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

• Is it a fact that there is a growing crisis in education in South Australia, particularly at the primary and secondary levels, and that the State is unable to meet pressing demands in the areas of building, transport, teacher training, administrative costs and salaries. [More…]

• Today has been a day of crisis for the Government. [More…]

• If so, what action is planned to protect those employed in the industry and to avoid a worsening of the crisis which exists in that State. [More…]

• Is it a fact that investment spending, not consumer spending, is the major factor in the present inflationary crisis on the expenditure side. [More…]

• Noone in this Parliament, no-one in Australia and certainly no wheat grower will be satisfied with the attempt of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) to downgrade the importance of the present crisis in the Australian-Chinese wheat trade and, generally, in trade relations between Australia and China. [More…]

• Really it is to be described as an international exchange crisis. [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister consider making a statement explaining the attitude of the Government in matters relating to the international monetary crisis? [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• If the position is as stated, will he confer with the Council of Egg Marketing Authorities to see whether these reserve funds may be used in the present serious crisis in the egg industry to assist producers in an emergency? [More…]

• I say to the Minister for the Navy that what he has said is nonsense because as most honourable members well know, the place of the Minister for Primary Industry at the present time is in Australia, in this Parliament and particularly at the helm in the crisis we are facing. [More…]

• If so, does the Minister recognise the appeal in the concluding paragraphs as directed at the Government to avert a crisis of waning morale, adequacy and efficacy in Australia’s health services, research and teaching as compared with those of Britain and the United States. [More…]

• What is the Australian Government doing to solve the crisis in Korea? [More…]

• Is is a fact that, due to the great increase in the number of unemployed, benefit payments have been delayed because of the failure to increase the staff of his Department to meet this crisis. [More…]

• Are there any examples in the world scene of a currency crisis that has been affected by unwise remarks by political figures? [More…]

• Harold Jago, has appealed to the Commonwealth for urgent financial assistance to help overcome this crisis in our hospitals? [More…]

• Will the right honourable gentleman give an undertaking to this House, preferably before the election, that urgent consideration will be given to the provision of special financial assistance to New South Wales to help overcome this crisis? [More…]

• Can the Minister inform me what is the present state of the threatened crisis in the Highlands of New Guinea? [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to statements by the Annual Conference of the Australian Automobile Chamber of Commerce that Australia has reached a crisis point in worn tyre disposals and that motorists will be expected to pay for tyre disposals. [More…]

• Is it a fact, as stated by the President of the Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association of Western Australia, that private nursing homes in Western Australia will face a crisis early in 1974; if not, what is the situation. [More…]

• In the same Press handout he blames the oil crisis and the increase in oil prices for that potential shortage. [More…]

• Why, in the latter part of last year and in the early part of this year, did the Government permit the Reserve Bank to allow the trading banks to move into speculative investment loans whereby a liquidity crisis arose only to be covered by certificates of deposit at high rates of interest? [More…]

• But the matters that I propose in this motion are relevant to our main responsibilities as members of Parliament and we would be recreant to those responsibilites if we did not consider them in the present frightening state of crisis. [More…]

• If not, was he refering to the report prepared on the unemployment crisis in Launceston. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Minerals and Energy: Has his attention been drawn to reports of a national oil crisis in Australia? [More…]

• The inadequacies of the recent measures announced by the Government to solve the housing crisis. [More…]

• As a brief preamble I point out that although 2 questions concerning the beef industry were asked yesterday of the Minister for Northern Development, I regard the crisis in the industry today to be of such a magnitude that I would expect the Minister and his colleagues to have made important decisions within the last 24 hours. [More…]

• 1 ) When did the Leyland Company inform his predecessor of its approaching financial crisis. [More…]

• What is his attitude to the statements from medical research organisations that medical research is facing a crisis because of insufficient funds. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Social Security distributed a paper which differs from the Treasurer’s analysis of the economic crisis and proposes different solutions? [More…]

• When did the Leyland Company inform his predecessor of its approaching financial crisis. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Health satisfied that his announcement on medical research of Tuesday evening will end the crisis in medical research caused by the 50 per cent Budget cut for this year? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: Has the pattern of grants for education by the Australian Government produced the crisis in education in New South Wales alleged by the New South Wales Minister for Education, Sir Eric Willis, or is this another attempt by a State Minister to blame the inadequacies of his administration upon the Australian Government? [More…]

• I would like to draw to the attention of honourable members the fact that there has been considerable cooperation in the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs notwithstanding the present crisis that was referred to by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Les Johnson). [More…]

• More than at any time, I believe, since Federation Australia needs to re-examine and learn the lessons of the constitutional crisis of 1975 and to make sure that that dark day- 11 November- is never repeated in this country. [More…]

• Is the crisis now occurring in Queensland building societies in any way due to the monetary policy of this Government and in particular to the issue of the special Australian Savings Bonds? [More…]

• Before I call the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, let me say that the matter of public importance is ‘the Government’s perfunctory response to the unemployment crisis’. [More…]

• 1 ) Is it a fact that the deep crisis in which the New South Wales building industry finds itself seems certain to worsen because of the recent Budget cutbacks in Government spending. [More…]

• -I present the interim report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into the Lebanon crisis. [More…]

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

• The crisis in building and construction caused by the Government’s economic policies. [More…]

• The failure of the Government to adequately respond to the rural crisis. [More…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs who would be aware of the current political crisis in Iran. [More…]

• Can the Minister tell the House of the grave ramifications of this crisis for the Western world? [More…]

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

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

• There is also an Oil Supplies Advisory Committee which was recently established to advise the Government following the disruption to supplies caused by the Iran crisis. [More…]

• Is there a crisis of business and consumer confidence in South Australia? [More…]

• Is it a fact that the oil crisis triggered off by Iran has created problems for the Japanese power and gas utilities? [More…]

• Will he release any vacant dwellings leased by his Department in Sydney’s western suburbs for urgently needed crisis accommodation for the civilian population. [More…]

• This is a further example of the Government’s complete disregard of the Australian shipbuilding industry which, at the moment, is going through a crisis in respect of continuity of employment in the shipyards. [More…]

• The Government is guilty of gross neglect not only of the wheat growers of Australia but of the taxpayers also for not informing us 5 years ago of this serious crisis towards which the wheat industry was heading. [More…]

• The point at issue as raised by the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) is whether action should be taken to help meet the growing economic crisis in the countryside. [More…]

• He addressed a meeting of nearly 2,000 people, which was sponsored by sixty local government and other bodies to discuss the very crisis that he now denies should be a cause of concern to this Parliament. [More…]

• I recognise that the Minister has his warm supporters, but despite them the rank and file of the people of Jerilderie would have preferred a visit from the other historic character who rode into the town some years before and who at a time of crisis did something positive by burning up all the mortgages he found in the Bank. [More…]

• The President of a Riverina graziers organisation, who is hardly a roaring radical but is a gentleman of great substance and standing whom I respect, told the meeting that the crisis in the countryside was an immediate problem for the Government. [More…]

• The President of the United Farmers and Woolgrowers Association of New South Wales put his finger on wool as one of the keys to the rural crisis. [More…]

• Let us look at this business of whether there is validity in our submission today, which was put so well by the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson), that there is a crisis in the countryside. [More…]

• The Minister for Primary Industry went to one of those meetings, I might add, and probably had something to say about the crisis in addition to what he said today. [More…]

• The burden of their message was that they were in trouble; that there was a crisis and that it had to be tackled by the Government. [More…]

• Of the crisis in rural industry about which we are talking there was not a hint in the Governor-General’s Speech. [More…]

• The Government says there is no crisis anywhere. [More…]

• Is there a denial today by the Minister that in fact there is a crisis? [More…]

• Despite all the activity by the Government in the past 20 years, we face this crisis now. [More…]

• Let me just cite one town as an example of the situation and of this crisis which is real and cannot be denied. [More…]

• I refer to a town in which every business house and the co-operative gathered together and announced in the local Press that all credit had finished, that it had ended, that it had to be cash or nothing because of the crisis confronting primary industry. [More…]

• They demand action because there is a crisis in primary industry. [More…]

• The greatest danger at the present time is that because of the growing economic crisis in major sectors of primary industry, to quote the words of the matter raised for discussion in this debute, hasty, ill-considered policies will be proposed designed merely to take the heat off temporarily rather than to attack the real cause of the situation. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr McEwen) and the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony), along with Government members, have been giving this important problem considerable attention with wool industry leaders, and every effort is being made to solve the crisis which has arisen in the wool industry. [More…]

• If there is a crisis today in industrial democracy it stems, as Sir Isaiah Berlin suggested in a rare interview, from: . [More…]

• Essentially, what has been created is a phony crisis. [More…]

• Except in terms of the internal affairs of the Liberal Party, there is no CommonwealthState crisis. [More…]

• There is a crisis in school finance; there is a crisis in hospitals finance; there is a crisis in city finance. [More…]

• I have complimented him on numerous occasions and I believe that when the history of this crisis is written he will stand high in the minds of the people. [More…]

• It is obvious that the Government has failed to warn the wheat growers, the public and the taxpayers in sufficient time of the crisis that has arisen. [More…]

• The criticism that the Opposition levies at the Government is that it did not face up to its responsibilities at least S years ago when the Treasury publicly, together with international agencies, warned that the wheat industry was heading for a crisis. [More…]

• Plans should have been made when the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Bill was introduced into the Parliament 2 years ago to solve the problem, but it was not until April of last year that any official statement was made about the crisis in the wheat industry. [More…]

• I believe that we now face a crisis in primary industry. [More…]

• This, as I say, is a crisis. [More…]

• The present Government has not only failed the nation in the important areas I have mentioned; it has also been responsible for the development of the worst crisis in the rural sector of this nation for more than 30 years. [More…]

• Perhaps the greatest problem facing the nation today is the rising cost squeeze, not only upon the rural industries - it has reached crisis proportions there, we know - but upon practically all of our export earning industries as well. [More…]

• The truth of the matter is that Australian farmers are generally efficient by world standards, but they are being burdened by cost pressures which have, in many cases, brought them to crisis point. [More…]

• A crisis point has been reached in the wool industry. [More…]

• I wish the Parliament would set to and do some homework on it or establish a select committee to examine how we can develop the civilian defence capacity of Australia with its tremendous resources in every town, in workshops, in naval yards and so on, into a viable defence capacity which does not waste people’s time but which still can be an effective mobilisation point for the nation if ever we come to a point of crisis. [More…]

• The argument may well be raised that the Western Australian State Government recently took from its housing allocation some $2m for the purposes of education; but this only emphasises the inadequacies which exist in Commonwealth-State relationships, for a crisis situation has been created in the provision of education facilities. [More…]

• In time of family crisis, faced with the worry of sudden illness or injury, they face the added burden of knowing that they must encounter a long trip to a city hospital. [More…]

• We ran into some trouble in 1961 through applying the brakes too hard but I remind the honourable member for Lalor, who was critical of the Government’s handling of economics and finance, that no less an authority than the ‘London Financial Times’ praised Australia for the way it handled its financial crisis. [More…]

• We accept that there is a potential crisis and that a lot of damage could be caused to pearl beds and marine life if action were not taken now. [More…]

• That was the last time that the Government initiated such a debate despite the fact that its supporters who have poultry farmers in their electorates know full well the crisis being engendered in that industry. [More…]

• After that Bill this crisis developed in the wheat industry. [More…]

• The only way that we could debate wheat quotas and the crisis in the industry was by taking the opportunity afforded by Grievance Day. [More…]

• lt is significant that we have had no debate this year on the wheat industry crisis itself. [More…]

• He made very clear what he thought of the Minister for Primary Industry and the Government with respect to the crisis in the wheat industry. [More…]

• Almost every day we read in the newspapers of the crisis and the unrest in the wool industry. [More…]

• Both the Parliament and the Australian primary producers have been treated with the utmost contempt by the Australian Government, because despite the growing financial crisis in the primary industries the Government refuses to exercise even the slightest semblance of leadership. [More…]

• The Labor Party is aware that this crisis, this chaos, this law of the jungle, this exploitation of the many by the few can and must be solved by planning. [More…]

• Did he receive reports from the Minister for Defence before he left us and the Minister for the Interior following their promise to 10,000 farmers, who marched in Melbourne to protest against the continuing crisis in the countryside, that they would convey to the Prime Minister without delay the farmers’ protest and their request for action? [More…]

• Firstly, there was the matter of the Commonwealth Public Service, its pay and conditions; secondly, the crisis in primary industry; thirdly, the malnutrition among Aboriginals exposed by the Australian Medical Journal; fourthly, the rising interest rates as they affect home builders in particular; fifthly, the denial and delay of entry permits for New Guinea academics - and this is still continuing today, as we found out during question time; sixthly, the rise in urban land prices; and finally, the rein traduction of a waiting period for war service homes. [More…]

• There we find that at this late stage, when things had reached a state of crisis, the Liberal Party in Western Australia - at least the Young Liberal Party as can be seen from that article - has seen the need to look for a policy, to begin developing a policy. [More…]

• I think here we see cause to condemn the Liberal Party and to condemn this Government, because the Party has admitted tacitly that it has failed to produce a policy and that it had not grasped the position until the position had reached crisis point. [More…]

• I should like to take down into my electorate members of my Party so that they can see the conditions that exist, the conditions that have caused members of the Liberal Party to realise that there is a crisis in the country. [More…]

• The meetings were held because of the present crisis in the industry. [More…]

• Money, money, money, money; that is all one hears when the hospital crisis in Australia is discussed. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that there is no crisis. [More…]

• Of course there is a crisis. [More…]

• It is not that doctors are extravagant or that hospitals are inefficient; the crisis has come about because patients or potential patients, such as other honourable members and I. are demanding increased standards of medical care, particularly in the public hospital sector. [More…]

• Briefly, I suggest that this crisis could be minimised if the Government recognised that the present financial arrangements are extremely wasteful. [More…]

• The honourable member for Oxley claimed that the real crisis in our hospitals is in the field of maintenance costs. [More…]

• On the 2nd of this month the ‘Age’ reported: ‘Hospital Crisis; Patients Sent Away.’ [More…]

• But the Minister says it is not a criSiS, that things are all hunky-dory. [More…]

• This increased interest burden has snowballed into increased land costs and the increased cost of housing to such an extent that a crisis has developed. [More…]

• Without, at this stage, going into the reasons why this does result directly from the land crisis, I would merely indicate how bad the situation is. [More…]

• If we recognise how basic the land prices crisis is to the problem, this question follows: Could we use these funds in some other way to solve the problem of land prices? [More…]

• Obviously, at the centre of this problem is the whole crisis in relations between the Commonwealth Government and State and local governments. [More…]

• There is a general lack of awareness that a crisis exists in this field, but the crisis will continue to exist so long as governments determinedly and successfully close their eyes to the ever widening gap between the deaf and society generally. [More…]

• It was the subject of enormous controversy and of a major political crisis. [More…]

• For example, in the electorate of the honourable member for Moore (Mr Maisey) 2% of land on an average - if the Commonwealth average applies there - changed hands each year before the present crisis. [More…]

• This is illustrated by the mounting crisis which is spreading throughout rural Australia arid is characterised by organised marches and protest meetings of farmers and rural workers. [More…]

• Of course we must welcome any small recognition by the Government of the current crisis in the countryside. [More…]

• I was saying to the House just prior to the suspension of the sitting that most of the primary producers in the State of New South Wales, and in other States for that matter, are standing firm in the face of rising costs and in the face of the crisis in the countryside at the present time. [More…]

• The Rural Crisis Manifesto was produced by the Edenhope Agricultural Bureau. [More…]

• The Rural Crisis Manifesto said this: [More…]

• Then we have a situation of crisis in which the same hot money is standing by to buy up properties of family enterprises which, as has been conceded by honourable members on both sides of the House today, have the record of being the most effective and efficient in absolute terms. [More…]

• MrGRASSBY- Perhaps I should be grateful to the honourable member for Evans for that interjection, because it seems to me that the entitre crisis in the countryside is either being deliberately misunderstood by some city interests or perhaps is misunderstood because of ignorance of the significance of the crisis. [More…]

• His last policy was taken out before the drought - before the current crisis. [More…]

• It seems to me that, in considering such measures as this, we have forgotten that the drought faced producers with the worst crisis for 100 years. [More…]

• This is the summation of what I have said tonight: That the family enterprise has been demonstrated to be both efficient and effective and is the backbone of the rural development of the nation; that the current crisis is a product of policies or the absence of policies; that imposts, such as estate duty, must be totally reconstructed; that this small measure should be only a prelude to this being done as a matter of urgency; and that the vote on the amendment that has been put forward should be a vote of conscience. [More…]

• The honourable member for Riverina went on to illustrate the position of a family enterprise which as a result of this crisis - and 1 presume he is talking about the crisis we have heard him to be so vocal about in recent times - sees the end of an occupancy of a farm after 5 generations of, I presume, ownership. [More…]

• The crisis facing Tasmania goes beyond defective services and uncompetitive freight rates; in the broader sense it strikes directly at the policies of decentralisation which have been vaunted by the Federal Government. [More…]

• The most unfortunate effect of the shipping crisis is the loss of key industries to other States. [More…]

• This crisis is blotting out the work which has been done over many years by way of incentive schemes to develop industries. [More…]

• The stage has now been reached were a shipping crisis has developed in Tasmania. [More…]

• In an article headed ‘The $60 Billion Crisis over Medical Care’ the reputable United States magazine ‘Business Week’ in January this year stated: [More…]

• This was the call by Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Mr Malik, for a conference of nations in the Asian region on the Cambodian crisis. [More…]

• The shortage of nursing staff in public hospitals has reached crisis point. [More…]

• There is a great crisis in staffing in public hospitals throughout Australia. [More…]

• ls it a fact that there is a growing crisis in education in South Australia, particularly at the primary and secondary levels, and that the State is unable to meet pressing demands in the areas of building, transport, teacher training, administrative costs and salaries. [More…]

• Here we have an industry with a combined capital investment of $8,000m with a chronic crisis. [More…]

• Undoubtedly contributing to the crisis is the fact that the auction system, so long a sacred procedure for many, is the middle man’s market and the grower and the user never meet. [More…]

• Of vital importance is the attitude of the Government at this time of crisis. [More…]

• They want to know whether there will be a reserve price based on the cost of production and what steps will be taken to end the present crisis. [More…]

• Yet the situation is urgent; there is a crisis. [More…]

• One would have thought that at some time in this debate tonight we would have at least had some discussion on the crisis in primary industry and the steps which this Government intends to take in the future to alleviate the problems, but all that we have heard about, as has been usual in the last few weeks, is buck passing and waiting until the industries of Australia come to this Government with some plan. [More…]

• He did not devote any part of his speech to the call made by the Foreign Minister of Indonesia, Mr Malik, for an international conference - a conference which will deal not only with Vietnam but the crisis which has developed in Cambodia as well, a crisis which has extended this conflict to the whole of Indo China. [More…]

• Perhaps if there had been proper representation at that critical time we might have been able to have avoided the development of the Cambodian crisis. [More…]

• Those honourable members should not apologise to me for being intemperate but they ought to apologise to the country people for not taking notice of their needs and not doing something about the crisis as it is at the present time. [More…]

• This is where I return to the responsibility of this country to build and maintain necessary bases if we expect - and in fact we would expect - the British and others to be with us in any time of crisis. [More…]

• If we have to face some kind of crisis then what sort Qf reserves do we have? [More…]

• Should there be for some reason or other an unusual withdrawal rather than a reinvestment of dividends - about half of them are reinvested; it is a very high proportion - should there be a reduction of capital inflow because of the economic conditions in some other country that are not the same as they are here; and should there be a capital withdrawal, Australia would face a crisis greater and more serious than any crisis it has faced in its history. [More…]

• We must look at what would occur if there was a crisis and a sudden demand for the repatriation of profits which have been capitalised in this country by being allowed to remain here or, alternatively, the repatriation of capital which had previously been borrowed from overseas and sent to this country, lt could be any type of crisis - a political crisis or a severe crisis in Papua and New Guinea. [More…]

• The difference could be accounted for to some extent by the different closing dates of the books of the various companies; but there is no doubt that if a crisis did occur and the Government, irrespective of its political colour, had to make a sudden decision as to how to overcome the crisis, there could not be a ready assessment of the extent and potential in the repatriation of overseas capital and profits. [More…]

• Otherwise, in the event of a crisis we could be placed in a very difficult position. [More…]

• The main speaker, and the main attraction for people who will be attending the Conference, will undoubtedly be Dr Ernest Mandel, a Belgian economist who, if he is allowed to enter Australia, will be speaking at the conference on the crisis of capitalist relations of production. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether he will invite a representative from that un on to attend any further conferences on this crisis. [More…]

• Ministry what is happening, because it is quite obvious from the way in which they talk that they do not know - and they certainly do not know in relation to this crisis that is before us today. [More…]

• There are evident today world-wide classical symptoms of an economic crisis. [More…]

• This hill-billy government with its hill-billy economics is more ill equipped to face a major crisis than any former Australian administration. [More…]

• In any event, the Government seems’ cavalierly unmoved by this phenomenally high rate of attrition at a time of developing crisis in Australia’s nursing services. [More…]

• If the appeal is ignored not only will the nursing profession experience a rapid movement into crisis but so, too, will our public hospital system, currently serving the nation. [More…]

• It might be better described as the crisis in nursing throughout Australia. [More…]

• In fact, before he would even discuss anything with this deputation he insisted that the industrial officer of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation make an apology for a public statement that he had made that the Minister was not really concerned with the nursing crisis, in fact, the Minister in South Australia was more concerned with his own personal feelings. [More…]

• There is a great crisis in staffing in public hospitals throughout Australia. [More…]

• I want to conclude by saying that the nursing crisis in our hospitals will not be solved until our attitudes to all aspects of nursing are revised. [More…]

• If it had we would not have reached this crisis situation. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, since this Parliament reassembled, debate and counter debate have taken place with regard to the crisis facing primary industry in this country. [More…]

• Indeed, discussion of the crisis was promoted by the Opposition as a mater of public importance. [More…]

• These figures highlight in the most dramatic way the startling crisis that has developed in this industry. [More…]

• For example, the present crisis in the Administrative College in which over half of its staff is about to resign seems due to the application of an Australian perspective to the role of a public servant. [More…]

• There is no crisis on this occasion. [More…]

• I agree that this sum of $US41m should be contributed so as to make these greater reserves available but at the same time we should have taken the opportunity to look at the whole problem of international liquidity and to ensure that Australia makes its proper contributions in the councils of the world to make sure the world does not proceed on an ad hoc basis from one crisis to another. [More…]

• The linking of the railway line to the Eyre Peninsula will assist that area, which at the present time is going through a crisis because of the wheat position. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the provision of this money is not in itself sufficient because there seems to be plenty of evidence to clearly indicate that despite the fact that this money will be made available and the States will make good use of it, there is still a crisis in education. [More…]

• Although this Bill will help in some way, the crisis is getting worse. [More…]

• What should be done now to combat the crisis caused by teachers leaving the profession? [More…]

• In this case we applaud this Bill, but the crisis is still there. [More…]

• Without directly talking about State aid, problems nevertheless exist in nongovernment schools; in fact, there is a crisis there also. [More…]

• The Commonwealth’s help is commendable because there is a crisis. [More…]

• It must be borne in mind that if there were not a crisis the Commonwealth would not be helping at all. [More…]

• But the Commonwealth should not think that because it has given some help the crisis is being solved. [More…]

• The crisis will get worse because insufficient money has been given. [More…]

• The crisis is getting worse. [More…]

• There is obviously a very great need for increased teacher college accommodation in Victoria, because that State is passing through its worst crisis in relation to the provision of teaching staff. [More…]

• There was in the Melbourne ‘Age’ on 21st May a report from the Victorian Teachers Union which showed just how severe this crisis would become by the 1970s. [More…]

• We have to measure the Bill’s provisions against some of the aspects of the present crisis position. [More…]

• Looking at the quantitative aspects, we have to remind ourselves that there is a very observable crisis - the shortage of teachers of all kinds in both State and nonState schools. [More…]

• My worry is that the crisis conditions in the supply of teachers at the moment are such that I would have rather seen a much more systematic study of what was required and then an indication placed before this Parliament of what the dimensions of the problem are. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mallee and the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr Brown), who seems to be the prince of complacency in this place when it comes to any matter of consideration, ought to examine whether these meagre amounts and this meagre approach by the Commonwealth will solve the education crisis. [More…]

• We have a teacher crisis on our hands. [More…]

• A teacher crisis is with us. [More…]

• Representative institutions throughout the world are undergoing a crisis of confidence. [More…]

• Is the Government honestly neutral in the crisis in the Middle East or is it giving a measure of support to the Arab nations? [More…]

• It is headed: ‘A crisis for retarded in schools’, and it reads: [More…]

• Surely this is another example of a crisis being allowed to develop and then a panic button being pressed. [More…]

• If they do not take part in it, what the Minister himself called a crisis situation when he was speaking to the Victorian Dairyfarmers Association on 26th May this year will not be overcome. [More…]

• What I was saying was that in view of the fact that there has already been a softening of the Government’s attitude in relation to the payments that are to be made for the 1969-70 season - and whether it is to be 20% or 40% I am not clear and I ask the Minister in all sincerity to clarify that point - would it not be reasonable, in view of the crisis in the countryside, to use the credit which the Treasurer has made available to him to pay the $1.10 on the 1969-70 pool and start off afresh? [More…]

• So I am stirred to rise in this debate because of the crisis in the wheat industry caused by the extraordinary, strange and outrageous policies of the present Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]

• the Government was unprepared for the crisis that occurred in the industry. [More…]

• For the Minister for primary Industry (Mr Anthony) to describe the present proposal of restricted deliveries to (he Australian Wheat Board as ‘positive remedial action’, and this reaction as ‘courageous and responsible’ is an assessment of the present crisis which must surely go down in the varied and changing history of this industry as the greatest piece of selfdeception ever perpetrated. [More…]

• To increase the base price of wheat by the equivalent of US19c per bushel in the light of the then global stock position and crop prospects was an act of irresponsibility equalled only by the refusal of the governments, Federal and State, to come to grips with the crisis now facing the industry. [More…]

• It is not hard to understand how the proposal to deal with the mounting crisis offered 100% protection to only one group - the State handling authorities. [More…]

• This was the situation when the Minister invited the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation to submit a proposal to cope with the pending crisis. [More…]

• Yet it not only receives a quota based on the best years of its performance out of which this over-production crisis grew, hut it demands and receives a share from he 1 less fortunate Slates as well. [More…]

• The crisis of over production began after 1.63. yet it is the hig growers who created this crisis who are now receiving the lion’s share of a State entitlement. [More…]

• In March we heard the honourable member for Dawson make this statement in the House: lt is obvious than the Government has lulled lo warn the wheal grower.-, the public ami the taxpavers in sufficient time of the crisis that has arisen. [More…]

• Throughout this crisis the Government has stretched every muscle to help the wheat industry. [More…]

• The members of that organsation have played a major part in assisting in the best possible way the wheat industry in the present crisis. [More…]

• But just at this time of crisis the wheat industry has been able to produce men of great substance to give this sort of leadership. [More…]

• I sometimes feel very sad that the wool industry is not as united as the wheat industry in the moments of crisis that it is going through at the moment. [More…]

• Following the negotiation of the stabilisation scheme it became perfectly obvious thai we were heading for a major crisis because we were producing more than wc could dispose of and putting an abnormal strain on our storage facilities. [More…]

• Yesterday the Federal Council of the Liberal Party met to decide what that Parry’s policy should be towards what Liberals call the crisis in CommonwealthState financial relations. [More…]

• It is significant that these relations reached crisis’ proportions at a time when the coalition parties had a monopoly of every government, Stale and Federal, in this country, a monopoly broken only last Saturday week. [More…]

• This nation is facing a national crisis. [More…]

• That crisis, beyond doubt and despite what honourable members opposite say, is in the conservation of water. [More…]

• I am not saying that the Tasmanian apple growers should not be helped; but I repeat that it is not the function of the Australian wool growers - to help them in the urgent crisis in which the wool industry finds itself today. [More…]

• Any legislation to help rural industries brought down at a time of crisis within those industries must receive the earnest consideration of all members of the Parliament, including the Opposition. [More…]

• When the crisis first arose last September the Prime Minister indicated only that the Commonwealth would ensure that the States would not lose revenue should the receipts duty be held invalid. [More…]

• The Labor Party believes that the crisis which would be caused by such a rejection should lead to a long term solution. [More…]

• Never has there been such a crisis, since the depression, in Commonwealth-State financial relations. [More…]

• The Commonwealth, of course, by its migration policy has created a crisis for the States. [More…]

• The Government has allowed rural Australia to drift for year after year until now a crisis with frightening ramifications has emerged. [More…]

• We have a crisis in wool, a crisis in wheat, a crisis in dairying and, of course, a crisis in drought. [More…]

• Our export apple and pear industry is verging on crisis. [More…]

• We have a crisis in the meat industry with regard to meat workers and meat inspectors which must be faced. [More…]

• My investigations have shown that the crisis that already exists in this industry could worsen. [More…]

• On Monday morning there were reports in the Press of another crisis. [More…]

• Will it sit back and take it as it has done every other year when there has been a crisis in rural industry? [More…]

• We are all aware that there is a crisis in the wool industry. [More…]

• For 3 years prior to the present crisis facing the wheat industry the rumblings were present. [More…]

• But the Government waited until the crisis occurred. [More…]

• The root causes were the despair and crisis in values aroused in youth by the injustices which they saw in the established order. [More…]

• The distinctive features of the patterns of unrest could be characterised as, firstly, the influence of communications media in creating a generation consciousness; secondly, a crisis of legitimacy and a breakdown in the authority of any institution with which the youth generation disagreed; and thirdly, racial injustices and poverty. [More…]

• The present crisis in the industry requires a comprehensive approach which involves both immediate and longer term measures. [More…]

• This scheme should materially assist hard-hit wool growers to survive the immediate crisis. [More…]

• That in view of the crisis envisaged in the supply of trained dentists to provide a denial service to the Australian community the Commonwealth Government should, through the Australian Universities Coinmission, give high priority to forward planning for dental education. [More…]

• It is no good waiting until the crisis comes. [More…]

• As the Deputy Prime Minister said, we are facing a crisis with butter and yet this nation is continuing to increase its butter production. [More…]

• In view of the mounting problem of pollution in our cities and the urgent need to take action before it reaches crisis point, will the relevant Government department make a study of the Clean Air Act passed by the House of Commons 2 or 3 years ago, which has already beaten pollution in London and several industrial cities of England? [More…]

• One article headed ‘Financial Crisis Looms For Rural Industry’ was written by Mr Tom Connors of the ‘Australian Financial Review’, lt was reprinted in the ‘Ricemill News’. [More…]

• He dismissed the whole rural crisis in 10 words. [More…]

• in my electorate in speeches on radio and television I repeatedly have drawn attention to the drift in this young democratic country towards an immensely serious position - in fact, I believe, a disastrous crisis. [More…]

• I believe that the banking structure with all its instrumentalities and departments - the Commonwealth Development Bank established in I960, the Term Loan Fund established in 1962, the Farm Development Loan Fund established in 1966, and the private trading banking system with its overdraft system of lending - does not really provide the rural industries with the machinery necessary to recover from the crisis that faces them at the present time. [More…]

• The million or more people who read the “Sun” every day are under no illusions now about Sydney’s homes crisis. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister has spoken on at least 2 occasions - the last time in this House on Tuesday afternoon - but did he speak on the crisis in rural industry? [More…]

• One other aspect of the problems of the aged is the crisis that is facing government nursing homes in the States. [More…]

• Yet the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony) has said in this place that anyone who had anything to do with wheat at all could have foreseen this crisis developing 5 years ago and therefore, 1 should say, could have acted. [More…]

• The time at my disposal tonight will allow brief reference only to the scandalous neglect by this Government which, I believe, is the main reason for the development of the crisis in university facilities in Queensland. [More…]

• He also said he feared the party was becoming identified with those who thought subsidies to inefficient farmers were a solution to the rural crisis. [More…]

• But rural Australia today faces a crisis that has implications going far beyond the confines of the farm or the country community. [More…]

• The crisis has brought the nation to the crossroads of its own future. [More…]

• If the crisis in the countryside goes unresolved and if the family farm is abandoned, and with it many rural communities, we will create a vacuum in the countryside. [More…]

• The crisis in the countryside is just as much the concern of our city population. [More…]

• And what did the Treasurer (Mr Bury) say in the Budget about this crisis in the countryside? [More…]

• This is the high urgency of the Government on the crisis in the countryside - a single sentence, an anomalous handout and a promise to give some thought to the problems. [More…]

• They have dictated every policy, every decision, and their answer to the worst crisis in the countryside in 2 generations is to put a tax on wine, and hit the one primary industry not in trouble. [More…]

• The Government compounded its betrayal of the nation in this Budget by ignoring the crisis in local government. [More…]

• It is evident that the crisis in the Australian countryside will be blamed on European Economic Community, blamed on the callous British and blamed on the tendency of the world to divide into trading blocs. [More…]

• In this year of crisis for Australian farmers it is interesting to see how this Government is prepared to stand idly by while agricultural science courses are sabotaged. [More…]

• This means that in the next 12 months there will be substantially more container vessels carrying cargoes than there have been in the last 12 months, In all these circumstances and in view of the crisis in the Australian wool industry I think it is regrettable that an added impost should now be demanded of Australian wool growers. [More…]

• Why should not Mr Hawke and others tell the workers to use their only weapon - their right to withhold labour - in a crisis? [More…]

• The Ministry of 24 members could be brought here to form a quorum and to carry legislation which may have some bearing on the constitutional crisis. [More…]

• So, as I have said, the research on our speeches, the seeking of solutions to the great problems - and I could mention Commonwealth-State relations, the improved Government performance that is needed, and the crisis in the countryside - and all the necessary study and reading which go with these functions and with these problems are relatively neglected. [More…]

• I entirely agree with what teacher organisations throughout Australia have said when they have referred to a crisis in education. [More…]

• Whilst this Liberal-Country PartyDemocratic Labor Party coalition is going from one crisis to another, whilst we move from one seemingly inevitable ad hoc decision to another, the people of Australia are suffering. [More…]

• But what the Minister failed to state was that a record number of our primary industries are facing an economic crisis. [More…]

• One of the most outstanding of these must surely be the crisis in local governments. [More…]

• The subject we raised was the failure of the Government to give any positive leadership to halt the growing economic crisis in primary industry. [More…]

• It is my purpose to address myself to the crisis in the rural industries generally and in the wool industry in particular. [More…]

• The crisis has been obvious for years. [More…]

• As we consider the estimates of the Department of Primary Industry tonight and review the estimated expenditure of $70m we must pose the query as to how the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony) can accept the present crisis in the countryside. [More…]

• It might be said that he does not accept it all, that he is fighting manfully to end the crisis, to restore confidence and prevent the flight from the farms. [More…]

• Yet it is the policies that have been his direct responsibility on behalf of the Government that have led to the present crisis in half the nation. [More…]

• The Government’s decisions on wheat have contributed to the crisis in the countryside in a major way. [More…]

• So the crisis in the countryside has been contributed to by the Government’s decision on wheat. [More…]

• The Government has power in its hands to begin to end the crisis in the countryside by taking in and paying for all wheat produced last season and this season within its own national ration. [More…]

• We have just heard the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) say that there is a crisis in the countryside. [More…]

• lt is easy to identify the villain of the piece in the prevailing rural crisis - namely, inflation. [More…]

• What then is to be done now in the crisis affecting the whole of the rural economy? [More…]

• The crisis of conscience was the war in Vietnam. [More…]

• The crisis of conscience was not conscription, not military service, but participation in the Vietnam war. [More…]

• Well, admittedly, since 1967, the Commonwealth has been giving some direct help towards meeting the teacher crisis. [More…]

• They and their successors for years to come will pay the enormous penalty - and so will the nation incidently - for the blank refusal by a succession of Liberal Party-Country Party federal governments to see the obviously approaching crisis years before it came. [More…]

• It is not an over-statement to use the word ‘crisis’ to describe the position in this most important department, but one can detect no sign of any Government concern. [More…]

• This would achieve nothing more than a postponement of the present crisis for a few years after which the problems would return with greater intensity. [More…]

• Thus preventive and long term chronic care services are submerged to acute and crisis care. [More…]

• For instance, only the Commonwealth has available the sort of financial resources to avert the gathering crisis in Australia’s public hospital services. [More…]

• At what stage does the crisis of conscience come for them? [More…]

• But then the crisis comes. [More…]

• I remember Sir Robert Menzies, when he was Prime Minister, coming back from an overseas conference on the Suez crisis in 1956 and giving a report to Anthony Eden on what he had discovered on his trip up the Nile with the late President Nasser. [More…]

• We have a crisis of depression in the rural half of the nation. [More…]

• We have a crisis in education. [More…]

• We have a crisis in the quality of life. [More…]

• They do not regard the crisis in the countryside or the matters to which I have referred in the nation as a whole as matters of laughter and amusement. [More…]

• No emergency relief is offered in the compounding housing crisis which exists in Western Australia. [More…]

• There is a housing crisis and this Government should institute a national inquiry into housing needs and associated matters. [More…]

• Overall, in any section of the community in Western Australia, there is a housing crisis. [More…]

• Why perpetuate the crisis of the present in the future? [More…]

• He is making a great deal more sense on the housing issue because he is treating it as a crisis - with every justification. [More…]

• Sydney and Melbourne these days are drawing migrants from a countryside in crisis. [More…]

• I refer to the crisis in the Middle East. [More…]

• The new impost on fuel, as he just said, will be a lax on the development of the nation, lt will certainly be a hurtful tax in relation to a countryside in crisis. [More…]

• He said that the price rise would bring about a crisis in the industry in a couple of years. [More…]

• This legislation has been introduced as an emergency measure to meet what must be regarded as a crisis in Chamberlain Industries, in particular, and in International Harvester Co. of Victoria. [More…]

• Of course this was a recognition of the crisis which exists in the countryside at the present time, lt was an acknowledgment of the difficulties which are being experienced internally. [More…]

• In view of the fact that it is a component of rural industry and that the crisis in the countryside has now spread to the cities, we should place it on record in this debate that the Australian agricultural machinery industry faces the retrenchment of 14,000 men this year as a result not only of imports but of the continuing rural crisis. [More…]

• Yet if the present crisis is allowed to continue it could mean the complete extinction of the Australian controlled agricultural machinery industry. [More…]

• I say that with due weight and seriousness, because the components of the industry have said that they are feeling the Weight of the crisis in the countryside and they are feeling the weight of interests that would be quite happy to take them over Australia exports nearly $8m worth of agricultural machinery. [More…]

• Today its turnover is down by half and its work force is rationed as far as employment is concerned because of the situation and the crisis which exists in the countryside. [More…]

• The challenge to end the crisis in the countryside is clear and urgent, as my colleague the honourable member for Dawson has pointed out, not only in the interests of the countryside itself but in the interests of city workers and city industries such as we are talking about at the present time. [More…]

• As I pointed out, the rural crisis is hitting not only the farmers but country businessmen and employees. [More…]

• So I submit that this is not just a rural crisis. [More…]

• It is a national crisis. [More…]

• Is it suggesting that this will meet the crisis in the agricultural machinery industry and the nation? [More…]

• The debate then went on from the subject of tractors to the effect of the rural crisis on the cities. [More…]

• The fact is that if the Government had not made advance payments amounting, as he said in his speech, to between $650m and $700m, for wheat, much of which was unsold, the crisis would have been much more severe. [More…]

• Should be persist time and again in this Parliament whenever he is on his feet in saying that there is a crisis in this industry or in that industry - he mentioned the word ‘crisis’ 7 times tonight - or that there is a down turn, the survival of the countryside is not possible or that the battle of the countryside is lost, he will instil- [More…]

• 1 rise tonight to rectify an injustice which has been perpetrated by the Government against people in the Australian countryside who have had the temerity to believe that we have a crisis in the rural sector and that the Parliament should know about it and perhaps apply itself to rectifying it. [More…]

• It attempted to discredit a man who had put his time and money into a protest against the present crisis in the countryside. [More…]

• I cannot understand how men who come in from the countryside in crisis can turn their backs on people of good will who are doing their best. [More…]

• He knows full well that what I said was a complete endorsement of Government policy on this, -because we argued in this Parliament for most of last year on the wheat crisis that there had to be some control on production and if the industry had a larger peak it was obvious that the first advance payment would have to be reduced. [More…]

• There is further concern in the ranks of the Commonwealth meat inspectors, lt has arisen from a rumour which is circulating that the Government is considering a dilute plan for the industry, using the farmers and farm workers who have lost their farms or employment due to the crisis in the wheat and wool industries. [More…]

• We hear a lot about a crisis in Australian education. [More…]

• I believe this is most important for the morale of the Services in the light of the present serious crisis in recruitment and manning. [More…]

• Such general figures do not reveal particular crisis areas. [More…]

• The international crisis has passed. [More…]

• Springs is growing very fast - the problem in relation to the aged and the housing and welfare of them will not reach crisis proportion. [More…]

• It was a product of the crisis in Commonwealth-State financial relations and like most things conceived in haste in eventually turned out to be illegitimate. [More…]

• The plight of the sick aged in our community is of crisis dimensions. [More…]

• It is established that it is Government policy to encourage and support voluntary agencies in the field of aged care, and it can be reasonably anticipated that this new crisis in rising costs will receive realistic Government attention. [More…]

• Governments expect to meet crisis situations from time to time. [More…]

• An immediate $5ra may well match this Australia-wide crisis, and such a grant would win wide public support. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• It intends to try to stop this crisis deepening. [More…]

• Of course, we all know the Government’s form: It will not want to come back within cooee of New Years Day, so if we get up and do not return in 1970 we will not take action until a number of months have passed, and in every week that passes there will be more bankruptcies and in every month that passes there will be a deepening of the crisis. [More…]

• that there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the south west land division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• We are now producing more than when we first recognised that we faced this crisis. [More…]

• In an article titled ‘An Ecological Crisis’ published this year in the ‘Professional Engineer’, it is claimed that the Aswan High Dam in Egypt appears to be an ecological disaster. [More…]

• It must mean that the wool industry has reached a crisis in terms of the world price of wool. [More…]

• The Bill comes before us after 7 months of the worst crisis the wool industry has experienced in more than a generation. [More…]

• I want to make our commitment clear before dealing with the legislation that the Government has brought down, in contrast, 4 months after the Opposition acted, 7 months after the crisis began and 21 years after taking office. [More…]

• But I also make it plain to wool growers and to the nation that this legislation, this Government answer to the wool crisis, is not what the industry asked for; it is not what the growers have demanded; it is not what the Opposition is firmly pledged to do. [More…]

• Who would have thought that in a matter of a few months we would have seen the wool industry completely united and the Government acting in such time to try to meet the crisis that the industry is facing? [More…]

• Forward selling is not, in my view, the cause of the economic crisis among woolgrowers, nor is it the reason for the low level of prices. [More…]

• Merely to lay the blame for the crisis on the level of wool prices is not logical, and clearly the adverse season has been a major cause in the reduction in prices. [More…]

• The honourable member for Corangamite refuted allegations made by the honourable member foi Dawson (Dr Patterson) to the effect that the Government had done nothing to deal with the crisis in the wool industry. [More…]

• Two principles are fundamental to a serious approach to the crisis which threatens destruction to thousands of wool growers. [More…]

• It is not necessary to highlight the disastrous effect that the present crisis is already having in country towns. [More…]

• The second fundamental principle required to be recognised in any realistic and serious approach to the crisis is urgent and realistic government action, not mere window dressing and confidence tricks on the eve of an election. [More…]

• Only the Government has been unable to recognise the crisis. [More…]

• When one asks the question: ‘Does the Bill before the House deal seriously with the crisis facing wool growers? [More…]

• Evidently members of the Australian Labor Party have been very concerned about the crisis in the wool industry and have been doing a lot of study on the subject to enable them to make their contribution to the debate. [More…]

• We realise the crisis in the wool industry. [More…]

• • I feel that the Country Party members have a bigger responsibility in this matter and 1 hope that they will live up to it because there is no doubt that there is a crisis in the wool industry. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Aus-, tralia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in tha South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor bousing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• My point is that the colleges of advanced education are going through a crisis and it is up to the Government to recognise this situation and provide the necessary action. [More…]

• It may be true that ultimately they develop to a point where you think that the word ‘‘crisis’ is deserved, but I think it is deserved very many fewer times than the honourable member for Bendigo and some of his confreres on the other side of the House would like to have us believe. [More…]

• We came in when the universities were in a state of crisis, when we had the findings of the Murray Commission, and we have come in at election times with Commonwealth scholarships, with science grants, with grants for school libraries and so on. [More…]

• The crisis in education would be precisely what the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) said. [More…]

• In denying the existence of a crisis he said how very difficult it is to get adequate university staff. [More…]

• The crisis in educataion is, of course, the inability of institutions to adjust very quickly to a complete change in the values in the Australian community. [More…]

• Obviously we have as a consequence a crisis in trying to adjust our universities, colleges of advanced education, and technical schools to the new demand. [More…]

• The crisis of adjustment is not only in new buildings and in new student places; it is, of course, in the effort to attract staff. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Denison said in denying that there is a crisis, it is extremely difficult for universities and colleges of advanced education to get staff. [More…]

• There has been a significant increase in the salaries of university lecturers and professors, and I am not criticising this, but when we talk about difficulties in education, problems in education and the crisis in education, it is interesting to note that in 1952 the salary of a subject master in the New South Wales Department of Education was approximately equal to that of a university lecturer whereas in 1970 the salary of the subject master is approximately only two-thirds of that of a university lecturer. [More…]

• The crisis which is facing Queensland at the present time is the worst it has known. [More…]

• A state of crisis exists in the drought areas of Queensland. [More…]

• The Premier of New South Wales, after saying that there were no real problems and that no-one had been refused, now says: ‘We are in a considerable difficulty because of the crisis in the countryside. [More…]

• It is a crisis situation. [More…]

• He had only one man in his whole Cabinet who had been a Minister before and he had to take up the responsibilities in an hour of black crisis. [More…]

• Later it stated: lt also supports student representation on academic government bodies, as opposed to consultation, offers warnings about student unrest over examinations and a looming crisis over residential accommodation. [More…]

• This, of course, is a crisis of great magnitude. [More…]

• She pinpointed the crisis as being mainly in Sydney, Wollongong, Canberra and Newcastle and, to some extent, in other capital cities as well. [More…]

• It is true that administration expenses are to be the responsibility of the States, but the objective of the scheme is to ensure that primary producers will be able to have some opportunity within this amount to embark on rehabilitation at a time when the rural crisis generally has so adversely affected them. [More…]

• The truth is that most of the elements of the current crisis were identified by the Constitution Review Committee which the Parliament established after the credit squeeze of 1956. [More…]

• Even Liberals would now have less difficulty in managing the Australian economy if they had been less sceptical of the proposals they commissioned from experts in movements of economic crisis and electoral despair. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s own ad hoc decisions, disregard for advice, electoral opportunism and insensitivity to the indirect effects of particular actions have now produced just that sort of economic crisis with which his government is so clearly ill-equipped lo cope. [More…]

• So as long as that Party, its allies and its present leadership have been in government, this nation has faced an inflationary crisis on an average of every 5 years. [More…]

• There is a record public sector debt and crisis. [More…]

• In no other way can the crisis in education be solved. [More…]

• Then essentially, over a short period of time, it was elevated by the public media and by the commentators into a crisis situation, but it never was a crisis situation. [More…]

• If at the same time it imposes cuts upon the States so that they cannot supply these services it is merely producing a crisis. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister came to the Parliament this afternoon to tell the country people that they have a crisis. [More…]

• In these figures and in this performance lie the explanation as to why one of the richest countries in the world has bad roads, overcrowded schools, inadequate hospital buildings and 1 million poor people with half of its rural industries in crisis. [More…]

• I challenge the Government to table the report on the rural crisis which it commissioned for circulation to the States. [More…]

• Yet, the very rural crisis is a product of Government mismanagement. [More…]

• It is not elected by the people - the general public: - and it is about time this laissez-faire Government that has been sitting in power for over 20 years and which blames everybody but itself every time a crisis occurs, faced up to its responsibilities. [More…]

• That mission arrived in Sydney to study investments in the middle of the Minsec crisis. [More…]

• The whole of the rural countryside is in’ a crisis. [More…]

• Surely to goodness this is the surest way to drive the nation down the road to a real economic crisis. [More…]

• There is a continuing crisis in the rural sector. [More…]

• There is a continuing crisis in the countryside; it is not improving at all. [More…]

• There is a real crisis of survival for many people, not only on farms but also in businesses and decentralised industries and among employees themselves. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• Mr Frank McGuren, because it was through his constant advocacy, persistence, constant representations, speeches in this place and uflagging zeal in talking about these matters, that the Government finally in a time of crisis was compelled to take action. [More…]

• Other issues were raised by last week’s crisis. [More…]

• The Labor Party did not believe at the time of the crisis that troops should be used in the Gazelle Peninsula and in the final analysis they were not. [More…]

• The initial Press crisis is one in which the former Prime Minister, like the flowers that bloom in the spring, has nothing to do with the case. [More…]

• The crisis which has shattered the Government in the past 10 days stemmed in large measure from interpretation and implementation of defence policy. [More…]

• The honourable member for Warringah (Mr Mackellar) has revealed a tendency that is all too apparent in the policies of the Government when faced with a national crisis and a national problem. [More…]

• The situation is one of crisis and the position is worse this year than it was last year, with the lack of adequately trained teachers and the increasing use of stopgap teachers. [More…]

• So despite all the talk earlier about a crisis we have not been given the ideal requirements; we have been given only what the Ministers think might be possible. [More…]

• ls that not a crisis? [More…]

• Is that not a crisis? [More…]

• Is that not a crisis? [More…]

• Is that not a crisis right now? [More…]

• If all these things do not mean that there is a crisis in education right now I do not know what they mean. [More…]

• Are they prepared to impose an additional percentage tax to overcome the so-called crisis in education? [More…]

• [ believe that there are individual crises but 1 do not believe that the field as a whole is in * state of crisis, which is a much over-used word these days. [More…]

• This was one of the major actions of government that has led to the crisis in the countryside. [More…]

• The whole administration has been shocking and inadequate and has contributed to the crisis in the countryside. [More…]

• In my opinion it is daylight robbery for the Commonwealth to do this to the Wheat Board - an independent body which is struggling to rescue the wheat industry from its present crisis. [More…]

• Is he aware of the recent announcement of the South Australian Government that, in an effort to meet the grave financial crisis facing non-profit nursing homes for the aged, it has made a grant of $1 per occupied bed per day over the period from January to September of this year? [More…]

• Although a large proportion of Australia’s most important export industry is faced with financial disaster and even extinction, the Government has made no effort to inform the Parliament, the wool growers or the taxpayers of this nation of its proposed actions in the immediate future to counter this crisis. [More…]

• He concedes that wool prices are the lowest for 23 years and the growers are in crisis, but he has no new policies and no firm answer to that. [More…]

• The activities of the greatest monopolies which have caused the crisis are ignored completely. [More…]

• Growers across the nation who are in crisis - 100,000 of them - want to know. [More…]

• The wool industry has been in a state of crisis for a considerable time now. [More…]

• It will in no way cope with the current crisis. [More…]

• The police forces should take steps to make this a process which is systematic, intelligent and articulate and one which anticipates social problems and adapts to meet them before a crisis situation arises. [More…]

• While I support the Bill, I remind the Mouse that, in the light of what I have said, this Bill goes only part of the way towards solving this national problem or this national crisis which for too long the Government and the community at large have treated with appalling apathy and neglect. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• Today I had the privilege of presenting to the Parliament a petition on behalf of those people, as did another Western Australian, the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Kirwan), requesting that earnest consideration be given to the crisis in Aboriginal welfare which exists in Western Australia, that urgent attention be given to providing town housing to all Aboriginal families with a breadwinner, and that further welfare assistance in the form of homemaker assistance, that is, a welfare officer to guide them in home settlement, be given. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population -explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister concerned with the crisis facing hospitals? [More…]

• Will he take steps to remove or relieve this crisis [More…]

• In the dried fruits industry we should recognise that more than in any other industry, disaster is endemic and in nearly every other year the industry has to face a crisis either in marketing or, and particularly, in relation to the weather and the crop. [More…]

• Vacillation is the order of the day in regard to the crisis of our times. [More…]

• We have the power to do it and having the power we must fulfil the responsibility to introduce these things; to give people a sense of security and to assure them that the community is concerned about their welfare and that in times of crisis need especially there will bc adequate support for them. [More…]

• I rise tonight to make a plea to the Government that it make available to the States emergency grants so that they can effectively deal wilh the crisis that is affecting hospitals. [More…]

• All 1 want to do is to make an urgent plea that the Commonwealth accept responsibility for this situation and recognise that the crisis can be removed or relieved only by its intervention. [More…]

• It will deteriorate even further unless aid is given by the Commonwealth Government, lt is clear that the State of Victoria is not in a position to meet this crisis. [More…]

• This in turn led to the sequence, of Press reports which produced the crisis in the Government. [More…]

• I want to quote some extracts from a very thoughtful contribution by Frank Brennan in his book Canberra in Crisis’. [More…]

• To my mind the unfortunate feature of this legislation is that it is directed against a section of society which, if it has not already been proved, will be shown by history to have displayed to the nation during the Vietnam crisis the deepest sense of nationalism that any Australians have ever before displayed. [More…]

• Let me, because of limitation of time, confine my remarks to one area of need which has reached crisis proportions. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• Despite the unquestionable evidence of the growing financial crisis in the rural sector which has been available to the Government for at least the last 3 years, the Government has exhibited an incredible display of apathy and confusion with respect to this national problem. [More…]

• Despite the gravity of impending bankruptcy of major sections of rural Australia, the cold fact apparently is that the Liberal-Country Party Government just does not have comprehensive policies or immediate plans to combat this crisis. [More…]

• In the eyes of the Government apparently such matters as law and order as affected by student demonstrations, and the perennial Communist bogey, are far more important to the nation than the critical economic crisis that is threatening the economic livelihood of rural areas throughout Australia. [More…]

• But it was obvious when this Parliament first met on that famous 1-day sitting that the crisis was growing. [More…]

• Yet the Government programme outlined by the GovernorGeneral indicated that all was well with the nation and that there was no crisis anywhere. [More…]

• Indeed, he attacked the very action of the Opposition in raising the question of the crisis at the first opportunity. [More…]

• The countryside is in crisis. [More…]

• Further, if this intrusion is to be allowed has consideration been given to the effect that it will have on the prospects of rural workers, already displaced and about to be displaced due to the rural crisis, obtaining employment in industry and commerce in this country? [More…]

• Since the Board’s financial crisis stems from this Government’s high interest policy, can the increase in water rates be avoided by a Commonwealth grant? [More…]

• This scheme is one of a series of measures designed to help meet a crisis situation in the rural industries, and particularly the sheep and sheep-wheat industries. [More…]

• These have reached such a pitch of urgency and such a state of crisis that universities will be lacking in essential maintenance. [More…]

• At various times, sometimes on small matters and sometimes on matters of crisis, the Government has said emphatically to the Parliament of the nation: ‘This is urgent. [More…]

• These are aspects of the F111C crisis which should not be glossed over by the Government. [More…]

• Is there any honourable member opposite who denies that a crisis exists in primary industries today? [More…]

• This has been possibly drawn up by economists, but the Australian Labor Party’s point of view is that if bad policies have caused the present crisis the Federal Government must accept responsibility. [More…]

• The Minister for Primary Industry has mentioned the crisis - to use his word - in the wool industry. [More…]

• In his speech introducing this legislation he gave figures to demonstrate the fact of that crisis. [More…]

• The basis of the legislation is to be found in the report on the current rural crisis commissioned by the Government. [More…]

• Yet the Government can find only $100m in 4 years to deal with the crisis in half the nation. [More…]

• On the eve of the State election in Western Australia the members of that organisation invited all the representatives of the political parties to be present on the platform to deliver to a very substantial gathering of women from rural areas the policies of their parties and what they proposed to do in respect of the rural crisis. [More…]

• During the course of these discussions the present Premier of Western Australia, the then Leader of the Opposition, was asked what he was prepared to do about the rural crisis. [More…]

• When we consider that the economic crisis in the rural community extends over the 6 States of the Commonwealth and that this money must be divided among a number of people in those States, it is a long way from being sufficient. [More…]

• Government supporters have spoken only with regret and apologies about this Bill and no wonder because, despite the crisis facing rural industries in Australia, the Government has not been able to bring forward legislation which can seriously tackle the problem. [More…]

• It was at that point of time that a crisis situation had developed in the affairs of the company in respect of payments to growers. [More…]

• In view of the reports that several European countries have announced somewhat dramatically that foreign trading in their currencies has been suspended; in view of the very strong possibility of revaluation of those European currencies and the attendant possibility of a movement in the international valuation of the Japanese yen; and in view of the international paper which is held in those currencies by the Federal Government and certain of its instrumentalities, can the Treasurer inform the House to what extent and in what detail this crisis is being followed by Australian authorities? [More…]

• This Bill we have before us is just another example of the ricocheting from one crisis to another which is the story of Commonwealth-State relationships, and we hardly even get the chance to discuss the sad position of local government finances in this Parliament unless the matter is brought forward as a matter of public importance by the Labor Opposition. [More…]

• I hope that from the year 1971-72 onwards we will have more formal relationships and that we will not be ricocheting from one crisis to another in this field and that we will not have Bills such as this one being brought up in the dying, hours of the sittings. [More…]

• On 31st December, a little over 4 months ago, the crisis as the Minister termed it, with respect to this company, was fully acknowledged by the Government of Victoria and the Commonwealth to the degree that this crisis was said to be so urgent that this money was made available to the Victorian Government by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• But what I object to - I think every member of the Parliament should object to it - is that this crisis was known on 31 December last, 4 months ago; yet the agreement was not signed until yesterday, and the Bill was not introduced until 1 o’clock this morning. [More…]

• If the crisis was known in December, I would assume that the Cabinet made a decision before the money was made available. [More…]

• Even the rural crisis that we are sometimes debating is another interesting example. [More…]

• Warwick Fairfax and many others - to stab his enemies for him while Billy waited in the background until the crisis which others precipitated came to a solution. [More…]

• We have come to grips with the crisis in some of our rural industries, particularly in the case of wool. [More…]

• The Government has not stumbled into a constitutional crisis on the floor of the House. [More…]

• The present Government crisis has been produced by one simple fact - the disintegration of Cabinet government in this country. [More…]

• Warwick Fairfax and many others - to stab his enemies for him while Billy waited in the background until the crisis which others had precipitated came to a solution. [More…]

• The United States has a crisis in its balance of trade. [More…]

• There was a crisis in India with the famine at Bihar. [More…]

• But, in the current crisis, first of all the Government fooled about with a few thousand dollars. [More…]

• The Labor Party has brought this matter of urgency before the Parliament as early as possible because, notwithstanding the fact that we all know that our Government has communicated with the governments of Pakistan and India, the Labor Party felt that members on both sides of this House would seek to identify themselves with the views already expressed by the Government in the way in which on previous occasions they have sought to identify themselves with the Government in some international crisis. [More…]

• WOOLLEN MILLS SUFFERING MAJOR CRISIS, SAYS INDUSTRY’S LEADER [More…]

• CANBERRA - ‘There is a crisis situation in the wool processing industry which may soon match that of the wool producers,’ the president of Wool Textile Manufacturers of Australia, Mr S. D. Kelly, said here today. [More…]

• This Government is worried because of the crisis which exists in the rural industry. [More…]

• It is put to us that the Country Party and the coalition Government have not been looking after the interests of the primary producer in this period of crisis. [More…]

• Will the Minister, in view of the financial crisis facing non-profit approved nursing homes, make an immediate subsidy of $2 per day (in addition to the ordinary nursing home care of $2 per day or the intensive care of$5 per day Commonwealth benefit) to all full-rate pensioners who are accommodated in these nursing homes. [More…]

• Will the Government ensure that in the present world financial crisis Australia follows the strengthening British pound’ and that it does not follow deflationary currencies? [More…]

• Their present predicament is just as serious and challenging as was any crisis in the last war when huge sacrifices and countless billions of dollars were spent to bring it to an end. [More…]

• It is in times of a rural crisis that all sorts of people will raise their ugly heads. [More…]

• Two days before the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) introduced this Budget, the President of the United States announced measures which have precipitated a great international currency crisis. [More…]

• This Budget will further split the nation and worsen the artificial crisis which has been foisted on the countryside. [More…]

• The root of the crisis lies in the agricultural sector. [More…]

• It is my intention to demonstrate this inter-dependence and to pose basic policies to end what is demonstrably a false crisis, a needless depression in the Australian countryside at this time. [More…]

• But first let us examine the papers on national income which the Treasurer used as the basis for his budgeting and then establish what the Government intends to do about the crisis in half the nation. [More…]

• Our present substantial overseas balances could disappear as a consequence of the present world currency crisis which makes the Budget already out of date. [More…]

• We have not yet had any indication of what the future holds in regard to the present monetary crisis. [More…]

• The Government’s attitude in completely ignoring this area in the Budget is similar to the contempt shown to the education crisis which exists in Australia and which has brought condemnation from private and government school bodies. [More…]

• With the increased overseas control of our finance, no wonder our Government has not been able to predict how a world monetary crisis will affect us. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission usually is painted as the villain in our present cost-push inflationary crisis, and certainly last year’s 6 per cent national wage rise was remarkably ill-judged. [More…]

• What can we do to control the alarming rise in the wages drift which, on top of the 6 per cent national wage rise, has caused our present inflationary crisis? [More…]

• In our secondary school system there is a terrible, deep and prolonged crisis. [More…]

• I think only one thing will attend to the mounting crisis in this country. [More…]

• I ask honourable members to look, for example, at the rural crisis. [More…]

• The big man who is grazing cattle who is in no real state of crisis does not need it so much. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• I hope that in the days ahead of this crisis the Government will stress this point in those councils. [More…]

• As he said, it is preliminary and really not much has happened in the last few days other than that, the situation has not accelerated further into a crisis. [More…]

• Has there been an upward revaluation of the Australian dollar since the current international currency crisis began? [More…]

• This has been described as a crisis and one tends to think of a crisis as drawing to a point and then having something happen but this should more properly be described as a plateau. [More…]

• It is my view that there is an even greater crisis in our cities than exists in the rural areas, even though their position is catastrophic. [More…]

• It does not matter if man’s value system - and I even include the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) who is at the table - is Communist, Fascist, Conservative, Liberal or Socialist, he faces a global crisis based on the fact that his population increase, his squandering of natural resources, his control of food production, his accelerated urbanisation and his release of a wide variety of toxic substances into the environment are directing him on a collision course with disaster. [More…]

• Medical research has reduced the dangers of infectious disease and this has added to the population crisis, but now pollution is beginning to take its toll. [More…]

• He shows that an inevitable pollution crisis which will cause the death of 83 per cent of the world’s population will follow and that it will predominantly affect developed countries rather than developing countries. [More…]

• If all the people on earth had such an opportunity we would have had a pollution crisis much earlier than we have. [More…]

• Such a crisis would have occurred if the people of India had the same standards of living as we have. [More…]

• It gives the Government no power to deal with the real crisis in housing. [More…]

• It does not deal in any shape or form with the crisis in our cities. [More…]

• There is no reference whatever to the dollar crisis which is shaking the world. [More…]

• The policy enunciated with regard to the dollar crisis by President Nixon is an economic watershed for the world and the United States has the economic muscle to decide what it wants to do. [More…]

• As for the future, we can expect an intensification of the present economic crisis. [More…]

• The truth is that we are facing a stark economic crisis. [More…]

• With the current dollar-yen currency crisis, if the Budget had not contained the provision for a 36c deficiency payment scheme which has brought stability into the industry, I believe there would be absolute chaos and panic in the wool industry in Australia at the present moment. [More…]

• Also a retraining scheme for young people displaced in the rural crisis will be introduced this session. [More…]

• We should consider seriously those people displaced by the rural crisis who are too old to be retrained. [More…]

• With the current crisis in the rural areas of the electorate of Franklin these charges will merely exacerbate the situation. [More…]

• In his opening remarks the Leader of the Opposition has accused the President of the United States of America of precipitating a great international currency crisis. [More…]

• However, seeking always to gratify those elements within the Australian Labor Party which are notorious for their anti-Americanism, which are known to the Australian people as the left wing of the Australian Labor Party, he is ready to brand the President as a sinister influence engaged by inference in some monstrous capitalistic plot to create a great international currency crisis’. [More…]

• With an unparalleled school crisis - and many members of this side oi’ the House and even on the Government side have referred to the crisis in education that exists right across the nation - we have seen 3 Ministers for Education and Science in half a school year. [More…]

• I mentioned overseas capital, questions relating to national development, education, the crisis in the primary industries, the need for a real policy of decentralisation of population, the need to deal with urban problems, the need to deal with immigration and the need to achieve a national identity which involves the quality of life and films which we make ourselves. [More…]

• Put briefly, the crisis facing the Government is to assure the payment of the new pay rates and improved conditions for servicemen decreed by the Kerr Committee while freeing sufficient resources for the reequipment programme it has announced over the past 2 years. [More…]

• I refer very briefly to the rural crisis and say. [More…]

• We believe that these measures are especially inappropriate at this stage of the international monetary crisis. [More…]

• The main topic I want to discuss tonight is the wool industry because if ever there has been a national crisis it certainly has been in wool. [More…]

• For the same reason I believe it is quite spurious to ascribe the present situation to the international monetary crisis, although this could become a factor in the near future. [More…]

• Make no mistake about it, the responsible party in this crisis, as in so many crises that have existed in the past during the reign of various Liberal Party-Country Party governments, is very clearly this Government itself. [More…]

• The quality of life or the standard of living which is the right of every Australian to enjoy is today grossly inadequate, ft will continue to be so while this decaying, crumbling Government continues to falter from one crisis to the next, with each one more calamitous than that which preceded it. [More…]

• One such policy promise was that the Government would accept some responsibility for this crisis in pre-school education. [More…]

• This Government with its laissez-faire capitalistic attitude allows free enterprise monopolies, land sharks and finance companies to exploit the community at will, and only when a crisis arises does it acf to overcome a situation which competent planning could have avoided. [More…]

• I thought that, at some stage, he was almost coming to one of the points of crisis. [More…]

• That crisis has now passed. [More…]

• I indicated that at least this was consistent with a tradition which was less than commendable of antiLabor goverments - the 1913 Cook Government, the 1923 to 1928 period under the Bruce-Page Government and the 1938 period under the Lyons Government - which gave pledges to the public that people had rights in retirement and in certain situations of crisis need, and that the only way to overcome or to satisfy these needs was through a contributory system of social insurance. [More…]

• I refer to what is commonly called the rural crisis and also the urban crisis. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• They referred to deficiency payments for wool; to the ‘rural crisis’ - and I am using their words; and to the need for the provision of more funds for the rural reconstruction scheme, for long term finance, for rehabilitation, for assistance to local government for the relief of unemployed persons in their areas, and for assistance with rating, tariff, freight and inflation. [More…]

• Is it suggested that there is not a crisis in non-metropolitan employment in the eastern States of. [More…]

• This Budget also does not take into account the world currency crisis brought about by the announcements by the United States Government 2 days before the Budget was introduced, which could have a dramatic effect on this country’s trade and capital transactions. [More…]

• With regard to the currency crisis it seems to me that the Australian Government is confused as to what action it should take in regard to Australian exchange rates. [More…]

• Before leaving the question of the difficult rural crisis and the problems of bringing relief to this disaster area, I would like, in the short time at my disposal, to devote some time to a consideration of the proposed deficiency payment scheme for the 1970-71 wool clip. [More…]

• When the former Minister for External Affairs and former honourable member for Forrest, Mr Gordon Freeth - the present Ambassador to Japan - introduced his infamous new Government line on the proposed Soviet security treaty in the Indian Ocean, etc., in 1969, I was the first in this Parliament to place on record strong criticism of our linking ourselves in any way in a security treaty with the Soviet Union, just as I criticised our involvement with the United States of America in Vietnam and our involvement with the United Kingdom in the Malaysian-Indonesian crisis. [More…]

• When the authorities are looking at the position in the Riverina district I appeal to them to investigate parts of my electorate because people there are the hardest hit in the rural crisis. [More…]

• They are, as I see them in broad, simple terms and not necessarily in order of importance: Firstly, a series of adverse seasons since 1964 over a wide area of Australia; secondly, marketing difficulties, especially export marketing difficulties with such products as wheat; thirdly, the low export prices on world markets for many rural products, wool in particular, compounded by Britain’s likely entry to the European Economic Community; fourthly, the growing use of synthetics, or alternatives to products of rural origin; fifthly, the constantly rising cost of production; sixthly, the international currency crisis; and, seventhly, the whole rural economy has been geared to the era of post war prosperity. [More…]

• There is every justification for the Government to come to the industry’s aid in its hour of crisis. [More…]

• During the wheat crisis, the Labor Party had several wheat policies. [More…]

• Now during the wool crisis it has several ill-defined policies. [More…]

• Another matter I would like to draw to the Government’s attention is that it had a former Minister for External Affairs, now the Governor-General, who in the Bihar famine crisis - this is very little realised in Australia - sent $35m in aid to India. [More…]

• The wonders of the $1.5m for the present crisis rather pale into insignificance when compared to the action that Sir Paul Hasluck took when he was Minister for External Affairs. [More…]

• I merely point out that is is an instance of the importance of land in their thinking and’ that each crisis we have run into has at base a crisis built upon the fact that they regard land as vitally important. [More…]

• Sydney, above any other city in the whole of Australia, has a land crisis. [More…]

• It would not be in the best interests of Sydney because, as this Government knows, Sydney is facing a dire crisis. [More…]

• The Government intends to import doctors into Australia from America to overcome the crisis in the medical field. [More…]

• Australia has to get teachers from somewhere because of the crisis in education. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• They are out of work because of the crisis in rural industry. [More…]

• The Minister said that the scheme was in the context of the Government’s assessment of the rural crisis and the rural reconstruction scheme. [More…]

• The rural crisis is an incredible example of Government mismanagement at a time when there is a boom in Asian countries for primary products. [More…]

• It has been suggested that it will be an effective means of assisting in the present rural crisis. [More…]

• The great question mark lying against this scheme and the Government’s attitude generally to the rural crisis is: Where is it envisaged that this retraining scheme will take place? [More…]

• I point out, first, that at this time when our country is heading for an economic crisis the more powers that can be held in the hands of the Commonwealth - particularly taxing powers, which can help in economic planning - the better for this nation. [More…]

• Where we have people supporting industries that have helped save this country from what might well have been a great financial crisis, with drought and troubles in the wool and other industries and where we have them going to remote and isolated settlements scattered right across this nation, despite what might be provided by the companies concerned, governments - particularly the Federal Government - must earmark special funds to assist. [More…]

• So I have asked that this crisis be discussed at Cabinet level. [More…]

• We do not have to look to the banks, or to the Scotts or the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia for signs of this trend, for this message that unless there is quick appreciation of this problem - far quicker than it would seem is applying to this present Government at the present time if the answers of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) at question time this week are any indication - we are heading for a serious economic crisis with rising unemployment, even worse unemployment than we are experiencing right now. [More…]

• Probably at no time since 1951 or the recession of 1961 has such an economic crisis faced Australia. [More…]

• To handle this situation and to face the crisis is possibly the most discredited government of our time. [More…]

• Here we rind in the Parliament a Budget brought down at the time of greatest crisis in this country by a Government which is merely hanging together, with 31 changes in the Ministry, riddled with dissension and hatreds, members disappearing and hiding from each other and yet claiming to have the confidence of the Australian people. [More…]

• If Australia has an education crisis I believe that it is a crisis created by prosperity and not by migrants. [More…]

• Why is there a crisis in land prices? [More…]

• That crisis varies from city to city and from State to State but the price of land is at crisis level in Sydney. [More…]

• Is the impact of the present world currency crisis operating most severely in this Group, which must be responsible for an ultimate solution which will in turn, affect our economy? [More…]

• The policy of this Government became ‘All the way with LBJ’ and Australia found that it was committed because it was felt that in a time of crisis the United States of America might come to our aid. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• With aircrew insecurity, a record unemployment level among aircrew and an international monetary crisis taking place, it will be a national disgrace to allow such major expenditure to continue. [More…]

• Sinclair) as far as it goes, indicating that another $1.5m in food, shelter and medical supplies is being donated by the Australian Government to assist in this crisis. [More…]

• This expenditure has meant that all sorts of development projects in India have had to go by the board because that country’s budgetary effort has been distorted by this sudden and unexpected expenditure on 9 million people who haderupted over their borders into India as a result of the crisis in East Pakistan. [More…]

• That seemed to me to be one of the valuable features of the aid that was given by Australia in that earlier crisis. [More…]

• But I ask that there be a restoration of the idea of adequacy of effort which seemed to me to be one of the characteristics of a former Foreign Minister when this sort of crisis occurred. [More…]

• I would remind honourable members that the Chifley Government during the time of Britain’s crisis put through United Kingdom aid Acts amounting to 45 m in the days when the basic wage was 4 5s a week. [More…]

• The Government allowed this industry to get into a state of absolute crisis before it was prepared to introduce such a scheme. [More…]

• If we had our own overseas shipping line we would not have had the crisis we have today with our fruit exports. [More…]

• What problems have brought about the current crisis? [More…]

• Let there be no mistake - it is a crisis. [More…]

• It is this slowness of acting in the face of a crisis which makes the situation even far worse than it ought to be. [More…]

• I have been waiting for 3 weeks to ask an important question on wool and another on the effect on our coal exports of the international monetary crisis. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare In the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• Before the recent action of the United States of America to stem its monetary crisis was the devaluation insurance rate fixed by the Reserve Bank at the rate of 10c per Stg100 a month? [More…]

• The Government recognises that the present crisis in the wool industry calls for a number of measures which in aggregate represent a concerted approach to the urgent problems affecting woolgrowers. [More…]

• The wheat industry reached a point of crisis a little more than 2 years ago when supplies were far in excess of market requirements and storage capacity. [More…]

• This is a serious belief, because it is quite obvious that Australia’s mineral exports are of vital importance to its future, particularly with respect to the rural crisis, in view of this, I must ask, request or challenge - whatever one likes to call it - the Queensland Minister for Mines, Mr Camm, to prove his belief that there is a Communist plot in Australia to smash the export coal industry by raising the price of coal so much that it would be lucrative for overseas Communist countries to supply coal to Japan. [More…]

• International authorities associated with the Japanese economy state categorically that the slowing down in Japan’s imports of coal and iron ore is a direct result of the steel recession which is now being accelerated by the international monetary crisis in which Japan and the United States of America are the key combatants. [More…]

• Japanese authorities indicate that as a result of the cancelled or deferred options, cancelled contracts or other agreements, imports of iron ore and coal could be reduced by as much as 25 per cent if the international monetary crisis is not satisfactorily solved. [More…]

• On that occasion, I pointed out that a record number of our primary industries were facing an economic crisis and that this record sum of $21 5m would be spread out so thinly that in places it would have little or no useful effect. [More…]

• The Minister never mentioned that the people hardest hit by the crisis in primary industries are being bounced from the Federal Government to the State Governments and back again to the Federal Government. [More…]

• A headline in another newspaper stated: ‘Crisis looming in wine industry - effect of wine tax’. [More…]

• We had reached crisis point way back in 1966, and he was going to cure all the ills of the Government and everybody else, according to what appears under the heading. [More…]

• The first subject is the rural crisis. [More…]

• Let me turn to the rural crisis. [More…]

• My electorate, the city electorate of Adeaide, is being affected by this rural crisis. [More…]

• Industries, such as the vine fruits industry in my own State and indeed the sugar industry in the State of my colleague, the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson), are now facing an even greater crisis than they would have faced in the present rural crisis for other reasons of prices on the world market. [More…]

• Today there is need for protection of industry and probably more so while the international currency crisis is going on and while there are uncertainties about trade because all sorts of unfair and devious practices will come into being. [More…]

• a great deal of doubt should be cast on the representativeness of Government members when educational matters are being debated.It becomes far more understandable that over the past decade they have denied the existence of a crisis in State education. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• There have been from the other side of the House numerous uses of the word ‘crisis’ in relation to education in the 2 years that I have been here. [More…]

• But it does appear that on this occasion we are getting very close to what may be properly regarded as a crisis situation. [More…]

• Because it claims to have made more revenue available to the States it believes that the States can surmount the crisis in education without further assistance. [More…]

• This is linked with the problem or the crisis in education throughout the country. [More…]

• But the real situation in Canberra is that there is a widely felt crisis. [More…]

• If we were to draw up a list of our priorities in view of the socalled danger to this country from invasion by foreign forces and bearing in mind the undoubted crisis in education, then if we must have a national service scheme, why not give exemption to teachers and trainee teachers? [More…]

• I finish on this note: The real crisis in education is that it can produce this kind of insular remark. [More…]

• When crisis threatens an industry associated with the rural sector of this country the Commonwealth Government acts quickly to make finance available by way of subsidy or grant. [More…]

• The economic crisis is now to hit the student campus and the casualties will be from the lower income families. [More…]

• If the Commonwealth was properly concerned about economic barriers to higher education, the plight of many students and families and the crisis in universities finance, it would do precisely the opposite - it would subsidise universities that kept fees down. [More…]

• It does not occur to him that we are faced with a rural crisis with which we have to deal. [More…]

• I want to deal with the crisis in education, which is approaching a catastrophy. [More…]

• I am referring not to the crisis that we hear so much about but to the much more serious one. [More…]

• This is a crisis approaching a catastrophe for thousands of young people in this country every year - this rat race that leads nowhere. [More…]

• A crisis exists in education, and that crisis can best be solved with money. [More…]

• The Catholic education on the central coast of New South Wales is approaching a crisis situation and will need very heavy support from both the State and Commonwealth Governments if it is to survive. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister aware that major sectors of primary industry are now experiencing the worst financial crisis since the great depression 40 years ago and that even more serious problems will be experienced in the immediate future as conditions worsen and unemployment grows in country areas? [More…]

• Of all the Ministers in the Government, it is the Minister for Primary Industry most of all who should be in Australia in the immediate future because of the rural crisis and in view of his ministerial responsibilities. [More…]

• Is this not an act of stupidity as well as a blatant contempt of the rural crisis? [More…]

• The regrettable thing is that despite the magnitude of the crisis at this point of time there is every indication that it will deteriorate even further because, despite the aid which has been provided by this and other countries- [More…]

• Instead we should all be insuring, by means of a national fund collected via taxation, by regular payments to the doctors and hospitals as they need them so that the service is there for the crisis occasion when we become ill. [More…]

• The overall credit situation is worse now than it has been at any time since the crisis began. [More…]

• This is creating just as much a crisis as any other single factor, because people who normally would have been able to obtain overdraft accommodation for their operations are now being told: ‘No more; we are sorry’. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• The Minister has introduced this wool scheme as part of a complex of measures which the Government claims is the answer to the rural crisis. [More…]

• All of these institutions have done particularly well in the last 2 years despite the rural crisis. [More…]

• Minister say today that there is no crisis in rural reconstruction and that there is no problem in New South Wales. [More…]

• I sum up in this way: The crisis is worsening and the time for action is now. [More…]

• The Government recognises that the present crisis in the wool industry calls for a number of measures which in aggregate represent a concerted approach to the urgent problems affecting woolgrowers. [More…]

• I cannot see any reason why we should not be asking for the same thing if our electorates are facing the same crisis. [More…]

• Current difficulties have been aggravated by the world monetary crisis and the 10 per cent surcharge which has been imposed by the United States of America on our wool exports on top of the existing 25c a lb import duty. [More…]

• I do not exempt completely the primary producers from the present crisis. [More…]

• But a pessimistic view was put by Emeritus Professor T. G. Hunter, until recently Professor of Chemical Engineering at Sydney University, at the Australian Institute of Political Science Spring Forum ‘The Crisis in Wool’ held at Goulburn in October 1970. [More…]

• I have been prepared to accept the view that up to date the Government may have been wise to sit out this sort of crisis. [More…]

• Many of us on this side of the House who have spent a lifetime in sheep raising areas have in the last few years made every attempt to serve warning on this nation that the crippling conspiracy of drought and poor market conditions would bring Australians giant industry to a crisis point. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• The continuing crisis in the Gazelle cannot be resolved by dictation from Port Moresby. [More…]

• There is a crisis in education there which is even worse than that which exists in Australia. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• Maintain all this aid for as long as the crisis persists. [More…]

• This is a crisis of human factors, as the Minister rightly reminds us, but Australian assistance in the previous crisis in Pakistan - the crisis which was caused by the tidal wave disaster - was tardy and ungenerous. [More…]

• If we tend to flinch from giving aid in this crisis because we think it may be a continuing development - if there is a continuing situation in East Pakistan that will produce more refugees - still we have to look back with disappointment at the Australian reaction to the disaster which was not man made and which was not continuing in East Pakistan. [More…]

• No doubt it was a factor in producing the immense vote for Mujibur Rahman and finally producing the crisis between East and West Pakistan which lies at the root of the present situation. [More…]

• If one is giving very small medical aid, then a very small medical team can see that this gets into a situation of crisis among the refugees. [More…]

• There is no doubt that if a hospital ship had moved into Calcutta it would have added to the facilities to treat wounded people, sick people and people who are suffering as a consequence of their displacement in the political crisis that developed in East Pakistan. [More…]

• This crisis is the most likely catalyst for a world war facing world humanity in our time, and it needs more than some cursory and casual consideration of the aid factor. [More…]

• I have been assured by people in the industry that this could reach a crisis point. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• There were many factors which contributed to the United States’ balance of payments crisis. [More…]

• Finally, the United States has recognised that this dollar crisis is only the last of a series of crises which have affected ;n turn the pound sterling, the French franc, the German Deutsche mark, and now the United States dollar. [More…]

• The Government is toying with the idea of precipitating an industrial crisis. [More…]

• I am not suggesting for a moment that we should turn our backs on the crisis in the rural industry but at the same time I am not suggesting that the Government is without blame for the present crisis in that industry. [More…]

• Whenever another Government inspired crisis looms the blame is placed on demands for wage increases, the high wages now being paid and/or industrial unrest. [More…]

• That means that the dead hand remains because while it is run by Government officials who have no personal responsibility for any issue and have no personal interest in the airline we will get this delay, this retarded reaction to any crisis with the result that a company which has made substantial profits and given substantial contributions to the airline industry in Australia is now faced with a deficit, retrenchments and all the problems that lead to a major disaster. [More…]

• It is clear that the Commonwealth Government at ministerial or high sub-ministerial level has caused a crisis of confidence amongst the Commonwealth Police Force. [More…]

• The failure of the Government to deal with the crisis of growing unemployment. [More…]

• They have left the crisis at home. [More…]

• -The honourable member for Stirling (Mr Webb) has referred to the failure of the Government to deal with the crisis of growing unemployment. [More…]

• It will not be an easy problem because the crisis in currency and in world trade that has been precipitated by President Nixon will have devastating consequences, particularly for Australia. [More…]

• This development has already proceeded apace and the whole complex of pumping schemes that has come into being in recent years has proved invaluable in preventing drought losses and also has put huge areas in a better position to brave the current rural crisis. [More…]

• But when one looks at the crisis and the problems, most of which are policy problems, in Australia one sees that the place for the Minister for Primary Industry at the present time is in Australia. [More…]

• Minister should have graciously informed the Director-General of FAO that he was unavailable because of the crisis in the Australian rural industries. [More…]

• We can only say that never before has it faced such a crisis and never before has Australian primary industry faced a greater crisis, and that includes the depression, because then at least we knew that it was an economic depression and that the dark cloud had a silver lining. [More…]

• In fact it reached crisis point last Monday. [More…]

• The Australian apple export industry is currently facing a most serious crisis in the form of the increased shipping freight rates being demanded by shipowners. [More…]

• It is well known that in the event of any international crisis, if we as a nation are committed to war, the CMF would form the bulk of the Army. [More…]

• I conclude by drawing attention to this paradox: We are faced with the strong possibility of disaster from a world ecological crisis, but little danger from foreign invasion. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• Never has the Australian apple and pear industry faced a crisis such as the one it is now going through. [More…]

• If we had established our own overseas shipping line at that time we could now have 15 to 20 of our own modern ships on the overseas trade runs and our industries would not bc facing the crisis that confronts them today because of high freight rates. [More…]

• If it has not this is a disgrace to Tasmania because the crisis caused by the increased freight rates charged by the ANL is affecting the whole of the Tasmanian economy. [More…]

• Already the Pakistan crisis has reached proportions of human tragedy which exceed those that took place in Vietnam. [More…]

• Yet our efforts to allay the impending crisis have been both insipid and insignificant. [More…]

• Here was his chance as a Commonwealth leader to help resolve the crisis between 2 Commonwealth countries - India and Pakistan. [More…]

• If in 1966 the Government could blandly claim in election material that the North Vietnamese going into South Vietnam posed a threat of invasion to Australia then possibly it could think about what sort of a threat could exist if the economy of India is not able to sustain the type of strain which is being placed upon it by this crisis. [More…]

• The crisis facing India and Pakistan is the frightening prospect of a war. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• We face a world of economic crisis, a world of over-production. [More…]

• Yet only one of them, the rural crisis, had even a passing reference in tonight’s report by the Prime Minister and none of them was actually assisted by his tour. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• In view of the many indicators of storms ahead for the Australian economy, such as the United Kingdom’s entry into the European Common Market, the wool industry crisis, both rural and general unemployment in the basic industries, the currency crisis and obvious speculation about a possible appreciation of Australian currency as indicated by the dramatic increase in Australia’s overseas reserves, which now stand at over $2,600m- [More…]

• Is it unreasonable that the State Housing Ministers are expecting the Commonwealths coffers to be opened to help them alleviate what is now the worst housing crisis in Australia’s history? [More…]

• But the real crisis in land is in Sydney. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability,. [More…]

• These growers feel that if the tax remains it will probably be increased in future budgets, and this could eventually lead to a serious crisis for both growers and wineries. [More…]

• It contained an urgent request for representatives from the Griffith Co-operative Cannery to interview the Minister to determine what financial assistance the Commonwealth Government is now prepared to offer the Griffith Co-operative Cannery following the recent second refusal by the New South Wales State Government to assist in the present crisis. [More…]

• We hope that the sentence of death that he has passed will be commuted by the Federal Government in this instance because here again is another example of where the rural crisis has been deepened by Government action or inaction. [More…]

• In the article by Peter Samuel in the Sydney ‘Bulletin’ which touched off the crisis in the Government, and which was held by Peter Samuel to have been inspired by the former Minister for Defence, now the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), it was said that Cabinet was indifferent to the fate of the Army in Vietnam. [More…]

• But by intervening on the broad mainland of Asia and not merely on the peninsula where there could be an end to the military line, by violating the simple principle of not interfering with a government that was in existence and viable - imagine the British in the days of the Raj overthrowing any maharaja who was a loyal ally - and by doing that with Diem, the United States helped to create the crisis for which they have paid a very high price in blood in their efforts to solve. [More…]

• There is no argument at all that in relation to these costs Sydney has the greatest crisis of any city in the nation, particularly with respect to land costs. [More…]

• Do the problems created by the crisis in East Pakistan and the influx of refugees into India threaten the maintenance of international peace and security in the terms of Article II (2) of the United Nations Charter. [More…]

• lt is a fact that the steel industry throughout the world has suffered from a minor recession and that this has been accentuated in some degree by the world monetary crisis, particularly as it involves the relationship between the United States and Japan. [More…]

• Anybody who looks at television programmes - just to discuss as an aside the private sector of education - will have heard the Catholic Archbishop of Hobart, Guilford Young, say that 20 of his schools are bankrupt and they will have to be closed, producing a crisis in primary and secondary education in the State of Tasmania. [More…]

• There is a very deep-seated crisis in education. [More…]

• Could you please advise if there is likely to be any special consideration given to the difficulties of Soldier Settlers in the present rural crisis. [More…]

• I ask that the Minister have the Government abolish annual rentals or at least waive them for a period of 5 years to allow farmers to ride out the current crisis or to withdraw from farming operations if unable in those circumstances to redeem themselves. [More…]

• Borrowed money today is the worst form of investment for Australia because it has to be paid for in hard earned exports at a time of economic crisis in world trade. [More…]

• I am not a calamity howler but I say that we are heading for an economic crisis. [More…]

• Second, there is the continuing currency crisis. [More…]

• We all hope that the current meeting in Rome of the Group of Ten will see a clear advance towards a satisfactory outcome of the present crisis. [More…]

• The Government waited until there was a crisis in the wheat industry and then it acted to bring in a quota system. [More…]

• After listening to the Deputy Prime Minister one would think that there is no such thing as a rural crisis in Australia. [More…]

• Yet every speech that has been made by members of the Country Party in recent months has been based on calamity howling about the rural crisis. [More…]

• Now we hear from the Leader of the Country Party that there is no rural crisis. [More…]

• But the Country Party says that there is no rural crisis in Australia. [More…]

• Of course there is a rur.il crisis, and every member of this Parliament knows that there are very serious problems in the wool growing areas of Australia. [More…]

• Never has this nation been worse off in terms of a rural crisis, especially in the wool industry - our greatest industry - since the depression of 1929-30 and yet positive action still has not been taken in the field of marketing. [More…]

• Let us not forget that this Commission is the Government’s answer to the wool crisis. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land- Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• The second point I want to make about these Premiers Conferences is, whether they take place in February, April or June, we are ricocheting from one crisis in Commonwealth-State financial relations to another. [More…]

• But if highlanders are to vote for what they think is in their best interests - and they are entitled to think that - but say that self-government will not be given to other areas until they are ready for it, then the Government has a real crisis on its hands. [More…]

• As was pointed out by honourable members from both sides of the House just recently, the wine industry faces a real crisis next year, with the next vintage. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• Since the beginning of the crisis in March this year, the Australian Government has made repeated efforts to try to influence the leaders of Pakistan and India in the direction of reaching a political settlement and to reduce tension. [More…]

• The Government has throughout the crisis been paying attention to the need to ensure the safety of Australian citizens in India and Pakistan. [More…]

• We have to watch very carefully the current monetary crisis because one way or the other it can have a very serious effect on our exports. [More…]

• The removal of import licensing in 1960 led to a flood of imports and an economic crisis which almost dislodged the Government. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister: Has he yet considered the request of the State Premiers for a special Premiers Conference to discuss the depressed condition of the Australian economy and in particular the problems of unemployment, the rural crisis and the cost-price inflation? [More…]

• At the moment we have not only the historical pressures moving people from rural areas to city areas but also the rural crisis, the diminution of prices and. [More…]

• In every State of the Commonwealth we have these problems, and of course they stem from the rural crisis. [More…]

• The situation is that we face this crisis of confidence and collateral which the Prime Minister has done very little to dissipate. [More…]

• The next thing I must say is that we are talking of a crisis which is worse than it has been since the depression days. [More…]

• Surely the whole purpose of this grant of $2m a month, approximately, is not to help the farming people alone but to help all people in rural areas, cities and towns who may have been affected by the rural crisis because of the drop in purchasing power of farming people. [More…]

• We have 2 types of unemployment; we have metropolitan unemployment which is certainly growing much more rap idly now, but it is not of the same nature orproportion as it is in rural areas where there is large long-term hard-core unemployment brought about by the structural changes in the rural community which have been caused by the crisis in rural industries. [More…]

• Again 1 know that I might be in difficulty if I refer to the crisis in the wool industry, but members of the Country Party cla m to represent those engaged in the wool industry. [More…]

• What did the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) do in this last unemployment crisis? [More…]

• We must develop immediately a national personal and family emergency assistance scheme so that people will not be crippled and thrown into personal bankruptcy, a scheme to keep them in times of persona] financial crisis of the nature caused by relative poverty and unemployment. [More…]

• I believe that this Bill will disturb every Australian who cares about the victims of the economic crisis. [More…]

• As I have said, some of those who have an interest in attacking our present order of society have declared that with the passing of the Vietnam crisis the next big crusade will come in relation to Aborigines. [More…]

• That proves that in every way we are non-political, decent and respectable and that we appreciate the fact that even if the Prime Minister’s own friends forget him there are always a couple of members on this side of the chamber who will do the right thing in a crisis. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• The ‘West Australian’ of 18th February, under the heading ‘Worse Jobs Crisis Seen In Building’, stated: [More…]

• It has caused us to face a crisis of supply for our traditional markets, for. [More…]

• It should be noted that during the currency crisis last year, which resulted in a major realignment of currency values, there was minimal disturbance within Australia. [More…]

• Had this sort of crisis happened in the Australian economy 15 or 20 years ago the* impact on Australia would have been very much greater. [More…]

• They are largely responsible, together with this Government’s ineptitude, for our present economic crisis. [More…]

• It is a world of major corporations, of multi-national corporations which are so big that they can ride through any period of depression or economic crisis. [More…]

• From time to time, generally in these periods of crisis when the employees are worried about the future, I visit the Government Aircraft Factories and the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation. [More…]

• All of them face a crisis. [More…]

• While the New South Wales Minister for Health is con.idering improving this tiny contribution, the crisis continues. [More…]

• If the Commonwealth acted properly and rightly and took these steps it would remove the crisis and save the bush nurse. [More…]

• So I appeal to the Minister and the Government in the name of common sense and humanity Vo end the crisis facing the bush nursing centres at this time. [More…]

• I believe that most of the wool brokers in Australia are doing their best to try to help wool growers to restore their profitability, and I believe that if it were not for the efforts of the private sector to assist generally the financial operations of primary producers, the rural sector would have been in a far worse crisis over the last few years than has been the case. [More…]

• They think that the areas of crisis are the cities. [More…]

• They show that there is a very great crisis within this industry today, and it is not one which can be shrugged off. [More…]

• We have a criss-cross - I was about to say a crisis - of wheat trade outside the Board and outside the Government. [More…]

• There are many aspects of the financial crisis facing independent schools. [More…]

• With costs continually rising and the salaries of teachers increasing, a crisis has developed in independent schools in many of our states and Ml credit is owing to the Minister for Education and Science, who is now at the table, and particularly the Prime Minister for the emergency action that they took so that the schools would know what they were able to do in the new term which was to open early in the new year. [More…]

• So while Government supporters may use whatever methods or tactics are available to them in this debate to endeavour to drive a wedge between the parents of children who attend government and non-government schools in Australia, the fact remains that no-one on the Government side who has spoken in this debate has denied that there is a crisis in education, that these inequalities do exist. [More…]

• In February 1971, following the collapse of Mineral Securities Australia Ltd, a busi ness crisis arose of proportions which had very serious implications, particularly for several of the major creditors. [More…]

• The Government was faced suddenly as if it had fallen out of bed on the wrong side with the prospect that the New South Wales Government would sooner or later do the same thing, certainly with the approach of the oft talked about crisis in education. [More…]

• I want to assure the people there that as far as I am concerned there will be no personal attacks because I believe that the Labor Party’s policy will stand on its own feet and that this Government will be condemned for the economic crisis in this country. [More…]

• No statement has been made in Parliament about the problems associated with international charter operations or about the present crisis which exists at Qantas on the possibility of additional layoff of staff. [More…]

• Obviously the Ansett airline is not a full-blooded private airline at all because the Government has rescued it time and time again in times of crisis. [More…]

• When the crisis in Korea arose in the early 1950s and both sides of this House supported the involvement of Australian forces in conjunction with United Nations forces in Korea, there was a great number of trained servicemen available in Australia who could be sent to Korea. [More…]

• That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]

• In view of this crisis and the prospect of other closures, will the Minister formulate national guidelines for the production and marketing of coal so as to minimise the adverse effects of cut-throat competition between the overseas owners of New South Wales underground mines and the open cut mines of Queensland? [More…]

• That is, the Royal Australian College of Surgeons - discovered that this crisis has become a defenceless, non-combatant casualty In the complicated Commonwealth-State status struggle, which ls strangling the efforts of Australians for advancement. [More…]

• While one could not disagree with the honourable member for Scullin in wishing to make more pure or less impure the waters of the Yarra or any other local stream, one cannot really regard that as an urban crisis, although I do not think the honourable member claimed it to be that. [More…]

• Nor can one regard as an urban crisis the proliferation of motor traffic at certain hours of the day on certain major highways, because in those terms we can develop any inconvenience of living into a crisis. [More…]

• The term ‘urban crisis’ is much over used and misused at these times. [More…]

• There is today a world fuel and energy crisis, lt is a crisis of hydrocarbons; it is a crisis of fossil fuel. [More…]

• The situation of an unemployed man with a wife and 2 or 3 dependent children is in fact much more serious than the situation of many of these other people in that, with a meagre income and often with the sort of economic background related to work of so many of the people who find themselves unemployed, unemployment represents a monumental crisis because not only will he get a lesser return in benefits but also he will be involved in additional costs which the others would not have. [More…]

• A migrant who has a pension right after having been here for 10 years and who draws on the pension for 5 years and then goes home for sound family reasons - perhaps there is some crisis back home and he has to go and see his close relations, which could happen with the southern Europeans in particular - will lose his pension unless some arrangement is negotiated. [More…]

• It seems pointless to build up our intelligence services within the Department of Defence when at a time of crisis demanding top class intelligence, all the Minister can do is recapitulate superseded Press reports. [More…]

• I again repeat that the Opposition believes that the Government has at last realised that there is a rural crisis in certain sections of primary industry. [More…]

• It has waited until a crisis has occurred and until large numbers of primary producers were either bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy or until they found themselves in an intolerable debt position from which it was impossible to recover. [More…]

• The Government should put forward policies immediately and not wait until a major crisis develops. [More…]

• 2 coal mines on the south coast of New South Wales is an ominous warning of a large scale and rapidly developing crisis in the Australian coal industry. [More…]

• The present crisis has been precipitated by the loss of Italian markets by the Clutha mines to the Goonyella open cut mine in the Bowen Basin, Queensland, which is owned by the Utah Development Company. [More…]

• Has this Government any answer to the crisis confronting the coal industry? [More…]

• This latter crisis was brought on by a falling off in the demand for steel and by a slight falling off in New South Wales and [More…]

• I believe that this is a temporary crisis. [More…]

• It is a good thing that we have this crisis now, because something must result from it. [More…]

• This crisis has been brought on by industrial trouble and a recession in the steel industry. [More…]

• There is a crisis in the coal industry and the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) and the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor) have clearly shown this. [More…]

• Unquestionably we are at the point of greatest danger since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. [More…]

• The lack of opportunity to discuss the great crisis confronting the people of Bangladesh indicates the low priority of foreign aid. [More…]

• During this crisis I repeatedly stated that India and the United Nations urgently needed cash, not goods, to provide immediate relief for the refugees. [More…]

• She has frequently called on the church for help in times of crisis. [More…]

• It may not be pleasant for a works’ manager to be informed of his own shortcomings, but surely this is preferable to making the discovery only after these have produced a crisis. [More…]

• I believe this is industrial brinkmanship deliberately designed to create a crisis in an election year. [More…]

• When employers, employees and responsible Australians in all walks of life are crying out for a balanced and reasonable approach to the solution of industrial unrest and for ending the inflationary situation that is causing its manifestation, this Government deliberately sets out to create an industrial crisis knowing full well that whatever its political advantage, the disadvantage to our country will be devastating. [More…]

• I do not seek to canvass this matter at this stage, but I consider that had the Commonwealth given 18-year-olds the right to vote as promised or indicated some time ago this crisis could have been avoided. [More…]

• The Commonwealth first entered this field in 1970 to help arrest a financial crisis which had developed for many independent schools. [More…]

• I would think that the proposed new sections, particularly proposed new section 31, were introduced into the Bill because of a lack of understanding - an admission by the Government of its lack of understanding - of what the present economic crisis is all about. [More…]

• But it will not be enough to find our way out of the recent monetary crisis. [More…]

• We have said that we needed first to deal with the current crisis and only then should we consider the question of possible reform. [More…]

• lt seems to be one of the tragedies of civilisation that it does not recognise a problem until it becomes a crisis. [More…]

• When one tries to solve problems in an atmosphere of crisis, one does not always arrive at the most rational solution. [More…]

• No businessman in this country would ever be working on his business at 2 o’clock in the morning unless there was a crisis in the business and he was going bankrupt, or something like that, and he wanted to find a few more dollars. [More…]

• Today there is a world crisis in hydrocarbons. [More…]

• It is not an equitable situation and it could lead to a crisis in Australian radio and television, particularly in country areas. [More…]

• In times of crisis we have been dependable. [More…]

• I note his recent statements in the first speeches he has ever made on urban affairs that it is wildly inaccurate to speak of a crisis in our cities and that people have been carried away by labels such as urban affairs’ and ‘the challenge of the cities’. [More…]

• Does this mean that the right honourable gentleman and his Government reject the views of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, the Royal Australian Planning Institute and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, which have formed a national alliance and in a manifesto a month ago declared that the very real problems of unplanned urban growth are now approaching a crisis situation in many areas and are in large part caused by the failure to develop national and State policies to co-ordinate this growth? [More…]

• If we do not put man in control of his technology we will continue to stagger from one crisis to the next. [More…]

• The present rural crisis not only concerns the man on the land but has widespread sociological, community and centralisation problems. [More…]

• The crisis seriously impairs development and also consolidation of rural districts throughout Australia. [More…]

• Events like this in Western Australia have a tendency to escalate unemployment because, apart from adding to a crisis of confidence, it seems to effect some building and manufacturing in other areas. [More…]

• Perhaps this land has been used for some form of rural production, but with rural industry facing crisis after crisis, the Government ought to consider giving a larger grant to the States to enable them to purchase this land for forestry purposes. [More…]

• When called upon in times of crisis Sir Owen Dixon served with equally great distinction in other spheres. [More…]

• This crisis situation is a cause of deep concern and, if violence does occur, the consequences will be alarming nationally. [More…]

• ALP rebuff to Whitlam in the fines crisis. [More…]

• Apart from the domestic shocks from wage cost inflation and severe industrial unrest, we have also witnessed external shocks to the system from the international monetary crisis and the slowdown in the Japanese economy, which affected the expansion plans of our mineral industries. [More…]

• Since the Australian economy was hit by the international monetary crisis last year the Government has acted to steer the economy back towards a proper course. [More…]

• In the current unemployment crisis Western Australia is suffering more and is being assisted by the Commonwealth Government less than is any other State. [More…]

• What is the crisis in pre-school education? [More…]

• The urgency of the developing world energy crisis surely dictates that the time for our governments to take action is now. [More…]

• He says: “The international monetary crisis jolted world confidence severely. [More…]

• think we have in Australia at the moment is what Professor Henderson recently described in a lecture given in Melbourne as ‘too much instant government’ - acting when the crisis is on you instead of preparing to avoid a crisis. [More…]

• The problem essentially is that in the present unemployment crisis, Western Australia is suffering more and is being assisted by the Commonwealth less than is any other State. [More…]

• The major short term causes of the State’s unemployment crisis are well recognised and can be counted on the fingers of one hand. [More…]

• I hope there will be less of the kind of talk we have heard tonight, because if anything helps to precipitate a rush on or a crisis about a currency it is people beginning to talk about whether it may go up or it may go down. [More…]

• It is nol good enough to say, as this Government says: ‘Oh, it was not our fault - there were such overseas factors as the currency crisis and wool prices and so on’. [More…]

• It was precisely because of the currency crisis and wool prices that we should . [More…]

• As I have pointed out in recent debates, Western Australia has a special case for financial assistance in its unemployment crisis. [More…]

• They are tired of a government that gets its policies from the gallup poll; that reacts to every test of leadership and statesmanship by playing on every prejudice and fear lying dormant in the community; that acts in every national or international crisis only in terms of the political advantage it can squeeze out of it - whether it be China, South Africa, Bangladesh or French nuclear tests, or whether it be poverty, industrial relations, racism or rural depression. [More…]

• Look ing back we all know about the international monetary crisis which erupted soon after last year’s Budget was brought down. [More…]

• That crisis had rapid and drastic effects on our trading partners, with severe economic consequences. [More…]

• Why has the financial crisis of the States and local government authorities been so neglected and almost totally ignored? [More…]

• Obviously there are several alternatives but, to my mind, it demonstrates that after long and critical examination of the increased capital intensive nature of primary industry the Government is moving with certainty towards the provision of a facility which will help all primary producers to meet the servicing of their debts, which regrettably are eroding their profitability and are essentially one of the causes of the past crisis in the rural industries. [More…]

• I refer in particular to the employment situation in my electorate where industries such as steel fabrication works are in a serious situation due to the scaling down or, in fact, the stopping of development projects caused by the international economic situation, the effects of this Commonwealth Government’s previous budgets and the failure of the Commonwealth to recognise the impending consequences of the situation and to take action on a national scale to rectify the crisis that it had .itself assisted to create. [More…]

• It is incredible that after 23 years of Federal Liberal administration a national employment and financial crisis has been created. [More…]

• Many people regard the great urban crisis - as it is called - as the problem of the decade. [More…]

• Externally there was an international monetary crisis and a slowdown in the Japanese economy, which affected the expansion plans of our mineral industries. [More…]

• At the beginning of his speech the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) observed that the international monetary crisis last year led to capital expenditure cutbacks in the mining and other industries. [More…]

• The fundamental reality is not that we are helping them but that we are helping ourselves to avert a tragic crisis, a crisis which would flow across national boundaries and affect the whole world. [More…]

• That is a minor point really - although I know it is important if we have not got enough school rooms or teachers - compared with a far more serious crisis facing the whole community. [More…]

• I refer to a crisis in education itself. [More…]

• Yet at the height of this crisis we heard the great spokesman for the rural wing or rump, as it is sometimes called, of the Labor Party preparing to scuttle the ship. [More…]

• Estimated Australian and world demands currently, and projected demands, show that there are ominous signs already of a world fuel crisis. [More…]

• As their economy recovers the Americans have woken up to find themselves rushing headlong into an energy crisis which a few years ago would have been unthinkable. [More…]

• In effect, the United States faces a crisis. [More…]

• Japan, for energy purposes, is the third major world power in the utilisation of nuclear energy, and, unlike this Government, is fully conscious of the pending world fuel crisis and is rapidly stockpiling its imports. [More…]

• the urgency of the developing world energy crisis surely dictates that the time for our Government to take action is now. [More…]

• Firstly, positive legislation is needed to ensure maximum Australian equity, participation and control of these national assets; secondly, we must tap the vast reservoir of the Australian capital market; and, thirdly - I no longer request this but demand it on behalf of the people who have any concern for the assets of this country and our national heritage - we must set up immediately a national inquiry to establish concrete policies and guidelines which will co-ordinate, identify, and quantify, and plan the most economic and efficient use of these vast resources of fuel and energy, based not on this Government’s ad hoc, puerile decisions which are reached on a crisis to crisis basis, but on what this nation’s supply and demand requirements will be not only in the next decade, but also - this is equally important - for the next half century. [More…]

• Finally, how would he feel about the recruitment of the ineffectual member for Barker, Dr Forbes, who failed abjectly to sustain his rural electorate during the rural crisis? [More…]

• Others are: ‘Credibility is the PM’s- latest crisis’, PM climbs to fame - and Blame’, ‘Liberal MPs call for Meeting’. [More…]

• A publicly owned Australian organisation is thus giving work to an overseas yard while our own shipyards are facing a crisis through lack of orders. [More…]

• He has never in any way in this House entered into debates on the wool crisis, a subject which of course concerns his electorate. [More…]

• Usually the honourable member opposite talks in crisis terms. [More…]

• I do not think anybody in Canberra would talk much about a transport crisis, even if they are prepared to do so in Sydney, Melbourne or New York. [More…]

• It is one thing to identify a problem; it is another thing to turn it into a crisis verbally; it is another thing to get a balance; and it is a further thing to solve the problem. [More…]

• It is only the Government which interprets free enterprise ideology in the terms that you do not do anything until the crisis comes. [More…]

• To make the position worse, currently the world is undergoing a monetary crisis in which the world’s major banker - the United States - is, according to orthodox capitalist canons, verging on insolvency. [More…]

• Can we really believe that such excessive sensitivity is helpful, that impartiality conquers all, that the best contribution we can make to resolving the Middle East crisis is to shut not one but both eyes to it? [More…]

• But the refugees can and must be settled and rehabilitated and, indeed, this is the only long term and permanent solution to Arab terrorism as well as the overall Middle East crisis. [More…]

• Unless there is a reappraisal of the situation we will come to a stage of a very great crisis, % complete disintegration of local government works that will mean that finally the Com.monwealth will be forced in a period of chaos to enter the field. [More…]

• Unless some large scale developmental works are implemented in this country within the months to come the employment crisis which has built up month by month will become permanent and it will not be able to be corrected. [More…]

• Until this type of proposal is implemented the problems of local governments, particularly the increasing financial crisis, will continue. [More…]

• Why is it necessary to have a crisis in New South Wales? [More…]

• First of all, this Government has to meet the crisis in the private home building sector of the community. [More…]

• I summarise by saying that we do have a housing crisis in this community, that this Bill does not help it in any way, that our problem is a shortage of serviced land, that housing construction costs have increased but in no way has that increase been at the same rate as the increase in the price of land. [More…]

• The matters that have been discussed this afternoon all add up to the fact that there is a crisis in housing. [More…]

• Wait until the crisis comes! [More…]

• I am grateful that the Minister visited Bangladesh during the crisis there. [More…]

• I turn finally to what has been called the existential crisis in which the Aboriginal people find themselves and which is related to material things. [More…]

• These things can contribute very little to the solution of what has been identified as the existential crisis. [More…]

• In the absence of this, in this existential crisis in which the Aboriginal person in Australia lives, there is a lot of concern today about the Aboriginal people turning to violence, as though that is a terrible thing. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to weekend Press reports that the Kangaroo Point shipyard of Evans Deakin Industries Ltd faces a crisis which could result in the closure of the yard and the resultant unemployment of up to 1,500 skilled shipyard workers? [More…]

• Headed Crisis at the Chemist’s’ it reads as follows: [More…]

• Britain is heading for a crisis over her chemists’ shops. [More…]

• .Australia is having difficulty with employment and economic crisis seems endemic. [More…]

• If this is the condition of the Australian steel industry then we face a national crisis. [More…]

• The tragedy is that a decade has gone since the awareness of the developing crisis in urban affairs and its preparedness to confront it. [More…]

• Had that request been acceded to some time ago we might well not have had the crisis situation which has now developed to the extent that it has this Government scared stiff of the reaction of the Australian population because of its past total inaction. [More…]

• Because at the moment the real crisis exists in Sydney and Melbourne, we must meet the crisis in these areas. [More…]

• The most important of these problems is the environmental crisis. [More…]

• During the Suez crisis in 1956 the United Nations emergency forces were used in the Middle East when both Soviet and United States interests coincided. [More…]

• One issue which posed a sudden serious threat to global security, the Cuba crisis, was settled by a direct contact between Washington and Moscow. [More…]

• If there is anybody more notably lacking in compassion than this Government in moments of great crisis I would like to know who he is. [More…]

• This is an election vear and, as far as the Labor Party is concerned, the crisis in our cities and the future role of the ^Federal Government in relation to that crisis are major issues. [More…]

• The Government has been concerned about the future of this industry for quite a considerable time, and its concern goes far beyond the crisis that we have seen in recent times. [More…]

• During the recent crisis in the industry many country towns suffered tremendously because of the failure of wool to attract a satisfactory price. [More…]

• Indeed over the last 10 years the trend in wool prices has been downward, and a crisis developed. [More…]

• It allows them to develop to crisis proportions and then takes some small, supposed, remedial action that barely touches the surface of the problem that confronts it. [More…]

• We have heard from the member who represents the fruit growing districts of South Australia, in regard to the crisis say: [More…]

• It is not enough to throw this scheme down as the only thing that we have before us as a solution to the crisis and to say: That is it. [More…]

• The canned fruit industry faced a nation-wide crisis, Mr Grassby, Labor New South Wales said yesterday. [More…]

• On Monday he created the usual Australian Labor Party aura of havoc or crisis in respect of something which is totally unprovable to be either havoc or crisis and said that we should be doing the absolute opposite and encouraging people to produce more. [More…]

• But this is a fundamental issue and it is of growing importance because in the world today we face a crisis in hydrocarbons and we in Australia have many problems to solve. [More…]

• Yet, we see a plundering of our resources which is reaching world crisis proportions and nothing is done about it. [More…]

• Deficiencies in our urban public transport systems have been at crisis level for several years. [More…]

• I cannot cite the details of the contacts that Evans Deakin has had with the Government, but I certainly have it on the most reliable authority that contact has been made and that no effort was spared by the management to make the Government aware of the impending crisis that the Evans Deakin shipyard faced. [More…]

• They chose to ignore the details of the impending crisis that were given to them in a conversation following the speech that the chairman of directors made at the launching of the Esso Gippsland’ in April this year. [More…]

• But it is a situation which in situations of crisis has to be faced, and this situation is fast approaching with Tasmanian shipping. [More…]

• I mention Sydney and Melbourne because this is where the crisis exists now. [More…]

• But the point is that the job has been run in a rather ad hoc sort of method and college councils and college staff have felt over the last 3 years that almost every day brings a new crisis. [More…]

• Tariff Board and its academic, financial and Press supporters, the 2 supporters it has here and possibly the Commonwealth Treasury - all completely unprotected people and, I suppose, therefore highly economic and efficient - would cause a serious economic crisis in Australia. [More…]

• 18/1972: 1.1 To enable RAAF pilots to be trained in the use of specialised navigational equipment, and to maintain the standard of efficiency which would be expected of the Service at a time of crisis, it is essential that high speed, low level, cross-country exercises be carried out by military F4E (Phantom) jet aircraft operating out of Amberley m non-controlled airspace. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence and the Prime Minister may like to claim that they are responsible for solving the problem but there is a repetition of the crisis that developed in this Parliament as far back as 1970. [More…]

• There is a world fuel and energy crisis developing, particularly in the developed countries of the world. [More…]

• In his statement the Minister showed that he is aware of the predictions that have been made by people in many other countries, namely, that the world is likely to face an energy crisis before the year 2000. [More…]

• He was a chief negotiator of the Korean truce and in 1956 his hand guided the super powers towards the peace that followed the Suez crisis. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Transport any plans to relieve the Bass Strait shipping freight crisis? [More…]

• As we know, there is a world energy crisis, particularly in regard to the supply of hydrocarbons. [More…]

• The United States is facing an energy crisis at the moment and by the year 1980 it will be importing about $30 billion to $40 billion worth of energy resources. [More…]

• If that decision were, correct for our currency, at the time, which undoubtedly the Government thought it was, following the crisis with respect to the strong currencies, notably the United States devaluation which had an appreciating effect of about 11.01 per cent on Australian currency, how could it possibly be right to do nothing then? [More…]

• It demonstrates the degree to which the American Government took note of the statements and the damaging effects which these statements by 3 senior Ministers had on our relationships with the United States, a country which came to the rescue of this country in its gravest moment of crisis. [More…]

• In the event of a crisis, and the countries of this area were either hostile or neutral, we could never get these aircraft back to Australia to carry put their basic function, the defence of the Australian continent. [More…]

• In the event of a crisis, on the basis of the previous Government’s attitude towards defence, we would not at any stage have been capable of undertaking and honouring our commitment. [More…]

• This home, which is known throughout Victoria for the magnificent services it provides to the aged and the infirm in the area, is suffering an economic crisis, as are other homes under the categories I mentioned previously. [More…]

• Can anyone in this Parliament think of a more fundamental economic decision than the one which concerned the recent ‘ currency crisis around the world, a decision taken by Mr Whitlam acting with some marginal concept of an economic czar. [More…]

• Many young dairy farmers would welcome protection from financial crisis. [More…]

• It is at these crisis points that Commonwealth funds should be applied. [More…]

• The people of La Trobe have realised that Australia faced a crisis - a threat to the quality of life that should be due to all Australians and would be restored only when more emphasis was given to community programs in schooling, housing and employment. [More…]

• The speech of the Governor-General captures the seriousness of the crisis and meets it head on with a 3-year program designed to achieve basic changes in the administration and structure of Australian society. [More…]

• 1 wish to comment on the underlying theme of that speech for in the common denominator of the several parts of the pro gram lies the response and understanding of the crisis in the quality of life. [More…]

• Are we prepared to maintain at the head of our affairs a coalition of factions which has lurched into crisis after crisis, embarrassment piled on embarrassment week after week?’ [More…]

• The former Leader of the Opposition also said: ‘Can we accept another 3 years of waiting for next week’s crisis, next week’s blunder?’ [More…]

• The hospital was rapidly approaching a crisis in the provision of obstetrics beds. [More…]

• Whatever the effect of the AEWL move, I believe that it should have consulted the Gov ernment before it took the action which is precipitating the crisis which is causing concern to the honourable member for Wannon and me. [More…]

• Apart from the obvious point that the US is hardly likely to accept a situation in which Australia could snatch its finger from the nuclear trigger in a time of crisis, there are severe practical problems in exercising control. [More…]

• The time for decision making in a crisis situation is likely to be so small that the Australian Prime Minister could not be contacted in time to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’. [More…]

• The present muddle-headed policy of the Government is heading us towards inevitable economic crisis. [More…]

• So too in our defence and foreign affairs, this Government, to use the words of the present Prime Minister, lurches from crisis to crisis. [More…]

• The simple truth is that we face a plethora of crises instead of one readily identifiable crisis, such as the World Wars or the depression, that faced past Labor governments. [More…]

• But the same failure of economic structure and decision-making machinery is evident in most other areas of our crisis-ridden economy. [More…]

• It is here that the crisis has arisen through a lack of sewerage, transport, opportunities and housing. [More…]

• I refer to the recommendations that contraceptives be supplied on the free pharmaceutical benefits list, that the advertising of contraceptives should be legal and that there should be a vigorous Government sponsored education campaign aimed at explaining the population crisis I would say that there is no population crisis in this country; quite the opposite and the means of solving it. [More…]

• It may well be justified or alternatively running itself into a major crisis. [More…]

• The Australian economy had reached a crisis by September of last year in which our overseas reserves had reached an unprecedented $4,500m, compared with the $l,500m normally accepted as adequate to service our import requirements. [More…]

• I remember not so very long ago hearing in this House the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) make comments about Sir Robert Menzies, who was the Prime Minister of that day, in regard to what the present Prime Minister called Sir Robert’s intrusion into the Suez crisis. [More…]

• Another matter that the honourable member for Farrer evidently forgot is that today there is a world energy crisis. [More…]

• The future of the world - there is a world hydro-carbons crisis - will be determined by the possession of coal reserves. [More…]

• He chided my colleague, the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn), for not mentioning the energy crisis. [More…]

• If the Government continues on its present course, its dealing on behalf of Australia, with the energy crisis and the resources we have will not be in Australia’s interest or in the interests of anybody else. [More…]

• If they should be used then probably they should be prescribed only for very limited periods in crisis situations such as pre-operative conditions. [More…]

• Any break up of Yugoslavia could lead only to the creation of a new crisis point in the world today. [More…]

• I must say that as far as Canberra employees of the Public Service are concerned I have no doubt that the basic qualities I outlined are being stretched to the limit by the rash of legislation brought about by the Labor Government and also by the ready willingness of senior Ministers of the Labor Government ruthlessly to attempt to shift the blame for a crisis - a crisis either for the Government or for the Minister - on to members of the Public Service. [More…]

• I refer to the fact that there is a world energy crisis looming. [More…]

• There is a growing awareness of a world energy crisis, and major industrial nations such as Japan and the United States of America, having depleted seriously their available resources, and being already heavily dependent on imports, particularly of crude oil, are now turning to ‘resources diplomacy’ to provide for their future needs. [More…]

• One is the overt pressure and power being exercised by multi-national corporations on national governments or sovereign States, and the second is the world energy crisis. [More…]

• Australian and world demand, current and projected, clearly indicates ominous signs of a world fuel crisis. [More…]

• I put it quite seriously to this House that the world wide fuel and energy crisis, the role which has been played by those countries which control these vast non-renewable resources, the role being played by the multi-national corporations and the effects which they have on national governments in Western Europe, Japan and the United States, are crucial to world stability and peace. [More…]

• No one can guarantee that the ILO activities in the employment promotion field will be successful but it is obvious that unless the high levels of unemployment and underemployment in many parts of the world are reduced rapidly there is a danger not simply of economic stagnation but of political and social conflict of crisis proportions in many countries. [More…]

• He says there is a crisis in housing. [More…]

• His idea of a crisis in housing is based on the fact that there are about 93,000 applicants for homes from housing commissions. [More…]

• This is not a housing crisis at all. [More…]

• But certainly some governments must accept responsibility for the housing crisis that exists in Australia today. [More…]

• I compliment the Minister on his swift action and the way that the Cabinet has assisted him and the Treasury in making money available, because I believe that in Australia today there could be no greater crisis than the crisis of providing people with proper homes and accommodation. [More…]

• Any developed nation which has 93,000 applicants for Housing Commission or public housing is facing a crisis. [More…]

• ~ The present Labor Government assumed office at a time when a crisis existed in the housing field. [More…]

• Under the previous Government a housing crisis had developed to the stage where in all States there existed long lists of outstanding applications for homes for purchase or rental from State housing commissions. [More…]

• In New South Wales it has been reported that the inability of the State Housing Commission to compete with private developers for housing blocks has led to a crisis point situation developing. [More…]

• We know that the honourable gentleman’s economics stop somewhere in the 1930s, but it is the very fact that there is an international economic machinery and that there is a better understanding of the underlying forces than there was in 1930 that the currency troubles have not generated a severe crisis in world trade and employment. [More…]

• That has resulted in currency crisis dragging on. [More…]

• As the stock feeders are asking for neither first advance payments of 120 cents a bushel nor the allocation of a delivery quota at the expense of traditional growers, will the Minister, in the interests of fostering the only effective long term solution to the current meat crisis, endeavour to persuade the Australian Wheat Board to adopt a more realistic attitude and revert to its 1972 policy? [More…]

• By his statements during the first crisis involving the now discredited Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) he has caused division. [More…]

• and John McDermott, M.D., in an article entitled Abortions and Acute Identity Crisis in Nurses’ wrote: [More…]

• The article goes on to comment that the symptoms were due to an acute identity crisis regarding their nursing roles caused by their abortion activities. [More…]

• Because of the crisis in the cities the Cities Commission is to have a role which embraces a solution to that crisis, that is, through the new regional areas in the country and in the cities. [More…]

• The crisis point has not been reached in Melbourne although speculation is beginning to run riot. [More…]

• The Japanese and United States energy crisis has been canvassed widely. [More…]

• Some writers are now suggesting that the United States may not face an energy crisis for 15 years and that there may not be a major foreign policy problem for the United States if that country follows less inept policies. [More…]

• director of the United Nations resources department, recently stated that what the United States faces now is ‘not a crisis of resources, but a lack of planned development’. [More…]

• Failing that, the crisis will be all too real for every country. [More…]

• At present there is no overall energy crisis or shortage in the eastern States. [More…]

• This national Government is faced with a world energy crisis. [More…]

• I would like to make the humble observation that whilst 1 agree that there is a world energy crisis, if one takes the time to analyse the situation in the United States one finds that a high proportion of oil, gas uranium and fossil fuel is owned and controlled by multi-national corporations. [More…]

• Its failure to do so has put the United States in a position where today its natural gas and particularly its crude oil reserves have reached crisis proportions. [More…]

• I conclude on this point: When the people of Australia realise just how important it is for a nation to control its resources, whether they be oil, gas, uranium or fossil fuel, in the national interest and in terms of the world energy crisis, the Government must be in the position to act in the national interest and, more importantly, in the international interest. [More…]

• The article is entitled ‘The Inflation Crisis’. [More…]

• Everywhere the city Is in crisis. [More…]

• It is ludicrous that today when the energy crisis is a major global problem, possibly the global problem for the rest of the century, with the horrible spectre of trade wars before us once more, Australia has difficulty in rising above the level of federal-State bickering to develop a national policy. [More…]

• At present the 2 major crisis cities are Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]

• What the Government inherited in many areas was a series of patch-up jobs caused by he need to act either in a crisis situation or as a result of other pressures. [More…]

• We do not dispute the wisdom of this, because the conditions were at a crisis point. [More…]

• Of all people on the Government side of the chamber who should not be saying anything at the present time about creating uncertainty in rural industry it is the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) because he more than anybody else has caused the rural crisis because of the statements which he has made. [More…]

• From a study of the financial situation of local governments it is quite easy to see why a crisis is developing. [More…]

• In fact, the Opposition is very much in favour of the objective of the legislation, which is to help overcome the crisis that is developing in the financing of local government authorities. [More…]

• More purchasing power and massive tax remissions for the privileged minority are not the antidote for the chronic sociological ailment which is our nation-wide housing crisis. [More…]

• But while we have a crisis in housing it would be financially irresponsible to use a large part of the funds available for housing on a scheme such as this. [More…]

• I visited Cuba in 1962, 10 days before the missile crisis, and from that day onwards I have taken some interest in Cuba’s history. [More…]

• It seems to rae that .there ought to be gov emmental action, State or federal or possibly both, for the purpose of examining this situation which could cause the crisis in the build ing industry to deteriorate. [More…]

• When I speak of emergency housing I mean true emergency housing that could be made available at an instant’s notice when a crisis arose, whether it be flood, bush fire, some domestic dispute or something else that might cause a family to be immediately evicted and left without proper shelter. [More…]

• He talks about 93,000 people on the Housing Commission waiting lists and says that there is a major housing crisis. [More…]

• They could be the means of sustaining these towns while rural industries are recovering from the recent crisis. [More…]

• One almost wonders whether the Prime Minister may not be feeling so insecure against the pressure of the left wing of his Party that he is feeling his way towards the possibility of a national coalition in case some crisis should occur within his own Party. [More…]

• Though there is no evidence of it from his statement, the Prime Minister should have known that the previous Government had taken action through the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Foreign Affairs to develop a resources diplomacy for Australia, particularly in view of the rapid consumption of the world’s resources and the real prospect of an energy crisis. [More…]

• Those people are helped when in a crisis situ ation and are not those who are sometimes termed ‘professional bludgers’. [More…]

• They are people in a crisis situation and in dire need. [More…]

• The Smith Family organisation meets crisis situations. [More…]

• But virtually it leads a hand to mouth existence going from one week to the next trying to get enough money to help those people in a crisis situation. [More…]

• It would be very nice to hope that we could take a vote today to facilitate that bringing together of the 2 Houses of Parliament, because what we are dealing with represents a crisis in the history of this country. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that the 2 crisis points at the moment are Sydney and Melbourne which are suffering from all the ills of over-centralisation - soaring land prices, lagging services, air and water pollution, lack of recreational space and so on. [More…]

• The Minister for Housing has stated on many occasions and again only last weekend that there is a serious crisis in housing and that more money must be made available to catch up on the housing shortage. [More…]

• There is a serious housing crisis in Australia and there is a boom in housing which, together, put a very unreasonable strain on available resources. [More…]

• Thus in 1971 a backbencher was able to claim that during his 2 years in Parliament there had been no full scale debate on urban development, pollution, conservation, education, road safety, transport, social services, the rural crisis, tariffs or immigration. [More…]

• The previous Government’s poor performance in the housing field had resulted in a national crisis developing in that area. [More…]

• This situation came about partly through bad seasons in the Northern hemisphere raising the prices of our exports, partly through the energy and materials crisis which is occurring in the United States and elsewhere - these are events external to Australia - and partly because of the sound policy of the Liberal-Country Party government in the past. [More…]

• This nation is already beset by a massive inflation-inspired swing of resources into real estate, provoking a tremendous housing crisis. [More…]

• The crisis we face in land prices requires that all responsible political leaders try to break down barriers of distrust and work together so that young people may have an opportunity to acquire a block of land on which to construct a home. [More…]

• There are no immediate solutions to the land crisis in Australia. [More…]

• Nothing done in Australia could avoid the tremendous crisis which has come from this flow of commodity movements and prices nor the movement in capital which has flowed around the world and come into Australia in large quantities. [More…]

• Queensland’s share of this allocation would have built approximately 30 houses - 30 houses spread over the whole of the State to ease what the Government called a crisis in housing. [More…]

• There is no question that inflation is the major crisis facing Australia. [More…]

• Probably my first memory of a political crisis occurring was in 1939, when the then AttorneyGeneral in the Lyons Government, R. G. Menzies, resigned from Cabinet because he claimed that the Government had not honoured its election promise to bring in a national superannuation scheme. [More…]

• Unfortunately the world is moving more and more into a crisis of violence and so this mutual protection should be one of the great values of our society. [More…]

• If they are not removed from this area then the huge percentage who kill, although not with the same degree of criminality, will grow and our country will move more and more into this crisis of violence which is spreading today throughout the world. [More…]

• The biggest business in the nation is facing a crisis, the magnitude of which is obviously not realised by the Government. [More…]

• The Prime Minister seems to have swallowed hook, line and sinker the Minister’s oft repeated statement about the impending energy crisis. [More…]

• The arbitration system grew out of the crisis of the 1890s. [More…]

• As a result of the Federal Government’s decision to increase land line charges many country radio stations will face a financial crisis. [More…]

• He said that if a crisis arises in the future, at least we will have done the work. [More…]

• Australia’s inflationary difficulties are rapidly reaching crisis pro portions. [More…]

• Australia can avoid the energy and oil crisis affecting the United States with long term planning now . [More…]

• It would be foolish to say that Australia has nothing to fear from the energy crisis. [More…]

• At the same time as we look at the proposal put by the honourable member for McMillan, let us look at the so-called fuel crisis. [More…]

• The Minister loves to talk about this fuel crisis, but if there is one it is a political crisis which has been caused by the Minister himself. [More…]

• However, even as late as 1969, Sir Harold Ragett did not mention the grave energy crisis which the great industrialised areas of the world are facing. [More…]

• An energy crisis must have an effect upon Australia when its full impact is felt in Europe, the United States of America and Japan. [More…]

• If present trends continue, we could face a genuine energy crisis. [More…]

• The report deals particularly with the staffing crisis in the Education Department’s psychology and guidance branch and speech therapy branch. [More…]

• The waiting list for admission of mentally retarded patients into residential institutions in Victoria is in a state of crisis. [More…]

• The key, the index, to the bed shortage crisis is the list of mentally retarded people waiting for admission to Victoria’s 9 institutions. [More…]

• The first category is: Most urgent - family in a state of crisis, immediate placement in an institution needed. [More…]

• The third category is: Pending^ - no immediate crisis, but an institutional bed will be needed eventually. [More…]

• The time has come in the light of the crisis which has occurred when the Government should set up a royal commission to inquire into the conduct and activities of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and indeed the Council of Aboriginal Affairs itself. [More…]

• A shortage of supply compared to demand has certainly contributed to the escalation of prices and to the crisis that has been on our hands. [More…]

• That was the crisis. [More…]

• Business has been falling off in recent years no doubt largely due to high charges and the fact that a severe rural crisis has curtailed spending in all fields. [More…]

• In education appropriate to today’s society Australia has lagged because past Australian governments have not been sufficiently interested to recognise the crisis and do something about it. [More…]

• The function of education in a world in crisis is to develop people who can fashion a new and inspiring civilisation - people who have the moral and intellectual qualities, and the sensitivity to produce a renaissance. [More…]

• It is true that there are odd families in financial crisis - largely families that have been left in this crisis because of the failure of Commonwealth Governments in the past to cope with this crisis. [More…]

• I add that in the sort of world in which we are living at the moment - a world where there is an energy crisis - it is plain to people who look at the problem that it is quite possible, in the near future, that Australia will not be able to import the fuel that it needs. [More…]

• He might also not have heard that there is an energy crisis in the world, that President Nixon this week has put an embargo on the use of heating oil in the United States of America, that the war in the Middle East is threatening oil supplies for Europe and that we are in the hands of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, King Faisal and Colonel Kadhafi. [More…]

• A crisis is being developed. [More…]

• A potential crisis is facing this country for the near future unless we find more reserves. [More…]

• I refer to the crisis in the Middle East. [More…]

• I am making a belated plea as a Christian to ensure that we in Australia do a little more than we have done in the past so far as this crisis is concerned. [More…]

• There is not any doubt in my mind that the Jewish people and the Arab nations have taken a battering over a number of years because of the crisis in the Middle East, but I make this plea on 3 grounds. [More…]

• All I want is to get some assurance that the present crisis was incited by the Arab countries. [More…]

• The latest Middle East crisis between Israel and the Arab States has produced an even more important crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union, and between the United States and the Communist Government of China. [More…]

• In those big televised meetings between Nixon, Brezhnev, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai in Moscow and Peking, the leaders of the major powers agreed to support universal principles, which would lead to a new order in the world, but when they all gathered around here at the United Nations on the East River during the latest Middle East crisis, they sang a different tune. [More…]

• You have to go back to all those reassuring communiques out of the Kremlin and Shanghai in order to understand what the Soviet and Chinese representatives said here at the United Nations about the Middle East crisis. [More…]

• Yet when the latest crisis developed in the Middle East, all these noble promises and intentions seem to have been forgotten. [More…]

• There is no single, magical solution to the crisis; the simple way does not exist. [More…]

• This would have turned a crisis into a catastrophe. [More…]

• The crisis was over before this Commission could have brought its attention to bear on the issue. [More…]

• I, like other honourable members and concerned people, am worried that very often in debates such as this we talk a lot about the environment and create the illusion that a great deal is being done when in fact little is being done and that which is being achieved is often being achieved in a crisis atmosphere; where large sums of money are needed to save something in respect of which the public conscience cries out that it should be saved. [More…]

• Nothing you can do with the figures can hide the fact that we are in an inflationary crisis. [More…]

• Any intelligent observer would realise that to effect any real changes for the better in the many areas of crisis and the mess we inherited as a result of a lack of sensibly directed public programs would involve some unpopular decisions. [More…]

• Indeed, I would go so far as to say that had the suggestion of the Minister for Immigration been adhered to before the strike reached the crisis stage that dispute may never in fact have occurred at all. [More…]

• There is cause for real concern in the approach of this Government to the coming crisis. [More…]

• The Minister says that his project will meet our crisis. [More…]

• It is quite obvious to me that there is very much a crisis of confidence in the industry. [More…]

• This crisis is caused not only by confusion over present policy, but by uncertainty over future policy. [More…]

• What is clear to all of us is that we are facing a real crisis of unknown proportions. [More…]

• The time to start equipping ourselves to cope with that crisis is now. [More…]

• Last April in this House I made a statement on the question of the world energy crisis. [More…]

• The recent crisis in the Middle East has highlighted the need for us to be independent of oversees oil supplies especially as the cost is steadily increasing. [More…]

• The Minister for Housing claims that there is a housing crisis. [More…]

• We all like to see home-grown and locally manufactured products promoted, but when there is a crisis, as there is at the moment, we should be doing all we can to import building materials to help the home builder. [More…]

• Milton Ferris in his article ‘Crisis and Change in America’s Health system’ said this: [More…]

• My question to the Minister for Minerals and Energy deals with the world fuel crisis. [More…]

• There is a world hydrocarbons crisis. [More…]

• A point is quickly being reached - it is in fact being intensified by the present crisis precipitated in the Arab countries in respect of pricing - when it will be as economical to extract oil, petroleum and other derivatives from suitable coal types as to produce them from the ground by drilling. [More…]

• We have just heard the Minister for Social Security confusing himself and finally sitting down after 10 minutes of lengthy verbiage, having ignored the headlines that appeared this morning in the ‘Age’ newspaper - ‘Inflation near crisis: experts’. [More…]

• Australia’s inflationary pressure is building up to crisis proportions. [More…]

• Owing to power crisis workshop and office facilities losing S hours per 24 hour day. [More…]

• Unfortunately, the States have been under increasing pressure to provide sufficient hospital beds, and they have been so preoccupied with trying to keep up the supply of crisis medical facilities that they have not had the courage, shall we say, to divert or they have not been willing to take the risk of diverting some of those funds into the preventive, rehabilitative and educational sides of medicine which this new program will implement. [More…]

• At present there is a world energy crisis, of which all members of this House are aware. [More…]

• The crisis in Australian education - though the expression crisis is not used by the Interim Committee - is perhaps summed up in a few words of the Interim Committee’s report in paragraph 5:1 on page 48 of Schools in Australia, where it points out that in too many schools the level of resources employed: is below that required to implement modern educational methods, and to prepare all children, irrespective of their rate and style of learning, for full participation in a complex society. [More…]

• At the next opportunity it was to criticise the United States’ handling of the Middle East crisis. [More…]

• The low profile strategy was somewhat distorted by the presence in Apia harbour oi HMAS ‘Vampire’ and the Fiji Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, manoeuvred an internal dispute over Fiji unionism into a regional crisis involving Australian trade union interference in Fiji affairs. [More…]

• The world has an energy crisis. [More…]

• I support the estimates for the Department of Minerals and Energy, The Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor), who is at the table, has repeatedly drawn the attention of the nation to the world energy crisis or, rather, the crisis in hydrocarbons. [More…]

• In dealing with the real energy crisis, I point out that less concern would have been shown in the crisis in America were it not informed opinion that there will be, indeed, within a time of interest to most of us, difficulties in keeping up with the expanding need for energy if we are at the same time to eliminate the pollution caused by venting the products of burning fossil fuels into the atmosphere. [More…]

• Apart from the possible impact on the Australian motorists, in terms of pricing, there has been no general appreciation of the new world situation which we are now entering following the developing world energy crisis. [More…]

• I am concerned particularly with the crisis in roads. [More…]

• Frankly, I am going to adopt a parish pump attitude on this issue of the road crisis in the Blacktown municipality. [More…]

• Anybody who goes into the area will appreciate that this has reached crisis point. [More…]

• I emphasise for the benefit of the Minister for Urban and Regional Development the seriousness of what I can only call the crisis in roads that exists in that area. [More…]

• It is the major - issue - the major crisis - at the moment. [More…]

• That is why we face this crisis situation now. [More…]

• There are no ‘instant coffee’ solutions to the land crisis. [More…]

• One thinks of the energy crisis and the problems which it will create. [More…]

• This is a statement by a Minister whose reputation for statistical analysis was made on the basis of an employment crisis as predicted by him at the beginning of 1973. [More…]

• 1 cannot agree that nursing homes in Western Australia will be facing a crisis early in 1974, although I freely admit that both the nursing home proprietors and my Department are continually facing very real difficulties in the administration of the nursing home benefits scheme that was designed and introduced by the previous Government. [More…]

• When this Government came to office it was faced with a situation of crisis proportions in Australian schools. [More…]

• There then came a great crisis in the prawn fishing industry because there were no prawns anywhere in the area for some months. [More…]

• Even at present there is an oil crisis. [More…]

• If it is necessary - and in a grave crisis it could be - we will give serious thought to using that liquid petroleum gas in Australia. [More…]

• But I repeat that only in a grave crisis would we take that action. [More…]

• But, in a grave crisis, we would need to give consideration to using those exports ourselves. [More…]

• He was the only sentry at the gate who was talking about the energy crisis that could face the world and this nation. [More…]

• At a time of world energy crisis of incalculable proportions and a time of Arab gunboat oil diplomacy of the most callous and calculated kind, when a world depression is almost a foregone conclusion in the face of that diplomacy by the Arabs, Australia requires from the Minister 2 things: Firstly, a clear, simple and accurate statement of Australia’s domestic oil supplies and future domestic demands. [More…]

• At that time a record number of our primary industries were facing an economic crisis. [More…]

• I think all of us have to look at this process in terms of the energy crisis and also in terms of getting rid of pollution. [More…]

• It seems to me, with the fuel crisis exacerbating, that this form of waste digestion providing methane gas could be a goer much sooner than most people think. [More…]

• The energy crisis resulting from the Middle East activities could spark off a world involvement. [More…]

• The world energy crisis highlights major world reliance on oil and natural gas for its energy needs. [More…]

• Australia could well be heading for a crisis if we do not take significant steps to expand our construction force. [More…]

• One would have expected it to have tried to reduce the industrial strife that is a major factor in the shortages crisis. [More…]

• And because it has done the opposite, the people of Australia are experiencing a crisis of shortages - a crisis which will take on a new meaning as Christmas demand mounts. [More…]

• This is a major factor in the shortages crisis. [More…]

• A number of factors have conspired to bring about the present crisis. [More…]

• The establishment of the Corporation comes at a time when the apple and pear industry is in crisis - as if it has not been in crisis for many years. [More…]

• Ironically, of course, the whole matter need not develop into a crisis because it would be competent for the local authorities to deny permission to the developers to subdivide the land. [More…]

• I think it reasonable to suppose that most Australians look for national government leadership in the energy crisis, both present and prospective. [More…]

• This crisis is so deep-rooted in its nature and far-reaching in its effects that some direct government interest in the industry is legitimate. [More…]

• In conclusion I point out that we do have an energy crisis. [More…]

• We do have a Government which, fortunately, is planning, and has planned, for that crisis. [More…]

• The present Government relies on this percentage of self sufficiency, which has resulted from incentives and concessions given by the former Government over 23 years of office and which has enabled the Australian community to be in the happy position that it is in today in the face of the world energy crisis. [More…]

• It is a background of an undoubted world energy crisis. [More…]

• The world energy crisis, into which the Arab oil producing nations have plunged the world, will surely reach Australia’s shores. [More…]

• The Prime Minister seems to have swallowed hook, line and sinker the Minister’s oft repeated statement about the impending energy crisis. [More…]

• What has happened in the United States when faced with a world energy crisis particularly in petroleum and natural gas, and when that country may be forced to convert to coal is that many if its mines have run down. [More…]

• Where I part with the honourable member for Farrer is that there is beyond any question a world energy crisis. [More…]

• We are told, and we are all aware of the fact, that there is a world energy crisis. [More…]

• The energy crisis of the present time has not occurred only over the last 2 or 3 weeks with the diplomacy used by Arab states in making their message known to the states of Europe, to Japan or to any other country. [More…]

• The importance of the creation of a new Ministry of Minerals and Energy has been confirmed by the events of 1973 associated with the developing world energy crisis. [More…]

• Although Australia is in a more fortunate position than most comparable nations in this crisis, my Government will not be complacent in planning for the future energy needs of the Australian nation. [More…]

• So now the Minister and the nation have on their hands a crisis in the Post Office which will not be settled easily. [More…]

• I think this Parliament must be dismayed this afternoon to find that in this crisis situation there is no positive approach on the part of the Government. [More…]

• But there is plenty of evidence that there is a complete failure now even to make a tacit approach to settle this crisis with any advantage at all to the public, the nation, or anyone else. [More…]

• Since then we have had an energy crisis. [More…]

• The tragedy of the Whitlam Government is that Australia as a nation is now, as a consequence of misguided government policies and general mismanagement, confronted by crippling inflation and economic instability; a severely impaired defence capability; a crisis in the housing industry, excessively high levels of industrial unrest; a massive erosion in the purchasing power of fixed income earners and pensioners; uncertainty and stagnation in the mineral and oil exploration industries; the highest interest rates in the history of this country; and huge increases in personal income tax. [More…]

• Housing today is in a state of very real crisis. [More…]

• The Opposition has a positive response to the rapidly developing housing crisis but put forward as a general approach because the detailed aspects will be developed elsewhere. [More…]

• The recent oil crisis and the other things that have happened in the world have all made the task of economic management extremely complicated and highly complex. [More…]

• It does not matter that there is a crisis in the oil industry. [More…]

• In the latter part of last year we had an energy crisis due to circumstances beyond the control of anyone within Australia. [More…]

• However, as a result, Australia has been in a more favourable position than most comparable nations during this crisis. [More…]

• Freights between here and overseas have also increased, in the main because of the oil crisis and other costs. [More…]

• What restraint this man has in a crisis. [More…]

• Secondly, we have not yet felt the impact of the oil crisis which will add at least $1, 250m a year to our international current account bill in 1974. [More…]

• Crisis, chaos, industrial anarchy, communists, fascists, centralists, spendthrifts, misers and a host of other phrases roll glibly off the tongues of these men as they continue on the same path of dividing the nation in Opposition as they did for 23 years in Government. [More…]

• Britain is in crisis. [More…]

• They find that when they can borrow money - there is a shortage of money because the Government has created a liquidity crisis - the cost of land has gone up, the cost of building has increased and the amount they borrow leaves a deposit gap between what they have to pay and what they can borrow. [More…]

• The inability to provide housing for those who need it most threatens to reach crisis proportions. [More…]

• But now, under the Johnson administration, this area really is in crisis. [More…]

• As an ex-Treasurer of this country who presided over one of our worst economic periods, a man-made crisis, he would probably know what he is talking about. [More…]

• It is also necessary that we recognise the energy crisis and the impact that it has had on our trade opportunities, the slackening production rates, the shortages of importable products and the problems of increased costs in shipping and bunkering which affect freight rates. [More…]

• The oil crisis remains basically unresolved and the industrialised nations of the Western world face a further massive dose of cost-price inflation in the coming months. [More…]

• The danger of an oilcrisisinduced balance of payments set-back cannot be discounted lightly. [More…]

• This is particularly so because of the oil crisis which has meant tremendous suffering to the underdeveloped countries which are not oil producing. [More…]

• This country is escaping from the oil crisis probably better than most other countries because, in a large part, we have our own oil supplies and our balance of payments position is still very good. [More…]

• We are not in a state of balance of payments crisis, and even if we stick to the United States dollar I do not see that we will have a balance of payments problem in the near future. [More…]

• Finally, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which this Bill is providing funds to assist, will in fact be trying to help the less developed countries offset the problems created for them by the oil crisis by raising loans from the oil producing countries which, of course, will have tremendous surpluses of funds available in the next few years if the oil crisis remains as it is at the present time. [More…]

• My main reason for making a few remarks in this debate is to give some special emphasis to the greatly accelerated and heightened problem that has occurred due to the oil crisis. [More…]

• Mention has been made already of the effects that the oil crisis will have on the balance of payments problems of the industrialised countries. [More…]

• If the crisis is going to cause problems for industrialised countries, then surely the problems that it will pose for the lesser developed countries will be nothing less than devastating. [More…]

• The Shah of Iran, of course, is in an extremely fortunate position at the moment because he happens to be the head of government of a country which has done extremely well out of the current oil crisis and perhaps is better placed than Australia. [More…]

• But it is interesting to note that the Shah of Iran has suggested the establishment of an international fund to help to overcome the balance of payments problems which underdeveloped countries will experience as a result of the oil crisis. [More…]

• The situation is really one of great urgency if the underdeveloped countries are not to fall even further behind now that the oil crisis has come upon us. [More…]

• I saw an article the other day which said that India would probably have to absorb something like 80 per cent of its foreign exchange to buy the energy that she requires in the present oil crisis. [More…]

• there is a shortage of money because the Government has created a liquidity crisis- [More…]

• A liquidity crisis means a shortage of money in the economy. [More…]

• We have been talking about an energy crisis. [More…]

• It has claimed that all primary production is emerging from a period of crisis after crisis and so it needs some special considerations. [More…]

• Nobody wants to talk to him now because the policies that he enunciated then have proved, in the present world oil crisis, to be the right policies for Australia. [More…]

• At present new great power relationships are emerging, new super power defence concepts are being discussed as SALT II gets under way, the international monetary and trade situation is increasingly complex, the oil crisis has raised new and uncertain problems, and the broader matter of resources and energy intrude more into foreign policy. [More…]

• There is change in Western Europe symbolised in Britain’s crisis and the French decision to float the franc. [More…]

• The recent Middle East crisis raised a new element of uncertainty in relations between the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]

• At the time of this, his first major visit, to South East Asia - and this is the tenth overseas trip that he has made since he assumed office some 13 months ago - certain parts of Australia were facing a very grave domestic crisis caused by flood inundations in Queensland and which was of tremendous importance to the Australian people. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) finished up talking about the energy crisis and quite a few other matters that are of great significance in foreign affairs but on which subject a lot of legitimate debate could take place. [More…]

• If the Minister for Minerals and Energy had allowed the proposition concerning the refining of Mereenie crude gas at Alice Springs to go ahead the present crisis would not have arisen because that refinery would have been in operation now and could have produced all the fuel for power generation, motor spirit, aviation gas and liquid petroleum gas required by the Alice Springs and Tennant Creek area. [More…]

• I can see little sense, as a politician, in lamenting the actions of past governments as, by and large, it has come through to me that the electorate has a very short memory and that it has forgotten the crisis ridden periods of 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972. [More…]

• I refer to the matter of energy and what is known as the energy crisis in the world today. [More…]

• The importance of the creation of a new Ministry of Minerals and Energy has been confirmed by the events of 1973 associated with the developing world energy crisis. [More…]

• Although Australia is in a more fortunate position than most comparable nations in this crisis, my Government will not be complacent in planning for the future energy needs of the Australian nation, lt stands ready to join with other nations in search of solutions. [More…]

• On the one hand one talks about a world energy crisis and the value to Australia of oil exploration, but there is no exploration of any significance in this country. [More…]

• The speech of the Governor-General captures the seriousness of the crisis - a threat to the quality of life that should be due to all Australians - and meets it head on with a 3-year program designed to achieve basic changes in the administration and structure of Australian society. [More…]

• Surely they were not unconscious of the fact that they were creating a very serious crisis in the housing industry, when in a 2-year period they allowed the money flowing from banks, building societiesand insurance companies to increase by 300 per cent without a comparable increase in the supply of materials or the size of the work force. [More…]

• We know too that much has been done to meet this crisis. [More…]

• The enormousness of this crisis has to be seen to be believed. [More…]

• We can see what could happen and what would have happened if the previous Government had been in power during the recent energy crisis. [More…]

• At a time of a world energy crisis, we see only pitiful mismanagement, incompetence and lack of foresight by the Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• This year 90 wells will be drilled, at a time of a world oil crisis and declining Australian reserves. [More…]

• It would take a man of extraordinary administrative incompetence to achieve a situation where there is a sharp reduction in oil exploration at a time of world oil crisis and when Australia’s proven reserves have only a few years to run. [More…]

• The importance of the creation of the Ministry for Minerals and Energy has been confirmed by the events of 1973 which were associated with the world energy crisis. [More…]

• Indeed, it could have been a crisis for Western Australia where the previous State Liberal governments, with the agreement of the Federal Liberal governments, had ‘abandoned the policy of using local resources in the manufacture of power, with the introduction of oil fired burners. [More…]

• It is pleasing to see that the Western Australian State Government has been able to avert any crisis which could have arisen from that situation. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister had had the wisdom to include ‘his friend’, Senator Murphy, in a 3-man or a 4-man dictatorship, I venture to suggest that we would never have heard of any event called the Murphy Affair, and the Prime Minister would not have faced his first major crisis relating to his credibility in this country. [More…]

• What we members on this side of the House query is whether rural subsidies should be built perpetually into the financial structure of this country, enduring long after the crisis adduced by Country Party Ministers for Primary Industry as grounds for their introduction. [More…]

• It is illuminating to consider, for example, that if a rigid system had been established, say, in 1973, it would almost certainly have broken down in the face of the pressures brought about by the recent oil crisis. [More…]

• There is the Crisis Centre at the Way side Chapel at Kings Cross. [More…]

• Interest rates are the highest we have ever known, and the Minister and his Government must realise that it was the introduction of higher interest rates that accelerated the housing crisis as we know it today among middle and low income earners. [More…]

• There is no denying that Australia does have a crisis in housing which has been equalled, if my memory serves me correctly, only by the crisis in the immediate postwar period. [More…]

• There was a feeling that because of the Government’s actions the crisis would increase rather than the demand be moderated. [More…]

• Sixteen months of Labor administration has resulted in a crisis in the Australian housing industry. [More…]

• The Government’s ill-conceived economic policies and its failure to implement a rational housing policy have in large measure created the present crisis. [More…]

• But on 14 February this year the national president of the Housing Industry Association - a man with a very sound knowledge of matters relating to this industry which is critical to Australia - warned that this country faced a crisis in housing not paralleled since the immediate post-war period. [More…]

• Let us take a look - a hard-headed look - at those policies and disregard temporarily the stupid, doctrinaire Connor approach which long-term threatens our self sufficiency in oil which has enabled us to ride out the prevalent world crisis in oil supplies better than most countries in the world. [More…]

• But we ako got, firstly, access through Esso to technological ability and know-how that was and still is, available to Australia on a limited scale only; secondly, risk capital of $309m from Esso and $189m from the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd without a dollar of taxpayers’ money imperilled, and, thirdly, above all we got the Bass Strait oil and gas fields, a cheap source of supply of crude oil, and the knowledge that on known Australian reserves our supplies are assured until at least the early 1980s, and a position of being one of the few countries in the world unaffected by the recent oil crisis. [More…]

• Would any Australian object to a service charge of S20m a year in return for what we got - the savings we made in overseas payments, and the freedom from the recent oil crisis? [More…]

• However, we regret that the most recent discussions were substantially affected by the recent oil crisis. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the immediate problems arising from the oil crisis, we welcome the new spirit of flexibility and pragmatism in international monetary negotiations which has arisen as a result of the Rome deliberations. [More…]

• I say that this policy is extraordinary because we all know that when the Australian Labor Party took over in December 1972 it was faced with a crisis exchange rate position. [More…]

• The ball game has also been made very different because of the oil crisis. [More…]

• I now come to the oil crisis and what that has caused. [More…]

• Indeed as the Treasurer has said, as it has been said widely in Europe in recent months, anything that had been agreed - supposing that there had been the will to agree - before the oil crisis of OctoberNovember last year would have had to be scrapped. [More…]

• The whole position is of course being aggravated by the oil crisis to which the Treasurer has referred. [More…]

• As to the oil crisis and the impact that this will have on the establishment of some equilibrium, it is quite apparent that the oil crisis has upset - indeed, it has reversed - the pattern to which the Treasurer referred in the beginning of his statement of those currencies which have had a chronic balance of payments problem. [More…]

• It is quite apparent that, in the depreciation that some currencies will suffer as a result of the oil crisis, there could be a tendency for countries to panic and, at a time when there is no real currency equilibrium, countries like Australia, which as I have explained are still so dependent on having a reasonable currency relativity to those countries with which we trade and with which we are competitors, will need to recognise the impact that marked depreciation can have on our own economic position. [More…]

• I believe these developing countries, which are essentially dependant on aid flows from the developed countries and which are selling largely unprocessed agricultural commodities, will be very severely affected economically if there should be aggravated currency instability which seems to be emanating from the world oil crisis. [More…]

• After all, developing countries in the world have never faced’ a greater crisis than they are facing at present, not merely because of the energy crisis, not merely because of oil prices, not merely because of oil inflated prices, but also because of the difficulties that many countries have with nitrogenous fertilisers. [More…]

• I would have thought that, taking the example of the energy crisis that I mentioned, we would have to look again at the nations at whom we are directing our aid, some of whom within the whole context of developing countries will benefit to some extent by the energy crisis. [More…]

• While it is true that the net flow of financial resources, to developing countries from the donor countries has increased greatly in size - it amounted to 1971 to $US18,000m - the impact of this expenditure has been undermined to a significant degree by such factors as the world inflationary movement, the energy crisis, the international monetary crisis and by burgeoning population growth in the developing countries themselves. [More…]

• A few moments ago, the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Kerin) mentioned the assessment made by the Development Aid Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development as to the cost to lesser developed countries of currency changes and the general impact of the present energy crisis and the figure he quoted I think was $10m, presumably American dollars. [More…]

• A severe crisis in the Indonesian economy almost certainly would herald a period of political instability with obvious implications for Australian security. [More…]

• The advent of the oil crisis has further strengthened the Australian dollar and the United States dollar. [More…]

• The Housing Industry Association President has warned that Australia faces a crisis in housing unparallelled in the post-war period. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is now desperately trying to extricate himself from the constitutional and political crisis he has created by attempting to appoint Senator Gair Ambassador to Ireland. [More…]

• Australia is facing a crisis. [More…]

• That crisis relates to domestic affairs and to foreign affairs. [More…]

• For the first time negotiations have been taking place with the States over the best way to solve the urban housing crisis in Australia. [More…]

• I remember when the previous Government was faced with a crisis in, I think, 1970 that involved the exchange rate. [More…]

• As a nation we are now confronted with massive inflation and severe economic instability, the highest interest rates since federation, excessive increases in direct and indirect taxation, a crisis in the housing industry unparalleled since the immediate postwar period, record levels of industrial unrest, a severely reduced defence capability, a massive erosion of the purchasing power of fixed income earners and pensioners, uncertainty and stagnation in the mineral and oil exploration industries, an immigration policy which has heaped confusion upon confusion and a breakdown in communication between the Government and the major constituent groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government’s ill conceived economic policies have also precipitated a serious crisis in the Australian housing industry. [More…]

• I repeat that we will not divide, to save time and to allow colleagues in the Country Party and in my Party to discredit further this contemptible attempt by the Government to divert debate from a national issue - a big political crisis. [More…]

• Inflation around the world is a difficult problem and available figures for most countries have not yet registered the impact of the higher oil prices resulting from the energy crisis. [More…]

• A major feature of last October’s conflict in the Middle East from our strategic point of view was the manner in which the United States of America and the Soviet Union successfully managed the crisis in their relations and used their influence to limit the conflict. [More…]

• I travelled extensively through the north during the 2 months of this crisis. [More…]

• This was a time when few people, particularly those in government bodies, could stand up and seek praise for their efforts because it was a time when government authorities - local, State and Federal, had no alternative but to respond to the crisis of the hour. [More…]

• I felt very much for those people engaged not only in the activities associated with the flood crisis itself but also in the clean-up in the days thereafter when people were cleaning the rubbish out of houses. [More…]

• But it is a recognition of the fact that this organisation was not perfect and that, in responding to the greatest crisis which the civil defence authorities have ever had to face, it found that considerable room for improvement existed in a number of fields. [More…]

• I am sure that the Australian Government will co-operate with the Queensland Government and its civil defence authorities in order to learn from the problems that were faced in the immediate past and so to ensure that in a similar crisis in the future we will have benefited from that experience. [More…]

• I refer to the Royal Australian Air Force, the Army, the civil emergency authorities in both States, the State police forces and to an almost uncountable number of volunteers who joined spontaneously with the authorities to meet the crisis and worked tirelessly to sustain people during that period and then to cope with their immediate rehabilitation. [More…]

• I do not want to delay the House any longer on these events which led to this crisis in the democratic process of this country where the Prime Minister by his action and his colleagues by their actions brought us to a situation in which it was necessary for us to put the question to the Australian people. [More…]

• Recently, because of the emphasis that has been given in the community to the energy crisis and to the premium on the traditional sources of fuel, we have had an inquiry into the possibility of the factories - particularly the factory in the honourable member’s electorate - making perhaps solar energy units that might be incorporated in government houses in, say, the Northern Territory or even the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• At present there is a crisis situation in the United Kingdom where people are being forced into completely private hospitals from the mixed public and private hospitals that have been known in the United Kingdom and have been known here. [More…]

• The oil search effort in Australia, in the middle of a world energy crisis, is being cut to ribbons by the blundering attitudes of the Minister and the Prime Minister. [More…]

• That so much of Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition making ; n immediate statement on the serious consequences of public conflicts and contradictions between Ministers, and between Ministers and the Prime Minister, over the economic crisis emphasised by replies to questions yesterday and today, wherein was seen: [More…]

• It is totally impossible for any person in the community, no matter whether he is an ordinary citizen, a commentator, a member of this Parliament, a member of the Government or a member of the Government parties, to go to any document or any group of documents and say: ‘This document or this group of documents represents an analysis by the Government of the present economic crisis and the policy proposals which the Government will put into operation in order to cure the ills which we are now living through*. [More…]

• We realise that because of the oil crisis and the slowdown in economic activity in, for .example, Japan, the housewife in Japan has less disposable income with which to buy foodstuffs. [More…]

• Whenever there is a crisis anywhere, either in the trade unions or in the industry, in relation to the supply of fuel we are the first victims of it. [More…]

• Clearly the Australian wool industry will suffer yet another crisis unless the Government shows nerve and strength and quickly indicates its willingness to support the present buying policy of the Australian Wool Corporation during this series of sales. [More…]

• I rise because of my great concern at the shameful attitude of the Government in the present crisis facing nursing homes in Australia. [More…]

• A major crisis confronts patients, staff and the management of these homes. [More…]

• Unless this is done, there will be a crisis of proportions that could not really be imagined and the hardship that will follow from it will be extreme indeed. [More…]

• I then went on to deal with the oil crisis. [More…]

• The relief which has been given thus far is only temporary, and the patients and those caring for them in nursing homes are faced with the prospect of going from one crisis, from which there has been temporary relief, to another crisis as escalation occurs in wages, nurses salaries and food prices. [More…]

• Long standing members of this House may recall the administrative crisis that was caused some years ago by the need to decide which department should be responsible for the removal of a dead pig from an island in the flooded Molonglo River. [More…]

• The result was that the Liberal Party had a crisis of confidence within its own ranks and nearly brought its own Prime Minister down on a no confidence motion in this House. [More…]

• However, in the current crisis its value at the most is minimal. [More…]

• But, quite apart from that, its value in the present crisis must be minimal because until the spiralling of prices and wages is stopped the legislation cannot hope to work effectively. [More…]

• This is a national crisis. [More…]

• Now that the Government has refused to intervene in a shipping dispute that has had far reaching effects on wheat payments that are so urgently needed in this time of financial crisis - as the Minister for Transport told the honourable member for Mallee yesterday - will the Minister take up with the Minister for Agriculture the problems of delayed wheat payments with a view to trying to alleviate the serious financial position of primary producers created, first, by government policy and, secondly, by another industrial dispute? [More…]

• The attitude of the Government to the accommodation and care for the aged in aged persons homes and nursing homes, which is creating a crisis situation. [More…]

• The Opposition raises this matter of public importance to draw to the attention of the Australian public and members of Parliament the crisis situation that has been caused by the attitude of the Government. [More…]

• present crisis situation. [More…]

• It is this deliberate government action that has created the crisis with aged persons homes and nursing homes. [More…]

• There has been a belated recognition on the part of the Government, after the honeymoon period of the first 12 months was over, that it was impossible to achieve its aim of a Government takeover in these areas; and I hope there will be a recognition that the Government’s pacesetter policies in wage and salary adjustments have created or helped to create this crisis in building costs and the salaries of those employed in these places. [More…]

• It is of no use for Government members to talk about the double dissolution retarding the generosity of the Government, because the double dissolution forced it into taking some action to give up, at least for the time being, this ideological approach which was causing this crisis in the field of aged persons homes and nursing homes. [More…]

• One only has to read the newspaper comments on the crisis which is facing aged persons housing and nursing home organisations to realise that. [More…]

• This morning we are debating a matter of public importance - the attitude of the Labor Government to the accommodation and care of the aged in aged persons homes and nursing homes which is creating a crisis situation. [More…]

• Much has been mentioned recently in the Press and in other places about the crisis faced by capitalism, which is the system which operates in the Western democracies, and about a need for change. [More…]

• For instance, I believe that, with the continuing energy crisis in the world, there will be a need to use resources to develop such things as solar energy. [More…]

• Does he believe that an economic crisis is due in part to the interest rate squeeze induced by bank lending policies? [More…]

• The Department had the ability, the experience, the enthusiasm and the expertise to act quickly and decisively in response to crisis situations. [More…]

• One headline was ‘Grim Crisis Plan Ahead’. [More…]

• Had that advice been taken inflation would not have taken off as it did, interest rates need not have been raised to unprecedented levels, income tax collections would not have increased by more than a third, with the prospect of income tax collections this year being double what they were 2 years ago, and the country would not have faced the wage explosion and the economic crisis it faces today. [More…]

• If we have to rely in the future on excessive loan raisings to meet the interest and amortisation of these debts, the burden of debt servicing in later years will lead to a crisis situation. [More…]

• The article deals with the crisis which faces Britain’s health services. [More…]

• The present mock crisis has been orecipitated by the actions of 2 New South Wales health funds, the Medical Benefits Fund and the Hospitals Contributions Fund, plus several other smaller societies. [More…]

• Regrettably in times of economic crisis there has been a tendency for socialist governments to allow their idealogical commitments to inhibit rational and objective analysis of changing circumstances. [More…]

• The solution to our crisis must lie in the Government instituting policies which encourage increased production while applying selective controls to dampen down excess demand. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition has howled ‘crisis’. [More…]

• The only real crisis threatening Australia is a crisis in the parliamentary system. [More…]

• At a time of crisis what we want is a Prime Minister who is forthright and who has the loyalty of his Party to enable him to give the sort of leadership that is required. [More…]

• The Melbourne ‘Age’ in an editorial this week, described the inbuilt incapacity of the Labor Government to respond to the growing crisis facing Australia. [More…]

• Australia is facing a crisis. [More…]

• We see in the rural sector of the community that the meat industry is running into a crisis; export sales are down 50 per cent on those of last year. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said the other day, the real crisis in this country at the moment is the threat to democratic order. [More…]

• That is the real crisis so long as the bloodyminded Opposition in its conservative guise says no to everything, forcing a situation whereby it takes 1 8 months for some measures to get to this stage of a joint sitting. [More…]

• No doubt a tremendous crisis exists generally in the administration of the Australian economy. [More…]

• It is a crisis which is seen not just in the measure of industrial unrest which at the moment is being completely ignored by members of this Government, nor is it just in the degree to which inflation is eroding the earnings of the average citizen - [More…]

• At this moment a great crisis is affecting the State governments which, in this Parliament, are represented in the Australian Senate. [More…]

• What utter nonsense it is to hear the honourable member for Canberra and Minister for Manufacturing Industry comment on the Statement of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) that the real crisis is the threat to democratic order. [More…]

• All we have to do today is look at the crisis the Government has created. [More…]

• In no way has this Government tried to intervene in order to control the oil crisis that threatens this nation. [More…]

• In a time of an oil crisis the Government has rendered Australia - [More…]

• In today’s world, the ever growing energy crisis highlights the world reliance on oil and natural gas for energy needs. [More…]

• This has been going on for the last 12 months, at a time when there has been a world energy crisis. [More…]

• In the limited period remaining to me I should like to refer to a matter that should be of great concern to this nation, particularly in view of the oil energy crisis which commenced last November. [More…]

• Let us look at the energy crisis. [More…]

• ‘Crisis’ is a word, the currency of which is greatly debased. [More…]

• One of the in phrases that anyone can use is ‘the energy crisis’. [More…]

• It can be shown that the so-called energy crisis in the United States of America is really a business crisis or, more properly, a policy crisis. [More…]

• The current energy crisis in the United States is the fifth annual energy crisis. [More…]

• This year, the villains are the Arabs, when in truth the largest oil companies, acting in cahoots with an administration which is now passing judgment on itself, are promoting a crisis in their own interests. [More…]

• I believe that in Australia at the present time there is a crisis of confidence amongst decent, Godfearing, hard-working people- trade unionists, small business people and people in rural industries. [More…]

• The Government has brought on a crisis of confidence by incompetence. [More…]

• We are in the throes of an energy crisis. [More…]

• What a great blow that was at a time when we were facing an energy crisis. [More…]

• We will shortly see whether the Opposition is able to muster up 48 in a crisis. [More…]

• I refer to the previous questions concerning the serious crisis facing the countryside due to the shortage of fuel, particularly in New South Wales and Queensland. [More…]

• Does the Treasurer know of reasons for a statement that there are mounting signs of a coming global financial and monetary crisis which could wreck the economy of the world? [More…]

• I shall give a quick run-down on the industrial actions that have caused the present crisis. [More…]

• I have outlined briefly some of the industrial troubles that have plagued the oil industry this year and caused the crisis that now exists. [More…]

• It is beyond dispute that the basic cause of the present crisis is the industrial action of the oil industry unions. [More…]

• Given the massive impact of the energy crisis on virtually every developing Asian nation, with the exception of OPEC member nations, and the increasing incidence of social and economic instability created by war and famine, the current level of Australia’s multi-lateral aid must still be deemed to be very much inadequate against the whole context of need in the countries concerned. [More…]

• The underdeveloped world faces a crisis which calls for urgent action and not lengthy deliberation by advisory councils and bureaucratic reshuffles, as we have seen to date with the working of the aid agency in this country. [More…]

• -There is an aged care crisis in the community. [More…]

• Those patients are going from one financial crisis to another because of the Government’s failure to recognise in the Budget the need to announce that nursing home benefits should be index related. [More…]

• It is not a question of their being able to provide greater facilities; the crisis is that they will not be able to provide the facilities that they now offer to many thousands of needy people. [More…]

• The suggestion made by Mr Nixon (Country Party, Victoria) in the House of Representatives that the proposed increases in postal charges should be deferred until their effects on inflation could be determined is one of the few sane suggestions which has been made in Canberra with regard to the current economic crisis and the shock minibudget designed to deal with it. [More…]

• One of the first crises- it was a period of crisis in the Labor Party at that time- that confronted Caucus when I was first a member of it was whether we would allow the postal charges to pass in the Budget session. [More…]

• We have yet to learn what impact the energy crisis will have on food production. [More…]

• ‘Crisis looms for Beef Breeders’. [More…]

• There are three major primary industries in which we see circumstances of crisis. [More…]

• That all words after ‘that’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘This House is of the opinion that the Budget fails to tackle Australia ‘s economic crisis, in that: [More…]

• People living with the threat of increasingly serious floods realise that there is a very serious drainage crisis to be dealt with. [More…]

• But exacerbating this, as was also mentioned by the honourable member for Phillip, has been the energy crisis and the deeds of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries in pushing up the cost of their scarce commodity- the hydrocarbons, the energy and fuel upon which we have become so dependent. [More…]

• Australia’s comparatively high rate of inflation, the decline in world commodity prices and the effects of the world oil crisis will clearly exacerbate the developing negative balance of trade. [More…]

• It would not be an exaggeration to say that this country faces its worst economic crisis since the war. [More…]

• It is an economic crisis which many will find hard to accept because it was only such a very, very short time ago that we could say of Australia, without any fear of contradiction, that it was indeed the lucky country. [More…]

• There was also a food crisis. [More…]

• Finally there was an oil crisis. [More…]

• More importantly the oil crisis has had a destabilising effect on the world economy as a whole. [More…]

• For many years education had been suffering crisis after crisis. [More…]

• But if members of the Opposition genuinely believe that a crisis exists, let them stop the nonsense and get down to supporting the solution. [More…]

• The crisis was one of immeasurable proportions which affected areas south and east of Darwin in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• We have people on both sides of the political spectrum who say the world is in an economic crisis and that the economic system under which we live has run out of wars to bolster its industries and to solve its employment problems. [More…]

• Up to the present time, the stimulus therefore of a recurring or possible balance of payments crisis has been removed from the Australian tale. [More…]

• Nothing has been done to solve these problems, despite a 12 per cent revaluation, or to solve the problem of the looming balance of payments crisis. [More…]

• An economic crisis would then be created which Dr Cairns makes plain in the document is the ground work for revolution. [More…]

• There is a pending and looming international crisis in that area, which this Government utterly ignores. [More…]

• Meanwhile, the world energy crisis has forced up energy prices. [More…]

• Japan above all nations has been caught in the energy crisis brought about by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [More…]

• Panic repetition of such measures in the interim can lead to a crisis when they all take effect. [More…]

• The amendment states: this House is of the opinion that the Budget fails to tackle Australia’s economic crisis, in that: [More…]

• The fact is that in this world when we have a food crisis or a crisis concerning the sources of energy, it is not hard to imagine a situation in which the threats that we may suffer from could be much greater than they have ever been before. [More…]

• Revolution in an advanced capitalist country can become a possibility only if there is a serious economic crisis. [More…]

• This Government must shortly become aware that there is a crisis developing in large sections of our rural community. [More…]

• Why will it not ease the liquidity crisis which is causing the private sector to lose confidence and causing it to reduce the supply of goods and reduce employment? [More…]

• He is obviously trying to convey the impression that there is a great crisis in the building industry. [More…]

• They say that unless we show some versatility and get more money into the industry there can be a crisis. [More…]

• I wish to acknowledge your telegram of 19 August 1974 concerning the current fuel crisis. [More…]

• That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with the view to substituting the following words: ‘this House is of the opinion that the Budget fails to tackle Australia’s economic crisis, in that: [More…]

• I want to relate those events- other than international influences- which have contributed to these circumstances because I believe it is reasonable for us to accept in Australia that we should show how the actions of the Government have contributed to the economic situation and the crisis which we face today. [More…]

• There is a program that must be faced by a serious government if it is to deal with the economic crisis and that is the international program that has been recommended by the Chairman of the Union Bank of Switzerland. [More…]

• The easy way out is to blame the Government for the crisis, but the blame lies well beyond that. [More…]

• The present crisis is entirely in the field of monetary management and that is where the prime responsibility rests for both the world depression of 1 930 and that of 1 974. [More…]

• That there was no loss of life along the Murrumbidgee during the recent record flood is a credit to the State Emergency Service, the flood warning system and the many voluntary organisations including service clubs, rescue clubs, church groups and the Country Womens Association, which helped in the crisis as the record peaks moved down the river. [More…]

• The principal and the quite unforgivable weakness of his argument was his complete failure to mention the fundamental reality of our time, that is, that the competitive market economic system which operates in most countries and governs their international trade is in a state of world-wide crisis. [More…]

• It is clear that we are caught up in an international crisis that creates enormous difficulties for the government of the day. [More…]

• We had the difficult problem last year of the tremendous boom in international prices; we had the difficult crisis of disruption of the international monetary system, which began in the early 1 970s and 1971 and has become worse since. [More…]

• The people of Australia sense that they are living in the shadows of a world economic crisis of proportions not faced since the depression years of the 1930s. [More…]

• The nation has another crisis on its hands- at least there could be another one by now, I have not checked the newspapers during the last hour. [More…]

• Tales are going around- I am not in a position to say whether they are true or untrue- that the banking liquidity crisis has been caused by the Reserve Bank’s charging these quite exorbitant rates to the member banks and that this is a fundamental error in policy. [More…]

• At a time when all nations are facing the impact of the energy crisis the Minister tries to retard the development of industry instead of trying to redouble it. [More…]

• On top of this there was a worsening problem in the Western democracies with regard to the liquidity of the oil crisis. [More…]

• Revolution in an advanced capitalist country can become a possibility only if there is a serious economic crisis. [More…]

• I conclude my contribution to the Budget debate by saying that the Labor Government has created that serious economic crisis and that there are some people in the trade union movement with political beliefs of a communist philosophy who are exploiting it to the utmost to bring about that quiet revolution and to destroy free enterprise in this country so that a climate is created where ALP socialism will be the only alternative because private enterprise will no longer be. [More…]

• The present masters of our national destiny, the purveyors of outdated economic shibboleths, these misguided men, would have us believe that whatever the cause of Australia ‘s economic crisis the blame is not theirs. [More…]

• For the first time, Mr Prime Minister, the big three- inflation, unemployment and economic crisis in combinationare the scourge of this nation. [More…]

• We have an economic crisis. [More…]

• Indeed, the people generally lack confidence in the ability of the nation to recover from inflation, high unemployment and the economic crisis. [More…]

• Inflation will remain high and the economic crisis will continue. [More…]

• -At least he did not get the country into an economic crisis with unemployment and inflation as they are today. [More…]

• The simple truth of the matter is that what this Government has determined upon is not merely to create in Australia a state of bungle by accident; it has set about creating a state of economic crisis by purpose. [More…]

• The Western world is suffering a crisis of insufficient liquidity unprecedented in modern history. [More…]

• The Government is playing down the crisis and the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) has not shown great consideration for the position. [More…]

• Trade that it is a crisis, that it is a serious situation, and is causing loss of confidence in the business sector right throughout our land and in our country towns. [More…]

• In view of the answer given earlier today by the Minister for Minerals and Energy, I now ask the Prime Minister: In view of the fact that the Royal Commission detailed no action to overcome fuel shortages quickly through rationalisation of deliveries, will he immediately take action to set up an emergency committee involving the oil companies, distributors and sellers in order to speed deliveries and so protect the livelihood of many Australians affected by this crisis in the areas where fuel supplies are now exhausted? [More…]

• We want to make sure that not only these people but also all people in the community who suffer adversity, whether it is a crisis need or something more deepseated than that, can feel secure in the knowledge that a system of support is available. [More…]

• The Westminster system is a crisis system. [More…]

• Every time the bells ring in this House there is a crisis for the Government. [More…]

• Australia today faces its most serious postwar economic crisis. [More…]

• In spite of the accelerating economic crisis the Government is apparently prepared to proceed with its existing economic strategy- a strategy which has been shown beyond doubt to be misguided, ineffectual and dangerously inappropriate. [More…]

• In short, there is a crisis in Australia in capital mobilisation. [More…]

• Time and again Labor has come to power in times of crisis, and this occasion is no exception. [More…]

• If there is one thing that the speech by the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) has displayed it is his total ignorance of the real crisis which is facing Australia at present I go on record as saying, in response to his final comment, that if this Government in fact had the courage to face up to the serious and deteriorating position in Australia’s economic circumstances I have no doubt that the Government would not only deserve but demand the commendation of Australians of all political parties. [More…]

• It is the failure of this Government to face up to the situation which we see at present in the context of higher inflation, higher unemployment and a real crisis in capital mobilisation that has produced the current lack of confidence throughout the Australian economy. [More…]

• There is now a very real crisis in capital mobilisation in Australia. [More…]

• Others say that it is not a deliberate policy; it is merely that the Government is impractical and incompetent in government giving rise to this crisis situation. [More…]

• So I say in summary that we have an economic crisis in this country and the root cause of it is the crisis of confidence the Government has caused. [More…]

• In the crisis we have the Deputy Prime Minister should become both Treasurer and Prime Minister in this country because, while I would seriously quarrel with his ideological purpose, there is no denying that he is more knowledgeable and attentive m economic and finance matters. [More…]

• If there is one thing which the present economic crisis which the Western world is suffering should teach us it is that we have to improve the productivity to bring about an improvement in our standard of living. [More…]

• This is the greatest crisis that has ever been experienced in this industry. [More…]

• In its discussions to be held soon with the Japanese Prime Minister, will the Government firmly point out the damaging effects which Japanese attitude is having on the Australian cattle industry which faces a crisis of extremely serious proportions? [More…]

• At that time I said that if the cyclical downturn in the Western economies which was being predicted by the best economists in the Western world occurred and if the energy crisis remained unsolved there was no way that the ripples from these 2 effects would not wash Australia’s shores as well. [More…]

• Apparently it was an early casualty of the international oil crisis, because it never even got mobile. [More…]

• The situation that exists at the moment is nowhere near as bad as it was in the depths of the crisis while the Opposition was in government. [More…]

• I believe there is a great risk in Australians accepting high levels of unemployment and inflation and the economic crisis. [More…]

• I want to examine the reasons for unemployment One reason is the economic crisis, the credit squeeze. [More…]

• In the history of this nation, when the people have been called upon to face times of crisis, the Australian characteristic of a fair go for all has come to the fore. [More…]

• This Labor Government is being condemned yet again by the Premier of South Australia for its lack of policies and its inability to deal with the economic crisis that faces this country. [More…]

• We now have industry views on what should be done to alleviate the position and to alleviate the disastrous crisis which is now confronting this industry. [More…]

• Companies should be allowed to defer the payment of tax and revert to the original basis of taxation while this particular crisis is upon them. [More…]

• But in this industry which is undergoing a particular crisis liquidity is vital and anything that the Government can do to increase that liquidity to alleviate the problems of the beef industry will certainly be well received by the industry. [More…]

• At present the only part of the meat industry where reasonable prices prevail is in the pig meat industry, but for all parts of the Australian meat industry there is emerging a crisis which needs to be recognised by all members of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is perfectly true that the principal reason for the crisis in the beef industry today is the collapse of the world price of beef. [More…]

• Firstly, let us make it very clear indeed that the principal crisis is due to the collapse of the overseas markets. [More…]

• Detailed papers are all very well, but they will not help in the present crisis situation. [More…]

• But the present situation, as I mentioned a moment ago, is a crisis. [More…]

• Whilst the Government has a responsibility to negotiate access to markets, that will not help cope with this crisis. [More…]

• We accept without question that the beef industry is entering and has in fact entered a very serious crisis. [More…]

• Australia should be more concerned with an overall analysis of the oil crisis- or in popular jargon, with the recycling of petro-dollars. [More…]

• Australia should be more concerned with our relationships with Japan in terms of the economic consequences of the oil crisis than attempting to try some form of blackmail. [More…]

• -There is no doubt that the export cattle industry in northern Australia is facing a financial crisis. [More…]

• There is a world energy crisis and there is, in various countries, varying degrees of crisis in terms of crude oil availability. [More…]

• However, its smallness and the smallness of the sum it intends to spend are no measure of the importance of this Department because it has the role of trying to draw attention to the greatest crisis facing modern man. [More…]

• This crisis involves the effects of the technology of Western industrialised society upon society. [More…]

• Indeed, when we look at the greatest problem that confronts us- the energy crisis- I do not think there is any reliable evidence to indicate that the solutions that are being suggested for the problem of the energy crisis will not produce worse problems than those the solutions seek to overcome. [More…]

• The Rome conference will be held in an atmosphere of crisis. [More…]

• The impending food crisis has renewed the call to establish an international stock of basic foodstuffs, principally cereals, to cover seasonal fluctuations in world production. [More…]

• It will be the Western countries, the free enterprise countries, the so-called capitalist countries, that will be called upon to provide the exportable surplus food in this time of crisis, indeed in the immediate future. [More…]

• I intend to speak in particular about the beef situation because the beef industry in Australia is in a state of absolute crisis, as is the wool industry to a certain extent. [More…]

• What steps would you take to alleviate the present crisis in the beef industry? [More…]

• It is ironic that restraints on this particular activity, so important now in this particular crisis, have the complete consensus of the Opposition. [More…]

• We have found that in urban communities which are over-centralised the crisis that has occurred has really taken place to a greater extent in the 2 major cities of Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]

• In view of the economic crisis in Australia- mounting unemployment and price rises, with worse in sight- and his admitted lack of expertise in economic matters, and as the Prime Minister has often prided himself on being a good Australian, will he now serve the best interests of the country by stepping down as Prime Minister to make way for the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr J. F. Cairns, the only Labor Minister who takes a close and consistent interest in the critical economic areas of government responsibility? [More…]

• Senator Wriedt assured the Food Conference that Australia would play its part in meeting the food crisis. [More…]

• There have been 4 great errors of policy which have led directly and inevitably to the unemployment crisis. [More…]

• As members of this House recognise and realise not only Australia but the whole of the world is going through a fuel and energy crisis and if the aircraft that are being acquired by Qantas, TAA and Ansett have a higher carrying capacity it should be possible for fewer trips to be made or fewer schedules to be operated as between say, the major capital cities- Melbourne to Brisbane, Melbourne to Sydney, Sydney to Melbourne and so on. [More…]

• Now, when by reason of the failure of crops in the Northern Hemisphere and the greater demand for grain because of the increased population, we are suddenly faced with a grain crisis which has meant that the price of grain has gone up very considerably. [More…]

• Two of the most urgent needs are an all out effort to reopen Australia’s major beef market and in the meantime provision of finance to carry producers through the crisis period. [More…]

• Honourable members will remember my saying in December of last year that if the economic downturn- the cyclical downturn- in Western economies, which was then being confidently predicted by all of the economic experts around the world, in fact eventuated and if the energy crisis remained unresolved there was no way that the ripples of inflation and unemployment which would follow in the wake of these events in the Western economies would not lap our shores as well. [More…]

• There the Government determined that it would give a certain amount of money to endeavour to meet the world food crisis, not on the basis of guide lines laid down in this Parliament or at the Conference itself, but simply because Canada had decided to give in excess of $30m. [More…]

• The Labor Government has put us in a situation today where Australia faces, in the words of the Housing Industry Association, a crisis in housing not paralleled since the immediate post-war period. [More…]

• It is no wonder the Premier of Queensland described the Premiers’ Conference on 13 August 1974 as a complete waste of time because the Commonwealth did not have a plan and the Prime Minister, who admits he has neither interest nor expertise in economic matters said there was not a crisis in the economy. [More…]

• The Prime Minister did not admit at the time of that Premiers Conference that there was any crisis. [More…]

• It is a sad commentary because I understand that it was written prior to the second 1974 Budget and prior to the deepening unemployment crisis. [More…]

• We have seen at last a recognition that the credit squeeze must be taken off to relieve the liquidity crisis that was facing banks and industry. [More…]

• One crisis after another has crippled Australia’s rural areas. [More…]

• Is it not true that Australia has been insulated more than any other economy from the effects of the world energy crisis? [More…]

• How then can overseas conditions have influenced our domestic crisis? [More…]

• The right honourable member asked whether Australia is more insulated than most countries from the effects of the energy crisis. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Minerals and Energy been drawn to a statement by the Western Australian Government that Perth could face a crisis with its natural gas supplies by 1980? [More…]

• But I yet hope that I can persuade him to accept the view with respect to recurrent grants that there is a very real crisis facing schools throughout Australia and that some of the non-government schools are in a position of almost total collapse. [More…]

• When talking about recurrent grants the honourable member pointed out that a number of nongovernment schools are facing a real crisis at this time. [More…]

• Althouth I would agree that nongovernment schools are facing some crisis in relation to finance, I stress that it is my experience in my own electorate that the parish schools and the regional colleges I have visited are delighted that at this time they are receiving much more in the recurrent expenditure area than they have ever received before. [More…]

• This situation is creating a very serious crisis in non-government schools, but these distress letters that we get, whether they are from Catholic, Anglican or any other type of school, invariably come from the State of New South Wales because the State of New South Wales, which has had a long term Liberal Government, acknowledges no obligation towards them. [More…]

• For the 6 months since the May election this Government has failed to take the economic decisions required to avoid the current crisis, the economic measures consistently pressed by the Opposition. [More…]

• We warned of the rising unemployment crisis unless immediate action was taken. [More…]

• Thirdly, it is an acknowledged fact that Australia- has not suffered a fraction from the energy crisis which has so beset all other countries in Europe and Japan. [More…]

• In this statement I have set out the dimensions of this Government’s massive economic failure- a failure of domestic economic management which has led directly and inevitably to the tragedy of Australia’s economic crisis today and in the coming months. [More…]

• The Opposition takes no pleasure in setting out the detail of today’s crisis or in warning that worse is yet to come. [More…]

• What we condemn with the strongest force and emphasis is that this nation has been so needlessly, so negligently and so deliberately plunged into economic crisis by the combination of incompetence and blind adherence to a worn out philosophy of socialism. [More…]

• We have not been involved with the energy crisis to nearly the same degree as other countries because we have been 70 per cent self-sufficient with the cheapest fuel in the world. [More…]

• It is paradoxical that we are presently debating this legislation when the meat industry is undergoing its greatest crisis since the depression. [More…]

• The total collapse of the beef industry would pose a grave economic crisis not only for the rural sector of the national economy but also for the total national economy. [More…]

• The Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory has said many times that the Government is giving the beef industry earnest consideration and that it realises the crisis in which the industry is. [More…]

• Delays of up to 14 days were common and that crisis lasted for a few weeks only. [More…]

• Yet his bank is more responsible than any other similar institution for the liquidity crisis in this country. [More…]

• Finally, this bank of which Mr Prowse is the Assistant General Manager, because of the severe liquidity crisis it found itself in and because it did not read the signs- the Commonwealth Bank and the National Bank did and they knew just what was occurring; they had the economic advisers on their staff to advise them and accordingly did not get any problems- had to go into the short term money market and borrow at rates as high as 18 per cent because its own liquidity margin had fallen below the 1 8 per cent traditional margin. [More…]

• In other words, he should ensure that he puts his own house in order, a house which has been responsible for a great deal of the liquidity crisis which exists in this country. [More…]

• How serious was the Prime Minister when he expressed concern in New York about the world food crisis and Australia’s capacity to produce more grain? [More…]

• crisis and there is no excuse for our having a higher rate of inflation than any comparable industrial economies which are largely dependent on imported oil. [More…]

• It has argued that the world oil crisis has forced up Australian domestic costs, but Australia is virtually isolated from international oil price increases and the price of domestic crude oil is fixed. [More…]

• The monetary crisis preceded the oil crisis and to some extent was perhaps responsible for it. [More…]

• Even though we are more fortunate than most countries, we still face the problem of the oil crisis because we have a dependency on oil from overseas sources. [More…]

• The oil crisis had been one of the most destabilising, if not in the longer term devastating, economic effects that has hit the world economy. [More…]

• Our rate of inflation would have been doubled by the energy crisis. [More…]

• energy crisis that is building up. [More…]

• Had we not escaped the full impact of the energy crisis we would be way out in front. [More…]

• The causes of the economic crisis can be quite simply identified. [More…]

• The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson) has presided over the greatest housing crisis since the War. [More…]

• We could have matched West Germanywith inflation of 7 per cent, doubled by the energy crisis- and had inflation in Australia of under 4 per cent. [More…]

• We are lurching from crisis to crisis without direction. [More…]

• How can there be any confidence in a government which tries to blame the Treasury for Australia’s economic crisis? [More…]

• The Opposition for many months has been urging the Government to respond to the growing crisis. [More…]

• The Government has shown itself to have lost control and the Prime Minister has shown, by his own admission of his ignorance of the extent of the deepening economic crisis, his unfitness to continue as Prime Minister and for his Government to remain in office. [More…]

• Later still we had the Prime Minister come into the House and demonstrate his abysmal lack of expertise and his utter disregard for the inflationary crisis by bringing down still further measures which can only pour petrol on the flames of any inflation that we have already. [More…]

• Nobody can seriously argue that the investment crisis is going to be turned back by any marginal downward adjustment of company taxation. [More…]

• How on earth, in the present economic climate, can a government persist with this attitude when it penalises any creation of funds to ride through a liquidity crisis, to insure against a credit squeeze, to provide for expansion and to provide for plant and equipment replacement at a time when rapidly escalating costs make replacement all the more difficult just cannot be comprehended. [More…]

• At a time when there is a serious downturn in private sector investment- in fact, a crisis in capital mobilisation- the provisions of this Bill are destructive and damaging to the future development of the industry in Australia. [More…]

• This proposal strikes at the very basis of private capital formation in Australia at a time of an investment crisis. [More…]

• He went on to discharge the highest office in the United Nations Organisation with the greatest distinction during a decade fraught with crisis in the United Nations and for a period longer than any other Secretary-General. [More…]

• We talk about an energy crisis. [More…]

• Might I also point out that we are facing a food crisis which in importance is as vital as the energy crisis not only to Australia but to the world. [More…]

• The inability to provide housing for those who need it most threatens to reach crisis proportion. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that unemployment and the crisis situation in the home building industry will be worse by Christmas and that it will deteriorate even further in the New Year, especially in the Australian Capital Territory where conditions are worse than anywhere else in the country and where this inept Government has absolute and total totalitarian style powers. [More…]

• This Government has virtually underwritten the permanent building societies following the crisis with which they were confronted a short time ago. [More…]

• Already the wool industry has reached a crisis point with costs threatening to swamp the already minute margin between costs and prices. [More…]

• But it could be considered unlucky because the Corporation walked straight into an almost crisis situation. [More…]

• As a result, the Government has lost forever large numbers of valuable officers and has created a crisis of confidence which will not be overcome until it is thrown out of office. [More…]

• But in truth, it has not been the ‘farm’ which has been sold- not the industries like wheat or wool or fruit or dairying or gold, the industries which have faced the crisis and hardships of recent years. [More…]

• Something of a crisis has developed in this area. [More…]

• We believe that the home building industry is really at a crisis situation. [More…]

• The belief that the world food crisis is not a temporary aberration but a persistent and worsening problem which already has overtones of disaster must focus attention on the little time we have in which to work out a solution. [More…]

• Australia must take a more responsible position in encouraging its producers to play their part in this world crisis. [More…]

• The Australian Government has a responsibility to ensure that the primary industry sector of our economy does have the necessary incentive and the necessary willingness to expand production so that we can offer to play our part in this crisis. [More…]

• The effect of that on the production of Australian grains and protein is enormous but when we talk about the billions of dollars needed to boost agricultural production in other countries an Australian contribution of $56m in this significant crisis is chicken feed. [More…]

• I call on and urge the Government to look responsibly at this problem so that Australia cannot only be seen to be but also will be playing a positive part in the solution of the world ‘s food crisis. [More…]

• You have stopped oil exploration in this country when there has been an international oil crisis. [More…]

• In order to assist companies to maintain their operations and to curb the employment rundown the Australian Industries Development Corporation has recommended to the Government a return to the previous annual tax payments at least until the present crisis is over. [More…]

• In addition, new developments in the demand for steaming coal for power generation, following the oil crisis, indicate that Japan will be importing 10 million tonnes p.a. [More…]

• 1 ) When did the Leyland Company inform him of its approaching employment crisis. [More…]

• Is the home building industry in a crisis situation. [More…]

• Finally, does the Minister agree that if easy carry-on finance is not soon made available outright grants will have to be made available to the industry as the crisis worsens? [More…]

• As I see the situation, it is one of crisis in the cattle industry today. [More…]

• It deals with the beef crisis. [More…]

• I said then that this cyclical downturn in addition to the energy crisis, if it remained unresolved, would inevitably cause an economic downturn in this country because it was not possible for us to become an economic island, to live alone in the world and not be affected by the ripples coming from the shores of other countries which were badly affected by inflation. [More…]

• What is involved is not an economic crisis, painful and perhaps mismanaged as that may be, but precedents which will determine the health of our parliamentary processes for generations in the future. [More…]

• A year ago, as the crisis was worsening, in trying to show that he was true blue to the Labor Party’s beliefs he came forward and said: If the unemployment figure should ever reach 250 000 I would resign. [More…]

• The way in which they reacted in this crisis deserves the highest commendation. [More…]

• But at the present moment, with the state of the energy crisis, blind Freddy could sell uranium to the Europeans. [More…]

• The deteriorating crisis in the beef industry and the failure of the Government to take adequate measures to alleviate its effect. [More…]

• But at the mention of the word ‘beef and the crisis that faces such a significant part of the Australian community- both the consuming public indirectly and the producing sector very directly and all those who are dependent on it- the Prime Minister stomps out of the House in a huff. [More…]

• Yet when we have a crisis in one of the major Australian producing industries, which has been significantly affected not just by marketing circumstances but also by the actions of this Government, the best offer from the Government to date to the beef industry has been a $20m loan repayable at 1 1 Vi per cent through the Commonwealth Development Bank, a suggestion that I read in a newspaper yesterday that a new submission might come forward in a fortnight from the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt), and a reference by the Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) who was sitting at the table this morning that the industry really only requires that its position be referred to the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]

• Let us go through the parameters of the crisis and try to analyse it in a more rational way than I am afraid the emotions of those who are affected by the absence from the House of the Prime Minister and the lack of concern on the part of the Government might otherwise permit. [More…]

• The marketing crisis itself was amply indentified at the recent Agricultural Outlook Conference. [More…]

• The marketing crisis is real. [More…]

• There is not only a marketing crisis but also a prospective seasonal fall factor which will prejudice the ability of cattlemen to realise their stocks in a rational way. [More…]

• -As usual, of course, the Opposition has launched into a tirade of abuse of the Australian Government for its alleged inaction and has attempted to blame the Australian Government for the whole financial crisis in the cattle industry. [More…]

• Everybody, except apparently the Deputy Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Sinclair), knows that the economic crisis in the cattle industry is a worldwide problem. [More…]

• -Of course there is a crisis in the cattle industry. [More…]

• I am inclined to agree that we do need it because I represent an area where a crisis is occurring. [More…]

• The crisis will occur in the next 2 months when the cattle turn-off commences. [More…]

• Having been warned of an impending crisis and what should be done the Government waited months before doing anything. [More…]

• I am not suggesting this as a permanent feature of policy but we are in a crisis situation and unusual and imaginative policies are required to deal with it. [More…]

• In the debate on this subject last October the Government reviewed the action which had been taken to that date in regard to the serious crisis in the beef industry. [More…]

• That Committee established close liaison with the cattle industry as soon as the crisis started. [More…]

• I repeat that 80 per cent of world imports of beef are accounted for by these 2 markets in which Australia has already established a very firm base and in which the present crisis is politically motivated in order to protect the interests of the domestic meat producers. [More…]

• We are considering extended hours of sitting on certain days with a legislative program that is uncertain and in an economic climate that is at crisis point. [More…]

• The men and women of the defence servicesthe Navy, the Army and the Air Forcewho whether on duty or off duty responded bravely to the crisis and displayed outstanding heroism in bringing practical assistance to their fellow Darwin citizens. [More…]

• I am not for one minute suggesting that in a time of crisis such as this the situation ought to be under the sole control of the local executive, but we did state something which ought to be borne in mind continually. [More…]

• Sometimes in crisis situations there has to be some oiling of the machines and operations have to be streamlined. [More…]

• The contemporary crisis in family relationships results from a large variety of factors including changes in the social philosophy which are emphasising increasingly the freedom of the individual to develop his own philosophy of life and the freedom of the individual to acquire the tools for an analysis of problems. [More…]

• As far as the allegation about blackmail is concerned, we are concerned to have tankers so that if there is an oil crisis at some time or another involving other countries whose tankers normally would be carrying Australia’s crude oil we will be in a position, if need be, to deal with the suppliers of crude overseas on a nation to nation basis using Australian tankers. [More…]

• The failure of the Government to provide effective remedies to overcome the private sector investment crisis. [More…]

• -The policy actions of the Whitlam Government have led to an investment crisis in the Australian economy. [More…]

• This investment crisis is serious. [More…]

• For well over a year evidence of the investment crisis has been building up. [More…]

• The time allowed for this debate does not permit a detailed analysis of the reasons for the present investment crisis. [More…]

• In fact, during this period of crisis- the world inflationary situation- we have been cushioned or should have been cushioned from the ramifications of the world trading patterns. [More…]

• There is an investment crisis and it is beside the point to talk of overseas causes. [More…]

• One sees that there has been some recognition of this crisis by the Government when one remembers its recent reversals of its policies and its newfound respect for the private sector. [More…]

• But the Government has only partially recognised this crisis, especially in respect of the liquidity problems to which the Deputy Prime Minister referred. [More…]

• This is really the crisis which we now have. [More…]

• But to bring on a debate and to take up the time of this House by suggesting there have not been effective remedies to overcome the private sector investment crisis, socalled, when one can read out a list of about 1 5 remedies, all of which have been effective in overcoming the fact that private investment is less than it ought to be, is, I repeat, to take up the time of this House unnecessarily. [More…]

• He is stubbornly unwilling, perhaps emotionally unable, to see a situation not as superficial and temporary but as a crisis of the system itself. [More…]

• It is no exaggeration to say that the blame for the accelerating inflation and the crisis that exists in this country lies directly at the feet of the Prime Minister and the members of the Labor Party, only five of whom are present even to sit in on this debate. [More…]

• The eastern seaboard of the United States of America has been talked about for many years- particularly recently in the light of the oil crisis- as being highly prospective for oil and gas exploration. [More…]

• The beef industry is suffering its worst liquidity crisis of this century. [More…]

• It said that the unrelated problems which emerged from this collapse could be summed up as a continuing build-up in cattle numbers, depressed producer income, liquidity crisis, and reduced credit availability. [More…]

• The Government does not seem to realise that there is a crisis in the industry. [More…]

• The Opposition only regrets that the Government knows so little about the problems that are seriously besetting this industry that it provides such minimal help at a time of crisis. [More…]

• So obviously this is getting close to a crisis situation. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Northern Development: When does the Government intend to assist effectively cattle producers in Australia to overcome the greatest financial crisis this industry has ever experienced? [More…]

• -Let me put the point that this power would be exercised only in a crisis situation, which the honourable gentleman has himself admitted could arise. [More…]

• He is the Minister who has betrayed the Australian working man by presiding over the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression, the Minister whose policies and those of his colleagues have directly led to in excess of 300 000 people unemployed in Australia at this time. [More…]

• On any analysis the Australian economy is in a state of crisis. [More…]

• The Government has sought princi- pallybycircumventingtheParliamenttogloss over what can only be described as the worst economic crisis in this country since the Second World War. [More…]

• We have escaped the fury of the oil crisis. [More…]

• People in these industries are now finding themselves in a very serious crisis. [More…]

• Now the Government, in its usual fashion, waits for the crisis and then moves, and moves ponderously. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Labor and Immigration aware of a special crisis among woodchip loggers and bushmen in Tasmania in that many loggers with costly trucks and equipment worth from $50,000 to $150,000 have become unemployed because the 3 woodchip companies in Tasmania have had their exports to Japan drastically reduced by the Japanese paper companies? [More…]

• Will the Minister treat this crisis as urgent and make one of his key employment officers available at a log haulers association meeting at Launceston next Sunday? [More…]

• Because this woodchip crisis is unique to Tasmania can he make special arrangements to help these out of work hauliers to stay solvent? [More…]

• It may be that the 1970s will be the decade in which we see people around the world deciding to go back to rail, not only because of the efficiency it can provide in shifting freight and passengers but also because of the energy crisis. [More…]

• To accentuate further the backward thinking in these days of an energy crisis and of air pollution problems in our cities I point out that a Western Australian report has contemplated the abolition of metropolitan rail services and recommended the utilisation of buses instead. [More…]

• Under the heading ‘The Crisis in Manufacturing Industry ‘ it says: [More…]

• The present crisis does not lend itself to the theories and experiments of recent years, which have played their pan in bringing about the current situation. [More…]

• It has moved from crisis to crisis, and most of them have been of its own making. [More…]

• The Liberal and Country Parties have a plan to deal with the present economic crisis. [More…]

• The political lesson is simple in theory, but difficult to apply: We approach crisis as an independent nation, attempting to exercise our own judgment in the best interests. [More…]

• For over 20 years we have lived with the crisis and the human catastrophe of Vietnam. [More…]

• He had reached alert wariness, watchful fear, and, in crisis, courage in face of danger. [More…]

• I ask the honourable gentleman whether he said to the Young Labor Association conference on 25 January of this year that excessive wage demands had caused Australia’s unemployment and inflation crisis? [More…]

• I do not think however that the description of ‘crisis’ can be sustained. [More…]

• -The Australian beef export industry is facing possibly its biggest crisis period in its history. [More…]

• The complete failure of the Federal Government either to understand or to act on the Australian beef crisis is damaging the economy of this nation. [More…]

• We on this side of the House have been urging in this Parliament for action, not talk, from the Government on the beef crisis. [More…]

• I am very disappointed that in this, as in every other area of its operation, the Government seems to be totally unaware of the crisis that faces many farmers. [More…]

• The Treasurer, by ignoring inflation in his attempt to tackle unemployment, actually is building a worse unemployment crisis in 1976. [More…]

• The Treasurer said that deficit budgeting financed by money creation would end only when unemployment eases, but we have the crisis of greater unemployment facing us in 1976. [More…]

• There will be some sort of crisis which will have to be faced up to by the Treasurer. [More…]

• Then he berated us for having a policy to deal with the current economic crisis. [More…]

• It is time that the Government had a policy to deal with the country’s economic crisis. [More…]

• The air forces of Australia and of some of our other allies have been prevented from going into that war torn area to bring out the people who are the innocent victims of the crisis. [More…]

• By the summer of 1 956, the Lao-Dong was for the first time confronted with a severe internal crisis: A menace to life and property from whose arbitrariness no one any longer felt safe produced a wave of disobedience and outright hatred for the Party cadres throughout the country. [More…]

• There is also the very important question of ensuring that a rational system operates that avoids the excesses of ad hockery where people, Ministers and governments react time and again to a crisis situation, a situation that just calls for some remedial action. [More…]

• The oil crisis or the sudden rise in oU prices has meant that consumption, particularly in Europe, has fallen by I think about 8 per cent. [More…]

• The Government is conducting a blatant program to cover up the real extent of the unemployment crisis. [More…]

• He was talking about the crisis in the building industry and about pumping money into State housing authorities for welfare housing. [More…]

• In the article to which I have referred and in many other places and on many other occasions the Minister has referred to the crisis that existed in the building industry when the Australian Labor Party took over the Government. [More…]

• I would like to make it clear that there was no crisis when the Government took over from us, but there is a crisis now. [More…]

• I believe that that is a crisis situation. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that the abolition of the homes savings grant further exacerbates the building crisis. [More…]

• There is a real crisis in the rental accommodation situation. [More…]

• This will further add to the crisis situation for young people. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that the abolition of the grant will only worsen the crisis. [More…]

• It is simply a formula for a crisis in the building industry and that is the situation we are facing today. [More…]

• But, gentlemen, we are on the edge of a national crisis. [More…]

• We have people leaving the industry daily and we have bankruptcies throughout the land because the Australian building industry today is in a greater state of crisis than has ever been known since the great depression. [More…]

• They will also be advantaged by the fact that they have an Australian Labor Party Government on the Treasury bench in Canberra which is prepared to take initiatives in a crisis in contrast to those honourable members who sit opposite and who in every desperate downturn when in government failed to be effective in discharging their responsibilities to the home seeking public. [More…]

• The British conglomerate also suffered from the liquidity crisis and had to realise on its properties around the world. [More…]

• In view of the discontent and disillusionment of the people of Darwin at all levels- a feeling that is reaching crisis point and constantly being expressed through the’ honourable member for the Northern Territory and myself- will the Minister inform the House why the rebuilding of the residential areas of Darwin is making little progress? [More…]

• The result of all this is extreme fluctuations in work loads and, under the complicated arrangements that are inherent in the present scheme, these are producing crisis situations in the Australian Government Retirement Benefits Office and organisations employing large numbers of staff, such as the Post Office. [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Sinclair) when introducing the motion complained that the Government had done nothing for local government, an area where there is a real crisis in rural areas. [More…]

• The crisis had been averted; there was plain sailing ahead, the wool industry believed. [More…]

• Are you prepared to maintain at the head of your affairs a coalition which have lurched into crisis after crisis, embarrassment piled on embarrassment, week after week? [More…]

• Will you accept another three years of waiting for next week’s crisis, next week’s blunder? [More…]

• The Chairman of the Victorian Hospitals Association, Mr Ron Shepherd, is reported in the Age’ as saying that Victorian hospitals are in their worst financial crisis in history. [More…]

• Another grave crisis is due when these figures are released. [More…]

• From the time of the energy crisis when the increase in the price of oil had such a tremendous impact upon the economies of European and North American countries, the problem of inflation, and with it unemployment, as one is interacting against the other, has been a difficulty which all of those countries have had to face. [More…]

• It also reported that it was asked to make recommendations on a wide range of crisis issues. [More…]

• Crisis preservation on an ad hoc basis will not enable us to save enough of the best of our environment. [More…]

• The Interim Committee claims that in most instances in which it was called upon to make recommendations on crisis issues it was able to arrange or recommend a solution. [More…]

• As the Interim Committee drew attention in other parts of its report to the importance of public involvement, it is somewhat surprising that it failed to list those items that came before it as crisis issues which it did not succeed in solving. [More…]

• I would hope that the Heritage Commission in its report would identify crisis issues on which it has found a solution and also those on which it has failed to find a solution. [More…]

• Has the Minister succeeded in obtaining funds to preserve an adequate buffer zone so that this unique geological feature in South Australia- a science laboratory in its own right- can be preserved, or will we go on spending more money in crisis circumstances, because the longer this is left, the more expensive it will become? [More…]

• The economic crisis in which we find ourselves is not merely the result of fortuitous circumstances; it is primarily the result of the misdirection of policies initiated by the present Government. [More…]

• We have seen crisis upon crisis over the last few weeks. [More…]

• The oil crisis and the world-wide inflation have made the normally uncertain life of a shipowner and a shipbuilder even more hazardous. [More…]

• One has only to search one’s memory and to think of the case of the Evans Deakin company: My God, when I was first reading about the shipbuilding industry, probably 15 years ago, Evans Deakin was in a state of perennial crisis. [More…]

• When I first came into this Parliament in 1970, one of the first debates that I heard was on the crisis at Evans Deakin. [More…]

• The 2 shipbuilding yards which do particularly well, which do not complain and limp and stagger from one crisis to another, are BHP at Whyalla in South Australia and the State Dockyards at Newcastle in New South Wales. [More…]

• It is working better than ever before and better than it did under the former Government when the shipbuilding industry limped from one crisis to another. [More…]

• One clear consequence of the energy crisis has been the growing trend of the now enormously affluent Middle East oil exporting countries to seek comprehensive, long-term, government to government arrangements on agricultural development, foodstuffs, capital equipment and technology. [More…]

• It has created a crisis of confidence in which long-term investment- especially risk investment- is no longer prudent or warranted. [More…]

• For well over 18 months evidence of the investment crisis has been building up. [More…]

• Evidence of the investment slump has at the same time been consistently ignored by the Government as in fact it is ignoring that crisis at present. [More…]

• It creates a crisis today, and tomorrow there is a panic. [More…]

• I believe the floor price of wool has highlighted this fact, not in a time of crisis but in a time of normal supply and demand. [More…]

• For the wool industry, with market uncertainty, seasonal unpredictability and the cost increases induced by Labor caused inflation, the crisis ahead is such that we certainly cannot bear that sort of practice once more. [More…]

• Then, the beef crisis, of course, also has seriously affected farmers’ incomes as the sale of calves and cull cows is now returning significantly less money than it did before. [More…]

• I have heard of a world crisis. [More…]

• The first duty of the Fuel Authority is to overcome the deficiencies imposed upon Canberra by the neglect of previous governments and by the failure of private enterprise to maintain a consistent supply of fuel in times of crisis. [More…]

• I can go back even to December 1973, when a lot of people who should have known better went on record criticising me for saying then that 1974 would be a year of rising unemployment, that it had to happen because of the energy crisis in the Western economies and because of the downturn in economic activities in the countries that are our chief trading partners. [More…]

• I know that all honourable members will join me in a tribute to the natural disaster organisation for its handling of the Darwin crisis, and to the Darwin people themselves for their fortitude and undaunted spirit. [More…]

• The purpose of the borrowings, as set out in the explanatory memoranda for the Executive Council, was to meet the needs of the Australian Government for ‘substantial sums of non-equity capital from abroad for temporary purposes, amongst other things to deal with exigencies arising out of the current world situation and the international energy crisis, to strengthen Australia’s external financial position, to provide immediate protection for Australia’s supplies of minerals and energy and to deal with current and immediately foreseeable unemployment in Australia’. [More…]

• The world energy crisis had shown no signs of easing. [More…]

• It was stated that it was to protect Australia against an energy crisis a year after that crisis had broken, a crisis which because of our own supplies as a result of our earlier policies had hardly touched Australia. [More…]

• The loan transaction was for the necessary infrastructure for the emergency development of those resources based on the energy crisis. [More…]

• Our offence in the eyes of certain international forces is borrowing through official Australian Government channels capital funds on the credit of Australia to cope with an energy crisis. [More…]

• Sixty-five billion Middle East petro-dollars, generated by the energy crisis, is sought to be invested yearly. [More…]

• The moneys would have been drawn down as the respective parts of the energy crisis program were implemented on a ‘crash ‘ and in some cases, ‘ turn-key ‘ operation. [More…]

• On 13 November 1972 the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Whitlam, put the following questions to the Australian people: ‘Are you prepared to maintain at the head of your affairs a coalition which has lurched into crisis after crisis, embarrassment piled on embarrassment week after week? [More…]

• Will you accept another 3 years of waiting for next week ‘s crisis, next week ‘s blunder? ‘ [More…]

• This is a government in crisis; it is a government split by deep and bitter division. [More…]

• The energy crisis internationally had only a limited impact on the Australian economy. [More…]

• If there is some substance to the arguments which the Press has brought forward and which have produced a situation of crisis, as there is today within the Labor Party and the Government as a result of the Government trying to conceal or hide the facts from the Australian people, this Government and individuals in it are deserving of whatever criticism they get from the Press. [More…]

• They obtained Executive Council approval to go overseas and raise $2,000m on the assumption that the money was to be used for temporary purposes, that it was to be used to enable Australia to meet its balance of payments commitments, that it was to be used in respect of the energy crisis in our country and that it was to be used in regard to unemployment But today we are told by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Minerals and Energy that this money is to be used for long term investment in the electrification of railways, in port facilities, in the development of gas, in the development of coal and in the development of the hydrogenation of coal. [More…]

• We find it is stated that the loan is for temporary purposes and the exigencies arising out of the current world situation, the international energy crisis, to strengthen Australia’s external financial position, to provide immediate protection for Australia in regard to the supply of minerals and energy, and to deal with current and immediate foreseeable unemployment in Australia. [More…]

• Perhaps I should add also that if we are to have integration, which is the essence of this legislation, between the military and the civilian arms of the Department of Defence, it is not difficult to imagine in times of defence crisis the difficulties that will arise in handling such a situation when no fewer than 12 committees which are to be established in accordance with the Tange report must be dealt with. [More…]

• I am sure that the honourable member for Moreton and the other honourable gentlemen who sit opposite do not believe that the commander of an Australian force should be there by a convention but believe that his position should be there by a statute of this Parliament in which his powers are laid out by the elected representatives of the Australian people so that in the event of a crisis he may thoroughly command the Australian forces. [More…]

• The current crisis in Australia is however much more severe than the Government or the Treasurer admits. [More…]

• It is a crisis evidenced by the highest prolonged inflation in Australia’s history and by the highest unemployment since the great depression of the 1930s. [More…]

• It is a crisis which eats away at the security of every Australian, at our confidence and at our way of life. [More…]

• The principal source of this crisis has been the immense growth in Government spending since 1972. [More…]

• Despite the claims of the Government that overseas factors have been a significant cause of the current crisis, the International Monetary Fund in its July report, the report of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development released last week and the Treasury in Budget Statement No. [More…]

• If this crisis continues or gets worse, as I believe it well may, we shall all suffer- the Government, the Opposition and more important than either of us, the people of Australia. [More…]

• Today I propose to discuss the Opposition’s view of the nature and seriousness of the present crisis and to set before the nation the measures we believe are necessary to get Australia out of that crisis. [More…]

• Business in Australia is now in a desperate situation as a result of taxation and wage costs and the cash crisis. [More…]

• There is a major cash crisis. [More…]

• In the face of this crisis the Budget had a major task to revive business confidence, increase investment, production and job opportunities. [More…]

• There is less flexibility this year than there was last year because the crisis is worse, but we do not accept that the cumulative impact of past policies has so reduced flexibility as to prevent a major change of direction from commencing now. [More…]

• We would suspend for the period of the present crisis the present system in which company tax is paid on a quarterly basis. [More…]

• I suppose that it would be the greatest crisis in which primary industry has ever found itself. [More…]

• History shows that whenever the Liberal-Country Party coalition has been in government and has faced an economic crisis its immediate and only remedy has been to create a vast pool of unemployment. [More…]

• Today Australia is facing an economic crisis of a kind which threatens to undermine our whole society. [More…]

• In fact, I believe this Budget will only worsen the crisis which is gripping this nation. [More…]

• The only time there was an increase in the pension rate was when there was an election or a crisis in the Party. [More…]

• Government spending and wage demands have so exceeded increases in profits and prices that for 2 years we have had the signs of the investment crisis which is now well and truly upon us. [More…]

• Now that means, of course, and I think that this is a fair thing to say, that an economic crisis of the kind that we are contemplating is a moral crisis for the citizen. [More…]

• Is there a need for expenditure on culture and recreation in 1975 when this country is facing the worst economic crisis in its history? [More…]

• But what is the crisis that faces Australia? [More…]

• I want to deal with one crisis that I believe is now evident. [More…]

• The current crisis in Australia is however much more severe than the Government or the Treasurer admits. [More…]

• It is a crisis evidenced by the highest prolonged inflation in Australia’s history and by the highest unemployment since the great depression of the 1930s. [More…]

• It is a crisis which eats away at the security of every Australian, at our confidence and at our way of life. [More…]

• The speech of the Leader of the Opposition held out the sort of hopes that people in Australia have in terms of the decisions that ought to be taken by government that might avoid this crisis. [More…]

• This reacts against beef producers, particularly in a time of crisis, and represents another bashing of primary industry. [More…]

• This Prime Minister persists with a deliberate campaign to blame overseas influences for the present economic crisis. [More…]

• We shall provide encouragement because, unlike this present administration, we believe that small businesses in Australia require incentive and encouragement, particularly in the present economic crisis. [More…]

• I was disappointed that the report dismissed without any real analysis the proposition that a bounty be paid on a limited tonnage per farm and that it ignored the crisis now existing for aerial agriculture. [More…]

• Are you prepared to maintain at the head of your affairs a coalition which has lurched into crisis after crisis, embarrassment piled on embarrassment week after week? [More…]

• Will you accept another 3 years of waiting for next week’s crisis, next week’s blunder? [More…]

• These fully owned Australian businesses each employing fewer than 100 employees are facing their worst crisis in Australian history. [More…]

• But the very fear of an economic crisis makes this crisis more likely to occur. [More…]

• The Press statement made by the Minister for Health a little while ago tonight indicates that the crisis in medical research will continue in this country. [More…]

• He has not solved the medical crisis now and, by moving the allocation of some of the $1.7m extra forward from the end of the next triennium to the beginning of that triennium, he will only accentuate another medical research crisis in 1978, the last year of the 1976-78 triennium, without solving the medical crisis at the moment. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Transport seen claims by some State Transport Ministers that the crisis in State public transport systems is the fault of the Australian Government? [More…]

• Apparently that created no crisis. [More…]

• In the 2h years we have been in office we have made money available to the States in the sums I have just mentioned and apparently that creates a crisis. [More…]

• A more disturbing aspect of this question of oil production is that we are now in a position to say that in 5 years ‘ time Australia will face its own oil crisis. [More…]

• Having done that we look to the future because coal today, as never before, is the key industry in the world energy crisis. [More…]

• So far as the economic crisis is concerned, he has been telling the nation that we are about to climb out of the trough. [More…]

• Is it proud of the inflation, the high unemployment and the economic crisis that exists in this country? [More…]

• This is what the Government has to consider because today the people of this country had expectations that the Government in its third Budget would have learnt from the mistakes of its last 2 Budgets and would have had the courage to take real decisions which are so necessary if this nation is to get out of the current crisis of the highest inflation in Australia’s history and the highest rate of unemployment since the Depression. [More…]

• This is a crisis which is eating away at the confidence and the security of every citizen of Australia [More…]

• Now he is suggesting that although the icing sugar has got thicker it has caused a crisis down in the cake. [More…]

• In view of the failure of the Budget to alleviate the circumstances of cattle producers and people living in these areas and the fact that the Government has not acted on 3 Industries Assistance Commission reports that have been published and which affect cattle producers, will the Minister undertake to negotiate with his colleagues responsible for the Industries Assistance Commission to have the report of the IAC on the crisis in the beef industry completed and published as soon as possible? [More…]

• 1 ne present economic crisis is the result of almost 3 years of serious policy errors by this Federal Labor Government. [More…]

• A permanent way could have solved the Newcastle Waters crisis, where trucks were held for more than a month on either side of the water, unable to cross. [More…]

• If our national activities and energies during those critical months- at the political level, at the administrative level, at the business level, at the industrial level- were to be distorted and dissipated by the engineering of a wholly artificial, wholly unnecessary and a wholly irresponsible political crisis, the harm would be great and the guilt immense. [More…]

• What bare faced impertinence, what gall for a Government to give such advice to people facing the gravest financial crisis in the history of their industry. [More…]

• I suggest that if the Constitution had been drawn up about 12 or 15 years later than it was the situation we have at the moment would not have occurred, because about 1910 or 1911 after a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom the House of Lords had the power to refuse money taken away from it- or it agreed by virtue of the circumstances that it could not refuse money to the Parliament. [More…]

• If this should happen in this Parliament we will be faced with a very serious constitutional crisis. [More…]

• If one really looks at what the Government’s allocation of that $24m has done, it can be seen that it will mean another crisis for medical research in 1978, that is, if medical research survives the immediate crisis of the first 6 months of 1 976. [More…]

• Even if the triennium allocation is considered adequate- ‘adequate’ would be the strongest word one could use and then I think one would still be exaggerating- the triennium planning is theoretically continued but that may be of no value if the present crisis, that is the crisis in medical research that will be with us in the first 6 months of 1 976, is not resolved. [More…]

• That is the immediate crisis. [More…]

• Unless additional Budget money amounting to Sim to $1.5m is provided for this January- June 1976 period, there will be this immediate crisis in medical research. [More…]

• As capitalism approaches its bicentennial, it is beset by crisis. [More…]

• In January seven Nobel prize winners, including Economists Gunnar Myrdal and Kenneth J. Arrow, signed a declaration condemning Western capitalism for bringing on a crisis by producing ‘primarily for corporate profit. ‘ [More…]

• The system we live under is in crisis, as has been pointed out by our Treasurer (Mr Hayden) who is visiting overseas. [More…]

• There is no relief of the liquidity crisis facing many businesses. [More…]

• The country possesses important domestic resources in coal, petrol, gas and uranium which will probably protect it over a long period from the direct repercussions of the world energy crisis. [More…]

• I know that this Minister deserves most of the blame for bringing the mining industry in Australia to its present state of confusion and crisis. [More…]

• By bringing confusion and crisis to the mining industry the Government can more easily gain control of these industries. [More…]

• The most disturbing aspect of Australian oil production is that we can now say with certainty that in 5 years time Australia will face its own oil crisis, and honourable members know what that means. [More…]

• -Let me put into perspective the crisis that is facing the mineral and energy industries of Australia today. [More…]

• Energy policy has been falsely predicated on unlimited availability and profligate use, bringing Australia face to face with a serious energy crisis in the early 1980s. [More…]

• This kind of tax on consuming nations is the very antithesis of the developing international economic relations since the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries crisis of October 1973. International relationships today are being built on a policy of interdependence between consuming and producing nations, not on a policy of confrontation or on a policy of resources blackmail. [More…]

• With this kind of approach, with a true appreciation of the energy crisis which will face Australia in the 1980s - [More…]

• The dairy industry is in a crisis state with markets dwindling, with nothing being done, dairy stabilisation eliminated and no money is available for the dairy industry. [More…]

• It is no good if a political crisis has to be generated every time there is need in the agricultural sector. [More…]

• We believe that Australia is facing its worst accommodation crisis for 30 years and the social consequences will be remembered long after this Government is gone and forgotten. [More…]

• It is history now how the oil crisis of that time led to an international monetary crisis which in its turn led to a reappraisal of the relationships between rich and poor nations, between developed and developing nations. [More…]

• What became abundantly clear in the aftermath of that oil crisis was that the disposition of the world’s resources- its raw materials, particularly the energy resources of the world- became a matter of vital importance to world economic stability and also to sound international relations. [More…]

• We cannot say that there is any crisis with respect to future supplies because at present the Japanese are seriously investigating deposits, for example, at Marandoo and Deepdale. [More…]

• A trumped up phoney crisis about the appointment of Senator Gair to be ambassador to Ireland was used as the pretext to threaten to refuse the Government the funds to carry on. [More…]

• -Last night when I spoke on the adjournment I was trying in what I thought was a fairly moderate tone to engage in some intelligent debate on the crisis towards which this country is moving. [More…]

• Constant speculation by the Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony) on some great crisis forming to make it necessary for them to knock back the Budget is just so much hogwash. [More…]

• In the letter Mr Healey states that a grant has been made to the community aid service of the municipality of Blacktown to help the operation of its community cottage, which is a refuge for women in crisis situations, the grant being $10,585. [More…]

• At the same time as the Department acknowledges the problem of inflation in its own administration, it refuses to acknowledge the crisis facing the prescription drug industry. [More…]

• Senator J. McClelland, confirmed the unemployment crisis by firmly predicting that 400 000 Australians would be out of work in the new year. [More…]

• If that was not sufficient, only a few weeks later we had the crisis relating to the Australian Research Grants Committee. [More…]

• One of the gravest problems facing the nation today, although it tends to become caught up in and overshadowed by the bigger issues of high inflation, industrial unrest, the economic crisis and high unemployment, of which it is a part, is the plight facing young school leavers and others- seeking to enter the work force for the first time. [More…]

• Are you prepared to maintain at the head of your affairs a coalition which has lurched into crisis after crisis, embarrassment piled on embarrassment week after week? [More…]

• Will you accept another 3 years of waiting for next week’s crisis, next week’s blunder? [More…]

• This Government has presided over the worst inflation, the worst unemployment, the worst industrial strife and the worst economic crisis this nation has known since Federation. [More…]

• Are you prepared to maintain at the head of your affairs a coalition which has lurched into crisis after crisis, embarrassment piled upon embarrassment week after week? [More…]

• Will you accept another 3 years of waiting for next week’s crisis, next week’s blunder? [More…]

• But when he says that the Labor Government has induced an equipment crisis within the Services, I think that is just simply nonsense. [More…]

• With the population growth in this countryof course, there are certain disabilities in regard to the trends and where those trends move to- before the economic crisis that this Government created, we were getting some evenness in the non-metropolitan growth in New South Wales. [More…]

• I know that he deserves most of the blame for bringing the mining industry in Australia to its present state of confusion, crisis and uncertainty, but the Minister is a member of a government which has approved, even praised, all that he has done. [More…]

• By bringing confusion and crisis to the mining industry the Government can more easily gain control of those industries. [More…]

• A crisis in energy in Australia is fast approaching. [More…]

• One of the difficulties which Australia faces today in relation to its constitutional crisis is not that we need to review the Constitution but rather that we need the mechanism to change it. [More…]

• -Australia faces a Budget deficit this year which threatens to bring on a renewed economic crisis and which is a further reflection of this Government’s monopoly of disaster and deceit. [More…]

• At the moment, this nation faces a certain difficulty- a constitutional crisis, if honourable members like- and the question that arises is: Who governs Australia? [More…]

• It would, in my respectful opinion (and in this I am expressing the majority view among reputable lawyers in this State), have been nothing short of a calamity if during the very great constitutional crisis, New South Wales had possessed a Governor who had subordinated the constitutional authority of a Governor to the purely opportunist demands of those who found the constitutional restrictions irksome. [More…]

• And this, with a prescience, prophetic insight, that Quick and Garran would not have claimed for themselves, gets to the heart and the root of this present grave crisis. [More…]

• The unbridled ambition of the Leader of the Opposition, a man who has destroyed two friendsone a Prime Minister and the other a Leader of the Opposition- has pushed this country to the brink of the most serious constitutional crisis since Federation. [More…]

• Having created the greatest constitutional crisis in Australian history the Opposition has now unleashed forces that nobody can effectively control. [More…]

• Today we stand in the centre of a grave constitutional crisis that threatens to destroy the fragile fabric of the democracy that holds our nation together. [More…]

• It is a crisis that has been engineered by a man bent on getting power at any cost. [More…]

• It is because of the inspiration given by the Prime Minister in this present crisis, the man who in this Parliament stands out like a giant against the intellectual and moral pygmies who sit opposite him. [More…]

• I would have appreciated it if he had told the Parliament in his speech, which immediately preceded mine, that, after Mr Menzies- he was not then Sir Robertthe Prime Minister of Australia had been given the important task by the British Government of negotiating with Colonel Nasser following the Suez Canal crisis, he came back to this Parliament or he had printed in a book that in Egypt Colonel Nasser- the honourable member for Bradfield served as a diplomat in Egypt and would be more aware of this fact than any member of the House, but withheld it from his speech- was virtually in charge of a police state. [More…]

• So desperate for power is the Opposition that it is prepared to plunge Australia into a constitutional crisis of frightening proportions. [More…]

• The present crisis caused by the action of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and those in the Senate who have been prepared to follow him is in the grand line of the great constitutional struggles of the past- of 1640, 1688, 1 832 and 1 9 10. [More…]

• This must be emphasised: In this grave constitutional crisis, this crucial dispute between the 2 Houses, none of the electoral options available are in any way relevant to the issue at stake. [More…]

• It is well known that the Minister for Science and Consumer Affairs (Mr Clyde Cameron) said in Caucus only 2 weeks ago that every major crisis that the Party had confronted was caused by its Prime Minister. [More…]

• I think that all honourable gentlemen and ladies, irrespective of their views, will concede that that was a date when there was no crisis, as has been described by members on both sides of the House and indeed by every editorial observer. [More…]

• Throughout the last few days we have had nothing in this country but people on the other side, on public platforms and in this House, creating a situation of grave fear and grave crisis. [More…]

• There is no crisis whatsoever. [More…]

• There is no constitutional crisis in this country at all. [More…]

• What I am saying is that honourable members opposite have been creating fear in this community when there is no constitutional crisis. [More…]

• This is the dominant reason given by the Leader of the Opposition for inducing the present crisis atmosphere. [More…]

• But more to the point, the so-called crisis that we face today has been brought about because of the constant deceit, because of the running away from reality, because of those who sit opposite who will not face the fact that there are persons, if not one very important person, party principal to the negotiations. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite talk about a constitutional crisis provided for by the Senate. [More…]

• They know that it is a fraud and that it is akin to the actions they have been taking throughout their period in government and more particularly, that it is along the lines of the loans affair and loans crisis with which we are faced today. [More…]

• This is a constitutional crisis of the highest order. [More…]

• The longer the crisis drags on, the more repetition we will inevitably have. [More…]

• When we say that the country is bordering on the brink of a political and economic crisis, people having heard that so often will tend to brush it aside, discount it, and say: ‘Well, that is merely a cliche.’ [More…]

• Certainly to speak today of the country being on the brink of a political and economic crisis is self-evidently true. [More…]

• Even last night, I understand, because of the support given and because of the money being spent the Leader of the Opposition was on the telephone to a senior executive from News Limited giving that gentleman a personal account of his talks with the Governor-General on the constitutional crisis. [More…]

• We are living in a time of crisis. [More…]

• One of the unfortunate things about a crisis like this is that it does not bring out the best in human beings. [More…]

• Nothing could be more reckless or inappropriate at this time of delicate economic recovery than to precipitate a political crisis. [More…]

• The present crisis has been brought about by a blind lack of reason, a headlong rush in pursuit of power, the singleminded abandonment of principle by one man in too great a hurry to grasp a destiny which many would agree does not belong to him. [More…]

• None of the quiet tedium that we have heard from the honourable gentleman today can hide the simple fact that this country is, and has been for some considerable period, in a position of economic crisis and chaos; that this chaos has been perpetrated by the Labor Government of which he is now the most senior Minister with financial responsibility; that the Government does not have the policies or the capacity to resolve the problems which mount as the days and months go by; and that this Government should resign while it still retains a modicum of respectability throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• It is not a constitutional crisis that we face at the moment Let no one be misled by those who say that it is a constitutional crisis. [More…]

• There may be a political crisis; it is certainly not a constitutional crisis. [More…]

• The political crisis has been brought about by the actions of dishonest men within a dishonest Government. [More…]

• In the Opposition’s view it is the refusal of the Prime Minister to face his makers that is causing the present crisis. [More…]

• Yet the first item, the first Bill which the Opposition delayed in the Senate in respect to this constitutional crisis was a Bill the purpose of which is to provide finance for our defence expenditure. [More…]

• (Quorum formed) As I said, the Opposition, which gives great lip service to the issue of defence, chose as the first item of legislation which it delayed in the Senate in respect of this constitutional crisis that we have today a Bill to provide finance for our defence expenditure. [More…]

• This Government has faced a crisis as to whether we would be denied Supply by a contrived Senate, by a Senate which has equal representation for every State. [More…]

• (Quorum formed) The honourable member for Evans made the point that every 18 months we faced a crisis, but we have faced a crisis every 6 months because there have been threats from the Senate to withdraw Supply every 6 months. [More…]

• Businessmen have been hesitating for several weeks in their investment decisions because they could see the impending crisis building up as a result of the recurrent statements, the recurrent threats, the intimidation of the Opposition in terms of what was going to happen to the Appropriation Bills. [More…]

• In the meantime they ought to face up to the real issue that is confronting this country- the constitutional crisis for which they are responsible. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Administrative Services state what action, if any, is proposed regarding restriction of members’ facilities in view of the present financial crisis caused by the unprincipled action of the LiberalNational Country Party Opposition in delaying the passing of the Budget? [More…]

• The following restrictions will come into force forthwith and will apply for the duration of the present constitutional crisis. [More…]

• The amendment goes further and charges the Opposition with putting the living standards of the needy in great jeopardy because of the constitutional crisis which it has promoted in this Parliament and in this country today. [More…]

• To propose a resolution in this House stating that our problems of inflation are due to economic mismanagement is spurious nonsense, as it is nonsense for the Leader of the Opposition ( Mr Malcolm Fraser) to give as one of his main reasons for promoting the constitutional crisis from which we are suffering in this country today, the state of the economy of this country. [More…]

• But as long as the Opposition turns us into another Portugal, which is the sort of thing that is happening in the crisis which it has created, there will be no cure, there will be no stability, there will be no hope for the Australian people to steadily overcome this world malaise from which we are suffering. [More…]

• Another point that the honourable member for Isaacs wanted to make was that this Opposition-promoted crisis right now is stopping necessary funds reaching the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• They would recognise not only the humbug of this motion but also the humbug of the excuses that have been used to promote this constitutional crisis- this crisis which is putting the living standards of needy people in jeopardy right now. [More…]

• Let us not cloud the issues of the current crisis. [More…]

• There is no constitutional crisis. [More…]

• If anything, it is a political crisis. [More…]

• It is a burden which has created hardship and it is a burden which has led directly to the present economic crisis. [More…]

• The best answer that I think can be given to the honourable gentleman’s question about the capacity of Mr Gruzman to express the opinion that he expressed on the constitutional crisis was delivered in the Australian newspaper by Professor Blackshield who gave that answer in a very learned article published in the Australian newspaper this morning, I think, and who on Sunday gave a talk in the capacity of Guest of Honour for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• The Opposition in the Senate has failed to pass these Bills, notwithstanding that the nation is now entering the third week of grave constitutional crisis. [More…]

• It is important that the people of Australia recognise that it is absolutely vital that this matter should be considered in the context of the crisis of confidence which has emerged from the actions of the Government in respect of the dismissals of the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) and the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor); the refusal of the Government to answer questions in this House about the loan-raising activities; and the refusal of the Government to tell us the circumstances of the involvement of the Reserve Bank of Australia in these loan-raising negotiations. [More…]

• This legislation is to that extent the victim of the domestic economic crisis which is occurring in Australia, no part of which has effectively been imported. [More…]

• But the question is why has this matter suddenly erupted in the Parliament at a time when the Parliament is in the grip of constitutional crisis, at a time when the Opposition has a special visitor- a privileged visitor; its star performer in Australia- Mr Khemlani. [More…]

• In the meantime, while the Opposition is trying to evade the real issues which are convulsing this country- the constitutional crisisand while the loans affair drags on in its wearisome and uninformative way, the only casualties of the Opposition’s irresponsible behaviour are the ardours of people crushed by the false innuendoes of the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the loss of economic momentum which this nation is suffering. [More…]

• You are the people who are presenting a crisis to the social and economic fabric of this nation. [More…]

• Instead of resolving this issue, instead of facing up to the reality that the irresponsible behaviour of the Opposition is bringing this country to a halt, is precipitating a situation of social and economic crisis, the Opposition spends its time threshing about like a whale that has been beached, looking for some sort of escape from the trap that it has set for itself. [More…]

• In the circumstances therefore I again plead - (Quorum formed) Once again I make a plea to the Opposition that it draw back from the brink of economic crisis to which it is pushing this country. [More…]

• It is conceivable if the present crisis continues much longer that, as my friend the Minister for Administrative Services (Mr Daly) has pointed out, we may provide members of Parliament with an airline ticket to Canberra but not be able to provide them one to leave Canberra until the Appropriation Bills are passed. [More…]

• They know that it is a fact that the Minister for Science and Consumer Affairs (Mr Clyde Cameron) said in their Party room a few weeks ago that every major crisis that has been caused, has been caused by the Prime Minister himself. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for the Media: Has his attention been drawn to reports that the Australian Broadcasting Commission is engaged in distortion and manipulation of news during the present political crisis? [More…]

• There was a change of heart by the Cabinet but the decision was reversed in the Caucus in a substantial manner following a crisis spread over about 4 days. [More…]

• As the season progressed the market strengthened considerably and in the last 3 months of the season the Corporation’s purchases averaged only 10 per cent of offering and at one stage in June, just before the temporary crisis over the guaranteed price, the Corporation was buying only 3 per cent of the total wool at sales in late May or early June of this year. [More…]

• All evidence suggests that a half Senate election will not resolve the present crisis but will merely prolong it for a further 3 months pending a dissolution. [More…]

• I advise honourable members oppositeI say this in all seriousness- that if they think there is an unlimited supply of funds for members’ travel while this crisis is on they are in for a very severe shock. [More…]

• Under the normal sittings that were planned for the House the Bill would not have been dealt with until the week commencing 19 November, but because of the stupidity over the constitutional crisis the matters set down for later in the parliamentary session have had to be brought forward. [More…]

• Time is rapidly running out for the Opposition in the Senate to end this crisis honourably by passing the Budget before innocent people are made to endure personal hardship. [More…]

• I think those who want to make union bashing more selective ought at least to give some credit to the fact that in this country at this time of economic crisis trade unions have adopted a far more responsible approach as a result of the exhortations of this Government than has been evident at any time I can remember since the war. [More…]

• This statement was that I, the Minister for Health, had misled Parliament with an unfounded claim that quarantine services would be endangered should the constitutional crisis in Canberra remain unresolved. [More…]

• In the case of the Australian Universities Commission it was after the inquiry had reported on what was described by the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee as a crisis in the finance and development of Australian universities. [More…]

• What is the financial crisis today? [More…]

• Through the actions of this Leader of the Opposition, this nation has been plunged into an unprecedented constitutional crisis. [More…]

• Yet through all the months during which he was working himself up to take the plunge, through all the weeks of the crisis he has created, he has never before taken the course which would bring on a debate of no confidence in or censure of the Government or on any Minister- on this issue, on the Budget itself or on any of the pseudo-issues which were to be used to justify the extraordinary conduct of the Opposition and the unconstitutional conduct of the Senate. [More…]

• The only honourable, the only sensible way for the crisis to be brought to an end is for the Senate today to pass the Appropriation Bills. [More…]

• Today we have a constitutional crisis. [More…]

• At the moment we have a crisis over Supply that should legitimately be granted. [More…]

• That is His Excellency- to find a democratic and constitutional solution to the current crisis which will permit the people of Australia to decide as soon as possible what should be the outcome of the deadlock which developed over supply between the two Houses of Parliament and between the Government and the Opposition parties. [More…]

• This country is in a crisis state. [More…]

• By the manner in which he discharged that task- by the manner in which he carried out his duties, throughout his term as Speaker and during the gravest crisis ever confronted by the Parliament- the honourable member brought credit and dignity to his office, and earned, as no Speaker has before him, the right to continue in the chair. [More…]

• At the root of the economic crisis is a steadily increasing tax burden required to finance, at the expense of the private sector, an ever-growing public sector. [More…]

• Measures to deal with this crisis will advance Australia towards the long-term goal of a society based on freedom and on the mutual respect freedom makes possible. [More…]

• Alongside its assistance to manufacturing and other industries, the Government has taken action to assist the rural community to overcome its present crisis. [More…]

• I believe that we should keep this matter under consideration and allocate finance or assistance as it is necessary and in time to prevent a crisis situation from developing. [More…]

• During the crisis I made one or two speeches here round that theme in which I indicated that really it is nonsense for a government to be in a situation of having permanent public servants, legally employed, whom it cannot sack but because of a failure to get a piece of legislation through, not being able to pay them. [More…]

• The suggestion made by the honourable member for Darling that the Parliament should give greater consideration to members of electorates concerned in times of crisis should be taken a great deal further. [More…]

• This is important to the people and at times of crisis the member has a responsibility to be in his electorate and the Parliament and the Government should make available such facilities as are necessary to a member in such circumstances. [More…]

• While I was there in the anteroom, waiting upon the Governor-General and the then Prime Minister who were having discussions, the GovernorGeneral ‘s private secretary, Mr David Smith, said in conversation to me that they already had a plan to solve the constitutional crisis. [More…]

• I believe that at present the Australian people understand the very deep crisis into which this country has been plunged. [More…]

• When the Second World War commenced, America was about nineteenth on the list of countries in armed strength, and managed from this base to get through a very great crisis which it otherwise might not have overcome. [More…]

• I believe that the Australian people fell for the line pushed by the Liberals and the Australian media that Australia alone could have been isolated from the world economic crisis. [More…]

• The recovery would be stimulated also by the improvement in consumer confidence consequent upon the resolution of the constitutional crisis, the impact of easy money and lower interest rates and the flow on of high levels of activity in housing to consumer expenditure on associated items. [More…]

• They tend to side-step the issue and talk about some supposed constitutional crisis that is now in the past. [More…]

• After all, the Speaker had an important message to the effect that the House had noted that the Supply crisis was over, that the House had no confidence in the caretaker Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, and that the House in fact reaffirmed its confidence in Mr Whitlam as Prime Minister. [More…]

• I should like to direct the attention of honourable members to the crisis in the dairy industry. [More…]

• Surely, as Laski went on to write, the mere fact that we do not know the limits of the royal power, that it remains to be invoked on one side or the other in the twilight zone of crisis, is sufficient evidence to indicate the difficulties of the position. [More…]

• At the root of the economic crisis is a steadily increasing tax burden required to finance, at the expense of the private sector, an ever-growing public sector. [More…]

• Will he also confer with the South Australian Minister for Transport to seek a temporary easing of the load limits between Port Augusta and Pimba during this and any future Commonwealth railways crisis on the central Australian railway system? [More…]

• What we can see, in any case, is that neocapitalism, with its pretensions to have found the answer to Marx, was the expression of a temporary situation, borne along not by its own dynamic but by the upwards wave of the economic cycle; but the vision of a society dedicated to welfare, not to power and profit- the only vision that makes sense in today ‘s circumstances- still eludes us, and will do so until another crisis, even more crippling than the crisis that is brewing today, brings home to the whole world the perils it faces. [More…]

• We know very well that the performance of the other countries to which the honourable member for Gellibrand referred has been relatively much better than Australia’s performance, even bearing in mind that each of the other industrialised countries was subject to the consequences of the oil crisis when we were 70 per cent self-sufficient. [More…]

• If one thinks back to 1970, the real crisis for the States at that time was the enormous interest bill, the enormous debt sinking fund requirement, and the disproportionate situation between the States and the Commonwealth Government in relation to the Commonwealth’s part in the annual expenditure of funds. [More…]

• There is a crisis in our economy but I hope that by concentrating on it we do not forget our defence system. [More…]

• the Speech makes no reference to the need for action to ensure that there cannot be a recurrence of the Constitutional crisis which threatens the continuation of the Australian Parliamentary system and [More…]

• In his amendment the honourable member for Scullin went on to say that: … the speech makes no reference to the need for action to ensure that there cannot be a recurrence of the Constitutional crisis which threatens the continuation of the Australian Parliamentary system . [More…]

• In the last 3 years we have had a serious economic crisis that has needlessly been brought upon Australia, an economic crisis that has harmed all Australians and the weak most of all. [More…]

• The crisis was principally caused by a failure on the part of the former Government to plan and to act responsibly. [More…]

• The constitutional crisis led to its achievement of government. [More…]

• Much has been said about the constitutional crisis and, whilst I do not intend to spend much time on it, I certainly endorse what has been said by my colleagues about what happened in Australia on 1 1 November. [More…]

• To that person’s credit, when the Budget crisis developed last year he did the right thing. [More…]

• They did not have the guts to reject it; they just deferred it, thus precipitating a crisis. [More…]

• I come back to the constitutional crisis that erupted following deferral of the Budget. [More…]

• In our preoccupation in this country with using the antiquated political nostrums of this Government to overcome what is a world depression we neglect and forget the social and political crisis which the fundamental conservatism of the present Government could never properly evaluate, much less understand. [More…]

• Successive phases of the world currency crisis were, in 1968, the introduction of the 2-tier gold price and the ‘dollar shock’ of August 1971. [More…]

• The first 2 Australian warships to anchor there were called away in reponse to the crisis in Timor, the first shattering of any dream that Australia faced a long term period of tranquillity. [More…]

• What the Governor-General did on Remembrance Day will go down in history as one of the greatest travesties on political law, on democracy, that has ever been witnessed in this country, because if the Governor-General of this country is to be given the right, under the powers of the royal prerogative, to sack any government that he chooses, as he did on this occasion, no government could survive in a time of economic crisis. [More…]

• the Speech makes no reference to the need for action to ensure that there will not be a recurrence of the constitutional crisis which threatens the continuation of the Australian parliamentary system and [More…]

• I now refer to the second part of the amendment to the effect that the Governor-General’s Speech makes no reference to the need for action to ensure that there cannot be a recurrence of the constitutional crisis. [More…]

• Either those on the other side believe that there was no constitutional crisis; either they believe that the GovernorGeneral at any time can willy-nilly dismiss the government of the day- a government properly elected, properly in office, never having acted illegally- or they must concede that there was a constitutional crisis that had to be resolved by the Governor-General. [More…]

• If they believe- from the words of my friends in the National Country Party, or whatever that party calls itself this week- that there was a constitutional crisis, it seems to me that they ought to set about doing something to correct that situation. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite are sincere about ensuring that crisis does not arise again, will they agree to support a proposition that there be a joint sitting of the Houses prior to an election. [More…]

• Part of the burden of the amendment is associated with the financial preeminence of the House of Representatives, the recent constitutional crisis and the events which led up to it. [More…]

• We will stand solidly behind our’ Leader in the crisis which has now blown over because Mr Fischer, I understand, has stated in Singapore that money was never mentioned at any interview he had with the Labor Leader and that he is going to issue writs against the Murdoch Press. [More…]

• Is he aware that there is an extreme crisis because of under use of resources in this sector of the construction industry? [More…]

• I know that paragraph (b) of the amendment does refer to the constitutional crisis, but I suggest to the honourable member for Melbourne that he is covering and canvassing what happened in the debate which took place in this chamber today. [More…]

• The situation is that so long as you do not refer to the debate this morning you can refer to the subject of the constitutional crisis. [More…]

• I notice that in all the speeches that have been made by the new members and by the older members, no reference has been made to the constitutional crisis and the role of the Governor-General. [More…]

• Motor vehicle manufacturing in Australia at the moment is in a state of crisis. [More…]

• I and other Opposition speakers pointed out during a recent urgency debate on the economy that all the measures taken by this Government have imperilled- severely jeopardisedthe recovery planned in the 1975-76 Budget, which plans were seen to be working in spite of the hampering of the constitutional crisis. [More…]

• There would have been a tremendous outflow of funds from various institutions, and we would have had a real liquidity crisis on our hands. [More…]

• It is because the livelihood of our 2000 growers and their families is affected by this crisis, along with the workers in canneries, that the Opposition will support this legislation. [More…]

• The first crack appeared with Britain’s devaluation in 1967, which in itself makes a mockery of suggestions that there was a 10 year crisis. [More…]

• In fact, the Victorian Government is still fostering closer settlement for dairying at this time of crisis for this industry. [More…]

• The Speech makes no reference to the need for action to ensure there cannot be a recurrence of the Constitutional crisis which threatens the continuation of the Australian Parliamentary system, . [More…]

• I do not want to get too far into the whole question of the constitutional crisis but what I should like to deal with is the question as to whether there ought to be a threat against persons who wish to discuss the need for action. [More…]

• I think it is important that if there is to be discussion of the constitutional crisis which occurred last year, that discussion ought to be allowed to range as widely as possible. [More…]

• Paragraph (b) reads: the Speech makes no reference to the need for action to ensure that there cannot be a recurrence of the Constitutional crisis which threatens the continuation of the Australian Parliamentary system. [More…]

• Surely, if nearly 50 per cent of the people in a democratic country are not only hopeful but also adamant that another constitutional crisis will not occur, then it is reasonable that a government should acknowledge and dispel such fears. [More…]

• the Speech makes no reference to the need for action to ensure that there cannot be a recurrence of the Constitutional crisis which threatens the continuation of the Australian Parliamentary system; and [More…]

• Before we get to the aspect of the amendment dealing with the constitutional crisis, I think it is important to mention that the Australian Parliament has an important place in the world of defence and foreign affairs. [More…]

• If former conventions as they had existed for the past 75 years were applied- and conventions always have the force of law until they are broken, and they have now been broken- there would be no need to discuss this crisis. [More…]

• The special savings bonds introduced by the Treasury which attracted subscriptions to 10 February of $565.2m have caused a very great crisis because of the very high rate of interest which they carry. [More…]

• Many things are the legacy of the Hayden Budget and one of these unfortunately is that the Hayden Budget in its overall contract produced a housing and accommodation crisis. [More…]

• Public housing policy has long been aimed at several worthy objectives; basically these are: redistribution to the poor via permanent habitation at concessional prices and rentals; rescue in emergencies for households or individuals at some point of crisis; the provision of choice of habitation, especially for the poor, by increasing low cost options and keeping the market diverse and competitive. [More…]

• One is a humanitarian issue concerning the amounts we give to international disaster assistance, and I should like to inject some new thoughts concerning the crisis in Timor. [More…]

• Ever since the world oil crisis came about we have had problems keeping our existing markets. [More…]

• Nearly 7 per cent had been dismissed, while the rest had resigned for reasons such as ill health, moving to another locality or family crisis. [More…]

• No doubt, as Mr Brewer points out, generally speaking persons possessing job skills are untouched by the current unemployment crisis. [More…]

• the Speech makes no reference to the need for action to ensure that there cannot be a recurrence of the Constitutional crisis which threatens the continuation of the Australian Parliamentary system . [More…]

• the Speech makes no reference to the need for action to ensure that there cannot be a recurrence of the Constitutional crisis which threatens the continuation of the Australian Parliamentary system . [More…]

• That would mean that the constitutional crisis which this country suffered last year could never recur. [More…]

• The GovernorGeneral ‘s Speech makes no reference to the need for action to ensure that there cannot be a recurrence of the constitutional crisis which threatens the continuation of the Australian parliamentary system as we know it. [More…]

• Yet the constitutional crisis shook the very foundation of the people’s form of government. [More…]

• Last year’s oil crisis brought this sharply home to all of us- developed and developing alike. [More…]

• Quite plainly a very severe crisis exists here. [More…]

• There is no sign that the Government has recognised the dimensions of the crisis. [More…]

• Unless the Government recognises the extent of the crisis and acts to stem the tide, the building industry faces years of chaos and continued decay. [More…]

• Building societies have suffered a liquidity crisis through declining investment confidence. [More…]

• The Master Builders Association of New South Wales is among the bodies that are seriously concerned about the current crisis. [More…]

• They of course are professionally involved with the early pipeline activity and their inactivity spells crisis for many other professional and trade groups. [More…]

• So the crisis goes on. [More…]

• As such it provides an important stimulus for that industry to recover from its current state of crisis. [More…]

• Whilst they possibly will not be in a position to benefit, at least by giving encouragement to others to save to purchase their own home the present rental accommodation crisis in all States will be somewhat relieved, thus allowing these homeless people the opportunity of living with a sense of decency and dignity. [More…]

• History will prove again- as the crisis that occurred in December 1972 can change governments- that in May 1974 the anti-government vote increased in Sydney and Melbourne because of the hysteria that was created by an economic slump which was affecting not only this country but all countries in the Western world. [More…]

• The building society liquidity crisis has a great deal to do with the Government’s monetary policy and the drawing off of available investment into the Commonwealth loans area. [More…]

• That Government has not shown one skerrick of concern, one bit of indication that one solitary initiative is to be taken to cope with the present crisis. [More…]

• The housing and economic situation in Australia has reached a crisis. [More…]

• When debate on foreign investment first began the world had not been confronted with an energy crisis. [More…]

• Added employment of Australian citizens, particularly during the present unemployment crisis, the royalties and taxes extracted, together with the foreign exchange generated by exports, are all benefits to Australia and far exceed the profits enjoyed by foreign investors, no matter what is the amount of their equity. [More…]

• Arising out of the November crisis and the sacking of the Whitlam Government, has the parliamentary system failed? [More…]

• The funds allocated in 1973-74 and 1974-75 were $10,500 and $39,600, respectively, for the purpose of operating a Socio-medical crisis intervention and outreach centre. [More…]

• I hope that the concern which the honourable member has expressed with respect to their income from vegetable growing might extend to their overall economic circumstances, for many growers in that area are subjected to an extraordinary drop in income to far below average weekly earnings, simply because of the crisis in the dairy industry. [More…]

• On the contrary, a scheme like the current one which is production orientated gives the larger grower a larger proportion of the funds available and the smaller grower receives only a small amount of the funds available which, in many cases, just becomes a form of welfare assistance rather than viable support to take growers over the hump of any particular crisis. [More…]

• Quite apart from the effects on Australia of a loss of export income, the crisis on the farms is thus bad news for the cities as well. [More…]

• It is not the sort of welfare initiative which gets votes but it is the sort of welfare initiatives which satisfies one greatly because one realises that one has discharged a very important moral obligation in society to do something for the very serious social casualties that we do have in our community, and to help the very worthwhile people who dedicate their lives to helping the men and women who are homeless and who are drifting in the community, often in a situation of that nature because of some sort of crisis that has occurred in their life. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable member that it will be the intention of this Government to overcome the inflationary crisis that is wrecking the whole social and economic structure of this country. [More…]

• Improved unemployment benefit criteria for farmers will help, but there still will be a cash flow crisis. [More…]

• It is people who are involved in this crisis, not just rural products. [More…]

• He will be aware that the dairy industry will face a crisis situation after 1 July, when the present underwriting ends and the new production year begins, at least until the long term arrangements for the industry are developed after Sir John Crawford reports at the end of August. [More…]

• In one question, I was asked, ‘Arising out of the November crisis and the sacking of the Whitlam Government, has the Parliamentary system failed, if so, what alternatives are available?’ [More…]

• I said capitalism in the western world was in a crisis situation. [More…]

• I must say that I regret the rather macabre way in which these programs are being portrayed on television, yet perhaps in the result there might be a recognition by many who see their meat only hanging in a butchers shop or in a supermarket deep freeze of the very real crisis that prevails in many of the farming areas of Australia. [More…]

• However, while costs continue to rise and profits to fall, it is the cost-price squeeze essentially which is causing the crisis facing the rural sector. [More…]

• It is the Government’s firm view that there needs to be a continuation of support to help fruit growers in what is quite a critical economic crisis. [More…]

• He asked could I please raise this matter because the legal profession in Victoria, like the profession elsewhere, has said that a crisis situation now exists in Victoria. [More…]

• This is creating a crisis. [More…]

• Last season an estimated crop of 470 000 tonnes would have created a crisis but for several factors, particularly the high incidence of downy mildew, which resulted in a crushing of 412 000 tonnes. [More…]

• The traditional signs of economic crisis in the rural sector are with us: The destruction of livestock, some form of Government help to impoverished small farmers, and severe unemployment in country towns. [More…]

• It is a matter of record that the oil crisis which obtained in the world in recent years had a significant effect on the economies of a large number of the trading nations of the world, particularly amongst the OECD countries. [More…]

• That turn around of something in excess of US$35 billion is representative of the effect largely of the oil crisis and the actions of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries in pursuing the policy on the pricing of oil that they chose to pursue. [More…]

• It is, I think, one of those examples of significant international co-operation in the field of trade that Australia, in concert with other member countries of the OECD, is prepared to undertake commitments which will assist the world as a trading entity to see that the effects of the oil crisis will not be too long term and will not cause significant degrees of disruption. [More…]

• The Australian economy is significantly dependent on overseas trade and obviously in our economic considerations we have a vested interest in seeing that trade is allowed to continue on a stable and growing basis and that we do not have significant disruptions in the pattern of world trade as a result of events such as the oil crisis. [More…]

• It is designed by the OECD to meet the problems of particular countries in overcoming the domestic problems that might arise as a result of the actions of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries which caused what is generally called the ‘oil crisis’ of the last couple of years. [More…]

• The Fund is there as a standby to assist that particular country and its economy to overcome oil crisis-related problems. [More…]

• I think it is a credit to the OECD that it has been able to negotiate an arrangement which will work to the benefit of its members, an arrangement which will enable the member nations of the OECD, should they have a problem arising from the oil crisis, to have that problem satisfied. [More…]

• ‘The Federal Government move away from this area will create a crisis of care for certain needy people which cannot be overlooked’. [More…]

• In a letter to the Prime Minister the Secretary of the Labor Council, Mr John Ducker, said that the downturn in manufacturing industry had caused a crisis. [More…]

• He will be aware of the difficulties being experienced by many towns and cities due to very heavy increases in the cost of producing town gas since the onset of the oil crisis. [More…]

• This has resulted largely because of increased import prices for crude oil since the oil crisis. [More…]

• I give notice that I will press for this as soon as the present economic crisis is under control. [More…]

• The States have joined with the Commonwealth in accepting responsibility for providing financial relief to help farmers weather this crisis or facilitate their exit from dairying where this seems to be the more prudent course. [More…]

• One hundred years ago nobody could have foreseen the pattern of environmental crisis which was to develop in our society as we became industrialised. [More…]

• In Australia today we see the manifestation of that crisis in many areas. [More…]

• Few people in this country could afford the cost of that sort of crisis if it occurred to them. [More…]

• The States have joined with the Commonwealth in accepting responsibility for providing financial relief to help farmers weather this crisis or facilitate their exit from dairying where this seems to be the more prudent course. [More…]

• The current crisis in the dairy industry is yet another manifestation of the effect of sinusoidal fluctuations in the world supply and price of manufactured milk products. [More…]

• This is the sort of nonsense that he tried to put over to the farmers in Launceston last week, in the State most affected by this dairying crisis. [More…]

• The old Country Party shibboleth has manifested itself- again-encourage production, ignore world trends, wait until a crisis is around one’s ears and then vacillate, call for a second, superflous IAC report on the industry, which the Minister has just done, and waffle at farmer meetings month in and month out while thousands of families go destitute across the nation. [More…]

• The particular crisis facing the industry today has been caused by these contracting markets in addition to a huge increase in dairy farmers’ production costs and in factory costs. [More…]

• I have mentioned some of the reasons for the crisis in the dairy industry. [More…]

• This situation has gone on and on until now it has reached a crisis point in which the whole industry is in danger of complete collapse. [More…]

• They are even used by officials during times of crisis. [More…]

• On the other hand, the Government is revealed as lurching from crisis to crisis, adopting an ad hoc approach and not following any practical guidelines. [More…]

• The crisis is here and now, and the establishment of yet another committee will not solve it. [More…]

• Australia has argued strongly within the present series of MTN discussions, as well as bilaterally, for increased liberalisation of import trade barriers and domestic dairy support and export regimes, especially by the EEC, Japan, Canada and the United States whose dairy policies collectively have been a major factor in the present crisis in the world dairy market. [More…]

• There should be provision in the Act to enable these new repeater facilities in times of crisis in a given area actually to go on the air from the transmitter in a purely local capacity to provide vital and often lifesaving communications and information. [More…]

• For 23 years the conservative governments of this nation excluded the human and social problems that built up in the urban community and a crisis situation occurred in Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]

• This was referred to as crisis financing and was applauded by the then Opposition spokesman who today sit on the Government side. [More…]

• The Australian Government is refusing to appropriate funds for this necessary form of preservation in a time of crisis. [More…]

• What I am saying is that since the crisis in the Lebanon developed the Government has been in close and continuing consultation with leaders of the Lebanese community in Australia. [More…]

• There is no place for scabs in a situation of national crisis. [More…]

• Look at the building industry in New South Wales, for example, where we have the deepest crisis seen for decades. [More…]

• The Europeans are seeking massive government support to see them through the crisis. [More…]

• I would appeal to the Ministers in the State Government and also to our Federal Ministers to act upon that provision more in the future because in my area the beef crisis is very real indeed. [More…]

• It must be decided to what extent people should be supported by the community in times of stress or crisis and the need for continuing support for those who have some more permanent social or economic disadvantage. [More…]

• Again it took the Australian Financial Review to bring to light the fact that BHP had put in a submission which, in effect, asked the Government to dump the shipbuilding industry, asked the Government to give BHP the opportunity to take short term advantage of the record depression that exists in world shipbuilding yards and which followed the energy crisis in 1973. [More…]

• There exists in these areas an economic and social crisis of considerable magnitude. [More…]

• This crisis has gone beyond the point where it can be classified as an industrial problem. [More…]

• The crisis cannot be seen simply in economic terms. [More…]

• The world economy has been shaken by the energy crisis, inflation and severe recession, and both our economies have suffered as a result- more so than most other developed countries. [More…]

• I simply ask the Government: Must our resource situation reach crisis point before we learn the lesson that natural resources require national management if we are to achieve maximum national benefit? [More…]

• With regard to apprenticeships, the most recent figures available indicate that in New South Wales alone- I accept that the extent of the crisis in this industry varies from State to State with New South Wales being accepted by all, including the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), as the worst affected- over 1650 apprentices from this industry are now on the dole. [More…]

• The doctrinaire policies espoused by the Deputy Prime Minister are causing calamity and crisis that can only increase and which are already reaching proportions which will cause very great suffering among the Australian people. [More…]

• The crisis of confidence amongst businessmen in AlburyWodonga is a consequence of this Government’s vacillation as the future of that growth centre is already evident. [More…]

• In the long term we must eliminate the crisis orientation associated with our undue emphasis upon the annual Budget. [More…]

• Will the Government react to this crisis situation in any positive manner or will it continue its policy of abandonment of this key industry which has already reached a peak of unemployment? [More…]

• When it came to power it decided that it was going to negotiate new contracts in Japan, but because there was a political crisis in Australia and it had to be resolved in 24 hours it did not matter what happened to the coal industry. [More…]

• Australia did not feel the full effects of the energy crisis a couple of years ago because previously the former Liberal-Country Party Administration had encouraged oil search and there had been a measure of success. [More…]

• Fortunately during these crisis years there were Premiers like the honourable Joh Bjelke-Petersen from Queensland who were aware that the Labor Administration was catapulting us into the bottomless pit of disaster. [More…]

• Not to admit its mistakes, not to take the people into its confidence, but to cut back funds for unemployment benefits and to conceal the real dimensions of the unemployment crisis by abolishing seasonally adjusted figures. [More…]

• There was a crisis climate created in this Parliament. [More…]

• The then Opposition created a crisis climate by rejecting our Budget in 1974. [More…]

• The Prime Minister should be getting the Russians and the Americans together to work out how they can get their ships through without this crisis complex developing. [More…]

• I urge the Government to take steps immediately to mount an extensive advertising and communication campaign, at whatever cost, explaining the seriousness of the economic situation, explaining the Government’s economic strategy as I have briefly outlined it here and explaining why it is absolutely vital that we all work together in this crisis. [More…]

• On 1 April this year I made a statement to the Parliament pointing out the Government’s sympathetic attitude to the victims of the present crisis, particularly those with relatives in Australia, and outlining special arrangements which were being put in train to assist them. [More…]

• Firstly, during the crisis in Lebanon, we maintained a presence in Beirut sometimes under conditions of quite extreme danger. [More…]

• Every crisis sends more people into unemployment. [More…]

• The massive increase in oil prices by the members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries in 1973, the food crisis of 1973-74 and shortages of some basic raw materials created a feeling of insecurity on the part of many importing countries about the supply of essential primary products. [More…]

• The Government’s perfunctory response to the unemployment crisis. [More…]

• -The Opposition brings this matter of public importance before the House today because it is gravely concerned at the current and growing unemployment crisis in this country. [More…]

• It is also concerned at the Government’s perfunctory response to that crisis. [More…]

• The extent of the problem is something which is fairly common knowledge to members of this Parliament, but may I just quickly reiterate the developing crisis which confronts us now. [More…]

• All of that adds up to a crisis picture. [More…]

• The Government’s response to that crisis has been minimal, to say the least. [More…]

• It will not have the effect of doing anything about the present crisis. [More…]

• All that the Government has done in response to the crisis can be described as perfunctory. [More…]

• The Opposition pretends that it is gravely concerned at the unemployment crisis in Australia. [More…]

• The reconstruction of the damaged countries has ended and we are again in a classic period of economic crisis. [More…]

• This debate manufactures a crisis where none exists. [More…]

• If his Government had done that, we would not now be facing the worst economic crisis this country has seen since the Depression. [More…]

• It is this economic crisis which has caused the problems for young people in the cities. [More…]

• It is this economic crisis which has provided the high inflation rates, the structural land problems and so on about which the honourable gentleman was talking. [More…]

• We are at a crisis stage in democracy in Australia because of the out of balance situation that has developed between the House of Representatives and the Senate. [More…]

• There was a sense of crisis, a sense of drama. [More…]

• The actions of the Senate had caused a constitutional crisis and one man made a decision to dismiss the duly elected Government. [More…]

• We made a start in this area during our short period in government by setting up the Priorities Review Staff which has now, I understand, been absorbed in or lost in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet- the estimates for which we are now debating- which is acting as a task force in a typically Liberal way by directing its attention to the latest policy crisis area which arises- ad hoc-ism stop-and-go-ism. [More…]

• It is quite clear that the nature of the Australian work force altered in a crisis way during the past 3 years. [More…]

• The germ of the answers to those questions can be found in the crisis that developed in the Australian work force during the past 3 years. [More…]

• Let me look at what that crisis situation is that developed in the nature of the Australian work force. [More…]

• However, the Government is most concerned not only that there is a marketing crisis in the dairying industry but also that the production downturn flowing from dry conditions across most of southern Australia has led to an even lower expectation of production this year than was earlier indicated. [More…]

• Any attempt to fill this office with a person who would be, by virtue of background, constrained not to act in a constitutional crisis would be to place this nation in a dangerous situation. [More…]

• We in Australia face a grave energy crisis. [More…]

• At the present time the dairy industry in Australia is suffering from probably the greatest crisis in its history. [More…]

• The crisis in the Australian Opera, to which the Government has grudgingly responded, is only one reflection of the difficulties faced by the performing arts in Australia. [More…]

• The Age on 2 August reported a statement by the chairman of the Victorian Liberal Party’s art committee, Mr Peter Block, that the performing arts are at ‘crisis point’. [More…]

• The Government is silent about the future of the film industry, just as it is silent about the crisis in the performing arts. [More…]

• The crisis in the Australian Opera was referred to by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• The present crisis was prompted by the former military dictator coming back to the country. [More…]

• Australia today is facing a crisis of leadership. [More…]

• Many of the farmers in drought-stricken areas to whom I have spoken say that they are most in need of low interest short-term loans to cover farm operations through the crisis period. [More…]

• Most people have welcomed initiatives by producer organisations and by the Commonwealth and State governments to improve the situation in the beef industry, an industry that has been in a crisis situation for some 2 years. [More…]

• This crisis has had the effect of making all sections of the meat industry look more realistically at its situation. [More…]

• The longer the crisis lasted the more the scope of the operation in Nicosia grew, and each week twice the number of applications that could be handled were received. [More…]

• The crisis ran longer, and so too did the plight of the Lebanese presenting themselves become more serious. [More…]

• When the crisis began it was those with money who left first. [More…]

• Finally, he should begin to think about how this type of regional refugee problem should be faced in the future because his ad hoc crisis reaction approach to this problem has resulted in disaster. [More…]

• The Minister of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Lebanese diplomatic representatives in Australia and the Australian-Lebanese Association have been in close contact throughout the crisis in Lebanon and many measures have been taken to assist the plight of the Lebanese who have been unable to flee Lebanon. [More…]

• Listening to the speeches of honourable members one would imagine that not a single person got a visa in the crisis at Damascus. [More…]

• Our Government for the first time responded to the crisis situation in many rural areas and among many self-employed people. [More…]

• In the meantime, the constitutional crisis blew up. [More…]

• It was designed for the preenergy crisis. [More…]

• We are now in the depths of a postenergy crisis and a world depression in shipbuilding. [More…]

• During the post-energy crisis Japan devalued heavily. [More…]

• On how many occasions during the 3 years of Labor Government did the honourable member for Port Adelaide speak on the crisis in the Australian shipbuilding industry? [More…]

• It is only in times of crisis that one sees the real value of the Australian, how he can work with his fellow man and how all Australia can mobilise itself. [More…]

• In Victoria the crisis facing the residential sector is a little better. [More…]

• I believe that the Minister, even by his silence, would acknowledge that New South Wales is the crisis element of housing. [More…]

• The Government’s decision not to provide funds for any new projects under the Act will prolong the crisis of Australian cities. [More…]

• In fact coal today, thanks to a Labor government and thanks exclusively to a Labor government, is Australia’s major export earner and it will continue in that role despite what may happen in the way of a world economic crisis. [More…]

• Of course, the seeds of this grew from the oil crisis of that year when the developing world, through no fault of its own, found itself in an even worse position than the developed world. [More…]

• What action does the Government intend to take to assist the people of Queenstown in their present crisis? [More…]

• I refer to a Press statement of 5 September, which reads: ‘Beef crisis is a social and economic crisis’, says Ian Sinclair. [More…]

• The Commission considers that the Australian Government should examine the possibility of prescribing export abattoirs affected by the crisis in the beef industry as qualifying for assistance under the SANMA scheme. [More…]

• Urban decay and an energy crisis will be solved by technology, not by returning to a simpler way of life. [More…]

• The Labor Party believes that the crisis which would be caused by such a rejection should lead to a long term solution. [More…]

• We came to office after 23 years in a time of international economic crisis; after 18 months our term was cut short. [More…]

• What has been done to meet the crisis of literacy by pointing out that in some comparable countries such as New Zealand or the United Kingdom things are even worse. [More…]

• Today I have merely attempted to bring the current crisis concerning literacy to the attention of the House. [More…]

• The ADC and the Dairying Research Committee will be able to play their respective parts in assisting the dairy industry through its present crisis. [More…]

• The Governor-General’s prerogative powers, powers which are essential to the preservation of Australian democracy, are the safety valve that ensures that in times of crisis it is the people exercising the ultimate right in democracy who have a say in determining the future of their government. [More…]

• But I tell the House this: I sought during the crisis to get a man into Darwin. [More…]

• The Australian defence aircraft industry has for a number of years been limping from one crisis to another. [More…]

• When the Arbitration Commission granted full indexation for the September quarter the Government responded by vilifying the Commission and blaming it for our economic crisis. [More…]

• While arguments in favour of solar energy are attractive, the plain fact of the matter is that this energy source is not capable of commercially meeting the energy crisis which is looming large as the world’s oil sources dry up. [More…]

• The human tragedy and devastation resulting from the Lebanon crisis is so immense that they create claims of great moral weight on other nations to take action to alleviate suffering. [More…]

• Iraq and Libya have tended to frustrate a solution to the Lebanon crisis. [More…]

• This is in part because of an atmosphere of deceit surrounding the crisis. [More…]

• The lack of adequate reaction by the International Committee of the Red Cross is one of the most depressing aspects of the crisis. [More…]

• It is not always the fault of the Government of the day that some sections of our economy are facing a crisis. [More…]

• What we get is an exercise in the politics of confrontation, an almost lunatic determination to build the Newport power station at all costs, to the extent that the issue has become the focus of crisis in Victoria. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Prime Minister been drawn to the Sente Select Committee report on the Mount Lyell crisis which was handed down last Friday in the Senate? [More…]

• On AM on Thursday there was a report drawing attention to grave anxiety among senior businessmen and economists about the state of the Australian economy and the Government’s floundering and chaotic measures to deal with the crisis. [More…]

• What would happen if industrial problems occurred during a time of crisis? [More…]

• The Opposition insists on stating the proposition in its own way and making the point that, in view of the Opposition, the Government is ignoring the crisis in the whole communication industry in most parts of the world. [More…]

• In fact, the beef farmer has been in crisis for not less than 2 years. [More…]

• But it is not only the important quotas that have caused the crisis in most areas of the textile industry. [More…]

• I am asked whether there is a cash crisis. [More…]

• That should prevent any cash crisis for the Corporation occurring in the short term. [More…]

• Those of us who have occupied that position know that the House often tumbles quickly into a state of crisis. [More…]

• Although the Standing Orders are written in ex- quisitely fine language, sometimes the nuances of tern are difficult to understand in a time of crisis. [More…]

• In a situation of, say, economic or another form of crisis, that would make the position of government impossible. [More…]

• Australian manufacturing industry is in acute financial crisis. [More…]

• With reference to the interim report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into the Lebanon Crisis, and the quoted figure of 1835 [More…]

• Everyone knows, with the exception of the leaders of the Government, that the economy is in crisis. [More…]

• So there we have it- an economy in crisis, a crisis of this Government’s making. [More…]

• Whatever the reason, Whitlam retreated to the Lodge for many weeks and his Government was left without strong leadership, in a rudderless condition, shining from crisis to crisis, being discredited each day. [More…]

• Throughout our economic crisis the Government’s chief weapon has been the lie. [More…]

• During the great constitutional crisis in October and November 1975, a crisis - [More…]

• The rural sector- or sections of it- continues to experience crisis conditions. [More…]

• That distortion allowed the Senate to vote to defer Supply- a vote which could not have been passed if the late Senator Milliner had been replaced by a Labor Party senator- and to bring on the instability and crisis in November and December 1975. [More…]

• Excessive union wage demands have caused Australia’s unemployment and inflation crisis. [More…]

• It has deliberately imposed staff ceilings, with the result that today fewer people are employed in the Commonwealth Employment Service, particularly in New South Wales, than when the crisis began. [More…]

• The two honourable members from the Opposition side who have spoken suggested that the answers are simple and that it is easy to overcome the unemployment crisis. [More…]

• The Minister has mentioned a number of anomalies that occur when employers who appear to be genuine people are saying that there is no unemployment crisis and they cannot get people to fill jobs. [More…]

• An initial reaction might be that he would do better to devote whatever intellectual capacity he may have to making some contribution towards the solution of the country’s worsening economic crisis rather than to verse. [More…]

• Beef crisis is a social and economic crisis’, says Ian Sinclair. [More…]

• What we are facing now is a massive social crisis in some sections of the beef industry. [More…]

• So let us talk about what should be done to help this nation in a crisis, which is what we now have. [More…]

• I notice, towards the end of the table, a break from 1954 to 1971 without any crisis in this regard. [More…]

• The occasion in 1971 was a very serious crisis. [More…]

• They indicate a complete social crisis in the countryside. [More…]

• At the moment we have an economic crisis which we inherited from our predecessor. [More…]

• It is yet another aspect of the national credibility crisis. [More…]

• As our economic crisis and our national crisis deepens there will be more attacks on living standards, more unemployment, more pressure on the wages of ordinary breadwinners and families. [More…]

• So, with the dual trends of higher production costs and shrinking export markets, the industry now is facing continuing social crisis. [More…]

• It is because of this social crisis that the Opposition seeks to amend the legislation to help maintain the real incomes of growers and to secure adjustment within the industry that may allow it better to tailor its production to available markets. [More…]

• The industry is facing a critical export crisis. [More…]

• The approach of the Government in not accepting the recommendations of the Industries Assistance Commission, in not putting forward a positive plan for a rationalisation of the industry, has left growers in a subsistence situation in which they face a continuing social crisis. [More…]

• But now they are approaching a crisis position and they are very much dependent on their Tasmanian representatives. [More…]

• Following the financial crisis of that year, which precipitated the fall of the Labour Government headed by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, the King followed strict constitutional practice and sought to determine a future government for Britain. [More…]

• I believe our Governor-General could well have been praying during October and early November 1975 that the political and constitutional crisis which existed in this country would resolve itself at Parliament House so that he could avoid involvement in controversy, but when it did not, he was bound to act. [More…]

• One cannot blame the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) for holding out in the hope that the then Opposition senators would abandon their stand, but in retrospect even the most politically biased must admit his proposal for a half-Senate election would have simply served to prolong the national crisis and agony. [More…]

• The crisis that this country faces, irrespective of whether it has a monarchy or is a republic, without a vast constitutional amendment, is simply the question summed up so eloquently by Sir Robert Garran when he quoted what J. W. Hackett once said. [More…]

• The people of Australia must be reminded or, even more drastically, jolted out of their apathy in relation to the energy crisis. [More…]

• There is a belief abroad that those people who talk about an Australian energy crisis are eco-nuts pushing some hobby horse; that they are people who were frightened by a motor car at birth or who have some masochistic desire to ride bicycles around the countryside in the rain. [More…]

• Australia is facing a crisis, not because we are poor in resources but because our ‘mix’ of different resources does not match our ‘mix’ of projected demand, both as to the type of energy resources required and to the geographic location of the available resources within this country. [More…]

• After an unprecedented world economic crisis in 1974 and continuing into 1975- something which happened not only in Australia but also in every comparable country- we had a slow but sure return to economic health taking place about IS months ago. [More…]

• Then this country was plunged by the Liberal and National Country Parties into a political crisis. [More…]

• In using the comparative figures related to the December quarter of 1975, these Fraser Government leaders are seeking to persuade us to forget that they are making comparisons with an economic quarter in which thenown abominable actions created a political and economic crisis. [More…]

• We need to face the facts that the slow but steady recovery from the world economic crisis, which was under way when the Liberal and National Country Parties usurped power, was halted by consecutive policies. [More…]

• At the root of the economic crisis is a steadily increasing tax burden required to finance, at the expense of the private sector, an ever-growing public sector. [More…]

• Measures to deal with this crisis will advance Australia towards the long-term goal of a society based on freedom and on the mutual respect freedom makes possible. [More…]

• Apart from the increase in the cost of goods imported from Japan, America and western Europe, Australia was reasonably insulated from the oil crisis. [More…]

• It would appear that Australia could face its energy crisis in the next decade rather than in this one unless appropriate action is taken to prepare for likely massive increases in oil costs. [More…]

• Surely when one hears the sorts of questions asked here, particularly by the group which is not represented in the chamber at the moment, the National Country Party, about what it calls the beef crisis, we perhaps should adopt new and novel methods. [More…]

• We have reached crisis point. [More…]

• Throughout this crisis of surplus cattle, the Government has persisted with a negative program of giving preference to frozen semen without attempting to send any more than 400 of our more productive dairy animals to India, which in no way has matched the effort of our small Agency. [More…]

• They are in a severe financial crisis, loaded with debts, unable to sell most of their crops and facing a return to the factory floorsthat is, if they could get their jobs back, which is very doubtful. [More…]

• He needs special help in language study, especially when it reaches into crisis areas such as industrial safety. [More…]

• I do not think that it was until the Bangladesh crisis some 4 or S years ago that I received any real public response in the street. [More…]

• They are in great demand as mercenaries, as people who can be depended upon in times of crisis. [More…]

• It caused almost single-handedly the economic crisis of the last 3 to 4 years, because the problems with oil and petrol flowed over into the whole problem of the motor vehicle- our inability to use the existing high consumption vehicles, the need for vehicles in toto the decline in the use of oil and so on. [More…]

• After all, developing countries in the world have never faced a greater crisis than they are facing at present, not merely because of the energy crisis, not merely because of oil prices, not merely because of oil inflated prices, but also because of the difficulties that many countries have with nitrogenous fertilisers. [More…]

• I suggest that the Department is extremely slow in its reactions and far too slow in areas of crisis. [More…]

• Australia will face some sort of energy crisis. [More…]

• The oil crisis of 3 years ago created such a situation in Japan that the Japanese community was faced with a position of continuing decline in its industrial development and way of life. [More…]

• It would seem that in the short term the world is indeed suffering some sort of energy crisis. [More…]

• If this energy crisis continues and at no time is regard given to it by Australia and other nations the future looks bleak. [More…]

• There have been articles such as the CIA report on Australian capacity for oil production, and the energy crisis and many other comments in papers and columns of recent days. [More…]

• They found in 1973, as undoubtedly we found, that both Acts had been overlooked and forgotten until a crisis stage was reached. [More…]

• Every day we live, we live closer to or we bring our next generation closer to the crunch of the energy crisis. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the only hope of implementing a price-wage freeze is by gaining the co-operation of the trade unions, and because of the fact that Mr Hawke, whatever his political colour or motives were, was at that time trying to mediate in the crippling Victorian petrol crisis, can the Prime Minister tell me in all seriousness why he chose yesterday to make his attacks and how those attacks will help to bring about closer relations between the Government and the trade union movement? [More…]

• The Right Honourable John Gorton early in 1971, when he was still Prime Minister, admitted that the Commonwealth migration program was creating a crisis for State Education departments and that the Commonwealth would have to put in a special expenditure. [More…]

• There was a world economic crisis during 1974 and 1975. [More…]

• It has been estimated that there will have to be an outlay of $5,900m over a 5-year period to avert a real crisis in the national roads system. [More…]

• Of all the Western countries that should have suffered least from the dramatic inflationary heights due to the oil crisis of late 1973, Australia should have been in the vanguard of escaping that problem. [More…]

• The Mathews Committee recommendations resulted from the Committee’s perception that inflation was causing a crisis in the business sector. [More…]

• That would no doubt strengthen community resolve on this matter before it reaches crisis point. [More…]

• The reference to sub-committee B was to investigate the domestic crisis in Lebanon and its significance to the Middle East situation. [More…]

• Because of the hostilities existing at the time in Lebanon the Committee gave priority to investigating humanitarian aspects of the Lebanon crisis, and a report was presented to Parliament on 2 December 1976. [More…]

• As the energy crisis looms before us we are reminded that the railways do give a better return on fuel consumption compared with road transport, using less than one-third per tonne kilometre of fuel. [More…]

• With regard to the Government’s very sorry record in relation to the Lebanese crisis the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) and myself have raised issues repeatedly in this place concerning the Government’s inaction, its deception of the Lebanese community in Australia and its failure to assist the passage of an adequate number of refugees from this sorry nation to Australia. [More…]

• During the last few years we have witnessed the oil crisis, unprecedented exchange rate fluctuations and world stagflation. [More…]

• Port Huon Waterside Workers have responded to the urgent crisis in the Export Industry with a sustained high loading rate and careful handling which makes this the best port in the Commonwealth for the export of apples. [More…]

• As a result of that, the independent schools face a crisis situation. [More…]

• Bill Crews, Director of the Wayside Chapel’s crisis centre, has written this: [More…]

• Our Crisis Centre bathroom has become a first aid post for these people. [More…]

• And month by month, week by week, day by day, the underlying crisis is deepening. [More…]

• The Treasurer cannot wriggle away from the responsibility for our national crisis by blaming the Labor Government. [More…]

• The crisis for young people is an economic disaster and a human tragedy of a kind we have never experienced. [More…]

• My colleague the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) will outline in this debate some specific measures the Government should take at once to head off our developing unemployment crisis. [More…]

• No one in the Labor Party pretends that our unemployment crisis is other than difficult and deep-seated, or denies that the long term solutions will involve quite drastic approaches to the structural nature of the work force and our industries. [More…]

• The plain fact is that the Government has done nearly everything that needed to be done to reverse the following policies that created the economic crisis of 1974-75 . [More…]

• Members will recall that the Committee tabled on 2 December 1976 a report entitled The Lebanon Crisis- Humanitarian Aspects. [More…]

• The energy crisis of the last few years has had profound implications for international relations and quite clearly is of major concern to the future economic growth and well being of mankind. [More…]

• First there is the impact of the power crisis whose magnitude we have realised only in the last few months. [More…]

• The nuclear power industry may forestall the crisis, if we are lucky, for 40 or 50 years, but what then? [More…]

• He said that the energy crisis was the greatest crisis in the history of the United States, short of the crisis of war. [More…]

• He said that the United States had been hurt by the crisis and that Japan was in even worse straits. [More…]

• He had something to say about the energy crisis, but really his was not the responsibility of solving it. [More…]

• Japan has not yet recovered from the shock of the international oil crisis in 1973 when the action by oil producing countries brought Japan and some other oil importing countries almost to their knees. [More…]

• How many women’s refuge and crisis centres are in existence in each State and Territory. [More…]

• It was prepared to provoke the gravest and most divisive constitutional crisis that this country has seen. [More…]

• The terms of reference for the subcommittee were: ‘The significance of the domestic crisis in Lebanon for the fragile Middle East situation and the possible international repercussions’. [More…]

• The report of the Committee deals with this matter in a number of places and then talks about the need for Australia’s efforts regarding our Lebanese community to be devoted to the integration of the Lebanese who arrived in Australia during the Lebanon crisis. [More…]

• Surprisingly there is not as much financial wealth as was predicted four or five years ago when the oil crisis arose late in 1973 as a result of the quadrupling of crude oil prices. [More…]

• We saw as a result of the oil crisis in late 1 973 just what disruption such price increases as occurred then and subsequently and the rapidity of such increases can be caused to the economies of major Western countries. [More…]

• In many respects the Western world countries almost without exception are living through a period of considerable financial and economic difficulty with lower than optimum growth rates, higher than normal long term unemployment and the like and I think that much of that difficulty can be slated home to the dramatic effects on them of the Middle East oil crisis of 1973 and subsequently. [More…]

• The Treasury recommended that the new estimate not be published until the economic difficulties caused by the constitutional crisis of that month and the crisis itself were resolved. [More…]

• And for the first time since the oil crisis of October 1973, Australia’s economic problems and their solution depend more on what happens here than on what happens overseas, among our great trading partners. [More…]

• He set out once again a list of reasons why he would have persisted with the economic crisis into which he and his three successive Treasurers led Australia in spite of the consequences to the nation. [More…]

• The oil crisis of 1973 precipitated the fundamental recognition that the world was facing an energy crisis. [More…]

• While Australia has been insulated from the effects of the oil crisis by a plentiful supply of energy resources, the dwindling supply of petroleum has meant that many countries must change over to other sources of energy. [More…]

• Nuclear energy is the only readily available alternative most countries have to meet their essential need for electrical energy in the wake of the oil crisis. [More…]

• Australia has an obligation to the rest of the world to provide the energy resources- the coal, gas and uranium- that will be required to overcome the energy crisis. [More…]

• The world energy crisis has meant that adjustment must be made to other sources of energy in the wake of dwindling world supplies of petroleum. [More…]

• Nuclear energy is the only viable alternative most countries have available to meet their essential need for electrical energy in the wake of the oil crisis. [More…]

• The Prime Minister called in aid the oil crisis of 1973. [More…]

• The world faces not so much an energy crisis as an oil crisis. [More…]

• What this debate does is focus on some aspects of the world energy crisis although the matter has not been presented in that way today by Government spokesmen. [More…]

• I feel that, given the enormity of the crisis, the complexities of the ingredients of the crisis and the daunting challenges which the crisis presents for the future, we should have had a debate on oil last week, on natural gas last night and a debate on uranium today with the promise of a debate on energy policy later, probably slightly after the arrival of Godot. [More…]

• If the Government had prepared and presented an overall policy first into which this commitment to uranium mining and export was slotted I am sure that the community would have been better served and more wisely informed, not only on what the Government was intending but also on how what was being proposed fitted into the international energy crisis scene. [More…]

• As is outlined in the speech delivered by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) today nuclear energy is the only viable alternative that most countries have available to meet their essential needs of electrical energy in the wake of the oil crisis. [More…]

• There was, we were told, absolutely no reason for Australia to be affected by the economic crisis that had affected every Western economy as a result of the October 1973 Middle East war. [More…]

• We believe that the goal of limiting proliferation of nuclear weapons while at the same time easing the world’s energy crisis is best accomplished by Australia agreeing to provide uranium for peaceful purposes and under the most stringent conditions. [More…]

• The simple fact is that nuclear energy is the only readily available alternative most countries have to meet their essential need for electrical energy in the wake of the oil crisis. [More…]

• Since 1973 when the oil crisis struck as a deadly blow the industrial heartland of Western Europe in particular, as well as that of North America, the Western world has been faced by the immediate need to seek and to find and develop alternative sources of energy. [More…]

• After having been through the 1973 energy crisis when Japan was held to ransom by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [More…]

• It is part of a global debate which is taking place against the background of an impending world energy crisis of unprecedented and potentially disastrous dimensions. [More…]

• It is not a crisis which lies in some indefinite future. [More…]

• While Australia has been relatively insulated from the effects of the oil crisis thus far, we must not formulate policies which ignore the world energy problem and the difficulties which face energy deficient countries, many of which are major trading partners of ours. [More…]

• There will be a new energy crisis. [More…]

• Sooner or later there will be an absolute oil crisis. [More…]

• But there may be a mini crisis before that time. [More…]

• The communists need a crisis, a crisis of energy in the world, and if they succeed in this campaign they will succeed in creating that crisis. [More…]

• Firstly, it is nonsense to suggest that nuclear energy is a permanent answer to the world ‘s energy crisis. [More…]

• So we would have no permanent solution to the energy crisis; all we would have would be a permanent poisoning of the whole of the earth’s surface and a permanent risk to future generations yet unborn, for thousands of yearshundreds of thousands of years- to come. [More…]

• Once that is done we have a permanent answer to our energy crisis. [More…]

• The House is aware of the current crisis at the Mount Lyell company. [More…]

• We discover that the import bill for August is the highest for any month in the year and the balance of payments deficit the worst since the great constitutional crisis of December 1975. [More…]

• The Sydney Press last night dealt with the great crisis in the adequacy of hospital provisions in New South Wales and, of course, there are similar problems around Australia. [More…]

• I could continue this great list of examples simply to demonstrate my assertion that the Government is abdicating in the face of a very great crisis. [More…]

• It has brought into this House the most vicious industrial legislation that this country has ever experienced, all to meet a phoney crisis. [More…]

• That extract exposes the hypocrisy of his Government and its Ministers because since coming to office it has pursued a policy of confrontation and crisis in an attempt to conceal its own incompetence. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Primary Industry kept abreast of the numerous propositions put forward by a number of producer organisations seeking aid for the beef industry in its economic crisis? [More…]

• First, the Fraser Government’s abandonment of national responsibility for water is not a temporary departure because of the present economic crisis. [More…]

• The real issue facing the world today is the energy crisis and this is what the world should be tackling so that collectively we can overcome this crisis other than by the use of atomic energy which will pollute this world for the next 250,000 years. [More…]

• We also are not in a position to oversee the proper development of our energy resources, not only to protect Australia from the energy crisis, but also to see that our major trading partners are given as much assistance as is commensurate with Australia’s domestic requirements. [More…]

• Only now does the policy recognise, through the present Budget, the major crisis that confronts Australia in its desperately short reserves of oil. [More…]

• We need look only at Canberra itself for ample evidence that the implications of the crisis have as yet not been appreciated by Australians. [More…]

• There is little appreciation for the fact that in Australia the oil industry is in a crisis situation. [More…]

• Australians must now address themselves to this crisis. [More…]

• This is an inevitable consequence of the crisis we now face. [More…]

• A discipline imposed in the United States of America m the height of its fuel crisis recently to reduce the speed of automobiles on the highways effected a 20 per cent saving in the amount of fuel used. [More…]

• The reality of the crisis is there. [More…]

• The most developed nation in the world today, the United States of America, earlier this year as a result of a crisis in its energy production and supply could not prevent the deaths of many of its citizens in the coldest snap experienced in that nation in recent times. [More…]

• We in Australia, as in many other countries of the Western world, appear to be suffering some crisis of confidencenot only in our governments but also in ourselves as individuals. [More…]

• Why is there a crisis of confidence in government- not the Government, but the institution of government itself? [More…]

• It is becoming increasingly clear to the people of this country that the poor state of the economy, which was accepted to be the case in December 1975, at the time of the election, was due not to policies of the Labor Government but to the world economic crisis which had overtaken all the developed and under-developed nations. [More…]

• I claim to have been misrepresented in an article in the National Times of 19-24 September entitled: ‘Bush Crisis: What’s Being Done for Farmers’. [More…]

• What the Opposition is saying m the amendment has already been proved in the past 12 months, namely, that inflation has not been controlled, that unemployment has soared and that there is a crisis of confidence. [More…]

• In the national wage case, the Full Bench of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission clearly said that private employers had submitted to the commission that there is a crisis in confidence. [More…]

• There has been rural crisis. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, you of all people, would know that the crisis has deepened and worsened. [More…]

• There is a crisis in the rural community at present which could lead to the annihilation of the Government in rural electorates. [More…]

• If we are to avoid the impending transport crisis of the next decade it is vital that our urban public transport investment program begun in 1973 be restored. [More…]

• The first point made by the Council is that there would be no beef crisis if market access was not restricted. [More…]

• As the Australian Woolgrowers’ and Graziers’ Council said, there would be no beef crisis if present prices to producers were associated with 1973 cost levels. [More…]

• I do not believe that there is a member of this Parliament who would suggest that the world is not facing an energy crisis. [More…]

• Is the Opposition really suggesting that we can sufficiently retreat to a less energy reliant state of existence in the time available before the energy crisis becomes crucial? [More…]

• That is a fairly emotional example but surely that is what a real energy crisis is about. [More…]

• It is not a crisis when it starts to affect the money in people’s pockets. [More…]

• It is a crisis when it starts to affect people ‘s lives. [More…]

• Certainly the international economic crisis which has overtaken the world and the increased technical problems associated with nuclear reactors have reduced the present demand for nuclear generated electric power. [More…]

• Instead, I believe that this House should be debating a motion seeking to congratulate the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) for his action to expose the policies of this Government not only prior to the November 1976 devaluation but also in respect of the present crisis. [More…]

• The crisis was in relation to the capital account and not the balance of trade where there was a surplus of over $ 1 ,000m. [More…]

• One effect of the continuing clash between the Houses of Parliament could have been that Parliament would not have had funds with which to operate during a period of national crisis. [More…]

• We saw the uncertainty of three Treasurers, ministerial sackings and the then Government going from one crisis to another. [More…]

• I hope that by this time next year the States will recognise that if they do not come to the party and really co-operate with the capital costs of nongovernment schools we will reach the crisis which the honourable member for Lilley predicted and within the next few years we will not have the availability of educational facilities in the nongovernment school sector which this country, in my opinion, should be committed to retain. [More…]

• We are fast reaching a crisis situation. [More…]

• If we talk to any Australian we are told that what is wrong with the country is that we have a crisis on our hands. [More…]

• The big crisis in this country has occurred because we do not yet have a national identity. [More…]

• At present because of the rigidities of the present system associated with the exchange rate, the inefficient way in which the exchange rate has been administered and the crisis of confidence in the Government- that has been manifested by the behaviour of so many people- we are experiencing problems. [More…]

• It is perhaps the most extraordinary quirk of history that the socialists in our midst- that group of people which theoretically maintains the highest standards and regards all others only as the flotsam and jetsam of society- demonstrated in that very real situation, as distinct from the morass of innuendo and half truths which we normally hear from them, how they failed utterly to face a real crisis. [More…]

• In the Melbourne Herald of Thursday, 6 October, ‘Australia “Blind” to Crisis’ is the claim made in the headlines. [More…]

• Australia was facing an economic crisis, the Victorian director of the Australian Institute of Management, Mr Ron Gilchrist, said today. [More…]

• In many cases it comes at a time of emotional crisis and adds further to the burden of those who have lost a loved one. [More…]

• Migrants are the most savagely affected group, apart from Aborigines, in Australia and are particularly affected by this unemployment crisis. [More…]

• The system of allocation of Australian crude was devised when there was no energy crisis. [More…]

• There is an energy crisis. [More…]

• It fixed a price at that time because of the shock of the oil crisis. [More…]

• Recently in the Australian Financial Review the Prime Minister was described as a person who receives his kicks from crises and moves from one crisis to another. [More…]

• At the moment we have a crisis which is being magnified deliberately by the Government. [More…]

• The beef industry is now going through a crisis which will require for a long term solution- short term patching up methods may be possible- a totally new approach to marketing of beef whereby the producer sells his beef at a price, not in an auction where he takes what is offered. [More…]

• Never before has an Australian government lurched from selfmade crisis to self-made crisis. [More…]

• The Government, on coming to office, said that it would change quarterly tax collection of company tax and would suspend it for the period of the present crisis. [More…]

• -The estimates for the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations which are before the Committee are indicative of the totally inadequate response of the Fraser Government to the crisis situation that exists in our community in respect of unemployment. [More…]

• At best, the Government has tried- after the event, after each crisis- to guarantee the security of depositors. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Lynch) had the consent of the House to incorporate in Hansard a statement he made after the last crisis involving a permanent building society in Queensland. [More…]

• During the last two years the housing finance industry has gone from crisis to crisis as a direct result of this Government’s policies. [More…]

• The crisis has been particularly pronounced in Queensland. [More…]

• The crisis was begun by the inept launching of the Australian savings bonds at the beginning of last year. [More…]

• The problems resulting from the 1976 crisis have continued. [More…]

• This is a hasty response to a crisis. [More…]

• At present they do it only whenever a crisis occurs. [More…]

• Another cause for deep concern is the Queensland Government’s recent allocation to itself of extraordinarily sweeping arbitrary powers to cope with the current crisis. [More…]

• But the problem is that this decision was hasty and forced on the Bjelke-Petersen Government by the crisis. [More…]

• Because of this Government’s doctrinaire attitudes the building societies lurch from crisis to crisis. [More…]

• As each crisis occurs, general public confidence is further undermined. [More…]

• I think it is important that we bear that m mind because the Opposition is trying to lead us to believe that there is a continuing crisis in this industry. [More…]

• I think it is irresponsible for the Opposition to try to suggest in the Parliament that there is a crisis in the industry. [More…]

• We could not produce sufficient ammunition to respond quickly to any sort of crisis. [More…]

• All of us in this Parliament who owe allegiance to Australia’s flag and a duty to its people have a basic obligation to rectify this situation before we have a serious crisis. [More…]

• He would know that we may face a crisis within the next eight to 10 years, or even sooner, and that we must be prepared for it. [More…]

• The result of the Prime Minister’s rush to judgment before next year’s jobs crisis and economic decline is that the incoming government will, for the first seven months of its term, face a Senate elected two years ago. [More…]

• This is symptomatic of a political system in a deepening sense of crisis. [More…]

• You can’t blame the oil crisis for the inflation in Australia. [More…]

• In 1965 a crisis had arisen because of mechanisation in the industry. [More…]

• The world-wide recession sparked off by the oil crisis of 1973 produced higher unemployment in almost all the OECD countries, including Australia. [More…]

• Beyond the immediate crisis, though part of its solution, there must be a continuing long term job creation program. [More…]

• I believe that in the years ahead it will become a reality because of the world energy crisis, because of the rising costs of Middle Eastern oil on the world market and because of the fears of people as to the use of uranium. [More…]

• I am very disappointed that people should try to use the anguish and despair of people involved in this crisis purely for political purposes. [More…]

• In November 1975 the Leader of the Opposition proposed to resolve the Supply crisis by having a half Senate election. [More…]

• If nuclear energy is denied to the world there will be an energy crisis and a starvation crisis and all the tensions which can lead to war. [More…]

• It is part of a global debate which is taking place against the background of an impending world energy crisis of quite unprecedented and potentially disastrous dimensions. [More…]

• The crisis does not lie in some indefinite future. [More…]

• Do honourable members opposite believe that at a time of energy crisis, which is forthcoming, they could be an influence in the international scene by abdicating from the arena? [More…]

• In the few moments I have, I want to deal with the so-called energy crisis and the safeguards proposals, and I want to say a few words about Australian Labor Party policy. [More…]

• Let me quickly look at the question of the energy crisis. [More…]

• Now that is not true because the so-called ‘energy crisis’ is due to a potential shortage of liquid propellant fuel for transport services. [More…]

• The ANZ Bank index shows a severe recession in 1961- the result of the Menzies credit squeeze- a shallower trough in 1966-67, a sharp deterioration in 1971 ending in about April 1972, a splendid expansionary phase throughout 1973, a decline during the world-wide recession following the oil crisis of 1974, and the beginning of recovery in late 1975 and early 1976 when the effects of the Hayden Budget were still working. [More…]

• Excessive wage demands had caused Australia’s unemployment and inflation crisis. [More…]

• You cannot blame the oil crisis for inflation in Australia. [More…]

• Until the ‘oil crisis’ of 1973-74 it was widely assumed that growing world demand could and would be satisfied from established sources of supply without major upheavals. [More…]

• A number of countries have, under the impact of the oil crisis, adopted objectives of energy ‘self-reliance’, ‘energy independence’, or ‘greater self-sufficiency’ in energy. [More…]

• There is no field where such new policies and intitiatives are more urgent than this industry which finds itself in a deepening crisis as a result of the Fraser Government’s policies. [More…]

• This is why there is a crisis in education at present. [More…]

• Secondly, Australia along with other countries shortly is going to face a crisis in liquid fuel. [More…]

• There were not sufficient fire engines to deal with a Jumbo crash or anything above a Fokker crash during the major part of this crisis. [More…]

• An admitted official figure of 445,000 unemployed can be seen only as a national crisis. [More…]

• It is only that part of the unemployment crisis that refuses to be submerged by the Government’s crude campaign of bluster and moral blackmail against so called ‘dole bludgers’ and its continual fiddling of the figures. [More…]

• As I have pointed out, this is only part of the story, part of the crisis of unemployment in Australia. [More…]

• The unemployment crisis is more than just a matter of depressing statistics. [More…]

• We must recognise that there has been in our society over recent years a crisis of confidence in our political system. [More…]

• I hope the Government will approach those three years with that principle pre-eminently in mind because throughout the world democratic party systems are going through a time of very great crisis. [More…]

• We were in office- never in power, only in office- at a time when an international economic crisis overtook the world. [More…]

• There are people in our society for whom life must seem a never ending struggle from crisis point to crisis point and from problem to problem. [More…]

• Australian manufacturing industry is in acute financial crisis. [More…]

• In part manufacturing’s problems are manifestations of the world economic crisis in which all countries including Australia are enmeshed. [More…]

• That malaise has sharpened the impact on industry of the current economic crisis. [More…]

• Less than a week ago in this House the present Treasurer (Mr Howard) took the view that there is really no economic crisis. [More…]

• There should be a conference and a debate in this House on the possible crisis looming in the coal industry and also in the steel industry. [More…]

• The energy crisis and shortage throughout the world does not come home fully to the people of Australia at any time. [More…]

• We have not yet realised the severe implications of the crisis which faces Europe, North America and other areas. [More…]

• Because we are so fortunate with huge reserves of coal and other fuels, and now of course with uranium, it does not mean that we can turn our backs on the energy crisis throughout the world. [More…]

• This legislation was brought about principally in an era when even those two countries did not really realise fully the significance of the shortage of oil and the impending crisis. [More…]

• Impassable roads are no answer to a crisis or an emergency when they are the only roads in existence. [More…]

• I will return to that matter in more detail, but remaining on the general level that statement, combined with the continued refusal of this Government to revitalise the economy through the public sector, its continued determination to clamp down on any movement aimed at improving life styles in this country, its insistence that the workers and wage earners of Australia must pay the cost of our economic crisis, the sheer pall over any growth, the sheer lack of any excitement or any feeling of national pride or development generated by this Speech, indicate a general feeling of inertia and boredom in our society. [More…]

• Australia is in an economic crisis. [More…]

• When we look at the inconsistency of the Government’s policies, we see that Australia is in an economic crisis. [More…]

• He made that statement in the context of the Chamberlain doctrine of appeasement, which had already brought about the resignation of Anthony Eden, and in the light of the Czechoslovakian crisis of 1938. [More…]

• It is by pretending that that can be done, because it may be politically popular, that the Budgets, of many other countries in the Western world and not only of this country are led into a crisis situation. [More…]

• Compare what is needed with the last Lynch Budget forecast of 2 per cent real growth for 1977-78, and with the later and rather optimistic OECD forecast for calendar year 1978 of VA per cent, and one can better understand the magnitude of the unemployment crisis confronting this Government. [More…]

• What is the response of the Prime Minister to this crisis? [More…]

• We face a crisis situation within 10 years so far as liquid fuel supply is concerned, yet the Government offers only a tentative and partial energy conservation program. [More…]

• It must be embarrassing to the Minister for National Resources, Mr Anthony, and Senator Webster, that many of the States have financial commitments to solar energy which indicate a far more visionary understanding of the impending global energy crisis than has been displayed by the present Government. [More…]

• We all might suffer from an energy crisis sometimes when we have to get out of bed and go to work. [More…]

• There were 7,300 fewer houses built when the need for more reached crisis proportions. [More…]

• The Speech was depressing and, stripped of its euphemistic grandness and its attempts to describe grandly the most unimaginative legislative and administrative program, it means the perpetration of an economic crisis and the Government’s determination that wage and salary earners- millions of Australians- will pay the price of recovery, if the economy is to recover in the foreseeable future from the deep trough in which this Government has put it. [More…]

• The Gill figures reveal the situation only with regard to males but in the past few weeks a project conducted by four Melbourne students under the control of a professional social worker entitled ‘A Study of Homeless Women in Melbourne’ has unveiled a crisis in Melbourne that the nature of the homeless women problem generally has hidden from society. [More…]

• The Salvation Army points out that young people are forced to these places because of an unemployment crisis. [More…]

• The report underlines the fundamental contradiction which is built into the nation’s transport program when it refers to the near certainty of Australia’s reversal to overwhelming dependency on imported oil in the 1 980s at a time of a mounting world wide petroleum crisis. [More…]

• Of course, while the energy crisis makes the need for a fresh approach to land based transport in Australia compelling, especially with respect to Australian cities, there are other factors involved as well. [More…]

• In conclusion let me say with all the sincerity that I have that this nation is rapidly reaching a crisis state in terms of its hydrocarbons, and particularly oil. [More…]

• I think it is scandalous that this Government, in the face of a well-recognised energy crisis, is doing nothing to persuade the people that there ought to be a rational national energy policy. [More…]

• Our aim is to inject into the Parliament through this committee a greater understanding of the crisis of unemployment. [More…]

• The report of the Henderson Commission of Inquiry into Poverty showed that the majority of these unemployed people had little or no buffer against any potential financial crisis. [More…]

• This is not the only country facing this crisis but it seems to be the only one intent on doing nothing about it. [More…]

• I feel that when we are talking about an energy crisis and looking to the future we should remember that wood is a renewable source. [More…]

• Perhaps we are just paying lip service to the energy crisis and are not taking the proper and appropriate action that we should be taking at this point of time. [More…]

• In the wake of the world energy crisis many countries have no viable alternative energy source other than nuclear power. [More…]

• There is no ‘crisis ‘ in health care spending in the sense that the situation is out of control. [More…]

• They certainly did receive exorbitant rises and their salaries moved to a level which in many respects is fundamental to the current health crisis in Australia. [More…]

• This is a government deep in crisis. [More…]

• I ask: In view of the substantial cutbacks which are occurring in our mineral export contracts, and the resulting further reduction that will occur in our level of exports, and noting the substantial outflow of invisible earnings, with detrimental effect on the balance on current account, can the Treasurer assure the business sector of the economy that he will not pursue an intensification of the prevailing budget strategy which will lead to an even greater balance-of-payments crisis? [More…]

• It is true that we are facing a fuel crisis. [More…]

• There is no crisis in solid fuels, in energy driving fuels; the shortage exists in liquid fuels. [More…]

• I think also that the Government should realise that amending legislation to gain a short term relief in our balance of payments crisis or for any of the other purposes which have been brought forward during the debate, such as to promote the accelerated processing, mining and export of uranium, should not take precedence over justice to our oppressed indigenous people, which is the theme which the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs very rightly has stressed from the outset of his accepting the Aboriginal Affairs Ministry. [More…]

• Here in Australia- indeed, in this very city- we have a far more sensible proposition to beat the power crisis; a far more permanent and complete solution to our balance of payments problems; and a far better remedy for the parlous state of our motor industry in particular and, indeed, of the world’s power generation crisis. [More…]

• If there is a power crisis we need to develop this alternative which is, I repeat, more promising than nuclear power because it is cleaner, cheaper and much better proved than the technology to cope with nuclear power waste disposal and security for which we are still waiting. [More…]

• The Government cannot expect that the Atomic Energy Act of a former generation- when atomic potential was seen outstandingly as a feature of the Cold War- should be equally relevant to the energy crisis of 1978. [More…]

• It is leading us there ever faster in the name of deferring those crises- the energy crisis, the national economic crisis and the national balance of payments crisis. [More…]

• Obviously the Parliament will receive a full annual report from the Supervising Scientist, but I imagine that there will be communications between the Supervising Scientist and the Minister on a weekly or monthly basis whenever a crisis occurs. [More…]

• The oil crisis of 1973 had a major destructive effect upon most developed Western nations. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Trade and Resources aware of the crisis in the southern and western coalfields of New South Wales? [More…]

• The Fraser Government’s failure to respond to the crisis in the Australian motor vehicle manufacturing industry, with appropriate policies to improve consumer demand and provide a viable future with resulting employment security. [More…]

• The gains at the upper end of the property scale will be great and an opportunity will be lost to collect, over the next few years, what will amount to hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue, while the Government presses down on those people in the community who have no asset backing, no security and who for that reason live in fear of sickness and potential unemployment or any kind of major crisis. [More…]

• I remember when he was either in the United Kingdom or going through to Canada and he was asked to be the chairman of the committee dealing with the Suez crisis. [More…]

• The dispute simply brought to a head a situation which had already reached crisis state. [More…]

• New South Wales is a crisis State, under a Premier who is now busily engaged in trying to divert attention from the consequences of determined and deliberate policy decisions which have brought about this crisis and which have created a situation in which a $lm a day dispute by employees of the Government can so seriously damage a region and so seriously damage the economy of the area. [More…]

• In addition, we are increasingly faced with environmental problems that must be balanced against growth objectives and, along with the rest of the world, we will need to adjust to the widespread ramifications of the coming energy crisis. [More…]

• The BAF, or bunker surcharge as it is sometimes known, was introduced at the time of the oil crisis when fuel prices rose sharply, and at such frequent intervals that ship operators were unable to absorb the cost. [More…]

• More than any other single issue it was the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party that caused the health cost crisis. [More…]

• -The new agreement will not meet the crisis that confronts the public housing sector in Australia. [More…]

• The building industry is in a crisis. [More…]

• Metropolitan Sydney and Melbourne are the two crisis areas in Australia because they are where most of the people live. [More…]

• Australia ‘s policy is based squarely on our recognition of Australia’s obligations as a country well endowed with energy resources to make those resources available to other countries, many of which have no real alternative, in the wake of the world energy crisis, than to turn to nuclear energy as a means of supplying electricity to their peoples. [More…]

• The last point I wish to nail is this so-called energy crisis. [More…]

• The Minister persistently uses the words ‘energy crisis’. [More…]

• There is no crisis in energy throughout the world; the crisis is in the shortage of liquid fuel. [More…]

• In no way would uranium mining or a nuclear power industry assist in the liquid fuel crisis. [More…]

• In fact the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development sees this socalled ‘energy crisis’ around the world as a magnification of the energy problem. [More…]

• However, the crisis has occurred. [More…]

• These chiefly operate in times of constitutional crisis. [More…]

• It is amusing under these circumstances- or frightening I suppose- that the Prime Minister takes this opportunity to remove himself from the scene, to go overseas in an attempt to bring the rest of the world back from what he sees as the brink of economic crisis. [More…]

• -I support the matter of public importance raised by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden), that the Government has failed to respond to the rural crisis. [More…]

• Of course, the Opposition is talking not just about the crisis amongst primary producers but about the crisis in the whole of the rural community. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Acting Prime Minister been drawn to the recent report of the International Energy Agency which confirms authoritative predictions of a world liquid fuel crisis in the 1990s? [More…]

• Of course, this situation is related to the fact that there is a crisis in the steel industry. [More…]

• This crisis maintenance policy implementation has now reached the stage where essential equipment is becoming increasingly non-operational and to rectify this position in the short term, additional funds of $100,000 are considered to be absolutely essential. [More…]

• In 1973, for example, at the time of the international oil crisis, the Conference added a surcharge to all imports to Australia, claiming that this was due to the uncertainty of oil supplies. [More…]

• I think that it was inevitable and that there was really no alternative for a responsible government, given the world energy crisis and our oil crisis. [More…]

• It is interesting that Brazil, which has a very serious energy crisis, has started adding ethanol, which is produced from sugar cane, to its petrol and is now approaching an addition rate of 20 per cent of ethanol to its petrol. [More…]

• We feel that we could make a far more useful contribution to this debate if the Government were not so secretive about these things and if we knew of the real crisis confronting Australia’s manufacturing industries. [More…]

• Such a Budget would be appropriate to an economy where private sector spending is about to go into an inflationary spiral or where the economy must be brought to a full stop to avert a balance of payments crisis. [More…]

• The Joint Statement issued by the Australian Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) and the US Secretary of Defence (Mr Schlesinger) on 10 January 1974 stated ‘The Ministers recalled the provisions of Article III of the ANZUS Treaty and confirmed the importance to both Governments of urgent consultations in case of a developing international crisis’. [More…]

• In March 1976, a time when Labor Party policies were still applying and when there was a grave international economic crisis, the unemployment figure was 278,000. [More…]

• The honourable member for Adelaide shakes his head, yet he knows that at that time those people brought this country to a crisis stage which was very similar to the situation we faced at the end of 1975. [More…]

• These two matters- the handing of freight charges to overseas shipping combines and insurance charges to overseas insurance companies- are the two biggest factors in this deficit section of the balance of payments crisis. [More…]

• No wonder there is a large stock of spec built homes on the market in the midst of this housing crisis. [More…]

• Those honourable members who listened to the electronic media last weekend must have been utterly bored with the hysteria of the Leader of the Opposition in saying that there was a major political crisis, that the Prime Minister’s integrity was under challenge, that the Prime Minister had been misleading the Parliament, that this week he was going to bring down the Prime Minister and that the Government was at risk. [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) cannot, even in an emergency situation, dial the phone numbers of members of the National Labour Consultative Council in order to arrange an urgent meeting on this crisis facing telecommunications in this country. [More…]

• Let me give the House an illustration from the remarks of the honourable member for Port Adelaide of the way in which the Opposition, even tonight, is failing to face the real issues in this situation of crisis facing telecommunications in Australia. [More…]

• Clearly, Telecom’s total acceptance of Commissioner Clarkson ‘s proposal, which was supported by the Government after discussion with Telecom, indicates its preparedness to have the crisis in telecommunications in Australia resolved promptly and properly. [More…]

• These expenditures serve to soften the blow that capitalism- particularly capitalism in crisis- exerts on the people. [More…]

• We have been left behind in world markets and we have no hope of solving the problems of the energy crisis unless this Government gives motivation and incentive to the people who are able to do the work and not hand-outs to the people who have shares in BHP. [More…]

• We have a crisis, an energy crisis. [More…]

• The crisis is with us now. [More…]

• It may not be obvious because we do not have at this moment blackouts and petrol rationing, but the crisis is very real. [More…]

• This Government, in its Budget, has taken this energy crisis into consideration. [More…]

• In the short term of energy requirements- here we are talking of the next 12 years or so to 1990- we have our crisis. [More…]

• This Government is moving in appreciation of this crisis which shows up in Australia as a liquid fuel crisis. [More…]

• The further approach to alleviate the liquid fuel crisis is of course exploration. [More…]

• There are also 60 off-shore and 70 on-shore exploration permits, due to this Government’s appreciation of our crisis. [More…]

• Let me just quickly run through some of the other aspects of the energy crisis, areas which will require government initiatives and action. [More…]

• At this stage we should pay tribute to the Victorian Government and the Premier, Mr Hamer, who, in appreciation of the energy crisis, has personally arranged vast experimental work in conjunction with overseas experts to convert Victoria’s huge brown coal reserves to liquid fuels in order to tide us over this crisis. [More…]

• On the other hand, Premier Wran of New South Wales has no appreciation of the crisis. [More…]

• In conclusion I remind honourable members that we have an energy crisis now. [More…]

• This Government has appreciated the crisis and in the Budget has moved to overcome it. [More…]

• The Government has continued to offer a few training schemes, primarily aimed at the youth, as its contribution to the major crisis facing our people and our economic and social structure. [More…]

• For these reasons this Government stands condemned on the crisis it has created within the Australian housing industry. [More…]

• The simplistic view that increasing exports is the answer is also wrong, because it has been the very success of Japan’s export effort, its enormous positive trade balance in relation to most of its trading partners, which has resulted in most economic pundits now putting the blame on Japan as one of the causes of the present world economic crisis. [More…]

• I should like to refer to the energy crisis, the problem of the Aboriginal settlement at Mornington Island and, finally, the urgent need for a national youth community cadet scheme to assist in the evergrowing problem of youth employment which simply will not go away. [More…]

• In my electorate we have what could become a crisis. [More…]

• This Government, faced with the crisis, has decided to opt out of the situation altogether. [More…]

• But these are crisis times which require more than just those schemes which I have outlined. [More…]

• Therefore, in the number of dwellings getting under way, we still see a long-term problem and crisis in the housing sector. [More…]

• People interested in this area will be able to examine the report and I hope criticise the Government generally for not having taken action to overcome the crisis in housing. [More…]

• The statement of the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations about the seriousness of the Australian unemployment crisis is a dramatic admission of the failure of the Government’s economic policies. [More…]

• Both of these factors add to the balance of payments crisis- that the Government had to borrow a massive $ 1,800m to $ 1,900m from abroad last year to prop up the dollar and to avoid a further devaluation. [More…]

• The Middle East has never posed a mere regional threat; the implication always has been of a world crisis. [More…]

• We have seen in this Budget more than any other probably this Government relying more and more on some sort of faith in the free market process to bring the economy out of the present incredible crisis. [More…]

• Personally, I believe that if the crisis comes to a head from the Rhodesian quarter those people, black or white, would add something to our Australian character and community. [More…]

• This is pure scapegoating- a reaction to the economic crisis and to the social problems created and aggravated by that crisis. [More…]

• Refuges provide essential services for women and children in crisis; they are an alternative to a home situation that has become intolerable. [More…]

• The need for refuges is increasing, along with the need for rape crisis centres and women’s health centres. [More…]

• Nobody resents the fact that the Government comes to the rescue when there is a great crisis such as the Darwin cyclone or indeed the flooding of Brisbane. [More…]

• When such a crisis is on a large scale hundreds of thousands of people may be affected. [More…]

• Mi UREN (Reid) (2.24)-There is a crisis in the building industry. [More…]

• Liberal Parties in providing crisis accommodation was one of the major issues in the State election to be held on 7 October. [More…]

• Let me state again that this funding increase is a token response to a crisis in Aboriginal housing that has been created by this Government’s own deliberate and massive cutbacks in housing funds since it has been in office. [More…]

• As any of the building organisations will state, the building industry is facing a crisis. [More…]

• Or is the crisis due to the Fraser Government-promoted stagnation in another way? [More…]

• Back in 1975 in what was a fairly heated campaign, if one might say so, in what was a campaign in which the Labor Party sought to generate a phoney constitutional crisis, the people of Australia were looking to real value. [More…]

• As the Government fumbles with ihe economic policy, willi the automation crisis and with job pressure from imports, it still wants to give the impression that the unemployed are to blame. [More…]

• The sooner this Parliament says as a parliament that there is no simple remedy, that there is a deep and profound economic crisis right throughout the Western world which is affecting Australia, and that when it occurred the Whitlam Government was in office and its great tragedy and its great mistake was that it did not perceive either the nature or the dimension of what was occurring in Western society and continued to try to implement its program unconscious of the fact or unable to comprehend that the great boom in Western industrialised society was over the better it will be. [More…]

• The sooner honourable members on both sides of the chamber abandon the approach of saying that a Labor government did something in 1972 so it is all right for a government to do the same in 1978 the better it will be because there is a deep, significant economic crisis in Australia here and now, and we are not alone in that respect, and the first thing we have to say to ourselves is that there are no simple answers. [More…]

• One of the points with which I would like to deal is the proposition that somehow we are in a state of crisis as far as health costs are concerned. [More…]

• People tend to respond to what they perceive as crises by jumping up and down and doing things, being seen to be doing things because there is a crisis. [More…]

• Health costs are not in a state of crisis, I emphasise again, in the medical sense of the word. [More…]

• The Government is reacting as if we are in a state of extreme crisis. [More…]

• The alternative Budget introduced by the Labor leader would therefore involve a balance of payments crisis, a severe cut in corporate investment and profitability, a 180-degree turn in monetary policy and a significantly faster wage growth. [More…]

• In the earlier debate on the Budget I talked about the energy crisis we have now. [More…]

• It is a world crisis. [More…]

• In the short term we in Australia will have a liquid fuel crisis. [More…]

• 1) 1978-79 which show that this Government has appreciated the energy crisis and is doing something about it. [More…]

• I come now to the most vital aspect of the energy crisis- capital. [More…]

• Clearly, the effects of rapid inflation, rapid increases in wages, decreases in profit margins and the oil crisis have meant that industry has had to become more efficient. [More…]

• The wise, the wealthy and the powerful are now deserting the suburbs and moving back into the intermediate areas of the large cities because they can see the coming impact of the energy crisis and its implications for urban transport. [More…]

• The outer suburbs are facing a monumental transport crisis which will not be easily solved because of the land use patterns that have been established and the preference for single dwelling units. [More…]

• The second reason is that secondary industry in Australia receives excessive protection through tariffs, quotas and at times of crisis quite substantial cash contributions. [More…]

• But the crisis in the inability to speak the language is in education. [More…]

• In 1976 and most of 1977 1 suppose one could say that things went along without crisis in spite of the influx of children from South America. [More…]

• In addition to that, at the National Conference of the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations yesterday Professor Bill Ford said that the real crisis of technological change will hit Australia in 1 980-8 1 . [More…]

• The real crisis of technological change will certainly hit us in 1980-81. [More…]

• As I said this morning, the employment and unemployment situation has reached a crisis in Australia. [More…]

• More money will have to be put into job creation programs as quickly as possible if we are to avoid the sort of social crisis that is now upon us. [More…]

• -In the course of this Committee debate thus far, the very serious and important points made by the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) about the extent of the crisis that exists in Australian society in terms of the unemployment level and the failure of this Government to meet this problem have gone unanswered. [More…]

• Whenever honourable gentlemen opposite talk about the crisis in the economic system all the burden, responsibility and blame is always put on the lower 50 per cent of the community. [More…]

• This system is in a considerable state of crisis. [More…]

• But the one crisis that cannot be risked is a crisis of confidence in the United Nations itself. [More…]

• Such a Budget would be appropriate to an economy where private sector spending is about to go into an inflationary spiral or where the economy must be brought to a full stop to avert a balance of payments crisis. [More…]

• The Fraser Government’s failure to respond to the crisis in the Australian motor vehicle manufacturing industry, with appropriate policies to improve consumer demand and provide a viable future with resulting employment security. [More…]

• I would add that the establishment of the Society of the Helping Hand has further assisted the struggle to provide shelter and crisis accommodation for our displaced youths. [More…]

• In this respect I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a copy of the minute paper of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development on youth crisis accommodation in Brisbane. [More…]

• Re: Youth Crisis Accommodation- Brisbane [More…]

• Iam attaching hereto a report submitted by ARO Mr John Elliott on Youth Crisis Accommodation in Brisbane. [More…]

• YOUTH CRISIS ACCOMMODATION IN BRISBANE-JUNE 1978 [More…]

• REPORT-BRISBANE: YOUTH CRISIS ACCOMMODATION [More…]

• There is no establishment in Brisbane providing specifically and solely for crisis accommodation (i.e. [More…]

• Primmer Lodge, a self-supporting longerterm care community for children aged 14-17, has recently received State Government funding to operate 6 short-term crisis accommodation beds. [More…]

• It has not yet started operating its 6 crisis accommodation beds, and at present has 1 1 ‘longer-term’ (i.e. [More…]

• Not only are those residents (the majority) referred by Children’s Services receiving regular payments (‘MLI payments’) under the existing subsidy scheme, but the Lodge received a $4,000 grant in advance for operating the 6 crisis beds. [More…]

• Such organisation shows the potential for funding once a centre is approved (for crisis accommodation) by the State government. [More…]

• The Lodge aims to provide sensitive, caring accommodation for its ‘crisis’ residents, but under no conditions will they stay for more than four working days. [More…]

• Impressions of its operation once the crisis beds are operating will be most useful. [More…]

• They all have one thing in common: the opinion that the Brisbane youth crisis accommodation situation is far from satisfactory. [More…]

• The usual procedure followed by referring bodies looking for crisis accommodation is rather ad hoc, and involves one of the following alternatives: [More…]

• In the area of crisis accommodation, its advance payments to Primmer Lodge are a new initiative. [More…]

• The Department is aware of the need for crisis accommodation, as it is the first point of contact for homeless children picked up by police (often in city parks). [More…]

• In a recent study of 62 such children, 24 were placed in crisis accommodation of some description, 18 were placed in hostels (eg. [More…]

• DCS also has to do a lot of shopping around’ to place a child in crisis accommodation. [More…]

• Crisis accommodation (for 2-7 days, say) would only fill part of the need. [More…]

• There is a tremendous demand in Brisbane for youth accommodation (both crisis and long-term supportive). [More…]

• Whenever I mentioned ‘crisis accommodation’ and explained that it usually meant for less than a week, the typical comment was ‘What then?’. [More…]

• The feeling was that crisis accommodation alone won ‘t serve a worthwhile purpose. [More…]

• We all know that the Australian beef industry has been in a financial crisis situation since 1974. [More…]

• The crisis of liquidity had its origins in the 1973 Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries oU crisis; one consequence being the sudden and complete closure of the Japanese market to Australian export beef. [More…]

• I make the point that it is indeed unfortunate that in the ensuing four years research into beef marketing has centred on the quantification and dimensions of the cattle industry crisis rather than on providing a direction out of the crisis, both at the economic level and the political level, to ensure an improvement in the marketing structure of the Australian beef industry. [More…]

• Bearing in mind that impartiality between the communities in Lebanon is very important, but that humane and timely aid to the people is even more important, will the Australian Government encourage and even support nonGovernment welfare organisations to dispatch medical teams to Lebanon, to work in any areas where they are needed and welcomed, as recommended in the report entitled ‘The Lebanon Crisis- Humanitarian Aspects’ tabled in December 1976 by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• We all know that there has never been a time when there has not been a crisis over political party funds. [More…]

• This crisis ought to be recognised for what it is and for nothing else. [More…]

• There is an old saying: The pop of the pop gun is the pop of a pop gun; it is not the crisis of doom. [More…]

• According to the ABC he criticised the Federal Government, saying that it was creating a long term defence crisis by adopting short term policies. [More…]

• Aboriginal reserves have reached a new crisis point. [More…]

• -Last Friday, the State Housing Ministers met with the Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, (Mr Groom) in Adelaide to try to overcome the serious crisis that has developed in the housing industry in Australia and, in particular, to discuss the seriousness of the crisis in the public housing sector. [More…]

• This Government is caught in a very serious predicament; it is in a crisis situation in the housing industry. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, the dispute which caused last week’s petrol crisis in Victoria ended in the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission when Commissioner H. Neil ruled that members of the Transport Workers Union would make deliveries from the Esso Spotswood plant. [More…]

• -Ten days ago, 1 1 November, was the third anniversary of what we would all agree was the most traumatic and divisive constitutional crisis in this nation’s history. [More…]

• Of the three major protagonists in that crisis, one has fled into a comfortable exile in the English home counties, a most appropriate resting place for one of his social pretensions; the second has retired from politics to a great Australian institution, a most appropriate home for an Australian of his intellect and breadth of vision; the third, the one most responsible for the perversion of our parliamentary customs and traditions, remains as Prime Minister, a continuing symbol of the bitterness and division unleashed by the events of November 1975. [More…]

• In fact, he is facing, as is his party, an identity crisis. [More…]

• It is suffering from a serious identity crisis and the Leader of the Opposition is totally incapable of handling the situation. [More…]

• Last week he told a parliamentary group of which I was a member that there is no world energy crisis; that the world has extensive natural gas reserves. [More…]

• Perhaps someone should tell the Minister that there is a crisis in our apprenticeship system. [More…]

• Public discussion on unemployment has frequently degenerated into harangues of so-called bludgers, in place of rational consideration of the causes, nature and effect of the employment crisis. [More…]

• Thus, the powerless victims of the crisis have somehow come to stand accused of having created their own unemployment- a twist of logic which represents a classic example of blaming the victim. [More…]

• My solution goes to the reality and truth of what we are doing, basically the problem is that we are facing a crisis. [More…]

• He then said that in his view a temporary purpose was to avert the crisis and the disaster that the Labor Attorney-General of the day thought on indications at that time would have arrived by [More…]

• When Mr Jackson looked at manufacturing industry and saw the crisis that occurred in it, he did not single out wages as being the basis of the whole crisis. [More…]

• This is a gamble indeed, for if such sales are not up to expectations, within five or six years Australia may face a double crisis- an energy shortage for transport and a severe balance of payments problem. [More…]

• I simply say that constitutionally it is not a Commonwealth responsibility and therefore the commitment both by the previous Government to provide $190m from 1973 to 1978, and by the present Government to increase that commitment by over 50 per cent to $300m for the five-year period, is a very significant indication by the Commonwealth Government and Commonwealth governments of both political colours, of the importance of ensuring that Australia has a proper urban public transport system as we move out of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century with all the problems which we know are around the corner, not the least of which is the energy crisis. [More…]

• Unless something is done within 10 years metropolitan Hobart will have a transport crisis. [More…]

• Ferry companies such as Sullivans Cove Ferry Co. Pty Ltd and Roche Bros, in conjunction with the Transport Commission which acquired in very strange circumstances ferries from several places, one or two of which were not exactly a success, provided a ferry service across the Derwent at that dme of crisis. [More…]

• If the energy crisis is to develop the way that many people believe it is likely to develop through into the 1980s, then certainly we will need national energy policies, which we do not have at the moment, we will need a national energy plan and I believe we will need a national transport plan. [More…]

• Our society cannot afford to have at least three-quarters of a million people not producing and face a fiscal crisis. [More…]

• This Government is confronted with just such a crisis. [More…]

• It is shameful that when unemployment is a major national crisis a profitable public enterprise should be restrained from reaching its employment potential, simply so that international profiteers can operate with the Government’s blessing. [More…]

• By being locked into import parity we will suffer as the Iranian crisis pushes up the oil price set by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [More…]

• But today we are faced with an international crisis on a par with the Cuban crisis of 1962. [More…]

• The gravity of this crisis demands our attention now. [More…]

• It is necessary for me to say now, before going into detail, that the Australian Government’s recent statements and actions concerning the crisis in Indo-China have been mere echoes of the statements made by the United States Government. [More…]

• The companies in Australia which can grow big enough at the expense of the smaller firms to specialise their production for export in tandem with the same big companies operating in other countries in our regional production Une are, in a way, responsible for our present economic crisis. [More…]

• He referred to the oil crisis, beef prices and so on. [More…]

• We have the most crisis-ridden and scandalprone government in the history of this nation. [More…]

• All were involved in one way or another in some sort of government crisis. [More…]

• I repeat that no government has been more crisis-ridden and more scandal-ridden than the present one. [More…]

• Yet within three days the Minister was able to put behind him this crisis of conscience and, condoned by the Prime Minister, expect the Australian people to pretend, without any explanation, that it never happened. [More…]

• They cannot be divorced from the general strategic and political environment and, to the extent that that environment deteriorates, their credibility as instruments of crisis management is diminished. [More…]

• I refer to that document to establish that the Government’s early recognition of the present crisis was firmly based on a long-standing anaylSls of the strategic situation. [More…]

• In responding to this unfolding crisis, the Government quickly and accurately assessed the course the crisis was likely to follow. [More…]

• It is to the latter ‘s credit that in the current phase of the crisis it has so far shown such restraint. [More…]

• We are under no illusions that we can play the pivotal role in resolving this crisis. [More…]

• I do not intend wasting much time on the Opposition’s performance during this crisis. [More…]

• Emotional charges or Cold War mentality do no good in the face of a serious regional crisis. [More…]

• The cessation of oil exports from Iran, previously the world’s second largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia, has brought into focus again- as if the 1973 oil crisis was not sufficientthe world’s heavy dependence on imported oil, most of which originates from the Middle East region. [More…]

• It is extraordinary to think that we had to wait for three days of parliamentary sittings before we could hear about it because there was certainly an international crisis to the north. [More…]

• Almost every significant crisis in the world today can be traced back to the political incompetence of Western nations this century. [More…]

• They have come from that dreadful Iranian crisis and from the member states of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries’. [More…]

• At a time when the world faces another Middle East crisis, when supplies of export oil to many countries are in jeopardy, when many countries, some of them close neighbours, are now faced with not only trying to find alternative supplies of oil and associated products but also having to pay enormous prices when they happen to find a market in which they can buy, the importance of selfsufficiency is emphasised once again. [More…]

• What impeccable timing the Opposition has, coming into this chamber at a time when the world faces an oil crisis to complain about oil prices for short term political effect. [More…]

• Would honourable members opposite just surrender to that at a time when, as I said, we are facing a Middle East crisis. [More…]

• In a time of critical crisis, a suggestion that we would renege on our pricing situation - [More…]

• When did it- dishonestly, if honourable members likepretend that there was no such thing as an oil crisis? [More…]

• It was the Labor Government which, by burying its head in the sand in 1973, 1974 and 1975 and pretending that there was no oil crisis, pretending that there never would be an oil crisis and pretending that it would get away with cheating on the companies looking for oil, with the result that oil exploration stopped in this nation- through a combination of those factors- caused the severe trauma which all of a sudden was involved in Australia catching up with the real world situation. [More…]

• -Australia’s manufacturing industry is in a crisis. [More…]

• This loss of jobs in manufacturing industries is the core of Australia’s worsening unemployment crisis. [More…]

• It is a crisis caused largely by investment decisions of large corporations here in Australia but especially overseas. [More…]

• It is a crisis that has now been used by these corporations to strengthen their international control of production, to weaken the control of organised labour and to increase the corporations’ profitability on a global scale regardless of the devastating impact on the various nations and their work forces. [More…]

• The General Motors Corporation’s complementation plan is an attempt to exploit the current unemployment crisis in this country. [More…]

• That might turn sour for the Prime Minister simply because it is the collective opinion of sporting organisations around Australia that the condition of sport in this country has reached crisis proportions. [More…]

• The relationship between supply and demand was reversed in 1974 for many reasons, not the least of which was the oil crisis. [More…]

• One only has to reflect on the recent crisis in Iran, which is the No. [More…]

• 2 OPEC producer, or imagine a crisis in some other key country in the region to come to grips with just how serious the consequences could be. [More…]

• I express the gravest concern that a client of the Soviet Union engaged in military aggression, precipitated this crisis. [More…]

• one which is similar to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 . [More…]

• It is of no particular strategic concern to Australia but it is as serious as the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. [More…]

• Nobody can pretend that we have not been through a crisis parallel to that in Cuba. [More…]

• It was certainly the most tense crisis the nation has faced since 1962. [More…]

• Tonight I want to express my own views because I have been actively involved in foreign affairs since the first Parliamentary mission to China in 1955, through the Suez crisis, through Aden, and through the problems we have experienced since then. [More…]

• Lastly, I believe that the international crisis surrounding the future supply of oil is starting to highlight Australia’s energy resources. [More…]

• Australia has an energy crisis, but what is the Leader of the Opposition saying? [More…]

• Is that the way to resolve our energy crisis? [More…]

• The financial crisis was a permanency . [More…]

• Aussies deal ‘crisis’ blow. [More…]

• 1 ) his deliberate and calculated attempt to mislead this House and the Australian people as to the gravity of the oil crisis currently facing Australia, [More…]

• The company then telexed the Minister, repeating all these terms such as ‘play down’ and ‘undertakings’ which he had concocted with them, and requiring of him that, as the official Minister of the Government, he intercede either directly or indirectly through another department, with the PJT to apprise it as Caltex requested- the word is ‘apprise’- of the issues surrounding the real supply crisis and how the companies were entitled to fix the precedent of recovery of premiums above the OPEC price. [More…]

• Is there any crisis? [More…]

• Firstly, we wish to ensure that the immediate situation which we face because of the Middle East crisis is dealt with adequately and properly so that we may preserve for the Australian people proper supplies of very important fuel. [More…]

• We have almost a crisis of information at the moment. [More…]

• It is because during this Government’s period of office we have had more idle resources in this country than at any other time in the country’s history, that we have had the deficit problems that are forcing Australia this year into what can be described only as a mounting fiscal crisis. [More…]

• He would not know what the words ‘fiscal’ and ‘responsible ‘ mean but he probably would know what ‘crisis’ means because he belongs to the group of people who brought this country into a great crisis in the three years that people regret so much throughout our community. [More…]

• In instances of family crisis, authorised officers are sometimes faced with emergency situations which require an immediate response. [More…]

• There is no doubt that not only, as we have pointed out in this Parliament previously, are the unskilled and semi-skilled people bound up in the enormous crisis and problem of unemployment, but also we have the professional people involved in it here as well as in many other countries. [More…]

• The oil crisis of 1973 precipitated the fundamental recognition that the world was facing an energy crisis. [More…]

• The recent events in Iran, as I have just said, have confirmed that the energy crisis is still a fact of life. [More…]

• While Australia has been insulated from the effects of the oil crisis by a plentiful supply of energy resources, the dwindling supply of petroleum has meant that many countries must change over to other sources of energy. [More…]

• The simple fact is that nuclear energy is the only readily available alternative most countries have to meet their essential need for electrical energy in the wake of the oil crisis. [More…]

• The world energy crisis has meant that adjustment must be made to other sources of energy in the wake of dwindling world supplies of petroleum. [More…]

• What happened during the recent crisis in Iran? [More…]

• Even at the time of that enormous crisis, the people of Switzerland agreed by a narrow majority of 40,000 votes in a referendum to continue with a nuclear power program. [More…]

• We are aware that there is a world fuel crisis. [More…]

• With the present world energy crisis and with Australia’s huge deposits of coal, whereby we can generate our own electricity and provide our own means of motivation for rail transport we should be getting on with the job instead of allocating such paltry amounts. [More…]

• If we are going to overcome this fuel crisis in the long term, there must be cooperation. [More…]

• Even at this point of time the fuel crisis is putting some of the motorcars, which we thought would never be superseded, off the road. [More…]

• I refer to the impending crisis in fuel oil availability. [More…]

• This crisis has highlighted the folly of past decisions and indecision as a result of which our railway systems, and for that matter our coastal shipping services, have been allowed to degenerate to a level where their role bears little resemblance to the proud role they played in establishing this country in its formative years. [More…]

• The meeting of young Commonwealth leaders, deeply concerned over the continuation of the Cyprus crisis and the continued drama of the youth of Cyprus; [More…]

• The Government was dressing up the figure because it knew that there would be a great crisis in interest rates. [More…]

• But as great as that obligation is, it will not distract us from the equally important task of revealing the depth of the crisis which this country faces and the extent of the damage which this Government has done to this country. [More…]

• The policy recognises Australia’s obligation as a country well endowed with energy resources to make those resources available to other countries, many of which have no alternative in the wake of the world energy crisis but to turn to nuclear energy as a means of supplying electricity to their peoples. [More…]

• Finally, the Conference concluded that enough information is available to make everyone aware of the energy crisis, and aware that definite action is required now, especially in the area of nuclear power. [More…]

• Those are the conclusions of the finest brains involved in the energy crisis. [More…]

• A matter of public importance was moved by the Australian Labor Party at the time of the Harrisburg crisis but this is the first time this issue has been raised. [More…]

• The honourable member for Reid talked about the crisis at Harrisburg in the United States. [More…]

• The crisis at Harrisburg was of concern not only to the residents of the area around the power station but also to the whole nuclear industry throughout the world. [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…]

• He has indulged in empty, generalised rhetoric, but in none of the hard details which are necessary at this time of economic crisis in this country. [More…]

• As a nation obtaining more sophisticated defence equipment, we have to ask ourselves whether our local manufacturing industries are geared, equipped and able to participate in the continuing manufacture of some of the components involved and, more importantly, whether they are able and have the resources to keep that equipment functional and in service in a crisis. [More…]

• This crisis, this chaos, this law of the jungle, this exploitation of the many by the few can and must be solved by planning. [More…]

• Inner city areas were either suffering from urban blight and decay or they were experiencing the early stage of gentrification where the potential capital gains of recycling older established houses were becoming increasingly obvious to the speculators and where above all Australia was facing a future without an effective public transport system at a time in which the oil price crisis was appearing as a signal that the time of the automobile as the principal form of urban transport was coming to at least the beginning of the end. [More…]

• Funds were now moving out of the manufacturing area, which was itself moving deeper and deeper into a state of crisis. [More…]

• We are indeed, in this country, facing a fiscal crisis in which there are limitations of the funds . [More…]

• In the 1 980s, with the coming energy crisis and energy price crisis, increasingly the kind of pattern in Australian cities will be seen to be catastrophic in terms of servicing costs. [More…]

• Already that crisis is highly apparent in California. [More…]

• The state government of California is moving in a myriad of ways to do something about that crisis. [More…]

• One sees no sign of the Liberal Government in Canberra, of the various State governments around this nation, of the honourable Minister for Finance (Mr Eric Robinson), or of the member for Petrie concerning themselves with that crisis or taking any action. [More…]

• As helpful as lectures may be- honourable members have been receiving several lectures during adjournment debates- to uninitiated economists, they do not assist this House to come to grips with the basic issues that face Western nations during a current world wide economic crisis. [More…]

• The reality is that it has now been shown that we are facing a crisis throughout the whole of the Western world. [More…]

• This excludes the rest of the world, which can be classified, as the Government would see it, as ossifying under tyrannical socialist rule or as part of the Third World, which the Government tends to expect to be in a situation of perpetual crisis anyway. [More…]

• The causes of the crisis go much deeper than rhetoric about free trade and free competition might suggest. [More…]

• I believe it can be argued that we in the West faced a crisis of overproduction, followed by a long period of booming investment in which it seemed that there was only one way to go- to grow bigger and better, to form larger and larger combines and to transcend any boundary, whether it be local, State, national or international, in search of larger and larger markets and, more importantly, larger and larger profits. [More…]

• The oil crisis of 1973 followed the recognition by the Middle Eastern powers that they could not go on subsidising a Western and Japanese economic miracle forever, given the fact that for many of these countries oil was their only major asset and bargaining tool. [More…]

• So we have the exploitation, particularly at the moment, of Australian energy resources as if there were no energy crisis in the whole damn world. [More…]

• Those benefits are designed to get people out of a crisis in a few weeks, whereas increasingly the average length of time that people are unemployed is between six and eight months. [More…]

• Where are the government policies to introduce properly paid job creation schemes, to raise unemployment benefit levels above the austere poverty line, to index pensions and benefits quarterly, to expand significantly labor research and planning so as to help avert the growing crisis of unemployment? [More…]

• The political crisis in Iran led to a cessation in oil supplies from a nation which last year produced 10 per cent of the world’s oil supply. [More…]

• The crisis in Iran has inevitably affected decisions about other energy resources such as coal and uranium. [More…]

• The United States, Japan and Western Europe are now likely to expand their coal programs to reduce dependence on oil more quickly than would have been expected before the crisis. [More…]

• While the crisis in Iran graphically shows some of the hazards in predicting the energy outlook, there are other complexities which could affect the situation. [More…]

• Even at this late stage there is still time for the Government to ensure that Australia need not fear the energy crisis which threatens to become a common occurrence for the remainder of this century, but it will have to do a lot better than produce a document that might as well have been written by oil companies in board rooms. [More…]

• The basic reason for the continuing unemployment problem largely revolves around the crisis for young women as many more married women and senior women are now making it more difficult for young women to get jobs. [More…]

• Today they are deemed to be due to the oil crisis. [More…]

• We met the oil crisis and the oil hike of 1973. [More…]

• Nobody gave us the excuse that inflation was due to the oil crisis. [More…]

• Honourable members on the Government side need not come in here and bleat about the Government’s troubles being due to the fact that the rural man is doing well and that there is a sudden oil crisis. [More…]

• First of all he knifed his leader in the back, then he thrust himself into the leadership of the Liberal Party and then he went out to the country and said: ‘The problems of 1973 and 1974 were not problems related to a world international economic crisis’- as the Treasurer (Mr Howard) on the front bench knows. [More…]

• He went on: ‘They were not part of the problems of world economic crisis during 1973 and 1974, but they were problems peculiar to Australia, of short run economic management.’ [More…]

• It is regrettable that some members of the Press- those wily fabricators of the scare tactics and cataracts of crisis and tumult- have endeavoured to inculcate in the hearts and minds of the Australian people the fact that the Government has departed from its planned program. [More…]

• This has contributed to the increasing balance of payments difficulties and the crisis that has arisen with regard to the deficit in the balance of the current account. [More…]

• That is the crisis that this Government has to face. [More…]

• The crisis in Australian politics today is one of credibility. [More…]

• In this Parliament we have seen evidence of that crisis of credibility in what the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Government offer. [More…]

• RESEARCH CRISIS [More…]

• There would then be an education crisis of truly classic proportions. [More…]

• -On 1 7 August last year I made a speech in this place about an impending energy crisis and its effect on the isolated areas of Australia, particularly areas which have no sources of energy other than oil based energy. [More…]

• I do not want to sound like a prophet of doom, as in the book entitled Future Shock but a small part of the energy crisis is here now. [More…]

• Traditionally, 60 per cent of Australia’s supplies of aviation gasoline have come from Abadan in Iran, a refinery which almost went out of production during the crisis in Iran. [More…]

• Because there is a world shortage of aviation gasoline, we are in a crisis situation. [More…]

• This is a small crisis on the national scene but it is a major crisis in the isolated areas of Australia which have no alternative means of transport. [More…]

• I hope that this crisis will be widely publicised. [More…]

• I hope that it will help to educate the people of Australia in the problems we will face in the future with fuel supplies because of the world energy crisis. [More…]

• Having listened to the rhetoric from certain Opposition spokesmen since 24 May it appears that they do not understand the great difficulties now facing the world because of the current energy crisis. [More…]

• I believe that the legislation introduced by the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) and the way he has approached the problems of the energy crisis of 1979, on behalf of the Government team under the leadership of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), is what is needed now. [More…]

• We have faced the difficult situation presented by the energy crisis by looking at the amount of oil that we are currently producing. [More…]

• It has failed to take into consideration that the energy crisis is one of the greatest problems that the world faces at present. [More…]

• He is saying: We’ve just solved the oil crisis! [More…]

• Of course it was precisely because a previous Administration took no account of the economic consequences of its decisions that Australia got into such very great difficulties when oil search was stopped dead at the very time when there was a major oil crisis in the world, when mineral development and exploration were stopped dead, and when manufacturers in Australia lost their domestic and overseas markets as a result of most rampant inflation. [More…]

• The fact is that for all Government members’ claims to be sound, solid and reliable managers, on the whole they are a pack of slick charlatans lurching from one crisis to another, and the health measures have tended to be the victims of those crises. [More…]

• Who will pay the enormous costs of the crisis that occurred at Harrisburg? [More…]

• The energy policies on which all countries are working- Australia’s energy policy was enunciated on 27 June this year- were brought to a head by the price increases of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the crisis in Iran at the beginning of this year. [More…]

• House, is that the then Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, in making a statement to the House in September of last year, for the first time gave the people of Australia some idea of the crisis of unemployment with which we were living and some idea of the great difficulties of unemployment with which we were going to be confronted in the next five to 10 years. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to an article in the Canberra Times of 17 May 1979 entitled ‘University StaffTell of Research Funds Crisis’. [More…]

• Those of us who follow world events realise that the energy crisis which is facing the world and which has necessitated increasing the cost of petroleum products in Australia is putting a considerable burden on the people of Canberra who rely on petroleum products for heat at this time of the year. [More…]

• Next to unemployment, the provision of shelter is the most serious crisis in our community today. [More…]

• First, let us look at the crisis resulting from the shortage of emergency accommodation. [More…]

• The mineral boom, a downturn in our population growth, the energy crisis, rapid inflation, a wages explosion, import competition from newly industrialised countries, particularly in Asia, and the world recession altered the equation of past success. [More…]

• I predict- others who are better informed on the energy crisis will appreciatethat the two modes of transportation which will come back in a very big way in this country towards the end of this century and certainly in the twenty-first century are sea transport and rail transport. [More…]

• Not one member of this Parliament represents a district, a constituency, a region, a city, a country town or a regional centre that is not affected by the crisis of unemployment in Australia. [More…]

• It is not just Labor voters who are affected by this crisis; it is not just Labor families that are affected by this crisis; everyone is affected. [More…]

• Or is the crisis due to the Fraser Governmentpromoted stagnation in another way? [More…]

• We are in a crisis situation. [More…]

• We are in a crisis situation. [More…]

• -The honourable gentleman is spot on about what is being suffered in South Australia at the moment, and that is a crisis of confidence. [More…]

• South Australia is suffering a crisis of confidence and as a result is losing prospects for 55,000 jobs. [More…]

• They include: The ‘Energy Crisis’; The Problem of Liquid Fuels- Exploration, Windfall Gains, Fuel Substitution, Conservation; A Natural Gas Policy For Australia- Demand and Supply, Gas Pricing, End Use Allocation of Gas; The Contribution of Coal- Reserves, Coal Uses; and The Australian Mineral Industry. [More…]

• As I said at Question Time today, in South Australia there is a crisis of confidence in the economy. [More…]

• If this Government runs away from such a planned approach, I regret to say that crisis will be the order of the day in this country for a long time to come. [More…]

• He sounds almost like a prophet when he presents himself as one who forecast present day difficulties in terms of the world energy crisis. [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the recent International Energy Agency report which confirms authoritative predictions of a world liquid fuel crisis at about the year 1985. [More…]

• The reports I have seen do not forecast that a crisis will occur, as such; rather, they stress the importance of adequate energy supplies for future economic development. [More…]

• There is a crisis of confidence in South Australia. [More…]

• In South Australia there is a crisis of confidence reflected in a crisis in business confidence, in consumer confidence and in the confidence of the electors themselves. [More…]

• He says: ‘The international monetary crisis jolted world confidence severely. [More…]

• He said quite clearly that the current crisis in health care lies not in the global amount spent on health care in this country but in the unholy mess that this Government has made of our health care system. [More…]

• Since 1976 the extent and duration of unemployment have reached crisis levels, yet this Government continues to persecute the unemployed through restrictive work tests and a subsistence level unemployment benefit. [More…]

• Honourable members will remember that after the Iranian crisis Australia found itself without its traditional supplier. [More…]

• All its policies have sapped the State of economic vigour and have destroyed the confidence of South Australia to the point where there is now a crisis of confidence in that State. [More…]

• If the Government can reach a crisis point or a flash-point in industrial relations, our good friend the Prime Minister may have sufficient reason to call another Federal election. [More…]

• Because of the Prime Minister and because of his wanting to get some value out of a crisis in industrial relations, the proper aim of this Government on real industrial relations is swept under the carpet and is replaced by this confrontation. [More…]

• This Minister cannot say on one hand that we have a crisis because John Halfpenny made a speech at the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress and tell us on the other hand that industrial relations have improved. [More…]

• That would mean a crisis which is exactly what the Government wants because the Prime Minister thrives on this sort of crisis situation. [More…]

• The fundamental moral, political and strategic confusion of that action was to rebound into our own society, particularly in the problems of this country and the constitutional crisis of1 975. [More…]

• It is aggravating the crisis in the building industry where over 71 ,000 jobs have been lost since May 1975. [More…]

• I remind the House that that period from 1972 to 1975 was a period of great crisis for home owners in Australia and for the housing industry. [More…]

• The report entitled ‘The Crisis of Democracy’ talks about the problem of the governability of democracies’. [More…]

• I remind you, Mr Deputy Speaker, that before you came into the Parliament- no one would be more mindful of this than the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) if I can jog his active brain- Edward Ward when sitting on the front bench reminded the House in the presence of Sir Robert Menzies that Sir Anthony Eden wrote in his memoirs, which can be found in the Parliamentary Library, that he had received a letter from Sir Robert Menzies after visiting Nasser during the Suez crisis and that Sir Robert Menzies wrote: [More…]

• But at present, with coming recessions, the energy crisis and rapidly increasing unemployment throughout the world it is important that we look at the purchasing power of other nations. [More…]

• It was not so difficult to accomplish them in Australia until that time, but in 1973 this country and the rest of the world had experienced the external effects of the oil crisis. [More…]

• I ask this House to bear in mind the response of Australia to the oil crisis of 1973-74, and what would be a Labor government’s response to a similar crisis of 1978 and 1979-80. [More…]

• If we go back to 1973-74, we now know that there were three countries which responded to that crisis in a very careful and very gauged manner. [More…]

• I merely say that in response to any crisis, whether it be the oil crisis of the 1973 period or the one which is presently upon the Western world, honourable members should ask themselves whether Australia is going to go for the short term solution or the long term solution. [More…]

• We are concerned about ensuring that when members of the Opposition face inwards they fire the correct bullets with respect to an appropriate rate of taxation, show appropriate concern as to the main aggregates in the economy and, above all, do not repeat during the oil crisis of 1979 the kind of infamy that they repeated during the oil crisis of 1973. [More…]

• Thankfully he did not blame Mr Whitlam for the oil crisis in 1973. [More…]

• Australia, with its vast resources of energy components such as coal or uranium, is in a much better situation to face a projected energy crisis than most other Western nations. [More…]

• While I was in the United States President Carter made his statement on the energy crisis. [More…]

• They blame, for example, the petrol crisis on the oil companies or the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [More…]

• The symptoms include: sluggish economic growth verging on recession; stubbornly high rates of inflation; high and intractable unemployment; recurring disruptions in the monetary system; the emergence of a real energy crisis; rapidly escalating Third World debt; widespread poverty and malnutrition. [More…]

• The effect of all that is simply to heighten the crisis in the world community. [More…]

• It is premised on some basic misunderstandings of the nature of the economic crisis which faces the Western world and the nature of the problems which face Australian society. [More…]

• The world situation is really that Australia has been partially isolated from the major oil crisis because we have our own supplies. [More…]

• The danger of a world nuclear war by accident is much reduced because of the impact of the Cuba crisis which has not been forgotten. [More…]

• In any world crisis the following countries will consult immediately: The United States of America, Britain, India, Japan, Australia and other members of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• I wanted to refer particularly to the latest crisis in what seems to be a series of crises that afflict these various programs. [More…]

• But the crisis will be with us very much in the next few weeks. [More…]

• Under the Portuguese, the Church constituted a kind of buffer between the colonial administration and the ordinary people, to whom it offered some sanctuary in times of crisis. [More…]

• All of a sudden, there is a crisis where the entire population of a country may be wiped out because the great national and international governments and agencies were more concerned about diplomacies than the sanctity of human life. [More…]

• We have now reached a situation where, like it or not, Australia cannot get away from the various world influences in the energy crisis. [More…]

• In fact, that crisis has taken on deep implications for Australians and particularly for Australian motorists. [More…]

• Frankly, I do not believe it is overstating the position to say it is moving to crisis proportions because it could well prove, after tomorrow, that objections come from not just one presidential member of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, together with all the commissioners, but also other presidential members. [More…]

• -The front page of the Diamond Valley News of last Tuesday, 9 October reveals that yet another crisis is afflicting the Eltham Shire Council. [More…]

• The voluntary agencies, already in a state of crisis, will have to find money and food vouchers. [More…]

• Families at risk in this country need economic and social justice to prevent crisis situations which so often occur unnecessarily. [More…]

• In other words, the lack of adequate controls and protection for the investor has led to a crisis of confidence where Australians would rather save than invest in Australian enterprises. [More…]

• In view of the energy crisis and the continuation of the increase in the price of fuel, will the Minister undertake, immediately and urgently, a study to determine the effects of emission controls over the last few years, not just the stage proposed for next year, and report to the Parliament and to the nation? [More…]

• The resolution of the political crisis involving National Assembly members is somewhat unclear. [More…]

• Other countries, such as Japan, in the face of a world energy crisis are closing down their refineries and smelters at a very great rate. [More…]

• I have provided detailed statistics on the growing housing crisis in Australia, especially for low and lower-middle income earners. [More…]

• There is a real crisis situation, and we have to make housing available for those people. [More…]

• In support of my remarks on health let me refer to the fact that some weeks ago a number of doctors in Queensland sent a petition to the Director-General in Queensland stating that there is a crisis in this region; that there is an urgent need to improve the situation by taking health care away from the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement and giving it to some more appropriate department. [More…]

• Even before the avgas crisis, the general aviation industry was beginning to suffer the effects of the Government’s oil import parity pricing policy. [More…]

• We would indicate that it is somewhat late on the scene but acknowledge that it usually takes some form of crisis or some threat of long-term and continual political damage to political parties in order to have action of this nature taken. [More…]

• Time and time again the energy crisis was raised with us and time and time again those who raised this matter with us stressed the need for Europe to proceed with its nuclear development program. [More…]

• Any alleged crisis in health care and health costs is being caused by the cry wolf stance being taken by the Opposition. [More…]

• Another aspect that I might mention is the report’s comments on crisis management, another area with a major Federal-State component. [More…]

• The report’s comments on crisis management are consistent with and in effect endorse the contingency planning arrangements and other proposals that are being or have been developed in association between the relevant Commonwealth, State and Northern Territory authorities. [More…]

• I do not believe that we could ever be fierce enough in the defence of our freedoms and of the standards which we require to ensure that the systems of authority within our community are answerable; even at times of crisis, they can be made accountable. [More…]

• It is quite clear that the energy price crisis has re-opened a series of previously unquestioned assumptions about the most efficient forms of transport to undertake different transport tasks. [More…]

• At a time when it is critical to have effective transport systems, each of the major systems, it might be argued, faces some sort of crisis. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the rail industry in this country, taken as a whole, is in a state of very serious crisis. [More…]

• This crisis cannot be separated from the more general economic crisis which we, as a nation, face. [More…]

• The railways are part of what might be described as a more general public sector crisis. [More…]

• After the 1978 international monetary crisis, world finance problems and instability gave rise to a major explosion in international shipping rates. [More…]

• The extent of the crisis that faces their industry is reflected in their willingness to take direct action, as will be seen by the trucks parked at the front of Parliament House. [More…]

• I emphasise that point because it is being recognised increasingly that the contraction of rail systems over extremely long periods- the contraction has accelerated in recent years- in terms of the mounting energy crisis whereby the shift will be more and more from the use of liquid fuels to the use of coal, will increasingly become critical in the future. [More…]

• The two cities with the worst crisis, of course, are Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hughes will give more details about the crisis situation, of housing costs in the electorate of Cook and about how this scheme is completely irrelevant to the constituents of someone like the honourable member for Cook who will be struggling to survive at the next election. [More…]

• This Government does not want to even try to control the crisis that is occurring. [More…]

• For thousands of people the problem has now reached crisis proportions. [More…]

• I want to stress over and over again that the real problem facing the single income families, earning up to 135 per cent of average weekly earnings, whether they live in Sydney or Melbourne, is that they are in a crisis situation when it comes to acquiring a home. [More…]

• Islam’s resurgence internationally is related to the oil crisis of 1973. [More…]

• Acting in concert, these countries caused an international economic crisis. [More…]

• I cannot think of any greater national project that would be of more benefit during this energy crisis period than the development of electricity, both as an alternative to oil power and also to give greater opportunity to Austraiian industry to capitalise on this cheaper form of energy. [More…]

• There are some fundamental causes for that, including slower population growth, the energy crisis and other factors. [More…]

• Given that at the time it was delivered Australians were facing a fuel crisis and petrol rationing, the speech can be seen as little more than a panicked response from the Government. [More…]

• Australia’s reliance on liquid fuels and in alleviating the gradually worsening world energy crisis. [More…]

• Given the severe energy crisis which is facing the world, Australia has an obligation not only to itself but to the world to do everything in its power to promote energy exploration and conservation. [More…]

• Those capabilities that are required to provide a military response to the lesser contingencies which could arise with little or no warning; those high performance capabilities relating to a general strategic requirement as dictated by the characteristics of the environment rather than by specific contingencies and required to provide deterrence against the use of military pressures or military means by a potential enemy to achieve its objectives and which could not be acquired within the period of warning likely to be available before a major threat to Australia could develop; and a representative selection of second tier or substitute capabilities- moderate cost, moderate performance, short lead time systems, that could be acquired in relatively large numbers during a period of developing threat- to enable the development of operating techniques, procedures and doctrines in a short period of crisis. [More…]

• I am confident that wool will ride out the present crisis with the assistance of this Government. [More…]

• You cannot blame the oil crisis for the inflation in Australia. [More…]