the medical profession - at the enormous growth of psychosomatic illness in the community, the illness caused by stress. [More…]

• That being so, we are seeing a community which is seeking sedation, tranquillisation and escape as such, and tobacco, alcohol, analgesics and drugs are all part of this. [More…]

• We need to ascertain how we can best create a community that does not need those and other things such as worry beads and fumble stones, but instead can take up or sublimate these energies in other ways. [More…]

• The position that Senator Carrick has taken tonight is virtually one that does not accept the proposition that society, as a whole, ought to accept a responsibility to impose certain limitations for the good of the community. [More…]

• I do not differ from the honourable senator on the danger these drugs pose to the community. [More…]

• I differ on the method by which we should lower the level of drug abuse in the community. [More…]

• 1 am saying that these drugs are dangerous to the community and have been proven so. [More…]

• However, even with cigarette smoking, there is an involvement of people other than the individual smoker because if a person is to be responsible for selfinflicted physical damage, he imposes a strain upon the community. [More…]

• This lobby brings effective pressure to bear on members representing their areas for a particular reason, and I believe that it is not in the interests of the health of the community. [More…]

• Irrespective of the health needs of the community the tobacco companies - taken as a group or individually - are determined to resist any legislation that might limit their operations. [More…]

• I point out that it does not matter to which party these ex-members of Parliament belong; such a situation should not be permitted especially in this area which concerns the health of the whole community. [More…]

• In evidence given before the Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse the Deputy Director-General of Health, in answer to a question, said clearly that cigarette smoking was the greatest cause of morbidity and death in the community. [More…]

• The health of the individual in the community is at risk. [More…]

• The reduction of the promotion of cigarettes - the reason for this Bill - is vital to the position of young people in the community. [More…]

• They become very partisan about it and as purists are convinced that cigarette smoking is an evil that ought to be curtailed in the community. [More…]

• I am a non-smoker and perhaps for me it has been easier to accept medical evidence that is available to show that cigarette smoking is harmful to the community. [More…]

• I accept that every honourable senator wants to try to do something to help ;he community deal with a very intricate problem. [More…]

• We cannot just hil a community that is conditioned to this sort of habit with a ban of that sort and get away with it. [More…]

• It would lead to enormous profiteering by those who would peddle cigarettes on a blackmarket and who would be able to make exorbitant profits out of the community, by. [More…]

• The ratio of the excise raised from cigarette sales compared with that for tobacco sales could reflect nothing in relation to the product, but it certainly reflects a change in the level of community prosperity. [More…]

• I believe the general situation is that competition through advertising is beneficial to the community. [More…]

• I come to the question of singling out one section of the community to bear the cost for the community benefit. [More…]

• I wonder on what basis we can justify singling out television and radio stations to bear what I think we all agree is a community cost. [More…]

• It seems to me that we are expecting some of the small and large companies of Australia which are serving a useful purpose to carry the cost of something which everybody agrees is being done for the community benefit. [More…]

• I would ask whether all we are doing is giving an advantage to those who produce films for showing in cinemas, who produce posters, who produce newspaper advertisements and who produce gimmicks of various sorts to the disadvantage of one section of the community which will have to bear the cost. [More…]

• But I just wonder whether we have been entirely fair in singling out for bearing part of the cost of the total programme one section of the community. [More…]

• It stretches right around the metropolitan area with no community of interest whatsoever between those people living in the south - that is the Pinjarra part of the area - and those living in the Bullsbrook East part to the north of the metropolitan area. [More…]

• Briefly I say that it is my sincerest opinion that if the Government had followed the advice and recommendations of the Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse in respect to advertising and gone ahead with an education policy, much more good would have been flowing to the community than will flow from this legislation. [More…]

• If the word ‘Government’ were used half the community, or almost half the community, would say that nothing that the Government does is any good anyway. [More…]

• The views of some of this small section of the community which has been singled out to bear the cost have been well expressed in a letter which I received from the manager of a relatively small radio station. [More…]

• We appreciate the reason for your concern for the health of the young people in the community, but even after this legislation comes into effect, it will still be possible to purchase cigarettes in milk bars, supermarkets and school shops, as it has always been. [More…]

• That letter sets out some of the thoughts of the operators in this section of the community which has been singled out to bear the cost, by way of less of revenue, on behalf of the community. [More…]

• I simply make these remarks in order that further consideration can be given by the Government to the operation of this ban so that if it is considered that the ban is not succeeding in its objective perhaps the position can be rectified before too much damage is done to the individuals who have to bear the cost on behalf of the community. [More…]

• Eight permits have been granted for community television aerial systems. [More…]

• The Broadcasting and Television Act 1942- 1971 provides that the Minister may, on the recommendation of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, grant a permit for the operation of a community television aerial system. [More…]

• Notes have been prepared by the Board for the guidance of persons interested in community television aerial systems, covering the method of operation, costs, etc., and copies may be obtained on application to the Board. [More…]

• To the Honourable the President and Senators in Parliament assembled, the humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectively show that the Australian Government should recognise its responsibility to the people of Australia and their children and take the following action to prevent the possibility of danger to our community from the French Nuclear Tests in the Pacific: [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that the existence of a country and local Press is of value in programmes of community development and decentralisation? [More…]

• Does the continual reference by the Attorney-General to the existence of the Mafia in Australia not impute criminal involvement to a section of the Italian community in Australia and by repeatedly using the word ‘Mafia’ does he not compound the insult to the Italians in Australia? [More…]

• It would appear to me that the planting of softwood forests in our community is of such importance that the Commonwealth by no means should be restricting the amount of cash that is available for programmes such as are envisaged by this agreement. [More…]

• There is an urgent need for resources evaluation to provide for all the future needs of an expanding community in Northern Australia; and (ii) a reservation programme to meet present and future needs of conservation of timber, soil, water, wildlife and environment before committal of the land to single purpose exploitation. [More…]

• To advance the claims of environmental conservation, wildlife protection and recreational requirements for future needs of the community. [More…]

• I sense that Senator McManus, along with a tremendous number of people in this community, has great difficulty in making up his mind where the Australian Labor Party stands on this issue as well as on a number of other issues. [More…]

• I assure honourable senators that this review has been motivated by our determination to find the very best means of providing the chronically ill aged members of our community with the nursing care and other facilities they need, coupled with the financial protection that we all wish them to have. [More…]

• The latter Committee was established by the Government in 1957 to provide scientific information in the matters associated with the effect of ionizing 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 ionizing 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 weapon tests with the doses inevitably received by the community from natural background radiation. [More…]

• For a long time reafforestation has been a sort of unwanted child in the Australian community. [More…]

• I intend briefly to deal with the aspects of productions and community needs. [More…]

• In the formulation of a national plan - a plan that has to be evolved under the present arrangements with consultation between the Commonwealth and the States - there has to be considered not only the question of the preservation and conservation of flora and fauna and associated matters but also the question of the future community needs for softwood in Australia. [More…]

• Also in conjunction with community needs, one has to consider the production requirements of the industry and how best the industry can be developed in accordance with the needs of local communities that depend completely in many instances on a timber industry for their economic survival and viability. [More…]

• This will have some defects in the eyes of some people, but in the community sense it will have some very substantial benefits. [More…]

• Great enthusiasm is showing throughout the community. [More…]

• The subsidy was basically intended to encourage further research and development in our community and the type of development that has occurred is set out in the report. [More…]

• But the limits of the national interest that has been pursued by the very encouragement of further industrial research in that instance will flow throughout the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• When I refer to private enterprise I refer to those companies in the community which to a very large extent are providing the income from which most people in this community are being clothed and fed. [More…]

• If there are individuals in the community who are saying at the present time that there was a base year associated with the existing 5-year scheme and that it was on that base year that increased expenditure found some support from the Commonwealth and that that was a good thing, it could be said that that was so. [More…]

• The recently issued Commonwealth Serum Laboratories pamphlet ‘Flu 72’ does not recommend mass influenza vaccination of the Australian community. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Health, upon notice: Which organisations in the community will be represented by the 42 young people, representing all States, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, at the National Youth Seminar being held in Canberra from 12th to 14th May 1972. [More…]

• The young people who attended the seminar were drawn from many sections of the community and were not chosen as representatives of organisations. [More…]

• Where it is considered that vocational training would assist in the ultimate placement in employment of a handicapped person, a suitable course is normally provided through the training institutions available in the community. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen a report indicating that Bougainville Mining Ltd is likely to establish a smelter in an European Economic Community country in the near future to process copper mined at Bougainville; if so, [More…]

• Mr President, I desire to inform the Senate that the Minister for Health (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) was admitted to the Canberra Community Hospital today with a flu-like condition and that he will be in hospital for a few days. [More…]

• In regard to the effect that such statements have on confidence in the business community, I draw attention to several comments by businessmen which are reported in the Press this morning. [More…]

• We know that tobacco is a killer and a great cause of morbidity in the community. [More…]

• I think this matter needs clarification because we are speaking to the public and community of Australia. [More…]

• To see such comments being expressed gives us a very real understanding of the work we do as honourable senators in using expert opinion in the community from which to draw our evidence and to which we apply ourselves as a group of concerned people who are here to serve not only the Parliament but also the individuals whom we represent. [More…]

• Therefore, if we are to look constructively to the future it is to seek an effective education programme for the community that we must turn. [More…]

• As someone who has had some activity in the Young Women’s Christian Association and who knows how that Association and its corresponding organisation, the Young Men’s Christian Association, work in serving the youth of our community, I realise that youth workers, who are close to the people in the relevant age group, have much to contribute in the way of giving information, developing education programmes and in actually taking these programmes to the people who can best use them. [More…]

• Thus I would hope that the education council, which I should like to see formed, would have some application to members of that special group of the community who do need a different application of the educational processes to develop their intelligence as to their usage and dependency on drugs. [More…]

• I would hope that as we are today considering the excellent report of the Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse, we are considering also the best ways and means of educating the Australian community at all levels in all age groups so that the information which we have and the intelligence which we may seek internationally and nationally can toe promulgated to all these corners of society in order that they may find the best use for some of the things that have been developed for them in this somewhat materialistic society. [More…]

• Any doctor could gain some help and realisation of his responsibilities in the community. [More…]

• The priority being placed on growth, development and material wealth should be critically examined so that greater resources may be devoted to improving the living environment of the community. [More…]

• The report stated that every encouragement should be -given to the development of voluntary organisation in the community available for counselling those with personal problems and for providing emotional support to those needing it in times of stress or crisis. [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…]

• Is the Government aware of a current practice by nations within the European Economic Community trade bloc of paying ‘frontier price adjustments’ to the exporters of certain agricultural products; if so, is this practice contrary to every international trade agreement. [More…]

• Did countries belonging to the European Economic Community institute this price adjustment to be paid to exporters of rural products to compensate them for the revaluation of their own currencies. [More…]

• What action does the Government intend to take to off-set this situation and avoid Australian industries being eliminated from third countries where they have to compete with the European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• In view of the success achieved in re-establishing the abattoir to its present satisfactory standard, does the Government now express regret to the Senate because of its failure to appoint Government representatives to the select committe appointed by the Senate to examine all aspects associated with the attempt to close the Canberra abattoir which, if effected, would have been to the detriment of the community in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]

• But lest the result of Senator Cavanagh’s question should be to leave the impression that the Aboriginal community is being neglected in some way, even in regard to scholarships, Senator Cavanagh should be reminded that the amount of benefits granted to the Aboriginal community is to be increased by no less than $21m in the present Budget. [More…]

• It was a matter of some concern to many members of the community that there appeared to be a growing fear that with the continued use of motor vehicles by the various representatives of other countries, either in the course of their diplomatic or consular activities or in the course of their private activities, if those vehicles were involved in accidents many Australians may possibly be subjected to a situation whereby they would not be entitled to any award of damages such as they could receive in other circumstances. [More…]

• I draw attention to this because there has been some disquiet in the community about it. [More…]

• I think it needs to be emphasised that so far as consuls and those coming within consular immunity are concerned this is not a matter for concern by the community. [More…]

• This is perhaps a very realistic way to assist in the development of a region through specialised projects which give very great assistance to a particular nation for many of the basic needs of a developing community. [More…]

• But far too many people in our community are constantly placing the responsibility for international aid on the government of the day and are not prepared to accept any measure of this responsibility themselves. [More…]

• 1 hope that as a result of our study of this Bill, which increases the subscription to the Asian Development Bank, there will also be a recognition by the community as a whole that Australia is involved in an international aid programme of quite some diversity and extent. [More…]

• I would hope that the community would never be completely satisfied with what any government was doing but that it would involve itself in such organisations as I have outlined. [More…]

• I think also of the community programme known as Community Aid Abroad by which communities in this country service, care for and give developmental aid to communities in one or other of the receiving countries. [More…]

• So, we have a programme of community to community assistance whereby people are not just leaving this work to authorities or to governments but are becoming personally involved. [More…]

• After all, if we have any sense of stewardship and responsibility for the area about which we are talking so easily tonight, we must be involved in development programmes of this community to community type. [More…]

• We could say to people that the ball was in their court and that this was not only a responsibility of governments but also a strong responsibility on the community itself. [More…]

• I hope that, in the money that is distributed and the funds that this legislation will make available, an opportunity will be provided for communities within the area which the Asian Development Bank serves to grow, to progress and to work out successful and happy lives in the same way that Australians have been able to do in our privileged community. [More…]

• I think the predicters of gloom in this country would have been measuring unemployment in terms of 5 per cent or 10 per cent of the total employable community had one said 12 months before the United States currency began to wobble that it would wobble. [More…]

• There is no necessity for me to convince honourable senators of the danger that drug abuse poses for the Australian community today. [More…]

• Attorney-General: What Commonwealth department will provide the translators to process the material confiscated yesterday by Commonwealth and State police in raids on ultra-rightist elements of the Croatian community? [More…]

• I now ask whether the Minister will consider Commonwealth participation in the existing nationwide legal aid schemes by providing an appropriate contribution in respect of legal aid services arising under Commonwealth legslation, such as bankruptcy, matrimonial causes, immigration and customs cases, broadcasting and television, marketing schemes, Commonwealth employees compensation cases and the like, thereby enabling the legal aid means test to be raised to make it available to a wider section of the community. [More…]

• We cannot have a system of law for one section of the community and a system of lawlessness and disorder for the other unless we have chaos. [More…]

• There will be a real lift to community and business psychology. [More…]

• Secondly, it is, or should be, a device to ensure that the products of society are shared as far as is practicable by all the community on an equitable basis. [More…]

• It is tragic to think that we are now in a situation where we have a government which is not prepared to do more for, this most unfortunate section of the community, these people who become bitter and frustrated. [More…]

• proposals outlined in the Budget Papers, which are being debated by -the Senate indicate a situation in which the Government over- a period of years, through propriety in spending and through encouragement of the” community generally to save and an encouragement to companies in their business formulations, has been able to bring in a Budget which can be considered to be, as’ the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) has described it, most revolutionary. [More…]

• I believe that it has been accepted by the community generally and that it will assist in achieving the social and economic goals which are of significance to Australia and Australian families. [More…]

• The news media were justified in praising this Budget, particularly in those areas where it provides aid to those who we may consider are the less fortunate in this community. [More…]

• They will assist most significantly those people in the Australian community who now will be able to see the prospect of a future upgrading of their everyday living conditions. [More…]

• It is completely negative to say that the benefits that have been granted in so many areas to pensioners and to those on lower incomes, the benefits that will be conferred through the various social service measures or through an easing of the means test, through the repatriation benefits that are proposed, the child care benefits that we see before us and, indeed, the increase in the home savings grant that will be payable to the younger people in the community, are areas of influence designed to encourage a vote from the rich men in this community, if that is what the Opposition is attempting to say. [More…]

• I would suggest that, if it is said that at election time a Liberal style of government would normally use some of its influence to encourage business, there is very little encouragement in this Budget for the business community generally. [More…]

• He took no notice of the small, struggling artists who at times put on typical shows in the States to prove that we have a quality of art in our community. [More…]

• I wonder how the Labor Party would have faced the great ad hoc problems which have beset the rural community during these past years. [More…]

• The most prominent light in this Budget is the benefits which must flow, as a direct result from proposed Budget measures, to the working man and to his family, to those who rely on the community for financial assistance to gain regular income and, to a minor extent, to the business community. [More…]

• The amount of $750 will be granted by the Australian community. [More…]

• It is the Australian community which will give $750 to young people who may, on saving $2,250, wish to invest in their first home. [More…]

• It is an encouragement for the youth of the community. [More…]

• This is a most important matter and one which should, as other honourable senators have pointed out, lead to an encouragement for the people in the community to attempt to provide in the future estates to leave to their families which will not be all taken by way of taxation at the point of death. [More…]

• Surely we all wish to encourage thrift in the community. [More…]

• Members of the Opposition have mentioned the incidence of unemployment in our community. [More…]

• The business community has found great difficulty, I believe, in remaining profitable, and that is the only reason it stays in business. [More…]

• Apparently, this group in the community is not benefiting from the annual increases that are given to it. [More…]

• This Government has accepted that glory and the praise which has followed, because the economy has moved satisfactorily for the entire community. [More…]

• In order to win an election there have been handouts to every section of the community. [More…]

• Therefore, in order to maintain full employment we have to put men into occupations in big selling staffs for the purpose of selling to the community the factory production of goods which the public does not need. [More…]

• The Government is also giving aid to the wealthy section of the community which has no use for the extra money other than to invest it in further production that is not needed. [More…]

• But I would like to think that in our Party social conscience and community concern for the welfare of the individual have dictated the priorities which are included. [More…]

• I believe both have been acknowledged throughout our community. [More…]

• I would hope that the way to escape in the future from this cycle of poverty from one generation to another will be pointed to us through this committee of inquiry in the broadest possible terms arid that the Government will grasp it and interpret it as a social matter and in many ways introduce initiatives and new opportunities for that sector of the community which has this self-perpetuating poverty cycle. [More…]

• It seems to me that not enough information is flowing out to the community at the present time on the new proposals. [More…]

• ;They deserve loud acclaim in our community because many areas of personal hardship will be alleviated. [More…]

• I know, from moving about the community, just how widely this measure 0t Government assistance has been sought A rate of $14 a week is to be granted as a payment to persons who are willing and able to care in their own homes for aged persons who otherwise would qualify for the nursing home benefit. [More…]

• I am sure that they will be acknowledged by the community when some of the details unfold. [More…]

• As I have moved throughout the community and as organisations have contacted me I have established firmly in my mind that this hostel type accommodation has been in short supply in many States. [More…]

• They have worked closely with those organisations in the community which are conducting many of our social services. [More…]

• In this year’s Budget we have established a programme of assistance which will be an enrichment to the aged and- sick in our community. [More…]

• I do not know what interest Senator Webster has in car manufacturers, but in order to condemn someone who acted in the best interests of the safety of the Australian motoring community and without disproving anything that was said last night the honourable senator has sought to ridicule Senator Primmer who made these statements by mentioning that he owns an imported car which is not one of the cars referred to last night. [More…]

• That is perhaps the greatest disservice one can do to a community and an investing public. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate whether these reports are correct and whether the overwhelming views of Liberal Party members and other community groups on this subject were ignored to placate outside pressure groups? [More…]

• Are the commissioners of the Australian Broadcasting Commission charged with responsibility of administering the affairs of the ABC and with ensuring that adequate and comprehensive programmes serving the best interests of the community are programmed be the Commission? [More…]

• Surely when his passport was taken it must have been an indication of fears of what was going on in that element of the community. [More…]

• I suppose it could be said that it is a matter of some public interest and that at least the operation of an inquiry of this nature provided an opportunity for the general public not only to do some study but also to bring forward its viewpoint on a matter over which we were led to believe the entire community was greatly inconvenienced and about which people were very concerned. [More…]

• That health programmes be planned in consultation with the Aboriginal communities they are designed to serve, over the entire cultural, linguistic and economic range of such communities throughout Australia, and carried out through the people themselves and their community leaders. [More…]

• It is a total community problem and not primarily one of individual health. [More…]

• That community-based health education and preventive medicine, in close harmony with the provision of medical treatment, be the keystone of such health programmes. [More…]

• the Minister for Shipping and Transport that they will pay regard to the community interests, with regard to this industry in the northern part of the Spencer Gulf area, when the report of the Bureau of Transport Economics comes to hand. [More…]

• It covers practically every facet of economic, community and social interest. [More…]

• Estate duty is an area of taxation which I feel is not conductive to the general well being either of the community or the nation at large because of the inherent disincentive implied in taking from the family organisation the rewards of effort over many years during which taxation has been paid year after year by the person or family. [More…]

• We believe that a preschool commission should have as one of its tasks a rational and systematic examination of the needs of the whole community in relation to the provision of pre-school centres. [More…]

• Throughout Australia, particularly outside the Australian Capital Territory, there is clear evidence that the most depressed sections of the community - the sections of the community most in need of pre-school education for their children, particularly those children of recent immigrants from countries where the language is not English - are deprived of a very essential advantage in the upbringing of their children. [More…]

• The Committee received a good deal of evidence concerning the value to the community of pre-school education. [More…]

• That the interest and expertise of the community through the voluntary organisations be maintained if pre-school teachers colleges become part of colleges of advanced education or if financial responsibility is taken for their building and maintenance by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• In this regard, most residence and small business subscribers call within their immediate community of interest which can be covered by regional telephone directories. [More…]

• I think this is a salutary demonstration that if an employing organisation will stand firm against intimidatory tactics of the kind which this union engaged in the community will undoubtedly be better off in the long run. [More…]

• New types of equipment like the wide-bodied jets must come up for consideration, lt 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…]

• the grants have failed to keep pace either with the growth in State obligations to maintain and develop essential community services or with the growth in Commonwealth income tax receipts. [More…]

• This is the Budget which is supposed to be handing out, like Father Christmas, the goodies which the community has been waiting for for so long. [More…]

• This is the Budget which is supposed to be sending money back to the community; this is the Budget which is supposed to be producing the good things of life to every person in the community. [More…]

• The Budget again fails to provide any resources to stabilise local government finances, to move them out of the horse and buggy era and to supply them with funds to provide a proper and decent environment and adequate community facilities. [More…]

• It demonstrates that in the last 5 years expenditure by the community on food - I think that we will agree that in the egalitarian society in which we live the majority of people buy food - has risen by 28 per cent only. [More…]

• The 10 per cent reduction will mean that more money will be available to everyone in the community. [More…]

• The most prosperous homes in the community are those where the owners go out and earn through their own special abilities and employ experts to do the other work at home. [More…]

• The Australian Country Party has always stood for all sections of the community and let us not forget that. [More…]

• What happens under tariff protection is that everybody in the community - whether he be a millionaire or a worker on the lowest margin - still pays $150 for a product, whether it be a wireless set or something else. [More…]

• Do not forget that when colour te.evision is introduced into Australia everybody - whether he be a millionaire or the lowest paid worker in the community - will have to pay up to $1,000 for a colour television set. [More…]

• The point I am making is that this is a great Budget for the Australian community and for the private sector of the community. [More…]

• There were many doubting Thomases in the community. [More…]

• I cannot recall a Budget which has received greater support throughout the community than has this one. [More…]

• Despite what my friend Senator McLaren says, the Budget has received greater support throughout the community than has any other Budget that I can recall. [More…]

• This was because the Budget was completely in line with Liberal Party philosophy, dealing also with the main problems in the community. [More…]

• The Treasurer went on to deal with a matter which has been of great concern to everyone in the community. [More…]

• I know from visits I have made to various elements that make up the Polish community that the Poles are somewhat divergent in their attitude to this matter. [More…]

• The first was to ensure that the widest possible benefits would be available to persons who had been resident in Australia and to ensure that persons who had lived their lives here, worked here and therefore might be supposed to have some call upon the Australian community would be able to receive pension benefits if, after a certain time, they went back to the country in which they wanted to spend their retiring years. [More…]

• Does the attitude of certain members of the Opposition in both Federal and State Parliaments give the Attorney-General concern as to the interests of the community in attempting to uphold the law should Labor ever gain office? [More…]

• I was only going to add that this is a remarkable privilege to be claimed by a Party claiming to be a democratic party, to give to one class in our community - organisations, trade unions - freedom from any responsibility whatever in law or any action for anything in any way done in the course of an industrial dispute. [More…]

• I believe that the Budget should provide the confidence for the community to start spending again. [More…]

• Also it is correct for other sections of the community to make some judgments. [More…]

• In my view it would be foolish for any of us, or certain financial sections of the community, to take inflexible stances on this. [More…]

• It has failed to plan; it has failed to communicate with either the Parliament or the electorate; it has failed to restore confidence in the community; it has failed to restore confidence in the economy. [More…]

• We have to ask ourselves whether we have provided excessive gambling facilities in our community; whether we have encouraged people to gamble on our TAB’s and our poker machines; and whether we are inviting the misguided, the weak willed and the improvident in our community to spend on these things money which they can ill afford. [More…]

• Most people in the community believe that the ABC is carrying out an independent role and most will agree that it must be independent. [More…]

• The McMahon Government knows at this stage that it is very much suspected by the electorate, and it wants to raise issues which will create the illusion that some force in the community is persuading people against their will to do certain things or is subverting their opinions. [More…]

• It is raising every gimmick it can which it thinks will gain a response from some section of the community. [More…]

• In commenting on the issues of the election, because these arc election issues, I would say that most people in the community realise that the Budget which has been brought down by this Government is an election Budget. [More…]

• They realise that in offering what are in fact improvements to the community - social welfare improvements - the Government is offering a pant of policies which the Labor Party has been advocating for many years. [More…]

• As often happens in an electoral contest, the party in government, which is afraid of its position in the community, pinches the policies of the Opposition. [More…]

• It placed sales tax and other heavy increases on the community because it claimed that there was a need to depress the economy in order to reduce consumer spending. [More…]

• In doing that it has not vindicated its stand of previous years because it has gone against its activities over all those years when it has charged that the trade union movement and the workers have been making extravagant claims and that their role in the community has produced wage-induced inflation. [More…]

• We are satisfied that in the Australian community today most of the organised employers are in favour of that process. [More…]

• In this day and age, everybody knows that prices are settled between the managers and other people in the community. [More…]

• In fact, it resisted what the ACTU sought to do, namely to supply fuel to the community. [More…]

• The Government said that it was not possible to allow any outside body to solve this problem by arranging to supply petrol to the community. [More…]

• What this community needs is the relationship between the unions, the employers and the Government which existed years ago when any dispute which arose was instantly the subject of investigation. [More…]

• It will increase spending in our community. [More…]

• It will benefit business people and our country as a whole, lt may seem strange that from, a Budget in which taxes are reduced many sections of our community will gain additional and, in some cases, many new benefits. [More…]

• lt is shocking to think that I receive letters from members of the rural community who have had death taxes imposed on them because of a death in a family and then the family is offered financial support by way of the rural reconstruction plan. [More…]

• I believe that in the history of this Parliament no Budget has contained more enduring or more imaginative social reforms, more practical help for the sick, the aged, the handicapped and the poor, a more comprehensive programme to give effective aid to the rural community, a more effective programme to help students at colleges and universities, to help the people in their own homes, to give a real stimulus to the community, to strengthen employment and at the same time to provide significant tax cuts to increase purchasing power. [More…]

• That arises from Gough’s election van which, having for a year or so careered recklessly all over the community without Ralph Nader’s approval, like the second hand car in the television advertisement, distributing election promises right and left is now falling to pieces as the sheer weight of public opinion focuses upon the stream of policies which now have no legs with which to run, and as the force of the alternative budget and the value of our promises leave it for dead. [More…]

• This ought to be enormously commended, lt is particularly valuable to widows and to the farming community which will save subdivision at a time of crisis. [More…]

• But, insofar as matters connected with respect for the law, the upholding of lawful process and ensuring that there is a maintenance of the rule of law in this country are matters within the concern of the Attorney-General, I think that a person holding the office of Attorney-General must take every step available to him to bring home to the Australian community the value of those things to that community. [More…]

• Nor do we consider that improvement in the public transsport system alone will reduce the community’s reliance on private motor vehicles. [More…]

• Last night, in opening my remarks on this Budget, I said that in the history of this Parliament no Budget had been presented which contained more enduring, more humane or more widespread benefits for the community. [More…]

• I indicated first that it had been very widely commended and accepted by all sections of the community including the Press, the public and experts. [More…]

• This is one of the great social reforms in our community. [More…]

• He came out on television advocating revaluation and indeed, as every farmer knows, that is an advocacy of serious reduction of the income of every person in the rural- community in this country. [More…]

• In returning to it I have to refer to the 1971-72 Budget because the Australian community, in a consideration of the Government’s present fiscal policy, is at the same time recalling so vividly the 1971-72 Budget. [More…]

• The fact is that Mr Hawke was the only person in Australia who appeared to be doing anything to bring about successful negotiations in the industrial conflict that have arisen, situations resulting from this Government’s policies and the inadequacy in the distribution of wealth in the community. [More…]

• to present a balance of views on issues of concern to the community. [More…]

• Subject to this Act, the Commission shall provide, and shall broadcast or televise from transmitting stations made available by the PostmasterGeneral, adequate and comprehensive programmes 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 programmes [More…]

• I hope that the report indicates to the community that the Committee regarded the matter as a particularly important one. [More…]

• It may well be that the areas which we have covered, the material which we have studied and the recommendations which we have made will encourage more people - if the Committee had time it might like to do something about this matter - to do a study in depth on the requirements of aptitude, personality, ability and the whole relationship between teacher and students, teacher and community, staff and school and teacher and the whole wide education discipline. [More…]

• I think that what I will call the lay community throughout Australia has certain assumptions about teacher education. [More…]

• In the migrant community children require special teachers for the English language courses. [More…]

• We owe it to our people to ensure that the entire community receives the best available kind of education. [More…]

• However, the evidence is overwhelming that, at least in the sphere of teacher education, the problems are so vast and pressing and their solution so fundamental to the preservation and advancement of basic community values that an increased Commonwealth commitment is nol only justified but urgently required. [More…]

• But I was rapidly disabused of those feelings and I was greatly encouraged and enthused to find that on this fundamental question pol itics did not loom all that large and genuine concern for the problems of the community loomed very much larger. [More…]

• The financial priorities involved in an urgent and massive attack on the manifest shortcomings of teacher education disclosed in evidence given to the Committee would exclude, in our view, any Commonwealth assistance to small elite colleges catering for the more affluent section of the community. [More…]

• We were at pains to point out that our attitude to this had nothing to do with the argument which has proceeded in the community in recent years on the general question of State aid. [More…]

• Anything extra, anything in the way of the indoctrination or the philosophical inculcation which may be dear to the minority sects in this community, is peculiarly their concern and not the concern of the State, [More…]

• For that reason, and with the greatest respect for those in the community whose views of what education is about are different from mine, I put my signature, beside that of Senator Milliner, to this dissent on the recommendation of the Committee that Commonwealth funds should be devoted towards the training of teachers in independent institutions, apart from the training of teachers in institustions of the State. [More…]

• One other thing gave me satisfaction and that was not only that the journey was full of fascination and the report had earned some degree of commendation from the community but also that the Commonwealth Government with the States had embarked upon the basic recommendations which we made - not all but the fundamental ones. [More…]

• We take the view that the community asks of education that the students and the teachers should fulfil a certain number of requirements regarding secular education. [More…]

• The real solutions to education problems will come when we attract to education those students and those graduate students who are eager and dedicated to teaching, have the skill to teach, are able to communicate and who are convinced - and who live in a community which is convinced - that the profession of teaching is the highest temporal profession on this earth. [More…]

• It sets out to say to teachers: We, as a. Senate and as a Parliament, are looking to the production of a kind of teacher in the future who will have the most exciting profession that one can have in this community and who will go into that profession trained to a degree of excellence and oriented towards the profession, dedicated to it, and with the knowledge and skills to be able to communicate with the student so that the young who are amongst us and the young who are coming on can be encouraged to go into the really great adventure of living, and that great adventure is the adventure of the human mind. [More…]

• Let us have a cessation or a suspension, anyway, of all this pressure of building up the temper of young people and urging them into conflict with the law and with individual members in our community. [More…]

• Will the Department give the necessary information to those who seek to lift the permissible level so that they may be impressed with the threat that is posed to the health of the community? [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 Commonwealth’s objective has been to make available flats that are broadly comparable in standard and rental with flats being provided to the community at large by State housing authorities. [More…]

• Flats are dispersed throughout the community. [More…]

• There are many other areas of need which have been given generous attention in the Budget that will both stimulate the economy, inculcate confidence and reduce disparities and differences in the community. [More…]

• The 70 per cent increase in aggregate expenditure on Aboriginal advancement, forms of assistance to road safety, tourist attractions and generous grants to many organisations serving the Australian community all add up to a determined attempt to Use available Australian resources to meet human needs in ways and means consistent with the times in which we live and consistent with the broad national approach of my Party, the invincible Liberal Party of Australia. [More…]

• I have been doing a little thinking about this matter cf the rate of change and the awareness of the social needs of a community, and 1 have been looking at a document from the 16th International Conference on Social Welfare which was held only a few weeks ago in the Netherlands. [More…]

• In the Budget we are debating tonight the Australian Government has confronted the demands of people, both as individuals and as groups, and has met the rapid rate of change which we are experiencing in the community and changing society in which we live. [More…]

• I hope that as the various Bills which flow from this Budget come into the Senate we will have the opportunity of developing the various themes and arguments which reflect the Government’s concern to build in the Australian community a social programme which will improve our quality of life and make Australia not only a secure place but a good place in which to live. [More…]

• The difficulty always has been to find a solution which meets the general approval of the community; one which suits Australia’s national needs as well as meeting the social and economic conditions - these matters have been emphasised in the discussion tonight - and, in particular, to take account of the rapid rate of change to which I referred. [More…]

• Australian community except in a speech in the Senate? [More…]

• It is hoped that with the co-operation of the Opposition we shall be able to rectify what would appear to be a defect as found by the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and rectify it in the interests of the community as speedily as possible. [More…]

• It is obviously a situation in which there needs to be validating legislation to set right what is necessary for the community of the Australian Capital Territory and to make the position legally what people have assumed has been the position legally over a period. [More…]

• There is full acceptance that those at the end of their teens are not immature consumers, not irresponsible and not an insignificant segment of our community. [More…]

• I am talking of the legislation relating to social services and matters of that kind which, as proposed, will be of benefit to the community. [More…]

• How frequently has the date that has been announced been unexpected, and how frequently have elections been held prematurely when the average person in the community has not expected an election for at least another 12 months. [More…]

• These are things about which very important elements in the community want action. [More…]

• We know that, in view of the recession in the rural industries, many of this latter group are people who, whatever might be thought of their traditional economic position in the community, today no longer enjoy that position and are finding tremendous difficulty in financing their properties and many other things, including the education of their children. [More…]

• I do not think that this comparatively small number of children would require a big vote out of that appropriation to enable them to enjoy chances equal to those of children in other parts of the community. [More…]

• The fact is that despite a Budget that was introduced giving this, that and the other to many sections of the community, there was not one cent of assistance included in the Budget to assist overcome the problems of the isolated children of this country. [More…]

• There has been a degree of mischievousness and malice which has prevented a proper consideration of a matter which is designed to rectify a defect which it is in the community interest to have rectified as soon as possible. [More…]

• I hope that we will find from the Opposition in this place a willingness to recognise that there is a community responsibility reposed in the Parliament which we should exercise, and that the Opposition will not use this as a forum for engaging in some political debate. [More…]

• I ask honourable senators: Do they really feel that there is a principle of law which says that, when the whole law of a community which has been operative for 30 or 40 years is said possibly not to be operative because of some technical defect, we as a Parliament with the authority to do it cannot say: ‘We shall validate and make clear and lawful that which everybody has believed to be lawful all the time’? [More…]

• Against this background,the cost of continuing to supply every telephone subscriber with a directory containing entries for areas with which there was little or no community of interest could not be justified, particularly when the majority of calls made by telephone users generally are to subscribers within their own particular district. [More…]

• We in Australia have been relatively free of these problems but what happened at Munich indicates how tragically, and with what loss, violence can bring about within a community the divisions which breed further violence. [More…]

• I shall give consideration to the matter but I think I should say that in the forefront of the consideration is the recognition that at the present time there is a very effective and useful degree of co-ordination between the bodies responsible for law enforcement and protection of the community against the violence. [More…]

• But fundamentally in this area 1 think that we rely less upon laws and law enforcement agencies than upon the total acceptance by responsible elements in the community that violence is not the means by which to achieve ends or resolve differences. [More…]

• If only we can have from all responsible people in this country a full and unqualified acceptance of that position, then I am sure the community will be the better for it. [More…]

• I think it is fundamental that we accept the proposition that we will not be free of the fear of violence or of the consequences of violence unless there is a total acceptance by the community and a willingness on the part of responsible people in the community to work to that end. [More…]

• Is the AttorneyGeneral aware of the developing feelings of frustration and resentment in vast sections of the Croatian community at the unjust allegations being made against that community by representatives of the Yugoslav Embassy and other person:- of dubious antecedents who accuse them of terrorist activities in this country? [More…]

• I think it is tremendously unfortunate that these allegations are made with such frequency, because this is creating a sense of frustration, opposition and resentment among members of the Croatian community who object most strongly to these allegations. [More…]

• The second point is that in recent times 1 have received many representations from members of the Croation community who are concerned. [More…]

• I have an accumulating body of evidence which is giving me the gravest concern that much is happening behind the scenes and is not being revealed; that there are agents provocateurs; that there are persons who are trouble makers; and that there are other people who are identifying themselves with the Croatian community with a view to causing trouble within that community. [More…]

• Secondly, does he say that in the welter of material that his officers have, nothing has been put forward bv moderate Slovene and other sections of the Yugoslav community involving anything about terrorism from the rightists of the Croatian clement? [More…]

• Am I at liberty to interpret the words ‘national interest’ that the Attorney-General used in his earlier answer to me to mean that the Government is seeking to damp the actions of agents provocateurs from the right of the Croatian community? [More…]

• I have no doubt that the work of the Committee has been and will continue to be extremely valuable to the community. [More…]

• One might express the position shortly in this way: A validating measure confirms community expectations; a merely retrospective law would frustrate those expectations. [More…]

• Whatever might be the criticism to be levelled at the substance or the manner in which it was carried out, the fact is that the community believed that all these laws which are now open to some doubt were in operation, that the obligations people incurred under these Jaws were properly incurred and that the rights people had under these laws were ones they were entitled to have. [More…]

• That was the community expectation, and it has been set at nought because of the judgment of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• What we are concerned to know, to have some chapter and verse on, is what will be the dire effects in this community if the principle that we espouse is accepted by the Government, that is, that criminality should not be created retrospectively Am 1 to take it from the Attorney-General’s answer that he cannot give me any chapter and verse on this question? [More…]

• That is an irresponsible position to adoptThe purpose of validating legislation is to ensure that what the community believed to be the position continues to be the position. [More…]

• Senator Greenwood said that what counts above all else in considering whether legislation suffers from the vice of retrospectively creating criminality is what the community believed to be the legal position. [More…]

• The Government has an obligation to make the position clear and to realise the community expectation that what it thinks is the law is in fact the law. [More…]

• That was validating legislation to set right a position which was wrong for a technical reason and to give effect to what the community believed. [More…]

• I think we all recognise that there is a need for something urgent to be done and that people who, under cover of what is given to them by the Supreme Court, regard themselves at the present time as not guilty of an offence should be put in the position which was their belief, which was the community’s belief and which, 1 believe, ought to be the position, and that will be achieved by the passage of this legislation. [More…]

• Today we are inclined to look at the rights of small groups in the community which seek to challenge in one way or another the ordinary processes of the community. [More…]

• Although the situation was highlighted by the campers outside Parliament House, it was the general situation which was of concern and it was necessary to protect Commonwealth lands from a situation in which minority groups can effectively take over land and thereby prevent its use by the community as a whole. [More…]

• ‘Under the definition of ‘Aboriginal’ which is accepted in the Australian community, anybody who has some Aboriginal blood and claims to be an Aboriginal is an Aboriginal. [More…]

• As far as the particular point which has been referred to is concerned - I take it that it relates to a comment which appeared in the Press this morning - it is difficult for the Commonwealth Police or for any police force to carry out investigations in a migrant community where the ability to understand and speak English is not the same as it is amongst native born Australians to whom English is the mother tongue. [More…]

• I think we are all aware that there have been a number of alarming incidents involving members of the Painters and Dockers Union and that there is a lot of speculation as to the reasons for these incidents; Unfortunately there, as in other areas, without community co-operation and people willing to provide information it is difficult to apprehend the persons who may be charged with the commission of these offences. [More…]

• I feel that the appropriate line here, quite apart from police investigations, is to make clear to the community just what is happening, in the hope that we will have a community acceptance of what is proper conduct and a community abhorrence of all these various tactics which are being engaged in - an abhorrence which leads to rejection and repudiation of the persons who engage in them. [More…]

• It is very easy when feelings are aroused and there is a sense of apprehension in the community for people to fling about accusations on the basis that they are helping the situation in some way. [More…]

• Everybody in this community has the right to have his reputation preserved. [More…]

• That, I feel, is part of the problem which Dr Cairns is fomenting in this community. [More…]

• But it must be recognised that in this community all types of offences are committed in which the perpetrators are never found. [More…]

• The basic problem is that we do not have enough community co-operation and provision of information which will help the police. [More…]

• If that is to be built up as a case against the Croatian community, and if it is a case which is to be the basis of an allegation of terrorist activity in this country, then I think that the people who make those accusations should first overcome the facts which I have stated. [More…]

• In recent times in this Parliament and elsewhere the principle has come into consideration because at times it is clear that the interests of individual persons must be judged in the context of the interests of the community at large. [More…]

• But I feel sure that its importance will be recognised and applauded by all honourable senators and by the churches and other voluntary organisations which have for so long been serving the community by providing much-needed accommodation for elderly people. [More…]

• I would like to raise a matter for my information and for the information of a great number of people in the community who applaud this measure. [More…]

• As I mentioned earlier, this Bill is but one of a number of measures being introduced by the Government to improve the health and welfare of the aged in our community. [More…]

• In Australia we have had a long history of allegations about terrorism connected with the Croatian community. [More…]

• I want to make it quite clear that so far as the Australian Labor Party is concerned most of the people who have come here from Yugoslavia - the overwhelming majority of them - have fitted into our community and have been decent migrants. [More…]

• They are shocked at the terrorism that has been associated with some members of the Croatian community. [More…]

• The representatives and the property of the Yugoslav community in Australia, particularly at the consulate at Double Bay, seem to have had no protection, despite the great resources which the Government has by way of Commonwealth Police and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. [More…]

• On the very few occasions when it may have been necessary for me to speak to migrants about the possibility of violence, I have always urged them to keep the law, not to resort to violence but to observe the law whatever may have been their feelings towards other groups in the community. [More…]

• The advice the DLP might offer to migrant groups or to other groups in the community is this: The law should be obeyed, terrorism and violence should be completely foreign to our country. [More…]

• I repeat Senator McManus’ statement that terrorism has to be stamped out in whatever section of the Australian community it exists. [More…]

• Whatever disagreements we have in this place, we are faced with a situation now which should be taken right out of the pre-election jitters which some people have and right out of the issue whether one side or other of the Yugoslav community is right. [More…]

• Is the Attorney-General aware of the developing feelings of frustration and resentment in vast sections of the Croatian community at the unjust allegations being made against that community by representatives of the Yugoslav Embassy and other persons of dubious antecedents. [More…]

• 1 do not believe that, because the Yugoslav community has established itself very well in Australia. [More…]

• I do not think there is any person here who does not have friends in the Yugoslav community. [More…]

• I know some members of the Yugoslav community very well. [More…]

• These incidents do not reflect on all members of the Yugoslav community; they reflect on some of them. [More…]

• My point about all this is that there is an air of disbelief, I would suggest, in the Croatian community and in the Australian community which will seep or burst out into the outside world. [More…]

• Fifthly, the Croatian state, spiritually and economically, will be oriented towards Western Europe, will enter the community of free European nations and will seek membership in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Regrettably it is true that there are elements - I use the word ‘elements’ advisedly - in the Opposition who have helped to break down the community’s moral fibre in regard to respect for the Jaw. [More…]

• I want to repeat what I think Senator McManus said: The great bulk of the migrant community has added notably to the character and integrity of this country and. [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…]

• Senator Murphy, I took the opportunity last night between the hours of 7 and 9 to ring 9 members of the Yugoslav community whose friendship I have enjoyed since 1953 or 1954. [More…]

• For the information of Senator Gair, these people have established sound careers and have demonstrated good citizenship in this community. [More…]

• By and large, most members of the Australian community do not differentiate between the different sections of the Yugoslav community and consequently the unwarranted stigma is applied to them all. [More…]

• Plenty of right wing people in the community, including White Russians and other groups, are not above coming to Labor parliamentarians if they think we can be a bridge across ideologies to reunite a family. [More…]

• The point make to the Minister is that irrespective of the wall of silence that he will say he struck in relation to the present bombing episodes I think he should look beyond them and that he should take the Australian community into his confidence and say very clearly that the cancellation of passports does indicate that a minute section of the Croat community has been engaged in activities that are damaging to Australia here and abroad. [More…]

• This is the new international community of the possessed. [More…]

• I have an accumulating body of evidence which is giving ms the gravest concern that much is happening behind the scenes and is not being revealed; that there are agents provocateurs; that there are persons who are trouble makers; and that there are other people who are identifying themselves with the Croatian community with a view to causing trouble within that community. [More…]

• Is it beyond the wit of our security organisations to find people among tho Yugoslav community whom they could plant in the various Croatian liberation movements? [More…]

• We have heard that crimes in the community generally remain unsolved because people will not come forward and volunteer information. [More…]

• When a terrorist organisation is operating in this community people who have information would be understandably reluctant to come forward with that information, especially newcomers who might not sufficiently appreciate the degree of protection to which they are entitled from the law enforcement agencies of this country. [More…]

• This regulation is administered in terms of current community standards. [More…]

• In view of the recent reports about the unfitness of many young Australians, will the Minister say whether he will request the Government to make immediate additional grants to the States, via the National Fitness Council or in some other way, for the establishment of multi-purpose community sports centres, such as basketball stadiums, because no State has enough of these centres to cater for the community need? [More…]

• I know it is a fact that there are members of the Yugoslav community who do go in fear of their lives because they do hold this belief- [More…]

• They do hold the belief that there are persons in the Yugoslav community who would resort to violence. [More…]

• A tremendous amount of information is fed into this bureau by al] State police forces about matters affecting these migrant communities, matters which have some relevance in terms of past criminal activities by members of a migrant community and possible leads for investigation with regard to future criminal activities if they should occur. [More…]

• I am satisfied that there is an effective working relationship between the Commonwealth police and the State police, that information is interchanged and that that is what the community expects. [More…]

• Am I to understand that, in the welter of material that has flowed to the AttorneyGeneral, there are no allegations that people in the Yugoslav community have been pressured by elements of the far Right? [More…]

• Kingdom- Australia Trade Agreement (UK AT A) 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…]

• It has always been accepted that Australians observe the right to protest against some injustice done to a section of the community. [More…]

• That rate does not even keep up with the natural growth in the community. [More…]

• There was not the continuity of sufficient seasonal conditions to sustain a farming community. [More…]

• That is why the farming community had disappeared, if it had ever existed on this continent. [More…]

• The farming community was brought back here when the white man brought with him the experience and the knowledge to know how to harness the natural resources to enable him to venture upon new undertakings. [More…]

• Those circumstances are not compatible with moving into a modern type community. [More…]

• He needs to get to work in order to help to build the bridges that will assist Aboriginal people to walk across into a civilised community. [More…]

• Those things were adequately suitable in the environment in which they once lived and which, if we leave them alone, they will leave behind them in their march forwards towards a civilised community. [More…]

• It is not a matter of wishing to support or not wishing to support the cause, for greater recognition for Aborigines and the claims of the Aboriginal people on the Australian community. [More…]

• These parties have the freedom to exist in this country although they do not have very much support from the Australian community. [More…]

• Once you put them in a different position, whether a position of discrimination adverse to them or in a position of discrimination favourable to them, you are perpetuating the system of paternalism and at the same time destroying or moving away from the new concept which we are all trying to adopt, that is, of integration into our community. [More…]

• The moment you put the Aborigines in a different position in relation to respect for law and order, you are immediately demonstrating to them a tolerance which is not accorded to other members of the community. [More…]

• It must still in the concept of the white people in our community and in their thinking put them in an inferior position, which is the very thing that we do not want and that they do not want - the thing which we are not entitled to infer and which they are not entitled to receive and which they do not want to receive. [More…]

• Therefore to those who have suggested that in this form of protest they should be accorded a solicitude and a tolerance which is denied to other sections of the community who similarly want to protest on issues which are relevant to their interests in life, I say that once they do that they are putting the Aborigines in a position different from that of the rest of the community; they are contradicting the whole of their thesis on racial integration, they are contradicting the whole of their thesis on toleration and the whole of their thesis on the ultimate integration of the Aboriginal people with the white culture. [More…]

• Therefore I say in these last few minutes that those who have supported the Aborigines in this programme and in this type of protest should have second thoughts about it, to see if by doing that they have not in fact done a great deal of harm to the campaign of these people and to the campaign of the Australian community for the ultimate total absorption of our indigenous people in our culture without any distinctions or differences. [More…]

• We have a section of our community who are not getting a fair deal despite the money that has been spent on them to date by this Government. [More…]

• If good planning and studies in depth are not made in this regard, the health of the whole community could be in jeopardy as a result of this leisure crisis. [More…]

• It is as important to have a healthy community as it is to have an educated community. [More…]

• While we are highlighting these facts we forget about the general wellbeing and the health of the average person in the community who may not have the ability to become a champion but who wishes to compete. [More…]

• To do this a fit community will be required. [More…]

• The reason I have used the motion for the first reading of the Income Tax Bill 1972 to speak on the matters of shipbuilding, physical fitness, recreation and sport, is that these are matters which are causing concern in the community. [More…]

• If the Government does the 2 things I have mentioned it will be doing the people of Australia a good turn and will be doing something worth while for the community. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party regards these Bills as a panic-stricken attempt by the Government to hoodwink the Australian people into believing that in fact the tax concessions are of general benefit to the taxpaying community. [More…]

• As we have indicated, we are prepared to support the Government on this legislation because it will grant some concessions, but in terms of reality and in terms of the responsibility of people to pay taxation the legislation which is before the Senate for its ratification is totally inadequate to meet the real needs of the taxpaying community. [More…]

• Notwithstanding that, the Labor Party will be prepared to support the legislation because it recognises that it goes some part of the way along the path to providing substantial relief to the taxpaying community. [More…]

• Let me warn the people of Australia to take note that, if this is all the care that, the Labor Party, has for the aged and needy people in our community, it does not deserve to become the Government following the election to be held this year. [More…]

• The details of this programme should be placed on record so that the great community of migrants and new settlers who have made such a remarkable contribution to our national well being and growth may have the benefit of this programme. [More…]

• The main elements in educational services for the migrant community include, in the first instance, the child migrant education programme, then the adult migrant education programme, the full time intensive English language courses as well as the well tried and successful pre-embarkation and shipboard instruction. [More…]

• Does any honourable senator recall the motion by Senator Murphy to refer to a committee the question of medical and hospital costs which were to bring benefits to the community and that for the last 35 minutes on that occasion Senator Davidson talked and talked about nothing relevant to the Bill for the purpose of permitting half past 10 to be reached before the question was put? [More…]

• As to the offensiveness of unsolicited material and the protection of persons under 18 from exposure to objectional material, the tribunal must pay regard to community standards and to any decision of Commonwealth authorities on tha same or similar material. [More…]

• In making any such determination the tribunal to seek to implement the general principls in paragraph 1 and, as to the offensiveness of unsolicited material and the protection of persons under 18 years of age from exposure to objectionable material, to have such regard as it thinks proper to current community standards, and to any decision of Commonwealth or other State authorities in relation to the same or similar material. [More…]

• It is very easy when feelings are aroused and there is a sense of apprehension in the community for people to fling about accusations on the basis that they are helping the situation in some way. [More…]

• Everybody in this community has the right to have his reputation preserved. [More…]

• This is what is exercising the minds of people throughout Australia: who is safe in this country when there are elements like this in the community who can plant bombs and carry out guerilla and commando tactics for which they are being trained in Australia? [More…]

• Let me make this clear: The Liberal Party Migrant Advisory Council was formed, with other undertakings formed by banks and by community bodies throughout the country, to help migrants to assimilate in this country - for a fine and proper motive. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Senate to Yugoslav members of the Australian community who visit the United States of America or North America in general. [More…]

• In view of the wrangle that Senator Hannan engaged in, I said rightly: Is it not a logical conclusion - this has been the motivation of the Government’s original diplomatic ties with Yugoslavia - that if an infinitesimal minority of the Yugoslav community has its way and becomes linked with some subversion in Yugoslavia and a fragmentation develops then Rijeka and all these other Adriatic ocean ports could be made available to the Red fleet and it is quite possible that the power balance between NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries will be distorted. [More…]

• He did not want to give that answer because I would have drawn the justifiable conclusion from it that we have to look at world politics and that it was a setback to some of the extreme elements of the Croatian community. [More…]

• In the Yugoslav community we had to choose between the ‘Yugoslav-Australian Journal’ and a newspaper called ‘Zar’ which means glow. [More…]

• If they want to live in a democratic community and take part in the affairs of a democratic community, they can offer themselves to Parliament, to be judged by their fellow citizens either as independents or as members of a political party. [More…]

• So the Jeremiahs, for whom Senator O’Byrne is the spokesman, will be disappointed once more that they did not implant in the community a spirit of gloom that would depress employment and prejudice school leavers. [More…]

• Will the Government now take action to adopt the proposals of the Australian Medical Association with regard to smoking and health, in view of the strong criticism by the Association of the Government’s refusal to ban cigarette advertising, and take other steps to alert the community to the clear health danger inherent in smoking. [More…]

• When Britain enters the European Economic Community it can be expected that we will see a drop in that demand. [More…]

• I preface my question by adverting to the growing importance of Asian trade to Australia and the consequences of the emergence of the European Economic Community lo Australian and New Zealand trade. [More…]

• If so, is it not a fact that a number of documents, including the newspaper ‘Spremnost’, circulated within the Croatian community in Australia have done this? [More…]

• In evaluating and responding to the present turmoil amongst the minority of the Croatian community is the Minister motivated in the first instance by the attitude of the Department of Foreign Affairs that the fragmentation of Yugoslavia can only further the foreign policy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or, conversely, does he lean to the other view expressed in a statement at the week-end by some honourable senators, that the creation of an independent state of Croatia would be a good thing? [More…]

• Such is the state of the nation that there is a need for the Government to inquire into the areas of poverty which exist in our community. [More…]

• Also, the $1.75 a week increase is rather difficult to accept as any sort of a tangible benefit when in the same Budget the Government has taken steps to provide for the wealthier groups in the community very substantial decreases in their weekly taxation bill. [More…]

• In other words, members of the community will be asked to accept their full responsibility and to bear the full financial cost. [More…]

• The Budget Speech of the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) foreshadowed very substantial changes in social service benefits that are to be paid to the less fortunate people in the community. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt, in what I imagine to be typical Opposition form, criticised the amounts that are paid and said that a Labor government, if it were elected, would certainly contribute more to those in the community who were in need. [More…]

• One would have to agree that no matter what is done within the community, those in more affluent circumstances can never do enough to assist those persons of the community who through no fault of their own are placed in indigent circumstances. [More…]

• I have some pleasure in feeling that the less fortunate people in the community will now receive this benefit. [More…]

• Perhaps the wording used by the Opposition in this revised amendment may convey that thought to the community. [More…]

• I hope that it is not the wish of any honourable senator, any member of Parliament or any person in the community to see or to countenance a situation in which a government would consider reducing pensions. [More…]

• It has been my wish that nobody in the Australian community since the last war should be considering that they hope to aim for a situation in life where they are going to be completely reliant for their maintenance on a pension. [More…]

• But 1 think that that argument may be adjusted by the general proposition that in the future pensions may become taxable, to some extent; that is, when people who receive high incomes accept a pension they will find that they have to repay it all again to the community by way of taxation. [More…]

• No matter which parly were in office, there would not be the same volume of cash available for distribution to those less fortunate in the community if we were to provide a pension to people who really did not need it. [More…]

• The opinion polls indicate that the proposals contained in the legislation before us apparently are entirely acceptable to the people in the community. [More…]

• A great deal of what is contained in the Bill has been accepted and indeed praised by the community. [More…]

• Of course, the whole question of social services has been exercising the minds of people in the community for a long time. [More…]

• But that is not a valid reason for arguing that at the closing stages of their lives they should be denied privileges that are available to the community and should be available to all who contribute towards them and to all who pay the adequate rates of taxation which have been devised by governments over the years according to the incomes which they have earned. [More…]

• We believe that the young people of this community are equal to one another, that all are born equal and should have equal opportunities and that if they are able, by their own ability, to win scholarships that are made available by the community, then this is not specifically in the interests of the individuals themselves but in the interests of this nation so that we shall have a better educated, a better producing, a more highly skilled and a more proficient nation. [More…]

• They may be more interested, as Senator Webster suggested - and I remind Senator Webster that not only the poor go to the races - in backing winners on a Saturday than providing a highly intelligent young person who may be studying medicine at a university until he is 24 or 25 years of age with means which will enable him to live as a young person of that age ought to be able to live, at a reasonable standard in the community. [More…]

• One finds children of even well to do families dropping out from the higher level of education and giving up scholarships, because despite their parents’ income, of which they are not necessarily beneficiaries, they arc denied the necessary living allowances that are made available to other members of the community. [More…]

• I did not think that this letter required a reply, but had I replied 1 would have been forced to warn them in their own interest that they should not seek the rights and benefits of marriage status in our community, as they put it, because if they were still interested in homosexuality at the stage when they became entitled to pensions, they would find that they might have the same rights as married people but would not get the same benefits as 2 single persons. [More…]

• There are people who have reared families and refuse to accept the modern idea of a companionship that is not recognised by the rest of the community. [More…]

• Surely we should think of the quality of life in this area of the community. [More…]

• In the 1930s we seemed to realise that a community which was decreasing in numbers could not be a forward looking and prosperous community. [More…]

• We have people like that in our community who have to care for 6 children. [More…]

• Why should such a woman be looked upon as a misfit in our community, as she is by many people today? [More…]

• Indeed, very often I have known of cases in which, as a temporary measure, such people have beer able to register as unemployed so that they can receive at least for a limited period the unemployment benefits which are available in the community. [More…]

• The best way in which any country can be judged as to whether it has the best interests of all its people at heart is by its attitude to ils elderly citizens and its atti tude to the youngest in the community. [More…]

• I do not believe that anyone who looks at the position of pensioners objectively can have any other view than that the affluent Australian community is certainly sharing its wealth with those who have some demand upon the conscience of society. [More…]

• In that sense it represents the community interest in resolving what otherwise might be resolved only with great strife and hardship to the community; whereas a tribunal that fixed pensions would be determining, in effect, what the community can allow or what the Government can allow, having regard to all its other items of expenditure, by way of remuneration to pensioners. [More…]

• The great wage tribunals of this country when allowed to operate untrammelled take into consideration all factors that are necessary for the well-being of the whole community and when they come to fix wages they do not decide that someone should have a certain increase simply because he needs it or for some similar reason; they decide whether industry can afford to pay and whether the economy can stand the increase which is proposed. [More…]

• We believe that an independent tribunal would be a sensible approach to this problem in a modern community. [More…]

• In present circumstances a family can be regarded as a burden, but that burden should be removed from this category by lifting the rates to a more realistic level when compared with costs and charges in the community. [More…]

• It is the only way in which we can eliminate these constantly recurring social traumas in the community. [More…]

• Then by manipulation or juggling of figures the Government through its Minister points out that this section of the community is an affluent section. [More…]

• The girls who were widowed as a result of the Vietnam war still have preschool age children and are not able to battle it out in the community to earn a decent supplementary wage. [More…]

• Statements have been made by some witnesses and by some independent people who have communicated with the Press, as well as by people who have published books and pamphlets, suggesting that some ex-servicemen - according to some of the writers, many ex-servicemen - bludge on the community. [More…]

• However, that applies right across the board to all sections of the community. [More…]

• Unless the Government is prepared to remember that the community is made up of people and to do something to uplift their general standards of living, it is hopeless for us to ask it to take the case of ex-servicemen in isolation and treat them as human beings. [More…]

• The principle of repatriation is generally accepted by governments of all complexions in our community. [More…]

• I am one of those who believe servicemen deserve the very best from our community. [More…]

• Members of the Immigration Advisory Council are, in the main, representatives of community organisations and the 5 women members presently serving on the Council represent a large crosssection of the Australian community - including 3 major women’s associations with a combined membership of more than 940,000. [More…]

• The Government is also concerned to assist in alleviating the humanitarian problem posed by the decision of the Ugandan Government to expel its non-Ugandan Asian community by 7th November. [More…]

• Since every member of the community is potentially threatened by this growing menace, and since the aid and understanding of all law abiding citizens must be sought to combat it, will the Government actively seek the advice and cooperation of the community as a whole, informing the Australian people as far as possible of the true nature of the problem? [More…]

• As for the statement by Dr Arnold, I would have thought that every member of the Government and every responsible member of the community would reject the proposition. [More…]

• Obviously the general practitioner is the corner stone because everyone in the community looks to the general practitioner when faced with a medical problem and I would have thought that it would be inconceivable to him to say that people in the community did not have a right to consult their general practitioner. [More…]

• I would hope, in the interests of the medical profession, that it would take positive steps to indicate that the community has a right to expect the. [More…]

• Doctors are members of the medical profession and one of the responsibilities of being members of a profession is that they make their services available to people in the community who need them. [More…]

• The Australian industrial community, including not only those who arc the industrialists but also those who are working in the industry and who are dependent on it for their livelihood, has been concerned by the events which have been revealed in the last week or so relating to the construction of what may be described as the initial part of the reticulation of natural gas for Australia which is to be carried out not with pipelines manufactured from Australian steel by Australian industry but with Japanese steel imported by the Australian Gas Light Co. at a cost of about S54m. [More…]

• I deliberately read those paragraphs into the record to indicate that the Nimmo Committee had something to say on this matter in March 1969 and the Wedgwood Committee had something to say on this and related matters in June 1970; yet it has taken the Government this length of time to get around to doing something to ameliorate the problems of the elderly citizens of oar community. [More…]

• In that regard I make the comment that in my State of Victoria we have a very desirable feature in the citizens advice service which is provided at the local government level and is very helpful to the people throughout the community who benefit from the many areas of assistance under Commonwealth, State and local government programmes. [More…]

• To religious and community service organisations that were willing to establish homes, the Government provided this new programme of assistance. [More…]

• However, under this Bill, the assistance is directed to one sector of our aged community. [More…]

• I would like to draw attention to the fact that the grants which have been made under the Aged Persons Homes Act to date total over $150m and that as a result of this assistance accommodation has been provided for many thousands of our aged community. [More…]

• The homes which were established under the Aged Persons Homes Act accommodate only a portion of the aged community of Australia. [More…]

• It should also be recalled that this legislation is part of a very big programme by this Government to assist the aged and infirm in our community. [More…]

• We hope that the provision of the extra $5 per resident per week will enable those institutions to provide comfort, care and service to the aged in the community. [More…]

• Therefore, rather than apportioning blame we prefer to suggest that, although it is high time that something was done, it is encouraging to see that we are stepping forward as a community to provide an improved quality of life for the people who come within this category and that we are doing this at the very essential levels of human life as we know it - that is to provide decent standards of homes and accommodation for them. [More…]

• In an age when there has been much thinking about the obvious problems, we feel that there are many things that the community ought to guarantee to society but which have been overlooked. [More…]

• In this community, whether you be a parliamentarian or a medico, no-one has a god-like profile. [More…]

• A point of interest is that that reference indicates something of the extent to which Government departments, and Ministers in particular, are involved in the total social wellbeing of our Australian community, especially that section of the Australian community which is either aged or unwell. [More…]

• In speaking in support of this measure today I draw attention to the fact that the government of the day, whatever political colour it may be, has become more and more involved in the social welfare programme of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Australian community is called to recognise this fact, not only for any elements of generosity which may be expressed in legislation but also through the interdependency between the Government and its departments, on the one hand, and the community on the other hand. [More…]

• He expressed the hope that this action would correct the pressing shortage of suitable accommodation for those aged persons in our community who may be described also as the frail aged. [More…]

• Most of them were non-profit community organisations and many of them were religious or church organisations. [More…]

• The community at large must always preserve a proper relationship towards its senior citizens; care, attention and respect are essential. [More…]

• We must remember that the Australian community is one community within the whole range of world communities which are giving a great deal of care and expert attention to social welfare. [More…]

• While recognising the great skills and competence which they possess we must remember that if their work is to provide the maximum benefit to the social welfare programme it must be undergirded by the involvement of the community at large - because, as I said earlier, this social welfare programme is one in which one section of a community is dependent upon another. [More…]

• With those observations I support the measure and hope that it will have a speedy passage through this House and that those who will be the beneficiaries of it will be able to extend their services in the welfare of the community. [More…]

• As a result of our way of life people have achieved a greater average life span and there is a greater percentage of elderly people in our community. [More…]

• Therefore the community at large has an even greater requirement to care for the aged. [More…]

• Additionally, this is imposing a cost on the community because very substantial benefits are paid by the Commonwealth for those persons who receive nursing home treatment. [More…]

• I believe that the Government has to give very careful consideration to the situation affecting the great number of people who are being deprived of the opportunity to display, exhibit and portray their skills and talents - their undoubted skills and talents - to the Australian community. [More…]

• In the administration of the taxation system, the primary objectives of the Commonwealth Taxation Office are to obtain a high level of compliance with the law while keeping the costs of collection within reasonable bounds and ensuring that administrative practices will not place any avoidable burdens on the taxpaying community. [More…]

• The concept and content of these Bills represent part of the economic plan of the Government as well as giving certain relief to promote activity in the community and to stimulate consumer opportunities generally. [More…]

• The first is to ask the reason for the constant refusal of governments to accept the increasing burden that the working community is required to pay in transport fees to and from places of employment. [More…]

• I think it is important that the community should know the categories of employment, occupations and engagements in which incomes are being earned and on which taxation is being paid. [More…]

• At different times over the years I have asked whether the breakdown of taxation statistics should not include a more particular discrimination in occupation and a fragmentation in professional occupation so that the community could see the levels of incomes in the various categories. [More…]

• It would inform the community and could indicate to those who wish to follow certain professions or to pursue certain vocations where the opportunities lie. [More…]

• We are hopeful that this process of stagflation and of erosion of purchasing power and the other processes which are operating to the detriment of the community will at least in part be halted by this process and that they will make a due contribution and that the real value of income will again be sustained. [More…]

• The Government decided in the Budget which was brought down in August last thai drastic changes would be made to the income tax burden which falls on various sectors of the community. [More…]

• I would see it as an obligation to make known the quite drastic changes that have taken place and the very great effect that will be felt by the community in this year and into 1973 following the easing of the income tax burden. [More…]

• Any thinking person who has paid tax, and that applies to every wage earner in the community, has had the incidence of tax emphasised to him or her every week of the year. [More…]

• When one completes a taxation return and realises the volume of income tax that is paid into the Commonwealth coffers for the benefit of the community in general, one realises that the personal rates of taxation have become burdensome over recent years. [More…]

• The Treasurer made a further most important statement; he referred to a fact which has not been generally recognised in the community but which has an impact on many people. [More…]

• He also said that there will bc a real lift to community and business psychology and that that is what is needed at this time. [More…]

• In short, I suggest that the business community will find very quickly that between now and Christmas there will be an impetus in the general level of business, and I hope that that will lead to greater efficiency so that the business community can take advantage of that increased spending. [More…]

• This is something which has been suggested by backbench members of the Government over a period of years and has been achieved at this time to the great credit of the Australian community. [More…]

• The attitude of the Labor Party in relation to devaluation of the Australian dollar is well known in the community. [More…]

• I think that men with suicidal tendencies will be found in the same percen tages in the community as a whole. [More…]

• Will the Attorney-General have discussions with the State AttorneysGeneral in an endeavour to have uniformity of penalties in Australia for acts of sabotage to stamp out this type of scurrilous activity by these degenerates in the community? [More…]

• He uses the expression ‘sabotage*, which I would not regard as an inappropriate expression to use with reference to a wanton destruction of property which not only provides necessary supplies to maintain lifelines in this community but the destruction of which, I imagine, has its effect upon persons who have to depend for their employment on such supplies. [More…]

• All of it reflects the tendency for people to take the law into their own hands, to ignore the law and to engage in crimes and offences that create a problem for the community in coping with them. [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, 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…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) has stated that he personally is most impressed by the work being done by the Aboriginal medical service in South Sydney, and believes 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 general 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…]

• It is not irrelevant to consider whether the franchise should be extended to an age group before they are likewise endowed with other responsibilities and privileges of an adult community. [More…]

• What it is seeking to do is to look at this question carefully, considerately and with a fairly detached view as to all the effects that this might have not only on the people concerned, their responsibilities, the maturity and the levels of understanding that they have but also the community as a whole. [More…]

• It relates to a fundamental change in the approach of the whole Australian nation to the participation by large sections of the community in the electoral process and therefore in the processes of government. [More…]

• While the extension of the franchise to young people of the age of 18 years and under 21 years will provide for a more accurate reflection of the relevant opinion of electors the most accurate and democratic means of ensuring the equitable Parliamentary representation in the House of Representatives of substantial bodies of political opinion in the community is by the electoral system of proportional representation voting for election to that House; [More…]

• There will be a corresponding group in the community today. [More…]

• However, as 1 indicated in the amendment which I read and which has been circulated, the Democratic Labor Party is concerned about certain trends in this community. [More…]

• We find some significant developments in the Australian community and perhaps in other modern communities. [More…]

• One significant thing is that there are groups within our community - I do not mean groups of violence or groups who have completely way-out ideas which are supported by zealots dedicated to extraordinary causes - who are intelligent and serious but excited and who no longer find their political accommodation in any of the existing political accommodation in any of the. [More…]

• Assuming that that is an honest statement of their attitude, we can see that if there are significant groups in the community which have not the opportunity for adequate, relevant and appropriate political representation, they are going to find government outside Parliament. [More…]

• The only answer to that is to have an electoral system which as accurately as possible within the confines of practicability and practical operation shall reflect the diversity of opinion which is now growing up in our modern sophisticated community. [More…]

• There was a time in this community when the issues were very clear. [More…]

• Today on everybody’s breakfast table will be the problems of Egypt, Israel Vietnam, Bangladesh and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• With the development of a more sophisticated, better educated and intelligent community people are taking attitudes on questions which once were not a matter of concern or interest to the Australian community. [More…]

• I admit that there would be total instability in government were we to give representation politically to every small fragment in the community - we could not do it - but there are groups which, on a proper system. [More…]

• I think that would bring a variety of richness to parliamentary life and a stability to the Australian community which now may well be lost in this challenge to parliamentary authority by those outside Parliament who find that the vehicle of their expression is demonstration in the streets and a violation and defiance of law and order. [More…]

• If in a modern community groups similar to the Democratic Labor Party are developing and are continuing to be denied reasonable political representation in the people’s House then we can expect tremendous frustrations and agitations outside of the Parliament, with all the challenges to the stability of the Parliament that inevitably will accompany that position. [More…]

• It is that there is a large segment of the community - the young people between 18 and 21 years of age - which is politically mature enough to participate in the electoral process, in the process of government, and which has no direct representation because it has no opportunity to vote. [More…]

• That is why the Democratic Labor Party has decided to urge upon the Senate that this principle which is outlined in the form of my amendment, be accepted quite divorced from parly politics, quite divorced from old traditions and quite divorced from the conservatism of the old system, but as one which is appropriate to the modern community in which we live, one which will reflect the diversification of our modern community and its increasing sophistication and one which will make a much more fruitful contribution to the parliamentary and political process. [More…]

• We do appeal to honourable senators on the motion for the second reading to acknowledge the wisdom, prudence and the equity of giving consideration to an alternative electoral system for the House of Representatives so that in the truest and most accurate sense possible that chamber can reflect the Australian community and can be a parliamentary house of the people in fact as well as in theory. [More…]

• The intent of the Bill is to give political representation to a group of people in the community who, because of age disability, under the present law do not enjoy it. [More…]

• The purpose of the first placitum of our amendment is to give parliamentary representation to a group of people in the community who, because of the present electoral law, cannot achieve it. [More…]

• 1 do not see why Senator Murphy should be so solicitous of the people in one segment of the community in order to make sure that they achieve parliamentary representation, and not welcome what we are doing; that is, welcome the removal of the deprivation of half a million people of parliamentary representation. [More…]

• significant segments of the community, he would have welcomed the proposition on which we are giving the Senate the chance to vote tonight. [More…]

• the most accurate and democratic means of ensuring the equitable Parliamentary representation in the House of Representatives of substantial bodies of political opinion in the community is by the electoral system of proportional representation voting for election to that House. [More…]

• Certainly we would be better off with a Leader of the Opposition of that age because he might be more in tune with the times and more sensitive to community responsibilities. [More…]

• In making its appointments has the Government taken into consideration the recommendation of the Senate select committee that inquired into the encouragement of Australian productions for television that such appointments should represent a wide and diverse cross-section of the cultural life of the Australian community? [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…]

• In our community there is room for every church but there is no room for an organisation which leaves its adherents virtually penniless and in a state of subjection because they dread the spells that may be cast upon them if they do not comply. [More…]

• I think we in Australia recognise that the free speech and tolerance available in this community are things that we cherish and wish to preserve. [More…]

• Before I refer specifically to the other part of his question, I think that I should add that inherent in the forms of saving by the community in life assurance is the fact that taxation concessional allowances, which are most important for the family man, apply in respect of life assurance contributions. [More…]

• As a Country Party representative I am pleased to say that the Government in recent years has further recognised the very important role that primary industry plays in the community. [More…]

• There is the cost of labour, the value of the labour that is lost, the loss of productivity in the community, the cost of office space and of all the other things that are connected with the complete duplication of Commonwealth and State activities in this sphere. [More…]

• I regret that at times we hear honourable senators and members of the community criticise individuals for what they may do, on the one hand, to avoid the incidence of taxation or, on the other hand, to engage in some form of estate planning. [More…]

• Another trouble is the effect on some sectors of the community as compared with others. [More…]

• I propose now to refer to other sectors of the community and to mention first the professional man. [More…]

• It is easier for people in the non-rural sectors of the community to minimise the effect of duties, and action to achieve this is taken throughout most parts of the country. [More…]

• The reason why we support the Bills before the Senate is that we have seen and know of the problems that beset people operating smaller and medium sized businesses in our community, be those businesses engaged in rural or secondary industry or any other type of industry, when they come up against the problem of estate duty. [More…]

• The tragedy about the imposition of probate duties in that bracket is that they fall also very heavily on the small farmers and small businessmen in our community. [More…]

• I think that if the Government came to terms with, and did something about keeping, Public Service salaries in check and not let them be the pace setters in the community it might be able to do something about the abolition of estate duty. [More…]

• In my opinion to tax that remaining little amount is completely anathema to the spirit of promoting thrift, to a sense of responsibility to one’s family, to encouraging the family unit and to the continuation of -individually owned assets in the community. [More…]

• At that time we were concerned mainly with the rural community. [More…]

• I can say quite definitely from letters that I have received that the legal community is causing much trouble in relation to death taxes, that trustee companies are causing much trouble and that the insurance companies are doing the same. [More…]

• I have spoken not just on the aspect of exemptions from estate duty; I have always supported the concept of complete abolition because I feel that estate duty is one of the most iniquitous taxes ever levied on a community. [More…]

• I am not persuaded that somebody who works hard, builds an estate and saves is a person not to be regarded in the community as worth while. [More…]

• Nonetheless, there are people who have done a lot for this country and this community and because of that they have left estates. [More…]

• whole community because it will encourage people to further thrift and further providence and they will get benefit from that thrift and providence. [More…]

• I think that we on the Government side would feel, having listened to the arguments - I think it is agreed that we have done that - that there is nothing in the Democratic Labour Party amendment which goes against the context of the Government’s Budget policy and that it expresses a genuine aspiration in which the Democratic Labor Party believes, which many Government supporters feel is proper and equally is to be striven for and which the community feels would be both desirable and useful provided it means a genuine reduction totally and not just a supplantation by someone else. [More…]

• Concrete is a very basic commodity to the building industry and Australia cannot allow collusion on the part of cartels in the rigging and manipulation of prices to the Australian community to continue, particularly when there is a critical housing short age and a demand by people, especially those on lower incomes, to have the housing delay overtaken at a reasonable cost to the Australian consumer. [More…]

• But I do say that there have been many complaints of that general character made by a number of people who are apprehensive about what has been happening amongst certain members of the Yugoslav community. [More…]

• I will say, in fairness to the Attorney-General, that he recognised that the state of affairs was undesirable, that these restrictive practices were injuring the community and that we needed effective laws to cope with them. [More…]

• What does that mean but that which was prophesied - that the Government had no intention whatever of making the changes which would prevent the operation of restrictive practices and which would cope with monopolisation in the community. [More…]

• We know that everyone in the community, except those engaging in restrictive practices and monopolisation, has been injured by them. [More…]

• We know that the Federal Government and the State governments are suffering from the monopoly power operating in the community so that the taxation which is imposed on our citizens is higher than it otherwise should be. [More…]

• What has happened, and is still happening in our community - I believe it to be unquestionable - is that today young people are accepting greater responsibilities at a far earlier age. [More…]

• The inability of the past generation to adapt itself to changed circumstances is a tragedy that is happening throughout the community. [More…]

• The proposition has been advanced by Senator Murphy that 18-year olds in the community should be given the vote. [More…]

• I believe that the thinking that has prompted the Opposition to present this Bill is not in the interests of the 18-year olds in the community. [More…]

• I believe that probably there is a balanced view in that group in the community and the question raised is one to which we would not know the answer. [More…]

• It appears to be the general concensus of State governments, whatever their political complexion, that they are interested in granting the vote to the 18-year olds in the community. [More…]

• Suppose we were to make the judgment on the basis of the volume of knowledge among individuals in the community today. [More…]

• I suggest that all honourable sena tors would endorse the suggestion that the volume of knowledge which the community attempts to cram into the minds of young people today is much greater in volume than it was in former years and that the individual must have knowledge that was not available to or in the minds of individuals 10 years ago. [More…]

• Why should we choose the age of 18 years about which a myth has arisen in the community? [More…]

• The most important matter is the one which I have emphasised, that is, that a person under 21 years of age today is not accepted as a full adult in the community. [More…]

• The fact is that persons under 21 years of age are still minors in the community today. [More…]

• The sellers of goods and wares in the community today have to be very cautious in supplying goods to individuals under 21 years of age because they are not legally bound to pay their debts. [More…]

• It can be said that an individual under 21 years of age in our community today is not completely informed on many matters. [More…]

• But I also think it is fair to say that many of those in the community who have the vote at 21 years of age are not completely informed on many matters. [More…]

• He emphasised to them the point that at 18 years of age they were not mature; they were not experienced in so many of the things in which they should really be experienced to enable them to cast a proper and considered vote in this community. [More…]

• 1 mentioned that matter only because I think that the Opposition is trying to tag on to this proposition in order to get publicity within the community. [More…]

• I suggest that therein lies a challenge to the 2 major parties in Australia today to see whether their philosophies really are attractive to the young person in the community. [More…]

• It is considering a matter which is perhaps beyond the thoughts and realisations of the ordinary person in the community. [More…]

• I take it that you will permit me to proceed to emphasise my point and to demonstrate why it is difficult to conceive how the Opposition here in one instance can seek to proclaim that a person over 18 years of age has the full competence of an adult in our community and should be granted the important right to vote when in a House of the South Australian Parliament rights which might be said to be those which should be granted to an adult are confined to persons of 21 years of age and over. [More…]

• What hypocrisy this demonstrates: Tt is most disheartening to see this double standard created by a supposedly important Party which, we are told, the community should be seeking to follow. [More…]

• I am firmly of the view that the community is interested in the lowering of the voting age. [More…]

• When granted the vote, persons under 21 years of age should be impressed with the fact that they have been granted one of the most sacred rights that can be made available to an adult in our community. [More…]

• It is important to understand this fact about our whole voting system: otherwise we will waffle about a philosophy that does not exist in our community at all. [More…]

• He said that young people of this agc group in our community are pounding on the doors wanting the wonderful privilege of the right to vote. [More…]

• If they were no more intelligent than the intelligentsia of today, had 1 been in their community 1 would have challenged their selection. [More…]

• That is when people think more seriously about matters that are of more concern to the whole community than they previously conceded them to be. [More…]

• But this is an indication that it is impossible in our community to achieve absolute perfection. [More…]

• It is to take from every person in the Australian community who votes for the Democratic Labor Party - there are close enough to 500,000 of them - the right to have an effective franchise. [More…]

• First past the post voting represents just about as much electoral reform as what I hear described in the community today as abortion law reform. [More…]

• 1 object also when people refer to first past the post voting as electoral reform in a community which has progressed to the stage we have of establishing a system of voting. [More…]

• Proportional representation allows every person in the community to express freely his political point of view without the penalty of disenfranchisement because he votes for a minority group. [More…]

• Of course it is because inevitably it disenfranchises a great number of people in the community and makes them the exclusive property of the electoral system of a country under the control of parties that happen to be big, in power and popular at a particular time. [More…]

• That prominent member of the Labor Party did not forsee that there would be minority groups in the community. [More…]

• The fair thing would be to allow people to have representation in the Parliament in accordance with the number of supporters which the various groups attain in the community. [More…]

• If we wish to exist as a community we must realise the impracticability of this. [More…]

• The rights of each of us have to be limited by the collective rights of everyone else in the community. [More…]

• Whatever the laws might be and whatever the Parliament, if they are made by a parliament which has been granted majority rights by the community they are valid laws and they should be obeyed by all of us in the community. [More…]

• But if we wish to live in a community - as we all must because none of us is an island - we must depend upon each other for so much, particularly in our sophisticated and modern type of community. [More…]

• Even Senator James McClelland, who may hate my politics and not like me very much, to some limited extent depends upon me as I depend upon him because we are both members of the community. [More…]

• Neither of us can take that principle and say that our rights are such that they should obliterate the rights of our fellow man in the community. [More…]

• In this community it would be foolhardy to have a representative assembly which consisted of 100,000, 10,000 or 5,000 representatives because that would be unworkable. [More…]

• But we have had since 1949 a system under which there is in the Senate a genuinely representative assembly which one might say more accurately reflects the divisions of political opinion in the community than does the House of Representatives. [More…]

• For it to be passed, as I have said, would mean that some people between 18 and 21 years of age would be able to vote and its passing would introduce, for that segment of the community, a voluntary principle which would run counter to the general compulsory principle which prevails throughout the Electoral Act. [More…]

• Because we have had a 21 -year-old franchise since the inception of the Commonwealth to my mind this imposes upon those who would change that franchise a heavy obligation of persuading the community and the Senate that the need for that change is a substantial one. [More…]

• Necessarily it excludes questions of worth, questions of intelligence, questions of greater or lesser education as standards or criteria upon which a person’s rights in the community must depend. [More…]

• The purpose in raising this matter is to ask that some action be taken by our Government to protect the value of an Australian passport and the freedom of an Australian citizen who has already been called up for military service in this country, so that when visiting any parts of Europe the members of our migrant community can feel that the Australian Government is behind them and will give them the same protection as it would give to any other Australian citizen who may be travelling abroad. [More…]

• However, the Department has its own interpreter service in each State office, which is available for use in emergency situations arising in the community. [More…]

• Furthermore, the Department is in the course of developing an emergency telephone interpreter service which will be introduced initially in the Sydney and Melbourne offices to provide a service to meet emergency needs in the community. [More…]

• There has been growing recognition also of the need for interpreter services in the community generally, and to assess the actual nature of this need the Department in 1971 commenced an Australia-wide survey to enable an overall assessment to be made. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that because of the increased numbers of working women with children who have to be cared for, such a change in the law would be greatly desirable in the national interest as well as in justice to working mothers who relieve the community of social service payments? [More…]

• Does the Minister agree with the opinion that has been expressed that in the Australian community there are more people with 2 jobs than there are people without a job at all? [More…]

• Could the Department establish relationships with unions and other interested bodies to stop dual employment so as to even out employment in our community? [More…]

• The acquisition of Colyer Watson Pty Ltd places Barrow Hepburn and Gale Ltd in the invaluable position of having captured a raw hides supply before Britain’s completed entry into the European Economic Community which gives it a major advantage over the other European leather producing companies. [More…]

• There may be long terra solutions which could be postponed by the Committee, but it is quite clear that recommendations for immediate action ought to be made in the interests of the Australian community - particularly those who depend upon the industry for their livelihood. [More…]

• I am quite sure that the general decision of where the plant is to be established would be made in the interests of the whole of the Australian 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…]

• 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…]

• The trade union movement would be in a very powerful position to spread employment more evenly if it adopted a total ban on the 2-job practice that exists in the community today. [More…]

• If employers, as a responsible section of industry, agree to wage increases which cannot be paid for out of profits but which involve an increase in tariff protection or the payment of bounties, the whole community is involved in such an agreement because the whole community has to meet the expenses of it. [More…]

• Great Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It is said that because the economy of this nation, except for the pressing needs of inflation, is still buoyant and is still maintaining a level of employment, and because the general level of prosperity of the whole community is probably equal to, if not better than that existing in almost any other country, everything is all right and we have no more need to plan, to take precautions, to worry or to doubt that in the next 5 to 1.0 years of challenge we will be just as successful. [More…]

• In the inter ests of the Australian community we must look at the prospects for the biggest pipeline ever to be laid in Australia - 700 miles of it. [More…]

• In the interests of Australian community there must be a good pipeline manufacturing business. [More…]

• Surely it is in the interests of the Australian community that this pipeline be manufactured in Australia. [More…]

• However, in the few minutes available to me I want to deal with the proposition put forward by the Democratic Labor Party because this is another instance of the Senate being involved in a matter of vital importance to the Australian community. [More…]

• It would be no exaggeration to say that employment is a problem which now figures quite largely in our community. [More…]

• Is the pipeline to take the shortest and most economical route from the point of view of that Company and its shareholders, or is the route to have relationship to the new-found interest of the Government and to the clear long term public interest of the Austraiian people in relating any source of fuel of this magnitude to the total economic planning requirements of the community? [More…]

• We also are influenced by the fact that the pipe apparently can be produced so much more cheaply by this overseas manufacturer that the Australian community should have the benefit of obtaining the cheapest possible product, provided it is comparable. [More…]

• I imagine that it is the wish of the community in general that we should not ask the Japanese manufacturer or the Australian importer to bear a duty of the order of 35 per cent, if that is the rate proposed. [More…]

• If Australian industry were given the opportunity to supply as much pipe as it was able to manufacture and the Japanese exporter and Australian importer were able to bring into Australia duty free the balance of the pipe needed, that would meet the wish of the Australian community and Australian industry. [More…]

• It is in terms of the pattern of the Budget that the Government has pursued its economic remedies which are obviously operating with some measure of success in the community. [More…]

• Estate duty was introduced so that the aggregation of great wealth would be prevented and the distribution of wealth would be ensured for the good of the community. [More…]

• Id view of the earlier decision of the Government parties and the DLP not to wait for the report of the Standing Committee let us determine whether we have the courage to see if difficulties are being experienced by people in our community and let us vote on that issue alone. [More…]

• The very wealthy have had resort to company lawyers and accountants and to the legal brains of this community, who have waxed fat during the past 20 to 30 years and who have advised their clients how to avoid their responsibility, while the Government sat stil] and took advantage of the inflationary period in order to bring in, from those sections of the community, which hitherto had not been involved in the payment of the duty, the extra money that it wanted. [More…]

• He has had the opportunity to support an amendment that would give some people in the community who are in a position of hardship some kind of relief. [More…]

• Anyone who ls interested in the depressed sections of our community, no matter what Party they arc in or what votes are involved in this issue, has to vote for this amendment. [More…]

• Senator Young was one of the first to admit that the rich people in the community have all sorts of subterfuges whereby they can conserve their estates, probably under various legal disguises, so that their estates, or at least a large proportion of them, are passed on to their dependants. [More…]

• The ALP has always maintained that those with the wealth ought to be able to pay some of the expenses of the less privileged people in the community. [More…]

• Every one of us owes something to the less privileged people in the community. [More…]

• There is a moral and legal responsibility on every Australian to see not only that he and his family live in comfort but also that every other member of the community lives in comfort. [More…]

• But today when income tax ranges up to 68c in the $1, the community is a completely different sociological and economic unit on which to impose death duties. [More…]

• The battlers in the community - the people about whom the Government cares very little - have been caught up in the inflationary spiral because the Government has failed to move with the times. [More…]

• Therefore I believe that the amendment is in the interests of a section of the Australian community which is finding this burden a serious and intolerable hardship. [More…]

• Interestingly enough, in the ‘Age’ of the same day a French correspondent, writing from North Vietnam, pointed out that in one province of North Vietnam alone the number of air strikes had reached a point where there was one air strike for every 85 people in the community. [More…]

• The Minister sees fitto prosecute a defenceless woman for giving out pamphlets to passers-by but he cannot find sufficient evidence to prosecute persons in the Yugoslav community or members of the Ustashi for placing bombs in front of shops in a main street of a capital city in Australia. [More…]

• But when that Federal law is a law which is not supported by the Australian community it is questionable whether there should be prosecution for a breach of it by persons seeking non-compliance of it. [More…]

• That is why it is sometimes hard to appreciate the financial cost of maintaining that position and the burden which it places upon the Australian community - facts which are appreciated substantially by the Department. [More…]

• I think all honourable senators realise how increased airline charges can escalate right throughout the cost structure in the community. [More…]

• It is a tremendous pity that personalities relating to political people have entered into this discussion because this is a matter of great national importance to every Australian child, not just the children of individual members of any section of the community. [More…]

• Therefore inequality not only exists in the primary sector of education and the secondary school sector of education but also flows right through into the university or tertiary system of education and hence right through the community. [More…]

• If the man is wealthy and paying the maximum rate of taxation,again the community is subventing him by way of taxation deduction at a much greater rate than that for a man in a comparable position who sends his child to a state public school. [More…]

• We are all conscious of the disruption that is threatening the entire community particularly in Gladstone. [More…]

• This is true of Qantas and it is true of any management scene in any endeavour in a community affair of which I am aware. [More…]

• It may sound strange coming from me with my trade union background, but although 1 have always believed in seniority for the purpose of protecting people when it came to dismissals, nevertheless we may reach a stage when some of the younger people in the Aboriginal community will have to be given positions of responsibility because some Aborigines in the older age groups will be too cautious or timid and may not have the drive to meet a situation which the younger ones could manage. [More…]

• As we reduce the number of manual operative jobs available in the community immediately we make competition for work much keener. [More…]

• It is helping many members of my race to fit into the community and enjoy the kinds of activities which they feel they need to do. [More…]

• I feel that we have to be a little careful in what we do because unfortunately we are receiving what might be termed a backlash from non-Aboriginal people in the community who perhaps are suffering through circumstances beyond their control. [More…]

• I believe that there is a need for special legislation and special assistance to help members of my race who have come from a completely different culture and who are striving to adapt and integrate into the general community and become what we all want to be - respected and responsible citizens. [More…]

• I support it because it is a step in the right direction and will be of great assistance to members of my race in finally taking their place in the community as respected and responsible citizens. [More…]

• The general attitudes of this Government have created the conditions in which the underprivileged groups in the community suffer needlessly. [More…]

• Senator Little, that the reference 1 was making was from a document prepared by Mr Joseph McGinness, the President of the Federal Council for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders - a man of standing in the black community and a man of standing in the Australian community. [More…]

• The Minister will be delighted to know that as far as I am concerned that disposes of the document made available to me by a very distinguished member of the black community in this country. [More…]

• The offer by Lord Vestey has been taken up in the context of the Government’s acceptance of the recommendations of the Gibb Committee that a policy be adopted to enable community living areas for Aborgines to be established on pastoral properties and under the control of the Aborigines themselves. [More…]

• Other matters dealt with in the Bill include, firstly, sub-section (2) of section 19 is amended to include the new Wo .len 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 lo change the name of the Canberra Community Hospital by removing the word ‘Community’ to accord with Australian Capital Territory legislation. [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…]

• Social Services are arranging to hold discussions with the States with a view to working out with them a co-operative scheme for improving throughout the community the supportive services available to the sick and the elderly who still live in their own homes. [More…]

• by voluntary organisations whose members saw the potential good which they could do in the community and the scheme is an excellent example of personal initiative, purposefully applied for a charitable objective. [More…]

• This is a measure in which the Government has indicated its willingness to support and subsidise - and to subsidise generously - those people who in a spirit of community endeavour are prepared to help those in need. [More…]

• The Government is using the Red Cross and other well meaning organisations in the community to do a job that it should be doing. [More…]

• The AttorneyGeneral spoke of the spirit of community endeavour. [More…]

• We on this side of the House wish to co-operate in a spirit of community endeavour. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of every community and every government to do this. [More…]

• The Government looks to people in the community to help themselves and encourages them to help others. [More…]

• It does not believe that those in need in the community should be made totally dependent upon the Government in all respects for all services. [More…]

• I sense that there is a late feeling on the part of honourable senators opposite that they should not have supported so easily and readily what is the fourth limb of the Government’s social services programme as enunciated in the Budget which has had such wide acclaim throughout the community. [More…]

• Speaking to the point of order, Mr Deputy President, it is consistent that the Minister wants to defend every thug in this community. [More…]

• He has never come out yet to defend honest people, to catch the criminals in the community. [More…]

• If history is to blame, then we have to blame it and pass on to other things because there is nothing before us except the inevitability that we must assist the Aboriginal people to become integrated into the community of a modern civilisation. [More…]

• I do not believe that that term conveys the impression of our people in relation to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Amongst our Australian Aboriginal community today, as we refer to it, are many people of much purer racial strain than any of us. [More…]

• Those who suggest that this is a logical proposition - 1 feel that in certain circumstances it could become advantageous to these people - at least ought to produce more specific modes in which this can be done to prevent the Aboriginal people, with whatever land rights they are given, going through the processes which we in our civilisation developed since land was first granted by the Crown to feudal lords and everybody else in the community was a peasant. [More…]

• Certainly there are many Aborigines, as there are others in the Australian community, who for diverse reasons are incarcerated in gaols from one end of Australia to the other for short or long periods of time. [More…]

• The police have to do a job for the rest of the community and, after all, we are responsible for them because we pay their wages. [More…]

• 1 have seen many instances of that even when major crimes have been involved, I deprecate the fact that much of their problem comes from the lack of their capacity to deal with a social evil in our community - alcohol. [More…]

• I do not think that concentration on the fact that some Aborigines have to spend a night in the cells because they have seen too much of the moonshine in any way helps the cause of Aborigines - even if one gets the personal satisfaction of having a snide shot at members of the police force, who probably would not have wanted to put them in the cells but have an obligation to carry out their duty to the rest of the community. [More…]

• I would hope that as we learn more of the problems we shall never at any future time be held up for want of money when the requirement can be shown that there is a practical possibility of assistance for this problem in any way at all towards its ultimate success and the successful emergence of these people as an integral part of the Australian community. [More…]

• I for one hope that they will bring with them those things in their culture which will benefit mankind as a whole and Australians in particular to a better way of life; and that we shall be sensible enough to let them leave behind those things that will not help them and which will not help us if introduced into our community. [More…]

• The context in which this Bill has been brought to the Senate is a continuing programme by the Government to advance in a variety of ways the welfare of Aborigines in this community. [More…]

• The fundamental objectives of Government policy in relation to Aboriginal Australians are that they should be assisted as individuals and if they wish as groups, at the local community level, to hold effective and respected places within one Australian society with equal access to the rights and opportunities it provides and acceptance of responsibilities towards it. [More…]

• We must endeavour by all within our power to have an integrated community in which the Aboriginal people will feel that they are part of the Australian community and that the nonAborigines of this country will accept the Aborigines as part of their community. [More…]

• The community is becoming fearful of the manner in which decisions of this nature are being made if this is the standard that is to be set by the Minister. [More…]

• The League’s policies on anti-communism and raising the morality of the community are good. [More…]

• I am glad that Senator Greenwood is present to hear my remarks because I think that he, of all members of the Government, is the one who is called upon the most to introduce some clarity in these dark places, in the interests of the Australian community, and to state that both the major parties are dedicated to the upholding of democracy and are in no way tainted by - I cannot remember the exact words of Mr Sinclair - this fossil from the past, this ugly spectre of fascism. [More…]

• The Australian Country Party supports theapplication of taxation at the lowest level compatible with the financing of national obligations and the maintenance of private initiative and borne equitably by all sections of the community but with minimal use of indirect taxation where the effect is to increase the cost of production. [More…]

• The Government considers that the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan is providing significant relief to low income families and other needy sections of the community. [More…]

• But we are presently faced with complex social questions such as the effect on viewers of televised violence, the most appropriate advertising standards to adopt in the best interests of the community and a whole host of other questions equally difficult. [More…]

• Every aspect of media communications impinges on all areas of personal and community life. [More…]

• There is a lack of economic law and order in the community which has led to criticism not only by the Australian Labor Party and by other political parties, but also by those in industry. [More…]

• More and more the statements being made by leading industrialists are critical of the Government’s failure to take action to plan in this economy and to take action to introduce elementary law and order into the economic affairs of the community. [More…]

• I hope that that Act, which has been held to be valid by the High Court of Australia in the concrete pipes case, will provide a suitable basis for dealing with the problems of monopolies in this community. [More…]

• Those in the community concerned with the economy will have an opportunity to examine this proposal and will be in a position to put to the government, whichever party is in power, its views on the proposals. [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…]

• In summary, the Government decided that action was urgently needed: action lo 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…]

• lt 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 forward-looking 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, lt is the Government’s intention to ensure an ongoing evaluation of both the short-term and longterm effects of the measures which this Bill will make possible. [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 be 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 in 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 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 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 children 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…]

• It is very important for honourable senators 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…]

• I am certain from my observations and from discussions with many people in the community that this is an action which is just not going to work. [More…]

• I do not think even our worst enemy would deny that as a result of the budgetary measures that have been put down there has been a significant movement in the economy, a stimulation and greater confidence and greater security in the community. [More…]

• The unfortunate development of this type of legislation highlights the fact that the technique of attacks on aircraft and the community by and through the use of aircraft is becoming more prevalent and sophisticated in its operation. [More…]

• That it should now emerge as an international crime is quite appropriate and with the recognition of that in a convention its translation into municipal law is equally relevant, desirable and valuable to the modern community. [More…]

• Before they are appointed he has made it known to the community at large that he knows what their findings will be. [More…]

• In the present situation with rising wool prices and a shortage of wool, there could be a little scepticism throughout the wool growing community. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party believes that primary industries depend as much on the man in the city as the man in the city depends on the farming community. [More…]

• We still have a selling market despite the prophets of doom who live within the community of wool growers. [More…]

• As it appears clear that unemployed executives face serious re-employment problems and related disabilities and that these would tend to flow into other sectors of the community, which would not be good, will he take up this matter with the Minister for Labour and National Service to see whether some specialised employment service could be made available to them? [More…]

• Mr Ewens conducted the affairs of his branch and of his department over a long period with great personal distinction and extraordinary value to the community. [More…]

• In the meantime, those charges would be to the cost of the community. [More…]

• The industry is bearing the full brunt of inflation, high shipping costs, vagaries of sterling devaluation, strong competition from South Africa which was advantaged as a result of the sterling devaluation, quite strong competition from New Zealand and, of course, a loss of previous markets as a result of the European Economic Community arrangements. [More…]

• We negotiated with the United Kingdom a postponement of some of the worst things that could happen to us as a result of her entering into the European Economic Community and just sat back in the traces. [More…]

• Those 2 markets are under threat because the United Kingdom is going into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I think that we can appreciate the fact that this legislation which I think has been in operation since 1966 has been of considerable benefit to the farming community. [More…]

• I hope that the farming community generally will try to evolve methods of farm husbandry that will allow it to produce the same quantity of produce with less nitrogen. [More…]

• I rise to issue a word of warning that unless the farming community matches this matter they may find themselves in a war with ecologists, environmentalists and other people generally and be prevented some day from using this immensely valuable fertiliser. [More…]

• The Budget Papers embrace the whole of public activities and the administration of the entire community. [More…]

• It is a large and diverse institution which carries not only a great deal of responsibility but also an enormous amount of detailed involvement with the community, lt is concerned not only with such things as the carriage of our mail but also the things which go with that and, of course, broadcasting and other authorities. [More…]

• But what effect has it had on the Australian community? [More…]

• As Senator Cavanagh has said, for the first time applications were called to fill vacancies for Commissioners and almost 200 applications were received from people in all sections of the community concerned with industrial relations. [More…]

• At the time tenders were called for cleaning the Nhulunbuy School the Tender Board of the Northern Territory Administration was continuing to provide this Department with services on the same basis as it had provided services to the Education Section of the Northern Territory Administration when it was responsible for community schools in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I express the hope that when adjustments are approved by the Department in future with respect to the fees charged by these institutions the Department will look closely at the matter from the point of view of services provided by a home and not according to the demand by the community for bed accommodation at the home. [More…]

• It is a reflection of the growing concern and solicitude for the sick in the community and also of a growing recognition of the new social patterns of life that are developing and an attempt to meet them. [More…]

• The increase in the TPI rate has now raised the income of this group over ‘the limit which disqualifies any member of the community from participating in the scheme. [More…]

• That in many cases there is a correlation between education failure and juvenile delinquency, with a resultant economic loss to the community. [More…]

• Is the AttorneyGeneral aware of the state ment made by Mr G. O’Donnell, who is Chairman of the Australian Copyright Council which represents authors, publishers, musicians, composers and journalists, that universities are contributing to the gross erosion of authors’ and publishers’ rights through the use of photocopying machines and that the universities themselves are denying their purpose as a community of scholars when they authorise large scale photocopying on their campuses? [More…]

• Government has lost in the community, lt is interesting to note that some 11 days before the Prime Minister made his first statement on this matter in the House of Representatives, which was on Tuesday, 19th September .1972, we received in the Parliamentary Library a copy of ‘Focus’ which is the official journal of the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]

• The rural community is represented in the Houses of Parliament by the powerful Country Party, whose influence generally is exerted on behalf of the graziers rather than the people who live in the provincial towns and cities. [More…]

• However,I emphasise that the Commonwealth’s basic attitude remains that it is a matter for State Governments to decide on the revenue resources that should be available to local authorities to enable them to provide the various community services for which they have been made responsible under State laws. [More…]

• But I think most people in the community would agree - and, with due respect, I think Senator Gietzelt would agree - that only one party has been talking about this problem of decentralisation for many years. [More…]

• Decentralisation has been spoken of for many years, but I think it is fair to say that the talk has come mainly from the rural sector of the community. [More…]

• I remember Sir John McEwen saying that a basic decentralisation would not be achieved until enough people in the community were impressed with its necessity. [More…]

• The loss to the community must involve millions of dollars every day. [More…]

• We know that a final solution to this could cause great disturbances to the Australian community, because if we are going to project proper policies of decentralisation and for the sustenance of people and of commerce in rural areas and sustain the economy in the rural and more remote areas of the Commonwealth, then we have to interfere and have to rationalise the various rural industries and the lives of those associated with them. [More…]

• One does not receive an honourable discharge from the Australian Imperial Forces after 5 years service, 31/2 years of which were spent in an overseas theatre of war, including the siege of Tobruk; one is not appointed President of the Queensland Rugby Football League, to be the symbol of the major sport in Queensland, unless one is a decent citizen and a man of integrity and unless one has been active in community affairs and is of good character. [More…]

• The Senate reflects, in its composition, the broad political trends of the Australian community. [More…]

• Pre-school centres, or the lack of them, have been the subject of a great deal of concern in the community, not only to parents but also to psychiatrists and teachers. [More…]

• The community generally has been very critical of the Government’s failure to provide these essential services for the very young members of our community. [More…]

• It is because of this Government’s appreciation of the importance of restraining inflationary pressures in the community that we determined a policy of curtailing Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]

• The Government will place the responsibility for those matters largely on the people in the community who are prepared to activate themselves either at the industrial or the local level. [More…]

• The Government is placing the responsibility on any well meaning people in the community who are prepared to band together to assist in establishing child care centres. [More…]

• At this rate, clearly millions of young children in our community will not have the advantages of a proper child care relationship with their mother and with other children. [More…]

• economic pressures in our community on the low income groups it should set out to organise part time work rather than full time work generally. [More…]

• Government would find and the community would find that this overall would be in the interests of the child. [More…]

• Specialists who have studied the problem find that it is difficult to come to any conclusion but I think, largely speaking, that child care centres should be established in the community. [More…]

• They should be part of community life. [More…]

• A number of cases from this report should be referred to because they give some indication of the sort of problem which exists in our community at the moment. [More…]

• These sorts of abnormal situations which exist within our community are surely matters which must concern those of us who have responsibility in government. [More…]

• He considers, and I and the Labor Party agree, that community centres are more desirable so that no complications would occur if there were lay-offs or strikes. [More…]

• It has been the increasing social change which has had the attention of the thinking women in the community. [More…]

• On the other hand, however, if there is to be a right to choose by a woman for her self-expression and the way in which she interprets her role as a parent and as a responsible member of the community, then 1 feel that in this particular case some action by the Government was necessary. [More…]

• I would like to think that the incentive which is given under this Bill will be exercised to the extent that qualified staff are available in the community for this service. [More…]

• Assistance is provided at 3 levels under this Bill: There is assistance to the child who will be cared for in the centre, assistance to the family and assistance to the community. [More…]

• We recognise that in our community there is a necessity for some help in this area. [More…]

• For a long time now we, as a civilised community, have recognised the deficiencies of orphanages. [More…]

• So we say that we are prepared to allow this legislation to pass if we can find nothing better to fill the gap in our community where the need for them is unavoidable. [More…]

• The recognised Opposition of this country has abandoned the principle of the family society and has endorsed, and indeed not only approved but sponsored, the permissive society that is wrecking the family community. [More…]

• Already there is great fear amongst mothers in this community that they have been sold a pup in the ideas on dope taking that members of the Opposition put forward, as well as ideas on the unlimited access to pornography with no censorship. [More…]

• The fact that Senator Webster, who would be representative of some of the duller members of the community, agrees with Senator Little shows the extent to which this sort of statement can have effect upon the population if it is made repeatedly. [More…]

• I am very concerned with the problems that I see coming about in the community with a further breakdown in the family life of some people. [More…]

• There is no doubt that some people in the community must avail themselves of the services of child care centres. [More…]

• There are people in the community who very definitely need the assistance of child care centres. [More…]

• I believe that all of these matters indicate the necessity for the proper organisation of the child care centres in the community. [More…]

• Perhaps the background to the necessity for these centres can be highlighted by the fact that there has been a progressive increase in the number of single mothers in our community. [More…]

• Much as one may admire those who are willing to do this work for no return to themselves through municipal or church organisations, I put it to the Government that 80 per cent of the child care organisations which are established in the community at the present time are professionally oriented child care associations. [More…]

• These centres will then take on the special characteristics appropriate to such children, rather than be a reflection of the crosssection of the community within which the children are growing up. [More…]

• This is a Government initiative in which we are acting to solve a serious community problem which has evolved as a result of the present community’s activities, and is reflected in the rising proportion of married women in the labour force. [More…]

• Any such organisation, however, would need to offer priority of admission to children in special need and to be open to serve the community, and not restrict entry into the child care centre to children of employees in a certain industry. [More…]

• The scheme is aimed at supporting centres operated by local government bodies, or other voluntary organisations conducted as non-profit organisations, and as a means of bringing the community into touch with this scheme. [More…]

• It is consistent with a number of programmes which this Government has advanced and which I believe is part of the philosophy which we seek to develop in this community, an indication of Government help being available for those who are prepared to help themselves. [More…]

• In view of the success achieved by the present proprietor in re-establishing a satisfactory hygiene standard at the abattoir, does the Government regret its failure to appoint members to the Senate Select Committee appointed to examine all aspects of the attempt to close the abattoir, which if effected, would have been to the detriment of the community in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• They use their best endeavours to promote their children’s welfare on a view which is fairly current right throughout the community, that parents want their children to have a better life than they, the parents themselves, had. [More…]

• The measures taken by the Government in assisting the community to overcome such problems do in fact provide a number of supports to the family such as the counselling service to be provided to parents of children needing care. [More…]

• If in fact it is just as good financially to be on compensation as it is to be at work, the argument runs, there will always be a certain number of people in the community who will prefer to pretend that they cannot work. [More…]

• I appeal to the Minister to accept some of the propositions put forward by Senator Bishop because I believe it would be in the interests of the community for the proposition to bc accepted. [More…]

• Perhaps one of these days we will have a really affluent community where that sort of situation can prevail. [More…]

• We ought to have a securities and exchange commission, and again I believe that the feeling of the community has moved heavily towards that as being a desirable policy. [More…]

• We have to protect the Australian community and Australian capital investment. [More…]

• The system of colleges of advanced education has, of course, received a wide measure of community support. [More…]

• the performance of its graduates in industry and society rather than their qualifications will be the criterion by which the community judges the college system. [More…]

• The report discussed in a most interesting way the degree of overlap and community of purpose between the colleges and the universities. [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…]

• I believe that they have a responsibility to the community to serve it as well as they possibly can, in addition to being economically viable and making money. [More…]

• The policies which have been followed by the Government have placed a heavy burden on the community and, I believe, have been the cause of the lowering of our living standards. [More…]

• There has been criticism, I believe justifiable criticism, against the European Economic Community because of its high trade barriers - not only tariff barriers but non-tariff barriers - against the import of Australian products. [More…]

• There has been criticism of these non-tariff barriers which have been erected against Australian exports not only by the European Economic Community but also by Japan and other countries. [More…]

• I suggest that Australia has nothing to learn from the European Economic Community or Japan when it comes to the establishment of non-tariff barriers. [More…]

• The Government is throwing a few crumbs to the underprivileged people in this community. [More…]

• It will also ensure that negotiations are genuinely based on the capacity of a firm to pay and not on collusion, which raises wages and prices at the same time at the expense of the entire community. [More…]

• We are against collusive practices between powerful employer and union groups in key sectors of industry, at the expense of increased prices passed on to the rest of the community. [More…]

• We are also against the sacrifice of the economic interests of the most depressed groups in the Australian community, including the breadwinners on or close to the minimum wage, pensioners and people on fixed incomes. [More…]

• They have a special impact on the lowest paid group in the community, the pensioners, and the large families, which have no hope of compensating themselves. [More…]

• The chief victims of the cynical fix-ups between monopoly unions and employers are thus the poorest and most defenceless elements in the community. [More…]

• Does the Attorney-General, in view of the constant references to the Ustasha Movement, still deny that a Croatian Liberation Movement, which obviously ignores semantics and uses the feared name Ustasha within the Yugoslav community, is active in Australia. [More…]

• Among them were the anti-poverty programme, the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, the medicare scheme to provide health insurance throughout the community, and an attack on slum housing and urban decay. [More…]

• His unyielding contribution worked towards the transformation of Canada’s reputation from that of an imperial dominion subject to Britain and American economic colonialism into an independent force in the community of nations. [More…]

• He certainly became a leader in the world community. [More…]

• That the Government’s decision to withdraw penal provisions now contained in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act as affecting employees is contrary to the interests of peace in industry and that the Labor Government’s proposal to retain penal provisions to apply to employers is objectionable as it demonstrates partiality and shows clearly the intentions of the ALP towards those who provide job opportunities in the community. [More…]

• Because so much criticism was expressed of the rules there arose in the community divorce law reform associations whose aim it was to deal with the unsatisfactory state of the law and to press for amendments to the law. [More…]

• I would welcome the assistance of the Senate Standing Committee in making further improvements, and I would welcome from anywhere else suggestions directed towards making divorce simpler, less expensive and more dignified so that when these private tragedies occur they may be dealt with in a way which would satisfy the community as well as the individuals concerned. [More…]

• My only regret is that during the time he was in office he did not see fit to make amendments to the rules which obviously ought to have been made, including the amendments ‘ which were requested by all sections of the community, especially the legal profession and the judiciary. [More…]

• I think that there is a special reason why the community should provide legal aid in divorce matters. [More…]

• The community insists upon certain procedures being followed in divorce matters. [More…]

• The community having insisted upon that course of action, I think there is very strong and special case for the provision of legal aid. [More…]

• Many forms of doing so have been tried in the community. [More…]

• No honourable senator opposite would guarantee the safety of any sector of that community in the early days of its independence. [More…]

• It is a nation we are helping and one which we hope will take its part in the community of nations. [More…]

• One of the principles which the Commission will take into account in assessing hospital and health care needs of Australians is that of planning on a regional basis and the effective co-ordination of hospital and community services. [More…]

• We will not interfere with the business community in doing whatever it likes in relation to Taiwan, providing of course it is “done under a lawful contact. [More…]

• I think it would be useful for all members of the Australian community to know just how the changes which have occurred over the years have affected us. [More…]

• He has also not taken up my suggestion that, in the interests of the community, any views he has as to how anything ought to be drafted in order to advance the purposes 1 stated - that is, simpler, less expensive and more dignified procedures - ought to be put forward. [More…]

• Advice will be taken by me of the appropriate authorities in the Attorney-General’s Department and in the Office of Parliamentary Counsel, from the legal profession and from the community generally as to what should be done to improve the divorce rules further. [More…]

• interests of the community. [More…]

• For example, in the Department of Health the principal matters dealt with are public health including hospitals, community health and dental services, research, preventive medicine, pharmaceutical benefits, quarantine, health services in the Northern Terri tory, the Australian Capital Territory and Norfolk Island. [More…]

• Affairs before they draw up specifications for contracts, with a view to trying to assist this section of our community. [More…]

• I have risen simply to say that 1 welcome the proposal the Minister for Works (Senator Cavanagh) has now put forward that this project be reconsidered by the Public Works Committee, which will give satisfaction to the Senate and, I believe, the members of the community in which it is proposed to construct this project. [More…]

• It might not have been generally known but it was known to those of us who were in the unions and worked in the unions that as a class trade union officials were amongst- the lowest paid people in the community having regard to the responsibilities they had to accept and the abilities they had to develop. [More…]

• He suggests that a trade union official is an exception;!- person in the community who can be entrusted with particular power over the people with whom he associates. [More…]

• The trade union movement can stand up with any other section of the community. [More…]

• It asks like any other section of the community. [More…]

• But to get back to my initial remarks, when I look at boards and commissions and their personnel I believe quite sincerely that other sections of the community have been over-represented. [More…]

• I think that that community opinion ought to be given effect to. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Primary Industry aware that the Australiawide shortage of beef and mutton has caused both commodities to be priced beyond the reach of fixed income and low income groups in the community? [More…]

• Therefore, the policy of the Government at this stage, pending the inquiry into Post Office affairs, is to ensure that the needs of the community as a whole are taken into account by assessing whether telephone lines and telecommunications systems should be installed rather than provide for the needs of a minority section of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is the -objective of- the present Labor Government to bring about’ ‘ a completely new scheme which will contain some equity for all sections of the’ Australian community. [More…]

• generally speaking, could- be utilised in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• I do not claim the organisation is any better or any worse than other sections of the community, but why should he be so selective and single it out as he does repeatedly? [More…]

• But because something is becoming more costly they should not do a Ned Kelly and stick a gun at the head of members of the community. [More…]

• This drive is making the ordinary worker in the community a puppet in the game of the trade union official and ALP and Communist Party politics. [More…]

• This is not a piece of legislation aimed to improve unionism, to raise the standards of the Australian community or to help commercial and industrial working conditions. [More…]

• This is a regulation, an ordinance, designed to be divisive; designed to help the unionists and the Labor politicians; designed to be punitive; designed to divide the Australian community. [More…]

• The only sections of the Australian community which do not support this are Liberal Party and Democratic Labor Party politicians who want to make political capital out of it and the exploiters of labour who are operating in Australia today. [More…]

• Trade unionism has grown during this century into a real contributor to our community life. [More…]

• Again there are individuals who wish to see more freedom in the community. [More…]

• If not correct, will the Minister inform the House of the conditions required to be met by an Aboriginal applicant who resides in an Aboriginal community or reserve area? [More…]

• I would like to have a thorough investigation made there of the practices which have developed in this community in regard to divorce and the rackets which have been carried on. [More…]

• It is clear that in this sphere, because the community insists that certain procedures be followed and that litigants be not permitted to settle their own affairs, as might be done in other spheres, there is a special obligation to ensure that persons who need legal assistance be given it. [More…]

• 1 want to stress also that, apart from any question of rackets, the rules themselves, by their complexity and by their unnecessary procedures, were adding to the cost of divorce and it was imperative that we delete from the rules these unnecessary procedures which had greatly inflated the cost of divorce to the community. [More…]

• I think that the Senate and the community would think more highly of the Opposition if, in relation to this matter, it responded to the invitation that I gave to put forward some constructive proposals instead of indulging in the nit-picking in which the Opposition has indulged over the last several weeks. [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…]

• I have had a long association with various organisations in the community and I know that nobody can benefit from or enjoy the facilities of any of them without having met the prerequisite of taking out membership. [More…]

• It suggested that there was no significant evidence of community preferences towards increased leisure at the expense of the material standard of living. [More…]

• It should be clear to the Australian public and I think it is a matter of common sense that the great body of migrants who have come from Yugoslavia, including those from Croatia, are law abiding citizens wanting to be assimilated into the Australian community. [More…]

• I would think they are greatly concerned at the fact that the activities of a relatively few persons have caused such concern to the Australian community and to themselves. [More…]

• Honourable senators know of my constant agitation to pinpoint the wrongdoers in the Croatian community. [More…]

• I put it to the Attorney-General: Do not the activities of this gentleman seriously question the creditability of both Senator Hannan and Senator McManus and has not this criticism impaired relations with the broad Yugoslav community which is disgusted with the action of people like Mr Rover? [More…]

• The reality of the position is that there was a good deal of hardship being caused to some members of the community. [More…]

• I share the view of most members of the community and certainly the view of most of those who have reflected on and written about this subject or who have given evidence before the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs. [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, 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…]

• In the interests of world understanding, world peace and the world community this, of course, is of utmost importance. [More…]

• We are looking at a people who, within the space of 100 years, have come out and have moved in a world community to where today they are third amongst the world’s great industrial nations and are moving upwards to challenge the first 2 nations. [More…]

• To the west of them is the emerging power of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If I have done no more than take honourable senators on the briefest of journeys in this regard, I think they will agree that what the Committee has done, both in the education of its members and in the preparation of the report, is of great worth to this Parliament and to the community. [More…]

• Like any other section of the community, I think the farming community has its whingers right across the board. [More…]

• The first of the 4 principal grounds upon which he said the Government was basing its program for change was 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…]

• I quite appreciate that there will be a section of the community - indeed, there, will be a section of the Parliament- which will be opposed to some of the measures which will be advanced by this Government. [More…]

• I know from my own interests in community affairs and even from interests outside this Parliament that people seem to resist change, even though that change is not Of a revolutionary nature. [More…]

• I have no doubt that some of the legislation to be introduced will be warmly contested by sections in the community and by sections of the Parliament. [More…]

• Various sections in the community are already anticipating what will be the outcome of this first session of this Parliament. [More…]

• Yet there are men in the community who, to gain some slight political advantage, are prepared to inflame the minds of the people by suggesting that the Government will exceed its authority and will flout the expressed will of the people. [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 - [More…]

• He went on to say that it was proposed to build community centres based upon schools and to grant youth leadership courses. [More…]

• The Labor Party parliamentarians’ obligations do not extend only to members of the Labor Party and what is written in its platform; the obligations extend to all other groups and sections in our community. [More…]

• It is in office not on the sole support of unionists and Labor Party members; other members of the community supported it for their own particular reasons. [More…]

• To implement policies which encompass the interests of one group in the community cannot be said to be in the interests of the whole community. [More…]

• The Government is responsible to the whole community, not just a section of it, and it should be responsive to the whole community, not just a particular section of it. [More…]

• Its policies are aimed at causing disharmony and diversion within the community. [More…]

• The Opposition by its disapproval of the Public Service Arbitrator’s determinations has already shown that we on this side of the chamber will not allow a particular section of the community to be favoured against the other. [More…]

• We will not at any time allow unionists rights, privileges and rewards which are not available to all other members of the working community. [More…]

• There has been talk about community of interest. [More…]

• I do not know how much money Labor had available to it, but my understanding from discussions with some business leaders in the community is that Labor attracted contributions for its campaign from many areas in which it had not had success previously. [More…]

• Neither the present Government nor the previous government or any other government in Australia is obliged to make available to the community in general full and complete information which might be used by foreign powers at a later date to the detriment of our defences. [More…]

• In the same way as Dr Evatt and Mr Chifley stood up to it in 1948, I hope that the Government will stand up to that section of the community which is attempting to force the Government, which has apparently made up its mind that these installations have to be retained, to change its mind. [More…]

• There is a good deal of concern in the community about differences of opinion which exist in the Labor Party at the present time. [More…]

• What more could the Australian community ask of a policy on bases? [More…]

• Finally we urge the Government after such full enquiry to bring before Parliament and the people in the August session of Parliament a completely reformed Matrimonial Causes bill more consonant with community needs than the present fault-based code. [More…]

• When the citizens of the community have to organise themselves and start to campaign and organise, and are able to attract thousands of people to their meetings to complain about scandals in the law, it is incumbent on those who are responsible for the administration of the law to do something about it. [More…]

• I am pleased that the community generally approves the action that was taken. [More…]

• However, I suggest to the honourable senator that one of the reasons for the falling off in the number of migrants coming from the United Kingdom to Australia this year compared with last year could be related to the economic circumstances of the United Kingdom as affected by her joining the European Economic Community. [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 often mentally ill. [More…]

• A proclamation has been made, ft includes the organisation to which I have referred, together with a lot of other organisations in respect of which some persons in the community might offer a great deal of criticism. [More…]

• There are religious sects which may earn the disapproval of many sections of the community, but it seems to me that under the Constitution the Australian [More…]

• I would ask that all honourable senators assist in what is an endeavour on behalf of the whole community. [More…]

• In reply to the question about whether I subscribe to the passage read out by Senator Carrick, all 1 can say is that the policy of the Australian Labor Party is that the dual aspects of national and commercial television shall be made available to all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• I do not know that 1 can say which particular section of the Australian community was most vocal in its desire to support the ban. [More…]

• If, as it seems, the Minister dissociates himself from the Marcusian principles and philosophies in the submission of the Australian Mass Communications Council, does he consider that a person who publicly espouses such views on the media and in the community is a suitable person to have been appointed as a member of the Australian Broadcasting Commission? [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…]

• But I have heard some honourable senators opposite say that there are in the community people who want to remain voluntarily unemployable. [More…]

• It is a great pleasure for any Minister or any government to grant benefits to any class of people in the community, but no benefits paid to any class of people in the community are free. [More…]

• One of the best things that could be done in this community would be an increase in the pension rate to the highest level to which it can be increased. [More…]

• Perhaps it should be prepared to say that although it has taken some steps in this matter they are far below what it, as a government, hoped to do for some individuals in the community. [More…]

• It is a very great psychological problem and the community must do something about it. [More…]

• A large number of persons in the community are unable to work, owing to some physical or mental disability in the environment which our society has built, and we shall have to overcome this problem. [More…]

• I suggest it is encouraging people to remain unemployed because the Government, which is the head of the community, says to an individual: ‘If employment which is exactly to your liking or is in line with your original form of work or profession is not available, you will be able to obtain unemployment benefits immediately.’ [More…]

• I do not think that it is in the interests of this community for it to provide a full unemployment benefit for the lad who cannot find employment immediately after leaving school. [More…]

• I am quite certain in my mind that the economic policies of this Government will lead to considerable unemployment in our community. [More…]

• We urge the Government in its beneficence in attempting to give benefits to people in the community, many of whom are deserving of our closest attention, to realise that 20 per cent of the total Commonwealth budget is paid out in social service benefits at the present time. [More…]

• The Government’s support of the principles of a 35-hour week, 4 weeks annual leave and a $13 increase in the minimum wage will lead to unemployment in the community unless these things are introduced in very cautious stages. [More…]

• The Government has to contend with the problem of inflation in our community. [More…]

• I suggest to the Government that the benefits it has granted should be made known to the community by improving the already excellent standard of the publicity leaflets that the previous Department of Social Service put out. [More…]

• I think that many aged pensioners and many unemployed people in the community were not aware of the full benefits that were available. [More…]

• In attempting to control the situation of making payments only to those in the community in need, I suggest that the Government should consider making grants to those churches and other institutions which have demonstrated an interest in assisting and making their services available to the unemployed, the aged, the homeless men and women, those in the community who have suffered a broken marriage or children who have been left without parents. [More…]

• You will be literally destroying the very things that you are trying to achieve for the less fortunate people in the community.’ [More…]

• But at least it is breaking away from the traditional approach that the rales of pension are fixed not on the basis of the affluence of our society but on the basis of statistical figures in budgetary programs which cannot foresee what the income of the total community is likely to be or the requirements of the years ahead. [More…]

• I repeat that this legislation represents a step towards the DLP ideal of pension rates being fixed scientifically on the basis of society’s capacity to earn, to pay and to maintain not a weekly cash income for pensioners but an ability to live in comparison with the standards of the rest of the community enjoyed at a particular time. [More…]

• Even the barometers that allegedly express a standard of poverty as compiled by universities do not take into account a great deal of the most extreme poverty in the community brought about by self-inflicted wounds. [More…]

• We also know that we have in the community a difficult problem that is shared by countries throughout the world. [More…]

• I am not referring to the majority in the community. [More…]

• It may race too rapidly into some proposition without duc thought and thus aggravate some of the evils in the community. [More…]

• In such cases $21.50 a week may be inadequate, but there are not many young people in our community in that extreme position. [More…]

• These comparisons show an unhealthy tendency to encourage in our community less desirable features and 1 do not think that any of us want to do that to our young people, lt is not even a majority of our young people but only a very small minority which can be corrupted by such a thing, but are they not the ones we should be thinking about mostly? [More…]

• There are a few young people in our community of that age who are unemployed and who could suffer enormous hardship; but the great majority of them in a community as affluent as ours have people who can help them. [More…]

• It was alleviated and finally overcome by the good sense and good will of everyone rather than by any sanctimonious cry that one section of the community was completely wrong and another completely right. [More…]

• We assure the Government that nothing that will be done by this Party will stop this Bill passing through this Parliament so that the benefits can be made available to the pensioners, the sick, the invalids and the unemployed in the community as quickly as possible. [More…]

• It provides a series of benefits for people in the community who are in need. [More…]

• Social welfare needs to be distributed to that section of the community which stands in the greatest need. [More…]

• It was followed by a policy of continuing review of the needs of those citizens in the community who were in need as well as continuing provision to help others to help themselves. [More…]

• These statements, Mr President, I think you will agree, do not suggest for a minute that this responsibility for social welfare in our community under that Government were characteristic of what the Minister described as ‘mean men in practise of a poorhouse, alms giving mentality’. [More…]

• I ask the Senate whether it thinks this Bill will stand up to the test of time in this Government’s administration and effectively remove all forms of injustice and inequality from the community? [More…]

• The Govern ment has claimed - it has put down in chapter and verse - that it proposes to remove, and that it will effectively remove, all forms of injustice and inequality from the community, and it has pointed out that common needs deserve common rates of benefit. [More…]

• I merely draw the attention of the Senate to this section of the Minister’s speech and invite the contemplation of it by both the Senate and the community in due course. [More…]

• Mr Chifley said he was ‘not greatly concerned about abolishing the means test so that everybody in the community above the prescribed age limit may receive an age pension, even though that is part of Labor’s policy’. [More…]

• When an approach is new it sometimes tends to attract some sort of idolatry from the community, and the community regards it as the answer to all the social ills of the community. [More…]

• Mr Benardos is a very respected citizen of the community. [More…]

• So 2 responsible people in the community are concerned about this matter. [More…]

• Before taking such a step I will obtain the views of both my colleague the Minister for the Media and the various sections of the community that might be affected by such a decision. [More…]

• What action does the Government propose to take to assist the River Murray co-operatives to market wine and what stimulus does the Minister intend to give to the industry to assist it with market development overseas to offset the adverse effects of British entry into the European Economic Community and revaluation of the Australian dollar? [More…]

• I ask the Minister assisting the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he agrees that in the international community of nations the acknowledged criterion for recognition of a nation is its estab lished right to control the area it governs? [More…]

• Those 2 elements that increase the cost of a home to people in the working community of Australia have been extracted from this scheme. [More…]

• It preferred to deny this well recognised democratic right to an important section of the 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…]

• 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…]

• I suggest that that insistence was obviously promoted by the wide demand in the Australian community, from honourable senators in this place and from honourable members in the other place to ensure that this aircraft was safe enough to carry out the job for which it was first designed. [More…]

• I think this will be a matter of conjecture forever because, after all, it is a secret vote and statements by people in the community, whether they be political scientists, pollsters, journalists or politicians, that 18-year-old voters always vote against the government in power or always vote this way or always vote that way is so much eyewash. [More…]

• Most people in the community will be anxious to see how we fare for a period under a socialist Government because they have not previously had experience of control in the Federal sphere b> a Labor government. [More…]

• The Government’s flurry in attempting to embrace communist countries certainly has raised the eyebrows of many people in the community. [More…]

• Unless the children can rely upon the proper security of marriage and unless each parent can rely upon a system to enforce the proper obligations of it, the basis of our community is weakened indeed. [More…]

• This hierarchy of people who have trained in Australia move through the whole of the public service and the business community of Asian countries. [More…]

• This additional impost and all the other imposts on the community, if they are not met in a more generous manner than that detailed by Senator Wright, will spell the end of the apple industry in Australia. [More…]

• I do not wish to be taken as suggesting in any way that Commonwealth public servants are not entitled to be well treated within the community - but I emphasise within the community’. [More…]

• I understand your apprehension is that he is a man with a propensity to violence and that, >n 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…]

• This information has wide currency in the Croatian community and is becoming more generally known. [More…]

• I 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 have indicated that I do not want it to be a hurried report but that I want it to be a well documented report because the implications of what may arise from that recommendation will have very far reaching effects in the Australian rural community. [More…]

• Will he accept the heartfelt thanks of thousands and indeed millions of Australians for his recent direct and forthright action in endeavouring to protect the community from terrorism? [More…]

• If violence and terrorism are practised by any section of the community they should be dealt with. [More…]

• His principle that in the community the approach to violence and terrorism should be broadly the same, of course, must be right. [More…]

• Let it be understood that violence and terrorism, if one may say so, are by no means restricted to a minority of the Croatian community. [More…]

• Why has there been all this great build-up to denigrate and smear part of the migrant community? [More…]

• It goes on to say that he must take the first opportunity to do so and show that ASIO was withholding facts which were of potential value in ensuring the safety of the community. [More…]

• Senator Wheeldon apparently has been so brainwashed by his recent visit to his friends in Hanoi to give them such aid and comfort as his presence would undoubtedly do that he is quite incapable of understanding the processes in a democratic community. [More…]

• In view of the Attorney-General’s concern - a concern share’s by the Opposition - that the Australian community should not be subjected to terrorism or even the threat of it, will he advise why he has released the film ‘Skyjacked* which deals with the hijacking of aircraft and which could place the lives of Australian citizens in jeopardy, if the showing of the film Flight to Doomsday’ is any guide? [More…]

• Divorce law reform associations had arisen within the community to denounce a public scandal. [More…]

• The community will no longer tolerate this kind of nonsensical procedure in dealing with broken marriages. [More…]

• I think there are many features of this Act which are dreadful and the sooner we get in there and sweep away the cobwebs and clean up this law, the better for the community. [More…]

• I say that I speak here tonight and I support the motion for disallowance because I believe in justice and because I believe that what is being done is a grave injustice, firstly, to this Parliament and to the principles of law making by this Parliament; and, secondly, to the community, the people who are forced to proceed under these regulations, to the judges who are sitting and to the members of the legal profession who are administering these regulations. [More…]

• Implementation of important changes through the exercise of rule making powers deprives the community of the opportunity for discussion, evaluation and perhaps amendment of proposals before they are actually adopted. [More…]

• He goes around the community alleging that he has made it cheaper to obtain a divorce. [More…]

• That will not mean that there will be easier access to divorce, because everybody knows that throughout the community today, in every legal practice that handles divorce, divorces are delayed primarily because women cannot afford to pay the $150. [More…]

• They were made in haste without reference to the Senate Standing Committee and without inviting the community to participate in open government or open debate through, one would have thought, the presentation of a White Paper. [More…]

• I hope that in future he does not seek to prefer the advice of the person who gave him this advice rather than any higher opinion because 1 doubt whether this Parliament and this community could take too much more of this kind of advice. [More…]

• Why in the name of everything that is sensible, modern and rational should the people in this community who happen to be involved in the tragedy of the breakdown of their marriage over the next 12 months still have to be subject to this absurd anachronism of having to file discretion statements? [More…]

• The first source is that section of the community that really does not want any change; the section of the community that is content with these anachronistic, old-fashioned laws based on fault and the notion that there is some sort of guilt involved in the breakdown of marriage. [More…]

• As Senator Carrick has so clearly pointed out, the claim that divorce is being made cheap by these rules in an utter fraud on the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• In the first place, I think (here is a concurrence of opinion not only here in the Senate and amongst political parties but also in the community that many new approaches are necessary to the whole question of matrimonial causes. [More…]

• 1 think that this highlights something that is of immense danger in the community. [More…]

• But I believe that rules which have been hurriedly drawn up and which have attracted so much opposition within the community certainly should not be approved by this Parliament. [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, no doubt, will come in for the usual criticism from certain sections of the community. [More…]

• The honourable senator ought to be mature enough to know that that is going to happen in a modern community. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that as a result of the recent improved prices for some primary products sections of the community now hold the view that the man on the land is once again in an affluent position? [More…]

• It is true that there are still debt problems among the farming community and only last week I made an announcement that the Government is continuing the rural reconstruction scheme for the purposes of both debt reconstruction and farm buildup. [More…]

• But even if it were decided, for instance, to fix these salaries to the salaries paid elsewhere in the community and thereby remove for all time the problem of parliamentarians having to make up their own minds, on their own salaries, it would still be necessary to have some sort of tribunal to consider the very things that Senator Withers has mentioned, the things Senator Drake-Brockman raised, and things that by way of interjection Senator McManus raised. [More…]

• I believe there is great concern in the community at the escalation in the inflationary rate at the present time. [More…]

• It will cause damage to the community and to individuals who rely on fixed incomes to maintain any reasonable standard of living. [More…]

• I think all of these things have some reaction and it is the view of many people who are involved in rural industry and who perhaps depend on their ability to export to other countries for the survival of their industry that slanderous comments made about leaders of nations with which we are on friendly terms and with which we trade can be damaging to the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• I hope that that situation will continue because it is in the interests of the Australian community to maintain relations at the highest level with the administrations of the countries with which we trade. [More…]

• Furthermore, overseas sources indicate that in recent years there has been a growing volume of murders and attempted murders committed on prominent identities within the Croatian emigre community of Europe. [More…]

• Furthermore, overseas sources indicate that in recent years there has been a growing volume of murders and attempted murders committed on prominent identities within the Croatian emigre community of Europe. [More…]

• If so, did he give consideration to surveillance of security agents who were in attendance on the Yugoslav Prime Minister, to protect the Croatian community while such agents were in Australia? [More…]

• When a marriage has broken down I believe, and I think the community believes - I was interested to see the representative of the Catholic Church on television last night accepting this proposition - that the law should not be degrading, as it is, and ought not be expensive, as it is. [More…]

• But it is a proper thing that persons should be able to visit other countries and it would be a shameful thing if Australia had to tell international visitors that they could not come here because of the threat to them from persons in the community. [More…]

• It is important for this community that we show that terrorism will not be tolerated. [More…]

• They are welcome in this community. [More…]

• We want to see them assimilated into the community and we do not want this process of assimilation marred by the activities of some small minority that is intent on carrying into this country the quarrels that should have been left behind in Europe. [More…]

• Community. [More…]

• We can see that for nations from Japan in the north to this highly industrialised nation of the south and coming through thai non-homogenous group of nations including Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia, there is a possibility of developing a commercial trading community of tremendous mutual advantage to all the participants in the commercial trading union. [More…]

• It does not think that the proposal does anything for the women in the community. [More…]

• The downtrodden and oppressed battler pays the same sales tax as the wealthiest member of the community. [More…]

• Generally, the proposition has been put that the activities of the Government banks have been aimed at helping those who are perhaps less fortunate in the community. [More…]

• I think that there are many people in the community today who have various requirements for housing. [More…]

• There is little doubt that the housing industry is the most important economic section of the community. [More…]

• The demand for land and then for houses generates the original demand for what the labour force in the community produces. [More…]

• But if we take the average throughout the community in the various areas of lending today - certainly in the past few years - the expansion of a second group of institutions into banking and thereby into housing has meant that, depending on the skill and ability of the finance seeker and perhaps the demands on finance available for housing, we see a rate of interest of anywhere between 4i per cent and 8i per cent being charged to home builders. [More…]

• That is a credit not only to the Australian community but to those who have been able to meet the demands of the community in the housing field. [More…]

• It is the Minister’s intention to provide work for as many Aboriginal people as possible where no other opportunities exist, not only to relieve the chronic economic and spiritual depression of the unemployed members of Aboriginal communities but also to raise the standards of the entire community. [More…]

• It is also his intention to require that future special works projects be assessed in terms of the value of a particular project to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Projects providing employment for members of an Aboriginal community must show that the effects of the project are realised and appreciated, at least in part, by the community providing the work force. [More…]

• Today the individual entrepreneur is only a minor influence in the community. [More…]

• Pressures are applied right throughout the community. [More…]

• They have the authority to raise their prices and make their own charges, but what is happening to the people in the community who are on fixed incomes such as superannuation, people who have put away a nest egg for their retirement? [More…]

• The effect of inflation on those people must strike, at the conscience of members of Parliament and other members of the community. [More…]

• The community’s standard of living is influenced by the cost of building blocks. [More…]

• That influence is felt throughout the whole of the community. [More…]

• I believe that there are people throughout the community such as economists who have been doing research into this matter. [More…]

• There is little doubt at all that the primary reason for this country having had high and full employment - the highest of any country - is directly related to the fact that we have been increasing our work force by bringing in young people of marriageable age who have had more value per capita than the average member of the community. [More…]

• There are many cut throat prices in this community which are leading to shoddy goods. [More…]

• 1 regret that the Senate has reached a stage where the load of work upon honourable senators does not permit freely the establishment of committees to search not only this area but also other areas of concern to the community. [More…]

• I suggest that while there definitely seems merit in suggestion the practice is long established whereby males retire at 65 and females at 60, and it would scarcely be acceptable to the community to reverse the situation as suggested by the senator. [More…]

• Surely it raises questions as to whether the sweeping condemnation of the Croatian migrant community is justified. [More…]

• These allegations of agents provocateurs, of which I readily concede there was no credible evidence to enable action to be taken, were made by a number of members of the Croatian community who passed on their views to me last year. [More…]

• I shall also table, an earlier document, being a memorandum to me by the Secretary of the Attorney-General’s Department headed ‘Yugoslav Migrant Problems and Related Matters’ dated 29th August 1972, concerning the need for a thorough appraisal to be made of troubles in the Yugoslav community in Australia and for improving liaison between the various Commonwealth agencies. [More…]

• In this atmosphere, charges have been made contrary to the usual processes to which we are accustomed and a whole migrant community is virtually accused of guilt - because every Croatian-born citizen tends to be regarded as a potential criminal. [More…]

• We do not wish one evil to be excised from the community and replaced by another. [More…]

• Is the Australian community, and particularly migrants from communist regimes in Eastern Europe, or from Nazi Germany or from Fascist Italy, to live in constant fear of a knock on the door in the middle of the night? [More…]

• As a result of the Government’s actions in the past weeks we see increasing tensions between various groups in our community. [More…]

• By his actions and statements he has created a highly charged political atmosphere whereby many people in the community, particularly migrants, innocent of any offence, are fearful of the knock on the doorin the middle of the night and other similar police state methods.’ [More…]

• Six years ago whenI first entered this Senate 1 was proud of the fact that I had long standing friendships and comradeships with major sections of the Yugoslav community in New South Wales. [More…]

• I used the phrase that a very minute section of the Croatian community was given the status of what might be called ‘teacher’s pet’. [More…]

• Yet remarkably, when Senator Greenwood, the former Attorney-General, was talking earlier, he admitted that he had received a delegation from other sections of the Croatian community which claimed that they were being wrongly stigmatised. [More…]

• I do not object to any Minister or former Minister seeing any segment of any particular section of the community but I object to this sort of favouritism. [More…]

• For 6 long years numerous elements of the Slav community have said to me: ‘How long do we have to cop this?’ [More…]

• From 1964 onward one element of the Yugoslav community has felt that the 29th November should be commemorated. [More…]

• I invite honourable senators to look at the records of the Maccabean Hall in Sydney on occasions when one section of the Yugoslav community was commemorating the forging of Yugoslavia as a nation. [More…]

• I say here and now that the bulk of the Yugoslav community in Australia was quite prepared to accept that point. [More…]

• They may have had a nostalgic viewpoint about Europe, whatever they thought of the situation, but the bulk of the Yugoslav community accepted the criteria that I am putting forward. [More…]

• One of these minute elements in the Croat community would then tackle him, abuse him - verbally or perhaps by stronger means - and claim: ‘You were disloyal to your homeland’. [More…]

• I say to honourable senators, as I said at the commencement of my speech: The Yugoslav community has made a tremendous contribution to Australia, not only postwar Australia. [More…]

• I can well imagine what would have happened if a bomb had been exploded or if there had been some mishap caused by only a minute minority of the Croatian section of the Yugoslav community. [More…]

• I can say that mounting agitation came from a small element in the community. [More…]

• All I can say to Senator Greenwood is that as recently as last night I rang a prominent member of the Yugoslav community in Sydney. [More…]

• Reference has been made to the Croatian community in Canberra- and its credibility can take a bit of a pounding too. [More…]

• I recall that three or four years ago members of that community said they would raise a freedom legion to go to South Vietnam but when I made inquiries of the Army Department about this, I found it was stillborn. [More…]

• I believe it is regrettable that the Yugoslav community had to be stigmatised, but out of the Gethsemane they have gone through benefits may yet accrue. [More…]

• It is a position of great responsibility because it is the pivotal point for the administration of British justice in our community. [More…]

• As has been pointed out several times during the last few weeks, it is an institution which the Chifley Labor Government felt obliged to establish in a modern community because espionage and counter espionage is so current with all the developed communications of the modern world that an intelligence security organisation is essential to the internal as well as the external security of Australia. [More…]

• I have heard a lot of outrageous statements made by members of the Opposition who say that in saying what we have said and in doing what the Attorney-General has done we have insulted the Croatian community. [More…]

• When you treat people in that way, deprive them of their liberty, try to destroy their culture and deny them any adequate form of representation, obviously violent elements in that community will come to the front, as has happened here. [More…]

• Rather honourable senators opposite have diverted the attack by saying that these incidents are being caused not by extremists in the community but by agents of the Yugoslav Government. [More…]

• They did not have to be worried about bomb threats by groups in that community who might attack the Australians because they did not like them. [More…]

• I have said before that there is evidence of terrorist activities amongst groups in the Yugoslav community and, on other occasions, I have deplored the existence of those activities. [More…]

• By his actions and statements be has created a highly charged political atmosphere whereby many people in the community, particularly migrants, innocent of any offence, are fearful of the knock on the door in the middle of the night and other similar police state methods. [More…]

• I am referring, in other words, to a terrorist group within the Australian community. [More…]

• The first is this: Do we agree that acts of violence by individuals and/ or groups of individuals which have exposed the community to death, bodily injury and damage to property must be stamped out? [More…]

• I think we would all agree that appropriate action should be taken, irrespective of the nationalities of the people involved, when it is shown that people are carrying out such acts within the community. [More…]

• But what I want to point out is that Senator Greenwood, in the course of his remarks, never once intimated that not only did he receive submissions from the police, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and from the AttorneyGeneral’s Department but that also he received submissions from members of the community and from honourable senators, including myself. [More…]

• We have also other photographs showing members of the Citizen Military Forces and members of the Croatian community, and what we find is that all these photographs - and I have not seen the film that Senator James McClelland was privileged to see, and some of the photographs no doubt have been taken from the film - show a group of people, but never in a training position in relation to weapons. [More…]

• Firstly I refer to an example of the way in which an impression which is misleading has been given to the Australian people in relation to the Croatian community here. [More…]

• I emphasise those words ‘Croat terrorism in Australia’ - and 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…]

• If Senator Murphy is able to say that the bomb incidents highlighted Croat terrorism in Australia, if he is able to criticise Senator Greenwood for not admitting that there was organised terrorism among the Croation community in Australia, why has he not prosecuted any person in relation to those bomb incidents? [More…]

• There is certainly much stronger proof of terrorism and violence taking place in some sections of the trade union movement of Australia than there is of terrorism and violence on an organised basis taking place within the Croatian community. [More…]

• The Security Service must be operated with secrecy in order properly to protect the community … [More…]

• I remind the Senate again that if Senator Murphy had been prepared to adopt that attitude we would not have had the furore or the farce which has taken place in the past few weeks and we would not have rampant in the community now fear arising from the action of the past few weeks. [More…]

• By his actions and statements he has created a highly charged political atmosphere whereby many people in the community, particularly migrants, innocent of any offence, are fearful of the knock on the door in the middle of the night and other similar police state methods. [More…]

• 1 have made my comments about that point, Mr Deputy President, and in my view, from the number of migrants in our community who have spoken to me since last Sunday, there can be no doubt - if they are representative of the migrants of Australia - that there is a very real fear existing amongst those people. [More…]

• For the first time in Australia, the Croatian community in Australia and the Yugoslav community in Australia know that the small section of terrorists will be eradicated and they have confidence that they can live in a state of decency and be respected by the Australian community. [More…]

• While we may not have evidence to prosecute successfully any of these people, the suspicion and belief remain that someone may be guilty of some action and that some person or persons should not be permitted the freedom to injure people in our community. [More…]

• The clauses introduced by the previous Government provided that an organisation could be declared as being against the interest of the community and any member of the organisation could be deported whether or not he was an Australian citizen. [More…]

• He continued: 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 have said before that there is evidence of terrorist activities amongst groups in the Yugoslav community and, on other occasions, I have deploredthe existence of those activities. [More…]

• The photographs were taken - that was verified by the Commander of the CMF unit who gave the facts which I am relating to the Senate- and if that is to be built up as a case against the Croatian community and if it is a case which is to be the basis of an allegation of terrorist activity in this country, then I think that the people who make those accusations must first overcome the facts which I have stated. [More…]

• The danger for the (Croats in Australia) stems largely from the fact that elements in the Yugoslav community, working through the media, and also through receptive sections of certain Australian political organisations- [More…]

• There has been grave disquiet in the migrant community - not only the Croatian community but the migrant community at large - because they do not fully understand the niceties of the Immigration Act. [More…]

• Again it was alleged on that occasion, after those bombings, that property and people associated with the Yugoslav community were associated with the incidents. [More…]

• There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that again the former Attorney-General continually assured the Senate that there was no organised terrorism among the Croatian community in Australia. [More…]

• There is little doubt in my mind that people throughout the community must be wondering what were the reasons for this raid on ASIO, after which this statement was brought down. [More…]

• Today, at the CIB, a special conference of 35 detectives is reviewing information received yesterday when 10 members of the Yugoslav community - 5 men and 5 women - were questioned for several hours. [More…]

• It is asserted by some members of the Yugoslav community that this person may be in the pay of the Yugoslav Government. [More…]

• This surely gives some indication to honourable senators of the tremendous problem we have with these people in our community: [More…]

• What hatred we see expressed by this hard core section of the Community. [More…]

• He was referring to migrants being integrated into the community. [More…]

• Of course, Sir Garfield Barwick, as did Sir Robert Menzies, correctly drew attention to what was happening within our community in the same period of time when he said: [More…]

• However, it would be dangerous to become complacent, or to underestimate the nuisance-value of even a small number of fanatics working in a community which afforts them a wide measure of passive, if not active, sympathy and support. [More…]

• Many members of the emigre community have taken a stand against the revolutionary spirit of Croatian youth and of the younger generation. [More…]

• Prevent the sale of Yugo-publications in the Croatian emigre community! [More…]

• There is no doubt that extremism exists in the community. [More…]

• I say to the Senate that there are individuals within the community with twisted minds who will be associated with attacks on individuals and who will be associated with bombings. [More…]

• I join with the Government in saying that those people should be removed from our community. [More…]

• What a blight on the Australian community it is when the chief law officer of this country names Australian citizens against whom one charge has never been laid. [More…]

• What country with which we have friendly relations, or with which we may not have friendly relations but which conveys to us information as to the activities of the extreme Right or the extreme Left in the community, will ever again give such evidence or will ever put anything in writing that could be minuted by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation so that we will continue to have a credible security organisation. [More…]

• In the years that I have been here I have looked upon Senator Murphy as a person who stood up and attempted to protect the rights of others in the community. [More…]

• The Government will do Australia and the Federal Parliament no good if it persists in naming or charging people in the Australian community with acts of terrorism, or in suggesting that they belong to organisations which are involved in terrorism, when the facts are not proved. [More…]

• It certainly is not confined to the Croatian community in Australia. [More…]

• As was said by one of my fellow Victorians, when it comes to violence in Victoria it would not be the Croatian community which is involved but one of the leading unions within the Australian community. [More…]

• By his actions and statements he has created a highly charged political atmosphere whereby many people in the community, particularly migrants, innocent of any offence, are fearful of the knock on the door In the middle of the night and other similar police state methods. [More…]

• It has been moved because an invitation was extended by the previous Government, and further extended by the present Government to a leading dignitary of an international community who had sought - – [More…]

• But fortunately, because of the actions that this Government took, there was no spilling of blood and no disgrace to the Australian community. [More…]

• My friend, Senator Hannan, who interjected earlier and made a derogatory remark about the Yugoslav Prime Minister - and I am not saying that I agree with the political views of the Yugoslav Prime Minister, but he is the leader of the Yugoslav community - again interjects and says that it was a pantomime. [More…]

• If he accepts that document A5 is not a situation which must cause concern to the Australian community then, frankly, I fear for the future of the Australian community. [More…]

• I have said before that there is evidence of terrorist activities amongst groups in the Yugoslav community and, on other occasions, I have deplored the existence of those activities. [More…]

• In May of last year the former AttorneyGeneral was admitting that there was evidence of terrorism amongst groups within the community. [More…]

• Therefore I say that the motion that was moved by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate after Senator Greenwood had replied to the statement made by Senator Murphy is not so much a motion against the confidence of Senator Murphy as a motion against the Australian community. [More…]

• By his actions and statements he has created a highly charged political atmosphere whereby many people in the community, particularly migrants, innocent of any offence, are fearful of the knock on the door in the middle of the night and other similar police state methods. [More…]

• We have on record 2 members of the previous Government, the Right Honourable William McMahon and Mr Lynch, objecting to the toleration of these persons and demanding that some kind of action should be taken, not believing that there could not be more action taken about these terrorists in the community. [More…]

• Honourable senators on both sides of the chamber ought to accept the responsibility of standing by those who, in their own community, are vested with the duty and responsibility of taking action to ensure that there is not a state of disorder and that terrorism and violence are not allowed. [More…]

• Yet honourable senators opposite have chosen to knock the police forces of a State and the Commonwealth which are doing their best to see to it that terrorism and violence are not established in our community. [More…]

• The importance of a matter being aired in the Parliament is that it is the one place where persons can deal with matters of very great moment in the community. [More…]

• On the question of investigations, which is a little away from what the honourable senator has put, I think it is a matter of sad commentary in this community if public figures are to be investigated in the general sense, especially if that investigation is not restricted to their public affairs. [More…]

• Endeavours made by persons to investigate and to dig into the private affairs of persons are something that ought not to be tolerated in this community. [More…]

• The Agreement has been signed by 41 countries and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I set about decontrolling those items in relation to which I considered there was ample competition in the community that would control their prices. [More…]

• I. think that reflects the standards of community opinion. [More…]

• I think community standards and community thinking are part of this, but he has a job to perform. [More…]

• If one looks at the record one finds that the last gallup poll which took place in this country in 1967 showed that 43 per cent of the community favoured the abolition of the death penalty, 46 per cent of the community were against the abolition of the death penalty and 1 1 per cent of the community were undecided. [More…]

• The most that those figures revealed was a decided shift or swing in public opinion away from an emphatic affirmative vote in favour of the retention of the death penalty which accounted for 68 per cent of the community as reflected in the gallup poll taken in 1947. [More…]

• I must say that for my part I wonder whether the Australian community might not reflect the attitudes which President Nixon believes ought to prevail in the United States and which the people of the State of California indicated by their vote. [More…]

• People who seek to retain the death penalty are not persons who are prepared to go on a crusade throughout the community urging and arguing for the retention of the death penalty because no-one feels that way about the death penalty. [More…]

• lt is one of the necessary evils which a society must be prepared to acknowledge as part of the means by which society as a society is ordered and by which the law-abiding citizens of a community are given their ultimate protection. [More…]

• I think that a trend has developed in the community which shows that people generally would expect senators and members to have a free vote on this matter. [More…]

• In my view the community is not prepared at this point of time to agree that the death penalty should be abolished from the statutes of the Federal Parliament and from those of the State parliaments. [More…]

• There is no doubt that members of the Labor Party have stood up and said: ‘We will dispatch members of the Croatian community; and Senator Murphy has named individuals who have never committed crimes and who have never been charged with crimes in Australia. [More…]

• But a large section of the community may consider that abortion, at a particular stage, takes a life. [More…]

• That would be an enormous cost to the community. [More…]

• This country has been fortunate that there have been few instances of that, but I suggest that the demands of the community will not be met sufficiently if the death penalty is removed from our statutes. [More…]

• One matter which is of growing concern in our community - it is related to recent comments by President Nixon and deals with a problem which we will face in the future - is this: What are we to do with sane individuals who are purveyors of and traffickers in drugs in our community? [More…]

• The Government is giving careful consideration to how information gathered by its laboratories can best be used for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• The need for an admissions policy has been expressed by responsible organisations concerned with the health of the community. [More…]

• It is far preferable for an old person to live in the community in accommodation most suited to his needs for as long as possible. [More…]

• Immediately the Treasurer assumed his portfolio there came a wave of confidence throughout this community. [More…]

• The unemployment figures started to decline; the business community started to pick up. [More…]

• The reason for the annoyance of honourable senators opposite is clear: They are annoyed at the success of the Labor Government’s economic policy and at the immediate flush of confidence which it has produced throughout the community. [More…]

• I have no doubt that the Treasurer, as he sees fit and in the interests of the community, will let the Parliament know of the steps that are being taken. [More…]

• Probably everybody in the community would like to stop the extraordinary number of elections that we have in the sense that the mistiming of them means that we are having House of Representatives and Senate elections separately when probably everyone would prefer to have them together. [More…]

• Will the Minister take up with these public bodies the need to curtail such speculative and inflationary investments and suggest that their funds might best be made available to State, local and semi-government bodies so that the deficiency of community facilities can be overcome, in accordance with Government policy? [More…]

• 1 see no reason to take the view that increases which have been granted to other members of the community who are in a far more difficult position should be regarded as the cause of economic ills: rather, we should endeavour to increase productivity and we should be endeavouring to combat inflation. [More…]

• I am sure that if the honourable senator uses his efforts to come in support behind the Australian Government, particularly if it is acting in any way in cooperation with any or all of the State governments, his support will be welcomed, and co-operatively we might do whatever can be done by government to combat inflation and have the wealth of this community distributed more evenly. [More…]

• It will be utilised for the Aboriginal community involved. [More…]

• The former Government tore down the principle that a man’s home was his castle and made grave inroads into the position ot persons in our community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister why he has presented no report to the Senate following my question more than 2 weeks ago, as all Australians, not only the migrant community, are concerned about this type of activity? [More…]

• These are, firstly, that last minute program changes to cover unforeseen situations, such as news flashes, can result in advertising schedules for a particular clock hour spilling over into the next; secondly, that there is a distinction between advertising, program and station promotions, community service announcements and the like; thirdly, that the application of the provisions of the standards allow averaging to be applied to a limited extent in adjacent hours in certain circumstances, and, finally, that institutional credits, prize listings in contests, shopping guides providing a form of service to the public, and mixtures of entertaining patter and sales messages all may, in some circumstances, count - in part at least - as a form of advertising, while also constituting program content. [More…]

• It will not be good business for various sectors of the community to lend money at ruling interest rates, if what I predict does occur. [More…]

• The policies that we have seen announced and, in some cases, enacted by this Government are most, attractive, perhaps, to certain sectors of the community. [More…]

• This Federal Government is willing to say before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission that it does not oppose the very large demands which at present are under consideration by that body for across the board increases in salary levels in the community, as fixed through the national wage case, or to oppose an increase of approximately S13 a week in the minimum wage. [More…]

• This Bill is of extreme importance to the community. [More…]

• Some members of the Yugoslav community, not all of them, may have nostalgic feelings about a free state of Croatia, to use Senator McManus’ term. [More…]

• If the Jewish underground and the present Israeli Government were able to prove that he was the cause of a lot of members of the Jewish community being sent to the gas chambers, the Israelis would want him tried as a war criminal. [More…]

• Without using the exact words, the report states that the wine industry faces a great problem in relation to its volume of export to European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• Therefore, in the community we have the privileged sections who are able to obtain employment with the Commonwealth Government and the majority of the people who are not able to do so. [More…]

• We get a grave injustice between one group of people in the community and another group in the community doing the same job. [More…]

• It was resented very bitterly in the Public Service because it required people to join industrial organisations - perhaps against their will - so that they could get the benefit of an industrial award to which they were entitled in terms of the arbitration and which, if it had gone only to a segment of the employed community, could have created very great disruption and very great recriminations within the whole employed body of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]

• Does he realise that Recovery is a unique voluntary community mental health service offering a sufferer to sufferer relationship which assists the expatient’s rehabilitation? [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt referred to an impression which is held by most conservative elements in the community and by employers that the attack on inflation should be concentrated simply on attempts to reduce wage standards, and that was the sense in which I answered his question. [More…]

• I know that for many years in my State, in the era of the Playford Government and during part of the early years of the Labor Government, BHP was given a preferential status in the community and it had fairly liberal conditions which would not be available to employers in other States who had to compete generally on the labour markets. [More…]

• There may not have been the number of people requiring assistance to become assimilated into our community or to create a community capable of living together, however one likes to put it. [More…]

• Those problems affect us and our community almost as much as they affect Aborigines or people of part Aboriginal descent. [More…]

• Surely that indicates a gross imbalance between the 2 sections of the community. [More…]

• It is possibly because members of the white community have easier access to facilities for medical treatment, enjoy a higher standard of living and have a diet that is vastly better than that of most black people, even in a State like Victoria where there is only a limited number of Aborigines. [More…]

• Every action taken by the Minister and his Department is taken on the advice of the Consultative Committee which the Minister set up to represent that section of the community which he seeks to benefit. [More…]

• That example alone leads me to think that, if we are to do justice not only to this favoured class of beneficiary but to the other classes to whom I have referred and to other people in the community, further consideration has to be given to the Bill. [More…]

• The speakers who took part in the debate in the other place raised no objection to the legislation, except that they expressed some concern about what it might cost the Commonwealth Government and what it might cost if the principles laid down by the Labor Government flowed to the community generally. [More…]

• In winding up I point out that we had presumed that because the Opposition in the other place had accepted the intimation the Government gave of what it would move, and that whilst it might be a costly system which would overflow to the community generally the Opposition here would give a speedy passage to the Bill. [More…]

• That was so throughout a substantial sector of the Austraiian community during part of last year when programs such as Action for World Development were very much a subject of community discussion and in the news. [More…]

• At some time the Opposition’s proposal will cause a crisis within the community and within the political machinery of this country. [More…]

• Therefore in the rural community - unless you are a wealthy landowner - legal costs on the one hand and inflation on the other - successfully conspire to deprive your heirs of the benefit of hard work and skill lavished on your property. [More…]

• The Senate has no control over the weather or the latest wool prices, but it can make a start in showing its determination that one section of the community is not forced to carry an unfair and unnecessary burden of taxes. [More…]

• This is especially so when that section of the community is just emerging from its most severe economic disasters since the depression. [More…]

• In fact, this tax has turned into an attack on the rural community and especially on the small family farmer who is the backbone of country life. [More…]

• This Bill is designed to destroy once and for all this iniquitous contrivance of government at the expense of the rural community. [More…]

• If a short charter of 3 months is arranged, which is the proposal, the Senate will be equipped with information and be able to form a judgment on the best form of shipping service to give to this island community which has been without a service since June of last year, except for services of a spasmodic character. [More…]

• I would remind the Treasurer that the significance, importance and standing in the community of the Senate is such that no remarks of his can do it damage. [More…]

• But it is sad to see the law enforcement of this community being infected with this kind of party political bias. [More…]

• Then the Australian Government which had been elected only 4 months ago to carry out the will of the people, had to take time off from the important affairs of business to express in the House where a motion of this sort really mattered, a motion of confidence in a man who has done a great service to the Australian community. [More…]

• How many trials must a man go through because he has taken the attitude that there are in the Australian community elements which rely on assault, extortion, violence and thuggery, which have secretive possession of dangerous and harmful weapons and explosives and which should be dealt with efficiently and quickly to protect the lives of Australian citizens, including many of those who have come to Australia from Croatia? [More…]

• But, when it comes to a matter that was literally one of life or death, when it comes to a matter of the Attorney-General taking firm action to protect the lives and welfare of Australian citizens and action to protect sections of the Australian community from bombings, honourable senators opposite react as though we were as bad as the people who commit these atrocious acts. [More…]

• The activities of the Yugoslav secret police in this country are as follows: Firstly, the compilation of information about migrant people in Australia and the activities of nationalist organisations; secondly, obtaining photographs of leaders and prominent members of those organisations; thirdly, the infiltrating of nationalist organisations; fourthly, the creation of dissension within those organisations; fifthly, the harrassment of individuals; sixthly, circulating false or misleading information to the Australian police or security authorities; seventhly, discrediting religious leaders of national communities, and finally, acting as agents provocateurs in the migrant community and its organisations. [More…]

• The attempt that they had made - it was dome in a slightly more sophisticated way by Senator Greenwood - in reply to the irrefutable case which we have raised was to suggest that these violent outbreaks in the Yugoslav community in Australia are really the actions of agents provocateur. [More…]

• The proposition which has been raised as a smokescreen to obscure the irrefutable evidence which we have produced is that these terrorist acts which undeniably exist in the Croatian- Yugoslav community in Australia are really the actions of agents provocateur of the Yugoslav Government. [More…]

• The purport of what I am saying on this leg of the argument is that it almost passes comprehension that sensible people in this community should have any doubts whatsoever about the existence of Croatian terrorist organisations in this country. [More…]

• He says that he has suspicions that terrorist activities are being conducted by other people in the community. [More…]

• I believe that most of them want to integrate into the Australian community and forget all about the proposition of an independent Croatia. [More…]

• I have taken a rough straw poll among the ordinary people of this community, the people who judge what happens here in Canberra by standards of common sense, and I have found that mostly their attitude is that if Senator Murphy in the context in which he visited ASIO in Canberra and in’ Melbourne had a suspicion, even if it was unjustified, that he was not getting all the information to which he was entitled, with an impending visit of a dignatory like the Yugoslav Prime Minister around the corner, he was entitled to take the most drastic methods to find out whether he was getting the information. [More…]

• His passing was felt by many in this Parliament and throughout the community as a deep personal loss of one who was not only a man of public affairs but also a friend of the Australian people. [More…]

• He participated in every phase of life in the community in which he lived. [More…]

• I am satisfied that Artie Fadden will be judged very mercifully and with much advantage to himself for the amount of friendship that he has given to other people, particularly those in the poorer sections of the community, for the understanding that he has given to people who sought advice of a professional character from him but could not afford to pay for that advice, and for his charity to very many worthy causes, through companies in which he was interested, as well as directly from his own pocket. [More…]

• Will the Government allow a committee of inquiry from the Australian Croatian community to visit Yugoslavia and investigate the circumstances of the trial and execution of the 3 Croatian born naturalised Australians? [More…]

• By and large, they are an industrious, law abiding community with an exceptionally good record of racial harmony. [More…]

• If someone is driven to the desperation of taking a life in a modern civilised community, the trend these days is to say that there is something mentally wrong with the person and that he needs treatment rather than punishment. [More…]

• The fact of life is that every man, woman and child in this community has radioactive material in his or her body as a result of the tests, including the French tests in the pacific, and this is causing more and more disquiet as more is learned about these problems by international scientists in the biological field and especially the genetic field. [More…]

• I do not think that it is reasonable to expect the Australian community to meet open ended commitments of that nature. [More…]

• I am given to understand that the Monday Conference’ format has become much more popular with Australian audiences than the old ‘Four Corners’ type of program, although I think that there is still a need for the ‘Four Corners’ type of program because there are so many matters upon which the Australian community needs to be informed. [More…]

• I believe that everyone in the community ought to be encouraged to join in the view that terrorism and violence ought not be tolerated in Australia and that it should certainly not be used as any kind of political weapon. [More…]

• If as the honourable senator seems to be indicating, there are persons in the community who hitherto belonged to bodies which had as part of their constitution statements indicating that unlawful action should be taken or that there should be actions which would lead to violence and terrorism, and that those persons have shown some change in mind or heart, I believe that that may be a helpful development. [More…]

• This indoctrination is usually of a kind which is directed towards the status quo of the community. [More…]

• It is a strange thing that our troops fought alongside the troops of President Thieu in South Vietnam, but Mr Barnard has said that he will not have Thieu here because that might divide the community. [More…]

• That was the basis upon which people of the United States of America, people of Australia, people of New Zealand and people of virtually every community in South East Asia were prepared to go to the support of a beleaguered South Vietnam to resist aggression. [More…]

• The community is looking forward to the introduction of these items of Government business which we are pledged to give it, but time is running out. [More…]

• I have apologised to America in the hope that it will not brand as communist minded that very big proportion of the Australian community which does not share the communist sympathy that we find emanating at present from this Labor socialist Government. [More…]

• Does the Treasurer realise the harm that this irresponsible act has done to the confidence of the business and manufacturing community upon which employment rests to quite an extent? [More…]

• The honourable senator referred to harm to the business community. [More…]

• I am aware of the honourable senator’s close connection with the Yugoslav community in Australia. [More…]

• I share with him the view that the substantial and overwhelming majority of that community also rejects the notion of the use of terrorism and violence and is pleased also that the Government is taking effective steps along the lines which have been requested, even by some Ministers in the former Government, to deal with a situation which had been allowed to go on for too long. [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…]

• The Committee specifically suggests that if we take a harder look at the European Economic Community we may well find within that Community more and more opportunities for trade, and we may find them also in Central Europe. [More…]

• We now have a far more mobile community than existed in years before. [More…]

• This type of provision is a recognition of the needs and of the entitlements of people in the present day type of community. [More…]

• I shall refer later to the question of the community’s ability to be able to pay for these types of provisions. [More…]

• If the Government is to lake claim for doing things for migrants, such as recognising the special rights and needs of migrants in this country, which it suggests the previous Government denied them for too long, 1 ask the Minister who made this speech, his Cabinet colleagues and his Party to reconsider what they are doing to the migrant community of Australia in other ways. [More…]

• It is all very well to take credit for something which is being done but which, after all, is only a continuation of a concept developed by the previous Government, and then to suggest that the previous Government was unmindful of the rights and needs of migrants to this country at a time when the migrant community is more unsettled by the actions of the new Government than it was during the whole 23 years of the preceding Government. [More…]

• If there is a genuine interest in looking after the migrant community and seeing that its rights and needs are met I hope that we will not have wide-sweeping unsettling accusations made about sections of that migrant community, accusations which do have a disturbing and unfortunate effect on the migrant community. [More…]

• The Government is providing tremendous benefits to certain sections of the community by introducing legislation such as the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Bill, without having regard to the effect that it will have. [More…]

• I am far, far happier to see thousands of petitions, such as those that flowed in from the Sydney Italian community, and equally from the Slovene community, than to see somebody be so misguided as to believe that this Parliament can stop everything and try to redraw the boundaries of Europe. [More…]

• After all, it provides a great number of benefits for many people, ft will extend financial assistance and provide a considerable number of opportunities for people, particularly those in the migrant community, to participate in the intercontinental movement of which, in this age of mobility, we are all very much aware. [More…]

• These are 4 or 5 of the source countries which are contributing a great proportion of our migrant community. [More…]

• As we all have said, and I say it again, the nature of this measure is related closely to the welfare of migrants, lt is true that they are not the only section of the community who will benefit from this measure, but because of the very nature of the case, it is a fact that the migrant community within Australia will stand to benefit considerably from the measure which is before the Senate this afternoon. [More…]

• But what needs to be said, and said again, is that these same migrants are able to put themselves in a position to do this simply because the social benefits for the migrant community were continually advanced during the years of the previous administration. [More…]

• So we need to draw attention to the fact that of all the receiving countries of migrants, Australia is retaining a greater proportion of its migrant community. [More…]

• It would not be the wish of any honourable senator at any time, if it were within his power, to oppose the granting of benefits to any individual in the community. [More…]

• Ministers who come into this chamber are not able to say what the impact or impost of such legislation may be when it eventually flows into the community. [More…]

• Perhaps we should just consider what the impact of such measures of enormous expenditure will be when they flow throughout the community’. [More…]

• 2) which grants great benefits to the elderly citizens in the community. [More…]

• Perhaps a requirement was that such benefits should be well won and well deserved in the Australian community. [More…]

• We have many friends in the community who seem to live that way. [More…]

• I believe that public money which we have seen expended in many areas in the past could be much better spent if in depth consideration were given to the problems which the measure may eventually bring to the community. [More…]

• But the fact is that those people in the community who have attempted to provide for themselves - perhaps those who have retired as bank managers or others who have attempted to take some responsibility for their retirement - see their funds and their savings eroded every day. [More…]

• I had considered the whole time that the notes I had before me and the carefully thought out speech I was making on this Bill were directed to the fact that we have in Australia, as you will grant, Mr Acting Deputy President, a situation in which never has there been so much proposed legislation granting so many benefits to people in the community. [More…]

• I believe that people within the community will congratulate the Labor Party for doing this. [More…]

• He said that this Bill extends financial assistance to a large number of people, particularly the migrant section of the Australian community, that it enables people to take part in the age of mobility and establish contentment by the reunion of people. [More…]

• I just reiterate that in relation to this measure the Minister is willing to stand with the best advice that the officers from the Department can give him and indicate that the Government introduced a measure into this Parliament having absolutely no idea as to what it will cost the community and no idea as to how many individuals will be involved. [More…]

• Undoubtedly that accounts for those less fortunate people in the community who perhaps do not have the resources to be able to live for very many days without some of the assistance which the Commonwealth has provided for many years - including wives’ pensions, or widows’ pensions in Australia will be able to receive those pensions wherever they choose to live. [More…]

• In the meantime, writers, scientists and educationists continue to advance their research into matters such as human motivation, community responses to punishment and other things of this nature. [More…]

• Oh the other hand, the role and phenomenal progress of communications systems have brought a new dimension to community thinking and international thinking. [More…]

• 1 am concerned also that brutal punishments tend to accustom the population of any community to brutality. [More…]

• What effect does it have on the community at large? [More…]

• The question of the prevention of crime and the education of the community towards that prevention should receive our attention. [More…]

• In these social problems the whole community shares a measure of responsibility to a greater or a lesser degree. [More…]

• Capital punishment tends to divert attention from the real problem that exists, whether this real problem is related to the collective community responsibility or the conditions which may have facilitated the crime situation. [More…]

• In my argument, grace provides for the individual and the community. [More…]

• In view of the decision which has been made by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to increase the minimum wage and the total wage in the proportions which it has announced, and in view of the inflationary pressures that those increases undoubtedly will generate, what action other than an expression of how unfortunate it is may we expect from the Government to protect the community from the consequences of galloping inflation? [More…]

• Also the productive capacity of the community is being used to the full as a means of reducing inflation. [More…]

• So much so that the Prime Minister is meeting with the Premiers of the States, I think on Thursday, in order to discuss ways in which the cooperation of the States might be gained in tha endeavour on behalf of the whole community to see that this problem of inflation is resolved in the interests of the Australian people. [More…]

• Does it calculate that it is better for it to allow the tax paid by small people in the community to be lost on exploration ventures instead of it being lost by those who are willing and able to stand such risk investment? [More…]

• Also, does he agree that credit sales of Australian wheat, particularly to developing countries, should be regarded as a national responsibility and consequently should be borne by the Australian community rather than by the Australian wheat grower as has been the case in the past? [More…]

• Regarding the second part of the honourable senator’s question, I believe that there is great merit and validity in the contention that when wheat sales have to be made to poor countries on long term credit arrangements the burden should not be borne by a particular section of the community. [More…]

• I hope that in the future it will be possible to find a new system or agreement whereby this burden can be spread over the Australian community. [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…]

• They are due to the expanded costs of doing things in this community. [More…]

• lt 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…]

• This is a matter which has divided the community widely. [More…]

• 1 do not pretend that the view I hold strongly is held by the whole community. [More…]

• There is a definite tendency today, both in the United States and in the United Kingdom, for a reversion to capital punishment because of the increase in crime and because so many people in the community pay so little regard to human life. [More…]

• Has any community the right by law to take unto itself the imposition of such a penally? [More…]

• 1 think it shows that murders and suicides have something to do with the temperament of the community - the hotter the blood and the more chilli the sauce, the greater is the tendency to run amok. [More…]

• This is the new international community of the possessed, lt could lake years, perhaps even the rest of the lifetime of people who are now barely middleaged, before this phenomenon is destroyed, or destroys itself. [More…]

• If it does nothing else, it fills the void in that part of the speech of the Attorney-General which was unsaid - that part which points out that there are these crimes on aircraft; that there are these crimes of national and international terrorism; and that there are, through modern weapons and modern communications, horrible ways of involving the community at large. [More…]

• One would think also, because we have had emergencies and the frequency is increasing, that we would receive an assurance that, even recently, more checks have been made on the teamwork among the Commonwealth Police, the State police forces and the civil defence authorities to ensure that if a national crisis occurs in our community the footwork and teamwork will be there, the terrorist will lose and therefore his action will not be copied. [More…]

• Sir,I shall help you.I have said that the Bill in essence seeks to deal with apprehended or real crimes of violence and lethal conflict in this community for which the penalty is capital punishment. [More…]

• They said that the real danger - a danger which, with respect, the Government has not understood - is that there is in the community at any time a fringe of people who are neurotics, who are on the border of being psychotics, who are inadequate and who have a great feeling of inadequacy, of depression melancholia and who want, for once in their lives, to do something to get their names in lights. [More…]

• Those people probably will not do so in their lives, but if we develop a hysteria - we are doing it in this community - we will bring violence. [More…]

• We exist here to make laws for the protection of the community. [More…]

• The Bill that we are discussing tonight will remove the sanction from the guilty but will do nothing to enforce the protection of the community. [More…]

• We then have a well regulated police force assisted by a law abiding community to detect crime and prosecute. [More…]

• We are moving more and more into a crisis of world dimensions whereby the civilised members of our community - the teachers, the doctors, the drivers, the clerks, the far.mers - want the peace of mind in which they and their womenfolk and their families can go about their daily lives purposefully, without fear. [More…]

• What is the situation of our organised community in dealing with that final dross, that residuum of 2 or 3 or 5 convicted murderers? [More…]

• I am unrepentant, not for revenge but for a sober, sturdy defence of the people who constitute this law-abiding community. [More…]

• In the final result the ultimate minority of murderers must forfeit their right to be of that community, otherwise the number of lives surrendered to be slain by that group and the other 93 per cent who have killed, although not with such a degree of criminality, will grow and the world will move more and more into this crisis of violence. [More…]

• Whether one quotes the fictitious figure of 6 per cent for America and .02 per cent for Sweden, or whatever the figure is, if we surrender the right to defend the community, after justice and after mercy, against the ultimate criminal murderer, society just becomes cottonwool weakness unable to exert itself. [More…]

• In all the encouragement that is complained of as an unneccesary reaction to overdemonstration of violence and all the encouragement to the criminal class, if even those last 2 unmentionable criminals escape the ultimate forfeit, in my book the community is completely surrendered to save the necks of 2 animals who are so guilty of such atrocious murders that we would have another 100 innocent people the victims of murder. [More…]

• Mr Acting Deputy President, I am saying only that there are such crimes of murder on the statute book which involve drug peddling in relation to which one cannot prove deliberate murder and in relation to which this community is so merciful as not yet to have made it possible to exact execution for those crimes. [More…]

• But if one can prove that a drug pedlar deliberately has used drugs for the purpose of killing a person, the jury will convict and I say that the community should retain the right to hung. [More…]

• After the jury convicts in these extreme cases, let members of the community say: “We want to deal with these fellows only once’. [More…]

• The prison officer is in the same position, lt is not that a prison officer has any more virtue or value than other members of the community, but because he takes a stand against criminals in the defence of the community the community gives him some added protection. [More…]

• If that right of self-defence exists for me and if, in such a situation, 1 happened to be half a second slower on the trigger than the criminal and I am killed, if my comrade arrests the criminal and he is brought to trial and judged guilty of murdering me and 2 policemen, by what reason or logic is it said that in that case the community should not carry out the course which was perfectly available to me if I had been half a second quicker on the draw? [More…]

• I believe that the community cannot afford the mistakes that are being made by the so-called experts - the psychiatrists - in regard to these matters. [More…]

• There were no great protests from the employers, the unions or other sections of the community. [More…]

• This would seem to imply that most sections of the community affected by the increase are not complaining about it. [More…]

• The honourable senator’s question has to be looked at in the light of the fact, as it appears to me, that today most responsible people in the community are tending to conserve costs, if possible, rather than transferring them in anticipation of wage loading. [More…]

• 10 deal fundamentally with the question of civil rights of a major section of our community. [More…]

• We have mentioned a number of migrant groups who are gravely concerned about their position in this community because of the possible trespass on their civil rights. [More…]

• That is Senator Murphy’s assessment of the trespass upon the individual rights of Australians and of the people in the Pacific community. [More…]

• The first point that I wish to make is that amendments to the Crimes Act are much more important to the Yugoslav community. [More…]

• 10 under general business which proposes the setting up of a committee to examine the question of certain visits made by the Commonwealth Police to the homes of certain Croatian members of the community. [More…]

• There has been a great acceptance by the community of the fact that persons in their late teens have sufficient maturity to be regarded as adults; not as old adults, thankfully - for that is a stage we reach all too soon - but as young adults with a capacity to make choices and decisions that not all older people have. [More…]

• The acceptance by the community of the maturity of these young adults is perhaps a belated one, for it is now clear that the 18- year-olds of today are physically and psychologically much more advanced than ever before. [More…]

• whether the civil rights of migrant Australians and, in particular, members of the Croatian community, have been infringed by: [More…]

• whether there has been or is intimidation or undue pressure applied to members of Australian migrant communities and, in particular, to members of the Australian Croatian community, Slovenian community, Macedonian community, Montenegran community and the Ukrainian community at the instance or in the interests of the Yugoslav Government or any other Government, and, in particular, whether any members of the Secret Police of another country have applied such intimidation or undue pressure or otherwise have been active among members of the migrant communities in Australia; [More…]

• the problems and perils created for members of the Australian migrant community by the concept of dual nationality and appropriate measures which may be taken to eliminate them. [More…]

• The first amendment is to insert the words ‘Serbian community’ after the words ‘Australian Croatian community’ and before the words ‘Slovenian community’ which appear in paragraph 1 (b). [More…]

• It makes one wonder whether this is really a democratic community in which we live. [More…]

• The statutory declarations which my colleague Senator McManus tabled in the Senate some time ago give an illustration of what is occurring in the Croatian community particularly. [More…]

• I am complaining that this cancer has been in our community since 1964 and earlier. [More…]

• They are indicating their philosophy, their ideology and the fact that they are sympathisers with people who are murderers, burners and bombers in our community. [More…]

• the Croatian community, have been infringed. [More…]

• -I am aware that many rumours have been floated in the past few weeks, particularly by Opposition spokesmen, to the effect that hellfire and damnation will descend on the rural community as a result of the Labor. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable senator that when Bills come up for their renewal they will be looked at fairly and objectively and that we will continue to provide assistance in this area if we feel it is in the interests of the rural community in Australia. [More…]

• Does the Minister for the Media accept the results of the recent survey on morale among Australian Broadcasting Commission staff members as reflecting a serious problem for the viewing community? [More…]

• This community health clinic will provide normal outpatient facilities, dispensary, a small laboratory, X- ray facilities, minor operating room and a maternity wing. [More…]

• Will he present a summary to show the Yugoslav community of Sydney that the SMA has met all compensation claims, in view of the solicitude shown last night by all Opposition senators for the rights of members of the Yugoslav community? [More…]

• If that necessitates any communication with a particular community, that will be attended to. [More…]

• During this period the family developed a considerable degree of dependency on the community and on assistance agencies, including of course the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• Whatever its composition and whatever the numbers of Party representation on it, the Australian community will demand of this committee, as will the Senate, that it shall be impartial in its findings. [More…]

• That will be the value judgment of the Australian community and I will rest on that decision. [More…]

• Having said that, let us look at the second item in paragraph (I) of the motion, which is in these terms: whether there has been or is intimidation or undue pressure applied to members of Australian migrant communities and, in particular, to members of the Australian Croation community, and the Ukranian community. [More…]

• Slovenian community, Macedonian community. [More…]

• Montenegran community and the Ukranian community at the instance or in the interests of the Yugoslav Government or any other Government, and, in particular, whether any members of the Secret Police of another country have applied such intimidattion or undue pressure or otherwise have been active among members of the migrant communities in Australia; [More…]

• I hope that there are some in the Senate with sufficient common sense to understand its history and to realise that public affairs cannot be conducted in this way and that the motion ought, in the interests of the Senate as well as in the interests of the Australian people, especially the Croatian community which is sought to be used as a pawn by Opposition members- [More…]

• The meeting agreed that the interests of Croatian settlers and the interests of the Australian community would be best served if Australian Croats speak in a common voice on their common problems. [More…]

• The other point is that it is not my desire, nor the desire of many sections of the Yugoslav community whose friendship I value, to have people put through the wringer. [More…]

• I would go a little further and say that if we are to stand up and be counted in regard to our ability to help the ethnic groups in this community we would find that last night no less a person than the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) corrected an omission concerning the discriminatory clauses in the [More…]

• I know this much: I do not want to do it, but the silent majority of the Yugoslav community has copped it right and left. [More…]

• I contend that only a most minute section of the Croatian community is involved in this matter. [More…]

• This is far better than offering to a community a sop of low rental housing just so that it may be there and so that it can be said it has been provided. [More…]

• The other question that can arise in relation to the general cost of houses that may bc purchased from the States even in these circumstances is the need to draw attention to the situation despite the advantages that will accrue to this section of our community as a result of this Bill; that is, that those who wish to purchase, if they are hampered by the higher interest rates which have now been agreed to by this Government, will find that, whatever the Government may try to do in other directions to lower the cost of housing, the near 1 per cent increase in the overall interest rates not only will take from them whatever advantages are available as a result of attempts to lower costs in terms of prices of material or even land but also will mean that ultimately they will pay more for their homes than they would under more reasonable interest rates which are within their compass. [More…]

• I do not know whether the Minister for Works or the Labor Party wishes to maintain in the community a type of serfdom whereby people will rent their houses forever. [More…]

• I can say to the honourable senator that last week Dr Everingham made a statement that one of the principal reasons for the shortage of the influenza vaccine was the sudden rush for the product on the part of people 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…]

• I know that Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson and others who know the western suburbs of Sydney were concerned about the situation and one of the things they cried out about then, and it was also in the back of Senator Withers’ mind when speaking of the community of interest, was the way the system was distorted. [More…]

• The Opposition talks about community of interest, but the remarkable thing is that at that time it sliced off a major section of the municipality of Drummoyne and placed it in Lowe because it wanted to protect the member involved. [More…]

• A remarkable piece of surgery was performed on the perimeter of that electorate and on no occasion did the then Government consider community of interest. [More…]

• Harking back to metropolitan Sydney, if the previous Government wanted the electorate of the former Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, to straddle the Parramatta River, in order to maintain some community of interest all it had to do to maintain this mythical quota was let the electorate straddle the Parramatta River and cover areas of the Benelong electorate, including Gladesville which had some semblance of a swinging vote. [More…]

• One of the great objectives of the government, we are told, is the elimination from the Australian community of division and inequality. [More…]

• As this is a report by an ALP committee on what is the best system to suit the whole community and the ALP, I ask for leave for it to be incorporated in Hansard. [More…]

• The old Act referred to community or diversity of interest’. [More…]

• The amended Act referred to ‘community of interest within a division, including economic, social and regional interests’. [More…]

• There is no evidence to show that a person has to represent a rural voter before he can act and vote conscientiously on matters affecting the rural community. [More…]

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

• How in the name of goodness can the commissioners consider this as a 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…]

• After taking voluminous and detailed evidence from a large section of the Australian community including what the Committee and Senator Carrick describe as, expert witnesses, the Committee came to the conclusion that there should be allowed only a onetenth discretion in electoral boundaries, so far as voters are concerned. [More…]

• So there is a disparity in representation whereby a person living in an outlying area, in a rural community, can have a vote nearly twice the value of that of a person who lives in an urban electorate. [More…]

• They have relied on the argument of local community of interest. [More…]

• There should be equality but there should not be privilege to any section of the community. [More…]

• The proposed amendment to the Act continues to make clear that the number of factors which the commissioners are to take into account do not display any understanding, appreciation or tolerance of groups of people within our community who may be in some minority situation. [More…]

• It pursues the continued antagonism which the Government has, for some reason or other, against the rural community, the provincial community and others, particularly those industrial areas which are isolated from the larger groups of population. [More…]

• An arrangement must be made whereby there can be some stability of community interest. [More…]

• The word ‘people’ may not have been substituted for the word ‘electors’ in the Bill which is before us today, but I warn the Senate and the community that this is the thinking of Mr Daly who is the responsible Minister. [More…]

• The strength of that man’s vote cannot be compared with the strength of the vote of some individual in the pensioner class or in the less fortunate class in our community. [More…]

• That Government directed that distribution commissioners should give attention to the community of interest within the division. [More…]

• People have moved to the metropolitan areas, but those who have allowed them to do that now wish to deny these people the right to be represented as fully as anybody else in the community in this, the Federal Parliament. [More…]

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

• So, ‘community of interests’ is retained in this legislation. [More…]

• If there is an invasion of premises - and these are allegations which are made against law enforcement officers day by day in the community - then there is a right of recourse within the law of the land. [More…]

• whether the civil rights of migrant Australians and, in particular, members of the Croatian community, have been infringed by: [More…]

• whether there has been or is intimidation or undue pressure applied to members of Australian migrant communities and, in particular, to members of the Australian Croatian community, Serbian community, Slovenian community, Macedonian community, Montenegrar community and the Ukrainian community at the instance or in the interests of the Yugoslav Government or any other Government, and, in particular, whether any members of the Secret Police of another country have applied such intimidation or undue pressure or otherwise have .been active among members of the migrant communities in Australia; [More…]

• the problems and perils created for members of the Australian migrant community by the concept of dual nationality and appropriate measures which may be taken to eliminate them. [More…]

• Many eminent persons in our community - those who can be considered to be experts in the field of estate duty and taxation generally - have had the opportunity to present not only verbal but written submissions on this important matter. [More…]

• There is no doubt from the Committee’s examination of the issues that a great deal of hardship has been occasioned to the community. [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 senators, 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 ali 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…]

• 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 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…]

• Irrespective of where national income is derived, every person in the community obtains some benefit from it. [More…]

• He did not even know that the indebtedness of the rural community had increased from very small dimensions 10 years ago to something in excess of $2,000m today. [More…]

• The Labor Government does not even reflect upon the basic factor that 40 per cent of the agricultural community has been living on an annual income of less than $2,000 over the last 10 years. [More…]

• He is trying to create disruption when the agricultural community has reached the degree of peasantry to which I have referred. [More…]

• That ship, recently built in Australia, is prevented from moving between Melbourne and King Island to transport the produce of the island community. [More…]

• It is my personal view that this information could be of considerable use to the Board, to the community and also to my Department. [More…]

• Will the Treasurer make a statement withdrawing his allegations and stating the facts in relation to the true stability and community value of these organisations which provide home owning opportunities at reasonable rates to so many Australians? [More…]

• Will he ask his colleague, the Minister for Health, to consider seriously some means for ensuring the availability in every community of some person or organisation of high integrity and goodwill - working on a purely voluntary basis, one would hope - to whom persons may turn, when in difficulty with drugs, for discussion, advice and help and who, in turn, could with a minimum of fuss and bother ensure that the person concerned was provided with protection, encouragement and a ready availability of top level medical advice and treatment? [More…]

• Tt is a matter of concern that the benefits which should have flowed from imports have not, in some cases, flowed on to the Australian community. [More…]

• In view of the Government’s policy statements about housing for all in the community who need it, does he not agree that building societies are meeting a need for housing finance? [More…]

• I merely am saying that that indicates that there are these stresses and strains within the community and even within a political party as to what should be the correct and proper outcome of this matter. [More…]

• Because of the frequent and unexplained references to deportation in the Press over recent weeks the fear to which I have referred is one which we know exists amongst the migrant community. [More…]

• I conclude simply by saying that the provisions of the Crimes Act were introduced in 1.926 at a time when Australia was confronted with assaults to its established order and when both political parties agreed that there was a necessity to approve the principle of deportation in order that the Australian community should be protected. [More…]

• These taunters are to be found in all sections of our community. [More…]

• Unfortunately, Senator Greenwood put all his eggs in one basket and dealt’ with what a minute section of the Croatian community was thinking. [More…]

• However, in this Bill we are primarily concerned with providing effective political rights for people to become not merely members of the community but if needs be militant advocates. [More…]

• I always Iia ve strongly resented this differentiation in the status of people in the community. [More…]

• The problems and perils created for members of the Australian migrant community by the concept of dual nationality and appropriate measures which may be taken to eliminate them. [More…]

• By the application of the Crimes Act the previous Government was guilty of the worst type of intimidation of sections of the migrant community, if not the whole of the migrant community. [More…]

• They intimidated the whole of the migrant community because migrants value their rights as citizens of this country. [More…]

• There must be, and unquestionably there will be, some disquiet in the community as to whether it is right and proper to reduce from 21 to 18 years the age at which people can marry, if the criterion of marriage in those circumstances is without parental consent. [More…]

• I refer to the uncertainty in the business community concerning the Government’s policy on foreign investment in agriculture and real estate in Australia. [More…]

• That Will place Australia in the position where, with the riches that can come from these dis- coven es of oil arid gas, the standard of living can be lifted and we can widen the expectation of expanding welfare in the community. [More…]

• So the undertakings tend to contain the savings of a broad spread of the Australian community. [More…]

• There are people in the community - in business places and in the market economy - who have skills and talents in this direction, and I rather feel that it would be wiser to use them than, in effect, to duplicate and replace them. [More…]

• That Committee, in a very lengthy investigation of the problems of the utilisation of this major source of energy for the Australian community, looked at matters which included the problem of the distribution and interstate transport of fuel by a pipeline authority. [More…]

• It purports to be a pipeline authority, but if developed it could represent an enormous implementation of socialist ideologies in the community. [More…]

• I see this pipeline authority Bill as another spoke in the wheel of the present class of government which in all areas is turning to socialise the business community in Australia. [More…]

• Once that decision is made by the Parliament, there should never be freedom within an organised community which has elected the members of that Parliament to defy the decision of the Parliament or to interfere with and destroy the work that is to be performed by a body such as the proposed Authority. [More…]

• My only concern is that perhaps these provisions do not go far enough in imposing penalties that will be sufficiently restrictive to stop people wrongly interfering with that which flows from a decision which has been properly made by the Parliament in the interests of the whole of the community but in respect of which those people may hold a different point of view. [More…]

• That supervision should include where a pipeline should be constructed, how it should be constructed, why it should be constructed and, in the interests of the whole community, what is the most economic cost proposal to construct a pipeline between one point and another. [More…]

• It should not be overlooked, 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 its 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 26 January, 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 te insulate the region against ideological interference from the Great Powers’. [More…]

• Papua New Guinea which will want to find its own place in the international community; As Papua New Guinea’s foreign service develops and as its range of international interests grow, we shall be ready to help where we can and as we are asked. [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 th adjustment of relations among the countries to cur west and north, free, so far as is possible, from outside interference. [More…]

• When it comes to the ordinary people in our community who need protection more than the big and powerful companies, I believe that 7 days is not long enough. [More…]

• In a Press statement which he issued on 10 November 1970 the then Minister for Primary Industry, Mr Anthony, when talking about loans for the farming community, said: [More…]

• Naturally, we do not want to lend money at interest rates which are in excess of what the rest of the community pays. [More…]

• I will ask the ComptrollerGeneral to attend the Estimates Committee hearing, if that is the convenient course, so that more light can be thrown on this subject which is of the utmost importance to people in the commercial community. [More…]

• This Bill is of immense importance to the Australian community. [More…]

• I should imagine that a general aim by the Government to control rising prices would achieve the full support of not only members of Parliament but also the business community, particularly those who are being severely affected by the escalation that is occurring daily in the cost of goods and services. [More…]

• The Treasury Information Bulletin’ of April 1973 indicates that the Australian community is facing a grave problem at the present time. [More…]

• To those individuals in the community who are on fixed incomes it will be a complete disaster. [More…]

• I have great sympathy for those individuals in the community who were a little thrifty during their working life and who put aside some funds hoping for a return to them in their later life that would enable them to enjoy some pleasures. [More…]

• It will be a complete disaster for those members of the community, whether they be bank officials, postal officials or anyone else who has retired on a fixed income if that income is eroded by a rate of inflation that is approaching 1 per cent a month. [More…]

• I must say that, irrespective of the actions of the previous Government and regardless of what has led to the situation that is before us at the moment, it is in the interests of the whole community to attempt to assist the Government in holding down prices because inflation and escalation in costs feed upon each other. [More…]

• The Government has encouraged more money to be made available throughout the community. [More…]

• I think that we should attempt to achieve that goal in the community. [More…]

• I would encourage the payment of adequate wages at any particular point because I think the community benefits greatly from that. [More…]

• Here is a problem which eventually must flow through to other areas in the community. [More…]

• An enormous burden of calculation of cost is thrown on to the producers in the; community. [More…]

• It is quite ridiculous for us to be saying that we will set up a prices justification tribunal which will have such a confined area of responsibility as is proposed by the Bill and think that it will do anything to curb prices in the community. [More…]

• It is interesting to note what has been said by responsible people within the community on the Bill that is before us. [More…]

• I note, firstly, the fact that there has been comment by the Institute of Directors in Australia, a body which certainly has some responsibility for employment in the community and the members of which, as citizens of Australia, have some obligation to act responsibly. [More…]

• Mr G. R. Mountain, Chief Economist of the National Bank of Australasia Ltd, has said that for overall control of inflation there would be a virtually useless squeeze on one section of the business community, on just a few business enterprises. [More…]

• I have indicated what I, believe^ and what many others , in the community who have the responsibility; for running a- business believe, to be the root causes pf inflation. [More…]

• I hope, that it will have some force in the community but it appears to me that the Government will be setting it absolutely impossible tasks. [More…]

• I go no further than to say that a government wishing to bring in a Prices Justification Bill and then to move an amendment to that Bill which says: ‘Companies having a turnover of more than $20m will, at our discretion, be exempted from investigation’ indicates the enormousness of the problem which now confronts the community. [More…]

• For instance, wisdom would dictate, I think, that this Tribunal should have the opportunity, in respect of a rise of more than 7 per cent or 8 per cent in respect of a certain class of wages in the community in the preceding 3 months, to determine that a company on which that additional wages bill is imposed and which faces enormous costs in the production of goods or has a high labour content in the reselling component of its goods is justified in increasing its margin or its retail price as, otherwise, it would go out of business. [More…]

• But the bigger companies in our community will not be able to do so. [More…]

• Senate in the course of this debate should describe thoroughly to the business community what ‘goods of a particular description’ are. [More…]

• I have argued at times that business leaders in our community adopt very responsible attitudes. [More…]

• I believe that the general escalation of prices by the business community has been particularly moderate. [More…]

• They show that within the Australian community over a 10-year period there has been an escalation of approximately 94 per cent in average weekly male earnings, but the price of not one item in those documents has escalated anywhere near that figure. [More…]

• It is wonderful that the average worker in Australia enjoys this buying ability for goods he did not have 10 or 15 years ago, but there should not be any criticism of price rises when the business community is able to demonstrate that although it has met the extra costs of various attractions for labour, such as increased long service leave which was introduced recently, improved workers’ compensation benefits, and an extra week’s annual leave, the prices of goods ha ve. [More…]

• The average worker in the community has a greater buying power today. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, I think that the tables that I have sought leave to incorporate in Hansard justify the price rises that have been requested by various sectors of the community in those particularly important areas of production in Australia. [More…]

• The very fact that smaller stores would not handle the same number of items makes it nearly an impossible task to try to adopt a sensible approach to investigating increased prices of goods sold in the community. [More…]

• I view this Bill with great despondency for the business community. [More…]

• The fact that the Opposition is not opposing this Bill is not an indication that it; does, not have complete despair about the ability of the Government to think out any reasonable approach to control the escalation of inflation within our community at the present time. [More…]

• Many of the anomalies within the Bill and the difficulties under which the retail sector of our community would function have been stressed already by other honourable senators. [More…]

• I want to speak briefly as one who will be serving on another committee which has been designed by the Government to assist in alerting the community attitudes regarding prices and their structure at the present time. [More…]

• I therefore speak as someone who would share the feeling that inflation is of major importance in our economy and that there needs to be a community attitude about it to assist the Government in policies which may need to be undertaken. [More…]

• It is debatable whether a prices and incomes policy could - contain inflation over the longer term but perhaps we need .to consider that aspect in many contexts and in many ways as a measure which needs to be accepted by the Australian community., But. [More…]

• It has been stressed that the Bill will apply only to the larger companies, so there we have a discriminatory policy, feeling that if we approach larger companies only we will force them into some restraints which may not be accepted by the rest of the community. [More…]

• The real challenge that is now facing all sectors of the community is to find a way to halt the spiralling costs which are so rapidly overtaking each income received and which are widening the gap between the ability of a fixed income to provide essential services. [More…]

• Yet this Bill was introduced without reference to the commercial sector of the community and without reference to those people who need to undertake the sort of operations which are envisaged within it. [More…]

• I wonder whether this is an example of open government, seeking the co-operation of the community in regard to measures which need to be taken in the interests of the community? [More…]

• We feel that there should be the basic protections which we understand in our community with regard to inquiries and people who are subject to inquiries and judgments as a result of inquiries. [More…]

• We do not see how this Tribunal would be of assistance in determining how prices could be contained, how there could be co-operation between the community and commercial interests and government in this matter, relating one to the other and each accepting some responsibility for its actions. [More…]

• I see it as an instrument of government and as part of Government policy, and perhaps I see it as a way in which the Government thinks that it ought to relate to the community. [More…]

• This is a time when the community is prepared to surrender many of its rights and privileges and to put up with all sorts of difficulties in Order to defend the nation. [More…]

• We have to make this plain to the community. [More…]

• If one multiplies this situation one will see from some 300 or 400 different directions in the community daily, some tens of thousands of applications coming to this Tribunal. [More…]

• I have always believed that the Australian worker was entitled to the highest real wages that this community could possibly afford. [More…]

• It has an impact on every person in the community, most especially on the wageearner, on the recipient of a benefit, on the person who lives on a given set income from week to week and month to month. [More…]

• Then there is payroll tax, sales tax and a number of incidental taxes down the line, all of which provide to the Government the means by which it can do the things which governments are expected to do for the whole community. [More…]

• This must have a bad impact right throughout the community. [More…]

• I said it in the second reading speech; I said it in reply to the second reading debate; I will say it again now: 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…]

• This experience is spread through the community. [More…]

• Fewer people will be properly trained and able to spread their knowledge in the community. [More…]

• The whole pressure is against general practice and yet this is the pivotal point of community health care. [More…]

• But if it be said by my friends opposite that everyone in this community is getting a fair go so far as our health services are concerned, as a Minister in the Labor Government I strongly disagree with them. [More…]

• I do not intend to speak at length, but I think I should reply to what has been said about the right to a freedom of choice on the part of the ordinary member of the community to select his medical practitioner. [More…]

• Frankly, we of the Labor movement believe that doctors who serve the community are entitled to a fair and reasonable return for their skills and for the services they provide to the Australian community. [More…]

• Likewise we believe that every member of the Australian community is entitled to receive the best of medical attention that the community - not he or she as an individual, but the community - can afford. [More…]

• It has been circulated to large sections of the community. [More…]

• I hope that other honourable senators and all sections of the community will establish and record their views because at this stage the report, as I emphasise, is a planning committee report and we are seeking the best ways and means of implementing our policy. [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…]

• 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…]

• I know that the honourable senator is saying but surely he is not seriously suggesting that the Government will set up a tribunal composed of responsible people in the community and then, under this clause, exempt everything that it should be investigating. [More…]

• Honourable people in the community have been appointed to carry out a specified job laid down by the Parliament and they have done so. [More…]

• It was moved because some members of the business community waited on the Treasurer, Mr Crean, and pointed out the difficulties involved. [More…]

• This amendment has been put forward because the business community pointed out to the Treasurer a weakness in the Bill. [More…]

• I ask whether the meaning of ‘to supply goods or services of a particular description’ in clause 16 of the Bill could be made available to the Senate and to the business community generally. [More…]

• The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs has advised me that the provision of a tutor in jewellery making for the Aboriginal community at Jiggalong in Western Australia is part of a national program to train Aborigines throughout Australia in the production of jewellery. [More…]

• So far as the last portion of the honourable senator’s question is concerned, namely, whether the Government will avoid the proven mistakes made by other governments, let me say that it has been the intention of this Government to get the best possible advice from all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Obviously the State governments, no matter what their political colour, oan accept the importance and the benefit to the community as a whole of what the Federal Government is attempting to do. [More…]

• The Senate is debating the Cities Commission Bill which calls to our attention matters relating to population growth centres, community growth centres and subjects of that nature. [More…]

• It has a continuing and recurring influence on and relationship with community development, community centres and the total well-being of people in centres, towns and cities right across the nation. [More…]

• For those honourable senators who have a concern for community life and the development of the country, decentralisation is an easy subject for which to develop enthusiasm; it is easy to stress its importance and its relevance. [More…]

• In these days of urban development, when there is a tendency for people to live in urban communities, there seems to be a desire for such inclusions in our urban societies as high rise projects and community projects. [More…]

• Into this factor come not only the matter of the designing and planning of streets, areas, styles of houses or things of that nature but also the new attitude to urban living, to decentralisation and to new community living that has developed in the Australian community over the last quarter of a century. [More…]

• This is due mainly to the influence of the migrant community, which has played such an important role in our style and quality of life. [More…]

• Indeed, the size of our migrant community has increased considerably in that time. [More…]

• If honourable senators agree, as I think they do, that decentralisation is good for the Australian community - indeed, it spreads the resources of this nation right across the nation and therefore makes them available to more people - we must raise in our minds, particularly as members of the Senate, members of Parliament and citizens of the country, the question of where any decentralisation should take place. [More…]

• But placed as it is, on the main Adelaide to Melbourne road and on the main Adelaide to Melbourne railway and being adjacent to the River Murray, I hope that it provides for the people who go to live there not only pleasant and comfortable accommodation but also community satisfaction in the citizen’s life. [More…]

• I have no need to remind the Senate of the role of education and community facilities in regional centres and decentralised areas. [More…]

• I am noticing with a considerable degree of interest the influence of the development of such facilities as casinos in our Australian community. [More…]

• It may well be that in a community of our size in Australia the development of casinos providing for extended gambling facilities of a kind different from other gambling facilities may not be the best and most desirable ingredient in the community. [More…]

• Communities themselves will have to make up their own minds and make a decision as to whether casinos are desirable or whether they contribute to the stability and the continuing stability of a community. [More…]

• It has to take this very much into account if it is designing communities and decentralised centres that are for the total good of the Australian community and of the Australian nation. [More…]

• As I said at the outset of my remarks, this is a measure which not only deals with economics or with the erection of houses or with the design of streets, but also takes into account the total social welfare of any given community. [More…]

• I hope that when the Government establishes the Cities Commission information on the findings of the Commission will be provided constantly to the community and to the Parliament because all of us are concerned for the total well being of any new city. [More…]

• We look forward to the contribution which the Commission will make as it takes upon itself the heavy responsibility of guiding Commonwealth and State governments, and also its involvement with local government and regional authorities, I am sure that it will become involved also with voluntary community associations and that it will carry on a program which will be for our total benefit. [More…]

• Therefore, whilst the Opposition is concerned to ensure that a certain section of the community is not disadvantaged, it certainly does not wish to see a very large section of the community disadvantaged. [More…]

• It is concerned to ensure fair treatment for all sections of the community. [More…]

• The considerations of any overall scheme as a result of the Woodhouse inquiry would be jeopardised by the premature introduction of the levels of compensation which are proposed by this Bill; levels which it is considered at this stage are unlikely to be able to be achieved for other sections of the community in any national scheme. [More…]

• That would seem to us to be possibly so out of touch with reality and with what the community can provide, with justice to all sections pf the community, that the matter requires reconsideration. [More…]

• I use that only as one example because I wish to emphasise that the Opposition is concerned to ensure that there is equity to all sections of (fee community, not in any way to ensure that eoe section of the community is disadvantaged. [More…]

• Public Servant, but rather to ensure that he is treated in a way which is comparable to the way in which the remainder of the community is treated. [More…]

• We are providing long term finance at the lowest possible rate consistent with the rate that is prevailing in the community at present. [More…]

• So I suggest that the Government ought to be looking quite seriously at this matter in its own interests as well as in the interests of the community at large. [More…]

• I think it is right that surf clubs should be given assistance in the way of sales tax remissions, but I think that this other section of the community is just as valuable and it should have just as many opportunities of receiving the benefit of sales tax remissions as other voluntary organisations. [More…]

• That is an attitude that is not shared by a growing section of the Australian voting community. [More…]

• In Western Australia part of the mining community has also been exploiting migrants. [More…]

• So the money that is spent on community national fitness halls is saved, at least in part, in reduced repair costs due to less vandalism. [More…]

• I am not saying that this is right but there is a growing section of the community - it is now a large section - which is for preserving the environment and not sacrificing it, as Senator Mulvihill has said, for commercial achievements. [More…]

• The incentive which is provided to those people to look after and develop their homes; the incentive to take pride in ownership; the incentive to look after the development of the area in which they reside; the feeling of belonging; the community spirit which can develop from home ownership are incentives which are regarded as socially desirable. [More…]

• But we recognise that there is a need within the community for houses built for rental purposes. [More…]

• In fact trade unions, having a community interest, are among the ideal bodies to run very successful co-operatives including housing co-operatives. [More…]

• It is an approach which indicates what I describe as the general socialist approach as against the Liberal approach which seeks to build up a community of individuals with a sense of responsibility. [More…]

• One of the things we keep emphasising, in an effort to get away from slum areas, is the need to have a mixture right throughout the community, and there is no better way to achieve this than when a person who has lived in a rental home decides to purchase it and when there is home ownership in the rental areas, this being one of the fundamental things in a Housing Commission settlement. [More…]

• I am sure that he would have the endorsement of 80 per cent to 90 per cent of the Australian community in that belief. [More…]

• If accommodation changes hands ten times, this is finding accommodation for people in the community. [More…]

• The reason the then Prime Minister made that statement on behalf of the Government was that the Government believed that the stresses and strains of growth were having an impact on the living conditions and the environment of the entire Australian community. [More…]

• The Government also believed that unless it embarked on a vigorous, imaginative and responsible program of urban and regional development in partnership with the States, its efforts to secure a better quality of life for the Australian community through a wide variety of existing programs would be compromised. [More…]

• Still, despite the high charge, the business community continues to use the service - and it seems to me that once a business community becomes used to travelling by air, that becomes part and parcel of its operations. [More…]

• I simply reiterate that, in the interests of fairness to the whole community and because of concern that one section of the community is being placed in a position so advantageous in relation to other sections of the community, this matter requires consideration in its proper perspective - a perspective which should be available in the not too distant future when the Woodhouse Committee presents its report. [More…]

• A very generous provision is being made which we suggest, as I will be reiterating shortly, is out of keeping with other awards and compensation available to other sectors of the community. [More…]

• We are opposed only to the way in which the legislation may operate to the detriment of various sectors of the community. [More…]

• We are concerned as to whether the community can afford to take the step to provide for one relatively small section benefits which will not be available to much larger sections of the community. [More…]

• As opposed to that we have the situation where pensioners - returned servicemen, age and widow pensioners - and various other people in the community obtain from the public purse relatively small amounts when considered against the sort of amounts that have been provided for in this Bill. [More…]

• We believe that there should be social justice and equity in the approach taken to compensating various sectors of the community, all of whom are entitled to consideration from the public purse. [More…]

• We believe also that account must be taken of the maximum level which the remainder of the community can bear in assisting in providing compensation to people in the community who are justifiably entitled to that assistance. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that before the pace making step provided by this Bill is taken there should be consideration of the report of Mr Justice Woodhouse and what is practical for the whole community and at what levels various types of compensation should be struck. [More…]

• It does not apply to any of the great mass of working men or business executives in private industry; nor does it apply to employees of State governments, either the civil servants or the great mass of railway workers, electricity workers and other public servants of the States; nor does it apply to self-employed persons such as members of the farming community, 40 per cent of whom have been on less than $2,000 a year for 10 years; nor does it apply to the housewives, who for the purposes of law are not regarded as employees at all. [More…]

• The principle behind our motion is to defer this Bill and leave Commonwealth public servants, as a class, enjoying what Senator Bishop has said is the best workers’ compensation Act in Australia while we take into account these other sections of the community. [More…]

• Of course, if her husband dies when he is 30 or 35, in the community which we have today the expectancy of the widow’s life if she were of the same age would not be 20 years as I have taken; it would be nearer 40 years. [More…]

• The Special Minister of State and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Willesee, left Australia on Saturday, 2 June to have discussions with officials in London, Rome, Ethiopia and African Commonwealth countries, and also to chair a meeting of heads of mission in European Economic Community Posts. [More…]

• It would be a great tragedy if there were any continuance of the former Government’s policy of largely excluding the wealth of talent which exists in the community from involvement in the affairs of the community. [More…]

• the language of Senator Rae, to be fair to all sections of the community, as he states he wishes to be. [More…]

• If a New Zealand type scheme, an egalitarian scheme which must necessarily provide lower benefits than some which are granted by the courts, especially in common law at the present time - it is surely not suggested that at this stage Australia could afford to pay to every member of the community the type of monetary compensation that is awarded in actions for damages - is adopted and becomes law, not only will the rights and benefits of Commonwealth employees be affected and go into the melting pot but also the rights of all citizens of Australia who happen to be unlucky enough to incur personal injury will be affected. [More…]

• But we do feel that the Bill contains what we regard as somewhat extravagant provisions under which certain segments of a community would be put in a highly privileged and specialised position and that these provisions should receive further consideration by the Government and later, further consideration by this chamber and another place. [More…]

• We see this as being likely to mean that if the Bill were passed in its entirety in its present form there would be one elitist section in relation to compensation provisions compared with the rest of the community such as widows, housewives, persons involved in motor car accidents and all the other people it is hoped will be covered by some across the board compensation scheme. [More…]

• However, it is our concern that social equity should prevail and that a scheme is not introduced in this country which will mean that we cannot have comparability between schemes for various people in the community. [More…]

• The whole objection to the extravagant benefits to be provided to high salaried officers under this Bill is that as a matter of comparative justice they are outrageous in relation to those provided to repatriation pensioners, private industry employees, self employed persons and the other sections of the community to which I referred the other day. [More…]

• By that time I am sure the Government will be in a position to come forward with some amelioratory provisions which will reduce what could be described as the undue extravagance to certain sections of the working community which is demonstrated in the provisions of this Bill. [More…]

• I have seen it described as the most perfect form of membership in a political community. [More…]

• It refers to the wellbeing of our citizens and their relationship to the country, the community and each other. [More…]

• The citizens referred to are best known to us as members of the migrant community; we sometimes refer to them as new citizens. [More…]

• Australian communities need the support of these migrant citizens and I think it is also true to say that the migrant needs the support of being part of the community, and being part of the community through citizenship, because through citizenship he can obtain various supports that he may need from time to time. [More…]

• Everyone will agree that instead of isolating the migrants in our community we need to help them to settle down, to integrate and to face any problems that may come to them. [More…]

• Parliament works hard to confer rights, to defend rights and to protect rights, and as each facet of community development and service becomes available in due course those people come to expect those facets as their rights. [More…]

• The migrant community has made a substantial contribution to our economic growth. [More…]

• When we add to this real gain a number of intangible economic factors in relation to demands for goods and services and matters of this kind we are aware of the influence that they have, had on our total community. [More…]

• They are people with hearts, minds, emotions and feelings; they are people with a community concern; they have made a contribution to our style and habit of life. [More…]

• This will provide a 24-hour service for urgent community needs. [More…]

• This applies to the integration of migrants into the total Australian community. [More…]

• Every one of us would join in paying tribute to the heads of local government organisations, community leaders, members of good neighbour councils and those who go to so much care and trouble to ensure that citizenship ceremonies are well and properly con* ducted and do mean something to the new citizen. [More…]

• Those are the factors which make for happy, contented citizenship and which provide for the integration of new citizens into the Australian community. [More…]

• Those factors are part of an immigration program which can keep Australia as not only a stable, human community but also one that is economically advancing. [More…]

• In Great Britain and to a developing degree throughout Europe, enormously increased prosperity succeeded the immediate introduction of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• They would probably disappear into an allAustralian community in a far lesser time than it takes those people whose backgrounds are different and who do not have the same compulsion. [More…]

• We would probably develop only a small segment of our community in this way because Samoa could not supply the number of people Australia requires. [More…]

• However, small though it may be, it would be an excellent segment of people who would be integrated rapidly into the total Australian community. [More…]

• We want to have coming here people who have that great burst of enthusiasm that will enable them to tackle the enormous problems involved in starting life in a new country and integrating their families into our community so that they will become fellow Australians along with all of us. [More…]

• I think that the Dutch community is regarded as a pretty thrifty, very reliable and a sound segment of our migrant intake. [More…]

• In general, he is absorbed into our community with a minimum of difficulty and fuss. [More…]

• In this modern society and in this mature age there can be no second class in our Australian community. [More…]

• I suggest that if the Government wants to achieve the best from this expenditure it should look at the development of technical training centres in country areas which will provide this sort of education and training for all the people there and thus achieve a real advance in the status and usefulness of these people in our community. [More…]

• Ali honourable senators know that in the community at present there is much concern over the economic situation. [More…]

• Real estate prices are rising because the people in the community who believe that they know the economy are taking their mosey from the stock market and other places and investing it in real state which they believe will retain its comparative value whatever happens. [More…]

• There is an urgent necessity for a scale of importance to be developed in connection with many of these projects and they should take their turn as finance becomes available rather than imposed on the community at the one time as appears to be the case at present. [More…]

• I know it may be easy to have a common debate on 4 cognate measures but I emphasise that these are 4 measures which cover a wide range of education, a vast range of people and a wide range of areas which I shall call, simply and fairly generally, social and community affairs. [More…]

• Of course there can be little objection to a proposal which increases the number of qualified social workers in a community. [More…]

• I do not know that it is a credit to our society that at a time when technological advances are so pre-eminent we have a situation in which the same technological advances are imperilling personal relationships and creating problems which require an increasing number of professionally trained social workers who can provide a helping, supporting and enabling role for people in the community. [More…]

• I have been very interested in this matter because I am an enthusiast for the role of libraries in our community as well as in our institutions. [More…]

• As with the issue of social workers, it is very easy to generalise and it is also very easy to become enthusiastic aboutsuch an institution as a library and its role in a learning academy or in a community project. [More…]

• But the libraries about which we are speaking tonight are not necessarily community libraries, State libraries or city libraries, but they are libraries in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• A library in a college of advanced education is a series of libraries in a series of colleges, and because they are libraries in a series of colleges they are also libraries situated within ‘the wider and larger community. [More…]

• I express the hope that there will be co-operation between the libraries, particularly within the colleges, and co-operation between the libraries in the colleges and any other libraries which may be adjacent or related in a similar or neighbouring community. [More…]

• We have had a feeling within our community that libraries often think of themselves in terms of the collections, the staffs and the buildings; they tend to subscribe to an idea that a library is a place and not a process. [More…]

• Of course, it is Government policy to provide for an increased number of social workers throughout the community, having regard to the social needs of the community. [More…]

• I do not think for one moment that any member of the Senate, especially one who served on the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare and particularly one who served on the committee of inquiry into the problems of the physically and mentally handicapped, would doubt the desirability of and the great need for additional social workers to be provided in the community. [More…]

• Of course, the phenomenon we must recognise as having occurred in recent years has been the upsurge of community interest in local government matters, in the quality of life, in environmental matters, in rezoning, in high density developments and so on. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that they be amalgamated but that they work together as a region in order to plan for the needs of the community within that region. [More…]

• They have, of course, had to increase their own taxation and this has never been popular amongst taxpayers of a community, whether they be Commonwealth, State or even local government. [More…]

• Those involved in local government are some of the most dedicated members of the community. [More…]

• For those reasons, while welcoming this new recognition of the role of local governments, which are so close to the people, so involved with the actual physical improvement of areas in which people live, with the day to day affairs of the ordinary person within the community, we only hope that in the methods proposed to be adopted there will be a successful accomplishment of these aims. [More…]

• Does the Attorney-General agree that the photograph of an article on Mr Mudrinic confirms the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s suspicion that, far from being a Croatian terrorist, he is a member of the Yugoslav secret police, or at least an agent provocateur working to discredit the Croatian community in Australia; if so, will he make a full investigation of the alarming implications of this matter. [More…]

• Onerous and not beneficial arrangements, as the honourable senator describes them, ought not to be tolerated as fair commercial practice in our community. [More…]

• I should hope that such a law would mean that there would be greater respect for the rights of individuals and the community generally than appears to exist at the present time. [More…]

• Does the Minister know that many shirkers and loafers are collecting unemployment benefits and are in fact liabilities on the community? [More…]

• Senator Webster referred to members of the Croatian community in terms which I described the other day as showing an invincible bias on his part in relation to these matters. [More…]

• I also remind the honourable senator that recently, on behalf of my colleague the Minister for Health, I laid on the table of the Senate a document entitled ‘A Community Health Program for Australia’, in which many of the matters to which the honourable senator referred have been raised and are alluded to. [More…]

• When we talk about low rates of interest we are obviously thinking in the context of the rates which generally apply in the community at the particular time. [More…]

• The rural sector of the community is no more disadvantaged by the interest rates which are applying now than it was previously. [More…]

• That illustrates a degree of waste disproportionate to the general cost of labour throughout the community. [More…]

• It must maintain a balance between the powerful groups and interests in any community. [More…]

• When, as a result of industrial disputation, public services, community needs, employment continuity and earning ability are denied or curtailed, this ought to be a matter for Government concern and some Government action. [More…]

• Conciliation and compulsory arbitration represent the desire and the interest of the community in maintaining industrial peace. [More…]

• The understanding of this - this is why I have sought to elaborate the concept at some length - is vital to an appreciation of why the Opposition will resist in the Parliament and in the country the provisions of this Bill, which grant a charter to the union movement to hold the community to ransom. [More…]

• The public interest should continue to be the reason for legislation and amendments ought to be, as they always were in the legislation which was introduced and amended by Liberal-Country Party governments, directed towards improving the performance of that legislation in the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• This, is the paramount factor and the matter which is of real concern to the Opposition - I am sure that it is of real concern to the country at large in its assessment of this matter - the community will suffer. [More…]

• While the Government is threatening to sub ject the combinations of business to the strict rigours of the criminal law, it is providing a freedom of action to the amalgamations of unionism in a way which no society which expects its Government to hold the balance between the powerful economic groups in the community can possibly tolerate. [More…]

• and useful institution, not only for the members of the unions but also for ‘the balanced development of the community. [More…]

• It is when one comes to arming combinations of industrial power led by irresponsible unions and acceded to by weak government, who are their instruments, that there is danger to the prosperity of a free community. [More…]

• When you reflect upon the disruption that those strikes caused to many sections of the community you see the justice of requiring some enforcement of payment in recompense for that loss which is inflicted on the community. [More…]

• So far from putting its efforts to preventing trade disputes and, when they occur, channelling them to the peaceful decision of the Arbitration Commission, the Government now in 1973 with the genius of Gough Whitlam, guided by Cairns and a few others who ought to know better, and a whole crowd following them who, of course, do not understand that they are simply’ being manipulated by extreme communist disruptionists, npt only wants to neutralise the remedies’ under the arbitration system but wants also to give to the trade union organisation, its officers and members a special privilege that Austraiian organisations, officers and members have never had - a privilege to be erected here 70 years after the commencement of the arbitration system, that system being designed specifically to bring the unions into the field where the framework of law would give them advantages and impose corresponding responsibilities, and in which the whole community would work according to a system of law and order; in the words of Mr Justice Higgins: ‘A new province of law and order’. [More…]

• I suppose it is simply the case that they are prepared to allow the weakest to go to the wall and to allow the strong metal unions and other left wing organisations to ride rampant over the rest of the industrial community. [More…]

• I do not think that any fair, unbiased observer could fail to agree that the conciliation and arbitration system and the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Court in this country have brought undoubted benefits to the working man and also to the community as a whole. [More…]

• What has happened since the days about which Christoper Hollis wrote is that far from being a persecuted downtrodden organisation, the union tail is now wagging the entire community dog, and it is the very strength of the trade union movement which may well bring the trade union movement down in ruins, as the very dictatorship of Hitler, Stalin and the rest of those people have brought their own organisations down in ruins. [More…]

• In order to prove that what I have said is right let me quote a statement that was made by the late Mr Chifley on 20 February 1947 when he gave consideration to mis principle or idea which is promoted in this Bill of the community being milked by large monopolistic organisations of employers and of employees who would agree among themselves on awards and then proceed to recoup the employers by putting up prices and tariffs. [More…]

• Mr Lynch, in his speech on the motion for the second reading of this Bill in the House of Representatives, spelled out in full his understanding of the functions of ILO and the general adherence of the Opposition to this peculiar but quite successful tripartite organisation of governmental members, employer members and employee members which over 50 years has been seeking to promote the ends of social justice throughout the community. [More…]

• But as 1 have said, the present methods of shearing are costly and inefficient and with the increasing cost being loaded onto the industry by the present Government’s policies and increased wages for sections of the community, one can only expect the costs to increase. [More…]

• That the mining and trading companies of King Island, and the residents of this decentralised community, are entitled to a regular and efficient weekly shipping service and are suffering great detriment and loss by the suspension of shipping service. [More…]

• Comments are made also in regard to other aspects of the trade which, we trust, will be considered by governments and the business community alike in the constructive spirit with which they are made. [More…]

• The Committee found that the genuine Aborigines in the community would not have a bar of those people who arrived here in Jaguars or the long haired individuals who came from universities. [More…]

• We want to be part and parcel of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government has indicated that it proposes to look further into other aspects such as the supervision of insurance brokers, overseas ownership and control, and the general question of the need to protect policy-holders and to safeguard the community’s interests. [More…]

• Before continuing on that line, may I say that considerable disappointment is felt in the rural community at the failure of the Government to honour its promise of long term low interest loans. [More…]

• There is one area in which, if the Government was sincere, it might be able to bring about a genuine benefit to wool growers in our community. [More…]

• Basically they relate to an extra provision being made for a previously not catered for section of the community, namely, supporting mothers. [More…]

• Continual improvements in welfare legislation and the provision of added benefits to the community can be the product only of a community which is able to pay for them because the economy has been soundly managed and is able to stand the cost of the added benefits. [More…]

• As on previous occasions, I simply take the opportunity to issue the warning to the new Government that not only it is desirable that a government should provide, so far as it possibly can, benefits to all sections of the community which are deserving of them and which need them, but also it is desirable and in fact essential that the Government should see to the management of the economy to ensure that its growth will continue to be able to provide that type of assistance. [More…]

• I make the point here that every time we say we are moving towards these matters the Opposition says: ‘If you do these things great inflationary trends will be imposed upon the community*. [More…]

• It is a proposition which has been welcomed not only by those who will benefit from it but also, as may have been noticed from a reading of the Press of the country, by a section of the community as being the sort of benefit that we should be providing. [More…]

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

• This motion requests the Committee to examine the whole basis of the complex law of supply and demand in the community. [More…]

• He has not specified to which section of the community the fourth week of annual leave is to be granted. [More…]

• A large proportion of the community is now enjoying 4 weeks annual leave. [More…]

• The Government believes that the ordinary man in the community should get some benefit from the technological advances in the sophisticated society in which we live. [More…]

• We believe that some of this benefit should filter down to the ordinary citizen in the community. [More…]

• Exactly the same argument applies because a large proportion of the community does not work 40 hours. [More…]

• In other words, if it was not for social service benefits which have been improved by rebels in the community he could starve. [More…]

• These figures do not indicate any unusual situation in respect of time lost, so it is impossible to make even an approximate guess of the increased cost to the community of time lost. [More…]

• For example, how could one assess the cost to the community of Senator Wright and his colleague, Senator Townley, travelling on a VIP aircraft to King Island last weekend as compared with the advantages to the committee concerned if they had travelled on a commercial flight? [More…]

• What would be the cost to the community of the arrangement made last year between waterside workers and employers in relation to a 35-hour week? [More…]

• Senator Cotton knows that if he were to refer to the Committee the cost of goods and services in the community his proposal might have some substance. [More…]

• In recent years, through its Committee system and the calibre of its members, the Senate has been acclaimed throughout all sections of the community. [More…]

• Were such houses occupied by members of the Croatian community? [More…]

• Was each such house occupied by a member of the Australian Croatian community? [More…]

• His untimely and tragic death at the age of 43 years was a sad loss to the community. [More…]

• I hope it will put paid to the kind of discrimination which is still able to be exercised in this community and which should not be tolerated. [More…]

• We believe that every child in Australia has a basic right - a fundamental right - to be able to receive some assistance towards its education from the taxpayers’ funds or the community purse. [More…]

• Mr Santamaria also said that the Protestant community would be feeling a deep sense of injustice. [More…]

• A lot of noise is being made about a very small number of schools but little is being said about the enormous benefit that will accrue to a very large number of schools - government and non-government - throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• Why do we not recognise that if a community body wants to establish an educational organisation or a school to provide a type and style of education that meets the country’s standards, and which can attract a sufficient number of students, it should be free to do so? [More…]

• That community body should be free also to raise and improve its standards. [More…]

• Having said all that, if a community body is allowed to do all that then it is entitled to equality in sharing government or public funds. [More…]

• So this denial to provide funds for every child by withdrawing aid from some schools is having a crippling effect on the Australian community and, in particular, on the education system. [More…]

• The case that has been put up by the Opposition is manifestly lacking in substance and many of the details which have been submitted are similar lacking in substance and do not accord with the facts as they are pretty well known to the Australian community. [More…]

• Here for the first time we have a document designed not to be vote-catching, not to be a gimmicky thing that sets out to win some votes and some cheap political advantage but a document based on the needs of a great country frying to fulfill the educational requirements of every child in the Australian community. [More…]

• We have said for years and years: ‘Give us the opportunity to do something for all the people in this country - not the silvertails, not the privileged few at the top of the list but for every man, woman and child in the Australian community’. [More…]

• The first and basic thing that one would do - it is in the interests of the country to do it too - is to provide education to the highest level possible within the intellectual capacity of every child in the Australian community. [More…]

• So we ought to stick our necks out when it involves giving to every child in the Australian community an equal opportunity for education. [More…]

• The humbug of it all, of course, is that the Government has not taken away assistance to all forms of education in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a great tribute to the Australian community that sectarianism has been so subdued since the purposeful campaign of the Menzies era of 15 or 20 years and that solidarity has been established between all religions. [More…]

• Will the Minister consider changing the provisions of the relevant legislation to ensure that the working section of the community is not subsidising loafers’ by unemployment benefits. [More…]

• Will the Minister consider amending the relevant legislation to ensure that a certain amount of community, council or shire work must be done before a person can receive unemployment benefits. [More…]

• If there is community, council of shire work available and presumably the honourable member has in mind payment for such work at full award rates, then the people engaged in this work would not be unemployed nor entitled to unemployment benefits. [More…]

• Will the Treasurer make a statement withdrawing his allegations and stating the facts in relation to the true stability and community value of these organisations which provide home owning opportunities at reasonable rates to so many Australians. [More…]

• The Government has assisted the Aboriginal community in Redfern to undertake a special housing program in order to help them improve housing and social conditions in that area. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that many persons are using a variety of techniques to beat the social services system, are avoiding work and, by so doing, are becoming listed as unemployed when, in actual fact, they do not want to work and are a liability on the community because it is so easy to obtain unemployment benefits. [More…]

• It is envisaged that the Science Council will advise on the development of science in Australia including its organisation, the allocation of resources and manpower, as well as the impact of science on the community and the integration of science policy with general government policy. [More…]

• The Council will have about a dozen members with broad representation from the scientific and technological community as well as several social scientists and will be supported by an independent secretariat. [More…]

• It has been applauded by everybody in the community. [More…]

• Nevertheless I am sure that whatever action may be taken will be taken in the interests of the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether any consideration has been given to the provision of training in what was described yesterday as community orientation? [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…]

• What he should represent are not his local interests but the interests of the community over which he has the office to preside. [More…]

• It involves an island community of 3,000 people, primary producers and miners. [More…]

• One would think that it would be a cherished challenge for a Labor Government to see that a community of that sort was assisted, even if at a little undue cost. [More…]

• It was well known that the ‘Blythe Star’ could not carry livestock nor did she have any refrigeration capacity to carry butter and other perishables so important to the community. [More…]

• But practical measures to help a little community such as King Island are not the con- cern of the Labor senators. [More…]

• It is a matter of great pride to me that the Parliament has been able to make a contribution to the interests of a small community which has little political influence or electoral importance and which the Labor Government had repudiated, disowned and refused to assist. [More…]

• One of the propositions that makes me opposed to a community such as ours exercising the right in law to invoke the death penalty under any circumstances, is not a feeling for the perpetrator of such a crime or some feeling for the innocent relatives who may have a deep regard for the perpetrator and who will suffer for as long as the penalty hangs over his head awaiting execution. [More…]

• The answer is really this: The death penalty should be abolished, not out of any sympathy for the perpetrator of the crime and not because of any undue sentiment but if we are to uplift society the community itself has to show the regard that it has for human life and say that it will not take that life. [More…]

• It detracts from the clear statement that the community should not permit the death penalty to be imposed in any circumstances. [More…]

• Finally, looking at the economic calculations in relation to the Australian community, should such a person while away the next 30 or 40 years in prison while the balance of the Australian community pays $20,000 or $30,000 a year to keep him? [More…]

• Hitherto we have moved through a century and a half when we have seen a grand relaxation of the harshness of punishments at criminal law, moderated according to the community’s achievement in law abiding habits. [More…]

• I can pay no more respect to the opinion of the majority than to say that it is an act of madness and irresponsibility in the present mood of the world, which is one of growing violence, mob violence, terrorist violence and individual violence whatever be one’s conscientious conviction, to proceed to the destruction of our community safeguards in this precarious period. [More…]

• It is being gradually recognised that the threats that are being engendered, aided by the most modern methods and mechanisms that man has devised including the development of instruments of violence and opportunities for man under the influence of stimulants to commit violence are such that a Parliament that today persistently proceeds, just because of an ideological idea that it has a conviction that there should be no capital punishment, is, I believe, blind completely to the destructive threats that are evident in our community. [More…]

• Is there anybody who would deny that that system of penal sanction for crime can be dispensed with and the stability of our community maintained? [More…]

• We have equipped the community with a Parliament that should be responsible to the actual needs of the community instead of yielding to the dictates of what is called an ideological conscience, or perhaps to Party pressure which itself is pressured from other organisations which only seldom, thank goodness, up to date engage in violence but which are showing increasing tendencies to use violence for their purposes. [More…]

• Today, in an era of growing and highly mechanised violence we are seriously taking the step of ridding the community of the defence and the safeguard that it has to deter crimes of murder by the existence on the statute book of the sanction of capital punishment. [More…]

• Prison staff are put there as representatives of the community to maintain these people in gaol, which is the only place in which reprieved murderers can be incarcerated. [More…]

• They were organised for the very purpose of destroying the efficacy of prison staff in maintaining the gaols that the community thinks are necessary for the incarceration of prisoners. [More…]

• My protest is that anybody who today joins with others in destroying one of the safeguards that we have against terrorism and violence, who will not protect a policeman and who will not protect a member of gaol staff is not discharging the appropriate responsibility he has for the maintenance of the structure of today’s community. [More…]

• If we expect them to give protection to the community by enforcing the laws that this Parliament makes, then these officers of the law should be given the full support of the community, particularly the Parliament of this country. [More…]

• We in this place, as well as the people outside, are the ones who expect these officers to administer those laws and so give protection to the community. [More…]

• One general argument against abolition of the death penalty is that it will engender within the community a greater tendency for self help, a tendency for people to take the law into their own hands in circumstances of violent crime more so than would be the case if there was reliance and trust in a law which was justly carried through. [More…]

• We have heard used the words sanctity of life’ and that the community should not degrade itself. [More…]

• Generally we have heard the argument that there is an importance for life to be preserved in our community. [More…]

• I suppose that each one of us would be opposed to the taking of life on any count, much less that it be taken by community direction or the direction of a court which may be performing such a duty on behalf of the community. [More…]

• This afternoon in this debate we have heard from honourable senators - in this instance all on the Opposition benches - who wish to see the highest standards preserved in the community, standards of which the community can be proud. [More…]

• in fine, the only way that there may be of prompting a man’s mind such as “in the case which I put forward in relation to a prisoner who is serving a life sentence and an employee who may be appointed on behalf of the community such as a prison officer, Commonwealth Police Force officer or State police force officer to confine that prisoner in a manner such as the law provides or such as we are able economically to provide. [More…]

• I believe that there are Ministers who have not vested interests but doctrinaire dislikes of elements in our community. [More…]

• The hillbillies of the mining community, as they were called, are attacked. [More…]

• There is almost a 50/50 Chinese/ Malayan community in Malaysia. [More…]

• The Government should stop throwing in red herrings by referring to changes in the position of people in irrigation areas which it is claimed is aggravated by the operations of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Let it give assurance to the electors and the community of South Australia that the Dartmouth Dam project will continue and that no doubt whatsoever about its future will arise. [More…]

• Firstly, there is the quite dramatic upturn in demand by the farming community for this particular product as distinct from the quite low demand for it over the last couple of seasons. [More…]

• At present I am considering the very detailed report compiled by the Australian Broadcasting Commission as a result of a detailed survey it made of the television and radio needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• However, I would suggest to the honourable senator that there have been a great number of reasons for the decline in the viewing habits of the Australian community. [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…]

• It may be a good thing if the community were rid of such animals. [More…]

• I wonder what those honourable senators who have spoken in this debate tonight would do if there was a peephole big enough .to poke a good rifle through in the bank chamber in Stockholm where 4 people are hanging on ropes while the man who is attempting to extort money from the community decides whether he will kill them. [More…]

• I believe that in our community at the present time hijacking surely is one of the most violent of crimes. [More…]

• I doubt whether the honourable senator who has interjected believes in anything decent or anything that would defend the community. [More…]

• But they are severely handicapped when he joins in a denigration of a man like Senator Webster whose whole life has been dedicated to humanitarian ism and a jealous defence and betterment of the community of which he is masterful member. [More…]

• The question is: Are you for the community or are you for the criminal? [More…]

• Should we say that the community is then denied the right to execute the penalty after proof of criminality beyond all reasonable doubt and after a merciful government has reviewed the sentence and can find not the slightest reason for mercy? [More…]

• Senator Poyser would deny the community the right to exact the capital forfeiture in that extremity because he says that it is not a deterrent. [More…]

• In my opinion, this Parliament does itself no credit by denying the community’s agency - the government and the law courts - that final penalty in an era when this crime has great potential for increase. [More…]

• I believe that any member who votes against this amendment fails to realise the importance of this Parliament - the properly elected spokesman of this community - to make its judgment on important matters. [More…]

• If the Committee deprives the community of that last defence for women and perhaps children - innocent passengers - against a malicious, deliberate criminal planning hijacker, I say that it marks a great step in the decadence of Parliament. [More…]

• I voted for the second reading of the Bill, but if we remove something that has stood in the law for so long we should, as provided in the amendment, retain the necessary precaution at least for a period in these very special areas, that is, the capacity of society to exact the extreme penalty, particularly in relation to crimes of this type that have as their basis the terrorising of the whole community. [More…]

• Firstly, I disagree with the arguments advanced by my colleague Senator Byrne who suggested that if we retain the death penalty for the crime of hijacking we will force these people to use their enormous ingenuity to find an even more shocking crime to perpetuate upon the community. [More…]

• I consider that one innocent life is far more valuable and of greater sanctity than that of the person who can be proven in a court of law to have killed somebody in the process of a hijacking enterprise, whether it is for capital gain or to exert a political or a terrorist pressure on the community to attain anything at all. [More…]

• I think those honourable senators who have expressed the view that this crime is different from others which would excite the community and involve the action of the State in taking the life >of the person concerned, crimes for which the death penalty previously applied, are those who largely have adopted the view in all the debates on this subject in this place over the years - they go back many years - that the death penalty should be retained for all capital crimes. [More…]

• I put to honourable senators that we must adopt the attitude that in a modern community capital punishment is no longer an acceptable deterrent and that we ought to consider the causes for these people’s actions rather than attempt to deal with the effect. [More…]

• I agree with Senator Wright that this is the place where decisions on behalf of the community are being taken. [More…]

• Members of the Croatian community were responsible for highjacking an aircraft in Sweden either last year or the year before. [More…]

• What Senator Greenwood is putting to the Committee is that if there is a Lieutenant Calley in our community subject to our laws, we will not have him living in honour, or in immunity or at all because the community that Senator Greenwood’s proposal expresses is nobler than that which gives continuance to the life of a person who has shot women and children and nobbled men in massacre. [More…]

• I imagine that I am speaking in support of the principle that I think Senator Greenwood most nobly is propounding not merely on behalf of this country, this Australian community, but on behalf of the international community which is engaged together in a war, because we were never engaged in anything but a just war. [More…]

• I rise to speak in the last stages of this debate only because I am conscious of the fact that 50 or 100 years hence these records will be judged and humanity will have to determine in the civilisation that exists in Australia at that time whether we deserted the cause of our community in its noblest aspirations or whether we were weak and allowed criminals of the worst description to escape just punishment, and the just punishment for the offences described in these conventions is nothing less than death after judicial processes. [More…]

• I have been most interested in the way that points have been stated in order to try to prove that capital punishment does not do something for the community. [More…]

• Knowing human nature and knowing the feelings of people on these things, I believe that if the issue were put fairly and squarely before the average member of the public he would say: ‘Get rid of this menace in our community by getting rid of the people who commit these tragic crimes’. [More…]

• I ask: Is the Minister aware that concern has been expressed in sections of the Australian community arising from the fact that Australia’s national domestic airline, Trans-Australia Airlines, has been used to transport Portuguese troops - in civilian dress, of course - to Timor? [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…]

• Even if we had a system of proportional representation - it is true that there are people in our Party and in the community who think it would be a good idea- [More…]

• I am agreeing with the honourable senator and saying that there are people in our Party and in the community who think that the proportional representation system- [More…]

• Of course, there are people in the community who have different views on this sort of thing. [More…]

• I indicate now that I have had a developing concern about the expansion of public corporations, their proliferation in the community, more particularly their lack of accountability to the Parliament and the inability of Parliament to scrutinise their operations or to accept any particular responsibility for their day to day exercises. [More…]

• The rates for which the wealthier sections of the community, including companies, are liable are already high enough. [More…]

• The Budget, as enunciated by my Party, has catered for all sections of the community, in spite of the statements that we have just heard from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Withers). [More…]

• In particular, he tried to cater to the wishes of those people in that class of the community which he represents. [More…]

• So let us have a little less of the shilly-shallying and a little more co-operation from those sections of the community which are merely in opposition because they think it is fashionable to be in opposition. [More…]

• Letters are being written by political figures in the community who sign themselves as ‘pro bono’ or something else and who say that they are writing on behalf of doctors and patients. [More…]

• That is another hoax which Senator Young and others of his type are perpetrating on the community. [More…]

• The average small man in this community, the average worker, the average artisan, does not own areas of land in such places and the $300 allowed will more than cover his rates and land taxes. [More…]

• Cigarettes are a dangerous commodity and they should not be used in this community. [More…]

• I think it must be acknowledged that along with this goes the responsibility of the Government to maintain in this community not only an ever increasing standard of living but also to increase benefits to those people in the lower Income areas and to see that jobs are available in the community. [More…]

• I believe that in general terms the Budget has been received with very little criticism from the Australian community. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that this Labor Government cannot carry out its program without greatly extending the direct ongoing cost to the community. [More…]

• One of the things that Labor proclaimed that it would not do was have class distinction in the community, but its socialist philosophy is leading the country directly into that situation. [More…]

• When it comes to water storage in this very dry country, it is my philosophy - indeed, I may be proved to be right one day - that in actual fact it is better to spend money on water schemes than on education, because those who may be very well educated in future years may find that they have not sufficient food or water to serve their needs within the Australian community. [More…]

• Although the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) has proposed that a prices and incomes policy is the only thing that is required in this community at the present time, it is my view that other things should be done. [More…]

• It affects the salary earners in the community, the pensioners, the unemployed and the dependent single parents in the community. [More…]

• They are wonderful things to be achieved in the community, but they presented to the general private sector of industry the great threat that unless large companies had the ability to meet these demands immediately they come to the companies would find themselves running out of business and they would be recreant to those who owned the companies. [More…]

• If Senator Gietzelt had any nous or understood what was happening in the community he would know what has taken place within the building industry. [More…]

• Labor wished greatly to accelerate the volume of home building but we do not have the resources in the community to meet that accelerated activity. [More…]

• We have debated in this chamber the question of the disaster which is being brought to bear on the community by a Government which is attempting to bring about class distinction, which it will do by denying to those schools which are supposed to be wealthy the right to receive any financial support. [More…]

• I believe that the dairying industry has been harder hit than any other industry in our community. [More…]

• There has been the increase in the rate of taxation on private companies which have been built up and which are the basis of ownership within the community. [More…]

• Small companies are able to reserve the benefits of their labours during the year, but if they have to pay 50 per cent undistributed profits tax after paying 471- per cent primary tax, it will be disastrous to the families and to the small companies which are manufacturing in the community. [More…]

• One can follow through and refer to the escalation in costs for every postal article to the average person in the community. [More…]

• With this escalation in postage rates the average person who wishes to use the services of this one Government department will have to bear the heaviest burden that has ever been placed on the community by any authority. [More…]

• But the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners, company taxation, the revision of taxation burdens, the home owner, its claim to come to government with malice towards none and its subsequent unfair discrimination against the rural community and its disregard of inflationary pressures and that this budget therefore deserves condemnation in the Senate as the budget of a government that has exposed itself as a government of double standards. [More…]

• lt is rather surprising to hear Opposition senators, who are not yet used to being the Opposition, talk about the great charges which the Labor Party has placed upon the community. [More…]

• I refer to what has been welcomed greatly by the community, namely, making sure that the repatriation artificial limb centres may be used by members of the community. [More…]

• After the legislation concerning this matter has passed through the Parliament, any person will be able to go into a repatriation limb appliance centre and obtain free treatment and free appliances fitted by people who are the most adept and the most experienced in this field, ls that not a great welfare service not only for ex-service people but also for other persons in the community? [More…]

• I said earlier that the Labor Party is trying to catch up with and meet the needs of the health sector and the welfare sector of the community. [More…]

• which is so unfair to the poorer people in the community. [More…]

• While it has been endeavouring to get a few bob out of a corner here and a few bob there, Ministers have been competing for the number of millions they can spend on projects many of which are of very doubtful value to the community. [More…]

• One has only to talk to people throughout the community to ascertain that the Government has offended many sectors of the community. [More…]

• He suggested the holding of a national conference involving all sectors of the community. [More…]

• On housing and community facilities - which incorporates the new urban affairs policy - the Government is increasing the expenditure to $41 lm. [More…]

• They cannot challenge the Government’s record and its proposal to spend those additional sums on the Australian community. [More…]

• I think that the task force was quite right in drawing the attention of the Parliament to the fact that claims by defence on community resources need to be scrutinised with more than usual care and that a reduction in those claims and a redistribution of them between domestic and overseas resources would be economically of great value to the Government’s financial and economic planning. [More…]

• Mr Johnson has taken the view that the way in which the scheme was being used was not in the interests of the community; it was not in the interests of better housing; that in any event the cost of housing was increasing as a result of the operation of the scheme, and that the public would be better served by that scheme being phased out and being replaced by the mortgage interest proposals and other proposals which the Minister has made energetic efforts to have implemented. [More…]

• The terms of reference make particular mention of the Croatian migrant community in Australia, but embrace also other migrant communities who have settled in this country. [More…]

• Both have given assurances to the Committee that they would be prepared at any time to receive and fully investigate claims made by members of the migrant community who feel that they have been subjected to pressure by agents or agencies of various foreign governments. [More…]

• I recall that when I was in England five or six years ago some members of the then British Labor Government said in regard to the European Economic Community negotiations that something had to be done about New Zealand, that they had to do something to help New Zealand. [More…]

• At least, that was so until the entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We all realise that our problems in the marketing of primary products have increased with the entry of Great Britain to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Its primary responsibility is to present a practical blueprint to bring to the community a policy ensuring stability of the economy, stability of prices, industrial peace, level of progressive taxation which ensures equity of burden, a sharing so that the underprivileged can be helped and a program which ensures the external security of the country. [More…]

• The Budget should be condemned, fourthly, because it is a vicious attack of spleen upon the whole rural community by a Government which knows that it gets no support from the rural community, and rightly so. [More…]

• Industrial relations in Australia under a Federal Labor Government would change for the better for the unions, employers and the general community,’ the Australian Council of Trade Unions President Mr Hawke said yesterday. [More…]

• If there is a major matter of complaint which could be directed to this Government, it is the complaint that the Government has taken over an economy which was in ship-shape condition and is letting it run down in such a way that there is apprehension in every quarter of the community as to what the future holds for it. [More…]

• There is an apprehension throughout the community as to where this Government is leading Australia in terms of its international commitments. [More…]

• We have had a host of economic decisions which have been made without regard to their impact on the community at large. [More…]

• away from the private sector, where their need is greatest, into the Public Service which is generally regarded as the non-productive arena in the community. [More…]

• As indicated in the amendment which Senator Withers moved in March of this year, we have had decisions taken in the area of revaluation which had an immediate impact, particularly upon the primary producing section of the community. [More…]

• At the time there was an outcry from the primary producers because they could see particular areas in which they would be offended, but the steps which have been taken subsequently, which directly and indirectly penalise the primary industry section of the community, are without parallel in the recent history of this country. [More…]

• The Security Service must be operated with secrecy in order properly to protect the community. [More…]

• It ought to be evident from what the honourable senator has referred to that the members of the Government, judged from their pronouncements last year while in Opposition and in the years before, and judged from the policy of the Australian Labor Party, believe in low interest housing for the ordinary people of this community. [More…]

• Some of these matters include the adequacy of rehabilitation units attached to or separated from community hospitals, the sufficiency or otherwise of professional personnel, training facilities existing or required in the various medical and paramedical fields, a team approach to rehabilitation assessment and treatment, compensationwhen it should be ascertained and on what medical and financial criteria- and the need for co-ordination between the many State and Federal departments that have a hand in rehabilitation and the many more voluntary and professional organisations working in this field to try to overcome overlapping, gaps and deficiencies. [More…]

• A major argument in favour of the retention of this clause is that it is an expressed statement to the international community. [More…]

• Without going into details about the work of a parliamentary committee of which I am a member, I point out that Mr Darby, a New South Wales Government MLA, has written a book on the back page of which he makes out a case, which he is fully entitled to do, about subversion in the community at large, and he goes on to say that many people have not had the benefit of British tradition. [More…]

• A man of the Ukranian community who gave evidence before a committee of this Parliament was highly indignant that people were suspicious of him because his name was not British in content. [More…]

• I know people in the Dutch community who suffered not merely nostalgia but the much deeper feeling that to obtain Australian citizenship they had to deplore, more or less in a general sense, that at one time they had owed allegiance to the Dutch royal family and to the then Queen Wilhelmina and all that sort of thing. [More…]

• I am trying to speak as a practical person, knowing that the ordinary man or woman in the community would say that Queen Elizabeth the Second is the Queen of Australia. [More…]

• But while the Government believes that it has support among the community for the form of the oath of allegiance to the Australian Constitution put forward in the Citizenship Bill, we have accepted the intent of the Senate amendment that was moved by Senator Davidson, I think, in June last in the spirit of compromise. [More…]

• I went to some pains to point out on the subject of renunciation the fact that citizenship within our community was a matter of some considerable seriousness and therefore it required a definite stand to be taken. [More…]

• The Minister surely would recognise that in the community today 700,000 people or more- a considerable part of the migrant community- have felt fit to become Australian citizens and have not been concerned about the fact that they had to renounce all other allegiance. [More…]

• Of course we have done it, and we have done it with the intention of ensuring that we have the best recruits for the Services from the outside community. [More…]

• Indeed the curtailment of the said grants will create divisions in the community. [More…]

• Having the right to postal and telephonic services is an extremely important matter and to be deprived of that right by some arbitrary political direction would not be in conformity with the civil liberties of the community. [More…]

• When the economy starts to reach this position of boom the Treasurer, as Treasurers whether in this country or any other country always do, seeks to curb the undesirable effects which might come by endeavouring to caution the community against the overheating of the economy and indulges in various measures to try to prevent that occurring so that the good times we are experiencing will continue. [More…]

• Is it intended to institute an Australian system of honours or awards for outstanding or meritorious community service, to take the place of royal honours awards which have been discontinued in Australia? [More…]

• Mr Snedden also said that beyond the consideration of the cooperation of governments, which was essential, one needed to be able to develop a total community co-operation, but that if governments were not doing that the community could not be asked to do so. [More…]

• The real question to be considered- the Budget debate will develop this matter further- is the strain which is being placed on the total resources of the community as a result of the Government’s action. [More…]

• We are utilising to the full the productive capacity of the community and seeking ways in which there might be higher productivity. [More…]

• I think that Senator Cotton made a valid point when he spoke about the measures to curb spending in the community. [More…]

• I do not think that anyone would suggest that high rates of interest in the community are desirable. [More…]

• It has been accepted in Australia for at least the last dozen years- I understand that it is generally acceptedthat one of the reasons for the softness in industry, for the lack of productivity in many areas and for the increases in prices which are unjustified has been the existence of certain trade practices in the community. [More…]

• But to say that there was an excessive slowing of economic activity- that means a loss of real wealth to the community- is a pretty heavy indictment. [More…]

• If the measures which are being taken, particularly in regard to interest rates and the increase in yields, have an effect on the interest rates of housing and so forth, that result would be most unpalatable to a Labor Government and would be introduced only in order to overcome a consequence which was worse to the Australian community. [More…]

• As I see it, it is a very serious matter and one which will have a great impact on certain sectors of the community. [More…]

• This will lead to a loss of employment in the Australian community. [More…]

• It may well lead industries to a diversity of production and perhaps a concentration on other and more profitable lines, and that is what must be done in this community. [More…]

• As Mr Hawke has said, it will lead to unemployment in this community. [More…]

• There will be no benefit of cheaper prices in the community. [More…]

• The opposite has been the effect in the Australian community so far as prices and the cost of goods are concerned. [More…]

• But unless an increase in interest rates is considered disastrous in the community, no moderate 1 per cent, 2 per cent or 3 per cent interest rate will ever deter a business from logically, in the requirements of its own affairs, having to borrow money for its particular on-going purposes, either of a revenue or capital purchase nature. [More…]

• It will be just an increase in costs so far as business is concerned, and I imagine that that cost will have to be passed on to the community. [More…]

• Does anybody doubt that its action of encouraging an increase in salaries, of increasing annual leave, of granting maternity leave and paternity leave and the hand-out of high and irresponsible levels of unemployment benefit did not encourage apathy in our community? [More…]

• It was desperate just prior to the last election to eliminate unemployment in the Australian community, unemployment that it had created by its fiscal policies. [More…]

• The simple fact is that it is the more affluent people in the community who can direct their savings into assets that are better protected against inflation. [More…]

• Because of the fear of what the purchasing power of the dollar might be in 3 months’ time there is a tendency in the community to get in now and spend up. [More…]

• People in the community believe that the value of the dollar now is better than it will be in 3 months’ time. [More…]

• The effect reaches the average person in our community although such people are in no position to take advantage of it, as perhaps are those with extreme wealth who can speculate on the market. [More…]

• At the same time it will advantage the retailers, the speculators and moneyed interests in the community. [More…]

• They can stimulate the circulation of money and credit within the community rather than deter it. [More…]

• I think that is the only way in which we are going to be able to reduce land prices and make land available to those young people who are desirous of owning their own home as well as restore in the community the chance to achieve the old ambition of everybody to own his own land and a home upon it. [More…]

• It is well to remind the Senate that we are debating an urgency motion brought forward by the Opposition because of its very great apprehension that the actions taken last weekend by the Labor Government, ostensibly in an antiinflationary way, will in fact do great future damage to the whole Australian community and, notably, to the ordinary family. [More…]

• It directed some 10,000 more people out of the private and productive sector of the community into the public and non-productive sector, therefore deliberately creating inflation. [More…]

• The effect of the increase will be to make goods, commodities and services in this community substantially dearer. [More…]

• It had a fiscal policy which was unpredictable in any section of the community. [More…]

• We have seen, as often has been debated in the Parliament, the effects of the thief inflation that takes away purchasing power, particularly that of those in the community who are least able to withstand the loss. [More…]

• I refer to those on fixed incomes, the aged and the invalid and other less fortunate people in the community. [More…]

• We have plans to retrain and educate people to new skills which they need to acquire in addition to skills taught in their early days and to reduce the number of unskilled people in our community. [More…]

• Because there is the possibility of importing goods which are manufactured in Australia, with our increasing costs and our domestic inflation, there has to be some balance in the amount of imports which we seek to place in our community. [More…]

• I would have thought that this policy would have been a very difficult one for the Government to accept as it has stated, and we would have felt, it had a sense of responsibility to provide the Australian community with lower cost housing or at least housing which can be achieved within the context of the present economy. [More…]

• Our welfare budget is the biggest in the history of Australia, and so it should be because that is our standard; that was our promise to the community. [More…]

• Our education budget is the biggest ever known to the community, and of course those welfare plans have an effect on the domestic economy. [More…]

• Those grounds were, firstly, because it abdicates its responsibility as an instrument of economics and aggravates inflation; secondly, because it breaks a whole series of promises made in the policy speech; thirdly, because it places its main burden of costs upon lower income families; fourthly, because it attacks the rural community; fifthly, because it dismantles the defences of this country; sixthly, because of its deceit and deception; and, seventhly, because, foreshadowed and presented as a document of great historic reform, it is, in fact, a gross anti-climax and a confidence trick. [More…]

• But when we come to the political program of the Government as set out in the GovernorGeneral ‘s Speech, we find that this is the major reference to the great economic crisis that faced Australia, the depth of which is now becoming so manifest to everybody and is affecting so cruelly the poor people in the community as a result of the now belatedly applied policies of the Government: [More…]

• The hard realities are having a disastrous effect on so many sections of the community. [More…]

• Today, every section of the Australian community has been antagonised by the Government. [More…]

• The Government, by bad administration, by irresponsible administration and by a lack of sympathetic consideration, has antagonised almost every section of the Australian community. [More…]

• I think that members of the Opposition are like a lot of other people in the community. [More…]

• Honourable senators, whether they reside in the great metropolitan areas of this country or on its rural slopes, will appreciate that there is a dire need in the community for social workers. [More…]

• Once again a despairing attitude has been shown in this regard by the Government’s opponents in the Parliament and by some people in the community at large. [More…]

• This is the type of operation which I believe any government aware of the thinking in the community should have accepted long ago. [More…]

• Funds made available to a community under these arrangements will be paid from the Aborigines Benefits Trust Fund to a local community fund to be administered by Aboriginal trustees for the benefit of the particular community. [More…]

• It will be for the local community to choose the trustees, to determine the purpose for which the funds may be used and to make such arrangements for the administration of the funds as they wish. [More…]

• The trustees will be accountable only to the local community for the expenditure of the money. [More…]

• The radiation doses to the Australian population from the nuclear tests are without benefit to the community which is inevitably exposed. [More…]

• The radiation doses received by that fraction of the Australian population x-rayed in tuberculosis case finding programs have had, as demonstrated by the effectiveness of the program to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis in Australia, real benefit to the public health of the community. [More…]

• At its meeting in June 1973, the Council noted that the great success of Australia’s antituberculosis campaign had been brought about largely by compulsory community-wide chest x-ray surveys and that programs had been varied generally in accordance with reduced case yield, with the minimum age for attendance being raised to 2 1 years and the interval between surveys being extended. [More…]

• I note that the Treasurer is in the habit of explaining carefully to various sections of the community what the Government’s economic policy is, and I do not think anything of significance can be drawn from what he said on that occasion. [More…]

• This involves a redistribution in the community. [More…]

• It is important to observe that this Government is setting about to see that the national income is dealt with in such a way that those sections of the community which would be hard hit by inflation have the inflationary effects mitigated. [More…]

• The cost of production cannot be ignored, and when considering that factor we cannot ignore the incessant demands from all sectors of the community for increased wages. [More…]

• The commodity of labour, which is the only commodity that the working man in our community has to offer, is under control. [More…]

• During the last election Labor’s approach to the people was on the basis of stopping handouts being given to political friends throughout the community, and we have been criticised for doing this. [More…]

• He is the only member of the community who has some control over his labour power at the present time. [More…]

• At end of motion add, ‘but the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners, company taxation, the revision of taxation burdens, the home owner, its claim to come to government with malice towards none and its subsequent unfair discrimination against the rural community and its disregard of inflationary pressures and that this budget therefore deserves condemnation in the Senate as the budget of a government that has exposed itself as a government of double standards*. [More…]

• Education is the most essential requirement in this day and age for our growing community. [More…]

• By distributing $843m we are removing the impossibility of the less privileged child in our community to receive the same education as children who went to category A schools and to higher schools. [More…]

• There would be very few needy sections in the community that the Government has not provided for in the Budget The Government has made a massive amount available for social service benefits in the areas of need. [More…]

• It intends to provide $3.2m for community recreation complexes. [More…]

• I point out to Senator Jessop, who spoke about the hostility of South Australians towards the manner in which they have been deprived of any additional benefits by the Budget, that 2 community recreation complexes already have been developed at Angle Park and Thebarton. [More…]

• Subsidies such as those on butter fat or wheat give to the wealthy and deprive the poorer sections of the community. [More…]

• I want to say to the Government that I am not against giving benefits to sections of the community. [More…]

• But the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners, company taxation, the revision of taxation burdens, the home owner, its claim to come to government with malice towards none and its subsequent unfair discrimination against the rural community and its disregard of inflationary pressures and that this Budget therefore deserves condemnation in the Senate as the Budget of a government that has exposed itself as a government of double standards’. [More…]

• We are not concerned with sectionalising the Australian community, which I am afraid has been so much the case in the past. [More…]

• I accept Senator DrakeBrockman ‘s comment that in that respect the rural community has been fortunate. [More…]

• Although it is politically dangerous, I suppose it is a fairly simple matter to say to certain sections of the community the sorts of things they want to hear. [More…]

• I do not want to dwell on the matter of defence, but it does bring to mind the fact that the subsidies which are alleged to have been taken from the rural community total something like $110m. [More…]

• But it also follows that if the Government is going to allocate part of the national resources to a particular section of the community it ought to do that with some purpose in mind. [More…]

• He went on to refer to the fact that the subsidy was not giving to the dairy farmer value for what the community as a whole was required to pay out from revenue. [More…]

• So it is not just a matter of playing the role of Father Christmas with public money; it is a matter of looking purposefully at what you want to do with the money and to assist in those areas of the community where the money will have the biggest impact. [More…]

• Of course, it would be foolish to suggest that the rural community does not always five under the problems of debt repayments. [More…]

• I do not believe for one moment that Senator Drake-Brockman ‘s expression is correct- that there is in the community great antagonism against this Government. [More…]

• We will continue this policy because we believe in the long run that it is in the interests of the Australian community as well as the rural community. [More…]

• We have no monopoly of concern, I am sure, in the community in regard to that. [More…]

• There was despair in the community and a lack of confidence. [More…]

• Many people in organisations which were as traditionally anti-Labor as the newspapers were, in public statements in the Press, said that things were so bad that confidence in the community had been destroyed and it was about time that there was a change of government. [More…]

• We are putting some thought into this serious problem that is in the community today. [More…]

• In the period January 1972 to June 1973 total costs of sub-division have risen to nowhere near the same extent that prices have and I can only conclude that profits which I believe the community would also consider exorbitant are being made. [More…]

• This increased cost must flow on to the community. [More…]

• It will be interesting for me to watch its development and the effect which it may have on consumer spending or community opinion or buyer resistance or any of those other factors which are, in real terms, simply attitudes. [More…]

• As I say, maybe it will be simply one of buyer resistance or community attitudes if publicity is given to decisions which show that price movements are not justified. [More…]

• The statement made by the Treasurer that the most important factor confronting us is persistent inflation would have led us to expect that it would be an inflation fighting Budget, but instead it is an inflation feeding Budget and is one which will add to the pressures in all sections of the community through the growth in the public sector of the 1 8.9 per cent which I mentioned. [More…]

• It is important to the Australian community that the development of child care centres be a program which protects the strength of the family and gives the children of the working mother an opportunity to develop at all stages of their emotional and educational needs. [More…]

• If a growth of i 8.9 per cent has the effect that inevitably it will have on the inflationary spiral in our community, surely a responsible government would have adopted priorities in respect to the implementation of some of the things that it regards as being important. [More…]

• I am proud to say that I represent the battier in the community of Australia. [More…]

• I have always maintained that each section of the community depends upon the other. [More…]

• It’s up to us to make country living a happy healthy way of life, with ample opportunities for our children by concerted community effort, rather than a politician ‘s bag of promises. [More…]

• The burden of the additional postage charges is currently being foisted upon the community at large. [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…]

• That is to say, without altering the rate, just by calling the bulldozer over the swelling incomes of persons in the community, the Government bulldozed into the Treasury an additional amount of $ 1,089m representing a cool, calm increment of 27 per cent. [More…]

• The significance of those figures that I have quoted, from the point of view of evaluating the relative primary industry income today, can be gauged from the fact that in 1 950-5 1 the incomes of other sections of the community were of the order of $ 1,000m or $2,000m-I forget whichbut in 1 97 1 the figure had risen to $ 1 8,078m. [More…]

• We can see how absolutely flat and declining until this year were the incomes of the farm community. [More…]

• At the same time secondary industry and manufacturing elements in the community were enjoying fat, handsome and increasing incomes. [More…]

• If one looks at that same review- what I am about to say is confirmed in yesterday’s review- one will find that the indebtedness of the farming section of the community grew in the last decade. [More…]

• In the report of rural credit it is all very well to say that it is not an excessive amount having regard to the assets held by the farm community. [More…]

• The farmers of the community ought to remind this Government of the complete betrayal which they have received. [More…]

• Where the Government sees production making wealth for the community it disadvantages that production. [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 co-operation of all sections of the community, and upon the force of public opinion. [More…]

• I am one of those people who believe that the tiddling methods- that is all they areadopted by the Government to try to curb the effects that result from a large section of the community doing its utmost to break down the economy by unreasonable and impossible demands will fail. [More…]

• The intention is to publicise government activities so that a wide cross-section of the Australian community will become aware of its rights, entitlements and responsibilities, the Government’s responsibilities, how those responsibilities are being fulfilled and the overall functions of government insofar as they relate to the Australian people. [More…]

• It will be principally for the purpose of making people aware of the problems of other people within the community, rather than of allowing these problems to be swept under the carpet as appears to have been the practice for far too long. [More…]

• Throughout the world continuing comprehensive reports were required by all sections of the media on the brisk moves of the new Labor Government; for instance, the abolition of national service, revaluation of the dollar, recognition of the People’s Republic of China, the establishment of diplomatic relations with the German Democratic Republic and North Vietnam, Australia’s stand on the French nuclear testing in the Pacific, the subsequent finding by the International Court of Justice and the effects of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We all talk about community centres. [More…]

• It is all very well to set up 2 community health centres in Canberra and say: ‘We will run them.’ [More…]

• I now turn to the community health system which has been established in Canberra. [More…]

• When it was decided to set up these 2 community health centres, the idea was that one would be run by private doctors and the other would be run under a salaried or nationalised scheme. [More…]

• Advertisements have been placed for more doctors for the nationalised community health centre because the doctors in that centre have to see only one patient every 20 minutes. [More…]

• I am not in a position to say what further action may or may not be taken but I am quite sure that the overall interests of the Australian community will be taken into account should the Government decide to do anything. [More…]

• The irresponsibility of the Government demonstrated in its failure to give the community a fair and honest deal on the issue of inflation. [More…]

• The irresponsibility of the Government demonstrated in its failure to give the community a fair and honest deal on the issue of inflation. [More…]

• In the middle of last year, because we did have a need to restore confidence in the community, because there was a need to give a stimulus to consumer spending, because there was a need to reduce the rate of unemployment and because with all of this we had to limit or avoid any significant increase in Government expenditure, steps were taken in the last Budget which were designed to improve the flow of money throughout the community. [More…]

• During the 5 -year period from June 1966 to June 1971 the volume of money in the community increased at the annual average rate of 7.7 per cent. [More…]

• The amount of money in the community increased at that average rate over a 5-year period. [More…]

• All this flows from a basic concern by people in the community that they cannot see the end of inflation and they cannot see in government action any real prospect of an end to it. [More…]

• All of this is against a background in the business community in which there is a demanding, by those who have money to lend, of higher interest rates. [More…]

• Throughout the wage earning community we have the natural anxiety which leads to wage claims being made on the assumption that unless wage demands are made and unless increased wages are obtained the wage earners will be left behind as prices rise around them. [More…]

• We have 4 weeks annual leave granted to all public servants, with the intention, as the Government has acknowledged from time to time, that this should become the norm throughout the community. [More…]

• We have 13 weeks maternity leave granted to female public servants before and after their confinement, with the same intention on the part of the Government that this standard should apply throughout the community. [More…]

• In addition to that, we have had the promise of a reduced working week which will be applied in the Public Service in the hope that it will be the pace setter and that the principle will be applied throughout the community generally. [More…]

• Again, this is meant to be the standard to apply throughout the community. [More…]

• But Senator Greenwood is tremendously worried about another section of the community. [More…]

• The retailing section provides a service to the community; it does not produce more goods to meet the demand that exists. [More…]

• Members of the community are not as unintelligent as some members of Parliament try to make them out to be. [More…]

• What greater inducement can they have than that the Government is on the one hand pledging that it will not increase taxation and, on the other, making extravagant promises that it will spread a lot of new incomes among the community, that it will expand ministries enormously and will employ a whole new field of labour which is not producing any goods to meet the market demands? [More…]

• If it will go so far forward and then step backwards because Mr Hawke tells it that his section of the community- and it is a very important section- will not co-operate, then the Government must be strong enough to reject Mr Hawke and his advice or it must accept the responsibility that it cannot contain inflation. [More…]

• The responsibility of the Government demonstrated in its failure to give the community a fair and honest deal on the issue of inflation. [More…]

• Secondly, such a subversive organisation would by its action take thousands of people out of the productive and manufacturing sector of the community where goods are made and transfer them into the public service which is a non productive area. [More…]

• Finally, as a sixth test, in a form of lunacy unless it were deliberately subversive, an organisation would raise interest rates generally because a substantial rise in interest rates will cause a substantial and significant rise the price of every commodity in the community. [More…]

• What is recognised by most people is that inflation is the greatest problem facing the Australian community. [More…]

• It will mean an increase in cost to the community. [More…]

• This Government is out to enrich itself at the expense of the whole Australian community. [More…]

• There has been a lot of talk but very little, if any, action on the part of the reactionary forces in this community. [More…]

• In a desperate attempt to plug the crack, 4 months before the last election, last year the previous Government pumped dollar after dollar into the community by spending money here, there and everywhere as if it was bidding at an auction sale. [More…]

• Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDDespite what Senator Wright might be trying to say by way of interjection, the price of land has spiralled out of all proportion to the value of wages and salaries in the Australian community. [More…]

• The prices of meat and potatoes were not affected by the wage and salary structure of this community but they are all pan of the consumer price index. [More…]

• We have set up the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Prices and I have been told by the Chairman of that Committee that despite the disparaging remarks of the people on the other side, the Committee not only has worked very hard, as we all know, but that it has a great effect on the community generally and has frightened off a number of large enterprises which wanted to put up prices. [More…]

• All the speculators and the people in the community who are not the traditional merchants and operators are out to make a quick dollar. [More…]

• If we talk about fixed prices for people generally- for workers in the community and for the average people in the community- they say: We will not give you the power. [More…]

• If we go into the wider areas, I think the matter could become more contentious in the community. [More…]

• However, there is another section of the community which has to be called upon to play its part also. [More…]

• They believe in straightout negotiation with the bosses on the basis that they share the cake between them and the interests of the rest of the community are not to be regarded. [More…]

• An over-demand is created if there is wealth in the community and if few commodities are available. [More…]

• You do that by taking the purchasing power away from a section of the community so that it is unable to buy. [More…]

• Perhaps the plea did not come from the Government but the information from my Whip was that every endeavour should be made, at the request of the Government, to pass those measures because the computer is waiting ready to process material in order that pensioners and others in this community could receive their just due. [More…]

• They have not gone any higher than other prices in the community. [More…]

• There is a lack of co-operation at a national level between the trade union movement, the community and government in the way in which we should seek to work together to arrest this inflationary spiral. [More…]

• In spite of the threat of death to those who either sold or bought at prices in excess of the maximum, and to those who withheld goods from the market rather than trade at the prices prescribed, a black market developed; the business community demurred; the edict had to be withdrawn. [More…]

• But a sensible government conscious of its responsibilities towards inflation would take counter steps at the same time to cushion the inflationary aspect of spreading an enormous amount of new purchasing power amongst the deprived section of the community. [More…]

• Perhaps it was reckless in the promises it made to the community to enable it to be elected to office. [More…]

• Whether that balance of power of 3 in the Labor Caucus necessarily illustrates that the Australian nation is getting what it hoped it would get when the Labor Party was elected to office- that is, the control of inflationary tendencies in the community, and at least control the ones which it has added in the period in which it has been in office- is another question. [More…]

• We will not bebrow beaten into accepting a futile and stupid propositionas something that will solve or make any contribution towards solving the problem of inflation in the community, especially when the leaders of the Party which has introduced the Bill have made public statements to substantiate ourcondition. [More…]

• Speaking of all sections of the community and not blaming just one section of the community, I suggest that we can never get away from that old fashioned idea of good, hard, honest toil. [More…]

• While there are those conditions, while there is that kind of industrial chaos, surely it is elementary that there must be rising prices and inflationary conditions, and the whole community must suffer because of it. [More…]

• The fact is that for the good of the whole community it is vitally necessary that savings bank deposits and superannuation pensions retain their value. [More…]

• In essence, this Bill is an endeavour to create a new direction for the Australian community. [More…]

• In addition to hitting the housewife, in the last few months inflation has severely hit the home buyer, the home builder, the small businessman and has very severely hit the rural community and the person who is attempting to build up some quantity of savings. [More…]

• Yet, it gave many voluntary agencies within our community the ability to establish their own services and, through their own endeavour and considerable assistance from Government, to provide services required for the people and not be crippled by galloping inflation. [More…]

• The dissident community in the Soviet has been subjected to house searches and close surveillance and has seen its members dismissed from jobs, arrested, tried and committed to mental institutions or prisons. [More…]

• What he does not tell us is that their rate of malignant neoplasms, their rate of illness of that kind, has been substantially lower than the same average cross section of people in the rest of the community. [More…]

• Remember that the French are a potent force in the European Economic Community and that in 4 years’ time or less we must have our exports to that Community reviewed. [More…]

• But we cannot be sure that the exporter will not pass some of that tax on to his customer in the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom, or in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In the final analysis such a tax would be highly selective in its effect upon individual operators, areas of rural production, States and the country community. [More…]

• They involve legislation which will be of benefit to certain people in the community and to which the Opposition is not opposed. [More…]

• There are unmarried mothers and other members of the community who certainly are entitled to some security. [More…]

• Alternatively, they are a recognition by the community generally that people should be given security in their old age. [More…]

• I am equally certain that social security benefits, other than those paid to people in retirement, should nonetheless be directed primarily to encouraging people to resume as soon as possible their full productive role within the community. [More…]

• As I have stressed previously, rather they should provide a means by which people can maintain their normal family life during periods of personal difficulty or, alternatively, provide a means by which people have an opportunity to learn some skill that will assist them in making their way and contributing to the community generally. [More…]

• I am equally sure that 99.9 per cent of Aborigines wish to make use of their skills and abilities, not only for their own benefit but also for the benefit of the community generally. [More…]

• As I said earlier, I believe that all people are entitled to some security but I stress again that it should be only to help them over an unhappy period so that they can once again become contributing members of the community. [More…]

• If the Government allocates resources, as we have heard, by deciding to pay some millions of dollars for some work of art when the less fortunate in the community should be gaining some benefit, then some of us take objection to such allocation. [More…]

• We all earnestly hoped that the community could earn sufficient to pay enough in taxation to allow the basic pension rate to rise to 25 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• But I believe that the unemployment benefit being offered by this Government is not in the interests of the community at the present time. [More…]

• Indeed 12 months ago the greatest criticism was being levelled at the former Administration because at that time there was in excess of 100,000 unemployed people in the community. [More…]

• Here we have a degrading situation in which the Government that has been elected by the people has got rid of its unemployment problem by putting those people on its own payroll for the rest of the community to keep. [More…]

• The fact is that the Opposition is most anxious that this Bill be passed and for the benefit to be handed to members of the community. [More…]

• He went on to criticise those people in the community who, because of the availability of social service benefits, continued to receive the benefits and not to become employed. [More…]

• I believe that no community anywhere feels more under a responsibility to carry out its obligation to look after its fighting men than Australia feels. [More…]

• I thoroughly approve that people in the community, not necessarily ex-servicemen, are receiving artificial limbs from repatriation hospitals and from artificial limb and appliance centres. [More…]

• The increased allowances will be welcomed in a community in which many pensioners no doubt will suffer as a result of the increased cost of living. [More…]

• Another matter which pleases me greatly is the fact that artificial limbs are to be provided free from repatriation artificial limb and appliance centres to all amputees in the community who need them. [More…]

• I have advocated this policy because civilian members of the community who are amputees are in very serious financial difficulty. [More…]

• I can recall that about 5 years ago I wrote to Mr Wentworth, who was the Minister for Social Services at the time, as well as to the then Ministers for Repatriation and Health and suggested that there could well be a conference of the 3 ministries to determine some means of making available the facilities of the artificial limb sections of the Department of Repatriation to civilian people in the community who are very seriously handicapped. [More…]

• I suppose that every honourable senator in this chamber who is related in any way to the community knows of many young people who were in the national service and who were injured in some way or suffered some disability in some way but who were not covered by repatriation benefits and were very seriously disadvantaged. [More…]

• It is a travesty to think that a government could take those people out of the community, select them by ballot as previous governments did and put them into situations where they suffered injury and then left them to the mercy of the waves, as it were. [More…]

• At the moment they get very little in the way of compensation, if they are to carry on their normal functions in the community. [More…]

• So we have 2 streams of inflation, the recent interest rate levels throughout the community and a warning to people that they had better get in before the freeze because by the Christmas period we will have an inflationary rise of 20 per cent and higher. [More…]

• Indeed, the confusion caused by the Government’s indecisiveness has been so great that the Prime Minister has lost credibility not only within his own Party but also within the Australian community. [More…]

• There is in the community today a lack of confidence, and this situation has not been helped by the vicious attack made in South Australia during the weekend by the Prime Minister on the finance and business community. [More…]

• There is general confusion within the community in relation to the Government’s policies. [More…]

• Before the Ministers had time to develop a shine on their trousers from their new seats people in the community were warning that some Government actions would lead to uncontrollable galloping inflation. [More…]

• Indeed the curtailment of the said grants will create divisions in the community. [More…]

• Does this not clearly show that this Government places a higher priority on a painting than it does on water for a community and also show the contemptuous disregard it has for the urgent needs and rights of South Australia? [More…]

• The most serious matter presently facing the Australian community is the inflation rate. [More…]

• In that respect, and in respect of the economic management of this country, the Labor Party has shown that all it can do is bring the Australian community to disaster, particularly in relation to the depreciation of our money and the inflationary trend that we have. [More…]

• I agree with Senator Marriott that if the people are to be asked to make a decision on this matter- in view of what could happen, the speculation in the community and the untoward, indefensible and rapid increases in prices in anticipation of the vote on the referendum which might ultimately result in the control of prices- it. [More…]

• The ordi nary”’ citizens in the community are entitled to know, if a proposal for a referendum is advanced, .exactly ‘ what is envisaged by the Government I’ believe that that requires Senator Murphy^ describe what he believes the word paces’ means. [More…]

• I ask the Government to advise the people interested in this matter what is embraced by the Word ‘prices’ and what is envisaged by the Government by proposing to put to them that prices throughout the whole Australian community ‘should be controlled by the Federal Government. [More…]

• I put on record in Hansard what I believed would happen as a result of the great rate at which the Government was pushing money into the community. [More…]

• I referred to the fact that it was not objecting to inordinate wage rises in certain sectors of the community and to the granting of extreme benefits in the Public Service, such as an extra week;’s annual leave which would have to flow on to the private sector by the end of this year. [More…]

• These things meant that the major employer in the community- the private sector- would have to prepare in order to have some reserve in hand to meet the loadings at the end of this year. [More…]

• The greatest catalyst of inflation in the community is the demand for housing. [More…]

• One of the greatest problems in the community at the moment is said to be the high cost of land. [More…]

• It is a fair thing to ask what has been the result of the Government’s action in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory because it is very likely that this will be what will happen in the whole of the Australian community if the Government is given this power. [More…]

• Can one imagine in the whole of the Australian community if rents were brought under control by this Government- which they would be under a prices requirement- what type of administration would be set up for appeals when the Government at a flash raised interest rates to 9.5 per cent? [More…]

• As I see it, the general basis upon which trading is done in this community- I sincerely hope that private enterprise will remain in existenceis under threat by this Government. [More…]

• If ever there has been a threat to the private investment sector of the community, it is coming from this Labor socialist Government at the present time. [More…]

• What have we seen in relation to meat and the rural community? [More…]

• It is saying that it will see that the price of meat is depressed and held so that meat will be made available more cheaply to the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government will not use it fairly in the interests of the community. [More…]

• The anti-defence spirit spread throughout certain members of the community who, as I said before, were influenced by propaganda which the Government of the day did not resist sufficiently. [More…]

• But what honourable senators opposite are posing to me is that the Government, in this day and age when it is spending huge amounts on welfare and on improvements to Service standards- to which Senator McManus gave some supportwhen it is trying to catch up on the lack of welfare provisions in the Services and in the community generally, and when it is providing additional educational facilities, should increase the defence expenditure above the amount which was granted by past governments. [More…]

• But it is a war on poverty, hunger, need, want, rapacity and all those things which are evident in the Australian community and beyond. [More…]

• We were criticised from time to time- I do not say by the Labor Party, because 1 forget its criticismsby elements in the community who said that we were not spending enough of the people’s money. [More…]

• Indeed, the previous Government used these arguments so consistently, and with such support from the Press and other similar ill-informed circles in the Australian community, that they were able to hang on to office for a very long time. [More…]

• There is no possibility of these 2 unfortunate men paying $4,000 unless it is raised by the local Chinese community or by public subscription in Western Australia. [More…]

• It is too much to expect Penh’s small Chinese community to raise such a large sum, so this calls for virtual sympathy from the Australian community. [More…]

• If the Government is not prepared to remit the fines and allow them to return home to their families whom they have not seen for many months because they are being held in AustraliaI think it would not be beyond the bounds of reasonableness for the Commonwealth to do this- at least it should let them out of gaol and allow them to lead ordinary lives among their own community, which has been looking after them. [More…]

• The Australian community generally has seen fit to befriend them and help them. [More…]

• That shows how entirely dissociated from the complaints of the average person in the community he has become. [More…]

• One receives complaints and expressions of concern from many genuine people in the community and even today I am unable quite clearly to elucidate just what is the level of justice achieved in the House of Representatives and what level of injustice remains. [More…]

• It affects a tremendous number of people throughout the community. [More…]

• I suggest to the Government that it may have made a mistake if it wants a more informed community. [More…]

• The Post Office is not used equally by the community, although its services benefit all, and only those who use the facilities pay the tax. [More…]

• It is only by continual agitation that we can hope to achieve any results which can be of benefit to the 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…]

• If we want the Post Office to be a business undertaking and to be run as a government business undertaking we cannot say that it has to carry the burden of these subsidies that go to various sections of the community. [More…]

• It is recognised that a telephone service is valued by all sections of the community and it is not appropriate to perpetuate this difference in rentals. [More…]

• This makes for community spirit and creates community knowledge, and this is an important matter in smaller centres. [More…]

• It is good to see community spirit develop in the various areas and very often the newspaper is the focal point of this development. [More…]

• Therefore newspapers can be very much the lifeblood of a community. [More…]

• Probably the Government can have a soft heart sometimes, and I think this is one of the things at which the Government can look quickly and take action expeditiously in the hope that this valued newspaper, which is providing a very great service to the fine community of Innisfail in North Queensland, can be saved and allowed to continue. [More…]

• It is the lifeblood of a community. [More…]

• I indicate my concern at the widespread community reaction to the Government’s proposed telegraph charges under the Post and Telegraph Rates Bill, and Post and Telegraph Regulations Bill and the Post and Telegraph Bill. [More…]

• Those honourable senators who were privileged to be members of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in its inquiry into all aspects of broadcasting and television have come in contact with the role which the Post Office plays in postal services as we understand them, its relationship to the media and its widespread activities in and involvement with the Australian community. [More…]

• So the Post Office not only becomes a commercial organisation but, because it is involved in a huge spread of community activity, also becomes very much a social organisation. [More…]

• Leaving aside any interest which one may have in journals of this kind, I draw the attention of the Minister to the valuable part which this kind of Press plays in our total community life. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/senate/1973/19730927_senate_28_s57/#subdebate-57-0)

• I draw his attention to the leading article in the latest edition of ‘Australian Presbyterian Life’, a journal which is circulated throughout Australia and which is not without influence not only on the religious aspects but also the educational and community aspects of Australian life. [More…]

• Their closure or reduction in standard and style will be a real blow not only to our quality of life but also to the whole tenor of Australian life, including community life, decentralisation and all the other areas which the Government has talked about so easily and free- ly. [More…]

• One of the things which helps the social welfare program of any nation is the ability of various organisations and sections of our community to communicate not only with their supporters, members, friends or other organisations but, more particularly, with the community at large. [More…]

• There seems to me to be grave discrimination against certain sections of the community. [More…]

• In addition, what concerns me greatly is that these adjustments caused by metrication conceal what will be a severe additional burden upon the Australian community in the postal area. [More…]

• It has long been felt that the community interest warrants preferential treatment in regard to books printed in Australia, not only for economic reasons but also as I have indicated during the course of my remarks, for social and educational reasons. [More…]

• I ask the Government to adhere to the pledge it has given and to explain to the Senate why it has felt it necessary to place these additional charges upon sections of the community which can ill afford to carry them and upon groups which are endeavouring to serve the Australian community not only in terms of education and community welfare but also in terms of the important matters of growth and national development. [More…]

• The heaviest impact of these increases falls on the rural sector of the community. [More…]

• The proposed increases in postal rates will affect the rural sector far more than any other sector in the community. [More…]

• I ask the responsible Minister to see whether he can give special consideration to a newspaper that is providing a service to a very deserving section of our community. [More…]

• It is regrettable that these further charges are being imposed at a time when inflation, which has been caused by the activities of the Labor Government, has put the business community, and indeed the Australian economy, in quite a plight. [More…]

• When the business community has to meet these increased charges, this will add very substantially to the rate of inflation. [More…]

• Who would want to see them increased in this community? [More…]

• I note that since the moving of this motion by Senator Hannan members of the Labor Party have signed a petition in somewhat similar terms to go to Russia; therefore there does appear to be a community of thought. [More…]

• It is certainly of such a character as not only would justify but also would impel people such as ourselves here in the Senate speaking, as I believe we can, on behalf of the Australian community to express condemnation. [More…]

• It creates a fear throughout the community. [More…]

• The greatest fear of the aged is that of being incapable of just doing things for themselves, and the loss of their cherished independence rapidly erodes the dignity of their life style; a dignity which should be fostered by the community and not destroyed. [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…]

• 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…]

• Indeed, this present measure is a generously improved program to what has gone before but still 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…]

• If there were any apprehension it would be felt by persons in the community who are engaging in practices which have been condemned, I think even by the previous Government, over the past 10 years. [More…]

• I refer to the restrictive practices which are rife in the community and which were condemned, I think, by Sir Garfield Barwick back in the early 1960s and by most of his successors since, although they do not seem to have done very much about them. [More…]

• I know that there are interests in the community which would have the whaling station closed. [More…]

• I think it can be said that the assistance afforded by the subsidy over the years has been of very widespread benefit to the farming community. [More…]

• It is proposed to introduce legislation, in effect, to implement the international covenant on civil and political rights and to take whatever other legislative measures are open to us to ensure that women are given equal status in this community. [More…]

• In answer to the honourable senator because it comes within my sphere, if necessary I will institute whatever proceedings are available against the administrative authorities in this community to see that the discrimination ceases. [More…]

• It is clear to everyone that there is a system of conciliation and arbitration in this community. [More…]

• If the Government wishes to do what it has done on so many occasions in the past, that is, try to hold to ransom sections of the community so it can say that the Senate is holding up its legislation, then it should let us know and we will have a fight. [More…]

• With every good endeavour we have set up systems and organisations to assist the betterment of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• We would be doing a great disservice to the Aboriginal community if we allowed these allegations to go unanswered. [More…]

• Obviously this is not the way to assist the Aboriginal community; rather it would give Aborigines complete inferiority complexes. [More…]

• No one in this community should try to blame Mr Bryant. [More…]

• The Pre-incorporation Committee of the Willowra Aboriginal Community received $325,000. [More…]

• The Kildurk Aboriginal Community received $829,000. [More…]

• He said that he had tried to introduce some progressive innovations in Aboriginal affairs to the benefit of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The question is whether the same treatment that is afforded the working man today should be extended to other sections of the community. [More…]

• If so, what action does the Government intend to take to preserve our nation’s integrity in the eyes of the international community? [More…]

• There is a tendency to blame the Federal Government for everything that goes wrong in the community. [More…]

• But, going further, we find that brucellosis can have a very detrimental effect on the public health of the community. [More…]

• When one goes about the community and talks to farmers one finds that they believe, because of what Opposition members have been telling them, that the tax is already on. [More…]

• The community should not have to subsidise meat consumers and producers. [More…]

• This, of course, will be detrimental not only to the beef producers but also to the community of Australia as a whole. [More…]

• Senator Lawrie has repeated the cry, which is attempted to be spread throughout the community, that our Government has an anti-rural policy. [More…]

• I am telling honourable senators opposite that we believe the members of the farming community and particularly the beef producers will accept the proposition that .6c per lb is to be diverted and directed towards the continuation of a highly effective and efficient eradication scheme for the suppression of bovine tuberculosis and also the hunting down, isolating, quarantining and eradication of contagious abortion- brucellosis. [More…]

• Here we have an elected Government which, certainly in the view of the Opposition, has taken financial action against the interests of various sections of the community. [More…]

• It is imposing various restrictions on industries and individuals in the community. [More…]

• Where the Government is demanding income from a particular sector of the community generally the view of the Opposition is that while we express opposition to some aspects we feel that the proposals j ust cannot be opposed as there is a need in some instances for the legislation to flow through the Senate so that the Government can perform in the way it sees best. [More…]

• In the interests of seeing that we are free of disease in any particular area perhaps the whole community could have some share from a national point of view. [More…]

• The previous Government, with a more lenient attitude, at least ensured that some concession applied to those individuals in the community, those battlers, who had to borrow money in order to exist as they wished to exist, to have control of their own affairs and to live the rural life if they wished to do so. [More…]

• It troubles me to think that the Labor Party would speak with a total voice in opposition to the rural community. [More…]

• We are not going to perpetuate policies of sec.tionalising the Australian community and playing the rural people off against the urban people. [More…]

• We will not follow the practice of playing one section of the Australian community off against the other and that is why we have done so much and taken great initiatives in the areas of health, education and social security in this Budget, steps which will be of benefit to all Australians. [More…]

• The Bill also provides that the vehicle for this emergence is the National Library which has already rendered such considerable service to the Australian community and will continue to provide it in future. [More…]

• As early as the making of the Constitution the people of Australia recognised that industrial disputes sometimes go beyond the borders of States and affect the whole of the community. [More…]

• After 18 months of failure to resolve the matter, perhaps it was not unreasonable that a suggestion should be made that the highest arbitral body in the community be asked to provide one of its distinguished members in order to reach a solution of the dispute. [More…]

• One thing is quite obvious, that steps may need to be taken to tighten liquidity in the community and this creates problems right across the board. [More…]

• Overall the Government is doing everything it possibly can to help the children, the lower income earners, the pensioners and those in our community who need assistance. [More…]

• I present also the report on the survey of interpreting and translating needs in the community dated October 1973. [More…]

• There was land which was held by various defence units and it was considered that for the reasonable development of a city such as Darwin and in the best interests of the people and the community generally some of these installations should be moved. [More…]

• No senator would object to the fact that a Federal government or a State government should have the right to acquire land for the interests of the community it serves- and I emphasise that point- the community it serves. [More…]

• But the people generally throughout Australia, noticing what has happened in the Northern Territory and being alerted that they may have to follow in the footsteps of those in this area to the southeast of Darwin city, are particularly concerned that at any stage the socialist Labor Government, purporting to act in the interests of the community, may acquire great tracts of land. [More…]

• I have emphasised that the type of operation into which this Federal Government has entered throughout Australia is perhaps a sign of what a socialist government really believes is in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• It intends to impose upon private individuals, without consulting them in relation to the matter, what it believes is in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• I suggest to the honourable senator that any elected member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council has a right to listen to arguments and advice of individuals, no matter which section of the community they are in, and to put that view to the Council. [More…]

• I think that the interests of those who may wish to protect the human rights of individuals in this community are very much lost on a socialist Labor Government. [More…]

• I mean, why should you receive this rather than the community in general, since it is community growth which is responsible for the increased value? [More…]

• I would have been disappointed if I had been a speculator and found that I was to be restrained in the interests of the rest of the’ community. [More…]

• When we are in the position of government I think we should err on the side of generosity to people who are inconvenienced in the interests of the rest of the community, because the community is big enough to be generous. [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 makes provision not only 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…]

• Principal and staff of the Darwin Community College. [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 also of the whole community. [More…]

• It will ensure 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…]

• While many of these people do not obtain permanent employment in outside industry, it means that they do not become wholly isolated from the community. [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 priorities 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 then that was tough luck; they missed out altogether. [More…]

• 1 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 support so that the service 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 decision making 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…]

• It produces a great deal of social tension and economic distortion in the community. [More…]

• There is a basic disunity right throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• There appears to be an attempt- at a time when nothing else is of much interest to the public- to interfere with the free flow of commerce in our community. [More…]

• The effect of that legislation has been of some harm to the community, much as people who have knowledge of what is taking place in commerce today might not recognise the fact. [More…]

• There will be Advisory Boards of the Schools Commission to ensure that there is a constant representation to the Commission of community views and vice versa. [More…]

• There should be a recognition not only of the essentially human factors involved in employer-employee associations and the need for self-fulfilment in what can be routine, uninteresting and time consuming daily vocations, but also of the mutual dependence of every person in our community on the work contribution of other members of the community. [More…]

• Sections of the work force cannot isolate themselves from the balance of the community and feel that their actions in their own area can have no effect upon other persons who depend upon them for so much of their daily subsistence. [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…]

• The supply of those services and goods must be maintained so that the general affluence of the community can be maintained for all. [More…]

• But equally we believe that if the processes of arbitration fail, there is a community interest which must be protected. [More…]

• If employer and employee organisations want to fight out their difficulties in the public arena so that the co community at large suffers, a responsible government ought to have the type of system which will enable such conflicts, if not to be prevented in inception, at least to be brought to resolution as quicklyly as is possible. [More…]

• It also involves keeping our community as a community so that people can enjoy the services which sophisticated technology provides. [More…]

• Accordingly, the community suffers for weeks, until either the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions or plain commonsense comes to bear and brings the dispute to an end. [More…]

• The grim statistical record prompts the question: Do the unions have to pursue their industrial aims at the cost of such huge losses for the whole of the community? [More…]

• Although the strike in this regard was centred in Sydney it had its impact right throughout the community. [More…]

• It is for the benefit of all of us to see a healthier and more economically sound labour force in the community and to see that conditions are provided for working men and women so that they will be interested in their work and have genuine enjoyment, or as much as there can be, in a life which they must spend gaining income for themselves or their families. [More…]

• The very health of the business community is entirely wrapped up in the satisfaction of the worker. [More…]

• It is entirely tied to the growing economic health of the average working person in the community. [More…]

• I believe that such decisions should always be made in the context of changes in general costs in the community, costs which are related not only to the worker himself or to the community, as they may be found in government, but also to industry and the productivity that may be available from technological advances in industry. [More…]

• I have found that most employees in the community are as keen to see sound industrial relationships created with the employer, as are most employers, whether in government or in private industry, keen to see that the employee is well satisfied with his lot in life. [More…]

• The worker today has the opportunity to be a proud home owner, to take great pride in the development of his own ambitions in home ownership, and indeed to take an interest in areas of community life well beyond that of his own employment. [More…]

• It is only by a welding of both of their interests that we are able to see a degree of progress in the community. [More…]

• The reasons seemed quite logical, of course, with Labor being close to the worker, as it professes to be, and having knowledge of his problems, and with Mr Clyde Cameron foreseeing that as Minister for Labour he would control problems in the community because of the understanding that would exist between the Government and the labour force generally. [More…]

• The other day I noted the figures- I do not have them at hand- for hours, wages and production lost in the community during the 9 months of Labor Government, and in my view they are tragic. [More…]

• They are tragic for the worker and for sound business management and they certainly are tragic for the people who are involved in gaining the only real wealth of income in this community, that is, export income. [More…]

• That is the only new money that is generated in the community so that all sectors of our economy may survive. [More…]

• One could say generally that the economic health of this community has been impaired a great deal in the last 9 months under Labor, and it certainly has relevance to the suggestion that the Labor Government would be anxious to see the disappearance of many of the provisions in our conciliation and arbitration laws. [More…]

• Some people may not read it this way, but certainly it is the view of some of the more studious people in the community, I believe, that the very fact of promoting and suggesting that there should be control of incomes must leave it open for whatever type of government happens to be in power at any time to see to the elimination of the conciliation and arbitration courts of this country [More…]

• The more we produce highly educated members of the community the more we can forget about the myth that a trade union secretary or an Australian Council of Trade Unions chieftain is able completely to dominate a particular organisation. [More…]

• The point I am making is that in a more highly educated community the dogma that Jack is as good as his master applies. [More…]

• But whatever the dispute is on the job, if the shop stewards can rectify it without reporting it to the union and causing an upheaval they are doing a service to the union, to the employer, to the industry and to the community. [More…]

• They are possibly doing a more noble job than any other section of the community. [More…]

• If every little dispute between an employer and an employee had to be settled by a decision of lawyers we would not have enough lawyers in the community to decide the questions. [More…]

• We say that the parties should be encouraged to get together and that if they do get together- as, by the way, Senator, they get together throughout the business community, and this is something we will have to consider when other legislation such as the restrictive trade practices legislation - [More…]

• I assure the honourable senator and the Senate that the last thing the Government wants to be prevailing in the community is high interest rates. [More…]

• On other occasions other honourable senators have stood up and asked why the ‘Little Red School Book’ or some other book was allowed to circulate in the community. [More…]

• In Canberra senators are called upon to meet deputations in what I will call the working hours of the community. [More…]

• That is one of the new manifestations in our community. [More…]

• Vast sections of the community which are not part and parcel of the arbitration system- sections, by the way, which are a heavy component of the wage structure in their own industry- are composed of the people whom the Opposition talks about feartherbedding. [More…]

• People are told that their work is very valuable to the community. [More…]

• If the Opposition persists in opposing these sensible propositions which have come from the Minister for Labour who, after all, has to take the responsibility for achieving industrial peace in this community, it will prevent him- this is what the Opposition wants to do- from introducing rational industrial laws and then it will blame him if there is industrial disputation. [More…]

• The basis of those agreements is that they agree on certain very considerable increases in wages and conditions and the employers then recoup themselves at the expense of the community by putting up prices and using the tariff. [More…]

• Regardless of what many people in the white community may think, there is police brutality and misuse of authority by police in whole areas of Australia. [More…]

• As in all sections of the community, there is a minority of police who actually thrive on brutality and they do not always use it against black people. [More…]

• I think on some occasions the action taken by the police in handling this section of our community could leave something to be desired. [More…]

• It will be his task to try to develop some liaison between the police and the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• It could well be, as Senator Keeffe says, that greater liaison between the Department and the Aboriginal community is needed to try to assist Aborigines in management control for development of their projects. [More…]

• When the interest rate can be reduced I have no doubt that the pressures from the whole community will be such that it will be reduced. [More…]

• Not only Senator Wright but also members of the Parliamentary Labor Party and of the Labor Party itself, and persons throughout the whole community have an evident desire to get the interest rates down as soon as they can be got down because everyone knows the adverse effect that continued high rates of interest have on intending home purchasers. [More…]

• On the Australian Advertising Standards Authority there will be represented a wide crosssection of the Australian community. [More…]

• I am sure much good for the Australian community can come from the development of AIDC. [More…]

• The setting up of an interim national Aboriginal consultative committee earlier this year has inspired a very keen interest among the remnants of the Aboriginal people who live in Tasmania in a better future, better housing, better educational facilities and in a general improvement of their standard of living, quality of life and status in the community. [More…]

• But I am inclined to believe that both the States and the Commonwealth have over the years desired to do the best that they could for the Aborigines in the community. [More…]

• If it is found that there is in existence an organisation or an institution which can do something better than we can for this section of the community or if it is found that we can do something better for them by working through such an organisation, it is not the intention of the Government to take over that organisation. [More…]

• Everywhere throughout the Northern Territory, in areas of Queensland, and perhaps in all States, where the normal health service does not meet the requirements of some Aboriginal community, supplementary assistance is available through the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• This Government has in the Northern Territory a bigger Aboriginal organisation operating, with more success and among more difficult sections of the community, than has any State Government. [More…]

• When I took over as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs I called into my office representatives of many sections of the community and many members of this Parliament. [More…]

• We had a remarkable opportunity to meet diverse elements of the Papua New Guinea community. [More…]

• The councils are of much greater importance, in many ways, in that community than are local authorities in Australia because they have had to provide a good deal of the economic development and some of the economic services in local areas, much more than we would expect of local authorities in Australia. [More…]

• Also, and probably more importantly, they have provided a great training ground for Papuans and New Guineans in leadership and community work. [More…]

• But we found a very great concern at the village leader level or at the community leader level- not at the member of [More…]

• Game fishing is a recognised recreational activity which I do not follow but which is supported by many others in the community. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether any consideration has been given to the provision of training in what was described yesterday as community orientation? [More…]

• This was illustrated by the very large purchase recently by the Soviet Union of 200,000 tons of butter from the European Economic Community countries at the give-away price of 22c per lb. [More…]

• At least the Australian wheatgrower and the community at large can give credit to the Government for its decision to maximise the wheat crop at the right time. [More…]

• Do not these community organisations see the union bans as their only safeguard against the follies of officialdom? [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…]

• The Senate is dealing with a most important piece of legislation- the Trade Practices Bill- which incorporates provisions intended to prevent the operation of those restrictive practices which have been operating in the community for many decades and which it is generally agreed should be curbed as far as it is within the power of the Parliament to curb them. [More…]

• I simply indicate shortly that the Bill deals in a comprehensive way with those practices which have been injuring the community and which have led to private price fixing, to contracts, combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade, to monopolisation, exclusive dealing, price discrimination, anti-competitive mergers and conduct which is recognised all round the world as being against the proper operation of the economy. [More…]

• That evil is the operation of widespread restrictive practices in this community. [More…]

• Thousands of such agreements and arrangements and widespread practices are operating which are exacerbating the inflation in the community and leading to inefficiency. [More…]

• The Bill deals not only with that menace, but also with measures to protect the consumers in this community. [More…]

• There are operating in this community a number of practices over and above what are called restrictive trade practices, which are to the detriment of the consumer, and they ought to be dealt with by laws as soon as possible. [More…]

• The people of this community are begging for laws against them and for proper administration in order to protect them from what they know and everybody knows is wrong. [More…]

• But it will be different if an endeavour is made to stall and delay so that these practices which are against the interests of the community can be committed day after day with impunity, when it is recognised that for the most part the existing legislation is just useless. [More…]

• He has before him evidence of thousands of practices which are operating against the interests of the community and the legislation is such that they cannot be effectively stopped. [More…]

• It is an important Bill but it is a Bill which the Government is trying to impose upon this community without proper debate and without giving adequate opportunity for consideration of it. [More…]

• It is in so many ways typical of the arrogance of the Government because Senator Murphy conveys the impression that he knows, and the Government knows- and only he and the Government know- what is best for the community in this area. [More…]

• I can only stress that in the climate of the community at this time where hostility exists between business and Government- an apprehension on the part of business as to how it will be affected by government action- it is tremendously important that the Government does not take steps which are likely to have such drastic consequences that they further weaken or destroy the confidence which is so important for the ensuring of production and the maintenance of employment in the community. [More…]

• I have the fear that unless the community does have an opportunity properly to consider this Bill it will have devastating effects if it is carried into law and people will have to accept legislation which is completely new to them and alien to all that they have experienced in the field of trade practices legislation. [More…]

• That, may I say, is the basic information which the community at large has- that is, those affected because they are producers and those affected because they just fall within the range of the provisions of the legislation- as to what the Government proposes to do. [More…]

• It is so capable of being a source of conflict, doubt and problems that I do not believe that Senator Murphy has really considered what must be the impact upon the business community at large, the community which wants to take advantage of making submissions about the provisions in his legislation when they see the difficulties which the legislation is creating. [More…]

• Senator Murphy does not do credit to his objectives in this area or to his legislation, nor does he do credit to the Opposition, when he states that the only thing we have to be concerned about is protecting the community. [More…]

• We are all concerned about ensuring that the community is advantaged by the legislation which we pass and that where there is evil and mischief we can legislate effectively against it. [More…]

• But we must recognise that in this area we are an interdependent community. [More…]

• It has been a fact of life in regard to trade practices legislation which I think the community has come to recognise that, if significant changes are advanced in legislation, time will be provided for those affected in the community to examine the changes. [More…]

• We say that this Bill is of such importance and of such significance that it must not only be canvassed by this chamber with due regard for its consequences and its implications but also it must be given the opportunity of the closest analysis by those in the community who will be affected by it- the commercial interests, the consumers and those who theoretically would examine the consequences of a matter of this kind in the field of comparative economic and social legislationwith a view to pointing out as advisers to the Government and to members of Parliament generally what are the possible consequences of this very great intrusion into the ordinary processes, both commercial and otherwise, in Australian life. [More…]

• I think it is owing to the community at large and to those who will be affected by it commercially that those consequences at least should be before this chamber and before this Parliament when this Bill is finally passed. [More…]

• But, as I say, our Party also has a positive contribution to make, as have all honourable senators and all parties in this chamber, not merely to ratify, or reject for that matter, the legislation of the Government, but by its own motions and by its own private Bills to present its own program and its suggestions as to the things of value that should be considered and should be carried into operation in the community. [More…]

• We feel that this Bill is of immense consequence to the community. [More…]

• We think that if the Government pauses and reconsiders this matter, and gives the opportunity for this Bill to be looked at with more care and in more detail and scrutinised by those in the community who will be affected by it, a much better Bill may well be presented in the early part of next year. [More…]

• I am sure also that the commercial community and the consuming community of Australia will see the wisdom of the course and, when the Bill comes back for consideration, will see that the best course, as suggested by the Democratic Labor Party, the Liberal Party and the Country Party, is adopted. [More…]

• Before I retail to the listening audience what has transpired in this debate I want to remind the Senate and the Australian community that in the policy speech of my leader preceding the election of the Labor Government on 2 December 1972 we gave a commitment in respect of prices in these terms: [More…]

• Everyone in the Australian community, including even honourable senators opposite, recognise that at the moment Australia is experiencing galloping inflation. [More…]

• In my view you insulted not only the intelligence of honourable senators but the intelligence of the Australian community because the example you gave - [More…]

• I repeat, through you, Mr Acting Deputy President, that Senator Greenwood not only insulted the intelligence of honourable senators, he insulted the intelligence of the Australian community because as an argument why this Bill should not pass through all stages he referred to a little grocer in a country town who may decide to form a company. [More…]

• The Trade Practices Bill and the general policy related to it are very important matters in our community. [More…]

• I believe that the policies of this Governmentits non-opposition to wage demands and excessive strikes which have taken place in the community which this year have increased by more than 50 per cent over the previous year; encouraging the provision to employees of longer annual leave and greater benefits which are certainly required in the community but which in some instances may have an inflationary influence; the enormous expenditure in which the Commonwealth Government has become involved; and attempting to say to the people: We have cured unemployment problems’ when to a large extent, it has taken the unemployment sectors on to the Commonwealth pay-roll- are adding to our inflationary tendency. [More…]

• Both speakers on behalf of the Government have said that many people are being harmed by the practices that are occurring in the community. [More…]

• I note with some concern that neither Senator Murphy nor Senator Brown is willing to instance the type of trade practice which we have in the community which is so harmful to the community. [More…]

• These are base industries and what happens in them can have an enormous effect on the price of goods in our community. [More…]

• This is an area in which some trade practices may be of concern to the community. [More…]

• I shall endeavour to indicate to a person such as Senator Wheeldon, who is a legal individual, and the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy), who introduced this Bill and who is a person of legal training, that one of the great problems that the commercial community in Australia has is that even within this Parliament there are so many legal individuals who do not understand the commercial impact of what they attempt to bring into this Parliament. [More…]

• I was attempting to emphasise that if only you, Senator Wheeldon, had had experience other than your university and legal training and the time that you spent within the Young Liberal Movement you would have had a great opportunity to learn of the real commercial interests of the community. [More…]

• The Government says that there are illegal trade practices in the community but it is not willing to name them. [More…]

• It has illegal trade practices of which it is well aware, but they do not exist in the community to any great extent. [More…]

• As the Government pursues this matter it will find that arrangements were made by respectable consumer trade groups in the community which had the ability to maintain a system of reasonable prices and of reasonable marketing. [More…]

• So you see, Mr President, that if the Attorney-General were dinkum about the real ascertainment of objectionable agreements- if his motives were not political but really in the interests of the consumer community- he would say: ‘I have an officer and a staff there before whom these 2,500 agreements are laid bare and awaiting examination. ‘ [More…]

• I have never been admitted to the Bar as Senator Wright has, but my limited knowledge of the law tells me that at the present time there are not criminal sanctions for restrictive trade practices except against the consumers in the community. [More…]

• Senator Webster has used the phrase- and this has been repeated time and time again to me- ‘commercial sections of the community’. [More…]

• I am concerned, Mr President, that a leader of the Government is willing to stand up and criticise the Opposition and suggest that it is taking money for some nefarious purpose to oppose legislation in the Senate which would benefit the people in the community; that it is seeking to delay that legislation so that business will be able to make money whilst it is delayed. [More…]

• Because there had been an international convention in 1958 which had declared that sovereign rights over the continental shelf area around Australia were vested in the coastal state which was, in the international community, the nation of Australia, within the domestic community the Australian Government claimed the right to exercise, through the Commonwealth Parliament, legislative authority over the offshore areas. [More…]

• I do not really know what the average Australian farmer thinks about the Industries Assistance Commission, but I would be very surprised if he supported the line which is being taken by the Country Party because the Industries Assistance Commission will ensure that the support given to the Australian farming community will be completely justified and warranted. [More…]

• I am sure that this will bring benefits to the whole community. [More…]

• I shall take the matter no further than to say that it is quite contrary to what Senator Greenwood suggested is in the interests of the community. [More…]

• We do not accept that reasoning because we know that there is prejudice in the community, to which I must say that I am sometimes weak enough to subscribe, that lawyers are always astonishingly overpaid. [More…]

• The tasks it takes on are of vital significance to the community and to the industrial peace of the community, to which the Opposition claims it is so dedicated. [More…]

• We are short-changing ourselves and the community generally if we take a miserable attitude towards the question of bringing this court up to the desirable strength. [More…]

• We believe that the Act should contain a provision which induces people from a broad section of the community to submit themselves for appointment and to aspire to positions of this type. [More…]

• Moreover, our affirmative vote was intended to indicate Australia’s support for the efforts of the international community in the Middle East and to reflect our view that the United Nations should be encouraged in its efforts to facilitate progress towards a peaceful settlement. [More…]

• I would like to finish this brief history, I suppose one might call it, by putting to the Senate the 2 sides as they have been presented in the world community. [More…]

• After the passage of the years their former area in Palestine became settled and occupied by fellow Semites of the Jewish people, the Arabs, and they became an Arab community. [More…]

• To promote public understanding of the impact of science and technology on the community. [More…]

• To promote research in areas important for the wellbeing of the community including transport, human settlement, environment and energy production, distribution and use. [More…]

• I ask: Can the Minister tell the Senate whether the Government is aware of the fact that over the past 3 weeks there has been a power shortage in Victoria caused by the action of a few unionists who are seeking to secure their objective through industrial blackmail by holding the whole community to ransom? [More…]

• They are not willing to give the Government the legislative powers which it said are necessary in order that we may be able to solve industrial disputes in the way in which every one would want them solved, in an atmosphere of rationality and conciliation so that there would not be these industrial disruptions which affect, most of all, the workers and their families who are involved as well as interfering with the general life of the community. [More…]

• If we lived in an ideal trade union community we might perhaps look at the propositions being put forward by the Government in regard to amalgamations with a favourable eye. [More…]

• But as anybody here who has had anything to do with trade unions knows, we do not live in an ideal trade union community. [More…]

• Therefore, to select a group of people in this community who can be adversely affected by the proposed law when their rights are already, in one case, in the process of litigation and, in other cases, where the Commonwealth itself has, as far as I have been able to ascertain, by its own laches been instrumental in delaying the acquisition of and payment of compensation for property is to discriminate against these people. [More…]

• There are people in this community whose families have held land for many years. [More…]

• I was greatly concerned by the reference the AttorneyGeneral made in his statement concerning the raid on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to the possibility of there being organised crime in the community. [More…]

• Is he, in his capacity representing the Minister for Science, able to say whether the so-called additives mixed with petrol are beneficial to motorists or the community, or is the device merely an exercise in consumer deception? [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Does he agree that revaluation upwards of the Australian dollar, the Government’s decision to implement a greater increase in interest rates on borrowing for primary industry than for any other sector of the community, the withdrawal of taxation concessions which tended to encourage production and the withdrawal of taxation concessions which encouraged the renewal of production equipment and the storage of water and fodder are all positive actions by the Labor Government which could be construed as the greatest financial attack on primary industry in our history? [More…]

• In fact, his report was representative of the situation of most of the big pastoral companies, reflecting the type of prosperity which exists in the rural community at present. [More…]

• The Committee was fully charged at all times with the community’s responsibility to provide and care for disabled ex-service personnel to enable them to return to a fuller life as soon as possible, at the same time safeguarding the welfare of ex-servicemen and their families. [More…]

• Perhaps also my reputation for honesty, integrity, courage and willingness to speak out on controversial subjects of vital interest to the community had some effect. [More…]

• Some of these recommendations no doubt will displease those who have taken undue advantage of the system and the community’s desire to care for war veterans. [More…]

• At a time when the general community is crying out for more doctors in every field of medicine, many doctors within the repatriation system complain of the undue time and energy required of them in meeting the general demands of red tape and particularly the endless paperwork required. [More…]

• In regard to hospital inpatient treatment it was pointed out that because of the segregated nature of repatriation hospitals there seemed to be created in the community a feeling that first class and second class types of citizens entered hospitals. [More…]

• It would also be an advantage to the community because there would be a levelling out and the provision of more beds in suitable places. [More…]

• It has provided special facilities, such as renal units and artificial limb centres, which are of great benefit to the community. [More…]

• We were told that some 1 70,000 people, who had had no active service outside Australia and therefore were not in any way disadvantaged more than the ordinary citizen in the community, were still eligible for repatriation benefits. [More…]

• I think that with those remarks I have summarised what the Committee has endeavoured to do objectively and generously for the returned soldiers and for the community who pays the bill. [More…]

• There may be one or two, but is that not typical of any section of our Australian community? [More…]

• There are many of them in the Australian community, even in this day and age. [More…]

• There will be a number of people there whose job will be to assist Ted Hill and the Australian Community Party Marxist-Leninist to advance their already considerable influence in the Australian trade union movement. [More…]

• The Comittee believes that the part time membership of the commission, its committees and regional boards should be drawn from as wide a cross section of the community as possible and should have regard both to age and sex. [More…]

• Secondly, the Committee said that the membership of the Commission should be drawn from as wide a cross-section of the community as possible. [More…]

• He then went on to speak of the number of telegrams and communications which he had received from various sections of the community on this matter. [More…]

• Of course, when we do this we will not by any means exclude the representation of different schools of thought, different tendencies, different philosophies, different interests in the community in the matter of education. [More…]

• You were the people who forced on the community low income families. [More…]

• Education is the prime example of a community service which should involve the entire community- not just the Education Departments and the Catholic school authorities and the Headmaster’s Conference, not just parents and teachers, but the taxpayers as a whole. [More…]

• The quality of the community’s response to the needs of the education system will determine the quality of the system. [More…]

• But the community must first know and understand the needs. [More…]

• Members of the Opposition tried to deny the arguments that the Australian Labor Party has put forward although they contain policies which must be to the advantage of all sections of the community. [More…]

• I consider that one of the functions of the Joint Committee on Prices is to inform Parliament and educate the community on this important subject of inflation. [More…]

• It is certainly relevant to the consumer as a taxpayer because the scheme costs the community in the vicinity of $200m per annum. [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 Hospital and Health Services Commission completes its recommendations on hospitals and all other forms of institutional care we can expect to see similiar 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 who might otherwise delay going to an institution for help. [More…]

• Decentralised services in local communities will be staffed by specialised 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 needing 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 May 3 1 last. [More…]

• We have seen the emergence of the new styles of family life, the economic changes and the new place of older people in our community. [More…]

• This is not the first time that the Senate has had discussions about senior citizens or the older group in our community. [More…]

• One of the very important principles of the program which has been going on through the years has been the fact that the government of the day has provided circumstances, financial assistance and opportunities for community groups and other organisations to help senior citizens. [More…]

• In short it has been a case of the government helping the community to help other people. [More…]

• It is important in this age of rapid change in our society and rapid development in community thinking towards aged people to state this principle: The aged persons care system must never become another total government social exercise whereby sums of money and facilities are handed out and personnel made available without any sense of responsibility or indeed response from the community itself or from the senior citizens so involved. [More…]

• In my view the best way in which senior citizens can be assisted is a system whereby community involvement must be complete and continuous. [More…]

• What is more, the community involvement must have a strong element of voluntary involvement or at least semi-voluntary involvement. [More…]

• I imagine that by using the word ‘success’ he meant not only that it has met with a considerable degree of response from the Australian community but also that it has been of great benefit to the senior section of our community. [More…]

• However, in the last few years in Australia, there has been a growing concern to ensure that community health, welfare and legal services, as well as adequate education and housing, are available to the entire community as a matter of right rather than as an act of charity. [More…]

• Initially, it is necessary to develop community-based systems with a network of services to which people may be linked if they have family, health, educational or personal problems. [More…]

• But in relation to any matter which takes up the case of senior citizens I think the Parliament needs to draw the attention of the Australian community to the fact that it- the Australian community- needs not only to rethink but also constantly rethink its attitude to senior citizens. [More…]

• That, of course, is a study in itself which I do not propose to examine or pursue at length this afternoon because we are dealing with a matter which provides for certain facilities and assistance to the community of senior people. [More…]

• While the original plan behind the providing of homes and capital subsidies for homes was to care for the people who live in those homes, it needs to be placed on record that the thing the Australian community has to do today is give very serious thought to how it integrates into the total community those people who have, according to the chapter and verse of various books, reached retiring age. [More…]

• It is true that they are necessary, desirable and meet the needs of a wide range of people but there are a large number of people in our community today- I suggest the number is going to increase- who, at the age at which society says they shold retire, are Stil in possession of their faculties, abilities, ideas and who have a physical capacity for work in relation to which they can continue not only to make a contribution to our society but also create for themselves years and years of job vocational satisfaction. [More…]

• But like all organisations of this kind they not only provide community centres but they also reflect community patterns, and because human nature is what it is they also run into the problem of personal feelings, and sometimes those personal feelings can be very strong. [More…]

• I think that in the implementation of this section of the legislation the Minister or those who will administer the Act on his behalf should always be very watchful of this element of human nature so that senior citizens will not be disadvantaged in the running of these centres, so that the community in which the centre is placed will not be disadvantaged and so that the centre can maintain a high reputation of care for people of senior years. [More…]

• The Government has given an indication that it is aware of the many involved and changing problems and situations that are associated with that section of the community which I call senior citizens. [More…]

• This is an example of how the Opposition is anxious to give speedy passage to legislation, particularly legislation of this nature which provides benefits to the needy in our community. [More…]

• The Bill proposes to increase the subsidy to 354 organisations that have been approved for the purpose of delivering meals to the homes of the senior people of our community. [More…]

• I believe that the senior citizens of our community, probably because of inactivity in their later years, do not really feel the requirement for food which perhaps they did in their younger days. [More…]

• So I believe that this service to the community is a very important one. [More…]

• It is usual to concentrate on material things in our community. [More…]

• One rarely points to the excellent things which are done by the people of Australia for those who are perhaps less fortunate in the community. [More…]

• One could name the leaders in the field and say that they have been outstanding in assisting the development of these important homes in the community. [More…]

• We certainly must encourage the retention in the community of the interest and the work of people who are willing out of the goodness of their hearts to provide for those in the community who are less fortunate. [More…]

• Yet whilst the Government speaks of equal representation for people throughout the community, we do not find that the finance that is offered under Bills such as those we have before us this afternoon can be provided to those who are in the sparsely populated areas as readily as it can be provided to the people who are in the densely populated areas. [More…]

• But at this early stage of the community when Australians can provide from their tax funds for provision of age persons’ homes, home care facilities, sheltered employment, etc., we must recognise that there will have to be a development which assists in the rural areas to develop aged persons’ homes. [More…]

• I hope that at all times we will, as we progress as a society, see that we can bring new types of assistance to those people in all stations of life who need the assistance of the community in general. [More…]

• There are great opportunities for any person in the community- whether he or she be a widower or widow who has lost a dear one and who feels bereft or somebody who may know of handicapped people- to do a great deal by way of visitations to people who are sick. [More…]

• Many of the developments that we see taking place are being pursued by paid members of the community. [More…]

• They are minor Bills but they are two of five Bills with which the Senate is dealing this afternoon which are directed towards providing assistance to those less fortunate in our community. [More…]

• The comments that are made about the standard of living in our community could well be applied to these 2 measures because they are important. [More…]

• Physically handicapped people are able to enter sheltered workshops and thereby assist not only their own mental and physical state but also, in a genuine way, production in the community. [More…]

• This certainly adds to the benefits derived from the output by the Australian community. [More…]

• A great deal needs to be said about that Bill, but I wish to concentrate my remarks on the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill because we all have a heartfelt desire to assist those handicapped children in our community. [More…]

• The Australian community can be reasonably proud of its past record in providing assistance to certain areas of handicapped children. [More…]

• A great deal needs to be done, particularly for the mentally handicapped children in the community. [More…]

• I refer to people living in the densely populated cities and to the encouragement that is given to women or to mothers in our community to go out to work. [More…]

• Perhaps the name by which it is known today indicates the progress that has been made in the community. [More…]

• At one time the community did not consider that those who were deprived of their hearing at birth or through some accident early in life needed special community attention. [More…]

• This is providing the very basis for improving the conditions in the institutions and assisting those in the community who can be referred to as handicapped children. [More…]

• The Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill provides an expenditure of only $100,000 and the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Bill provides an expenditure of approximately $200,000, but the contributions will be of enormous importance to those in the community who are covered by the provisions of the Bills. [More…]

• Governments can do much in matters such as this by giving financial assistance to organisations which involve themselves in these matters but I believe that the community at large should take a greater interest. [More…]

• I realise that the Bills will certainly help handicapped persons, to a great extent, but I plead with Australians generally to take a greater interest in those people in our community who are Jess fortunate than ourselves. [More…]

• I do not know whether he has any other name; I refer to him affectionately as Wally because that is how he is known in all sections of the community in Brisbane. [More…]

• Many children in the community will benefit from this piece of legislation. [More…]

• Having been a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which inquired at length into the problems of the physically and mentally handicapped, I echo the remarks of Senator Jessop when I say frankly that I am very proud that the Government of which I am a member has taken heed of the very detailed and voluminous report which was arrived at collectively and unanimously by the members of that Committee, who were of all political persuasions, after they had taken evidence at length from a large cross-section of the Australian people who represent the physically and mentally handicapped section, particularly the handicapped children, in our community. [More…]

• The community and the Government are indebted to it for the valuable contribution the Board has made over the years to the student assistance program. [More…]

• But the principal Bill- the Territory Authorities (Financial Provisions) Bill- has been introduced because of the establishment of the Darwin Community College which will begin teaching in March 1974 and will be established as a statutory authority under an ordinance of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• 3) 1973 provides for the application of the Superannuation Act to the Principal and the staff of the Darwin Community College and these provisions will be made retrospective to 19 July 1973. [More…]

• This also covers the Darwin Community College and instrumentalities of a similar character in appropriate territory areas in which they may be introduced. [More…]

• It has a strong relationship to the integration of migrants into the Australian community. [More…]

• As the Minister has said, this is not in the best interest of the Australian community, particularly the migrant community. [More…]

• After all, Australia has a very high percentage of people in its population who are related to the migrant community. [More…]

• Other matters related to industrial expansion, the absorption of aliens into the Australian community and matters such as that. [More…]

• Therefore, whether or not a migrant is required to register, whether or not he does register or whether or not he runs a risk of prosecution because he may not comply with a particular Act are all some of a number of features and factors which have an influence on his contentment, well-being and, as we like to describe it, his integration into the Australian community. [More…]

• The influence of this process, of course, may well indicate not only his attitude to the Australian community but also, associated with a number of other things, may well indicate whether or not he will stay within the Australian community. [More…]

• Of course, all of the reasons given have a strong relationship to matters within Australia concerning the integration of migrants into the Australian community and the relationship of migrants to the overall Australian community. [More…]

• As I said earlier, the migrant community within Australia is a large one. [More…]

• Therefore the attitudes which it, as a total community, or any segment of it, takes to the Australian community are not without importance. [More…]

• Underlined in this report is the attitude of the Australian community. [More…]

• In addition, a migrant’s ability to cope with a new life depends largely on the attitude of the community in which he comes to live and many Australians are still reluctant or lack adequate understanding to assist. [More…]

• I know that many of these things have been taken care of by the previous Government and by the present Government by introducing legislation to create a climate of well being for the migrant community within Australia. [More…]

• If I remember correctly one relates to the assimilation or integration of migrants within the Australian community. [More…]

• I do know that some commodities in this community are restricted. [More…]

• It is our view that if every group represented on the Commission were required to do the same, the result would be a Commission properly representative of the education community, but free enough from sectional pressures to be able to function as an expert, objective body. [More…]

• Therefore the amendments proposed by the Opposition will not only enshrine in legislation the Australian Schools Commission but will strengthen it within the full understanding of the community when the mandate was given, within the full request of the parents and teacher bodies, and within the full philosophy of the Karmel Committee itself. [More…]

• But the fact is that the 79 per cent of the community which go to state schools areand rightly so- drawing a major proportion, and a greater proportion per capita of funds than the 2 1 per cent of the community which choose not to do so. [More…]

• Can one wonder why people in the community are beginning to express considerable appreciation and concern? [More…]

• The Schools Commission and its administration will have not only this kind of relationship with all fields of education but also a relationship with the community and with community organisations which themselves are bound up with education. [More…]

• As the Senate looks at this development which the Government is proposing- the establishment of a Schools Commission- it needs to be observed that the Australian community for some years now has ploughed into the quality and quantity of education not only an enormous amount of money but also an increasing amount of effort and personal concern as well as a tremendous amount of student involvement, community involvement and parent and teachers involvement. [More…]

• I think it is pertinent to contemplate the effects that this proposed Commission will have not only on education in Australia but also on our student community, our education community and indeed on our future citizens. [More…]

• I referred earlier to the freedom of movement occasioned by the inclusion of the independent school sector within our education community. [More…]

• It is very important to stimulate this freedom of movement in educational thought by the involvement of educational and community interests in any proposed commission. [More…]

• Education is the prime example of a community service which should involve the entire community- not just the education departments and the Catholic School authorities and the Headmasters’ Conference, not just the parents and the teachers, but the taxpayers as a whole. [More…]

• As I said a few moments ago, an examination of the amendments which we in the Opposition propose to put before the Senate during the Committee stage of this Bill will reveal a strong recognition of the importance of the fact that any advisory body containing voices and opinions of community interests in education, parents and teachers, those interested and involved in the highly important area of research and also those involved in the rapidly changing and demanding area of special education should be heard, and should be involved, and their influence should be noted. [More…]

• Indeed, the recommendations and amendments that we have reflect the representations and opinions that have been brought forward by community interest but indeed have taken an ongoing reflection of what was contained in the Prime Minister’s policy speech. [More…]

• Speakers on the Government side have acknowledged this kind of diversity of background to be already in existence in the community. [More…]

• Education affects not only the widest possible section of the Australian community but also affects an enormous variety of groups within the Australian society. [More…]

• Also they will reflect what the Government has in mind, what the Karmel Committee has set out and what so many sections of the Australian community so earnestly desire. [More…]

• This does not mean that the Commission should be insensitive to widely held views in the community nor that its membership should not display a range of experience and attitudes, but it does mean that individual members should be free from the responsibilities of representing constituent bodies. [More…]

• Senator Rae, and also Senator Carrick, speaking on behalf of the Liberal Party, have acknowledged the need for diversification and decentralisation in education and for more direct community participation and involvement. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators that it is only through the action of this Government in giving immediate attention to the problems of schools that school authorities, both government and non-government, are now going to be in the position of having funds available to them to take the steps necessary to promote innovationa word that was used by Senator Carrick to bring about diversification and community participation and particularly to provide for comprehensive in-service training and the encouragement of initiatives from teachers. [More…]

• It is doing it in Canberra at the moment and there is nothing at all to stop it if it is proven that it is necessary to set up a community health service. [More…]

• Does the British experience and the Australian experience to date indicate that making money dearer, thus increasing costs and adding to inflation, is not the sensible way in which to overcome a situation of excess liquidity in the community? [More…]

• In view of the serious mosquito problem being experienced by the residents of Darwin, particularly in the areas of Nakara and Wanguri, can the Minister representing the Minister for Health say what action, if any, is being taken in an effort to rid the community of this menace? [More…]

• If he will not take action, will he take steps to ensure that the appropriate toilet blocks and ablution blocks are put in place so that the health of the community can be protected? [More…]

• It will have the effect of creating a further escalation in the inflationary rate within our community. [More…]

• In the life of the previous Government, at least in the years that I have been in the Senate, it correctlyincorrectly in the eyes of some peoplereduced expenditure of large sums of money on things which were thought to be ineffective in the community and which, in general, did not add to the economic strength of the community. [More…]

• I refer to things which did not lead to a greater maintenance of business activity which is at the heart of the proper production of goods and services in the community and which provides the basis for employment within the private sector. [More…]

• That rate of growth is not matched by the very much larger employer in the community, the private sector. [More…]

• The growth rate of productivity in the community is not matching the growth of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]

• I believe that there is in the community at the present time a shifting of opinion about the flush of new ideas that the Labor Party brought in during its first 6 months of office. [More…]

• I found encouragement within many sectors of the community. [More…]

• Whilst this country possibly had attained the highest material and living standards in the world, perhaps the Australian community considered that a Labor Government could take actions which would improve our society. [More…]

• Its policies have been directed entirely at the socialisation of Australia, the socialisation of business, the centralisation of State governments and municipal governments as well as of the business community. [More…]

• The subsidies that had been rightly paid now have been withdrawn from nearly every sector of the community. [More…]

• It promised that it would reduce interest rates for the less fortunate members of the community. [More…]

• He knows that the Labor Party has taken a definite attitude in order to try to force higher costs on to newly weds, the young people of the community. [More…]

• That is only one of the very many items in the list of Labor Party promises prior to its gaining office on which it has reneged and which it is now happy to bypass in the interests of its headlong socialisation of the Australian community. [More…]

• I am somewhat heartened in the belief that the story is gradually getting out into the Australian community. [More…]

• The public should understand that it does so at a time when, by a variety of measures including many savage measures, it seeks to cut back, and is in fact succeeding in cutting back, the private sector of the community and the expenditure of every family throughout Australia. [More…]

• While interest rates are holding up housing by cutting back the flow of money, the flow of resources is holding up housing as it is holding up the supply of automobiles, refrigerators and every other commodity in the community. [More…]

• We do not care how the Government attempts to crowd upon us or upon the community this great mass of legislation. [More…]

• The European Economic Community is not self-sufficient in wheat. [More…]

• I make it abundantly clear that that is where I see my duty as much as I deplore the item, as much as I think it was a bad decision and as much as I think the Government will live to regret the decision, both in terms of the painting and of the reaction of the community. [More…]

• One thing in which I rejoiced as a Minister was that I was presiding over a program of works which, as a community develops, is much more important than turtles, sea doves, crocodiles, daubed ‘Blue Poles’, or other nonsense of socialist politics. [More…]

• It is well know that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) sincerely hopes that he can rid the Australian Parliament of a Senate, and also he has laid down the proposal that he hopes to rid the Australian community of States so that we have regions only throughout Australia. [More…]

• The Australian Government has set out to establish a condition in the community to enable Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders to regain their status as human beings. [More…]

• But if the implication is that I advocate violence and bloodshed, then these 2 gentlemen are themselves the agents of that minority in the community which leads the groups supporting the white backlash. [More…]

• I shall be publishing in the next few weeks a letter written by a highly respected member of the Aboriginal community setting out in detail his attitudes to the Queensland Act. [More…]

• I think that as a result of my visit we can expect greatly improved relationships between the New South Wales police and the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Is the Minister also aware that the South Australian Community Welfare Department received a grant of $ 1 5,000 each year from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to supervise the welfare of the Aborigines during the fruit harvest? [More…]

• Is it a fact that this year the $ 1 5,000 grant was returned because the Community Welfare Department was not continuing its supervisory role? [More…]

• Community Welfare Department in South Australia for this purpose. [More…]

• I am in touch with a great deal of the business community of Australia, as I am with a great many of the constituents in Sydney and in the area to which fuel will go by means of this pipeline. [More…]

• It is a matter of the relativity of charges for the resident and business community to those which apply to hotels and motels. [More…]

• I think that a very warped view is being taken in relation to these charges for hotels and motels in this community. [More…]

• Under those circumstances this seems a very undue and heavy charge in comparison with what other people in this community are paying. [More…]

• When Senator Wood spoke on behalf of the business people of Canberra it illustrated that a community the size of Canberra with a population which is estimated within the foreseeable future to reach 250,000 has to rely on Senator Wood to bring its business before the Senate. [More…]

• Since that hotel is able to ask such a tariff it must also provide a proportion of it towards paying for the facilities that are now being provided here by the community. [More…]

• However, we question why hotels should be singled out to pay $25 for the first pedestal and $50 for each additional pedestal when the remainder of the Canberra community pays basically $25 with a $12.50 additive. [More…]

• What we are opposed to is one group in the community being singled out for what in fact is a punitive tax. [More…]

• I feel that the Ordinance underlines the incidence of the unfair treatment of a certain section of the community, which I feel must be rectified. [More…]

• To increase the basic sewerage rate by $25 making it $50 across the whole of the business community would, in fact, increase the liability of this section by no less than $357,700. [More…]

• While this business community has a combined total of less than 12 per cent of the flushing units in Canberra it is being asked to pay more than 2 1 per cent of the total estimated revenue from sewerage rates in the year 1973-74. [More…]

• So I believe that from the point of view of undesirable selectivity, burdening on section of the community, the business interests, in this way this is wrong. [More…]

• Apparently, one section of the community is required to pay double the rate charged to the rest of the community for exactly the same service. [More…]

• I notice that in the submission put forward by the Australian National Travel Association it is stated that the business community in Canberra has a combined total of less than 12 per cent of the flushing units in Canberra but is required to pay rates totalling $357,700 or more than 2 1 per cent of the total estimated revenue from sewerage rates in the forthcoming year. [More…]

• An additional sewerage rates bill of about $250,000 on the Canberra business community in one year can only have a serious inflationary effect. [More…]

• The purpose of parliamentary fixation of these important salaries was that Parliament would prescribe the level for the most responsible in the community. [More…]

• There are some important factors in the community which will compel the Public Service Board and the Public Service Arbitrator to bring about equity, lack of inflationary aggravation and some degree of relativity between these salaries and the outside world before many years have passed. [More…]

• But we now find for some reason which confers no economic or other valid benefit upon the community as a whole that this Government is intent on taking us into the area of metric weights and measures. [More…]

• It gives me no pleasure whatsoever to speak to them or to realise the impact that they will have on the community. [More…]

• The whole basis of this Government’s taxation system is most harmful to the community. [More…]

• There has been talk of the socialist Labour Party and the effect on the poor in our community. [More…]

• What interest rates, transport to the country, socialisation of the community and a book written by Cairns have to do with these excise Bills we are now discussing I do not know. [More…]

• Those things being so and having a particular interest in these matters, I think that this is a bad time- it is a time of raging inflation, the effects of which the stations have to meet, in common with the rest of the community- to increase the licence fees of the radio stations. [More…]

• They are protecting these people because they believe that the bigger criminals in the community ought to be protected. [More…]

• I hope that this investigation will be precipitated so that these Watergate scoundrels in the community can be thinned out and gaoled for life. [More…]

• I wish to emphasise again that the stories, the misapprehensions and the concerns which have been deliberately developed among various sections of the community in regard to the Opposition’s intentions on this legislation have been mischievous, deceptive and totally wrong. [More…]

• I simply restate that I cannot recall a matter which has received more consideration and discussion with community groups and in the Party committees and Party rooms. [More…]

• There has been very widespread discussion and communication between the Liberal and Country Party Education Committee and community groups on this matter. [More…]

• This discussion has not been limited to any sector of the community. [More…]

• What the Opposition sees is a desirability that there should not be simply an hierarchy leading up to a few who make the ultimate decisions but rather that there should be a sufficient number which is representative of the various interest groups, although not answerable to those interest groups, throughout the community. [More…]

• It is our view that if every group represented on the Commission were required to do the same, the result would be a Commission properly representative of the education community, but free enough from sectional pressures to be able to function was an expert objective body. [More…]

• Therefore, it gives the exact representations which have been asked for by the community. [More…]

• It is our view that if every group represented on the Commission were required to do the same, the result would be a Commission properly representative of the education community, but free enough from sectional pressures to be able to function as an expert, objective body. [More…]

• We do, however, claim that we should have a right to put up a panel to you and we suggest that all other groups in the community should put up a panel to you and that you should consider those panels’. [More…]

• Education is the prime example of community service which should involve the entire community- not just the Education departments and the Catholic school authorities and the Headmasters ‘ Conference, not just parents and teachers, but the taxpayers as a whole. [More…]

• The quality of the community’s response to the needs of the education system will determine the quality of the system. [More…]

• But the community must first know and understand the needs. [More…]

• I find it a complete negation of everything that we stand for in a democracy to suggest that people cannot be put into a job to do something for the community at large when they have special knowledge and a lifetime of training and experience. [More…]

• It is a limited meaning, the same meaning as was given in a number of submissions from a variety of interested groups throughout the community, which is that persons should be drawn from a particular area, that there should be a guarantee that the persons can be drawn from that area but that they should not be answerable to the organisations of which they are members. [More…]

• However, the Opposition wishes to ensure that there is community involvement in the Commission. [More…]

• Senator Rae’s amendment incorporates a number of important principles, one of which is that the proposed structure which he has suggested will be characterised by a widespread community involvement. [More…]

• Secondly, there is the principle that those in the involvement will not be direct representatives of organisations as such but will come, by selection, from a number of areas of education and community interest. [More…]

• The proposed structure provides for the inclusion of people who are involved in areas of education and community operation and who, by reason of their selection, would have a degree of personal and educational flexibility and who stand a much greater chance of resisting the pressures to which I have referred already. [More…]

• In short, they would come from a wide range of community interests and activities. [More…]

• Education is the prime example of a community service which should involve the entire community- not just the Education Departments and the Catholic school authorities and the Headmasters’ Conference, not just parents and teachers, but the taxpayers as a whole. [More…]

• In developing that theme during the course of my speech in the second reading debate I went on to point out that it needed to be observed that in recent years the Australian community had ploughed into the quality and quantity of education not only an enormous amount of money but also an increasing amount of effort and personal concern, but also a tremendous amount of student involvement, community involvement and parent and teacher involvement. [More…]

• Because of the involvement in education in recent years which has characterised the Australian community it is altogether appropriate that there should be on the Australian Schools Commission people who had an association not only with education but also with that area where education impinges upon the whole range of our community life. [More…]

• It is important also to recognise that in any national education advisory body- and the proposed commission will be a national education advisory body- it is essential that the membership of that body should have sufficient relationship with the various areas of education and community involvement in education. [More…]

• It is tremendously important that any advisory body in relation to education contains people who have an involvement with community interest in education. [More…]

• I am constrained to underline this emphasis on community involvement by quoting from a letter, dated 16 May 1973, from Mr John Riddell, President of the Australian Council of State School Organisations. [More…]

• The needs and priorities of students are a community matter. [More…]

• They can be dealt with adequately only by a Commission fully in touch with the effects on the student, his family and the community of education policies. [More…]

• The parents and teachers of students are equally a part of the education community. [More…]

• So the proposals put down by Senator Rae in his amendment underline the importance of this community involvement. [More…]

• I also point out that in having this community involvement the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has a considerable amount of discretion in the appointment of the Commission. [More…]

• I propose not to refer in detail to that document but to draw attention to the fact that throughout it there was increasing and repeated reference to the importance of the teaching profession in the total Australian community and the importance of the influence of the teaching profession on the total education structure. [More…]

• In moving further through the clauses proposed by Senator Rae’s amendment, in paragraph (c) there is a reference to that sector of the community which, in broad terms, we know as independent schools. [More…]

• That day I drew the attention of the Senate to the importance of their maintenance and their interdependence with the Government school system to provide for the total education system a scheme which developed the community to its maximum capacity and ability. [More…]

• Let me remind honourable senators opposite that the Government which does the appointing is not some tyranny imposed on the community. [More…]

• In fact, the Government’s proposition is in direct conflict with the normal principle involved throughout the community. [More…]

• I also mention that this type of community involvement is not something new on the part of Liberals as has been suggested by one or two Government speakers. [More…]

• In fact, the Minister for Education in New South Wales, Mr Willis, and the Minister for Education in Victoria, Mr Thompson, have taken active steps in relation to the development of community involvement in those States in relation to education. [More…]

• The Government now takes the view that it is helpful to newly arrived migrants to maintain contact with their various communities as they move into the Australian community. [More…]

• This generally is a policy that is admired and respected by the Australian community. [More…]

• Can the Minister assure the Senate that the present Australian Government will take more care in safeguarding not only the welfare of the Aboriginal community in regard to its housing needs but also the public purse? [More…]

• There are too many in our community who fall into these categories for us to be complacent about the state of liberty in Australia. [More…]

• He also observes that 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 which applies to individuals of different genetic origin from that which they would apply to people ‘of their own kind’. [More…]

• Discrimination has had its effects on migrant groups in our community and there has been evidence of support in Australia for white racist regimes of South Africa. [More…]

• Aborigines are the poorest of the poor in our community. [More…]

• This is particularly unfair when one considers how much power, prestige, affluence and education in the white community has been built on the exploitation of land from which whites ousted blacks’. [More…]

• They must also be accompanied by the support of the community. [More…]

• The Committee believes that the part-time membership of the Commission, its Committees and Regional Boards should be drawn from as wide a cross-section of the community as possible and should have regard to both age and sex. [More…]

• In addition to those persons and organisations with whom the Commission’s field officers, Committees and Regional Boards will consult, the Commission itself will need to develop a close liaison with the other educational, social and cultural Commissions and agencies of the Commonwealth and State Governments and with those authorities concerned with community and individual welfare, including the appropriate Commonwealth and State bodies. [More…]

• Commission but a purely propagandist aim to have the Bill go out to the world to show that the Opposition and the Opposition alone is concerned with having this Commission consult with various groups and tendencies in the community. [More…]

• They are already in touch with parents, teacher and community groups and officers of the organisations work daily with the groups. [More…]

• We have been told by the Government that its outlook is one of seeking to improve the general quality of education throughout the community but in the Government’s Bill we find that the children of this country are to be divided into 2 classes. [More…]

• I believe that the Labor Party has made a grave mistake in once again putting forward this proposition that some children in the community have prior rights to others. [More…]

• I said that the primary obligation upon the Government should be to provide adequate education for all children in the community. [More…]

• I have travelled around a lot, particularly in my own State of Queensland and I am finding that Aborigines are confused and that they have been brainwashed into what I believe can be only termed living separately and being separate from the rest of the Australian community. [More…]

• But I believe that to have a separate parliament and a separate electoral roll on which only Aboriginal people will be listed will divide the Aboriginal people not only among themselves but also from the rest of the Australian community. [More…]

• It was written by an Aboriginal person who left the small Aboriginal community of Purgan which is outside Ipswich at a time when it was very difficult for an Aborigine to do many things for himself. [More…]

• But I do feel that the Aborigines will be brainwashed into a kind of auto-apartheid situation where they will be a separate section in the Australian community, and I do not want that to happen. [More…]

• The NACC has been established in such a way that it will provide a voice for those who still live in the tribal state, for those who live in the fringe areas and for those who are completely integrated into the Euro-Australian community. [More…]

• I might say here that the boundaries that were drawn up took into consideration community of interest, tribal ties and various other factors that were relative to the wishes of the Aboriginals. [More…]

• I hope that the NACC is successful; but to be successful it needs the co-operation, assistance and support of every member of the Australian community regardless of colour, race or anything else. [More…]

• I refer to an announcement of the withdrawal of assistance to community organisations such as the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. [More…]

• What are the reasons for this withdrawal of considerable assistance to youth groups and community organisations which are contributing so much to Australia’s quality of life? [More…]

• As against that, the honourable senator will know that to some extent the Services, in the months since the Labor Government took office, have become more involved in community affairs and probably have incurred expenditure amounting to more than the savings on the other side. [More…]

• Can the public feel confident that the Labor Government is ever alert to the needs of all disadvantaged sections of the community? [More…]

• The only way in which liberties and people’s rights can be preserved and made meaningful, is to have an alert and vigilant community concerned to maintain and protect rights. [More…]

• If public submissions are sought from interested bodies, I would indicate at this stage that if the Democratic Labor Party is invited to make a submission and if it is appropriate to do it or if in response to a request we are permitted to do so, we will make a submission to this body on the need for adequate child endowment as one of the most practical, one of the easiest and one of the most justifiable ways of assisting young families in the community. [More…]

• grants for the capital costs of approved additional community facilities for alcohol and drug dependent persons and the mentally disturbed or disabled. [More…]

• It can be shown very easily that where someone who is suffering from diseases which this Bill encompasses is motivated back into normal civilian life it is of great benefit not only to the community and the country but also to the family to which those formerly sick persons belong. [More…]

• The Bill is an attempt to repair the damages caused to people with these afflictions within the community. [More…]

• It is something that should spread right throughout the whole of the community and should get down to even the levels of voluntary organisations. [More…]

• In those times people suffering from some illnesses were sometimes chained to a log in a village so that they could be kept under supervision and kept from mingling with or allowing their illness to affect the community around them. [More…]

• While this poison can become an obsession to some people in the community, the great majority of people can take it in their stride. [More…]

• I believe that it would be better to do this than to try to introduce into humanity a violation of a natural law that exists not only for homo sapiens but for the whole of the animal world where the necessity for the species to replace itself to ensure its continuity puts homosexuality outside the accepted social practices within a community. [More…]

• We have to make the general public aware that these people have to be given the type of care, kindness and devotion by the people who understand the problem and who care for them that will enable them to live a normal life in the community. [More…]

• We believe that this should be extended and that greater opportunity should be given to the children of the working class of this community. [More…]

• While I am no expert on this subject, and I do not profess to be, the suggestion is often made in the community that over a given period of time only a certain number of doctors, dentists, lawyers or veterarians or whatever the case may be will be needed in any given year. [More…]

• Twenty-five years ago he was a most unpopular man by any judgment and in the eyes of the community. [More…]

• Australian tax-paying 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…]

• 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…]

• This is legislation which points up the extremely important and interesting aspect of both international and constitutional law and, further, the evaluation of the commercial interests which may rest in the community. [More…]

• We believe that because of the complexity of the statements made by various Ministers of the Government and what is obviously a series of inspired leaks from various Government departments and the Australian Industry Development Corporation itself we are seeing in the community a state of considerable unease and uncertainty and some confusion. [More…]

• We should preface our remarks with the broader observation that, althought the Association of life offices sees a place for AIDC in the community - [More…]

• What it will do is divert the savings of the Australian people from the traditional areas to other areas which may be less attractive and less safe, and in the end there may be less total benefit to the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• This happens every day in the Australian community without any need for Government to be further involved. [More…]

• In reference to the second part of the honourable senator’s question, research has also been carried out by the Study Team on the relationship of a national road system to a wide range of community needs. [More…]

• When consideration is being given to closing a non-official post office, it is current practice for the local District Postal Manager to visit the area and discuss the Department’s plans with community representatives or attend a public meeting. [More…]

• As there is no change in the range or grade of services provided when a small official post office is changed to non-official conditions, service to the community is not affected. [More…]

• Department of Social Security, Department of Labour, Department of Education, Australian Universities Commission, Australian Commission on Advanced Education, Australian Council of Social Service, Australian Association of Social Workers, Australian Psychological Society, Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, Interim Committee of National Hospital and Health Services Commission, South Australian Department for Community Welfare, Australian Institute of Welfare Officers. [More…]

• Does the Minister consider that such a system would have considerable relevance in Australia and would be of inestimable value in extending the benefits of library services to every section of the Australian community, as is the case in Sweden? [More…]

• How much is the free community health centre at Melba in the Australian Capital Territory at present costing in salaries and other allied costs? [More…]

• It is a spreading throughout the community to those people who are involved in these activities of power to confer with the Government and to assist the Government in making its determinations. [More…]

• I think that the Australian Labor Party needs no debate and needs no argument because it has shown by its actions that it is extending power throughout all of the Australian community and is abolishing arbitrary and excessive power. [More…]

• We have availed ourselves of the skills and expertise in the community to sweep away a mess which was left to us by previous governments. [More…]

• He comes from a farming community in Tasmania. [More…]

• 1 priority of any government, namely, the people in the community. [More…]

• No one with any common sense or any decency at all could say that any of those legislative measures have been to the detriment of any section of the Australian community. [More…]

• It will be spent as follows: $32.4m on housing, $2 1.3m on education, $ 12.9m on health, $9.Sm on missions and settlements, $ 10.8m on community activities, $2m on legal aid and $28. [More…]

• One section of the community realises that there has been a change of government, and that is the State Premiers, Labor and non-Labor alike, as I will show in a moment. [More…]

• I have discussed this matter with Senator Cant who as honourable senators are aware, would know more about the Western Australian mining community than anyone else in this place. [More…]

• I would equate what happened in America with what is going on in the Western Australian mining community. [More…]

• It is quite obvious, of course, that if one has power to say that parliamentary salaries shall be $2,000 a year one will have a considerable impact upon parliamentarians, and every other section of the community will understand that so directly when it is applied to them that they will know pretty well, whether a person is a wage earner, a doctor, a plumber, an electrical tradesman or engaged in any other field of life, that if the bureaucrat under the control of Mr Whitiam and his Government has the right to fix their incomes it will be a pretty severe and rigid system under which we are living whereby Canberra instead of local and State governments operate to effect people ‘s livelihoods. [More…]

• They contain wide ranging implications which are causing grave concern in the commercial community and which, therefore, must attract the attention of this Parliament. [More…]

• We are concerned at the response in the commercial community that has now come to the Bills which we are discussing. [More…]

• Others do not see it in the same light and with the same degree of emphasis, but within the business community genuine fears are expressed - [More…]

• I do not know whether the Government has gone to the business community and taken its advice in the areas in which it is likely to be affected. [More…]

• It can invite various representatives of all elements of the business community and others to come forward and give their views as to what would be the implications of this legislation in an interpretation by governments of today or in future. [More…]

• It is useless to try to bring in this legislation and to impose it on the community unless it is done in an atmosphere of total commercial confidence. [More…]

• I have little doubt that in response to that, Dr Cairns is seeing the wisdom of this type of procedure, because I am sure he would sense, as we sense and know, the concern now felt in the commercial community. [More…]

• If the legislation is to have any real effect within the community, it has to be legislation that is reasonably acceptable. [More…]

• In addition, the AIDC is provided with an open ended commitment to subsidise earnings and underwrite losses of a sector of the community in the form of subscribers to development bonds without regard to needs or means, and finally because of their inevitably damaging impact on the instrumentalities which pioneered the fields in which the Corporation is now to intervene. [More…]

• We also wish to ensure that honourable senators are not misled by foreign-connected elements of the financial community who have managed to find a malicious intent in virtually every clause of the Bills. [More…]

• One can envisage that members of the Commission would be fairly prominent people in the community, people who are busy and reasonably senior in their particular walk of life, and therefore there is the possibility of their being scattered all over Australia at some particular time. [More…]

• improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used; [More…]

• In, perhaps, a brief dicussion on this matter, I ask the Minister, when replying, to give of his best in the interests of the community, myself and the Committee in general. [More…]

• Improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive sources are used; [More…]

• But the Minister’s amendment seeks to add after that the following paragraph: (aa) 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…]

• improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used; [More…]

• I consider that, in addition, the Commission could be directed to have particular regard for certain related objectives of Government policy- namely, the Government’s desire to: improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used; facilitate adjustment to changes in the economic environment (by the industries and people affected by such changes); recognise the interests of consumers and consuming industries likely to be affected by measures proposed by the Commission; ensure that its policies on assistance to, and development of, industries are integrated with national economic policy as a whole; ensure that Australia’s trade and protection policies are compatible; provide adequate scope for public scrutiny of public policy. [More…]

• It should be noted, however, that the first of the objectives in the above list- to improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are usedexpresses the same general purpose as the terms ‘economic and efficient’. [More…]

• It is based on a report which I think generally finds wide acceptance in the community. [More…]

• It should be constantly reminded that there are certain basic goals not only set by the Government but which are accepted by the community at large. [More…]

• Another of Sir John’s main conclusions was that members should be appointed on the basis of competence and not their capacity to represent particular interest groups in the community. [More…]

• I think that the examination procedure by the Industries Assistance Commission is likely to bring about a result which will mean that in the end the Australian community will understand the interdependence of all industry, will understand that primary industry is a great export contributor and will understand that it produces resources which enable Australians to have a living standard. [More…]

• They can be drawn from the community m which they have special knowledge for a special job and be returned to the community again. [More…]

• We made revaluation decisions not because of concern for sectional interests but because it was in the interests of the Australian community as a whole to revalue the Australian dollar. [More…]

• The Minister should have welcomed the opportunity to answer if he genuinely desired to explain his proposals on national health not only to this Senate and to the members of this Parliament but also to the community at large. [More…]

• No wonder there is an atmosphere of complete confusion throughout the medical profession and the charitable and private hospitals if this is the sort of explanation we are to receive when we are merely seeking information and carrying out the task for which we are in this Parliament, that is, to represent the community. [More…]

• There is always a need in the community for economic responsibility, economic understanding and economic management. [More…]

• The philosophy adopted by that Department is most important in these days because the energy crisis which is said to prevail throughout the world may have a great effect on the Australian community. [More…]

• Those of us who see great benefit in the retention of private enterprise in this community- this is something which is being challenged by the [More…]

• The point I make is that it is surprising to me that a Labor Government which, to the great disgrace of the Australian community, has criticised nearly every international corporation finds itself involved in a contract, as I understand it now, for many millions of dollars, for the initial laying of a pipeline from South Australia across the New South Wales border. [More…]

• One of the points placed before the public prior to Labor’s coming into office was that there was a large and unacceptable level of unemployment in the Australian community. [More…]

• But there is still a very big impact on the Australian community by the subsidy that is required to support those individuals. [More…]

• The criticisms made previously by the Labor Party about the high incidence of unemployment in the community were totally unfair. [More…]

• There would be few people of repute, people whose word can be accepted or who can point to some experience in the business community, who would not give as their view that the greatest strain placed on all sectors of the community is that Labor has managed to run the inflationary rate to as high as it is today. [More…]

• What is its philosophy if there are more vacancies to be filled than persons offering for employment in all sectors of the community, from the labouring section to the professional section? [More…]

• The Labor Government saw to it that there was encouragement in various areas of the community for people to live very happily on the unemployment benefit that is provided by this Government. [More…]

• Let me instance one thing which I believe greatly disadvantages the community and that is that 18-year olds now can obtain full unemployment benefit. [More…]

• We in the Opposition believe that certain standards should be preserved in the community. [More…]

• In my opinion this move has not been made in the best interests of the Australian community and it will tend to create economic problems in the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government has flushed money for housing into the community. [More…]

• At least the margins of profit were known and demonstrated to the public by a price list which was generally maintained throughout the community. [More…]

• There is no indication to the community at what price a product was sold to the middle man. [More…]

• I believe that this is greatly to the disadvantage of those in the community who wish to acquire houses. [More…]

• The Minister has a socialist philosophy which leads him to believe that the Labor Party has all the brains to determine how to run this community. [More…]

• This attitude is proving disastrous to the community. [More…]

• The Government’s attitude to resale price maintenance and its advocacy of its prices justification proposals have serious implications to the community because they are resulting in a great escalation in cost. [More…]

• What a horror it is for the community that this type of thing is allowed to go on. [More…]

• On the one hand there are companies which supposedly have a turnover of $20m a year and which have to go before the Tribunal if they want to increase their prices; on the other hand there are some other companies with a turnover of $ 10m a year- still a sum of substantial concern to the community- and they are free to do what they like. [More…]

• Such a measure affects not only the business community but also those people who Labor says it supports. [More…]

• That objective will never be achieved, even by the proposal to increase pensions by $1.50 a week twice a year, when the inflationary rate in this community is over 6 per cent per annum. [More…]

• As the Opposition sees it, the financial policies of the Government are causing a rate of inflation that is harming every section of the community. [More…]

• By putting on labour it is creating a labour shortage in the community. [More…]

• However, we are genuinely of the opinion and can offer evidence to show that Labor policies are disastrous for the Australian community. [More…]

• I ask honourable senators to think how this filters through to the community. [More…]

• It should implement programs of search and examination to bring people to Australia so that the workforce can be strengthened at all levels to provide greater opportunities for the development of industry and for the greater development of all phases of our community living and the standard of our Australian life. [More…]

• Labor senators from South Australia were heavily criticised by all sections of the South Australian community over the action to defer construction of the dam. [More…]

• The Government thinks it was right and proper in the circumstances and that it ought not be used as a vehicle for another of the attacks aimed at endeavouring to undermine the judiciary or those occupying quasi-judicial or high administrative offices in this community. [More…]

• It does not seem to have impact on the old traditional farming community in these low rainfall areas. [More…]

• This section of the wheat growing community produces some of the highest protein wheats that are produced in South Australia. [More…]

• He went on to say that although normal humanitarian motives were involved, he thought that the entire community should perhaps share the burden. [More…]

• Therefore the obligation to sell to developing countries is a national responsibility, and as such should be carried by the Australian community as a whole and not by the Australian wheat grower. [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’, as stated in the Interim Committee report, paragraph 12.6. [More…]

• The focus should be on the child as a total person, living in a. family and a community. [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 States 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 reorganisation, 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 nonAboriginal 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…]

• I make the observation that an average of about 23 million people use urban transport each week, whereas air travellers are a very much smaller cross section of the community, there being only about 160,000 airline passengers per week. [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…]

• The measures contained in this Bill are real evidence of the Government’s recognition that some sectors of the farm community still need assistance to achieve the stability and well-being now being enjoyed by the larger proportion of rural producers. [More…]

• In view of the great increase that there will be in boating activities around the Australian coast with the approach of the holiday season, can he indicate what stage has been reached towards the establishment of an Australian coastguard, which I believe is eagerly awaited by responsible boating organisations and others in the community? [More…]

• by leave- I somewhat deplore the attempt to make a political issue out of a project which I think we all desire to do the best it can to provide another means of livelihood for an unfortunate section of the community which has had one means of livelihood taken away from it. [More…]

• This seems to me to cover the problem of the urgent necessity of considering a critical situation while leaving the Industries Assistance Commission to deal with the great broad issues of overall assistance in the Australian community across the full spectrum of industry. [More…]

• I appreciate that it is always a difficult question to determine whether the size of a bench is adequate for the court to serve that community over which the judge or judges preside. [More…]

• If the appointment of one, two or three additional judges to the Northern Territory Supreme Court means that the judges of the Industrial Court have less to do, I do not think that is in the interests of the judiciary or of the standing of the judiciary in the community. [More…]

• The attempt to eliminate the Schools Commission Advisory Boards is unacceptable because in the opinion of the Government it would destroy the concept of continuous consultation and co-operation between the Commission and the community. [More…]

• Funnily enough, there is a clear suggestion in the Karmel Committee report, and there has been a clear case put throughout the whole of the debate that has taken place within the community in relation to the creation of a Schools Commission, that it is important that the members be drawn from a wide variety of areas, including government school parents and teachers. [More…]

• This does not mean that the Commission should be insensitive to widely held views in the community nor that its membership should not display a range of experience and attitudes, but it does mean that individual members should be free from the responsibilities of representing constituent bodies. [More…]

• This is so notwithstanding an acceptance of the view throughout this community that in these respects there are certain rights which go with children, not with schools, not with their parents and not with some other relationship which may be attributable to them. [More…]

• This is where the community gained the impression that the 3 Opposition parties as a combined body were in actual opposition to the recommendations of the Karmel Committee. [More…]

• If honourable senators opposite want to destroy the opportunities for the Australian schools to get this additional aid that the Karmel Committee report and the States Grants (Schools) Bill before the Parliament now promise to give them, they should pursue the course that they are now pursuing and take the cop from the community as a consequence. [More…]

• Of these pupils, 85 per cent come from lower-income families and are able to attend the school only because of bursaries provided by members of the Jewish community. [More…]

• But I am also aware that there are people in the community who would like to make a legal challenge to any aid to independent schools. [More…]

• Down at that same meeting at which Mr Whitlam promised aid to schools a person said: ‘Let us take 2 people in the community, both with the same income and the same assets. [More…]

• It is denying the members of the community within Australia their rights as citizens and their rights towards education. [More…]

• I also hope that they will enjoy the widest use by the community at large. [More…]

• I hope that there will be conversations at various levels which the Minister is able to interpret best of all so that the community gets the maximum value for this large sum which is provided. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators, as I remind the Minister, that no-one has explained to the Senate during this debate what the reference to relative need really means, because by imposing this basis of relative need the Government introduces discrimination into the education community. [More…]

• From time to time, the independent schools system has been defended on all sides of the Senate, but the Government has been busy with a complexion of its own which for some curious reason it has decided to champion and which does nothing less than divide the community. [More…]

• It is very disappointing that the Government had decided not to provide for all children in our community. [More…]

• The Government just simply did not recognise that there were conditions and circumstances in the country that the community supported. [More…]

• Education is the prime example of a community service which should involve the entire community- not just the Education Departments and the Catholic school authorities and the Headmaster’ Conference, not just parents and teachers, but the taxpayers as a whole. [More…]

• The quality of the community’s response to the needs of the education system will determine the quality of the system. [More…]

• But the community must first know and understand the needs. [More…]

• They thought up the figure in the hope that their propaganda would deceive the members of the community. [More…]

• The facts are that some shortages are developing in the community and productivity is increasing. [More…]

• The article is accompanied by a photo of Mr Dickie, the Victorian Minister of Community Welfare. [More…]

• What is happening in Australia is that industry is flat out to meet the consumer demands of this community which is going through an unparalleled period of prosperity. [More…]

• Not only is the community pressing with its demands for goods of Australian industry but also there has been an enormous increase in imports. [More…]

• The Government, by the 25 per cent tariff cut, has endeavoured to make it easier for the community to spend money in this period of prosperity to buy more goods from outside as well. [More…]

• One of the troubles, though, is that because of the lack of power of the Government over the management of the economy it is not possible to see to it that the goods are available to the community at the prices at which they ought to be available. [More…]

• May I say that the wisdom and foresight of the Minister for Minerals and Energy has been realised by the whole community. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the publication ‘Australian Health Insurance Program- The Plain Facts’ issued by the Community Hospitals Association? [More…]

• Does he agree that this is a breach of ethics and contravenes normal business practice and, if continued, could cause confusion in the community? [More…]

• -I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Health to the organisation called ‘Recovery ‘ which is performing a very important service in the community by rehabilitating people suffering from nervous disorders. [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…]

• Pensions, 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…]

• 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 was not a subsidy, it was an encouragement which brought results of great benefit to the Australian community. [More…]

• This Government has taken a number of initiatives which we also applaud but those initiatives are far less significant than all the hoo-ha and the attempted snowing, to use a phrase, of the community would have people believe. [More…]

• The richer farmers and graziers in the community who have had access to funds have been able to maintain the standard of their machinery, equipment, fencing and so forth, but the poorer members of the farming community, through lack of access to funds, have not been able to do so. [More…]

• Therefore, these measures disadvantage the poorer farmers and graziers in the community. [More…]

• We could suggest changes which undoubtedly in the eyes of a considerable section of the community would be seen as improvements. [More…]

• Fundamentally, representing money in the pocket as distinct from the general run of the community, it is my view that they are now worse off. [More…]

• Equally there are very important gains to be made in a community by encouraging manufacturing industries to be technically as up to date as possible and, as far as possible, to replace equipment with new equipment and to induce them to do so. [More…]

• I think that this is of net benefit to a community and lower cost to a manufacturer. [More…]

• I think that in the great net situation the Austraiian community has been better off because of that and not worse off. [More…]

• It is to the net benefit of the community that it is developed and that incentives are given to so develop it. [More…]

• I have always thought that a lesser rate was imposed on private companies because they were generally conceded to be those smaller family organisations in the community. [More…]

• Even the Opposition finds happiness in the prosperity enjoyed by the community. [More…]

• What prompted us to take that attitude was that that Bill and now this Bill- substantially the same Bill- can effect major transformations in relation to the ebb and flow of Australian commercial life and the traditional practices within the community. [More…]

• However, it must be remembered that the Government’s case- and it is a case that has been agreed to by all Parties in the Senate and the House of Representatives and by people throughout the nation- is that for the last decade at least restrictive practices have been operating in industry and commerce to the detriment of the community. [More…]

• With the movement of England into the European Economic Community undoubtedly there will be some changes and departures which will lead to the development of an even more distinctive body of Australian law than there has been in the past. [More…]

• Very often in modern communities we see the total collapse of the community because of a breakdown in the legal system. [More…]

• However, so far as the law is concerned, in a community which is racially, culturally and socially substantially homogeneous, I think it is important that the system of the law and the operative law should be substantially uniform. [More…]

• The second biggest amount is to be provided for health services and community amenities, especially water and sewerage supplies. [More…]

• Do the people want Aborigines living in their community? [More…]

• By this means, the Aboriginal people will be represented by a local person who understands the problems in the community and who has a proper and easy communication with his fellows in the area. [More…]

• A program of self-help must be introduced to help Aborigines to better themselves in the community so that they can become respected and responsible members of it as fellow Australians, not as something separate. [More…]

• The proceeds from each property are used not just to feed the actual workmen but to feed the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• We have practically solved the problem of housing for that section of the Aboriginal community in some States. [More…]

• In such cases the Department of Aboriginal Affairs gives special grants to various community organisations so that the community itself can build homes to meet the requirements of such people. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, in a short period we have developed some quite respectable and very interesting Aboriginal community housing projects. [More…]

• There are sections of the Aboriginal community which will not assimilate with the Australian community. [More…]

• Everyone wants to do the best he can for this section of the community. [More…]

• Our opinions may differ on the subject, but I think we must try to avoid the making of political capital out of some mistake which may be made by a Minister who is doing his best- perhaps the mistake is due to insufficient guidance- to help the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Mrs Whitlam replied to it.Thetopreal estate man in that community said that, the price was $14,000 too high. [More…]

• If the Opposition wants to help, it will assist in passing legislation such as the Trade Practices Bill- the consumer protection legislation- which everyone in the community agrees will be vital if we are to tackle the problem of inflation. [More…]

• It is quite appropriate that it should give the guidance to the rest of the community in advanced social legislation, but it is not appropriate that, using its financial resources, it should take such a lead as makes it impossible for other elements in the community to follow, and that is what is happening in this case. [More…]

• That would then create a class of individuals in one employ which would be totally privileged against all other sections of the community, and to my mind that would not be a proper use of the financial power which rests in the Commonwealth. [More…]

• By that time I am sure the Government will be in a position to come forward with some amelioratory provisions which will reduce what could be described as the undue extravagance of certain sections of the working community which is demonstrated in the provisions of this Bill. [More…]

• I imagine that it would be the view of this chamber that the greatest possible amount of benefit should be provided to any injured person in the community, whether that person be an employee, an employer or a simple housewife. [More…]

• There should be a level of compensation available, if the community can afford it, that will adequately compensate persons during their lifetimes for some injury or some disadvantage which has been received. [More…]

• One would wish that those who are on a low rate of pay perhaps could be elevated to a rate of pay somewhere in the region of that received by those to whom some high ranking Ministers in the Government have, I believe very unfairly, referred in a financial sense as being the fatter people in the community. [More…]

• It has been mentioned, and I take the point greatly to heart, that we are introducing into this matter a lead by the Commonwealth in the granting of enormous benefits to one class of persons in the community. [More…]

• The plain fact is that the community is not in a position to offer that benefit at this time. [More…]

• I think that it is inconsistent that the Commonwealth Government, on behalf of the people of Australia, should offer to one class of people in the community this inordinate benefit in regard to compensation. [More…]

• I think that recognition must be taken of the effect this could have on the private sector of the community. [More…]

• Our minds are being directed to reports presented by joint parliamentary committees and by Senate committees relating to profits, profit margins and to the cost of goods to the community. [More…]

• If this measure to provide such benefits to a substantial part of the employable Australian community were carried it would lead to higher costs in the community. [More…]

• I do not deny that they have a right to be placed in the same bracket as the rest of the employable community. [More…]

• We are awaiting a comprehensive report that may lay down for this or any other Government some basis whereby a contribution can be made to the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• Again I refer to the fact that one sees many instances in one’s lifetime of individuals who are harmed in accidents and who appear to have no claim on anyone in the community for compensation for the disability they have suffered. [More…]

• One can readily bring to mind many examples of how it could be said that by passing this Bill we will be creating an elite in the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that we should wait and that we should seriously consider the implementation of an overall compensation scheme for the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• If, for example, the committee of inquiry were to bring in a set of compensation tables for everybody in the community, including those who are not employed, it would mean that the Government would have to consider its impact on the legislation in the States. [More…]

• This became not only an economic problem but also a human problem, and it was the responsibility of the community to assist them to leave if they so desired. [More…]

• They know that their standing in the community is continuing to slip. [More…]

• One can only anticipate that it will be developed at extreme cost to the Australian community. [More…]

• The Bill before the Senate 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…]

• It gives freedom from fear cif the financial consequences of illness, it gives freedom of choice of doctor and hospital and it does this in a way which does not levy a penalty on the sick and the economically less fortunate members of this community. [More…]

• Honourable senators will readily appreciate that the Commission, as a statutory authority, will be the most appropriate form of organization for the provision of an efficient service to the community in the payment of medical and hospital benefits claims. [More…]

• Struggle as we may for 7 years or 10 years we cannot get to first base in establishing a community there consistent with the demands of the environment and catering for the tourists. [More…]

• Will the Minister ask his colleague to investigate the possibility of removing this re-address fee, which is a hardship on these people, from all needy groups of people in the community? [More…]

• Is he aware that these shortages are affecting in addition to owners of Holdens used for private purposes business sections of the community who use a Holden vehicle to deliver their products, such as bread and milk? [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 Senate on 31 May last. [More…]

• That program has been endorsed by the Government and a sum of $10m 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…]

• The functions of the Commission in general terms are: (a) to make recommendations to the Minister in relation to the provision of health services by the Department of Health; (b) to ascertain the health care needs of the Australian community and to make recommendations to the Minister in respect of those needs; (c) with the approval of the Minister, to make grants, including conditional grants, to government bodies, persons or organisations engaged in health care or research into health care; (d) to investigate means of securing and, with the approval of the Minister, arrange for, representation of Australia or the Commission on governmental bodies involved in health care; (e) to promote and take part in planning in relation to health services; (f) to promote the provision of adequate health services; (g) to review health care delivery systems and recommend changes to States, organisations or persons concerned with those systems; (h) to undertake such other functions in relation to health care as the Minister approves. [More…]

• The present scheme disadvantages some people in the community, mainly low income earners, especially those with large families and pensioners, who presently receive what can only be regarded as a second-class health service. [More…]

• We believe that the Government’s divisive, unnecessary and very costly health proposals are too high a price to pay for a controversial new scheme of health cover for the 90-odd per cent of the community who are adequately covered already. [More…]

• Unfortunately too little effort has been made to ensure that the provisions of the subsidised health benefits scheme are kept in line with the needs of those sections of the community this scheme is designed to serve. [More…]

• The DLP believes that pensioners should enjoy the same type of medical care as is enjoyed by the rest of the community. [More…]

• Despite the Minister’s claim that this move would disadvantage pensioners, our Bill would provide low-income pensioners with the opportunity of upgrading their health care to the level of that enjoyed by all other members of the community. [More…]

• We see it as of vital importance that there is an involvement in the Commission at the community level of parents, teachers, and people in some of the special areas of education. [More…]

• I want it to be known that I have been honest enough in the past to say that I have never been in favour of state aid, but now that it has been instituted I believe that it should be for everyone and not for particular sections of the community. [More…]

• It speaks of a one-class community and so on. [More…]

• I do not know whether it is the method by which we can get people to shift from one area to another, but the Bills propose to make the residences and the community services available to people who transfer from one area to another. [More…]

• There is, for example, as I read the clause, no specific reference to educational institutions or community agencies or religious organisations, all of which I submit are as important a part of a developing community as those which are listed, and they could well in one form or another come within the description of the functions of the Corporation under the Bill. [More…]

• If it is suggested that migrants should be settled in the area, surely there ought to be some reference to the emphasis to be placed on particular education programs for these people and on their social integration into the total community. [More…]

• Up to now in all these kinds of areas community organisations have worked in this general field. [More…]

• By the time that the AlburyWodonga area is established there could be new matters to be considered, but there does not seem to be any reference to them or any inference which leads me to understand that the migrant community, which is specifically mentioned in the Bill, will be cared for or have particular facilities available to it. [More…]

• He has also drawn attention to the significant part which the Albury-Wodonga area has played in the absorption of migrants into the Australian community. [More…]

• It may be difficult to ascertain the wishes of such a complex community, but it would be a matter of interest to me to know what inquiries were made of the people who live in Albury, as to whether they wanted to become part of this complex. [More…]

• Seldom has there been such a wave of feeling manifested in a community as there has been at the attempt by this Government to nationalise, to take away the right of choice, to take away a good, satisfactory scheme and to impose against the will of the people something which will be not as good but which will cost a lot more. [More…]

• I was saying that this wave of revulsion in the community is demonstrated by the fact that I have had forwarded to me from Tasmania petitions signed by 23,500 electors in Tasmania alone. [More…]

• At the moment the wealthier people in the community tend to pay for the private or intermediate wards because they can obtain insurance. [More…]

• But when we find that they have already paid a situation will arise in which people whom the Government pretends it is trying to help, the disadvantaged and lower income group within the community, will be having to compete with others against whom by and large they did not in the past have to compete. [More…]

• The private hospital system has served the interests of the community and the interests of the provision of a degree of choice to those in the community who wish to exercise it. [More…]

• Whether or not this is the intention of the Minister or the Government, the idea of the medical records of the entire community being stored in one vast governmentowned and controlled data bank is abhorrent to most Australians. [More…]

• The purpose of this piece of propaganda is to give 13 reasons why the women of this community should say no to the Government’s proposed health scheme. [More…]

• They know very well that for the greatest proportion of people in the community it will cost less and, as I mentioned, the community has been paying $300m to the present scheme over a long period of time- since the scheme was introduced. [More…]

• Many of the privileges that they get in the community are subsidised. [More…]

• The truth of the matter is that the Opposition has no desire to allow the members of the Australian community any real freedom to choose the type of hospital and medical care they want. [More…]

• The opportunists in our community have had their wings seriously clipped since the Labor Government has been in power. [More…]

• I want to nail one lie that has been disseminated throughout the community by various people who have their own interests at heart; that is, the statement that a patient will not have the right to choose his own doctor. [More…]

• People who traditionally have been the most ethical and looked up to group in the community have been virtually degrading themselves because they have been caught up in the political pressure that has been brought to bear to try to get revenge for the fact that there was a change of Government on 2 December of last year. [More…]

• As important as health is to this community, the Labor Party in its wisdom has decided after 12 months in office- and it has celebrated that 12-month period- that it is appropriate to bring in 2 health Bills at the very end of this session. [More…]

• But the unique situation that we are in is that several other pieces of legislation- the exact number of which we know not- which apparently are of great import to the health of this community are to be brought in some time in 1974. [More…]

• Particularly significant changes in health services to the community are proposed in these Bills by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• I notice that Senator O ‘Byrne is quiet when it comes to stating whether Labor wishes to see the abolition of private hospitals in the community. [More…]

• Nowhere is it more evident than in the Bill before the Senate relating to the health of the community. [More…]

• It aims at having a totally employed community. [More…]

• Most people in the community will be paying a higher amount for the type of health service which they want than they pay under the present scheme. [More…]

• By a body of individuals working in the community, wonderful edifices have been built in my home city of Melbourne. [More…]

• That will be a disaster for the medical profession and for community health in future. [More…]

• If Labor has its way, there will be a lower quality of medical care in Australia, increased costs for the Government, increased total costs for the majority of taxpayers, rejection of the freedom of choice which exists at present, the jeopardy of the future of religious, private and country hospitals and the nationalisation and socialisation of medical health care in 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…]

• Indeed they are because on pages 6, 7 and 8 we get the real gem as to why the Government’s scheme has failed and why it is being rejected now by the whole of the Australian community which does not want to be divorced from its medical services and the expertise of the people necessary to carry them out. [More…]

• The steps proposed to be undertaken under these Bills will form part of a national pattern of health as seen by the Government and will be directed towards the promotion of happy and healthy living for all in the community, not just those whose reach it is within because they have the money to be able to afford it. [More…]

• My only complaint about its members is that they will not co-operate with this Government in its earnest endeavour to introduce a health scheme which will benefit and improve the lot of three out of four in the community. [More…]

• The cost of ill health is a burden on the family, and the startling advances made by medicine in the past 25 years have steeply increased the cost There is, therefore, a logical case of spreading it over the whole of the community so that those that are fortunate to remain in good health may help those who temporarily fall out of the ranks. [More…]

• They have put this campaign of fear to the community to endeavour to have Labor’s measures defeated. [More…]

• It is my firm belief that the introduction of this scheme will see the end of the charitable, religious, community and privately owned hospitals. [More…]

• Commonwealth Health Minister Doug Everingham in an exclusive interview told the ‘Bulletin’ last week that he saw community health centres eventually catering for between 80 and 90 per cent of general practitioners services in Australia, leaving private practice fee-for-service doctors only 10 to 20 per cent of business. [More…]

• We want to see the pensioner medical scheme and the subsidised health benefits scheme integrated into the present national health scheme so that the benefits of the scheme accrue to pensioners and other people in low income sections of the community. [More…]

• Nobody can deny that optometrists make an extremely valuable contribution to the community. [More…]

• I am of the opinion that if any government wants to provide total health care for the members of the community, it cannot avoid including other professions that are working in this field. [More…]

• It brought down a White Paper and gave all members of the Australian community every opportunity to express their point of view on the matter. [More…]

• Nor have they told them that the pensioners who now have to pay for their own specialist attention if they do not go to a public hospital will be able under the Labor Government’s scheme to go to any specialist of their own choosing and receive the same return as any other member of the Australian 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 Government believes that it is in the interests of the Australian people that the motions I have moved for the second reading of these Bills should be agreed to by the Senate and the legislation enacted so that the Government can get down to the task of providing proper, decent, reasonable and just medical services to all sections of the community. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the program ‘Seven Little Australians’ produced by the ABC was very well received throughout the Australian community? [More…]

• I certainly agree with the honourable senator that the program ‘Seven Little Australians’ was very well received by a large section of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Commission has received many congratulatory letters and I have had laudatory comments from a large cross-section of the Australian community about the program. [More…]

• The decision of governments in this area is governed by the desire to curb inflation and engage in some sensible economic management of the community. [More…]

• At that time death duties were being strongly criticised by the community at large and there was much public sentiment against them. [More…]

• This sort of community attitude was thoroughly understood by the Committee and my remarks are not in any way intended to reflect on the integrity of the many witnesses who came along to the Committee ‘s public meetings and gave evidence to the best of their beliefs. [More…]

• We are also proposing that rural estates be taxed on the same basis as those for the rest of the community. [More…]

• It was also evident from the inquiry in general, and in particular from the presentation of case histories, that the community at large was abysmally ignorant of the nature and provisions of death taxation and that this in itself was a major underlying cause of much of the hardship presented to the Committee. [More…]

• Throughout Australia are many schools, such as the Adass Israel school, Marbury College, Portland Loreto Convent, the Australian International Independent School (Sydney) and many others that one could name which are small, which have clear needs, and which are being positively discriminated against by this Government which wishes to ensure the perpetuation of a discrimination against a section of the community. [More…]

• The Office will be staffed by salaried lawyers who will work in close cooperation with community welfare organisations, established legal aid schemes, referral centres and the private legal profession. [More…]

• There have already been encouraging discussions with student referral services and community legal referral services and it is intended to enter into discussions with Law Societies and other interested bodies as soon as possible. [More…]

• I envisage that the decentralised store-front’ offices of the Australian Legal Aid Office could provide administrative support bases for community services of this kind. [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 consequences 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…]

• Economic Community and by the uncertainties they face in relation to the European markets generally. [More…]

• Having particular regard to Great Britain, which had been the most important part of our European market, the report went on to say that for the first time we met with the phasing in conditions of the European Economic Community regulations. [More…]

• The attitudes 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…]

• Provision has been made for development of community health services in line with recommendations of the Commonwealth interim committee. [More…]

• The Queensland Government has provided also for community home care and the amount provided was nearly double the previous year’s allocation. [More…]

• It is time that they were treated the same as other senior people in the community. [More…]

• The Interim Report acknowledged that the founderdonor system has enabled accommodation to be built which could otherwise not have been possible but suggested that the practice of organisations receiving second and subsequent donations could be more tightly controlled in the interests of those members of the community presently in need of low-cost sheltered accommodation and care. [More…]

• There are, of course, some costs incurred in the community as a result of interest rates which necessarily go with making government bonds more attractive; these overt costs, however, amount to much less than the costs involved in the coven erosion of the value of money through inflation. [More…]

• He was a man who gave of his professional talents to the community and, in time of war, to the nation. [More…]

• He and his good wife were very much involved in community work. [More…]

• Indeed the curtailment of the said grants will create divisions in the community. [More…]

• That the Government’s refusal to acknowledge the rampant inflation in this nation and consequently to take effective measures to minimise it is having a debilitating effect on the productive effort of all sections of the community, is dissipating savings, is causing inestimable harm to numerous Australians and is destroying the sound economic basis of this country as community confidence is undermined. [More…]

• Everyone knows that the Postmaster-General, Mr Bowen, has been doing his utmost to operate postal services in the interests of the community, at the same time keeping in mind the working conditions of workers in the Post Office. [More…]

• In the forthcoming Budget discussions the Government will do the same as it did in the previous Budget considerations: It will allocate Australian resources to the best advantage of the whole of the Australian community and will not think in terms of sectional interests. [More…]

• It is intolerable that there be any intimidation of any persons in this community. [More…]

• I wish to make it quite clear that intimidation will not be permitted in this community and if there is any repetition of that kind of conduct it will be dealt with severely and the resources of the law will be employed. [More…]

• To provide for the situation in the event of the Government deciding to change the previous Government’s policy which has been in existance over the last 24 or 25 years, I am now asking the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and my Department to advise me on the need, in their opinion, for community access stations, ethnic group stations and, of course, additional commercial broadcasting stations. [More…]

• Because so many people in the community will be affected, will the Government make a statement on the level of subsidy on superphosphate as soon as it possibly can? [More…]

• What seems to me to be important is that this kind of conduct be not tolerated in this community. [More…]

• But I think what we need to do is to show- I think that it is apparent from what everyone said- that any kind of intimidation of the type that occurred will not be tolerated in this community. [More…]

• The accepted definition- the definition accepted by the McMahon Governmentwas a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait descent who accepts himself as an Aborigine or Torres Strait Islander and is accepted as such by the community in which he lives. [More…]

• Therefore, it is of value to the whole community to encourage general practitioners to have these units and to use them. [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that the recent industrial action by the Australian Bank Officials Association, which caused widespread disruption throughout the community, showed clearly how ineffective the arbitration system has become under the present Government? [More…]

• Principally, I pay tribute to Mr Neil Sullivan, president of the organisation responsible, who was assisted by all sections of the community. [More…]

• Consequently, all sections of the community were catered for. [More…]

• It has done so by increasing interest rates, by refusing to seek the co-operation of all sections of the community- be they Commonwealth institutions, State governments, employers, unions and consumers- and it has shown itself totally incapable of responsibly managing the economy. [More…]

• This Government- a government which pretends to represent the lower earning section of the community especially- bolsters the price of money and increases the rate of interest to a Shylock degree. [More…]

• That is creating the avalanche of high costs and high expenses that the community is suffering. [More…]

• Why is it that food and clothing, which comprise the major price increases affecting the community, are excluded from the ambit of the Prices Justification Tribunal? [More…]

• Unless this Government representing the national interest can induce the unions and the employers to get together to determine a system which will give the ordinary worker justice from a wage point of view, and ensure that the general interests of the community are preserved, within 8 months we will be in the same position as is Great Britain. [More…]

• There is in the community a constitution and there is a proposal put forward by the Government which has twice gained the acceptance of the House of Representatives by an absolute majority, and in December last year was rejected by the Opposition parties in the Senate, that the people of Australia have a say in the alteration of their own Constitution. [More…]

• But we want to use this forum as the place in which the arguments can be raised so that the Hansard record will contain them and through that record we can communicate those arguments to a community which otherwise would not be informed as to what the pros and cons of this measure may be. [More…]

• Yet the doctors try to fool the community, the electors- they tried to fool me- by getting people to sign a petition. [More…]

• Of course, not only is the decision up to him but also there has to be a recognition and acceptance by the Aboriginal community in which he may live. [More…]

• Will the Minister take steps to give encouragement to and incentives for new productions which, whilst they endeavour to reflect life situations, also focus attention on the development and improvement of entertainment and intellectual qualities as well as community responsibility? [More…]

• They cannot understand that there is an alternative to their threadbare philosophies and policies and that a breath of fresh air has blown into every section of the Australian community and its government. [More…]

• I think it augurs well for the future of the Labor Government that it does recognise that there are important people in this community apart from the VIPs and members of Parliament, because this place could not function without the very hard work and the able assistance that is given to us by the parliamentary staff in their various fields. [More…]

• So we are doing all we can to look after the welfare of the underprivileged and underpaid in this community. [More…]

• A situation of go slow, work to regulations, a crippling slowing down of the community and a reduction in productivity is everywhere. [More…]

• Valhalla or Garden of Eden that could be achieved and achieved quickly, the Labor Party misled the whole of the Aboriginal people and a substantial number of non-Aboriginal people of this community who were of good will, good heart and sentiment and who wanted, as we all do, to rectify the errors of a century and a half in this field. [More…]

• For the good of Australia Senator Rae, as Chairman of the Committee, should have been falling over backwards to try to tell his colleagues in the community of what has been going on. [More…]

• In addition, absolute standards as well as relativity to average standards in the community have been improved. [More…]

• I think that it is one of our great achievements that the disregard of and cynicism towards the poorer people in the community that existed for so long in this country is now a thing of the past. [More…]

• The fact that people in the community prefer to send their children either to a religious school or to some private school, for reasons of their own, does not matter to this Government. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Primary Industry, concerns the threatened ban on Australian apples in European Economic Community markets from 1 April this year. [More…]

• As the first and only, to date, elected Aboriginal member of Parliament, I seek the indulgence of the Senate for I feel compelled at this point in time, because of what is happening to my race with threats of violence and the inevitable backlash which will take place, to refer today to 3 sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• We, the Aboriginal people of this nation, need to gain the support of this Parliament, the support of the State parliaments and most importantly the support of the general Australian community. [More…]

• Many, through hard work and study, have attained important positions in the community, and they have grave responsibilities. [More…]

• There are within our community people who are doing that very thing at this very time. [More…]

• Finally, I address myself to the nonAboriginal section of the community. [More…]

• I am conscious of the fact that there are in the community non-Aborigines who are in need of considerable assistance, but I do not believe that that is any reason to knock what is being done for the descendants of the conquered. [More…]

• I believe that the indigenous people of this nation are entitled to be given opportunities, encouragement and assistance to enable them to become respected and responsible members in the community. [More…]

• I realise that I have responsibilities to all sections of the Australian community, but I feel also that I have a particular responsibility to people of my own race. [More…]

• The big unions are capable now of terrorising the community in a way that a big employer or big organisation cannot do. [More…]

• As I mentioned before, we cannot have Rhodesian girl guides here; that might contaminate the community. [More…]

• It should be understood that a rate of inflation of 14 per cent is creating inescapable difficulties for sectors of the community. [More…]

• I refer to those sectors of the community on fixed incomes, those on pensions and those who have limited opportunities to add to income, despite the increasing rates of wage demands which are present in our wage structure. [More…]

• The decision in the national wage case will flow through to all sectors of the community. [More…]

• Senator McManus and I, along with those senators, were members of the Senate Select Committee on the Metric System of Weights and Measures that recommended the introduction of the metric system into Australia with the support of an overwhelming amount of evidence from all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• I never understood the Industries Assistance Commission to be established as an appeal body to which the farmer or any other section of the community could appeal over actions of the Government. [More…]

• Community organisations and citizens with special knowledge were brought into action and they made a notable contribution. [More…]

• Sponsorship programs were arranged which helped both communities and families to become happy and contented units in the Austraiian community. [More…]

• If we had an active migration program which concentrated on these areas, we would have more people contributing to the economy and fewer people totally dependent on the community. [More…]

• -The Treasurer announced in the presentation of his Budget in the Parliament last August that the Government, in accordance with its policies of open government and in genuine endeavour to inform the Australian people, would be undertaking an extensive advertising campaign in order to inform the Australian people of the responsibilities of Parliament, the executive and government generally and also to inform the Australian community about the rights and privileges of Australian citizens. [More…]

• I am sure it would be in the interests of the whole of the Australian community if that supply could be kept at a fairly uniform rate. [More…]

• The Australian racing community does not seem to have found the difficulty which was found in Great Britain. [More…]

• But the Prime Minister was not reticent last December in drawing the whole of the Australian community into an election on 2 referendum points. [More…]

• How well they knew their Labor Party; how well they knew the socialists in this community in putting these brakes, these governors, upon centralised power. [More…]

• One can make a fetish of referring to the representative principle and to involving the community, but I am not one who believes that it is a fetish to refer to those things. [More…]

• I believe, for example, in our judicial system and that we ought to have far more jury decisions on issues which go before the courts, not because judges are incompetent or inadequate to make decisions but because juries represent a community judgment on issues which must be decided. [More…]

• After all, those who have the power of government recognise that if people are asked unnecessarily on too many occasions, too frequently, to express an opinion as to which Party should be in power there will be a reaction against them because it is generally accepted throughout the community that governments have an obligation to govern and if they must race to the people from time to time, either to have a issue determined by way of a referendum or to put their own authority on the line, there is a likelihood that the public reaction will be that some other government will get on with the job and will not require such frequent commendation of what it is doing. [More…]

• Yet they talk about us as if somehow or other we are running the Senate, whereas every educated child in the community knows that there is a temporary defect in democracy in the community in that the Government, elected by the people, is being frustrated in its will by those senators opposite who are yelping out and not letting me speak freely. [More…]

• My Party believes that that is the right forum for the consideration of local government’s loan commitments, its financial programs, the burden of rates on the community and ultimately the drawing up of priorities in accordance with the needs and the funds available from the States with Commonwealth assistance. [More…]

• The Commonwealth is quite right to adopt this attitude because there would be countless regions throughout Australia to which it would not want to give money at this stage of the development to a particular local government council but to a group of councils to carry out say, a major drainage scheme, a major road scheme or to be used or for the establishment of a community facility such as an olympic swimming pool or a library which would be shared not by the people in one municipality but by the people living in a particular region. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt knows, as well as I and any other thinking person in the community, that irrespective of the results of this debate and irrespective of whether the Bill is passed or is rejected this question will go to the people in the form of a referendum. [More…]

• Often the political influence destroys a proper and conscientious discussion of the needs of a community. [More…]

• We hope this historic Convention will lead amongst other things, to the kinds of changes that will give local government access to the funds it must have if it is to meet the increasing demands the community is making on it. [More…]

• What did the Country Party mean when it proposed in its 1972 policy speech to give local government access to the funds it must have if it is to meet the increasing demands that the community is making on it. [More…]

• It will do immeasurable good to the people who work so hard on behalf of the community. [More…]

• That was worked in the way that I have suggested, the Commonwealth passing the money to the States, the States, because of their closer opportunity for investigation, setting out the requirements of each community. [More…]

• Unfortunately, it appears that the commercial community did not pass all the benefits of those cuts on to the people and steps ought to be taken to see that it does so. [More…]

• This illustrates the proposition that the Government is a payer of interest in this community. [More…]

• It remains to be seen in the next few days what the attitude of those who complain about inflation will be when they are given a chance to do something to legislate to outlaw the restrictive practices and rackets which operate to force up inflation in the community. [More…]

• The Government has not had from the commercial community the response which it ought to have had to that step. [More…]

• I know that there is more wealth amongst all sections of our community today and that there is unfortunately a small group of Aborigines associated with fringe city development who are not utilising the additional money in the best interests of what we consider to be good living standards. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that in some sections of our community there is condemnation of the behaviour of Aborigines after taking liquor but no one has thought to study and supervise the position in which Aborigines find themselves. [More…]

• It is reasonable to assume that we are sitting and working much longer hours than most of the community works when one takes into account these other activities I know that there are honourable senators opposite and honourable senators on this side of the chamber who are not in the Ministry but who are working on not only parliamentary committees but also Party committees. [More…]

• In the recent elections in Great Britain a government was elected with about 37 per cent of the total community vote. [More…]

• For too long restrictive trade practices and other unfair commercial practices have been able to continue to the detriment of the community and to the detriment of individual consumers. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs: In view of the concern which has been expressed in sections of the Australian community at the detention without trial of prisoners in Indonesia, particularly those arrested during the recent riots, can the Minister say whether during his visit to Indonesia last week he raised this matter with the Indonesian authorities? [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…]

• I believe it is impossible for the private sector of the Community to meet the cost of these benefits, taking into consideration the circumstances of the last year. [More…]

• I believe that the producers in the community face quite a serious situation in the future. [More…]

• I think it is incumbent upon the Senate to debate these matters and to see where Government policy is leading; to attempt to evaluate the question: Is total socialism acceptable to the Australian community? [More…]

• Here we have in a policy of this Labor socialist government the complete erosion of private industry in this community. [More…]

• I think that you, Mr Acting Deputy President, will agree with me on the general point that I have made relating to the socialism which I see as such a threat to the community. [More…]

• Of greater concern is the fact that the overall review of the industry’s relationship to the community at large would be conducted by the proposed authority. [More…]

• The total cost of interest to the Australian community in the 16 months of office of this Government has risen by approximately 3 1 per cent. [More…]

• 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…]

• The Senate should take occasion to remind the Parliament and the nation that the very basis of our society, the very fabric of our style of life and the very core of our community and neighbourhood life, is threatened by this increasing interest rates situation: A high and rising rate of interest which, unfortunately, gives no sign of abating. [More…]

• This is a matter of concern not only to our young people but also to people who make up a wide cross section of our community. [More…]

• A high interest rate policy places the burden on that section of the community which can least afford to carry it. [More…]

• He may have only a small amount to invest but, by the same token, he can obtain a maximum loan- and by obtaining that loan he is able to buy, build or establish a home and so provide for himself some real estate which will grow in value as years go by, from which base he can make a contribution not only to his own life and future but also to our total community and well being. [More…]

• It is socially disadvantageous for the community because, interestingly enough, it strongly affects the greatest number of people in our community. [More…]

• I suggest that that statement is causing widespread confusion in both the Department of Housing and Construction and the Treasury and that it has aroused expectations and speculation throughout the financial community. [More…]

• I think that one of the questions to be asked during an inflationary period is: Who makes the most worthwhile contribution in the community? [More…]

• They make no attempt to become involved in the community. [More…]

• That cannot be interpreted in any other way than a deliberate statement of policy, lt is clear that the Prime Minister of this country was discarding completely the interests of the little men buying a home, people endeavouring to buy on time payment a refrigerator or washing machine, and the other people in the indebted class in the community. [More…]

• The increases in interest rates that were forced upon the community were a deliberate act of policy by the Government and had nothing to do with the market circumstances of the time. [More…]

• Yet, this was done to the detriment of those people in the community who could least afford to pay. [More…]

• In a statement issued by the Prime Minister the reason why the contract was deliberately manoeuvred was given, lt was that, whilst the opportunity was given for the credit institutions of this country to charge 10 per cent, they were not obliged to pay more than 3.75 per cent to those members of the community who had smaller sums of money in savings accounts in banks. [More…]

• But as yet, in spite of questions we have asked deliberately in this House and in spite of our opposition to Government proposals which do not recognise this need, no move has been made by this Government to remove this injustice from the poorer people of this community who are receiving interest at a paltry 3.75 per cent on their money deposited in the savings banks. [More…]

• That, Sir, is the cost that the rest of the Australian community has to bear. [More…]

• The public servants are ripping off the Australian community. [More…]

• If the Government intends to go ahead with its proposal to set up a national insurance company which would set out to insure the homes of the general community, will the Leader undertake to discuss with his colleagues the need to eliminate a limit of this type so there can be a realistic replacement value? [More…]

• -Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party) (2.21)- The Democratic Labor Party has already indicated that it will give a speedy passage to benefit Bills, that is, Bills of the social services type which are designed to benefit members of the community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) is so far out of the country when he ought to be here supervising the passage of the country’s business through the Parliament that when I was in Western Australia for an election campaign the other day, one of the pleas being made by people in the community was for Australia to have a resident Prime Minister. [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 the community must bear in mind and pensioners must be especially aware of is that the consumer price index increases at a much slower rate than average weekly earnings. [More…]

• In March 1 973 the Senate Opposition said to the Government: ‘Our policies would be to proceed with sound anti-inflationary policies so that the purchasing power in the community can be stabilised, so that inflation can be contained and reduced and so that pensions, in terms of their real purchasing power, can have some meaning’. [More…]

• ‘The community as a whole is advantaged if interest rates are lower rather than higher’, he said. [More…]

• The inflation rate in this country, which we must continue to remind the community was running at 4.7 per cent and falling when the LiberalCountry Party Government left office, is now running at 14.2 percent and rising- and economists predict that it will be running at 20 per cent by the last quarter of this year. [More…]

• Social service recipients have rights in the community, the same as members of a parliament, judges, plumbers or bricklayers, who have their incomes fixed by a tribunal which determines what their services are worth to the community. [More…]

• Plots are being worked out to bribe more votes out of another section of the community in this country. [More…]

• This is not a policy, it is an insult to the older people in the community which they should not have to suffer at their age. [More…]

• I prompt honourable senators on the Government side, who I acknowledge are very keen to ensure that pension increases are paid to those who are less fortunate in the community or those who are dependent on social security benefits, to recall that traditionally in this country when a Bill to increase pensions has been passed the benefit has been paid within 7 or 14 days or generally as from the next pay day for pensioners. [More…]

• I point out to those pensioners and other people who work in the community and are interested in comments that are made in the Senate in relation to social welfare Bills, that in fact the Minister devoted almost 25 per cent of his speech to criticising the Opposition. [More…]

• I think the Minister could have gone on to say that during that 60 years Labor has been in office at various times but apparently at no time during that period was an increase of this amount thought necessary to assist those in the community who are less fortunate than others. [More…]

• But for all that, the Government is running the community into a serious financial situation. [More…]

• He said that it is to the benefit of the Australian community that we are able to pay a pension. [More…]

• I hope that, whatever level of pension is paid and whatever benefits we are able to provide for the less fortunate in the community they will be able to build proper accommodation and to maintain and furnish it. [More…]

• Some people within the community fall on hard times and unfortunately are not able to work for a living. [More…]

• In that sense it represents the community interest in resolving what otherwise might be resolved only with great strife and hardship to the community; whereas a tribunal that fixed pensions would be determining, in effect, what the community can allow or what the Government can allow, having regard to all its other items of expenditure, by way of remuneration to pensioners. [More…]

• This company has been in the field of offering insurance and protection against loss of livelihood to many in the community. [More…]

• I, representing in the Senate the Minister for Health, am unaware of the exact nature of the details raised by the honourable senator, although he will be as aware as I am of the interest taken by our colleague the Minister for Health in trying to solve the problems of alcoholism and alcoholics in the Australian community. [More…]

• Unless the judicial systemboth bench and legal profession- takes an early opportunity to introduce economy, expedition and simplicity, it will fail to serve the high purposes that it should serve for our community. [More…]

• I have expressed the view previously that jury trials ought to be encouraged, that we should have more of them, and that as far as possible the legislatures of the States and the rules of court of the judges should facilitate juries as the arbiters of disputed issues of fact, because I believe that juries are the means by which the community and the legal system can be brought together, and also the means by which the community can have confidence in our legal system. [More…]

• We can see the sad sellouts of community enterprises which continued on and on. [More…]

• I wish to make it clear that the Senate Select Committee on Off-shore Petroleum Resources, which sat for a long time, took a lot of in-depth evidence including evidence from many people in the community, including political leaders. [More…]

• He did not refer to any specific practice to which the Government took objection but, generally, he referred to a number of actions which were taking place in the community and over which apparently Mr Bannerman had some control and say in respect of the registration of the trade practices that existed in Australia in great number. [More…]

• If 109 amendments are to be dealt and, I hope, explained- not for the benefit necessarily of honourable senators but certainly for the benefit of the trade and the business community in general- I believe it would be wise for him to rise and agree to consolidate all the amendments into a new Bill and give an explanation of the meanings of the variations that he proposes. [More…]

• The next words are: -men and women are standing behind Whitlam because of his courage and ability and we wont be put off by the hillbillies or the hicks who represent that section of the community who . [More…]

• We improved wage levels because we contended that servicemen were entitled to have conditions similar to those of everybody else in the community, that they should have standards which would not make outside jobs more competitive than they are. [More…]

• Wales and Queensland- there has been a greater participation by the Services in community affairs, disasters and other things than ever before. [More…]

• I recently commented that, although there were one or two expressions of satisfaction about the great deeds that were done, how little was said in the community about the great performance of the Services. [More…]

• We are in competition with outside industry and there will be, as 1 have noticed, a greater desire on the part of some people in the Services to get a job outside because they can be more easily integrated into the community. [More…]

• The Public servants are ripping off the Australian community. [More…]

• However, by the use of these tactics today the members of the Opposition are still attempting to create fear and uncertainty in the community. [More…]

• I imagine, and I am not alone in my belief about this, that while we certainly need manpower in the 3 branches of the defence Servicesthat goes without saying- we also need to muster, foster and develop resources to the maximum extent possible in the civilian community and particularly in the areas of industrial activity. [More…]

• How can you sell that to the Australian community when during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 we went from absolute cold. [More…]

• What this Government has done and what, to their credit, President Nixon, in spite of his home problems, and Dr Kissinger have done, is introduce into the international community a different approach. [More…]

• But 1 think the hour is too late for me to go through the long history of what was done by the Opposition when it was in government and its allies to prevent any reasonable laws being brought in against those restrictive practices which have been injuring the community. [More…]

• There are people in this community who have a vested interest in preventing any effective law against restrictive trade practices. [More…]

• It is accepted an all hands that restrictive practices are one of the major influences in inflation, that they are injurious to the community and that in effect they are rackets perpetrated against the consumers and the rest of the community. [More…]

• I heard one of the Opposition’s former members, a very distinguished person in this community, say that he believed that no matter how sensible, how reasonable and how good your legislation is it will not get through this Parliament. [More…]

• The manoeuvres that have gone on over 12 years, I think, ought to sicken anyone in this community. [More…]

• They are in a position of unparalleled economic power in this community, and that economic power carries with it political power which extends right into these chambers. [More…]

• I know that that Bill of last year has been the subject of consideration by many interested groups in the community which have sent their representations to the Attorney-General and to the Opposition parties. [More…]

• We have to make decisions as to what will interest and benefit the community and what will be in the public interest in this whole field. [More…]

• McManus said, that the public and the community is not being served by the haste with which this Government is introducing legislation and expecting it to be passed. [More…]

• The community is not being served by legislation which is motivated by ideological and political commitments, rather than by scrutinisation and examination of what the community really needs. [More…]

• Until this Government recognises that the role of government is to meet the community needs and not to serve the political ideological interests of a group, it will never make any real impact on the people in this community. [More…]

• It might have had some impact upon an uneducated community 50 or 60 years ago; but that sort of thing does not happen, and it is no credit to the Attorney-General’s intelligence or his perception of what people will appreciate that he should put forward that sort of nonsense. [More…]

• They mirror a cross-section of the Australian community. [More…]

• The changing of community attitudes and the promotion of understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial or ethnic groups will form an extremely important part of the Government ‘s program for the elimination of racial discrimination. [More…]

• It will be necessary for both the Government and the community to increase its awareness of the complexity of race relations. [More…]

• These programs must enlist the support of the community because public awareness and the changing of community attitudes will be of vital importance in achieving the objectives of the Government’s policy. [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…]

• There may have been allegations and there may have been rumours, but as I understand the proposition there was no real knowledge of it in the community until the Prime Minister disclosed it in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. [More…]

• That is when it came to my knowledge and that of other senators on my side of the chamber and of the community in general. [More…]

• If honourable senators opposite are not satisfied with this advice or if they believe that there is something partial about it, one would think that they would hasten to embrace the proposition that the matter should be decided by the most disinterested minds in the community. [More…]

• Therefore, the President of the Senate, who is highly regarded by all sections of the community and most certainly by senators on this side of the chamber, concluded by saying: [More…]

• The honourable senator tries to hang the matter around our necks as a smear at election time in an effort to produce an impression in the community which is not true. [More…]

• I ask the AttorneyGeneral: In view of the wide public interest in the Government’s policy to make legal aid available to all sections of the community, what are the proposed locations for the establishment of Australian legal aid offices in the State of Tasmania and, if possible, in every State? [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 pensioner 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…]

• As he indicated in another place, the Minister for Social Security was in Canada recently and was advised by the Ontario Medical Association, amongst other representatives of the medical profession, that they wholeheartedly embrace a universal system of health insurance based on fee for service private medical practice in the community. [More…]

• I want to trace the circumstances of Senator Gair’s appointment, not as a man with a legal mind but as an ordinary member of the Australian community. [More…]

• As well, a French-speaking Australian journalist with a good economic background has now been seconded to our office in Brussels which, as the honourable senator would know, is the key city in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It is also intended that the Council should give advice on ways in which we might lighten the burden on top level competitors and sporting administrators so that they can involve themselves in co-ordinating training and coaching courses which might be developed by Mr Stewart’s Department, and generally see which organisations are most effective in spreading sport and developing sporting activities at the grass roots level and, I suppose in the generality, to encourage a greater participation in sport by all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Any response to the needs of this section of the Australian community must be initiated at the human level. [More…]

• One of the submissions put to us in various ways was that within the Australian European community there is a lack of appreciation of the traditions, cultural factors and even behaviour patterns of Aborigines. [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 Mount Hawthorn and Joondanna, in order to satisfy more completely the ‘community of interest’ principle. [More…]

• I doubt that it is altogether the duty of electoral commissioners to create as many swinging seats- if that is the right term- in the community as possible. [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 education 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…]

• This statement does nothing to encourage anyone in the community to think that the policy will be otherwise. [More…]

• The contributions have increased to such an extent that they are beyond the capacity of some members of the community . [More…]

• -I do not know whether Senator Sim is devoid of any humanity, but he and some of his friends are very interested in criticising the Jewish community on foreign policy. [More…]

• I think that they would be serving democracy and the little people in the community if they offered constructive proposals and did not become the lackeys of the vested interests that are the free riders under the present system. [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 philosophy of the Labor Party is to socialise the delivery of health service in this community. [More…]

• A complete alteration of the present scheme to this Government controlled scheme is not in the interests of the consumers of a health program in the community. [More…]

• I object, as one who sees that we need some freedom in the community. [More…]

• I agree with the Labor Party that on many occasions total monopolisation in the community is bad, but total monopolisation by Government control is probably worse. [More…]

• It is romping away in many areas to the disadvantage of the community in Canberra. [More…]

• It is most relevant to consider the costs of socialised building and what will flow in regard to the cost of hospitals in this community if this type of scheme is passed. [More…]

• It is quite evident that if we are to pursue a Bill such as this and if we are to accept the socialist schemes of Labor as indicated in the Minister’s second reading speech, we will enter upon an era of government control of the medical profession, of government control of private hospitals and government control of the whole ambit of the delivery of health benefit in this community. [More…]

• I am opposed to it and I hope that it never comes into this community. [More…]

• This type of health scheme is not for the good of the Australian community. [More…]

• If someone’s aim is total socialism he can say that the objective of the present Government is to gain complete Government control of the medical sphere, complete control and employment of all doctors in the community and complete control by Canberra of public and private hospitals with State functions gradually being eliminated. [More…]

• There is substantial evidence of that in the community. [More…]

• The original scheme had been completely unacceptable to that section of the community. [More…]

• If this Government is so conscientious about giving priorities to bricklayers, carpenters, plumbers, bootmakers or anyone else to express their points of view on circumstances in their industries which personally affect them, surely it should extend the same rights and privileges to the most highly intelligent members of our community, including members of the medical profession. [More…]

• The average life of a doctor is the shortest in the community because he works under enormous concentration and persistent strain. [More…]

• It would be well if all of us in the community remembered that. [More…]

• Who in the hell does it cover in our community today? [More…]

• We should at least do it a little better than we would expect of the rest of the community, of business ethics or of the usual political licence which we extend to each other perhaps on the hustings. [More…]

• According to the November 1973 summary of the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics and other available statistics the percentage of people who are not covered in the voluntary scheme, having regard to all the people who are covered in other ways, is less than 5 per cent of the 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…]

• I just say that they always concern themselves about the costs but they never say what some of the benefits are that will accrue to the Australian community. [More…]

• Mr Hayden expressed his gratitude for the opportunity that was given to such a wide section of the community to express their views. [More…]

• As a result of my Department’s inserting the advertisements in the newspapers, on a completely apolitical basis, my Department has been inundated with requests from a wide cross-section of the Australian community for copies of these advertisements. [More…]

• People will suffer in the community because they will not have the advantage of another 18 months of beneficial rule of this Labor Government. [More…]

• If the facts are as mentioned by the honourable senatorthat Queensland Druggists Ltd and Drug Houses of Australia Ltd intend to impose a $5 opening fee plus taxi fares for the provision of life saving drugs to seriously ill people and chemists when they are needed- surely such action must have a very bad effect on the living standards of a very large section of the Australian community which, because of the tactics adopted by the Opposition in this place, already has been deprived of a more efficient and more up to date national health scheme. [More…]

• It is anathema to the Liberal Party and contrary to the fundamental attitudes of that Party and to my own view as to where the interests of the whole community and the economy lie. [More…]

• It is whether all power shall go to Canberra and whether supreme power over State rights, family rights, workers rights and every other right in the community shall be dominated by Canberra and the bureaucracy. [More…]

• I repeat: This election must be fought on one issue- the issue of all power to Canberra, the issue of the defence of the rights of the States, the defence of the rights of the family and the defence of all the other rights which are essential in any community such as ours. [More…]

• We brought the trade practices legislation in after saying that we would listen to every interest in the community. [More…]

• It was because honourable senators opposite are only the puppets of those outside who are operating these rackets against the community. [More…]

• We know what was done in this community before the Prices Justification Tribunal was set up. [More…]

• Right throughout the community the great corporations raised their prices in anticipation. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite serve the interests not merely of ordinary business but of the great corporations which dominate this community by their economic power. [More…]

• Therefore, when the Opposition is in power these great corporations hold the economic power in this community. [More…]

• This is only a small taste of what the community will get if Snedden is able to have his way; but he will not get his way. [More…]

• We have as a recipe for the solution of inflation from the would-be Prime Minister, firstly, the injection of another $600m into the purchasing power of the community. [More…]

• Senator Dame Nancy Buttfield has had a hard road to hoe in what is essentially a male community whose members perhaps do not understand a woman’s approach to a problem. [More…]

• Because of the necessity to make decisions without delay to meet the needs of the commercial community it was decided that some limitation had to be placed on the time available to interview applicants, to enable a definite part of the day to be set aside to consider these applications. [More…]

• That discrimination by the Labor Government against rural industries and the community dependent upon them is adversely affecting the economy and the welfare of the nation and many of its citizens. [More…]

• -Has the AttorneyGeneral observed the proliferation of goon squads masquerading as private security agencies in the community which was epitomised in yesterday’s Melbourne incident when private security agents almost garroted a Press photographer? [More…]

• -Without accepting the descriptions which the honourable senator has used may I say that concern has been expressed by many in the community including the various police forces about the proliferation of these private agencies and the virtual armies which have been set up. [More…]

• It was a policy that was welcomed by the sector of the community which Senator Webster claims to represent. [More…]

• My question relates to the recommendation that in the initial allocation of frequency modulation licences in the Sydney area slightly more than 40 per cent should be for community and public access stations. [More…]

• The recommendations of the Committee are far-reaching and would have wide impact on the Australian community. [More…]

• I have always felt that one of the 2 very proper functions of government were to protect the weak and the disadvantaged sections of the community, those people who through accident of birth or lack of education could not protect themselves. [More…]

• The other proper function, I felt, was that government should foresee future needs and future problems in the community and make provision for them. [More…]

• One concerned migrants who seemed to me to be at a very great disadvantage in this community; the other concerned women who were as disadvantaged as were migrants, Aborigines or those other people that we traditionally think of as being disadvantaged. [More…]

• We took steps to stop employers and other sections of the community from exploiting those people. [More…]

• One would hope that the community would take a kinder view of such a problem, that not only would there be a formal scheme of tuition but that the community might put out a hand to these people and try to help them. [More…]

• It is a rather essential requirement in the community. [More…]

• We are very foolish as a community if we waste our resources. [More…]

• I think this is the community’s fault that women feel that way. [More…]

• I was pleased to hear in the speech of His Excellency the Governor-General that in fact we will continue the plans which we have had in hand since before 1969- plans which have been accepted by the Australian electorate in 2 elections since and plans which I believe are to the benefit of all of us and all in the community. [More…]

• Most of these difficulties arise because those people who have reached a position of privilege or wealth in the community under the previous system naturally resist any reform. [More…]

• Because of their position or privileges in the community they have the finances and the access to the media and other resources to get arguments across. [More…]

• It is pleasing to me that this sort of attitude is obviously no longer acceptable to the community and that the attitude of blind anti-communism which was accepted for so long no longer applies. [More…]

• These organisations are formed in an attempt to confuse and frighten the community into rejecting reforms which will benefit the people. [More…]

• It has always seemed very sad to me that this situation should arise in respect of a proposal to introduce a national health insurance scheme which will give universal coverage to those in the community for their medical, surgical and other needs, which will preserve the freedom of choice of the patient and the doctor and which will extend freedom of choice to pensioners. [More…]

• However, provided we do what the Governor-General said in his Speech; provided we determine our priorities in carrying out programs in the continuing fight against inflation; provided we protect the weaker sections of the community; provided we keep a firm commitment to the principle of full employment; provided there is equity in sharing sacrifices as well as prosperity, and provided there is an assurance that any deferment of expectations shall not be at the expense of those for whom deferment could mean a lifetime of deprivation, I believe we will control inflation and that eventually the world will beat the problem of inflation. [More…]

• No wonder there is discontent in the community. [More…]

• The only people who are benefiting from the Government’s economic policy are speculators, for they are the only section of the community with the funds to invest for high percentage returns. [More…]

• The Government is indeed to be condemned for its failure to acknowledge the dangers of inflation and to take positive steps to relieve that inflation; its failure to acknowledge that there is rampant industrial unrest and to take steps to check that unrest and the divisions it is causing within our community; its continuing confrontation with the States and its dismissal of responsibility for Australia’s defence. [More…]

• Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDDespite what Senator Greenwood says by way of interjection, I refer him to the second page of the Governor-General’s Speech in which it is said that in determining priorities and in carrying out its program while continuing the fight against inflation, the Australian Government will be guided by certain principles, one of which is protection for the weaker sections of the community. [More…]

• During the 3Vi years since I was last a member of this august chamber of this most important national Parliament I have had the opportunity as a member of the Australian community to observe at least 2 clear divisions. [More…]

• This is the sort of thing that must cause very great concern to the Australian community. [More…]

• There seems to be no reason at all to get away from the basic principle in our democracy of the community’s involvement in government, the power and involvement of the people on the spot, so that their knowledge and priorities may have proper significance. [More…]

• The superphosphate bounty, which was likewise ripped away, is just one other example of an attack not so much on the farmer but on the total rural community and, indeed, on the people who work in the phosphate works around the coastline, the people who are involved in freight in the railways, the people who are involved in aerial agriculture and so on. [More…]

• We have had 2 elections in 1 8 months and, if I may express a private view, the second of those elections was perhaps logically necessary to convince some honourable senators in this chamber that the wish of the Australian people as expressed in 1972 for change in our community and in our society generally still existed strongly in the minds of the Australian people. [More…]

• In the last 18 months, from certain sections of our community we have heard evidence of the pain which is being experienced by those who feel themselves threatened by the changes which the Australian people regard as necessary. [More…]

• Whether we be Opposition senators in this chamber or ordinary citizens in the community, our capacity to adapt to change will determine our future viability as a nation. [More…]

• In the industrial relations field in Australia we are moving gradually from a compulsory arbitration system, which was revered and admired in other countries many years ago but which in the last few years has been subjected to numerous pressures in many instances, to a system of collective bargaining which involves the community in social change of an important kind. [More…]

• They remove the fear of the consequences of ill health for a very substantial proportion of our community and they allow freedom of association in industrial organisations. [More…]

• The Government’s proposals recognise that the Australian people have a right to enjoy this country’s historical heritage and its unique environment, and that that right should not be limited by the interests of particular groups in our community who are concerned, for private gain, to take those rights away from the Australian people. [More…]

• Secondly, I believe that we, as a Government, have tried to instill into our community the idea that there is such a thing as economic freedom in terms of freedom from unemployment, freedom to make decisions about where you send your children to school and freedom to make decisions about what you do with your leisure- all sorts of things which flow from a more equitable distribution of wealth in our society. [More…]

• Some of the population pockets are isolated to such a degree that they simply cannot share in the quality of life enjoyed by other more fortunate sections of the community. [More…]

• The areas of disadvantage include the fields of education, cultural activities, social activities and community amenities. [More…]

• The areas of disadvantage are such that the people of these regions identify themselves with the nearest town rather than the nearest community. [More…]

• -Senator McLaren who pretends to be one of those people who argue for the rural community is a member of a Party which has systematically forced up rural prices, which has increased the costs of poultry producers thus making the price of eggs become almost uneconomic. [More…]

• Recently, honourable senators obviously would have seen a statement by the Prime Minister that the Government intended to proceed with the introduction of colour television which is scheduled for 1 March 1975 and details of which have been circulating in the community and throughout the industry for at least 21/2 or 3 years. [More…]

• I ask: In view of the resultant severely increased cost burden upon the primary producers with an inevitable rise in the cost of food to the whole community, will the Government give immediate consideration to reversing its decision to remove the bounty so that primary producers in this country can plan ahead with some degree of confidence? [More…]

• Fear has been generated in the community that this Government is changing things only for the sake of changing things or to pursue ideologies and shibboleths which have not been fully disclosed or thought out and in respect of which problems arise as they operate. [More…]

• However, this is pan of the problem which has been generated in this community. [More…]

• If at any time the people believed that there were incipient signs of such development, and if the accusation was made, fortunately we had in this community a spirit of independence and willingness to criticise which ensured that what was incipient did not become permanent. [More…]

• It is the problem which industrial lawlessness can create for the community. [More…]

• Industrial lawlessness has involved other deficiencies and it has involved other hardships for a community. [More…]

• Is there any area of our community in which we can say safely that we have a public service which is reliable, efficient and regular? [More…]

• The community is forgotten. [More…]

• In these circumstances we have galloping wage claims of a massive size which are adding to the cost pressures in the community and which are themselves promoting huge price increases which in their turn promote further wage claims. [More…]

• Therein lies part of the apprehension of this community. [More…]

• Prior to the 1974 election the Government claimed that its policy of first establishing a Prices Committee and a Prices Justification Tribunal represented an earnest of intention to act to protect the community. [More…]

• We have a weakening of the most fundamental sector in our community, the rural sector, by the taking away of those incentives which have made the rural sector profitable and which have enabled productivity to sustain a growing economy and also to provide handsome export earnings. [More…]

• Labor, in its first enthusiasm, has obviously been over expansive in relation to the things it wanted to do, and it has pressed its programs too hard for the community to absorb them. [More…]

• It will destroy the incentives in this community, as we have seen happen in States in which Labor is in government and as we see now in the Federal sphere. [More…]

• Today it does things without giving the Australian community the direction that it is so urgently seeking. [More…]

• As a Liberal, I believe that they lost me my political shirt because of what they did, and they did the same for other Liberals in the community. [More…]

• If the ills of this community are as great as they are supposed to be would it not be better to get together and form some sort of consensus on the economic management of the community? [More…]

• I agree- I suppose some other honourable senators also agree- with what has been said about the Labor Government’s performance in handling the economic measures of this community. [More…]

• On its election in December 1 972, 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…]

• And also given their due weight in determining the monetary affairs of the International Community No oil producing country finds it acceptable to be paid for its oil in certain currency substitutes such as the Special Drawing Rights because the sole aim of the advocates of such devices is to recycle the financial surpluses of the producers to the Western economies . [More…]

• Does the rural community support the continuing progressive withdrawal of longstanding subsidies, concessions and incentives for primary producers? [More…]

• It reduced tariffs, something which I thought the rural community generally was very pleased about. [More…]

• This Government wants to destroy the incentive of everybody in the community to make a profit. [More…]

• Although I am speaking of my own profession and although I believe that this benefit to the patients of optometrists is long overdue, I think we would approach this much more responsibly and have a look at what the cost will be to the community. [More…]

• It is true that high interest rates at the moment are causing some problems in the community. [More…]

• It is true that some developers today are dislocated economically as a result of the policies of this Government, but they have been indulging in a financial rip-off of the Australian community for so long that it is just bad luck for them. [More…]

• These are: protection for the weaker sections of the community; a firm commitment to the principle of full employment; [More…]

• Certainly governments have a major responsibility, but inflation can be solved only if its solution becomes a whole community effort, from the Federal Government, State governments, local authorities and the people. [More…]

• Above all it requires courageous and honest leadership at all levels- not only Federal, State and local authorities but throughout the community. [More…]

• We want nobody to act for his own selfish interest, and we do not want various pressure groups in the community concerned only with their own welfare and interest. [More…]

• The opening of this Parliament presented a wonderful opportunity to set an example by providing in the GovernorGeneral’s Speech the type of leadership the community requires. [More…]

• This is why 1 referred to selfishness in the community. [More…]

• That gap will be paid for by the trade unionists and other sections of the community. [More…]

• I say honestly that, amongst many sections of the community, unions are failing their members and leaders of industry are also failing because nobody is prepared to tell the hard, cold truth. [More…]

• Unless productivity is raised the Government cannot meet the demands of the community without lowering the standards of the community. [More…]

• Today more commissions are being set up willy-nilly by the Government which is wanting to placate every section of the community by offering more and more. [More…]

• One of the great troubles- I referred to it a few minutes ago- is the fact that the community effort is required. [More…]

• It requires the co-operation of government at all levels and the full support of the community before this problem can be overcome. [More…]

• If so, is the Postmaster-General aware of the great hardships which these increased charges will impose on many areas in the community? [More…]

• Will any areas in the community be exempt from or be given certain concessions in respect of these increases? [More…]

• Will the Government take into account the representations of these many organisations which have had long experience with what is a very large and substantial percentage of the Australian community? [More…]

• We are aware of the concern about the amalgamation which Senator Davidson speaks of and which is being expressed in the migrant community, largely through the migrant Press. [More…]

• If we are to succeed in our objective of allowing those settlers to merge properly with the Australian community we must take account of the advice tendered to the Government by the numerous bodies- I think there are 5 1 bodies- that do so. [More…]

• In view of the fact that pensioners tend to move from place to place among members of their family, perhaps as much as or maybe even more than other members of the community do, has any thought been given to reexamining the requirement of the payment of a mail redirection fee which has applied since last October so that pensioners in this situation can be relieved of the additional cost? [More…]

• The Government is fully aware of the effect on the meat trade since our loss- not a complete loss but a very significant loss- of markets in the European Economic Community, North America and Japan. [More…]

• There has already been a delegation, led by Dr Harris of the Department of Overseas Trade, to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Government determined that as from September 1973 artificial limbs should be provided free of charge to all persons in the community who are in need of them, and the Department of Repatriation and subsequently the Department of Repatriation and Compensation have been providing artificial limbs on that basis. [More…]

• However, the backlog is being overtaken and the Department is making every endeavour to see that every person in the community who needs an appliance of this kind will receive it from the Department of Repatriation and Compensation. [More…]

• Honourable senators talk about community of interest. [More…]

• I believe it is unfair and unjust because it discriminates against a section of the community in the highly important area of parliamentary representation. [More…]

• He forgets also that Dr Forbes always has supported the conservatives in South Australia, and always will, and simply is not acceptable to the metropolitan community. [More…]

• So it continues selling to the community this criticism of any Party and any politician which says that country people should be equal with city people in electoral weighting. [More…]

• Another deals with migrants and the Croatian community. [More…]

• It is divisive and fostering class warfare in this community to say that anyone is at a disability and should have a bigger electoral weighting than another person. [More…]

• The average person in the community could not tell you much about these Bills or about what is contained in policy speeches. [More…]

• In the Act as it stands at the moment the commissioners shall have regard to the community of interests within the division, that is the electoral division, including economic, social and regional interests. [More…]

• I hope that the Senate will give consideration to this amendment and will provide some opportunity for there to be aired throughout the community, and certainly in the minds of senators and members of the House of Representatives, the enormous import of this Bill. [More…]

• These basic facts and the human tragedy which they represent are, I believe, not sufficiently understood by the Australian community. [More…]

• Royalties will be paid to the Aboriginals and the consent of Aboriginals- of the relevant land councils, community councils and traditional owners- will be necessary before mineral exploration or development is allowed. [More…]

• The excision of areas for community residential purposes will be negotiated where Aboriginal groups on cattle stations want to establish themselves with some independence. [More…]

• The Northern Land Council is having the summary of recommendations in the report sent to all community councils and similar bodies and has already taken some initiatives in preparation for implementation of the report. [More…]

• We would in fact build good quality nursing homes at various points in the community according to various types of plans. [More…]

• The projected costs of hospital services to the community under the proposed program for the year ending 30 June 1 975 at the lower limit of costs are: Public hospitals would cost $l,250m, private hospitals $140m and public and private hospitals $ 1,390m. [More…]

• I respectfully suggest that on this Bill, as on other Bills, they are being dictated to by the multi-nationals, the wealthy drug companies, the old men of the Australian Medical Association and all other groupings in this category who are opposed to the ordinary people of the Australian community. [More…]

• There are in this community today doctors who will not treat patients unless they get money over the counter, in the same way as some of the legal advisers in Senator Greenwood’s profession treat their poor patients. [More…]

• These doctors are using as political footballs this section of the community that is least able to fight for itself- people on low incomes, pensioners, and others. [More…]

• The community health centres and clinics that Senator Georges talks about are an outcrop of the socialist scheme. [More…]

• The community health centre is a badly thought out and ill defined concept. [More…]

• I refer to reports that the European Economic Community will ban beef imports until Novermber. [More…]

• -It is true that under the common agricultural policy adopted in the European Economic Community entry by Australian meat, and beef in particular, to that area has been severely restricted for quite some time. [More…]

• The recent announcement that amounts to a decision that no favourable treatment will be given to Australia in respect of its exports of meat to the European Economic Community is disappointing. [More…]

• I mention now the development of community health centres. [More…]

• These community health centres which are being established are ill advised, ill conceived and even ill defined white elephants. [More…]

• I mentioned community health centres when 1 was speaking last night mainly to dismiss them. [More…]

• Out of the 44 community health centres built in Great Britain during the last 12 years only 4 remain in existence and are operating at present. [More…]

• No doubt honourable senators have read of the problems in Canberra and the lessons which have been learned by at least one doctor who tried to work in a community health centre. [More…]

• Even at this stage I might add that it costs 3 times as much for a patient to visit a doctor in a community health centre as it does to visit a general practitioner. [More…]

• Community health centres were promulgated as a device to supply a much wanted need in the area of general practice. [More…]

• The merits of the Green Paper and subsequently the White Paper were discussed throughout the community. [More…]

• It was a response to the widespread recognition in this community, amongst doctors and others, that the scheme as it existed at that time was a ramshackle scheme. [More…]

• Briefly, that report said that the system was unnecessarily complex and inequitable, that the benefits were inadequate, that it imposed hardship on certain sections of the community and that the private health funds had very high operating costs. [More…]

• Senators, by virtue of their position in the community and by virtue of their backgrounds, may enjoy very happy doctor-patient relationships with their medical practitioners. [More…]

• That is a question to which I would like to get an answer from many people in the community because I am not quite sure what the answer would be. [More…]

• I believe that most doctors in this community work hard and are dedicated to their profession. [More…]

• But they do not have very much time to think about the social consequences of what they are doing and, more particularly, to think about the social consequences of what their purported leaders are saying on their behalf in the community in relation to the social problems of health. [More…]

• It fails completely to recognise the inequity of the present tax concessions as they fall on poorer people in the community. [More…]

• Will any Liberal senators get up and explain to us what are the great virtues of privacy, of competing private organisations in the provision of health care to the Australian community? [More…]

• We say that it was quite clear in 1969 that the existing level of services provided to people in the community in relation to health was totally inadequate. [More…]

• In terms of health care by world standards Australia has been a high performance community. [More…]

• In terms of primary care, that is to say, care in the community, we are adopting the Canadian model. [More…]

• I believe that our scheme is adequate for the needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• I want to put this statement on the record now so that in 12 months’ time we can face the Government with it and ask it: ‘How much better off are the people in the Yugoslav community of Wollongong, for example?’ [More…]

• But these so-called universal schemes covered only 80 per cent or 85 per cent of the community, certainly in the first years of their operation. [More…]

• Let me move on to deal with questions of health care delivery and what we are really seeking in the Australian community. [More…]

• Let us examine the entitlement to health care received by people in the Australian Capital Territory at the salaried community health centres. [More…]

• It may interest some of the honourable senators opposite who have poured a tirade of hate towards the great profession of which I am a member to know that for the past 8 years it has been my privilege to give to the society of which I am a member one day a week of my time free of charge as a community service; to give my time free for clinical work and the care of the sickand to do this because it is part of the duty which I as a doctor felt I should give and because the privilege was offered to me. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite should not forget that I, like many other doctors, have given my time in the service of this community. [More…]

• Their cumulative investment in their community of New South Wales over past 50 years at today’s prices amounts to $ 1,000m. [More…]

• Heart transplants are producing nothing in terms of care and community results. [More…]

• This directs people from the community health services to the Woden Valley Hospital and the Canberra Community Hospital for night care and will build up the hospital system. [More…]

• In 1973-74 it allocated $10m for certain community health projects. [More…]

• It surprised me to hear Senator Baume commence his speech with the nationalistic jingoistic business that we have the greatest doctors and that we are such a high performance community when we consider the parameters by which we judge world health. [More…]

• It is the system that they have in the Queensland hospitals where public hospital care- standard hospital care- is available to all members of the community without means test. [More…]

• The Committee’s third finding was that the contributions had increased to such an extent that they were beyond the capacity of some members of the community and involved considerable hardship for others. [More…]

• This is the reason why so many people in the community find that they cannot adequately insure themselves for illness under the present scheme. [More…]

• This scheme will remove the differences between pensioners and the rest of the community. [More…]

• The principles include the destruction of the hospital system and division of the Australian community. [More…]

• Recent public opinion polls have indicated that a very large percentage of the Australian community is concerned, worried and even frightened by the possibility of the scheme which is the subject of the measures before us today. [More…]

• They know, most advantageously of all, the involvement of the community that is surrounding them. [More…]

• What is to happen to the community of auxiliaries, visitors and others who are helpers and contributors? [More…]

• Should these private hospitals become public hospitals they will be at the mercy of the Minister and I suggest that the standard of service and in particular the excellent relationship now existing between the community and hospitals will be gone. [More…]

• From my reading of the Bill the location of a private hospital will not be taken into account, nor will its relationship to the community or the purposes for which it exists. [More…]

• All their identity will be removed and the major impact of their particular and notable contributions to the community will be done away with. [More…]

• Church and community hospitals have provided a very valuable complementary service to the public hospital system established in this country. [More…]

• We do not get these sort of community contributions under a total government scheme. [More…]

• The scheme proposed in the Bill now before the Senate goes much further than referring to private, organisational or community hospitals. [More…]

• We can upgrade services and community medicine. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that this Government has come forward and said: ‘We will bring in a scheme of community medicine which will be less costly, more efficient and less rapacious than the doctors of today and still supply good medicine.’ [More…]

• If honourable senators were to read what is happening they would find that groups of people in England are getting together to build community private hospitals in order to overcome the huge lag in trying to get into public hospitals. [More…]

• Demonstrably this scheme, even in embryo in the various community centres- which are misnomersis producing worse medicine at treble the cost of the private doctor. [More…]

• I think it goes without saying that honourable senators on this side of the chamber would adopt the general Liberal view that a government’s hand in all things is to support, where possible, a fair private operation and to support it on behalf of the whole community In this way, the same standard of government approach would apply to medical and health services. [More…]

• I believe that it will ultimately prove to be a socialised salaried medical program provided at greater cost to many people in the community. [More…]

• Local authorities were so upset at losing control over their hospitals that it was essential to leave them with the community health services. [More…]

• Relations between hospital doctor and GP were more distant; nor was contact sufficiently close with the community health services or the welfare services under local authority control. [More…]

• He comes down solidly in support of the concept of fee for service medical treatment in the community centre environment. [More…]

• As far as the problem in the suburban areas of Melbourne is concerned, I believe that this is the sort of situation in which the principle of a community health centre could be applied. [More…]

• I think that firstly we should be looking towards the establishment of a fee-for-service community health centre staffed by doctors and supported by adequate back-up facilities in the paramedical areas. [More…]

• Another aspect of the provisions of the Bill which relates to private hospitals, which was raised by Senator Guilfoyle, is that clause 34 of the Bill will cause a loss of autonomy for religious, charitable and community hospitals. [More…]

• It is in the area of the provision of hospital treatment by private, religious, charitable and community hospitals that the Government has, most clearly of all, expressed its appreciation of the very important contribution which has been made by the private sector. [More…]

• The aim of the provisions contained in clause 34 of the Health Insurance Bill is to provide a continuing and in some respects expanded role for the religious, charitable and community hospitals, and to ensure that the contributions made by the dedicated staff of these hospitals is not lost. [More…]

• The first part of the question refers to a report of a considerable purchase of beef by Russia from the European Economic Community. [More…]

• My question to the Postmaster-General relates to the position of journals and magazines published by churches, charities, community establishments and similar organisations. [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; 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; to improve environmental conditions and social conditions of residents of the estate and surrounding area; and to preserve the townscape and sympathetically rehabilitate it. [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, 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 President, 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…]

• The Government still fails, or refuses for reasons best known to itself, to table this advice despite the fact that we are considering matters of grave constitutional importance which are the subject of lively debate not only here but also in the community and in the Press and we have the prospect of a joint sitting taking place in the near future. [More…]

• Any of these rights or titles which countless individual members or our Australian community have acquired in order to mine for any mineral or to search for petroleum can be overridden by the actions of this authority in the way in which I have described. [More…]

• Rather than becoming a financial drain on the particular country or community it is a lucrative source of revenue. [More…]

• To conceive the idea that a Governor-General should be so isolated from the community that he should not be able to respond to events in the community and that he should not be capable of perusing and being influenced by the debates in this or any other chamber is to deny the fundamental duty of the constitutional Head of State over the centuries. [More…]

• It is the primary duty of the constitutional Head of State, whether monarch or Governor-General, to brief himself or herself fully on the happenings of the day and the happenings in the life and public affairs of the community, so that when a decision is to be taken the constitutional Head is fully aware of the events and can bring down an independent judgment. [More…]

• If this principle is correct, why does the Government go through the pretence, if pretence it is, of allowing a Governor-General to seek or to obtain advice from a Chief Justice, from a Solicitor-General or from any experienced person in the community? [More…]

• There is clearly in section 57 a responsibility on His Excellency to acquaint himself with the facts, not only as the Ministers supply them to him but as they can be supplied to him from every source in the community. [More…]

• To put sanctions on its ability to communicate its messages to whomsoever in this community is to limit seriously the whole of the powers, responsibilities and functions of the Senate, and I personally reject that. [More…]

• Does it realise that if Japan or the European Economic Community countries are starved- as well they might be- or priced out in the energy crisis their ability to buy from us and their prices structures will be such that Australia’s living standards will shrink? [More…]

• Does the Minister see any hope that the Labor Government, having been responsible for the withdrawal of free milk from schools, may reintroduce this benefit for the advantage of young Australians and those disadvantaged in the community? [More…]

• From our observations of how industries work in the community we do not have to go far to prove that. [More…]

• The fact that a group of institutions is nonprofitmaking, or that it is 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…]

• Accepting that the Commonwealth Government has the responsibility in the international community for actions taken and things done in the off-shore waters of Australia, the unresolved point is whether in the Australian community the Commonwealth or the States have the responsibility. [More…]

• In very nearly every Bill that is now brought before this House the Government is moving towards the elimination of private enterprise from this community and developing the growth of government ownership and control. [More…]

• If anybody could stand and say that the actions of the Labor Party in its 1 8 months in government have been for the good of the Australian community in any area, I would applaud and say that there must be something good in Labor philosophy You interrupted me, Mr Acting Deputy President when I was speaking about how this Government had debauched the economy of Australia. [More…]

• Although this might appear to many people to be the attitude of a brave new world, it is really something which the Australian community has to measure up to. [More…]

• Any honourable senator would know from his contacts with the people of Australia that there is extreme and very widespread disquiet throughout the community about whether the Parliament will accept the determinations of the Remuneration Tribunal. [More…]

• I am sure it is not the first time in Australian political history that decisions taken by governments, including our predecessors, have been the subject of much criticism in the Press and by many sections of the community. [More…]

• Indeed, as I have said, I wish to study the newspaper headlines to ascertain the lead the Prime Minister has given, the attitude of the Prime Minister, of the various unions, and perhaps of the chambers of commerce and the relationship of the report of the Tribunal to the business activity of the community. [More…]

• There is a great deal of urgency about this discussion because already attitudes in the community are being hardened and they will be quite firm and hard by this time next week. [More…]

• There are many implications connected with our decisions- implications which will affect our own future, which will affect many other people and which possibly will affect the general wage demands in our community. [More…]

• We are in a condition of extreme urgency in many fields, and perhaps the most important field of all in which there is a great measure of urgency is the cynical outlook which has developed in almost the entire Australian community. [More…]

• There is in the Australian community a cynicism and, indeed, a great measure of concern over most of the basic things that concern us as Australians operating what is, and hopefully what shall remain, a free enterprise democracy. [More…]

• In my opinion, we have to recognise that an increase in wage costs is a very important factor in the economy of the country at present, and we have to recognise the responsibility of the Parliament not to award to itself an increase which is excessive when related to other classes in the community. [More…]

• It is whether, relative to other sections of the community, that is the appropriate pay level to be determined. [More…]

• The levels of other classes’ earnings in the community as tabulated in statistics show that members of Parliament come within the upper 1 per cent, 2 per cent or 3 per cent of the population. [More…]

• Having regard to our claims that we are not the aristocracy but a cross-section of the community in every level which we represent, it is not a question of where we should go for that degree of preferment and salary reward that met with such retribution in 1789. [More…]

• It is the undeniable responsibility of Parliament to recognise that there is a common measure, not at the uppermost strata of the highest incomes, but at a proper level that represents a cross-section of the community, having regard to the responsibilities that members of Parliament have. [More…]

• The significance of lifting the salaries of members of Parliament by 38 per cent, a rise of $5,500 in one hit, from the point of view of indicating irresponsibility to other sections in the community, which concede that they are entitled to improve their wages, is such that it should deprive a government of any vestige of authority. [More…]

• I do not take the view that some would take, from the constitution of the Tribunal, that its determination relieves us of the final responsibility to determine which part of the appropriation from public expenditure shall come to our pocket and what is relatively just when compared with other sections of the community, having regard to our responsibility, in my view, at a time of wage explosion now burgeoning and expanding in the next few months. [More…]

• We have seen Press headlines that wages paid throughout the community will increase when politicians receive their increased wages. [More…]

• We believe that unless the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) gets together with the Premiers, the trade union leaders and the other groups in the community and sells the story that the only way this country will get out of this inflationary mess is by voluntary restraint on prices and incomes, we will get nowhere with inflation. [More…]

• That is half the curse of this present community. [More…]

• I believe that because we get certain privileges we have certain obligations to set a standard in the community. [More…]

• I believe that the relativity of parliamentarians to other people in the community ought to be recognised. [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…]

• We have warned that if there is to be an alleviation of this inflation and if there is to be a reversal there has to be established at all levels of the community wages restraint. [More…]

• Is it to be wages anarchy throughout the whole spectrum of the community, or are we going to stand up and be counted? [More…]

• He referred to the relativity, if I can put it in those terms, between the remuneration which parliamentarians currently are receiving and the salary that is paid in the general community. [More…]

• He also referred to the relationship between the proportion of the salary that a parliamentarian takes home- that he has left for his own use- and what one assumes, I think rightly assumes, is left to the ordinary member of the community who does not have to encounter the problems that a parliamentarian meets in winning his seat, in keeping his seat, in fighting elections, in making contributions to umpteen charitable activities in the community, in helping in so many ways, in being obliged to attend so many functions which an ordinary member of the community is not obliged to attend, and the costs inherent in that sort of life. [More…]

• I am not trying to paint a bad picture of this, but 1 want to put the record straight regarding a lot of the popular misconceptions that exist in the Australian community about what happens in the life of a member of Parliament. [More…]

• That brings me to the second point referred to by Senator Carrick, namely, the relevance or relativity of the parliamentarian’s salary to that of people in other sections of the community. [More…]

• I would make a rough guess and say that the $20,000 which is, according to the report, to be awarded to us as an adequate salary for our services would approximate, I would think, something like $14,000 when related to the salary of people in other sections of the community. [More…]

• As far as one can gather the ordinary member of the community would not be faced with the same sort of costs and expenses in maintaining himself in his position. [More…]

• One wonders sometimes whether there is not, on the part of sections of the media at least, a conspiracy to grossly misrepresent the position to the Australian community of their members of Parliament, be they in the Federal or the State sphere. [More…]

• I suppose it would not take a great mind to work out that the Press would be seeking to serve the interests of those sections of the community to which it feels itself beholden, and that does not include the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• If, by the sort of advocacy that one has seen in the last few days, the public of Australia is persuaded so to express itself against any additional remuneration being granted to parliamentarians that eventually the salary payable to a parliamentarian does not make it attractive for people who would seek to make it a full time job, then ultimately we will see the son of situation that obtained back in the 1 840s, 100 years ago, when only the people from the wealthy sections of the community could afford to become members of Parliament. [More…]

• The Tribunal has made its judgment as to the adequacy of salary and the other emoluments of office based upon a full time service to the Australian community by members of Federal Parliament, both senators and members of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The community takes no account of the fact that there are full time members of the Australian Parliament who are solely dependent upon their parliamentary salaries to sustain them and their families and to discharge their obligations as members of Parliament to the community at large. [More…]

• Some of these people are engaged in business activities or professional operations, or they may be in the farming community. [More…]

• When we try to make a judgment as to the adequacy of the salary surely we cannot take these things in complete isolation and say: ‘You are all there on the same basis; you are overpaid’, when one member of Parliament is struggling to serve the community as he feels he should and other members of Parliament have multiple incomes, some of which are quite substantial. [More…]

• Do not let us think that any political philosophy has a monopoly of concern for the Welfare of the Australian community. [More…]

• Just about every section of the community, including the Press and the members of the Opposition parties, went out on to the hustings and advised the people against giving the power to the Commonwealth Government for the control of prices. [More…]

• Unless there is some authority in the land prepared to grab the nettle and do something about the question of prices, we will not see an end to this trend and it will never be the right time to increase our salaries unless we have the courage and obtain the authority to exercise some control over the price of goods and services in the Australian community. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that the Australian community has undervalued us as well? [More…]

• But I hope that we would not get to the stage of accepting what is currently being said, namely, that it is not time for an increase in salary and that the proposed salary, as Senator Wright has said, is inappropriate for the sort of services that we render to the community. [More…]

• There are people in the community who have not passed on the advantages of tariff reductions, if that satisfies the honouable senator’s desire for even-handedness [More…]

• We have to be responsible and assist everybody in the community. [More…]

• Should our first concern not be to ensure the weaker in the community a fair place in the sun to protect them? [More…]

• Therefore tonight as we consider this suggestion of taking for ourselves quite a big increment in our remuneration as well as considering a big increment for others, I say that it would be most irresponsible and would hurt the very people that we all seek to serve, the general good old Aussies in the whole community, if we accepted. [More…]

• In order to overcome that complaint, and in accordance with the policy of the Australian Labor Party, last year we decided that these matters should be decided by an arbitral body, as is the case with most other salary examinations or salary increases in this community. [More…]

• From my days in arbitration courts I would say that it is perfectly clear-in fact it stands out like the nose on your face- that there are too many wage-fixing bodies in the community. [More…]

• Parliament should feel that because of the inflationary situation in which we live the increases should be rejected, as Senator Wright said, at least we would be rejecting them, and that would be wage fixation in an important part of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is argued that we should say that we will freeze the wages of this section of the community which we have in our control tonight. [More…]

• We cannot relate parliamentarians to anybody in the community in a comparative wage justice case. [More…]

• The Opposition says that this wage fixation will be a lead to the Australian community. [More…]

• What would be the cost to the community of those increases? [More…]

• Whatever the arguments of the economists about the part wages play in the inflationary scheme of things- that debate has been going on for as long as I can remember- if we fight the battle on that level, the Prime Minister has a duty to say to the States: ‘If it is good enough for one section of the Australian community, it will be good enough for the lot of you ‘. [More…]

• It is a mere political stunt- a picking out of politicians because Senator Withers knows that they are the most unloved people in the community. [More…]

• It does not underrate members of Parliament, lt says that members of Parliament are worth so much a year in the context of the community in general. [More…]

• The Tribunal expressly referred to the submission put to it that in the current inflationary climate members of Parliament, senior public servants and holders of statutory offices should be paid a salary less than what otherwise may have been determined so as to provide a lead to the rest of the community to accept correspondingly lower salaries in the future. [More…]

• The Tribunal stated specifically that it could see no justification for its determinations being used for an argument for an increase in salaries of the Second and lower Divisions of the Public Service or any other persons in the community. [More…]

• Their recipe for the ills of this community is to start to abandon the arbitration principle. [More…]

• When it comes to wages and salaries they say: ‘Our recipe for the ills of the community is to say, “First of all, let us tell the trade union movement that it must negate and disapprove and set aside the arbitral determinations that have been made” ‘. [More…]

• The whole community will gain if the senior public servants and the parliamentarians do not take a wage increase which has been said by an independent tribunal to be a fair and just one’. [More…]

• Where the real things of politics are concerned, where it is the wealth of the community and the equitable distribution of wealth, where it means some taxes to bring some social justice into the community, where it is a significant increase in social service, they are all against it. [More…]

• But if they can find some thing such as this which they think will divert public attention, they and those outside who support them- the big business interests in this communitysay: ‘Let us roast them. [More…]

• Let us try to discredit the parliamentarians in the eyes of this community’. [More…]

• Now he comes in and says Look, let the ills of the community be arrested by some kind of restraint here’. [More…]

• There is no attempt to analyse what is causing the inflation in the community but we have a suggestion that some kind of program of wage freeze should be set up. [More…]

• If honourable senators opposite wanted to analyse the causes of the economic ills in this community I would hope they would find some better prescription than starting off with the salaries of senior public servants and others which have been properly determined by an independent tribunal. [More…]

• The Opposition’s recipe for inflation is to tear down the award system of this community by starting at the very top. [More…]

• He said that he hoped that this move to delay the increases for Federal members of Parliament would set a bi-partisan approach as an example for restraint throughout the community. [More…]

• There is no way- I repeat, no way- in which inflation can be beaten which will not involve discomfort for a short 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…]

• There is confidence in the community, and people are turning now, with the present labour market, to the attractions of Service employment. [More…]

• As I have said in this place on so many occasions, the increase in interest rates applies to everybody in the community. [More…]

• Firstly, is it a fact that 5 new community health centres are planned for the eastern suburbs of Sydney? [More…]

• Secondly, is it a fact that it is planned to staff these community health centres by seconding second year resident medical officers from teaching hospitals? [More…]

• Thirdly, is the Minister aware that his announced policy is to provide community health centres in areas of most need and that the eastern suburbs of Sydney already have a most favourable health care situation? [More…]

• Committees of Parliament do very valuable work but they operate at some considerable expense to the Australian community. [More…]

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

• I think that even the most credulous amongst us would have paused for a moment and asked himself just how inflation could be tackled by the Government severely increasing the costs of an important range of services in the community. [More…]

• The Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop) in his second reading speech said quite rightly, as common sense would demand, that these heavy increases in the charges for a wide range of services used by the community generally must be and in fact are inflationary. [More…]

• What can be more inflationary than the imposition of these charges which affect everyone in the community including industry and commerce? [More…]

• The whole of the Government’s proposals, but these in particular, have been met with utter scorn by every person in the community who has any claim to competence to comment upon them. [More…]

• Capital is required to enable the APO to provide its services to the community. [More…]

• The cost of foregoing alternative investments, the so-called ‘opportunity cost , is a cost that has to be borne by taxpayers or by other groups in the community. [More…]

• Those of us who have made a study of the Post Office know that it is different from most businesses in the community. [More…]

• If rates are increased Opposition senators say they are too high, they are inflationary, they are crippling to the community and we cannot have them. [More…]

• We take the same view as we did earlier this year- that is, that the proposed increases are unwarranted, and injurious to the community . [More…]

• There is a great disquiet in the community on every indiscriminate rise and every indiscriminate move by government, and this appears to be one of those very important and yet indiscriminate moves. [More…]

• We know that if the Post Office does not obtain its funds there will be a diminution in the services it can render and there will be an even greater backlog in the telephone services which this community requires. [More…]

• I would like to see the Government defeated at the earliest properly chosen electoral time, but, in all common sense, in the management of a community a government ought to be able to get its Bills, such as this Bill, through. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, you must remember that the Labor Government finds no joy in increasing any cost to the community. [More…]

• Demand is only contained if, first of all, it is ensured that expenditure that will be incurred is justified on the basis of work and real service to the community. [More…]

• The Government received a long standing report graced by the dignity of a man of experience and status in the community, Sir James Vernon. [More…]

• That is what is said by everybody in the community who wants to raise prices. [More…]

• But I am told that from the point of view of actual man-days lost, the figures for the Post Office compare very favourably with those for other sections of the community. [More…]

• I have never heard such slanderous attacks on people who have tried to do a job for the Australian community than Senator Wright’s advocacy today. [More…]

• Yet they come up with these figures after having evidence submitted to them from all sections of the community. [More…]

• Consequently we believe that it is our responsibility to face up to the facts as they are presented in the report, an independent report presented by people who are respected in the community who had as their chairman a person who had been briefed by the previous government. [More…]

• But we say that in respect of these instrumentalities a certain proportion of their operations should be in the form of special services to special people in the community. [More…]

• It must do this if it is to attack inflation and look after the smaller people in the community. [More…]

• It has suddenly realised what its measures have brought about in the community. [More…]

• One only has to look to see how much the poorer sections of the community will be disadvantaged by the proposed increase in the local telephone call charge from 4.7c to 6c and the public telephone call charge from 5c to 10c. [More…]

• No matter what the Government says about industry and commerce- it says that big industries are bleeding the people dry, and many of its members say they are a bit of a blot on the community because they are making large profits- I want to remind the Government that without profit there would be not industry and without industry there will be no employment. [More…]

• Whenever increased charges like these are made they result in an indirect payment by every member of this community. [More…]

• This proposal propounded by the Government is completely counter-productive because all it will do is increase costs to the community- and some of those costs will have to be borne by people who can least afford them. [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…]

• It is interesting that that should be said because the one thing that has concerned many people in this country for a long time is this need of communication by small periodicals, community organisations, service organisations and so many social welfare organisations which, working on a voluntary basis, have the problem of communicating not only with their members but with people generally in the community. [More…]

• There are hundreds and, in fact, thousands of them who do so much for the community. [More…]

• We hope that it will soon tell us because one thing which can cause a lot of concern and which can encourage inflation is a lack of confidence in the community. [More…]

• When it is proposed to increase postal charges for postal and telegraph services, a measure like this cuts right across the entire commercial, economic and social fabric of the Australian community. [More…]

• There will be a cumulative effect which will make everything more expensive to the individual and to the community. [More…]

• After all, as has been said today and as we all know very well, public telephones provide a service for a wide range of people, particularly pensioners and others whose only means of communication with essential services, their friends and the community at large is the public telephone. [More…]

• We have asked people with great reputations in the community, as Senator Wright agrees, to adjudicate on these matters. [More…]

• I refer not to a new need in the Australian community but one which should be recognised at this time. [More…]

• In speaking of this 1 do not wish to speak with a political objective in mind; I think rather that it is an objective which the Australian community should recognise. [More…]

• Focus has been placed on this need in recent weeks and there has been some community recognition of the problem. [More…]

• Perhaps it is not a new need but it is a growing need in the Australian community. [More…]

• I hope that he will acknowledge that this is one sector of the Australian community which has no access to many of the fine government programs in the field of matters of social concern. [More…]

• I concede that she has some rights but I think that the community’s rights are on a par with hers. [More…]

• I refer the attention of the Minister for Agriculture to reports that Australia has concluded negotiations with the European Economic Community for compensation following the United Kingdom entry into that body. [More…]

• -There have been discussions with the European Economic Community under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in respect of Britain’s recent entry into the EEC. [More…]

• I think that this action demonstrates the frothy and frivolous thinking of the Labor Government, as the community is beginning to realise, whether it be in foreign affairs, economics or a matter as important as setting down a basis for self-determination for an assembly in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• History has shown that no single factor can do more to influence the welfare and progress of a community than the management of the volume and flow of money. [More…]

• The bringing of borrowers and lenders together for these transactions which are so necessary in the community has provided the opportunity for new and specialised intermediaries. [More…]

• It is true that legislation against fraud, misappropriation and so on affords some general protection to the community in this area. [More…]

• I believe that the Minister’s statement that there should be regulations covering the activities of that financial sector of the community is in the interests of our economy. [More…]

• I see a great shadow looming over our economy, cast mainly by a Government which wishes to have this monolithic social control over private industry, by classing, in the first instance, large retailers in our community as financial institutions. [More…]

• I think that that would be wrong in the community. [More…]

• Whilst the turnover, the amount of cash handled and the importance to the community of those 2 organisations must be similar, we find that one could be included within, and one could be excluded from, the provisions of this legislation. [More…]

• It is providing a community service. [More…]

• I see in the provisions contained in this Bill, a great threat, a great shadow cast by socialism on the general trading community. [More…]

• Over the years it was possible, through expansion to provide jobs for the young people and produce development such as had never been seen previously in our community. [More…]

• Senator McAuliffe said today: ‘History is full of instances of mismanagement which have brought disaster to the community’. [More…]

• I am glad that the honourable senator takes the responsibility because many of the Ministers, each with different ideas as to how this community should be organised, are certainly not taking the responsibility. [More…]

• I was demonstrating a critical situation and the fact that his senior Treasury man, the parliamentary head of the Treasury, had made an inflationary statement which only added to the fire by presenting an extra burden of expense to the community. [More…]

• -No, I think that Dr Cairns employs his relatives and that is more of a disaster for the community. [More…]

• I, as an Opposition member, fully agree with the right of the Government to say that the extra financial institutions in the community should come within the responsibility of the general banking area. [More…]

• But to spread that net wider, as this Bill does, enshrines the ability of government to delve so much further into the retail sectors of the community. [More…]

• That can be done in very quick time so that the whole of the business community is brought under the economic control of this Government. [More…]

• The efforts of this class of government in a period of 1 8 months surely must stand as a statue commemorating what a socialist government can do to the community. [More…]

• How could one ever have envisaged an interest rate of 20 per cent in this community. [More…]

• If anybody believes that interest rates in this community will drop more than 1 per cent or 2 per cent they have a grave fright coming. [More…]

• I fear for the whole economic basis of this community. [More…]

• The percentage of the community which voted for the Australian Labor Party in the last election will rue the day that they did so. [More…]

• The poor individuals in the community who sought finance for housing do not have even enough money for a deposit, or the ability to repay out of their wages today. [More…]

• The enormously high interest rate that we have was introduced by this Government having the ability to control the banking institutions of this community. [More…]

• That is what is happening in this community. [More…]

• It is regrettable that this should be happening in this wonderful community. [More…]

• I can imagine that back in the 1930s the sort of regulation of the banking system which is now accepted without reservation on all sides and by all sections of the community must have had an almost Bolshevist tone to anybody on the conservative side of politics. [More…]

• I suppose one of the most notable of the references comes from Sir John Phillips of the Reserve Bank who has pointed out that the use of direct controls usually hinders the process of having the community’s financing done by the most efficient means. [More…]

• The manner in which they have efficiently mobilised community savings and channelled them into areas where they are needed most has been of the greatest value. [More…]

• The permanent building societies, in their conversations with the Treasurer and in their representations in regard to this measure, have recognised that because of their size, nature and involvement they carry a responsibility to the community at large and to the Government of the day. [More…]

• Permanent building societies are very largely community organisations. [More…]

• But I do not think that we should lose sight of the record of the non-banking institutions generally, and the permanent building societies in particular, which have grown and contributed under the responsible management of various people in the community. [More…]

• We call off their credit if we wish to reduce credit, and we expand their credit if we wish to put more money into the community. [More…]

• According to the Treasurer (Mr Crean), the purpose of this Bill is to provide the basis for the examination and, as necessary, regulation of activities in the non-bank financial sector in the interests of effective management of the community. [More…]

• I think it would be fair to say that there is general recognition throughout the community, and certainly in the Parliament, that this quite dramatic shift of resources from the banking system into what is commonly called the fringe banking system justifies controls being exercised by this Parliament over the activities of bodies forming the fringe banking system. [More…]

• We do not wish to see the provisions of this Bill hampering the satisfaction of the genuine need for housing in the community. [More…]

• So we in the Opposition argue that there is a strong case for sustained level of finance for housing at reasonable rates in the Australian community so that the provision of housing is in neither great excess nor great deficiency. [More…]

• If that is what the Opposition wants, I think that it would work very much in favour of the Government’s intentions to regulate and, where it can, reduce the high cost of this type of finance to the community. [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 systems ready availability. [More…]

• It is therein recorded that since 1963 the average income for the farmer has been reducing at the rate- I think it is-of $200 a year from a beginning point of $3,600, while the incomes of all other sections of the community have been increasing. [More…]

• There was a general agreement that this action would not be to the advantage of the farming community or the Australian community in general. [More…]

• They accept the fact that it is best for the Australian community and the farming community to maintain a regular flow of products to the market. [More…]

• There may be some people in the farming community who would like to withhold products. [More…]

• I hope that they do not succeed because if they do they will only do their section of the community harm and they will do the Australian economy harm. [More…]

• It would only be detrimental to everybody in the community. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of recent documented allegations made by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and other responsible authorities concerning the persecution of the Jewish community in Syria, including numerous murders, assaults, religious persecutions, confinement to ghettos and denial of normal human rights in defiance of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights? [More…]

• It comes from a Mr Phillip Nitszhke who I think is employed as an agricultural adviser to the Wattie Creek community and has a big mailing list, including the Waterside Workers Federation, the Seamen’s Union of Australia and Mr Buchanan, for his complaints about Wattie Creek. [More…]

• In order to show that there was impartiality in the investigation, the head of the Department and I went to Wattie Creek and took with us a Mr Don Atkinson from the Flinders University who has been a champion of the Wattie Creek community for a long time. [More…]

• On this occasion the letter states that we have withdrawn moneys from the Aboriginal community and that the people there are starving. [More…]

• A collection is being taken up in Victoria today for people who are starving because we allegedly withdrew money, but at no time have we withdrawn money from the Wattie Creek community. [More…]

• I share some of the concern about what this Government might do with the various powers it has at its disposal in the Australian community but that does not mean that we can make its approach to legislation unworkable. [More…]

• When we see figures which show the increases in hospital costs and the increases in other medical services it is unreal to pretend that a government can introduce a massive scheme without requiring an updating of its costs and revealing to the Australian community how it assesses these costs will affect the levy that in future will be extracted from the Australian taxpayers. [More…]

• It is a big question when we consider that health care has been developed in Australia to suit the community. [More…]

• Perhaps the Minister will confirm this fact: In a city which is the centre of nationalised medicine, in recent years more than 50 per cent of the community has sought to, and in fact has set up voluntary health funds because the nationalised health fund, of which this Government’s proposal is a model, has utterly failed. [More…]

• One would have to ask Senator Baume whether he believes that only the more well to do members of the community should be able to ensure against rising health costs. [More…]

• The consultants’ report, as distinct from the Minister’s statement, mentions a community health centre. [More…]

• As I read it, it does not mention the many other vital community factors that ought to be built into such an experiment. [More…]

• We should have heard something about the amount of land that would be given up and opened up to community centres for the purpose of drawing people together and for the purpose of people belonging. [More…]

• If the Government is to face this and look at it with compassion, it must look at it with compassion for all the community of the State concerned. [More…]

• I have identified the western distributor and the fact that there has been no measurement of what parks would absorb in terms of housing, what community centres would absorb, what pre-schools institutions would absorb or what extensions might be given to the Glebe State schools in the area. [More…]

• If we are to do this we ought to list them and put a figure on them because if I am to talk of pre-schools, community centres and aU these things we will add not millions of dollars but tens of millions of dollars to the costs in this Bill. [More…]

• The Opposition agrees with the general principle that we should preserve and furbish an inner city area, that we should as far as possible avoid displacement of people in the community; that we should help people on low incomes to live close to the city; and that we should improve the environment. [More…]

• How many community centres will be provided? [More…]

• I refer to the Minister my fundamental suggestions that there be co-operation with the State Government; that together with this co-operation, to show its bona fides, the Commonwealth Government must provide more money for State housing; that medium density housing be interspersed in this area; and above all, that we go back to the drawing boards and look to the needs of open space, of community centres, of child care centres and of all those ingredients which are now essential and fundamental to a city, all of which are not mentioned in the Minister’s second reading speech. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that the stated objectives of the purchase are to avoid the sudden displacement of an existing population, 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…]

• There are no community services at all and we have no guarantee that they will be provided under this plan. [More…]

• So it represents in toto a cross section of the Australian community. [More…]

• That is the outlook of the present Government which wants to do something for the needy in our community, enhance the quality of their life, and which is not so interested in the wage increases which have been traversed tonight- the increases for dairy farmers and parliamentarians- for a comparison of what should be done. [More…]

• It is also an exercise in community rehabilitation. [More…]

• It is an exercise in community rehabilitation. [More…]

• By this purchase, will we contribute anything to the community at Glebe, which is one of the least privileged communities in our society today? [More…]

• It will show that the intention is to have community involvement and rehabilitation. [More…]

• The people in this area have contributed more to Australian welfare than any other section of the community. [More…]

• There would be a mixed community of wealthy and middle class people in the inner suburb. [More…]

• Extension of this service is one of the proposals that will be discussed with the residents in the wider Glebe community. [More…]

• I refer now to forward planning of community facilities, etc. [More…]

• This project involves participation of residents in the wider community in planning and the environment. [More…]

• Officers have discussed opportunities for the provision of open space, community facilities, etc., with individual residents and community groups. [More…]

• Referring now to State and local government participation, the government will be establishing a co-ordinating and advisory group on which the intra-state and Australian Government departments and agencies will be invited to participate, as well as a community consultant group consisting of local government and community representatives. [More…]

• Although we have limited time to deal with this matter in the Senate this evening there are some things which simply have to be said about the events we have witnessed during this week and the alarm that has been spread throughout the community over the confrontation which has existed publicly between the Minister and two ofthe reputable contribution funds dealing with our medical benefits. [More…]

• I wonder why the Government has not considered that it has a duty to voluntary organisations within the community, which serve the community and which, with the Government, seek to cover the health needs of the Australian people. [More…]

• If we look at the situation in that perspective, it is very easy to see that the $50m which the Minister claims that the funds are holding in reserve could very quickly be absorbed by the enormous increases in hospital costs which I have detailed this evening and by the enormous increases in all other medical costs which are being experienced in the Australian community. [More…]

• These are things which ought to be deplored in negotiations between the Government and those bodies in the community with which it shares responsibility. [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 hand, 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 huie, if any, application of the community interest to policy making in this enormously important mining sphere. [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 and community disruption and very substantial improvement in route times for public transport. [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…]

• Not only did they do that, but they also enabled many of the anxieties of business interests in this community, the anxieties of the life offices and others to be somewhat relieved during that period. [More…]

• Of course, I would like to see it empowered to take further risks in the business community. [More…]

• Reluctant as we are to accept an approach which we think is retrogressive and will not achieve the desirable results which the community ought to expect from this type of legislation, we shall not oppose the motion for the second reading of the Bill. [More…]

• We believe that whether this Bill will achieve anything at all for the community depends upon what happens in the Committee stage. [More…]

• Far from being ineffectual it is the earlier trade practices legislation which has brought into this community a real appreciation and consciousness of the need to have laws and to ensure that competition operated for the benefit of the consumer. [More…]

• What we ought to be doing is looking at these power hungry, powerful groups in the community with a view to ensuring that their activities are consistent with the public interest. [More…]

• For a trade union the ability to hold the community to ransom, to withhold vital supplies of power and transport and to impose hardship and inconvenience on tens of thousands of fellow citizens is a hallowed right acknowledged and defended by the Labor Government. [More…]

• Having regard to the time I conclude by saying that the Opposition is committed to the promotion of competition in this community amongst businesses because it is the lifeblood of the enterprise system which we favour. [More…]

• This is the type of resulting benefit and reward which ensures that as individuals promote and benefit themselves so the community benefits. [More…]

• I believe that the Bill should be the subject of some independent inquiry because the risk to the business community is particularly great. [More…]

• Whilst anyone has the right to say ‘I hold the view that there are trade practices in this country that appear to me not to be in the interests of the public and I wish to see them dispersed’, whenever I have asked Government supporters or indeed businessmen in the community to name those practices they always seem to shoot off at a tangent and say: ‘Well everyone knows these restrictive practices exist. [More…]

• This large private industry in Australia, which is most competent in the aviation industry, has found that costs created in the community by increased benefits to employees- whether by way of wage demands, extra leave or other employment provisions in process at the present time- have made it necessary for the company to increase its fares. [More…]

• This will inhibit intercourse and discussion in private industry in relation to the refining and benefiting of our wonderful business community. [More…]

• This piece of legislation will have an enormous impact on the business community. [More…]

• Indeed, once industry becomes aware of what is being brought in here it will have the effect of inhibiting the general progress of business in this community greatly to the disadvantage of the public. [More…]

• Supporters of the Labor Party say that they wish to see the labour force expanded in the community, that they want to see jobs created for Australians. [More…]

• The Opposition is taking 2 people out of the community and saying: ‘This is what we want’. [More…]

• We are conscious of the fact that the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) found it necessary to contact many organisations in the Australian community, in particular women’s organisations, to seek their support for the consumer protection part of the Bill. [More…]

• I think it may have been wise that we adopted the other measure so that the community became used to the system and used to the fact that it had to register agreements. [More…]

• Can he say whether he has any reports from the Commonwealth Police and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation as to the reasons for the fall-off in violence in the Croatian community and whether it is the Government’s firm handling of these problems that has produced a more healthy attitude in this community? [More…]

• Sometimes they have to be done for the protection of livestock, or the health of the community through quarantine, or to prevent the smuggling of drugs. [More…]

• The Post Office is in favour of introducing such a system because this type of service is important to the community: Although this matter is in the early stages of development we are hopeful that with the cooperation of the police and the Post Office such a system might be perfected. [More…]

• An important purpose of the treaty is to express in a more formal and symbolic way the friendship, the community of interests and indeed the inter-dependence which exist between the 2 countries. [More…]

• Of course, there is a great deal of feeling in the community on the subject of consumer protection and this has risen in recent years. [More…]

• It has been observed by all parties and been encouraged by many active groups in the community. [More…]

• It is necessary for me to say only that such an ardent advocate for the civil rights of the consumer community and of the trade union community as Mr Justice Frankfurter, in writing his introduction to a book on this subject, very thoughtfully written in 1928 by Berman, said that the book: . [More…]

• The disturbance that is being brought upon the community by an unparalleled spate of strikes and disruption by the trade unions has to be considered by any parliamentary democracy. [More…]

• All I can say is that there is a considerable number of people in the community which is growing day by day that will certainly take on this opposition from a non-Labor view. [More…]

• There is a tremendous amount of dissatisfaction in the community with the sort of attitude which has been voiced here today. [More…]

• The Opposition is not representing the truly Liberal people in this community. [More…]

• There is the retailing section of the community, and I speak of the large retailing section of the community - [More…]

• The big retailers of the Australian community, in the representations they have made to me, certainly have not approved the trade practices legislation. [More…]

• On the other hand, the manufacturing community has been far kinder in its assessment of this Bill. [More…]

• My officers and I have spoken to a great number of people throughout the community. [More…]

• There is no question that when there is a Bill of this character with completely new concepts time to consider must be given not only to an Opposition but to many people throughout the community who are affected by it. [More…]

• There could be a wave of hysteria throughout the community at a particular time on particular issues. [More…]

• The Commissioner’s work in this area, I believe, has had an enormous impact throughout the business community. [More…]

• I believe that this clause will not aid the cause of effective trade practices legislation designed to promote a competitive climate in the community. [More…]

• Whilst it is of no comfort to prophesy, I certainly feel that this legislation will cause more damage and problems than would a sensible, pragmatic approach on the other legislation to which everyone in the community was becoming accustomed. [More…]

• At all events, up to that point, he has neither done or intended any harm to the community. [More…]

• When however a trader foresakes his quality of competitor, and becomes an engrosser, when he sets himself to stifle or strike down effective competition which stands as a commercial protection between himself and the community at large, and so substantially to gather into his own hands the power of dictating the terms upon which the public needs may be satisfied he offends against the enactment. [More…]

• There is no doubt that there are powerful pressure groups in this community. [More…]

• Will the Minister consider launching a publicity campaign via his Department in order to ensure that such necessary and vital information is brought to the notice of all Aboriginal and island people, and for that matter to the notice of the community in general? [More…]

• I refer the Minister to a number of Press reports over past weeks to the effect that there is a food shortage facing the Gurindji community at Wattie Creek in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Is he aware that the recent statement by the Minister for Social Security, Mr Hayden, on the payment of special benefits to supporting fathers has created some confusion in the community as to the entitlement of those fathers to government assistance? [More…]

• But he chose to ignore entirely what was the essential argument that the Opposition advanced, namely, that what is essential is that in this community there shall be laws passed by the Commonwealth where there are necessary Commonwealth purposes and there shall be laws passed by the States also in their own area. [More…]

• But here we are not interested in what the commercial community says as to the acceptability of this. [More…]

• They will continue to exist in a befogged state of the law in which the commercial community will have an immense advantage by its being able to litigate those intricate issues that are costly and thereby prevent the small man ever going to law. [More…]

• It is the legal confusion and the constant costliness which gives an advantage to the commercial community as against the consumer. [More…]

• It is remarkable that in a legislative body we could have a whole set of provisions dealing with matters of false and misleading conduct, false representation, bait advertising, pyramid selling and a whole gamut of commercial conduct which, apparently, is clearly acceptable to the manufacturing community and nobody is prepared to say there is anything wrong with any of the provisions. [More…]

• I believe that the standard of proof which we have long accepted in our community as the standard of proof for conviction of a person ought to apply in this area as it does in other areas. [More…]

• This sweeps far in excess of most of the criminal penalties that are found in our community. [More…]

• The substance is the amount of money and the responsibility which individuals in this community will undergo if they are convicted of charges under Part IV. [More…]

• Even in the case of murder or other heinous crime in the community the police must respect the right of an individual to remain silent. [More…]

• Corporations would be able to do what they like because even when the malpractices were uncovered and the injuries, not to some private person but against the whole community, were uncovered the information could not be used in proceedings even against the corporation. [More…]

• There are a considerable number of people in the community from both sides of politics .who urgently want this Bill. [More…]

• If anybody was keeping anybody else in custody, it was members of the community keeping this man in custody and preventing him from returning home. [More…]

• Only last week or the week before at the meeting convened by Mr Justice Moore around the question of industrial relations, attended by the most important people in the community, Mr Cameron proposed a system of indexation of wages. [More…]

• The whole purpose of this legislation is to try to integrate our various modes of transport into a unified national system, not for the aggrandisement of any particular form of government but for the service of the Australian community. [More…]

• We see the natural consequence of the decline in the importance of the role and of the ability of local government to discharge its functions in the fact that able and conscientious people in the community-the type of people that one would want to see in local government- are now declining in greater numbers to involve themselves in a system for which they can claim only a mediocre performance. [More…]

• Unless local government can be put in a position in which it can indicate clearly to the community in observable terms that its functions are necessary and appropriate, people will be disinclined to involve themselves in local government. [More…]

• I feel that unless something very drastic or dramatic is done to resuscitate local government in the Australian community the people who depend upon local government for the provision of those daytoday locally based front-door services as it were are in for a pretty sorry time. [More…]

• I suggest this is an appropriate way to keep some measure of interest in what is happening in the local community area and, also, a very necessary attempt to ensure a proper co-ordination of the design and construction of road systems and other modes of transportation in which the Government should interest itself. [More…]

• We know of the very expensive communications costs which this Government has landed on the rural community. [More…]

• I think that in some instances they perform a good service in this community. [More…]

• Lady Kerr’s death is all the mere tragic because Australia has lost a woman with fine personal qualities who gave dedicated community service over a long period. [More…]

• It is a loss that will be felt widely among community organisations with whom 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 these hardships was the finest example any person could have given of an individual’s selfdetermination to make a positive contribution despite personal needs to the service of the community and the nation. [More…]

• He possessed tremendous strength of leadership and at the same time wide popularity at all levels in the community. [More…]

• To make all Government and Private transport free within the Federation to Pensioners and all other underpriviledged members of the community. [More…]

• The rackets which have been going on in this community were allowed to go on and to fuel inflation because of the wilfulness of the Opposition members in this chamber. [More…]

• I ask those Opposition senators who have any regard for their fellow citizens and for the welfare of the community, to allow the Government to introduce and have passed the measures which we think are necessary to deal with inflation. [More…]

• But the Opposition has no right whatever to complain of the state of affairs in the community when it is refusing to allow the Government to pass measures which it deems necessary in order to deal with the economy. [More…]

• In this case a pharmacologist of repute was called and also an expert witness on the prevalence of the crime in the community. [More…]

• I think the community generally will be pleased to see that, along with perhaps a more sensible attitude towards marihuana, equally a more sensible attitude is being taken by the courts in dealing with the hard drugs by regarding such offences as extremely serious crimes against the community. [More…]

• I think this has helped to confuse the position in the minds of the community and especially the young people who ought to have brought home to them what a vast difference there is between the 2 types of drugs. [More…]

• He saw the Senate as an institution, as one of the 2 Houses of Parliament, which should take its rightful place in the community. [More…]

• The question before the Senate this afternoon, which I imagine will be determined before we suspend the sitting for dinner, is whether the committee system on which the Senate has made its reputation in recent years, which has given this half of the national Parliament an enormous prestige and a great deal of understanding in the community, ought to be continued. [More…]

• The Senate committee system has provided a forum for people in the community who have an interest in particular subjects to present an argument and for that argument to be subjected to questions and cross-examination and given a great deal of publicity. [More…]

• The Government announced on 10 April 1973 that as beds became available they would be used for treatment of patients in the community including some ex-servicemen who had no entitlement under the Repatriation system. [More…]

• to make all Government and Private transport free within the Federation to Pensioners and all other underprivileged members of the community. [More…]

• Furthermore, the recognition was done, Mr President, in breach of a clear undertaking contained in a letter written before the last election by the Prime Minister to the President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community in Australia. [More…]

• We would lose our reputation completely if those representatives could not talk to their counterpart, the Foreign Minister, in a confidential way and say things to him which are not going to be bruited throughout the community. [More…]

• I wish to make it plain that the Australian Government is well aware of the cultural enrichment which members of the Baltic community have contributed to their country of adoption. [More…]

• At the same time I must ask whether the Australian Government can allow a particular national group in the community to dictate the terms of Australian foreign policy, for that is the position which we seem to have reached. [More…]

• The point has been made that de jure recognition will affect the status of the members of the Baltic community in Australia. [More…]

• Nearly all members of the Estonian community came to Australia during the period of the Chifley Labor Government or in the following year under arrangements made by it. [More…]

• I come to a letter dated 17 May 1974 to the President of the Council of the Latvian Community. [More…]

• Despite the sort of explanations we have had from the Minister today, if there are doubts in the community as to where the Government is leading us, then it is the responsibility of the Government to answer those doubts. [More…]

• It would be a very sorry day for the Senate and for responsible government in this community if the Senate were to pass such a motion couched in that way. [More…]

• What an extraordinary thing it was that the day before the last general election the Prime Minister of Australia wrote to the President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community denying that there would be any de jure recognition and indicating that the policy would be as in the past. [More…]

• But what it does is divide the Australian community and to make very uncomfortable a very important section of the Australian community that has come from those countries or, as I have said before, has its roots in those countries. [More…]

• Certainly there has been no real reason given why we in Australia should be marked in the world community as stepping forward out of Une with our allies in this respect. [More…]

• This letter was written to the President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community. [More…]

• It was in reply to an earlier letter from the President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community in Australia. [More…]

• He is well-known for taking advantage of his position as lecturer in politics at the University of Western Australia to propagandise to students, under the guise of academic teachings, his views about the danger to the community of the policies of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• -The former member for Riverina is now Special Consultant to the Australian Government on Community Relations. [More…]

• In the meantime, Mr Grassby will act as adviser to the Australian Government on matters of community relations affecting migrants and other ethnic groups in Australia. [More…]

• He also informed the public that, as Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby had established a community relations committee which had gathered a great deal of evidence indicating that discrimination continued to exist in important areas of community administration and activity. [More…]

• Does the Government acknowledge or understand that this tax will have an inhibiting effect on initiative both by individuals and by companies in the community? [More…]

• What steps does this Government now propose to take to restore the home building rate to the real level of community need? [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 uncertainty which has developed in the mining industry, particularly in the uranium industry, because of this indecisive situation is unfortunately quite widespread in the Australian community today. [More…]

• Mr Kelly, who represented Mr Coe in these proceedings, said that there was a claim by the whole of the Australian community to the whole of the Australian continent. [More…]

• Apart from particular matters, such as criminal cases, courts martial, civil cases and matters referred by a legislature to a judicial body, the rule has application to other hearings, inquiries and investigations in which the rights of individuals, or a community group, or the achievement of justice may be prejudiced, and it is the obligation of the Chair to hold the balance between the rights and duties of the House on the one hand and the rights and interests of the citizens on the other. [More…]

• I do not deny that the present Government, in many areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs, has instigated superbly beneficial schemes to improve my fellow Aborigines’ and Torres Strait Islanders’ way of life within our broader Australian community. [More…]

• One only has to think of the price trends in wool and beef for as short a period as the last 12 months to have some realisation why some farmers in the community are presently expressing some anger. [More…]

• They also will realise, if they think this matter through, that a good deal of their problem lies in the finance and politics of the European Economic Community, Japan and America. [More…]

• The rural sector has to bear those increased costs this year, as it will have to bear them every year, and as every section of the community will have to bear them. [More…]

• As the Government now provides free artificial limbs to everyone in the community, using the facilities of the Repatriation Artificial Limb and Appliance Centres, what assistance is given to Australian Aborigines suffering limb deformities as a result of leprosy? [More…]

• I suppose it is a matter of judgment whether it is of more benefit to the rural community to give a subsidy on phosphate or to make sure that equal education opportunities are given to children who live in rural areas. [More…]

• I ask: Does the Government intend to permit the many private courier services which mushroomed in Australia because the Post Office was not providing the services that were demanded by the community to continue in competition with the courier service being set up by the Australian Post Office? [More…]

• The people of Australia and the business community in particular will remember that. [More…]

• So it would seem to me that the Government would have been on stronger ground in emphasising these reasons for the abolition of the charges instead of invoking some grand principle that the national service is providing information, educational, cultural and entertainment services to the community and that therefore the people should not be paying for it. [More…]

• Obviously it has had to be paid for by the community and by the taxpayers generally. [More…]

• So to present this proposal as being in any great way a reduction in the burden of taxation on the community is a good deal of eyewash. [More…]

• But as we all know, this year there will be an overall increase of 46 per cent in income tax paid by the taxpayers generally throughout the community. [More…]

• The community and certainly we in the Opposition are not surprised by the anomalies and contradictions in the Government’s policy. [More…]

• Of course, this Senate has passed recently the trade practices legislation which is predominantly concerned with protecting the public interest against the activities of large aggregations of capital- the corporate structures of capital in our community. [More…]

• By and large, it has operated since then in spite of vast changes which have taken place in our community. [More…]

• Trade unionists are like every other section of this community insofar as they belong to voluntary associations; they are, by and large, apathetic unless a particular situation concerns them in a particular way. [More…]

• I think we in this country have to be very careful that we do not facilitate here or elsewhere legislation which rushes us into a situation of some sort of giant corporate state in which the corporations of labour and the corporations of capital clash in a sort of neanderthal giant manner to the exclusion, perhaps, of the public interest and to the exclusion, perhaps, of smaller business interests and smaller unions in the community, because there are certain logical arrangements of society which are not consistent with that view of a giant corporate state. [More…]

• That may be so, but the activities of all kinds of bodies in the community affect the public interest. [More…]

• It is sought anxiously by unions and employers in the community so that the industrial relations system can at least have one area of conflict substantially reduced. [More…]

• I am sure that this is as important in the life and operations of the Australian unionist as it is in those of every other member of our community. [More…]

• When honourable senators speak to those who manage the commercial ventures of Australia, they will know who regards the other as the most powerful sector in the community. [More…]

• For instance, if BHP and every other company in Australia were to say that they would adopt the use of secret, postal compulsory ballots, such as the amendments which I will move require, but that they would ask as a concession that the unions accept the same sort of oversight of the quality of the services they give to the community and the same oversight of what union officials are paid for their services, we know what the unions in Australia would say. [More…]

• This is the great argument that rages in the community today as the Government of Australia goes cap in hand to the unions to ask for their cooperation. [More…]

• What is more democratic in this community than to involve every member of the union in one of the most major decisions he will make in his life as a member of that union? [More…]

• Because the Transport Workers Union of Australia in South Australia and the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, South Australian Branch, could not agree as to who should handle the loading of steel at the new steel wharf in South Australia, 10,000 tons of that commodity which was in short supply then was denied to South Australian manufacturers and it cost the South Australian community, I have no doubt, some millions of dollars, not simply because a certain amount of steel was not sold in my State but because orders were not accepted by industry because it could not fulfil them. [More…]

• The upshot was that the picket line was broken by about a dozen drivers of the Transport Workers Union with, of course, practically the whole community of South Australia backing them. [More…]

• I wish that that Party could be realistic and understand that compulsory voting is here and that we will get a far more democratic answer from the community if we are perhaps a little less emphatic about the democratic way in which people can or cannot have the right to vote. [More…]

• There is very great concern in the community about and a recognition of the gravity of the economic situation we face. [More…]

• He cannot argue against the fullest extension of the democratic process that every person should vote in a decision which affects the general community at large. [More…]

• He says that in this century the workers in the community have always sought material self-betterment and that they have not always followed the path of economic virtue depicted by liberal economists. [More…]

• But each realises that the concessions it can wring from society depend ultimately on the extent of the potential disruption it can inflict on the community. [More…]

• For the defiant workmen do not see themselves primarily as members of a larger political community held together by a common history and by a network of rights, customs, and obligations. [More…]

• But in the case of the trade union movement I suggest that it cannot be denied that it does have a significant influence on the community and the economy. [More…]

• Whilst totally agreeing, and I wish to emphasise this, on the importance of the essential role played by the trade union movement in the operation of the mixed economy which we enjoyed until the change of Government but which we now find is creating very considerable problems, I must say that it is about time that we as a community asked: What is the role of the trade union movement in Australia, how far does its proper role extend into the economy and into society, and are there structural changes which are desirable in relation to the unions? [More…]

• is intended to play as part of a balancing of power within a mixed economy, but rather because of the fact that inadequate attention has been paid by the community generally and by the larger section of those directly involved, in not standing back and conceptualising for a period of time and then seeing what system can be made to work in relation to what we want, not what we have. [More…]

• One may therefore express the hope that individual executives and officers in both trade unions and employer organisations may soon realise how ephemeral empires really are and that there is far more satisfaction in subsuming individual desires for personal recognition in a cause which benefits the community generally. [More…]

• If it does offer the real prospect that a union membership control will be effective and the community will benefit thereby, I think any doubts one might have about the compulsory principle ought to be set aside. [More…]

• It has shown itself in what it has produced after what it promised if not to be inept then to be dishonest because what it is asking the community to accept flies right in the face of what its spokesmen are now saying. [More…]

• All we are saying is that despite the economic problems within this community today- and not only within Australia but also elsewhere- there is still just as much need for provisions which will allow wider agreements. [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…]

• It is understood that onward movement to Cyprus would be a matter for the community leaders. [More…]

• Representatives of the Greek and Greek-Cypriot community will be informed today. [More…]

• Some members of the community may have collected frozen foodstuffs to send to Cyprus. [More…]

• Members of the Greek and Cypriot communities would help Qantas considerably if they first established contact with Cypriot community committees which have been established to co-ordinate collection of supplies. [More…]

• As at least 2 members of the National Advisory Committee have stated that crisis referral and counselling centres for women are typical of urgent community needs, is it envisaged that the $2m will be spent in the establishment of these services? [More…]

• -The second part of the question highlights much the same sort of problems that obtained when we revalued the dollar and many of the benefits which would normally have accrued to the Australian community were not passed on because of the very high demand situation. [More…]

• The identifications of issues were based on discussion with community groups, business organisations and government agencies. [More…]

• In May last year I stated that I had asked my Department to investigate means of allowing community groups and ordinary members of the public greater access to the use of radio and television. [More…]

• There has been a great deal of conflict and Press speculation with regard to Government objectives in this important area of community development and communication. [More…]

• This 1974 Labor Government Budget is a double-dealing, dishonest, thoroughly disreputable document which, far from trying to face and overcome the two major problems of inflation and unemployment, uses an inflation rate of 20 per cent on which to base its program and dismisses the problems of unemployment by announcing that the unemployed will be used on useful community projects. [More…]

• It will affect them more than it will adversely affect the industrial barons and capitalists in our community. [More…]

• There will not be any hardship there because Murray Bridge is a farming community. [More…]

• This has been to some extent inevitable, but I think Australians now aspire to a way of life with a realisation of the benefits of the smaller community. [More…]

• All of us, of all political shades represented in this Parliament, must be alarmed at the growth of militancy throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• The figures are not only threats, but also are designed to produce a sense of gloom in the community. [More…]

• Secondly, the tariff cuts designed to produce price reductions in Australia had little effect on the reduction of prices and the countering of inflation because of the greed of certain retailers and importers in this community who failed to pass on the reduced prices of imported goods to the Australian community. [More…]

• this community could possibly do because it is impossible for a government, with an Opposition prepared to stoop to those methods in the Senate, to carry out long term policies and at the same time consider its own electoral interest as any political Party in office has to do. [More…]

• As I said earlier our priorities arise from 23 years of neglect of a large section of the community by a laissez-faire government. [More…]

• They include child care, our concern to protect the interests of pensioners in the community, and the development of cities and facilities and better conditions in cities. [More…]

• All these matters have to go ahead in our community if people in 10 years time are to be able to look back and say: ‘Well, because of its activity in the last decade Australia has kept up with the rest of the world’. [More…]

• All these activities have to go ahead in the interests of the bulk of the Australian community and of the future of this nation. [More…]

• What we must be concerned to do it to encourage an atmosphere of confidence in the community, an atmosphere which perhaps has been engendered a little already in the last 24 hours by the devaluation decision. [More…]

• It is of no good joining the gloomy prophets who talk with concealed glee about unemployment levels and industrial unrest but who in this chamber yesterday voted against a Bill of the Government which might have substatially reduced industrial unrest in this community and who indulge in what one might, I think, quite honestly describe as stimulated gloom. [More…]

• Those 23 years were marked by an utter lack of liaison between the private sector of the economy, the business community, and both the Liberal Party of the time and the Labor Party, particularly in the latter years before this present Government assumed office. [More…]

• In dealing with the question of inflation I think it is obvious to every serious commentator that there must be restraint by all sections of the community in Australia- the sort of restraint to which Sir Peter Abeles refers in that article, the sort of restraint which was not displayed by retailers and importers who took advantage of the tariff cuts of 1972 to say, in the terms that I quoted before: ‘Whacko, let’s look after ourselves’. [More…]

• It is that sort of glee about these things in our community, coupled with the sort of criticism which is made and this action by so-called responsible senators when a serious debate takes place, as it did yesterday, that leads to the present malaise in which we find ourselves. [More…]

• That is not the sort of attitude I am talking about when I quote from people like Sir Peter Abeles and Mr Goode, who are responsible business leaders in this country, about the needs in this community for restraint and cooperation on all sides. [More…]

• We might be able to get it in the community but we certainly do not get it in the Senate. [More…]

• In conclusion, in making the point about a need for dialogue in our community, about the need for restraint in all sections of the community and about the need for encouragement of confidence rather than prophesies of gloom, may I quote again from Mr Good speaking in his address to the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce. [More…]

• Critics, of whom there were many, including me from time to time, complained that we moved too slowly on matters of real community concern. [More…]

• This is so for a number of reasons, not the least because the Government has not made it clear to the people that the increases in social expenditure the Government wants are increases that go beyond merely utilising growth in productivity and hence real wealth in the community. [More…]

• Unless the community accepts those facts it will be living in a world of make-believe. [More…]

• The public servant of Canberra should live with the problems that are invariably brought to a city by those industries which produce the physical needs of the community. [More…]

• I believe that more and more the community is becoming aware of its responsibility in social welfare and realises that it is no longer confined to flower hatted ladies and calf’s foot jelly but also concerns the life of everybody from birth until death. [More…]

• They want services for the aged people, services for young people and a whole range of community services. [More…]

• And of course the Opposition no longer believes this, neither do the people of the community. [More…]

• Such proposals were frequently supported by statistical details of the particular community and by survey material. [More…]

• Some proposals related to a small community or area in which the writers were involved. [More…]

• To our discredit, handicapped children in this community have been hidden away in much the same way as they were in the 1 9th Century. [More…]

• We do not anticipate any sort of resistance from the community when we say we want a larger share of the Budget for child care. [More…]

• If the honourable senator peruses an audience survey report which, I think, was taken early this year or late last year by the ABC she will realise that the Commission has found that because of the inadequacy of frequencies or stations available to it there have been certain deficiencies in its ability to cater for as wide a section of the Australian community as it would like. [More…]

• Now that the Repatriation artificial limb and appliance centres are responsible for the supply of artificial limbs to all in the community who need them, can the Minister assure the Senate that the Department of Repatriation and Compensation is taking appropriate steps to keep abreast of new developments and techniques in the manufacture of artificial limbs and appliances? [More…]

• It applies only to the smaller companies which I imagine, the community would wish to encourage so that they may build strength and reserves against the thrust and competition from the larger and more financially sound public companies. [More…]

• Finally, will the Minister say whether any financial assistance is to be given to this quite outstanding radio station to extend its present valuable community services and to develop the new forms of broadcasting to which the Minister referred? [More…]

• The national compensation scheme, as put forward by Mr Justice A. D. Woodhouse, D.S.C., and Mr Justice C. L. D. Meares, is a total concept, designed to guarantee the social well-being of all those in our community who encounter difficulty through illness, accident, or congenital disability. [More…]

• I have received comments, which I will be quoting, from many people in the community who believe that the Senate adopted a very responsible attitude to the proposed increased postal charges that came before us 2 months ago in isolation but as part of some alleged anti-inflation deal. [More…]

• Although I think it has been accepted for many years that the community should accept a loss on postal services- in fact, the postal services have been making a loss since 1961- the overall result of the Post Office, with the profits made on the telecommunications side, should be kept fairly well in balance and the general policy should not be to make a loss overall. [More…]

• The Commission sees the APO as an organisation which: offers a comprehensive range of postal and telecommunications services and at standards which meet, within reasonable and responsible limits, the requirements and needs of the whole community. [More…]

• ensures that the community contributes to the revenues of the APO in proportion to the use each member makes of those services; [More…]

• provides a reasonable return to public revenues for the use of community funds employed in the enterprise. [More…]

• I believe that the Vernon Commission made it quite clear that some balance has to be struck between the reasonable requirements and needs of the whole community and what would be reasonable costs of the tariff structure. [More…]

• That is an excellent example of private enterprise taking the initiative and satisfying community needs which were not being provided by the Post Office. [More…]

• But the increase in the basic letter rate from 7c to 10c, more than a 40 per cent increase, is a cost inflicted on the community far in excess of what I feel is necessary. [More…]

• But to increase the basic letter rate by 42.9 per cent is to inflict a cost increase on the community which we suggest is far in excess of what is necessary and desirable in today’s circumstances. [More…]

• I believe that the denial of the first increase in postal charges did bring home to the Government the very deep feeling that members on the Opposition side have in relation to uncontrolled increases in costs in the community. [More…]

• What is the Post Office doing building a tourist tower- using funds which we all know are very short in this community and are available at a very high rate of interest? [More…]

• At the time that Commission made that estimate it was not aware of the financial developments which have taken place in the community. [More…]

• From a working community background and with very little education he graduated from the ranks to become one of Australia’s most important men and certainly one of the most respected. [More…]

• If I recall correctly, I saw a statement by the Chairman of the ABC, Professor Downing, last week that the ABC would probably make use of the second stand-by transmitter in Melbourne by conducting community broadcasting operations. [More…]

• I think that such assistance has been requested by the Parliament and by the community at large, or by those interests that might be affected. [More…]

• This has not increased lawlessness in the Territory and is not doing a disservice to the community. [More…]

• He indicated that the Commission would be interested in using the stand-by transmitter, particularly in Melbourne, to provide opportunities for community participation in broadcasting. [More…]

• That being so, I stongly suggest that groups such as the Community Radio Federation could perhaps gain valuable experience in broadcasting if they were to approach the ABC and inquire about the types of programs which the ABC intends to put forward on the stand-by transmitter. [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…]

• We are discussing this Bill, and prospectively the Budget, against a condition of severe recession within the community, against a condition where some 1 ,000 persons a day are losing jobs and against a Budget which forecasts and has built into it an unemployment rate of the order of 3 per cent. [More…]

• I make the point that while this Government deliberately embarks on policies of sustained high inflation of the order of 20 per cent all local and semigovernmental authorities will be forced to inflict punitive taxation by way of higher rates upon the community. [More…]

• We can only convert money into new and increased works when we have a stable community. [More…]

• The basis upon which that interest may be made known by the member or may be made known to the public is something which, I suppose, every individual who has been associated with council life, State Parliament or any other body which is making a decision on behalf of the community will take into account. [More…]

• For instance, when a person is placed in the position of having to make decisions on economic matters in the community one may query whether that person has been able to show any competence in this field in his private life before hearing him speak on such a matter or allowing him to decide by his vote whether certain action in relation to Government business should be taken. [More…]

• The honourable senator is not averse to taking to task a respectable body in the community by using the privilege of Parliament to blacken its character in this place. [More…]

• I wonder whether all the other people whose names appear on the list which was signed by Mr Anthony would be happy to know that this document has been a public document and has been circulated throughout the community. [More…]

• While there is a lot of talk in the community these days about the problems of man in society trying to live with either the corporations of capital or the corporations of labour, there also is the enormous problems looming of how man in a modern democracy is to survive against the statutory corporation. [More…]

• It is not a properly balanced Budget between all sections of our community. [More…]

• I believe that he is misleading the city dwellers about the actual prosperity or otherwise of the rural sector of our community. [More…]

• The Budget has raised a great deal of controversy in the community as to whether it will take up the slack of the rapidly growing number of unemployed or whether it will add to the depressing scene in industry and commerce and create further unemployment. [More…]

• Certainly, the Australian Labor Party projects to the community a state of great confusion. [More…]

• This has had a very undesirable effect on the psychology of the Australian industrial community. [More…]

• Whichever way they express it, whichever way some economists like to hide that opinion perhaps because of their own politics or because of fear of offending a great section of the community, that is what they are saying. [More…]

• Until the union movement is brought under control in the sense that companies and individuals in the community are under control we will not see the period of stability which everyone is looking for. [More…]

• Whilst it is another illustration of the failure of the Government to provide Cabinet leadership, at least the retreat from one aspect of the unearned income tax was some measure of relief from the very severe impact it would have had on numbers of the Australian community. [More…]

• At least 3 months ought to be given for adequate community response to such an inquiry. [More…]

• The economics of South Australian community housing will be reversed by loading that organisation with possibly three times the cost of housing by the time the cost of immense support facilities, beautification and the like at Monarto are added. [More…]

• In the development of any alternative development centre I think that people making these choices and designs need to take into account not only the development of the centre itself but also the effect that it will have on existing community centres. [More…]

• A modern developing city and community draws upon water services and supplies to a greater extent than earlier communities drew upon them. [More…]

• The honourable senator can be assured that this Government has done everything possible to get colour television sets on to the market at the lowest possible price in order to improve the quality of life for all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• This is very similar to the Russian purchase of meat from the European Economic Community some months back. [More…]

• In any community production in one area has to be transferred to production in other areas, and this has been evident for some time. [More…]

• That the Curriculum Development Centre look for means to rectify the shortage of educational materials specifically designed Tor the needs of disadvantaged groups in the community- for example, migrants with language difficulties and slow learners. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to mention the fact that migrant groups in our community at the present time are making representations to us for the supply of text books in various languages. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware, through the legislation which has been before the Senate, 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…]

• It is a responsible Budget because it seeks to improve the various groups in our community who need government help, whether they be war pensioners, age or invalid pensioners. [More…]

• I believe that the Government is in this Budget carrying out its responsibilities to endeavour to achieve balanced development in our community. [More…]

• I hope the time will come when this Government will be able to bring about the necessary reorganisation of the Post Office so that we can have an efficient public instrumentality, one able to give service at a resonable price to the Australian community. [More…]

• These people are committed to a foreign ideology and the principle that might is right without regard to others in the community. [More…]

• He has done a great con job on the community. [More…]

• All of a sudden he is acceptable to some of the business community. [More…]

• Do they not realise that he will help to destroy the community as soon as he possibly can? [More…]

• I think that this is a punitive tax on one section of the community. [More…]

• It has been criticised by every section of the community. [More…]

• I would think, from looking at all sections, and acting on the advice given by Senator Georges’ 2 colleagues who had made contributions in this debate, that all sections of the community must be prosperous at present. [More…]

• It creates community wealth, of which I have just spoken, and because of free enterprise, with people going out to work and gaining for themselves more of the things of life in return for money, it creates tax revenue with which this Government is able to introduce its program of welfare. [More…]

• Western Australia until then was a State that was dependent in most instances for its income on the primary industry sector of the community. [More…]

• I think that all Australians are very well respected but we are not compelled to agree with everything he says simply because he is a respected member of the community. [More…]

• As I see it, the housing societies have come into the market and have become pacesetters for increased interest rates to the detriment of the whole community, even though the increased interest rates strike first at home buyers. [More…]

• In this decision, as in many other decisions, we see what appears to be an intense dislike by the Government of the farming community, or at least the bigger producers. [More…]

• I think that this would not only help the farmer but it would also bring about a good deal of benefit to the whole community. [More…]

• Since the end of 1972 the Country Party in general and its leader in particular have conducted a continuous campaign of vilification against the Whitlam Government, a campaign which preyed upon the fear and ignorance of large sections of the rural community, a campaign supported by misinterpretation, distortion, deception and irresponsible inflammatory rhetoric. [More…]

• Only on rare occasions when it suited the rural community did the Liberal Party agree with subsidies. [More…]

• When private industry suffers, the whole community suffers and the whole country suffers. [More…]

• It has many unfair features and it is depressing to the community. [More…]

• It will not work for the Labor Party to introduce a Budget which attempts to divide the community and which attempts to impose 2 income tax scales- one for some people and one for other people. [More…]

• This is an obvious imbalance which is affecting the kind of program which the Labor Government is trying to bring in to provide more primary care, more care for people out in the community where they need it. [More…]

• It is a fact that if we continue to use traditional medical schools built around the traditional hospital structure it is likely that we will worsen the situation because the kind of training people will receive will encourage them to go into hospital practice or into specialties, and we will continue to get this smaller number of people wanting to go into primary care, wanting to practise in the community. [More…]

• If the community health centre program- the primary care program- is to mean anything, in the end it has to mean more people in practice giving their services. [More…]

• I hope the Government will stay with its proposal that this medical school will operate out in the community. [More…]

• Not only does it speak for itself but also it has been spoken about by every section of the community. [More…]

• No Budget has been more soundly condemned by every section of the community. [More…]

• It is interesting that the Government seeks the cooperation of the unions whereas it confronts every other section of the community. [More…]

• While the Government has been urging on other sections of the community the need for restraint, it is not prepared to show any restraint itself. [More…]

• The private sector is the productive sector of the community and provides our wealth. [More…]

• It is interesting that more and more people in the community are beginning to suspect that. [More…]

• Government has created uncertainty in the community. [More…]

• I exempt from that statement the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt) who I think is putting up a brave fight in the interests of the rural community. [More…]

• This again is typical of the muddle of this Government which is creating such uncertainty throughout the community. [More…]

• This uncertainty is felt by all sections of the community. [More…]

• It has made no effort to appeal to the community for community help in solving this tremendous problem of inflation. [More…]

• This will require hard work and far greater co-operation between the Australian Government, the State governments, local authorities and all sections of the Australian community, yet there has been no sign that this Government wants to seek that co-operation. [More…]

• The sections of the community which provide the wealth should again be given confidence for the future. [More…]

• The fact that these industries have been attracted to 170 different places in New South Wales means that there is the capacity in that State to retain and develop large, medium and small towns which are the social and service centres of an important community. [More…]

• Compensation in the form of tax deductibility for the conservation of soil, water and fodder and investment allowances as they apply particularly to agricultural machinery are not to be viewed as they are sometimes mistakenly regarded and exhibited as just handouts to the rural community. [More…]

• They are beneficial not only to the farm community. [More…]

• To all of these people the incentives act to secure their way of life and employment and should be viewed in their total context, not just as handouts to a numerically small section of the community. [More…]

• They will not provide the degree of satisfaction in the wage and salary earning community that will lessen the constant demand for increased wages and salaries which consistently increase the costs of production. [More…]

• Unless there is some indexation with reference to the inflationary content of the capital gain envisaged it will be a disastrous tax because, added to estate duties, this sort of tax will result in the total eradication of the small business operator, the small farmer, the plumber in his business, the electrician- any number of small operators and indeed larger operators right throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• But in this instance they are attacking not only that section of the community which sends its children to independent schools; they are attacking practically everybody who has children at school. [More…]

• The task at this moment is to give stimulus to the private sectorthat three-quarters of the Australian community which creates employment, and generates production and wealth. [More…]

• The community is being held to ransom, not by decent trade unionists. [More…]

• In parallel with that is a move by this Government to increase massively the national radio and television networks throughout Australia, both in the formal sense and in the community access sense. [More…]

• It provides 75 per cent of jobs in the community. [More…]

• It creates the community wealth and tax revenue for the sort of social welfare programs we all want to see. [More…]

• Items which have been noted in the amendment show the Opposition’s fear that the Budget will not be in the interests of the community. [More…]

• It concerns me that undoubtedly Labor believes that it has brought in a Budget which is designed to do something for the good of this community. [More…]

• I imagine that honourable senators believed when Labor took office that the action it would take would be for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• To what can Labor point to show that it has advantaged the Australian community? [More…]

• Is Labor aware of the situation as it involves the use of money in this community? [More…]

• I am afraid that I have to say to anybody who asks me that the community will just have to ride out Labor’s next year of office until there is a reversal of those early policies. [More…]

• They were attractive to the labouring community. [More…]

• Go for extra benefits in the community. [More…]

• The fact is that there is fear of this Government in the community today. [More…]

• I believe the people do not see it that way but they fear the proposals which are coming about in the community. [More…]

• If there is an interest for Labor in this matter, surely it is for the employees in the community. [More…]

• Heavens above, we heard Ministers saying before the last election: ‘The one thing that Labor will not do is countenance unemployment in the community’. [More…]

• We have a Budget which, in the words of Labor, says: ‘We certainly will not stand more than 5 per cent unemployed in the community’. [More…]

• But the Government has moved so quickly that the unemployment situation in the community will be disastrous for many people. [More…]

• It seems to me to be utterly stupid to say to one class of people in the community: ‘Because we as the Government have put you out of business you will lose your employment. [More…]

• Either everybody should be on 6 months wages or the Government should say that the desire in the community is that people should attempt to find their own jobs, while encouraging industry to maintain the fullest employment possible. [More…]

• This Budget takes away all initiative from any private person who has respect for himself and is attempting to achieve something in the community. [More…]

• The fear of the businessman is that for private companies, the small businesses in the community, the Budget takes the rate of taxation up to 47 Vi per cent, equivalent to that paid by the multi-national groups such as General MotorsHolden’s Pty Ltd and the other big companies in the community. [More…]

• We should be attempting to encourage smaller businesses in the community to grow in strength, but that is against the philosophy of the Labor Party. [More…]

• It is a disaster in the community. [More…]

• The whole situation is a disaster for the most important productive sector in the community. [More…]

• When proposing its 10 per cent extra tax on unearned income, this Labor Government forgot to tell the small people in the community that it was levying a $25m tax on people who earned less than $5,000 a year. [More…]

• Nothing will undermine the confidence of the manufacturer or of the businessman or of any other section of the community more than if people believe that this disaster about which Senator Webster talks is about to happen. [More…]

• No one is suggesting for a moment that we have overcome all the problems facing pensioners, but at least it is quite obvious to the community at large that for the first time in many years we have taken the trouble to ensure that pensioners get a reasonable deal. [More…]

• This Budget will, I believe, adequately serve the needs of the Australian community in the next 12 months. [More…]

• I draw the Minister’s attention to the impression prevalent among the Cypriot community that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees appears to be very slow to assess the total refugee complement in Cyprus. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen in this morning’s Press a report indicating that the Secretary of the Community Radio Federation in Melbourne has criticised the proposal for an experimental radio station for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Melbourne on the ground that it will undercut any attempt by the community groups to establish a radio station? [More…]

• Does the Government intend to establish or maintain a Government monopoly and indirect censorship over community radio services? [More…]

• I would think that that would make it perfectly obvious that the Government has no intention of undercutting attempts to establish community radio stations. [More…]

• I very much doubt that an organisation such as the Community Radio Federation would have existed 12 months ago. [More…]

• What is the Minister’s response to the request by the Secretary of the Community Radio Federation to delay the opening of the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s public access station until a licence is granted to an independent community radio station? [More…]

• What precisely is the program for development of experimental public broadcasting under the AM frequency by independent community access groups? [More…]

• For the sake of the radio industry and of the community broadcasting section- a section that is very much interested in this area- we do not want to rush blindly into this subject until we have investigated it. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether discussions have been held with the Public Broadcasting Association and other interested groups with a view to the development of community radio? [More…]

• I can tell the honourable senator that earlier this year my Department took the initiative of holding a public seminar to engage in community discussion with a wide cross-section of the community that is naturally interested in this type of extension of the broadcasting spectrum. [More…]

• In addition to holding a public seminar my Department also bore a portion of the expenditure in enabling the public broadcasting community groups to hold a seminar of their own so that they could formulate some ideas of their own as to how these organisations should be established. [More…]

• However, I understand that in the very near future a recommendation will be put to me by my Department that I establish a committee of community broadcasters and others involved in the community to liaise with me and my department on the matter so that we can see where the land lies during the course of and after this experimental period. [More…]

• I leave aside what Mr Yuill ‘s view might be but I think it is a matter of public knowledge that Mr Turner, Mr Piggott and Mr Watson have a very decided view on this whole question and their views came to the Committee, but I have not heard the views and apparently the Committee did not receive the views of other persons who are becoming prominent in the community in opposition to this Bill and who are wanting to put forward different views. [More…]

• The dominating coalition Party in Queensland is fortified by the fact that it has 19 per cent of the people’s vote in Queensland so that they are able to dictate to all sections of the community behind a strong fortification of 19 per cent of the vote. [More…]

• I said that Aborigines were getting a worse time than most other members of the community and I repeat that with emphasis mostly for the benefit of Sir Magnus Cormack. [More…]

• No new community health centres have been approved for the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. [More…]

• In New South Wales, medical staff employed in community health centres are employed under the NSW Public Service Act. [More…]

• However, any area may display particular problems in the array of health services available in relation to the needs of the community being served. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• That the parents to benefit most relatively from educational income tax deductions, in the past and even more in the future, are the parents of children in government schools and this has a divisive effect in the Australian community. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs: Has a firm of consultants, Clarke, Gazzard and Flower, put forward a plan for re-housing the Aboriginal community at Mowanjum? [More…]

• The Committee’s conclusions on this Bill were informed by a close examination of the points of view which were put by people representing a wide spectrum of opinion in the community. [More…]

• I ask: Is the Government concerned about the present low level of confidence within the business 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…]

• However, some items of expenditure, such as the provision of education and health services at Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, while designed to meet the special needs of the Aboriginal people, al.so represent to some extent the equivalent of services provided for the general community. [More…]

• At this stage I would like to mention that because of a statement which was made in Tasmania a week or two ago a popular misconception now exists in the community and I would like to correct it. [More…]

• These areas are as follows: Dental therapy assistance, pre-school education, community recreation complexes, the State Strategy Plan, urban public transport, community health, community mental health and the National Estate. [More…]

• I mentioned a fortnight ago today in my maiden speech that in Tasmania there is tremendous disquiet in the business community, in the farming community and in the commercial world. [More…]

• There is $2m for community health centres on which money had never been spent before and $3m for the school dental health scheme. [More…]

• Many of the smaller rural industries are in trouble because of the deliberate actions which have been taken by this Government which appear to be aimed at our rural community. [More…]

• It reminds me of the wonderful gesture of the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) when he gets on the public platform and puts his arms up expecting to receive the applause of the whole community. [More…]

• You upset some sections of the community.’ [More…]

• Transport is one of the most important areas in any community. [More…]

• While all of this is to be applauded, and we offer our support for the Bills, I think that it opens up also the whole question of transport in our total community. [More…]

• Transport is everybody’s business because everybody needs it and it has a considerable significance in the cost structure of the community. [More…]

• Transport is a public utility with a particular responsibility to the community. [More…]

• I suppose that the argument will always be as to how much the community must be prepared to meet from public funds the cost of transportation services. [More…]

• They are Dr Evan Costanzo, editor of ‘ La Fiamma ‘; Mr Jim Calomeris a prominent member of the Greek Community; Joe Cujes, President of the Triglav Club of Sydney; Jim Kaldis of the ‘Hellenic Voice’; and John Kosovich, editor of ‘Nova Dobra’. [More…]

• What is the difference between a Community Health Complex and a Community Health Centre, in relation to the community health program grants for New South Wales. [More…]

• The Hospitals and Health Services Commission accepts considerable freedom and variety in local usage and terminology concerning projects submitted to it under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• In relation to New South Wales, the Health Commission of New South Wales views a Community Health Complex as a project serving approximately 60,000 persons and providing a wide range of primary care services together with specialist back-up services. [More…]

• It views a Community Health Centre as a project serving a population of up to 20,000 persons and providing, in the main, only primary care services. [More…]

• 15 Centres and 2 Complexes were included in the approved 1973-74 Community Health Program for New South Wales. [More…]

• In formulating its recommendations, the Commission took account of the needs and priorities for the provision of community health services and facilities as submitted by the Health Commission of New South Wales. [More…]

• The Hospitals and Health Services Commission, in consultation with the State Authority, also took account of the benefits of emphasising the allocation of Block Grants under the Community Health Program to integrated regional systems for the provision of needed community health services and facilities. [More…]

• The 2 Community Health Complexes funded in 1 973-74 were part of a regional plan for the Western Metropolitan Region of Sydney. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• That the parents to benefit most relatively from educational income tax deductions, in the past and even more in the future, are the parents of children in government schools and this has a divisive effect in the Australian community. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the European Economic Community is dumping surplus beef stocks on the currently few remaining normal Australian export markets at cut-throat, uneconomic prices? [More…]

• Has the Australian Government protested to the European Economic Community agricultural officials at this alleged practice? [More…]

• -I am not aware that the European Economic Community is dumping foodstuffs on any of the traditional Australian markets. [More…]

• It is true that sales of beef have been made by the European Economic Community in the last few months at prices much more competitive than those which can be offered by Australia. [More…]

• I am not aware that the European Economic Community would be engaged in the alleged practice insofar as the Japanese market is concerned, much less the American market. [More…]

• As to the general questions on inflation, certainly it would have to be conceded that the liquidity problems are affecting most sections of the community and are no doubt affecting local government. [More…]

• It is evident that a great number of people in the community think that there is a lot wrong with the divorce laws and that they ought to be altered. [More…]

• To suggest that the principles in this matter cannot be discussed and debated in the Senate and that we cannot make up our minds is not doing justice to those people in the community who look to the Parliament to make laws and to debate them. [More…]

• I am making these documents generally available to ensure that the Australian community, particularly the business community, is fully informed. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore, humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effect of such a Bill upon our Australian society, [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill will be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• It is vital to any community that those people who are concerned with the advancement of knowledge and with the education of our young people who are to take leading parts in every walk of life should be adequately remunerated. [More…]

• Perhaps if the penalties which attach to those who engage in false representations under the Trade Practices Act were applied to political affairs, the community would hear a lot more good sense and a lot less false representation. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Postmaster-General who would agree that members of the the community who are totally blind are at a tremendous disadvantage in communicating. [More…]

• I will discuss the matter with him but I would like to say in a general way that, as everybody knows, recently we have had to put up tariffs- a move which has been resisted in the community- to ensure that the Post Office is viable. [More…]

• Pinnaroo ‘Border Times’, are an important part of community life in country areas, will the Attorney-General consider the smaller provincial newspapers when placing future advertisements? [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 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 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…]

• 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 Bill 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…]

• He will be snowed under by people coming from the community who want to tell him what is happening in Queensland gaols in this primitive system which might have been a happy state of affairs ISO years ago but which ought to be abolished and replaced with something better in 1 974. [More…]

• We know that apparently a decision has been made by the Labor Party that the $25m tax that was to be extracted from those individuals in the community who earned less than $100 a week has now been eliminated and will apply only to those who have an unearned income above that figure. [More…]

• Not only will it apply to probably everybody in the community who has attempted to have some savings for himself, but also to primary industry, to which my remarks are particularly related. [More…]

• The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since 1959. [More…]

• The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since 1959. [More…]

• The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since 1939. [More…]

• The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since 19S9. [More…]

• The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since 1959. [More…]

• We, the undersigned persons, interested in the welfare of the family life in Australia and the maintenance of community standards, desire to bring to the notice of the Honourable the President and Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled, the registration of protests to the principle contained in the Family Law Bill. [More…]

• We consider that as no well-publicised inquiry to which the Australian people were invited to submit their views was held, the proposed legislation does not reflect the views of the Australian community in a matter of vital importance. [More…]

• That for these reasons grave concern is felt that the Bill may be passed before the community is aware of its long term consequences. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill ( 1974) be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]

• That for these reasons grave concern is felt that the Bill may be passed before the community is aware of its long term consequences. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill (1974) be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]

• That for these reasons grave concern is felt that the Bill may be passed before the community is aware of its long term consequences. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill ( 1974) be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that ail sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian Society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• And whereas such assistance is in keeping with that provided by Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and New Zealand, and United Nations Organisations such as UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, FAO and WHO, and such non-Government organisations as the World Council of Churches, the Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign, Community Aid Abroad, and some Roman Catholic Aid Agencies in Europe; [More…]

• And whereas such assistance is in keeping with that provided by Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and New Zealand, and United Nations Organisations such as UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, FAO and WHO, and such non-Government organisations as the World Council of Churches, the Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign, Community Aid Abroad, and some Roman Catholic Aid Agencies in Europe; [More…]

• That the parents to benefit most relatively from educational income tax deductions, in the past and even more in the future, are the parents of children in government schools and this has a divisive effect in the Australian community. [More…]

• If this is the case, why does not the Government follow this course of action instead of deliberately causing an increase in air fares, the burden of which will fall on the Australian community which already has suffered substantial increases in air fares under this Government? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Agriculture whether he can confirm reports that the European Economic Community has extended its meat import ban beyond November this year for an indefinite period? [More…]

• It is true that the European Economic Community has extended the ban on the import of Australian beef into that economic group. [More…]

• The principle of capital gains has been written into the Budget and it stands, but the manner in which it will be implemented and the various sections of the community which it will affect are still matters for determination. [More…]

• It will not only mean a saving but also will be of great assistance to the people in the community who use those telephones for emergency services. [More…]

• If unemployment does occur in the community despite our efforts and our intentions wc stand ready to cushion its effects. [More…]

• I certainly would like to see, by way of amendment, the final responsibility for the Commission intruding into what are now free industries or free enterprises in the community and how far the intrusion goes come under the direct oversight of the Parliament. [More…]

• The basis of my comment is the principle that this community would be best developed and directed under a private enterprise system. [More…]

• But from my knowledge and experience of this industry, in order to ensure that effective financial assistance and other tangible support is given to the industry for its successful development, the industry must have a real voice in the Cabinet if it is to receive a fair share of the community’s financial cake. [More…]

• We established the Interim Board of the Australian Film Commission, representing a wide cross-section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Possibly, it could do this at a time of great stress, as is now evident in the community, and at a time when we are looking for leadership. [More…]

• If Senator Greenwood can forget about the Labor Party and the Liberal Party for a moment when we are discussing the needs of the Australian community and Australian children in relation to educational films and if he can forget his partisan and divisive attitude on politics, he might be able to discuss what the community really does need. [More…]

• The mere fact that the Minister has the power does not mean that the power will be exercised in the appropriate way and in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• We are learning to look closely at those matters which we think will reassert the role of the private sector of this community. [More…]

• On this occasion he is free to accuse others of being socialists, but he wants to set up in the community an all-powerful government film making and distributing body, and let the private operators dance as the elephant said among the chickens- every man for himself. [More…]

• For the benefit of Senator Greenwood I again say to him that I believe that his view is completely socialistic, and I cannot support the letting loose in the community of a very large, powerful body free of any government direction which will gobble up the private operators in the film industry. [More…]

• If he encourages his colleagues to defeat this Bill tonight he will disappoint many tens of thousands of people in the community. [More…]

• I do not hear any protest in the community about looking at too much Australian programming. [More…]

• We feel that this is an infringement of a person’s rights in the community when he is required to supply such information by the issue of a notice. [More…]

• It is, I think, an infringement of a great number of rights enjoyed by the citizens of this community when they are forced to disclose ‘any information’. [More…]

• I suggest that it is a great breach of the rights of individuals in the community. [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Prime Minister inform the President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community in Australia prior to the election of 18 May 1974, that his Government did not intend to alter the policy of previous Governments with respect to recognition of the incorporation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]

• If the fees are fixed at a concessional rate, will the Minister advise the Senate whether repatriation beneficiaries require the same attention as other members of the community or whether they require discounted attention. [More…]

• The service required by and provided for repatriation beneficiaries is a full scale general practitioner service of equivalent standard to that provided to other patients in the community. [More…]

• The new Program will cover everyone in the community unlike the present scheme which covers only 87 per cent of the population leaving between one and one and a half million people unprotected. [More…]

• Other countries adopt a system of personal surveillance which permits free movement in the community subject to periodic check of medical condition. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since 1959. [More…]

• Will the Government give urgent consideration to ordering an inquiry into the blatant disregard of community interests by bread manufacturers? [More…]

• In view of the serious problems facing primary producers of the Huon Valley area of southern Tasmania resulting from the feared collapse of the apple industry and the serious downturn in the meat producing sector, will the Minister take appropriate action, as recommended by the producers in the area, to encourage the Australian Industries Assistance Commission to investigate and report upon any aspect of primary industry to which this hitherto richly productive area can turn in order to ensure the economic security of the community? [More…]

• It might be an occasion for the honourable member for Wannon, who has a feel for industrial relations which a rabbit might have for ping pong, and Senator Greenwood, who appears to be the spokesman on industrial matters in this chamber, to give some advance consideration to the industrial needs of the industrial relations community and particularly of the employers, whom one might have thought the Opposition represents, if only in a punitive sense, in this chamber. [More…]

• I make those comments because I want to assist Senator Greenwood, if I may, in embarking upon that course in the interests of asserting the authority of the senior House of the National Parliament in the Australian community. [More…]

• I have noticed that in the last few days another brawl has blown up involving a large important union- the Shop Assistants Union- in which the Federal Secretary, a Mr Egan, has been tipped out of his job, From my experience in this field I can read the signs that there will be a long and bloody battle which will be costly to the union, costly to the community and something to which I would have thought the legislators of this country must immediately advert. [More…]

• In future no pensioner, or indeed any other member of the community, will be required to pay for the privilege of using his own radio or television set. [More…]

• 1 have run into very severe criticism in the business community in relation to the length of time the Committee has taken to produce its report. [More…]

• One might ask, for example, what groups in our community identify with the suggestion of a parliament house erected on a site like Capital Hill. [More…]

• There are numerous groups in our community which might well identify with Camp Hill. [More…]

• The public servants who live here are remote from the rest of the community and their problems. [More…]

• If he succeeds, the damages he recovers are a measure of community opinion as to the harm he has suffered. [More…]

• If the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and his colleagues played a more constructive role in this Parliament this would serve as an example to industry and the community to assist the Government in carrying us through a period which is difficult world wide. [More…]

• It is true that recently, on a visit to the Northern Territory, I was asked what sort of programming I would like to see, if it were at all possible, for the Aboriginal section of the Australian community in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I am now given to understand that the Australian Broadcasting Commission is proposing to arrange for some sort of a program on radio in the Northern Territory for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I indicated to him last week that despite the fact that the initial proposition did appear to have merit, on investigation through my department and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, we found that the benefits which would flow from such a proposition would be minimal and, spread over the totality of the Austraiian farming community, would average approximately 3 tonnes for the remaining part of the year. [More…]

• Has he also seen a statement by Mr Sinclair that during the election campaign an agricultural chemical company was asked to contribute funds to the Australian Labor Party’s campaign, with the implication that if a donation was not forthcoming then, to quote Mr Sinclair, some ill might befall that company’s continued participation in the agricultural community’? [More…]

• Do I understand him to be advocating that this principle should be extended throughout the community; that there should be quarterly indexation of wages to deal with the world-wide inflation? [More…]

• Recent submissions raise no new changes or new suggestions but they show the great interest throughout the community in this Bill. [More…]

• It is the constructive work that has been done by persons throughout the community that has built up this Bill and made it adequate for debate today. [More…]

• Two features of the community’s attitudes I think are worthy of note. [More…]

• I have examined as best I can the community needs and requirements. [More…]

• Since it gives the court, as representing the community, no effectual part in divorce, it virtually repudiates the community’s interests in the stability of marriage. [More…]

• We should have marriage counselling with all the facilities available in a widespread way throughout the community. [More…]

• The court should support the idea of a community clinic outside the court through suitable referrals to private agencies. [More…]

• I see this Bill, if it is passed in substantially the form recommended by the Committee, as introducing for the first dme a benign, nationalistic approach to a matter which either affects or potentially can affect any family in the community. [More…]

• As such, in my submission, it should be accepted by the community. [More…]

• If this Bill does not pass, one apprehends from what he writes that he will be subject to the indignities, the expense and all the other defects which a law, based essentially as it is on preserving the attitudes of ecclesiastical courts, has brought into our community. [More…]

• In my experience, divorce is seen by many people who seek it as some form of punishment because the notion is popular in the community that courts are for inflicting punishment on transgressors in society and divorce is often seen as the last round in a series of matrimonial disputes which may have gone on for many years. [More…]

• I regard some of the views which have been expressed in opposition to this legislation as in the same way trying to prescribe for citizens in our community a happiness remedy which is seen by the protagonists of that view as being constituted by the institution of marriage and an absence of breakdown of marriage in a significant way. [More…]

• I put to the Senate that it is a most degrading experience in terms of the social wellbeing of our community. [More…]

• We all know that the area of family law has become the object of increasing concern to the whole community. [More…]

• I refer now to the other group which looks at the Bill in the light of what the Australian community understands by marriage and the family. [More…]

• I hope that this will not take place quickly and precipitately but after due time has been given to allow all persons in the community who are interested in this legislation to indicate their points of view. [More…]

• I have heard a great deal of criticism from both sides- although principally from the other side of the chamber- of the fact that sufficient opportunity has not been given for the Australian community to make some observation or pronouncements on the matter. [More…]

• It has been stated that the Australian community has not been given enough opportunity to express its concern about this matter or in some other way to make known to the Committee its views. [More…]

• In view of the fact that more than 100 submissions were examined and deeply analysed by the Committee- as I am quite sure would have happenedI find it hard to accept that sufficient opportunity has not been given to the Australian community to make its views known on this matter. [More…]

• A considerable number of commissions and bodies have been studying the needs of the disadvantaged sectors in our community, and I had hoped that there may have been initiatives on some new areas. [More…]

• The work that was done by the voluntary organisations of supporting fathers and single parents prior to the Budget had led me to hope that Government could have given recognition to this group in our community who desperately needed access to some assistance. [More…]

• There is the other point of view that the level of a pension payment of about $20 a week which would be set for that economic work would disadvantage the woman who is seeking to assert herself in the economic climate of our community. [More…]

• The point we are making in our amendment is not to highlight the cost or the need to develop any accurate figures at this time but to show that there is a sector of the community which has been excluded from the Government’s social welfare program. [More…]

• Having taken this opportunity to express again our concern about this group in the community we hope that the Government will show new initiative in recognising the need and not talk about it any further, not set up a commission or an inquiry, but recognise the immediate need and the value of our proposal which will advantage many children throughout Australia. [More…]

• I saw distress caused to families because before they were able to get any assistance from the community they were obliged to institute legal proceedings and to make it known that legal proceedings had been instituted for the recovery of maintenance arrears. [More…]

• If anybody asked me to support a situation which took people into open court, where they took their place in the line among the felons, the thieves and the villains of the community, to get a resolution of this deep, emotional and complex family problem, I say here and now that I would never do it. [More…]

• But in my experience of adopting the role of a quasi-counsellor in relation to those deep, perplexing, distressing and troubling sorts of problems, I found that where there was a sincere desire on the part of both partners to get away from those influences in the community which seemed to want to perpetuate the difficulties between them- often times family, friends, acquaintances and associates in the community- by getting them to talk like sensible, reasonable, fully developed and intellectually developed human beings one could get some sense into the situation. [More…]

• I found in some people a strong desire- in fact, I think one can pick the people with this desire- to resume their relationship together, to go on and be sensible and normal citizens in the community fulfilling their social obligations, playing their role in the community, bringing up their children and providing the necessities of life for them. [More…]

• If that is the accepted standard that the community wants we must make a law that is humane, decent, reasonable and appropriate in all the circumstances. [More…]

• Probably one of the most important pieces of legislation ever to come before a parliament in this country is one that deals directly with the domestic affairs of the community. [More…]

• A very large body of people in the Australian community has witnessed at first hand the trauma experienced by the parties to divorce and the effect on related parties. [More…]

• I have met no one in the community who would claim that the existing divorce law is appropriate and completely adequate for this society or for this age. [More…]

• I congratulate those areas of community interest, the various divorce law reform groups, which at very great expense over many years have prompted the Senate, undoubtedly the Attorney-General and those people in areas of legal interest in the community that the present laws are inadequate and do require reform. [More…]

• Perhaps we should go back further and refer to the fact that immediately on this Government’s taking office, in 1973 a great list of regulations was introduced because of a demand from some sections of the community that such regulations be implemented. [More…]

• Had they been implemented I think it would have been to the great disadvantage of our community. [More…]

• So one can be very satisfied that the instigation of alteration to the proposal in this particularly important area of community interest over the years should finally result in a Bill being presented to the Senate on a form which, I believe, in respect of most of its clauses would find support from most sections of the community. [More…]

• He has taken every action possible to see that church groups, bodies which are interested in psychology and all other areas in the community have had an opportunity to approach him or his officers. [More…]

• I do not believe that that provision is in the interests of the community or of our society. [More…]

• There are the problems of any community in an advanced society attempting to uplift those of lesser advantage. [More…]

• It ill befits us to be aligning ourselves with those members of the world community who would be condemning South Africa in the current situation. [More…]

• Apparently, with the small number of our black brothers in this community that situation must be known to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• Our white community has no such problems as the blacks have in housing at present in Australia. [More…]

• I am an Australian citizen who knows the problems within our community in regard to the attitude that we take to black people. [More…]

• 1 suggest that he would agree with me that Aboriginals in our community are discriminated against. [More…]

• It is certainly not a letter that I believe would be embraced by everybody in the community. [More…]

• I admit that there are pockets of discrimination against Aborigines and other low socio-economic sections of our community but honourable senators will see this in many countries. [More…]

• He comes out with the same utterances as Senator Coleman who is concerned with discrimination against a section of the community. [More…]

• In Redfern, where the Aborigines mostly live, there is a row of attached houses which not a government but an Aboriginal community purchased and is in the process of renovating. [More…]

• The people in the Aboriginal community are deciding their own destiny. [More…]

• The community has had nearly 12 months to consider the implications of the Bill. [More…]

• The Community has had more than adequate opportunity to examine its contents and implications. [More…]

• And whereas such assistance is in keeping with that provided by Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and New Zealand, and United Nations Organisations such as UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, FAO and WHO, and such non-government organisations as the World Council of Churches, the Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign, Community Aid Abroad, and some Roman Catholic Aid Agencies in Europe; [More…]

• The motivation of lawyers in family matters is for profit only and their involvement has proved a disaster for the community since I9S9. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• That the parents to benefit most relatively from educational income tax deductions, in the past and even more in the future, are the parents of children in government schools and this has a divisive effect in the Australian community. [More…]

• That the parents to benefit most relatively from educational income tax deductions, in the past and even more in the future, are the parents of children in government schools and this has a divisive effect in the Australian community. [More…]

• income tax deductions, in the past and even more in the future, are the parents of children in government schools and this has a divisive effect in the Australian community. [More…]

• I recommend that they be deported before they are permitted to go free again in this community. [More…]

• I suppose it is true in our society, which is a great home-owning community, that one of the side effects of inflation is that many people who have acquired homes over the years, especially fairly recently, with a mountain of debt have, because of the operation of inflation, found it comparatively easy to pay off those debts which would otherwise have seemed astronomical. [More…]

• This Government was the first to reduce tariffs along the lines asked for by the farming community. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that this Government has done more for the rural community than has any other government in the history of this country. [More…]

• He said also that in his view it was gratifying to note that the Bill received the support of both sides of the House and more generally in the community. [More…]

• Such a Bill and such an Agency would have a certain amount of attraction for those people in our community who think about international aid at all. [More…]

• During the course of his speech the Minister advised that the Government had decided that some improvement should be effected in almost all aspects of its aid program- in the machinery for formulating policy, in ensuring greater attention to the welfare and distributive effects of Australia’s aid, in evaluating the effectiveness of our various programs, in bringing greater expertise into staffing arrangements and in more directly associating the community with the Government’s aid efforts. [More…]

• Will the Minister invite the agency to undertake research or inquiry into various countries where he feels that there might be some national liberation movement which is in sympathy with the government’s various political philosophies and then decide to give it some aid for what might be called humanitarian purposes but without too much difficulty can be related, one way or another, to purposes with which the Australian community may have some serious disagreement? [More…]

• In speaking on another Bill of this kind a couple of weeks ago I drew attention to the importance of creating a community awareness of this very important and urgent but difficult area of government and international operations. [More…]

• Those people will change from time to time and they will come from all sections of the community. [More…]

• It has engendered great interest in so many areas throughout the community which are involved in the various problems connected with divorce. [More…]

• There is marriage guidance on the general problems of living together, the family relationship and sexuality in the community. [More…]

• There would be a great deal of benefit for the community if at the earliest opportunity the appropriate department -if it did nothing else- instituted some type of course whereby experienced counsellors could be available to conduct classes in every school. [More…]

• I am very much in favour of the Bill from that point of view because I think it takes out of divorce the shoddy, dirty aspect, and that is what I am sure the majority of the community is very anxious to do. [More…]

• If the number of divorces were a safe indication of social morals, it were indeed possible to make the whole community pure at a stroke by prohibiting divorce. [More…]

• But at least if we establish that we believe there is no fault in divorce then I hope this will filter through the community. [More…]

• Because she and her husband proved incompatible does not mean that this woman, who probably received no training to earn her living, or if she did it was at best 25 years since she did, and who has no assurance in her own ability, should be forced out into the community to earn her living. [More…]

• While that goes on- we all know that it does; it is not a thing of the past- we have not a work force or a community of women who are fitted for outside work. [More…]

• The community should take some cognisance of this fact. [More…]

• I know that the question of maintenance orders rouses deep bitterness in the community. [More…]

• They have quoted statistics to show the percentage of people in the community who marry, the number of people who are divorced, and even more interestingly the number of people who divorce and in fact marry again. [More…]

• Other members of the community, particularly the children of a marriage, are also vitally affected. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that the Senate Committee commenced its inquiry on the reference, which was given to it in December 1971, early in 1 972 when it advertised widely for submissions from interested groups in the community, or indeed from anyone interested in the subject. [More…]

• The Government sees this measure as being of such importance to the Australian community that we have welcomed 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, wish to place before us. [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 selfemployed persons, of whom the farming community, for example, forms a substantial part. [More…]

• At the same time, it has been 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. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the overwhelming evidence from a great number of persons and organisations indicated that the changing and changed attitudes of our community today are opposed to the old fault concept and favour the non-fault basis for divorce. [More…]

• I also think it is very important that a divorce law should not be in any way ahead of community standards and concerns. [More…]

• I have found a very widespread concern in the community that the period of one year’s separation is too short. [More…]

• I note a passage from the letter of Archbishop Woods that I have just quoted that he, speaking on behalf of himself and, he believes, the Anglican community generally, also feels that the period of one year is too short. [More…]

• In this field we must have men who have their feet very much on the ground, who are part and parcel of the community and who understand the changes that are taking place in the community. [More…]

• The misconception seems to be that the divorce rate in the community is a direct measure of unhappiness in marriage or a measure of morality or immorality in the community. [More…]

• The overwhelming majority of the community in this land of ours wants to preserve marriage. [More…]

• We have to live with our divorce laws, but the point I want to make is that the overwhelming mass of the Australian community wants to preserve marriage as a sacred ceremony and as a contract. [More…]

• Having regard to their position in the community I think it is fair that I should read what they have said in relation to this Bill. [More…]

• From the broader viewpoint of law, it can only be terminated by due legal process when the Court, representing the interests of the community, determines accordingly. [More…]

• But the fact is that there is a group of people within the community- petitions to this effect have been presented in the Parliament- which suggests that this Bill as it now stands should be rejected. [More…]

• There is a group in the community, including the leaders of our churches, which believes that this Bill should be defeated. [More…]

• There is another huge section of the community which says: ‘Let us have some deferment’. [More…]

• And, in fairness to the Attorney-General, there are some in the community who want this Bill passed quickly. [More…]

• If the people of Australia do see the Bill as an attack on marriage, to some extent the critics of the Bill will have indulged in self-fulfilling prophecy because a good deal of this argument is about the sort of attitude that people in the community have towards marriage. [More…]

• If enough people say- and people such as honourable senators and leaders of churches who are entitled to express their opinion- that this Bill fundamentally breaks down the concept of marriage, that in a way is telling the community that that is the sort of law which is being put before it. [More…]

• I do not believe that it is the sort of law that is being put before the community. [More…]

• There is little or no dispute about the value of stable marriages and stable families to the community. [More…]

• It is clear that the pattern of our community, the social attitudes of the individuals comprising the Australian community are the product of family influences- both good influences and bad. [More…]

• I think that it is in the light of those facts that this Bill has to be consideredfirstly, the importance of the family to the community and, secondly, the fact that marriages do break down. [More…]

• The second way in which an easy divorce law could undermine the stability of marriage is that it could affect the community attitude to marriage and hence the attitude of the parties who are entering into marriage. [More…]

• I appreciate that honourable senators preceding me in this debate have quoted words from the marriage service which make clear the nature of Christian marriage, which I think is broadly the concept of marriage accepted by our community. [More…]

• I accept that the pattern of marriage which is established by the legislature is a factor in establishing community attitudes towards marriage. [More…]

• If it is left to the parties- if ones goes along with the system which says that the parties merely declare the fact that the marriage is finished and permits immediate divorce by consentthat would mean that the community is washing its hands of its interest in marriage. [More…]

• I believe and I say to the Senate that the law and the community would be better off if inquiry into the subjective personal lives of the parties to an unhappy marriage could be reduced to a minimum. [More…]

• That is the principle which I think pays respect to the need in the community to preserve marriage. [More…]

• We ought to do so because marriage is important to the community, for the reasons which have been emphasised by Senator Laucke and Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson. [More…]

• Much debate is yet to take place at the Committee stage but there are a number of points that I would like to make generally as to how this Bill affects or will affect the women of the community. [More…]

• There are, of course, other pressure groups also working within the community. [More…]

• I am a little concerned at some of the pressure that has been put on the women of the community in relation to this Bill. [More…]

• Nevertheless, we must respect the religious beliefs and religious scruples of very many sincere people in our community. [More…]

• At present where there is a requirement to prove guilt there is an altogether unhealthy interest in the community as to the grounds on which individuals are divorced, who divorced whom, who was the defaulting party, when we all know in fact that in a very large percentage of cases the actual grounds used in the divorce court were not the cause of the breakdown of the marriage. [More…]

• More often they are symptoms of the breakdown of the marriage but we force members of our society to go through a wholly undignified and in many cases extremely degrading process in order to terminate a relationship which has left in it no potential for good for them, for their children or for the community. [More…]

• South Australia as being a completely reactionary group which has lost the confidence of the South Australian community, so much so that of the 8 House of Representatives seats for the metropolitan area of Adelaide the Liberal Party holds but two. [More…]

• There are very few Liberals there but they give the type of representation which repels the general community and enables my political opponent to win three-quarters of all metropolitan Adelaide seats in the House of Representatives and, coincidentally, in the State House of Assembly. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon pur Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• They are never asked to restrain themselves from making what might be legitimate claims in the interests of the community at large. [More…]

• There seems to be a good deal of evidence that the commercial community is responding positively to the provisions of the Act. [More…]

• The proscribing of racial discrimination in legislative form not only makes people more aware of the evils of discrimination and makes it more obvious and conspicuous, but also furnishes an essential legal background on which to base changes to basic community attitudes. [More…]

• A Commissioner for Community Relations will therefore be established as an independent statutory authority to undertake these tasks. [More…]

• The Commissioner will have the function of conducting programs of education and research to combat racial discrimination, and a Community Relations Council will be established with an advisory role. [More…]

• In my second reading speech of 4 April 1974, 1 pointed out that the changing of community attitudes and the promotion of understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial and ethnic groups would form an extremely important part of government’s program for the elimination of racial discrimination. [More…]

• I also pointed out that both government and community-based programs to combat racial discrimination were necessary. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Foreign Affairs comment on the impression prevalent among the Cypriot community that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees appears to be very slow to assess the total refugee complement in Cyprus; and [More…]

• The Cypriot community may however have been referring to the inevitable delays that have occurred in locating and identifying specific individuals who have been displaced. [More…]

• The Australian Red Cross has received 2,139 enquiries from the Cypriot community in Australia about the welfare of relatives. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• That for these reasons grave concern is felt that the Bill may be passed before the community is aware of its long term consequences. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill (1974) be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]

• That for these reasons grave concern is felt that the Bill may be passed before the community is aware of its long term consequences. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill ( 1974) be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]

• That for these reasons grave concern is felt that the Bill may be passed before the community is aware of its long term consequences; [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill ( 1974) be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]

• One measure which has been taken by this Government and which has been commended by the whole community, particularly the rural community, is the introduction of the floor price for wool. [More…]

• The purpose of the tax is to ensure that those people who have been making large sums of money from capital gains at the expense of the community in general will not be able to do so in the future. [More…]

• There is a group of a few Aborigines who want to continue disputation between the Department and Aborigines, but this view is not shared by the Aboriginal community- and I have met many thousands of ordinary Aborigines over the last fortnight. [More…]

• It is clear that this Government has indicated that it will from time to time take the measures which are necessary for the welfare of the community. [More…]

• Whether it be taxation cuts, reduction of interest rates or whatever measures are deemed by the Government to be in the interests of the people, those measures will be introduced at a time which seems most appropriate for the welfare of the community. [More…]

• Will the Treasurer now give an undertaking not to abolish the deductibility but to continue to support community participation in providing for social welfare needs? [More…]

• One ought to recall and accept that laws are accepted in our community because they are passed by the Parliament, because Parliament is the place where power legitimately resides. [More…]

• If it is good enough to follow that course with cyclamates, surely it is more important when we are dealing with an anti-hypertensive drug, a widely used and very well known agent, that not only should we draw the position to the attention of members of the medical profession but also we should draw the position to the attention of the whole community. [More…]

• This Government came to power hell bent, if I may put it that way, on forcing its socialistic policies upon the Australian community and the Australian way of life. [More…]

• So I hope that tonight in the mini-Budget that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) brings down we may see a little more consideration given to the States and a little less emphasis placed upon the socialistic ideologies of this Government which have led Australia down the tragic road of high inflation and led to the creation of a state of insecurity in the Australian community. [More…]

• Not only has there been the rising problem of unemployment and the rising problem of inflation for the business community but also there have been the delusions under which the Government has suffered and the illusions which it has endeavoured to foist on the Australian people in the course of the suffering which they have had to endure particularly in recent months. [More…]

• The question related to what I understand is something well understood in the community, that is that there is a possibility of the income tax deductibility on donations to charitable organisations being abolished. [More…]

• In fact, there has been- perhaps there is not now, I do not know- a very real threat to the donations which each year were and are given by thousands of people in their own charitable desire to help and to take an interest in a great number of organisations in this community that are doing charitable work. [More…]

• A suggestion that we may have refused deductibility for some very useful expenditure is no reason for the present Government to consider taking away the income tax deductibility on all charitable bequests, and that has been the allegation made in the community for some months. [More…]

• It is something which is deplorable even if it was only in contemplation because these donations are among the most desirable things in this community. [More…]

• I will take its promises to the small businesses in the community. [More…]

• To be included in the category of small business which, of course, should be a very big and comprehensive group in the community, a business has to have fewer than 100 employees with less than 2 people in a managerial position. [More…]

• Members ofthe community ought not to be suffering under some delusion. [More…]

• Such people were asking whether they had been told about this scheme because the Government has made great play over many months about the importance of the NEAT scheme and what it would do for the community. [More…]

• Even for the rural community, I might remind you Senator Carrick, we have done things which the Government which you supported would never do. [More…]

• If one looks at Tanzania one finds that on independence there was an Asian community of 100,000 people. [More…]

• We have a situation where a loose organisation, a confederation of a number of terrorist groups which is not representative of the community it seeks to represent and which has exerted all its power through terror, seeks to sit down at the bargaining table and to address the United Nations to try to have a voice in what should be a responsible institution. [More…]

• Whether we like it or not, if the element within the Arab community which is adopting this take-all attitude is not calmed down, there will be trouble. [More…]

• I ask again whether the Minister will consider either making a statement or at least tabling a document which contains information about the conference because there is a growing interest in this aspect of Australian affairs today and the provision of this information would greatly assist community awareness of some of the problems that the Minister was grappling with in Rome. [More…]

• In addition to this, there is a saving in overtime payments and also a saving generally for the community on the provision of outside services which are being made up by the provision of this facility at the Concord Hospital. [More…]

• What I did find was that Canadian Medical Associations of Provinces, in common with all political parties and the community generally, wholeheartedly supported the universal health insurance scheme and claimed that better quality health care was being provided than under the previous private health insurance arrangements. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate, which it warrants. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• That for those reasons grave concern is felt that the Bill may be passed before the community is aware of its long term consequences. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill 1974 be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April 197S. [More…]

• That for these reasons grave concern is felt that the Bill may be passed before the community is aware of its long term consequences; [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill 1974 be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April 1975. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian Society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• We are opposed to such action on the grounds that there has been ample time to discuss the bill with the community, and we are informed and.believe that many submissions have been considered by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and the report of that committee is substantially in accord with the Family Law Bill. [More…]

• We are opposed to such action on the grounds that there has been ample time to discuss the bill with the community, and we are informed and believe that many submissions have been considered by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and the report of that committee is substantially in accord with the Family Law Bill. [More…]

• We are opposed to such action on the grounds that there has been ample time to discuss the bill with the community, and we are informed and believe that many submissions have been considered by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and the report of that committee is substantially in accord with the Family Law Bill. [More…]

• And whereas such assistance is in keeping with that provided by Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and New Zealand, and United Nations Organisations such as UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, FAO and WHO, and such non-Government organisations as the World Council of Churches, the Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign, Community Aid Abroad, and some Roman Catholic Aid Agencies in Europe; [More…]

• It should be quite obvious to all, that the permanency of the married state must be preserved, in the long-term interest of the Community and the Nation as a whole. [More…]

• This has been well recognised for many years by all except the most extremely reactionary sections of the community. [More…]

• Following the statement of the Prime Minister last night benefits will flow to all the community and to the States as they deal with their sectors of the community. [More…]

• What is the role of the Aboriginal Community Centre of South Australia? [More…]

• I think that the Government has assisted the Aboriginal Community Centre from its inception in April of this year. [More…]

• The community centre was formed as the result of co-ordinating the activities of the various Aboriginal communities in South Australia and by holding conferences with the various Aboriginal communities, the Department of Community Welfare in South Australia and my own Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• I refer to the joint announcement by the Minister and the Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare on 10 November 1974 and that a further $lm from the 1974-75 grant could be devoted to further village development by and for Aborigines in Western Australia. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I expect the Australian airlines to provide the community with the most suitable modern aircraft types. [More…]

• The problem as it arose was that we could see no way in which there was any guarantee that all those people in the community who were likely to be interested would become aware that an interim council was to be established, or no way of ensuring that they would become aware that it was proposed to convert an interim council to a permanent council. [More…]

• Does the whole community know? [More…]

• But at no stage could anyone tell us it was necessary that there should be advertising throughout the community in order to ensure that everyone was aware that an interim regional council was in the offing or that an interim regional council intended to proceed to a more permanent basis or a more permanent structure. [More…]

• In regard to the regional promotion, the Department and Social Welfare Commission are in the process of reviewing the various regions to see where publicity could stimulate wider community interest and understanding of the Australian Assistance Plan and thereby attract wider representation. [More…]

• It still in no way indicates that when these Councils are set up anything is done to avoid their falling into the hands of a small, trained elite- those who, say, are socially competent or well trained or those who have access to the present, existing facilities in the community. [More…]

• It has very little to say about any measures which are necessary to ensure the widest community participation at the outset when regional councils are being formed. [More…]

• I mention this just to point out that it is envisaged that the regional councils will move into quite a wide area of social welfare policy, such as grants for community health services, States Grants (Home Care) Act, grants for the development of low cost accommodation for young travellers, etc. [More…]

• It does not say at any time that it is imperative that advertising be carried out or that the community be made aware of the position. [More…]

• It is a plan, to use Senator Baume ‘s words, under which there can be community involvement in the provision of welfare. [More…]

• It is good in itself but it depends for its effectiveness on how the community is involved and how welfare is advanced. [More…]

• Apparently there is no charter or limitation upon the work in which the community development officers may engage. [More…]

• I gather that part of the money was allocated to a group known as the Western Suburbs Union Community Centre which is pre-eminently a body established by the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]

• Another body which, I believe received assistance was the Altona North Migrant Community Centre. [More…]

• A report to the Footscray council indicated that this body was not known of amongst the local groups working in the migrant community in Altona even though it was a body called the Altona North Migrant Community Centre. [More…]

• The Regional Council now employed a part time publicity officer, who had obtained widespread free publicity, and Community Development Officers stimulated considerable interest. [More…]

• I suppose that from day to day in our electorates we must find evidence of situations in which, due to the complexities of life and living these days and to the involvement of people in all sorts of matters, members of the community frequently run into difficulties of one kind or another in which the availability of social welfare advisers would be of very great assistance. [More…]

• I wish to highlight the fact that there is this shortcoming at present in the Australian community. [More…]

• While I appreciate that efforts are being made to overcome the problem, I think we may well have reached the stage in the development of this Western, egalitarian society where greater encouragement must be given to the training of people in this area of work in the community. [More…]

• I believe that there is a need for social welfare workers because in so many areas in the community people who have some type of entitlement miss out on that entitlement because they do not know that it is available to them. [More…]

• I suggest that if fully equipped social advisory services were available in the community the people who are now missing out on the services to which I am referring would receive them; it would be a happier situation for those people and for the community at large. [More…]

• I content myself with that brief observation and hope that having raised that matter on this occasion we may see an acceleration of efforts to train for and promote an interest in social welfare work in the Australian community. [More…]

• I do support the concept of the assistance and encouragement of social welfare and community development throughout this country. [More…]

• A broad representation of the local community sits on these bodies. [More…]

• They know the problems and the need for development of certain areas of social development in their own community. [More…]

• At the same time we have no opportunity of really determining as we should how that money has been spent throughout the community. [More…]

• We have bodies already established in this country and accepted as responsible bodies by the community and elected by the community. [More…]

• Yet we are going to completely by-pass them in a new form of social and community welfare development. [More…]

• I know that Senator Greenwood does not like the thought that they do but they are there and I can assure him that we will not exclude trade unions from the operation of this plan in the same way as we will not exclude Rotary Clubs, employers’ organisations or any other group which is representative of citizens in the community. [More…]

• The purpose of the scheme is- I think the majority of members of the Opposition support itthat this should be a community endeavour. [More…]

• The contribution that Senator Greenwood has made this afternoon is completely destructive to the idea of community co-operation. [More…]

• What he wants is community animosity, community hatred, and slander of those people who provide funds and those people who are working hard. [More…]

• All these organisations and groups in the community have the one abiding feeling- of wanting to make a contribution to helping other people. [More…]

• Certainly there will be problems, teething troubles, at the start, but I am sure that, with co-operation between the regions and the various charitable and voluntary organisations that work in every State, it will be in the best interests of those people in the community who are less fortunate than others in difficult times, particularly women and children. [More…]

• The Sydney City Mission disposed of all its assets in Paddington and with the money it received it has now moved out to Green Valley, where it has opened some very urgently needed community services. [More…]

• -Before the sitting of the Senate was suspended I was speaking to the Australian Assistance Plan, about the question of access of interested groups in the community to participate in the regional councils, about the question of publicity and about the question of whether local government councils should be more involved than they are at the present time. [More…]

• Very good people in the community gave their voluntary services to that wonderful organisation. [More…]

• The third is Mrs M. Nott who is an occupational therapist with the Department of Community Medicine. [More…]

• I ask honourable senators opposite to compare the work of those people in the community with what they are advocating tonight. [More…]

• They are: Mr P. Doughtry, Marriage Counselling Centre; Mrs J. Innes-Reid, Townsville General Hospital and the City Council- the City Council has been invited to attend; Dr I. Atkinson, Townsville General Hospital and the City Council; Mrs M. Campbell, Senior Citizens Welfare Association; Mr B. Leakey, St. Vincent de Paul Society; Mrs A. Butler, student counsellor; Miss M. Gindhart, St Raphael’s College, James Cook University; Mr M. Reynolds, Specific Learning Difficulties Association; Mr A. Spance, Crippled Childrens Society; Miss G. Gorman, Department of Social Security; Miss D. Wilson, Community Health Services; Dr J. Mayo, Department of Economics, James Cook University; and Major J. Patterson, Community Services Organisation Section of the Army. [More…]

• It does seek to involve the community in social welfare and this is a desirable development. [More…]

• I accept, as my colleague Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson has said, that there is a genuine feeling throughout the community that this type of assistance program has a tremendous amount going for it. [More…]

• Let us combine all the goodwill that exists in the community. [More…]

• If he says that in his opinion, for community or political reasons, that tariff is too high, the Government or the Treasurer will make up the difference between that amount and the amount which will be nominated by the Government for that particular service. [More…]

• The NEAT scheme was designed to provide training for people who may be unemployed or redundant because of changes in technological methods in the community. [More…]

• So there you have a system of payments or compensation for people who might be displaced in the community and they are the sorts of schemes which operate at the present time. [More…]

• As the estimates for the Department of Labor and Immigration are before the Committee tonight I take the opportunity of drawing the Government’s attention to the fact that there is a wide feeling of unrest, distrust and indeed almost grief at the way in which the migrant community in Australia has been treated by the Government. [More…]

• What is to happen to the work of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council which was set up by a Labor government many years ago and which, during the last one-quarter of a century, has been dealing successfully, I believe, with the integration of migrants into the total Australian community? [More…]

• The demolition and development by the developers there is occasioning a great deal of distress, concern and worry to a great number of scientists and community people in South Australia. [More…]

• But what is happening in the community- it is becoming more and more known- is that there are breaches of the law by the powerful persons who go unpunished because it is hard to enforce the law and nobody bothers to enforce the law. [More…]

• You can rob the little people of the community, then you can flit out of the country. [More…]

• These crimes against the community go unpunished. [More…]

• -I do not think the Senate needs reminding of those facts concerning crimes of violence being committed against the community. [More…]

• I say in answer to the honourable senator that I would be more encouraged by him if he were to ask what is happening in the areas of crime which really affect the community instead of showing his obsession with a few tents outside Parliament House. [More…]

• If we can improve our law so that it has an even application right throughout the community then fair measures to achieve that objective would have my warm and wholehearted support. [More…]

• When one comes across circumstances where some people are prosecuted for a particular type of offence and others are not prosecuted for the same type of offence, then there is a feeling in the community that someone has been bought or someone is acting unfairly. [More…]

• If Senator Gietzelt were mayor of his community and somebody dumped themselves in front of his town hall he would probably be one of the first to do something about it. [More…]

• Because people belong to a certain section of the community there is no reason why they should have privileges above those of other people. [More…]

• It is about time that we in this Parliament stopped having racism in this country and stopped giving preference to a certain section of the community over the other Australian people. [More…]

• It is about time that we stopped this racism and stopped giving preference to one section of the community. [More…]

• What the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has revealed tonight is that he is in favour of reactionary oppression under the guise of the enforcement of legal sanctions against the least privileged members of the community. [More…]

• Yet I rise just to deny- because I will deny it every time the sort of abuse in which Government senators engage is presented- that I am guilty of reactionary oppression against the less privileged members of the community. [More…]

• All I am concerned to assert is that the law is the protector of everybody in this communitywhether that person is wealthy or a large corporation, or whether he is a poor individual who happens to be an Aboriginal. [More…]

• As the President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community in Australia I have forwarded to you a letter on 8 February 1973.I have received acknowledgment from your private secretary butI still do not have your reply. [More…]

• The Lithuanian Community in Australia is very anxious to have a clear statement from you as the Head of the Australian Government on two questions: [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Prime Minister authorise a letter, dated 1 7 May 1974 and signed on his behalf by the Minister for Manufacturing Industry, Mr K. Enderby, addressed to Mr V. Bukevicius, President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community in Australia, 75 Kent Street, Epping, New South Wales in which the first two paragraphs read: ‘I refer to your letter of 28 April 1974 concerning the Government ‘s attitude towards Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. [More…]

• 163 asked by Senator Greenwood, state that he did not inform the President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community in Australia prior to the election of 18 May 1974 that his Government did not intend to alter the policy of previous [More…]

• Did the Minister for Manufacturing Industry sign on behalf of the Prime Minister a letter dated 17 May 1974 addressed to Mr V. Bukevicius, President of the Council of the Luthuanian Community in Australia in which the first two paragraphs read: ‘I refer to your letter of 28 April 1974 concerning the Government’s attitude towards Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. [More…]

• We are opposed to such action on the grounds that there has been ample time to discuss the bill with the community, and we are informed and believe that many submissions have been considered by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and the report of that committee is substantially in accord with the Family Law Bill. [More…]

• That for these reasons grave concern is felt that the Bill may be passed before the community is aware of its long term consequences; [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Par-, liament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill 1974 be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April 1975. [More…]

• That for these reasons grave concern is felt that the Bill may be passed before the community is aware of its long term consequences. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill 1974 be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]

• That for these reasons grave concern is felt that the Bill may be passed before the community is aware of its long term consequences. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should vote that the Family Law Bill 1 974 be made the subject of further community study and that to facilitate this aim the debate on this Bill be adjourned until April, 1975. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• That a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian Society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for 6 months; that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• That the parents to benefit most relatively from educational income tax deductions, in the past and even more in the future, are the parents of children in government schools and this has a divisive effect in the Australian community. [More…]

• We believe that there will be one breathing space, as the Prime Minister has said; that there will be another after that, as Mr Cameron has said; that there will be many more and that the community will go on breathing and living under this Government. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate and I refer to the Prime Minister’s nation-wide appeal to the community to accept the latest tax cuts as a substitute for new wage rises. [More…]

• We know that in many cases the benefits of the tariff cuts were not passed on to the community, thereby contributing to and enhancing inflation. [More…]

• The Leader of the Country Party in the Senate has not condemned those in the community who profited unfairly from the tariff cuts. [More…]

• I think the community has been pleased at the way in which it has operated. [More…]

• That we can have a tribunal which is able to make decisions which, while not carrying any sanction, have been observed by the community has been a singular experiment. [More…]

• -Will the Minister for Agriculture explain to the Senate so as to clear up confusion within his own Department, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Foreign Affairs, rural industry, the Press gallery and the Australian community, let alone the United Nations World Food Congress, what is Australia’s commitment in food aid as pledged by him at the World Food Congress. [More…]

• On the other hand, I should also make it plain that the Government believes that if the defects in the existing Act are not remedied, the Australian community faces a serious situation. [More…]

• But there was a view- this is why I emphasise it- held by the members of the Committee that there was need for some rationalisation in a somewhat confusing and worrying pat: tern of legal aid being disbursed throughout the community at the present time. [More…]

• I think the Australian taxpayer has an interest in ensuring that unnecessary embellishments do not occur in litigation causing a great deal of cost to the community. [More…]

• This is one of the fields- there are more than one- in which the Government has, in a very healthy manner, added emphasis to community trends. [More…]

• I believe that there was a trend in the community before this Government came into office that was providing wider and better legal aid services. [More…]

• I believe that that standard will be achieved if the Government uses the private profession with its wider experience and if it does not segregate the needy cases from the rest of the community. [More…]

• I assure honourable senators that the length of delays in this place is not without its consequences to the community. [More…]

• Although the Turner Committee has catalogued the types of assistance now provided by existing schemes, it has only referred to the deficiencies and inadequacies of existing schemes and, with respect, entirely ignored the not inconsiderable and vast voluntary and financial assistance already provided to the community in varying degrees by the legal profession through the existing schemes. [More…]

• It changes with the needs of the community which parliament represents. [More…]

• These days housing is bad enough for the ordinary individual in the community, whether it involves the payment of rent or the purchase of a home, with the current inflationary problems being experienced in the world. [More…]

• Two groups of people have to be protected in this community; firstly, the Aborigines, and secondly, the taxpayers. [More…]

• But there are groups of people in the community who are getting a rip-off at the expense of the Aborigines. [More…]

• Our ambition as legislators ought to be to ensure that no white people in the community are getting a rip-off at the Aboriginal people’s expense and at the taxpayers’ expense. [More…]

• I point out that I lived in an Aboriginal community for 17 years, namely Palm Island. [More…]

• It is on special occasions that they wish to go back to that place, when there are stories that they must relate to the children- stories of the Dream Time and of the culture of the Aboriginal community prior to the white man that they wish to tell to the younger generations. [More…]

• I am talking of the mums and dads who have suffered discrimination and prejudices and who have come up the hard way but who today, because of their hard work and their perseverance, are living in the community in decent homes which they have obtained by the sweat of their own brows. [More…]

• The one great factor I came away with after my first real meeting on that level was that those people really wanted to be Australians and to end discrimination in this community. [More…]

• Black Community Centre is in Townsville. [More…]

• Burdel Community Cooperative at Ayr, Kuranda, Yarrabu, Innisfail, Stradbroke Island, Mareeba, Hughenden, Cardwell, Mackay, Bowen, Ingham, Mount Garnet, Aurukun, Mossman, Torres Strait Co-operative, Erub Co-operative, Moa Island, Horn Island, Prince of Wales Island, Nanyetta and Bundaberg. [More…]

• The accepted definition- the definition accepted by the McMahon Government-was a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait descent who accepts himself as an Aborigine or Torres Strait Islander and is accepted as such by the community in which he lives. [More…]

• The Australian society apparently is willing to have one group within its community which, if that group wishes to declare itself as being of a particular race, will be accepted by the Australian society as being of that race. [More…]

• Aboriginals, at least in the 1971 census, were counted as people separate from the Australian community. [More…]

• He said that there was developing in the Australian community a section of people who saw a career ‘in championing the cause of the oppressed ‘. [More…]

• A cheque for $465,000 which had erroneously been sent to an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory was now back in the custody of the Northern Territory division of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Senator Cavanagh, said yesterday. [More…]

• In Redfern, where the Aborigines mostly live, there is a row of attached houses which not a government but an Aboriginal community purchased and is in the process of renovating. [More…]

• Aborigines finally to get the 74 houses and establish an Aboriginal community. [More…]

• This telegram is signed by 22 Old Mapoon residents who want to go back and by 25 residents of an Aboriginal community at Weipa. [More…]

• We want to exempt an Aboriginal islander from the requirement to obtain a permit to enter a Queensland reserve; prevent the punishment of an Aboriginal islander on a Queensland reserve for misbehaviour unless the conduct is shown to be unreasonable; supersede the wide powers of entry into the premises of an Aboriginal islander on a Queensland reserve; render invalid laws requiring compulsory labour on Queensland reserves except reasonable community work where ordered by a court; and provide a right of legal representation before Aboriginal or island courts. [More…]

• This was always the case in the past and it is why personal staffs of Ministers were issued with official passports- not the normal run of the mill passports but passports which emphasised the status and importance of those people within the Australian community. [More…]

• That attitude is not good enough for me or anyone else, particularly when one considers his high salary and the fact that there is mounting unemployment in this community. [More…]

• Is the Government aware that the policy to increase by 100 per cent the licence fee which has to be paid by amateur radio operators will disadvantage voluntary organisations such as the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia and the Volunteer Coastal Patrol which provide services to the community. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• We are opposed to such action on the grounds that there has been ample time to discuss the bill with the community, and we are informed and believe that many submissions have been considered by Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and the report of that Committee is substantially in accord with the Family Law Bill. [More…]

• One standard is that there should be restraint by most of the community and the other is that there should be no restraint at all when it comes to high profits. [More…]

• I expect the Australian airlines to provide the community with the most suitable modern aircraft types. [More…]

• It is very difficult to work out a formula which takes recognition of this fact in the matter of maintenance when the marriage breaks down but in the matter of simple justice to almost half the citizens of our community this must be done. [More…]

• I believe that there is a strong need for it in the community. [More…]

• They are problems for the social workers of this community, for the churches and for others. [More…]

• That select committee would be enabled to call upon the whole community- the whole community; not just lawyers- and invite the whole community to come forward with sociological, religious and other ideas to buttress the family. [More…]

• Is there dignity in clause 5 1 which seeks, at a time when women are being moved more and more to full equality within the law and within society, to set back women’s rights in this community by centuries? [More…]

• They can then contract a marriage and help their husbands to raise their professional and financial status and to make a circle of acquaintances at a particular level in a community. [More…]

• Such a breakdown occurs when the community life of the spouses has ceased to exist and cannot be restored but is regarded to have occurred if the parties have lived apart for 3 years or, where both parties request the divorce, if the parties have lived apart for 1 year. [More…]

• On the contrary I believe that there is such a need but I support the deferral of this ultimate consideration because of the immensity of the task that confronts us as a body of senators and that confronts the whole Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that, in view of the extraordinary number of amendments that confront us and the various interpretations, we need time in order that society itself, the community, may become fully aware of the changes in the mere technicalities of divorce procedures consequent upon this proposed piece of legislation. [More…]

• I believe we need time too for the community and ourselves to become fully aware of the sort of consequences that this legislation, important though it be, would have on the Australian society. [More…]

• We must surely ask ourselves what this legislation contributes to the betterment of the relationships between men and women in the total Australian community. [More…]

• These are the yardsticks and the problems which, of their own immensity, require that we as individuals and as a community take our time before we decide on the sort of legislation that we believe must be appropriate. [More…]

• That went a long way, as one would expect them to do because this is thennatural or professional province, in enunciating the actual legal form and its meaning to the remaining members of the Senate and, hopefully, to the community. [More…]

• Just as I believe that honourable senators in this chamber must have time to evaluate thoroughly the total involvement of this legislation, so must the Australian community which has had far less opportunity than we have had to evaluate the immense changes that may follow to a community from the passage of legislation such as this unless it has been totally and thoroughly investigated. [More…]

• I believe that the views of the Senate, and certainly those of the Australian community, have not yet totally crystallised into a strong, complete and logical determination as to the changes that this sort of legislation may well bring about in the Australian community. [More…]

• I have no query about the suggestion that there should be family law in our community- I believe there is- and that it is a most important area of law in Australian society. [More…]

• Mrs Whitlam referred to children of that time as being brought up in a kibbutz style situation, as children of the community rather than as members of a family. [More…]

• I believe it is essential in all honesty that there must be time for senators and the community alike to examine the extraordinary depth of this sort of legislation and its total and ultimate consequences on the society which we have evolved and in which we live. [More…]

• It will make, I believe, a fundamental alteration to the very nature of the marriage contract and in doing so it must change the entire pattern of family life in the Australian society and such major issues ought to receive the careful assessment of all the members of our community in the light of the best possible research and evidence. [More…]

• Yet here we are trying desperately to race it through perhaps to serve the purpose of a very small percentage of people in the Australian community who want the Bill virtually at any price so long as it is quickly. [More…]

• I believe it is a measure of change that we must grapple with and I am equally strongly convinced that it is a measure of change that we must grapple with over a reasonable period of time so that this Senate itself and the Australian community shall become fully aware of all the consequences for the near future and indeed for the continuing future. [More…]

• The Bill deals with an area which has been interpreted in many discussions not only in this Senate but also in the community at large through the legal and related professions. [More…]

• But while we are appreciative of the arguments that have been put forward at the legal and academic levels I want to say that it becomes very much the responsibility of all of us, legal, academic or otherwise, who are involved in community affairs and that it becomes the responsibility of anyone who is concerned for the well-being of the community to give it their attention and to do their best to make a considered judgment and contribution. [More…]

• But the network of responsibilities and disciplines to which I have referred affect also other persons in our community mainly, of course, the children of such a union and marriage. [More…]

• Those factors must be involved in any discussion of marriage in a House of this kind and in a community of this nation. [More…]

• I point out that in our community are some older women who never expected to enter the work force or who have never been trained to enter the work force and who may not reasonably be expected to do so. [More…]

• It is to be safeguarded and preserved, for the measure of stability that a home unit enjoys, ensures the stability of the rest of the community. [More…]

• Strangely enough and interestingly enough, that shows up through every phase of our community and national life, whether it be public affairs, social consciousness and responsibility or even in the areas of commerce and business. [More…]

• If we are to talk a great deal about what the community and the State plan to do for people after marriage, someone must do something for people before marriage. [More…]

• But, as I have said and as others have said, I am equally anxious that the community should go into this matter, as far as possible, step by step with the Parliament. [More…]

• While many sections of the community are anxious that the Bill proceed they seem to me to stem from those of our community which, mainly for professional reasons, have had the opportunity of making a detailed and professional study of it. [More…]

• I would like what I call the lay community to examine and discuss the Bill more. [More…]

• It is also true that churches and community organisations have worked on it. [More…]

• They also indicate that the community at large is only just beginning to study the measure and the amendments and to take cognisance of the effects that will flow from them. [More…]

• Therefore, so that the community may have further time to give the BUI some consideration and so that it may be discussed with the Parliament, particularly with the Senate, I support Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson’s amendment. [More…]

• However one would imagine that the Senate, the parliaments generally and the Australian people are faced with a somewhat different and a somewhat rushed situation- a position in which little thought has been given to the very human problems which face so many in our community -and that in point of fact the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) and those associated with them have been endeavouring to foist upon the Australian people, without adequate discussion and consideration, a new concept in marriage. [More…]

• Surely no member of the Senate or no member of the community believes that in the horrific situation of a breakdown of marriage both partners have equal resources, equal rights and equal opportunities to resolve their differences, leading ultimately if not to a marriage counsellor at least to the courts for a dissolution of the marriage. [More…]

• Many groups in the community are prepared to give support to the proposals embodied in the Bill. [More…]

• These are the people who told the community that abortion was murder. [More…]

• But where a marriage is finished, the sooner the legal shell is wiped away the better it is for the partners to the marriage and for the community. [More…]

• This Bill has the support of” the vast majority of lawyers, social workers, marriage counsellors, psychiatrists and other groups within the community. [More…]

• I well recall in the various activities in which I was involved as the president of the Sutherland Shire Council for 9 years, calling together local community groups for the purpose of setting up community organisations and counselling organisations, and establishing a social worker within the Council. [More…]

• The experience of every one of those people from all the community groups who came together in the Council of Social Services within the area pf the Sutherland Shire Council was that at some stage they had suggested that there was a need for more updated and modern type legislation to deal with this problem of human relations between 2 human beings. [More…]

• I am concerned that the Festival of Light organisation, which seems to be the principal core of the opposition to this legislation, is developing into an ultra-conservative political group, using the cloak of the Church and of morality to attract community support. [More…]

• It does no good to the community or to those who have a reasonable and logical position to express in respect of the far-reaching consequences of the Family Law Bill. [More…]

• It is something which I think the community will regret unless it understands what is happening in respect of these social questions. [More…]

• If a marriage does break down surely the cleaner and sooner it can be broken the better it is for the community and for those persons concerned. [More…]

• In fact, the whole weight of the evidence of members of the legal fraternity who have been involved in this whole area of human relationships has indicated the need for the legislative processes to catch up with community attitudes. [More…]

• This is why we want further consideration of it by the Senate, by the community at large and by all the people intersted in it. [More…]

• The present Bill purports to represent this consideration but it has sent shivers through many sections of the community, particularly the religious sections. [More…]

• For that reason, as a community or society we cannot take marriage lightly or in any way do anything that will affect the institution of marriage or its stability in our society. [More…]

• But I want to make it perfectly clear as a layman, but one who has been associated with the problems of our community, one who is aware of the tragedy of divorce for many people who have approached me with their problems since I have been in this chamber, that one thing that I want to be sure of is that whilst we make the procedures of divorce perhaps easier in some ways, we do not in any way give the appearance of trying to make it easier for people to marry. [More…]

• I have said that we must accept divorce in our community. [More…]

• So we must accept divorce within our community. [More…]

• Senator Wheeldon interjected a few moments ago so I inform him that I do riot ever want to see marriage accepted in our community as something that could be a short term expediency, something from which one can easily opt out. [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…]

• Provision of a suitable environment, the development of community amenities, education and health services, and the opportunity to obtain suitable housing as essential prerequisites of a sound family life. [More…]

• Fostering community spirit and activities to enable the family to be part of a living community rather than finding itself isolated in populous urban areas. [More…]

• Recognition of the importance of older citizens in our society, by ensuring their participation in suitable community activities so that they can contribute from experience and enjoy a sense of security and belonging. [More…]

• Foster community organisations which assist people to prepare for and understand the complexities of married life, and to resolve marital difficulties with a view to maintaining family life. [More…]

• The number of petitions and the number of signatures are not significant in that they represent a small proportion of the total population, but they are significant in that they represent an interest in the community which we ought to acknowledge and regard as involved in this measure. [More…]

• But this is a Bill which involves an issue upon which I suppose every member of this community would have something to contribute. [More…]

• Until the Universal Health Insurance Scheme, ‘Medibank’, comes into operation on July 1 1 975 the Minister for Social Security has accepted the need to provide interim repair work to the present defective system of private health insurance by allowing registration of some small organisations which provide health insurance coverage for special groups in the community. [More…]

• Aboriginal Medical Service provides free medical treatment for aboriginal members of the community, given by doctors employed at the Centre. [More…]

• The object will be to fill these positions with mature persons (both men and women) who have a respected status in the Aboriginal community in these areas where they are stationed. [More…]

• More recently, the Northern Territory Police Commissioner and two senior Departmental officers attended a conference on Community Relations in Alice Springs convened by the Australian Frontier Organisation. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, the family and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• That the parents to benefit most relatively from educational income tax deductions, in the past and even more in the future, are the parents of children in government schools and this has a divisive effect in the Australian community. [More…]

• That the parents to benefit most relatively from educational income tax deductions, in the past and even more in the future, are the parents of children in government schools and this has a divisive effect in the Australian community. [More…]

• A parochial petty attitude by any Premier or State politician which will damage our national approach to these matters is detrimental to the entire Australian community. [More…]

• No doubt the Minister realises that a good deal of the present rate of inflation is caused by increasing food prices and no doubt he also realises that the pensioners in our community are the hardest hit by inflation. [More…]

• We, unlike the previous Government, have acknowledged the problems of pensioners and not only have we maintained their relative position but in fact the relative position of pensioners within this community has improved during the period of Labor government since 2 December 1972. [More…]

• We have widespread and increasing unemployment, liquidity is acute and there is a general feeling of uncertainty and pessimism in the whole community; and the community generally feels that things will get worse. [More…]

• Labor’s unsympathetic, ignorant and discriminatory treatment of primary industries has created 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 country areas. [More…]

• Recently I said that we don’t 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 shall list the decisions adverse to the rural sector of the community in Australia which the Government has taken. [More…]

• It would be impossible to calculate this effect on the rural community. [More…]

• The Budget of that year resulted in the discontinuation of the accelerated depreciation allowance on plant which had been set at a special rate of 20 per cent per annum to encourage primary producers to utilise new and upgraded equipment, modernise their production, and bring a lesser cost of production into that area of the community. [More…]

• This cost the rural community some $20m. [More…]

• The definition of that cannot be other than a newly imposed death tax which, it follows, will involve the community. [More…]

• All these matters have an application to the entire Australian community. [More…]

• The inflation rate in this community could be approaching 25 per cent to 30 per cent. [More…]

• That is devastating for the whole community. [More…]

• That shows Labor’s interest in the rural community. [More…]

• I refer in particular to certain matters I have raised previously in the Senate by way of question, namely, the relationship and condition of the Jewish community in Syria and the fact that Australia- the Australian Government- is unwilling to raise its voice in any way in support of that community and in an endeavour to reduce the travail it is now suffering. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of recent documented allegations made by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and other responsible authorities concerning the persecution of the Jewish community in Syria, including numerous murders, assaults, religious persecutions, confinement to ghettos and denial of normal human rights in defiance of the United Nations Declarations on Human Rights? [More…]

• We must bear in mind that when the Six Day War broke out in 1967 only about 3,000 Jews remained in Egypt of a community that had numbered 100,000 2 decades before. [More…]

• What is the ordinary living situation of the remaining Jewish community in Syria? [More…]

• That is the normal life of the Jewish community in Syria. [More…]

• Demonstrationsdangerous demonstrations in that countrytook place among the Jewish community and the result of them was that the Syrian Minister for the Interior alleged that the murderers and smugglers who had confessed, so he said, had been arrested. [More…]

• They arrested 2 respected members of the Jewish community, one of” them being a brother-in-law of one of the victims. [More…]

• Those are some of the examples which are given in this publication of incidents which are known, I should imagine, to many members of the Government and these examples should indicate that we as a free community ought to take a view on these matters. [More…]

• He also quoted President Sadat of Egypt, a leader in the Arab community, and said: [More…]

• Beyond these restrictions our information does not confirm allegations of systematic persecution of the Jewish community in Syria although it does appear the incidents of harassment and violence have occurred. [More…]

• So far as our monetary conditions are concerned, the Government has taken a whole series of measures to increase the liquidity in the community and certain signs are already emerging which suggest that these measures are also having their effect. [More…]

• Whereas this country previously had confidence today the business community is lacking in confidence. [More…]

• But it would be quite remiss of the Opposition in debating Bills relating to housing, housing construction and home ownership if it did not put on record its total rejection of Government policies which have quite deliberately, and admittedly so, set out to wreck home building, to wreck housing and to wreck home purchase in this community. [More…]

• Let it be said and let it be known by the whole of the Australian community that the Government has agreed that its policy was, throughout this last year, to bring about a recession in the building industry. [More…]

• It deals with buildings for health, educational, commercial, industrial and residential sectors of the community. [More…]

• I can only say that builders, developers and architects as much as politicians, medicos and others, are all people seeking to do a job in this community and for the most part they are doing a good job. [More…]

• Over the past years the Labor Party has taken definite and positive action to see that unemployment is promoted in the community. [More…]

• I say here and now that, quite apart from the considerations of the party to which I belong, the construction industry in Australia is the thermometer so far as the economic health of the community is concerned. [More…]

• It is a gauge not only of the need for housing in our society but also of the living standards of the community. [More…]

• It creates environmental circumstances and better standards of living for people in the community. [More…]

• When a supporter of the Government speaks in that way about an employer of some thousands of people in this community, when he speaks of an organisation in that way and describes the people in it as spivs and crooks, he reflects on all the employees who work for that organisation. [More…]

• It said to the general employee community and to the unions: ‘Go for your life for all the benefits you can gain. [More…]

• What the Government created then is going to bring about the greatest level of unemployment this community has ever known because employers are unable to meet the costs arising from what their employees have been granted. [More…]

• I am an employer of a number of men in the joinery industry and I add something to this community, something that I doubt any Labor man has ever done in his life, and that is to create a position - [More…]

• Today the small employer in the community, of which I am one, finds it impossible to grant his employees the benefits that are awarded. [More…]

• They believed that the lowest interest rates in the community should be on housing loans. [More…]

• That a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• I know that both Ministers have met in connection with this matter and no doubt the honourable senator has seen Mr Cameron’s observations about the people he described as bludgers on the community. [More…]

• I stress that the safety of children is the responsibility of the whole community. [More…]

• The Government can do only so much by setting these product safety standards and information standards but the community can assist the Government by helping to see that the standards are actually observed in practice. [More…]

• Various members of the Committee may not agree totally with everything which the organisation known as the Festival of Light does, but at least it is an organisation of people who are concerned about our community standards and the general trends which are taking place. [More…]

• Its members are motivated by the highest motives for everything that is of the best positive outlook for our community. [More…]

• Yet I think one of the really welcome and useful additions to our society in recent times has been the emergence of the people who call themselves the Festival of Light, and far from their being a festival of darkness I think they are endeavouring to give some weight and stability to values which ought to be regarded as acceptable throughout our community. [More…]

• I think it is proper for me to say at the outset that this is a proposal that has been advocated by a group of people in the community. [More…]

• I have read out the names of those people in order to make the point that the view that the definition of marriage should be included in this Bill has been supported by a quite significant cross-section of eminent people in the community. [More…]

• It is fundamental, in my opinion, to retain that which by common law concept the Australian community has adopted throughout our history- that marriage is, as set out in this definition, ‘the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life’. [More…]

• But here is a move which is clearly in the interests of the community. [More…]

• If they had access to funds which would enable them to set up a course it could strengthen the work that they do in the community. [More…]

• A lot has been said in the community over the last 12 months or so about the family. [More…]

• The vital characteristic of a local government body is that it should be local, that it should represent a particular community or communities, that it should have the right to be different and that it ought not to be compromised into averaging over a whole region. [More…]

• Against that background let me say that the Opposition when in government will work upon the basis that local government shall work in conjunction with the States as units, that local government will be maintained in its individual areas as authentic community bodies, and that a Liberal-Country Party government will encourage the formation of grants commissions in each State. [More…]

• So the Government has broken new ground in an area where I think the community generally wanted it to break new ground. [More…]

• Until her part-time employment at the Centre terminated in October 1 974, Australian Government financial assistance under the Community Health Program was applied towards the payment of her salary by the Centre. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Manufacturing Industry been drawn to a report in today’s Sydney Morning Herald’ which refers to the community’s difficulty in buying woollen clothing? [More…]

• But that error in prediction was common, 1 think, to a lot of others in the community. [More…]

• If so, and in view of the deep distress felt by the Baltic community at the Government’s recognition of Soviet sovereignty over the Baltic States, will the Minister take steps to make amends to these worthy Australian people? [More…]

• The Court will need to work closely with other social security agencies in the community. [More…]

• Court already has been widely accepted in our community. [More…]

• Along with others in the community I have been observing what has been happening in the courts dealing with matrimonial causes, and have been observing a number of cases reported in the newspapers. [More…]

• I think a family court is really a useful centre pin upon which a lot of advice facilities for the community at large will develop. [More…]

• It would firstly be a practical way of achieving a unified structure within the federal system, bringing the jurisdictions together by a community of interest inherent in a common subject matter, lt would also be a way in which the States could bc given a feeling of playing a meaningful part in the federal system, acting together under a Commonwealth law in a spirit of ‘co-operative federalism’. [More…]

• The amount spent on justice in this community is very slight indeed. [More…]

• Only judges suitable to be Family Court judges would be appointed to the Family Court, but if such a judge were in some isolated area, or in the case of some kind of emergency, he might be able to deal with a bankruptcy notice or something like that and thereby save the community money. [More…]

• We are exercising a federal power which relates to individual citizens in this community and their rights in relation to problems arising with matrimonial dissolutions and the like. [More…]

• The other thing that concerns me particularly about this proposal is that it involves the whole concept of a Family Court, for which people in this community have been waiting anxiously, with a whole hassle of delays and a whole hassle of different situations which would arise from State to State, as my colleague Senator Everett said. [More…]

• These things are all very confusing for individuals in this community who are concerned about one thinghaving their matrimonial problems resolved with the maximum of speed, the maximum of dignity and the maximum of justice particularly to children involved in matrimonial disputation. [More…]

• If that sort of thing is to go on for a long time, as I believe it would if this amendment were carried, the result would be purely one of confusion for individuals in the community who are concerned. [More…]

• I have sufficient faith in the people around the community to know that there are people of capacity to fill the positions. [More…]

• In regard to paragraph (b), the Committee will recall that those words ‘the natural and fundamental group unit of society’ are the ones which appear in the Convention on Civil and Political Rights and also in the Universal Declaration of Rights, and I am sure that their inclusion in this Bill will receive a certain amount of approval throughout the community. [More…]

• In my speech in the second reading debate I referred to a statement made by a number of people in high office in the community- I do not propose to mention their names again- people from religious groups in the community, notably in New South Wales, at least one Queen’s Counsel in New South Wales and a number of other members of the legal profession. [More…]

• Indeed I believe it is most significant that earlier in the Committee stage today we adopted Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson’s amendment which quite clearly incorporates in this Bill that basic concept that our community has of the nature of marriage. [More…]

• In my opinion, and I believe in the opinion of a large section of the community whose views I have heard or heard of, a period of 12 months is too short. [More…]

• If we try to go too far at this stage we may be causing great harm to the community and particularly to its attitudes towards marriage. [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…]

• 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…]

• 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 proper allocation of resources based on demonstrated community needs. [More…]

• Many sections of the community are now becoming concerned about the alienation of people from decision-making in our society”. [More…]

• He said that the destruction ofthe capitalist system would bc in the interests of a better community, with industrial harmony and job satisfaction. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable senator’s question is as follows: ( 1 ), (2), (3) and (4) The previous Minister for Aboriginal Affairs approved on 10 July 1973 a grant for $6,875 to the Mowanjum community to retain Clarke, Gazzard and Flower to plan the redevelopment of the Mowanjum village in the general area of the present site. [More…]

• The consultants and the Mowanjum community were aware, before January 1974, that the Department of Transport proposed to extend the air-strip in such a way as to create a possible noise nuisance in the area being considered for new housing. [More…]

• At the requests of the Aboriginal Housing Panel, Professor D. Freeman spent approximately 6 weeks at Mowanjum consulting with the community on a number of matters including its attitude towards the location of the new housing. [More…]

• It has been made clear to the community that its choice of site is not restricted to the present location at Mowanjum, and the community has been asked whether it wished to relocate, but until recently it expressed its wish to remain at Mowanjum. [More…]

• Study of the site had proceeded on this basis under the direction of Clarke, Gazzard and Flower at a cost of $6,875 as set out below: -In September the community learned of the possibility that a Defence Services base would be established near the airstrip and the proposed location of the housing development. [More…]

• As a result of this information, the community appears to have reversed its decision on the location of the new housing and has stated that it now wishes the new development to take place some distance away. [More…]

• I understand that the community has come to an agreement with the Derby Shire Council in respect of land on the Mount House Road. [More…]

• The consultants and the community became aware only recently of the easement for the telegraph line, as the easement is not shown on surveyors drawings. [More…]

• That, a Bill with such serious implications deserves to be considered as a matter of public importance and be the object of the community debate which it warrants. [More…]

• That the parents to benefit most relatively from educational income tax deductions, in the past and even more in the future, are the parents of children in government schools and this has a divisive effect in the Australian community. [More…]

• The theme of the campaign will be to emphasise the public telephone as a community lifeline on which people’s lives may depend. [More…]

• 1 ask that question in view of the general belief that the Australian Labor Party would adopt an egalitarian attitude and would not institute gradations of value betweeen members of the general community. [More…]

• Where some citizen had given outstanding service to the community or to all humanity we thought it was reasonable that there should be some recognition. [More…]

• It is true that both these State Liberal governments have not been slow in criticising this Government for any increased charges which have occurred to the rural community during the time we have been in office. [More…]

• It is one which will tell the nation much about this vital part of the business life of the Australian community. [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 prominent community organizations. [More…]

• Clause 10 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…]

• It must be pointed out again that the Bill itself, and this clause in particular which is before the Committee, is all part of a move of vast changes in this important aspect of our national, social and community life. [More…]

• It is imperative, as we discuss and legislate for quite extraordinary and vast changes in an Act such as this, that we take the community with us. [More…]

• I am fortified in the view which I have reached in relation to sustaining this amendment which is before the Committee by the communications sent to me, as they have been sent to all other honourable senators in relation to the Bill and this clause in particular, by a variety of community groups. [More…]

• That final reference leads me to confirm my support for the amendment before the Committee because the most important reason, in my view, for sustaining the amendment is to meet the concern in the community regarding what the Director referred to in his letter as the attitude to marriage. [More…]

• If there is a fear that this attitude to marriage will change, a fear that the stability of marriage will be undermined, I think we have to give this far reaching and important legislation every chance not only to operate successfully and adequately but also, as I said at the beginning, the chance to take the community with it so that the community becomes persuaded as to the no-fault concept and the irretrievable breakdown concept. [More…]

• Senator Davidson said he thinks that we have to carry the community with us. [More…]

• If he supports the amendment he will be going against the expressed community attitude which is in line with what was expressed some 12 months ago except that I think that the number in favour of irretrievable breakdown, as evidenced by at least 12 months separation, has increased. [More…]

• The rare cases will overwhelm half the cases in this community. [More…]

• Are we to impose the opinions- and I believe the figures to be accurate- of 2, 3 or 4 per cent of people on 60 per cent of the community who I really believe recognise that one year of separation is a fair amount. [More…]

• I am fortified by the fact that other people in the community have expressed the same view. [More…]

• During that period a great many people in the community- people who are expert in this whole field of matrimonial law- gave a great deal of their time and thought to the work of the Committee and, indeed, to the preparation of this Bill which shortly will finally be passed by the Senate. [More…]

• We had an eye always, I feel, not to what advantage might accrue to either of our parties but only to what would be for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• The community is therefore better informed. [More…]

• The general position that I take in this matter is that which I elaborated in 1971 and, I think, ever since in the great hope that one day somebody will seek to do something positive in the Australian Federation on financial and monetary management, rather than standing off and shouting at each other, which I think has been inimical and not at all useful for the total Australian community. [More…]

• It would introduce the clement of consultation into the community regularly on the same basis as sectoral responsibility is accepted by the New Zealand Development Council. [More…]

• They realise that every effort ought to be made in this community to ensure that people do not get disbarred by mere accident or mere inability to count, and they are often confused as to what is the best system to achieve the result which is sought. [More…]

• I know that again one must consider the people, including the strict Jewish community which would not be able to vote, and whether it would be adequate for them to record a postal vote. [More…]

• The people of at least 2 religions- not just the Jewish population of Australia which Senator Missen mentioned, but also the Seventh Day Adventist community- are severely disadvantaged by the electoral laws as they operate here. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators that sabbath for both the Seventh Day Adventist community and the Jewish community runs from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday. [More…]

• It is a silly search really because it does not take into account loyalty to the party, service to the community or the quality of a candidate. [More…]

• Quite obviously, when this vote can be discerned, it does not follow in many cases the normal voting pattern throughout the community. [More…]

• They agreed that they were united in their support of the following basic objectives: 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 three 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 parkland and open space, in drainage and water ways, in efficient garbage disposal systems, in community facilities such as halls and libraries. [More…]

• The measures which have been introduced in these areas of social need are commendable and will be of assistance to the community. [More…]

• Very often it is discontinued throughout the normal holiday period that occurs in the early summer months at the end of a year partly because so much of the service is provided on a voluntary basis and people have other preoccupations at that time which prevent them from working in the voluntary community organisations. [More…]

• I am hopeful that a review will be undertaken at quite frequent intervals in conjunction with a review of other costs in the community. [More…]

• It is timely to suggest, with the increases in capital costs of buildings that are needed and with the increases in recurrent expenditure that are experienced, that voluntary organisations are experiencing grave difficulties in continuing the services that they have given for so long in this community. [More…]

• 1 think we would be removing from Australian society that capacity for compassion and community support that is a desirable feature. [More…]

• Perhaps it is apt to say at this stage that we feel we should attempt to improve the domiciliary services available to the elderly people in our community. [More…]

• If there is one lesson that emerges with greater clarity for Australian aviation than any other from the welter of that troubled 1973 year, it is that the aviation community- the airlines, general aviation, the aircraft industry, the Services and departmental people as well- must in future make its voice much more clearly heard, and strongly felt. [More…]

• I wonder, if I may just touch on this briefly, why a person whose responsibility ought to be the development of air services in the interests of the members of the Air Pilots Federation would be floating the proposition, would be putting into the minds of the community a suggestion that there should be the closing down of an airport and so a reduction in the activity of that industry for which he had at least some responsibility. [More…]

• The third level airline operators are providing a valuable service to the Australian community, particularly in outlying areas. [More…]

• Connair in the Northern Territory provides a very valuable community service. [More…]

• Labor’s professed concern for the ‘little man’ does not apparently extend to the ‘battlers’ in the business community, upon whom a sizeable proportion of the work force depends for wages. [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 thenplace 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 some Australians whose legitimate claims on the social conscience of our community have been the highest, have in fact, been short changed. [More…]

• One measure of a civilised community is the size of the gap between the reasonable aspirations and the opportunities to fulfil those aspirations of its members. [More…]

• As I have said, this type of assistance to manufacturing industry in Australia to enable it and to encourage it to export more of its goods and to be able to compete in an increasingly more difficult world trading situation is one which is of great importance to our community. [More…]

• I believe this has been done in previous legislation concerning foreign institutions and foreign corporations in which there was very detailed co-operation between the private sector of the Australian community and the Government. [More…]

• 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 and it is important that these funds be put to use at a time when activity in the industry is slackening. [More…]

• It is a widely held view throughout the community that the impact of governmental policies which has emanated from these excise and customs provisions has led to the adverse situation which has arisen. [More…]

• Let me just tell the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh), through you, Mr Deputy President, that one of the telegrams- I do not know whether my copy is worded in the same way as that of the Ministerfrom the Aurakun community begins by saying: [More…]

• There is the statement made clearly by the chairman of that community, that he has held a full council meeting. [More…]

• It was despatched at 9.20 a.m. and signed ‘Llope and Councillors and People Weipa Community’. [More…]

• The next one was sent from Thursday Island, time of despatch 10.40 a.m., signed ‘Victor McKinvoy, Robert Gilbert, Councillors and people Lockhart River community’. [More…]

• These are intelligent men and women who were elected by their community to serve their communities. [More…]

• We could be picked up for no reason at all and placed on a Government community. [More…]

• Is it the practice for the Minister to refuse such requests which could be in the interests of at least a section of the Australian community? [More…]

• There has simply been a sense of outrage by the public, the community at large and the mass media since the Government’s intentions were unfolded in the amendments which it introduced. [More…]

• I am glad to say that the community reaction to the amendments which were proposed was such that the Minister had an amendment moved in the House of Representatives which achieved 2 objectives. [More…]

• I am speaking of technical standards and community standards. [More…]

• I want to speak briefly about standards because this is another matter referred to most vocally in the community. [More…]

• I think there is an assertion by the community that there ought to be standards which are observed. [More…]

• I do not question the sincerity of the people who have written to me about the need to pass the amendments so that the Board has the authority to ensure that community standards are upheld, particularly in television. [More…]

• The simplistic attitude that a commercial motive, a profit motive, is less responsible than an authoritarian one is something that I cannot accept and I do not think that the people in the community who are asserting the childern’s programs should have excellence need take that point of view. [More…]

• We want to see the continuation of a system which has given opportunity for the creative and performing artists in our community to use their talents in our programs. [More…]

• If we are talking about a revolution through mass communication, it would be advisable for members of the Australian community to recognise that this could occur under the amendments which the Government proposes to the Act. [More…]

• I invite the attention of the House especially 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 on children. [More…]

• It is the Privacy Bill which, in a most obnoxious form, was introduced in South Australia to restrict greatly the ability of the media and the private citizen to speak its and his mind in the South Australian community. [More…]

• -As a general rule I do not like undue government interference in the ordinary business affairs of the community. [More…]

• No matter what the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said recently about how much he wanted free enterprise to be given a go, we must always remember that the aim of the Party now in control of the government benches in this place is control, and if possible total control, of most facets of the community. [More…]

• Senator Guilfoyle said that the Opposition, for instance, accepted that the Control Board had a responsibility to act in certain areas and she referred to those areas as technical and community standard areas. [More…]

• What Senator Guilfoyle was saying in that sentence was that it is all right for the Board to lay down technical and community standards but not standards in respect of programs, and that if the Opposition had its way it would move to delete section 16 ( 1) (c) from the existing Act. [More…]

• If the Board is powerless to act in the interests of the Australian community in this regard I suggest we will be reverting to the law of the jungle. [More…]

• So there ought to be a community of viewpoint in this matter. [More…]

• I am sure that there are many hundreds of people- not thousands but hundreds throughout the Australian community who will now come into the range of benefits under this scheme and whose mortgage loan arrangement will be taken over under the provisions of this legislation. [More…]

• But the Government has acknowledged that it is happening and it has decided that ex-servicemen who qualify for defence service home loans will not be disadvantaged by the situation which affects every other section of the Australian community. [More…]

• What happens if we start extending this throughout the 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, it would be 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 1 7, 1 9 and 2 1 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…]

• We have no firm definition of what a community college should be because we 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 in demand 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…]

• Honourable senators 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 I have already mentioned are provided in addition to this amount to the extent of $940,000. [More…]

• There will without any doubt be some people who will be worse off as a result of this legislation but the Australian community in total in my view will be better off and that is in accordance with the principal purpose of the Parliament. [More…]

• The original Act for the care of handicapped children gave a great deal of help to that sector of the community. [More…]

• The provision of sheltered workshops has been of increasing benefit to those members of the community who have physical, mental or social handicaps. [More…]

• It was not something that he was able to develop as fully as he would like to have done in a personal sense, but he had the view that there should be nothing to impede people who have handicaps feeling that they ought to be productive and gainfully employed members of the community. [More…]

• We are pleased to see that the Government recognises the role that voluntary organisations play in our community service and recognise that this style of service is best suited to those who have handicaps. [More…]

• I believe the personal attention, compassion and interest that are given to the people who use those services are best achieved through a strong volunteer system throughout our community. [More…]

• I believe that in the past there has always been a tendency to take a simplistic approach to the handicapped and to divide the whole community into 2 groups- the normal and the handicapped. [More…]

• However, we have left out the group that is less severely handicapped which with very little rehabilitation and a modicum of help could lead fairly independent lives in the community. [More…]

• They have reached the stage at which they feel different and isolated in the community. [More…]

• These groups are owed a debt of gratitude by both the handicapped and the whole community. [More…]

• One of the really gratifying matters that have emerged in modern years is that all political parties, and indeed all sections of the community, have agreed on the need to upgrade urban life. [More…]

• The growth of affluence in the community has enabled the community to turn its mind and its finances towards urban improvement and towards improving the quality of life. [More…]

• As the question obviously refers to the former assistant to Mr Grassby who has been involved in this area of community relations, I would indicate that, contrary to what appeared in the afternoon Press, she was not provided with accommodation. [More…]

• What real hardships does she suffer compared with the less well paid sections of our community? [More…]

• The fact is that the former assistant to Mr Grassby in community relations - [More…]

• It may not be well known that although the area of mau and postal services is a very sensitive one, the incidence of industrial disputes in the Post Office is relatively low compared with other fields in the community. [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…]

• At their first meeting he reminded members of the working party that the problems of homelessness permeated many age groups and areas of the Australian community. [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…]

• I start on the basis that all governments and indeed all sections of the community are as one in desiring to improve the urban environment and to improve what is now known as the quality of life. [More…]

• But under the McMahon Government the Commonwealth went one step further and said this: It is no use developing all sorts of grandiose schemes for growth centres or satellite cities or any other high sounding projects unless the government of the day can guarantee the economic viability of the community which would be established. [More…]

• He went on to point out that the method at this moment involved enormous delays, with promised money for programs coming forward half a year or more later, and therefore added nothing to the attempt to rehabilitate the community in this present situation of growing unemployment. [More…]

• The main criticism- and I do not want to be a carping critic- of this Bill and of the Government’s action is that the Commonwealth seeks to intrude its tentacles right through to the grass roots of the community. [More…]

• 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…]

• Members of the Opposition missed the bus; they have not as yet caught up with the contemporary needs and with the needs of the community. [More…]

• The 400-odd Bills that have been through this Parliament have all been designed to create a more equal society and to ensure that people, whether they live in Kuringgai and enjoy much better urban standards than do the people in Mount Druitt and some other parts ofthe new suburbs of Sydney, will have adequate community facilities. [More…]

• I think thatSenator Gietzelt replied to this when he said that we have introduced a lot of legislation for the purpose of improving the standard of living of the Australian community. [More…]

• At end of motion, add- but the Senate is ofthe 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…]

• No Government with any responsibility to create productivity in this community, to try to develop skills, to encourage people to give of their best and get adequate reward, could advocate a flat ra te indexation. [More…]

• At end of motion, add- but the Senate 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…]

• What a fatuous, inaccurate and misleading statement it is to make to the Australian public to say that any sector of it- any large sector such as this- can demand and obtain a huge increase in salaries that will have no effect on prices in this community. [More…]

• The taxes which will continue to be tolerated on the progressive tax scale that we have in Australia will of course be almost as much inflationary as any other factor in this community. [More…]

• Unless we are to see that year by year we must see in its place a real attack on inflation in this community. [More…]

• If that could be asked of the Australian people and if both parties would support it there would be a massive and overwhelming approval of it, such is the concern in the general community on this question. [More…]

• In return for some sensible management of the community to tackle the problem of inflation the Opposition must give something. [More…]

• first few months, to match what is undoubtedly a crisis in the Australian community. ‘ [More…]

• Is it to be said by the Labor Party that by donating to the Labor Party appeals a person will help his position in the community? [More…]

• The 2 things which in essence have been said by the Opposition are that there is no confidence in this community, and that if there is any confidence we tell you you are wrong’. [More…]

• It is typical of the attitude of the Opposition parties in this chamber; consistently they go out of their way to encourage dissent in this community on all sorts of phony issues and to manufacture phony issues. [More…]

• Not only is it true of the Country Party in relation to the rural sector of the economy; it is equally true of the Liberal Party in relation to the business community and that Party’s attempts to undermine the confidence of the business community, as it has been doing in this place over a long time. [More…]

• What I put to honourable senators is that the Senate in considering legislation must not be concerned with that negative attitude to Government and that as a House of review we should try to understand the changes which are taking place in this community and changes which are being made by this Government. [More…]

• I wanted to speak first of all about the charge which is made against this Government that it is centralised and that centralism is some sort of evil force in the Australian community which must be resisted as some sort of bogey which cannot be tolerated. [More…]

• The very fact of the matter is that for the first time in Australia ‘s history a national government is spending money- in a centralist sense, if you like- in a way which is opening up all sorts of new participatory grass root endeavours in this community. [More…]

• For the first time citizens in our community are being asked to participate and are participating in social welfare endeavours at a grass roots level. [More…]

• Once again I refer to new things in our society which just did not exist previously and which are examples to the Australian community of what can be done. [More…]

• There is still the quaint notion in the Liberal Party’s platform that somehow the State governments- like the Queensland Government, for example- are the safeguards of civil liberties in the community. [More…]

• I put it to the Senate that the imaginative centralist initiatives of the Government have involved for the first time the citizens of our community in all sorts of new participatory endeavours, but the much vaunted State governments have done nothing over the years, and are doing nothing now, to secure those liberties or to secure the involvement of citizens in all sorts of endeavours of that kind. [More…]

• I was making the point that the national government has created all sorts of new openings and initiatives for citizens in this community by its imagination, by the way in which it spends money and by the examples that it has set. [More…]

• I want to speak about it because the subject he raised has a particular relevance to the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• Not only is the sponsorship of this memorial coming from our ranks; it is being supported by every section of the Australian community, all elements of it, just as the community did in the case of the erection of McEwen House which stands as a memorial to another very great Australian, John McEwen. [More…]

• Instead, the honourable senator chose to highlight what we highlight in the Liberal Party platform and which is of concern when one considers money Bills and the raising of money by this Parliament- namely, that federalism is the basis of this community and should remain so; that there is safety in the multitude of counsellors; that in fact the liberties of our people are very much bound up in the fact that in this community we have not one government dictating the community’s needs but a number of governments. [More…]

• The combination of the continuation of an estate duty and a capital gains tax could be thoroughly destructive of the property, however modest, of the overwhelming number of people in the community and to that extent the Opposition has decided that it will move as an addition the amendment that I have read out. [More…]

• Indeed it would be an enormous part of the community. [More…]

• Every $1 of profit made in this community by any company, whether multi-national or Australian, was returning to this Government and former governments some 75c to 80c in taxation. [More…]

• Indeed, no government in this community could run without a healthy profitability of companies. [More…]

• He is familiar with community standards here and overseas and, in my opinion, was eminently suitable for appointment to that position. [More…]

• While long distance running may not seem terribly closely connected with films, persons from the community who are not film makers are needed there. [More…]

• He is trying to spread gloom and despair in the community whereas he ought to be saying that the Government is taking action that is designed to improve the economy. [More…]

• But since the honourable senator continues to interject I say this to him, and he might in fact heed this because it is perhaps the most imperative of the issues confronting the community today: The quadrupling of the oil price by the Middle East countries means that those countries now preempt about $ 120 billion by way of trade reserves from the purchasing nations. [More…]

• This is a punishment of a very large section of the community, lt is in fact a punishment of the whole of the community. [More…]

• It is unfair because it discriminates against a significant section of the community- a significant section of the underprivileged and poor of the community. [More…]

• The amount of money, $150m, that the Government is proposing under another Bill to inject into the community through the banks to help housing would make provision for 7,500 houses, which is precisely the number of houses that the New South Wales Housing Commission has had to add in terms of demand to its books. [More…]

• Life assurance in this community is the little man ‘s saviour. [More…]

• In the history of this country there could be very few, if any, occasions on which there has occurred a greater measure of volatility and edginess in the Australian commercial and industrial community than is occurring today. [More…]

• We are suffering today in a monetary illusion which, in very remarkable degree, is referrable to the tax situation that confronts the Australian economic and social community. [More…]

• If I may I will briefly look at one or two areas of tax with that sort of background, that sort of measuring stick which after all, is the economicmeasuring stick which has been given to us as a community by no less a person that the Federal Treasurer. [More…]

• Therefore they cannot give the incentive, the real satisfaction, which hopefully would develop in the wage and salary earning community a desire to get on with the job and not be constantly seeking to catch up with a spiralling inflation. [More…]

• Virtually every investment in this community and in any other free community is an earned increment and from that point it is invested. [More…]

• What do we gain if, through taxation, we destroy the right of this community to have freedom of choice in education as we imagine the community would require freedom of choice in so many other areas? [More…]

• For that reason it is the Opposition’s view that debate on this Bill should be adjourned to enable the Government to consult with the Aboriginal people living in the reserve communities in the State of Queensland and with their elected councils and other representative bodies, and further to ascertain, by a poll taken within those communities, the wishes of those people in relation to future restrictions upon the right of entry to those community areas. [More…]

• If that is carried, on the motion that the resumption of the debate be made an order of the day for the next day of sitting or for a later hour, whichever the Minister would like, I would move that it be the first day of sitting in March 1975, to enable the Government to consult the Aboriginal people living in the reserve communities in Queensland, their elected councils and other bodies and further to ascertain, by poll taken within those communities, the wishes of those people in relation to future restrictions upon the right of entry to those community areas. [More…]

• I have tried to enable this matter to be debated so that views could be expressed because we seek an opportunity for a poll of the views of the Queensland Aboriginal reserve community people to be taken. [More…]

• The honourable shadow Minister belongs to that section of the white community which believes that the Aboriginal people ought to be kept in subjection at all times and in its own way, subtle or otherwise, it builds up this idea of hate, this idea of colour distinction, and it contributes to the backlash. [More…]

• That is the feeling in the community which is supported by most members of the Opposition. [More…]

• I am saying that there are some white people in the community who endeavour to build up this feeling. [More…]

• If we ever have the opportunity to turn up some of the Queensland files we will see how many kids have disappeared over the years into the hands of so-called do-gooders in the white community. [More…]

• Unrestricted entry could create slum and/or very sub-standard conditions in Community areas. [More…]

• ‘I refer to your request for a grant of $4,200 for the purchase of a tractor and trailer for use on Yam Island for general community purposes. [More…]

• The other receipt, which is also signed by Mr Joe Callope, is for money paid to him as chairman of the Weipa South Community Council. [More…]

• That receipt is made out for the sum of $300, According to the receipt the money was paid for ‘attendance of ex-Mapoon people at community meeting’. [More…]

• Leave out all words after ‘Order ofthe Day’, insert ‘for the first sitting day in March 1975 to enable the Government to consult with the Aboriginal people living in reserve communities in the State of Queensland and their elected councils and other bodies and further to ascertain by poll taken within those communities the wishes of those people in relation to future restrictions upon the right of entry to those community areas ‘. [More…]

• I refer to clause 9 which provides that an Aborigine should be represented at any of the council courts or community courts. [More…]

• That is a very very good suggestion but the effect of the implementation of it on the communities does worry me because I lived on a government community for a number of years. [More…]

• We would look at that amount of money and say: ‘Is it better to pay a number of people on the community the full award according to the amount of money that we have, or should we try to employ as many as we can even though they have to be paid a little less?’ [More…]

• I want to give the lie to that because all of the money that is spent on Palm Island, or in any other community, does not come from the Australian Government. [More…]

• Legislative changes recommended by the Advisory Council today include amendments to the management of property clauses so that any doubt regarding a person’s complete freedom of choice to manage his property would be removed; a relaxation in the regulations controlling the entry and sale of liquor on reserves and the removal of the community councils from all functions dealing with an Aboriginal Court. [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 his family. [More…]

• No Aborigine in a community in Queensland is a prisoner. [More…]

• As the Minister has not lived in Queensland and has not lived in a community he should at least listen to somebody who has. [More…]

• According to the Minister whilst the Aborigines are living in the community now, as councillors of the community, they should not have the right to stop people from going in. [More…]

• Later on the Minister will say: ‘Later on when we, Big Brother in Canberra, take over Aboriginal affairs in Queensland, we will give you the right to say who goes on a community’. [More…]

• It seems strange that just recently in Queensland- in Brisbane and in Ipswich- when a licence was to be issued for the establishment of a tavern, a hotel or something or other, all the people in the community were given the opportunity of voting to say whether they wanted that tavern opened in their community or not. [More…]

• Those who have faith in the Aboriginal community in Queensland have faith in me. [More…]

• Concerning the prohibition of liberty to enter a reserve, this is the most important provision that the community people wish preserved. [More…]

• An Aborigine or an Islander cannot be moved from a community without his consent. [More…]

• We believe that it would be in the interest of the community as a whole if the motion goes through in its original form. [More…]

• Is it to be a crime any longer in this community that one appoints to high government posts or small government posts or to staffs people whom one knows and values, or is it to be said that to appoint someone whom one knows is to be regarded as in some way improper and irregular? [More…]

• Is the intent to endeavour to prevent her from getting any employment whatever in the community? [More…]

• Is there any truth in this statement or in Mr Dillon’s claim that the Co-operative failed to attract any interest among the Palm Island community? [More…]

• If there was democracy there it is clear that the ALP would have lost- we face that- but it is not satisfactory that we allow to persist in our community an undemocratic system, a gerrymander of the worst type, which results in ALP members being put out in droves, in a manner quite unrepresentative of what occurred in the voting. [More…]

• I refer to the Minister’s decision to establish, without proper local consultation, a community health centre in Centre Road, East Bentleigh in Victoria, at the extravagant cost of approximately $650,000. [More…]

• Is the centre to be placed opposite the Morrabbin Community Hospital which already has planned facilities for all ancillliary medical services? [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. [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 then 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 1 97 1 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…]

• The whole position is that we, as a community, have the responsibility to extend freedoms and human rights to everyone in Australia’. [More…]

• Therefore, under international law, people can be removed from a reserve if there is a question of security, if the economic well-being of the people is involved, or if someone is suffering from an infectious disease, thus protecting the rest of the community. [More…]

• Although he does not agree with the reason given by them as to why he should leave the community, he maintains that the councillors should have such a right. [More…]

• The sum of $2,439,300 was for the health program, with a further $1,664,000 for community aid projects. [More…]

• There are tens of thousands of people in the community who value the passage of” this Bill and the financial assistance its passage will provide far more highly than they do the maintenance of federation in Australia. [More…]

• I again say how disgusted I am to find that at the end of the session there are important amendments, supposedly well supported out in the community, which cannot be carried apparently by the Senate because they cannot be put to the House of Representatives which has gone home on holiday. [More…]

• The House of Representatives is on holiday and for some unknown reason cannot deal with the most important factors in this community. [More…]

• In short, the Bill before the Senate is aimed at meeting national needs for both an adequately educated and skilled work force and for satisfying community needs for continuing education for the adult population. [More…]

• Sp taking it quite simply, this Bill and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill recognise the fact that inflation is taking its toll in the education program as well as in all other sections of the community and that a Bill must be introduced to take care of this situation. [More…]

• This is one of the occasions on which it is unfortunate that a Bill of this nature comes before us so close to the end of the session because a wide variety of matters relating to university education and the role of universities in our community would have merited an opportunity for a sound, intelligent and helpful debate. [More…]

• This kind of move has the support of honourable senators from both sides of the chamber and, indeed, of all sections of the community. [More…]

• But, as I applaud the system and feel that is has met a very great need in our community, there is a growing area of concern that the system is having a tendency to get out of hand. [More…]

• This is not good for the discipline of education and certainly it is not good for the Government or the Department of Education that this kind of claim and feeling should be abroad in the community. [More…]

• I am very keen to take part in opposing this measure because I believe that if there is one element which should belong to the fully elected assembly or council of a self governing community it is the right to decide the use to be made of the urban lands. [More…]

• But there are other people in the community who also have rights. [More…]

• I do not think that anybody in the community could say that the dairy farmer has not pulled his weight in trying to keep down the costs of food to the consumers. [More…]

• If we go beyond the Australian and New Zealand situations we find that enormous subsidies are provided to the dairying industry in the United States and in Canada and that in the European Economic Community approximately $ 1,000m to $2,000m is expended on dairying subsidies- a situation which, on occasions in the past, has enabled the dairying industry from the Community countries to compete by virtually dumping in some of the traditional markets of the Australian industry. [More…]

• I simply say that it is not good enough for the Government to say: ‘We have put money into the community’. [More…]

• The money it has put into the community has been put in late- desperately late. [More…]

• I suppose some people here would contend that the provision of the $ 150m to the deserving section of the community whose income is less than $ 1 SO a week might have come with greater benefit a few months ago. [More…]

• Here it is affecting the greatest sector in this community, and, may I say, the most worthy sector. [More…]

• The building industry is the barometer whereby one measures the economic activity in the community at a particular time. [More…]

• Can the Government wonder that people like me and many people in the community are, to say the least of it, really fed up with all the excuses it is trotting out and with all the nonsense it is going on with? [More…]

• If the Government has in mind positive, rational, sensible steps to overcome this problem by working with the community and the State governments I wish it would say so. [More…]

• What it has failed to do is to come to grips in the total community with the demand that is being placed on the available resources. [More…]

• What the Government is looking at in the Australian community- of which, of course, the Government is a part- is the result of improvidence, a continuing state of confusion and a state of increasing alarm and growing despondency. [More…]

• With those remarks I simply say that we welcome the new measures of assistance to voluntary nursing homes because they are a vital part of our community service for those people who need this sort of assistance. [More…]

• Grants totalling some $2.2 m are now paid to organisations which will be caring for homeless men and women throughout the community. [More…]

• These are the first funds to be allocated under the new program, which it is anticipated will be spread over 3 years, will provide for rental of premises to be covered and for subsidies towards salaries of social workers and other qualified people who assist in this field, and will in general, we believe, provide a very much needed service in the community. [More…]

• We desire to see that they have a speedy passage to enable this assistance to reach those in the community who need it. [More…]

• I say it is an example of duplicity because it uses the plight of ‘those in the community, particularly the aged who are in need of specialised care and treatment’ to achieve its purpose. [More…]

• We believe that they are a social service which ought to be provided by the community to the people of Australia. [More…]

• The Government has no intention of forcing the closure of private profit nursing homes which are operating satisfactorily and which are fulfilling a need in the community by providing a good standard of nursing care and treatment for our aged people. [More…]

• Community Issues [More…]

• Student and Community Leaders are bitterly opposed to apartheid in South Africa [More…]

• What benefits have accrued to the community and taxpayers generally; and [More…]

• This action by the State is of course consistent with its responsibility to see that its community on King Island has available to it an adequate shipping service. [More…]

• I have before me a Press statement which was released on 8 December this year by 3 groups in the community- the doctors of the medical profession, the private hospitals and the health benefit funds. [More…]

• The effect of this, of course, will be that the private hospitals themselves will be in difficulties because there will not be the support for them from the community that they have experienced in the past. [More…]

• We have to question whether that is the only measure that should be placed on such a matter of personal care that is needed in our community. [More…]

• I think it fair to summarise the Opposition’s attitude in this chamber as being the same as that expressed by the shadow Minister for Social Security in the other place when dealing with the health levy Bills, namely, that we believe our alternative health scheme would be preferable for the Australian community. [More…]

• Our scheme is based on voluntary contributions to the private health funds, maintenance of the private hospital system and a further development of cover for the some 8 per cent of people in this community whom we believe have not at this stage arranged their own private health insurance. [More…]

• The Opposition Parties will reject the 3 Bills we are considering in the hope that eventually the Government will understand that its scheme is uncosted, inadequate and undesirable for the Australian community. [More…]

• It involves of course the suggestion that those members of the community who are not currently insured- the figure is put at 8 per cent by Senator Guilfoyle- should be brought into what is an existing voluntary health arrangement. [More…]

• As I said, I rise briefly to make that comment which is my final contribution to a long saga which looks like ending in some degree of tragedy for the Australian community because of the Opposition’s obstruction of this legislation in this place. [More…]

• As I go round the community I am asked by my constituents: ‘Why do we not have the Labor health scheme operating now? [More…]

• We are faced with the prospect of seeing a government which has attacked the advertising industry, among other industries, spending a lot of money in the next few months advertising to try to sell a program which holds less and less support in the community. [More…]

• Once this scheme is operating ‘free’ to the Australian community it will not be possible to make it contributory. [More…]

• There is no electoral penalty which will prevent the Government from proceeding, and no gallup polls or threats from any sector of the community will prevent the Australian Labor Party while in office from proceeding with its medical health plans. [More…]

• It is my opinion that these private hospitals play a very important part in the health care of our community. [More…]

• Why the Government insists on attacking and destroying yet another private sector of the community when it knows the disaster it has created in areas in which it has meddled, I cannot fathom, but that is what it seems to be intent on doing. [More…]

• I have a higher regard for my colleagues in the community than apparently Senator Baume has. [More…]

• For existing pensioner medical service pensioners, the program will mean access to the full range of medical and hospital services on the same basis as all other members of the community. [More…]

• For religious, charitable and community hospitals volunteering to provide free standard ward treatment the program will mean the payment of a supplementary daily bed payment on top of the basic $ 1 6 a day subsidy. [More…]

• For the community generally the program will mean a more efficient system of health care financing and, in addition, assistance by way of health program grants for approved organisations providing particular types of health services which are not otherwise covered under health insurance arrangements. [More…]

• The report, which consists of some 111 pages is called: ‘Study of Community Benefits of, and Finance for Soil Conservation’. [More…]

• This Bill brings into focus an important tendency in the modern community to assert that when government is making policies of any kind it should take into account the effect, if any, upon the environment of those policies. [More…]

• I hope that just in the expression of some views we can resolve these problems in the future and at least make the community aware that desirable and commendable as the protection of the environment is, it ought not to be done at the cost of the preservation of individual privacy. [More…]

• I have said earlier that the need to protect the environment is quite clear and unchallengeable, but this Bill imposes upon individuals the right to submit to the requests of persons appointed by the Minister- who are not judicial officers but who may be anybody in the community whom the Minister appoints- to attend before them, to answer questions, to produce documents, and indeed to allow their properties and premises to be entered without any warrant whatsoever. [More…]

• By the use of its lending power the Corporation will help in establishing desirable social inter-relationships in the urban area which will disperse rather than concentrate community groups. [More…]

• It will provide the medium through which housing loans will be made available to that large section of the community who at present are not catered for by the existing public housing authorities. [More…]

• I have heard it said all too often, and as one of the farming and agricultural community I know it is all too true, that we are so anti-socialist until we want our own way. [More…]

• Let it not come back against this side of the Parliament in future years if something emanates from this Bill which the primary producing community does not want. [More…]

• We made an example of a small section of the community, but we made people in high office with great responsibility, if I may use the expression, the guinea pigs of salary rises in an economy that looked to be going the wrong way. [More…]

• Although we are supporting this measure at this time because it will give to some sections of the Aboriginal community some land, I think the Bill falls far short of the measure which I introduced here some months ago and which I hope will finally come up for debate and determination in the near future. [More…]

• There is much to be learnt by the non-Aboriginal community in matters pertaining to Aboriginal relationships and attachment to land. [More…]

• I have please in advising you that Gurindji and Wattie Creek and towns people Wave Hill township have united in name of Libanangu Community Council to work together in all projects associated with development of Wave Hill town and . [More…]

• We shall keep in touch with director Lovegrove in Darwin through our community advisor about extensions of special projects already approved by you development of cattle station and possibility of in crease grant. [More…]

• 1 ) What educational programs are in existence to make doctors, dentists, lawyers, social workers, child health and community nurses, police officers, teachers and others aware of the incidence, problems, and best management for battered children and their families. [More…]

• I have also approved support for new training programs in epidemiology, community medicine and occupational health. [More…]

• As the Tribunal pointed out in that report in respect of the over-award consent agreement involved: ‘This is a burden which should properly be borne by those who agreed to the increases in wages, rather than by requiring the community at large to carry the entire amount’. [More…]

• The United Kingdom authorities do not keep figures of unsuccussful applications for extension of stay, but state that there are no indications of any increase in numbers of European Economic Community nationals entering the United Kingdom for employment since the entry of the United Kingdom to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In view of the need to re-establish the business community in Darwin and to encourage those people who are needed to work on Darwin’s reconstruction, will the Leader of the Government in the Senate follow up the subject of the letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister on 2 1 January and ascertain for me Government policy on my submissions recommending that company tax and income tax be not levied in the Darwin area until the beginning of the financial year 1977-78 and that sales tax on replacement items be not levied until the beginning of the financial year 1 976-77? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the report of the Senate committee which suggested that frequency modulation radio should be available to the widest range of community and cultural groups ? [More…]

• It is a community broadcasting station owned by the Music Broadcasting Society of New South Wales. [More…]

• It is true that the Australian Labor Party at its conference in Terrigal last week determined that there shall be no development of commercial frequency modulation stations in Australia for the time being, but of course that decision does not stop the development of frequency modulation community broadcasting stations somewhat of the type to which I have already referred. [More…]

• A community broadcasting service in the AM band is being opened in Campbelltown in New South Wales and another will be opened in Melbourne in the near future. [More…]

• It was alleged by the Aboriginal community when I was at Leonora that Aborigines employed on special works projects were engaged in building a shed on the property of one of the councillors and in plucking Christmas ducks for another councillor. [More…]

• Will the Minister ensure that the community, through its government, will bear the legitimate medical costs of uninsured people evacuated from Darwin as a result of cyclone Tracy? [More…]

• Yet the nations of the European Economic Community constitute Australia’s second largest trading partner after Japan. [More…]

• It refers to the Aputula community at Finke River. [More…]

• I have obtained my information from 2 very reliable white community leaders, who are prepared to have their names attached to any document, together with 2 other white people and a number of Aborigines. [More…]

• But today, with greater ease of communication, people are able more readily to communicate with those in authority in the community and we are hearing of a great many more incidents. [More…]

• I ask honourable senators to remember that all this was happening on the Aborigines own community ground where they ought to have had some protection and where they ought to have been able to defend themselves. [More…]

• A number of people associated with the community endeavoured to create a spirit of harmony. [More…]

• He moved on to the community property after everybody had settled down for the night and started blazing away with his revolver. [More…]

• I request the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to find out the full details behind this case and to make them public because I believe that unless these sorts of things are aired as widely as possible and publicly on all occasions, we will never overcome the serious defects in the relationship between the police and the Aboriginal people in the community. [More…]

• It is not good enough for the Australian community. [More…]

• So I agree with Senator Keeffe that there is a great need within the community for a royal commission into some of the allegations that are made against members of our law enforcement agencies. [More…]

• I know that this kind of thing happens to other members of the community as well as Aborigines. [More…]

• So, while this matter is being looked at in regard to the Aboriginal people, perhaps it could be looked at also in regard to other underprivileged people within our community. [More…]

• I think that it is generally accepted today that it is not only Aborigines but also members of the low socioeconomic community who are being arrested for crimes. [More…]

• Members of this section of the community who offend against the laws of Australia get a rough time from the police. [More…]

• 1 think that from time to time in the areas where the members of the Aboriginal community are regarded as far inferior by the white section of the community, the police somewhat reflect the general attitude of the community that the Aborigines should not receive the normal just treatment. [More…]

• All the reports I am receiving from the Laverton area are that the responsible elements within the Aboriginal community believe that a full scale royal commission will not be in the best interests of the Aboriginals or the Laverton and Warburton areas. [More…]

• I approached Mr Maddison, the then Minister of Justice in New South Wales, with the proposal that we should have a conference between the police and the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• What advertisements were placed to ensure representative community participation in Regional Councils formed in the areas of (a) Blacktown-Penrith, (b) Crows Nest, (c) Fairfield, (d) Gosford, (e) Narrabeen, (f) Narribri, (g) Newcastle, (h) Parramatta and (i) Surry Hills. [More…]

• Yes, a Regional Council would not be acceptable for the purposes of the Australian Assistance Plan, unless its members represented a broad, cross-section of the community. [More…]

• What advertisements were placed to ensure representative community participation in Interim Regional Councils formed in the areas of (a) Blacktown-Penrith, (b) Crows [More…]

• That the parents to benefit most relatively from educational income tax deductions, in the past and even more in the future, are the parents of children in government schools and this has a divisive effect in the Australian community. [More…]

• Having regard to the major influence transport costs have on the actual total Australian cost structure, is it possible to assess accurately the magnitude of the inflationary impact such a huge price increase in crude oil would have on the Australian community as a whole, and particularly on the people in the country districts? [More…]

• As for the rest of the community I could not say what the total impact would be, but undoubtedly it would be inflammatory, as I think it was described yesterday by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• I am sure that the wool growers of Australia, who constitute half of the agricultural community of this country, would be very concerned to learn that the Leader of the Country Party, which allegedly represents them, recommends or suggests that those moneys which are being made available to the Australian Wool Corporation to support the wool market - [More…]

• My question, addressed to the Minister for the Media, concerns the decision of the Government to permit frequency modulation radio broadcasting in the Australian Broadcasting Commission and in community access radio but not in commercial radio. [More…]

• At the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party at Terrigal last week it was determined that frequency modulation for the time being should be developed by the community broadcasting section and by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• Probably the underlying reason behind the decision of the Conferenceagain I emphasise that there was a multiplicity of reasons- was that this being a new area of broadcasting frequency opened up as a result of the policies of this Government, the community broadcasters should be given an opportunity to develop and expand their activities, thus involving a greater plurality of involvement in the media. [More…]

• In the main, the reason such a decision was taken was to enable a greater expansion of the frequency modulation area, which is the line of sight area of broadcasting, so that it could be made available to the smaller community areas rather than on a commercial network basis. [More…]

• I refer to those countries in the great economic community which everybody expected would be the guide to how government should act for many years. [More…]

• The writer of the article went on to refer to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We have undertaken projects which have been useful in the community instead of undertaking all sorts of unproductive work as the previous Government did. [More…]

• So far only one Liberal State government is taking action against the Federal Government because in some way it is jealous of the Federal Government’s intervention in assisting the Australian community. [More…]

• I would have imagined that we would find a unity of view in the Senate this afternoon, that whatever is the cause of unemployment in this community we must reverse it and see that we have the least unemployment possible. [More…]

• I appeal to this Senate to recognise the fact that today we have an unemployment record of 310 000, a 5.2 per cent unemployment rate in the Australian community. [More…]

• It has wished to castigate the policies of the Opposition but its speakers have not come down to saying: ‘Yes, there is a higher rate of unemployment in the community than the Labor Government ever wished to occur’. [More…]

• We even had a Minister whom many people in the community would elevate, Mr Clyde Cameron, declaring openly his total opposition to unemployment in the community. [More…]

• The policies of the Labor Government are encouraging that disastrous situation in this community. [More…]

• But after 2 years of socialist government, this Government is waking up to the fact that its policies are totally disruptive in every sector of the community. [More…]

• I mention just one sector, the youth in the community. [More…]

• The Government is ruining the youth in the community and it knows it. [More…]

• I have said here on many occasions before that this Government is successful in what it has attempted to bring about in this community and I say that even in relation to unemployment. [More…]

• I believe that the socialist party is anxious to see a high rate of unemployment in the community. [More…]

• This is completely destructive of the initiative of the community. [More…]

• They are the largest taxpayers in the community. [More…]

• We see the destructive attitude of criticism of profit in the community. [More…]

• We, the members of the Australian community, can take a 50 per cent or 60 per cent interest in the profits of every company by way of taxation. [More…]

• At this moment we see at hand throughout the whole of industry in Australia the destruction of initiative, the criticism of profit, higher taxation for private companies and a retraction of incentives which can create production in the community. [More…]

• Instead of that, we see, if we go into that store, the disaster that is occurring to nearly every free enterprise in the community. [More…]

• This would create employment for members of the community. [More…]

• I have personally found, as I am sure all honourable senators have found, a very great concern in the community about how wc are to extricate Australia from the problems that it now faces. [More…]

• I believe that the emphasis in this document on the danger of inflation to this community and how it destroys job opportunities is very well taken. [More…]

• Increases in both government and private expenditure- the sources of material welfare- depend upon the capacity of the community to save, to work, and to produce. [More…]

• That is something of a paradox because if the Opposition parties had had their way in this chamber the trade practices legislation would have been an empty shell and it would not now have presented the opportunity, as the Opposition parties concede in their document that it does, to ensure that competition in the business community is real and effective. [More…]

• I understand the pressures on State governments and their need to sustain the services which they provide to the community at a very basic level. [More…]

• I believe that all State governments, Liberal, Labor or Country Party, would do well to look at their work forces and the way they fulfil their services to the community in order to ensure that they are operating at the most efficient level. [More…]

• It is true that Australian beef faces a virtual embargo by the European Economic Community, Japan and the United States. [More…]

• The average weekly earnings in 1974 throughout this community increased at the rate of 25.3 per cent. [More…]

• That is after garnering into the exchequer from the people who work and from the people who are supposed to provide employment to the community an extra 53 per cent in taxes over the corresponding figure for the same 6 months of the previous financial year. [More…]

• I would like it to come out and tell the farmers of Australia that if it is re-elected to office it will put the tariffs back up and that prices as a consequence, not only to the farming community but to the whole of the Australian community, will increase and increase dramatically because the Government has not the power to control those prices. [More…]

• I suggest that it is found basically in the widespread area of disconcertedness that covers the Australian community today. [More…]

• This is one of the basic things that must create in the total community great concern leading to a distinct loss of confidence. [More…]

• There is this extreme sense of frustration across the Australian community. [More…]

• This was basic to the logic of my thoughts as I moved through my speech and referred to certain things that have been happening over the past 2 years of the performance of this Government, ft is my purpose by disclosing the anxieties and the concerns that are so widely recognised throughout this community to show that there is a set of circumstances existing today which could be conducive to the sort of actions that have been and are being mooted by one of the Australian State parliaments. [More…]

• But ideologies do not change and consequently throughout the community there is anxiety and uncertainty that has led the New South Parliament into this circumstance, and who knows what other State parliament in some future circumstance, to consider taking what are admittedly unusual steps. [More…]

• I thought that his attitude in supporting the Queensland attack on one vote one value as a principle of justice in the Australian community was something that could be excused as a new Premier’s enthusiasm. [More…]

• I have had long experience- too long experience- with the sort of people who would perpetrate such an act on a community. [More…]

• Honourable senators are assured of the Government’s intention to reestablish the city, and given the continued cooperation of elected community representatives, the business community, the trade union movement and the many individuals and organisations all with a view about reconstruction, we will proceed with rebuilding as we have done with recovery. [More…]

• A wide spectrum of community interests has assisted the Interim Commission in the formulation of its views and plans. [More…]

• Development and Housing and Construction, the nominees of the Legislative Assembly and the Darwin City Council represent the full involvement of the community in deliberations about reconstruction. [More…]

• Members of the Council are to be appointed by the Minister from nominees drawn from community groups in the Darwin area. [More…]

• As reported at pages 354 and 355 of the Hansard report of the Standing Committee’s meeting, Senator Carrick suggested that the Board design a code to be put to the commercial operators, have some common discussion with the Australian Broadcasting Commission and so get something which Senator Carrick thought the whole community and, he suspected, the media people themselves and the journalists themselves, would want. [More…]

• Why should that interpretation be the prerogative of one section only of the community? [More…]

• This would represent additional costs, possibly amounting to as much as $500 for each farmer throughout Australia, with a total bill of around $40m imposed on the Australian farming community. [More…]

• Mr Hogan has already, on behalf of the Australian farming community, indicated his opposition to this proposal. [More…]

• One assumes that some of his colleagues at some time must take a firm line with him and ask him to justify this additional burden being imposed not only on the Australian farmer but also on the Australian community. [More…]

• As a result of the sacking of the Chilean women the case was brought to the attention of Mr Grassby, the special consultant in community matters, who has been preparing a report. [More…]

• The Government’s decision to do away with the imposition of fees at tertiary institutions, in particular, was welcomed by all sections of the Australian community, especially people of working class origin many of whose children in previous years had not been able to attend a university because of the inability of their parents to pay the fees. [More…]

• The nominations that are made admittedly will throw up names from all sections of the community in Darwin, or hopefully this will be so, but the only obligation on the Minister in respect of these nominations is that he has to select from the names submitted. [More…]

• But the extraordinary thing about the legislation is that it has none of the provisions which appear in ordinary town planning legislation and which provide the citizens of the community affected by the planning proposals with an opportunity to make their views known. [More…]

• I would have thought that one of the major considerations in this day and age of any town planning proposal would be for the citizens of the community affected to be given adequate rights and opportunities to express their views in regard to the plans. [More…]

• It is that now and in the future the Government and this Parliament must have the closest regard to the views of the citizens of Darwin, to their elected representatives and to the community groups that have been formed, and will be formed, to express the views of the citizens of Darwin in relation to the rebuilding of their city. [More…]

• A wide spectrum of community interests has assisted the Interim Commission . [More…]

• Apart from its distinguished Chairman, Sir Leslie Thiess, and the permanent heads of the Departments of the Northern Territory, Urban and Regional Development and Housing and Construction, the nominees of the Legislative Assembly and the Darwin City Council represent the full involvement of the community in deliberations about reconstruction. [More…]

• The onus is on all responsible people in the community to make sure that those who live in cyclone-prone areas live in the type of building that will stand up to the maximum wind surges or in buildings constructed in areas where tidal waves or cyclonic surges do not damage them by water. [More…]

• How, in a Commission consisting of 7 members, can there be any expression of a local viewpoint if the local community is represented by only two of those 7 members and if the Minister controls 4 members who, by definition, are likely to be public servants? [More…]

• It seems to me that for the first fortnight after the tragedy that struck Darwin there was no criticism- in fact, there was praise from the media and from all sections of the Australian community- of the alacrity with which the Government acted, of the compassion which the Government had and of the effective and competent way in which the Ministers carried out their responsibilities. [More…]

• An aspect of particular concern to me is the need for the participation of the public- the present Darwin community, the Darwin evacuees and organisations and individuals interested in Darwin- at all stages of the planning work and in the process of redevelopment. [More…]

• What is involved in planning is a question of whether one concerns oneself with public interest, community or private interest. [More…]

• It is happening because we found that the bureaucracies were more inflexible and more bureaucratic and were not bending to the changing attitudes of the community in respect of redevelopment. [More…]

• The facts show that in the life of my parents and many older people in this community- those who were born after 1897- there have been 4 tragedies in Darwin. [More…]

• As sure as we can be, the facts are that Darwin will experience another cyclone some time in the life of some of the younger members of our community. [More…]

• If honourable senators want to see what a remission of taxation does there are plenty of places in the world to show how it will revitalise the community and do it very swiftly. [More…]

• I believe that the rest of Australia would not begrudge the tax loss which would, of course, be borne by the general community during that period. [More…]

• A wide spectrum of community interests has assisted the Interim Commission in the formulation of its views and plans. [More…]

• Apart from its distinguished Chairman, Sir Leslie Thiess, and the permanent heads of the Departments of the Northern Territory, Urban and Regional Development and Housing and Construction, the nominees of the Legislative Assembly and the Darwin City Council represent the full involvement of the community in deliberations about reconstruction. [More…]

• Of course, in addition it will investigate other important community issues such as emission controls, community standards and environmental impact. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that this move is of great concern to the Cypriot community in Australia? [More…]

• The survey alleged that Italian migrants, for a variety of reasons, generally were deprived of the normal community services provided by the Australian and State Governments. [More…]

• The Commission, being the planning authority, is the body which will in the end have to make the decision but this opportunity for any citizen of any community who is affected by a planning decision, such as the way in which he may be able to use his own land, is of the utmost importance and is absolutely fundamental to any town planning legislation. [More…]

• Again, this indicates the intention of the Government to disseminate and receive information and opinions from throughout the community, as evidenced already by the publications and discussions of the Citizens ‘Council. [More…]

• They allow for the nomination of people from a variety of community organisations and even individuals. [More…]

• As the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh) has said, the clause prevents duplication in the selection of those involved in the vast community effort of rebuilding Darwin. [More…]

• A nomination may be made by a community, church, business, trade union, sporting or other organisation of Darwin citizens or by not less than 2 persons entitled to vote at elections for the Legislative Assembly - [More…]

• I do so because something has been brought to my attention which causes me some concern as it will have farreaching implications in the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• We had discussed this matter in our party room and we believed that it was a matter that was very important to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• We accept the definition of a ‘Aboriginal’ as someone of Aboriginal descent who accepts and recognises himself as an Aboriginal and is accepted by the Aboriginal community in which he lives. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that this Bill be tabled for six months and that all sections of the community be consulted on marriage, and the long term effects of such a Bill upon our Australian society. [More…]

• Minister give an assurance that this section of the community will not suffer from the Government’s intention? [More…]

• If there is one area in which I believe this Government is free of criticism it is the area of assisting the people in the community who need assistance most. [More…]

• I am quite sure that this Government will not go back on its provision of assistance for homes for the aged and the less fortunate in the community. [More…]

• I refer to the announcement that the European Economic Community will, as from the end of April, permit entry of some 100 000 tonnes of beef to European Economic Community member countries. [More…]

• There is no doubt, as has been indicated in the Senate and I think fairly widely generally in the community, that the statements and the attitude of the Queensland Premier in respect of beef and mineral exports are damaging to our exports generally. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that a great deal of confusion exists in the community on just what is the Government’s stand at the moment? [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 of the community and cause personal loss to individuals. [More…]

• I have no doubt that the Australian community has every reason to deplore the Opposition’s obstruction of the reforms proposed. [More…]

• If the only effect of amalgamations was to lessen the number and frequency of wage claims, that in itself would be a significant benefit to the Australian community. [More…]

• Their fear was too unreasonable to permit any consideration of the enormous benefits to unions, employers and 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…]

• It also has been 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 also 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…]

• This Bill has the effect of attracting people in the community to say: ‘Here is a government devoted to cleanliness in government’. [More…]

• Its various electoral policies offer great attraction for the community to follow. [More…]

• If it was at all possible this Government would like to see the abolition of minority parties in the community. [More…]

• For example, a group could advertise saying that it believed in divorce law reform and that there is only one political party which is really aiming at the type of divorce law reform we should have in the community. [More…]

• Under this legislation there is an attempt to rape democracy in this community. [More…]

• The Government has introduced this Bill to attempt to deny to people such as those I have mentioned in the smaller section of the community, an opportunity to have their “oke heard. [More…]

• The first of those principles is the right of individual persons in this community to contribute support to the political parties the individuals may choose, according to opinions, the strength of feeling and ability to contribute. [More…]

• What would happen- we all know this- is that legislation like this would encourage the independent ventures of other groups in the community. [More…]

• Not many people in the community at present are prepared to risk their money on making a right guess as to election dates in relation to the proposed new section. [More…]

• They show a disinclination to pursue their work because of a lack of response from the community and a lack of recognition by the higher authorities who have failed to provide sufficient finance to carry out the works of local government at a quality and a sufficiency which one has a right to expect. [More…]

• Because of the advocacy of the Opposition and many other people in the Australian community who ought to have known better, the authority was not given for the Government of the day to enter into those sorts of relationships with local government which would have been of very great assistance to local government. [More…]

• The result of that old approach was that the functions which a modern community requires should be performed through its elected representatives were either done inadequately or not done at all, were financed inadequately and unfairly or not financed at all. [More…]

• We can double and treble social benefits, but we can never make up through cash payments for what we take away in mental and physical well-being and social cohesion through the breakdown of community life and community identity. [More…]

• Increasingly, a citizen’s real standard of living, the health of himself and 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, his ability to participate in the decisions and actions of the community are determined not by his income, not by the hours he works, but by where he lives. [More…]

• For generations now, local councils have lacked the financial resources to provide better roads, better sewerage, decent community health services, child care centres and facilities for sport and recreation. [More…]

• We in this national Parliament, up to the stage about which I am talking, remained completely aloof from any sort of responsibility for the proper functioning of the smallest but extremely important level of government, the one which is in fact closest to the people, one which lives in a day to day relationship with the people in the Australian community and one which, despite the prominence that is given to the activities of State and Federal parliaments, it seems to me has a greater prominence in the community at large. [More…]

• There is a greater sense of relationship with the day to day happenings and activities in the community than with any other form of government. [More…]

• community. [More…]

• This Government exists for the welfare of every man, woman and child in the Australian community. [More…]

• So it ought to be our abiding concern to see that the people in the Australian community get the highest possible level of service no matter what the level of government. [More…]

• Local government has a responsibility to provide services and amenities in the community. [More…]

• Every man, woman and child in the Australian community ought to be on an equal footing. [More…]

• The cost of providing these inefficient services is far greater in the ultimate than it would be if the services are provided on a scale which meets the needs of the community, not just now but into the future. [More…]

• While I do not want to go into great detail of the specifics of the areas in which the Australian Government has interested and involved itself such as in the provision of local community amenities, I think it is appropriate at this moment to justify the motion which I moved at the outset of my remarks to give a brief detail of the areas in which the Government is involved. [More…]

• For instance, in the area of culture and recreation we have grants for community leisure facilities. [More…]

• I suggest that in every community throughout Australia people are actively engaged in putting forward these proposals. [More…]

• But the various active community groups involved in these areas of sport and recreation are also in a partnership, as it were, with the National Government in the provision of these very essential community needs. [More…]

• We have grants for community arts activities. [More…]

• I can recall my own involvement in this area in the Devonport community. [More…]

• They carried on these activities because they saw a need in the community for them. [More…]

• They gave an opportunity for an expression of that community desire, need or want, whatever one likes to call it. [More…]

• That opportunity has been taken up and the people are encouraged to pursue that work, to further it, and to provide for the community at large an opportunity to be involved in this sort of thing. [More…]

• It is a healthy sign, indeed, in a community. [More…]

• Again, I have had involvement with people in my own community who have expressed a desire to do some particular thing- their own thing- and to inspire the community to be involved in these sorts of activities. [More…]

• In the area of education we have the child care scheme which is administered by the Australian Department of Education under the Child Care Act but having an involvement with local government bodies throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• There are grants in the area of community health. [More…]

• The whole purpose of this is to give financial assistance under the Australian Government community health program to community based health services and facilities, particularly in areas of need. [More…]

• The community health program aims to provide co-ordinated community based health services covering preventive medicine, early treatment, health education and after-care, in the patient’s neighbourhood wherever possible. [More…]

• I suggest that all these activities will be of tremendous benefit to all sections of the Australian community involved in those areas. [More…]

• They show an interest on the part of the National Government for the institution of local government and for ensuring that all communities throughout Australia have an equal opportunity to share in the distribution of revenue and the provision of essential community facilities. [More…]

• We do not put any stopper on any particular community organisation that wants to be involved. [More…]

• From inquiries made during the examination of the Estimates a few months ago and replies to queries raised about this matter it was indicated that the Government welcomed the healthy participation of all sections of the community in the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• I know that in many areas in Tasmania, as well as in other parts of Australia, the challenge has been taken up and community groups have formed. [More…]

• A group under the Australian Assistance Plan was set up in a community recently and a request was made to the Government for guidance on how it ought to be run. [More…]

• We want you to initiate and innovate others in your own community. [More…]

• You carry it out as best you think will serve the purposes of your community and that will satisfy us’. [More…]

• What the Government proposes, hopes and expects to see fulfilled is that all sections of the community who are genuinely interested in the social welfare and development of their communities will be involved. [More…]

• I think that eventually- it is certainly the hope and expectation of the Government- these initial teething problems, if you like to call them that, can be ironed out and the communities can be brought together not as a fragmented sort of society but as a completely integrated community. [More…]

• I think that that is good and that it creates a healthy interest in the community. [More…]

• But in matters of this kind I think that it is essential that people submerge their own narrow interests and outlooks and be involved in the greater and the healthier community. [More…]

• I think that the Australian community has developed a sense of responsibility which, if encouraged to express itself can do so to the everlasting merit of the activities concerned. [More…]

• We have a vast number of community welfare projects being undertaken. [More…]

• I have always wanted to encourage the members of the Australian community to be involved in and aware of our history, origins and heritage. [More…]

• They have seen the deficiency of the system which is brought about by a disinterest on the part of the national Government, a lack of ability on the pan of the State governments and, in some areas, a complete disinterest on the part of the local community. [More…]

• As a result of the interest which has been taken by this Government in the affairs of local government throughout AustraliaI sincerely hope that if we ever come to this point again the people of Australia will recognise it and give a greater opportunity to the Federal Government to be involved- there is a new outlook in the Australian community towards so many things which formerly did not interest the local community. [More…]

• The Act does nothing more than make money available at a cheap rate of interest to those sections of the Aboriginal community who do not qualify for loans. [More…]

• I can summarise what I am about to quote from a speech by Mr Whitlam by saying that the Labor Party resents the fact that the Constitution represents some fetter on its ability to do whatever it likes to the Australian community. [More…]

• It desires to remould society and the economy, not merely to redistribute wealth among Australians where they are but to guide investment towards the development of the country as a whole, to rationalise and modernise industry and community services so as to provide all Australians with more value for their incomes. [More…]

• In that brief extract I think it is made clear that we have an attitude in the Labor Party which is born of the fact that it sees the Constitution as preventing it from imposing its pattern on the community. [More…]

• It also stands for the rights and the benefits of the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• One of the important reasons why this decision was taken was to ensure that the Australian community could benefit from the widening of our trade relations with other countries and that Australian consumers in fact could receive the benefits of imported goods at a time when the supply position in this country was quite desperate as a result of our predecessors’ irresponsible financial policy which we inherited when we took office. [More…]

• The Government believes 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…]

• It is regrettable that most of the unions are lined up on one side of the fence in this country and that there is less support in the business community. [More…]

• How can this body be effective as a responsible brake of the community if it is to be elected simultaneously forever with the House of Representatives? [More…]

• If this be the case, and there is a landslide to the Left or to the Right, the Senate undoubtedly will become purely and simply a rubber stamp of the government of the day and of no value whatever to the community that it is written into the Constitution to serve in the form of a responsible brake, a guardian. [More…]

• I believe that to vote for this Bill will be to further the divisions which I deplore in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is up to this side of the House to decide really where it is going on this national argument, to decide whether it really means what the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) said at the weekend, that is, that he is going to destroy and dismantle the Grants Commission in Australia and set up some other unnamed and unexplained device for the maintenance of the one living standard throughout this community. [More…]

• In the wake of the disaster and in the light of the grave concern throughout the community at that time the Government made great play of the fact that it was to set up this independent Commission under the chairmanship of a notable Australian, Sir Leslie Thiess. [More…]

• It is proposed that the Medibank service will provide for fee for service optometrical consultation for all citizens in the Australian community. [More…]

• I understand that it has been well received by the Australian community. [More…]

• In view of the financial hardship which the increased cost of Hansard will cause to such people in the community, will the Minister provide copies of Hansard to students and pensioners at the old price? [More…]

• Therefore, I hope that support will be engendered for this proposal, first in the legal profession and then in the thinking community, so that by positive means we will provide for a unitary system of the judiciary in Australia. [More…]

• This indicates a growing complexity in the Australian judicial system which has undoubtedly confused Senator Wright and, one assumes, must accordingly undoubtedly confuse many people and many potential litigants in the community. [More…]

• We have had put before us something of great expense to the community but we have no way of determining how great it will be. [More…]

• I have not the unlimited faith in the legal community in this country to think that we have the number of prospective judges of capacity who could fill these positions. [More…]

• The ordinary people of this country who expect some degree of care in expenditure in the community at this time and who expect that we in this Parliament should be considering the major needs of the community will reject the Superior Court of Australia Bill as being an unnecessary irrelevance in this day and age. [More…]

• It is imperative because the legislation is the aftermath of a circumstance in which doubt, insecurity and virtual non-action has crept into what must surely be one of the areas of greatest achievement and of greatest potential in the Australian community. [More…]

• Accepting that the Commonwealth Government has the responsibility in the international community for actions taken and things done in the off-shore waters of Australia, the unresolved point is whether in the Australian community the Commonwealth or the States have the responsibility. [More…]

• This Government was elected twice within 14 months on a pledge to acquire for the Australian people the benefits that could accrue from exploration and exploitation ofthe tremendous wealth that our mineral resources could provide for the Australian community. [More…]

• I say again that all that we on the Government side are trying to do, based on an undertaking to the Australian community, the Australian electorate, is revive the John Grey Gorton principles. [More…]

• It referred to an industry worth over $ 1,000m in 10 years and the Austraiian community subsidised it. [More…]

• Some royalties and taxes were paid back to the Australian community but this community subsidised those companies- by and large they were foreign interests- to the extent of $50m to $60m over that 10-year period, and I probably underwrote those figures because I wanted to be a little conservative. [More…]

• It is a question of whether the Australian community should derive benefits from the natural wealth of this country which is deposited both on the land and on the continental shelf and its surrounds. [More…]

• They have understood and learnt what has happened in other parts of the world where multi-national interests, vested interests have no concern for the well-being of the community or of the country in which they have invested their moneys. [More…]

• It has been freely acknowledged that it has been a development which suited the needs of the Australian people and progressively has maintained a system of health care which has served the community. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say that the introduction of this scheme has divided the Australian community. [More…]

• It has been an attitude of government to have confrontation with every group in this community which is involved in the introduction of this proposed socialised health scheme. [More…]

• It is a matter of saying that we really need experts to get together and to devise what is the best means of using all the resources that have been developed and seeing that they reach the individuals in the Australian community. [More…]

• Private hospitals, and particularly community hospitals, provide an opportunity for local general practitioners to have access to beds and for patients to have the opportunity of choice and care near to their homes. [More…]

• I think it is important to stress that quotation from the Commission’s report because access to hospital beds in the community and private hospitals near to the homes of patients is something which may become quite difficult if we have simply a public hospital stream which is related more to the centres of mass population in this country. [More…]

• They can be summarised essentially as follows: It found that the existing scheme of health insurance in Australia was complex and incomprehensible to many sections of the community. [More…]

• It found that the benefits were inadequate, the contributions were too high and the scheme imposed serious and widespread hardship on sections of the community. [More…]

• One would be pardoned for drawing the conclusion that the health care standards of this community are not a matter of primary concern to the Liberal Party. [More…]

• I refer particularly to the health care of migrants in this community who constitute 60 per cent of the admitted possibly one million people in Australia who are not covered by voluntary schemes. [More…]

• It may be very well for members of Parliament on significant salaries and others in the community who are able to afford all the facilities offered by private doctors to talk about the doctor-patient relationship. [More…]

• hospital and tight supervision of the expenditure of funds so that the alleged ‘ free scheme doesn’t send the community bankrupt. [More…]

• It has lapsed into a policy of peddling the distortions of the ideological cave-dwellers in this community such as the General Practitioners Society instead of trying, as a responsible Opposition might have done, to examine the challenge which the Nimmo report gave the Liberal Government 6 years ago, and work out some viable alternative. [More…]

• The medical profession agreed to provide concessional care over many years for those people whom the community decides should be eligible for pensioner treatment. [More…]

• His findings were that those 3 schemes together in the first year would cost $2,800m and, with total personal income tax collections estimated at $ 10,000m, this represents 28 per cent of personal income tax and makes it an expensive scheme for the Australian community. [More…]

• At last under the national insurance scheme that we envisage pensioners will be treated not as pensioners, not as something different or as some higher form of animal life, but they will be treated as human beings and as part of the community. [More…]

• As we all know very well, private hospitals have never been located on the basis of need in the community. [More…]

• The Opposition, representing the privileged people in this community who want to keep their bank accounts and want to keep their position but find that that position is threatened, will fight the legislation tooth and nail. [More…]

• The Opposition will find that the people of Australia will tell it exactly where it belongs, which is back in the dark ages before people realised that governments must be responsible for the people in the community who cannot look after themselves. [More…]

• All the words that have been used over the last 5 years on this and other schemes- our words and those of honourable senators opposite- are perhaps wasted, except that they will demonstrate to the community the resistance to change which is apparently present in all Opposition members. [More…]

• In my view this is against the interests of the health of the Australian community. [More…]

• Discipline is essential to freedom in this community. [More…]

• This is just as true in the area of trade unionism as it is in any other area in this community. [More…]

• 2) 1975 was last discussed in this House I have been able to canvass a wide section of employers in this community and I have found very great support for the passage of this measure. [More…]

• I regret that we will not get to discuss that vital issue in the community of secret ballots and the involvement of all union members in the decisions they make. [More…]

• I suggest to Senator Wright that if he took a vote of the Australian public he would find that there is overwhelming support, as I have found in the community, for these types of disciplines. [More…]

• It is merely a means of payment whereby the Government, as the representative of the whole of the people, takes over the liability for the payment of medical costs on behalf of the less affluent members of our community. [More…]

• One may therefore express the hope that individual executives and officers in both trade unions and employer organisations may soon realise how ephemeral empires really are and that there is far more satisfaction in subsuming individual desires for personal recognition in a cause which benefits the community generally. [More…]

• After consideration of the request made by members of the Bench during the National Wage case the ACTU executive makes the following statement: The trade union movement strongly believes the introduction of wage indexation to be a vital element in securing economic justice for the great bulk of the Australian community dependent directly or indirectly upon wages and salaries. [More…]

• It will be seen therefore that the object of this fund is to be in direct competition with the traditional methods of saving in the community. [More…]

• I think it only proves the point that the savings of the community in the future should not be directed into this buy-back proposal which has been beloved of this Government. [More…]

• The community should be encouraged to invest its savings in new projects at what I call the ground floor level. [More…]

• In the community there are already perfectly adequate institutions to channel the savings in that direction. [More…]

• There is a fundamental objection to this scheme on another score, which is that the savings of the community, the internal resources of the community, are finite. [More…]

• Further, there is the question of the proper management of the savings of the community. [More…]

• Can we say that the performance of AIDC to date would give any encouragement to believe that the savings of the community would be turned to a productive and economic account and would be more successful than the existing managers of the people’s savings? [More…]

• It is not one which should lead us to believe that the AIDC is the proper vehicle for the exercise of diverting the savings of the community and reinvesting them in development projects. [More…]

• Admittedly it was set up a little ahead of the AIDC; nevertheless it was set up as an institution within the private sector of the community to perform the same function, that is, to borrow- admittedly both within Australia and outside Australialarge sums of money for the purpose of project developments. [More…]

• I think that that clearly indicates that all the institutions within the private sector are far better geared as far as both the raising of money from the community and contributing to the development of projects which are so clearly required for the future development of Australia are concerned. [More…]

• Senator McAuliffe referred to the various members of the community, particularly the trading banks and others who gave evidence before the Committee, who were fearful of the effect that provisions of the original Bill would have on the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government was aware that the original Bill caused irritation within the Australian community. [More…]

• As I said before, this is a sensitive area within the Australian community. [More…]

• That would not be in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• I give credit to the Minister for Overseas Trade because once having heard the evidence and having decided that there were fears in the community, he put in these 28 amendments and brought down this existing Bill. [More…]

• There are many examples in Australia, particularly in a smaller fashion in the States’ sphere, which show the amount of help which can be given by statutory bodies to private industry in the community. [More…]

• Competing parties offer, suggest and promote policies and ideas to the community at large and one or other receives adequate support to form a government in the other place. [More…]

• I do not want to repeat unduly what I have raised on other occasions, but let us think in terms of the tremendous assistance- to some advantage, admittedly, to the Australian economy but at a tremendous price to the Australian communitygiven in the form of the funding of companies which were prepared to engage in exploration for and, if successful exploration were pursued, exploitation of the mineral resources so explored for. [More…]

• We have found on balance that if the special provisions of taxation on the one hand and the concessions of subsidies on the other were measured against the payments back to the Australian people in terms of taxation and royalties they would show that the Australian community has been in fact subsidising those companies to quite a substantial tune and, more importantly, that those companies have been accruing unto themselves extraordinary returns on their investments which in my view could not be condoned by even the Opposition if it were prepared to concede the point I have made and I think that it would be prepared to do so privately. [More…]

• A situation in which the elected representatives were answerable to the Australian community would be more preferable to the situation at present in which private companies are beholden to no one except their shareholders. [More…]

• If such a project as I have mentioned can be established it could well disprove many of the beliefs held by the community if it is viable. [More…]

• If it is restricted, as unquestionably it is, by the cost of money, it will have the effect we are seeing in the community at the present moment. [More…]

• The whole thrust of the policies of any Australian government should be to ensure that these 2 sectors of the economy can work together for the mutual benefit of both and to the benefit of the Australian community. [More…]

• Every effort has been made by the Government to meet the requirements of those sections of the community which feared that something drastic was being done to the private sector. [More…]

• I am quite sure that given the support of the Parliament we will see these advantages flow to various sectors of the Australian community as a result of this legislation. [More…]

• However, at least we have made this much progress as a Parliament; we are about to pass this very important Bill which 1 am sure time will demonstrate will be of great advantage to many sectors of the Australian community. [More…]

• The reason for the Government’s decision recently to refuse visas was based on the fact that a visit was not desirable as a visit by such a delegation could well create difficulties within the Australian community. [More…]

• Will he lay down guidelines so that the community does not have to suffer programs such as this which harm moral standards and display an appalling lack of creative ability? [More…]

• it is intended to introduce legislation in 1974-75 to authorise the supply, without charge, of stoma appliances and home dialysis equipment and supplies to all persons in the community who need them. [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. [More…]

• Against this background of change and vital growth the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory has been considering the related questions of the most appropriate form of self-government for the Australian Capital Territory, and 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…]

• Until the likely level of Australian Government grants has been accurately determined, it is impossible to obtain a clear picture of the remaining costs that will have to be met by taxes and charges imposed on the local community. [More…]

• It is also important to observe that the local community accepts the management of its affairs at the local level. [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 this will entail, the Committee considers that a parliamentary form of government is the most appropriate form of government for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• This decentralised community relies substantially on such employment. [More…]

• That statement is certainly not borne out by my experience, and it is certainly not borne out, I am sure, by the experience of a great number of the Australian community, who would not agree that the films which come from overseas can be put into the category of excellent. [More…]

• I, like my Party and the Government, feel that there is an extra dimension to be considered here and that is to produce a better community and a better person. [More…]

• It is important that the different viewpoints within our community are expressed, viewpoints which at the moment have limited access to the other forms of the media. [More…]

• In other words, we do not want this Commission to concern itself just with the type of excellent film produced on Cyclone Tracy which, one might say, was an informative film of what happened in Darwin and was able to give some indication of community response and the response of government, whether it be in the Northern Territory or in Canberra. [More…]

• I see film making as not just one of the art forms, as not just a source of information but also as a source of dialogue, and I hope that we will have provided as a result of the passage of this Bill a Commission that will make available to the minority viewpoints within our community the same sort of access to films as they have in one way or another as a result of their own activities and their promotion of their interests to the wider areas of the media. [More…]

• It ought to go out of its way to create controversial issues, to encourage divergent views, to act as the conveyor belt for the idea in the community today and to see itself making a full length feature film rather than concerning itself only with documentaries. [More…]

• The concern which they have is that they have at present no assurance of continuity of employment when employment is a matter of great concern to all members of the community. [More…]

• I repeat that the Opposition supports the principle of the creation of the statutory Commission, notwithstanding the severe misgivings that quite a large sector of the community has about, it. [More…]

• Those agreed objectives include the development for Australia, for Austalians, of a standard of excellence in the arts, a widening of access to the arts, an understanding and application of the arts in the community generally, the establishment and expression of an Australian identity through the arts, and the promotion abroad of an awareness of Australian culture. [More…]

• I do not suggest for a moment that we should be forcing upon people who do not wish to be associated with the arts a necessary involvement for so many hours of the day, or whatever it might be, with various aspects of our culutral development, but I do think that as a community it is highly desirable that we do everything we reasonably can to develop and broaden the appreciation of the cultural side of life and to broaden the opportunity for participation, whether it be as an artist or as a consumer. [More…]

• The future health of the arts in Australia hinges on diversity, virility and innovation and widely based community and individual support together with, as I said, a broad based consumer involvement in which people are positively encouraged in the various ways available to the Council to participate, to get to know and to get to appreciate what Australian art has to offer them. [More…]

• This was a period in which many Australian artists and writers lived in an alienated community principally in London. [More…]

• We are legislating with this Bill for one of the most articulate and individualistic sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• I think the idea of the statutory corporation base is fully accepted in all sections of the community. [More…]

• References have been made to the importance of community involvement in the arts and I draw attention to the fact that the Council has already established a community arts fund and is moving quite strongly into this very difficult area of community involvement. [More…]

• Over a number of years there has been throughout the community a growing appreciation of the need to develop the arts and to subsidise and encourage artists and communities in the development of the arts. [More…]

• This is something which has been accepted by the people only in stages and even today we find that in the community there is a fair amount of criticism of the arts policy and its exploitation. [More…]

• I suggest to him that the major point is this: One of the fears held throughout the community is that there may be a centralisation of the arts, that the Government may create a large bureaucracy, that it may provide for money to be dispensed from the centre and that there may be - [More…]

• provide belter cultural facilities for the community and open access to the art and cultural assets of the nation; [More…]

• I wish to deal with some of the criticisms which have been made not only in this debate and the debate in the House of Representatives but also, and more basically, within the community. [More…]

• But at the same time it is a small amount of money when one considers the expenditure in other areas and considers the recognised need now to develop the cultural assets of this country, to preserve the assets of this country and, most importantly, to develop the interest which the community can develop in arts and culture. [More…]

• Primarily the interest should be widened to cover all the people in our community and particularly in areas where there is cultural deprivation and a lack of appreciation at the present time in the arts and culture of Australia. [More…]

• One would hope to see in the community a greater development of the arts for those who are impoverished in an artistic sense at the moment. [More…]

• One of the criticisms that has been made of this Bill is the fear of centralisation and the fear that the community might not be sufficiently involved in the Australia Council. [More…]

• I believe we are entering a new era of the arts in which in this country we can see developing a much greater appreciation of our cultural assets and a much better opportunity for the people of the community, who have now more leisure, to enjoy that leisure in the field of the arts. [More…]

• I think Senator Missen made the point that there is still a considerable amount of criticism in the community about the degree of support that has been given to cultural pursuits in Australia. [More…]

• I think mention should be made also of the amount of assistance that has been given in the last year or two to various sections of the artistic community. [More…]

• Time may prove otherwise but I hope- I am sure that the Council will be mindful of this fact- that it is not only the professional who has something to contribute in this area but also many other people in the community. [More…]

• I believe it is a step in the right direction for all cultural activity in Australia and something from which the Australian community will benefit in the years ahead. [More…]

• If we accepted the amendment it would have the effect that a Philistine government or a government completely out of touch with the cultural and moral standards of the community- I instance the case of the Premier of Queensland- in fact could pass laws which would make it impossible to pay bounties. [More…]

• It is not unknown in this community that there are people so out of touch with the standards and tastes of the community at large that they might even believe that the payment of a book bounty is in itself something evil. [More…]

• Accordingly, there is a duty incumbent upon the Australian Government to ensure the protection of the community’s rights in the operation of those funds. [More…]

• It would be very hard to convey that message to some beef producers presently in our community. [More…]

• Where are the great socialist institutions in this community? [More…]

• That is the basis of the whole erosion of the economy in our community. [More…]

• This Government has encouraged the high cost of money in the community, with the basic philosophy, I suppose, that the high cost of money will stifle the encouragement to borrow. [More…]

• It intrudes into many areas in the community. [More…]

• My view is that the Labor Party is anxious to see the currency debauched in this community. [More…]

• It has encouraged a level of wage rates and a level of holidays which this community cannot stand. [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…]

• -That is right, it affected the whole community. [More…]

• Despite the growth of financial institutions catering largely for the middle income earners, there never has 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…]

• The real problem for us all in Australia is somehow to persuade the Australian community and its governments, including ourselves, to get our total demands in a reasonable relationship with the ability of the Australian people and society to provide resources. [More…]

• The point that these medical authorities have made to me is this: In the first place they say that in any community at any time when things are normal about 15 per cent of people suffer from emotional disorder to some degree sufficient to produce symptoms such as anxiety, mood changes, insomnia and a variety of bodily complaints, but only a very small proportion of that 15 per cent reaches a degree of severity in which special care is necessary. [More…]

• Is it also true that more than 2 months after the cyclone the station, which is an integral pan of the Darwin community, is still out of operation? [More…]

• Senator Wright also referred to the fact that salaries of parliamentarians are of the utmost significant in the context that if we show an example the rest of the community will follow. [More…]

• That freezing made not one iota of impact on other wage claims in the community. [More…]

• It is an absurdity to select any section of the community and say that it cannot have the increases but everybody else can. [More…]

• In fact what we are looking at is an overall problem of incomes in the community. [More…]

• The average Australian now, like everybody else in the community, accepts the principle of wage determination by various wage fixing tribunals. [More…]

• One of the problems in Australia today is the uncertainty which Senator Greenwood ‘s own political Leader is causing in this community. [More…]

• He will not say to the Australian community: ‘We are definitely going to vote out the appropriation in this House’. [More…]

• He will not say to the Australian community: ‘We will not vote out the appropriation in this House ‘. [More…]

• He has said to the Australian community that the terms of office for a government go from 6 months to 6 months. [More…]

• I listened to Senator Cotton speak on these Appropriation Bills yesterday and I could not agree more with what he said concerning the financial dangers confronting this country and the enormous impact that is going to be felt in the ensuing months as a result of the use by the Government of a huge deficit to bolster its administrative proposals and its revitalisation of some sections of the commercial and industrial community. [More…]

• There is a desperate need for the Government to reduce its expenditure wherever it can in a way which, of course, does not react directly and adversely against the general employment level in the community. [More…]

• Studies include consideration of TV as a community facility for special interest transmission and for education. [More…]

• But as long as the Opposition continues to hold a threat over the duly elected Government of the day and so long as one has regard to what Mr Killen and Sir Robert Gordon Menzies said as to the way in which the Opposition has abused and prostituted this establishment and the Constitution- so long as there exists the instability that is presently within our community- then likewise the security of this nation is threatened. [More…]

• But the question which Australians should ask is this: Is this movement in support and movement from one policy, one attitude, one philosphy to another and back again, the sort of thing that is likely to breed confidence in this community? [More…]

• I am indebted to one of my Senate colleagues for having made available to me remarks by a pioneer civil rights activist of America’s black community- a man named Bayard Rustin. [More…]

• Our attitude to Vietnam is perfectly well known both here and in the international community. [More…]

• What arrangements are being made for the freighting of goods and supplies collected by voluntary agencies, community groups and” schools? [More…]

• Was the Aboriginal community consulted in any way through any of its acknowledged spokesmen or spokeswomen about the Aboriginal community’s probable attitude towards a Truganini stamp? [More…]

• This shortage has resulted in the diversion of freight to other modes with resultant economic and social costs to the community as a whole in the form of damage to highways and accidents. [More…]

• Without the private health insurance funds operating and without people insuring themselves it will be extremely difficult on 1 July for hospital accommodation to be available as it is required by the Australian community. [More…]

• The fact that the Government has provided an $ 1 8 a day subsidy to private hospitals will place them beyond the reach of any but the extremely wealthy people in the Australian community without some method of private hospital insurance. [More…]

• This matter has been debated for many years and the sensitivity which is still displayed over the future of those funds has at last, I must confess, been given a rationale in terms of the fears which some people in the community have about the role of private hospital insurance after Medibank comes into existence. [More…]

• For a long time a comment has been made in our society, which has never been answered, that many things are wrong with the administration of the private health insurance funds, that their management expenses are too high and that open funds have failed the community and the contributors to those funds by the lack of contributor representation in the management of the funds. [More…]

• Although we very much regret the attitude expressed by Senator Guilfoyle, we find it remarkable for its obscurantist consistency over many years in the face of facts found by Senate committees and by the Nimmo Committee, and in spite of all the debate that has raged in the community over these issues for all that length of time. [More…]

• But the consumer in health insurance, the ordinary patient in this community, will lose. [More…]

• The Government wants to protect the rights of the community in relation to the operation of these funds. [More…]

• How will the people in the community who do not work for the Commonwealth Government and others identified in this Bill get equal benefits? [More…]

• One of the important things is that it gives honourable senators an opportunity to voice any ideas that they may have on housing generally and to submit any views or suggestions that they may be able to make for the consideration of the Senate and which may be useful to the Government and the community at large. [More…]

• Again, I should like to point out to Senator Carrick that the Australian Government sees the work of the State housing authorities and terminating building societies as being of cardinal importance in the creation of good living conditions for the neediest income strata of the community. [More…]

• The experts opposite who have been talking about housing never thought fit to consult the housewife when designing these houses to see that they were built in a way which would enable the housewife to work in comfort and so that she could go about her daily tasks as she ought to be able to just as the wealthy section of the community can do. [More…]

• Plenty of people in the Australian community- some of them in the Parliament and many of them in the academic shades- have very simplistic views on the manufacturing industry. [More…]

• Resultant policy proposals are ‘client-oriented’ in that they provide for decentralised community-based programs. [More…]

• The report recommended a community-based program of services. [More…]

• It provides community based Councils known as Regional Councils for Social Development at the Regional level which encourages the involvement of organised client groups. [More…]

• They will have the assistance of professional officers, social planners and Community Development Officers. [More…]

• The funds include an administrative grant for a social planning Secretariat, a capitation grant for community projects, and a grant for Community Development Officers. [More…]

• The needs of the community are taken into account. [More…]

• The anti-metric lobby is doing the country a dis-service by arousing unjustified fears in the community and generating uncertainty about the program. [More…]

• The names are: W. B. Butler, Aboriginal community, Port Augusta, South Australia; E. W. and D. Irwin, Western Australia, Quakers -noted for their interest in Aboriginal affairs; D. Squires, State President of the Women’s Service Guild of Western Australia; G. Elphick, President, Council of Aboriginal Women; Tim Aguis, Executive Secretary, Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement; Dick Roughsey, Chairman, Aboriginal Arts Board; the Institute of Narrative and Music of Aborigines and the Adelaide Aboriginal Orchestra- Dr Ellis, I think; Mrs L. Hume, President, Aboriginal Advancement Council of Western Australia; and Ken Colburg, Aboriginal Cultural Co-ordinator. [More…]

• Other children may be granted visas- these are the particular ones to whom Senator Primmer would be referring- to join prospective adoptive parents in Australia where the adoption proposals have the support of the relevant child welfare authorities, which in these cases would be the various departments of community welfare and child welfare in the different States. [More…]

• From 1 964 to 1 972 one of the social events of the season used to be the death lottery where prominent personalities in the community who had their feet stably established on the social ladder came along to draw the draft- to roll the marbles- to see who would be next on the death list. [More…]

• It is quite obvious to us and to the thinking public in this community that those sympathetic to the cause of the USSR and China are the ones who dictate the foreign policy of this Government. [More…]

• I believe that most thinking people in this community and most loyal Australians are at this time very concerned about what is happening there. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister states that we outsiders never had the right to intervene with regard to Vietnam, pray when did he have the right to intervene and approve the policy in relation to the Baltic States, causing hurt and grief not only to people in the Baltic States but also to those loyal people from the Baltic States who are living in the Australian community? [More…]

• It is a situation in which we have considerable diplomatic means at our disposal to seek the interest and involvement of other, what I will call, Western donor countries in this task which is so vitally important and which, if it can be undertaken, will yield such a fruitful result not only for the well being of the people in Vietnam about whom we are talking but also for the Australian community placed as it is in a significant geographical relationship with this South-East Asian area. [More…]

• He is the only one who has spoken forthrightly and expressed a point of view and he has disgusted most of the Australian community. [More…]

• I hope it will weld them to other sections of the community in their opposition to big government. [More…]

• One of the sad truths in the community is that too many of us confine our attention to our own self interest and leave other people to fight their own fights. [More…]

• A rogue like Alexander Barton- I use the word because I have used it before in this place concerning this man- who was able to float 500 million shares on the Australian market in 1 8 months and milk the community of almost $20m would be made to accept responsibility for his deeds if this Bill were law. [More…]

• The amendment describes those matters which we feel could be looked at by a select committee to the advantage of the Australian Senate and the Parliament and to those bodies in the community which will need to work under this legislation if it is enacted. [More…]

• What we must remember about that period of Australian history- all Australians will remember it- is that the dream suddenly became a nightmare for thousands and thousands of people in our community. [More…]

• Officers of the Attorney-General ‘s Department discussed it with numerous brokers in this community. [More…]

• We consulted interested parties in the community and we accepted their recommendations. [More…]

• I would expect this Government, with its obsession for creating a bureaucratic structure for its socialist purposes as the panacea of all ills in the community, to go to such lengths. [More…]

• However, Opposition senators have the privilege, and indeed the obligation and the duty to the community as an opposition, to scrutinise such legislation closely. [More…]

• I have found that members of the community who are deeply involved in the securities industry have taken the view that members of Parliament have been rather tardy in studying the Bill and readying themselves to debate it. [More…]

• Therefore there are many aspects of this Bill which are yet to be studied by members of the Parliament and there are many aspects which are yet to be made clear to the industry itself and to many individuals and companies in the community. [More…]

• Therefore it is important that the Senate, representing all parts of the community and realising that it is dealing with a very important and delicate industry which should be improved and not hindered or destroyed, should make sure in its operations that it uses the system of the Senate, which is a committee system of which we can be proud. [More…]

• To bring this matter to the attention of the Senate one needs to be able to understand something of the problems faced within the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• It needs more than a casual acquaintance with the Aboriginal community to know something about it as a whole. [More…]

• In the city in which I dwell, Ipswich, we have a rather large Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Within that community there is sometimes what one might term ‘clan warfare’, in a very minor way, between Aborigines who are living in the city. [More…]

• while I am not suggesting that the Queensland Government is without faults, I think that he and his fellow Aborigines should be very grateful that housing is given to them for small rentals (a privilege not given to other members of the community). [More…]

• It goes on again to slate the Aboriginal community in a particular area in the Ipswich city. [More…]

• There are sheafs and sheafs recording nasty things said by white people about a group of Aborigines who unfortunately do not conform or behave the way the rest of the community would like them to do. [More…]

• The Government is aware of all these problems and the honourable senator can rest assured that decisions on sales tax in the motor car industry will be taken having in mind the interests of all sections of the Australian community, not simply those of Mr Inglis or the Ford Motor Company. [More…]

• Why cannot we have, especially when we are introducing legislation which is going to be far reaching, affecting a significant portion of the business community, ‘more openness*? [More…]

• As I travelled through Germany on my recent trip I made some inquiries into this matter and ascertained that in the European Economic Community and in Germany there are provisions whereby anybody who wishes to promote a company must have a certificate showing that a percentage of the capital is hypothecated to the company and is ready in real value to implement its purposes. [More…]

• I would have thought that if this was to be so fatal to the business community they might have cut their holidays a little short. [More…]

• Is it seriously suggested that if the stock exchanges and the business community of Australia seriously regarded this Bill as some sort of a threat to their interests they could not have commenced on 6 December to dissect it, to suggest improvements, to get into huddles, to contact the Government, to lobby the Government and to suggest amendments? [More…]

• In its present form it is disruptive and costly to the business community– [More…]

• We would still have all these villains able to practise their depredations on the community. [More…]

• I also had approaches from a number of individuals and other organisations throughout the community. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that it was I who made the representations to the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, as I very frequently do in instances of this kind, for naval vessels to be made available to visit King Island on that occasion, the occasion of the show- it was the annual show, not a garden fete- and that the application was made to the Minister at the specific request, which was made to me, of an official of the King Island Show Committee and very prominent member of the King Island community? [More…]

• In addition, the introduction of legislation will furnish an essential legal background on which to base changes to community attitudes. [More…]

• 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…]

• It was on 10 April that Mr Renouf gave a speech to a Legacy luncheon in Newcastle entitled ‘Foreign Policy and Community Support’. [More…]

• Does the Minister know of requests by the Cypriot community of South Australia for free transportation of relief supplies from Adelaide to Qantas in Sydney, and can he say what action is being taken in consideration of this request? [More…]

• The tragedy and suffering from this maiming and death touches 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 would like to take the opportunity to remind people that the War Memorial depends to quite a significant extent upon the alertness of people in the community and their consciousness of the fact that films, photographs and writtenmaterial as well as other forms of souvenirs from the various wars in which Australia has been involved are all of very considerable historical value. [More…]

• I simply remind people of the important role which the average Australian can play because the War Memorial can be built up by a consciousness in the community that this sort of action would be to the benefit of the War Memorial and to the memory of those servicemen and women and other people associated with the Services who lost their lives during the various actions in which Australia has been involved. [More…]

• The last time the Opposition rejected this legislation because it believed, and it still believes, that many of the provisions are aimed not at providing true electoral reform but at helping Labor to the disadvantage of other individuals, groups and parties in the community, not just the Liberal Party because as a major party we will survive anything the Labor Party may attempt to do. [More…]

• That might be all right for the existing major parties but it may not meet the wishes of the Australian community. [More…]

• We accept that the present deposits may not be totally appropriate in view of the rampant inflation the Government has imposed on the community, but we believe $1,000 is too much. [More…]

• There are very many people in the community who in a Senate election rebel against having to rate the candidates- all the candidates- in an order of preference. [More…]

• Those problems present themselves to many important individuals and groups of individuals who have a philosophy and something to project to the community which they believe is worthwhile and can contribute to a democratic society. [More…]

• I do not want to labour this particular point, but I do want to suggest that hundreds of thousands of Australians are not in the spectator group of the community and do in fact enjoy playing bowls, cricket, football, golf or whatever, and to these people, I say quite seriously, this is an option that is being taken away from them- the option of coming back after 6 p.m. and having until 8 p.m. to register their votes. [More…]

• Of course, the polling hours are also relevant to religious groups in the community whose beliefs are such that they are required not to vote until after sundown, and from this point of view also there is a strong reason, I believe, why the 8 p.m. provision should be retained. [More…]

• However, I believe that we still have not created the atmosphere about which Senator Mulvihill spoke- an atmosphere of reform where all these matters can be considered in the light not of what party advantage is involved but of the needs of the people of this community. [More…]

• It is all right to say that 48 candidates in Victoria and 73 candidates in New South Wales stood for the Senate at the last election and that this number should be cut down, but at the same time there is the important principle that individuals should have the right to put their names down as electors seeking the support of the community. [More…]

• While trying to ensure that the world is safe for democracy we should not ensure that the world is safe and cosy for just the largest parties in the community. [More…]

• Subsequently, the present Government last year brought forward proposals which were, as Senator Missen pointed out a while ago, not approved by the Opposition and were therefore defeated on the grounds that they had not had a sufficient airing and had not been sufficiently considered by the community. [More…]

• I think there ought to be some requirement at least as a show of good faith with the community and with the electorate that a party should have a right to registration and the name which is registered should be the name of the party. [More…]

• The provisions are important as they apply to the right of Australian citizens to nominate, to take part in elections and to get the kind of result which the community wants. [More…]

• If we take 3 days or 10 days or 5 weeks to learn the result of a Federal election, democracy is well served if it is the right result- using the word right’ in the sense that it is the result that the community wants. [More…]

• We have every objection to so-called electoral reform which is no reform at all when one comes to look at its effect upon the community and upon the electoral and democratic process. [More…]

• This is the system which has enabled this Senate to reflect the voting patterns of our community ever since 1948. [More…]

• I reject utterly any assertions, like those made by Senator Devitt, that a reduction of 10 per cent in an informality rate would justify disfranchising 1 per cent of the community. [More…]

• Those parts of this Bill which aim to improve the electoral process we will support; those parts which diminish electoral justice we will oppose, and in so doing we will seek to do our proper job of protecting our community and ensuring that electoral results reflect the wishes of that community. [More…]

• The Surveyor-General of a State, who is the appointee of a State government is seen, I think, by the community at large and by political parties to be a person with complete independence. [More…]

• If we want justice in our electoral support and electoral possibilities in this community we have to take some action to make sure that in future the ABC acts fairly. [More…]

• I refer to a pamphlet entitled ‘Australian Assistance Plan- A Say in Your Community’, recently issued and distributed by the Australian Department of Social Security, in which the following statements appear: [More…]

• You may even feel grieved to discover how many sources of help your community has missed out on because it has not been properly organised. [More…]

• I think that it is only fair that some of the less privileged elements in the community should be receiving the same subsidies which some of the wealthiest elements in the community have been receiving for many years indeed. [More…]

• 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…]

• Since coronary heart disease is the major disease in Australia and of epidemic and growing proportions, will the Government give consideration to the establishment of a committeepresumably a joint committee of this Parliament- to consider the implications of the report and to recommend those measures which are considered necessary and desirable to bring about, by voluntary choice of each individual in the community, those conditions of change in life style, and particularly of diet, which will minimise the impact of this disease? [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…]

• 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…]

• 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…]

• They knew what was coming to the surface was an indication that a minute section- I emphasise that–of the Croatian community was guilty of things of which other Croats, Slovenes and other Serbs had had a bellyful- pressure tactics. [More…]

• However, these days, with strikes by airline pilots or hostesses, by postal workers, or by transport workers, it has become notorious in the Australian community that the mail services are most unreliable. [More…]

• But some groups in the community would be disadvantaged by the proposed polling hours. [More…]

• I would like the Government and the Minister to express a view on what the Government ‘s attitude is towards the rights of the Seventh Day Adventists community in Australia and the rights of the Jewish community in Australia. [More…]

• The Seventh Day Adventist community in this country is organised in what is called the Australian Division of Seventh Day Adventists. [More…]

• The Seventh Day Adventist community wants a clear answer. [More…]

• Members of that community can vote after sunset. [More…]

• The Seventh Day Adventist community is an active involved community. [More…]

• It is almost a model community in the way it looks after its affairs. [More…]

• The Seventh Day Adventists run a complete, well organised and most responsible community. [More…]

• The first argument was put by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) who claimed that the farming community would be inconvenienced. [More…]

• I think that in doing that the principle that should be adopted is that no section of the community is put at a disadvantage. [More…]

• That is a convenience that was created, I believe for the employed members of the community. [More…]

• It is not for us to say that some section of the community, because of their religious beliefs and because they are a minority, should be made to vote in a different way to the rest of the community. [More…]

• I should like to see the same concern expressed by certain people in the community when municipal elections are held. [More…]

• Opposition senators are saying, in effect, that there can be no change in the law of this community because some minority groups will be hurt. [More…]

• We can say, in effect, that we will keep the booths open for 24 hours because certain people in our community must go along and get postal votes as they cannot vote within the 12 hours that are allocated to them. [More…]

• No person in the community will be denied the right to vote because we are shortening the time allowable on voting day by 2 hours. [More…]

• I have noticed also a tendency to brush over the value of an 8 p.m. close to the farming community in the Australian scene. [More…]

• I suggest, with great respect to Senator Baume and Senator Wood, that if one took their case to its logical conclusion, if they wanted to give minority religious groups the same right as they give to other sections of the community, they would probably be moving for the deletion of section 64 of the Act which provides that the day fixed for polling shall be a Saturday or they would be moving an amendment to this clause so that the times of polling would be from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. or from noon to midnight. [More…]

• Community Development Officers are needed to encourage participation and initiative by the community itself to take action on social problems and issues by mobilising people into groups and organisations with an awareness of community needs. [More…]

• Sections 6.3-6.7 of the Guidelines for the Pilot Programme of the Australian Assistance Plan, which have been distributed to Members and Senators, refer to the functions and qualifications of Community Development Officers which require a range of experience and skills not limited to persons with tertiary qualifications. [More…]

• It is anticipated therefore that there will be no difficulty in recruiting the required number of Community Development Officers at the present time. [More…]

• 1 ) Which members of the Social Security Appeal Tribunals for (a) New South Wales, (b) Victoria, (c) Queensland, (d) South Australia, (e) Western Australia, (f) Tasmania and (g) the Australian Capital Territory, come from the Benefits Branch of the Department of Social Security and legal and welfare groups within the community. [More…]

• From which community legal and welfare groups do the appointed members come. [More…]

• The Government will ensure that both home dialysis and stoma appliances are provided without rationing of services to those in the community who need them as was announced by the Treasurer in his Budget Speech in September 1 974. [More…]

• I refer the Minister to recent comments of the Australian Government’s Special Consultant on Community Relations, Mr Al Grassby, in relation to the number of migrants living in the Melbourne metropolitan area. [More…]

• I seek further information from the Minister for the Media on today’s announcement by Mr Grassby, the adviser on community affairs, relating to the setting up of ethnic radio stations to communicate with migrants. [More…]

• -Some time ago an interdepartmental committee consistingI speak from recollection- of representatives of the Government’s adviser on community affairs, the Department of Immigration, the Department of the Media, the Department of the Prime Minister and the Department of Urban and Regional Development was set up to consider this question. [More…]

• It had been brought to the Government’s attention that there was quite a problem amongst sections of the migrant community because of their inability to speak the English language, the fact that the children of migrants were at school during the day and that the husbands were at work. [More…]

• The interdepartmental committee was appointed for the purpose of considering the establishment of ethnic community broadcasting. [More…]

• If I recollect correctly, it was decided to recommend that lowpowered transmitters be established, if possible, in Sydney and Melbourne for non-profit community broadcasting purposes at this stage. [More…]

• The community wants clarification, too, now that a spotlight has been played on this matter. [More…]

• It has become an issue of public discussion and concern in the Australian community, and the Government and the Opposition, I believe sincerely, had to consider in this atmosphere what their obligations were in relation to the matter. [More…]

• I believe with a fervour which I suppose it might be hard to match that our society depends upon the observance of the rule of law and that laws are passed for the benefit of the community, that when there are breaches of the law those breaches should be prosecuted or, if they are not to be prosecuted, the reasons should be clearly explained and those who would excuse the enforcement of the law must be prepared to justify on sound grounds of public interest why it is so. [More…]

• The community of interest between the peoples of urban areas and adjoining non-urban areas was such that the functioning of local government in areas of mutual concern should be on a regional basis. [More…]

• It may well be that the community will have to bear some responsibility for providing crop and livestock insurance. [More…]

• My only comment is that anything that retards the re-establishment of Darwin and the provision of assistance to the community there is certainly bad. [More…]

• At the public meetings and at the in camera meeting evidence has been heard from various sections of the community, including all State government’s except Victoria, which has not yet made any oral submission, Australian Government departments, sections of the insurance and life assurance industry, trade unions, and the legal and medical professions. [More…]

• On the other hand, the telecommunications service faces the challenge of providing services at a rate which will match strong community demand; it is involved in the selection and adoption of the very latest in technology; and it has to engineer complex technical networks, to introduce new services and to manage a massive investment programme. [More…]

• Honourable senators are aware of the great importance to the whole of the community of a comprehensive telecommunications service. [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 misjudgement 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…]

• A national transport approach is absolutely necessary if we are to meet the needs of the Australian community and permit the proper development of this country. [More…]

• When one woman went to be retrained, the person interviewing her asked whether it was fair that she be retrained as she may have more children and in that case the skills she acquired would not be used by the community. [More…]

• Perhaps I should have; perhaps a number of other women in the community should have this matter brought to their attention, whether they like it or not. [More…]

• Again this is an example of how we can legislate against discrimination but we have to take the ideas right through the community. [More…]

• These examples give some idea of the immense problems that still have to be faced by this Government because for a long time nobody has worried about the real equality of women in the work force or in the community. [More…]

• Why then in the knowledge of this large injection of money into the community was there not a mopping up of money? [More…]

• Why then can one search Hansard reports and the public documents for the whole of that year and not find one complaint from the Government after it had taken over that there was too much money in the community? [More…]

• Such people had no problem in getting a return on their money if money could be put into the community to stimulate people to buy their goods. [More…]

• To say that the situation in which we find ourselves today is a Keynesian concept and to put more and more public money into the community in the face of the facts of life would make Keynes rotate in his grave, and well he would. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Treasurer (Dr J. F. Cairns) have admitted that today the key to getting a restimulus of the community is to get profitability back into manufacturing. [More…]

• The simple fact of the matter is that if one borrows $2,000m from overseas and uses it for public expenditure one increases the paper money of the community just as surely as if one turned the handle. [More…]

• People should be given gainful, dignified and respectable jobs in which they can earn money, create for the community and put in all their efforts. [More…]

• We are confronted with a situation in which unless we seriously control and exercise restraint on the growth of the money supply within our community inflation will take off again. [More…]

• A great deal more money would be circulating in our community than is there at the moment. [More…]

• Of course this Government has taken quite energetic steps to see that capital inflow is restricted to exercise as much restraint as is within the powers provided by the Constitution to control the money supply within the community. [More…]

• There is a feeling growing in the community today. [More…]

• There is obviously no intention on his part, as there was not on the part of the previous Attorney-General, to regularise the situation and to place in this community a commission which would regulate legal aid in a proper way, which would distribute money through State commissions and which would thereby ensure that all proper services for legal aid were covered and there was no duplication. [More…]

• I have no doubt that Senator Greenwood, representing as he does the Neanderthal wing of the Victorian legal community, would find himself in tune with Mr Wilcox, but his fellow lawyers in Victoria do not share that view. [More…]

• Neanderthal member of the Victorian legal community should be satisfied? [More…]

• Let us consider this in terms of what it costs the community. [More…]

• But looking at it rationally what should we do when economic misfortune hits a certain community? [More…]

• 1 ) Is the training of Community Development Officers vital to the effective operation of the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• What is the anticipated need for Community Development Officers in Sydney during the next 12 months. [More…]

• 1 ) The training of the Community Development Officers will improve the operation of the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• The first proposal to train Community Development Officers was received in January 1 975. [More…]

• It is anticipated that sufficient numbers of Community Development Officers will be available. [More…]

• Two cattle stations-Pantijan (formerly Panter Downs) in Western Australia and Mimili (formerly Everard Park) in South Australia are currently held in trust by the Australian Government as an interim measure before title is vested in the Aboriginal community or an Aboriginal Lands Trust. [More…]

• I might say that it is being very well received and acclaimed by the community generally. [More…]

• It will cater for ethnic groups 4 nights a week and the other 3 nights will be for social and community interest broadcasts. [More…]

• Since that date all residentially qualified members of the community aged 75 or more have been able to receive age pensions free of the means test. [More…]

• The Government has 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…]

• I hope that such people in our community who are suffering hardship through their responsibilities will be acknowledged in this year’s Budget as being entitled to some measures of Government assistance. [More…]

• I least of all would support any idea of training activities for unionists being carried out in isolation of the rest from the community. [More…]

• I believe the whole community will benefit from what this Bill proposes. [More…]

• I believe that we must be and must become once again a more responsible people; Parliament must lead and must reduce expectations and extravagance in the community. [More…]

• I do not think that any government could have done more than this Government has done to disburse money to those people in the community who have the greatest need for it. [More…]

• I make this plea not just because I want the Government to do more, but believing that it is the reflection of a feeling that is very strong in the Australian community today. [More…]

• I make my criticism because I am not expecting the Government to do things that the Australian community is not prepared to do. [More…]

• These are the members of the student community who already are in this country. [More…]

• I hope that the Government will take these representations into account because what I have said reflects a matter of very great concern in a wide section of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government has stated that it is spending approximately $ 1 Vim to explain Medibank to the community. [More…]

• I wonder how much more of this propaganda has been sent round the country and what the cost to the community will be, because the Government is paying for it out of the taxpayers’ money. [More…]

• Publications are being pushed out into the community in no uncertain manner. [More…]

• It will be a Government propaganda exercise again to tell the people of this country- to feed information out to the city Press, the rural Press and local governments all over the place- the nature of Government policies, the reason for Government policies, second reading speeches of Ministers and such other matters as will gradually get around to selling Government policies to this community; a sell for which this community will be paying. [More…]

• Quite frankly, I see developing in this country a situation in which millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money will be expended in order to sell Government propaganda to the community. [More…]

• The licence stated that the station should also be used for access radio and that the access radio would be available to the various community or ethnic groups. [More…]

• I express concern that, if these stations are to be used with a program basically supplied or directed by Mr Grassby, whose political colours are well known, the stations could be used to indoctrinate the various ethnic groups of this community. [More…]

• But, more importantly still, I believe that the moneys expended in that sort of avenue would have established a circumstance in which there was a real possibility of councils being able at least to maintain the level of rates and certainly not to increase them in an area in which the community is totally incapable of providing an increase. [More…]

• For a government which has regarded the law of little consequence, which has contributed as much, I would think, as any group in the community to the erosion of standards and authority and which regards the Constitution of the nation as something to which it does not have to ‘pay even scant attention, as has the present Government, there is no limit to what it might do. [More…]

• Grants are basically made available to nonprofit community groups and I am told that the Department certainly would not give a grant to people who might be engaged principally in the art of making money. [More…]

• -The 2 proposed ethnic access community stations, as I understand it, will be licensed on a 3-monthly basis on the recommendation of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]

• Dunne would be one who would be responsible for making arrangements for programming and contacting the various community groups. [More…]

• We want to see how the system works because we want to encourage an opening up of the airwaves of this country so that all people may have an involvement in community affairs. [More…]

• There are a lot of people in our community today who, unfortunately, cannot count to the numbers required at the last Senate election in New South Wales. [More…]

• We have to remember that this was a major disaster in the community, but it is not the only disaster that has occurred. [More…]

• I think it is important that this information should be known by members of the community who made these contributions. [More…]

• The annual community loss, other than the bridge restoration costs and other such costs, has been assessed in an exercise conducted for the purpose at some $26m. [More…]

• I do not have full details of the accuracy of that assessment, but if one just takes it at first glance it is very clear that the community loss has been severe. [More…]

• Even if that figure is not accurate the cost to the community has been very great. [More…]

• I remind the Minister that we have just been dealing with a Bill relating to the damage suffered by the community in the Darwin area as a result of cyclone Tracy. [More…]

• Community loss is continuing to occur in the area. [More…]

• While all this is taking place there is a tremendous cost to the community. [More…]

• I noted in the Press yesterday that it has now been decided that a community hospital will be built. [More…]

• It is recognised by the Opposition that if we are to cope with racial discrimination in a way that seeks to specify what are acts of racial discrimination and to indicate a community disapproval of such conduct, then provisions of the character which are contained in the Bill are desirable. [More…]

• It provides for a Commissioner of Community Relations to exercise coercive powers to endeavour to persuade a person to settle a matter. [More…]

• The penalty is imposed because it represents the sanction for conduct which has community disapproval and that ordinarily would be the way in which conduct of this character would be prohibited. [More…]

• It of course is the way in which the Government in other areas has indicated that conduct which is against the community interest is to be prohibited and in which the sanctions are to be imposed. [More…]

• If the dissemination of any ideas can be linked and can be shown to be associated with acts which ought to be proscribed by the community in the public interest, then let those acts be proscribed and let any dissemination of ideas which is involved be linked with the actual acts of violence or the other conduct which is to be proscribed. [More…]

• I would have thought that the ability to educate and to influence people in terms of their community obligations is a far more vital role than that of legislation which simply lays down the laws. [More…]

• In addition, the introduction of legislation will furnish an essential legal background on which to base changes to community attitudes. [More…]

• One may doubt whether in fact such a legal background is essential to change community attitudes. [More…]

• I have seen community attitudes change in a host of matters against a contrary legal background. [More…]

• One of the real problems in our society- not so much in Australia as in other countries- is that racial disharmony can poison the stability of a community. [More…]

• It built up an attitude in the community which fed a hatred and a belief in an inadequacy which was not justified by the circumstances. [More…]

• The Bill enables the Commissioner of Community Relations, an office held by Mr [More…]

• Irrespective of his standing in the community or anything else, finance could not be made available to an Australian Aboriginal. [More…]

• W. A Judge has recommended that they be deported as a danger to the community, and a channel through which Yankee criminals and Drug Pushers can come into this country. [More…]

• Who can say that they have not heard the words pommy’, ‘wog’, ‘dago’, ‘refo’ and those sorts of words used quite commonly in our community. [More…]

• Sure, just sheer legalism will not eradicate this scourge from within our community. [More…]

• The legislation sets out to form a community relations council which is to be set up pursuant to section 3 1 for that express purpose. [More…]

• I am grateful for the small mercy that at least Mr W. C. Wentworth in another place said that he would support that portion of the legislation which seeks to implement the Convention and to carry out a program of education in order that racial discrimination is no longer fostered in our community. [More…]

• These functions are to be carried out by the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• Senator Sheil, who preceded me in the debate, seemed to think that if some responsibility were passed on to an eminent person within the community to examine and regulate these problems of discrimination it would result in the setting up some form of bureaucracy and that that should be avoided at all costs. [More…]

• It will enable those of us who have a social conscience to say that such officials do not have the right to discriminate against Mr A or Mrs B because they are Aborigines or because they are members of some migrant community. [More…]

• There still exists in our community the view that Aborigines are unable to manage their own affairs and property. [More…]

• This is particularly unfair when one considers how much power, prestige, affluence and education in the white community has been built on the exploitation of land from which the whites ousted blacks. [More…]

• Do they not know that people can interpret and that there are people within the community who can explain the provisions to those who want to take insurance policies? [More…]

• Surely it is our responsibility to do something about these people and the children of these people- to bring them up in a neighbourhood and in a community free of any form of racial prejudice. [More…]

• It will seek to protect the rights of all people in this community, whatever their social, political and ethnic background. [More…]

• It was moved and seconded That this general Meeting of the Australian Council of Churches supports the Racial Discrimination Bill, 1974, and informs the AttorneyGeneral of this, at the same time requesting him to ensure that those minority groups which suffer from dis.crirnination have substantial representation on the Community Relations Council which will be set up if the Bill is enacted. [More…]

• The infringement of those rights would then become much more conspicuous in our community. [More…]

• So the outlawing of racial discrimination by legal sanctions is also a basis for changing community standards. [More…]

• A need is seen for the use of positive programs as a supplement to the provisions of the Bill- positive programs of education, cultural exchange, research and activity at a local community level in relation to racial problems. [More…]

• To meet these objectives the functions of the Commissioner for Community Relations are to foster the purposes of the legislation and promote its acceptance in the community and likewise to promote the principles of the United Nations convention on which the legislation is based. [More…]

• If we are to progress as a united and cohesive society we have an obligation to do everything in our power to prevent the development of ethnic ghettoes in our community, with the residents discriminated against in employment, in housing, in legal remedies and even in their ability to obtain insurance cover, which is a matter we have heard referred to a lot in the Senate in the last few days. [More…]

• I wanted to say something about the role of the Commissioner for Community Relations as a conciliator. [More…]

• The Bill establishes a Commissioner for Community Relations, and again the importance in his role of mediation is emphasised. [More…]

• I believe very firmly in this legislation because I believe it is an important step towards changing community standards. [More…]

• The effect of this sort of propaganda is really, I think, a very insidious one and a very bad one for the people in this community because we have to face up, as every politician and as every national figure in this country keeps telling us, to the fact that we live in a part of the world in which people are of different colour, of different cultures, of different incomes and so on. [More…]

• They mix with the rest of the people and we mix with them and I would say those people are accepted wherever they go in the community. [More…]

• Over a period of time many of them have become quite wealthy citizens of the community as a result of their activities in the sugar industry. [More…]

• Naturally people of different nationalities have a tendency to move more with each other, with people from their own countries, but to a very great extent the migrants in the Mackay area mix with the basic Australian community. [More…]

• The Australian Government does not apologise for advertising the matters that are the subjects of these advertisements, because the Australian Government and I believe that the Australian Government Legal Aid Office and Medibank will be of considerable assistance to the underprivileged section of the Australian community. [More…]

• When the Aborigines protested and said that the area belonged to them and that they wanted the land back for their own development, I took the matter up in conference with the then Victorian Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Dickie, who agreed with me and said that if the Aboriginal community produced a plan for development he would give serious consideration to handing the land over to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Leprosy is a disease that was imported into Australia mostly by Chinese migrants and it spread throughout the Aboriginal 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, The establishment of similar consultative arrangements was a significant factor in obtaining the co-operation of State governments during the early days of the interim committee of the Commission. [More…]

• I believe the community will benefit from what this Bill proposes. [More…]

• At this stage of the debate I wish to place on record the Opposition’s view that the provision of postal and telecommunication services ought not to be regarded as a purely commerical operation but that the operation must be run in such a way as to provide communications for all sections of the Australian community in all parts of Australia. [More…]

• I should like to know what prospects there are, by the setting up of these independent Commissions, of a more positive attitude being adopted in regard to a service of that kind, the restoration of that service or an improvement in the service by such very important community organisations, which these 2 Commissions will be. [More…]

• Will they try to provide a service beyond the present hours or, in some other way, provide alternative services so that the needs of the community, of which there is a great variety, for these services may be met in a better way than has been the case in the past. [More…]

• I think that we are entitled to expect far more from the commission of inquiry itself as to how the services to be undertaken by the commissions can be improved and also as to what improved benefits the community will receive as a result of their establishment. [More…]

• In respect of the sorts of matters which I have been speaking the Opposition proposes to move some amendments to the Bills to ensure that the commissions will not be able to operate on purely commercial lines and also to provide that the government of the day will not only have the power but will also have an obligation to ensure that the commissions provide services to all sections of the Australian community and to all parts of Australia. [More…]

• The responsibility for the adequate delivery of these services at reasonable charges to all sections of the Australian community in all parts of Australia must rest fairly and squarely on the shoulders of the Government of the day. [More…]

• In sharp contrast to that, I can recall that at one time the postmaster in a provincial town would be included amongst those members of the community who were considered to have some status. [More…]

• Of course, Mr Acting President, all of us realise the importance of the Post Office to the community. [More…]

• It seems to me that if we establish commissions whose sole objective is to make some sort of laboratory type maximum profit then we will set up in our midst commissions and operatives which will pay perhaps scant regard to the total social and economic requirements of the Australian community. [More…]

• In relation to that matter, the commissioners and I have given an undertaking to any community group, senator or member of Parliament that no basic commitment will be made in respect of these matters until September. [More…]

• The object of these amendments is to widen, in a sense, the charter of the Australian Postal Commission to ensure that it takes into account a number of purposes which we do not think are adequately spelt out in clause 7(1) which is in very general terms indeed and to make it perfectly clear that the Commission has to provide services as reasonably required by all sections of the community and by all people in all parts of Australia. [More…]

• As I have stated, the Government has to accept the obligation to provide these services generally to the community. [More…]

• An application from Odessa Productions Pty Ltd was made in August 1 974 to the Community Arts Program of the Australian Council for the Arts for support of the second stage area of the Sunbury Festival held in January 197S. [More…]

• The Council through the Community Arts Program has given assistance to several multi-media festivals which contain a rock music component, namely the Orange Festival of the Arts, the Aquarius Festival at Nimbin and the Waratah Spring Festival. [More…]

• My attention has been drawn to an article which appeared in the Adelaide ‘Advertiser’ yesterday concerning some broadcasting that was being done by the educational community broadcasting station in Adelaide, station VL5UV, on which has been arranged an Italian one-hour program which is being very well received by the Italian community. [More…]

• I ask: Is it a fact that the licences for the 2 ethnic radio stations to be established in Sydney and Melbourne are issued to the Special Consultant on Community Relations? [More…]

• -First, the licences have not yet been issued, but it is proposed at this stage that they should be issued by my colleague, the Postmaster-General, under the Wireless Telegraphy Act to the position of the Special Consultant on Community Relations. [More…]

• As far as I am aware, the funding arrangements are being provided by either the Special Consultant on Community Relations section or the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]

• He now admits that in his early days he simply had no idea of the responsibilities that he had to meet or the impact that inflation would have on the Australian community. [More…]

• In cost-benefit analysis terms this expenditure returns an economic benefit to the community. [More…]

• Altogether it has been estimated that in terms of cost-benefit analysis there are real yields to the community. [More…]

• We should have these facilities for giving treatment in emergencies and we should be able to offer these people the same health care as we offer the rest of the community. [More…]

• The legislation which has been brought down as a result has been the subject of consideration by managers, by unions and by other groups in the community. [More…]

• This would allow an expression of views from those people in the community who wish to express their interpretation of the legislation, from the people who have to work within the legislation and from the State governments which find great threats to the constitutional powers which they wish to exercise in matters relating to transport within their own States. [More…]

• It is not as though we are acting unilaterally without concern or thought for what other vitally involved sections of the community think. [More…]

• They have a right in respect of the setting up of any commission such as this to put their point of view, as do those people in the community who are vitally concerned. [More…]

• If by that he means that we are wanting to wait until the people in this community who have an interest in this Bill and who will be affected by it express their views, and if we are waiting for the States who are after all part of the Constitution and part of this country to express their views, then he is right. [More…]

• It is the duty of this Senate to see that both in this chamber and throughout the community there is adequate debate on the Bill. [More…]

• It is a question of benefits to the whole Australian community and of what is in its best interests. [More…]

• Apparently we are to be subjected week after week and day after day to vilification of anyone who runs a business or who uses capital in this community, but never are we to list the defects of the union system because we are then union baiters. [More…]

• My movement in what are supposed to be conservative electorates in this community leads me to believe that an overwhelming number of Australians do approve of electoral equality. [More…]

• After all, the Liberal Party is supposed to be a liberal party to cover all sections of this community. [More…]

• It is a lesson to all of those who want to know what the community thinks about electoral reform to study the by-election which was held last year in that seat, and to study the policies which the parties put openly and vigorously to that community. [More…]

• The electoral community of Goyder, which consists of slightly fewer than 10 000 electors, was subject to the canvassing of 30 members of Parliament from the Liberal Country League as it then was, from 3 members of Parliament from the Liberal Movement and from a considerable number of interstate visitors from the then Australian Country Party, who were very pleasant and personable people to meet in the field. [More…]

• Therefore, the Opposition here speaks for a very small section of the Australian community today. [More…]

• If he argues about the lack of community interest and imbalance in voting he will be in order but if he goes beyond those things he is straining the Standing Orders. [More…]

• The Opposition would like to say something about the emphasis on greater community involvement in educational curricula. [More…]

• Anything pertaining to education in our community is of immense importance and if we are basically of a similar view it is something about which we should be nothing but pleased. [More…]

• I believe that a development centre should concern itself not only with the establishment of specific technical standards but should regard with great importance the relevance of education to the society and the community about us. [More…]

• If it can effectively become the correlator of the experiences from a vast field, it is reasonable to assume that the sort of curriculum that will be developed by this Centre will have a real relevance to the community in which it is being practised. [More…]

• Earlier this afternoon I said that it is important to us that the membership of the Council should reflect community participation. [More…]

• We believe that education in general has much to gain from the involvement of the community in educational processes. [More…]

• I make a contrast of the membership of the Curriculum Development Centre Council with that of the body to be set up under the Trade Union Training Authority Bill, which has shown a recognition of the need for representation of people in the community who would be best able to judge the service which that sort of body could give. [More…]

• Also- this is more important- 1 think it could keep off the Council of the Centre people like practical teachers, outstanding theorists, outstanding parents or anyone else in the community who should be represented on the Council. [More…]

• They are, today, in many cases people of quite considerable affluence in our community. [More…]

• It is the type of legislation that can lead to deep schisms in our community and cause great trouble to individuals. [More…]

• There is nothing worse than the mental cruelty that can be and is being inflicted on minority groups in our community by so-called law abiding citizens, and when the only ground for this discrimination is racial it is indeed high time that something was done about that form of cruelty which not only disadvantages a person in the fields of employment and housing but robs him of his dignity and his pride. [More…]

• These minority groups form an integral and most important part of our community. [More…]

• In no way can we claim to be an egalitarian society and at the same time foster the type of thinking that prevents sections of our community from being able to feel and say quite proudly: ‘I am an Australian’. [More…]

• They are seeking some form of security that does not exist in the community at large, and more’s the pity. [More…]

• Not only do we lose any contribution that they can make to the community from their different personalities but we could be missing out on the undeveloped talents that they are holding back because of a perfectly natural instinct to protect themselves from being hurt on racial grounds. [More…]

• I realise that education is the kernel of this issue and that there are several organisations in the community which are quite well aware that the only cure is education and conciliation. [More…]

• The most important challenge for the community relations program however lies in the field of education. [More…]

• She attacked the whole problem of racial discrimination on the basis of sexualism that is to say, women are a deprived element in the community. [More…]

• I suppose that Senator Cavanagh would not disagree that she was alienated from the community because she was part of a submerged culture. [More…]

• The correspondence we have received over the past few months relating to this Bill would indicate to all of us that there is a wide difference in the opinions that are held in the community, and I think it is not unhealthy that different views have been expressed here in the national forum. [More…]

• I say to the Minister in charge of the Bill that he ought to give very careful consideration to the amendments which will be put forward by the Opposition in the Committee stage of this Bill, because it is certainly my conviction that the amendments will in fact improve the legislation, would enable it to be introduced far more successfully into the community, and would in the long term aid the objective which I am sure the Government has of reducing racial discrimination in this country. [More…]

• The first point is, of course, that Australia is a multiracial community. [More…]

• Since the first settlers arrived this country has been peopled by successive waves of immigrants, largely from Europe but also from many other parts of the world, and now, quite apart from any future immigration policy that we may follow, we have a community which is multi-racial. [More…]

• That case demonstrated to me that groups of people in the community are treated abominably simply because they happen to have a dark skin. [More…]

• Honourable senators recall that many people bitterly opposed the changes that were being made to family law in this country on the basis which I accepted, namely, that the state of divorce law would indeed affect the community’s attitude to marriage. [More…]

• I do think that law has a place in moulding community attitudes and that therefore the declaration that racial discrimination in Australia should be illegal is useful in itself as a long term educative tool. [More…]

• Additionally, most people are conformists, and the law usually represents the prevailing attitudes in the community. [More…]

• If a clause like clause 28 was passed into law, it is possible that we would find that people who are genuinely trying to debate perhaps our immigration policy or other matters that they regard as being of importance, or even more abstruse subjects such as the inheritability of intelligence, might be held up by some as having a racist intent and of trying to divide the community when in fact that is not the case. [More…]

• Those people I have an obligation to look after under my portfolio have been referred to frequently and I think it would be accepted that, if there was any racial discrimination in Australia, they would be the most aggrieved people by any racist attitude of the Australia public or of any sections of our community. [More…]

• Not only do I represent what is possibly the most deprived section of our community; I come from the only State that has made it an offence to discriminate against people on the score of race, colour or creed. [More…]

• If the father leaves to go walkabout he knows full well that the women and children will be looked after by the community. [More…]

• There are pockets in the community which will not accept lower standards than those we have created. [More…]

• I accepted it as a privilege to have been referred to in that way because the Greeks in my community are very wonderful citizens. [More…]

• In fact, all the people from other lands who live in my community are very wonderful citizens. [More…]

• We have a wonderful community in Australia. [More…]

• He said that we are a racial community. [More…]

• He said that we are a racial community and I know we are. [More…]

• We are a racial community. [More…]

• It is a racial discrimination of which 99 per cent of our community are not aware. [More…]

• We find that legislation which is repugnant to a law abiding section of the community is not wise. [More…]

• The fact is that since 1973 this Government, through my Departmentit was then the Department of Repatriation and subsequently became the Department of Repatriation and Compensation- has been providing free artificial limbs to anybody in the community who needs them. [More…]

• I speak subject to recollection, but represented at the meeting were the Department of the Prime Minister, the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, the Special Consultant on Community Relations - [More…]

• Mr Grassby was present at the meeting in his capacity as the Special Consultant on Community Relations, and he was there as an invitee. [More…]

• What can be done to curb the actions of such people and put them into active work rather than have them bludge on the community, which is the case with all private inquiry agents? [More…]

• -Everard Park was handed over to an Aboriginal community to run as a cattle station. [More…]

• 1 am told that it has been well received and is creating a great deal of interest in the community. [More…]

• If not, will the Minister give consideration to making a financial grant from the Australian Government to ensure the continuity of the unique work of this team in the interests of our community? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for the Media: Why are the new ethnic radio stations in Sydney and Melbourne, which are to be licensed to a committee connected with the Special Consultant on Community Relations, to be licensed under the Wireless Telegraphy Act, while other community stations, for example, those at Campbelltown and in central Melbourne, are to be licensed under the Broadcasting and Television Act? [More…]

• Why could not arrangements for community stations be consistent? [More…]

• The frequency modulation community stations that have been established in Sydney and Melbourne- I refer to the music broadcasting stations- have been licensed under the Wireless Telegraphy Act but operate under the conditions of the Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]

• The campaign, which deals with the problems of the environment generally, pollution, conservation and so on, is designed to make the community aware of the tremendous problems that exist in this area. [More…]

• This is a reflection of the community debate on the issue which has led to strong opinions being expressed both for and against an installation of an Omega transmitter in Australia. [More…]

• This Bill authorises the payment of such benefits to the whole community under Medibank. [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…]

• One of the big mining developments, located at Mount Isa, together with the Maranoa electorate is being thrown into the new electorate of Kennedy although there is absolutely no community of interests between the mining in Mount Isa and the rural pursuits engaged in in the grazing areas of the Maranoa electorate. [More…]

• The proposed Division of Kennedy encroaches upon the area of south-east Queensland with which it has little or no community of interest. [More…]

• Here, the same Mr Weise now throws all these things into the Maranoa electorate taking it to the south-east to which he objected in 1968, and he has forgotten all about the fact that there is no community of interest. [More…]

• His submission in 1968 bears out what I have been saying, and that is that there is not a community of interest within the areas that are being amalgamated into one large electorate. [More…]

• This indicates that for some reason or another on this occasion the people rearranging the boundaries of Queensland have gone ofl” the beam and forgotten what was said before about the lack of community interest. [More…]

• It seems to me that throughout this redistribution the commissioners have completely forgotten about community of interest and have just stuck pieces of one electorate onto another electorate, and so on, making it a State without the community of interest that we have had in the past in the various electorates. [More…]

• At least there is some community of interest in all those areas. [More…]

• There is a community of interest there. [More…]

• Communications are established when people are prepared to travel and where there is a community of interest. [More…]

• There is no community of interest whatsoever between those areas. [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…]

• The natural affinity which has existed in the country of Victoria, where there is a basic community of interest, has been destroyed in the interests of building on these notional seats in the centre of the urban population in Victoria. [More…]

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

• Section 19(a) refers to community of interests within a division. [More…]

• It is reasonable to say that Bathurst and Orange have a community of interests. [More…]

• It is reasonable to say that the proposals which sought to place them together were reasonable proposals which fulfilled the conditions set down in section 19 (a) that the Commissioners shall give consideration to a community of interests. [More…]

• There is no community of interests and no account was taken of objections against these proposals. [More…]

• After all, the Labor Party has said that it is only a small harbour and there is a great community of interest and there are no travel difficulties there. [More…]

• The Labor Party obviously could not care less about the requirements of section 1 9 which provides for community of interest, means of communication and trends of population. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite talk about community of interests. [More…]

• He raised several points about community of interest. [More…]

• I never heard any member of the then Government say: ‘Well, look, this is a distortion; it is a retreat from the community interest’. [More…]

• It is an electorate which has been an important entity in that State since Federation and an electorate which probably meets the guidelines of community of interests better than almost any other electorate in the State. [More…]

• 1 want to make the point that in applying the 10 per cent rule above and below the quota we have seen a circumstance in which the redistribution finds that those electorates in New South Wales which have the greatest area and the greatest problems of communication, community of interest, physical structure, travel and so onthese are the most enormous electorates physically- are the electorates that have the greatest numbers of electors. [More…]

• There are 40 or 50 different areas of local government, community interest and organisation, and all this tends to make the capacity of a member adequately to represent the electorates practically impossible. [More…]

• Riverina, as I have already mentioned, is made not larger but is to be abolished; yet, it is probably the most perfect example of an electorate with a real measure of community interest. [More…]

• Every gerrymander, no matter who is responsible, casts a blot on the country, the State or the community which is responsible for it. [More…]

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

• All of these many-sided facets determine the status of a person in our community whatever his race, whatever his origin or colour. [More…]

• In any program for the abolition of racial discrimination which involves the well being of a total community, a state or a nation the community must be reminded over and over again that it has a role and there are steps that it must take and that it has involvement and a responsibility in such a program. [More…]

• The Convention to which I have referred takes up this reference to the community’s role and the role of men and women in society. [More…]

• After all, as I said earlier, it is comparatively easy to lay down legislative processes that would seek to eliminate racial discrimination but when you come to implementing them in human terms I ask the question: How do we really do it, do it effectively, and how do we do it so that the total society benefits and so that relations between persons and person, group and group, and community and community are maintained for the benefit and total development of the whole? [More…]

• But we have had, as honourable senators know, our problems in this area and as a society the Australian community bears responsibility for what might be called racial offences. [More…]

• I suppose that in this regard we have to examine ourselves constantly in respect of our relationships to those people within our midst, and I am thinking particularly of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I am not one of those people who has lived within any section of the Australian society where I have come up personally against the conditions and circumstances in which there is a situation whereby a European-Australian community and an Aboriginal-Australian community live side by side. [More…]

• I think of remote communities within our Australian society where there appears to me to be serious objection on the part of what I will call the white community to proposals for housing or for community benefits that were arranged for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The proposals related to social opportunities for the Aboriginal community, and it was a matter of some concern to me that there seemed to be some objection to them by other sections of the community. [More…]

• I merely refer to it as an experience which I have had and which appears to me to be discrimination against a section of our community. [More…]

• Whether or not this can be proved or whether or not it is true I am unable to say at this stage but I became aware of what appeared to me to be an example of racial discrimination within our Australian community. [More…]

• I have heard allegations of discrimination against the Aboriginal community by various other sections of our society; of exploitation carried out over the counters of shops, and exploitation by people involved in the delivery business. [More…]

• In the outline of the allegations and in the observations it has been presented to me as a member of the Senate Committee that there was a section of our Australian community that was suffering some disadvantage that it should not have suffered; that there was a section of our Australian community that felt that it was being discriminated against and was offended or hurt as a result of this discrimination which it believed it was not entitled to receive. [More…]

• I think it also should be mentioned that there is a growing number of people within our Australian community- there is a growing number of communities within Australiawho are seriously concerned, as have been speakers in this debate, about racial discrimination in Australia and who through the various opportunities available to them are doing constructive work to combat discrimination. [More…]

• They are doing constructive work to heal previous mistakes and I want to pay tribute because I have been impressed with the work carried out by a whole range of groups within our community, such groups that are known as task forces and the educational institutions and centres. [More…]

• I think of Aboriginal legal services and of various schools and colleges within our Australian community, but more particularly I pay tribute to individual citizens, privately and those who are involved in public affairs, who take upon themselves very seriously tasks and opportunities to rid the country of discrimination and particularly to serve people who may feel that they have been victims of discrimination. [More…]

• There is another area within our Australian community in which I have had a particular interest, and this is the field of immigration. [More…]

• Our policies pursued by this country over these years have allowed not only a great development of our country but also a development of what I really believe to be good inter-community and interracial relations. [More…]

• I am a little reluctant but I do mention that it is a matter of regret and indeed grief to some groups within our society that the Baltic community in Australia still has a very strong feeling that it has been the victim of some discrimination, so that when we undertake legislation here, whether it be the Government or the whole Senate, in connection with the matter of racial discrimination, I think we have to be aware of the complexities that exist and aware of the fact that even the most finely developed legislation cannot solve all of the human and the personal problems in racial matters. [More…]

• If Australia is successfully to face the challenge of the next decade and in particular to solve its present problems it cannot afford the self destroying tendency to discrimination which unfortunately exists within the community. [More…]

• Therefore I feel, looking at clause 31 again, that systematic and extensive programs of community education may in the long run very well be the most effective way of creating and maintaining a harmonious social environment that is free from discrimination. [More…]

• If we talk about this we have to remember that we must undertake a vigorous and active program of education not only for our students and young people but also for our adult community. [More…]

• In short, the community should take unto itself not only the advantages and factors which the Bill lays down but also should be aware of the responsibilities which the Bill imposes. [More…]

• As one, like my fellows, who is concerned for the well being of our community I give the Bill support and look forward to the Committee stage of the debate. [More…]

• I believe that together those 2 things will make this a Bill which can stand up in the community and of which we as a community can be proud. [More…]

• We expect them to come here and do the dirty work in this country while at the same time we do not make friendships with them and absorb them into the best parts of our community. [More…]

• But I still place at the high point of my argument the fact that we are acknowledging a convention and the effect that that will have on the community from an educational point of view. [More…]

• More importantly, it provides for the Commissioner for Community Relations to do what I believe should be a limited job. [More…]

• The various other parts of this Bill- the protection of legal rights and the education angles which have been mentioned already- are, I think, worthy and, as Senator Davidson pointed out, will have a more long range effect in this community. [More…]

• I take the view- it is not a view I have formed very quickly- that it is quite undesirable in this community to try to eliminate by force of law the expression of certain ideas. [More…]

• Sometimes the truth might appear to disappear but overall I believe it is important in this community to respect the right of people to make the disagreeable statement. [More…]

• I have long taken the view publicly that I think Communists ought to have the right to organise and the right to speak in this community. [More…]

• We have to be resistant in this community. [More…]

• We know that the rate of crime among migrants in our community is remarkably low. [More…]

• I believe that with that, the Bill will be successful and will be valuable to our community. [More…]

• I believe that we should be looking at a very extensive program to educate all Australians to a better understanding and a better appreciation of those people in the community who have different coloured skin, who are of different nationalities or who have different religious beliefs. [More…]

• I speak particularly of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• No more discrimination against those who are less fortunate in the community, those who have a different coloured skin, those who speak a different tongue or those who are not so well educated. [More…]

• Now they can be free citizens in our community’. [More…]

• I am a little concerned because many young Aboriginal people in the community today have become impatient for change. [More…]

• Under clause 8, the Commission will be required to keep the business community generally informed of its procedures and methods. [More…]

• I have a very strong view that the Senate, in particular, needs time to make quite sure that this particular legislation is both good and proper, that the community really needs and wants it, that it will be what it says it will be, that the people who will be affected by it, both the workers in industry, the people who are involved in industry and the whole community will get a genuine benefit out of this. [More…]

• On the one hand there are groups in the community that rightly believe that the kindergarten years, broadly between the ages of three and five where the emphasis is on education, should be expanded. [More…]

• Without a lot of social upheaval in this area it is impossible as a short term overall objective, for the inescapable fact is that it is the private sector through people’s own capital investment in buildings and equipment which is bearing so much of the brunt and enabling fewer children in the community to be so-called latch key children than otherwise would occur if that sector were squeezed out of business. [More…]

• In the lower socio-economic areas the demand for this is increasing and there is an increasing awareness in the community that children need more than just care- that they need a certain amount of educational content in the day’s activity. [More…]

• I would expect that the children’s bureau, which we propose as an alternative approach, would take this up as a major activity and draw information from all sectors covered under the departmental framework of what we see as community development. [More…]

• These are being set up in the community informally by parents. [More…]

• It is important, when talking about the play group and the parent involvement question, to remember one of the problems which have their effect upon children in our community. [More…]

• These figures probably are a little out of date, as costs in our community are increasing so rapidly. [More…]

• It has been reported to me that there is throughout the community a feeling that there has not really been adequate time to consider this proposed legislation. [More…]

• It would have the coordinating responsibility and it would be responsible for obtaining both input from the community and from other departments and coordinating approaches rather than being the separate bureaucratic structure for administration down the line. [More…]

• I cannot see any justification for Senator Rae’s comments that the community organisations are not being involved enough. [More…]

• The Minister has indicated that he wants the community to participate. [More…]

• I have not had the problems that Senator Rae has had in getting comments from the various community organisations in Western Australia on their attitude to the Bill. [More…]

• We never see community activities there at weekends and we certainly do not see any activities there during school holidays. [More…]

• There are a great number of latchkey children in our society, and it is the responsibility of the community as much as the responsibility of the parents that we have those latchkey children. [More…]

• We have to look to social workers for guidance; we have to look to our community groups for guidance. [More…]

• The Bill provides that they will be set up in areas primarily to be determined by the community. [More…]

• To take a somewhat gratuitous approach to the rights of women in Australian society during International Women’s Year is perhaps not something that is welcomed by the thoughtful women of the Australian community. [More…]

• There is to be a transfer of support away from the home to the community. [More…]

• The Bill does not make any provision to exclude them, but obviously our emphasis is on community based nonprofit making programs. [More…]

• That subsidy will be paid in respect of each pre-school which extends and/or integrates its services in a manner compatible with the philosophy of the Children’s Commission and the needs of the particular community. [More…]

• We would welcome suggestions from individual centres in relation to other extended services, particularly of an innovative nature, which would meet the needs of a local community. [More…]

• -The definition provides for a wide range of services for children throughout the community. [More…]

• Planning and administration will proceed at the community level. [More…]

• We want the community to be involved in the care of its children. [More…]

• Do they mean that the Minister has already decided and even directed how services will be planned, even though earlier he emphasised the need for the community to make known its views? [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- (iri) the education and training of persons involved, or to be involved, in the provision of services for children; [More…]

• These advisory boards consist of representatives of State government, local government, community groups and at present the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission. [More…]

• But in our view that does not adequately cover the requirement that consultation and co-operation so far as the Children’s Commission is concerned should be community based. [More…]

• So it is abundantly clear that the Opposition, in this important area of trade union training, certainly is dedicated to the principle of establishing that capacity in our community. [More…]

• We would have hoped that a trade union training authority could have been incorporated basically within the existing educational arrangements in our community, naturally with special reference to the curricula requirements of the trade unions. [More…]

• We say that because it seems a shame, in establishing a necessary form of education in our community, that we should be tending to establish an institution such as the envisaged authority which in some real measure appears to have the capacity of shutting itself off from the rest of the educational fields in Australia. [More…]

• If there is a measure of suspicion there is just that little less chance of an operation being as effective as it should be and must be in the requirements of the Australian community and the Australian economy. [More…]

• If there were any chance that this sort of isolation in trade union training could bring about a circumstance in which only the hierarchy of the trade unions would receive the instruction that was available, it would damage rather than aid the progress of the Australian community. [More…]

• There is enormous mutual advantage to be gained from trade unionists, like any other section of the community, being able in their normal educational process to mix with people who are on their way to becoming doctors, lawyers, scientists, teachers and so on in the society. [More…]

• It seems to me that it is important that such an authority should be as open as possible to members of the community who have a legitimate and proper interest in and knowledge of trade union affairs and industrial relations. [More…]

• It is in that concept that the addition of members of this Parliament to the Council can best be seen to act in something of a liaison character between the Council and the community which supports this college as it supports most educational facilities in Australia, in order that the community may feel a direct link with the establishment and control of education in virtually all fields. [More…]

• After all, the community’s purse is the purse that pays. [More…]

• It is proper that there should be a real relevance to and a real rapport with that community. [More…]

• Once more let me refer to the necessity for the Authority, when established, to concern itself- it will be more difficult for it to concern itself because it is to be divorced from so many other educational fields in the community- with a relatively wide area of education and certainly to ignore the attitudes of indoctrination. [More…]

• Whatever the circumstances, whether it is a capitalist community or whether it is a socialist or communist State, ultimately that pan that is divisible to all the people is referable to the efficiency of the employer, whether the employer be the State itself as one entity or whether the employer be many thousands of entities. [More…]

• I am not taking a narrow view because I believe that the word ‘capitalism’ it is only a word and it is referable to any community in the world- refers to the controller or the owner of the capital asset. [More…]

• Surely it is the public’s right to know the sorts of areas and the sorts of directions in which the total community is being taken by any of the institutions in our society. [More…]

• I would imagine that the objectives of private schools were perfectly clear for the community to see. [More…]

• It is perhaps a shame that not all those people in the community who have a genuine and legitimate involvement and understanding and concern for industrial relations should be able to gain entry into this sort of instructional institution. [More…]

• I hope that this college will provide the background in the long term for a greater degree of involvement between unions and management in our community, because it is only as it provides that sort of involvement and a real measure of understanding that we are going to succeed in establishing in this country circumstances which will tend to create greater and greater productivity, which will tend to create a more affluent and a freer society. [More…]

• It is terribly important that the contribution of this training authority should be such that it will tend in the long term to increase not only the productivity of the community but also the understanding of every segment of the community of the way in which our economy and our society operate to the community’s best advantage. [More…]

• As I draw my remarks to a conclusion I say once again that in supporting the concept of this Trade Union Training Authority and in supporting this Bill we are concerned that the yardstick of the Authority- the yardstick of education in this field, as in any field- should be its relevance to the community as a whole. [More…]

• He should know something about the art of negotiating and he should, if possible, have qualities of leadership which are not required by vast numbers of people in our community exercising responsibilities for which they receive the same sort of remuneration. [More…]

• I have confidence that these things will happen because I know some of the personnel involved, particularly Mr Mathews, the Interim Director of the Authority, and I know that from a vast experience of trade union education and training he accepts the importance of the cross fertilisation of ideas between all sections of the community, and so on. [More…]

• We will then have a community in which the trade union movement will be making a most significant contribution to the country’s welfare. [More…]

• But we are now establishing an authority which will give an opportunity to the trade unionist to improve his understanding of the processes of society- economics, as Senator Button said in his speech- the interplay of forces that promote real productivity and urgent consideration of whether the strike weapon is most damaging and destructive to the community, which consists, so far as the work force in Australia is concerned, of about 55 per cent of trade unionists. [More…]

• I commend the present Government for picking up the tab in respect of some people ‘s right to challenge trade union rules, but eventually we will reach the stage where we will have to call a halt because there is such a thing as community discipline. [More…]

• The trade union movement is the most powerful entity in the community. [More…]

• There are outstanding matters in the community at the moment in which the Government is unable to be effective at all. [More…]

• The union view prevails and the Government is utterly powerless to intervene or to act in any way to have done what the Australian community wants done in relation to this very important economic matter. [More…]

• So, without question, we are talking about the somewhat ludicrous position of educating the most powerful group in the community. [More…]

• My second point is that not only are we setting up a Trade Union Authority Act to assist in the training of trade union personnel, we are also setting about training the most powerful group of persons in the community and the parent of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• We want to improve those people who can say to this community: ‘We are the bosses’. [More…]

• That is where all the essential decisions which affect the life of the community must be taken, and nowhere else. [More…]

• I go back to that one instance of $40m of overseas funds that cannot flow through producers, through the suppliers, through the multiplier effects in the Australian community because one union says it shall not. [More…]

• This Government is powerless to act in defence of the general community. [More…]

• Any union which does succeed, albeit temporarily as a rule, in raising its real living standards is and must be doing so at the expense of the community. [More…]

• Powerful mcn who conspire together to squeeze the community are gangsters. [More…]

• If we are looking at this Bill and thinking that out of it will come the cure-all and a recognition of all the economic realities in this community and that within 10 years or whatever time we like to put upon it we will have a sane and sensible union approach to the economy and to its management and to the acceptance of government decisions, we will be sadly mistaken. [More…]

• It is easy for the Senate and the Parliament to express pleasant sentiments and to say: ‘Let us educate everyone; let us draw everyone to the common goal of greater knowledge and understanding of the community and the economy’. [More…]

• Anyone who criticises the most powerful group for the most blatant misuse of power in this community is called a union basher. [More…]

• For too long trade union officials have been carrying out an onerous duty to the benefit not only of their members but also to the entire community and they have received very little in return. [More…]

• The magistrates before whom they appear also receive a substantial salary, yet the organiser, who is basically untrained because he probably entered the industry as a workman or perhaps as an apprentice, is required to train himself to become an advocate in the interests of his membership and of the community, and to date he has not been recognised and he has been considerably underpaid. [More…]

• In the kind of system in which we live a flow-on to workers also means a percentage flow-on to the rest of the community. [More…]

• Trade unionism is a very important part of our community and of the industrial and commercial sectors of our community. [More…]

• Do they affect an industry as much as they affect the community? [More…]

• The vast majority of the people of Australia recognise the real problem in reconciling the power of the trade union movement when it is exercised for political ends, or even exercised for industrial ends which run counter to what is the interest of the community at large, with the power of the Government, the political complexion of which everybody in the country has an opportunity of determining. [More…]

• Very few in the community today challenge the right of trade unions to exercise some power, but there is considerable debate about how trade union power should be exercised and in what direction it should be channelled. [More…]

• The newest development relating to the trade unions is the interest which trade union interests and activities are arousing amongst sections of the community outside of the trade union movement. [More…]

• Many sections of the community and, of course, trade unions are a part of the community, are becoming increasingly concerned about the alienation of people from the decision-making processes in society. [More…]

• Very few in the community today challenge the right of trade unions to exercise some power, but there is considerable debate about how trade union power should be exercised and in what direction it should be channelled. [More…]

• If the trade union training authority gave effect to objectives of that character, I am quite sure that not only would it be meeting what is I believe the desire of the substantial majority of members- having regard to what Senator Brown has said, not all members- of this Senate but also it will indicate that the trade union training authority will serve the interests of the community. [More…]

• He said that he was concerned that this training should not be in isolation and should not be separate from the general movement of education in the community or from the educational seminars which are conducted and which bring management and workers together. [More…]

• I least of all would support any idea of training activities for unionists being carried out in isolation from the rest of the community. [More…]

• It had been wrongly assumed that members of the Community Relations Council were to be appointed by the Governor-General, when in fact they are to be appointed by the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]

• We have seen in the United Nations how in the name of racial discrimination countries like Rhodesia and South Africa have been treated as pariahs and have been excluded from the world community. [More…]

• As of now there are 18 organisations represented on the Committee including the Church, boy scouts, regional groups and the Greek Orthodox community. [More…]

• As the Greek community in Melbourne is so large, the case apparently was put that the hours should be extended. [More…]

• Has the VIP fleet in some way been insulated against the spiralling inflation which has affected every other section of the community? [More…]

• Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in its recent third progress report on television and broadcasting made a unanimous recommendation that licences should be granted to public broadcasting bodies, including community access and ethnic activities, only after a full public inquiry by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and after a recommendation from that Board? [More…]

• There are many wives in our community who, under the circumstances Senator Wright mentioned, are very deserving of every consideration. [More…]

• In our community there is a very undesirable progression whereby the States have been taking over the responsibility for maintenance properly payable by deserting husbands. [More…]

• Reiterating the point that was made in the second reading debate, we believe that the man who is to be the Commissioner of Community Relations, Mr Grassby, has shown by conduct and action that there will arise in the minds of some who could well be affected by this legislation the feeling that he has an antagonism to them which would lead them to believe that they could not get a fair go from him. [More…]

• We have the Race Relations Commissioner who has certain functions and then later in the Bill there is provision for a Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• I believe that with the extensive provisions that are available in the community for legal aid it will not be difficult when conciliation breaks down for an aggrieved party to be directed to another community agency which will be able to provide advice and assistance. [More…]

• Under the scheme of amendments which the Opposition has proposed, the essence of clause 25 remains but it is expressed in different wording to give expression to the omission from the enforcement area of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• I would prefer to see this clause removed entirely and I think that we do better in this area of trying to avoid racial discrimination, of allowing the free interplay of ideas, by hoping that the tolerance which ought to be current in this community to receive and listen to differing viewpoints, no matter how antipathetic they may be to us, will be encouraged and permitted. [More…]

• The point I am trying to make to the Committee is simply that what to one man might be a genuine inquiry, a matter for intellectual study and perhaps even for publication, might be to another man dreadfully racist and a blot on the community. [More…]

• I believe that the Australian community is capable of discriminating between rubbish and what is genuine and that the sorts of publications and activities which were complained of in the second reading debate do not require this very extreme criminal sanction but, given the rest of the Bill, they will wither away because the community will learn to reject those things universally as against almost universally at present. [More…]

• We have argued during the debate on this matter that if there was a desire expressed by the councils of the Aboriginal communities that they should have the right to determine who can enter and who can remain on their reserves in their communities then that they ought to have that right just as every Australian has the right to determine who shall come into his home, who shall come into the normal family unit, as we understand it, in the average urban community. [More…]

• The Aboriginal community with its elected council ought to have, in our view, the right which is being given to it by the proposal now put forward by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh). [More…]

• They have a basic right to live on a community provided they are not interfering with the rights of other people living on the community. [More…]

• A person who might want to live on a community could be excluded by the councillors if he were causing problems on the community and if he were not prepared to live on the community and to abide by the standards set on that community. [More…]

• That would be the only reason a councillor or a council would not permit anyone to return to a community. [More…]

• The decision would be made by the council which is elected by the community. [More…]

• The 5 councillors on each community are elected by the Aboriginal people on the community. [More…]

• Every single community is represented by the National Party. [More…]

• Senator Sheil says that that is a happy community. [More…]

• They have the ultimate secret weapon to abolish that community when they are ready. [More…]

• They were not trying to do anything except convince the government of the day that they needed justice in respect of their tribal land rights, the health of their children, employment opportunities and better health for the community generally. [More…]

• I wish to reply to what the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh) has said in relation to the Yarrabah community, because the information I have received indicates that at least the matters referred to by the Minister are not beyond dispute. [More…]

• The information which I have indicates that the Queensland Government Department has been acting at the request of the Aboriginal Community Council. [More…]

• I understand that the Aboriginal Community Council expressed concern on a number of occasions about the developing events and particularly at what appeared to be a deliberate attempt by Commonwealth officers to ignore, or at least to disregard, their responsibility locally to the community and to the development of the area. [More…]

• I understand that on 1 7 January 1975 the Community Council appealed to the Department for legal assistance and guidance in response to a news release which indicated that the Commonwealth Government was providing funds for some of the people who were the subject of the matter raised by the Ministerthat is, the people who were short term residents or visitors to the area. [More…]

• I understand that on 27 February 1975 the Chairman of the Council appealed personally by telephone requesting a visit by a senior State official for guidance in regard to the Bud.dabadoo area, the interference by outside groups which had no responsibility locally, and support for the Community Council against the pressures being exerted by the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service in Cairns. [More…]

• Therefore I am very glad to say that the Bureau of Statistics has already volunteered to make the maximum contribution to the statistical network and this ensures that information services and statistical services will be available to assist the Australian community in its areas of need. [More…]

• Indeed, the community is gradually becoming aware of information as a national resource. [More…]

• In setting up the Committee under Professor Crisp which led to this report it was pointed out in the background to the inquiry- the Crisp Committee brought this forward in its report- that it was important for the quality and consistency of both Government and parliamentary decisions, as well as for the community’s capacity to evaluate such things as official data systems particularly in closely interrelated areas of social policy and economic policy, that they be mutually compatible and above all that they reflect what I think we can describe as the dynamic needs of the Australian community, the Australian economy and the Australian society. [More…]

• Later, at paragraph 76, the report concluded that it was fundamental that the product of official statistical systems should reflect and actually contribute to the attainment of community goals. [More…]

• It is very interesting that an important document such as the Crisp report states that a product of official statistical systems should be related to community welfare. [More…]

• The report stated that the statistical services must be up-to-date in interpreting its knowledge of government and general community trends. [More…]

• Because the whole world of statistics and the establishment of a Bureau of Statistics now embrace the totality of our personal and community life, I think it is imperative that there be ample opportunity for Parliament to review constantly and decide on any new enterprise and any new undertaking. [More…]

• Parliament provides the opportunity for expression of the people and for expression of the needs of both government and community. [More…]

• The community has a reservation, I think, about the establishment of yet another statutory authority- this one to deal with statistics. [More…]

• Much of this springs from community indifference and community acceptance of an increasing number of these developments. [More…]

• But by the same token constant repetition of statistics and of facts related to those statistics can impose upon the community and upon individuals the worsening of a given situation. [More…]

• I support the Bill as one who has a keen interest in the distribution of information services because I believe it will be of the maximum benefit, interest and pleasure to the Australian community all of which are closely related to the establishment and working of a bureau of statistics. [More…]

• We live in an age when so many of the members of our community desire instant information, instant statistical material and instant statistical collections because all these things provide an insight into trends and provide information relating to developments concerning every conceivable phase of personal, community and national life. [More…]

• That is one of the reasons why the Opposition believes that a general parliamentary interest in this matter would lead to a better community understanding and a willingness to supply information for statistical purposes which was much more reliably based. [More…]

• The community needs good information, it needs good statistics, but to get that it needs a willingness on the part of the community to provide that information. [More…]

• The 2 facets of the life of a parliamentarian are to represent the community well and at the same time to see that the management of his society through its parliamentary and governmental system is both adequate and sensible. [More…]

• We in the Opposition have come to the view that there is a very great case for keeping the Parliament better informed, more up to date, and as far as possible in better touch with the community. [More…]

• It is true, as the Minister says, that when the Estimates come before the relevant Estimates Committee and before the Senate there will be opportunity to ask questions, but I would remind the Minister- I covered this point when I spoke earlier- of the very strong influence of the Bureau of Statistics within the total Australian community. [More…]

• I point out to him the very strong effect that it will have on various forms of our community and personal life, because it will be providing and will be collating information relating to a wide range of community affairs, personal affairs, and personal information. [More…]

• Having said that, I feel that the Government would be doing the community a service if it accepted the point of view which we put forward. [More…]

• But in the broader sense it is an intrusive government because it accepts that its role is to provide for the whole of the community. [More…]

• We believe that the whole aim should be to achieve a working relationship between the community and the Commission, and that there should be none of the austere atmosphere or the inhibitions that unhappily do and need not inhabit the court room from time to time. [More…]

• Has the Australian Broadcasting Control Board called for applications for a community broadcasting station licence in Melbourne? [More…]

• Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDApplications were called by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board for a restricted community licence to be issued in Melbourne; applications were invited by the Board late in December of last year. [More…]

• It is intended for operation by non-profit incorporated bodies to meet the specific needs of the local community, and recently an inquiry of a similar nature was conducted into applications for a licence for Campbelltown, New South Wales. [More…]

• One of the gentlemen to whom Senator Greenwood referred is a former commissioner of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• All I can say is that a wide cross-section of people from the academic and from the media sections of the community, including proprietors, executives and members of trade unions, have been invited to become members of the Media Research Advisory Committee. [More…]

• Yes, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs is funding various organisations in regard to the involvement of children in cultural community relationships. [More…]

• They were undertaking studies of a peculiar nature in so far as the students were spending a day in business activities in the community for the purpose of fitting them to take their place in business society. [More…]

• The Committee considered that there were some urgent matters- the Minister for the Media will understand the choice- such as community broadcasting, community access to radio, the use of the spectrum, and so on, which ought to be the basis of a progress report immediately. [More…]

• We have, stating it fairly, considerable unease in the Australian community, and I do not intend to debate the general propositions laid down in the second reading speech because I am really seeking to persuade the Senate that this is a case where deferment and time to study might be of great benefit to the people of Australia, to the Senate, and to the Government itself. [More…]

• I am giving this example to illustrate that the time has come in the Australian Parliament, in many of these cases that are controversial, for the Senate to draw itself apart to some extent from the House of Representatives and to make quite sure that where matters are not controversial they go through as quickly as possible, but where they are controversial delay is allowed, time is taken to think, the community which has expressed great alarm can get involved and study the matter to see whether or not its alarm is justified it is not always justified; sometimes the community is unduly and wrongly alarmed, but time must be allowed for people to determine whether what they have believed is perhaps unwarranted. [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 Australia will be found in the future. [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…]

• This provision recognises the unique social role railways play in not only the lives of people but also those of communities, for in his deliberations the arbitrator can take into account the social and community as well as the economic factors affecting a particular disagreement. [More…]

• Mr Sicco Mansholt, vice chairman of Socialist International and former president of the European Economic Community, confirmed the Australian support in Sydney yesterday. [More…]

• Mr Sicco Mansholt was there, for many years Minister for Agriculture in the Netherlands Government, and the former Chairman of the Commission of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If only it could be revealed that Senator Greenwood gets up in the Senate and exposes the former Chairman of the Commission of the European Economic Community as a dangerous conservative, even the most addle-Dated recipient of League of Rights literature in the electorate of Maranoa would have doubts about casting a vote for the Opposition at any time in the future. [More…]

• If a man is treated like that it is bad, not only for Chile but for the whole international community. [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 and voluntary bodies. [More…]

• Deprived community groups have not the same access as the wealthy to other sources of personal enjoyment and fulfilment. [More…]

• Senator Greenwood knows full well that the answer to the great power blocs in this community and the power wielded by the unions, who are responsible at the moment to no one but an elite few, will be provided not by the Labor Party but by the Liberal Party. [More…]

• What I am saying is that the Opposition is at a standstill in regard to the most important question which faces the community, and that is how to contain the power blocs who are a law unto themselves at this moment. [More…]

• I trust that with the addition of proposed amendments to the Bill, which remain at this stage a little obscure but which I am sure are intended on all sides to strengthen the Bill, it will achieve a great deal in bringing into some sort of order administrative law in this community. [More…]

• We recognise that we have reached a stage in this community at which there are, as Senator Everett pointed out, a great number of extra discretions that are given to Ministers and officials and that government has moved into many fields of activity in which hitherto it did not have any interest. [More…]

• Because of this fact alone we have a need for an administrative law which is not just ramshackle, as I think we could properly describe the present state of the law in this country, but one which is logical and consistent and, above all, is known by the people in this community. [More…]

• In my opinion, this Bill is in no way a slur on the Public Service of this community. [More…]

• It is something which will open up for consideration the opportunities which an individual in this community ought to have. [More…]

• In addition Repatriation patients will be eligible for the same Medibank benefits as any other member of the community, and may choose to use these entitlements rather than their Repatriation entitlements if they wish. [More…]

• In addition Repatriation patients will be eligible for the same Medibank benefits as any other member of the community, and may choose to use these entitlements rather than their Repatriation entitlement if they wish. [More…]

• That whilst it is recognised that there is no certainty that all the benefits or indeed any of the benefits at all will immediately be made available to other sectors of the working community; past experience has shown that benefits given to the public sector have been taken up and spread throughout the private sector. [More…]

• That the proposal to amend the retiring age provision to age 65 only is a retrograde provision certain to be detrimental to the health and general welfare of persons affected by the Bill; fails to perceive the accrued benefits to the Community at large, the Government and the Public Service by the responsible retirement of those persons, recognising that their best years have been spent in service of the community and that they should have the opportunity of moving out of the service to the wider community for leisure and or other meaningful occupations. [More…]

• That the proposal to eliminate the up to 5 per cent increment in pension for over 30 years service fails to appreciate or recognise those benefits accrued to the whole community, the Government and the Public Service by the loyal, expert and hardworking efforts of those who commit themselves to a working lifetime of career public service. [More…]

• That the Superannuation Bill 1975 offers benefits which are eminently satisfactory, wherein the provisions acknowledge the importance of the quality, dedication and real value of the work of Australian Public Servants, mirrors community requirements, secures justice for Australian Public Servants and their dependants and establishes a realistic standard of conditions suited to widespread adoption for all other sectors of the Australian Working Community at an early date. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs become aware of newspaper reports which have appeared in the Launceston Press relating to the possible misapplication of moneys allocated for the construction of a dam and for other projects for the benefit of the local community of Cape Barren Island? [More…]

• Alternatively, what steps, if any, does the Government intend to introduce in order to stimulate this industry towards meeting the demands of the community? [More…]

• The Government has doubled the expenditure on welfare housing since it has been in office in an effort to meet the needs of the community. [More…]

• It facilitates the granting of legal aid in a way that possibly ignores the complete role which may be filled by the legal aid committees and other bodies providing legal aid throughout the community. [More…]

• I suggest that this Bill deals with one of the most important elements operating in our community today, that is, the ever burgeoning growth of the power of the Executive and the need to bring it under proper control. [More…]

• In fact, it is accepted that the special talents which have enabled them to get their high office should be at the disposal of the community in extra-curricular activities. [More…]

• I suggest that the Opposition might reconsider its attitude towards the amendment which is, I think, limiting the activities of people who could spread their talents more widely to the benefit of the community at large. [More…]

• I am suggesting in the first place that, whilst worthwhile changes are being made in many areas, at present the Australian community will not find it very easy to afford the total bill for the full proposals embodied in this legislation. [More…]

• This is a debatable proposition if one is looking at a community that is entitled to some equality of opportunity and security. [More…]

• But the principal thrust in achieving that has to be, first of all, a responsible government that knows where it is going and a community that believes in that government’s capacity to manage and be sensible. [More…]

• I do not believe that this proposal, moving as it does in effect to take away from one section of the community which is now less secure and giving more to another section which is now more secure, is the proper and sensible way to achieve that. [More…]

• Warnings by the Opposition in relation to proposals to spend money on the poorer section of the community are usually framed in derogatory terms. [More…]

• The Opposition is there when presents are made to big business but it opposes any endeavours made by the Government to give some relief to the poorer section of the community. [More…]

• I submit that it is absurd for the Opposition to propose to put back the clock to 1924, particularly when the social aims of the world community are for a lower retiring age and more leisure time. [More…]

• It has been said that the Liberal Party Opposition is being unnecessarily harsh in relation to people to whom Senator McAuliffe referred as needing bread and butter and being the poorer sections of the community. [More…]

• If we in the Public Service are getting less than bread and butter and if we are the poorer sections of the community, I can think of the many small farmers, the 75 per cent of wage earners who have no superannuation at all and other sections of the community who would rejoice if such benefits were bestowed upon them. [More…]

• I am saying that a reasonable judgment is demanded in relation to the extent to which money is ladled out of the Consolidated Revenue which we hold in trust and which is collected in taxes mainly from the other great part of the community comprising 75 per cent of the wage earners, the small farmers and the small businessmen who, for the most part, have no superannuation at all. [More…]

• There are 2 main factors surrounding an increase in expenditure under this scheme- the ability to pay for and the equity involved in this scheme in relation to the rest of the community. [More…]

• We are seeing in the community today the first real taxpayer revolt. [More…]

• They are all a direct result of revolt against the exorbitant tax rates which are now being paid by the community. [More…]

• What are we doing for the general community in providing it with life benefits such as are available under this scheme? [More…]

• What the Liberal Party is saying in fact is that it would like to give this sort of benefit to as wide a section of the Australian community as possible but the Government has set a strategic situation and has failed properly to manage the finances of this country. [More…]

• I have voted against the interests of a great number of individuals in the community. [More…]

• There are a number of optimists in the community who believe that inflation this year will be lower than 1 5 per cent. [More…]

• It is a known fact that if there are faults in the scheme, if the community suddenly develops a much greater capacity to pay, if the financial aspect of the public management by this Government improves and if it is desirable to increase these benefits, they can be increased by another amendment at any sitting of this Parliament. [More…]

• It is not the big businesses in this community which will fold under pressures such as those which will be brought to bear by this Bill; it is the myriads of small businesses today which are simply going out of business without any publicity. [More…]

• On the basis of looking at the capacity to pay, the equity to others in the community, the failure of all members of Parliament- I include myself- to develop any logical argument for a national superannuation scheme, which is the only fair basis on which to develop superannuation in Australia, and even the failure to mesh in this scheme with the removal of the means test, I believe the Opposition’s amendments in the main should be supported. [More…]

• While speaking on the matters of widows’ entitlements, I must confess that I am concerned that there has not been almost an uprising in our community at the injustices under existing schemes experienced by widows of superannuitants who receive only a portion of what their partner would have been entitled to if he had been able to claim full benefits. [More…]

• I am concerned that no one in the community has risen up and said that this is wrong. [More…]

• The Committee recognises that within the community an increasing number of family units are becoming dependent for their continued support upon the joint incomes of husband and wife. [More…]

• Equally the Opposition recognises that a government of this country has a responsibility to the whole of the community. [More…]

• Whilst one group of people urge upon government in varieties of ways the need for something to be done to augment a section of the community or to advance a particular cause, there are other groups who might urge in the opposite direction or claim that there other objectives which ought to have greater priorities. [More…]

• If there is a need at present in this country it is for government to accept the responsibility which it owes to the community as a whole. [More…]

• We have seen in the space of 2 years a prosperous community with regularly increasing standards of living rapidly going downhill because of irresponsibility in government. [More…]

• Everybody in the community must accept some restraints in the national interest. [More…]

• Fundamentally we are concerned about 2 things: Firstly, we want to ensure that the community is managed responsibly and that money is not spent on over-generous schemes when the need is to exercise restraint and to show an example right throughout the country; and, secondly, we want to avoid the pace-setting example that must inevitably have its effect upon the private sector. [More…]

• We are today governmentally a community of boards, corporations, authorities and commissions. [More…]

• I think I am right in saying that a little less than 50 per cent of members of our working community are covered by superannuation schemes. [More…]

• That is the only sector in the community which is currently disadvantaged, and it is unfortunate that that is the case. [More…]

• It has been suggested in some quarters that a government has no right to give its Public Service conditions of employment which the community could not afford to give itself, for example, under a national superannuation scheme. [More…]

• Public servants have a special employee-employer relationship with the Australian Government which does not apply to the rest of the community and they have also well organised unions. [More…]

• Every time governments endeavour to introduce legislation which seeks to expand benefits for people there are those conservatives in our community who say that it should not be done for this reason and for that reason. [More…]

• After all, when we talk about the private andublic sectors, are we suggesting, as someonourable senators have suggested, that the taxpayers are going to pay for this and that that is any different from the consumers paying for it as members of the community; that if the private sector introduces any benefits for its work force, whether in the form of increased annual leave, long service leave, workmen’s compensation or increased superannuation benefits, that cost does not pass to the consumer? [More…]

• The Australian Government does not have to be afraid of giving some sort of lead to the Australian community just because there happens to be a downturn in the private sector of the economy. [More…]

• He used this legislation as an example of one particular section of the community being given benefits which were not being received by others. [More…]

• It is a fact that ever since the first federal Public Service superannuation scheme came into effect it has given better benefits than other schemes and has been a pacesetter generally in the Australian community. [More…]

• I agree wholeheartedly with the point made by Senator Cotton that we ought to be able to devise in this country a superannuation scheme which will not create any forms of privilege or advantage to any one section of the community. [More…]

• I would almost invite members of the Opposition, if they think that the propositions under the legislation are too much for the community to bear, to agree that we might all jointly, as parliamentarians, accept reductions in our own schemes in order to bring them back to the level of the Public Service. [More…]

• We have the view that the last 5 years of a person’s working life are often the most valuable to him and to the community in which he serves. [More…]

• It is beyond the capacity of the community as a whole to pay for everyone. [More…]

• These 2 organisations are co-operative community groups which are interested in the promotion and playing of fine music. [More…]

• If so, how does the Government reconcile that decision on the one hand, with the intention on the other hand to expand considerably the retirement benefits available to one section of the community? [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…]

• But we are entitled to put under examination, to the best of our ability, proposals for Government expenditure which on the best evidence we can get appear to us to be of severe consequence to the Australian community and the Australian taxpayers. [More…]

• Strangely enough, he recognises the responsibility of the Opposition in this matter and appreciates that our action is in the best interests of the community at large. [More…]

• The scheme is obviously an untidy arrangement if one considers the total equity of all of the community in relation to this legislation. [More…]

• We suggest that this is the time to have regard to the overall impact of the cost on the Australian community of the total financing of these schemes by the Government. [More…]

• It would increase further and further the differences within the Australian community and create 2 classes of citizens- those who are secure, privileged and well looked after, many of whom live in the city of Canberra, and those who are less secure, less well paid and less well looked after as to retirement for the very simple reason that the whole body of the Australian taxpayer is not able to afford for everybody the particular benefits, conditions and rates of pay that the Austraiian Government is gradually bestowing upon its own employees. [More…]

• I queried in my speech on the second reading of the Bill in this House last night whether some concerted effort should not have been made by widows in the community, and by the contributors to superannuation schemes, to ensure that a more equitable portion is paid to the widow of a superannuitant. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators that according to statistics there are many more widows in the community than there are widowers. [More…]

• We should be looking for maximum protection and maximum coverage for the majority of people in the community. [More…]

• Probably the Opposition is right in equity if one looks at the total community. [More…]

• We are talking of a smaller group in the community, and I do not think it is a very good argument to introduce the word ‘equity’, as Senator Coleman did. [More…]

• We are looking at the broad argument that to update the total pension in accordance with the CPI would place a cost burden on the system of Government revenue and increase further the disparity and unfairness between 2 classes of Australian people- those who are employed by the Australian Government and those who are selfemployed or are employed by other people in the community. [More…]

• Again it is said that that is an unfair advantage and an imposition on the rest of the community and so on. [More…]

• I repeat, in view of the comments made by Senator Wright, that we have endeavoured to make this scheme an example and a model for other sections of the community. [More…]

• There has to be some redress of the balance if parliamentary government is going to be effective and if we are going to be regarded as serious legislators in this community. [More…]

• We all remember the Alice in Wonderland concept that was spread throughout the community about containerisation. [More…]

• We in Tasmania being a small community are justifiably proud of a relatively small industry, the apple industry, but we pioneered it in a period of great adversity and through skill, ingenuity and enterprise it was built up to an important unit of Tasmania’s economics. [More…]

• The Australian community at large should know that the Senate has once more played its part and, in this case, as the second chamber, has provided an opportunity for it to be heard and to be represented by this Bureau of Statistics in respect of each new situation in which it proposes to indulge. [More…]

• It was taken up by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) as a convenient expression to cover a very great variety of important matters of interest to various sections of the community. [More…]

• But I cannot accept the claims made by this Government that somehow or other it has discovered the National Estate because, as I have already said, many people in the community have for a great many years had a very great and close interest in various aspects of these matters which are now comprehended by the term ‘National Estate’. [More…]

• As I have said, many groups in the community whose activities extend back for many years have very much more right to claim the credit, if any one body, one person or one group can claim the credit, for having identified any such concept as the National Estate. [More…]

• I just want to identify and record the fact that years before this Government came into office issues of this character were greatly agitating many sections of the community and there was political response to them in my own experience in the State Parliament. [More…]

• I have no doubt that many other members of the Senate and of the Parliament would be able to look back 10 years or more and find that such issues were agitating the community and were giving expression to political debate in our community. [More…]

• 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…]

• We are pleased to find that in clause 8 of the Bill as it now comes before the Senate there is a general provision that in the performance of its functions the Commission will consult with the departments and authorities of the States, local government authorities and community and other organisations. [More…]

• I think the essential principles are set out in clause 4 of the Bill where the National Estate is defined as follows: 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…]

• Last year it produced a magnificent report which has been the subject of much discussion in the Australian community. [More…]

• I want to say a brief word about the personnel of the Interim Committee on the National Estatepeople such as Mr David Yencken, a man who as interim chairman has shown himself to be a person of great wisdom, experience and enthusiasm in trying to see that future generations of Australians enjoy the heritage which only a few years ago was being swept away by our obsession with growth in terms of growth of the economy, growth of cities and so on; and Judith Wright, who for many years was once a voice crying in the wilderness but who is now a voice of significance in the community on this issue because of this legislation and because ofthe establishment of the Interim Committee. [More…]

• I believe it is symbolic legislation in a way, in that it is a recognition by the Parliament of a change in community attitudes and in government attitudes to this very important problem. [More…]

• of such aesthetic, historical, scientific, social, cultural, ecological or other special value to the nation or any part of it, including a regional locality, that they should be conserved, managed and presented for the benefit of the community as a whole. [More…]

• The community may require that they undergo that difficulty. [More…]

• One of the jobs found probably in all other States is the important job of preserving the archives of the community. [More…]

• The optometric profession has also fulfilled a role of community service. [More…]

• Recognising that there was a need in Australia to provide a more adequate eye care service to the needy in our community, the Australian Optometrical Association in 1958 began the pensioner optometric service, which was a voluntary scheme by which optometrists gave their professional services at no cost in order to provide eye care to the group of people in our community who most need that service and who are least able to afford it. [More…]

• I should mention- I think it is quite important for the Minister to realise this-that estimates have been made that through the voluntary pensioner optometric service over 4 million members of our disadvantaged geriatric community have received eye care. [More…]

• Under Medibank the major objective is to provide comprehensive cover against medical and general hospital services to everyone in the community, in contrast to the present inadequate health insurance scheme. [More…]

• This assistance is not only restricted to the construction of mental hospitals for the provision of mainly custodial care but has been used for community mental health services such as day hospitals and early treatment centres. [More…]

• Thus colleges which serve a particular region, and where they may represent the only tertiary institution within a wide radius, are encouraged to develop a variety of programs in response to the wideranging needs of the regional community. [More…]

• These include $4.0m for the construction of various types of student residences in all States, in addition to sums provided for this purpose in the capital programs of regional colleges; $6.3m to enable college staff to take special leave in order that they may acquire further qualifications which will assist them in their teaching role; and $5.3m to enable colleges to plan and develop community education activities. [More…]

• These latter programs would enable colleges to meet a known community need for continuing education in fields where the college s existing expertise can be made available. [More…]

• in response to community pressures and to meet gaps in manpower requirements. [More…]

• The main thrust of the colleges has been towards providing the community with graduates with a first qualification which will equip them to enter particular vocations- The Commission has consistently supported the view that colleges should be strongly vocational in orientation and in its Fourth Report reaffirms its belief that this is where the colleges’ principal role must lie. [More…]

• That the Government make available a sum of $5,364,000 to assist colleges to plan and develop community education activities. [More…]

• They have a responsibility for the service that they are giving to the community, a responsibility to maintain standards within that service, and a responsibility to ensure that their stations are economically viable, otherwise they will go out of existence. [More…]

• I say that in all fairness to the commercial television people who, as I say, are genuinely trying to do all they can to give the best type of program for the children, and this community. [More…]

• We would like to see a real objective in using television as a medium to entertain and educate children and to make them part of a culturally aware community. [More…]

• We have seen licences styled as ethnic licences granted, firstly, to Mr Grassby, the Government’s Special Consultant on Community Relations, and then on the force of some recommendations that were made, now approved, to committees which will operate them. [More…]

• But now something new has been added in the commercial field in the shape of the restricted Licences that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board is about to issue for Campbelltown in New South Wales and for the Melbourne metropolitan area- another form, I suggest, of community or public broadcasting. [More…]

• Two low powered experimental community radio licences have been issued to an ethnic community committee to provide ethnic group broadcasting. [More…]

• We believe that members of the community must be induced to work together. [More…]

• Associated Pulp and Paper Mills has always been a company very conscious of its position in the community in north-western Tasmania and it has always been very concerned about the effects that the vicissitudes of the market, as Senator Wright puts it, have on the local community and on production. [More…]

• It has always been conscious of its position in the community, as I have said before, and has not had a lot of industrial strife in the past. [More…]

• A lot of the company’s troubles will be solved by this policy of diversification and by its policy of looking after its workers and the people in the community. [More…]

• I think the Liberals really oppose the Bill but in view of the circumstances in the community at the moment they are not willing and not courageous enough to come out and oppose it. [More…]

• It has caused problems in a socioeconomic way and other people in the community are being affected by the fact that the employees at APPM have that much less money to spend. [More…]

• It is an organisation which is well and truly able to play its part in the affairs of the community, not only in its own immediate area of activity but in all sections of community endeavour. [More…]

• This has been welcomed by the company and the community in north-west Tasmania. [More…]

• He has to live in the Tasmanian community and he knows that that community does not want to listen to these abstract sermons. [More…]

• He knows that the community knows the facts of this matter. [More…]

• The balance we provide in order to provide a service to the Australian community so that they can communicate with these places. [More…]

• Obviously it is in these areas that communications can and must be extremely profitable, but I do not believe that sheer profitability should be the total and only yardstick of a communications system in a country in which the capacity and standard of communications is of basic importance to every member of the community. [More…]

• But that efficiency must take the total view of the development of the socio-economic circumstances- that is, of the total Australian community. [More…]

• For the first time ever in the Australian community we have, as a part of the organisation, a trade union or staff representative as a member of the Commission. [More…]

• I feel that what is required in this new situation is a new co-operative effort from the work force in the postal and telecommunications areas and the management, which might bring them into a new arrangement which would, of course, profit the Australian community. [More…]

• I assure the Prime Minister that it takes no incitement on my part to reject this Bill because I have at all times felt that it was an absolute red herring and a highly undesirable piece of legislation in this community. [More…]

• Those people who had experience and who know what they are talking about are those who can conclude that this Bill is a mischievous Bill, one which will create danger, one which will create cost, one which will create an unnecessary number of lifetime judges- because that is what the Federal judges will be- at great cost to this community. [More…]

• We are also told, 1 believe objectively, that were this scheme to be allowed to go through as it is proposed by the Government, the estimated flow-on cost to the whole community of Australia would be of the order of $5,000m as a minimum. [More…]

• I am disappointed that the Government has not dealt with the larger question which I think was mentioned in the debate on the original Bill, and that was the general approach to equity throughout the whole community. [More…]

• He dealt with the detail of the scheme, which he has not justified in the totality of the Australian community. [More…]

• But to present these amendments without meeting the obligation to the general community to treat them as sectional benefits is to ensure that they will not pass the Senate as it is now constituted. [More…]

• To give the private sector a superannuation scheme comparable with that of the Public Service would mean imposing on this community in a period of high inflation, high taxes and unemployment a further wage cost of $ 11,000m. [More…]

• Why should they not be able to maintain the position that they have had relative to other employees in the community? [More…]

• I do not doubt that in the final analysis the concept of the national superannuation scheme, which will provide the needed benefits to all sections of the community, is the most desirable end. [More…]

• The issues involved are complex and affect, in one way or another, many sections of the community. [More…]

• I refer to statements on this matter by Sir John McEwen and the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) who was recently highly critical of the restrictive policies followed by the European Economic Community. [More…]

• They are desirous of putting on the island sporting facilities for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• This has already been a matter of considerable concern not only to the persons who work in the CSIRO but also to many people in the community. [More…]

• To promote public understanding of the impact of science and technology on the community. [More…]

• They have found that an organisation which has been working well in relation to the whole community, as well as the scientific community, over recent years has suddenly become a casualty through no fault of its own. [More…]

• The CSIRO has always consistently and conscientiously directed its efforts towards overcoming real practical problems in the community. [More…]

• It has taken the trouble of communicating very effectively with all those sections of the community with which it can have communication, just exactly what it is doing at any time- what has been the produce of the research. [More…]

• It has had mobility and ability because it was not directed from outside but directed according to the response to community needs. [More…]

• It is now shifting very effectively to research into the beef industry which is a current and fairly recent area of need in the community. [More…]

• The community which is in contact with the CSIRO has had faith in it. [More…]

• The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, through the normal channels- the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), the Premier of New South Wales and the State Minister for Youth, Ethnic and Community Services -may initiate the request to the State Minister for Lands and Forests that the island or part of it be vested in the Aboriginal Lands Trust, to be managed in accordance with the wishes of the people as an Aboriginal reserve. [More…]

• I shall indicate to him the concern that was expressed tonight and ask that he discuss the matter with the people concerned- the New South Wales Minister for Youth, Ethnic and Community Services- to see whether an approach should be made to the Minister for Lands and Forests to acquire the island. [More…]

• It is signed by Dennis Walker and a number of other people, mainly from the Aboriginal community in Sydney. [More…]

• One wonders what is happening in these things when one sees letters floating around and being bandied around throughout the community by the Opposition. [More…]

• I have a particular interest in it because it affects, of course, the shipbuilding activities of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd at Whyalla, upon which that community depends very much for its economic well being. [More…]

• It’s said on the assessment of those who are expert in the field that next year $ 177m will be the cost to the Australian community of the decision reportedly taken by . [More…]

• Far more importantly, if we accept at face value that, as the Deputy Leader of the National Country Party said, it would cost the community $177m if price support were withdrawn from the wool market, I wonder what was the cost to the community of the 20-odd years which Mr Sinclair’s Party was in government and during which time it provided no price support at all. [More…]

• It seems to me that if it cost $177m in one year then a fairly reasonable assessment of the total cost to the community of the 20-odd years of inertia of Mr Sinclair’s Party would be in the vicinity of 4 billion dollars. [More…]

• The reason why the honourable member for Richmond (Mr Anthony) and the honourable member for New England have lately taken to launching most vicious and unfounded attacks on the Minister for Agriculture is that they are beginning to realise that their credibility in the farming community is being eroded. [More…]

• I have no doubt whatsoever that the members of the Opposition would like to get me off the air because the truth will be seeping back to the back blocks and the people will know that, on Mr Sinclair’s own reckoning, 20-odd years of inertia from the previous Liberal-Country Party Government cost the wool industry, and what Mr Sinclair charmingly calls the community, about $4,000m. [More…]

• Changes have taken place in the world demand for the products of the dairy industry, particularly with the entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I think that there is a need for recognition of the fact that the conduct of barristers and solicitors being subject to the jurisdiction of the supreme court is one of the safeguards that the community has that barristers and solicitors will behave with propriety. [More…]

• Last year I visited Bamaga, an Aboriginal community on the Cape York Peninsula. [More…]

• At times the Aboriginal community on Palm Island were able to make some money from the gathering of trochus shell. [More…]

• Party, trade union and community affairs. [More…]

• Within the community at large Senator Milliner played an active role. [More…]

• But there is one thing I should like to mention regarding his career and that is the contribution he made to community afFairs and the unselfish service he gave to them. [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 & Poor’s, the other agency. [More…]

• The basic function of PEO and CES is to offer to employers and workers the advantages of central point in the community at which job seekers and employers can have ready access to the largest and most centralized job-demand and laborsupply registers in the community. [More…]

• Monteginnie- The Aboriginal community has moved away from the station. [More…]

• Elsey- The Aboriginal community has moved away from the station. [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…]

• The role of the Australian Legal Aid Office will be to provide a service of legal advice and assistance, including assistance in litigation, in co-operation with community organisations, referral services, existing legal aid schemes and the private legal profession. [More…]

• In particular, its decentralised offices will provide administrative support bases for community advice centres and legal or welfare advice groups generally. [More…]

• Whilst the Scheme partly subsidised the transport costs of some petroleum products in particular areas of Australia the community in general bore the cost of this subsidy. [More…]

• The community does not bear the costs of transporting other essential products such as building materials, food, clothing, machinery, liquefied gas and so on, and there is no special reason why it should do so in the case of petrol and other petroleum fuels. [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Minister, in the context of the excellent Report of the Youth Say Project conducted by the National Youth Council of Australia entitled ‘The Recreational Priorities of Australian Young People’, considering programs designed to provide what a large consensus of Australian youth requires, that is, community meeting places run by young people on non-competitive and unstructured lines. [More…]

• my Department, assistance is available, for the provision of community meeting places run by young people. [More…]

• If that had happened to somebody outside the chamber who was not protected in the community because of his prestige as a politician, undoubtedly he would’ be in very serious difficulties, probably on the common charge of theft. [More…]

• In her work in the community at large, Dame Ivy was a Justice of the Peace and a Special Magistrate in the Children’s Court of Victoria. [More…]

• Dame Ivy’s work for community stability and progress was equal to her parliamentary career. [More…]

• the Australian community. [More…]

• This step is a further indication of the importance which the Tribunal attaches to responding quickly to the needs of the community, particularly the business sector of the community, in the discharge of its responsibilities under the Prices Justification Act. [More…]

• I ask the Special Minister of State: What did he mean by his statement that the Prices Justification Tribunal will remain open until 1 1 p.m. tonight so that it can respond quickly to the needs of the community? [More…]

• To think that someone who is unproved in the business community can direct others on what they should purchase and on how they should purchase is contrary to all my concepts. [More…]

• They are intended to be autonomous community groups and are not subject to policy instructions from the Film, Radio and Television Board. [More…]

• A community group which acquired a tape in the manner mentioned above would have the copyright and would therefore have the entitlement to any performing rights. [More…]

• Funds may be provided by way of either loan or direct grant, under various schemes administered by my Department and the Aboriginal Loans Commission for the development of economic enterprises, special employment projects, housing, community amenities, and other purposes. [More…]

• I might say that I was requested by one very well known and important person in the Australian farming community, whom I will not name, that the matter not be dealt with until such time as the industry itself has had time to examine the report. [More…]

• I believe that the community generally and the veterans and their dependants in particular should feel some great indebtedness to local medical officers because many of them are people who have, at some inconvenience and without any great profit, engaged in the work of repatriation local medical officers mainly out of their strong feelings of sympathy for veterans. [More…]

• In the first place, there is the danger of the creation of a great economic and centralised power operating in this community and operating with great power and influence over the private sector of the economy. [More…]

• It would be a body that could see, for example, that the documents used by different departments were, as far as possible, standardised so that they could be known and understood by the business community. [More…]

• It is being particularly successful in its aim of socialisation in this community. [More…]

• If one has a knowledge of what is required in the community to get the best price, one knows that there must be access to a number of buying authorities. [More…]

• A high level advisory committee is to be established to facilitate the consultation process and that committee will include representatives from the business community. [More…]

• The Senate’s function is to exercise a review, to exercise a check and, if necessary, to take time to enable itself to think, to enable the community to think and indeed to enable the government, if it wishes to do so and is so qualified, to think. [More…]

• It will need to get that money either by printing money and causing inflation, by running a program of shortterm credit on 13-week and 26-week Treasury bills and notes, or it will seek to borrow properly from the Australian community by attracting community savings in a proper style by way of loan raisings in a traditional form. [More…]

• The Government should take that material, study it carefully and then come forward with proposals that will handle the problem in a proper style in the community in which facilities already exist to do it. [More…]

• The legislation proposes a further addition to Government expenditure with no new benefits offered to the community. [More…]

• Because free enterprise responds to the wishes of the consumer, it best provides the quality and variety of goods and services desired by the individuals who comprise the community. [More…]

• It is really demeaning for the Opposition to follow the rather hysterical and misleading criticisms which have been made of this legislation by vested interests in the community. [More…]

• If only those in the community who are underprivileged, who are out of work even now, who cannot afford the luxury of insurance and to whom the tax deduction which props up Senator Webster’s insurance companies means nothing, could galvanise such financial and logistic support it would be all right. [More…]

• You are typical of the people in the community who claim that those who are unfortunate are unfortunate through their own fault or their own misdeeds. [More…]

• It rejoiced the Tasmanian community a couple of weeks ago to have a 40 per cent increase in shipping freights. [More…]

• I have little doubt similarly that if such a person were a professional of any standing in the community he would qualify for coverage. [More…]

• The whole community benefits from a zestful, buoyant economy in which everyone who is eager to do so is encouraged to give of his or her best. [More…]

• It is true that the National Country Party of Australia, as I understand it, seems to be unanimously opposed to the legislation despite the fact that the Government wants to introduce crop insurance for the farming community, something that is sorely needed in this country and which is provided in many overseas countries. [More…]

• But profitability should not be the sole objective to the exclusion of the interests of the community. [More…]

• Yet the Liberal Party will tell us that by bringing down this legislation we are taking some terrible step which would undermine fairness and equality in the Australian community; but in fact the members of the Opposition will when it suits them subscribe to these very principles themselves. [More…]

• It has a service to give to the community. [More…]

• It can be seen that all needy sections of the community- the pensioners, the sick, the disabled and the veterans of the Australian forces- are much better off now than they have been in the past. [More…]

• The Opposition parties have always had access to large amounts of money from the business community. [More…]

• Overall the Bill seeks to inhibit the promotion in the community of any new opposition. [More…]

• Behind the ideas that undoubtedly Senator Cavanagh has taken part in promulgating in this Bill is his wish to see no independent or minority parties having any say in the community. [More…]

• One recalls very well a statement made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) at the last election that all the benefits that the Labor Government would seek to bring to this community could be brought about without increased taxation. [More…]

• I speak for the people in this community who may be interested in politics. [More…]

• This Government has tried by many means to blanket this community with dishonest advertising. [More…]

• That is an indictment on our community. [More…]

• It is a fact that this Government proposes that everyone in the community will be equal but the Government will have the backing of over 700 writers and an expenditure of $20m to put over its policies. [More…]

• I have produced a list which shows that under the Australian Assistance Plan this Government has given thousands of dollars to unions, supposedly to assist less fortunate people in the community, unions which have never previously been associated with assisting people of that class. [More…]

• Then we found that the manager of the company concerned was promoted to be one of the great arts people in this community. [More…]

• Those are the words of the AMP directors, speaking on behalf of their interests and not on behalf of the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• I have a copy of a memorandum which was sent from the State office of Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Ltd to district office managers on 6 May of this year, enclosing petitions which honourable senators opposite have presented with gay abandon in great numbers in the belief that they represent a substantial point of view within the community. [More…]

• Now facts are being presented relating to another great proportion of the Australian community. [More…]

• I think there has been a growing awareness in the community of the activities of foreigners in this country. [More…]

• One has to make a decision as to what choices we should face in this community. [More…]

• The very talk of foreign takeovers and the use of the word foreign’ in this community in such a way as to make it sound bad have meant that we are in a position of lesser strength today than we would have been had this talk not taken place. [More…]

• I think it is very good for us to be able to say to foreign corporations: ‘You are welcome to come here; we are anxious to see you if you will engender employment in the community, if you will engender production, if you will attempt to create greater competition amongst our free enterprise traders, if you will not inhibit the export of your goods and if you will not confine them within Australia’. [More…]

• I think that the step that is now being taken is nothing that will have a very disastrous effect upon our community. [More…]

• It does seem to me that it would be quite improper for subsidies of this kind, paid by the taxpayers in general, to be given to insurance companies in a way in which they are not given to any other section of the community. [More…]

• I am pleased to advise the Senate that they have achieved wide community acceptance. [More…]

• I address my question to the Postmaster-General and I refer to the very strong reaction in the business community against the increased postal charges and its efforts to find alternative methods of delivering mail or economising in mail costs. [More…]

• The matter all turns around what the community might expect the Government to do having set up the Vernon Commission. [More…]

• That does not penalise merely the motorist; it flows right through the whole community. [More…]

• It has to be paid for and it is being paid for at the moment at the expense of the overall community wellbeing. [More…]

• The information from the Budget so far shows a total lack of understanding of community needs, a total inconsistency of approach, a leaning to promote the frivolous and the unnecessary on the one hand while cutting back on the more important needs of the community. [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. [More…]

• This would have saved millions of dollars and would not interfere with expenditure on land commissions, urban flood mitigation, the sewerage program, and the development of Aboriginal community amenities. [More…]

• So at least there are other people in the community in the field of high finance who believe in the policies of the Labor Government even if Senator Withers does not. [More…]

• With the big building combines in this country, I suppose it is an expected move from the Opposition because the Australian Housing Corporation was established to provide low cost and low rental housing for those people in the community who most need it. [More…]

• The Country Party is advocating cuts in Aboriginal grants right around Australia because of their opposition, on racial grounds, to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• And I emphasise this point- reflects within the overall budgetary restraints the continuation of programs designed to improve the environment and the quality of life of the community. [More…]

• If it receives the support of all sections of the community and not the knocking sort of attitude that our opponents in this chamber have tried to attach to it, this country will be quickly restored to a state of total prosperity, and the disadvantaged people whom we have set out to assist since we were first elected in December 1972 will not have any of their rights eroded. [More…]

• There is not one citizen, not one senator, who would take satisfaction from seeing the Australian community facing the disastrous situation which it faces at present. [More…]

• It is gained by spending money in a manner which achieves something for oneself or for the community. [More…]

• Nearly every one of the whole range of social welfare benefits which Labor has been proud to say it has brought to this community will find some cutback as a result of the disastrous inflationary situation which we have at present. [More…]

• I cite inflation and unemployment as two of the underlying problems in our community at this moment. [More…]

• This is disastrous for our community. [More…]

• Surely that would cause great distress to anyone in this community who is proud of Australia, who is proud of its achievements and who is proud of the attempt by the workers in this community to save, to obtain their own dwellings and to obtain their own possessions. [More…]

• Why is it that a Government which basically stands for the worker is willing to see the work ethic in this community brought to catastrophe? [More…]

• It has taken many actions which it purports have increased the availability of the benefits of education in our community. [More…]

• At this time the Australian community is not yet totally socialised. [More…]

• If there had not been an Opposition which had to some extent control of the Senate, Australia now would have in 1975 a highly socialised community. [More…]

• I would say that the first thing that needs to be done in our community at the moment is to see that jobs are provided for school leavers in the Australian workforce. [More…]

• My understanding would have been that Labor would wish to maintain the opportunity for employment in this community. [More…]

• When the Government decides under the Regional Employment Development scheme that it will encourage municipalities, sporting bodies and others to employ some of the unemployed in the community, it pays some $99 a week or nearly $5,000 a year to keep each person in employment. [More…]

• Also the amount of $ 1,000m which the Government will provide this year to maintain the unemployed in the community certainly would be reduced. [More…]

• How the Government can change its attitudes and views I do not know, but I plead with it to see that there is a place for free enterprise in this community. [More…]

• There is in this community a necessity for businesses, for entrepreneurs, to be encouraged to provide job opportunities so that we can continue, on an ongoing basis, some of the social welfare benefits that have been given to the people. [More…]

• For that reason the Treasurer (Mr Hayden) has accompanied the Budget by a call for restraint in all sections of the community and a joint effort to combat inflation. [More…]

• It is dealing with Australian people at the rate of 10 000 a month, people who come to it in search of advice about the numerous problems which ordinary citizens in this community have, people who have not been in the habit of going to see solicitors about those problems, for a variety of reasons. [More…]

• Should that freedom of choice be limited to a few people- Mr Fraser ‘s friends- or should that freedom of choice be available to the whole Australian community? [More…]

• It is an exercise of freedom which will lead to greater equality- not enforced equality -of opportunity in this community. [More…]

• Instead of it putting forward alternative suggestions we have had a series of carping criticisms about the Budget and a series of statements which as policy statements have been constricted by the very philosophy with which the Liberal Party apparently is now stuck- a philosophy which makes it quite clear that the sorts of priorities about which a Liberal government as an alternative to this one would be concerned are the sorts of priorities which favour sectors of the Australian community, which favour the pork barrelling approach and the handout approach to certain sections of industry, which favour concessions to the rich - [More…]

• I am a proponent of the view that we need to have an illumination in the Parliament and in the community of what a government’s three to five year intent will be in economic terms. [More…]

• It is not really loan raisings from the community as such- the institutions, the private lenders- it is a money transfer. [More…]

• The plain fact is that in the bricks and mortar concept in metropolitan Sydney- I refer particularly to the developing area around Fairfield, Guildford and those areas- these tremendous injections of money were something that the community as a whole could enjoy. [More…]

• While on the question of the injection of finance into the community, I turn now to the question of Medibank. [More…]

• Those sports or recreations have a place in the Australian community and, as far as I am concerned, the grants that have been provided in those areas by the Minister for Tourism and Recreation (Mr Stewart) can be described as helping Australia to become a more healthy and vigorous nation. [More…]

• These aims cannot be achieved for the benefit of the whole community unless there is the base of a sound and progressive economy. [More…]

• Those associated with the business, both employers and employees, have enjoyed high living standards, have provided assistance to community welfare projects and so on. [More…]

• The production of national wealth through the whole gamut of primary and secondary industry, and into the tertiary section, is the basic requirement in providing the means to enable government to meet the obligations of the community to provide those services which are expected from government. [More…]

• This week he was upgraded to become Australia’s first Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• Of course, Senator Withers was speaking on behalf of the silvertail and blue rinse section of the community when he made those remarks. [More…]

• Community development offices [More…]

• Community welfare projects [More…]

• Community information centres [More…]

• Yet a very special and fairly small percentage of the community is catered to by the most expensive forms of education. [More…]

• There has been an increase from 4.5c to lc in the charge for the postage of a country newspaper which is invaluable in community terms to isolated people. [More…]

• Never mind about social desirability; never mind about that great social experiment upon which the Labor Party was going to embark after December 1972; never mind about policies which will really lead to the improvement of the Australian community. [More…]

• Then there are the Richmond and north coast bushrangers who have to pay off their debts to the rural community, and there has been irresponsible talk about providing hundreds of millions of dollars for the beef industry and so on. [More…]

• Indeed, I believe that we find the problems of economic and social areas as they are because the policies of this Government since coming to office appear to me to have been directed more particularly towards the establishment of an ideological position or a circumstance with reference to the state than to the economic and social needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• There is the great danger that the Australian community may be in some way being conditioned into a state of mind in which it has to accept unemployment and inflation at high levels as being the norm. [More…]

• Indeed, it was one of the foundations of the unemployment and inflation that beset the community today. [More…]

• Not only is that an imposition on the taxpayer but also it is an imposition on the freedom of choice of the community in the area of health care and health provision. [More…]

• The removal of these incentives and compensations has meant a steady movement of disaster across the major area of that part of the Australian community. [More…]

• Consequently, the scheme has tended to develop a measure of discontent which is certainly not conducive to a satisfied community. [More…]

• Insofar as the proposal does this, that is, lessens the ability and desire of people to provide life assurance for themselves, it will make more unbearable than ever the impost of estate duties which bear heavily on many of the relatively small enterprises in this community. [More…]

• It is a very widespread part of our Australian community. [More…]

• Unless profits are madereasonable profits in the proper context- this community, this country, has little if any hope of survival. [More…]

• As to the question whether the agricultural community as a whole benefits or whether individuals benefit, it is interesting to recall that on the basis of information that was supplied to me by my colleague, the Minister for Police and Customs, in respect of the 400 principal users of superphosphate in Australia in 1973- these are the people who received a personal bounty or a bounty in their names in excess of $5,000 in 1973- we do find one name prominently featured, the name John Malcolm Fraser of Nareen in Victoria. [More…]

• I refer him to a speech made by the Commissioner for Community Relations in Sydney on Monday in which the Commissioner is reported to have said that Australia would never again close its doors on Asia. [More…]

• I have not seen the statement by the Commissioner for Community Relations to which the honourable senator referred, but I heartily applaud the Commissioner’s statement that the Government would never again close its doors on Asia. [More…]

• In these circumstances 3ZZ should be able to devote its existing freed resources to provide a new radio service for Melbourne, in addition to its current access provisions for community groups. [More…]

• Defence, since it is as much a part of our community as any other activity, should involve all Australians in the same way as any other community activity and should not be used for political expediency. [More…]

• Those involved in providing defence needs should be regarded by our community as equal to those involved in any other occupation. [More…]

• In a budget which asserts that the average wages in this community will rise 22 per cent in the course of this year, is it not a fact that a 2 per cent rise represents a major cut in the staffing of the Services? [More…]

• What we have is one of those paradoxes that we find in a community. [More…]

• Consumers are the largest but regrettably the least organised economic group in the community. [More…]

• However, only part of the Australian economy ‘s weakness can be attributed to external causes, such as the slump in wool prices in 1974 and the exclusion of Australian beef from its major markets- Japan, the United States and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The quality of life depends less on the things which individuals obtain 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…]

• 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…]

• A little spiritual emphasis on values would do no one any harm, including cynical Ministers who think that at question time they can take good values held by decent people in the community and play funny games with them. [More…]

• After listening to the tirade of around the world conversation related by Senator Carrick, the previous speaker, quite frankly I think it is a pity that he and others on that side do not go out into the community and wail on the shoulders of the people and tell the pensioners in our society about this terrible Government and this terrible Budget. [More…]

• I have personal knowledge of pensioners in the community who for the first time in their lives have been able to put a few dollars into a bank account- something they were never able to do under the previous Government. [More…]

• As we travel around the community we see 2 men doing work in some areas of commerce and industry which, 40 years ago, would have been done by possibly 1000 men. [More…]

• Of course, rural writers and the conservative elements in the rural community have gone to the wailing wall and have complained in large banner headlines that the Labor Government is denying assistance to rural industry. [More…]

• I have watched the development of thinking within the rural community over the last ten or fifteen years and I have noticed that there has been a demand for more funds for research and promotion. [More…]

• I should like to think that this year Australia is facing a period of economic growth, greater stability and industrial development, further opportunities for employment and gainful development throughout all sectors of the community. [More…]

• When Opposition supporters start talking about sections of our community they should hang their heads in shame. [More…]

• I return to this document that Labor hawked around the community as part of its sales gimmick- the quick sale trick. [More…]

• All I can say to the voluntary organisations which have become upset about the fact that they may not sell so many Christmas cards because people may not be able to afford the postage- which I dispute- is that there is a better way of doing the things in the community that should be done than by having dear ladies selling Christmas cards at extraordinary prices and then using the bulk of the money for the running of the organisations and a little of it for doing good. [More…]

• That is why I say that those dear ladies who now find that they may not have a cause for which to run their bridge parties and for which to sell their Christmas cards should find something better to do in the community. [More…]

• Unquestionably the petrol tax will affect costs throughout the community. [More…]

• Today the small business community has difficulty in meeting commitments and in maintaining viability. [More…]

• In a statement issued by the Minister it was claimed that a new computer system in the Department of Police and Customs will help to save the community millions of dollars annually in transport costs. [More…]

• Obviously the Minister would know of discussion in the community about the financing of nursing homes. [More…]

• The activities of that committee since its appointment have met with a very full and encouraging response from a large cross-section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Many people who felt that their lives were finished now find that they can engage in all sorts of useful activities which not only keep them in a quite reasonable frame of mind but also enable them to make a useful contribution to the rest of the community. [More…]

• I believe that in general people will soon be able to identify those doctors who are behaving correctly from those who are behaving incorrectly, and those who are behaving incorrectly, unless they happen to be the only doctors in some small community, will pay a price in the long run for this sort of conduct. [More…]

• So, everything possible is being done to tighten up what, I think, in the past has been the result of something that has been happening in the community generally. [More…]

• It has completely ignored the plight of the primary producer and the rural community in particular; it increases the area of autocracy; it destroys the initiative of the people and it makes us all so dreadfully equal. [More…]

• We all know the effects that inflation has on those in the community who want to prepare either for their own old age or for the future of their families. [More…]

• There are very many facets of our communityour economic community in particularwhich are affected by these inflationary pressures. [More…]

• I think we all agree that if we do not control inflation those are the sorts of figures we will be looking at and trying to absorb into our community. [More…]

• The main beneficeries of the move would be the farming community. [More…]

• Perhaps at the outset I should point out that a great many Tasmanians feel that this Government is out of touch with the needs of the Tasmanian community. [More…]

• To many of the people who are attempting to enter the work force their first contact with the working community is one that sees their rejection. [More…]

• During the last couple of years we have seen some unions that occupy key positions in our community using their power to raise their incomes, regardless of the needs of the rest of the Australian people. [More…]

• The unions have put the squeeze on the whole community, irrespective of what the community can afford. [More…]

• There are many large sectors of the community that cannot be organised. [More…]

• It is an example of how one section of the community is able figuratively to bash the rest of the public in the face. [More…]

• Are we to cut back our community health program for which a great amount of money has been made available? [More…]

• That is a short part of the great volume of the Budget documents, yet it details the concern of the Government and the problems which have beset the people in the community both as private individuals and as operators in the private business sector of the commercial and industrial community. [More…]

• Professor Wheelwright believes that this Budget will bring disaster to the community. [More…]

• I think that it does them little good and says little for their attitude to the real issues facing this community that they should discuss so provocatively and publicly the Federal leadership of their own Party without contributing one iota to the stability of the Federal Government. [More…]

• In theory, that ought to widen the market for industrial goods and the attention needed by the commercial community to the servicing and selling of those goods. [More…]

• Some statisticians calculate that smaller businesses in this community employ something like 1.2 million members of our work force. [More…]

• If there is a continuing rundown in the number of small businesses there will be a very grievous loss to employment in this community; but worse than that in the longer term will be the loss of the dynamic growth of industry in general because the innovations that the smaller businesses bring to industry are so much a matter of support for large industries. [More…]

• We will suffer a grievous loss if by the manipulation of our tax structures we cannot take some different attitude to small business to make sure that it is encouraged and not lost to the industrial and commercial community. [More…]

• The raising of $4 billion from a person who knows nothing of the private or public aspects of finance is one of the most preposterous propositions that any person could make, and that sort of activity has not helped to impress the business community. [More…]

• Many people in this community are aware of what is called ‘inflation psychology’. [More…]

• That is a task which, in the opinion of so many people in the community and in industry today, grows harder almost by the hour. [More…]

• My contacts in industry tell me that they are pessimistic about the survival of indexation, that they pessimistically believe that the, perhaps, drop in the tempo of wage demands at this moment is temporary and that the continuing rise in the price structure of the goods and services in this community will bring about yet another wave of demands in the next few months almost equal to that of last year. [More…]

• It is a subject of some division in this community. [More…]

• The industrial community and the commercial community are divided as to whether they support indexation or not. [More…]

• The alternative seems to be simply to say in this community that union demands will be led off in those crucial industries such as oil supply; they will set the standard for the rest of industry which does not quite have that throttle hold on the community. [More…]

• If you were however to divide that amount by the many, many times by which it would be divided, and consider the effectiveness that a government policy without penalty- of course penalties are not to be considered in this present situation; they will not work- you would find that by the establishment of a fund of this nature some few hundred million dollars in a year would certainly break the opposition to indexation which will come from what are, after all, only the militant unions of this community who are no longer supported by anything else than a small minority of Australians. [More…]

• The alternatives are what is in effect the whole voice of the Senate and the concern that both sides of this Senate show for the Budget and the promise or lack of promise which it gives to this community. [More…]

• Apart from the fact that they present the financial program of the Government the Budget documents indicate the Government’s attitude to the economy; they indicate the Government’s attitude to the commercial state of the country and they indicate the Government’s attitude to the social and educational and other needs of the community. [More…]

• Indeed, they sought to justify certain petty feelings that they may have about certain members of the community rather than give a studied attention to the reasons for which they established the documents that are the subject of the debate before the Senate tonight. [More…]

• Several Government senators have devoted their time to such things as attacking the social habits of a section of the community for which they obviously have some degree of envy or jealousy. [More…]

• I think it is high time that the situation was pointed out to the Government that if there is an arrangement whereby people can obtain subsidies or assistance in any one of their industries or activities and if it produces an increased amount of productivity and export income and a greater amount of wealth for the community and gives greater confidence to the people, then that sort of subsidy, subject to examination, is justified. [More…]

• The Government is absorbing great sums of money coming from the lower income sections of the community. [More…]

• It is taking money from the poorer section of the community in order that the rich may have advanced education when they can well afford to pay for it. [More…]

• Which section of the community is being penalised by the Government’s indirect taxation policy? [More…]

• Who are the people who are providing the great revenue for the rest of the community? [More…]

• The Government is completely inconsistent in its attack on one comparatively small section simply because it has a sense of discrimination, it has a kind of inverted snobbery, it has a kind of jealousy of the private sector of the community. [More…]

• It has a jealousy of people who are successful, who can do things for themselves, who are prepared to accept responsibility and who, through accepting that responsibility are able to make a contribution and impart a degree of confidence to the community at large. [More…]

• The present economic position is very obvious and is acutely felt by the community because of the massive levels of inflation and the massive levels of unemployment that exists in our community. [More…]

• This section of the community has to meet and has to deal with the problem much more than other sections of the community have to deal with it. [More…]

• I am never quite sure what we mean by that phrase, but they include a large number of people who service the community through their own business enterprises- through the small shops, the agencies, the service stations. [More…]

• We need this productivity and wealth if we are to develop not only those things to which I have referred but if we are to have worthwhile national programs, including the very important program of social services and aid in our community. [More…]

• We can do so only if we have behind that economy a community which is confident and able to contribute to it because it is able to seize the rewards of its own work, is able to accept responsibility and is not totally dependent upon governments as the Australian community is rapidly becoming. [More…]

• We must bear in mind that Professor Henderson was talking about the needy sector of our community. [More…]

• The Minister should be clearly aware of the section of the community which he is hurting most of all. [More…]

• The community has been grossly and gravely hurt by these totally savage increased charges for communication services which are the very lifeblood of our society and which go to make up our quality of life. [More…]

• I am very disappointed at the lack of response by the Government in the Budget to the needs of the rural community. [More…]

• Of all the sections of the community that happen to be in some sort of economic malaise, die rural section is the most seriously placed. [More…]

• It may be that the community does not have much of a concept of the problems. [More…]

• Certainly the Government has not drawn the attention of the community at large to not only the gravity of the rural situation but also the role played by the rural section, particularly as far as our export income is concerned. [More…]

• So it was that in our first year of office we spent $800m- twice the amount that the previous Government had spent- on the educational needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• Senator Cavanagh, during the course of his remarks, referred to the Government establishing, for the first time, the portfolio of Recreation and Tourism to ensure that funds are spent on genuine and desirous recreational needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is equalising the capabilities of local government councils around Australia to provide the many standard services that today’s community demand. [More…]

• If this country is wise enough and the Liberal and Country parties get back into government at the next election, we will see some confidence restored in the community and overseas, we will see an upsurge in private investment and in the industry and commerce of this country and I hope and pray that we will see a great downturn in unemployment, which is one of the greatest tragedies that this Government has inflicted upon Australia at present. [More…]

• Even though one could perhaps say to himself that in the private sector these increased charges are not going to be inflationary, they are going to be a very heavy burden when they are coupled with all the other increased costs which have been inflicted upon the general community. [More…]

• What will happen to the community service clubs which put out magazines? [More…]

• It was for the purpose of ascertaining who might be available within the Public Service and indeed throughout the community. [More…]

• I suggest that that commission of inquiry is doing outstanding work for the Australian community. [More…]

• As to the question whether the agricultural community as a whole benefits or whether individuals benefit, it is interesting to recall that on the basis of information that was supplied to me by my colleague, the Minister for Police and Customs, in respect of the 400 principal users of superphosphate in Australia in 1973- these are the people who received a personal bounty or a bounty in their names in excess of $5,000 in 1973- we do find one name prominently featured, the name John Malcolm Fraser of Nareen in Victoria. [More…]

• It appears to me that he spoke with a great deal of indignation because, allegedly, someone had intruded on someone’s privacy in order to get some idea of how much superphosphate certain individuals in the community had been receiving. [More…]

• They claim to the public at large that they wish to see a more even society and that they wish to see the poor in the community uplifted but at the same time they see that very great financial benefit is brought to their own family’s pockets. [More…]

• I believe that any of those things I mentioned could be initiated by some of the men in the community who claim to be socialists. [More…]

• A most important matter has been raised by Senator Greenwood- privacy in the community. [More…]

• We used to hear former Senator Murphy and other Ministers saying, as we heard Senator Wheeldon say today, that privacy is one of the most important things in this community. [More…]

• Where will the issue of privacy come to rest in this community? [More…]

• I do not know whether that is a sin when we as a Parliament pass in globo allocations of funds to be distributed to any one in the community who may be entitled to them. [More…]

• Many people in the community are in receipt of public contributions by the Government. [More…]

• When public money is being expended and certain people in the community are in receipt of that money, why should the information not be disclosed? [More…]

• It is to play a very important part in the radio world and the community services of this country. [More…]

• I know one astute girl in the Greek community in Sydney who has been involved with ethnic radio. [More…]

• The information was obtained from fertiliser producers on the direction of the then Minister for Police and Customs at a time when the Cabinet was considering whether the bounty should continue- whether a section of the farming community was impoverished and wanted assistance from a bounty. [More…]

• Because of the concern expressed in the community relating to care for the aged, can the Minister give the Senate any further information which will be helpful? [More…]

• The Minister will recall his reply to a question on 20 August in which he said that one very well known and important member of the farming community wanted the Industries Assistance Commission report on superphosphate deferred until it was examined by the industry. [More…]

• That the determinations of the Remuneration Tribunal relating to the Secretary to the Postmaster-General’s Department; Australian National Railways Commission; Commissioner for Community Relations; Commissioners under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974; Road Safety and Standards Authority; Director of National Parks and Wildlife; Aboriginal Hostels Ltd; Schools Commission; and Health Insurance Commission, tabled this day, be disapproved. [More…]

• Consequent upon the Government’s decision to disapprove the determinations passing on the 3.6 per cent wage adjustment and in order to treat office holders within the jurisdiction of the Remuneration Tribunal consistently, I also have moved to disapprove the determinations of the Tribunal in respect of the Secretary to the PostmasterGeneral’s Department, Australian National Railways Commission, Commissioner for Community Relations, Commissioners under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974, Road Safety and Standards Authority, Director of National Parks and Wildlife, Aboriginal Hostels Ltd, Schools Commission and Health Insurance Commission. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that the new commissions had to be formed at a time of general world inflation which makes their impact on the community harder. [More…]

• It should be a really significant shot in the arm for every person in the community, who would then be able to influence to a greater extent how spending is directed instead of spending being dominated by the Government. [More…]

• There is no way in the world in which a nation can meet the social demands that are made upon it except by way of an increase in the total wealth of the community. [More…]

• It was reintroduced as a political gimmick because the farming community in Australia was in dire straits at that time in almost every one of its pursuits. [More…]

• So much did the farmer suffer that the greatest march against a government by the farming community occurred in Melbourne when we were in Opposition. [More…]

• The farming community has tried to repeat it since. [More…]

• It teaches that the wealth of a society should be administered in the interest of all; that every one of us, men, women and children, has an equal stake in our community, and equal duty to it- to do our best- and an equal right to share in its fruits. [More…]

• It is against particularism, group or sectional interest, and above all it is against sectional interests which organise themselves to exploit the rest of the community. [More…]

• That is where all the essential decisions which affect the life of the community must be taken, and nowhere else. [More…]

• This section of the community in 1972-73 yielded through taxation an increase of $272m which was an increase on the previous year of 9 per cent. [More…]

• Inflation has been a devastating weapon in cruelling the business community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether he can tell the Senate about the survey conducted by Australian Nationwide Opinion Poll and whether that survey indicates widespread community support for the Australian Legal Aid Office? [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs sighted Press releases in which solicitors involved with the Aboriginal Legal Service have called for a royal commission into relationships between the Aboriginal community and the police forces? [More…]

• The reversal is indicative of the massive fall in profits of the private enterprise taxpaying section of the community. [More…]

• Inflation has been a devastating weapon cruelling the business community. [More…]

• Apparently, this was to be done not to help the people in the community, but to help the oil companies. [More…]

• Apparently when this was suggested it was said it would not have had any effect on the community, it would not have flowed through the community, but of course any levy put on by the Government does. [More…]

• I suggest the reason is that they recognise that some constraint was necessary in the community and that the cut is a cut in the increase in expenditure, not in last year’s expenditure. [More…]

• Over 100 000 people who have benefited from it have demonstrated the need for that office in the community and have demonstrated that there was a great gap in that area. [More…]

• It seems to be an election gimmick; we seem to have put it above the needs of all sorts of other groups in the community. [More…]

• This happens in communist countries to create a community where people are completely dependent upon the Big Brother state to provide. [More…]

• If that is the view which is held in the community, then how in the world does the Government expect to find a return of private confidence? [More…]

• It has changed course; it has changed Treasurers; it has done things which I believe destroy the ability of the community to respond with confidence in it. [More…]

• I would like to cite some of these things which are valuable purely because I think it is important that, since the attitude of the community is so important in the economic recovery of Australia, we should make it clear where we as an Opposition do not differ from the Government. [More…]

• There is a very real concern on the part of people who are anxious to see that the community is given an adequate legal aid service that that service should be much more independent of government than this Government seems to be prepared to make it. [More…]

• Therefore, it is essential I believe for there to be a great degree of confidence in the Australian community if the people who have savings are to take those savings out of one place and put them in domestic loans in another place. [More…]

• I expect that some would say: ‘That should be a cost which is borne by the community at large from Consolidated Revenue’. [More…]

• But the significant fact which ought not be forgotten is that the percentage increases represent the enormous increases in costs which employers have to meet and that expands, of course, throughout the community. [More…]

• As honourable senators will be aware the Government has been conscious of the need for changes in the management of the affairs of the Cocos community for some time and has been moving towards their implementation. [More…]

• In particular, the Mission strongly recommended that steps be taken as soon as possible to disengage the links between the Cocos community and the Clunies Ross estate, and to permit the community to establish its own identity and interests separate from those of the Clunies Ross estate. [More…]

• It also expressed concern with the control by the estate of the economic life of the Cocos community through the use of plastic tokens as currency. [More…]

• Ownership of a suitably agreed area of land on Home Island to be vested in the Home Island community, as a corporate entity. [More…]

• This would help to establish the community’s own identity, separate from that of the Clunies Ross estate; [More…]

• a local government type authority to be established, with legal and formal status, to manage and control the affairs of the community. [More…]

• This authority would comprise only members elected for a specific period, and would have powers which reflected the wishes of the Community; [More…]

• all future Australian Government contracts involving the Clunies Ross estate to provide for direct payment of appropriate sums in Australian currency to the Cocos community; a separate Cocos community fund to be established for this purpose, to be administered by, and for the sole benefit of, the community; [More…]

• provisions to be introduced to permit freedom of movement for members of the Cocos community; and [More…]

• I point out that all members of the Cocos community who have been born since Australia assumed sovereignty in 1955 are in fact Australian Citizens. [More…]

• 1 ) The degree of control over its own affairs which the community already possessed to be extended into a system of local government and given a formal and legal status; as part of this development attention to be given to securing for the Cocos community as a corporate entity the exercise of control within a suitably agreed area of land, to help establish the community’s own identity, separate from that of the Clunies Ross estate. [More…]

• All future Australian Government contracts involving the Clunies Ross estate to provide for direct payment of appropriate sums in Australian currency to the Cocos community; a Cocos community fund, under the control of and for the sole benefit of the community, to be established for this purpose. [More…]

• Mr Clunies Ross returned to Cocos and, in an exchange of messages with my predecessor, suggested the community and particularly the Headmen’s Council, which in effect he appoints, did not agree with the proposed changes. [More…]

• My predecessor persisted and, after some time, and in the face of opposition by Mr Clunies Ross, a Cocos community fund was established and contract payments have been put on a more reasonable basis in that a small part of each contract sum is now paid, in Australian currency, directly into the community fund. [More…]

• The community fund is administered by 4 trustees; one is the Administrator and the other three are members of the Cocos community. [More…]

• The funds available to the community now stand at about $16,000. [More…]

• Apart from some minor improvements in education made earlier, this is the only significant change which Australia has achieved in the Cocos community in Australia’s 20 years of administration of the Territory. [More…]

• Mr Clunies Ross now appears to remain steadfastly opposed to any further change, and in particular to any change which would break the extraordinary degree of interdependence between the Cocos community and his estate. [More…]

• In June of this year my predecessor as Special Minister of State announced that he hoped to visit the Islands in July to have discussions with the community and with Mr Clunies Ross to implement the changes that had been agreed to in the previous October. [More…]

• A form of local government should be established for the Cocos community. [More…]

• The Government should finance the acquisition, for fair compensation, of all his Cocos assets and operations on behalf of the Cocos community. [More…]

• The Government should underwrite the economic well-being of the Cocos community. [More…]

• He and Mr Dixon would be willing to stay on for a short period to assist the Government and the Cocos community to implement the new arrangements. [More…]

• After Mr Dixon returned to Cocos 1 learned that Mr Clunies Ross had informed the Cocos community of the statements he had made to the Senate Committee. [More…]

• I was informed that Mr Clunies Ross had told the islanders that he would be leaving the Islands and that, as a result, an expectation of imminent change had built up within the community. [More…]

• On Friday, 8 August, after an inspection of the Home Island school, after visiting the homes of many of the Cocos community, after discussions with a number of people on Home Island, I had discussions with Mr Clunies Ross at his residence. [More…]

• Through the council and the estate, he wields decisive influence on community affairs. [More…]

• For example, there is no real freedom of movement to and from Home Island- the Island on which he and the Cocos community live. [More…]

• He determines and controls the rates of payment for all members of the Cocos community. [More…]

• As I have indicated, real and genuine efforts were made by my predecessor to reach agreement with Mr Clunies Ross about the nature and timing of changes which must be made, having in mind the welfare of the Cocos community. [More…]

• In my discussions with members of the Cocos community in August it became evident that a significant proportion of them is dissatisfied with Mr Clunies Ross and the present position and look to the Australian Government to effect early changes. [More…]

• Each of these groups appears to me to represent about a third of the total community. [More…]

• Mr Clunies Ross has his property rights and, as the fifth generation of a long dynastic line, his influence with the community naturally remains considerable. [More…]

• But the Government considers this should not deter it from effecting the changes that it believes are essential to the welfare and betterment of the Cocos Community. [More…]

• the appointment by me, as the responsible Minister, of an interim advisory council comprising the administrator as chairman, three members of the existing council of headmen, three other members drawn from the Cocos community and one member drawn from the West Island European community. [More…]

• The purpose of the advisory council is to serve as a point of consultation with the community and as a source of general advice to the administrator on Cocos matters; [More…]

• the existing law relating to any aspect of the Estate’s activities or community affairs on Home Island will from now on be enforced, having regard to the traditions of the Cocos community and in a manner consistent with their best interests. [More…]

• However, the steps I have mentioned earlier are essential first steps to break the present inappropriate nexus between the Clunies Ross estate and the Cocos community. [More…]

• The Government believes that the decisions which have now been taken will provide the basis for developments which will bring the Cocos community to the stage where they will be able to comprehend and enjoy the rights normally enjoyed by Australian citizens. [More…]

• Those people in the community who are not aware of the activity of Government or of Opposition should well note that course. [More…]

• It appeared to many in the community that when an upstanding Prime Minister confidently gave his assurance about what would occur in relation to income tax and the allocation of funds in the community he would hold his Government to those promises. [More…]

• I refer, for instance, to the Prime Minister’s statements in 1972 and 1974 when the Opposition advocated reductions in taxation as the way in those 2 years the economy of the community could be made more attractive and more stable. [More…]

• It is difficult for anyone in this community to rely on the Prime Minister or on this Government which says to people, on the one hand, that it stands for a lesser impact of taxation on the working man and that those who are able to pay should pay. [More…]

• -We find that all the people whom I have mentioned equally will have to pay this tax along with the wealthy men in the community. [More…]

• The general debate in the media tonight and in another place relates to the absurd financial situation into which this Labor Government has plunged the Australian community, and the impact has not found its mark as yet on the Australian public. [More…]

• How are we to survive economically as a community when we have a Government which a year ago put down a program and said: ‘We will overspend our income by $500m’? [More…]

• Our financial affairs will certainly be seen to be going into deeper trouble when that figure becomes impressed upon the economic wizards in the community. [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…]

• It has created a section of the community which is becoming completely dependent upon this Government for all its aid and its services. [More…]

• To have industry and production and the community dependent upon a certain class of government which is meant to be paternalistic is something which Labor is achieving. [More…]

• It has been successful in socialising the community but it has robbed Australia of an industrial base and in its attempt to rationalise industry has created the thousands of unemployed in the community at the present time. [More…]

• It is ridiculous that the scheme was ever introduced but a community certainly becomes dependent upon such a scheme, with people working all the time in no productive capacity whatsoever. [More…]

• It is Medibank, a scheme which started within the last two or three months and one which will cost the community at least $ 1,500m for the balance of this year. [More…]

• The taxes being authorised by these Bills, and particularly the Bill relating to excise duties, will mean that the community will pay by indirect methods an amount of $ 700m. [More…]

• It will not be on the basis of the community paying so that the industry itself can expand or that there can be additional oil exploration or exploitation for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• The effect of this duty will be to cut by at least 50 per cent the profit on all premium grade coking coal and this will be greatly to the disadvantage of this community. [More…]

• It cannot continue in this community. [More…]

• The community is being taxed indirectly. [More…]

• The plain fact of the matter is that we believe in community projects. [More…]

• I say without any hesitation that I believe the mining industry is a section of the community that can well afford to pay. [More…]

• I want to stress that in my opinion the Press has a great community responsibility. [More…]

• Perhaps Mr Allsopp might like to spend a typical day in Canberra with me and I will teach him how to write a Press article which shows a sense of responsibility, not only towards Parliament but also towards the rest of the community throughout Australia. [More…]

• We are, at the same time, providing money to assist the tobacco farming community to produce a crop which is acceptable to the manufacturers of cigarettes and other tobacco products. [More…]

• Meanwhile the centrally planned economies, comprising one-third of the world’s population, and the world’s largest economic area outside of the European Economic 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 more direct contact between the Australian trading community and the state trading corporations of the centrally planned economies. [More…]

• A great deal of harm can accrue to individuals and organisations in this community if they are uncertain for the next 6 months or 12 months about the life of the Government. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Foreign Affairs been drawn to the statement made by the President of Mexico and has he noted the action taken by 6 countries associated with the European Economic Community condemning the recent execution of 5 political dissidents by the repressive Franco Spanish Government? [More…]

• Is this the most severe Budget cut affecting any group in the Australian community? [More…]

• I refer to the Minister’s announcement last Saturday, 27 September, that he had invited 7 members of the Cocos community, including the 3 longest serving headmen, to serve on the newly established Interim Advisory Council to advise the Administrator and the Government. [More…]

• I also refer to the Minister’s announcement that he had invited 2 members of the Cocos community to provide secretariat services to the Council. [More…]

• Have Mr Clunies Ross and the Cocos community been informed of the Minister’s announcement? [More…]

• That is the island on which Mr Clunies Ross and the members of the Cocos Malay community are domiciled within the Cocos (Keeling) group. [More…]

• He spoke to a meeting which was attended by most of the adult members of the Cocos community. [More…]

• In the course of the proceedings I understand that the Administrator conveyed to the general meeting my invitation to the members of the community to serve on the Interim Advisory Council which has been appointed by me. [More…]

• The Administrator indicated that he would later approach individually those islanders or members of the community who have been invited to be members of the Interim Advisory Council. [More…]

• I am given to understand that subsequently it was indicated to the Administrator that Mr Clunies Ross would not permit members of the Cocos community to serve on the Interim Advisory Council. [More…]

• The Government is now considering what further action it might be able to take, if that intimation is correct, to ensure that this important instrument of direct communication between the Government and the members of the Cocos Malay community is effective so that the members of the Cocos community are not denied their natural, basic and democratic rights. [More…]

• Throughout the inquiry the Committee has paid considerable attention to the welfare of the Cocos Islanders and it is clear to us that substantial changes are required to allow the Cocos Island community adequate opportunity to develop socially, economically and politically as an entity independent of the Clunies-Ross Estate. [More…]

• Mr Clunies-Ross informed the Committee that, as a result of economic and governmental pressures, he had decided to sever the family’s connections with the Islands and to negotiate the transfer of his assets to a Cocos Island Community Co-operative. [More…]

• We believe that the establishment of an island co-operative would assist significantly in the creation of an integrated community with a sense of responsibility and purpose, and concur with the view that acquisition of the estate is the most practical means of giving effect to the reforms which are desired for the benefit of the Cocos Island people. [More…]

• However, the Committee has expressed concern that in the process, the Cocos Malay community has been seriously unsettled. [More…]

• 1 think he has done a job which is far beyond the capacity of anyone that I know of in being able to hold this community together. [More…]

• It is not a down-trodden community. [More…]

• The unilateral declaration of independence by the Smith regime in Southern Rhodesia on 1 1 November 1965 mct with the immediate and unanimous condemnation of the world community. [More…]

• $12,000 per annum for the employment of a Community Development Officer. [More…]

• The number of Community Development Officers who may be employed in a region under the Australian Assistance Plan is limited to the number of local government areas in that region. [More…]

• At present within the ethnic radio experiment in Sydney and Melbourne, programs have been provided for the Macedonian community at the minimum rate of one hour of original material each week, with that program being repeated the next day. [More…]

• When it is used for a specific feeding program a formal presentation is normally made and the attendant publicity assists in ensuring that the community is aware of the gift. [More…]

• Both organisations are much more interested in protecting the profits of one half of 1 per cent of the Australian community involved in mining than looking after the interests of millions of Australians. [More…]

• We could be cynical about this but we do not need to adopt the stance that Senator Webster adopted when he set out to protect a very small section of the community who wax very fat financially from the profits of the mining industry. [More…]

• The ability to own and drive a large car does not necessarily make one the most affluent in the community though that statement will perhaps offend many honourable senators opposite. [More…]

• As I said in relation to Senator Webster, the tenor of the contributions of honourable senators opposite to the debate shows that they are more interested in looking after the half of one per cent, or even less, of the community which make a fortune out of the mining industry than in protecting the interests of the millions of other people in this country who are entitled to something in return for the sale of their national wealth. [More…]

• Those people in the community best able to pay will be the people who must pay. [More…]

• Education, health, repatriation and social security were the areas in which the Liberal Party would never bend in favour of the underprivileged in the community. [More…]

• The Government wants its extra share but it wants to make sure that it makes it that much harder for the Australian community to have the information it requires to stop smoking or not to start smoking. [More…]

• The Government is going to make it that much harder for the members of the Australian community to know where they can go for assistance if they have an alcohol problem. [More…]

• It is part of the Government’s Budget that all the preventive programs- all the programs directed towards education and towards good community preventive care- have been slashed. [More…]

• The cost of fuel, of freight and all those associated charges bear perhaps more heavily on the people in the relatively remote areas of Australia than on any other sections of the community. [More…]

• I have had brought to my notice by many local government bodies in New South Wales- particularly in the centre and south-west of New South Wales- the extraordinarily damaging effects that the $2 a tonne imposition on crude oil is having on the liquid petroleum gas prices to the community in these areas. [More…]

• I reiterate once again that whether it be an individual, a corporation, a company, a government or a State, in the long term its capacity to make a profit within the law is directly relevant to its capacity to sustain the community. [More…]

• As a corollary to all this I point out that surely by penalising the industry we are penalising the community. [More…]

• I believe it is important to realise the cost to the community created by the failure to develop our resources. [More…]

• In concluding my remarks on these Bills, might I reiterate once again that it is an extremely bad system of taxation to tax exports in a country in which exports are the cornerstone of its economy, of its total community, whether we like it or not. [More…]

• It is a dreadful reflection on a government which is responsible for an economy that it should be creating a circumstance where those sorts of opportunities may well flash by without the whole community being able to gain the proper benefit that should come its way. [More…]

• The Opposition would be respected far more in the community, I suggest, if it exercised the powers that it asserts in relation to these 3 Bills in accordance with its attitude to the Bills than if it waited until a vote was taken on 2 subsequent Bills and then purely for political purposes took a certain step. [More…]

• The price that they were getting was geared to an entirely different state of prices in the community generally. [More…]

• It is due directly to the policies or lack of policies of the Minister for Minerals and Energy, Mr Connor, whom Senator Everett regards as having some very large stature in the Australian community. [More…]

• From my visits to many of these smaller mining towns and some of the longer established towns it is my conclusion that there are an increasing number of Australians, and certainly Queenslanders, who wish to live in the smaller community; who do not wish to be forced to live in the capital city; who do not wish to see all industries centred in just a few huge centres; and who want the advantages of the smaller community. [More…]

• A community centre has been provided, provision has been made for church facilities, a swimming pool, sporting grounds, generous park grounds, good roads and lighting. [More…]

• From that amount of $544m the companies are being asked, in view of the state of the economy at the present time, to pay to the Commonwealth in the community interest a tax of what has been stated by Mr Connor to be $ 120m as some return for the mineral wealth that the companies have discovered and developed and from which they are getting a handsome profit at the present time. [More…]

• He said that it was spread over the whole community and it was unjust in its application. [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…]

• I ask the Minister: Does this Government now support indirect taxation as a basis of taxation, and does it agree that the charges that are imposed under this Bill must inevitably lead to an escalation in costs of goods in the community? [More…]

• Of course, it has caused grave concern- I think quite properly- in the farming community in South Australia that this definition could place in jeopardy grain installations on railway property owned by the South Australian Co-operative Bulk Handling Ltd of which farmers are shareholders. [More…]

• Senator Jessop has made some remarks that the farming community in South Australia is very concerned that when the transfer takes place it will be disadvantaged. [More…]

• If the Premiers of those States penalise their own people because of their failure to hand over the railways and allow this Government to set up a national railway system which will be of benefit to the community then Senator Withers has nothing to complain about. [More…]

• After all, railways provide a variety of services to a community and a variety of services to a State. [More…]

• They raise doubts as to the effect of the Agreement on the provision of private transport systems and private enterprise transport systems in the community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister to ensure that the South Australian community receives good service. [More…]

• Australia, who is now the Chairman of Commissioners in Victoria and who is innovating many new services- there is a great and heavy responsibility upon finances, which means that the provision of any improved services for the community is very hard to do because of the great expenditures involved. [More…]

• What is behind all this humbug and the creating of innuendo by the purveyors of misery and those who are shattering confidence in the community by making false charges that the [More…]

• While many women welcomed it, it was not in response to any specific pressure or request from women or from any group within the community. [More…]

• Its implementation has shown the poor recognition that previous governments have given to the economic status of women in our community. [More…]

• It is the principal advisory body to the Government on issues as they affect the women of the community. [More…]

• It recognised that there are many women in the community who have much which is worthwhile to contribute and who have opinions which are valuable, particularly in the area ofthe needs of the family in our community and who do not necessarily, as a direct result of those commitments, have the time to become heavily involved in community groups. [More…]

• In my opinion it has made a quite successful attempt to get together a combination of individuals in employment, the professions, the arts, politics, community and welfare activities and women who just occupy the traditional role of homemaker. [More…]

• One of the reasons that I think some women in the community have criticised Miss Reid, sometimes unfairly, is that they feared that one person’s opinion was to be foisted on all women in Australia. [More…]

• Women have a characteristic in common with the community at large. [More…]

• Every minister of religion, every parent and every rightthinking person in the community should be up in arms about this legislation and determined to oppose it to the bitter end. [More…]

• What they want is satisfying employment and both the Government and the community must do everything possible to encourage and assist them. [More…]

• Is he also aware that this Association made arrangements to purchase a building from Maralinga for reerection at Coober Pedy for community use on the assumption that the Government would honour its obligation to provide this finance? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Agriculture: In view of reports circulating in dairying districts that butter fat prices are to fall by up to 15c per lb due to pressure on markets caused by large stocks of produce particularly in the European Economic Community, has the Minister been approached by dairy industry leaders for discussions on this matter? [More…]

• It is contributing to indecision in the community at large and is just not good enough for Australia. [More…]

• The co-operative intends utilising the land for a number of purposes, including manufacture of Aboriginal artefacts, and a recreation and community centre. [More…]

• I am quite sure as I have said before and as I say again that there are many people- in fact, the majority- in the fanning community of Australia who are not enamoured of any government making moneys available to producers for whom there is no future in agriculture. [More…]

• After discussions with the Commission in May I made a statement, and have since made other statements, that the matters would be properly considered and that, because the proposals have important implications for the staff and for community groups, full consideration would be given to any aspect which they put before the Commission and myself. [More…]

• The Postal Commission has had continuing discussions with all staff organisations on the various elements of the proposal and is considering the fairly extensive viewpoints put forward by members of Parliament and some community groups. [More…]

• I will consult again with the community groups and with staff organisations and, where necessary, with members of Parliament before determining the matter. [More…]

• Has the community asked for police to be stationed at Oenpelli and has this request not been granted to date? [More…]

• What real plans has the Government to minimise the ravages of alcoholism on Aboriginal communities such as Oenpelli where work absences are up, wages received are down, school absence has increased, violence is increasing and community morale is being destroyed? [More…]

• What I am trying to get through to the Senate is that checks and balances exist within parties and within the community. [More…]

• If there is to be a redistribution of boundaries in Queensland I feel that community of interest and the interest of various areas should be of paramount importance if we are to obtain the proper representation in a Federal Parliament. [More…]

• If that principle of one vote one value is to be applied, apparently only that is taken into consideration and we forget about the distance, communications, community of interest and so forth, all for the one objective of achieving one vote one value. [More…]

• Community of interest, capacity for travel and communication, identity itself across the whole canvas of the electorate are perhaps as well represented, if not better represented in the electorate of Riverina in New South Wales, than in most if not all other electorates in Australia. [More…]

• Section 19 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act states among other things that the Distribution Commissioners should consider community of interests in the electorate, communications and travel within a division, physical features and the trend of population changes. [More…]

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

• In this age of talk about regionalism, growth centres and the general development of the community, it is necessary that at every hand people in the country are not placed at a disadvantage compared to those in the city. [More…]

• I point this out as only one instance among many of Labor not believing in what it says but believing in what it will gain by pressing an ideology on the community. [More…]

• For many years this matter of community of interests within a division has included the economic, social and regional interests of an electorate, and the means of communication and of travel within an electorate. [More…]

• The Opposition opposes these Bills because it believes that they are unfair to the voting community of Australia and a denial of the rights of the voting people of the Australian community. [More…]

• They take no account of the disparities between areas over which the Australian community is distributed. [More…]

• The Bills before the Senate seem to maintain the Government’s true determination to deny the democratic expression of the people of Australia, taking into account community of interest and the opportunity for people to move into the area they desire; to deny them the opportunity to have representation that is adequate, fair, and consistent with total community development, so that the population of Australia, wherever it may be placed, might have equality of representation. [More…]

• I deplore the fact that the Government is totally disregarding section 57 of the Constitution, thereby taking away from the people their right, their opportunity and their real privilege as far as their voting rights within the Australian community are concerned. [More…]

• I can understand Senator Button interjecting, because the type of member that the Labor Party has in those seats would be well out of contact with the community. [More…]

• It is a denial by the Liberal Party of the opportunities that stretch out before it to refuse to accept the right that it has to take a larger share of the national Parliament and possibly to deny the Country Party some of its votes in this House and in the House of Representatives by making more certain that the Country Party’s representation in the Lower House is related in percentage terms to the percentage of votes that it gets in the community. [More…]

• Whether he has Medibank, whether he has high or low taxation, whether he has good transport available to him or whether he has all sorts of community services of one kind or another available to him are just as important to him and just as important to this nation as they are to a citizen who lives in the country. [More…]

• As I said earlier, the comments made by people in the community who have a greater degree of independence in these matters than I have would suggest that what the Government has proposed is not all that unreasonable. [More…]

• The point that is also made is that if the parliamentary system is to survive in Australia- I suppose that people in this community increasingly are having doubts about that- it must be not only fair but must be seen to be fair. [More…]

• The idiocy of that proposal is highlighted by the agglomeration of the electorates of Kennedy and Maranoa in Queensland to make the huge electorate of Flynn, which under the proposals before the Senate would represent almost half the State of Queensland, with a constellation of industries serviced by a variety of admirable people, people in many different population centres- the new phrase for cities and towns- and with a great variety of differences in their community of interests. [More…]

• This concerns me greatly because the people who are really affected by this are the younger people of our community. [More…]

• With the expansion of the deficit, unless the Government accepts its responsibility we will find more and more hardship within our community. [More…]

• As I said, it is frightening for younger people in our community who are desirous of owning their own home. [More…]

• Inflation has an adverse affect on many areas in our community. [More…]

• It affects many of the poorer people in our community. [More…]

• We find that the community is being squeezed twice. [More…]

• The Federal Government is taxing the community, and the State governments, by necessity, are forced to increase their State taxes and, thereby, further squeeze the community. [More…]

• It was interesting to see that the Treasurer, Mr Hayden, said in the Budget Speech a few weeks ago- he has supported it since- that there has been an improvement generally in the community. [More…]

• He said that the community, particularly the business sector, has more and more confidence. [More…]

• There is a feeling of great uncertainty in the community. [More…]

• I know in a lot of the younger people in our community at the present time there is a feeling of fear. [More…]

• I am certain that the young people and the old people in the community will always remember this Labor Government for what is has done. [More…]

• I believe that you, Mr President, have received a letter from one identity in the Croatian community, as has the Speaker in the House of Representatives, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• The representative of the Life and General Insurance Committee, a Mr Ferres, did misinform his audience, as reported in the Waverley Gazette, when he said that insurance companies provided about 50 per cent of all investment funds for the business community through premium income. [More…]

• In fact, if one wishes to look at the true position- the position of those people who are unemployed in the sense that they are eligible to receive unemployment benefit- the figures that are provided by the Department of Social Security are a much more reliable guide to the total number of unemployed within the community and in fact the cost of unemployment benefit is considerably less than that which was claimed by the Murdoch Press’s Sydney newspaper. [More…]

• My motivation in this was a concern for the standing of the judiciary, the upholding of judicial standards and acceptance of the law and the courts and the decisions of the courts throughout the community. [More…]

• A meeting of the main suppliers of skim milk powder is currently being held in Brussels this week; the European Economic Community is one of the major suppliers. [More…]

• I make it quite clear that the relationship which I have had with the rural community has been extremely pleasant, for all the fact that I may differ with many of its points of view and it with mine. [More…]

• If so, when is it to meet and how is its establishment being received by the Cocos Malay community? [More…]

• I can tell the honourable senator that the initial support which the Home Island community- that is, the community living on the same island as Mr Clunies-Ross in the Cocos (Keeling) Islandsgave to the original proposal of the Government to establish an interim advisory council has continued. [More…]

• All the appointees, apart from the Administrator- who, of course, is the Chairmanthe Government Medical Officer and the Official Secretary, who is the executive officer of the interim advisory council, have been drawn from the Home Island community. [More…]

• They reflect a number of interests in the community. [More…]

• As well as some members of Mr Clunies-Ross ‘s Imarat there is represented a broad cross-section of members of the Home Island community. [More…]

• The advice of the council is being sought by the Administrator on a number of matters concerning the community. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite- in particular Senator Baume- are now criticising the fact that we shall raise this one from within the Australian community. [More…]

• Of course, the Government has correctly sought the confidence of the Australian investing community in suggesting that it should provide certain sums that are set out in Table 9 of the Budget Papers. [More…]

• If in fact, as a result of some fall off in the income side froth, ; say, a decision by large sections of the Australian community not to buy liquor or cigarettes, there were a fall off somewhere “within those Budget Estimates the Government would have the right, and has always utilised the right, either to have a greater deficit at the end of the year or to bring a Loan Bill before the Houses of the Parliament for the purposes of supplementing its-Budget Estimates. [More…]

• It is normal for Oppositions to exercise this investigatory power, but the degree to which and the emotion with which they have exercised it on this occasion spells disaster for the Australian community. [More…]

• Labor policies in so many instances appear to have been so stupid, and those policies have as their basis this Government’s anxiety immediately to socialise the community. [More…]

• What has happened under Labor policies is that, in its abject attempt to bring disgrace to the community by those socialist policies, the Government has harmed the whole of the electorate. [More…]

• One cannot but say, if one looks at our overseas relationships, and again I believe that they have a great influence on our borrowing capacity, that each one of us as a member of the community has been taken along in this pro-communist friendship with communist nations throughout the world. [More…]

• Labor certainly has brought its share of ruin to this community and irreparable damage has been done. [More…]

• I recognise that in times when the Government has been discussing borrowing sums to the extent of $4,000m and $8,000m-figures that were put up in the House of Representatives and in this place to indicate the limits of what the Government thought it could take into the country and adequately use for temporary purposes- we have become immune to recognising that in the financial affairs of Australia the limits of borrowing and the limits of use of money have become disastrous to this community. [More…]

• Are we accepting the fact that the Australian community will be required to repay those moneys at some stage? [More…]

• Does the community realise that under a pretext, by suggesting that there is to be a changed and better taxation system, in truth this Government intends to get approaching $2 ,000m more out of the Australian public by way of taxation in this year? [More…]

• -The fact is that all of this is being created by a Government which has the intention of wrecking the community. [More…]

• -Why does the Minister not concentrate on trying to reduce the unemployment in the community. [More…]

• While the Government is trying to raise loans and is attempting to disrupt the whole economic community of this country it is paying no attention to the unemployment that it has brought about. [More…]

• I think we would all expect that the problems that will be created in January of next year will be extreme for any government, because school leavers are going to place a harsh burden on the community. [More…]

• It has occurred because of the stupidity of the propositions which Labor made in previous Budgets in which it declared that it could see the opportunity of moving from private sector financing, which was the employment sector of the community, to government and public sector financing. [More…]

• But we are accepting that there will be a high rate of unemployment, something that we never expected to see in this community. [More…]

• Senator Withers went on to say that there was a position of crisis and uncertainty in the Australian community. [More…]

• Today Her Majesty’s representative aligned himself with one section of the community against another section. [More…]

• As I said earlier, I am surprised that the Liberal Party- a party which should represent a classless society, which should want to set up a classless society and which I had thought cared for every person- should so seriously divide this community. [More…]

• Any impetus to the business community must involve it in an increase in profits. [More…]

• No honourable senator would say that there is any way to put industry back on its feet other than to raise the profit level of many companies in this community which are suffering greatly today. [More…]

• If, as a result of the effort which is being made tonight, I were to become a member of the Opposition would my role then be to attempt to dignify a parliamentary system for which the great majority in this community have increasingly less respect? [More…]

• It was claimed, I think by Senator Webster, that in the 3 years of the life of the present Government the wellbeing of people in all sections of the community has been badly done by. [More…]

• It is remarkable that as soon as a Labor Government is elected a section of the business community says: ‘It is time for us to button up’. [More…]

• Senate and of the standing and status of the Senate in the eyes of the Australian community. [More…]

• A further two dozen were supplied by the New South Wales Department of Youth, Ethnic and Community Affairs on 7 February 1 975. [More…]

• It is true that recently the Prime Minister opened another branch of the National Library of Australia in furtherance of the Government’s policy of giving greater emphasis to the development of the most modern and advanced library services to meet the specialised information needs of our community. [More…]

• Two Bills will be introduced as a result of the findings of the Law Reform Committee which was set up to get a more efficient police and detection force and to look after the interests of civil liberties in the community. [More…]

• There is no desire in the business community to finance anything. [More…]

• There is much to be said for the point of view that it is no part of the judicial function in a federation, any more than anywhere else, to enter into the social and political motivations of legislation, and that to the extent to which the courts do so their standing in the eyes of the community is diminished, to the loss of all. [More…]

• These include: whether it was originally intended that the Commonwealth should be able by unilateral action to bring about such a change otherwise than by formal amendment of the Constitution; if not, whether there is any such ground for departing from the original intention as factual changes in the relative responsibilities of the Commonwealth and the States, or in the place of Australia in the international community, or in economic and social developments since federation; and whether as a general principle legislative powers can be used to attain ends unrelated to the purpose of the power. [More…]

• We have often had a difficult task because there are people in this community who are prepared to reject the system. [More…]

• The public knows that the Opposition will create extreme hardship in the community, and the Opposition cannot turn around the meaning of its action and blame the Government. [More…]

• It is understandable that Mr Jacques, along with a number of other people in the community, should be very concerned about the actions of the Opposition in withholding the Budget. [More…]

• The Department of Health now has community health sub-centres available and operational in both Rokeby and Risdon Vale. [More…]

• The Minister acknowledges that our trade with Japan, the United States of America and the European Economic Community should be left to private enterprise endeavour. [More…]

• Federal socialists have now reached the position where they will attempt to intimidate pensioners, the poorest sections of the community, and do anything to try to attain their ends. [More…]

• But people in the public arena- the masses of workers and people in the community who are aggrieved about the situation- will not worry about the Parliament. [More…]

• I want to raise some 5 claims that are being peddled around the community and being misunderstood by the community I want to examine those claims, because we recognise that this is a great constitutional issue and the people of Australia deserve a full understanding of those 5 points. [More…]

• It is the sort of action that is the result of sincere and solid judgment, of investigation of the circumstances of the whole Australian community. [More…]

• The re-presentation of these Bills allows us to assess now some of the results of the events that have occurred in the community following the delaying and obstructionist tactics of the Opposition last week. [More…]

• There are forces within our community, some of great power, that do not believe in Parliamentary government. [More…]

• I have received many, as have many others in the community. [More…]

• There are very alarming signs that the community is being polarised at the extremes. [More…]

• This is the sort of extreme which is permeating the community and frightening it and it shows the good sense of Australians that they are reacting not with violence at this time but properly, through the very proper means of showing their opinion through the media and through approaching peaceably members of Parliament. [More…]

• All we need now is for members of Parliament to take note of what has been one of the most responsible reactions of any community in the history of Australia. [More…]

• What is stirring the community is the prospect that they will go without what is necessary for them to continue their normal expected standard of living. [More…]

• There is a very great fear in the community of the unknown if the Opposition continues this course. [More…]

• No one in the community will start an argument if we are to approach an election under crisis circumstances. [More…]

• No one in the community will be able to develop a theme that the Senate did not do it and that the Opposition did not do it. [More…]

• If the Opposition continues on this course which will bring this country to its knees economically, it could well produce in this community at some stage in the not too distant future conditions under which there will be an election which the Government will win. [More…]

• They will not pursue this deliberate policy of creating fear within the community so that they can create a climate for the conservation - [More…]

• They know that if this Opposition gets into power it will be determined to tear down all the good things that this Government has done whenever these things affect the position of privilege of certain people in the community. [More…]

• It would be extremely difficult to develop a popular base for your leadership in a community which contained the bitter and growing discontent of Labor supporters who believed the ballot box had lost its democratic function. [More…]

• Much has been said about this Government not acting in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• Australian community. [More…]

• It is determined to see that many people in the community and many sections of the community will suffer. [More…]

• It is obvious that even at this early stage there has been a strong feeling of revulsion in the Australian community at the action that has been precipitated by the Liberal and National Country Parties. [More…]

• Of course there will be hardship in the Australian community as a result of what the Opposition has done, but we do not want to see these things get to the stage where people are incited to take other channels which are open to them. [More…]

• The Government is quite able to continue governing, despite the hardship that will be created for so many people in the community as a result of the Opposition’s attitude. [More…]

• In order to conserve the funds the Minister for the Capital Territory has organised, in co-operation with the Department of the Capital Territory and his other Ministers, a constant review of those activities in relation to which expenditure can be controlled, such as transport, cleaning, information and community services, consumption of petrol and such things. [More…]

• West Germany and the United Kingdom have arranged a number of barter deals with the U.S.S.R. and very recently the European Economic Community Commission has been making the arrangements on a group basis. [More…]

• I believe we must safeguard those elements in our trading community which have developed this country to what it is. [More…]

• Mr Anthony showed his concern for the rural community and for Australian exports in a statement issued in February 1 972 when he said that he would not sell his soul for trade and that he did not care if we never sold a bushel of wheat to China. [More…]

• Has any development in the community indicated this? [More…]

• In fact, the Australian Chamber of Commerce, for example, and other bodies have expressed their total opposition to the proposed Corporation and on many occasions have made sure that their views were known and that other people in the community were able to express their views. [More…]

• There is no lack of expertise in the importing and exporting part of our community. [More…]

• The European Economic Community has now embarked on direct government to government deals. [More…]

• There is a great deal of apprehension throughout the land at the continued attitude of the Opposition parties, attitudes which indicate clearly that they are endeavouring to create not only a constitutional crisis, a political crisis, but also a financial crisis from which the Australian community may well suffer considerably more damage than from the indecision that has characterised the attitude of the Opposition since the Labor Government came into power in 1972. [More…]

• The Budget has been described by some of their spokesmen as being a Budget of moderation, a Budget that was seeking to bring about more confidence within the community. [More…]

• These tactics can be described only as devious, despicable, dirty tactics, designed to create a condition whereby the Government, which has a majority in the lower House, will be unable to govern, designed to create conditions of chaos throughout our community. [More…]

• At that point of time in 1951 the Menzies Administration was in a minority in the Senate, yet there was no suggestion that the Labor Party should exercise its powers to reject the 1951 Budget, despite the high rate of inflation and despite the uncertainty that existed in the business community at that time. [More…]

• If I have time I shall quote some people to indicate how the thinking members of our community want the Government and the Opposition to act responsibly. [More…]

• At the moment the British House of Lords has before it 2 Bills, the Trade Union and Labour Relations Bill and the Community Land Bill, both of which are opposed by the Conservative Party. [More…]

• In the normal sequence of events, without creating the conditions which now have placed parliamentary democracy in peril and without creating the public furore and concern that exists now within the Australian community, the Opposition would now, according to its judgment, be ready to assume the political and economic management of this country. [More…]

• Therefore, the fact that someone has them would seem to indicate a breach of the cultural requirements of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Apart from particular matters, such as criminal cases, courts martial, 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 community groups or the achievement of justice may be prejudiced. [More…]

• Before I pass on to other matters, let me say as a comparative newcomer to this chamber that I am appalled by the manner in which members of the Opposition, under cover of privilege, are constantly making charges of the most serious conduct against individuals in the community and are proceeding to canvass those charges in this chamber, and then are reaching conclusions, by their own judgment, as to the guilt of those persons. [More…]

• Salaried lawyers in community law offices make the law accessible to disadvantaged people who are wary of resorting to private practitioners even when they are available. [More…]

• Fifth, there should be as much community involvement in the work of the Office as possible consistent with the professional responsibilities of its lawyers. [More…]

• Their basic function is to provide a focal point for cooperation between the community and the local office. [More…]

• This will enable the Officer to ascertain more readily and respond more appropriately to community needs. [More…]

• Again, the private profession will be represented on these committees, though the majority of members will be lay persons from the community. [More…]

• Surely Senator Greenwood can understand this difficulty: The word has gone around among the criminal element in the Croatian community that, if one is sent to gaol and one has rendered oneself liable to deportation under the Migration Act, the thing to do is to spread it about that one is a member of a Croatian terrorist organisation; that way one will not be deported to Yugoslavia. [More…]

• At one of its meetings I asked the representatives of the Commonwealth Police, the Australian Capital Territory Police and the New South Wales Police whether they could give me details of any acts of aggression by members of what would be termed the left wing element of the Greek community against their diplomatic representatives, comparable with what was done against Yugoslav consulates and embassies. [More…]

• The vast bulk of the Yugoslav community feels that these days they are singularly free of incidents. [More…]

• Senator Greenwood has every right to raise complaints about what I call a minute section of the Croatian community. [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…]

• Did this action give Mr Hawke, the most powerful Australian Labor Party figure outside Parliament, a distinct propaganda start over all other economic and political spokesmen in the community? [More…]

• Why does the Federal Department of Aboriginal Affairs continue to accede to the demands of the radical element of the Aboriginal community when there are so many Aboriginal families in need of housing and direct assistance? [More…]

• Lastly, will the Minister consult his departmental head in Queensland to ensure that the responsible but unfortunate sections of the Aboriginal community which are in such grave need will be given as much consideration as are those who use radical and unorthodox means to achieve their needs? [More…]

• The honourable senator suggests that there has been a cave-in to militant groups within the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I refer to the final report of the Committee on Community Relations recently delivered to the Minister and published by his Department which relates to the position of migrants in the community and in particular to discriminations against migrants in the work force. [More…]

• So, in answer to the honourable senator’s question, I would say that the trade unions, like the rest of the community, do not accord to migrants the treatment which they deserve. [More…]

• -The advice tendered to me on the matter is that because Mr Clunies-Ross was unwilling to sanction a meeting of the interim advisory council on Home Island- that is the one occupied by the Cocos-Malay community in the Cocos Island group- the meeting was held on West Island where the Australian administrative officers are located. [More…]

• He has advised that the atmosphere was good and that all members actively contributed to the discussion on a great number of subjects involving and related to the welfare of the Cocos-Malay community. [More…]

• In a period when there has been no real uplift in the economy, when, according to the Opposition, the economy has declined, its standing and its Leader’s standing in the community has deteriorated to that extent. [More…]

• In this regard I refer the Opposition to the gallup poll and to the movement in the figures- or that the consequences of refusal of Supply are too damaging to the economy or inflict too great hardship on the whole community, decides to pass the Supply Bills; or [More…]

• Are we as a community to sit down and accept an unemployment situation such as that? [More…]

• They have brought about lack of confidence in the business community and the lack of confidence in those who would attempt to build homes. [More…]

• We know there have been deliberate attempts to sap the confidence of all sectors of the community by massive government domination. [More…]

• There is the matter of the benefit given by a ministerial decision to ACTUSolo Enterprises Pty Ltd- a basic arm of this Government- to receive millions of dollars at the disadvantage of others in the community. [More…]

• But I do not think that is good enough for this community. [More…]

• A strong and responsible decision on your part not to pursue such a course would not only afford a solution to the impasse which threatens our nation, but could only enhance your standing within the Church, the Parliament, and the Community. [More…]

• A strong and responsible decision on your part not to pursue such a course would not only afford a solution to the impasse which threatens our nation, but could only enhance your standing within the Church, the Parliament, and the Community. [More…]

• If there are any sections of the community which say that we ought to let the Budget pass, I wonder whether they may be offering this kind of encouragement for people to do what they believe to be the right thing for the wrong reason. [More…]

• Do the Australian people want an Australian community that is becoming increasingly and totally dependent upon government services? [More…]

• Do the Australian people want an Australian community that is able to express itself or has its expressions made for it? [More…]

• Why has one particular person or section been allowed to receive the Budget Papers 6 hours before the rest of the community? [More…]

• After all the pensioner leagues and the social services organisations represent an enormous number of people within the Australian community. [More…]

• Why, in a society which claims to have open government, are the Budget Papers not released to a wider section of the community so that others can have equality with the leader of the trade union movement and so that others can have equal opportunity, which is something that I seem to have heard repeated on many occasions on the Government side of the chamber. [More…]

• But many who have been troubled by social injustices in the community have questioned the ability of democracy to remedy them. [More…]

• I have received letters from a cross-section of the Australian community. [More…]

• I am one of those who values greatly indeed the blessings which have been bestowed upon me, upon other honourable gentlemen and upon the Australian community by the system of” democracy. [More…]

• In making provision for that basis of democracy, those conventions also provide for the protection of the rights of the Opposition and for the protection of the rights of minority sections in the community. [More…]

• It has employed scare tactics in the community. [More…]

• But what does Senator Young think his action and his vote in this chamber will have cost the Australian community by Christmas. [More…]

• By Christmas he conceivably will be costing the Australian community $ 100m a month. [More…]

• That is the charge which Senator Young will put on this community to obtain what he wants. [More…]

• -Let me say that Senator Jessop has a bit to answer for in the community. [More…]

• The only proper course for the Opposition to take in this matter is to set up a committee of inquiry which will finally elicit all the facts on how both sides of politics have behaved about the loans affair so we can know the facts without there being the pressure of this community being held to ransom on the economic front. [More…]

• Various groups throughout the community have been encouraged to hold meetings and to send letters and telegrams saying that the convention has been breached. [More…]

• It has been very obvious that right throughout the term of its office the Government has disregarded the welfare of one section of the community, the section of the community engaged in primary industry. [More…]

• Furthermore, it was designed to encourage spending and to put more money into the pockets of the people in the community by the proposed taxation cuts. [More…]

• We are seeing, and we will continue to see, the effect of the Opposition’s tactics on various sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• There will be difficulties, as has been pointed out, and sections of the Australian community will feel the effects of what the Opposition has done. [More…]

• Whether the Opposition will come to its senses in the next few weeks remains to be seen, but obviously the Australian people are wide awake to what the Opposition is up to and the damage it is doing to the Australian community. [More…]

• In view of the recent report of the Committee on Community Relations regarding the need for suitably qualified interpreters to assist our migrant groups, can the Minister advise the Senate regarding the truth of the article? [More…]

• The interpreter translator course was one of several begun this year in response to repeatedly voiced and largely ignored calls to pre- 1972 governments to help non-English speaking migrants in factories, unions, hospitals, courts and the community generally to understand what was going on around them and to what documents they might be signing their names. [More…]

• I suggest in response to Senator Brown’s question that that is further evidence, if further evidence is needed, of an awareness in the business community of the valuable contribution being made to society by the Prices Justification Tribunal in the restraining of inflationary forces. [More…]

• The Government’s intention in establishing the IAC was to extend the Tariff Board system of public inquiries and reports to all sectors of the economy, in order to ensure greater consistency and coherence in the provision of assistance to industries, and thereby promote the interests of the community generally. [More…]

• As the Commission makes clear, the capacity of the economy to cope with change is dependent upon the general level of activity in the economy, the mobility of the community’s resources and the availability of adequate adjustment assistance mechanisms. [More…]

• The Government recognises that the costs of changes, in assistance which are designed to benefit the whole community should not be borne only by individuals directly affected by those changes and has introduced a variety of measures to assist individuals, firms and regions to adjust to structural changes. [More…]

• In particular, I welcome the recent initiative of the Commission to invite major community groups to involve themselves on a consultative basis in its general research work concerned with the development of Australian industries, such as its research into the effects of demographic changes on the structure of industries, and its investigations into the structure and mobility of the labour force. [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…]

• Certainly, the Government has created inflation that has caused distress to many sections of our community. [More…]

• The business community is now coming out and saying that the Appropriation Bills should be passed. [More…]

• The business community here in Canberra is saying that because the Senate has rejected the Budget- those are their words, not mine- their businesses are being affected and that the whole tenor of the business community is being upset. [More…]

• There are forces within our community, some of great power, that do not believe in Parliamentary government. [More…]

• Were any of the dozens and dozens of people in the community who do in fact take part in these programs invited to see these documents beforehand? [More…]

• Was there a more important section of the community from which to seek support for this Budget than the manufacturing industry? [More…]

• The polarisation which has taken place not only in the Parliament but also within the community itself is something with which the Opposition will have to live. [More…]

• They have not been able to understand why the community has reacted as it has. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the extremists of those who seek power in the community and of those who have occupied political power in the community, always seem to have had recourse to the same sort of phraseology- whether it be the phraseology that was used in Germany in the 1930s, in Italy in the 1920s, by General Franco in the late 1930s, or by the military groups in Chile or Greece. [More…]

• There is a welling up in the community- among academics, lawyers, church leaders and those people who are concerned with the democratic processes- an understanding that what is happening here in the Senate in October 1975 is a matter of regret and a matter that must be resisted at all costs. [More…]

• But I am surprised that Senator Greenwood, a man of some standing in the community, should place his credibility in jeopardy by reliance on an individual whose history he has quoted to us in part, but certainly not in full. [More…]

• I repeat what I said on the last occasion this matter was raised: If there is any threat to the security of this country- I say this quite deliberately- it comes from people such as you, Senator Greenwood, who misuse and abuse the privileges that are extended to us in order to represent people who endeavour to create fear, division and panic in the community. [More…]

• The main purpose of providing public access to material which is made available to the Commission is, as I understand it, to stimulate discussion within the community about the matters reported on to the Commission and to allow the Commission to examine various views which may be forthcoming from the discussion which takes place. [More…]

• If there are funds available, is there not a continuation of the scaremongering campaign which has been directed by this Government against various sections of the community? [More…]

• So far as the present financial position of the Government is concerned, it is completely clear: Without the passage by the Opposition of the Appropriation Bills, a number of the most deserving people in the community are suffering. [More…]

• Similar advice was given on 23 September to the Honourable A. J. Grassby, Commissioner Designate for Community Relations who had made representations on behalf of Vichidvongsa. [More…]

• presented this report as an interim report to enable full and detailed discussion by all sections of the community on the issues raised in the report. [More…]

• It is time, therefore, that 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…]

• 1 ) With reference to the Australian Government’s Community Health and Community Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency Programs, what voluntary organisations have requested financial assistance from the Minister’s Department for the establishment or maintenance of a federal headquarters. [More…]

• Applications for financial assistance under the Community Health Program, which now encompasses the earlier Community Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency Program, are not recorded with specific reference to the nature of the project for which funding is sought. [More…]

• With reference to the Australian Government’s Community Health Program and the earlier Community Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency Program, voluntary organisations which have been allocated grants for the establishment or maintenance of a national headquarters are detailed at (2) below. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation aware that some sections of the community are firmly opposed to any proposal, under a national com-, pensation scheme, to replace third party insurance premiums with an additional excise on petrol and dieseline fuel? [More…]

• Can the Government provide assistance by way of guarantees to these organisations or some other form of underwriting of their loan commitments in order to enable them to continue to perform their extremely valuable function in the community? [More…]

• It is a section of the community related to decentralisation. [More…]

• It is a section of the community which employs no fewer than 42 per cent of the total Australian work force. [More…]

• The Australian rural community in towns, on farms and in provincial cities alike can ill afford the sort of circumstances that follow from such unpredictable and irresponsible action as occurred at that stage. [More…]

• Taken either singly or together the breaches I have mentioned show conclusively that the ground rules and the conventions which support the ground rules for the proper conduct of the affairs of this nation which can be truly said to be the handwork of conservative elements in this community- the Australian Labor Party has enjoyed such short periods in office, particularly at the national level- are conventions of convenience. [More…]

• We will not have a bar of.it and I am sure that the Australian community will not have a bar of it either. [More…]

• We have a community in which business confidence has been destroyed, with all that flows from that. [More…]

• There is a continual campaign to try to give the impression that this Government is not concerned with the business community. [More…]

• There is overwhelming support from all sections of the Australian community for the principle of personal tax indexation. [More…]

• If we look at that in totality I do not see that we can claim that there has been a reduction in tax rates for this year, nor has there been a benefit that will be felt right throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• We believe that many of the proposals in the Mathews Committee report are the only ways in which we will be able to regain confidence in the investing part of our community and gain efficiency from the productive part of it. [More…]

• I think that Senator Guilfoyle and others legitimately speak up for those single persons in the community and those without children who may have to pay a slightly higher marginal rate of taxation. [More…]

• I think it is important that we understand fully what is the real effect of the proposed alteration of the taxation scale and what it means for various people in the community. [More…]

• What he said, in effect- I paraphrase his remarks, and I hope that I do him no injustice- was that a lot of the business community should stop whinging and get on with the job. [More…]

• He said that such sections of the business community should learn to live with a government of slightly different complexion from the previous one and not seek to blame - [More…]

• In giving us lectures about the details of the Budget proposals, I hope Opposition senators will occasionally be mindful of a view which is very widespread in the community, and that is that one of the difficulties which the people of Australia face economically at this moment results from the stand taken by Opposition senators under instructions from their leader. [More…]

• I shall deal with that one point so that we may know, and those who are income earners in this community may realise that they are headed for a tax slug under this Government by these particular measures. [More…]

• If one looks only at that figure one realises- and the community should realise- that the socialist programs of a socialist government there is a rise in the pay-as-you-earn tax of more than 50 per cent in 2 years. [More…]

• Let the community not be fooled by this present Government. [More…]

• It has had a part in encouraging the women of the community to go into the work force so that there are 2 wage earners in the family. [More…]

• It has been the plan of this Government since it has been in office, as I see it, to make the Australian community dependent on government. [More…]

• One must doubt whether the private sector of the community, which is by far the biggest employing sector, can keep pace with the salaries offered by these great government instrumentalities. [More…]

• I believe that this Government has lowered the standards of living in the community. [More…]

• The Government encourages many loafers in the community by offering the unemployment benefit to some people who are not entitled to it. [More…]

• Despite Senator Webster’s interjection of ‘Hear, hear’, I must say that I am grateful to Mr Roberts for drawing the attention of the community to the conscientious efforts of the Tribunal to protect the interests of Australian consumers. [More…]

• I suggest that the Tribunal is doing a great service to the community in investigating complaints of this kind. [More…]

• It considered that its duty was to observe political, economic and social structures in the countries it visited, to study trends in these areas of community activity, and to show Australian interest and goodwill by discussion and exchanges of views with the people and authorities directly involved. [More…]

• I am certain that, despite the political differences which occur across the broad section of the South Australian community, Sir Thomas Playford is held in high esteem by Labor, Liberal and Liberal Movement voters, regardless of their own political position and the way in which they have voted at elections. [More…]

• As regards Sir Thomas choosing his successor, no one knows what Sir Thomas’s views were on that matter and no single person in this Australian community, I believe, knows how Sir Thomas voted on the choice of his successor. [More…]

• I put that on record before Senator Withers attempts to smear other great people in this community. [More…]

• In terms of what the community has come to regard as normal, economic conditions in 1975 are very difficult; a complex set of strong forces, some of which have acted in opposing directions, have carried the economy quite a distance from a normal or equilibrium position. [More…]

• 1 think that all those who study the general community at a local level will understand that their support on this issue will not grow but will continue to diminish. [More…]

• Quite amazingly the wage earners in the community have been tricked, I believe, by the present Government into believing they would pay less tax on their wages. [More…]

• One would have imagined that one of the main aims of Labor when it came to office would have been to see that the jobs of wage earners, the ordinary working men in the community, were protected. [More…]

• When it came to office I suppose I held in the back of my mind some idea that it would do as Mr Whitlam had proclaimed and set out to help the less fortunate in the community. [More…]

• I recall Labor’s great declaration that it was setting out to restructure industry; but what it set out to do was to abolish industries in this country, something for which the whole community will be paying for many years. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the Government’s intention was that goods from overseas would come in at a much lower cost which would give great savings to the community. [More…]

• The Government is waking up too late to the problems within our community. [More…]

• Such references are as big a confidence trick on the community as any others I have heard many Ministers utter. [More…]

• We must attempt to improve the output of the businesses in our community. [More…]

• The average Australian businessman is most anxious not only to stay in business but also to see that he has the most modern business so that he can compete with others in the community. [More…]

• All of these things will result in greater unemployment in our community in the next 6 months. [More…]

• What disaster that policy has brought on the community. [More…]

• One reads of the disease and the malaise which has overcome the British community. [More…]

• We believe that Government instrumentalities are the best thing for this community’. [More…]

• Let me illustrate how such instrumentalities are not the best for our community. [More…]

• They have lectured us at length about the deficiencies within the economy and have, not applied themselves to any considerable extent to the substantial benefits that will accrue to the community as a result of the passage of these 3 Bills. [More…]

• Of course, the purpose of taxation is to redistribute resources and incomes and to provide community and public servicesto take money out of private sector spending and to put it into public sector spending. [More…]

• When we consider the failure of the Opposition to change the tax structure during those long years in which it had undisputed sway in the national Parliament, and the degree to which community facilities suffered from the lack of Australian Government funds, we can understand why the Whitlam Labor Government has sought, in its Budget strategy in 1973-74, 1974-75 and 1975-76, to bring about a transference of funds, through the taxation system so that public sector deficiencies, which were a feature in the post-war years, would be redressed, the imbalance would be recognised and the Government would be able to allocate sufficient funds to enable public services and public works to be provided in order to make up the leeway that was obvious to every person in Australia. [More…]

• We do not make any apology for the fact that, in a period when there is obviously excess money in the community, tax money should be collected for the purpose of redressing the deficiencies in the areas of education, sewerage, roads, the National Estate and so on, in respect of all of which I need make no more than a passing reference, and of providing the essential welfare program which has been a characteristic of this Government ‘s policy during its term of office. [More…]

• It is an essential part of the strategy of the Budget on this occasion to place within the community sufficiently more funds to enable consumer demand to be stimulated and to enable those on lower incomes, who are disadvantaged most by inflation and by the old tax scales, to have more money to put into circulation. [More…]

• I think it ought to be acknowledged by the Opposition that these proposed concessions do give to that section of the community which we represent- that is the overwhelming majorityaccess to a great number of benefits which did not have quite as much significance under the old system as they do under the new. [More…]

• When he talked about substantial benefits to the community, I hope to be able to demonstrate that these substantial benefits will be provided by way of increased tax to be paid by many Australians, particularly by the poor, the weak and the aged. [More…]

• The people at that kind of income level are the poor and needy in our community. [More…]

• I believe that the privacy of every citizen is of fundamental importance in the community. [More…]

• Your interest in the Commonwealth Parliament for many years, your interest in community service and your interest in the service of business in your State warrant your elevation to this high position. [More…]

• -My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications, results from some of the concern which has been shown throughout the community about the Government’s intentions regarding television and radio broadcasting in Australia. [More…]

• Recognising the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development as the virtual custodian of all national parks and fauna reserves in Australian Territories, I ask what guarantee he can give the Senate on the sanctity of the boundaries of the Kakadu National Park in the Top End of the Northern Territory in the face of utterances made by his colleague the Minister for National Resources contending that uranium extraction has first priority in the Territory? [More…]

• What are its intentions with respect to the existing legal aid services in the community? [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is it true that there are many outstanding applications from community groups for urgently needed child care facilities? [More…]

• I refer to international and domestic airlines, commercial shipping, the requirements of farming community predictions being so important, predictions in time of flood, warnings of high fire danger, yachting for pleasure, sporting activities, and the fishing industry in both its professional sense and its amateur sense. [More…]

• I reiterate that it is earnestly desired that all areas of the community will react to this request and to the document now tabled. [More…]

• Members of the Public Service are as keen as anybody else to see the implementation of reforms to improve the Public Service and to make it a more efficient vehicle for providing essential services to the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that there is a greater role for handicapped people to play in the Commonwealth Public Service and in the community as a whole, so that they might take a greater part in national administration and at the same time be provided with the dignity in our society which such employment provides. [More…]

• This is equally important, of course, to parents, particularly women, who wish to work or who require such facilities for their children so that they can participate more fully in community affairs. [More…]

• Such policies reflect, I believe, the spirit of liberalism and of our times; an awareness of the obligation of each person to others and of government to the community as a whole. [More…]

• He has done so because although he is aware that he is a member of a community which sprawls over a vast area he prefers to look upon himself as a person who is making a solid contribution not only to the Territory but to Australia as a whole. [More…]

• In outlining the current situations within our industries and commerce and community areas, I do so not with the intention of inviting debate; there will be ample time for that in the days to come. [More…]

• It boils down to the fact that our first consideration must be the complete understanding of the Aborigine as an individual in a bi-racial community. [More…]

• In fact we are pledged to ensure that Aborigines are granted land and that subsequent legislation contributes to the ultimate goal of a successful bi-racial community. [More…]

• Our future thoughts and actions must be guided towards the ultimate goal of a successful bi-racial community. [More…]

• Another important issue, although not so farreaching a community issue, is the reconstruction of cyclone devastated Darwin and the role played by the Darwin Reconstruction Commission. [More…]

• But I think the essential point is that, whatever opinions are expressed in this chamber and in this Parliament, they reflect not only the Party attitude to which most of us subscribethere are one or two unfortunate exceptions here- but also the thoughts of the person himself and what he believes is in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• For example, in the course of his Speech the Governor-General said that the Government is not denying that there are people who need assistance in the Australian community, which is the content of a question which I put to Senator Withers today at question time. [More…]

• Obviously when generalisations such as that statement are made one can only draw the conclusion that from that will flow the specifics in which individuals in the Australian community will be made to suffer. [More…]

• The business community in this country is fully conscious of that fact. [More…]

• It is the start of new ideas- the point at which people get the germ which develops into a greater business at some future time which creates more jobs and more wealth, not necessarily for the employers or the employees but for the community as a whole. [More…]

• I believe that there is a great deal of support for that point of view in the academic community which is involved in this area. [More…]

• Perhaps some natural distrust arises from the fact that a government department should be involving itself in advising businesses about anything, and I guess that is well understood by the business community. [More…]

• Greater costs have been driven on to the business community and particularly in South Australia this has had its effects where business has been suffering from the recent effects- within the last two years or so- of the introduction of increased worker compensation benefits of the order of 100 per cent of workers’ average annual wages. [More…]

• We certainly affronted a large section of the business community. [More…]

• I did not realise that we would see a situation quite so soon in which the rate of inflation destroyed the best endeavours of a Government which I do believe sincerely wanted to help improve the position of those in need in the community. [More…]

• I believe it is important to remember now as we are looking to the Governor-General’s Speech that unless sound economic management is underlying and is accepted to be underlying government approach to overall policy, there will not be within the community that degree of confidence which underlies any sound economy. [More…]

• I believe that there is only one simple fundamental in a modern economy which governs the effect of any monetary or fiscal measures which may be taken- that is, the way in which they are viewed in the modern era of instant communication in which the average person in the community is able to receive immediately through radio, television and the newspapers a feed out from the Government and form an impression about what the Government is doing. [More…]

• Unless we have incentive amongst the small people-the individuals, the small businesses, the individual employees, the people who generate the real wealth of the community- we will not have economic good health. [More…]

• Before we can reduce taxation adequately we must ensure that it is efficient, that the cost involved in the taxation system does not load too much on the collection and the administration and too little on the net left over for the beneficial use of the community in public programs. [More…]

• I want you, Mr President, and all members of the Australian Parliament, particularly my friends on the Government side, to understand that at least 43 per cent of the community said that the Labor Government as it existed between 1972 and 1975, despite all of the frustrations and all of the difficulties it had in administering the affairs of this nation- I intend to come to those matters later- should continue in office. [More…]

• I mention this to let members of the media know that there are strong feelings amongst many hundreds of thousands, indeed millions, of the Australian people- at least 43 per cent of the Australian community. [More…]

• I want Senator Young to realise that the action we took yesterday was action that we did not want to take but which we believe had to be taken to sheet home to those who sit opposite and who we understand might not understand, and to the media generally, that these strong and bitter feelings are shared by at least 43 per cent of the Australian community. [More…]

• Labor having been given a go, after having misled the Australian community into believing that the economy was improving and that unemployment was coming down, what did we eventually find? [More…]

• The same position pertains in community affairs, tourism, consumer affairs, Aboriginal affairs and in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• In fairness to the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) at the conclusion of my speech I will present 4 documents comprising a request from the Portuguese community in Sydney dealing with certain refugees from Timor, my submission to the Minister and her reply- the Minister will understand that I am not pre-empting what she may say after my remarks- and finally a letter from a former illustrious Minister for Immigration in the person of the honourable Clyde Cameron which refers to a survey that was being made. [More…]

• I have received representations from the Portuguese community in Sydney and I know that my colleague from the Northern Territory, Senator Robertson, has had experience of the situation in Darwin. [More…]

• I understand from my Western Australian colleagues that the Portuguese community is a fairly scattered community. [More…]

• I reiterate that I believe that in cases such as the relatively small Portuguese community the Government could be flexible and could review the sustenance problems of people above the age of, say, 65. [More…]

• I simply make this plea on behalf of the Portuguese community of Sydney. [More…]

• I wish to incorporate in order a document dated 1 1 February from myself to Senator Guilfoyle setting out my support of an earlier document of 10 February from a Mr Encarnacao, a prominent member of the Sydney Portuguese community. [More…]

• In enclose copy of a communication received from Mr J. J. ENCARNACAO a member of the Sydney Portuguese Community with whom I have dealings as Chairman of the Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]

• Naturally, my thoughts turned to you, remembering the occasions we met at Portuguese community functions in recent years. [More…]

• I am responding to your representations of 1 1 February with which you referred to me a letter received from Mr J. J. Encarnacao, a member of the Sydney Portuguese Community, who wrote to you about the termination of special benefit formerly paid to Mr Francisco de Alegria Alberto. [More…]

• It would be a disservice both to the people concerned and to the Australian community to encourage them to come to Australia in such circumstances. [More…]

• I think that as a community we have to get used to the system. [More…]

• We will be responsible also for providing general supportive and welfare services to the refugees once they have arrived in Australia.The migrant services section of my Department will liaise with the Department of Immigration and EthnicAffairs indeed with all other departments such as the Department of Education, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development- to enable any difficulties to be overcome with regard to the refugees on their arrival in this country. [More…]

• If that is not the case, can the Minister indicate what action is being taken to assist the handicapped and to enhance their role in the community, particularly in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Is it a fact that an advertisement was recently inserted in the Government Gazette inviting applications for the position of Personnel Service Manager for the South Australian office of the Australian Housing Corporation? [More…]

• -I direct a further question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development that flows from his answer yesterday to a question about the Kakadu National Park. [More…]

• I have laid an official complaint with the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) on behalf of the moderate Yugoslav community of Sydney. [More…]

• It was Professor Manning Clark who stated in the Australian that 13 December could well mark a day which will go down in history as the day when more militant sections of our community deserted the ballot box for the purpose of militant action. [More…]

• The whole of our system of production in this community must crash unless the co-operation of the trade union movement is received. [More…]

• But let us consider the appearance of many people these days and what seems to be accepted in the community. [More…]

• Complete leisure for a section of the community or increased leisure for the whole of society is not beneficial if society cannot utilise it properly. [More…]

• If we cannot provide job opportunities we should seriously consider whether our contribution should be to ensure that such people are not in competition with those who wish to work or living a life that is other than they have selected and is resulting in their taking income away from another section of the community. [More…]

• There is perhaps still some doubt, and of course there are differing views in the community as to what the precise powers should be. [More…]

• It is ruinous of the life and business of this community and is combined with the analogous question of unemployment which is damaging so many lives. [More…]

• But there are a lot of other issues that I think are unnecessarily polarised in this community. [More…]

• The worst effect of the election and of what has happened is that more and more groups in the community and more and more people in the community believe that Parliament just does not hold the answer to their justifiable aspirations or their desires to achieve various aims. [More…]

• I think that the sort of thing we must look at is his extraordinary comment that the 6.4 per cent wage indexation rise will exclusively insulate from inflation those who are dependent on arbitration for their wages while leaving the rest of the community vulnerable. [More…]

• They have a right to be certain of their future and of what is happening in this community. [More…]

• I think this is a sentiment which is shared by every member of this chamber and by most people in the community. [More…]

• What are the first things the government has done to ensure that any of the social welfare benefits in this community go to those who really need them? [More…]

• A great state of hysteria was stirred up in the community about the so-called dole bludgers. [More…]

• That was bad enough, but the worst and the second effect of this campaign about dole bludgers was that it created in the community an atmosphere that everywhere there were these people who were bludging on the community. [More…]

• I believe that a time of high inflation and high unemployment is not the time to start a blitz like this on the least privileged in the community, and it is not the time to put these people in the state of mind of being uncertain about what will happen to them. [More…]

• I believe that the inevitable result of this Government’s collective actions will be the development of a degree of cynicism in the community and particularly a degree of cynicism in the labour force, which has been unheard of previously. [More…]

• I hope there are sufficient to remind the Prime Minister and some of his Cabinet colleagues that there are other people in the community who are not as fortunate as they are and who need help and some distribution of the wealth that they do not have. [More…]

• But if inflation does go through the roof and if the wealth of this country becomes more and more confined to a small group in the community then we will have social breakdown and social chaos. [More…]

• In pursuance of the terms of a document which I laid on the table of the Senate last week, I hope that people and organisations within the community will indicate to the Government the types of services which they desire and for which they are willing to pay. [More…]

• Green Paper on the future of the Australian Assistance Plan which has received wide community support and endorsement? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, relates to the national parks lands acquisition scheme and the Australian Heritage Commission. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of a considerable amount of community anxiety in relation to the continuance of these programs? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, refers to the question asked of him by Senator Mulvihill. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development received a communication from the Surfers Paradise Chamber of Commerce criticising the Federal Government for repudiating its policy on tourism? [More…]

• With this funding it has been able to set up headquarters in Perth, providing a necessary service to the community. [More…]

• Given that the information collected is of vital importance to the work of many sections of the community, including Government departments and planning agencies, and given that such costs as wages and computer time are likely to increase in the next year, what justification can the Minister provide for this seemingly false economy? [More…]

• The members of the community who have been referred to by the honourable senator from Western Australia will be eligible to be tested for the unemployment benefit or any other benefits which are paid by my Department and which would be appropriate for them. [More…]

• It has undertaken to concentrate its resources on those in the community who are in need. [More…]

• It is our job to see that those businesses are reinstated in the community. [More…]

• These people were led to believe that they could attract a benefit under the RED scheme to purchase a community hall worth about $45,000. [More…]

• I believe in all sincerity that we have to look after that community. [More…]

• The European Economic Community has a real fear of the insiduous influence, the dragging down influence of the union element, the wrong union element in the UK. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood), who is in the chamber, may be able to tell me whether the Victorian Electricity Commission pays regard to that aspect. [More…]

• I refer to the power that resides in the judiciary and, of course, the power that clearly is now accepted by honourable senators and unfortunately by the community generally to reside in the representative of the Crown. [More…]

• This league has been advised by the National Football League of Australia that their claim for assistance for the introduction of a National Coaching Scheme has been rejected by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Sir, I respectfully request that you approach the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development with the view to having him consider, and reverse, his Department’s rejection of the NFL application for assistance. [More…]

• The Sydney Chilean community has expressed views to me about that unhappy country. [More…]

• I will hand to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• Just as the Labor Government was able to expedite the processing of the applications for the Spanish stonemasons and to get them here quickly, I hope that in the next month, at the request of a section of the Chilean community, this gentleman’s case can be rapidly processed. [More…]

• I wish to refer to the provision of services for children in the community for which $65 m is to be spent this year. [More…]

• It will ensure that the maximum number of children in the community are cared for in the most appropriate way and that their parents are thus free to participate in community affairs. [More…]

• We thus want to ensure that there is an integration of facilities for children in the community- not just pre-school, but occasional, day care and other facilities- so that both children and parents in the community gain maximum benefit from such facilities. [More…]

• Marymead family day care scheme, for the Woden Community Association family day care scheme and for assistance to the Young Men’s Christian Association ‘children in need’ program. [More…]

• It is a problem which has to be underlined and there is the need throughout the community for everyone to share in the sacrifices which are being made, and sporting bodies, I believe, will recognise that the present economic climate is such that it is necessary for all sections of the community, including the sporting clubs, to bear some of those sacrifices. [More…]

• If this is so, will the Government ensure that before any action is taken consultation will take place between the Government, industry and the Northern Territory community? [More…]

• I direct to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• The Committee trusts these comments will be received by governments and the business community alike in the constructive spirit in which they are offered. [More…]

• Finally governments at both Commonwealth and State level were forced to bring in legislation ensuring that things were preserved in our community. [More…]

• Like Senator Jim Cavanagh, and indeed many of my colleagues, I will be spending less time in the next 3 years on this great charade that is known as Parliament and more on tackling where the real power exists within the Australian community. [More…]

• It will be the endeavour of the Government to restore incentives to the individual and to encourage him to use his own initiative for his economic welfare without losing sight, of course, of the necessity to support the poor, the underprivileged, the disadvantaged and those people in the community who are unable to help themselves. [More…]

• Parliament cannot gain dignity and it cannot gain respect in the eyes of the Australian community by a couple of its officials wearing wigs. [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…]

• In 20 years in government in Victoria the Liberal Party has not delivered in respect of all sorts of services which are basic to members of the community and to the welfare of the society in which they live. [More…]

• These people are a pioneer community and their position must be considered. [More…]

• Other forms of community participation were facilitated by innovative Labor measures. [More…]

• For example, there were community committees for health centres, school boards with representation from parents, students and teachers and community representation on vital bodies such as the committee which allocates emergency housing to distressed families. [More…]

• But just as the benefits of Labor’s social reform policies were quickly felt in the Territory- for example, in the reduction in the price of land, the establishment of an Australian Legal Aid Office, community health centres, women’s refuges, cheaper loans for home buyers, child care services and land rights for Aboriginals at Wreck Bay, so also the detrimental effects of the present Government’s ill conceived anti-Canberra policy are already causing distress and hardship to people living here in the seat of government. [More…]

• Again, acting on the socialist principle that the community through the auspices of government willingly assumes responsibility for its vulnerable members, the Labor Government set up the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission to develop integrated child care and development programs for pre-school age children. [More…]

• There are many people in our community who, through poverty, neglect, prejudice, exploitation, handicap, illhealth or merely old age, have not had such opportunities. [More…]

• Many rural producers enjoy a reasonable standard of living, but the fact that they are not keeping pace with the other sections of the community can best be illustrated by looking at the drift of population. [More…]

• It is amazing that many high cost and inefficient industries have avoided community criticism whereas the rural export industries, which are among Australia’s only internationally competitive industries, are condemned for receiving so-called unjustified handouts. [More…]

• 1 want to look after and fight for the interests of a group of people who do not have any real bargaining power in this community. [More…]

• This evening I want to speak about the pensioners of this community, the people who are dependent upon the Government for their very livelihood. [More…]

• This responsibility falls on all sectors of our community. [More…]

• Ideally, in a parliamentary democracy power should be exercised in consultation and cooperation with elective organisations within the community, in preserving the integrity of institutions within society and in recognising that power should be kept close to the people and not manipulated by the corporate State method. [More…]

• I refer to the woman who, under a great deal of economic pressure, decides to do the most important job in this community- that is, the mother who stays home, who looks after and who nurtures her children into good citizens? [More…]

• What other person in this community is so discriminated against because of the lack of attention to that person over a long period of years? [More…]

• Australia will not return to a soundly based prosperity without understanding and co-operation between all sections of the community. [More…]

• I believe that it is important that I read this article in order to be able to carry on with what I have to say in relation to the matter of the Aurukun people, who happen to be a community of Aboriginal people in the north of Queensland. [More…]

• At the present time they are very concerned about what is happening in and around their Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Consequently, the 700 people on the Aboriginal community at Aurukun are my constituents. [More…]

• Therefore, I am speaking on behalf of some of my constituents in Queensland and I intend to support and to fight for the Aboriginal people in the community of Aurukun with everything that I have. [More…]

• Discussions took place between the Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement Department of the Queensland State Government, the Presbyterian Church of Queensland, which until that time was responsible for the administration of the Aurukun mission, and the Aboriginal councillors of the community at Aurukun. [More…]

• It was agreed by all parties concerned that the mining consortium should have the right to prospect in the reserve lands of the Aurukun Aboriginal community. [More…]

• They would discuss how the mining would go on, what agreement would be reached between the groups of people concerned, what benefits would be derived by the Aboriginal people, what protection would be afforded the way of life of the Aboriginal community and everything else. [More…]

• The first time that the Aboriginal people and the community of Aurukun knew of this Bill was when they read about it in the Courier-Mail some days after it was presented in the Queensland Parliament. [More…]

• They sent a number of telegrams to the Queensland Premier and members of State Parliament asking that the Bill be held up until the Presbyterian Church authorities, the Aboriginal councillors and the Aboriginal community had a chance to look at it, to study it, to talk about it and to know what it meant. [More…]

• On 4 separate occasions I visited the community of Aurukun and spoke to the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• I think twenty or thirty of the Aboriginal people in that community addressed thai meeting in their own simple, unsophisticated way. [More…]

• The trouble, Sam and Bruce, is that we were disappointed that day last week, seeing that the heads of the Parliament didn’t come and have a talk with the councillors or the community. [More…]

• The main reason is that the company, whatever it may bc, Tipperary or I don’t know what company, if it could come and talk with the council and with the community everything would run smooth. [More…]

• They do not come and face us and talk with the community. [More…]

• Seeing that it has been unfair for us by not coming across with the community or certainly with the council. [More…]

• That was from a simple, unsophisticated Aborigine who lives on a community. [More…]

• These people have lived on this community for some 30 000 years, as the learned anthropologists tell us. [More…]

• I now ask him whether he is aware that media and community organisations which at present obtain information about governmental activities from the Australian Government Liaison Service are being told that that service which is provided to them is to end on Friday as part of the Government’s overall economic measures? [More…]

• Further, have disadvantaged media and community groups, including those functioning in outlying rural areas, been made aware that the Government intends to place a charge on Government information, such as Press statements, which it is intended will be made available to them through the publications and inquiry centres established in the various State capitals? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether he recalls answering a question from Senator Mulvihill concerning assistance to conservation bodies seeking to place evidence before environmental inquiries? [More…]

• Does the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Affairs acknowledge that the establishment of a new university in the Albury-Wodonga decentralisation project is regarded by the AlburyWodonga Development Corporation and by the local community as vital to the success of the scheme? [More…]

• We believe also that it would be better if the Bill were withdrawn by the Minister and further consideration given to the implications that this legislation will have upon those in need in the community. [More…]

• It is obvious that in this Bill the Government, in its desperate search for cost cutting measures, has cut right across its proclaimed principle that it and the people of this country should care for its citizens who need care and should care for the less fortunate members of our community. [More…]

• I believe that the actual cost of many of the items is so low- in fact below the patient contributions- that except for pensioners and other needy people in the community they could be removed from the scheme, thereby relieving the scheme of some administrative burden and administrative costs. [More…]

• This is one Bill of many which will not be popular with every section of the community. [More…]

• So fewer people will use the system and it will be shown to be less and less useful to the community. [More…]

• I begin my remarks by making the general point that the Bill must be seen as part of the Government’s overall economic program on which it has a clear commitment to the Australian community and to the voters who put the Government into power last December. [More…]

• The Government is undertaking essential economies, of which this Bill represents part, to ensure that we set the basis for subsequent real economic growth from which might be provided greater benefits for all in the community. [More…]

• The action taken in introducing this Bill is part of the Government’s overall program to re-establish real economic growth in Australia and ultimately to provide greater benefits, particularly for those in the community who need them most. [More…]

• If we as a community are to continue to provide a high standard of health care delivery, the resources that we have- and we must recognise that these resources are limitedmust be managed as efficiently as possible in the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• But I also believe that it is recognised here that the resources that we have and that we will marshal for use in the Australian Capital Territory must be managed in the most effective way in the interests of the community. [More…]

• In conclusion, I emphasise that the measures proposed in this Bill to amend the National Health Act must be kept under scrutiny to ensure that hardship does not ensue for the disadvantaged in the community such as pensioners. [More…]

• However, I believe that the Bill indicates the Government’s determination to overcome the economic crisis so that ultimately we as a Government will be in a better position to provide more extensive health and social security benefits for the community as a whole and particularly for the disadvantaged. [More…]

• A number of people in the community are becoming confused because of what is happening in the social welfare field in Australia. [More…]

• Some people in this community cannot. [More…]

• Even in the normal wage earning community 3 per cent of the people receive under $80 a week and 6.8 per cent receive under $100 a week. [More…]

• I do not see why the disadvantaged of this community should bear the brunt of Government attempts to reduce disproportionately the rate of inflation. [More…]

• In other words, when reviewing the present pharmaceutical benefits scheme, he expects to hold consultations with all groups of people in the community who are directly involved in it- consumers, producers, those who dispense such items and any other groups which have an active interest and who participate in the operation of the scheme. [More…]

• Last evening before the Senate adjourned I was bringing to the attention of the Senate matters pertaining to the Aboriginal community known as Aurukun and to its concern regarding the mining venture which has been proposed in a Bill presented to the Queensland Parliament. [More…]

• I answered the letter from my office in Brisbane by telegram addressed to the Chairman and Councillors of the Aurukun Aboriginal Community, via Thursday Island. [More…]

• So, as to the criticism that I am a self-appointed spokesman, certainly I am acting on behalf of my constituents, who contacted me and asked me to come to their community to discuss these matters with them. [More…]

• The meeting went for something like 3% hours, during which time the people spoke to the Minister and told him, as they had told me on other occasions, of their concern about what is going to happen to their community. [More…]

• If the mining goes on and a town is built in close proximity to the Aboriginal community of Aurukun and there is a work force of some 1 500 people, who I imagine in a mining venture of this kind would be mostly males, what protection is going to be given to the Aboriginal community? [More…]

• The concern of the Aboriginal people in this community is whether the mining workers are going to wander into the community. [More…]

• If that does happen, what will be the results and what authority will the people of the community have to deal with it? [More…]

• I am not saying that all miners are unscrupulous, but in any community there is always an element of unscrupulous people. [More…]

• If there are some of these unscrupulous men and they go on to the Aboriginal community, which is a group of 700 unsophisticated simple-living people, with flagons of wine and with certain thoughts in their minds and they do take advantage of some of the young men and perhaps some of the young women, what protection are the Aboriginal people going to have from that kind of behaviour? [More…]

• There is the community council, which has a certain amount of authority delegated to it by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs through the Director. [More…]

• The community has its own Aboriginal police force; but what authority has it got, except over its own people in the community? [More…]

• In relation to employment, the Second Schedule to the Queensland legislation provides that the mining company will employ ‘employable Aborigines’ from the Aurukun community. [More…]

• I look at it this way: If the employment officer from the mining company visited the community with thoughts of employing some Aborigines, he might say: ‘Look, councillors, I want 3 bulldozer drivers, 3 endloader drivers, 2 mechanics, and 1 plumber’. [More…]

• The employment officer would go away, feeling good, and report to the management: ‘I went to the Aurukun community. [More…]

• But if he went to the Aboriginal community and said: I want 3 stockmen, 4 men to put up a fence, and another 2 men to dig ditches, and to use a shovel’, he will get them; there will be no trouble about that. [More…]

• The Aboriginal councillors and the Aboriginal community are saying that these are the things that they want to talk about. [More…]

• We realised that with changes in technology and with areas of manufacture going out of business there were men who had to be retrained in order to earn their living and that there were people coming out of school with certain skills and who could not get jobs although there were jobs in the community waiting to be done. [More…]

• Do they forget about the terrible fear in people throughout the community, especially in people who have always been short of money, that they might finish up without a decent burial? [More…]

• I wonder which part of the community that affects. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: As there is a continual need for the protection of the environment in this country, will the Minister state what is the policy in relation to federal funding of both the national park lands acquisition program and the Australian Heritage Commission? [More…]

• 1 understand that when the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) delivered the second reading speech on these Bills he moved that so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as to permit the Bills to go through all their stages without delay. [More…]

• The Opposition affirms that the committee system embracing the Senate standing committees, the House of Representatives committees and the joint committees has been of tremendous assistance to the legislature and therefore, of course, to the Australian community. [More…]

• The legislation has relevance at this time because of a great deal of community concern over the role of intelligence agencies. [More…]

• It is also because of the degree of community concern about this matter that we look forward to that report. [More…]

• Let us not abandon in any way the system of the Senate which has become one of the features of i*.s value and the resurrection of its acceptance in the community. [More…]

• If the Senate is to develop its role and, indeed, maintain the role of Parliament in the community it has to retain that independence of government which, I believe, has been a notable feature of the Senate. [More…]

• 1 think it is fair to say that the reports on Japan, on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and on the Army were reports of real significance, certainly in a community sense. [More…]

• I think that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood), who represents the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Ellicott) in this chamber, will appreciate my point. [More…]

• I am not reflecting at all on the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) who is in charge of the Bill. [More…]

• I do not suggest- and I am sure a lot of people in the Australian community do not suggest- that the mere appointment of a person from the judiciary will guarantee that the intelligence organisations will operate in a manner in which they should -in the manner which was obviously in the mind of the Government in 1 949 when it established the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. [More…]

• I think one is entitled to say that in the intervening years from 1 949 when Mr Justice Reid was appointed to this office, appointments were made which permitted the Organisation to go in directions that were not in the best interests of either the community or of the Australian Parliament. [More…]

• The royal commission into ASIO was appointed for the purpose of restructuring our security service and giving it a Director-General to enable it to have credibility in the eyes of the Australian community and prevent it from indulging in the excesses of either the KGB or the CLA. [More…]

• For this reason I consider the appointment of a judge of the status of Mr Justice Woodward to be an extremely important step towards establishing a security service which has the respect and support of the community. [More…]

• However, I believe that the appointment of Mr Justice Woodward as the Director-General of ASIO will certainly improve the standing of the service in the community. [More…]

• It is important to Australia’s security that the security service we have is headed by a person who is outside the party political scene and who is a person of respect and high status in the community. [More…]

• Over a period of some two or three years we saw the work of ASIO ridiculed and denigrated by leaks to the Press and by the creation of an attitude within the community that ASIO was worthless and on some occasions was really working against Australia ‘s best interests. [More…]

• I think that the members of ASIO were served poorly by the previous Government and that, whatever be the effort which was made in the latter days of that Government to restore ASIO’s morale by appointing as its head a man who had bi-partisan support, who was a judge and who could therefore command respect and support throughout the community, so much damage had been earlier done. [More…]

• That conclusion is that the only effective way to run an intelligence organisation in a democratic community such as ours is to put in charge of the organisation a man whom you can trust. [More…]

• I want to raise a matter with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood). [More…]

• whereas the Aurukun Aboriginal Community have declared that they want no mining on their land and [More…]

• refuse categorically to grant an export licence to the proposed mining consortium until there are negotiations with the Aurukun Community which results in an agreement on any mining terms. [More…]

• In the event of no agreement being reached with the Aboriginal Community that the Australian Government will persist with its refusal to grant an export licence and [More…]

• Can the Minister expedite a decision on the degree of assistance to be made available to the Mount Lyell company to avoid what I trust will be an unnecessary disruption to the community? [More…]

• While on my feet I will repeat some facts for the edification of the honourable senator and for the community. [More…]

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

• If any honourable senator or any citizen believes that the Commonwealth police have acted unlawfully or improperly, the courts are open to them- as my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development said yesterday- and I think he also said that legal aid is also available to them. [More…]

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

• Is the Minister aware also that the innovations program of the Schools Commission was the only program which was truly decentralised in that it gave community groups and individual teachers access to funds to implement innovative programs? [More…]

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

• I should like to comment before the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) replies. [More…]

• It sought to grab to itself at the grass roots every little community interest group, every interest factor in the whole of society, and to say to them: Do not go to State governments; do not go to local governments; come to us, because if you come to the Federal Government we will grant your requests’. [More…]

• All those in the community who have an interest in good government should take note of the fact that a number of Labor senators, in particular from the less populous States, are arguing that federalism should be rejected. [More…]

• In those 3 years of Labor rule, the growth of centralised government- the concentration of government- was greater even than I suspect the community thought. [More…]

• I refer not to a new need in the Australian community but one which should be recognised at this time. [More…]

• In speaking of this I do not wish to speak with a political objective in mind; I think rather that it is an objective which the Australian community should recognise. [More…]

• It is this: in modern countries, opportunities for all citizens- the opportunity for a complete education, opportunity for dignity in retirement, opportunity for proper medical treatment, opportunity to share in the nation’s wealth and resources, opportunity for decent housing, the opportunity for civilised conditions in our cities and towns, opportunity to preserve and promote the natural beauty of the land- can be provided only if governmentsthe community itself acting through its elected representativeswill 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, modest and middle income families- opportunities which only governments can make. [More…]

• Few within the Australian community would blame the union movement if it already regarded the process of talking with the Government as meaningless. [More…]

• The industrial Labor movement should not be regarded, as this Government apparently views it, as a rival to its authority which must be bested in a display of strength; rather, Australian trade unions should be considered an integral part of our economic community, able and prepared to contribute to the processes by which industrial and social decisions are made. [More…]

• An electoral system, such as the one which now exists and which is weighted so demonstrably against a major Party, will not be tolerated indefinitely by the Australian community. [More…]

• Government of its philosophy of government as being the reassertion of government’s role in establishing an appropriate legal framework for economic life rather than for government itself to take over the responsibility for the production and direction of wealth in the community. [More…]

• There has been a greater concentration on satisfying greater and growing expectations in all sectors of the community about the role of government and the achievements that government can make. [More…]

• It has become clear to many of the thinkers in the Western world that this philosophy of growing government activity, growing attempts to satisfy the ever increasing expectations of everybody in the community, has simply proved to be self-defeating because the only way in which there can be any satisfaction of” the various demands that are increasingly being made in a rising standard of living and in a rising community sophistication is by the production of greater wealth, and it has become more and more apparent that it is not governments that are going to be able to create such wealth but only the efforts and initiatives of private individuals. [More…]

• Nobody on this side of the chamber or on our side of the political sphere in Australia or in the Western world is saying for one moment that there is not a very important role for government in seeing that fair play takes place in the production of this wealth and in seeing that there is a fair distribution of it and that, as far as possible, the wants and needs of the community can be satisfied. [More…]

• One is how much wealth is being created and produced in the community, and the other is how far government intervention and activity will have not a stimulating effect on the production of that wealth but .in fact a depressing effect. [More…]

• The previous Government came into power in 1972 with a program of social reform designed to satisfy the needs of people in the community. [More…]

• He was the first person of whom I am aware who not only made it clear that there was a very real limit on what governments could do and that people such as ourselves who are responsible for passing the laws which make the provision of such services available to the community must observe that fact, but also that citizens must observe it and understand the limits within which governments can work in the economy, no matter how strong that economy may be. [More…]

• At all stages the community was involved in planning the new Darwin, and citizens’ action groups were sponsored and supported both in Darwin and elsewhere in Australia. [More…]

• Let us hope that the former Government’s other enlightened policies, particularly those relating to law enforcement and community development, will also be retained and pursued. [More…]

• They will interpret this to mean that the Darwin Community College, the transitional colleges and the SEBAC program introduced over the last 3 years will continue to be supported. [More…]

• Some honourable senators may not be aware that the Government’s economic measures have forced the Darwin Community College to limit the courses it can offer this year. [More…]

• However, despite all the details, the polarised effect showed the anti-Labor feeling in the community and the success with which the Liberal-National Country Parties were able to have their story told to the public. [More…]

• I found in the electorate of South Australianot in the corridors of Canberra- that that is a very widespread feeling in the community. [More…]

• Any diminution of the powers of the trade practices legislation which would allow the law of the jungle to apply and enable billion dollar traders in this community to squeeze small producers as far as they like, would be a blow to the general economic sector. [More…]

• Mr Dunstan is one of those people who aims to deceive his community by making out that he is giving some worthwhile concessions while still riding along with the general rate of 5 per cent. [More…]

• That may not be undesirable, depending on what the community wants from government at the 3 tiers, but we should not delude the public into believing, as I believe some Liberal speakers are doing, that there will be less burden on the taxpayer because of this so-called alteration. [More…]

• I emphasise this point because, really and truly, what the community says in regard to this ideological aspect of more government or less government simply means: ‘I want less government for you and more government for me’. [More…]

• I have found that to be the attitude of people in the community, whether they be at the top of the economic structure or at the bottom. [More…]

• If I did not raise this matter I would feel recreant to my responsibilities, not only to members of my own party but also to some 43 per cent of the Australian community. [More…]

• -The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will recall saying yesterday that continuing financial assistance for growth centres was now under review despite the Government’s assurance during the election campaign that, if elected, it would continue commitments entered into by the Whitlam Government. [More…]

• Members of Parliament should be equal to any other member in the community. [More…]

• Whenever business organisation in the community requires its employees, directors or any of the people associated with it in an advisory capacity to travel, it treats these people like ordinary citizens, like human beings, instead of second class citizens. [More…]

• But I also believe that they should be at least placed on a level with any other executive in the community. [More…]

• I do not disagree with those who say that we ought to be reducing inflation; but I do not think that the Government should make the poor of the community suffer so that the wealthy may prosper, and that is precisely what this Government is doing. [More…]

• For the last 3 weeks the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who is a member of this chamber, has been blaming everything that is happening in the field of education on the Labor Government, while he takes away from the primary schools and the retarded children in this community the sums of money that they so badly need. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood), who is also a member of this chamber, is not uttering one word of opposition to the Minister in another place who is selling the minerals of this country wholesale in the nearest auction room and wrecking the environment in the process. [More…]

• I think that some things ought to be taken into consideration by the Government and that it ought to recognise that it cannot make the poor of this community suffer in the areas I have mentioned in speaking to the Bill and that the wealthy section of this country- the 15 per cent who do not have to work for a living- should not be made wealthier at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]

• I think it also ought to be borne in mind that the community at large is still bearing something more than 40 per cent of the total cost of the provision of air service facilities throughout Australia. [More…]

• However, he adverted to safety measures, a matter of general concern to the whole Australian 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…]

• An interesting comment on the thesis 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 has a duty to the community to pursue every possibility of reducing such pressures. [More…]

• Inflation is like a drug; it destroys incentive and drains the energy of the whole communityyet withdrawal from it must produce painful side-effects. [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…]

• This showed not merely that the majority thought that he was right on this particular point but also, and most importantly, that the community at large felt itself deeply and directly involved in the issue. [More…]

• The sense of the community appeared to be one of moderate, self-disciplined determination to see the thing through and force both sides to seek a political accommodation. [More…]

• Sir John Kerr was extremely misguided to appear to give his official sanction to what were no more than tough tactics by the Opposition which the community was in the process of evaluating for itself. [More…]

• And the objective of that action was simply to enable the authentic sense of the community to be determined. [More…]

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

• Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development seen reports that the Australian Government is proposing to sell the Glebe Estate, the purchase of which was supported by all parties in the Senate in 1974. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will recall telling the Senate during the adjournment debate of 24 February that an amount of $258,000 remained unexpended out of the total amount provided in the Whitlam Government’s Budget for Australian sport and that the present Government had decided that $208,000 of this amount would not now be available, but that the remaining $50,000 was available to ensure that coaching commitments would be met if difficulties arose. [More…]

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

• He visited many settlements, Aboriginal schools, primary schools in various centres, high schools and community colleges throughout the Territory in Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine, Darwin and Gove. [More…]

• One was the Community School System. [More…]

• A staff organisation tailored exclusively to the community schools of the Territory might not adequately serve the needs of schools for Aborigines. [More…]

• In all schools- whether they are Aboriginal schools or community schools, as we still call them- we need people with a knowledge of Aboriginal culture and with an understanding of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Not only do we have many Aboriginal people attending the community schools but also the oilier children should have a good background of the Aboriginal culture which is so rich. [More…]

• There is little point in putting people into a European school in Sydney for practice teaching if they are going to work in an Aboriginal community. [More…]

• It is a great pity that the Government’s economy measures mean that the community college is not able to cope with some of those teachers who wish to extend their training. [More…]

• As is the case in other areas of the community, that training involves only a small percentage of the people who are available. [More…]

• The training, in every case, would be related to the needs of the community. [More…]

• Perhaps it would be a skilled trade training certificate or some certificate which would be recognised and accepted not only in the Aboriginal community but also in the urban areas. [More…]

• I believe that if the Senate is to do its job then it ought to take up the profound issues that confront this community. [More…]

• Mention was made of autonomy for the Northern Territory and of the need, in the first place, for more participation by the community. [More…]

• I am aware that a previous Minister for Education said in, I think, February of last year that his Government would set up an advisory body called ACENT- the Advisory Council of Education in the Northern Territory- to bring the community together in advising on education. [More…]

• Without committing my own Government in any way let me say that the policy of my Government is to bring in community involvement in education and to get an involvement in advice, recommendations and participation because education for the future is totally community education. [More…]

• The community college in Darwin offers it at a particular level. [More…]

• The activities of the Mathews Committee have been well recorded and its recommendations need to be implemented in the very near future in order to restore incentive in this community. [More…]

• It is my view that there is only one way to attack the real problems and that is to restore incentive in this community. [More…]

• It is obvious that the Labor Government’s policy in regard to the Budget has caused a great deal of the economic problems in this community from which we will suffer for some years to come. [More…]

• We are seeing in this Loan Bill an attempt to pay for past expenditures and to overcome the problems which exist within the community. [More…]

• Senator McAuliffe earlier this evening outlined a number of areas which are creating a great deal of concern inside the community. [More…]

• Particularly as this cause for concern is being instigated by a government which professed in the Speech by the Governor-General here only a matter of weeks ago that it has an obligation to assist the disadvantaged in the community, I find, and my colleagues find I am sure, that it is rather reprehensible of the Government to be taking the actions that it is taking in various areas. [More…]

• It is all very well to talk about the money that we have taken away from certain sectors of the community. [More…]

• I thought he denied his whole political heritage as a senator from South Australia when he questioned the value of government intervention in order to moderate the price of building land in any urban community. [More…]

• Many Government speakers who have spoken on the incidence of taxation and the necessity to provide greater incentive in this community have dwelt heavily on industrial development. [More…]

• You may be interested to know that the Association has recently written to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Minister for Capital Territory and the four A.C.T. [More…]

• Within that rigidity there were some difficulties, particularly in the Northern Territory in relation to the non-replacement of people such as Aboriginal teaching assistants, ancillary staff in community schools and industrial staff. [More…]

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

• Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development seen reports that Australia proposes to order the United States guided missile system which has the capacity to launch missiles with nuclear warheads? [More…]

• In particular, can he say whether there are special provisions dealing with toxic waste materials which could in any way endanger the community? [More…]

• Whatever interpretation the community or the writers may put upon the result of that election, it contained clear warnings to governments and political parties for the future because it became perfectly clear that the style of government of the Whitlam Administration was certainly not acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]

• Sad to say, when this sort of thing happens in a community an atmosphere of irresponsibility seems to arise. [More…]

• Furthermore, as Australia is a heavily urbanised society with increasing populations in the metropolitan and similar areas, it follows that attention must be given to the business and the manufacturing industries so that they can provide a whole range of employment opportunities and, I suppose more importantly, provide the kind of services that they are able to provide to both the rural community and other communities in our society. [More…]

• The agonising situation that the present Government faces is that following an Administration which widely distributed and lavishly bestowed funds, unfortunately now the Australian community is still waiting for funds and is still waiting for handouts. [More…]

• I think honourable senators may be interested to know that by ‘network’ is meant a group of organisations which is able and willing to collaborate to improve library-based information services in making them available to all levels of the Australian community by acting as public access points or as focal points providing nation wide services. [More…]

• It has indulged in the practice of taking money from those in the community who are least able to afford it in order to feather the financial nests of the multi-national mining groups, the Australian businesses which are mismanaged or suffering from poor management and the wealthy graziers. [More…]

• It is a matter of very great significance to one of the most disadvantaged groups in our community. [More…]

• There is no reason at all why, for the sake of saving the money in the morning tea tin, the Government has deprived members of another section of the community who need the assistance to obtain cheaper or free legal aid in order to help themselves. [More…]

• The principal 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 . [More…]

• In the case of the European Economic Community there is a virtual prohibition. [More…]

• I am of the opinion that while the taxpayers and the community generally pick up the tab for meat inspection, there is no incentive on beef producers to weed and breed for better and cleaner meat for the consumer. [More…]

• It is little wonder that we go to war at the drop of a hat because someone else is black or brown or communist when we cannot overcome a very minor problem in our own community. [More…]

• If the farming community needs a break it will never get it while it is brainwashed and hypnotised by the Country Party. [More…]

• It is an amazing thing but the resilience of the farming community is absolutely superb. [More…]

• I say- I hope that Senator Grimes will agree- that medicine as it is practised in the community is extremely difficult and some of these decisions are extremely awkward. [More…]

• But it is not confined to Africans; it exists in our community, and to a much higher age than this new regulation will allow. [More…]

• I think that the debate that has ensued between Senator Baume on the one hand and my colleague Senator Grimes on the other illustrates the bind that lay members of the community are involved in when it comes to a matter of prescription for themselves or for the members of their families. [More…]

• One of the great difficulties that confronts the Australian community is the situation where a person has been prescribed a drug or has been given a prescription for some considerable time by a medical practitioner because it is genuinely believed by that medical practitioner that that might be the answer to the person’s ills. [More…]

• That prescription is made available to that person on the pharmaceutical benefits scheme and then suddenly without real explanation to the community it is removed from that scheme apparently because it is considered that the drug or prescription may not be giving the patient the benefit that it actually is giving. [More…]

• Then the member of the community- this has been mentioned to me on a number of occasions- loses faith in the ability of the medical practitioner prescribing the drug. [More…]

• I think the time has arrived when the Government should give consideration to establishing an appeal body from decisions of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee so that if and when a drug is removed and a medical practitioner, scientist or health authority feels that the community at large can receive the benefit of it- obviously in the case of the matter raised by Senator Colston this evening there is a difference of opinion between 2 medical practitioners in the chamber- an appellant body should be able to weigh up, consider the evidence and assess it on behalf of the community in general. [More…]

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

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

• I ask my question of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, in his capacity as Minister representing the Attorney-General. [More…]

• But I do think that it is fair to say that the age groupings present in the new Senate represent a more accurate reflection of the age groupings within the Australian community. [More…]

• I think that that is a good thing for the Senate; it is certainly an advantage for the electorate to have age groupings within the Parliament which reflect the age groupings within the community. [More…]

• In addition the Government has shown that it is determined to ensure that individual rights in this community are protected. [More…]

• One of the great virtues of the Senate committee system is that that system when working properly and adequately and when taking its proper role does ensure that legislation is correctly reviewed and that proper inquiries are undertaken into a large range of matters affecting various members of the Australian community. [More…]

• I know that there are those in the community who do not believe this is so. [More…]

• As far as I am concerned, it was not the high income earners or the members of the business community who were trying to keep us firm in our then resolve. [More…]

• That plan brought into action in the local communities those members who were interested in the welfare of their local areas and those interested in the development of systems and services which would be of benefit to their community. [More…]

• From my own observations, from what has been told to me and from the pleas and representations which have been made to me by people working under the AAP I have reached the judgment that the scheme is, by and large, a good one, that it is beneficial to the Australian community and that it ought to be carried on. [More…]

• He has local community interest groups among farmers involved in the AAP. [More…]

• A few days ago I read pan of a report by Dr Icerton in which he analyses what has been done in his local community. [More…]

• He has visited other parts of Australia promoting his ideas and illustrating to people, who are interested in them, that people in rural and outlying communities can come together where there is a commonality of interest in a subject and derive a benefit for the community from that joint activity. [More…]

• Local government operated in as many areas as there were local government councils in the community and therefore the councils were in very close touch with the people. [More…]

• If honourable senators approach local councils throughout the Australian community, they will find that these councils all have in mind projects of one kind or another. [More…]

• It can be demonstrated very clearly that very great hardship is being caused to a substantial proportion of the community in meeting its payments for rates and other municipal services. [More…]

• Many people who worked on some of the RED scheme operations and who were completely unskilled have learned various skills in the course of their work and often have been able to take those skills with them and thus are better able to look after themselves in the community. [More…]

• Therefore they become worthwhile members of the community. [More…]

• We do not know the background; we do not know a lot of the circumstances; we do not know what sort of a home life they have had or what sort of upbringing they have had; we do not know what impediments they have had to their development as citizens in the Australian community; we do not know what sicknesses have occurred in their families or what other human or social problems they might have had, At least I have seen some of the benefits of this scheme. [More…]

• One benefit is the provision of various facilities in the community which were not and would never have been available, at least in this generation and perhaps in another generation. [More…]

• If the Government does not intend continuing with the RED scheme, I would like to see at least some form of community operation of this kind so that the quite substantial level of unemployment which still exists in the community, I am sorry to say, can be taken up, and some of the side benefits resulting from those activities can be spread out into the community to help those who are involved. [More…]

• -I draw the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to the remarks of Mr Justice Fox when he adjourned the Ranger uranium impact inquiry. [More…]

• As reports indicate that the incidence of venereal disease is increasing throughout Australia, as the Premier of Western Australia has declared the publication pornographic without reference to the State-appointed Indecent Publications Committee and as there is a great need for constructive advice to be made available to all sections of the community on this matter, will the Minister give consideration to approaching the Health Education Council in Western Australia to obtain the ‘Clanger Molloy’ series and assist in the distribution of the same on a national basis through the Department of Health? [More…]

• I was saying that we were looking towards a system of reform under which all licences- radio, television, public, commercial, ethnic and community- would have an orderly system of prejudgment, public exposure and recommendation. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Health able to say whether it is proposed to cut back on community health programs as part of the current economy drive? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of any cuts in the current community health program which is operated at present by the Hospitals and Health Services Commission? [More…]

• As Minister representing the Minister for Health, I am unable to give information to the honourable senator on community health centres, but I shall refer the matter to the Minister for Health and obtain an answer as soon as possible. [More…]

• To honourable senators opposite the only cheats are the cheats at the lower level; the only cheats in the community are the cheats who seek to obtain social security or unemployment payments. [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…]

• The Government accepts that it is its responsibility to provide and maintain the conditions in which the individual can develop his skills for his own and the community’s benefit. [More…]

• I have advised the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood), who in this place represents the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), of” the situation and I have sent a copy of this letter to him. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister will be able to give the chamber some reason why this claim is being made and some idea of how many people in the community, as a result of some reassessment of structural adjustment assistance, are now receiving demands of this nature. [More…]

• I take advantage of the first reading of this money Bill to speak on a number of matters that are of concern to members of the Australian community. [More…]

• When the present Government came to office, it made a statement through the then Special Minister of State on 19 December that as the report had been published, it would call for submissions from various sections of the community which were expected to be presented to the new Government by January of this year. [More…]

• There has been a lot of talk on the part of a number of people in the Australian community, including some members of the Opposition, that some commercial advertising by the Australian Broadcasting Commission should be allowed. [More…]

• I challenge any honourable senator opposite or any member of the Australian community to show where at any time I, as the Minister for the Media in that Government, did not insist upon and indeed demand the strengthening of the independence of the ABC, whether that be in relation to the political, sporting or programming aspects of the Commission’s service. [More…]

• In the period in which the Labor Government was in office- some Vh years- we were able to add another commercial radio licence to the city of Adelaide; we were able to add radio station 2JJ in Sydney; we were able to add radio station 3ZZ in Melbourne; we were able to call for another commercial radio licence in the outer metropolitan areas of Sydney; we were able to call for another metropolitan licence in the outer areas of Melbourne; we were able to call for a community broadcasting licence in Campbelltown; we were able to delve into the area of frequency modulation and to give a licence to the Music Broadcasting Society of New South Wales under the frequency modulation band, a band that had been ignored, disowned, forgotten about and put into the pigeon-hole by the previous Government for some 25 years. [More…]

• I take the opportunity on the first reading of this money Bill to refer to some matters which are causing great concern in the community. [More…]

• I think this is one illustration that the health of the community is of no concern to the Fraser Government. [More…]

• I wish to quote a comment made by the shadow Minister for Health, Dr Cass, who would know more than Senator Cormack about the medical benefits and the need for them by the people of this community. [More…]

• If the Government were to purchase this group of companies it would have some measure of control over the prices of the drugs which are used by many members of this community. [More…]

• Yet we find that under the Fraser Government in its haste to do away with all government owned projects and to hand them back to private enterprise, Mr Hunt is throwing away the greatest weapon that he has with which to find out what are the true costs of the pharmaceutical benefits that are provided to the Australian community. [More…]

• It would have been able to set a standard price for those very expensive drugs which are on sale to the community. [More…]

• The third matter concerns the Portuguese community in Sydney. [More…]

• I have a declaration from a baker in Sydney who specialises in the bread demands of the Sydney Portuguese community. [More…]

• In any case the development of viable ethnic community associations has ensured that such groups will be effective watchdogs to see that ‘Siberia location type’ projects in Australia that lack top wage and amenity incentives arc not on in the seventies. [More…]

• We on this side of the Senate are under the impression that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) represents the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations in the Senate. [More…]

• Community organisations currently provide the following aged persons accommodation built with subsidies administered by the Minister for Social Security: [More…]

• A number of church and community organisations have proposals for the construction of aged persons accommodation. [More…]

• All I can say is that this is but another example of the double standards adopted by so many people in our community. [More…]

• In view of the widespread concern in the community by beneficiaries of this benefit, can the Minister indicate to the Senate when the results of this review will be known? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware also that this Committee has had some 27 public hearings and some 200 written submissions from a wide cross section of the radio and broadcasting community? [More…]

• Is the Minister for Social Security aware of the confusion in the community over the amount pensioners must pay for pharmaceutical benefits? [More…]

• Indeed only in the last few days I have been talking with principals of the colleges along these lines to bring the colleges themselves closer to the community. [More…]

• 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…]

• Obviously it was apparent even to Sir John McEwen, if Mr Lloyd’s statement is correct, as far back as 1965 that these realities existed and when- even in 1965 it was quite obvious that it was when and not if- Great Britain joined the European Economic Community the problem would be intensified. [More…]

• Until the wage earners in the community realise that they must do a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay, I am afraid that not only this industry but other industries in Australia will have a great deal of trouble. [More…]

• Other matters such as Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community have played a decisive part in making further trouble for the industry. [More…]

• In addition to Britain’s entry in the European Economic Community, the devaluation of currency with which I dealt at length in a previous address and the freight advantages enjoyed by our competitors hinder our competition with other countries for the limited export market which is available. [More…]

• I refer to a country like Greece which will receive duty-free preference into the European Economic Community for its fruit and to other countries like Italy. [More…]

• It will bc of some help but I stress to the Minister and to the Government that no other section of the community is asked to reduce its income by 15 per cent in order to get its last week’s or year’s wages. [More…]

• I know that some people in the community believe in the old free trade edict- the survival of the fittest. [More…]

• The entry of Great Britain to the European Economic Community will have some severe effects for the industry because the final phase for the preference will be eliminated at the end of June 1977. [More…]

• He sought to assert, perhaps by implication, that there has been a loss of salaried staff and that under the Australian Labor Party Government efforts were made to retain salaried staff to the benefit of the community and community health. [More…]

• It is to me intolerable that the community should accept responsibility for a health cost structure without thorough justification of the cost-effectiveness of the investigational apparatus it is purchasing and sustaining. [More…]

• We have to get away from the general expectation in the community that unless a battery of tests are carried out the doctor has not done his job. [More…]

• It can be seen that we need a change in the community’s attitude towards medicine and we need a change in the attitude and approach of the profession. [More…]

• I believe that this will come about only by self-examination within the profession, by education of the community and by a careful examination of the methods that we use in training our doctors. [More…]

• This will require the close cooperation of health authorities, of the profession and of the community. [More…]

• The profession has to come from behind the mystical veil that either it has drawn up or that has grown between the profession and the community. [More…]

• It will cause resentment and great dissatisfaction in the community- dissatisfaction with the profession to which I am proud to belong. [More…]

• We have a situation of suspicion between the community and the medical profession and in many cases we have a situation of outright hostility. [More…]

• Then we will have a reasonable system, one based on mutual trust between the profession and the community. [More…]

• It is the largest magnetite mining and processing operation in Australia, and the mine has really settled in to be very much an integral part of the community in the area. [More…]

• The table refers to Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America, Canada and the European Economic Community and states the position at 1 July in the years 1973, 1974 and 1975. [More…]

• There is an enormous subsidy paid to primary industry in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I am tonight urging that the Government hold the position as of now and that there be no further indications of sackings in the Public Service which must only add to the general unemployment situation in the community. [More…]

• It is darn silly to say to Telecom Australia, which has a great target set down for the laying of cables and the establishing of new services, that it will have to reach a target which will impede it from providing services for the community and the private sector which might easily bring into the private sector new orders, which is what it wants at the present time. [More…]

• As everybody knows, not only is it creating new unemployment- and the honourable senator knows that is a fact; it is on record- but also the work test will be so difficult that the Government will create within the Australian community a new group of displaced professional workers, semi-skilled workers and unskilled workers who will highly resent what the Government is doing and certainly will take very strong measures in the future, despite what might be done electorally. [More…]

• Richard Kelinda, Chairman of the Community Council, wrote to Mr Barrie Dexter, the Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs on 26 February 1973 as follows: [More…]

• I wish to advise you that on the 26th ultimo, the Community Council requested the Superintendent to forward the following telegram to Mr Frank Purcell, Lawyer of Werribee Victoria. [More…]

• Aurukun community requests you to advise and represent them re negotiations arising soon February between Government Department and HA Bauxite Mining Company. [More…]

• Education is important in any community. [More…]

• A number of other outstanding matters are of great moment to the community concerned with education in the Territory. [More…]

• I deliberately requested my Press secretary to go to Norfolk Island because I thought that it was important that he also should understand the views of the community, their wants and their needs. [More…]

• It is a magnificent community. [More…]

• By way of preface, I refer to a deputation from the Sydney Yugoslav community which I introduced to the AttorneyGeneral several weeks ago and which expressed concern about certain rising pressures developing from the actions of a small right wing group from the Croatian section of the Yugoslav community at large, which was epitomised by certain incidents at the Olympic Park in Melbourne and at the Sydney Sports Ground. [More…]

• Did the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, indicate at the dinner of the Urban Development Institute that the Australian Government would withdraw from the growth centre program which had the support of both Houses of the Parliament and ail Parties over the last 3 years? [More…]

• Does the Minister for Social Security accept that in the community there are many women who are bringing up children on their own and who, at the moment, arc struggling to make ends meet on the supporting mother’s benefit? [More…]

• Does she accept that many of these women have no current qualifications which would lead to constant employment at a wage which would enable them to bring up their children in a life-style similar to that of the majority of the rest of the community? [More…]

• Does she agree that, for the greater good of the community and for the good of the persons involved, it is better for people to be independent than to be receiving frugal handouts from governments? [More…]

• If the Minister agrees with all or part of these propositions will she endeavour to have her Government design a scheme of training which is not tied to the normal pros and cons of assets owned, pensions received or domestic arrangements, but is based on personal circumstances, so that the community at large may benefit from the greater harmony in so many homes in the community, from the greater dignity of the individual and from the expertise which would then be made available to the community? [More…]

• What has been suggested with regard to training programs for supporting mothers or for other women who have family responsibilities is also consistent with our attitude towards the personal development of the individual with the opportunity to take part in the mainstream of activity in our community. [More…]

• Perhaps such methods are acceptable to some people in the community and not to others. [More…]

• But I suggest that a government which sees as an economy measure the taking away of a basie public service like the public transport system in a community where there are very many people dependent on it is a government which is on the wrong tack. [More…]

• Another matter of great concern to people in the community is that there appears to be some threat to the salaried specialist service at the Canberra Community Hospital. [More…]

• What we had at Canberra Community Hospital was the option of a free salaried specialist service. [More…]

• Will give priority to extra Ahoriginal field workers and advisers in health education and community development. [More…]

• If that is an example of the organisation that is going on it is not hard to believe that the Government has set out on a concerted effort to deprive the people of their rights, of the grants to which they are entitled and of the ordinary justice that all of us in this community expect and accept. [More…]

• Mr Viner said there was no denial from any section of the community that the country was facing a severe economic crisis and ways had to be found to cope with the massive deficit. [More…]

• As a result he had established that a misunderstanding of the Department’s initial telex inquiry within the Papunya community had led to the employing authority incorrectly dismissing eight Aboriginals. [More…]

• Allegedly the councils in each community are making these decisions but this decision has come from the office of the Department. [More…]

• Please liaise with community advisor to council at yours and provide this branch with your recommendations for termination on schedule Monday. [More…]

• The terms of reference continued: -Recommending improvements in the delivery of services and their financial arrangements in the interests of Aborigines and the community at large. [More…]

• The Minister said the examination was to encompass the delivery of services financed by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs through community organisations and special agencies, in addition to those services delivered by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs itself. [More…]

• I have attached a petition signed by ninety-nine (99) voters from Badu Island Community who want to complain about the Badu Council elections. [More…]

• Representatives of our Organisations have now visited every major Aboriginal community in Central Australia in the past week. [More…]

• At every community the response was similar. [More…]

• They came from every community in a radius of one million square miles and endured hunger and great hardship in making the journey. [More…]

• Because when International Women’s Year was first mooted the government of the day had long recognised that discrimination against women was incompatible with human dignity and with the wellbeing of society, it saw International Women’s Year as a chance to highlight areas to which the community had turned a blind eye for so long. [More…]

• That Government recognised, and I think that the whole community should recognise with some sober thought, the fact that the year had to be granted. [More…]

• But the feeling in the community in many ways had not been changed. [More…]

• I refer for instance to the continued establishment of a network of community centres to respond to women’s problems and to encourage their activities. [More…]

• Other areas in which women needed the establishment of some sort of community centre were the areas of health, shelter, refuge, counselling and rape. [More…]

• By the same token, women who because of their domestic difficulties, because of overworkthere will be more of them- have broken down and have found that they cannot stand the pressure of working, keeping a family and looking after a house, need some place where they can go after the first violent reaction so that they can find their way back into the community, talk to their fellows or their peers, talk about ways to manage their lives and ways to manage the seemingly endless problems that come up. [More…]

• It is becoming an increasingly more serious problem in the community because so many people are getting to a crisis situation these days. [More…]

• In some cases, they were left with 30 and 40 years of their lives in which they could give of their expertise to the community. [More…]

• It is terrifying for women more so because while their husbands go out to work and of necessity must have some contact and learn something of the community they live in, those women can be locked up inside 4 walls day in day out. [More…]

• It proved that although until that time other departments and institutions had had some responsibility in that area- they had had it for a long time- they had not done anything about communicating their ability to deal with those problems to women in the community. [More…]

• There had been no communication between those departments and institutions and women in the community. [More…]

• Such departments should be actively getting out into the community to participate in the problems. [More…]

• Now we want to spend the next 50 or 100 years making sure that those problems are dealt with, that new problems do not arise, that all our citizens participate to the best of their ability and that there is not discrimination against part of our community. [More…]

• Because society now is in some ways dependent on the pill and because so many women are pressured into using the pill, one would think that science would investigate very promptly, as it concerns such a large proportion of the community, the effect that the pill has on women ‘s systems and the effect that it has on women mentally, and would take immediate steps to make sure that women were safeguarded against any excesses. [More…]

• When some of them stagger out of bed at 6 o’clock in the morning, get children off to school, do the chores, go to work, come home, look after the family and then fall into bed, it is time unions, employers and governments looked at what amounts to not much more than slave labour for a great percentage of this community. [More…]

• Evidently they are not looked upon as a solid part of the community or work force. [More…]

• Perhaps we should think of a new name for it, because I find that in the community there are people who think that women who leave work to have babies get 12 months leave on full pay. [More…]

• I ask the Government to look at this matter as a matter of great priority: There are women being trained under the NEAT scheme who have lived on the supporting mother’s benefit for a long time or who, if they have not lived on the supporting mother’s benefit, have done menial jobs in the community- scrubbed floors, taken in washing and kept house for other people- to provide the sort of income they need to enable them to keep their children as best they can under the same conditions as those enjoyed by the rest of the community. [More…]

• If they were given some training that enabled them to obtain qualifications they would then be able to hold down a job while looking after their families and to stand up in the community as equal citizens and not as ones relying on government handouts. [More…]

• By the same token there are women in the community who because of their domestic circumstances- they may have a husband who is an alcoholic and upon whom they can never depend to bring in a regular income but who brings in some income- should be given the chance to achieve those qualifications that will enable them to look after their families in a solid fashion without, as has been suggested to some of them by some government employees, having to leave their husbands and so entitle themselves to the supporting mother’s benefit. [More…]

• I rise to state briefly my growing concern at the apparent disregard of some members of the government for civil liberties in the Australian community. [More…]

• There are many notable countries in the world which have demonstrated that a magnificent economic recovery can be obtained with, at the same time, the loss of a major amount of the freedoms which the community had enjoyed. [More…]

• This has received a fairly critical response from the community at large. [More…]

• A second instance I relate is one of recent days when the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) criticised the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission for not holding down wages in the community and for recommending a national wage increase of 6.4 per cent. [More…]

• In all these matters it would seem that in aggregate we have an attempt to demoralise people who are members of commissions or working employees of institutions of very long standing in the community and who at times have been vigorous in their actions. [More…]

• I am pleased that the Minister for Post and Telecommunications in another place, Mr Eric Robinson, has taken such a sensible view, and has agreed to an investigation into the ABC which is welcomed by its Acting Chairman and which will be welcomed by all thinking people in the community. [More…]

• That is the extent to which a State parliament, with government instigation through its Lower House, went to suppress the rights of individuals in the South Australia community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development with the comment that a number of Australian sporting bodies have approached me to express their concern at the manner in which the Government has reduced assistance to their organisations and as a consequence are particularly worried about the financial situation confronting the Australian Olympic contingent. [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 and migrants in avoiding community tensions and the industry of our migrants. [More…]

• If the community sees some cause for concern in an aging population, it may even be desirable to direct immigration in such a way as deliberately to have a ..,—-6-, effect on the populationfor example by lowering the general age eligibility limits or by giving preference to younger applicants. [More…]

• They effect 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…]

• As a result of initiatives taken by the ABC during the Labor Government, the ABC has expanded its services to include community access programs and ethnic radio stations. [More…]

• One beneficial effect of the current dicussions surrounding the ABC is that many members of the community have expressed publicly their support for the kinds of programs offered by the ABC and their satisfaction that their particular area of interest is being met through public broadcasting. [More…]

• As the Australian Broadcasting Commission undertakes so many excellent activities through its programming and as it has received such a large number of expressions of support from the community in recent times we might ask ourselves: Why indeed are there currently such vicious attacks being made on the ABC? [More…]

• The problem faced by the commercial interests is that they fear that the size of this section of the community will increase as the availability of the programs without advertising content increases too. [More…]

• This kind of attack causes very justified fear and concern in the community that indeed the independence of the ABC is being threatened. [More…]

• It is in the appointment of a chairman- a person of high status in the community, of appropriate qualifications and so on- for a set term of office that guarantees in the eyes of the community that the statutory authority concerned has independence, is able to act with integrity and is not able to be used as a political puppet. [More…]

• I suggest to all honourable senators present that this would be completely unacceptable to the community. [More…]

• Opposition to such suggestions has cut across all party lines in the community. [More…]

• For obvious reasons, we provided substantial sums of money in that Budget because we recognised that there were many areas within the Australian community that still required substantial Commonwealth funds for the purpose of providing rented accommodation. [More…]

• I believe that this Government will not recognise this section of the Australian community. [More…]

• We recognise the need for a considerable proportion of Australia’s respectable poor to receive government originated assistance to enable them to be provided with housing of a standard acceptable to the Australian community. [More…]

• We recognised the need to give assistance to those people in the Australian community who were not able to provide their own resources. [More…]

• It was that we should have proceeded in such a way that the Australian community could understand what was involved in our great reforms of the last 3 years. [More…]

• Because of their lack of understanding of the social and economic needs prevailing in our society- needs which have existed for decades- successive conservative governments did not attempt to rectify the inadequacies apparent in our community. [More…]

• It was in our desire to make up for those deficiencies and to correct the deficiencies within the Australian community, that we got ourselves involved in a large scale deficit. [More…]

• It has to be said when we talk about housing that it cannot be dealt with in isolation from the general infrastructure which is necessary to make housing part of a local community. [More…]

• I hope that the present Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will struggle to maintain the land commissions. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that he will do everything he can within his Party room and that he will utilise the resources of the Parliament and of the community to maintain the land commissions as an integral pan of the whole Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement. [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…]

• I want to quote one paragraph in particular of the second reading speech made in the other place by the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) on 18 March. [More…]

• As the honourable senator on the other side of the chamber who preceded me in this debate said, it is a responsibility of government to provide housing for people and to provide low cost housing for those people in the community who are least able to afford the high rents that are being charged by private landlords. [More…]

• One of the groups in the community who are most disadvantaged are the Aboriginal and Island people. [More…]

• The fringe dwelling Aboriginal population clinging to the edge of a country town or the urban Aboriginal groups living in the cast-offs of white housing are concrete symbols of degradation, dispossession and the under-privileged people of this community. [More…]

• If that is not profiteering at the expense of the underprivileged people in the community I would like to know what is. [More…]

• Other disadvantaged groups in the community suffer in exactly the same way. [More…]

• There will always be disadvantaged people in the community. [More…]

• The onus is now squarely on the shoulders of the Government to ensure not only that money is made available for housing in this country at present but also that it will be an on-going matter and that in the Budget which will be presented later this year none of the under-privileged people in the community will have to suffer. [More…]

• But this country must learn the lesson that those people who are less privileged than others of us in the community must be provided for by legislation and by other methods to ensure that they at least have a reasonable standard of housing. [More…]

• There is some suggestion in the way in which the expression has been devised that they are not poor or that their respectability ought to deny them facilities and benefits which surely they are entitled to expect from an affluent community. [More…]

• But the Government’s proposals in the past, as in the future, will be concerned to promote effective and efficient administration of the distribution of moneys for the provision of housing throughout the community and to provide the opportunity for all Australians, if they wish, to avail themselves of the opportunity to own their own homes. [More…]

• That may be described as an ideological objective but it is an objective which a proportion- somewhere between 70 per cent and 80 per cent of the Australian communityendorses. [More…]

• It is an approach which indicates what I describe as the general socialist approach as against the Liberal approach which seeks to build up a community of individuals with a sense of responsibility. [More…]

• That was the only question the honourable senator asked in the Committee stage and I never heard a reply given to it by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) when he replied. [More…]

• In view of the number of applicants for rental homes- the applicants generally come from the impoverished sections of our community and from those who cannot afford home ownership- welfare housing needs were stipulated. [More…]

• I am most grateful to Senator Cavanagh for answering some of the distortions raised by Senator Rae and added to by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood). [More…]

• The alternative view to the proposition that society can progress either in a technological sense or in the sense of developing a better quality of life in the community is that this can be done by merely shelling out money to State governments without any attention to the question of national priorities. [More…]

• I believe that this Government, and indeed any Government in the present time and in the immediate future, must be diligent to assess and to be constantly aware of what are the real needs of the community and not just the wishes of various education establishments in the community. [More…]

• There seems to me to be little doubt that there are entrenched education establishments in this community which, irrespective of the sorts of changes which might take place in this society, will continue to seek to remain as establishments. [More…]

• The universities are, perhaps, at this stage a powerful and coddled section of this community. [More…]

• Should they be related more intimately to the community than are universities? [More…]

• I think it is recognised that all governments must give first priority to assistance to the disadvantaged in the community. [More…]

• It is also generally recognised, or I hope it is, that the handicapped in our community are among the most disadvantaged. [More…]

• The seminar today at the National Library of Australia dealt with a number of issues relating to means by which the handicapped in the community might be assisted by better library facilities both here and throughout Australia. [More…]

• I am prepared to say that because of my parliamentary and community duties it is necessary for me to employ a housekeeper for the welfare of my son and my family but that the Commissioner of Taxation has seen fit not to allow me a $364 deduction in respect of that housekeeper. [More…]

• My situation is no different from that of any number of women who work in the community, whether from economic necessity, because they are concerned that having only a male breadwinner places a strain on the man and could leave them widows in early life, or whether purely and simply they desire to go out to work to fulfil themselves. [More…]

• I assure honourable senators that many men and women in the community also await that decision with interest. [More…]

• Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) could get together and determine what their policy will be on the use, for instance, of places such as migrant hostels which are still standing and which are still operating in most States. [More…]

• I suggest that the Minister for Social Security confer with the other 2 people involved and raise the matter of what can be done, even on a temporary basis, for people who are in drastic need inside our community who have absolutely nowhere to go. [More…]

• To inquire into and report upon the current role and effectiveness of State, regional and municipal libraries in serving the information and recreation needs of the community including the limitations imposed by existing methods and levels of financing and staffing. [More…]

• The Committee should consult widely and openly with the Australian, State and local governments, the community and professional groups. [More…]

• However, it is felt that refuges for women and children made homeless by domestic conflict are funded under the community health program which is administered by the Hospitals and Health Services Commission. [More…]

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

• That technical assistance grants and administrative support grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• Is he also aware of the very deep interest in maritime history amongst all sections of the Tasmanian community and of the existence of the Tasmanian Maritime Museum? [More…]

• My question, which I direct to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, follows on the question that I asked him yesterday, ls it a fact that some $90m in Federal funds have already been committed to the Albury-Wodonga growth centre? [More…]

• Experience has demonstrated that the present scheme had some features which meant that deserving sections of the community did not benefit in the way that other sections of the community benefited. [More…]

• The Minister stressed in his statement that there should now be an emphasis on saving, but in the last several weeks the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) have been suggesting that what is needed in Australia at this time is for the community to spend and not to save. [More…]

• There is in the building industry a higher ratio of people out of work than there is in the rest of the community. [More…]

• The fact that Commonwealth spending has increased so markedly quite naturally invites the question from a number of people in the community whether such expenditure is justified. [More…]

• As Senator Mulvihill knows, there are many unemployed people in the community. [More…]

• The question of providing increased funds for education in tertiary institutions has been, as I have said, criticised in the community. [More…]

• However, if we were to extend and expand the Australian Legal Aid Office- the free legal aid service- by employing these trained people as salaried solicitors working for the community on a salary, which is a very economical way of employing them, then I think we would find that we did not have too many solicitors or barristers. [More…]

• I am extremely critical of the medical profession for not looking at the needs of the Australian community for medically trained persons, and for not using its influence in the councils of the universities in Australia to expand the quotas. [More…]

• The increasing number of girls qualifying to enter the medical faculty at the University of Sydney has been a great source of distress to some of the more conservative elements in the profession who argue along the lines that it is a waste of time for the Government to invest money in training women as doctors because we all know what women do: They do not repay it the community - [More…]

• Perhaps that situation will lead the profession to reassess whether it needs to keep quotas so artificially high, thus inducing a quite inflated sense of self-importance in doctors in our community, and whether it needs to deprive the Australian public of the trained medical practitioners that it certainly could use. [More…]

• I repeat my argument that the community needs skilled persons, and the kinds of skills that can be attained in good technical institutions are skills which are useful to the community and, of course, extremely useful to the person who possesses them. [More…]

• I hope that even if we could envisage the day when our present educational institutions would accommodate our school leavers, we could give thought to those people in our community- those adults, some of them maybe in their fifties but most of them are a little younger than that- who have no skills and who could benefit from an opportunity of recurrent education. [More…]

• So I exhort the Government not to consider education as an area which is shrinking in its demand on the public purse but to consider it rather as an area of public expenditure which inevitably will increase and which will increase in the interests of the community. [More…]

• Education has become something of a sacred cow in the Australian community. [More…]

• It seems to me, as somebody who had been involved with education certainly for all my working life and obviously before that for all my life apart from my pre-school life, that tertiary institutions in Australia have had a certain number of difficulties imposed on them by the community. [More…]

• We long expected our universities to meet every problem of training that there was in the community. [More…]

• I suggest that this is less the fault of the universities than it is the fault of the community for ever letting this idea grow up. [More…]

• It will mean a fair shift of resources if we are to shift community thinking and thereby the sons of things that influence young people to decide whether they go into universities or into colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I suggest that there are others in the community to whom we should look. [More…]

• The most significant one I suppose, was the setting up of the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• I wish to read from the Ordinance which outlines the functions of the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• It threw this matter to the Community College for it to organise a welfare officer course for the Department. [More…]

• -The community identified the need and the Education Department met the need. [More…]

• I think the question relates to the important involvement of the community in any decision-making in education. [More…]

• But basically, underneath was the thought that they wanted the group or clan, whatever one wants to call it, to stay together and to learn skills which could then be used in the community and not outside of the community. [More…]

• Members of the Committee saw the young people being employed by the community, in garages, in the building trade and in whatever jobs that were there. [More…]

• The technical instructor who was on the community would give additional assistance in between the visits of the trainer. [More…]

• The Darwin Community College cannot adequately meet the needs of the community. [More…]

• The community of Darwin set up the needs for the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• A council was established to say exactly what sort of technical and further education was needed in the Territory, and the Darwin Community College was the result. [More…]

• This was accepted because the College saw its role as meeting the needs of the Darwin community and not forcing the people to move away. [More…]

• The training cannot meet the demands of the community in that vital area of leisure and creative activity. [More…]

• One case that comes to mind, a somewhat pathetic case- I know it is only one small case- is that of a woman in Alice Springs who had been waiting for years for the Alice Springs Community College- an annex of the Darwin Community College- to be opened. [More…]

• I am told by the Darwin Community College people that they need 20 per cent more money at present to be able to offer the courses that they offered last year. [More…]

• Dr Anderson of the Educational Research Unit of the Australian National University has been commissioned by the Darwin Community College to investigate the needs of postcompulsory education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• His research workers have held meetings with the Darwin Community College Council, staff and students, talked to the Department involved, to the apprenticeship boards and to the employees and the employers. [More…]

• Whatever one’s philosophy of education happens to be, surely any system must meet the needs of the student and, through him, the needs of the community. [More…]

• Whichever way we look at it, it is the community through the student or vice versa. [More…]

• This is important for the identification of needs within the community. [More…]

• It is the community which sets the needs of all students. [More…]

• At this point I make a plea to teachers, parents and the community generally to think about the possibility of trades. [More…]

• I see three alternatives at which we might look, namely, a council of community colleges, a board of technical and further education or a technical and further education branch of the Department. [More…]

• The council of community colleges has been suggested by the principal of the Darwin Community College to the Anderson inquiry. [More…]

• We have a grand plan with the Darwin Community College, but while the staff keeps vying for university positions, university conditions of pay and for prestige, we will not get what we want out of the college. [More…]

• Obviously the board would be made up of representatives of the various government departments, the employers, members of the community and so on. [More…]

• In the short term, he might assist the Darwin Community College with staff and finance. [More…]

• I think he referred to them as being powerful and coddled sections of the community. [More…]

• I was saying that we were looking towards a system of reform under which all licences- radio, television, public, commercial, ethnic and community- would have an orderly system of pre-judgment, public exposure and recommendation. [More…]

• After all the years in which our predecessors had opportunities to expand the broadcasting field in this country into these areas which would enable groups to become involved in areas of broadcasting which had been completely closed off to the Australian community over those years, it was an initiative taken by the Labor Government. [More…]

• He has taken heed of that and has been very restrained and very courteous since he has been the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I attended a public meeting of some 200 members of the Aurukun community, arranged and presided over by the Chairman of the Aurukun Council, Mr Francis Yungaporta, at which members of the community spoke at length about the proposed bauxite mining development, among other things. [More…]

• These discussions helped form my 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…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, concerns the provision of Federal funds to the States for swimming pools in certain areas. [More…]

• Can he say whether Commonwealth funds are available to subsidise State, local government or community funds to enable swimming pools to be constructed in country areas of Australia? [More…]

• I trust that in due course as a government we can evolve an appropriate community development role. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, is prompted by his reply to my question of last week in which he claimed that Queensland conservation policy on kangaroo harvesting was meeting the same standards as the policies in New South Wales and South Australia. [More…]

• 1 ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Is it true that the Government has deferred the final approvals for expenditure in this year’s area improvement program? [More…]

• -Did the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development earlier last month visit the Glebe lands housing estate in Sydney? [More…]

• Community Development. [More…]

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

• Is the Minister aware that this isolated mining community of some 6000 people is served by the Montagu Medical Union and that, over the next 1 8 months, the population will rise by a further 2000 persons as a result of the Tullah hydro-electric development, and that reasonable medical services are vital? [More…]

• -Is it a fact that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has approved the redundancy of positions of some 70 employees in his Department into which has been incorporated the former Department of Tourism and Recreation? [More…]

• We know that in the business community particularly and in the academic world there have been considerable contacts between the two countries. [More…]

• Originally it was intended- this is the reason why, for example, trade unions were to be included in the membership of the Foundationto widen contact between those 2 sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• As we know, the Winston Churchill fellowships cover a wide spectrum of the community, and that is one of their great strengths. [More…]

• As a result of the barriers that surround the European Economic Community, we have been forced to look far afield for new and potential markets. [More…]

• Even if this is too optimistic an estimate and if it were to be three, four or five per cent, it would be enormously significant in the development of trade potential with the Australian community. [More…]

• I make that statement simply because I want to avoid the possibility of any misinterpretation by this Parliament, by individual members of either House of the Parliament or by members of the Australian community. [More…]

• It was felt by the Committee that, to enable the small income earnerthe person most disadvantaged in the Indonesian community- to participate to a greater degree perhaps Australia should make an approach. [More…]

• It has a unique community built up from the Bounty mutineers and so on and we felt that it was necessary to try to preserve as far as we could that quite unique group of people. [More…]

• The fact is that legislation on this matter has been passed by the Commonwealth Parliament and there is a man who holds the office of Commissioner for Community Relations whose job it is to investigate any allegations of racial discrimination and, if he finds there are such allegations, to endeavour by consultation and talking with people to avoid the consequences of a practice which all Australians would abhor. [More…]

• If it is, will submissions from other groups such as Australian Broadcasting Commission employees, interested community groups and the general public be invited and considered? [More…]

• I am sure that any such inquiry will allow the fullest representations by the whole community. [More…]

• I have no knowledge of any intention to transfer the Migrant Community Services Branch of my Department to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]

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

• The work of the Foundation must penetrate as far as possible into our society so that the understanding which the Foundation is aimed at establishing can be achieved on the broadest possible base in our community and, likewise, in the Japanese community. [More…]

• The fact that the Labor Party opposes one piece of legislation but supports another clearly establishes the fact that it is not per se opposed to giving assistance to the rural community. [More…]

• It has always been the philosophy of the Labor Party to support those sectors of the community which are most in need. [More…]

• Within the last week he pointed out in a speech that during the period 1972-1975 the Labor Government had agreed to substantive pressures and approaches for assistance that had been made to it by groups within the community. [More…]

• That may be a view that is held by supporters of the Government but certainly it is not a view which is held by members of the Australian community. [More…]

• This fortifies our view that the bounty is going to those sectors of the community who are less needy. [More…]

• While the present policy in the strict sense says that the subsidy would be restored at its old rate since that was written the cost of superphosphate and the general inflationary impact on the farming community would obviously mean that we - [More…]

• Of course there is abundant evidence to show that it is not production, or even the cost of production, that is the difficulty facing the rural community, the difficulty is rather one of how to sell the production from the rural industries. [More…]

• The bounty at its present level is of little benefit to the users, whilst it is at the same time a considerable charge on the Treasury at a time when this Government and many of its supporters in the community are calling for budgetary restraint, restraint which Mr Fraser interprets as affecting those most needy for the benefit of the wealthy. [More…]

• I abhor the use of the word ‘bludger’ in any circumstances to describe any sector of the community because I believe that it is divisive and nothing is to be gained by the use of such emotive terms. [More…]

• In times of economic difficulty it is imperative that the whole community comes together in order to achieve an economic recovery. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party while in government preferred to attempt to deal with the basic problems facing the rural community. [More…]

• If they were interested in this group of the rural community, an alternative measure based on a means test and giving a greater sum of money per tonne of superphosphate would have been a more effective way of giving financial assistance to those in need. [More…]

• This is what I believe the National Country Party, which purports to represent the interests of the rural community, did during the 23 years it was in office after the last World War. [More…]

• I believe that the Australian communitycertainly, the whole of the rural community and those who are involved with the manufacture, distribution and application of superphosphateis aware of the facts as I have promoted them to the Senate this afternoon. [More…]

• We are opposing it because the legislation proposes to give the biggest portion of the money that the Bill seeks to appropriate to those members of the community who do not need it and neglects entirely the small farmer who is in need of some assistance and who has the utmost sympathy of members of the Opposition. [More…]

• We said in this column on Monday that the Government’s decision was justifiable It must now be said, in addition, that farmers had better wake up to the fact that their special interests must be absorbed into the community’s general interests. [More…]

• Since the injection of funds into the rural community by way of an interim bounty is inextricably dependent on the investment of very much larger sums by individual farmers it could have significant implications for the rural credit system at a time of tightening liquidity. [More…]

• I believe it merely restores in the eyes of the community the image of farmers as being featherbedded and dependent on Government handouts, an image the farmers do not want to have. [More…]

• Mr Foster, in what was obviously a previously prepared reply, use the term ‘feather-bedded section of the community living on Government hand-outs’. [More…]

• The term ‘feather-bedded section of the community living on Government hand-outs’ was used in relation to the rural community. [More…]

• I did not say that farmers were a feather-bedded section of the community. [More…]

• I said that the rest of the community would get the impression that it was a feather-bedded section of the community depending on hand-outs. [More…]

• I know that Mr Chatterton is highly respected by the farming community in South Australia. [More…]

• They want to look after the wealthy section of the community. [More…]

• But what a wonderful gift to a wealthy section of the community is the subsidy of $59,050 given to 2 farmers. [More…]

• Not a thought has been given to the pensioners but a great thought has been given to honouring some promise that he made to that very wealthy section of the community. [More…]

• The Government does not want the small farmers to know that in fact they are getting nil out of this legislation but the wealthy section of the community is benefiting- those people who live in Burnside in South Australia, in Toorak where Senator Cormack comes from in Melbourne, and on the North Shore of Sydney. [More…]

• I was saying that I had received a request from the Portuguese community in Sydney on behalf of a number of Portuguese who were on tourist visas in Sydney and possibly in Melbourne and who had previously - [More…]

• As I was saying, tonight I am making a request on behalf of the Sydney Portuguese community. [More…]

• From discussions that I had with members of the Portuguese community on Sunday, I doubt whether more than a dozen people are involved. [More…]

• Earlier this year members of the Sydney Slovene community- people who would be well known to Senator Lajovic, I am surecomplained about the position of people coming from Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, to our Embassy in Belgrade. [More…]

• The members of the Sydney Slovene community believe that people who have to travel this distance to Belgrade should be given an appointment and that that appointment should be kept. [More…]

• Is it known whether early detection and treatment of hypertension could alter costs to the community from cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease. [More…]

• The Capital Territory Health Commission operates 148 nursing beds at Allambee Nursing Home and 64 nursing beds in the Community Health Block at the Woden Valley Hospital. [More…]

• and (3) The responsibility for the administration and programming of funds within the National Sewerage Program rests with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• 1 ) Has New Zealand recently ratified veterinary agreements that will make New Zealand beef acceptable to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Does the Australian Government plan to similarly ratify the agreements so that Australia’s surplus beef will have a better chance of being sold to the Community this year. [More…]

• and (2) New Zealand and Australia have not yet received a reply to their submissions to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• New Zealand has not ratified any agreement with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Australia does not propose to ratify any agreement with the European Economic Community until negotiations have been completed. [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• Further, will the Government consider using the services of Dr Archie Kalokerinos in any program to counter blindness in the Aboriginal community? [More…]

• By way of preface, I refer to her answer yesterday in which she was quite adamant that migrant community services should remain within the ambit of her portfolio. [More…]

• The answer that was given to the question asked yesterday was not that I was adamant that the migrant community service should remain within my portfolio but I stressed that the administrative arrangements had indicated that it would remain in my Department. [More…]

• In answer to the questions that were raised with regard to my concept of whether the service should remain in my Department, I do believe that if one is administering a department of social security for Australians it would be very difficult to segregate one section of the community from that service. [More…]

• As far as I am concerned, social security is applied to all people who live within Australia and I do not see the need to segregate a particular section of the community from that service. [More…]

• I do believe that if they are to have the advantage of the services that my Department has available for them, very often this is achieved only by having an active social worker amongst their community groups, who is able to advise them of the facilities of my Department. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that poisonous European newts have been sold in Adelaide? [More…]

• Before the abolition of the superphosphate bounty by the Labor Government the farming community was able to topdress all its arable land that required this element. [More…]

• In many cases the farming community was able to upgrade areas of second and third grade land to make it productive. [More…]

• At this stage the Australian farming community has dairy products, wool and beef- they are the 3 major users of superphosphate- running out of its ears. [More…]

• It seems to me that they will be running out of the ears of the industry for some time due to the curtailment of overseas markets, particularly following Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community, and the increased production of some of these commodities around the world. [More…]

• The Government is trying to cloud the issue for the farming community by reintroducing the superphosphate bounty. [More…]

• By this means the Government hopes to shut the minds of those in that community to investigating or probing any further into what might be wrong with their industries. [More…]

• Of course as I said previously, what the Government hopes will happen is that the farming community will see this as a panacea for all problems, so that they will no longer seek government assistance. [More…]

• I know from my own experience in the rural community that in a good year when prices are high, farmers tend to spread a little extra superphosphate whereas when times are hard, the soil goes without or the farmers apply only half a bag of superphosphate to the acre. [More…]

• I say to the National Country Party that it does the country, the farmer and the rural community a great disservice. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the rural community in Australia can produce high quality goods. [More…]

• It seems to be a failure on the part of the distribution community and on the part of the governments in this country to find markets which will absorb the goods. [More…]

• In any case, having found the markets- I am talking about how the rural community can be assisted- it is then up to government to see that a fair price is received by the producer for his goods. [More…]

• That is good advice to the farming community of Australia. [More…]

• The point I was making earlier was that there should be a realisation on the part of members of the farming community that they cannot depend on superphosphate additives for much longer because of the rising cost of such additives. [More…]

• For that reason, I again say that the reintroduction of the superphosphate bounty is not in the best interests of the rural community. [More…]

• There should be other means of support for the rural community. [More…]

• No one denies- I do not deny- that such support should be given to the rural community. [More…]

• One of those reasons would be to anticipate any shock which the rural community may suffer as a result of the increase in the price of superphosphate from this area because of, say, improvements in the conditions of the workers producing the superphosphate or some other reason. [More…]

• This deals with some of the statements made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) in his summing up of the second reading debate. [More…]

• So again, and in order not to hold up the business of the House, I seek leave to have the names to which I previously referred incorporated in Hansard for the benefit of the taxpayers of this country who in the main, are called upon to pay out large sums of money for the benefit of a few individuals in the community. [More…]

• We are trying to bring about some equalisation of incomes so far as the rural community is concerned. [More…]

• I draw attention also to the fact that the coalition parties, which have ruled this country for about 80 per cent of the time since Federation, have had ample opportunity to bring about the essential reforms that are needed in our rural community. [More…]

• I have done some more research in this matter and have sought advice because the Opposition does not believe that it has all the answers to the problems facing the rural community. [More…]

• However, it must not be considered as an end in itself but only as one method of providing a suitable standard of living for the rural community, a standard which can be obtained only by adopting a policy which takes into consideration the full question of resource allocation in Australia. [More…]

• Because of the action taken by the Government in its endeavour to cover over or bury the names of the people in receipt of this money- these very wealthy people in the community- I am forced to adopt this attitude. [More…]

• We were able to speak to the Acting Governorthe Governor arrived there only the day before we left- to the officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the Catholic Biship in Dili and to the leaders of the Chinese community. [More…]

• We, the members of this community, gave our lives to ensure that Australians were able to return to Australian shores and fight again.’ [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…]

• The average daily usage of all pre-schools in 1975 was at full capacity except for Monday a.m. and Friday p.m. At these times pre-schools are now available for community use, a provision operating for the first time in 1 976. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs: What provision is made to see that adequate film supplies are available for exhibition in cinemas throughout Australia? [More…]

• The home savings grant scheme which my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has introduced will do much to restore the proper balance in Australia so that those young people particularly who seek to own their own home will have a proper opportunity to get one. [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs by reminding him that a minority of persons and companies are still cheating on that section of the community who are competing, in an unfair struggle, to obtain a home. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development seen a publication headed ‘To all members of the Australian Parliament’ and signed ‘concerned residents of Lawley House’ which was circulated to members and senators recently and which expressed concern at the proposal to increase the tariff at Lawley House and the alleged refusal over past weeks to admit new residents? [More…]

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

• What assurance can the Minister give that there will be an opportunity for public discussion and debate on these projects having regard to the community interest which is being expressed at the present time? [More…]

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

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

• The greatest safeguard that has been imposed was imposed by the community on 1 3 December last when it threw out a Government which was the greatest tax-raider since King Herod. [More…]

• It can clearly be seen throughout the whole debate that has been taking place- I think we are in the third day of debate on these bounty Bills- that all that the Government has achieved in its endeavours to prevent those names being incorporated in Hansard has been to highlight the fact that there are many people in the community who are receiving a large amount of bounty. [More…]

• It is therefore reasonable to say that any government must be expected to accept responsibility in that field and that it must indicate to the airline industry policies which are clear and which are in the best interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• Whilst strikes cause immediate inconvenience to people they also have a longer term effect on costs within the industry which in turn can only affect many of the smaller people of our community. [More…]

• One of the biggest problems in the farming community is that everybody has to be an individualist. [More…]

• They engendered a great deal of interest in the domestic community as well as in the manufacturing community. [More…]

• Australian community we must ensure that those services not only are in the best interests of the people but also are provided in such a way that the people will benefit from them and the amount of money that is set aside by the national Parliament for them. [More…]

• The Minister has asked him to conduct an inquiry and his terms of reference are to examine and report to the Government on the delivery of services financed by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs with a view to assessing the effectiveness of the services financed, recommending improvements in the delivery of service and the financial arangements in the interests of the Aboriginal and the community at large, establishing where there are areas of waste or inefficiency. [More…]

• Let us look at some of the services that have been provided in the past for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• These Aboriginal housing societies or building societies, whatever they are called, have been set up to service a community of some 8000 or 10 000 Aboriginal and Island people. [More…]

• In addition to research grants, funds are available to the States under the current Commonwealth grants program for technical and further education which may be applied to programs designed to improve community access to technical and further education particularly by disadvantaged groups. [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• I refer to the announcement made by the Minister on 13 April that the Government is proceeding with an inquiry into the Australian Broadcasting system to ensure ‘that our broadcasting system … is developed … in a way which will best serve the needs of the Australian community’. [More…]

• In view of that statement, I ask the Minister the following question: Who will be conducting the inquiry and what expertise do such persons have for assessing the needs of the Australian community in broadcasting? [More…]

• Further, does the Minister seriously suggest that none of the Cocos-Malay community has any understanding of the concepts of independence or of citizenship? [More…]

• I said quite clearly and distinctly to the islanders and to the whole community that if the problems of Cocos Islands are to be solved they are going to be solved by co-operation between all groups interested in this matter, be it the estate, the administration, the Australian people working on West Island or the community itself. [More…]

• I hope that the island community realises now that if it works together a lot of its problems will more than likely be resolved. [More…]

• But some people, both within Australia and outside of Australia, occasionally have an interest in causing mischief and where people cause mischief quite deliberately when governments, working with the co-operation of the great mass of the community, are attempting to solve problems, I think that the mischief makers ought to be dealt with. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who has been rusticating during most of question time. [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…]

• I believe that this reference is in keeping with the tradition which has been set for this Committee of dealing with matters of great public significance which cover a wide range of issues of importance to the community. [More…]

• But in the course of doing that it is most likely that there are some cases where a mistake has been made, where further examination of the request for such a cutback could show that it would cause a great deal of distress and annoyance in the community and that the costs saved would not be worth the loss of public confidence which is involved. [More…]

• Senator Guilfoyle endorsed this case, but now finds ‘a lot of resentment in the community’, as she said last night. [More…]

• I hope that at this stage we will not remove this provision, bearing in mind the feeling and the sensitivity which there is throughout the community, but that we will have a look at it in the best way we can, that is, by a Senate committee. [More…]

• The inflation which was largely fuelled by the previous Government with its pacesetter wage principle and with its glorious attitude towards Government spending has, in fact, hit many of the weakest in the community. [More…]

• I regret that the action of my honourable colleagues- I regard them as that- will succeed in focusing the attention of the community not on the fact that there has been an additional $230m worth of benefits paid but on the fact that there has been a reduction of $1.7m in certain payments. [More…]

• This Bill has come in for widespread criticism in the community. [More…]

• It has been criticised particularly by many pensioner organisations in the community. [More…]

• But the sum saved has not really cut Government spending because increased Government spending on other items for other special groups in the community has increased far beyond this amount. [More…]

• But at the same time he has reduced the spending capacity of the pensioners in this country, on his own admission, by some $3 1 m. I believe that it is sad to hear the Prime Minister proclaim that his Government will give people more independence in the use of their money and more freedom to spend their money as they wish and then deprive those in the community who, through no fault of their own, have the least financial independence. [More…]

• The same honourable senator referred to handouts to people in the community. [More…]

• If people in the community need help from a government in the form of social service benefits they should not be regarded as being given a handout. [More…]

• The point which I wish to make in respect of that quotation is that if the Government thought that there were some people in the community who were receiving this benefit who did not really need it that was not a good case on which to throw out the whole benefit for everybody. [More…]

• It seems to me that a more humane attitude would have been to examine the matter fully and decide those people in the community who really needed this benefit, provide the benefit to them, and provide it at an adequate rate. [More…]

• Many people in our community will be hit hard by the abolition of this benefit. [More…]

• The point has to be made that pensioners are among those disadvantaged groups in the community who cannot defend themselves against such insidious problems as inflation. [More…]

• Having said that, I state that I support the Bill because I believe it establishes important new principles in respect of pensioners and the disadvantaged in the community. [More…]

• If this Government really meant what it said, it would be giving a greater increase to pensioners to cover the rise in the cost of living up to this date so that more money would be flowing into the community. [More…]

• If the Government really believes that there is a good future and if it wants to encourage the community, it should show its faith in that future by bringing pension rates up to a level that is equivalent to present day standards. [More…]

• Radio in these areas needs to perform a positive community role. [More…]

• That community role is rather different from the community role which may or may not be expected of capital city radio stations. [More…]

• It is certainly a role far closer to the community as it has been operating than that of the role of any of the Brisbane radio stations, and I mean no offence to the Brisbane radio stations. [More…]

• No one in that area is complaining or feels that community services are in jeopardy. [More…]

• This Council feels that the cessation of the dissemination of news in this area is a retrograde step as it believes that the best citizen of a community is the most informed one. [More…]

• What proportion of these funds are used to provide dental care for the handicapped, institutionalised or other necessitous groups in the 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…]

• 1 ) Will the Government give any assistance to alleviate the huge freight charges that the Northern Territory community is now called upon to pay, in particular, the increased cost to the building industry of some eleven to thirteen per cent, in view of further heavy flooding in Central Australia this week and the fact that it now appears the Port Augusta to Alice Springs rail link will continue to be disrupted indefinitely. [More…]

• This Centre was recently established to form part of the general health services available to women from the Women’s Health and Community Centre, Perth. [More…]

• Activities undertaken by the Department of the Northern Territory are related to an integrated social welfare service including probation, family and community welfare and child care institutions controlled within the Social Development Branch. [More…]

• As a general rule premises which have been set aside for the purpose of providing rehabilitation or social and vocational training designed to equip the mentally ill or intellectually handicapped for an active life and possible employment in the community may be excluded from the Declaration of Mental Hospitals. [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• 1 ) The Australian Assistance Plan is a vital welfare programme because it is one of the few attempts by the Australian Government to foster local participation in community affairs. [More…]

• If the royal commission is not proceeded with, can the Minister advise whether some other form of public inquiry will be established, or will the Government revert to the previous practice of other Liberal governments and evade the problem of police victimisation and brutality experienced by many sections of the Aboriginal community? [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development seen a statement which appeared in the Adelaide Sunday Mail of 24 April and which was attributed to the Deputy Premier of South Australia, Mr Corcoran? [More…]

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

• Will the Minister agree that such a proposal, along with the proposal by the Ports Authority of New South Wales to construct a coal loader and container port in Botany Bay, will have a deleterious and injurious effect on the environment in the area, particularly on the environment and community development of the people living in the municipalities of Hurstville, Kogarah and Rockdale? [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development inform the Parliament whether the Government can guarantee continued financial assistance to Aboriginal housing societies throughout Australia? [More…]

• Having in mind the effect of this type of assistance on the Aboriginal people, who call these unemployment payments ‘sit down money’ and in many cases believe that the Government makes this payment because it does not wish people to work, has the Government considered removing this type of payment and in lieu thereof making payments to allow employment on Aboriginal community projects for the benefit of the community? [More…]

• They are noteworthy organisations: The Australian Council of Social Services, which works with the general range of welfare associations; others, such as an ecumenical centre which works essentially with migrants; and others which have needs of voluntary associations in the work that they do in the community. [More…]

• In principle federalism is geared to bring government, in terms of decentralisation, in devolution right down to the grass roots, to the community. [More…]

• The fact that only a couple of weeks before the New South Wales Government faced a State election it decided to order some new commuter buses for the travelling public of Sydney indicates surely that the needs of the community in this regard have been wantonly disregarded for so long. [More…]

• I am dealing now with the ethnic community. [More…]

• Both Senator Jessop and I know that last year, when we were in government, Senator Greenwood used such an opportunity to ventilate certain matters dealing with the Croatian community. [More…]

• Well over 12 months ago, at the request of the Chilean community in Sydney I raised a question about certain Chilean women who were being underpaid by W. D. & H. O. Wills. [More…]

• In Townsville we have a doctor who is a very respectable member of the community. [More…]

• We were in danger of becoming a community brain-washed into assuming that the state could provide everything and that it was everybody’s right to be looked after, no matter what. [More…]

• This evening I wish to make a few comments on difficulties that people in the community are facing because of changes in the pharmaceutical benefits list. [More…]

• This points out the difficulties faced by one person in the community, but I think they are difficulties that would be reflected over the entire Australian community. [More…]

• I think it is a cause for alarm that the AMA resolutions have been published but apparently the Minister has no objection to the AMA establishing this kind of monopoly over certain services to the detriment of the community. [More…]

• I raise this matter tonight in the hope that it may prompt the Minister to consult the salaried specialists and also the community which apparently is to be deprived of the choice of free service, and to be deprived in some cases of the only specialists in their medical field in the Territory. [More…]

• There is also some unhappiness in Warwick about the fact that it has effectively lost its regional radio station’s involvement in community activity. [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• To the extent that parents and members of the community involve themselves and wish to involve themselves, we will encourage them. [More…]

• What is the Government’s attitude to the possibility of absorbing some of these unfortunate Timorese people into the Australian community? [More…]

• As you will see, they are essentially a self-governing community and I feel any disruption to their way of life and culture would be to their detriment. [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…]

• Once having reached that point of centralisation, it is essential that the community and political parties should find the forms for a decentralisation of responsibility and a decentralisation of power. [More…]

• In the light of those sorts of increases we have been assailed by the conservatives, wherever they exist in the community- in newspapers, in the media, in the Parliament and in the community generally- for spending so much money in these important areas. [More…]

• What is more, my intentions were misrepresented on one of those occasions by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) in the previous debate. [More…]

• Benedictine Community, New Norcia [More…]

• There is no doubt that as a result of that early legislation and the refinements which have taken place in subsequent years the community as a whole, and the rural community in particular, has benefited and is aware of the benefits of the stabilisation schemes, of the cost to the community of stabilisation, and of the cost of not having stabilisation schemes. [More…]

• It is one of the progressive pieces of legislation which fortunately has enjoyed a fair measure of support both in the political parties and in the community. [More…]

• Each rural scheme should not be considered in isolation, however, as benefiting or handicapping a particular section of the community; they should be considered as a part of an integrated economic policy- a policy which should seek to achieve the full and effective use of the resources of the community, equitable distribution of wealth, and social welfare in accordance with the aspirations of the community as a whole. [More…]

• It is not a national economic objective to raise the living standards of the rural sector of the community at the expense of another, but rather to raise and maintain the standards of all sectors of the community, and particularly the disadvantaged sectors. [More…]

• It should not be considered as an end in itself but as a means by which society can do more of whatever it wants to do which, of course, emphasises that all policy, and in particular rural policy, is concerned with individuals in the community at large. [More…]

• This has been designed to attempt to correct the imperfect free market system which operates not only to the detriment of the producers but also to the community as a whole. [More…]

• But I think that that has to be stated and constantly stressed in order to overcome the feeling which unfortunately exists in rural communities that Labor is opposed to farmers; that Labor has no interest in or concern for the farming or rural community. [More…]

• It cannot be doubted that the response of Labor governments to the needs of the rural community in this area have been genuine, have been related to need and from time to time have met with enthusiasm even in the rural community. [More…]

• The National Country Party for all its reputation of representing the interests of the rural community has done little more than attempt to use its influence to continue substantially Labor Party initiatives. [More…]

• It is not beyond the realms of possibility that community needs and aspirations may require the unfettered use of an overall power for the good not only of those engaged in rural production but of the community at large. [More…]

• I think we must recognise that in this century there has been a dramatic and continuing decline in rural community population to the extent that today only 8 per cent of the male work force is now involved in rural farm employment. [More…]

• To hold that factor constant for a period of 5 years in relation to the return on the owner-operator’s labour is certainly an unfair imposition on the farming community and the owner-operator in particular. [More…]

• From time to time there are misconceptions and misrepresentations suggesting that the stabilisation plan for wheat as for other products is an example of the community subsidising those engaged in the industry. [More…]

• The farmer would make no apology for that and nor would I because it is one of the most basic characteristics of the Australian community. [More…]

• The new price is 62c a tonne which, taken over the whole farming community, represents approximately $50,000 a week. [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• That since the Australian Assistance Plan is making it possible for citizens to help themselves, thereby ensuring best possible use of limited Government resources, as shown by the fact that over 200 community projects have been initiated or funded through the A.A.P. [More…]

• The fact that grants may be made to schools, the fact that money may be directed towards schools or school boards will widen rather than narrow the role of parents and citizens associations, lt is Government policy- and one which I commend- to ensure the fullest possible community participation in education and that means that the parent, the teacher and the community in general should play an increasing part. [More…]

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

• I refer to the support given by the Labor Government to members of the Australian community suffering from kidney ailments or failure and, in particular, those requiring regular dialysis treatment. [More…]

• Will the Government give consideration to providing financial support to the efforts of voluntary organisations and individuals to provide suitably equipped holiday accommodation to persons requiring dialysis, thereby making it possible for those disadvantaged persons in the community to have a holiday away from their place of residence and the places where they normally receive treatment? [More…]

• To what extent will that increase in personnel and operational staff assist the defence forces and local community interests in South Australia? [More…]

• I made representations to Mr Baxter, the Minister for Community Welfare in Western Australia, and asked for an inquiry into the whole incident so that we could get to the bottom of .it. [More…]

• As a result of public pressure, including pressure from the pensioner organisations and from the general community, the Government did not proceed with that intention. [More…]

• However, it seems clear now that the community at large will no longer tolerate this kind of injustice to pensioners. [More…]

• The outcry from all sections of the community about this piece of legislation was so great that some honourable senators opposite saw the justice of the pensioners’ case, had the social conscience to act and voted against their Government’s legislation. [More…]

• It reflected the fact that finally within the community there is an attitude that pensioners should not be the ones who have to accept the bad deal, that at least they should have their current benefits maintained and, I should hope, have them increased. [More…]

• Perhaps the only positive thing to emerge from the Government’s disgraceful attempt to deprive the pensioners of their funeral benefit is that there is now much more awareness throughout the community of the funeral benefit, of what a small amount it is and of the difficulties faced by pensioners when a spouse dies and the remaining pensioner has to cope with the funeral expenses. [More…]

• Although there are still some sections of the Government which are prepared to make pensioners pay the price of the Government’s own clumsy attempts to manage the economy, no sections of the community are prepared to accept this. [More…]

• I hope again that, with the sort of support in the community and even the support that there appears to be in this chamber for the needs of the pensioners, we may see a review of the Government’s decision to take certain drugs off the pharmaceutical benefits list and make those drugs for which pensioners have need once again available to them as a pharmaceutical benefit. [More…]

• I can assure you, Mr President, that concern is felt amongst a large section of the Cocos Malay community about the matter. [More…]

• Only this week two of the Cocos Malay community went to the trouble of writing to me personally in their own language to try to convey to me some of their feelings on the matter. [More…]

• He wields a decisive influence on the community’s affairs. [More…]

• One of the reasons for my visit was that, as Mr Dickson had told me, Mr Clunies Ross had proposed to our Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that the Government should finance the acquisition, with fair compensation, of all his Cocos assets and operations on behalf of the Cocos community. [More…]

• As a result of economic and governmental pressures, Mr Clunies Ross informed the Committee of his decision to sever the family’s connections with the islands and to negotiate the transfer of his assets to a Cocos Island Community Co-operative. [More…]

• The Committee urges that serious consideration now be given to acquisition of the entire Estate in order to establish a Cocos Island Community Co-operative. [More…]

• The Committee believes that such a Co-operative would assist significantly in the creation of an integrated community with a sense of responsibility and purpose. [More…]

• I am sure that in princple we would have been in error had we attempted to introduce a new superannuation scheme which gave an undue advantage to Commonwealth public servants over other members of the community, bearing in mind the historical advantage of working conditions- I think admitted- which public servants, both Commonwealth and State, have enjoyed in the Australian community and work force over the years. [More…]

• I want to make the point emphatically that the Bill not only represents a much improved, more rational and more readily administered scheme than the existing one but also offers a sensible and reasonable scheme, given the resources at our command and taking into consideration the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• I believe that this is unfortunate as it leads to great concern and anxiety in the community particularly the community which I represent in which there are 35 000 Commonwealth public servants. [More…]

• During my recent visit to Darwin I had useful discussions on the matter with community leaders concerned with the problems of alcoholism. [More…]

• The first is for the establishment in Darwin of a community based sobering-up facility with appropriate staff, and a pick-up service to bring people to the facility for treatment. [More…]

• The second is for a counsellor co-ordinator, for the Katherine Community Alcohol Treatment and Rehabilitation Program. [More…]

• Such other alternatives as attendance centres, community work order releases, and programs particularly related to dealing with offenders within Aboriginal communities by those communities, are seen as being part of the development of a comprehensive community based system of Correctional Services. [More…]

• That the lowering of educational standards as a consequence of the restrictions on educational facilities, would result in immeasurable non-economic cost to the community. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned members of community organisations respectfully showeth that: [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in tehnical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

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

• They were recommended by the Victorian advisory committee and the administration of them has not been transferred to the Health Department, but to facilitate the early arrangements for these projects the Health Department will be working closely with the community groups. [More…]

• It was to facilitate matters that the Victorian Health Department was to work actively with the community groups concerned. [More…]

• To facilitate arrangements and the purchase and approval of buildings in accordance with the State Department of Health requirements a close relationship between the State Department of Health and the community bodies was established. [More…]

• We understood that that would be to the advantage of the community bodies who wished to have access to the funds and to get early approval of buildings in accordance with State government requirements. [More…]

• I think the community groups concerned have an active and constant communication with the Interim Committee of the Children’s Commission in Melbourne. [More…]

• -I ask a question of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development which in some respects is related to the question just asked. [More…]

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

• Should the meeting, which is between representatives of the Federal and State governments, the Aboriginal community involved and the mission, which is controlled by the Presbyterian Church, reach amicable agreement will the Government ask its representatives to seek an assurance from those concerned that they will support the agreement in the interests of the Aboriginal community concerned and the people of north Queensland, thereby ensuring that this great project will not be torpedoed by publicity seekers, so-called Aboriginal supporters and conservationists who have little knowledge of the area or the interests of north Queenslanders? [More…]

• I ask: During the course of his discussions on Christmas Island did the Chinese community leader Chen Ghang urge the Minister to give him a yes/no answer on a requested guarantee of free access to the Australian mainland for the Islanders? [More…]

• Would I be in order if I asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether there is provision in Commonwealth law for freedom of movement for guide dogs in Australia? [More…]

• When we were in Timor last year we did speak to the representatives of the Chinese community. [More…]

• I am reliably informed that the Taiwanese consul who has now returned to his country has confirmed that when the paratroops landed in Dili on 7 December last, the Chinese community came out en masse to welcome the Indonesian troops. [More…]

• The real difficulties which that view runs into are the reality of the anticipations and the feeling and concern in the world-wide community for the principle of selfdetermination. [More…]

• It was the view of the then Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, that East Timor, being a tiny area with a relatively tiny community, was not an economically viable centre and, because of that, apparently it had no right to self-determination. [More…]

• Timor is a multi-ethnic community. [More…]

• I wonder whether the citizens of this country have had the wool pulled over their eyes, just as certain individuals in our community and in the Indonesian community tried to pull the wool over the eyes of members of Parliament. [More…]

• A majority of schools in Aboriginal communities now incorporate in their programs the teaching of aspects of Aboriginal culture and the use of teaching assistants who can use the local language or dialect for communication with children and the local community. [More…]

• I suggest that the first step will be that the people who are involved in the education program must learn to recognise and to respect the language and culture of the community. [More…]

• Watts, McGrath and Tandy reported: the Aboriginal language would remain as the appropriate language for arts in that language and for Aboriginal studies (conducted sometimes by Aboriginal members of the teaching team and sometimes by Aboriginal adults from the community.) [More…]

• A thread which will run through our recommendations, though not formulised in a single statement, has to do with the principle that the success of any educational program depends upon the extent to which the school is an integral part of the community which it serves. [More…]

• The people of the community are too busy with other matters. [More…]

• Perhaps the community is not as committed to education as the upper middle class of which we hear so much in our own communities. [More…]

• We must have further training in English as a second language, anthropology, linguistics, teaching techniques and so on for these people, preferably at the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• Its influence is felt not only in the schools which it serves but also in the community schools. [More…]

• So I say again that this is one of the most exciting and most important things to have happened in the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I think that this issue is very important because it is something that I have advocated within the Aboriginal community for a long time, not only in the field of education but also in respect of many other aspects of Aboriginal advancement. [More…]

• I hope that the Government, and particularly the Minister, will take special note of that and will endeavour as much as they can to ensure that Aboriginal people within the Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory- not only in the Northern Territory but also in the far northern parts of Queensland, in the Kimberleys of Western Australia and perhaps even in the remote parts of South Australiawill be educated under this same system. [More…]

• To return to the point that I was making, although Aboriginal people may not have the academic qualifications necessary to become teachers in the true sense or in normal schools, surely because of their ability to communicate with their own people and to teach things in their own tongue they would be of great advantage to the Aboriginal community and would help the advancement of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Honourable senators have to recall only the visits of parents and teachers and other people to the Houses of Parliament last week to understand the raised level of anticipations and hopes and aspirations of thousands of people throughout this community who are involved in education and who were involved in that visit last week. [More…]

• Senator Tehan put it so simply last night when he expressed it, I think, in terms that it is important that the view of an expert body such as the Schools Commission should be taken into account in priority to the views of all sorts of other ad hoc experts and interest groups and so on in the community, because the Schools Commission is required to act in accordance with certain criteria. [More…]

• It is based on an understanding of the importance of needs for every child and every school in this community. [More…]

• We believe that it is very important that parents and teacher be involved in their school community and make decisions about many of the projects with which the school is concerned at a local level. [More…]

• A similar study group has been set up by the Commission to look at the community and its schools. [More…]

• This study group has examined ways of making the very expensive educational facilities provided by Federal and State governments more accessible to the community. [More…]

• It has come up with a number of innovative and practical suggestions on how school facilities can be community facilities and how community resources can become school resources. [More…]

• I have observed a marked and deliberate trend towards community involvement- that is towards decentralisation of decision making in education. [More…]

• There seems to be an idea in our community that money spent on education is necessarily money well spent. [More…]

• That brings me to the subject of community participation which, as chance would have it, is the very next thing I had listed on my paper. [More…]

• If the present trend continues, the only literate pupils in the community will be those who learned semaphore in the Boy Scouts, provided they remember the alphabet. [More…]

• The school draws its strength from the community that it serves. [More…]

• The Schools Commission said one fundamental thing, namely, that there should be no coercion by legislation of funding for community involvement. [More…]

• I have in my possession a number of documents from the Polonia Club in Sydney comprising members of the Polish community and also a letter from a man who was program director, Brian White. [More…]

• Very briefly, the situation was this: One section of the Polish community- people who included the Polonia Soccer Club and another cultural group- contend that any releases of a sporting nature were being denied presentation on this particular program. [More…]

• To prove the bona fides of this case, I point out that this section of the Polish community had difficulties over matters relating to grounds. [More…]

• People from the Polish community went to see these members of Parliament wish a grievance over grounds. [More…]

• I simply say in fairness to the Minister that to my knowledge he has not seen the letters which I will be seeking later to have incorporated in Hansard, but I will do so with the rider that the Minister for Education will ask Mr Robinson to intervene in this matter and advise the director of the program- I think that Mr White is no longer there- that because he gives a little bit of publicity to a particular section of an ethnic community and to its football club, it does not mean that it is an oration on politics, whether it be politics of the far left or the far right. [More…]

• Federation of Soccer Clubs and sponsored by the Polish sporting community in this State. [More…]

• We strongly resent that you have allowed a particular political group to take control of Polish broadcasts and exclude sporting news which would interest the Polish community in general. [More…]

• We think content should be representative of the desires of the whole Polish community in Sydney and not just a minority group. [More…]

• As the above clique merely wants to use Polish broadcasts to fight old homeland battles and to arouse agitation in the Polish-Australian community, we would be very much obliged if you would endeavour to take the strongest possible action against these people. [More…]

• I have been requested to write to you on behalf of the above Sporting Organisations to acquaint you with the unpleasant situations which do exist in our community, and believe you should be made aware of these unfortunate incidents. [More…]

• If a co-ordinator plainly does not have the support of his community, he can be changed at a meeting properly constituted by me or Mrs Looman [More…]

• But we cannot accept moves by one section of a community seeking to gain control of programs which are meant to serve all the people who speak the language concerned. [More…]

• It has been brought to your attention, on several occasions, that there exists a great deal of anxiety and dissatisfaction among the Polish Community about the future of Ethnic Radio in general and the Polish segment of it in particular. [More…]

• The Co-ordinator’s attitude, unjustified insinuations and offensive remarks made towards members of the Committee and contributors as well general public, has alienated Polish Community towards him making co-operation extermely difficult. [More…]

• It was largely agreed by witnesses before the Committee who had experience and knowledge in this field that although to the Aboriginal land as such had no significance each community or group had rights to the use of the animals and fruits which existed on certain ill-defined but actually bounded land. [More…]

• It would appear from the evidence that sometimes within the community individuals or groups had a relationship with particular land in respect of which they owed a responsibility towards the other members of the community. [More…]

• Late in 1975 Labor introduced the Aboriginal Lands (Northern Territory) Bill without any prior consultation with the Northern Territory community or the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and without copies of the Bill being made available in the Northern Territory for perusal, discussion and comment. [More…]

• What the people of the Northern Territory want is for the people there, regardless of where they are, whether they are wielding a pen or preparing television programs to become members of a biracial community. [More…]

• In this bi-racial community there has to be room for co-existence. [More…]

• In Katherine a fluctuating population sometimes reaching quite a significant number are camped on the banks of the Katherine River in conditions of abject squalor and the danger to the community from an outbreak of any of a number of contagious diseases must be high. [More…]

• It is socially and morally degrading to all sections of the community to have any groups living within its boundaries under such conditions. [More…]

• As an example of that, in Alice Springs there has been general agreement between the community, the municipal council and all interested people, including the Aborigines, because consultation has taken place about areas of land to be put aside where the Aborigines can camp and for the development of their housing associations and cooperatives, but nothing has happened. [More…]

• Much is going on now between the 2 races in the community. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and is supplementary to the question I asked him yesterday about the area improvement program grant to the Baulkam Hills Shire Council. [More…]

• I invite the honourable senator, representing the community in the Territory, to take note of the fact that it is still possible for him to make applications for funds for holiday programs. [More…]

• I invite him to direct that matter to the attention of community groups in the Northern Territory to see whether we are able to provide some holiday care programs during school holidays this year. [More…]

• Perhaps it will suggest to the honourable senator that we should be very cautious within our community in criticising police forces which, in actual fact, are there to protect the citizens of Australia. [More…]

• When it is received it will go to my colleague, Senator Greenwood, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development who then, as I understand it, will have 3 options open to him. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and refers to the capital assistance for leisure programs involving South Australian recreational projects, in particular at Adelaide, Kadina, Port Augusta, Marion, Gepps Cross and Bowden. [More…]

• COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION [More…]

• Promoting community participation and increasing autonomy for the school community raises major questions concerning administrative and financial accountability. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that the Bill provides that the State government of the day can allocate to any school or to any school board finance for developing community involvement. [More…]

• This Bill allows any State, if it so desires, to allocate money to community based programs. [More…]

• I am bound to say to the Committee that the Schools Commission did not include in its program as such, as distinct from suggestions, any proposal other than at the suggestion level for these kinds of community participation programs. [More…]

• The Schools Commission said in the whole of its basic report for 1975-76 something like this: We believe that there ought to be greater community participation. [More…]

• I am happy to report to the Senate that in accordance with the stated policies of the Government for community participation, I have asked my Department and the Schools Commission to consider ways in which a dialogue can be introduced between the Commonwealth, the States and the various educational organisations involved so that in the future there shall be decentralisation, the setting up of school boards and the provision of more authority for parents, teachers and community so that we can bring about the policies that we seek. [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 particpate in making them. [More…]

• It is not in opposition to anything that the Minister has said with respect to parent involvement, community involvement and school-based decision making. [More…]

• Under the provisions of the DFRB Act as it now stands we thought there was a section of the ex-service community who were to an extent disadvantaged. [More…]

• The transference over the years to local government authorities of a greater measure of responsibility for social and welfare functions to serve the Australian community generally was ignored by Australian governments in relation to financial assistance for the added responsibility carried by local government. [More…]

• Of course, those revenue resources come in the main from the levying of income tax on the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe it has been widely embraced in local government circles and, indeed, in the community. [More…]

• I am told that between 45 per cent and 50 per cent of the students at the 3 schools are receiving living allowances under the Commonwealth tertiary education scheme, which seems to be a remarkable recognition that these colleges are fulfilling their proper role in the community as tertiary education centres. [More…]

• But, of course, Hales also is of high repute as anyone in the business community knows. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned members of the community organisations respectfully showeth that [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organizations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• Could he also outline the ambit of aid based on the foregoing principles that applied to what might be called a secondary earthquake in the Yugoslav Republic of Slovenia, a matter which he will know that I have raised with the Prime Minister and other Ministers following representations from the Slovene community in Sydney? [More…]

• I understand that the Department of the Northern Territory on 18 December 1975 advised the Moslem community in Darwin that a block of land in Vanderlin Drive, Casuarina- blocks 6257 and 6258- was to be made available for a mosque. [More…]

• I further understand now that the Government of Arabia has agreed to assist the Moslem communities in Australia by providing finance, that it has in the last 2 weeks investigated the situation in Darwin and has agreed to assist the Moslem community there. [More…]

• Will the Minister take up this matter with the Minister for the Northern Territory to ensure that the Moslem community in Darwin is given that parcel of land as quickly as possible. [More…]

• I am unfamiliar with the facts relating either to a Government grant or the Moslem community seeking a block of land in Darwin. [More…]

• Sites have been identified for squash courts and 4 community halls have been established. [More…]

• There are 3 squash centres and 3 community halls available. [More…]

• A theatre is planned for the proposed Wanniassa College and community activity centre. [More…]

• The college planned to open in Wanniassa, in 1979, will incorporate a community centre with a swimming pool, squash courts, sports halls and a theatre. [More…]

• Existing local activity centres include a small hall for community use. [More…]

• There are also 3 existing community halls available. [More…]

• In many cases these are available for general community use outside normal school hours and there is probably potential for greater dual use. [More…]

• In the current economic situation it is not appropriate to extend government expenditure on indoor recreation facilities when it will be difficult enough to provide for the normal priorities which are essential to the community. [More…]

• Private enterprise, community organisations and clubs have provided quite a wide range of indoor recreation facilities in Canberra as the demand and market have grown. [More…]

• Community co-operatives have been established in Canberra to provide retail facilities and the Government would actively support any similar move for co-operatives to develop indoor recreational facilities. [More…]

• The proposal is that the property be leased to Council for community purposes for 25 years at a nominal rental with an option of renewal for a further 25 years- Council to be responsible for repairs and maintenance. [More…]

• In view of the size or the British community in Australia, it is remarkable that so few have encountered serious personal or other difficulties in settling. [More…]

• Surveys with which my Department has been associated indicate that the ability to speak English contributes substantially to the capacity of newly arrived migrants to settle happily and successfully in the Australian community. [More…]

• Would the introduction of the fee-for-service system be in the best interests of the Australian community, if experience in New South Wales country hospitals proves correct. [More…]

• I understand that the population projections in the National Population Inquiry Report are being used as a basis for policy formulation in a wide range of fields, including education, community development, aboriginal affairs, housing, social security and the environment as well as immigration. [More…]

• Has the Government disbanded the Australian Government Liaison Service which circulated press releases from Australian Government Ministers to interested community and business groups and to media outlets. [More…]

• Is it also correct that the Government has now decided to re-establish this service by mailing Ministerial Press Releases to community, media and business groups. [More…]

• There is no free distribution to community or business groups. [More…]

• Details of the scheme have been recently announced by the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• A community appeal raised sufficient funds to purchase a second hand bus as a replacement. [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organizations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• -The Minister for Industry and Commerce is undoubtedly aware of the uncertainty that exists with respect to shipbuilding at Whyalla and the consequent apprehension of the unions concerned, the business community and the Whyalla City Council over the future of this industry. [More…]

• Will she assure the Senate that every endeavour is being made to bring to justice any doctor who obtains an illegal private gain at the expense of the community and the reputation of the medical profession? [More…]

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

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, relates to the United Nations habitat conference to be held in Vancouver later this year. [More…]

• Will the Minister review this decision with a view to improving the general health of pensioners in the community? [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware of the woodchip industry controversy in Cairns a few weeks ago? [More…]

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

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry and could well also involve the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and for the information of honourable senators, I present the annual report of the former Department of Environment for the period July 1974 to June 1975. [More…]

• Again, on behalf of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and for the information of the honourable senators, pursuant to section 8 of the Urban and Regional Development (Financial Assistance) Act 1974-75,I present an agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of Western Australia in relation to the provision of financial assistance for urban and regional development, 1 975-76. [More…]

• One should not need to stress the point in the national Parliament that the provision of facilities at this level is for the community and is not for the local property owner. [More…]

• In fact, local government now devotes half of its funds to providing community facilities. [More…]

• When the whole philosophy of the coalition Government is to deprecate public expenditure, I think it needs to be stressed and stressed again that the present Government is endeavouring to create in the Australian community the illusion that spending money in the public sector creates inflation. [More…]

• I believe it has been widely embraced in local government circles and, indeed, in the community. [More…]

• As this starts to filter through the process, as it starts to filter through the community, what does Councillor Thwaites, the President of the Australian Council of Local Government Associations, say in his bulletin of yesterday? [More…]

• Surely Senator Carrick cannot say to me in all seriousness that local government at Blacktown or Bankstown is on an equal footing with local government at Kuringgai or Manly or Waverley in the older developed areas where most of the property improvement and other community facilities have been provided over a great number of years. [More…]

• I believe that local government will understand that while the Government is trying to get the economy back on its feet and moving again, it too will have to pull its belt in, like all other sections of the community. [More…]

• The first is that although this approach may ultimately involve less cost to the national Government, or indeed greater flexibility to the national Government in deciding what the cost to it of local government will be, it is very doubtful in our view whether the proposed structure of providing grants to local government will involve less cost to the community as a whole. [More…]

• It wants to do exactly what it is doing in the Federal sphere, namely, to look after that small group of elitists in the community who contribute most to National Country Party funds. [More…]

• One matter which is causing some concern in the Sydney ethnic community, I feel, is the apparent lack of universal procedures in respect of people seeking tourist visas to come to Australia. [More…]

• What effect is the pollution having on the fishing activities of the Aboriginal community of Nhulunbuy. [More…]

• That the lowering of educational standards as a consequence of the restrictions on educational facilities, would result in immeasurable non-economic cost to the community. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned members of community organisations respectfully showeth that [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community ‘s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• In view of the great sums of money that the Government is providing for education and of the concern in the community for this subject, will the Minister and the Government make it mandatory that children are taught those basic elements of education? [More…]

• To me, the personal involvement of the parents and of the community is totally vital. [More…]

• For my part, I express the strong view that nothing should be done by way of compulsion to take over an institution where the parents and the community running that institution want it to be a voluntary body. [More…]

• I shall certainly ensure that the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development looks at this matter and I shall invite Mr Street to study the other part of the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

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

• Is it a fact that the Department of the Treasury has refused a submission from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for a substantial redirection of housing funds to New South Wales? [More…]

• In a space of 3 years the previous government managed to convert Australia from a home owning community to a community which, in terms of a person on an average weekly wage, could no longer afford to own its home even with 2 working spouses. [More…]

• As the person who has been convicted of this offence is a suspended barrister from Sydney with an English-sounding name and obviously no political motivations or connections with Croatians, will the Minister investigate the possibility of obtaining a copy of the transcript of the Supreme Court Judge’s summation and laying it on the table in the Parliamentary Library so that those journalists who libelled the Croatian community at the time can rectify their libel? [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is he satisfied that the present services of the Bureau are adequate in respect of daily weather forecasting and the supply of information to the community? [More…]

• I think the reasons for its introduction are clearly and adequately set out in the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood). [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 consumer. [More…]

• In this statement 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 interest 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 senators 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…]

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

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

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

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

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

• The report, together with the representations and the Acting Director’s comments on the representations, were submitted to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development for consideration by the Executive Council as per sub-section 7 ( 1 1 ) of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975. [More…]

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

• This defined ‘Aboriginal’ as: “… 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…]

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

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

• Can the Minister allay the fears of the community by a denial of these irresponsible statements? [More…]

• Although they were possibly harmless, I think that was done to create fear or to get the Australian community panicky. [More…]

• Are we to accept the philosophy from here on, that those areas of public expenditure which benefit all sections of the community are to be cast aside and we are to revert to the ‘every man for himself philosophy of the Workers Party, for example? [More…]

• As time goes by this Government is going to find that it will not be able to do the things that are required to be done for the more needy in the community if it continues with its present program. [More…]

• People on higher incomes, including ourselves as members of this Parliament, never seem to be the target for dampening down the demands that we make tens of thousands, indeed, hundreds of thousands, of other people in the community who are on high incomes also are just as anxious, it seems, as the lower paid workers to increase their share of the national income. [More…]

• But tax indexation will not reduce the pressure on wages and incomes any more than the restructuring of the tax scale did because the lower paid workers are entitled- in fact, the trade union movement is entitled- to ensure that they receive at least their proportion of the increasing prosperity of the community. [More…]

• It is not easy for any government to overcome the dilemma of reducing that expenditure and at the same time maintaining the prosperity in the community which we all wish to see. [More…]

• Of course, the business community will take cognisance of that fact. [More…]

• I have no doubt that in the August Budget we will see further cuts taking place which will further reduce the confidence of the business community which is a critical factor in reactivating the economy. [More…]

• It is not only people in politics and in Parliament professionally who are aware of what actually goes on in the community. [More…]

• When decent hardworking people who hold down jobs all year round and work hard all year round see that certain individuals in the community can work for a number of months of the year and earn a very large sum of money, taking into account the length of time that they work, and can then go on the dole and receive a tax-free income for the rest of the year, they realise that they are being done’. [More…]

• I know it to be a fact in the case of many young men in Queensland, particularly those who work in the construction and the mining industries where huge sums of money, more than the annual wage of many people in our community, can be earned in perhaps 6 months. [More…]

• It has certain benefits for the community. [More…]

• There were many disadvantages educationally and for the community under the old system. [More…]

• Under those circumstances there are benefits to the community in the rolling triennium as outlined by the Minister. [More…]

• It is proper that we should take the initiative because it seems to me that there is a desirability for the community at large to debate the economy and the economic package which this Government suggests will cure all things in Australia. [More…]

• Then we may take that point of view outside into the community so that the community can understand what is happening as far as the economic policies of this Government are concerned. [More…]

• This was because we believed that in the whole of the post-war years there was a need to catch up in terms of community facilities and to tackle the very important areas of need that were identified to the Parliament by the various commissions and in the reports on poverty. [More…]

• When we consider that there is a growing awareness of the problems of conservation and preservation and different consumer habits within the advanced industralised countries, it seems to me that the Government is ignoring, as is industry, the changes in attitudes that can now be identified within our community. [More…]

• Obviously, the community was concerned about these issues because we won office in 1972 on the basis of the quality of life issues. [More…]

• I suggest that governments as well as the community ought to be having a look at the market. [More…]

• In fact this package will not put more money into the pockets of those persons to bring about the necessary stimulation of the consumers within our community. [More…]

• To suggest therefore that it is wrong for governments to spend money in providing basic community facilities and to meet the needs of the people, and to claim that such action is inflationary, certainly begs the question which requires greater examination than the Government parties are giving to it. [More…]

• We heard also from the honourable senator who preceded me in this debate, Senator Tehan, that prior to Medibank everybody in the community was covered for medical care. [More…]

• At a later stage in this Parliament I will expose doctors who have acted as thieves in the community. [More…]

• These are the results which the proposals in the statement will cause in the community. [More…]

• I want to make brief reference to an item which appeared tonight on A Current Affair, and this is symbolic of what is happening in the community. [More…]

• This journalist said that it is a big political blockbuster because there is a real danger of division in the Australian community. [More…]

• If there is division in the Australian community, it was brought about artificially by the previous Government. [More…]

• I feel that a certain percentage of the time allocated in ethnic radio to each ethnic community, especially for those who have arrived in Australia recently, should be devoted to the teaching of English by their country men who speak their own language. [More…]

• Announcing this today the Minister for the Media, Senator Reg Withers, said that the problem in providing television for Leigh Creek- an isolated mining community-had been the very great per capita costs involved. [More…]

• I have received information from the Prime Minister that the proposal to provide television to the Leigh Creek community has now been approved. [More…]

• They are a community of about 1000 people who live 150 miles north of Port Augusta. [More…]

• I think it is a disgrace that we should be forced to listen to attempts to denigrate a man who has risen to the top in his community and found his way into the Parliament of this Commonwealth. [More…]

• He said that they will want to share the growing facilities and finance in the community. [More…]

• We noticed on coming to power that one of the significant things that had been happening in the community was that stocks held by various businessmen had been falling over the last year or so. [More…]

• I think it is very sensible also for the Government to be diverting money to vocational areas of employment as we are critically lacking in skilled labour in the community. [More…]

• We find that interest rates on the purchase of Government homes which had been low at 4 per cent to 5 per cent for the very low income earners in our community will be increased to 9V4 per cent. [More…]

• Community facilities are desperately needed in the new suburbs of Canberra but they will not be built. [More…]

• Community facilities are desperately needed there. [More…]

• As yet there has been no reasoned explanation of these matters from Government spokesmen, and the effect on the community, and I speak particularly for the community of this Territory, is total confusion. [More…]

• In the Australian Capital Territory we have the specific problem of the health centres, which were operating in a very economic and efficient way to provide a range of health services to the community. [More…]

• That is the kind of manipulation of the community’s need for health services which has been carried on by some elements of the ACTMA in Canberra. [More…]

• It seems to me that that decision in fact has pre-empted the inquiry into public broadcasting in this country and there is no reason to expect that the community will fare well out of such an inquiry. [More…]

• This has affected the working people, the Aboriginal people, the community generally in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• As no money has trickled into the Aboriginal community, Aborigines have had to sit down and watch these houses being built in their communities. [More…]

• Police and because there is a very close and, I think, important relationship between that police force and the community in the A.C.T. [More…]

• We felt that that was more appropriate because of the special relationship which existed between the community in the A.C.T. [More…]

• Because of reductions in the amount provided for Commissioner for Housing loans there was some concern in the community in the Australian Capital Territory that the loans might be cut out altogether. [More…]

• Briefs issued for all community facilities in the Australian Capital Territory now contain provision for handicapped persons in accordance with the current Australian Standard CA 52 (Standards Association of Australia), i.e. [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: ( 1 ), ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) Attached is a table presented at the South Pacific Conference on National Parks and Reserves in Wellington, New Zealand in February 1975. [More…]

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

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

• Commissioner for Community Relations (Questions No. [More…]

• 1 ) Did notice of a number of vacancies in the office of the Commissioner for Community relations in each State appear in the Australian Government Gazette on 18 December 1975. [More…]

• What is the current level of staffing for the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations in each State. [More…]

• 6 ) What effect has the delay in filling the positions had on the work of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• How many cases are currently awaiting attention by the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• The Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations has responded to the needs of the community as referred to it. [More…]

• In addition, a community health nurse and a nursing aide, in respect of whom some Commonwealth funding is provided under the Community Health Program, and who operate out of Bourke, provide assistance as required. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that this new practice causes psychological harm to those physically weaker members of the community who hitherto have displayed great courage and determination to overcome their disabilities? [More…]

• Will action be taken, in accordance with the Government’s intention to improve services to the most needy in the community, to meet this criterion with respect to child care services? [More…]

• Weather predictions, weather reports and the dissemination of those reports, to which the honourable senator referred, are quite costly to the community. [More…]

• I am quite pleased with the responses because they represent the views of a fair crosssection of the Australian community. [More…]

• Government now says ‘We have a package’ and asks the ACTU to accept the package which, of course, does not accept total wage indexation but offers tax indexation which affords some relief certainly to the very low wage earners in the community. [More…]

• As a result they have made massive and deadly cuts in important programs which have helped the States and every community in Australia. [More…]

• Canberra can be used as an example of a localised area in which massive increases will apply in all aspects of the community. [More…]

• Such a spirit of co-operation is vital in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• I have been highly encouraged and in fact delighted by the reaction of the general community to the economic policy statement presented to the Parliament last Thursday night by the Federal Treasurer. [More…]

• There was confidence in the community even though at that time there was concern that 4.6 per cent inflation was high. [More…]

• The confidence of the community was absolutely gone. [More…]

• There was no confidence in the business community whatsoever. [More…]

• Inflation has caused much hardship and harm in the community, has adversely affected industry and commerce in this country, and has disadvantaged us as a trading nation. [More…]

• Private business was being squeezed out and there was a great need to give encouragement to the private sector of the community to make sure that business will get going again and that with consumer demand, to which Senator Messner referred last night, and with a regeneration of vitality within the community, eventually we will take up the great and unfortunate slack in the unemployment factor. [More…]

• Another top priority I mentioned earlier relates to the benefits given to the poorer and disadvantaged sections of our community. [More…]

• This Government has looked very earnestly to giving assistance to the poorer and needier areas of our community. [More…]

• Local government plays a very important part in our community. [More…]

• Senator Young used the magnificent expression that local government, under Labor, had to come cap in hand to Canberra to get money for the various facilities which local government provides for the people in the community. [More…]

• I believe this will be done without consideration of the effects on the community as a whole. [More…]

• Nothing in this community could be more divisive than what Senator Lajovic suggested last night. [More…]

• They will be affected by the greatly decreased expenditure on hospital facilities, on community health projects, on transport, on roads and on local government facilities generally. [More…]

• This group is a very large group in the community. [More…]

• They have a great need for the provision of sewerage, road works, hospitals, community health centres and child care facilities in general. [More…]

• There is to be a cut of $200m in transport expenditure and hospital and community health spending is to be cut. [More…]

• Yet day after day in the Senate they rise to their feet asking the Government when millions of dollars will be spent on the reintroduction of the cadet corps, which the Army does not want, which it thinks is inefficient and which benefits only a few thousand people in our community. [More…]

• But this across-the-board slash in expenditure on practically everything the Government does seems to me to ignore the needs of many of the people in the community, to ignore the benefits that have been achieved by many of the programs. [More…]

• No one has attempted to explain to me how this affects the inflation rate in the community. [More…]

• Certainly the trade union movement is very strongly in favour of it, and the Australian community is very favourably disposed to it. [More…]

• Indeed, for once in our lives, we have a community of viewpoint. [More…]

• On top of that we are proposing to set up a council for intergovernmental relations on which Federal, State and local government will meet for the first time as 3 spheres of government along with community representatives as equals, as partners, and not as inferiors or puppets of Canberra. [More…]

• According to the benighted lights, I believe, of the Liberals in the matter of trade unions- one would believe sometimes that they had never met a trade unionist- they had this magic formula of secret postal ballots that were supposed to solve all the problems of the trade unions and of the community, to get rid of troublemakers and to free unions of militants like Halfpenny and Carmichael. [More…]

• The areas in which these cuts of $ 1,300m will fallwhatever else there is to come- were outlined by Mr Lynch and include environment, housing, community development, transport, construction, etc. [More…]

• It is an attempt to say to the business community: ‘Things will be better in the private sector because we are pruning public sector expenditure in the ways we have announced’. [More…]

• Their business supporters and the community generally began to get restive. [More…]

• It is a fight against inflation so that we can overcome the unemployment which exists in our community. [More…]

• When such persons reach the level of income at which anyone in the community is taxed, it seemed they should also be taxed. [More…]

• We hope that this will be a satisfactory means of ensuring that this pilot program is continued and that the experience gained will be used to the benefit of community development. [More…]

• Insofar as it seeks to assist poorer sections in the community and to make increased child endowment payments- carried out on the recommendation of the Henderson report- the statement is also welcomed by the Opposition. [More…]

• The first is that of unemployment and the second is that of the Government’s announced policy of reducing the level of real wages in the community as a measure to tackle inflation. [More…]

• First of all, with regard to the level of real wages and the fear not of unemployment itself but the prospect of it, we regard both these matters- that is to say, a threat to the standard of real wages and a threat of unemployment- as being very powerful psychological factors which are likely to inhibit and limit the level of consumer spending in our community. [More…]

• But we do raise doubts about the underlying philosophy that $5 in the pocket is more important than community services which a government can provide in the context of a modern democracy in the late 1970s. [More…]

• But the worst thing about these cuts in relation to the Australian Broadcasting Commission is that they are in an area in which a national service is provided for the whole community. [More…]

• I refer to the national service available to the whole of the community because I want to distinguish it from a number of sizable items of expenditure on which the Government has embarked. [More…]

• These are very big items of sectional expenditure from which the whole community will benefit indirectly, I suppose, if the plan works in the respective sections. [More…]

• But these sums of money are paid to specific interest groups in the community. [More…]

• As distinct from that the ABC, as I say, provides a service which is available to the whole of the community and the cost of that service is really pretty negligible. [More…]

• But when one considers the real costs that are involved to the Australian community, it seems that these cuts in relation to the ABC are totally unjustified. [More…]

• These sorts of diverse services are provided to the Australian community at a cost of about 3c a day to each Australian citizen. [More…]

• One must compare that cost with the cost of commercial radio and television which is inflicted on the Australian community in terms of the cost of products. [More…]

• For this modest cost to which I have referred the ABC provides a service to the areas of the community about which I have talked. [More…]

• There has been speculation that programs like Late Line and other programs which have brought a diversity of interest to the Australian listening community and which have a very widespread audience will be cut back. [More…]

• But whatever the speculation about these matters is- and we can have our entertainment either by radio or by television or by Senator Wright, or in the bar or wherever we happen to be- the fact of the matter is that the level of community entertainment and education which is provided by the ABC is very widespread and important. [More…]

• In all these matters there is a denial of a service to the listening public in Australia and to the community at large. [More…]

• He has attempted to draw red herrings across the trail on the Medibank issue to confuse the electorate because he realises that the former Australian Labor Party Government released an economic monster on the Australian community when it propounded the Medibank scheme. [More…]

• The health of our community is one of the most important issues that confronts this nation. [More…]

• I am quite certain that the community at large is not deluded in any respect whatsoever. [More…]

• In this inanimate, computerised age in which we live there is a greater than ever responsibility on Parliament to act as custodian of the rights of the people so that we can ensure that taxes fall equitably on all sections of the community. [More…]

• The wine industry like many others in our community realises that it must have finance to enable it to function properly, but it cannot accept the situation which has brought an extremely viable industry almost to its knees through government action, particularly over the last two or three years. [More…]

• It has already been proven by the confidence which has been injected into the community. [More…]

• It was something which was seen by some members of the Liberal Party as a bribe to the business community, and by others as an approach which suited their ideological prejudices. [More…]

• I am very disappointed that that fairly elementary truth does not seem to have been noted in the Press and does not seem to be widely appreciated in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is the problem of inflation in this community and all those great problems inflation brings in its train in relation to economic stability. [More…]

• There is an emphasis which runs through this debate here in the Senate and in public that all we need to do is to have a rise in business confidence and a rise in consumer spending and there will be no more economic tribulations to face this Government or this community. [More…]

• Boards will act and invest only if there is an opportunity to make a profit from serving the community in their particular field. [More…]

• These huge increases in expenditure, well beyond sensible capacity, had to be cut back to help in the battle against inflation, to eliminate the waste and extravagance and to provide for the Government’s own initiatives- that is, to introduce tax indexation and to do something more for the people in the community who are not as well off as other people. [More…]

• The Government, in that endeavour, needs the support of the whole community and the support and the understanding of the Parliament. [More…]

• The problem is still the total demand that is placed on the community as against the available resources to meet that demand. [More…]

• This is now a community problem of a serious magnitude. [More…]

• A great part of the problem will now pass to the trade union movement, to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, to State governments, to consumers, to the business community and to the people of Australia as a whole. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Has the Government recently made any strong representations to the British Government to honour its promises by breaking down trade restrictions of the European Economic Community, or are any such representations planned? [More…]

• Nowhere is it more unrealised than in the European Economic Community, which Britain has joined. [More…]

• Its member countries, as a community, are heavily protecting their own industries and the people who work in them. [More…]

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

• Canberra is a city which will be growing and is obviously one of the most outstanding developments in the Australian community. [More…]

• On behalf of the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and for the information of honourable senators, I present an urban paper entitled A Report on the Information and Library Needs of the Citizens of the Western Region of Melbourne. [More…]

• Secondly, the Government wishes to see greater involvement of schools and the community generally in cadet training. [More…]

• This was a heavy charge on the defence vote in terms of the very limited contribution made by cadets to defence preparedness, including the community goodwill they created and interest in the Services by way of recruiting. [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 Forces. [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…]

• I am talking now about the Slovene community. [More…]

• The official document shows that the total expenditure for the Territory is $349m- a good round sum for a small community and a developing city whose residents, I expect, are on an income level unmatched in any other area in Australia. [More…]

• In answer to a question by Senator Kilgariff about the increased subsidy required for houses provided rent free to community organisations we were told by a departmental officer that there were 4 additional houses, and they were referred to. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) explained in his second reading speech that the Bill replaced the existing provisions with a new system of valuation based on the internationally recognised Brussels definition of value. [More…]

• I think it should be said very briefly that the problems of the beef industry ought to be the concern of the whole community. [More…]

• It has to be said that during that peak period when beef production rose very considerably the farming community was encouraged to expand production. [More…]

• At the moment the dairy industry is in severe economic trouble, for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the dramatic collapse in the market for skim milk powder caused by the accumulation of stocks in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We have to include extravagant irrigation schemes, which cost the community a fortune it could never recoup, boosted land values that encouraged farmers to buy in at prices they couldn’t afford, and added to farm surpluses and surplus farmers. [More…]

• I pause at this point to draw the attention of the Senate to the fact that, in respect of most of the Bills on which I have spoken in the Senate over the last several weeks, the Labor Government was associated with assistance to the rural community. [More…]

• Either fruit growers have to obtain a viable return for their efforts based on sound economic principles or a way out has to be provided for these hard-working members of the rural community to re-establish themselves in other fields. [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, preferring to abide by the interim measures proposed by the former Government which were designed as stop-gap measures to assist people and regions pending a closer analysis of the problems and the detailed examination by the IAC. [More…]

• Whilst Tasmania, for example, is disadvantaged by freight and handling costs to the large domestic markets of the capital cities, this cost may well be less than the actual cost to the community of starting new fruit growing areas which are closer to these markets but which are less appropriate for fruit growing and more appropriately maintained as wilderness or developed for other publicly beneficial purposes. [More…]

• We see farmers, who have been the most conservative, placid and hardworking members of our community, rising up and threatening to block the roads, to withhold their produce and to take action of which they normally would never have any part. [More…]

• Whilst Tasmania for example is disadvantaged by freight and handling costs to the large domestic markets of the capital cities, this cost may well be less than the actual cost to the community of starting new fruit-growing areas closer to these markets but which are less appropriate for fruit growing and more appropriately maintained as wilderness or developed for other publicly beneficial purposes. [More…]

• These low income reliefs, and the fact that levy payable will bc graduated according to income, demonstrate that our reforms have given recognition to the circumstances of the less well off sections of the community. [More…]

• I also inform the Senate that the Minister for Repatriation, Mr Newman, is acting as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• That since the Australian Assistance Plan is Railway possible for citizens to help themselves, thereby ensuring est possible use of limited Government resources, as shown by the stimulus and support given to community groups through the Australian Assistance Plan in the Albury Wodonga Region. [More…]

• That since the Australian Assistance Plan is making it possible for citizens to help themselves, thereby ensuring best possible use of limited Government resources, as shown by the fact that over 200 community projects have been initiated or funded through the AAP in the Outer Eastern Region. [More…]

• can the Minister advise the Parliament of its proposed location, its accessibility to the scientific community of Australia and, in the light of the inadequacies of the present facilities, when it will be built? [More…]

• The metric system has been gradually introduced into the community for some years now. [More…]

• I am confident that the community will benefit, as nearly every major country that has introduced the metric system has benefited. [More…]

• Mindful of the unfortunate illness of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, I ask: Did either Mr MacKellar or Mr Newman jointly evaluate those reports with Mr Nixon or was it entirely, as I suspect, Mr Nixon’s show? [More…]

• I think that the impact study itself can be taken as having been done on the broad lines that are now accepted internationally- thank goodness- as standard by governments in preparing these kinds of statements; and that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development can be taken to have been associated with that investigation. [More…]

• Does the Minister recall the concern that a number of people within the community expressed that the philosophy behind the Family Law Bill would strike at the concept of the family being the basic unit of society? [More…]

• Does he further recall that the introduction of that particular part of the Family Law Bill gave rise to an expectation on the part of those persons concerned in the community that it would take effect immediately the Bill was proclaimed? [More…]

• Will the Government be as sympathetic to the views of other sections of the community on Medibank as it has been to this pressure group? [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…]

• That 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…]

• We are not likely to get that if there is a substantial withdrawal of community interest in the industry. [More…]

• My concern about the statement of the Minister is that if the Government is going to withdraw from an interest in the stevedoring industry and if the community’s interest is withdrawn from the stevedoring industry then not only will the hard work that went into getting a community interest in the stevedoring industry go to waste but also we could see the whole of the industry turned over to monopoly power. [More…]

• That is something that should be borne in mind by not only workers on the waterfront but also by the community as a whole and by the marine authorities concerned. [More…]

• I look forward with interest and not a little trepidation to what the Government proposes to do about the problems facing the stevedoring industry and about the need to make sure that there is a viable community interest in the stevedoring industry- an interest which is truly national and nationalist to ensure that the community will not be held to ransom by monopolists. [More…]

• We are an island country; consequently the costs that are established on the waterfront and the efficiency or lack of efficiency that exists there are relative to the standard of the whole crosssection of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Commission went on to say that the system is contrary to the best interests of the Australian community, trade unions and their members generally and to particular unions and their members. [More…]

• Insofar as the freight costs are bearing heavily on the products of these industries, they are threatening the survival and development of our whole economy; they are threatening the whole Australian community. [More…]

• I suggest that the extreme cost of the waterfront exercise in Australia, when looked at as being relevant to the import and export circumstances in this country, means that at long last steps have to be taken and results have to be seen if we are to survive as a community. [More…]

• In closing I want to submit the need for all those people involved to recognise that one of the major concerns must surely be community interest. [More…]

• We are of the view that both of themparticularly the first of the two- have some real benefit for the business community. [More…]

• This is a measure of the concern felt by the business community. [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…]

• We have, for example, almost irrelevancies, such as when the position of the European Economic Community in the world scene is dismissed in two 4-line paragraphs. [More…]

• At the time this threw the business community in chaos. [More…]

• What we are looking for in a society like ours is to get our revenue, as far as possible, in a fair way from those people who are best qualified to produce it, to ensure that those who spend that revenue have some regard to what they are doing with it and try to be economical and sensible, and in the process try to help those who perhaps are less well off than are other sections of the community. [More…]

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

• Through reform of the finance and functions of local government our local government policy seeks to increase the independence and expand the role of local government in health, social welfare and community affairs. [More…]

• Most aspects of providing and maintaining a community aerodrome are within the capabilities of Local Government authorities. [More…]

• They can run these aerodromes more economically than the Government and their share of the costs generally does not impose an undue burden on the community. [More…]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• It received submissions from many individuals and community groups and heard evidence in public. [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• That since the Australian Assistance Plan is making it possible for citizens to help themselves, thereby ensuring best possible use of limited Government resources, as shown by the fact that over 200 community projects have been initiated or funded through the A.A.P. [More…]

• As I understand it, the Prime Minister and the Minister for Health will be undertaking those negotiations with the States to ensure that our agreements with them enable the standard of health care and hospital care to be maintained at a level that is desirable in the Australian community. [More…]

• If so, does such a loan carry with it any conditions disallowing expanded social welfare programs and benefits to the Australian community such as have been laid down in the past to dictatorships such as Chile, which received funds from the IMF after the coup which overthrew the elected Allende Government in September 1973? [More…]

• It is for the State governments to decide and for the community to discuss with them whether there is a need for an importation of teachers. [More…]

• The college is seen as having a diversity of courses which are accessible, practical and related to the vocational needs of the Territory’s rural community. [More…]

• Its membership was wide ranging and included persons from the fields of rural education, administration, the pastoral and agricultural industries and the wider Northern Territory community. [More…]

• We will view it with great interest as will the rest of the community. [More…]

• I am sure that some of the suggestions I have seen will cause some controversy amongst various vested interests in the community. [More…]

• I do not need to stress the importance of this in the overall interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• Such a spirit of co-operation is vital in the interests of the Australian community. [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…]

• To the extent that we get that sort of final result known to people in the community through the actions of the Parliament, I am sure that we will all be better off. [More…]

• The matter now is very much in the hands of other groups of people in the community- the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the unions, the broad body of consumers and savers, the business people who invest and make capacity available, and the State and local governments. [More…]

• That is the figure with which the private health funds will need to compete if they are to attract any of the community into their funds. [More…]

• Together with the cuts in hospital expenditure and the cuts in community health expenditure they will downgrade the standard of public health care in Australia. [More…]

• The main reason is that the Committee was instructed not to review Medibank but to produce a scheme which forces at least 50 per cent of the community out of Medibank. [More…]

• Before Medibank was introduced the harbingers of doom in this community, particularly in the medical profession, had 2 very firm and great objections and predictions. [More…]

• It is inevitable that the new system of health insurance will increase the total cost of health care- the toal cost to the community, that is, Senator Walters. [More…]

• Although Medibank in its present form has serious weaknesses it has achieved universal coverage but at the expense of largely disregarding the need for economy and efficiency in overall health care and expenditures by individuals and the community. [More…]

• The cost to the community will be another $15m. [More…]

• The unions represent a very large proportion of the people in this community. [More…]

• The unions know that that very large proportion of people in the community welcomed Medibank, welcomed its efficiency and economy and welcomed the fact that it took the terror out of being ill and took the terror out of having to pay excessive private health insurance funds, and because they care for their members and because they know that 74 per cent of the people of Australia want Medibank retained they are going in to bat for it. [More…]

• I urge it not to throw the community back into the chaos and confusion that existed prior to Medibank. [More…]

• As Senator Melzer said, about 73 private health funds are still operating in the Australian community. [More…]

• By Medibank we mean and the community recognises a universal health coverage- a system of universal health insurance. [More…]

• Medibank has been accepted by the community. [More…]

• Many surveys and polls have demonstrated a very high levelalmost a complete level- of acceptance of Medibank by the community. [More…]

• It is simply ideological pigheadedness, party politics of the worst kind, which is motivating the Government to interfere with this system which is serving the community so satisfactorily. [More…]

• It is this sort of behaviour which brings politics and politicians into disrepute in the community. [More…]

• community, regardless of income, a responsible government should maintain that program regardless of who introduced it. [More…]

• As well as the contributor’s personal cost there was great cost to the community because the private funds were subsidised by the Government for 50 per cent of their costs. [More…]

• Most of the people in the one million were among the poor and disadvantaged in our community. [More…]

• The costs incurred by the community in its need for health services will continue. [More…]

• The cost must be borne by the community one way or the other. [More…]

• It seems to me- I think this is a view held generally by honourable senators on this side of the chamberthat as costs for medical and hospital services must continue to increase they should be paid for in a way which is most equitable and most efficient, and which rationalises the resources available for the purposes of providing medical and hospital services to the general community. [More…]

• It rationalised the collection of health insurance contributions; it rationalised the payment of rebates to people; it offered convenient and efficient methods of allowing doctors to claim if they wished to bulk bill; and it generally spread the cost of the provision of health services equally throughout the community. [More…]

• The effects of the latest proposals on individual members of the community apart from the effects on a person’s health, are, I think, very disturbing. [More…]

• This is not only dishonest but also is calculated to panic the Australian community, for there are few people who honestly believe that a Minister of any government would seek political capital by making such wild and dishonest accusations. [More…]

• I wonder how many people in the community are going to be caught, and there will be people in the community who will be caught, because they do not know the complexities of this matter as well as others? [More…]

• The sort of information that is needed is how many single persons in the community are above that income, which is able to be determined, and how many one-income families are in the situation of earning $8,600 a year or more, which is able to be determined, but statistics just are not available to show how many 2-income families are earning above $8,600 a year. [More…]

• But there will not be savings in the community as a whole. [More…]

• In fact, it is my belief that the total community will face higher charges due to the administrative difficulties that will arise because of the changes. [More…]

• I believe that most of the higher charges to the community will occur because of management expenses within the private health insurance funds. [More…]

• That being the case, in terms of efficiency alone the Australian community would be far better off, looking at it in a businesslike way, if all health insurance fund payments were collected through Medibank because less would be spent on management expenses through Medibank. [More…]

• I have been informed also that returns from the health insurance funds will be forwarded to Medibank so that Medibank will know whether a particular person in the community is covered by a health insurance fund. [More…]

• Even though only 50 per cent of the community might be in Medibank, it will have to retain funds for 100 per cent of the community. [More…]

• The current proposal is outlined in a pamphlet which has been distributed and which most people in the community will read. [More…]

• In the three or four years leading up to the introduction of Medibank there was continual discussion in the Australian community about what freedom of choice in terms of health care meant. [More…]

• It involves the question of the escalating costs of health care in the community. [More…]

• So long as technology continues at the pace at which it is continuing now, so long as pathology services become so involved and more costly as they are becoming every day, and so long as doctors’ incomes continue to spiral on an open market, we will have difficulties in relation to the problem of delivering health care in the community. [More…]

• So long as we continue to debate in the Senate whether people working under awards administered by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission should receive $3 a week extra but we are quite happy to enjoy an income which is amongst the top 3 per cent of incomes paid in the community, as are the incomes paid to lawyers and doctors, we will never solve these problems of escalating health costs or of escalating legal costs. [More…]

• It is important to say this because the legislation is being introduced and passed at this time not to have effect until the changes which will take place on 1 October, but to give time for the community at large and for members of Parliament to make their representations to the Minister and to have his assurance that consideration will be given to them. [More…]

• Indeed, in relation to all of the legislation which has been introduced with regard to the Medibank proposals, I know that the Minister for Health would welcome close consultation with individuals, with professions and with all of those people who may have representations to make when the full effect and understanding of the complex nature of the legislation is known by the community. [More…]

• We have said again and again that no one will be compelled to insure privately if they wish to remain in the Medibank scheme which has the undoubted support of members of the Opposition and the support of many members of the Australian community. [More…]

• Despite the claims that we are dismantling or dismembering Medibank, this is not the case because the existing Medibank proposals can be sustained by any member of the Australian community who chooses to do so. [More…]

• If one sees that it does not cover the insurance that one needs one would then start to wonder where one’s choice would lie if the community as a whole was unable to sustain such a costly medical scheme. [More…]

• I could talk about the incomes of doctors, which Senator Button mentioned, and I could talk about the interests of the private health insurance funds, but I think that what we are really talking about is the best way by which we can give adequate and improving health care to the Australian community. [More…]

• It recognises it as an advance in the evolution of family and income support services in the community. [More…]

• They were recommended as interim measures to relieve ‘ poverty in families, particularly large families, in our community. [More…]

• I would not like a sense of complacency to arise amongst members of the Government parties or amongst the community about the provision of family support services now that we have had this change in family allowances. [More…]

• Of course, this obviously reflects the spread of children throughout families in our community. [More…]

• I should mention also the feeling of being part of a community and not being isolated. [More…]

• I would like to think that the Government will take that aspect into consideration in future determinations as to what can be done to assist in the community. [More…]

• I know that it will be welcomed by the community at large. [More…]

• Whilst I raised this issue in respect of the Slovenian community, it could have applied equally to people coming from Titograd, Dubrovnik or Skopje, or somewhere like that, as Senator Lajovic would agree. [More…]

• I understand that the Department of the Northern Territory on 18 December 1975 advised the Moslem community in Darwin that a block of land in Vanderlin Drive, Casuarina- blocks 6257 and 6258-was to be made available for a mosque. [More…]

• I further understand now that the Government of Arabia has agreed to assist the Moslem communities of Australia by providing finance, that it has in the last 2 weeks investigated the situation in Darwin and has agreed to assist the Moslem community there. [More…]

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

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

• Does this transfer involve acceptance of financial responsibility by the States or will the Commonwealth still fund the States to continue this important community facility? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Social Security: Seeing the community at large is still this morning being told that the Government has broken an election promise and is disbanding Medibank, could she inform the chamber of the Prime Minister’s promise during the time of the general election that Medibank would be looked at and that minor changes would take place? [More…]

• Will the same degree of participation and co-operation be sought from these committees, volunteer groups of mothers and community workers who gave ungrudgingly a great deal of their free time to establish projects for working and non-working families? [More…]

• I can say only that I have been interested in the way in which these committees have been representative of the community itself and have worked with government in the planning that needs to be undertaken. [More…]

• Would she agree that the value of flu vaccine is probably confined to particular groups in the community, including the aged and those with certain heart and lung diseases? [More…]

• Would she agree that there is considerable doubt in Australia as to the place of mass vaccination of the Australian Community against influenza? [More…]

• I hope that there will come a time in the history of this nation when all people who are underprivileged will be able to ensure that their children have every opportunity to achieve a first class education and that the foundation being set in the field of Aboriginal secondary school grants may lay the guidelines by which this can be applied to the whole community. [More…]

• Community services where persons involved in health and social welfare meet to work together, e.g. [More…]

• Relationship between poverty and major illnesses in the community of a social/medical nature. [More…]

• Investigate the effect ofthe law and the legal system upon the poor and other disadvantaged groups and individuals in the Australian community and in particular examine: [More…]

• He was asked to investigate social-medical aspects of poverty including the community services where persons involved in health and social welfare meet to work together, for example, health and welfare centres, mental health, rehabilitation and family planning services; the relationship between poverty and major illnesses in the community of a socialmedical nature; and any associated matters relevant to the above and to the general objectives of the inquiry. [More…]

• The Government endorses the principle spelt out in each report to date, 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…]

• Our approach in social welfare will be to concentrate support on the disadvantaged, to adopt general policies which will add greatly to the security of the weaker sections of the community. [More…]

• Mr Martin’s report deals with the more important community services at the health and social welfare interface and covers such major issues as community health services, mental health services, disability and poverty, alcoholism and drug dependence, the health of newborn children and infants, family planning, and dental health services. [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 and private enterprises and corporations are actively and co-operatively offering decentralised and diversified patronage for the arts in our community. [More…]

• We have always been obsessed with the idea of giving grants to artists which enable them to go away and paint but with no specific purpose and without necessarily any particular return to the community. [More…]

• Of course, that form of commissioning gives an artist a guaranteed income over a period and benefits the community because the patron, whether it be the government, a private company or an individual, gains the benefit of the finished work of art. [More…]

• -There is, of course, as I hope Senator Georges will understand, a high degree of individualism amongst artists and a high degree of difference of opinion about the role of the arts and the role of artists in the community. [More…]

• I hope that in years to come we will arrive at this point of sophistication in Australia because I believe it would be in the interests of the community, particularly the community of creative arts in Australia, and for the benefit of the country as a whole. [More…]

• Certainly there has been a lot of disquiet within the cultural sector of the community about the administration of the Australia Council. [More…]

• Indeed, it calls upon the Australian community at large to share with it in stimulating interests in the arts and developing an appreciation of the arts. [More…]

• It invites the community at large to become involved so that those whose chosen vocation it is to provide artistic material receive not only encouragement but also response. [More…]

• One of the many features of interest within the statement appears on page 2 of the circulated copy, which points out that a stimulating artistic climate can be achieved in a community when governments, individuals and various enterprises and corporations are actively and co-operatively involved. [More…]

• More particularly, it is involving local government bodies and various community activities by inviting their interest, support and response. [More…]

• If we are to develop in Australia a good artistic climate which will provide interest and satisfaction for the Australian community, I believe that what the Prime Minister has outlined in the beginning of the statement should be encouraged. [More…]

• Hence a major stimulus for the scheme was the desire to create opportunities for high quality research in Australia so that the products of that work might flow to the Australian community. [More…]

• Anyone associated with the academic community knows that an outline of this scheme has been sought since the Treasurer, Mr Lynch, made predictions for the forthcoming year. [More…]

• I think there has been something of a misdirected moralism from some speakers on the Government side of the chamber which has appealed to the prejudice of some sections of the community towards the belief that somehow being a poor mother is a better position to be in than any other position a women can be in in society. [More…]

• I think it is very mischievous for some spokesmen and spokeswomen for the conservative elements in our community to talk as though there were some contradiction between working women and women who say at home- as though there were some serious conflict of interest. [More…]

• There is no point in setting women in different life styles up against each other for the purpose of appealing to certain prejudices in the community. [More…]

• I was quite amazed last night to hear Senator Baume, speaking for the Government, claim that this Bill, which increases child endowment payments, represented some sort of radical program for a genuine redistribution of wealth throughout the community, that it was innovative and that nothing like this had ever been done for women or families before. [More…]

• The other aspect which concerns me about the tenor of the debate and some of the claims which have been made is that the Government may find justification in this legislation for cutting down on other kinds of public services such as the provision of health services, education services, community facilities and housing, to name a few. [More…]

• After all, with the $ 10 or even $20 a week that a mother will receive by way of child endowment, she cannot buy good education for her children; she cannot purchase housing; she cannot get access to community facilities. [More…]

• This puts me at a disadvantage to other workers in the community using similar skills, such as teachers, welfare workers, nurses, etc. [More…]

• Despite the fact that my work as a mother, in producing and rearing healthy citizens, is of fundamental value to the community, I am relegated to the lowest level ofthe social scale- a ‘dependant -and my work denigrated as ‘non-productive’. [More…]

• Despite the general acceptance of the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value’ the work value of mothers has been ignored and they remain the unpaid servants ofthe community. [More…]

• Satisfaction in any job has two main components: firstly, personal pride in one’s skill to turn out a good product or service; secondly, recognition by society ofthe value of that skill and its benefit to the community. [More…]

• How can the Federal Government reconcile this statement and its own affirmation to ‘eliminate discrimination in employment and occupation’, with the present inferior position of mothers in the Australian community? [More…]

• As a mother, I shall feel liberated when my work is accorded equal status with other workers in the community, not when I am pressurised to neglect it or penalised for doing it. [More…]

• 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…]

• It seems to me that the Federal Government is stressing programs for groups in the community that have never supported private enterprise or non-Labor governments and are unlikely ever to do so. [More…]

• I turn to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development where there is a big reduction from the figure of $ 1 14m in the Appropriation Bill last year to $54m this year. [More…]

• Until this Government or some other government really gets down to the business of doing something about industrial relations and introducing some form of worker participation we will never get harmony in the community. [More…]

• Whatever part of a community or economy one belongs to, the public interest must be more significant than any single or individual part of the community or the economy. [More…]

• Referable as it is to the value of real wages and salaries it is an indication of the determination that no stone will be left unturned in an attempt to bring about industrial relations which will enable our total community to realise its real potention. [More…]

• It is only by compromise, which is the essence of this legislation, that we shall succeed in establishing an industrial climate which will enable this community to climb out ofthe trough into which it has fallen. [More…]

• He has disregarded entirely the fact that the wage inflation this year is the key problem that we are all facing in the community today. [More…]

• He has disregarded entirely the responsibility of both sides in that dispute about wages to the community in general. [More…]

• The simple fact of the matter is that what the Government is seeking to do is to provide what must be regarded as essential in a democratic community, namely, an opportunity for full participation by members of trade unions in what is a vital function- the election of their office bearers. [More…]

• There must be the public, the community and the public interest. [More…]

• The frequency and associated cost of a mail service is thus often a matter for the transport operator and the community he services, as it depends to a large extent on the volume of other business which can be combined with the mail run. [More…]

• Special provisions are made for Aboriginals within NEAT and specialist officers, known as Vocational Officers and Assistant Vocational Officers, some of whom are Aboriginals, take the services ofthe CES to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• As the Treasurer announced in his statement in the Parliament on 20 May, the decisions should be seen as but the latest instalments in the Government’s continuing policy to restore economic health and at the same time to improve the living standards of less well-off sections of the community. [More…]

• The restraints imposed on the Public Service and public expenditure were necessary for the Government’s assault on the intolerable level of inflation being suffered by the community and as a prerequisite to the recovery of the private sector. [More…]

• 1 ) Are officers from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, and the Department of Transport, to visit Alice Springs on 29 May 1976 to investigate the possible resiting of the rail head in conjunction with the new standard gauge link from Port Augusta to Alice Springs; if so, will the Minister ensure that the people of Alice Springs are kept well informed as to the present position of the inquiry and also ensure that reasonable notice be given by any person inquiring into the matter. [More…]

• 1 ) Officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Department of Northern Territory and the Australian National Railways met in Alice Springs on 3 1 May to discuss the draft environmental impact study relating to the future location of the Alice Springs Railway Terminal. [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community Development in relation to the future location of the Alice Springs Railway Terminal. [More…]

• As to their increasing inequality, the main claim that is made for the voucher system is that it establishes equality for all children throughout the community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has made it quite clear on a number of occasions, certainly to Ministers, that if there is any trouble in any department in providing services for the community we should come back and the ceiling will be reviewed. [More…]

• It is not the intention in imposing staff ceilings that any services to the community shall be disrupted or delayed, or be of less quality. [More…]

• I assume that, in the way in which the Plan works, the services that have been of benefit to the community will be continued by the State Government. [More…]

• He said that a Budget deficit of $5,000m would cripple the community. [More…]

• Government programs of assistance and community development? [More…]

• With the announcement of new arrangements related to child care, some community groups have expressed concern that the situation in relation to adolescents may continue. [More…]

• On behalf of the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, and for the information of honourable senators I present pursuant to section 6 of the Commonwealth National Fitness Act 1941 a report on the activities carried out under that Act for the year 1974-75. [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, is necessary. [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 pensions. [More…]

• Honourable senators 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…]

• I think the rural community has not understood the value of the Industries Assistance Commission report and the rural policy Green Paper upon which many meaningful decisions can be made. [More…]

• That report was to take into consideration the developments which were to accrue and which subsequently did accrue as a result of the development of the European Economic Community and particularly as a result of the lucrative market of the United Kingdom going into the EEC. [More…]

• It is D-day, it is a Disaster Day, it is Doomsday for those who comprise a very important section of our rural community. [More…]

• Most members of Parliament will have received some letters indicating the community’s indignation- certainly I have and I know the Minister and other members haveabout such a callous waste of a very important resource caused by the state of the dairying industry. [More…]

• The failure of governments generally to recognise the inevitable day, so far as the European Economic Community is concerned, has to be understood by the farmers themselves. [More…]

• There was no doubt that Australia was going to be denied our long term access to the European Economic Community and to the markets of Great Britain. [More…]

• Farmers Federation that he believed rural poverty to be the greatest problem facing Australia’s rural community. [More…]

• I believe that problem can only be solved by the taking of steps which will not be welcomed by all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• What is the real position of Labor’s contribution to the real community in its 3 years of government? [More…]

• At meetings in Victoria in the last week there have been 20 000 of the farming community and in Tasmania they have had 2000-odd. [More…]

• As my colleague Senator Gietzelt said earlier, this problem is arising basically because of the extensive production of dairy products in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Again, as Senator Gietzelt, who has his finger right on the pulse, said, the problem in the EEC has been brought about because of the goals and the political aspirations of the Community itself for a common agricultural policy. [More…]

• As far as one can see, perhaps for the next 5 years, we can expect this very inefficient dairy industry in the European Economic Community to be fostered by way of subsidy at the expense of the highly industrious and intense dairy farm areas of this country, particularly in Victoria and Tasmania, where the bulk of our export commodity is produced. [More…]

• They have not done their homework on the economics of the industry because the fact is that this was a healthy, prosperous industry in most areas of Australia till 1972, which is when Britain joined the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Do honourable senators know the loss that we are making on the Canberra bus service which serves this little community? [More…]

• Then we came to the experience of the European Economic Community getting under way in the early 1960s. [More…]

• But the general attitude of the Government appears to be that we look after a minority in the community at the expense of the very great majority. [More…]

• This is consistent with what I have been saying in the Senate during the whole of this sessional period, namely, that the people in the community who have to suffer most are those who cannot defend themselves or speak for themselves. [More…]

• We have seen the forecasts of expenditure cuts affecting those sections of the community who can least afford them. [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…]

• As honourable senators know, I received reports from the United Nations in Jamaica 2 months ago but there was no feedback to the States or to the Commonwealth Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I think we will have to have some little more ex- perience on an extended operation of the family aw legislation to see the true extent of the damage that it will do to this community. [More…]

• -The community, of course, has an interest in settlements. [More…]

• Has the European Economic Community officially compained about the new controls. [More…]

• Has the European Economic Community told the Australian Government that it believes the controls were invoked to assist the Australian dairy industry; if so, what was the Australian Government’s response to this suggestion. [More…]

• Has the European Economic Community threatened to tighten up quarantine regulations against Australian agricultural exports to member countries in retaliation against the new cheese import controls. [More…]

• Three of the nine member countries of the Community viz. [More…]

• With whom does the copyright of videotaped material recorded on Australian Government equipment supplied through the Community Video Resources Centres remain, in those cases where the tapes are not purchased by the people making the tape. [More…]

• Copyright in videotaped films made by members of the public who use the resources and advice provided by the Community Video Resource Centres is owned by the makers of the films. [More…]

• The Community Video Resource Centres do not provide the material for inclusion in videotaped films nor do the centres undertake any responsibility for that material. [More…]

• Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service. [More…]

• Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service. [More…]

• Black Community Housing Service-Partial. [More…]

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

• What was the expenditure by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for the financial years 1973-74, 1974-75 and what is the anticipated expenditure for 1 975-76 in each of the States and Territories. [More…]

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

• As the honourable senator will be aware, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development was brought into being in December 1 975. [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…]

• Area 3-Herbert Parker, Community Centre, P.O. [More…]

• Housing and Community Development is one which commends itself to the Australian electorate because of the overall benefits it provides. [More…]

• by leave- Mr President, I inform the Senate that on 8 July His Excellency the Governor-General determined the appointment of Senator Ivor Greenwood, Q.C., as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and accepted the resignation of Mr Kevin Newman as Minister for Repatriation. [More…]

• On the same day His Excellency directed and appointed Mr Kevin Newman and Senator Peter Durack to hold the offices of Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and Minister for Repatriation respectively. [More…]

• As a result of these changes, the following representational arrangements will operate in the Senate: Senator Carrick will represent the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and Senator Durack will represent the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, the Attorney-General and the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs. [More…]

• Earlier than most, he foresaw the importance of bringing China into the international community. [More…]

• Outside Parliament he was extremely active as a worker in the interests of the rural community, both as a former President of the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council and as Chairman of the Narrandera Pastures Protection Board. [More…]

• The rural community had no finer advocate in this chamber than Tom Bull. [More…]

• Today all community leaders reiterate that view. [More…]

• He recognised its role in the community. [More…]

• Anyone who knew Tom Bull knew the strength of his convictions and his concern for the welfare of his family and, indeed, of all families in our community. [More…]

• He was a leader in very many fields in his community, as exhibited by the statements today in this chamber. [More…]

• One aspect which stands out very clearly in the life of the late Senator Bull was the contribution that he made to all sections of the community. [More…]

• In order really to understand the full measure of the man and his worth in the community one would need to have knowledge of the very considerable contribution that he made to the industrial and political life of this country, which was so capably referred to earlier by my colleague Senator Georges. [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…]

• 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 senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: (1)I understand that the New South Wales Government approved a limited number of school buildings to be started in 1975-76 on the basis of no payment for work until July 1976. [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• What health services are currently available to the Aboriginal community at the Pantijan cattle project. [More…]

• and (2) The original proposal for a nursing post at Pantijan was based on the likely needs of an anticipated community population of 20 workers and families. [More…]

• Health services currently available to the Aboriginal community at Pantijan are provided by the Royal Flying Doctor Service chaner for regular clinic flights and evacuation of serious patients. [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 Coordinating 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…]

• If so, can the Minister advise the Parliament of its proposed location, its accessibility to the scientific community of Australia and, in the light of the inadequacies of the present facilities, when it will be built? [More…]

• The study is taking account of the reactor needs within the community for both scientific research and radioisotope production. [More…]

• A new reactor would be equally as accessible to the scientific community as is HIFAR. [More…]

• The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 provides that the Commissioner for Community Relations shall enquire into alleged infringements of the Act and endeavour to effect a settlement. [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Minister and the Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare make a study visit to the Kimberley Region of Western Australia to investigate problems facing Aboriginal communities in that region during the period in which Senator the Honourable J. L. Cavanagh was the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs; if so (a) when did the visit take place, what was the itinerary, and who accompanied the two Ministers, (b) did the Australian Government and the Western Australian Government subsequently agree to take any specific policy initiatives to benefit Aboriginal communities in the Kimberleys, including the placing of additional staff in the area; if so, what decisions were taken, and which of them have been put into effect to date. [More…]

• The Ministers were accompanied by Mr A. Ridge, Minister for the North-west, Perth; Mr B. Dexter, Secretary, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Canberra; Mr F. Gare, Director, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Perth; Mr K. Maine, Director, Department of Community Welfare, Perth; Dr L. Holman, Director, Community Health Services, Perth; Dr J. Rowe, Assistant Principal Medical Officer, Medical Department, Perth; Dr W. Langsford, First Assistant Director-General, Australian Department of Health, Canberra; Mr K. Jones, Secretary, Department of Education, Canberra; Mr J. Booth, Senior Social Work Supervisor, Kimberley Division, Department of Community Welfare, Perth; Mr M. Hepburn, Social Work Supervisor, Kimberley Division, Department of Community Welfare, Derby; Mr D. Cavanagh, Private Secretary to Minister for Aboriginal Affairs; Mr Z. Kovacs, Journalist, ‘West Australian’, Perth. [More…]

• The West Australian Government placed 23 additional staff in the Kimberleys (Education- 1, Preschool Board- 8, Community Welfare- 14). [More…]

• Negotiations between Aurukun Associates and the Aboriginal community at Aurukun are continuing and the possibility that the terms of the agreement might need to be renegotiated has been referred to in the report of the Queensland Ombudsman on the matter. [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…]

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

• Its objectives and achievements are now being reviewed to see what changes, if any, may be necessary to ensure the community is obtaining maximum benefits from the assistance. [More…]

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

• Has the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development received reports of pollution in any Australian rivers caused by polychlorinated biphenyls; if so, (a) which rivers are involved; (b) what action is being taken to ascertain the exact level and causes of the pollution of the rivers concerned; and (c) what action is being taken to reduce the level of pollution in these rivers. [More…]

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

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the former Department of Environment have taken an active role in the control of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). [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 senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3). [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• To assess the economic and local characteristics of the islanders and to decide if they are in any way disadvantaged as a group, relative to other groups in the Australian 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 senator’s question: [More…]

• Is it a fact that unless the present staff ceiling of 205 is lifted to at least 283 for the 1977 academic year, over 1600 students will be denied access to the Darwin Community College; if so, will the Minister indicate whether staff ceilings will apply next year and if so, whether those at the College will be lifted to meet the needs of the community for which the college was established. [More…]

• The Darwin Community College’s staff ceiling has been raised from 205 at 30 June 1 976 to 230 at 30 June 1977. [More…]

• Which of the stations are national, commercial, community or public stations. [More…]

• That since the Australian Assistance Plan is making it possible for citizens to help themselves, thereby ensuring best possible use of limited Government resources, as shown by the fact that over 200 community projects have been initiated or funded through the AAP in the Outer Eastern Region. [More…]

• That the government should reconsider its decision to cut the budgets of these institutions and immediately restore the grants to enable these institutions to continue their high standard of dedicated and unselfish care for the aged and infirm in the community. [More…]

• That is a significant increase in the provision of legal aid for the community by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Industry and Commerce, refers to the very grave situation which has resulted from the Minister’s announcement on 13 August about shipbuilding policy which has been variously described by industry, unions and community leaders as being disastrous to shipbuilding and, it is claimed, will destroy the continuity of the shipyards. [More…]

• Will he consider again the representations made to him by the Whyalla community group and the proposals by the Australian Council of Trade Unions building group? [More…]

• I appreciate the desire of the Australian Capital Territory community for such an ordinance to be made in its final form, and I will endeavour to speed up the matter. [More…]

• He is a person who is probably more conversant with the general feelings of the business community than any other single person in Australia. [More…]

• As is known, we as an Opposition and, in fact, as a Government have always maintained that there is a need to ensure that demand is maintained at the maximum level possible in the community in order to stimulate the economy and in particular the private sector. [More…]

• We have been saying that as soon as it interfered with the prospect of the community being able to increase consumption there was obviously no chance of reactivating the economy. [More…]

• It is very simple to talk in terms of reducing government expenditure and to say We are going to get the deficit down by $ 1,000m’, without paying regard to the effect that that has on the total community- not just the business sector but the consuming public as well. [More…]

• With unemployment running at 5 per cent of the work force there is an output loss to the community as a whole resulting from the waste of resources. [More…]

• It is estimated that unemployment at this level results in a loss to the community of about $2 billion worth of output annually. [More…]

• Technological advances could be expected in the next decade to reach a capacity to satisfy the demand for goods and services by the community. [More…]

• That factor will not escape the business community in this country and I do not think it will escape the community at large. [More…]

• Even at the present time the business sector of the community is experiencing liquidity problems in many parts of the economy in many part of Australia. [More…]

• That may be considered an inducement to the business community to look forward with confidence, as the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Industry and Commerce exhort the business community to do, but I cannot rationalise how that could be expected of the private sector of the economy. [More…]

• It is a reasonable judgment that the business community, the media and the Financial Review are better judges of the Budget’s capacity to improve business and employment than Senator Georges and his colleagues. [More…]

• The Government began this exercise last January, scrutinising expenditure, identifying systems, looking at administration, making every attempt possible to get the previous Government’s over-exertions in the community back into balance. [More…]

• There will be plenty of opportunity, both in the community and in this Parliament, to debate quite thoroughly the issues involved in that Budget Speech, and without any doubt the strategies set out have been adopted after consultation and discussion. [More…]

• What the Commonwealth has set out to do is to restrain its activities in the public sector in order to be competent and responsible in its own house and to make available those resources for use, spending and development in the community by people who can do things for themselves, not by people told what to do by some allpowerful, all-wise government located at a great distance from them. [More…]

• Far from turning the lights on as members of the Government Parties undertook to do, they have dimmed the horizons of many hundreds of thousands of young men and women in this community. [More…]

• From June 1976 to July 1976 the number of unemployed in my State increased by 4870, making the total number of people unemployed in New South Wales as at the end of July 1 15 997; that is after the Treasurer’s fiscal statement of 20 May, which was said to have been introduced in order to bring confidence in the community, to reduce inflation and to create more job opportunities. [More…]

• I have quoted some figures relating to the building industry but if there is any confidence returning to the community I would have thought it would be showing up in the retail industry, particularly after the ministerial statement on 20 May indicated that everything was supposed to be coming rosy again. [More…]

• To have under employed in our community the opportunities that can be taken by people who can give their work and their skill is something that must diminish what we are able to do as a nation. [More…]

• I would say that the first thing that needs to be done in our community at the moment is to see that jobs are provided. [More…]

• Many people in the 80 000 community of Mt Druitt are out of work and many people ‘s marriages are breaking up. [More…]

• The report says that legal aid staff at Mt Druitt *s Community Law Centre interviewed 5386 people between April last year and June 30 this year. [More…]

• One should know from the business community that after a disastrous 3 years of Labor reign in this country business confidence is returning. [More…]

• Are members of the community to take notice of his ranting last night and judge him an expert who can speak on the Budget? [More…]

• The final point I want to make relates to what has occurred in the business community since the Budget. [More…]

• This clearly indicates the trend and the confidence which the Budget is developing in the community. [More…]

• However, I would remind honourable senators 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…]

• Aboriginal groups and communities have shown their desire to deal with the problem: more traditional communities by their own control of the availability of alcohol within the community and individuals in more urban situations by their wish to play an important part in treatment programs. [More…]

• They reflect the great yearning felt by the community most affected by the report for an improvement not only in educational facilities but also in all conditions and circumstances that will make for a better quality of life for them and also for their better contribution as citizens of Australia. [More…]

• In conclusion, I wish to say that I believe there is an obligation on those of us who work in a free community, whether we be members of Parliament or businessmen or ordinary tourists, who have the opportunity to go not only to the Soviet Union but also to other countries in the world where this type of persecution is going on. [More…]

• These issues should concern a number of Government Ministers, including those holding the portfolios of National Resources; Environment, Housing and Community Development; and Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has completely disregarded assurances that were given to the electors in that area in NovemberDecember 1975 by the Liberal Party on the future of that area. [More…]

• Senator Greenwood, the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development was honest enough to say in the Senate that he acknowledged the fact that the Fraser Government had no real policy on urban and regional development. [More…]

• Mr President, I know that this is hurting honourable senators opposite because they have preached wage restraint and they do not like people out in the community to know that they are seeking an appropriation which represents a fantastic increase in wages and expenditures for a person who does not need it. [More…]

• This Government preaches wage restraint, and yet it wants an extra $182,000 for one person in this community- the Governor-General. [More…]

• We find an amount of $240,800-an increase of $1 10,659 for one person in this community. [More…]

• I will sheet home to honourable senators opposite the fact that they are two-faced in preaching one thing for the working class of this country on the one hand and handing out money to the wealthy sections of the community on the other. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned members of community organisations respectfully showeth: [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• That the Government should reconsider its decision to cut the budget of the Centre, and immediately restore the grant to enable the Centre to continue its high standard of dedicated and unselfish care for the aged and infirm in the community. [More…]

• That the Government should reconsider its decision to cut the budgets of these institutions and immediately restore the grants to enable these institutions to continue their high standard of dedicated and unselfish care for the aged and infirm in the community. [More…]

• This measure already has been welcomed by the farming community. [More…]

• I therefore ask the Minister: Will special attention be given to the education of those departments and officials in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory who apparently either do not know of child abuse or else do not understand the need for proper community monitoring to detect the true incidence of the abuse by adults of defenceless children? [More…]

• Programs which might be of assistance in educating the whole community in relation to child abuse certainly would have support in any funding that the Government was able to direct to them, and I believe that officials in departments would benefit from any of the activities that might be undertaken. [More…]

• Within the limits of its present standards the Home Island community is basically self-sufficient but, depending on copra production and price levels at particular times on the international market, the Estate and therefore the Cocos Malay people- the Home Island community- place some reliance on contract work that is undertaken for and on behalf of the Australian Government to supplement their income. [More…]

• The Australian Government provided, and I understand still provides, significant finance and /or meets operational expenditure for education and health services, and the existence of the Territory Administration, the airfield and other related services on Cocos provide indirect benefits to the Home Island community and the Estate. [More…]

• It was a matter of urgency because for so long undertakings had been given to the people of the Cocos Malay community-by the McMahon Government as well as by the Labor Government- and to the United Nations by governments, and apparently nothing had been done other than the introduction of primary school education on Home Island and the appointment of an administrator. [More…]

• But if the undertaking results in further delaying the adoption of reform proposals in Cocos and their implementation for the benefit of the people of the Cocos Malay community, as I suspect the situation to be, then the Opposition feels that it must oppose the repealing ordinance. [More…]

• 1 ) Ownership of a suitably agreed area of land on Home Island to be vested in the Home Island community, as a corporate entity. [More…]

• This would help to establish the community’s own identity, separate from that of the Clunies Ross estate; [More…]

• a local government type authority to be established, with legal and formal status, to manage and control the affairs of the community. [More…]

• This authority would comprise only members elected for a specific period, and would have powers which reflected the wishes of the Community; [More…]

• all future Australian Government contracts involving the Clunies Ross estate to provide for direct payment of appropriate sums in Australian currency to the Cocos community; a separate Cocos community fund to be established for this purpose, to be administered by, and for the sole benefit of, the community; [More…]

• provisions to be introduced to permit freedom of movement for members of the Cocos community; and [More…]

• In my discussions with members of the Cocos community in August it became evident that a significant proportion of them is dissatisfied with Mr Clunies Ross and the present position and look to the Australian Government to effect early changes. [More…]

• Each of these groups appears to me to represent about a third of the total community. [More…]

• Mr Clunies Ross has his property rights and, as the fifth generation of a long dynastic line, his influence with the community naturally remains considerable. [More…]

• But the Government considers this should not deter it from effecting the changes that it believes are essential to the welfare and betterment of the Cocos community. [More…]

• It was further reported to me as Minister at the time that if negotiations for the purchase of the estate were for any reason protracted there was a clear danger of serious disruption within the community. [More…]

• Mr Acting Deputy President, I submit that the comments I am making relating to the general situation on Cocos (Keeling) Islands are opposite to the circumstances concerning the proposed disallowance of the repeal of the lands acquisition ordinance, in view of undertakings that have been given to the Cocos Malay community by a previous government and in view of undertakings that have been given to the United Nations Committee of Twenty-four by a previous government and by this Government. [More…]

• On behalf of the people of Sydney and all the sporting writers who have plugged this theme, I hope we will get some tangible evidence that the Minister for Administrative Services has got in touch with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and said: ‘Eastern Command has to find another area for the Engineers depot at Moore Park’. [More…]

• It is not seriously suggested by anyone in the business community that the investment allowance, extremely costly though it is, has been effective in achieving its primary objective of inducing a greater volume of private capital investment. [More…]

• Of course, the areas in which government expenditure has been cut back to finance this very costly and ineffective investment allowance are the specific purpose grants to the States, which have a very high employment generating potential, the direct capital expenditure on public works by the Federal Government, which likewise has a very high employment generating potential, and such other fields as Aboriginal affairs, which Senator Bonner was quite vocal about yesterday, noting that both the present Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) and the previous caretaker Minister had repudiated the undertakings that they gave to the Aboriginal community and to the Australian people as a whole not to cut expenditure on Aboriginal affairs. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister , for Environment, Housing and Community Development: What has been the effect on land prices of the provision of Commonwealth funds to the South Australian Land Commission? [More…]

• This Government does not intend to be intimidated by any group in this community. [More…]

• There was an instance of a leader of a political party in this country, who was quite entitled to put his views as strongly as did the late right honourable gentleman and was almost murdered because some lunatic in the community disagreed with him. [More…]

• Did the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development see a report in The Australian on Wednesday, 21 July 1976, headed Boycott Team has Eyes on Brisbane Games, in which Mr Ram Samy VicePresident of the South African Non-racial Olympic Committee, stated that a group of Londoners, most of them exiles from South Africa, organised the Montreal Olympic Games walkout by representatives of some African countries? [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development concerning the regulation of the sport of boxing. [More…]

• We are committed to the protection of the National Estate and 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…]

• The Broadcasting and Television Amendment Bill 1976 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 proposal 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 naturally does not provide appropriate programs. [More…]

• The amended provisions relating to community television aerial systems will also 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…]

• Because of the urgency of the situation we decided to adopt the course that we followed, lt was a matter of urgency because for so long undertakings had been given to the people of the Cocos Malay community- by the McMahon Government as well as by the Labor Government- and to the United Nations by governments, and apparently nothing had been done other than the introduction of primary school education on Home Island and the appointment of an administrator. [More…]

• As a result of economic and governmental pressures, Mr Clunies Ross informed the Committee of his decision to sever the family’s connections with the Islands and to negotiate the transfer of his assets to a Cocos Island Community Co-operative. [More…]

• The Committee urges that serious consideration now be g’ iven to acquisition of the entire Estate in order to establish a Cocos Island Community Co-operative. [More…]

• The Committee believes that such a co-operative would assist significantly in the creation of an integrated community with a sense of responsibility and purpose. [More…]

• One that readily comes to mind is the problem in South Africa where individuals in the community have had their progress retarded for many years. [More…]

• One presumes that had the supply ship bringing the 6-monthly cargo to the Islands not been in on the day we were there and had not all the men been working on it we would have met a great number of the men of the community who also would have expressed some grave apprehensions about their future on the Island. [More…]

• I will hear from the Minister, Senator Withers, of some proposals that he or his Government has for this community. [More…]

• This inference may not be valid in the short run or necessarily true for a small isolated community such as Cocos. [More…]

• There are no elected community representatives. [More…]

• There are no community elections of any sort on Cocos (Keeling) Islands. [More…]

• There is nothing particularly new in a division within a community between the traditionalists and those who look for early and significant change in their circumstances. [More…]

• Australia is conscious of the need to seek measures which will heal the divisions within this fragile community. [More…]

• The Government is aware that there are divisions within the fragile community. [More…]

• It recognises the risks to the continued viability of the community which these recent developments pose. [More…]

• The reason we brought down the ordinance was to get action under way expeditiously in order to commence the correction of a system which had survived in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands for over 120 years to the detriment of the Cocos-Malay community. [More…]

• By the moving of this motion we are not setting out, as Senator Jessop has suggested, deliberately to flout a decision of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee because it was an ordinance drafted with the interests of the Cocos-Malay community in mind after Mr Clunies Ross had said that he was prepared to negotiate for the sale of land by him to the Australian Government in the interests of the Cocos-Malay community. [More…]

• The Mission is therefore here to try to get to know the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and its people and to gather the views of the latter on the guiding principles set out in the Charter relating to human rights, in particular, the principle of self-determination, the golden rule of the international community with regard to the future of peoples. [More…]

• The complete control by the Estate of the economic life of the Cocos Malay community is effectively exercised through the use of the plastic token as the vehicle of exchange. [More…]

• It pointed out that the economic reliance of the territory on a single source of revenue does not help to advance the economic conditions of the Cocos Malay community. [More…]

• The Mission found that the isolation of the Cocos Malay community from the outside world and the predominant forces of influence of the Clunies Ross family had adversely affected the cultural life of Home Island. [More…]

• It was introduced solely to improve the standard of living and conditions of the people of the Cocos Malay community. [More…]

• I think that surely indicates the hopelessness of the situation of the Cocos Malay community. [More…]

• It was in order to obtain expeditious action to improve the lot of the people of the Cocos Malay community that the Labor Government in September 1975 introduced the ordinance that is now the subject of a motion for its disallowance. [More…]

• That can be seen from the explanatory memorandum that was distributed by the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Senator [More…]

• It is not only the concern of the Opposition and the Trade Practices Commission but also, we believe, a profound concern of consumer groups in this community. [More…]

• These are the sorts of factors which confuse the business community and which contribute substantially to the continual undermining of business confidence. [More…]

• It will be open to full, effective debate in the Parliament and in the business community. [More…]

• As the Senate knows, the intention in establishing the new Department of Business and Consumer Affairs was to bring under the one Minister all those areas of Federal Government legislation which had a particular impact on the business community, such as the trade practices legislation and the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]

• I am certain this caused extreme irritation to those people in the community whose role is purely advisory. [More…]

• It was an attempt by a government to establish an organisation with expertise and the capacity to harness the expertise existing in the community. [More…]

• As honourable senators will know, this was another innovation attempting to involve the people in the community at the grass roots level in social welfare, in social planning and in determining their own priorities in the community. [More…]

• He received support from all pans of the community and from both sides of the Parliament. [More…]

• The Commission brought out the report on aged persons housing, it brought out a project report entitled Children, Parents and Community Emergency Relief, and the very important discussion papers Nos 1 and 2 which dealt with the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• It brought out a paper entitled Community Development and Community Development Training and papers on family welfare, participation and participation patterns in Australia and regional funding. [More…]

• It seems to me that many people were fearful of this program which gave the grass roots community a chance to participate in its own program. [More…]

• Its functions included the requirement, set out in section 14 of the Act, that it should make recommendations for avoiding duplication of social welfare programs and for promoting the maximum efficiency and effectiveness of the community social welfare effort. [More…]

• The Department has the capacity to collect information on community welfare services, to formulate advice to the Government on broad social questions and to evaluate experimental and pilot social welfare projects. [More…]

• We find it very difficult to understand how a Government which proclaims concern for projects of this type to be completed on a basis of needs and priorities in the community should cut back spending by 36 per cent and probably in real money terms by some 40 per cent to 45 per cent in an area where there is an acknowledged backlog of suitable accommodation available. [More…]

• The total problem of care for the aged, as is obvious to everyone, is an increasingly urgent one for government and for the whole community. [More…]

• There is an increasing percentage of aged persons in our community caused partly by the increasing birth rate and, to a lesser extent, by the small increase in longevity. [More…]

• However, I believe that in the future hostels and other sorts of homes and nursing homes should come under a total scheme for care of the aged, using not only special facilities provided in retirement villages or aged persons’ villages or whatever they may be called in the various States, but also facilities such as health centres and rehabilitation and recreational facilities that already exist in the community and are there to be used by the whole community, including the aged. [More…]

• It has tended to be an abstract sort of concept or dream thought about by people in the community, but I firmly believe that it is a feasible proposition and one that can be achieved if philosophical- if we like, ideological- blinkers do not inhibit the development of these schemes by those who are responsible for them. [More…]

• Only a very small minority of the people in the community can afford either private nursing type accommodation or private hostel type accommodation of an adequate standard with adequate supervision without considerable government subsidy. [More…]

• As I said earlier, their distribution is not always appropriate to the proper distribution of the needy aged in the community. [More…]

• They do not always provide for the possibility of full community participation for the aged, even down to things like shopping and social visiting, and there has been a great tendency to isolate the aged from the mainstream of the community into villages or settlements away from the areas of origin of the people involved. [More…]

• As I said before the Aged Persons Hostels Act has supplied a need in the community. [More…]

• A lot of statistical information has been gathered in this area and a lot of the preliminary work has been done by the Social Welfare Commission and by the other people who have reported on aged persons’ accommodation and care in the community. [More…]

• We support the legislation, expressing our concern for the future time scale of provisions in the legislation, and urging the Government to consider, as we were considering, revamping the whole concept of care for the aged in the community and the development of a scheme of aged persons’ accommodation more appropriate to the needs of the community. [More…]

• It also made a number of recommendations which were designed to make it easier for people to function independently in the community. [More…]

• A large number of recommendations had to do with domiciliary support, rent rebate programs, community health programs and home repair programs. [More…]

• Our new community attitudes in Australia make institutional care acceptable where it was not acceptable as a norm 50 years ago. [More…]

• It means that automatically the people are physically isolated from services, particularly community services. [More…]

• They are away from community facilities. [More…]

• So I would like to know whether we have information not only in terms of total unmet need but also in terms of distribution of aged persons’ welfare housing in different areas of the community. [More…]

• It is more difficult, Mr Acting Deputy President- and we both come from the same city- for a Mount Druitt community to provide the basic amount of money needed to start a welfare housing project than it is for an established charity or for people somewhere on the North Shore. [More…]

• The Budget deficit is being loaded on the shoulders of 3 groups in the community- the very young who have had to accept financial sacrifices in the field of education, pre-school training and so on; the very old, including the frail aged to whom Senator Baume referred, and the people in between- the gathering numbers of unemployed. [More…]

• The aged people constitute a very large section of the community to whom we all owe a lot of loyalty and support because it is they who built the Australia that we know now. [More…]

• There are hundreds, if not thousands, of people in this community capitalising on the suffering of aged people. [More…]

• Without those institutions there would be old people in the communitysome of use here may be members of that section of the community at a later stage of our lives- who would have nowhere to live and would be forced into parks and sub-standard accommodation. [More…]

• A survey has shown that the present situation of sessional kindergarten adequately caters for the needs of our community. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister for Education in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Do outlays in this sector include leisure time activities, money for swimming pools, community centres, athletic fields, etc, as well as contributions to youth and social organisations? [More…]

• Basically this is a matter for a whole community. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the Government has decided, as shown in the Budget Papers, to increase the price of a meal taken at a community kitchen on an Aboriginal reserve, will this deprive children of impoverished families of the opportunity of partaking of a meal which they now receive? [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Health seen the reply of the Minister for Health, Mr Hunt, to a question asked in the other place yesterday in relation to the community health program in Victoria? [More…]

• Mr Hunt said that the Government in no way had abandoned the community health program and that he had asked officers of his Department to consult Victorian authorities to ensure that no restrictions were imposed in Victoria that were not absolutely necessary. [More…]

• If this is the case, I should like to know why the St Albans Community Health Services Society at St Albans in Victoria, after at least 2 years of negotiation on the building of a centre in that suburb, would have received a letter from the Victorian Hospitals and Charities Commission dated 23 July 1 976 which in part states: [More…]

• How many other proposed community centres in Victoria have received similar letters? [More…]

• I did not see the answer given by the Minister for Health to the question yesterday, but I am aware that the community health program in the Budget of this Government this year has been allocated funds which have gone in block grants to the States. [More…]

• I am not aware of the letter that was received by the St Albans Community Health Services Society in Victoria with regard to the deferment of its project. [More…]

• I am afraid it exemplifies only too clearly the arrogant disregard for the community displayed by certain sections of the trade union movement. [More…]

• Will the Minister give serious consideration for the early installation of some public telephones to service what is genuinely a real community need? [More…]

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

• Their incomes are half the level of average weekly earnings in our community. [More…]

• In the past few days we have seen demonstrations against the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in Melbourne and Sir John Kerr in Sydney and, as a community, we are outraged. [More…]

• Its advisers outside government- including Mr Hawke- who brought distress to this community, are the same. [More…]

• In other words, a Labor victory last December would have meant more chaos to this community- and that does not bear contemplation. [More…]

• They affect very large numbers in the community. [More…]

• To do this it is essential to galvanise a sluggish and battered business community into investment and expenditure action. [More…]

• That will have an impact on all sectors of the community- the farming sector, the small business sector and the large business sector. [More…]

• The catch cry of taxing the community while it works and then slugging it again when it dies should never be levelled against this Government. [More…]

• This Government has seen fit to introduce the scheme to benefit those members of the rural community whose incomes are at present or will be at a future time, fluctuating wildly at the market’s whim. [More…]

• On behalf of the areas which I representthat is the Department of Science and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation- I point out that the Government has given real strength to the science community. [More…]

• It gives me the greatest pleasure in my first year as Minister for Science to say that through this Budget the science community can have full confidence that this Government is aware of its needs. [More…]

• In view of the objectives of this Budget, and its importance to the community with its economic and social reforms, I give my strong support to this Budget and commend it to the Senate. [More…]

• Therefore the Government intends to set out on a deliberate path of dividing the Australian community, and to burden disproportionately the working people and the most vulnerable sections of our community with the cost of artificially stimulating the private profits sector of our mixed economy. [More…]

• May, which are set out in somewhat more detail in this Budget, can best be summed up in the comments of members of the business community. [More…]

• What better source can I find for this than the people who in fact are involved in the business sector of the community? [More…]

• If in fact the Treasury document has any validity, one would have thought that this Budget would have set about increasing the purchasing power of the community. [More…]

• It also estimates an increase in sales tax of 21 per cent and an increase in customs and excise duty of 19 per cent, which will mean less money in circulation in the community. [More…]

• This Budget has dealt a powerful debilitating blow to the Aboriginal community of Australia. [More…]

• The rural producer and the rural community are left with the empty rhetoric of their totally discredited phoney National Country Party representatives who clearly have not fought in the Cabinet room for effective reconstruction assistance to the declining industries in the rural sector. [More…]

• In 1974-75, the Labor Government made available to the farming community $447. [More…]

• Another $300m in tax revenue was forgone over that same 3 year period from the rural community. [More…]

• I am, however, bitterly disappointed to find that the revised tax scales for 1975-76 and thereafter still fail to recognize the value of a single income family to the community. [More…]

• Only three or four weeks ago Senator Jessop joined me and his Liberal colleague Senator Messner in supporting representations from the Whyalla community, including representations from the Lord Mayor, the Council, and other important people, which were made to the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Senator Cotton) for some support to be given in view of the possible transfer of orders to Japan. [More…]

• He supported the local community. [More…]

• When Senator Jessop started his speech this afternoon I thought he was going to say that the Whyalla shipyard and the Whyalla community had to be supported. [More…]

• Everybody knows that there is a general lack of confidence in the community. [More…]

• Of course, as most honourable senators know- although nobody will talk about it- there is a need at this time to stimulate capital works expenditure and to go back to the sons of plans which the Labor Government had in order to make sure that people in the community will have jobs. [More…]

• This is a simple fact which the Australian community will understand: When the Labor Party came to government in December 1972 there were 136 000 people unemployed in Australia. [More…]

• I welcome the opportunity for that sector of the community in particular to have the capacity to build up its capital investment, to strengthen its base and to strengthen our economy, thereby giving more [More…]

• When that is measured against the fact that in the same period wages, salaries and relevant supplements increased by 28 per cent, with all the encouragement that a Labor Government could give to that increase, it is no wonder that there was serious decline in that sector of our community and that hundreds of thousands of people were thrown out of jobs. [More…]

• I suggest that the Party of the honourable senator who interjects does nothing to increase the confidence of the community. [More…]

• I would like Opposition senators to replace some of that invective with some facts which have some meaning to the Australian community. [More…]

• It is no good people like Senator Martin coming here tonight and explaining to us how the family allowance will lift the level of spending in the community when there is not one tittle of evidence to support that proposition. [More…]

• I want to turn just briefly to what has been done for the unemployed people in our community 3 15 000 odd in July and no doubt a significantly increased number since then. [More…]

• I want to refer again to the consequences of that high level of unemployment, not only throughout the community at large and throughout all age groups, of the work force, but particularly amongst the young people. [More…]

• The social consequences for our community as a whole are going to be rugged for all of us because the social problems and the disillusionment associated with teenage unemployment are disastrous in any contemporary society, particularly a society in which 85 per cent of the people live in big urban metropolises. [More…]

• This will succeed finally in protecting the aged, the invalids, the widows, repatriation beneficiaries and supporting mothers in our community from the hardships incurred as a result of inflation. [More…]

• This is the greatest tax legislation ever passed in this country and it will benefit all sections of the community. [More…]

• These are just a few examples of what this Government has done for the people of our community who have no strong trade unions behind them, who have looked to our Government and have not been disappointed. [More…]

• This has been interpreted by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) as assisting only the businessmen- the free enterprise section of our community. [More…]

• The Budget has been called an incentive Budget by the businessmen of Australia; but the Leader of the Opposition has tried to denigrate the Budget and to stir up once again that division in the community which he so often has tried to foster. [More…]

• In very simple language I raised with the then Australian Government Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Prime Minister and the appropriate State Ministers what this migratory bird treaty meant. [More…]

• I also ascertained from other circles that before he left Australia he asked the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development what he could say to the Japanese since Japan and Australia were co-signatories to the migratory bird treaty. [More…]

• I preface my question by reminding the Minister that the Aboriginal community on Bathurst Island has decided to ban the receipt on the island of unemployment benefits because of the disruption to the society on the island caused by benefits being paid to individuals. [More…]

• Does the lead of the Bathurst Island Council in refusing to allow the receipt of benefits that would otherwise cause social strife merit commendation and examination by the Government as a lead which could be followed not only in other Aboriginal communities but by the white Australian community generally? [More…]

• I mentioned earlier this year that my colleagues the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs had established a working party to inquire into the possibility of paying unemployment benefits to Aboriginal community councils. [More…]

• I shall investigate whether a communication has been received from the Bathurst Island community council and determine whether the matters that were under consideration by the working party can be dealt with in the way that Senator Bonner has stated, the Bathurst Island Council has determined with regard to its own affairs. [More…]

• It would be understood that if we were to provide alternative employment there might not be eligibility for unemployment benefit as we know it, and if we were dealing with individual beneficiaries there would need to be a general acceptance of the trusteeship of the community council to deal with it. [More…]

• I certainly welcome the question and the fact that one community council has sought to apply some different method of dealing with Aboriginal employment and the payment of unemployment benefit. [More…]

• I noted in the Press, and I have confirmed it, that the Department has invited the manager of the station to report upon the allegations because a number of people in the community have made them. [More…]

• Superimposed are factors such as racial, social and community attitudes and behaviour patterns which are, of course, of fundamental importance in their influence on program formulation, on the one hand, and Aboriginal and Islander response to programs on the other hand. [More…]

• Among other things we have to contend with education systems and health services which inadequately serve our real needs, with the meanest standards of housing and, especially where Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders live in isolated communities and settlements, deficient community infrastructure services. [More…]

• The recommendations, as mentioned by Senator Bonner, are, we hope, set out concisely and in simple language so that all members of the community will be able to read them with ease and those who are specialists in the community will readily understand the meaning that we hope to convey. [More…]

• They are: Firstly, to give effect to the Government’s decision on banning advertising of cigarettes and cigarette tobacco; secondly, to amend the Act in relation to the licensing of translator stationsthat is, television stations; thirdly, to amend the Act relating to community television aerial systems; and, fourthly, to permit licensing of broadcaster translator stations for radio purposes. [More…]

• Insofar as the provisions of the Bill deal with these matters of translator stations and community television aerials, I state that we see them as measures which are designed to reflect community needs and to increase technological capacity. [More…]

• Insofar as community television aerials are concerned, I think the Minister explained in his second reading speech that that amendment is made on the basis of what is referred to as ‘community of interest’ considerations when recommending grants of licences and, in particular, for aesthetic reasons which would enable the States to have one television licence effectively instead of a mass of them as now is the situation. [More…]

• There has been a growing awareness throughout the world, including throughout the Australian community, that something must be done to discourage the smoking of cigarettes. [More…]

• What greater hazard is there in our community than motor cars? [More…]

• They cause so many deaths in our community. [More…]

• I emphasise that we must look at the whole situation rationally and accept the fact that whilst we are prepared no longer to support something that is injurious to the health of our community we will not totally abolish any opportunity for companies to give their support to the sporting bodies of this country. [More…]

• Sport plays a very important part in our community. [More…]

• Finance is one of the great problems today not only for sporting bodies but also for areas of our community which carry out welfare and social activities. [More…]

• This could have an adverse effect on a very healthy section of our community- the sporting world. [More…]

• I for one do not believe that any section of the community should be discriminated against. [More…]

• Senator Walsh suggested further that during the period of the Labor Government the farming community had a pretty good time. [More…]

• It is in the court of all Australians and it would be hoped that Australians are prepared to recognise the measure of interdependence and the high degree of integration that is typical of this community. [More…]

• broadcast in Croatian is controlled and run by members of the Yugoslav community and that the Australian-Croatian ethnic community is’ given no say. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development give assurances that the fear of subsidy strangulation that is held by major conservation groups is unfounded and that such groups who operate as environmental vigilantes will not have their operations curbed in the face of mounting mining industry pressures? [More…]

• Because of this action the Australian community is being held to ransom by these operators and there could be complete paralysis of air traffic. [More…]

• They are being provoked by the actions of a man who is not liked by the greatest democratic section of the community, who parades himself and purposely attends functions to attract such demonstrations. [More…]

• The Prime Minister and the Minister praised this Aboriginal community, but they have returned here and have stopped grants for similar activities throughout various Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• Some have said that it worked out at $58,000 a house, but it must be remembered that the project included a community assemblyThere were houses in 2 streets. [More…]

• Mr Hay recommends greater utilisation of State housing commissions or similar agencies on terms, including consultation with and employment of Aborigines, to be negotiated; possible absorption of unsuccessful housing associations in remote areas into community councils with residual responsibilities confined to allocation, rentals and maintenance; continued financial support to successful housing associations in remote areas with absorption into community councils being adopted where feasible; encouragement of successful or potentially successful associations in other than remote areas, but on the basis of a loan or a combination of grant and loan; in remote areas, access by Aborigines to housing on terms no less favourable than those generally available through housing commissions, and in the absence of housing commission facilities alternative possibilities such as the Department of Construction, private contractors or resource groups serving several councils be investigated. [More…]

• I reject any inference that my community has settled for some sort of shack. [More…]

• It will be not only the students or potential students who will lose by not undertaking a higher degree as they normally would have done; also it will be the community as a whole. [More…]

• so as to assist the most needy in our community. [More…]

• I support the call which he made to condemn the Budget on the grounds that (a) it pursues a policy of unemployment as a weapon to reduce real wages and salaries; (b) 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 (c) it fails to institute selective stimulatory expenditure to reduce unemployment. [More…]

• Mr Lynch hopes that the business community will rise to the bait and start to invest again. [More…]

• My friends opposite will remember that 1974 was the middle of that terrible period when Labor was in office and when all the problems were caused in our community. [More…]

• I think that it is fairly indicative of the state of the community. [More…]

• Economists speak of the multiplier effect within a community. [More…]

• If we inject a certain amount of funds- particularly government funds- into the community the effect is multiplied within the community. [More…]

• I mention once again the shortage of staff at Darwin Community College which means that courses cannot be made available and apprentices are forced to travel interstate for theneducation. [More…]

• The community creches, run by a particularly good organisation operating in Darwin, at the moment are operating on donations from the Cyclone Tracy Relief Trust Fund and they are not sure what is going to happen when that money runs out. [More…]

• There is a move to repair the inappropriate rehabilitation and training centre that the former Liberal Government designed and built but the community, hopefully, has stopped it. [More…]

• That Government happily spent that increase of 89 per cent without reference, in most cases, to this Parliament or to the community and, above all, without responsibility, but it still finished up in a great debt, a debt which was double the projection or forecast within the Budget. [More…]

• In the last few days, following the concern expressed and the escalation of the amount coming in as revenue, the Premier, who appeared for so long to turn a deaf ear on the appeals of so many members of the community in our State, suddenly has announced that he is abolishing land tax on rural land. [More…]

• Capital expenditure by this company on social infrastructure, housing, power, water and community facilities totalled some $189m. [More…]

• The community kitchen and three or four months’ supply of food were destroyed. [More…]

• I think the fact that Senator Carrick represents the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in this chamber makes him singularly fit to listen to my representations. [More…]

• Senator Carrick will appreciate that the dividing lines of power between Mr Eric Robinson, the Minister for Post and Telecommunications and Mr Kevin Newman, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, have never been rigidly defined. [More…]

• Conservation of the Great Barrier Reef and the application of control measures to the crown of thorns starfish which might be warranted falls within the responsibilities of my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It typifies the increasing awareness in the community of the role that can be performed by customary laws and controls. [More…]

• broadcast in Croatian is controlled and run by members of the Yugoslav community and that the Australian-Croatian ethnic community is given no say. [More…]

• This along with the fact that thousands of tradesmen have been driven out of the industry, will, in years to come create a chronic shortage of skilled workers to the detriment of the community and with enormous adverse economic repercussions. [More…]

• broadcast in Croatian is controlled and run by members of the Yugoslav community and that the Australian-Croatian ethnic community is given no say. [More…]

• broadcast in Croatian is controlled and run by members of the Yugoslav community and that the Australian-Croatian ethnic community is given no say. [More…]

• broadcast in Croatian is controlled and run by members of the Yugoslav community and that the Australian-Croatian ethnic community is given no say. [More…]

• an equitable distribution of funds to cover all the childcare needs of the community: [More…]

• This along with the fact that thousands of tradesmen have been driven out of the industry, will, in years to come create a chronic shortage of skilled workers to the detriment of the community and with enormous adverse economic repercussions. [More…]

• I am aware that there is great concern throughout the whole ethnic community that ethnic radio programming on a proper, objective and comprehensive basis should continue and develop. [More…]

• This should give the community and indeed the Government some confidence that there are healthy signs of improvement for the community and for the Australian Capital Territory construction industry. [More…]

• I can assure Senator Knight that his representations on this and other matters are being closely followed by the business community. [More…]

• It typifies the increasing awareness in the community of the role that can bc performed by customary laws and controls. [More…]

• Included in this type of accommodation are day hospitals and day care centres to provide treatment and services for residents of aged persons homes and aged or disabled persons who are living independently in the community. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government has recently formed 2 committees- one to inquire into federal programs for the care of aged and infirm people and the other to examine welfare services and community-based programs in the healthwelfarecommunity development area. [More…]

• There is a committee to look at the care of aged and infirm people and there is a committee to look at health, welfare, community developments and community based programs. [More…]

• 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…]

• There is a need for a combined effort by both sides of the Parliament and by all people within the community to face the problem and to attempt to remedy it. [More…]

• There was uncertainty generally in the community and a lack of confidence throughout industry and commerce. [More…]

• In other words this Government has spread its Budget so that business gets the best end of the financial stick and those people in the community least able to afford it have to pay for the so-called deficit. [More…]

• I have evidence of this from people who come to my office in the Australian Capital Territory, who have provided examples of the rip-off and the collusion between these 2 groups in the community. [More…]

• In the Government’s handling of the disadvantaged sections of the community it has dealt with repatriation people in a most inhumane way. [More…]

• It is obvious that the Government will not be able to get out of the mess which it is in because whole sections of the community are now totally disenchanted. [More…]

• Income stabilisation to the rural community is now far more desirable than product subsidy. [More…]

• Poverty in rural areas is increasing all the time but the difference between the poverty of today and the poverty of the 1930s is that in those days the whole community was poor and everybody had no money, but now it is only poverty in the rural areas which really shows. [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…]

• Whilst all honourable senators in this chamber are aware of the various demands by the different sectors of education placed upon the taxpayers’ money and are aware of the various needs throughout the education community one very clear fact emerges from this Budget. [More…]

• I suggest to the Senate that if this Government were really serious in its efforts to combat unemployment, if it were really serious about having a long term work force policy, if it were really serious about giving to the community the skills that members of the community need to be able to maintain employment under difficult circumstances, we would find evidence of this serious intent in the allocation to technical and further education. [More…]

• 7m for legal aid for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• This proposal, perhaps more than any other proposal in the Budget, will do more to reduce inflationary trends and to restore real spending power in the community. [More…]

• In the past, with rising incomes, particularly in the wage earning sector of the community, the interaction of inflation and a progressive income tax scale had the effect of increasing the effective tax rates, of diverting an increased amount of the national income to the government as tax revenue and of changing arbitrarily the nature of the tax burden. [More…]

• The investment allowance- the legislation in respect of which was passed in the autumn session of the Parliament- will also assist the private enterprise sector of the community and will help to stimulate the economy. [More…]

• In the time left to me in this debate I want to say something about the poverty which exists in the primary industry sector of the community today, particularly in my own State and area in the canned fruit and dairy industries. [More…]

• When one compares their situation with that of other persons in the community who are fortunate enough to be employed, even at the minimum wage, and with a joint husband and wife situation, one appreciates the unfortunate position in which they find themselves today. [More…]

• What happened here was that the conservatives in our community attacked this as some son of Communist plot and suggested that the workers were about to take over the factories. [More…]

• This is prompting the Australian community to save more. [More…]

• I believe that general support of its intentions by the Labor Party could bring about a revitalisation of our community and a pause in our rate of inflation so that we can catch up again in a race that I am afraid we are all too good at winning. [More…]

• Is this the time to indulge in a campaign of denigration, calling people dole bludgers, making help more difficult to obtain and playing on the prejudices of those unthinking people in the community who readily blame such unfortunate people for their problems? [More…]

• It has been too concerned with figures and too little concerned with people in the community. [More…]

• The business community sees that and will not respond. [More…]

• The potential contraction caused in the economy by the Government’s actions will, it seems, disturb all sections of the community. [More…]

• In government we were criticised for setting up committees and inquiries into problems and for setting up commissions to look at problems which the community faces. [More…]

• If the Government does not know where it is going we certainly will not know where it is going and what hope will the rest of the community have of knowing where it is going? [More…]

• I think that needs to be understood in the community if we are to succeed. [More…]

• I think it might be useful for this country if the Labor Party, which is supposed to be the friend of the oppressed, came out and supported what is a most substantial reform in favour of 800 000 children in the community who are in relatively poor circumstances in the 300 000 families which are in relatively poor circumstances. [More…]

• It has directed its attention to ensuring that the needy in the community are looked after. [More…]

• He has indicated that this operation is successful because the Aboriginal community is running it. [More…]

• I am one who believes that, for all the goodwill it may have had, the previous Government did some damage to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I found- certainly in the outback areas I visitedsome very real resentment in the non-Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I think it is important that it be understood in the community that this Government in a number of ways has insulated the most needy sections of the community from want. [More…]

• It has also ensured that the weakest in the community are helped and that the productive sector of the community, the business sector, receives incentives. [More…]

• This along with the fact that thousands of tradesmen have been driven out of the industry, will, in years to come create a chronic shortage of skilled workers to the detriment of the community and with enormous adverse economic repercussions. [More…]

• W.: conscious of the fact that most of the unemployed apprentices will never be able to complete their training (thus creating a continuing problem for the industry, and indeed the community as a whole) unless immediate urgent measures are provided for in the Federal Government’s Budget; we the undersigned citizens of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia by this our humble petition respectfully request that Members of the Senate insist that the 1976-77 Budget provides specific measures to lift building activity particularly welfare housing, schools, hospitals and other public buildings above the present dangerously low level; we request that the Budget be returned to the House of Representatives with instructions from the Senate to include such measures. [More…]

• This along with the fact that thousands of tradesmen have been driven out of the industry, will, in years to come create a chronic shortage of skilled workers to the detriment of the community and with enormous adverse economic repercussions. [More…]

• This along with the fact that thousands of tradesmen have been driven out of the industry, will, in years to come create a chronic shortage of skilled workers to the detriment of the community and with enormous adverse economic repercussions. [More…]

• Conscious of the fact that most of the unemployed apprentices will never be able to complete their training (thus creating a continuing problem for the industry, and indeed the community as a whole) unless immediate urgent measures are provided for in the Federal Government ‘s Budget; [More…]

• Concern at the record number of building workers registered for unemployment benefits in New South Wales; aware of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Report for New South Wales revealing a drastic fall off in both commencements and approvals for future commencements, of building projects this year as compared to previous years; alarm at the fact that 1368 building apprentices were registered for unemployment benefit payments during the month of July in New South Wales; conscious of the fact that most of the unemployed apprentices will never be able to complete their training (thus creating a continuing problem for the industry, and indeed the community as a whole) unless immediate urgent measures are provided for in the Federal Government’s Budget; we the undersigned citizens of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia by this our humble petition respectfully request that Members of the Senate insist that the 1976-77 Budget provides specific measures to lift building activity particularly welfare housing, schools, hospitals and other public buildings above the present dangerously low level; we request that the Budget be returned to the House of Representatives with instructions from the Senate to include such measures. [More…]

• That the Ethnic Radio Hour in New South Wales broadcast in Croatian is controlled and run by members of the Yugoslav community and that the Australian-Croatian ethnic community is given no say. [More…]

• We the undersigned believe the community to be totally better off with the Labor initiated Medibank Scheme. [More…]

• That the government should reconsider its decision to cut the budgets of these institutions and immediately restore the grants to enable these institutions to continue their high standard of dedicated and unselfish care for the aged and infirm in the community. [More…]

• -The Minister for Social Security will be aware of the problems being faced at the present time by the community creches in Darwin. [More…]

• In view of the confusion that still exists in the community and the clear misinformation given by the private insurance companies and the Australian Medical Association, will the Government give consideration to writing to each existing member of Medibank and give the necessary information and assistance so that all citizens can make a free choice in medical care? [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 was highly impressed with their diligence, their competence and with the ease with which they had become part of the local community. [More…]

• it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants; and [More…]

• It is equivalent to an expenditure of $ 165m annually and it affects particularly adversely the community health program, the school dental program and the family planning program. [More…]

• The situation is compounded by the fact that the Hospitals and Health Services Commission, which we understand is shortly to be abolished, has estimated that some 15 to 20 per cent of Australians are living in areas which have totally inadequate community health services. [More…]

• Issues of major concern to this inquiry will include the coordination 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 individual, 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 and the accessibility of education and training including reentry and transferability and the problems of special groups such as the handicapped, ethnic groups, Aboriginals and women. [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…]

• This situation will continue until the country gets rid of its high inflation rate, the cost of living stabilises and the community settles down to a reasonable work pattern of production. [More…]

• Despite the setbacks, the deficit, the near catastrophe we have experienced, the Budget should encourage and entice the Australian community to raise its head once more and move. [More…]

• The services that are urgently required by the Darwin community will continue to be provided. [More…]

• I find it significant that today a number of petitions were presented by Government senators on behalf of a section of the Croatian community in Australia. [More…]

• Not so long ago, I took a group representing a section of the Yugoslav community to see the AttorneyGeneral, Bob Ellicott. [More…]

• Perhaps the Canadian system could be followed, with 3 members of the panel being legal persons, 3 members drawn from leaders of the ethnic community and the remaining three a blending of representatives from such bodies as the Returned Services League and the trade union movement. [More…]

• I am just saying that a lot of people, on both sides of the Parliament and in the community, feel that these sorts of suggestions are worthy of a lot more consideration. [More…]

• I do not think that we can sustain that logic in the community and I do not think he should use war scares. [More…]

• I do not believe for one moment that members of the Australian community expect any government, and certainly not this one, to pursue any such policy. [More…]

• I think the community is greatly concerned at the problems which are arising. [More…]

• Firstly, let us look at the family allowances which were presented to the community in May. [More…]

• Yet this is a way in which normality can be brought to the incomes of people in the community so that they can see their future, knowing that it will not be eaten up by taxation. [More…]

• This is a Budget which concentrates on inflation and it makes no apology for regarding that as the major menace to the community. [More…]

• The Treasurer made significant statements in relation to this matter and in relation to unemployment, which is grave in the community. [More…]

• These are matters which may, because of special circumstances, be needed to supplement unemployment, or unemployment in certain sections of the community. [More…]

• A policy has been designed so to strengthen and improve the community that unemployment will wither as time goes on. [More…]

• I believe that great care must be exercised in the forthcoming 6 months or so in relation to the state of unemployment and of various groups in the community, particularly school leavers. [More…]

• In relation to the unemployed in the community, I hope I am not misunderstood; I recognise that this is an enormous problem. [More…]

• But there are curious features of unemployment in the community and there are curious difficulties which many employers have in getting staff to serve them. [More…]

• There are roads to be made and other things that need to be done in this community and, where those projects are labour intensive and present an opportunity for employment, we have to concentrate on them. [More…]

• There is in the community idle building capacity and idle capital. [More…]

• There is good reason for thinking that organisations such as that which can practice self-help and work closely in the Aboriginal community ought to be treated generously and to be provided with reasonable funds with which to carry out their works. [More…]

• I come to my third example of areas which are of some worry because they are uncertain areas under the Budget, namely, the community health centres area. [More…]

• The States have indicated to the community health centre organisations, which want to build and which have been promised money for some years now, that no further ventures will be financed this year. [More…]

• It would be a great shame if money were not used in such areas, in a non-inflationary way, to encourage the building of community health centres which could be operative in the relatively near future. [More…]

• This amounts to a double offence to the community. [More…]

• It is clear that inflation should be the really important issue in this community when our exports are as dependent on our solving this problem at an early stage. [More…]

• But that success will depend on some goodwill on all sides of the community. [More…]

• Housing and Community Development [More…]

• Conscious of the fact that most of the unemployed apprentices will never be able to complete their training (thus creating a continuing problem for the industry, and indeed the community as a whole) unless immediate urgent measures are provided for in the Federal Government’s Budget; [More…]

• This along with the fact that thousands of tradesmen have been driven out of the industry, will, in years to come create a chronic shortage of skilled workers to the detriment of the community and with enormous adverse economic repercussions. [More…]

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

• Can the Minister say whether a public relations campaign is proposed by the Government to alert the community at large to these dangers and to inform people of safe ways to observe this phenomenon? [More…]

• In view of the announcement placing ethnic radio under the control of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, will provision be made for the establishment of a national ethnic community advisory council in a similar format to that which previously operated? [More…]

• If so, in view of the prolifer.mon of ethnic radio session participants, will arrangements be made to ensure that some of the smaller ethnic groups, such as the Portuguese community, have representation on such a body? [More…]

• However, it is envisaged that each of the State advisory committees will be large enough to provide comprehensive representation to the various ethnic community groups. [More…]

• As to the appointment of Senator Davidson and his eminent running mate, I am unable to speak for the Minister at this stage, but I am sure that consideration will be given to representation from all sectors of the community. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate and relates to the recent raid by Queensland State Police and federal narcotics agents on a small community at Cedar Bay in North Queensland in which it has been alleged that property was destroyed, personal possessions of the inhabitants of Cedar Bay burnt and that the residents were terrorised by armed government agents. [More…]

• In the light of the very deep concern being expressed by civil liberty groups throughout the community about certain aspects of the raid, will the Minister advise the Senate of the extent of Commonwealth involvement in the raid, including the use of HMAS Bayonet, and on whose instructions the federal agents were acting? [More…]

• Has an inquiry taken place following the statement made by Senate Keeffe in the Senate last Tuesday night and by others in the community and, if so, does the Federal Government intend taking action against any of its personnel who were involved in that raid? [More…]

• It is not for governments to act on allegations made by honourable senators or by people elsewhere in the community. [More…]

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

• The deficit position on which it has built so much of its case and which is pertinent to this Bill has been reduced in a manner which has brought about the lack of confidence that we see in the community at present. [More…]

• We also see this continuing attack on the real growth sector1 In the community, the public sector, when we should realise as a Parliament, and on both sides of the Parliament, that there is no room for an attack on either the public or the private sector at the present time. [More…]

• This is the position we see at the present time: The creation of an increasing group of long term unemployed with the consequent economic loss to the community resulting in a very large waste of resources. [More…]

• Only last June we saw that the Reserve Bank of Australia had to take the reins off to some degree on the supply of money in order to get a greater circulation of money in the community. [More…]

• I turn now to the problem of the demand in the community at the present time. [More…]

• This must be a matter for alarm for the community. [More…]

• In spite of Senator Messner ‘s attempted charge of irresponsibility, one of those hints seems to indicate that there may be devaluation of the dollar, a reduction in tariff walls and other mini Budgets imposed upon us at cost to the community. [More…]

• What we need in the community today to overcome the problems created by the previous Government is confidence in the future. [More…]

• We should make sure that knockers in our community- knockers who are trying to prevent the economic recovery of this nation- are not supported. [More…]

• We have to change the attitude of the people and encourage them to produce something in this community. [More…]

• It is because the whole of that community is dependent on income from exports- the export of wool and beef, but mainly wool. [More…]

• Some people in our community have the attitude that if the Government provides the standard of living all they have to do is to sit down and the tree will rain apples all over the place; the Government will hand them out and everyone will be well off. [More…]

• Every person within the community has to produce something in order to contribute to the standard of living of the whole community. [More…]

• I also believe that when the results of tax indexation and the family allowances, which amount to about $ 1,000m, begin to show in the community we will see a rise in consumer spending which is necessary to gear up the productivity of the nation and to gear up the industries so that they can employ more people. [More…]

• It can be done only if everyone in the community is prepared to fight in the interests of this nation. [More…]

• The reduction which we have effected in the Budget deficit between the 2 years reduces very substantially the Government’s call on financing from the community. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of every member of the community who is able to work and earn a living wage to make some contribution. [More…]

• In addition to the committee which at the present time is inquiring into the care of the aged and infirm, the Government has appointed a task force to examine welfare services and community-based welfare programs in the health, welfare and community development areas. [More…]

• There are established groups in the community such as church and other bodies, which have resources available from within their own organisations. [More…]

• The committee has been drawing on the information and assistance of voluntary organisations in the community. [More…]

• It is important that they know, because we have a very big group of aging and aged people in our community. [More…]

• Are we to understand that this amount of money that is being made available is now firm; that it is not open to change in later Budgets due to budgetary considerations or due to economic difficulties in the community; and that people who have been approved will have a cast iron guarantee that they will get their money when their name is indicated on the list that the Minister has released? [More…]

• In all seriousness, what concerns me is this concept of a triennium and the fact that the organisations which do this most necessary work for the community are now required to make financial arrangements with builders, as the Minister has stated, with banks and with their own organisations in order to plan. [More…]

• In many ways we are an ageing community and we can see a growing need, particularly when we link that fact with the changing patterns in living which are evident in Australia. [More…]

• I should not like to suggest that the need throughout the community to provide adequate and desirable facilities for many of the people who require them has yet peaked. [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…]

• There is concern in our own community and there is concern overseas. [More…]

• I am sure that they are confident that the present Government will be able to bring about some sanity to this nation, to reduce the inflationary spiral and to create employment where employment is so sorely needed in the community. [More…]

• It has caused grave concern throughout the Aboriginal community of this nation. [More…]

• I know that the Government commissioned Mr Hay to examine in depth the delivery of service by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• He took many weeks- I think 6 or 8 weeks- to ascertain what was going wrong or what was going right with the delivery of service to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Some money is made available for their advancement, for them to become responsible and respected citizens in the community as each and every honourable senator in this place wants to be, and they will endeavour to do that. [More…]

• Whilst we have been waiting on the Hay report there has been chaos within the Aboriginal community, within the Aboriginal Medical Service, the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Legal Service, in the housing societies and the building societies that were created by government. [More…]

• Unfortunately I do not have it with me but it was from the headquarters of the Aborigines and Islanders Community Health Service in Brisbane and said that because of the cutbacks in government expenditure on Aboriginal affairs, in future Aborigines would have to pay for their own prescriptions. [More…]

• Aboriginal Hostels Limited was filling a need in the community. [More…]

• This may be where an existing hostel serves a clientele which would otherwise have been served by the Company, or where an Aboriginal community wishes to run its own programs of community development value. [More…]

• The Company is run by a Board of Directors responsible to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and comprises six Aboriginal and three non-Aboriginal people, all leaders in their particular field be it Aboriginal community affairs, hostel, hotel or financial administration. [More…]

• Another priority policy of the Company is to regionalise, as far as economically possible, to ensure that the Aboriginal community has a say in the location and operation of hostels. [More…]

• To conclude, the provision of hostels is not an isolated activity which can be increased or decreased at will because the effectiveness of so much other Aboriginal Affairs expenditure relates to or hinges upon of all such programs to the Aboriginal community would improve measurably with a continuity of hostel acquisition particularly as it relates to other government outlays on Aboriginal employment and training, secondary and study grants, alcoholic rehabilitation, hospital and health services and the care of young children. [More…]

• Aboriginal Hostels Limited seeks recognition of the achievements it has made in the difficult role of balancing needs, community development, social and economic responsibility and Aboriginal management to which it has addressed itself. [More…]

• I will continue to press the Government to make good the amount of money that was slashed from the Aboriginal affairs part of the Budget, because I earnestly believe that that money must be made available again to the Aboriginal community; otherwise all that will happen is that there will be a perpetuation of the conditions under which we have lived for nigh on 200 years. [More…]

• it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants; and [More…]

• Senator Bonner did not mention a word about the promise made by Mr Ellicott to the Aboriginal community at a reported cost of about $40,000 in telegrams. [More…]

• The Press informed the community at large what the Hay Committee had recommended. [More…]

• I would say that the first thing that needs to be done in our community at the moment is to see that jobs are provided. [More…]

• Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The Mowanjum community near Derby set this fact out in very explicit terms in a letter to various parliamentarians and to an officer of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• For 6 weeks workers in this community have received no pay and some community accounts are now 2 months overdue. [More…]

• The community store has been closed. [More…]

• Before going on I want to make another reference relating to the Mowanjum community. [More…]

• One document is from the chaplain at Mowanjum and the other contains attachments from the Mowanjum Community Incorporated. [More…]

• Funding- Cuts in funding and the unrealistic interim funding has caused a depressed and apathetic community. [More…]

• There is a need for someone, with overall understanding, insight and guidance, who can co-ordinate and help the staff settle into the right relationship with the community. [More…]

• Community Advisor- For the above reasons and the Mowanjum has always asked for someone to fulfil this function, there is a need for a community advisor, to help the Mowanjum people find their feet and undertake the shift to a new site, with the minimum of confusion and loss. [More…]

• Without money coming into the community, all their facilities are becoming run-down. [More…]

• The community store is an example. [More…]

• The SO per cent cut in the community budget will have a destructive affect on community life. [More…]

• One cannot cut back on basic running costs for a community, except run the power plant for only twelve hours a day, cut back on rubbish removals and town bank and mail runs, etc. [More…]

• Capital expenditure appears to be cut right out, without consideration of the fact that it was only to replace items and works lost through actions of past advisers, who acted without the community knowledge and agreement. [More…]

• influence from outside the community, to counter the move. [More…]

• Not one of those people was a community advisor. [More…]

• However, she is worn out and depressed by the constant pressure placed upon her, because there is no official community advisor. [More…]

• During the past six months I have been more and more drawn into the office of the community. [More…]

• I have been asked by the Chairman and the book-keeper to fulfil functions, which are the role of a community advisor. [More…]

• The community accepts the need for an advisor. [More…]

• I cannot sit back and see government departments treat a community of people in this way. [More…]

• Also the taking of two delegates from the community as a consultative committee and asking them to talk about their affairs, does not get anywhere near what is happening nor the hopes of their community. [More…]

• I therefore, request that you look urgently into their plight and be realistic in your allocation of funds and the basic staffing needs of the community. [More…]

• MOWANJUM COMMUNITY INCORPORATED [More…]

• Enclosed is a letter from our community book-keeper, outlining the financial situation and needs of Mowanjum Community. [More…]

• The past six weeks have been a very worrying time for myself and the community members. [More…]

• Our store has had to be closed, making food shopping difficult for everyone, especially the pensioners of our community. [More…]

• The Council and I have the full responsibility for Mowanjum Community, and it is most distressing to just watch our community come to a stand still, with no hope of recovery. [More…]

• MOWANJUM COMMUNITY INCORPORATED [More…]

• Re: Mowanjum Community Inc. Budget 1976/77 [More…]

• b ) Farm and community workers. [More…]

• e ) Routine running costs for the community. [More…]

• Lack of opportunity for customary work within the community is seriously affecting the spirit of the WHOLE community. [More…]

• Mr Baker outlines what funds Mowanjum would be getting for the community and the housing programme, at the Mowanjum new site. [More…]

• The Mowanjum Council spent considerable time before the 30th of June 1976 working out a suitable budget for the community, for 1976-77. [More…]

• Mowanjum Community will require more than $55,000.00, even just to ‘continue’, I therefore request your immediate attention to: [More…]

• Finance for wages for Aboriginal workers and weekly running costs of the community. [More…]

• Yours faithfully, Miss Maureen Day (Community Book-keeper) cc J. Baker, DAA, Derby. [More…]

• Mowanjum Community Incorporated P.O. [More…]

• This is a community established on a small area of land approximately 4 kilometres south of Alice Springs. [More…]

• The community is located within 120 metres of the swamp. [More…]

• A critical complication is caused by sewerage seeping to the natural water contained in the swamp, posing a continual health risk to the community, particularly to adventurous children. [More…]

• One sees in the 77 boards a call from within the community of the Northern Territory to participate in these Statelike organisations. [More…]

• One finds that the members of those boards are drawn from the Northern Territory community according to the responsibilities of those particular boards and the capabilities of the men involved. [More…]

• 1 ) That the Ethnic Radio Hour in New South Wales broadcast in Croatian is controlled and run by members of the Yugoslav community and that the Australian-Croatian ethnic community is given no say. [More…]

• That the Government should reconsider its decision to cut the budgets of these institutions and immediately restore the grants to enable these institutions to continue their high standard of dedicated and unselfish care for the aged and infirm in the community. [More…]

• It may be that in the fullness of time, civil liberties pressure groups, the legal profession or the community at large would wish to see a similar provision, as proposed by me in this Bill, extended to the community in general. [More…]

• One could go on and on with headlines from newspapers over the last few weeks about the Australian Broadcasting Commission- the same Australian Broadcasting Commission which, as I said earlier, since 1 932 has enjoyed a reputation for integrity, impartiality and high repute in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is dividing the viewing community in this country on a completely trivial issue. [More…]

• We hope he includes members of the Senate- 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…]

• 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 case is this: The ABC, an institution which has served Australia well since 1932, is today in a state df confusion and low morale and apparently is subject to manipulation by an intolerant minority group and to general ridicule throughout the media and the community. [More…]

• The summary shows that 67 per cent of the community think that the political news and commentary on the ABC can be trusted; 66 per cent think that it is usually accurate. [More…]

• It is only the ABC in our community that can perform this role. [More…]

• That was in 1973- and there are sectors of the community which are not well served by the present system. [More…]

• There is evidence that audiences are fragmenting rather than tending towards a uniform mass; there is, we suspect, a greater diversity of values in the community now than in past years. [More…]

• Reflecting the range of interests in the community, at the highest quality level, is subtly different from telling people what they should look at or listen to. [More…]

• Subject to this Act, the Commission shall provide, and shall broadcast or televise from transmitting stations made available by the Postmaster-General, 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…]

• But none of this means that the ABC may conduct itself regardless of community response and therefore in a fashion that may excite the few, but offend the many. [More…]

• The ABC has played a great part in the cultural life of our community. [More…]

• The ABC has regional services which play a vital part in disseminating news to the community. [More…]

• The staff living in a community have identified with the people and with the various activities which go on in the community. [More…]

• Such staff members have a great responsibility in disseminating knowledge through that community but, more so, in disseminating knowledge about that community to the rest of Australia. [More…]

• So Sir Henry Bland seeks to encourage creativity and high quality and to make the ABC an innovative force in the community setting a high standard for the electronic media in Australia. [More…]

• However I wish to draw attention to a problem concerning the Polish community which should never have arisen. [More…]

• It has been pointed out that many illustrious leaders of the Labor Party have scored so much better in that way and that during the period that the ABC has been established it has been quite customary and quite healthy for newspapers and other people in the community to poke fun occasionally at the ABC and to criticise that body. [More…]

• In addition, Senator Button did not quite have the courage to go on, although he did tend to refer to Sir Henry Bland’s fine public record in this community over many, many years as perhaps a past which was a fable. [More…]

• He could not go into such a position unless he was familiar with the currents and the problems of the community. [More…]

• We realise that other statutory corporations like this are set up in the community. [More…]

• He continued: as a community, we are outraged. [More…]

• Those of us who were here in 1974 will recall that infamous speech made by the Western Australian Country Party senator, Senator Reid, when in this place he made a real fool of himself by trying to extricate members of the farming community in Western Australia who had been blamed as being the organisers. [More…]

• Do you think that they are people separate and distinct from the rest of the community? [More…]

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

• The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs has announced already that he is seeking to work in co-operation and harmony with all members of the community in Alice Springs- Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal- to find appropriate solutions to alleviate the plight of many disadvantaged Aboriginal people in the area surrounding Alice Springs. [More…]

• I think I should not comment further except to say that Mr Grassby, the Commissioner of Community Relations, was written to by the same union secretary. [More…]

• He will probably agree also that we need choice as far as possible in this community, as our Liberal philosophy advocates. [More…]

• Subsequent to the election the Government received representations from trade unions and other sections of the community to retain the Tribunal. [More…]

• If so, what requests were made by the Company/Companies concerned and, did the submissions made by the Company/Companies influence the decision to suspend further hearings by Mr Justice Ward less than one month before the date set by the Interim Commissioner for a hearing into claims by the Borroloola Aboriginal Community. [More…]

• 1 ) Where an Aboriginal reserve or community exists on the fringe of a town, will housing be provided on such areas or will they be built in the townships. [More…]

• In 1973 some members of the Aboriginal community at New Mapoon initiated a move to return to their traditional land at Mapoon. [More…]

• After extensive consultation with officers of my Department, funds were provided at the community’s request to assist members to re-establish themselves on their traditional land. [More…]

• The Mapoon Community Council was established to assist in this regard. [More…]

• The Mapoon Community Council has been inactive since this time. [More…]

• A bank passbook and other property of the Mapoon Community Council are held by representatives of the community at Weipa South. [More…]

• Will the Minister give serious consideration for the early installation of some public telephones to service what is genuinely a real community need. [More…]

• While Telecom Australia recognises the community need for public telephones by providing this service, often on an uneconomic basis, it is necessary to require that each public telephone receive at least a minimum amount of use to partially compensate towards the high cost of its provision and maintenance. [More…]

• Is this not a distortion of the facts, as the Government already has allocated $2.5m to the State for community health services and women’s shelters come within that category? [More…]

• It is a fact that in this year’s Budget the Government gave block grants to the State governments for projects which had been developed under the community health program. [More…]

• In giving block grants to the States the Commonwealth Government announced that it places emphasis on the development of community based health services. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia and users of the New South Wales Environment Centre, an open, community resource and information facility established with funds provided by the federal government, respectfully showeth that: [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations arc needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• That the Government should reconsider its decision to cut the budgets of these institutions and immediately restore the grants to enable these institutions to continue their high standard of dedicated and unselfish care for the aged and infirm in the community. [More…]

• If the honourable senator will contain his patience for a few more weeks the broad co-ordination, rationalisation and federalism policies of the Government with regard to education generally will be made known to him and to the Australian community. [More…]

• It seemed to me that it would be a major contribution to the health of the Australian community, particularly that of children, if we were to publicise the fact that on that day ABC television would directly telecast the eclipse. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether it is a fact that his colleagues the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Primary Industry have made recommendations to the Government for either the repeal or the major modification of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act because they are under pressure from the mining and woodchip industries. [More…]

• However, I must admit that as long as yahoos in this community deliberately go out of their way to rent a crowd and cause disturbances where public figures are present, they will naturally tie up the resources of the Commonwealth Police. [More…]

• I have said before in this place that a lot of people in the community who preach violence seem surprised when it erupts. [More…]

• A number of these representations arose from a Green Paper on meteorological services published in February last which invited comment from the general community and from specialist user groups on the meteorological services which interested parties wished to see provided by the Bureau. [More…]

• I have received information from the Prime Minister that the proposal to provide television to the Leigh Creek community has now been approved. [More…]

• Residents of Lyndhurst may be able to receive transmissions by installing high gain receiving aerials or a community television antenna system. [More…]

• Medibank came into being, it was accepted by the community, it worked efficiently with administrative costs lower than predicted, and the utilisation rates were as predicted. [More…]

• It acknowledged that Medibank had indeed become a part of our health scene and was accepted by the community. [More…]

• Such is the result of the desperate desire of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) to transfer a figure from the Budget to the private section of the community. [More…]

• This concept differs greatly from what we know of re-insurance pools in other forms of insurance in the community. [More…]

• The health insurance funds will get the kudos and they want it and need it because the main basis of their advertising and the main attraction that they think they have for the community is that they can provide intermediate cover. [More…]

• The Government has encouraged further the breakdown of such development by refusing to fund community health centre programs, thus destroying another avenue of health care in this country. [More…]

• But, by the same token, we believe that a wide group of views must be considered and there must be a wide acceptance of community views as well as the views of veterans’ organisations on the repatriation system. [More…]

• A substantial section of the profession, not the whole of the profession, misuses the system to the disadvantage of the community and to the disadvantage of the government of the day which must meet the costs of a health care service. [More…]

• One of the problems of any profession or any business activity in the community is that a small minority in that profession, that industry or that business can debase the whole of the service and can force upon the rest of the community the need for surveillance. [More…]

• Some of the medical profession seem to fear Medibank because it is a single scheme, gathering in as a single organisation information from a variety of sources for use by the community or by individuals. [More…]

• If not, the whole community pays. [More…]

• For that reason I take very strong objection to the fact that the Medibank system, which was evolved during the period of the last Government and which was subjected to scrutiny and resistance by this chamber, has now been interfered with to the disadvantage not only of the scheme but also of the community and of the profession. [More…]

• This is an example of restraint to the community. [More…]

• What wage restraint and what an example to the community! [More…]

• I agree with Senator Baume that the profession itself has certain ethical standards which it endeavours to impose, but it is facing great difficulty because of the general greed of members of the profession who seek to take out of the community as much as they possibly can and who seek to be assured of payment by a divided device of inefficient schemes, which will assure the doctors of their payment but which will also ensure that the community will pay much more. [More…]

• The desire for individual choice is obvious in the Australian community and one which these Bills recognise. [More…]

• After the campaign … Mr Fraser was asked specifically if his undertaking to maintain Medibank was limited to certain groups in the community. [More…]

• I think there is a commitment under Medibank to the total community.’ [More…]

• From 1 October this year, for the first time, the Australian community will be covered for every health care, every health need and every choice of health insurance. [More…]

• The needy of the community will be looked after in line with this Government’s policy. [More…]

• We simply find that as usual- and justly so- the wealthier members of the community will pay more in their taxes than the levy payers of the community and therefore will subsidise the levy payers, as is usual, through the revenue. [More…]

• There is a choice for the Australian community for the first time in the last 12 months. [More…]

• The contributions have increased to such an extent that they are beyond the capacity of some members of the community . [More…]

• Therefore, I am a great believer, and I think Senator Walters would agree with me here, in the idea of regional authorities which comprise a blending of the elements that make up our community to adjudicate on such matters. [More…]

• However, it has introduced many improvements and that, I am sure, is welcomed by all senators in this chamber and by the community at large. [More…]

• The Medibank scheme introduced by this Governmentthis competent Government- gives the Australian community freedom of choice which I am sure to all Australians is the basis of democracy. [More…]

• That is not what we on this side of the chamber believe in: We believe that there should be fair and equitable competition in the provision of all services, including the delivery of medical services to the community. [More…]

• The private funds will have to look to ways of increasing their efficiency and decreasing their overheads to remain viable and to be able to deliver to the community an attractive health package at a realistic cost. [More…]

• There are many people within the community who perhaps will not be able to afford to pay for a health scheme of any kind but the Government in its wisdom has taken care of this. [More…]

• Even though there are many people in the community who will need to be assisted I believe it is right and proper that people should pay for any extras that they want. [More…]

• The money that the Government has comes from the taxpayers and it has the responsibility of ensuring that that money is spent wisely arid in the best interests of the community at large. [More…]

• As it turned out it was paid for out of general revenue which I consider to be the most equitable means of sharing throughout the community the burden of the cost of the health insurance scheme. [More…]

• Within that context your Government’s proposals do not allow for a genuine free choice to be made by at least half of the Australian community. [More…]

• I realise that the hour is late but I think the community has some interest in this issue because it will affect the income, the real take home pay, of every wage earner in the land and will impose a considerable burden on many families in respect of the choice they will have to make. [More…]

• The actual costs of administering the program were kept quite low but, suddenly, for reasons of political ideology rather than reasons of efficiency, economy or community needs, we find that the system is fragmented with a range of unnecessary choices introduced by this Government. [More…]

• We recognise that these feelings exist in the community. [More…]

• It is being subsidised, to a large extent, by the general taxpayer- that is, by the general community- and by the contributors to the standard Medibank levy. [More…]

• I think that this is something of which the community must be aware. [More…]

• They had a choice of a range of excellent salaried specialists at the Canberra community hospitals. [More…]

• So what was developing into an extremely progressive, convenient, efficient and, above all, excellent kind of health service so far as the community was concerned, will now be undermined in a very serious way by the new arrangements. [More…]

• That is another example in the Australian Capital Territory of the very disruptive effect on community based health services of the Government’s Medibank changes. [More…]

• In conclusion, I should like to stress that the effect of these changes has been to create enormous confusion and anxiety in the community, which undoubtedly will lead to over insurance. [More…]

• There is no indication that the kind of medical services provided to the community will improve in any way as a result of the changes. [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether he is aware of the following statement made in the other place regarding the Albury-Wodonga growth centre and I quote: [More…]

• I will direct the attention of my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in another place, to the question asked by the honourable senator and, specifically, to the final part of his question. [More…]

• It was considered that the Australian Assistance Plan was an appropriate plan to be developed at State or local government level, and the additional funding which has been provided to State and local government in the Budget this year means that those governments are in a position to decide to continue or to develop an Australian Assistance Plan or some other community development plan in a way which they consider suits their own communities. [More…]

• -I recall the question asked by Senator Mcintosh in which he revealed that he had some advice that an electron microscope of a particular power would be of use to the community. [More…]

• Electron microscopes are available in Australia for the use of the science community. [More…]

• However, the original question was devoted to whether there was a definite requirement in the community for one of such power. [More…]

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

• I said also that in a modern community the cost of providing the health services that all the people want- I use the word ‘want’ rather than the word ‘need’ because some people tend to want many more services than they need- becomes so prohibitive that a line has to be drawn somewhere between what the Government is prepared to pay for and what the people themselves should be prepared to pay for. [More…]

• The complexity of health care services- they are complex because in a country such as Australia they have to cater for so many different groups in the community- results in complicated legislation. [More…]

• No doubt, in the next few years other amendments will have to be made to the National Health Act to cater for the changing needs of the community. [More…]

• So we rightly have those people in the community who can afford to do so paying towards the health care of the less fortunate. [More…]

• If they were forced to close not only would this place a tremendous strain upon the public hospitals but it would also leave the community much worse off and much poorer than it is at the moment. [More…]

• Unless there is, the costs of health care in the community tend to get right out of hand. [More…]

• This is the publicly stated reason why the Government is interfering with what was seen by the Australian community to be a very simple and clearly understood scheme whereby everybody was covered for standard ward accommodation. [More…]

• My belief, and I believe it is borne out by examples, is that the true reason for the Government’s assault on Medibank has nothing to do with health insurance and nothing to do with the health of the community. [More…]

• It was designed to provide a reservoir of funds to pay for the health services of the community, both medical and hospital. [More…]

• I do not question their right to have a continuing movement in their salaries commensurate with that applying to other persons in the community in order to meet the ever-increasing cost of living. [More…]

• If one takes into account those 2 sources of delivery of health services to the community and has regard to the substantial increases in those service costs, one can understand why there has been such an increase in the cost of health services.. [More…]

• He obviously intended that the Australian community should believe that he was referring to the universal health insurance scheme that the Australian Labor Party produced. [More…]

• So it would be fair to say that the Australian community knew and understood what we intended and that it was entitled to believe that what the Prime Minister promised was that Medibank, as it was known, would not receive the kind of treatment that it has received. [More…]

• Our Government attempted to do something about the delivery of health services by establishing community health centres but health services are separate and distinct from the provision of money to pay doctors and hospitals for the services they provide. [More…]

• The Opposition has never made any bones about the fact that it believes that the provision of standard medical care in public hospitals and paying 85 per cent of the medical fees in a community is a legitimate area of public expenditure. [More…]

• One of the conditions applied to the activities of the private health funds at the moment is that they shall apply a community rating; that they shall allow anyone to take out insurance with them. [More…]

• To everyone in this community that means a place where a person will be cared for if he is sick. [More…]

• We believe that it is more appropriate that people have standard medical insurance through Medibank and, if they want private medical care and private medical insurance, insure separately, unsubsidised by the taxpayer, so that they know exactly what that insurance is costing them and the community. [More…]

• The first was that people would flood to doctors and hospitals, apparently because the entire Australian community were hypochondriacs who needed some pecuniary barrier to stop them flooding the medical services. [More…]

• The result of the Government’s changes, as I have said, is that everybody in the community is confused. [More…]

• Senator Townley told us that the reason for the confusion in the community is the evil Opposition confusing everyone with false propaganda. [More…]

• We did not see the necessity for a change in a system that had worked well and that was funded fairly in the community. [More…]

• That confusion in the minds of newspapers, trade unionists, businessmen and all manner of people in the community was a result of the Government’s haste to dismantle Medibank and to move a few million dollars from its Budget to the private sector. [More…]

• Part of the Government’s haste resulted from its desire to look after that part of the community that it felt supported it the best. [More…]

• They will express the concern that is being expressed everywhere in the community. [More…]

• We have consulted with community groups through parliamentarians and we have consulted with the government departments which are responsible for the collection of the levy. [More…]

• Each of them has advantages to the community and each of them has disadvantages. [More…]

• For the community, it has proved little more than state capitalism, and for employees, a substitution of one remote employer by another equally remote, and one not always or necessarily more responsive to their claims or aspirations. [More…]

• As the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Withers) appreciates, the general tenor of this finding has been widely known among members of the academic community for some time. [More…]

• Some of the very wealthy in the community who are receiving pensions should have to pay the levy. [More…]

• We can now say that this new scheme has received general acceptance by the community. [More…]

• Quite clearly the health costs in this country have to be paid for by the community by one means or another- [More…]

• Senator Baume mentioned that this Government had consulted with community groups. [More…]

• The fact that we have tax indexation and now have a levy on top of it means that many people in the community, particularly the middle income earners, are marginally worse off as far as tax goes. [More…]

• I am sure that many people in the community still do not understand the full implications of what the levy means to them. [More…]

• I ask Senator Cotton, who is the Minister in charge of the Bill, in his reply to this debate to give a guarantee to the Senate and to the Australian community that people who retain their membership in a private health fund will enjoy real freedom of choice enabling them to transfer to Medibank Private or to opt for the levy system if the charges of the private health funds rise above those of Medibank. [More…]

• This was not only for those in the community needing assistance but also for those who could afford to pay for themselves. [More…]

• If in this community there is a need- and there is a needfor a great deal of legal aid, whether it is $ 10m a year or $ 100m a year, to help people who otherwise are not able to get to a court the community has an obligation to provide this aid. [More…]

• I have said that the community must pay for legal aid. [More…]

• The people in this community who believe in justice and equality before the law have an obligation to pay our share of it. [More…]

• But the woman or man who is instituting a divorce case is under no extra obligation to provide for the legal aid of the community. [More…]

• It goes on to say that this is an attempt to offset the high costs that are borne by the community in respect of family law proceedings. [More…]

• Either the community pays through taxation on the basis of capacity to pay or the people who utilise the family law proceedings for divorce have to pay on the basis of their capacity to pay. [More…]

• I am a post-graduate of the Australian National University and I can assure the Senate from my own experience that there is no member of the community of the Australian National University who has been held in higher esteem, for both his personal and his academic qualities, than Professor Manning Clark. [More…]

• All he was doing was appealing to the most reactionary and prejudiced elements in this community by using that phrase ‘leftist fascist Gulag Archipelago’, to which presumably some persons were to be banned by Professor Manning Clark. [More…]

• Senator Carrick is the Minister for Education and one would imagine that, as such, he would have some familiarity with the institutions of education and therefore he would not be entirely unfamiliar with the work of Professor Manning Clark and the status that he holds in the academic community in Australia. [More…]

• Let me remind honourable senators opposite that at least 48 per cent of the Australian community violently disagree with this Government. [More…]

• The Government says that Professor Manning Clark and that 48 per cent of the Australian community are antiAustralian. [More…]

• Has the Minister received a submission from the Executive Member for Education and Law in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly concerning staff ceilings imposed on the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• A submission concerning staff ceilings for the Darwin Community College has been received from the Executive Member for Education and Law in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development noted recent reports that air pollution levels in Sydney and Adelaide have exceeded safety levels recommended by the World Health Organisation? [More…]

• If it is not, can he explain to the people of New South Wales the basis on which they have been threatened with loss of jobs, extra costs and extensive community disruption? [More…]

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

• 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 Aboriginals. [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 Aboriginals 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 places 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 Aboriginals 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…]

• Another point I make- I think it is important to the Lebanese community, and the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) will appreciate it- is that on page 1 of the report a lot of emphasis is placed upon the provision of additional officers in Cyprus. [More…]

• In fact, even if we take a small community such as the Jewish community, we find that there are about 4 synagogues at the present time in Bombay. [More…]

• There is no agreement between the Aboriginal community at Weipa and Comalco Ltd. [More…]

• (a) Comalco assistance to the Aboriginal community at Weipa in the period from 1968 to 1976 includes: extension of power supply to Weipa South installation of water supply system transfer of bulk refrigeration equipment to Weipa South salaries, travel and overheads of Comalco staff and outside consultants connected with Weipa South town planning and formation of the Weipa Aborigines Society. [More…]

• unloading and transfer of air and sea freight to Weipa South from 1958 to 1973 when the Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement took this over $150,000 to the Presbyterian Mission in the late 1950’s to enable it to re-house the community a commitment of $ 1 , 000,000 over ten years to assist in the establishment of the Weipa Aborigines Society. [More…]

• Assistance by the Commonwealth Government to the Weipa community is as follows: grants to the Weipa Aborigines Society: $ 100,000 on 5 July 1 973 for construction of a pre-school $ 150,000 on 6 June 1 974 for additional pre-school costs $225,000 on 23 September 1975 to complete sewerage reticulation. [More…]

• Since February 1966 the Queensland Government has spent $2,541,359 at Weipa South in addition to salaries and other costs associated with the maintenance of a staff structure for the provision of general welfare services to the Aboriginal Community. [More…]

• Also the Community has access to and services available from other State public services such as Education, Health, etc., costs of which cannot be separated in relation to the Aboriginal Community and these are not specifically identifiable’. [More…]

• That the funding for the proposed St Albans Community Health Centre building programme has been deferred by the Victorian Hospitals and Charities Commission. [More…]

• This action has deprived our community of certain basic human rights. [More…]

• The lack of adequate medical facilities and the complete absence of Health Education and paramedical services is a tragedy for the St Albans population which is comprised of about eighty per cent (80 per cent) migrants arrived within the last five years and with an overall majority of mothers and young children for whom the proposed Community Health Centre would provide an essential service in this underprivileged area. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that immediate and urgent action be taken to make a special grant of funds so that the building programme of the St Albans Community Health Centre can be proceeded with, without any delay. [More…]

• That the Government should reconsider its decision to cut the budgets of these institutions and immediately restore the grants to enable these institutions to continue their high standard of dedicated and unselfish care for the aged and infirm in the community. [More…]

• However, it should be noted that alcolholism and drug addiction also occur in the more affluent sections of the community, but they are perhaps more often hidden than the matter we are discussing at present. [More…]

• This form of action is encouraged as it represents an initiative taken by the community itself. [More…]

• Will the Minister give an assurance that the staff at the Darwin office will be increased to the precyclone level to meet the needs of the Darwin community and to overcome the delays which have been the subject of previous questions from me during this year. [More…]

• These applications for maintenance include cases brought by the Department of Community Welfare. [More…]

• Specifically, is the Consultative Committee, which is composed of departmental officers and voluntary members representing community groups, to continue to function both as a policy-making body and as a fund-allocating body? [More…]

• I hope that in any investigations the Government will give full weight to the fact that in the Aboriginal community the youngsters are worse off than all other sections of the community. [More…]

• On our side, we are interested in every individual in the community. [More…]

• We are still short of community buildings. [More…]

• The largest industries at that time were community and business services, which constituted 20 per cent, manufacturing 19 per cent, wholesale and retail trading 17.5 per cent, and building and construction 8.6 per cent. [More…]

• The major industry contributing to that increase was community and business services, which accounted for 28 per cent of the increase, followed by wholesale and retail trading with 13 per cent, amusements, hotels and personal services, etc. [More…]

• (107 per cent), community and business services (86 per cent), public authorities (73 per cent), manufacturing (21 per cent), building and construction (18 per cent) and transport ( 1 1 per cent). [More…]

• The industry which contributed most to this increase was community and business services (4200) followed by building and construction (2200), mining ( 1600) and public authorities (900). [More…]

• The Government is cheating by supplying only the raw figures to the community when it makes unemployment statistics available. [More…]

• If the Government is not very interested in unemployment a lot of other people in the community, including some sections of the media, are worried about it. [More…]

• There are others who want some feeling of security put into the community so that they can fight their own battles. [More…]

• I have said enough to make the point that the Opposition and the Australian community are worried about the continuing and increasing level of unemployment. [More…]

• The onus is on the Government to produce some scheme and initiate some drive in the community so that there will be a definite attempt by the public and private sectors to bring about the sort of feeling that existed while the Labor Government was in office. [More…]

• Everybody in this community knows that we intend to maintain the Tribunal. [More…]

• It is the less fortunate members of the community who suffer most from inflation. [More…]

• I believe that with goodwill in this community- I believe there is plenty of that- the Government’s strategy will work. [More…]

• The situation today, whether the Government likes it or not, is much worse in the economy and in the community than it was 7 weeks ago. [More…]

• The millions of additional dollars thai have poured into the coffers of the private health funds as from the first of this month as a direct result of Government policy could well be going into the private sector of the economy, towards increasing the spending power of people and could well be injected into the business community to create confidence all round. [More…]

• Unfortunately they represent the great bulk of the unemployed in the community. [More…]

• But times have changed and in some respects, from an English language or grammatical point of view, thank God they have because no longer is an unemployed young person known as a ‘dole bludger’ by the rest of the community. [More…]

• The unemployment that this Government has created and for which it and it alone is responsible is hitting all sections of the community. [More…]

• They were liberated from the most important job that a mother can do in the community and were condemned into the work force. [More…]

• They failed to perceive that there are obviously some structural deficiencies, some weaknesses such as those to which my colleague Senator Mulvihill drew attention, within capitalism itself which have to be examined by the community as well as by governments if we are in any way to make any impact upon the problems of inflation and unemployment. [More…]

• Therefore it is no wonder that there is an increasing concern within the Australian community about the problems of unemployment; about the problems of inflation; about the growth concepts in this country; about where this country is going; about whether there is any future in the manufacturing industry; and about the role which the Industries Assistance Commission is taking in its attempts to bring about some form of rationalisation in the belief that in so doing it will bring about a better standard of living. [More…]

• The community at large very much accepts this situation and I do not disagree with them. [More…]

• But the community at large also has to consider the effects that go with their demands. [More…]

• The community and the Government go together in this; one cannot achieve anything without the other. [More…]

• None the less the increases will be welcomed by those charitable, religious and voluntary agencies which are eligible to receive payments under this legislation and which care for many of the handicapped children in our community. [More…]

• It is of some assistance, but there will still remain a need for suitable residential care and suitable residential accommodation for handicapped children in the community. [More…]

• Future plans for the care of handicapped children- and handicapped adults for that matterin our community in particular depend very much on having an accurate assessment of the size and the type of the problem that we face. [More…]

• In general in this community there has been a deplorable lack of hard statistical data in the welfare field. [More…]

• The Bailey task force on health and welfare in the community is due very shortly to produce an interim report. [More…]

• The Labor Party has been responsible for the introduction of a number of plans to help the handicapped in this community. [More…]

• We believe also that the Government should be mindful of the importance of community involvement in the provision of facilities for the handicapped and, perhaps more importantly, mindful of increasing awareness in the community of the problems of the handicapped, of handicapped children and especially the problems of the parents of handicapped children. [More…]

• It is important that community involvement and awareness be encouraged. [More…]

• We believe it is a great pity that this stimulus to community involvement and awareness has been lost. [More…]

• The efforts to meet the needs of the community as far as health and welfare are concerned should not be limited. [More…]

• Senator Grimes hoped that we would keep close contact with the bodies of advice which exist in the community. [More…]

• I agree with what has been said with regard to community involvement in caring for people with handicaps. [More…]

• Involvement of the community and the support of the community is a very important part of the way in which we are able to work. [More…]

• There are extensions of government work that can be done by the community itself in a way that government is not able to do. [More…]

• We believed that because there were projects which were worthy of assistance and because community funds had been raised by voluntary organisations it was essential that we went beyond simply this year in planning. [More…]

• In view of the concern of the people and the strong representations by leaders of the Katherine community, what plans are in hand to have an S bent in Giles Street reconstructed and re-aligned so as to remove this dangerous section where many serious accidents have occurred. [More…]

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

• How many journalists were employed in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, and in commissions and statutory bodies under the Minister’s control, at 1 September 1976. [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• The whole basis of the legislation is to bring around the table the 4 elements of government- Federal, State, and local government and the community itself- so that with a balance of interests they can look at the whole structure of finance and functions of government and get some rationalisation, some intelligent approach. [More…]

• The opportunity for the first time in Australia’s history for all elements of the community to meet together in continuous dialogue is one that we all ought to take in a bipartisan way to make this Council work, and I hope that we will do so. [More…]

• I direct a question in relation to Fraser Island to either the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development or the Minister responsible for export licences. [More…]

• In view of those comments, 1 ask the Minister to refer the matter to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development or to the Minister for Primary Industry for examination. [More…]

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

• Whilst the Territory has had available to it all sorts of housing finance and housing home finance, housing commission, and other types of community housing, it has not had strata title housing available until now. [More…]

• It would be a matter for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, which is under the supervision of another Minister. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether funds will be available from this amount to commence the urgently needed construction of housing for the Aboriginal community of Wreck Bay? [More…]

• In view of that statement, can the Minister explain to the Senate and to the student community who are very interested in this matter why he has introduced a new category- ‘dependent student away from home’- with a maximum allowance of $38, or $5 a week less than the new ‘independent student’ maximum allowance of $43, when the families of students qualifying for the maximum ‘dependent away from home’ allowance will already have been means tested quite rigidly? [More…]

• I remind the Minister that in an earlier question I asked about the apparently reprehensible conduct of some importers in foisting inferior crash helmets on the Australian community. [More…]

• I was correctly reported in the news media as having said there was some challenge to dole payments and that I believed that in some instances the payment of the dole was creating some harm in the community. [More…]

• The common aim of the Australian Services ‘ cadet scheme 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…]

• There has been simultaneously a new awareness of the potential role of radio in education and community affairs. [More…]

• The State Housing Commission will not let her have a home unless she can show that she has the children with her, and the Department for Community Welfare will not let her children go until she can show that she has a home. [More…]

• How can a woman possibly care for her own children in a home atmosphere if the State Housing Commission refuses to give her a home unless she has the children with her and the Department for Community Welfare will not let her children go from State institutions until she can prove that she has a home? [More…]

• It is understood by Council that the Federal and State Governments either together or separately are responsible for the welfare of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Council has made other attempts to overcome the present problem by convening meetings at which representatives of Federal and State Government departments have attended together with representatives of the Aboriginal Community and the Council of this Shire. [More…]

• Council is reluctant to take legal action but if responsible Government is not prepared to accept its responsibilities in respect of the welfare of the Aboriginal community then it must be realised by those administering the affairs of the Federal and State Governments that Council has no alternative but to enforce its standards - [More…]

• After the Liberal Party returned to government he became Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• His mastery of detail and his allround competence were clearly displayed in the important and onerous portfolios that he administered- Health, Attorney-General and, in the brief period before his illness, Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• They and other members of his family helped to make him the man he was in the community and the man he was in politics. [More…]

• It was followed by his assumption of the most difficult portfolio of Environment, Housing and Community Development, to which he was completely unaccustomed. [More…]

• Conscious of the fact that most of the unemployed apprentices will never be able to complete their training (thus creating a continuing problem for the industry, and indeed the community as a whole) unless immediate urgent measures are provided for in the Federal Government’s Budget; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the government should reconsider its decision to cut the budgets of these institutions and immediately restore the grants to enable these institutions to continue their high standard of dedicated and unselfish care for the aged and infirm in the community. [More…]

• As this must surely constitute racial discrimination, I ask the Minister whether urgent measures can be taken to have the Commissioner for Community Relations investigate this case? [More…]

• If the position with regard to Aboriginal families in Bairnsdale is as the honourable senator states it, it is a matter that could be dealt with by the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• Will the Minister confirm or deny that there is ground for the growing concern in the community that such a new body would have authority to impose radio and television licence fees? [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware of the success achieved in placing unemployed school leavers in jobs as a result of a community service project called ‘Operation Youth Power’ conducted by ADS television channel 7 in Adelaide? [More…]

• It does appear to me to be a very interesting and valuable example of private enterprise at work, particularly as it is directed towards such a valuable area of community service in finding jobs for school leavers and for those young people who are on student vacations. [More…]

• Will the Minister be tabling the report on these organisations, compiled by the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, in order to inform the public and to protect prominent Australians such as the former Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, who unwittingly accepted an invitation to become patron of one of these groups in the absence of knowledge of the aims and objectives of the organisation? [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the Senate that the Government will give increasing support to the Office and the officers of the Commissioner for Community Relations which, independently of government, have the task of combating racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]

• The honourable senator asked also whether we would give an assurance with regard to the tabling of a report compiled by the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations and use the office of the [More…]

• Commissioner for Community Relations to ensure that there is no racial discrimination in this country. [More…]

• Can the Minister assure the Senate that the Government’s amendments to the draft legislation have not altered the present structure of the council of the Interim Authority- that is, that the community, parents and teachers are directly represented? [More…]

• I direct a question to Senator Carrick as Minister representing the Minister for Environment and refer to the action I took last Thursday in furnishing him with a telegram from the Fraser Island Defence Organisation which implied that the existing mining agreement was being breached and which the Minister undertook to check with both the Minister for National Resources and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The matter is being examined by the Department of National Resources in consultation with the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development indicate whether any, and if so what, inquiry or investigation into the Australian Government’s role in and support for sport is proceeding? [More…]

• But the years in which negotiations went on for the establishment of the European Economic Community were barren of action by the conservatives in this area. [More…]

• The associated industries and community services in small towns suffer also, so that not only the farmers and their families are affected but also thousands of small businesses in rural towns. [More…]

• The efforts of the European Economic Community to become self-sufficient have taken away from the Australian beef industry, at least temporarily, a market of something like 60 000’ tons of beef annually. [More…]

• This Bill is the end result of a decisionmaking process which reveals that the federalism policies are not only a sham but will cause economic hardship throughout the community for a long time in the future. [More…]

• There is no way that our programs can take that kind of cut without chaos in the community. [More…]

• I take it that he is opposed to the idea of a body that will bring together around a table for the first time in Australia the Federal Government, State governments, local governments and the community. [More…]

• In the spirit of his question, yes, I will invite the Minister to make sure that there is no need for apprehension in the ethnic community. [More…]

• Would the Minister not agree that a reduction in the pensionable age to 60 years for men who desire to retire would have the dual beneficial effect to the community of allowing those members of the work force to retire as they desire and to make employment opportunities available to unemployed people in the same classifications thus reducing the overall unemployment benefit payable? [More…]

• The depth of such an inquiry is particularly important to the scientific community and to all those who are associated with CSIRO. [More…]

• I believe that the abilities of these gentlemen not only represent the ranks of academics, businessmen, the legal fraternity- as represented by Mr Madigan- but also that a cross-section of the community which is represented by all those gentlemen. [More…]

• As such, the Bantustans policy has been condemned by the majority of the international community. [More…]

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

• Has the Federal Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development been involved in any environmental impact assessment of this proposal to date? [More…]

• In particular, how many staff have been allocated to the Commissioner for Community Relations to investigate complaints of unlawful behaviour under the Act? [More…]

• Has the AttorneyGeneral appointed the members of the Community Relations Council, as provided for in section 4 1 of the Act? [More…]

• Some information was given last week at a meeting of a Senate Estimates Committee with regard to the numbers of staff appointed to the Office of the Commissioner of Community Relations. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the considerable concern being expressed by 166 Victorian community welfare organisations about the future of the Australian Legal Aid Office? [More…]

• I will certainly see that my Department has contact with the Attorney-General’s Department to bring to its attention the concern expressed by the Victorian community welfare organisations. [More…]

• The letter thanked me for having brought to the attention of the migrant community the fact that we had not cut expenditure on migrant education; it drew attention to the lack of good communication between the ethnic community and the Government, and it suggested that an advisory committee on migrant education might be set up. [More…]

• This is part of a collaborative arrangement with other authorities including the civil emergency services responsible for looking after the community in crisis situations. [More…]

• The assistance organised by the Australian Capital Territory Police, Australian Capital Territory emergency services and other organisations such as the Salvation Army was such that more than 1000 people were evacuated in Canberra and rehoused by other members of the community. [More…]

• I believe that the community needs assurance in 2 areas. [More…]

• I am sure that there has been a moral obligation on the pan of Australia, a moral obligation that has been accepted over the years referable to the circumstances which now appear to be only 20 years away, in which the very lifeblood of the Christmas Island community will have been drained away. [More…]

• This Bill seeks practically to implement the sort of things that must happen, to recognise that moral obligation and to solve the problems that will be faced by a community whose sole source of livelihood is seen to be running out in the relatively short term of 20 years. [More…]

• That has, of course, to some real measure reduced the problem of resettlement which applies to the long term members of the community of Christmas Island. [More…]

• The fact that a relatively small number will be resettled each year means that, in all probability, they will be resettled in their various places of choice at a time and in a way which will enable them to become a properly integrated part of the community to which they move. [More…]

• It undertakes to establish scholarships to enable those people who move to another country to further their education and in particular to further their technical qualifications to equip them to fit into the community in which they find themselves. [More…]

• My impression of Christmas Island, which was gained when I was a member of the Public Works Committee which visited the island as part of an investigation to locate a site for a quarantine station, was that it was a well established community. [More…]

• It gave all the impressions of being substantially an indigenous community. [More…]

• I would have thought that sufficient should have been taken in royalties to create a fund to maintain an economically balanced community on Christmas Island. [More…]

• I could get into a discussion with Senator Sir Magnus Cormack on this matter, but let me say that Christmas Island has an attractive community with a wide variety of racial and ethnic origins. [More…]

• In this sort of situation, when the economic difference is so great, these people would prefer to come to Australia rather than to return to their own community environment. [More…]

• The proposal to resettle should be considered in the new light that perhaps a Christmas Island community could continue to exist on the island. [More…]

• My proposition is that with the present rate of increase of the resettlement fund no real fund will be set up which will assist the maintenance of a community on Christmas Island. [More…]

• I believe the island is worth developing and the community is worth preserving. [More…]

• I ask the Government also to take into consideration the views of the community itself. [More…]

• I intervene in the debate in order to comment largely on the broad idea of the integration of some Christmas Islanders into the mainstream of the Australian community. [More…]

• I think there was a natural feeling abroad in the community that people flew from Australia, said kind and soothing words, but nothing happened. [More…]

• I have seen only a section of one community group in Katanning in Western Australia. [More…]

• They are a very good community. [More…]

• He said: ‘I do not think any thinking person would deny that the former Whitlam Government introduced many programs which were beneficial to the Australian community -many of them probably long overdue particularly in the areas of social reform. [More…]

• He said: ‘I do not think any thinking person would deny that the former Whitlam Government introduced many programs which were beneficial to the Australian community many of them probably long overdue particularly in the areas of social reform. [More…]

• By the division of the responsibilities between Federal Government, State government and local government areas the aim, of course, is that people ought to be able to indicate what they want done with their own funds, for their own benefit and ultimately for the benefit of their community, their State and their nation. [More…]

• It gives us the means of gaining information from important areas of the community which will undoubtedly have a great deal to contribute on the future functioning of the federalism policy. [More…]

• One section of the community with which I seek to have continuing contact is local government. [More…]

• It allowed people at the regional level to decide for themselves what services they wanted to build in their community, such as sporting, cultural and educational facilities, welfare services and health centres. [More…]

• But we realise of course that many community services are better provided on a community basis. [More…]

• Not only does the community want all the traditional services supplied at ever improving standards, but demands for altogether new types of services and assistance abound. [More…]

• The principal, as I have said, is enormously important; but the actual amount of additional money is simply not enough to bring about all the changes we would want, and to satisfy the high expectations of everyone in the community. [More…]

• Now local government in some progressive local government areas spends approximately 40 per cent of its revenue on providing community facilities. [More…]

• There were very few councils that had swimming pools or playing fields of the type that are necessary in a modern community. [More…]

• If those sorts of facilities are essential for the all round development of a communityand I believe they are- there ought not to be calls by Government speakers to the effect that restraint should be practised in these areas. [More…]

• For the first time in Australian history representatives of the Federal Government, the State governments, local government and the community come together around a conference table, and come together continually. [More…]

• The debate is about a body that brings together Federal, State and local government representatives and the community in a dialogue in which they can discuss the functions, the structure and the finances of government and in which they not only with their own subjective views but with elements of the community can be recipients- clients, as it were- of government. [More…]

• If the 5 federal members, the 6 State members, the 6 local government members and the 5 members of the community are people of quality and goodwill and are willing to come together and to discuss the great affairs of the 3 spheres of government and the problems of the community, this will be a useful function. [More…]

• Do we really oppose the idea of bringing the 4 elements of the community together? [More…]

• He has done this in a scholarly way and at great risk to himself, because this is a highly emotional issue and sections of the community have taken sides. [More…]

• I give credit to Mr Dunn for the manner in which he has persisted in revealing to the Australian community the facts about what is happening in East Timor. [More…]

• Most honourable senators will remember that on 29 August there was a raid on the quiet community of Cedar Bay. [More…]

• In the next few weeks calls for an inquiry came from all sections of the Queensland community. [More…]

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

• an equitable distribution of funds to cover all the childcare needs of the community; [More…]

• Can the Minister explain what legal rights trade unionists have in dictating their political beliefs- or more likely those of their irresponsible leaders- to the community of Australia or against the democratically elected Government of Australia? [More…]

• What we as a government are concerned about and what a large section of the community is concerned about is the use of power by unions to strike or to exercise that type of activity to futher a particular political purpose. [More…]

• The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations has said, over and over again, that it is his view and it is the view of the Government- it is my view also- that that is an improper exercise of union power and an improper use of the positition of privilege that they have in the community. [More…]

• Firstly, a socialist attitude was thrust on the community. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of all parliamentarians, and every other section of the community, to see that this sort of thing is eliminated. [More…]

• The Australian Government is as much involved in the keeping of law and order as is any other section of the community. [More…]

• A police force exists primarily to help members of the community obey the law rather than to arrest those who do not. [More…]

• If we are not vigilant, if those of us in the community who have a voice and who are able to exercise it publicly do not stand up and speak for those who are not able to speak for themselves, this country will be even worse off. [More…]

• It is all very well to talk about civil liberties in the traditional sense, but an enlargement of civil liberties involves those possibilities on enforcement of rights being made available to a much wider section of the community. [More…]

• The Act has not become effective in Australia because of the lack of money and staff made available to the Commissioner for Community Relations and the watering down of the capacity of that commission to carry out the functions which it is given under the Act. [More…]

• One of the growing trends in this country at the present time is an increasing intolerance in some sections of the community towards certain groups, especially minority groups, and those who appear to be outside the main stream of public thinking. [More…]

• He is talking about the general trend in the community- and one ‘s got to deal with it and I think this is a tragic thing. [More…]

• Certainly they are small in number, but the support they receive from the community is not small. [More…]

• If this sort of thing had been done in one of those suburbs there would have been a riot, but for some reason or another this is accepted procedure because these people are different from the rest of us, they live in this isolated community and presumably their values are not to be recognised. [More…]

• When I discussed the question of a sex discrimination Bill with the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby- a Labor appointee and a man who I would have thought had general support on the other side of the chamber- he told me that he was extremely doubtful that at this stage we should be proceeding in that field because of the very great difficulties which are involved. [More…]

• I agree with the Minister that it is very important that people in the community do not look at the eclipse and therefore do not have their sight endangered. [More…]

• It is a fact of life that the Government’s aim is to bring to the Advisory Council local government along with Federal and State governments and the community. [More…]

• I thought that such an inquiry ought to involve every section of the Australian community. [More…]

• That is a matter of great concern to me and to the Australian community. [More…]

• The rates for the community of Devonport, which is the area from which I come, have increased this year by 33 per cent. [More…]

• Having regard to what I have just said, having regard to the quality of services which local government may or may not be able to provide to the people, accepting of course that local government plays a very important function and ought to be able to finance adequately those functions without slugging the community at large, it is progress at least that we are setting up this Advisory Council for Inter-Government Relations: It has a benefit. [More…]

• In nominating persons to be the members referred to in paragraph (2) (k), the Prime Minister shall ensure that, so far as is practicable, they are from different sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• From my quick reading of the Bill I am unable to find any guidelines as to what sections of the community the Prime Minister would be looking at to ensure that different sections of the community are represented on this Council. [More…]

• There will be 5 members of the community and therefore clearly not a precise mathematical formula on this. [More…]

• They are people who represent the community. [More…]

• The Council will consist of 5 Federal members, 6 State members, 6 local government members and 5 community members, making in all some 22 members. [More…]

• Then as a fourth interest we have the representatives of the community who are basically the recipients or the clients and who themselves have a vested interest in creating a society or an environment in which to live. [More…]

• In other States, every person in the community over the age of 1 8 has the opportunity to stand for local government elections and to vote at such elections. [More…]

• In South Australia there is a great percentage of ratepayers- in some cases they are not ratepayers but they have contributed towards the community welfare- who do not have a say in local government. [More…]

• In a sense these are machinery amendments in the main dealing with matters such as the size of the boards, the extension of the term of the members of the boards and the appointment of an executive officer which may, of course, be a controversial issue in the community concerned but is not, in the context of this legislation, in itself a controversial matter. [More…]

• In the community similar concern has been expressed about the radio functions of that Board and how that will be fitted in and accommodated by the Australian Film Commission. [More…]

• For example, the question is raised whether a society like ours is justified in subsidising seats at the opera to the extent of $17 a seat when a very small percentage of the community attends opera, when the facility of the Australian Opera is not made available to citizens of Western Australia, for example, and when those who do attend the opera belong to a particularly high ranking socio-economic group. [More…]

• But when one looks at the results in terms of the Australian community and the services and facilities which those organisations provide to the Australian community as a whole, perhaps our priorities are not quite what they ought to be. [More…]

• -In the debate relating to these 3 Bills the Parliament in general and the Senate in particular now is engaging in a study and consideration of an aspect of our national community life which is, I suppose, sometimes regarded as unique. [More…]

• Yet any area relating to the arts or to the culture of a community has reference to the commercial, industrial and social areas. [More…]

• They are a community initiative. [More…]

• The others are funded mainly through the community health program. [More…]

• The Labor Government, having recognised the need which was demonstrated for the establishment of these refuges, agreed to fund them through the community health program. [More…]

• Every question is important, as is the answer to it, to some section of the community. [More…]

• She fairly asked: What has been the Government’s policy with regard to the women’s shelters and the community health program being handed to the States. [More…]

• On 2 1 September in answer to Senator Walters I stated that the Government had given block grants to the States, announcing that it placed emphasis on the development of community based health services and, at the same time, the Commonwealth Government expressed its concern to promote its policies in an environment where it wants Commonwealth involvement in the supervision of the expenditure of money by the States kept to a minimum. [More…]

• Whether the States will continue with the community health programs which have been established is a matter that will need to be dealt with at some time in the future. [More…]

• I shall bring these matters which have been raised this evening with regard to women’s refuges under the community health program to the attention of the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt). [More…]

• The South West Rocks ablution block was purchased for $ 1 4,000 in May 1 975 by the New South Wales Department of Youth and Community Services with funds provided by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• Health: The State Health Commission employs one Aboriginal community health worker and one community nurse under its Aboriginal health program at Kempsey. [More…]

• Welfare: The Kempsey District office of the Department of Youth and Community Services is funded to employ a young Aboriginal clerical assistant. [More…]

• I think the community generally would give credit to the work that has been done by the Darwin Reconstruction Commission. [More…]

• I see another problem as being a very real one, that is, the lack of employment opportunities for women and others in the Australian community at present. [More…]

• We have just been pushed into bulk milk or should I say go bulk or get out and who wants a dairy farm in the middle of a mining community except Darra. [More…]

• Why should I be forced to sit down and write this in an attempt to arouse the awareness of responsible people to the plight of our farming community and its livelihood? [More…]

• Why turn to putting words on paper when the community spirited people of this district have gone and begged for justice from the politicians of this State, sought and been rejected aid from the government departments of this State and turned to seek justice in the law courts of this State when the verdict of this court to this day, has never been released. [More…]

• The following people form the Group and their community involvements prove they have the interests of the district at heart: [More…]

• I am intrigued that there was no attempt by the program to interview any law-abiding members of the North Queensland community, who have expressed their mounting concern about the problems of drug use and trafficking in the area. [More…]

• I suggest that, if we defined the definition of poverty beyond just income to include access to basic services, personal self-respect, opportunity for self-advancement and access to the law and to the decision making processes in our community, the position is much worse. [More…]

• The Government has ignored this recommendation, I believe, because of ideological difficulties and because of the high concern that conservative governments traditionally place on the position of property in our community. [More…]

• I believe that it ensures that the same piecemeal approach which we have taken for the provision of welfare in this community will continue. [More…]

• It is obvious to all concerned that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), determined that life should not be easy, that those who receive support should be worthy of it as well as in need of it, and steeped in the tradition of the protection of property rights in the community, has been continuously concerning himself, and some may say interfering, with the field of social security. [More…]

• I think it is perfectly clear that the reason is that the Treasurer (Mr Lynch), perhaps under the influence of the Treasury has convinced the Government that it is necessary to cut government spending no matter where it is cut and even if that cut affects the underprivileged in the community. [More…]

• Children who are dependent on pensioners are in a very parlous state in this community. [More…]

• Therefore, we believe it is necessary, if this general indexation principle is a policy of the Government, that the Government index an allowance of this type which goes to the most disadvantaged members of the community. [More…]

• A similar argument applies to the supplementary benefits which go to the poorest of the poor in our community. [More…]

• This is despite the fact that a concerted campaign has been conducted to reduce the number of people receiving unemployment benefits and to crack down on what the Government claims are masses of dole bludgers in the community. [More…]

• We must be sure that this potential mobile section of our community is not anchored to Australian homes by a continual neglect of the unemployment benefits paid to them. [More…]

• Professor Henderson’s view, which I share, is that the present means test is administratively difficult, is difficult for the community to understand and is unnecessarily tedious for those who administer the Act and for those who apply for benefits. [More…]

• I believe it is important that if we intend to reduce the disposable income of a sizable section of the community- a concerned section of the community- we should let them know what is going on and the reasons il is being done. [More…]

• I think the Government should consider the views of those people in the community who are disturbed by the sorts of changes that have been going on not only in this kind of legislation but in the activities of the Department and the activities of the Commonwealth Employment Service as well as the attitude to people on unemployment benefits, particularly the people receiving the supporting mother’s benefit. [More…]

• The Opposition is also disturbed at the disregard of benefits such as the supplementary benefits and others which are of help to the poorer people in the community. [More…]

• They will be a real help to many Australians and they will ease the burden for many people in our community. [More…]

• They cannot do any of those things when they are on less money than the rest of the community receives. [More…]

• If they try to do it on less money than the rest of the community receives, they become ill. [More…]

• This is a benefit to help the aged, the invalid, the widows, the supporting mothers, all the vulnerable people in the community, all the people who have no other resources and who have only themselves to rely on, but it has not been increased. [More…]

• So again the vulnerable people in the community suffer. [More…]

• If honourable senators opposite think those people should be assisted in some way to keep up with the rest of the community they should take that feeling through and look after the children under 18 years of age whether they are at school or not. [More…]

• Another group in the community does not come within the ambit of these Bills. [More…]

• I am referring, of course, to unemployed women in the community. [More…]

• I query the unemployment figures because I truly believe that many women in the community are really unemployed but are not registered and, therefore, are not counted. [More…]

• What will happen to the lives and to the economic fabric of this community if those women lose their jobs and there is no unemployment benefit for them is something that I think the Government has a duty to look at. [More…]

• If one examines the statistics and realises that, of all violent crimes, rape is the crime that is increasing at the greatest rate, one has to acknowledge that the community at large and governments in particular have to do something about it. [More…]

• I believe that the Government knows quite well that women need to have rape crisis centres and that the situation as regards women, the law and rape in our community is serious. [More…]

• Social welfare workers believe that this is the best thing that has ever happened to the Australian community. [More…]

• Senator Walters was most vocal in criticising the statement by Senator Grimes that the Fraser Government had no sympathy for the under-privileged sections of our community. [More…]

• If the Government is saying that the 5000 to 6000 people should not be on the list, it is admitting that since it came to office it has created more sickness in the community than there was when we were in government. [More…]

• He was very confused about the Medi-muddle as it is known generally in the community. [More…]

• So my notes, which might not comprise the most brilliant piece of oratory for the Senate, at least are prepared with sincerity and with concern in respect of the measures now before the Senate because it is the members of the Senate Committee and the chairman in particular as well as the Government supporters, who have to go out and face that section of the community that is most affected by this legislation. [More…]

• There has been a community awareness of the potential role of radio in education and community affairs. [More…]

• The Council is charged to promote the general application of arts in the community. [More…]

• They are very easy phrases to say, but I suggest that they have within them a lack of direction which shows up in the conflict between the various art forms- the big company versus the local community organisations. [More…]

• Yet surely it alerted the whole Australian community to the role and significance of the arts in our society. [More…]

• It alerted what I would call the artistic community to its areas of responsibility. [More…]

• It has alerted the community to the importance of an interdependent relationship between various sections of our society as we work out a cultural program that is not only beneficial and widely available but also is enjoyable. [More…]

• It will be one of controversy within the cultural community and within the wider community. [More…]

• I hope that the restructured Australia Council will bring a greater feeling of community responsibility and interest. [More…]

• I conclude by referring to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which within its list of fundamental freedoms talks about the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community. [More…]

• In today’s society man is always searching for ways to reintegrate the arts in society and to associate the public more closely with the cultural life of the community. [More…]

• There is urgent need for a continuing, changing and reforming assessment of ways in which cultural, artistic and educational communities can reach out to associate all members of society in the cultural life of the community. [More…]

• Surely it is reasonable to criticise on the basis that this body does not need that level of administrative cost to distribute $20m to various societies and others in the community including, at the grass roots level, those organisations that have developed of their own volition, in order to lift the cultural level of our society. [More…]

• The statement by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) of 3 June last made it perfectly clear that this Government is firmly committed to support and encourage the development of the arts throughout the Australian community. [More…]

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

• Will she ask the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to refer the matter to the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations for investigation and possible action under the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

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

• Mindful of the caution shown by Mr Justice Fox in his interim report about any uranium extraction in the Northern Territory, will the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Minister for the Northern Territory exercise the power mentioned by Senator Carrick during Estimates Committee discussion to declare the boundaries of the Kakadu National Park before- I emphasise before’- any future uranium extraction is attempted in the Territory? [More…]

• My understanding is that the Minister for the Northern Territory and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development have agreed that Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory is of national significance and at the appropriate time should be declared under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will have regard to the suggestions of the commissioners and will have further discussions with the Minister for the Northern Territory before defining the boundaries and declaring Kakadu National Park under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975. [More…]

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

• I ask the Minister: In view of the fact that the findings of this task force will obviously affect State and local government, voluntary agencies, her own Department and the Department of Health, to say the least, and that any such recommendations based on the wide terms of reference of this task force will deeply affect the community, will she ask the Prime Minister whether the members of this Parliament and the public of this country can have made available to them both the recommendations of the task force and the reasons for those recommendations so that there can be some public debate before any Government decisions are made? [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…]

• There is a growing belief that these costs tend to outweigh the benefits to the community at large. [More…]

• The interest burden, the inflationary pressure that existed in the community, was created almost entirely by the previous Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]

• For some reason there is an expectation in the community that the value of money should be maintained during a period of inflation. [More…]

• Previous governments and the present Government have gone along with the situation of maintaining high interest rates in order to satisfy the needs of a particular section of the community which could possibly make a sacrifice more easily than could those who have no savings at all. [More…]

• I do not think that what the Labor Government was doing was properly understood by the community. [More…]

• I think that if people in the community had understood it they would have been less angry with the Labor Government than they subsequently proved to be at election time. [More…]

• There are many people in the community who are not favourably placed. [More…]

• Therefore this legislation can be regarded as a grant from the poor to the rich, when we take into account what has been said repeatedly by this Government about income tax and about the need to have income tax and taxes generally put in the hands and the pockets of the people in the community generally. [More…]

• In accordance with the philosophy that seems to dominate its thinking, the Government has reduced the amount of Federal assistance not only to the building industry but also to the State governments in respect of the provision of land and community facilities upon the land. [More…]

• I think we are entitled to say that the housing policies of this Government are virtually non-existent and noneffective; that the cuts in government expenditure which have been a feature of the Budget this year worsen the problem; and that this legislation really does not contribute very much to assisting those who wish to become part of the home owning section of the Australian community. [More…]

• We would not interfere with expenditure on land commissions, urban flood mitigation, the sewerage program, and the development of Aboriginal community amenities. [More…]

• The development of Aboriginal community amenities has totally ceased in most areas. [More…]

• The appropriation for community activities which comes under the heading of general services has dropped by 50 per cent on the previous year’s allocation. [More…]

• I wish to take this opportunity to ask the Government one or two questions concerning the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Science. [More…]

• I ask both the Department of Science and the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development to say what progress has been made in this area. [More…]

• Or has that Department now passed the responsibility to the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development? [More…]

• If the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development is now responsible for this area, what funds are to be made available for the research that every investigation has suggested should be carried out? [More…]

• There is no doubt that eventually, if the Department of Science gears itself correctly and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development supports it, our experts will become the leading experts. [More…]

• Has the responsibility previously held by the Department of Science been passed to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development? [More…]

• If it has been passed to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, what has been done by the Department? [More…]

• It is also a matter for consideration by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I raise these matters in this particular discussionof course, they are relevant to the appropriation for the Postal and Telecommunications Department and, indeed, other departmentsbecause there is considerable concern in the community in regard to the continuing of production of Australian drama and television programs. [More…]

• The people who are unemployed as a deliberate and conscious effect of the policies of this Government are constantly vilified by members of this Government as being dole bludgers so that the Government can divert the latent hostility of the community to it towards the unfortunate people who are unemployed as a direct consequence of the deliberate policies of this Government. [More…]

• The Whitlam Government recognised the very important service being provided to the low income earners in the community by the Australian Legal Aid Office, and demonstrated that recognition in the 1975 Budget, the Hayden Budget. [More…]

• Of course it would be a growing need as more and more people in the community- more and more migrant people, more and more Aboriginal people and more and more low income people generally- came to realise that they were no longer to be deprived of legal assistance but could get it through the Australian Legal Aid Office. [More…]

• A disposable income of $100 a week, or perhaps one could say $150 a week, in this community would not enable a person to pay the huge fees often charged by private solicitors. [More…]

• That $3m was allocated to see whether an Aboriginal legal aid service was something that could serve the needs of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The Aboriginal legal service has won the confidence of Aboriginal people in many parts of the community, and so the demand for that service will be greatly increased. [More…]

• I cannot stress too strongly the importance of the Aboriginals in our community finally having access to legal assistance. [More…]

• There are many dreadful effects of the racism that has been practised in the country ever since Europeans settled here, but perhaps among the worst were the injustices suffered by the Aboriginal community under our law. [More…]

• Those figures in themselves indicate that in the past the Aboriginal community has not been receiving justice under the law and has not had access to proper legal advice. [More…]

• I mention these few things to draw attention to the fact that the $3.7m at present allocated by the Government is hopelessly inadequate if the Aboriginal community in Australia is to continue to have access to proper and sympathetic legal assistance. [More…]

• There has been no consultation with regard to the participation of community groups in such a commission. [More…]

• In conclusion I would like to say that despite its undertakings- particularly the undertakings of the Attorney-General which were much more optimistic than those of his leader- the Government has reduced the legal aid services available to the disadvantaged members of the community. [More…]

• The only reason I can arrive at for the Federal Government’s failure to preserve, expand and strengthen the Australian Legal Aid Office service is an ideological prejudice against a salaried professional service and a general lack of concern for the low income and disadvantaged members of the community. [More…]

• The history of turtle farming and the whole history of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs is one of the extremely difficult task of fitting into the life style of the white community a population which has its own peculiarities. [More…]

• The very things that it had written into that amendment are now proving to be a very great embarrassment to the Australian community. [More…]

• This means that the community must steel itself to withstand … a level of unemployment in January in excess of 400 000 when more Australians will be out of work than at any time since the Great Depression. [More…]

• That is another misleading statement to the community of this nation. [More…]

• We set out to carry out the policy on which we were elected in 1 972, and that was to bring justice to the needy people of this community. [More…]

• Many of those people were the lower paid sections of the community, and in particular pensioners. [More…]

• It will be interesting to see whether the working people of this community are invited to the Lodge to share with the present Prime Minister the goodies of the Lodge, just as they were invited over there by the previous Prime Minister. [More…]

• While I am talking tonight about a Yugoslav, I know from dealings with the Greek community and the Italian community that they have had a few minor matters. [More…]

• With reference to the raid carried out by Queensland State Police and Federal narcotics agents on the community of Cedar Bay in north Queensland on Sunday, 29 August 1 976, (a) on whose instructions were the Federal agents acting, (b) who requested them to take action, (c) how many Federal agents were involved, and what were their respective names and official designations, (d) were any of the agents armed and, if so, were their firearms discharged during the course of the raid, (e) on whose instructions was the vessel Jabiru involved in the action, and what part did it play, and (f) is the Minister satisfied with all aspects of the conduct of the Federal agents involved in the raid. [More…]

• With reference to the raid carried out by Queensland State Police and Federal narcotics agents on the community of Cedar Bay in north Queensland on Sunday 29 August 1976, (a) on whose instructions did HMAS Bayonet take part in the raid, (b) who requested the presence of HMAS Bayonet, (c) what was the name and rank of each crew member of HMAS Bayonet at the time of the raid, (d) what part did HMAS Bayonet and the crew play in the raid and (e) were any other officials from the Department of Defence or the armed services involved in the raid; if so, who were they and what pan did they play. [More…]

• Has an internal inquiry taken place into the use of defence facilities and personnel during the police raid on the community of Cedar Bay on Sunday, 29 August 1976; if so, what were the findings of the inquiry. [More…]

• Did the Federal Government meet the cost of the charter of the helicopter used to transport members of the Queensland Police Force and Federal narcotic agents who took part in the raid carried out on the community of Cedar Bay in north Queensland on Sunday, 29 August 1976; if so, (a) what was the cost of the charter, (b) who requested the charter of the helicopter, (c) who approved the charter of the helicopter, and (d) why did the Federal Government meet the cost, rather than the Queensland Government. [More…]

• It is consistent with the Government’s desire to consult with the broadest possible range of community groups. [More…]

• Will this officer be responsible to the Assistant Director-General, Migrant Community Services Branch of the Minister ‘s Department in Canberra, or to the National Groups Unit or some other officer? [More…]

• I am aware of the concern amongst the migrant community in Adelaide with regard to this key appointment and for this officer to work closely with the community, both through the Telephone Interpreter Service Advisory Committee and many other migrant community groups. [More…]

• The Assistant Director, Migrant Services, Adelaide, as with his counterparts in the other States, is directly responsible to the Senior Assistant Director of the Community and Social Welfare Branch in the State headquarters. [More…]

• The Department’s Migrant Community Services Branch has a policy co-ordination role across all State offices of the Department and includes a National Groups Unit which works closely with ethnic organisations throughout the community. [More…]

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

• He was even unwise enough to tell us that after 4 to 5 months of conservative government the number of unemployed in this community could be expected to drop by 200 000. [More…]

• The purpose of this is to encourage the private sector which provides three out of four jobs in the community so that the private sector will have available to it, without competition from the Government, the resources that exist in the community. [More…]

• In fact there would be an overall reduction in productive forces of the community by retiring people at an earlier age. [More…]

• We propose to create more jobs in the community, as I said, by stimulating the private sector, the one which provides three out of four jobs in the community. [More…]

• Least of all does the farming community or the community generally in Australia have an opportunity publicly to debate the very parlous state of so many sectors of agriculture. [More…]

• In the middle of all this evidence, on 16 October the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, said in Launceston that there was an encouraging improvement in the construction industry and there were signs of further gains. [More…]

• I think the Senate has done the Australian community and itself a great service in the way in which it has built itself up to this position. [More…]

• I believe that Senator Webster and his National Country Party colleagues, in particular, have been responsible for a vicious and wicked presentation in the competition of margarine as against butter, purely for selfish purposes and to benefit one section of the community as against another. [More…]

• Many doctors realise that butter is harmful to the health of many people in the community, but such people have been prevented from getting margarine. [More…]

• I have no brief for margarine, but I must make my strongest objection against the longstanding lobbying that has been done by the National Country Party to stop margarine taking its rightful place in the diet of our community. [More…]

• It was a matter of profound knowledge to the community as a whole and therefore even to the Whitlam Government. [More…]

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

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

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

• Early meetings have been arranged between the Federal Government and State governments to discuss the future funding for pre-school education after 30 June next year and to determine other ways in which the children’s services program of the Federal Government may be implemented at State government, local government and community levels. [More…]

• A second problem concerns the role of the community health nurse. [More…]

• This kind of nurse is an innovation and involves the provision by one nurse of all nursing services in the community to a defined population or area. [More…]

• Traditionally, nursing services in the community have been provided for the purpose of single services, such as infant welfare, for quite large population groupings. [More…]

• There are many people in the community who have to suffer because of crime, breaking and entering, physical assault and all of these sorts of things which are inflicted upon the general public. [More…]

• We find in many areas of the community an anti-police attitude. [More…]

• This is necessary if the police are to persist in deploying personnel to look after one individual in the community when the whole community ought to be protected. [More…]

• I have been very concerned with the Tarcoola-Alice Springs railway over very many years as have very many members of the Northern Territory community, with the result that after much persuasion the Liberal and Country Parties, when they were previously in power, initiated the design and planning for a new standard guage railway line from Tarcoola to Alice Springs. [More…]

• Is there a director of community arts? [More…]

• Over a period the Australia Council has carried out a very substantial lobby of important people in the community and a substantial lobby of important members of this Parliament, of all parties and of both governments. [More…]

• We set up a statutory corporation to fulfil what we considered a need in the Australian community, and nothing is more directed to this need than the Australia Council and the $22m which the Government had made available. [More…]

• It also makes the important point- again emphasising the role of the Council and of its boards, and of this Board in particular- that the budget of the Aboriginal Arts Board represents almost the entire patronage of Aboriginal arts by the Australian community. [More…]

• I make that point because I think it is important to bring that work to the notice of the Committee of the Whole, the Parliament and the community. [More…]

• One would have thought that the Australia Council’s program for community arts would have been the most important of all. [More…]

• That was so under our Government and it really should be so under the present Government, so that the general cultural level in the community would be raised and so we would not have to suffer the rubbish on television, because people would be in a better position to judge what is and what is not rubbish. [More…]

• Subdivision 1 of division 510 provided for an estimated expenditure for 1975-76 amounting to $1,426,680 for the Council’s program for community arts. [More…]

• Community arts funds assist festivals, youth, ethnic and many other groups with special artistic needs. [More…]

• The Community Arts estimates for 1976-77 are based on the assumption that Boards will take over Community Arts responsibilities in their specific an form, with proportionate funds to discharge such responsibilities. [More…]

• One would have thought that the Board set up for this purpose would be better able to concentrate on community arts programs. [More…]

• This matter is causing great concern not only to me but also to the average taxpayers of the community. [More…]

• If he were able to divulge to the community at large what it cost the previous Prime Minister to live in those residences, surely the people have a right to know what it is costing for Mr Fraser to live in those residences. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• I wish to refer to an item concerning the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development which relates to Commonwealth Hostels Ltd. [More…]

• I address myself, under the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, to division 297, item 01, Contribution to operational expenses- Hotel Kurrajong, Brassey House and Ainslie Guest House. [More…]

• Nevertheless the comments he made are common in the community and I will draw them to the attention of my colleague the Minister for Post and Telecommunications. [More…]

• As an example, I cite an experience of an Aboriginal community at Cabbage Creek in northern New South Wales. [More…]

• Special consideration has to be given to this particular section of our community. [More…]

• I do not want to delay the Senate unduly but I want tonight very briefly to discuss community attitudes and the need for governments to provide avenues of assistance for people who are already disadvantaged. [More…]

• They rang a community welfare sister and asked her to go and see the baby, which she did. [More…]

• It has a community health sister. [More…]

• I also want to delay the Senate very briefly, partly because one of the matters raised by Senator Coleman was a matter that I raised in the Senate earlier this week, but mainly because I think that raising these matters, although they are important and I agree that they should be brought before the public and before the Parliament, can lead one to overlook some of the other aspects of what is happening in the community. [More…]

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

• 1168) Senator Keeffe asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• As the honourable senator may be aware, the Government recently set up a Committee of Inquiry into Care of the Aged and Infirm and has also appointed a task force to examine welfare services and community based programs in the health/welfare/community development area. [More…]

• -Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate, as the Minister representing the Prime Minister, aware of the increasing concern amongst a widening sector of the Australian community, especially the business community, at the Government’s hard line approach to the economy? [More…]

• -The honourable senator mentioned a number of issues but he really did not get to the real issue, that is, that until inflation is brought under control none of the things which anybody in this community wants can be achieved. [More…]

• Upon completion of year 12 at a matriculation level a person may go on to tertiary education but, alternatively, after leaving school he may go to a technical college or a community college. [More…]

• So post-secondary would be inclusive of tertiary education but would include also institutions such as technical colleges, community colleges or colleges of that nature which do not necessarily require a matriculation pass for entry to the college. [More…]

• But more importantly, I commend what I suspect the honourable senator is referring to, that is, an attitude of mind which is no longer defeatist but takes the training of persons with even severe handicaps as a challenge, advocates public acceptance, and as far as possible aims to restore all such people to the community of their peers. [More…]

• It was the journalists themselves who suggested to me that perhaps Press releases could be issued on an embargo basis for everyone to obtain and then, if necessary, General Stretton could issue further comments either on the ABC which he was using for broadcasting purposes to the community in any event, or privately. [More…]

• I suggest that this is a sentiment that is all too ripe in the Australian community, particularly amongst some small time petty journalists. [More…]

• The people are there, the community is there and the social and economic infrastructure is there. [More…]

• I want to address my comments principally to this matter today on the basis of my experience as one who has actually lived and worked in the community of Queenstown on the west coast of Tasmania. [More…]

• In his opening remarks on this matter Senator Harradine said that Queenstown is a community of about 5000 people who are wholly dependent on mining, as distinct from many other mining areas that one can recall throughout Australia where, when the mine was worked out, the people were able to engage in some other sort of activity. [More…]

• That is an example of the relationship that has always existed between the people throughout the whole community. [More…]

• People from the English speaking world, people from the Welsh mines, people of Irish origin, German, Italian and many other ethnic origins work happily together on the west coast as part of a happy community. [More…]

• The number involved is 40 per cent of the total west coast community. [More…]

• The people of Tasmania accepted it as the truth of the situation coming from the top executive person in the community. [More…]

• I know that because I lived with them and engaged in the daily activities of normal persons in the community. [More…]

• I want to tell this little story because it has a relationship to the feeling and spirit that exist in that community. [More…]

• I observed this incident, as many people in the community did. [More…]

• That is part of the picture which I think we must bear in mind when we look at the total scene in this mining community. [More…]

• I hoped at the outset to draw attention to the human problem, to the wonderful relations that have always existed, apart from a very brief period in 1927, between the management of the mine and the people in the community, to the co-operation that has always existed between those people and to the fact that the management has acknowledged the wonderful contributions of the State of Tasmania. [More…]

• I point out that Queenstown, like all mining communities, is a cohesive, socially knit community which sticks together. [More…]

• I support the motion moved by Senator Harradine in this chamber to express this chamber’s concern for the predicament for the community of Queenstown, and it is laudable to notice that he puts it in positive terms of preserving the investment, both human and economic. [More…]

• I do not stay long on the question of human values but I support everything that has been said in praise of the community of Queenstown, a remarkably coordinated community and, as Senator Grimes has mentioned, one that has an undoubted record of freedom from wasteful industrial disputes. [More…]

• It is because of the isolation of that community which is dependent solely upon one company that the problem becomes of unique significance. [More…]

• It is totally unjust for Senator Grimes to wash his hands in the nursery where he is purifying the health of the community and to say that all this sympathy has developed in this political chamber, because there is a little electoral electrification of the atmosphere in Tasmania. [More…]

• Every member in this chamber, I believe, is genuinely concerned that such a laudable community as Queenstown should be resuscitated. [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…]

• There has been a constant clamour in the community throughout this year for a public inquiry into broadcasting. [More…]

• Many of them appreciate the great service which the Australian Broadcasting Commission has given this community and the principles which underlie the operation of a free and independent public radio service. [More…]

• As I understand it, good staff relations involve co-operation and each side knowing where they are going, a community of purpose and a number of things of that kind which are totally absent from the ABC at the moment. [More…]

• I suggest that whilst we are trying to find employment for Aborigines in the Northern Territory, encourage them and assist them in education and health, gradually their numbers in the Northern Territory are dwindling and the across the board cuts in the Northern Territory are a washout, are not working and are not good for the health of the Northern Territory community. [More…]

• I think the Minister will be aware of the problem of unemployment benefits in an Aboriginal community. [More…]

• When a large number of unemployed people are present within a community, that community disintegrates and lays itself open to that criticism which people are prepared so readily to give to Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• As we have mentioned before these in the main must be in the community, not away from the community. [More…]

• I use as an example again the community to which I referred earlier. [More…]

• While I was visiting that community the head teacher indicated to me that there was a shortage of teaching assistants, those Aboriginal people who are so vital in the education program and who assist the teachers. [More…]

• Certainly keeping a community running can be seen as a special project when we have the situation of 54 people from a small community such as that on the Roper River being out of work. [More…]

• No one under 20 years of age is employed from the small community to which I have referred. [More…]

• Things have to be weighed against one anotherthe dignity of work and the right of a person to have his own entitlement in his own name as against perhaps a community developing programs and projects which may benefit the entire community. [More…]

• I understand that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is maintaining a data base on fluorocarbon production and usage in Australia. [More…]

• The costs of research in teaching hospitals are only one of the components in the relatively higher costs of teaching hospitals as reported in the article in the Medical Journal More significant are the increasing sophistication of medicine leading to greater numbers of resident staff, who are to some extent still undergoing postgraduate training, increased number of specialists, greater capital and maintenance costs of sophisticated apparatus, increasing expectations of patients, and substantial increases in salary rates as compared with general community experience. [More…]

• An equitable distribution of funds to cover all the childcare needs of the community; [More…]

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

• I should imagine that the question concerns a number of departments, including the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In view of the facts as enunciated by Senator Gietzelt showing that the economy has not responded to that investment allowance program, is the Government intending to persist with its assumption that by the continuation of this investment allowance program there will be a response from the business community before demand picks up? [More…]

• I believe that no one should be condemned for mistakes made with good intent and with good purpose, because the whole of the Australian community rallied to the assistance of Darwin. [More…]

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

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

• I now put it to the Minister In the light of the report that Mr Justice Fox conferred with the Prime Minister yesterday, does he still stand by the assurance that the Minister for the Northern Territory and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, will alone define the boundaries of that park? [More…]

• By this means the Committee can inform itself on community attitudes to proposals. [More…]

• That would allow us to examine the matter without any question in the back of our minds that immediately, and even before the committee goes into action, 400 workers, their families and other sections of the community will be affected. [More…]

• Both honourable senators referred to the fact that all people in the Australian community have not the same level of service. [More…]

• This Government will listen to any proposition at any stage which is put to it about an injustice within the community. [More…]

• The Government is desirous of hearing about any anomalies that exist in the community. [More…]

• I have made the offer to all honourable senators that if they are aware of any injustices within the community I will be pleased to hear about them and to refer them to the Minister for the Capital Territory (MrStaley). [More…]

• That will be a very low cost to the community if we can get private motor cars off the road. [More…]

• Develop transport facilities which best serve the complex pattern of activities necessary to the well-being of the community. [More…]

• 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 public transport system will be operated in an efficient and cost-conscious manner, while providing a high level of service to all sections of the community. [More…]

• So community acceptance and community use of the public transport system is increasing rapidly. [More…]

• If you reduce services, then the most depressing effect is upon the captive rider who has no other means of travel and who therefore is immobilised in the community. [More…]

• While we are establishing an infrastructure and a new rapid transit system for buses, and while we are seeking to meet the problems of a relatively dispersed population located in the ‘new towns’ of the Capital Territory, we have to make the effort to ensure greater use by the community of the public transport system. [More…]

• Changes in the composition of the Authority will strengthen the basic philosophy of education in the Australian Capital Territory in having even more community involvement in the decision-making body administering the Australian Capital Territory government school system. [More…]

• A high degree of community involvement was proposed in the 1973 report entitled A design for the Governance and Organisation of Education in the A.C.T., prepared by a panel which was chaired by Mr Philip Hughes, who is Chairman of the Interim Authority. [More…]

• In accordance with the Government’s policy of decentralisation of decision making and community participation in education, the major feature of the new arrangements would be councils for the four further education institutions which the Australian Capital Territory will have in 1977. [More…]

• Substantial responsibility will be devolved to the institutions, where the community-based councils will operate. [More…]

• In discussing the matter with the families concerned, I put forward the view that perhaps it is due to the fact that new concepts are held by the medical staffs who currently argue that such people, as far as possible, ought to be accommodated in community environments and conditions. [More…]

• I am not sure whether that practice is a new trend, but I put it to the Minister in order that he might tell us whether he can make a general observation that a new procedure has been adopted by the medical staffs of the hospital wherein they may say that those people can be left in the community for a longer period. [More…]

• I agree completely with the Minister when he says in his second reading speech that of course there are differences of opinion in our community. [More…]

• They are there as a result of a political strike which involved the exercise of power by a group in this community to achieve what it regarded as important social community results. [More…]

• It may be that many people in this community who expect to gain a lot in terms of money from nuclear power will support that proposition, but many people involved in trade unions will oppose that proposition because they do not see it being in the interests of their society, their children or the community in which they live. [More…]

• There are examples today throughout the community where this is not the case. [More…]

• I have said as much as I want to say on this subject but I want to reiterate the importance of making sure that this legislation gains proper acceptance in the eyes of the community. [More…]

• If there is no monolithic trade union view, how sensible and reasonable it seems that in producing legislation in this area we should look to cover the widest possible range of involvement and the widest possible range of problems that occur within the trade union movement, as indeed they occur within any movement or association in our community. [More…]

• It is a circumstance that can be applied only in the sort of community, in the sort of society, in the sort of political orientation, in the sort of parliamentary control in which we in Australia find ourselves. [More…]

• I suggest that if we are led through this son of circumstance to a dictatorship of the Left or the Right- whether it be the Left or the Right is purely a matter of academic interest- it is a dictatorship and it must above all things be avoided in the circumstances of the Australian community. [More…]

• I am convinced- as a prelude to this particular legislation there has been considerable discussion and months of investigation- that the only way in which we can survive as a total economic and social community is by a proper measure of recognition of the inter-relation between all the spheres of operation in this country- between trade unionists, between management, between governments. [More…]

• We have to recognise that only by discussion, only by recognition of the problems across the board, only by recognition of the interdependence that exists between every section of the community are we to establish a measure of real permanence in the solutions which we seek. [More…]

• I refer the Minister to the recent report in the Melbourne Age detailing 8 community centres in Melbourne’s western suburbs which are closing as a result of the axing of the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

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

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and it follows the answer he has just given. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minster for Environment, Housing and Community Development, follows the questions about Monarto. [More…]

• This will include ensuring that interpreters are made available and that they have sufficient clothing, funds and so on to enable them to take their place in the Australian community. [More…]

• It would be a circumstance in which all those members of industry and commerce and of the various trade unions- I am talking about those confined to a specific industrywould have a clearer recognition of the responsibility that interdependence places on every member and every association in our community. [More…]

• These people are a narrow and religiously bigoted small percentage of the community who make up the extreme right wing of a semi-fascist, anti-semitic National Civic Council that is being used for the self-aggrandisement and glorification of Santamaria, Maynes and Senator Harradine. [More…]

• Unless we in Australia can get an overall economic assessment by both sides, right and left, of our capacity, of our political strata, we have no future in the community of trading nations. [More…]

• We are faced with a drop in our real living standards, and not many people have contemplated what that means to a community which has become attuned to a continually rising standard of living. [More…]

• I am afraid that on examining certain aspects not only of this edition but also of previous editions- but the last edition in particular- I find that in fact the book extends beyond what one could expect to see in a manual where it incorporates a personal opinion or alternatively a dogmatic assertion about matters of high constitutional debate presently in train in the community. [More…]

• The book by the Clerk of the Senate- a man of great experience and recognised scholarshipought to be claimed not merely as a concatenation of records and events but also as a book which has had brought to it such a degree of scholarship that makes it worthy of consideration by all sections of the community, including members of Parliament, university scholars, political scientists and the general public, as an historical record of opinion from that experienced scholarship, applied after a lifetime devotion to the study. [More…]

• Telecom Australia considers that the public telephone needs of the community will be met more effectively by concentrating on the replacement of existing high-maintenance street installations with public telephones that are more resistant to vandalism, and therefore more reliable and effective in operation, than by simply increasing the number of installations. [More…]

• Expenditure had to be brought back within the bounds of available resources which the community could supply. [More…]

• There are signs the economy is proceeding, but in the cross fire of political criticism and the pressures and impatience of sectional interests, the facts are often obscured, and the community could become bewildered. [More…]

• -Seeing that the matters of age, fitness, sport and things like that are in the air, I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

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

• Is the Minister aware that these complaints are coming from all sections of the community, not the least being prominent members of the Liberal Party? [More…]

• -Did the Minister for Social Security read a report in the Australian newspaper of 15 November that the New South Wales Minister for Youth and Community Services, Mr Jackson, has called a meeting next Friday of State Ministers responsible for social welfare to discuss the future of the Australian Assistance Plan? [More…]

• Is the Minister considering making a positive response to the States to ensure that this 3-year experiment in community involvement in social development will not be destroyed? [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…]

• 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 2-way communication between schools, parents, employers and the community at large; and encouragement of cooperative planning between government and non-government school authorities. [More…]

• The States have the hard and harsh choice either to increase their own taxes to meet the short fall in revenue or to allow essential community services in these areas to decline and new federal initiatives in these areas to expire. [More…]

• The other factor involved is the rise in the general level of economic growth in the community, which will be distributed to the States in the proper way. [More…]

• Finally, I mention the obvious support demonstrated throughout the community for the Government’s policy in the area of local government. [More…]

• I believe that that is the crux of the interest and genuine support that is developing around the Australian community for this proposal and it is the reason why I support the Bill. [More…]

• There may be three or four small municipal bodies geographically close together, each with an engineer, a shire secretary, a clerk and a rate collector- all the things that go to make up a local government enterprise- when in effect after some detailed discussions and with a little less parochialism in the area the whole community would be far better served by rationalisation or amalgamation. [More…]

• I have always believed that the sole test of the viability or non-viability of a municipality or shire must not be whether it is financially successful; the real test is whether it is discharging to an optimum the services that its special community desires. [More…]

• However, if a body which otherwise might not be financially successful is discharging good community services this Bill will have carried out its real intentions. [More…]

• One of the difficulties that must be faced in the society in which we live arises from the fact that the Australian community at large is beginning to become more aware of the need to conserve its past, but time is not necessarily on the side of those who wish to preserve our past. [More…]

• I am not trying to anticipate the Justice Fox findings, but Senator Carrick pointed out that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and the Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Adermann) could make a decision in relation to the dimensions of this national park. [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 senator’s question: [More…]

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

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

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

• Will the Minister give assurances that when the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority is set up (a) community representation will remain unaltered, and (b) the Authority will be completely autonomous. [More…]

• The honourable senator will now be aware that the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority Ordinance provides for greater community representation than the present Interim Authority allowed. [More…]

• The permanent Authority will have 14 part-time members, compared with the Interim Authority’s 9, so that the wider community will be involved in its decision making. [More…]

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

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

• To the best of my knowledge, the Bureau does not provide any specialised warning service on weather conditions which are likely to produce an increase in the incidence of asthma in the community, but I understand that some newspapers publish, along with the weather reports, the pollen counts in some areas. [More…]

• Is the Government aware that this action prevents not only Australians but also the international community within Australia from receiving information from East Timor? [More…]

• It refers to a Press release issued by the Minister on 2 1 October on the community youth support scheme, whereby unemployed youth will be paid up to $6 per week to work on what was described as voluntary work programs. [More…]

• Discussions have taken place on a number of occasions at ministerial level between me, my colleague the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and my colleague the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and at officer level, to see what facilities we can provide to enable better vocational training for Aborigines within the schools and colleges, but even more importantly, how we can arrange a link between the community outside and the schools and colleges so that we can orient the Aboriginal students from the schools or the colleges to a meaningful job. [More…]

• I ask: Is the Minister aware of widespread concern amongst a large number of parents in the community that such replacement will diminish the already inadequate surveillance over program standards, particularly insofar as they affect children? [More…]

• It also refers to the fact that the Government’s community youth support scheme, which has been referred to by Senator Ryan, will cost the Government about $2m. [More…]

• I believe that through its efforts much benefit will flow to those of our community in need through handicap and disability. [More…]

• In the series of 8 second reading speeches which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) put down the matters of funding, salaries and administration, residential accommodation and the important matter of community involvement are included. [More…]

• The Australian Education Council, after a series of surveys and reports, alerted the Australian community to the national nature of education problems. [More…]

• There will always be argument in a federation about the role of the Commonwealth in a matter that affects the total community in the way education does. [More…]

• In his speech this afternoon the Leader of the Opposition placed emphasis on the fact that the previous Administration’s contribution to education was achieved simply by showering funds upon it, without any particular attention to what those funds might produce or what effect the lavishing of those funds might have on other sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• It must be remembered, and indeed it is well known, that the rising educational expectations in the Australian community are shared by people in all areas- whether they live in urban areas or in remote areas. [More…]

• I believe that properly developed and administered technical and further education complements very readily all other development strategies in our community. [More…]

• Technical and further education, in its non-formal character, provides a cornerstone for general development, for a lifelong education, for community education, and for the development of human resources. [More…]

• I saw these aspects given particular emphasis only the other day when, on behalf of the Minister, I attended the opening of the South East Community College at Mount Gambier in South Australia. [More…]

• It also has a very close involvement with the community. [More…]

• It provides a wealth of courses and opportunities and, when all of these are taken up, it will undoubtedly produce the characteristics of which I have just spoken in relation to lifelong community education. [More…]

• It will provide a process by which a community and a people have a greater mastery over their own destiny. [More…]

• As mentioned in the Kangan report and in the Minister’s speech, one of the hallmarks of technical and further education is its widespread application and its involvement with the community. [More…]

• I take the liberty of telling the Leader of the Opposition that at the opening of the South East Community College at Mount Gambier the keynote of the speech made by the Premier of South Australia, who performed the opening ceremony, was that the whole basis and value and virtue of technical and further education was its community involvement, the benefit it obtained from local awareness, and the benefit and progress which it obtained from cooperation with local government and community organisations. [More…]

• Because there has been such criticism by members of the Government, by other sections of the community and by some sections of the media, of the rapidly increased expenditure on education under the Labor Government, I refer to the latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development publication on public expenditure in education which was published in July 1 976. [More…]

• I think that that principle was widely accepted in the Australian community, and accepted with a great deal of relief after the many years of bitterness that had revolved around the question of the rights of nongovernment schools to support by public moneys. [More…]

• It strikes me as being contradictory for the Government to claim that its policies are ‘concerned to encourage community participation’ when it has made no provision for such community participation in its allocation of funds. [More…]

• When the previous States Grants (Schools) Bill went through the Senate earlier this year the Opposition moved an amendment to provide that a small proportion of the recurrent funds that go to schools be set aside for use at the discretion of the school or the governing body of the school, one with community representation, for which the phrase ‘school board’ is the most general description. [More…]

• I think that the Government’s failure to make such a provision- that provision was recommended in several Schools Commission reports- indicates that its talk of encouraging community involvement is merely so much rhetoric. [More…]

• I believe that such a provision would increase parent and community involvement. [More…]

• It would increase the awareness of the community about the cost involved in education and the difficulties involved in the administration of education, and would generally lead to a more informed and aware education community. [More…]

• If universities are not widely and freely accessible to those who are able and motivated in the community, then they have much less call on public funds than they would if they were available to all properly qualified and motivated people. [More…]

• So it is clearly a matter about which neither governments nor the community can be complacent. [More…]

• I suggest that there is a perennial problem with such matters, and that is the question of providing a most effective system of education within the limits of the resources available to governments and to the community generally. [More…]

• I think the last point will be a particularly important part of the role played by that Committee if the money which is being allocated to schools is to be in the longer term most effectively used in the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• All these factors indicate the emphasis being placed by the present Government on education as an important area of community development; as a means of building up skills within the community which will be required in the future; as a means of providing greater choice and freedom for individuals as they expand their knowledge and therefore their ability to make choices of employment within the community. [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…]

• There is no lead plumbing practised actively in the community in Victoria. [More…]

• There are people in the ethnic community in Victoria who have the ability to give that sort of counselling, that sort of technique and that sort of education to people in their own language. [More…]

• The unfortunate part of the situation is that unless funds are made available technical colleges will not be able to provide that son of course- a crash teacher training course- to provide for that vital need in a very vital part of our community in Victoria. [More…]

• With more direct funding from the federal body women could be encouraged to take up many positive careers in the community. [More…]

• Another area in which women could play a vital role is in the area of community health care. [More…]

• The Federal Government needs to inject money into the technical and further education area to make sure that crash courses are made available and to make sure that women undertake courses and go out into the community and become part of the workforce. [More…]

• Unless specific funds are made available women and girls in our community will not be able to take their places as skilled people and courses will not be expanded to include them. [More…]

• For those people to achieve their full capacity and to take their integral place in the community, we must have migrant teachers to bring them into this world of ours. [More…]

• If honourable senators recently have sat in an office of the Commonwealth Employment Service and watched the light go out of the eyes of these youngsters while they sit there and realise that the world no longer wants them they would believe that that $150m could be put to much greater use to bring these people back into the community of Australia. [More…]

• It is reasonable that I should make some sort of assessment of what is happening in class rooms and what appears to be the flow-on benefit or otherwise to the community from what is happening in the class rooms. [More…]

• If the training which is given in them does not equip those people to go back into their own community- a type of transition community between the ‘noble savage’ state and the white society by which they are surrounded and with which they are constantly in contact- if it does not give them the means of coping with that situation, it is a failure in educational terms. [More…]

• Aborigines are in contact with the white community in Australia today. [More…]

• We must recognise that the white community has influenced them. [More…]

• The second area I would like to look at is the involvement of parents and the community generally in education. [More…]

• The Government parties want to see community involvement. [More…]

• Aboriginal students be encouraged to enroll in short intensive courses at the College, with the bulk of the training being given in the home community. [More…]

• with the bulk of the training being given in the home community. [More…]

• I think it is clear from what I said earlier that the Katherine Rural College, like colleges in other areas, could act as a centre from which trainers would take their equipment from the college and work in the community. [More…]

• Some short courses would be offered for those people who need them and the rest could be taken out to the community. [More…]

• As I have mentioned before in this place, the Darwin Community College cannot cope with the needs of the apprentices because of the shortage of staff brought about by staff ceilings; but that does not mean that at this stage we should not draw attention once again to the need for centres to be set up within the Territory for the training of apprentices. [More…]

• I mention also the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• All we need from the Minister is a little sympathetic consideration of the problems faced by the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• To sum up, I ask the Minister when he is considering these Bills to look at the establishment of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Northern Territory as a step towards our own authority within the Territory and as an involvement of the parents and the community generally in the education scene in Darwin. [More…]

• -I would think that some system will have to be developed to ensure that these graduates are able to find work and thus are able to serve the requirements of the community in a better way. [More…]

• I have a report on aspects of dental care for the community submitted by the South Australia Branch of the Australian Dental Association which under the heading ‘Current Dental Population Ratios ‘ states: [More…]

• After taking the activities of the School Dental Service (nationally) into account a planning ratio for other dentists in the community was set at 1:2439. [More…]

• This would appear to be a reasonable planning ratio for the Australian Community in order to ensure economic viability of private dental practices. [More…]

• The problem is going to have to be faced by the whole community. [More…]

• It will have to be faced by governments in this community because governments make decisions in these areas. [More…]

• There are those people in the community who have a genuine concern about education. [More…]

• But I realise that one of the reasons why technical education had a low priority- apart from the usual reasons in the community that universities and later on colleges of advanced education were the prestige institutions, that people who went to them generally did not get their hands dirty and all the other reasons that we know about- was that when an investigation was held into technical education in Australia and the Kangan Report came out, as in so many reports we found that he asked many difficult questions. [More…]

• This inquiry was really the first close look at technical education in this community. [More…]

• I believe that those who take a blind, parochial view and who adopt the blind principle ‘what we have we hold at any cost ‘, without looking at the facts, do none of us a good service and certainly do not make the future of education planning in this community any easier. [More…]

• The greatest single pressure that one would need is not the force of centralist legislation but the knowledge of parent and community bodies that the funds are available and that the States can be pressed into making those funds available. [More…]

• It is an attempt further to isolate the suffering and the heroism of the East Timorese people from Australia and from the world community. [More…]

• When we were there we spoke to the Chinese community- the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. [More…]

• What has happened near to the border of Australia, near to the coast of Australia, is the forceable takeover of a small community by a brutal and repressive government. [More…]

• an equitable distribution of funds to cover all the child care needs of the community; [More…]

• -The Minister representing the Minister for the Northern Territory has no doubt read in today ‘s Australian that an independent member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly has criticised the Darwin Cyclone Tracy Relief Trust Fund for the allocation of sums of money in the Fund for a proposed community cultural centre in Darwin. [More…]

• I have said a number of times that if we are going to do something real for the indigenes or other inhabitants of Cocos Island it will be done as a matter of negotiation with the community of that island. [More…]

• It will not be done by making flamboyant statements in this place or by creating problems through a confrontation with the people in that community. [More…]

• However, what I do know is that very great numbers of employees of insurance companies were particularly concerned about the policies of the Labor Government, its attempts to set up a government insurance office and the successful attempts that that Government made, in many ways, to reduce the value of insurance policies that were held by vast numbers of members of the community. [More…]

• When we left government we were taking action to improve the conditions of the Cocos Malay community. [More…]

• I would have thought that in the 24 years of operation of this legislation some attempt would have been made by the former Department of Civil Aviation and the now Department of Transport to try to define clearly what is properly attributable to civil aviation and what is properly attributable to defence, development and the other community services provided by airlines. [More…]

• I wish to make a short intervention into the debate because I believe that the manner in which the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Amendment Bill has been introduced into the Senate, although it is not a matter which is likely to arouse great debate in the community at large, gives a very clear indication of this Government’s approach to the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]

• Any decisions taken in this area will need to take into account such factors as the capacity of the community to meet the additional cost of any new program. [More…]

• When those members move out among the community much of the impact and thrust of their submissions is lost if the numbers are decreased. [More…]

• I have noted that in the other place the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) regaled much on what each had done. [More…]

• I refer to the journal prepared by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• This is the immense cost that the Australian Heritage Commission will save the community by heading off major resource conflicts before they occur. [More…]

• It should be borne in mind that it may well be that the saving to the community in many areas will be by early action rather than by waiting until people have made decisions and have committed themselves to all kinds of economic development. [More…]

• Preserve Commonwealth buildings, structures and areas which have unique historical value and wide community appreciation. [More…]

• But, as the maintenance of our Australian heritage is a large and complicated task, not only for the national Government but also for State governments as well as the whole of the Australian community, the need for broad representation was seen to be absolutely necessary. [More…]

• It has enabled a representative from each State to be on the Commission, as well as members of the community who have an active interest in conservation. [More…]

• The tendency under the new national Administration is to cut down the sharing of responsibility in the community. [More…]

• I have many friends within the Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory, despite what Senator Keeffe had to say. [More…]

• As I said earlier, I looked forward to this debate, not only because I recognised that we have to save our national heritage, but also because I wanted to see legislation being introduced in which the Federal Government played a role, the State Government play a role and also- to ensure that the legislation works- the community play a role. [More…]

• I hope that the community becomes more aware of what it is losing, that we do have a heritage and that we have it to look after. [More…]

• Fundamentally, the responsibility for protecting the National Estate is one that rests on the whole community, including governments. [More…]

• One of the pitiful things one notices when moving around Australia these days is to see, particularly in the development of the cities- I am not relating it to any government because it is a community problem- but also in the country, that the fine old historical pieces that should be with us forever are being lost overnight to a developer who can see that by removing a building he may make a profit of $10,000, $20,000 or $50,000. [More…]

• We have a responsibility to our Aboriginal friends, who are part of Australia and part of the community, and their heritage and culture. [More…]

• The important thing about the Australian Heritage Commission, the National Estate and the concepts involved with them was that for the first time initiatives were taken at the grass roots level, at the citizen level, at the community group level, at the concerned people’s level. [More…]

• Behind the former Government’s consideration of these issues was the desire to give recognition to the efforts of the people- not centralised efforts, which expression we have heard bandied about so many times in this place that we are sickened- but recognition that there is an understanding about these issues at the community level. [More…]

• The result of those informal and formal discussions at the State level was the establishment of co-operative federalism, the establishment of the principle of governments working together, the establishment of the principle involving local government and community organisations. [More…]

• The public discussion that ensued in those early years of the Whitiam Government excited the interests of all the community groups, the conservationists, the scientists, the national trust bodies, the environmentalists and the citizens. [More…]

• Unless the determination of the community that was expressed in those early days is reinvigorated and re-established the efforts of this Government to undermine and reduce to a mere shell the Heritage Commission will succeed. [More…]

• The Heritage Commission has a role to play in providing this avenue of community awareness, community vigilance and community involvement. [More…]

• It requires funds for it to be opened to the public as part of the general education program and the community awareness which honourable senators spoke so much about last year and in the present debate. [More…]

• To prohibit or to restrict any sector of our community from making recommendationsthat is what the provisions of this legislation seek to do- unless they are proved by the Minister is totally against the main purpose of this legislation. [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…]

• They brought misery Unto the community and they have not Deen able to recover the lost ground since. [More…]

• These projects were initially administered entirely by local government bodies and more recently Aboriginal community organisations have also received grants for Special Work Projects. [More…]

• The Brotherhood of St Laurence submitted a proposal to the previous Labor Government for a community based job creation program in November 1975. [More…]

• The proposal was that the Australian Government should agree to establish and fund a job creation program for unemployed youth to undertake community service work. [More…]

• The recent Government initiatives in relation both to special subsidies for employers providing in-plant training for young persons who left school in the last 1 2 months, and to assistance to community groups and organisations to provide supportive services and programs to young unemployed persons, are further indications of the Government’s willingness to take selective action in the youth employment area. [More…]

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

• Are there any nursing sisters at Docker River to serve the community and staff the health clinic. [More…]

• R. F. Jackson, Minister for Youth and Community Services in New South Wales, has convened a meeting of State Social Welfare Ministers in Sydney on 19 November 1 976. [More…]

• The stated purpose of this meeting is to formulate a common approach to the Commonwealth Government in order to ensure that the benefits of collaborative social planning to meet community needs are not lost by virtue of the Commonwealth Government ‘s decision to transfer the administration and funding of the Australian Assistance Plan to the States as from 1 July 1977. [More…]

• That Technical Assistance Grants and Administrative Support Grants to community organisations are needed to partially redress the gross imbalance in technical expertise and resources suffered by community groups in pressing the community’s case against the exploiter. [More…]

• What consideration has been given to distributing a medal to the many ordinary people who, although their work may not have been acknowledged as spectacular, have rendered a lifetime of service to the community? [More…]

• What is the extent of contamination of imported frogs’ legs, and what danger of food poisoning can these represent to the Australian community? [More…]

• I personally am not aware that there remains concern in any section of the community regarding the future of these orchestras. [More…]

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

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

• Does not the Minister agree that such discretionary powers cannot apply to a section of the community collectively? [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 way that had highly significant flow-on effects throughout the community. [More…]

• The statement talks about unrealistic views which were also fostered in the community about future incomes. [More…]

• The collapse of those industries during the last 3 years of Labor administration, due to high inflation, has been the source of rising costs and has resulted in the loss of an enormous number of jobs in the Australian community. [More…]

• As I mentioned earlier, the economy is highly liquid and running well ahead of demands within the community. [More…]

• The Government, or the National Country Party in particular, probably has successfully conned the more simplistic members of the farming community into believing that there are massive gains for the agricultural sector in the devaluation. [More…]

• All farmers, and indeed everyone else in the community, will become victims of the consequential inflation which this irresponsible move will undoubtedly generate. [More…]

• We have to recognise that in this community there has to be a real measure of proper and constructive discussion between all sides if we are to survive. [More…]

• The Bill which I am now introducing reflects the Government’s careful consideration of many and varied views on this matter and is a tangible indication of this Government’s commitment to the principle that Aborigines 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…]

• If that is acceptable to honourable senators opposite all I can say is that they have no understanding of the tremendous pressures that exist within the Australian community in respect of housing assistance for those who are not able for a variety of reasons associated with the development of the Australian economy in the post-war years to save to buy land at the exorbitant price it is, particularly in the capital cities, and to finance the repayments when they build a home upon that land. [More…]

• I am afraid some people in the rural community believe that it will be the panacea for their problems. [More…]

• There is no discernible reason why more money could not have been spent on public housing in order to satisfy the needs of the community and to stimulate the building sector which is in a state of collapse in States such as New South Wales. [More…]

• Are we to accept this incredible statement by Mr Newman, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, in a newspaper which I do not think anybody in his wildest imagination would accuse of having any slight leaning to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• That is the sort of pronouncement that is coming from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The argument that increased wages have caused inflation and that the previous Labor Government is somehow to blame for an economic system which can no longer provide for the housing needs of the community does not stand close inspection. [More…]

• We all know that there are those within the Australian community who say that there should be 2 incomes in a family in order to overcome the shortage of funds in that regard. [More…]

• We all know also that there are many people in the community who have grave doubts about whether that is a legitimate way in which to solve this problem and who feel that there are social and economic consequences flowing from that. [More…]

• The community is happy to contribute and will contribute if given the opportunity, and money which is currently being spent by the Commonwealth through the States on welfare housing would produce a lot more if it were taken out of the Government’s hands and used as a subsidy, perhaps through vouchers or some other system. [More…]

• So my third suggestion is that as far as possible funds should be directed to community and welfare groups and government involvement reduced. [More…]

• We must continue to monitor the changing needs, the changing social questions, even what might be called the fashions in housing, and the income levels of the community at large. [More…]

• The Liberal policy is built around the encouragement of ownership which, in itself, lends to community stability and dependability. [More…]

• It quotes the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, as having made certain statements. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development said today that reports in this morning’s Press had completely misconstrued a statement he made the previous day about housing. [More…]

• Con men are well known around the community because they can talk smoothly, but I would think that for a fourth year primary school child the question I am asking ought to be simple enough to answer. [More…]

• 1 ) In the light of recent suggestions within the Australian community that the Australian Broadcasting Commission be forced to accept the placement of commercial advertising along the lines of the Canadian experience, will the Minister advise whether (a) radio commercials, with certain exceptions, were discontinued by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 31 March 1975, (b) commercial messages have been removed from television programs for children by the CBC, and (c) other advertising on CBC television is being greatly reduced. [More…]

• How many staff have been allocated to the Commissioner for Community Relations to investigate complaints of unlawful behaviour under the Act. [More…]

• Has the Attorney-General appointed the members of the Community Relations Council as provided for in Section 4 1 of the Act. [More…]

• The Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations has advised that 458 complaints have been investigated. [More…]

• and (5) The functions of the Commissioner for Community Relations as set down in the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 cover matters which involve various Departments and agencies in the Commonwealth and State jurisdictions For instance, the National and State Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation operate as conciliation committees in regard to complaints of discrimination in employment and occupation. [More…]

• The Ethnic Affairs Unit within the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has functions relevant to the terms of reference of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• I remind the Minister for Social Security that the number of questions asked of her about youth unemployment, especially among school leavers, expresses the grave dissatisfaction in the community concerning the decision made by her Department in relation to the payment of the unemployment benefit to school leavers. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the latest surveys show that smokers represent a minority of the total community and of each age and sex group measured, I ask the Minister what progress has been made by Qantas towards increasing the amount of non-smoking seating in its aircraft to provide greater consideration for the majority group in Australian society who do not smoke. [More…]

• I believe that my Government is keen to encourage, where possible, community groups to get together and, where we can do so, to allow them to establish schools conforming to the principles of education that they hold to be the vital principles. [More…]

• Mr President, yesterday in the Senate in answer to a question from Senator Mulvihill I said that I had been instructed that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development had not received a letter from Mr Justice Fox and his colleagues. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government believes it is desirable that the community be able to identify the specific responsibilities and finances of the individual governments concerned. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) has indicated that the membership of the Council was drawn from all sections of the community. [More…]

• One of the reasons for this has been the community participation in helping to settle them. [More…]

• In Australia there was some community participation but it was not co-ordinated or sufficient. [More…]

• That is not to say that there is not good-will and a willingness among the community, but until that good-will is harnessed these problems will inevitably arise. [More…]

• Some of the human tragedies, which are still there for anyone to see at places such as Wacol, would be an eye opener for many people in the community. [More…]

• the community’s knowledge of Australia and the Australian heritage, [More…]

• community health and welfare, [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; a wider base for international understanding and goodwill. [More…]

• The Opposition doubts very much whether many people in the community at Port Hedland and on the west coast read the Commonwealth Government Gazette. [More…]

• Of course, that is typical of every sector of our community, where cost pressures and wage increases have caused tremendous problems associated with the financing of various projects. [More…]

• People have a right to transport other than a motor car and without making a profit for car manufacturers and oil companies and without causing governments enormous costs in maintaining roads for 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 senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: [More…]

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

• In the light of significant structural changes in business and the relocation of employees resulting therefrom due to economic upheavals over the last 4 years, can the Minister say whether the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations is able accurately to predict, by statistical method or other objective processes, the extent of the effects on other employers and community employment levels of the closure or contraction of a particular industry in the community? [More…]

• The success of the devaluation move, in terms of its effect or otherwise upon inflation, will depend upon a whole series of concomitant activities, including the Australian community’s attitude towards wage spirals, wage escalation and other inflationary things. [More…]

• Mr Scott of my Department visited Adelaide this week and met with many community group representatives who had expressed concern about this appointment. [More…]

• That is a matter for argument within the community, too. [More…]

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

• -I think it would be a very bold man who expressed any opinions about the role of strippers in the community generally. [More…]

• I can give the assurance that the Government will take all the steps it is able to take to see that all foreign embassies or high commissions are protected no matter whether or not individuals or groups in the community like them. [More…]

• I draw to the Minister’s attention a report in the Canberra Times of 17 November that a community health centre will be built at Eden, the announcement having been made by the Minister for Health in the New South Wales Government. [More…]

• I understand that Commonwealth funds have been made available for this project under the community health program. [More…]

• That Commission is primarily responsible for the development and management of projects such as the Eden community health centre, the Commonwealth’s role being related to broad policy issues, planning, evaluation and the provision of financial assistance. [More…]

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

• Whilst there may be some value in such competition, I question whether this is in the best interests of the community, given the scarcity of resources available for education. [More…]

• -On 18 November Senator Robertson asked me questions without notice about a newspaper article criticising the Darwin Cyclone Tracy Relief Trust Fund for allocating sums of money in the Fund for a proposed community cultural centre in Darwin. [More…]

• That success has flowed through all sections of the Australian community by way of jobs and taxes and other things which have been mentioned in the debate. [More…]

• Another major benefit which the community derives from these industries is the infrastructure provided by the companies in the form of towns, railways and ports. [More…]

• The big developments in the mining industry in Western Australia and Queensland have provided enormous direct community benefits in the infrastructures- that is, the towns- that they have built, apart altogether from the direct mining development and the ports and railways. [More…]

• We also have to take into consideration the fact that a great number of people in the community these days do not believe that they have to be married to live in a marriage partnership. [More…]

• I think that is a great consideration that has to be taken now; it should not wait until such time as more people are disadvantaged throughout our community. [More…]

• Equally Senator Wriedt made some comments about the Government’s pre-occupation with attacking inflation but I think he did not draw the logical conclusion from that, that if the Government succeeds with the help of the community in attacking inflation and bringing it down, correspondingly interest rates will decline with it and there is a compensating obvious balance. [More…]

• Equally if the community and the Government between them and the Parliament are not successful in attacking inflation and inflation continues to go up, the interest rate pressures will continue to be in the system and that will be very disadvantageous to Australia and all Australians but none more so than to those trying to export. [More…]

• I think one ought to look at the basic situation which is a change in the method of the same thing and the logical national interest in continuing to support a facility which can add to Australia’s export income particularly in the capital goods area, and the willingness as a community to pick up the burden of the difference in cost for the Australian people who have to get that finance as against the price they can in effect get for thenfinance in world competitive situations for the finance facility. [More…]

• Those in the rural community who believe that devaluation is the panacea, that it will be the miracle that will bring about stability in agriculture, look for simple solutions and seek to ignore the principal factor so far as this sector of agriculture is concerned. [More…]

• These are matters which surely must concern not only those of us in the Parliament but the community generally. [More…]

• It is crazy that growers are being subsidised to pull out fruit growing trees; yet simultaneously because of high prices fruit is not available to those very sectors of the Australian community most in need. [More…]

• I am sure that if fruit were cheaper there would be at least some benefit to the producer because there would be more consumption in the Australian community. [More…]

• A once fully-employed community suffers unemployment on a scale not seen for 40 years, with worse to come. [More…]

• That is, the value of the economy of the country and of the people who live in the community. [More…]

• They are based on existing real income levels in the Australian community, and an assumption that prices received for farm produce will increase at the same rate as all farm costs. [More…]

• The efficient operation of this ARA would require effective co-ordination between the Australian and State Governments and the local community. [More…]

• Provision should also be made to allow for possible future changes in technology; continuing adjustment being a likely requirement of production units capable of providing levels of income comparable with those in the rest of the community. [More…]

• Gietzelt pointed out, it is a shame that we have to make money available to producers to wreck an industry, to curtail production, when there are so many women and children and elderly people in this community who could well do with that fruit if the Government could see its way clear to help that fruit to be placed on the market at a cheaper price. [More…]

• I agree entirely with the comments made by the Minister for Industry and Commerce in winding up the debate on the States Grant (Fruit-growing Reconstruction) Bill, that only with an understanding by the Australian community and an acceptance by all political parties will we be able to tackle these fundamental problems that are facing sectors of industry and to restructure industries where necessary. [More…]

• I have some figures from the New South Wales Department of Agriculture, and I think it is worth drawing to the attention of the Senate and of the community at large the variations which are taking place in relation to the beef producer, the beef industry, the returns available and the state of the industry. [More…]

• In very recent times it has seen the impossibility of getting through tariff barriers into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The farming community, the producers of those animals, have gone from relative affluence to abject poverty. [More…]

• In that context- with the United States levelling itself off, with our numbers expanding and with our being denied access to the European Economic Community market- a very difficult position arose. [More…]

• The Government has appointed a Minister for Housing who has other responsibilities, particularly for the environment and community development, which at the moment are very onerous. [More…]

• The housing allowance voucher experiment was announced by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) soon after he’ took over the portfolio. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has talked about the housing allowance voucher scheme as being the brave new world, the great new initiative in housing. [More…]

• It talks about a community wide housing code enforcement program, whatever that is. [More…]

• All the factors in this experiment will require terms such as ‘decent houses’, ‘standard houses’, ‘modest neighbourhoods’ and ‘community- wide housing code enforcement programs’ to be defined and will require these terms to be supervised. [More…]

• I believe this Parliament and this community should question this experiment. [More…]

• We have no idea what housing authorities, housing experts- public or privatewill be needed to judge such things as minimum housing standards, modest neighbourhoods or the establishment of a community-wide housing code enforcement program, whatever that is. [More…]

• It is time we in this Parliament, those in the community who have more expert knowledge of this area, those in universities and those in the building industry had a serious look at just what methods are going to be used in this experiment, and at its aims. [More…]

• We should not blindly conduct social experiments in our community unless we have a much greater idea of what is going to happen at the end of them and unless the people in this country know exactly what is going on. [More…]

• This is the second time today that I have had to rise to express my concern on behalf of the women in the Australian community. [More…]

• That Bill is in the hands of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and it will be bis representative in this chamber who will be piloting that Bill through the Senate. [More…]

• All States have, and have had for many years, housing commissions or housing trusts to administer the necessary and proper government assistance for the housing needs of the lower income earners in the community. [More…]

• We do not see the role of the Commonwealth Government as a dominant one in the administration of the housing needs of the community. [More…]

• Because the Labor Party has expressed that view, it has been misinterpreted to mean that the Labor Party is against all forms of subsidy assistance or assistance to the rural community. [More…]

• When one considers that it is intended to phase out this subsidy, it is amazing how little reaction there has been from the farming community, especially when we consider the hullabaloo, the outcry, the protest meetings and the rhetoric that was expressed when the Labor Government took the step 2 years ago of phasing out the superphosphate bounty. [More…]

• It has to be stated in this year, 1976, that we can look at 2 areas of need- a large section of the rural community and the unemployed. [More…]

• In order to clarify the position in regard to Commonwealth grants under the Community Health Program, I am writing to notify you that, in the current financial year, the Government proposes an appropriation of $8 1 million for community health services and facilities. [More…]

• This includes $70 million for the Community Health Program specifically. [More…]

• By comparison, estimated expenditure under the Community Health Program in 1975-76 was $54.3 million. [More…]

• Since the Community Health Program commenced in 1973-74, Commonwealth financial assistance has been made available for a total of over 700 individual projects, ranging from small to relatively large and covering a wide variety of project categories to meet the varying needs of particular areas or groups. [More…]

• The $70 million to be appropriated for the Community Health Program this financial year will not provide for growth in the Program at this stage- [More…]

• Consistent with our federalism policies, Commonwealth financial assistance under the Community Health Program now takes the form of annual block grants to the States, and it is primarily the responsibility of each State to determine the allocations to individual projects from within its block grant. [More…]

• Under the heading ‘Name and Location of Project’ is the Murray Bridge Community Health Centre- Development of a Minor Community Health Service project. [More…]

• There is just a description of the project as approved for community health program funding in this financial year; that is, the development of a minor community health service project for the Murray Bridge Community Health Centre. [More…]

• In my Press statement of 1 November 1974 I announced that an amount of $23,475 had been allocated for the Riverland Community Health Centre to co-ordinate health services in the area, namely, Renmark, Berri, Barmera, Loxton and Waikerie. [More…]

• There was a project for the Coonalpyn Community Health Centre, a community practice nurse for the area. [More…]

• An amount of $9,000 was allocated, which I announced on 1 November 1 974, for the provision of a community nurse to serve the area. [More…]

• A little further on in the statement by the Minister under the heading ‘Name and Location of Project’ is the Christie’s Beach/ Noarlunga Community Health Centreconstruction and operation of a temporary community health centre providing primary care and a range of community health services. [More…]

• An announcement was made in 1974 of an amount of $ 1 87,200 to establish and operate a community health centre. [More…]

• This document says: Description of project as approved for community health program funding in 1976/77’. [More…]

• Mr Hunt claimed that this Government has made massive increases in the community health program. [More…]

• I am writing to you in order to clarify the position with regard to Commonwealth grants under the Community Health Program in 1975-76 and 1976-77. [More…]

• The Labor Government in 1975-76 appropriated $64.1m for the Community Health Program, including $4.4m for the establishment of community health centres and facilities in your State. [More…]

• During the 1975 election campaign, Liberal and National Country Party spokesmen promised repeatedly that the Community Health Program would be maintained if they were elected. [More…]

• 1 m, an increase of 4 per cent in real terms on the amount appropriated in 1975-76 but grossly inadequate to maintain existing community health centres. [More…]

• Vet in March this year the Hospital and Health Services Commission in its ‘Review of the Community Health Program noted . [More…]

• How many reviews does the Minister require before he will accept that the Community Health Program provides comprehensive health services to the 1 5 per cent of Ausralians living in areas that are seriously underserviced with basic health care. [More…]

• Secondly, programs sponsored by community groups and aimed at providing support for young unemployed persons and improving their personal capacity to find employment while facing a period of unemployment, can now be assisted under the recently announced Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• The Scheme seeks to help young people maintain a positive orientation to employment and job finding and to provide them with opportunities to undertake voluntary community service activities, whilst unable to find regular employment. [More…]

• The second matter raised by Senator McLaren with regard to the community health program is one to which I shall make a more general comment than the one that would cover the specific item that he mentioned as being one in which he was interested. [More…]

• To put the record right, let me say that in the 3 years 1973-74 to 1975-76 the Commonwealth made a total of $ 125m available for community health projects. [More…]

• As the community health program expenditure in 1975-76 was $54.3m and having regard to the absolute necessity to reduce Commonwealth expenditure, the 1976-77 allocation of $70m represents a very substantial contribution to the continuation of this program at a viable level of activity. [More…]

• 5m to cover their estimated requirements for the continuation in 1976-77 of existing community health projects. [More…]

• In May 1976 the Treasury announced that $81 m would be available in 1 976-77 for the continuation of community health services and facilities. [More…]

• This includes $70m for the community health program. [More…]

• I believe that any misunderstanding which may have arisen out of the telethon appearance has been satisfactorily dealt with in Western Australia following the meeting of the community organisations with Federal and State government authorities to plan the priorities of projects which can be undertaken in our 3-year program. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) State and community organisations operating pre-schools have, for the most part, accepted the objectives of maximising the use of pre-school facilities, of extending the services offered and of operating in a way that links preschool services with other services directed to the care and development of children and the support of families. [More…]

• While the community pre-school centres in some States have advised specifically of the additional services they are providing or propose to provide, information is not available in relation to all or even a high proportion of the approximately 3300 pre-schools operating in the States with Commonwealth Government recurrent assistance. [More…]

• While this arrangement maximises the use of the facilities, it does not offer a range of diversified services providing options in the light of community needs. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware that a community organisations course for Aborigines at Swinburne Institute of Technology in Victoria has been abolished allegedly for one year, in order that an assessment of the value of the course may be made. [More…]

• Is it a fact that Commonwealth police in the persons of Sergeants Drew and Facey are harassing organisations and people involved in a wide range of activities in Melbourne, including Community Aid Abroad, Action for World Development, the Australian Union of Students, Aboriginal Dental Services and people involved in the Campaign for an Independent East Timor, allegedly seeking information as to any demonstrations planned in support of the people of East Timor? [More…]

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

• It provides employment on which the isolated community there of some 5000 people depends. [More…]

• The consequent dislocation and hardship on the community of Queenstown, associated companies and workmen’s families was very severe. [More…]

• However, I am pleased that they are being undertaken, and 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…]

• I believe that even with the devaluation proposals, which some farmers and farmer organisations believe will be some sort of panacea which will have a tremendous impact upon the farming community, unless there is very firm control of the inflow of capital in the immediate period we may well find that the economic measure which the Government took last Sunday will prove to be a boomerang and that within a year or two it will push this country into a position where it will be forced to consider revaluation, which in the context of agriculture would be a very disastrous position to face. [More…]

• What I am drawing attention to is not only the effect that the decline in demand will have upon the farming community but also the effect it will have upon the industry which manufactures the product as well. [More…]

• As I have stated, the Opposition accepts the legislation but does not accept the almost criminal disregard for members of the rural community in need. [More…]

• That is, the nitrogenous fertiliser bounty- is a legitimate fiscal device to support an industry to the ultimate benefit of the community at large. [More…]

• Because the shires have not ensured that the costs of the services were adequately paid for, they have a large sewerage backlog, a backlog in public transport and deficiencies in social and community facilities. [More…]

• The Minister would know that one of the most trusted officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, Dr McMichael, at various times has been under attack from misguided people even when the Government was trying to control grazing in the Mount Kosciusko State Park. [More…]

• But I think that the honourable senator should have added that the ombudsman must not only have those 5 qualities but also must be seen to have them not only by people in the Parliament but also by people in the community who would then know that this person was of such a high quality that they could have faith in the ombudsman who had been appointed to be their guardian in respect of certain administrative decisions. [More…]

• A hypothetical matter that comes to mind is this: Let us suppose that the Commissioner for Community Relations was enthusiastically and diligently exploring and investigating allegations of discrimination against Aborigines- for instance, in some of the areas of New South Wales where that is most endemic and most notorious, such as Wee Waa, Moree and places like that- and that complaints were made by Aborigines that no action was forthcoming and that the real, if I can use a nonracist term, negro in the woodpile turned out to be an instruction from the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs that the Commissioner for Community Relations was to run dead in this area because of some electoral pressures. [More…]

• The most enthusiastic action by the Commissioner for Community Relations then would be nullified. [More…]

• It is more important, as Senator Missen and other speakers have said, that, especially in the first instance, an impeccable appointment should be made because the worth of this legislation ultimately will depend entirely upon the standing in the eyes of the community of the man appointed to do the job. [More…]

• In that statement I referred to the extensive consultations which had taken place with the trade union movement, business organisations and other sections of the community. [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following information that is relevant to this question and also to questions 1062 and 1063 asked by the honourable senator, answers to which I have already provided: [More…]

• This decision is strongly supported by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development Consultations are being initiated between Commonwealth departments covering environmental, health, agricultural and other relevant interests to develop a co-ordinated input to this activity. [More…]

• -The decision by this Government to establish a headquarters for the Antarctic Division of my Department is particularly important to all Tasmanian people and the Australian community generally. [More…]

• In view of further claims that these dumps present a health hazard, will the Minister ask his colleague in the other place, either the Minister for Defence or the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, to make a public statement on the matter in order to dispel the concern that has been expressed? [More…]

• -I am well aware of the interest of the business community and indeed of the financial community in this matter. [More…]

• Perhaps we could ask the Senate whether, if that course were followed, we were directing the resources this year to the most needy section of the community. [More…]

• In this hot and humid period of the year, the Darwin community is suffering considerable discomfort. [More…]

• Can the Minister have the matter investigated in an effort to bring about a more efficient reticulation of power or, in the event that there is insufficient power generated for the community, take urgent steps to bring back production of electricity to a normal state? [More…]

• I am aware of their common interest in this matter, which is exemplified by a recent report on social indicators which I have received from the honourable Ron Payne, Minister for Community Welfare in South Australia. [More…]

• the encouragement of an active interest and involvement of the community in the planning and management of water resources. [More…]

• It is now recognised that there are many other purposes of water use that interest and affect the community- the enjoyment of water in recreational pursuits, and the preservation of flora and fauna, to name but two. [More…]

• I have often thought that those 2 committees provided a forum whereby interested groups in the community could put their views. [More…]

• This legislation will provide some assistance to the business community in the Australian Capital Territory and the Opposition does not oppose it, but the fact is that the basic damage has been done by the present Government. [More…]

• Despite all those comments, we will not oppose this piece of legislation because we believe it has limited benefit at least for some people in the community. [More…]

• Business investment, which was guaranteed by the coalition Parties and was the reason for which the business community voted for those Parties, is at its lowest point for the last 4 years. [More…]

• While arguments rage over public versus private transport instead of what’s best for the community as a whole, the nation each year loses about 3500 people killed in traffic accidents, another 100 000 injured and an economic loss in accident costs of more than $ 1 ,000 million. [More…]

• That is, it would include only those roads which would return to the community more than they cost, and also give a bonus of at least 10 per cent per annum. [More…]

• Whatever the justification in general terms or in the long term may be, whatever the optimum percentage of total government expenditure that ought to be devoted to road funds, it ought surely to be apparent that at this time when there is high and increasing unemployment in the community and when other resources are seriously under-utilised, this is not the time to be cutting back on capital works such as road construction. [More…]

• This Government said during the election campaign and has said many times since that it will not desert the needs of the elderly citizens of our community. [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…]

• 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…]

• Grants for Community Activities [More…]

• Those who remember the establishment of the Prices Justification Tribunal will remember that the criteria according to which it was to operate were quite deliberately vague because, as I have said, it was designed to exercise a persuasive authority, which was all it could in fact exercise, to be part of the consensus regarding wages and prices and an influence in trying to establish within the community that the price of both labour and goods had to be restrained in the economic climate of the time. [More…]

• Since the beginning of this year we have seen an extraordinary turnabout in this Government’s attitude to those elements of the sort of consensus which the previous Government was seeking in this community. [More…]

• In the election campaign of November and December of last year the then Prime Minister promised his friends in the business community that the Prices Justification Tribunal would be abolished. [More…]

• This is an example of the approach which the Prices Justification Tribunal has adopted in seeking to establish a new distribution of wealth in the Australian community. [More…]

• I take as an example the newsagent in the local district whose level of income relies on the price which is obtained for the newspaper from the community. [More…]

• That is typical of the sort of thing that has occurred in the community, even though it is quite clear of course that small business men do not need to report to the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]

• The Tribunal, of course, has paid attention to short term fluctuations in such a way that prices have been passed on to the community. [More…]

• As the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard) pointed out, considerable experience has been acquired by both the Tribunal and the Minister’s Department in regard to the monitoring of prices in the community generally. [More…]

• We have looked at the method of paying pharmacists and we should look at it again, the same, I believe, as we should look at the method by which we pay doctors in the community. [More…]

• Perhaps I do not have the same faith in legislation solving these problems as some other people in the community have. [More…]

• Those cited by the Guild demonstrate that we have one pharmacist for every 2500 people in this community. [More…]

• Countries like the United Kingdom and the United States have one pharmacist for about every 4500 people in the community. [More…]

• Others like Denmark and Holland have one pharmacist for every 14 000 or 15 000 people in the community. [More…]

• The figures are not exactly comparable- I accept this -because of the wide distribution of our community. [More…]

• In many of the teaching hospitals which take the more severe illnesses in our community it is said that up to 20 per cent of the admissions are related to the effects of drug therapy. [More…]

• The community deserves no less than that this group be properly rewarded, and properly regarded, and that the consultation which takes place with it be adequate. [More…]

• This has led to very poor service to the community in respect of pharmaceutical benefits. [More…]

• After all, the judgments that will be given with regard to the pharmaceutical benefits scheme will have a great degree of responsibility in them, and I would not want to see a committee sitting down in a spirit of antagonism or self-interest simply to see how much it can expect the community to pay for this service. [More…]

• It is a serious subject, as is the whole system of health care in this community, and I am disappointed that someone who usually takes a serious approach to this matter should, on a day when we are trying to get legislation through and when the Opposition is trying to cooperate with the Government, indulge in cheap political and semantic tricks of the type in which Senator Baume indulged. [More…]

• I think it would also be agreed that governments of both political colours have endeavoured to come to grips with the problem of providing adequate housing for the Australian people and especially for those on lower incomes so that they can have access to a home to which every member of the Australian community is entitled. [More…]

• We recognised of course that there had been a quite dramatic increase in the availability of finance in the community, but the implications of that were not to be realised until the full effects of that increase in the money supply had been understood and had been experienced by the government of the day. [More…]

• Despite the fact that the Opposition is not opposing this legislation, it is quite obvious that those sections of the community that are most deserving of assistance are the ones least likely to benefit under this arrangement that the Government has introduced. [More…]

• The poorer sections of the community- in that regard I include those sections which include people who earn too much to be eligible for welfare housing but who do not earn sufficient to enable them to meet the interest commitments- will be ignored. [More…]

• Thus the Government, at the cost of nearly $ 100m per annum, will be making grants to the more wealthy sections of the community and doing nothing for those who cannot afford to pay the interest rates. [More…]

• If we were to go around the community we would find many people who would like to save but who just cannot save. [More…]

• This legislation is a tribute to the devotion to his portfolio of the late Senator Greenwood and to his appreciation of the importance of housing to the general community. [More…]

• Unfortunately the argument will tend to be very divisive in the community. [More…]

• Before the Government makes the firm decision that Senator Young and some of the interjectors obviously have made, I hope that it will look seriously at the second Ranger report when it comes out and will allow, as the first report has suggested, a full and complete debate on the subject in this community. [More…]

• Can we not wait for a proper debate on this subject in the community? [More…]

• Any doubt that anybody still has about that attitude should be dispelled by the comments made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, in the third paragraph of his statement when he said: [More…]

• I said to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, and to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street: ‘Well, now, how do we know that with radon everything will be all right? ‘ [More…]

• This flies directly in the face of the major Fox recommendation and refutes the claims of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) who stated that he agreed with all the Fox recommendations. [More…]

• That the Government deserves the utmost condemnation for its haste in announcing decisions on the mining of uranium, without giving the Australian community time in which to debate this highly important subject, thereby, disregarding the commission of inquiry’s final recommendation. [More…]

• It may be that the usual partisan approach of having a Cabinet executive use its formidable strength of numbers is not the best way of reaching a decision which reassures the largest possible number in the community (There is no way everybody will be convinced, no matter what the decision or the safeguards). [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…]

• The Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, in the Senate yesterday retracted his original statement that no such letter had been received by Mr Newman. [More…]

• There is disquiet, of course, in the trade union movement and in the community generally. [More…]

• I might point out that according to the dictionary the word public’ means: ‘Concerning the public as a whole’, which includes members of the community generally. [More…]

• That is precisely what the Fox inquiry seeks to do, namely, to have the Australian people consider and ponder the whole argument and discuss as a community the problems associated with the uranium industry. [More…]

• 1 ) Discussions were held at Aurukun on 10 and 1 1 May 1976 between representatives of the companies, mission authorities, the Aboriginal community and its advisers. [More…]

• The companies have put the view to the Aborigines that the project cannot, for cost reasons, provide further payments on a direct basis to the community. [More…]

• The companies have agreed to provide specific proposals on matters such as employment, housing and training for the next community meeting. [More…]

• Further discussions on question of access to com- panies technical data, mining plans, etc., were held in Mel- bourne on 26 October between the companies and the Aurukun community’s legal and technical advisers. [More…]

• Consultations between the companies and the community or its representatives is therefore continuing. [More…]

• Commonwealth Government policy regarding consultation with the Aurukun Aboriginal community remains in accordance with the Prime Minister’s statements in Parliament on 2 and 23 March 1976. [More…]

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

• I preface it by drawing the Minister’s attention to the annual report for 1975-76 of the Director-General of Health, in particular the statistics appearing therein which support the statement that alcohol is a major factor in more than 3000 deaths each year in the Australian community. [More…]

• But one would have thought that debate in the community on any matter of public interest ought to be encouraged so that the people will be better informed. [More…]

• I refer to a recent address by Mr Walter Lippmann, Chairman of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria, during which he expressed regret that the Community Relations Council has not yet been established under the provisions of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]

• Can the Minister indicate why the proposed Community Relations Council has not yet been formed, to achieve the desirable objectives set out in the Act, and whether the Council is likely to be formed at an early date? [More…]

• I am not sure whether this question of the appointment of the Community Relations Council comes within the area of responsibility of the Attorney-General, whom I represent, or under the jurisdiction of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Social Security: Has the staff utilisation review recommended that the Migrant Community Services Branch, which numbers over 40 officers working on post-arrival services for migrants, be disbanded and absorbed into a new structure not recognising a specifically migrant oriented branch? [More…]

• Does the Minister agree with me that to disband the only branch of the whole Commonwealth service identifiable with migrant community services is hardly in the spirit of the original idea of giving migrants specific services? [More…]

• But I am able to assure the honourable senator that I agree with him with regard to the necessity to have an identifiable Migrant Community Services Branch and the need to give migrants the best services that we are able to give them, whether in matters of social security or in a more general way to assist them in their settlement in this country. [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 S years instead of 25 years. [More…]

• He is put in an advantageous position when compared with every other citizen in the community. [More…]

• Will give priority to extra Aboriginal Field Workers’ and Advisors in help, education and Community development. [More…]

• -On 2 1 October I received a telegram from the Hooker Creek Community Council in the following terms: [More…]

• Please be advised that this community cannot continue operations on your allocation for 1976-77 of $104,000. [More…]

• The current level of financial support by your Government for decentralised tribal community in central Australia is ensuring that these basically healthy small communities are destroyed and with them the cultural life of a large group of Aboriginal people. [More…]

• There are many white people in the community who adopt Aboriginal children as wards, use them as pets until they are 13 or 14 years of age and then return them to a home. [More…]

• The Davenport Community Council in South Australia has complained about the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• Extract from letter from Stan Davey c/o Community Welfare, Fitzroy Crossing 18 Feb. 1976. [More…]

• This community conformed with minister’s instruction to maintain employment as at 30 June and now faces mass unemployment plus restricted earnings for favoured few as heads of families being employed. [More…]

• Further your reported comments concerning the need for all groups in the community to bear the brunt of government budget cuts is unfortunate. [More…]

• Comalco ‘s operating management at Weipa and its staff personnel responsible for liaison have developed a close relationship with the Aboriginal community at Weipa South. [More…]

• This is principally concerned with consultation on rnining programs which may involve significant areas of interest to people in the community, but ranges over many other matters. [More…]

• Roy Marika, MBE, who is chairman of the Yirrkala Community Council, gave to me on a visit to Yirrkala a list of points which is consistent with the amendments the Opposition proposes to move to the Bill and which he wanted to see incorporated in the original land rights legislation. [More…]

• We have not been satisfied with their service towards the community here at Yirrkala. [More…]

• This year it has not been ‘cut backs’, but a devastating situation for us where so many of our people are unemployed now, which means so many more problems in our community. [More…]

• I, as the Chairman of the Yirrkala Town Council, and on behalf of my community, support these points and would want every consideration to be given to them as a direct request from us. [More…]

• Chairman Yirrkala Community Council. [More…]

• The Bill was then laid on the table for examination and comment by interested groups from the community, from within government and from all parts of Australia. [More…]

• We had a situation in which the Department or the Welfare Branch attempted to provide clothes, European education, European food, health services and so on to the Aboriginal people in the same quantum as would be supplied to a European community. [More…]

• Now every clan they’re involved with this money, the whole community on the island. [More…]

• I wish to have incorporated in Hansard a paper written by Mark de Graaf, who is a senior lecturer in anthropology and is head of the Department of General Studies at the Alice Springs Community College. [More…]

• I, and I believe other Opposition senators, have been approached by members of the Aboriginal community throughout Australia who have expressed some concern about this Bill. [More…]

• I believe that it is an unfortunate by-product of Party politics in Australia that the debate tends to obscure the fact that in measures such as this there is a large degree of bipartisan support which reflects the bipartisan support that exists in the community itself for certain sorts of social progress. [More…]

• I think it is important that the Australian community sees that on both sides of this Parliament there is a commitment to Aboriginal land rights and that the differences which exist between the Government and the Opposition are differences as to matters which are round the edges and matters of detail, but there are substantial areas of agreement and I do not believe that we serve the country well if we seek to disguise those substantial areas of agreement. [More…]

• Yet I think that the manner in which Mr Justice Blackburn handled the Nabalco land case- although of course he eventually made a finding which was adverse to those claiming a native title or an Aboriginal title- and the judgment which he set out did a lot to educate people in the community to the fact that there really is a relationship between the Aboriginal people and the land they occupy. [More…]

• I for one am grateful to Mr Justice Blackburn for the very great care he took in preparing that judgment, for the careful way in which he set it out and for the contribution which he has made to broadening the understanding by the Australian community of the Aboriginal relationship to land. [More…]

• I think it would be churlish not to acknowledge once again that the care with which the problem was tackled did a great deal to advance the understanding in the community of the very real need to establish land rights. [More…]

• I close by saying that I think it ought to be on the record of this Parliament that the Bill as it is now before us is a conscientious attempt to meet the very varied views which exist in the community as to the final form of this legislation. [More…]

• Mr Justice Woodward said that great harm can be done if benefits are extended to some native people and not to others, whether by reason of degree of native blood or historical or geographical factors, particularly if decisions as to entitlements within the community are made outside the community. [More…]

• The foothills are a unique and irreplaceable property asset to the community as a whole, an asset which should not be transferred to a very small minority as would occur if urban development is permitted. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government recognises the recreational, educational and environmental value to the Canberra community and to the National Capital of the bushland of the Mount Ainslie, Mount Majura area of which the foothills form a vital and integral part and that the Government takes measures to ensure that there is no residential, commercial, roadway or other urban infrastructural development beyond that which already exists on these foothills and that the Government takes measures to ensure the preservation of this area as a nature reserve for the benefit of the present and future generations. [More…]

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

• Has not this Government, which obtained office by a series of questionable confidence tricks only 12 months ago, now found that retribution has set in and that the people of Australia and the business community, are in a state of abject uncertainty? [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that is symptomatic of the feeling throughout the community generally and that, far from having its confidence restored, business is more confused than ever and, far from having their confidence restored, consumers are now completely at a loss to know what to do in trying to comprehend or understand the Government’s economic policy? [More…]

• Will the Minister make inquiries into this matter and if there is any reason whatsoever for concern that this virus may reach Australia, will the Government have vaccines available to protect the Australian community against an outbreak of any such virus in this country? [More…]

• The sorts of matters referred to me were the substantial support it had found in the community for the establishment of an institute and the discussions which it had held with the Canberra College of Advanced Education regarding the siting of an institute in that establishment. [More…]

• I ask: How can that answer be correct, since the conciliation committees provided for in section 23 of the Act have not yet been established and the Community Relations Council provided for in section 41 of the Act has not yet been established? [More…]

• Further, when will the first report of the Commissioner for Community Relations be tabled in the Parliament? [More…]

• -Yesterday Senator Mulvihill asked me a question concerning the Migrant Community Services Branch of the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• Briefly, he asked whether the staff utilisation review had recommended that the Migrant Community Services Branch had been disbanded and absorbed into a new structure, and if so, what justification had been given for this change. [More…]

• I understand that a draft discussion paper, in the form of an internal document which canvasses options for rationalisation of staff resources within the Social Welfare Division of the Department in which the Community Services Branch is located, has been distributed amongst officers who might be directly affected if any of the options canvassed in that paper were to be taken up. [More…]

• The Committee emphasised 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. [More…]

• It is pleasing to note that the Committee’s recommendations endorse the Government’s stated policy on recognising and encouraging the multi-cultural nature of the Australian community. [More…]

• It has been suggested that the ABC orchestras should move away from their traditional concept of ‘broadcast orchestras’ and be used in a wider community context such as more live performances at concerts, greater use in school concerts and to provide a more extended service to such organisations as state opera, ballet and theatre companies as well as choral societies. [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…]

• I agree with the Government, the Prime Minister and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) that this is an important Bill, the passage of which means keeping faith with the Aboriginal community of this nation. [More…]

• I am happy that a section of the Aboriginal community is being catered for under this Bill. [More…]

• One has to wonder whether those problems that are being experienced, not only by the black community but also by the white community in those townships, were in actual fact caused by the fact that the Aboriginals no longer have this soul feeling with the land. [More…]

• The Western Australian State Government has now opened up one of the few areas where the Aboriginals were coping quite well with the community in which they were living. [More…]

• The points which were made are said to be consistent with the amendments proposed by the Labor Party and the Government’s Bill is also fully in accord with the points made by the Yirrkala community. [More…]

• On the one hand where an Aboriginal community makes a decision there is provision for disallowance very easily of the result- a bylawof Aborigines having a say in their own affairs, but on the other hand in the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) BDI, where there is a mining interest, although there is a right for a member of Parliament to move for disallowance of the proclamation, there is no provision that it is to be dealt with within 15 days. [More…]

• I use this opportunity to point out a problem that is being experienced by the Aboriginal Community Centre in Adelaide. [More…]

• It concerns the Aboriginal Community Centre in Wakefield Street in Adelaide, which had been provided with and had set aside $25,000 for building alterations. [More…]

• 1 had a talk with the chairman of the Community Centre, Mr Leonard Kent, the architect adviser and the head of the Department in Adelaide. [More…]

• I understand that the Minister is having talks with the appropriate State Minister and the other State departments including the Fire Brigade Board with a view to providing some assistance to this Community Centre over a period. [More…]

• It in fact creates ghettos rather than distributing people through the communityand Aboriginal people are part of the community and they want to live in the community as do other people. [More…]

• The societies were primarily to be vehicles for encouraging selfdetermination and community development at a local level. [More…]

• One of the points about which the Committee felt strongly was that Aborigines as much as any other section of the community had to be given the chance to make mistakes and to learn by their mistakes. [More…]

• As she would know, the Commissioner for Community Relations deals with complaints of the kind that she has mentioned. [More…]

• There is no check through this report on whether the Federal Government in its appropriation to the States, or the States in receiving the money, are giving priority to the essential housing needs of Aboriginals or whether they are neglecting the housing needs because they believe that they have housed all members of the Aboriginal community who meet the tenancy requirements of the Housing Commission. [More…]

• Even with the best of government intentions the housing needs of the Aboriginal community are not always fulfilled in the way we would desire. [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…]

• It is the most disadvantaged section of the Aboriginal community which is involved. [More…]

• Their preferences will range from normal town houses, through clustered community accommodation to permanent facilities for camping . [More…]

• It is realised that if these people are to live in the community- and this is being encouraged- they should have the land or buildings or whatever facilities they require. [More…]

• It is a great disservice to the community. [More…]

• I would like a definition from the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) as to what she thinks is a community and what she thinks is a group and an explanation of any other definition that the Government may put on these words. [More…]

• Where there is a conflict of interest the Bill as drafted provides that an arbitrator appointed by the Minister shall arbitrate upon the comparative hardship caused by the refusal to the applicant of his application to renew as against the claim of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• It is provided that where the arbitrator, after hearing the views of both the applicant and the Land Council, is satisfied that the hardship that would be occasioned to the applicant by the refusal would be greater than the hardship to the Aboriginal community the applicant shall be allowed a renewal of his estate. [More…]

• We would be writing into the statute a stipulation that the person appointed shall give paramount consideration to the interests of the Aborigines, whereas all that is being arbitrated upon is a claim to an interest by a person who has an existing estate as against the Aboriginal community which claims that it has Aboriginal rights over the land. [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 NACC, in my view, could not clearly support the present 1976 Commonwealth Government’s amendments to the original Lands Bill as it has been subjected to change, which appears to favour the sectional interests of the European community in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• It has to be recognised by the Aboriginal community that the Government- we heard this on the memorable occasion of last night- is selling every interest of the Aboriginal people down the drain by not letting them or the Parliament have a say in their affairs. [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…]

• The new provision also allows for the Commissioner to intiate claims for traditional land based on need and provides that his reports include recommendations relating to the use of land for Aboriginal community purposes in towns. [More…]

• The removal of this provision is an indication of the good faith of the Legislative Assembly in its efforts to secure the best possible legislation for the Aboriginal people and the whole community. [More…]

• The Hungarian community was disappointed at this ruling but they abided by it. [More…]

• Is there a rule for one set of people within the community and another for the pro-Fretilin supporters who happen to be in this Parliament? [More…]

• If the Director did give authority, in contradistinction to other people within the community who wished to commemorate those who died fighting for freedom and self-determination but who were denied the opportunity to do so, has the War Memorial changed its policy on commemorator ceremonies involving events in which no Australians were in a warlike operation? [More…]

• It was within the rights of members of the Parliament and people in the Canberra community to attend the laying of a wreath on the Stone of Remembrance for the simple reason that it commemorated the participation of Australians in the war against the Japanese in East Timor. [More…]

• I think it is proper that members of this Parliament as well as members of the Australian community should commemorate such a sad occasion when men lost their lives trying to bring to the world the story of what was happening at that time in East Timor. [More…]

• However, the Public Service Board approved in February this year attendance at the South Australian Institute of Technology Certificate Course in Community Development under a departmental’ training scheme of four Aboriginal staff in the Fourth Division from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• The Certificate in Community Development is recognised by the Public Service Board as meeting the prescribed entry requirements to the Third Division. [More…]

• Whilst there may be some disquiet on the part of some people in the community that Mr Brown does not have linguistic skills, it is believed that with co-operation he will be able to undertake the duties he is required to perform. [More…]

• I can only say that in the migrant services section of my Department we wish to give as much service to migrants and community organisations as possible. [More…]

• In the circumstances, will the Minister restore the FILEF grant, or is there further justification for the hasty action taken in depriving the Italian community of this valuable service? [More…]

• When the Government introduced the Medibank levy, it insisted that it was very important that the community know exactly what the Medibank system was costing. [More…]

• Can the Minister provide details of funding under the community youth support scheme? [More…]

• Has the department received criticism of the scheme from community organisations and trade unions? [More…]

• Is it true that the community youth support scheme is not available to self-help groups? [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Treasurer aware of reports circulating within the Australian business community to the effect that the Government is considering a further revaluation of the Australian dollar? [More…]

• In view of this uncertainty, will the Minister give the Australian business community an assurance that the Government is not contemplating further adjustment or alteration to the exchange rate of the Australian dollar? [More…]

• -I am quite sure that the honourable senator will realise that in the business and financial community both in Australia and overseas there are people who are most anxious to light fires which will move across an area and leave them untouched but burn out somebody else. [More…]

• Because of this Government’s very great interest in educationan interest which is reflected throughout the whole community- I am sure that Dr Fitzgerald’s report will command a great deal of attention by education authorities, teachers and teacher organisations, parent groups and educationalists generally. [More…]

• I am sure that the recommendations made in this report, as has been the case with other reports from the poverty inquiry, will ultimately lead to the improvement of services for the poorer and disadvantaged sections of our community. [More…]

• There will have to be positive government interference in the work market to provide opportunities for those in this community who are socially, economically, culturally and educationally deprived. [More…]

• The removal of this provision is an indication of the good faith of the Legislative Assembly in its efforts to secure the best possible legislation for the Aboriginal people and the whole community. [More…]

• Meanwhile contractors, their dependants, and indeed a considerable segment of the community in Eden are facing some uncertainty as to recommendations of the Committee which could have an important influence on their future. [More…]

• The Committee sees overall benefits to the community from an increased use of the currently burnt sawmill and silvicultural residues as a source of woodchips. [More…]

• Detailed examination of these factors is required in the context of the need to set aside areas of forest for wilderness, intensive forestry, and a complete range of community uses. [More…]

• These provisions envisage the development of a new public sector of broadcasting which will provide programs for community, special, minority or other interests, in response to demand. [More…]

• They have described these people as whirlwinds, because they move in with much noise and dust, they disturb the community and they leave. [More…]

• All sections of the community are saying it. [More…]

• Above all- this is a matter which is most relevant to this statement- the business community is saying it. [More…]

• It was not a dramatic increase, but nevertheless it clearly illustrates that at that time the business community had more confidence in the Labor Government’s policies than it has now in this Government’s policies. [More…]

• For example, the tariff cut on black and white television sets is the only part of the cuts which will have any immediate effect and I do not think that is going to have much impact on the economy, much less restimulate confidence in the business sector of the community. [More…]

• It is adding to the confusion in the business community about what is Government policy, and this is the real crux of the problem. [More…]

• We were told that the investment allowance was the thing which would bring confidence back to the business community. [More…]

• In this trading stock valuation adjustment scheme that has been announced today we find again some very grey areas which the business community will only need to think about over the ensuing months until such time as legislation is brought down; but it is of no incentive to the business community at all and maybe even when the legislation is eventually brought forward it will remain a matter of doubt then as to whether stock valuation adjustments will be of real benefit. [More…]

• In respect of devaluation, in respect of the tariff adjustments which have been announced and in respect of the trading stock valuation adjustments, none of them has been properly thought out; none of them will give any real benefit to the business community who are the people whom the Government must consider instead of adopting this attitude of saying nice things about representing the free enterprise system. [More…]

• They want some evidence that it is a government that is prepared to help the business community and is prepared to give it confidence again to get the economy moving. [More…]

• It was left to another Minister, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to move the third reading of the Bill. [More…]

• As I said 6 months ago, the plight of the industry arose out of the problems of the European Economic Community which were known. [More…]

• The United Kingdom and the European Economic Community had slipped away. [More…]

• I suppose that it has been highlighted by the stockpile of dairy products in the European Economic Community, in particular, in recent days. [More…]

• There has not been for many years a situation in relation to which we can be satisfied with what the children in this community have had inflicted on them, because of the profit motive. [More…]

• I believe that there is great importance in the need for vigilance by people in this community in this area. [More…]

• I believe that we must realise that in this transitory stage we are going to have to stand by standards, to stand by things which we want to see improved and to ensure that the community, in whose trust we are vested with power, will see that it does get out of all this a better system of radio and television. [More…]

• I intend to seek to have incorporated in Hansard a complete list of broadcasting and television stations- national, commercial and community- for which licences were approved during our 3 years of office. [More…]

• Which of the stations are national, commercial, community or public stations. [More…]

• When I first proposed the introduction of community broadcasting stations or public broadcasting stations- and I well remember the time I made the speech on the subject early in 1973 at the Sydney Press Club- the critics of the day viewed the idea askance. [More…]

• The first 2 frequency modulation broadcasting station licences that were issued in Australia were in fact given to community or public broadcasters- the Fine Music Broadcasting Society in New South Wales and the Fine Music Broadcasting Society in Victoria. [More…]

• I believe that the Government should have made this report available for public consideration, not as a Green report but as a Green Paper, so that all sections of the community could have had an opportunity of expressing their opinions before its contents were put into legislative form. [More…]

• It is a matter of common knowledge in this town, this little closed community where nothing is secret for very long, that people such as Mr Jim Malone, the head of FACTSFACTS’ is a curious title for an outfit that has little to do with truth- which is the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, and a man named Des Foster, who is the head of an organisation called FARB, which is the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters, and Mr Kerry Packer, who probably does not need to be designated, have been in and out of the corridors of power in the last few weeks, whereas people demonstrating on behalf of the ABC and on behalf of the survival of an elected commissioner of the ABC such as Marius Webb have to take their place out on the lawn. [More…]

• As my colleague Senator Douglas McClelland, who had intimate dealings with these people over the period that he was Minister for the Media, knows these are not people who think in terms of any responsibility to the community. [More…]

• One of the greatest problems that has arisen since the report on Aus.tralian broadcasting is that there has been too much emphasis on the Australian Broadcasting Commission and not enough discussion on the other aspects of broadcasting and television in the private sector of the community. [More…]

• Unfortunately the debate on the Green report has centred on the ABC and not the matters of real importance; that is, the establishment of broadcasting within Australia that meets levels of excellence and standards that are acceptable broadly within the community. [More…]

• Those allegations included a claim that a broadcast had favoured one faction in the Lebanese community whilst denying access to the President of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian-Lebanese Association. [More…]

• It was said that Arab language programs were offensive to the Jewish community and that there were calls on 3ZZ for demonstrations during Moshe Dayan’s visit. [More…]

• What qualifications should a chairman of the ABC have other than an appreciation or an understanding of the normal standards expected by the general community and that he be administratively efficient? [More…]

• There were many other undesirable aspects in this legislation but the single aspect to which I have just referred caused such a public outcry from all sections of the community that that particular provision no longer exists in the legislation before us. [More…]

• It came from a very broad cross-section of the community. [More…]

• What consultations have been held with the community concerning the proposed construction of the Molonglo Arterial roadway in Canberra. [More…]

• 1 ) As part of the Environmental Impact Hearing and the Gazettal Hearing conducted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory, all sections of the community were invited to comment and advertisements were placed in the local press to this effect. [More…]

• Other assistance given to them is provided by the migrant welfare service of Commonwealth Hostels Ltd and by the company’s migrant accommodation advisory service which assists them to find private accommodation in the community. [More…]

• The Bureau has taken action to ensure that the wording of its warnings and information pamphlets is such as to minimise undue concern while ensuring that information vital to the safety of life and property is conveyed to the community. [More…]

• I have sent this study to Mr Newman, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development for examination. [More…]

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

• That a primary school in the suburb would provide an important focus for an area which currently lacks any identity as a community. [More…]

• If the reason for his resignation was not as was suggested- that is, the he was unable to work with the Liberal Party members of the branches in that area- but was because he felt that there had been discriminatory remarks made against him or his wife, I would suggest that the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby, could look into the situation. [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 on any section of the community including wage and salary earners. [More…]

• In a number of decisions, such as the introduction of family allowances, full personal tax indexation, the investment allowance, and the allocation of moneys to Aboriginal and welfare programs, the Government has moved to help the sectors of the community hit hardest by inflation, and to encourage activity. [More…]

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

• This is a time when all our institutions, all Australiansbusinesses, trade unions, all in positions of leadership in the community- must seek to set aside narrow interests in favour of the overriding common interests we all share. [More…]

• I am sure that the amendments will be supported not only by those who are keen to protect relics from shipwrecks, but also by all fair-minded sections of the community. [More…]

• We oppose it also because of the original form of the legislation which was totally obnoxious and because we believe that the community should have the opportunity to investigate thoroughly all of the issues involved in broadcasting before structural changes are implemented. [More…]

• I believe that that strike had broad support from the community. [More…]

• The reason why all sections of the community have risen up and opposed the Government’s attempts to interfere with the ABC is simply this: In Australia we have a print media which is a complete monopoly of a very small number of people who, on the whole, are not democratic in their outlook. [More…]

• That is the main issue, and that is the reason why the Government’s attempts to set up an ABC composed entirely of its own nominees were so strenuously opposed by the community. [More…]

• Another issue which I am pleased to say has become of importance to the community is the issue of Australian content. [More…]

• Our earlier contention has been proved right, that a new type of broadcasting structure is necessary to accommodate developments such as community access broadcasting, special interest broadcasting, and the issue of public broadcasting licensing. [More…]

• There is a need for more community and worker participation in order to decentralise and demonopolise the media. [More…]

• However, standards are of concern to the community. [More…]

• As a consequence the Australian community will have an impeccable broadcasting and television service in the sense that it will be absolutely free of political control. [More…]

• As soon as the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal is established its primary job will be to set up a major public inquiry into standards so that in the place of an amorphous stipulation of adequate and comprehensive programs it will be possible for the community to transmit to the tribunal its ideas as to what standards there ought to be in terms of hours or in terms of the quality and the comprehensive and adequate nature of programs generally. [More…]

• For example, the needs of the community which is served by an access radio station change from time to time. [More…]

• For example this provision of the Bill is ridiculously inhibiting if a licence of a particular kind is granted and the needs of the community change. [More…]

• Similarly, we have suggested that there should be a representative of the Australia Council because we spend $22m a year trying to improve cultural standards in this community. [More…]

• The important thing is that we recognise that a body such as the Schools Commission should be represented on the Broadcasting Council because children’s television and the sort of educational standards which one would hope that the broadcasting system will inject a little more of into the Australian community would be very important considerations. [More…]

• The Opposition has moved that the Broadcasting Council should be established in the way in which I have just suggested and that it should be a representative body to provide a national, representative and a community service. [More…]

• He cannot be insulated forever against the economic realities of a rise in interest rates which apply to the community generally, no matter what action this Government may take to try to insulate the rural sector from interest rates. [More…]

• He went on with the usual rhetoric about the changes wrought on the farming community by the Whitlam Government with its spendthrift policies and its desire to take all that it could from the rural sector, etc. [More…]

• Things have come to such a pass that the question as to whether Australia needs a rural sector, and whether it can survive, has been posed throughout the community- not in a jocular fashion, nor without serious consideration. [More…]

• As recently as 15 November the Minister repeated the line that large increases in costs caused by inflation under the Whitlam Government were largely responsible for reducing the living standards of those in the farming community. [More…]

• It relates to community health centres and a screed that was put out by the present Minister for Health, Mr Hunt. [More…]

• In the Senate adjournment debate on 2 December 1976 you referred to my letter of 18 November 1976 regarding 1976-77 Commonwealth grants under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• He then referred to a portion of his letter quoted by me during the debate in connection with the $70m being allocated for the community health program. [More…]

• The other column is headed ‘Description of Project as Approved for Community Health Program Funding in 1976-77’. [More…]

• What else could I assume when looking at those appendices which he circulated to all members and which definitely state in the description of the projects that they are projects approved for community health funding in 1976-77? [More…]

• All community health projects have an official project number, part of which identifies the year in which the project was approved for commencement. [More…]

• The inequities of our present tax system are well known to the community, the Opposition, the Government and its advisers. [More…]

• It is the Opposition’s concern that these benefits, which should be available to all taxpayers, in fact are benefiting one particular section of the community. [More…]

• Can the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development utilise the existing facilities of AMDEL, particularly in regard to water resources. [More…]

• The Minister Assisting the Treasurer has advised me that he has brought the views expressed at the meeting concerning the sewerage program to the notice of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• After reading the report I wrote to the Commissioner for Community Relations concerning aspects of its contents and the way in which it was prepared. [More…]

• In his reply the Commissioner for Community Relations indicated that evidence of discrimination against Aboriginals in Queensland was being incorporated into a more detailed report which would be made available to me shortly. [More…]

• The situation, therefore, is that a report was received in June which asserted the existence of widespread racial discrimination in Queensland and I am still awaiting the report which the Commissioner for Community Relations has advised me will substantiate the assertions. [More…]

• Will the Minister outline the results of talks held by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly’s Executive Member for Finance and Community Development with Treasury Officials, concerning financial arrangements connected with the transfer of powers to the Assembly, and, in particular, give details of (a) the level of revenue that the Territory will be expected to collect; (b) details of tax sharing arrangements; (c) whether consideration has been given to the provision of specific purpose grants; and (d) the level of funding which it is estimated that will be needed to support a Northern Territory Public Service for the first 5 years of the new arrangements. [More…]

• Talks have been held between the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Executive Member for Finance and Community Development and officers of the Department of the Northern Territory and Treasury. [More…]

• Provide an information and advisory service to the community generally on the above matters. [More…]

• and (2) The sentence quoted at (2) appears on page 77 of a report entitled ‘Tariffs and Subsidies- Safeguards for the Australian Community’ prepared by the Metal Trades Industry Association. [More…]

• Apart from the measures announced on 11 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…]

• The only additional cost incurred in maintaining normal Police services to the Canberra community on 24 September 1976 was a relatively small amount of overtime. [More…]

• Initially, STD facilities were provided on a pointtopoint basis only and the first extension of the facility following Ministerial approval ofthe Community Telephone Plan (announced in August 1959) was in May 1960 for calls from Windsor to Sydney. [More…]

• Would the Government be prepared to sub-let the premises at a lower rental to the Goulburn Valley Community Care Centre, a social organisation. [More…]

• If an amalgamation has been proposed, what steps are to be taken for the continuance of community involvement and access for a multi-lingual character in the proposed amalgamated station. [More…]

• On Home Island, Cocos, which is inhabited by the Cocos Malay community, there is less than full attendance of school-age children at the local primary school. [More…]

• In consideration of community attitudes it must be noted, however, that no formal schooling was available on Home Island until 1966, and that a trained, Australian teacher has been provided on the Island only since 1973. [More…]

• It is the Government’s hope that, as a result of the increased returns in terms of Australian dollars being earned by Mt Lyell, the company will reconsider its position and its decision in relation to its employees, taking into account the dependence of the Queenstown community upon the company’s operations. [More…]

• All pre-schools during 1976 have been available for at least one session per week for implementation of community programs. [More…]

• The policy of community based programs will be actively encouraged and supported by the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority. [More…]

• 1 ) When will funds be provided for the construction of the Katoomba-Leura Senior Citizens and Community Centre. [More…]

• Will the Minister provide a breakdown of the $27m allocated for child care services showing how and where this money is to be spent, who is to administer the spending, and what consultative arrangements have been made to allow for the expression of community needs. [More…]

• For the most part, grants for approved child care projects and services are paid directly to community groups and local government bodies, although some of the estimated expenditure is being and will be paid to and for the States in respect of child care services conducted by State authorities and/or for onpassing by the States to community groups and local government authorities undertaking approved projects and child care services. [More…]

• Will the Government concede that throughout all sections of the Australian community there is deep concern at the worsening situation in the Australian economy? [More…]

• Irrespective of whether the Government believes this to be a result of its own economic policies, will it take the steps which are being urged by all sections of the community to arrest the drift to a major depression in Australia in 1977? [More…]

• Firstly, I should say that the Government does not concede that there is deep concern in the community about the matters to which the Leader of the Opposition adverted although there is in some areas and certainly there are spreaders of gloom amongst us. [More…]

• I should have thought that the whole community is aware that the greatest enemy we have to attack is inflation. [More…]

• We on the Government side believe that the greatest thing we can do for the community is to bring down inflation, to restore confidence and to create more job opportunities. [More…]

• Will the Minister inform the Senate of the steps his Government has taken to reach as many people in the community as possible with the facts on all aspects of the mining, milling and use of uranium? [More…]

• -I thought the report was fairly freely available for interested people in the community to read. [More…]

• From my cursory reading of the media I understand that there is quite a large debate going on in the community regarding the pros and cons of this issue. [More…]

• That debate is organised by varying groups throughout the community. [More…]

• I do not know of any other suggestion which the honourable senator may have as to how the Government could further promote public debate on this matter within the community. [More…]

• If the honourable senator has any positive suggestions to make as to how the deate in the community may be stimulated, I shall be pleased to receive her suggestions and pass them on to my colleague. [More…]

• It concerns a matter which I think is of growing concern to every family in the community and which I believe has special relevance to the Tasmanian consumer. [More…]

• If so, can action be taken through that agency, as with motor vehicle and farm machinery components, to check the justification for these seemingly unwarranted increases which affect every household in the Australian community and which I believe are of far greater concern than either of the other two references that I have mentioned? [More…]

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

• I acknowledge that the problems it has tackled have a much wider impact on the community than people generally know, when one takes into account not only mental and physical handicaps but also the difficulties that apply to people in the normal intellectual brackets. [More…]

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

• This is because inherent in their construction is the proposition that the community has always paid in one 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- 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…]

• I complained on behalf of the Yugoslav community and asked for action under aviation powers. [More…]

• They pointed out to Mr Ellicott that other people in the Yugoslav community were boasting about exerting more pressure. [More…]

• Will the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development have to be relocated in Leighton House, before the move can occur. [More…]

• Space for the Training Section will be available in Australia House ( 145 Eagle Street) when the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development moves. [More…]

• 1 ) How much financial assistance has been provided to date in the Australian Capital Territory under the Community Youth Support Scheme, announced on 2 1 October 1976. [More…]

• 1 ) A total of $19,630 has been approved for financial assistance under the Community Youth Support Scheme in the Australian Capital Territory as at 10.12.76. [More…]

• Opportunities will be provided for young people to participate in voluntary community service activities, if they so wish. [More…]

• Being mindful that the outpost radio telegram service is the only means of communication that many people in outback areas of Australia have with the rest of the community the Minister is pleased to state that the feasibility of a special rate as proposed by the honourable senator has been examined by the Commission and I have recently announced a reduction from 12 cents to 9 cents a word from 1 January 1977. [More…]

• I ask: Is the Minister aware of widespread concern amongst a large number of parents in the community that such replacement will diminish the already inadequate surveillance over program standards, particularly insofar as they affect children? [More…]

• The proposal will not be considered by the Government until it has heard the views of interested parties and of the community at large, which are sought in the White Paper. [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 senator’s question. [More…]

• The details of proposed legislative changes by the Queensland Government are not a matter within my responsibility of competence as Minister for Environment Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• 1 ) How many applications have been received to date for funding assistance under the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• What are the details of each grant approved to date under the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• Seventy applications have been received as at 26.1.77 under the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• In order to encourage employment and retraining by industry, the Government has extended the range of training allowances under the National Employment and Training System, introduced an incentive to employers to train school-leavers who have experienced long periods of unemployment and introduced a Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• However, with Commonwealth and State financial assistance under the Community Health Program, a Community Health Support Centre has been established at Lithgow. [More…]

• This provides community nursing and social worker services. [More…]

• However, from the Commonwealth’s block grant of $29.4m to New South Wales under the Community Health Program in 1976-77, $18,300 has been allocated to the Lithgow Community Health Support Centre for this financial year. [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 senator’s question: [More…]

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

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development administers the States Grants (Dwellings for Pensioners) Act 1974. [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 senator’s question: [More…]

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

• Is the Minister aware of concern being expressed at reports that some refugees are moving into the community before tests have been completed, which is seen as a possible threat to the health of the community and, more particularly, to the future of the humanitarian refugee program? [More…]

• Assurances can be given that every step has been and will continue to be undertaken to ensure that there is no risk to public health from the refugees group and that appropriate treatment is being prescribed for individuals where necessary before their entry into the community. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the report’s claim that migrants suffer a higher incidence of psychiatric disorders compared to the rest of the community, being attributable to difficulties experienced in the migration and settlement process as well as to the current high unemployment rate among migrants? [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite are vocal in the demands that they make on government for these facilities and they have widespread support in the community. [More…]

• So it becomes particularly footling to decry economic growth, as some members of the Opposition occasionally do, because if we decry economic growth we have to be prepared to reverse the expectations and demands of the community. [More…]

• There is a great addition to the general prosperity of the community from which I come when this sort of thing happens. [More…]

• I feel we do more harm to the community if we run in and try to stop inflation . [More…]

• There is no community hall. [More…]

• In fact, there are no community facilities at all. [More…]

• Even the apprentices gravitate there because of the lack of community facilities for them. [More…]

• Therefore it is vitally important that this Parliament and the community at large give continued strength to encouragement of the development of these vast mineral resources. [More…]

• Any substantial increase in defence expenditure is regarded suspiciously by the civilian community as sacrificing much needed social welfare, while any reduction in the absolute amount of defence expenditure or its proportion of the gross domestic product is interpreted as running down Australia’s defence capability. [More…]

• Within those restraints, it is extraordinarily difficult for a Defence White Paper and its financial implications to prove acceptable to all sections of the community. [More…]

• Except for the several points that I have raised in relation to which I feel that the Parliament should be given further information as to government thinking, I believe that the Government has in this White Paper provided a basis for informed debate not only in the Parliament but also, one would hope, in the community at large. [More…]

• What we were concerned about in Opposition at that time, and what intelligent people in the community were concerned about at that time, was whether it was a threat by the yellow peril or a threat by the red peril. [More…]

• The only real differences are created by people like Malcolm Fraser who insist on a policy of inducing threat into the Australian community. [More…]

• In this age of advancing technology is it not a fact that there is little and diminishing hope of work for the unskilled and untrained people in the community? [More…]

• It involves social, family and community factors as well as economic factors and we are looking into them. [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• This lack of control results in the affliction of increasing consequences on the community. [More…]

• There are a growing number of people in the community who are becoming aware of 3 essential factors: The Government s mismanagement is having increasingly disastrous consequences; the Government has totally lost control of the economy; and the Government is speaking with a number of voices, none of which can be believed. [More…]

• So, we cannot look to the business community or to business indicators for the optimism which we are continually being told about. [More…]

• To be useful, they need to motivate workers of all categories to contribute more to the pool of goods and services from which the community draws its real standard of living. [More…]

• This, of course, puts the Government in a bind where the business community cannot look forward to increasing or improving market conditions. [More…]

• The Senate, in debating the state of the national economy, is endeavouring to bring before the Australian people the serious plight that faces so many sections of the Australian community and seeks to express a point of view in respect to the economic management policies pursued by this Government since it came to office some 15 months ago. [More…]

• Nobody in the Australian community can accept that we have made any progress in overcoming the economic difficulties which are part of a world-wide trend and which, of course, found their reflection at their highest point in the years in which we were in government. [More…]

• I am not talking necessarily about the editorials but about statements by business leaders, bank officers,, trade union leaders, community leaders generally as well as State government leaders to appreciate that nobody accepts that we have made any appreciable progress in this direction. [More…]

• The honourable senator mumbles into his beard as to why a socialist government which claimed to be the protector of the working man brought the community, particularly persons who sell their labour, to that unemployment situation. [More…]

• I have said on a number of occasions that the philosophy of the Labor Party eventually will lead to communism in this community. [More…]

• People who were honest, hardworking, middle-class citizens in our community were faced with the prospect of being brought to their knees by legislation introduced by that socialist government. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt will remember very clearly how Labor withdrew the beneficial interest rates at which people in the rural community were able to borrow. [More…]

• He will recall how Labor removed the benefits of taxation concessions for water holes or bores that were established or for the development of fencing in that community. [More…]

• What Labor did was to wreck the farming community; that damage cannot be repaired and the industry cannot be rebuilt overnight. [More…]

• But honourable senators opposite know that their Leader in this place who was Minister for Agriculture at that time in the Labor Government led the rural community into the greatest disaster that it could ever have suffered. [More…]

• I say that the Australian community at large has learnt from the experience of a Labor government. [More…]

• The Australian community was beguiled by the policy put forward by the Labor Party in 1 972. [More…]

• Confidence is reappearing in the rural community at this time. [More…]

• Confidence is being restored to business as it is to the rural community as demonstrated by the higher rate of investment today. [More…]

• Speaking about the level of unemployment in the community- undoubtedly Labor was pleased to cause the unemployment situation that it created- believe you me, Mr President, I am disappointed at the unemployment rates at present. [More…]

• The demands of Clyde Cameron and others who said to those in employment in the community ‘Go for all the benefits you can. [More…]

• Strike for benefits’ brought about such things as higher insurance costs, which are an impost on employers at present, and demands for 4 weeks annual leave, maternity benefits, paternity benefits and other benefits that no other advanced community is able to cope with at the present time. [More…]

• Until this community is able by its scientific effort to raise the income producing level of private industry we will not be able to reduce the high unemployment figure that we have today. [More…]

• We have reintroduced the investment allowance to encourage industry and the stock valuation adjustments, which this year will prove so beneficial to the business community. [More…]

• So are the leaders of the business community. [More…]

• I do not have any great sympathy for the leaders of the business community. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that as long as we have a business community and an economy which is largely a capitalist economy, any sensible government nas to retain the confidence of those people. [More…]

• It has given for the first time a guaranteed protection to the community against unlegislated tax increases brought about by inflation. [More…]

• The gullibility of the community is not such that that sort of misrepresentation will alter the trend of the gallup figures in favour of the Government. [More…]

• I suggest to honourable senators that, although it is hoped that the occasions upon which law enforcement agencies will have to resort to this legislation are few, it is indeed a very important development, and a step towards the protection of the Australian community against some of the more frightening potentialities of modern technology. [More…]

• There are in the community women who served in the WAAAFs and want assistance to help themselves and to buy a home. [More…]

• One of the points which Mr Wentworth makes even about this question of inspection is that biological weapons can be as small as a teaspoonful of a toxic substance and wipe out a whole community. [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…]

• The results of this sort of procedure are obvious in the community. [More…]

• She found that Queensland wiped out an important service that was appreciated by its own agencies, by the Queensland police force and by all the relevant groups in the Brisbane community. [More…]

• Therefore, we in the Opposition urge that the Government not treat these reports as it treated whatever report came out of the Medibank Review Committee and that it provide not only ample consultation with the welfare organisations, with the people who are to receive welfare, but also ample consultation with all other members of the community who are interested in this aspect. [More…]

• Even if that was so, now that the reports are public I urge the Government, in view of the fiasco that happened with Medibank, to look seriously at these reports and also to consider seriously the objections and the other suggestions which will inevitably come from many parts of the community. [More…]

• The Plan was introduced in 1973 and, in the words of Mr Hayden when he tabled the report on the Plan and introduced the Plan, it was introduced 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…]

• Community volunteers entered the scheme. [More…]

• Some were organised in groups and some were individuals who were attracted by an invitation to enter a scheme in which they could assist their neighbours and their community. [More…]

• All gave way to the community voice. [More…]

• Because of the involvement and help given by voluntary organisations these projects are costing the community far less than they would have if the Department for Community Welfare tried to take them over. [More…]

• If the Commonwealth deserts this area and the States fail to take it up, as they will, the most altruistic and helpful people in this community will experience despair and cynicism about this Parliament, and about what government is all about in this country. [More…]

• I am very well aware that the reference which the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts undertook in relation to isolated school children afforded the opportunity to representatives of the isolated children’s community to present to the Parliament, and thereby through the Parliament to the Government, a whole range of opinions and a whole range of circumstances and situations in which this section of the Australian community is involved and about which it is concerned so that the Committee could bring down a report. [More…]

• Unique problems related to this section of Australia’s isolated community. [More…]

• We received submissions from a wide range of educational, social and other community groups. [More…]

• We received submissions from education, social and community organisations. [More…]

• In the report put down in the Senate we pointed out that it seemed to us, from evidence put to the Schools Commission, that unskilled occupations in the community were declining relatively and that the range of occupations requiring a high degree of literacy and mathematical precision were extending. [More…]

• I am referring to that very splendid nationally oriented community known as the Isolated Children’s Parents Association. [More…]

• Honourable senators will very well appreciate that when one is dealing with any isolated community, especially as far as children are concerned, very sympathetic and practical attention must be given to boarding accommodation. [More…]

• They are set out in a series of figures which I will not take the time of the Senate to read, but they have produced expressions of appreciation from the community affected by these circumstances. [More…]

• One will appreciate that the Western Aus.tralian community fully understands the needs in terms of distance and remoteness. [More…]

• We don’t want funds to expand the Public Service, but we do want to assist those in the business community who depend upon Government contracts to ride-out the present economic conditions. [More…]

• But as a responsible State Leader, and as one who is genuinely concerned about the future of private enterprise in Australia, and in Queensland in particular, it is necessary for my views to be known and understood by our supporters, particularly in the business community. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that in the following column the Statistician gives the percentage for all groups, which is the relevant section that affects all the community? [More…]

• When does the Government intend to eliminate the suffering, anguish and frustration it is causing throughout the community and to implement its undertakings? [More…]

• What steps have been taken to seek the views of the people of Norfolk Island as to their future, having regard to Australia’s obligations and responsibilities to its Territories and also having regard to the historical uniqueness of the Norfolk Island community? [More…]

• The Government announced on 17 December 1976 that it intends to continue to accept responsibility for maintaining Norfolk Island as a viable community and that its constitutional relationship with Australia would remain that of a Territory of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Minister is endeavouring to finalise the Commonwealth’s attitude on the views of the report as soon as possible, and is currently conferring with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in another place. [More…]

• Finally, will the Government encourage such a committee to seek greater community support and stimulate a wider public involvement and responsibility? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Transport whether he is aware of reports which suggest that as a result of pressure from member nations of the European Economic Community, Japanese shipbuilders apparently are about to increase their construction prices by the order of 30 per cent. [More…]

• My question is in 2 parts and is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The amount of power within the Public Service, particularly within certain parts of the Public Service, makes it of great importance to our community to examine the way in which appointments are made, the way in which we go about seeking people to take jobs within the Public Service, the way in which our departments are structured, the way in which they are led and the way in which those appointments, when they have been made, are given tenure or the way in which that can be discontinued. [More…]

• That would mean that the appointment of, say, the Commissioner of Community Relations would not be covered by the provisions of this Bill. [More…]

• Despite Senator Baume ‘s remarks, I can think of nothing more demoralising for those who are career public servants, indeed I can think of nothing more frustrating for the Australian community, than to realise that within this legislation the Government is building into the system what might commonly be referred to as the Canberra syndrome where the whole thinking of a bureaucratic city is virtually being locked in, where little encouragement is being given to people outside the permanent Public Service to come and give their constructive thoughts and ideas to the government in office. [More…]

• I doubt whether this legislation is something that the community wants. [More…]

• It is easy to pick up an old cliche and peddle it around the community but for goodness sake let all of us in this Parliament, realising the knowledge and expertise that develops as a result of service in a political party, acknowledge that it is just an old hackneyed phrase that newspaper editors and some journalists like to catch onto from time to time. [More…]

• Malcolm Fraser, when he indicated that he was concerned, as was the Austraiian community, with the fact that there were many movements of senior heads of the Commonwealth Public Service which appeared to be political. [More…]

• As I have indicated, the Australian community did suffer some disquiet at the fact that such appointments were taking place. [More…]

• I suggest that if people in the Australian community who have special expertise that would interest a government were asked to come forward and serve the government and the community for a brief period, there are men and women who would accept that challenge, knowing that the position they would hold would be for a limited period. [More…]

• It has been said that there will be fears within the Australian community that this system will not work. [More…]

• While it is no reflection on the Australian Public Service today, people around Australia have often wondered why a person should not be able to come from the community outside the Australian Public Service to offer his expertise in the field in which it is required. [More…]

• They provided when they came to drawing the Standing Orders that there should be time for debate, time for debate in this chamber as well as in the other chamber where perhaps one could not necessarily expect the same degree of debate to take place, and within the community. [More…]

• Standing order 242 is the means by which the community may be informed of the varying opinions held by senators- not by leaks or statements made outside the Parliament, but by genuine debate within the Parliament and a period for digesting between that debate and the final vote on the matter. [More…]

• If members of the public are to say yes they must presumably need some reason to change their recently expressed view.A debate punctuated by a call of the Senate period of 2 1 days, followed by further debate, will give to the community an opportunity to express a view, to form an idea, and perhaps even to help some of the members of this chamber to express their independent view, I trust and hope, as members of the Senate. [More…]

• Honourable Senators might say that the public had an opportunity at the Constitutional Convention, but the ordinary public, the rank and file of the Australian community, did not have a chance even to be present at the Constitutional Convention. [More…]

• 242 ought to be suspended in 1977, with all the means of communication we have within the community? [More…]

• That may be so, but that is one per cent of the community who would be better informed immediately from listening to the debate. [More…]

• That is probably about double the number of people who read editorials in newspapers, and editorials are generally regarded as being of significant importance in opinion making in the community. [More…]

• I believe that those advancing arguments regarding the prospective destruction of this chamber and of the smaller States- I emphasise that, and I am sure Senator Harradine was motivated by it when he moved his motionshould have the maximum opportunity by whatever means possible to hear and be heard, for the debate to take place, for the cross-exchange to take place, and for the fertilisation of ideas to be open to the maximum number of members of the community. [More…]

• Remember those unfortunate people in the community who are without sight, those people who are ill and those people who for a number of reasons- who cannot readdepend, God forbid, on the broadcasts of the Parliament to learn what is going on in this national capital. [More…]

• That seems to me to be the reality of the position, a position accepted by many people in the Australian community. [More…]

• On top of that we have the information available from the East Timorese community in Australia, which is comprised of people who fled the country at the time and people who were here beforehand and who have received information as a result of messages sent through by all forms and means. [More…]

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

• Did the 1976-77 estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development show an estimated average employment for 1976-77 of 826, of which 252 would be in the Management Division. [More…]

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

• The Government is considering the first report of the Bailey Task Force on co-ordination of health, welfare and community development programs, including the Area Improvement Program. [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 senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned residents of Sydney respectfully showeth that the discontinuation of funding for ‘kids activities Newtown, Magic Yellow Bus ‘ has deprived the community of a successful program serving an area of great need. [More…]

• At that time the Japanese Government and the industry were in the process of negotiations with the European Economic Community flowing out of the concern of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development about shipbuilding. [More…]

• In addition to government support the Councils of Social Service may call on community organisations and the community itself. [More…]

• Recently an elderly Aboriginal woman of some standing in her community was evicted from her State Housing Commission controlled home without any permanent, alternative accommodation being made available. [More…]

• There is a great world of belief that massive increased imports of clothing and textiles will both benefit the Australian workforce and lower the cost to the Australian community. [More…]

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

• These are the points that are taken into consideration by commissioners when agreeing on the number of people to be within various electorates: the community of interest within the division, including economic, social and regional interests; the means of communication and travel within the division; the trend of population changes within the State; the physical features of the division; and the existing boundaries of divisions and sub-divisions. [More…]

• They include the community of interest within a division, including economic, social and regional interests; the means of communication and travel within a division; the trend of population changes within a State; the physical features of a division, and the existing boundaries of divisions and sub-divisions. [More…]

• He has pointed out to me matters that go beyond the matters set out in the Bill, including the community of interest aspect. [More…]

• He pointed out the fact that the existing Commonwealth Electoral Act provides for the commissioners to take into account factors like population, growth patterns, community of interest, transport and so on. [More…]

• But by the same token I do not think you would be refusing funds that came from any large manufacturing interests or rural interests in the community. [More…]

• It means the right to be fully and properly served by one ‘s member, to converse and consult, to offer and to be receptive to ideas and to see first hand community and industry problems. [More…]

• Whilst I think there is general acceptance in the Parliament of what might be called the theoretical proposition of one vote one value, there must be a recognition that in the Australian Federation, with the Tasmanian constitutional entitlement to 5 seats and with the Territorial representation, the proposition of one man one vote in this community is mathematically impossible to achieve. [More…]

• What we are doing is simply saying that these are important proposals which have been discussed for many years in the community. [More…]

• We are getting a better educated community every day. [More…]

• It is claimed at such polls that people can vote against a government in a Senate election and the result will not destroy the government; that it will show the displeasure of the community if people vote for an independent or some small party. [More…]

• As I have pointed out to the Senate on several occasion, the members of the Chinese community in Timor had direct affiliations with and the support of the families of the Taiwanese sections of China. [More…]

• I also make the observation that it is an area, as Senator Harradine has said, that really does bring out the problems of members of Parliament in the House of Representatives and the Senate and that some understanding of this matter in the community might make the community feel that the job is not all that good. [More…]

• The matter of the future repositories for historical information is of great interest to the community and, I think, the nation. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Transport say when the proposed list of items eligible for the southbound freight subsidy for the rural community will be made available, as many people in the farming area are keen to take advantage of the scheme? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the hardship and suffering of the elderly and the sick, the inconvenience to housewives and workers, the losses to the business community and the disruption to schools caused by the continual power shedding, breakdowns and stoppages in Darwin over the last 6 months? [More…]

• At that stage he met with members of the House of Assembly, some union members and some other leaders in the community. [More…]

• Most of all, supplying this information helps those generous people in the community who want to give money to disaster funds to know that their money is being well looked after and has been or will be properly spent. [More…]

• A senior member of the Chinese community was a member of it, as were members of the Red Cross, the Aboriginal community and so on. [More…]

• Senator Withers and Malcolm Fraser know that if there were a half Senate election early next year the Government’s numbers in the Senate would be reduced and it would go out to the world what is now clear from the gallop polls, that there is creeping dissatisfaction throughout all sections of the community with this Government which has failed so abjectly to fulfil the promises with which it stole office. [More…]

• I want at least to be virile and to continue to be virile for some considerable time, to have a little power for good in this community and for the protection of the people in the States of this country. [More…]

• Why is there not a genuine realisation on the part of the Government that if it wants to change the Constitution let it do so and bring in matters of graver importance to the community such as inflation and unemployment if it reckons that the Commonwealth has not the power to deal with these matters. [More…]

• Certainly, the rank and file of the Australian community was not represented at the Constitutional Convention. [More…]

• What we have to remember, despite what Senator Harradine said about the people wanting an opportunity to have a say, is that all sections of the community were represented at that Convention in Hobart. [More…]

• The proposal has the capacity to reduce elections in our community, which would be popular and good from a point of view of competent government. [More…]

• If a lot more people in this community believe that you cannot get reforms in a parliamentary way they are going to use all sorts of ways that will be found repugnant. [More…]

• I think that there are some questions that are matters for public debate in the future, particularly that question which concerns the Australian Labor Party and a number of people in the community who are not necessarily supporters of that Party. [More…]

• They are not matters for vituperation; they are matters for serious consideration in the community as to the proper role of the Senate and the powers of the Senate. [More…]

• I have no hesitation in saying that the workers of the various categories throughout the Australian postal system represent a true cross-section of the Australian community. [More…]

• But inevitably, as with the whole Australian community, there will be a small percentage of people who break the rules in various ways. [More…]

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

• Environs replaces three other magazines produced by departments absorbed by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The magazines discontinued were Shelter (Housing and Construction), Community (Urban and Regional Development), and Recreation (Tourism and Recreation). [More…]

• Shelter-S 1,400, Community$2,5O0, Recreation-$1,800 [More…]

• Shelter, Community- the same, Recreation- parttime services of two journalists and a clerical officer. [More…]

• To act as a national forum and educational medium for issues related to the built and natural environment, housing, community life and leisure. [More…]

• community television aerial systems, for small pockets of population. [More…]

• In both cases it is a pre-requisite that television signals suitable for translation or for feeding the community television aerial system are available close to the area it is desired to serve. [More…]

• i An overall network of cycleways for Canberra is being identified by the National Capital Development Commission working in close consultation with various community groups including A.C.T. [More…]

• This is a major breakthrough for the community, I think the work done by Australian scientists who come within the ambit of my portfolio is a wonderful achievement. [More…]

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

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, concerns fears which have been expressed publicly in the western suburbs of Sydney about the river systems in that area. [More…]

• I am happy to refer to one significant development in the Australian Capital Territory- the Wanniassa College and the community centre associated with it. [More…]

• The Wanniassa College and community centre will cost the Australian taxpayer a little matter of $7.7m. [More…]

• It is scheduled to commence operation at the commencement of 1979 and the community activities facilities will be completed a month or so later. [More…]

• I am aware also that some States are making decisions with regard to the future of those regional councils and the type of community development plan in general. [More…]

• I hope that other State governments will give assistance to community development through continuation of regional councils or in some other way that might be more appropriate in their own States. [More…]

• Honourable senators, as members of Parliament, as members of political parties and as members of the community will be part and parcel of that political crisis. [More…]

• Obviously such a crisis would be due to some political instability at the time, some major division not only in the Parliament but also in the general community, and the Government’s view is that in those circumstances the Senate should not be immune from participating in the resolution of that crisis by the electors. [More…]

• At that time he had a good deal of community support. [More…]

• As I indicated yesterday when speaking to this Bill, I would be very happy to see the community debate what it considers the role of the Upper House ought to be. [More…]

• With respect to the Treasurer’s announcement that a’ new commemorative 50 cents coin is to be minted in Australia in 1977, and since the 50 cent coin is not currently in use in slot machines and automatic dispensing machines and thus no expense will be incurred by the business community, will the Treasurer consider an alteration to the announced size and weight of the new coin so that it is equal in size and weight to an exact metric measurement, rather than to a fraction of a metric measurement, in order that Australia can have at least one coin that is measured in whole metric rather than whole imperial units. [More…]

• Four community halls have been established. [More…]

• Health centres which form a focal point for community activities are at Melba, Kippax and Scullin. [More…]

• Four squash courts have been identified in the Community Centre at the Group Centre to be established in Weston Creek. [More…]

• The college planned to open in Wanniassa in 1979 incorporates a community centre which has a swimming pool, squash courts, sports halls and theatre. [More…]

• Local activity centres include small meeting rooms for community use. [More…]

• There are also 3. public libraries and 2 community halls in South Canberra. [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 senator’s question. [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 senator’s question: [More…]

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

• No specific action has been taken on that matter but the role of general aviation in the community and its relation to the national interest is fully recognised. [More…]

• 1 ) Detailed proposals for a mental health ordinance for the Australian Capital Territory have been drafted and widely circulated throughout the community in the form of a discussion paper. [More…]

• Various recommendations arising from the community discussions have been incorporated in the successive amendments of the discussion paper. [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 senator’s question: [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 Senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: [More…]

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

• Town houses would be completely out of character with the existing residences in the area and their construction on Block 3 of Section 107 would alienate the major part of what is at present an invaluable community amenity. [More…]

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

• I understand that the people of Australia, the Greek community and national communities, also will be raising money for this purpose. [More…]

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

• My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, refers to the subject of metropolitan Adelaide’s water treatment program. [More…]

• I believe that the community should be very wary of the damage which may occur. [More…]

• The matter is under consideration and other departments beside mine, including the Department of Health and the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development, and all State governments are alerted to this problem. [More…]

• Of course, there are numerous examples of other women in the community who successfully combine these dual roles. [More…]

• A recent statement by the Australian and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd- I think it was made in the Bank’s Quarterly Survey published last weekurged community leaders to stop harping on the gloomy side of things and instead to acknowledge that economic progress is being made. [More…]

• One can understand the reaction of the members of the rural community to the present position, having experienced increases in their net incomes of not less than 1 30 per cent in those 2 years of 1973 and 1974. [More…]

• Does it not realise what will happen if the real purchasing power of the community is reduced? [More…]

• But is it not to be expected that if the Australian community is to respond to increased privileges for the private sector, that must be demonstrated in the capacity of the Australian people to increase their consumption of goods produced in this country? [More…]

• The hatred the Government shows to the public sector is not helping either the Australian community or the services which the Public Service provides. [More…]

• I am sure that when the result of the next election is known we will see a change back to policies which recognise the needs of the Australian people and which seek to give equity and genuine assistance to those in the Australian community who really need it. [More…]

• Why should I work for the council doing jobs for the benefit of the people in the community?’ [More…]

• It is indicative of the divisions that are continuing within the Australian community over the actions that were taken in this place in October and November 1975, and that were taken in the name of the Crown in November 1975. [More…]

• I suggest that shows the extent of the shifts and the divisions that have occurred in the community over the issue. [More…]

• They expressed to me very grave concern at the way in which Government policies were not coming through, at the way in which the Government was not relating effectively to the business sector, to the trade union sector or to the rural sector of the Australian community. [More…]

• As a result of the uncertainty about the Government’s policies there has been a complete failure to restore confidence in the Australian community. [More…]

• In the minds of the Australian community this Government no longer has any credibility. [More…]

• No longer do the Australian people believe that the Government can unite the nation because the Government has deliberately set out to create divisions within the community. [More…]

• Government is doing to the community economically, socially and sociologically, I shall now say something about the development of the policies and the record of this Government in the field of general administration. [More…]

• If this policy could be seen by the Australian community as contributing to a dramatic recovery in economic terms, then I believe that the Australian people perhaps would have accepted the sacrifices they have been forced to make as a result of Government policy. [More…]

• His speech in the Senate today was a credit to him and should give confidence to the people of Victoria that in Senator Lewis they have a worthwhile person who is interested in their welfare, particularly in the rural community. [More…]

• I am concerned about the unemployment that is apparent in the community at present. [More…]

• The spirit of self-help in the community must be encouraged in an effort to overcome the disastrous effects of the previous administration. [More…]

• I am one who believes that there are some people- not only professionals but tradesmen as well- who are withholding their services from the community because of the penalty of high taxation. [More…]

• It occurs to me that apart from the withholding of services from the community in the dental and medical area- in fact, this is happening- if we paid attention as early as possible to providing incentive for these people to work more, and for the average worker to perform overtime work without incurring incredible tax penalties, our productivity would increase. [More…]

• I hope that as soon as possible the Government will be able to act in that area which is of great concern to many people in our community. [More…]

• It occurs to me that there ought to be a provision whereby young doctors are required in some way or other to spend at least a year in an area of need in the community. [More…]

• I am surprised to think that such a suggestion should be put forward by a government which announced in the speech read by Her Majesty the Queen yesterday that it was its intention to bring down legislation to protect the rights of individuals in the community. [More…]

• We have a situation where jobs are not available; skills are being lost to the Australian community; the private sector productivity is dropping; manufacturing production is dropping; and the skills of our young people are being lost. [More…]

• One of the schemes which has been promoted by the Government is the community youth support scheme, but it offers the young people no pay for the jobs they do. [More…]

• Some of the areas in which they might participate are in assistance with minor maintenance to community facilities and in conservation or environment protection projects; they might assist in paper and metal recycling activities; they will learn job skills in an informal atmosphere and maintain a positive orientation to work and to job finding. [More…]

• We know that the visit of Her Majesty the Queen to this country has been undertaken at a time of great tension in the community. [More…]

• A large part of the Australian community believe that Labor was wrongly dismissed from Government, and it will be many years before that wound is healed. [More…]

• It will only be through a straight forward approach by this Government to the country’s economic problems that people will believe that the Liberal Government honestly intends to correct the problems existing in the community. [More…]

• I offer to Her Majesty’s representative in this country, the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, and to Lady Kerr my apologies for the unfair, unwarranted and hateful comments made by a number of persons in this community who I have no doubt know better. [More…]

• He gave explanations to the community for his actions. [More…]

• The Speech is full of generalisations and all sorts of phoney reassurances to a divided community- honourable senators on the Government side in a debate here a fortnight ago admitted that it is a socially divided community- and a politically divided community. [More…]

• This man, the Prime Minister, has abandoned almost every promise he made during the last election campaign to the community in general, particularly those promises made to the poor and underprivileged in this country. [More…]

• He has abandoned plans and there has been a continuous change so that the business community, the working community, the Public Service and everyone in this community are in a state of confusion. [More…]

• He still believes that by making speeches, either out of his own mouth or by putting them into the Queen’s mouth, by talking about commitment and concern, by talking in deep terms of concern and worry and by urging people to get out and work he will solve the problems in the community. [More…]

• Almost 6 per cent of Australians are unemployed- 346 688 Australians- and we know also that there are many women and others in the community who do not appear in the statistics but who would work if suitable jobs were available or who would work if child care facilities were available. [More…]

• We know that the number of paying jobs in the community has not increased in the last year as it has increased in past years. [More…]

• But we suggest that stopping all school leavers getting the unemployment benefit in order to catch the few who try to beat the system is immoral and discriminates severely against the children of pensioners and other poor people in the community who need this benefit so that they can dress adequately and travel to look for jobs in a society which has very few jobs for them. [More…]

• We have some 340 000 unemployed people in the community and there are about 25 000 job vacancies. [More…]

• Almost 6 per cent of people in this community has no choice, has lost dignity and has lost esteem. [More…]

• We still have Ministers at question time in this place saying that they do not believe that people are unemployed in this community. [More…]

• The scope of how inadequate this experiment is- I repeat that it is an experiment- is demonstrated by the Henderson inquiry into poverty in this country which estimated that there are 125 000- not 1500- low income households in the private sector of the community which need rental assistance immediately. [More…]

• I am sure that every member of Parliament realises the difficulty in providing emergency housing for people in the community. [More…]

• I believe that the Parliament and the members of the community in general should receive reports of this type as was the case when a Labor government was in power so that the people who have knowledge and the people who have some idea of what the problems are in the community, can discuss them and can put forward their views without radical changes in social policy suddenly being announced with no previous discussion except that conducted carefully within the confines of government. [More…]

• The whole approach of the Government, if this piece of paper is to be the future blueprint and plan of Government action for this community, will be a continuation of the sort of thing we have had for the last 15 months. [More…]

• When the policies do not work, as they have not worked up until now, the Government will again need a smokescreen of the type that has been used until now, blaming the unemployed in the community for the troubles in the community, blaming the worker for not working hard enough, blaming the Labor Government for something it did 15 months ago, blaming everyone but the Government itself which has demonstrated that it has no coherent plan. [More…]

• It is seeking to look at the basic problems bedevilling businessmen generally and individual workers in the community by seeking a thorough-going tax reform. [More…]

• I have been particularly interested to read the comments which have emanated from the commissioners and from advocates putting forward various views about the appropriateness of the consumer price index as a measure of cost increases and hence a basis for passing on wage increases in the community. [More…]

• The more hearings there are and the more cost increases are passed on to the community, the more likely it is that business will be unable to cope with the increasing pressure. [More…]

• I believe there is justice in that because it appears to be related to the cost of health care as it has affected the community in the last 12 months. [More…]

• Consequently our bank of skills within the community has declined. [More…]

• The final matter that I should like to mention is the area which affects a great number of aged people in the community today. [More…]

• This, of course, has had a dramatic effect on their standard of living and is a great problem in the community generally. [More…]

• Honourable senators can imagine the effect of people who have reached the age of say, 65 years, and never had very much business experience or have little knowledge about investment procedures and the way business is carried on m the community. [More…]

• I find that this situation is of particular concern in the community at the moment. [More…]

• Indeed, they wanted some assurance that they were, in fact, wanted by the community and that they and their children would have a future as farmers in the community. [More…]

• He obviously does not want to see the recovery which the great mass of people in the community wants to see. [More…]

• I think it stands for most Australians who believe that the monarchy represents a most important and permanent part of our community. [More…]

• The monarchy is one of the aspects which the community needs to ensure that there is solidity and a continuing factor in our way of life. [More…]

• I believe that such people will see that the alternatives which put political power in one pair of hands at the head of the community is undesirable and is not to be countenanced by this community. [More…]

• It was only partially completed but what it had done was to increase greatly the awareness of social development in localities throughout Australia that was needed in this community and it brought the ordinary members of the community into active operation with it. [More…]

• Such qualifications are in very short supply in the community and that shortage will dog our tracks for many years if we do not give it particular attention now. [More…]

• I believe that if the business community is able to see the development of steady progress it will expand in the months ahead. [More…]

• Certainly the members of the farming community about whom Senator Lewis spoke yesterday and who are living in impoverished conditions are not lazy. [More…]

• I think this question of the oppressed section of the farming community needs to be discussed by me and others. [More…]

• It affords a full scale discussion on the Government’s programs and on events and developments within the Australian community generally. [More…]

• The mere fact that if we impose upon the Australian community another system it will create an Australian national identity in my view is quite absurd. [More…]

• Her Australian community celebrates that jubilee with her with a great deal of enthusiasm and satisfaction. [More…]

• The sharp increase in unemployment figures has not only been the subject of political and public argument; it also has been of great concern to the people involved and to the leaders within the Australian community. [More…]

• We may argue about the terms I have used but the point is that this is an expression of the views of a large section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Leaders of thought, leaders in education, social welfare and community education, also have a responsibility to remind the Australian people that if we talk about having the right to work, when the opportunity to work comes it should be taken and not ignored so that people can live at the taxpayers’ expense. [More…]

• There is a great community concern about people who are unemployed because they do not wish to work and have resigned from their jobs. [More…]

• Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) have taken steps to meet this situation because a whole range of responsibilities must be undertaken by governments, Ministers and leaders in our community. [More…]

• I draw attention to the value of this kind of education to the community and to whether all of the money spent and all the education received is being used for the well-being, growth, development and stability- call it what you like- of the Australian nation. [More…]

• All of it is related to what is referred to in the Queen’s Speech as the productivity section of our community. [More…]

• I make these observations simply because there is also a concern in the community in relation to the vast sums of money that are spent in this way. [More…]

• The Government at that time stressed that it saw a need to reassert the value of technical education and to give due recognition to the contribution that it makes to the community. [More…]

• Representations made by employers and others in the community have also proclaimed and made clear the need for the training of technicians and people with technical skills. [More…]

• In reading a recent publication relating to community education I noted that two or three points were laid down which I think can find their way usefully into a discussion we are having this afternoon. [More…]

• The failure to think about this leads to educational tyranny which is manifest in the classroom and the community at large. [More…]

• I believe that further education provides opportunities for people who live in the community at large or people whose earlier educational opportunities may not have been all they would have liked or for people whose opportunities for further education now are such that it will enable them not only to acquire new skills to take on fresh employment but most of all to get a greater degree of satisfaction out of life. [More…]

• I believe that further education will contribute to community growth and satisfaction. [More…]

• All the current evidence suggests that there is no feeling amongst the community that there is any reason to be confident while this Government remains in power. [More…]

• As Senator Lewis said, primary industry in this country is basic to the whole social and economic development of our community. [More…]

• We will never reach that potential unless we are prepared as a total community to seek it out, unless we get back to a circumstance where initiative does reap a reward and where there is some sort of privilege for a measure of thrift. [More…]

• Australians must discuss intelligently rather than sneer at such things as profit in the community. [More…]

• So all of us have to be adult enough to understand and admit that profit is an essential part of our community. [More…]

• On a productivity per capita basis the Australian farming community is the most efficient in the world. [More…]

• I ask: Will the Minister inform the Senate as to what action is intended to ensure that this discrimination against the Aboriginal community in Townsville ceases? [More…]

• By no means is that suggested as the total amount spent by the Australian community on solar energy research. [More…]

• Because of concern in the community in the area of alcoholism and drug abuse, will the Minister tell the Senate the reasons why future funding will no longer be granted? [More…]

• Having in mind the concern of the Government and of the Australian community at the abuses presently indicated in the unemployment benefit scheme, does the Government intend to bring about reforms in this area of tertiary education? [More…]

• I believe that this will be of great benefit to the Australian community and to the Parliament generally. [More…]

• I believe that these standing committees can contribute enormously to the well being of the Australian community, especially at a time when the Australian public is querying the validity of the parliamentary institution. [More…]

• As I have said before, the committee system provides an opportunity for the community at large to speak to the Parliament and for the committee to reflect in the Parliament what the community is thinking about a given issue. [More…]

• Like the honourable senator, I am concerned that the Hills area, the northwestern area- the whole western area of Sydneyshould have a commercial radio outlet if it can, a licence, community access radio and many other radio services; but this is a separate issue from who should hold the licence. [More…]

• -We will take the matter up at a later date, and all of us who come from Sydney can come properly prepared to examine what is best in the interests of our city and our community. [More…]

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

• Is the Minister for Science aware that there is a growing demand for the use of satellite resources photo-imagery which could be of vital assistance to the community by ready access to the land satellite facilities that we have? [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that such reports tend to create disquiet in the community in relation to standards of medical education at a university? [More…]

• Senator Harradine refers to a deputation which I received from representatives of the Polish community, which was supported by the Returned Services League and introduced by Senator Harradine and Mr Hodgman, requesting that consideration be given to an extension of the Service pension to certain Polish migrants to Australia who fought in the Polish Army and in particular, as Senator Harradine said, those who fought under British command. [More…]

• Schools Authority represents all interests in the community, that report has been made available to the representatives of all those interests. [More…]

• The School Board and the Principal decided that a number of arrangements could be made with working staff and voluntary help from the community. [More…]

• One would have thought that community involvement would have had some blessing but this has been rejected. [More…]

• However, I wish to voice my concern about the economic trends developing in this country which threaten the security of every one of us in the community. [More…]

• The social problems which have developed because of the failure of the Government to lift us out of the economic doldrums in which we find ourselves has led to much social dislocation in the community. [More…]

• I know that Mr Andrew Peacock has made a statement on foreign affairs, but so far the Greek community throughout Australia has not been happy about the time taken in disclosing what attitude, if any, Australia has adopted towards the tragic situation in Cyprus. [More…]

• Yet farmers are the only group in our community whose incomes have actually decreased while their working conditions and hours have remained the same as those of their grandfathers. [More…]

• Prior to that this was left to voluntary organisations or the wealthier members of the community who often saw this as their responsibility. [More…]

• It acts as the conscience of the community and is a leader in this area. [More…]

• The community has demanded that it be relieved of that burden. [More…]

• Instead, money has been taken in the form of tax and the thrifty and wealthier members of the community pay compulsorily now not only for the genuinely needy but also for those who desire to spend up big because the Government will provide if things go wrong. [More…]

• Our Government is opposed not only to those who cheat on unemployment benefit but also to those in the community who cheat their fellow man in Australia. [More…]

• What chance do young people in our community have of getting proper accommodation when the best that is offered by this Government by way of rental assistance is a paltry, miserly $75,000 a year? [More…]

• I sincerely hope that Her Majesty’s Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) will look at this matter urgently and come up with a much more generous scheme in the future. [More…]

• But what a marvellous community response there was. [More…]

• The community spirit has been marvellous because as soon as people returning home find themselves out of trouble they are then going out to help people in a worse position. [More…]

• It was a very commendable community effort. [More…]

• I believe that we are at a stage in our society where it is essential for us to comprehend and understand the forces that operate within our society, to propagate whatever ideas we may have in the community generally, and to engage in much more public debate about the crucial issues which face western civilisation today. [More…]

• This act and the devaluation in November 1976- hiding behind the smoke screen of encouraging overseas investment in this country, which this Government believes is needed- has merely given a large windfall to overseas investors in ownership of our resources, with little or no benefit accruing to the Australian community. [More…]

• Those principles related in that part of Her Majesty’s Speech are extremely appropriate and applicable to the problems and needs of migrants in the Australian community. [More…]

• The second alibi used is the failure of the business community to respond to the election of this Government and become confident immediately upon the election of Mr Fraser ‘s Government. [More…]

• Inter-related issues arising from smaller families, higher female workforce participation rates, longer periods of formal education, the stress within employment markets on accreditation, the increased affluence of many members of the community, changing life-styles etc., are impacting on youth in complex ways that deserve more careful attention than they appear to have been receiving in the past. [More…]

• Nobody on this side of the Senate says that people in the community should be free to go on the dole in circumstances in which they refuse to take employment of a suitable kind when it is available. [More…]

• But to imply as the basis of a speech- quite a knowledgeable speech in its delivery later on- the heartless attitude of this Government and to say that it is reducing the help available to the unemployed, that somehow it is attacking those in this community who are unfortunate enough not to be able to get jobs, is completely wrong and false. [More…]

• I was at a Central Australian Aboriginal community recently where more than 150 breadwinners had been refused employment benefits as a result of the work test that had been applied. [More…]

• These statements are not true because evidence to the contrary can be found repeatedly in dozens and dozens of instances in all sections of the Australian community. [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…]

• Sir, The combined efforts of the Department for Employment and Industrial Relations and the Department of Social Security to allegedly beat the ‘dole bludger’ are savagely depriving some of the community’s most defenceless families of their right to social security. [More…]

• We see this attitude developing to quite a degree throughout the community. [More…]

• It is quite fair and the honourable senator knows full well that I am referring to a sector of the community and am not speaking of the community as a whole. [More…]

• That is not a saying of mine but a very wise saying of a person in the Australian community and I suggest that we dwell on it. [More…]

• He has come as a migrant to Australia and now he is one of the leaders of the migrant communityour friends who have come to Australia. [More…]

• I certainly agree with Senator Baume that Anthony Crosland ‘s work in the British Government, his work in the European Economic Community and his intense work and interest in the Socialist International movement helped to bring about his tragic early death. [More…]

• I talked to quite a number of people in the community who said that the economic problems which the country was in would be solved as soon as the Liberal and National Country Parties were returned to power. [More…]

• Also, under this Government, in the past twelve to fifteen months Aborigines have suffered, as have other disadvantaged minorities in the Australian community. [More…]

• The Australian community has witnessed the deterioration of Federal and State relations to a new low point. [More…]

• The proposal by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to increase the rate of interest applicable for public housing is one which is deserving of the strongest condemnation because it will force all State Housing Ministers to increase the rents on public housing for low income earners. [More…]

• Senators and members of this Parliament and other concerned people in the community have, for the last 1 5 to 1 8 months, by their activities and their words, led to questioning and, to a large extent, to the exposure ofthe horror of the aggression in East Timor. [More…]

• That editorial sums up my feelings and, I believe, the feelings of a great number of other citizens in this community. [More…]

• I will take up this matter with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• There is a growing importance in the use of solar energy much to the advantage of the community. [More…]

• Can the Minister give an undertaking that there will be no curtailment of this important information service to the community concerning weather conditions and that the Bureau will continue to operate a regional office in Canberra? [More…]

• Of course one of the options available is to investigate how the functions of the Bureau may be made more economic and how some of the $35m which this service costs the community may be pared in some way. [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 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…]

• Firstly, it will be of significant benefit to the business community. [More…]

• In my community of Mackay a voluntary organisation has been established. [More…]

• If we have not the service industries functioning well, the whole community grinds down. [More…]

• This year some of them wanted to spend one week each semester at the Darwin Community College upgrading their ability to handle their cases. [More…]

• They were not allowed to have a week off to attend the Community College to carry on with the practical part of their studies. [More…]

• Their loyalty must be to the community. [More…]

• However, in the final analysis their loyalty must be to the community, to the people they are to serve. [More…]

• The Community Colleges have come in for a good deal of comment in the last few months. [More…]

• Community Colleges are understaffed. [More…]

• We have seen the suavity with which it was embraced by the local Legislative Assembly members and sold to the community at large. [More…]

• They are prepared to bludge on the community and on their mates, because the taxes paid by their mates are paying them. [More…]

• I commend the Government for the new program it has introduced for the younger people, that is, the community youth scheme, which will keep younger people occupied and give them some responsibilities within the community. [More…]

• I am just making a broad statement that we, as members of the community, have to play our part. [More…]

• Yet the old spirit is still lying within a great part of this community. [More…]

• One sees wonderful charitable efforts by so many people within our community. [More…]

• We need to spread that spirit and to get it running through our community. [More…]

• But we have to show more of it and use it more broadly throughout our community. [More…]

• The only people who will survive under Fraser and the LiberalNational Country Party Government will be the elite section of our community. [More…]

• There have been a great many successes amongst them in the way they have settled into the community and the way they have become so much part of the Australian way of life. [More…]

• The community at large must broaden the term ‘education’ and also, I repeat, work on the fact that there is no second class education. [More…]

• I am not passing judgment, but I do think that as a community we have to consider all the moral, sociological and economic questions that are implied. [More…]

• It is the community at large which must look to it. [More…]

• They are all good, but the country, the community, industry and government were not ready. [More…]

• The community has to regard work as work and workers as workers. [More…]

• We have to educate the older members of the community and train the younger members. [More…]

• As a community we have to consider all the moral, sociological and economic aspects of the work situation today as well as considering the purely political consequences of the work pattern. [More…]

• It is adversely affecting those people in the community who should have automatic adjustments to their pensions. [More…]

• She can go to a community welfare department or the Department of Social Security, but for the sole male parent there is very little assistance offered. [More…]

• If a woman goes to a community welfare department or the Department of Social Security, she is told of the pensions to which she is entitled not only for herself but also for her dependent children. [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…]

• I join with Senator Cameron in saying to the Government that I hope that the Budget will permit it to look at this anomaly and to take some steps to relieve the position of the many supporting fathers in the community. [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…]

• a ) 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…]

• I would say that with the smallest amount of goodwill it would be possible to agree around the Senate chamber with very few exceptions and it would be possible to obtain agreement out in the community that that very minimal change ought to be made in our constitutional structure so that the Senate is not insulated from the results of its actions. [More…]

• She called them the conscience of the community and commended the way that the Government was now working with voluntary agencies in assisting the unfortunate in the community. [More…]

• I am afraid that I cannot see any gain to the community in having increasing unemployment and attendant miseries while dispensing charity relief to the poor, to the destitute and to the aged. [More…]

• Most of the women in this community who work need to work. [More…]

• I suppose that the centre has not really got out into the community yet and let people know that it is there. [More…]

• With the feeling that the Government does not really believe in them and is not going to fund them, that they will not be there long, the centres do not have a great deal of confidence in going to the community and asking for assistance. [More…]

• If it is talking about equality it should tell that to the migrant women in this community who have so many distressing things happening to them with no relief and who cannot, in so many cases, even speak the language. [More…]

• Honourable senators can address themselves to those matters on which they have deep personal feelings or feelings for sectors of the community or parts of their electorates in which they have a particular interest, that they wish to put before the Parliament. [More…]

• Whilst we know that this is a House of politics and that naturally a political view is put forward either in praise or in condemnation of a government, there tends to be a thread of sensible and worthwhile suggestions through all the speeches as to how a government can improve the services it attempts to deliver to the community. [More…]

• They have failed to respond to the duties and the responsibilities incumbent upon a government so close to this event in the international community. [More…]

• Yet the decision to close the radio link is even more callous when one notes that 6 Australian journalists who were pursuing their fine ideals to provide the international community with information on the developing war were murdered. [More…]

• The activities of the Indonesian armed forces in East Timor are just beginning to reach the international community. [More…]

• Well, true, Australia’s attitude to the Aboriginal community still leaves much to be desired and its early history of brutal mistreatmentwhich apparently is what was really in Mr Malik’s mind- was obviously far worse. [More…]

• The honourable senator wishes me to give warnings to people with regard to some curtailment of expenditure but I ask the community at large to test us on our record of social security in the last 12 months. [More…]

• Can the Minister assure the Senate that the Australian artistic community will be consulted in the event of Federal Government artistic commissions? [More…]

• If this is to be an additional inquiry, will there be opportunity, for example, for community representations to be made to it? [More…]

• Their work load may be increased at a time when the level of unemployment in this community is rising and when the unemployed need assistance. [More…]

• Another major area with which the Minister dealt was the European Economic Community, a community which has given us tremendous difficulties and problems in recent years because of its trading policies. [More…]

• We have been inclined to ignore the importance of Western Europe and the growing development, one trusts, of political and economic unity in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Apart from the growth of China, which has been one of the major changes leading to the dissolution of this polarisation of the world, there has also been the growth of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Despite the economic difficulties in some of the Western European countries, there cannot be any question that the formation of the European Economic Community has greatly strengthened the economic and political power of Western Europe and has, at least in part, created another centre away from the previous bi-polar situation to which the Minister for Foreign Affairs refers. [More…]

• The relationship of this country with Japan, with the United States of America and with the European Economic Community is of extreme importance. [More…]

• The European Economic Community has developed to quite a massive degree. [More…]

• Part of the most important international negotiations, from the point of view of this country, in the immediate future must surely relate to our ability to come to a proper understanding in relation to trade with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The European Economic Community’s greatest problem, as it concerns us, is the result or corollary of its own agricultural policy. [More…]

• They have seen what has happened with the European Economic Community in the European sector and look to that type of thing as their ideal. [More…]

• I believe that the Prime Minister’s visit to China in June 1976 resulted in Australia being made somewhat of a laughing stock in the eyes of the international diplomatic community. [More…]

• Mr Chamoun, one of the leaders of the Christian Lebanese community, one of the main spokesmen, one ofthe main participants in the struggle in Lebanon, had a visa refused - [More…]

• I insert the word ‘only’- on their integration into the community of the receiving country: [More…]

• But implicit in much of what the Foreign Minister has said has been the need for greater community participation. [More…]

• What I have spoken of is a national agenda, not a government agenda, and unless we can find answers which have widespread support in the community, they will not be viable answers … [More…]

• I believe that is a most significant statement; it is important that the community should become more involved in the foreign policy process. [More…]

• There is a need, I think, to try to involve the community more. [More…]

• assess the views of the community more thoroughly, particularly before going ahead with some of the essential adjustments to our foreign policy in changing circumstances to which I have referred and to which, of course, the Foreign Minister referred. [More…]

• There is a great need for closer communication between the Government and the people on foreign policy issues so that the Government is better aware of the feelings of-the community on such issues and so that the people better understand changes occurring in the world and the action the Government is taking in respect of them. [More…]

• I believe this could ensure a greater degree of public comment on and perhaps contribution to an area of policy on which the general community usually has far too little opportunity to comment or to participate with the decision makers. [More…]

• We have very influential people of Greek origin in this community. [More…]

• I hope that Senator Withers gets weekly briefings so that he can give me prompt answers when I stand up here and speak on behalf of the Sydney Yugoslav community or if somebody else such as Senator Georges stands up and seeks information upon our attitude to the solving of the Cypriot problem. [More…]

• In 1975 the Department of Health undertook an assessment of the needs of the Australian community for the provision of factor VIII for the treatment of haemophilia. [More…]

• Indeed, I should be most surprised if this did not include people within the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Some of them are being undertaken within the Department and others are using organisations in the community which may have access to other information that would be of use in our considerations. [More…]

• There is now some re-thinking in the community to the effect that degree courses are not necessarily those that would offer the best prospects of vocation. [More…]

• At present, assistance for women’s refuges is provided through the community health program which is administered by the Department of Health. [More…]

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

• I ask the Minister: Has the Department of Science any interest in the mission of this airborne observatory, which the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration has in Australia, and would the type of research which such a laboratory can carry out be of any practical use to the Australian community? [More…]

• The honourable senator asks a question which is in the minds of many people these days, that is, whether something which appears to be purely scientific research is in actual fact of use to the community. [More…]

• -Will the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development give an assurance that the inquiry into land and housing costs which is to be established by the Government will include some representation from the Australian trade union movement in order that the experience and knowledge of workers in the housing and construction industry will be available to the committee in its investigations? [More…]

• The subsequent uproar- and there was a loud protest from the community generally as well as from Aboriginal communities- persuaded the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) to produce some additional money. [More…]

• People are not allowed to collect the social security entitlements which every other section of the community is entitled to collect. [More…]

• The only way that these people are going to get their land rights legislation is through the activities of governments who care and through the campaigns which can be conducted by Aboriginal groups and friendly white people in the community. [More…]

• Community Health Dr 1973-74 [More…]

• We know what happened: We know that the Bill was passed through both Houses of Parliament in the last session; we know that it was welcomed by the Aborigines and by the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• It is now known that some forms are not directly infectious, and an education program of the Australian community at large is required to show these patterns and the understanding which has now been reached. [More…]

• -If there is a particular community where there is a degree of difficulty with regard to registration, or whatever the difficulty is, and it is drawn to the attention of the appropriate Minister or myself, he or I will be prepared to do what was done recently, that is, send an officer of the Department to the area concerned to facilitate the application and registration and whatever else might be required. [More…]

• It is also part of the Minister’s proposals that we look at a pilot program of community development. [More…]

• He considered that this program could provide community determined employment as a means of reducing unemployment benefits. [More…]

• If we could stand up and say that about the white community anywhere in Australia, all hell would break loose. [More…]

• The answer is to spend money for the benefits of the people and that it what this Government has endeavoured to do in the last 1 8 months by having inquiries into the delivery of services to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• If money is to be made available to the Aboriginal community it must be spent for the benefit of the Aboriginal community and not wasted in rip-offs here and rip-offs somewhere else. [More…]

• That is not assisting the Aboriginal community at all. [More…]

• To my knowledge there has been no cutback in the delivery of services to the Aboriginal community in the very important fields of health, education, legal services and housing. [More…]

• We as well as other sections of the community certainly have suffered because of the economic situation but I am sure- and I say this without fear or favourthat the present Government will continue with the programs that operate already and will continue to support them. [More…]

• But is that any reason for us simply to say that one section of the community should suffer? [More…]

• He has forgotten what it is like to be in the community. [More…]

• Of course, that appeals to certain sections of the community and particularly to the present Government. [More…]

• The only point I make about this is that the references to Waltzing Matilda are not offensive in any way to any section of the community. [More…]

• I assert that the health of the Aboriginal community in Australia has deteriorated since the dismissal of the Whitlam Government, and I endorse the remarks made earlier by my colleagues on this side of the chamber that the Fraser Government has indeed failed to keep its election promises to the Australian Aboriginal people. [More…]

• He referred to diseases such as yaws, leprosy, hookworm, respiratory tract infection, deafness, malnutrition, alcoholism, venereal disease, trachoma, diarrhoea, and of course the tragic rate of infant mortality amongst the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Why is it that we have this complete double standard with regard to health in Australia and that the diseases which afflict the Aboriginal community to the point of causing one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world are diseases which are almost unknown in the white community? [More…]

• Why is there this apartheid on the matter of health and health services in the Australian community? [More…]

• At the conclusion of this extremely interesting study the authors make the point that the question of Aboriginal health is not an isolated question but is integrated with the whole question of the status of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Children with infant growth retardation also showed poorer school performance than children in the same community with normal infant growth . [More…]

• It is one about which the Aboriginal community is now very aware. [More…]

• But when talking about the alcohol problem amongst Aborigines we would do well to bear in mind that it is a problem that we have inflicted on the Aboriginal community and that European-Australians have actually created. [More…]

• On that basis one can expect this Act to be well and widely supported in the South Australian community. [More…]

• ) the desirability of making the electoral redistribution in such a manner that there will exist, as far as reasonably possible, amongst the population of each electoral district, a community of interest (of an economic, social, regional or other kind ); [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…]

• He has never to my knowledge or to the knowledge, I believe, of all of the Aboriginal community been classified as an activist. [More…]

• Quite naturally, Mr Cameron’s claims drew a justifiably angry response from the Brisbane Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Mr Cooper, of the Black Community Housing Service, asked how many aborigines had the identification needed to get a Government cheque cashed across the counter. [More…]

• Some time later I received a letter on this matter from the Black Community Housing Service (Qld) Limited. [More…]

• The Brisbane Black Community views this as a tactic to create ill feeling towards blacks for two major reasons: [More…]

• to enlist the support of the white community in his campaign to have the Admissibility of Confessions Bill thrown out of parliament. [More…]

• Whether he had evidence or not, however, it was inexcusable of him to single out for abuse a particular group in the community. [More…]

• What I have objected to and will continue to object to is Mr Cameron’s attack on the Aboriginal community in Brisbane. [More…]

• I repeat what I said outside this chamber on 2 March: Mr Cameron should apologise to the Brisbane Aboriginal community. [More…]

• If Mr Cameron will not apologise for his allegations which have cast a slur upon a section of the Brisbane community the matter should not be allowed to rest. [More…]

• I am sure that the Commissioner for Community Relations would be interested in examining the accusations made by Mr Cameron. [More…]

• Nevertheless, it is worth noting that the Commissioner for Community Relations does view discrimination against Aborigines as a serious matter. [More…]

• It is obvious from the work and experience of the Community Relations Office since its inception on that discriminaton against Aboriginal people forms the greatest volume of discrimination practised in the Australian community. [More…]

• Later in his report the Commissioner for Community Relations stated: [More…]

• Therefore, it is my hope that Mr Cameron will reflect on what he has said outside the confines of Parliament and apologise to the Aboriginal community in Brisbane. [More…]

• Interpreters providing this and subsequent services for refugees are usually community interpreters whose services are utilised by the Telephone Interpreter Service. [More…]

• This has involved participation by voluntary and community organisations. [More…]

• (In the meantime they are assisted to integrate into the Australian community and are prepared for entry into the workforce.) [More…]

• The Settlement Officers maintain close contact with the Refugee Resettlement Co-ordination Committees whose sub-committees and members are closely involved in activities such as those listed above to enable the smooth resettlement of the refugees into the Australian community. [More…]

• An attempt to provide immediate linkages with similar ethnic groups and the broader community. [More…]

• Interpretation of refugee needs, cultures, customs to the various statutory, voluntary and community groups involved in the resettlement process. [More…]

• Personal Services are provided by government and voluntary agencies and community volunteers to meet the personal needs of refugees in a manner which facilitates their integration into the community. [More…]

• ante-natal care, visiting and follow-up; voluntary help for teachers of refugee children; co-ordinating and channelling to the appropriate source all offers of help from local community groups and individuals; temporary fostering of children; casework; preparation of resource information. [More…]

• Community Involvement. [More…]

• Through the efforts of members of the Resettlement Committee, there has been growing involvement from service groups (Apex, Rotary) and other community bodies. [More…]

• It is expected that some of the Timorese refugees currently in hostels may be assisted to settle in the community in this way while my Department is currently considering ways self-help programs might be developed among the Lebanese who have recently arrived. [More…]

• I raised it first during an adjournment debate on 2 December, when I expressed my concern over a document put out by the Minister for Health, Mr Hunt, in which he claimed that the present Government was making funds available for community health centres in South Australia. [More…]

• The Minister for Health recently wrote to you concerning 1976-77 Commonwealth grants, under the Community Health Program, for projects in your State. [More…]

• You will recall that, on 10 December 1976, during the First Reading Debate on the Income Tax (Companies Superannuation Funds) Bill 1976, you requested certain information concerning community health projects in South Australia. [More…]

• I have approached you also, Mr President, and indicated my intention to seek leave to have both those documents incorporated in Hansard so that people who read Hansard can see that all the community health projects which have been commenced or are in the course of commencement in South Australia, with the exception of one, were initiated by the Whitlam Government under Dr Everingham, who was then the Minister for Health. [More…]

• I was concerned that Mr Hunt had implied that the Fraser Government has initiated all these community health projects. [More…]

• To make cheap political capital out of the plight of a section of the Australian community- the apple and pear growers -is to treat it with contempt. [More…]

• The fact that Australia would encounter trouble in the marketing of apples in the European Economic Community must have been obvious to most people many years ago. [More…]

• Because of the United Kingdom’s entry into the European Economic Community that market is not so readily available to us now. [More…]

• Representing the community will be Mrs P. Bernard from New South Wales; The Hon. [More…]

• The citizens appointed to the Council reflect views from different sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• All are respected members of the community who have indicated their willingness to contribute to the work of the Council as a service to the community. [More…]

• The Council will be able to draw on the varied resources and views of the whole community. [More…]

• I some to the section setting up the representatives of the community. [More…]

• We have not seen from them the sort of emotional protest that seems to have come from at least some sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• While the size of the sample was relatively small, the survey gave a clear indication of the relatively liberal attitudes of the community in the Australian Capital Territory to a woman’s freedom of choice as to whether or not she will have an abortion. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to remind those people that Mr Enderby made his views on abortion quite clear to the community as early as 1 970 at a public rally. [More…]

• 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 representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

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

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

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

• Redcliffe City Community Needs Study (Moreton Region): [More…]

• Shellharbour Community Facilities Study (Illawarra Region, New South Wales); [More…]

• Community needs Study (Northern Melbourne Region); [More…]

• Investigation of Community Facilities at Broadmeadows Town Centre (North-West Melbourne Region) ; [More…]

• I am aware of reports in the Tribune of 19 February 1977 and 16 March 1977 which refer, respectively, to the establishment of a radio receiver to monitor Radio Maubere in the Darwin Miscellaneous Workers’ Union office by the Campaign for an Independent East Timor, and to a receiver established by the Timorese community in Darwin for a similar purpose. [More…]

• I have listed the research which the Government is funding through both the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, which is undertaking major research in this area, and the ARGC, that is, the Australian Research Grants Committee, which in evaluating research being undertaken within the community makes funds available to some of the people who are suggesting that the Federal Government is withdrawing funds for this type of research. [More…]

• All solar energy research is deserving of assistance, but I think that at the present time our attention should perhaps be given not so much to research as to the urgent need to encourage the community to start accepting and applying some of the research findings that have been made. [More…]

• Solar energy should be utilised more in the community, as it has been by Coca-Cola Bottlers at Queanbeyan and a number of other industries and private users. [More…]

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

• Great concern is being shown by all people in the area for the welfare of this important section of the community. [More…]

• Is the Government considering Budget cuts to migrant welfare services such as community interpreters and migrant telephone interpreter services? [More…]

• If the Government has considered such cuts, can the Minister say what consultations, if any, have taken place with ethnic groups to ascertain the value of and the need to continue these most important programs for the migrant community? [More…]

• Subjective criticism of sections of the community in these areas is not good enough. [More…]

• From a distant view of the industry at that time, I felt that growers were being dudded in the returns they were receiving and, having received the answers that I did from the Minister, I am more than ever convinced that much more can be done by government and by the community to bring about a more efficient marketing and distribution system and thus bring about a far better return to the grower than he is receiving at the present time. [More…]

• The Commission has found these schemes to be expensive to the community. [More…]

• One must always look at the cost to the nation of any support, be it for primary industry, secondary industry or any other industry or section of the community. [More…]

• Primary producers throughout Australia, whilst they do not enjoy the benefits of wage indexation which are enjoyed by the labour force in the community, do not expect the Government to embark on an irresponsible course which could only bring us to a situation like the one we inherited in December 1 975. [More…]

• The Government may need this time, but I suggest it should not need this time in view of the fact that at the end of 1975, during the general election campaign, members and supporters of the present Government said continually that the election of a LiberalNational Country Party government would mean the survival and the increased affluence of the apple and pear growers, as well as other primary producers in the community. [More…]

• The Labor Party, and I believe most informed people in the community, have realised for a long time that commodity subsidies of this type certainly are not the answer to the problems of the apple industry or of any other rural industry. [More…]

• We should not fatten one section of the community because we are afeard to resist it. [More…]

• Quite obviously if 2000 people are working in an apple industry and producing economic goods, even though they want 10 per cent or more assistance, it is much better to have them as product units in the community, producing with the aid of assistance, than it is to push them off their orchards, gather them in the cities and increase the ever-growing army of unemployed. [More…]

• Would not the families dependent upon an industry like that make a much better community by working than by queuing for the dole week by week? [More…]

• What we are about is not making dollars; it is making a community. [More…]

• Figures which I gave then demonstrated that Australia is the best fed and cheapest fed community in the world. [More…]

• Either we must pay for our food from the supermarket or we must pay for it by subsidy; we cannot continue to be the best fed and, by far, the cheapest fed community in the world at the expense of our farmers. [More…]

• Today there have developed in the industry, firstly, freight demands that are very critical; secondly, internal production costs have dwarfed the economy of this primary industry in comparison with the economies of other industries of Australia so as to reduce the apple and pear producer to a level of economy that is not respectable from the point of view of parliamentary performance in relation to other strata of our people; thirdly, the industry is beset with unsurpassed marketing difficulties, accentuated by the probable advent of the United Kingdom into the European economic community. [More…]

• (a) improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used; . [More…]

• He was told at that time that he could not stay there because it was unhealthy for white people to stay in an Aboriginal community for longer than 2 years. [More…]

• Many of us in the community who are not members of the indigenous ethnic minority are fully aware of precisely what is happening. [More…]

• Problems are created in this area because of the inability of the people who run the Australian education system to be able to interact with all sections of the community. [More…]

• This happens also in the white community. [More…]

• I hope that he will be prepared to listen and to consult with other groups in the community who might be able to make a substantial contribution towards the worthwhile activities of this Committee. [More…]

• One presumes that in those days the policy of assimilation was designed to absorb the Aboriginal person to the degree that he would lose his culture and his character and would no longer be known as an Aboriginal person but would become a part of the Australian community. [More…]

• British Phosphate Commission: Legal Action by Banaban Community (Question No. [More…]

• What was the cost to Australia as a member of the British Phosphate Commission of the action taken in the English High Court by the Banaban community. [More…]

• Yes, the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories has already produced adequate stocks of influenza vaccine to meet expected demand from the ‘at risk’ groups in the Community in 1977 i.e. [More…]

• If the Greek community was consulted, which sector or organisation in such community was consulted. [More…]

• The Greek community was not consulted in this matter. [More…]

• That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take urgent action on matters arising out of the 1977 report by the Community Relations Office relating to discrimination against Aborigines and Islanders in northern Queensland. [More…]

• I do not believe that any section of the community ought to be immune from what is normally known as artistic licence. [More…]

• -Is the Minister representing the Treasurer aware of rumours circulating in the community concerning the possibility of an alteration to the taxation law to provide for taxation of 100 per cent rather than the present 5 per cent of accumulated long service leave payments drawn by retiring employees as part of a retirement allowance? [More…]

• I think that if that suggestion is floating around the community we should find out whether there is any truth in it. [More…]

• I am aware that there are people in the community who, for various reasons of conscience, feel that they cannot belong to organisations. [More…]

• The Opposition launches this urgency motion because we believe that there is a real concern in the Australian community about what is happening to education. [More…]

• If the Government believes that there is not a lack of concern in the community, I believe it is appropriate that I should read to the Senate extracts from some of the communications that I have received. [More…]

• It has stimulated community involvement in education where previously almost none existed. [More…]

• I ask the Senate and the community to decide what we mean when we state: [More…]

• They show clearly a $105m cut, an abandonment of triennial funding, a freezing of the student allowances, an 1 8 per cent inflation rate and a unique record of juvenile unemployment by the Party which says to the parents, to the teachers and to the community: ‘Do not trust those fellows in government; trust us’. [More…]

• I urge honourable senators and the community at large to reject the substance of this matter of urgency, to treat it with the thorough contempt it deserves. [More…]

• I mention also that for those apprentices who have managed to find someone to look after them the shortage of staff at the Darwin Community College makes it difficult to provide courses for them. [More…]

• Later I will read part of a letter from the staff at the Darwin Community College to indicate the problems that they are facing by the shortage of staff due to the cutbacks in finance and the freeze on staff positions. [More…]

• Let me refer now to the Darwin Community College which I mentioned earlier. [More…]

• On behalf of the Staff Association of the Darwin Community College, I write to request your sympathetic consideration of the problems caused to this institution and to the people of the Territory, by the imposition of recent staff cuts - [More…]

• I have already mentioned the European situation at the Community College. [More…]

• The need for support of the Aboriginal children in community schools has been recognised. [More…]

• I do not think that this is a reflection of selfishness on the part of the Australian community so much as a reflection of its ignorance of the seriousness of the problem facing these other people. [More…]

• Government must remember that there exists all around this prosperous and affluent Australian community a whole range of nations with a tremendous population and that the opportunities which are available to us are not available to them. [More…]

• That brings me to an answer that I received from the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers) to a question I placed on notice on 9 March relating to the problems of the Banaban community in the Pacific Ocean- the people who had been members of the Ocean Island community, who had shifted from Ocean Island because of the constant taking of phosphate rock from that island, and who have now gone to the Banaban Islands in the Fijian group. [More…]

• I hope that the Asian Development Bank might be able to look at the problems of the Banaban community and assist them, provide finance to enable them to return to their former homeland, and contribute to their well-being. [More…]

• Fortunately, within our community a variety of organisations are growing in strength and are being added to by other organisations which seek to assist the under-developed countries. [More…]

• People within the Australian community are in a position to occupy this very important position as [More…]

• The final point about the wisdom of having a President from Australia is that this would give the Australian community not only an additional interest in the Bank but also a realisation of what is involved with regard to the Australian economy. [More…]

• Let us have schools which will spread throughout the community, having in mind the amount of money which is available to us. [More…]

• It is a particularly sound principle especially in any system which is community oriented to go to the people and ask them what they want. [More…]

• If they can identify community needs, manage to express them out to the group and convert these into policy- one might almost say philosophy’- to hand to the Government then this will be the test of how well they have worked. [More…]

• I have no doubt that there has been a reaction in the community in some places that Europeans have nothing to contribute. [More…]

• I think they have a lot to give to the Minister and a lot to give to the community. [More…]

• I make a plea to those 3 groups- to the Committee, to the Minister and to the community- to recognise that these people have a contribution to make. [More…]

• Special assistance needs to be given in this area and I hope the Committee will address itself to the particular problems faced by these young people at school and by the men and women living in the community to see what assistance can be given to allow them to make an adaption to the community. [More…]

• There is a great deal of common concern throughout the community by those who care about education, those who are concerned about the plight of Aborigines in our society, and those who have a particular interest in Aboriginal education. [More…]

• We have a responsibility to be aware of what is happening in the area and what the problems are, and to give our own point of view which can be considered by the community at large and the Committee in particular. [More…]

• The people who are on the Committee deserve to be there but they all ought to recognise that there are others in the community who also have something to offer. [More…]

• Can the Minister also advise how local government representatives were appointed, how the community representatives were appointed and whether Mr H. E. Peterson, who represents Queensland, is any relation of the Queensland Premier? [More…]

• I am asked also how community representatives were decided upon. [More…]

• I state in reply to the latter part of the question that it is impossible to have 6 States represented by 5 community representatives. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for National Resources or, alternatively, the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that, as reported in the Herald of 71 March 1977, Australia recycles only a small fraction of used automotive and other lubricating oils and that most of the used oil is either dumped or burned, often with adverse environmental effects? [More…]

• They relate also to the level of benefits the community should provide to those who are unable to find work, including new entrants to the work force. [More…]

• I hope that this Committee will be the way in which that investigation can be undertaken and that it will provide an opportunity for those members in the community and those organisations in the community who have questioned the adequacy of the unemployment benefit administration and who have perhaps questioned our appeal system and a whole range of matters to come forward and put their views publicly before Dr Myers. [More…]

• Some States are opposed to one, some States are opposed to more than one, while various people in the community have objections to one or the other. [More…]

• Is she aware, for example, that no equipment subsidy is provided for private centres but is provided- in fact, everything is provided- for family day care institutions; that the needy parent subsidy applies in the case of children in family day care centres but not in the case of private centres; that no standards are set by State legislation for family day care centres- for example, not even a telephone is required to deal with an emergency; and that no safety regulations at present apply in the case of family day care centres but private centres and the community subsidised centres are covered? [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…]

• In regard to this Bill, one must say that it does not effect an invasion of liberties so far as the community is concerned. [More…]

• We have to have regard to the diverse number of circumstances which arise in the international community these days, although I suppose they have always arisen. [More…]

• For my part I make no bones about it: I am horrified to see the white community there exposed to guerilla activities from many countries. [More…]

• If we can divorce ourselves from the politics for a moment- and that should be our purpose- and consider the desirability of engaging in hostile activity against a peaceful and regulated community, here we have the situation of Rhodesia. [More…]

• It is in fact a government controlled by a small minority and has power over the great mass of the people in that country, lt is a government repudiated by the international community, the United Nations and the rest of the world. [More…]

• The Australian Government subsequently developed a policy which was very similar to that of the Commission and which received widespread public support from all sections of the Australian community; the Catholic Bishops, meeting in Conference, issued a statement on September 7 1976 which stated in part: [More…]

• A full and impartial parliamentary inquiry would enable a thorough evaluation of present and past responses to all aspects of the East Timor situation and would be an excellent mechanism for providing factual information to the Australian community. [More…]

• There is an increasing interest in the Australian community in foreign and refugee policies. [More…]

• A full and impartial parliamentary inquiry would enable a thorough evaluation of present and past responses to all aspects of the East Timor situation and would be an excellent mechanism for providing factual information to the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government believes that the aspirations and interests of the Australian community have an important role in the determination of foreign policy including that relating to development assistance. [More…]

• Because of the importance attached to the relationship between the aid program and the wider community it is proposed to give this matter very careful consideration before taking any action. [More…]

• community. [More…]

• The least the community can demand from the A.C.T. [More…]

• Mr Neil paid tribute to the young people taking part in the Redcliffe Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• He said thai their standard of dress and behaviour was un example the rest of the community could well follow. [More…]

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

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

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 10 March 1977. [More…]

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

• 1 ) An implementation group has been established within the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to set up a formal structure, appoint a Director of the Office of Youth Affairs, recruit staff and answer Ministerial correspondence. [More…]

• Expenditure by the Office of Youth Affairs during 1976-77 is expected to be small and will be absorbed within existing Budget allocations for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Consequently the level of salary and other entitlements for staff engaged from outside the Service will be determined jointly by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Public Service Board taking into account such factors as the type of work to be performed and the special qualifications and experience of the appointees. [More…]

• -I think all honourable senators and the community will be aware that in recent days an industrial dispute virtually cut off Tasmania from the mainland and caused considerable harm. [More…]

• The question requires information from both the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, both of whom I represent in this place. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Social Security: Is it a fact that some 43 positions are being removed from the establishment of the Community and Social Welfare Branch of her Department in Victoria? [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Can she inform the Senate whether it is now the case that all State governments except the Queensland Government are funding refuges from Commonwealth block grants under the Community Health Program? [More…]

• It is a fact that all States, with the exception of Queensland, are funding women’s refuges from the Community Health Program funds which were given to them in the Budget of last year. [More…]

• As has been stated previously, the Prime Minister has requested the Queensland Government to fund the refuges which were the subject of funds given to them under the Community Health Program in the Budget. [More…]

• So any announcements of new programs other than those which are presently dealt with under the Community Health Program would be a matter of Budget announcement. [More…]

• As this Cabinet decision on the proposed amendments increases the cost to a certain section of the community- the pensions will become taxable after 21 April- is it contrary to the wages and prices pause? [More…]

• I understood that it was a call by the heads of the 6 States and the Federal Government for a voluntary pause, in which they sought the support of all sections of the community in respect of the whole range of prices and incomes. [More…]

• I have not seen or heard of the proposal of some entrepreneur to import lie detectors into the community to which Senator Messner referred. [More…]

• Instead of attacking the lack of jobs in the community, the Government has resorted to shoddy devices to exclude the unemployed from receiving the unemployment benefit. [More…]

• If there was no work available in their areas they were entitled to apply for standard unemployment benefits, whether they lived in a small outback community, on a mission or on a government settlement, lt was their entitlement, unaccompanied by adherence to arbitrary rules of morals and restrictions and subject only to the work test. [More…]

• The social evils associated with unemployment in the young- the increased incidence of drug taking, the increased incidence of crime, the sense of helplessness and of frustration, and the loss of motivation which chronic unemployment engenders in people- are aggravated both by the actions of some people in this community to rubbish and to denigrate the unemployed and the actions of the Government in depriving them of income support. [More…]

• If their actions were not illegal, they were not taking the steps necessary to remedy a situation within the Australian community following an appalling lapse of judgment in respect of the payment of the unemployment benefit to young people. [More…]

• I am aware of the great difficulties that face many students at present who are undertaking university courses in strictly narrow areas for which there is at present no opportunity to practise in the community once they graduate. [More…]

• The New Zealand community has created the New Zealand Educational Development Conference which attempted to examine some of the basic questions. [More…]

• The lack of skills in our community really is quite dramatic. [More…]

• In quoting these figures I would hope also that I would be effectively silencing those people in the community who say that perhaps we have an over-educated community, that perhaps we have an overtrained community, and that perhaps we should stop spending money in this sector because already we have spent too much and we have skills we do not need. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister when making appointments to the commissions will use this opportunity to reflect the real needs of the community. [More…]

• It is important to note that in times of relatively high unemployment, such as we have at the moment throughout the community, there still can be a shortage of tradesmen in certain technical fields. [More…]

• Each of the regional colleges is alone within its region in the provision of a range of tertiary courses to meet the needs as far as possible of the rural community within which it is located. [More…]

• the relationship of the provision to the community and individual needs and preferences. [More…]

• One suspects that what has in fact happened is that the Minister, as the responsible Minister, has set up the Tertiary Education Commission to fulfil these functions but earlier this year the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in one of his knee-jerk, off the top of his head, responses to what he saw as a social need in our community and something which something ought to be done about, with that characteristic degree of ad-hockery which characterised the prices and wages freeze last week set up the Williams inquiry to inquire into the sort of matters to which I have just referred and which are set out in the Williams inquiry terms of reference. [More…]

• It did so with no apparent understanding at any stage of the relationship of the function of that body to education and the technological situation in which this community now finds itself. [More…]

• The third and important function in the 1970s and 1980s is providing general interest adult education programs for the community at large and to offer to the community services such as academic counselling and so on. [More…]

• There have been many exciting developments, but at the same time there has been quite a lot of Topsy-like growth which has caused many people not directly involved in the edu-‘ cation area but who care about what happens in the community to ask the question: ‘What on earth is going on?’ [More…]

• I mention, in particular, the Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education which was built in response to a community need. [More…]

• Right from its beginning it has had a close relationship to the community it has served. [More…]

• The institution and the community have striven to preserve this relationship. [More…]

• I refer particularly, of course to certain disadvantaged groups in our community which Senator Button did not mention but which other speakers on his side of the chamber did. [More…]

• We have not necessarily educated them sufficiently to be aware of what the costs of those possibilities are, both in general community and in particular personal terms. [More…]

• It is good that there is flexibility, and for the technical colleges in particular it is good that they can quickly respond to community need. [More…]

• Having gone through those processes, which may take years in the case of some courses, having made a value judgment in terms of their resources, having decided to introduce that course as against some other course, having committed resources to it, having advertised and appointed staff- they suddenly find that on 2 weeks’ notice a technical college has set up a similar course- maybe not at the same level but probably to answer the same community demand. [More…]

• They should be made to realise that what they do matters very much, not just to the colleges but also to the community which cares about what is happening in that area of education. [More…]

• There is a recognised and growing need within the community for continuing education. [More…]

• Within our community there is a growing recognition of the importance of technical skills. [More…]

• I believe that governments have a role to play in furthering that sort of recognition within the community and encouraging it. [More…]

• It is worth remembering that this need for technical skills has existed in the community for some years. [More…]

• That TAFE should be available to all members of the community above school leaving age, and be regarded as an acceptable alternative to other streams of post-secondary education. [More…]

• These 4 councils which have been established are consistent with the Government’s policy of decentralisation of decision making and of community participation in that process of decision making. [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…]

• It cannot be in the best interests of this community, the doctors, or Australian medicine, to have a quite unnecessary and bitter fight continuing years after it should have been resolved. [More…]

• Some weeks ago in an interim report from the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which has been inquiring into matters relating to the Middle East, some unfavourable mention was made of radio station 3CR in Melbourne, a so-called community radio station. [More…]

• Radio station 3CR is apparently managed by an organisation known as the Community Radio Federation, which has affiliated to it a number of disparate organisations known as community groups. [More…]

• When an application was made by Paths to Peace for affiliation with the Community Radio Federation it was rejected by the committee of the Community Radio Federation on the ground that Paths to Peace was a Zionist and therefore racist organisation. [More…]

• Whatever one may think about that, the fact is that Paths to Peace is at least as much a community organisation as the other organisations which are affiliated with the Community Radio Federation which was established by the Australian Government in order to give various community organisations the opportunity to express their views on the topics that interest them and their members. [More…]

• The intention of establishing community radio stations was to enable people and various voluntary organisations to have an opportunity to disseminate what they thought about matters that concerned them to people who could listen to the radio. [More…]

• I think what also came out with regard to this action by the Community Radio Federation quite clearly is that if Paths to Peace is not eligible for affiliation to the Federation, is not allowed to have a voice on radio station 3CR, then no other Jewish organisation would be able to be heard on this station, because the least militantly Zionist of all the organisations of Jewish people or other people who are concerned about the continued existence of the State of Israel is this very organisation, Paths to Peace. [More…]

• I think that this, apart from illustrating the anti-semitism, which I do not think has reached the level at which it may be described as rampant but certainly is growing at a distressing rate in this society, is clearly an improper use of a community radio station. [More…]

• I would agree, of course, that the people who constitute the Community Radio Federation are entitled to express their view. [More…]

• What is being practised by the Committee of the Community Radio Federation is blatant Stalinism, if that is what you want to call it, or McCarthyism, if that is what you want to call it. [More…]

• I believe that the Minister, whatever his precise relationship is with the people who are responsible for the issuing of licences to 3CR or other community radio stations and for regulating their broadcasting, ought to examine this matter. [More…]

• I think that proposition had almost total community support. [More…]

• The problem is one for the home, the community and the general attitudes of mind. [More…]

• As she would know, capitation grant funds were made available to various community projects in Victoria through the Outer Eastern Regional Council for Social Development. [More…]

• -As I understood the original call, it was to be a voluntary effort by all in the community. [More…]

• I am putting forward this motion because it seems to be the belief of the Prime Minister and of certain other Ministers that the Government’s industrial relations policy has broad acceptance not only by the community but also by certain people within the trade union movement. [More…]

• The proposal of the Premiers Conference comes at a time when all sections of the community recognise that a continuation of raging inflation and chronic unemployment will put Australia in a very bad way within months. [More…]

• The proposal unanimously endorsed by all State Governments and the Federal Government for a short-term pause in wage claims and price increases could be just the thing to break the psychology of inflation if it receives general support from organisations and individuals within the community. [More…]

• In these circumstances and on present knowledge and granted that wages have been recently adjusted by the National Wage Decision or will soon be adjusted by State Decisions we believe the Premiers Conference Proposal would appeal to rank and file unionists and the community and worth a trial in the best interests of the nation. [More…]

• Australia has witnessed the organised attempts by the procommunist Left to create anarchy, to disregard the effects of irresponsible industrial action on other workers in the community, to flout ACTU rules for the conduct and control of industrial disputes and to turn the trade union movement into a political battering ram by the abuse of the strike weapon for political purposes. [More…]

• I think Senator Harradine has placed too much emphasis upon a claim by the trade union movement not to be part of our community but to be a law unto itself, to regulate its own affairs to the exclusion of other people and to be a monopoly in relation to each union, uncontrolled. [More…]

• I believe that has been correctly interpreted as producing a response of acceptance from an overwhelming majority of the community. [More…]

• I believe that in doing that Senator Harradine, as an independent member of Parliament, has done a disservice to the urgent national demand which, in this instance, is cooperation from all sections of the community irrespective of past measures, past decisions and of Bills in the chamber. [More…]

• He has conceded that the circumstances demand a dramatic initiative, which he calls the circuit breaker, to produce a psychology so that we get out of the inevitable assumption that with each quarter there should be a general rise in the share of the wealth of the nation in particular sections of the community. [More…]

• However, it is most regrettable that anybody or any section of that community thinks that it is relevant or in any way required as a condition to discussion of that problem that legislation of the past should be amended or legislation that is currently proposed should be withdrawn. [More…]

• That situation stems from an attitude whereby the trade unions consider that they are a law unto themselves and that they are outside the law that other members of the community should observe. [More…]

• That attitude has outgrown its history and its acceptance by the community. [More…]

• It had some legitimacy in its origin when the trade unionist was disadvantaged by the law of conspiracy because he joined in this combination to advantage his interest; but then to claim complete immunity from the law as he has in England since 1 906 and increasingly here since 1928 is a proposition that no community can accept, and the assertion of the community’s rights in this respect is in no way inconsistent with co-operation between and co-ordination of all the interests of the community for the purpose of solving the present crisis. [More…]

• A whole series of authorities in recent years, particularly in the last 10 years, have pointed out how the unions having this monopolistic power to dislocate industry under the name of what Senator Harradine referred to as the right to strike and, presumably since he objects to the Trade Practices Bill, the right to employ secondary boycotts in enforcement of the right to strike, claim the right to dislocate the economy of the country to the great injury of other sections of the community. [More…]

• Let us hammer them out for the purpose of inducing everybody in industry and in the community to see the outstanding benefits, both of the present arbitration system and its registration and the improvements that are being proposed. [More…]

• It stated that every member of the community has rights and obligations. [More…]

• It recognised that the community has rights just as the community has obligations and that an industrial relations framework must be relevant to those rights and obligations. [More…]

• We have seen the growth rate of this community move from a negative figure to a plus 4 per cent figure. [More…]

• Just 2Vi months after it was made, the promise of the Fraser caretaker Government to the trade unions and the working people of the Australian community was broken. [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…]

• Thus there has been in fact a wage freeze operating in this country for the last 4 months in a period when the very considerable inflation which has been hitting the Australian community has been caused not by wages but by the misguided decisions of the Australian Government. [More…]

• Therefore the trade union movement was entitled to ask for some additional information before it was prepared to be a complete party to any agreement between the heads of government, employers, commercial interests and other interested groups in the community. [More…]

• So it has not been sprung on the community or on the unions. [More…]

• We have the mandate to bring in this just legislation and I am sure that most honourable senators opposite would agree that we have general support for it from the Australian community. [More…]

• We believe in the complete freedom of the individual, that the individual’s right must be protected and that each and every member of the community is entitled to the same protection under the law. [More…]

• I am sure that the whole community realises that they are most inadequate. [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…]

• This notion of community involvement in policy formation was to become important to an extent that no political party could have foreseen in 1972, in areas such as Aboriginal affairs and urban and regional development as well as education. [More…]

• Debate will be possible within the community on matters of national interest but it will be informed. [More…]

• I think we might suggest that the Commission sets up an organisational research team to identify community needs and individual needs. [More…]

• There must be preparation for a change in the community itself. [More…]

• By that I mean we will look throughout our social, professional and community life for some satisfaction for the time we spend in the world. [More…]

• I would like to speak very briefly on 2 aspects in the Northern Territory, the Darwin Community College and the problems of providing educational services to outlying areas, looking only here at the technical and further education field. [More…]

• I will say a few words on the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• I look to the future to see the Darwin Community College extending the service it offers to the people of the north. [More…]

• With the community involvement concept with which I know the Government agrees we would involve the local people, not only in the planning of courses initially but also in supervising those courses, providing support education and, through the schools, providing preparation for those courses which might be run. [More…]

• We might take the Darwin Community College, because it is new, improve it and make sure that it will become a model for one area. [More…]

• We have set up a body of some 9 people- four people full-time with specialist knowledge, the chairmen of the 3 councils and the overall chair.man and offsetting or leavening in this regard some 5 people from the community at large to bring the community viewpoint to the specialist viewpoint. [More…]

• I commend the comments made by Senator Robertson in drawing attention to the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• I believe that the Darwin Community College deserves encouragement as it is a specific and new type of venture in education. [More…]

• In the case of at least one Timor community leader, the Indonesians were not satisfied that his evidence would be satisfactory and arranged that he not appear before the committee. [More…]

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

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

• Young unemployed persons are being provided the opportunity of particular help within the context of employment-oriented supportive programs sponsored by community organisations and committees with assistance from the Government under the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 March 1977: [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 March 1977: [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 March 1976: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: $5,280.50 has been paid to three national amateur sporting bodies this financial year to honour commitments. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 29 March 1977: [More…]

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

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

• Has the Minister had similar correspondence with the Ministers for Environment, Housing and Community Development and Aboriginal Affairs respectively? [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the Australian community that maximum support will be given to the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in Melbourne to guarantee adequate supplies of vaccine to combat this anticipated epidemic? [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has the responsibility for this matter. [More…]

• If the strike or ban in South Australia continues and endangers the functioning of essential services as well as affecting adversely the jobs of innocent and conscientious workers, will the Government declare a state of emergency to make sure that crude oil will be delivered to the refinery so that the welfare of innocent people will not be placed in jeopardy by a few radicals who seem to have no concern for either the welfare of the community or the economy generally? [More…]

• It naturally concerns the Commonwealth Government that quite innocent people are thrown out of work needlessly; that the community is disrupted; that, due to lack of petroleum products, there could be serious problems in our hospitals, our ambulance services and our fire services; and that life could becould be, I say- exposed to risk. [More…]

• Therefore, because we have a continuing interest in the wellbeing of the Australian community, naturally we are desirous that the Premiers and State governments take these matters in hand. [More…]

• -I do not agree with anything that the honourable senator said because obviously he is out of touch with community demand, which is that there ought to be a wageprice pause for at least 3 months. [More…]

• I shall most likely make a decision that the sector which can produce the report at the earliest will get the contract irrespective of cost because I know that many people in the community are anxious to receive it. [More…]

• I repeat: The Government’s desire is to get that report into the hands of the community as soon as we are able to print it. [More…]

• By the time the civilian community gets its fair proportion of the medals there will not be enough to give one to everybody in the Services. [More…]

• Has the Government decided to continue to fund non-government agencies concerned with community aid overseas? [More…]

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

• The action proposed by the Bill 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…]

• I draw the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations to a recent report that President Carter of the United States of America intends to spend in the vicinity of SUS 1.5 billion during the next 18 months in a 3- pronged attack on unemployment, one suggestion being the revival of the youth conservation corps which will pay the minimum wage to young people willing to work in national parks and forests and in towns on community conservation projects. [More…]

• I ask the Minister to investigate in detail the President’s proposals with a view to implementing a similar scheme in Australia where there is an abundance of national parks, as well as many sorely needed community projects. [More…]

• Was their approach based in pan on a recognition that the problems in Mount Druitt were a direct and inevitable result of the original decision by the State Labor Government of the day to develop the Mount Druitt housing estate with no adequate community or industrial supporting base? [More…]

• Were they in fact told to solve the problem within their community? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: In view of the apparent lack of housing for rehabilitation purposes through the women’s refuges, can the Minister say whether pressure can be put on the States to give priority in allocation of welfare housing to the clients of the refuges? [More…]

• Is the Minister satisfied that members of the community are adequately advised of their legal rights in this and other fields coming within social security responsibility? [More…]

• Is there not a vast ignorance throughout the community regarding entitlements? [More…]

• With regard to information on social security matters in general, I am conscious of the fact that there are people in the Australian community who are not aware of the benefits to which they are entitled. [More…]

• I arranged for an officer of my Department to go to the community involved to facilitate the registration of persons for unemployment benefits, family allowances and other things. [More…]

• Issues which is located at Richmond, Victoria and which provides a national service, utilised across Australia, in education, welfare, industrial, health and community relations programs. [More…]

• In view of the persistence of the presence of cholera organisms in water reservoirs near Brisbane and the undesirability of salmonella spreading through our community, and since it is reported that the sale of pet turtles has been banned in the United States of America, can the Minister advise the Senate of current knowledge in Australia on the safety of pet tortoises and any risk of disease which they could represent ? [More…]

• All that we have seen in the months since it has been in office is a series of ad hoc decisions which have caused a greater and greater lack of confidence amongst the business community, especially in the manufacturing sector. [More…]

• If this Government believes that there has been a turn-around in the economy, it ought to consider documents- incidentally, they are not newspaper articles- which indicate quite clearly that there is a deep malaise in the manufacturing sector and, indeed, across the whole business community. [More…]

• If we want verification of that fact, we ought to read the documents that are produced by the business community. [More…]

• Those comments were taken from documents issued by the business community. [More…]

• As I shall illustrate shortly, that section of the community desperately needs a guide from this Government as to what it intends to do about the manufacturing sector. [More…]

• Senator Cotton said that it was essential that submissions were in writing so that he and his officers of the Department of Industry and Commerce could have discussions with interested community groups. [More…]

• Industry itself and the community would have some basis on which to plan the Government was allegedly tackling inflation on all frontsand expected to see the thorough and detailed work of the Jackson Committee report released at or about the time of the 1976 Budget. [More…]

• Unless the Government is prepared to produce this White Paper quickly, to stop the arguments amongst its supporters and to acknowledge that the business community is looking for this paper, we can expect the same malaise that we have witnessed over the past 1 5 months to continue. [More…]

• It will be valuable work for the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• All these things are matters for consideration not only for a department like mine using a White Paper like this but also for a government totally, and in the end for a community totally, because if this produces through lack of thought or care a quarrelsome position, no one has been well served. [More…]

• -It has become almost typical of Opposition senators that, whenever it seems that definite signs of economic recovery are becoming apparent in the community, they make the sorts of accusations and very unwarranted attacks on Government policy that they have made today. [More…]

• They are continually seeking to undermine the confidence that is emerging gradually within the community. [More…]

• We know that in many manufacturing industries there is a very high turnover of labour, so people coming into this country do have the opportunity to go into the manufacturing industries, establish a foothold and find their own way into the community from there. [More…]

• There have been significant breakthroughs in overcoming the lack of confidence in the business community by virtue of adjustments to the Prices Justification Tribunal Act in such a way as to ensure a freer passing on of costs in the community in such a way as to enable business to survive. [More…]

• The amendments that were foreshadowed in a Bill brought down in the House of Representatives before February in relation to the Trade Practices Act are significant in terms of increasing confidence in the business community. [More…]

• This obviously will provide a basis for further discussion within the community as to freer movements within business and consequently will lead to more investment. [More…]

• We look forward to the emergence of reports from that Bureau over the next few years so as to gain a greater appreciation of the position of the manufacturing industry in our community. [More…]

• In addition, the manufacturing industry has been beset by bad industrial relations and aggravated by the fragmentation of the union movement which has led to demarcation disputes which are amongst the silliest disputes and amongst the most costly to the community. [More…]

• They do not accept that they must suffer or at least be disturbed so that the rest of the community may benefit. [More…]

• The report points out that in principle there will be a benefit to the community in restructuring, in a more efficient allocation of resources. [More…]

• But, in the meantime, those in the community who are frightened of the success that may be coming will continue to undermine stability and to talk down progress. [More…]

• I suggest that the inability of this Government to make any fundamental review of the nature of the economy and the problems besetting manufacturing industry and the divisions that therefore exist within the Government are the reasons why the report on manufacturing industry has not yet been dealt with and placed before the Australian Parliament and the Australian community for a public debate. [More…]

• If we cut back wages to reduce costs, we reduce the capacity of the community to buy the goods that we are producing in an over-produced situation in the domestic scene. [More…]

• There would be an inability on the part of the community to absorb the imports from overseas. [More…]

• The First Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations, which covers the period from 31 October 1975 to 30 June 1976, raises a number of important matters which require departmental consideration. [More…]

• I believe that the Development Assistance Advisory Board provided for important community participation and community contribution in the area of development assistance. [More…]

• I think it is important that aid should be a national effort, recognised as such, in which the community as a whole is involved. [More…]

• Indeed, it should be seen as a community responsibility. [More…]

• I believe that it must be advisory and that its membership should be drawn from the community. [More…]

• But I think the emphasis should be on its advisory role and that its membership should be drawn from the community. [More…]

• As I said earlier, for many years there has been considerable debate within the community concerning the reasons for providing overseas assistance and how that assistance is to be delivered. [More…]

• By abolishing the Development Assistance Advisory Board the participation of the community in the decision making process has been destroyed. [More…]

• The Minister says that he is giving ‘very careful consideration before taking any action’ to involve the wider community. [More…]

• I believe that it is essential for the Government to make a substantial commitment to the resettlement of refugees as has been the call by many sectors of the community. [More…]

• Support for the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA) has been maintained with a grant this financial year of $90,000 which includes finance for development education activities in the Australian community. [More…]

• Support for the Australian Council for Overseas Aid has been maintained with a grant this financial year of $90,000 which includes finance for development education activities in the Australian community. [More…]

• In that article it referred to the ADAA Advisory Board, which has been referred to by Senator Knight, with, to quote Development News Digest, ‘Sir John Crawford as Chairman and representatives from business, trade unions, non-government organisations, community groups, scientists and politicians as its members’. [More…]

• What matters really in this community, and also in the international community, is the quality of aid and the need to see that it reaches the people who need it. [More…]

• The whole community noted that most elevated lady’s comments when she resigned from her position. [More…]

• However, the type of research carried out by the major research institute in Australia, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is my responsibility, and I feel very confident- the record speaks for itself- that the type of research that mainly has been the responsibility of the Federal Government has been most useful to the Australian community. [More…]

• He asks whether the Government proposes to take steps to deal with a situation in which the community may be subjected to great hardships. [More…]

• The growing demand in the international community is for larger balloon capacity. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has also been consulted about a number of matters. [More…]

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

• I am aware that the Department of Transport and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development have been in constant contact with evaluation studies undertaken throughout the world. [More…]

• I understand that a variety of programs had been approved formerly and had been accepted by the community. [More…]

• I say again that I have yet to find anybody in the community or any member of the Federal Parliament who does not say that he believes totally and absolutely that replacement senators ought to come from the same party as the senator they are replacing. [More…]

• Can the Minister outline the numbers of youths who have participated in the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• The Queensland Government has not passed on funds from the 1976-77 Commonwealth block grant under the Community Health Program to two women’s refuges, one in Brisbane and the other in Townsville. [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community DevelopmentSydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart. [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Since the current report of that Department features the role of the present Government on air quality and general air monitoring, I ask: Was the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development consulted by the Minister for Transport on the decision to reduce car and truck exhaust emission standards? [More…]

• The protection of academic freedom, which is of great value in this community, is achieved by setting up universities and councils as statutory bodies in which they make their own rules. [More…]

• I consider that this Senate is appreciative of the responsibility which the Minister for the Northern Territory demonstrated on behalf of the Australian community. [More…]

• The community’s serious concern about General Motors-Holden ‘s proposal to enforce all employees to take one week’s leave; [More…]

• The community’s serious concern about General Motors-Holden ‘s proposal to enforce all employees to take one week’s leave; [More…]

• The community’s serious concern about General MotorsHolden ‘s proposal to enforce all employees to take one week’s leave. [More…]

• What is important to the community and to Parliament is to understand clearly that to use GM-H action as proof that the Government has taken no firm decision on this aspect of industry policy is quite unwarranted, untrue and totally against the facts. [More…]

• The industry has a substantial responsibility to the community and to those who work in it. [More…]

• Reading carefully, the proposition which is contained in the urgency motion, it can be interpreted as suggesting that the community is expected to ask the Government to underwrite one company’s competitive position against other local producers. [More…]

• Our view has always been that the Government Parties are concerned with the welfare of the whole of the community. [More…]

• The objective of our policy is to develop an economic and efficient industry with a high Australian content, operating under levels of protection which are acceptable to the Australian community. [More…]

• The community’s serious concern about General Motors-Holden ‘s proposal to enforce all employees to take one week’s leave; [More…]

• If Senator Jessop has any illusions about community concern, I suggest he look at the various editorials as well as comments by leaders of his own party because there is genuine concern in the Australian community about what is happening to the motor industry and to GM-H in particular. [More…]

• It is of no service to this community for the Minister to say: ‘We have it all under control. [More…]

• The community’s serious concern about General MotorsHolden ‘s proposal to enforce all employees to take one week’s leave. [More…]

• We share the concern of the community at the request of GM-H that its employees should take a week’s leave. [More…]

• All this paragraph does is to express the serious concern of the community about the proposals to enforce all employees to take a week’s leave. [More…]

• As I understand the position, the company has made the suggestion to the employees concerned that this is perhaps a better initiative and in the employees’ overall interest instead of making selective retrenchments at a time when there is over-production and some stagnation in community demand for a variety of reasons which I have already instanced. [More…]

• The objective of our policy is to develop an economic and efficient industry with high Australian content operating under levels of protection which are acceptable to the Australian community. [More…]

• Whether the solution is for Holden ‘s to reduce the price and make the vehicles more attractive to the community- according to Senator Gietzelt ‘s figures in relation to multi-national corporations the company is capable of doing that- or whether the solution is to reduce the sales tax on motor vehicles, is one of the problems that should be sorted out by the Government. [More…]

• The first paragraph deals with the community’s serious concern about the General Motors-Holden’s Pty Ltd proposal to force all employees to take one week’s leave. [More…]

• I cannot agree that the community would be seriously concerned about that as a proposal. [More…]

• I think the community would agree that that is not an unreasonable proposal, especially with the school holidays occurring during the month in which it is proposed the leave be taken. [More…]

• I am sure most members of the community would agree that it is better than being stood down. [More…]

• This point, in my book, will cause the community great concern. [More…]

• The community’s serious concern about General Motors-Holden ‘s proposal to enforce all employees to take one week’s leave; [More…]

• Yet we are told that this is the Government that has the confidence of manufacturing industries throughout this community. [More…]

• We have heard speakers from the other side of the chamber almost unanimously, as they always do, portray the multi-nationals as fairy godfathers to the Australian community. [More…]

• I am happy to say that the trade union movement and the working section of this community are not going to accept the policies of this Government, not only as they apply to the motor car industry, but also as they apply to the oppressive legislation that this Government is going to bring into this Parliament in the next few weeks to try to grind the working class into the dirt. [More…]

• This bears out the amount of interest that has been shown throughout the Australian community into the possible use of solar energy. [More…]

• As the Bureau is small, autonomous and free from the normal departmental function of administration of legislation, 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…]

• Among them are included the high rate of inflation and the general community expectation that inflation will continue. [More…]

• The value of the industry in Australia is well worth nurturing as it employs something like 25 000 people throughout the community. [More…]

• So the industry is a substantial employer and, as Senator Baume pointed out earlier, a substantial investor in the community. [More…]

• As I have tried to make clear from the very beginning since I became involved in this matter, my powers and obligations in respect of it are those set out in the Lands Acquisition Act, an Act of this Parliament by which I am bound, as is every other person in the community. [More…]

• No person in the community has ever made any accusation against the 18 commissioners who have been appointed of having any political affiliation. [More…]

• As these Polish exservicemen, for the most part, have been living in Australia for some 3 decades now, during which time many of them have raised families and have worked in this community, does not Australia have some moral responsibility to provide benefits to these persons, most of whom are now Australian citizens, who served in the allied cause and whose case was under consideration by the Labor Government before its dismissal from office? [More…]

• The Australian business community ought to be especially concerned about the commercial implications of this. [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; $3.6m for ex gratia payments to firms affected by the termination of mining on Fraser Island; and $2m for the introduction of the Tasmanian south-bound freight equalisation scheme. [More…]

• The present Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, has been very vocal on housing problems in his short time in this Parliament. [More…]

• It is important that the people be sited near their friends, relatives and the facilities they need to belong to and to be part of this community rather than isolated in ghettos for the aged or in underprivileged areas. [More…]

• This project is being conducted under considerable criticism from all sorts of tenant groups and housing groups in the community without any proper discussion in this Parliament and under a veil of secrecy which is difficult to penetrate. [More…]

• The Opposition still awaits the Government to announce its intentions in this important area which concerns single pensioners, married aged pensioners, low income earners and all other under-privileged people in this community. [More…]

• Inquiry into Poverty, the Social Welfare Commission and many other interested groups in the community, we have had the knowledge available to cope with the housing problem in this community or to start to cope with it. [More…]

• All the main Acts that provide housing funds under various headings in the community are all treated in a politically loaded manner and too seldom are debated publicly. [More…]

• The community care of our aged has been one of the major sociological changes in Australia during the last 10 years or thereabouts. [More…]

• Greater affluence in the community on the one hand has brought greater independence on the other. [More…]

• Whether they have built accommodation in units of two or three or whole retirement villages, the community units have come to be very much part of the community as a whole. [More…]

• It does not give any indication that the Government will go any further or take any more seriously the plight of many people in the community today. [More…]

• We really do not need any more surveys in the community to know that a considerable number of people are not catered for, that they do not have a home of any sort. [More…]

• They have to be accountable to the community to help solve the problems. [More…]

• If they were kept in their own homes they would live longer and happier lives and take a part in the community. [More…]

• In the United Kingdom and other European countries it is accepted that people are being humane and are doing a great service to the community by accepting responsibility for the people who cannot be left alone in private dwellings and they are paid the sort of support they need to carry out that work. [More…]

• When one remembers that the reports and surveys that have been undertaken in this country show that our population is aging at an increasing rate, when one remembers that in New South Wales in February 1977 500 people were receiving income support paid by way of special benefit because they had left paid employment to care for infirm relatives in private dwellings, and when one remembers how hard it is to receive that special benefit, one wonders how many people there are in the community who are carrying out this work. [More…]

• There is an increasing number of people doing it and if we really believe that elderly people should be looked after we should take into account the people who are looking after them and provide government money, community money, to assist those people to do that work. [More…]

• Under the present scheme we have adults who were taxpaying people carrying their weight in the community and who leave paid employment to carry out what they believe to oe a socially necessary task. [More…]

• I would like to think that governments would take note of this and realise what an important part these people play in the community. [More…]

• Because they have a conscience and love the person they are caring for, they leave the working community and are made to feel much the same as the kids who are left on unemployment benefits, as bludgers, because they are asking for some income while they do this socially necessary task. [More…]

• It means that elderly people can go on playing a part in the community but are looked after in their own homes. [More…]

• It is a matter of the community facing up to its responsibilities and caring more about the entire community, whether it is young, middle-aged or aged. [More…]

• The second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in another place made it clear that this was an interim measure. [More…]

• There is a great responsibility on every member of the community-in particular there is a very great responsibility on government- to provide for our young people and for our aged people. [More…]

• So far as this country is concerned, on a national basis, there are our aged, our young and other minority groups in the community who have a low socio-economic level of living. [More…]

• The comment was made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who has the responsibility for this legislation, that this debate reveals in this House, as it did in the House of Representatives, that the Government and the Opposition are united in one resolve, and that is that aged people must be helped to the greatest extent possible. [More…]

• The reason why the Government has commissioned reports such as the Bailey report and the Holmes report is to enable expert advice to be available not only to the Government but to the Parliament and to those people in the community who would take an interest in the aged. [More…]

• Speakers on the Government side have condemned soundly those who would put that type of fear into the minds of people in the community who were hoping for assistance and who were having their spirits dampened by Opposition criticism. [More…]

• Our community is somewhat different from that in other parts of the world. [More…]

• It is necessary for community workers to be involved in making introductions and in seeing that someone visits the aged persons within their homes to ensure that they are healthy and mentally sound and capable of conducting their own affairs within the home. [More…]

• Of course, the trend should be established whereby other community facilities are developed nearby to the housing scheme about which I have been speaking. [More…]

• Community workers and the families of these aged persons could visit them in their flats and then meet them in a communal room and have discussions with them and with other aged persons whose relatives or friends may not be visiting them at that time. [More…]

• I am sure that Senator Melzer will agree with me that there is an obligation on the community to see that these people are visited if their families are in another State. [More…]

• I think every member of this Parliament agrees that such shelters are essential and necessary to the community. [More…]

• The Queensland Government has not passed on funds from the 1976-77 Commonwealth block grant under the Community Health Program to two women s refuges, one in Brisbane and the other in Townsville. [More…]

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

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

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

• When a draft environmental impact statement is released, are copies available in each of the State offices of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

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

• Copies of draft environmental impact statements are normally made available in the State office of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development when the proposed action, the subject matter of the impact statement, has an effect in the State concerned. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, Bligh House, 4 Bligh Street, Sydney. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, John Curtin House, Brisbane Avenue, Barton, ACT. [More…]

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

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

• A great deal of work has been done in recent months in relation to not only population trends in Australia as they affect education but also changes in the trends of community attitudes and technological demands and requirements. [More…]

• The general public is often unaware of this aspect of senators’ work which is genuinely applied to the distillation of evidence in order to arrive at conclusions which are of benefit to the community at large. [More…]

• Detailed examination of these factors is required in the context of the need to set aside areas of forest for wilderness, intensive forestry, and a complete range of community uses. [More…]

• The increasing concern of the community for this aim, particularly with respect to forests, is reflected in the number of symposia and inquiries held in recent years on this theme. [More…]

• The Committee hopes that its conclusions and recommendations, taken in conjunction with those of other inquiries will help point the way to some fertile ground from which will spring decisions and actions in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• When we commenced we had a fair idea of the polarisation of the protagonists of development and those from the conservation wings of the community. [More…]

• I mentioned the polarisation of different elements in the community. [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…]

• 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…]

• The author of the statement likened it to a strike of brain surgeons, because it did not matter what was done, whether people were gaoled or whatever they were threatened with, as there was nobody else in the community sufficiently qualified to keep bringing in the aircraft and to take the place of the air traffic controllers at the airports. [More…]

• A White Paper must be a well thought out, sensible and realistic document which industry and the community generally can appreciate as being a sound approach for the future. [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…]

• Despite the best efforts of people of goodwill 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 IndoChinese 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…]

• Now the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has virtually said that the growth centre program is at an end. [More…]

• A national referendum day for consideration of a proposal or proposals on which both major parties agree would be something that would benefit the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that this Government recognised immediately it same to office that it was necessary to restore the credibility of the trade union movement in Australia to a level which it ought to hold in the community. [More…]

• We share your concern for the regulation of fire-arms in the community and support any action you take to bring about uniformity. [More…]

• Since then the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) has indicated that he is in fact the Minister for confrontation, particularly with trade unions and minority groups in the community. [More…]

• On page 126 of the Hansard report of Estimates Committee D on 28 April 1977 I asked how many people had lost their jobs on town management and other community projects over the last year as a result of the 1976-77 Budget cuts. [More…]

• That is not true either, because if money is withdrawn from a project and the work on that project ceases that is precisely the same as if money is withdrawn from a community. [More…]

• Four of these people were involved in council work, another four were involved in Department of Aboriginal Affairs community projects and another four were involved in housing projects- 12 breadwinners. [More…]

• At Areyonga, although the 1976-77 community employment level was not affected, the community has not been advised of the 1 977-78 Budget claims and is worried. [More…]

• At Yuendumu, which was discussed during the Estimates Committee’s hearing, the mining company lost 5 positions, the Housing Association lost 5 positions and if it were not for the activities of the community council it would have suffered likewise. [More…]

• I received a telegram from the community at Wiluna only a few days ago, couched in these terms: [More…]

• Present grant of $105,000 for the erection of four prototype houses is insufficient to meet the needs of the community of plus or minus 596 people, and as there is no further funding for 1977-78 - [More…]

• This particular community has already been told that it will not receive any money next year- this will obviously cause discontent and hardship. [More…]

• Due now to the lack of funding this effort will be aimless and will create further unemployment and hardship to the community. [More…]

• That is signed by the chairman of the local community council. [More…]

• I have been informed that it impossible to estimate the number of Aborigines unemployed through lack of community projects. [More…]

• However, there are 121 males in this community who do not have a job. [More…]

• If those figures are indicative of what is happening in the community generally, then Australia so far as its Aboriginal and Island population is concerned is in a very serious situation indeed. [More…]

• In the days of the Labor Governmentwe can find examples of this from previous Estimates Committee debates during those 3 harassed years- it set out to soak up the unemployment in the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Jobs were created by special grants to local government, the introduction of housing associations, community welfare jobs, and loans to people to purchase businesses, farms and so on. [More…]

• A new feeling of dignity arose within the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Up to 40 per cent of the community had to face these morale destroying conditions. [More…]

• We are about to face them again in the general community because of the inability of the Government to rectify the economic situation. [More…]

• We have a responsibility to the less privileged in the community to see that some of their problems are overcome. [More…]

• But there are some special measures which have been taken by the Government to encourage and to support small business within the community in recognition of its very important role in the private sector. [More…]

• Certainly one of the most important questions is the finance available to small business in the community in current circumstances. [More…]

• I turn now to the disadvantaged groups in the community- the younger people, the juniors, those who are leaving school and women especially. [More…]

• The Community Youth Support Scheme (CYSS) which has now been in operation for some 3 months is an initiative designed to complement other Government action already taken to increase employment and training opportunities for young people. [More…]

• The Scheme provides financial assistance to community groups, including recognised youth organisations for supportive programs and services to the young unemployed. [More…]

• As an example, the Public Service Board was approached to approve the Certificate in Community Development, a special course for Aboriginals sponsored by the South Australian Institute of Technology and paid for by a Commonwealth Grant-in-Aid and the Board has agreed. [More…]

• Two others, Aboriginal staff members, are on full-time study, one is undertaking a Manager’s Course with the National Fitness Council and the other is attending the South Australian Institute of Technology completing a two years course in Community Development. [More…]

• Have State Committees been established as part of the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• To consider and approve applications for funds under the Community Youth Support Scheme and oversight the progress of approved projects. [More…]

• The incomes of farmers, however, are low relative to incomes elsewhere in the community. [More…]

• The Government’s decision on Fraser Island was announced by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Hansard, 10 November 1976, page 2549) and that decision is being implemented. [More…]

• Can the Minister assure the Senate that the Australian artistic community will be consulted in the event of Federal Government artistic commissions? [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for National Resources or, alternatively, the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that, as reported in the Herald of 2 1 March 1977, Australia recycles only a small fraction of used automotive and other lubricating oils and that most of the used oil is either dumped or burned, often with adverse environmental effects? [More…]

• an equitable distribution of funds to cover all the childcare needs of the community; [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, is based on future environmental assessment procedures. [More…]

• I receive questionnaires from many areas in the community. [More…]

• The question concerns the social justice and, in fact, the fairness of the Government in singling out this group of people, these school leavers, and depriving them of unemployment benefits when others in the community were not so deprived. [More…]

• I believe that the gist of Mr Justice Stephen’s judgment is this: Miss Green- the Judge pointed out that hers was not an exceptional case and that in fact there were thousands like it in the community- was subject to an inflexible rule which prevented her from being considered for unemployment benefits until the end of the school vacation, the school vacation which started last November or early December. [More…]

• In the knowledge that there was an appeal- there were several appeals to several courts over this case- members of the Opposition, members of various social welfare groups, members of all sorts of self-help groups including unemployed self-help groups in the community encouraged people to register for unemployment benefits, but many still did not apply because they thought it was a waste of time to do so. [More…]

• The problems of unemployed youth in this community were, are and will continue to be enormous. [More…]

• They are not only left unemployed but also they are treated differently from the other unemployed in the community. [More…]

• It has had fair warning- in fact since the middle of last yearthat many people in the community believed its actions were illegal. [More…]

• So long as it is an under-achieving institution in terms of the lives of the ordinary people of this community it will not get the sort of respect which Senator Wright and I, and I believe other honourable senators on both sides of the chamber, hope for. [More…]

• It is not only a matter of providing funds or equipment for education facilities in the next quarter of a century; it is also a matter of taking account of community needs bearing in mind employment opportunities, social welfare, social outlooks and job and community satisfaction. [More…]

• All of these things I believe require not only Government attention but also continuing, changing and developing community thought and research. [More…]

• If an educational system fails to provide the community with satisfaction and fails to provide people with skills which they can use not only in their vocation and their work but also in a recreational and social sense, then the education system is most unsatisfactory. [More…]

• I hope that the delivery of this report will not be too long delayed and that when it is finally presented it will take into account the total facets of community life and living not only at the present time but particularly in the rapidly changing circumstances that undoubtedly will occur within the next 25 years. [More…]

• It is interesting in this matter of education, which always involves a great deal of public discussion, that the wheel of public interest seems to have done something of a complete circle and that we are coming round to discovering that there is a great lack of skill in the community today concerning literacy and numeracy. [More…]

• What is more, the Government will have to take the community along with it. [More…]

• Red Cross, other organisations having practical experience in settlement work and post-hostel community support for refugees, and representatives from the academic community. [More…]

• I am a great believer in advisory committees which comprise both government representatives and community representatives. [More…]

• This is ignoring a great source of humanitarian talent which also can persuade the Australian community. [More…]

• When some urgent need with regard to traffic control or some other matter of vital concern to the community arises staff simply is not available to do the work. [More…]

• Koomarri is an excellent institution and one which has a great deal of support from the Australian Capital Territory community. [More…]

• Over and above this fact however, the members of the Canberra Women’s Refuge wish to stress the urgency of the need for funding for all community-based women’s refuges presently struggling to function throughout Australia. [More…]

• I hope that we will not have to rise again in this chamber to ask for financial support for this basic community facility. [More…]

• He believes that this House is the protector of the rights not only of the States but also of the minorities in the community. [More…]

• It is of vital importance to the whole community that sufficient copies of this Second Report are available to the general public so that they can purchase them, see what is contained in the report and inform themselves fully as to the ramifications or otherwise of the mining and sale of uranium in this country. [More…]

• Was the study one in conjunction with the Department Of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is not involved because in the early stages of planning the study, that department did not exist and there was close association with the then Department of Tourism and Recreation. [More…]

• Has the Federal Government provided any financial assistance for radio and television commercials for the Community Youth Support Scheme featuring the Federal Member for Brisbane, Mr Peter Johnson, M.P. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister received a request from the Cummeragunja Co-operative Society Ltd at Barma, New South Wales, for financial assistance to help supply the Aboriginal community with a medical car and adviser to transport the sick to Echuca. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, on 31 March 1977, upon notice: [More…]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 3 May 1977: [More…]

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

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

• 2 was released the discussion on the Kakadu National Park boundaries would be vested in the hands of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Minister for the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I refer to the report in the Age of 23 May 1977, which describes the success of the Community Youth Support Scheme but which details a hold up in approval and funding by the Department of 20 more proposals. [More…]

• It is very pleasing to note that the problem raised by Senator Missen is one which is presented by the success of the Government’s Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: In the light of considerable concern in South Australia about the state of the housing industry in that State and the numerous calls for interest rate reductions, does the Minister agree that such an action would be inflationary and would lead to further cost increases which would, in turn, make a recovery in the industry more difficult to achieve? [More…]

• The first thrust should be to apply ourselves to a general recovery of the community. [More…]

• Innovations have been achieved through its Department of Community Medicine with the operation of 3 community health centres and through the establishment of the Foundation for MultiDisciplinary Education where students in medicine, social work, occupational therapy and physiotherapy learn together. [More…]

• Between 1966 and 1 976, the Faculty of Medicine staff has published over 900 professional papers; staff members have held senior office in every medical professional association, in government research funding committees and in community organisations dedicated to the fostering of health care. [More…]

• It is totally different from the system of conciliation and arbitration with which we have grown up and which is acceptable to the Australian community. [More…]

• We all know that although the Government claims that private enterprise can put the economy back on the rails it is the private enterprise section of the community that the Government is hurting in the initial stages of implementation of its policies. [More…]

• Many people in the Australian community today are now admitting that they were wrong when they cast their votes in December 1975 and they would like another opportunity. [More…]

• As I said earlier in my speech, the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) came into this Parliament and tried to take away funeral benefits from the people who could ill afford to have them taken away- the pensioner citizens of this community. [More…]

• This Government cannot blame the Labor Government for that, although in the urgency motion yesterday we heard Senator Baume, Senator Tehan and others speaking from the Government side still trying to lay the blame for the present ills of this community onto the previous Labor Government. [More…]

• A once fully employed community suffers unemployment on a scale not seen for 40 years with worse to come. [More…]

• The people in charge of education in this community are very concerned that student aid will not be maintained. [More…]

• It is no good for the Minister to come here and say, as he usually does, with regard to community expenditure on education, that the Whitlam Government cut expenditure on education by $ 170m in one year. [More…]

• It is also fair to say that a lot of people within the Australian community are now querying the importance of Parliament so far as its place within the democratic institution is concerned. [More…]

• Perhaps the Executive could ensure that before a session commences the Bills that are to be presented to Parliament in the normal course of events are drawn, drafted and presented to Parliament in the first week of the session so that members of the House of Representatives and senators can have ample time to study the clauses of the Bills and the effect that they will have on the community well in advance of the debates getting under way. [More…]

• He had to go to the extent of spending $6,000 for a new one because he lives in the upper echelon of the community and because he and his wife want to put on a great show. [More…]

• This Government made a good deal of noise about what it would do for the farming community which was faced with difficulties. [More…]

• We have been informed by the Department of Primary Industry that on the most up-to-date figures, which are for the period up to the end of March this year, the grand total right across the nation for household support for the rural community so far has been $18,941. [More…]

• I think, again from memory, that we did have some breakdown on how many farmers that encompasses but one can appreciate in these times of inflation that $18,941 spread across the Commonwealth will not keep many people in the farming community and their families alive for very long. [More…]

• Government are so restrictive that very few people in the farming community who are faced with problems are eligible for this type of support. [More…]

• It does seem to me from the discussions that I have had in my electoral office and the discussions that I have had with the farming community in my own State and elsewhere that there is a tendency for this type of rural adjustment grant to go only to the better-off farmer. [More…]

• It may be as well for some checks to be made throughout the community to see whether these stories are true. [More…]

• There could well be justification for these hard working, dedicated public servants going on strike for the purpose of making this Government realise the value of this section of the work force and of the community. [More…]

• It is no wonder that the person behind the counter says: ‘We have to do something for this deserving section of the community’. [More…]

• I realise, as the Minister says, that if you have a government that is determined to put ceilings on and is determined to decrease staff, it is difficult for a department 9000 strong to ask for more staff; but it should not be that difficult when the department is handling almost 25 per cent of Budget expenditure in this community and that 25 per cent of expenditure is going to help the underprivileged people in this community and to help people through income support programs and relief programs in keeping their standards of living up to a reasonable level. [More…]

• If the ban is to continue as it has in the past all that will happen is that an underprivileged section of the community will be denied its entitlements. [More…]

• My letter to Estimates Committee D specified: ‘Department of Health (Capital Territory Health Commission) Division 332.1- Grants in aid to other organisations (Family Planning Association, Community agencies engaged in health activities, Canberra Women’s Refuge).’ [More…]

• I ask honourable senators to note that my advance letter, which followed directly from Senator Withers’ request, included the particular area ‘Community agencies engaged in health activities’. [More…]

• I refer now to the $102,000 that is going to be spent on community agencies engaged in mental health activities and other health activities. [More…]

• Set out below is a listing of the Community Agencies that received grants-in-aid during 1975-76 and are being considered for a grant in aid for 1 976-77. [More…]

• Grants in aid 1976-77- Community and Mental Health Agencies. [More…]

• It is addressed to the Treasurer of the Pregnancy Support Service and is headed ‘Grants to Community Agencies Engaged in Mental Health Activities in the A.C.T. [More…]

• Yet 5 months later grants to Australian Capital Territory organisations under the community health program were announced in the Press including one for the so-called Women’s Information and Health Counselling Service at Lobelia Street. [More…]

• However, I suggest that not everyone in the community has those objections. [More…]

• If we shut our eyes to this problem and say that we will not give any money- even $3,000- to an organisation such as this, we are just being bloody-minded about our grantsinaid made to organisations which help people in the community. [More…]

• It is believed that the assistance was sought under a mental health grant from the Australian Capital Territory Health Services before the Commission was set up and before the community health grants commenced. [More…]

• No application has been made under the community health program. [More…]

• The Pregnancy Support Service apparently applied at that time for a mental health grant before the Health Commission advertised community health grants. [More…]

• The mental health grant was not made to the Pregnancy Support Service and it has not applied on the 2 occasions on which community health grants have been advertised. [More…]

• Since 1 December 1976 mental health grants have been amalgamated with community health grants and are allocated as community health grants by a single committee. [More…]

• I am not pretending that I agree with Senator Harradine ‘s view or that I am opposed to it but in this matter, which is very sensitive to the community, it seems inappropriate that funds are going to one side of the argument and not the other. [More…]

• I have no information with regard to the Community Relations Office. [More…]

• If the company itself were to take the advice of the Department and sack this man because of a decision by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, where would be stand in the community if he applied for a similar job? [More…]

• I asked how many people had lost their jobs in town management and other community projects in the last year as a result of the 1 976-77 Budget cuts. [More…]

• It appears that in some of the houses in the Point McLeay community settlement the septic systems were installed without supervision, without permits from the local council and they are ineffective. [More…]

• The loss of people to their families and to the community, particularly to such inter-related communities as are found in the north of Australia, is very real. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

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

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that forestry interests are continuing to extend roads into the Picton Valley region of south west Tasmania within the proposed boundaries of the inquiry being undertaken by the South- West Advisory Committee? [More…]

• Is she satisfied that there is sufficient display of material to encourage the community to acquaint itself with the benefits available? [More…]

• I am also glad to see that the industry groups were not prepared to let Mr Lowe say for political purposes that the blame rested upon the Federal Government when everybody in the community knows where the blame really lies. [More…]

• I mention another problem faced by the Great Barrier Reef, although I do not think it concerns the Department of Science as much as possibly the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I have received a letter from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) but, if what he says in the letter is correct, this problem does concern the Department of Science. [More…]

• I am unable to say whether the situation is as outlined by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• High Court decision relating to responsibility may place some further responsibility on the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• If the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has been carrying out research, surely it would be carrying out that research with the assistance of the Minister’s Department. [More…]

• It would be quite unacceptable if the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development set up a whole area of scientific research without the cooperation and full involvement of the Minister’s Department. [More…]

• In July a biannual meeting of the State Ministers responsible for wild life conservation and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) will be held. [More…]

• There are some groups of people involved in industry who voluntarily, with some assistance in their secretarial work, attempt to assist in this research field, so establishing for the Australian Government some standard relating to the decibel level that we are able to stand within the community. [More…]

• We know that because of representations made by the unions and honourable senators efforts have been made to encourage the introduction of programs for apprentices, youth community groups and, of equal importance, the establishment of services for unemployed people who have applied for jobs to provide co-ordination between those who are registered with the Commonwealth Employment Service and employer groups to enable those unemployed people to secure jobs which are available on the labour market. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government’s Community Youth Support Scheme was ‘slammed ‘ at Tuesday ‘s Murray Bridge District Council meeting by a Councillor who described it as airy-fairy’ . [More…]

• I think this whole scheme is an absolute duplication of facilities we have available for unemployed young people in the community. [More…]

• The honourable senator also referred to the community youth support scheme. [More…]

• The other matter with which he persists is the question of the community youth support scheme. [More…]

• I cannot provide any further information to the Committee about the community youth scheme. [More…]

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

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

• During the three year experimental period of the Australian Assistance Plan ended 30 June 1976, two applications for financial assistance, lodged by Regional Councils for Social Development in New South Wales with access to a community welfare grant, were rejected. [More…]

• Several applications from Regional Councils with access to a community welfare grant were referred back to Councils for additional information. [More…]

• It has been reported by the media that after consultation with Mr Nixon the South Australian Transport Minister, Mr Geoff Virgo, has finally selected a route for the Stuart Highway south of the Northern Territory border to Port Augusta and has now indicated that the decision rests with the Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Kevin Newman. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has directed that public comments should be sought on the environmental aspects of each route. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the Greek and Italian communities now form a large and integral part of the Australian community, will the Minister ask the Minister for Post and Telecommunications to consult with the Australian Broadcasting Commission with a view to having the top soccer finals in Greece and Italy also televised direct to Australia? [More…]

• As far as I am aware- I will check this matter for the honourable senator- until Mr Justice Fox gave the report to the 2 Ministers concerned, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development, no other person in the Government had a copy. [More…]

• I am pleased to announce that the Government has decided to approve funds until the end of 1977 to enable new projects under the community youth support scheme to commence. [More…]

• Senator Grimes will remember the great resentment by the Australian community of that policy decision of the Labor Government. [More…]

• There will be some expenditure during 1976-77, particularly on the pilot project set in train on the community development employment project scheme. [More…]

• Consequently, to maintain an adequate level of stocks and to increase it to keep up with demands, more and more cash needs to be poured into the business, At the rates of interest that have been applicable in the community in recent years, that has become quite a penalty on business, to the extent that many firms have found the going too tough and have gone out of business. [More…]

• Unfortunately, that statement has not gained immediate recognition in the community, especially not from the taxation authorities, because it fails to take into account adjustments for monetary amounts in the assets of companies and businesses. [More…]

• Rebate Apprenticeships Fulltime Training scheme is, I think, a step in the right direction towards encouraging more and more apprentices to be trained in our community. [More…]

• They perform a most valuable service in the community by maintaining a high standard of advice to their clients. [More…]

• I think that it is not only true in the community generally but also true in the more limited areas of the Tribunal’s application that it is very important that the community is aware of its rights and is able to take advantage of those rights where necessary in circumstances of an appeal. [More…]

• I believe it will do something useful for this community and for any ordinary member of the public who finds himself enmeshed in the bureaucracy and unable to find his way. [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…]

• I do not say that in any antagonistic way towards the farming community. [More…]

• This has been brought about because the operators of these great juggernauts claim that they can provide a better service to business and to the community than the railways can provide. [More…]

• We find that in many cases the Commonwealth Government has to come to their rescue by flying in stores by helicopter, which again is a heavy expenditure to be met by the community. [More…]

• The fact is that in my own State- in Senator Jessop ‘s and Senator Young’s own State- there is a local community urge to maintain country lines as far as possible. [More…]

• The establishment of the Corporation offered a service to the community as a whole because the private sector had shown at that stage no interest in the proposal or in the facility. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Affairs (Mr Newman) acknowledged this record in his second reading speech by stating that the premium payable is amongst the lowest in the world. [More…]

• They are paid for by the community not only in the losses that are sustained but also in the lack of confidence that is created in those people who might otherwise want to invest in the activities of those corporations. [More…]

• But since the matter has been raised, I draw the attention of the Senate and of the community to these points: Up till the advent of the Whitlam Government any wage earner or household head in Australia on an average weekly wage was capable of purchasing a home by paying one-quarter of his average weekly wage towards the purchase of that home. [More…]

• Furthermore, I remind the honourable senator that if he looks at the over-subscription of the recent loan he will know that that over-subscription is an indication by the general community that, in the longer term, interest rates are falling. [More…]

• The interest which they are paying on moneys which they borrow from the community is running as high as 10 per cent. [More…]

• This is affecting people in the community who depend on the payment of unemployment benefit, in some cases on the payment of pensions and particularly on the payment of the family allowance. [More…]

• I do not intend to deliberate too long on this matter tonight because I think the Minister is well aware- I am pleased that she is in the chamber tonight- of the problems that are being experienced by many people in the community, not only the recipients of family allowance payments but also the recipients of other social service benefits. [More…]

• The Government is aware of diverse requests from the rural community both for and against substantial reforms of present wool marketing methods. [More…]

• The community knows that the Government ‘s policy, which is accepted as such by the Premiers, is that within periods of not more than 5 years there should be a review by an independent body of the relativities between the States. [More…]

• I ask: Is the Minister aware that last weekend a seminar was held in Canberra to discuss library services to the community? [More…]

• These people have fled the country in a time of crisis in unemployment and at a time when we find that there is a great debate going on in the community because of the staff ceilings that have been placed on the Public Service. [More…]

• I will not be backward in telling the people out in the farming community and those who live in the country areas what is going on here, when I go back there next week. [More…]

• He has now transferred his activities, which my Council regard as highly dangerous to patients, to a small Island community in the South Pacific. [More…]

• The point I am making today is that if we wish to protect our export marketthe big question these days is whether it will be the European Economic Community, Japan or sending live cattle to northern countries such as the United States of America- we have to take more notice of this desperate situation. [More…]

• However, we find it an occasion on which we can give some thought to the current position of education in the community. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say that there is great concern and uncertainty in the community about the way this Government is handling its education policies, lt would be idle to deny that throughout the country spokesmen in the education area are expressing the gravest concern as to the Government’s intentions in this area. [More…]

• Certainly it is important for him to do so not only to reassure the community at large but also to enable the commissions to be able to plan with some certainty on future Government policy. [More…]

• All these factors add up to real concern in the community. [More…]

• The Opposition trusts that the Government will realise that a retreat from its commitment will be taken very badly throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• Perhaps he should look at one or two of the reports which seem to show that we have reached a period of zero population growth in Australia; that our maternity hospitals on the one hand are empty and, on the other hand, our geriatric wards are packed; that every item of expenditure that we decide upon now should take into account the grave problem that we may be facing, particularly in respect of the education system; that there may be an oversupply of teachers, for instance, or an oversupply of buildings or of graduate students which the community cannot absorb; that much of the money being expended by virtue of these Bills may be wasted in the long run. [More…]

• I have no doubt that many people in the community were very much attracted by this promise of the present Government in 1975. [More…]

• What the Government does not seem to realise is that the fact that it has retracted a commitment that it gave makes it all the more difficult for those wage and salary earners in the community who receive- in fact I concede this- some benefit from the tax indexation that remains. [More…]

• That cost has been not only the reductions in government spending but also the loss of confidence that has occurred in the business community because of the reduction in government contracts which are let to the private sector and which are so important in keeping the private sector buoyant. [More…]

• If we are to assume that the Government will continue along this line, then obviously, whatever benefits may have been available originally to the community from the original decision on tax indexation, gradually they will be eroded. [More…]

• 1 am sure that the community at large will realise how detrimental this retraction will be to the purchasing power of the ordinary housewife especially and to the community at large. [More…]

• In fact what has occurred is that the indexation of personal income tax is being recorded at the rate at which wages have been passed on as costs in the community, as stated by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• I am afraid that Senator Wriedt fails to recognise that what we are doing in this exercise is adjusting taxation in line with the rate at which wages have increased in the community. [More…]

• There is just no purchasing power in the community. [More…]

• The community is suffering from a fair complex at the present time. [More…]

• The Government will try to develop a growth factor in the community by introducing another 100 000 or perhaps 150 000 migrants a year. [More…]

• What this will do is to make those people economic slaves within the community based on their great need. [More…]

• Proportionately we will most likely get a greater benefit out of tax indexation than anybody else because we are most likely the only group in the whole community whose wages and salaries have been static for 12 months. [More…]

• I suppose we are about the only group in the community, apart from some limited groups which have had a fall, whose salary levels have been fixed in absolute terms since 20 June 1976. [More…]

• Since that time, those proposals have, in fact, been closely scrutinised by the community and a great number of submissions have been received. [More…]

• The marketing of unsafe products is a major concern of the community. [More…]

• A draft amendment Bill on this subject has been prepared by the Government and it is proposed to expose that draft legislation to the Australian community for the purposes of public discussion of its terms. [More…]

• It is common ground that the Trade Practices Act does not have universal application throughout the community because of constitutional limitations. [More…]

• In that form the Bill was designed to implement certain aspects of the Government’s Industrial Relations policy based upon the fundamental principles that: every member of the community has rights and obligations; those rights must be protected and the obligations met. [More…]

• In his second reading speech, the Minister 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…]

• 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…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 2 1 April 1 977: [More…]

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

• Yesterday we heard from several Government senators that a consumer led recovery is taking place in the community. [More…]

• A base pension rate of 30 per cent of average weekly earnings could not be achieved without the support of the community. [More…]

• The community would have to bear the cost. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: In view of the fact that the Government of New South Wales is showing no inclination to involve itself in initiatives in the area of unemployment or to take up community development programs on the ground that it has no available funds, and in view of the fact that the Victorian Government has already taken up the Australian Assistance Plan from its own funds, will the Minister outline to the Senate the current cash position facing the Government of New South Wales and indicate whether or not there is any substance in its claim that financial stringencies make it unable to meet its proper obligations? [More…]

• It was always competent for the New South Wales Government to take up programs of community development under the Australian Assistance Plan, or programs of that kind, out of the additional finance that was available to it. [More…]

• I direct a question to Senator Carrick in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I will ask my colleague in another place to obtain the information and make it available not only to the honourable senator but also to the Senate and the community. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report entitled A Guide To Allocating Community Funds prepared by Mr R. Myers. [More…]

• Evidence received also indicated that there was a desire for Australia’s publicly funded orchestras to be more actively involved in bringing music to the community. [More…]

• The object of this would be to provide a more positive, creative and efficient use of orchestral services from which the community would derive greater benefit and musicians greater artistic satisfaction. [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, because of the change in basic requirements, entitled to receive unemployment benefits on the same basis as others in the community. [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…]

• 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…]

• So Bob Hawke was prepared to come to a compromise in relation to the legislation that we are now considering and say: ‘Well, in order to avoid a confrontation, in order to avoid the massive dislocation that the community was going to face, we will accept the Bureau for the moment, provided you abandon the present amendments and you keep in mind that our policy is that we are against all pains and penalties’. [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…]

• The dichotomy- the 2 strains -in Government policies is no better indicated than by the quite genuine efforts, I believe, of the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) from time to time to adopt the second approach and the quite obvious efforts of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), in overbearing his Minister, to adopt the other approach from time to time in what he sees as an appropriate electoral response to dissatisfaction with the position of trade unions within the community. [More…]

• These propositions are put in the deeply held belief that confrontation and massive economic dislocationif avoidable while still adhering to principle- is against the best interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• The fact remains that trade unions do have the capacity to wield immense power, indeed excessive power, across the community. [More…]

• In the whole world of contract the whole community accepts the equity that if someone comes to an agreement or submits to the processes of arbitration and gets the benefits of an award and then fails to comply with the award during its period, he should pay for the damage that he does to the other party to the contract or to the person who has been damnified by breach of the award. [More…]

• Unless we as a Parliament, the elected representatives of the great mass of the community, are entitled to expect and require service by the Public Service we will disintegrate into anarchy. [More…]

• If what I suggest were adopted this Parliament could be restored to the supremacy that people think it should have and we would have an ordered community which would conduce to the justice and prosperity of trade unionists and employers and their families. [More…]

• However, I express the appreciation of the whole Australian community for the fact that at least we have saved the country from the upheaval that the original legislation would have caused. [More…]

• We all accept that industrial disputes are not desirable to the workers involved in them, the employers or the community generally, and that they are very bad for the economy. [More…]

• As we have experienced in South Australia, a dispute with the maintenance men at a power station for even a short period can paralyse that section of the community which that power station supplies. [More…]

• In various disputes we have seen particular sections of the community which are suffering hardships as a result of those disputes being excluded from the disputes. [More…]

• No problems are more basic to the success of this community, this economy and this society than are industrial relations problems. [More…]

• They are the circumstances that are being identified by the Australian community as areas which are only leading us further down a path to national destruction in an economic and social sense. [More…]

• They have produced a great deal of good for their members and in a very real sense for the community as a whole, but they have reached, somewhat disastrously I believe, a point where in many circumstances they seek to override the proper duties and responsibilities of elected government. [More…]

• Once that has been done the legislation will fit in very clearly and closely with Liberal Party policy concerning individual rights and freedoms of our community. [More…]

• As President Hawke of the Australian Council of Trade Unions stated, it would cause economic dislocation and chaos in the Australian community. [More…]

• The original proposal was opposed by practically all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• At times they have not hesitated even to dictate to this Parliament, this great democratic institution which is representative qf every adult male and female in the community. [More…]

• So many sections of the community, from employer organisations, to State governments, to those involved in the industrial relations area professionally, to the entire trade union movement- all of those organisationsprotested at the ill-designed, ill-conceived and hastily prepared legislation setting up the IRB. [More…]

• When something affects the interests of workers, it must be realised by all peopleincluding members of the Government Partiesthat it affects the interests of the community at large. [More…]

• The acceptance of the party system is to the benefit of society because the party is the watch dog, on behalf of the community, of the behaviour of the honourable senators in this place. [More…]

• That might sound a little garrulous; but what I am saying is that, if it is necessary to have compulsory third party insurance when one drives a vehicle in order to protect the whole of the community individually and as a group against any problem or action which might arise, then it is also necessary to have laws within the trade union movement. [More…]

• 1 must admit that the term covers many more people than it used to, but there is a working class in this community and the people in ii toil rather desperately under the present Government to survive economically. [More…]

• Reconsider what you are proposing to do here and make certain that it does not lead to the confrontation that I believe it will lead to which will be to the disadvantage ofthe whole of the community. [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…]

• Australia has witnessed organised attempts by the pro-communist left to create anarchy, to disregard the effects of irresponsible industrial actions on other workers and the community, to flout ACTU rules for the conduct and control of industrial disputes and to turn the trade union movement into a political battering ram, by the abuse of the strike weapon for political purposes. [More…]

• If one reads the Bill with an unprejudiced mind, one will see that throughout the Bill there is support for the institution of the trade union movement and its vital role, not only in industrial relations but also in the community. [More…]

• Honourable senators 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, this is a problem all over the world, but the increase in Australia in recent years has been out of all proportion to the growth in the cost of other medical services, by way of illustration, for the half year ended December 1974 the medical benefits expenditure for pathology services was $22m whilst for the half year ended 1976 it had risen to $5 3 m. The Government is determined that medical benefits expenditure on pathology services will be restrained, accordingly it has accepted and acted upon proposals submitted by the pathology services working party, the final report of which was tabled in another place on 25 May 1977. [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…]

• 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…]

• Apparently it is acceptable that money should be conscripted to fund university football teams for travel from one State to another to play in intervarsity competitions, to fund university cricket teams or any other type of sporting activity but it is quite unacceptable, according to the people who put forward this view, that money which is compulsorily acquired from fees should be used for other purposes such as affiliation with the AUS, involvement in community issues or sometimes activities which are on the periphery of politics. [More…]

• In setting an example for the rest of the community, he has increased costs in South Australia to the extent that in the most vital area of housing they are the greatest in the Commonwealth. [More…]

• That is the product of the Premier who so carelessly fritters away $700 as an example to other people in the community. [More…]

• Do these figures not show the failure of the Government’s investment allowance and suggest that the problem is lack of consumer confidence in the community? [More…]

• Is it generally understood in the community that the capacity to make submissions to committees of inquiries, including the Law Reform Commission, exists with groups like school students, who after all are the voters of tomorrow? [More…]

• In particular, the Chairman is doing a very important job in the community in publicising the role of the Commission and the inquiries it is undertaking. [More…]

• The question asked was whether the Government is taking steps to make known to community groups, particularly those in schools, the fact that the Law Reform Commission is conducting an inquiry into any subject. [More…]

• *Indications of Community Well-being: A Report to the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• Australian Assistance Plan: a guide to allocating community funds. [More…]

• I want to make some remarks particularly in the light of the fact that Senator Missen has pointed out that only 9 copies are available of the Australian Assistance Plan report entitled A Guide to Allocating Community Funds. [More…]

• This matter is of grave importance to many people in the Australian community. [More…]

• So, it is not desirable in the interests of the community that this proposed section be included in this legislation. [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 [More…]

• The expression ‘a person’ for the purpose of dealing with secondary boycotts is a very wide one and embraces all sorts of activities which it is conceivable some persons in this community might regard as undesirable. [More…]

• It seems to me that there have been plenty of opportunities for members of Parliament and the community generally to make representations on this and for members of Parliament and senators to have gained a proper appreciation of the thrust of the Bill. [More…]

• While we are dealing with that particular matter I should like to refer to that section to say that I wholeheartedly support the introduction of this provision in the Act because I believe that we cannot have a law applying to one section of the community but not to another. [More…]

• I believe that sort of activity is totally disreputable and certainly not in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• I believe those two major reforms have led to greater competition and, indeed, a breakthrough in the area of reducing control over businesses held by the horizontal and vertical price fixing arrangements which were very common in the 1 950s and 1960s and which, consequently, led to a lack of competition in business and to continued sweetheart agreements with trade unions which flowed through to the arbitration system, thereby imposing higher costs in the community. [More…]

• It could be argued perhaps that in the 1950s and 1960s- bearing in mind the limited size of the Australian market- certain of those activities have been in the interest of development in this community. [More…]

• It has been held by many small business organisations, and others, that this provision is in the interests of small business and certainly it has been demonstrated that because of the confusion that the section has generated in the community many suppliers have been unwilling to take chances and consequently have supplied goods at the one price to all people buying those goods. [More…]

• That has led to price rigidity rather than price flexibility in the community to the extent that in many cases suppliers have tended to change their basis of terms of supply of goods. [More…]

• I believe there has been a good deal of success and certainly benefit to the community from the banding together of various small businesses, particularly in country localities over the years, to buy goods from a particular manufacturer in one lot. [More…]

• It has presented the legislation in a hasty, ill-prepared way, arguing that it is simply a machinery matter which is not of wide interest in the community but which is mainly of a technical nature. [More…]

• It will affect all individuals in the community who may wish to make active protests against some corporate body. [More…]

• I contend that all members of the community would be actively opposed to it if they understood it. [More…]

• Because the Government managed to direct attention towards the Industrial Relations Bureau, very little attention- certainly in the broad community- has been paid to the various provisions within the Trade Practices Amendment Bill. [More…]

• That in itself was enough thoroughly to confuse those members of the House of Representatives engaged in the debate, so how much more confused will the wider community be? [More…]

• As I have said, this is a Bill which can ultimately affect any individual in the community who may wish to take a certain kind of action. [More…]

• I would say that virtually the only thing that the consumer and the individual in the community know about is that it is primarily aimed at preventing secondary boycotts. [More…]

• If we have a look at who and what are encompassed by proposed new section 45d we see just how wide-ranging the provision actually is and how it could affect all trade unions and the entire community. [More…]

• Action of that kind, of course, draws a great deal of hostile criticism from the community. [More…]

• For example, demarcation disputes, political strikes, green bans and, perhaps of more importance, genuine community protests would not be exempt as the legislation is at present drafted. [More…]

• -The Senate is debating the Trade Practices Amendment Bill which is a piece of legislation of vast importance to the Australian community as a whole but in particular to those people directly concerned with the areas of trade, commerce and industry. [More…]

• One of the basic planks on which the Governmnent was elected was to get the country back on its feet, to restore confidence in the business community and in general promote policies which would generate the investment of risk capital with a consequent increase in gross national product, further employment opportunities and all the other benefits which flow from a buoyant business community. [More…]

• Some restraints on businesses, which the business community thought might be removed, remain in the legislation. [More…]

• The Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard) has taken on board the comments of all sections of the community affected. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say, however, that the Minister and the Government will be responsive to representations from the business community should it be found after the amendments have been given a fair trial and operation that some further amendments involving removal of the restraints are necessary. [More…]

• I simply draw attention to the 2 matters I have mentioned as an indication of the dramatic effect of the legislation on the sorts of commercial agreements that have been accepted in the Australian business community for so many years. [More…]

• Surely that is basic to this community and something which we ought to support. [More…]

• I do not propose to go into the precise details of the clauses because I think they have been argued very widely in the community, perhaps not widely by individual members of the community as these are particularly specialist matters. [More…]

• It was suggested that other sections of the community have an obligation under the Act. [More…]

• It has certain expertise in that direction, and it makes decisions according to the best interests of the community at large as to how a particular dispute should be settled. [More…]

• There is the dairy industry, the farming community or wood chopping. [More…]

• It has been very difficult for the Minister to maintain the strength of the previous conditions and at the same time give justice to the commercial community which is laced with a number of organisations which quite properly should be able to merge or sell their operations to other concerns. [More…]

• He ignores those necessary trends in commerce in our community. [More…]

• We know that there are non-trade union elements in the community who take militant action. [More…]

• I do not know what more could be expected of Government in the way of making an effort to associate the Parliament and interested sections of the community in its legislation than the record that I have just outlined. [More…]

• A draft Bill has been prepared and is being circulated at the moment among those sections of the community which would be interested in it. [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…]

• If one compares the price of phosphate rock on the international market with the price which the Australian consumer pays for it, I think it will be found that, from the point of view of it being a commercial and viable situation, the Australian community as a whole would receive far better value by disposing of that rock on the international market at the Florida price than by virtually disposing of it to the Australian farming community at a price equivalent to cost of production. [More…]

• The whole of the Australian community would benefit to the extent of probably millions of dollars over and above the benefit it is receiving at the present time by merely exploiting those deposits and providing phosphate to the Austraiian consumer at a price equivalent to cost of production. [More…]

• They have convinced a lot of farmers and a lot of people living in country towns that the cause of their financial trouble was the farming community losing the superphosphate bounty under a Labor Government. [More…]

• Senator McLaren will vote for the Bill, but at the same time he accuses recipients of what he will vote for of ripping off the community. [More…]

• As was pointed out by Mr Robinson in the report of the Industries Assistance Commission, if that money had been channelled into other means of assistance to small farmers we would have a more viable farming community in this country. [More…]

• He will never support an increased target in the community. [More…]

• He supports this legislation even though he would like to use it to vilify the more successful in the community. [More…]

• The political decisions made in the European Economic Community, Japan, America and Canada influence those markets more than any commercial propositions. [More…]

• Any policy or any talk at the primary producer level which puts forward a theme that production should be curtailed in order that prices might be improved does not go down well with the farming community, and that is fairly understandable. [More…]

• Farmers, like everybody else in the community, are very much aware of the proteinrich food which they produce. [More…]

• -I believe that the importance of Great Britain’s inclusion in the European Economic Community had been overlooked and that many of the problems that have arisen were as a result of that. [More…]

• When our Government came to office the industry was in a parlous state, with export manufacturing in a state of chaos because of the collapse of the international skim milk powder market, the heavy subsidy of the European Economic Community to the British market and the failure of the Labor Government to initiate a support scheme for the industry by underwriting a minimised equal price. [More…]

• In the event of market share entitlements being implemented, the Government underwrite a guaranteed minimum price to ensure comparable standard of living with other sectors of the community. [More…]

• 4 ) Has the Minister had similar correspondence with the Ministers for the Environment, Housing and Community Development and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• Similar correspondence was exchanged with the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• Grants for Community Activities [More…]

• Yes- (a) The Commissioner for Community Relations; (b) Nil; (c) None. [More…]

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

• The action in the past few days with regard to the refusal of entry to two Croatian people was a decision taken by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs because he believed that on the information available to him it would not be in the interests of the Australian community for the people in question to visit Australia. [More…]

• As soon as information came to him which added to the information that we already had he decided that it was not in the best interests of the Australian community for these people to visit Australia. [More…]

• He went on to point out that there is a lot of public comment which gives a detrimental image to the Croatians who are living in Australia and said that the vast majority of people of Croatian origins in Australia are decent, law abiding, fine Australian people but in the past there have been some who have given the Croatian community as a whole a bad name. [More…]

• He emphasised that the Croatian community in Australia are worthwhile citizens but in the case with which we are dealing at the moment he felt that it was not in the best interests of the Australian people for the visas to be issued. [More…]

• -It seems a rather strange procedure that some person in the community can make an allegation, as Mr Hancock has done, and then the Government has to prove that his allegation is true. [More…]

• I ask: Is it true that orders to cut 43 staff from the Community and Social Welfare Branch of her Department in Victoria are still proceeding despite the Minister’s allocation of 96 additional staff, and that staff members’ demotions and removals will be implemented on this coming Monday, 6 June? [More…]

• What is the estimated cost and feasibility of the project, bearing in mind the cost of flood damage to the town, its community and industrial and residential development and the fact that more land in the town would be usable than is now considered possible? [More…]

• This was associated with the loss of the United Kingdom market upon its entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If they realised the way that cattle are handled under the current auction system in Australia, they would realise that there is a great loss to this community. [More…]

• I have endeavoured to judge all the schemes that have been raised with me by various people from sections of the community who have shown an interest in the Bill on the basis of whether they are likely to bring more money in the system for the producers. [More…]

• I noticed that one of the leaders of the farming community- I think he was from Victoriastated the other day that meat classification would solve all the ills. [More…]

• Medicine has become more scientific and the facilities of science which are used by doctors have become more readily available to all doctors in the community. [More…]

• I began by saying that the Opposition was extremely concerned that important legislation such as this should be brought into the Parliament at the deathknock All sorts of community bodies are concerned about this legislation, and there should be an opportunity for public discussion of it. [More…]

• It is an indication of the concern of the Government that legal aid should be adequate and available to the under-privileged people in the community and that it should be an efficient and comprehensive scheme. [More…]

• That ordinance is being discussed by interested members of the community and the legal profession. [More…]

• They are usually cases in which the poor and the needy in our community are involved. [More…]

• Legal aid schemes should seek to stimulate legal reforms in the interests of poor and disadvantaged groups in the community. [More…]

• It is very clear that many people in our community who have an income of more than $40 a week certainly would need legal aid. [More…]

• Legal aid agencies should be accountable to the community they serve and therefore members of local communities should participate in the administration of legal aid services to the maximum extent possible. [More…]

• We submit that there should be a much wider community representation. [More…]

• This principle of requiring community involvement certainly is not embodied in the legislation before us. [More…]

• The planned changes would shatter the career prospects of many of these lawyers and the effects would bc felt in the service available to the community. [More…]

• “The hiving-off of legal aid office staff to State commissions, in some cases comprising less than a dozen lawyers, can result only in a drastic reduction in the high standard of legal aid services provided to the community. [More…]

• A number of community welfare organisations, including ACOSS and its State affiliates, have consistently criticised the Commonwealth’s decision to dismantle the ALAO. [More…]

• The hiving off of ALAO staff to State commissions, in some cases comprising less than a dozen lawyers, can only result in a drastic reduction in the high standard of legal aid services currently provided to the community. [More…]

• Furthermore the Commission itself is given no role in promoting community legal education, its role being limited to advising the Attorney-General. [More…]

• The Department of Aboriginal Affairs works closely on such matters with the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, other Commonwealth and State Departments, and with influential community groups and will continue to do so in order to inform all members ofthe Australian community of their rights and obligations, whether they be informal or as set down in the Racial Discrimination Act, in respect of dealings with members of another race. [More…]

• 1 ) What are the details of the grant made to the Eidsvold Aboriginal and Community Development Association on 28 February 1977 to enable the erection of 3 houses for the Association. [More…]

• 1) A grant of $74,500 to the Eidsvold Aboriginal Housing and Community Development Society Ltd was approved on 8 March 1977 for the supply of houses to meet urgent accommodation needs. [More…]

• The Victorian Minister for Social Welfare wrote to me on 27 April 1977 enclosing a copy of his statement announcing the planned introduction of a Victorian Family and Community Services Program through which assistance will be made available for community service projects which are developed in conjunction with local government, self-help groups and voluntary agencies. [More…]

• The South Australian Minister for Community Welfare wrote to me on 18 May 1977, referring to his Premier’s press statement of 4 May that the State Government will provide financial and other support for the Australian Assistance Plan (AAP) in 1977-78. [More…]

• During that time a Committee of Enquiry will examine community development and assistance in South Australia. [More…]

• The Queensland State Minister for Community and Welfare Services issued a press statement on 23 May 1977 indicating the Queensland Government would not fund a continuation of the AAP. [More…]

• Such assistance is usually the responsibility of the State Government concerned and officers of the New South Wales Department for Youth and Community Services regularly visit the area in connection with such requests for assistance. [More…]

• Has the Minister received a request from the Cummeragunja Co-operative Society Ltd at Barma New South Wales, for financial assistance to help supply the Aboriginal community with a medical car and adviser to transport the sick to Echuca. [More…]

• and (4) My Department has instructed the responsible Area Officer to investigate the community circumstances and to provide an assessment of the need for the service requested. [More…]

• My Department has instructed its Area Officer to investigate the community circumstances and to provide an assessment of the need for a special doctor for the purposes indicated. [More…]

• With respect to the Black Community Housing Service, the Brisbane Tribal Council, and the Aborigines and Islanders Community Health Service, all based in Brisbane, can the Minister advise: [More…]

• Black Community Housing Service-( 1 ) 1 972-73, $ 1 ,000; 1973-74, $41,935; 1974-75, $372,062; 1975-76, $481,765; 1976-77, $279,165 (total approved for year). [More…]

• The Black Community Housing Service has operated reasonably effectively and is improving as experience is gained. [More…]

• Aborigines and Islanders Community Health Service-( 1 ) 1972-73, $55,000; 1973-74, $36,400; 1974-75, $103,813; 1975-76, $306,812; 1976-77, $387,883 (total approved for year). [More…]

• What is the current position on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria with regard to rehousing and reconstruction of community facilities. [More…]

• I have been advised by the Queensland Branch of my Department that essential community services have been restored and that buildings capable of being repaired have been. [More…]

• How much Federal funds were spent on community health centres between the years 1972-73 to 1976-77 in the same local government areas. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (to 8 July 1976). [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Envoronment, Housing and Community Development upon notice on 24 May 1977: [More…]

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

• What is the estimated cost and feasibility of the project, bearing in mind the cost of flood damage to the town, its community, industrial development, etc., and the fact that more land in the town would be usable than is now considered possible. [More…]

• Some relaxation of the normal standards may b< possible where reunion of immediate family members is involved provided adequate safeguards are available ant observed to protect the health of the Australian community and of persons with whom the people from East Timor migh travel to Australia. [More…]

• In regard to medical standards I must b< guided by the Department of Health as to what condition: could constitute a danger to the health of the community Discussions have taken place with the Portuguese authorities with the object of enabling treatment to be given as promptly as possible to persons requiring it. [More…]

• The Aboriginal Land Fund Commission intends to transfer its interest in the land to the local Aboriginal community which, it is understood, has plans to grow bananas and graze cattle, and perhaps to lease agistment rights, in order to provide income and employment opportunities for the group. [More…]

• The purchase has special significance to the members of the community as it is part of their traditional country. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 17 March 1977: [More…]

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

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

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

• President Makarios was the inspiration of the modern State of Cyprus and represented it in the world community with wisdom and distinction. [More…]

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

• At what stage are discussions between the Minister for the Northern Territory, Mr Adermann, and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, as to the ultimate boundaries of the Kakadu National Park, bearing in mind utterances by senior Ministers to the effect that uranium extraction is due to start? [More…]

• Information came to my office before question time today about strong action taken in the European Economic Community, particularly by France, in relation to the clothing and textile imports from the Association of South East Asian Nations area. [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…]

• 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…]

• The need might be for a Spanish stonemason in my State, where there is a desire for Spanish architecture, or it might be the Portuguese community justifying a couple of additional bakers. [More…]

• I go to the Portuguese community and I find out how a Portuguese woman domestic working in a motel tries to make ends meet. [More…]

• It certainly sets out clearly the main considerations that the Government and the community ought to be taking into account in instigating migration programs and carrying on the migration program that we already have. [More…]

• I think that it is important that this document should be brought to the attention of the community as widely as possible by members of Parliament and by others who are interested in the community to ensure that there is proper discussion on the many profound issues which the document raises. [More…]

• The first is possibly the concept which we might term as separatism’- that is the method by which ethnic groups in the community tend to grow up somewhat in isolation from the rest of the community. [More…]

• The second is an approach which is more closely identified with the direction of the community as a whole. [More…]

• I am thinking of the process by which the German community which arrived in South Australia during the early 1840s and settled in the Barossa Valley maintained its separate identity in a cultural sense right through until very recently in this present century. [More…]

• It seems to me that that method of harmonising groups within the community has achieved a good deal in the interests of the whole community. [More…]

• We have seen a cultural identity maintained and a spread from that cultural identity through to the rest of the community in such a way as to enrich the whole of the community. [More…]

• In regard to the process by which I think difficulties are overcome in achieving this degree of harmony between ethnic groups in the community, one has to have a good deal of regard to the real and deep problems that exist for people arriving in a new country. [More…]

• Taking those two questions into account and having viewed with some interest the developments of education in the migrant area in South Australia I take the point that I believe it is of the greatest importance to the development of harmonious relationships in the community as a whole that we develop an effective remedial approach to language education so as to ensure that people can learn as rapidly as possible the English language to enable them to take their full part in the community. [More…]

• I think the main thrust of our policy- or it ought to be- is to ensure that the people who come to these shores do in fact become Australians and do seek to contribute to its culture by becoming full members of the community. [More…]

• I tum to one or two points which I think may have been misconceptions in the minds of some people and which perhaps have grown up over the years about the ways in which migrants have or have not contributed or may or may not contribute to the community as a whole. [More…]

• Another one that has been thrown around from time to time- I think Senator Mulvihill was hinting at this today- is the question of whether migration does in fact contribute to unemployment and whether there are difficulties arising within the community because of the many unemployed migrants. [More…]

• These areas are entirely separate from those areas such as the general welfare of members of the Italian migrant community, which which FILEF is supposed to be dealing. [More…]

• I believe we ought to have a great deal of regard to local communities and their activities, to their wishes as to how these programs ought to be established and the way in which these advisory committees in the various States ought to be established so as to ensure that we have a thoroughly, truly representative community viewpoint being expressed over ethnic radio on behalf of the ethnic communities. [More…]

• I look forward to broader community discussions on it and hope that I will be able to contribute something to those discussions. [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…]

• In view of the fact that the Greek and Italian communities now form a large and integral part of the Australian community, will the Minister ask the Minister for Post and Telecommunications to consult with the Australian Broadcasting Commission with a view to having the top soccer finals in Greece and Italy also televised direct to Australia? [More…]

• Similarly, should local groups consider using Community Television Aerial Systems which employ cables and which cross property boundaries, a permit under the terms of the Broadcasting and Television Act is required. [More…]

• How many young people in relation to the Community Youth Support scheme have been employed for up to six dollars per week as of (a) 31 December 1976; (b) 31 January 1977; (c) 28 February 1977; and (d) 31 March 1977. [More…]

• The only persons in paid employment under the scheme are project officers and some administrative staff who are employed by community organisations to develop and supervise support programs for young unemployed persons. [More…]

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

• The Australian Broadcasting Commission in the Northern Territory said today that the figure would be $2 1 m. In view of the fact that Budget documents give no indication that these allegations can be substantiated and that they would appear to be nothing more than a red herring to worry and disconcert the Northern Territory community, will the Minister comment on these statements? [More…]

• Does her refusal to fund that project indicate a change in the criteria for funding community based child care projects? [More…]

• If they are to remain in Australia where will they be accommodated and what action will be taken to fit them into the Australian community? [More…]

• What is the Government’s attitude towards the offers made by some State governments, as I understand it, and certainly by community organisations to provide accommodation and sustenance for these refugees? [More…]

• That unemployment and the failure to improve the employment situation in this country is a matter of great importance in all our community should be self-evident. [More…]

• The spectre of unemployment in this country is frightening not only because of the number of people unemployed, which now totals according to the Government’s figures 340 000 people in the community, but also because of the unremitting increase in the figures, the nature of the people who are unemployed and their distribution throughout the community. [More…]

• The hopelessness which follows this long term idleness leads to lack of motivation for work which is a feature of all unemployed in the community. [More…]

• The present Government adds small amounts of funds to retraining and support schemes to benefit a few, but it persistently refuses to consider job improvement, job creating activities, either by economic measures or by direct government action to increase the number of jobs available in the community. [More…]

• Added to this, the past, present and future actions of the Government as forecast in the Budget last night are aimed at further attacking the unemployed, further increasing their hardship and further making them more disadvantaged in the community. [More…]

• There is no need for me to repeat, as has been repeated in this House many times, the story of the continual attack in this community on the so-called dole bludgers, with all its division and all the difficulties it has created. [More…]

• No pensioner who receives dependent children’s allowances has those allowances taxed, except the unemployed in this community. [More…]

• The Government intends to change the system of unemployment benefit payments to two weeks in arrears instead of in advance and it is doing this without removing the present seven days’ waiting period for unemployed in the community and without enabling the Department of Social Security, by increasing staff, to handle the sorts of changes that will be necessary. [More…]

• In his Speech last night the Treasurer gave very little hope for the unemployed in this community. [More…]

• Even the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who on the most conservative estimate will save $80 a week in tax from the tax changes, is not sufficiently wealthy to cause a consumer led recovery in the community by himself. [More…]

• At the same time the Government increases the difficulties and the hardships of the unemployed in the community, as it has done consistently since it came into power. [More…]

• This is obviously a matter of considerable importance to the whole community. [More…]

• Speakers after me will talk about the methods which can be used- methods which are not inflationary- to increase the number of employed in the community. [More…]

• Commentators all over the country are wondering what the Government is about and why the Government is so unconcerned about the unemployed in the community. [More…]

• -You said that they are the disadvantaged in the community. [More…]

• The Government is training people in community welfare schemes. [More…]

• I refer, for example, to the Community Youth Support Scheme - [More…]

• Then, the Government introduces a Community Youth Support Scheme- this is where I was interrupted. [More…]

• Labor’s only recourse to that problem, as our leader clearly stated, was the establishment of the Regional Employment Development scheme- a scheme which left many somewhat futile objects throughout the community and which was so disastrously expensive that it was abandoned by its instigators. [More…]

• Of course we are aware of it; the whole community is aware of it. [More…]

• The important thing is that the community should be listening to this debate, should be reading of matters in the Press and should be discussing amongst themselves and analysing the causes of the problem because they are pretty clear and pretty easy to identify. [More…]

• The community knows exactly what we are talking about and that the matter is extremely urgent. [More…]

• The Budget certainly will push up the percentage of unemployed in 1977-78, thus increasing the community’s insecurity and despair. [More…]

• What a cover-up of an escalating emergency in the community. [More…]

• I would like to say a word of commendation about the Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• To this point they have been undersupported financially but have provided community centres in the various suburbs to allow young people to escape from their despair. [More…]

• I give great credit to the people who run these community centres. [More…]

• The young social workers attached to these community centres deserve our commendation. [More…]

• Of course there is another element in our community with a vested interest in unemployment and gloom, doom and despair. [More…]

• The creation of jobs will come from an economic recovery whereby the business community will be able to expand and work will become available. [More…]

• An Aborigine’s affinity with the land has no comparable conception to the white Australians, who look upon land in a materialistic manneras something to be enjoyed to the exclusion of others, to be guarded against and walled off from all others and to be viewed purely as an item of social wealth and standing within the community. [More…]

• The Committee believes that in relation to entry to Aboriginal land the Northern Territory legislation should contain the following provisions: Power to delegate by the Land Councils; permits to include conditions laid down by traditional owners; conditions to include that a person should leave the land if requested by the traditional owners; power to revoke 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 and police should notify in advance their intention to enter Aboriginal land. [More…]

• These expectations were raised in the Aboriginal community following recommendations by the [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…]

• After the resolution was put and defeated it then became a question of what was best for the purposes of the Aboriginal community and the community of the Northern Territory as a whole. [More…]

• It was widely criticised by most sections of the Northern Territory and particularly by the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The evidence suggests that it was never intended that if Aboriginals had control of the two kilometres adjoining their coast that area would be closed to white man’s interests, but that permission would have to be given by the Aboriginal community as to what white men would be allowed entry and for what purpose. [More…]

• I think they wanted to do the best possible for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I think the evidence which was brought before the Committee and which showed the very strong views that are held will have a very useful effect within the Northern Territory community. [More…]

• I accept that a large section of the Aboriginal community had come to expect that they would receive 2 kilometres of the sea as part of their Aboriginal lands. [More…]

• On the other hand the Committee also had to look at the quite obvious community expectation that the right of access to the sea which is enjoyed by Australians everywhere else in Australia should be enjoyed in the Northern Territory as it has been in the past. [More…]

• There was considerable weight of evidence from the nonAboriginal community that people had this expectation that they would be able to enjoy the sea in the way that other Australians do. [More…]

• I do not believe that a decision to close off what was nearly 80 per cent of the Northern Territory coastline could have been taken without very serious repercussions within the total community of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I hope that the recommendations we put forward will provide a helpful guide to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in reaching a solution which, firstly, will guarantee to the Aborigines the traditional access that they have had to the seas and which the Commonwealth Act requires should be preserved to them; secondly, will enable the protection of areas which are of special significance, be they sacred sites or areas close to significant Aboriginal communities; and at the same time will result in a preservation of what I would call the normal Australian recreational rights to use the sea for the total community. [More…]

• I think that the Committee, faced with a very difficult choice, has done the best it could to achieve a compromise solution which meets the basic needs of the whole community in the Northern Territory. [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…]

• 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…]

• Has the Government fulfilled the promise, contained in part 4 (i) of the Liberal and National Country Parties’ Aboriginal Affairs Policy dated 25 November 1975, namely, appointment of additional Aborigines to liaison, advisory and training positions in such fields as education, health, and community development’; if so, what are the details; if not, why not. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• A total of $71,810 was applied for by the community for housing, $1 1,000 for a special work project and $26,800 for the bakery. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and /or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• The request was rejected after discussions with the State Department for Community Welfare on the grounds that the accommodation sought was inadequate. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and /or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the refusal by the Federal Government to fund these organisations and/or community projects. [More…]

• 2 ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• and (4) Information is not readily available in respect of the number of houses provided in each community and the number of Aboriginals remaining to be housed. [More…]

• 2 ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• 2 ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• 2 ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• 2 ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in the area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this Community since December 1969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• 2 ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• 2 ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• ) How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• ) How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• ) How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

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

• Through the Community Health Program, the Commonwealth Government has provided substantial funds for the construction of the Detoxification Centre in Roma Street, Brisbane, and for the operation of the temporary centre. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: 1. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 3 June 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: () To 16 June 1977, 10 194 applications were received under the Homes Savings Grant Act 1976 since its commencement on 1 January. [More…]

• Will funding be available under the Community Youth Support Scheme after 30 June 1 977; if not, why not. [More…]

• As pan of this policy many community based alternativesto acute treatment in psychiatric hospitals, and to long term care in large remote mental institutions, have already been provided. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and /or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in this area since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and /or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• 2 ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• Nevertheless the existence of malnutrition in this community is recognised and the Minister for Health is discussing remedial measures with the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to see what can be done either within the medical service or in any other way in which we are able to overcome this problem. [More…]

• The DirectorGeneral went on to say that this issue is of vital interest to all people in the community who are concerned with the preservation of our democratic procedures. [More…]

• One of the interesting situations that I have noted in more modern times in the Territories and elsewhere is the growing disenchantment of parents and the community with the attempts to use and to prejudice the future of children and their education by way of industrial disputes by people who wish to further their own industrial self-interest. [More…]

• I have been heartened by the fact that the community has accepted the basic principle that what is primarily needed in education today is an increase in the quality of education. [More…]

• That is being repeated in now more and more by community groups. [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…]

• 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…]

• Indeed it appears obvious that since the last visit by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to Europe and the United States of America uranium is to be used as a carrot, waved in front of other nations in order to obtain markets, particularly in the European Economic Community countries and the United States. [More…]

• The point is that we reflect the changing views of the community when it comes to the use of uranium. [More…]

• This was despite the fact that he had been advised that no decision should be made until the community was aware of the difficulties and despite the fact that no announcement had been made in Australia. [More…]

• This matter concerns the portfolios of National Resources, Science, Environment, Housing and Community Development, Aboriginal Affairs and the Prime Minister. [More…]

• If ever we do make the decision to export we should do it knowing that the safeguards are adequate and that we as one of the world community at least have done whatever we can and will continue to do whatever we can to ensure that the rest of the world can receive benefits from this increase in technology. [More…]

• In attempting to understand the issues, evaluate them and reach a considered judgment, I have been disappointed by the shrill voices raised in the community from the extremists on both sides of the argument. [More…]

• I regret to say that the input which we have received from the community has been of poor quality, has made it difficult to evaluate where the true facts are and has made it difficult for a rational argument to emerge. [More…]

• If the other House does not accept its responsibility, our responsibility is to guard the democratic rights and principles of the Australian community. [More…]

• I have no doubt that the Department of Social Security will reject his application for a transfer because it would be very happy to see this unemployed worker who is in receipt of sickness benefit forced to go to gaol, and to sacrifice his sickness benefit so that his wife and children would have no income and would be forced to apply for community welfare payments from the State. [More…]

• Take steps to defer any decisions in relation to the mining of uranium for a period of five years during which time adequate community discussion can occur on all the issues involved in the arguments for or against such mining. [More…]

• cation for the community health program for 1977-78 a higher priority be given to the funding of refuges with the objective of providing further refuges to the 1 9 refuges already approved under the program. [More…]

• I believe that the interpreter service is a vital service to the community and to the Government in the performance of its responsibilities. [More…]

• The heavy handedness and indeed the steamrolling tactics that are being adopted by the Government over this measure make us, the Australian community, including the trade union movement very suspicious of the Government’s motives. [More…]

• The legislation enables the Government or a Minister to give directions to a public authority to suspend from duty government employees or in appropriate circumstances to dismiss government employees who take industrial action which disrupts the provision of services to the Australian community. [More…]

• Again it is an extraordinary invasion of the rights of employees in this community to provide sloppy legislation like this in relation to a fundamental question like the determination of a contract of employment. [More…]

• I remind the Minister that I do not speak on behalf of those at whom this Bill is aimed- those who are creating the discontent and the very real difficulties in this community. [More…]

• He knows, because he was the shadow Postmaster-General, that we legislated to give the Commission employees the same rights and powers as most of the community. [More…]

• This matter ought to be above party politics because whether there were postal strikes in Senator Bishop’s day or whether there are postal strikes now in the day of Eric Robinson, such strikes cause great disruption to all the citizens of this community. [More…]

• It will be a terrible thing perhaps for the 5 per cent of irresponsible people in Australia who do not want to see this nation get back to a prosperous situation and who are intent on disrupting the community. [More…]

• I suggest that it is a complete fallacy, when looking at the effect of strikes on the economy and the community, to take into account only the number of man hours lost. [More…]

• Industrial action of this kind has caused so much complete disruption to everyone in the community that the people of Australia want to see it taken in hand. [More…]

• There was disruption to the community. [More…]

• I do not think that Senator Bishop appreciated the point I made about the disruption to the community. [More…]

• Both under Labor and under ourselves and in recent times the industrial scene has been continually strewn with disruption by a small, well-organised, irresponsible and disgruntled section of the community. [More…]

• It believes that the Australian people are stupid enough to swallow legislation drafted in an attempt to capitalise on the so-called antiunion feeling in the Australian community. [More…]

• There are times when members of the Australian community are frustrated. [More…]

• Therefore, they protect their rights, as do other sections of the community. [More…]

• But unless we as a Parliament are prepared to try to make the system of hours worked per week more equitable throughout the whole of the working community we invite these sorts of stoppages as we go along. [More…]

• Sometimes the Government is in full competition with other organs in our community, such as with Medibank. [More…]

• It is simply a way of stirring up prejudice within the community against unionists and public servants. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Bill highlights the vexed question of a small minority in public services being able to disrupt the purposes and utilities of the general community by withholding power, especially in key areas. [More…]

• It is, however, a serious move in that it disrupts the method of consensus of management of industrial relations in the community. [More…]

• This Bill involves two groups of people, the public servants and trade unionists, and if there is any group in the community that gentlemen such as those I have mentioned love to get at and love to kick it is that comprising trade unionists and public servants. [More…]

• It will be used against people who work at mail exchanges because the Government will be able to get other people in the community to substitute for the people who work at mail exchanges. [More…]

• This legislation cannot be used against skilled people such as the air traffic controllers because there are no substitutes for them in the community. [More…]

• It affects the whole Public Service in this community. [More…]

• The Opposition asks that it should have more time to consider the Bill although it knows that it opposes the general principles of the Bill, as does the whole trade union movement in this community. [More…]

• In this award he stated: an industry designed to provide a community service should not be asked to provide wages for those who cannot be usefully employed because that service has been disrupted by strike action either within or beyond the industry. [More…]

• No one would deny the impact that Rex Connor had on this Parliament and in the wider international community through the pursuit of his beliefs. [More…]

• The significant thing about him was that his contribution to this country changed not only the policy of the Australian Labor Party but also the policy of Australian governments, because there is no question that since 1972 there has been a much greater awareness on both sides of the Parliament and in the Australian community at large of the tremendous importance of the development of our natural resources. [More…]

• In the light of rising costs of communication and the continuing need for restraint in public expenditure, it is becoming necessary for the Bureau to streamline the dissemination schedule so as it can maintain a balanced program of service to all sectors of the community. [More…]

• Whilst I did not see the item in the Press, I am well aware of the widespread interest in the community in the possible effect of advertising in general and of certain forms of advertising in particular upon children who watch television. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Industry and Commerce and it refers to discussions which the Minister had with Whyalla community leaders in respect of the future of Whyalla. [More…]

• I understand that the Minister advised the Whyalla community that he would send some officers to Whyalla to consider whether there were opportunities for alternative employment. [More…]

• Can the Minister allay the fears of the Latin American community of Sydney and Melbourne and assure them that some of the insertions in the Latin American Press do not have the imprimatur of the Australian Government and that Latin Americans are not regarded as the dregs of the community, as the National Australian Association wrongly implies? [More…]

• I thing it is important to explain the points that have been stated by him because I agree with the implication in his question, that the objectives of the National Australian Association are not those that would have support in the Australian community. [More…]

• The organisation concerned, the National Australian Association, has no official status and its comments should not be regarded as being indicative of more than the views of a small, isolated group in the Australian community. [More…]

• I think all honourable senators would agree with me that they are not the objectives of this Government or of the Australian community. [More…]

• A project team is being established within the Department for the purpose and special arrangements will be introduced to provide effective liaison with the user community. [More…]

• It was one of the achievements- I do not mean just of the Australian government or Australia itself but of the world community- that the countries which were brought together at that conference because of what then appeared to be an impending crisis in agricultural development attempted to set up programs which would avert what seemed to be shaping up as a very grave shortage of food throughout the world. [More…]

• In doing so he referred to the German community in South Australia. [More…]

• The German community in South Australia dates back to the 1840s. [More…]

• I think we would agree that there was some discrimination against this community during World War I and even to some extent during World War II. [More…]

• Therefore I think it is very easy for us to understand the tension that has been shown in recent times in such communities as the Lebanese community, the Greek community and the Turkish community in cities like Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]

• The information should be disseminated as widely as possible in the general community to promote discussion on these matters about which I have just spoken. [More…]

• It seems to me that there is probably a number of people in our community who could be in an unemployable category and perhaps, on occasions, it is less of a harrassment to them if they are categorised as being in another category. [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Prime Minister aware of a statement concerning discrimination in Government services in the Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for 1 976 that A significant number of complaints have arisen because of the inadequacy of government services available to the Australian whose first language is not English and who will never be able to attain an adequate erudition in his second language’. [More…]

• ) The complaints referred to in the statement were complaints investigated by the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• The new Ethnic Affairs Branch of the Depanment of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, staff for which is now being recruited from inside and outside the Commonwealth Public Service, will have responsibility, amongst other matters, for developing an overview of the position of migrants in the community in relation to health, welfare, housing, education, employment, communications, the law and other matters affecting their integration; identifying gaps in services or programs and, in co-operation with appropriate government and non-government agencies, developing approaches and pointing to action to remedy deficiencies. [More…]

• fostering the understanding of migrant cultures and developing and maintaining harmonious relationships covering migrants within the community. [More…]

• Committee on Community Consultation and the Ethnic Media. [More…]

• The work of the centres falls into two broad categories: the provision of information and advice to migrants and to act as a referral service; community development, involving liaison with ethnic communities, local institutions and Government departments at the Federal, State and local level. [More…]

• Each centre is operated by staff interpreters who are supported by members of the community with linguistic skills. [More…]

• These Councils are devoted to generating and co-ordinating community effort towards the successful integration of migrants into the Australian community. [More…]

• Its recommendations include ways of increasing the availability of interpreters and translators for the community generally as well as suggesting improvements in the services provided by Commonwealth Departments and authorities. [More…]

• That there is a community need for the continued operation of the Kallangur West Post Office. [More…]

• I am unable to state the exact amount for Queensland women’s refuges, but I am aware of a statement by the Minister for Health in which he said that the Commonwealth would pay directly to the Queensland women’s refuges the amounts that were available to them as there had been some difficulty last year with the State Government undertaking this expenditure through the community health program. [More…]

• When I made a statement about these refuges, in response to an earlier question, I indicated that an additional Sim was available this year under the community health program for women’s refuges. [More…]

• When this Fraser Government came to power in 1975 it promised the electorate a return to business confidence; it promised jobs for all who wanted to work; and it assured the rural community that it would be given the confidence it so desperately needed. [More…]

• Both this Budget and the 1976 Budget wound back public capital expenditure, and in cutting the deficit have set about causing a decline in real wages and a redistribution of income from the poorer sections of the community to the already wealthy sections. [More…]

• The Government has cut funds for education but has directed the reduced funds to the wealthier members of the community. [More…]

• It should not simply be a matter of one sector of the community straining against another hoping for more for itself and forgetting about that other sector which may not have employment opportunities at all. [More…]

• I think that would be the aim of government because I find it inconsistent that one arm of government gives a pension benefit and another arm of government extracts tax from the beneficiary but of course where a person with pension income and other income reaches into the same level of income as other people in the community I dare say there is some equity in ensuring that the same level of taxation is applied to those pensioners. [More…]

• They will certainly be the politicians but they will certainly not be those groups within the community that require the sort of stimulus to bring about the basic strategy of the 1976 Budget, which was to lead us towards an economic recovery based on consumerism and investment. [More…]

• If the Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, is genuine in her belief that there is a need for more production, I remind her that there is no point in having more production unless the community has sufficient funds to purchase that increased production. [More…]

• From the point of view of increasing production techniques, there is no way that the goods that would be produced in greater quantities could be purchased by the Australian community. [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…]

• Deep down they agree with me that a lot of people in the community today prefer to live on unemployment benefits rather than go out to work. [More…]

• For example, there could be part time community work- I refer to old folk ‘s homes and so many other things- whereby these people could be paid for work done. [More…]

• These people themselves become concerned because they have to stand up amongst other people who do not want to work in our community. [More…]

• The plant itself would be capable of supporting a community of some 4,000 people. [More…]

• It would give great encouragement for further exploration in a high potential area of our State which must be continued but cannot be continued unless encouragement and incentives are given to companies to invest risk capitalcapital which could be lost but capital which, if it is fortunate enough to bring a return, not only will bring a return to a company but also will bring a great asset to the general community throughout this country. [More…]

• It happens to be another empirical fact that what economists call the marginal propensity to consume among people in that income bracket is significantly lower than it is in the community generally. [More…]

• He supported Labor’s decision to take the fuel equalisation scheme from the rural community. [More…]

• The opportunity for incentive is now being given by this Government and I advocate that the community take full advantage of it. [More…]

• From looking at the rate of 60c in the dollar to be paid by those on high incomes, how can one say that the Government has forgone its responsibility to the community and favoured the high income earners? [More…]

• It sets out to assist those within the community most in need- the taxpayers, the pensioners and the farmer- and at the same time it builds upon the sound base established in the previous Budget. [More…]

• Few people realise- it is well to say this-that for every dollar paid in personal income tax 56c is allocated to social welfare expenditure in this community. [More…]

• 1 enemy when things are not improving one bit throughout the community. [More…]

• It was examined within the community. [More…]

• I believe it represents responsibility in economic management and that in the long term it will re-create incentive in the community and will advance Australia a long way along the path to reducing inflation. [More…]

• The answer that I received- this is the point I would like to raise with the relevant Minister- is quite at variance with the contents of a brief that I have been privileged to look at, a brief that was developed by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In other words, the brief from the Depanment of Environment, Housing and Community Development set out the extent of the backlog, namely $4,000m throughout Australia and $850m in Perth alone. [More…]

• Again, that answer is at variance with the information given in the brief by the Department for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• As the Minister represents the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) I would not expect that he would be able to provide answers to the discrepancies that I have outlined this evening, but I do think they are important. [More…]

• I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, by reminding her of three Press statements she issued on 14 July, 20 July and 29 July in which she denied rumours that a large amount of child care money was being withheld despite the many community based child care projects in urgent need of funds. [More…]

• Horowitz, A Study of Community Aid Centres in New South Wales (AG PS, Canberra, 1975) [More…]

• G. Duigan, A Study of the Hindmarsh (South Australia) Community (AGPS, Canberra, 1975 ). [More…]

• Vinson, R. Homel and R. Bonney, ‘A Community Study: Newcastle’; R. Francis, ‘A Community Study: Fremantle’; A. Burbridge and J. [More…]

• Brown, ‘Welfare Services in Brisbane’; D. Adams and C. Tilse, ‘Accessibility of Services in Brisbane’: in Community Services: Four Studies (AGPS, Canberra, 1976). [More…]

• Morgan, A Study of the Heidelberg (Victoria) Community (AGPS, Canberra, 1976). [More…]

• The Family Centre Project, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Never Had a Chance’, N. Haines, ‘Non-Participation in Continuing Education’; J. Dennison, ‘The Concept of the Community College’: in Lifelong Education and Poor People: Three Studies (AGPS, Canberra, 1 977 ). [More…]

• ‘Glebe: Community Need and Service Organisation’; V. Douglas, ‘A Study of Health and Welfare Services in Melbourne’; P. Harlow. [More…]

• ‘Community Health Services: Literature Survey’: in Community Health Services. [More…]

• Behrens and L. Blazely, ‘Schooling and Work’, P. W. Musgrave and E. Wind, ‘School and Neighbourhood in Two Rural Towns’; in School, Community and Work: Urban and Rural Aspects- With AGPS. [More…]

• The Ministers advised that they intended, while giving general support to any action to lessen kidney disease in the community, to take individual action in the matter of introducing legislation to implement Council’s recommendations. [More…]

• The Government believes that not all the additional profits resulting from these decisions 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…]

• In view of the Treasurer’s statement, what steps is the Government taking to ensure that the community obtains a return from the windfall profits? [More…]

• In view of the recent High Court decision on school leavers and the fact that there is now a new Director-General in the Department of Social Security, will the Minister publish guidelines to assist school leavers to be registered promptly so as to ensure that if necessary- I underline the words ‘if necessary’- they will receive immediately the unemployment benefit according to the conditions laid down for each member of the community who is seeking work? [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of the statement made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development that the Army should have a greater commitment in the State of Tasmania? [More…]

• My argument has been that as far as corporations and companies are concerned, tax payments should be revealed in the interests of the whole 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 help 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…]

• Kevin Newman, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [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 colleage, 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…]

• He is someone whom we have accepted in our community and we should honour the undertaking that we gave when he was first accepted. [More…]

• This was in addition to the normal social service and other benefits available to the community at large. [More…]

• Mr Viner said the Hay inquiry into the effectiveness of the delivery of services to Aboriginals, conducted last year, emphasised the need for a community-based approach to funding. [More…]

• I shall read Mr Viner’s statement on the Hay committee report which said we should have Aboriginal community-based funding because he has distorted the intention of Mr Hay to encourage activities by Aboriginal groups for the purpose of reducing housing applications through the most efficient housing agencies for Aboriginal housing, the State Housing Commissions. [More…]

• The State housing commissions were the most effective agencies for building or acquiring houses for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• We see expenditure going to health and education on a community basis. [More…]

• They said to me: ‘Now look, Senator, we can give them medical attention as good as they will get anywhere in the world but we cannot cure illnesses in the Aboriginal community because of the housing conditions under which they are forced to live’. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, on behalf of the Australian Environment Council, instituted a national air monitoring program early in 1976 to develop a uniform air pollution monitoring program in Australia. [More…]

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development purchased three mobile air pollution monitoring caravans. [More…]

• Over 80 separate aspects of the effect of the establishment were examined by the State committee which comprised four private citizens, representative of community interests, conservation groups et cetera, and two senior officials from the Electricity Trust of South Australia. [More…]

• It is so important to the future health of our community. [More…]

• What guarantees can the Attorney-General give that the functions performed by the Community Relations Office, especially the education function, will be continued. [More…]

• Will the present Commissioner for Community Relations become a member of the Human Rights Commission if it is established. [More…]

• All that is being asked is that there be a continuation of the normal co-operation between police forces in the community, to inform one another about possible outbreaks of violence against human beings. [More…]

• Having in mind that some of these incidents have been directed at the Prime Minister and, indeed, have put him in danger of suffering bodily harm, is it correct to say that not all demonstrators have come from universities or from the universities where the demonstrations took place, but have come from left wing groups which are openly defying law and order in an effort to cause as much chaos as possible within the Australian community? [More…]

• I hope the members of the community understand that the great majority of people in universities are very busy going about their own lawful business of attending lectures and passing exams. [More…]

• I would hope that the Australian community would understand that the great majority of students at tertiary institutions in Australia have nothing to do with these outbreaks of violence on university grounds. [More…]

• the United States of America, (b) the European Economic Community, (c) Japan, (d) Hong Kong, and (e) all other countries. [More…]

• What was the total amount of money in Australian dollars, paid into the Cocos Community Fund in the year ending 31 December 1976. [More…]

• Did the Australian Broadcasting Commission program ‘AM’on 22 April 1977, correctly report the Minister for Overseas Trade as meeting with the European Economic Community Energy Minister on 2 1 April 1977. [More…]

• Was it correct that the representative of the Community expressed unilaterally an interest in negotiating an agreement between it and Australia for the purchase of uranium. [More…]

• Did the Community’s Commissioner indicate on what terms the Community would be prepared to purchase uranium. [More…]

• Did the Community’s Commissioner suggest that the Community would be prepared to change its existing attitude towards the import of beef and other agricultural products. [More…]

• Did the ‘AM’ report correctly state that the Australian Government would require better access for Australian agricultural and pastoral products before agreeing to any bilateral agreement on uranium; if so, what products were mentioned and what was the reaction of the Community’s Commissioner. [More…]

• The EC Energy Commissioner suggested that there would be advantage in a bilateral framework agreement between Australia and the EEC by way of reference, he mentioned the framework agreement between the Community and Canada which establishes broad guidelines for commercial and economic co-operation. [More…]

• Clearly, the Community’s interest is in Australia as a continuing reliable supplier of raw materials and energy. [More…]

• Equally, however, Australia is concerned with impediments in regard to access to the Community for our agricultural products and the impact of increasing competition in third markets from the subsidised export of EEC surplus production. [More…]

• I am of the view that there would be advantage to Australia in having a bilateral agreement with the Community but the question of whether there is ultimately such an agreement and what it should include would, of course, be a matter for negotiation. [More…]

• Is there a national program in Australia directed towards the continuing detection of hypertension and towards notification to the family doctors of those members of the Australian community suffering from unsuspected hypertension. [More…]

• In addition, there is an increasing number of community groups throughout Australia conducting local blood pressure screening programs. [More…]

• I and my advisers are acutely aware of the high incidence of cardiovascular diseases in the community and their associated morbidity and mortality and will continue to evaluate the effectiveness of any control methods which come to our attention. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 17 August 1977: [More…]

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

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

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

• Mr W. M. Linton; New South Wales Department of Youth and Community Services [More…]

• Mr D. Checkley; New South Wales Department of Youth and Community Services [More…]

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

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

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

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

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

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]

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

• There be continuing and expanding funding for the Hunter Region Working Women’ s Group so that it can continue to provide child care, legal aid, community health, welfare and educational services to the women of the Hunter Region. [More…]

• I do not object to that practice because often a journalist is able to be told that the information he has is incorrect and harm is not done to individuals in the community. [More…]

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

• Can the Minister ensure that consideration will be given to increasing the community awareness of the dangers by a government-sponsored publicity campaign? [More…]

• The questions of increased publicity on the health hazards of asbestos and increased community awareness are matters for individual State governments to determine. [More…]

• I will ensure that the recommendations of the National Health and Medical Research Council, when available, will be given wide publicity throughout the community. [More…]

• I want to say- every honourable senator should in fact let the community notice- that the Fox report itself gives the lie to that. [More…]

• I can certainly assure the honourable senator with regard to the latter part of his question because I have heard no criticism from any person in the community concerning the 1 8 people appointed in Australia to carry out this task. [More…]

• As honourable senators will know, from the moment the maps are displayed in the post offices there is 30 days for anybody in the community to make objections to the tentative proposals. [More…]

• I know of nobody in the community who has any justification for any complaint about the way in which they have carried out their duties. [More…]

• With or without help from the Opposition, perhaps the best answer would be to refer Senator Baume and the community to the various reports of the Schools Commission over the years in which the Commission has pointed out that the great bulk of non-government schools are suffering considerably from a lack of resources, both human and physical, by contrast with government schools. [More…]

• We understand that the Mayor, Mrs Ekblom, will be supporting this proposition separately on behalf of the Council and the Whyalla community. [More…]

• Important elements of the community and members and senators of this Parliament are concerned about defence capability. [More…]

• We should seek to maintain skilled men as effective units in our community. [More…]

• Our evaluations have made it clear, however, that the cost to the community of the assistance needed to protect that industry’s future in Australia would have been well beyond the level that could be justified on economic, social and defence grounds. [More…]

• Our evaluations have made it clear, however, that the cost to the community of the assistance needed to protect that industry’s future in Australia would have been well beyond the level that could be justified on economic, social and defence grounds. [More…]

• The Government has carefully considered this aspect of the report and its evaluations made it clear that the cost to the community of the assistance needed to retain the industry would be higher than could be justified on economic, social and defence grounds. [More…]

• Our evaluations have made it clear, however, that the cost to the community of the assistance needed to protect that industry’s future in Australia would have been well beyond the level that could be justified on economic, social and defence grounds. [More…]

• In managing Australia’s economy it completely unbalanced the cost structure within this community. [More…]

• The costs of subsidies are spread right across the taxpaying community, which involves every worker. [More…]

• The 1st annual report 1976 of the Department of Environment Housing and Community Development; [More…]

• I appreciate Senator Mulvihill ‘s comment because I know that on the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment he and I have exercised incredible interest, a community interest, in these matters. [More…]

• The ICAO attitude is in direct contrast to the bleeding hearts cries that we hear from many sections of the Australian community about this facility. [More…]

• ICAO also directs its energies to meeting the needs of the world community for safe, reliable, efficient and economic air transport, to prevent waste caused by unnecessary competition and over competition, which is something I want to come back to later, and to ensuring that the rights of member states are fully respected and that they all have an equal opportunity to operate international airlines. [More…]

• The issue of charter flights is being canvassed in the Australian air industry and in the general community in this country at the moment. [More…]

• I believe there should be an opportunity for the community generally to express its view on all aspects of air travel. [More…]

• They ought to be able to talk about the price of air travel and the types of services best designed to meet the needs of Australia’s air commuters, which really covers the Australian community generally. [More…]

• It is interesting to consider that in the wool industry, which has traditionally been a major part of what might be termed the free enterprise system, this Government is prepared to recognise that a central authority such as the Australian Wool Corporation should in fact be given additional powers to ensure that the producer, the community at large, and particularly our export earners, are given every possible advantage. [More…]

• I recognise that he is up against difficulties with his Government, which has restricted all expenditure, including expenditure on welfare to sections of the community in relation to whom there should never have been a restriction. [More…]

• Further to that, in regard to the actions taken by the oil companies in blending the oil, the views of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development are worth recording. [More…]

• The Trade Practices Commission in its decision of 22 October 1976 quoted from a submission from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development dated 20 February 1976. [More…]

• That was the view of our own Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, and I think it adds to the point that we ought to have a policy from the Department of National Resources on what we are going to do to achieve the results mentioned. [More…]

• The European Economic Community has a new law which steps up from 20 per cent to 40 per cent the amount of re-refined oil which has to be used. [More…]

• Mr Llewellyn is one of the people who was said to espouse the cause of the Communist Party, the socialist left, and whoever exists in this community. [More…]

• He is assistant secretary of his union and is a respected member of the community. [More…]

• She is wellrespected in the community. [More…]

• -Senator Georges is, of course, confusing the situation of the right of the Parliament to demand answers from anybody in the community. [More…]

• Has the Department established a scheme known as the community development employment project scheme? [More…]

• Has the scheme been established to enable communities to employ Aboriginal people doing what work the community decides and at what wages the community decides? [More…]

• Does the Government propose to review the plight of the primary sector as a result of the widespread discontent now evident within the farming community? [More…]

• Most of these aged parents have encountered few problems in settling into the Australian community. [More…]

• He and his organisation have no official status and their comments should be regarded as reflecting the views of a small, eccentric and isolated group in the Australian community. [More…]

• Further I will be announcing that we will be working with the voluntary organisations in the community and providing funds to enable a secretariat to be established. [More…]

• It was divisive to us as a community and it was bad for the education system. [More…]

• The Government is pleased to endorse the three basic themes for the Report, laying emphasis as they do on equality, on more open attitudes to educational issues and on wider participation in decision-making by the school community. [More…]

• Council of the Darwin Community College [More…]

• The Government’s evaluations show conclusively, however, that the cost to the community oi” the assistance needed to protect the future of the shipbuilding industry would be well beyond the level that could tie justified on economic, social and defence grounds. [More…]

• I am personally pleased that for many years I was closely associated with him in his work in this Parliament, in the Labor movement, and in the Australian community generally. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that there is considerable speculation within the Australian community whether the Government intends introducing what has been referred to commonly by some Ministers as a super tax’ or, in other terms, a resources tax? [More…]

• The Government has introduced a number of community development employment projects for Aboriginal communities, initially on a pilot basis. [More…]

• One community development employment project is operating at Bamyili near Katherine, and planning is advanced for another at Elcho Island. [More…]

• But what happens when they are evicted from their first trial out into the white community in state housing or a private home? [More…]

• The Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare, Mr Ridge, claimed in the Western Australian Parliament that a task force had been consulting with the Lockridge people - [More…]

• Mr Ridge claimed that a task force had been consulting with the Lockridge people on a schedule of developments for their community and a permanent land site. [More…]

• They are running a car with something like 300,000 miles on the speedometer because this Government will not provide the sort of transport that is necessary to run this health centre which is very badly wanted in their community. [More…]

• You only care about what happens amongst the friends you help in this community. [More…]

• The people on his side of the chamber appear to be totally immune to the terrible social catastrophe that is happening in this community. [More…]

• He has had his education but he would deprive underprivileged people from receiving an education or the other social benefits which ought to be the right of every person in this community. [More…]

• The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Ian Viner, today replied to statements by Mr Robert Bropho on behalf of the Aboriginal community living in tents at Lockridge that efforts had been made to persuade him to visit the Lockridge camps to talk to the Aboriginals but he had declined. [More…]

• Mr Viner said that although the provision of housing was a matter for the State Government through the State Housing Commission and the Department for Community Welfare, he had been particularly concerned to follow developments amongst homeless Aboriginals in the Guildford/Lockridge area. [More…]

• 1 ) The primary purpose of Australia Day functions overseas is to entertain members of the host Government, senior officials, persons of high standing in the community and representatives of other countries. [More…]

• Telecom Australia recognises its community obligations by providing public telephones on a less than economic basis in some cases. [More…]

• The cost would be prohibitive and would divert resources from the provision of public telephones in locations where there is a constant need for calls from the community. [More…]

• That the actions of a member of the Schools Commission, Mrs Joan Kirner, have been a cause of grave concern to many members of the community in that Mrs Kirner has on a number of occasions made use of the public media- [More…]

• That the actions of a member of the Schools Commission, Mrs Joan Kirner, have been a cause of grave concern to many members of the community in that Mrs Kirner has on a number of occasions made use of the public media to direct criticism of an objectionable kind (including the allegation of being ‘deceitful’) against a Minister of the Crown, Senator John Carrick, Federal Minister for Education. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that the loss of man hours is only one of several factors to be taken into account in assessing disruption to industry and commerce and to the community generally because of strikes and other industrial action? [More…]

• Can he say whether any statistics are available on the economic loss caused to the nation by guerrilla tactics, particularly in the building trade, and the economic consequences to the community generally of strikes in the transport and power industries which are occurring with increasing frequency in Victoria? [More…]

• For instance, some of” the disputes this year- I refer particularly to the petrol strike in Victoria and the air traffic controllers strike- added little to the statistics as to man days lost; but, of course, as we all know, they caused the most serious disruption in the community. [More…]

• Today a remarkably well attended meeting, dealing with the controls that Labor exerts in the community, was held in the Adelaide Town Hall. [More…]

• Mr David Tonkin, the Leader of the Opposition for the moment in South Australia, led a protest by the South Australian community about compulsory unionism as it is applied in South Australia. [More…]

• The facts are that the allocation this year, which the Minister said in his second reading speech is expected to amount to, I think, $16Sm and which representees the Minister has said, an increase of 1 8 per cent on the very generous allocation last year of $ 140m, comparing more than favourably with anything that has gone before, represents a sum which will more than counter the effects of inflation and will mean a real increase in the capacity of local government to meet the difficulties it has in this communityand local government does have difficulties. [More…]

• Anyone who has studied his own local government area will know what demand is made on local government for increased services at a time when its specific operation perhaps pays a higher penalty for the rate of inflation in the community than that of any other organisation. [More…]

• The costs of services and the costs of mechanical operations are so directly affected by the rate of inflation in the community. [More…]

• I am particularly pleased that this legislation and the principle involved in it recognises the need of those people to get the support of the community for the services that they provide so well. [More…]

• They receive no payment, no remuneration or reward, but they spend long hours in the interests of their local community. [More…]

• I do not know whether Senator Carrick has misled or lied to the Parliament or whether he wants to confuse the Parliament and, for that matter, the community generally. [More…]

• Is he disagreeing with the additional proposals introduced by the Labor Government in 1973-74, that is, the Area Improvement Program and the Australian Assistance Plan under which local communities, not just local government, coming together as concerned citizens and grass roots organisations, were given assistance to provide community facilities? [More…]

• Funds given for leisure purposes on the basis of a communication from a council or from a local group of citizens through the Area Improvement Pro- gram are still being used to provide a community f acility. [More…]

• In a period of inflation, when I was president of my shire council- I am sure no one will contest this viewpoint- I found that, the more work the council did, the more services it provided, the more roads it sealed, the more ovals it opened, the more beaches it opened and die more community facilities such as libraries it opened, the greater was the increase in the rates in order to maintain those facilities. [More…]

• It is very easy not to provide a wider range of activities, although one of the principal facets of local government is, as Senator Tehan who has just spoken in this debate said, to provide a range of activities in line with the needs of the community at the grass roots level. [More…]

• This can be done by cutting out half the community facilities. [More…]

• The strategy of the 1930s to provide employment opportunities was to use the local government apparatus and works staff to provide community facilities. [More…]

• We did try to rectify 30-odd years of neglect of local government in terms of community facilities. [More…]

• There would not be an area anywhere in Australia, whether it be in Seven Hills or Mount Druitt- the new areas of Sydney in the western suburbs- or in Ku-rin-gai which is one of the more salubrious suburbs of Sydney, as some might put it, where some community facilities are not needed, and there are still employment opportunities that can be provided in those areas given the wherewithal. [More…]

• We have to get into a situation where the national Government is prepared to say that there is a certain specified limit as to the amount of taxation which is going to be raised and that limit is going to have a very close relationship to the amount of expenditure which is going to take place in the community, whether it is expenditure by State government, local government or the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• It all has to come ultimately out of taxes, and to argue that rates should be kept down and that the money should come from elsewhere is simply to indulge, in my view, in a confidence trick because if rates are kept down and the money is found from the Commonwealth, that simply means that income tax or some other form of tax has to be raised which, just like rates, is an impost on the community and something which the community may not wish to bear. [More…]

• If the Opposition really believes that the community ought to be making conscious and sensible choices about levels of taxation and levels of expenditure, and if the Opposition really believes that people ought to be balancing what they want out of government-be it Commonwealth, State or local government- with what they are prepared to pay in taxes, then I think honourable senators will agree with the philosophy that this Government has brought to bear in this area rather than the philosophy which was brought to bear by the previous Government. [More…]

• The point is, of course, that that scheme is one which the Labor Government itself discontinued, and it discontinued the scheme in the face of massive protests from the Australian community about the waste and inefficiency involved in it. [More…]

• That sort of unproductive work is essentially of a band-aid nature and will make no long term contribution to the welfare of either the work force, the economy or the community. [More…]

• In spite of what has been said, the figures show that local government will be seriously disadvantaged and the community will suffer. [More…]

• If there is to be, as there will need to be in the future, some injection into the community of moneys to relieve unemployment, the most reasonable organisations to carry out this sort of work, in spite of what Senator Chaney has said, will be local authorities. [More…]

• I tell the Senate and the community that at every State or Federal meeting of local government associations to which I am invited there is total and unqualified commendation of this scheme for local government. [More…]

• The Labor Party loathes the idea that decisions should be made by the local community. [More…]

• One calls to mind the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the Industries Assistance Commission, other organisations in the community such as trade unions, the consumers of Australia and all the people who have not responded as the Government had hoped they would. [More…]

• But they do not accept that the independent schools system increasingly was becoming available only to the wealthy in our community, whereas previously it was available throughout our community and was available to serve a purpose to all members of our community. [More…]

• We ought to welcome also the true educational involvement of the community that comes from those schools. [More…]

• We have had debates in the Senate on parental and community involvement in schools. [More…]

• Some of them are quite authoritarian but a number of them do very successfully involve the community, the parents and the students of the schools in the educational and community needs of their own areas. [More…]

• They need to recognise, as I believe the Australian community overwhelmingly does, that the non-government school sector plays a critical role in the educational and social development of our nation and as such it is surely not unreasonable that this Bill ought to provide guarantees for a maximum of $ 10m a year for non-government school expansion. [More…]

• The concern felt about the destructive effect of the Government’s most recent policies and actions in respect of education funding in all sectors is snared by all sectors of the community throughout Australia. [More…]

• We are concerned that no growth means in fact no growth towards equality- no growth on the part of disadvantaged schools in catching up with advantaged schools; no growth in terms of innovations which will bring about better teaching methods and better learning situations for the least advantaged children in the community. [More…]

• That is surely a very fundamental and indeed a very modest requirement for a democratic community, for a community and for a political system in which people like to talk in terms of equality of opportunity, of equal chances, of a fair go and all these things which we like to think are characteristic of the political ethos in Australia. [More…]

• The current redistribution of funding that the Schools Commission has been forced to carry out by the Minister is simply reinforcing existing inequalities in our community and in our education system. [More…]

• No innovations mean that no money is being allocated for thinking and re-looking at the basis of education in order to make education more accessible to more children in our community. [More…]

• It is a well known phenomenon of education that children who are disadvantaged generally in socio-economic terms also find themselves disadvantaged when they go into our school system because the school system until now has been a traditional conservative system which did not take account of the special needs and the special difficulties of children from lower socio-economic groups or, in the case of Australia, children from particular ethnic groups or children from the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• It is as well that the Senate and the community should not forget what the Opposition is opposed to. [More…]

• I remind the community that there is no means test on age pensions for people 70 years of age and over and that the only means test on other age pensions are income tests. [More…]

• I want to refer to the answer provided by Senator Carrick, during last night’s adjournment debate to matters raised by Senator Coleman and Senator Keeffe in regard to the journey being undertaken from Perth to Canberra by members of the Aboriginal community now living at Lockridge, near Guildford in Western Australia. [More…]

• The site in question was one of a number inspected by the Minister for Community Welfare in Western Australia, the Hon. [More…]

• By an arrangement with the State Department of Public Health, on whose land the Lockridge camping site is situated, the Department of Community Welfare arranged to provide toilet and ablution facilities and other services to the best of its ability, to any Aboriginal people who wished to camp at this site. [More…]

• It is the intention of the Department for Community Welfare and the State Housing Commission to seek accommodation for the Aboriginal families now living at Lockridge and, providing the families concerned are willing, to place them in urban housing in the metropolitan area. [More…]

• I would like to make it quite clear that the State Department for Community Welfare and the State Housing Commission have the main responsibility for settling the Lockridge situation and that my principal interest in the matter was to provide financial assistance for concrete and satisfactory proposals put to me through my Department for the settlement of these distressing conditions. [More…]

• My Department provides the funds for the Department for Community Welfare to conduct a Special Research Project on Aboriginal homelessness and additional staff has recently been appointed to this unit which includes anthropologists and social workers. [More…]

• K. A. Ridge, Minister for Community Welfare in Western Australia, in which I said: [More…]

• It is possible that a systematic method of approach for tackling urban homelessness that has applicability for other parts of Australia could be an outcome of the concentrated study currently being undertaken by Mr Robinson’s Special Project within the Department for Community Welfare. [More…]

• The present occupants of the temporary camping site at Lockridge moved to the site voluntarily on 16 June 1977 with the assistance of the Department for Community Welfare. [More…]

• Only last year I made available nearly $ lm to the Western Australian Department for Community Welfare, which has the statutory responsibility for reserve administration, to carry out a special project to eliminate reserve dwellings in the south west of the State. [More…]

• As a result of those problems it became very difficult to maintain even the beds that were required for the veteran community. [More…]

• I have been advised and I have always understood that the needs of the veteran community are being met and have been met at the Heidelberg Hospital for some time. [More…]

• The Department has been able to meet the needs of the veteran community. [More…]

• The Auditor-General points out that there is still a good deal of physical capacity at the Heidelberg Hospitalmuch more than would be required to meet the needs of the veteran community. [More…]

• However, because of the staff ceilings the Department cannot expand the Heidelberg Hospital into what would probably be an entirely different sort of hospital, namely one which would be able to cater for a large number of community needs. [More…]

• I think it is about a subject that would also encompass the responsibilities of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• How can the Prime Minister and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development claim that safe methods of disposal and storage of nuclear waste materials are available in the light of that congressional report? [More…]

• Is it the intention of the Government to retain the closed town concept permanently or, together with the town of Nhulunbuy, open these towns eventually to enable them to become normal towns within the Northern Territory community? [More…]

• -This is not just a matter for my colleague, the Minister for National Resources; it also impinges upon the jurisdiction of my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It was suggested in the Parliament yesterday that some divisional returning officers (in particular in relation to the Cypriot community) have either been refusing to enrol persons who in fact are eligible or have been advising such persons that they are not entitled to enrol. [More…]

• The issues involve matters of significance 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 in the planning and development of Canberra. [More…]

• During my time with that Committee the Committee had quite lengthy discussions with and a great many submissions from people in the local community and from outside it, directed towards giving us a full understanding of what would be involved in transferring functions of the type we are now talking about. [More…]

• I believe it is probably still the case, though some people may argue against it, that many people in the Canberra community feel very comfortable in the situation they are in. [More…]

• The community of Canberra shortly will be very much involved in running its local affairs. [More…]

• I think it is important for any community to have a form of local government. [More…]

• I suppose there is a tendency to make laws on a purist sort of basis without the sort of regard for the finer feelings of people in a community that you get with a locally elected institution running the community’s affairs. [More…]

• I think it is necessary that the Canberra community should ultimately assume the responsibilities that other communities throughout Australia have assumed and carried out. [More…]

• I hope that the people of Canberra, and especially those I mentioned earlier, will now take a greater interest in the running of the affairs of this community and will ensure that the beauty of the city of Canberra continues in the future. [More…]

• As Sir John Crawford, the IAC itself and other industry organisations have stated, it is not the IAC which is the cause of slack demand and activity in the community today, it is the failure of the Government’s economic policies. [More…]

• Unfortunately, since the announcement of 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 financial assistance nursing home patients would receive in the future. [More…]

• A 200 nautical mile fisheries zone will enable Australia to regulate foreign fishing activity in these waters, and to manage fisheries within the zone for the benefit of Australian fishermen and the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• In view of the fact that Australia’s trade account has recorded a small surplus in the period since the November 1976 devaluation, and as there are currently no apparent cries for further devaluation coming from any of the major rural or manufacturing lobbies, can the Minister give any reason for the current growing speculation against the Australian dollar other than that the business community is expecting the Australian inflationary situation to worsen? [More…]

• Equally the proposition that the business community is talking about higher inflation does not stand up. [More…]

• That is about the standard of debate that we are getting in the community. [More…]

• Will the Minister accept that this method is totally unacceptable in an Australian community and cannot be justified because only an ethnic community is involved? [More…]

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

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

• Will the Minister admit- I think he has admitted it- that there is fairly wide speculation in the community on the value of the dollar? [More…]

• -I thought the honourable senator would be interested in terrorist organisations which ought to be stamped out in this community. [More…]

• I am informed that the words mean path to bliss’ and this is to be achieved through individual development and community service. [More…]

• I saw also some suggestion somewhere that there was a claim that this was a responsibility of the Federal Government through some connection with the Schools Commission I think all honourable senators and members of the community on a little reflection, would reach a simple conclusion, namely, that the housing of State public servantswhether police officers, teachers, firemen, health workers, or whatever- in remote areas is and must be wholly the responsibility of the State concerned. [More…]

• The seasonally adjusted figures just released by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development of the number of housing loan approvals for the period June 1976 to June 1977 demonstrate a strong growth in the number of loans transacted by permanent building societies whilst concurrently the trading and savings banks have experienced zero or negative rates of growth in loan approvals. [More…]

• Economic and Community Development, for example, supports the contention that the position in this country now is worse than it was when this Government took office. [More…]

• It may well be that members on the Government side do not think very much about the ANZ’s analysis of the economy, but generally I think it is accepted fairly widely through the business community as being a soundly based document. [More…]

• The Labor Party put tax burdens on the Australian community, increased receipts from personal income tax by 89 per cent during its first two years in office, taxed age pensions, abolished the income tax age allowance, imposed huge levies and indirect taxation in its last Budget, refused to index personal tax, reduced concessional allowances, abolished the investment allowance for primary producers as well as manufacturers, and introduced taxes on unearned income. [More…]

• We also took the view that the Government had put a demand on the resources of Australia that the people in the community could not support. [More…]

• As I have said in answers to questions during Question Time, there are people in the community who do have a view on this matter. [More…]

• The Government failed to recognise that the level of savings in the community was continuing to rise despite the inflation that was occurring. [More…]

• A quick calculation shows that under its Budget schemes those in the community on incomes of between $7,000 and $8,000 a year will be worse off. [More…]

• But if what the Prime Minister has said is correct, and I assert that it is not correct, if we act on his hypothesis that inflation has fallen, how does he explain to the Australian community that while inflation has fallen by seven percentage points on his calculation, unemployment has risen at the same time by 25 per cent? [More…]

• Clearly they are statements that it would not want to be discussed by the community in general. [More…]

• The business community knows it and is telling us about it. [More…]

• Let us look at some of the factors affecting confidence in the community at the moment. [More…]

• Of course we know that the Labor Party’s object is to destroy stability in this community so as to undermine confidence in the Government and hopefully bring an election in its favour. [More…]

• The alternative to that is to borrow from the community. [More…]

• If the Government borrows from the community, what will follow immediately is that interest rates will only rise again because there is only so much money in the community. [More…]

• Let us look at this matter in terms of the rural community. [More…]

• It hopes to gain some political benefit from misery in this community. [More…]

• It has been of tremendous value and has amounted to a great social change in this community. [More…]

• He knows that unemployment is a problem in this community and that it will be for some time. [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…]

• We hear much said about the economy of the rural community. [More…]

• The Premier there has said that people in the community who felt a need to use these facilities should mk more and that if they conferred with their churches and perhaps became involved in parents and citizens associations they would not have the need to call on such a community service. [More…]

• He failed to recognise that a great number of people in our community do not have that same capacity to live with a person for 34 years and submit themselves to all sorts of indignities. [More…]

• However, it is worth pointing out that the cost to the community will not change. [More…]

• The first piece of legislation is necessary in the circumstances but is another cosmetic attempt to cope with the inequitable and difficult situation of nursing homes and aged persons accommodation generally in this community. [More…]

• Nursing homes deal with only a small proportion of the elderly people in this community and there are a large number of them outside nursing homes whom this Bill does not help and will not help. [More…]

• Elderly people are human beings who exist in the community. [More…]

• They are not vegetables to be put into a nursing home to become merely a book entry as far as this community or this Government is concerned. [More…]

• In concluding this rather extraordinary speech that I have made this evening, I suggest to the Government that while it is looking at the problems of nursing homes and who pays the bills it also look as the older problems that concern elderly people and look not just at the matter of providing more beds for elderly people but also at providing a range of care that extends from, as I said, granny-minding to full time medical care for people who have done a great deal for our community and who are real human beings in our community. [More…]

• I was interested to hear from Senator Grimes and Senator Melzer their ideas with regard to the care of the aged in the Australian community. [More…]

• If we look at our demographic figures we see that we are an aging community. [More…]

• It is time we remembered that elderly people in this community are human beings and should be looked after as such. [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 mission which represented the Committee of TwentyFour recommended that steps be taken as soon as possible to disengage the links between the Cocos community and the Clunies Ross estate, and to permit the community to establish its own identity and interests separate from those of the Clunies Ross estate. [More…]

• Of course, all members of the Cocos community who have been born on the island since Australia assumed sovereignty in 1955 are Australian citizens. [More…]

• I mentioned that the Labor Government was seeking ownership of a suitably agreed area of land on Home Island to be vested in the Home Island community as a corporate entity. [More…]

• This would help to establish the community’s own identity, separate from that of the Clunies Ross estate. [More…]

• I also mentioned that a local government type authority with legal and formal status was to be established to manage and control the affairs of the community. [More…]

• The authority would comprise members elected for a specific period and would have powers which reflected the wishes of the community. [More…]

• I mentioned that all future Australian Government contracts involving the Clunies Ross estate would provide for direct payment of appropriate sums in Australian currency to the Cocos community. [More…]

• A separate Cocos community fund would be established for that purpose, to be administered by and for the sole benefit of the Cocos Malay community. [More…]

• I mentioned that provisions would be introduced to permit freedom of movement for members of the Cocos community and also that provision for granting Australian citizenship to Cocos Islanders born there before 1955 and who did not apply for citizenship in the prescribed time would be reviewed with a view to making it easier for the citizens of Cocos to take out such citizenship if they wished to do so. [More…]

• The Press release stated: the broad details of Australia ‘s Cocos policy were: a representative form of local government for the Cocos community to be established with the ultimate aim being creation of a fully elected body; [More…]

• Let me refer to the other points: arrangements to be made allowing a transfer to the Cocos community of the village area of Home Island; [More…]

• Again, that statement, made by the Minister in June 1977, was directly in line with the Labor Government’s policy of September 1975. establishment of a new form of fund to assist the financing of community activities; [More…]

• The major part of each contract payment is paid by the Government directly to the Estate with a small proportion being paid directly to the Cocos Community Fund. [More…]

• In the light of the significant size of the Russian community in Australia, particularly in Adelaide, and the fact that numerically it approximates the size of other communities already catered for by the Department, can the Minister indicate whether an early remedy to this problem is contemplated? [More…]

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

• It is a pity they do not go back to their moonlighting occupations where they would be more useful to the community. [More…]

• I have not read that report for quite a while but as the honourable senator said, it refers to the application of the income equalisation deposits scheme for the general community and to tax averaging for other people. [More…]

• The decision to review Australia’s meteorological services is consistent with the Government’s commitment to ensure that public services are provided efficiently and effectively at a level which meets the contemporary needs of the community. [More…]

• The Committee drew on the responses to that Green Paper as a basis for its deliberations and in addition itself undertook further wide ranging consultations in the community. [More…]

• It has reported a high degree of community satisfaction with the services provided by the Bureau. [More…]

• Particular proposals include: Improved definition of the Bureau’s task; broader community influence in deciding priorities for the development of services; means by which demand can be disciplined; and improved organisation and management of various tasks. [More…]

• I think that debates which were directed shortly to current reports like this one would be more useful to the Senate and to the community. [More…]

• By locating residential areas in relation to employment opportunities the demand for commuter travel may be reduced; by distributing suitable commercial, retail, educational, institutional and recreational facilities in a hierarchy of regional, community and neighbourhood centres, travel for these purposes may be reduced. [More…]

• We get into a car to go from point A to point B because the transport service which we wish to use is not running, does not stop at a convenient place or cannot transport us from one particular community into another without taking a great deal of time. [More…]

• It is disturbing to us, and it must be even more disturbing for people in the community, to read statements such as those that I have just read and to learn that obviously an opinion is not shared by the State Premiers and the Federal Government. [More…]

• It may be that governments will have to decide for them that the community can no longer afford to permit such a large number of motor vehicles into the inner city areas because of the traffic problems and the pollution they create. [More…]

• It now needs only the approval ofthe Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [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. [More…]

• The manner of such investment is subject to the approval of the Treasurer and the rates of interest on the Commission’s investments generally reflect interest levels obtainable throughout the business community for reasonably secure investments. [More…]

• Officers of my Department have encouraged community leadership and improved Aboriginal management in the communities referred to. [More…]

• As a result, transport problems have been minimised and expected requirements can be met from the resources within each community. [More…]

• John Howard, left Australia on 23 September to have discussions with the Commission of European Communities, and with individual European Economic Community member governments. [More…]

• Further, has the Government given any thought to making available for training members of the medical community resources that would help them in the proper use of the new metric SI system of measurement? [More…]

• This policy is based on the principle that conversion programs for each sector of the community should be prepared by persons representing the organisations in the sector that would have to implement the conversion. [More…]

• Is it true that the Australian Territories Accreditation Committee for Advanced Education has recommended the accreditation of a four-year course in teacher education to be offered at the Darwin Community College? [More…]

• When I was in Darwin last week I was very happy to announce that the Accreditation Committee had recommended to me the adoption of a four-year degree course in education at the Darwin Community College and that the Government had acceded to the recommendation. [More…]

• I am very happy to say that the Accreditation Committee of Dr Burton made very pleasant comments about the quality of the delivery of education at the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• Urgent need for community support services for lone fathers in crisis periods with a view of self help. [More…]

• Although there is a growing recognition in the community and in the Government that this is a gap in the social security system. [More…]

• The thing that interested me about Mrs Edwards’s letter to me was that she enclosed a Press release in which she said that the sorts of issues covered in the submissions received from the community and matters raised by the members themselves included the question of increasing the mother’s allowance paid to women pensioners with dependent children and the possible extension of this benefit to all lone parents. [More…]

• It is also recommended that the Women’s Advisory Committee should raise awareness within the community of the situation of women and of their varied and changing roles and aspirations. [More…]

• He has failed to recognise that the women’s refuges provide a security, a haven, for people in need in our community. [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…]

• On a talkback program on the Australian Broadcasting Commission one morning he said something to the effect that women in our community would not need the services of a refuge if they sought solace from their church and if they involved themselves more in parents and citizens associations and community activities. [More…]

• His advice to such women was to seek solace from the church, local parents and citizens associations and other community resources. [More…]

• She said wife bashing was probably the most common crime of violence in the community. [More…]

• As I said earlier, it is the responsibility of government to acknowledge and government has to accept the responsibility that a need exists in our community for such services and that it is not fulfilling that need. [More…]

• The West Australian of 6 August this year contains the report of a maiden speech of a person who has done a great deal of work in Western Australia amongst people in need in the community. [More…]

• Nardine and Warrawee are the only shelters that receive funds under the community health program administered by the Public Health Department. [More…]

• A report in the Sydney Morning Herald of 24 August 1977 states that the Minister for Youth and Community Services told the Legislative Assembly at that time that there had been a record 186 cases of child abuse reported in New South Wales in the previous seven weeks. [More…]

• I immediately sat down and conveyed my thoughts to the Minister in the hope that he will feel exactly the same way and will do something substantial about subsidising the fares so that the work of the Paraplegic Quadriplegic Associations which is extending all the dme can get underway and become a comprehensive feature in our community. [More…]

• Expenditure cuts are made in almost every sector of the community. [More…]

• The impression that I gained from his speech was that he actually could not see any reason for women in our community not being content to be factory fodder or office fodder. [More…]

• Apartheid has shown us that if all the distinctive groups within unwieldly artificial nation-states like those of the emergent world are allowed their cultural autonomy then the essential building unit- the corporate community- will emerge. [More…]

• Article 30 makes it clear that the Security Council is autonomous in deciding its own rules of procedure and practice but here we have a situation where the nonpermanent members of the Security Council have the right to take decisions concerning peace, war and world security and to formulate and put into effect policies that affect the entire community of nations. [More…]

• Therefore I deplore the attitude which is found not only in the Opposition but also to some measure in the media and to some measure in a very small minority, but a radical and vociferous minority, in trade unions who seem to be absolutely dedicated to distorting and destroying the Budget’s capacity to serve the purpose that I believe it certainly can serve and will serve in this community. [More…]

• In health expenditure we have in fact already cut out a great measure of waste and I believe that ultimately the community will recognise it. [More…]

• Consequently, the first and most significant attack on behalf of the rural community in this country must continue to be the attack on inflation itself. [More…]

• I believe that the Budget Papers are worthy of support from all sides in the community and I make the point again that their success is dependent not only on the legislation itself but also on the determination of Australians not to keep on knocking it, not to keep on confusing matters and on the determination of Australians to get on with the job and to make work a mechanism that has the ingredients within it to produce an affluence for all Australians and for Australia itself. [More…]

• The main burden, the worst burden, the scandalous burden under which the country is suffering is the burden of unemployment, but is it evenly shared throughout the community? [More…]

• Similarly it is absurd to claim that the rewards, such as they are, are shared throughout the community. [More…]

• Funding for refuges are just indicated by the Government to be a part of the funding to States under the community health program. [More…]

• The limitations on funds for capital grants in the area of children’s services means that there will virtually be no new community based child care projects. [More…]

• Despite the fact that I and other persons in the community who are concerned about this matter have made repeated representations to the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Staley) and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), there is no allocation in the Budget to provide any special services for migrants. [More…]

• Let us look at some of the areas of concern in the community at the moment. [More…]

• The most important change that has occurred in the tax area in the last year is the trading stock valuation adjustment, which in fact has brought tremendous benefit to small companies in the community. [More…]

• In fact, they take every opportunity to create a lack of confidence in the community in order to put more people on to the dole queues. [More…]

• She failed to recognise that the dollar which increases the deficit has to be found somewhere within the community. [More…]

• It has to be raised either by taxation or by way of borrowing from the community. [More…]

• If it is borrowed from the community it has to be paid for by way of interest rates, and in doing that competition is created against the other people in the community who are competing for funds and interest rates are driven up even higher. [More…]

• Does Senator McLaren want interest rates in the community to be higher? [More…]

• They want higher interest rates in the community. [More…]

• I think we, as members of a community such as this, should be concerned, particularly when we are asked to give aid to the Government and the people of Thailand. [More…]

• Therefore it will be seen that the prevalence and incidence of leprosy in the Northern Territory are declining and that the number of active cases in the community at any one time is very small. [More…]

• At all events, I would have thought that there are appropriate organs in the community for investigation of this type of threat. [More…]

• As the cost to the community is approximately $ 1 8 a day to provide a patient with home dialysis treatment compared with a hospital admission minimum cost of $140 a day, should not the Government be channelling more, not less, funds into this economical method of health care? [More…]

• If so, can the Minister explain how reducing Federal Government spending on hospitals, which forces hospitals to cut back on such services, will save the community money? [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that the persistent outflow of capital, as shown by a continuing decline in our holdings of foreign exchangedespite the Government’s announced borrowings last week-serves to illustrate the lack of confidence the business community has in the Government’s intention to ensure that a devaluation is not imminent? [More…]

• They comprise a group of people in the community who are least able to cope with the difficulties, the frustrations and the bureaucratic effects of being in receipt of unemployment benefit. [More…]

• I would have thought that the Opposition, in taking a decision to debate unemployment, would have had very serious regard for the most topical reason why unemployment has been created in this nation today and in recent weeks, namely, the irresponsible and intransigent attitude of a few union leaders which has resulted in an enormous loss of jobs for so many members of the community. [More…]

• Therefore the Government’s policies- those policies on which we were elected in December 1975- were designed to tackle the root causes of the economic problems of the community and the unemployment in the community, the root causes being inflation and the high levels of wage rises. [More…]

• Another scheme which I have time to mention is the Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• This is to encourage community organisations to provide programs aimed at supporting unemployed young persons and improving their capacity to find jobs. [More…]

• Those are examples of the Government’s clear understanding of its responsibilities to the unemployed, particularly the unemployed youth, in the community. [More…]

• It is that type of lack of restraint by all sections of the community, that lack of restraint by government itself in its own spending, which is the major cause of unemployment reaching these levels which the Government itself finds as unacceptable as does the Opposition. [More…]

• It has failed to create job opportunities within the community, especially within the Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• Services that ought to be provided for the community- health and dental services and through government offices, including social serviceshave all deteriorated in the last 12 months to two years. [More…]

• It refuses to investigate the effect on crime and the effect on health-community health generally and the health of the individual. [More…]

• Those schemes have been set up in two areas of trainingAboriginal training and training in the wider community. [More…]

• In the wider community the Government has encouraged employers to take on apprentices but is not creating work for these people to do. [More…]

• As Senator Wheeldon said, they compose the largest group of unemployed people in the community-40 per cent of all unemployed. [More…]

• It should put dignity and happiness before ideology, and it should restore confidence to the community as a whole, particularly the young people. [More…]

• This compares with an estimated increase of about 9-10 per cent in the average weekly earnings in the community, which can largely be attributed to wage indexation increases over the year. [More…]

• It seems to me that an inquiry of this sort, a royal commission, should be looking at the general area of abuse in order to see the root problem of misuse of the more dangerous drugs, the drugs that are causing such horrific consequences in the community. [More…]

• A once fully-employed community suffers unemployment on a scale not seen for 40 years, with worse to come. [More…]

• It means simply that to fuel the fires of its ideology, to create instantly in Australia the picture of a socialised or a socialising community that the Labor Party wanted, it was willing to mortgage every Australian’s future to achieve the almost instant availability of its policy in this country. [More…]

• Sir,- A deep sense of anger, disillusionment and concern is the response of the Aboriginal community to the report that the Department of Aboriginal Affairs had underspent its budget for the 1976-77 financial year by $16.6 million and that $ 1 3 million will go back into consolidated revenue. [More…]

• The $ 1 3 million which was meant for desperately-needed programs will now be denied the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I refer to the very large number- in fact the unmeasured number- of unemployed married women workers in our community. [More…]

• Yet, if we look at what has happened to women in our community who have exercised the choice to be part of the work force, who have shown the incentive to go out to work for the improvement of their families or for thenself fulfilment, who have had the motivation to be constructive and energetic about their community and about their families, we find that the Government has totally ignored what has happened to them when they face unemployment. [More…]

• I find the response of the conservative government to this situation, or rather the complete lack of response to this situation, particularly cynical since it was during the period of a LiberalCountry Party government in this country that the whole movement of consumerism was advanced, that the whole advertising boom burst upon the Australian community and the whole materialistic objective of this society was created. [More…]

• No longer was one income enough for one family; there had to be a two income family in order to keep pace with the incredible materialism that was inflicted on this community during the 23 years of Liberal- Country Party rule. [More…]

• I have raised this matter in the Senate tonight and quoted these statistics in the hope that if not the Government, then the general community, may come to some understanding of this particularly serious manifestation of the economic recession and may join with me and other members of the Opposition in calling on the Government to take some steps to do something for that proportion of the work force, that potential one third of the work force, which at the moment is being neglected totally in their circumstances of unemployment by the Fraser Government. [More…]

• I believe that is extremely welcome to small businesses within the community as it does in fact assist them to keep more of their earnings for investment in new developments and in making sure that their plant is kept up to date and also so that they can expand the stocks on their shelves. [More…]

• The issue before us in respect of taxation is that this reform is going to be of benefit to some 90 per cent of the taxpayers in the community. [More…]

• Consequently it is not a reform designed merely to help the rich; it will help 90 per cent of the taxpayers in the community. [More…]

• That is in line with the Government’s well recognised principle that those who are able to afford it will contribute relatively more to the community. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the changes in those industries will have major effects upon the distribution of labour in South Australia and, consequently, emphasis needs to be given to the development of skills and the retraining of people who previously were occupied in other jobs, suiting them more particularly for new jobs in the community. [More…]

• It will make clear to the community the Government’s attitude in this matter. [More…]

• If the National Country Party were to argue that a tariff should be imposed against goods from overseas, which in effect is a tax on those goods, which places an extra charge upon the rural community and the community should receive a subsidy I would go along with that proposal as well because we need to run the economy in a balanced way. [More…]

• From its disclosed profit of $ 130m, which has been audited and looked at closely by the Taxation Office, the Utah company last year paid $110m to Senator Mulvihill, to me and to the whole Australian community. [More…]

• This was for the general use of the community. [More…]

• They are agreeing that it is necessary that we should encourage profit in this community. [More…]

• It is estimated in this financial year that the duty will return to the community $93m. [More…]

• If I understand Senator Mulvihill ‘s comments correctly, he asked whether I might be able to produce figures that could compare the effect of this duty and the final return to the community. [More…]

• Indeed, 30,000 jobs were lost to the community. [More…]

• The Government, through the Budget, promises to give ‘a lead to the community by addressing itself directly and realistically to the problem’. [More…]

• Despite world trends, the Prime Minister and his Ministers are continuing to insist that the public sector of the community has no stimulatory role in the recovery process because, in persisting with its obsession to cut government spending at a time when government spending is most needed in certain sections of the economic community, the Government continues to demonstrate that it has failed to learn from the many mistakes it has made in office. [More…]

• The Government, by virtue of its previous halfhearted and inconsistent stand on the exchange rate, has lost all credibility with the business sector of the community. [More…]

• The Government recently announced its intention to borrow abroad but, in failing to positively state its intention to maintain the Australian dollar’s current level, speculation in the business community about a devaluation still continues, notwithstanding anything that may be said by anyone in this Parliament. [More…]

• The Government cannot stop the business sector of the community speculating and expressing concern at the present economic environment. [More…]

• -We are only repeating that which is going on in the business sector of the community. [More…]

• He will find that we are only mirroring the concern that is being expressed by the business sector of the community. [More…]

• The business community, through its persistent outflow of private capital, is publicly making known its gloomy expectations for the Australian economy under the policies of the present Government. [More…]

• There is clearly a need for and room for government expenditure to provide some stimulus, and until demand on the part of the Australian community picks up, until the public is encouraged to spend, the much needed private investment for which the Government is waiting will not eventuate. [More…]

• With real wages being progressively reduced, and they are being progressively reduced, and with a very high personal savings ratio occurring, and one only has to consider the deposits in the banking sector of the community to realise that, I suggest that there can be no hope of private consumption providing the boost to demand that is so needed. [More…]

• When the Government closes the public sector of the community and does not build the bridges, the roads, the dams, the railway lines and the rolling stock, all those things that are so badly needed in this country and all of which go to stimulate the private sector of the community, the great industrial cities such as Newcastle and Wollongong virtually come to a standstill. [More…]

• -Per head of unemployed in the community. [More…]

• As a result even its strongest supportersthe editorial writers of the great metropolitan dailies- have been expressing concern about the Government’s failure to put that speculation at rest and thereby offset the further uncertainty, confusion and doubt in the business sector of the community. [More…]

• They put the very reasonable view that this Club, which is an important and very significant centre for the Italian-Australian community in the western suburbs, was a place that deserved a visit from a Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]

• The Prime Minister played bocce, which I am sure other honourable senators will know all about if they move among the Italian community. [More…]

• After a successful dinner the Prime Minister moved through the club premises for several hours amid friends from the Italian community. [More…]

• I am sure he will have the vote of the new mayor of Fairfield, and I wish him luck; but he should be careful if he hopes to misrepresent as he has done the proper activities of the Prime Minister of Australia moving among his community. [More…]

• This is a Budget that has already been rejected by a wide section of the Australian community, by large sections of business, by large sections of the trade union movement and in the media. [More…]

• It also does not deal with the particular problem of the number of young people in this community who have been forced to take jobs that they do not want and that they have not been trained to do. [More…]

• We have seen community health funds slashed by 15.3 per cent. [More…]

• This will strike at the most vital services in the community health field. [More…]

• At the opening of a fund raising function to send our team to the Moscow Olympics- I think it was in Melbourne- the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) said: [More…]

• They allow sportsmen and sportswomen to reach their optimum performance levels, they provide venues for international and national championships and other important events, they allow competitors to prepare themselves adequately prior to national/international competition, they encourage participation in spoiling activities generally and they provide a suitable venue for sporting activity at regional and local community level. [More…]

• I suppose this raises the question: What has to be done for sport in this community? [More…]

• A Labor Budget would create jobs, generate carefully fostered growth and help to restore a healthy business community in this country. [More…]

• This organisation is well worthy of the support of the Government, and I trust that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), under whose ministry it operates, having seen the wonderful work which the League does and the problems which confront the organisations and persons in areas bordering the river, will recommend the reintroduction of the grant which was taken away in the previous Budget and has not been restored in this Budget. [More…]

• It is not providing to the people who live in the community the services to which they are entitled and of which they became appreciative when the Australian Labor Party came to office and increased expenditure on them. [More…]

• We had to do that because the philosophy of previous Liberal governments had been that there should not be any education for the masses and that education should be only for the wealthy section of this community. [More…]

• Let me tell Senator Baume that great hardship is being caused to a large number of people in this community because of the way in which the Government did that. [More…]

• Let us return to the Budget about which honourable senators opposite are making the claim that it is a wonderful Budget and that it has received the plaudits of practically every person in the community. [More…]

• He does not like it when somebody on this side of the chamber points out all the things the Government is doing to deprive the community of the essentials of life. [More…]

• In the meantime I have placed on the Notice Paper questions concerning the proposed replacement of plastic token currency; questions on the introduction of a form of compulsory education; questions relating to the Cocos community fund; questions regarding the establishment of a form of local government in the area; and questions concerning health and hygiene so far as the Cocos Malay people are concerned. [More…]

• The broad details of Australia’s Cocos policy are as follows: a representative form of local government for the Cocos community to be established with the ultimate aim being the creation of a fully elected body; arrangements to be made allowing a transfer to the Cocos community of the village area ofHome Island; the replacement of token money by Australian currency; establishment of a new form of fund to assist the financing of community activities’, there should be freedom of movement and communication within the Territory; the improvement of education and health facilities and general upgrading of living standards; the framing and implementation of laws which could be clearly applied and enforced, taking into account local institutions and customs; the progressive introduction of a wages economy appropriate to Cocos conditions; appropriate means by which Australian citizenship can be provided to residents of the Territory who wish to take up Australian citizenship; the provision of financial assistance to Cocos Malays who wish to move from Cocos to Australia; and the ownership by the Australian Government of all land on which its facilities are located. [More…]

• In my ministerial statement to the Parliament on 10 September 1975 I mentioned that the Government was seeking at that time the ownership of a suitably agreed area of land on Home Island to be vested in the Home Island community as a corporate entity. [More…]

• This would help to establish the community’s own identity separate from that of the Clunies Ross estate. [More…]

• I proposed also that a local government type of authority be established with l egal and formal status to manage and control the affairs of the community- this authority would comprise only members elected for a specific period and would have powers which reflected the wishes of the community; all future Australian Government contracts involving the [More…]

• Clunies Ross estate provide for direct payment of appropriate sums of money in Australian currency to the Cocos community; a separate Cocos community fund be established for this purpose to be administered by and for the sole benefit of the community; the use of token money eventually be discontinued and replaced by Australian currency, taking into account the complexities involved; provision be made to issue local ordinances and establish better facilities for the administration of justice; health and education services be extended; rates of pay and employment conditions on Cocos aligned progressively with Australian practice and International Labour Organisation conventions; provisions be introduced to permit freedom of movement for members of the Cocos community and provision for granting Australian citizenship to Cocos Islanders born there before 1955 who did not apply for citizenship in the prescribed time with a view to making it easier for the citizens of Cocos to take out such citizenship if they wished to do so. [More…]

• After reading the Minister’s Press release of June this year, I believe that certain things have to be stated for the benefit of the Australian community and for the benefit of the people of the Cocos-Malay community, the great bulk of whom are Australian citizens. [More…]

• For instance, one should ask what arrangements have been made to allow a transfer to the Cocos community of the village area of Home Island. [More…]

• What steps are being taken by the present Government to establish a representative form of local government for the Cocos community whose ultimate aim would be the creation of a fully elected body? [More…]

• An Interim Advisory Council, established in September 1 975 to hold consultations with the community and to advise the Administrator, was to be replaced by a fully elected Council as soon as the necessary arrangements could be made. [More…]

• Suddenly, in June, we are told, by way of a Press statement, that the Government is prepared to set out to achieve some form of local government in the Cocos-Malay community. [More…]

• The original fund was established for the benefit of the Cocos community and at present has some $27,000 or $28,000 in it. [More…]

• I think it is a matter of public comment that the Administrator mentioned that the plastic token by which the Cocos-Malay community is paid is worth about 40c of the Australian dollar. [More…]

• Under arrangements initiated in 1975, the terms of such contracts provide that a proportion of the contract payment shall be paid into a Cocos Community Fund under the control of, and for use by, the islander community. [More…]

• Although Australian currency is legal tender in the Territory, within the Home Island community, tokens (rupiahs) are used in transactions and for payment of wages. [More…]

• The tokens are not used by the islanders as a means of exchange in financial transactions outside the community. [More…]

• The administering Power acknowledges that some changes in community arrangements must take place before several conventions can be declared applicable. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, each time that the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment has dealt with the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development generally there has been some reference to the funding by the Australian Government of certain pollution monitoring appliances. [More…]

• I would be in a much better position to answer the honourable senator’s interjection if I could get better answers to my questions on this matter from the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• It will meet a need in the community in the Katherine area and will be an integral part of the education system. [More…]

• He has recently returned from this overseas visit during which he consulted more than 200 peoplerepresenting overseas agencies and individual interests-in various countries, amongst others the European Economic Community countries, Sweden, Austria, Brazil, the United States, Canada and Japan, regarding safeguards against nuclear weapons proliferation and has reported to me on those discussions. [More…]

• I think the Australian community must be very grateful for what has been done by the various committees that have been established. [More…]

• Does the Attorney-General agree that the absence of annual volumes and reprints is a cause of considerable inconvenience and obstruction to the legal profession and to other sections of the community? [More…]

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

• Woomera community is not disadvantaged both physically and financially? [More…]

• In view of the community concern about the production and spread of drugs in Australia, most recently evidenced by the appointment of two State royal commissions and a Commonwealth royal commission, and the widely held suspicion that marihuana is grown undetected in certain areas of Australia, will the Government offer to State Government drug detection authorities the services of Royal Australian Air Force helicopters and crews so that effective search and discovery may be carried out from the air? [More…]

• For my part, I hope we will be able to expand it because it is the one way in which we can generate very genuine concern for those people who are under privileged and, at the same time, learn ourselves where the community, the family and the education system are in defect. [More…]

• The people of this country well realise that we are concerned with giving every person in this community who desires an education the opportunity to have it. [More…]

• Unlike the silvertails and the people who come from Burnside, Toorak- where Senator Cormack lives- and up on the North Shore, who go overseas for a trip and send their daughters to finishing school whenever they have some surplus money, the working man spends his surplus money on getting a decent house to live in and a better education for his children, something that is of lasting benefit to the community. [More…]

• The idea is that we should have premature votes on subjects which are unnecessary and which are polarising so far as the community is concerned. [More…]

• I think that it is fairly undesirable insofar as the community is concerned. [More…]

• I think that the community expects to have lengthy Parliaments and expects governments at times to have to carry out unpleasant tasks in putting the economy into proper shape. [More…]

• Under the heading ‘Training Programs in the Budget Speech the Treasurer points out that such programs include the recently introduced community youth support scheme, the education program for unemployed youth and the special youth employment training program, all of which are proving their worth. [More…]

• I believe that we will have a very grave social problem in our community if unemployment continues for any great length of time. [More…]

• I think we must look at other ways whereby people will be able to carry out constructive and useful work in the community, be paid a proper amount by the community and not be in a position where they have to accept payments but feel that they are not contributing to society. [More…]

• We want people to perform socially valuable work outside the present employments which we know and for which the community will, of course, have to pay. [More…]

• In regard to this area, I believe that we have to recognise that, whilst unemployment is great, it is partially contributed to by the greediness and by the demands which are being made by some sections of the community and, particularly, by some of the extraordinary demands that are made by some union leaders who do not care how many people they put out of work provided that it gives to members of their unions some immediate advantage. [More…]

• I think the AAP, which was supported, of course, on this side of the chamber for a number of years, did a great deal to increase community awareness and interest. [More…]

• Fortunately, in my State of Victoria, there has been created in its place a family and community services program which is now getting under way. [More…]

• This year, about $2m is to be spent on developing and expanding in a decentralised way and working with local government, while enabling people in voluntary organisations to be elected to regional councils and to be active in the determination of expenditure on various family and community projects. [More…]

• If we believe in the democratic system, we have to provide in the community an opportunity to find solutions to the problems of society. [More…]

• If a community or a country was not perceived to be economically viable then we held that it could never be independent. [More…]

• One could go on to talk about the increasing unemployment in the community and I suppose that is something which has been done fairly well by many people. [More…]

• I recollect the case of a former Minister for Air, the Honourable Leslie Bury, who disagreed with the then Government’s decision concerning the establishment of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• There is a 95 per cent record of attendance at work by the 28 Aboriginal people employed in the Finke community. [More…]

• They had good community lives. [More…]

• As I say, they had excellent community lives. [More…]

• But today it seems to me that many forces within our community are endeavouring to discourage this form of family structure, and one of them happens to be our taxation legislation. [More…]

• In my view it is an occupation worthy of the most able in the community. [More…]

• As I said, in my review, in Australia it is an occupation worthy of the most able in our community. [More…]

• Senator Lewis brought up a subject which has been of some controversy in the Parliament and in the community for some time. [More…]

• This problem will be solved I believe by a reformation of the taxation system, by a resolution of the problems in this community and an acceptance of the views of the community as to who is dependent and who is not dependent in the family set-up. [More…]

• One wonders why women should not be allowed to use their skills and get the same satisfaction as men in the community if that is what they wish to do. [More…]

• One wonders why they should not make contributions to the community consistent with their skills and education if that is the best way to make them happy. [More…]

• Women who sew in factories have special skills that are needed in the community. [More…]

• Similarly, blaming the problems of the community on the left wing unions, the Industries Assistance Commission or anyone else except the Government gets us nowhere and will get us nowhere. [More…]

• The aims of the Budget are fairly typical for this Government They are to redistribute wealth and income to the more wealthy members of the community who in fact need it least; and to divide society both by this method of redistribution of income and by the continuing denigration of the unemployed which the present Government parties started before they came to office and by the sort of industrial confrontation that we have seen recently and that we are seeing now and are obviously going to see more of in the next few days. [More…]

• When we consider the statistics on employment rates in the community which are prepared by the Austraiian Bureau of Statistics we get a clear picture. [More…]

• The Industries Assistance Commission has been blamed and roundly castigated for destroying the economic climate in this community. [More…]

• What is happening in this country is that we have high unemployment for the simple reason that no jobs are available, that job opportunities are decreasing and that there is no likelihood of jobs becoming available in the community. [More…]

• When the new tax system was introduced it was trumpeted in this place and in other places as a great reform and as the start of a new Utopia in which everybody was going to get more money and in which the whole community was suddenly going to recover because df vastly increased amounts of money in its pocket. [More…]

• It was not long- in fact, it was only a couple of daysbefore disquietening noises were made in the Parliament, in the community and in the Press about the new scheme not being all it was set out to be. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Administrative Services aware that there is growing concern within the community, particularly in provincial, regional and rural centres, about the failure of the Government to make a policy statement on its attitude to any of the recommendations of the Horton Committee of Inquiry into Public Libraries which tendered its report to the Government as long ago as February 1976? [More…]

• But the most severely affected group of unemployed people in the community is the young generation of Australia. [More…]

• Only then can sustainable recovery in the employment situation, as it affects young people and others in the community, occur. [More…]

• Overall, they are directed to tackling the problem of inflation and increases in wages are way beyond productivity in the community and restraining government expenditures which have such a major effect on inflation. [More…]

• The statistics show that one of the major contributors to youth unemployment is in fact the level of unemployment generally in the community. [More…]

• Certainly the Government agrees that there are serious social and economic implications for young people and indeed for the community generally as a result of high levels of unemployed youth. [More…]

• At the moment there is also the Community Youth Support Scheme, which encourages community organisations to provide programs to support unemployed youth, to improve their capacity to find jobs and to help them to maintain a positive attitude to work. [More…]

• I hope that in the short time that has been available to me I have been able to indicate that the Government is certainly most concerned about the social and economic implications of unemployment amongst the youth of our community. [More…]

• The Community Youth Support scheme is another Government program, another Government initiative, and it is an interesting one. [More…]

• It funds community organisations to provide support for young people who are out of work and to help them learn how to get a job. [More…]

• It does not take into account- I and other senators on this side of the chamber have pointed this out already- the flow-on effects of the number of working days lost throughout the community which create a good deal of hardship and side effects. [More…]

• Apart from the purely economic impact of unemployment, other effects included ‘disturbance of the person’s relationships with his family, other people and the community at large, and apparently severe effects on psychological and even physical well being’. [More…]

• If you finish with learning- as many children of 16 and 17 years of age do- the place for you is in the community’. [More…]

• It has stated that after the three years of disastrous economic mismanagement by the Whitlam Government, it is essential to get the economy under control- back on the rails, as Dr Scott put it- so that we can meet the growing challenges in our community and start to move forward. [More…]

• The Community Youth Support Scheme is one that is very well known by now. [More…]

• It 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 Royal Commission was established by the Labor Government with quite wide terms of reference, having regard to some concern in the community at large regarding the apparent proliferation of Australian intelligence organisations, some confusion about their role and their function, and a very great degree of confusion and lack of confidence about their capability and their assessments. [More…]

• In paragraph 42 of his report Mr Justice Hope again provided some degee of assurance to people concerned about the Australian intelligence community. [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 AttorneyGeneral to set overall policy and oversee the work of the intelligence community. [More…]

• I suppose they could best be summed up by saying that His Honour found that Australia’s intelligence community was fragmented, poorly co-ordinated and lacked proper guidance. [More…]

• His Honour then set out to give advice to governmnent as to how those defects in the Australian intelligence community ought to be remedied. [More…]

• I know that even amongst some members of the Parliament, certainly in the media and far too often in the community, royal commissions are looked upon somewhat as a joke. [More…]

• I said that the Royal Commissioner basically said that he found that Australia’s intelligence community was fragmented, poorly co-ordinated and lacked proper guidance. [More…]

• I put to the Committee that it is proper to put those provisions in a Bill like this, unless any honourable senator would like to propound the proposition that perhaps the DirectorGeneral ought to have access anywhere within the community. [More…]

• I would have thought that in these days where more and more people are worried about the right to privacy in the community that that is a proper sub-clause to place within the Bill. [More…]

• There is a further problem in the Australian community in that people wish to have access to some imported motor vehicles and equally wish to have a solid, expanding industry employing people in Australia. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In this inquiry the Committee took evidence from the Departments of Industry and Commerce, Construction, and Environment, Housing and Community Development, relating to four matters. [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. [More…]

• The apportionment of each State’s allocation between the State housing authority and the Home Builders’ Account of the State is determined by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community after consultation with the House Minister of the State concerned. [More…]

• It’s about time some farmers started seeing themselves as part of the Australian community. [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 community. [More…]

• Early 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…]

• 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 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 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 jim the new International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• I refer specifically to the traditional attitude of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• But I believe that is no reason why it should establish itself now within the community of nations as a group which is not prepared to recognise the overwhelming need to l iberalise trade throughout the world as much as we possibly can and to reach the type of agreement we are debating. [More…]

• Air pollution is of concern to all thinking people hi the community. [More…]

• There is a great need to adjust the community’s thinking, so that people will consider reducing the impact of pollution upon the environment and upon our quality of life. [More…]

• There would not be any working people, I am sure, with their low wage levels, who would be able to take advantage of these appliances, but at least the wealthy section, which sometimes I refer to as the silvertail element of the community, can in fact use them. [More…]

• But the letter tends to emphasise the concern in the community at the present time. [More…]

• Firstly, I ask that we not forget to encourage the private development of solar energy, which is quite available and quite patent in this community. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Minister for Primary Industry and the Minister for Science set up a working group empowered to determine the details of research needs as outlined in this report, establish research priorities and make recommendations for the initiation and support of appropriate associated research programs. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and /or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• How many houses have been built annually for Aboriginals in this community since December 1 969 and what has been the annual cost of these houses to the Federal Government. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and /or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and /or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• ) What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

• What funding has been provided annually to each Aboriginal community and/or organisation in these areas since December 1969. [More…]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3) The Government’s decision on uranium mining in Australia was announced on Thursday 25 August 1977. [More…]

• I certainly believe that the matter of genetic engineering is important to the community generally. [More…]

• I read the article with considerable surprise because there were no proposals currently before the Government or the community which could have given rise to such a report. [More…]

• I believe that the sooner the community of nations bands together and says quite outright that no succour or assistance will be given and that those countries which do give it will suffer a penalty, the sooner this crime will be stamped out in the airlines. [More…]

• This Bill points up clearly the Government’s disproportionately harsh treatment of the housing sector, which is one of the most vital social priorities of the Australian community. [More…]

• This decrease in the absolute level of funds being made available for housing must be viewed against a background of extraordinarily high and rising levels of unemployment throughout the Australian community, against a background of sluggish economic activity generally and in particular in the housing industry, and against a background of record numbers of applications for housing assistance. [More…]

• The rate of growth of M3- which includes the cash within the community, the amount in trading bank current deposits and in trading and savings bank deposits on a term basis- is to decrease to the 8 per cent to 10 per cent range this year, against the 10 per cent to 12 per cent range last year. [More…]

• People who are in need of help should be helped by the community. [More…]

• The Government has blamed everybody in the community except itself for the failure of its policies, and this is just one more place where the blame is transferred to someone else’s shoulders. [More…]

• child care and other family care programs; health care services- including Medibank, community health centres, womens’ refuges and domiciliary care services; housing- in particular housing for aged and invalid people; programs and allowances for the handicapped; pensions and benefits (and proposed transfers of responsibility for these); the Legal Aid Commission Bill: Aboriginal Affairs; Australian Government Printing Services; and grant-in-aid services for migrants and interpreter services. [More…]

• I have received a great number of representations suggesting various approaches to these problems from many sectors of the community. [More…]

• This was a community project with community involvement. [More…]

• The Aboriginal people at Onslow, the Noualla community, own a 750,000 acre sheep station. [More…]

• The community has been told that it must now have a white adviser. [More…]

• This is a community which is trying to do its best, even though there is no feed on the station. [More…]

• The community there wanted $3,000 for Pimque outstation. [More…]

• The Strelley community requested $73,000 to rehouse people, to fix the town water supply and to make repairs following the cyclone in April 1977. [More…]

• The Bayulu community at Go Go, which was incorporated in 1975, and the Wanghaljungka community at Christmas Creek were each offered $25,000 for a housing program in 1975. [More…]

• In a letter dated 1 7 March 1 976 the Aboriginal Affairs Director in Western Australia offered the people of the Kadjuna community at Fitzroy Crossing $34,000 as project money. [More…]

• Early in 1 977 the Department of Aboriginal Affairs advised the Kurnangki community that it would receive some finance in late April or early May 1 976 to purchase three saddles and a freezer. [More…]

• The community was advised by the Department that no money was available for 1976-77 or 1977-78 as the community had not been funded previously. [More…]

• We have the following telegram from the Jigalong community: [More…]

• Jigalong Community Incorporated has not been refused Federal Government funds. [More…]

• The telegram is signed by Mr J. Readhead, the Manager of the Jigalong community, who I assume is a white man. [More…]

• The request was rejected after discussions with the State Department for Community Welfare on the grounds that the accommodation sought was inadequate. [More…]

• A total of $71,810 was applied for by the community for housing, $1 1,000 for a special work project and $26,800 for the bakery. [More…]

• So the Amata community received nothing out of a properly documented program requesting assistance. [More…]

• The union bashing program that has been adopted in Queensland and in Victoria in particular is part of an ongoing program to divide the community wherever the Government possibly can. [More…]

• Unfortunately, there was a thought throughout the community- Senator Georges was one of those who promoted the idea- that it was time for a change. [More…]

• The matter that comes to mind so readily is one that is of great importance, I believe, to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• There were many confrontations between the Ministers and members of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Indeed, I had the experience of sitting with him in the company of a group of people at the Aurukun mission station in Queensland during the controversy over bauxite mining and the treatment of the Aboriginal community by the Government of Queensland. [More…]

• They are creating chaos in the community. [More…]

• Mr Lynch hopes that the business community will rise to the bait and start to invest again. [More…]

• But as well as being concerned about the general group of people from my own background, I am concerned about the youth in the community. [More…]

• If there is a cutback in government spending by what I have called previously the inverse multiplier’ it affects the entire community of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I could not agree more that these are vital within the community. [More…]

• The only additional library that can be commented on is the Darwin Community College Library, and that is most inadequate. [More…]

• Some relevant figures for 1973 of the per capita consumption of coal in kilograms of coal equivalent are as follows: World average, 2,074; developed countries, 6,531; developing countries, 388; United States of America, 11,887; Australia, 6,064; United Kingdom, 5,558; European Economic Community, 5,000; Western Europe, 4,339. [More…]

• Then, for them to reach a standard lower than ours but comparable with the European Economic Community will require a vast increase in the consumption of world energy. [More…]

• It was the Labor Government that began spending large sums of money to improve the position of Aborigines in the community. [More…]

• It said the law was causing division with the community. [More…]

• Positive results have come for one section of the community affected by the closure. [More…]

• Naturally this is pleasing for the community in general, but it still leaves the workers, including employees of those subcontractors, forgotten- those least financially equipped to cope with a sudden wage loss. [More…]

• Eighty-five people would be retrenched when three Commonwealth hostels in the ACT closed on 24 July, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, says in a letter to the Member for Canberra, Mr Haslem. [More…]

• Staff shortages have made it difficult to provide an immediate response, particularly if the hearing takes place in an outlying community. [More…]

• I refer the honourable senator to the statements to the Parliament on 25 August 1977 by both the Prime Minister and the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development in which it was stated that there is no intention of Australia storing other countries ‘ radioactive waste. [More…]

• They range over a large number of categories, but particularly the Government has been concerned with the large proportion registered for unemployment within the younger section of the community. [More…]

• One of the most serious aspects of such disputation which are now becoming apparent is the widespread impact this has on the community generally. [More…]

• When statistics are collected of working days lost which refer directly to people actually on strike or to other people working in the same establishment as those on strike, they certainly do not reflect the ultimate impact of strikes on the community as a whole. [More…]

• In addition, all the other activities that take place in industrial disputation today, such as work bans and go slow campaigns, have a widespread impact on the community and upon workers in other avenues of employment. [More…]

• Even though a relatively small number of people may be engaged in strikes, the enormous impact they have on the workers and people in the community generally must be obvious, even to members of the Opposition. [More…]

• Apart from particular matters such as criminal cases, court martials, 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…]

• We have in Victoria a board of inquiry which the Premier of that State, upon hearing allegations that might suggest wrong doing on the part of government employees or others, appointed and placed under the chairmanship of a former judge of the Supreme Court, Mr Justice Gowans, a man of impeccable judgment and long respected in the Victorian community. [More…]

• All I can say about that is that it shows that in that State the taxpayers’ money, which is collected as a consequence of this Parliament’s activities, is well spent and that the government is delivering services to the community. [More…]

• I contrast that situation with the unhappy situation which one sees in my State of Victoria where the fact of the matter is that services are not being developed for the community. [More…]

• There is a chronic lack of planning, poor delivery of services to the community, and enormous rip-offs, publicly discussed in Victoria, by agents and land speculators. [More…]

• By no means does that section of the community include only Europeans. [More…]

• It is this section of the community about which I am concerned. [More…]

• Let me say that he is not the only one of the Aboriginal community who seeks power and prestige by exploiting the Aboriginal race and using his Aboriginal origin. [More…]

• In South Australia in 1973 or 1974 the Aboriginal communities of Adelaide wanted a community centre where they all could meet. [More…]

• They formed an organisation and made application to the Minister for money to buy a community centre. [More…]

• Application was made to the Minister for $ 1 12,000 to purchase a community centre at 128 Wakefield Street, Adelaide. [More…]

• It was discovered that the property purchased on 18 September was transferred from one owner to the owner who sold it to the Aboriginal community on the same date. [More…]

• McDonald Reid sold the property to the Aboriginal community for $1 12,000 on the same day. [More…]

• You will recall that some months ago you inspected a building in Adelaide, which if purchased would have provided office space and community facilities . [More…]

• 1 recommend that you approve the grant of $ 1 12,000 to the Aboriginal Community Centre Incorporated to purchase the building at 128 Wakefield Street, subject to agreement by all Adelaide Aboriginal organisations that the property meets their requirements. [More…]

• But the negotiations were conducted by S. W. Tilmouth, the solicitor for the Aboriginal Community Centre, who was taking instructions from secretary of the Aboriginal community organisation. [More…]

• There are as many con men in the Aboriginal community or amongst those who pretend to support Aborigines as we will find in white communities. [More…]

• South Australia is particularly influenced by current events in the economy and in this political community. [More…]

• I have taken the trouble to find out the effects of current events among certain sections of that community. [More…]

• I feel that this is a relatively large number of people who have taken the trouble to educate themselves, to follow a distinct line of development in their personal application and to engage in a service area to the community based on the skills which they have attained. [More…]

• Commercial agents and others who serve industry by selling and who are virtually the eyes in the extension of activity in the sales areas- the people who make industry work by setting up their goods before the community- numbered 1,020 people. [More…]

• The Austraiian Postal Commission and the Australian Telecommunications Commission have 660 people employed in that particular service to the community. [More…]

• In the second category, those people aged 21 years and over, 1,955 males and 485 females within that community were looking for work. [More…]

• These figures give some indication of the problems in this area and indicates, in some measure, that the seat carries what I suppose would be close to the national average percentage of unemployed- of those people in the community who are looking for jobs and are finding all the difficulties which go with seeking jobs for the first time, a second or a third time or whatever, according to their particular application. [More…]

• I looked at another group of figures which gives a further insight into the composition of a community which, as I said, constitutes oneeighth of metropolitan Adelaide with between 70,000 and 80,000 people. [More…]

• As I have said, when one looks at that community, which is a representative area of South Australia, one sees all sorts of challenges with a particular job to be done by governments in assessing the needs of these people and in providing services and a particular job to be done by the community in general to make society work in that area. [More…]

• It is bound up with so many dozens and probably hundreds of small businesses which depend upon the economic health and the economic climate of this community. [More…]

• This community is not a great venturesome supplier of export markets; it supplies basically a home market, which is affected so dramatically by internal factors in this community. [More…]

• In looking at these figures, I could not help but think how deeply affected this community is by inflation. [More…]

• The rate of inflation has destroyed the expectations which people had in the past to quietly and confidently enjoy the security of a long-term job and the hopes of their children to partake in job opportunities in our community. [More…]

• As I have said, by restoring stability in this community and by restoring employment in this community we will ensure that the rate of inflation is reduced, and that is being accomplished- more slowly than we would like, but it is being accomplished. [More…]

• Secondly, another vital need is required to restore the health of this economic community and that is union cooperation in restoring jobs in this community and in maintaining those jobs. [More…]

• What are the unions going to go in relation to co-operation to bring about economic health for this sort of community in Australia and particularly in South Australia? [More…]

• In making that assessment of the ethnic community in this district and of the categories of employment of those who are now unemployed, and in looking at the economic problems of this community I certainly make the assertion that Hawker will not be served in the future by a Whitlam government. [More…]

• Despite the fact that they have been a minority and nave been in a difficult position, there has not been any community amongst the whites who have offered more people and taken more risks in opposition to the South African apartheid regime than the members of its Jewish population of South Africa. [More…]

• On 24 September m the Johannesburg Star, which is a South African newspaper- Johannesburg is in South Africa, as Senator Jessop may know; I know he is an authority on the country but I do not know whether his knowledge is sufficiently deep to enable him to know that Johannesburg is in South Africa- in an article headed ‘Greeks speak out on Kruger’ it is reported that members of the Greek community in Johannesburg have protested against reported comments by the Minister for Justice, Mr Kruger. [More…]

• -I hope that any members of the Greek community who would have heard of Senator Jessop would be aware that he thinks that that is quite a commendable thing to say. [More…]

• Its officers and members are continually engaged in community services. [More…]

• They serve on committees of other organisations in the community which are interested in the social welfare and the economic welfare of the community. [More…]

• The trade union movement will not and cannot accept restrictions upon its right to involve itself in the political life of the community, and this seems to be one of the bones of contention today. [More…]

• The point is that the trade union movement is under the domination of the left wing demagogues throughout the community who are seeking to impose political judgments on the things that are being done in the interests of people generally. [More…]

• -These issues are of widespread concern to a large number of independent students in the community who do not wish to see their funds used for political purposes. [More…]

• Many people in the community took advantage of it. [More…]

• -That comment has been made often by people in the community and sometimes by people in the Parliament. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether he is in a position to answer the apprehensions of Dr Mosley, the Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation, that uranium mining targets in the Northern Territory make the concept of the Kakadu National Park, as envisioned in the Fox Report, impossible to achieve. [More…]

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

• One wonders, having regard to that type of expenditure involved and the type of distribution that has occurred to date, whether the public and the community at large have been getting value for the money that has been involved. [More…]

• I do not think it is fair to the large section of the working class community involved that legislation governing their whole lives and operations should be pushed through this chamber, on every occasion, on the last day of sitting, on the basis that some urgency has arisen. [More…]

• I suggest that, at great cost but no worth to the community in the process of the printing of Hansard, he is filling the Hansard record with repetition and irrelevancies. [More…]

• In view of the serious situations which exist in industry and in the community generally, it is a sad reflection on the Senate that it is not given sufficient opportunity to discuss at length very serious legislation which will affect dramatically the relationships between employers and employees in private industry and in government. [More…]

• He would do much better to consider his electors and constituents and their concern in the community. [More…]

• Why is it that the Bill that will be introduced at 8 o’clock this evening will be brought on for debate before the members of the party that I represent have an opportunity to discuss it among themselves, let alone with the broad sections of the trade union movement that wish to discuss the matter with my party and to convey their point of view to my party so that the Bill may be debated adequately in this place and in the community generally? [More…]

• In short, the recommendations brought in by the Tribunal are in line with the changes that have taken place in the wages and salaries of other people in the wage and salary structure of the community according to wage determinations based on indexation made by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in the period involved. [More…]

• As I will point out when I refer to other statements which have been made in the House and to the actions of members of this Government when they were in opposition, you are creating a divisive attitude in the community. [More…]

• After all, the Liberal Party is supposed to be a liberal party to cover all sections of this community. [More…]

• Today Her Majesty’s representative aligned himself with one section of the community against another section. [More…]

• He has completely lost sight of the fact that that piece of legislation also will cause division in the Australian community. [More…]

• Yet, I draw honourable senators attention to the statements he made in 1975 about the divisive measures that the present Government, when in Opposition, was inflicting upon this community. [More…]

• Let me say that Senator Jessop has a bit to answer for in the community. [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 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: Those rights must be protected and the obligations must be met. [More…]

• The real issues are the soaring economic and social costs to the entire community, and the capacity of certain unions and groups of unionists to inflict this harm. [More…]

• Third, 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 senators are only too well aware that disputes affecting trade and commerce or essential services have imposed profound economic dislocation on the community. [More…]

• It represents a necessary reshaping of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to meet changed industrial circumstances and to reassert the rule of the law in expressing or defining industrial rights and obligations 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…]

• We have seen internal inquiries into the problems faced not only by Aborigines but also by other sections of the community. [More…]

• First of all, it would give Aboriginal and Islander people in the community who have been disadvantaged because of the application of the law the right to tell their own story without fear of any repercussions. [More…]

• Believe me, Mr President, if one is black in this community the repercussions that can follow if one - [More…]

• It is part of the system, but the repercussions that can follow to disadvantaged people in the community are almost unbelievable. [More…]

• There was a very good local organisation there that was quite capable of working in liaison with any section of the community which felt that it had some problem. [More…]

• That organisations has done more than any other organisation to remove the problems being faced by the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• We can overcome that provided we have the capacity to train our police force and other sections of the community properly. [More…]

• It is conceivable that an inquiry of this nature would benefit in the long term both police and Aboriginal people, as well as the wider community. [More…]

• One of the most dramatic changes and increases in the work load of our members over the past 14 months has been in the relations between police and some members of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Militant Aboriginal leaders have travelled around the States stirring local Aborigines into direct confrontation with our members who are endeavouring to enforce standards which are acceptable to the white community. [More…]

• Particular examples of problems indicate the extent of the problems encountered by police with certain elements in the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I should like to give an example of something that happened some years ago in the Townsville area when a member of the Aboriginal community rang me at my office and said: ‘Mr so and so is in gaol at Stuart Creek’. [More…]

• To say that the police are unpopular amongst the Aboriginal community would be a gross understatement. [More…]

• Members of the black community were aware of this, but when he was asked by an officer from the Aboriginal Legal Service, he was too afraid to say anything. [More…]

• She goes on to state in the report that it is usually only because it is known that she has friendships with certain influential people in the community that she is not then arrested. [More…]

• During the afternoon when they were reviewing the effect on their community after having taken over the hotel some two years ago- these were the words which came straight from the Aboriginal people- they said to the community adviser at this meeting: ‘Will you please write a letter to the [More…]

• Why do we have the stirring up of a situation with honourable senators opposite calling for a commission when there are many things happening within the community today which are bringing about a development of better relations. [More…]

• But if we earnestly and sincerely want to bring about better relations between the European community and the Aboriginal community, the last thing we want is a royal commission. [More…]

• As I have said before, the only way to do this is by going into their community with some understanding. [More…]

• When the Government receives this final report it will be open for the Australian community to look at it, to criticise it, to advise on it and to make recommendations on it. [More…]

• I suppose it is natural that there are many complaints throughout the whole community. [More…]

• They are not citizens of any other country and, despite the efforts of some Israeli spokesmen to do so, I do not think that one can deny that the Palestinian people, whatever historical origins they may have had, are also, if they want to have one, entitled to have a state in those areas of Palestine which are not recognised by the international community as being part of Israel. [More…]

• I have always sought to be extremely careful, unlike lots of other people who have been commenting in the community. [More…]

• The earlier statments by the Prime Minister which were condemned by various economic experts in the community and indeed in the Opposition in the Senate and other places are now shown to be quite correct. [More…]

• If this is the percentage we finally establish it will be of great credit to the Government and it will be an indication of the restraint shown by the community. [More…]

• As I understand the general thrust of the honourable senator’s question and argument, he asserts that there is an enormous waste of that resource in the Australian community and that more attention ought to be directed to its use in the Australian community. [More…]

• Their belief might be wrongly founded- they might be misinformedbut people in this community are entitled to disagree. [More…]

• Of course, these days we have a new sort of dogma in the community. [More…]

• If honourable senators opposite think some crime is attached to a person wishing to act as an individual in this community they ought to say so. [More…]

• There are a lot of free loaders in this community. [More…]

• I should have thought that anybody who believes in a fair go in this community would believe that there is a right not to join a union. [More…]

• This Government is attempting to do its utmost to establish the best possible relationship between employee and employer groups in this community and I think it would be a pity if that attempt to bring about good relations in Australia were disrupted by a take-over of the Trades and Labour Council in Tasmania. [More…]

• Equally, it needs to provide an adequate and economical service to the community, particularly to Tasmania which is a State to which sea freight is so important. [More…]

• The indirect impact on the community is a disgrace to a civilised State. [More…]

• It behoves the trade unions, having been given such a share in the prosperity of this country, to come to a realisation that they are part of the community and are not above the industrial law of the country. [More…]

• No community that we call civilised can operate to regulate the rights of its units unless the law is administered by tribunals and courts impartially for the benefit of the people, and that, in the industrial situation is a substitution for the economic chaos which is reminiscent of the outlook of a century ago past which Senator Button’s reading has not come. [More…]

• This is causing far more disruption to the community than was ever experienced under the previous Government. [More…]

• This action is far more disruptive to the community in general. [More…]

• On the question of individual rights, it will be interesting to see just whether the Society for Civil Liberties will back our proposals, because it must surely agree that the proposals in this legislation relating to individual rights are essential to this community. [More…]

• As Senator Wright has said, Australia has built up a high standard of living because of community interest and community cooperation. [More…]

• Until the injustice which we are now prepared to recognise was rectified, there was rural revolt in our community. [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…]

• 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…]

• We believe that they are entitled to make a contribution to preserve what they are enjoying and likewise to contribute to the ever increasing and on-going work to ensure that the standards are maintained consistent with relative standards within the community. [More…]

• The man simply plays with the Australian industrial community. [More…]

• It therefore supports the naked power of those people in the union movement who will use gangster tactics to force into their organisations independent contractors in this community, who drive cement trucks, brick trucks et cetera that they themselves own. [More…]

• Why is it that, having dealt with the business sector, when we look at the other side of commerce and industry, the greatest power groups in the community, to see whether they are fair, it is wrong to ensure that they have fair rules. [More…]

• This again is a move aimed at getting right at the heart of one of the most destructive matters in the Australian community, that is, demarcation disputes. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite are also against the provisions which provide for democracy in the industrial community by making it an offence to force individuals to join unions. [More…]

• That is what the Labor Party believes should rule the industrial community, not the freeing aspects of this legislation. [More…]

• I suppose that beyond all else it is opposed to the provisions which seek to enable the people to move in the community free of fear and intimidation. [More…]

• In saying that I want to make it clear that I also believe there are many well run unions in this community. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt would know that there are a considerable number of well run unions in this country, lt is extremely disappointing that this legislation has to be brought in to deal with a very significant group of unions- but not all unions- which throttle this community by seizing its pressure points and its economic arteries. [More…]

• I trust that, because of the discipline contained in this legislation, those who do run the unions responsibly will provide the lead in this community for others who must follow. [More…]

• Unfortunately it is not possible for us to remove the differences that exist within our community. [More…]

• I would do the same myself if I was placed at a disadvantage apropos other employees in the community. [More…]

• They do not want to take on an apprenticeship in the metal trades because they know that over the period of their expected time in the work force they will be disadvantaged as compared with other members of the community. [More…]

• That is indicative of how much confidence the business community has got in this so-called free enterprise government. [More…]

• I conclude where I began: As I said earlier, we accept the fact that these divisions exist in our community. [More…]

• It will exacerbate the divisions within our community. [More…]

• There is concern in the community today that the unions have too much power. [More…]

• We have to recognise that laws of any description that are passed through this Parliament must reflect the current conditions in the community. [More…]

• We are here to make laws on behalf of the people in such a way that justice not only is done but is seen to be done, and certainly in the circumstances that we see before us to-day generally throughout the community we have an understanding of the changing nature of industrial disputation in this country. [More…]

• Rather, it is the development of guerrilla style tactics at the shop floor level within organisations which are disrupting extensive areas of the economy and of the community generally, bringing hardship to all sorts of people who are not involved at all in the dispute in question. [More…]

• Of course, at this very time we cannot afford these sorts of disputations which are becoming increasingly apparent in the community at a critical time of economic recovery. [More…]

• In that way this Parliament and this Government are reflecting the needs and the wishes of the community and are ensuring that justice is seen to be done. [More…]

• The move towards the establishment of secret ballots in trade union affairs needs to be recognised at all levels and the opportunity taken in this legislation to extend that deserves applause from the community. [More…]

• Finally, the requirements for unions to ensure that their accounting and reporting practices are in line with those required by shareholders of companies and all other organisations in the community are to be extended. [More…]

• It is aimed at trying to get at that hard core that is developing in trade unions- people who are using trade unions for their own affairs and for their own political objectives rather than those of the community as a whole or those of the union membership. [More…]

• Latrobe Valley strike, where unionists are seeking not to obtain further benefits for the membership as a whole, but rather to hold the rest of the community to ransom. [More…]

• The historic facts are that for two centuries the conservative elements in the community have sought in one way or another to contain the trade union movement. [More…]

• One of them is that each member of our community has rights and obligations. [More…]

• It is a sad commentary upon, and a state of affairs for, a once great party that it is now saddled with a leadership that it is not game to promote in the community. [More…]

• Can the Minister explain the breaking of a promise given to a community delegation 12 months ago that we would receive a regular feedback on the track record of the Australian representatives at the United Nations on any initiative to solve the dispute in Cyprus? [More…]

• In that address Mr Peacock referred to subsidies paid on the export of European Economic Community surpluses to third country markets. [More…]

• This is where Mr Peacock’s considerations about the European Economic Community were very important. [More…]

• The European Economic Community maintains a system of protection for agriculture which, in many cases, generates great surplus production. [More…]

• In the same period the European Economic Community has increased its share from 25 per cent to 65 per cent, mostly by dumping the product on the world market. [More…]

• This report, if it does nothing else, will establish in the community an appreciation that drug use and abuse is to be seen all around us and that alcohol and tobacco are the real menaces to the future health of the Australian community. [More…]

• Paradoxically, the current absence of an overall national strategy may be both a cause and a consequence of ambivalent community attitudes towards drug use. [More…]

• The report details the ravages of alcohol, in terms of ill health, erosion of social well-being and economic cost to individuals and the community. [More…]

• The community knows that smoking is a major health hazard. [More…]

• Yet there is little positive outcry or action by the community or by governments to change the situation. [More…]

• The community is divided over this issue, and the genuine divergence of community opinion is reflected in our report. [More…]

• We trust that in specific areas the Commonwealth Government- and, where appropriate, the State governments and Territory administrations- will be able to respond to our recommendations in pursuit of the objective of bringing excessive drug use in the Australian community under effective control. [More…]

• However, we were equally divided when it came to our recommendations on cannabis reflecting perhaps the division felt at this time in the community also. [More…]

• It is a health and a social problem of tremendous extent and one which exists only at great cost to the community. [More…]

• When we realise the tremendous carnage, the terrible crashes on our roads, and that some 50 per cent of all highway deaths are associated with the use of alcohol, it is time the community generally did something about it. [More…]

• We have had evidence that the effect of this is just so much worse than any effect already experienced in this community, which makes me believe that it would be totally irresponsible to do anything that would be likely to increase the use of marihuana. [More…]

• It is a report of which we want the Government and the community to take special notice. [More…]

• One of the frightening things in the report is that analgesics which until now have not been seen as a problem are affecting the health of a great number of women in the community who have no idea of the problem they are causing themselves. [More…]

• This report gives the community some idea of the extent of the problem at the moment. [More…]

• We feel that this report has brought to light a real problem that needs immediate attention if we really care about the health of our community. [More…]

• We believe that the community can deal with this problem if it wants to do so. [More…]

• To give the community an impetus to deal with the problem, governments must take a lead and make a stand. [More…]

• In order to eliminate this very small hazard- I admit that it is a hazard- from our national life we are contributing to the growth of another much more serious and much more dangerous hazard to our community. [More…]

• Drug problems in Australia cover a very wide section of the community. [More…]

• I think that this difference reflects the difference of opinion in the Australian community today. [More…]

• That is a concept of success which the Committee, and I do not think anyone in the community, could accept. [More…]

• It was arrived at in an atmosphere not of emotion and rhetoric which is so often experienced in general debate on this issue in the community. [More…]

• Yet, I do not believe that anyone here believes that the proportions in which those people are charged and gaoled bear any relationship to the various proportions of use in the community. [More…]

• In all the States in which the socalled decriminalisation procedure was introduced there are small groups- the groups about which Senator Wheeldon talked and which exist in every community- which will campaign continuously against such decriminalisation. [More…]

• Every valid report on the use of marihuana since 1894 has consistently refuted this connection between the use of marihuana and crime- all sorts of crimes about which we hear frequently in the community. [More…]

• I am able to say that because I sat on the Townley committee with the present Attorney-General and others and have no doubt that the interpreting and translation of papers from the far right ethnic community was pretty laggard. [More…]

• But there are a damn lot of people in this community who will not go to their local member of Parliament and tell mm about something over which they burn inwardly. [More…]

• I know that honourable senators opposite will say that the public does not support strikes; but, when the people of Australia realise that this Government was prepared to risk complete economic dislocation of the whole community on this single issue, support for the Government will dissipate overnight. [More…]

• At times they have not hesitated even to dictate to this Parliament, this great democratic institution which is representative of every adult male and female in the community. [More…]

• Many sections of the community, from employer organisations to State governments to those involved professionally in the industrial relations area, are beginning to realise that the legislation was ill conceived, ill designed and hastily prepared. [More…]

• I mentioned the fact that the Darwin Community College, as a developing institution, has an inadequate library. [More…]

• Bread and dripping were part of the basic diet of the less fortunate section of the community. [More…]

• It is on that basis that I would like to address myself to a few other rapid changes that have taken place in our community. [More…]

• I am certain that anyone in the medical profession who is sincere will realise that these centres are a long sought after necessity in our community. [More…]

• They were then developed to the stage where they are accepted in the community. [More…]

• They treated them as though they were an inferior section ofthe community, as though they had to be kept in their place- in the kitchen and pregnant. [More…]

• Members of the Country Party have been almost like parasites on the backs of the farming community of Australia. [More…]

• It is only because the toothless prices justification organisation gives some indication of exploitation and profiteering in the community that there is any balance at ali in the commodities people have to sell. [More…]

• When the history of the southern part of this globe on which we live is written, the Australian pioneers will have to answer for a small blot on the evolution of mankind, namely, the fact that a defenceless section of the community was wiped out without a whimper. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 6 September 1977: [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 6 September 1977: [More…]

• Has the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development investigated logging activities on Fraser Island; if so, (a) is the Department completely satisfied that logging activities are not harming the environment on Fraser Island; and (b) if the answer to (a) is no, what action does the Minister propose taking. [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice on 22 September 1977: [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice on 22 September 1977: [More…]

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

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

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

• This demonstrates, as all such disruptions demonstrate, how a handful of people can penalise the community in an attempt to blackmail to gain their own ends. [More…]

• There are more than enough people in this community already who have their fingers in the taxpayers’ pocket, and we should not encourage members of parliament to have their photographs taken at public expense. [More…]

• As this has brought almost unanimous criticism from both the community and ABC staff members and as this program had the highest ratings in that time slot, thus indicating its popularity, what steps can members ofthe public take to indicate to the ABC the sort of program that they want produced for their entertainment and enlightenment? [More…]

• Is the Minister saying that university staff and equipment are used to provide a service in the community in competition with private industry? [More…]

• It has a council and the membership of that council is widely representative of the community. [More…]

• The constant speculation has unnerved the business community. [More…]

• This Government has created a substantial liability overseas for future years, and has failed to instil confidence in the business community. [More…]

• That, of course, is what has prompted the Government to take special steps to assist the small business community. [More…]

• It is pertinent to look at a number of these, because almost no one in the Australian community is supporting the holding of an early election. [More…]

• To suggest that an election is necessary when a government’s moves are challenged by significant elements in the community is either the refuge of weak and uncertain leadership or the desperation of election mania. [More…]

• The Labor Government imposed an intolerable tax burden on the community to enable it to pay for its extravagances. [More…]

• We recognised the People’s Republic of China and opened up great trading outlets for the Australian community, particularly for the primary production section. [More…]

• We can hardly blame members of the business community if they are becoming increasingly uncertain of this Government’s economic policies. [More…]

• There has been a promised expansion in the relocation assistance scheme and the community youth employment scheme. [More…]

• This economic fact is creating economic certainty in the business community. [More…]

• When we look at the question of responsibility for any economic uncertainty in the community we must remember that there are a great number of unauthorised stoppages and strikes which create and breed an atmosphere of economic uncertainty and which must be looked at as a major cause of this uncertainty. [More…]

• That policy is now providing the first real glimmer of recovery that has been available in the economic community since the three Labor Treasurers dealt their blows to this community whilst the Labor Party was in office between 1972 and 1975. [More…]

• If there is any uncertainty in this community could it have any greater source than that Executive Council meeting at which the then Prime Minister, with his senior Ministers, signed a document to borrow overseas $2,000m for temporary purposes? [More…]

• The great discredit that devolved upon that Whitlam Government was something that all the Senate could see in its examination of the totally indefensible position in which the Government put itself by claiming temporary purposes for a loan which was in prospect to build great and long-term public works in the community? [More…]

• What greater uncertainty could there be in this community, when one surveys the political scene, than trying to guess who would be the Prime Minister of Australia in the unlikely event that Labor was elected at the next election? [More…]

• It is this Government which has brought the first real diminution in the rate of increases in prices in this community. [More…]

• When Labor came to office unemployment was an important but minor consideration in the economic community. [More…]

• When we came to office in 1975 it was an extremely major factor in the community, as it is today. [More…]

• In other words, from a buoyant economy in 1 972 the community was yielding to the Federal Government’s immense and rapidly increasing sums in taxation. [More…]

• It is that deficit which, of course, has basically created the unemployment in the community. [More…]

• In regard to whether the election will be in December or six months later, I say to the Labor Party that the only uncertainty and concern which the business community and private individuals who are involved in the situation have is whether Labor will be defeated. [More…]

• Because of those words which I have read to the Senate, the great fear in the Australian community is not the fear of an election; it is, what I believe is a quite unjustified fear, that Labor might have some chance of winning. [More…]

• That is the fear in the community. [More…]

• As soon as an election is held, whether it be December or May, and the Labor Party is again defeated with the Liberals victorious, there will be no uncertainty in the community because the election itself will remove that fear. [More…]

• It had appeared that there was general agreement in the community on the high quality and fair-mindedness of this program. [More…]

• The Opposition is prepared to support the Bill that is before the Senate, principally because we understand that the initiative and the suggestions for the imposition of the levy and for a research program has come from the farming community itself. [More…]

• I think it has become obvious to the Government as well as to the farming community generally that the production of oilseeds is now to be regarded as an important industry. [More…]

• It is now producing some $40m worth of revenue for the farming community. [More…]

• Despite all the semantics connected with the statement made by the Leader of the Government in the Senate on behalf of the Prime Minister, the simple and clear fact is that the Government is hoping that by holding an election at this time it might escape the wrath of the Australian community when the number of unemployed persons soars to over 420,000 early in 1978. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware whether the Commissioner for Community Relations is investigating that statement in the editorial of the journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation? [More…]

• I think this question is properly directed to me as Attorney-General because I have ministerial responsibility for the position of Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• Certainly, I believe that it is something which the Commissioner for Community Relations ought to consider. [More…]

• Will he also inform the Senate of the latest increase in expenditure on adult migrant education, so as to allay the fears aroused in the migrant community by the allegations put forward by Opposition members. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and stems from a Norwegian Government court of inquiry which examined certain oil blowouts on North Sea oil exploration projects. [More…]

• I have been advised by my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in another place, that his Department has taken this problem very seriously; that it is in communication with the Norwegian environment ministry and other sources of information in relation to the Ekofisk oil spill in the North Sea; and that his Department is being kept progressively informed. [More…]

• Preliminary reports have been carefully studied and speeches made by the Norwegian industry and environment Ministers are documented in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation inquiry into the adequacy of arrangements to prevent or to deal with oil spills in Australian waters. [More…]

• Officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development are currently considering these matters in consultation with other relevant Commonwealth and State authorities. [More…]

• Firstly, I do not think that the distribution commissioners have taken completely into consideration the responsibility that was given to them, especially when one takes into account such matters as the community of interest within a division, including economic, social and regional interests, the trend in population changes, the density or sparsity of the population, the area of a division, the physical features of a division and so forth. [More…]

• Senator Collard has expressed very clearly the ridiculous aspects of the Queensland redistribution in relation to the lack of community interest. [More…]

• Allegedly they dissuaded or deterred members of the Aboriginal community from exercising their right to vote after they had enrolled. [More…]

• There would be a certain degree of community of interest within such an electorate. [More…]

• Those proposals came as a body blow to the Liberal Party, which seeks to obtain in Parliament representation commensurate with the vote it receives in the community. [More…]

• Most people were impressed by Sir William’s argument that a genuine community of interest existed between the suburbs running along the southern half of the area in question, just south of the water, and that they should together form one seat. [More…]

• I believe that in regard to two electorates in western New South Wales there have been some strange- I leave it at that- interpretations of the provisions relating to size, community of interest and communications. [More…]

• Incidentally, it is an area which has very poor lines of communication from east to west and in which there now seems to be almost no community of interest. [More…]

• Into that relatively consolidated electorate has now been introduced the quite massive and very fine city of Broken Hill- a city of some 30,000 people, a mining and industrial centre whose community of interest with the rest of the Riverina is very difficult to identify. [More…]

• The Commissioners’ redistribution of that seat indicates that once again community of interest has been ignored totally. [More…]

• Surely, in considering community of interest, some account has to be taken of political affiliation or political representation. [More…]

• Similarly, Orange and Bathurst have a community of interest ranging over a wide field, including education and research. [More…]

• They have a community of interest and now find themselves in different electorates. [More…]

• It is totally difficult to understand how it could be conceived that the joining of that area to the traditional western commercial and agricultural area in any way relates to community of interest. [More…]

• We wish only that the Government would be as helpful on other matters affecting the rural community. [More…]

• Members of the coalition parties do everything they possibly can to try to install some fear into the members of the farming community. [More…]

• The Australian Government welcomes the establishment of the new Observatory and looks forward to close cooperation with the United States on this project which will provide improved data on solar activity for the benefit of radio communicators and the scientific community. [More…]

• and (2) An Aboriginal Welfare Unit has been established within the Community and Professional Services Branch of the Social Welfare Division of the Department and its role, particular responsibilities and functions are as follows: [More…]

• There is a growing realisation in the community that there is a need for manual skills and higher technology, and that there is a financially and spiritually rewarding career in those areas. [More…]

• I think it is perfectly clear now to most people in the community, if not to Mr Bob Hawke and to the Opposition, that the legislation was most necessary and desirable and that the Industrial Relations Bureau, with the powers it now has, will contribute substantially to the improvement of industrial relations in this country. [More…]

• Every time members of the Opposition interrupt to support the Denis Freneys of this world they underline their stance as disrupters in this community; they come on side with what is called low level terrorism, that is, the use of threat and intimidation to destroy freedom of speech. [More…]

• For my part, if the facts are as publicised, there is reason for grave concern in the community. [More…]

• I rise to speak about matters of appropriation which are not necessarily matters of public appropriation but which may be regarded by cynics in the community as matters of private appropriation. [More…]

• In such an interdependent community that which is within the power of Parliament and its partners to do to promote this objective should be done with alacrity and with total disregard to self interest. [More…]

• In such an interdependent community that which is within the power of Parliament and its partners to do to promote this objective should be done with alacrity and with total disregard to self interest. [More…]

• As Mr Cassell, the Director of the Cattlemen’s Union, said as recently as Saturday or Sunday, about 12 country seats are in jeopardy because of the attitude of Mr Sinclair and his lack of interest in the farming community. [More…]

• The general community might reflect on the situation in the light of Government assistance recently provided to the beef industry. [More…]

• But I was very heartened to hear another very well respected member of the farming community in this area stand up and say in reply that the primary producers should make a greater effort to sit down and discuss their problems with the leaders of industrial unions. [More…]

• The trade union movement is not the only section of the community that is at fault. [More…]

• I am just suggesting that if honourable senators were to get out and talk to the younger members of the Australian community- practical, decent, levelheaded members of the Australian communitythey would know that the community is saying that this place is becoming quite meaningless in regard to the events and circumstances with which members of the community, particularly the younger members of the community, are concerned. [More…]

• If the Public Service Board has made that determination, which Senator Gietzelt read into the record of this chamber, I think that the people who serve the community in this place are entitled to the greatest possible provision of staff, having regard to the responsibilities which fall upon their shoulders. [More…]

• Bearing in mind what I said about the inadequacy of staff for members of the Parliament and about the obsolescence of the Standing Orders of this place, the ordinary members of the public, particularly those of the younger generationthat section of the community which is suffering as a result of this Government’s policies- are becoming a little disillusioned, to say the least, with the old principle that Parliament is sacrosanct within the Australian community. [More…]

• These things reduce the reputation of the Senate and contribute to political alienation in the community. [More…]

• Now the Senate has no prestige in the eyes of the Australian community which declares: You are simply bludging in the Senate. [More…]

• I hope that next year it will do much more work, especially amongst those two groups in the community. [More…]

• I would have thought that in recent years the Senate has gained some stature in the community. [More…]

• Might I interpolate to say that all of those matters are of great importance to the under privileged section of the Australian community today. [More…]

• But, after all, the idea of having an election is to make certain that the right government is elected and not to make things easier for anybody in the community. [More…]

• Whether one looks at the public sector or the private sector and no matter what endeavour of life one may like to imagine, there is not one group of people in the community who would not say: ‘If only we had more people and more money we would be better’. [More…]

• The traditional approach has not recognised that the size or cost of a motor car has no relevance to the level of traffic management and enforcement required by a community nor the resources needed to carry out registration procedures. [More…]

• Do any Australian statistics, similar to those quoted in the article, show an increasing dependence within the Australian community on foreign medical graduates for the provision of primary medical care; if so, could the Minister give details, and, in particular, what trends they disclose. [More…]

• -I think the fact that unemployment increased threefold is a well known fact to the Australian community. [More…]

• We do a great disservice to the Australian community by pursuing the scare tactics which were used throughout the world but which have been proved wrong. [More…]

• Will the Minister investigate that matter and ascertain, firstly, whether the constitution and rules do so provide; secondly, whether such a provision is in accordance with industrial law in this country; and, thirdly, if it is, will he refer the matter to the Commissioner for Community Relations? [More…]

• If an investigation of racial discrimination reveals that assertions presented by Senator Chaney are correct, the matter is one which I think should be referred to the Commissioner for Community Relations and I would certainly do that. [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 community. [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…]

• Government debt is only a net burden to the Australian community when it is owed overseas. [More…]

• I heard also Senator Walsh’s remarks with respect to petrol equalisation in which he suggested that the Liberal Party always disregards the welfare of the farming community. [More…]

• That certainly will assist the farming community in overcoming its serious hardships at this time by providing a refinancing instrument to help the farming community through its financial problems. [More…]

• Today Her Majesty’s representative aligned himself with one section of the community against another section. [More…]

• He is doing his darndest to cancel Christmas for many of the people in the lower wage structure in this community. [More…]

• Let me say that Senator Jessop has a bit to answer for in the community. [More…]

• But who knows- in time, after Senator Hall’s defeat on 10 December in his bid for the seat of Hawker, he might form another party and then, in order to enlarge or to better his chances, he may see fit to divulge to the public at large just what he knows about Senator Jessop and what Senator Jessop has done in the community. [More…]

• This matter again has a migrant connotation and concerns a person in the Yugoslav community in Canberra. [More…]

• will he refer the matter to the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• The particular concern that I have following my visit to that area, and following conversations with pastoralists and their wives, both personally and on the radio, is that the Aboriginal community which is presently engaged in that industry is suffering very badly from the economic effects of the drought. [More…]

• Living on social services, they seek solace in drink and very soon become absolutely wasted members of the community, both to themselves and to anybody else. [More…]

• Those people either will go on being contributing, sensible and good members of the Australian community or, if they are cast aside, will simply become derelicts who will be pan of the shame that we have for the failures we have experienced with our Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Most socialists cannot afford to do those things because, as I said earlier, if they have any surplus funds they use them to help the underprivileged people in the community, unlike the capitalists, which Senator Sim made great play of being. [More…]

• Yet medical practitioners are held up by many people in the community as people who are honourable and would not do a thing wrong. [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…]

• The question which concerns the Opposition is simply this: Whether there is justification at this time for an increase in salary of $7,000 tax free per annum in the view of the functions of the office and the tasks that a Governor-General has to perform; also, in view of such other factors as the general decline in the increase in the rate of income of most members of the community. [More…]

• This is a concern expressed not just by Opposition supporters, but by many in the community generally. [More…]

• If the Government were consistent, this Bill would have been framed within the wage indexation guidelines which it so proudly portrays to everybody in the community. [More…]

• I believe that that is of very great importance, and I am sure that when Senator McLaren referred to it he felt that he was exercising his democratic right to have an equal opportunity with anyone else in the community who wishes to refer to it. [More…]

• Therefore, Mr President, although you have ruled according to the letter of the Standing Orders that Senator McLaren is unable to make such a reference, in my view it is a special matter in which you should exercise that extra discretion that should be available to the Presiding Officer to give a senator the same rights as anyone else in the community. [More…]

• It is not a matter of preventing history or issues being discussed here that are being discussed in the community. [More…]

• It seems to me to be totally unreal that in the Parliament members are to be restricted in a discussion of an important feature which already has been canvassed and talked about freely in the community, where there has been no action or suggestion that that should not be done. [More…]

• I do not want to see- as I am sure you do not, Mr President- a Senate which cannot, in a lively fashion, debate and consider the important political issues in the community. [More…]

• More than once he pointed out in the Senate in general observations- that is the context in which I make this point- that the Parliament and the Senate, after all, are only a reflection of the community. [More…]

• We hope that because they are different they accurately and democratically reflect the community of Australia, our country. [More…]

• Every producer in Australia involved in the export market will have to pay the price that these two oligarchies will claim from the Australian community. [More…]

• I suspect that the Government will argue that the new system will provide additional incentive to the community, but the people in the very high income class- I am talking now of people whose income is in excess of $25,000- will have their average tax burden lightened by something like 5 per cent to 7 per cent. [More…]

• It is true that one would assume there would be a greater incentive as a result of that policy but, as I have said, that group of people is relatively small and, because of their high incomes, they may well have access to accounting and other devices which we see so much of in our community. [More…]

• Everybody in the community accepts that if it is possible to get around the taxation scales and laws people will do so. [More…]

• I would like to scan over two or three other areas of this legislation which are of general interest to the community. [More…]

• In fact, the Opposition has denied entirely that the family allowance system is of any value to the community. [More…]

• It is a most worthy advance introduced by the Government in the Budget of 1976 and it has led to greater benefits for families generally and particularly for the wives in families throughout the community. [More…]

• I congratulate it on introducing the standard tax system, ensuring that certain tax avoidance abuses in respect of trusts have been closed off and making other substantial changes to the income tax law which will lead to long term benefits for the community. [More…]

• An article written by Ron Saw in today’s Sydney Sun pointed out that the Governor-General will live with the memory that he still is not generally accepted by many people in our community. [More…]

• I agreed that I would supply that information to him privately because I thought there were some people in the community who ought not to be hurt. [More…]

• I offer these comments in the sense that this is an area where I believe there is a necessity on behalf of the whole of the Australian community to come to deeper understanding of what this is all about. [More…]

• This is an imposition on the producing community <n particular, the people who ultimately pay for meat inspection. [More…]

• The community health program, which involves a block grant to the States, covers funding for women’s refuges. [More…]

• In the case of the community health program for Queensland, the Government of that State did not give to the women’s refuges the funds which the block grant was given to cover. [More…]

• I am not aware of whether that needed to be done, but it was the intention of the Government that if the Queensland Government did not fund the refuges under the block grants from the community health program those refuges would be funded direct. [More…]

• Australia’s continued membership of the ILO is fully endorsed by all sections of the industrial community in Australia, that is both employer associations and the trade union peak councils, and by all State government Ministers who met in September 1977 at the Labor Ministers’ conference in Perth. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the annual report 1977 of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• As well as providing a source of information to Parliament about the planning of the National Capital, the reports provide a useful source of information for the local community. [More…]

• The conclusions of the Committee and recommendations on the role that the national Parliament should play, the future role and structure of National Capital Development Commission and its relations with the Legislative Assembly and the community, as well as relations between the various bodies involved in the planning process and their relationships with the community, should be available for consideration by those involved in that debate. [More…]

• The Minister’s brief is to endeavour to secure increased access to the European Economic Community’s markets for Australian products. [More…]

• Economic Community is by no means Australia’s major trading partner. [More…]

• In 1972-73 Australia’s exports to the European Economic Community countries constituted 20 per cent of Australia’s total exports, whereas m the last financial year such exports, expressed in terms of the percentage of the total exports, were 16.8 per cent. [More…]

• One has to go back ten years before one arrives at the situation where exports to European Economic Community countries amounted to one-quarter of the total volume of Australia’s exports. [More…]

• It seems a strange situation that in 1977 a separate department of state is being established to improve access to the European Economic Community’s markets when the highly protectionist policies of the EEC have been widely known for some time. [More…]

• In 1973 the International Committee on Coal Research was formed by members of the European Economic Community and the United States of America. [More…]

• That dam will supply water to industry and the community of Mount Isa. [More…]

• Mr Burns asked that if the statement of the Premier had been correctly reported- and there is ample evidence on tape that the Premier said there was nothing wrong with the statements he had made- he should be charged, as would any other member of the community, and given an opportunity to defend himself in court. [More…]

• -It is blackmailing the Queensland community. [More…]

• 1 ) Representations dating back to 1969 had been made by Aboriginal groups seeking finance for a Community Centre in Adelaide. [More…]

• In respect of the latter aspect it is pointed out that the itinerary for the team has been the subject of negotiation for a number of months, and involved obtaining the approval of State authorities and community councils. [More…]

• -The Government is certainly aware of the strong desire of honourable senators, honourable members and many other people in the community to have a freedom of information Bill introduced. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether the Australian Rural Bank will bring about a fall in interest rates for the farming community? [More…]

• With the decline of the intensive exploitation of whales and seals earlier this century, for several years Antarctica was not regarded as a source of raw materials for the world community. [More…]

• That shows, I think, the interest of the community at large at the present time in the Antarctic region. [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…]

• We all know that President Carter is having enormous difficulty in placating the different elements in the United States community in order to get the best of two worlds. [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 have a very close relationship with the people of the west coast of Tasmania and feel dreadfully sorry that we have come to this point in the life of that community. [More…]

• The point I am making is that when we talk about assisting an industry which has been going for so long and in which relationships have been so good, in an area where there is such harmony in the community and people have combined on occasions of necessity and importance to work for the common good, we are talking of an industry which over the years has made a tremendous contribution’ to the national Treasury and the Treasury of Tasmania. [More…]

• I recall that during the war years trades people and business people in the community left their businesses and worked for the Mount Lyell company so that that company could play its part in the production of the essential minerals needed to sustain our war effort. [More…]

• If it did accept such a recommendation the whole community would collapse. [More…]

• We should have regard also to the fact that if the company closes down it will result in the disruption of whole families, communities of families and the many business operations which depend on the people being in that community for their future. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the Government has had the report in its hands for five weeks now- long enough, when the whole community is threatened- it should come out and say what the future holds for that region. [More…]

• Discussions are held with unions, with governments, with the local community and between Commonwealth and State governments. [More…]

• When the Labor Government introduced the Homeless Persons Assistance Bill in 1974 no Commonwealth assistance had ever been made available for organisations to help the homeless and destitute in the community- those people without secure family backgrounds, without means and frequently without self esteem. [More…]

• It was thought that at the end of three years the Government and the Parliament would be in a better position to decide, for instance, whether refuges for women, which are at present funded under the community health program, should become part of the homeless persons program. [More…]

• There is a very real problem in establishing residential centres for homeless men because no one in the community seems to want these people in their area. [More…]

• It put forward many arguments why State and local governments should be responsible for the aged, the handicapped, children- almost everyone in the communitybut, in fact, its aim essentially was artificially to cut the Government’s Budget deficit and transfer that sort of expenditure out of it. [More…]

• Some programs which were considered by Bailey were axed by the present Government but most of them, such as the Handicapped Persons Assistance Act, the aged and disabled persons home program, the children services program and the community health programs are continuing. [More…]

• Their life expectancy was very much lower than the average for the community. [More…]

• The percentage of epilepsy and venereal diseases was 10 dmes as high as that for the community at large; bronchial and liver diseases were three times as high; tuberculosis was four times as high; mental problems and breakdowns were four dmes as common, and back injuries more than twice as common as for the average industrial worker. [More…]

• This sort of situation arises when we have a group of people in our community who, for whatever reason, are as disadvantaged as are the group of so-called homeless people. [More…]

• I must emphasise that I am not one of those who believe that the warrantor system should be scrapped, but I would say that as an absolute minimum, any person who is to be warrantor for a number of homeless persons, pensioners or beneficiaries generally in the community, particularly those who act for a number, should be scrutinised regularly to ensure that justice is being done to the warrantees. [More…]

• The honourable senator mentioned the fact that there is some concern as to whether they should be funded under this Act or the community health program. [More…]

• It has been assured under the community health program. [More…]

• It must be combined with programs of active community development to help to give people the capacity they require and to allow society to intervene, if you wish, at an earlier stage in the process. [More…]

• Our objection is that the extension is not sufficient to correct a very serious and growing problem in the community. [More…]

• Senator Baume has said that more money is to be made available, but I do not think he has had experience of what is happening in the community. [More…]

• They are bodies made up of volunteers who are prepared to give of their time, money and help in assisting in this very important area of aid to the less fortunate members of the community. [More…]

• The involvement of the Commonwealth Government in this area was on the basis of providing assistance to voluntary organisations which were already in existence and which were trying to provide some solution to the need to assist homeess persons in the community. [More…]

• Because of this, we have picked out the one aspect in regard to which, we believe, the Government is completely out of step with the rest of the community and experts in the field, and propose both to move an amendment to the second reading motion and, in Committee, to oppose clause 14 which, in fact, withholds for a period of six weeks unemployment benefits to school leavers and some people who leave tertiary institutions. [More…]

• We believe that when introducing changes such as this, when there is an absence of sex discrimination in the community, the proper thing to do would have been to bring in at the same time the obvious reform of raising that permissible income at least to the level applying to other pensions and benefits in the community. [More…]

• The Government is changing a benefit and wording the definition in a way that is quite dishonest and quite misleading to the community. [More…]

• But, following the report of Professor Henderson’s Committee it became obvious that many supporting fathers, or motherless families in the community, also were suffering considerable difficulties. [More…]

• They believe, as everybody else in the community believes, that there should be a single category of lone parent benefit which is funded and administered by the Federal Government through the Department of Social Security, and that any lesser benefit is a step backwards. [More…]

• We have not found it necessary to appoint representatives from radical women’s movements as advisers to our Government as the last Government did just to appease some of the minority vocal members of the community. [More…]

• This has assisted women who were, I believe, the most disadvantaged in our community. [More…]

• It would appear that the figures for the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprenticeship Fulltime Training scheme and the Community [More…]

• As I said before, it comes as no surprise to me that these figures are a novelty to him because I do not think he or any of his colleagues interest themselves in what happens to low income families in our community. [More…]

• I mention that figure to demonstrate to the Senate that the dual income family is a fact of life in our community, particularly in the low income areas. [More…]

• Many honourable senators present tonight might be able to afford not to have a working spouse, but for the low income workers in our community the dual income family has become a necessity. [More…]

• I pointed out to her the hardships which were going to be incurred by many people in the community who, through no fault of theirs, found themselves unemployed. [More…]

• I pointed out to her also by way of question the added financial burden this measure was going to place on the community welfare organisations in all States. [More…]

• Before I sit down I shall quote that reply, together with some comments which have been made by Mr Ron Payne, the South Australian Minister of Community Welfare, who, I understand, was in Canberra today talking to the Minister for Social Security. [More…]

• If they have no skills that is usually the lowest paid job in the community. [More…]

• I say to Senator Guilfoyle again that when we are in office and we bring down our next Budget we will again care for the needy people in this community. [More…]

• I think it is a good thing for a government to be accused of if it is providing money for the people in the community who need it. [More…]

• Never mind the wealthy section of the community; they can look after themselves. [More…]

• Mr Ron Payne, the Minister for Community Welfare in South Australia, had to make a special trip to Canberra today to speak to the Minister. [More…]

• The plan, approved in principle last week was announced yesterday by the Minister of Community Welfare (Mr Payne). [More…]

• She mentioned the family allowance as assisting the family income, but when recently I spoke on the Budget I mentioned the fact that that allowance penalised certain people in the community. [More…]

• Certainly, the family allowance is of great assistance to people on very low incomes, but other people also live in the community. [More…]

• It is all very well for the Government to stand up and prate about what it has done to help certain sections of the community, but it should also take into consideration what it has done to disadvantage other sections. [More…]

• I am saying that the Government is incapable of bringing forward a budget that will satisfy the needy in the community, whether they be primary producers, lone fathers or anyone else; that it brought down these amendments only because the Prime Minister saw fit to go to the people 12 months sooner than he need do- because of political expediency. [More…]

• There seems to be some misunderstanding in the community as to the handicapped child’s allowance. [More…]

• However, there are people in this community who are on very low incomes. [More…]

• However, the Government is introducing legislation to gather up everyone in the net and this affects the less privileged in the community. [More…]

• Surely in those circumstances they will be entitled to some sort of benefit like every other adult in the community, as they would be. [More…]

• What the Opposition is pointing out is that the Government is considerably adding to those difficulties and adding to those difficulties where the people can least cope with those difficulties, namely, in respect of the children of people who are unemployed, the children of low income earners- the poor people in this community. [More…]

• This legislation will not affect the middle income earners in the community because in most cases they can afford to look after their kids when they leave school. [More…]

• It will only affect the people who are poor or the people in this community who are receiving benefits. [More…]

• I am pleased to see that the Government is developing specific purpose programs within its plans for future education needs of the Australian community. [More…]

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

• They are widely representative of the community and their job is to study applications from the non-government sector in terms of merit, in terms of priority, and above all in terms of need. [More…]

• I invite the Senate and the community to understand why Senator Georges does not want this question answered. [More…]

• It is stated in the report that weaknesses appear to exist in present arrangements for liaison between the government and various sectors of the community interested in the results of government research. [More…]

• I defy any honourable senator or any member of the community to go into a polling booth in a Senate election such as we saw in New South Wales in 1975, when there were some 70-odd candidates, and not take his how to vote card with him so that he will know who to vote for in the ordinary sequence set out on the how to vote cards. [More…]

• This legislation will then be wrapped right around their necks, because there is a great deal of community concern about the two aspects I have mentioned and much public discussion, despite the fact that it has been rushed into the Parliament in the dying days of the session when there is limited time available so that there cannot be sound and lengthy political discussion of it. [More…]

• That is an area of concern to not only the public and community broadcasters in Australia but also the commercial broadcasting sector, which is absolutely appalled by this aspect of the legislation. [More…]

• We wonder h ere, as we talk about it in the Senate or the House of Representatives, why Parliament and politicians are not held in the highest respect in the community when that sort of thing is going on. [More…]

• The function of administration and comment on broadcasting matters should be vested in a separate body called the broadcasting advisory council, which will be representative of community groups and the public. [More…]

• The right way is to grant ethnic communities public or community licences just as Australians we hope will be granted public and community licences. [More…]

• We do not think the Government has gone about this in the right way in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• These sorts of things are of vital importance and concern to the Australian community. [More…]

• When the Government introduced a proposal dealing with the broadcasting council- the Government has not gone on with that because the commercial broadcasting sector put a black ban on the Government- we moved amendments which would have provided that the broadcasting council should represent not only the industry but also other bodies in the community concerned with broadcasting standards. [More…]

• It is of concern to the community. [More…]

• This shows clearly how important the Opposition views the service which will provide the large ethnic community of this country with broadcasting and television services which are different from those which the Opposition when in government tried to establish. [More…]

• I feel that by including that provision in the Bill which will provide multilingual broadcasting and television services, the Government has realised that the term ‘ethnic broadcasting’ as such is a misnomer because in fact it is a multilingual broadcasting service which provides for different ethnic groups but which also provides for people who understand more than one language and who are not necessarily of a certain ethnic 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…]

• If the Opposition wants authorities to be representative of the community, I would like to find out whether there are migrants in executive positions in the socialist camp. [More…]

• Each ethnic community has nominated a certain number of persons from its own community to the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson). [More…]

• But again the appointment of somebody with a clearly partisan background in terms of the industry, Mr Bruce Gyngell, caused a great deal of scepticism throughout the community as to the objectivity and the independence of the Tribunal. [More…]

• The whole situation from the point of view of the community is totally unsatisfactory. [More…]

• We know that there are groups and bodies in the community which can well afford to sponsor certain kinds of programs and those which could never afford such sponsorship. [More…]

• It will be a disappointment to all those members of the community who believe in public broadcasting and who have been committed to initiatives in that field. [More…]

• I refer, of course, to the ethnic groups who have shown a great deal of enterprise and energy in setting up ethnic broadcasting over the old community access stations. [More…]

• It will be a disappointment to citizens who have taken the initiative to become involved in other kinds of community access programs. [More…]

• I think he will find that they may even be in excess of the ratio in which they exist in the community in general. [More…]

• Then the Minister stated: 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…]

• It certainly will be involvement in community radio and television. [More…]

• He says he wants the matter to be discussed fully throughout the community and within the industry. [More…]

• Let us look at community radio and television. [More…]

• This is where the community has the opportunity to broadcast its own programs in the way that they think is appropriate. [More…]

• I commend the Minister for the Media in the Labor Government, despite the comments that have been made about him, for what he did in the fields of access radio and community radio and for the licences that have been passed on to tertiary institutions. [More…]

• Let us face it: The credibility of the Government is pretty low at the present time and most people out in the community I speak to believe this Government would do almost anything. [More…]

• It could develop community access radio and television and again extend this facility. [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…]

• It is something which the ethnic community is anticipating and wanting and from that point of view I can see some urgency in the legislation. [More…]

• Of course, the Commission must have regard to whether it merely duplicates the functions of the Special Broadcasting Service, thereby wasting public money, when there are other things which could be done in the community with that money. [More…]

• They state that powers are being granted which may be used by different governments and which may be used negligently or intentionally to the harm of the community. [More…]

• I feel that it is better that the Service should be set up and that it should have representatives of the ethnic community on it. [More…]

• In other words, the Minister must decide whether the ethnic community or the Service shall carry out certain functions. [More…]

• I hope, as Senator Robertson does, that the special purposes will go beyond some of the things that have been contemplated in the debate and that they will include community and access radio. [More…]

• I know that there are limitations on the financial resources of the community, particularly at the present time. [More…]

• I hope that the Service will be used to provide community radio which I think ought to blossom, ought to be under proper control and to be given encouragement in this country. [More…]

• After waiting 21 years, particularly between 1969 and 1972 when the mass feelings of the ethnic community became a powerful political factor, it was the Labor Government which kept faith, firstly, by introducing pension portability; secondly, with the elimination of discriminatory clauses in the [More…]

• There were distinct schisms in the Portuguese community- one of the minority groups- between the mainlanders and those who came from the Canary Isles, the Azores or other places. [More…]

• I knew a chaplain in the Polish community who would not have been of the same belief as myself and Senator Keeffe. [More…]

• Other such people are Ivan Kosovich of the Yugoslav community Mr Calomneris of the Greek community. [More…]

• It is an area respecting which I am not going unduly to regale Senator Carrick, or honourable senators generally, with complaints from the Latin American community, but I can assure him that they are very effective political operators with strong points of view and will not allow themselves to be dominated by any other group claiming to speak for all Latin American groups at committee level. [More…]

• The Minister makes great claim, as do all her fellow Ministers, about Professor Henderson’s general comment that a reduction in inflation, which is important to the welfare of the poor and the under-privileged in the community, has been brought about by the present Government. [More…]

• The Opposition is concerned about the manner in which the Government has gone about attacking inflation because this has had extremely severe effects on the poor and disadvantaged in the community. [More…]

• In fact the Government’s policy of contracting economic activity to the point of stagnation not only has made it more difficult for the underprivileged people; it has added to the number of under-privileged people in the community. [More…]

• Real incomes in the community have in fact been cut. [More…]

• But that Association realises also that pensioners’ dependants’ allowances have not been increased since the Labor Government increased them in 1975, nor has the supplementary benefit which goes to the poorest of the poor in the community, namely, those people on pensions with very little more income who have to pay rental for their accommodation. [More…]

• In the same recommendation Professor Henderson recommended that the supporting mothers’ benefit should be a Commonwealth responsibility, and that to maintain justice in the community home care help, infant welfare, child care and general accommodation services for women in distress and children in distress should be upgraded and should be funded. [More…]

• The Minister then spoke about actively involving the community in assessing and devising welfare delivery schemes. [More…]

• This Committee is some example of community involvement in the assessment and delivery of welfare schemes! [More…]

• How does this compare with the active community involvement in the Australian Assistance Plan which the Government, despite a firm election promise, effectively torpedoed without any consultation with the States soon after coming into power. [More…]

• The number of lawyers employed by that office has decreased and we have, in fact, had protests from lawyers, client groups and the community generally about the reduction in legal aid and the inability of people to obtain assistance. [More…]

• The Government speaks of increased expenditures for the Community Health Service, but that increase amounts to only Sim more than the 1975-76 allocation, and 15.3 per cent less than the Hospitals and Services Commission estimated was needed to continue existing projects. [More…]

• We expect that, in the future, the underprivileged of this community will also get very little from it. [More…]

• That is not of benefit to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The work on Aboriginal settlements is today performed under the scheme about which Senator Keeffe has told us, whereby the amount of unemployment benefit previously paid to individuals on that settlement has been pooled and paid into the community, which is now employing a greater number for reduced hours and reduced wages for the purpose of seeing that they do not get in excess of the dole money. [More…]

• The Government decided that the Aboriginal community would appoint five members to the Committee and the Minister would appoint five members and that body would advise the Government. [More…]

• So the power has been taken from the Aboriginal community and is in the possession of a body to which the Minister and the Aboriginal community appoint equal numbers, but the Chairman is appointed by the Minister. [More…]

• It is making the needy people in this community go without in order to try to bring down the rate of inflation. [More…]

• I mentioned this matter last evening when talking about the Social Services Amendment Bill and the problem that existed in certain sections of the community because of the Government’s actions. [More…]

• Yet we find being put down in this Parliament tonight on the eve of an election a document which tries to fool the people that the Government has some concern, in the first place, for people who are suffering poverty and, m the second place, for the Aboriginal people of this 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…]

• He may belong to that 70 per cent or so of the Australian community who are concerned. [More…]

• I would like to think that the honourable senator would be concerned about community interest. [More…]

• It is very important that community interest be represented before the Tribunal. [More…]

• We are very concerned that in the broadcasting structure of Australia, community groups, the public interest, be represented m discussions about all sorts of matters varying from program standards to the question of whether people are entitled to have licences renewed and so on. [More…]

• That is a wrong approach if we are to have the sort of cohesive society in which terms like multiracial, ethnic and multilingual are meaningful in developing a rich and proper community. [More…]

• I am talking not about financial corruption but about corruption of the processes of government, the sort of corruption that brings parliaments and politicians into disrepute in the community. [More…]

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

• b ) regular meetings of welfare personnel and volunteers working amongst Lebanese and leaders within the Lebanese community are convened to develop and further extend counselling and information services to Lebanese; [More…]

• The Lebanese are eligible for social security benefits and allowances under the same conditions as the remainder of the community. [More…]

• With regard to action to be taken, I remind the Senate that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs wrote to all parliamentarians in October this year, referring to the citizenship ceremonies and mentioning that such a ceremony is a formal legal process in which the whole community unites in welcoming new citizens to this country. [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that the terms of the report hold the key to the future of the Mount Lyell mine and therefore the future of the whole west coast community in Tasmania? [More…]

• However, the fact remains that enormous profits are being made by particularly evil members of the community who are prepared to traffic in drugs for their own large profits. [More…]

• Honourable senators may be vexed to learn of these murmurings of dissent, that there is such dissidence in the farming community because the Government has failed it time and time again. [More…]

• He said that there was no chance of the European Economic Community ‘s common agricultural policy being changed and no chance of Australia getting the considerably greater access that it needs to that market. [More…]

• I know the Government is anxious to move ahead with the animal health laboratory- it is anxious about animal health generally- but when it became the Government it was forced to look at the quantum of government expenditure and to bring it down to more sensible levels consistent with what the community could afford. [More…]

• The rural community saw this as a means to overcome the dramatic increase in debt that faces the rural sector. [More…]

• This is legislation that seeks to fool the rural community that its demands for more adequate access to rural finance will result from this piece of legislation. [More…]

• Anyone associated with agriculture will know that it is the lender of last resort provisions which are the key to the problems associated with the sector of the rural community that wants access to finance. [More…]

• The Government has taken some steps in respect of small businesses but does not seem to have been able to co-ordinate its thinking in financing small businesses in the rural community. [More…]

• It is about time there was some recognition of the fact that the problems that beset the rural community are structural. [More…]

• The second reason is probably just the time factor- that is, the legislation was aborted by the premature electionand the Government’s need to be seen to be doing something for the farm or rural community which has suffered a fall in net income of more than 20 per cent in the two years that this Government has been in power. [More…]

• Whenever one talks about the private enterprise sector, which is responsible for 75 per cent of the employment in the community Opposition senators sound off with their socialistic policies. [More…]

• It involves simply a matter of the Latin American community in Sydney wanting parity with the over solicitous treatment accorded to South Vietnamese refugees. [More…]

• The next document concerns details from the Portuguese community about the failure to have adequate Portuguese translators at the office of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Sydney. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the ambiguity of the Government’s taxation measures, tax averaging for farmers, the reversal, of an earlier commitment to full tax indexation, and uncertainty over the proposed resources tax and exchange rates are causing confusion in the community. [More…]

• Will FM radio licences be granted to the Darwin and Alice Springs Community Colleges. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that unemployment on many Aboriginal Community settlements is now between 70 and 80 per cent. [More…]

• Are there any plans by the Government to ease work tests and/or to provide employment opportunities on the various Community settlements. [More…]

• 1 ) The number of Aboriginals not employed varies from Community to Community depending on a variety of factors related to the type and location of the Community. [More…]

• The work test being applied on Aboriginal community settlements is the same test applied to all other unemployed Australian citizens. [More…]

• I draw your attention to the Community Development Employment Projects scheme which has commenced on a pilot basis in several Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• In addition, at no cost to the Commonwealth, the premises are used to provide a community service for small groups of other handicapped and aged people in the Kew area through recreational and social activities. [More…]

• $900,000 was provided to the Western Australian Department of Community Welfare in 1976-77 for a special housing program in the South-West of the State aimed at rehousing reserve-dwelling Aboriginals, who do not meet State Housing Commission criteria for tenancy in conventional houses within towns, and providing them with social support services. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Government received complaints and objections from certain member countries of the European Economic Community concerning the nuclear safeguards policy the Austraiian Government announced on 24 May 1977; if so, what are these complaints. [More…]

• How effective will the Australian nuclear safeguard system be if member countries of the European Economic Community will not accept these safeguards. [More…]

• To exempt any individual Repatriation disability pension from the income limits, would also be inequitable unless the Government was also able to exempt all such pensions and other compensatory type payments received by other members of the community. [More…]

• His decorations alone indicate a sustained campaign on his part of leadership, valour and courage and this is recognised throughout the whole of the returned servicemen’s community in Australia. [More…]

• Apart from all the other sections of the South Australian community that will miss him, I believe that the racing fraternity in particular will miss him because of the leading role that he played in that sporting field. [More…]

• When he retired in November of last year as Chief Judge of the Commonwealth Industrial Court he had spent a lifetime in service to the community. [More…]

• I know of the efforts that he made and the respect in which he was held by all sections of the Victorian community over the very long period of his political life. [More…]

• He had many friends amongst the business and legal community of Melbourne. [More…]

• These qualities made him widely respected not only by the legal community throughout Australia but also by the public, who know that he was a wise judge and a good man. [More…]

• If the Opposition had been following what was happening in Australia, instead of indulging in its old hatreds and bitterness, it would have known that, as a result of this Government’s initiatives last year Mr John Howard was appointed as Special Trade Negotiator to attempt to open up Australia’s capacity to trade with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In recent times, of course, more and more pressure has been put on the Paris Embassy in performing its economic tasks of helping both the Special Trade Negotiator and others involved in attempting to break down the trade barriers and allow Australian products, be they primary products or steel, to enter the European Economic Community. [More…]

• -That may be so, but if people are to be put on black-lists of anybody in this community because of their political activities, that may be a matter at which the Senate Privileges Committee ought to have a look. [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is based on a Press release of 5 February by the new Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development pledging total environment protection for the Alligator Rivers region in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• In the stage 2 area the Government has decided to bring the area under special control exercised by the Departments of Aboriginal Affairs; Environment, Housing and Community Development; Trade and Resources, and the Northern Territory and that there will be no exploration, development or mining within the area without the authority of the Commonwealth and that all measures will be taken for the advancement of Aboriginal welfare within that area. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Health whether, in the interests of preventive dentistry and the consequent savings to the community through higher standards of oral health, the Minister considers that the encouragement of the use of mouthguards in sport by children would be enhanced by their cost being allowed for tax rebate purposes? [More…]

• I also believe that when they have been brought in the Australian community will accept them and realise that they must be used in this day and age, even though previously we have never had to accept this sort of thing in Australia. [More…]

• It is probable that never before have we had so many people working so hard to produce so much and yet receiving so little return as we have in sections of the farming community today. [More…]

• Protection to the manufacturing sector through tariffs and quantitative restrictions on imports has placed an unbearable squeeze on the rural community. [More…]

• Perhaps this is because there is a greater awareness in the community of the trade offs that are made in a Budget contextmore assistance can only be accorded at the expense of expenditure on the environment, health, social welfare, defence … or through higher taxes. [More…]

• Economic changes in the Australian rural industry, as well as the havoc they have wreaked in a physical sense, have brought with them a range of sociological changes affecting primary producers and their dependants and employees as well as the wider community. [More…]

• If our nation is to regain a stable social and economic base it is vital that these sociological and economic changes be clearly understood by the decision makers and by others in the Australian community. [More…]

• As we know, most of these services are provided by what is basically known as small business, the one-family outfit that has been in the community for some considerable time. [More…]

• Neither government decision makers nor the community conscience should ever accept the fact that there should be a rift between the country and the city. [More…]

• They will one day again be a viable part of our community and play their rightful role. [More…]

• I should have thought that there were some difficulties in accommodating the entire economic interests of this country and at the same time, as the Speech purported to do, accommodating the civil liberty needs of the whole of the community. [More…]

• Personally, I regret that in the Speech there was no questioning of the assumptions underlying the economic growth which the Government seeks to engender into the community. [More…]

• I should have thought that that was totally inconsistent with the well-being of the majority of the community as a whole and totally inconsistent with the very frequent references in the Governor-General’s Speech to the civil liberties or the individual political and social freedom of the citizens of this country. [More…]

• I will endeavour to uphold the dignity of the Senate, to pursue the interests of my home State of South Australia, and to add, if possible, to the ever increasing regard in the community for women parliamentarians already engendered by that small but effective group which graces this chamber. [More…]

• The role of the Senate is invaluable here if, as I believe it should, it is kept as free as possible of party politics, it acts as a House of review and it considers legislation that comes before it on its merits and its values to the community as a whole. [More…]

• I cite as one example the deplorable situation of the Aboriginal Community College in Adelaide. [More…]

• So the college- a pilot scheme which is positively adding to the stature of Aborigines in the community, which is truly encouraging selfhelp and self-development among the Aboriginal community- is tottering on its feet, continuing only because of the compassion and concern of its staff and the keenness of its students. [More…]

• I ask: How can the Government really expect people to believe that it cares about the development of the Aboriginal community if it is prepared to ignore the plight of such a valuable venture? [More…]

• But Aborigines are not the only group in the community subject to the administration of placebos rather than restorative medicine. [More…]

• How can this be more valuable, how can it achieve more than active, positive measures on the part of the Government to improve the general attitude to women amongst the community as a whole and within government departments in particular? [More…]

• No amount of advisory counselling will improve the status of women if the Commonwealth Public Service refuses to promote equal numbers of women as of men into senior positions, when married women are singled out by some sections of the community and held responsible for youth unemployment, although these same critics conveniently ignore the 152,000 men who hold down two jobs, when the Federal Government allows into the country, and State governments permit the sale of, the amount of degrading pornographic material which is at present available? [More…]

• Again, the Government has two perfect opportunities for positively improving the standing of women in the community, namely, insisting on equal promotional opportunities for women in the Public Service and in banning all imported and locally made pornographic literature from sale. [More…]

• I am glad to say that the Fraser Government has addressed itself to that problem and has been seeking policies to reduce inflation, to lower interest rates and to increase the level of confidence in the community because these things will increase investment. [More…]

• Over the past six or seven years these costs in South Australia certainly have not increased at rates disproportionate with the rates of increase in the rest of the community. [More…]

• We have already felt a great deal of disquiet in the commercial business community in Adelaide concerning this matter. [More…]

• Of course, that is the point being made by other businessmen in the Adelaide community who are very worried about the future development of their State. [More…]

• That is the sort of program which is before us and which consequently leads to a great deal of concern in the business community and obviously to a great lack of confidence in investment in South Australian industry. [More…]

• I am sure that the South Australian Government is concerned about that situation, but apparently it is not aware of the facts and the impact its decisions are having on the business community. [More…]

• I again affirm my view of the vital position of the Senate in relation to the general life of the Australian community. [More…]

• So also is the problem of unemployment amongst the youth of the community. [More…]

• People who have finished their period of education and who in many cases are not properly trained for jobs in the community in the first year or so after they complete their education are in a tremendously important formative stage. [More…]

• Those people cannot sit about without worthwhile employment without great damage being done to our community. [More…]

• Turning to rural matters the Government said: ‘The Government has taken action to assist the rural community to overcome its present crisis’. [More…]

• I hope that it will not take the Minister a further five weeks to explain what happened and why it happened to a very genuine and wellrespected member of the Western Australian community. [More…]

• In the world community continual opposition towards Indonesia’s actions is being expressed. [More…]

• The Standard is reporting the outcome of a massive function held at Mannum to celebrate the opening of the big community centre which was built mainly with money provided under the unemployment relief scheme. [More…]

• The key to a better future for Mannum lies in the initiative of its people, the Premier (Mr Don Dunstan) told about 300 people at the opening of the town’s community complex on Saturday night. [More…]

• The Premier said Mannum Community Centre was one of the finest in South Australia, and was a lasting tribute to the involvement and hard work of many local people. [More…]

• The SURS grant enabled 85 jobless people to be employed in productive work for the community. [More…]

• The Government helped by making funds available to employ a fulltime Community Development Officer - [More…]

• At present the Minister is overseas on a mission to improve access for Australian farm products to international markets generally but especially in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• This dispute is of great concern to the Government and I should have thought that it would have been of great concern to the Senate and to the community. [More…]

• The field officers in my Department have principally two duties: One is to test and check the eligibility of people who claim pensions and benefits and the other is to make personal visits to offer assistance to members of the community who might be pensioners or who might be seeking a pension or a benefit. [More…]

• I feel sure the Australian community accepts that my Department is responsible to see that people who are eligible to receive pensions or benefits receive them without harassment or the infringement of their privacy but that they must be eligible before the Department is able to pay them. [More…]

• May I say at the outset that I believe that the Australian scientific community deserves the greatest credit for the way that it has responded to the bluetongue sheep alert? [More…]

• There is an overall concern in the community at the growth of big government, at the tendency for government to get bigger and more intrusive. [More…]

• Everywhere one went it was raised by average employees- it was not a matter of management raising it- giving examples from their factory or mill, whatever it might be, of the sort of people that they regarded as bludgers and who ought to be required to do something for the community in return for the money they had been receiving from it. [More…]

• Repeatedly I had put to me by those sorts of people that there should be a scheme whereby, for about three days a week people in receipt of unemployment benefits should carry out some community service, do something of value to the community, give back something to those who had to provide the funds for their support. [More…]

• I believe that a large degree of disenchantment with institutions which appear to have failed is rampant in our community. [More…]

• There has been a huge growth in expectations as governments have provided more and as we have become a better educated, better informed and materially better off community. [More…]

• It is a major growth area which, if given adequate encouragement and recognition, could provide considerable job opportunities, particularly on a decentralised basis, for a wide crosssection of the community, for people of all ages and both sexes. [More…]

• I believe that I have to answer some of the remarks that were made earlier in this debate about me, about the Opposition and about some of the people in this community who are concerned about unemployment. [More…]

• In more primitive times I suppose gods and spirits were blamed for the difficulties of the community. [More…]

• They are causing difficulties in the community’. [More…]

• Those sorts of statements are very common now, and I agree with Senator Rae that that view is commonly held in the community as a result of the continuous campaign which has gone on since before November 1975 to denigrate the unemployed in the community. [More…]

• In the last two years legislation and regulations have been changed to limit the payment of unemployment benefit in the community. [More…]

• If that is the Government’s belief, surely the Government should be concerned about the problems of the unemployed as people, about the very real and continuing social problems to which Senator Rae adverted when he spoke about the possibilities of long term unemployment in the community. [More…]

• In recent weeks some criticism has been directed at members of the Opposition and other people in the community who have pointed out that the Department of Social Security has started to investigate on a mass scale those on unemployment benefit. [More…]

• I was talking about the misgivings which I and other people in the community have about such tactics. [More…]

• The Opposition certainly believes that by careful expenditure in certain areas we can at least boost employment in this vital area and so have a multiplier effect throughout the community. [More…]

• The Opposition and I will not be deterred from drawing attention to the problems in this community by the people who say: ‘You should not talk about that, you will cause insecurity in the community and insecurity amongst the unemployed’. [More…]

• We will not get anywhere by taking the attitude that governments cannot do anything about the situation, that the only role of government is to indulge in foreign affairs and to pay a few pensions while letting the rest of the community look after itself. [More…]

• So we find little in the Speech by the Governor-General to indicate just what will happen in the community. [More…]

• But we believe that the sort of activity which is being indulged in at the moment by the Department of Social Security is too broad and too oppressive and is acting in the wrong direction to do anything about unemployment in the community. [More…]

• It seems to me that if, in this chamber, we find a cynicism about Parliament, it is highly unlikely that we will be able to change the negative attitudes which exist in the media and out in the community. [More…]

• Some of the problems are that members of the community want inconsistent things. [More…]

• Different groups in the community are unwilling to face up to the fact that what they want must be reconciled with the wants of others. [More…]

• There is also a demand in the community for the right to participate in government. [More…]

• Different groups in the community were able to show us that there were problems in what was being done. [More…]

• I think the solutions to Australia’s problems will not be solved by Canberra bureaucrats, many of whom are not closely in touch with the needs and aspirations of the Australian community. [More…]

• However, I think it is time that people as serious as senators remembered that women are people and acknowledged that governments, employers, trade unions and husbands do not take seriously the very real problems of women in this community. [More…]

• On this side of the Parliament we are certainly concerned with unemployment but I would have thought that even this Government would have taken into account the effect that continuing high unemployment has on women in the community. [More…]

• There are many women in the community who want to work and who need to work but who do not even know some of these jobs exist. [More…]

• There is a need for the community to take seriously the necessity for many more community based child care centres. [More…]

• What is it doing about the effects that these problems have on the health of the family and the community. [More…]

• It will look to alleviate pressure on women caused by unemployment across the community. [More…]

• There were years and years during which the Liberal-Country Party coalition government knew that the European Economic Community would soon become a reality and would have a disastrous effect on our primary industry, yet nothing was done to create new markets for our products. [More…]

• That is why some dismay has been expressed by some of us at the attacks on (he special branches of the police force by some people in the community who ought to know better. [More…]

• This Government thinks it is about time some people in this community got off the taxpayer’s back. [More…]

• There is a limit to what the taxpayer of this community can bear. [More…]

• Did the Prime Minister receive a letter dated 21 December 1977 from the Premier of Queensland asking the Federal Government to cease financial support to the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Community Health Service? [More…]

• Is it claimed that such funding would discriminate against the Aboriginal community; also that the community. [More…]

• Will the Government before complying with the request of the Queensland Premier, make its own assessment of the service given by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Community Health Service? [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…]

• Those of us who believe in a fair and equitable dissemination of information throughout the community must question a system which allows a handful of wealthy individuals to dictate the editorial line and in some cases to direct journalists to report events and statements in a deliberately biased fashion. [More…]

• They obviously have interests in common with the most wealthy and powerful sections of the community and little sympathy for anybody or anything except their own bank accounts. [More…]

• During the campaign and afterwards I personally heard of several occasions of blatant discrimination against the less educated and poorer sections of the community. [More…]

• Whilst it could be said that this has hurt many members of the migrant community who might be voting for the Australian Labor Party, if one examines the figures one will see that it should also worry the National Country Party. [More…]

• Senator Walsh, you are a farmer but apparently you do not realise the great advantage this reform will be to the farming community throughout Australia. [More…]

• It has been well received throughout the community. [More…]

• Of course, there are numerous examples of other women in the community who successfully combine these dual roles. [More…]

• If we look at the cost to the community of social service payments, we find that last year the cost of benefits paid to deserted wives, supporting mothers, unmarried mothers and deserted de facto wives was $ 127m. [More…]

• I agree that these people have to be supported: They are entitled to be supported by the community. [More…]

• But kids will adjust remarkably well if the parents do’, said Wenda Pleasance, a Women’s Electoral Lobby representative and secretary of the Blacktown Community Aid committee. [More…]

• I want now to refer especially to Queensland, where there has been a serious erosion of civil liberties at all levels in the community. [More…]

• To my way of thinking, the aims of these honourable senators are extremely worthwhile and I hope, because of the criticism offered by so many in the community, that the Press will play its part in making sure that the community is made aware of what honourable senators are trying to do. [More…]

• Unemployment is continuing to increase and greater and greater social distress is being experienced throughout the community. [More…]

• A study conducted in the early 1 970s by the Victorian Mental Health Authority also showed that in two Victorian regions, one metropolitan and one provincial, attempted suicide amongst the unemployed was far greater than amongst the remainder of the community. [More…]

• When discussing the social effects of unemployment it is important that we do not forget the children of the community. [More…]

• Many of them will be long term if unemployment remains high in the Australian community. [More…]

• We must consider the people behind the statistics and the misery that is being created for a large number of people throughout the community. [More…]

• One could say that more people within the community are unemployed than the statistics indicate, because those statistics refer only to people registered with the Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]

• Probably close to one million people in the Australian community in some way are affected because they or their breadwinner, their father or their mother are employed. [More…]

• I have outlined the way in which I believe the Governor-General ‘s Speech was deficient in not throwing any light on how we are to tackle unemployment in the community. [More…]

• She was a youngish woman, in her 30s, very intelligent and very much involved in the community. [More…]

• Some of those statutory corporations occupy positions of enormous privilege and social importance in our community. [More…]

• The General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission replied to the effect that broadcasters had a responsibility in extending discussion of certain social issues and that the issues to which she had taken exception were ones which the ABC felt were better to be openly discussed by the community. [More…]

• There has been considerable conflict in the community about the use of forests for timber production, water conservation and/or bauxite mining. [More…]

• One of the problems at the moment is that we ought not to run too far ahead of community attitudes. [More…]

• Therefore, overall one increases the real purchasing power of the community. [More…]

• -In view of the lengthy discussions with British and Australian scientists about nuclear waste in the Maralinga region of South Australia, I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether the British Government has indicated that it is prepared to accept responsibility for the disposal of that waste. [More…]

• I am advised that the survey is being carried out under the guidance of the AIRAC and is supported by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It refers to a public meeting at Whyalla on 9 February which was chaired by the Reverend Canon Hewitson and which was convened by the Community Welfare Consultative Council. [More…]

• The letter relates to a grant for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Community Health Service. [More…]

• I understand that a Grant has been made by the Minister for Social Security to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Community Health Service (Brisbane) Ltd, which is a wholly Commonwealth funded body. [More…]

• In addition to the foregoing, I am perturbed that the action taken to provide these funds will serve to identify and discriminate against the Aboriginal community, a purpose that does not accord with the policy of my Government. [More…]

• The Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Community Health Service pursues a radical, racist and militant philosophy. [More…]

• Finally, under the heading ‘ Rural Community’ it was stated: [More…]

• My Government believes that it is of vital importance to Australia’s interests that its rural community be strong and viable. [More…]

• Others in the community merely pass on the cost. [More…]

• As a long term objective the community will be best served by a manufacturing industry with a structure which requires minimum levels of government support. [More…]

• I am on record as arguing that there are always elements in the community that have to be dealt with at close range. [More…]

• To take the matter a little further, recently I was in Wollongong and came into possession of a photocopy of what was alleged to be a list of people in one ethnic community whose names commenced with ‘D’. [More…]

• One thing that the rural industries and the rural community must have is better communications. [More…]

• But no government can rightly claim that it is discharging its obligation to the community when it is prepared to take no action at all to arrest the unemployment drift. [More…]

• I relate that comment to what I said earlier about the increase in the incidence of unemployment amongst people who were formerly employed and who lost their jobs because of the reducing level of productivity in the community. [More…]

• The business community is desperately in need of increased consumption and increased orders. [More…]

• I must admit that I did not expect such a retort from a gentleman of his intellectual standing in the community. [More…]

• That is, our Government- regards the Commonwealth as a significant force for cooperation and understanding in the international community and believes it should be used to make a real contribution to resolving contemporary international problems. [More…]

• It is important that information should be available not only to leaders of industry and commerce but also throughout the community. [More…]

• 1 wish that the National Library could have greater freedom for development than is presently available to it and that the Parliamentary Library, with its legislative research service, dealing as it does with a wide range of mattersincluding the matter of its futures, following very hard on the heels of the Congressional Research Service in Washington- could be developed not just for the convenience of members of parliament but also to facilitate an effective appraisal of policy matters and their inferences for members of the community. [More…]

• There is abundant evidence from intellectuals and from the community generally that there is not a great deal of confidence in the Parliament performing a proper function. [More…]

• The unemployed are being hunted, harassed, persecuted and libelled by many government speakers, by many people in the media, and by too many people in the Australian community who have no responsibility for the inability of the unemployed to find jobs. [More…]

• They may well do so, but one of the features of the problem that has to be recognised by governments, oppositions and the community generally is that over a period of time capitalism has lost a great deal of its innovativeness. [More…]

• Over and above this, it might be necessary, in order to make enterprise more responsive to the needs of the community, for the public sector to move into the economy in areas traditionally regarded as private. [More…]

• Private entrepreneurs, obsessed with maximising their private gain, appear ill-suited to make such an appraisal, as it relates to community gains and losses. [More…]

• Unemployment is a very serious matter; it is a cancer within the Australian community. [More…]

• Drugs must surely be one of the biggest enemies of the day to the Australian community. [More…]

• We do not know how many drugs are coming in but we know of their effect on the Australian community. [More…]

• I should have thought that Senator Baume in particular, being mindful of his influence in the medical profession and being a highly esteemed member of the medical profession, would have been concerning himself with the actions of a minority group of doctors who are blatantly breaching the accepted principles of the doctor-patient relationship and whose main purpose in life seems to be to amass as much money as they possibly can at the expense of the community and the Government. [More…]

• There may be other people in the community who are interested in submitting a tender. [More…]

• It is the specific function of the Curriculum Development Centre to create curricula and materials of high standard and to offer them to all sections of the community throughout Australia including government schools, non-government schools, parents and educators. [More…]

• I must stress to Senator Button that, as he may know, in the formulation of these programs a wide range of educators, parents, churchmen and churchwomen and people throughout the whole of the community have been involved. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs inform the Parliament of the number and locality of Aboriginal communities in Australia where Community Development Employment Projects have been introduced? [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunicatons by noting that the recent review of the first year of operation of the Community Youth Support Scheme has shown that the young unemployed people involved do benefit from it. [More…]

• Will the Department investigate an imaginative television advertisement for national daytime screening which would reach the young housebound unemployed and point out to them the benefits on offer under the Community Youth Support Scheme? [More…]

• The Community Youth Support Scheme, which is the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, has been a successful and imaginative scheme. [More…]

• I am grateful for Senator Harradine ‘s interjection because, quite seriously, one of the reasons why I recommended to the Government that EPUY should be established was not simply to find a scheme that was remedial or palliative in itself but was to reveal the defects in the community, the home or the school on the journey through to post-school life. [More…]

• It is that information relating to people in the Australian community who suffer from chronic illnesses, injuries or impairments was collected and published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics from surveys conducted in 1968 and 1974. [More…]

• I envisage that the definition refers to what we normally would accept as a business and would not include organisations or associations for a particular purpose that is beneficial to a community. [More…]

• We remember the diabolical lies which were told in the community by the Liberal Party about what a terrible institution it would be. [More…]

• When we were able to go ahead with the legislation, which the Government had a mandate to do, we were able to prove that it was good legislation and to the benefit of the South Australian community. [More…]

• There were people in this community who were determined that this should not be so. [More…]

• The significance of this is that no one in primary industry will be paying more tax on a specific income than anybody else in the community on the same income. [More…]

• I conclude my remarks by concentrating on the concept of us all because in Australia we are a closely and finely integrated community. [More…]

• There is a tremendous movement in the Australian community, a freedom of movement, a real integration. [More…]

• I have talked about the multiplier and about how important it is in the community. [More…]

• Is the Government completely unaware that the biggest single purchaser in the Australian community is the Australian Government itself? [More…]

• A thriving and prosperous small business community is an essential part of a well-balanced economy. [More…]

• But it is quite obvious that in the Northern Territory, and I am sure in other places but I speak only of the Northern Territory, we cannot have a thriving and prosperous small business community without government expenditure. [More…]

• The Darwin Community College is not meeting the needs of the community. [More…]

• The Minister was apprised of the situation and he asked the Community College to give priority to apprentices but, of course, he did not provide any more money, so nothing could be done. [More…]

• We agree that decisions must be community based. [More…]

• Sue was previously in the Community Recreation Section in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It is as well to remind the community and those who have protested so often against Sir John Kerr that he gave good reason for his actions in those days in 1975. [More…]

• We apparently live in a time of increasing awareness in the community of the fact that the environment is not indefinitely resilient in the face of abuse and that the well being of the environment is inextricably linked with our own future good health. [More…]

• Among many projects aimed at strengthening CSIRO’s links with the community were the publication of a series of pamphlets on food preservation- which honourable senators will have seen- by the Division of Food Research, and a series of booklets produced by the Division of Soils, on soil science and related subjects for the use even of home gardeners and students. [More…]

• I would like to see- I hope that the Minister will give consideration to this- a greater opportunity provided for members of this Parliament and for other people in the Australian community who can help us greatly in the Antarctic scene- I am referring to people in the area of the various sciences- to make visits to the Antarctic, with increasing frequency thereby allowing us to become a better informed nation. [More…]

• The Speech showed special concern for the welfare of people in need in our community. [More…]

• I do not think many people in the Parliament or in the Australian community seriously question those judgments. [More…]

• I wish to deal briefly with some aspects of social policy relating to handicapped and disabled people in the community. [More…]

• A number of other things might be examined in an attempt to assist more adequately the handicapped within our community. [More…]

• To support those programs of local governments, communities and institutions which will call upon volunteers to demonstrate new ways of solving community problems, particularly those related to poverty, and will lead to a continuing effort supported by local resources. [More…]

• To increase the participation in volunteer anti-poverty and other community improvement projects of the full range of community organizations. [More…]

• To increase the relevance of volunteer activity to efforts to solve the problems of local communities, particularly those related to poverty, by generating and utilizing greater number of community volunteers in serving in their own communities and drawn from all quarters of the community. [More…]

• These voluntary programs for aged persons in the United States provide the dignity and satisfaction of making a continuing contribution to the community. [More…]

• They make a significant contribution to people in need in the community and provide a service that otherwise might not exist. [More…]

• It is a much broader and more mature relationship than that, and I hope that some measures might be taken to ensure that all of us, the Australian community generally would perceive our relationship with the United States in that broader context. [More…]

• -The honourable senator will not accept that fact, and what he says now is an example of the very thing of which I speak, and which I hope has been brought to an end- a division in, a polarisation of, the community that has been brought about by the extraordinary behaviour of Government supporters and the extraordinary decision on November 1975 on the part of the then Governor-General. [More…]

• In Queensland there are hundreds of State employees who seek to serve their community and who would like to stand for election for non-paid, voluntary jobs but who are prevented from doing so because they are refused leave of absence to attend council meetings. [More…]

• Perhaps it comes under the control of the National Heritage Commission and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• They sensed what was going on in the community and I think that they accurately reported what was going on. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is also represented on the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission and contact is made with the Queensland and Western Australian authorities on crocodile protection issues as required. [More…]

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

• It accepts the fact that there is evidence of a lack of basic skills in a significant number of people in the Australian community. [More…]

• What we learn from the work of EPUY will be used not only for remedial purposes but also for reviewing where the defect lies in the community, the home and the school. [More…]

• -It is the role of the Government to produce material on social science which would show honestly and accurately what are the normal values accepted by the bulk of the community today. [More…]

• In this debate there seems to be a feeling that, as Senator Douglas McClelland said, if we do not get on with the establishment of a new and permanent Parliament House we might be the laughing stock of 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…]

• We are agreed that that is a problem within the community and ought to be debated. [More…]

• There are a large number of issues in the community which are important and on which certainly there will be disputation across party lines; that is fair enough, but there are equally a great number of issues on which the Senate could have more sensible and reasonable debate if at the conclusion thereof there were not to be a vote on which Liberals must line up with Liberals, on which our National Party colleagues feel they must join with us and on which Labor Party supporters feel they must line up together in opposition to what is being put. [More…]

• I think that will deprive the honourable senators who will represent minority sections of the Australian community as from 1 July next of the opportunity to move in this chamber motions concerning matters of public importance. [More…]

• The Deaf Society is a private charitable organisation, run by a private board in Queensland, elected annually by the deaf community and other Society members at a public meeting. [More…]

• There has been a lot of talk about the acceptance of migrants, and in this case one of the men involved is from one ethnic community and another is from another ethnic community. [More…]

• However, I know it is occasionally thought in the community that merely because aircraft are stationed at Edinburgh in South Australia they are not available for use elsewhere in Australia. [More…]

• It has defended the principles of its community to the extent that 80 per cent of its armed forces are volunteers of the black community. [More…]

• We have the closest of ties with Europe and in particular with the United Kingdom, but because of the completely inward-looking policies of the European Economic Community at the moment our relations with that group of countries are becoming less and less important to us. [More…]

• Frankly, I believe the views of those who represent the work force in the Australian community should have been heeded more by the IAC when taking evidence and when making a number of its recommendations and reports to the government. [More…]

• improve the efficency with which the community’s productive resources are used; [More…]

• achieve sustained growth in the Australian economy through balanced development of Australian industries with a view to providing increased opportunities for employment and investment; (aa) improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used, while ensuring that any measures to achieve changes in the structure of industry are taken only after having due regard to the capacity of the economy to sustain those changes and to absorb any members of the workforce displaced by those changes . [More…]

• Most manufacturing countries have a high unemployment rate and the action of the European Economic Community in protecting all of its industries- primary, secondary and tertiaryagainst outside competition has meant the loss of commercial markets to Australia and is creating great problems for other countries, including Japan, which have had traditional markets in that area for a number of products over a wide range of industry. [More…]

• It continues: (aa) improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used, while ensuring that any measures to achieve changes in the structure of industry are taken only after having due regard - [More…]

• It is no good for Australia to make bitter attacks upon the restrictive trade policies of other countries such as members of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I think the mistake on which we can reflect- I think Senator Sim was correct in saying that he has been talking about this problem since 1965- is that governments have not been prepared to grasp the nettle to stop that flow of capital or to take what steps are needed in the Australian community to achieve a balanced position that would enable capital to play a socially useful role and, perforce, an employment role which would keep Australians working and would provide employment opportunities for all those who want to work. [More…]

• Whilst our structural problems may vary, they still have their counterparts in countries such as Japan, West Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• The report drew attention to the type of problem we have and to the need for the Government and the community to accept change and to plan for it. [More…]

• As members of Parliament, as members of parties, as part of the general community, we must be concerned about the changes that are taking place day by day, with no central planning, guidelines, policies or strategies to take up the slack. [More…]

• In fact, the media, the trade union movement and the whole community have some responsibility because we are faced now with the question of whether we will continue to go as we have been, which is without a policy and just plugging up the holes. [More…]

• Mr Fraser is telling the European Economic Community that it should open its doors to imports and at the same time he is imposing restrictions and tariffs in relation to our own industries. [More…]

• Proposed new paragraph (aa) of proposed new section 22 provides that the IAC will have regard to improving the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used, while ensuring that any measures to achieve changes in the structure of industry are taken only after having due regard to the capacity of the economy to sustain those changes and to absorb any members of the work force displaced by those changes. [More…]

• She is very active and she is involved in community activities. [More…]

• She does not drive to or from either full time or part time work, but she is gainfully employed in the sense that she elected to stay home, to keep house and to continue in her community activities role. [More…]

• The woman had the choice of either going into a nursing home where she would be kept at public expense for the rest of her life or struggling to resume her place in a home and in the community. [More…]

• Suddenly it became almost endemic in the community that such a thing was immoral, improper. [More…]

• There are some very respectable actuaries in the community who will say that, in fact, it is a lesser burden on the fund to do that than to pay the annual instalments. [More…]

• Yes, there is a lot to be said for that principle, but could I just put it to the honourable senator that whilst the Governor-General may have been singled out, the question arises: Does one just single out members of parliament as the next class, or is there an argument that this principle ought to be applied to all people within the community and not just to Governors-General and members of parliament? [More…]

• Senator Ryan says yes, it ought to be applied to all people in the community. [More…]

• As a considerable amount of real stress is being caused amongst unemployed people in the community, what advice are we to give constituents who ask us for advice in this area? [More…]

• I say to people in the community who have been reading with some concern the statements that have been made with regard to field officers that they have every opportunity to determine from the Department their eligibility for benefits and that they should have not fear if they are eligible for a payment under the Social Services Act. [More…]

• I think that some consideration needs to be given to representations that have been made by some legal associations and others in the community that the present structure of the Social Security Appeals Tribunals does not give a satisfactory right of appeal to claimants under the Social Services Act. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate why the waiting period has been extended, considering that adequate housing in the Aboriginal community is of such great importance to the Aboriginal people? [More…]

• There is growing community apprehension that Australia’s off-shore law enforcement arrangements are cost-ineffective, politically undersirable, administratively questionable and a drain on the scarce defence resources of Australia. [More…]

• I should imagine that as a result of my address, I would have been put on file because there could be people in the community who have a very strong desire to nationalise banks and the insurance industry, who would perhaps want to do some harm to me. [More…]

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

• The Government would want to be in a 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…]

• From the reply of the Prime Minister I am not confident that the Parliament and the community will have adequate opportunity to give proper consideration to the numerous recommendations of the report. [More…]

• Because many people throughout the community believe that the Royal Commission has done valuable work which should be considered seriously I raise this matter tonight. [More…]

• All honourable senators will be aware that the crime of rape and associated crimes of sexual violence against women pose a serious and grave problem in our community today. [More…]

• I believe that in such a grave and unsatisfactory matter affecting the entire community it is up to the Federal Parliament to consider recommendations which, after all, were drawn up as a result of a motion moved in the Federal Parliament by Mr Fraser when he was Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• I think that that comment on the Morgan case really goes to the crux of the unsatisfactory nature of the current law and the fundamental aspect of the law which must be changed- not just modified, but absolutely changed- if this law is to be as other laws in our community are, namely, for the protection of potential victims or for the satisfactory prosecution of guilty persons. [More…]

• He has received a telegram from the chairman and Council on Mornington Island saying that the Council and community were not consulted about the Queensland Government’s takeover. [More…]

• The Minister has been advised that the decision was made at a time when the Uniting Church had agreed- and had so informed the Queensland Minister concerned- that it would abide by the expressed will of the Aurukun community, determined by means which could be seen to guarantee free expression by the community. [More…]

• The Uniting Church has been active in various Aboriginal communities throughout Australia in pursuing a policy of self-management so that each community can be in charge of its own affairs and be able to make decisions for itself. [More…]

• Are there any proposals which would assist city and urban councils to encourage greater community and housing development in those cities, to prevent them from becoming sprawling masses and to assist them to be appropriately developed societies? [More…]

• It is only a small detail, but it would serve to remind the Parliament and the community at large of the importance of the day that is ahead of us rather than behind us. [More…]

• That caused a lot of community comment in regard to future filtration of the water supply in that area. [More…]

• A company investing in water pollution abatement got no direct financial return from its investment and was incurring the expenditure for the benefit of the community as a whole. [More…]

• That was something in which all elements of the community were involved, and served as a milestone. [More…]

• It also seeks to encourage an active interest and involvement of the community in the planning and management of water resources. [More…]

• In that time 230 witnesses gave evidence to the Committee and it heard from Commonwealth and State governments, local government, industry, community organisations, universities, primary producers and others. [More…]

• We have the Department of Health, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Department of Construction, the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, the Department of the Northern Territory and the Department of the Capital Territory, the National Capital Development Commission, the Department of Administrative Services, the Department of Primary Industry, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the Department of Finance, the Commonwealth Grants Commission, the Department of Defence, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the River Murray Commission, the Snowy Mountains Council, the Australian Water Resources Council and the Commonwealth Consultative Committee on Water Resources. [More…]

• We must see that we conserve the water even for stock and domestic purposes because it is so necessary for the members of the farming community who live in what might be termed dry areas as opposed to irrigation areas. [More…]

• I am simply saying that adequate quarantine measures should be applied to ensure that the importation of these fish does not involve a risk to our community. [More…]

• Your Government has behaved in a way which has caused great disquiet among many feverently anti-Communist Australians who have a basic commitment to fundamental human rights in a democratic community. [More…]

• I appreciate that important part played by your Committee in meeting the community needs of the Timorese people but unfortunately I have no funds available at present to provide immediate assistance to the Timorese Committee for Permanent Residence. [More…]

• Senator Missen and I, although coming from different political parties, were able to obtain a little further enlightenment on Saturday of last week when we had a meeting in Melbourne with members of the Timorese community who are refugees in this country. [More…]

• That may sound a little harsh, because I believe the Timorese community in Australia is grateful for the assistance it has had and the reception it has received in this country. [More…]

• What the Minister was relaying in that letter- he went on to detail it- was that it was quite impossible for the Commonwealth of Australia to find some $12,000 to support what was effectively a welfare office for the Timorese community in Melbourne. [More…]

• His situation is repeated over and over again with various other children who are members of the Timorese community in Melbourne. [More…]

• If I might illustrate what the Government might do about it: In the last 12 months the Timorese community in Melbourne has, I think it is true to say, been sustained by the activities of Mr Joao Goncalves, who has been their effective welfare officer and has been employed by the Timorese Committee for Permanent Residence. [More…]

• He is a man I, and I think other senators from Melbourne know personally, a man who speaks Timorese, Portuguese and English, one who has, far beyond the call of duty, been available at all hours of the night really to solve social problems for members of the Timorese community who are in great distress. [More…]

• Leaving aside the many problems that undoubtedly exist, such as the situation of the 200 Timorese children in Melbourne who have no special teaching facilities or help of any kind available to them and who are in a difficult and desperate position, we have a community in Australia which is upset and distressed about a situation in its homeland and a community which is upset and distressed about the real social problems that exist for it in this country. [More…]

• That community is effectively being denied the sort of help it should be given by a government of any compassion. [More…]

• In that report ACFOA had something to say firstly about the notion of family as it applies to the Timorese community and other communities of a non- Western culture. [More…]

• We were guests last Saturday of the Timorese community in Melbourne so that we could hear its problems and discuss with it what seemed to me to be a sharp and real problem. [More…]

• It is one about which that community has not protested throughout the length and breadth of the country. [More…]

• You are known amongst our community as great friends, not only of East Timor, but also of the Timorese people. [More…]

• Many do not have in Australia a father or husband, as Senator Button has pointed out, who can adopt the role which is natural in a Timorese community where the father makes decisions about education, the home and other matters. [More…]

• The thing which concerns the Timorese people in Melbourne is that when this team does go it should be accompanied by an interpreter from the Timorese community so that there can be no doubt that our officials are being given the real answers by the people who are there. [More…]

• They are stuck in camps in Portugal unable to be properly absorbed into the community there. [More…]

• Senator Button spoke about Senor Goncalves whom I respect too as someone who has worked for the community. [More…]

• There are 1,000 people in Melbourne and Victoria alone who are of this community and surely the Government can find the necessary money to have this leader of that community give his full time attention to looking after his people as he has been doing. [More…]

• I believe that the people of this community will be coming to Canberra and shortly will be making representations to the Minister and to the Indonesian Ambassador. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Health whether she can give any indication as to what progress has been achieved in respect of the joint Commonwealth-State funding under the community health program for women’s refuges in Hobart and Launceston. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development if he can indicate whether discussions with the State governments, seeking the establishment of building standards, have been proceeding? [More…]

• But the responsibilities for the primary needs of the Aborigines come within the province of State Ministers, as do the needs of all members of the community. [More…]

• Australian community. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Attorney-General been drawn to page 1 9 of the 1977 annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations, in which details are given of a case referred to the Commissioner by a member of Parliament about another member of Parliament? [More…]

• Council and community not consulted on Government takeover. [More…]

• Hot on the heels of the Premier’s dispute with church leaders over street marches, the Government has now taken on the Uniting Church over the Aurukun Aboriginal Community, Mornington Island, and other areas that are currently managed by the church. [More…]

• The Bill which I am now introducing … 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…]

• He also indicated that the Government is examining what steps might be taken to help the community to manage its own affairs with the help of the Church. [More…]

• The grantsinaid were for decentralisation, housing, operational expenses, sawmilling projects, other operating expenses, feasibility studies and things that were considered to be desirable in the interests of the development of the community. [More…]

• As I said earlier, the Government is concerned to establish the opinion of the local Aboriginal community on this issue at this time. [More…]

• Church that arrangements are being made to invite representatives of the two community councils to Canberra for discussions with him before the end of this week. [More…]

• The Church holds a letter from the Aurukun Community Council to this effect. [More…]

• That letter was dated 1 8 November and was signed by five of the community councillors. [More…]

• I think that over the years the Aurukun community has indicated to officers of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs that it is opposed to the Queensland Department and that it supports the interest of the Uniting Church in its community. [More…]

• The Mornington Island community, I believe, needs to consider its attitude. [More…]

• The Mornington Island Community Council, individual councillors and departmental officers have noted strong expressions of opposition by the Council to the possibility of a State Government takeover. [More…]

• The Minister hopes that after his discussions with the community people he will have a final and clear indication of their wishes in this matter by the end of this week. [More…]

• Our interest is to see that the matters of health, education and community development are dealt with in a way that enhances the environment of Aboriginal life and the opportunity for enrichment of Aboriginal life in these parts of Australia. [More…]

• He said that he was able to indicate from a visit to Aurukun the strong feeling of the people in that community that there should be continuing involvement by the Church. [More…]

• One of the comments made by Reverend John Brown was that he believed, in honesty, that the people had a very strong desire for the church to stay and support them in the development of their community. [More…]

• He believed that after his visit he was able to say that that was an express wish, one that he believed represented the view of all the community. [More…]

• I think he was asked how many members of the community came to a meeting and he was able to say, in a statement following that interview, that the meeting was attended by almost everyone in the community and that there was a very strong request for the Church to remain as the manager. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government, through the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, supports Aboriginal community organisations at both Mornington Island and Aurukun. [More…]

• But these communities are vitally important to us; they are important in working towards self-improvement and community development in Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• Council and community not consulted on Government take-over. [More…]

• The point I make is that in 190 1 the Prime Minister of this country was prepared to assert himself in that clear way on a similar matter which involved people of racial origins different from the bulk of the Australian community. [More…]

• Certainly, many honourable senators on this side of the chamber agree that in the Senate the Aboriginal people ought to be able to look for support and a lead in taking the Australian community along the line Senator Button has just indicated. [More…]

• There are occasions when, in my experience, self-management has looked a fairly luxurious business, such as when we see an attempt to provide a development by a community falling apart at the seams through a lack of adequate management. [More…]

• I believe that in that sort of conflict it is necessary for both black and white to compromise in the same way as other groups in the community have to compromise. [More…]

• I understand that when the State Government team went to Mornington Island no announcement was made to the community. [More…]

• A statement was made by the State Minister when he was safely away from the community. [More…]

• Telegrams were received from Mr Copely, the Regional Manager of Aboriginals Hostels Ltd, Adelaide; from the Aboriginal and Islander Forum, Cairns, North Queensland; from Mr Shephard, Secretary of Camu, an organisation of Cardwell in North Queensland; from Mr McAdam, Director, Aboriginal Community Centre, Adelaide; from Mr John McGuinness, President of FCAATSI in Cairns; and from Mrs E. Hoffmann, Aborigines Advancement League, Melbourne. [More…]

• McAdam, Director, Aboriginal Community Centre [More…]

• Recommend you raise question of emergency for Federal Government takeover of Aboriginal reserves and affairs generally because of current disputes against Queensland government takeover of Aurukun and Mornington Island community. [More…]

• The regulations made under the Acts are almost monstrous in their wording and in their impact upon the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Ostensibly, the community council has the right to make decisions, but this does not happen in fact. [More…]

• In the case of Aurukun it is quite a number of years since exploratory teams moved in and discovered that this community sits on top of one of the richest bauxite deposits in Australia. [More…]

• It agreed totally that mining should not go on there unless the Aboriginal people in that community got from the mining companies the royalties and the types of agreements for which they had been asking, including the preservation of their sacred areas. [More…]

• Today, that community has been partly socially destroyed. [More…]

• Indeed, it has contested all along the right of the community to make an agreement with a mining company. [More…]

• How does one define and identify the ‘Aurukun community ‘ in an enduring sense? [More…]

• He has been giving legal advice to the Aboriginal community and the Aboriginal councillors, and in an interview he had this to say in answer to a question put to him by Helene Chung: [More…]

• That afternoon we sat on the ground under the mango trees, surrounded by 200 people of the Aboriginal community together with their councillors, for six hours while the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs consulted with the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• We were able to convince him that proper, adequate and meaningful consultations had not taken place between the church, the Aboriginal council and the Aboriginal community at Aurukun. [More…]

• He said that there should be full and meaningful consultation between the State Government, the mining company, the Presbyterian Church and the Aboriginal community and that the negotiations should include the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and myself. [More…]

• We, the undersigned members of the Aurukun Community Council, have, after extensive 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…]

• Council and community not consulted about government takeover. [More…]

• The Queensland Government then backed off: It had been pointed out that the people of Aurukun were also concerned about the problem of law and order in their community and for many years had been requesting the establishment of a police station there to assist with such law and order difficulties as they had. [More…]

• One can imagine what would have happened if a white community in Queensland, or anywhere else, the size of Aurukun had been requesting for years a police station in their area and had not received itbecause it was too expensive, or for other reasons. [More…]

• They wished to live in a community which had respect for the law and asked for the ordinary, common, decent provision of a police station there, as was provided in every similar community in Queensland and every other State. [More…]

• Now we have a further effort to take over the community of Aurukun and Mornington Island from the Uniting Church which has been administering the area for some 70 years. [More…]

• If the standards of health and education in this area are dropping the responsibility lies with the State Government, just as it lay with that Government in June 1 977, when in fact the people there were concerned about the problem of lawlessness in their community. [More…]

• One remembers the protests when that agreement was signed between the mining consortium and the Queensland Government- without prior consultation with the Aboriginal community or the Uniting Church which had been charged by the State Government to administer the community. [More…]

• It is for the people to decide that they may not want to integrate, to live in a centralised community in the Aurukun area. [More…]

• Council and community rejects State Government decision to take over Mornington. [More…]

• It has not been as good as that of the non-Aboriginal community. [More…]

• In 1976 the Aurukun community was the one that was selected as having stated that its community had no special problems with alcohol. [More…]

• That was in 1976, yet Mr Porter tells us without any supporting detail, and without any extra evidence that the health problem at Aurukun is one of the reasons why his Government must move in and take over the community. [More…]

• We know that the Aboriginal people themselves want to do something about the problems of alcoholism that exist within their community. [More…]

• It is no good just picking on Aurukun when we know about Oenpelli and the border store; it is no good just picking on Aurukun and Mornington Island when we have received a report from the Western Australian Royal Commission into Aboriginal Affairs which talked about alcoholism levels throughout the Aboriginal community in Australia being greater than that of nonAboriginal community by a factor of about four. [More…]

• Unless the Minister in Queensland gives us facts and analyses, I see no reason to accept at face value his statement that there are special health problems in this community which require a takeover such as is proposed. [More…]

• We have no evidence that the educational performance at Aurukun or Mornington Island is worse than in any other Aboriginal community. [More…]

• We know that the kind of figures one can expect are that 1 3-year-old Aboriginals might have only a 60 per cent school participation rate compared to an 80 per cent rate in the community as a whole. [More…]

• One understands- I have a question on notice on this matter- that the two largest health funds in the community have refused to give such information, and continue to refuse to give such information. [More…]

• One understands that in fact only a small number of very small funds have given the information which is required of them and that they cover a very small percentage of the people in funds in this community. [More…]

• I would have thought that even with this document- I am sure it is a valuable document and we will study it with care- it will be very difficult for any of us, the Government in particular, to come to any conclusions about what should be done about the funding of health care in this community and about paying for health care in this community before we have that vital information. [More…]

• We already have had changes in the Medibank scheme in the duration of this Government without such vital information and those changes, we believe, have severely disadvantaged the community in Australia. [More…]

• We believe that before any further changes are made the basic statistical data which is available should be collected from those who have it and analysed by those who have the wherewithal and the knowledge to analyse it so that we can make our judgments on accurate figures and on an accurate knowledge of what is happening in the community. [More…]

• They saw the need for meetings at different locations so that different groups within the community could be involved. [More…]

• The report concludes by making some recommendations about possible changes in approaches to providing services for families, both in respect of Commonwealth activities and in respect of the serviceproviders at State and community level. [More…]

• I believe this is an important report, not least because of its attention to the needs of families in Australia today and to the extent to which government and community agencies can assist in meeting those needs. [More…]

• It is also an important report because it was produced as a co-operative venture between the Commonwealth Government, State governments and the community. [More…]

• Department of Community Welfare, Western Australia; and Miss Valerie Douglas, Royal District Nursing Service, Melbourne. [More…]

• Most of the recommendations bear on the responsibilities of the States and on the responsibilities of individual community welfare organisations, and to that extent the Commonwealth must await responses to this report from those authorities. [More…]

• The grants will be paid through State departments of social welfare and States are encouraged to develop coordinated planning in association with community groups. [More…]

• As well, copies will be available through the normal Australian Government Publishing Service outlets to interested members of the community. [More…]

• As I mentioned earlier, the Commonwealth now awaits the reaction of the State governments and of community organisations to the ideas and recommendations of the report. [More…]

• Nobody in the Department or the community would accept this today. ‘ [More…]

• I would like to support the proposition put forward by Senator Rae in relation to the reconstitution of the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution or some similar committee which might consider the report which was tabled in this place with a view to updating it, examining the recommendations it made and bringing forward a report which would not only give a clear indication of the Government’s and the Parliament’s concern about the water supply and water resources in Australia but also provide the Australian community with the opportunity of presenting additional material so that there could be a nationwide understanding and examination of Australia’s water situation. [More…]

• I believe that the only way that a nation like Australia will be in a position of providing water resources not only for the present community but also for the community ahead is by having a national authority for water resources, water management and water distribution. [More…]

• In this way a competitive public enterprise can provide substantial benefits to the community, quite apart from its business role. [More…]

• My information is that the Port Authority has not submitted a report since its 1974-75 report; the Housing Commission has not submitted a report since its 1973-74 report; the Community College, established before Cyclone Tracy, has yet to submit a report; and the Corporation of the City of Darwin has not submitted a report since 1973-74. [More…]

• Members of the Assembly have been working for about four years now in the interests of the community- working without proper resources, without proper payment and without any timely resolution of their difficult situation. [More…]

• It has one swimming pool, no cinema and no other extensive community facilities. [More…]

• I would be very surprised if there were any municipality in Australia with a population of that size which did not have more community facilities. [More…]

• If they were to take the time and trouble to go into the outer suburbs, particularly the newer suburbs of Canberra, to see just what is lacking in the way of ordinary conventional community facilities they might have a different view. [More…]

• The Government has failed to ensure that adequately qualified staff are available to look after babies in our community. [More…]

• As one can see from the Territory Authorities (Financial Provisions) Bill, under Part I the only portion that relates to the Northern Territory is the reference to the Darwin Community College as an authority that is exempt from taxation. [More…]

• Perhaps the only argument left is whether sufficient time has been given for those people interested basically in the Canberra community to discuss these arrangements. [More…]

• There is a 3-year funding program through the Office of Child Care to provide funds for voluntary community organisations which are engaged in activities of support to families such as family counselling, financial counselling, advisory services, and services relating to ethnic groups, Aborigines and lone parents. [More…]

• We hope it will be of benefit to voluntary organisations in the community. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that a Queensland State Minister, apparently on an instruction from the Queensland Premier, has directed staff of the Community Health Services Centre of the Department of Health in Townsville that they are not to associate with or join any committees on which there are representatives of the Aboriginal or Islander communities? [More…]

• The view of the Government is that it wishes to see self-determination by the Aborigines, with assistance from government and community bodies to see that their health, welfare and development are such as to make them equal citizens and make the Government proud of what they are able to accomplish. [More…]

• The granting of equal pay followed a continuing process of argument that took place over a number of years by many groups in the community, not just Senator Harradine ‘s union. [More…]

• We deal with virtually every facet of matters in which the community is involved. [More…]

• It is not a major target for malcontents in the community, but the same basic security existed. [More…]

• I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a statement relating to Australia’s trade relations with the European Economic Community. [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 1 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…]

• by leave- The statement which has just been incorporated in Hansard by the Minister for Science (Senator Webster) deals with Australia’s trade relations with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Therefore it is in the interests of our safety and the safety of everyone in the community who ever uses an aircraft, that we should acquiesce to our baggage being searched and to walking through a metal detector frame or, alternatively, having a metal detector device run over us by certain security people. [More…]

• I think we are all in agreement that they are very important organisations; that they are playing and can play an enormously valuable role in the community. [More…]

• That is a grant- is inadequate to fund research to meet the challenge of the increasing cost of crime to the community. [More…]

• I was particularly interested in what Senator Missen said about the need to impress upon the community that the police forces of Australia need to be of a high standard in the carrying out of their work, in particular of a high enough standard to be able to use the discretion which is so necessary in their day to day work. [More…]

• It is often difficult for the Australian community, which supports universities like the ANU- a university of which I believe all Australians are rightly proud- to understand and appreciate the sort of work which is being done in universities of this kind. [More…]

• One might say that the public relations people of a university which fails to relate to the community on the sort of work it is doing are not all that they might be. [More…]

• I believe that in this Parliament we have reached a stage where, in the next few years, we will have to start to question the article of faith of all Western societies, including the Australian society, that the medical and scientific research that is being done necessarily constitutes progress towards some extra enlightenment- some continual progress towards the elevation of mankind -and that all we as citizens in a community have to do is to have faith in the progress of science, which will go on and on, and to believe that that faith justifies expenditure on all sorts of projects about which ordinary people might justifiably be very concerned and critical. [More…]

• I speak for myself, but I suspect that I might be speaking for others, when I say that we can no longer opt out of the whole situation as an article of faith and say that we are satisfied that we as a community are spending money on scientific research which is necessarily conducive to the well being of the people in this society. [More…]

• One of the ramifications of that legislation which has been a source of concern to the Council of the Australian National University is its implication on academic freedom and the freedom of academics in the community to pursue both their chosen vocation and their right to express views about a great variety of controversial issues with which the community is confronted. [More…]

• If one looks at what is happening in respect of companies and if one looks at any section of the community one will find something wrong. [More…]

• There are areas in which the universities, like this Parliament, endeavour to balance all the competing interests and to provide an opportunity for the development and the pursuit of excellence in our community. [More…]

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

• The Government would want to be in a 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…]

• Is it a fact, as reported, that her Department was made aware of the possibility of large scale fraud in invalid and sickness benefit payments by reports from the community involved? [More…]

• Some of these sources were members of the community involved who were themselves concerned at abuses that may be taking place under the Social Services Act. [More…]

• No, this is entirely connected with the Greek community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is it intended to continue and to broaden the investigations to see whether any Australians or other ethnic communities have also been cheating, or is the inquiry to be purely into the Greek community and in particular the Greek community in Sydney? [More…]

• The police officer who was questioned on this matter did make the statement that members of a particular community were involved. [More…]

• His statement that one ethnic community was involved in this matter related to that investigation. [More…]

• We believe it to be a fact that the abuse which was being investigated did relate to one community group. [More…]

• I can assure Senator Young that no particular ethnic group in the community has been singled out for investigation, but rather that a scheme which had been devised involved members of one community group in abuses under the Act. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Social Security aware of the front page story in yesterday’s Daily Mirror concerning fraudulent practices surrounding the payment of invalid pensions to some hundreds of members of the Greek community? [More…]

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

• -Clearly a number of inferences to be drawn from the honourable senator’s questions are beyond response by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -I think all honourable senators and the community in general would be concerned by the number and size of mishaps to oil tankers throughout the world and therefore would want to ensure maximum safety in this country’s ports and off-shore areas. [More…]

• That is so, firstly, because there is less distortion in the efficiency of resource allocation and, secondly, because the burden of bounties is distributed through the taxation system on the whole community in a more equitable way than is likely to be the case via the high cost method of imposing tariffs. [More…]

• In respect of the age old question of bounty versus tariff, I support the view that the bounty certainly is the most equitable method of distributing the cost across the community. [More…]

• In this case it has the effect of not imposing higher costs on our community at a time when the recovery, which Senator Walsh is seeking, is struggling valiantly against periods of high cost increases which occurred over the last few years. [More…]

• It is probably unfortunate that the present examination was prompted by an act which occurred a short time ago in the Australian community. [More…]

• This is a small indication of the good relations that exist between the general community and the elected representatives who sit in parliament. [More…]

• At the same time one simply has to acknowledge that there are some elements in the community who are capable of doing things which go outside the normal democratic process and which put people at risk, whether they are members of parliament or others. [More…]

• I well remember speeches that were made by honourable senators opposite when they were in government in which they complained about extremist elements in the community who were making life difficult for the Yugoslav Embassy and other people. [More…]

• Those honourable senators were quite properly concerned about small elements in the community who were prepared to indulge in violence and to endanger not only those whom they were seeking to attack but also the general public. [More…]

• I think it is true to say- Senator Missen correctly underlined this fact and other speakers referred to it- that there is an alienation in the Australian community about the use and abuse of arbitrary power. [More…]

• One question with which members of all political parties should concern themselves is the use of this power and the degree to which there is growing alienation of sizable sections of the Australian community because of the way in which those who hold power exercise that power. [More…]

• It seems to me that it is part of the responsibility of those who have power to exercise it in such a way to show that they take into consideration the minority views which exist within the community. [More…]

• It must be conceded that it is an issue on which there are strongly held views within the Australian community, as there were on the war in Vietnam. [More…]

• Senator Missen correctly put his finger on the position when he mentioned the new Australian or migrant element in our community. [More…]

• There is no way in which we can protect absolutely every person in a community at all times. [More…]

• It is representative of the crosssection of attitudes of the community. [More…]

• It will create an opportunity for further consideration and debate amongst that cross-section about which I have been talking- the cross-section of the Parliament and the cross-section of the community which is reflected in the Parliament. [More…]

• It will be interesting to know whether the taxi drivers will be furnished with identity cards whilst the reliable and legitimate drivers of Commonwealth cars are sitting home at night and the Commonwealth cars are locked up in the garage- cars that the taxpayers of this community pay for. [More…]

• Churchill put the matter into proper perspective when, in criticising Hitler so trenchantly for his mobilisation of a national police force purely for propaganda and murderous purposes, he said: ‘Here for so many years we have had a police force and it is a friend of every member in the community except the lawbreaker. ‘ [More…]

• -On 28 February 1978 (Hansard, page 139) Senator Cavanagh asked me, as Minister representing the Prime Minister, a question without notice concerning the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Community Health Service. [More…]

• Having in mind the request by many Aboriginal councils for finance for work projects within their communities, is it the intention of the Government to develop the Government National Aboriginal Employment Policy by providing finance for community works rather than increase the number of recipients for unemployment benefits- ‘sit-down money’ as the Aboriginal people call it- which brings nothing but the degradation and destruction of the people involved? [More…]

• When making the original statement the Minister for Immigration had in mind that he would arrange for any cases referred to him by the Latin American community to be examined as quickly as circumstances would permit and that he would give them compassionate consideration. [More…]

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

• Will the Government consider extending the suggested tax to corporate bodies, such as trade unions, so that the cost of their activities to the community can be firmly established [More…]

• These matters all refer to the ability of professional associations to assist the Government and the community in cost containment of medical costs. [More…]

• If a community had an Aboriginal employment policy and there were members who wished to avail themselves of employment opportunities outside that policy and they satisfied the requirements of the Social Services Act they could be eligible for the unemployment benefit. [More…]

• But what has occurred in the limited number of communities which I mentioned yesterday is that the Aborigines have sought, as an alternative to the payment of individual unemployment benefits, an employment scheme which would give that community the equivalent of what the adult members of the community, the working population, would receive in the way of unemployment benefits. [More…]

• The community councils concerned would then arrange the employment and pay the Aborigines according to the work done by them. [More…]

• The Government has been hoping that in time the Australian public, and indeed the international community, would be prepared to forget the coalition’s immorality, its hypocrisy and its cynicism in recognising de facto, in a written statement on 20 January this year, the Indonesian military annexation of East Timor. [More…]

• Whether it was advised through diplomatic channels or warned by our intelligence community, it is plain, from its withdrawal of Australian nationals from East Timor on 2 December 1975- five days before the Indonesian invasion- that the Government was aware of what was to occur on the following Sunday, 7 December. [More…]

• It is the obligation of the international community to co-operate in eradicating such scourges. [More…]

• Any connivance with actions of that type seriously weakens the international community. [More…]

• Realism requires that changes in government as a result of such acts are usually eventually recognised but the international community should be slow to confer recognition in those circumstances. [More…]

• Not only were killing and atrocities being carried out on a large scale at the time of recognition, there were also clear statements by the international community repudiating Indonesia’s claim to the territory. [More…]

• In regard’ to Rhodesia, or Zimbabwe, as Mr Fraser with his new-found enthusiasm for the anticolonial movements would now call it, it is stated that any solution from which the Patriotic Front was excluded would be unacceptable to the international community. [More…]

• The axiom will be just as applicable to communities comprised of, say, residents of an Aboriginal community or broadcasters of Christian programs. [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 program for the interests of a community, or communities, in a specific geographical location. [More…]

• The Government has accepted the Green report’s attitude that public broadcasting is an activity which should spring from local, community initiatives. [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 Licence stations (community groups) may well feature ‘programs of continuing and adult education’ relevant to their community. [More…]

• An example might be a community station in Bourke or Walgett featuring enrichment programs for Aboriginals. [More…]

• We note also the work of the community organisation known as the Public Broadcasting Association of Australia which has worked very closely with the Government in the modification and development of guidelines to the point where these guidelines have been presented to Parliament. [More…]

• There are still some serious matters about which the Opposition and the community generally require a great deal more information from the Government. [More…]

• I should say by way of comment that the Opposition, and I think the general community also, has cause from time to time to question the credibility of the Government when it speaks of the importance of freedom of expression in broadcasting. [More…]

• We in the Opposition and members of the community have often had cause to criticise standards, lack of regulation with respect to content in advertising, and things of that kind which have eroded the value of the broadcasting media as a national resource. [More…]

• Whilst I can accept that in most cases the needs of public broadcasters would be met adequately by low or mediumpowered frequencies, there would be cases in large capital cities and so forth where such a frequency would not be adequate to meet the needs of the particular community which would provide the audience for that community station. [More…]

• Throughout Australia now there are several public broadcasting stations where people have been working, have learned from their experience and have established relationships with the community. [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…]

• Motivation for the visit at this time sprang from a reply on 22 February 1978 by Senator Carrick, in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), to a question by Senator Mulvihill about the Kakadu National Park. [More…]

• That situation is confusing not only to Justice Collins but also to everyone else in the community. [More…]

• I welcome the legislation as a redemption of the Government’s election promise and a worthwhile initiative to return a measure of justice to the rural community of which it was deprived by the Labor Government during its term of office from 1972 to 1974. [More…]

• Unfortunately for a great many people in the community the bait was taken. [More…]

• It is an insult not only to women but to the whole of the community and it is recognised as such. [More…]

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

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

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

• An election for an advisory council comprising members of the Cocos Malay community took place on 18 March 1978. [More…]

• This represents a wide cross-section of organisations throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• I now ask the Minister whether she will cause an immediate inquiry to be instituted with a view to ensuring that the Aboriginal community land at Herberton is left intact for the use of Aborigines. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Parliament also whether it is the intention of the Queensland Government to take over the Aboriginal community reserve at Ravenshoe for State Government development purposes? [More…]

• As this would result in welfare officers ceasing their valuable community work for people in need, without isolating the aged, why has the change been made in the conditions of the subsidy? [More…]

• If communities now managed and controlled by government officials consider that they are ready for selfmanagement 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 well-being 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 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 States, education, health and community welfare departments, for example, provide services to Aboriginal communities in the same way as they do to other citizens, There is no reason why these and other State Government services should be affected if reserve communities in Queensland choose self-management under this legislation. [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 upon any community. [More…]

• I am sure that Government senators accept the fact that we will otherwise be confronted with procrastination, legal challenges and division within the Queensland community. [More…]

• It is accepted by us as a white community that we took their land, which is very precious to them in terms of Aboriginal culture, customs, and economic and social life, and utilised it for our own profit. [More…]

• The Act also fails to make clear to people the fact that the Federal Government has made special laws and provided special treatment to many groups within our community, particularly disadvantaged groups such as migrants and women, in an attempt to develop greater equality within the Australian community. [More…]

• In this case we have in Queensland an Aboriginal community which is disadvantaged socially and economically within the framework of what any reasonable Australian would judge to be a reasonable standard of living. [More…]

• It is a confidence trick, or so it is being seen by many people in the black community, which is being perpetrated on the Australian public in view of the Government’s attitude to the National Aboriginal Conference which asked for a stay of proceedings when it met for the first time in Canberra this week and was confronted with all the platitudes of and commitments made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) when on Monday morning he spoke of the importance of the Conference in its consultative capacity and the value which the Government would place on its recommendations. [More…]

• These fundamental points in this legislationthe failure to explicitly set aside land for Aborigines; the abject failure to give Aborigines and Islanders full rights to exclude from entering the community individuals and groups whom they may feel to be detrimental to the community; the failure of the by-laws to cover Europeans generally or adequately and the rather complicated procedure in relation to the enactment of by-laws -are similar to many of the more paternalistic overtones of the Queensland legislation. [More…]

• On 18 November, 1975, the Aurukun people’s elected council, five in number, personally requested the Department to assume management of the Aurukun community, and after full discussion and a verbal approach to the Director on that day they then confirmed their request by presentation of a formal letter. [More…]

• I understand that there were circumstances at the time relating to the administration of the reserves which were causing some divisions within the community and which were making them unhappy. [More…]

• On 30 December, 1977, we received a letter signed by five members of the Aboriginal Community Council reading: [More…]

• We, the undersigned members of the Aurukun Community Council, have, after extensive 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…]

• 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…]

• The role of the Church within the community be defined to the satisfaction of the Church, and that the freedom of the Church to appoint staff sufficient for that role be guaranteed by the Government. [More…]

• The views of your Synod as expressed in this decision have been noted and you can be assured that in all matters affecting the Aurukun community and indeed any Aboriginal Community in Queensland, the welfare and interests of community residents is and will continue to be of paramount consideration. [More…]

• after extensive 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 think there was almost a tacit acceptance that it may have been possible to work with the State Government providing certain basic undertakings were given in relation to the wishes of the Aboriginal people and how they wanted their community developed. [More…]

• The future of the Aborigine in the Australian community is a question which exercises our minds very seriously. [More…]

• Anybody in the community is entitled to do that. [More…]

• Community residents have been left without spiritual resorts and guidance that is a basic necessity for any human beings. [More…]

• Community residents have been left without spiritual resorts and guidance that is a basic necessity for any human beings. [More…]

• At the same time the Aboriginal community is seen as a fertile field for social experimentation and investigation that would not be tolerated by any other sector of the population, and it is a pity that many of those involved do not consider they are dealing with people who are immensely sensitive and require the advantages of stability and time rather than the status of social “guinea pigs “. ‘ [More…]

• They are involved in getting normal community facilities established- housing, water supplies, airstrips, stores, etc. [More…]

• Machinery such as water pumps, generating units, vehicles are necessary for outstations community maintenance. [More…]

• I also have a letter of 7 March 1978 from Mr Coutts, the community’s administrative officer of Boemar to the director detailing fully just what the facilities at the outstations were. [More…]

• We spoke to the Community Councils, the groups of Aborigines elected by the Aborigines to run, in cooperation with the Uniting Church, the affairs of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I have here a transcript of an address to the Aurukun community and staff by the Honourable C. R. Porter, Queensland ‘s Minister for Aboriginal and Islander Affairs, and Mr P. J. Killoran, director of the Department, on Wednesday, 15 March 1978. [More…]

• I presume, of course, that you mean the people who have gone from the community here out into the back country to live; is that the idea, what do we feel about that? [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…]

• 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 well being 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…]

• It would provide for the abolition of the two Acts which still permit under their bylaws and regulations the imprisonment of kiddies of school age in community gaols. [More…]

• When the mineral explorers moved into the area looking for bauxite one of the first things they wanted to do was interfere with the community at Aurukun but the council of elders decided they would not be allowed to do this and told these people where they could do their exploring. [More…]

• The original plan envisaged that in the event of the Aborigines refusing to co-operate a series of barrages would be established on the local river and, if it were necessary, because the miners did not get their way, the mineral explorers would flood out the community. [More…]

• Mr Bjelke-Petersen ‘s first reaction was to move the whole community to the mainland and abandon Mornington Island. [More…]

• Today, the Aboriginal community at Weipa has lost much of its culture. [More…]

• Still in them the greedy way of feeling they have and do not think of the people of the community. [More…]

• The drinking was brought by the white people and did make the people and children suffer by drunkenness and broken homes, deserted homes, mothers left with children and fathers left with children, children wandering away from the love of their father and mother which we know our homes before was the best Christian community now its brought heartaches and pains, car accidents, fights and deaths. [More…]

• Everywhere a mining company goes where there is an Aboriginal community, invariably it leads to the destruction of the culture and happiness of that community. [More…]

• When the referendums were held last year a direction was sent to every island community regarding the way they had to vote. [More…]

• I told him at the time that undoubtedly the Post Office would have delivered them to the community but that is as far as they would have gone. [More…]

• Instead I address them to other areas where community members wander from time to time and are able to pick up their mail. [More…]

• In this session I have asked questions about that community and I have mentioned it in debate. [More…]

• We say it is entirely wrong to give a right- in this case mineral rights- to one section of the community when no other section has a similar right. ‘ [More…]

• The situation at the community of Cherbourg, which three of my Queensland colleagues visited the other day, is different from that at Mornington Island, Aurukun or some of the other church-run mission stations. [More…]

• He has offered the same right to every other Aboriginal community in the State of Queensland. [More…]

• It is from Professor Busch, Moderator of the Uniting Church in Queensland; Reverend Gordon Coutts, Administration Officer of the Uniting Church; and Mr W. McMillan, solicitor for the Community of Aurukun, acting on behalf at the Aurukun people. [More…]

• Its argument was supported by some 23 telegrams from Queensland community councils asking us to leave control under the Queensland Act and the State Government. [More…]

• We have been told that the threat of a takeover of the Aboriginal community at Aurukun and Mornington Island has become important because there is a desire to mine bauxite deposits on the settlements. [More…]

• They have the ultimate secret weapon to abolish that community when they are ready. [More…]

• The community is the family. [More…]

• We should not extend this right to one section of the community and not to another. [More…]

• I suppose if one looks at the question from a human rights situation one realises that Aborigines are entitled to their rights but I think all sections of the community would realise that alcohol has been one of the destroyers of the Aboriginal race. [More…]

• The Commonwealth may make available to the Council for a Reserve to which this Act applies, or for a Community to which the Act applies, for the purpose of enabling the Council to perform its functions, any land acquired by or otherwise vested in the Commonwealth. [More…]

• If we are to have the old system which this Bill seems to perpetuate we will once again have, say, an education system introduced from outside and rather than it being an education system to meet the needs of the community it would be white dominated, probably not bilingual and with very little appreciation of the special needs of the community. [More…]

• But when you are ashamed of history and regret it, when you think that you live in an age that has outgrown it and have reached a stage of nobility where it is your job to make the present community of Australia one, how petty and pettyfogging it is for dissidents to revert to history for the purpose of creating dissension on the lowest level of” political divisiveness and destruction. [More…]

• Therefore, let us look to the society of which we are representatives and consider what our obligations are in granting opportunities to Aborigine citizens of Australia so that they can take their proper place in the Australian community. [More…]

• When we have the responsibility for evolving a system that will give the best opportunity for welfare for the Aboriginal community in the peculiar circumstances of these two areas, indirectly all the Aboriginal areas of Queensland and, of necessity, indirectly as a consequence of the development over the next five or ten years of the whole Aboriginal community of Australia, considering the definition of Aboriginal community- an Aboriginal being any person who pronounces himself to acknowledge Aboriginal descent, perhaps from Cape Barren Island- it behoves the Parliament in the threshold of a proposition of that sort first to undergo the discipline of saying: ‘We need time for gathering information, forming a judgment, debating the situation and then enacting more. ‘ [More…]

• Today a Bill has been introduced and debated despite the protests of the Opposition which claims to be authorised by the Aboriginal community to request more time for consideration. [More…]

• It is that community for which the Government claimed to be acting in the matter. [More…]

• The Government said: ‘This community has turned to us and we will not fail it.’ [More…]

• Yet after hearing the Aboriginal community’s comments upon either the positive provisions of this Bill or its shortcomings that have been demonstrated or argued by the Opposition, this Government denies time for the Aboriginal people to put their views to this chamber which has the final say as to whether this Bill becomes law. [More…]

• I would be prepared to work seven days a week from breakfast time to midnight on a purposeful proposition of producing a measure that is best designed to succour the welfare of this community consistent with my overriding thought that we are one nation. [More…]

• We have a responsibility to hold the nation as a unity and an entity and to allow neither Croatians nor Aboriginals to erect themselves as one factor in our community which has an overriding power or authority solely for itself. [More…]

• I stand here simply to call attention to the essential claims made by an Australian polity, community, including the Aboriginals, for the purpose of reconciling their welfare in the present set up of constituted Federal government and constituted State government. [More…]

• What a criterion for bringing a particular community under a particular jurisdiction! [More…]

• But it is not for any majorityCroatians or Aboriginals- in this polity to elect that it will constitute a community to manage its affairs. [More…]

• But when one comes to a community under this Bill one finds that the proposal is that the Minister shall declare the reserve as a reserve to which this Act applies with the consequence that the Council of that reserve shall manage and control the affairs of the community. [More…]

• The result of that declaration would be that the Council for that reserve would manage and control the affairs of the community. [More…]

• This Council is to manage and control the affairs of the community. [More…]

• It is said that the Council of the reserve shall have a responsibility to, but only to, the Aboriginal community and to no one else. [More…]

• It is for the conduct, discipline and well-being of the community. [More…]

• They have power to legislate for the peace, order and good government of the community. [More…]

• This Council is to be responsible to the community, exercising its functions for the conduct, discipline and well-being of the community. [More…]

• But if through this Council there comes a by-law in relation to its function, such as in the judgment of the Council is proper, that has just as much legislative effect within that community as has any Act, which is passed here within the ambit of Federal power, on the Australian community. [More…]

• So it appears to me that the by-law of the legislative instrument by which the Aboriginal community is to effectuate its policy in the management of its affairs is to prevail. [More…]

• But the community, I have no doubt, is concerned with this: That that by-law, under this Bill, will have operation only if it is approved. [More…]

• How can an Aboriginal community manage its own affairs in the sense in which it is being expressed, a sense which I would never accept as a proposition of proper government in this country? [More…]

• This legislation is careful to prescribe that the council is responsible to and only to, the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• If the Government is not dissuaded by the fact that it is creating in effect little Alsatias within the Australian community by this proposition then it is right, but if it is persuaded otherwise, if we have any interest in Aboriginal welfare, let us take a little time to consider it further, to iron out a measure, if one is needed, in the Commonwealth sphere. [More…]

• We know that many Aboriginal communities understand that they have a problem which is more than one can say for the white community. [More…]

• We have before us a Bill that does not prevent their land being mined, a Bill that allows a part of their reserve to be apportioned for the use of the community. [More…]

• Then came a period of mounting concern expressed by the peoples as community conditions deteriorated to such an extent at Aurukun that many people felt they could no longer live in the settlement proper, and went out to more remote areas to fend for themselves. [More…]

• It is all very well to talk about people managing their own affairs but, to show honourable senators the difficulties that were experienced in regard to food, in January 1 976 the Aurukun Community Incorporated Pty Ltd, an Aboriginal co-operative sponsored by the Commonwealth- the Commonwealth knows how to run everything in Australia but does not know how to get unemployment down or how to stop strikes- was indebted to the extent of $66,000 to a northern firm for supplies. [More…]

• Mr Porter’s statement continued: lt is difficult to understand, however, how a community store catering for a population of 700-odd could operate effectively with such a debt and the insistence by an alternative supplier for goods on the basis of cash within seven days. [More…]

• Honourable senators, I am sure, would enjoy paying the following prices: Twelve ounces of cheese cost $1.30 compared with 55c at a neighbouring community; a drum of flour cost $15.30 compared with $9.20 at a neighbouring community. [More…]

• Coffee cost $6 compared with $3.50 at a neighbouring community. [More…]

• Two kilograms of sugar cost $1.20 compared with 53c at a neighbouring community and toilet paper per roll cost $2.40- obviously a rare and costly item. [More…]

• 1 ) to ensure that all Aborigines and part-Aborigines will attain the same manner of living as other Australians and live as members of a single Australian community - [More…]

• I think we should also use the recommendations of the Senate committee’s report on these matters as a basis for discussions on the health of the Australian community with regard to this problem. [More…]

• As to whether I believe that the health of the community is more important than the excise that is received, I agree that the health of the community is of paramount importance. [More…]

• It could probably be argued whether the excise that is received is financial compensation for the health costs that are incurred because of many of the problems that exist in our community. [More…]

• The amount of finance that is available to the Government at present is important as are the competing interests within the community for the allocation of such capital. [More…]

• As honourable senators know, about $26m additional purchasing power a month has been injected into the community from 1 January. [More…]

• For instance, its Entomology Division has an on-going interest in attempting to ascertain the likely insect pests within the community which need to be eradicated and the various ways in which this should be done. [More…]

• He said that a health report on the Aurukun community showed that in 1973 48 per cent of children were greatly under weight for their age. [More…]

• It is sad- in fact, it is pathetic- that an Australian government should have to declare urgent a Bill such as this, push it through the lower House of the Parliament and then insist that it be passed by the Upper House to overcome and short circuit an action which it believes the Queensland Government may take and which would have a serious effect on the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• In fact a more accurate analogy might be drawn between apartheid and the actions of the Queensland government in over-riding the wishes of the community, in refusing to concede that they are equal citizens in this country, by having on its statute books discriminatory legislation affecting the lives of Aboriginals in many ways and by covering its actions and intentions in this matter with deception. [More…]

• I do not think there has been an issue in recent times when there has been such unanimous disapproval within the community, within the media and within the Parliament. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt has moved an amendment to withdraw the Bill to that we can consult with the representatives of the Aboriginal community and others to take into account any suggestions they make. [More…]

• Grave doubts have been expressed by the Aboriginal community and the Opposition as to the effectiveness of the Bill. [More…]

• There has been some discussion in this debate about whether the Aurukun community has changed its mind over the past few years. [More…]

• So the whole argument becomes far too confused, and the use of the word ‘apartheid’, in my view, is an attempt to appeal to the worst instincts in this community. [More…]

• shall obey all lawful instructions of the Director, District Officer, Manager, Councillors or other officers of such Reserve or Community. [More…]

• I am sure that the Queensland Government is made up of men who have the best interests of the Queensland community at heart. [More…]

• Let me hark back to the somewhat pessimistic comments that I made earlier in my speech about the general attitude of the Australian community to matters relating to Aboriginals and to Aboriginal policy. [More…]

• For reasons which go through my whole attitude to this question of race- I believe that to have a good community we need to have good co-operative relations- I say very firmly to the Opposition and to the National Aboriginal Conference that they should not advocate that sort of drastic action at this stage. [More…]

• They should concentrate on what has been the issue in this period of conflict, and that is the right of these communities simply to manage their domestic and community affairs. [More…]

• If there are people who are impatient about the rate of progress, I simply say that they should bear in mind that we are trying to ensure that the Australian community maintains sensible relationships between communities. [More…]

• It was suggested that perhaps there was a need to have an education system that met the needs of the community. [More…]

• He discussed the communities’ needs with senior representatives of the communities who reported community views on the matters on 16 and 1 7 March. [More…]

• I believe that the Minister and many other members and senators feel assured that both the councils and the community residents unanimously wish this legislation to apply to them. [More…]

• It also wants the Aboriginal people and other groups in the community to have an opportunity to express their thoughts on the legislation. [More…]

• These views are being put forward by the Opposition, after some consultation with the Aboriginal community, as indicating the shortcomings of the legislation. [More…]

• Aboriginal Community’ means a community for Aborigines established, or deemed to have been established, under or by the Aborigines Act; [More…]

• Islander Community’ means a community for Islanders established, or deemed to have been established, under or by the Torres Strait Islanders Act; [More…]

• Leave out the definition of’Aboriginal Community’, insert the following definition: ‘Aboriginal Community’ means a community of persons that, on 3 1 March 1978, was a community for Aborigines for the purposes of the Aborigines Act; [More…]

• Leave out the definition of ‘Islander Community’, insert 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…]

• These four amendments deal with definitions and have the effect of fixing in time the legal definition of an Aboriginal or islander community or reserve and to define specifically once and for all what communities are the subject of this legislation. [More…]

• The definition of an Aboriginal community in the Bill states: [More…]

• Aboriginal community’ means a community for Aborigines established, or deemed to have been established, under or by the Aborigines Act [More…]

• Immediately this Bill is passed he can, by an alteration of his Act which is the only definition we have of what is an Aboriginal community or reserve, exclude any community which this Bill is intended to cover. [More…]

• If the Act which defines an Aboriginal community or reserve is changed next week by the Queensland Parliament, what will be the effect of this Bill on any present reserve which may not be a reserve next week? [More…]

• They seek to declare what is now a reserve or a community and what shall remain a reserve or a community no matter what happens in Queensland. [More…]

• But a good law is a law made by a community for that community and one which that community will observe. [More…]

• Council ‘, in relation to a Reserve or Community, means- [More…]

• if a declaration under sub-section 6 ( 1 ) is in force at the relevant time in relation to the Reserve or Community-the body specified in that declaration. [More…]

• It can be the body which puts to him a request, purporting to be representative of a substantial body of the wishes of the Aboriginal community, and upon that he makes the declaration. [More…]

• He can then proceed to make a declaration under proposed section 5 as though he has an expression of view from a body authorised by the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• We are giving to the Minister a terrific power to act contrary to the wishes of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• the Council for an Aboriginal 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 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…]

• We may have a situation, for instance, where a council would not reflect the wishes of a substantial majority of the community. [More…]

• If it were a mandatory requirement for the Minister to accept that, this could well be against the wishes of the entire community or the substantial majority of it. [More…]

• If, for example, there were changes in Queensland legislation which did not provide for an elected council but provided for an appointed council, the Minister, if the amendments were to take effect, would be required, by way of a mandatory act, to do what a council asked him to do irrespective of the fact that the council was not elected but was appointed and may not reflect the wishes of the majority of the community. [More…]

• By putting that point to the Opposition I hope it will see that the amendments that have been moved are not ones that will act in the best interests of the majority of a particular community. [More…]

• We have seen, from what has been said in the second reading debate, an evolution in attitudes not only in this Parliament and the Australian community but also amongst Aboriginals and Islanders. [More…]

• We are concerned, in the points of conflict that may arise, that the Minister, because of the difficulties of interpretation or even of changing attitudes, can determine to take no action at all and not resolve the matter to the satisfaction of the community. [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…]

• In sub-clause (4), leave out ‘that is appropriated for the use of the Community’. [More…]

• I respond to Senator Cavanagh and to Senator Gietzelt by pointing out that the Opposition’s amendments to subclause (4) would allow a council of a community to be given additional functions by regulation in relation to Aboriginals or Islanders who happen to be anywhere on the whole of the reserves rather than residing in the community. [More…]

• It would therefore be possible for groups of Aboriginals on reserves who might be living far from the community to find themselves subject to a community council on which they are not represented. [More…]

• It is for this reason that the Government does not see the amendments of the Opposition as ones that could be accepted or supported because the people who are living outside the particular community could find themselves subject to a community council on which they have no representation. [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 Community 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…]

• I was somewhat shocked to hear Senator Wood suggest that one of the reasons why we have an intransigent position with the Queensland Government in regard to selfmanagement and the problems of Aurukun and Mornington Island is because of the failure to provide community facilities which clearly fall within the province of the Queensland Government. [More…]

• The consent of the Federal Minister can be sought in order to provide, particularly in the outback communities, the sort of services which are expected in a modern community even though they may be designated a remote community. [More…]

• In it power is given to the councils to manage and control the affairs of the Aboriginal or Islander community. [More…]

• I would imagine that services also could be provided by other organisationsvoluntary and charitable organisations and so forth- in the community. [More…]

• It seems to me that if the council is to control the community and manage its affairs, it perhaps should have some say in the provision of other services by organisationsnot just by the State but by other outside organisations. [More…]

• It does not allow the community to make a determination about whether it wants a particular service- for example, if the service were provided under unreasonable terms or for some type of activity to which the council was strongly opposed. [More…]

• No one can complain if the service is beneficial to the Aborigines but as providers of a service do not have to ask a council ‘s approval some services that could be to the detriment of the community could come in. [More…]

• The Minister would take a particular interest and ensure that only services that are of benefit to the community would be permitted. [More…]

• If” it were to take effect it would give the Minister power to determine whether, for example, a State government department continued to provide services to a community. [More…]

• We have said throughout this debate, and in particular in the second reading speech, that State Government Departments should continue to provide the ordinary community services available to all other Australians. [More…]

• In all States- I think Senator Chaney made this point stronglysuch services as education, health and community welfare are provided by State governments and it would be expected that they would be provided to Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• We believe that if communities choose self-management those services would be able to be provided by the State Government as they are in the rest of the community. [More…]

• In other words, what was suggested, I think by Senator Missen- that if the community decided that additional or special services were required in some of those areas there is nothing in sub-clause 2 that would prevent them from providing those additional services. [More…]

• I think the Senate and the Australian community ought to be aware that the establishment of these councils is in fact the establishment of a great number of what are in effect self-management organisations and local government authorities, insofar as they will be endeavouring to fulfil the obligations of local communities to run their own affairs, subject of course to some control. [More…]

• We believe that in those circumstances where by-laws are passed with relationship to the affairs in the local community, they should in the first instance be made available to the Minister and in the second instance to the Parliament, to ensure that they represent the views of the Council which claims to represent the views of the local community. [More…]

• I have abstained from the discussion of clauses 7 and 8 in regard to the functions, in the interests of time and of avoiding repetition of what I said last night, but permit me to remind the Committee that those functions are the management and control of the affairs of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• That includes operations on its roads, and the order and good government within the police concept of the reserve and, generally, the government of the community. [More…]

• Then clause 8 says that the Council shall be responsible only to the Aboriginal community for the conduct, discipline and well-being of the community. [More…]

• An Aboriginal community may specify for murder a penalty of $20 or less. [More…]

• The position is that here you have, confessedly, a situation where you are giving the Council the right to make by-laws for the control and management of its own affairs or, to use another expression, for the control of its affairs or, to use yet another, for the conduct, discipline and wellbeing of the Aboriginals within that reserve or community. [More…]

• So a council can give a complete go-by to the whole system of State and Commonwealth law just by saying: ‘We pass a law that in this community the welfare of the community is best served by saying that residents shall conduct themselves according to the standards of behaviour approved by the council. [More…]

• All other laws within this community are rubbed out. [More…]

• We believe that non-Aboriginal guests in an Aboriginal community should be expected to observe the traditions, the by-laws and the codes of that community just as a visitor to Canberra, for example, is expected to accept the by-laws that operate here. [More…]

• For instance, if a person is employed on the community there could be requirements written into the terms of his employment regarding any matter which is considered necessary. [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 authorise the person to reside on, or visit, that pan of the Reserve. [More…]

• ( 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…]

• 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…]

• I am conscious of the fact that there is a general trend in the community towards leasehold rather than freehold titles, but I accept the submission of the Central Land Council that any form of leasehold title would simply not be acceptable to [More…]

• This legislation regarding land rights for Aboriginal traditional areas and their normal rights pertaining to other members of the community does not satisfy Aboriginal wishes. [More…]

• I do not wish to delay the Committee, but I think this should be placed on record: It was Mr Justice Woodward ‘s specific recommendation in his second report that titles should not be vested in community councils. [More…]

• But his specific recommendation in his second report was that it should not be vested in the community councils. [More…]

• It is the Commonwealth Government’s policy to have reserve lands vested in land trusts on behalf of those traditionally entitled to the land rather than in community councils. [More…]

• It is in that context and based upon Appendix ‘C’ I will be seeking your approval to meet a Sydney Latin American Community deputation in the next off week to discuss this aspect of political refugee policy. [More…]

• When making the original statement the Minister for Immigration had in mind that he would arrange for any cases referred to him by the Latin American community to be examined as quickly as circumstances would permit and that he would give them compassionate consideration. [More…]

• J. MacKellar, MP, Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, relative to the efforts of sections of the Sydney Latin American community to have Ana Mohaded freed from political imprisonment in the Argentine and allowed to join her sister in Sydney. [More…]

• Departments-Aboriginal Affairs, Administrative Services, Attorney-General’s, Business and Consumer Affairs, Capital Territory, Construction, Defence, Education, Employment and Industrial Relations, Environment, Housing and Community Development, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Health, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Industry and Commerce, National Development, Northern Territory, Postal and Telecommunications, Primary Industry, Productivity, Science, Social Security, Trade and Resources, Transport, Treasury, Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]

• Australian Wheat Board, Capital Territory Health Commission, Commonwealth Banking Corporation, Commonwealth Police, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Commonwealth Teaching Service, Darwin Reconstruction Commission, Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefit Authority, Defence Service Homes Corporation, Health Insurance Commission, National Capital Development Commission, National Library, Northern Territory Police, Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, Office of the Governor-General, Office of the Insurance Commissioner, Office of the Public Service Board, Pipeline Authority, Qantas, Reserve Bank of Australia, Tax Agents Board, Telecom Australia, Trade Practices Commission, Trans Australia Airlines. [More…]

• All these Reports stress the need for a national focus on problems experienced by the handicapped, including difficulties in employment, housing, transport, access and in meeting many other obstacles created by, for example, unnecessarily rigid medical standards, social prejudices or simply a lack of community understanding. [More…]

• Amongst other things, it has recommended to the Government that for the International Year for Disabled Persons scheduled for 198 1, the theme ‘Access to Community Life’ be adopted, with education as an integral part of the program. [More…]

• It is envisaged that the new service will develop as an intrinsic and well-defined part of community services for the handicapped in each State. [More…]

• In addition, in the case of individual clients who are accepted for assistance of a non-vocational nature, consideration will be given to providing services which complement those of other community-based agencies for the handicapped. [More…]

• These may be arranged at a CRS centre, through an appropriate community facility, or in the person ‘sown home. [More…]

• In particular, this depends upon how much the deficit can be financed by non-bank borrowings because that, of course, withdraws from the community an equivalent amount of money to that being spent by way of the deficit. [More…]

• I am old fashioned enough to believe that those in this community who make assertions ought to prove them. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that community groups are providing assistance to bring boys from Carnarvon to Perth at a cost of $1,900 and that the removal of the Commonwealth’s subsidy is a matter of some concern to the cadet group? [More…]

• Whilst that particular question may have related to broadcasting as it concerned programs for reception in the home and in the community, because of the amount of time taken up by parliamentary broadcasting on our airwaves the matter of parliamentary broadcasts came very much into our discussions. [More…]

• The community at large of necessity, and quite wisely, has to work to some form of punctuality and to some form of timetable. [More…]

• I refer to the abolition of the superphosphate subsidy and to areas of taxation with regard to the farming community. [More…]

• When looking at the other rising costs incurred by primary industry over which primary industry has no control and when looking at the volume of petroleum products absorbed by primary industry, we see that the costs for petroleum products alone amount to a very great proportion of the total costs of the farming community. [More…]

• Fuel equalisation will play a very important part in the cost structure of the farming community as well as of the rural community. [More…]

• I have said in this chamber before that there is probably greater imbalance between the rural and urban sectors of our community than between any other sectors. [More…]

• That could probably be said of all Bills which attempt to make a contribution towards the successful operation of those people who are disadvantaged compared with the majority of people in ths community. [More…]

• Whilst that is obviously a very important amendment, and important to a number of individuals in the community, it emphasises the extent to which in the course of time anomalies have appeared. [More…]

• Once again that is a significant reform, one that is obviously important to many individuals within the community and one which corrects an anomaly in the legislation. [More…]

• I agree it is a hefty problem, a major problem, but are we to drift along, nurturing all the different sections of the community? [More…]

• The general community looks to the Family Law Act to provide the basis for the financial support of divorced parties. [More…]

• This would be difficult to refute as the Commonwealth has determined community standards through its family law legislation. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that this case has been associated with just one community, namely, the Greek community. [More…]

• In this case members of the Greek community were responsible for the situation coming to the public eye, as the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) has said in answers to questions in this place. [More…]

• In doing so, the Greek community showed the sense of responsibility that it normally shows in our community. [More…]

• The matters which I wish to raise involve firstly a concern for the appearance that the alleged fraud in this case was not detected early; and, secondly, a concern expressed also by representatives of the Greek community that differences in language and bureaucratic systems may cause injustices not only now but also in future cases. [More…]

• I believe that the concern amongst many sections of the migrant community is such that it probably warrants a detailed statement to the Parliament by the Minister. [More…]

• The court cases involve numbers of people in the Greek community allegedly receiving invalid pensions and sickness benefits, in each case for specific disorders, namely, psychiatric illnesses. [More…]

• We often hear from the Government and from people in the community of the need to watch carefully the payment of all social security benefits to ensure that the taxpayer is not ripped off. [More…]

• Relative to the massive amount of unemployment benefits and pensions paid in the community, the amount of sickness benefits and invalid pensions involved in this case is quite small. [More…]

• I believe that that is a reasonable expectation when we are paying out large amounts of money, and I should like to know why it was necessary for members of the community to bring this information to light. [More…]

• But when one looks at this case one cannot help but be impressed by the high incidence of people from one area and one community of Sydney, and one wonders why this group of beneficiaries was not detected earlier. [More…]

• All these questions have been asked not only by me but also by responsible members of the Greek community, and I believe they deserve an answer. [More…]

• The second point I wish to raise, which also concerns the community involved, deals with the question of justice for those migrants who in future may surfer from such disorders, or in fact from any disorders that may entitle them to sickness or invalid pensions. [More…]

• There is considerable disquiet amongst the Greek community, which may or may not be justified, over the methods used by the Commonwealth Police in arresting alleged offenders in mass raids and weekend raids, methods that it is suggested are normally used in security or criminal cases. [More…]

• The lawyers who represent the Greek community also are uncertain and suggest that this method of charging individuals may make defence difficult and more confusing for the defendants and their representatives. [More…]

• The alleged frauds at present in the newsthey have been considerably in the news and I suggest that the standard of reporting has been variable and at times very hurtful to the communityhave raised a lot of trouble and raised the worry that similar rackets may occur and similarly innocent people may be involved in episodes in other communities. [More…]

• The publicity given to the case requires that a clear explanation of the events is given not only to ensure that justice is done to both the taxpayer and the individual migrant but also to assist the community in understanding the difficulties which the Greek community is having in the present case. [More…]

• What has occurred in Sydney has caused grave embarrassment to the Greek community and I am pleased that the honourable senator has brought forward one or two matters- I do not quite agree with all the statements that he made- that should be noted with interest. [More…]

• I remember complaining in the Senate about the raids carried out by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on the Chinese community when searching out illegal immigrants. [More…]

• The Department used quite fantastic means, which intimidated the Chinese community and intruded somewhat into the privacy of members of that community. [More…]

• His support for the Greek community will be received with considerable thanks by those members of it who apparently brought these escapades to the notice of the authorities. [More…]

• I know that many responsible leaders in the Greek community feel exactly as I do. [More…]

• In relation to the comments that have been made about members of the Greek community, I join with both honourable senators in deploring what has been sometimes an irresponsible approach in the reporting in the mass media. [More…]

• Also I am concerned that there should be any feeling of damage to the reputation and standing of the whole of the Greek community in Australia as a result of this incident. [More…]

• As I have said and as Senator Grimes and other honourable senators said earlier, members of the Greek community were instrumental in enabling police to proceed with their investigations and in alerting the police to what they believed were abuses of the Social Services Act. [More…]

• The Greek community enjoys a very high reputation in Australia. [More…]

• I assured them that my only embarrassment was that there was a feeling of concern amongst members of the Greek community that something disgraceful had been perpetrated and that they all shared in this action. [More…]

• I assured the officials of the Embassy that the Government regarded the reputation of the Greek people in Australia as being of the highest standard and that it was in no way damaged by what has been referred to by Senator Grimes as perhaps an exploitation of members of the Greek community by others who may have professional skills and who used those skills in exploitation rather than in assistance. [More…]

• It was said that we need to ensure that the members of the Greek community are assisted, as are all migrants and in particular the nonEnglish speaking migrants, to be aware of the systems and services that are available in Australia. [More…]

• I thank the Senate for the opportunity to say what I have said with regard to the members of the Greek community. [More…]

• Of course the general thrust of Senator Missen ‘s question should be addressed to all tiers of government in Australia because the regulations affecting the business community emanate from all three levels of government. [More…]

• This Committee is particularly concerned with endeavouring to obtain uniformity of laws affecting the business community. [More…]

• I think it would be fair to say that there is a strong belief in the general community, particularly amongst parents and indeed amongst employers, that basic skills today have declined and certainly are not good enough. [More…]

• It must be a reflection on the community, on the family and on the schools that such a stream of people has come through the system without achieving the necessary minimum skills. [More…]

• All persons within the community who are concerned about the teaching of basic skills to children in schools will regard this inquiry into teacher education as vital in this and other respects. [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 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…]

• 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, 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…]

• We know the great difficulties that have been brought about as a result of the formation of the European Economic Community and Britain’s entry into it. [More…]

• We are reminded vividly of the marketing problems we face today because of the present attitude of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I think that the community at large tends to overlook this fact. [More…]

• One hears reports from the Tasmanian Fruit Marketing Authority this year that the outlook for exports of apples to Scandinavia and at least one of the countries of the European Economic Community, despite its protective policies, is better than it has been. [More…]

• If we had had an additional quantity of fruit we would have had Sim, $2m or $3m extra trade with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The European Economic Community of 220 million people, with all the resources of centuries of invention and what not, is to be appealed to. [More…]

• I do not know whether Senator Wriedt ‘s suggestion is that there should be some scheme whereby the responsibility of an individual or a person in the community, who may be a grower or a fishmonger whose fish shop happens to burn down- which is a national disaster for him- to insure or at least to look after himself should be eliminated by some contributory scheme whereby the State and Federal governments take some responsibility for the problem. [More…]

• I do not know that that has been contemplated but from the attitude I have heard expressed from the members of the Interim Council, if this College through its specialisation in relation to maritime safety and particularly in relation to fire fighting training is able to provide a service in other areas for the community then I have not the slightest doubt that it would be keen to do so. [More…]

• I understand from those people associated witht the Interim Council that they have been delighted with the co-operation that they have received so far from everyone in the community who is in any way involved in this project. [More…]

• No woman in this community takes lightly a decision to have an abortion. [More…]

• Can the Minister confirm that it will be up to the Aboriginal community council to decide what role the Uniting Church will have in future at Aurukun and Mornington Island under the terms of yesterday’s agreement and that in fact there is no conflict between the statements made by Mr Petersen and Mr Viner on that agreement? [More…]

• There are already incorporated bodies in each community which are carrying out important functions with financial support from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• This was to be achieved through the creation of a local government authority for each community with a local government council comprising existing councils until the next local council elections which will take place in April. [More…]

• Then, in order to support the communities, there will be for each community a co-ordinating and advisory committee to the council composed of people representing the authorities delivering services, including one representative from the Commonwealth Government Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• The long-term needs of the Austraiian community are ignored while the Government fiddles with the short-term issues. [More…]

• Stamp duty reductions and a reduction of rates of duty, particularly in regard to housing, have saved the community another $3m. [More…]

• That was an understandable position, because when Labor came to power in 1 972 it had to pick up the tab for so many years of deficiency so far as community and public services were concerned. [More…]

• We have to reflect that blacks all over the world, whether they be in the United States of America, Africa or any other countryor indeed in our own country- have had to struggle for the basic right to be recognised as human beings, as being part of a community. [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…]

• As I understand it this clause is similar to a section in the Act incorporating the Canberra College of Advanced Education, the Australian Film and Television School and, I think, the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• Unless the honourable senators think that that is simply a casual or simplistic answer, I want to say that in the broader sense I am conscious that the community feeling- I suggest it is also the parliamentary feeling- is that whilst in relation to statutory corporations, particularly educational bodies, we should be zealous to preserve academic freedom, we, as a Parliament, have a responsibility for the correct discharge of our duties, particularly in the administrative sense and in the sense of efficiency in terms of money. [More…]

• Community College, and honourable senators would have supported the principle in the past in that legislation. [More…]

• That has gone on for the most part untroubled, fully supported by the whole community. [More…]

• Having had some experience of it during the time that we were in government, we believe that this type of co-operative is in the interests of the farming community. [More…]

• I mention this matter because I believe that cooperatives of this sort in the farming community at the moment play an important role. [More…]

• The Commonwealth and Victorian governments have a responsibility to ensure that the interests of the community are protected. [More…]

• There is no need for Commonwealth directors to sit on the board because the board will be reconstituted by the two governments in the interests of the community. [More…]

• There will be persons sitting on the Board who have the interests of the community, as defined by the Victorian Government and the Commonwealth Government, in mind because the Victorian Government and the Commonwealth Government will approve a reconstruction of the Board and management. [More…]

• As at 28 February 1978 the following organisations in New South Wales, in the local government areas indicated, have applied for and received grants under the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

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

• By way of introductory comment may I say that the termination of the Darwin Reconstruction Commission at its last meeting does give us, as Senator Kilgariff indicated, an opportunity to acknowledge that the Commission, the building industry and the community, after somewhat difficult times in the planning stages, have done a darned good job, and that ought to be conveyed to them. [More…]

• Australian beef on the European Economic Community market? [More…]

• The honourable senator is quite correct in saying that there is an inability for Australia to get our agricultural products into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I ask: Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the growing concern and alarm of the Greek community at the problems occasioned by the raids on citizens allegedly involved in the fraudulent social security claims? [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the ethnic communities that the problems associated with bogus social security claims are not a reflection on the Greek community? [More…]

• I have already assured members of the Greek community in Australia that the alleged frauds under the Social Services Act do not in any way involve the total Greek community. [More…]

• I have given my most firm assurance to representatives of the Greek community and to any individual who classes himself as being a member of that community that actions by certain people in no way damage the reputation of a community in this country which enjoys the highest reputation. [More…]

• To lay that at rest, I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations: Can the Minister assure the community that the Government will take action if the threat of the waterside workers in Western Australia to declare black the ships whose masters allowed farmers to load sheep is carried out? [More…]

• I have now received Sir Robert’s report and, in view of the wide public interest shown in the community during Sir Robert’s visit, I table the document for the information of honourable senators and members. [More…]

• I table the document in this way without commitment to enable the views of all sections of the community to be taken into account during the Government’s consideration of the recommendations made. [More…]

• In addition, it has recommended the provision of $ lm annually for initial support for the teaching of community languages in schools. [More…]

• As new initiatives, the Commission is recommending the provision of funds to promote school level improvement and evaluation involving the school community; and funds to support projects in selected areas for development of choice in government schools. [More…]

• We seek also the provision of reasonable capital facilities to an approved standard and the promotion of community participation and increased autonomy for the school community. [More…]

• In the sometimes complex and irrational debate which takes place about education in the community at large, there are ill-informed assertions to the contrary. [More…]

• If it ignores them it runs the risk of lowering educational standards in Australian schools and the very real possibility of engendering again into the Australian community a divisive debate about education in government and non-government schools, a debate which plagued this country until 1973. [More…]

• A fourth factor which is constantly a source of public discussion in the Australian community is the quality of education in Australian schools. [More…]

• It discusses a number of complex issues and lays open the way for further discussion in the community and for further discussion by the Commission on some of the fundamental issues which the report raises. [More…]

• Far-reaching events and elements such as the 1973 petrol crisis, the 200-mile exclusive economic zones and the complex implications of the proposed new international economic order, make their impact in the South Pacific region and bring these states into greater involvement with the world community. [More…]

• It is a product of the life these people have come from and the life they have lived in running their countries in the style of village and community meetings. [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 Darwin has been mostly completed in just over three years. [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 area of acquisitions of paintings for the National Gallery unfortunately is a controversial one in our community. [More…]

• I suppose it is understandable in a community such as ours, where a variety of tastes and degrees of importance are attached to such a body as the National Gallery, that there should be criticisms of government money allocated in this manner. [More…]

• But is not helpful to governments of any complexion, when they are seeking to establish for the people of Australia an important national art resource, as the National Gallery is doing, to be impeded in their work by the failure of such bodies to make proper information available to the Parliament in the first instance and then to the community. [More…]

• Although I recognise that the National Gallery is in a very early stage of development, in my view it should look to making acquisitions that it has so far made more accessible to the general public, to the community whose taxes pay for these art objects to be obtained. [More…]

• I understand that such a list is not yet available, certainly not readily, and again in the interests of community acceptance of public money being spent in this area, I think a public acquisitions list with a proper description of acquisitions and some explanation of why they have been brought into the National Gallery should be forthcoming in the near future. [More…]

• If we are to have the sorts of things that the community wants from a national gallery- information about its operations, access to the works of art, explanations as to why particular works of art have been acquired- then clearly adequate staff is required. [More…]

• This represents a clear betrayal of the authority vested in elected parliaments for them to make the laws pursuant to which the people of the community carry on their trading and other activities. [More…]

• Under the advice of a conference presided over by Mr Justice Robinson at first and then the Ministerforsaking the advice of his colleagues and preferring the advice of Sir Richard Kirby, who was paid upwards of $6,000 at the rate of $125 a day- was misled, I believe, into the situation of accepting an extravagant program of redundancy payments, the like of which ought to shock the whole community. [More…]

• Wright’s remarks one would think that every dispute in the community and in industry could easily be settled by the law. [More…]

• One of the greatest threats that the apple growers in Tasmania and on the mainland have had to face has been the ‘fat cat’ European Economic Community countries, which are trying to get Australia into a corner with regard to so many of our primary industries. [More…]

• It is important to observe, when one looks at reports of this kind, that the arrival on the education scene in Australia of the Commonwealth Government some years ago has brought not only a greater expenditure in terms of funds and an increase in the standard of education but it has also brought a questioning throughout the community of the age-old phrase ‘value for money’. [More…]

• I would hope that the Department of education and the Commonwealth Minister for Education, with the vast amounts of money that are being spent and the great amount of interest and support activity that is going on, will look to these various areas of quality and take note of the comments that are being made by leaders in the community. [More…]

• In that way education will be not only education for degrees but education for life, which involves community living, communication, and all the other new and wonderful facets that are emerging from our society. [More…]

• The multilateral program is yet another area in which Commonwealth expenditure on education is reaching out into all sections of the community. [More…]

• In our society there are certain kinds of people whom we might generally call disadvantaged, who are in just as much need of appropriate education as any other section of the community. [More…]

• It may very well be that they may not be able to maintain the same ability to earn an income as other sections of the community. [More…]

• With it not only goes the whole matter of the English language but also other areas of education which, in addition to allowing for advancement in the field of communication, provide for a general understanding of our style of life and opportunities for integration into the Australian community. [More…]

• It involved areas of social welfare, economic development, cultural advance and community stability. [More…]

• A great deal has been said about funding increasing standards in education, the concern the community has for value for money which Senator Davidson quite rightly pointed out, and the concern that we all have for quality in education and for increased numeracy and literacy. [More…]

• Thus, any community may seek a declaration from me in order that the legislation shall apply to it. [More…]

• Yumba Meta Housing Association- $40,591; Abis Community Co-operative Society Ltd- Nil. [More…]

• My Department has however, provided financial assistance to the Oombulgurri Aboriginal Community near Wyndham and this community has, in turn, employed the Institute of Cultural Affairs in a community development capacity. [More…]

• Steps have recently been taken to reduce the number of ICA staff employed at Oombulgurri to allow the Oombulgurri people to become an independent, self-determining community. [More…]

• Community Schools and Colleges; [More…]

• Decentralisation of Decision Making; 2 February- Seminars for Ministers and Advisers on the Education of Minority and Migrant Groups held in a Maori Community. [More…]

• A further indication of ‘severe disablement’ in the community, is available through certain statistics maintained by my Department, particularly those in relation to its pensioners and beneficiaries, and recipients of various allowances. [More…]

• 1 ) In the 1977-78 Budget context, I announced that up to $1m of Community Health Program funds would be made available for the funding of additional women’s refuges throughout Australia. [More…]

• Since that time, the necessary negotiations with State authorities have been completed in all States except Queensland and I have approved Community Health Program funding for 40 additional refuges as well as for the expansion of two refuges previously approved. [More…]

• Commencing in 1976-77, Commonwealth assistance under the Community Health Program has taken the form of annual block grants to each State for the State’s total program of approved projects including women’s refuges. [More…]

• When the 1976-77 Community Health Program block grant to Queensland was approved, two on-going women refuges in Queensland- one at Brisbane and one at Townsville- were included in the approved program. [More…]

• However, the Queensland Government decided not to allocate any funds from the block grant to these two refuges and the block grant was used to fund the other community health projects in the approved program for Queensland. [More…]

• One of the basic issues encompassed by the current negotiations referred to above is that Commonwealth funds will be passed on to any additional women’s refuges which may be approved under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• Ex gratia payments to the mining companies are conditional upon rehabilitation of mined areas to the satisfaction of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Yes; the responsibility for rehabilitation aspects rests with my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Community Adviser at Delissaville (Question No. [More…]

• Why was the community adviser at Delissaville, Northern Territory, transferred when the Relyuen Community Council and the other organisations opposed it. [More…]

• My Department has not proceeded with the proposal to transfer the Community Adviser at Delissaville elsewhere. [More…]

• I refer to a report that out of a European Economic Community beef quota of 140,000 tonnes annually Australia has provided less than 100,000 tonnes. [More…]

• Does the Minister recall that the Press statement also included a statement that grants may also be made to local authorities, charitable and community purpose organisations and incorporated non-profit groups? [More…]

• I believe that the subsidy arrangements that have now been concluded are satisfactory inasmuch as there was difficulty in the early stages of the community health program in getting the co-operation of the Queensland Government in the funding of refuges of this kind. [More…]

• This matter mainly falls within the responsibility of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• 1 am aware of rising costs that affect the whole of the community and I am aware of the difficulties faced by some young people in obtaining employment. [More…]

• Those who would know the members of the Committee would know that there could not be gathered in Australia a body of people who were more interested in the need to understand the priorities that should be accorded social values, the need not to permit social engineering through the distortion of such values but equally and consistent with honesty and accuracy, the need to report in documents that there are alternatives that a percentage of the community may favour. [More…]

• It is fair to say that in the hands of that minority of teachers who must always be present and who may be immature in such matters or who may hold views other than those normally held by the community, there is some risk; there must be some risk. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is this statement an admission by the Government that there is enough opposition to metrication among some sections of industry and the community to make it necessary for the Government to force this iniquitous conversion on industry and individuals by such measures as actively restricting the importation of measuring devices marked in imperial units? [More…]

• That basic statement, as I recall it- I do not have it before me- was made with the intention of alerting the community to the fact that some overseas countries were disposing of their old fashioned imperial measuring devices at very cheap rates. [More…]

• The honourable senator will agree that it would be wise to alert the community to the fact that after a future date it will not be practical or permissible to import imperial measuring units. [More…]

• There will be exceptions to that, of course, because it will be well into the future before metrics are totally used in the community. [More…]

• Indeed, metric conversion has saved this community and industries many millions of dollars. [More…]

• There is considerable concern in many areas of the Northern Territory community that developmental work in the so-called uranium province of the Northern Territory may be held up to such a degree that most necessary work may not be carried out this ‘dry’, the ‘dry’ being from now until about November. [More…]

• The introduction of what is called the community or CRS band has put great demands on the licensing and inspection areas of the Department, resulting in an acute shortage of staff. [More…]

• -Earlier today, Senator Sim asked a question concerning a report that, of an European Economic Community beef quota of 140,000 tonnes annually, Australia has provided less than 100,000 tonnes. [More…]

• I have been advised by my colleague in the other place as follows: Total Community imports of frozen beef from all sources in 1977 are reported to be around 140,000 tonnes. [More…]

• In addition, the Community has limited imports, under balance sheet quotas, to only 50,000 tonnes (carcass weight) and has imposed the additional restriction of making these quotas conditional on prior purchases from Community intervention stocks. [More…]

• Mr Twigg is, however, a member of the Australian Community Health Civil Rights Association and has made representations to a number of Commonwealth and State authorities seeking the banning of certain herbicides. [More…]

• The damage to community relations and the reputation of our system of justice resulting from the conduct of the authorities in the alleged social security frauds in Sydney. [More…]

• It is for several reasons that I raise this matter of public importance, namely, the damage to the community relations and the reputation of our system of justice resulting from the conduct of the authorities in the alleged social security frauds in Sydney. [More…]

• We believe that there is a section of the community which is concerned that it has been treated in a discriminatory manner and has not received justice in the sense that it has been accused of being guilty rather than presumed to be innocent. [More…]

• At a meeting called by the Greek Orthodox community held in Paddington on 20 April 1 978, the Acting Director of the New South Wales Branch of the Department of Social Security told those present that some 500 or more people had had their benefits suspended, that they had been notified in writing in English and that, in any case of hardship resulting from this, the Department would sympathetically consider restoring the benefit or pension. [More…]

• As is well known, the arrests and the charges did not come as a surprise to many honourable senators on both sides of this chamber, or to many members of the Greek community itself. [More…]

• It is not suggested by the Opposition or by the Greek community that there is no justification for any of the charges or the investigations, and I make no comment on the guilt or innocence of those who have been charged. [More…]

• However, aspects of the case, aspects of the conduct of the investigations and consequent events have caused considerable disquiet not only in the Greek community but also in the ethnic community in general and amongst concerned people in the community at large. [More…]

• But there is a situation of uncertainty in the community which needs clearing up. [More…]

• I believe it is obvious that there is disquiet in the community. [More…]

• Two large meetings of members of the Greek community have been held to express their uneasiness at the situation. [More…]

• Spokesmen, including His Eminence Archbishop Stylianos and welfare workers in the community have expressed their concern about effects on individuals in the community. [More…]

• It is time that a statement was made to the community at large through this Parliament, answering the questions raised and explaining some of the events which have occurred. [More…]

• We were told by the Minister that members of the Greek community informed the Department and the Commonwealth Police of what was happening and initiated this investigation. [More…]

• The first question is: How did a conspiracy of this size which, according to the Inspector concerned, involved more than 1,000 people who were largely members of one community in one section of a city, and which involved a handful of medical practitioners, concerning psychiatric illness and, allegedly, a large number of portable pensions, go undetected by officers of the Department of Social Security and the Department of Health? [More…]

• What steps to prevent further abuses were taken when members of the community informed the Department of what was happening? [More…]

• It is inconceivable to me and the Opposition that if any reasonable review procedures of the number of people receiving various pensions and benefits in the community were in existence these alleged people were not detected. [More…]

• Such tactics raise fears, not only in the Greek community but also in other communities in our country, of heavy police action. [More…]

• If these allegations had been made by Australian born Anglo-Saxon, members of our community they would have caused a considerable furore and would have resulted in an investigation. [More…]

• These concerns should have been answered by now by more than general statements about the worthiness of the Greek community and platitudes about our desire to help migrants. [More…]

• It is my belief that it would have been more appropriate for a supporter of the Government, preferably a Minister, to have attended the large meeting of the Greek Orthodox community which was held in Paddington than for several public servants to attend, as happened. [More…]

• The question of the use of the charge of conspiracy has been raised with me not only by lawyers in the Greek community but also by other experienced lawyers. [More…]

• The differences between the nature of a conspiracy charge in this country and the nature of a conspiracy charge in Greece have not been explained to or understood by the people in the Greek community. [More…]

• Archbishop Stylianos who is the Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox archdiocese of Australia, was given assurances by a senior representative of the Department of Social Security that members of his community would not be deprived of their benefits until charged. [More…]

• The feeling in the community generally- not just in the Greek community- is that the Department has decided that citizens are guilty until proven innocent rather than innocent until proven guilty. [More…]

• In my presence at meetings of the Greek community the Department has assured members of the Greek community that it will consider all cases of hardship which arise out of this procedure. [More…]

• Social workers assisting members of the Greek community have had to take patients to public hospitals and public health centres like the Marrickville Health Centre to ensure that they get treatment and service. [More…]

• We always have people in the community who are only too happy to discriminate against various ethnic groups for their own peculiar reasons. [More…]

• One understands from reports that the Commissioner for Community Relations has had before him several such cases which he is investigating and on which he is to take action. [More…]

• There was no visit to the community which could have reassured the people in the community and helped them in the difficulties they face. [More…]

• Anyone who talks to the leaders of the Greek community cannot help but be concerned about the obvious unease that is felt at all levels of the community. [More…]

• This unease has not been ameliorated by the exchanges that have taken place between the community and the Government representatives who have been sent along. [More…]

• The Archbishop stated quite clearly on a television program that he was not satisfied with the explanation he was given by the representatives of the community. [More…]

• I am certainly not suggesting and the members of the Greek community are not suggesting that all the allegations are correct. [More…]

• There is a distinct impression in the Greek community that its members have been put upon and singled out for special treatment. [More…]

• There is evidence that the Greek community as a whole is suffering from the alleged actions of a few people. [More…]

• There is a feeling that the lack of response by the Government and the Department to the questions raised by the community illustrates a casual attitude at a time when it is believed that the Greek community has advanced a long way in getting acceptance in our multicultural society. [More…]

• There is an uncertainty and an unease in the Greek community in all sections and at all levels. [More…]

• What is happening in fact is that a group of citizens in our community have a genuine feeling that they are being put upon and that they are being discriminated against. [More…]

• Yet they have seen members of their own community lose benefits without being charged and without being investigated on the say so of a group other than the Department which gives those benefits and without consideration of what hardship that may bring. [More…]

• Is the Department going to go from one community to another investigating alleged rackets like this? [More…]

• Members of the Greek community, knowing of the prediction of 1,000 arrests, have waited a month for those arrests to be made, but they have not been made. [More…]

• We know very well that there is great difficulty and hardship in the community. [More…]

• We call for a full statement on where we stand now and where the people in the Greek community stand so that their very real worries can be allayed and so that they, whether naturalised or not, can feel that they live in a country in which they will be treated on an equal footing with all other members of the community. [More…]

• Senator Grimes has introduced this matter of public importance in which he has stated that he is concerned at the damage to community relations and the reputation of our system of justice resulting from the conduct of the authorities in the alleged social security frauds in Sydney. [More…]

• He asserted also that a section of the community had been charged and was regarded as guilty until it was proven innocent. [More…]

• The fact that the arrests and the investigations that have been conducted have been predominantly concerned with people who would describe themselves as members of the Greek community arises from the nature of the alleged fraud against the social security system. [More…]

• It is alleged that a number of agents who have been working with members of the Greek community have sought out members of the Greek community who wanted or needed to obtain pensions to which they otherwise might not have been entitled and that these agents obtained large payments of money from these people for obtaining for them the award of a pension. [More…]

• Therefore, I assert most strongly that there is not a general investigation of persons who can be regarded as being of Greek descent or who would class themselves as members of the Greek community. [More…]

• The Department has not at any time issued any statement or correspondence which could give the Greek community in general any cause for concern. [More…]

• That these frauds have been perpetrated by people who may be classed as members of the Greek community is a fact that has been highlighted by the Press. [More…]

• I refer now to the handling of the welfare needs of the members of the community concerned. [More…]

• Senator Grimes referred to medical examinations and the difficulties that some members of the Greek community have suffered in trying to obtain the medical advice and examination that they require. [More…]

• The investigation resulted from confidential interviews which were held in the Department of Social Security by members of the Greek community who advised the Department that they were aware of malpractices in the obtaining of invalid pensions amongst members of the Greek community in Australia. [More…]

• I understand that he has said that members of the Greek community alleged that there were arrests early in the morning and that there were not enough interpreters. [More…]

• The concern of Senator Grimes with regard to our contact with the members of the Greek community is something that I feel should be understood. [More…]

• I spoke in Melbourne two weeks ago with members of the Greek community. [More…]

• I have appointments arranged for later today with people representing the combined Greek organisations and the Greek Orthodox community of New South Wales. [More…]

• I understand that the Commissioner for Community Relations has had some representations made to him. [More…]

• The concern of the Government is one that is quite unreservedly expressed by me, that is, to ensure that no person should suffer hardship and no person should feel that there is discrimination against or disgrace amongst members of a community which has the highest reputation in this country. [More…]

• The damage to community relations and the reputation of our system of justice resulting from the conduct of the authorities in the alleged social security frauds in Sydney. [More…]

• As I will go on to establish, that court has certainly found the whole of the Greek community guilty of a quite scandalous range of charges. [More…]

• They were allegations which had been made to Senator Grimes by responsible members of the Greek community. [More…]

• As Senator Grimes has pointed out, they were allegations that had been made publicly by responsible members of the Greek community to officers of the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• They are matters which are being brought forward in the Parliament by Senator Grimes because they have been raised by responsible members of the Greek community, including, of course, His Eminence Archbishop Stylianos Because they have been raised by such responsible persons, the Opposition believes that they should have been met by appropriate investigation and explanation, but they have not been. [More…]

• The Minister has not answered in detail the very serious allegations which have been brought forward by responsible members of the Greek community and which have been raised- very properly, I believe- in the Parliament on behalf of those people by Senator Grimes. [More…]

• I am merely pointing out on behalf of Senator Grimes that they are not his own allegations; they are allegations made to him by responsible members of the Greek community. [More…]

• I do not believe it to be in the interests of either the community or of justice that they did. [More…]

• I do not think Mr Grassby, the Commissioner for Community Relations, has enough resources appropriately to deal with these things. [More…]

• The Government should take firmer and fairer steps to protect vulnerable members of the community from this sort of attack by the media and provide more efficient, just and effective machinery, whereby redress against this sort of injustice can be achieved. [More…]

• The wording, ‘The damage to community relations and the reputation of our system of justice resulting from the conduct of the authorities, . [More…]

• Whether the situation involves Italians, Greeks, Croats, Serbs or Germans, the media always blows up the whole thing to such a degree that real damage occurs to community relations. [More…]

• It is absolutely ridiculous to say that it is the authorities who damage community relations. [More…]

• If there is one section which damages community relations, it is the media. [More…]

• Another is the Australian Labor Party Whenever it suits the Labor Party it cries hypocritical crocodile tears for a certain community. [More…]

• Does Senator Gietzelt mean to say that all of the Greek community should be blamed for the misdeeds of a very few of them? [More…]

• It is unfortunate that this case has been associated with just one community, namely, the Greek community. [More…]

• In this case members of the Greek community were responsible for the situation coming to the public eye, as the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) has said in answers to questions in this place. [More…]

• And let me remind you, Madam Acting Deputy President, that these are the words of Senator Grimes- the Greek community showed the sense of responsibility that it normally shows in our community. [More…]

• I really plead with the media, for the sake of community relations, for the sake of the well-being of the understanding between various national groups, the various people who come to this country to settle down and to integrate themselves in our society, to lead free lives, to let them do so. [More…]

• I wonder whether Senator Lajovic realises how insulting he has been to the community which he sought to defend when he said that it would allow itself to be influenced by the support which the Australian Labor Party is giving it today. [More…]

• It is insulting to that community and it is most insulting to the Labor Party but, after all, ours is a political party and we are used to the insults which are thrown across the chamber by Senator Lajovic and others. [More…]

• Let me remind Senator Lajovic that this situation, this activity against an ethnic community and this type of initiative has occurred before. [More…]

• Will the Minister accept that this method is totally unacceptable in an Australian community and cannot be justified because . [More…]

• an ethnic community is involved? [More…]

• That is the question I asked about the Chinese community when it underwent the same harassment that the Greek community is now undergoing. [More…]

• The police should have become aware of it back in 1975-76 when the figures started to show a disproportionate number of portable pensions being given, in this case, to members of the Greek community, although I notice that several other communities also were involved. [More…]

• I notice that involved were several communities of Anglo-Saxon origin and, combined, a substantial number of portable pensions was given to them in the manner that they have been given to the Greek community. [More…]

• Despite the information given to the Department by the Greek community, the delay in taking action allowed more people to become involved. [More…]

• The response of a person in the Chinese community, the Fijian community or the Greek community upon whose door a policemen knocked in the early hours of the morning would be similar to the response to such action during Hitler’s period of authority in Germany. [More…]

• It has happened in Indonesia, in China and in Queensland and it happened in New South Wales recently when massive raids were carried out by the Commonwealth Police against an ethnic community and exposed that community to ridicule, contempt and grave embarrassment which it will not forget for a long time. [More…]

• The same thing could happen to any ethnic community. [More…]

• It has happened to the Chinese community, it has happened to the Croatian community and now it has happened to the Greek community. [More…]

• In fact, the Department was negligent, because it received evidence from the Greek community, and the Minister has admitted it, that this malpractice- this misdemeanour if one likes to put it that way- was likely to have occurred. [More…]

• My view is that in this recent episode in New South Wales a substantial number of the Greek community were wrongly treated as criminals in order to apprehend the few and I trust it will not happen again. [More…]

• The damage to community relations and the reputation of our system of justice resulting from the conduct of the authorities in the alleged social security frauds in Sydney. [More…]

• That is a fairly wide and ill-defined statement and I will attempt to examine it more closely to see whether what is implied by the Opposition is true or whether damage to community relations and to our system of justice and the conduct of authorities are important, necessary and basic things that are being handled extremely well by the Government and by the appropriate departments in the situation which has prompted the debate. [More…]

• Of course, anything which damages community relations and our system of justice in this democracy is a matter of public importance. [More…]

• We are an interdependent community. [More…]

• What appears to be happening in this country is that the great mass of Australian workers and taxpayers are, from time to time and in different places, being fraudulently treated by other members of the community. [More…]

• The alleged damage to community relations and the reputation of our system of” justice should turn to a measure of relief for Australians when they see what is happening. [More…]

• It is a long, slow process to apprehend properly, absolutely and conclusively people who have been carrying on this sort of abusive operation in the community. [More…]

• The community in Australia will be pleased to know that proper steps are being taken successfully to overcome this abuse. [More…]

• Of course, damage to community relations and the system of justice are matters requiring urgent attention. [More…]

• No matter what has been said and no matter whether injustice has been perpetrated wittingly or unwittingly, either by the law enforcers or the law breakers, nobody in the ethnic community will ever be convinced that people such as the Bartons and Huxleys do not get better treatment by the law than the people involved in this matter. [More…]

• The Labor Government introduced legislation to remove those discriminatory clauses and the results of that have applied right across the board to every ethnic community. [More…]

• The Greek community happens to be in the firing line at the moment but as Senator Wood would well know, there was a time when the Croatian community was in the limelight, although only a minority of the Croats were involved in unlawful activities. [More…]

• Aviation exists to serve the community and its services and facilities ought to be designed with that purpose uppermost in the mind of the Government. [More…]

• It must be realised that aviation benefits not only those who fly but also the whole of the community in that people, goods, and mail are able to be transported much faster and a better service is offered to the country as a whole. [More…]

• Unless such units are to be of minimum size to afford economics of production, an Australian-based industry would be of disservice to the community and ultimately, would be forced into extinction. [More…]

• I saw the report, which reflects the increasing number of comments being made throughout the community by both parents and academics that the quality of preparation of students, especially in the basic skills of numeracy and literacy, is not good enough for modern-day needs. [More…]

• I believe there would be some resentment in the Australian community if a reward were offered by the Government in the cases mentioned by the honourable senator. [More…]

• At the Federal level I have asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to coordinate action on the development of the Code. [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…]

• Why should the project be forced on the community when it is obvious the majority of the people in Central Queensland do not want it? [More…]

• Pursuant to paragraph 3.1 of the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures, I, Raymond John Groom, Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, hereby direct the preparation or obtaining, and submission to me, of an environmental impact statement in relation to the following proposed action, namely: the making of a decision by the Reserve Bank on whether to approve exchange control transactions in relation to the proposal by Iwasaki Sangyo Co. (Australia) Pty Ltd to establish and operate a resort and tourist area at Farnborough, Queensland. [More…]

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

• It is important for Senator Keeffe to note that on 1 3 January this year the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) issued an order requiring the company to produce an acceptable environmental impact study. [More…]

• To maintain community awareness and alertness in such circumstances, the following postscript will be added to the cyclone warning issued: [More…]

• As to the so-called red herring of security, nobody’s life is more valuable than that of anybody else, but I had thought it was well understood in relation to security matters that there are some people in the community who tend more than others to be prime targets. [More…]

• That is why it is not a red herring to talk about security for Prime Ministers, Leaders of the Opposition and such other people in the community. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that, whilst the new export incentives scheme has beem welcomed enthusiastically by the business community, there is some concern that payments under the scheme will not become available early in the new financial year, as intended, but instead only in 1979? [More…]

• Is the Minister willing, therefore, to reinforce the business community’s belief that this popular initiative will be available for the 1977-78 financial year without undue delay? [More…]

• However, if advantages to the whole industry and to the community can be clearly demonstrated the Government will consider any such changes in that light. [More…]

• As to the increase being disproportionate to the growth rate increase in the community, I am not aware of that but I am able to say that there has been a steady growth in sickness benefit payments. [More…]

• Given the present community concern about revenue collection, does the Minister believe that the Commonwealth revenue collection apparatus is sufficient in terms of research facilities and trained personnel to keep up with the growing number of legal and accounting practices which specialise in designing tax avoidance schemes for the wealthier sections of the community to the disadvantage of the majority of taxpayers? [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…]

• There is no question that Prime Ministers are much more subject to action by ill-intentioned persons than any other figure in the community, and that includes important people like senators. [More…]

• Apparently Senator Withers could not care less about that, but every other time when the various departments and particularly when people in need in the community have wanted something extra we have been told that there are economic restraints placed upon it. [More…]

• 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…]

• This Bill is the second in the package of three Bills under the portfolio of Environment, Housing and Community Development which the Government has decided to introduce as part of its policy for uranium mining developments in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Mr President, I am sure honourable senators will agree that this legislation should command the support of all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Generally, we would see the steps involved in arriving at approved codes of practice as including: 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 in dustry 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…]

• I should emphasise that the Government was concerned to ensure that any decision made in relation to air services between Australia and South Africa should fully take into account the needs of those members of the community desiring to travel from Mauritius and other points in Africa. [More…]

• -I refer the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to an answer given by the Minister yesterday in the Other place which appears on page 1957 of the House of Representatives Hansard. [More…]

• If the honourable senator is claiming that there has been racial discrimination against the 40 Aborigines concerned, I am sure that the Racial Discrimination Act would provide some basis for reporting that incident to the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

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

• The environmental consideration which was well put forward at that time and which is still held in some sections of the community was that planting of softwood stands in actual fact created a complete dearth of growth underneath the trees; that it increased the runoff and salinity of water in certain areas; and that it brought about a complete depletion of the wildlife and bird life that was associated with that planting. [More…]

• Firstly, the European Economic Community, which is a major sugar producer and, on occasions, a major sugar exporter and which is always a notorious dumper of surplus agricultural commodities on the world markets, is not a signatory to the agreement The EEC currently holds substantial stocks of surplus sugar. [More…]

• Most of it is consumed either within the country where it is grown or within the European Economic Community which does not enter into the general world trade. [More…]

• -Mr President, I support the International Sugar Agreement because it is an attempt by the sugar growing countries of the world, with the exception of the European Economic Community, to arrive at a stabilised price for sugar. [More…]

• Unfortunately, as I said before, the European Economic Community is not a signatory and is acting in such an irresponsible and probably greedy way that I believe the other sugar producing nations of the world should take it by the scruff of the neck and bar its secondary products in countries where the Agreement applies. [More…]

• That, I suggest, becomes a rather futile exercise when it is realised that, despite the efforts of the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) and the Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland), who returned to Australia only today, the European Economic Community, which is the biggest trading bloc in the world and a major producer of sugar, is not a party to the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• Senator Walsh made great play of the fact that the agreement does not include the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I do not think that the concept will be of ultimate benefit to the countries in the Community, let alone to the rest of the world. [More…]

• As has been indicated by most speakers in this debate, it is extremely unfortunate that the European Economic Community is not to participate in this Agreement or has not participated so far. [More…]

• Earlier I mentioned the fact that the European Economic Community has not become a signatory to this Agreement. [More…]

• At present the European Economic Community is the world’s largest producer of sugar. [More…]

• I should like to point out how the fact that the European Economic Community is not a party to the Agreement could affect the price throughout the world. [More…]

• If one looks at what is happening in respect of companies and if one looks at any section of the community one will find something wrong. [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Minister refuse, on 3 1 August 1977, to make public a publication, prepared by the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, entitled the Handbook of Hate; if so, why. [More…]

• I refer to the recently announced government statement in regard to the new export development scheme which has been widely accepted by the business community. [More…]

• -Senator Walters rightly reflects the concern of the community with regard to the quality of both radio and television broadcasting, but specifically television broadcasting, for children. [More…]

• The Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will recall that yesterday I asked him a question concerning the Great Barrier Reef and oil drilling. [More…]

• In fact, it has made many consultative arrangements with regard to pre-school education throughout the South Australian community. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government makes a contribution but the State Government decides on the program and decides on how the balance of that program will be fundedwhether by contribution from parents or community groups or whether by the State Government totally. [More…]

• Each Queensland Aboriginal reserve community will continue to be managed by the Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement or a religious organisation until the community clearly states it want self-management, and the Commonwealth Minister makes a declaration. [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…]

• An open letter was written to the Prime Minister on 7 May 1978 and signed by the consultant for the Aurukun community, Mr Frank Purcell, for and with the consent and knowledge of the Aurukun Council and tribal leaders. [More…]

• We also suggest that the Federal Government being unable to reach a satisfactory agreement with the Aboriginal people of Australia on the question of land rights and self-management bring indigenous experts from Papua New Guinea or American Indian Community to act as mediator between the Government and Aboriginal people of Australia on the question of land rights compensation and self-management. [More…]

• The honourable member for Leichhardt, Mr Thomson, also visited the Aurukun community on that day. [More…]

• Many historic matters were discussed at that time, and much of the correspondence between the Church, the community and the Government was revealed to the Senate at that time. [More…]

• That is the message which we ought to be giving today- the terms of the leases, the satisfaction of the Commonwealth Government and the consultation which needs to be held with community leaders and community people. [More…]

• The Church does not seek to maintain its management role under the Act, and the councils and other community bodies will be free to enlist the help of the Church in the provision of community services and in the recruitment of staff. [More…]

• I ask all those who are dealing with this matter on behalf of the Aborigines and the leaders of the communities to accept the commitment that has been given time and time again by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, by the Prime Minister and by other members of the Government, that if the legislation which is introduced and the terms of the leases which are to be offered are not acceptable to the community and are not in accordance with the agreement that was made on 11 April the Commonwealth Government will then consider the position and deal with the matter. [More…]

• I would say that the two months from 10 March to 10 May have been two months in which much community attitude has been developed which is supportive of the cause of the Aborigines. [More…]

• The Opposition moved an amendment to clause 3 of the Bill, definitions, in which ‘Aboriginal Community’ is defined as meaning a community for Aborigines established, or deemed to have been established, under or by the Aborigines Act. [More…]

• The community ceases to be a community under that Act when the Government declares that it is not a community. [More…]

• 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…]

• I support the matter of public importance which has been raised by the Opposition, for to me it is not only a matter of public importance but also a matter of very deep and grave concern to a section of the Australian community. [More…]

• That section of the community- that is the people of my race and in particular the people of Aurukun and Mornington Island- has a grave and deep concern over the Queensland Government threat of what will happen to them. [More…]

• I believe that the indigenous people of this nation are entitled to be given opportunities, encouragement and assistance to enable them to become respected and responsible members of the community. [More…]

• We all owe it to these people to help to keep this problem out of the political arena, to work to understand the peculiar difficulties confronting them and enable them to play with dignity a positive role in our community. [More…]

• The 87 houses erected by individual members of the Aurukun community are to be removed to make way for roads and empty public places. [More…]

• Other useful facilities are also to be cleared, such as the Church, the community sawmill and the community workshop. [More…]

• Also virtually all the mature mango trees which provide the community with vitamin C and cover during the summer months are to be removed. [More…]

• Throughout 1977 it consistently denied that the Government had any plans to control the mission, at the same time orchestrating a campaign of vilification against both the community and the church. [More…]

• It will be very difficult for the Aboriginal community to operate under the terms of local government legislation. [More…]

• But these people did not include authorised representatives of the community. [More…]

• This action was taken in an endeavour to confuse in the public mind the wishes of the community. [More…]

• The legislation does not provide for the inclusion of other organisations which have contributed to the welfare of the people and which the community might want to assist them. [More…]

• Therefore, one finds it difficult to appreciate the reluctance of those people- more often than not they are found on the conservative side of the politicswho still resist the recognition that the Australian community and the parliaments generally owe to Aborigines. [More…]

• To an extent there has been a great deal of shadow sparring and we have not as yet reached the point at which we can say to the Aborigines that we have fulfilled this important demand that they have made upon the Australian community. [More…]

• So when we talk about land rights we are talking about a definition which goes much further than that which might superficially be the opinion of the general community. [More…]

• They have shown in various ways in recent years that they do not necessarily want to be assimilated and integrated into our community. [More…]

• It is alleged that Aborigines are being given a special right which is not possessed by any other section of the community. [More…]

• Other well known names include those of Mr Rod Carnegie, Sir James Foots, Sir Brian Massy-Greene, Mr Irwin Newman, and lots of other people who are very important in the community and in the mining industry. [More…]

• My forecast is that there will be a time in the future when this Government will be very sorry for having gone into uranium mining because of the pressures applied by the transnational uranium mining organisations, and by certain people in the Australian community, and the fact that having been compelled to take this action in a hurry it will suffer more pangs of conscience, if it has one. [More…]

• Now that it has come before the Parliament I am happy that I have the opportunity to reflect a large body of public opinion which is opposed to the Bill- public opinion which comes not only from political circles but also from the general community. [More…]

• From my background of” work before I became a member of Parliament, I am well aware that in one particular State at least dossiers are kept on people because of their attitude to certain problems within the community. [More…]

• The issue of the mining of uranium is a controversial matter among quite a few people in the community. [More…]

• To go further, anti-uranium lobbyists also tend to create very emotive situations in the community and at times come out with some fairly hefty propaganda that tends to mislead people. [More…]

• So much has been said about the problem of radiation and so much has been totally misunderstood by people in the community because so much has been fed to them which is entirely wrong. [More…]

• We want to provide benefits for the needy in the community and the Opposition is very keen to spend the money of the people of Australia on provision of all sorts of ‘benefits’, but it fails to realise that if this country is to spend money on itself there must be some surplus from our overseas trade. [More…]

• The community has a deep commitment to constant progress in permanent dialogue between industrialised and developing countries of which the CIEC is an outstanding example. [More…]

• My position on the mining of uranium has been made quite clear many times both here in this chamber and in the community. [More…]

• Any people in the Australian community who have worked in a company town will know exactly what I mean by that phrase. [More…]

• Because of the widespread concern in the industry and the community generally at the Minister’s decision, 1 wrote to the Minister last week urging him to reconsider his decision in the light of those provisions contained in the Australian Film Commission Act which require the Commission to make films that enrich and illustrate aspects of Australian life. [More…]

• This is entirely a philosophical question as to who should pay- the taxpayers as a whole or that much smaller part of the community which uses airports. [More…]

• Is it correct that 2XX is now in the process of transforming itself into a so-called community station and that it has hopes of obtaining the community station licence which will be issued for Canberra? [More…]

• I am not aware whether station 2XX is seeking to transform its character from an educational station to a community station. [More…]

• Nor do I believe that any one in the community expects that anybody who is communicating should be beyond the reach of the ordinary law which applies to other citizens of the land. [More…]

• Territory community. [More…]

• The Committee sees it as essential, therefore, that it consult the community and obtain views on proposals but forward by the authorities. [More…]

• The Committee will continue to seek to involve the community further in its examination of such proposals. [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 Australian religious community , . [More…]

• Will the person selected from that community be one of those who believe that the export of uranium is essential for the economy of this country? [More…]

• Next there is the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Will the Aboriginal community be allowed to have any say in the choice of the person it wants on the Council? [More…]

• Then Mr Anthony said that the next group to be represented on the Council will be the Northern Territory community. [More…]

• It can be used also against any person in the community who opposes the Ranger project in any way, including writing or speaking against it. [More…]

• In the community there is a real and genuine concern on the part of a significant number of our people. [More…]

• Poor though I think is the performance of the Parliament today, from the point of view of giving balanced consideration to the measures that come before it and insisting upon its role to make a decision, nevertheless this debate disclosesalthough the average attendance on this debate since 6 p.m. yesterday, in a Senate consisting of 60 members, has not been more than 10 or 12 senators- that the public at large, in a significant measure, shares a concern as to the initiation of an industry which is fraught with terrific impact upon our community. [More…]

• In our system it is parliamentary debate alone which can either persuade that section of the community that it is in error or give it the opportunity to persuade the present majority to the contrary point of view. [More…]

• That parliamentary debate is most precious in a community that values democratic institutions and of unique value in such an issue as this about which all sections of the community are concerned and when one significant section of the community is most earnestly convinced against the wisdom of the whole scheme. [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…]

• The second point is that industry and community as well as government interests are to be given more clearly defined ways of advising the CSIRO executive on the research directions of the Organisation. [More…]

• There are however some changes in emphasis, particularly in the reorganisation of the policy formulation mechanisms of CSIRO and to the Organisation’s relationships with government instrumentalities and industry and community interest groups as well as universities and colleges of advanced education. [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…]

• 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…]

• He was a man revered by many sections of the community but feared and hated by others. [More…]

• I have at home the only disc I have kept of Menzies, which is of a speech he made on the Common Market and on the concept of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Nor did he ignore the part of the parliamentary system that required work in the electorate and actions and speeches which took him round the country so many times stirring up the community to the points of view he felt needed to be raised. [More…]

• Few people have commanded such respect and love from a cross-section of the community- from the man in the street to Queen Elizabeth herself- and this must be of great comfort to Dame Pattie and her family. [More…]

• In all that time he used his quite remarkable talents to convince both the Parliament and the Australian community that they had the capacity and, indeed, the duty to reach beyond their grasp. [More…]

• It was his desire that the National Library should house a collection of Australian facts and information which would give the Australian community guidance as it planned for the future. [More…]

• 10 it will not get the distribution throughout the community that it ought to have. [More…]

• For some two decades or more governments of Liberal philosophy maintained full employment, high real wages and rising real wages, no inflation and home ownership for 75 per cent of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government has indicated on a number of occasions that its policy is opposed to the intrusion of influences which could produce deep divisions within the Australian community. [More…]

• There are also well-established procedures for the screening of applicants for either temporary or longterm entry to Australia to ensure that applications by persons whose presence in Australia might produce divisive effects in the community are considered most carefully. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations whether on March 23 the Minister issued a Press release announcing that the Community Youth Support Scheme would be funded for a twelve-month period. [More…]

• In view of the parlous state of funding, which has resulted in difficulty in providing deserved legal aid for the community, has he been able to take any action that will alleviate the problem and enable legal aid to flow, as it should, to needy people? [More…]

• I have received a growing number of comments from both the general community and the field of academic learning all pointing to the fact that whatever may have been the state in the past, the present levels of literacy and numeracy and of basic skills are not good enough. [More…]

• If there were a deal of support for Mr Porter and his policies in the community in Queensland his supporters would have turned up and tried to swamp the conference if they wanted to, but he threw the accusation the other way. [More…]

• If there had been a bad health situation, as I said in the debate in this place a fortnight ago, it was the responsibility of the State Government to ensure that the health and education standards in the community were brought up to the highest possible levels. [More…]

• He said that Aborigines should be incorporated- assimilated is the word he is fond of using- into the general community. [More…]

• It may be considered that the Local Authority could sublet to the community companies the power to continue to carry on the businesses, but as earlier observed Clause 32 has only been amended to delete a restriction to exact rent, but the Council is not empowered to sublet, sell, license or subdivide in anyway. [More…]

• In relation again to Clause 32 the Council is quite concerned that it will be unable to sublet the dwelling houses which are presently let to members of the community for the reasons above set out. [More…]

• We do see administrative problems in that the basic community controls which were exercised previously by the Aboriginal Police bringing persons before the Aboriginal Court have been taken away and without the provision of a Local Court at each community centre such controls will be lessened. [More…]

• We give the example of unruly behaviour, obscene language, and insulting behaviour, which of course could bc controlled by a suitable by-law, but of course the Summons complaint will have to be brought before the nearest Court, which in the case of Aurukun will be Weipa and in the case of Mornington Island would be Burketown and we feel that we do not have to explain in any detail that there will bc some break down in the present controls exercised by the community on persons who wish to circumvent the accepted modes of conduct in the community. [More…]

• In respect of Aurukun we understand that there has been no firm boundary ever fixed between the Aurukun Aboriginal Reserve and the Edward River Reserve and as there are certain community groups who presently reside on the Aurukun Aboriginal Reserve who claim affinity with land which is south of the Kendall River our client Council for Aurukun asks that the boundaries in the new Lease include that area. [More…]

• Not once has Mr Bjelke-Petersen visited either community to ask us. [More…]

• In fact, at the last State election on 12 November 1977, Mr Bjelke-Petersen was told in no uncertain terms that neither community wanted his government. [More…]

• at no time during the present argument over our reserve lands has the Queensland Government consulted with either community. [More…]

• The 13 March notice that the Queensland Government intended to take over management of each community was made without prior warning or consultation; [More…]

• the Queensland Government has not consulted with either community over other important matters. [More…]

• For example, the Queensland Government prepared town plans for both communities without reference to either community, and now we are obliged to locate houses where the Queensland Government wants them and not where we want them: [More…]

• the Queensland Government deceitfully brought down two members of the Aurukun community and some Aborigines living at Weipa and tried to make it look like they spoke for the Aurukun people. [More…]

• The Queensland Government rushed the Aurukun Associates Bill through Parliament without any prior consultation with the Aurukun Community; [More…]

• many members of the Aurukun community have been arrested without trial and forced to live on Palm Island against their will; [More…]

• By-laws under Clause 25 we repeat our concern under paragraph 22 of our letter of 2 May but nevertheless we will draft by-law to allow advisers and other people acceptable to community to enter. [More…]

• So far as the first point is concerned the Queensland Act now gives your community a lease for 50 years, which will be renewable after that time, this is much more than the communities had when the land was a reserve. [More…]

• A Department of Aboriginal Affairs officer will be posted immediately to your community and will stay there while the council is finding its feet under the new law. [More…]

• I know that the Bill still falls short of your community’s wishes, but I believe it gives the Aurukun and Mornington Island communities the chance of achieving lasting and positive benefits. [More…]

• I hope your Council and community will do your best to grasp this opportunity to manage your own affairs. [More…]

• It was set out in the policy statements concerning the November 1975 election and ought to be restated now lest there be any concern in the community that there should be a need for the Opposition to seek a further declaration of policy. [More…]

• What has been said over recent weeks with regard to Aurukun and Mornington Island has pointed to the need, in the minds of the Aboriginal communities, to have some approach to their community life different from what had been their way of life in the past. [More…]

• It should be noted that the church did not seek to maintain its management role under the Act and councils and other community bodies will be free to enlist the help of the church in the provision of community services and in the recruitment of staff. [More…]

• The situation in the Northern Territory is that the Aboriginal people there have been absolutely bombarded by visits from people and even if they wished to live in an isolated community, in a quiet community they could not. [More…]

• Senator Keeffe has a letter from the Reverend John H. Adams, the Community Adviser at Aurukun. [More…]

• Land rights represent a pinnacle of success for those who have fought for social change in the Australian community with respect to Aboriginals, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Viner, said yesterday. [More…]

• Unfortunately, a backlash is building up in the community and, unless we are very careful, it will become quite strong. [More…]

• He sought to serve the whole community- as the fund now in mind will do and in fact must do. [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, they 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 across-the-board 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…]

• In providing this new flexibility, the Government is giving both the private funds and the community generally the opportunity to take advantage of a widely-held belief that the introduction of excess ‘ type arrangements in health insurance will provide an incentive to people and providers not to over-use available services. [More…]

• The community has shown strong support for the concepts of diversity and competition that we introduced in 1976. [More…]

• There will be considerable changes to the health expenditure of many deserving people in this community as a result of the proposed alterations. [More…]

• One of the reasons the community came to accept the need for universal health insurance was the rapid increases that were occurring in health care in this country not only in the 1 970s but also in the 1960s. [More…]

• I suppose that they would be the objectives of anyone interested in the provision of health care in the community. [More…]

• None of the 300,000 or more unemployed peopled in this country will be bulk billed, nor will those in the community receiving sickness benefits and those receiving special benefits. [More…]

• It will not be much of a problem for those who can afford it, such as those middle and upper income earners in the community. [More…]

• One can be sure that he was not one of those piranhas who are members of the Society of General Practitioners, which is in fact against all health insurance in the community. [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…]

• It will no doubt be suggested that it would restrict the right of lawful protest, which operates in this community, of many people who sincerely have a strong objection to nuclear operations. [More…]

• Never mind the health, welfare and safety of the people who live in this community. [More…]

• That is another example of the priorities of this Government in trying the hardsell on the community on the safety of uranium. [More…]

• Of course the Government would not because, as I said in my opening remarks, the mighty dollar is the main concern of this Government, not the welfare of or safeguards for the people of this community. [More…]

• The Department of Trade and Resources, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Department of National Development and the Department of Health are all concerned with aspects of uranium. [More…]

• On the other hand, the Australian Labor Party, the Opposition, has several major objectives in this matter: Firstly, the prevention of mining; secondly the securing of Aboriginal land rights in an unqualified manner; thirdly, the protection of the environment; and, fourthly, the protection of the health of this community. [More…]

• The intended use of the Union’s money was for the production and dissemination of political propaganda which was directed to form a body of opinion amongst students of tertiary institutions and within the community at large to support its objective . [More…]

• They relate to the role and rights of the university within our community. [More…]

• the president of the board of management of Campus Community Broadcasting Association Incorported (licensee of radio 2XX) Miss Claire McGrath, said yesterday that 2XX had a firm policy that material of a racist or sexist nature should not be broadcast. [More…]

• I fail to understand why it is considered offensive to draw the attention of women and girls to the fact that there are men in the community who could attempt to rape them but had your complainant contacted me at the time to express her feelings I would have immediately and publicly apologised for causing offence where it was not intended, and explained again the educational purpose of the segment. [More…]

• The management of radio station 2XX grabbed the educational licence when it was made available but, really, it operated station 2XX as a socalled community station. [More…]

• Now that a category C licence- that is, a community radio station licence- is being offered in Canberra, the station is calling itself public radio 2XX. [More…]

• But just because 2XX now has a grip on University patronage, funds from the Australia Council and grants from student bodies, it does not necessarily mean that it is the appropriate vehicle to hold Canberra’s community licence when it is granted. [More…]

• Will the Government now give it a community licence and let it go hell for leather, completely turning a blind eye to the way in which it made, and is making, a mockery of being an ‘educational ‘ station? [More…]

• If the authorities in Canberra are prepared to accept this kind of rubbish as being educational and suitable for broadcasting by a radio station which has a limited educational licence, what will they allow a community radio station to broadcast? [More…]

• Whilst Senator Harradine might say that he would see it as a matter of advertising the equivalent of a bank robbers’ association meeting, I think it might be important for the community to know that there was a bank robbers’ association and that it was holding a meeting. [More…]

• The extent to which one publicises that event, the way in which one publicises it, the extent to which one provides an opportunity for both sides to be given and the extent to which one allows the community to understand the issue and to make a judgment upon the matters involved are questions of discretion- the exercise of some sort of responsibility on the part not only of a radio licensee but also of any newspaper or even this chamber. [More…]

• They should operate also within those values and standards which the community generally and predominantly accepts and wishes to be maintained. [More…]

• Again, this is an enormous difficulty because the community insists that the predominant amount of the time should be devoted to discussion within the values that we decide are essential to the preservation of our liberties, and at the same time there should be some discussion with those people who hold different and fringe values. [More…]

• 1 ) What is the number of Aboriginal communities in Australia into which the Community Employment Development Project has been introduced. [More…]

• How many Aboriginals are currently employed under the program, and what is the average weekly wage received by those employed under the Community Employment Development Project. [More…]

• 1 ) Section 30 ( 1 ) of the Darwin Community College Ordinance provides that financial statements be prepared in such form as the Treasurer approves. [More…]

• Was an organisation formed in Sydney last Sunday, by about 200 members of Sydney’s Vietnamese community, known as the New South Wales Chapter of the Greater Overseas Alliance for National Restoration of Vietnam which has as its aim the ultimate overthrow of the Government of Vietnam? [More…]

• I hope that industry, with the assistance now of the Federal Government, will be able to take advantage of this system to gain something for Australian industry and for the Australian community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Does not Senator Knight’s question indicate quite clearly the concern being felt by many people in the community about the manner in which Australia’s contribution to the InterScan program is being submerged by very powerful overseas interests? [More…]

• In view of the happenings in Lima, Peru, at the weekend, and the concern of the Sydney Peruvian community as to what the future holds for people under political duress in that country, can the Minister express a view as to the continuance of a high ratio of immigration from one area as opposed to another? [More…]

• I am sure that everybody in the Australian community is interested to see the maximum transmission of good sporting programs in this country. [More…]

• My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Health refers to the current Medibank proposals which have been very unfavourably received by a large section of the community and by representative bodies. [More…]

• The cost of the changes announced yesterday will be borne by the community in accordance with capacity to pay. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations, in his annual report for 1976-77, referred to varying responses to complaints relating to public administration. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to consider the inequality of the membership brought back by the delegation that visited the north, what it is now asking us to pass- apparently we have passed it- and the effect that this will have on the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I cannot visualise that the Aboriginal community would be offenders against the Act and, therefore, I think some protection should be afforded to them. [More…]

• The great safeguard in this provision- it is the answer to the Opposition’s arguments- is that the Supervising Scientist, who will be a highly responsible and very senior officer and whose judgment day by day will be relied upon in terms of what is critical and what is not, will know that there is a safety valve against anything which is relevant or critical being hidden from the community if this is being done or if he thinks it is being done by the Minister. [More…]

• We acknowledge as equal to it the Aboriginal community on that section of the Northern Territory over which the Federal Government has given it control. [More…]

• The Aboriginal community has not leased the land and it is opposed to leasing it under the provisions of the wild life legislation. [More…]

• But Senator Kilgariff gets up and accuses Senator Cavanagh of trying to divide the community in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• AH that Senator Cavanagh is seeking in speaking to this amendment is to ensure that the Aborigines of the Northern Territory are given the full recognition and the same rights as the white community. [More…]

• If this national park is to be anything there must be a tri-party agreement between the Federal Government, the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and the Aboriginal community which owns the land. [More…]

• While this is not a problem for the ‘Minister of the Northern Territory ‘ it is a problem for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• To illustrate my point I refer to a matter that I discussed with Senator Carrick in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development during the Estimate committee hearings. [More…]

• Therefore, the Aboriginal community is brought under the power of the Act whether they want it or not. [More…]

• The Director decides where the township will be, how it will be developed for the requirements of the community- again it is on Aboriginal land- and what type of township it will be. [More…]

• I have never heard either the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) or the Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Adermann) echo the sentiments of the present United States Secretary of the Interior, who has said that, whatever America’s fuel demands might be, wildlife refuges will not be mined. [More…]

• I think that at that time the present Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) was Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I think that Senator Carrick would go in to bat for the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom, in the Cabinet discussions but I know enough about numbers to know what will happen. [More…]

• On the other hand, Mr Justice Parker went to great lengths to discount much of the rumour and fear, that are circulated on this subject amongst the community. [More…]

• Although 1 may be digressing a little, I mention those findings to show how people in a community can be misled. [More…]

• My concern at the moment is that the community can be misled by statements about, as some people would put it, the lack of concern, where it is proposed to mine uranium in the Northern Territory, for the protection of the environment. [More…]

• When he has convinced those authorities about those particular problems, perhaps he will then start on the uranium miners who, at the moment, have a five times greater chance of getting lung cancer than other people in the community. [More…]

• In his second reading speech, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) said: [More…]

• We have a large Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Over the last few years we have been under extreme pressures because, although we have been endeavouring to foster this recognition of each other, to live together, to be an ordinary community, we have been subjected to stresses and strains as a result of the views of many organisations and governments, in applying to us certain laws and policies. [More…]

• The fact is that the Fox Committee said, and it is the authoritative body, that with proper safeguards the hazards of mining and milling uranium could be properly contained and were quite tolerable within the community. [More…]

• That is not to say that I or my Government would want to add a single millirad to the amount of radioactivity in the community. [More…]

• I refer also to the following statement which was reported in the Melbourne Age of 20 May 1978 to have been made by Mr Brian Appleford, spokesman for the Friends of the Earth: the Department of Primary Industry had insisted that the anti-whaling Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development be denied the right to make a separate submission to the inquiry. [More…]

• I ask: Firstly, is it a fact that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is registered as or was announced to the International Whaling Commission as being one of the principal parties to the inquiry? [More…]

• -My information is that the chairman of the inquiry, Sir Sidney Frost regards as principal parties the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, along with the Department of Primary Industry, Project Jonah, Cheynes Beach Whaling Company and others. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, refers to the recent media reports that an estimated one million Australians are functionally illiterate, that is, they cannot cope with the basic reading and writing tasks that the community requires of them, such as the reading of road signs or the writing of their own name. [More…]

• Indeed, there has been a broad thrust of argument in the community that the standard of literacy is severely low. [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…]

• The problem is that if people, businesses or companies breach the enviromental protection measures outlined in the Bill in such a way as would be destructive to the environment, to the health of workers in the industry, or to the community generally, they may conceal that breach by claiming that the information which would establish it would lead to their incrimination. [More…]

• Under the proposed amendment if the GovernorGeneral is satisfied that there is harm or danger to the community he can take action. [More…]

• What mechanism exists for the Australian Capital Territory Sub-Committee to consult with community groups interested in children ‘s services as users or producers. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the Belconnen Family Day Care has a waiting list of more than 400 children; if so, can the Minister assure the Belconnen Community Service that priority will be given by the Child Care Office to finding a solution to this problem. [More…]

• The views of both States have been sought on appropriate community mechanisms which may assist in the identification of gaps in services and emergency needs. [More…]

• The views of all States have been sought on what they regard as the most appropriate community advisory mechanisms to bc establshed which may assist in the identification of gaps in services, and emerging needs. [More…]

• The membership of this Sub-Committee allows an input into an extensive community network and includes representatives who have an understanding of the service requirements of high need families in the Australian Capital Territory including migrant families, families with handicapped children or parents, and single parent families. [More…]

• The Belconnen Community Service has not advised me or the Office of Child Care of a demand for child care exceeding the capacity of their service. [More…]

• He said Mr Butler had not asked the council if he could enter the community, but had sent a telegram yesterday saying only that he was arriving. [More…]

• Mr Peinkinna said the Aurukun Council had replied by telegram yesterday telling Mr Butler that the community did not want ‘State Government interference ‘. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development been drawn to reports of the findings of a United States Congressional committee last week, which are set out in a document entitled Nuclear Power Costs? [More…]

• They are the Sunrise Community School in New South Wales, the Ananda Marga school in Western Australia, and the Ananda Marga school in Tasmania. [More…]

• The general community today believes that quality is the goal that is now to be sought. [More…]

• Let us see it stand up on this occasion and say: ‘Here is a code of practice; we will sit around the table, talk about it, reach a consensus of opinion and see if we cannot get a safety code which will be agreed to by all people in the community’. [More…]

• Lots of people in the mining community are drooling in anticipation of a big kill. [More…]

• That will not save us but at least the people will know that we put up a fight in here to try to safeguard the health of the community. [More…]

• If Senator Missen would like to enlarge upon that aspect, I can note it and draw the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) and the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) to any suggested defect. [More…]

• I shall certainly refer the thoughts which have been outlined to the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Durack) and to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• Those figures are a stunning illustration of the way in which the emoluments of members of Parliament who have retired have been increased out of all range of increases of other sections of the community. [More…]

• The position is that those responsible are letting the thing go unscrutinised because the benefits to retiring members of Parliament are out of all proportion to increases that have taken place in respect of other sections of the community. [More…]

• What sort of reconciliation can be made in the various sections of the community as to the equality achieved with respect to retiring allowances? [More…]

• This means, as we will see when we come to consider the Income Tax Bill, that justice with regard to the impact of taxation differs between classes in the community. [More…]

• Therefore, I will not go out of this place without expressing my intense regret that the Parliament shrugs off its responsibility properly to fix these deductions from income tax so as to make available, at the expense of taxation system, a lump sum accrual which is in some way comparable with the general opportunities of other classes of the community. [More…]

• I have detailed in chronological order how the pre-school funding commenced under a Labor Government in 1972 and how it has decreased somewhat rapidly until we have now reached the stage where we are having to rationalise preschools in South Australia and are having to cut down the hours those schools for the younger children of our community are open. [More…]

• It is only 10 days since I was last in Queenstown, being there with Mr Ray Groom, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It covered many of the points very well and shows the difficulties of trying to replace a very steady and well entrenched community. [More…]

• Queenstown is a community, the community has to be maintained until profitability and prices make it completely secure again. [More…]

• The proposition involves people, trade and business and the Tasmanian community at large. [More…]

• Queenstown is a starter community. [More…]

• As late as today I received telephone calls from members of the Peruvian community in Sydney about the events of the last 10 days in the city of Lima. [More…]

• Apart from particular matters such as criminal cases, courts martial, 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…]

• The Minister might know that Dr Rosemary Hunter said that whilst all the States are cooperating in relation to this matter there were many difficulties, in particular the difficulty of carrying out continuing treatment for those people and the chances of infection of the community generally. [More…]

• Does he have any information for the Peruvian community of Sydney as to the extent of the Peruvian Government ‘s recent suppression of trade union and political activity. [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 its 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 pre-school 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 most effectively be used to develop multicultural and community language courses in the schools. [More…]

• We have accepted a commitment to additional expenditure in this case because, after thorough 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…]

• Its 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…]

• Accordingly, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) and his predecessor have met with State Ministers on several occasions over the last 2 years to devise jointly the Agreement that is now before the Senate. [More…]

• The strong support which the principles of the Agreement have received throughout the community results from early and continuing discussion and cooperation 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…]

• The importance of conservation is being recognised and generally accepted by the community, and that is how it should be. [More…]

• However, I think that the community generally now accepts the need for conservation, as do all developers and miners. [More…]

• If there is a medical emergency or any other emergency on a mission, pastoral property or Aboriginal community some 200 or 300 miles from Darwin these units are used to call in to base. [More…]

• If hardship and injustice are inflicted on one part of a community in satisfying the needs of another, efforts should be made to ameliorate this without vitiating the principle itself. [More…]

• In my opinion what is needed now to train the Aborigines to live in a white world, as they must, is to give them a selfcontained community of their own. [More…]

• Complete with all the shopping facilities, housing and schools found in any community. [More…]

• With this difference: Every official, every teacher, every businessman in this community would be an Aborigine. [More…]

• With this difference: Every official, every teacher, every business-man in this community would be an aborigine. [More…]

• Squash centres, 2 out of 7; public libraries, 2 out of 7: community halls, 1 out of 26: sporting clubs with premises, 2 1 out of 44. [More…]

• Squash centres, nil; public libraries, 2 out of 7; community halls, 13 out of 26; sporting clubs with premises, 6 out of 44. [More…]

• Squash courts, 2 out of 7; Public Libraries, 1 out of 7; Community Halls, 4 out of 26; Sporting Clubs with Premises, 2 out of 44. [More…]

• Community halls, 6 out of 26. [More…]

• Exports to Japan, European Economic Community and ASEAN countries (Question No. [More…]

• 1 ) Is it proposed to improve access for Australian goods into Japan and ASEAN countries, in addition to improving access for Australian products into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Have the European Economic Community, Japan or ASEAN countries complained about access to Australian markets for their exports; if so, what were the specific complaints. [More…]

• 1 ) Continuing efforts are being made by the Australian Government to achieve increased access for Australian products and to improve the conditions under which our exports are traded in markets all around the world including Japan and the ASEAN countries as well as the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Let me simply say this to the honourable senator because, on reflection, that could be taken as being a precious answer: The fact is that the emerging situations of students and indeed the dialogue in the community have convinced the Government that the principle of total compulsion to pay student association fees, both within the institution and for extrainstitutional purposes, has defects and that some of those defects ought to be remedied. [More…]

• Subject to this Act, the Commission shall provide, and shall broadcast or televise from transmitting stations made available by the Austraiian Telecommunications Commission 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…]

• It appears to the Opposition and, I think, to members of the community generally that the ABC has been hobbled in its ability to carry out these crucial functions by what ultimately results from government policy. [More…]

• I believe they are the sorts of programs that the community desires. [More…]

• I believe in an ABC which is free of political interference and an ABC which can vigorously debate controversial issues in the Australian community as well as providing the national sort of services that so many Australians enjoy. [More…]

• Anyone who tries to stop full discussion by the Australian community upon whether a particular program of the ABC is good or whether a political commentator has said the right thing is doing a grave disservice to the working of the democratic institution. [More…]

• The Commission regrets the loss of 3ZZ which provided a service valued by a wide variety of community groups. [More…]

• There is a very strong suspicion in the community that the top management of the ABC is in a very real sense top heavy. [More…]

• It is not sufficient- I say this for the Minister, with the greatest respect and for want of a better word- to waffle his way through this debate, not dealing with any of the real issues of concern to members of this community and to members of the ABC staff. [More…]

• It must take account also of the requirements of the great variety of people who make up the Australian community. [More…]

• This, as 1 think was suggested by Senator Button, is the broadcasting authority which should be a pace setter in this community and which should set an example to the other broadcasting authorities and institutions in the community. [More…]

• Subject to this Act, the Commission shall provide, and shall broadcast or televise from transmitting stations made available by the Australian Telecommunications Commission, 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…]

• With the assistance of the Standing Interdepartmental Committee on Rehabilitation, Council is examining ways in which existing Government programs can provide for greater access by handicapped people to all facets of community life. [More…]

• I believe its advice to be of value not only to the Government but also to all handicapped people in the community and to all those who are concerned with their welfare. [More…]

• I pointed out when I spoke on an earlier date that failure to get the European Economic Community to sign this agreement was a fairly bitter blow to the Australian sugar industry, in fact to all the signatories to the agreement. [More…]

• I agree with those who say that it is unfortunate that the European Economic Community is not a signatory to the agreement. [More…]

• I certainly hope that at some stage the European Economic Community will become a signatory to the Agreement. [More…]

• All of those countries, in one permutation or combination of death duties or a capital gains tax or a net wealth tax, make some provision whereby capital cannot accumulate into the hands of families at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]

• The proposition I put to the Senate is that in the event of there being such a disparity between the costs of collection, an inequity is imposed upon taxpayers in that those from whom it costs more to collect are in fact contributing more to the community than they ought to contribute in proportion to other taxpayers. [More…]

• For instance, in terms of that element about which I have just spoken, the efficiency of collection and the cost of collection, the States have at their fingertips all sorts of facilities, including valuations of land and their relationship with various business regulating bodies within the community, and they are able to assess these sorts of taxes a lot more efficiently than is the Federal Government. [More…]

• Whether we like it or not, there is in the community a perceived disincentive arising from the application of death duties. [More…]

• That comment is heard clearly whenever one talks to people in the rural community or those engaged in small buinesses. [More…]

• By virtue of that fact it is quite clear that those people are disadvantaged in relation to other people in the community who have a better opportunity to organise their affairs. [More…]

• THe fact that State governments regard it as fashionable to abolish death duties, the fact that schmaltzy sorts of cases can be made out about it by individual groups in this community, is not a reason for doing it when one considers the principles involved, when one considers the rationale of this Government in terms of its own policies, when one considers what is happening overseas and when one considers what the advice of this Government has been. [More…]

• We think that death and estate duty should be abolished only in the context of introducing some other tax on wealth in this community for the very real reason that, as we all know and perhaps sometimes like to forget, the very possession of wealth does not mean just that one has more money to spend. [More…]

• Clearly, a very significant majority of Australians across the whole canvas of our community supported this proposal along with the many other propositions which were put and which are being carried out. [More…]

• I suppose in the very early stages the tax may have had some significance partly because wealth was perhaps more dominantly in fewer hands than it is today where it is to be found across the whole canvass of the Australian socio-economic community. [More…]

• It has caused great numbers in our community to concentrate as years go by on retaining a significant measure of liquidity in order that the beneficiaries of an estate may be able to receive a significant part of it. [More…]

• By forcing that sort of liquidity on the community, the community has been denied significant development opportunities and job opportunities. [More…]

• I acknowledge that there are farmers in this community who have assets which would greatly exceed the $ 120,000 to $ 1 50,000 which I suggest the average farmer would have. [More…]

• The problems Sir William Gunn is having in Queensland quite clearly indicate that the members of the rural community in this country are suffering terribly from the liabilities they incur in order to maintain their land and their livestock. [More…]

• Only about 6 per cent of the Australian community are farmers but they pay about 36 per cent of the revenue collected in death duties. [More…]

• It is always popular with some sections of the community to forgo a tax or to offer an electoral bribe. [More…]

• Does it propose this year to pay for its bribe to the wealthier sections of the community by cheating the unemployed out of three weeks ‘ unemployment benefit? [More…]

• What we are saying is that 88 per cent of estates do not pay the duty but the Commonwealth is going to abolish the impost for the other 12 per cent who represent not entirely the most wealthy- I will return to that point later- but the more wealthy people in our community. [More…]

• If one looks at the personal income tax situation one will find that the so-called affluent of this community are taxed primarily at the rate of 60c in every $ 1 . [More…]

• But the fundamental thing the community is saying to this Parliament is this: We thought that the application of massive amounts of funds would have produced better education. [More…]

• What we seek now in an improvement in quality by the Government and by the community. [More…]

• In other words, the Labor Party is saying that the community’s demand for the upgrading of quality is gobbledegook. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that the community as a whole believes, rightly or wrongly- and I think rightly- that the level of basic skills in numeracy and literacy is not good enough. [More…]

• So when the community judges what we are doing in education let it judge us, yes, that we have reached and surpassed our targets in schools. [More…]

• It is most improper for the Federal Government to make any decision on this serious matter without hearing all viewpoints, including long standing opposition from various sections of the local community’, Mr Harris said. [More…]

• Belconnen, Section 54: Addition to the plan of an access road to serve mixed commercial, community and residential development. [More…]

• -Will the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications tell members of the community at large what action they personally can take to voice their opinions as to whether any particular radio station should or should not have its licence renewed? [More…]

• -Senator Walters asked me first of all, in general terms, what action any member or members of the community could take to express a viewpoint as to whether a particular radio licence should be renewed. [More…]

• The problem is that 2XX was set up basically to operate under a university licence but now it is seeking to widen its licence in order to operate as a community station. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications whether he is aware that the frequency modulation broadcasting station at the College of Advanced Education in Hobart, station 7CAE, which has been operating now for two or three years and which I think most people who live in Hobart would agree provides an excellent service to the Hobart community, has been advised by the Department that to maintain its licence it must invest in a whole range of new equipment and take up a site which will make it extremely difficult for it to continue its operation. [More…]

• I understand that this week Mr Viner had meetings with State and community representatives on the formation of joint committees. [More…]

• Given the overlapping areas of health, welfare, community development, veterans’ affairs and so on, a serious and continuing effort to co-ordinate the program and policies seems eminently sensible. [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…]

• It is a statement which claims once again that our uranium policy is based on our obligations as a responsible member of the international community. [More…]

• Because of the two Acts, it is not possible to make an award stick so far as a community is concerned. [More…]

• In fact a trade union, some two or three years ago, actually made a case to try to get award wages for people living in the Palm Island community. [More…]

• On the evidence that I have seen, I believe that there is a long range plan to dispose of the Yarrabah community, and particularly the lands adjoining the village itself, to international tourist developers in the same way as the Queensland Department wants to get rid of Great Palm Island and the Gorge reserve of some 60 acres. [More…]

• Many people have had the impression over the years that a lot of the adjoining islands were included in the Palm Island community. [More…]

• Details of the history of this community and the contribution made by the company to the Church for the upgrading of their houses are included in the Comalco booklet (pages 13-14). [More…]

• I would draw your attention, however, to the fact that the original community of about 200 people in 1 957 has grown to more than 600 today. [More…]

• The responsibilities of governments extend beyond any wool growers or any other sections of the community. [More…]

• Governments are responsible to the whole 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 Community Health program; $2.1m for the Community Youth Support program; $3. [More…]

• This document needs to be circulated far and wide among the farming community to let the farmers and those who live in country towns see where this Government’s priorities lie. [More…]

• The obvious aim of this junket is to strive for a temporary restoration of the Prime Minister’s waning image at home, even if that means downgrading his own Cabinet Ministers in the eyes of the world community. [More…]

• Throughout the community, particularly since the events in Canberra in November 1975, the Parliament is considered by a great number of people as being an outmoded institution, one which no longer achieves reform and advancement through Parliamentary debate and deliberation. [More…]

• It is all very well for Senator Walters to close her eyes to these things but that feeling is running through a large section of the Australian community. [More…]

• As I have said before, the service Hansard provides is crucial to the Parliament, but it is also important to the public that what is said and done in this place is recorded quickly and is available to the community as soon as possible. [More…]

• I think it is important in this debate on the deliberations of Estimates Committee A to put on record the fact that there are members of this Parliament who are keen, in their interests and in the interests of this Parliament and of the community as a whole, to support a proposal for improved conditions for the Parliamentary Reporting Staff. [More…]

• For working odd hours, disrupting their family life and travelling all over this continent while serving this Parliament, serving the Australian community, they receive no benefit. [More…]

• In the interests of this Parliament and of the community we ought to ensure that the members of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Reporting Staff are paid properly and, even more importantly, that they are provided with additional benefits to make up for the particular and peculiar problems and difficulties that go with the job, which is a job with a long tradition and one that is very important to this Parliament and to the Australian community. [More…]

• The proposition I am putting forward is that if there is no parliamentary scrutiny the loser will be the intelligence community. [More…]

• Because of the scandals, there is a sense of belief within the American community that these organisations cannot justify their existence. [More…]

• As I have said, I think this really hurts the intelligence community. [More…]

• On the one hand there has been a great community revulsion against compulsion against conscience, and on the other hand a series of challenges in the courts showing the need for action. [More…]

• When the Commonwealth and State governments, in this case proudly, accept that responsibility to provide that money for the secular delivery of compulsory education in those sectors of the community that by conscience and by freedom of choice elect to support non-government schools, we are not in any way infringing principles; we are in fact providing secular education inside non-government schools. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, but the Leader of the Government in the Senate might think that the question would be more properly directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -One is being prepared by the Commonwealth Government as part of the operations of the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Stated broadly, the justification for Crown priority is that it represents an attempted balance between the interests of the community as a whole, as represented by governments, and the interests of particular creditors. [More…]

• The Committee has, however, been firmly convinced that the justification of the Crown’s priority in terms of the protection of a debt due to the community does not provide sufficient support for the Crown priority. [More…]

• In fact, in the report the Committee indicates that it seriously doubts whether the community as a whole would support the retention of this priority in its name at the expense of creditors who suffer the consequences of a bankruptcy or winding-up much more directly. [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…]

• I recall the many debates that have taken place in this chamber during the 10 years that I have been here when parliamentarians have been exhorted to set an example to the rest of the community. [More…]

• I have always felt that, irrespective of one’s views about levels of income in the community, and I have very strong views about that which I have put here on many occasions, there are plenty of people in the community who are getting sufficient and do not need any more. [More…]

• But I would oppose equally the argument that one section of the community can be singled out and told: ‘You cannot have any improvements; everybody else can but you cannot. ‘ [More…]

• If we want to get over this problem of those who have enough getting more, we will do it only on a national basis where that principle is applied to everybody in the community who is earning income in excess of a certain level. [More…]

• Until such time as that sort of policy is implemented, with the cooperation of State governments, trade unions, private industry and so on, it seems that we have to accept the procedures that apply now whereby individual sections of the community such as parliamentarians have to find some other way of resolving the problems. [More…]

• The fourth matter that the Minister corrected was that it had been indicated that six officers were with the Minister for three or four weeks at the earlier European Economic Community discussions. [More…]

• Our most significant problems in trade are with the European Community, which is the world’s largest trading bloc, and it is for this reason that I and my Department are concentrating on those problems. [More…]

• On a more general matter, while the concerns of my portfolio are focussed on more equitable access for Australian agricultural products into the markets of the European Economic Community they are not confined to those products. [More…]

• The EC decision on steel was sudden and the Government expressed its objection to the timing and methods used to restrict steel exports to the Community. [More…]

• I understand that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development comes under group B. [More…]

• He told the Senate that an impact statement is being prepared by our own Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• and (4) The Minister for Special Trade Representations is currently seeking to establish a more equitable and mutually beneficial trading relationship between Australia and the European Community. [More…]

• At present, a measure of priority is being given to our relations with the EC because of the relative unresponsiveness to date of the Community to our representations for improved access. [More…]

• It aims to achieve marginal changes in the operation of the CAP to allow our agricultural exports to compete on commercial terms for a reasonable share of the Community’s market. [More…]

• Subsidised exports by the Community are also a problem and disrupt normal commercial flows of some agricultural commodities in world trade. [More…]

• We are seeking more restraint by the Community in subsidising exports of its agricultural surpluses which are so harmful to the interests of commercial exporters in traditional markets. [More…]

• Proposals aimed at redressing Australia’s trading problems with the Community were submitted to the EC Commission and Member States on 27 October 1977 and tabled in Parliament on 1 November 1977. [More…]

• He has also negotiated an arrangement with the Commission of the European Community in respect of Australia’s steel exports to the Community for 1978. [More…]

• The Minister will continue to pursue trade relations matters of significance for both Australia and the international trading community. [More…]

• The Senate Committee was 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…]

• Australian Catholic Relief, Chang Nim Dong Community Health Centre, Korea, $2,000. [More…]

• Community Aid Abroad, DGI (Council of Churches Indonesia), Family Planning Program, $5,500. [More…]

• Can the Minister assure the Senate, firstly, that no government department, agent or instrumentality will, in any manner, be involved with the National Front in the fulfilment of these aims; secondly, that the Commissioner for Community Relations will maintain a constant check on the Front’s activities to ensure that it does not breach the Racial Discrimination Act 1975; and, thirdly, that the National Front will not be allowed to violate the conditions outlined in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, both of which have been ratified by Australia? [More…]

• I understand that the definition of an Aboriginal is ‘a person of Aboriginal descent who identifies himself as an Aboriginal and is accepted as such by the community with which he is associated ‘. [More…]

• An Aboriginal is a person of Aboriginal descent who identifies himself and is identified by the community as an Aboriginal. [More…]

• People of Aboriginal descent who identify themselves and are accepted by the community concerned are the people who are eligible to be assisted by those programs. [More…]

• It is my responsibility to represent in this place the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Company has been directed to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement pursuant to the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act on the project and subject to a satisfactory outcome, the Company is developing plans for handover of the project to the local Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Appropriate arrangements for handover to the local Aborgina community are being considered. [More…]

• Guidelines for the EIS have now been determined in conjunction with the Department, the Company, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service. [More…]

• The Company is presently preparing its Notice of Intention pursuant to the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act for submission to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Senate has before it the Income Tax Assessment Amendment Bill 1978 which has caused a great deal of comment and excitement in the community over the past few months- in fact, going back to the time of the previous Government. [More…]

• Tax avoidance is practised by all sections of the community and not just by the wealthy, as is so often said. [More…]

• There may be no absolute community standards by which particular forms of tax avoidance may be judged. [More…]

• So when a couple marry, clearly that is not contrary to the community standard of reasonableness. [More…]

• When a couple in business go into partnership that could be said to be tax avoidance, but, again, it does not transgress those community standards. [More…]

• I should have thought that taxation advisers who were doing their duty in the community would have been screaming to the legislators about the number of times that some decision is left to the discretion of the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]

• Their activities may result in a $500m loss of revenue to this country which will have to be made up by other taxpayers in this community. [More…]

• The Government must stand firm by its just and stated intentions to prevent the tax dodgers from taking advantage of the rest of the Australian community. [More…]

• So it is a fairly rich little community. [More…]

• This will be replaced by new arrangements which expand the opportunity for community involvement in the development and management of migrant assistance programs. [More…]

• -I preface my question to the Minister for Education by reminding him of a letter he wrote to me on 26 April relating to the Adelaide Aboriginal Community College. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate what effect this decision will have on community health centres and public medical institutions, the majority of which have previously relied on bulk billing? [More…]

• I understand that the Minister has received representations to the effect that some community health centres, which have relied on the services of private medical practitioners who have been bulk billing for medical benefits, may be inconvenienced by the proposal that bulk billing be generally discontinued. [More…]

• Honourable senators may be assured that this matter is receiving the close attention of the Minister for Health and that the needs of persons receiving medical services from community health centres are being taken into account in the review of administrative arrangements that 1 have outlined. [More…]

• The Minister for Health has decided that to avoid hardship to low income families, Aboriginal and ethnic families, Aboriginal medical services and community health centres, bulk billing will remain until satisfactory alternative administrative arrangements are made to replace bulk billing for all but pensioner patients and their dependants. [More…]

• The reply was that an Aboriginal is a person of Aboriginal descent who identifies himself as an Aboriginal and is accepted as such by the community with which he is associated. [More…]

• How does the Department of Aboriginal Affairs determine a person’s association in a community? [More…]

• When this matter was raised by Senator Wood yesterday I said that the definition of an Aboriginal is a person of Aboriginal descent who identifies as an Aboriginal and is accepted as such by the community with which he is associated. [More…]

• As a postscript to that question I also ask, in relation to the Mostard case which was the subject of a delegation from the Sydney Latin American community to the Minister three or four weeks ago, whether the girl has been permitted to enter Australia as a political refugee. [More…]

• We believe that we have an obligation to the Australian community to take whatever steps are available to us to alert the Government and the Australian people about the implications of the implementation of the present policies of the Fraser Government. [More…]

• We hope that by the time we come back to this Parliament in August it will have recognised that the policies it has been following over the past two and a half years are not only leading to greater unemployment in the Australian community but also to a greater lack of business confidence and a greater lack of confidence generally among the Australian people. [More…]

• After the last federal election a very prominent Australian businessman said to me that the Australian community had gone too far in giving a man, such as the present Prime Minister, a massive majority in the House of Representatives and a clear mandate in the Senate, that with three years ahead of him and with his idiosyncrasies Australians did not know what they had done to themselves. [More…]

• We have Medibank mark III by which further inroads and impositions have been burdened on the Australian community, by which the gap between the amount of fee charged by the doctor and the refund payable by the private health insurance company is deliberately widened as a result of encouragement by the Australian Government. [More…]

• It is because it is concerned at the amount of money being spent by the Australian community on its health. [More…]

• Those announcements were made well before the Budget had been considered, at a time when all sections of the community were asking for some relief. [More…]

• The Minister made his ministerial statement in this Parliament in October 1977 in which he expressed the Government’s concern at the way in which the small business sector of the community was going. [More…]

• That is what this Government thinks about the problems of the private sector of the community, especially the small business sector. [More…]

• But conveniently for the Government, it ignores the great problems that are confronting the Australian community, directly as a result of the [More…]

• If this discussion could contribute anything to the Australian economy and to the Australian community this afternoon, it would be only that people would analyse the circumstances that they find around them. [More…]

• There will be a recovery, but if there is one way of ensuring that it will be slow and tedious, it is by the adoption of that sort of attitude of confusion, of distortion, and of a determination to be totally destructive rather than to enter into a circumstance where they, like us, are members of a total Australian community. [More…]

• The reintroduction of the superphosphate subsidy, the introduction of family allowances, the encouragement given to oil and mineral research and development are all matters which are contributing to the revival of the economy and the community. [More…]

• The fact that the situation in the stock exchanges is better, that the balance of payments, capital inflow and inflation situations are improving, that there is strength in the wool marketing situation as well as in the wheat situation, and that there is improvement in 101 other areas indicates that confidence is returning to the community and that the suggestions made in the terms of this matter of public importance that we are discussing this afternoon are totally untrue. [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…]

• We have to look at the cost expended on urban transport and at the total benefits to the community. [More…]

• A lot can be said for urban transport, but a balance has to be worked out as to how much of the cost commuters should pay and how much the community is prepared to bear. [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…]

• 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 or capable of representing their interests in diplomatic and consular matters affecting Australia 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 which is already lawfully represented in a diplomatic or consular capacity in Australia. [More…]

• The Bill now before the Senate represents in a very real sense, a continuation of the endeavours of honourable members and senators on both sides of the Parliament to meet the legitimate constitutional aspirations of the Northern Territory community. [More…]

• The amending Bill provides similar protection to the Northern Territory Government and in the same way binds the Northern Territory to pay rent for areas where the occupation or use of land is not for a ‘community purpose ‘ within the meaning of the Act. [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…]

• Having regard to the fact that they enjoy a sort of monopoly situation, that they enjoy a unique position in this country compared with their counterparts in other countries, they have some responsibility to the Australian community in terms of the quality and the range and breadth of their productions. [More…]

• But the organisation speaks on behalf of the black community. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) should be concerned with increasing communication and consultation with, and increasing the education of the Aboriginal community as to the reasons why he makes a decision against an application by Aboriginal councils to alter the functions of an Aboriginal council. [More…]

• Mr Fraser has become known in Aboriginal communities and in other sections of the community as Dr No. [More…]

• If by the process of consultation with State governments, with local authorities, with Aboriginal community groups and with individuals we are able to provide in the future other means of assistance to Aborigines we will have achieved a great deal. [More…]

• 1 ) Will the Minister institute an immediate inquiry to ensure that the Aboriginal community land at Herberton, Queensland is preserved for the use of Aboriginals. [More…]

• Can the Minister assure the Senate that the Aboriginal Community Reserve at Ravenshoe will not be taken over for development purposes. [More…]

• Does the Government intend to introduce a Bill to amend the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act 1976, in view of the agreement reached between the Commonwealth and Queensland Governments in relation to the Aboriginal Community areas at Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]

• Many of the recommendations will require action by schools themselves in consultation with parents and the local community. [More…]

• This provides the basis on which further action can be taken, in consultation with the other authorities concerned, to establish how the community’s educational needs can most effectively be met. [More…]

• A fight over radio licence between the Country Party and local community groups is dividing Canberra. [More…]

• The article further stated that a group called the Monaro Community Broadcasting Society Incorporated is making a determined attempt to take over the 2XX licence. [More…]

• The Minister for Post and Telecommunications recently invited applications for one AM licence for a public broadcasting station to operate in category C- that is, a community group station- in the Canberra area. [More…]

• To suggest that one sector of the community is receiving assistance to the detriment of another overlooks the fact that this Government governs for all Australians and seeks to have programs that will assist them wherever necessary. [More…]

• I understand that in his statement the Secretary of the Wollongong Trades and Labour Council was reporting remarks made in Wollongong by the Vietnamese Ambassador who, it must be realised, has something of a vested interest in trying to persuade the Australian community that the Government is accepting all kinds of undesirable people amongst those fleeing from his country. [More…]

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

• From time to time some matter arises which causes special disquiet in the community. [More…]

• This last needs to take into account, amongst other things, those members of the Australian community whose first language is not English. [More…]

• To change the rules halfway through the year is in my view to invite a total loss of confidence in the business community. [More…]

• It is untrue that there are not people in this community who would suffer as a result of this legislation. [More…]

• These are the specious arguments that have been put up by the so-called wealthy section of the community. [More…]

• When the vote is taken on these amendments we will be able to look around and see the rebels in the Liberal Party who, in effect, really support the silvertail section- the wealthy section- of the community. [More…]

• They are not concerned about protecting every taxpayer in the community. [More…]

• Honourable senators on this side of the chamber will not support this amendment moved by the people who support the wealthy section of the community. [More…]

• Not one person in the community who had anything to do with taxation, with accountants or with the business world generally, and who knew something of the Curran-type scheme, would not have assumed that that would have been the first scheme to have been struck down by legislation. [More…]

• There is absolutely no doubt in my mind about that because, clearly, from contacts that I had in the community with people who were seeking to take advantage of Curran-type schemes, the only question in their minds was whether this legislation would be made retrospective. [More…]

• We know that today there are people in the community who are in fact taxation scheme wholesalers. [More…]

• But to me, the answer is that it is not fair and acceptable when that scheme is available only to a small and very wealthy section of the community who, in taking advantage of a scheme which is undeniably legal but of doubtful morality, could place an additional burden on the average taxpayer who cannot avail himself of that scheme. [More…]

• In particular, I refer to sub-clauses (4), (5), (6), (9), ( 15), and so on, which to my mind effectively leave problems for those companies which would be seeking to raise risk capital from the Australian community. [More…]

• If he is given the right of decision and waits for 1 1 months to act, the whole community remains in suspense as to whether Parliament will adopt that decision or not. [More…]

• A snap Star survey of the Darwin business community showed real fears about what the cost of self-rule will mean. [More…]

• Another section of the community which showed an interest was the Aboriginal groups. [More…]

• Finally, I mention Mr Fred Drysdale, Mr Harry Chan, who was a leading person from the Chinese community and also the mayor of Darwin, the President of the Northern Territory Legislative Council, Tony Greatorex, and the many other people who have contributed to the development of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Whitlam Government- a rate of vote-getting which showed the complete disenchantment of that community with the Whitlam Government. [More…]

• From what I have been told, the consultation with the Territory Executive, with the Legislative Assemblyincluding the Opposition- and with the community of the Territory generally- has been inadequate. [More…]

• I believe that the Government’s approach to the matters I have dealt with will meet with wide approval in the wool industry and in the community at large. [More…]

• I think it is important that honourable senators and the community should be aware of what happened. [More…]

• We have come to accept that unfortunately every time Senator Walsh makes a speech in this place he becomes vindictive and extremely personal, whether it be against a senator or against some individual within the community. [More…]

• It is regrettable that from time to time individuals who are really great Australians and acknowledged to be so by the community are criticised in that way. [More…]

• Early this year the Government detected a growing concern in the business community that funds flowing from the finance organisations appeared inadequate for the growth and development of small business. [More…]

• or even longer, when these measures were first consideredthat although in principle this legislation may be helping the small business sector of the community, it obviously will not be able to do enough. [More…]

• This Bill is welcomed by most sections of the community. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware of a recent survey by P. A. [More…]

• I have not seen the results of the survey but it would not surprise me at all if virtually the whole of the Australian community would seek to own a home rather than to rent one. [More…]

• I remind Senator Tehan that in the 1950s and 1960s the Australian community reached almost 75 per cent home ownership, which was the highest in the world. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Before any further education is undertaken in this area will the Minister encourage pilot schemes to bc implemented to ascertain the type of education and the type of educators that will give the results that the community desires? [More…]

• I am bound to say that whilst not in any way retreating from the responsibility of education, the primary responsibility in these very important matters is that of the family and the community. [More…]

• I wonder whether the community would want to wait for a decade or two to see the results. [More…]

• We have to face up to the fact that as a community we are producing more and more people of lower motivation with lower driving force to enjoy outward involvement in the community. [More…]

• As the community and as educators we have to ask ourselves how we can prevent that from happening. [More…]

• Of course, State governments have formed committees in which government and community groups are involved in the celebration of the Year. [More…]

• I would hope that as a result of the activities of either State governments or the associations themselves through their co-ordinating bodies, whatever interest and expertise many professional and community groups are able to offer will be used in consultation about and observance of the Year. [More…]

• 1 ) What Aboriginal settlements in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia particpate in the Community Development Employment Project (CDEP). [More…]

• The Minister will recall a recent deputation to the Minister for Transport comprising representatives of a wide cross-section of the community and members of parliament. [More…]

• I think the only other reason must be that the Opposition is attempting to build a certain atmosphere in the community, hoping thereby to influence the judge who is at present in control of the royal commission. [More…]

• He is hiding behind the sub judice rule and putting the Senate in a totally absurd position when compared with the rest of the community. [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…]

• Most of the developed countries participating in the negotiations including the United States of America, Japan and the European Economic Community have already decided to adopt a formula approach to the reduction of tariffs on industrial products. [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…]

• Honourable senators will be aware from public statements, such as the Governor-General’s Speech at the opening of this Parliament, of the Government’s concern to ensure that the Australian community has access to official information where this can be done without endangering another overriding public interest. [More…]

• The interests of all sections of the community need to be taken into account by the Government when it moves to widen the opportunities for gaining access to official information. [More…]

• Existing extra-parliamentary avenues available to a member of the Australian community to obtain information are wide-ranging and include government material published and distributed through the Australian Government Publishing Service, such as the Commonwealth Record, as well as many types of material produced internally by departments and instrumentalities, and often distributed through the various liaison- advisory services of those departments and instrumentalities. [More…]

• In line with its recognition and overall concern that a member of the community may better protect his individual rights, the Government has already been active in ensuring that, when legislation was passed to establish an external review system, the citizen’s opportunities for access to information were buttressed. [More…]

• It is also desirable that every effort should be made to explore with other archival authorities ways and means of establishing a network of facilities which will ensure that the historical records of all levels of government or organisations and of private individuals are readily accessible for the widest range of research and educational, cultural and community activities. [More…]

• The schedules will be reviewed from time to time, so that they will reflect changing administrative needs and community standards. [More…]

• He wants the Government to take over the funding and to tie the rural community down completely to the Government’s whim. [More…]

• That move was widely acclaimed throughout the community. [More…]

• The Commonwealth wants to insist that all governments, Commonwealth and State, should be exposed to the community and to the taxpayer by way of responsibility for decision-making. [More…]

• All honourable senators and the community will know that this Senate has been sitting five days a week recently and certainly four days a week for some time. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition does not wish the community of Australia to understand his motivation. [More…]

• We take most serious objection to the concept of the deductibles because in our view- judging from reports in the media and comments by interest groups and so forth, in the view of many people in the communitythe deductibles system will mean that health insurance funds will be able to compete by putting up different plans for the healthy and wealthy in the community. [More…]

• If the Government wishes to change radically the nature of health insurance in this country, the least it can do is to present these changes in legislation which can be fully debated and discussed in the Parliament and not through regulation to which the Parliament and the general community have not nearly so much access through general and open discussion. [More…]

• Most importantly, it would provide security of access to doctors to the most vulnerable people in the community- poor people, people with literacy problems, people who do not speak English, the Aboriginal community, and so on. [More…]

• We believe very stongly that the health centres have a crucial role to play in maintaining the health of the community. [More…]

• Health centres with which I am familiar offer child care services, community information services and social workers. [More…]

• In many cases they have become a focus for general health consciousness programs such as exercise programs, clubs, discussion groups and bicycle clubs, and they have the facility for a teaching role if at some stage we move into a more communitybased system of education and training for doctors and paramedicals I believe that the maintenance of health centres where they have been established and the development of new ones in areas where they can serve the needs of particular communities are most important factors to be taken into account. [More…]

• On the other hand, in our view, a number of kinds of screening services are essential as a preventive measure for the health of the community. [More…]

• As we are still in limbo with regard to future government proposals, including funding proposals for the Australian Capital Territory, I, and I am sure all members of the community of the Capital Territory, would like to hear more information about that. [More…]

• Whilst we are relieved that those people at least will be excluded from this provision- doctors and health services will still be able to claim the 85 per cent of the scheduled fee for those people- we point out to the Government that those people are not necessarily the people who are worse off in the community or even necessarily the people who are most in need of health services. [More…]

• The overall effect of the Bills is that there will be a cheaper form of insurance for those in the community who least need it- the healthy, the fit and the wealthy- and for everybody else, health insurance and health costs will increase. [More…]

• We do see that there will be a great deal of confusion and insecurity in the community as people rush from fund to fund trying to find the best deal or trying to find security of cover in all circumstances. [More…]

• Although they achieve what is probably the political motive of the Government, namely, that of weakening the original Labor Medibank scheme, they have nothing, apart from the couple of positive measures I have mentioned, to offer the community. [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 hope that the provisions of this Bill, the extra data that the Government has been seeking to generate and the extra information that is being sought from health funds can be used to give the Government all the information it wants to know about the health experience of our community and the experience of our various health funds. [More…]

• They confer new benefits, up to S7m in one area; they provide new options to end obligatory community rating; they provide some redistribution of costs between sectors; and, we hope, they place some limitation on total costs. [More…]

• I have, on behalf of the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) recognised in answer to questions, that the Minister is considering what may need to be done with regard to community health organisations. [More…]

• However, it is only reasonable that they should meet the cost themselves rather than that it should be a charge, either through Medibank or through the private health funds, against the community. [More…]

• I hope that it will be looking to policy development of health, social services, social welfare and community welfare in the future to the advantage of all Australians. [More…]

• We do not believe in general that people choose to be ill or choose to be well, although we thoroughly support community education programs which will lead people to adopt healthier life styles. [More…]

• We believe that the burden of paying for health costs should be spread equitably through the community, and we are totally opposed to the idea of rewarding those who are fortunate enough not to need frequent medical services. [More…]

• On several occasions during Question Time I have said that the Government is considering ways in which it can deal with community health centres, or Aborigines or low income groups. [More…]

• The Government considered a large number of options available to it to generate the necessary sense of community responsibility in both the provision and usage of health services. [More…]

• One of the reasons why we introduced Medibank was to help the sick and the needy in the community. [More…]

• It could not care less about the sick, the ill and the needy in the community. [More…]

• A few doctors in the community have set out to defraud the Government and the taxpayers, but this Government does not see fit to look for a remedy, to apprehend those people and to close the loopholes; it has to penalise everybody in the community. [More…]

• What it has set out to do is a damned disgrace to the community and to the Government. [More…]

• The Government has now decided on a member ratio of 4:4- 4 members from the trade unions and 4 members from other sources in the community. [More…]

• I think that the community as a whole is looking to the Authority as a method of creating peace in our industrial relations. [More…]

• I believe, as Mr Clyde Cameron said, that the community has regarded the Authority as a vital step towards industrial peace. [More…]

• The committee consulted all sections of the community. [More…]

• As Senator Mulvihill has said, this will result in there being four members from the unions and four from other areas of the community. [More…]

• If we change the scheme to bring more sections of the community into the Trade Union Training Authority, then consultation will be right at the centre or right at the core of events. [More…]

• He made this point about many of the people who assume the role of a shop steward or a sub-branch official in distant areas: The community will not get the full benefit of their experience probably until five years from now when they take up paid positions as regional organisers and State secretaries. [More…]

• It has been the subject of debate in another place and in the community. [More…]

• I do not want to go back to the origins of the problems of the industry which were compounded by the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland) are overseas at the moment making representations in relation to not only this primary industry but also various other industries which are in trouble because of Britain’s entry into the Community. [More…]

• Senator Tom Tehan joined us in 1975 after a long career of community service to the Victorian town of Kyabram. [More…]

• Finance for the CDEP scheme is provided by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to selected Aboriginal councils in a number of areas to enable the councils to pay for actual work performed by individual community members, preferably on a co-operative, part-time or contractual basis. [More…]

• The total amount provided to a community is determined in consultation between the community and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs taking into account the entitlement of individual community members to unemployment benefit. [More…]

• 1 ) No communities in Queensland receive funds under the Community Development Employment Project Scheme (CDEP). [More…]

• In the Northern Territory there is one community Bamyili, where the scheme is fully underway, and another community, Elcho Island, where the scheme is not, as yet, fully implemented. [More…]

• An approach has been made by a Brisbane community group to the Department of Social Security suggesting the publication of a booklet to be entitled Preparing for a Death in the Family but the Depanment has at this stage made no commitment to such a publication. [More…]

• Grants have been made to the following Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia for pilot Community Development Employment Projects: [More…]

• In the world of parliamentary and political affairs, Pope Paul guided international public opinion so that the many facets of community needs should receive the best possible attention. [More…]

• The community rightly demands a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

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

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development administers the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1 974. [More…]

• Telecom microwave links, availability of suitable transmitting sites, socio-economic needs and estimated population growth of a community, and future technological developments in the telecommunications field. [More…]

• I anticipate that the sale will be completed by September, and that the village area on Home Island will be transferred to the Cocos community by early next year. [More…]

• What action has been taken by the Government 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 into account. [More…]

• If it is decided, at some future date, to close the post office, arrangements would be made for the postal needs of the community to be adequately met in other ways. [More…]

• 1 ) The following amount was received, under the Community Youth Support Scheme, by each organisation listed in the answer to the honourable senator’s previous question: [More…]

• The Committee has recently held two seminars, one in Sydney and one in Melbourne, which were attended by a wide cross section of Australia’s research community, to assist in determing areas of special need. [More…]

• Although the Council takes the abovementioned action to stimulate and support research in areas of special need, it is the research community which initiates such research. [More…]

• the flow-on of money to the community at large as a result of such automation, and other structural changes desirable in the society; and [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the public criticism levelled at this decision by groups such as the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Do Care welfare organisation which claim that it will severely harm the interests of the frail and aged members of the Australian community? [More…]

• It in no way absolves this Parliament, in no way absolves this Government and in no way absolves the Australian community from their responsibilities in respect of the requests, the demands and the pleadings of the people of Aurukun and Mornington Island for action and resolution of the problems as it affects them in their communities. [More…]

• I know of no editorial writers, no political party, no other Aboriginal community or no other State government that has expressed support for the action that has been taken by the Queensland Government. [More…]

• My Council and my Community have also worked hard to keep things going in spite of the continual interference from DAIA. [More…]

• Let them make an announcement in Brisbane and put the Shires money into our account at Normanton so that the Council can get on with the job of managing the community. [More…]

• The entire Mornington Island Council and Community refused to meet with and talk to the Queensland Premier and his ministerial colleagues during the visit to Mornington today. [More…]

• There is a deep feeling of resentment within the community at the continuing interference of the State Government in local affairs. [More…]

• I understand your concern about the lack of progress in establishing the new arrangements for local government and sympathise with your wish that the Council should be able to manage the community without interference from officers of the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement. [More…]

• We have been seeking to ensure that both Councils are in a position to manage community affairs by having control of Council money and being able to employ staff. [More…]

• My Council and my Community have also worked hard to keep things going in spite of the continual interference from DAIA. [More…]

• Let them make an announcement in Brisbane and put the Shires money into our account at Normanton so that the Council can get on with the job of managing the community. [More…]

• The entire Mornington Island Council and Community refused to meet with and talk to the Queensland Premier and his Ministerial colleagues during the visit to Mornington today. [More…]

• There is a deep feeling of resentment within the community at the continued interference of the State Government in local affairs. [More…]

• The agreement of 1 1 April between the two governments was that local government councils in each community would ‘consist of the existing councils until the next State local government elections’. [More…]

• Mr Viner’s Press statement further states that the record of the past two months has been one of frustration of the efforts of himself and Mr Hinze, along with the two community councils themselves and the Uniting Church, to have the local government legislation put into effect. [More…]

• Surely, they have refused to have anything to do with the State Government and have been absolutely consistent in this: But to say that they have not accepted the State Government’s money is a lot of nonsense because, since this controversy broke out in March of this year, the State Government has not put one solitary cent into that community. [More…]

• Under the new legislation, the two community councils will determine the management of their own affairs. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, one of the Uniting Church authorities was asked to leave, was to be ejected from the community, because the Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Islander Advancement said that he wanted the house that person was living in. [More…]

• Also, other people were ejected from the community. [More…]

• Consequently the activists, the stirrers and those in the Aboriginal community who want to create problems have taken advantage of this opportunity. [More…]

• Let those who can get on with the job, who are prepared to get on with the job and who have the responsibility of getting on with the job of looking after these people and bringing them to a state of citizenship in our community or whatever they want, do it without all the public attacks that are made from year to year, day after day. [More…]

• Maybe many people in this community do not want that. [More…]

• If communities now managed and controlled by government officials consider that they are ready for selfmanagement 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…]

• So when the lady concerned arrived at the community- incidentally, the body in the hearse was that of her brother- she was too late for the funeral. [More…]

• At 8.50 a.m. last Friday, 1 1 August, the Premier had a secret meeting behind closed doors at the Aurukun community: Incidentally, he left a window open, somebody walked up to the window with a tape recorder, and a policeman who was with the party closed the window. [More…]

• He did tell the Aborigines at that secret meeting that they had the right to freehold land if they bought it like anybody else in the community. [More…]

• When he made the statement to the Aborigines he also must have had a temporary lapse of memory because an application for the transfer of title of land at Ayr which a local Aboriginal community group wanted to purchase to establish a caravan park was refused. [More…]

• The Mornington Island people declared a public holiday for the day of the visit by the Premier to their community. [More…]

• My criticism would simply be that I believe that point of view underrates both the Constitutional complexities and the community problems that we face in this issue. [More…]

• 1 certainly believe that, if the Commonwealth were to move into a total confrontation with the Queensland Government without first having bent its every effort to achieve a co-operative solution, there could be a very adverse effect within the Queensland community. [More…]

• Alcohol and the white person ‘s vices were not known to that community which was living in almost total happiness. [More…]

• The European Economic Community experience of trying to keep all the member countries’ currencies within a defined snake, as it is called, has proved impossible and adjustments have been made within the Community almost without regard to the rest of the world. [More…]

• The Opposition agrees that this minority group, as it is defined in the amendment, has been elected to this Parliament with what must be conceded to be a significant minority support from the Australian community. [More…]

• One of the checks and balances that can operate in our type of community is to have an effective upper House which ensures that the expenditure of government and of the bureaucracy is checked, which ensures that people not only can answer but do answer questions and exchange and discuss information, and which ensures that the general public can have available through Hansard explanations of what has been going on. [More…]

• We hear talk about staff ceilings and about crime in the community, yet we have had a great upsurge in the number of Commonwealth Police staffing the Parliament. [More…]

• The petitioners request that the Federal Government and Broadcasting Tribunal should enforce the required standard of broadcasting as laid down for all other stations, on community radio 3CR call on Federal Government to legislate against incitment to racial hatred and violence. [More…]

• The petitioners request that the Federal Government and Broadcasting Tribunal should 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…]

• 1 ) Will ethnic groups be considered on an equal basis to other community groups if they apply to the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal for a public broadcasting licence. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• grants up to $4,000 to community organisations in country towns in relation to administrative expenses (not wages costs) incurred by organisations in providing support services to young unemployed persons. [More…]

• With the current debate and concern in the community regarding spending on education, can the Minister inform the Senate what share of the national wealth has been spent on education in the last few years? [More…]

• Community Development. [More…]

• If not, will the Government institute an inquiry into how such capital can be diverted to a more useful community need? [More…]

• One element that has distinguished the free society from the totalitarian regimes has been that the free society is able to make its judgments from within itself and to adjust from within itself by the free exercise of trial and experience and the kind of flow of dialogue that is now apparent because, if Mr Keith Campbell is right, he will be able to sustain a dialogue in this community and there will be adjustments. [More…]

• Does the Minister interpret this as a massive vote of confidence by the Australian community in the Budget and in the Budget strategies? [More…]

• AS 1428, which caters for easy access by people in wheelchairs to public buildings and community facilities, will help to meet the special requirements that disabled, incapacitated and elderly people have for access and mobility? [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate whether the Commonwealth Government will ensure that all public buildings constructed by or for it will abide by this design rule and therefore provide suitable opportunities and facilities for disabled members ofthe community? [More…]

• While we can always rely upon experts to help us in an evaluation, I think it is proper that politicians, journalists and laymen- that includes everybody in the community- should be concerned about air safety. [More…]

• So I reject, and I am sure that the community at large and the media would reject, the fatuous remarks that the Minister has made about the media for highlighting the information that has been given to them. [More…]

• It seems to me that the Minister ought not to be so subjective in his approach to this problem but rather he should see that there is a genuine desire in the community and in the Opposition to play whatever part it can to keep the Government on its toes to assist the Department of Transport in maintaining the high standard of safety which is expected of it, having established that principle over many years. [More…]

• The continued criticism of various aspects of the Act has as much as anything persuaded me, as it persuaded my predecessor in office, that the community will be satisfied with nothing less than a review such as I have proposed. [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…]

• It should be said- I think this opinion would be shared by virtually everybody in the Parliament- that the Bill is not directed at the Croatian community in Australia. [More…]

• It has been said before and, no doubt, will be said again during this debate that those Croats who have come to Australia and accepted Australian citizenship have made a contribution to our community. [More…]

• I was somewhat distressed to note that in the debate in the House of Representatives the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) distorted, grossly and deliberately, the arguments that had been put forward by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith, Mr Lionel Bowen, and tried to give the impression that Mr Lionel Bowen was attacking the Croatian community. [More…]

• These selfsame emancipists of Croatian hopes and ideals represent a sizable section of the Yugoslav community but they have never been identified with those crusades. [More…]

• With the passage of this Bill Australia will be able to fulfil, as a responsible member ofthe 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 which is already lawfully represented in a diplomatic or consular capacity in Australia. [More…]

• I have given the Minister a copy of a letter from a Mr S. Perica, the President of the Yugoslav-Croatian Community Committee of South Perth, to a very illustrious jurist and senator at the time the letter was written, the then Senator Murphy, who was Attorney-General. [More…]

• Attached to that letter is a copy of a document headed ‘Yugoslav-Croatian Community Committee’ which sets out a resolution deploring the minute minority- that is the best way to describe them- trying to develop schisms between the Australian Government and the Yugoslav Government on a diplomatic and cultural plane. [More…]

• Community Committee, 53 Collins Street, South Perth 31 May 1973 [More…]

• On behalf of the Yugoslav-Croatian Community Committee I enclose herewith a copy of the Resolution which was carried, unanimously by an estimated attendance of 600 in the packed Perth Town Hall. [More…]

• YUGOSLAV-CROATIAN COMMUNITY COMMITTEE [More…]

• After having read the supporting telegrams from Yugoslav-Croats from Carnarvon and Boulder, all those present enthusiastically applauded (some with tears in their eyes) dynamic and hearty speeches delivered by Mr Ralph Pervan (a West Australian born Croat), a lecturer in politics at the University of New England, NSW, Mr A. Pogorelic, a well known identity in the Yugoslav-Croatian community (who spoke in Croatian), Mr Herbert Graham, M.L.A., Deputy Premier of Western Australia and Mr A. Bennett, M.H.R., who represented Mr Whitlam, the Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]

• In conclusion, we appeal to all leaders of our adopted homeland and the fellow Australians to support the investigations into and eradication of these fanatical terrorist groups, which have no place in the Yugoslav-Croatian Community and in the Australian community as a whole’. [More…]

• Yugoslav-Croatian Community Committee, 53 Collins Street, South Perth. [More…]

• It is significant that when some of the post-war Croatians arrived here they scorned those people who were accepted in the community and who had earned their place in Australian history. [More…]

• The plain fact of the matter is that there is nothing to stop people from demonstrating and from banner carrying, but I repeat that even with the most left wing segment of the Greek community, and whatever they thought of Greece’s military Government of some years ago, nobody attempted to set up a bogus embassy. [More…]

• I say that because we know that in our own society there are always many more problems to solve, not the least of which are within the ethnic community. [More…]

• As the Minister knows, there were some very unfortunate incidents during a social security drive when the Greek people in our community had to be the target of the Press and the matter was ballooned out of all proportion. [More…]

• This legislation does not in any way detract from those important fundamental rights within our community. [More…]

• I think it is also important to recognise that the legislation is not directed at one group within our community. [More…]

• It is not designed to apply to a particular group within the community. [More…]

• There is certainly no intention on the part of the Government to interfere in the exercise of the important rights of individuals within our community. [More…]

• The Croatian community has, I believe, a very distinct sense of its identity and its history. [More…]

• Whatever the problems and whatever the difficulties may be it is an identity that I believe ought to be treated with sympathy within our community. [More…]

• To me that sort of institution seems to be a valuable one both to the Croation community and to the wider community. [More…]

• It is also important to recognise, as Senator Sibraa and others have, that the Croatian community is a very significant community in Australia. [More…]

• Problems have arisen, but I think that because of those problems it is a community which deserves particular sympathy and ought to be treated in that way. [More…]

• When there is a difficulty such as this I think it has to be stated emphatically that the effort to overcome it should not detract in any way from the individual rights of the members of any community and certainly should not detract from their right to run social, sporting and cultural clubs. [More…]

• It most certainly does not reflect on a very significant community in Australia which has made a great contribution to this nation. [More…]

• In introducing the legislation the former Minister for Administrative Services also had some words to say about its purpose which were couched in the following terms: that the Government could not view with indifference the destruction of a state and the establishment of an organisation which arrogates to itself an unacceptable title and status which in time could disrupt the orderly conduct of Australia’s relations with another universally recognised member of the international community. [More…]

• I also support the amendment which I believe could tidy up the provisions of this legislation by incorporating the closing of the Rhodesian Information Office which, in my view and in the view of the Opposition, could create dissension and division in our community. [More…]

• It is the Yugoslav regime ‘s stated policy, quote: to secure access to the top offices in these organisations (clubs and associations formed by citizens of all parts of Yugoslavia) for members of all our nations and nationalities and a policy of mutual ties with other forms of organisation of our citizens according to the principles of Yugoslav community.’ [More…]

• I remind the Senate of the damage that was done to the Croatian community during the regime of Senator Murphy as Attorney-General. [More…]

• Members of our community are deeply concerned that they have been discriminated against as Australian citizens, in Australia and when abroad, by the simple fact that they find it impossible to free themselves of being citizens of the Yugoslav regime. [More…]

• There has been a great deal of discussion about related problems concerning the Croatian community, dual nationality and so forth. [More…]

• I imagine most people in the community do not know very much about insurance. [More…]

• In Darwin alone there are 5,000 or 6,000 Greeks, a large Italian community and a large Chinese community. [More…]

• We have already noted that they provide more direct welfare and counselling services; however, we believe the most important factor in their success is the links which they have been able to form with local ethnic and community organisations. [More…]

• A Commonwealth-financed ‘self help’ program will encourage local ethnic and community organisations and assist them in migrant counselling, welfare and cultural services in future. [More…]

• M. J. R. MacKellar, said: ‘The Government appreciates that the ethnic communities have many voluntary organisations in close contact with their community members. [More…]

• 18 multi-cultural resource centres, run to suit the needs and priorities of local ethnic and community organisations, would be established in areas of need; [More…]

• run to suit the needs and priorities of local ethnic and community organisations, would be established in areas of need; [More…]

• I contend that the suggestion made for ‘the needs and priorities of local ethnic and community organisations’ sums up what the voluntary group was doing in Darwin. [More…]

• We have just had a succession of Ministers travelling to the European Economic Community lecturing and hectoring politicians in that area and in other parts of the world about the virtues of free trade and the damaging, deflationary, depression-inducing effects of increasing protection. [More…]

• After several months of this posturing and grandstanding it appears that it finally penetrated the consciousness of the senior Ministers of this Government that, in fact, one could not do bilateral deals with members of the EEC with respect to entry for agricultural imports, that the European Economic Community has a common agricultural policy- I think it has had it ever since the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1963- and that any negotiations to change that common agricultural policy would have to be directed at the whole bloc of the EEC and not at individual nations. [More…]

• It may take on an emphasis of an avuncular attitude but on the other hand we must always understand that we must have a flexibility in our relationship and a readiness to be part of this community of small States, in our own particular way. [More…]

• It is true that our aid programs over the years have had their aspects of well-meaning, but I think the time has come when there has to be a new approach and a new flexibility in relation to educational programs from the point of view of not only providing opportunities for students but also making available facilities in the adult and community sense and taking advantage of world developments both technically and educationally, including developments in education which make various information and resource material available in a form which is most useful to the people who are receiving it. [More…]

• Therefore, the Senate is indebted to one of its own committees not only for this report but also for alerting the Parliament and indeed the Australian community to the relationship that we have with the area, our responsibility to it and our opportunity to help it. [More…]

• I am aware of the concern that is expressed in the community with regard to the means testing of family allowances to take account of the basis of a child’s income. [More…]

• In response to questions today about family allowances I have indicated that the Government was concerned at the reaction in the community with regard to this decision and that it has reviewed the decision. [More…]

• However, because of the concern that has been expressed in the community the Government has reviewed the decision and will make it clear when drawing up the legislation that it does not intend to include in the means testing arrangement income which results from the personal exertion of the child concerned. [More…]

• The growing power of executive government and the limitations on the right of the citizen to obtain information from the government departments in an increasingly complex state has been a source of continuing concern to a small, but interested and important section of the community. [More…]

• I wonder what the attitude of the electorate and the community generally is towards this affair. [More…]

• I suggest that here again is a way in which incentive and responsibility can be returned to the community. [More…]

• At this point I also blame the Government for its dissimulation in not making the community fully aware of the nature and danger of those challenges. [More…]

• I was particularly gratified to hear the emphasis Senator Mason placed on the plight of the unemployed youth in our community, and I expect from his contribution that we will be able to look forward to support from Senator Mason and the Australian Democrats in this place for active and effective measures to come to terms with the problems of youth unemployment. [More…]

• It is not spread evenly throughout the community. [More…]

• Their unemployment is simply not being measured by current techniques for measuring unemployment in the community. [More…]

• We have also the Special Youth Employment Training Program; the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Fulltime Training; the Community Youth Support Scheme, a relocation scheme which assists people, particularly young people, to move from areas where there is no employment to an area where they are likely to find employment; a fares assistance scheme; a scheme of training for industry and commerce; an education program for unemployed youth and now an upgraded Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]

• He said that it would also be the responsibility of the CES to promote and implement approved manpower programs and other measures designed to ensure a high level of employment in the community. [More…]

• I suppose, on the good side, that only in the areas of retail trade, community services, the entertainment area and the tertiary industry area has there been any increase or real expansion in employment. [More…]

• to promote and implement approved manpower programs and other measures designed to ensure a high level of employment in the community; [More…]

• As a matter of preference, the Review would not wish to have the CES issue, receive or check DSS benefit claim forms, but recognises that the CES ought, as a community service, have the necessary forms available. [More…]

• Norgard Review did instance some areas of warning for the community. [More…]

• It has been drawn to my attention by another company in this area that advertisements are being placed by the Professional Employment Office on behalf of large companies in the community. [More…]

• The very considerable area of unemployment which is substantial and which needs great attention from this Government and the community involves the young and the unskilled. [More…]

• We believe that this Bill lets that sector of the community down. [More…]

• When we talk about manpower policies, in particular we are talking about programs such as the National Employment and Training scheme, the Special Youth Employment Training Program, the apprentice support program, the Community Youth Support scheme and the relocation assistance scheme. [More…]

• The petitioners request that the Federal Government and Broadcasting Tribunal should enforce the required standard of Broadcasting, as laid down for all other stations, on community Radio 3CR, and call on the Federal Government to legislate against incitement of racial hatred and violence. [More…]

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

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development directed the preparation of an environmental impact statement in relation to this proposal. [More…]

• Unfortunately, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has been and is still adopting a studied and prolonged ostrich pose towards the housing industry. [More…]

• The facts of the situation, which the Government consistently chooses to ignore, make a mockery of the assertion on 26 June of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom. [More…]

• He said that if inflation was not tackled and if the amount of money flowing into the community was increased, inflation and unemployment would increase. [More…]

• In another place the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development referred to what happens when interest rates are lowered. [More…]

• The Federal Cabinet and some government departments appear to be completely out of touch with community housing needs . [More…]

• Because of the way in which the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has expressed his views and because of the views expressed by Senator Carrick today, one can feel nothing but gloom about where the building industry is headed. [More…]

• It was quick to recognise that that important sector of the community which employs over 500,000 people needed to be dealt with in a responsible way. [More…]

• A massive sociological cost is now being paid by young people in the community as a result of this madness of the monetarists who seem to have influenced the Government into believing that the only goal in sight is to reduce inflation, with no worry as to the cost. [More…]

• Sacrifice and try to help yourself and the community by doing some sort of study after you leave school’. [More…]

• The Government is not going to supply the funds to assist in the building of the houses and flats that aged people need and so another area of great need in the community which would provide a stimulus to the building industry is being ignored. [More…]

• Governments are elected to serve the whole community. [More…]

• They are not elected to pursue a narrow political line designed to serve only a section of the community. [More…]

• How many among the Australian community can now trust Mr Fraser? [More…]

• This Budget painfully reminds us of commitments that were made, not only during the last election campaign, but also throughout the past two and a half years: Commitments of jobs for all; a commitment of a revitalised economy which would give the business community hope to plan for the future; a commitment of no more expensive overseas trips; a commitment to give the States a better deal; a commitment to reduce income tax; and, most important of all, a commitment to work in the interests of the total Australian community. [More…]

• Instead, we have 150,000 more Australians unemployed since Malcolm Fraser came to office; the business community bewildered by a Government that refuses to accept any role to get the economy moving again; overseas trips at $600 a night in plush New York hotels; State governments starved of funds for vitally needed capital works programs; a* massive increase in taxes- both direct and indirect; and, finally, an Australian community disillusioned and confused as to where this Government is taking the country. [More…]

• The Australian community is looking for strong leadership. [More…]

• It does not mean talking about integrity when one is not demonstrating integrity, nor does it mean forcing the community and the economy to fit into a pattern that reflects the narrow political philosophy of one man. [More…]

• It is important that these basic factors be realised in order that we can understand the nature of this Budget and the reasons why Mr Fraser is becoming increasingly isolated, not only in the Australian community generally, but also within the ranks of his own Party. [More…]

• Under these conditions, no government can allow unemployment to keep rising or industrial manufacturing capacity to remain at 75 per cent and possibly lower or for the community not to be provided with essentia] services. [More…]

• It has tried several methods, in every case throwing the responsibility on to some section of the community but not on to itself. [More…]

• It is another part of the litany of broken promises and has very little support from the Australian community. [More…]

• The Opposition misses the point that the opportunity to create new jobs in this community will result only from the ability of this nation to be able to develop its technology, its skills and a future for its products. [More…]

• Certain industries, well known to Opposition senators and honourable senators on this side, have been destroyed by the activities of the Opposition when it was in government in seeking to achieve higher levels of costs to the community by encouraging wage increases beyond those which the community could stand, by imposing higher taxation levels and by ensuring that the wrong sort of emphasis was given to the development of certain programs in the economy. [More…]

• We know that in 1973 and 1974 there was a virtual encouragement by the Whitlam Government to increase cost levels through increasing the level of wages paid in the community. [More…]

• We know that these attitudes have flowed on into the various sectors of the community. [More…]

• Tonight the Leader of the Opposition has put forward the views that we should be increasing the level of real wages in the community and that we should be increasing the levels of payments via the taxation system or the Federal Government in order to achieve more activity in the community. [More…]

• He made the point that there was no way to economic recovery through increased Government spending, or by encouraging increased wages in the community or by imposing increased costs on the business community. [More…]

• Today the commentators in the community who can be most believed and those who have a full appreciation of the real nature of the problem have appreciated that situation and they have said so. [More…]

• We had an example before us yesterday when the Commonwealth issue of bonds brought in some $76m indicating that the community which invests in these things is aware of the fact that interest rates are on the way down. [More…]

• That will have a widespread effect throughout the rest of the community. [More…]

• How could anybody in the business community have any faith in the approach of the Labor Opposition when it presents that sort of viewpoint? [More…]

• If the Labor executive has some sort of approach to this I would appreciate hearing about it, as I am sure would members of the business community. [More…]

• That represents gains in the community of some $ 1,500m, a very considerable sum which would have capital gains tax attracted to it. [More…]

• It looks at the question of family trusts and thinks that somehow it is an outrageous rip-off on the community. [More…]

• The Budget is well recognised now by the community and is well accepted by the community. [More…]

• By virtue of achieving lower costs in the Australian community, by virtue of achieving a lower cost of production, we will be able to sell our goods on the open market, on the world market, better than any other nation. [More…]

• That in itself, by virtue of the improvement in terms of trade that are evident in various products I have outlined previously, will produce a better balance of payments situation, which will in turn improve the value of the Australian dollar versus the rest of the world’s currencies, which in turn will improve the capital inflow into this country, which will in turn help to reduce interest rates, which will lower costs to the business community and which will obviously bring about the recovery that we seek. [More…]

• If the Labor Party’s offering is anything, it is a burnt offering because it would be a disaster to the Australian community. [More…]

• The Australian community, as evidenced by the newspaper editorials and by statements made to me have been quite clearly in support of this Budget. [More…]

• People in Australia recognise the fact that there is still some pain to be borne in this community by virtue of tax increases to put the Australian economy back on to a better basis. [More…]

• We have been fettered and hindered in the task of developing forms of commercial life appropriate to the critical needs of the Australian community by the non-elected Bench of High Court justices, particularly in the period immediately after the Second World War. [More…]

• But in order to ensure that the community is well served by these firms the nation should be taking the further step of participating in the ownership and management of these enterprises, whether they are dealing with our natural resources or those resources which simply flow from our community expenditure on education, research and technology, as with [More…]

• The community is well served when jobs are created or at least preserved. [More…]

• Within the community of Queenstown and dependent services and industries on the north-west coast at least 2,000 jobs are at stake. [More…]

• Those demonstrations were conducted by the members of some selfish groups in the community who cannot see past their own pockets and who have no thought for Australia’s good. [More…]

• Since the presentation of the Budget, I have asked many people in the community what they thought of it. [More…]

• The members of the Australian community knew what had to be done. [More…]

• Over the years more alcohol was being drunk at a lower cost to the community. [More…]

• Just as this House has much to do by its own good works to restore its credibility and moral authority with the Australian community, so too has this Government. [More…]

• I refer to the Government’s congenital incapacity to tell the truth or keep its word; its insensitivity to the point of inhumanity in dealing with the less fortunate members of the community; and its complete incompetence to manage the affairs, in particular the economic affairs, of this nation. [More…]

• Not even the most gullible souls in our community, not even the most innocent sideline spectators of the Australian political process, could now believe anything that is said by any Minister in this Government, including the beleaguered rump that now purports to represent it in this chamber. [More…]

• But it will be only a matter of time before they discover that this year’s calculations will be as wildly astray as last year’s that the deficit has blown out again; and that they, no less than the rest of the community, have been seduced only to be abandoned by this congenitally dishonest Government. [More…]

• Of course some very large groups in the community have been abandoned even more directly and mercilessly than anyone in the business sector. [More…]

• The cost to everyone concerned and to the community at large is devastating. [More…]

• Internationally speaking, the key changes have been the explosion of productive capacity in the Third World countries, particularly in our own region, aided and abetted and usually indeed dominated by multinationals responsible only to themselves; the rapid development of regional trading communities, conspicuously the European Economic Community, which has created brand new barriers to entry by outsiders, even by those countries with long traditions of access; and the escalating instability in the international monetary system brought on by a chain of events associated primarily with the exploitation of the world wide energy shortage by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [More…]

• Telecom Australia when massive manpower replacement programs are set in train, then they need apologise to no one for vigorously fighting back to protect the interests of their members, of the ordinary working men and women of the community. [More…]

• As democratic socialists- we bear the label proudly- we stand for the values of equality, liberty and democracy: greater real equality in the distribution of wealth, income, power and status in the community; full respect for the personal freedom and dignity of the individual; the fullest possible opportunity for democratic participation by every individual in all the major decisions that affect his or her life in the work place and in the local community as much as in the larger political sphere. [More…]

• I have participated in many arguments on that point, but I believe that no one can understand in the brief period of two or three years the character of a foreign country, a different culture, or how such a community thinks and negotiates. [More…]

• I feel that the Treasurer (Mr Howard) in framing these decisions has been guided by the desire that burdens be shared fairly throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• He realises, like many other people in the community, that these things were not in the election policy speech of the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser. [More…]

• Recently, I took a delegation from the Latin American community to see the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, in Sydney. [More…]

• Riverland fruit growers, in common with other primary producers throughout Australia, are adversely affected by certain aspects of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Australian producers have seen their exports of wine to the Community cut by over 80 per cent in the past six years, due in large part to the Community’s actions to constrain wine imports. [More…]

• The Community’s requirements on third country suppliers sending wine for blending to the United Kingdom have effectively excluded Australia from the European fortified wine market. [More…]

• Because of confusion expressed to me by the rural community, I ask the Minister: What are the differences between the lending facilities of the new Primary Bank of Australia and the rural loan facilities of the Commonwealth Development Bank? [More…]

• She asks me to elucidate the differences so that the rural community may understand. [More…]

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

• I refer to the announcement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 28 June that the Housing allowance experiment scheme was to be abandoned by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development or it may more appropriately be addressed to the Minister representing the Treasurer. [More…]

• It is expected to be of value to industry and to the scientific community at large. [More…]

• Would the Minister agree that the community would receive a far wider scope of hospital services, the staff of repatriation hospitals would be given a greater stimulus and the traditional patients of these hospitals would benefit if the Government gave consideration to extending the role of repatriation hospitals to provide for the community use of emergency departments? [More…]

• It has been policy for some time now for repatriation general hospitals to take in a certain number of community patients who are not otherwise qualified for admission, for the very reasons that Senator Watson put forward. [More…]

• Of course, that is subject to absolute priority being given to the eligible veteran community. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science aware of the concern felt in Western Australia about the ability of weather forecasters to alert the community adequately to oncoming adverse weather? [More…]

• It should include a hospital bed /population ratio which reflects the true needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Ralkon Co. is an Aboriginal farming enterprise incorporated on 2 October 1975 under the South Australian Companies Act by the Point McLeay Community Council Inc. to farm at Point McLeay two South Australian Aboriginal lands trust blocks and one farm acquired by the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission. [More…]

• I know there will be criticism by some people in the community and by the Opposition of some aspects of this legislation. [More…]

• That comment applies to the current position, but it would be a sad day indeed if the Australian community were to find that the position we are experiencing now worsens. [More…]

• It has not spelt out to the Australian community what has been the cost of borrowing in European currencies, while the United States dollar and the Australian dollar with it have been falling substantially against those currencies. [More…]

• We know that the fact that the Government needs to borrow so heavily in order to fund the deficit and to keep down inflation is a major cause for high interest rates within the community. [More…]

• Very significantly then, the deficit- of whatever size, and certainly the lower the better- has an effect upon the money markets and hence the rates of interest available to the general community. [More…]

• The kinds of issues which several senators thought worthy of attention and emphasis in the Australian community include the following matters. [More…]

• If one is talking about what is a drug and what is not- one might want to treat them differently or regard them differently- one should remember that all drugs are capable of abuse, and that must be understood if we are to take a proper approach to the issues which drug use presents to this community. [More…]

• It is neither appropriate nor desirable to ignore the responses which documents tabled in the Senate might produce in the general community. [More…]

• Again, it is important for us to get some idea some lead on whether the approach we are taking to the work of committees is seen as having some value in the wider community. [More…]

• If it is true, as I read, that at Aurukun and Mornington Island the Queensland Government intended to establish wet canteens against the wishes of the local community, that concerns me in terms of the issues we have raised in this report and in which we are interested. [More…]

• Granada Television in the United Kingdom, as a community service, offered some anti-smoking kits. [More…]

• Granada Television received 600,000 requests for the anti-smoking kits when it made the offer to the British 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…]

• For in terms of personal damage, social damage and economic cost these two legal drugs are causing the greatest problems to our community and the problems are increasing. [More…]

• These issues have been very adequately set out in a quite brilliant inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Tasmania by the foundation professor of community health at that University, Dr Norelle Lickiss. [More…]

• Is there a limit to an individual’s right to choose a lifestyle which will seriously increase the costs borne on his behalf by the community and reduce his own contribution to the creating and sustaining of that community? [More…]

• That is restrictive, contained perhaps by our need for drugs- not a community of free men. [More…]

• As the report says and as, I think, Senator Baume mentioned, for too long in this country and in other countries the whole debate on drug abuse has been clouded by hysteria on both sides, for and against, by the use of anecdotal evidence without any scientific backing up and, which is inevitable, I suppose, particularly in our political system, by the use of this debate by some people to gain a segment of the votes in the community by playing on the prejudices of those people whom they believe they need to support them. [More…]

• We have one group taking the libertarian approach, which I believe goes further than John Stuart Mill, in saying that we should be able to do as we please in the community, and we have another group saying we should ban everything that affects anyone in any way. [More…]

• As Senator Baume has clearly pointed out, this report asserted unanimously that the big drug problems in this country are alcohol and tobacco, and in their volume and effects on the social and community life of Australia they far exceed other problems with other drugs in this community. [More…]

• We have had a preliminary report from South Australia which, as Senator Baume says, is of a quality which far exceeds the usual sort of report that we get from royal commissions in this country and is far better and of a far higher standard than the usual debate on drugs in this community. [More…]

• However, if we continue to shout at each other and to air our prejudices in this Parliament and in the media, and if we continue to condemn those whose views differ from ours to gain political votes in political ballots or according to the prejudices we think the community has, we will continue to go the way we are going as an intoxicated society; and the only difference that will occur is that the variety of those intoxicants will increase, the absolute volume of those intoxicants used will increase, and we will get nowhere. [More…]

• With the statement by the Minister on that date, a great deal of hope was engendered into many people in the community interested in and concerned about public broadcasting. [More…]

• That the current situation can lead to long term dangers for Australia is now widely recognised not only in the trade union movement and among employer groups but also throughout the community. [More…]

• Many people within the community will be looking to the attitudes of the committees to see whether they are supportive of the child within the family context particularly. [More…]

• That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take urgent action on matters arising out of the 1977 Report by the Community Relations office relating to ‘Discrimination against Aborigines and Islanders in North Queensland ‘. [More…]

• The petitioners request that the Federal Government and broadcasting tribunal should 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…]

• The petitioners request that the Federal Government and broadcasting tribunal should 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…]

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

• The terms of reference of the family research unit include a study of the incidence and demography of family breakdown, the possible causes and consequences of family breakdown, the emergence of new family patterns and structures and the community services available to the Australian family. [More…]

• Is it true that, quite apart from the employment aspect of the recent Telecom dispute, another fundamental aspect is causing continuing unease in the community? [More…]

• In regard to the broader question of sales tax as it affects the community generally, I just mention one other item which I would like to see incorporated in some later amendment of the sales tax classifications legislation. [More…]

• We honourable senators of some long standing now- certainly those of us who have been associated with the production of such types of skin preparation- have been arguing that taxation in the form of sales tax should be removed from such items when those items are of benefit to the community. [More…]

• Senators may recognise that acceptance of the general proposition that sales tax should be reduced on, or eliminated from, items that may be of technological import to the community would involve making enormous changes to legislation. [More…]

• We have this enormous impost on the Australian community because the Government did not have the courage to proceed with the resources tax, which it had promised in the 1977 Budget, because it caved in, as it is accustomed to do, to pressure from powerful business interests. [More…]

• I think that the PJT should consider the use of LPG and distillate when deciding on fuel increases and should treat the users of those products far more kindly than it treats the petrol burning section of the community. [More…]

• Of course a consideration of the cost to the community in getting people to use public transport is a different matter. [More…]

• What the community needs to understand, to use a well known expression, is that by forgoing a resources tax and allowing the company to retain these huge profits, as it does by virtue of this rebate, the community is paying for the development of BHP’s steel and minerals division. [More…]

• The community is paying for exploration and development that might take place in the oil fields. [More…]

• If that is the case, vigorous supervision should be exercised to ensure that the agent puts money where the community desperately requires it, namely, into energy exploration and development. [More…]

• The Labor Party believes, and until 2 July the Government believed, that these extraordinary profits created by government fiat- they bear no relation to the cost of production but are necessitated by the action of the OPEC cartel- should be shared between the community and the companies in an equitable manner. [More…]

• The table shows that at even the lowest conceivable rate of a 40 per cent resource tax on excess profits some $588m would be raised for the community revenue over the three years 1978 to 1981. [More…]

• When one speaks to members of the community one realises that they can appreciate the difference between ordinary profit and excess profit. [More…]

• In any case, I believe that the Australian people are beginning to see that this Government does not regard our natural energy resources as belonging to the community. [More…]

• In law our natural resources do belong to the community, as the mechanism of vesting legal title in the Crown shows. [More…]

• After generously rewarding business enterprise for taking risks in exploring and developing our community resources, the community should get the major benefit of the revenue flowing from these extraordinary profits. [More…]

• As consumers of dwindling energy commodities the community has had to bear extraordinary prices. [More…]

• We would bear them with a better grace if we knew that some of those profits were being returned to Consolidated Revenue for community purposes. [More…]

• Although we realise that the extra revenue earned will affect some in the community, in totality it will be for the benefit of Australia in the longer term. [More…]

• We can anticipate that in the price of goods there will be a very considerable increase which must flow on right through the whole of the community. [More…]

• Of course there are great misgivings in the Australian community about the economic effects. [More…]

• Look at the extraordinary steps taken in this Budget to tax the paper boy, to tax the blind and for the first time in history to put a tax on exservice pensions and look at all of the other new avenues of tax grab which this current Budget imposes upon the community generally to get $4m here, $3m there and $2m somewhere else. [More…]

• As Senator Geitzelt would well understand, if a resources tax were imposed it would be a cost on the community. [More…]

• It would impose through the consumer price index further costs on the community simply because in the first place it is recognised that in order to pay the resources tax the price of oil must rise to a level at which it could support such a tax. [More…]

• While it is recognised by the Treasurer (Mr Howard) in the Budget that an increase in the price of oil will lead to some impact on the consumer price index in the coming year- that is well recognised in the community- there are offsets in the Budget that will reduce that impact. [More…]

• It is a very significant factor not only in the development of the motor vehicle industry itself but also very much an imposition on community assets of crude oil in wells which are yet to be discovered and those which have been discovered. [More…]

• It is clear that the imposition of new design rules in recent years has had a great impact on the price of motor vehicles at a time when the cost of vehicles to the public was inflating as a result of other factors, such as wage demands in the community generally. [More…]

• It is clear to me that those companies will survive only if they are given an adequate return on the investment which they make, bearing in mind that the cost of development is rising quickly and is likely to rise faster than the average cost increase in the community as a whole. [More…]

• Related to that development will be the element of expertise within our oil exploration community which is so important to the future of this nation. [More…]

• Consequently the movement towards import parity in this and accompanying legislation, which will come later, is essential for a proper understanding of future movements in the community. [More…]

• The 1978-79 Budget demonstrates that the LiberalNational Country Party Government is committed to assisting those in need in our community. [More…]

• The 1978-79 Budget demonstrates that the Liberal National Country Party Government is committed to assisting those in need in our community. [More…]

• I repeat that Senator Guilfoyle said that the 1978-79 Budget demonstrates that the Government is committed to assisting those in need in our community. [More…]

• These promises were made to elderly citizens of our community. [More…]

• We are coming under considerable pressure in the community as we seek to carry out our responsibilities. [More…]

• Ethnic community organisations assist in other studies, for example in the development of samples of respondents for use in the migrant education television study. [More…]

• Did the Northern Territory Teachers’ Federation claim, in a press statement of 30 May 1978, that, despite the announcement in May 1977 of the National Strategy on Aboriginal Employment and the introduction of a Community Development Employment Projects scheme, interested communities have had difficulty in receiving funds. [More…]

• 1 ) For the administration of Commonwealth Government assistance programs for Aboriginals since 1968, an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander has been defined as a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island descent who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and is accepted as such by the community with which he/she is associated. [More…]

• 1 ) How many members of the Greek community in Sydney have been charged in connection with alleged social security frauds. [More…]

• 1 ) Was a recent survey conducted into educational needs in Central Australia by the Alice Springs Community College; if so, does this show strong demand for a wide range of post-compulsory education facilities almost totally lacking in Central Australia. [More…]

• Does the Five Year Development Program proposed by the College represent a significant attempt to remedy the educational disadvantages suffered by people in isolated areas of Central Australia in Aboriginal Education, Vocational Training, Continuing Education and Community Development. [More…]

• Will the Minister support the establishment of an independent Community College of Central Australia as recommended by the Northern Territory Further Education Council. [More…]

• and (3) As the Alice Springs College is an annexe of the Darwin Community College, the Council of the Darwin Community College will be providing advice on the issues raised in the survey for the consideration of the Further Education Council. [More…]

• a further serious decline in living standards for postgraduate scholars performing valuable low cost research for the Australian community, and [More…]

• That we as citizens of Australia with a great love and concern for our country, fear that this budget will bring dishonour and disgrace by increasing poverty and crime and will sow the seeds of violence within our democratic community. [More…]

• a further serious decline in living standards for postgraduate scholars performing valuable low cost research for the Australian community, and [More…]

• a further serious decline in living standards for postgraduate scholars performing valuable low cost research for the Australian community, and [More…]

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

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Were 500 acres of Marina Plains station freeholded in 1974 or later with a plan for development as a tourist resort or as a possible area for mineral exploration? [More…]

• Nevertheless, at a time when the whole community is experiencing some restraint towards the alleviation of inflation and the reduction of interest rates, and at a time when those policies are being acknowledged internationallyif not by the Senate Labor Opposition- as being highly successful and as setting a world pace for success, there must be some restraint in this area. [More…]

• From time to time, material is published and circulated which seeks to perform what can be described only as social engineering; that is, it seeks to bring about the viewpoint of the individual teacher or writer, which is distinct from that of the ordinary community, and seeks to change, by a form of social engineering, the structure of values of the community. [More…]

• They must understand and respect the basic values of the community and not attempt to distort or pervert them. [More…]

• Above everything, the materials that are taught in the schools ought to be subject to the scrutiny of the parents and the community concerned. [More…]

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

• I have made some inquiries of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on this matter. [More…]

• She seemed to be under the impression that the funding of this project was under the Special Youth Employment Training Program but in fact it was under the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• I might add that in the Budget the Government has increased the funds allocated to the Community Youth Support Scheme from $5.7m last year to $9m this year, a rise of more than 50 per cent. [More…]

• Following representations from the South Sea Islanders United Council in 1975 the then Prime Minister arranged for the establishment of an interdepartmental committee with the following terms of reference: Firstly, to estimate the numbers of South Sea Islanders in Australia and examine their demographic distribution; secondly, to assess the economic and local characteristics of the Islanders and to decide if they are in any way disadvantaged as a group, relative to other groups in the Australian community; and, thirdly, to evaluate their special needs if any, and to recommend appropriate forms of government assistance to meet their needs. [More…]

• The Islanders have a reputation for reliability and hard work but, at the same time, after 80 years in Australia, as a group they have the appearance of being economically and socially disadvantaged in comparison with the community as a whole. [More…]

• To assess the economic and local characteristics of the Islanders and to decide if they are in any way disadvantaged as a group, relative to other groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• Their socio-economic status and conditions have generally been below those ofthe white community, thus giving the group the appearance of being a deprived coloured minority. [More…]

• The Committee is also of the opinion that Islanders in general are not fully aware of existing community programs and benefits and that a systematic effort should be made to ensure that such programs, particularly those concerned with welfare and education which are available to the community as a whole, are brought more directly to the attention of, and are utilised by, eligible Islanders. [More…]

• working on behalf of Islanders to ensure effective use of social welfare opportunities; community development to assist the Islanders to achieve self-help; and research into extent of disadvantage, adequacy and effectiveness of existing programs and the effect of the welfare rights intervention. [More…]

• The Committee was informed that in most respects the Islander and white communities interact with very little tension but the Committee feels that this is in part due to an unconscious and mutual acceptance of limits imposed on the Islanders by the white community. [More…]

• The Department of Social Security has given some guidance and training in the Brisbane area to persons seeking to establish or to run community organisations, including some South Sea Islanders. [More…]

• I interpolate here that one of the great problems that we have in our community today is emphasised in these lines from the article. [More…]

• What esteem he must be held in by the community! [More…]

• In 1978-79 that reform and the effect of half indexation from 1 July will outweigh the 1 1 per cent increase by a benefit to the taxpaying community of about $700m. [More…]

• No new taxes or tax increases have been imposed upon the business community. [More…]

• -The picture for the rural community is one of steadily brightening prospects because of the success of our counterinflationary efforts. [More…]

• The machinery has been set in motion to ensure that the management structure of CSIRO is appropriate for the years ahead and that a full and adequate flow of advice is readily available from CSIRO to industry, government and the community generally about the national needs and priorities. [More…]

• For the first time we put an end to the attitudes which were very prevalent in this country- in a sense they still are, particularly amongst government members- in which education is seen as a means of advancing one’s own child as against other children in the community. [More…]

• That is the most classic illustration within the nongovernment sector of this Government’s commitment to inequality in education, a divisive commitment which tends to divide the Catholic child in this community from the Protestant child. [More…]

• Of very great concern is the way in which this Government has approached this matter, As I said, the Government’s approach is inequitable, divisive and is tending to set the interests of one child in our community against the interests of another. [More…]

• ‘All second chambers’, says one authority, ‘have been instituted, not from disinterested love of mature deliberation but because there was something their makers wished to defend against the rest of the community, especially inherited possessions and status’. [More…]

• What we must aim for is for all legislation that comes to us to be seen by the community to be reviewed. [More…]

• Only by doing this can we remove the very general alienation of the community from the parliamentary process. [More…]

• If we wish the democratic system to thrive we must involve the community more in its processes. [More…]

• I have a feeling that the Government gave consent to the project without the necessary conditions of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development being met. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that we see so much social upheaval in the community? [More…]

• Where new technology is to be introduced, automation should be so organised that it benefits not only the workers in a particular industry but the community as a whole. [More…]

• If all sections of the community work together, better progress will be achieved. [More…]

• Liberalism will now inculcate a new teaching with regard to the poorest in the community, that all shall have what is their due, and wealth will be prevented from taking any unfair advantage of the needy. [More…]

• If it is a reference to a ‘silent majority ‘ of decent community-spirited Australians, then so be it, and by the ballot box let them determine the government of the day. [More…]

• Finally, on this theme, I note that for one particular group in the community Liberalism has still to gain widespread positive attention, and that is the group of academics in our universities and colleges. [More…]

• In framing all our decisions, we have been guided by a desire to fairly share burdens throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• In general this is true, as is evidenced principally by the temporary measure to raise income tax rates by 1 lA per cent for all incomes rather than to concentrate the new tax burden on only one section of the community, as would have been the case if the family allowance had been reduced significantly. [More…]

• Yes, the general strategy of the Budget has been to share the burdens fairly throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• A total of $ 12m in income will be lost by this community this year. [More…]

• Considering also the losses in income tax revenue from the Riverland community, even this small amount will be whittled away. [More…]

• The parliamentary representatives of the community involved in the brandy industry were not consulted prior to the tax on that community’s industry being decided. [More…]

• there is still some pain to be borne in this community by virtue of tax increases to put the Australian economy back on a better basis’. [More…]

• Much has been made, of course, in the community of the fact that the Government has reneged on its promises to reduce taxes. [More…]

• It is one thing for the Government to announce that we must tighten our belts and introduce anti-inflationary policies; it is another thing to aim these policies at the disadvantaged, the unemployed, the low income earner and every one else in the community who can least protect himself against these changes. [More…]

• The simple fact of the matter is that this House, a Government senator, the Opposition and the public were informed by the Department that these raids were not occurring, that all that was happening was that there routine checks of unemployment beneficiaries in this community. [More…]

• No one in the community in his right senses would believe that. [More…]

• In the Budget there are major decisions that are of great importance to this country such as the decisions in regard to health care financing which appear to be gaining very considerable support in the community and which appear to promise a reduction in the cost of health care but at the same time will provide substantial health cover for people in this very necessary area. [More…]

• One area in which we spend a lot of money in this community or cause individuals to incur additional expenditure is in the area of tariffs. [More…]

• These tariffs are really a form of tax on the community. [More…]

• I believe that we must face up to the fact that we are spending too much money and are increasing costs for the community to try to save jobs in some of these industries. [More…]

• Community Development, the honourable Ray Groom, some action was taken that might be thought to increase the amount of activity in the housing area. [More…]

• There are, of course, many other areas such as hospital development, community health facilities and urban public transport which will be known to honourable senators. [More…]

• In general terms the Budget provides well for the future of this community. [More…]

• It did come as a surprise to the community that the Government of tax reform, the Government that has touted around the electorate promises to reduce taxation, has proceeded to make changes to our taxation system. [More…]

• Does it mean that the Government is totally cynical, that it introduced all these callous measures but that it did so with the knowledge that it could back down and so appear to be responsive to expressions of community concern after the event? [More…]

• At this point of the debate I would like to register my total opposition to the provision which will require doctors- medical persons- to judge who in our community are socially disadvantaged and who can be entitled to have their medical bills met. [More…]

• The Special Broadcasting Service, it is claimed by the Government, has been set up to provide broadcasting services for ethnic groups throughout our community. [More…]

• Last year the Australia Council complained that the shortage of funds would severely hamper its community arts program. [More…]

• Although the Council allocated 31.5 per cent of its program budget to community arts in 1976-77 it was worried whether it would be able to fulfil this, its most socially important function. [More…]

• There is a totally unexpected attackonthemostseverelydisadvantaged people in our community through the decision to cut back the indexation of age pensions from a six-month to a 12-month frequency; by imposing new tax burdens on other recipients of social security pensions; by taxing family allowances through the mechanism of taxing children’s incomes; by abolishing the maternity allowance, which was a very minor form of assistance to families; by imposing a totally inequitable form of increased taxation through indirect taxes which, of course, fall more heavily on the poor than on the rich; and by failing entirely to raise new and proper sources of revenue from the very rich and fruitful enterprises which are carried out in the minerals and energy sector of the country. [More…]

• The Budget is a deplorable document, one which I believe has been criticised throughout the community for its various failures and one which it seems even the Government itself cannot defend as it has already begun to reduce, amend or change the various provisions in it. [More…]

• It is necessary for those three important sectors of our community to come to grips with the problems of technological change in a co-operative sense and with a sense of nationalism which I find it very difficult to detect in Australia at present because of the incessant strikes that are perpetrated on the people of Australia and the threats that are posed to our reputation as a credible export nation, a credible international trading partner. [More…]

• I think, with respect to market potential, that we sometimes become preoccupied with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It is patently obvious that Mr Street is so far out of touch with what is going on in his own community in particular that he does not realise the sort of rents and bonds that landlords are asking even in the country areas of Victoria from persons requiring rented premises. [More…]

• No one is more lonely and no one does a greater disservice to the community than a person who is branded a scab for the rest of his life. [More…]

• has insisted against the wishes of Council and community that Aurukun must accept a liquor canteen, [More…]

• I know that other members of the community can also report the matter to the Press Council, and I question now whether it is not time that we in this Parliament insisted that the Press Council should accept some of the responsibility for its member newspapers. [More…]

• I put it to the Minister that despite the many support schemes which the Government is presently either proposing or endorsing, such as the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprenticeship Full-time Training Scheme, the Community Youth Support Scheme and the National Employment and Training Scheme, government or ministeral policies and instructions, particularly to the Australian National Railways and Telecom in respect of staffing, are prohibiting the employment of young people, especially apprentices. [More…]

• The effect of an increase in the price of petrol and other petroleum products, although increasing the costs in the community and therefore being reflected in the CPI, will be offset by other decisions in the Budget. [More…]

• Obviously in the long term the pricing of petroleum products at what is really their true market price throughout the world must have long-term beneficial consequences in terms of the efficiency of the use of energy by the community and the rationalisation of the use of energy by the community. [More…]

• Although the Government is not making any immediate prediction as to a downturn in demand, the actual level of demand of course depends very much on the level of economic activity in the community at any particular time. [More…]

• In the Budget the Government is forecasting some increase in gross national domestic product and hopefully in the coming year we will see an increase in economic activity in the community. [More…]

• Practically the whole community turned out to hunt it down because they realised the dangers of that animal. [More…]

• People in the community have feared that the rabbit flea would infect dogs and other types of domesticated animals and bring about chaos. [More…]

• It is not only speakers on this side of the Senate but also people throughout the whole of the community who say that the Government has the constitutional authority to acquire land and to hand it over to the Aborigines. [More…]

• It concerns Mr Lanley, who is the chairman of Mornington Island’s Gunamamanda Community Council. [More…]

• However, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities SelfManagement) Bill can never have any application because of the power of the State Government to declare a reserve a non-reserve each time an Aboriginal community asks for the provisions of the Bill to be implemented. [More…]

• Considerable untied grants are given to the States for community health programs. [More…]

• Let us look at the community health program in general. [More…]

• I will not go through the whole method of how they deal with community health programs. [More…]

• Out of the community health program, it funds five women’s centres. [More…]

• That is the only area in community health where the Commonwealth Government does not make just a 50:50 commitment but makes a commitment to meet 75 per cent of the costs, as opposed to the States’ commitment of 25 per cent of the costs. [More…]

• The Depanment of Community Welfare in Hobart has stated that it has no regular supervisory responsibility for the shelter. [More…]

• If the State is responsible but the Department of Community Welfare in that State states that it has no regular supervisory responsibility, I can see that things are being left pretty high and dry. [More…]

• The Salvation Army is respected by the whole community. [More…]

• The whole program of supporting women’s shelters, which was introduced by a Labor government, has been very important to the community in the last few years. [More…]

• Allegations about these difficulties have been made, and the State Minister for Community Welfare is conducting an investigation. [More…]

• He took the photographs to the Crown Law officer, notified the local Minister for Community Welfare and then, as he always does - [More…]

• I believe that it is the responsibility not only of the Government but also of the community to ensure that this is brought about. [More…]

• For a registered telegraphic address which will not concern most people in the community but which will concern the business community, the old price was $25. [More…]

• But I believe that there is a role for telegrams in the Australian community. [More…]

• Everybody who has contributed to the documentation I have is a responsible member of the community. [More…]

• The report gives the chronological sequence of events as follows: 1 3th January 1978: The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) formally directed that the Iwasaki Sangyo Co. prepare and submit to him an EIS in accordance with the provisions of the Environment Protection Act. [More…]

• The report indicates that it is pertinent to note that both the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Treasurer were prepared to give approval for the project based only on a concept plan and a totally inadequate draft environmental impact statement. [More…]

• The Treasurer noted that the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development had given an environment clearance for the proposal, on the basis that continuing environment protection measures relating to the proposal would be taken by the Queensland Government under its own legislation. [More…]

• Neither the Treasurer nor the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) allowed sufficient time for the public to properly look at the so-called environmental impact statement. [More…]

• That modern justification is that where the assets of a person or firm are insufficient to meet the claims of all creditors the community’s claims should take priority over the claims of individual persons or firms which have provided goods or services, including labour, to the person or company whose financial position has so drastically deteriorated. [More…]

• Of course, the equating of the community interest with those of government revenue which is implied in the giving of preference to the Crown in the distribution of what assets remain of a bankrupt or liquidated company is a trap into which I hope we will not fall in considering this report. [More…]

• In fact, one must seriously doubt whether the community is advantaged in any way by putting employees who are unable to recover payment for annual leave or even ordinary wages or ordinary unsecured creditors who have provided goods or services at the end of the queue, behind the Commissioner of Taxation who is seeking, for example, to obtain payas.youearn instalments notionally held by the employer or trying to recover one year’s personal income tax in the case of a bankrupt. [More…]

• More than that, the sums returned to the community via other creditors will increase revenue because of the reduction in bad debts. [More…]

• It is of a remarkably high standard and my predecessors on the Committee and the officers who serviced it are to be congratulated both on their conclusions, which have found a ready response throughout the community, and for the professional way in which the proposal is argued. [More…]

• I did not come again, except to pass through the airport on a number of occasions, until early 1974, when as ViceChancellor of the University of Queensland, I came to participate in the ceremonies associated with the opening of the Community College. [More…]

• The branch at Darwin now becomes part of that group of branches that makes its contribution not only to parliamentary matters but also through the interchange of views on governmental and political issues which go to strengthen the community of Commonwealth parliaments within our particular area of the world. [More…]

• a great deal of civic pride has been engendered by the physical rebuilding of the city and, nurtured by a community oriented Legislative Authority, the result will be a very beautiful Northern Gateway to Australia. [More…]

• We decided to call before the Committee, not in a public forum but privately, members of the community who had some knowledge of the subject. [More…]

• I recognise that both herbicides are regarded as important to the agricultural community and that they are certainly of considerable value in the removal of insects and other problems. [More…]

• Hostels should be within reach of industry which could provide suitable employment, new housing estates or home building sites, schools, shops and general community services. [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…]

• -In the short time I have available tonight to continue my remarks on this subject I inform the Senate that the members of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, like many other people in the community, consider that the report is a very good one. [More…]

• We consider that the report is very important and should be carefully considered by the community and by the Government in particular. [More…]

• Although we must consider the interests of others, we must not let them affect our reports and our thoughts on the effects of various drugs on the community. [More…]

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

• Australia’s support for the principles set out in the Declaration is clearly on record, and the Government wishes, by its participation in the anniversary program, to reaffirm its commitment to the human rights standards which the international community has aspired to uphold for the past 30 years. [More…]

• This matter has been highlighted in South Australia recently by the publicity given to the certification of meat by the Islamic community for the South Australian Meat Corporation. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that this is a higher marginal tax rate than that paid by even the highest earners in our community? [More…]

• Since air fares are so excessively high both in and out of Australia and since the Government has some part in approving what those fares shall be, can the Minister proffer some explanation as to why the introductory program for the standby scheme operated by the domestic airlines was restricted to the short haul and, incidentally, low cost routes between Melbourne, Sydney and Tasmania rather than the long haul routes between Queensland or Western Australia and the southern States where the 40 per cent reduction would have been of real benefit and meaning to the Australian community? [More…]

• Did the Minister not say at Question Time earlier today that the Government exercises all possible options and powers towards containing costs in the Australian community? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Housing Costs, entitled ‘The Cost of Housing’, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) relating to the report. [More…]

• One of the reasons we were able to have a low home consumption price was the fact that the Government had given assistance by way of the nitrogenous fertiliser bounty which, when looked at from another angle, could be called a consumer bounty and not a producer bounty because of the prices charged to the Australian community. [More…]

• When the IAC brought down the recommendations I am sure that the sugar growers referred to it, as do many other people in the community- I suppose with tongue-in-cheek, but fairly wrongfully- as the ‘Industries Assassination Commission’. [More…]

• I am pleased to say that in spite of all the fears and concerns expressed by many people in the community, and by the Opposition, the IAC is still completely independent. [More…]

• I do not think that to those people those arrangements are the bogy-man that they are to other sections of the community. [More…]

• I suggest that that outburst demonstrates that the debate on this Bill is at a somewhat lower level than I think the Australian electorate, and in particular the farming community, would like. [More…]

• I remind the honourable senator of the figures produced by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics which compared on-farm costs with the general rises in costs which were experienced in the Australian community. [More…]

• That announcement provoked considerable discussion in the community and considerable opposition to the proposals from organisations such as the Australian Council on the Ageing; from people such as Professor Henderson, who conducted the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty and was commissioned to do so by a Liberal-National Country Party government; from many local government councils in Victoria; from most newspapers- in particular the Melbourne Ageand even from Government members of Parliament. [More…]

• The additional 34 per cent which is usually the amount estimated for the cost of administrative and support services to maintain welfare officers for the aged community will also have to be found by local government. [More…]

• They appointed what they called a war cabinet to discuss tactics and protest at policies they felt were shortsighted, inequitable and against community interests. [More…]

• The slashing of home help subsidies by the Federal Government shows that it has washed its hands of the responsibility that the community should bear for its elderly and incapacitated. [More…]

• It is generally recognised, I believe, that levying local government rates is an unsatisfactory way of financing health and welfare services in the community. [More…]

• Many members of the community are not ratepayers or they have their rates rebated. [More…]

• Is there a policy on the economy, the efficiency or the humanity of giving the frail aged and the disabled the ability to remain at home with community services? [More…]

• Is there a policy on community services generally and on whether these services should be contracted or expanded? [More…]

• I remind the Senate as I did earlier that when the Australian Assistance Plan was axed, at least 50 ongoing projects for assisting old people, with handyman and meal services which were community-based and largely voluntary, were axed at the same time. [More…]

• Of course we know that the allocation of money goes up as local government assumes more responsibility in agreement with the States but as the State allocation has dropped from the basis of $4 to $ 1 in response to cuts from this Government, local governments cannot depend on the money and the community therefore cannot depend on the services. [More…]

• We will encourage people to remain in their home or familiar social environment with a comprehensive home care program which would include assistance with home alterations, and community supports such as half-way houses, short-term nursing beds and hostels. [More…]

• It is for this reason that we join with all those other people in the community who are protesting at the cuts in the Commonwealth subsidy for this important, humane and vital area of home help. [More…]

• When I talk about government participation and local government contribution I must also include the attention which non-government organisations, community instrumentalities and voluntary agencies give to this matter. [More…]

• Senior citizens centres are institutions that have appeared in our community in recent years. [More…]

• They also assist senior citizens to relate to the rest of the community and bring them into contact with the members of the community. [More…]

• At the same time they give the community an opportunity to recognise the presence of senior citizens and the centres in which they find their social and community activities. [More…]

• It emphasises, as we respond to community needs, that those people who wish to live independently in their own homes should be able to do so. [More…]

• It is important to refer to the suggestion that has been made the subject of some public comment; that is, that the Government might be suddenly withdrawing from funding home care services and that this might cause some concern and distress amongst aged people because they would have to find accommodation in nursing homes and in other institutions in the community. [More…]

• It may be done also by a community welfare organisation or by what I think is termed in the Act a joint body, that is, any two of the earlier mentioned organisations which act jointly in a co-operative venture. [More…]

• When we are considering services to the aged it is not only a question of finance or even of organisation but also of reminding ourselves that any program of service to the aged, however elaborate and expensive, must be associated with what I will call a caring community if it is to be effective. [More…]

• This caring community must involve itself in voluntary support services. [More…]

• A caring community is very much a part of the study of the legislation before us. [More…]

• It is very much a social matter, very much a community matter and, it would be true to say, very much an economic matter. [More…]

• From my study of figures and events it is clear that the population projections for the last 20 years of this century indicate that by the year 2000 Australia will have a considerably greater proportion of older persons in the community. [More…]

• This takes on added importance when senior people are in good health, active in mind and body, close to community affairs and close at hand to family. [More…]

• Local governments can provide it to a certain extent but they can do so only by imposing taxes on some other sections of the community. [More…]

• This can only mean a reduction in service with the prospect of more aged people seeking admission to institutional forms of accommodation at far greater cost to themselves and the community. [More…]

• It could however do much to increase the distress of some of the most vulnerable people in the community and ultimately cost much more. [More…]

• These children are not always in a position to help the aged people in the community. [More…]

• Bring the question back down to that issue for the consumers in the community because that is how they rate inflation. [More…]

• I am simply asking them to tell me what has been reduced as far as the ordinary consumers in the community are concerned. [More…]

• As members of the Winchelsea Social Development Committee we are concerned generally for the needs of the people within the Winchelsea district and in particular for the older members of our community. [More…]

• To send them into hospitals and into other institutions will be more costly for the community. [More…]

• In addition to that, the platform emphasises the need for increasing the opportunities for personal relationships in the course of providing aid in the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security in a Press Release dated 3 April 1978 on ‘Community Responsibilities in Welfare and Health Programs ‘ said- [More…]

• Appropriate support services such as home nursing care, delivered meals, day hospitals, day centres and home visiting services can often provide a more humane and economic alternative for care of the aged, sick and disabled in our community than prolonged hospital or nursing home care’ . [More…]

• In a discussion paper on paying for health care prepared by the Hospital and Health Services Commission, it was estimated that on average patients maintained in the community cost Governments about one-fifth of what it costs to treat patients in hospitals and two-thirds of what it costs to treat them in nursing homes. ‘ [More…]

• These pressures are not always just to do with the available support services in the community; they are pressures which are rooted as well in families, which form views as to where their aged should be nursed or cared for. [More…]

• These pressures are involved with the values which are held by the elderly people themselves, by the society in which they live and by the structure of society in a particular community as much as they are involved with the cash available to provide the services for support for isolated, aged, frail Australians. [More…]

• I come back to the point that domiciliary services are good to have in the community. [More…]

• As well as looking at the arrangements required for obtaining a matching grant we have to look at the amount of money provided and the trend’:in the allocation of funds to see whether more or less is being made available to the Australian community. [More…]

• Under the new scheme, with a $ 1 subsidy for two of the programs and a $2 for $ 1 subsidy for the remaining program, I estimate that the total amount that can be spread across the Australian community is just under $27m. [More…]

• But we certainly have questions to ask, particularly in relation to what the Government has in mind for the future of this program, which was initiated by the Labor Government in 1974 to devise ways of supporting destitute people in the community who were without community support and settled homes of their own. [More…]

• Such people are vulnerable to the diseases of our society- invalidity due to accidents of which they have a greater proportion than others in the community. [More…]

• A common complaint made by those who are helping the homeless men in our community is that the average age is falling because of unemployment. [More…]

• They are getting a different sort of person in their rufuges because of the unemployment situation which is facing this community. [More…]

• It can teach us a lot about who is in this group of people, and it can also remove some of the misconceptions about these people which are frequently around in the community. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that 8816 per cent of those surveyed were smokers, against only 48 per cent of the industrial workers in our community. [More…]

• In the past these people have been largely defined in our community by their use of institutions and facilities for destitute people. [More…]

• Those who want to be part of the community outside the walls of institutions in these circumstances should have provision made for group housing or for single rooms in inexpensive areas. [More…]

• It may even be that we, and the Minister, should consider the appointment of a welfare rights officer for homeless persons, not necessarily attached to particular organisations as such people tend to be, say, in the ethnic communities, but appointed in one of the major cities to take up cases and make recommendations to the Department of Social Security and others on positive ways of helping these people to find a more satisfying place in the community. [More…]

• The inclusion of these people for the benefit of the whole community is of great importance. [More…]

• Information would also be obtained from the organisations on their plans for the future and on possible improvements to the program, and from both organisations and homeless people on the adequacy of general community services available to homeless people. [More…]

• The people involved were very proud of their centre and explained in great detail how they not only supported people in an emergency situation, when they first arrived, but, in the case of those who had an alcohol problem, gave counsel and assistance to enable them to re-enter the community. [More…]

• The Government, in keeping the economy in irons- I think that has to be said- acquires a certain responsibility to tidy up after it and to think outside purely economic considerations to the social strains it is putting on this community. [More…]

• I believe that government and all members of it should accept the responsibility for those areas of disunity and destructiveness in the community that are arising from the current situation. [More…]

• Of course, they still form a major part of that section of the community. [More…]

• This might seem laudable at first sight, but it makes the community at large feel that the disadvantaged people are no longer of its immediate concern. [More…]

• It makes the community feel that the Government will look after these disadvantaged people. [More…]

• Therefore, the natural feelings of compassion that should come from community involvement are stifled. [More…]

• The blind, the disabled and the homeless are to be tucked tidily away from any community involvement. [More…]

• As honourable senators might or might not know, the Australian Democrats in forming its policy in this area has tried to consult the community as widely as possible before our suggested policies are voted on by all our members in a secret written ballot. [More…]

• Our feedback stressed more than anything else that community groups should more and more be given the responsibility for social services, with public servants and social workers fulfilling the role of informing and guiding such groups. [More…]

• Evidence from all areas is to the effect that it is much cheaper anyway to allow the community to be involved. [More…]

• As my colleague Senator Chipp said, we can never see why governments persist, for instance, in filling expensive hospital beds with the aged when excellent religious and community groups are willing to provide this service and could do so much more cheaply. [More…]

• I hope that community groups and voluntary organisations will be consulted, encouraged and financed in every possible way to assist the homeless and that the true nature and extent of the problem of homelessness- its rapid growth and its association with economic circumstances in this society- will be properly recognised. [More…]

• It is up to a humane and concerned government to set the guidelines and to provide the right conditions for that community involvement. [More…]

• That we as citizens of Australia with a great love and concern for our country, fear that this budget will bring dishonour and disgrace by increasing poverty and crime and will sow the seeds of violence within our democratic community. [More…]

• The petitioners request that the Federal Government and Broadcasting Tribunal should 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…]

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

• I refer to a report that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development congratulated a bank for providing loans to people who have to wait until next financial year to receive their home savings grants. [More…]

• My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs refers to the statement made this morning by Mr Anthony that Australia was going to appeal under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade against the European Economic Community’s placing an export subsidy of $350 a ton on sugar and thereby undercutting both the Australian and world price by some $70 a ton. [More…]

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

• I sought information from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on the points which he raised. [More…]

• Of course, we find on the day on which the proceedings of the Senate are being broadcast that the Opposition usually lays its hand to a matter of public importance and cites a subject which is of great importance to the community at large. [More…]

• For those of us who are interested in the rural industries this is a matter in relation to which we should take the view that there is some freedom in the community. [More…]

• One would expect Senator Walsh to adopt the political attitude of saying something positive in relation to a matter such as this, thus giving some lead to the community. [More…]

• Recently I said that we don’t 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 seek to have this list incorporated in Hansard so that I do not reiterate that which the rural community already knows. [More…]

• The community is at a loss to know exactly where the Australian Labor Party stands on this matter. [More…]

• The point is that the community does not know which way Labor leans. [More…]

• The Government feels it has endorsement for what it does if it recognises strongly those who are responsible in the community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that at present the Labor Party is opposed, as it has always been, to the exporting of merino rams because of pressures from sections of the community, primarily the union movement. [More…]

• The responsibilities of governments extend beyond any wool growers or any other sections of the community. [More…]

• Governments are responsible to the whole community. [More…]

• I like the language ‘any other sections of the community’. [More…]

• An eminent scientist who joined the organisation some 39 years ago, Mr Burgmann was appointed Chairman in March 1977 and under his leadership the organisation has continued to work on behalf of Australian industry and the community generally in a way which is probably unsurpassed by any other organisation of its nature anywhere in the world. [More…]

• We seldom have an opportunity to speak on this type of organisation which, as has been said, is a credit to the Australian community. [More…]

• It was obvious then that the UAP was completely out of touch with what was happening and what would happen in the community, just as the present Government is out of touch with the situation in Australia today. [More…]

• Of course, they are not eligible for training programs, as are the youths of the community. [More…]

• But for the Government to turn round and reduce the maximum training period from six months to four months and reduce the allowance paid from $67 a week to $45 a week surely does nothing for the youths of the community. [More…]

• Now at last the farming community is seeing the falseness of Mr Fraser’s promise of three years ago about a rural bank. [More…]

• Of course, increased petrol prices will hit the farming and rural community hardest of all. [More…]

• We, as a class of professionals, are among the most despised and distrusted in the community. [More…]

• In political economy, having induced politicians to discard the old programme, the devil take the hindmost’ Liberalism would now inculcate a new teaching with regard to the poorest in the community, that all should have what was their due. [More…]

• We know from all the statistical information available to us that at the moment 400,000 people in the community are unemployed. [More…]

• Let me make it clear that whilst there was emphasis upon the industrial development of South Australia and the economic stability of the State, all sectors of the community were taken into that area of development and encouraged to expand and increase their production. [More…]

• We know what effect transport costs have on costs within industry and within the community. [More…]

• It covered women’s refuges, child care centresone could go on- and involved people in the community in looking after young children, with the Government topping up only one- fifth of the cost. [More…]

• The conquest of the air and the subsequent annihilation of distance, instead of knitting the nations into a single world community had exposed them to mutual deterrence at gun point. [More…]

• If the crafts do not allow qualification otherwise than through the apprenticeship system they may find that the community has found a way around them. [More…]

• They need to be treated fairly by the community, not subjected to criticism or called dole bludgers. [More…]

• It may very well be that the community will have to come to terms with such people and recognise that they are not bad, just different. [More…]

• Senator Scott, sitting to my left, knows that the nations comprising the European Economic Community are putting up barriers against our exports of primary products, and it is true that there are difficulties with Asian countries in relation to certain manufactured goods such as furniture, textiles and clothing. [More…]

• I wonder whether in a free society we can say to a man 40 years of age with children of, say, 10 years and 14 years attending the local school, a man active in community affairs: ‘ You are going to be uprooted and sent to another State’. [More…]

• It is a morass out of which it will take the efforts not only of government but also of every section of the community to lift this great society to get back on the road to this ultimate and exciting potential. [More…]

• Because the Government has taken hard decisions I believe that the intelligent community of Australia will recognise what has been done, recognise the responsibility that the Government is assuming, as indeed it should, and will generate from that recognition a measure of determination and pride which perhaps more than anythiny else ultimately can lift this country out of the problems into which it has sunk, and can start us back to achieve the sort of potential that we have for our citizens as individuals and indeed for our country as a nation, as a total entity, as a nation amongst nations. [More…]

• How many members of the Greek community in Sydney who were charged with alleged social security frauds have been granted Commonwealth legal aid. [More…]

• Will not this decision be administratively complex and costly to implement, and will not its most severe economic effects be felt by the less affluent members of the community? [More…]

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

• Anything that can result in the reduction of interest rates to the community is valuable and I will see that a study is made. [More…]

• However, because of the concern that has been expressed in the community the Government has reviewed the decision and will make it clear when drawing up the legislation that it does not intend to include in the means testing arrangement income which results from the personal exertion of the child concerned. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the community distress being caused in some areas of South Australia by the recent announcement that some lines, including those to important South Australian northern towns, would be closed? [More…]

• Will the Minister initiate some conference between government, railways management, unions, business and the general community to examine the total effects of cancellations? [More…]

• However, because of the concern that has been expressed in the community the Government has reviewed the decision and will make it clear when drawing up the legislation that it does not intend to include in the means testing arrangement income which results from the personal exertion of the child concerned. [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 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…]

• In the past those people have been mainly men of approximately 45 years of age, but because of the great stress which has been placed on this community recently, especially by this Government, and the insecurity that has arisen there has been a tendency for this situation to change. [More…]

• Insecurity has created terrible upset in our community. [More…]

• The church and other organisations which have assisted people in need in the community should be supported. [More…]

• It is tragic to think that very young people, through no fault of their own but because of the great social upheaval in the community, are being forced out on to the streets. [More…]

• When we see the opportunities for comfort, hope and service to be given people who have received accommodation and other help under the Act, those of us who would wish to be part of a concerned community cannot but believe that a great deal more could be done in many parts of Australia. [More…]

• I draw attention to the community health program under which women’s refuges are funded through the Department of Health. [More…]

• Programs are springing up under their support and other community support assisted by State government and, in some cases, local government. [More…]

• During this year I will welcome any submissions from the Opposition or other parties so that as we place before the Government any future submissions we will be aware of the views of other people who have been vitally concerned, firstly, in the introduction of this Act and, secondly, in seeing whether it is meeting the need that is evidenced throughout our community. [More…]

• In some families, particularly those on benefits or on minimum wages, the children earn their own pocket money, sometimes to the extent of $20 or $30 a week, and sometimes even $40 a week, by delivering newspapers, selling newspapers, working in shops and in part time jobs in factories, and doing various other jobs in the community. [More…]

• We in this community are supposed to encourage people to get away from dependency on the Government and people on both sides of the Parliament would agree with that view. [More…]

• It is quite wrong to deprive single parents, widows or any other low income people in the community of a family allowance on the basis of what their children earn. [More…]

• Those proposals involved sending income statement to just as many people in the community as will be involved under this proposal. [More…]

• Some two million people in this community will have to be contacted on behalf of some 4V* million children and they will have to answer questionnaires on how much those children earned from all sorts of sources. [More…]

• Are poor migrant families or poor families of any group in the community who through no fault of their own do not get their income statements in on time to be arbitrarily deprived of family allowances for which they are presently eligible? [More…]

• Is it really essential for the benefit of this community that an ill-conceived, ill-thought-out measure such as this be introduced to save some $30m? [More…]

• The sad part of this proposal is that once again the Government’s changes will affect the poorest in the community. [More…]

• But this proposal will cause distress to some very poor families in the community. [More…]

• The proposal will also affect some women in the community who sometimes find that the only income or personal money they receive is the family allowance payment. [More…]

• The family allowance provision, as I saw it, was a first step towards some sort of proper distribution of income in the community. [More…]

• I have had a lengthy and, I think I can fairly say, extensive association with education groups throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• However I now discern a genuine groundswell within the Australian community on the subject of multicultural education to which all governments, State and Federal, will have to address themselves very quickly. [More…]

• The proposals for multi-cultural education are an attempt to try to bring to the attention of Australians who have been a little complacent on the subject the role that migrants play in our community today. [More…]

• By reason of pressure from both sides of the chamber and pressure from the community at large and through the Press, she gave that clear assurance. [More…]

• If they do not declare them they will find themselves in the position of being the youngest tax evaders in the community. [More…]

• Far higher costs were imposed on the business community in South Australia than in any other State in an attempt to try to awaken it to the need to change its direction so as to save South Australian industry. [More…]

• I hasten to add that that remark received an absolute panning from the business community and from many other persons in the community at that time. [More…]

• I raised this matter previously in a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) and I have received a reply from him to the effect that he will be taking up the matter with the South Australian Minister for Housing. [More…]

• Exports of bulk wines to this area have been severely curtailed since the United Kingdom entered the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In general terms Australian exporters have found it difficult to compete in many overseas markets because of the level of inflation being reflected in the costs of their wines at the same time as the major competing countries in overseas markets, such as some Eastern European countries and member countries of the European Economic Community, were respectively seeking hard foreign currency or prepared to subsidise the export of domestic over-production. [More…]

• In the latter case, we refer particularly to the so-called ‘wine lake’ existing within the European Economic Community and enclose copies of some pertinent articles which have appeared recently in the international trade press on this subject. [More…]

• It is all very well as we have found in this place on many occasions, for members of the LiberalCountry Party coalition to get up and express great concern for the grape growers of South Australia and the rest of the community- the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area and the Hunter Valley- but on every occasion when the chips are down we find that they still support the atrocious measures that have been brought in by their Government. [More…]

• but also because of the implications for the continuing growth of Australian wine sales and the prosperity of the rural community they support. [More…]

• We were intrigued by that, and subsequent inquiries by the Australian Democrats have indicated that there is a widespread feeling in the community that this question of funding should somehow be resolved, as it has been in many other countries. [More…]

• I applaud the writer for his actions and I wish there were a lot more people of his type in the community. [More…]

• The petitioners request that the Federal Government and Broadcasting Tribunal should 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…]

• The petitioners request that the federal government and broadcasting tribunal should 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…]

• The capacity of the Government to keep down the deficit so that it is of a size that can be very substantially managed by borrowing, particularly from the non-bank sector, and therefore not by increasing the amount of expenditure in the community, is a major measure of its success. [More…]

• This has also had the effect of preventing from contributing other Aboriginal people within the community who have something to contribute and who want to make a contribution. [More…]

• I think most of us v/ould be very pleased that finally the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has come clean with the Australian community and has admitted what has been said by the Labor movement for a considerable period about the problems of the economy and about the fact that we have reached a stage in our development where unemployment, particularly amongst young people, has become, and will remain for a considerable period, a permanent pan of our economy. [More…]

• They had accepted that there were some features that had to be recognised by the Australian community, and particularly by the Government, about the permanency of unemployment. [More…]

• I suggest that this new influence needs a great deal of recognition by the Australian community. [More…]

• This argument is the most vital one we have to put to the community. [More…]

• I think that the Government, as representing the community’s interests and not being a direct party to the dispute, should normally limit itself to putting information on the general economic situation and the economic consequences of the various proposals put to the Commission by the contending parties. [More…]

• We have not really tried to persuade the unions that the Government’s economic policy is aimed at benefiting the whole community. [More…]

• Surely we owe it to the community to see whether, by discussion, we can work more quickly towards agreed solutions to our problems. [More…]

• I also decided that if any special help was needed about plans for houses, or how to build houses, I can go to the Commonwealth Department of Construction, or in special cases, I can arrange for a community to get advice from an architect. [More…]

• Nor do they have the proven loyalty, dedication and responsibility to the Aboriginal community which has been demonstrated by the Panel and which has led to its downfall. [More…]

• So the chairman of the Council believes that the proven loyalty, dedication and responsibility to the Aboriginal community demonstrated by the Panel is one of the reasons why the Panel has been disbanded. [More…]

• I also decided that if any special help was needed about plans for houses, or how to build houses, I can go to the Commonwealth Department of Construction, or in special cases, I can arrange for a community to get advice from an architect. [More…]

• I make the point again that each community is different and therefore there would be differing needs. [More…]

• Nor do they have the proven loyalty, dedication and responsibility to the Aboriginal community which has been demonstrated by the Panel and which has led to its downfall. [More…]

• I do not think I have to dwell on the point that adequate housing is the first step towards a healthy community. [More…]

• The figures show that the current state of the apple and pear industry belies the traumas of the years when the United Kingdom market was adversely affected by Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community and by the periods of serious overproduction which led to unstable prices and economic and personal uncertainty. [More…]

• could have been fairly criticised for being an advantaged community, advantaged in that it was a planned community, a growing community, a community with excellent educational standards and wide employment opportunities, and a community which was thriving in many ways. [More…]

• Far from being the thriving growth centre, far from being the developing and flourishing national capital which it had been, it has now become a seriously depressed place, a place where for the youth and the children of the community there is very little hope. [More…]

• As a locally elected senator- a representative of this community- I am very much aware of the long delays in attending to very urgent matters, such as processing housing applications, processing applications for emergency housing for homeless families, processing applications for emergency welfare assistance from women who have been deserted or from homeless youth or any other person in urgent need of assistance. [More…]

• These are all projects for which the community has great need and which could usefully be developed at this stage. [More…]

• The argument against self-government in the Australian Capital Territory has always been that self-government would lead to an increase in charges, but if we look at what has happened in the Territory in the last three years we find that there has been a drastic increase in charges with no increase at all in community participation and decision-making with respect to the setting of those charges or, indeed, the purposes to which revenue so raised is put. [More…]

• At the time of its establishment there was a great deal of idealism about the nature of this schools system and about how it would develop into being one which was responsive to community needs, in which there was a very high degree of parent participation and professional participation by the teachers in making decisions and, indeed, in which there was a high degree of student participation in the high schools and secondary colleges. [More…]

• If we are to have in the Australian Capital Territory the son of education system for which people across the community express support we cannot operate on a rigid staff ceilings basis. [More…]

• This is one of the factors which makes it very desirable that there be a particularly flexible and community-responsive education system, but again the ideals of providing multi-cultural education for children from different ethnic backgrounds in the Australian Capital Territory has foundered because of the staff ceilings policy. [More…]

• Of course, the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, has been extremely defensive and perhaps less than frank in his responses to criticism from teachers and parents in the community in the Australian Capital Territory with regard to the staff ceilings policy. [More…]

• Indeed, Mr Ellicott, on assuming his portfolio, promised that the community could expect reform in several areas. [More…]

• Of course, the contradictions in this proposal were immediately recognised by the community and there was a great deal of complaint. [More…]

• Now the Minister has changed his mind and has offered a referendum to the community this year on the issue of selfgovernment and an election for some form of self-government next year. [More…]

• Unemployment can cause great unhappiness and frustration, it is cruelly wasteful of the community’s resources, and in tackling this grave problem, the Government needs the whole-hearted support of all sections of the community. [More…]

• We warned the community then that unemployment would increase and we were said to be liars, that we did not know what we were talking about. [More…]

• The Government will never get the people in the community back to work while it savagely cuts funds for public works. [More…]

• I know that honourable senators on the Government side do not agree to many requests I make but I say: ‘Please keep him as your leader for 12 months because he is doing a good job for the Labor Party even though he is doing a dastardly job for the community’. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is an expert at dividing and conquering, not only at dividing the Aborigines and conquering them but also at dividing the community and trying to conquer it. [More…]

• Does this research deal in any way with the Aboriginal community? [More…]

• He has since introduced an element of epidemiological research concerned with health and nutrition in the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that this is important to the Aboriginal community but it should not be seen as being of interest only to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• It is of importance to the whole of the Australian community that Aboriginals assist us to get a better knowledge of the dietary process than we have at the present time. [More…]

• Is this further evidence of the ultrarestrictive and unreasonable trade policies of the European Economic Community? [More…]

• Further, will the Minister say whether these courses and these fees, paid at a time of government austerity in community welfare, are likely to be extended to other departments of the Public Service? [More…]

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

• I am told by my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, that he is aware of the reports to which Senator Rocher referred in his question-that there are improved prospects for property values in the housing market in Western Australia. [More…]

• As far as the changes to the Budget are concerned, I believe that the changes that have been made have reflected the attitude that was prevalent in the community about matters which had wide reaching effects. [More…]

• I feel that the changes that have been made by the Treasurer to the Budget have the support of the Australian community. [More…]

• I refer to the Aboriginal Community College in North Adelaide and the important contribution it continues to make for Aboriginal education and for personal and community development not only in South Australia but also with good effect throughout our country. [More…]

• I am aware, as Senator Teague states, of the very important work being undertaken by the Aboriginal Community College. [More…]

• However, I would like to mention at this stage some of the major reservations which are held by the Opposition and, I believe, by the wide community in respect of the report insofar as we have had time to study it. [More…]

• In the dissenting report put in by the Department of Finance, the view is expressed that there is no evidence that the cost of a satellite system would be justified in terms of the marginal benefits it would bring to the community. [More…]

• The debate and discussion outside the Parliament must include all of the industry representatives involved- the relevant trade unions, community groups, the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal and of course the general public. [More…]

• It is of the utmost importance to Australia that the Government not be precipitated into a commitment to a costly new communications system that would bring only marginal benefits to the community and at the same time provide the opportunity for higher profits and further monopolisation of media ownership for one major media proprietor. [More…]

• One of the ways of promoting it surely is by the passage of legislation in the form of a Budget which is responsible and directed towards the maintenance of the community in which we live and which we have developed. [More…]

• Unfortunately, I believe that in many circumstances this avalanche of words to which the Australian community is subjected does little more than create confusion and distortion, halftruths, false impressions and emphases. [More…]

• These are the things that come from the myriad of words to which members of the community are exposed. [More…]

• It is interesting and factual to note that only with the return of confidence and pride will we solve the basic problems that confront this community. [More…]

• For instance, we have heard about the load that penalty rates place on the community and on the employment situation. [More…]

• The inconsistency of the Budget and the lack of criticism of it by Australian rural industry can only set the stage for future onslaughts by the Fraser-Anthony coalition on Australia ‘s rural community. [More…]

• will increase the degree of economic hardship for the poorest and most disadvantaged groups in our community; [More…]

• In the 1977-78 Budget the same Treasurer said that taxes had taken too much from the community and that real wages were actually higher in 1977 than they had been a year earlier. [More…]

• The Government failed to take that action but it set out to introduce into this Budget for the first time the imposition of taxes on disadvantaged sections of the Australian community, whether they be children, those working in sheltered workshops, or disabled people. [More…]

• We of the Opposition are concerned that this Government came to power to boost confidence in the private sector of the community, to develop a change of direction in our manufacturing industry, to give incentives to export production and to bring about an increase in consumer spending. [More…]

• Budgets in the previous two years, puts at risk the pensions of a great number of people, and creates a great deal of uncertainty in those disadvantaged sections of the community which the Government claims it wants to assist. [More…]

• We, the community, will pay $676m more for petrol; $ 194m more for beer; $12 lm more for spirits, that is scotch; and $120m more for tobacco. [More…]

• In fact the Government has no policy which will create more jobs; it has no policy upon which the Australian community can be encouraged to spend; and it has no policy upon which one can see any development of growth in the private sector of the economy. [More…]

• A substantial majority of honourable senators on three sides of this House would have combined to destroy the inhumane aspects of this Budget which for the first time introduced taxes on sections of the community that have never hitherto been taxed, taxes on the most disadvantaged people in the community. [More…]

• If the inhumane aspects have been thwarted- I suggest they have been thwarted- let us give credit, firstly, to the Australian Labor Party, and the Australian Council of Trade Unions and all of its affiliated organisations which have indicated from the moment the Budget was presented their disgust with the endeavours of this Government to pursue a Budget which placed misery and hardship on the disadvantaged members of the community and in fact redistributed taxes away from those people to the wealthy and privileged sections of the community. [More…]

• In 1976 and 1 977 this Government quite cynically and deliberately developed in the community what was known as the dole bludger syndrome. [More…]

• I believe it is time for the Government, as part of its examination of the economy and as part of its responsibility to our near South East Asian neighbours, to have research carried out, in Treasury, trade, employment and other areas, into the feasibility of an extended South East Asia Pacific community with common economic, trade and defence policies. [More…]

• I believe that there is an opportunity for these problems to be tackled and overcome with benefit to all people within the Australian community. [More…]

• We also acknowledge and proclaim that our objectives include the maxim that thrift and hard work will be rewarded and that our nation should be viewed as a useful and responsible member of the world community. [More…]

• Provision is made for a wide range of educational services, such as the opening of new schools and the continuation of special programs, and I think particularly of the bilingual programs relating to the Aboriginal sector of our community. [More…]

• The development of technological services and the arrival upon the scene of great technical development have posed not only problems of an educational nature but also problems with a social content, to which the whole community will be, must be and, I believe, is devoting its attention. [More…]

• Many areas of education have received attention in the Budget, including the ones relating to the special or disadvantaged groups in the community. [More…]

• ation that we have today, as a result of its reduction in inflation and its policies in relation to the economic situation in Australia, has been able to maintain these sectors of Australian life so that the Australian community may enjoy a totality of experience. [More…]

• These, as I said earlier, may not be related to productivity or economic growth; nevertheless, in this Budget, the present Government, with all the difficulties it has to face, has been able to maintain this side of our community life. [More…]

• Whilst we are making these few and isolated references to the Budget- isolated references in a vast and complex Budget of very many items- it is important to point out as I did right at the beginning of my speech tonight, that all these things are available to the Australian community as a result of political philosophies which the Australian Government is following, philosophies which are diametrically opposed to the matter of abundant government spending and public sector spending. [More…]

• The voluntary section of the South Australian community- and I speak with some knowledge of this- simply cannot find projects to serve the community because the State Government is doing everything for the people. [More…]

• It is quite right that we need to look at the problems of the Northern Territory and that the policies need to reflect the needs of the community, but they do not. [More…]

• In framing those decisions the Government took great care to avoid inequitable treatment of certain sections of the community. [More…]

• I wonder to which sections of the community he was referring. [More…]

• The absence of dogma in the Labor Government’s policy has made it possible to achieve something of a consensus within the community at large. [More…]

• As Anderson comments, the lack of dogma is a strength because it puts the decision for education back where it belongs- back in the community, back in the hands of the commissions, back in the hands of the experts and away from the policy that government knows best. [More…]

• Rather, there should be greater effort and a community of purpose to face up to and meet the problems that we know confront us now. [More…]

• I believe that we have one pervasive disadvantage which needs to be talked about in this place, one vast millstone about our necks which affects virtually every aspect of our national work and lives, that is, the almost manic obsession of the old political parties to play an incessant daily game of confrontation and to visit upon the Australian community, which is surely one of the most homogeneous communities in the world, every possible permutation of the game of divisiveness that fertile imaginations can dream up. [More…]

• I suggest they will pay dearly to the Australian community before they are much older because this situation is clearly understood in the community now. [More…]

• I am proud to say that the Australian Labor Party was born out of the trade union movement so that it could have a voice in the parliaments of Australia and put the point of view of the underprivileged people, the people who are the real workers in this community, not the shareholders and the boards of directors who manipulate the working class to suit their own financial gains. [More…]

• Not only does it have small taxpayers as members, it also has some of the biggest taxpayers in the community. [More…]

• So long as the Liberal Government is putting money into the pockets of the wealthy in the community, the poor can go to hang. [More…]

• By this lowering of interest rates- I hope that within a year they will be reduced to, say, 8 per cent- the people in the community will be encouraged to buy goods and that in turn will stimulate production. [More…]

• The cutting of penalty rates will create more work opportunities, reduce prices and provide more services for the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government will provide $ 17.2m for community development, including $3. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the Darwin Community College has received an increase of $594,000 over the figure for the previous financial year. [More…]

• In fact the Darwin Community College will get $6. [More…]

• If so, will the Minister take the necessary steps to ensure that this matter is brought to the attention of the Commissioner for Community Relations? [More…]

• The Department’s training program has undoubtedly improved the quality of its performance in delivering benefits and services to the community in a most cost effective manner. [More…]

• I believe that at a time when there is debate throughout the community and in the Parliament on the matter of freedom of information and a great demand by the public and members of parliament for increased access to information it is not appropriate for information available to senators and members in their Parliamentary Library to be restricted. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I hope the Postal Commission continues the scheme as a useful community service and the means of achieving cheaper postage. [More…]

• Whilst it is somewhat above the charge being levied by countries such as the United States, where it is $3, and even Israel, where it is $5.70, it certainly is not going to be a huge burden on the community. [More…]

• I also remind the Senate that the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, admittedly before the legislation was adopted, took a very wide-ranging series of viewpoints and assessments from a vast range of groups in this community on what the effects of this legislation would be. [More…]

• However, I hope that there will be a response from the community to this widening of the terms of reference to include the effects of the Act on the institution of marriage and the family. [More…]

• I can state from earlier experience in respect of other references that it sometimes seems there is an expectation among members of the community for Senate committees, and or the Government and or the Parliament to make decisions and to work out things on behalf of the community and the nation. [More…]

• In reality, of course, it is the input that comes from the community that helps any committee reach a point of judgment and of decision. [More…]

• I hope that concerned organisations, such as community organisations, church, religious and other social organisations within our society, will take note of this opportunity which is now being provided and that in the comparatively short time the Family Law Act has been in force they will have been able to review what its effects have been and give the Committee the benefit of their experience, observation and advice. [More…]

• It is in this way that the report, which I hope will be brought down within a period that makes it effective, will be of benefit not only to the community but also to the nation as a whole. [More…]

• The Government had not accepted that recommendation because such action would have been unnecessarily harsh, particularly following the entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that neither the Government nor some of the community recognises this. [More…]

• Cuts in community health program spending will mean drastically reduced services by women’s health centres and refuges, despite increased demands and increased costs. [More…]

• Department of Community Welfare- DCW has funds to enhance the welfare of children in refuges- but cannot contribute towards the running costs of refuges. [More…]

• How can a support service of this nature, which is so necessary in our community, continue without any public funding from June until September 1978 and on the premise, rather than on the promise, that someone from Canberra is going to come to assess the situation shortly. [More…]

• As I have already said, cuts in community health program spending will mean drastic reduction in the number of services provided by women’s health centres and refuges despite increased demand and costs, and the figures are there to prove not only increased costs but also increased demand. [More…]

• In the light of information which has subsequently appeared in the Press, one has to ask whether or not she was really planted by a section of the community simply for the purpose of causing industrial unrest. [More…]

• I have some concern in this area because I had already written to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) some weeks earlier. [More…]

• I wrote to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 23 August. [More…]

• This report is based on a submission by this Division to the Commonwealth Department for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It does not provide a valid assessment of community attitude towards Alcoa. [More…]

• The scientific validity of the survey on community attitudes is difficult to assess. [More…]

• Question 24 (Appendix F) asks people to rank the benefits given to the community by Alcoa. [More…]

• The survey correctly points out that there was very little knowledge within the community about Alcoa’s activities. [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…]

• There also has been concern expressed in the wider community about the nature of the Bill. [More…]

• Finally, I would like to make some comments about the concern expressed by historians and scholars in our community as to the effect of the very restrictive nature of some of the provisions of the Bill on the ability of historians and scholars to have access to material of historical interest. [More…]

• This provision is totally unacceptable to the Opposition and I believe to the wider community. [More…]

• Criticisms have been made by some members of the community and those are matters which much more appropriately ought to be investigated by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• We will in fact use the advantages of other people in the community who we believe are capable of assisting the Committee in its work. [More…]

• We hope that it will not be too long before the Committee comes back to the Senate with a report which would not only express views but also would be part of the educational process of the community. [More…]

• By this I have in mind the possibility that there is some lack of knowledge both in this Senate and in the community as to what freedom of information might involve. [More…]

• It is crucially necessary that this Parliament and, through it, the community at large be given the detailed opportunity which this reference affords to give the Bill the fullest possible scrutiny, not just from the cautious, protective perspective of the Executive and the Public Service itself, but also from the perspective of those who are dedicated to making Australian government, whatever party is in power, more open, more responsive and more attractive to the people it is supposed to serve. [More…]

• It is possible to produce good tough freedom of information legislation which will balance the rights and interests of the community generally against the necessary demands of government, and I am confident that this is what will be recommended by the Committee. [More…]

• There are many other areas relating to the Archives Bill, and I hope that the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts can examine not only the Bill but also alert the people at large to the role of archives in the total circumstances of community thinking, which should be in relation to documents and other materials that concern archives generally. [More…]

• The Committee has actually received favourable comment from people like Professor Ian Webster, who is Professor of Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Professor Ryan of the University of Queensland, Dr Hetzel, the Chief of the Division of Human Nutrition of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, and various authorities, such as the Australian Foundation of Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the Uniting Church in Australia. [More…]

• Other people in the community, without reading the report and without really considering the problems and the recommendations, immediately made judgments of this type. [More…]

• It is this sort of attitude to this report and its findings which is so often seen in the community in the debate on the drug problem itself. [More…]

• Because our resources are finite it is important that the community comes to realise that we have to establish a list of priorities in dealing with this problem as with any other problem and that when one considers the volume most of our problems lie in the field of alcohol and tobacco. [More…]

• We must realise that the big problem is alcohol and that the second big problem is tobacco and we must get the community to realise that. [More…]

• We must realise that we must overcome those vested interests if we are going to get anywhere and accept that they have the right to express those views; but we must reply to them with hard facts, where we have them, and with hard data and not with the same sort of emotional arguments which are so often used right across the broad spectrum of the drug debate in this community. [More…]

• In fact the split in the Committee reflects very much the division in the community. [More…]

• We would have had a false report, I believe, if the Committee had reached a unanimous report in view of the state of our knowledge of cannabis and the state of the political nature of our community because the community, as the report said, is polarised over the use of cannabis. [More…]

• The problem of dealing with the policy on cannabis in the community is aggravated, as it is so often in the fields of social welfare and medical policy, by a lack of certainty about the facts and a certain amount of conflict about those facts and figures which are available. [More…]

• The first thing to remember, I believe, is that although cannabis has been known since antiquity, has been used commonly in all sorts of civilisations over the years, was once legal in this community and was once used quite frequently by the medical profession in this community, we in fact still know less about its biochemistry, its metabolism, its use and its distribution in the community than we know about many other drugs and medicinal compounds which we use. [More…]

• In some societies such as Jamaica, as honourable senators know, it is a very commonly used recreational drug and is accepted throughout the community. [More…]

• We had surveys in the community made by people from universities in Sydney, New South Wales and Melbourne and we had surveys done in schools in Queensland, but we still could not be sure of the accuracy of those surveys. [More…]

• This was reflected in our other means of knowing how much cannabis is used in the communitythe figures for people who are convicted of the illegal use of various cannabis substances. [More…]

• I think that this is accepted as a factual sort of a statement by all thinking people who realise what is going on in the community. [More…]

• The second task that we as parliamentarians have in taking legislative action concerning the abuse of a substance like cannabis is to determine what we should do in the face of very firm community attitudes. [More…]

• As I have said, the community is polarised over the use of cannabis. [More…]

• We must recognise the very real prejudices which exist in the community. [More…]

• As the Committee reported, there is in our own community an increasing knowledge of cannabis; there is an increasing availability of information about cannabis; and there is also an increasing availability of misinformation about cannabis, from both sides of the argument. [More…]

• Yet this discredited example is repeatedly thrown up as a reason for banning the use of cannabis of any form in the community. [More…]

• One only has to consider the myths in this country about the merits or demerits of alcohol to realise how much misinformation on this sort of subject is fed into the community. [More…]

• This was a time of great hysteria about the use of drugs in the community and when talk of marihuana being a drug of addiction, the source of all crime, and that it affected people’s sexual behaviour was common. [More…]

• Such productions have not resulted in a decrease in its use, nor have the penalties that we have introduced in our community; nor have the education methods that we have attempted to use. [More…]

• The other section of the Committee, the majority, took the attitude that there should be a so-called ‘decriminalisation’ approach; that although we wanted to discourage the use of this and other drugs in the community - [More…]

• When the report was seriously written and published- it was backed up by evidence, backed up by a concern on the part of all members of the Committee to improve the situation in this community, and to make it a less intoxicated society and to decrease the use of drugs in the community, licit and illicit - unfortunately the people who backed the majority report on marihuana were subject to the sort of abuse which came from people such as the Premier of Queensland and others. [More…]

• I believe that as a result of this report and more sensible debate we can all look seriously at the problem and consider the approach we will adopt in the community. [More…]

• If we adopt the attitude of many people in the community- adults and legislators- and merely abuse those people who are doing things differently from the way in which we would like them to be done, we will have very real double standards. [More…]

• If we continue this attitude in the community we will maintain this very real division which exists between the older and the younger generations, between conservatives and progressives, radicals or whatever they may be called, between those who live in one suburb and those who live in another. [More…]

• I hope that this report and the result of any debate in this chamber will result in a wider, more sensible and less emotional community approach to the problem so that we will not forever remain an intoxicated society- probably the greatest pillpopping society of the world, the greatest abusers of licit drugs and among the greatest abusers of illicit drugs on this planet. [More…]

• May I first remind honourable senators 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…]

• I feel, as Senator Grimes expressed so well tonight, that we should perhaps look at how the community itself looks at the drug problem. [More…]

• 1 problem in Australia, but I believe that the community at large does not see it in that way. [More…]

• So I really wonder how far even our report will get in convincing the community that the number one evils are tobacco and alcohol. [More…]

• I agree that the community is very deeply divided about the pros and cons of cannabis. [More…]

• I believe that if we were to decriminalise the smoking of cannabis in small amounts for private use, as the honourable senators who wrote the majority report wanted to do, we would run the risk of increasing its usage in the community. [More…]

• Would any honourable senator want to introduce the use of another drug that does as much damage as alcohol does in our community? [More…]

• Would any of us deliberately encourage the use of another drug that does as much damage as alcohol does in the community? [More…]

• Thus, whilst I agree that debate should take place on the proposition that all in the community have the right to share the available work - [More…]

• He said: ‘All in the community have the right to share the available work’. [More…]

• That is an amazing statement- ‘all in the community have the right to share the available work’. [More…]

• Whilst it may be fairly easy for people to say ‘rot’ and ‘nonsense’, it is also necessary for them, if they have some long term commitment to trying to do something to assist young people in the community, to come to grips with the problem. [More…]

• The fact is that that newspaper article and many other articles have demonstrated that we are talking about approximately one-third of the young people in our community who are put in the position of breaching the law quite simply because the law as it stands at the moment has been made and maintained for less than good reason. [More…]

• I advert also to comments made before another inquiry by a person whom I believe has some standing in the community in terms of being able to make remarks about the medical nature of this problem. [More…]

• I believe that we have to reach a situation in which when we come to deal with significant matters that affect the Australian community and a particular section of the Australian community we have to be able to do it in a sense of greater rationality than has occurred in the past. [More…]

• Very few people, I believe, have made as much of an important contribution to the Australian community as that which is being made at the moment by the royal commission sitting in South Australia. [More…]

• -My view on this is that there comes a stage when, in attempting to balance the requirements of what one might call some sort of social protection and the requirements of the civil liberties of the individual, one has to move towards saying that those who are prepared to consume or partake of this particular drug in a way that causes no offence to the community, and refrain from any activity such as being in control of a motor vehicle or anything of that nature should be allowed - [More…]

• I believe that anything which involves the situation of so many young people in this community is a matter for community debate. [More…]

• Some time ago- in fact more than a century ago- when John Stuart Mill was writing about the rights and responsibilities of the individual, he wrote that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over a member of a civilised community against his will is to prevent harm to others. [More…]

• Therefore, what a junior member of the Senate can do is at least to indicate to people in the community who are concerned about a particular point of view that there is somebody who at least is prepared to be sympathetic, somebody who is prepared to consider the fact that old solutions demonstrably are not working and that new solutions demonstrably are required. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy President, I wish to address my remarks also to the marihuana question and to place on record my belief which is known in the Tasmanian community that the social and recreational use of small amounts of marihuana for personal use ought not to attract a criminal penalty. [More…]

• In fact, I would discourage its consumption as a matter of caution, even though the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare remarked that given the length of time cannabis has been in use, nothing has manifested itself in the community in the form of physical ill-health directly attributable to cannabis use. [More…]

• We are particularly concerned about the development of sub-cultures associated with the use of alcohol and drugs that seem to lead to alienation from families and the general life of the community. [More…]

• This would take marihuana trafficking out of the hands of the criminal element and allow the community to establish its effects rationally in a Western industrialised society. [More…]

• Law must keep close to the moral sense of the community and the moral sense of the community must inspire law. [More…]

• This is not repressive of minority opinion because in a civilised and Christian community tolerance of differing moral viewpoints and practices will be part of that general moral sense. [More…]

• I believe it is not inimical to the general health of the community. [More…]

• The mandate of that committee was to monitor community opinion within Tasmania. [More…]

• It amazes me, for example, that he is unaware that the concepts of job satisfaction, automation, dehumanisation and the social implications that flow from them in the industrial arena have been discovered in modern research and technology to have strong parallels with some of the traditional social problems of women in our community. [More…]

• One of the things that I find particularly sad about this aspect is that the women in the community who are attempting to organise themselves politically do so from a certain disadvantage compared with most men. [More…]

• It is very sad to see these women’s groups exploited by male politicians who are well practised in the art of exploitation of community groups. [More…]

• He puts forward a point of view which has legitimacy, certainly, amongst a certain section of the community but which, I suggest, has no general legitimacy. [More…]

• His open and amiable personality led to an immediate and positive response from the world community. [More…]

• I believe that the meeting was arranged by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs because of some concern that had been expressed to him by members of the Greek community. [More…]

• May I add that in the meantime should any member of the community wish to seek information on the general nature of correspondence concerning the ABC I would be only too willing to assist. [More…]

• an inquiry into the grant of a licence for a translator, or television repeater station or for a community television aerial system where there is a single applicant only and no submissions objecting to the licence are received; [More…]

• 1 ) Is the total annual cost of the Special Broadcasting Service to the Australian community for the year 1977-78 $ 1 ,00 1 ,000, as indicated by the revised estimates. [More…]

• Considerations of defence, including those also put forward by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in its October 1 977 report, were weighed most carefully before the Government arrived at the conclusion that the cost to the community of the assistance needed to protect the industry’s future in Australia was well beyond that justified on economic, social and defence grounds. [More…]

• The stores are owned and operated by community associations which employ both Aboriginal and nonAboriginal staff. [More…]

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

• Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Is it a fact that in 1 978-79 the Federal Government will spend 9c per head on national sport, $1.86 per head on the arts and approximately $200 per head on health? [More…]

• Does this pattern show that the Liberal Government in the last three years has been able in each year successively to achieve its aim not only to provide fully for the hospitals required in the community but also to consolidate spending and ensure value for money in public expenditure on hospitals in Australia? [More…]

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

• As a responsible member of the international community, Australia has obligations 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…]

• 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…]

• It conducted a public inquiry to which all members of the community had access. [More…]

• For example, in May 1977 an Australian National Opinion Polls survey conducted in the Australian Capital Territory investigated community attitudes towards abortion and the establishment of abortion clinics in Canberra. [More…]

• It would seem that the Minister for Health, Mr Hunt, has preferred the advice of Cabinet, a group of men who are not answerable to the people of the Australian Capital Territory, to that of the representatives of the community affected by his decision. [More…]

• 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…]

• At the same time, the increased unemployment benefit payable and other commitments mean that any government has to be assured of obtaining adequate revenue without lumping the burden of tax on to a section of the economy or the community which cannot afford to pay it or which is unequally bearing the burden. [More…]

• Had it not been for the pressures- I might add they were pressures from the Opposition and also from a whole range of community groups throughout Australia- the Government would have attacked family allowances much more severely than it did and would have means tested income earned by children; what has become widely known as the ‘newsboys’ tax’. [More…]

• The harshness of these measures will fall on blue collar workers just as much as they will fall on any other section of the community. [More…]

• We believe that if the Government is serious in trying to help people own their own homes, the removal of housing loan interest as an allowable deduction is an attack on the low income earners and particularly on young people in the community who bought their homes in the expectation and belief that interest payments would be deductible. [More…]

• If one considers the February so-called tax cuts, the phoney tax cuts, the tax cuts heralded with handfuls of counterfeit money and the November increase, one sees that 55 per cent of the Australian community- people without dependants and people with dependants on about the average weekly income level- will be worse off as a result of these two packages of tax cuts and tax rises put together. [More…]

• The table which I will seek to have incorporated shows that it is those people in the community with incomes of between $ 1 14 and $200 a week who will suffer most as a result of this proposal from ‘a government for all the people’, as the Prime Minister reminded us in 1977. [More…]

• The Government rationale on this discriminatory little taxation impost which affects a poorer section of the community- the wage earners of Australia- is absurd and shows again that this Government in its taxation policy takes no account of its industrial policy. [More…]

• He does not get a big dollop of superannuation to tide him over as do honourable senators or other people in the community who are on high incomes. [More…]

• But, more than that, the Government has shifted the burden of these taxation measures again- not to the wealthy people, but from the wealthy people of this community to the poor people of this community. [More…]

• It is certainly something which I do not believe anybody in the community would enjoy paying. [More…]

• Rather of course it takes the sensational publicity seeking line of trying to create some sort of impression in the community that disaster lies ahead. [More…]

• In fact it is quite obvious from the way in which the Budget has been received in the stock exchanges and overseas that it is clearly establishing a basis for sound investment in the Australian community. [More…]

• To compare post-graduate awards with incomes that are applicable generally in the community is not the way to look at this particular problem. [More…]

• A post-graduate student is receiving extra benefit from the community by receiving approximately three times as much as an undergraduate student. [More…]

• As the power to distribute wealth is transferred to Australian governments, it is natural that individuals and groups in the community at large will look to those governments to meet more and more of their needs, whether it is reasonable to do so. [More…]

• In Australia today we require the impetus that only a confident business community can generate. [More…]

• In the longer term, if we are to meet the needs of the needy and less fortunate in the Australian community we need to free private industry from the constraints of big government and from government intervention. [More…]

• I think that any person who has a conceptual understanding of these matters and who has any objectivity will recognise that an acceptable measure of the burden of taxation in the community is the amount paid in tax expressed as a proportion of gross domestic product. [More…]

• That is a highly relevant indicator of the true burden of taxation on the community. [More…]

• Of course, some major blunders were incorporated in the changes which Mr Fraser thrust upon the Government and the community. [More…]

• We have this impost on the Australian petroleum consumer- farmers, country people, everyone in the community- because the Government caved in under pressure from BHP and dropped the resources tax which it had promised in the 1977 Budget. [More…]

• Many people in the community work those 40 hours and then move on to a second part time job. [More…]

• As I understand taxation- if there is any equity in it whatsoever- its purpose should be to bring about some redistribution of wealth and to tax that section of the Australian community which is able to pay. [More…]

• It brings in taxation that reduces that capacity, failing to recognise that these very measures reduce the capacity, by some 60 per cent, of consumer demand in the Australian community. [More…]

• If we are to take any cognisance of what the community believes about the- Government’s strategy, we can look at a further- increase in bank savings deposits which are up by $ 160m in the past month. [More…]

• Yet if one examines the Budget documents and the basis upon which this legislation is being considered by the Parliament, one finds that it is that section of the community that owns so little of the wealth that is contributing the greatest proportion of taxes to the Government. [More…]

• I do not claim to be an expert on taxation measures any more than practically everybody in the community. [More…]

• We have to consider our international situation and how we line up with the other members of the international trading community. [More…]

• It has the community at large in utter confusion. [More…]

• I suspect that if that news filters out into the community it will be regarded as very good news indeed. [More…]

• It seems highly unlikely that the Labor Party would have gone out to the community promising to increase taxation through inflation. [More…]

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

• Did the Minister receive in his mail this morning a release from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development listing government funding for sport in 1978-79? [More…]

• I can only suggest to the honourable senator that those sums may bear some relation to the number of people in the Australian community who participate in those respective sports. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware that students at the Darwin Community College are concerned about the future of the College when responsibility for education is transferred to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in July 1979? [More…]

• I am deeply interested in the future of the Darwin Community College in all its aspects including its subsidiary at Alice Springs. [More…]

• In the first instance the Community College will be part of the responsibility of a Minister in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and will become an integrated part of the education responsibility of the Director of Education. [More…]

• Senator Robertson may know that only last week I spent considerable time in the Northern Territory, amongst other things discussing these aspects with the Darwin Community College and the department. [More…]

• With the acceptance of, for example, the taxation of other income maintenance payments I think we are simply adopting the principle that people in the community get their income in a variety of ways- some by personal exertion, some by transfer payments from government and all the rest. [More…]

• But in general one can say that, however a person gets his income, he ought to bear a fair share of the tax which is levied on the whole community. [More…]

• Government members in this chamber are vitally divided on an issue of whether the average taxpayer has to subsidise certain people in the community. [More…]

• If the debate on this clause has done nothing else it has at least brought people out into the open to let everyone in the community see where they stand. [More…]

• It is penalising people in the community who cannot take annual leave when they want to take it. [More…]

• I certainly accept- I am sure the Government does also- that there will be people in the community whose expectations have been affected. [More…]

• I would have thought that in general one should be looking for a tax system which falls evenly and fairly on the community. [More…]

• The wealthy section of the community should not be able to use the many loopholes to avoid paying tax while the wage earner has no avenues at all to get himself off the hook with his taxation payments. [More…]

• Budget receipts as a proportion of gross domestic product on average for the three Labor Budgets were 24.8 per cent and for the three coalition Budgets 26.1 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…]

• That is not the result of policies honestly applied, given the firm undertakings of the Government that they would reduce the total burden of revenue raisings imposed on the community. [More…]

• It means that the community is paying SI, 300m more in revenue on average this year than was the case on average for the three years of the Labor Government. [More…]

• The only reason for arguing that a percentage increase occurred is that people were getting a bigger share of the money that was available in the community. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 4 April 1978: [More…]

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

• and (3) Yes, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development considered the final overview report of 14 July 1977 can now be made public. [More…]

• However, the community is still deeply divided in its attitude and the second report has not helped, by not providing a clear policy directive. [More…]

• The scientific community is still divided on the issue with eminent scientists expressing both support of and opposition to the mining and export of uranium. [More…]

• The medical community is similarly divided. [More…]

• A statement supporting uranium mining and prepared by the Uranium Producers’ Forum has been signed by a group of doctors (representing 2 per cent of the Australian medical community). [More…]

• The conservation groups and the umbrella organization- Movement Against Uranium Mining (MAUM)- a growing national coalition of trade unions, environmental, women’s, church, peace and other community groups have continued to urge for a 5-year moratorium, claiming that this is in concurrence with the recommendations of the second Fox report. [More…]

• This decision may influence the attitudes of some of the Australian community and is likely to be a very significant influence on the decision to be taken by the ACTU at their annual conference. [More…]

• If a moratorium took place and the doubts about uranium mining were dispelled during that time it is possible that the community may become less divided in its attitudes. [More…]

• In 1979 an amount of $500,000 will be provided, which will be concentrated mainly on stimulating the teaching of community languages in schools. [More…]

• The Government believes that, by broadening the class of organisation 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…]

• This important position in the community was being filled for the first time. [More…]

• However, these allegations were denied by both Pancontinental and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom. [More…]

• A report of this survey was prepared and copies sent to the Minister and secretary of the Departments of Environment, Housing and Community Development and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• Dean will arrange for all relevant papers to bc translated into the languages chosen by each community. [More…]

• Dean will send all papers, tape recordings and video tapes to each community before the consultative panel goes to that community. [More…]

• Dean will draw up a program for the consultative panel to visit each community. [More…]

• Dean will contact each community and discuss the program with them so that it fits in with the community. [More…]

• any person who the Co-ordinator might think should be at a particular community meeting. [More…]

• No other balanda can come to any consultation meeting unless the community approves. [More…]

• After each community has been visited by the consultative panel the community will be left alone to think about it. [More…]

• After the first visit a community can call the panel back if it wants. [More…]

• The time which the panel stays at a community will be decided by the Co-ordinator and the leaders of that community. [More…]

• At the next Northern Land Council meeting about the Ranger Agreement, any councillor who thinks his community needs more time can ask the other councillors for more time. [More…]

• I am the chairman of the Warruwi Council Incorporated, the Community Council for Goulburn Island in the said Territory, and I am also a duly elected counsellor for the community on the Northern Land Council, and I have been duly appointed as a counsellor by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• Before I was called to that meeting I was not informed that this was to be the final meeting and that there would be no further opportunity to discuss the matter with my council and my community. [More…]

• At the meeting Mr Leo Finlay of Boroloola said that he needed more time to consider that matter and discuss it with his community, but Mr Yunupingu refused to allow further time, and Leo Finlay and Mr Arthur Young, also from Borroloola, left the meeting before the voting was taken. [More…]

• All of these people were not prepared to come along and support the Ranger Agreement because they felt they had not had enough time to consider the matter and in particular discuss the matter with their own community. [More…]

• I went to the meeting as a representative of the community of Goulburn Island and I believed that I would be given an opportunity to report to the community on the negotiations which Mr Zorn had carried out on behalf of the Northern Land Council. [More…]

• The community is very concerned about the proposals for the following reasons: [More…]

• the Goulburn Island community is worried about more white people coming into the area and are worried about the affect that this will have upon the Aboriginal people living in the Alligator Rivers area; [More…]

• the Goulburn Island community is also concerned that the Aboriginal people get a fair percentage of the monies and we are not happy that this was achieved. [More…]

• As chairman of the Warruwi Council, I am aware that the Goulburn Island community have not been consulted and have not been given the chance to express their views to the land council either through me or direct as to the proposed agreement or its terms. [More…]

• Members of that community had requested an opportunity to attend the meeting on the Arnhem Highway, but were advised that the chairman of the Northern Land Council had given an undertaking that no decision on the proposed Agreement would be taken until members of our community arrived at the meeting, and that the meeting would be extended until the following week in order for our people to attend. [More…]

• In breach of this undertaking, the Agreement was discussed and voted upon and the meeting closed several days prior to the date on which we understood the members of our community were to arrive. [More…]

• As a result of discussions held at Goulburn Island since my return, I am aware that all adult members of the community on Goulburn Island are most concerned that the undertaking was broken, and that they were not given an opportunity to consider the terms of the agreement by the chairman of the Northern Land Council. [More…]

• At no stage, to my knowledge, has the Northern Land Council consulted with the Goulburn Island community on the Agreement as is required by paragraphs A and B in subsection 3 of section 23 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, and I respectfully seek the relief set out in the Originating Summons. [More…]

• We were not informed that following this meeting there would be no further opportunity to discuss the Ranger Agreement with our Community. [More…]

• I am one of the plaintiffs herein and I am chairman of the Minjilang Community Incorporated, the community council for the aboriginal community on Croker Island. [More…]

• I am one of three representatives of the Croker Island community on the council of the Northern Land Council having been duly elected and confirmed by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• When I was asked to the meeting I was not told that this was to be the final meeting and that there would be no further chance to discuss the matter with my community. [More…]

• 1 represent the Croker Island community and they are very interested indeed in the land the subject of the agreement as many of the people there have family and ceremonial and language ties with the Aligator Rivers area and the Oenpelli people. [More…]

• Our community is also concerned about the possibility of the land and the waterways being poisoned by the mine, not only for ourselves but for the white people who may go into the area. [More…]

• The community also feels that the aboriginal people should be given the best possible deal on royalties to compensate for the loss of use of the land, and we were not happy that this was the best that could be done as far as royalties were concerned. [More…]

• My community have told me repeatedly that they want if possible for the land to stay as it is and as it was in our grandfathers’ times. ] [More…]

• After the meeting the Croker Island community have instructed me to ask for further time to think about it and give an opportunity for the Land Council to come and discuss it with them. [More…]

• We have at no stage even seen the proposed Agreement on Croker Island and I could not explain its complicated terms to the members of my community on the basis of the things that James told us. [More…]

• I take exception also to your inference that the Aboriginal Community on Goulburn Island have not the conviction to stand up for those things they hold sacred to themselves and need outside pressure to do so. [More…]

• This community has made a stand and will not allow untoward pressures to be placed upon them to follow a course of action that can only result in a situation that will be highly unacceptable to them. [More…]

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

• The following table shows, at various times, the number of staff in Environment, Housing and Community Development directly involved in the Housing Allowance Experiment since its inception: [More…]

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

• and (2) The Alcoholism in Industry Program, conducted by the Australian Foundation on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (AFADD), is fully funded by the Commonwealth under the Community Health Program (CHP) as a national project designed to combat alcohol abuse. [More…]

• In addition, most general community health projects have a particular emphasis on prevention, including prevention in relation to abuse of alcohol. [More…]

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

• That we as citizens of Australia with a great love and concern for our country, fear that this budget will bring dishonour and disgrace by increasing poverty and crime and will sow the seeds of violence within our democratic community. [More…]

• The Government has no doubt that the United States recognises the importance of the agreement and of its responsibilities to the international sugar community. [More…]

• does not mean the Federal community, but the Government of the Commonwealth acting through any of its agencies or instrumentalities. [More…]

• Is the Government saying to the middle-aged bachelors or spinsters or widows or widowers in this country who have no dependants, who have lost their jobs through technological change or structural change and who cannot get jobs because of their age that they are less worthy than others in the community? [More…]

• These people are the poorest of the poor in the community. [More…]

• He seems to have a pathological desire to kick the less fortunate in the community in the teeth, and his colleagues go along with it. [More…]

• The migrant community, rightly or wrongly, is deeply suspicious of the restrictions introduced on the payment of family allowances and other benefits overseas. [More…]

• Are there not some handicapped persons perhaps- I have no means of knowing- who, because of their disability, need more years to develop their skills and to develop self-reliance in the community and who are still getting this benefit or who may qualify for this benefit in the future? [More…]

• Perhaps the most important measure that we have introduced is the indexation of taxes because that has assisted everyone in the community. [More…]

• Although it is far in excess of the 250,000 which he said should be the mark at which the minimum wage should be paid he is reducing or effectively reducing unemployment benefit for a significant section of the community- the people who will not receive automatic adjustments, that is, the people with no dependants and those who are under 18 years of age. [More…]

• The fact that it changed the proposals for this tax very quickly meant to many people in the community that for the first time the Budget had become a negotiable Budget. [More…]

• While the incomes of the rest of the community will be indexed twice a year, pensioners- the people least able to cope- will get an increase only once, with an indefensible time lag built in at that. [More…]

• It has attracted a considerable amount of correspondence from a number of people in the community. [More…]

• It may seem to a lot of people that a fairly paltry sum is involved; but let me assure you, Mr Acting Deputy President, that there are any number of mothers in the community who find it a most welcome relief to be able to afford a few essentials- not luxuries- that are always associated with the birth of a child. [More…]

• I do not believe that we have a very great proportion of the unemployed in our community who we can honestly say are dole bludgers. [More…]

• They are not able to form the pressure groups that unionists and other people are able to form and, even though I do not like to have to speak against the Government which I know has done a lot in this country to correct the economic ills with which it was left by the Labor Government, I for one when I feel it is necessary will stand up in this place to try to do what I can to ensure that pensioners are treated in a manner that is fair and as similar as possible to the manner in which wage earners in the community are treated. [More…]

• It is my firmly held opinion that most people in the community are decent, law-abiding citizens who would keep their word even at personal expense. [More…]

• The 1978-79 Budget demonstrates that the Liberal National-Country Party Government is committed to assisting those in need in our community. [More…]

• If it does not do so, after the next election- and this may come sooner than many of us anticipate because of the way in which the Government is carrying on- honourable senators opposite will be sitting back on this side of the House and the people of Australia will be able to rejoice because then there will be in office a government with some concern for the people in need in this community. [More…]

• I think that that also needs to be taken into account if we are looking at the overall benefits that flow to pensioners and the whole of the Australian community by a reduction in the rate of inflation. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development should make such a decision. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether he is aware that the Sony Corporation of Tokyo, Japan, has developed a sporting aid machine called the videostrobe and that it can play back all individual movements that make up a continuous motion, thereby enabling the pinpointing of any flaw in the action of an athlete? [More…]

• No doubt, it will be of interest to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom. [More…]

• Has the Minister, representing the Minister for Health seen an estimate in the Australian Journal of Alcoholism and Drug Dependence that the cost to the community of the victims of cigarette addiction was $625m a year in 1975-76? [More…]

• In view of these very high costs to the community of cigarette addiction, would the Minister suggest to her colleagues a levy on the profits of cigarette purveyors to pay for antismoking television advertisements at prime viewing time for young people? [More…]

• Also, will the Minister not limit the definition of ‘teacher aide’ in this context to that applying in the majority of Australian schools, but relate this career directly to the practical needs of the Aboriginal community where these trainees will serve, so that there may be training not only in educational skills but also in health, social work and community development skills? [More…]

• In the Commission’s view the cumulative effects of this continuing tightening of recurrent funds will not only erode the quality of the work in both the universities and colleges but will inhibit innovation and the capacity of institutions to adjust to changing community needs. [More…]

• What the Commission is really asking for is more flexibility to make adjustments to cope with changing community needs. [More…]

• It states, firstly, that the system of study leave has been an important factor in helping to overcome overall isolation from the major centres of research and learning and has enabled Australian scholars to establish a presence in the international community of scholarship out of proportion to Australia’s small population. [More…]

• It stated, thirdly, that study leave schemes have brought many benefits to the institutions, to students and to the community. [More…]

• I understand that the view he expressed is widespread in the community, but it is not widespread amongst graduates on the mainland of Australia. [More…]

• I would have thought that, at this point of Australia’s history, when everybody who is in his right mind- if I might put it that way- is properly concerned about the very rapid social and technological changes which are taking place in this country, the one great issue about which we ought to be concerned is to ensure that we are not isolating ourselves in any way from the international community in relation to those technological and social changes which are taking place in all countries of equivalent economic sophistication to this country. [More…]

• I am just trying to make a general point about the issue and to state that I really think it is very important that Australian scholars are very much in touch with the international community of scholars in relation to the sorts of matters which I have raised. [More…]

• The Government has taken steps which largely nullify the effective work of the Prices Justification Tribunal which is one of the few mechanisms by which the Government’s and community’s interest is protected. [More…]

• An underhand attempt has been made to pay some recognition to the submissions that were made to the Government by the trade union movement through the Australian Council of Trade Unions and by the consumer organisations which represent a very large proportion of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is small wonder that a degree of cynicism is developing within the Australian community about the role of government and the role of parliamentary democracy. [More…]

• The Prices Justification Tribunal was set up to examine and monitor the activities of groups of companies which, because of their concentrated power within the community, were able to set prices without any checks or balances, except through the intervention of the PJT, the Industries Assistance Commission or the Trade Practices Commission. [More…]

• It is a pay-off to big business and the big corporations which have the resources and the capacity and which are obviously in a more superior position than anybody in the community to present a case from time to time to justify their activities and pricing arrangements. [More…]

• Finally, from time to time the Government calls for co-operation from the Australian community. [More…]

• It calls for co-operation from all groups- the trade unions, the consumers and the community at large- to try to assist in some better economic upturn and responses. [More…]

• Actions such as those now announced by the Government will destroy any possibility of community groups, whether they be trade unions or other bodies responding to such blandishments from the Government. [More…]

• In those circumstances the Government’s calls to the community, such as the one in this statement, to assist it in its endeavours to get business confidence going will be at the expense of consumer confidence and community confidence in this Government. [More…]

• That is not factual; it is a farce and the Opposition, the Australian Labor Party, will use every endeavour it can to try to bring about a mobilisation of public opinion in an attempt to get the Government to change its emphasis and to accept its responsibilities to provide guarantees of assistance to all sections of the Australian community, particularly the disadvantaged sections, which had some chance of accepting the deliberations of the PJT in the past but which will now see that even that very minor chance has been taken away by the decision of the Government to dismantle the most effective parts of the PJT. [More…]

• But the provision has caused some disquiet in the migrant community, probably because of the lack of clarification by the Government. [More…]

• This applies particularly to members of the Turkish community who have been actively and vigorously encouraged to come and work in this country for the benefit of this country. [More…]

• But members of the Turkish community and other ethnic communities find that when they come here, in order to acquire reasonable accommodation and a reasonable standard of living, both parents need to work. [More…]

• How many people and what groups in the community will be affected? [More…]

• When changes like this are made which disturb and create suspicion among members of our ethnic community the Government should give its reasons. [More…]

• But if I did agree with the Government’s economic strategy I would not agree that the people we have to take it off are the people over 70 years of age any more than I would agree that the people we have to take if off are the crippled, the blind or any other unfortunate people in the community. [More…]

• Is the Government saying that pensioners should be one of the few sections in the community which can go for 16 months having their pensions, their weekly incomes, eroded to the extent of 7 per cent or 8 per cent a year? [More…]

• Honourable senators who argue that only some people in the community seem to be suffering from this year’s Budget and who instanced people who come within my area of responsibility, overlook the other side of the equation, that is, that funds need to be found to fulfil all of the programs of government. [More…]

• Consideration will need to be given to community reaction to that draft paper and some of the suggestions that are made. [More…]

• The second group comprises the middle aged unemployed who are being put out of work by automation, technological change and structural change in the community; they have particular difficulty, because they have no other skills and because of their age, in finding new jobs. [More…]

• I believe it is an implication that is not justified and there is no justification for separating these people from others in the community. [More…]

• It should be noted that the conference facilities and training room provided in this area are in constant demand for departmental purposes and for meetings between the Department and various community organisations and welfare agencies. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 17 August 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answers to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 13 September 1978: [More…]

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

• Is this further evidence of the ultra-restrictive and unreasonable trade policies of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• With the exception of a number of exemptions affecting a very small proportion of the trade, the EEC authorities require all wine imported into the Community from Australia to be accompanied by a certificate of analysis necessitating detailed testing. [More…]

• This requirement to meet Community analysis and certification procedures is having an increasingly restrictive effect on our opportunities to export wine to the EEC. [More…]

• Exporopportunities have been lost in the United Kingdom, our largest traditional market in the Community, and having to respect these EEC imposed requirements has contributed largely to the rapid decline in wine exports from Australia to the EEC. [More…]

• The effect of the EEC imposing its own domestic standards on Australia has been to further limit the market opportunities for another of our exports to the Community. [More…]

• The Government will be taking up the whole question of our wine trade with the Community particularly with a view to obtaining access to the EEC market for our wine on terms at least equivalent to those we afford the EEC on their exports to Australia. [More…]

• An allocation of some $12m has been made for the support of research of excellence in the Australian community. [More…]

• I do not think that all articles that are written on science are followed by all people within the community. [More…]

• There are some people in the science community who like to have an accurate scientific description of a particular subject. [More…]

• In fact, some scientists get three-year funding for projects, and the 1,459 grants cover an immense area of interest in the scientific community. [More…]

• The Parliament will require the Organisation to carry out scientific research for any of the following purposes: To assist Australian industry; to further the interests of the Australian community; or to contribute to the achievement of Australian national objectives. [More…]

• It must be an Australian national objective, it must be in the interests of the Australian community, that Australian industry be assisted by the research and development efforts of the CSIRO. [More…]

• But once a research project comes to a conclusion Australian industry and, in fact, the Australian community needs to be assured that mechanisms exist for the proper assessment of the commercial viability or possibilities of that particular discovery or improvement in technology. [More…]

• I am wondering whether the Minister will indicate for the help of honourable senators and for the interest of the Australian community whether such guidelines have been formulated in anticipation of the Bill coming into operation and, if so, whether such guidelines might be made available to the Senate even before the publication of CSIRO ‘s report so that we might understand in what context CSIRO is expected to operate in this regard. [More…]

• He went on to indicate certain responsibilities of the scientific community. [More…]

• I believe that we are now facing a situation in which there is a need for an Australian government- any Australian government, Federal or State- to make quite clear its determination to have a national science policy, one which serves as a guide to its future actions and one which identifies the areas which it believes will be best served by the scientific community or, indeed, the areas in which Australia is particularly in need of additional research. [More…]

• The most important point I want to make before dealing with the clauses of the Bill is this: We are now past the time when individual scientists, and science as a whole, are able to proceed along their own merry course without making some clear statement to the community they are alleged to serve about what they are doing, why they are doing a particular piece of research, and the consequences of that piece of research. [More…]

• The one general area in which I am most critical of this legislation, which I think in other respects is a very admirable piece of legislation, is that it does not seem to me to enshrine in legislative form in the way in which I think it should the need for greater public accountability of what people in the scientific community are doing, particularly those who are doing it with public money. [More…]

• Australian philosphers such as John Passmore have already written quite extensively about the growing public distrust of the scientific community. [More…]

• I know that within the current Australian community the concept of being a latter day or small ‘F luddite, whatever term one wants to use, is one that is becoming increasingly fashionable. [More…]

• While I accept that that is a perfectly legitimate role for a government which after all is providing the finance for this Organisation, it simply serves to reinforce the point I was making earlier: That when the Government uses a scientific institution such as CSIRO to undertake a particular piece of research by direction, it has incumbent upon it a responsibility to make it clear to the Australian community why such directions are being given, what results it is hoped they will yield, and what application is likely to arise. [More…]

• The extent to which this will become a useful model for people involved in work which, after all, is being undertaken on behalf of the whole Australian community may serve us very well in the future. [More…]

• I believe that this legislation will enhance its position in the Australian community. [More…]

• I plead with the Minister and all honourable senators that we should now move from these 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 Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• Whilst we may have a very gentle debate at this stage of our history, I am sure that, if we are not careful, in five or ten years time it will be a very bitter one- not necessarily on party political lines- within the Australian community. [More…]

• The first point that I was seeking to make was that the whole debate about the CSIRO and its functions in the Australian community must be seen in the light of the research and development aspects, and the capacity of Australian industryalong the lines referred to by Senator Tate in a quotation from Sir Ian McLennan of the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd- to take advantage of the opportunities which an organisation such as CSIRO offers is immensely important. [More…]

• The whole stress of the Birch report and, indeed, the second reading speech of the Minister was on extending CSIRO ‘s role in industry and in community welfare generally; that is to say the economic welfare of this society. [More…]

• Proposed new section 9 (a) (ii) refers to the furthering of the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• The dissemination of scientific information and technological information throughout the community will be a matter of crucial importance in the next decade or so. [More…]

• Perhaps there is some urgent need for a rationalisation of the various pieces of legislation and the various bodies which exist if we are to achieve an overall thrust in the development of scientific policy and an understanding within the community in regard to the provision of information in achieving the thrust of that scientific policy. [More…]

• Yet if we look at the distribution of research funds at about that time we find that they were quite differently distributed in relation to the occupations in which the community was engaged. [More…]

• Of course, it is their impact on their community which brings about the elevation which CSIRO receives throughout Australia and in international circles. [More…]

• Nevertheless, it exists to serve the interests of the community, rather than those of the scientists in it, and must not be allowed to lose touch with community affairs. [More…]

• The main role should be scientific and technological research in support of Australian industry, community interests and other perceived national objectives and obligations. [More…]

• I hope that that information will be of benefit to the science community and that we will be complying with the excellent advice contained in recommendation No. [More…]

• The value of CSIRO to the nation is accepted on all sides of this Parliament and in the community generally. [More…]

• At the same time there remains a great needindeed, an increasing need- to take into account community and national needs and aspirations. [More…]

• The provisions of this Bill and the full range of initiatives that are being taken by the Government following the Birch committee of inquiry will, I believe, go a long way towards ensuring that the returns to the community for the investment in research will continue to be maximised. [More…]

• This Bill will ensure that CSIRO ‘s management structure is appropriate for the years ahead, that a full and adequate flow of advice is readily available to CSIRO from industry, government and community generally about national needs and priorities, and that the results of research and the information gained during the course of research are transferred effectively to those sections of the community in a position to put them to practical use or to gain practical benefits from them. [More…]

• Yesterday I was approached by members of the Chilean community about a Chilean national named Mr Arroyo who has paid the sum of $500 to this particular legal gentleman and of course for all his efforts, financial and otherwise, he now finds himself an inmate of Villawood Detention Centre. [More…]

• I will leave the matter for the Minister for Administrative Services to transmit the information to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, but I indicate that I raised a matter concerning members of the Latin American community some months ago. [More…]

• Migrants and would-be migrants are amongst the most vulnerable elements in our community’, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Hon. [More…]

• Mr MacKellar said that it is unfortunately true that there are people within the community who are prepared to exploit the vulnerability of migrants and their unfamiliarity with immigration laws and procedures. [More…]

• Senator Evans has chosen to make some comments- he has the right to do so- about aspects, as he sees them, of contemporary West Germany and about what he sees to be some delimitations on freedom in that community. [More…]

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

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Is it a fact that staff ceilings have placed in jeopardy a wide range of safety checks at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission research establishment at Lucas Heights? [More…]

• However, I do not have detailed information from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I suggest that partly the reason is that the Commission as a whole, collectively, is not broadly representative of the Australian community that it is there to serve. [More…]

• But I would suspect- in fact, I know- that many people in the Australian community believe that in many areas of government and in many areas of the provision of services by independent commissions there are areas of waste. [More…]

• I do not believe that the Government has to apologise for imposing some discipline on the ABC and I do not believe it has to be apologetic to the Australian community for doing so. [More…]

• What I know of them suggests to me that the present commissioners are at least as representative, or perhaps even more representative, of the Australian community than those they replaced. [More…]

• I was pleased to see that Senator Ryan committed herself with respect to the recently appointed commissioners who I would have thought could be held up in any company as being people not of any particular bias and people thought of in the community to be representative of the sort of interests which are catered for by the ABC. [More…]

• I will be interested to hear whether Senator Button, who will be following me in this debate, regards Mr Marius Webb as in some peculiar way being more representative of the community that the ABC is supposed to serve and which owns the Australian Broadcasting Commission than Mr David Williamson, Mr Elliott or Mr Ken Tribe. [More…]

• The Australian community is no better represented by a staff member than it is by some other suitably qualified person. [More…]

• Certainly, that is so if my mail is a reflection of what many people in the community think about the ABC now as distinct from a few years ago. [More…]

• Of course, Senator Chaney has said that there is no reason why the ABC should not be disciplined in the same way as everybody else in this community- a stern prefect attitude stemming from Nareen, no doubt. [More…]

• That is a hell of a lot that the Australian community expects from the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and it is very little that the Australian community pays, 4c a day, for all those services. [More…]

• It is related to a problem which involves us all throughout the whole community, that is what can be done to ensure that an economic policy can be pursued which will reduce inflation to a level which is manageable so that the economy can be brought out of the period of recession which world economies have experienced and into a position of growth whereby growth in the ABC and various other areas will then be able to take place. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that the Labor Party is not paying attention to some of the much more important things which concern the ABC and a number of other areas of our total community. [More…]

• But along with everybody else in the community it has had to take those sorts of decisions. [More…]

• I would like to sum up my contribution to this debate by saying that it is acknowledged that the ABC, any more than anybody else in the community, has not had it easy over the past two or three years while this attempt to bring the economy back under control and get it going in the right direction has been taking place. [More…]

• The Commonwealth from now on will be in a different position in relation to services rendered by solicitors from other bodies and from other people in the community. [More…]

• As I have said on previous occasions during debates such as this, it is a great disappointment to those of us who are interested in health care that for all the words that have been spoken in this chamber and in the other chamber, for all the words that have filled the newspapers and been heard on television and radio programs, we have never done anything that really affects the quality of health care in the community. [More…]

• The result of all the changes, particularly in the last two years, has been confusion in the community and an insecurity which is obvious to all members of parliament when they consider the number of inquiries by constituents about the best action for them to take to deal with their health insurance in the future. [More…]

• There are some minor sections of the legislation that we do not oppose, but the major portions of the legislation, which has confused everybody in the community, including members of parliament, we do oppose. [More…]

• The legislation also introduces what we believe is a distasteful concept whereby doctors will be asked to make judgments about who in the community is disadvantaged- what was previously called socially disadvantaged- and therefore will receive their charity. [More…]

• Payments will be made the responsibility of the multiplicity of voluntary health funds in the community and Medibank Private. [More…]

• But doctors, like everybody else in the community, will vary considerably in their judgment. [More…]

• This is 1978 and we should not have people in the community dependent on the charitable whims of others when we can avoid it. [More…]

• It was a system that was accepted by the community. [More…]

• It is important that that universal health scheme pays out to those people in need in the community. [More…]

• This concept of paying only 40 per cent means inadequate payments for medical services in the community. [More…]

• In fact, once we have a proper universal health insurance scheme- this scheme will not provide it- we can then look more correctly at the number of hospital beds in this community and their distribution. [More…]

• We can look at the use of diagnostic and therapeutic services, at their costs and at their cost benefits in the community. [More…]

• We can look at the use and abuse of drug therapy in this community. [More…]

• We can look at the figures that are available with an eye that is not jaundiced or biased by ideological prejudice as to whether the fee for service system really is the most efficient and best system not only for the community but also for the individuals in the community. [More…]

• It is equally likely, perhaps more likely, to deter such families from seeking medical assistance when they really should do so, which may involve the community in much greater costs in the long run. [More…]

• I hope it will co-operate fully because it is a good scheme and it is in the profession ‘s interests and the interests of the community that it should work. [More…]

• This is greatly to be preferred to governments getting in on the act, but self-regulation implies that the profession will be promptly responsive to community needs and will not be unduly pushed around by internal pressure groups. [More…]

• For the past 30 years we have been selecting medical students, not on their compassion or desire to serve the community, but solely on the marks obtained by students at the Higher School Certificate examinations. [More…]

• Is it any longer acceptable that a doctor may make a decision to put a patient in hospital, thus involving the spending of a considerable amount of community money, when that doctor, in his other capacity as an entrepreneur owning a hospital, stands to make a profit from having the hospital beds occupied? [More…]

• This represented a considerable cost saving to the community and also deceased the risk to the patients, some 20 per cent of whom suffer complications purely because of their hospitalisation. [More…]

• By 1990 this over-supply of doctors may well be costing the community more than $ 1,000m a year at present prices for a contribution to the quality of our health care that can best be described as doubtful. [More…]

• If we wish to give incentives to economy in the use of drugs and hospitalisation- as we surely should- the Minister should provide that health maintenance organisations should receive, for each contributor the average amount spent per head of the community by the Government on drugs and private hospital care. [More…]

• Commonwealth public servants already enjoy, in respect of leave loadings, more generous provisions than the bulk of the community. [More…]

• It appears that the Government is so violently opposed to community-owned enterprises, so doctrinaire in its determination to smash Medibank, that it would rather throw hundreds of its employees out of work and pay exorbitant amounts to the private health funds than utilise the talents available within its own Health Insurance Commission. [More…]

• If the community desired such a service for normal pregnancies, the doctors could justify it by saying that they just might pick up something which is abnormal. [More…]

• Is this the sort of service that the Australian community wants? [More…]

• Is this the sort of service that the Australian community is prepared to pay for? [More…]

• If this is what the community wants, we have to ignore the escalating costs and be prepared to pay for the services by taxes. [More…]

• Senator Grimes said tonight that no matter what the Labor Party or this Government introduced the health of the community has not been altered. [More…]

• If we are prepared to accept that, that the health of our community is pretty good, we may opt for reasonable health costs. [More…]

• Honourable senators might say that this is quite a legitimate service, but it is costing the community. [More…]

• If the community wants that sort of service it must be prepared to pay for it by way of taxes. [More…]

• It will apply to every member of the community. [More…]

• The fact is that pensioners and average people in the community, who thought that they understood the health system and health insurance and their Medibank contributions, are totally confused about their entitlements and what they should do about the present situation. [More…]

• I hope, too, that the Minister will explain what should be done by the ordinary citizens in the community who are finding that there is a new environment in which they have to make their health insurance arrangements. [More…]

• It is unfair to the so-called disadvantaged people in the community. [More…]

• There is no evidence that advertising is necessarily an extra burden on the community. [More…]

• What an exciting thing it is for the Australian community that the automotive industry is able to find that now, under the antiinflation and lower interest rates programs of this Government, it is cost competitive with the free world. [More…]

• Certainly over the years we have seen scientific advances which obviously have made food in its various forms much more acceptable to the community. [More…]

• One of the problems which arises with legal aid is that it assists only those people in the community who are in the worst financial circumstances. [More…]

• We have not yet devised a legal aid system which assists people in the community who perhaps ordinarily are in a reasonable financial position but who cannot in many cases afford the high costs of legal assistance. [More…]

• The public, it appears, will subsidise the needs of the business community. [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…]

• My members have at considerable length examined the contents of this Bill which seems to restrict alarmingly Police powers in the state of Queensland and would render virtually impossible the upholding of law and order amongst the coloured members of our community. [More…]

• It will be seen that in each state the numbers of Aborigines are recorded together with the percentage of the total population added to which are figures in respect to the Torres Strait Islanders who also may be found amongst our coloured community. [More…]

• Far too frequently in recent years Queenslanders have been described as being racist and oppressive of the Aborigine community, a statement which is completely lacking in fact and totally and completely unacceptable. [More…]

• Over a long period of time the Queensland Police Union has had considerable dealings with the coloured community of this State and we have always found that the Law as it is presently framed particularly with respect to the ‘Aborigine questioning’ leaves nothing to be desired in guaranteeing the community of Queensland a proper and complete law enforcement program. [More…]

• Far too frequently in recent years, Queenslanders have been described as being racist and oppressive of the Aboriginal community, a statement which is completely lacking in fact, and totally and completely unacceptable. [More…]

• The shift in the taxation system will take $3,200m, or $3.2 billion, from the poorer section of the community. [More…]

• But when the Budget was produced in mid-August of this year we discovered that it contained a whole number of taxation increases affecting people right across the community. [More…]

• This added burden will be felt not only by workers on lower incomes but also by other disadvantaged sections of the community, in particular the children of this country, who will suffer as a result of the severe cuts in education that have been made in this Budget. [More…]

• Another section of the community has been seriously disadvantaged. [More…]

• The housing program which had been well initiated by the Labor Government between 1972 and 1975 has virtually been abandoned, for all practical purposes, on every Aboriginal community in Australia. [More…]

• Mr Lanely, who is chairman of the island’s Gunamamanda Community Council, was addressing a UNESCO seminar on the role of museums in preserving indigenous cultures. [More…]

• Those were the words of Larry Lanely who, prior to his sacking, was Chairman of the Mornington Island Community Council. [More…]

• Of course, Thursday Island is the island with the biggest population in the Torres Strait, lt also has on it an Aboriginal reserve known as Tamwoy Town, which is devoted solely to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The wages of the workers who have to meet this added impost can be calculated from the fact that the Chairman of the Community Council receives a fortnightly pay of $33. [More…]

• The other four or five councillors on the Community Council receive $26.40 a fortnight. [More…]

• I will finish on that note and say that this Government is becoming more secretive day by day and ought to be looking closely at what damage this is doing to the Australian community. [More…]

• It seems that it is a further example of the Fraser Government ‘s willingness to downgrade the effectiveness of concessional services provided to the Australian community or some sections of it. [More…]

• All the expert evidence on this matter was to the effect that, despite sometimes sincere and dedicated effort on the part of all concerned to avoid such results, 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 within the Aboriginals. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the agreement and memoranda of lease associated with the lease of stage 1 of the proposed Kakadu National Park, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• That the Minister for Administrative Services read the text of the statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [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 senators, members and the community at large, would like to see this achieved as soon as possible. [More…]

• It is very worrying to find increasing access by the European Economic Community to the world markets and to several of the markets that we have traditionally chosen to supply. [More…]

• The funding of Aurukun Community Incorporated Pty Ltd is on an ad hoc basis, as is the funding of the co-operative at Mornington Island. [More…]

• If that money is allocated in the way in which I see it being allocated then obviously it will not be enough to sustain that community. [More…]

• Until yesterday’s story from Canberra, all leaders of the Aurukun community had claimed they were happy with the way things were going up there’, the officials of the Department of Local Government said. [More…]

• The Aurukun and Mornington Island shires administrator, Mr Ken Brown, had reported that residents at both former reserves were co-operative and interested in his work leading up to fresh community elections. [More…]

• I make an appeal to all sections of the community to listen to the story that the Mornington Island delegation is telling while it is here and which it will tell when it travels further south to other areas next week, and to listen also to the story that the Aurukun people are telling. [More…]

• It was a rather quick trip through six or seven different countries, not all of which are connected with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I should have thought that it would consist of not only environmentalists but also laymen who have a sincere desire to see that the Great Barrier Reef is maintained as a single ecosystem- people who realise its importance and know its worth to the community at large. [More…]

• In that regard I refer not only to the Australian community but also to the world community at large. [More…]

• He is also the present Director of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The contribution from the Australian people will give the National Library of Australia a continuing connection with Papua New Guinea, a continuing interest in its library services and, indeed, a continuing involvement in all the benefits that a library brings to any community. [More…]

• The film collection, which is of considerable value, has some 6,000 titles and will be of the greatest assistance in the development of library services to the community of Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• I am indeed very well pleased with it and I am sure it will be a great asset to the community of Papua New Guinea and form a worthy independence gift. [More…]

• Alongside all of this is a series of services described as public library and lending facilities, which means that the material relating to a national library also has a community relationship with particular community benefits. [More…]

• There is a series of lending services and these lending services extend to all libraries throughout Papua New Guinea- the provincial libraries, the community libraries and indeed to school libraries. [More…]

• Mr Prime Minister, I am sure that the people of Papua New Guinea will find this National Library an invaluable part of the life of the community. [More…]

• We hope that the National Library will be an essential part of the research facilities in New Guinea; a place to be enjoyed; a source of creative leisure activities; a national archive and repository for all important national documents: a storehouse of a vital part of the nation’s history and culture, preserved for present and future generations; a place for thought, creation and stimulus for ideas; and a meeting place, a focal point of community life. [More…]

• I will refer the honourable senator’s question to Mr Staley to underline the concern which is felt in the community about this matter. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development advise the Senate of the estimated value of the advances in 1978-79 to State land commissions or councils? [More…]

• I refer to a series of community service commercials produced by Channel 10 in Sydney which run under the slogan ‘Have a Go Australia’. [More…]

• I stress that education, being of such significant value to the community, is one of the few essential products that offers very little consumer choice. [More…]

• Does he agree that considerable community and social problems emanate therefrom? [More…]

• -I have no doubt at all that the community is in substantial agreement with Professor Chipman ‘s remarks. [More…]

• There is a widespread feeling throughout the community that the basic skills have not been developed sufficiently in the schools. [More…]

• There is a widespread recognition that this is a major community problem. [More…]

• Secondly, of course, in the past 20-odd years the pattern of immigration has changed the whole face of the community. [More…]

• The question of school examinations can rouse fretful instincts throughout the community, particularly at this time of the year. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that there is widespread concern in the Lebanese community in Australia at the inaction of the United Nations in regard to the civil war in Lebanon? [More…]

• A few days later, after the interest rate was set, the line which emerged from the AWGC was that the overall level of interest rates was more important than the particular rate of interest applied by the Primary Industry Bank in relation to interest rates in the community as a whole. [More…]

• -I would be delighted to do so because anybody at all with any understanding of the prevailing interest rates throughout the community will know that long term loans for up to 30 years would be at far higher interest rates commercially than has been prescribed through this Bank. [More…]

• The fundamental error of the Labor Party is that it has not come forward with any comparison between the concessional interest rates of 10 per cent and 12 per cent, which incidentally were reduced yesterday by half of one per cent, and other rates applying throughout the community. [More…]

• The rural community has welcomed this institution. [More…]

• In fact he did precious little to create a better awareness within the community about the implications of the new financing bank for rural producers. [More…]

• Government was acting in the interests of the rural community, bearing in mind the tremendous problems that faced the rural community through the Depression and particularly in the post war years and the fact that it has moved from a labour intensive industry. [More…]

• Of course in moving from a labour intensive industry to a capital intensive industry there has been a great need for the rural community to be able to use finance in that process of change. [More…]

• In 1975 and 1977 those statements were couched in terms that were very appealing to the rural community. [More…]

• They were obviously baits to get support from that community. [More…]

• But this is subsequent to and follows the decision made by the trading banks last week to reduce their overdraft rates generally throughout the whole of the community. [More…]

• No wonder there is cynicism in the Australian community about parliamentary promises and parliamentary democracy. [More…]

• Little wonder that the Fraser Government is rapidly losing credibility in all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• That would not be terribly popular with the community as a whole. [More…]

• To do that we would have to take toll of the taxpayer very significantly, and that ultimately would not be to the advantage of the primary producer or anyone else in the community. [More…]

• In 1975 it was made clear by Mr Fraser that he was going to form what he then called the ‘Australian Rural Bank’ which would be a bank specifically for the purpose of financing the rural sector of the community and that esentially the bank would provide loans at concessional rates of interest. [More…]

• At the same time even Senator Webster, who was allegedly representing in this place the rural community, complained about the treatment that was being given to the dairy industry by the Labor Government. [More…]

• The answer of course is quite obvious, and it is that the majority of the people in the rural community are not seeking preferential treatment different from that which is available to other sections of the community for normal financing purposes. [More…]

• I suppose that there would be no more inviting bait to dangle in the front of any section of the community than the offer of concessional interest rates on finance. [More…]

• The fact that this is so stands as an absolutely disgraceful monument not only to this Government’s incapacity to keep its word but also to its total indifference to the plight of the less well-off in this community. [More…]

• There has been a spectacular decline in the ability of the legal aid system to meet the real legal aid needs of people in the community who cannot afford to pay legal costs and who desperately need this aid. [More…]

• That is the first way in which that drastic surgery, in terms of the real value of the funds available for legal aid, has operated to the detriment of potential beneficiaries in the community. [More…]

• The second way in which the crisis in funding to which I have adverted has really bitten, and bitten hard, on those people in the community who most need legal aid has been evidenced in the number of cases which have been accepted for aid from the Legal Aid Office and, in turn, the private practitioners to whom the Office refers the bulk of its business. [More…]

• When Federal legal aid was first introduced by Senator Lionel Murphy on behalf of the Whitlam Labor Government it was introduced on the basis that legal advice and assistance should be available as of right to every member of this community. [More…]

• The reality is that legal costs for a simple undefended divorce will be still of the order of $300 or more for any litigant in this area, and this sort of sum is just hopelessly out of the reach of many people in the community. [More…]

• I believe that those lawyers who have the interests of their clients and, indeed, of the community as a whole at heart- there are some still in the profession who satisfy that description- will accept this new imposition reasonably cheerfully if, and it is a very big if, it means that legal aid in the future in fact will be delivered more widely and more effectively than it has been in the last three years and if it means that they will be able to get on with the job of litigating cases and representing people in need and will not be in a position of having to defer endlessly urgent cases and, even worse, in many instances to turn away people who are desperately in need of help and who are just not getting it. [More…]

• It is true that single people whose sole income is the unemployment benefit- we know how many of those people there are now in the community- will just squeeze within the test, to the extent that the current single person’s benefit is $51.45. [More…]

• As a new senator I recognise that my obligations extend far wider than to the people who directly elected me as I now have responsibilities to the whole community of Tasmania- a State that I am proud to represent. [More…]

• North America, the European Economic Community countries and Japan perhaps provide the best examples. [More…]

• Furthermore, they do not recognise many new situations faced by today’s industries or assist in tackling community problems. [More…]

• Let us look at the other side of the coin- the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I know that people from rural areas, such as Senator Maunsell, would agree with me that the European Economic Community countries have adopted a high and mighty attitude now and yet every time there is an earthquake or something like that in Europe they expect Australia and Canada to come to the party. [More…]

• We all try to balance our nationalism with our internationalism and it would be wrong if we got the wrong mix, but I believe that we have to use our foreign ministry in a far more attacking mood, whether it be telling South Korea that it cannot have the best of two worlds or telling the European Economic Community countries that we baled them out in World War II and that we were a party to the martial aid scheme. [More…]

• I know that the star of the film, Burt Reynolds, is a heart throb of some people in the community - [More…]

• I do not unduly want to delay the Senate so I now seek leave to incorporate in Hansard the letter I received from the President of the PolishAustralian Olympic Club, copies of which have been sent to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Premier of New South Wales and the Commissioner for Community Relations, together with a copy of the protest which has been signed by a vast number of people. [More…]

• We hope that you will kindly arrange for this type of discrimination against Poles to end, as soon as possible, as we are pan of the ethnic community in Australia. [More…]

• Commissioner for Community Relations [More…]

• In deference to the Polish community in Australia, surely the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs could call in the Sydney representatives of United Artists and suggest to them that populations change. [More…]

• It would be a funny situation if after achieving so much we found that many people in Australia of European origin were suffering because these money makers from Hollywood produced for snide humour films depicting scenes which affect these people who have played a very good role in the community. [More…]

• I have simply put this to the responsible Minister in the hope that he will take it up with his ministerial colleague, Mr Fife, to see that some redress is given to the Polish community. [More…]

• I have asked that consideration to be given to establishing machinery whereby these bodies may be answerable in a general sense for the policies under which they operate and the services that they offer to the community. [More…]

• I query the obligation put on people in this community to establish to an official this somewhat undignified criteria that they are in a state of substantial hardship. [More…]

• I will have more to say on the chaotic state of legal costs and the effect they have on citizens in the community. [More…]

• Therefore, the community will suffer a great deal of disadvantage due to the loss of the ability of people who might otherwise engage in this field. [More…]

• We would be faced with a very real community problem that could not be matched by sufficient performance on the part of the Australian Government. [More…]

• In a statement made on 21 August 1978 the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development said that Pancontinental had given an assurance that no work had begun on the Arnhem Highway extension and that no activity beyond the permitted survey had been undertaken on the highway’s proposed 25 kilometre extension. [More…]

• This may not be the true incidence in the community because some cases of venereal disease may not be reported to health authorities. [More…]

• 1 ) Will the Alice Springs Community College remain the responsibility of the Minister’s Department when the Northern Territory Department of Education is transferred to the Legislative Assembly on 1 July 1979; if so, what is the future of the Alice Springs College and, in particular, its relationship to the Darwin College. [More…]

• The Alice Springs College, which is pan of the Darwin Community College, will become a responsibility of the Northern Territory Government on 1 July 1979 when its future will be a matter for consideration by that Government. [More…]

• As 1 said in my reply to (1), the future status of the Alice Springs Community College will be a matter for the Northern Territory Government to decide. [More…]

• Papua New Guinea: Sugar Imports from European Economic Community (Question No. [More…]

• 1 ) How much white sugar was exported by the European Economic Community to Papua New Guinea during the period 1 October 1977 to 30 September 1978. [More…]

• Is ‘C quota sugar required to be disposed of at the expense of the manufacturer in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Are any royalties paid from the Cape Flattery Silica Sand Mining complex to Aborigines of the Hopevale community, or are royalties paid directly to the Church administering the Hopevale community. [More…]

• 1 ) How many Aborigines in the Hopevale Community are employed at the Cape Flattery Silica Sand Mining venture. [More…]

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

• Expressed in terms of Australian dollars Australia’s imports in 1975 and 1976, respectively, were 2.14 per cent and 2.43 per cent compared to 0.63 per cent and 0.88 per cent for the United States; 0.51 per cent and 1.44 per cent for the European Economic Community; and 0.25 per cent and 0.3 1 per cent for Japan. [More…]

• If there is not such a goal in Australia, will the Minister undertake to invite the National Health and Medical Research Council to advise him upon strategies which could lead to the elimination of this serious and now preventable illness from the Australian community within a designated period of time? [More…]

• Further will the Government give consideration to a serious study of a situation whereby a highly urbanised society in Australia cannot have the benefit of services and facilities without the crippling restriction of penalty rates, thereby denying the community a better lifestyle? [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs inform the Parliament whether the $75,000 which has been set aside for the construction of the new airstrip at Aurukun has been taken from the allocation for the current financial year for the Aurukun community. [More…]

• He also added that if the Government decides to take the matter any further a discussion paper will be issued inviting further community response and comment. [More…]

• We ought to be a rational enough community to have a debate on the appropriate mix of taxation without those who hold strong opinions on one side or the other trying, by emotional argument or allegations, to intimidate or unduly influence decision makers. [More…]

• It is alleged that the Government has kept the community in the dark about this proposal. [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…]

• There are ways which, if they were properly explained- and they need to be explained carefully to some honourable senators- would be capable of being understood by members of this Parliament and certainly by the community as a whole. [More…]

• If the Australian Capital Territory has the unmistakably clear authority to erect such a clinic and if the Canberra community can raise the necessary funds, it can build the clinic. [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…]

• 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 argument is simply that, if by action taken in this Senate, a public clinic is established at the Canberra Hospital we are somehow taking pan in the decision which provides a more permissive abortion law and, accordingly, as a matter of consequence, that leads to a devaluation of human life in the minds of the community. [More…]

• Important and divisive issues always cause strains and pressures on the community, even more so on legislators. [More…]

• I believe that it is perhaps not even fair for the members of the community to expect legislators to decide these matters for them. [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…]

• I say to those dozens and dozens of people who have decided to tell me that only 31 per cent favour one view that it should be realised that there are many different views in this community on the whole subject and there are, of course, many people who take the view that abortion is called for in many circumstances. [More…]

• We are not the only people in the community who have knowledge on this subject. [More…]

• Canberra community would leave it to the people involved. [More…]

• But if anyone has to deal with the moral standards of the community, then it should be this Parliament rather than the Executive of the Parliament, the Cabinet, or by Ministers or any one Minister. [More…]

• If the community desired such a service for normal pregnancies, the doctors could justify it by saying that they iust might pick up something which is abnormal. [More…]

• It exhibits favouritism and it acts against the civil liberties of some sections of the community. [More…]

• It could well be that other people in the community are sufficiently versed in mental health or perhaps physical health to believe on reasonable grounds that a pregnancy should be terminated. [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…]

• Mr HUNT; 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…]

• This appears to the Minister for Health to bc a matter of great community interest and one in which he would expect to have the views ofthe Assembly before he institutes positive action, of any kind. [More…]

• that matters relating to the Australian Capital Territory, matters of great social consequence and matters that have wideranging consequences for the people in this community will be debated, discussed and decided by those people who were elected by the local community. [More…]

• It is the cause which I would rather see the community follow. [More…]

• I think that Senator Ryan is to be commended for taking a stand, knowing full well that there are organised groups in the community that would seek to belie her motivation and would seek to denigrate her both personally and politically. [More…]

• The Minister, when he made those statements, might not have taken such an undertaking very seriously, but the Legislative Assembly did and certainly many members of the community did. [More…]

• I believe it is about time that the Parliament as well as the Australian community respected the position of a woman who has decided to take that step. [More…]

• If, after considering all the circumstances, it is decided to terminate a pregnancy, that decision is one which has been made privately and personally and ought to be the concern of any other section of the Australian community. [More…]

• For example, some honourable senators have dealt with this matter as if the issue were abortion in the community. [More…]

• I think it is worth remembering in this context that the Capital Territory Health Commission is a community based body. [More…]

• If the community does not accept option A the Legislative Assembly will not have executive power over health matters immediately after the referendum or subsequently as a result of that decision, and one must assume that under the Constitution the Parliament will retain this traditional role. [More…]

• The members of the community in Canberra expect the Parliament, and I should think they expect the Legislative Assembly, to be reasonable and rational about this whole issue. [More…]

• We should be debating where the funds are coming from, how we will go about getting the most efficient staff and how we are to start to establish sex education clinics where we can teach people the facts of life instead of all this stupidity, darkness and ignorance that still exists in our community. [More…]

• I think that the Senate would be serving not only the community of Canberra but the whole Australian community well if it were to have a completely new look at this problem and assist in setting up in Canberra the facilities that any enlightened and modern community should have. [More…]

• In the ultimate, those who want to see the greatest extension of abortion are those who want to pass the decision from legislatures and community groups altogether to members of the medical profession throughout Australia. [More…]

• The Standing Committee was persuaded by the arguments that abortion was a matter of great consequence for the general well-being of the community. [More…]

• This appears to the Minister for Health to be a matter of great community interest and one in which he would expect to have the views of the Assembly before he institutes positive action, of any kind. [More…]

• The decision was to be made by the members of the Legislative Assembly after drawing together the views of the ACT community. [More…]

• If it is a matter of conscience for members of this place to vote upon such an issue, which clearly is a moral issue in spite of the fact that it commenced as a debate on technicalities, then surely it is a conscience vote for the whole of the community. [More…]

• If it is a conscience vote for the whole of the community, surely we can take it further and say that it is a conscience vote of the person most concerned, the individual woman, and that is where it rests. [More…]

• To my mind that shows a weakness in their position and in their ability to establish in themselves, in the community in which they live and within their family the standards which they spiritually support. [More…]

• But I do acknowledge that there are others within the community who will seek out the facilities for an abortion and they will seek them out with their own conscience clear. [More…]

• Because of this I will always support the need for facilities for an abortion to be available in a community, provided those facilities are safe facilities. [More…]

• Are the drastic and hurtful measures imposed on the community a result of the Government’s promise to reduce last year’s deficit of $3,300m? [More…]

• If the answer is yes, will the Minister issue the necessary instructions so that this small benefit can be enjoyed by this economically depressed section of our community at the earliest possible moment? [More…]

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

• There is also a Commissioner for Community Relations and I would have thought that if the specific details were available they could usefully be referred to him. [More…]

• It would, however, be unrealistic to deny that Australia’s relations with Western Europe and especially members of the European Economic Community are strategically, economically and politically extremely important and demand the close scrutiny and attention which the Government has applied to them. [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…]

• 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…]

• 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 seeing how the Government intends the new scheme to operate. [More…]

• The Government has been prepared to share the cost of assistance to Mount Lyell for the 2 1 months on a dollar for dollar basis with Tasmania because of the serious consequences which would be suffered by the long-established but isolated Queenstown community and regions 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…]

• Is it any wonder that the younger generation of this community is regarding this place as a bit of a farce? [More…]

• I would prefer that we were at least honest about that matter and stayed in this Parliament House rather than have a new Parliament House and continue to bludge on the community. [More…]

• It relates to the method employed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in determining the number of unemployed people in the community. [More…]

• The experience of honourable senators opposite ought to indicate to them that when they imposed any penalties on the Australian community in the form of increased charges and so on the news tended to get around without the need for any paid advertising. [More…]

• The officer in his answer which I have read to the Senate from the Hansard report said that they were of great importance to certain people in the community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) went on record on Sunday night as saying that the business community is completely satisfied with what the Government is doing with the economy. [More…]

• My Department, therefore, has had to set priorities for the use of the funds, giving first preference to courses designed to assist Aboriginal people to acquire community management skills. [More…]

• It should be noted that the Alice Springs Community College has conducted a number of vocational courses for Aborigines in the Alice Springs area during 1978 and continues to do so. [More…]

• That we protest at the Federal Government’s failure to provide all sections of the Australian community with conditions of retirement more comparable to that section who now retire in comfon under superannuation and long service leave schemes. [More…]

• cost of living adjustments, which is applied to all other sections of the community. [More…]

• Will he obtain information on the cost of electricity produced from nuclear power compared with power produced from oil and coal in the following countries: The United States, Canada, countries of the European Economic Community, Sweden, the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc countries? [More…]

• Nevertheless, I am bound to say to Senator Lewis that it ought to be possible and it is possible for persons trained as teachers to obtain alternative work of skill within the community. [More…]

• The local Australian Labor Party member for Whyalla is reported in the newspaper, when commenting on the severe social problems, as saying that he believed that the Community Welfare Department in Adelaide had encouraged and advised people to take advantage of the cheap Whyalla housing. [More…]

• Our electoral system has far wider implications than this and the Australian Electoral Office has a very significant community role to play. ‘ [More…]

• They have been developed without fuss and fanfare and have been aimed at the needs of the community rather than at publicity for the Electoral Office itself. [More…]

• It has been making most significant moves especially in the areas of ethnic groups, Aboriginals and school children as well as aiming to reach the community as a whole. [More…]

• Honourable senators may have seen already the very simple information pamphlet which the Electoral Office has produced and which describes clearly and succinctly the electoral rights and responsibilities of those in the community who are entitled and obliged to enrol and to vote. [More…]

• For example for the Referendum on Self-government for the Australian Capital Territory, the Australian Electoral Office has produced tapes on voting information for broadcasting in ethnic language programs on the Canberra community radio station 2XX. [More…]

• lt is also printing bi-lingual leaflets containing similar information for distribution to ethnic community organisations prior to polling day. [More…]

• On this point I was particularly heartened to see a copy of a newsletter produced at the Maningrida Aboriginal community and published in September 1977. [More…]

• There is also a large program of other work ahead of the Electoral Office itself if it is to continue its endeavours to improve its service to the community. [More…]

• I repeat, however, that it is heartening to see under way activities which are being developed solely for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Chaney) referred to the fact that, over the past three years, the Electoral Office has seen fit to begin a campaign to educate the electorate about the responsibilities of the electorate and about the need for it to vote formally and intelligently in respect of all matters for which the community has some responsibility. [More…]

• There is a case for the Commonwealth Government to reexamine the highly exaggerated and emotive terminology used by the then Opposition speakers in 1975, when this matter was before the Senate, when Senator Withers was endeavouring to suggest that the amendments which our Government was putting forward were designed to hoodwink the Senate and the community generally, that they were not an attempt to make voting simple. [More…]

• I would like to be assured by the Government that moneys that are paid by taxpayers through ADAB to the International Planned Parenthood Federation are spent in accordance with the policies of the Government and the generally accepted viewpoints of the community. [More…]

• Government and by the community generally. [More…]

• I also make the more general point that to improve in any way the community’s knowledge, through at least its professional members, of the operation and dynamics of the High Court is something hardly to be sneezed at. [More…]

• As their contribution to creating greater community awareness of what they are about, they certainly should not pose any barriers to the dispersement of this kind of material. [More…]

• I know that the State Department of Community Welfare has been active in consulting these people. [More…]

• The further point I make with respect to that inquiry is that manifestly, because of its importance to the community as a whole, it should be a public inquiry and not an internal inquiry as now appears to be proposed. [More…]

• -I take this opportunity of asking the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) just what has eventuated in New South Wales, what results have been achieved, what progress has been made and what the Government is doing in connection with those recent cases of misuse of benefits that involved the Greek community. [More…]

• A block grant is being made to the community. [More…]

• It has been said before that if those figures related to white babies and if the rate of infant mortality were to be related to some problem in a white community, it would be considered an emergency situation and emergency measures would have been put into effect. [More…]

• The Department is supporting the community-based health services in the areas of Central Australia. [More…]

• In 1978-79 an amount of $ 1.47m will be spent on community oriented health services. [More…]

• I say to the Minister that we cannot let the matter rest, because if there is such a high mortality rate with infants then the overall standard of health of the whole community must be poor because many survive but do so in a very deprived state. [More…]

• The Aboriginal community can be intellectually repressed because of poor dietary provisions in the prenatal period and the immediate adolescent period. [More…]

• I take up a reference in the report of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• On the other hand, wide-spread attitudinal discrimination persists, the inadequacy of public and private services for a multicultural population remains a serious problem, and the gap between Aboriginal Australians and the rest of the community continues to affect every aspect of life in every part of Australia. [More…]

• At the moment in Victoria, for instance, we have a situation where even the Greek people in the community cannot get to first base with this Government. [More…]

• When we have such a large number of Greek people who need those sorts of teachers in this community, when we have that sort of problem which the [More…]

• Federal Government will not face up to, one cannot help thinking that if the Greeks in Victoria with all the clout they have cannot get any sort of answer from either the State Government or the Federal Government, then where will the Aboriginal people in this community find themselves? [More…]

• The sub-standard housing which is available to the black urban community at greatly inflated cost is a constant source of medical problems. [More…]

• In other words, we had one cyclone in Darwin that seemed to set the white Australian community on its ear. [More…]

• Yet we know that every problem that the Aboriginal community of Australia has goes back to housing. [More…]

• Yet, if we were to consider the amount that we spent on the community in Darwin after that cyclone hit we would see that we were talking here about a not very great amount of money to set right a very considerable portion of the population of Australia. [More…]

• I shall deal first with Senator Melzer ‘s comments because they referred to the report of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• Firstly, it is considered that many pensioners in this category were at a distinct advantage to other members of the pensioner community. [More…]

• However, increases in the income limit in line with other adjustments within the community, would involve the Government in a great deal of additional expense. [More…]

• However, increases in the income limit in line with other adjustments within the community would involve the Government in a great deal of additional expense. [More…]

• Then he goes on to say that ‘increases in the income limit in line with other adjustments within the community, would involve the Government in a great deal of additional expense ‘. [More…]

• It would cost the State Department of Community Welfare an enormous amount. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether her Department would be prepared to divulge to the Minister for Community Welfare in South Australia any information pertaining to a pensioner which he might require so that he can decide whether a pensioner in South Australia should receive a particular concession. [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development relates to the announcement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on Tuesday, 14 November, that the Commonwealth will reduce its grants to voluntary conservation groups from a $2 for $1 basis to a $1 for $1 basis. [More…]

• If not, should not the Family Planning Association of the Australian Capital Territory condemn abortion rather than support its expansion and, indeed, concentrate its efforts on the necessary education of the community concerning the true family planning methods of contraception. [More…]

• Consultation with community leaders resulted in a number of varying opinions, particularly in regard to Kormilda College as an alternative if Dhupuma should close. [More…]

• In view of the Minister’s answer to Senator Martin’s question last week about the Australian Broadcasting Commission transmitting sporting events from commercial channels to Western Queensland and the implication in his answer that it would cost the ABC money to buy the rights to some of these programs, I ask: Should not all sections of the Australian community be treated equally and therefore should not funds be distributed so that equal access to the various forms of the media can be provided for all the people of Australia? [More…]

• I think that it is very easy to say that all sections of the community should be treated equally and to accept that as a principle. [More…]

• That is not to say that the ABC ought to have complete freedom in the matter of racial discrimination any more than should any other section of the community. [More…]

• SA regional chairman Mr Ken Smith, said yesterday his federation was gathering support from throughout the community to press home the need for the highway’s surfacing. [More…]

• I do not believe at this stage that sufficient numbers of people in the community have been brought in to look at the whole question. [More…]

• Just closing the lines and leaving transportation to private enterprise is not in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• I impress this on the Government and the Minister: Before any lines are closed they should have full and frank discussions with everyone involved- the trade union movement, the local councils, the business people and other sections of the community. [More…]

• I want to quote a letter dated 14 August which I received from the Tailem Bend Community Co-ordination and Co-operation Conference. [More…]

• The agreement provided for changes to the service, after consultations, in the interest of demand and the needs of the community. [More…]

• Mr Virgo said he had recommended to the ANR that downgrading of services to Barmera, Waikerie and Pinnaroo be deferred pending an investigation into community needs. [More…]

• In my view it is far better to keep the rail services we have and wherever possible to upgrade them to give the farming community the services they require. [More…]

• I met community leaders. [More…]

• The deputation was led by one of the community leaders from Charleville, Mr Errol Hodda. [More…]

• Two other gentlemen who were interested in community affairs were Mr Mike Gordon and Mr Bill Ludwig and they were there. [More…]

• As I said earlier, it was a truly representative gathering of all sections of the community. [More…]

• There have been specific cutbacks that have been of great concern to various sectors of the community. [More…]

• The station’s interviews, talk-back programs and information content are designed to establish a strong bond with listeners and promote community service. [More…]

• It is not able to provide the technical back-up, the programming and the range of facilities that is expected by the Australian community. [More…]

• Senior management has not provided the community, the Parliament or the Government with information on the effects of these cuts. [More…]

• It has been left to the staff- both at the senior officer level and at the ABC Staff Association level; that is at the lower echelons of the ABC- to bring home forcibly to the Minister for Post and Telecommunications, Mr Staley, that there cannot be a continuance of cutbacks if the ABC is to carry out its obligations to the Australian community. [More…]

• Institute of Cultural Affairs personnel were dismissed by a decision of the community council on 29 May but were subsequently invited to return subject to certain conditions. [More…]

• Institute of Cultural Affairs members again left the community on 1 September. [More…]

• In a joint statement with Mr R. Young, Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare, on 28 September, I indicated that there was insufficient evidence of progress by the community after five years during which the Commonwealth Government had provided over $1 million. [More…]

• Mr Young and I met with a delegation of Aboriginals from the Oombulgurri community in Perth on Friday 6 October. [More…]

• The meeting agreed that a co-ordinator should be appointed to the community for a trial period of 9 months. [More…]

• The co-ordinator will live at Oombulgurri and will be responsible for ensuring that essential services are provided to the community and that Commonwealth and State Government activities are co-ordinated. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, ACT [More…]

• I do not believe that it is discriminatory for any section of the community to say: ‘We will need to test the quality of the product before we employ it’. [More…]

• Indeed, I do not tire of reminding the Senate that it was governments of our philosophy that made threequarters of the Australian community capable of being home owners. [More…]

• Over a number of years, they have taken well-equipped aircraft into cyclones and have attempted by seeding certain areas of the cyclones with silver iodide to evaluate the modification in either the volume of rain or the speed of winds experienced by a community which is placed in a hazardous situation by a cyclone. [More…]

• Our view is that the international community should have access to the widest possible range of opinion and news on national and international developments. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators let me say that in fact I am advised that the complainant concerned has laid a complaint with the Commissioner for Community Relations and that that complaint is being considered by him. [More…]

• I suggest that fewer Aboriginal drivers per thousand drive under the influence of drink than is the case with the white drivers in our community. [More…]

• Certainly I do not think that this is the case any more than in the rest of the community. [More…]

• Many of the vehicles to which I am drawing attention collapse- I use that word carefully- when they are driven away from the yards and back to the community. [More…]

• The disturbing thing about that particular sale was that the vehicle was sold by a school teacher working in an Aboriginal community. [More…]

• After all, the old ‘buyer beware’ situation that perhaps the rest of the community is aware of, does not apply to many Aboriginal people. [More…]

• President of the Territory Automobile Association, AANT, believes the Association should be prepared for the time when Territory Aborigines will form a significant sector of the car-owning community. [More…]

• The only certainty in such an action is that you are gambling taxpayers’ money on the improbability that people with no experience whatsoever in the field of understanding behavioural modes foreign to them will individually stumble on the right relationship between housing and its proper form and setting in a remote Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The Aurukun community decided which design it considered more suitable. [More…]

• In Alice Springs, the Panel has developed a total programme which includes a number of activities of a community development nature, which has transformed the town camps from places of helplessness and futility to environments where people have rediscovered their identities and are developing their communities confidently for the future. [More…]

• As many of the trees were in a part of Aurukun which, according to the town plan prepared by the Queensland State Department of Works, was to be cleared, the director mapped all the Kuuten trees and identified those trees at risk to the Aurukun community. [More…]

• Not surprisingly, this resulted in the community asking the Panel to revise the Aurukun town plan. [More…]

• It even wrote its letter to the Aurukun community although it is common knowledge that that community runs its own timber mill. [More…]

• The Welfare Department had full knowledge of submissions to OAA and foreshadowed to ABTF on behalf of Aputula Social Club for a factory at Finke to produce modular housing for Aboriginal communities, and to provide employment for the economically very depressed community at Finke. [More…]

• -On 23 September 1977, Stawell Timber Industries Proprietary Limited wrote to the Aurukun Community at Cape York and said: [More…]

• Aurukun Community, via CAIRNS, NTH QLD. [More…]

• Consistent with that proposition, the Government cut funds for capital works, both general purpose funds plus the major specific purpose programs such as hospitals, community health, urban public transport and welfare housing. [More…]

• State Governments emphasise that for more than 20 years the limitations imposed by the Loan Council on total State and larger authority borrowing programs have posed specific problems for the States and their authorities in meeting essential community needs: [More…]

• Thirdly, the effect of these changes is to result in the poorer members of the community having inferior facilities, thus exacerbating the effect of income differentials. [More…]

• The fault with that theory is that there are very few interest groups in the community who still accept the Commonwealth’s line. [More…]

• Nobody in government would argue that restraint has not been required and desired by every sector in the community. [More…]

• In this area of State grants, certainly the States have fared no worse than any other sector of the community. [More…]

• The business community and those who are supposed to be paying the taxes in this country have been saying that even though things are not as easy as they were in relation to the handout of taxpayers’ funds that applied previously, this Government is acting responsibly. [More…]

• The people living at Queenstown and Gormanston have established on the coast a deep sense of community spirit, which has been strengthened by the conditions in the area. [More…]

• Recent discussions I have had indicate that the community is still totally involved in the most creditable way possible. [More…]

• What moved governments was the realisation that what was at stake here was the whole hardworking community of Queenstown and associated industries around the west and north west coast of Tasmania. [More…]

• The article went on to say : he believed the Community Welfare Department in Adelaide had encouraged and advised people to take advantage of the cheap Whyalla housing. [More…]

• Following my question and the reply given, I got in touch with Mr Payne, the Minister of Community Welfare in Adelaide. [More…]

• The Department for Community Welfare in Adelaide does not encourage people to move to Whyalla to take advantage of low rental housing. [More…]

• The Department for Community Welfare in Adelaide does not encourage people to move to Whyalla to take advantage of low rental housing. [More…]

• It would be unrealistic to expect either the Department of Community Welfare or the Housing Trust to discriminate actively against such people as deserted wives, widows and unemployed families and say: ‘Oh, there’s low rental housing available at Whyalla, but you can’t go there because there ‘s too many of your type of people there already ‘. [More…]

• The Department of Community Welfare office at Whyalla has the highest staff ratio to population of any country district office in the State. [More…]

• In considering possible changes to the indirect tax system, the Government will take into account the likely effect that any changes proposed may have on the community at large or on particular sections of the community. [More…]

• The petitioners request that the Federal Government and Broadcasting Tribunal should 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…]

• Does the present surplus of doctors cost the community about $250m a year without really contributing much to the standard of health care? [More…]

• The belief that our community is the prey of foreign capital needs to be exploded. [More…]

• It is accordingly recommending that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) submit proposals to Cabinet for a mechanism to allow integrated consideration of national land use issues, and that the Prime Minister set up a framework for the establishment of a national land use policy. [More…]

• The Committee accordingly is now further recommending that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development draw up and promulgate, in collaboration with the States, a national policy for the development of an adequate system of national parks and conservation reserves. [More…]

• 607 that I received from Senator Chaney as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community, Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom, is looking at this matter at the moment. [More…]

• From the outset, it was obvious that the Trade Commissioner Service is highly regarded by the international business community. [More…]

• In its report, the Committee has made a number of recommendations and it is my earnest hope that the Government will heed its advice in the interests of our export community and Australia’s trade representation abroad. [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…]

• 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…]

• Concessional rates of interest have a regressive effect on the distribution of income in the farming community. [More…]

• This was studied by C. B. Baker and in an article published in the Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics in 1974 he established that in fact the smaller farmers are less likely to owe money than the larger farmers and, as the smaller farmers have lower incomes than the larger farmers, the effect within the farming community of making funds available at concessional rates of interest is to give proportionately greater benefits to the larger, high income farmers than to the smaller, low income farmers. [More…]

• In its first year of office it removed the one per cent disparity in interest rates that was available and had been available to the farming community through a requirement on banking institutions operating in primary producing areas. [More…]

• One would hope that the recommendations of the review committee, insofar as they would assist the objective of making air travel as accessible as possible to the Australian community, would be implemented expeditiously. [More…]

• All of this should give us a chance to debate more adequately these sorts of issues because they are exciting a lot of comment in the Press and the tourist industry, and interest in the Australian community. [More…]

• In my capacity as a senator with constituents, I have had a great deal to do with the Timorese community in Melbourne. [More…]

• Late last year women of the Timorese community in Melbourne, which is the only one with which I personally am familiar, were beginning to ask what was happening about that undertaking. [More…]

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

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

• Some East Timorese with medical conditions which do not constitute a health risk to the Australian community have been granted entry. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 September 1978: [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 25 October 1978: [More…]

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

• The petitioners request that the federal government and broadcasting tribunal should 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…]

• That we protest at the Federal Government’s failure to provide all sections of the Australian community with conditions of retirement more comparable to that section who now retire in comfort under superannuation and long service leave schemes. [More…]

• That we protest at the Government’s failure to honour their promise to have pensions adjusted in line with the C.P.I, cost of living adjustments, which is applied to all other sections of the community. [More…]

• The petitioners request that the federal government and broadcasting tribunal should 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 radical hatred and violence. [More…]

• I feel that there would be no argument against the action taken by the present Government in attempting to bring about financial stability within the community and in encouraging all sectors of the community to be aware of the effects of inflation, particularly on the input costs of production. [More…]

• One would have to be associated with primary industry for only a short time to understand that the escalating costs in the community of both wages and benefits have a very harmful effect finally upon the producer and have a round robin effect on costs. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, follows earlier inquiries I have made about the preservation of the works of Walter Burley Griffin. [More…]

• I cannot confirm that anything unique has been done by Walter Burley Griffin in the area referred to by Senator Knight but it certainly is true, or so I am informed by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, that Walter Burley Griffin did a design plan for an area of about 20 acres in the East Ringwodd-Croydon area of Melbourne. [More…]

• If I recall correctly, it was an increase above what was predicted to be the general inflation rate within the community. [More…]

• I think that Senator Douglas McClelland, with his experience, will acknowledge that rises in costs within secondary industries and within the community generally are usually followed by cost increases in the primary industries, so there is a lag time until the effects of cost rises or rises in wages or the benefits that go with employment are gradually fed into the circle of primary production and add to costs there. [More…]

• For many poorer families in our community the small payment of $36, which is the payment for the youth unemployed, makes a significant difference to the family income. [More…]

• I remind the Senate of the structural nature of unemployment in our community. [More…]

• It is not spread evenly throughout the community. [More…]

• Senator Ryan commenced her speech with a tale of woe about the prospects for the young people in our community, particularly the prospects immediately facing school leavers at the end of this year. [More…]

• The Government is pursuing policies which it believes will rectify the situation so that these school leavers and other unemployed in the community will find jobs. [More…]

• It is enough to say- this is accepted by almost everyone in the community- that unemployment is bad, that we have a very serious situation and that it is particularly bad amongst the young. [More…]

• I need not go over the long and disgraceful history of the continuing campaign against the socalled dole bludgers in our community. [More…]

• When one compares that situation to that of six single people living together who can bring in $340-odd a week from the unemployment benefit, this may explain to the community why the Government has made this decision. [More…]

• I do not think anyone in the community has not come across the person who is selective and prefers to wait around for a job of his choice rather than take any job that is available. [More…]

• Because Opposition speakers have made this a political argument I think it ought to be pointed out to the community that there are two sides to this question. [More…]

• Another scheme is the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• I think the things which I have pointed out will underline to the community at large that this Government is concerned about the youth unemployed. [More…]

• The first group comprises the young people who see no future in front of them; the group that we perhaps sometimes call the socially and educationally disadvantaged- a large group within our community. [More…]

• A Young Men ‘s Christian Association survey of the Community Youth Support Scheme showed a high level of illiteracy among the people in that scheme- a low attainment in the area of both literacy and numeracy. [More…]

• There is no doubt at all- I think this would be accepted by all in the community- that the selfrespect and self-esteem of a person is damaged. [More…]

• The Community Youth Support Scheme, the Special Youth Employment Training Program and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth all assume that somewhere out there work is available. [More…]

• I have given particular emphasis to two groups- the educationally and socially disadvantaged within the general community and the Aboriginal people with their particular problems. [More…]

• They need to be treated fairly by the community, not subjected to criticism or called dole bludgers. [More…]

• However, the Senate must recognise that as the community begins to create jobs the number of unemployed may not necessarily fall. [More…]

• The fact that the CES in the nine months to September 1978 was able to find employment for 381,000 demonstrates beyond doubt that jobs are being created in the community. [More…]

• We know that at long last, and not before time, the rural community is about to have a very good year. [More…]

• I believe that, as a result of the year that the rural community is about to have, unemployment may be expected to fall substantially throughout Australia. [More…]

• The rural community has diminished from 40 per cent of Australia’s population in 1912 to 8 per cent today. [More…]

• In my view, therefore, it was necessary to the well being of our community in Canberra. [More…]

• We do not wish our community in Canberra to suffer from all the social, family and personal problems that arise when a young family is without adequate support during difficult periods. [More…]

• The Minister pointed out that paternity leave had to be abolished because, in his words, it was ahead of community standards. [More…]

• Again I ask: Whose community standards is it ahead of? [More…]

• Certainly it is a standard which we value in our community. [More…]

• However, that sort ot assistance is just not available to many Commonwealth employees, I do not think that it is ahead of community standards to say that a family experiencing the birth of a new baby should have some assistance. [More…]

• If it is ahead of community standards then those standards are peculiar to the Fraser Government. [More…]

• I believe that they are not standards that are widely accepted in the community. [More…]

• On behalf of the Opposition and, I believe, all Commonwealth employees and many other people in the community who consider that paternity leave was an important way of assisting young families, I strongly oppose the abolition of paternity leave. [More…]

• Senator Ryan has tried to put across that this Government has bad faith but I believe that the community at large will be only too happy to accept the amendments to the maternity leave provisions. [More…]

• I have no wish to see a centralised department of economic planning in this country, for the less interferences in the affairs of commerce the more jobs there will be in the community and the higher will be the standards of living. [More…]

• Even worse, it has created a criminal section within a normally law abiding community. [More…]

• The consequences of this, both to the parties involved and the community, are enormous. [More…]

• I think the main feature of this Bill, which I do not believe was really dealt with by Senator Ryan, is that there is an essential duty on the Government and a duty on this Parliament to balance the interests of the Government’s Public Service with the interests of the general community. [More…]

• For some people in the community only death seems to be certain, and I am sure that they are working on that too. [More…]

• This action is leading to a new problem in that air fares are now reaching an abnormally high place in the structure of Australian air travel and it is pricing air travel beyond the reach of a large segment of the Australian community, much to the disadvantage of people who live in Western Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory, north Queensland and country provincial centres. [More…]

• That all hostels be planned on small family lines- not institutional lines- and that the emphasis be a relaxed informal continuance of home life within the community. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that there is widespread concern in the Lebanese community in Australia at the inaction of the United Nations in regard to the civil war in Lebanon? [More…]

• The Government fully shares the widespread concern of the Lebanese community in Australia at the violence which has occurred in Lebanon and which I described in my statement to the House of Representatives on 24 October as ‘one of the great tragedies of our time. ‘ [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take urgent steps to concur with the wishes of a majority of electors at every polling booth in Australia at the 1967 referendum by resumption from the States of the major traditional Aboriginal land areas and reserves and former reserves as at 3 1.3.78, to become federal Crown land pending prompt determination of freehold title for Land Trusts and eventually for defined community co-operatives. [More…]

• Questions under the Racial Discrimination Act are matters for an independent statutory officer, the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

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

• -I have said, I think, recently in the Senate that education, which is a vital service to the community, has been for the most part one of the few services in which virtually no consumer choice has existed in the past. [More…]

• Finally, I would like to say that the Government believes, as I certainly do, that in the future development of quality in education it is essential that there be a partnership involving the government, the education system, the parents, the community and the school and that, wherever possible, that there be freedom of choice within that situation. [More…]

• The Government, considering all these things and considering the major amount of time that had been allowed to universities and colleges to put their houses in order, and with a full understanding that the community itself wanted them to do so, then announced quite some months ago its intention to legislate. [More…]

• The Government gave that full and mature consideration but believes that, with the period of time that has elapsed and the opportunity that institutions have been given, the Australian community expects that the Government will honour its promise to legislate. [More…]

• Upon mature consideration of all things the Government believes that the Australian community expects it to honour its promise to legislate, and we will therefore do so. [More…]

• As the inquiry progressed, we became even more aware that this community concern was of long standing and that it was growing rather than abating. [More…]

• There is also widespread feeling within the community that other problems manifesting themselves in the classroom are attributable to television. [More…]

• However, in the case of televised violence, we believe, that on the basis of accumulated research, community concern and measures taken in so many other countries around the world to prohibit or scale down violence, we should take immediate steps to reduce the level of violence on Australian television. [More…]

• We would have liked the industry to be more responsive to the concern that has been expressed by so many members of the community. [More…]

• With 1979 being designated as Year of the Child by the United Nations, we expect this interest to be sustained and develop even further as community attention focuses more sharply on the needs of children. [More…]

• The role of schools and community organisations takes on a new responsibility, in association with homes and parents, so that the wonderful characteristics of television may be used to assist our children to become informed, happy and useful citizens. [More…]

• I commend it to them because there is a lot of community interest in this question, as Senator Davidson has pointed out. [More…]

• It is a growing community interest. [More…]

• Rather, the problem is with all the rest of the provisions, the subordinate provisions, the machinery provisions and the procedural provisions which are not necessarily at the very heart of the Bills which come before us but which, nonetheless, are very much part of the total legislative package with which the community is presented each time legislation is passed. [More…]

• Similarly, the costs to business and to the Australian community of a hindering or prevention of interstate trade or commerce are enormous. [More…]

• It would seem that the Uraguyan Club in Sydney is the only rallying place for the Uraguyan community. [More…]

• A number of honourable senators would be aware that in the last week or two there have been some spontaneous fund gathering efforts among the Cypriot community in Sydney to provide child care clinics in Cyprus, a country in which there have been serious upheavals recently. [More…]

• The provisions of the legislation relating to wills provide for people to do that, but it is not normal for a Government to attempt that sort of exercise in the carrying out of its policies, particularly those which are the subject of wide disagreement and discussion in the Australian community. [More…]

• Such announcements lead to gross uncertainty in the mining community and in the Australian community generally about the sincerity of the Government’s intentions. [More…]

• The important fact is that that difference of policy between the Opposition and the Government does reflect substantial differences in the community on this question. [More…]

• It is all the more alarming to see such an attempt being made by a government within an area of concern which that government knows to be a matter of deep division within the Australian community. [More…]

• He is a man of good standing in the community. [More…]

• This is an indication of the wide-spread concern for the future of the Riverland which is felt by all sections of this 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…]

• The last thing I wanted during my term in the Parliament was to be a member of a rubberstamp House that had no purpose in the Australian community. [More…]

• I simply say at this stage of the sitting that it is a Bill that responds to the needs of the community. [More…]

• I am sure that if the Bill were not so important to the community, the Opposition, along with Senator Walters and Senator Peter Baume, who I see nodded some approval, would vote against it; and because of the concern shown by the President we might get something done. [More…]

• Though the Council block had an elongated tip there was sufficient area for, say, a community building. [More…]

• Community rooms were made available for general use by the Prime Minister’s party and the press. [More…]

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

• -On 25 October 1978, Senator Primmer asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development the following question without notice: [More…]

• That we protest at the Federal Government’s failure to provide all sections of the Australian community with conditions of retirement more comparable to that section who now retire in comfort under superannuation and long service leave schemes. [More…]

• That we protest at the Government’s failure to honour their promise to have pensions adjusted in line with the C.P.I, cost of living adjustments, which is applied to all other sections of the community. [More…]

• Australia is pleased that the Declaration has been adopted in a form which has attracted the consensus support of the international community. [More…]

• Support for SEMP from educational and community groups is still overwhelmingly in favour of SEMP. [More…]

• In response to community and parent demand and the widespread interest in the materials, A Parent’s Guide to SEMP has been published by the Centre and distributed to all schools, parent and community associations and educational authorities throughout Australia. [More…]

• The reports of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development are of great concern to this Parliament because of decisions that have been made in those two areas. [More…]

• Without legislation such as this we would have one section of the community treated under the law differently from other sections. [More…]

• It is going to throw those within the unions who do not believe in confrontation against government, but who believe that the union is there to get the best deal possible for its members with the least cost to them and the community, into the fold of those extremists within the trade union movement who believe that the trade union movement can be use as a political battering ram. [More…]

• I leave the Government with the thought that ultimately if respect for the federal court is demeaned in the eyes of the participants of the industrial relations system, the action that it may legitimately have to take to deregister a union which has persistently confronted the Government and the rest of the trade union movement in the community will also be demeaned, and that will be a tragic day for Australia. [More…]

• I do not believe that it is legislation that leads to significant concern in the community and to talk of confrontation and bloodshed. [More…]

• The amendments represent proper adjustment and development according to circumstances as they change in the life and operation of any community. [More…]

• I think that this community is prone to believe that an undertaking or a circumstance that applies in a specific year must apply forever; if it does not somebody has broken a promise or let somebody down. [More…]

• 2), the Government takes the view that in simple and round terms the national interest must surely be dominant at all times in considering relationships between capital and labour and employer and employee and relationships in the community in which we live. [More…]

• As a Government, we support strongly the conciliation and arbitration process in settling disputes, but we also have an obligation to have on the statute books laws adequate to protect the rights of individuals and of the community against what in many cases are the thoroughly indefensible actions of irresponsible unions and union leaders. [More…]

• It is a very important one and will have significant long term benefits in protecting the legitimate interests of the community- not only business people engaged in trade but also the community as a whole- which are otherwise held to ransom and ignored, and in many cases seriously affected by the sort of conduct that this legislation is designed to outlaw. [More…]

• Speaking in what might be called injury time, on behalf of Senator Robertson and myself I ask the Leader of the Government (Senator Carrick) to endeavour to get from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) an early reply on submissions that we made on 16 November, as recorded on page 2146 of Senate Hansard concerning the general discussions on the estimates of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development because the assertions contained in the Australian Financial Review are in contradiction to what was said at the appropriate Estimates Committee hearings. [More…]

• I request the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Chaney), as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, to expedite a reply because the matter is of interest to what I might call the municipal militants in the central western suburbs of Sydney. [More…]

• Thirdly, the community concerned has suffered and is suffering as a result of the publicity given to these cases. [More…]

• The people in the Greek community, not unfairly, I believe, became very annoyed at the way in which their community apparently was being singled out by the Press in this unfair way. [More…]

• We had a disgraceful article in the Bulletin in July by a Mr Peter Samuel in which he not only took to the Greek community but to other communities. [More…]

• So we have a community that is upset. [More…]

• However, the result was confusion in the community and a heightening feeling that the community was being got at. [More…]

• People in the community who have been charged or who have lost their pensions and are appealing have had to go back to the Department, which they see as co-operating with the police. [More…]

• Greek social workers involved with the Greek community in Sydney have written repeatedly since this has arisen to me, to other members of the Parliament and to the Minister expressing their concern. [More…]

• The feeling that members of the community are not getting a fair go is as strong as it was before. [More…]

• For instance, I know that one Government member at least has had an unpublicised meeting with members of the Greek community because of his .concern over what is happening. [More…]

• This, when added to the other things, makes it difficult for the people of the Greek community to have any sort of faith in the system. [More…]

• Incidentally, this doctor has been the source of many reports to the Department of Health and, I understand, to the Department of Social Security because of his attitude to members of the Greek community. [More…]

• From what I have seen of their community I believe that they have a case. [More…]

• We cannot allow the unfortunate and inherent xenophobia that exists in all other communities to exist in this community, as it does, whereby people of Greek descent are being discriminated against because of the publicity they have had in the Press. [More…]

• Not only people in the Greek community are concerned about the matter, but also people in the medical profession in Sydney have approached me and expressed their concern. [More…]

• People in the social welfare community have approached me and expressed their concern. [More…]

• People in the diplomatic community also are concerned about what is happening. [More…]

• I raise it because I believe that people in the Greek community in Australia and the whole ethnic community deserve better treatment than they have had. [More…]

• I believe that we must assure the Greek community and members of all other ethnic communities that they have the protection of law and justice in this country like everybody else, that they have the protection of this Parliament like everybody else. [More…]

• I believe also that it is to the good of the whole community that if an injustice has been done or if it seems that an injustice has been done we take action and prevent either the reality of the injustice or the appearance of the injustice from worsening community relations in Australia. [More…]

• I have had the opportunity to express the concern of this Government to the Greek Consul-General, the Greek Charge d ‘Affaires, a deputation from the Australia.Greek Welfare Society and others who are regarded as leaders of the Greek descendants in this country that they should feel embarrassed as a community by some of the Press comments that were made. [More…]

• However, if the Department is to assist these people to have their claims justly dealt with, information that can be given- perhaps through parliamentary representatives, community leaders or others- would certainly be welcomed by me so that whatever steps can be taken are taken on their behalf. [More…]

• 1) In 1978-79 approval has been given to fund Aboriginal community projects totalling $184,800 and $250,252 at Mornington Island and Aurukun respectively. [More…]

• 1 ) How many project officers are currently employed under the Community Youth support Scheme in Victoria. [More…]

• A total of 158 full-time and 27 part-time project officers were employed under the Community Youth Support Scheme in Victoria on 1 September 1978. [More…]

• Did the Victorian Synod of the Uniting Church recently express its concern regarding the effects of automation on employment; if so, is tins view indicative of widespread concern in the community in relation to this problem. [More…]

• The research workers are highly regarded in the Australian research community and the research has resulted in a number of publications in refereed international journals. [More…]

• He deserves much wider credit for his considerable contribution to the documentation of evidence placed before the inquiry into relieving the community of the burden of estate duty. [More…]

• He served for many years in community life including some 13 years on the Fitzroy Shire Council, six years on the Rockhampton Harbour Board and three years on the Rockhampton Hospital Board. [More…]

• It is certainly a policy on environmental matters that could be followed by many political groups in the community. [More…]

• A media report in Darwin states that unalienated Crown land in the Northern Territory subject to Aboriginal land claims, such as a recent claim on the island Dum-im-mime in the vicinity of Darwin, is owned by the Northern Territory community. [More…]

• It is very important to see what is being done to the Aboriginal community and to see the deprivation which this Government and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs is causing that community. [More…]

• Rowley, Director of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia; Mr Ernest Bridge, Shire President, Halls Creek, Western Australia; Mr S. Martin Jambaiimba, Community Adviser, Willowra Station, Northern Territory; Mr Thomas Williams, O.B.E., Director of Field Operations, New South Wales Aboriginal Lands Trust, and a member of the Aboriginal Relics Advisory Committee; and Mr Neville Amy, Senior Rural Officer, Commonwealth Development Bank of Australia. [More…]

• It was sought by the Aboriginal community but the information that it was available for sale was not passed on to the Commission by the Department until after it was sold to a mining company. [More…]

• Only through purchase can the majority of Aboriginal communities in remote areas be vested in a minimum of community property. [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: [More…]

• A situation which we all understand is that if one party or one politician errs the public become suspicious of all politicians and our standing in the community drops even lower. [More…]

• Distance involves a real cost to the community and any subsidy considered necessary would be better paid directly rather than in the blanket fashion involved in a price equalisation scheme. [More…]

• Has the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations taken any action in relation to a report in the ‘Sunday Sun ‘ of 8 October 1 978, headed ‘ Hinze Blasts Pom Stirrers ‘; if so, what action has been taken. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations informs me that he received a number of complaints concerning remarks alleged to have been made by the Honourable R. Hinze, M.L.A., that were the subject of the newspaper report. [More…]

• Does the Government intend to introduce elections for representatives of each ethnic community on State Ethnic Broadcasting Advisory Councils. [More…]

• This does not preclude nominations being made to the Minister by the community. [More…]

• Indeed, my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has informed me that, before making the initial appointments, he invited nominations from the community. [More…]

• Who are the members of the National Women’s Advisory Council, referred to on page 2 of the pamphlet For the Ethnic Media, dated 22 November 1978, and what are the details of their experience in community affairs. [More…]

• Details of the membership of the Council and their experience in community affairs are as follows: [More…]

• Beryl Beaurepaire (Victoria)- Voluntary community and charity worker; Citizens’ Welfare Service of Victoria (VicePresident), United Nations Association of Australia, Status of Women Committee; Member, Women’s Advisory Body Working Party. [More…]

• Dee Boss- Walker (Tasmania)- Home duties with 3 young children; very involved with community child care activities; Secretary Australian Pre-School Association, Tasmania; immediate past president, Southern Tasmania Playgroups Association. [More…]

• Valerie Fisher (Victoria)- Involved in various community activities in farming district where she lives, including work with mentally ill patients, Mayday Hills Hospital, Beechworth; member, Country Women’s Association (Victorian State President 1973-75; National President 1975-77); member, United Nations Association of Australia, Status of Women Committee; has attended two world conferences of Associated Country Women of the World. [More…]

• ; has been editor of and contributor to several Italian language newspapers; involvement with ItaloAustralian community includes welfare work and interpreting. [More…]

• Judith Roberts (South Australia)- Trained nurse; associate member of National Council of Women of SA; member of number of local community organisations (in the fields of health, welfare and education) including Unley Mothers and Babies Health Association ( former President, Secretary and Treasurer), Unley Royal Institution for the Blind, Unley Auxiliary of Crippled Children’s Association, Royal District Nursing Society, Red Cross, Good Neighbour Council of SA, State Committees of Schools’ Commission, Council of Governors of Walford CEGGS, Federation of Parents and Friends Association of Independent Schools in SA. [More…]

• On the contrary, there are signs, which I think even the Opposition has acknowledged, of a sturdy start of recovery in the community. [More…]

• The policy of the present Government is to reduce inflation and thereby to stimulate economic activity in the community generally, and to create real jobs and real demands for employment. [More…]

• In recent months there have been increases each month in total civilian employment and there is an air of confidence in the business community. [More…]

• This matter is of political, social and economic importance and it has, of course, considerable emotional overtones in the community. [More…]

• The Opposition has taken this very early opportunity to raise the question of the restoration of twice yearly indexation of pensions and benefits under our social security and repatriation systems because of the confusion that has arisen and the expectations that have occurred in the pensioner community as a result of widespread media publicity in the last two months following actions of certain Government supporters. [More…]

• There has also been an awareness in the community at large that a gross injustice has been done to those people in the community who depend on fixed incomes from the Government. [More…]

• I am aware that because of this publicity and because of the claims and counter-claims and the interpretative sort of articles that have appeared in the Press, many people in the community are confused as to what the Government will do and what this Parliament will do. [More…]

• We believe that the injustice is widely recognised as such in the community. [More…]

• It can do so without putting an excessive burden on the taxpayers of this community. [More…]

• The time has come for the Government to do the right thing- to change this Budget decision or, alternatively, to call on those of its supporters who are doing so to cease their pretence to the pensioners and beneficiaries in this community that they are capable of reversing the Government’s decision by actions in this place. [More…]

• Since then pensioners and members of organisations representing the various beneficiaries in the community have pressured Government and Opposition members to correct the injustice. [More…]

• Before the 1977 election the Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, promised that this policy would continue, as did the Prime Minister and, taking their cue from the Minister for Social Security and from the Prime Minister, as did every government member and supporter who campaigned in that election, lt was a firm promise given to every pensioner and every beneficiary in this community. [More…]

• It was not the Opposition which was lying at that time by suggesting that this policy may not be maintained; it was not the Opposition which was knowingly deceiving the pensioners and electors of this community; it was the Prime Minister, the Minister for Social Security and their colleagues in the Government parties. [More…]

• This has become a bipartisan policy in this Parliament and it had been accepted generally in the community. [More…]

• The Government’s misguided restrictions in some areas of government assistance has meant a long and heavy burden on many people in the community. [More…]

• Services to disadvantaged people in the community have been affected through cuts in assistance to various welfare agencies and groups which assist these people. [More…]

• We have a situation where most observers in the community believe that the Government’s policy was wrong and is still wrong. [More…]

• Then and only then will the pensioners know where they are, will the Parliament know where it is and will some justice be done and be seen to be done for these people in the community. [More…]

• To suggest that we can isolate one sector of the community in our economic policies is to overlook the fact that our economic policies affect those people perhaps more seriously than they affect anyone else. [More…]

• What an indictment of our community that is! [More…]

• One has to look at the real needs, the real justice, behind the whole idea of paying pensions to certain sections of the community. [More…]

• Although in many ways when one talks about pensions one thinks of elderly people, pensioners in our community today are of all ages. [More…]

• Right across the community, insufficient money to buy proper food means an increase in ill health, which means additional cost. [More…]

• Yet they all have children to raise in this community. [More…]

• They are a part of the community. [More…]

• I believe that in one sense it is almost an insult to refer to those extremely valuable members of our community- there are nearly 2 million pensioners- as political footballs. [More…]

• If we are talking about priorities, who could say that we do not hold the interests of the pensioner group in the community at a very high level of priority when in fact we are devoting almost 30 per cent of our total revenue to the social services area? [More…]

• I believe that the proportion of funds allocated to the social services area is evidence of the very high priority that we place on the circumstances of pensioners in our community. [More…]

• At long last the Government is reaching a successful point in the battle with inflation and this is of extreme importance to the pensioner section of our community, as it is to the whole community. [More…]

• This reduction is probably of more significance to the pensioners of Australia than to any other section of our community. [More…]

• I do not think that the extent of the cost to the community of adjustments in pensions is fully and clearly understood. [More…]

• What they receive has to be referable to the capacity to pay of the total Australian community. [More…]

• Should it not perhaps give a lead to the community by keeping a promise when it is made. [More…]

• Why should this Government continue to breach promises and thus give a sorry lead to the rest of the community? [More…]

• It is well to remember how many persons in the community are affected. [More…]

• There are 140,000 widowed pensioners and 240,000 people in the community who are receiving an invalid pension. [More…]

• Each person has the same hopes and the same fears as any other person in the community. [More…]

• If the Government does not honour its promises as it has not honoured its promise in this area it is misleading the Australian people, just as I suggested earlier this afternoon that it misled the Australian people by its inability to provide more employment in the community. [More…]

• The continual battles and arguments that were so divisive during the 1960s and up until the 1970s in fact divided the Australian community. [More…]

• He has re-introduced the political arguments and created divisions within the Australian community, within his own party and within this Parliament purely for his own selfish political gain. [More…]

• We know that they are not perfect and we know that they get a poor response in the community. [More…]

• They will stand by a man whom they know is doing them nothing but harm, doing this parliamentary system nothing but harm, and creating divisions in our community for whatever personal political advantage he can get from it. [More…]

• Opposition members are trying to say that the pensioner has not been given proper consideration in the community because of the so-called negligence of the Fraser Government. [More…]

• She is not concerned that many people in our community are on such a strict budget that they have to limit the number of letters that they write. [More…]

• One has to ask: From which group of people in our community do those in the high suicide rate come? [More…]

• I am posing the question one has to ask: From which group of people in the community do these people who commit or attempt to commit suicide come? [More…]

• Nevertheless, the fact of the matter is that we have a great many pensioners in the community who rely on us as their elected representatives to look after their needs, and this Government is not catering for the needs of people. [More…]

• Again Mr Miller does not receive a mention under ‘Operation Jubilee Salute’, the ‘Silver Jubilee National Essay Contest’, ‘Community Events’ or ‘Sporting Activities’. [More…]

• As all planners will say, and as all people who concern themselves with urban matters will say, an urban transport system is the very hub, the very focal point, and the very link between all that happens in a modern community, whether it be industrial or commercial activity. [More…]

• In a whole range of activities the people of Europe are able to enjoy decent community facilities. [More…]

• We are the most urbanised community on earth in spite of our size. [More…]

• But I think that it is equally true to say that the community must be protected from providing vast sums of money for great transport systems that travel the various lines and roads and rails with no customers, no passengers no response and no income. [More…]

• In any study of urban public transportthe community needs to give this further study- we have to balance the need for an effective paying operation on the one hand against a social situation on the other so that a community may be able to be effectively served and at the same time public money wisely spent. [More…]

• It is a matter of some relief that the scheme is being continued at all by the scrooge-like coalition government, which seems dedicated to paralysing the community. [More…]

• In addition, the Minister stressed that the Commonwealth Government would assist the South Australian Government and the Whyalla community in responding to changed circumstances. [More…]

• I am more attracted to the idea of a review of the coverage of the gift provisions which, as the honourable senator has suggested, may no longer be altogether appropriate to present community needs and funding patterns. [More…]

• The Government has always believed, and I think the Australian community does also, that the ANZUS Treaty with the United States of America is a significant cornerstone of our national security. [More…]

• We have to maintain a tight balance between informing the community of the trends and, at the same time, seeking to get the very best people into the teaching profession. [More…]

• I think that what is being ventured upon in terms of diversity and choice in education is one of the major qualitative ventures that have been demanded by the community. [More…]

• In the light of the statement by the Minister for Post and Telecommunications on the television program Nationwide last night that the Government was strongly convinced that there must be extensive public debate on the communications satellite proposal, will the Government now decide to extend the time for public debate for another 1 2 months beyond March this year and will the Government find funds to assist those community organisations that want to participate in the public debate to do so? [More…]

• Following on Senator Young’s question of the Minister representing the Minister for National Development, I ask the Minister: As the Australian Transport Advisory Council is meeting tomorrow to discuss vehicle exhaust emission controls, will the Government point out at that meeting that fuel is now a scarce and expensive commodity and the introduction of stage 3 of the emission controls will further increase fuel wastage in this country, at a direct cost to the community of many hundreds of millions of dollars a year and, equally importantly, with deleterious effects on our balance of payments at a time when the state of our balance of payments is critical? [More…]

• These factors include the comparatively high level of junior wages and costs associated with apprenticeship, as well as a perception in the community that the basic skills of school leavers, especially basic literacy and numeracy, may be in some ways inadequate for the future. [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…]

• I think that this topic is one which is of great basic and increasing interest in the society and one to which perhaps the Australian community has not given very much thought until recent years. [More…]

• I now make the point that it is just not members of the Democrats who are taking this petition around, but also a number of other organisations in the community. [More…]

• We have a situation now where parliamentarians and parliaments are, I think very unfairly, in great opprobrium in the community. [More…]

• The Brisbane Metropolitan Transit Authority has recognised the worldwide experience that few public transport programs, if any, are able to cover capital and operating costs wholly from fares while meeting the standard consistent with community expectations. [More…]

• There has obviously been a great shift in population in the last three years because from recollection when I, as Special Minister of State in the Whitlam Labor Government went to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands to have discussions with Mr Clunies-Ross and the inhabitants of the Cocos-Malay community, there were some 400 Cocos-Malay people in the local community, compared with about 270 now. [More…]

• Whilst at that time I think there were about 180 or 200 people in the work force, I note that according to the Minister’s statement the work force of the CocosMalay community is now about only 130. [More…]

• There is no doubt that at long last things are moving in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands to bring about freedom for the members of the Cocos-Malay community. [More…]

• But I must say that undoubtedly Australia and particularly the Cocos-Malay community should be indebted to the ‘Decolonisation’ Committee of the United Nations- the Committee of TwentyFourwhich went to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in November 1974 at the invitation of the then Labor Government. [More…]

• It strongly recommended that steps be taken as soon as possible to disengage the links between the Cocos-Malay community and the Clunies-Ross estate and since that time it has kept an ever watchful eye on the situation. [More…]

• I think that Australia and the Cocos Malay community owe a debt of gratitude to the ‘Decolonisation’ Committee or the Committee of Twenty-four. [More…]

• 1 ) Ownership of a suitably agreed area of land on Home Island to be vested in the Home Island community, as a corporate entity. [More…]

• This would help to establish the community’s own identity, separate from that of the Clunies Ross estate; [More…]

• a local government type authority to be established, with legal and formal status, to manage and control the affairs of the community. [More…]

• This authority would comprise only members elected for a specific period, and would have powers which reflected the wishes of the Community; [More…]

• all future Australian Government contracts involving the Clunies Ross estate to provide for direct payment of appropriate sums in Australian currency to the Cocos community; a separate Cocos community fund to be established for this purpose, to be administered by, and for the sole benefit of, the community; [More…]

• provisions to be introduced to permit freedom of movement for members of the Cocos community; and [More…]

• Most of the Cocos Malay community are in fact Australian citizens. [More…]

• Nonetheless, sales of stamps by the philatelic service will be of some assistance to the economy of the Cocos Malay community. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that since government counselling of the community has taken place, basically against migration, very few people have left. [More…]

• With the passage of these two Bills, and in view of the announcements that have been made by Mr Ellicott in relation not only to citizenship but also to the setting up of the co-operative, the establishment of a local government council and the provision on the Islands of the normal municipal services that we expect in our society such as electricity, sewerage and water reticulation a great prospect lies before this community. [More…]

• He also drew attention to the fact that because of wage adjustments which had occurred generally in the community some people who had been eligible for legal aid in 1976 were not eligible for it in 1978, simply because their incomes had gone up and the guidelines had not altered. [More…]

• The question then arises: How do we most effectively use that money for the community’s benefit and for the benefit of those in real need? [More…]

• It is of the same quality as the community development services. [More…]

• Whether they are health services, welfare services, housing policies or community development activities, they are all part of the same kind of interventions by government aimed at giving people a better chance. [More…]

• In theory and in concept, it is not really different from housing, taxation policy, health, the cash transfer system, the provision of services or community development. [More…]

• Sooner or later the community is going to say: ‘No more’. [More…]

• If we want more for one part of the human services area and the situation is that the community say it cannot increase the commitment to human services above 50 per cent of the Budget, we will have to start saying that some other area will have to have less- I am not saying that that is an inappropriate proposition- but we will have to help to identify which area it is that will get less. [More…]

• Its increase each year simply by indexation of the pension is more than the total subvention in most of the community development areas, legal aid and all the other matters. [More…]

• If we want more say in community development, sooner or later we will have to bite the bullet and say that there will be less in some other area or a halt. [More…]

• This is an issue which does not seem to be getting the attention in the community that it should be receiving. [More…]

• If it is impossible for the person in question to find that $100, which will prove to be the case for many people in the community, the only alternative is for the applicant to throw himself or herself on the mercy of the registrar. [More…]

• One has to appreciate that these are the kinds of people we are talking about when we talk of a requirement to pay a $20 fee to swell the revenue from which aid can be made available to a larger section of the community. [More…]

• Within the private profession there is a huge reservoir of people who would prefer to devote their intellectual energies and their physical resources to the provision of legal aid to the community at large. [More…]

• The ALAO is full of dedicated officers who have been working their hearts out to satisfy the huge need for legal aid services which exists in this community; but it has been impossible for significant gains to be made, and it will continue to be impossible for significant gains to be made so long as those now in charge of the Government continue to adopt the attitude they have, in relation to both the basic level of funding which is made available and the way in which that funding is allocated between different possible efficient uses. [More…]

• On that occasion we took the opportunity to discuss these guidelines and the workings of legal aid in this community. [More…]

• It is a matter of whether the law should be available to the poor or to the relatively poor in the community. [More…]

• Therefore, legal aid is something that ought to be available in our civilised community to a lot more people than just the pensioners. [More…]

• I think that the community has to be roused to realise that much greater expenditure is needed for a proper legal aid service. [More…]

• If we believe in equality before the law and believe that it should apply to people who are very poor, to pensioners and to those who have a little more money than that, we must recognise that we have not done well enough in this community. [More…]

• the flow-on of money to the community at large as a result of such automation, and other structural changes desirable in the society; and [More…]

• Part of the problem, and this is rather basic to my argument, is that planning by authoritarian States has been arbitrary and has almost always been imposed downwards without any attempt to consult the community or those business men and women and workers who must inevitably be affected by that planning. [More…]

• Instead it ought to be low key, consultative and based as much as is humanly possible on a consensus of the community. [More…]

• I got the impression that they felt that there could not possibly be the kind of world in which this could happen and that for some reason or other, although it is possible for other groups in the community such as families, organisations and business boards to agree on things- even school children have mock parliaments at times- this Parliament is different, that it is immune to such rationality. [More…]

• As far as I can see, we are back now to the type of industrial jungle situation where, not to put too fine a point on it, the unions which have clout and which can blackmail the community get the goodies but the people who are not in that position- the clothing workers, footwear workers and others- get the sticky end of the deal. [More…]

• Every Australian deserves consideration of what his due reward in the community and his working conditions ought to be. [More…]

• At least it could lay down some ideas which the community could look at and say: ‘Whatever they do in Canberra, at least that is the way we are going, unless there are very good reasons why it should be changed’. [More…]

• To the Australian Democrats it is fundamental that if there is to be regulation it is much better that it be self-regulation imposed as a result of co-operation and consultation with the rest of the community. [More…]

• It is also better that modifications to the private enterprise system should mesh smoothly within an overall, long term plan decided upon by the community as a whole as its future course. [More…]

• It comes down, after all, to being a matter of options for the Australian community. [More…]

• Alternatively, a rational plan arrived at in consultation with all sections of the community would probably result in people accepting automation as a rational, reasonable first premise of the truism that increasing diversion of repetitive, boring or laborious work to machines should bring a vast new era of happiness and development to all human beings. [More…]

• Planning for this new era has to take into account the provision of fresh outlets- recreational, artistic, inventive or in the world of sport- for the community. [More…]

• I hope that Senator Cavanagh soon talks to some people in the community about what they think of the confrontative nature of this Parliament. [More…]

• A number of speakers on the Opposition side of the chamber, including myself, expressed their concern during the Address-in-Reply debate at the deepening cynicism in the Australian community towards the Parliament. [More…]

• Surely this causes a large section of the community seriously to doubt the ethics and moral commitment of government. [More…]

• Whilst the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) might think it is good that the vast majority of Australians turn to the sports pages first when reading the newspapers, I would like to see a community politically and constructively critical of governments and of society. [More…]

• Party education is important because it improves the general understanding of politics and government within the community. [More…]

• I am not an historian but I have a sense of pride in the history and traditions of my party and its role in Australia’s development and I am saddened that many ALP members and supporters and of the general community have little access to specialised resources on Labor’s history and politics generally. [More…]

• There is a vast store of wisdom and knowledge in the community which we should tap. [More…]

• This is particularly important in this country for our Public Service, centred in Canberra, is peculiarly isolated from the mainstream of community life. [More…]

• But even more serious is the way in which the community is being increasingly alienated from the whole parliamentary process. [More…]

• We must develop a body to balance the excessive power of the Executive and its dominance of the lower House and involve the community more in the parliamentary processes. [More…]

• There is a great deal of expert opinion available in the community. [More…]

• These committee hearings must be in public and must involve the community to the greatest possible extent because only by doing this can we remove the very general alienation of the community from the parliamentary processes. [More…]

• These tend not to have a community of interest. [More…]

• Looking at the span of interests, as Senator Chaney is in the chamber I will refer particularly to Estimates Committee E. Last year it dealt with the Departments of Administrative Services, Industry and Commerce, Transport, Productivity, and Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The legislative and general purpose committees would be greater in number, would be better staffed and their members would have a community of interest with the departments they would be reviewing. [More…]

• What we have to face is whether we wish to take decisive steps in the development of the Westminster system of government, steps which would set this chamber up as a check and a balance on the activities of the Executive and provide a focus through which there could be increased community involvement in the processes of government. [More…]

• To have brought this matter so dramatically and symbolically to the attention of the Australian community alone merits praise for Senator Hamer, but I believe that it will not engender widespread bipartisan support if left as a solitary proposal. [More…]

• I do not endorse it in any particular respect but because, as I have said, the motion adopts a premise or at least takes a certain perspective which is in harmony with much of the feeling within the community concerning the proper relation of the two chambers to government. [More…]

• It is for that reason that I maintain that the proposal warrants proper consideration as one part of the practical proposals that might be considered by the community in the general aim of strengthening parliamentary democracy in Australia. [More…]

• One hears this accusation through many sections of the community. [More…]

• It is a very expensive luxury to the Australian community and I say that the way it is presently constituted it is a luxury. [More…]

• The previous two teachers that have been in Australia, Mr Ronald Stevenson and Mr Alex Vaitheeswaran both have outstanding employment histories and were well respected in the community. [More…]

• I speak tonight on behalf of many people from the Italian community in Sydney. [More…]

• Indeed, the Minister is aware that many countries, including those in the European Economic Community are subject to international arrangements or to domestic legislation which severely limits their discretion to make special concessions for the entry of people from abroad, particularly when that involves taking up employment. [More…]

• Many people in the community faced with the problem of moving from the imperial to the metric system perhaps are loath to do so. [More…]

• It was with regard to seeding grants for community groups for purposes of the International Year of the Child. [More…]

• Australia, Japan and other Western countries gave aid to Hanoi and sought to encourage her more active participation in the international community. [More…]

• The Opposition has not isolated China in the world community and our record, for at least two decades, is one of ensuring that China was not the odd man out. [More…]

• So we do not need to apologise for or explain the fact that we have never attempted to pursue the line, or to support those who advocated the line, that China should in some way be isolated from the world community. [More…]

• It was said then that it will take generations of United States presidents to overcome the effect of that war on the United States 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…]

• There was no real suggestion that this represented any heavy public opinion at all or that it necessarily reflected any strong opinion within the community. [More…]

• The Committee has to deal- I will not go into the work of the Committee in detail- with many suggestions that are made by many people throughout the community. [More…]

• I should like to focus on one or two matters; but, before doing so, I think it is worth drawing attention to the fact that in a number of statements in the last three years the Foreign Minister has drawn the community’s attention to important developments as they have occurred within the international arena. [More…]

• An important element- as I said at the outset, about what the Foreign Minister has been saying for three years- is to stress emerging trends, whether they are economic issues, the increasing role of the Third World, or the growing potential for conflict in the international community. [More…]

• This statement today draws much of that together and raises issues particularly in regard to assumptions that have been behind much of our thinking in the past, assumptions which I believe the Government is now questioning as it ought, and which I believe that we as a community and as a parliament ought to continue to question so that Australia’s interests are best protected. [More…]

• No titles to be conferred but appropriate recognition to be given to persons who have rendered exceptional service to the community or to mankind. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, owing to the presence in the Gallery today of representatives of the Aboriginal community of Wreck Bay, who have travelled 200 miles to be here, who cannot be present in the Parliament tomorrow and who are signatories to petitions presented to Senator Ryan and me, I seek leave to present these petitions, which are identical in wording, and to have one of them read. [More…]

• We are the members of the Aboriginal Community of Wreck Bay. [More…]

• The Wreck Bay Aboriginal Housing Company Limited is the duly constituted body representing the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community. [More…]

• What procedures have been set up to cope with any special problems which crashes of space debris might present to the Australian community? [More…]

• No special domestic procedures have been adopted so far to deal with the possibility of the crash of space debris affecting the Australian community. [More…]

• Existing procedures for dealing with such incidents have been considered adequate, but should some unusual situation arise with the serious risk of harm to the Australian community then the Government, of course, would adopt all such special procedures as would be necessary to cope with it. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister for Education and refer to the high degree of concern within the community and the Government at the problems of youth training and employment. [More…]

• Is the Department of Education represented on a task force set up to help establish a national voluntary youth community service scheme? [More…]

• If so, can the Minister inform the Senate what recent steps have been taken to establish a viable youth community scheme? [More…]

• My Department is represented on a task force concerned with a proposed national program, the Voluntary Youth Community Service scheme. [More…]

• If sufficient community interest is shown in the proposals and the unions find the scheme acceptable, it is expected to operate from 1 July this year. [More…]

• I think that the Senate Standing Committee reported that alcohol is the most widespread and insidious of all drugs in the community. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether any consideration is being given to establishing external studies for nurses in the community health field? [More…]

• It is important that post-basic nurse education courses in such fields as community health are widely available in all States. [More…]

• Certainly there should be no question of any undue pressure on any community which is seeking to advance its application for land rights before the Land Rights Commissioner. [More…]

• The community is looking for answers. [More…]

• These are not just the unemployed, the parents of teenagers looking for work, one of the family of the breadwinner out of work or one of the growing number genuinely concerned that the danger lights are already flashing; the concern is widespread throughout the community. [More…]

• As President of the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association, I give honourable senators the assurance that that sort of thing will not be permitted in our area until we are certain that it is necessary for the good of the whole community. [More…]

• However, he has implied that blame is to be attached to the Government as well as to other institutions and bodies in the community. [More…]

• It is the Government’s view, despite what may be achieved by the initiatives it has taken, by attempts to grapple with the problems and by some of the solutions suggested by Senator Harradine, that nevertheless the problem of unemployment can be solved only by the Government’s pursuing sound economic policies which lead to the creation of new jobs in the community and not to the loss of jobs which is the experience we suffered dramatically in 1974 and 1975 under our predecessors. [More…]

• The Government is seeking to achieve real and secure jobs for as many people in the community as desire to work and are prepared to take advantage of them. [More…]

• We consider that some signs indicate that we have turned the corner and that we are returning to higher levels of investment and the creation of new jobs and demand in the community. [More…]

• Certainly it has been observed by many people that for the first time in a long time there is increased confidence in the business sector of our community. [More…]

• But the basic solution to those problems will come with the development of a sound and strong economy, and the creation thereby of solid and secure jobs for all those in the community who wish to take advantage of them. [More…]

• I have in mind the Special Youth Employment Training Program, the Community Youth Support Scheme, the Relocation Assistance Scheme and other programs which I have outlined on a number of occasions in answer to questions in debates on the subject. [More…]

• It will continue to pursue amelioration of the social aspects of unemployment and its problems as well as pursuing economic policies which, there is already clear evidence, are working and concerning which I believe in the near future even greater evidence will be provided by way of investment levels, as I have indicated, and the confidence that is at last being restored in our community. [More…]

• Whatever we say about unemployment and whatever statistics we throw around, it is cleardespite the statements of Senator Durack and the claim of many on the Government side and in the community that unemployment is not as bad as it may seem to be- that all of the figures that we have seen over the last few years, no matter how quantitatively accurate, go in the same direction. [More…]

• They have nowhere to go at the moment and as a community we have not done anything to assist them. [More…]

• It goes through all the tertiary sectors in our community. [More…]

• It is very nice that Senator Durack can get up and say that we have committees looking at that situation, at technological change in government departments, and at the need to educate people in the community to enable them to cope with this technological change. [More…]

• What we also need to do is to look carefully at how much of this technological change is occurring just for the sake of change and at how much we can arrest or slow down the change while the community prepares itself which it has not done in the past. [More…]

• We then get a situation in the community where people want to start pulling things down. [More…]

• If we introduce voluntary early retirement- I believe we should- we must introduce with it an opportunity for members of the community to educate themselves in order to cope with that situation and to cope with the problem which, five or ten years ago they thought they would not have to face. [More…]

• The response of this Government since 1975 has been to describe unemployment, firstly, as something it will cure and, secondly, something which is a myth anyway and is the responsibility of all sorts of people in this community but not the Government. [More…]

• That statement certainly conflicted with the proposal by the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom, to declare the first part of the marine park. [More…]

• I believe that we in the Australian Democrats have information and knowledge, as I think any perceptive person would have, which indicates that there is a wide degree of concern in relation to this matter in the Australian community. [More…]

• The real test on uranium is yet to come but there is waning confidence in the community that the Government will insist on adherence to proper environmental standards. [More…]

• It is a popularly held lay-belief that there is oil in vast quantities in the Barrier Reef and as proof of that assertion there has been the debate tonight, the correspondence in the newspapers and the general level of discussion in the community about whether we drill for oil on the Reef. [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…]

• Rex Hevy, recognised in the Tasmanian community as an industrial moderate union official and senior vice-president of the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council during the years 1974 to 1977, the period of the State Government education grants, asked Senator Harradine and the TTLC officers who it was late in 1977 who gave consideration to the calling of applications for a union education officer separate from the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]

• But because the proposal has acquired a degree of support in the community, as evidenced by the size of the petition which Senator Mason has submitted to the Senate, it does, I acknowledge deserve a more thoughtful and reasoned response than one along those lines. [More…]

• The important issues, particularly those involving the allocation of community resources and the raising and spending of public revenue- the kind of issue which was involved in the notorious Proposition 13 decision in California a couple of years ago- are no longer the kind of issues for which every voter will be able to find answers from within his or her personal experience. [More…]

• I am not suggesting- despite the suggestions of Senator Chipp in earlier interjections that this is so- that the electorate is unintelligent; rather 1 am simply suggesting that politicians and others in the community can be quite unscrupulous in appealing to prejudice and fear. [More…]

• As a result of the activities of that Committee, and because it is held in such high respect and repute by the Senate and by the Parliament, I believe that the reference that I now seek to make to it is in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• I draw attention to sub-clause (4) of clause 3 particularly because of the injustice that has been done to some sections of the community. [More…]

• One of the virtues of efficiency audits, as we see them from our perspective in politics, is that they enable us to assure the community that the expenditure of public money is being carried out in a proper and considered manner. [More…]

• Secondly, they offer a means of demonstrating to the community, which we are all too happy to do, the areas in which, due to Government policy, inadequate services are being provided. [More…]

• I repeat that, regrettably, the Government has done remarkably little to articulate to this Parliament or to the community what is about to happen. [More…]

• I think it is quite wise of us to have an amending Bill in relation to these issues because when we have a legislative act which impinges so much upon our community welfare, our social practices and indeed our family lifestyle, it is good that there is a review from time to time in relation to detail. [More…]

• It is, therefore, not surprising that the Government attaches great importance to the establishment of the Institute of Family Studies as does the Parliament and the community. [More…]

• We have become more than aware of the continuing interest in the Institute, both within the Parliament and throughout the community. [More…]

• I join with other honourable senators and speakers- indeed other leaders in our society and community- in the concern they have expressed that there has not been as much progress in the establishment of the Institute as we had hoped. [More…]

• I believe that it will assume great social significance in the years to come because, as this Family Law Act has been established within our community, and as the Committee which has been appointed by the Parliament to go into the Act brings in its report and its influence upon the Family Law Act, so the Institute of Family Studies will assume an even greater degree of importance. [More…]

• Furthermore, as community attitudes evolve towards the whole institution of marriage then the Institute will, in my view, assume greater importance because it will be used to examine and research the results of experience. [More…]

• In my view it will also give a great lead to attitudes, thought and the implications of the institution of marriage in the total context of our Australian community. [More…]

• I think this is a matter which is assuming considerable importance within the community. [More…]

• For very many years marriage guidance was largely in the hands of certain institutions within our community, but today we have an active marriage guidance movement which is being supported by public funds. [More…]

• Honourable senators may have forgotten that this matter came to light late last year when the attention of the Committee- which has a continuing role in the area of the use of drugs and which has said that alcohol is the drug that is most used in Australia and deserves much more attention than is given to it by the community, the government and the Parliament at times- was drawn to a film that the Australian Wine Board made to promote the consumption of wine in Australia. [More…]

• Our whole feeling when we brought down that report was that, because of the danger to the community as a result of the increasing use of alcohol, the advertising of alcohol should stop. [More…]

• It might not have gone as far as we might have liked but at least it did seem to take account of the fact that children, young people and the community in general should not be pressured into the use of alcohol. [More…]

• The Wine Board, in a publication called Wine Brief, insinuated that, in a rather heavy-handed way, in the role of people who promoted temperance and abstinence and the wowser influence in the community, we had gone out of our way to rubbish the film. [More…]

• We finished up in a situation where we had to raise with the Censor the fact that this was a film which said to the community: ‘Unless you drink wine you are not a really swinging, up-with-it member of the community’. [More…]

• While the Wine Board is allowed to use the money that it is given to promote wine in producing these tawdry films that appeal to the lowest possible denominator in the community and in all of us, I do not think we are doing ourselves any sort of service at all. [More…]

• We think the industry is irresponsible because, although it told us that it was prepared to use self-regulation, as far as we can see it really has not done anything other than go all out and try to sell in any possible way that it can every bit of alcohol that it possibly can sell to the community. [More…]

• We do not think that the community is responsible because, when it gets down to it, if the community really saw alcohol as a problem and really wanted to solve the problem, it could do so. [More…]

• If the community is responsible it can identify the problem and deal with ii, but there is no point in talking about the problem until people take a responsible attitude towards it. [More…]

• The consumption of alcohol and its effects in the community, which are well known, concerns me, as does the consumption of tobacco and nicotine and all the other things which society does because it wants to do them. [More…]

• I think we are making a mistake in picking out one or two things and saying ‘let us ban tobacco advertising’ or ‘let us ban or control the advertising of alcohol’ instead of saying ‘let us educate the community so that it can interpret and digest the sort of pressures which have come from the technological media’, in the same way as people in ancient Greece were able to withstand that which was the living, lasting communication system of that day, that is the paintings, carvings and what have you, most of which depicted the use of a number of things which are now regarded as bad. [More…]

• I said that moderation in all things was also a Greek motto, which may well be observed by a large cross section of the community. [More…]

• If the community is divided into different cohorts it will be discovered that the use of tobacco is dropping in every cohort and in every age group except for the very young, the teenagers, where the use of tobacco is increasing. [More…]

• It is probably true to say that at almost no other time in the evolution of human society has there existed quite such a pervasive method of influencing people which is as completely distributed throughout the community as the television set is in Australia. [More…]

• It can therefore be seen that the television set, as a means of communication and thereby as a means of influencing both development and behaviour, is so widespread throughout the Australian community that only the United States may be said to be in a worse position- and I use that term advisedly. [More…]

• Apart from the effect that this has in terms of taking up time in which children could be engaged in other pursuits, be they sporting, cultural, recreational, social or educative pursuits, it can be seen that for a very large section of the young community of Australia television is about the most important thing in their lives. [More…]

• I believe there comes a point where, if the Federal Government believes that its control of the airways is absolute- it has asserted this since the start of broadcasting in Australia by issuing licences, by denying other people the right to broadcast, or to broadcast on particular frequencies, or to broadcast at a particular time- then surely it bears the responsibility of providing people with accurate information about the effect on the rest of the community of the way in which the airways are being used. [More…]

• It is not simply because this is the International Year of the Child that this matter requires our attention: It is because in the whole development of television, and, in particular, in the hearings that have been conducted by the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, people in the community have expressed a greater degree of concern about children’s television than they have about anything else. [More…]

• It is to ensure that there will be a residual safeguard- a watchdog or back-up mechanism to protect these fundamental parliamentary and community interests- that we are proposing the establishment of the committee. [More…]

• The honourable senator also referred to the encouragement of community support for welfare matters. [More…]

• There are many programs in which the Government and the community share the responsibility. [More…]

• The likelihood that there is a genuine correlation between radiation fall-out and the Monte Bello atomic tests is very small because of the measured negligible radiation dose to the community mentioned in the Medical Journal of Australia. [More…]

• We all know that this product is required by the community today. [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…]

• I am sure that it is hoped by everybody that the report will not be buried as was the report of the Committee of Economic Inquiry, known as the Vernon Report, or ignored as was the report of the Committee to Advise on Policies for Manufacturing Industry, known as the Jackson report, but that it will lead the Government and the community to a greater understanding of the problems that are involved, particularly in the Australian manufacturing industry, and of course the consequences if nothing is done. [More…]

• We have alienated Holland, a member of the European Economic Community, at a time when our Government allegedly is interested in establishing closer economic links with the EEC countries. [More…]

• Surely there must be concern generally in the Australian community and in the Government parties themselves about the tremendous cost of fares in Australia. [More…]

• In fact, I know of no section of the Australian community that has not expressed in some way its concern about the Government’s reluctance to tackle the problems of air fares in Australia, both domestic and international. [More…]

• 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 who are still receiving unemployment benefits 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 benefits 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…]

• The Opposition and many other people in the community supported these recommendations, but the Government has pigeonholed them and done nothing about them. [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…]

• In fact, these sentiments mean nothing unless they are understood in the Parliament and in the Australian community. [More…]

• I am talking principally of those who have the real power in our community, the conservative sources of power in our community, whether they be in the Parliament, in the media or in the corporate sector of our society- those who really influence the thinking of most of our people. [More…]

• Take our attitude to the developments in the Middle East, even our attitude in 195 1-52 to the war in Korea and the manner in which we allowed the Cold War sentiments to prevail upon the whole of the community conscienciousness The same attitude in the Cuban incident almost sparked World War III. [More…]

• Those of us who have been concerned about foreign affairs and in fact have taken a somewhat prominent part in foreign affairs issues within our parties and within the Australian community over a number of years have always been transduced because we do not take definitive positions when disputes such as these break out. [More…]

• Australia has a growing Portuguese community. [More…]

• It is in the context of the significant structural unemployment that is now in our society, particularly that which was referred to by the Minister for Industrial Relations, Mr Street, in a speech in the House of Representatives some weeks ago where he gave a rather gloomy forecast of the employment situation, particularly in relation to automation and computerisation, with a suggestion that even if Australia did reach a situation of economic buoyancy there would still be a group of people in the community who would be unemployed. [More…]

• So far as I and the community were aware, the activity that that gentleman had carried out was of positive benefit. [More…]

• Is he aware of the great concern of many women in the community about this particular matter? [More…]

• Is he considering the need for any action to amend the Family Law Act to take account of such a situation which could detrimentally affect the position of many women in the Australian community? [More…]

• One might have thought that, when the proceedings of the Senate are being broadcast and there is a possibility that a wide variety of people are listening, Labor would have attempted to accept some national responsibility by having its shadow Minister for Primary Industry, or perhaps the Leader of the Opposition in this chamber, draw the attention of the community to those issues which are of the utmost importance in world circles. [More…]

• What he did was typical of Labor’s tactics during the past two or three years, that is, he made an assault on private people in the community. [More…]

• It has been left up in the air for that assumption to be made by a gullible community. [More…]

• What are the questions that arise in respect of this particular loan about which the Australian community and this Parliament are entitled to be very concerned? [More…]

• There are many other areas where the Government has demonstrated that it has the interests of the farmer and the rural community at heart. [More…]

• Members of Parliament are entitled to ask whether the taxpayers’ money allotted for that purpose is disposed of with equity in the rural community. [More…]

• Finally, I must say on behalf of the Opposition that we strongly endorse fire relief and other relief for farmers who are in need of special financial assistance but particularly for poorer farmers in this community who are most in need of it. [More…]

• Be in it’ and previous campaigns aimed at improving community fitness levels is that ‘Life. [More…]

• The problems experienced by the business community in Canberra and by the community generally have been generated by the Fraser Government. [More…]

• Any statistics one cares to look at which measure the extent of social problems in the community show an increase. [More…]

• Three years have seen the total disruption of Canberra as a harmonious and productive community. [More…]

• We can see here without any confusion, interruption or obstruction that the Fraser Government’s economic strategy of reducing public expenditure has meant not only disaster for the public sector, not only chaos in the Public Service, not only a rundown of services to the community for which the community pays, but also, ironically enough, as I have documented tonight, a total disruption in the private sector. [More…]

• The legislation is mainly aimed at dealing with the decision of the High Court of Australia in the Union Fidelity case of 1969, in which the High Court yet again frustrated the Parliament’s intentions in attempting to spread the burden of income tax raising equitably throughout the community. [More…]

• Such schemes pervade throughout the financial community. [More…]

• In that Budget substantial measures were taken by the Government to restrict the activities of trusts and their proliferation in the community. [More…]

• The fact is that trusts are a part of commercial law and have been a part of our community for many years. [More…]

• We have only to consider the situation as regards deceased estates to realise the very important part that they play in the affairs of our community. [More…]

• The general matters that are before us are of deep concern in the community and I believe that the Government should be commended for the attempts that it has made to close the various loopholes which have appeared in the law, although no doubt from time to time new loopholes will be exploited by people. [More…]

• The thrust of this legislation- its purpose- is entirely in harmony with the policy of the Australian Labor Party, that is, that a tax system should be constructed, or at least operated, in a way which distributes the tax burden equitably amongst the community. [More…]

• It is effective in respect of the matter with which it deals and the Opposition should commend the Treasurer (Mr Howard) for galvanising the community, in a way which hitherto Treasurers have not done, into some sort of assault on the privileged tax avoiders in our community. [More…]

• Some members of the community and even some members of Parliament, such as the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman), take the view that there is a distinction between tax evasion and tax avoidance. [More…]

• It is said that tax evasion ought to be dealt with severely by the community whereas tax avoidance perhaps ought to be regarded as a legitimate activity of those who are facing what appears to them to be an overpayment into the country’s Treasury. [More…]

• The High Court is a non-elected bench of justices who are politically irresponsible in a strict sense in that they do not have to answer to anyone for their activity no matter how devastating that activity may be within the community. [More…]

• The fact is that the tax burden in our community has been shifting inexorably away from the professional classes towards the payasyouearn taxpayer, the ordinary wage or salary earner who does not have access to the type of advice which enables him to take advantage of the schemes which are attacked in the Bill before us tonight. [More…]

• That creates a situation within the community where many persons feel that they are paying tax unnecessarily while others avoid paying tax by taking the advice of brains which have been perverted to serve the selfish interests of those who do not want to contribute to the national coffers. [More…]

• What this means is that some people who take advantage of our democratic and parliamentary system and who live in a representative democracy with all the advantages which it confers on them, are not prepared to pay for the services which they expect this Parliament to provide in the community. [More…]

• I believe that in both those ways the High Court has attacked the necessary cohesion which is required in the tax paying community for a sense of fairness to pervade and, therefore, for the money to flow freely as it ought in a situation where fairness is thought to prevail in the Treasury. [More…]

• We think it contains some very good proposals but we have some general constructive views which we wish to put to the Government and to the community in relation to tax avoidance schemes. [More…]

• The only people who can take advantage of the situation are those privileged taxpayers who can afford to pervert some of the best brains of our country in the accountancy and legal profession into serving thier selfish interests against the community’s general interest in having a fair taxation system with a reasonable flow of money to revenue. [More…]

• The parasites in our community need to be made to understand that legislation such as we are passing tonight will be backdated to the first day on which the Treasurer announces his decision to deal with a particular scheme. [More…]

• It is subversive of good government in that it is a direct attack on revenue and on the sense of fairness within the community. [More…]

• If so, what arrangements are under way to ensure appropriate protection for other susceptible members of the Australian community? [More…]

• Some people in the community have apparently copied the wording and sent similar letters to me, which suggests that certain activity is taking place federally. [More…]

• Notice will be taken of proposals put by individuals, by States or by groups within the community. [More…]

• Honourable senators 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 on 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 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 ongoing 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…]

• I refer to the activities of the European Economic Community- the very highly subsidised rate of dairy production in EEC countries and the fact that their surplus production is being sold on the markets that Australia traditionally supplies. [More…]

• The subsidy has the effect of increasing production far beyond the Community’s consumption and subsidising the exports to countries to which Australia normally exports. [More…]

• It must be remembered that the Community has a tremendous surplus even now. [More…]

• That, of course, has been caused by a loss of sales after Britain joined the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It has decided to pick a section of the community at which to aim- the 15 to 17 year-old kids. [More…]

• With a continuing sensitive and unstable export market which continues to be influenced to a large degree by the policies of support prices, and subsidies for exports to the European Economic Community and the United States of America, it is particularly important for the domestic market to be maintained and indeed to be developed, as Senator Lewis indicated. [More…]

• Although this is a useful advertising campaign, the Government should recognise that its responsibility to the fitness of the community does not end here. [More…]

• A substantial proportion of the illness which was in the community results from a poor standard of physical fitness. [More…]

• A response to the general health problems of the community as embodied in its national ‘Life. [More…]

• I ask Senator Baume to bear with me on what to him may be tedious repetition of well known facts but which are not facts as yet recognised and acted upon by the community. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that we are making no headway in coming to terms with this dreadful health problem in our community? [More…]

• When we turn to the problem of alcohol abuse in the community we find another very distressing situation. [More…]

• He brought to the attention of the Senate this afternoon the very interesting fact that there has been a significant increase in alcohol consumption in our community since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]

• It was estimated that in 1972-73 the total cost to the community in heath costs, losses to industry, road crashes and social welfare payments was over $1,1 77m. [More…]

• How can we make any headway on the problem of alcohol abuse in the community when young people are being made the targets of commercial advertising through the mass media in this way? [More…]

• How can the Government expect us to believe that it is serious in its concern about alcohol abuse in the community when it takes no action to prevent this sort of promotion of alcohol to young people? [More…]

• The burgeoning fast food industry presents a serious health problem to our community. [More…]

• If the Government is serious in claiming to be concerned about the general fitness and health of the community, it must do more than fund an advertising campaign such as the ‘Life. [More…]

• It must take positive steps to ensure that everyone has access to community facilities. [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…]

• 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…]

• The actions of the Northern Territory Government have been taken to meet the expectations of the whole Territory community now and in the future. [More…]

• I shall read part of a letter, which is of great importance, from Mr Wood, the District Clerk of the District Council of Pinnaroo, to Mr R. V. Bannon, Chairman of the Tailem Bend Community Co-ordination and Co-operation Conference at Tailem Bend. [More…]

• That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take urgent action on matters arising out of the 1977 Report by the Community Relations Office relating to ‘Discrimination against Aborigines and Islanders in North Queensland’. [More…]

• The position is even worse than that because the Commissioner for Community Relations usually produces his report at about the end of the financial year. [More…]

• That was in 1977 - and the first Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations, together with other documentation, was presented to the Committtee. [More…]

• This has been done through the Office’s involvement in nation-wide seminars, conferences and community functions numbering 183, attended by more than 20,000 people. [More…]

• On page 102 of the report details are set out of all the by-laws that apply on all of the community reserves in Queensland. [More…]

• A facade is put up these days that it is the community councils that make the decisions. [More…]

• I want to say that it is not the community councils that make the decisions. [More…]

• The manager of the Aboriginal reserve or community is the person who has the final authority. [More…]

• Community/Reserve established under ‘The Aborigines’ and Torres Strait Islanders’ Regulations of 1966’ and acting in accordance with the provisions of such regulations hereby makes the following By-Laws to have force and effect within the area of the said . [More…]

• Community/Reserve on the day of approval thereof by the Director of Aboriginal and Island Affairs or such later date as the Director shall fix. [More…]

• Community/Reserve are approved by me and shall come into operation on the . [More…]

• Community/Reserve’. [More…]

• In fact, it is very rarely that the council ever establishes the status of an authorised person; it is the manager, the supreme white god of each black community who does so- [More…]

• Community/ Reserve. [More…]

• Obviously the Commissioner for Community Relations has a copy and there are a number of others that float around but normally it is a document that is not shown to the Aborigines in a community. [More…]

• A person in the community shall not on the reserve: * * * [More…]

• But because these people are black, because there is racial discrimination against them by the white community, they are forced to tolerate it or be penalised by a fine of up to $40 or 14 days in the local lock-up. [More…]

• These are the sorts of discriminatory things that again no person in any white community would tolerate. [More…]

• She is one of the most delightful ladies in terms of looking after her home and working in the community. [More…]

• A person shall not, without the permission of the manager, organise a game or play in a park or anywhere in the Community/Reserve area where places have not been set aside for the playing of games. [More…]

• A community resident shall not practise or pretend to practise any form of sorcery which for the purposes of these By-laws includes bone-pointing, pourri-pourri, or any other custom or practice which interferes with the harmony or well-being of residents, nor shall a person threaten any other person with sorcery or act as an agent for a person who commits or pretends to commit sorcery. [More…]

• A person found guilty of offending against this By-Law may be refused permission to remain in and may be removed from the Reserve/Community for such a period as may be further determined. [More…]

• Its Chairman was asked by a prominent member of the community at the Catholic Land Council meeting in Toowoomba earlier this year why he had made particular recommendations. [More…]

• His oldest daughter, who is a fully qualified nursing sister and a highly respected lady in the community, was contactable by phone, so he rang her. [More…]

• That letter was signed by Josephine Sailor, Behavioural Health Technician of the Aboriginal and Islanders Community Health Service. [More…]

• It is no use complaining to the Commissioner of Police in my State, so the Community Relations Office is the only place that these people can go to. [More…]

• I hope that the discussion on this motion tonight will convince people in the community that racism is not dead. [More…]

• That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take urgent action on matters arising out of the 1977 Report by the Community Relations Office relating to ‘Discrimination against Aborigines and Islanders in North Queensland. [More…]

• He has added to the report of the Commissioner for Community Relations by outlining incidents which can only be described as horrific. [More…]

• However, I do not seek to draw upon my experience; I shall merely draw upon the contents of the reports prepared by the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• I connect with the 1977 report the third annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations- the 1978 report which deals with, among other matters, discrimination against Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]

• We ought to commend the Commissioner for Community Relations for the reports which he has prepared- the 1 977 report to which Senator Keeffe alluded and the 1978 report to which I refer. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations in these two reports has identified the problem. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations has justified the existence of his Commission. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations has seen fit to print that very important covenant into his report. [More…]

• For that reason I suggest- I repeatthat the 1978 third annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations should be made compulsory reading for every member of Parliament. [More…]

• The whole situation is becoming most confused for a group in this community which find it difficult enough to eke out a living without having bureaucratic nonsense like that foisted upon them. [More…]

• It is running at about 1 7 per cent in the general community and as high as 90 per cent in the Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• Also Commonwealth agencies take priority over ordinary employees who find that they are unable to get accumulated long service leave entitlements, holiday pay or annual leave entitlements because the Commonwealth has decided at that point that it is in the interests of the community that the Commonwealth coffers be filled before trading debts or obligations that an employer has to an employee are met. [More…]

• In fact the giving up of this priority may not have a very significant effect on government revenue because if ordinary traders and employees can recover their commercial debts and annual leave and long service leave payments, I believe that would create a situation in which the revenue would do very well out of the fact that these ordinary traders would not have so many bad debts and employees would of course have spending power within the community. [More…]

• For those reasons I raise this matter again and ask the Attorney-General to indicate whether the Government has come to a decision and will act in the next few weeks- certainly in this autumn session- in order to remedy what I think is acknowledged by all sections of the Australian community to be a situation which works unfairly against small traders and employees of insolvents and bankrupts. [More…]

• It is in that context that I believe we are paying tribute to a man who, whilst he was here for only a very short time, indicated to the Senate and to the Australian community generally that he was prepared to act in defence of principles rather than of party, and that is a virtue which is all too often in short supply in party politics in Australia. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that on 20 September 1978 his predecessor, the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom, when referring to environmental impact statements, said: [More…]

• I take it that the honourable senator is anxious to know what are the environmental procedures set down in relation to the development of the Ranger site and that the honourable senator feels that there is some inconsistency between what may have been said previously by the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development and by me as Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• AAFCANS will take over the operation of the ASCO community store facilities at Woomera. [More…]

• The Whitlam Labor Government did it, firstly, by recognising the important part being played by voluntary organisations in providing recreational outlets for the Australian people; secondly, by providing capital grants for the construction of sporting community recreation and cultural facilities; thirdly, by assisting Australian sports men and women; fourthly, by stimulating an awareness of the benefits of individual fitness. [More…]

• There has been no planning and no provision made to meet the situation in the community. [More…]

• It has paralysed the community and now he is endeavouring to say to the adults: ‘You cannot smoke and you cannot drink’. [More…]

• The community has been paralysed by the Government’s financial policies. [More…]

• I would suggest that the honourable senator and his committee stop before they go too far, adopt a more realistic approach and embark on an education program showing people in this community what injuries can occur from smoking or drinking. [More…]

• Time and again I have advocated in this Senate- particularly over the last two years- that there should be Federal Government intervention in my state of Queensland into the affairs of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Over the last two years a number of things have happened that has proven, perhaps not to the Government but to the whole of the Australian community, that there is a need for the Government to accept the responsibility given to it by the 1967 referendum and to intervene in the affairs of the Aboriginal community in Queensland. [More…]

• The elections were held and I have in my hands information to prove that one-third of the total voting population of that Aboriginal community was denied a vote by the authorities who are in charge and who, to use the kind of words used by Mr Porter, the Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs, are in control of the Aboriginal people of that community. [More…]

• On Friday 23rd February 1979, Palm Island held the DAIA run community Council elections. [More…]

• They are leaders of the community and are in the front running of sports and other community activities. [More…]

• However, they are not allowed to vote in an election that is very near and dear to them because it involves the running their own little community. [More…]

• His family wanted to go back to the island because they could not hack it in the broader white community. [More…]

• They wanted to elect to their council people whom they felt were going to be able to do the things that they wanted to do for their community- people with whom they could work. [More…]

• I believe that they have won those seats because the Department has not been fair to other residents of the community. [More…]

• The Queensland Government is responsible, through its Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement, for what I can only call cheating on one-third of the residents of that community on Palm Island. [More…]

• We recommended that the Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development as he then was and the State Ministers responsible for youth, sport and recreation appeal to all sportsmen and women throughout Australia not to lend their names and prestige to the promotion of alcohol or tobacco. [More…]

• According to evidence presented by the New South Wales Health Commission before the New South Wales parliamentary select committee on extended liquor trading hours, alcoholism now is a very significant factor in community health. [More…]

• The bulk of advertising revenue comes from those groups that I suggest to the Senate are doing irreparable harm to the whole social fabric of our society and creating the sort of conditions which will be detrimental to public health and to the wellbeing of our community. [More…]

• That is the value system which is now predominant in the thinking of our community and which unfortunately is the foundation upon which this Government builds its whole philosophy. [More…]

• If a satellite system comes into being there will be the possibility of large corporations in our community being able to sell, in one fell swoop as it were, a whole concept to a national audience. [More…]

• If it is wrong, as has been suggested by the Senate Committee, to have this emphasis on cigarette and alcohol advertising, it seems to me that it is wrong for us to give any credence to a suggestion that in this country we should divert resources from what is needed in education, community health and public facilities generally into subsidising the whim of a person who sees a chance to get in on the ground floor in respect of a communications satellite. [More…]

• One would imagine that, if we lived in any sort of democratic community, we would want equal opportunity for each sport, whatever it may be, to have the capacity to put the best players on the sporting field. [More…]

• That is not what I was taught about sport when I was going through my educational process and I am sure that it is not accepted by the general community. [More…]

• But that is the process that has developed in the Australian community today. [More…]

• I find it distasteful and disgraceful that we have allowed it to develop to the stage where one or two powerful individuals, wherever and whoever they may be, can so distort our community values in respect of what is regarded in this country as being part of our national makeup. [More…]

• I find it distasteful not only from a moral point of view but also from the point of view that those companies then have the gall, the temerity and the capacity to put down these advertising costs as a company expense and claim them as a tax deduction which in turn means that the rest of the Australian community has to pay higher taxation. [More…]

• That is an unfair undemocratic sort of system when a couple of characters sitting in a posh office in some part of our Commonwealth can make that sort of a decision and expect the community to thank them for helping the clubs involved. [More…]

• But members of the community are forced to pay higher taxes because of this socalled generosity in the form of emoluments to various sporting organisations. [More…]

• I think it is about time that we started to challenge these concepts and ask whether the community should pay for advertising in the way that it does. [More…]

• Given the influence of advertising campaigns in these matters the community is paying time and time again. [More…]

• In those circumstances, I think it is about time that the community and the Parliament decided to have a closer look at the situation. [More…]

• Nutritionists have suggested to me in one or two submissions to me as Labor’s spokesman on consumer affairs that the medical profession is starting to appreciate what thus sort of thing is doing to community health. [More…]

• But I question whether from a social point of view the promotion of this sort of food is desirable particularly at a time when we are concerned about community health and the health of individuals. [More…]

• I do not believe that we ought to allow sporting codes to be dominated by the private sector of the community. [More…]

• I seek the indulgence of the Senate to raise another matter which I am concerned about, namely, community health. [More…]

• I am not satisfied that the Government is applying itself in the way that it should, which is to protect community health. [More…]

• That statement implies- this is most importantthat the Australian community can be exposed to any level of a possibly hazardous productwhether it be X-rays or the insecticide which was talked about in recent weeks, 2,4, 5-T- unless it can be proved definitively that the product seriously threatens human health or life. [More…]

• From time to time many senators and people in our community have expressed concern about some of the violence and racial difficulties which are so much part of the scene in the United States and the way in which we allow our society to deteriorate. [More…]

• The exposure of the community is doubled by their exposure to man made radiation, 90 per cent of this dosage is due to medical uses of radiation and as much as half may be unnecessary. [More…]

• I do not know whether Senator Baume would agree with me but that is what the allegation was and it has not been refuted by any reputable scientist or spokesman on behalf of the medical community. [More…]

• I have referred already to the increased costs to Medibank and the community generally. [More…]

• I accept the fact that there are members of this Government who are concerned about public health, but if this Government is concerned about the safety of Australian medical service recipients, or the safety of those sections of the global community exposed to the growing radiations from the nuclear industry, it should have acted already in response to the growing international concern about nuclear radiation generally. [More…]

• I started off by challenging the value system upon which so much of our activity exists within this community. [More…]

• It is leading us into an area which does not have regard for the health of individuals and for the best interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• Before I commence to deal with the subject about which I wish to speak in this first reading debate on the Poultry Industry Levy Amendment Bill, I would like to comment on the last point that the previous speaker, Senator Gietzelt, made about radiation and the risks from radiation to the community. [More…]

• I suggest that clear and important signs of dissatisfaction are evident in the community. [More…]

• It is not overstating the case to say that a body of people in the community see this Parliament as at best an irrelevance and at worst a positive handicap in the growth of the country. [More…]

• Furthermore, the members of the community are concerned, when differing points of view are clearly evident and valid, that their legitimate input through their own electoral representatives, who are private members of parliament, seems to have no influence on Executive decision. [More…]

• No public servant, no one else in the community, would allow that kind of delay to his own Christmas cheque. [More…]

• A community health nurse read the letter to the Committee in Narrabri last week during a hearing on the conditions of Aborigines working in the cotton fields near Narrabri and Wee Waa, in the north-west of New South Wales. [More…]

• Of course that is what the farming community is complaining about. [More…]

• In that country, infants are being immunised with the aim of totally eliminating the disease from the community. [More…]

• In Australia, the policy is to allow the disease to circulate in the community thereby allowing a natural immunity to develop in a significant proportion of the population. [More…]

• Meanwhile, the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine has agreed to undertake prospective surveys in the community to assess the level of immunity and to monitor progress over the next few years. [More…]

• There are three community health services. [More…]

• The Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs will be aware of the concern of many members of the Parliament and the community at the continued destruction of the Eritrean peoples by Ethiopian forces directed by Soviet military personnel. [More…]

• It is not raised because of the revelations yesterday of the presence of an individual in the Operations Room of the Commonwealth Police but because the Opposition remains convinced that the now longdrawn out case of alleged conspiracy against members of the Sydney Greek community presents unsatisfactory features which are damaging to that community. [More…]

• We believe that the nature of the inquiry and the charges have been such as to give rise to a feeling within the Greek community that its members have been singled out for special treatment. [More…]

• The final, precipitating factor is that to the voices of the Greek community, the Opposition and the Redfern Legal Aid Office, which in the past has called for an inquiry into this matter, the voice of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists has now been added. [More…]

• We are concerned that such charges should be proceeded with in such a manner that the rights of citizens are protected and that no section of the community is singled out for special treatment. [More…]

• If Senator Missen is questioning the right of the Opposition to raise matters like this in this House, I am sure that many people in the community would be interested. [More…]

• Should not more concern have been shown for the feelings of the members of the community and those who had been charged? [More…]

• We all believe that if any person in our community contravenes the laws of the land, he must be tried by a court of law and, if found guilty, then must be punished accordingly. [More…]

• However, on 3 May 1978 Archbishop Stylanos of the Greek Orthodox community was given an assurance, so he said, by a representative of the Department of Social Security that members of his community would not be deprived of their benefits until charged. [More…]

• On 20 April at a large meeting in the Paddington Town Hall called by the Greek Orthodox community in Sydney, Mr Portley the then Acting Director of the Department of Social Security in New South Wales and a man who, at that meeting, conducted himself extremely well and with great propriety and reassured many members of the community, said that more than 500 people had been taken off pensions and benefits pending investigation. [More…]

• What was happening was that people were losing their benefits before they were investigated and before they were charged, and this was giving the impression in the Greek community that the principle of British justice that we all talk about was being ignored. [More…]

• The very real problem has been that the people of the Greek community feel that they have been put upon. [More…]

• Senator Grimes early in his speech stated that the charges which have been placed by the police give rise to a feeling in the Greek community that there has been some singling out of Greek people for special treatment or some discrimination against them. [More…]

• I say on behalf of the Government with all the force that I can that the Australian Greek community was not singled out for special treatment or special investigation. [More…]

• I have repeatedly expressed my concern that members of the Greek community may feel that there is some discrimination against them as a group of people or that in some way some damage has been done to their reputation. [More…]

• For this reason there are people who could say that there was some singling out of a particular community group. [More…]

• The Archbishop and I both said that the Greek community and the Commonwealth Government have a mutual concern to ensure that the rights of individuals are protected and that justice is done. [More…]

• It goes without my stating it that the Greek community has made an important contribution to Australia and continues to make that important contribution. [More…]

• The good name of the Greek community should not in any way be affected by charges which have been laid against a relatively small number of people. [More…]

• There has been discussion of the origin of the alleged frauds which were detected from information from members of the Greek community which flowed through to my department, the Department of Health, the Commonwealth Police and the law authorities so that the proper course could be followed in dealing with the matters. [More…]

• I think that if honourable senators go back to the beginning of this matter and read some of the articles that were written in 1978 they will see that the attitude of the Greek community was significant in the way in which it was expressed. [More…]

• Where there is the gathering of evidence, as there was in this instance, by Commonwealth Police, which led to the suspension for a short time of some pensions and benefits, in most cases without interruption to the normal payments, so that we could determine eligibility, I believe that is a matter in which my Department is properly involved and I believe that what has been done by my officers in the Department in New South Wales has been at all times to show to the members of the Greek community in general and to Australia as a whole that we have a system of income security which requires certain tests for eligibility and that once those tests are met payments are facilitated. [More…]

• Even nine months ago it was clear that there was a growing concern in a section of the community that it had been treated in a discriminatory manner. [More…]

• There was a concern that just treatment had not been received, that a section of the community had been singled out, had been accused of being guilty rather than being presumed innocent. [More…]

• She never at any stage asserts what were the facts in respect of these matters that have been so much a concern of the Parliament and of the community. [More…]

• Many members of the Greek community have felt that just because they were Greek they were presumed by other members of the Australian community at large to be involved because of the way in which this whole case was dealt with by Chief Inspector Thomas. [More…]

• I make the assertion that if any section of the ethnic communities which have come to our country in the post-war years were eligible for special recognition for being law abiding and well-adjusted it would be the Greek community. [More…]

• I am referring to police who are notorious for harassing minority groups in our community. [More…]

• I can recall Catholics telling me how 50 years ago they were harassed in various parts of Australia because they were a minority group in our community. [More…]

• It is that same sort of sentiment, the same philosophy, that prompted senior members of the Commonwealth Police to make that sort of judgement in respect of the members of the Greek community in Australia. [More…]

• She has allowed a situation to develop in which responsible welfare officers and members of the Greek community have found themselves unable to continue to expect just and fair treatment from her Department. [More…]

• We know that those people who act on behalf of the Greek community are aware of these difficulties. [More…]

• Where is the proof of this man’s statements and allegations which create a climate that affected so many of the hapless and helpless people in our community in Sydney? [More…]

• The Opposition raised this matter because of clear discrimination and an attempt to make scapegoats of a section of the Australian community. [More…]

• I would suggest that not the least unpalatable feature of this whole unsavoury episode has been the way in which the whole Greek community has been abused, insulted, denigrated and defamed as a result of the actions and attitudes of those at all levels responsible for the conduct of the operation in question in April 1 978, and of course the reports by the media of those actions and their aftermath and the apparently endless court procedures. [More…]

• In considering the trauma that the Greek community has been subjected to since the start of this affair, nobody in the Government or in the media has emerged with much credit. [More…]

• Well-founded complaints have been made and documented to the effect that many of the police barged in without having or producing warrants, perpetrated irregularities in the conduct of interviews and detained in police custody without charge for sustained periods particular members of the Greek community. [More…]

• Several reports have come forward from the Redfern Legal Service of derogatory remarks being made by particular police officers in the course of conducting those raids- remarks to the effect that: ‘We are going to fix you Greek people’ and remarks to the effect that ‘the Greek community should be sent back to an island ‘. [More…]

• It was a dragnet operation, but it was a dragnet operation of a very selective kind, directed specifically at the Greek community. [More…]

• It was all part of the claim that huge sums of money were involved and that the tentacles of this matter spread throughout the migrant community, when in fact the misbehaviour, if such there was- and this of course is a matter for the courts to determine- was confined to a small group of people in a very small area of this country. [More…]

• This phenomenon of gratuitous ethnic identification, which is the single greatest source of concern to us and to the Greek community, involves the media’s handling of everything that followed this unhappy affair. [More…]

• The media reporting throughout the whole course of this matter has bordered on the really quite scandalous, with repeated reckless references to Greeks or the Greek community as being responsible for this so-called social security fraud of massive and unprecedented proportions. [More…]

• This is a perfect demonstration of what Mr Grassby complained of in his 1976 Commissioner for Community Relations report. [More…]

• An excellent example of that was a report which appeared in the Melbourne Age of 13 June last year which, without reading it into the record, involved no less than five separate references to Greeks or to the Greek community in the first five sentences of that report, together with innumerable other references in what purported to be a description of the initial court hearings involving bedlam, chaos and unpronouncable names. [More…]

• The whole colour and flavour of this report was calculated, intentionally or otherwiseone does not know- to appeal to every latent schoolboy prejudice which regrettably still prevails in the Australian community. [More…]

• What can be done about this kind of thing which, as we know, has caused acute unhappiness, profound unhappiness, in the Greek community? [More…]

• If anyone was unable to get access, because of the language barrier, to what the Greek community has been saying in its own newspapers about this matter, I refer him to the report summarising complaints along these lines, once again received by the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• The reaction of the Greek community is not in doubt. [More…]

• I suggest that one of the most attractive proposals is a change in the law of defamation, to enable a remedy to be provided for group defamation- where no individual is specifically defamed or damaged but where there is an unjustified blackening of the good name of the whole community or social or ethnic group. [More…]

• It is the kind of action which is familiar enough in other jurisdictions overseas, where this kind of issue has long been one of community sensitivity. [More…]

• There was conspicuous repetition of reckless media references to Italians’, ‘Calabrians’, ‘Sicilians’, the Mafia and so on, in a way that brought great and unjustified harm and disrepute upon the Italian community as a whole. [More…]

• What it might do is curb some of the more wildly irresponsible racial statements that have been so deeply hurtful to large sections of the community, or at least ensure that the victims of such irresponsible statements will be given a right of reply. [More…]

• Probably the Opposition’s actions are also damaging the interests of the Greek community. [More…]

• The Greek community had made an important contribution to Australia. [More…]

• The good name of the community should not in any way be affected by charges which had been made against a relatively small number of people. [More…]

• It should not be for us to interfere with the rights of the community or to sit in pre-judgment of matters which are before courts and will there be considered. [More…]

• With rapid growth it is more difficult to sustain a long-term perspective on the future needs of the community, particularly such amenities as open or green spaces. [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…]

• The third was that they not embarrass us in our international relations, and the fourth was that there be a general community feeling that the secret services were competent and efficient. [More…]

• Lip service only is given to that concept which we believe to be a very important one if the legislation and the organisation which it creates are to have the respect and confidence of the Australian community which they ought to have. [More…]

• I believe that the reporting procedures and the fact that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) announced in the House of Representatives on 5 May 1977 the establishment of 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 is yet another important step in reinforcing the concept of ministerial responsibility and accountability for security matters. [More…]

• Yet, if there is to be any real, meaningful change in the intelligence community, it must come from Congress, and, judging from past experience, Congress will act only if prodded by public opinion. [More…]

• The Opposition takes the view that in this area, and in this area alone, the dangers of political abuse by the Minister of the day, or legitimate community concerns about the possibility of that abuse, outweigh in this instance, and this instance alone, the concept of total control by total accountability in the Minister himself. [More…]

• What is very clear is that there is a very large number of people in the community nursing grievances about real or imagined maltreatment in this respect. [More…]

• The primary concern of the Opposition here- I suggest it is a concern which should be felt by the community at large and, of course, by every one in this Parliament- is that quite extraordinarily harsh penalties of $1,000 fines or one year’s gaol are being provided. [More…]

• The Opposition believes, putting it simply and shortly, that this provision is too harsh and should be substantially modified in terms of the kind of expectation that communications, the media and everyone else in the community have hitherto had about the operations of these organisations and that the modification should take the form of requiring this kind of clause apply only when the revelation of the information in question would either endanger the physical safety of the particular operative concerned or else would seriously prejudice national security. [More…]

• The 1956 Act, which is a very short one, did not meet the modern security needs of our community. [More…]

• Any security organisation would be failing in its duty if it did not collect information that came to hand about individuals whose activities could be damaging to the security of the community. [More…]

• Any security service, or any police force for that matter, necessarily involves a restriction on individual freedom in the interests of the community. [More…]

• I contacted the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• This became so apparent to members of the Greek community that a senior citizen went to the newspaper and threatened to sue it unless it stopped the practice. [More…]

• If we follow the comment made by the officer from the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, we ought to be concerned about this because it is possible that discrimination does exist. [More…]

• There are good and bad in every community. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations needs to know about the things that happen. [More…]

• I think that with goodwill on both sides we can restore the harmony which has always been a hallmark of the Darwin community. [More…]

• In all he has said we would agree that it would not be in the spirit of Australian community life that there should be discrimination against groups of people or individuals on account of their place of birth, background or ethnic group origin. [More…]

• A very significant factor has been the cut-price exports issuing from the subsidised wine industries of the European Economic Community in an effort to reduce their massive wine surplus. [More…]

• The world’s markets are still flushed with surplus wine and the world’s 1977 surplus wine stock (or ‘wine lake’ as it is sometimes called within the European Economic Community) was estimated at 2.6 billion litres’. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry aware of a report that Malta is discontinuing its meat imports from Australia and New Zealand and is placing future orders with the European Economic Community countries? [More…]

• In view of the concern expressed in the community about drug offences generally, in the light of the serious effects of any kind of drug conviction on matters such as employment and travel, and particularly given the present maximum penalty under Federal legislation of two years’ gaol or $2,000 for the possession of small amounts of imported cannabis for personal use, does the Minister really believe that the possession and smoking of cannabis can be characterised as quasi-criminal and not deserving of legal aid? [More…]

• It now knows that in virtually every area of the economy, the policies of the Government are being proven right as day by day one section of the Australian community after another indicates further useful successes. [More…]

• The community rightly demand a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• The community rightly demand a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• Among the things the mining industry suggests is that Mr Justice Toohey, when making decisions, recognises that the Act compels him to give more favourable consideration to Aboriginal ownership rights than to the rights of other sections of the community. [More…]

• Let us hope that he gives the title deeds to the Aboriginals and not do as has been done in respect of Borroloola where the area in common has been withheld for future activities to see whether any more can be taken from the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• However, as I indicated at Question Time this morning, there is a section of the community which is not receiving the opportunity to put its case, because of its poor financial situation. [More…]

• Among them are the reports of the Department of Science, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, as well as other instrumentalities of importance in the fields of science and the environment. [More…]

• It is concluded 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 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, the medical profession and those working in the health services would be most valuable. [More…]

• Such a scheme would benefit not only the recipients of compensation but also the employers, who are rapidly becoming crippled by the very high premiums they have to pay for their workers compensation schemes and who, I find, are now looking seriously at the proposition of a national compensation scheme which would share the burden around the community in a more equitable way and ensure that a greater percentage of the compensation dollar actually went to the victims rather than to the legal profession, the medical profession and the bureaucracy. [More…]

• I think the matter needs serious thought by all people because all people must make up their minds at some stage or other whether they want all charities, all community services, all educational and cultural activities, all social welfare agencies, religious facilities and others to be provided by governments whoever they are or whether governments whoever they are should provide an incentive and opportunity for people to donate freely and generously. [More…]

• It is these donations given freely and generously that will enable establishments to provide the services expected of them, so that the various establishments can enjoy a community sharing both in contribution and in the important field of management. [More…]

• I asked for a review of the matter and if a review was undertaken whether the Government would also give attention to the policy relating to eligible organisations, taking into account the passage of time and new community trends. [More…]

• This is a government problem and we recognise that in the administration of government and of all the community organisations that are related to government, and as far as the whole field of society is concerned, there is a government problem. [More…]

• The Treasurer however was attracted to the idea of a review of the coverage of the gift provisions which may no longer be altogether appropriate to present community needs or funding patterns. [More…]

• I am afraid I am forced to the view that one gets an impression that the Government and indeed governments do want public involvement in the whole range of voluntary organisations but prefer them to be provided by governments so that they can exercise a total control not only on the organisations but also on the community surrounding them. [More…]

• may no longer be altogether appropriate to present community needs . [More…]

• The number of government institutions which provide total community services and which are funded by our income tax funds grows daily. [More…]

• Service organisations in our community and voluntary organisations in our community which have a tradition of providing and assisting in the provision of community ventures are forced to a situation in which they are now looking for something to do. [More…]

• Secondly, it seems to me that in those days it was designed to promote the philosophy that if the people could be encouraged to give significantly to institutions- charitable, cultural and community institutions- it would lessen government responsibility to provide total finance for those institutions and this would be done to the extent that the reduction in government revenue caused by any deductions would be offset by a lessening of government contributions and the necessity for government contributions to the charitable field. [More…]

• It is my feeling that inherent in all of this was the idea that it is important for the average citizen to be involved closely in community projects, not only in terms of money given but also in terms of personal oversighting from day to day in management, administration and personal concern, rather than to leave all the responsibility for the funding and all the management to the government of the day. [More…]

• When they are, they are creating a healthy community attitude as well as adding meaning to the life of every individual. [More…]

• It is sometimes pointed out- and let me be perfectly frank and recognise the problem- that a change in the legislation may very well deny certain people in our community the chances of obtaining a taxation deduction. [More…]

• It is inevitable that charities and community organisations will be able to design simple ways of encouraging people to give money in small amounts so that over a period of time those amounts will become an allowable deduction if that is the aim of those charities in obtaining income for their work. [More…]

• More particularly, it would take from the government of the day the particularly heavy burden which the community seems to be calling on it to bear. [More…]

• Our whole relationship to an understanding of the voluntary and government systems of maintaining institutions in our community is very important. [More…]

• Recent developments, such as the wide use of the radial ply tyre suggest that better performing tyres can be produced perhaps at higher cost, and the Committee believes that it may be necessary to place additional mandatory requirements on new tyres in the future to ensure that the benefits of new technology are obtained by the community generally. [More…]

• when writing about the role of the mass media in helping waves of American immigrants to settle, who said the mass media offered to the immigrant ‘a window on the larger world outside the narrow courts of the immigrant community in which he has been compelled to live’. [More…]

• It is vital that this Parliament, this community, develop an attitude towards the regulation of broadcasting and particularly broadcasting as it affects children, without any consideration involving party politics. [More…]

• They play a role in establishing what I believe are proper community standards, proper information about this nation and, as I have said earlier, from the work of the Nobles, they play a particularly important role in helping migrant children to understand and to adapt. [More…]

• Unless the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal is prepared to exercise those statutory powers that it has to bring about an improvement in children’s television; unless it is prepared to look again at the recommendation of the 1953 royal commission that some form of legal compulsion for better and more adequate children’s television should be considered; I believe that the tribunal will have proved itself to be a waste of the time and effort of people who hoped that public participation in the shaping of broadcasting standards and attitudes would bring about a response such that legitimate commercial considerations would be married with the desires of the community and the right that the community has that the public airways should serve legitimate public needs. [More…]

• Some people in the community think that a bicameral system should not exist, that we should not have a Senate. [More…]

• The Aurukun and Mornington Island communities have made their position absolutely clear over the last couple of years, as have the communities of Yarrabah, from whom many of us have recently received a petition from the governing council of that community, from Weipa, from Mosman George and from Kowanyama. [More…]

• However, the conclusion of the Committee is that Parliament has the power to make special laws, whatever that may mean, for the people of the Aboriginal race and those laws need not be ones that we would normally make for the balance of the Australian community. [More…]

• In November 1978, all the Aboriginal community at Aurukun signed a petition calling on the Commonwealth Government to grant land rights and self-management by acquiring their tribal lands. [More…]

• The Queensland Government has provided for a beer canteen at Aurukun even though the community has clearly stated that it does not want a canteen. [More…]

• The agreement negotiated on 1 1 April between the Queensland and Commonwealth governments provided for the Queensland Government to legislate both for community self-management in the local government framework and to secure tenure of former reserves. [More…]

• No one at Mornington Island Aboriginal Community wants any Europeans to stand for the Shire Council. [More…]

• This includes Roger Pettit who has been making trouble in the community. [More…]

• There is a small friction between the community and the government. [More…]

• The honourable senator will be interested to know that exports of live sheep have been proceeding generally unhindered, with commensurate benefits to the rural community and the meat industry generally. [More…]

• On 1 December 1976 the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, accepted the responsibility for advising the Commonwealth Government on matters relating to aquarium fish. [More…]

• One can only ask the question: How much longer are we to be subjected to these reports, which seek to convey to the Parliament and to the community at large that al! [More…]

• It goes without saying that the Australian community, indeed this Parliament if it had such an opportunity, would be in favour of considerable reductions in fares for those who are fortunate enough to be able to travel overseas. [More…]

• activities directed to promoting violence or hostility between different groups of persons in the Australian community so as to endanger the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take urgent steps to concur with the wishes of a majority of electors at every polling booth in Australia at the 1967 referendum by resumption from the States of the major traditional Aboriginal land areas and reserves and former reserves as at 31.3.1978, to become federal Crown land pending prompt determination of freehold title for Land Trusts and eventually for denned community co-operatives. [More…]

• Senator Maunsell might have noted that the Maltese Government issued a Press release which suggested that a move was afoot in the Australian Senate to inflict serious harm on Malta and her people by persuading the Australian Government to put pressure on the European Economic Community not to sell meat to the Maltese Government. [More…]

• Will the Minister give an undertaking to extend the feasibility study to the Burdekin Dam in North Queensland, which not only is ideally suited for hydro-generation but also, unlike the Ord River, is supported by a highly developed community infrastructure which will require additional electrical power in the near future for its industrial and residential expansion and, as such, is eminently to be preferred, in the national interest, to wasting further money on the Ord scheme? [More…]

• The case, decided by Mr Justice Marks, concerned 67 acres of land, most of it owned by the Housing Commission of Victoria and the rest owned by the Keilor City Council, which the Housing Commission of Victoria wanted to develop as a community centre with schools, a hotel, parkland and a shopping centre. [More…]

• When we remember that 16,000 people are on the Housing Commission waiting list for rented housing alone, apart from all the other people in the community who need to rent houses, it is obvious that those private rental companies have a very good market for renting houses. [More…]

• That is a nice example of responsible government, of acting in a responsible way and of caring for all the people in the Victorian community. [More…]

• In clause 5(1) (c) of the Bill we find that subversion can be: activities directed to promoting violence or hostility between different groups of persons in the Australian community so as to endanger the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• For example, looking again at the words ‘promoting violence or hostility between different groups of persons in the Australian community’, would such a provision encompass those who oppose government funding of church schools because they might provoke hostility or sectarian divisions within the community? [More…]

• The Australian intelligence community is fragmented, poorly co-ordinated and organized. [More…]

• Clause 20 is curious in that it states that the Director-General is to be free of influences and is not to show political partiality to any section of the community. [More…]

• The non-presidential member in the ‘general category’ is described as one ‘whose standing and reputation in the community is such as to ensure public confidence in his integrity and fairness’. [More…]

• I believe that that person ought to be someone whose knowledge and understanding of civil liberties and whose respect in the community in these areas are such that the Tribunal would have a greater standing. [More…]

• I know that some of my colleagues and other people in the community regard security as ‘a holy cow’; all you have to do is mention the word security and you must give everything. [More…]

• According to evidence that is available from various quarters, it is an organisation that has been responsible for and may well have destroyed the lives and opportunities of many innocent people in our community. [More…]

• I think that of all the injustices resulting from evaluations by the Asutralian Security Intelligence Organisation, the worst were suffered by some sections of the Yugoslav community. [More…]

• I could mention people in the Armenian community who do not have citizenship. [More…]

• We could have three legal people to constitute the sub-committee chairmen and the other six people could be drawn from a crosssection of the community. [More…]

• It might well be that one of the members of the Tribunal assessing the application of someone from the ethnic community is from the wrong side. [More…]

• The Government is aware that forests have value to the community besides timber production. [More…]

• In proposing that amendment the Labor movement is saying that it accepts the concept of a security system within the internal operation of Australia but that until such time as the matters that are suggested in our amendment become embodied in the legislation and become part and parcel of the charter by which the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation conducts its affairs any government, particularly this Government, will find it hard to sell the concept of an Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to the ordinary man and woman in the Australian community- men and women who believe that they have a right to say what they want to say, to do what they want to do and to think what they want to think without necessarily being subjected to the spying and Sprying that go on in what is or might become a police state. [More…]

• I, like all of my colleagues who spoke earlier in this debate, am one of those who believe that the internal security of the nation should be fully and completely protected but that it is paramount that at all times the political rights and civil liberties of the ordinary man and woman in the Australian community have to be protected. [More…]

• In Newtown a Yugoslav entertainer went to a theatre and this minority section, this extremist section, this extreme right wing section of the community threatened to blow up the place and shoot those who attended the performance. [More…]

• I am not aware of the accuracy or otherwise of the figures regarding recipients of unemployment benefit that Senator Button puts forward, but there is and must be an anxiety within the community, and therefore equally within the Government, regarding the unduly early leaving of school by students. [More…]

• It is of immense importance to have some chemical to control some of the weed pests that we have in our community. [More…]

• To be acceptable to the international community at large, including Australia and our Western allies, and to bring about recognition and a lifting of sanctions, any settlement in Rhodesia must fulfil two fundamental conditions: It must guarantee genuine majority rule and it must be subject to a free and fair test of the opinions of Rhodesians as a whole. [More…]

• Council noted the community’s concern over possible effects on the foetus of infectious agents, therapeutic substances and industrial and agricultural chemicals and the lack of detailed perinatal information in Australia. [More…]

• I am certain that the community as a whole has a very vital interest in the subject. [More…]

• An increasing amount of it is being spent not on services to the community or legitimate public projects but on propaganda- blatant political propaganda of the Liberal-National Country Party coalition. [More…]

• There is this sort of activity by the Government, which consistently and continually tells wage and salary earners that they should accept wage reductions and wage cuts, and that it is because of the level of wages in the community that Australia has an economic crisis. [More…]

• However, at the same time the Prime Minister found himself able to give five new staff to the Liberal-National Country Party back benchersthe so-called Government parties support secretariat, whose main function seems to be to help Government back benchers face up to the hostility they encounter, understandably, from all those groups and individuals in the community who are totally disenchanted with Fraser policies. [More…]

• I do not question the need for governments to explain their policies to the electorate, but it would seem to me that with the vast machinery of the Commonwealth bureaucracy, with the vast back up of ministerial staff and advisers and with all the journalists in the famous Information Unit, for the Government to need to spend yet another $ 1 7m on a specific advertising campaign so that it can explain to the community what its energy policy is all about is simply disgraceful. [More…]

• We are all aware that the Prime Minister’s continual calls for belttightening in the community are not matched by his own pretensions. [More…]

• This Government is aware of the fact that the only way it will maintain its position with the Australian community and guarantee its re-election is to govern well. [More…]

• We saw with the problem which arose out of the Latrobe Valley industrial disputes in 1 977 that voluntary agencies in this community can be quickly depleted of funds if there is a run on emergency relief for food and clothing, et cetera. [More…]

• Obviously, the first is that socalled emergency relief is not necessarily a one-off thing for individuals in the community; it is frequently a normal contribution and requirement for the subsistence of some people. [More…]

• One has to recognise that for some people in the community it frequently has to be sought over and over again. [More…]

• When we combine this definition in the report, which was forced on the study by the realities of the situation, with the picture it gives of the most frequent users of emergency relief in the community, we have a very interesting situation. [More…]

• We find that some groups are grossly over-represented in the area of emergency relief compared to other groups in the community. [More…]

• We have at last a picture of what is happening in the community. [More…]

• Now we propose to present the bizarre spectacle of a parliament which, while asking for this sacrifice and frugality, simultaneously expects the community to bear the cost of a magnificent new parliament house which basically will be there to our greater glory and comfort and which, I will say, is already seen as such. [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…]

• So there we have community groups which resent the action of a government in an area of defence capability which they consider important. [More…]

• I suppose the burden of the matter I raise tonight is that that renunciation, those solemn words, made at the behest of the Australian community during that ceremony of citizenship, are totally ineffectual, besides in many cases being emotionally very demanding on the new citizen. [More…]

• All honourable senators will be aware that in the mid 1970s- around 1975- this matter was brought dramatically to the attention of the Australian community by the Yugoslav Government’s refusal to allow Australian diplomats access to Australian citizens held in detention for several months. [More…]

• It is obvious that the Australian Government should be pressing vigorously for a single simple principle to be adopted within the international community. [More…]

• Both the Western European community, in the Council of Europe Convention in 1968, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, with bilateral arrangements with its Eastern European allies in the late and mid 1950s, have demonstrated considerable willingness to forego their claims on former nationals who wish to voluntarily renounce the nationality concerned. [More…]

• It appears that the Office of the Commissioner of Community Relations would be the appropriate office to accept this task. [More…]

• As far as I have been able to ascertain, no approach has been made to the Commissioner for Community Relations to find out how or even whether he might undertake this task. [More…]

• I cannot say whether his office would be the best means of sorting out these allegations of harassment, which possibly would be few in number; but clearly the Committee thought that the type of investigative and conciliatory approach which characterises the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations is a type in which the aggrieved Australian citizen of dual nationality could have confidence. [More…]

• What is more, Mr Grassby ‘s office is well known throughout the ethnic community. [More…]

• The machinery that might raise its awareness, along with that of other government agencies, is not established and has not been sought to be established within the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, as the parliamentary Committee’s report suggests it ought to be. [More…]

• Members of our community are deeply concerned that they have been discriminated against as Australian citizens, in Australia and when abroad, by the simple fact that they find it impossible to free themselves of being citizens of the Yugoslav regime. [More…]

• I have not personally faced any difficulties in that regard but I dare say that you, Mr Acting Deputy President, with your close contacts with the South American community in this country, may have done so. [More…]

• The Greek Orthodox community in this country approached the previous Labor Government and this Government to see whether something could be done about this problem. [More…]

• Officers of my Department have had informal discussions with representatives of some sections of the Greek community in Australia on the problems caused by the Greek authorities’ attitudes to such marriages. [More…]

• In the statement outlining those changes, the Minister referred to the opportunity that had been given for views to be put to the Government on this matter and to the consultations he 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…]

• The independent inquiry was established after an enormous amount of pressure was built up through the community and translated in petitions and resolutions coming before the Senate and the House of Representatives. [More…]

• I refer to Project Jonah, which I believe to have been one of the most responsible community groups ever to approach me and I think ever to approach other honourable senators. [More…]

• Is the Minister also aware of the concern which exists within the business community regarding delays experienced as a result of the inadequate number of staff provided to the Export Development Grants Board to deal with the applications? [More…]

• Will the Minister give consideration to holding a ‘Year of the Aged’ to focus attention on the past achievements of our elderly citizens and to remind all sections of the community of their responsibility to the aged? [More…]

• In this context, it was pointed out that, while Australia did maintain some trade restraints, it did not employ the prohibitions and similar embargoes that are maintained within the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It is a useful exercise in informing the Parliament and the community of voting trends that can now perhaps be looked at in a much more impartial way than previously. [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…]

• It relates to violence or hostility, not both, between different groups of persons in the Australian community which would endanger the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• For example, in the 1950s and 1960s when the cold war mentality permeated the Parliament and the thinking of the Australian community, one could not have foreseen that even these minor steps could have been taken towards some degree of public accountability. [More…]

• Controls over the free actions of the individual are to be avoided unless there is clear evidence that the similar rights of others and the protection of the community require the imposition of controls. [More…]

• Why should one section of the Australian community which has acted in this way be outside the bounds of the law? [More…]

• What is their attitude towards the Jewish community, blacks and homosexuals? [More…]

• Surely these are relevant questions when these people will operate at a subterranean level of our community with a view to collecting information which is not necessarily related to the security of the country. [More…]

• The threat did not come from the radicals or from the people’s movements; it came from those who exercised real power within 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…]

• Undoubtedly, it is a dispute which inconveniences many people in the community. [More…]

• activities directed to promoting violence or hostility between different groups of persons in the Australian community so as to endanger the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• If it is not kept in check, it will be the intelligence community and the public that will be the losers. [More…]

• They are most eminent people in the community. [More…]

• I imagine that one day Senator Keeffe would hope to reach their level of recognition in the community. [More…]

• I know that there is concern in sections of the community about a suggestion regarding a review of the present ‘no fees’ situation. [More…]

• Senator Harradine is supported under the community health program. [More…]

• Did a committee from the Housing Commission of New South Wales, the Office of Child Care, the Kindergarten Union and the New South Wales Department of Youth and Community Services report to the Minister in December 1977 that there was no significant unmet need for long day care in the New South Wales suburbs and areas of Glebe, Airds, Macquarie Fields, Lethbridge Park, Hebersham, Shalvey or Windale? [More…]

• The implementation of the death sentence … is a matter of grave concern not only for Pakistan but for the international community as well. [More…]

• Our Ambassador also said that the Australian Government appreciated that the judicial process had not yet been completed, but nevertheless felt compelled to join with other responsible members of the international community who have sought clemency. [More…]

• But when the political murder is condoned and promoted by a government it becomes a matter that concerns the international community in a far more direct sense. [More…]

• It is a blot on the world community. [More…]

• Finally, we met together and tried to deal with some of these problems that have been bedevilling not only the operation of land rights in the Northern Territory but also community relations as a whole in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite may think that it is positive to promote disunity within the community but I do not. [More…]

• In the week that preceded the issuance of this Press release we saw the beginning of what I would regard as really constructive discussions, again between the Northern Territory Government, and the relevant land council and the local Borroloola community council. [More…]

• We have tried to get out the story of land rights and, in the interests of the Aboriginal people and of the general community, we will continue to do so. [More…]

• Yet the Council says in its statement that when the mining of minerals is involved the right to enjoy the surface of the land may sometimes have to give way to the rights of the community as a whole. [More…]

• I do not know what you are because if you had the interests of the Aboriginals at heart you would not be creating all this divisiveness within the community by continually stirring up these problems. [More…]

• Senator Keeffe has been around enough of his State of Queensland to know that there is a growing white backlash against what is going on in the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• A lot of people in the community resent that particular privilege which has been given to a small section of the Australian community. [More…]

• They are a damn nuisance in the community. [More…]

• In the Northern Territory where Aboriginals are concerned we should allow the mining companies and the Aboriginals quietly to negotiate rather than have the histrionics from members of the Labor Party and other people in the community who are seeking publicity. [More…]

• It is amazing how many of them who have followed the Mickey Millers and the rest of the stirrers in the community have said: ‘We realise that the best interests of our people lie in going along quietly, particularly with you people who are certainly doing something for us, and not just rabble-rousing and so forth’. [More…]

• In the early 1970s there was a widespread determination among politicians and many others in the community to respond to the challenges being forcefully articulated by Aborigines. [More…]

• This determination, and the hopes it aroused in the Aboriginal community, have largely waned and turned sour. [More…]

• These changes reflect a degree of white backlash, and a shifting of community priorities. [More…]

• Both husband and wife must have qualities calculated to make their acceptance in a white community a guaranteed success’. [More…]

• On behalf of the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory I present a report on planning in the Australian Capital Territory- Procedures, Processes and Community Involvement, together with extracts from the minutes of proceedings of the Committee and the transcript of evidence. [More…]

• The Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory has recommended significant adjustments to the planning process in the Capital Territory and to the role of the community in that process. [More…]

• It is proposed that there be a system of structure and development plans in the preparation of which the community will be closely involved from the early stages. [More…]

• The Committee has also suggested that community councils be established as a continuing focus for community participation, both for citizens and for planners. [More…]

• But in that time Canberra has become a large urban community with residential areas stretching well beyond the areas of direct national capital or seat of government significance. [More…]

• the adequacy of community involvement in planning and development; [More…]

• On the question of public participation the Committee believes that the local community can have a greater role in planning and development without adversely affecting the national interest in Canberra as the capital and seat of government. [More…]

• The community should have the oportunity to have a part in establishing the goals that subsequent planning policies are designed to achieve. [More…]

• A system of Structure and Development planning for the ACT would ensure that policy is stated and accessible to all who are involved in or interested in the planning and development process and would ensure that members of the community have a role, if they wish, in that planning process. [More…]

• The steps for the preparation of the Plans 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 nas therefore recommended that community councils be established on a voluntary basis. [More…]

• As well as having a role in the planning process these councils could give residents at the neighbourhood level as strong a voice and authority to adapt local services to local circumstances and wishes as is compatible with the claims of the wider community. [More…]

• The proposals in this report for the preparation of Plans, for an appeal tribunal and for community councils, should assist in meeting this shortcoming in the system of government and administration in the ACT. [More…]

• The Committee was csr.ctrr.ed that its report be as comprehensive as possible and that its recommendations take into account the future role of the House of Assembly while giving the people of the ACT an adequate say in the planning of their community. [More…]

• At the same time we have necessarily had to try to formulate procedures that will overcome the difficulties that have emerged with Canberra’s growth, the community’s needs and the problems, aspirations, values and needs of the capital and 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 growing urban complex. [More…]

• The Committee recognises its responsibility to the national capital and its community, but above all to this Parliament and the people of Australia as a whole for whom this city is growing in stature as a symbol of national pride and unity. [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 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 conserve these unique creatures. [More…]

• 32 Trade Relations- Australia and European Economic Community- Ministerial Statement. [More…]

• 187 Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development- Annual Report 1977-78- Paper. [More…]

• A person having a prejudiced view or even a majority view of community attitudes at a point in time is being given the power to say that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is entitled to take the steps that this legislation gives it because it believes that a tentative action, which may only be a person sitting down in a coffee shop to talk about a particular issue, may ultimately lead to the sort of consequences that are suggested in clause 5 ( 1 ) (a). [More…]

• We are not talking here about the responsibility, the duty or the power of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation simply to keep itself informed, to keep its eyes and ears open, to monitor in a general way the political and social developments in the community and to keep track in a general way of what various organisations with revolutionary aspirations might be saying or doing. [More…]

• There can be very little doubt that this is one of the several provisions of this Bill which are, among other potential applications, aimed quite explicitly and directly at those organisations in the community which have devoted themselves to what they regard as the good democratic cause of exposing the activities, as they presently operate and have operated in the past, of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. [More…]

• The word certainly could be interpreted- it has been interpreted in that way by many people- as dealing with situations where activities between groups in the community who hold very strong views on a particular subject and express those views create hostility towards them by other groups and so on. [More…]

• On the other hand, the Government does believe that there are some activities which, although not themselves directed to promoting violence, are directed at promoting a sufficient degree of enmity or hostility between groups in the community which itself could lead to ‘endanger the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth’. [More…]

• We believe that if there are such activities which lead to actual hatred between certain groups in the community, then those activities are of such a character that they should come within the definition of ‘subversion’. [More…]

• The words ‘hostility’ and ‘hatred’ are things which can be engendered by activities by a great variety of groups of people in the community but they do not in themselves in any way threaten the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Even the community people involved, including the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, are confused. [More…]

• We must have a mechanism which affects the whole community. [More…]

• In fact, they include most of the European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• When they have done that in honesty, I think they will be able to hold their heads high and will be able to be considered reputable people in the community. [More…]

• What is the intention of the Government in regard to ethnic community participation in the future administration of the Special Broadcasting Service, in the appointment of coordinators for the service and in the development of programming policy by the Special Broadcasting Service. [More…]

• It is a very important report and shows the difficulties that many people in the Australian community surfer. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, follows from a television program concerning X-rays which, I understand, was screened some three or four weeks ago and which appears to be causing some concern in the community. [More…]

• Will the Minister seek a report on slow speed dental film and the extent of its use in Australia, particularly with regard to its use on children, who might be considered to be at greater risk in the community? [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Defence seen reports in the Press this week alleging that consideration of the purchase of the Mirage 2000 for the Tactical Fighter Force project is linked to France’s opening up the European Economic Community restrictions on the entry of Australian agricultural products? [More…]

• 1 am not aware of any consideration with regard to bargaining to open up the European Economic Community to further Australian trade. [More…]

• It is our view that this clause should contain no reference to hostility or hatred being promoted between different groups in the Australian community as being one of the criteria of subversion, this enabling the various powers contained in this legislation to be exercised. [More…]

• It opens up the definition of subversion in such a way that it can be directed against groups and individuals in the community who, in our view anyway, should not be characterised as subversive. [More…]

• Given those sorts of passions, given those sorts of tensions and given the speeches and statements by all sorts of people right across the political spectrum that could surely be described as going to promote hatred or bitterness of a deep and intense kind between different political groups in the Australian community, is not that an illustration of the kind of thing which could be characterised as subversion? [More…]

• I am second to no one in my detestation of racial propaganda of the kind that has been all too familiar even in current times in the Northern Territory and various outback areas of Australia and which is incapable of being characterised other than as directed to inciting hatred- not merely hostility- between different classes or racial groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• Finally, a current and familiar example that should be all too regrettably familiar to us is the kind of hatred arguably that has been generated in the community through the broadcasting media, in particular by the extravagant programming, which I would readily concede to be extravagantly unattractive in many respects, of the Melbourne radio station 3CR. [More…]

• That language has very often gone beyond what one may think are the ordinary, reasonable boundaries of political dialogue and has been such as to promote within the language of the sub-section hostility, or even hatred, to use the stronger word that the Attorney-General now wants us to put in there, between different groups of people within the Australian community, namely, the supporters respectively of the positions of the Israelis and the Palestinians. [More…]

• We do not contest the propriety of a section which enables the Act to operate in respect of activities directed to promoting violence between different groups of the community. [More…]

• However, the Opposition does not concede for one moment that the width of the definition is such as to extend to anything that can be construed as promoting hatred between different groups in the Australian community the proper characterisation of subversion. [More…]

• In relation to Senator Evans’s examples, I would be prepared to go so far as to say that I can imagine there could be certain situations in the political arena or in the industrial arena where, if there were deliberate campaigns which were themselves not directed to promoting a point of view for the debate but directly aimed at inciting hatred between classes in sections of the community in such a way as to endanger the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth, they may well come within the ambit of the section. [More…]

• The purpose of that suggestion by Mr Justice Hope is clearly that, if we feel that we have to have an organisation such as ASIO, then in the interests of the community it is desirable that it be accepted and respected as much as possible by as broad a spectrum of community opinion as possible. [More…]

• If that happened, we would not get a situation such as that which developed in America with the Central Intelligence Agency and at times with the Federal Bureau of Investigation; we would not get the sort of situation which occurred in West Germany and at times in French politics with the French security organisation; we would not get the situation that we had in Australia in the mid-1950s and early 1960s when a number of people in this community felt- with some degree of substantial reason, I think- that ASIO was not above reproach, could not be accepted in a bipartisan spirit, and could not be accepted as an organisation which was working in the national interest exclusively and at no stage in the interests of a particular political point of view. [More…]

• We think that agreement on these things is a prerequisite to any degree of broad community acceptance of the charter and function of an organisation such as this. [More…]

• We felt that the community was concerned that there should be proper accountability to the Government by the Organization and that the Minister, in order to discharge that responsibility, should take a fairly active interest in what is going on in the Organization. [More…]

• Having responsibility in the community for law and order, security, defence and so on, the Government felt that if a dispute arose between the Director-General and the Government as to whether a particular organisation should be the subject of surveillance, the Government’s will and opinion should prevail over the DirectorGeneral’s opinion. [More…]

• I have grave misgivings that all people in the community have not been given this right. [More…]

• It is from the then Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the file number is 78-2360. [More…]

• He advanced that as a proposition demonstrating the way in which the Queensland authorities were overriding the decisions of the local community on a matter of some sensitivity. [More…]

• Indeed Mr Hinze and the Queensland authorities made it clear that whether there was to be a beer canteen at Aurukun was a matter solely for the community to decide. [More…]

• The Queensland Department of Local Government is providing funds for municipal services and the Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs is providing increased grants for other community enterprises and for outstation development. [More…]

• It does not rely upon debates in this place in order to give honourable senators a chance to grizzle about the activities of policemen in Queensland and make unfounded charges about individuals, policemen and people in the community, so that the interests of the people whom it is believed we are intending to serve disappear from sight. [More…]

• I am a layman and the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee is comprised mostly of lawyers of some standing in our community. [More…]

• The Aurukun community has received a clear indication that they could expect another 50-year extension and further extensions after that. [More…]

• I do not know what sort of problems that would have caused the local community. [More…]

• It is not a terribly big community. [More…]

• Many people in the white community want those 60 acres of land for the development of a tourist project. [More…]

• Not many months ago in this chamber I produced a letter from the Queensland Minister for Aboriginal Affairs- that is what he likes to be called even though his Department is known as the Aboriginal and Islander Advancement Department- in which he said that the community was being phased out and that the black people were being assimilated into the town of Mossman. [More…]

• I do not think that the area of Aboriginal affairs is the right of any section of the community except the Aboriginals. [More…]

• I felt that such a scheme could not work in an Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Because of its guaranteed custom, the Committee is confident that the AGPS will improve and grow at considerable savings to the Government and benefit to the community. [More…]

• Also of concern in the Cleveland area is the closure of the Community Youth Support Scheme office. [More…]

• ( think it fair to say that the presence at that funeral of so many people from such a wide cross-section of the community says much more than words could say about the high regard in which Frank Stewart was held by the people of the city of Sydney. [More…]

• I also remember him, as many younger members of the Australian community will remember him, for his contribution to sport. [More…]

• He came from a family that has made a most illustrious contribution to the political and sporting life of the community. [More…]

• I also express some gratitude that we had Sir David Brand and that he chose to serve his community in the way that he did. [More…]

• There is a limit to the resources of the community and the resources of government that can be devoted to any area of public interest and concern. [More…]

• -The matter of conversion to metric measurement in Australia has beset the community now for some years. [More…]

• At the outset of the decision to adopt the metric system in Australia there was no doubt that as we progressed along the line and became further involved difficulties would be encountered by the community. [More…]

• The honourable senator will be interested to note that over 98 per cent of the world community lives in countries which have converted or are converting to the metric system. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Social Security whether her attention has been drawn to the statement made last Sunday by the Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services, Mr Dixon, that the Liberal Party in Victoria, if re-elected, would index State family assistance payments on a six-monthly basis? [More…]

• If in the journey of what I said Senator Wheeldon was stung by the fact that there are real divisions on the matter in his own party, is it wrong to indicate that on a matter such as this there will be, of course, deep divisions of thought in both the Labor Party and in the community? [More…]

• To have such information already available the research community would have to anticipate the debate by at least two years. [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 lie ahead and for considering our place in the 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 our community. [More…]

• As well, the Authority will be seeking to involve all sections and members of the community individually and collectively. [More…]

• I trust that the 1 7 members of the joint organisation to be appointed will represent a wide cross-section of the Australian community to ensure the success of the bicentennial arrangements. [More…]

• A secure and ready availability of energy is an essential pre-requisite for the well-being of the Australian community- it is essential to underpin our standard of living, our transport industries, our industrial development, our agricultural and mineral industries, and a wide range of commercial and trading activities. [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 returning programs, to the development of systems less susceptible to maladjustment, to industry and technical training courses and to publicity to increase community awareness. [More…]

• I would like to see the Government perhaps giving that a little more attention and seeing an electric vehicle not only as providing a solution to a problem of fuel conservation but also as providing a solution to a problem with our total environment in our cities and perhaps as making a much greater contribution towards community health than the Government realises. [More…]

• But by sheer hard work, by seeking to maintain markets in the European Economic Community against all the odds, by seeking to create new markets in east Asia and by achieving good working relations between growers and employees in the orchards, a recovery is well under way. [More…]

• 7 January 1979, report a statement by Mr Trevor Ives, a former director of the Community Youth Support Scheme (CYSS) at Redcliffe, that CYSS had become a ‘coffee shop-type hideaway to keep jobless kids out of sight of the voters’: if so. [More…]

• I am advised that the Sunday Sun of 7 January 1979 reported a Mr Trevor Ives, described as a former director of the Community Youth Support Scheme (CYSS) at Redcliffe, as saying that CYSS had become ‘a coffee shop-type hideaway to keep jobless kids out of sight of the voters’. [More…]

• The project enjoys strong community support, is attracting participants at a satisfactory rate and, of those leaving the project, many are doing so to take up employment. [More…]

• The project is considered to be meeting successfully the aims of CYSS, namely the provision of community support to young people experiencing unemployment with a view to maintaining and improving their job readiness and sense of purpose. [More…]

• Under the conditions of approval attached to Community Health Program grants to national projects such as the Family Medicine Program, the recipient organisation is required, each year, to provide my Department with a statement of income and expenditure and a balance sheet. [More…]

• Similar Community Health Program grants have not been made to other professional organisations such as the specialist colleges in medicine. [More…]

• However nearly all the persons enrolled in the community day classes and in the Home Tutor Scheme are women. [More…]

• New South Wales: Some community day classes have a paid child minder while others have volunteers and still others have developed co-operative arrangements. [More…]

• Victoria: The Adult Migrant Education Service in that State advises that 24 of the 119 community day classes have paid child minders and 20 of the classes have a variety of voluntary arrangements. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a limit of $ 1 ,000 per annum been set on the travelling allowance paid for Community Youth Support Scheme projects in South Australia by the Community Youth Support Scheme State Committee. [More…]

• Is this amount often insufficient to cover the travelling costs incurred by some Community Youth Support Scheme project officers in carrying out their duties. [More…]

• Are the Community Youth Support Scheme project officers expected to cease all travelling if the travelling allowance will be exceeded, thus restricting their work in the community. [More…]

• Will the Minister review the travelling allowance limit set by the South Australian Community Youth Support Scheme State Committee so that Community Youth Support Scheme project officers working in areas where greater travelling is required, such as areas of high youth unemployment, arc granted sufficient funds to compensate for travelling expenses incurred in carrying out their work. [More…]

• 1 ) How many members of the Greek community in Sydney who were charged with alleged Social Security frauds have been (a) granted; and (b) refused, legal aid. [More…]

• What are present limitations on the legal aid granted to members ofthe Greek community. [More…]

• With regard to Borroloola, the Northern Territory Government has deferred any action in relation to the declaration of a town area within the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands until such time as negotiations have been conducted with the Borroloola community. [More…]

• Will the Minister: (a) make available an analysis of the 1976 census data which relates to the non-English speaking migrant population of the Australian Capital Territory; and (b) instruct his Department to prepare a detailed report on existing community services as they relate to migrants in the Australian Capital Territory and make it available to the public. [More…]

• Greek Orthodox Community [More…]

• Lithuanian Community [More…]

• Italian Community [More…]

• Croatian Community [More…]

• Jewish Community [More…]

• The migrant community of the ACT is served by several Government Departments besides the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, as well as by a number of non-government agencies and enterprises, such as three of the major banks which conduct migrant advisory services. [More…]

• The Telephone Interpreter Service, which may also arrange for community interpreting, is located in the Benjamin Offices, Belconnen, where the translation of documents can also be arranged. [More…]

• What affiliations do these members have with other organisations in both the public and private sectors of the community. [More…]

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

• The ABC has no plans to curtail the radio program Country Hour and all essential services on ABC radio for the rural community will continue to be broadcast regularly. [More…]

• The ABC is very much aware of the importance of its service programs to the wider rural community and its rural service programs will continue to be high program priorities. [More…]

• In particular, will the Minister give very urgent consideration to the provision of electric power to the Pitjantjatjara community at Fregon in South Australia where this week the power supply, after a history of difficulties, has again failed, causing very real stress in that community? [More…]

• The officers of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Department of Housing and Construction went to Fregon on 27 March to assess requirements for the community’s power supply. [More…]

• I understand that as a result of that visit the community proposes to purchase suitable equipment from proceeds of cattle sales and to seek subsequent reimbursement from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• I think that a change in policy was notified by the previous Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development in that there would be a dollar for dollar grant to conservation organisations. [More…]

• If this involves negotiations between the doctors and the Government of South Australia, I am sure that he or his Department will instigate such discussions in order to preserve the health system and the way in which it is able to operate between the Government and the community. [More…]

• As a great number of people in the Australian community do not have the capacity to read and understand English, would he also give consideration to having the booklet published in a number of other languages? [More…]

• He intends to spend $44m on community welfare services. [More…]

• He wants to double the per capita grant for the family and community services program. [More…]

• Our community should be grateful for the work done on its behalf. [More…]

• I know of nothing detrimental about him and I make no criticism of his appointment, but the Minister for Administrative Services has not seen fit to advise the Parliament, the Senate or the community of the reasons why a senior officer of the Department of Housing and Construction, who previously worked with Mr McLeay when he was the Minister for Housing and Construction, has been selected for the position of distribution commissioner. [More…]

• We will be looking very closely at the way in which the Commissioners carry out their responsibilities and we will have to be convinced that the Commissioners will be approaching their responsibilities in Western Australia in a way which will inspire the confidence of the community and of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• What would happen if a Prime Minister of another country visited Australia and a section of the ethnic community in Australia had strong views against that Prime Minister? [More…]

• I think that is the sort of principle which has become widely accepted throughout security services and has become widely accepted, indeed, throughout the community as having its legitimacy based in the fact that the public is entitled to see a situation in which security forces, acting within a legal charter, and acting within a charter which imposes both parliamentary and other controls upon the organisation, should not be so hampered, should not be so penned down, to an extent that makes it impossible to protect the community in any adequate fashion. [More…]

• Interestingly, in an isolated mission community in the Kimberley where community nutrition is good and where breast feeding is well maintained, the admission rates for gastroenteritis are much lower. [More…]

• These very high admission rates re-emphasise the seriousness of this problem in the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The same team, quoted by the West Australian of 20 June 1 977, says that the cost of those 10,952 bed days to the community would have been $8 1 6,472. [More…]

• A study of dietary patterns and nutrient intakes in a large aboriginal community in the south-west of Western Australia found that eating habits were worst on the reserves, best in the people living in State Housing Commission houses, with those living in ‘transitional’ houses intermediate between the two. [More…]

• What holds back the white community from ending this unnecessary suffering? [More…]

• Over $6m is paid to the State for its community health program, which employs a large number of Aboriginal health workers and which is meant to meet the problems of Aboriginal health. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that during the 1977 election campaign a joint Cabinet submission from the then Minister for National Development and another Minister- I think it was the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development- seeking approval to drill on the Great Barrier Reef was made public? [More…]

• Is it realistic to expect that in a pre-Budget atmosphere there are any remedies to prevent those who would initiate speculation of this kind with the consequent anxiety in the community? [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware that many members of the community continue to show deep concern at the methods used by the Canadians in the seasonal culling of young seals? [More…]

• I am unable to answer the question as to what quantity of seal products is brought into Australia but the general basis of the question has certainly prompted many letters to me from the Australian community in relation to this matter. [More…]

• I believe generally that the killing of any living thing probably causes much concern in the community. [More…]

• I am grateful for Senator Baume ‘s question, which enabled me to make clear to the States, the institutions and to the community our view as to the democratic procedures that should apply and the responsibilities of institutions in that regard. [More…]

• Additionally, I think it is important to note that very often there are community objections to local government approvals for homeless persons hostels. [More…]

• Professor Stephen Leeder, Professor of Community Medicine within the University of Newcastle, has assisted the Committee since 3 1 May 1 977 and has made a significant contribution to our deliberations. [More…]

• Do the health and welfare systems know what needs exist in the community? [More…]

• Whilst we would all want efficient health and welfare services, what we are seeking more than anything is services that are effective in doing something useful for the community that they have been established to serve. [More…]

• It is important to emphasise to those who are involved in the delivery of health and welfare services in this community that no member of the Committee has any desire to flood those who deliver benefits and services in this country with a torrent of bureaucratic red tape, with requirements that would inhibit the effectiveness of their programs. [More…]

• I hope the response to the report will not be a feeling of threat or a feeling that anyone in the welfare or health community is under attack. [More…]

• I hope the report will be read in a rational and unemotional way, which I can assure members of that community was the way in which it was written. [More…]

• Approaches to staffof my Department by lobbyists or professional agencies are not treated differently from approaches by any member of the community. [More…]

• In the light of the statement by the Minister for Post and Telecommunications on the television program Nationwide last night that the government was strongly convinced that there must bc extensive public debate on the communications satellite proposal, will the Government now decide to extend the time for public debate for another 12 months beyond March this year and will the Government find funds to assist those community organisations that want to participate in the public debate to do so? [More…]

• There is a tendency to overlook the fact that the matter of a National Communications Satellite has been open for community comment since the establishment of the Task Force in November 1977. [More…]

• Following publication of the Task Force Report in September 1978, the Government decided that there should be a further opportunity for the community to consider the issues and make submissions to a Working Group of officials established by the Government. [More…]

• Overall, therefore, there will have been a period of at least 15 months for the community to discuss and make submissions on a National Communications Satellite System. [More…]

• In October of that year, the Minister for National Resources, Mr Anthony, and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who was then Mr Newman, put up a Cabinet submission recommending exploration in the Capricornia channel area of the reef. [More…]

• Mr Groom, who had taken over from Mr Newman as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, was at that time in disagreement with Mr Newman who since taking over the National Development portfolio was very keen to have the applications for permit renewals dealt with. [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I asked Senator Carrick about the submission from the Minister for National Resources and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, seeking approval to limit drilling on the reef. [More…]

• On this occasion we are concerned with the Great Barrier Reef which is an issue that commands considerable interest throughout the community and is one on which many people have very strong views. [More…]

• Mr President, you may acknowledge that as I came to the Environment portfolio in December of last year there was a great deal of background relating to this matter which is probably best known by the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and others. [More…]

• The community rightly demands a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• 3m has been included for the Department of Employment and Youth Affairs for the extension of the Community Youth Support Scheme and $3.0m for the Department of Foreign Affairs for increased contributions to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees program of assistance for Indo-Chinese refugees. [More…]

• But the Parliament and the community at large are not entitled to say to the Minister that he shall accept the responsibility and not delegate it to somebody else. [More…]

• That is not a very satisfactory state of affairs when those who have acted illegally have been told nothing about it, they have not been brought to book, they have not been disciplined, the community does not know which officers transgressed and the Parliament has not been told. [More…]

• If there is to be any confidence in the Organisation it certainly will not come from this side of the chamber or from those sections of the Australian community concerned with civil liberties. [More…]

• Does that mean that the Director-General, whose activities are not under the control of this Parliament or that the Australian community, can, because of the way in which he operates- I do not suppose many of us know the way in which he operates- delegate authority in the way that has created problems in the past? [More…]

• It is our view, quite strongly, that the Bill should be referred to a committee which can go back to the Australian community and seek its views in a responsible, reasonable and orderly fashion over a period. [More…]

• We are involved in an exercise in which the tyranny of the majority will be imposed regardless of the arguments that the Opposition puts up, regardless of the public comment in the newspapers and in other areas of concern within the Australian community. [More…]

• He will be protecting the community and he will be protecting the individual by being satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that all other steps have been taken to collect this sort of information, before he authorises the use of a listening device or takes these extraordinary steps that are provided for in clause 24. [More…]

• One would have thought that those who claim to represent the Liberal point of view in its real sense in our community would share the Opposition’s concern, that the Attorney-General would share our concern and would not want to be in the position of passing the buck to the Director-General or being just a rubber stamp. [More…]

• We know there have been flagrant breaches in the way in which ASIO has operated and that the biggest part of its endeavours have been against one section of the Australian community. [More…]

• There are people in the community and in the security organisation who would say that Senator Bonner, when engaging in what I would call legitimate political activity, was engaged in domestic subversion in opposing Government legislation, maybe even his own government’s legislations. [More…]

• It would have been very easy and perhaps would have satisfied expectations in certain quarters of the community had we simply retreated to histrionics and to a general rejection of this legislation and all its works. [More…]

• Has the Minister communicated her regret to Mr Horafios, a victim of the raids by Commonwealth Police on the Greek community for her denial of his assertion that, although not charged with any offence, he had been photographed with the word ‘Greece’, which assertion was brought to the Minister’s notice in Parliament on 3 May, 1978. [More…]

• The effect of this action by the Australian Wheat Board which is one of a number of measures taken to reduce the growth in money supply with the aim of reducing inflationary pressures in the economy, will benefit the community generally. [More…]

• Will this money be expended by the Uniting Church in Sydney at another welfare centre: if so, what action does the Minister propose regarding the use of this account, considering the large allocation of funds her Department has directed into Westwood and other Church and community projects. [More…]

• I am sure that the work he did for the rural community of Australia will not be forgotten in this generation. [More…]

• Is it a fact that representatives from the Aboriginal community at Lake Nash met Mr Andrew Young to complain about the alleged oppression by the King Ranch of the people on that station? [More…]

• It is obviously a matter of great concern that the Aboriginal community is having the difficulties that it is experiencing on that station. [More…]

• Mr Ian Tuxworth, the Northern Territory Minister for Health and Community Development, has convened a conference at Lake Nash on 19 May to discuss the situation. [More…]

• Participants, apart from Mr Tuxworth himself, will be Department of Aboriginal Affairs officers, representatives of the Lake Nash community and officials of the company, if they will attend. [More…]

• There Will be discussions between my Department and the Health Service in the near future to ensure that properly trained people are attending to the medical needs of the Lake Nash community. [More…]

• This matter is raised by the Opposition at this time because the Parliament is in its last weeks before the next Budget sittings, because the Government is preparing for the Budget and because a counter view needs to be presented to the rising tide of speculation and opinion in the community as to the possibility of cuts in welfare expenditure in general. [More…]

• We believe that there is nothing much we can do to stop what we see as this misguided approach to economic planning in the community. [More…]

• The Opposition does not see as sound economic management the Government’s determination to put the burden of economic recovery on lower income groups or on the least protected in the community. [More…]

• The Government has been urged to continue cuts in public expenditure by all its supporters in the community. [More…]

• The Opposition agrees, of course, that such concessions should be means tested, but we point out again that the way the Government did this, by sending out thousands of letters to old and sometimes confused people without public announcement or explanation, caused considerable anxiety and difficulty in the community. [More…]

• While these payments took the form of tax deductions and rebates they did not attract much attention in the community. [More…]

• Family allowances, as every mother in the community has noted, are worth considerably less than when they were introduced in 1976. [More…]

• A very good example of the manner in which the Government considers the less fortunate in the community is the manner in which it treats its own employees who are invalided out of service. [More…]

• C’mon, Give us a Go’ cost $35,000 to produce and the aim of the campaign was to educate the feelings of the public to the feelings of the unemployed and create a community awareness and a wave of support for them. [More…]

• This results from Government members very real concern that their predictions about what would happen last year have been completely incorrect and that they have talked themselves and the rest of the community into the magic nature of the size of the Budget deficit. [More…]

• They have talked the members of the community and themselves into believing that the way to lead this country to economic recovery is just blindly to cut the Budget deficit and to show no concern about the social security recipients and the low income earners. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that any attempt to reduce the welfare vote, as is advocated by many Government supporters and people in the community, should be resisted strongly. [More…]

• In the short time that both Senator Grimes and I have to deal with a matter of this kind it is not easy to have a wide discussion on the economic responsibilities of the Government to all members of the community, both in respect of the collection of revenue and in expenditure by the Government. [More…]

• I think that we should deplore this type of reporting because of the anxiety that it creates in the community. [More…]

• People from other sectors of the community can speak in their own interests. [More…]

• No one would argue with the principle that those who are dependent on the income security system should receive as high a level of benefit as can be found from the community’s resources. [More…]

• It was said by the ALP and others that the community would be better off under the Hayden endowment-rebate child scheme of 1 975-76. [More…]

• To show the way in which we are financing and maintaining our system I draw a parallel with the position in May 1969, about 10 years ago, when there were 5.4 members of the work force to each member of the community who received a social security payment. [More…]

• We find also that in aged persons accommodation there are increasing needs and there are increasing numbers of community organisations who wish to provide, in their local communities, aged persons projects. [More…]

• I am aware that many people in the community see very great benefit from the development of satisfactory home care services, and the domiciliary services and other services that many local governments and other groups have developed. [More…]

• Their services are of enormous benefit to those aged persons and invalids in the community who are able to benefit from them. [More…]

• At the same time as looking at welfare expenditure I think we need to look at those other programs of government and talk of what has been able to be done in the matter of child care and children’s services, services for handicapped people where the three-year program has given a much wider spread and improved service in our rehabilitation services, and in the very many excellent services which are conducted by the community groups, in some cases where we with State governments are jointly sharing projects. [More…]

• I support the motion because, as my colleague, Senator Grimes, has pointed out, at this stage there is a great deal of speculation throughout the community about where the axe will fall in the forthcoming August Budget. [More…]

• The Minister’s defence, admirable as it was, does not dissipate the anxiety felt throughout the community and by senators in this chamber about the Government’s intentions with regard to social security and low income families in the next Budget. [More…]

• However carefully the Minister might set out the relationship between the consumer price index and inflation and the decision of the Government with regard to the indexation of age pensions, the fact remains that age pensioners in this community did have half-yearly indexation of their pensions. [More…]

• How can pensioners and other low income groups in our community who are dependent upon government programs feel secure at this time of the year when the Government has gone back on a specific promise? [More…]

• There can be no argument about the effect that the abolition of sixmonthly pension adjustments would have on the recipients, lt was distressing in the extreme and contributes significantly to the fears and anxieties now felt by that section of the community. [More…]

• At the same time, the profitability of big business has flourished, tax evasion by the wealthy in our community has prospered, and oil companies have received huge windfall profits because of the way in which the Fraser Government has decided to achieve import parity for the price of oil in Australia. [More…]

• Like all recessions, the effects of the economic recession we are experiencing are not distributed equally across the community. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators that when we talk about low income earners and pensioners, when we talk about those on low incomes in this community, we are not talking about a minority. [More…]

• His attitude is typical of the attitude amongst the privileged in this community that there are no such people as the poor in Australia and that nobody earns less than a few hundred dollars a week. [More…]

• Certainly there have been cuts in public expenditure- time will not permit me to enumerate them in detail- in areas such as pensions, child care, legal aid, Aboriginal health programs and community health programs. [More…]

• For a saving to the Government of $70m, we have all the disappointment, concern and hardship caused to pensioners in our community. [More…]

• At the same time, many programs conducted throughout the community which are important for low income earners, not only pensioners, are going without adequate funds. [More…]

• For want of $20,000, an essential community health service is being closed down. [More…]

• We do not want the position of the pensioners or low income earners in our community to deteriorate any further. [More…]

• I am very pleased that recently the Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, admitted on a P.M. program that there are many unmet needs in our community. [More…]

• There are many unmet welfare needs in this community. [More…]

• The Government has given very high priority to the needs of members of the community who gain benefits from a social security system. [More…]

• Disenchantment exists in our community. [More…]

• When we were dealing with clause 17 on 5 April I asked why all people in the community should not have the right of appeal. [More…]

• I believe that not to give the right of appeal to all people in the community is not only unfair but also unjust. [More…]

• Unless this clause is amended to give all people in the community the right of appeal if an assessment or report is made on them, I believe it will contravene Article 4 of Convention No. [More…]

• If provision is not made to cover all people in the community most certainly this will be taken up by other bodies. [More…]

• He could preach to that congregation that it was immoral to use nuclear power in the community. [More…]

• In the past there has been no justice for many people in the community. [More…]

• I believe that there will be people in the community who will suffer and, unless the matter is covered by legislation, the Government will be contravening an International Labour Organisation convention. [More…]

• In that capacity he is going to be a person, if the appeals system means anything, of unquestioned probity and integrity, and a person who is accepted in a bipartisan spirit or accepted throughout the whole of the community as having that particular stature and standing. [More…]

• That we deplore the reduction in Federal Government expenditure on Community Health programmes which could lead to a severe reduction in services offered to the residents of our community. [More…]

• We are especially concerned that lack of funds may eventually curtail the training and employment of community nurses.’ [More…]

• Urgently remedy this situation by restoring the entire range of community health services which existed prior to the freeze in funding. [More…]

• The Williams committee has indicated a very serious degree of illiteracy in the community. [More…]

• However, the Commonwealth, through the children’s services program in the Office of Child Care and acting on advice from committees and community groups, gives grants to facilitate the sharing of information through, for example, the funding of conferences and in other ways. [More…]

• It indicates that housing funds are becoming very significantly larger throughout the community. [More…]

• -My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, concerns the course for social workers being conducted at the Darwin Community College by a senior lecturer, Mr John Tomlinson. [More…]

• My attention has been drawn to the fact that some police inquiries have been taking place in connection with a member of the academic staff of the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• How can the Government continue to fund such political refuges through the community health program? [More…]

• Will the Government ensure that sufficient funds are made available through the community health program to groups with bona fide welfare experience to meet the needs for women’s refuges? [More…]

• Community health program salary funds in relation to women ‘s refuges are intended solely for the employment of workers to undertake the care of women and children in refuges and not for outside activities of any kind. [More…]

• Senator Harradine asked a further question with regard to the funding of new groups under the community health program. [More…]

• The Committee has also received a large number of letters from many people throughout the community expressing their satisfaction with the main thrust of the Committee’s report. [More…]

• It remains now for the Government to recognise the force of community argument in the report, and take all these things into account. [More…]

• I endorse his expressed concern that all members of the Senate and, indeed, all members of the Parliament, should take note of the material he has tabled today because undoubtedly the quality of children’s television has become an extremely topical and controversial issue in our community. [More…]

• There is no doubt in my mind, as I think there can be no doubt in the minds of any of the members of the Committee, that there is widespread discontent throughout the community about the standard of children’s television in Australia. [More…]

• We recognised the kind of contribution made by the industry to 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…]

• Community service clubs, including exservice, Apex, Lions, Rotary, senior citizens and the Country Women’s Associations; benevolent and welfare organisations, including Red Cross and Legacy; homes for handicapped persons; church and religious bodies; ethnic organisations; and sporting clubs. [More…]

• I wonder whether Senator Rae or any other honourable senators who have been in the Senate chamber and in Kings Hall in the last few days, will disagree that Senator Harradine ‘s motion is not of importance to this community. [More…]

• Accordingly, we feel that it is a legitimate part of the Law Reform Commission’s function to inform itself in the manner and to the extent it thinks necessary or appropriate by consulting with government and opposition politicians and interested community groups as a means of assessing the likely acceptability of its proposals to government and Parliament. [More…]

• Secondly, there is the question of the collection and assessment of law reform proposals and suggestions that are produced, in particular by judges, lawyers, newspapers, statutory authorities, royal commissions and many other persons and bodies in the community other than those I have mentioned, but particularly those I have mentioned. [More…]

• Canada, like Australia, has a big ethnic community content. [More…]

• The appointment to the proposed security appeals tribunal of a non-presidential member from a major ethnic community would be welcomed if there were an appeal from a member of that ethnic group. [More…]

• In a situation where a militant Italian has a problem regarding citizenship, a Greek member of the tribunal, who may be an excellent man in the Greek commmunity would not be familiar with the ebbs and flows of the Italian community. [More…]

• Of the two other members of the tribunal, known as the non-presidential members, one person would be in what is called the general category’ and would be appointed on the basis of his standing and reputation in the community. [More…]

• If the appeal concerned a migrant matter- I am reading from clause 43(5)- he would be a member of the community with knowledge of or experience in the needs and concerns of persons who have been immigrants. [More…]

• I think one point that Senator Mulvihill was concerned about was that if it were a case of dealing with a member of a particular ethnic community, he would want to have somebody from that community who would understand the position better. [More…]

• He left it at the time of the Tito-Stalin schism and although he had a magnificent record of assisting people in the Yugoslav community he was still held not to be a good potential Australian in 1966 when I came to this Parliament. [More…]

• It seems to me that just as there are views in the community that change with the nature of society and that there are individuals in the community who are more or less receptive to changing attitudes, so there are judges, eminent men and women as they may be, who, at the age of 65 years and over, are likely to be less sensitive to what the community regards, in a number of matters, as politically subversive or political undesirable and are therefore likely to attract an adverse security assessment- a view that might not be shared by a person appointed to the bench at a considerably younger age. [More…]

• He should also be a person who can be relied upon to be sensitive to changing attitudes and to reflect a view of the world, a view of politics and a view of the Australian community that is in tune with what the majority of people believe in contemporary circumstances and not merely a reflection of prejudices which have otherwise been overtaken by time. [More…]

• He is either a public servant or a member of the community with certain knowledge or ability. [More…]

• A person appointed as a non-presidential member shall be a person whose standing and reputation in the community are such as to ensure public confidence in his integrity and fairness. [More…]

• They seek to replace that procedure with the situation where a citizen aggrieved has the opportunity to go to a person in the community who is seen as a protector of the rights of the individual to ask him to take action on his behalf to set the process in train, to determine whether an adverse security assessment has been made, whether it adversely affects the citizen and so on and to follow the procedures which are set out in detail in amendment No. [More…]

• I believe there are many people in the community today who are still suffering because adverse findings were made against them and because this problem cannot be solved. [More…]

• The language of this clause ought not to be drawn in such a way that it operates in this catch-all fashion, including within its potential ambit a whole variety of forms of disclosure; including the well motivated, the innocent and the positively beneficial in the interests of the community as a whole, as well as those of a more sinister motivation. [More…]

• I would have thought that was obvious, that it was reasonable that the society should know how much we are spending on security and that it was unreasonable to assert knowledge of that to the community was in some way going to breach a particular point of security. [More…]

• I think it is very good that there should be a situation that would give concern to the community. [More…]

• It is quite a sensible amendment which could rebound to the good of an organisation such as ASIO and free this community of some of the paranoia which undoubtedly exists about an organisation like ASIO, probably quite properly in certain areas. [More…]

• They would have been of benefit to the organisation and to the community, and without the grave practical difficulties which are inhrent in Senator Missen ‘s proposal. [More…]

• A committee would have time not only to examine the clauses of the Bill in detail, but also to hear evidence about the clauses of the Bill and perhaps to assuage the concerns of many people in the community about the provisions in this Bill. [More…]

• Many people in the community have had no opportunity to be heard in the context of a Senate debate. [More…]

• There are many people in the community who have expressed already in correspondence to me and other senators, in letters to the Press and so on, their desire that they be heard in the processes of this Parliament on this matter. [More…]

• It is that sort of consideration which we ought to take into account by giving these people and everyone else in the community an opportunity to debate the detail of the legislation. [More…]

• It is not as though the views of a large section of the community should be sought on this Bill. [More…]

• Mr President, my midnight mission tonight is to make a plea on behalf of the Maltese community in the hope that when our Ministers are overseas in the parliamentary recess one of them will visit Valletta and endeavour to normalise relations with Malta. [More…]

• I simply say this: The role of the Maltese community in this country going back a long way is well known. [More…]

• Community Health Program salary funds, in relation to women’s refuges, are intended solely for the employment of workers to undertake the care of women and children in refuges, not for ‘outside’ activities of any kind. [More…]

• In view of the possible problems to the banking system, what reassurance can the Treasurer and the Reserve Bank give to the investing community of Australia? [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that these completely inaccurate, false and misleading reports about Senate standing committees are doing incalculable harm to the Parliament and to the community and will he ask his ministerial colleagues and newspaper journalists, if they read the reports - [More…]

• What steps is the Government taking to ensure that the intake of overseas doctors is modified substantially to ensure that the huge expenditure by the Australian community on its medical schools and graduates is justified and their future guaranteed? [More…]

• I wish immediately to refute the statement by the Minister because, as every member of the Senate would know, Trans-Australia Airlines was established by the Chifley Labor Government in the immediate post-war years and has served the Australian community magnificently. [More…]

• Not one word was said in that report by any member of the Committee about the Government disposing of TAA to the private sector of the community. [More…]

• I related my statement then to the response which we had received from the Australian community in relation to the matter. [More…]

• Other people who appeared before the Committee in the course of its inquiry argued that because television had the ability to monopolise so much of the average child ‘s time we, the Australian community, should capitalise on that situation by offering and presenting programs which were informative and imaginative and in which a child might very well have some intellectual involvement. [More…]

• We have noted that since that report was presented to the Senate it has stimulated lively debate, both in this place and in the community. [More…]

• Certainly, our inquiry gave members of the community a splendid opportunity to state their concern. [More…]

• However, I am optimistic- possibly that optimism is tempered with some caution- in stating that we should offer every encouragement to those who have the responsibility of providing this form of communication, entertainment and education for the younger members of the Australian 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 US administration is experiencing difficulties in having the agreement ratified. [More…]

• One particular point of interest raised in the course of the discussions was Mr Ohira ‘s concept of a Pacific Basin community in which there would be closer regional co-operation amongst Pacific nations. [More…]

• In spite of the fact that the figures he has given indicate that our per capita level of imports from developing countries is high compared with the United States of America, the European Economic Community or Japan, it is pertinent to note that it is in the most sensitive areas, such as textiles, timber, white goods and small electrical goods, that we have adopted policies which are as restrictive as those of EEC and some other countries. [More…]

• This gap required narrowing through improved training of Aboriginal people, improved community support systems and adequate funding to enable programs to be implemented. [More…]

• I can also remember the community’s disgust with the Government’s attitude on that occasion. [More…]

• Not many, if any, actions of this Government have created so much anger within the community. [More…]

• That does not mean that the matter is unimportant; it is vitally important to a large section of the community. [More…]

• However, I believe that since the article was written the Government may have received the message of the widespread dismay that there is throughout the community. [More…]

• Primarily I rise in this chamber to refer to other segments of the ethnic community so that their needs or wants for that matter, will not be overlooked. [More…]

• Malcolm Fraser has assured the Greek community that if a case of family reunion exists that is not problem to bring relatives to Australia. [More…]

• Malcolm Fraser has assured the Greek Community that if a case of family re-union exist that is not problem to bring relatives to Australia. [More…]

• The Portuguese community numbers about 32,000, although there seems to be some doubt in the mind of officialdom whether that figure is correct. [More…]

• I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard the letter from Mr de Sousa, which sets out in very clear terms the needs of the Portuguese community and requests that efforts be made to enlarge their area of operation. [More…]

• When our programme started in 1976, the statistics of the Immigration Department stated that the total of the Portuguese Community in N.S.W. [More…]

• According to official information from the Portuguese General Counsulate in Sydney the Portuguese community at present numbers 32,000 in Australia (copy attached) with about 24,000 of them in N.S.W. [More…]

• plus Portuguese speaking community of Brazilians and Timorese. [More…]

• You will appreciate that two hours allocated at present, substantially restricts the possibility of using much of the material available to us to a wider audience which would be of great value to Portuguese speaking community and to the country as a whole. [More…]

• We are endeavouring to reach the largest possible audience in the Portuguese speaking Community and in order to enable us to achieve our objective we are requesting for one hour between 5 and 8 p.m. and the rest after 10 p.m. during the week. [More…]

• Two hour time presently allocated does not permit contact with the entire community, in fact, some segments are never reached. [More…]

• Our programme is now a very important link in the community, providing comprehensive information on social, cultural, sporting events, news and music otherwise not available. [More…]

• People in the work force and in the general community in every country where asbestos is mined and worked and where many of the other cancer causing agents are coming to the fore now are 3 totally unaware that such conditions prevail. [More…]

• With commonsense attitudes not only can people’s health be restored and safeguarded but also a great deal of expense can be saved by the whole of the community. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take urgent steps to concur with the wishes of a majority of the electors at every polling place in Australia at the 1 967 referendum by resumption from the States of the major traditional Aboriginal land areas and reserves and former reserves as at 3 1 .3.78, to become federal Crown land pending prompt determination of freehold title for Land Trusts and eventually for defined community co-operatives. [More…]

• -My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Health is prompted by certain expressions of concern within the community regarding measles vaccination during measles epidemics. [More…]

• Following the unfortunate events surrounding the Bank of Adelaide and the intention of the board of directors of the Bank of Adelaide to merge the bank with the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd, will the Government, through the Reserve Bank of Australia, consider issuing a licence to a new banking organisation to improve competition in and service to the business community? [More…]

• This will cause community dislocation in the affected areas and a serious loss of educational tradition and continuity. [More…]

• Such changes might include: reversion to year 7-12 high schools in the south Canberra area and the closure of only one school; operating one year 7-9 high school on the southside and making Narrabundah College a year 10-12 institution into which SWOW could be incorporated as an annexe; the development of schools with specialised curriculum where some subjects are not available at all; the development of community colleges by the sharing of facilities and programs with community groups and/or TAFE colleges with joint funding; clusters of schools and shared staffing. [More…]

• closing some schools causing adverse effects on students, teachers and the community and the loss of important educational traditions; [More…]

• A very disadvantaged section of the community whose access to what we city dwellers would consider to be a basic range of communication facilities is very much engaged in this debate, yet the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Staley) and the Government generally have failed to clarify all the major issues surrounding it. [More…]

• Many discussions that I have heard by members of the community show great confusion in the community about the capability of a direct broadcast satellite, which of course is not yet available on the market, compound with the very limited capabilities of the relay satellite, which is the one currently under consideration by the Government. [More…]

• But the major concern of that section of the community which has concerned itself with this subject, of the Opposition and of other critics of the Government ‘s satellite proposal is the complete failure of the Government to give us hard evidence with regard to the cost of the proposal. [More…]

• In respect of the improvements in quality and reliability that are envisaged, I consider that the Task Force has not established that the cost of a satellite solution is justified by the marginal improvements likely to be achieved and the relatively restricted segment of the community which would benefit from those improvements. [More…]

• Whilst the Opposition is totally sympathetic to the needs of remote dwellers for improved communication services, and sympathetic to the reality that those services will have to be heavily subsidised by the public, we believe- I think the community as a whole believes- that a better attempt at costing the proposal needs to be made before the community and the Parliament can make up its mind that the expenditure is justified. [More…]

• I must say that very clearly at this stage of the debate, because other impressions have been gained or alleged by some sections of the community and the media. [More…]

• The Government has done a substantial amount of work to ensure that it receives the benefit of the differing views that exist in the community. [More…]

• I am sure that Senator Ryan will be aware that since the report was published the Government has established a working group of senior officials who were available to receive submissions from the community until 31 March 1979, some six months after the report was tabled. [More…]

• The working group has received 165 submissions from individuals and organisations throughout the community. [More…]

• Ryan has had contact with many of those groups at the public seminars that have been held, and I suggest to her that it is quite clear that the issues about which she has expressed concern are issues which have attracted the interest of many of those individuals and groups and on which views have been expressed to the Government and the community generally. [More…]

• Firstly, it made the point that the hearings that were conducted made it clear that there is a limited understanding in the community, of many of the features of a national communication satellite system and, in a number of quarters, apprehension regarding its likely impact upon certain interests. [More…]

• These matters are properly matters of community concern. [More…]

• I agree with the task force that there is a limited understanding in the community about the satellite and there is indeed a great deal of apprehension about its consequences. [More…]

• As he comes to deal with the question of a satellite he takes on the aura of a clean-cut father Christmas as he explains the great benefits which the satellite will bring to certain very small sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Opposition senators- Senator Ryan in particular- have asked questions on notice- which have been unanswered for a long time- on a number of really important issues, lt is in relation to these matters that I believe the Government has a responsibility to relieve the apprehensions of sections of the community and also a responsibility in time- I appreciate what Senator Chaney said about that- to resolve some of these issues. [More…]

• Clear explanations should be made to the community about the issues involved. [More…]

• But one of the great advantages of the satellite is that it could bring a two-channel service to 35 per cent of the Australian community which are presently denied it. [More…]

• There is little information provided regarding other issues of concern which relate to a far wider community in Australia. [More…]

• In the minds of members of the Opposition it is only incidental that the people to whom we refer are the people who probably are doing more to produce the wealth of this country than any other section of the community. [More…]

• They are still receiving input from people throughout the community. [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 its success or otherwise in serving the Australian community. [More…]

• 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…]

• I think one matter of interest to the public, particularly to the ethnic groups within the community, will be a definition of the relationship between the ABC and the new special broadcasting service which has been set up by the Government to provide a form of broadcasting for ethnic groups. [More…]

• We also recognise that a wider social context may need to be taken into account to enable the price to be such as to enable the community as a whole to pursue a relevant and effective antiinflation policy. [More…]

• I was suggesting that by placing the emphasis on the inquiry function and by reducing the emphasis on prices notification the Tribunal would serve more generally to be a useful instrument for government policy and that the change resulted from consultation with the business community, consumer groups and the trade unions. [More…]

• But the Tribunal’s capacity to inquire into prices that need to be examined and to keep under surveillance prices of particular significance to the community will be retained. [More…]

• The Government may think that it has managed to get rid of the Prices Justification Tribunal, to which it has ideologically rooted objection, without overtly incurring the wrath of any section of the community by openly abolishing it. [More…]

• There is no doubt that that view is widely held within the trade union movement and probably within the community generally. [More…]

• Government to establish a control over business which had not been witnessed in this country before but which, as we all know, stifled investment, reduced the creation of job capacity within the Australian economy and led to the disastrous results of 1975 and the unemployment which persists today.- Quite apart from those particular matters this Bill will lift a lot of the weight from the shoulders of businesses which have been forced, in a very strictive way, to produce information at great cost to the community generally. [More…]

• Accordingly, it is not something that is imposed on some entity in the community which does not bear any relationship to anybody else. [More…]

• This legislation therefore represents a step in the right direction towards alleviating pressure on the consumer because costs will be reduced on business in such a way that the degree of surveillance of price increases in the community will not be reduced in any way. [More…]

• The fact is that by establishing more effective price surveillance methods and better methods of inquiry and by ensuring that the Minister who is going to direct the inquiry is given more power to ensure that he can get more information on price rises he will be able to survey and keep control over prices more effectively than he can under the method applied up to now which is by ensuring that there is a reporting procedure within the community, imposing costs not only on business but, more importantly, on the consumer. [More…]

• While honourable senators on this side of the Senate can only applaud that the Government has taken such measures to relieve the cost to the consumer from this sort of activity, it must be recognised in the community as a whole that this will not reduce the capacity of the Government to ensure that price rises are occurring within due bounds. [More…]

• On 19 October 1978 the Adelaide Advertiser, a newspaper which is not one of the more radical journals circulating in the Australian community, stated: . [More…]

• by abolishing the requirement for notification of prospective price rises it represents the final destruction ofthe Tribunal’s ability to fulfil its original function of ensuring that unjustified price rises are not imposed on the community; [More…]

• As honourable senators will recall, the Government’s announcement of the proposed abolition of the Tribunal, as outlined in the 1975 policy speech, produced strong reaction in the community. [More…]

• In that one month, which was between March and April of this year, we had an average 3.1 per cent increase in food prices throughout the community. [More…]

• It will retain the Tribunal ‘s capacity to inquire into prices that need to be examined and keep under surveillance prices of significance to the community. [More…]

• It is believed that the business community will find the changes acceptable. [More…]

• The provisions as they stand confer quite extraordinary powers on the Governor-General to act quite unilaterally and, without any reference to the Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly, to make an ordinance imposing taxes and authorising expenditure for the island community. [More…]

• 5 ) Have there been occasions when the Minister and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs have been dissatisfied with the administrative performance of State Government Departments; if so, what procedures have been utilised to evaluate the performance to ensure a more effective delivery of services to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• In selecting people for authorization, the emphasis is placed on providing suitable celebrants in convenient locations to meet reasonable community needs. [More…]

• The study researched the statements of Australian and Overseas Accounting Bodies, the writings of acceptable experts, and the practices of overseas telecommunications organisations, Australian public utilities and the business community generally. [More…]

• In the event that this refuge does not comply, the question of continued funding under the Community Health Program will be reconsidered. [More…]

• Community Health Program funds are not available for political activities. [More…]

• This enabled continued Community Health Program funding of 19 refuges that had been approved prior to 1977-78, as well as the commencement of funding of an additional 64 refuges. [More…]

• The 64 refuges more recently approved for funding include refuges conducted by organisations such as community service groups, the Lutheran Church, the Legion of Mary, the Salvation Army, the St Vincent de Paul Society, an ethnic welfare organisation, the Baptist Church and the Save the Children Fund. [More…]

• In any event, the key disclosure made by Senator Webster was that on some occasion, the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom, wrote to the Minister for National Development, Mr Newman, and provided him with certain information concerning the boundaries of the Capricornia section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. [More…]

• I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a copy of a letter dated 20 October 1978 from Mr Groom, the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, to Mr Newman, the Minister for National Development. [More…]

• In your previous capacity as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, you received a letter of 3 November 1 977 from the then Minister for National Resources in which concern was expressed over the proposed Proclamation of the area encompassing Lady Elliot Island and the Bunker and Capricorn Groups as part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. [More…]

• There have always been trained teachers in the community wanting jobs and not being able to get them. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the Aboriginal community at Wreck Bay has rejected an offer by the Government for a lease of 87 hectares of land? [More…]

• Is he also aware that the Aboriginal community at Wreck Bay wishes to make a land claim with regard lo an area of 400 hectares in the Wreck Bay area? [More…]

• Will he say whether the Government would be prepared to extend the provisions of its land rights legislation to cover the Australian Capital Territory as well as the Northern Territory, which it covers currently, in order to provide a mechanism whereby the Wreck Bay Aboriginal community could make a land claim? [More…]

• When the House rose last evening 1 was making the point to the Senate that 1 believe that this legislation is discriminatory insofar as it places a tax on Aborigines, and as such is at variance with the way in which taxes are levied on other groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• While they were being worked out many views were expressed in the community by the Aborigines. [More…]

• I remind those members of the Government who have been so outspoken from time to time about retrospectivity as it applies to the white civilisation and Australian companies, of -the great song and dance they made about the endeavours of the Treasurer (Mr Howard) to close tax loopholes which had been blatantly entered into by one of the most devious groups in our community. [More…]

• The accountants and the lawyers spend their lifetime in advising the wealthy people in the community on how to avoid their tax liabilities. [More…]

• He will be the late member for Canberra when that percolates down to the consciousness of the Canberra community which has one of the highest rates of unemployment in this country. [More…]

• It is true that the determination of the 20 per cent element of assessability is arbitrary, but it recognises that substantial payments are made for the benefit of the community and that they are akin to local government type payments that grant certain benefits to certain members of the community. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt mentioned that certain other members of the community suffer no penalty as a result of entering into tax evasion schemes. [More…]

• Generally, that is a reflection of inflation in the Australian community or the world community. [More…]

• But he said that the distributing body, which would be the collecting agent for these royalties or payments, would use at least part of those payments- probably most of them- for the benefit of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• They are seen as compensation by the Aboriginal people and by the community at large. [More…]

• This is the sort of argument advanced by some people in the community. [More…]

• Again, I make the point that it goes not to individuals but to incorporated bodies and is spent on community activities, on a wide range of enterprises, on activities to assist people set themselves up in business and other entrepreneurial enterprises, the construction of buildings, houses and so on. [More…]

• I do not have to explain to the learned gentlemen on the other side of the chamber the multiplier effect when that money is spent in the community. [More…]

• The Northern Territory Government got the cut to which it thought it was entitled, but I should have thought that it would be far more important to have the money flowing into the community and achieving the stimulation of the economy that is so important. [More…]

• They are the ones who hold the money on the settlement for distribution for the welfare of the community or for some other purpose. [More…]

• Can honourable senators imagine this situation: The whole of the Australian community will have to wait until the Budget- until the end of this year- for this Government to make up its mind what it will do over the next 12 or 18 months. [More…]

• Every Budget Speech says that the economy is coming back; jobs are being created; and the business community is more confident. [More…]

• Can anybody reasonably expect pensioners and other people in disadvantaged sections of the community not to be frightened when they know what this Government is doing? [More…]

• The stock valuation adjustment has gone and the business community will love that. [More…]

• Does a saving of $381 m justify the disruption that will occur to health services throughout Australia and the extreme inequality in the way the new burdens will fall upon the community? [More…]

• How are we to interpret the statements of a government which, on the one hand, insists regularly and at tedious length that it wishes to reduce inflation and, on the other hand, imposes this burden on the community which will result in a 1.3 per cent increase in inflation. [More…]

• They will put off going to the doctor until they are seriously ill. As a result the community will bear the cost. [More…]

• The Minister for Health, Mr Hunt, claims in his statement that, despite these new impositions and new costs, the Government will offer continued support for less costly, non-institutional care, including community health and school dental programs. [More…]

• 6m; a cut in the allocation for the school dental scheme of $5.1 m; a cut in community health funding of $7m; and a cut in funding for children’s services of $7m. [More…]

• All of those items impinge on community care. [More…]

• The end result will be poorer health for the community. [More…]

• People will delay going to the doctor and they will become seriously ill; and there will not be community facilities to support them. [More…]

• Community nurses have reported to Opposition senators that when a medical complaint for a school child is diagnosed the parents are notified so that the first stage of primary care can be entered into. [More…]

• There is a case where the community services are being reduced to the point where the whole purpose of their existence is lost. [More…]

• I would suggest that if the Government thinks that simply by reducing the number of beds in public hospitals it is doing anything to improve the health standards of the community it is quite wrong. [More…]

• In fact, if it becomes an objective of the Government to reduce the number of beds available in hospitals, I suggest that that will increase the health problems of the community because the community is now denied primary care. [More…]

• The Opposition will continue to agitate for a restoration of universal health insurance and it will have the support of the community in doing so. [More…]

• At the earliest possible opportunity the Opposition will overturn the inequitable, irrational and, economically, totally unjustified measures which will do nothing other than to add to the burden of health costs and create a situation in which the health of the Australian community must necessarily suffer. [More…]

• The Senate must realise that there are a lot of Government senators as well as most senators on this side who represent the less fortunate people in our community- the impoverished, the sick and the ill. [More…]

• I believe that every Commonwealth office-holder ought to be prepared to bear the cost of travel between his place of residence and his place of work, where both places are within the same city or town, in the same way as every other employee and wage earner throughout the community has to bear the cost of getting to work and home again. [More…]

• Such drivers should be left free to perform duties which, as I said to Mr Nasht, the community would be more likely to support. [More…]

• As the promised six months for governmental response to the Senate’s report ‘Children and Television’ has expired, and given the tremendous support for that report’s recommendations throughout the community, especially in Tasmania, I ask: Will the Government urgently, before we rise for the winter recess, inform the Parliament of its response? [More…]

• It is the contention of the Federal Opposition that the contents of the mini-Budget reveal a determination- a deliberate policy- on the part of the Fraser Government to reduce the standard of living of all Australians and, in particular, to withdraw proper provision of social security and health services for the community. [More…]

• As a result, the health of the community will deteriorate and consequently the overall cost of health care to the community will increase. [More…]

• The effects on social welfare and health services of the mini-Budget are, I believe, of basic concern to the entire community. [More…]

• We and the pensioner community of Australia believed that there was a likelihood that the Government, in bringing down a mini-Budget, would decide to restore justice in the area of age pensions. [More…]

• The situation of pensioners in our community in relation to wage earners has deteriorated ever since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]

• All of them are making remarks and statements which seem to be aimed deliberately at penalising unemployed youth and at creating within the community a tremendous prejudice against unemployed youth. [More…]

• We believe that all of this is designed to build up in the community a climate whereby the Government will be able to afford to withdraw unemployment benefits from young unemployed persons. [More…]

• It is condemning young people to the dole, harassing them with regard to their eligibility for benefit and creating prejudice in the community against them. [More…]

• It is clear that the Government is deliberately acting in such a way as to continue a high level of unemployment, particularly amongst youth; it is deliberately acting in such a way as to arouse community antagonism to unemployed youth in order that it may proceed with what will be more severe work tests or other devices to reduce the number of young people in receipt of unemployment benefit. [More…]

• With all the social problems that are rife in the community at the moment- in particular the drug problem but also the problems of violence, sexual violence and so on- families are not happy with the situation where 16 and 17-year- old girls and boys will be forced to leave home to travel to other cities or to country towns in search of work. [More…]

• We know that the failure of the Government to secure the health services of this community will be counterproductive both in an economic and in a social sense. [More…]

• In conclusion, I allege again that the decline in the living standards of pensioners in the community, the anxiety and distress caused to genuinely unemployed persons, the difficulty they have in getting unemployed benefit and, particularly now, the total disruption to the health services, are matters of urgency. [More…]

• That is the argument that we need to’ debate today- the matter of inflation, its control, and the effect that rampant inflation has on everyone in the community, in particular the poor people who rely on Government income for their livelihood and those who rely on a lower income from their earnings. [More…]

• It is also the responsibility of the Government to see that there are systems which provide the health care demanded by a community of the standard of the Australian community. [More…]

• However, it is also the responsibility of the Government to see that, in the words of Scotton, these are not irresponsible economic policies, policies which would cause damage to future employment prospects or damage the economy of the community as we saw happen in the years of the Labor Government. [More…]

• Since this Government came to office, it has blazed a trail- a trail of reduction in services, a trail of creation of hardships, a trail of increasing tensions and division throughout the Australian community, a trail of establishing permanent economic uncertainty and instability. [More…]

• Last Thursday night the Government decided to lash out once again at the Australian taxpayer, the wage and salary earner, and the underprivileged members of the Australian community. [More…]

• Just recently in Melbourne the Minister for Industry and Commerce, Mr Lynch, the former Treasurer, said that too much is being spent in social welfare payments to the Australian community. [More…]

• As a government we must be economic with community resources and at the same time provide excellent health care to all who need it, with no one denied such care because of social disadvantage. [More…]

• To my knowledge that reference relates to the trust organisations appointed by the Aboriginal community and which hold in trust the Aboriginal land which has been granted by the Minister to be Aboriginal land. [More…]

• The other funds might be paid to provide an oval, a hall or housing for an Aboriginal community. [More…]

• However, I gather that the portion of any payment from an Aboriginal benefit trust fund which goes to an Aboriginal for the purpose of assisting in the purchase of a Land Rover, a boat or some item which will permit him to carry out his occupation, to improve his status or to increase his earning capacity in the community, is taxable. [More…]

• I feel that it is important to the Aboriginal people of this country that they should be seen to be like everybody else, to bear their burden in the community at some stage, just as everybody else does. [More…]

• It is not necessarily a good thing for a community to regard the Aboriginal people as something separate, something different, something like a child to whom people have to look down. [More…]

• Where the money is distributed to an Aboriginal community or an Aboriginal person for purposes related to the advancement and welfare of that group- indeed, for any pupose which is not related to the direct administration of the payment of the salary of that person- it is not assessable. [More…]

• Subsequent to the arrangements with the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited over Groote Eylandt- arrangements which were made not by government but by missions associated with the Aboriginal community and which arose out of straight commercial negotiations- the Government has intervened to ensure that certain royalties will flow to Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• As I have already indicated my understanding of the matter is that those arrangements pre-dated the legislative arrangements that we now have, and that that community, represented by the missions that were involved with it, negotiated arrangements with Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd having obtained the mineral rights to Groote Eylandt by taking out leases or exploration rights under the Northern Territory mining ordinances. [More…]

• If one examines Mr Turnbull’s report and the effect which the flow of royalties has had on the community of Groote Eylandt, one gets a great sense of optimism and a feeling that here is a way in which the lot of the Aboriginal can be improved. [More…]

• Mr Turnbull, in his report, documents the way the Aboriginal community of Groote Eylandt has used its traditional structures to organise itself and to use those funds in a positive way. [More…]

• For example, in only one year has the community spent more than it has received. [More…]

• I think that that shows a very positive intention on the part of the people to use those royalties for the permanent and long term betterment of their community. [More…]

• It fails to take into account the wide range of other chemical carcinogens in the work place and it fails to take into account the cancer mortality due to the spillover of chemical carcinogens from the work place into the surrounding community. [More…]

• We want an egalitarian and pluralist community. [More…]

• We should recognise that what was appropriate in a certain point in our history is no longer apt and should be abandoned without any sense of betrayal but in order to signify our national independence within the community of nations. [More…]

• I believe they did nothing of value for the Tasmanian community while they were there. [More…]

• I was trying to convey the idea of certain members of society depending for their well-being on the energies and the hardearned results of the work of the Australian community. [More…]

• A television station that should be accepting its responsibilities and putting both sides of the argument saw fit to give one side and to ignore some of the most responsible men in Australia who could have put a counter argument not so much about whether Lucas Heights is good, bad or indifferent, but rather about how atomic energy affects the community generally. [More…]

• All too often we hear about strikes and loss of production and their effects on the government, the community and the economy. [More…]

• A time of economic stringencies imposed by the Government on many people in the community, Mr Smith said that an amount of $135,000 was to be spent on the air-conditioning. [More…]

• making payments, or providing bridging finance, for the provision of open space, landscaping or community facilities or for costs associated with land development, including contributions to headworks or retriculation of services; [More…]

• What affiliations do these members have with other organisations in both the public and private sectors of the community. [More…]

• I was not aware that there were strong criticisms from the business community. [More…]

• I refer to the European Economic Community requirements for laboratory analysis of wine imported from Australia into the Common Market. [More…]

• Perhaps she is not aware that State governments and local governments actually contribute to worthwhile community organisations such as women ‘s refuges. [More…]

• The independent refuges are totally reliant upon the community. [More…]

• They do not expect payment for their services but it would be nice to think that they were able to expand the services which they want to provide to meet the need they see in the community. [More…]

• I hope that the majority of honourable senators will be shocked at the enormity of the problem which exists in the Australian community. [More…]

• There is an acknowledgment from this side of the chamber certainly that there is a great need for the provision of more and more substantial services of this nature throughout the community. [More…]

• Under the circumstances it is impossible for a refuge to continue to offer a service in the community. [More…]

• But it certainly did not recognise that they are providing a community service. [More…]

• At present we are funded 75 per cent from funds made available through the Commonwealth Governments Community Health Programme and 25 per cent from the State Government. [More…]

• Let me assure honourable senators on this side and on the Government side of the chamber that people working for a community service have to be political from the time that they get up in the morning until they go to bed at night, because their whole life is based on politics- the politics of whether a Federal government will give funding to the community service and whether a State government will make up the balance or how it is going to arrange to get, for example, the additional 12’/i per cent which is so desperately needed for the refuges in Western Australia. [More…]

• In 1974, the then Minister for Health approved the first women’s refuge for funding under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• When the change of government took place at the end of 1975, a total of 19 women’s refuges in the States were approved under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• In the 1977-78 Budget, the Cabinet decided that the funding of women’s refuges should be continued under the Community Health Program and the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) announced that in that year, in addition to the funds required for the continuation of the 19 refuges previously funded, Sim would be made available for the funding of refuges which had not been approved previously. [More…]

• Therefore, by way of background we see that in 1974, when the first refuge was funded, there was an expenditure of $59,000 under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• So it can be seen that there has been a growth in the establishment of refuges and that there certainly has been a growth in the funds which have been provided by the Federal Government, through the Community Health Program, and by State governments as their contributions to that program. [More…]

• Perhaps I ought to put the record in order by saying that when the Commonwealth’s funding of additional women’s refuges resumed in 1977-78, it was at the same rates as the funding of general community health projects, that is, 50 per cent of capital costs and 75 per cent of operating costs. [More…]

• In this financial year, the Commonwealth’s funding of general community health projects has been at the rate of 50 per cent for capital and operating costs, but it ought to be noted that funding of women’s refuges has been maintained at 50 per cent of capital costs and 75 per cent of operating costs. [More…]

• In accordance with the arrangements which were introduced in 1976-77, the Commonwealth’s funding of women’s refuges under the Community Health Program is by way of block grants to the States. [More…]

• I understand that there have been difficulties with regard to the future of the Emmaus women’s refuge and I am told that on the recommendation of the State Department of Public Health it was approved for Community Health Program funding in 1977. [More…]

• As the Community Health Program is a joint Commonwealth-State program, the withdrawal of the State approval resulted in the cessation of both Commonwealth and State funding for the refuge. [More…]

• These are, of course, matters for Budget consideration and discussion at the Premiers’ Conference, at which the Community Health program itself is considered. [More…]

• The arrangements that have been made by the Office of Child Care, in regard to child care facilities, resources and programs for the assistance of refuges that are funded under the Community Health Program, will be of great benefit to children who need to take refuge in the way that we have all described. [More…]

• Also, the projects embarked upon under the Homeless Persons Assistance Act have been subject to adverse community reaction and sometimes local government approval has taken longer than anticipated. [More…]

• I repeat, the Community Health Program will be the subject of the Premiers’ Conference in June. [More…]

• There are also great numbers of people who do not know how to reach the refuges even if they have some knowledge that there is care of that sort available in the community. [More…]

• The Queanbeyan people also point out that, whilst the refuges in Canberra have some supportive services- but not nearly enough- the supportive services that are offered by the New South Wales Department of Youth and Community Affairs are much more attractive, much more supportive and much more real in providing the sort of facilities and back-up services that these refuges need. [More…]

• Because, a group consists of all women, it does not mean that those women are in any way sexually different from the ordinary women in the community. [More…]

• We admit that the community has a responsibility to look after these people but we allow the mining companies to rape this country and to send the profits that they make out of our resources back to their home countries. [More…]

• The Minister also commented that the Commonwealth Government views shelters as a very special part of the community health program. [More…]

• He has now repudiated that promise as well, both to the business community and to the personal taxpayers. [More…]

• In this performance the Representatives was carrying out perhaps all too faithfully its representative function for there is no doubt that community complacency about defence is disturbingly high. [More…]

• It may be of interest to honourable senators that, by value, only 13 per cent of our exports go to the European Economic Community and less than 8 per cent to the United States of America. [More…]

• The Government and the community will have to decide how much they are prepared to spend on these purposes. [More…]

• However, the fact is that the leaks were accurate and while they were circulating the business community was floundering and becoming unstable. [More…]

• We believe that this is one measure which the Government could take to give some confidence to the business community. [More…]

• One hopes that there will be an increase in that area but the rural community of Australia has decreased from 45 per cent in 1912 to 8 percent today. [More…]

• The establishment of the mining complex at Weipa led to the segregation of the two sections of the community, with the black people living in the Weipa South area and the white people living in the Weipa north area. [More…]

• At least the Opposition ought to have the opportunity to debate in detail all the activities of” this Government which consistently over a period of years has carried out a program of deceit and frauds so far as some sections of the community are concerned. [More…]

• When I last spoke in this chamber, I referred to the fraud of reducing the deficit by calling upon those in the community who are least able to do so to make up the deficiency. [More…]

• There remains in the minds of the Prime Minister and senior members of the Cabinet the phobia that the only way Australia is going to trade itself out of economic difficulties is to make those people in the community who are least able to afford it to do all the paying. [More…]

• During the whole of 1973, 1974 and 1975 in particular but also in more recent times, the principal spokesmen of this Government, in the rhetorical style in which they present their arguments have endeavoured- as was so correctly reported by Senator Chipp earlier today- to suggest that all of the ills, difficulties and deficiciencies that the Australian community has suffered can be traced back to December 1972. [More…]

• If we can only get down to that sort of debate, we might finally be able to make a contribution towards an understanding in the Australian community about where we are at. [More…]

• I refer honourable senators to the pages upon which so much criticism has been levelled by Government spokesmen about what the Labor Party did in terms of alleviating poverty, distress and hardship in the Australian community, and in regard to making up lost ground in terms of public sector expenditure during the 1 950s and 1 960s. [More…]

• What was wrong with increasing the expenditure on hospital services, on nursing home and domiciliary care service and benefits, on community health services and on health schemes for school children, and doubling the amount of money spent from $ 12m to $24m? [More…]

• That sort of comment is expected because this Government is more concerned with taking away benefits from people and giving benefits to the corporate sector and to those groups in the Australian community that do not need the benefits. [More…]

• It cannot afford not to be associated with looking after the rights and needs of the needy people in the Australian community. [More…]

• In addition the Regional Director of the Bureau of Meteorology briefed the community on the cyclone’s predicted track from west of Carnarvon to Shark Bay, Kalbarri and Geraldton on ABC television at 7 pm on 13 March. [More…]

• It was called by the Chairman of that authority, Mrs Ros Kelly, to discuss with the community the problems that have arisen demographically from declining population and changes in population structure in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the editorial today in the Adelaide newspaper The Advertiser, which expresses the concern of the South Australian community about the state of the highway and the need for Federal assistance to complete its construction. [More…]

• Can the Minister assure the Senate that the statement of the Minister for Health that ‘despite huge national expenditure on health services the overall health of Australians is not improving’ means that the Government will seriously begin a campaign to educate the community about such dietary problems, or is this just another piece of Government gimmickry? [More…]

• I have noted the many matters raised by Senator Gietzelt with regard to the eating habits of Australians and the effect this has on the general health of members of the community. [More…]

• I think that the Minister for Health was drawing attention to the health of the Australian community, the need for preventive medicine in many ways and programs to alert people to their own responsibilities with regard to their health care and the health care of members of their families. [More…]

• In the urgent interests of public safety, and so that the whole community may readily understand the purport of special messages, will the Minister ask radio and television broadcasting stations in Australia to use both metric and imperial measurements when broadcasting police messages involving such things as the height of a missing person or an accused person, storm warnings, and other similar emergency messages. [More…]

• As Minister in charge of the Metric Conversion Act, it is difficult for me to understand why, after an intensive investigation by the Senate in the late 1960s into the benefits that would flow from the eventual adoption of the metric system of measurement, honourable senators should be encouraging those in the community who basically are opposed to the metric system. [More…]

• I am advised that over 80 per cent of the community has now converted to that system. [More…]

• We believe that the Australian community also is concerned and is becoming increasingly concerned, perhaps more so than ever before in our history, and with good reason. [More…]

• The Australian Democrats are concerned because there are those in our community who are trying to appeal to the Australian society on several dishonest levels. [More…]

• We are assured that Australia will have greater access to the European Economic Community market for a number of agricultural products in particular. [More…]

• At least we have progressed to the point where the Government, and even the Prime Minister, realised that to negotiate in a meaningful way with the Community with respect to modifications of its common agricultural policy one has to do so en bloc. [More…]

• In acceding to the request that it raise the further $300m commerically 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…]

• People in the Chinese community are asking me for guidance. [More…]

• Firstly, it appeals to the racist and bigoted element of the community in Australia. [More…]

• It seems to me to be a statement more calculated to gain support from racist sections of the community, than to be responsible. [More…]

• Australia has a responsibility as a member of the international community to do what it can to help. [More…]

• The Australian Government and other governments in the region have expressed disappointment that so few countries in the world have been prepared to face up to any sense of responsibility as members of the international community. [More…]

• I hope that other countries will show a greater sense of responsibility as members of the international community and help in some way to solve this problem. [More…]

• The same matter was raised by Senators Georges and Bonner and again by Senator Mulvihill who, I think, stated objectively the complexities which face this country and others in the world community with regard to the refugee problem and the resettlement of people who are displaced. [More…]

• The Government has endeavoured to have the international community accept its responsibilities. [More…]

• That is why I say that it is quite ironical that we should be asked to pass an appropriation for health here tonight when next week we will have before us a Bill bringing forward all the ramifications of what is going to happen to the deserving people of this community. [More…]

• Over a number of weeks, including weeks when there has been very heavy rain and communities have been disturbed by interruptions to transportation, the Advertiser has printed some very depressing stories and comments by people in the community who have asked to see the Minister and/or his representatives. [More…]

• In addition to this, they were not entitled to any social security benefits unless they belonged to that small group in the community which was not subject to the Act of the day. [More…]

• A number of other projects are going on in the community which seem to go without question. [More…]

• It seems to me that we are questioning something which could be a viable proposition for a minority group within our community. [More…]

• He and his right wing cliques in New South Wales would not be interested in it, but every ethnic community in Australia knows that that is true. [More…]

• It is quite clear that there has been a pretty accurate calculation in terms of the Government’s understanding of what was happening in the community. [More…]

• The Minister will know, from questions asked, and statements made, in the Senate, that such cost savings have affected apprenticeship intake and railway service to country areas, and that Commission officers have consulted frequently community and other leaders in respect thereto. [More…]

• In those circumstances, it is important that the High Court should not only be a body in whose individual membership the community has the utmost confidence but also it should be an institution which operates with maximum effectiveness in carrying out the role which the Constitution and the law assign to it. [More…]

• It also should be an institution which does not, by its behaviour, forfeit the respect of the community. [More…]

• The Committee cannot at this stage assess the long term effects of the treaty on the Torres Strait community. [More…]

• Again, should exploitation of hydrocarbon deposits discovered in the area become viable in the 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 related specifically to matters covered by the treaty, but to two quite serious problems which are beginning to affect the Torres Strait area and its community, namely, exotic animal and plant diseases and illegal immigration from Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• Commonwealth portfolios were involvedPrimary Industry, Science, and the former Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Supplementary Report contained further recommendations to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, and to myself as Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• The problem for an Opposition is to use Question Time to elicit accurate answers from Ministers and to raise matters which are of concern to the Australian community such as the particular issue that we have been discussing. [More…]

• The community rightly demand a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• For instance, it has proposed that corruption in the Department of Motor Transport, which is now the subject of a magisterial investigation, funding of community health services, the question of organised crime in New South Wales, the question of the Port Kembla coal loader and the very important issue of the escape of notorious criminals such as Cribb and Munday, should be discussed as matters of public importance in the Parliament of New South Wales. [More…]

• He appears to view himself as able to be the Crown’s senior law officer as well as the judge of what is just and equitable for members of the community. [More…]

• Seldom is it necessary for the Parliament or the community to view with concern some of the unfettered dictates of this High Court. [More…]

• Since it is the ultimate authority in matters of the interpretation of our Constitution, and its appellate jursidiction so far as the courts are concerned, it is a matter of real concern when we find it moving in one area, namely that of tax avoidance, to adopt a philosophy which appears to be contrary to that which is put forward by the executive and legislative branches, in other words, this Parliament, and also one that I believe is contrary to the general philosophy which prevails throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• When that happens, not only is injustice done to the community at large but also a fundamental danger exists in giving a High Court such power that it can move in a direction which, philosophically, is contrary to that which is in the best interests of the nation. [More…]

• This, despite the fact that these tax avoidance schemes could not really be called tax minimisation schemes, despite the fact that I believe most people in the community feel that they are not commercially viable. [More…]

• I was also referring to the difficulty in which we find ourselves when the High Court of Australia which is directed by a strong and intransigent personality, leads the country and the Court into a philosophy in tax avoiding matters that runs counter to the prevailing community philosophy. [More…]

• Similarly, demands for its services and its community involvement have grown and diversified. [More…]

• In today’s community a large number of services and facilities are provided by public authorities. [More…]

• The Treasurer’s statement the other evening has focused attention on this matter of the efficient economic management, which is one of the most important funding operations that the community faces today. [More…]

• This has been put forward from time to time by people in this place and by interested people in the community. [More…]

• It is pointed out that it is the policy of both State and Federal governments to require local government authorities to accept a much higher level of responsibility for locally based programs such as community programs, health programs and welfare programs. [More…]

• So there is a very strong case for additional funding to be provided and additional recognition to be given to the role of local government within the total scheme of things in the community. [More…]

• In the short term this would assist local government to stem the decline in the value of community services and the deterioration in the quality of the road network. [More…]

• It would also give local government the opportunity to provide a higher level of welfare services and the things which a modern community expects local government to provide. [More…]

• I think the average taxpayer in the community has the message and knows that the Government has broken all the election promises it made in 1975 and 1977. [More…]

• In part of his answer when talking about the situation at Lake Nash he said: lt is obviously a matter of great concern that the Aboriginal community is having the difficulties that it is experiencing on that station. [More…]

• Mr Ian Tuxworth, the Northern Territory Minister for Health and Community Development, has convened a conference at Lake Nash on 19 May to discuss the situation. [More…]

• 1 believe that many people in our community are losing sight of wool’s intrinsic qualities. [More…]

• I also ask whether it is reasonable that large sections of the community be exposed to high levels of lead, carbon monoxide and dioxide and sulphur dioxide, when the remedy is in the Government’s hands- to promote the use of liquid petroleum gas, which contains only minute quantities of pollutants and, at the same time, to bring about huge savings in oil imports and public health costs. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that Mr Hayden ‘s proposal merits the fullest consideration by this Government and community organisations so that a just solution to the grave situation facing our young people may be reached? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the growing resentment in the community at the unauthorised use of letter boxes by major business houses? [More…]

• As a result of those statements, newspaper, radio and television reports have heightened rumours that have been circulating in the community to the great disadvantage of a member of parliament. [More…]

• It seems to me that if somebody had cared a little more, a long time ago, either on a State or Federal basis, children from migrant backgrounds might be growing up with a lot more pride and standing a lot taller in the community than is the case at the moment. [More…]

• We might have found that just as knowledge of Captain Cook perhaps does something for British children, and knowledge of Burke and Wills might do something for Australian children, knowledge of Columbus- and Australian children’s knowledge that Columbus was Italianmight have done something to give Italian children a greater feeling of belonging to the Australian community. [More…]

• There is no reference whatsoever to the problems that arise for children of migrant parents trying to grow up in the Australian community and the Australian culture. [More…]

• I hope that it is widely read by Australian born people in the community so that they understand some of the problems. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister takes the report to heart and extends his vision when it comes to dealing with migrant children in the community. [More…]

• I wish, at this point, to express the Government’s gratitude to Mr Justice Franki and to members of the Committee for the service which they have rendered to the community in this most difficult area. [More…]

• A tension had thus developed between the expectations of many copyright owners that they should benefit from the greater availability of their works, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the needs of the community for ready access to information and knowledge. [More…]

• The primary end of the law on this subject is to give to the author of a creative work his just reward for the benefit he has bestowed on the community and also to encourage the making of further creative works. [More…]

• There is a simple needimperative in a modern community- for the blind to be able to study and to learn. [More…]

• This issue has wide support in the community. [More…]

• According to the Melbourne Age of Friday, 1 June, Mr Jona, the Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services, criticised the Federal Government- his own party- for abandoning its responsibilities in the area of income maintenance, and added: [More…]

• The second document relates to the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill and the perceived needs of schools in the Australian community in 1978-79.I refer in particular to the report of a survey which was conducted professionally on behalf of the Australian Teachers Federation. [More…]

• These matters, first of all in relation to schools, are of increasing concern to the Australian community. [More…]

• It is proposed that those recommendations, which have given rise to a certain amount of debate throughout the community, will take place in a number of different fields and in a number of fields which I think will change the emphasis of Commonwealth involvement in education expenditure. [More…]

• Harking back to Professor Williams, one of the matters of which one becomes increasingly aware- it is a matter which I would like to take up later- is the limitation on the special training and on the more than ordinary secondary training that is available for girls in the community. [More…]

• In the time of the Labor Government much money was spent on Aboriginal children- not only in the communities and settlements and missions, as they were then known, but also in the community at large. [More…]

• But I think in the community unemployment is seen as a great problem, particularly by those who are unemployed or who have children who are unemployed. [More…]

• Therapists and other people in the community also had watched and listened to the children and had agreed that there was intelligence there and that something should be done about them. [More…]

• I thought that funds were getting tighter and tighter in the community as the Budget was blowing out. [More…]

• As I understand it, the simple rule is that when Ministers go abroad they are in a situation no different from that of any other member of parliament or member of the community. [More…]

• Apart from the availability of unemployment benefit, programs such as the Community Youth Support Scheme, the Education Program for Unemployed Youths, and the Special Youth Employment Training Program are providing opportunities for young people to cope with unemployment and better equip themselves for the labour market. [More…]

• Outcomes of such schemes include improved self-confidence, motivation, social participation and support from families and other sectors of the community. [More…]

• Will the licence for such UHF stations be held by the Special Broadcasting Service or will licences be held by community groups or commercial operators. [More…]

• Australian Community Television Pty Ltd [More…]

• 5 ) Australian Community Television Pty Ltd [More…]

• Mr John Walker, of Australian Community Television Pty Ltd, was retained as an external consultant. [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs by informing him that I received a telegram yesterday from the Aboriginal Community Council at Yarrabah, complaining that the Minister had ignored its request for certain information. [More…]

• If the claim is true, will the Minister give urgent attention to answering the questions raised by the Yarrabah Community Council? [More…]

• I also received a telegram yesterday in those terms from the Yarrabah Community Council. [More…]

• A member of the Press Gallery advised me this morning that a Press release in similar terms was issued by the Yarrabah Community Council either yesterday or today. [More…]

• I regret that the letter I sent to the Yarrabah Community Council on 31 May apparently had not reached the Council by 4 June when the telegrams were dispatched. [More…]

• The Yarrabah Community Council made a number of requests to me, including a request that I should have discussions with it before any decisions were taken with the Queensland Government on the matters which were raised with the Commonwealth Government as long ago as January. [More…]

• In fairness to the Yarrabah Community Council, I must say that I can understand its impatience. [More…]

• If it is a State responsibility, can the Minister assure the Senate that the Commonwealth Government will monitor closely the mounting dislocation to community life in the State of New South Wales and that the Government will offer such assistance as it can to the Wran Government to help it to restore normal community functions? [More…]

• We might then be able to see further reductions in charges and a more equitable distribution of Telecom’s vast surplus- last year it was $ 180m- amongst the Australian community. [More…]

• Tragically, more often than not, these cases involve the younger members of our community. [More…]

• The present arrangements included a provision whereby 10 per cent of the profits from poker machines in Australian Capital Territory clubs were to be allocated to local charitable, welfare and community organisations by the Legislative Assembly, the elected body of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• It is a retrograde step, in what is supposed to be a democratic system, that the rights of a properly and democratically elected body to make decisions with regard to local community organisations should have been taken away arbitrarily and placed in the hands of the Minister himself. [More…]

• He has, I suggest, no genuine, ongoing interest in what happens to the various community and welfare organisations in this Territory. [More…]

• This money has been generated by activities of local citizens and should properly go back to the local community. [More…]

• So instead of the poker machines generating some extra money for community and welfare organisations in the Territory, that $2m net gain to the citizens of the Territory will be lost by this arbitrary decision of the Minister. [More…]

• Consequent upon this disastrous management of the Australian Capital Territory by the Fraser Government we have more calls on local charitable and community organisations than ever before. [More…]

• Welfare and other community organisations simply cannot meet the needs that have been generated in this Territory by the hostile policies of the Fraser Government. [More…]

• There are demands from welfare bodies, sporting bodies and other community organisations. [More…]

• But instead of responding to these demands from and genuine needs of community organisations, the Minister is simply grabbing the poker machine funds and, 1 suspect, using them in the long run to reduce the funds allocated by the Government to the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• It is another arrogant, undemocratic act by a Minister in the Fraser Government and it represents yet another attempt by the Fraser Government to evade its responsibilities in the area of welfare and community services in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Under the ordinance the Assembly was to distribute funds to bodies, organisations and individuals for particular community projects. [More…]

• Questions were raised as to the actual sums to be paid, as to the bodies, organisations or individuals to be paid and as to the community project or projects for which the money was to be used. [More…]

• Having realised because of community reaction that it made a mistake in the allocation of the funds, and being aware of action that might be taken, it decided that it ought to allocate them to community organisations. [More…]

• Included are St Vincent de Paul, the Salvation Army, the Smith Family, Red Cross, Jobless Action, the Indo-China Refugee Association, the Tuggeranong Community Service, Tuggeranong Family Action and the Woden Community Service. [More…]

• Senator Ryan made the point that these funds must go to the community. [More…]

• But we have to ask: To whom in the community should they go? [More…]

• Surely the organisations which the Assembly has now seen fit to suggest ought to be assisted are the most appropriate organisations, given the very points that Senator Ryan made as to needs in the community. [More…]

• lt is also worth noting that Mr Ellicott, while speaking in the House of Representatives yesterday- Senator Ryan has no doubt read what he said- pointed out that he would like to draw all of these moneys together in a single fund to assist welfare and other community organisations in the Territory. [More…]

• The Minister has acted in accord with the wishes of the people of the Territory and in a way which I believe is appropriate to ensure that the funds available do not go to a project which will commit those funds for years but will go to groups in the community which are in need now and which will always be in need. [More…]

• There are always additional services that we would wish to provide to certain individuals and groups within the community. [More…]

• That Ordinance makes 10 per cent of the gross revenue from poker machines available for community projects. [More…]

• Section 43 of the principal Ordinance required, prior to this amendment, the Board to pay money from the trust account to such bodies, organisations or persons and for such community projects as the Legislative Assembly determined and forbade any other application of trust moneys. [More…]

• These provisions will enable the Minister to direct the Board to pay trust moneys in designated amounts for specified community projects. [More…]

• They will give the Minister discretion to ask the advice of the House of Assembly on what community projects should benefit from the fund. [More…]

• Further, the principal Ordinance enabled payments to bodies, organisations or persons for community projects. [More…]

• The amending Ordinance enables payment for community projects. [More…]

• The Department of the Capital Territory is studying the rationalisation of welfare moneys which come from poker machine funds, the Totalisator Agency Board and by way of grants so that they can be better used for community development. [More…]

• This would include social welfare, sporting and cultural activities, and other broad community purposes. [More…]

• -l rise to speak in this debate to accuse the Government of having set out deliberately to polarise this community. [More…]

• That number of 550,000 does not include the people who have given up trying to find jobs- the people who, in many ways, have given up trying to live in our community and our society. [More…]

• They were persons in the community and were dealt with as such. [More…]

• This Government stands condemned by its breaking of promises, by its ignoring of the need of the people of Australia and by its governing for only one section of the community, namely, that section which makes enormous immoral profits from this country ‘s resources. [More…]

• It must be paid off and it is time the community realises that fact. [More…]

• We have not been given credit for the benefit that tax indexation has given to the community. [More…]

• we are giving back $ 1,050m to all the community in tax indexation. [More…]

• Whenever it gets a whiff of a breeze which it suspects suggests a qualitative change in community thinking about priorities in education all it does is to set up a committee of inquiry to investigate that matter. [More…]

• When one looks at the question of literacy and numeracy, which the Minister detects as something which the employer community and certain other people in the community are concerned about, one sees that a bundle of Dorothy Dix questions can be asked by Government senators, such as: ‘Are you concerned, Minister, about numeracy and literacy in Australia?’ [More…]

• In the Commission’s view, the cumulative effects of this continuing tightening of recurrent funds will not only erode the quality of the work in both the universities and colleges but will inhibit innovation and the capacity of institutions to adjust to changing community needs; these effects are already becoming evident. [More…]

• Those disadvantages were specified and itemised in terms of cultural deprivation and turnover of teachers, inability to retain teachers in towns, the relationship of teachers with the school community and things of that kind. [More…]

• The service and development section also refers to the program supporting a schools travel and exchange scheme between States and systems which funds 32 education centres initiated and controlled by teachers and community members. [More…]

• It is those absences from this statement which also give very cold comfort to, for example, students who are concerned about the levels of student allowances, academics who are concerned about the levels of research and their competence to compete in the international academic community, and parents throughout this country who are properly concerned about standards in schools and the sort of educational qualifications their children will have in a society which makes increasing demands on them in terms of certification when obtaining apprenticeships and things of that kind, lt gets much harder every year for the ordinary product of Australian schools to get an apprenticeship because the standards become higher and higher and the demands on children become greater and greater. [More…]

• In a society which will depend very much for its future and its success on the level of knowledge and skill which this community and country demands, if we are to be competitive in an international sense, the response of this Government is, again, totally inadequate. [More…]

• Australian critics, producers and directors- even when they go to film festivals overseas- are isolated from the international community of film-makers. [More…]

• It does not apply in other sections of our community. [More…]

• Professor John Neville, Professor of Economics at the University of New South Wales, estimates that the average increase in income tax payments by the community will be around 5 percent– [More…]

• Professor John Neville, Professor of Economics at the University of New South Wales, estimates that the average increase in income tax payments by the community will be around S per cent over the full tax year. [More…]

• One of the Sydney afternoon papers today points out how this Government, in trying to reduce its deficit, extracted that money, not from the wealthy section of the community but from the wage earners who could ill afford to lose it. [More…]

• Cash flows were stopped in a way that was dramatically revealed in the business community of Canberra itself. [More…]

• Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that the community at large will see that the real purchasing power of their wages is seriously eroded. [More…]

• The point has been reached in Australian politics where the electorate now sees that the Fraser Government is not to be trusted, that its promises are of little value and that it is prepared to milk the community for all that it can get in order to cover up for its economic incompetence. [More…]

• I say this against the fact that there is an entire misunderstanding in the community concerning the extent of affluence of non-government schools. [More…]

• I refer to the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal’s inquiry into Victorian community radio station 3CR, which has been adjourned for three months to allow talks between the Victorian Jewish Board of Deputies and 3CR to take place. [More…]

• As yesterday was World Environment Day, which was celebrated throughout the world, does the Minister agree that the absence of a clearly thought out energy policy designed to minimise waste and to encourage alternative energy uses disadvantages the entire community? [More…]

• He suggested that it may have been more appropriate to concentrate on alternative energy sources that may be available to the community and perhaps use that important day for discussion on energy within the community. [More…]

• I also ask that particular emphasis be given to the refusal of the European Economic Community to sign the International Sugar Agreement and to the dumping by the EEC of highly subsidised sugar on Australia’s traditional markets. [More…]

• Senator Maunsell urges me to say to the Minister for Primary Industry that one of the matters that must be mentioned to the British Prime Minister is the agricultural policies of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• What can the Government do under the range of powers available to it, perhaps under the postal or interstate trade and commerce powers, to prevent the dissemination by advertising or interview of these sorts of remarks or schemes so subversive of the national revenue and the community’s sense of fairness? [More…]

• I do not think that it is appropriate for us, a supposedly well educated community, to complain when we find that we have to adapt to the metric system, which is the most simple system of measurement in the world. [More…]

• Indeed, whilst I listen to the many petitions on the subject which have been presented in this place, I do not accept that the conversion to the metric system is of major concern to the community at the present time. [More…]

• Finally, since section 6 sub-section 3 of the ordinance states that ‘The Authority shall perform its function in accordance with any direction given by the Minister’, will the Minister direct the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority to consult all concerned before considering the closure of any schools or colleges in the Capital Territory and make it clear that no decision may be made until there has been thorough consultation with the community, and until demographic, economic, social and community factors have been properly considered and more adequate information has been provided? [More…]

• I would hope that the Schools Authority would consult fully all representative sections of the community before it makes any significant decisions. [More…]

• The Authority must weigh the problem in terms of the obvious desire of the community to retain community schools. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the school is a focal point of the community. [More…]

• In fact, I would invite all sections of the community that have not already been consulted to get in touch with the Authority, the honourable senator or his colleague. [More…]

• Ridge also claimed that his time could have been more realistically devoted towards encouraging some of the more intelligent people in the community to adopt the Liberal philosophy. [More…]

• I emphasise that it is part of the general view of the Government that not only Aboriginals but also other disadvantaged people in the community- disadvantaged in the sense that they are less able than others to take advantage of the electoral laws which exist to safeguard their rights to vote- should be assisted in regard to this matter. [More…]

• One finds in that statement, which is recorded in Hansard, that not only are we concerned about and mounting these programs with respect to Aborigines but also that we are mounting quite substantial campaigns to ensure that other groups in the community, in particular ethnic groups, get the necessary information which they require to exercise properly their right to vote. [More…]

• These terms of reference are very broad, covering the whole of Australian scientific and technological endeavour, together with its direction, and the influence it has on the community. [More…]

• There is, accordingly, a great need to monitor technological development and prepare for its effects on the community. [More…]

• Plans of this kind, which include mechanisms for involving the community in the planning process, have been developed successfully overseas. [More…]

• It has been very difficult to find customers in the world because of the cost of nuclear energy and because of community disquiet about nuclear reactors and the disposal of the wastes that result from those reactors. [More…]

• Most importantly the record of the Commission in this field has been one of utter responsibility to the community at large. [More…]

• This is a very important community service. [More…]

• A large proportion- it is a variable fractiongoes up the chimney as stack gas and is released as a volatile element, to be precipitated generally over the community. [More…]

• One way or another, the community foots the bill for this policy. [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 … [More…]

• The bashing that this Government has given to the rural community is completely vindictive in its nature and the man who introduced this Bill should be ashamed of himself and of his failure to exercise his responsibility on behalf of his electorate. [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 - [More…]

• The other matter which I want to raise briefly, since it has particular relevance to the beef industry, concerns the statements which were brought down in the House of Representatives on Tuesday 29 May by Mr Garland and Mr Fraser and which concern the multilateral trade negotiations and their alleged breakthrough into the agricultural markets of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• He stated further: the dialogue between Australia and the Community will remain open . [More…]

• These are all signs that Australia and the European Economic Community are on the threshold of a new and better trading relationship . [More…]

• undeniable scope for significantly increased trade and economic and political co-operation between the Community and Australia. [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…]

• Although we may perhaps differ on emphasis I am sure that we both appreciate the deep-seated antagonisms that exists in the Yugoslav community. [More…]

• The point at issue is how far certain elements can go in a community. [More…]

• It could be said that the cultural aspirations of an ethnic community are under siege, but I do not know of any part of Australia in which Croatian clubs have not proliferated. [More…]

• I think it is a matter of great regret that some of these people have been able to create the impression in the Australian community that they represent a strong view in the Yugoslav community. [More…]

• I think it is a matter of regret that small groups in our community should seek to establish a position independent from that of the State of Yugoslavia which, after all, suffered greatly during World War II. [More…]

• We have been aware of the development of terrorist movements that claim to speak on behalf of the Croatian community. [More…]

• We are aware, of course, that these groups do not speak on behalf of that community; that in fact the overwhelming majority of Croatians and Yugoslav migrants who have come to Australia have settled and have proved themselves to be good citizens willing to accept the democratic and open way in which Australian community life develops. [More…]

• We know of the endeavours of a small minority of malcontents who tried to create social tension within the Yugoslav communities and within the Australian community generally, and all that flowed from that. [More…]

• As honourable senators know, there have been views widely expressed in the Parliament and in the Australian community about the costs involved in internal flights and what a factor Australia’s inability to have the sort of economies that have been applied to international flights applied to domestic flights is in the tourist industry. [More…]

• From the very top level of its administration to the most humble employee, Qantas has shown what can be done with unity of purpose where profit is not the only objective, where doing a good job for the community and proving that Australia can achieve standards the equal of any country in the world are also important. [More…]

• In deciding to reduce the tariff assitance 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…]

• This is consistent with the Government’s desire to provide community access to information at the lowest possible cost. [More…]

• Commonwealth public servants already enjoy, in respect ofleave loadings, more generous provisions than the bulk of the community. [More…]

• It would be consistent with the explicit terms of the Australian Labor Party platform, which emphasises not only that the Public Service should be politically responsive in the sense of being capable of satisfying the requirements of the elected government of the day, and not only that the Public Service be responsive and accountable to the community as a whole, but also that the Public Service should operate with the maximum efficiency in delivering analysis, advice and program implementation. [More…]

• It will permit retrenchment in the pursuit of that passionate ideological antagonism to the public sector which is shared in common by Ayn Rand, Malcolm Fraser and a handful of his even more evangelically inclined Ministers and back benchers, but which is not shared by anyone else very much in the Government, and certainly not in the community as a whole. [More…]

• The only real prospect of growth in employment in the long term is in the public sector, in the delivery of more and better public services to the community as a whole, and in the development of public enterprise. [More…]

• Morever, the Public Service as a whole and the community as a whole should be grateful for the incorporation of those provisions. [More…]

• Furthermore, it is in the interests, one would have thought, of the community as a whole for a pace-setting job in early retirement to be done at the governmental level simply because, with the acute and chronic unemployment situation that we now seem to be creating, it is apparent that the community as a whole will have to adjust to the kind of work-sharing mechanisms of which early retirement is just one. [More…]

• There are all sorts of good reasons for the unions and employees, for the Public Service and for the community at large, to applaud the enactment of the voluntary retirement provisions of this Bill. [More…]

• So the Australian Democrats agree basically with some of the principles in this Bill, certainly voluntary early retirement, which we think could well be extended to the rest of the community. [More…]

• If it works well in the Public Service it might be better considered by the community, which does not like change. [More…]

• The community will, of course, have to accept social change for the next decade or so. [More…]

• The Bill also recognises the uniqueness of the police in our society and its members dual accountability to the courts and the public, as well as administratively to the Government and in the case of the Australian Capital Territory 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…]

• Naturally the strong claim of Watson High School to continue to operate is paramount in the minds of its community and as representatives of that community we wish to register our strong disapproval of the lack of opportunity for School Board and community participation in preliminary decision making on the future of ACT secondary education. [More…]

• We deplore the public naming of the threatened schools and the community’s lack of both access to expert knowledge and time for detailed consideration. [More…]

• It is confirmed within our community by greater kindergarten enrolment this year than last year. [More…]

• We request access to the data on which this assertion is based, since it is the impression of our community that its regeneration has already begun. [More…]

• Naturally enough, the process of regeneration will be significantly retarded if the community secondary school is closed. [More…]

• Firstly, students would have to be transported from their community to the school or college to which they have been re-allocated. [More…]

• Secondly, the investment in furniture, equipment, textbooks, Library resources et cetera in existing schools which has been made by the Government and the community will be substantially lost. [More…]

• They will be either duplicated by the schools to which the community’s students are re-allocated or be irrelevant to the programs of those schools. [More…]

• Finally as community representatives, we wish to question the assumption that the community is neither willing nor able to bear an increase in contributions to maintain existing schools. [More…]

• Had the School Boards of the threatened schools been consulted in the preliminary decision-making process, detailed evidence of the extent of the community contribution would have been available. [More…]

• At it is, the extent of the community’s concern and commitment to the retention of their schools have been made clear. [More…]

• We contend, however, that a small school can offer valuable enrichment, and special programs on a smaller scale which are appropriate to the needs of its community. [More…]

• American experience of bussing a community’s students to schools which the community does not support is most telling. [More…]

• Greater even than the blow to community cohesion, is the impact on the receiving school of a negative and possibly antagonistic student group. [More…]

• The initiatives of the receiving school and its interaction with its own community will be seriously threatened. [More…]

• The small growth in ACT total secondary enrolment in 1 98 1 may not raise the staff ceilings sufficiently to staff minimum establishments at the already constructed Charnwood High School and Erindale Community College without the closure of existing schools and the release of their staffs. [More…]

• Community Impact [More…]

• The ACT has, since the beginning of its own separate system, striven to implement the recommendations of the Karmel and all subsequent Schools Commission Reports on devolution of authority to the school with community participation. [More…]

• Clusters of this type of school within a community have made a significant contribution to the development of that community’s cohesion. [More…]

• The opportunity of the population of inner-city areas to live within a mixture of age groupings is cut off once the community school disappears. [More…]

• The loss of some community recreational and sporting facilities is a real possibility. [More…]

• Furthermore, it should be considered that within a planned city there is a contractual agreement’ between the Government and purchasers of leases that communities are provided with schools and other facilities necessary for living in that planned community. [More…]

• The effects of closure will not be confined to the immediate community. [More…]

• Involvement in School Board and P & C Associations will diminish if the principle that the community decisions on their school can be overridden by a central authority. [More…]

• Community activities to improve community schools will vanish with the knowledge that resources, equipment et cetera purchased by parental fees and community efforts can be redirected to other schools without the community’s consent. [More…]

• We submit that the model of a participatory system of community schools should not be dismantled and community spirit dissipated to cope with a short term centralised financial situation. [More…]

• The centre obviously provides a convenient point of contact in encouraging the public to become more aware of the problem and the need for community involvement. [More…]

• Because of the wide range of community interests involved, most careful consideration has been given to the selection of committee members. [More…]

• I am aware of the interest and concern in the community about precisely what effect the Channel 9 arrangements with the Australian Cricket Board will have on the overall coverage of cricket in Australia. [More…]

• I think it will be generally agreed in the Senate and in the community that there is a widespread wish for the sort of sporting coverage that, in the past, the Australian Broadcasting Commission has been able to provide. [More…]

• That scarcity has occurred over the years because the community has seen higher education in terms of colleges and universities as being preferable to education in technical and further education institutions. [More…]

• The community rightly demands a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• I am advised by the Minister for Post and Telecommunications that he is well aware of the widespread community concern over the possible detrimental effects of television upon children. [More…]

• He has sufficient confidence in the commonsense and business efficiency of potential investors in the farming community to believe, unlike Senator Walsh, that they are well able to make these decisions rationally in their own interests. [More…]

• They are issues about which strong views are held by many people in the community. [More…]

• It has sought out the views not only of those involved in the legal aspects, but through seminars and public hearings has sought to involve as many people from the community as possible. [More…]

• The reports cover specific aspects of the implementation of the Australian Assistance Plan in Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia as well as general issues of interest to people and groups involved in community development and social welfare programs. [More…]

• If I might put it in crude political terms of expediency from the point of view of the Government, it is important for the relief of anxiety, which no Government should encourage in any section of the community if it can possibly avoid it, and certainly not amongst its own public servants. [More…]

• The Government is firmly dedicated to building an efficient and effective Public Service, and recognises its essential role in the community. [More…]

• I repeat that it was the first strike to take place in this section of the community for 65 years. [More…]

• In spite of these drawbacks, many talented people are attracted to the Public Service because of the security involved in the work, because of some of the benefits available and because there are areas in the Public Service where their personal interests or talents can be utilised for the good of the community. [More…]

• Historically, many of these people could have earned more money in private employment but they have not moved to private employment because of the security involved and the opportunity to use their particular talents and to offer community service do not always exist in the private sector. [More…]

• It is a bit of window dressing that is designed to defuse some of the hostility expressed by the community to this measure by enabling the Government to say: ‘We are introducing this to cover low income earners’. [More…]

• One thing of which honourable senators can be sure as a result of these most recent changes is that there will be massive confusion throughout the community as, yet again, people have to decide what level of health insurance they can afford or need. [More…]

• It has been recognised by the community as a whole, and certainly by both State and Commonwealth governments, that this cannot go on; that the Federal Government must do something about it. [More…]

• People are at their wit’s end trying to raise money to build these facilities to house the elderly people of this community. [More…]

• This level was unacceptable at the time when the nation faced a continuing situation of economic difficulties, and so the necessity to reduce the level of government subsidy to individuals who were able to pay for medical costs while at the same time the Government shows concern for pensioners and other disadvantaged persons in the community. [More…]

• I was trying to correct an injustice to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I imagine that there are other people in the community who find this to be a large matter in their lives. [More…]

• There are probably many people in the community who find themselves in this position. [More…]

• If pensioners had a level of pension whereby this type of bill did not worry them, they would have a great amount of dignity within the community, would be able to pay the same as others in the community and would not be looking for concessions on rates and all of the other concessions which pensioners have to receive. [More…]

• It seems a pity to me that the pensions that we do pay are not sufficient for pensioners to pay their accounts as other people do throughout the community and do not, therefore, have to look for concessions like this. [More…]

• I again suggest that this should be given consideration so that people like the person who wrote to me find it much easier to pay the accounts that all people in the community have to pay. [More…]

• Wentworth, a former Liberal member from New South Wales, and Sir William McMahon, who have pointed out that the provision of this sort of public facility by which public assets are created which are of lasting benefit to the community should not be seen in the context of deficit funding. [More…]

• As the New South Wales Police Association has said in a recent submission to the Government, it is a section of the Australian work force that is not highly regarded by most members of the Australian community but its members perform duties which cannot be described as being very pleasant. [More…]

• I regard that as an interim measure but an important one to safeguard the situation where a Minister, of whatever political persuasion, could be in a position to use his influence over the Commissioner of Police in order to ensure that information is unduly used against individuals in the Australian community. [More…]

• As for the complaints against police segment of the Australian Law Reform Commission’s recommendations- again based on very widespread consultation, not only within police forces but within the community at large- those recommendations were in January 1977, again referred to the Australian Law Reform Commission with the instruction that the Commission rethink those recommendations and rewrite them so as to make them applicable to the individual police forces that continued to exist as separate entities. [More…]

• Those recommendations are the product of an extraordinarily lengthy and wide ranging consultation with all interested sections of the community. [More…]

• The recommendation to the Schools Commission, and through that Commission to me as Minister, comes from finance and planning committees in each of the States, which are community bodies and are widely representative. [More…]

• As the Australian Government has recognised the importance of this project by providing, I understand, $64m towards its success, and in view of the success of the scheme in drawing attention to the needs of children in our modern society, will the Minister give favourable consideration to conducting a year of the Australian pioneer with the object of encouraging special projects for the aged in our community, a sector which is growing in number and creating great strain on organisations dedicated to providing facilities for these citizens who have done so much for the country during their lives? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that there are many professional migrants whose skills are being denied to the Australian community because of a lack of training in English language at senior levels? [More…]

• In those decades and up until as late as 1 968, the community accepted that there was full employment when 59.5 per cent of all people over 1 5 years of age indicated that they wanted work and, in fact, got work. [More…]

• With regard to the actual details of this particular judgment, whilst the quantum of the liability has not yet been determined, given the fact that a $7 billion liability is possible against 29 companies spread throughout the world, four of which are Australian, it is quite clear that the effect of enforcement of that order within Australia would be to cripple enterprises which are extremely important to the economic and commercial well-being of this community. [More…]

• I simply make the point that there are many aspects of this whole affair which need to be put on the public record, in the interests of openness of government and information acquisition by the Australian community. [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 corporations, 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…]

• 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 a.id 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 immigration policy 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 the Opposition as well as the community. [More…]

• There must be limits to our community tolerance of such matters. [More…]

• They seem to have universal support from the Government; certainly they have it from the police officers; and they have it from the community at large. [More…]

• There must be hundreds and hundreds of women in the community who are trained hairdressers because that was the only area in which women could get any sort of apprenticeship. [More…]

• But what about the young Greek couple who were here with their seven-week old Australian-born baby and who were deported, even though a very large section of the community asked the Government to change its mind? [More…]

• There is a great deal of talk in the community about many doctors migrating to Australia coming from South Africa and Rhodesia. [More…]

• People in the community are concerned at this sort of discrimination. [More…]

• People from the Greek community are certainly concerned. [More…]

• This program has given rise throughout the community to some concerns and to some issues which should usefully be made public in this place. [More…]

• The study and a couple of publicity handouts that accompanied it were eventually reviewed by various public health officials, including Thomas Mack, M.D., of Los Angeles, an associate professor of community medicine and an expert in cancer epidemiology. [More…]

• Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and South West Africa-Namibia are now destined to become independent countries with popularly elected governments, with or without the blessing of the international community. [More…]

• Overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom, if one looks at the wine list in restaurants one sees wines from practically all countries, European Economic Community members and others, except Australia. [More…]

• The impact of technology is an issue on which the community at large is seeking information and guidance from the Government. [More…]

• I understand that arrangements have been made with the Institute of Aboriginal Affairs for an expert in Aboriginal matters to confer with the community at Wreck Bay concerning the boundaries of the site and, in particular, the Aboriginal claims for occupancy of the area. [More…]

• -I ask the Attorney-General: Was a complaint received by the Commissioner for Community Relations from the Winchinam and Burdel groups of Aborigines in Queensland that the Queensland Government was acting in breach of the Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Act in refusing the transfer to such groups of land intended to be purchased? [More…]

• As Senator Cavanagh has suggested, a conference was called by the Commissioner for Community Relations on alleged racial discrimination by Ministers and, I think, two officials of the Queensland Government. [More…]

• Some time ago the Solicitor-General gave an opinion on the power of the Commissioner for Community Relations to call State Ministers to a conference of this kind. [More…]

• I wrote to the Commissioner for Community Relations and drew his attention to the opinion of the SolicitorGeneral and expressed my view and my agreement with it. [More…]

• That letter was conveyed to the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• At the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Lusaka the heads of government deplored South Africa’s attempt to establish an illegal national assembly as the developments contravened Security Council resolutions and were in defiance of the efforts of the international community to bring an end to South Africa’s illegal occupation of Namibia. [More…]

• I say that because with the consequences of the greater incursions into the working lives of most people in the community which I believe are likely to follow from technological change, and the consequences of what is sometimes termed in the jargon the post-industrial society, more and more as a legislature, we will have to examine the provisions pertaining to the formal provision of periods of leisure in the course of people’s working lives. [More…]

• However, in our view it is not desirable for judges, any more than it is for anyone else in the community, to accumulate leave of this kind and take it in cash form rather than to enjoy it as it falls due. [More…]

• The second and perhaps most substantial criticism of this legislation is that it sets standards for long service leave which are far in excess of the norm prevailing in the community generally and certainly in excess of the norm prevailing in the Public Service. [More…]

• The norm in the community generally is a figure of something like nine days of long service leave accumulated for each year of service carried out as compared with 5.2 weeks which is the relevant figure here. [More…]

• While it may be that judges are deserving of proper financial consideration for taking up the burdens that they do, it is difficult to argue that they are especially deserving, more so than other members of the community who work equally hard for a living. [More…]

• This, in my submission, is quite anomalous, not least because, first of all, many other employees in the community- I suggest most other employees- do have pro rata provisions of some kind in their long service leave entitlements. [More…]

• That seems to me a quite obviously anomalous provision which flows very directly from the provisions before us, and in particular the failure of those provisions to conform to the kind of provisions which are applicable in most other parts of the community, and in particular are applicable to Commonwealth employees under the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976. [More…]

• Senator Button outlined some views about the nature of long leave- about what the entitlements to it should be throughout the community. [More…]

• The Minister also said that the Budget was compassionate because it dealt in a compassionate way with the needy in this community. [More…]

• If not, it would certainly be a severe penalty on the poorest people in the community. [More…]

• It is the very poor and the very disadvantaged people in this community about whom I am concerned. [More…]

• Such people are still in that parlous situation in an economic climate where there are 23 unemployed for every job vacancy in the community. [More…]

• The next group is those who can probably be called the poorest of the poor in the community. [More…]

• Every survey of the poor in our community points out that such pensioners are the poorest of the poor, yet the supplementary allowance payable to assist them with their rent remains as it was in 1 975. [More…]

• That can hardly be described as compassionate behaviour towards the poorest people in the community. [More…]

• The allowances are extremely important to that group in the community who are not touched by our social security system- the working poor, the people on low incomes with a number of dependent children. [More…]

• If one adds to that group the pensioners with children whose dependants’ allowances also have not been increased since 1975 one finds that those people in the community are being affected severely by inflation and by the failure of the Government to recognise that and to compensate them for the inflationary forces in our economy. [More…]

• But in those points I believe that the Opposition is bound to demonstrate the Government’s meanness and its unfair treatment of these poor people in our community. [More…]

• This has placed them in a very favourable position compared with a general community dependent upon wages and salaries. [More…]

• Aboriginal community centres- provision of essential services. [More…]

• Community, cultural and ethnic affairs; [More…]

• There are no telephone facilities connecting the Lockhart River community to the telephone network. [More…]

• However, the office of the aboriginal community has an outlet via radio to the State Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement network based on Thursday Island. [More…]

• It is understood that the RFDS has no objection to Lockhart River community joining this trial but a request to participate would need to be made by the State Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement. [More…]

• They are required to undergo normal x-ray and medical requirements to ensure they do not represent a health risk to the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government’s decision on the type and level of assistance to be provided to the manufacture of computers in Australia takes into account the need to provide positive assistance to the industry to plan for the future, to maximise the use of computers in Australia and to allow users access to the latest and best computer technology at or near world prices both to the benefit of Australian industry and the community as a whole. [More…]

• As mentioned, Commonwealth funding is made available under the Family Planning Program for information, education and training programs for health and health-related professionals, community groups and the general public. [More…]

• I and my Department are aware of recent statements by nutritionists and medical practitioners about the relationship between poor food habits and patterns of disease in the community and the large amounts of money spent on advertising highly processed foods. [More…]

• This year a number of publications have been produced including the large full-colour teaching poster Good Food for Good Health’ and a 76 page book ‘Your Health and Your Figure’ which addresses itself mainly to people who are overweight- the major problem of malnutrition in our community. [More…]

• Also, the popular budget publication ‘Eat Better for Less’ has been widely distributed in the community and continues to be available. [More…]

• The poster’Good Food for Good Health’ will also be printed in a number of languages for the migrant community. [More…]

• I would like to point out that an active nutrition education program at a national level would require a co-ordinated effort from many groups in the community. [More…]

• I am aware of recent comments made by a Departmental nutritionist in regard to excessive use of ‘fast’ foods and ‘take away’ meals by some families in the community. [More…]

• The indirect indices of illegal drug use which are available include police statistics on drug-related offences, drug-related deaths reported upn by coronial enquiries, statistics from Government treatment services for drug dependent persons and community surveys of drug use. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take urgent steps to concur with the wishes of a majority of the electors at every polling place in Australia at the 1 967 referendum by resumption from the States of the major traditional Aboriginal land areas and reserves and former reserves as at 3 1 .3.78, to become federal Crown land pending prompt determination of freehold title for Land Trusts and eventually for defined community co-operatives. [More…]

• I ask: Apart from the many technological and financial advantages accruing to the Australian community from the construction in north Queensland of an enrichment plant for uranium oxide, can the Minister define any proven hazards from such a venture? [More…]

• It was clear, at least, that the Prime Minister and his Treasurer (Mr Howard) had managed to fool at least one section of the community, namely, the Liberal Party’s Federal Council. [More…]

• Neither individuals nor companies in the Australian community can gain any sense of stability in taxation policy under Mr Fraser’s Government. [More…]

• I know Senator Wriedt ‘s credibility in the community to be very high. [More…]

• I draw attention to that matter because it is clear that the Opposition, if it ever came to government, would be introducing not a capital gains tax but a tax on the wealth of every person in the community. [More…]

• If it is felt that there is something wrong with that law, whether it is because 400,000- or whatever the number ispeople in the community today are possibly guilty of offences under this section, I think that is another question altogether. [More…]

• The Parliament has not been taken into the confidence of the Government on what is operating within our community. [More…]

• Not only the Parliament but also the Australian community is kept in the dark. [More…]

• The Opposition can well understand the concern in the community about the all too rapid escalation of drug usage in our society, a concern that was very well articulated tonight by the amateur streetwalker in our midst, Senator Chipp. [More…]

• Be that as it may, it was a concern well expressed by him and one which is widely felt in the community at large. [More…]

• It has been the subject of a great deal of debate in this Parliament and the community at large and no doubt will be the subject of a great deal more when we come to consider the detailed customs legislation later in this session. [More…]

• If electronic surveillance devices are to be used that should be subject, as the Law Reform Commission has insisted, to the most stringent and rigorous controls- controls which should certainly involve the exercise of judicial rather than simply Ministerial authority when criminal offences are in issue, controls which are genuinely sensitive to the civil libertarian considerations which must always be balanced against the community’s quite legitimate concern with the dimensions of the crime problem that is before it. [More…]

• I do not refer to the setting out of details of particular cases or anything of the kind, but rather to making clear the nature and extent of the use of these devices, so that Parliament can exercise at least some control on behalf of the community of the way, in practice, this legislation is implemented. [More…]

• We were better informed and it seems to me and to the Opposition that we and the community would be much better informed, and that this legislation would be capable of greater acceptance, if it were to contain in addition measures of that kind. [More…]

• That report recommended the use of a telephone application procedure in this and a number of other matters as part of its general, quite sensible, theme that in law enforcement generally, the Government and the community ought not to ignore the technological developments that have occurred over the last 50 or 60 years, one of which has been the invention of the telephone. [More…]

• Even if the Government continues to reject the notion of there being any kind of parliamentary reporting in relation to national security matters- a position which, regrettably, it made perfectly clear in the course of the debate on the ASIO legislation- will it please consider giving us proper parliamentary reporting of the use of warrants for electronic surveillance in the Customs area so that we as a Parliament, on behalf of the Australian community, can get some indication of how these powers are being used. [More…]

• If indeed there are many such interceptions this information perhaps would convey to the Australian community in a peculiarly graphic way what I take it the Government and Senator Chipp are certainly both interested in doing, that is, conveying to the community the scale of the problem. [More…]

• If the Government is not willing to provide this kind of information to the Parliament and to the community it can do nothing other than to create a suspicion- I fear an all too legitimate suspicion- in the minds of the community that it is misusing these powers on a substantial scale and that it is anxious to conceal the scale of that misuse. [More…]

• The Government’s attempts to force the States to raise a second income tax to pay for the community’s essential services are obviously doomed. [More…]

• If one is being strictly narrow and technical, one can say that we can still legislate- we could have an Act of Parliament for that matter- to create rights, obligations and duties with respect to particular designated individuals and not being applicable to the community at large. [More…]

• Evidence was sought from any area of the community which thought it had something to contribute. [More…]

• However, I stress that such reports are the property of the community at large. [More…]

• They are the product of the community at large, organised through its co-operation and at its considerable expense. [More…]

• Those reasons should be made public and duly considered by the community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that there is a great deal of dissatisfaction in the community. [More…]

• Although, as Senator Baume said, the recommendations are not imperative, I believe that any government which fails to recognise the significance of recommendations that flow from a distillation of public examination by interested groups within the community or which fails to regard the importance of those conclusions reached as a result of the distillation of this evidence is very foolish. [More…]

• In the first report of the South Australian Criminal Law and Penal Methods Reform Committee entitled ‘Sentencing and Corrections’ under the chairmanship of Justice Mitchell again close attention was drawn to the problem whether a government, in enacting a punitive statute, has to have with it a coherent philosophy about what it is that it is trying to achieve, not just for the persons who are involved in the crime, but for the people who might be victims of crimes and might be, in fact, the ones about whom the community should have greatest concern. [More…]

• In the 1978 British Home Office report of the Advisory Council on the Penal System entitled ‘Sentences of Imprisonment’ under the chairmanship of Lady Serota a very extensive recommendation was made in terms not of solving the problem by increasing sentences but by a reduction in maximum prison sentences and a more intelligent approach to the way in which one goes about extracting what might be some form of community retribution. [More…]

• I decided to ask the Minister for the then Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development whether any tests had been carried out during the period 1975-77 to discover whether any Commonwealth Government establishments or instrumentalities discharged effluent or waste into the Georges River in New South Wales and, if so, what had been the results ofthe tests. [More…]

• As I have said, I asked the Minister representing the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 24 October last year whether any tests had been carried out during the period from 1975 to 1977 to discover whether any Commonwealth Government establishments or instrumentalities discharged effluent or waste into the Georges River in New South Wales and, if so, what had been the results of the tests. [More…]

• The Minister for Science (Senator Webster), representing the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, on 1 May this year, just prior to the Parliament going into recess, replied on behalf of the Department of Defence in relation to the Holsworthy Defence establishments. [More…]

• If the then Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development found this occurring so far as discharge into the Georges River was concerned, some action should have been taken by the Department to clean up the whole situation. [More…]

• I say that because at the time of the Whitlam Government we did operate on the fringe of one facet of immigration when there was friction within one segment of the Yugoslav community. [More…]

• If we want to have a viable and contented community in which most ethnic communities are becoming politically viable, we must have a pretty searching inquiry into quotas. [More…]

• In relation to the dissemination of information, the Committee has been left in no doubt that the access to publications by the Australian community has been greatly enhanced by the operations of the Australian Government Publishing Service. [More…]

• The Committee pointed out in its report that in the financial year 1970-71 about $500,000 worth of Commonwealth Government publications were sold to the Australian community whereas in the financial year 1977-78 some $3m worth of publications were sold. [More…]

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

• The European Atomic Energy Community- will, when concluded, supersede the provisions where appropriate of any safeguards agreement between Australia and the United Kingdom. [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 multiracial 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…]

• I appreciate that there is some complexity necessarily in advancing these sorts of propositions, but regrettably it is very important legislation in terms of social practice in our community. [More…]

• These would not extend to disclosing the operational detail of the Bureau’s activities, requiring names, dates, places and so on to be spelt out in relation to the exercise of warrants, but nonetheless would make it possible for Parliament, and through it the community, to be informed of the scale on which those particular powers were being exercised. [More…]

• The community needs a firm, agreed objective to ensure a concert of purpose. [More…]

• That the functions of the Australian Narcotics Bureau and relevant State and Territory law enforcement agencies be expressed in terms of community patterns of drug use, and that failure to effect these patterns appropriately be considered prima facie evidence of inadequate performance requiring re-evaluation of the roles, structures and funding of such agencies. [More…]

• Our objective, of course, was to put these agencies into a position where they could ask for more resources if those which were available to them did not allow them to achieve the effects on community usage or on availability of drugs which their goal should set as their prime target. [More…]

• The use of LSD was widespread in our community, until it became known to the users of the drug and to the culture in which the drugs were used that it was a dangerous drug, that it was bad news. [More…]

• It is quite true that the community is anxious about the use of certain illegal drugs. [More…]

• The second is to protect citizens in the community from commencing to use the drug or from continuing to use it. [More…]

• ‘Epidemic’ is a medical word which has a particular meaning and which relates to a rapid spread of infection from an agent introduced into a community. [More…]

• -The presence of a law symbolises public disapproval and I am perfectly happy to have a punishment available further to indicate the kind of disapproval which the community has. [More…]

• Let me outline the arrest rate for heroin offences which is not, in itself, a reliable indicator of community use. [More…]

• The Wilsons were greatly respected people in the community! [More…]

• It seems to me that what Senator Baume said concerning the need to reduce drug usage in the community is the answer, but this legislation certainly will not achieve that. [More…]

• Let me first of all deal with the general problem of drugs and their serious effects on so many members of our community. [More…]

• The Government believes that the appropriate penalty should represent an expression of the will of the community, not through the Government but through the Parliament. [More…]

• The further point that has to be acknowledged- if one is groping about for some conceivable legal prejudice that might be suffered by Mr Urbanchich as a result of this course of action being taken- is that it is true that if the motion is agreed to, if these documents are put in and become public in this way, they will of course be privileged; that any accurate repetition of them by any other media, or anyone else in the community, will equally enjoy that privilege and that Mr Urbanchich will not have a remedy in respect of any further defamatory imputation that may emerge from these documents that it is proposed to put it in, which defamatory imputation has not emerged already in the proceeding run of events. [More…]

• I think that that probably would serve a greater degree of unfairness to Mr Urbanchich than would be the case if the documents simply went in as they are now in order that we and the community at large might be in some better position than we are at the moment to evaluate the status of the material that has already been put on the public record. [More…]

• If there is any truth in Mr Urbanchich ‘s denials or avoidance of the substance of the allegations that have been made about him, we, the Parliament, and the community as a whole will surely be in a much better position to evaluate the force of those denials, the force of this avoidance, with this material before us than we would without it. [More…]

• At the presentation of each annual Budget by a Federal Government, it would be the normal expectation of most members of the community that a basic objective of each Budget would be to correct those trends in the economy which are working against the interests of the majority of the community. [More…]

• Just on the basis of this one example, can it not be justifiably claimed that either we are dealing with a man who simply does not understand what he is doing to the Australian community, or alternatively, if he does, he is incapable of rectifying it? [More…]

• We have listened to these arguments from Mr Fraser now for Vh years and, despite the fact that they have been demonstrated to fail, exactly the same thinking has been pursued in this Budget and it will have exactly the same results: Declining purchasing power by everyone in the community; higher unemployment; and, as has now been revealed by the Australian Taxpayers’ Association, higher taxation for everyone- a combination of the three least desired factors in any economy. [More…]

• While the Prime Minister and the Treasurer (Mr Howard) protest loudly that this will not be the case, the headlines express the significant perception of the Australian community and that is that most Australian taxpayers will be paying more tax. [More…]

• That comment is by a senior member of the Sydney business community about this allegedly free enterprise government. [More…]

• This is exactly the opposite to the Government’s intentions and the community’s expectations. [More…]

• The fact that the affluent in the community would benefit unnecessarily from such an increase is an inhibiting factor in advocating increases. [More…]

• The sick in this community are in a very bad way. [More…]

• They have to put up with increased hospital charges and yet we still have not got hospitals distributed equitably throughout the community. [More…]

• They wish to contribute, to be a part of the community. [More…]

• It is the only program which exists to assist support to the semi-skilled and the unskilled in finding work in the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) pointed out that we have a great number of unskilled people in the community who find it difficult to get work. [More…]

• 5m made available to Project Australia, a project which the Government fondly hopes will raise its standing in the eyes of the community. [More…]

• Of course, this is as a result of rising affluence within the community. [More…]

• The fact that the Labor Opposition is not interested in natural justice, in ordinary justice, for the individual or for the community as a whole does not invalidate what I am saying. [More…]

• I preface my question, which is addressed to the Minister for Social Security, by saying that there is general acceptance in the community that all pensioners should receive payments which at least keep up with the cost of living. [More…]

• It would be surprising if, in this difficult area where public interest is involved and where views within the community differ quite sharply, there were not differences of opinion over the way in which this relatively new experiment is proceeding. [More…]

• In the course of its application for the renewal of its licence in April of this year, United Telecasters Sydney Ltd. placed considerable emphasis on the range of its share holdings and, by inference, the benefits that would accrue to the community from its continued independent operation. [More…]

• It is a matter of acute regret to the Opposition certainly and, one would think, to the general community that it has failed to do so. [More…]

• The phrase ‘public interest’ may be taken as referring to the interest of the community generally (R. v. Mining Warden at Maryborough and Qld. [More…]

• The media interests involved have financial backing which is tantamount to using elephant guns as compared with everyone else in the community, who are confined to using pea shooters when forced to fire at them on these matters. [More…]

• This will not worry the wealthy in the community; it will not even worry most of the middle-income earners in the community who are occasionally ill. [More…]

• But it will affect some groups in the community quite considerably. [More…]

• This very first action had the effect of putting at a disadvantage people on low incomes and special groups in the community who it was recognised needed help. [More…]

• It is not recognised by the Government that they are an especially poor group in the community although it has been recognised by most people in this society, including people on both sides of the Parliament, that health care in our society is a special case. [More…]

• If they do suffer from lack of access, in the long run the costs to the community, both economically as well as in human suffering, will increase. [More…]

• It included items of expenditure like that when, in fact, to save what is effectively a paltry sum we are going to put a burden on a section of the community who can ill afford to bear that burden. [More…]

• As has been said in debate in this place and in other places over and over again, the people who prescribe drugs in the community are the doctors. [More…]

• It is ludicrous to expect to cut down to any extent- except in a most unfair way to those who cannot afford it- the amount of drug consumption in this community by increasing pharmaceutical benefit costs. [More…]

• It is hard for anyone on this side to understand what sort of logic provides for the bulk billing of patients who, at the doctor’s discretion, are considered to be disadvantaged in this community, and then to demand from these patients- bearing in mind the stringent application of the definition of ‘disadvantaged’ applied by some doctors- the full expenditure, the same as everybody else in the community, when they reach the chemist shop. [More…]

• These methods do not denigrate the unemployed but recognise the fact that the unemployed are amongst the most disadvantaged people in our community and need assistance in this area, lt is not beyond the resources of this country to conceive such a system and to provide a method of helping both children and the unemployed to receive their pharmaceutical benefits in a similar way. [More…]

• A better way must be found for identifying the people in the community who are in need and for providing them with the access to the health care that they need. [More…]

• To merely add to the cost year after year will not decrease the consumption of drugs, it will not change the prescribing habits of doctors, if we believe that to be one of the problems, and it will not decrease the overall cost of health care in the community. [More…]

• That will cut down the long term costs to the community of illness and ill health. [More…]

• She has little care for the concern that might be expressed in the community outside at the extravagant forecasts that she and Mr Hayden and Dr Klugman have made. [More…]

• Next Saturday many people in the community will do what they normally dc on a Saturday morning, that is, they will do their shopping. [More…]

• I daresay that some people in the community will go along to their pharmacist and will not know that the cost for pharmaceutical benefits has increased. [More…]

• It will not affect their weekly budgeting, but it will be a worry to some people in the community. [More…]

• Some other people in the community are disadvantaged and under the current legislation cannot receive the prescriptions which their medical practitioners prescribe without charge. [More…]

• During those extended periods of unemployment there is still no way in which they can receive free pharamaceutical benefits, benefits which are geven to pensioners and other groups in the community. [More…]

• In our community, we have a great number of disadvantaged persons, the result of the present Government’s economic policy. [More…]

• Would you please attempt to rectify this matter as urgently as possible, thus enabling doctors to carry out their duties to the needy in our community? [More…]

• What should be drawn from that letter is that some disadvantaged people in the community are being treated by doctors for 75 per cent of the schedule fee, through bulk billing. [More…]

• I mentioned it because I believe it highlights the fact that there are disadvantaged people in the community who need to be looked after by this Parliament, not necessarily by this Government. [More…]

• I guess that one of them was that the Government found that its stocks within the community were fairly low and it believed that if it re-introduced indexation for pensioners it might help to get them a little bit higher. [More…]

• But perhaps more importantly, there had been a great amount of agitation from pensioners throughout the community and from people associated with pensioner groups to make sure that indexation was re-introduced. [More…]

• The Government clearly saw that this was something which the community wanted. [More…]

• Some pensioners, due to the fact that they have a health benefit card, may receive benefits which other people in the community do not receive. [More…]

• Many groups within the community are not able to organise themselves in a way similar to that in which the pensioners organised themselves when they wanted to get the reintroduction of six-monthly indexation of their pensions. [More…]

• The benefit for the unemployed people in our community who are under 18 years of age has been pegged at $38 a week. [More…]

• All these benefits help the more needy in the community and have been unchanged, but the price of goods supplied on a medical practitioner’s prescription- one of the necessities of life of the needy- is to be changed. [More…]

• These charges can be afforded by some people- but, on the other hand, a great number of people in the community cannot afford these charges and, therefore, will be disadvantaged. [More…]

• During the course of my comments this afternoon I have spoken about the further disadvantage which will be placed on those in the community who are already disadvantaged. [More…]

• We do not support it because there has been plenty of evidence in the past that items which are apparently free to the community are not respected. [More…]

• When items are apparently free to the community and to professionals, costs rise alarmingly. [More…]

• One hears stories of areas in which perhaps there has been a mass infection of the community by a viral infection affecting the throat, or something of that kind, and everyone who goes to the doctor is given antibiotics. [More…]

• The additional impost is not necessary, and the amount could even have been reduced without additional cost to the Government, and through the Government to the community itself. [More…]

• We in the Australian Democrats do not respect those in the profession who do blatantly rip off the community. [More…]

• Health services are one of the holy cows of the community. [More…]

• One is that it is doctors who determine drug use in our community. [More…]

• This measure is for all members of the community who take drugs under the pharmaceutical benefits scheme. [More…]

• My own preference was for the scheme that operated some years ago where a more extensive list was available to pensioners and a more restricted list was available to those in the general community. [More…]

• So, the Government is taking steps in a number of areas, which Senator Guilfoyle has already identified, to extend the pensioner health benefit to a number of other groups in need in the community. [More…]

• 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…]

• Although the eligibility for the pensioner health benefit card has been extended to a much larger number of pensioners, there is still a tremendous number of people in the community to whom that eligibility does not apply and there are enormous numbers of unemployed people who do not benefit from eligibility for the pensioner health benefit card, who become ill and who will have to pay these increased costs. [More…]

• It has been said in the community- not, I agree, by the Government specifically- that the contraceptive pill is to be removed from the pharmaceutical benefits list, lt will be a matter of paying the higher cost or taking the risk. [More…]

• In that context I want to raise the subject of community health services, which have been told that they must now charge for their services. [More…]

• The income derived by the Community Health Centres from such charges will be credited to the Centres gross Operating Costs in such a way as to reduce the Community Health Program ‘s contributions by both the Commonwealth and the State. [More…]

• But can I go just a little further and deal with the establishment of community health centres. [More…]

• There were literally no medical services there, and so the Deer Park Community Health Services was established. [More…]

• The income derived by the Community Health Centres from such charges will be credited to the Centres gross Operating Costs in such a way as to reduce the Community Health Program’s contributions by both the Commonwealth and the State. [More…]

• People will be forced back to the hospitals, and in that regard, I quote from a letter I received from the Deer Park Community Health Services: [More…]

• An alarming aspect of such a scheme would be the result of a transfer of work load from Community Health Centres to the Casualty/Out Patient sections of the public hospitals. [More…]

• It is the end of a concept that was conceived with the express purpose and intention of producing primary health care, paramedical and other ancillary services under one roof to all members of the community. [More…]

• The centre provides a service for a young, growing community, which is very much at risk in today’s circumstances. [More…]

• I shall illustrate the sort of community serviced by the centre. [More…]

• This year there have been 2,550 new registrations at the Deer Park Community Health Services. [More…]

• The age groups involved are interesting and point up my contention that this service is very much needed by a young growing community. [More…]

• Finally, I will give the Senate some idea of the sort of services available at this community health centre. [More…]

• None of those services even existed in that area of Melbourne before this community health service was established. [More…]

• As well as the services I have mentioned the centre has a community contact scheme for people who are lonely, worried and frightened and who need to communicate with other human beings. [More…]

• The centre also caters for groups in the community such as Alcoholics Anonymous- Al-anon- and GROW and other groups involved with calisthenics, jazz ballet, boy scouts, residents’ associations and art. [More…]

• I think it would be, as I say, a tragedy if the Government were to interfere with this scheme and bring in a scheme that will cost the community in general and the governments a great deal more money. [More…]

• The Government is fully aware, as many people have stated, that the new increase could cause some further difficulty for disadvantaged people in the community and, as has also been stated, the Department of Health is currently examining possible ways in which assistance with pharmaceutical costs can be given. [More…]

• But it does not do enough to tell people their rights and therefore there are people in the community who suffer inconvenience and hardship. [More…]

• In particular, as I mentioned earlier, we feel that there is an increasing need in this city for the community to have a greater say in planning and development. [More…]

• We have made a number of recommendations including what we believe are significantly innovative suggestions for the establishment of community councils similar to some which have been established elsewhere in the world. [More…]

• What we did not expect, first of all, were the reactions we experienced in the welfare and health service community generally to the fact that we were to look at the state of the evaluation of health and welfare services. [More…]

• The aim of the exercise was to study the quantity and the quality of the evaluation of health and welfare services in this community. [More…]

• This was very hard to get across to the welfare community in general. [More…]

• As soon as we started to call for evidence and to question people about the evidence that they were producing we found that there was a great deal of suspicion in the welfare community as to why we should be doing this. [More…]

• It was obvious that people saw us as a threat to their funding and a threat to the traditional service that they felt they were giving to the community. [More…]

• Once we overcame this difficulty and got it through to the community that we were, in fact, looking at the extent of evaluation of people’s services, we managed to get good evidence and to produce what I believe is a valuable report. [More…]

• We lost a year, I believe, reassuring most of the health and welfare community in this country that we were not about tearing them to pieces. [More…]

• We found in general that there had not been much evaluation of any quality of any of the health and welfare service in this community. [More…]

• This does not mean that we found that the health and welfare services of this community were particularly inefficient or particularly efficient. [More…]

• It was disturbing to find that in this community organisations and governments in general are not evaluating what they are doing. [More…]

• One of the most startling things we found repeatedly was the lack of information and the small amount of hard data being collected and evaluated in this community. [More…]

• Unfortunately, some journals have misused the report to confirm their own political or philosophical prejudices about the state of health and welfare delivery in this community. [More…]

• It is a matter, furthermore, that undoubtedly finds a great deal of sympathy in the wider community when people are continually affronted in their daily lives with the situation in which laws are no longer applicable, in which the courts and other bodies draw attention of the public and of the wider community to the failures of the law in certain areas and, indeed, to the inconsistencies of the law in certain areas. [More…]

• It will be seen in this report, for instance, that some attention is given to a particular example involving a matter of the law as it relates to families in which a judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court was able to draw attention to the fact that the operation of the law as it was, and even the operation of the law as it had been updated by the passage of the Family Law Act, nevertheless had brought about a situation which, from the community’s point of view, was entirely unsatisfactory. [More…]

• It is a Bill which is important to all members of the Aboriginal community throughout Australia. [More…]

• Following the discussion last week which centred largely on the drug problem, my conscience led me to examine the wider role of the disadvantaged in our community. [More…]

• The disadvantaged in our society are those who are regarded as being outside the community, people such as alcoholics, the homeless, the unemployed, the aged, the deserted wives and the mentally and physically handicapped. [More…]

• Even in that society there is a disadvantaged community which includes religious groups and non-Russian residents. [More…]

• This assistance has not been appreciated by all within the community, particularly those in the near neighbourhood, because they complain that the peripheral activity of such an organisation attracts undesirables, for example irate husbands pursuing their wives. [More…]

• I hope that the attitude of these two men could be absorbed to some extent in the rest of our community and that our migration policy could be based more on humanitarian grounds than, as in the past, on economic or defence criteria. [More…]

• Let me now go to another situation of disadvantage in our community. [More…]

• The benefit of compulsory health insurance is that every person in the community is guaranteed protection against ill health and accidents. [More…]

• They include the Americana Leadership College, Astro-soul, Growing Executives of Tomorrow, Inner Peace Movement, Peace Community Church and Profound Mystical Meditation. [More…]

• Prepare yourself to instruct Course 341: Inner Communication and Guidance in the community. [More…]

• The activities in Australia of these cults has resulted in a few associations being formed to expose them to the community. [More…]

• The church had acquired all her worldy possessions and she was able to prove that that was against the interests of the community. [More…]

• The Children of God has been active in Canberra, handing out pamphlets outside a school, and some concern has been expressed by the community. [More…]

• There is also the question of the formation, because of community concern, of groups to counter these organisations, and Senator Jessop referred to this in passing. [More…]

• Any investigation that is being conducted is being done by the media and, of course, necessarily by security and police forces which are charged with the security of the community and nation and must pursue that task diligently. [More…]

• I am aware of concern that is being expressed at present in the community, particularly by some senators. [More…]

• Can the Minister also indicate whether such action by the Labor Party would mean one rule for the unions and another for the rest of the community? [More…]

• I invite the whole of the Australian community to look to a policy of the Labor Party which must be aimed to create the kind of industrial chaos that, in fact, Mr Young of the Labor Party foreshadowed for the 1980s. [More…]

• Does Great Britain’s membership of the European Economic Community require it to offer medical registration to doctors from all EEC countries? [More…]

• If legislation is not to be brought into disrepute in the community at large and particularly in that section of the community which is concerned with drug legislation, we must have penalties which are meaningful and which bear some rational relationship to the scale of the offence. [More…]

• This particular provision in this Bill, far from contributing in any way to a rational solution to the very vexed problem of drug abuse in the community, only goes an extra step towards drawing it into still further disrepute. [More…]

• It approved increased penalties in 1977 but the Government believes that those penalties, in two particular situations, were not really a sufficient indication of the deep concern of the Parliament and the community about trafficking in drugs. [More…]

• We are dealing with drug offenders, about whom the Government, the Parliament and, I think, the community have the greatest concern. [More…]

• It is the Government’s view that trafficking in drugs can be included in the category of the most heinous offences that can be committed in this community. [More…]

• I think that those people out in the community who are looking for work could have told Mr Howard that. [More…]

• Unless this is done, the whole community will question the propriety, and even the honesty, of a petrol tax that becomes just another easy way to collect tax on the community and inflates the cost of all goods and services. [More…]

• The community also looks to the Federal Government for action or control measures to ensure that oil companies do not use the present confused situation to make excessive profits at Australia ‘s expense. [More…]

• These payments are especially important to the poorer sections of the community. [More…]

• To support the argument that I make, that the allowances which have not been indexed are especially important to certain sections of the community and that many find it difficult to make ends meet, I shall read from a letter that I received from a constituent. [More…]

• Let the people on the other side who decry the fact that we are trying to do the best we can for pensioners, that we are trying to look after their interests, argue against those sorts of facts; the facts that there are such people in the community. [More…]

• This Budget is not one which looks after the under-privileged in the community. [More…]

• It must be obvious to them, as it is to informed policy analysts in GATT, the OECD and in Australia, that these high cost industries can be sustained in developed economies only with ever-increasing levels of protection and everincreasing costs to the community. [More…]

• It certainly sets itself the objective of creating an economic climate for growth and development, for business confidence, for consumer spending, for well-being, for increased living standards, and generally for raising some degree of expectation within 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…]

• It is all in the area of trying to build within the Australian community a feeling that they must spend, a feeling that they must have confidence, a feeling in the business sector that it must expand, grow and develop, find new markets, and have confidence in the future. [More…]

• Government are the poor, the unemployed and the pensioner- those in the community who are the weakest, the least able to defend themselves and the first in line to be affected by government policies and by those who refuse to invest and refuse to have confidence in their own capacities to develop the economy. [More…]

• The devious taxation policies of the Government do nothing more than to continue the process of the systematic redistribution of income away from the poorer sections of our community and into the pockets of the wealthy. [More…]

• At the same time as its policies threw hundreds of thousands of workers into dole queues, members of the Fraser Government began a campaign, unfortunately aided and abetted by other people in the community who ought to have known better, to denigrate, demoralise and, in many cases, destroy unemployed people in Australia. [More…]

• The Fraser Government has broadened its attack on the weak throughout the community. [More…]

• Mr President, as a former court reporter and as a member of the Australian Journalists Association, I wish to pay a personal tribute to the work and service that Mr Joe McKnight has given to the Australian community- for about 20 years in the service of the Queensland Government as a court reporter, and for a period of about 24 years as a Hansard reporter in the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]

• -I wish to raise a matter briefly in the adjournment debate to seek some clarification from the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) and the Government concerning the position of many thousands of pensioners and single parent beneficiaries in the community. [More…]

• 1 say that by way of preface because there is an unfortunate tendency in this community to believe that anyone who takes actions to defend their rights must be doing so for political reasons. [More…]

• Every year hundreds or thousands of women in the community have their pensions taken away from them on the assertion of officers of the Department of Social Security that they are living in a de facto relationship with a man. [More…]

• The only other alternative is for the hundreds or thousands of women in this community who are deprived of their pensions in these circumstances to take out High Court writs to get justice. [More…]

• The experts agreed that the word used was technically correct and certainly not misleading, being readily understood by Australia’s Arabic speaking community. [More…]

• I too am particularly surprised that no member of the Tasmanian community is to be on that Council, I will certainly draw that to the attention of the Minister. [More…]

• For example, will ‘private students’ include persons sponsored by community aid programs, such as Rotary and the Freedom from Hunger campaign? [More…]

• Has the matter been referred to the Commissioner for Community Relations for further investigation? [More…]

• If not, what action will the Government take to overcome this problem so that justice and tolerance may be enjoyed by all sections of the Australian community? [More…]

• I understand that Professor Zubrzycki, who is Chairman of the Australian Ethnic Affairs Council, made his comments in the context of a public meeting organised by that Council’s Committee on Community Consultation and Media held in Perth on Sunday, 2 September. [More…]

• As the Minister’s Department is responsible for the Radiation Laboratory, can he advise the Senate of steps being taken by his Department to safeguard the community from overuse of X-rays? [More…]

• -The honourable senator is correct in saying that there is some disquiet in the community about the over-use of X-rays in various practices. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and concerns allegations of interference with Aboriginal community decisions. [More…]

• Is it true that the Aboriginal community at Pipalyatjara is in the process of developing specific mining contracts for the extraction of chrysoprase from Mount Davies? [More…]

• Allegations have been made in South Australia that non-Aboriginal community advisers employed by the Pitjantjatjara Council and the Pipalyatjara Council have interfered with Aboriginal community decisions in these negotiations, overturning Aboriginal majority decisions which had opted for a contract with the South Australian based group. [More…]

• The Aboriginal community to which he refers is developing mining contracts and extracting chrysoprase from Mount Davies. [More…]

• We fund the salary of the community adviser of the Pipalyatjara Community Council and of the project officer of the Pitjantjatjara Council. [More…]

• If the honourable senator is concerned- I think he probably has contact with the community- it may also be desirable to draw the matter to the attention of the South Australian Government. [More…]

• These problems of growing discrepancies between the incomes of certain professions and the incomes of ordinary wage and salary earners are a source of great social tension in the community. [More…]

• What is their right- as a group in the community- to refuse that sort of information to a responsible tribunal? [More…]

• He is reported in the AMA Gazette as saying: lt raises some very real questions about our capacity as a community to sustain such levels of expenditure on medical services. [More…]

• They also pose serious problems about the equitable sharing of resources amongst the Australian community under the Fraser Government. [More…]

• They are costly to the community in terms of their education; they set no example in terms of social responsibility in return for those high incomes. [More…]

• Doctors on high incomes are not only indulging themselves with very high incomes as against the rest of the community but are also using that extra tax-haven money, which is obtained at public expense and by abuse of the public health system of this country, to indulge in greater perks and rip-offs than one could imagine in circumstances where such high salaries are paid. [More…]

• As I have said, it is an abdication of public responsibility by a particular group in this community which draws into very clear perspective the priorities of this Government- a soft hand with the medicos, a stern hand with the poor and impoverished. [More…]

• It is for that reason that the Opposition has raised today the relationship between incomes of one group in the community and those of another, and the growing discrepancies between those two groups. [More…]

• It is to conduct an industrial campaign- which to the Australian people means turmoil- irresponsibly and against the interests of the community generally. [More…]

• Admittedly, inflation levels represent a problem which will need to be carefully controlled, but an irresponsible action is now proposed by the ACTUapparently as a matter of policy- one that will create difficulties for the rest of the community. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that a certain pacesetting wage increase in the Public Service of the Commonwealth in 1974 subsequently flowed throughout the community and brought with it the tragic rates of inflation, and consequent unemployment, that occurred in the 1 974 and 1975 periods. [More…]

• Finally, we have seen that true service to the community frequently goes unrewarded. [More…]

• I do not think that it can be given a label, except to say that it reflects the concern of a thinking group of people in the community who recognise the inequalities that exist within our community, who are prepared to speak out against them and to come out in a positive sense and implore not only the Government but also all political parties and politicians to do something about them. [More…]

• Certainly they show what we all know, that is, that there is and always has been in Australia a discrepancy in incomes between the lowest income-earning members of the community and the highest income-earning members. [More…]

• What we need to overcome our problems in Australia is a further expression of the private enterprise principle of incentive so long as we do not overlook the role which I believe all of us accept falls on government, that is, to ensure that the weaker or less fortunate members of the community are protected. [More…]

• Productivity leads to the creation of enough bread to distribute in the community, but if the bread has not been produced it cannot be distributed. [More…]

• It does not show that there is no case for doing something more about the lower income people in the community, but it does show that the Labor Party’s motion is nonsense. [More…]

• There has been a lack of confidence in the Australian community. [More…]

• Such is the concern in the community now that many economists, organisations such as the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, many people in universities and even many people who generally can be described as conservative in their thinking are beginning to show some signs of concern about what is happening in the economy. [More…]

• If those honourable senators had crossed the track and had taken a balanced view of the Budget and its responsibilities- it is after all a framework, a body of economic guidelines for the future- I am sure that they would have had to say that the community and unions also had a part to play. [More…]

• Obviously they can see that there is a future and that militant unionism can be defeated not only by the framework of government but also by the employees and the employers in the Australian community playing their part. [More…]

• The second argument is based not so much on considerations of immorality or injustice but rather on inconvenience, the uncertainty argument; the argument that it would create intolerable uncertainty and confusion in the business community if people were unable to order their commercial and financial affairs in a way that would be the case if the ground rules could be changed after the event. [More…]

• The other point that needs to be made in this context is that we should appreciate just how grossly inequitable these schemes are to other members of the community, other wage and salary earners who have to pay their taxes, who cannot afford, even if they are motivated to do so, the kinds of fees charged by promoters, who do not have the kind of income or asset base which enables them to take advantage of these schemes. [More…]

• Community Health Programmes- Down 68 per cent [More…]

• While there has been criticism from the Opposition in some areas of the Budget, generally speaking there has been wide acceptance of this year’s Budget in the general community. [More…]

• I can only say that I endorse the remarks that have been made by so many of the leaders in industry and other people throughout the community that this Budget shows clearly that the Government has been on the right fiscal path to bring Australia back on the road to recovery. [More…]

• Community Radio Federation Ltd has stated in its initial application for a licence that it is committed to discrimination in favour of the working class, including ethnic groups. [More…]

• Would not such a trade-off benefit both the medical profession and the community? [More…]

• The sub-editors and others- the whole community- have been exposed to a three-year barrage of propaganda from initially Mr Howard, Mr Garland, Mr Fraser, Mr Anthony and Mr Sinclair, among others. [More…]

• I want to refer to a statement which was made not by one Minister but by two Ministers in the House of Representatives on 29 May, that is by Mr Garland and Mr Malcolm Fraser- they both decided to get into the act, to compete for the limelight- regarding negotiations with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• the dialogue between Australia and the Community will remain open . [More…]

• These arc all signs that Australia and the European Economic Community are on the threshold of a new and better trading relationship . [More…]

• undeniable scope for signficantly increased trade and economic and political co-operation between the Community and Australia. [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…]

• The agreement on bilateral trade worth $400 million between Australia and the European Economic Community was achieved by the persistence of the Liberal- National Country Party government. [More…]

• It claimed that this magnificent achievement- which the Australian Liberal has managed to quantify on the basis of non specific data- was achieved without the support of the Opposition, which persistently knocked the Government’s efforts to gain increased access to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Labor Government dismantled the growth formulas of the export incentive scheme, one of the major incentives for export trade; it presided over the shutout of Australia from one of our major traditional markets, the European Economic Community; and it was also in power during the disastrous shut-outs of beef from the United States and Japan in 1 974. [More…]

• I refer not only to the special trade negotiations with the European Economic Community- I will deal with some of the positive benefits that have come from those later- but also to the bilateral negotiations and bilateral agreements with a number of other countries, particularly the United States of America, Japan and the Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia. [More…]

• I refer to the Community Arts Boards, one of the newest boards of the Council. [More…]

• I think it is the case now that in every Federal electorate in Australia there has been some activity by the Community Arts Board. [More…]

• I think it is unfortunate- I must comment- that the Community Arts Board at this stage secures only 6 per cent of the Australia Council ‘s budget. [More…]

• I point out too that the Community Arts Board has responded to a newly recognised need in this area in Australia, and that is the assistance of ethnic groups which are engaged in arts activities. [More…]

• There are now over 400 ethnic groups concerned with the arts in Australia, and many of these are receiving assistance from the Community Arts Board. [More…]

• Until recently we have had very little sound indication of what the wider community wants and expects with regard to arts programs. [More…]

• I look forward to the results of those research projects informing all of us in Parliament of the true needs of the Australian community with regard to arts programs. [More…]

• The ongoing work of providing assistance to community arts, ethnic arts, Aboriginal arts and of our major arts companies must be a government responsibility. [More…]

• This is important in principle, because their presentation to the Parliament demonstrates the accountability of departments and authorities to the Parliament, and through them to the community. [More…]

• The Committee had recommended a major social reform whereby, upon the severe financial deterioration of a person or firm resulting in bankruptcy or insolvency, all who wanted to share in the meagre assets of that person or firm would do so equally, whether it be the community seeking to recover tax moneys, a trader seeking to recover unsecured debts or an employee seeking to recover, for example, workers compensation, long service leave entitlements or even ordinary wages and salaries. [More…]

• I think it is beyond doubt that in the absence of any explanation offered by the Minister in putting down this statement, the only plausible explanation for the retention of Crown priority, as it is called- it is community priority, in fact- in the gathering of tax moneys, before the claims of unsecured creditors and employees are met, is the need for revenue. [More…]

• It needs to be modified by the consideration that if ordinary traders were able to recover and share in equally the distribution of assets and if ordinary employees were entitled to receive long service leave, workers’ compensation, wage and salary claims and so on, on a par with the community seeking its taxation then, because of the lesser incidence or amount of bad debts, and because of the spending power that would be put into the hands of employees, quite a bit of that $5m or $6m apparently lost would return to Government revenues by the obvious greater income of employees and the good debts within the trading community. [More…]

• I can assure the Government that it is both traders and employees who are concerned to share equally with the community in the assets of the bankrupt or the insolvent. [More…]

• In other words, a situation of grace on the part of the Commissioner of Taxation creates an impression on other persons within the community that the company or firm concerned is in quite good health. [More…]

• Unfortunately, there are areas in Australia where only relatively few people within a community are aware of the problems and injustices which arise as a result of the law. [More…]

• One would have to point out that the consequence of the adoption of this report is to shift this burden of revenue loss from various people within the community to the taxpayers of Australia. [More…]

• Twice so far this year the people of Australia have been subjected to the stony heart of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and his Government, and one can only say that the two Budgets introduced by this Government in the current year have been regressive, Budgets which have sought to take from the poorer section of the community, the unemployed, the low income earners, and to give particularly to the large corporate sector. [More…]

• The ink on the Budget documents was hardly dry before even some members of the Government back bench were vocal about its effects on some sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• People are being forced to close down due to lack of spending power in the community. [More…]

• When we consider that back in March this year, at the time that the survey to which I referred, was undertaken, only some 306,000 people throughout the country were receiving the unemployment benefit, we start to comprehend the great problem which is taking over the business sector of our community. [More…]

• All those people, by not being able to bring in an income every week of the year, in effect are denying the business community the opportunity to expand, to sell goods, to turn over goods and to thrive. [More…]

• There are in the community thousands of people who, because they are businessmen or farmers, are able to claim as a tax deduction the cost of their petrol. [More…]

• Therefore, we have what is in fact an inverse taxation measure whereby the poorer people, the low income earners, are in effect paying more for their petrol than are the business community, the farming community and certain other people. [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 ALP 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 the community recognises that and will see through the Labor Party’s industrial relations and wages policies for what they arejust 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…]

• This document is a typical document from the Liberal Government, lt is a cynical, political tirade to which we are treated from time to time when the Government feels its fortunes are going particularly bad and it wants to whip up a bit of a diversion in the community in order, it hopes, to consolidate its electoral position. [More…]

• I was stung into putting this matter on the Notice Paper by my constant attendance- I am sure other honourable senators have shared this experience during the year- at various celebrations, competitions and events to mark the International Year of the Child- all very happy, all very superficial, and perhaps helping to foster a general apathy or complacency in the community about the state of our children. [More…]

• There are powerless, voiceless children in our society who have been battered and sexually molested, and the community needs to bring this to its consciousness so that programs may be devised to deal with this tragic situation. [More…]

• Perhaps in Tasmania, with our smaller community, there may be fewer instances of battering of children than occur in the large anonymous cities of the mainland. [More…]

• What can the community do to support the family concerned? [More…]

• I emphasise both parts of that sentence: What can the community do to support the family concerned? [More…]

• The agent for achieving a reintegration of the family must be the community itself. [More…]

• We need to ensure that funds from governments support those voluntary organisations which are prepared to tap that tremendous resource in the community and make it available for these families at risk. [More…]

• I will not dwell on this matter except to say that what is worrying people around the community is, no doubt, the formation of the outlook of our children. [More…]

• So, if it is proved that the taking of marihuana by a pregnant mother has a harmful effect on another, namely, the child in the womb, I would only be consistent- there is no question of my being inconsistent- in saying that my principle would apply, that perhaps we should be thinking of introducing legislation which makes it clear that the mother has a duty of care, which the community will enforce towards the child within the womb. [More…]

• What I am trying to say is that at the moment, given the fact that the law does not provide for compensation for children injured while within the womb, we have hundreds, perhaps thousands, of literally born losers coming into our community without receiving the financial compensation which might make their growing into maturity somewhat easier on their parents and families, who have to support them with their deformity or injury. [More…]

• All along the line we have called for a responsibility on the part of the Australian community and, through the Australian community, on the part of the world community to exercise degrees of responsibility in relation to the needs, desires, hopes, aspirations and opportunities of the child. [More…]

• Submissions came to us from parents, from educationists, from sociologists and from community leaders, all of whom were extremely concerned at the influence of television on a child. [More…]

• Our report has engendered a great deal of interest and concern by a very large section of the Australian community on behalf of those who are described as isolated children. [More…]

• I am not the first to have been invited by various groups in the community to speak on these matters from time to time. [More…]

• Our involvement in the International Year of the Child calls on us to have a responsibility to all sections of our community so that not only can they have a hope for their own future and a satisfaction in their own life, but also that those of us who are privileged to have favours and opportunities can share these with other people and thereby be deserving of our place on this earth. [More…]

• These are the children who in this rich, well ordered Australian community are born mentally or physically retarded. [More…]

• Those children who the community assesses as being permanently retarded may lead the community to say that it cannot afford to waste its resources on them. [More…]

• At the moment in Victoria the parents of 80 severely handicapped children whom they find it very difficult to cope with physically can find no places and there are no services in the community to assist them. [More…]

• This is despite a critical shortage of staff in Victorian mental institutions and for community support schemes. [More…]

• The fact is that the tax budren in our community has been moving inexorably away from the professional classes to the PAYE taxpayer, the ordinary wage or salary earner who does not have access to advice and who does not have the opportunity to arrange his affairs in such a way as would enable him to take advantage of tax avoidance schemes. [More…]

• This is creating such inequity that, I believe, resentment within the community is growing to quite an extent, such that there will be a tax revolt, not by those who are already pandered to in the Press, seeking to gratify their selfish greed, but by the ordinary honest PAYE taxpayer who knows that he is a mug in paying according to the scales which appear on his tax sheets. [More…]

• Unless something is done we will be creating a divisive situation within the Australian community between people who earn their income by different methods, and therefore can take or are unable to take advantage of tax avoidance schemes. [More…]

• That is well known throughout the community. [More…]

• It is the language of a journalist, but I think it adequately conveys the understanding now within the community that the High Court has abandoned principles of interpretation used in our courts since the sixteenth century, when one looked to the mischief and to the intent in order to determine the effect of the words actually used in a statute. [More…]

• I think this creates an impression in the community that if one can get away with it well and good, one has beaten the tax man and it is up to him to come up with a remedy, if he can, in time for the next financial year. [More…]

• I do not believe that fines, penalties, or even imprisonment, are an adequate expression of the community’s outrage at those tax bludgers. [More…]

• If they demonstrate an unwillingness to so contribute their fair share, let them be stripped of any influence on its councils of government and let them be known as such non-citizens by the rest of the community. [More…]

• They are refusing to contribute their fair share to the revenues of elected government for its programs, democratically arrived at, and they are creating gross unfairness between various sectors in the community. [More…]

• This is becoming increasingly common in our community. [More…]

• I think it is important to appreciate precisely what we are talking about when referring to paper schemes because these are naturally the avoidance arrangements which attract the greatest legitimate community indignation. [More…]

• That is the range of things that one has to confront when one talks about the incidence of avoidance and evasion of tax in this community. [More…]

• For example, are students sponsored by community aid groups such as Rotary and the Freedom from Hunger Campaign included in the Treasurer’s statement? [More…]

• The Ministers have also been advised that Commonwealth funds for this purpose would be made available to the States and the Northern Territory by way of a specific block grant allocation within the community health program. [More…]

• As with all other projects approved for funding through the States under the community health program, the States and the Northern Territory health authorities will have responsibility for detailed administration and supervision of the additional health interpreters and translators, and the Commonwealth and State health authorities will have a joint responsibility in relation to ongoing project appraisal and program effectiveness. [More…]

• The Government has indicated that it takes seriously various, fairly widespread, attempts in the community to avoid taxation. [More…]

• I think that in the first place one should look at their impact in terms of the family and the community before looking at the effect on productivity. [More…]

• I refer the Minister for Education to the proposed introduction of fees for overseas students, which I am sure the Minister will be disconcerted to hear is now becoming known in certain sections of the community rather unsympathetically as the ‘blacks tax’. [More…]

• Does the Government support in principle the Federal funding of such worthy community projects, especially when the New South Wales Government has contributed the land for the project and a voluntary committee has raised $41,000 in just 18 months? [More…]

• On the question of trade with the Third World countries, the findings will give rise to considerable debate in the community. [More…]

• These programs, which include Aboriginal-run alcohol rehabilitation centres, drop-in centres, sobriety groups, Aboriginal Alcoholics Anonymous groups and community-based alcohol counsellors, were supported by the Standing Committee. [More…]

• Other communities have not found licensing legislation to be sufficiently flexible to enable community control over such factors as hours of opening, and types of alcohol to be sold. [More…]

• These projects include treatment centres, community support services aimed at prevention aspects, and sponsorship of postrehabilitation support groups such as Aboriginal groups following the Alcoholics Anonymous philosophy. [More…]

• In some other communities Community Development Employment Programs administered by my Department have displaced the need for unemployment benefits. [More…]

• It is only in recent times that any concerted effort has been made at Government level to approach the problem in the general community. [More…]

• the Northern Territory legislation which anticipates special licensing conditions being imposed in particular areas in response to community demand, and the legislative initiative in Western Australia which will permit a couple of isolated communities to make by-laws including laws relating to alcohol. [More…]

• Its membership of 134 consists of its Cocos Malay employees who are all those members of the community aged between 16 and 65 years who are willing and able to bc employed. [More…]

• The Home Island village area was transferred to the ownership of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Council at its first meeting on 29 July 1979 by Deed of Grant, upon trust for the benefit advancement and well-being of the Cocos Malay community. [More…]

• The Council has responsibility for welfare payments to members of the Cocos Malay community. [More…]

• Revenue from this source is to be used for the benefit of the community at large in consultation with the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Council. [More…]

• A further disturbing factor is that the European Economic Community has indicated that it has no intention of joining in the Agreement until the United States has ratified it. [More…]

• Over a long period of years, the Greek community in Australia has played a significant role in our national and cultural development, and the conclusion of such an agreement should enable Australians to have even greater contact with the Greek cultural heritage. [More…]

• Of course, this is what ought to be discussed in the Australian community. [More…]

• Therefore, there is a necessity for education of the community about the need to be much more involved in understanding the processes of consumer credit. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that the establishment of the credit union movement in the early post-years had as its intention and objective the provision of cheap credit for co-operative movements that were established at the work place and community level. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt has taken 20 minutes to describe to the Senate the phenomenon of the growing use by the Australian community of consumer credit. [More…]

• It is all very well for Senator Carrick to say that eight methods of finance are traditionally available within the Australian community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that of the various methods of credit available in the Australian community the advertising pressure and pressures put by bank managers on applicants for loans are such that the Australian public is being inexorably moved to the use of the credit card system known as Bankcard. [More…]

• That charge can well be levelled at the present Government and is being levelled by many sectors of the community as they observe the depression in real wages and the failure to honour the promise on tax indexation. [More…]

• There is a massive insecurity and unease in the Australian community, a community that should be, given our wealth producing capacity, able to provide goods, services, homes, motor vehicles, clothing and furniture to all Australian families without their having to seek loans. [More…]

• But, before doing so, let me say that I believe that we should recognise the importance of credit in the community. [More…]

• The growing importance of credit in the community is a recognition of a change in the nature of trading. [More…]

• After all, it is the interest rate prevailing in the community that determines the cost of credit to the consumer, and that is something many people lose sight of. [More…]

• Honourable senators can see the privation of justice to sections of the community by this action. [More…]

• For three years, the representatives of the Commonwealth employees organisations, the Opposition and many other people in the community have been urging the Government to take action to give justice to its injured and sick employees. [More…]

• It has always been of great concern to us that workers in this community, be they in public life or private industry, should be compensated properly. [More…]

• The uncertainty of the present scheme deprives the injured of justice, the cost adds to the burden of both the employer and the employee in the community and the litigation involved adds to the burden so much that in the fields of workers compensation and road accident compensation, private firms are more and more getting out and State governments are having to take over because of the present unsatisfactory situation. [More…]

• 1 recall, as I look around, that many of the socalled problems that confront this country today, such as an over-supply of cash in the community, are in fact, when analysed, seen to be the problems of recovery and should present a measure of challenge to the Australian people. [More…]

• Tax measures in this Budget are worth considering because they are constructive, sensible and the sorts of measures that should build a real confidence in the community. [More…]

• There has been a 13 per cent cut in the Community Youth Support scheme. [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…]

• He said 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…]

• The management of aboriginal communities should be handed to the Department of Local Government, allowing more democratic management and the appointment of staff answerable to the wishes of the community, rather than vice versa, as exists at present. [More…]

• All health policies must consider the health of the community as defined by the World Health Organisationthe social psychological and physical well being of the people. [More…]

• On the 24th August Porter finally made a visit to Yarrabah Aboriginal Community Council. [More…]

• No one on Yarrabah knew he was coming not even his departmental manager at Yarrabah, until a phone call one hour before he arrived at Yarrabah, Porter forgot to ask the Aboriginal Community Council for permission to come to the reserve which contravenes the Queensland Aboriginal Act and is also common courtesy. [More…]

• The unions directly involved have too much sense and too much at stake to take any notice of it, but it does create the dangers of inter-union strife which is always very damaging to the community. [More…]

• The health of the nuclear power plant workers in every respect, including incidence of all types of cancer, was found to be marginally better than that of their peer group in the community. [More…]

• They concentrate their campaign on the external effectsAustralia’s responsibility to the world community. [More…]

• In the long term, of course, if we do not help to achieve those essential controls, the world community will be the loser and we will have betrayed our future generations. [More…]

• He indicates a growing support by the Catholic community in Czechoslovakia for the cause which they brave. [More…]

• It has a council composed of community representatives, elected staff and student representatives, and State Government nominees. [More…]

• To enable institutions to complement the education received at school, projects may be funded to provide for opportunities in areas such as the development of social competence and an awareness of the community and its facilities, recreation activities and, among others, the development of creative arts, new skills and vocational training. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that Australia’s economic future will depend largely on its involvement in the formation of a Pacific economic community? [More…]

• The concept of a wider Pacific community is one of growing interest in Japan and the United States and has recently been discussed at ministerial level between Japan and Australia. [More…]

• 1 am sure that Senator Watson is familiar with a number of programs such as the Special Youth Employment Training Program, the National Employment and Training scheme and the Community Youth Support Scheme and the other scheme that Mr Viner has in mind. [More…]

• The independent inquiry into CSIRO included amongst its recommendations one that ‘CSIRO should define and present at appropriate intervals the main thrusts of its broad policies and more detailed objectives for Government, parliamentary and community scrutiny’. [More…]

• That would be of great benefit to the Parliament, if they were reported on in that way, and it would be of great benefit to the scientific community generally in terms of communication and understanding of what the CSIRO is doing in terms of its research program. [More…]

• The Opposition thinks that these flexible policies are vital to the work of the CSIRO in explaining its policies to industry and in universities, and in arriving at a degree of mutual understanding about the work which is being done by senior research scientists and, more importantly, freeing up the scientific research community in Australia and encouraging more flexible and profitable relationships between those various communities, which are still very much allocated into separate boxes, as it were. [More…]

• Does this mean that barristers, of all people in the community, are immune from having payments to them from the public purse subject to scrutiny by this Parliament? [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…]

• To approve the annual estimates for the intelligence community, including the secret vote, and to endorse forward financial plans in a form to be agreed on. [More…]

• I merely mention to the Minister that the inference to be drawn from his remarks was that all members of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party received some preferential treatment over and above that enjoyed by any other members of the Parliament or, indeed, of the Australian community. [More…]

• If tomorrow I put a question on the Notice Paper asking how much Ministers use their cars, what is the cost of them to the Australian community and what is the value of the use of those cars to the Ministers and if they do not declare that in their taxation returns, then it is for Senator Webster to face his ministerial colleagues in that regard. [More…]

• In view of some doubts which have been expressed about the continued production of penicillin at the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, when can the Australian community expect a government response as to whether the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories or the foreign owned Abbotts Laboratories will be the sole producer of penicillin in Australia? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that I have had many representations from bodies in South Australia which have raised funds in the community for this purpose and which require the Minister’s assurance to enable them to obtain bridging finance so that the projects can be commenced? [More…]

• Also, does the Government intend to establish, and assist in the funding of, a committee representative of interested groups in the Australian community to undertake research and to publicise the second Special Session on Disarmament in 1980, along lines similar to those of committees established for the International Women’s Year and the International Year of the Child? [More…]

• Is it- a fact that Premier Wran complained that State taxes would rise, that unemployment would rise as a result of State taxes, that work programs would be slashed and that the hospitals and community health programs would suffer? [More…]

• The fault for that situation lies with the Heng Samrin regime, not with the Australian Government or the international community. [More…]

• We should debate the matter and the community should be aware of the suffering of the Kampucheans, but let us not make it a partisan debate. [More…]

• The history of the Government of the day, whether it be measured domestically against the record of the previous Government or relative to other countries in the world, is one of which the Australian community may be proud. [More…]

• The community rightly demand a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• So that the Australian community shall have an understanding of what is happening tonight, I point out that the Opposition has sought to seek the suspension of Standing Orders, that is, to seek to interrupt the normal business of the Senate, to debate a motion that Senator Button has moved in these terms: [More…]

• It will be possible for every member of this Parliament and every member of the community to read it. [More…]

• The Government itself and nobody in the community could tolerate a situation in which there is an attempt in the absence of a report- this report incidentally was vital to what Senator Button and Senator Walsh were doing- to debate such a report tonight. [More…]

• The community rightly demand a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• I was talking about the difference in standards which are set by this Government in relation to different classes in the community and different Ministers in this Government. [More…]

• It has been shown that the middle aged and the elderly, the aged cohorts in our community, have reduced their cigarette smoking. [More…]

• The region is putting out T-shirts and organising community activities and it has engaged in an extensive Press, radio and television advertising program which began in May of this year. [More…]

• The tobacco industry will remain as a wealthy influential and irresponsible force for ill health in the community. [More…]

• What it has attempted to do is to disrupt one of the few very positive campaigns for a more healthy lifestyle in our community. [More…]

• I was able to marshal considerable agitation from the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Workers Union under Mr Oliver and a member of the Slovene community in Canberra, Mr Roman Bizjak From that we got La Fiamma and Novo Dovo and a host of other newspapers into the act along with quite a lot of other ethnic clubs, the Melbourne and Sydney Trades Hall Councils and Mr Bob Hawke and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]

• I think the Government, in its calmer moments, would know that if people like Strecko Rover and one or two other extremists- I emphasise that they are only a minute group in the Croatian community- had been told in the early 1960s that they could be in very serious difficulties if they distorted the concept of free speech, we would not have had a lot of other subsequent problems; but we were a bit slow in doing so. [More…]

• I was at an ethnic community function on Saturday night. [More…]

• It is a great pleasure to be speaking in support of this Budget, a Budget that has been so well received by all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a very cruel trick to play on the gullible members of the community to say that all we need to do is to open the Government’s purse strings and increase the deficit. [More…]

• All of those expectations are eminently reasonable, but there is a definite end to the capacity of the community to pay for those services, particularly when we have zero population growth and an increasingly aged population. [More…]

• I would prefer that the Government worked through the reputable and established charitable organisations, whether they be church-based, such as the St Vincent de Paul Society or the Salvation Army, or community-based such as Legacy. [More…]

• Those organisations have a compassion, a dedication, an efficiency and an insight into the real needs of the community that no public service can ever attain. [More…]

• I do not shrink from that proposition, nor should any government, because the Australian community is far more sophisticated than it was 10 years ago. [More…]

• By lowering taxation, stimulating commerce and producing new wealth, in short by using taxation in a creative way- not in a negative way by trying to redistribute income around the community- the shortfall in taxation will be made up and we will all be better off. [More…]

• Surely when thousands upon thousands of ordinary small business traders throughout the community are seeking to recover from a situation which has befallen them because they have traded in goods and services with a person who has become bankrupt, this Government, or for that matter any government committed to small business enterprise- should be striving to ensure that a quick, fair and efficient distribution of assets takes place. [More…]

• You may recall a letter with some attachments that a group of Slovenians from Canberra and Queanbeyan, mainly members of our Society, have addressed to Senator Brian Harradine, asking him for a retraction regarding certain statements he has made in the Australian Senate about the Slovenian community in Canberra and Queanbeyan. [More…]

• I have consulted with all the signatories of that letter of 5 May 1979 and they have authorized me to ask You, as a Senator and great friend of the Slovenian and Yugoslav community in Australia, whether You could sec that our statements in that letter could be incorporated in to Hansard, not only to present our point of view, but to redress matters uttered by Senator Harradine, which are undoubtedly untrue and offensive to us signatories and have been uttered under the privilege of the Senate.We have hoped that Senator Harradine would have seen the need to make some corrections and apologies, especially in respect to our Society. [More…]

• On a more serious note, I have also a more lengthy document- one might call it an aide-memoire- dealing with relations with the Slovene community in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Because the Committee of the Slovenian-Australian Association of Canberra Incorporated (SAACI) felt it necessary to bring certain matters to your attention and the attention of the Australian Federal Parliament, we feel to be entitled to make this statement in the interest of truth and the good name of the Slovenian Community in Canberra and Queanbeyan. [More…]

• For your information and the information of other concerned people, we wish to use this occasion therefore to inform you why the Slovenes in Canberra have been forced to have two organisations, though the community itself is scarcely one thousand members strong (including children and infants). [More…]

• In fact various estimates have been made, butit seems that the size of the Slovenian community is between 700 and 1,200, of which less than 200 are registered members of the two societies. [More…]

• These groups have insulted, libelled and ostracized members of the Slovenian community, denying them even the natural social intercourse in their own community. [More…]

• Considering that the Slovenian community in Canberra and Queanbeyan is a very closely knit national group, almost as a village community, with most of its members being employed in the building trade, then any denial of social relationship and any ostracizing has the immediate effect of splitting the community. [More…]

• As this ostracizing has been used very frequently in the last four or five years by the SAACI, great damage to the well being of the community has been done. [More…]

• How does the Government see its responsibilities in the areas of health, education, community projects, et cetera? [More…]

• In your opening prayer within this chamber, will you give consideration, firstly, to widening its content to acknowledge Australia’s obligations within the world community and, secondly, to using modern English? [More…]

• Senator Lewis raises a question which has its roots profoundly within the community. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, it is good that the community should understand that whenever a fact which displeases the Australian Labor Party is evidenced, its members try to drown it out by shouting because they do not want the public to understand it. [More…]

• Primarily, what is needed is a community understanding and for the parents, who are the primary teachers and counsellors, to understand this gross imbalance. [More…]

• In many cases such groups provide a valuable service to the community. [More…]

• However, the sorts of responsibilities that citizens have taken upon themselves, that is, the protection of the environment in its many and varied forms, being borne in mind, it is becoming more and more important that they have the wherewithal to carry out the important function of protecting the public and community interest. [More…]

• If government funds are restricted, reduced or not available to the degree and in the quantity necessary to carry out that function, the community at large suffers as a result of any penny-pinching policy of government. [More…]

• One only has to look at the areas in which conservationists have operated to see the important task that they perform and to see the importance of resources that they have to employ in order to bring to the notice of the community and governments what ought to be the responsibility of the community. [More…]

• Of course governments in that respect have some particular responsibility to act on behalf of the community. [More…]

• We have seen abundant evidence over the last decade or so of the need for community action to bring to the attention of the bureaucracy- and government is a part of that bureaucracy- what should be its concern for protecting important matters which fall generally within the umbrella of the environment. [More…]

• It is true that many members of the committee make donations and many sacrifices to fund and carry out what are obviously community concerns. [More…]

• Whatever the case may be, there is a need for community involvement. [More…]

• One of the pleasing things we have seen in more recent years is the degree to which young people have taken upon themselves the need to protect the environment from the many pressures that exist within the Australian community. [More…]

• Young people have a better sense of conserving our environment and more concern about what is happening through the varied forms of pressure and development that take place within our community. [More…]

• I hope, therefore, that the Minister, whether in this place, in the Cabinet room or when the Budget allocations are made, will continue not only to press very strongly for maintaining funding in real terms taking into account inflation, but also to bring to the attention of the Cabinet and the framers of the Budget the need to extend this aspect of community involvement. [More…]

• I confidently expect that all bodies will qualify for the maximum grant allocated to them, thus demonstrating the wide level of community support which these bodies enjoy. [More…]

• Surely the point is that the natural environment of Australia is not a sectional interest; it is not a sectional viewpoint because it is a common heritage of benefit to the entire community. [More…]

• That applies regardless of the best will in the world of the community. [More…]

• The community may well hand out the money the groups need; however, the environmentalists are people who are concerned about this national problem but who are being put at a disadvantage because effort has to go unnecessarily into that part of their task. [More…]

• So, I think the Minister would have no worries about public response, and a good indication of community support. [More…]

• Surely these organisations increasing their membership of people who are prepared to pay an annual fee is an indicator of community support, rather than the Government requirement stated in the Minister’s statement that additionally they must go out and whip up funds from somewhere to do this work. [More…]

• Not only do I think that there is a concern that there has been such a fixed amount available to existing groups, but also I think there is also a danger that groups which may pose as conservation groups and may set themselves forward with names that sound like conservation groups may well try to obtain this amount and, therefore, dilute still further the money which is available to genuine conservation groups in this community. [More…]

• It is a responsibility that should be of concern to all people in this community as to whether we are properly preserving the heritage of this country. [More…]

• They are not, in a sense, doing other than helpful work so far as the community is concerned and pointing out the necessity for national work. [More…]

• One of the problems that have beset that community has been to devise a means by which employment could be recreated in the district. [More…]

• One can well understand the disgust in that community some two or three weeks ago when the company announced that its employees would be stood down for four months and would not be reemployed until early next January. [More…]

• The community rightly demand a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• It is for the people of Australia to determine why yesterday the State Government did the extraordinary thing it did, and that is not to wait until it had a whole report and table a total report and recommendations- not to wait until it was able, with the knowledge of the whole report, to say what it intended to do- but left the community and the person concerned in absolute total ignorance of the circumstances. [More…]

• That the effects of hearing impairment are not recognised by the community at large. [More…]

• I refer the Minister representing the Prime Minister to the reported statement of the Prime Minister that unemployed people are the duller and less motivated people in each age group in the community and that he doubted that the Catholic bishops supported the statement of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, in the booklet Beyond Unemployment. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Social Security seen a statement by the Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services that payments of pensions under the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act will stop on 1 January next year? [More…]

• This report, which again I have had for only a very brief time, is the fourth annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations and is for the year 1979. [More…]

• Community Relations since the implementation of the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975. [More…]

• At page 2 of the report the Commissioner notes that he has identified 30 extremist or racist groups dedicated to promoting race hatred and community division. [More…]

• In the case of my own Office, smallness of staff numbers and the steeply increasing workload has precluded research and severely limited community education. [More…]

• I think a very interesting commentary on page 13 of the report points out that the Commissioner for Community Relations has not been consulted at all about the forthcoming amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• It is not just an omission; it is an extraordinary arrogant and insulting way to treat a distinguished figure in this field and an extraordinary and insulting way to treat an office such as the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• We reach a parlous situation in a so-called pluralist and democratic society if a person in the office of Commissioner for Community Relations is placed in the extraordinary position where he cannot speak freely, without threat and without at least a degree of consultation with the government of the day. [More…]

• The rate of change of computer technology is faster than the community’s ability to understand. [More…]

• It was hoped- indeed, expected by some of us- that the referendum on self-government would be decided in favour of self-government and that we could proceed to delegate powers and devolve decision-making responsibilities to the community. [More…]

• The urgency of these recommendations arises from the total dissatisfaction on the part of the Australian Capital Territory community with traditional planning processes here and with current planning processes. [More…]

• The National Capital Development Commission has been able to proceed with its own planning proposals unfettered by the wishes of the community. [More…]

• Until the Government takes steps to implement these recommendations the situation remains chaotic and, I believe, very disruptive controversy amongst various community groups will continue to plague the community. [More…]

• He is concerned to make known to the Parliament and therefore to the community as soon as possible details of the Government’s response to this very complex but very important matter. [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…]

• the re-establishment of a Consultative Council to include broad representation from the Albury/ Wodonga community; [More…]

• This legislation seeks to abolish the Consultative Council which hitherto was composed of 1 6 members and which, to use the terms of the second reading speech of the Minister, is to be abolished because it causes friction within the community. [More…]

• I put it that it is a good thing that we we have advisory councils operating at the community level, particularly in the case of AlburyWodonga, because it gives the ordinary citizen an opportunity to understand what is happening to his region, and enables him to put forward ideas to the public instrumentality involved, in this case the Corporation. [More…]

• the re-establishment of a Consultative Council to include broad representation from the Albury/ Wodonga community; [More…]

• Whilst that was in November 1975, 12 months later the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, announced that the Commonwealth Government would maintain support for the activities of the Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation by providing $21m in loan funds under the existing financial agreement. [More…]

• Over a period of three years there was a funding of $90m from the Whitlam Labor Government; a promise in 1975 by Mr Fraser to continue a commitment to the development of growth centres; a statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in September or November 1976 of a loan of $22m and thereafter an amount of $5m for each of the next five years. [More…]

• They have proved themselves already in the Australian community. [More…]

• Arc not cut-backs in services of this kind a false economy, in view of the frequent needs of industry and the community to pick up freight urgently. [More…]

• How is it proposed that the community should obtain such services if a basic comprehensive service is not provided by Commonwealth Pathology Laboratories in areas where they are the main pathology providers. [More…]

• In view of the high priority placed by Council on prevention of disease, both a Health Education (Standing) Committee and a Community Health Promotion (Standing) Committee have been established. [More…]

• Both Committees work closely together and maintain close liaison with the Department of Health on the formulation of recommended policies aimed at encouraging healthy lifestyles in the community. [More…]

• The Community Health Promotion (Standing) Committee investigates the problems of creating awareness amongst the practising medical profession and the necessity for a preventive approach to health problems by doctors and other health care professionals engaged in primary health care. [More…]

• The Health Education (Standing) Committee on the other hand examines the problems of arousing community and individual awareness. [More…]

• Community Health Promotion (Standing) Committee [More…]

• the goals of health promotion in the Australian community; [More…]

• Professor G. Andrews, Department of Gerontology and Community Medicine, University of Sydney [More…]

• Dr R. Piggott (nominee of Community Health Promotion (Standing) Committee) [More…]

• Recommendation 23 regarding domestic garbage collection being done by community partnerships or employees of the Depanment of the Capital Territory has been partly implemented. [More…]

• 1 ) The Government announced in the Budget that in 1979-80 $500,000 will be made available to nongovernment community welfare agencies which are in financial difficulties or are providing emergency relief. [More…]

• What action has the Government taken to support the principle of Federal funding of such worthy community projects, especially in view of the New South Wales Government’s contribution of the land for the Manly- Warringah Children’s Refuge and the fact that a voluntary committee has raised $4 1 ,000 for the project in a period of 1 8 months. [More…]

• All applications will bc considered by a Committee of both Commonwealth and State officials and recommendations for funding in the case of NSW will be made to both Mr R. F. Jackson, Minister for Youth and Community Services in NSW, and myself. [More…]

• That, as it is clear that unemployment is a long term problem in Australia, the Government should extend to the unemployed the same assistance as is given to any other disadvantaged member of the community. [More…]

• Indeed, he has been a source of strong support for various bodies in the Australian community interested in protecting whales. [More…]

• It was pointed out that the Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services had announced that the State Government would refuse to pay pensions under the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act as from 1 January next year. [More…]

• Fortunately, and probably as a result of the pro’dding and the criticism of the Opposition and many people in the financial community, the Fraser Government is becoming a little more cautious about the predictions it makes and the figures which it presents to Parliament in the Budget Papers. [More…]

• This will only impose harsher burdens on lower income groups, especially the unemployed and people generally disadvantaged in the community, all for the sake of getting down the deficit. [More…]

• Certainly those on this side of the House recognise that inflation leads to increased wage pressures which deprive other people in the community of jobs. [More…]

• If there is a deficit in the Budget it is necessary, in order to contain inflation, to undertake public borrowing programs so that the volume of money in the community is not inflated. [More…]

• The Leader of the Government needs to be reminded again and again that the then Opposition used the Loan Bill in this place as a device to stop the flow of funds to the community in order to defeat the elected government of the day. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Transport inform the Senate of the reason or reasons that Mr Jim Bayutti has not been reappointed to the Board of Qantas Airways Ltd, especially in view of the excellent work done by Mr Bayutti amongst the Australian ethnic community on behalf of Qantas while he was a member of the Board, an example being the work he did as President of the Italian-Australian Association, an organisation based in Italy, which was responsible for raising millions of dollars of additional revenue for Qantas in recent years? [More…]

• The more that encouragement and opportunity is given for the development of mineral, petroleum and energy resources generally, the more discoveries will be made and the greater wealth there will be in prospect for the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• I ask: Has the Government considered the benefits to the community of low alcohol beer, particularly the reduced alcohol intake by those who may subsequently drive cars? [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that, in the community interest, government impetus should be given to the encouragement of the consumption of low alcohol beer in preference to beers of the usual alcoholic content? [More…]

• The Australian community has shown a very warm, sympathetic and practical response to the disaster in Kampuchea. [More…]

• At both the official government level and the community level Australia is showing the way to the world. [More…]

• I draw his attention to a startling statement made by the Commissioner for Community Relations that there were 30 racial groupings with an estimated 100,000 members in Australia. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that such centres are funded by this Government to provide resources for community groups? [More…]

• The basic fact is that over a period of years I have seen a situation in which some groups in the community have used post box numbers. [More…]

• In addition to his special interest in the Italian community, he has made a broad contribution to the work of Qantas and has shown a real interest in the affairs of the company. [More…]

• In making his recommendations, the Land Commissioner is required by the Act to comment upon such matters as the number of Aboriginals who would be advantaged by the land grant, the nature and extent of that advantage, whether detriment might result to any person or community as a result of the grant and the effect which the grant would have on existing or proposed patterns of land usage. [More…]

• As to any detriment that might result to any person or community as a result of any grant made, the Commissioner has indicated that there would be no detriment likely to be suffered by any persons or communities as a result of any grants being made. [More…]

• Therefore the movement which is developing and is requesting a treaty of commitment with the Aboriginal people which will recognise our total agreement to rearranging our relationships with the Aboriginal people is a movement which ought to have the support of all right-thinking people in the community and should not be looked upon as a movement seeking a platitudinous or meek type of arrangement. [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 stage; 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 to 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 serious, both industrially and economically. [More…]

• Not only does it encourage irresponsible industrial action, it also 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 provision 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. [More…]

• 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…]

• There is considerable concern in many sections of the community about the need to show on Australian passports the place of birth. [More…]

• At a time when the situation affecting the issue and use of passports has changed dramatically, when one million Australians are travelling annually and when the Department of Foreign Affairs and its posts around the world are now issuing nearly 500,000 passports a year, it is important that Australia’s passports legislation be brought up to date, that it be more effective and that decisions be made in a way that is more open and fairer to the community. [More…]

• We need to be assured that to the greatest extent possible the freedom to move abroad, which has been recognised internationally in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in our own tradition since the promulgation of Magna Carta in 1215, is fully recognised in our community. [More…]

• Whilst protecting the rights of people to travel overseas, we have to acknowledge that Australia has responsibilities to other nations of the international community. [More…]

• Of course, when it is near election time the Government always wants to do something for the Baltic community. [More…]

• I suggest that there is a chance for the Government to really do something today for the Baltic community by supporting the amendment put forward by the Opposition. [More…]

• I am sure that the Baltic community would not want the city shown on the passport. [More…]

• It is extraordinary that the Government has been so obdurate on the issue when faced with a case made out so articulately by a number of migrant groups in the community, to whom the matter is of special and great concern. [More…]

• In particular, it is interesting to note the way in which the Government, as my colleague Senator Sibraa has mentioned, has been so insensitive to the pleas of the Baltic community, to the needs of which, at election time anyway, the Government is notoriously so sensitive. [More…]

• That would obviously be the optimal solution, but pending that millennium it seems to me that the concerns of certain sections of the community can be satisfied provided that those sections of the community are prepared to accept certain consequential pains and penalties attached to that. [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 put to the Minister that while I accept in a certain practical sense, the need expressed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) to create a document in which changes are not constantly required and which, therefore meets the needs of the travelling public in general, a number of people in the community are quite justifiably concerned about some of the impositions placed upon them by some governments which are represented in this city. [More…]

• In our community we have very proper rules to determine the enlargement and the limiting of the liberty of individual citizens in Australia. [More…]

• I think that it is necessary for us parliamentarians and for people in the community to continue to reassert the belief that investment in fundamental research has long term benefits not only for the nation in which it is undertaken but also for the larger world community. [More…]

• The contribution of Australina scientists to the world scientific community is a proud and impressive one but it has not been mightily helped by the policies which governments have pursued since the end of the last war. [More…]

• Many people know that the use of calculators by young people throughout the community is criticised today. [More…]

• We should look at the debate taking place at the moment because Professor Max Charlesworth in Melbourne has produced a report calling for an end to recombatant DNA research in this country along the lines of the disastrous attempt of the community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to muzzle the research that was going on at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [More…]

• There is a general lack of debate in the community of a rational nature about atomic energy, what it means, how safe it is, what its prospects are and whether it is worthwhile as part of the intellectual debate about science policy in this country. [More…]

• What are the political implications of a community which does not have to work for eight hours a day, 40 hours a week, or whatever it happens to be? [More…]

• The fundamental issues in science and technology policies are issues about the future of the Australian community. [More…]

• They are issues about the role of individual men and women in the Australian community. [More…]

• They are issues about Australia’s role in the international community. [More…]

• I compliment Senator Puplick on his wide-ranging and erudite remarks on the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment which is before the Senate, particularly his remarks concerning the importance of science and technology to the Australian community. [More…]

• The solutions which we found to the problems of that time have just grown and grown and they no longer have any relevance to the needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• If we could put a wall around this country and live within it that might be possible, but we are part of the community of nations and there is no way in which we can live in the context of nations adjoining this countrythe Association of South East Asian Nations group of countries, the Asian group of countries and the European group of countries- without trading with them. [More…]

• Unless this occurs we will not be able to employ people which is something which is necessary for the welfare of the Australian community. [More…]

• Why did the Senate refer this matter to one of its standing committees, and why did the Committee seek the views of the community on this matter? [More…]

• It is essential that Ministers should ensure that serious, relevant and well-considered responses be made to Parliamentary reports to accord with the care with which they were compiled and bearing in mind that they reflect the views of the community on matters of moment. [More…]

• We think, as a bipartisan Committee representative of all the views of the people of Australia, that it is very important for governments to recognise the need for community involvement as far as these environmental decisions are concerned. [More…]

• I think that that in itself is an example that ought to be recognised by the governments of Australia and that the governments ought to become more involved with the community interests that I have described in a genuine attempt to come to grips with the need to formulate a national land use policy for the benefit of all Australians. [More…]

• They ignore the tremendous work being done by Tangatjira Council to provide housing and by the Homemakers group funded by the Department of Community Welfare to assist Aboriginal people into settling into homes and caring for them. [More…]

• Department of Community Development, but a need is seen for its expansion. [More…]

• I have never denigrated anybody in the Aboriginal community, but I have denigrated the Government of Queensland in a nice way. [More…]

• What is more, the report did not take into account 13,000 Aborigines and Islanders, representing 20 per cent of the State ‘s total indigenous population, who have been rehoused in towns and cities throughout Queensland in the last decade to a thoroughly acceptable community standard. [More…]

• All health policies must consider the health of the community as defined by the World Health Organisationthe social psychological and physical well being of the people. [More…]

• In view of changing community sexual attitudes, will the Minister consider introducing a new film classification to modify the present R rating for restricted viewing? [More…]

• The aim is that whether by special attention at school, by programs of transition from school to work or by new developments of training and retraining in the technical and further education area, we will get to a stage where there will be an understanding in the community that the emphasis should be on training and upgrading of skills rather than have the inertia of the situation of unemployment and unemployment benefits. [More…]

• As each day, each month and each year go by it is becoming increasingly clear that the Government’s Budget policies, economic policies, social welfare policies and federalism policies are not producing the sort of response sought from the Australian community. [More…]

• Despite these surveys, which are taken by reputable community organisations, when the Government drew up its budget- and, after all, this legislation merely seeks to give legislative effect to Budget decisions- their important results and conclusions obviously were ignored. [More…]

• I believe that high excise on what is essentially a luxury, something we can do without, is justified, especially when those taxes are on addictive products which lead in some cases to lengthy periods of hospitalisation and incur costs to the whole community. [More…]

• These factors also mean that the cost to our country of adequate quarantine protection will remain high and we, as a community, have to pay for it. [More…]

• We have to convince the members of our community of the need to pay for it. [More…]

• The ease with which infected material can arrive in this country in humans and in baggageinfection can be imported by people, bent on profit at any price to the community, illegally, introducing such easily concealable material as animal semen- makes life very difficult for our quarantine officers. [More…]

• These diseases are always present and ready to break out at times when public health facilities and provisions break down and when the general hygiene of the community fails. [More…]

• That emphasis has been brought about largely by the fact that humans travel round the world so quickly that the disease which they may be carrying or subject to when they enter this country will not manifest itself until they have reached a point in the community quite remote from the port of entry and remote in time from the time of entry. [More…]

• Therefore, one needs to recognise that the treatment of an exotic human disease is a matter for general community medicine. [More…]

• There will be simply a reliance on the normal general medical facilities of the community. [More…]

• There is no need to have any high level medical personnel at the actual port of entry, given the decline in the importance of some hitherto common diseases, such as smallpox, and, as I have said, the fact that the diseases will manifest themselves in human beings until much later when they are within the community. [More…]

• The experience in Britain that Senator Thomas alluded to shows the need to provide for widespread social and community co-operation. [More…]

• Would their wages be guaranteed at pre-outbreak levels while dealing with this necessary community work? [More…]

• We need to realise, as a community, that we have been lucky and that the havoc that follows from breach of quarantine is such that both the general public and the courts need to take a more sympathetic view of the necessary inconvenience that may be caused by the exercise of power to search, inspect and question which this Bill gives to Australia’s quarantine officers. [More…]

• I will leave any further remarks to the tabling of the report of the Senate Committee on the wider aspects of the place of quarantine in the Australian community. [More…]

• Senator Thomas also spent some time discussing bluetongue, which is a matter certainly of interest to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, as that was the organisation that informed the community that this disease, even in its latent form, had been found in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Successive Governments have reiterated Australia’s attachment to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the international community is well aware of our concern to see international standards respected. [More…]

• The particular comments that Senator Puplick noted have relevance to scientific information in the community today. [More…]

• The honourable senator asked whether the Government will give consideration to supporting the development of science indicators so that they may direct the community more accurrs so ately than previously. [More…]

• I think the Australian fishing community still has justification for going into those areas. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that some members of this community have a diet largely consisting of bush tucker? [More…]

• If one just read those first few words without reading on, one would think that this Government was being magnanimous in its approach to the rural community, particularly those who use nitrogenous fertilisers. [More…]

• A further disturbing factor is that the European Economic Community has indicated that it has no intention of joining in the Agreement until the United States has ratified it. [More…]

• I might say that there is not much use criticising the European Economic Community or America at this stage, because most of these problems have been caused by Government inactivity. [More…]

• I think that his comments were quite appropriate in relation to the fact that if two classes of political philosophy are to be seen in this place, the actions of a Labor socialist government cannot but be expected to see that the interests of the rural community are put second in any of its proposals. [More…]

• We have introduced and continued them to the benefit of the rural community. [More…]

• I do not doubt that that is appreciated by all people, not only the people who are involved in rural production, but also those people in the country towns and cities who are producers of equipment and supplies that a healthy rural community requires. [More…]

• We all know that the President of the Commission, whilst not being acceptable to some people in the community, is carrying out the objects of the Act. [More…]

• There is no evidence of support for the proposition within the Australian community. [More…]

• Look at the great blanket, the ambit of this proposition of the community’s involvement. [More…]

• As I said earlier, the commissioners are people specially selected from the community, people with expertise who take an oath of office and who usually are skilled in the industry to which they are assigned. [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…]

• A Minister by his own action can march before the Full Bench, and the Full Bench obviously has to make the declaration if there is what is claimed to be a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community, which could be anything. [More…]

• In defence, it is argued by the Minister that there has to be a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health and welfare of the community. [More…]

• The Government’s role in this legislation is to represent the people in the community. [More…]

• The Government’s role is to establish in the society a framework in which people may, within reason, do their thing, lt necessarily follows that in protecting the community- the public that we are here to serve- from industrial disputes, the Government must set down some laws and a framework for industrial relations negotiations to carry on. [More…]

• Many people in the community thought that my Government would enter office with an attitude towards industrial relations of savagely wielding an axe. [More…]

• This Government’s industrial relations policy was developed in a spirit of co-operation to promote understanding and a consensus in the interests of employers, employees and the community. [More…]

• Clearly the community is bearing the burden. [More…]

• One part of the community which is bearing that responsibility is the unemployed. [More…]

• I am sure that the community thoroughly approves of the provision that the Commission shall not require employers to provide back pay while employees are involved in industrial action. [More…]

• I am sure that that will have the support of the whole of the community, including many members of trade union movements who voted for us at the last election. [More…]

• Three comments seem pertinent: the independence of a statutory body always is relative; an independence that enshrines bias or protects idiosyncratic behaviour is not obviously desirable; and it is arguable that the commission has, in the past, been too willing to pay a high premium on behalf of the Government and the community for industrial peace. [More…]

• The provisions to which I have referred will remain, so the court will retain those powers but similar powers to act will be granted to the Executive after a Full Bench of the Commission has determined that industrial action by an organisation or a group of its members has had, is having or is likely to have, a substantially adverse effect on the safety, health and welfare of the community, or a part of the community. [More…]

• But we are at the stage in this community when these sorts of compulsory penalties must be applied. [More…]

• They are drawn from many diverse backgrounds in the community. [More…]

• The situation under the Bill is that the Government will go to the Commission and seek a declaration that the industrial dispute is harming the welfare of part of the community. [More…]

• I want to make the point that no matter what legislation it is, whether it is industrial relations legislation or that which is referable to any of a host of other areas of importance, unless the Australian community is prepared to give it a trial, to get behind and promote the legislation, whatever government may be in power, that legislation has less and less opportunity of proving successful. [More…]

• The result is a disaster for the whole of the Australian people- trade unionists, employers and the whole cross-section of the Australian community. [More…]

• I do not believe that there is anybody in Australia today who would deny that the trade union movement over the decades has contributed a great deal to the development of the total Australian community. [More…]

• It is a system that has been built up in this Australian community and has basically produced a successful result. [More…]

• I make the point as an indication of the great danger to all people- to Australian trade unionists, to employers and to the whole cross section of our community- of failing to recognise the enormous responsibility we have not only to ourselves but also to the people who are our neighbours to the near north and, indeed, further north. [More…]

• They are interested in maintaining, developing and moulding it and in making it work for the great community in which it operates. [More…]

• Finally, they 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- in other words, I believe, the public interest- of the community are put at risk by industrial action. [More…]

• The Minister can ask that a matter be considered by the Full Bench of the Commission as it is a threat to the safety, health or welfare of the community- in other words, a threat to the public interest. [More…]

• If it makes a declaration that there is such a threat, of course that is a very serious situation to the whole community. [More…]

• I merely hope that in the remarks I have made tonight I have indicated that the amendments proposed in this legislation seek responsibly to stop the abuse of power in industrial relations in this community. [More…]

• The real reason for the legislation is not to protect the Australian community, as Senator Lewis asserted. [More…]

• Minister of the Crown a right to start deregistration proceedings against a union or part of a union engaging in any industrial action that is considered to be harming community safety, health or welfare. [More…]

• Since this Government assumed office it has governed on the basis of dividing the Australian community. [More…]

• As they have divided themselves and this nation, so too they have divided the community. [More…]

• But, because the Government is hellbent on creating divisions within the community, it goes ahead with this sort of legislation. [More…]

• I do not think there would be many in Australia who would dispute the fact that the role of government is, through legislation, to protect the rights of the individual and of the community at large. [More…]

• There is a fine line between the rights of a person to protest about some government decision that they object to and the rights and privileges of people in the community to be able to go about their normal day’s work while they are objecting and protesting. [More…]

• That is the amendment which says that if the Minister believes that industrial action is likely to have or is having substantial adverse effects on the safety, health and welfare of the community he may apply to the Full Bench of the Commission for a declaration. [More…]

• It is then up to the Full Bench to say whether it believes that that industrial action is having a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health and welfare of the community. [More…]

• I believe that that is a typical example of a strike affecting the safety, health and welfare of the community. [More…]

• The Full Bench must agree with the Minister that there are in fact grounds for a declaration of substantial adverse effects on the health, safety or welfare of the community. [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…]

• The town is Fitzroy Crossing and the man involved is Stan Davey, a former community welfare officer. [More…]

• Mr Davey has a long history of work with the Department of Community Welfare. [More…]

• He worked with the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement and he worked with the Community Welfare Department at Wyndham and at Oombulgurri. [More…]

• It was the Director of Community Welfare in Western Australia who asked him to go to Fitzroy Crossing because of the racial problems that were emanating there, to make an assessment of the total situation and possibly to make recommendations on what could or should be done. [More…]

• It is pretty obvious that Stan Davey was well thought of by the Department, to have the Director of Community Welfare himself suggest that this might be an area where he could find fulfilment and where he could be helpful to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• His wife, Jan Richardson, also has made some sacrifices in her work amongst the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I have also been terribly impressed by the community spirit that has developed there in the last few years. [More…]

• That is one program that has been achieved, and from the letters I will read from the leaders of the community the Senate will be able to appreciate the help, assistance and advice that Stan Davey was able to give the Noonkanbah people. [More…]

• So Ms Richardson has been very successful in her own right in the black community. [More…]

• At roughly the same time reports were made to the Commissioner for Community Relations alleging police brutality, and it was decided that a deputy, Mrs Lorna Lippmann, would go to Fitzroy when she had the opportunity, which I believe was two weeks ago. [More…]

• There is a bit of a problem here because I have to question the wisdom of the Police Department posting a person with a history of problems with the Aboriginal community to an area with a predominance of black people. [More…]

• One of the people who did not know that the meeting was on was a man who was very much involved in community affairs. [More…]

• If he had been aware that there was a meeting with the Police Commissioner in that town he would have broken any commitment to be there, not only to advise but also to put propositions forward in the interests of all the community, not just the black community. [More…]

• Earlier this year- I will have to try to draw all these strings together pretty soon as the time is late- the Noonkanbah community lodged an appeal in the courts against a decision to allow the Amax corporation to drill for oil on its property. [More…]

• Pea Hill is considered to be a sacred site by the Aboriginal community at Noonkanbah. [More…]

• There has been marvellous community relations in that area. [More…]

• The first letter is addressed to the Commissioner for Community Relations in Canberra from the Aboriginal community leaders at Fitzroy Crossing. [More…]

• It complains about the transfer of Stan Davey from Fitzroy Crossing by the Western Australian Department for Community Welfare. [More…]

• We have been told that Stan Davey is going to be transferred by the Community Welfare Department from Fitzroy Crossing to Kalgoorlie. [More…]

• He has been working with our community since the start of 1973, and he has done many things to help us. [More…]

• One reason he has been told for why he has to leave is that he does not get on with the whole community. [More…]

• That letter is signed by the chairman of the Bayulu community, the chairman of the Noonkanbah Management Committee, the chairman of the Milijidee Management Committee, the National Aboriginal Council representative at West Kimberley, a community worker at, and the chairman of the Kroonull community, and the chairman of the Wangkatjunka community of the Windmill Reserve. [More…]

• I have another letter from the Kadjina community at Fitzroy Crossing. [More…]

• The letter is signed by George Bell of the Kadjina community. [More…]

• It is signed by Wadgie Thirkall chairman of the Kurnangki community. [More…]

• He is a good bloke and he is doing a good job for the Bayulu community and the Kroonull community. [More…]

• I have half a dozen letters from various communities to the Director of Community Welfare. [More…]

• The Department of Community Welfare could face strike action in the North- West if officials insist on transferring a popular Fitzroy Crossing field officer. [More…]

• And the Opposition spokesman on community welfare matters, Mr Harman, says he will demand a judicial inquiry. [More…]

• The department had to be concerned about the ‘broad community’ in order to provide the most efficient and effective service. [More…]

• Mr Harman said he would give notice in Parliament today of a motion calling for a judicial inquiry into the situation involving the community at Fitzroy Crossing. [More…]

• Particular reference will be made to the proposed transfer of a community welfare officer, ‘ he said. [More…]

• In the court Mr Justice Smith found that the Labor candidate had been improperly denied votes by the tactics of the Liberal candidate, Mr Alan Ridge, who was then the Minister for Community Welfare. [More…]

• He wanted them to be able to accept the responsibilities that are accepted by the European community, part of which is the right to cast a vote in elections and to know what one is voting for. [More…]

• Conzinc Riotinto of Australia has been told to ‘get out’ of an Aboriginal pastoral lease in the eastern Kimberleys by the elders of the community. [More…]

• The Nookembah community has accused the mining company, which has exploration leases on the station, of deceiving it about its intentions about the land. [More…]

• You say you only look at one part of our station and go away after three weeks’, a letter from the community to CRA, issued in Canberra yesterday, said. [More…]

• Many newspaper articles have been written about the work of Stan Davey in the Aboriginal community and the regard that the Aboriginal community has for that man. [More…]

• He said that he was prepared to negotiate his finishing date with the Department of Community Welfare and help to settle a new officer into the job that he had held for four years. [More…]

• Mrs L. Lippmann, assistant to the Federal Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby, spent three days in the town investigating. [More…]

• Today the Opposition spokesman on community welfare, Mr J. J. Harman said: ‘This is another classic example of the government getting its way against someone who dares to oppose or question them. [More…]

• Mr Davey was to move today, but on 3 October the Minister for Community Welfare, Mr Young, told Parliament that it was off until the end of the school year. ‘ [More…]

• 1 do not therefore seek to comment on the transfer, except to say that in the course of my discussions with Mr Davey, the detail of which I do not propose to go into, I would have to say that he and I acknowledged that we had differences of opinion on the role of community development officers in the situation which exists in the Kimberleys. [More…]

• The claims of the Noonkanbah community- I am familiar with them after having had several visits to that community- are not merely that particular sacred sites should be protected but that the whole property should be kept free from mining. [More…]

• My own role in the matter has been to urge the community to discuss the situation with both the State Government and the mining companies with a view to protecting their special sites and at the same time protecting the quite fragile social structure which is developing at Noonkanbah and which I think is a very positive development at that place. [More…]

• For the first time I think an Aboriginal community on a pastoral lease had entered into arrangements with a mining company which, first of all, in the terms reported in the newspaper anyway, gave protection to sites of significance. [More…]

• For that reason I would like to express my very great regret at the repudiation of the agreement by the Noonkanbah community and to express the hope that that agreement will be reinstated as soon as possible. [More…]

• I think that would be a matter for great regret because the situation we should all be trying to encourage is a situation in which the miner and the leaseholder get together and make arrangements of the sort that were apparently made with Conzinc Riotinto of Australia, which ensures that the community gets some protection in both a social and a spiritual sense. [More…]

• There is some resentment among the non-Aboriginal community at the measures that are taken to improve Aboriginal conditions, including the measures that are taken by this Government. [More…]

• Again, those problems tend to exacerbate community relations. [More…]

• There is deep cynicism in the non-Aboriginal community about Aboriginal claims in regard to secret sites. [More…]

• In these circumstances, I would like to stress to Senator Coleman and to the Opposition as well as to honourable senators on this side of the chamber that it is critically important that all people who are involved, whether they are from State agencies such as the Community Welfare Department and the police or Commonwealth agencies such as my own Department, pursue means of reducing these tensions and removing the difficulties which I have described. [More…]

• The Australian Government is very active within the world community in seeking to achieve solutions which will bring about relief there, not only in the short term by providing food and medicines but also in the longer term in the saving of lives. [More…]

• Because of the chance of new development in South Australia and the creation of new jobs, the Government has seen it as sensible to try to prepare the Aboriginal community to take advantage of those new opportunities. [More…]

• The Government will seek to influence the development of these standards as community opinion requires. [More…]

• The Committee’s report arose out of a complaint made to the Senate Standing Committee by an interested community body. [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…]

• We seem earlier and earlier to be getting into the habit of having all matters, other than Government Business, thrown out of this place, no matter what they are and how many members of the community might be interested in them. [More…]

• The point is that those members of the community who feel that, through General Business, they can put forward matters which do not necessarily have to be vetted through a party machine- that is, the party machines of either of the major parties; honourable senators can take that whichever way they like- will not be particularly pleased if these matters, having been raised as serious notices of motion and with good justification, are to be destroyed simply because the Government says that it wants to get a Bill through today. [More…]

• I do not think that any of us present these motions in a flippant way; rather, we do so because they involve something that is of importance to this community. [More…]

• I understand that there are problems that have arisen in respect to consistency of decisions, but the Government has not got the moral courage to precisely state those to the community and to bring legislation here in the light of that public revelation. [More…]

• It will have a threshold role of making a declaration if an application is made to it- a declaration which can be satisfied in really the most extraordinarily trivial circumstances- for example, if there are but two or more individual unionists engaged in some form of industrial action which could be taken by the Commission to constitute and to amount to some substantial interference with the health or welfare of the community. [More…]

• When one considers- I am afraid that I do not have the text of the clause before me at the moment- the precise language and the way it is put together one will appreciate that the key word pivots in that clause on the notion of the welfare of the community; indeed, not the community as a whole, but a part of the community. [More…]

• Honourable senators know how wide the definition of industrial action is since the recent amendments to this legislation- and (b) 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 . [More…]

• A strike by two milkmen in a country town of 35 people could constitute a substantial threat to the health and welfare of a part of the Australian community. [More…]

• In order to impose any kind of limitation on the width of this section, one has to say that some kind of braking or common sense role will have to be exercised by the Full Bench of the Commission, which just will not find a substantial adverse effect on the community or part of the community if it does not regard it as an appropriate case to justify ultimately the deregistration of the union. [More…]

• It is to demand of the Full Bench of the Commission more than any community can demand honestly of its judiciary. [More…]

• The present Government’s approach to industrial relations, which once again is revealed in this piece of legislation, is thoroughly unhappy and thoroughly unacceptable, not just to the Labor Party and to the union movement but to any fair-minded person in the community as a whole. [More…]

• This piece of legislation represents a complete negation of respect, a complete negation of willingness to consult with those in the community who will be hit hard by this legislation and a complete negation of any willingness to cooperate in the rational solution of industrial problems. [More…]

• Let us look at the effect of some strikes on the community. [More…]

• I believe that there is such great community focus on what we may refer to as the national wage cases that frequently we lose sight of the fact that significant wage increases occur outside the ambit of national wage case increases. [More…]

• Workers who are protected in jobs or sectional groups which form a small segment of a total industry are often in a position to press for wage increases which the remainder of the community can ill afford, especially in these times of high unemployment. [More…]

• It can lead to discontent within the community. [More…]

• There are a few strikes- I underline the word few’- that enjoy a measure of community support or sympathy. [More…]

• In relation to this matter of deregistration the words used must refer to a substantial effect on safety, health and welfare of the community or part of the community. [More…]

• There is certainly a need for a wages policy which has general community support, but the first step will be to obtain a general consensus about a national wages policy. [More…]

• I simply say: Various things were tried in 1926 and Senator Douglas McClelland referred to the situation in 1 929 but we cannot use the limitations of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act to overcome various unrest in the community. [More…]

• This syndrome is injected into the community by means of the television camera. [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, [More…]

• It is a dastardly piece of legislation which will do nothing to bring about any sort of understanding in the Australian community about the way in which our wage fixing processes should work. [More…]

• When we have this unique experience of a judge putting in writing his views about the constitutionality and the impropriety of the legislation- surely a process that is available to any member of the Australian community and to his fellow judges- we have the underhand activity of the Minister for Industrial Relations, Mr Street, and the Prime Minister, seeking to score cheap political capital out of a courageous attempt being made by one man to express a contrary point of view. [More…]

• That is all he has sought to do, to express a contrary point of view to this neo-fascist government, this dictatorial government which wants to criticise everybody in the Australian community except itself. [More…]

• The Government enjoys no support of the Australian community for this piece of legislation. [More…]

• Where is the community involvement in the process of representation to this Government, and where is the voice of the employers in this matter? [More…]

• Senator Chipp was quite right when he pointed to the absurdity of the way in which the parliamentary system operates in these matters of community concern. [More…]

• But when there is clear community concern and views being expressed outside Parliament which suggest that there ought to be careful consideration, the Senate ought to act responsibly and not act at the dictates of the Prime Minister who just says, ‘We are not going to consider the other points of view of those outside of the Parliament’, and who then seeks to deny inside the Parliament the due processes of proper debate and consideration. [More…]

• He occupies a senior position and he is accepted right throughout the Australian community as a person versed in industrial and commercial law. [More…]

• It is a piece of legislation that enjoys no support from the employer or employee sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Moreover, in order to protect the public 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…]

• They are the Australian community- one of the biggest sections of the organised Australian community. [More…]

• Bob Hawke suggested that we should have organised sections of the Australian community contributing to the discussion on how we can boost the economy of Australia. [More…]

• We have a position where this is a very important subject in the community. [More…]

• We live in a divided community where there is a great deal of feeling on the subject of strikes and losses. [More…]

• I have here a statement from the Australian Bureau of Statistics setting out the statistics concerning strikes in this community since 1974. [More…]

• This has caused a change in the position so that a few people can cause a great deal of loss to members of the community. [More…]

• It is a power which we should be careful not to use to create a great deal of heat in the community only to find that it falls to the ground. [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 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. [More…]

• Safety, health and welfare are very vague terms, and a small part of the community may well be affected by some industrial action. [More…]

• Therefore, the welfare of that part of the community is affected. [More…]

• Those matters may well have the effect of polarising the community more. [More…]

• I have always stoutly rejected the idea that we should try to polarise the community either in a political sense or in an industrial sense. [More…]

• The right to claim damages against Unions is unclear and could be read to cover class actions by the whole community and not just the areas and bodies in disputation. [More…]

• As a body with such central power and such great importance- its decisions are impacted upon the community- its role obviously extends far beyond the very superficial tasks that it sometimes performs. [More…]

• This particular matter is one of very real concern in the community insofar as people who put other people and the general sections of the community to some sort of damage are seen, according to some of the decisions that have been propagated from time to time, not to have been disadvantaged themselves. [More…]

• It has all the hallmarks of pre-war Germany, under the strutting arrogance of a neo-Hitler; with the direction of our news, media and police by a Himmler; with the monopoly of the media equal to that of a Goebbels; and the passive acquiescence of a frustrated and demoralised community. [More…]

• He gave an indication of the real attitude of the Government to the trade union movement when he said that the Government is prepared to take such legislative action as to ensure that the community is protected against the actions of industrial gangsters. [More…]

• One would honestly think that this section of the community is their enemy. [More…]

• We could argue that this Bill is of such concern to a large section of the community that an approach ought to be made to the GovernorGeneral not to give it royal assent. [More…]

• It is now very clear that the only segment of the Australian community supporting this clause is the Government. [More…]

• If there is no democracy in any sector of the community, the people do not respond to the community’s needs. [More…]

• If we go to page 2 of the second reading speech, we find the Minister saying that the legislation will 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 and welfare of the community are put at risk by industrial action. [More…]

• It now wonders why the work force of our community has become agitated and unsettled and in many cases has taken industrial action. [More…]

• If a man is a bit militant and he sticks up for his rights, he is immediately tabbed a militant member of the community and, in lots of cases, a communist. [More…]

• From 1971 to 1974 the manufacturing industries created 10,800 more jobs a year; community services, 36,500; wholesale and retail traders, 36,400; finance, 13,200; and public administration, 1 1,400, making a total of 108,000 new jobs a year between 1971 and 1974. [More…]

• The legislation will require a commissioner to consult with his deputy president before making or varying an award relating to wages and conditions; prohibit the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission from ordering, recommending or sanctioning an employer paying wages to an employee for time when the employee was engaged in industrial action; provide for the expeditious hearing of a stand-down application, 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 stage; 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 to a Full Bench; and provide increased protection for the community by creating an alternative path to the deregistration of organisations in cases where the safety, health or welfare of the community are put at risk by industrial action. [More…]

• This provision means that in special cases where there is a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community because of industrial action, application can be made to the Full Bench of the Commission, which has to hear the application and to deter mine whether those conditions are satisfied. [More…]

• The Full Bench has to determine whether in fact 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 a part of the community. [More…]

• Apart from the fact that in one case the court would be deregistering and in the other case the Governor-General would be doing so, and he has a discretion as to whether to do so, there is no fundamental difference really between the exercising of the powers of deregistration, except that the Government believes that in these cases the procedures will be able to be exercised more quickly, and for the greater protection of the community, than they can be exercised under the existing powers in the generality of cases when applications for deregistration take a considerable time. [More…]

• It is only because of the urgency of the matter in the particular threat to the safety, health or welfare of the community that the Government is proposing these additional and more expeditious powers. [More…]

• I ask him whether it is in accordance with the Constitution, with all the democratic and legal traditions underlying the Australian community, for it to be provided in a Bill presented to this Parliament that an organisation might be deregistered or be done away with; that the Government might suspend benefits flowing to its members, including wages; that the Government can take control of the funds of an organisation within the Australian community simply be taking a decision in Cabinet. [More…]

• If so, what steps are being taken to stop New Zealand holidaymakers bludging on the Australian community? [More…]

• That was something which was recommended by the Australian Law Reform Commission in 1975, which was brought in in legislative form in 1977 and which is of significance and importance to the Australian community, but this report, which might have been expected to give some account of the progress of this legislation along with the other matters it gives attention to, appears to be quite silent on that subject. [More…]

• At a time of such economic cutback and restraints, at a time when we cannot get adequate funding for any of the social programs that are needed in the community, it is not unreasonable to ask the Government when it is proposing to spend some hundreds of millions of taxpayers dollars on a new development that the costing be justified. [More…]

• Also, in addressing itself to the question of cost, it reveals that by 1982 even a basic satellite system will cost the public sector in excess of $325m, and it underlines that that is not the total cost to the community. [More…]

• I commence by noting the reference by the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Groom), as recorded at page 2096 of the House of Representatives Hansard, to those in the community who actively encourage the circumvention of immigration laws. [More…]

• I think people who know the ethnic geography of New South Wales know of the heavily concentrated Italian community in the area from Leichhardt right through to Five Dock and Concord. [More…]

• Some members of the Greek community pointed to him and asked: Why did he get away with it? [More…]

• We are all very well aware that the character of the Australian community has changed and that there has been some considerable amendment to immigration policies with the volume and nature of movements of people coming into and moving out of Australia. [More…]

• It is always a problem for governments of any day to work out in legislative form just what regulations for entry and residence should be, whether the regulations should reflect the needs and desires of the people coming to this country and wishing to remain here, or whether they should reflect the attitudes and interests of the community. [More…]

• Of course, we must take into account the degree of protection necessary for the Australian community in relation to the entry of people from other countries. [More…]

• There is a range of areas in which it is important that the Australian community should be protected, sometimes in the economic sphere, sometimes in the trading sphere and sometimes in the social sphere. [More…]

• Indeed, we have to take into account that there are those within our own Australian community who very actively promote and encourage visitors to break the law, to evade controls. [More…]

• Immigration restrictions applied mainly to people of nonEuropean origin and the occupational categories which were sought by the Australian community covered the whole spectrum of occupations, including unskilled workers. [More…]

• In addition to helping people to find vocations, occupations and employment and to extend their range of skills, the purpose of this Council was to help those people who came in to become integrated into the community. [More…]

• The worst thing for migrants and for this country would be if the people coming here so completely identified themselves with the Australian community and with the Australian way of life that they lost all distinguishing characteristics and became so totally absorbed into the community that they were not distinguishable in any way from the people already here. [More…]

• That policy has served Australia and the Australian community very well but, as the second reading speech points out, there have been many changes since then. [More…]

• Events within our area of the world have produced a renewed thinking on the part of Australian people as to where the Australian population situation goes from here and the kinds of people who shall comprise the Australian community. [More…]

• Our new thinking has opened up the controversial fields not only of the kind of people that we may seek to accept into the Australian community and encourage to become part of the Australian community, but also of what shall happen to those people in our area of the world who have nowhere else to go and who, even as we speak here this afternoon, are abroad on the highways and high seas of the world looking for a country to receive them and knowing that Australia, with its particular opportunities, is not far beyond the horizon. [More…]

• While we claim that we can, should and must determine who shall be members of our Australian community, the question is being asked in this community as to how long we can claim sovereignty over a continent the size of Australia and yet deny access to people whose circumstances are particularly serious. [More…]

• I am sure that the Australian community, recognising its geographical location, will accept its responsibilities also. [More…]

• It is looming even larger today as the Australian community faces a new situation in areas immediately surrounding it. [More…]

• In that way the Government will benefit not only the Australian community but also, in particular, the people who might be fortunate enough to come here. [More…]

• It may well be that there is on the present case law a point at which a person becomes a member of the community or becomes absorbed into the community- as the judges have put it- so that at that point the person ceases to be an immigrant for the purposes of the reach of Federal constitutional power. [More…]

• The case was taken to the High Court of Australia, much to the concern of the Scottish community. [More…]

• Are people who make inquiries on behalf of ill or distressed migrants to be charged $15 a time for trying to serve the members of their community? [More…]

• I repeat that the English language test and the provisions of extra points for people who can speak English already put non-English-speaking migrants at a disadvantage; and the migrant community frequently points that out. [More…]

• Does it mean that there will be two classes of people: Those who know of or think of going to their member of parliament and those who do not know of their member of parliament and seek assistance from some other agency, particularly a self-help group, of which there are many in the community? [More…]

• Many organisations and individuals in the community and in this parliament have anxiously awaited the Government’s plans and ideas in relation to the future development of this very important program. [More…]

• This Bill does extend the program, but neither the Bill nor the second reading speech tell us very much about the future of the program, except that some youth refuges will be established under the Youth Services Program in the Office of Child Care, that some homeless people already receive support under the Community Health Program- that is, women’s shelters, and they have done so for four or five years- and that other homeless people receive support from welfare housing and the Family Support Services Scheme. [More…]

• That women’s refuges ended up with the Community Health Program because of impatience with progress at the time- it was done when Labor was in officeand because more funds were available in that area is to be regretted. [More…]

• When we consider this group, which is so often the so-called skid row people in this community, we see an area of considerable need, one in which many fine people in this community have laboured long and hard. [More…]

• Such institutions also deserve community support, not the obstructiveness and difficulties that are put in their way by those who prefer not to see them or prefer to keep them out of sight and out of mind. [More…]

• I refer to the plight of the young homeless, the teenage homeless in this community. [More…]

• Some eight to ten years ago we did not hear much about it at all, probably because there were very few young homeless in the community, so few that they were just not noticed. [More…]

• Whenever we introduce a program for a broad group of people like this, we must make sure that flexibility prevails; for instance, that the artificial cut-off point of 1 8 years is not rigidly applied because there will be many people between 19 years and, say, 24 years of age who are immature and who do not appropriately fit into the sort of accommodation that is usually available for homeless persons, particularly homeless men, in our community today. [More…]

• This program should be closely associated with other programs which help unemployed youth, programs such as the Community Youth Support Scheme, where unemployed and potentially homeless and alienated youths will attend for assistance or to gather with people of their own type. [More…]

• In summing up, I point out firstly, that the Opposition has moved this amendment to draw to the attention of the Government and the community the utter inadequacy of the food and accommodation subsidies available under this program in 1979. [More…]

• This community can and must afford to increase them. [More…]

• One aspect of this unemployed homeless situation in the community which is very damaging and very dangerous is what I would like to call the scapegoat principle. [More…]

• It is very easy in any society for those in authority- the Government particularly or the media- to incite generally in the community a feeling of hostility towards a disadvantaged minority. [More…]

• I think the community would support, even more than it has done in the past, any genuine attempt by the Government to salvage these young lives and to do something about the matter. [More…]

• As my colleague Senator Grimes has already said, we have moved this amendment because of our concern and disappointment that this Bill does not go anywhere near meeting the needs of the community that it is supposed to serve, that is, those large number of people who are classified as and considered to be homeless. [More…]

• The term homeless person’ may include such casual, seasonal or migratory workers who present welfare problems while passing through a community or staying in it for a relatively short time. [More…]

• Many more people in the community can and must be considered homeless. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to make an appeal to the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Durack), who now has some departmental responsibility as it is his officers who must make a definition of what goods are pornographic and what goods are not, or what would fall under the strictures of Regulation 4A and what would not, to convey to the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Fife) the fact that members of the community feel genuine concern, as do members of parliament that when we introduce the Bounty (Books) Act we did not expect it would be used in this fashion. [More…]

• Naracoorte District Development League, a voluntary community group which helps promote Naracoorte, asks the Australian Broadcasting Commission to consider changing part of the callsign of the South Eastern radio station 5MG Mount Gambier-5PA Naracoorte. [More…]

• Successive governments in recent years have taken the view that age pensions should be taxable and that, for tax purposes, aged persons should not be treated differently from other members of the community. [More…]

• I also ask whether it is reasonable that large sections of the community be exposed to high levels of lead, carbon monoxide and dioxide and sulphur dioxide, when the remedy is in the Government’s hands- to promote the use of liquid petroleum gas, which contains only minute quantities of pollutants and, at the same time, to bring about huge savings in oil imports and public health costs. [More…]

• That, as it is clear that unemployment is a long term problem in Australia, the Government should extend to the unemployed the same assistance as is given to any other disadvantaged member of the community. [More…]

• That we, the undersigned citizens of Australia, believe there are conflicting community standards prevailing relating to offensive language. [More…]

• The Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take all possible steps to ensure all personnel associated with the transmission and broadcasting of Television and Radio be required to adhere to an acceptable code of ethics relating to language thus giving community members confidence that breaches of common decency codes will not occur. [More…]

• -I refer the Minister for Social Security to a statement put out by her and the then Minister for Community Welfare Services in Victoria, Mr Dixon, in April of this year in which she and the Victorian Minister announced matching grants for youth services totalling $526,200 a year for emergency accommodation and related services for homeless youth in Victoria. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Minister has criticised the Noonkanbah community for repudiating an agreement with a mining company? [More…]

• For that reason I would like to express my very great regret at the repudiation of the agreement by the Noonkanbah community . [More…]

• what we should all be trying to encourage is a situation in which the miner and the leaseholder get together and make arrangements of the sort that were apparently made with Conzinc Riotinto of Australia, which ensures that the community gets some protection in both a social and a spiritual sense. [More…]

• I certainly stand by those comments, but I am very pleased to say that earlier today I was advised by the Aboriginal Legal Service in Western Australia that the Noonkanbah community has reaffirmed its agreement with CRA and that the agreement is now on foot again and will apply for the balance of this year. [More…]

• I very much welcome the agreement and the return to it by the Noonkanbah community. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the media reports of a speech over the weekend by Mr Ian Spicer of the Victorian Employers Federation in which he stated that the man hours lost to commerce and industry through accidents at the work place are 40 times those lost due to industrial disputes and cost the community many hundreds of millions of dollars? [More…]

• As part of the efforts to engender greater public awareness and understanding of the issues involved, the report was also circulated widely to educational institutions, libraries and interested community organisations. [More…]

• One of the publicly stated aims of Project Australia is that it be a national apolitical community involvement program among all people within the Australian community: to increase senses of national identity, pride and purpose towards our country, our people and our achievements, skills and potential. [More…]

• The television commercial to which Senator Bonner has referred was purposely designed to avoid being identified with any one field of endeavour, personality, or community group with the exception of the cartoon character of ‘Norm’ who makes a brief appearance to introduce the commercial. [More…]

• However in one of the follow up commercials specific reference was made to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Telecom receives numerous approaches from various organisations including service type organisations for concessional charges and without doubting the worthiness of the claims for preferential treatment, Telecom believes that it is wrong in principle for Telecom users generally- rather than the community at large- to bear the cost of these concessions. [More…]

• By the time the Session had concluded, many community leaders were prepared to write it off as merely a public relations exercise. [More…]

• That was the aspiration that prompted the United Nations to take the step of trying to bring about a realisation in the world community of the responsibilities associated with disarmament. [More…]

• It is a small wonder then that the United Nations should continue to call for the world community to concern itself with disarmament. [More…]

• If we do not assist in the achievement of these essential controls, in the long term the world community will be the loser and, by the way, we will not be acting in accordance with the wording of the matter of public importance proposed by Senator Wriedt which states in part: . [More…]

• Yet we as a world community continue year after year to pursue policies and to implement programs which are diametrically opposed to that yearning of mankind. [More…]

• We have no right to be surprised, therefore, when in turning our back on that imperative we find a world community which is unable to bear the strains, conflicts and distortions which have brought about the virtual collapse of much of the economic system as we know it and certainly of the social and political interrelations that should obtain between sovereign states. [More…]

• I believe that in that quotation one has a ready summary of the effect, the distortions, that creep into the balance between military and social expenditures which should characterise any civilised world community. [More…]

• There are so many things which any reasonable, rational, world community should set out to do with even a fraction of the funds which at the moment are being spent on the accumulation of vast arsenals directed to destruction. [More…]

• At one point Senator Tate said that surely this truth would be self-evident to a reasonable and rational world community. [More…]

• Often the world community, as a community, does not act reasonably and rationally. [More…]

• Perhaps we ought to be directing our attention- I suppose we are in a sense- not just to the surface issue of armaments, expenditure on armaments and the proliferation of weapons but also to the measures that might create a more reasonable and rational world community so that we will all behave more reasonably and rationally in our attitudes and relationships with one another on this very small globe that we inhabit. [More…]

• There is widespread support in the community for Commonwealth involvement in a national system of companies and securities industry regulation. [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…]

• They need greater sustenance that the normal person in the community needs. [More…]

• Yet Government members go out in the community and say to people that they have the interests of the needy people of Australia at heart. [More…]

• All it is interested in is dollars of profit going into the pockets of the capitalist section of the community. [More…]

• They are in desperate need of assistance from the wealthy section of this community, which can well afford to pay. [More…]

• I think it is high time that the people of Australia were alerted to the fact that this is a heartless government which could not care less about the needy people in the community. [More…]

• I think we should draw attention to the fact that, because no increase has been made in the subsidies provided under this legislation, it has become extremely difficult for the voluntary organisations operating in the community not only to continue with the programs which they already have established but also to expand any of those programs. [More…]

• This means that sooner or later those organisations which are working in that capacity in the community will have to take up other activities to raise funds in order to continue those projects. [More…]

• I would hate to think that those organisations might have to resort, as a lot of women’s refuges do, to lamington drives and the like simply in order to provide a service to the needy people of the community. [More…]

• Nevertheless, today is International Child ‘s Day and a lot of children are starving in the Australian community because their parents are starving. [More…]

• High numbers of people in the community cannot afford to eat. [More…]

• As has been suggested already, funds can be made available by imposing higher rates of taxation on the people who are making a profit out of the provision in the community of those very services about which we have spoken so much today. [More…]

• I refer to the food services in the community- to the very small number of people who control the food industry, who dictate not only the price a person will pay for the food but also the quality of the food a person will eat. [More…]

• We have had evidence to that effect not only before this chamber but also before various committees and non-government organisations throughout the community. [More…]

• Yet people in those organisations may be the very people who could give the Department most valuable information as to the number of homeless people in a community. [More…]

• That practice would assist governments in establishing just how many people in the community are disadvantaged in some way. [More…]

• Because of their youth, they are possibly more homeless than a lot of other people in the community. [More…]

• All of us are aware that a large number of young people have become unemployed or have never been employed in the community. [More…]

• People in the community perhaps would not consider going to a crisis centre and asking for overnight accommodation. [More…]

• Whilst I have devoted quite a bit of my speech to the problems of the young people who must be classified as homeless, there are other people in the community who also qualify. [More…]

• I believe that their morale is very low and that the opportunities are always there for people who are homeless, people who do not feel that they are being supported by the community, to venture into petty crime, into problems of drugs which are so prevalent in our community. [More…]

• Those people are part and parcel of the Australian community. [More…]

• However, as has been stated throughout the debate, the youth services program is one in which the States are working on a matching basis with the Commonwealth Government, and the community health program, under which women’s refuges are funded, is another program where the States are working well with the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• But I feel that at this stage an important task for the Government is to consider to what extent the Council might embark upon a tripartite study on the question of employment generally within the community. [More…]

• There are amendments improving the lot of some pensioners and others in the community, of which we approve. [More…]

• There are amendments which we consider are discriminatory against the unemployed and against trade unionists in this community, to which we have considerable objection and which we will oppose. [More…]

• These non-financial benefits make a considerable difference to the level at which people live in this community. [More…]

• In fact, the Government has a policy to save money at the expense of some of the poorest people in the community. [More…]

• They remain at the level of $36 a week that they were given in 1975, despite escalating costs, despite a great increase in their numbers and particularly despite the fact that, as was noted by all speakers on the legislation dealing with the homeless persons assistance program, they are increasingly joining the ranks of the homeless in the community because of their own unemployment and because of family stress caused by adult unemployment in their families and homes. [More…]

• Unemployment increases and the unemployed suffer, but the Government sticks to its resolve that market forces will somehow solve this problem, and anyone who has the temerity to suggest a different approach- such as the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace or the Anglican Synod in Tasmania- is likely to be labelled as marxist by people such as Mr Carlton, the honourable member for Mackellar, who apparently believes that anyone who advocates redistribution of wealth in this community from the more well off to the poorer is automatically a marxist. [More…]

• But, no, the name calling starts and anyone who issues a pamphlet, as the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace did, is labelled marxist in the pejorative sense for suggesting some change or some new approach to the very real problems which face us in the community. [More…]

• The first is a comparison of poverty lines and the disposable incomes of various low income families in the community, produced by the Statistical Service of the Parliamentary Library. [More…]

• These are the lowest of the low income families in the community. [More…]

• So much for assistance to the really low income families in this community. [More…]

• We believe that this legislation should aim at providing the basis of a social security service which provides for those in need in the community. [More…]

• In its obsession with cutting expenditure, particularly in relation to the unemployment benefit, the Government has picked on the least organised group in the community, the group with the least political cloutthe single unemployed of all ages. [More…]

• Above all members of the community they are refused cost of living increases. [More…]

• I suggest that those words could well be taken up by the community in general. [More…]

• If we do this, if we keep adding to the difficulties of the unemployed and the numbers of unemployed and disadvantaged in the community, we will imbue in people a chronic sense of injustice, that things are not fair. [More…]

• These amendments underline the Government’s continued concern for those most in need in our community. [More…]

• Despite the remarks of members of the Opposition, I believe that the community acknowledges the Government’s concern. [More…]

• We can see no justification, particularly in light of the figures on inflation released today, for people who cannot help themselves having to wait six months before their pensions are indexed while everybody else in the community receives an immediate benefit. [More…]

• The burden of the editorial was to denigrate a very fair system established by the Government to balance the rights of individual doctors and of the community at large. [More…]

• Wales Minister for Youth and Community Services, is quoted as being extremely critical of certain allocations to West Brewarrina, which is a settlement in New South Wales. [More…]

• In addition, there are to be cooperative arrangements between the shire and the community which will ensure that the place is kept cleaner in future. [More…]

• I ask: Having in mind the problems that exist in the fields of Aboriginal health, education and employment and the fact that a large number of organisations, including government departments and authorities and community organisations, participate in these areas, does the Government acknowledge that there appears to be a lack of efficiency and a degree of high cost associated with many, although not all, of these organisations, where consultation and liaison is minimal, and there is much overlapping and duplication of effort? [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…]

• It is more concerned with forcing legislation through the Parliament to mete out some injustices to trade unions rather than to get legislation through which will benefit the pensioners of this community. [More…]

• I think the pensioners of this community and the work force ought to be well advised of where the Government’s priorities lie. [More…]

• So, its priorities fall far short of what the community of Australia deserves. [More…]

• These people have paid taxes for many years and deserve the benefits of our social security system and deserve protection against inflation in receiving those benefits as much as anybody else in the community does. [More…]

• I have no intention ever of introducing a policy whereby family allowances will be removed from anyone in the community. [More…]

• We are talking about justice in the community and a social services Act which is meant to give assistance to people who are in need. [More…]

• The Government has to justify excluding that group and demonstrate why a 45-year-old man or a 45-year-old spinster who has been working all his or her life and paying taxes should suddenly not be eligible for the protection against inflation that everybody else in the community is entitled to. [More…]

• I just wonder whether, if these homes are so few and if the inmates are so few, is it not cheeseparing to have cut this amount down for this small group of people in the community. [More…]

• That is something that we do not oppose and which will certainly be of assistance to many pensioners in the community. [More…]

• The difficulty that we have- as I pointed out at the second reading stage and in the tables which reviewed the people on low incomes and in poverty in this community- is that the unemployed group, particularly the unemployed families, stay in their poverty track because of their low income entitlement, the low allowable income they can earn and the harshness of the means test which is applied to them. [More…]

• I read in the second reading speech all the comments by various people in the community who did not think much of this proposal- people such as the honourable member for Casey, Mr Falconer, of the Government Members Industrial Relations Committee; Senator Hall, who was once a Liberal in this place; the editorialists in the Age, the Canberra Times and the Sydney Morning Herald of recent weeks, all of whom condemn this legislation because what it is doing is making the innocent suffer when they have no control over the situation at all. [More…]

• In those days pensions were considered bad for the morale of the community. [More…]

• No one in the community is more despised or despicable than a scab; that is, a person who takes a free ride and takes what the members of a trade union get for him. [More…]

• This clause debars members of a particular section of the community from unemployment benefit because they happen to be members of a particular union. [More…]

• As Senator Grimes stated, the Government wishes to return to the days before child endowment and before other benefits which are now accepted in our community. [More…]

• The Government is now creating a weapon to turn worker against worker in the community. [More…]

• I think it has been clearly demonstrated by Senator Cavanagh, Senator Harradine and others that the manner in which trade unions operate in this community- the manner in which trade unions are structured in this community- will mean that the industrial situation will not get better as a result of this legislation being enacted; in fact, it may get worse. [More…]

• Having been deregistered, put out of work and classified as one taking part in an industrial action, these people not only lose their rights in the community but also are deprived of their rights to sustenance under the Social Services Act. [More…]

• I believe that many sections of the Australian community could and would co-operate to bring about better industrial relations, but that will not happen with legislation such as this. [More…]

• It will increase the hatred between sections of the community. [More…]

• Perhaps the Minister could then come back and say that the Government has seen the errors of its ways and agrees to some modification to the clause so that after the legislation is passed, we will not find, say next year, perhaps the whole community being put at risk because of what is being imposed in this legislation. [More…]

• That move threw a great strain on the State Government community welfare departments and on the voluntary welfare organisations. [More…]

• The only people to whom they could turn were the community welfare departments or the voluntary welfare organisations. [More…]

• Mr Ron Payne, who was the South Australian Minister for Community Welfare, had to make a special trip to Canberra to talk to departmental officers about the possibility of getting some assistance to relieve the strain that was being placed on his own State department. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether it is the Government ‘s intention to make extra moneys available through some other avenue, not only to the community welfare departments or whatever they are termed in the States, but also to the voluntary organisations so that they can provide the necessary food and clothing or whatever else may be needed for the people who are out of work, and their wives and dependants. [More…]

• My question directed to the Minister was whether she would be prepared to provide extra funds to the voluntary organisations and to the State community welfare departments to cover an emergency which may arise out of the imposition of this legislation. [More…]

• I am sure there are not enough members in the Government parties who have the experience that members on this side of the chamber have had in working with the needy people in this community. [More…]

• It will create chaos throughout the community. [More…]

• I think that it would be interesting for us to look at this in a year’s time to see what has happened to the behaviour of the Director-General and his various delegates around the community and see also how this is reflected in the figures. [More…]

• All we are seeing is a repeat of the performance that we have seen since this Government came into power- this obsession every year in the social services legislation and practically every month in the Commonwealth Employment Service guidelines, to tighten up the guidelines, and change the legislation to restrict people on unemployment benefit in order to impress those of their supporters and those misguided people in the community who believe that the unemployed are unemployed because they want to be, that unemployment does not in fact exist and that there are jobs for all, despite the figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the CES, which show that there are some 25 unemployed in this country for every job vacancy available. [More…]

• In my own State, the Sunshine Christian Community Services reports a 460 per cent increase in families seeking relief. [More…]

• The Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau reports that demand has increased by 50 per cent for every six months for the last three years. [More…]

• It is becoming a real issue in the community. [More…]

• I can only say that the Government is committed to the family allowance scheme and that it finds that the Australian community supports this scheme very strongly. [More…]

• Whilst we have been able to overcome possibly twothirds of the emergency aid problem that was mentioned in that report and we have a small fund through which we will be able to assist some of the voluntary agencies in their work, I would think that the community at large, which has supported those voluntary agencies in the past, will still find the compassion and the resources from which to give them assistance so that, outside of government, there is another avenue of assistance for the most dire emergencies. [More…]

• These Bills provide that lone parents, supporting parents and their dependants in this community, other than those that are excluded by an income test in the Social Services Act, will receive fringe benefits. [More…]

• As the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) has indicated in the past, I hope that this legislation will be the forerunner of this country having a lone parents pension so that there will not be distinctions that there are now between the various types of lone parents in the community. [More…]

• Lone parents will now receive the health benefits and pharmaceutical benefits that should be available to disadvantaged people in the community. [More…]

• The Australian Medical Association considers that it is the best judge of who is disadvantaged in this country and who is in need of assistance; it is not the Government or the elected representatives of the people and not the welfare workers or researchers in the community who view the statistics and look at the social problems we have, but the doctors who are the best people to judge. [More…]

• I congratulate the Government for taking it upon itself to decide who is disadvantaged in this community and who deserves to have pensioner health cards. [More…]

• In the case of repatriation pensioners, it is important to note that the December 1 978 quarter showed a high increase in the consumer price index for which repatriation pensioners wil not be compensated until November this year by which time they are already much worse off, given other increases in the cost of living and in the cost of almost every form of purchase in the community. [More…]

• -These Bills are of interest to the Opposition because they demonstrate to us and to the community in general an interesting case study of how the Government works, how it makes its decisions and the desperate situations it gets into. [More…]

• I suppose that both the AUS comment and the comment in similar vein which was made by Yvonne Preston in the National Times of 27 October simply go to show that one can keep on repeating statements of policy, but if there are people in the community who do not want to believe statements of policy, it does not matter how often we repeat it; we will not be able to budge them away from the fact - [More…]

• For some time the community in Australia and the Government, reflecting the opinion of that community, have been concerned at a number of costs in relation to education. [More…]

• Of course, this is not a new process because, after all, there is no such thing as anything that is free within the community. [More…]

• The Australian Government, therefore the Australian taxpayer and the Australian community, will still substantially subsidise the costs of overseas students. [More…]

• I refer firstly to his statement that there is widespread concern in the Australian community about the subsidising by the Australian taxpayer of the tertiary education of overseas students in Australia. [More…]

• It must be the effect of charging an extra $1,500 to $2,000 a year for undergraduate courses and $2,500 for postgraduate courses on top of the $3,500 to $4,000 a year which families and community groups in [More…]

• To find an extra $1,500 to $2,500 will put education beyond the limits of certain families and community groups. [More…]

• Of course, not only will this Bill put education beyond the reach of the helping sustenance of families and groups in the communities that the students come from but also it will put certain Australian community aid groups in a position where they cannot offer as much assistance and as much help as they did previously. [More…]

• One is looking for the best available talent to make a contribution not to Australia, not to their home country, but to the field of study concerned, for the benefit of the world community. [More…]

• They are voiceless within this community. [More…]

• Through training programs for those students who come to be among us all in the Australian community we achieved a better understanding of each other. [More…]

• Also, does the Government intend to establish, and assist in the funding of, a committee representative of interested groups in the Australian community to undertake research and to publicise the second Special Session on Disarmament in 1 980, along lines similar to those of committees established for the International Women’s Year and the International Year of the Child? [More…]

• As pan of efforts to engender greater public awareness and understanding of the issues involved, the report was also circulated widely to educational institutions, libraries and interested community organisations. [More…]

• In the case of International Women’s Year and the International Year of the Child, the international community required governments to promote national activities and it was appropriate for the Government to sponsor and to assist in funding committees established by Non-Governmental Organisations to support these two years. [More…]

• As this measure would be of great assistance to the unemployed in this country and has been advocated by many groups in the community, and as the work these people would be able to do as a result of this incentive would be of great benefit to the community, will the Minister arrange for this reform to be implemented as soon as possible and arrange for the Parliament to be informed of the progress in this matter? [More…]

• As Australia has considerable responsibility towards these near neighbours, will the Government take action by, firstly, offering the Indonesian Government defence force equipment and personnel such as transport, helicopters, medical teams and engineers to deliver essential food supplies and equipment for agriculture, the reconstruction of roads and so on; and, secondly, offering taxation deduction incentives to give added encouragement to the Australian community to donate to such funds as the Catholic Refugee Fund, Lions International and Australian Red Cross, which are taking the initiative in raising funds and forwarding essential supplies to Timor? [More…]

• Does the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs intend to make a declaration under section S of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities Self-management) Act 1975 to enable the Yarrabah Council to manage and control the affairs of the Yarrabah community? [More…]

• If he has seen these statements, does he share the general concern which is widespread in large sections of the Australian community about the generally inadequate levels of funding provided for research and development work in Australia? [More…]

• Indeed, I believe it should be a matter for greater concern within the community than it has been in the past. [More…]

• But there can be no flowing back of benefit into the community and into the Australian economy unless we are able to use in a fruitful way the experience and talent that reside within those universities. [More…]

• The community wants freedom of information legislation. [More…]

• I feel quite sure that freedom of information would go a long way in this community to taking away that tremendous cynicism about government and about parliamentarians of which we hear so much. [More…]

• The Committee believes it will also satisfy a wide community interest that has been generated by the inquiry. [More…]

• No government has carried out a more rigorous assessment of its programs or initiated more community consultations and continuing research. [More…]

• No Government has carried out a more rigorous assessment of its programs or initiated more community consultations and continuing research. [More…]

• But at the moment there is limited activity in this area - formal research of community needs- -because of the lack of resources and the fact that the technology is very much a ‘ new art ‘. [More…]

• It is not available to members of this Parliament and it is not available to the public or the researchers in this community. [More…]

• It is unfortunate because, if we are going to remain so defensive about reports of this type, we will not achieve much in this community. [More…]

• The aims of this Committee were to examine the extent, the quality and quantity of evaluation in this community, particularly in the health and welfare field. [More…]

• The report of the Committee does not cast judgment on any welfare or health program in this community. [More…]

• No government has carried out a more rigorous assessment of its programs or initiated more community consultations and continuing research. [More…]

• With due respect, it never consulted the community groups before doing so. [More…]

• Currently there is obviously considerable controversy and confusion in the community and, I would suggest, in the mind of the Government about what the Government is to do about health insurance. [More…]

• It is not the way to develop confidence in the people of this community. [More…]

• That the functions of the Australian Narcotics Bureau and relevant State and Territory law enforcement agencies be expressed in terms of community patterns of drug use, and that failure to affect these patterns appropriately be considered prima facie evidence of inadequate performance requiring re-evaluation of the roles, structures and funding of such agencies. [More…]

• I hope that this sort of approach by the Government will not mean that it will ignore the need for education, proper prevention and treatment and the need to change the attitude to drugs in this community which is probably at the base of our whole problem. [More…]

• In the process of disrupting the effective areas of government administration, not only did it contribute towards the tragedy of Timor by the way in which it created dissatisfaction and disaffection within the Australian community but also it caused to be put aside for a period of four or five years the question of reorganising the Federal police and the Narcotics Bureau. [More…]

• It is an area in which community concern has been expressed on many occasions in recent times. [More…]

• We are aware of a growing community concern and of charges and counter-charges in respect to the deficiencies that obviously exist in the area of the control of drugs. [More…]

• What we can say is that drug trafficking in this country is now taking place on a massive scale; it is growing and it is involving large sections of the Australian community- in particular, large numbers of our young people. [More…]

• Yet you present this as ascertaining a complete Council view, which then automatically represents the true feelings of the Yarrabah community. [More…]

• You are reminded that the weeks leading up to 25 June and the day itself were in our view precisely what we envisaged, and what we believed would prove harmful both to the Yarrabah community and to a desirable amicability between our Governments. [More…]

• Having undertaken to have talks, I believe it would have been a breach of faith with the community not to have gone to Yarrabah and in the event, I am sorry that you were not present to witness and indeed take part in the discussions. [More…]

• A telegram was sent by Senator Chaney on 6 July 1979 to Mr Percy Neal, the Chairman of the Yarrabah Community Council, care of the Yarrabah Post Office. [More…]

• When I have sent telegrams through the Yarrabah Post Office, to my knowledge none has ever been delivered to the community. [More…]

• The Yarrabah Aboriginal Community has a Council comprising: [More…]

• The Minister may upon the petition of at least two-thirds of the electors of a Reserve or Community, in respect of which an Aboriginal Council is established, if in his opinion it is necessary to do so, by notice in writing dissolve such Council whereupon: [More…]

• Yet the Queensland Government keeps on telling us that the community councillors are the people with the real authority. [More…]

• We the undersigned, being at least two-thirds of the electorate of the Yarrabah community hereby petition you to dissolve the existing Aboriginal Council of Yarrabah. [More…]

• The Manager, Yarrabah, advised that during the morning, Mr R. Chahan at approximately 10.15 a.m. was sighted in the Community with Mr Alf Neal, N.A.C. [More…]

• Representatives (lives at Yarrabah) approaching the Community from the farming areas in a D.A.A. [More…]

• One would think it was an enemy vehicle moving into the Yarrabah community. [More…]

• This is from a member of the Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs staff to Percy Neal, the Chairman of the Yarrabah Community Council. [More…]

• One of the claims is that until such time as the Aborigines and Islanders of Queensland are given land rights and equality within the community- until those two rotten Acts are abolished- they will never be free and there will never be happiness amongst the Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• That is the first objective of Commonwealth policy and one which I believe is in the interests of the Aboriginal people and which would, I think, have the general support of the Australian community. [More…]

• The effectiveness of the Act depends on the ability of the Commonwealth Government to negotiate land tenure for any community which may petition to come under the Act. [More…]

• Consequently we respectfully request the Minister to try to negotiate with the Queensland Government on behalf of the Yarrabah council a form of land tenure for the Yarrabah community council similar to that legislated for Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, with the addition of timber rights. [More…]

• I recorded the fact that the governments proposed- to develop proposals for discussions with the Yarrabah community by the end of October with a view to both Commonwealth and State Ministers visiting Yarrabah in November for further discussions with the Council. [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…]

• At a time when it is apparently fashionable to attack the public service infrastructure, which provides the administration and essential services on Communities, it is important to record that no Council has accepted the financial and administrative responsibility for the running of Community affairs to the extent for which provision has been made. [More…]

• The present level of participation by Community Councils ranges across a broad spectrum, with the most experienced and responsible forming a partnership in decision-making with the State Public Service administration. [More…]

• Thi continued development of Community Councils, in terms of experience, maturity, and the active role they fill in day to day affairs, is the logical progression encouraged by State policies. [More…]

• Again, I find that very much in line with the promotion of individual and community responsibility which is fundamental to Commonwealth policy. [More…]

• I have considerable concern for the community attitude since. [More…]

• I make one brief final remark about the community’s attitude in this case. [More…]

• I have been disappointed, and have expressed my disappointment, at the attitude of some people in the local community, people who should have known better, people who are considered to be people of substance in the community. [More…]

• To my knowledge, as I have said in another place, he has supported a very poor family by feeding it and by helping clothe the children when others in the near community were not so concerned. [More…]

• I deplore the attitude of some members of the community and hope that, by some of us speaking out and defending the family, that sort of rumour mongering will be squashed. [More…]

• Although it occurs in all communities and will occur in the future, it should not happen in this day and age when such xenophobia is unbecoming a civilised community. [More…]

• Apart from the provision of programs directly by Commonwealth departments, mechanisms used are grants to the States, cost-sharing arrangements with the States, direct funding to ethnic or community organisations, and commissioning of outside organisations to conduct surveys. [More…]

• Maintaining a continuous liaison with airlines, community groups and other interested authorities about possible noise nuisance to proposed housing and other community projects. [More…]

• Recommending appropriate additional investigation and research into community noise problems associated with aircraft operations at the airport. [More…]

• From 1 July 1979, a six month trial commenced for delayed international flights by noise-certificated aircraft to land at Sydney between 1 1 pm and midnight subject to stringent operational conditions to minimise noise impact on the community. [More…]

• Which community groups in the Australian Capital Territory are actively involved in settling refugees in the Territory. [More…]

• Has the Government placed any refugees in Canberra; if so, how many; if not, has it left all the work to community groups to pursue. [More…]

• 1 ) The community groups involved are the Indo China Refugee Association and the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocesan Committee for Refugee Settlement. [More…]

• responding to requests by community organisations. [More…]

• The Department of the Capital Territory has made houses available for accommodation of refugees, as well as a house in Narrabundah for use as a refugee community centre. [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…]

• That we, the undersigned citizens of Australia believe there are conflicting community standards prevailing relating to offensive language. [More…]

• The petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should take all possible steps to ensure all personnel associated with the transmission and broadcasting of Television and Radio be required to adhere to an acceptable code of ethics relating to language thus giving community members confidence that breaches of common decency codes will not occur. [More…]

• This is an area of some difficulty because the acceptability or otherwise of particular types of language or expressions within the community varies within different sections of the community. [More…]

• Objections will no doubt be raised from time to time and it is the responsibility of those statutory bodies to try to ensure that standards meet the general requirements of the community. [More…]

• In any area of allocation of government funds I have not experienced a year in which no group or body, whether or not it be a research group in the community particularly in relation to universities, has expressed some dissatisfaction in its desire that more funds be made available to it. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and follows a question I asked him yesterday, and his answer, in respect of the intention of the Government to make a declaration under section 5 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities Self-management) Act 1975 to enable the Yarrabah Council to manage and control its community. [More…]

• It certainly is the concern of the Opposition and the general community. [More…]

• There is mounting evidence to support the claim that public concern ought to be accommodated by the Parliament because we have witnessed in recent times- I am talking now of the last 20 or 30 years- a regular and relentless rise in prices generally in the Australian community. [More…]

• This Bill is of immense importance to the Australian community. [More…]

• I should imagine that the general aim by the Government to control rising prices would achieve the full support of not only members of Parliament but also the business community, particularly those who are being severely affected by the escalation that is occurring daily in the cost of goods and services. [More…]

• He said that the solution to the problem of controlling inflation in the community is simply one of attacking the profitability of companies. [More…]

• It has committed itself to that policy by initiating inquiries of great importance in areas of great sensitivity in the economy and to large numbers of members of the community. [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…]

• Normally one would expect a Minister for Primary Industry, particularly one who claims to have particular empathy with the fanning community, to react favourably to this proposition. [More…]

• Today aldermen, councillors, wardens and others work on the provision of a wide range of community matters, including community centres, public health facilities, sporting and recreational facilities, libraries and cultural and artistic establishments. [More…]

• 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…]

• Establishment of an Advisory Council for Inter-Government Relations, including representatives of the Commonwealth, the States, local government and the community. [More…]

• Establishment of an Advisory Council for Inter-Government Relations, including representatives of the Commonwealth, the States, local government and the community. [More…]

• It is clear from Dr Edwards’ comments that the Opposition’s objections to the proposals in this Bill are not just objections which have been raised by the Labor Opposition but, in fact, commend themselves to a wide section of the community, including significant members of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• I lived in the Aboriginal community of Palm Island for quite a number of years. [More…]

• Andrew Kyle was held in high esteem by not only the Aboriginal community of the island but also departmental officers, including the then Director of Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Con O’Leary, and the then Deputy Director, Mr Percy Richards. [More…]

• Andrew and his wife were accorded great respect by not only the departmental officers but also the whole of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• His father died some years ago and Eric, in common with many other young Aboriginal people, moved away from Palm Island to take his place in the general Australian community. [More…]

• Because young Eric Kyle’s father and mother had been very much involved in community affairs on Palm Island and the advancement of the Aboriginal people he learnt from his parents that he should take an interest in such matters and do whatever he could to forward the cause of Aboriginals wherever he decided to live. [More…]

• The policy of the Federal Government is one of assisting Aboriginal and Islander people throughout this nation to take their place in the general Australian community as respected and responsible citizens having the right to determine and manage their own affairs. [More…]

• I think it is quite unfair of Mr Bertoni to pick out the Aboriginal section of the Austraiian community and to regard the unemployment benefit that they receive as sit down money when there are about 300,000 Australians today in receipt of unemployment benefit. [More…]

• Why is he not saying that about the rest of the community? [More…]

• This is referring to Mr Kyle’s comments in relation to the allegations by Mr Bertoni- was not tabled by Mr Bertoni and I am informed the writer was an Aboriginal man who is well known amongst the Aboriginal community and those who know the community. [More…]

• It appears as though Mr Bertoni, who is a member of the National Party, has taken it upon himself to castigate and denigrate a very responsible and respected member of the Mount Isa community because he is endeavouring to do something for his own people to promote their welfare and lift them out of the doldrums in which they find themselves at the moment. [More…]

• Because of his background and his upbringing, as I understand it, he has the confidence of the majority of the Aboriginal people in the Mount Isa community. [More…]

• He also has the confidence of a number of very responsible people in that community. [More…]

• I also made mention of the fact that, if these lines were closed, an extra burden would be placed on the farming community and on people who lived in country centres. [More…]

• In respect of the imminent closure of lines policy he said that he would, at an appropriate stage, confer with community interests and other interests about lines to be closed. [More…]

• The business people of Port Adelaide, the union, the railway staff and the community generally have protested about the cutting down of the Port Adelaide freight section. [More…]

• Upon that basis the Minister, in a deputation at which I was present, said he agreed that he has to consider community representations. [More…]

• I think that in those circumstances the Minister might well consider an appropriate meeting with the South Australian Minister for Transport and with the community and the railway unions. [More…]

• But it has also been agreed by the Minister for Transport, Mr Nixon, that if there are community interests he will consider them. [More…]

• Firstly, there is a reference to a letter to Mr Bertoni from a woman who it is claimed works for the Balyanna Community Advancement Cooperative Society Ltd. Extracts from this letter are to be found in the Hansard, but the particular document was not tabled in the Queensland Parliament and, as far as I know, no copy has been made available to my Department. [More…]

• However, the following facts have been revealed in respect of the two allegations that I have mentioned: Firstly, that in 1976-77, $2,880-not $2,800, a very minor point- was allocated to Balyanna for inter-community visits. [More…]

• The area officer gave his approval for this expenditure for a community visit on 9 December 1977. [More…]

• This expenditure was part of the grant totalling $2,880 for inter-community visits. [More…]

• The expenditure of $974 on charters and $526 on other items relates to the intercommunity visit by the Mornington Island dance group to Mount Isa as part of Nadok- the National Aboriginal Day Celebrations- from 13 to 15 July 1978. [More…]

• He is president of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Legal Service and president of the Balyanna Community Advancement Co-operative Society Ltd. [More…]

• I am able now, if I may, to tell the Senate that the Australian Embassy staff and dependants number 12 and the Australian community numbers 29, making a total of 41 Australian nationals in Iran. [More…]

• There is disquiet in the community because there appears to be a prospect of continuing funding being cut. [More…]

• I will refer the matter to him and check with him as to whether, under the community health program, there have been any changes in the arrangements that existed formerly. [More…]

• Such help has not reached these people, firstly, because the plight of the population has not been known to most people in this community and, secondly, because the delivery of aid has been obstructed by the Indonesian authorities. [More…]

• During the debate in March 1977 I suggested that if we as a nation with a small population did not speak out when we saw maltreatment of a small population group anywhere, let alone on our doorstep, we did not deserve to take our place in a community of nations. [More…]

• But as a parliament or a nation we cannot allow our relationships with Indonesia or with anyone else to affect our rights and duties as parliamentarians and as humanitarians to report to the people of this community, to present to the people of this community, our concern about what is happening on our doorstep, to speak up for the people of East Timor and to request that something be done. [More…]

• It is now five years since the Family Law Act was instituted and there have been a great number of expressions of concern in the community at the time span between the presentation of the Bill, the passing of it by this Parliament and the setting up of the Institute of Family Studies. [More…]

• Nevertheless we are disturbed at a general constant theme of submissions coming before the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Family Law Act which has recognised the importance of such an Institute and at the dearth of information which is available in the community. [More…]

• The appointment not being taken up until February means that we have another three months time lag and there will, of necessity, be something like 12 months before the Institute will, in actual fact, be able to provide us with figures which we consider to be of vital importance for our community life. [More…]

• There is not only the studies it does itself, but also there is the co-ordination of other studies that are going on in the community. [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…]

• In other words, the Government has continued under the suspicion- I think, more than a suspicion- that it will allow a large and significant section of the Australian community to operate as a deprived class treated probably unfairly and possibly also unconstitutionally. [More…]

• It is equally easy to see how, in the process, the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Al Grassby, will be stripped of all those powers and responsibilities which have made him, over the last few years, such an effective voice for blacks and migrants in this country. [More…]

• I mention now, as I will mention again later, that the Commissioner for Community Relations has been sadly undernourished in his staffing since the Fraser Government took office. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby, is left by this Bill with little more than his title and a number of functions which he may or may not be allowed to exercise at the discretion of the Human Rights Commission of which he is not to be a member. [More…]

• There ought to be no doubt about the worth of Mr Grassby ‘s office and the role that he and his staff have played in the Commission for Community Relations. [More…]

• But notwithstanding those handicaps the Office set to work and has done as has been widely accepted in the community at large, an admirable job ever since. [More…]

• No one who has even read or even dipped into any of those reports of the Commission could fail to perceive them otherwise than as a searing indictment of the racism which still prevails in the Australian community, but, moreover, an indictment which is meticulously researched and documented. [More…]

• There is no doubt that, whatever the churlishness which is periodically and very often noisily expressed by Government spokesmen and backbenchers, he and his Commission enjoy enormous respect and credibility in a very wide swathe of the community. [More…]

• One measure of that respect and credibility which Mr Grassby enjoys, one very simple mechanical measure of it, is the number of invitations that he receives to travel the country and talk to community groups, in particular, migrant groups and Aboriginal groups. [More…]

• From Mr Wyer of the Community Relations Commission, I received the following answer: [More…]

• What is extraordinary, of course, and the sting in the tail of that exchange during the Estimates Committee hearings is the way in which the Commission has been able to perform its function, to build this credibility and respect in the community at large, without any kind of reasonable level of financial or physical support from the Government. [More…]

• The Victorian Government is prepared to spend more than three times the annual budget that the Grassby Community Relations Commission gets for a whole year to maintain its on-going program of investigations, conciliation, education, research and promotion of human rights right around Australia. [More…]

• Against that background, let us look and see what the Government is trying to do to the Community Relations Commission in this Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill. [More…]

• In the first place, the object of the Bill is said to be the rationalistion of human rights machinery- that is certainly not something which is objectionable to the Opposition in principle- and as a result the amalagation of the Community Relations Commission into the Human Rights Commission. [More…]

• Again that is something that might not in principle be objectionable, but the difficulty, the obvious anomaly, is that there is not provision in the legislation for the Community Relations Commissioner to be one of the commissioners of the Human Rights Commission; nor, as I understand it, is there any intention whatsover on the part of the Government, without specifically mentioning it in the text of the legislation, to employ Mr Grassby as one of the new Human Rights commissioners. [More…]

• The second criticism that the Opposition has about this legislation is that the various functions which are vested in the Community Relations Commissioner by section 20 of the Racial Discrimination Act, namely investigation and settlement of complaints, promotion of compliance with the Act and general research and education to combat racial discrimination, are now all given specifically to the new Commission. [More…]

• It will be very interesting to see, for example, whether Mr Grassby will continue to be allowed to exercise his own judgment in relation to such matters as the issuing of court certificates in the Archer River affair, which honourable senators will recall involved the Queensland Government’s refusal to transfer land rights leases to an Aboriginal community. [More…]

• That point makes it abundantly clear, in my submission, just how empty is the earlier provision contained in the text of the Bill stating that the Commissioner for Community Relations is to continue to exercise his original functions on behalf of the Commission, as the quote goes. [More…]

• The fifth point is this: The powers vested in the Commissioner for Community Relations by the 1 975 Act in relation to the appointment of local concilation committees and the central Community Relations Council-not that that has ever been established- are now stripped from him and vested in the Human Rights Commission. [More…]

• Let me start by saying, because it is necessarily a central theme in this package of legislation and in particular that part of it which concerns the Community Relations Commissioner, that we do not object to the better and more effective co-ordination of human rights machinery in this country. [More…]

• At the Federal level, to dismantle the Community Relations Commission, at the moment an effective and viable operation, and to incorporate it into this ragtag and bobtail new creation of the Human Rights Commission, would be a travesty of any such objective. [More…]

• In addition to the courts, I believe that it is appropriate and desirable that there should be enforcement mechanisms and enforcement machinery of an investigative, conciliatory kind, with which we have become familiar in the work of Mr Grassby, the Community Relations Commission, the various States’ sexual discrimination and equal opportunity commissions and the Privacy Committee in New South Wales. [More…]

• I think that is obvious from the entry of Great Britain into the European Economic Community, its adoption of European conventions and its allowing the situation in which the European courts can now apply legislation which can override the common law. [More…]

• The Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill is a complementary Bill which will transfer the functions, now performed by the Commissioner for Community Relations (Dr [More…]

• Clause 1 1 ( 1 ) (b) and (c) would accordingly enable the Minister to exclude entirely or by-pass the Commission (or the Commissioner for Community Relations) and allow State authorities to take over investigation of complaints or carry out its work. [More…]

• It is a dangerous diminution of the powers of the Commission and Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• Under that Act, the Commissioner for Community Relations must first give a certificate that attempts at settlement have been tried, and then a private individual may prosecute and a Court can make the necessary orders. [More…]

• It has operated, overall, with considerable success under Dr A. Grassby as Commissioner for Community Relations and has contributed to a better community. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations, who already has specific responsibilities in the area of racial discrimination, is not named as a Human Rights Commissioner and it is clear to me that he will not be appointed to such a position. [More…]

• All complaints will in future go to the Commission (Clause 6) and the Commissioner for Community Relations is to be confined to inquiring into alleged infringements and endeavouring to effect settlement of infringements. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that under Clause 1 1 of the Bill, there is a transfer, from the Commissioner to the Commission, of the right to receive advice and recommendations from the Community Relations Council. [More…]

• Yet the Community Relations Council, which was to be established under the 197S Act and could have performed useful work, has not been set up at all. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations ceases to have any staff (Clause 12) and will be totally dependent, for staff, on the Commission. [More…]

• As I anticipate that the Commission’s staff will be severely limited, particularly under existing staff ceilings, the work of the Commissioner for Community Relations in enforcing the Act must be expected to diminish. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations will no longer deliver an annual report to the Parliament (Clause 16) and will accordingly be dependent on any reference that the Commission makes to his activities in its own annual report [More…]

• At the same time, the Clause restricts the Commissioner for Community Relations from any delegation of his powers except to a member of the Commission ‘s staff or any person the Commission approves. [More…]

• The by-passing of the Commission or the Commissioner of Community Relations is there on the face of the clause. [More…]

• If Dr Grassby is left only with investigation and conciliation functions and his duties of promoting education and understanding in the community are taken away, will these committees continue to function? [More…]

• Recently I received a letter from the Brisbane Consultative Committee of Community Relations, which said: [More…]

• Most of the functions of the present Commissioner for Community Relations are to be transferred to the Human Rights Commission. [More…]

• It is not that he should dominate the Human Rights Commission as one Commissioner but as a Commissioner of Community Relations he will be an employee. [More…]

• I pointed out that quite curiously there is such a difference between what we are proposing to do in Australia where Dr Grassby, the Commissioner for Community Relations, is not to be a member of the Human Rights Commission, and the position in New Zealand where the Race Relations Commmissioner, Mr H. L. Dansey, is of course a Human Rights Commissioner. [More…]

• In regard to the Commissioner for Community Relations, there is another important aspect which I think must be considered by this chamber. [More…]

• I put to this chamber that this is no time for us to change the operation of the Community Relations Commission. [More…]

• I note that even tonight we received from the Commissioner for Community Relations an information paper. [More…]

• It is, I think, therefore very inauspicious that we should be considering changing and probably reducing the powers and effectiveness of the operation of the Commissioner for Community Relations at this time when that challenge is about to be launched. [More…]

• The fact is that in a letter to the Attorney-General dated 22 October 1979 Mr M. J. Foley, the Secretary of the Brisbane Consultative Committee for Community Relations, referred to and supported the application for legal aid by the Winchinam group, which application I have also supported. [More…]

• The case is all the more important because of the attitude expressed by the Queensland Government in the letter of the Queensland Crown Solicitor to the Commissioner for Community Relations dated 17 July 1979. [More…]

• I believe that if we take the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, which has a certain amount of power, and put it into a Human Rights Commission, which on its present base is relatively weak, we will weaken the operation of the Commissioner. [More…]

• I am certainly not satisfied that it is proposed to have sufficient staff to cover the whole operation of the Human Rights Commission plus the area of racial discrimination, and that the staff will in any way be even as adequate as is presently existent for the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• I am certainly not going to support any Bill which has that weakening effect of losing the present operation of the Commissioner for Community Relations in a relatively powerless Human Rights Commission. [More…]

• Speaking last year about the operations of the Commissioner for Community Relations, he said: [More…]

• To this day there is no properly constituted Office of Community Relations and only the Commissioner has any statutory authority. [More…]

• Neither has a Community Relations Council been set up in accordance with Part V of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]

• In view of the weaknesses of the Act, the limited scope allowed the Commissioner for Community Relations, the failure to establish either a Community Relations Office or Council on a statutory basis, and the reality of racial discrimination in Australia, there are strong grounds for asking whether the Australian Government is serious in its commitment to fight for racial equality. [More…]

• His statements are strong support for the view that this is no time for us to be sabotaging the operation of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations is brought under the direction of the Human Rights Commission without being made a member of the Commission, and is therefore debarred from any part in the policy-making of the Commission. [More…]

• I suggest that these are statements by responsible and sensible people in our community. [More…]

• We will lose the real achievements which we made against racial discrimination if we merely submerge operations of the Commissioner for Community Relations in the Human Rights Commission. [More…]

• I hope that they will get the material that is coming in from the community. [More…]

• The new legislation will prevent the Commissioner for Community Relations from reporting directly to Parliament, from receiving any complaints directly from persons in the community, or from developing programmes aimed at raising the awareness of Australians about the reality of our multiracial multicultural society. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations is brought under the direction of the Human Rights Commission without being made a member of the Commission, and is therefore debarred from any part of the policy-making of the Commission. [More…]

• When the community relations organisation was set up, it was set up with the specific task of eliminating racial discrimination in Australia so far as it was humanly possible to do so. [More…]

• I will point out later in the debate some of the achievements of the Community Relations Office. [More…]

• This will be divorced from the community education work which has rightly been pan of the Commissioner’s role until now. [More…]

• If this takes place we might just as well eliminate the Community Relations Office altogether, because its effectiveness, its political teeth and its administrative teeth will be effectively drawn by the amendments to this particular Act. [More…]

• In fact the Queensland Premier and some of his Ministers and senior officers have refused to confer with the Commissioner for Community Relations or any of his officers. [More…]

• The need for an office of community relations to continue to exist without any deletion or any watering down of its powers is greater now than it was five years ago. [More…]

• If we did not have the Office of Community Relations the situation outlined in the telegram will occur unchecked. [More…]

• Following text of telegram sent today to the Press Council of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• If the amendments contained in this Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill are carried, the Commissioner for Community Relations will only be able to read these types of things and pass them on to the too hard to answer file because he will have no authority. [More…]

• The only hope for the re-establishment of an identifiable aboriginal cultural and social structure lies in deflecting the full impact of the white society, particularly as it is typically felt in mining projects, from the aboriginal community. [More…]

• It was put out by the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations and it refers in particular, naturally, to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and what this Bill seeks to do to that Act. [More…]

• Such amendments need to relate to the powers of the Consultative Committees on Community Relations currently assisting in the administration of the Act throughout Australia; the outlawing of publishing and disseminating racist material; [More…]

• To continue: the outlawing of publishing and disseminating racist material; group actions by discriminated parties; and wider power for the Commissioner for Community Relations to pursue actions where aggrieved parties are intimidated. [More…]

• That is precisely what the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations is all about. [More…]

• But now this Government, of course, has decided that the Office of Commissioner for Community Relations ought not to have that power and will whittle it away basically because of its fear of the Northern Territory Government and two State governments. [More…]

• So, if for nothing else, the Office of the Commissioner of Community Relations ought to be allowed to continue unmolested and unamended by the amending Bill which has been placed before this House of the Parliament. [More…]

• This sort of thing is still happening, despite the existence of the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• If we cut the wings of the Office and take away the powers of the Commissioner we will be back to the old law of the jungle whereby if someone is less than white he or she is less fairly treated than any other member of the community. [More…]

• In the main, a satisfactory resolution of the issues has been achieved … the Commissioner for Community Relations draws attention to the need for the Act to be strengthened. [More…]

• The experience gained by the Commissioner, his officers, and the community organisations assisting him needs to be seriously taken into account at a time when the Act is facing amendment. [More…]

• Objections of this type have been raised directly with the Commissioner for Community Relations during his investigation of complaints. [More…]

• I think this part of my argument demonstrates that the proposition that people can rely upon the operations of the common law, leave it to judges, to tradition, to history and to the good sense of people in the community simply does not exist when there are pressures- the pressures against blacks, the pressures against Vietnamese refugees, the pressures of unemployment or anything else- because one of the first things that is sacrificed when those sorts of conditions prevail are the human rights of other people and essentially the human rights of voiceless and defenceless minorities. [More…]

• I can assure the Attorney and members of the Government that the majority of people in the Australian community are not prepared to wear it, and if it is paraded in the Australian community as a legitimate reason for not extending the scope of this Bill it will deserve the reaction from the Australian community that certainly will be forthcoming. [More…]

• I believe that it is a first step which governments, as they progressively realise their responsibilities and as they change to get themselves more and more into line with the views that the majority of the people in this community hold, will be able to build upon this piece of legislation to ensure that the protection of human rights and civil liberties is recognised as being a significant role which the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia has to play. [More…]

• But where is the statement that this nation has gone into the international community and ratified that covenant. [More…]

• We have not joined the international community as we ought to have done and said that we will be bound in that way. [More…]

• I suppose that the major deficiency is that there is a lack of remedy for the rights which are outlined as the concern of the Australian community and which are to come within the jurisdiction of the proposed Commission. [More…]

• When Senator Puplick was speaking, as he did for some time, on the history of the human spirit in trying to secure human rights, he mentioned in particular the experience of the European community after the Second World War as something which appealed to him in its fruition in the European covenant. [More…]

• Lord Hailsham, coming from a different common law tradition distinct from the civil law tradition of those whom Senator Puplick quoted earlier, stated, according to Senator Puplick, that there is a need for any statement concerning human rights to include what is to happen when there is a conflict between the rights of the community in general and the rights of the individual. [More…]

• The Government is fully aware of the trading opportunities presented by the rapid growth of Taiwan’s economy, and there are no obstacles to the business community taking full advantage of these opportunities. [More…]

• I now refer the Minister to the claim emanating from the Polish community, which is a perfectly laudable one, concerning repatriation eligibility of those people involved in the 93-day seige of Warsaw. [More…]

• Does it indicate that the Minister is rethinking the position or is it just referring to an overture from the Polish community to the Minister? [More…]

• It signifies the end of a dispute between communities and between a community and an offender, and the resumption of normal relations. [More…]

• In view of the very alarming situation which has arisen in Canada, where a railway truck carrying chlorine has caused tremendous concern to a very wide section of the Canadian community, has the Minister yet given consideration to my suggestion that the need for a national register of dangerous substances should be an agenda item for a Federal-State meeting which he indicated would be held in December? [More…]

• He is well aware of the concern of the Hungarian community in Australia concerning the matter and of the statements of the Romanian Government, which insists that the Hungarians of Romania are treated no differently from other [More…]

• That a judicial inquiry be appointed to inquire into and report upon the obtaining of the evidence in relation to the prosecution in the case of alleged social security frauds involving members of the Greek community in Sydney and, in particular: [More…]

• It is important not only to the people of the Greek community in Sydney, but also it is important to the Australian community generally. [More…]

• I consider that if we are prevented from moving such a motion or, by implication, debating such a matter in this place until all these court cases are finished, justice not only will not be done to the people in the case but also will not be done to the community of Australia. [More…]

• It relates to questions about the conduct of the police and the prosecution which, unless they are satisfactorily answered, would confirm the serious doubts which are already held in the community at large about the quality of the administration of criminal justice by our federal agencies. [More…]

• While the Commonwealth of Australia 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…]

• Why have we not in this chamber had a token of good faith from the Government before the presentation of this Bill whereby it says to the world community: We will be bound by the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights’. [More…]

• He was able to do that because the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had gone into the world community at Helsinki and said: ‘We will be internationally bound. [More…]

• This worldwide movement has reached the stage where the totalitarian dictatorship felt obliged to go into the international community and make that concession. [More…]

• Why has the Australian Government not gone into the world community and bound itself internationally to the observance of the human rights which it has given the Commission by this Bill as the criterion for its operation? [More…]

• The help of the Commissioner for Community Relations was sought some time ago by members of an Aboriginal group in north Queensland who wanted to purchase a large cattle property through the Aboriginal Land Fund. [More…]

• At this stage, I congratulate the honourable Al Grassby for the manner in which he has performed the duties of Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• That would permit the proposed Commission and/or the Commissioner for Community Relations to be bypassed. [More…]

• It would allow the States to carry out investigations of complaints whereas the Commissioner for Community Relations has been able to do that. [More…]

• There are many community leaders without legal qualifications who would be well suited to take on the responsibility of chairman. [More…]

• I refer to the Honourable Al Grassby who has had experience for the last four years as Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• He criticised the Yarrabah community, the Bloomfield River Mission, the Hope Vale community, Bamaga, Weipa and so on. [More…]

• What can the Commissioner for Community Relations do about some of the remarks he made about people? [More…]

• I say that because I disagree with the amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act which will bring the Commissioner for Community Relations under the new Commission. [More…]

• The rules, traditions and processes of our society operate against the rights of the individual, against minority groups in the community. [More…]

• There is a need to recognise the deficiencies that exist in the society and the need for some public debate, some legislative action, and some better understanding within the community about the power disposition, the power discrimination and the inequality that that brings to the average person in the Australian community. [More…]

• This legislation has very few supporters in the Australian community. [More…]

• Complaints have come from civil liberty groups, employer groups, church groups, the United Nations Association of Australia, trade unions, a number of important citizens in our community and people in the legal fraternity who know what discrimination means because they have to deal with the rough side of discrimination almost every day in the law courts. [More…]

• It is true that the moral question will be there and that the community will have to take it up at that level to see that the States are finally brought or whipped into line and forced to recognise the logic of the objectives which have been set in the Bill and have been recognised in the international community. [More…]

• We have a position in which a lot of concern is being expressed in the community about how far this piece of legislation will go. [More…]

• If we do that then maybe we can look ourselves in the face and say that we have really carried out our pioneering job of establishing legislation which will generate, in the grass roots of our country, in our communities and in the organisations that our community produces, the sort of understanding that will bring about a much strengthened type of democratic society. [More…]

• This step is being taken to bring about a realisation in the Australian community that all people, as stated by so many international decision-making bodies, such as the United Nations in its Universal Declaration of Human Rights and so on, are born equal. [More…]

• The United States Bill of Rights was imposed by the community- perhaps more accurately, by an articulate minority of the community- on the Government. [More…]

• Moreover, as a member of the international community in good standing and also as a recently elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, it is very embarrassing for us not to have ratified a covenant on human rights. [More…]

• We must not hold ourselves out to the international community as being powerless in this respect. [More…]

• As a member of the international community in good standing, to use the Attorney’s own words, I do not see how we can do less. [More…]

• The Queensland Government has monitored cofidential telegrams from the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Senator Chaney, to community leaders on State Aboriginal reserves. [More…]

• No doubt we can expect the same kind of co-operation as the Commissioner for Community Relations has received, and that was indignant denunciation by the Premiers of Queensland and Western Australia. [More…]

• The enforcement of this Act will be greatly reduced by subjecting the Commissioner for Community Relations to the direction of the Human Rights Commission and by depriving him of staff. [More…]

• There is no guarantee in this legislation that it will be provided with anything near adequate staff, just as the Commissioner for Community Relations has never been provided with it. [More…]

• Of course, the method by which this attitude of mind of community members is effected and its success are traditional within the community and are determined certainly to a very great extent by the resolution people have to ensure that these rights are protected, and by the institutions that have developed in any particular community to protect them. [More…]

• I think that is a major achievement of the new international community that was brought into being in the wake of this terrible era of abuse and destruction that is in people ‘s minds. [More…]

• I believe the merit of Senator Missen ‘s proposal, which is in similar terms to the proposal put forward by the Labor Party and endorsed by the Australian Democrats, is that it may, along with the similar clauses in the Racial Discrimination Act and the proposed similar clause in former Senator Murphy’s Bill on Human rights, build up a practice whereby this Parliament is involved in the process of telling the international community that we will be bound in some particular manner. [More…]

• In conclusion, I simply wish to endorse the remarks of Senator Puplick and to express the same fear that I expressed in my second reading speech, that perhaps we have not yet had ratification at this date because the Government is unable or unwilling to go to the international community and say that it will endorse the Covenant as a whole, including Article 50, which requires of this Government that it ensures that these human rights are effectively guaranteed throughout the length and breadth of Australia, in a sense without regard to its specific federal characteristics. [More…]

• In other words, from the point of view of other nation states, we go into the international community as an unitary state guaranteeing that wherever human rights are violated in Australia they will effectively be remedied in accordance with the criteria set up by the Covenant. [More…]

• The functions of the Commission, as set out in the Bill, are ones of education and promotion, of investigation and inquiry by reference to the standard of the Covenant set out and adopted by the international community. [More…]

• They will preserve the powers of the Commissioner for Community Relations in relation to investigations of complaints about racial discrimination. [More…]

• To that extent, those powers will be taken from the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• But the existing powers of the Commissioner for Community Relations will remain, subject to the changes I mentioned and subject to general directions given by the Human Rights Commission. [More…]

• -The powers will remain subject to directions given by the Human Rights Commission, but obviously those powers of direction will be exercised only in a general way because the existing powers of the Commissioner for Community Relations will remain and will not be replaced in the Human Rights Commission exercising those powers. [More…]

• Of course, that partly explains why I believe that a party which espouses the cause of those who are vulnerable to the use of legalised force in the community ought to be involved in measures for law reform in this area. [More…]

• It is a fact, as I have said, that this law ensures that a ready amount of funds continues to flow to those unscrupulous traders, who will then use those moneys for more nefarious and damaging activities in the community. [More…]

• They explain the widespread support it received in the community. [More…]

• Thirdly, I believe that the petition received support because there is a widespread feeling in society that, while there is a certain hypocrisy in society, while the brewery barons and the tobacco tycoons are showered with honours and society turns against users of marihuana with this repressive legislation, there will be no widespread community support for a proper drug abuse education program. [More…]

• In other words, when there is a feeling of unfairness among hundreds and thousands of Australians whereby they see on the one hand, society authorising, legalising and making big money by way of excise and normal company and income taxation out of the circulation of authorised drugs, such as tobacco, alcohol and analgesics, and, on the other, repressive legislation which characterises the attack on marihuana users and which Mr Justice Woodward recommended ought to be strengthened in its penalties, it is no wonder that there is no widespread community support for what ought to be the situation, namely, an evenhanded attack on drug abuse, of whatever character, which is occurring throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• When considering the languages to be used for spoken or written communication between departments and authorities and various groups of people within the Australian community, it is necessary to have regard to the purpose and content of the material and the circumstances in each case. [More…]

• (a) and (b) The Northern Territory Departments of Health (formerly Commonwealth Health) and Community Development have investigated the practice. [More…]

• That, as it is clear that unemployment is a long term problem in Australia, the Government should extend to the unemployed the same assistance as is given to any other disadvantaged member of the community. [More…]

• Give priority to its role as a community service organisation in preference to its commercial interests. [More…]

• On behalf of the Government, provide a community service to those areas not serviced by a commercial network so that direct telecasts of major events are transmitted to all Australians. [More…]

• The Government looks to the men involved to recognise that consultation on the problems of regulation of the industry is under active study by all parties and calls upon them in the interests of the whole community to exercise restraint and not take the strike action which they have threatened. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: If the Australian currency were to be redesigned, or even perhaps modified, would it be suitable, in order to expedite the recognition of bank notes by, and to assist greatly, that huge section of our community, to adopt here a similar method to that adopted in Holland? [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs inform the Parliament of the number of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory in which the Community Development Employment Projects Scheme operates? [More…]

• The Government decided within the last couple of weeks to expand considerably the Community Development Employment Projects Scheme. [More…]

• It is at a very much higher rate than applies in the general community. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, refers to proposals made in recent years, and more particularly in recent weeks and months, for the establishment of a Pacific community that is sometimes referred to as an organisation for Pacific trade, aid and development. [More…]

• I have some information on the Pacific community concept. [More…]

• I am advised that following discussions in Manila with the Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Ohira, in May the Prime Minister indicated to the House that he had asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs to develop ideas and approaches to the concept of a Pacific community. [More…]

• The Government therefore believes that the concept of a Pacific community warrants close consideration and requires that we contribute fully to any developments in this direction. [More…]

• We believe that the Government has brought the doctrine of ministerial responsibility into disrepute in the community. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of the Minister in the face of repeated inquiries from this side of the House and from organisations like the Redfern Legal Aid Office, from people in the Greek community and from representatives of the media in this country who repeatedly questioned her over a period of 1 8 months about the Department’s involvement. [More…]

• that one of the difficulties of the case in question, and one that I am very acutely aware of, is not that the Department of Social Security and its officers are involved- as they must have been because it was in the course of doing their duty as they saw it that the attention of the Commonwealth Police was drawn to the matter- but that the Department is seen by members of the community to be one of the groups of people involved in the case. [More…]

• The investigation resulted from confidential interviews which were held in the Department of Social Security by members of the Greek community who advised the Department that they were aware of malpractices in the obtaining of invalid pensions among members of the Greek community in Australia. [More…]

• I went on to answer that I had assured members of the Greek community in Australia that the alleged frauds do not in any way involve the total Greek community. [More…]

• They enjoy the highest reputation and regard in this community. [More…]

• As is well known, the arrests and the charges did not come as a surprise to many honourable senators on both sides of this chamber, or to many members of the Greek community itself. [More…]

• It is not suggested by the Opposition or by the Greek community that there is no justification for any of the charges or the investigations, and I make no comment on the guilt or innocence of those who have been charged. [More…]

• There was knowledge in the community at large that there were possible abuses of the Social Services Act. [More…]

• With regard to Senator Grimes’s statement in May 1978 with regard to the length of the investigation, I agree with him that the protracted negotiation leading to the arrests and to the court hearings undoubtedly has created some dissatisfaction in the community. [More…]

• She knew of the concern that was being exhibited in the Greek community of New South Wales. [More…]

• I would say that the Minister is culpable in that in not noting the concern of the Parliament, of the Greek community and of the concerted way in which the Opposition has sought information in respect of this matter- that has been the nature of the probing and the questions that have been asked over the last 20 months in seeking information- surely she has failed to meet the requirements of the Prime Minister in respect of her activities as a Minister. [More…]

• All honourable senators from New South Wales have received representations from members of the Greek community and from people of Greek origin which indicate that, in the period of the flamboyancy and of the whole atmosphere that was created as a result of this massive raid on 31 March last year, members of the Greek community felt that every person to whom they spoke felt they were involved somehow or other in criminal activity. [More…]

• I appreciate that when I asked questions of the Minister she made it very clear that in no way was this whole exercise or her involvement in it designed to embarrass members of the Greek community. [More…]

• It was in that atmosphere and on the basis of representations made to us by members of the Greek community that we asked questions of the [More…]

• The innocence of even the people who were suspected has been established beyond any shadow of doubt, as well as the innocence of all the other members of the Greek community who were under a cloud, as it were, because of their Greek origin. [More…]

• In those circumstances, the Minister must accept that, on behalf of the community which has been affected by that exercise, we are entitled, we are obliged and it is part of our responsibility to express in the manner in which we have our concern about her negligence, wilful or otherwise, and her failure to accept responsibility for the manner in which her Department has operated in the whole affair. [More…]

• They are the basis of government revenue from which the community obtains its grants and subsidies. [More…]

• The policies are the means by which government funding goes to education, social security and defence, and a large part of other national and community needs. [More…]

• I want to put it to the Senate tonight that the Government has, since its election, provided that kind of climate whereby the Australian community can earn more for itself, keep more of its earnings and can do more for itself. [More…]

• The whole community in South Australia was frightened beyond description. [More…]

• The Treasurer went on to say that the Government had tackled the whole matter of tax avoidance; it had simplified the taxation scale and set about giving relief to all sections of the taxpaying community. [More…]

• Confidence in ourselves, our neighbours, our community and our State. [More…]

• It has been well said that every petrol pump in the community is now a tax-gathering office. [More…]

• Page 4, clause 7, after sub-clause ( 1 ), insert the following new sub-clause: ( 1 a) The person holding office as the Commissioner for Community Relations shall be one of the members of the Commission. [More…]

• The effect of that is that one member of the Commission, which is to consist of a chairman, a deputy chairman and not less than five nor more than nine other members, would already have been already identified as the person who holds the rank and office, under the Racial Discrimination Act, of Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• For some four years we have had a Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby. [More…]

• It meets the requirement that we should not in any way turn the racial discrimination administration into a defective organisation; that we should not create a situation in which there will be a clash between the Human Rights Commission and the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• -The Opposition strongly supports Senator Missen ‘s amendment, which seeks to make Mr Grassby, the Commissioner for Community Relations, a member of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]

• Our approach to this amendment, as Senator Missen has indicated, is that it represents a much less satisfactory solution than allowing the office of Commissioner for Community Relations to continue to exist as an independent entity in its own right. [More…]

• The rescue that is proposed by Senator Missen, and applauded by the Opposition, would at least give the Commissioner, whoever he may be from time to time, a seat on the Commission and a voice, even if only one of seven, in determining the way in which the Commission as a whole, and more particularly the community relations part of it, will operate. [More…]

• The failure of the Government to make it clear, either as a matter of statutory language or even without an amendment of the kind that Senator Missen proposes, that the Commissioner for Community Relations will be appointed to, and a member of, the Commission can be construed only as a calculated insult to the present Commissioner, Mr Grassby, which, as I said at the second reading stage, will not go unnoticed by the migrant communities which Mr Grassby has served so irrepressibly. [More…]

• It is the real matter of importance that is involved here because despite the AttorneyGeneral’s endeavours yesterday to say that the Commissioner for Community Relations will continue to exercise in practice the untrammelled powers that he has at present and that this is merely a formalisation of arrangements, the reality is that the legislation provides for the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby, to become a mere cipher, a mere delegate, of the new Human Rights Commission. [More…]

• A wholly unsatisfactory position has been created if the Government is genuinely serious about preserving the independence and the effectiveness, more importantly, of the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• The report of the activities of the Commissioner for Community Relations side of things will simply be submerged in a larger document representing the report of the Human Rights Commission as a whole, which of course will be prepared and endorsed by the Human Rights Commission of which Mr Grassby is not to be a member. [More…]

• It has sought to pretend and claim to the community at large that nothing is changing, that something is being added to the present structure for the protection of human rights, but that nothing is being taken away and that it is business as usual as far as the Racial Discrimination Act and Mr Grassby are concerned. [More…]

• For that reason it is crucially important that this chamber vote for at least the small chance of preserving Mr Grassby ‘s effectiveness and the effectiveness of the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations that would be involved in making the Commissioner a member of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]

• It seems ludicrous to me that we are setting up the Human Rights Commission and that part and parcel of that Commission will be the Racial Discrimination Act under which the person holding the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations is to work. [More…]

• He has built up a rapport not only with the migrant communities but also with all sorts of people within the community whom he has helped. [More…]

• When these people find that something is wrong the first thing they do is to get in touch with the Commissioner for Community Relations- not necessarily the man but the Office- because of the way he has been able to achieve many things on their behalf. [More…]

• I am giving my total support to this amendment because I believe it is necessary, if we are to have Human Rights Commission and if we are to maintain the Racial Discrimination Act and the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, that the Commissioner have a vital role to play on that Commission. [More…]

• I point out that we have no particular brief for Mr Grassby; he is the person occupying the position of Commissioner for Community Relations at this time. [More…]

• One is that the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, during its existence, has genuinely developed a national character and it has developed that national character in the teeth of very substantial opposition. [More…]

• It is a fact that the Premier of Queensland has made a number of attacks- some covert, some overt- on Mr Grassby and the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• I do not know whether Mr Grassby ‘s term as the Commissioner for Community Relations will be extended when it comes to its statutory end. [More…]

• I think that failure to pass the amendment might well lead to a situation in which we will be unable to attract to the position of Commissioner for Community Relations a person of the quality and integrity that we would hope would always be holding that office. [More…]

• I believe that the failure to keep the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations at the sort of level of staff, resources and respect that it occupies at the moment- in fact, not so much fail to upgrade it as positively to seek to degrade itwill make that situation considerably worse. [More…]

• The fact that racial prejudice against the Aboriginal community appears to be more of an issue in recent years is quite simply because Aboriginal people have attempted in recent years to assert and claim their proper and full rights. [More…]

• Last night Senator Chipp indicated, while reading out a list of the hatred and filth pedlars in this community, that there are groups at work in the community and throughout the political framework whose objective is simply to promote racial hatred and racial prejudice. [More…]

• The exposure of these groups and the exposure of the points of view that they represent is an important responsibility for the Commissioner for Community Relations to report to the Parliament. [More…]

• If we are not vigilant about the League of Rights and all the claptrap that goes on from that sort of organisation we will be failing to meet a significant responsibility that we have not only to today’s Australian community but also to communities of the future. [More…]

• There are serious grounds for concern in the present economic situation that community relations in Australia will come under severe strain with continued high unemployment. [More…]

• It is an integral part of the future development of a decent and civilised Australian community. [More…]

• To bring about a situation in which a Commissioner for Community Relations whose prinicipal job will be to warn Australia about and to monitor in Australia the activities of those who would promote racial hatred and division in this country is a matter that requires attention. [More…]

• He is aware, this Government is aware and the Labor Government was aware of the necessity to ensure that racial discrimination in Australia is treated as the sort of community disease that it is and that actions are taken in order to prevent the spread of the disease and to excise the cancer of the disease whenever that is possible. [More…]

• As we are to have a situation in which race relations in Australia will be severely strained not only, as I have said, by the increasing education of the Aboriginal population but also by the increasing number of Vietnamese refugees and the increasing tensions in the employment situation in this country, the Commissioner for Community Relations ought to be one of the members of the Human Rights Commission, one among many and an equal among many. [More…]

• We are, in fact, dealing with principles and fundamentals in respect to the racism that exists in our community. [More…]

• It is not something that is going to go away without a great deal of effort on the part of members on all sides of the Parliament and without a degree of education of the Australian community. [More…]

• Therefore, it is encouraging that we can anticipates possibly, that this amendment will be agreed to by the Senate and that the office and the role of the Commissioner for Community Relations will be recognised as an essential requisite of this legislation. [More…]

• If we look at the history of our country we note that every time there have been periods of economic stress- perhaps the most noticeable periods were the 1 860s, the 1 890s, and 1929- it has always been the dis- advantaged, those who are different from other members of the community, who have been the first casualties. [More…]

• There is no question that it is largely the disadvantagedmainly the migrant communities, the women in the migrant communities and the unskilled workers in the black sections of our communitywho are the first to feel the thrust arising from an economic downturn. [More…]

• It is in this period that the Government and the Parliament have to accept the responsibility of providing a framework so that those affected by the discrimination that is taking place every day in every facet of our society can ventilate their complaints and experiences in a way that they feel will be understood and in a way that makes them feel part of the Australian community. [More…]

• Of course, the person holding the office of Commissioner for Community Relations has to be a person with great compassion, a person with energy, a person with the capacity to apply initiative, a person devoted to the principles of human rights, and a vigilant person. [More…]

• So it becomes more and more vital to stress to the Government, to the executive of the Parliament- the Cabinet- that the person who holds this office of Commissioner for Community Relations shall be a member of the Commission. [More…]

• In the period that lies ahead, as indeed in the period that we are talking about, that experience, that understanding, that safety valve which are available there are at the moment to those disadvantaged people in our community, should be available to those who are suffering discrimination; they should have the opportunity of appealing to this person. [More…]

• The amendment proposed by Senator Missen, that the person holding the office of Commissioner for Community Relations shall be one of the members of the Human Rights Commission, is a matter which was raised during the very lengthy second reading debate. [More…]

• It had formed the view that the person holding the office of Commissioner for Community Relations should not be an ex officio member of the Commission. [More…]

• The proposal is that the Human Rights Commission which, as stated in clause 7, is to consist of a Chairman, a Deputy Chairman and not less than five or more than nine other members, should be amended to have the provision that one of those persons appointed to the Human Rights Commission shall be the person holding the office of Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• It so happens that at the moment we do have a Commissioner for Community Relations appointed under the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• The Government has not made any decision one way or the other as to what it would do with the position of Commissioner for Community Relations if there were different circumstances. [More…]

• If the Government’s feeling for the ethnic community is such that it would take away someone who it rightly or wrongly accepts as the saviour of its problems and plight then I say that the Government does that at it own peril. [More…]

• Indeed, the main purpose of those grants was to assist the Aboriginal community on Palm Island with essential services- water, sewerage and so on. [More…]

• I think the Government has to concede that there is genuine concern in the Australian community about the problems of radioactive waste management and that, in fact, on all occasions when this matter has been checked by the pollsters a degree of concern and apprehension has been shown as to the actions the Government will take in protecting not only the present environment but also the future environment. [More…]

• At the same time we have to recognise the huge and growing size of the problem which means the needs of communities will increasingly conflict with a safe community. [More…]

• Surely these are matters of considerable concern to the Government; certainly they are of considerable concern to the Parliament and to the Australian community. [More…]

• Others may think it more appropriate to widen the input to include community representatives or something of that kind. [More…]

• The previous objective of fostering community language teaching will also be retained. [More…]

• However, they fought back and were given some recognition by the Australian community as to their plight and their growing consciousness as a group of indigenous people. [More…]

• From the Labor Party’s point of view we believe that we are probably witnessing something of a counter-attack by those forces in the Australian community who believe, when it comes to the question of development and rights of development on Aboriginal lands, that there has to be a recognition of the latter day claimants as against the original claimants. [More…]

• The Western Australian Minister for Health and Community Welfare, Mr Ridge, who holds the seat of Kimberley, has admitted in a Western Australian newspaper that the Liberal Party devised and executed a plan deliberately aimed at denying Aborigines in the Kimberleys an effective vote. [More…]

• Even though this particular settlement is inside the boundaries of the Australian Capital Territory, this Government has seen fit to neglect the request from the people who live in that particular community. [More…]

• My experience as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs has already brought home to me the enormous range of problems facing Australia’s 800 or more Aboriginal communities- and those numerous families who live in urban areas but cannot be identified as members of a particular community. [More…]

• Let us face it; these would not be the only organisations in Australia which are funded to do a job for the community. [More…]

• Of course, there are some people in the community who put this point of view. [More…]

• It has been a mattter of ill feeling in the Northern Territory that apparently- I only repeat what is felt in the Northern Territory and what is represented to me- unlimited funds are made available to Aboriginals, to land councils and others to get high priced legal help and no assistance is made available to other parts of the community. [More…]

• The present state of affairs between the Government and the Wreck Bay community is such that there is not a claim for traditional land rights as in the Northern Territory or in the traditional community form, but rather a disagreement about the lease area which ought to be granted. [More…]

• This also applies to the primary industry area and to a vast array of matters covered under Customs legislation which are of great interest and importance to the commercial sector of our community. [More…]

• For a civil libertarian of Senator Evans’s status in this Senate and in the community, I would have thought that any recommendations that proceedings should take place in the absence of one of the parties was a serious recommendation that would have to be seriously thought about by the Government. [More…]

• It disables the university community in the months and years to come from making those adjustments in the relationship between the campus bodies and the national bodies on the sort of claims that students want pressed by their national or local associations of students. [More…]

• The Council has moved further than either the Government or any other section of the community in relation to this question, and one of the things that I regard as unfortunate is the extent to which there has been a maligning of the Council of the Australian National University as being obdurate, stupid, and made up of a group of revolutionaries. [More…]

• As Senator Tate said, if we look through the list of the people who are on that Council, it could hardly be regarded as anything other than one of the most carefully selected and resonably responsible bodies in the community. [More…]

• The fact is that over a growing number of years the community, in a very articulate fashion, and the students have expressed the view that it is repugnant to democratic freedom that students on campus should be compelled to join organisations to which they are philosophically opposed and that they should be compelled to provide money out of their pockets to benefit organisations to which they are opposed. [More…]

• There can be no rational opposition to the community’s viewpoint. [More…]

• The community expressed the view, and it was reflected very articulately, that students on campus should be free to join voluntarily, or not to join, socio-political activities and to contribute voluntarily by way of subscription or not to contribute. [More…]

• On Senator Evans’s argument the Government should say: ‘That has nothing to do with the Parliament or the community. [More…]

• Apart from the many technological and financial advantages accruing to the Australian community from the construction in north Queensland of an enrichment plant for uranium oxide, can the Minister define any proven hazards from such a venture? [More…]

• Given this Government’s professed desire to hold down health costs to the community, why is it that only 35 per cent of new projects are to be funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council? [More…]

• Makarrata’ (Yolnu word for ‘agreement’) signifies the end of a dispute between communities and between a community and an offender and the resumption of normal relations. [More…]

• Claims for increases in wages, salaries, benefits, awards and so on are matters which are constantly before the Parliament and on which the community at large expresses an opinion from time to time. [More…]

• If one examines the current award rates being paid to post-graduate students, one can only say that they have fallen considerably behind those received by the rest of the Australian community, whereas the purpose of the Remuneration Tribunal was to keep those areas which I have mentioned in some relationship to the movements in the consumer price index. [More…]

• I think it is logical and reasonable to say that there is one section that has been left aside in this whole area, and that is post-graduate studentspeople who should not be called upon to make financial sacrifices different from those of the rest of the community; a group of people who, having attained a certain level of education and having a tremendous contribution to make to the development of our country in both the public and private sectors, ought to be recognised and therefore ought to have access to some public consideration, to some public tribunal. [More…]

• We are talking about the ability of the Parliament to play a more informed and purposeful role, not only in respect of what the Parliament does but also in respect of creating a better understanding in the Australian community. [More…]

• For example, because of the prevailing economic conditions and the interest of the Australian community in economic matters, for example, one would imagine that every week Mr Willis and Mr Hurford would have many commitments, some of which would take them outside their own State. [More…]

• The mistaken view has been taken that if those in the public sector exercise what I believe to be their rights and obligations it is a cost to the community. [More…]

• Of course, the suggestion is that in the private sector the cost is borne by some nebulus mythical organisation other than the Australian community. [More…]

• I think the Bill would have widespread support in the community in the sense that it ensures that the rises in salary which are afforded to everybody from the Prime Minister on, or down, according to one’s point of view, are no more and no less than in line with the rises which have been received by wage and salary earners in Australia who have had the benefits of indexation. [More…]

• I think, in that sense, that the Bill would have very widespread support in the community. [More…]

• 1 believe that this recommendation is flying in the face of our proper role in the Australian community. [More…]

• However, one section of the Australian community that is not exercising restraint is the business sector. [More…]

• I say quite clearly to the Committee that it is not in the mind of the Government to reduce the apparent influence of the Parliament; rather, it seeks to set an example to the community with respect to government and parliamentary salaries and wages and to increase them to the same extent as the increases that have been provided for other wage and salary earners in Australia. [More…]

• Each of us has great difficulty in assessing how much he is worth to the community. [More…]

• All I can say is that that is part of the reason for the distress that exists in the community about the irrelevancy of- the Parliament. [More…]

• When I say the little people’ I am including neither the large number of professional and business people- the doctors and others- who set up taxation schemes or who would avoid their community responsibilities and any other shady operators who prey on the industry and whose livelihoods are not directly affected by hasty decisions, such as the one currently contemplated by the Government. [More…]

• I think that we ought to consider what effect this will have upon those important sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• I think it is time that the cost recovery doctrine in relation to aviation was reexamined on its merits and assessed as to how it was affecting the community. [More…]

• The community has recognised that, where there are large costs involved, such as in health, these costs are supported by community activity. [More…]

• I think that the community has a vested interest in maintaining safe airlines. [More…]

• Many parallels exist in this country where the wider benefits for the service to the community are recognised. [More…]

• The Australian Broadcasting Commission is a classic example of a service provided at no cost to the members of the community directly because of the wider benefits that it is believed to entail. [More…]

• It cannot be sustained any longer because the benefits of air transport are shared by the entire community. [More…]

• Of course, we have the business community. [More…]

• It is not one level but all levels- all the stratas- of the business community which benefit from an aviation service. [More…]

• This ability to fly over vast distances in Australia, do business and return to one ‘s home the same night is of very considerable economic benefit to the community. [More…]

• The community benefits from the facilities that all these people can use in the air transport field. [More…]

• But the general aviation community which includes air work or charter, training, aerial agriculture, the business community and sport and recreation is said to be contributing only about 20 per cent of its costs. [More…]

• There are about 20,000 private pilots in this country, which is quite a large body in the community. [More…]

• But the largest body in the flying community- which comprises the sport and business pilots- has no direct channel of communication with the Department or the Government. [More…]

• It is a popular misconception in the community that the general aviation section has a higher accident rate than any other section of Australian aviation. [More…]

• This will cost the community about $120 to $200 per pilot and cumulatively the cost will be about $2m a year. [More…]

• With 10,000 pilots a year doing the test, each flying for three or four hours and burning about 30 litres to 40 litres an hour, we will burn off about 1.3 million litres of avgas with no benefit at all to the community. [More…]

• Some of the requirements that are imposed on people operating in aviation bear no relevance to safety or to need, but the cost of them, when it is levied against the whole of the community, is quite enormous. [More…]

• I think it should be recognised that the Government takes into consideration the fact that general aviation is a community service. [More…]

• The Government should recognise that the community should pay a fair bit towards general aviation ‘s existence. [More…]

• I believe that we all accept the proposition that members of the armed forces are entitled to at least the same procedural advantages in the determination of their salaries and allowances as the rest of the community. [More…]

• It is clear that in these circumstances the business community is thrown into chaos and disorder by having to work out what they have to do in the various States. [More…]

• As has been pointed out time and time again, if Australia is to go into the international community and say that as a nation state it will try to ensure that all the rights outlined in the Covenant are recognised throughout Australia, it has an obligation under Article 50 of the Covenant to ensure that as far as possible recognition of those rights goes beyond any barriers arising from our federal system. [More…]

• My views on that matter were reinforced in a document which I received today, which was prepared by the office of the Commisioner for Community Relations under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]

• The powers of the Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement and of Community Councils- which are merely fronts for many administrative decisions and actions- are destructive of communities in that they allow the removal of people from reserves often for minor reasons. [More…]

• Without full consultation and full knowledge and understanding of administration and operations on reserves, Community Councils can only be regarded as fronts for achieving goals which appear alien to the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms and human rights. [More…]

• Give priority to its role as a community service organisation in preference to its commercial interests. [More…]

• On behalf of the Government, provide a community service to those areas not serviced by a commercial network so that direct telecasts of major events are transmitted to all Australians. [More…]

• Its involvement in the International Year of Disabled Persons in 1981 will no doubt provide it with further opportunities to assist actively in the promotion of access by handicapped people to community life including, of course, access to tertiary education by deaf students. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware of a petition from 344 adult citizens of the Yarrabah community, addressed to the Hon. [More…]

• I have had my staff check the petition and find that it does contain 344 signatures, which purport to be those of 344 electors of the community of Yarrabah. [More…]

• I suppose that its standing in the community was tested in June when at least one of the councillors, Stan Connolly, resigned. [More…]

• I regarded that as an indication of community support for the Council. [More…]

• The Thai Government deserves commendation and support from the whole international community for the way it has approached an extremely difficult situation. [More…]

• The Committee considers that contingency plans for control and eradication of exotic disease should be discussed publicly to allow full debate, education and involvement of all persons in the community affected by such plans. [More…]

• The recommendations of the Committee have had wide circulation in the industry, the Parliament, Government departments and the community at large. [More…]

• I suggest that if the Government feels it will go on any longer regarding unemployment as a matter of no importance or something that the majority of the community can be relied on to ignore, it is in for a very rapid shock and some very rapid disillusionment. [More…]

• At present the crude oil levy is bringing in something more than $2,000m a year, a large sum of money which could very effectively be used in this community. [More…]

• Each of the Aboriginal community settlements that I visit in Arnhem Land has great fears about the effect, on young people, of coming out of school with no work prospects. [More…]

• Prior to the suspension of the sitting I was discussing overseas aid and was pointing up the dilemma that the beneficial types of overseas aid are those that help people in a community to live a little better without destroying their social structure, but that this is a very slow method of improving the standards of the Third World. [More…]

• If honourable senators look at what this Government has done to petrol prices in this country and what effect they have had, they will see that the poorer people in our community are the worst hit. [More…]

• I believe they would then be better employees and better citizens in the community. [More…]

• I think that paragraph highlights one of the cankers that exist in our community. [More…]

• The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Chaney) also is creating employment for Aborigines through the Community Development Employment Project. [More…]

• This community development in the Aboriginal settlements will provide additional employment there. [More…]

• I refer to the Age of Monday in which there appeared threats made by a group from the Croatian community about a dispute between the Government of Yugoslavia and West Germany over a former Australian resident, a Mr Dragoja. [More…]

• It is about time that we as a parliament had a very close look at the procedure that exists in the United Kingdom because if we allow the present situation to continue, with the Executive’s having complete power and control over the legislature and over the legislative process, this Parliament will come to be regarded by all and sundry, particularly by the younger generation in the community, as merely in the nature of a rubber stamp. [More…]

• There is increasing evidence, however, that Members and supporters of the Parliament in the community at large are beginning to question the Executive’s increasing dominance over the legislature and that there is a groundswell of opinion favouring reform. [More…]

• When we look at the Estimates each year since 1975 we find that members of this Government have spent money on themselves as though it was going out of fashion, but not on the people who really need it- the needy people in our community. [More…]

• Call upon those responsible for the spending of taxpayers’ money on this ‘Have a go, Australia’ promotion to either give Aborigines and other groups their fair place in any representation of the Australian community or cease such promotion campaign altogether. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs aware of reports that a survey conducted by the New South Wales Department of Youth and Community Services indicated that, of more than 97,000 people receiving unemployment benefit and, therefore, eligible for fare concessions, only 6,750 people applied for them? [More…]

• Will the Minister comment on the claim of the ‘Shelter Victoria’ group that new public housing and rent rebates for the poorest third of public housing tenants are being paid for by working class Commission tenants and buyers and not by the community as a whole? [More…]

• -Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen reports that the European Parliament criticised its Ministers for being lethargic in implementing a European Community program to combat the energy crisis, stating that it can be described only as getting deeper every day? [More…]

• I have seen various reports arising out of the statements from the European Community and the European Commission, all of them emphatically pointing to the fact that the world is moving into a crisis in the short term and into a quite perilous situation in the long term if energy is not developed by alternative means to fossil fuels. [More…]

• -On 14 November 1979 I was asked a question by Senator Keeffe about the Community Development Employment Projects Scheme currently being funded in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• It noted with grave concern that repeated efforts by the ASEAN states and other members of the international community to obtain the withdrawal of Vietnamese armed forces from Kampuchea and to allow the Kampuchean people to exercise their right to self-determination have so far proved to be of no avail. [More…]

• Recognises the problems arising from the past dispossession and dispersal of the Aboriginal people and the community’s resulting responsibility. [More…]

• However, this will be the first explicit statutory recognition of the broad and wide concern of the Australian community to effect a just settlement. [More…]

• The National Aboriginal Conference has described the proposal as ‘makarrata’, a Yolnu word which signifies the end of a dispute between communities and between a community and an offender and the resumption of normal relations. [More…]

• A subject of discussion in the world community has been whether the aid has been able to get into Phnom Penh and the surrounding areas. [More…]

• There is no immediate resolution for the political problems of Kampuchea in sight; so there will be an on-going flow of refugees seeking refuge in Thailand, assistance from the world community and. [More…]

• Vast amounts of aid will have to be supplied by the world community to the camps within Thailand. [More…]

• There is no question that it can be rebuilt without substantial on-going help from the world community and in particular from countries like Australia where there is very serious recognition of the problem and a willingness to assist. [More…]

• They are receiving support from various church and community groups, but I believe that their work would more readily be known and their services would be more readily availed of if more money were made available to them from the Government. [More…]

• I appreciate also that that sort of service ought to be able to attract voluntary donations from adherents to the community groups I have mentioned. [More…]

• It seems to me that those organisations are unable to expand their activities into new areas and to do work which is very valuable to the community. [More…]

• The cost to the community of people marrying unwisely would be many times the amount which needs to be spent in that area. [More…]

• I think that money spent in that direction would be of infinitely more value to the community. [More…]

• If there was such an adverse security report, was that the reason for the Government’s decision to decline to host the Conference or was there rather some other consideration, namely, as has been the subject of Press speculation, the fear of adverse political reaction from Jewish groups within the Australian community? [More…]

• I am further concerned that the reason lying behind that decision was not any concern that there would be any actual threat to the security of Australia as a result of the visit of that Organisation but rather a blatant political one, that the visit of that Organisation to an event sponsored by the Government in an election year would be unpopular with some significant sections of the Australian community and would, as a result, conceivably do some political damage to the Government. [More…]

• The international scientific community is working towards the future development of industrial facilities for waste disposal, and the Government recognises that validation of some of the technical principles involved in nuclear waste disposal in geological repositories will have to await construction and operation of such facilities. [More…]

• They could not give two hoots for the safety of the personnel who live in this community and who have to work in uranium mines or handle uranium. [More…]

• This Government is using the very high unemployment rate that it has brought upon this community as a scare solution to con the people into believing that if we mine uranium we will solve the economic crisis that this Government has got this country into and solve the unemployment problem. [More…]

• The money is transported overseas and it is of no value to the Australian community. [More…]

• Both honourable senators would know that the uranium question has divided this community. [More…]

• As well there are many others in the community who have a growing awareness that the danger lights are flashing. [More…]

• It would seen to me that it is not beyond the ability of the fiscal brains in the Government and particularly in the general community to come up with a scheme by which these people would be allowed voluntarily to phase themselves into retirement rather than, as happens in so many cases, to clock off on their sixtyfifth birthday and fall dead within six to eight months because they are not used to the different life-style that retirement presents. [More…]

• One group which was mentioned earlier tonight comprises those families in the community who, because they rely on social security benefits or are in the low income bracket, remain well below the poverty line. [More…]

• It is not the sort of proposal that I believe is practical, just or fair in our community. [More…]

• If we are serious about redirecting income in this community to those in need we must look seriously at using the present amount of money we pay on family allowances. [More…]

• We cannot do it by simple across the board indexation to all families with children in the community whether or not they are in need. [More…]

• The low income family of a person working for a wage in the community is completely left out of our present system. [More…]

• I ask the Minister how she can justify introducing a scheme like that in 1976 with such a fanfare and with such claims of assistance to low income families in the community and then leave payments at the same level they had been at since 1 976 and allow them to be eroded by 36 per cent or 40 per cent inflation without any justification. [More…]

• This is of great concern to handicapped persons in New South Wales, to the organisations that are of assistance to them and to the people of New South Wales generally, the State that I have the honour to represent in the Australian Parliament along with Senator Baume who I hope will raise his voice with me this evening in the complaint that I make on behalf of this underprivileged section of the community. [More…]

• My appeal to you is to speak up for the handicapped and to expose the deep discrimination exercised against this already underprivileged group in the Australian community. [More…]

• It seems to me that unless a serious look is taken at the manner in which we are supporting low income families in the community generally and avoid the sort of bland reply that we got from the Minister we will get nowhere. [More…]

• What I am suggesting is that we take a serious look at the family allowance scheme- a well understood scheme, an efficient scheme, a scheme which above all in almost all cases in the community pays money to mothers- so that we can redistribute some of the funds to those who need the assistance. [More…]

• I merely ask the Government seriously to consider doing something about this group in the community and looking seriously at all the suggestions that are made, even though I have expressed by disagreement with proposals such as income splitting. [More…]

• I ask the Government to look at the system we have and ascertain whether we can rapidly introduce a means of supporting this group in the community. [More…]

• Apart from the provision of programs directly by Commonwealth departments, mechanisms used are grants to the States, cost-sharing arrangements with the States, direct funding to ethnic or community organisations, and commissioning of outside organisations to conduct surveys. [More…]

• The fifth recommendation that was not accepted related to the establishment of community councils in the Territory as a focal point for discussion of planning and other decisions within the Territory. [More…]

• Whilst the Government accepted the recommendation that such community councils should be established, it did not support the recommendation that the Minister for the Capital Territory should propose geographic areas, the population that ought to be covered by such councils and the functions to be administered by them. [More…]

• It was suggested in the statement by the Minister that perhaps the Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly should have some direct role or that otherwise it should be done on the initiative of the community without the Government’s becoming involved. [More…]

• I think that this, in itself, will lead to greater accountability to the community, particularly on the part of the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]

• Again, this will give the community and the individual citizen a greater capacity to question planning judgments and will thereby ensure that planning authorities are more responsive and accountable to the community. [More…]

• In addition, the community council concept, if proceeded with and if there is sufficient interest in the community or through the Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly, could well lead to a more effective community participation in the decision-making process. [More…]

• Part of the cost of running the services should be met by the community at large. [More…]

• I suggest that a figure of 60 per cent of the cost might be recovered from the users and 40 per cent might be derived from the community. [More…]

• Consistent with responsible public administrationparticularly the obligation to obtain value for money in using resources drawn from the community- reappraisals have been made both within the Depanment and by persons outside it in quest of greater efficiency, improved responsiveness to government policies . [More…]

• We are elected to the Parliament to put a point of view on behalf of a very large section of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a matter of concern to a very large section of the Australian community. [More…]

• One other point I would raise, again not to debate it because I have raised it here before, is that there appears to be no allocation for access radio or community radio. [More…]

• Regarding the matter of Aboriginal access to community radio, that is already occurring in a number of parts of Western Australia and Tasmania. [More…]

• Primary producers are the less prosperous section of our community and we should have some explanation before we pass the Bill. [More…]

• Give priority to its role as a community service organisation in preference to its commercial interests. [More…]

• On behalf of the Government, provide a community service to those areas not serviced by a commercial network so that direct telecasts of major events are transmitted to all Australians. [More…]

• The Northern Territory Government, and I am sure the Northern Territory community, are vitally interested in the development of that gas field and oil field. [More…]

• The relationship between bank and client, within the guidelines of the community, must be confidential. [More…]

• I believe that the dissemination of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes is an authentic role for the community as a whole. [More…]

• -Senator Keeffe asked a question on 14 November to which I gave some supplementary information yesterday about the Community Development Employment Projects Scheme. [More…]

• The National Women’s Advisory Council has come under some criticism from very small minority groups in the community for its activities. [More…]

• The irony, indeed the aptness, of this Government’s stating that it is unable to accept the establishment of an integrity commission will not go unnoticed by the Australian community. [More…]

• The sooner it is removed from office the better the community as a whole will be. [More…]

• I made a serious effort to get this statement before the Senate because I know that it is of general interest to the Senate and to the community. [More…]

• It is a matter of keeping faith with both the Paliament and the community that the Institute ‘s impact statement has been made available in this way. [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…]

• As long as we have a ratio of job vacancies to those who are seeking work of something like I to 20 it is absolute nonsense to think that by introducing a program of this type, or any other type, without increasing the number of jobs available in the community we will in fact do anything about youth unemployment. [More…]

• We all accept that and we all accept that it may be done, but we believe the problem is urgent and will not be solved by a statement such as this which talks about what might and what may happen, which says in effect ‘we will do this with the States if they co-operate’ and which finishes up by exhorting everybody in the community to rally together without giving them any real leadership. [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…]

• 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…]

• The Opposition is concerned that such an institute should not be just a matter of tokenism to the ethnic community; if it is to be established it should be effective. [More…]

• As there is no provision for migrant or community bodies to elect the additional members, one supposes that they too will be Government appointed. [More…]

• That must be seen as pretty small by comparison with its ambitious programs of commissioning and conducting research, informing the public, promotions, community education, and that quaint aim of establishing a literature repository, which us mere mortals could assume is a library. [More…]

• The only really worthwhile part of that program, I believe, is the commissioning of research and the provision of community education. [More…]

• It seems to me that the major constructive work of the Institute of Multicultural Affairs is likely to be in the field of commissioned research, particularly if that research is acted upon, and also in the field of community education. [More…]

• I know that many honourable senators who have read the survey carried out by the Centre for Urban Research and Action, that excellent document entitled ‘But I Wouldn’t Want My Wife to Work Here’, will have no problem in accepting that that sort of disadvantage exists, particularly for migrant women in the community. [More…]

• If you study the figures you will find that not only do the ethnic community in Australia bear the brunt of over 40 per cent of all industrial accidents (although they make up some 28 per cent of the population) they bear more than double their share of unemployment, fail to take advantage of the advanced education system, earn at rates of pay well below the Australian average, live at conditions which are substandard, bear children at a greater rate than native-born Australians, have a higher level of ill-health, possess fewer skills, and fill the ranks of menial workers when they are able to obtain employment. [More…]

• This problem of cultural differences in the work force and the different treatment of cultural groups must be grasped at by our community. [More…]

• Some of this community’s major industrial plants operate with something like 80 per cent of wage earners who were born in non-English speaking countries. [More…]

• One knows that there is considerable debate amongst the ethnic community about which of those things it should do or whether it should do both. [More…]

• It is part of the practical research purpose in promoting community education, which must include migrant education and should include research on second language acquisition. [More…]

• Finally, I mention two of the more serious problems which will be deserving of the Institute’s research and action, particularly community education. [More…]

• The second is the personal plight and the community reaction to the last of our Australian migrants, the Indo-Chinese refugees and in particular the boat people. [More…]

• The very real problems that have arisen in this country, the resentment, the unfortunate effortscertainly by a minority of people- as a reaction to the arrival of the Indo-Chinese refugees and the boat people is something which I believe community education can assist to overcome. [More…]

• I suggest it would immediately overcome the problems that Senator Grimes mentioned where the ethnic community would largely walk carefully and quietly around this situation, leave it alone and go about their affairs. [More…]

• As to the matter of elections and the figure of a 100 member Council to which Senator Grimes referred, this may lead to what I would call robust differences of opinion in the Greek community. [More…]

• I believe that if people are able to prove that they have the backing of substantial elements in their own ethnic community, they will be able to stand up to criticism which they will get, rather than be dubbed as teacher’s pets. [More…]

• Again in relation to the figure of 100, 1 think most of the major groups today have enough political muscle and Press publicity to stand up for themselves but I think it will be found at this stage- even with the Portuguese community which is a relatively low wage group, as Senator Grimes mentioned- that these people who need a lot of assistance are proud about their culture but they do not have a lot of finance to establish clubs such as those established by the bigger groups. [More…]

• Some people have expressed the view that the concept of multiculturalism implies some sort of separate development of various groups; a sort of cultural isolationism where separate groups in our society ought to be able to adhere to different languages and cultural traditions without really coming the grips with each other, and promoting tolerance and understanding amongst the various ethnic groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• It ought to be made clear in any legislation which seeks to establish the Institute that one of its principal objectives is to promote tolerance, understanding and respect amongst the various groups comprising Australian society and to ensure that all groups are making a contribution to a unified Australian community where there is full scope for cultural diversity. [More…]

• I draw his attention to clause 6 ( 1 ) (b) (iv), in which is found a function of the Institute, expressed in the terms of conducting promotional and community educational activities. [More…]

• Senator Grimes also expressed concern that community education would be one of the most important things achieved through the establishment of the Institute. [More…]

• If we then refer to paragraph (d) of the Opposition’s amendment, we note that the Opposition would wish to ensure the possibility of entering into contractual relationships with other community-based organisations engaged in activities in accord with the objectives. [More…]

• In paragraph (e) of its amendment, the Opposition is concerned that the Bill should enable the Institute of Multicultural Affairs to conduct research into and to foster community sensitivity for social groups and refers to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. [More…]

• The Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs will be concerned with undertaking research and studies primarily directed towards the awareness and understanding of nonAboriginal cultures and the promotion of harmonious relationships amongst all the elements of our community. [More…]

• Therefore, whilst the Institute will not direct its research programs into Aboriginal issues, it is clear that close and co-operative working relationships with the various organisations concerned with 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…]

• In the meantime, of course, the taxpayers, who have no opportunity to exploit tax avoidance schemes and who are in fact honest enought to declare what their incomes really are bear the burden for those in the community who are utterly dishonest, namely, the tax avoidance people. [More…]

• That in turn will affect the capacity of the community to buy and therefore reduce further any chance of a consumer led recovery in this country. [More…]

• But I am disappointed that at this stage Mr Howard has been unable to come into this Parliament with a radically new section 260, which is the only way in which members of this community will be able to say to the tax avoiders and the tax bludgers: Whatever the legal status of the commercial or other transactions that you enter into, they will be disregarded when it comes to assessing your fair and just contribution to the nation’s revenue’. [More…]

• On the other side is the community, represented by the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]

• There is a deeper sense in which they are subversive, and that is in the creation of a feeling of inequity amongst potential taxpayers within the Australian community. [More…]

• There was a man on the pay-as-you-earn system who had no hopeeven if he desired to, which he did not- of avoiding his proper obligations towards the community through the taxation system. [More…]

• These are people who, because of their independent earning capacity, are not caught within the PA YE scheme and are therefore not subjected to the ordinary ways in which the Commissioner of Taxation ensures that he collects tax from the average wage and salary earner- the mug who cannot, because of some independent wealth creating situtation from which he earns his income, invest in these tax avoidance schemes which are proffered around the community. [More…]

• When I say that they are proffered around the community, in my view there is no doubt that we have a type of subversive literature which is an advertising of these schemes and which to my mind ought to be condemned as strongly as the schemes themselves. [More…]

• In it he states that he has assessed that the community this year is losing something like $422m. [More…]

• The elected representatives of this community have consistently said that tax avoidance is something anti-social and something which should have no effect against the revenue. [More…]

• I say that in that instance a tax avoider ought to have his Federal voting rights taken away from him as part of the penalty to be imposed by this community. [More…]

• I say that until they are prepared to make their fair contribution to our society, until they are prepared to create a situation in which there is a feeling of equity and in which everyone has a fair go, these subversive elements, these tax avoiders, should have this attitude of the community firmly stated to them: ‘No representation for them without their taxation’. [More…]

• The growth of the arts is dependent on community awareness of and involvement in them. [More…]

• Without that they cannot become an integral part of community life. [More…]

• Until the arts are treated as an integral part of school education they will not flourish in the community at large. [More…]

• Extending awareness of the arts within the community should be a matter of priority in any arts policy. [More…]

• The Government should embark upon a program of training community advisers. [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…]

• This expansion occurred when everyone more astute than Mr McEwen, who was then the Country Party Minister for Primary Industry in the Federal Government, Henry Bolte, who was the then Victorian Premier, and the irrigation cargo cultists could see that our markets would be eroded by the United Kingdom’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Finally I make this plea firstly on the basis of our obligation as members of the United Nations Commission on human relations, our obligation as members of the world community, our debt to those wonderful people who gave their lives to us in our hour of need, the recognition, of our status and our credibility in the community of nations in our region; and, lastly, to the observed and expressed needs of a wonderful subculture whose traditions, language, cultural patterns, and aspirations, set them apart and distinct from that group which has tried to subdue them by a most brutal means, and absorb them as part of a pattern of territorial expansion and resource control. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Department of the Capital Territory allocated houses to Asian refugees, which houses have required considerable repairs and maintenance work, by community groups involved in re-settling refugees in Canberra, before being fit for occupancy. [More…]

• Are administrative procedures in the Department delaying the handing over of houses and flats to Asian refugees to the extent that: (a) community groups frequently are denied advice of when houses and flats will become available until the last moment; and (b) the Department is reluctant to hand over the keys to government houses and flats so that responsible community groups can put the dwellings in order before refugee families arrive in Canberra. [More…]

• The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is aiming to actively involve the community in the national process of re-settling the considerable number of refugees now coming into Australia. [More…]

• In view of some doubts which have been expressed about the continued production of penicillin at the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, when can the Australian community expect a government response as to whether the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories or the foreign owned Aborts Laboratories will be the sole producer of penicillin in Australia? [More…]

• The honourable senator’s question apparently relates to circumstances connected with the residential addresses of a small number of women’s refuges, all of which are located in Victoria and which are included in a total of 94 refuges funded under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• I have recently corresponded with the Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services and, as the matter is still under consideration at ministerial level, it is inappropriate to comment further on this particular case, as this time. [More…]

• However, I should mention that it would be a matter for the Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services to decide what officers of his Department were to be provided with refuges’ addresses and I would hope that the situation would not be reached where it became necessary to consider cessation of Commonwealth funding. [More…]

• In financial terms, the Commonwealth commitment under the Community Health Program for the years 1974-75-1979-80 inclusive, has exceeded $9.3m. [More…]

• Give priority to its role as a community service organisation in preferance to its commercial interests. [More…]

• On behalf of the Government, provide a community service to those areas not serviced by a commercial network so that direct telecasts of major events are transmitted to all Australians. [More…]

• The classic case in this area has been the dumping by the European Economic Community onto the New Guinea market through the immediate past, with sugar being released at a price well below the cost of production. [More…]

• The people about whom we are concerned are being forced out of these areasareas where jobs are available, where their parents may have resided all their lives, and where the community services and cultural facilities are provided- because they cannot afford to buy homes that are being bought by people on higher incomes. [More…]

• But we as a government have held firmly to the view that we should support first home buyers and, indeed, this has been of enormous value to the community. [More…]

• The amendment recognises some problem in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Darwin, but the community is much larger than those four cities. [More…]

• Without straying too far from the Bill, it is because of that sort of attitude that I remain unconvinced about membership of this body together with the European Economic Community nations and the United States of America. [More…]

• Overseas patent systems, as evidenced by the European Patent Convention and the Community Patent Convention, have been undergoing major development. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that Senator Bonner placed on record, in the course of a question earlier this week, the fact that a counter petition had been taken up in the Yarrabah community. [More…]

• the teacher involved, was allegedly dismissed or given a punitive transfer because of his increasing involvement in mission and community administration matters. [More…]

• Roy Mclvor, who had occupied a prominent position in that community, has played a prominent role over a period in trying to democratise the mission, has also come in for a lot of criticism. [More…]

• This is typical of the harassment that goes on amongst the community on that mission if its members dare to speak up for themselves. [More…]

• What is needed is a policy, to be worked out in consultation with industry and the trade union movement, which will provide a proper climate for long-term investment in the development of our resources so that the benefits of those resources and their development can be shared equitably between those who produce them and the community at large. [More…]

• On that basis it is essential that the coal export levy be replaced with some alternative form of resource tax which is based on the profits of the producers and which must be equitable but must recognise the rights of the Australian community to benefit from the development of those resources. [More…]

• As such, the benefits should be shared amongst the community as a whole. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt said that there has not been a significant reduction in consumption but, in fact, as a result of import parity pricing there has been a considerable improvement in exploration and I think a very much greater awareness in the community of the problems that we face as a nation in relation to our energy resources and energy supplies. [More…]

• Circumstances have emerged both in the course of this case and in the run up to it whereby statutory declarations have been made about the Commonwealth Police having engaged in the original raid on the Greek community, which involved forcible entry in a number of cases without a warrant either having been in existence or at least having been produced to the persons in question on request. [More…]

• One of the major reasons for the recommendation that it be transferred to the police was that the areas of narcotics investigations are right in the heart of criminal activities and criminal elements in the community. [More…]

• At the end of his second reading speech, the Attorney said that, save for one or two amendments, the Commissioner for Community Relations would continue to operate and his powers would not be affected. [More…]

• When asked about the imminent disappearance of the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, the Minister replied: ‘The Federal Government has decided to create a Commission for Human Rights, and one of the Commissioners of this body will be responsible for watching out for racial discrimination. [More…]

• The present office for Community Relations will therefore be superfluous’. [More…]

• Let us hope that what we are doing is of some value to the Australian community. [More…]

• My Department’s efforts have been directed to reviewing its own programs and to stimulating community groups, other departments and si.-te and local governments to reconsider their activities am programs for children. [More…]

• My Department’s efforts have been directed to reviewing its own programs and to stimulating community groups, other departments and state and local governments to consider their activities and programs for children. [More…]

• What objections, if no action is proposed, does the Government have to such action, which would both improve community health and reduce the road toll. [More…]

• The applications have come from a wide variety of organisations including ethnic community groups, church groups, trade unions, cultural and other vol untary groups. [More…]

• The final evaluation concluded that: the co-location factor afforded clients more convenience; the ethnicity of clients at NOW was relatively high and the services provided met these requirements; and community support for the Centre was high. [More…]

• In keeping with the community’s concern on the employment question, the Government has received and analysed some hundreds of manpower proposals. [More…]

• What action is proposed to review taxation charges on people in the outback and the north of Australia, with a view to improving their lot generally, and bringing them nearer to the economic and social conditions of people living in the more highly populated areas, in the light of the Government’s endeavour to achieve equality for people in the Australian community. [More…]

• Is the Department of Housing and Construction required to provide: (a) the Department of Aboriginal Affairs; and (b) the Aboriginal communities involved, with audited statements of how it has used the community’s grants. [More…]

• 1 ) The Department of Aboriginal Affairs does not allocate funds directly to the Department of Housing and Construction, although it can and does on occasion release funds allocated to Aboriginal communities directly to that Department, at the request of an Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Such occurrences would eventuate when the Department of Housing and Construction is supervising contracts on behalf of a community, and makes progress payments to the contractor as certain stages of the work are completed. [More…]

• The practice occurs only where the community nominated as the grant recipient agrees to the Department of Housing and Construction acting as its agent In these cases letters of grant offer from my Department include specific reference to the agency role of the Department of Housing and Construction in the conditions of grant. [More…]

• Upon completion of a contract, the Department of Housing and Construction issues a Certificate of Practical Completion and a Financial Report which advises the client, in this case the Aboriginal community, of the full costs of the contract. [More…]

• Will the Government consider making the advertising of tobacco and alcohol no longer tax deductible, in view of the cost to the community resulting from the use of these products. [More…]

• 1 ) How many Community Youth Support Schemes are operating in Australia. [More…]

• What is the age limit for participants in the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• At 30 June 1979 there were 331 Community Youth Support Scheme Projects operating in Australia. [More…]

• The Department’s office space in Wyndham is rented from the State Government and will become available for the use of the State Depanment of Community Welfare. [More…]

• I am aware of the concern of the Hungarian community in Australia concerning this matter. [More…]

• The purpose of Town Meetings is to try and broaden the base of community participation in the discussion of foreign policy questions. [More…]

• Does the Australian Government intend to make further representations to the British Government regarding the impact on Australian trade prospects in the event of Britain entering the European Economic Community? [More…]

• It is in line with a number of other attempts to erode civil liberties in our community. [More…]

• In the rural community there appears to be widespread uncertainty as to whether those producers who qualify for assistance under the terms of the rural reconstruction scheme will continue to have their financial affairs directed through their usual bank or stock firm, or whether there will be direct government-to-producer provisions of funds. [More…]

• I should think that the ability of newspaper photographers to take photographs is never regarded as an invasion of the privacy of persons who are being photographed and I should think that the honourable senator would not have it argued that persons who are demonstrating are to be a singularly privileged group in the community. [More…]

• I think it reflects great credit upon Senator Wright that he is prepared to sacrifice himself in the interests of the community. [More…]

• I believe that reports from the Social Welfare Research Centre would be of great interest to the wider community and would certainly be of such a nature that they could be made public. [More…]

• Such programs include support for Aboriginal Hostels Limited, Special Work Projects and Community Development Employment Projects, Aboriginal welfare co-ordinating and referral agencies, and Aboriginal field support associated with Aboriginal Legal Services. [More…]

• Those students may be at risk for a variety of reasons; maybe for family or community reasons. [More…]