crisis - senate - 1970

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

In view of the urgent need to reduce rural costs during the present crisis, will the Treasurer, in framing the Budget, give consideration to making available the full petrol tax for road care by municipalities, thus enabling a reduction in municipal rates? [More…]
That (here be referred to the Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade the following matter: The problems of the rural industries of Australia now and in the foreseeable future; and [hat the Committee be requested ro recommend as soon as possible what immediate steps should be taken to meet the existing crisis in the rural industries and what long term measures should be taken to restructure and achieve the utmost efficiency in the rural industries in order to ensure as far as possible the prosperity of rural industries and of the community based on them. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the report of the South Australian Housing Trust in which there is reference to the sorry story of the housing crisis facing old people in South [More…]
What plans has the Government for overall action on a national basis to solve Australia’s rural crisis rather than the present indiscriminate and unsatisfactory hole plugging of individual industries? [More…]
What action is proposed by the Government following the claim by spokesmen for the wine industry that sales of South Australian flagon and bulk wines have fallen by thousands of gallons, thereby creating a crisis in the industry, as a result of the imposition of excise duty on wine in the 1970 Budget? [More…]
Will the Minister for Civil Aviation submit to the Senate and to the people of Australia a comprehensive and frank statement on the crisis which is obviously facing Qantas Airways Ltd? [More…]
In view of the fact that the world monetary crisis may result in a long term increase in the importance and therefore the value of gold, will the Treasurer give further urgent consideration to the plight of the goldminins industry with a view to preventing the imminent closure of the few remaining gold mines that are in production? [More…]
As this decline can weaken the demand for Australian wool at future auction sales, what initiative does the Government propose to combat the rapidly worsening crisis in the wool industry? [More…]
Is Qantas facing an operational or financial crisis or other disabilities which have as yet not been made known to the Government or to this Parliament? [More…]
Concorde Crisis’ in which it is claimed that the sonic boom effects on human and animal life on land are alarming and that supersonic nights over the oceans may seriously affect marine life? [More…]
The trade union movement is interested in the implications of this statement because after all it represents substantial sections of the work force, and it is a body with which the Government has to deal if there is a national crisis. [More…]
One need only instance our friends who were killed in Chile yesterday to appreciate that we are living in a crisis. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he has noted the statement reported to have been made publicly yesterday by the United States Ambassador that Australia had learned within moments of its implementation of the world wide United States alert during the Middle East crisis? [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…]
-Can the Minister representing the Minister for Housing and Construction confirm the report today that the Australian housing industry is facing a crisis which is said to be the gravest in 7 years, with worse yet to come? [More…]
Does the Minister agree that something has to be done in the near future if a serious economic crisis in the industry is to be avoided? [More…]
There appears to be no limit to the depths to which Senator Carrick will sink in his attempt to provide what his leader calls the reprehensible circumstances for inducing a constitutional crisis in this country. [More…]
That is an example of the depths to which that Opposition spokesman is prepared to sink in his attempt to provide the so-called reprehensible circumstances which his leader wants to induce a constitutional crisis. [More…]
Any reasonably intelligent Premier, expecting the slowness of the mails with which we have become familiar to prevail, might have had the foresight to send a copy to Canberra so that honourable senators; in the urgency of the crisis to which the Premier refers, may be informed as expeditiously as possible. [More…]
In conclusion, I can only say I hope that the constitutional crisis in Canberra will not be allowed to become the threat it could pose to the stability of State government. [More…]
Australia knows, and we here know, who is creating the constitutional crisis in Canberra. [More…]
That we are fearful that any further delay by the Senate of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democratic institutions. [More…]
That we are fearful that any further delay by the Senate of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democratic institutions. [More…]
That we are fearful that any further delay by the Senate of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democractic institutions. [More…]
That we are fearful that any further delay by the Senate of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democratic institutions. [More…]
That we are fearful that any further delay by the Senate of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democratic institutions. [More…]
That we are fearful that any further delay by the Senate of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democratic institutions. [More…]
We were almost completely isolated from the energy crisis which had such a devastating effect upon the economies not only of the developed countries but also of many of the developing countries, lt is interesting to note that, because of sound economic policies, the rate of inflation in Japan, which was among the countries which were most affected by the energy crisis, is decreasing rapidly. [More…]
Here again, the German economy recovered remarkably quickly while we are still wallowing in an economic crisis caused by the lack of policies of this Government. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General’s announcement of a reduction of $1.5 million in expenditure on the Family Law Court in this financial year increase the crisis apparently existing at present. [More…]
We will not have a crisis over it; we are not going to call a division on it or move an amendment to it. [More…]
What is the Minister’s response to the call by the Australian Council of State School Organisations, referred to in an article in the Courier-Mail dated 17 February 1977, for an urgent injection of $20m into school building programs to combat an approaching crisis in school accommodation. [More…]
Will the Minister undertake to publish these documents and information as soon as they become available, in view of the public interest in the energy crisis. [More…]
As such, would not the development of this engine demand a high priority by any government professing concern for the impending energy crisis, if not, why not. [More…]
1 ) In which newspapers did the advertisement ‘Telecom dispute- Communications Crisis ‘ appear. [More…]
When we came into government three years ago Australia was facing a very serious crisis because of the downturn in exploration for oil and gas, particularly in the three years of the Labor Government. [More…]
As the 35 th congress in Adelaide of an international shipping and sailing group known as the Cape Homers has focused attention on this research, can the Minister indicate the state of any research program in Australia relating to a return to wind power, especially in view of the fuel crisis situation [More…]
Will the Minister support proposals that a quite considerable loading be placed on all exports of Australia’s rapidlydiminishing energy resources and that all revenue accruing from the loading be used exclusively for research and experimentation into new energy sources such as the liquefaction of coal, the production of hydrogen or the development of intermittent energy sources, such as solar, wind or tidal, in view of the impending energy crisis: if not. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for National Development and is asked in the context of this week’s renewed energy crisis following world oil price rises. [More…]
What are the realistic prospects for a solution to the Kampuchea crisis. [More…]
The Government still does not have a solution for the wheat crisis. [More…]
At end of motion add - but the Senate is of opinion that the Government has failed to give positive leadership to overcome the crisis in the wheat industry’. [More…]
The proposed amendment indicates that whilst the Opposition is not opposing the Bill, we are certainly expressing our opinion that the Government has not shown adequate leadership to overcome the crisis in the wheat industry. [More…]
We have moved an amendment because we believe that the Government has failed to give positive leadership to overcome the crisis in the wheat industry. [More…]
It is the small wheat farmer and his family who are involved principally in the crisis that confronts the wheat industry today. [More…]
This reply was given at a time when anybody who knew anything about the wheat industry knew that we were faced with a crisis. [More…]
The wheat industry is in a state of crisis. [More…]
We certainly do not intend to vote against the Bill but we insist that we be given the right to study all the features of the legislation when this moment of crisis has passed. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment states that the Government has failed to give positive leadership to overcome the crisis in the wheat industry. [More…]
But the Senate is of opinion that the Government has failed to give positive leadership to overcome the crisis in the wheat industry. [More…]
The Bill gives honourable senators an opportunity to examine not only the situation in which the wheat industry finds itself at present but also, as I have indicated in relation to the Opposition’s amendment, to determine whether the Government has failed to give positive leadership to overcome the crisis in the wheat industry. [More…]
The present crisis is the result of a situation which has been building up over a number of years. [More…]
This brings me to the very crunch, that the crisis which is facing this country is the inevitable result of a cycle of boom and bust. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party feels that a crisis such as this could have been avoided with some planning. [More…]
The wheat industry is not the only industry which has come up against a crisis such as this. [More…]
Practically every one of our primary industries face this kind of crisis in one form or another. [More…]
provide adequate storage to meet the resulting crisis; and [More…]
We could see that the Australian wheat industry would face a crisis. [More…]
Let me ask Senator Prowse this question: Whose money is it that is now being lent to meet the crisis situation that has developed in the industry? [More…]
We told the Government that if a crisis developed in this industry because some of the countries that were given favourable terms of payment for their purchases welshed on those terms the Australian taxpayers would be the people who would have to pay. [More…]
The most scandalous aspect of the attitude of the Government on this matter is not that we now have a crisis - anybody can make mistakes - but the deliberate prevention of the Parliament and people of Australia from being acquainted with the facts of what has developed in this industry. [More…]
The second point in the honourable senator’s proposed amendment refers to the provision of adequate storage to meet the resulting crisis. [More…]
provide adequate storage to meet the resulting crisis; [More…]
provide adequate storage to meet the present crisis. [More…]
provide adequate storage to meet the resulting crisis; and [More…]
Having said that, I think I should say that the Opposition supports Senator McClelland’s amendment with the addition and asks the Senate to carry it as an expression of the Senate’s feelings about the Government’s handling of the wheat crisis. [More…]
I have nothing but contempt for the honourable senator’s statement that the Australian Labor Party failed to give leadership in times of world economic crisis. [More…]
Is the Minister for the Army prepared to tell me just what were the circumstances that caused the withdrawal at that moment of crisis? [More…]
He well knows that during the last world war, when this country faced a crisis, he was a conscientious objector. [More…]
The first question one must ask in considering my motion is this: Is there a crisis in primary industry which demands such strong action? [More…]
Can anybody fairly suggest that there is no crisis in the wheat industry when a responsible officer of a wheat growers organisation puts forward such a proposal, which may have to be considered? [More…]
All in all, there is a crisis in which only 1 or 2 of our primary industries can face the future with any confidence. [More…]
The impression I have gained from attending these meetings is that these people are definitely facing a grave crisis. [More…]
When such a large number of primary producers are prepared to leave their farms for a whole day for the purpose of showing that they believe that there is a crisis which must be met, it indicates that there is grave trouble facing us. [More…]
That was in 1941 when there was a similar period of crisis because of the effect of the war on Australian primary industries. [More…]
Although we have to admit that there is a grave crisis in our primary community, it would be most unwise of us to allow statements that there is a crisis to develop to the stage that they might almost cause panic. [More…]
Whatever happens, I hope that Parliament in its wisdom will bring into effect those measures which will do most good for the farming community in the present crisis that it faces. [More…]
Seasonal conditions in the south west of Western Australia brought about a crisis situation. [More…]
At that moment in Western Australia the crisis situation applied only to wheat farmers and producers of fat lambs. [More…]
for the Government to call an emergency meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council to review the present crisis in the countryside and give proper national leadership and end without delay ihe present uncertainty and current hardship. [More…]
for the Government to call an emergency meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council to review the present crisis in the countryside and give proper national leadership and end without delay the present uncertainty and current hardship. [More…]
Leave out all words after ‘would be’ in paragraph (1), insert ‘for the Government to call an emergency meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council to review the present crisis in the countryside, and give proper national leadership to end, without delay, the present uncertainty and current hardship’. [More…]
Generally the Australian wool industry is facing the most serious crisis in its history. [More…]
The crisis can be averted only if we, responsible members of this Parliament, accept our responsibility to try to help the industry resolve its major problems. [More…]
The wool industry is perilously close to an economic crisis caused by this very cost price squeeze. [More…]
As I have said, the wool industry is not facing only an economic crisis. [More…]
Senator O’Byrne also said that the wool industry was facing a crisis, that grower meetings were being held everywhere and that more and more meetings would be held because of the problems facing the industry. [More…]
Has the Minister noted the views recently expressed by a number of economists and commentators that the present crisis in rural industry calls for the abandonment of the family farm and its replacement by large units, of the collective farm type, owned by big corporations? [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Health aware of a crisis situation in the nursing section of hospitals throughout Australia as indicated by a reduction in the recruiting rate, an increasing drop-out rate, a growing shortage of nursing staff which results in vacant beds, and a dissatisfaction among nurses in relation to their terms and conditions of employment, their salaries and their status? [More…]
Representatives of the States met him in the postwar years to talk about their financial requirements and the financial responsibilities which the States had ceded to the Commonwealth in order to meet the national crisis that we knew in the war against Fascism and against Japan. [More…]
( refer to the gambling machines which were introduced as a method of raising the finance needed to meet the crisis through which the State was passing. [More…]
Perhaps my choice of words is bad because it was not passing through a crisis; it was getting deeper and deeper into the mire. [More…]
In addressing my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Health 1 remind her that on 23rd April I asked whether she was aware of a crisis situation in the nursing profession because of a reduction in the recruiting rate, an increase in the drop-out rate and a shortage of nursing staff resulting in vacant beds. [More…]
I know that there are some who say that we face a crisis - I am one of them - and there are others who are more optimistic and say that there could be a crisis unless we take effective action to deal with the situation. [More…]
I do not think we can ignore these representations because older members of the Senate will recall that the great depressions in Australia’s history always began with a crisis in the rural industries. [More…]
As we approach the question of the whole pattern of rural industry in Australia and go through the more important segments of the industry, we are struck immediately by one consideration - there is virtually a crisis or a developing crisis or a sporadic crisis in every segment of rural production. [More…]
As a particular crisis is dampened down in whole or in part with only a limited degree of effectiveness, we find a crisis then develops in some other area of the rural economy. [More…]
We find a crisis developing in the wool industry, and the marketing situation and the propriety and wisdom of the present marketing system or some alternate marketing system then becomes a matter of critical importance. [More…]
All these things are symptomatic of the continuing crisis which ripples through the rural economy, developing at crisis points from one moment to another, and to which temporary and sporadic remedies are applied, lt is in view of this situation and because of the prospect that there may be no immediate method of doing anything to remedy it that Senator McManus has put this motion before the Senate. [More…]
Whilst the Labor Party’s amendment includes the words rural industry’, it suggests that an emergency meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council to review the present crisis in rural industry may be a wise move. [More…]
If the Senate is not of the opinion that the distress of the nation or the national interest was such that we should preserve the Prime Minister in his time of national crisis obviously whoever authorised the misuse of the aircraft and not the taxpayers should pay for it. [More…]
I suggest that within 2 years, despite the improvements that will be made to the present health scheme by the passage of this legislation, another crisis will arise in relation to the bridging of the gap between the amount of the doctor’s fee and the amount of the refund and in relation to the amount of contributions by workers to the funds. [More…]
Who will govern the crisis of the diabetic, the therapeutic tight rope of the heart patient on anticoagulant drugs, the support of the patient dying of malignant disease? [More…]
All honourable senators have a lot of regard for its provisions because they were handed down during a great constitutional crisis of previous days. [More…]
They hope that a crisis will not occur and that they will not get sick. [More…]
It may be earlier than the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman) thinks because things are moving to somewhat of a crisis. [More…]
The housing crisis is a national scandal. [More…]
One of the purposes of my moving this motion is to bring before the Senate and the Australian people the crisis which is developing in the Australian aircraft industry. [More…]
There is a crisis in the Australian aircraft manufacturing industry which applies not only to the private sector but also to the Government Aircraft Factories. [More…]
The new manager of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation has said that in the next 18 months, unless there is such a policy and unless there is such a programme of works his own enterprise will be in a state of crisis. [More…]
Is the Government aware that problems associated with the rural crisis have caused many country storekeepers to notify farmers that they can no longer extend them credit and that future transactions will have to be upon an entirely cash basis? [More…]
In view of the fact that this will occasion considerable inconvenience to people in rural areas and, in addition, will reduce the volume of buying, which obviously must have a snowballing effect on business in the main centres and also create unemployment throughout the community, will the Government give consideration to making credit available to country firms in order to tide them over for the period when we hope the crisis will be past? [More…]
I regret that the dried fruits industry is one more Australian industry which is in great difficulty during the present rural crisis, lt has been affected by drought and other seasonal conditions. [More…]
Is the Minister fully conversant with the crisis that exists in the Canberra Community Hospital where unprecedented action has been taken by nurses to get home to a complacent community and a stubborn Government the message concerning their conditions of service and the recognition of their status and wage justice? [More…]
Has the Government any explanation to make to the nation as to why it has allowed this situation to assume crisis proportions? [More…]
I know, from what I have read, that there is a crisis in the hospital situation in Canberra and that it relates to the nurses who are nol satisfied with the remuneration they are gelling. [More…]
A Concise History’ by F. C. Jones; ‘Vietnam: History Documents and Opinions on a Major World Crisis’ edited by Marvin E. Gettleman and published by Penguin Books, a book which is extremely critical of the American and Australian position in the Vietnam war; “A Concise History of East Asia’, by C. P. Fitzgerald, a book also critical of this position; and From Yalta to Vietnam’, by David Horowitz, again a book critical in this respect. [More…]
I agree with a great deal of what was said because I believe there is a crisis in the industry. [More…]
1 deplore the suggestion that people might seek to make political capital out of a crisis in such a basic primary industry as the wheat industry and forget about the interests of the people concerned. [More…]
This legislation is a product of the crisis in CommonwealthState financial relations. [More…]
The fact remains, however, that the Government’s insistence on imposing sanctions and penal provisions on trade unions will not resolve the crisis which developed last year. [More…]
This is aggravating the serious crisis which we are facing. [More…]
It would appear that a crisis is facing many people in that State. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party makes this strong appeal to the Government because of the urgency of the crisis that is confronting them. [More…]
The present crisis in the industry requires a comprehensive approach involving immediate and long term measures. [More…]
All the shilly-shallying in the world is still going on merely because this Government does not know what to do and is insufficient to handle the crisis. [More…]
One fact that appears to be accepted today in regard to rural affairs in Australia is that there is a crisis. [More…]
It is a crisis that has been caused because costs have been rising for the farmer and his prices have not kept pace with the rising costs. [More…]
This, 1 believe, constitutes a crisis. [More…]
What 1 fear, as one old enough to remember the last depression, is that just as the falling prices and depression in rural areas heralded depressions in this country in the 1890s and the 1930s, unless remedial action is taken we may be facing a similar sort of crisis today. [More…]
No-one denies that at the present time primary industries are facing a crisis because of a cost-price squeeze and, in the case of many primary producers in Queensland, a serious drought position. [More…]
Education is in a state of crisis and the Budget has done nothing to meet pressing and urgent needs in many areas. [More…]
The only thing to do to meet the crisis is for the Federal Government to intervene and finance the States in a crash, programme for buildings, facilities and teacher training. [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 woolgrowers to survive the immediate crisis. [More…]
Has the Minister also seen a further statement in which they blame the current crisis in South East Asia on the leaders in Peking and Hanoi? [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science been drawn to a recent statement made by the Principal of the Armidale Teachers College, Mr A. R. Crane, in which he is alleged to have said that a crisis in teacher education was developing throughout Australia? [More…]
Nevertheless there still remains a lot to be done, but it is quite unavailing to describe the situation in teacher education in catch terms such as ‘crisis’. [More…]
The annals of history will lay the full blame for the current crisis in South East Asia at the feet of the Communist leaders in Peking and Hanoi and to their fellow travellers and misguided henchmen, of which Sihanouk is a prize example. [More…]
The damaging effect on wine sales could lead to a crisis next year in disposal of the grape crop. [More…]
Farmers and their elected parliamentarians who have been in government for 21 years should realise that the continued decline in wool prices is the cause of the crisis in the industry; the crisis has not been brought about by the relatively small increases in costs through automatic wage adjustments. [More…]
governments, many of the supporters of which have large rural properties but apparently have no answer on how to run those properties to obviate any crisis that is occurring. [More…]
In 1961, in a period of crisis and depression, the DLP made an approach to the ALP to ask whether there was any desire on its part to collaborate to try to get a better government in the interests of the suffering people. [More…]
The increases were described by the Premier as another economic blow to the people of Tasmania, He described the situation as a crisis and he gave examples of increases, such as that on jam exports - an important export from Tasmania- from $26.35 to $38, an increase of nearly 50 per cent. [More…]
The worst aspect of poverty in Australia is that most of it is not caused by some sudden family crisis such as illness but rather is inherited. [More…]
In many instances wool growers are facing a crisis. [More…]
When there is a crisis at least in a vital section of industry - and I refer particularly to the rural sector - strikes, in the long term, have a serious impact on everybody. [More…]
If the Opposition were’ in government it would be prepared to look at the situation very much more seriously than the Government is, The Government is dealing with the problems as they arise from crisis to crisis and in a way which is giving some assistance but is not doing sufficient to plan for the removal of the causes. [More…]
As I said in my original statement on the Budget, the rural crisis will not be alleviated by a relatively small measure of relief for wool growers and the promise of a look at the debts of farmers. [More…]
At this time the whole of the country is in a state of crisis and there is dissatisfaction throughout the whole community with the inflationary spiral that exists. [More…]
In every institution and in every age when those with more power have met those with less power there has occurred a crisis of law and order. [More…]
This will not create a crisis. [More…]
The damaging effect on wine sales of this proposed duty will lead to a crisis next year so far as the disposal of our grape crop is concerned. [More…]
Not only is the situation developing into a crisis in the industry associated with the manufacture and distribution of tractors and other farm equipment, but it is a prelude to what we believe could become a national crisis. [More…]
In practically every field of primary industry there is a crisis. [More…]
There is a crisis in the wool industry. [More…]
Although the Opposition supports this Bill, it feels that not enough accent has been placed on the overall crisis facing primary industries, in the first place, and on the repercussions on the secondary industries that depend for their market on primary industries. [More…]
This Bill highlights the crisis of our primary industries. [More…]
He said that the wheat industry has reached a position of overproduction and that for 3 years prior to the present crisis facing the wheat industry the rumblings were present, but the Government waited until the crisis occurred. [More…]
Senator Young, who has had some experience in primary industry, is an apologist for the poverty of ideas that the Government is showing in its approach to the tremendous crisis facing the primary industries. [More…]
The situation remains that most country areas are facing their’ worst financial crisis since the depression of the 1930s. [More…]
Opposition can do is to try to get the Government to stand up to its responsibilities so that it will have to face up to this crisis. [More…]
He suggested that his Party has taken action as an alternative because nothing was done about that our proposal for a survey of the whole field of the rural crisis. [More…]
When I attended a meeting of farmers at Jerilderie the proposal was put forward for an investigation of the rural crisis by a committee of parliamentarians. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that this debate came to a crisis today because Senator Drake-Brockman asked for leave to continue his remarks at a later stage, and that leave was given. [More…]
We are facing a real crisis, but nothing is being done about it. [More…]
He would not have minded had it seemed that the educational crisis to which Senator McManus referred was being overcome. [More…]
The Opposition wanted a debate yesterday on the rural crisis. [More…]
The honourable senator’s notice of motion proposed leaving in some words of the Government amendment which indicated that it disapproved of a proposal for a royal commission, and then said that the immediate step ought to be for the Government to call an emergency meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council to review the present crisis in the countryside and give proper national leadership to end without delay the present uncertainty and current hardship. [More…]
The Council may have reviewed the current crisis throughout the countryside. [More…]
The worst feature of the situation for many honourable senators opposite is the crisis affecting their own Party. [More…]
We have reached a stage of productivity where we are now faced with a crisis in certain sections of the dairying industry. [More…]
One has only to move around the State which I represent, New South Wales, to realise that not only is there a crisis in the building industry but, indeed, that it is growing larger day by day. [More…]
Because of the critical situation the industry is facing at the moment, it is imperative that the Commission be sent up without delay and that steps be taken to do something about the effects of the present crisis and economic conditions in the wool industry. [More…]
I repeat that gimmicks and palliatives will merely extend the agony and cost of the present crisis. [More…]
It is time the fundamental causes of the crisis were more widely explained and understood because too many people, including farmers, are becoming hysterical about the situation. [More…]
Speaking generally of rural industry, I say that the position is nothing short of disastrous and has reached the stage of being a national crisis. [More…]
Surely those words better than anything else indicate the crisis that has been allowed to drift for so long in the wool industry by the present Government. [More…]
About the only thing which has come our of this crisis is that there now appears to be unanimity of purpose amongst the growers and grower organisations. [More…]
In 1961. at the time of the Government-made recession in this country, when thousands of men were out of work because of the economic policies pursued by the Government, the wool indus’ y was facing a crisis. [More…]
The report went on to say that the Government must carry a large share of the responsibility for the confusion and dissention in the wool industry Which, until this crisis brought about some unanimity of opinion, had existed for so long because of its failure to act on matters of great importance to the industry. [More…]
In a Press statement that he released in November 1969 - nearly .12 months ago - the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony) admitted that the Australian wool industry had reached a crisis point. [More…]
Mr Beaton asked the then Acting Prime Minister, Mr McEwen, this question: 1 ask the Acting Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry whether he is aware of a claim by New Zealand Treasury officials that New Zealand’s wool crisis and balance of payments problem have been caused by a massive wool buyers’ speculation against the New Zealand Wool Commission, a claim supported by the general manager of the New Zealand Co-operative Wool Marketing Association. [More…]
In the case of the Bougainville incident, by the time the Minister was able to ring me back at my Townsville office the situation had developed to a crisis point. [More…]
In a grave crisis, where a device is not available to Australia the only thing we have here is the ability to service and to make some alterations to the device. [More…]
Could the loss of this market cause the present rural crisis to become catastrophic? [More…]
The situation reached a point of crisis, danger, attention, or whatever it may be called - a bench mark of great national consideration - with the decision of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to increase the national wage by 6 per cent [More…]
At the beginning of this crisis the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) went before the nation and threatened the people that if inflation did not cease interest rates would be increased again. [More…]
The realisation that the rural crisis is real is evidenced by the report of the Bureau of Agricultural. [More…]
Economics which states that the industry is facing a long term crisis. [More…]
By supplying our competitors with the wherewithal to compete with our product we will prolong that crisis. [More…]
The Association of Victorian Homes and Hospitals for the Aged and Infirm met on 25th March of this year to study the serious crisis which is facing the administrators of homes at the present time. [More…]
All of us were aware that there were grave problems to be solved in regard to inflation and particularly in regard to the rural crisis. [More…]
Even allowing for the amount of time taken up by alterations within the Government, I cannot let the opportunity pass without expressing my keen disappointment at what I regard as an almost total failure to deal with important issues relating to the rural crisis. [More…]
We have security which should cover our overdraft but the bank manager says No’ and tells us that this crisis in the rural areas could go on for years. [More…]
We should be ashamed of what has happened in this Parliament in the past 2 months in the face of the rural crisis and of inflation. [More…]
I am completely ashamed of what this Parliament has done in the face of the rural crisis and of inflation. [More…]
The annals of history will lay the full blame for the current crisis in South East Asia at the feet of the Communist leaders in Peking and Hanoi. [More…]
This system has been challenged, thank goodness, and it is the crisis facing us in Australia. [More…]
Has the establishment of such organisations taken additional credit from this country at a time of economic crisis and, at the same time, caused Australians who use the services, unnecessary additional expenditure. [More…]
I am indebted to Mr Frank Brennan for the wonderful historical record provided in his book Canberra, City in Crisis’. [More…]
In the present crisis in primary industries will the Minister review the rentals paid by soldier settlers on land valuations at the time of settlement far in excess of present day valuations and, where justified, reduce rents by making provision for repayments over longer periods? [More…]
a moment of crisis, when Cabinet badly needed his advice, he dashed from the squash court - still carrying his squash racquet - into a Cabinet meeting. [More…]
In no area of the crisis in education is dissatisfaction greater or the debate more vigorous than that of programmes for the education of teachers. [More…]
Newspapers announce the crisis in teacher education with such headlines as: ‘Parents Want New Training For Teachers’, ‘Terrible Mess in Teacher Training’ and Teachers Should be Trained to the Highest Level*. [More…]
He has described the crisis in teacher education in these terms: [More…]
The grant of $3 Om to the States does constitute an attempt to come to terms with one aspect of the crisis in teacher education, but does not cope with the whole, of the problem which is much wider than the mere provision of money or physical facilities. [More…]
Then I thought that perhaps this Bill was in the minds of people who thought that this move of Mr Hawke’s would precipitate a tremendous industrial crisis in the nation. [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…]
It was at that point of time that a crisis siuation had developed in the affairs of the company in respect of payments to growers. [More…]
I well remember having the privilege of sitting in the gallery in the House of Commons in London only a few months ago on the very day that the British Minister related to the House of Commons the crisis in Rolls-Royce. [More…]
As I have already mentioned, shortly after that time there was for some reason a crisis and people in the industry were told they would not be required. [More…]
It is a pity that he is leaving this chamber when the rural crisis poses such a challenge to men of his Party and his background as well as to the whole of this nation. [More…]
It is one of my great regrets that I leave the Senate at a time when the rural industries are facing unprecedented difficulties, which are acknowledged by the Parliament, and I trust that ways and means will be found to assist them in the crisis that confronts them today. [More…]
I suggest that, when replying to this debate, the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) should say whether this country is facing an economic crisis. [More…]
It is a pretty topsy-turvy economic crisis that the [More…]
I now ask the Minister: Has construction of the hospital been indefinitely delayed because of the severe economic crisis being experienced in this country, or has the land reserved for the hospital been put into cold storage for sale to land developers at a later date. [More…]
Everybody knows that the Australian aircraft industry is facing a crisis. [More…]
There can be no doubt that the Australian farming community is in a state of acute and chronic crisis. [More…]
We propose an immediate means of dealing with the existing crisis. [More…]
We do this knowing, firstly, that there is a crisis in the rural industries requiring immediate relief and alleviation. [More…]
We have seen rural industry after rural industry moving from crisis to crisis - a hole being plugged up here and then something breaking out in another place. [More…]
It is common ground in this chamber that there is a crisis in the rural industry. [More…]
The fact that there is a crisis means that there is something which is calling for immediate relief and alleviation. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party has continuously pressed in this field and it will continue to press and we trust that upon this occasion we will get support from both sides of the Senate for our propositions which go to the long range solution of the problems and the short range alleviation of the present crisis in rural industries. [More…]
As has been said by many speakers in this debate the rural industries are facing a crisis similar to, if not worse than, the crisis which they faced in the depression years in this country. [More…]
Mr Acting Deputy President, as we point out in the early part of the debate on the States Grants (Rural Reconstruction) Bill the present disastrous position in our rural industries will soon reach a stage of national crisis unless urgent remedial steps are taken. [More…]
As regards the present crisis, it seems that farmers with good financial prospects are able to get the finance they require, but this rural finance corporation is designed primarily to help the many thousands of farmers whose farms will not produce a decent income at present prices. [More…]
That in itself is an indication of the seriousness, depth and extent of the rural crisis. [More…]
This would be a tremendous encouragement to farmers, to agriculturists and to rural producers who are already embedded deeply in the current rural crisis. [More…]
Yet the Minister later indicated that the Bill would have retrospective application to 1st December last when a crisis situation had developed in the affairs of the Company. [More…]
We are now, 2 years later, validating something that happened 1 2 months ago as a result of a crisis situation that arose 12 months earlier than that. [More…]
Australia will be facing a far greater crisis when this occurs than the industry is facing now. [More…]
Some years ago there was a crisis in the peach industry and many growers grubbed out peach trees and put in pear trees. [More…]
I commend the Government for having acted in the way it did in the time of crisis that confronted the Shepparton Preserving Co. Ltd. [More…]
Can it be assumed that it would be impossible to predict the consequences for Australia of the present international financial crisis? [More…]
With an unparalleled schools crisis across the nation, this week is to see a third Minister for Education and Science inside half a school year. [More…]
As the world monetary crisis seems a long way from any form of solution, with dealings in most nations’ currencies still not being permitted, and as this can have serious effects on Australia’s external trade, especially if any nation decides to devalue its currency, can the Senate be assured that any possible repercussions likely to affect the value of the Australian dollar will be guarded against and that a full statement on Australia’s position will be made to this Parliament without delay? [More…]
We have a rural crisis which is getting worse every day. [More…]
Senator Byrne was a very valuable member of the Committee and was a member when it went through what was probably its greatest crisis. [More…]
In view of the present financial crisis facing egg producers throughout Australia, will he undertake as a matter of urgency to consult with the marketing authorities and Industry leaders in his home State of West ern Australia in order to ascertain the benefits or otherwise accruing from the controlled production of eggs now in force in Western Australia, and then issue a report for the guidance of the Senate? [More…]
As the dollar crisis has been in operation for almost a fortnight, and in view of his evasive replies - on behalf of the Government of course - on the subject, will he now admit that the Government has no more control over the Australian economy than it has over Australian foreign policy and that our future depends largely on decisions outside our control and made by other countries? [More…]
As to the rural crisis, the Budget gives a total of $275m to rural industries, an increase of $65m over last year. [More…]
Our education system is in a continuous state of crisis. [More…]
It staggers from one crisis to another. [More…]
I remind the honourable senator that last Friday a number of people on the Government side of the other House precipitated a crisis because they wanted to fortify their positions - or to pay a premium on an insurance policy; put it that way - by having the subject of the appointment of Assistant Ministers debated in Parliament. [More…]
This subject precipitated a crisis. [More…]
They say that we will have a leisure crisis. [More…]
I ask the Minister: ls it not time that the Federal Government created a national emergency team which would be trained to take over and work such plant as may be necessary so that the public will not be faced with such a crisis again? [More…]
We have to remember that the Budget is brought down against a background of a crisis in world finances and of the near certainty that Britain will join the European Economic Community. [More…]
With regard to the crisis in world finances we have the Australian dollar tied to sterling and already our currency and sterling have appreciated in relation to the United States dollar but depreciated a little in relation to the Japanese yen. [More…]
This world monetary crisis has greatly affected our trade. [More…]
What is the present situation of the rural crisis? [More…]
When we were hit the other day with the dollar-yen crisis the stunned silence of the Government was shocking. [More…]
This is what the dollar crisis was aimed at. [More…]
I read - true, it was a newspaper report - that already one of the coal contracts with northern New South Wales has been cut by 25 per cent from, I think, 160 million tons to 120 million tons in the first week of this crisis. [More…]
In view of the continuing crisis over wool sales and the strong possibility that, the wool subsidy estimated at $60m in the Budget will now rise to $180m, will the Government consider one of the many possible acquisition schemes which could be financed by the wool industry instead of by the taxpayer? [More…]
When will the Federal Government acknowledge the inequity of the present subsidy scheme and, in view of the current crisis, review the present system of subsidies and stockpiling which has shaken buyer confidence, wrecked the rural reconstruction scheme and wrongly allocated our nation’s resources? [More…]
May I add that the present crisis in world currency exchange rates was caused by America’s natural desire to adjust its very adverse balance of trade. [More…]
In particular may I add the great crisis in Australia in the rural industries, the great and unpredictable fluctuations in rural prices and rural earnings. [More…]
We have a crisis in education. [More…]
In reference to the Minister’s reply to my question yesterday about the continuing crisis over wool sales, despite his description yesterday of my question as balderdash, will he now answer these questions:. [More…]
Here we have an imposition of $70 a ton which has created a crisis in the grape industry over-night in one fell swoop. [More…]
There are probably many others, particularly with the crisis in the rural industries, wilh no income coming from properties and with the Government placing false valuations on properties. [More…]
The present crisis in the wool industry is the responsibility of the. [More…]
ft is not the wages that are paid in the rural industry that has caused the present crisis; it is, I believe, the attitude of the Government in not seeking alternative markets. [More…]
The wool industry has suffered to the extent that it is facing the worst crisis that it has faced over the last 20 years. [More…]
Another matter that must concern the people of Australia is the inability of the Prime Minister to make up his mind about what should be done in a crisis. [More…]
The survey of anticipated expenditure is probably on the optimistic side because it was taken in July before the Budget was brought down and before the international currency crisis. [More…]
To prove this point 1 should like to quote from a series of articles written by Owen Thompson for the ‘Australian’ entitled The Wool Crisis’ which is available in booklet form from that newspaper for a very small fee. [More…]
He referred to the crisis in education. [More…]
He said that we have a crisis in education, and we all agree with that. [More…]
Twenty per cent of the people said that they felt that the recession was due to the crisis in the rural industry, that because the value of primary products had dropped so sharply the farmers did not have money to spend in the city, in manufacturing businesses and so on. [More…]
They did not blame the Government; they said that the rural crisis had brought about this situation but they said thai a slow down in the mining field at this stage had also contributed to the situation. [More…]
ls this further evidence of the continuing crisis in the wool industry and is it confimation that many wool buyers are buying outside Australia because of the price rigging activities of the Australian Wool Commission? [More…]
It was granted in a moment of crisis when the Prime Minister was facing his accusers across the chamber and, like the proverbial white rabbit, he was able to drag 50c out of his money box. [More…]
Just as in the days of the Scullin Government and because of the economic crisis pensions were reduced, it would appear that the pensioners comprise the only section or the major section of the community which is today required to carry the inflationary trend. [More…]
Has the Government emerged sufficiently from the economic limbo in which it has floated to give some information as to where the nation stands financially in the dollar crisis? [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Postmaster-General aware that the south western Queensland town of Roma is rapidly becoming a ghost town because of the wool crisis? [More…]
For instance, the secretary of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science claimed that this statement dramatically illustrates the Federal Government’s apparent total lack of awareness of the world crisis resulting from the population explosion. [More…]
But we cannot simply go from crisis to crisis. [More…]
One of his articles has been entitled ‘The Multiple Crisis’. [More…]
It is a multiple crisis. [More…]
It is a crisis of population and of resources and certainly the crisis relates to the environment. [More…]
That there is a world population crisis is beyond dispute. [More…]
We can no longer depend upon the advice of priests who are not prepared to accept the responsibility of theories which add to the population and which add to the problems and which cumulatively present us with the crisis we are discussing tonight. [More…]
It has reached a state of crisis because of the collapse of the wool industry. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services aware that administrators of homes for the aged in Tasmania arc expressing considerable concern regarding the financial crisis affecting the homes, some of which are facing closure due to lack of finance? [More…]
In view of a likely leisure crisis as a result of automation and push button techniques in industry- [More…]
This is one of the reasons why the States gradually became so impoverished that there was almost a national crisis in Commonwealth-State financial relations, lt was suggested that this crisis be solved by imposing an equally iniquitous form of taxation which was the turnover tax. [More…]
If they had not accepted it, there was no possibility of their receiving even temporary relief from the financial crisis that is affecting all- of the State budgets and those of the semi-government and local government instrumentalities. [More…]
The Opposition opposes the Bill because it will not solve the financial crisis in State, semi-government and local government finances. [More…]
If there is a discernible crisis it is not likely that he would be advocating a change in the present system of conscription, which would have the effect of almost immediately reducing the level of our armed forces by 4,000 men. [More…]
That is hardly a reaction to a crisis or to imminent peril. [More…]
Even if the number of volunteers cannot be increased - I will be submitting that with a proper effort and with proper conditions the number could be greatly increased - with no crisis looming, as has been admitted by the Minister, as has been admitted by Mr Gorton and as has been pointed out so eloquently by Professor Howard, what additional safety is it suggested this country would attain by having 40.000 men in the Army instead of 28,000? [More…]
Only last weekend, when I was in the north west of New South Wales, many people, including some connected with hospital administration, expressed their concern at the bad debts occurring as a result of the rural crisis and the growing number of unemployed in rural areas. [More…]
We face what is almost a crisis in this nation in relation to the hospitalisation of our sick aged. [More…]
We are facing this near crisis because of the cost spirals that occur. [More…]
After listening to what they have said 1 fully realise that they are very concerned about the present crisis in the industry. [More…]
What answer has the Government to the growing criticism from a wide variety of informed sources that the measures to assist the wool industry have failed to make any real impact on the rural crisis? [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 wool growers. [More…]
Will the Government call for the results of the research being undertaken by North Australia Rubber Mills Ltd of Brisbane which has introduced Australia’s first 4-day working week and relate them to the urgent need for a proposed recreation and sports policy for Australia to meet the anticipated leisure crisis due to automation, reduced working week and daylight saving? [More…]
Has the Government done this because it is unsure as to what action is best for Australia in the current world monetary crisis? [More…]
Now that the issue is closed anyone can comment on what has happened and can say that the scheme was not helpful to the industry, but at the time the industry had to meet a crisis quickly. [More…]
That is why the Democratic Labor Party has moved this motion as one of extraordinary urgency, because it is important in this time of national crisis for Australia - I make no apologies for using the word ‘crisis’ -that the voice of members of Parliament and of the Parliament should be heard expressing our concern or that those who may feel no concern should express no concern at the position which is developing. [More…]
We have always found that in a crisis the Australian people will face up to the demands of the situation, no matter how rigorous they may be. [More…]
I was not impressed by Senator Byrne when he referred to a national crisis. [More…]
He expressed great dismay at the crisis facing Australia today and said that we came closest to a third world war at the time of the Cuban crisis. [More…]
He gave very little time to the crisis which he alleges has arisen because of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]
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 in turn the pound sterling, the French franc, the German deutschemark, and now the United Slates dollar. [More…]
In recent months the world monetary crisis has been responsible for creating an even worse position in the wool industry. [More…]
The only other point that I make in regard to this legislation is that it could well be, that if no international currency crisis existed today the price of wool would be approximately 36c a lb and the industry probably would be over some of its problems. [More…]
To what amount will this new loan bring the total sum borrowed by or granted to the Commission for the purpose of adding to its enormous stockpile of wool which is exacerbating the crisis in the wool industry, particularly when 90 per cent of the locked up 700,000 bales of wool could be sold tomorrow at world parity prices and put to use? [More…]
The Federal Government would not have survived the Gorton-McMahon leadership crisis had it not been for the steadying influence of the Country. [More…]
It would become a question of crisis. [More…]
Bui now there appears to be a crisis in the affairs of Qantas. [More…]
The crisis has occasioned very drastic retrenchments of highly skilled personnel from the organisation. [More…]
Press reports, which the Minister for Civil Aviation (Senator Cotton) is not able to confirm or deny, state that further retrenchments and/or retirements are likely because of the crisis. [More…]
The situation to which 1 have been referring seems to be a crisis. [More…]
But surely we have reached a situation, in the current reported crisis, when we ought to know more about it. [More…]
I have mentioned already that most people are of the opinion that Qantas Airways Ltd is facing a crisis in its operations. [More…]
Although to some extent this crisis is related to the general down-turn of the aviation industry, which has become something of a rat race, and the introduction of new sophisticated aircraft, everybody is aware that the plight in which Qantas finds itself is due to some extent to the lack of appreciation of current trends by the management of Qantas. [More…]
The heading was ‘Qantas faces financial crisis - Company battles costs in effort to stay our of the red’. [More…]
An enterprise such as Qantas, with a fine record and with everything going for it, suddenly was faced with a crisis. [More…]
It seems to me that these matters are presenting a crisis. [More…]
I have been asked by Senator Bishop to take a daily interest in the daily responsibility for what he describes as the ‘crisis’ in the affairs of Qantas. [More…]
I do not think it is a crisis. [More…]
What has been the effect on Australia in terms of imports and export prices of Australian goods as a result of the international monetary crisis? [More…]
In 1965 the United Nations experienced a crisis when Article 19 was invoked against the Soviet Union. [More…]
This crisis was overcome only when a ‘concensus’ was reached whereby Article 19 would not henceforth bc invoked on account of these two peace-keeping operations. [More…]
While the Government, despite all the evidence, persists in defending its Budget strategy, most competent observers agree that it was mistaken, quite apart from any added difficulties flowing from the international monetary crisis which could not have been wholly anticipated. [More…]
It is obvious that we are faced with a crisis of confidence and unless something is done to increase demand in this country there will be a terrible economic period reminiscent of but worse than what took place in 1961-62. [More…]
perpetual crisis in the schools and hospitals, the need for reconstruction in the farm sector- not hand-outs - [More…]
It is hard to believe that the Leader of a responsible Labor Party would speak in this debate without a major reference io the currency crisis. [More…]
1 would have expected the Leader of a responsible Labor Party to describe the impact that that currency crisis has bad on the United States of America and Japan and the effect it has had in producing a lack of confidence overseas in investments. [More…]
Even in the situation of a world currency crisis, as at the present time, there is no marked deterioration in the policy followed by this present Government. [More…]
We acknowledge that there could be long term effects of the world currency crisis at the present time. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that today’s headline in the ‘Financial Review’ - Currency Crisis Crunch Near’ - is a clear and comprehensible indication of the immediate situation? [More…]
If it is possible for a financial journal to express itself in plain language, will he ask the Treasurer to explain in equally plain language in a Press release just what the crisis is all about? [More…]
As this decline can only weaken the demand for Australian wool at future auction sales, what new initiatives does the Government propose to combat the rapidly worsening crisis in the wool industry. [More…]
to the cursory examination that we sometimes give to these matters, the kind of money that would break the back of the housing crisis that does exist in this country. [More…]
But the sad story that the Opposition is trying to put over about there being such a terrific housing crisis for the people of Australia is unfounded. [More…]
At this stage there is speculation as to whether corrective action is required if the economy is not to run down to a situation in which there will be very heavy unemployment resulting in a crisis affecting all Australian consumer industries, particularly the motor vehicle industry. [More…]
The crisis in rural areas has affected the Cobar Shire Council, which last month had $350,000 owing to it in outstanding rates. [More…]
I ask: Does the Government really believe that the people of Australia are not concerned at increasing prices, record interest rates, the rural crisis, increasing unemployment and increasing takeovers by foreign companies of our land, our resources and our industries? [More…]
As the Australian commercial egg industry is now in a state of crisis clue to overproduction, will the Minister undertake to confer with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation with a view to using its resources to investigate the possibility of using eggs in Australian manufactured paints? [More…]
I ask: ls he aware that, notwithstanding the amounts the Government might have spent to date on rural industries in this period of rural uncertainty and economic crisis, there Is in fact growing unemployment in the rural areas of Australia, particularly in the North Western, South Western and Western Districts of New South Wales? [More…]
I just want to say that the Australian Wool Commission was set up 12 months ago in a situation of crisis in the wool growing industry. [More…]
Is the town of Roma in Queensland becoming a ghost town because of the wool crisis, and are forty Postmaster-General’s Department employees about to be transferred as a result; if so, will this action virtually bankrupt almost every small businessman in Roma. [More…]
In view of a likely leisure crisis as a result of automation and push button techniques in industry in the future, will the Minister intercede to have this important course retained- [More…]
I propose to offer some criticism of the current unemployment crisis and make some suggestions about its origin and what needs to be done to overcome it and to eliminate the possibility of a similar situation occurring in the future, I understand that the terms of an amendment I propose to move on behalf of the Opposition are in the process of being circulated.I repeat that the Opposition does not propose to impede the passage of this Bill. [More…]
First of all it directs the attention of this chamber to the cause of the crisis affecting some 130,000-odd good Australians at the present moment. [More…]
The survey of anticipated expenditure is probably on the optimistic side because it was taken in July before the Budget was brought down and before the international currency crisis. [More…]
In very succinct terms Mr Gorton has pointed out precisely the cause of the current crisis with which we are now confronted and as a result of which we. [More…]
I cannot imagine how any one of the 130,233 unemployed in Australia would derive any great comfort from the fact that the Government is trying to placate its conscience because of a decision which it made back in August which brought about, the crisis which we now find on the Australian labour market. [More…]
Last November representatives of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Primary Industry, together with representatives of the egg producers, informed the Indian Government’s representative in Australia that Australia was prepared to offer stocks of eggs and egg powder to help to alleviate the food crisis in Bangla Desh. [More…]
The States will help to solve the hosptal crisis, but not under the centralising policies of the Labor Party in which I understand there is to be one central hospital authority. [More…]
Then there was the problem of the international monetary crisis which we played our part in helping to overcome. [More…]
But I challenge senators on the Government benches to show us clearly and conclusively any occasion on which a full explanation has been given or an opportunity for the Parliament to debate the economic crisis now before us. [More…]
To overcome our present crisis there must be a national plan. [More…]
In no other way can the crisis in education be solved. [More…]
However, he failed to identify the 2 trends which Senator Cotton rightly identified - that is, the severe fall in farm incomes and the currency crisis, both of which were immense factors in causing both world and Australian difficulties. [More…]
In view of the extreme crisis which exists in the egg industry, due to massive over-production and unsatisfactory export markets, and the fact that producers will receive only 26c net per dozen eggs this year as against a cost of production of 32c, will the Government use emergency measures to conduct an Australia-wide poll of commercial egg producers in order to ascertain their views on a scheme of controlled egg production which at present has the approval of all States except Victoria? [More…]
In February 1971, following the collapse of Mineral Securities of Australia, a business crisis arose of proportions which had very serious implications - particularly for several of the major creditors. [More…]
Perhaps part of the strength of the British constitutional system has lain in the vagueness of the constitution and the indefinite and unspecified rights which, in a crisis, in some way can be discovered and implemented. [More…]
Senator Bonner was one of a small group of elite people who frittered away the money of local taxpayers by wining and dining in the Townsville area in the middle of the cyclone crisis. [More…]
At an early stage in the present crisis a statement was attributed to Mr Thomas. [More…]
In using that capacity we would not only ensure that there would be useful production but also that in the proper defence circumstances we would have a continuing capacity; we would not be caught with our pants down if any crisis occurred. [More…]
What would be the position if a crisis occurred? [More…]
Whatever the pros and cons of the Middle East crisis, the fact is that some of the French products that Israel had meant the difference between defeat and victory in several of the Middle East conflicts. [More…]
The Commonwealth first entered this field in 1970 to help arrest a financial crisis which had developed for many independent schools. [More…]
(9.49) - Even though my good friend Senator McManus and his colleagues are voting: with us tonight - I do not confine these remarks to them - I must say that many years before I came into this Parliament I read a book called ‘Inside Parliament’ written by Warren Denning who was a journalist in this place and who later wrote Caucus Crisis’. [More…]
Australia has come through a situation in which we found ourselves and now find ourselves - I agree that this is quite trite - in a rural crisis. [More…]
The rural crisis, if anything, is worse. [More…]
Is the headline in “The Australian Financial Review’ of 30th November 1971, stating that a currency crisis is near, a clear and comprehensible indication of the immediate situation; if so, will the Treasurer explain in equally plain language what the currency crisis is all about. [More…]
When called upon in times of crisis, Sir Owen Dixon served with equally great distinction in other spheres. [More…]
We referred to the environmental crisis in Australia, and among the priorities we determined were the following: [More…]
The report stated that every encouragement should be -given to the development of voluntary organisation in the community available for counselling those with personal problems and for providing emotional support to those needing it in times of stress or crisis. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Shipping and Transport aware that various Australian shipbuilders have recently stated publicly that the current Commonwealth Government attitude to shipbuilding subsidies is producing a crisis in Australian shipyards now suffering from lack of orders and is resulting in a dependence upon foreign shipbuilders? [More…]
I do not know whether this will represent a serious contribution to the alleviation of the salination problem associated with the Murray River in its lower reaches, which reached almost crisis proportions only a year or so ago. [More…]
But we had a very severe international monetary crisis. [More…]
That Budget was severely affected by the world monetary crisis. [More…]
The crisis affected our major trading partners, the United States of America and Japan, and also ourselves. [More…]
We demonstrated the flexibility and sensibility of this Government and its Treasury in economic management because, in the year after the monetary crisis was resolved and things had settled to the new levels, the Government made adjustments. [More…]
The latest round of increases adds a burden which, in the eyes of Tasmanian people, brings the State to a crisis situation. [More…]
I am trying to emphasise the special need of Tasmania at this time of economic crisis when Tasmania’s cost structure is influenced so strongly by freight charges incurred in transporting our goods to the mainland. [More…]
After all, the Government has been in power for 2 decades and it is only when it faces the crisis of a declining vote in a national election that it has suddenly been able to find money for a number of things. [More…]
By the late sixties the children of the post-war baby boom who have been causing the educational crisis to date, will be the young parents of the next generation, and even if their patterns of fertility remain about the present low level - and assuming they marry in the same high proportions that have recently prevailed - the number of births will rise sharply from about 1972. [More…]
In New South Wales - I do not think that the position varies greatly from other States - we have a great crisis in public housing. [More…]
It does nothing to solve the problems of public transport, urbanisation, the rural crisis, land development and State and local finance. [More…]
Outlining Labor’s 6-point plan to solve WA’s unemployment crisis Mr Whitlam said that WA needed the most national help, but was getting the least. [More…]
That Government has proved to be a government of monumental inefficiency and incompetence because in 18 months Western Australia has gone from a State brimming with confidence - a State that was really on the move - to one which has a confidence crisis. [More…]
A confidence crisis is caused only by a crisis in leadership, by muddled, weak thinking and by muddled, weak leadership. [More…]
We could well be faced with another currency crisis in the world in which world currencies would be realigned. [More…]
This ought to be enormously commended, lt is particularly valuable to widows and to the farming community which will save subdivision at a time of crisis. [More…]
Crisis on the Land’ by Ronald Anderson,, which contends that Sir John McEwen , spread an umbrella of self-delusionment over the rural industries? [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has quite rightly pointed out that there will not be a national crisis if the discussion on the Bill is postponed until next Tuesday. [More…]
Australia will be faced with a leisure crisis. [More…]
If good planning and studies in depth are not made in this regard, the health of the whole community could be in jeopardy as a result of this leisure crisis. [More…]
I have explained to honourable senators the situation concerning the leisure crisis and I have also told honourable senators about the findings of Dr Willee in his report. [More…]
The leisure crisis which will change our way of life is just around the corner. [More…]
I answer him by saying that any break up of Yugoslavia could lead only to the creation of a new crisis point in the world today. [More…]
It is interesting to recall the political crisis that took place in that period. [More…]
It is no wonder that Mr Gorton, Mr MoMahon, Mr Steele Hall and other leading figures in the Liberal Party organisation have been talking about a crisis in philosophy and a crisis in the policy considerations of this Government. [More…]
Child endowment could have been raised, the States could have been adequately protected from economic difficulties, there would have been no crisis in urban affairs and there would have been no need now for governments to talk about setting up committees of inquiry. [More…]
The present situation possibly is simple enough to bc handled by interstate argument and discussion but finally a crisis will occur and I think we should be preparing ourselves to have machinery legislation available to serve it. [More…]
That step was taken in view of the approaching crisis of Europe being increasingly denied to us as a trade destination. [More…]
Does the Government mean to say that when the first crisis comes and Tubemakers of Australia Ltd are temporarily unable to quote for this contract because of a sudden change in the diameter of the pipes which are required it can be deprived of the potential that it should have here as an Australian company, employing Australian labour. [More…]
I did hear a radio report early this morning of the extent of the crisis which apparently is developing in Queensland and, if that was an accurate report of the situation, it is a very serious matter that more than 50 per cent of the normal retail consumption of petrol in Queensland could be affected almost within days. [More…]
However, the Department accepts a special responsibility for interpreting needs in vital areas and the action being taken to establish an ‘on call’ telephone interpreter service, which will operate on a 24-hour basis, should contribute substantially in assisting many organisations including hospitals which may be faced with crisis situations. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the State Ministers are now claiming that a crisis situation is developing in relation to both urban and railway finances, and that some urgent assistance from the Commonwealth Government is necessary? [More…]
Yes, I will pass on the observation of the honourable senator to the responsible Minister who, I am sure, is aware of the public utterances of various State Transport Ministers about what they claim is a crisis in their railway and urban transport systems. [More…]
The Government was made aware of the crisis last May, when a deputation of representatives of the tanning, footwear and shoe retail industries called on the Department of Trade and Industry with a detailed submission. [More…]
A major industry is at crisis point and the Government should realise the deterioration which has occurred even since May. [More…]
Any delay in dealing with this crisis will probably cause irreparable harm to the industry. [More…]
That is the need to face the fact that there is today a crisis in education. [More…]
It is a crisis which has grown up over 23 years of this Government and now, on the eve of an election, something is being done about it. [More…]
Bearing in mind that the wheat crisis of several years ago was caused by over-emphasis on vast sales to China which were cut off without warning, and also bearing in mind that the wheat crisis was alleviated by diversifying our sales to other countries such as Japan, can we be assured that our wheat authorities will act to keep our new customers, at least as a safety provision. [More…]
In itself that could have been a danger and it could have caused the Government to step aside in the belief that the crisis had been mct and conquered and that there was no need to incorporate as a permanent feature of the marketing of wool some of the ideas which came from the Commission. [More…]
These figures show that there is a crisis because the carry over of stocks was slightly more than half the production in the season just passed. [More…]
Clearly it is another example of indecent haste by an indecisive leader of an insecure government which is seeking to create in the dying stages of this Parliament an authority for the purpose of attempting to indicate to the people of Australia that there is a crisis of some description in urban affairs. [More…]
There are some people in public life who find it fashionable these days to say that we have a crisis’ in our cities, and that our problems are similar to those of comparable cities overseas. [More…]
It is clear that the Prime Minister is probably the last person in Australia to accept the realisation that Australia suffers from an urban crisis. [More…]
As responses have been made by the Minister for Shipping and Transport, and to some extent by the Prime Minister, about considering these demands, can the Minister advise whether any discussions have been held with the State Ministers, because they claim that there is a crisis in State transport finances? [More…]
Thai crisis was admitted by the officers of the Department of the Treasury who appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Foreign Ownership and Control. [More…]
It is a crisis. [More…]
We all know that no matter what section of the trade union movement is involved and no matter who the officials are if there is a national crisis we run hot foot to the trade union movement. [More…]
What steps does the Government propose to take to safeguard Australia’s important position as a trading nation and an economic power of consequence at the meeting to be held in Paris next Friday of a group of 14 nations which will attempt to resolve the world monetary crisis? [More…]
I can assure those honourable senators who have read ‘Caucus Crisis’ that none of my colleagues, and certainly not the Ministers, are going to be put in the situation in which my Party found itself in the 1930s because it had been out manoeuvred. [More…]
I note that the present Minister for Housing has suggested there is a housing crisis in Australia today. [More…]
I doubt whether there is a crisis so far as housing is concerned if we relate that comment to the finance that is available for housing. [More…]
This has led to a crisis and it is expected that the ban, which has spread to numerous ports, will spread throughout Australia. [More…]
But I was involved in a national crisis when I tried to control the price of butter. [More…]
At some time the Opposition’s proposal will cause a crisis within the community and within the political machinery of this country. [More…]
As these stock feeders are asking neither for first advance payments of 120c per bushel nor the allocation of delivery quota at the expense of traditional wheat 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…]
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…]
The decision to establish the Committee of Twenty had its origin in the currency crisis of the late 1960s and early 1970s. [More…]
The fact is that this world of ours is moving more and more into a crisis of violence. [More…]
One would think also, because we have had emergencies and the frequency is increasing, that we would receive an assurance that, even recently, more checks have been made on the teamwork among the Commonwealth Police, the State police forces and the civil defence authorities to ensure that if a national crisis occurs in our community the footwork and teamwork will be there, the terrorist will lose and therefore his action will not be copied. [More…]
I start with one of the statements which my colleague Senator Carrick allowed to emanate from him, that is, that the world is moving more and more into a crisis of violence. [More…]
The world in our day is moving more and more into a crisis of violence. [More…]
We are moving more and more into a crisis of world dimensions whereby the civilised members of our community - the teachers, the doctors, the drivers, the clerks, the far.mers - want the peace of mind in which they and their womenfolk and their families can go about their daily lives purposefully, without fear. [More…]
In the final result the ultimate minority of murderers must forfeit their right to be of that community, otherwise the number of lives surrendered to be slain by that group and the other 93 per cent who have killed, although not with such a degree of criminality, will grow and the world will move more and more into this crisis of violence. [More…]
It may be that he is just plain crisis prone. [More…]
If he genuinely holds those sentiments, surely the tension that we have seen in this place would not have reached the point of crisis that it did this evening. [More…]
Does it mean that the Prime Minister intends to provoke a constitutional crisis? [More…]
No one can guarantee that the ILO’s 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…]
The future of Australia, at a time when a fuel crisis is developing in the United States of America and when the traditional source of supply of hydrocarbons is the subject of very delicate arrangements, with certain traditional practices being changed and the prices being under barter, is bright. [More…]
quiet crisis and the fact that time was not on our side. [More…]
Although our supplies are increasing in availability they ought to be conserved for the long term because there is a fuel crisis developing in the world. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall the political crisis that convulsed the previous Liberal-Country Party Government and that the then Prime Minister at the end of a very short but snappy Press-inspired campaign was removed from office and his successor appointed. [More…]
If the difference of 20 per cent is to be made up by this Government offering assistance in other areas of home ownership, I see no great housing crisis resulting because of the terms of the proposed agreement. [More…]
If one couples that identity of purpose in Parliament with unrestrained, uncontrolled and unlimited power on the part of unions to combine to destroy industry, prosperity and employment, outside, one finds a situation in which the contest is between unbridled unionism- militant unionism - on’ the one hand and parliamenary government on the other and this must come to a real crisis. [More…]
In those circumstances we will not oppose the Bill, but I can assure the Senate and the people of Australia that we believe in training young men to defend themselves in time of crisis and that on other occasions we will support national service. [More…]
Most acts of treason resulting in national consequences come about during a time of national crisis such as a war. [More…]
Every time there was a crisis or a crunch and a vote was taken he used to scuttle across the chamber and vote to keep the tax on wine. [More…]
In the document ‘Crisis- It’s Time’, which the Labor Party circulated widely, it stated categorically as follows: [More…]
But everybody in Australia knew that inflation was the crisis that faced Australia and everybody rested on the assurance of the Australian Labor Party in presenting its policies to the electorate that it was a problem that it could solve. [More…]
But when we come to the political program of the Government as set out in the GovernorGeneral ‘s Speech, we find that this is the major reference to the great economic crisis that faced Australia, the depth of which is now becoming so manifest to everybody and is affecting so cruelly the poor people in the community as a result of the now belatedly applied policies of the Government: [More…]
We have seen the unemployment crisis occur and re-occur in Australia. [More…]
The question was asked in the context of what we know is a world energy crisis. [More…]
In those areas today we have a crisis on our hands. [More…]
The Government has just realised that there is an inflationary crisis. [More…]
A real question at the moment is: What do we do at a time of crisis? [More…]
The Government of course has recourse to the expert advice of the Treasury officers and other people on what the trends may be and it advises us that there is a national crisis. [More…]
However, I can say to the” honourable senator that the Australian Government has indicated already, by its actions earlier this year, that it will take every practicable step it can, in concert with other nations, to overcome what does appear to be an impending crisis in the world food supply. [More…]
I believe that it is appropriate for such a motion to be moved by the Democratic Labor Party in a period of crisis because the DLP, from its inception, has always been a defence minded party. [More…]
If we get rid of those skilled organisations it will be years before we are able to re-form them, and there is no prospect of re-forming them in a hurry if we are faced with a crisis in which our defences are called upon. [More…]
I believe that the people of Australia will indicate that they want this country to be secure and that they want our young people to be at least trained to defend themselves if an emergency or a crisis arises. [More…]
Actually the figures which I have quoted to the Senate represent more than the percentage which was spent when Australia was facing a crisis. [More…]
It is not facing a crisis today. [More…]
The writers of the publications that have given some consideration to what they call a crisis in the armed forces are themselves people who have served in those war areas, and they have returned to Australia where exercises are now being held under peacetime conditions. [More…]
If we are confronted with a crisis, either suddenly or with little warning, these people cannot be replaced. [More…]
Let us not forget that it was 20 years of neglect and an even worse crisis in morale which prompted me and so many like me to resign to press for reforms and improvements. [More…]
In view of the threat that the Middle East crisis could exacerbate the world fuel shortage, will the Leader of the Government advise the Senate whether our present oil policy in Australia could be reviewed and whether exports of hydrocarbons to Japan from our limited resources could be tailored to give our present and future domestic requirements the highest priority? [More…]
At this moment it is accepted that Australia is facing an economic crisis. [More…]
At a time of great crisis in the domestic economics of Australia, at a time when the people of Australia are being asked to suffer and to pay penalties as a direct action of this Government, the Senate is asked to strangle its voice. [More…]
Although I believe representations have been made to the Department to avert the crisis, it is unfortunate that he now is likely to be sold up. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that if all these bans were lifted, the demands on resources in the building industry would seriously worsen the inflationary pressures in the economy and harm the Government’s endeavours to solve the housing crisis? [More…]
The Government, of course, must accept a large measure of responsibility for the inflationary situation that has been allowed to get out of hand due to its failure to impose the necessary disciplines sufficiently quickly to avoid the necessity for the crisis legislation that has now to be introduced. [More…]
It means, in other words, that the Government has allowed a certain crisis to develop and now asks to be extracted from that position by the precipitate consideration of legislation. [More…]
The greatest defect of thinking of this Government of ours is that not only are men an island but Australia is an island unto itself and that Australia somehow can be isolated against the world- a world in which an oil crisis in the Middle East is being engendered and which could create world war; a world in which some 2 years ago at the time of the Bangladesh outbreak it was feared with some justification that Russia might seek to knock out the nuclear establishments of China. [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…]
I do so not in any patronising fashion but to point out that uniquely at the moment the world is confronted by an energy crisis, a crisis which is a growing one. [More…]
It is a crisis which relates to a resource which unlike other resources is not capable of being recycled. [More…]
But above all, unless we resolve by technology as well as diplomacy the problem of the energy crisis we could in fact confront lower living standards. [More…]
The immediate crisis lies in a decade or 2 decades ahead. [More…]
When we are dealing with energy and an energy crisis what we need to know is how best we should handle the resources which we have. [More…]
I believe that as a parliament and as a people we are singularly uninformed by this Government on the existing energy crisis. [More…]
In conclusion I say- and this is the reason I rose- that in an energy crisis we cannot be neutral. [More…]
Apart from commending the Bill I call upon the Government in terms of the energy crisis to use to the full the magnificent resources of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
In view of the serious overseas fuel crisis necessitating drastic cuts in the use of hydrocarbon derivatives for power, heating and transport in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States of America, would the Minister press for a higher priority for bringing into use at the earliest possible time the known reserves of the North West Shelf and the Cooper Basin which would include the early commencement of the national pipeline grid in order to avoid the possibility of the disruption to industrial and social life that is high and growing in other parts of the world? [More…]
No great constitutional crisis will come out of such a meeting. [More…]
It is hoped that by the end of next week we will be able to overcome the crisis that has developed in Darwin. [More…]
Does he know that the apple industry is facing an acute crisis by reason of cost and the handicap in the European market? [More…]
As a similar question is asked nearly every day, by this time I am beginning to realise that there is an acute crisis in the apple industry in Tasmania. [More…]
There is an energy crisis all around the world. [More…]
In a time of world energy crisis that is exactly what the Australian people would expect of their Government and the Minister, and that is exactly what is happening. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, concerns questions asked regarding the energy crisis and the so-called oil diplomacy in the Middle East. [More…]
I am glad that this morning I have had acknowledgment that he is beginning to understand that a crisis is confronting the apple industry in Tasmania. [More…]
The crisis in the apple industry is known to me. [More…]
The crisis that exists in the apple industry has given rise to our determination to do something. [More…]
But we have the position in the industry in which it is doubtful whether all those engaged in it will have anything but crisis in the continued market situations of today. [More…]
We have this continuing annual crisis of the apple industry. [More…]
The Government has tried to do something about the very crisis that Senator Wright raises every day in the Senate. [More…]
I recall that this blow was delivered to the apple industry in the time when it was facing its greatest economic crisis. [More…]
In the last 70 years the only times when governments of a non-Liberal or nonconservative nature have been in power have been in periods of crisis- in the first World War, in the depression years of the 1930s and during the 1939-45 war period up till the rehabilitation era was over- and during the other periods there had been conservative governments in power here. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite cannot understand why they are not in power when there is not a crisis. [More…]
Of course, they are trying to generate a crisis. [More…]
It occurs to me that there is no relevant power that would enable it to do that, except perhaps if Mr Dedman were to be resurrected and he prescribed that there should be topless costumes in the crisis of a great war, or something of that sort. [More…]
The energy crisis has been forecast now for many years. [More…]
I saw something of this situation in New York only a few months ago before the crisis started and before the embargoes were put on. [More…]
The mining export income which Western Australia, together with the State of Queensland, earned for Australia really saved the Australian nation from a serious economic crisis which would have occurred during the period of the rural recession. [More…]
But because of the export income that was generated by the mining discoveries and mining developments largely in the States of Queensland and Western Australia, there is no doubt that such a serious crisis was averted. [More…]
One might as well say that what was good for the age of Adam Smith is good for the age of multinational corporations, nuclear weapons and a world wide crisis of the system itself, based on the profligate misuse of resources. [More…]
Australia’s inflationary pressure is building up to crisis proportions. [More…]
The philosophy adopted by that Department is most important in these days because the energy crisis which is said to prevail throughout the world may have a great effect on the Australian community. [More…]
Having said that, I return to this contention which I believe needs an answer- a convincing answer- that if at this stage oil search in Australia has been brought practically to a halt by the application of socialist principles and by the application of a system which means there can be no winners even if they do find oil- by this nonsense- then surely it is time, because of the crisis through which the whole world is passing, that some remedial action was taken regarding it. [More…]
If it had not been for those holes in the ground in Western Australia we could well have faced an economic crisis when the rural industries were in such a state of depression. [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: . [More…]
In view of the implications for every country of the current international energy crisis as a result of the withholding of oil supplies from the Middle East and as Australia is not self sufficient in liquid petroleum or oil will the Minister indicate the programs under way with Commonwealth assistance to explore aU sources of energy generation, that is, petroleum, petroleum gas, solar heating, hydrogenation of coal, kerosene shales, nuclear energy and tidal energy generation? [More…]
There has been a lot of criticism of the Minister, who, very soon after he came into his portfolio, took steps to ensure that Australia was put in the best position possible to beat the energy crisis. [More…]
As these calls are made in times of crisis and with a need to avoid delay, will the Minister take steps to have red phones altered so that emergency calls can be made without the use of coins? [More…]
The decision to submit these amendments to the present National Health Act was made to solve the crisis that emanates from the proposals to dismantle the accepted scheme and replace it with one arousing hostility and causing predictably much higher costs to many subscribers. [More…]
This Bill is presented as a positive solution to the crisis. [More…]
I invite the support of all parties in the Senate to enable this BUI to go forward as the real solution to the on-going health debate and the health crisis which faces Australia today. [More…]
I refer to the very grave economic crisis confronting Great Britain; a crisis which many observers believe may permanently cripple that nation. [More…]
In view of the fact that by any test, including humanitarian considerations, the importance of a strong Britain in the western European alliance or because of the great traditions and common origins that bind Britain and Australia, will the Commonwealth Government initiate immediately top level discussions with Great Britain and with countries with common interests and responsibilities to determine what practical steps can be taken by Australia and other countries to help resolve Britain’s problems, particularly her energy crisis? [More…]
The world energy crisis highlights major world reliance on oil and natural gas for its energy needs. [More…]
I think it is recognised all round that he has moved in advance of the energy crisis. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has said very clearly in its federal policy- and this has been said very clearly also by members of the Government and by the Government itself- that there can be no settlement of the present crisis in the Middle East without, first, some justice being done to the Palestinian refugees. [More…]
Her Majesty said that Australia was in a more fortunate position than most comparable nations in the energy crisis but the Government would not be complacent in planning for the future energy needs of the Australian nation. [More…]
So far as the fuel crisis and the bunkering policy is concerned, there is no doubt that but for the firmness ofthe Minister for Minerals and Energy we would have been well back in the queue. [More…]
We would not object to the suspension if there were some national crisis on our hands and the Government had to have some legislation passed quickly. [More…]
Housing today is facing a crisis as the building industry indicates. [More…]
If one looks at Her Majesty’s Speech, which was written by the Prime Minister, one finds some wonderful words and some beautiful platitudes about how we are handling the energy crisis. [More…]
We will be in peril in an energy crisis world- and we have done nothing at all. [More…]
In a period of world energy crisis we find how well equipped Australia is. [More…]
Somebody asked the Premier whether he would declare a state of emergency at a time of great crisis. [More…]
For this reason, manufacturing industry has asked the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to consider issuing short term economic forecasts and establishing regular consultations between industry and government on policies designed to overcome the effect of the world energy crisis, for one thing, on the Australian economy. [More…]
It is quite simple for Australia to feel somewhat insulated from the world energy crisis because of some of our own resources such as those referred to by Senator Hannan. [More…]
But there is another reason why we need to be concerned about the world energy crisis. [More…]
The very outlook in the world today with the energy crisis and its effect upon the economies of the world and particularly upon the less developed countries should be a warning that world conditions can change very quickly. [More…]
Recently we had the energy crisis. [More…]
Yes, we may be all right for 3 years but there only has to be another brush up in the fuel crisis and a few other Middle East episodes with the United States and we could be involved. [More…]
In view of the world energy crisis, the high level of pollution from hydro-carbon exhausts in this country and the existence of hydro-electricity generation as we have it - [More…]
We had given all sorts of incentives to drill for oil because we were aware that a massive energy crisis was growing up. [More…]
I wish to test this challenge because at this moment the world is facing a critical energy crisis. [More…]
Let me consider the 2 problems, that is, the problem within Australia in terms of an energy crisis and the problem in Australia in terms of playing our part in helping a world facing an energy crisis. [More…]
It came to power against a quickening energy crisis, one which in this chamber was recognised as likely to cause world conflict and world economic dangers. [More…]
I asked the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) whether we were going to apply incentives in this energy crisis in order to overcome the impending shortage of oil in Australia. [More…]
Today there is an oil crisis. [More…]
The latest crisis was caused in the nationalised coal mines and the nationalised transport industries. [More…]
This is at a time when the world is fronting up to an oil crisis. [More…]
One man and his Government are responsible today, at a time when we should be doing all that we can to encourage oil exploration because of the energy crisis, for so many companies are turning away from Australia and going elsewhere. [More…]
We only have to refer to the recent Middle East situation and the energy crisis that is stalking the whole world today to realise the position in which we would have been had we been completely reliant on the Middle East for our oil. [More…]
Did it assess the energy crisis which at one stage brought the 2 super powers into confrontation? [More…]
Threats can arise suddenly, as the Middle East situation clearly indicated and as the energy crisis indicated, or with very little warning. [More…]
Europe, mainly because of the energy crisis, is in disarray; the Atlantic Alliance is under great strain; United States-Russian relations have not improved. [More…]
Who could have predicted the energy crisis that is troubling the world today? [More…]
I believe that if the energy crisis continues for any length of time and has a great effect on certain nations conflict can be expected in our area. [More…]
Because of the breaking down of the cold war, when we had the Middle East crisis which went as close to world war as one could possibly get on that terrible Friday night, detente helped and held. [More…]
I believe that this is a crisis which is very serious indeed. [More…]
One has only to think of the VIP flight crisis in which honourable senators who are on the Government side but who were on the Opposition side at that time tried to bring down the Government of the day because they believed that they had a very good case. [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 and the Soviet Union successfully managed the crisis in their relations and used their influence to limit the conflict. [More…]
Can anyone say, in the face of an energy crisis which is growing more and more difficult in the world, in the face of resources diplomacy which is the ugliest of all tactics, and which can starve nations, that nations will not be put in peril? [More…]
It was followed by the energy crisis which had the effect of creating threat and instability throughout the world. [More…]
The Minister repeats in the statement the worn-out strategic assessment that did not recognise the possibility of war in the Middle East and did not recognise the energy crisis. [More…]
That doctor on roster in standard wards will not be there for a confinement or for a crisis if that crisis does not happen during the sessional working hours of that doctor. [More…]
They fail to point out that most countries which have a higher rate of inflation than has Australia have been hit very hard by the oil crisis. [More…]
They can blame much of their inflation problems on this fact but, as our Government has only too smugly pointed out, Australia has not been involved or at least has been only marginally involved in this oil crisis. [More…]
It was that very search in these areas and the exciting production that resulted from it that enabled us in a time of oil crisis to be in a situation in which we produced approximately 72 per cent of our own fuel requirements. [More…]
I have been interested in politics for many years, but it was the growing health crisis that precipitated my participation in politics. [More…]
The United Kingdom is one of the greatest examples in the world of a crisis situation. [More…]
Even though a government carries a gerrymander, sooner or later a crisis arises and it goes out of office. [More…]
Does the Government realise that Australia has not yet even felt the fringe of the real effects of the energy crisis? [More…]
Does it realise that if Japan or the European Economic Community countries are starved- as well they might be- or priced out in the energy crisis their ability to buy from us and their prices structures will be such that Australia’s living standards will shrink? [More…]
Quite clearly what the government of the day should have been doing was to tell us how it sees the oil energy crisis over the next 30 years; how it sees not only its effect on those nations which are geared to fossil fuels for their motivation, but also on the 50 million people of the Middle East who face a very savage shrinking in their living standards if, as is inevitable, their only source of livelihood is drying up. [More…]
The situation is an alarming one, at a time when there is a world energy crisis and a great demand for us to find more in our own areas. [More…]
Why is it that on all occasions there is a crisis in the country it is the workers who have to pay? [More…]
It cannot be denied that we have reached a crisis in our economy at present of a degree that we have never experienced in the history of our country. [More…]
I feel that honourable senators have to be completely appreciative of the repercussions which would flow through the whole of the economy, at a common crisis, to the detriment of those people to whom we feel we should give the most consideration in respect of retention of value in our money. [More…]
I can see that certain of our imports now bear a cost increase arising from the oil crisis in the world. [More…]
It is only the effect of that oil crisis reflected in the cost of imports that introduces a degree of inflation to Australia. [More…]
The facts of the situation are that, in terms of grave crisis, Parliament must act in the interests of the people, not act in its own interests. [More…]
However, at this moment Australia is suffering from a very real and deep crisis in leadership. [More…]
It is appalling to think that there is such a crisis in the leadership of this country which has gone through one of the most prosperous times in its history and that now we have a Government that is so deeply divided as to where it will lead this country. [More…]
The Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Bryant) has a scheme to counter the money crisis. [More…]
So it is quite clear that this Government has created a crisis of leadership in Australia, and no government can continue in that way. [More…]
If the Government cannot pull its socks up it will be defeated because the crisis will become so great that Australia will have to tura to an alternate solution. [More…]
Brief mention was made of the crisis period of 1931 in which there was conflict between the Chairman of the Commonwealth Bank Board and the Government of the day. [More…]
We should recall that it was only by the granting of emergency rights to overseas and local credit lines and by lifting interest rate controls over most of the borrowing for periods of over 5 years that the New Zealand Government avoided a crisis situation. [More…]
Is he aware that the Australian Petroleum Exploration Association estimates a drop in the number of oil wells being drilled in Australia this year from the low number of 90 to 60, there being meanwhile a boom in oil exploration activity overseas resulting from the recent oil crisis? [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…]
I ask: In view of the fact that this nation is faced with a crisis of confidence because of the Government’s inability to bring inflation under control and in view of its callousness in pursuing policies which are designed to cause unemployment, will the Government prepare a White Paper on what it considers to be the causes of inflation and how it proposes to combat the causes and alleviate the distress it creates? [More…]
I ask: Are the current record rate of inflation, the seriously rising unemployment, the negative productivity and the virtual collapse of capital investment indications of an economy growing strongly, or rather of an economy approaching a crisis? [More…]
Has the Government made any inquiries regarding the financial implications of the developing crisis in South Australia’s River Murray flood area? [More…]
Will the Government make available financial and technical services to assist in meeting the flood crisis? [More…]
It may seem curious to some honourable senators that, at a time when the Opposition is asserting that the Australian economy is in a situation of acute crisis, it finds time to play to the Senate today a tired old barrel organ tune entitled ‘Variations on a Theme by Joe McCarthy’. [More…]
The Government could use a RAAF aircraft to take Ermolenko out of the country to beat union bans but I have not seen any move to date to use the armed services to avert the fuel crisis in Australia and particularly in areas of Queensland. [More…]
I take it that because there is a fuel crisis in Australia, because Queensland grows 95 per cent of the sugar of Australia and because one Mundey is the President of the Communist Party this is sufficient and convincing grounds to show that our Minister for Foreign Affairs should not hold his portfolio. [More…]
The whole world faces a unique and critical energy crisis. [More…]
At this moment in the world the energy crisis will create the most disastrous economic crisis that the world has faced and may invite world war. [More…]
If Senator Steele Hall cannot see that Australia should get over its narrow national interest and look towards doing something on a world level to abate the economic crisis and perhaps prevent war, I suggest he go back to his drawing board. [More…]
Any government should apply itself to 2 things- not only what it needs for its domestic use but also what it should do to alleviate this critical energy crisis on the world scene. [More…]
I simply say that the regulations that we are seeking to retain are a very necessary safeguard because, when it is all said and done, the crux of the matter to which Senator Carrick referred- I agree with his comment on this- is the international energy crisis. [More…]
The debate in which we are engaged concerns a motion to disallow certain regulations; but it has ranged over a much wider area, seemingly embracing not only the Government’s policies in respect of uranium but also, as one honourable senator said, our total approach to the world energy crisis. [More…]
The lack of full commitment to development co-operation represents, in my view, the real and critical ‘crisis of development’, though one not widely accepted as such in developed countries. [More…]
It demands that the Australian scene find a realistic solution to the industrial problems which beset us and which, in this country, are bringing about great strains in the petroleum and mineral industries which are of such dramatic importance in a time of energy crisis. [More…]
I believe that the greatest safeguard that we have in Australia in times of crisis is the overall opinion of the great number of people who live in this country. [More…]
As at least 2 members of the National Advisory Committee have stated that crisis referral and counselling centres for women are typical of urgent community needs, is it envisaged that the $2m will be spent in the establishment of these services? [More…]
I refer Senator Young also to the book by Ronald Anderson which was published in 1971 entitled ‘Crisis on the Land’, in which Anderson makes an admittedly oblique reference to directives handed down in 1969 by the then Deputy Prime Minister, Sir John McEwen, to the Wheat Board to terminate its aggressive marketing policies because they were producing an unfavourable reaction in Washington. [More…]
The central crisis for Australia today is not with schools, new trains or urban development. [More…]
The crisis for Australia today is with rising inflation and rising unemployment. [More…]
Leave out all words after ‘That ‘and insert ‘the Senate is of the opinion that the Budget fails to tackle Australia’s economic crisis, in that: [More…]
He said: ‘The crisis we are facing today is not education’. [More…]
Then he concluded his remarks by saying that education was not one of the crisis matters. [More…]
He said there is no crisis in urban and regional development. [More…]
As I said earlier, there is, of course, no crisis today because we have set about rectifying the problems. [More…]
Referring to the stand that had been taken in another place by my colleague the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon) it stated that the suggestion made by Mr Nixon- that was the same suggestion as we made here- that the proposed increases in postal charges should be deferred until their effects on inflation, could be determined was one of the few sane suggestions which had been made in Canberra with regard to the present economic crisis. [More…]
Surely the Federal Minister has not taken a leaf out of the book of his colleague the Premier of South Australia who, in any particular economic crisis in our State- and they occur pretty frequently under his management- tends to go off and buy a restaurant in the name of the South Australian Government. [More…]
Having had many years experience in the housing industry I think it has always been facing a crisis. [More…]
As the honourable senator knows, last year the housing industry was facing a crisis because of its inability to obtain skilled labour and building materials. [More…]
The trading banks are now in a liquidity crisis and quite clearly do not have the money to provide for subscriptions to these kinds of loans. [More…]
Of course, I commend this action in the face of the crisis in home construction at this moment. [More…]
I think this morning a spokesman for the Master Builders predicted that this crisis would result in something like a 60 per cent to 70 per cent decline in the construction rate. [More…]
Assuming that additional funds are made available for sewer extensions, could employment be offered to persons now out of work due to the current economic crisis? [More…]
My question which is directed to the Minister for Agriculture relates to the virtual total omission from Mr Whitlam ‘s United Nations address yesterday of any reference at all to the world ‘s growing food crisis or any proposed contribution by Australia to its alleviation. [More…]
Is the Government aware of the full magnitude of this food crisis and of its grave potential for disease, starvation, death and even war? [More…]
the Australian economy is still in pretty fair shapeliving standards are high, the level of employment is still (by any past standards) high, we still have our great natural resources, and we have largely escaped the consequences of the international oil crisis, . [More…]
Revolution in an advanced capitalistic country can only become a possibility if there is a serious economic crisis. [More…]
These are the things that are leading to the economic crisis. [More…]
Dr Cairns said that if there is to be a revolution in an advanced capitalist system it is essential to have an economic crisis, and that is where we are going. [More…]
Leave out all words after ‘that’ and insert ‘The Senate is of the opinion that the Budget fails to tackle Australia’s economic crisis, in that: [More…]
The distinction between a real economic crisis which existed in respect of agriculture in 1970-71 and a fantasy economic crisis which exists today and between the reactions to the two can be explained by the fact that current so-called attempts to incite a rural revolution are politically motivated. [More…]
The Government was warned as early as 1966 of the impending abattoir crisis in the Towns and Austin report. [More…]
It did nothing to forestall the crisis. [More…]
Australia is a country in which there is no oil crisis. [More…]
There is in truth a crisis in leadership in Australia. [More…]
I do not want to use the word ‘crisis’ in that context. [More…]
Mr Trudeau said he would not go away because he wanted to be on hand at this time of economic and financial crisis. [More…]
It also faces a crisis in leadership and it is about time the Prime Minister started to provide that leadership and stopped waffling at the United Nations. [More…]
In that context and in the context of a very real world in which the energy crisis and the growing food crisis create the greatest peril probably in this century, the Budget is brought down ignoring all of those issues. [More…]
This budget has been presented in a period in which the share market is at its disastrous worst, in which great firms are collapsing, in which bankruptcies are rising steadily, in which the textile industry, the clothing industry, the footwear industry, the electronics industry, the automotive industry and now this morning the furniture manufacturing industry are all saying that they are at a point of crisis. [More…]
The Budget managed in a real world to avoid mention at all of the energy crisis and any mention of the massive and perilous consequences that are likely to flow from the international currency problems. [More…]
Of course, by then the energy crisis will have been met. [More…]
Where is there any statement of our attitude to the currency crisis? [More…]
By every test there is a crisis. [More…]
In general, rural industry faces a serious crisis, heavy indebtedness to the banks and finance houses and a rising pressure of costs. [More…]
The Senate is of the opinion that the Budget fails to tackle Australia’s economic crisis, in that: [More…]
To a degree we have felt the effects of inflation in other parts of the world where the energy crisis has led to the exorbitantly high prices being paid now for petroleum and fuel generally. [More…]
We express grave concern at the economic crisis which is developing, with particular emphasis on rising unemployment and inflation. [More…]
I pointed out that there would be no crisis until the end of 1976. [More…]
He commented, as we all know, that divorce is a crisis in the lives of all the people involved- the two parents and the children. [More…]
I see them operating to offer therapy to people at a time of crisis, to help children through a period when they are likely to get very disturbed, and to help men and women who have to make decisions about their own worth and future. [More…]
They have been greatly exacerbated by the energy crisis and the deteriorating world monetary situation. [More…]
The lack of full commitment to development co-operation represents, in my view, the real and critical crisis of development, though one not widely accepted as such in developed countries. [More…]
However the bulk of this inflation overseas is directly related to the energy crisis. [More…]
We have been proudly boasting that we are 70 per cent self sufficient in oil in this country so this Government should not try to use the energy crisis as an excuse for the rate of inflation that we have today. [More…]
Having said that I would like to direct my attention to those items that relate to foreign aid in the present crisis and to what I regard as the most important issue which has confronted this world since World War II. [More…]
That is the crisis in food, starvation and disease throughout the world. [More…]
If there exists in the mind of any Minister of the Crown, either now or in the future, the view that Parliament will be deprived of the right of knowing how its money will be spent and that that information will be withheld by the abolition of a method now available to Parliament for the first time perhaps in 60 years, then we will have reached a constitutional crisis. [More…]
If ever there was a time for face to face discussions to be held with other leaders of the world it is right now, when one considers the inflationary situation, the oil crisis, and the other international problems which so much affect ourselves and the other countries. [More…]
I am saying that the actions of this Government are forcing a severe crisis upon the general aviation sector of the industry. [More…]
Will yesterday’s decision inevitably lead to another round of wage claims and further deterioration of Australia’s economic crisis? [More…]
It is advised that the through composite carriage attached to the ‘Spirit of Progress’ between Melbourne and Goulburn was discontinued during the recent fuel crisis. [More…]
The States themselves have been confronted by the impact of the Government’s policies in this way: Every local council- I had something to say in the Senate a few days ago on thisconfronted with inflation, confronted with a credit squeeze and the worsening economic conditions, is now in a state of severe financial crisis. [More…]
What kind of se-, curity is it for Australia that we have the capacity with 13 million highly educated, highly skilled people to make only a bit of a car, that we have to be dependent in troubled times, in a world which has never faced more potential peril than is threatening by the energy crisis and turbulence, on the oceans of the world, as we were in 1939? [More…]
That undercut any future action that might be taken in a time of crisis. [More…]
There was not then a national crisis. [More…]
first few months, to match what is undoubtedly a crisis in the Australian community. ‘ [More…]
Without it the rate of inflation in Australia will be 30 per cent in 6 months time and we will see what the leaders of Australia do in reaction to an obvious crisis situation of that nature. [More…]
We are faced with an economic crisis. [More…]
We are faced with a world wide economic crisis, and there is no point in denying it. [More…]
What the Government has achieved in Australia by its actions is a state of confusion and crisis and a complete lack of confidence. [More…]
Their importance to Australia becomes more obvious every day with the international oil crisis, as has the need to carry on and encourage further exploration for oil and gas in these areas of Australia. [More…]
All of this leads to a great state of uncertainty in the manufacturing industry which might well be described, and has been described, as a state of confusion and a crisis of confidence. [More…]
In the present state of the international money markets, which are affected so gravely by the oil crisis and the large build-up of funds in Arab hands, it appears that the situation has now developed whereby the Australian Industry Development Corporation cannot obtain some of the funds that are available on that market because the funds are available only to governments or bodies which are accepted as equivalent to government borrowers or which are borrowing with a clear government guarantee. [More…]
We have arranged to send to Darwin 2 people to work with the Department of Social Security crisis teams that Mr Hayden has there in operating this video portaback equipment. [More…]
It concerns the crisis area in the beef industry. [More…]
Taking further the subject of the general admission of the cause of the problem, on 28 January this year the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) was quoted under the heading Whitlam Blames Crisis on Wages’ as follows: [More…]
After all that calamity, us recently as the 17th of last month Mr Whitlam came to the confessional and said in Adelaide that it was now completely admitted that excessive wage demands had caused Australia’s unemployment and inflationary crisis. [More…]
That is the sort of motion which the Senate, if it had any concern for itself, would be talking about instead of using the present political crisis and the present dispute between the Commonwealth and the State of New South Wales as a political vehicle by which to attack the Premier and the Government of New South Wales. [More…]
I return to this point: Where have all the brave Liberals been during the crisis upon the matter of a replacement senator? [More…]
Is it to divert attention from his own political ineptitude and that of his Government as illustrated by the handling of the recent power crisis in New South Wales? [More…]
It happened in times of economic crisis similar to that through which the world is passing at the present time. [More…]
I express our sympathy to all the victims of that tragedy, particularly those who suffered bereavement, and our recognition and very deep gratitude to the work of all who were associated with coping with the crisis which was then presented. [More…]
I have not seen a group of people who could come to an area of crisis and be so well organised in carrying out the relief operations. [More…]
Does he now admit that the situation has worsened to the point of crisis? [More…]
Will the Minister state what his Government intends to do immediately to alleviate this crisis? [More…]
-My understanding of the talks that have taken place regarding the Middle East crisis in oil in which Dr Kissinger was very outspoken right from the beginning has never been- and I think there was a denial of this by the United States- that it was the intention of the American Government to use force in this situation. [More…]
We have had evidence of states of emergency being declared in Queensland where the crisis has been lesser. [More…]
He will recall emphasising, in answer to a question yesterday on the beef crisis, that producers had not requested concessional interest rates on $20m finance made available to the industry late last year. [More…]
I again ask whether the Minister will review immediately the assistance which the Government is prepared to give the beef industry in this crisis period. [More…]
-The Minister for Agriculture will recall stating last week that the Premier of Queensland had not made substantial offers to the Federal Government on the matter of joint State and Federal help to overcome the crisis in the beef industry. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that producers, particularly in central, northern and western Queensland and in the Northern Territory, who cannot diversify must receive adequate finance and low interest rates in order to survive the present crisis? [More…]
Mem bers of the UAP had to walk out of this place because they could not do anything to help the Australian people in a crisis. [More…]
There are not deficiencies in general practice todaythere is a crisis in general practice today. [More…]
I ask whether the Minister has seen the journal and whether he has noticed the leading article which is headed: ‘The Crisis in Manufacturing Industry’. [More…]
They will recall the near crisis when the building societies were threatened with closure until the Treasurer of the day, Dr Cairns, and the Minister for Social Security, Mr Bill Hayden, went on television and assured the Australian public that the Australian Government would guarantee the building societies. [More…]
The run stopped and the crisis was averted. [More…]
In this time of crisis in the beef industry, will similar alleviation be provided in respect of other possible placements of export beef? [More…]
The producers have found that their 2 main areas of market, Japan and America, have been affected by the energy crisis which apparently is besetting all countries which do not have their own supplies. [More…]
In 1971 in the wool crisis were low interest rates provided to the wool grower? [More…]
Excessive union wage demands had caused Australia’s unemployment and inflation crisis, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said at the weekend in Adelaide. [More…]
You cannot blame the oil crisis for the inflation in Australia. [More…]
I believe that we have reached a national crisis stage. [More…]
The fundamental thrust of our work in the coming period should be to expand this activity of counterposing our revolutionary program for fighting the capitalist system and for preventing the workers paying the price of the economic crisis to the class collaborationist, capitalist policies of the Labor fakers. [More…]
Can the Minister say what measures the Government is taking to meet this crisis in the nationally important Australian fishing industry? [More…]
The Australian Housing Corporation Bill 1975 comes to the Senate at a time of the greatest housing crisis in Australia since the immediate post-war years. [More…]
Another point which should be stressed equally is that the whole cause of that crisis must lie at the doorstep of the Australian Labor Party- of the Whitlam Government itself. [More…]
For over 20 years the world generally and our section of the world in particular have endeavoured to cope with this crisis- indeed it may be described as the ultimate in crises. [More…]
It must be one that can operate successfully in a crisis. [More…]
Australia, of all countries, has been virtually untouched by the oil crisis. [More…]
I am speaking in this debate on the Appropriation Bills only because, in an atmosphere in which Government spending has gone up by 45 per cent this year and in which it is predicted that Australia will be at a point of dire crisis next year, the Government must stand up and be counted with regard to its specific policies and must now articulate to us what it intends to do. [More…]
He said also that excessive union wage demands had caused Australia’s unemployment and inflation crisis. [More…]
He said you could not blame Vietnam for the inflation in the Western world; you could not blame the oil crisis for inflation in Australia; you could not blame the takeovers- the takeovers about which we heard the pigeons fluttering in the dovecote in the previous 18 months- and you could not blame the currency rates for inflation. [More…]
If so, does the industry face a crisis of last year’s dimensions, with a sharp downturn in sales and probable retrenchment of thousands of workers? [More…]
Will the Government reduce sales tax as it did in the last crisis? [More…]
Because of the downturn in the imports of canned tuna in recent months the immediate crisis, as I understand it, has passed. [More…]
Is he aware that the world renowned micro-surgical team at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne is facing a crisis through lack of finance and that one of the surgeons on the micro-surgical team is reported in the ‘Sunday Press’ magazine as having said: [More…]
Are small businesses at a disadvantage compared with the larger companies in obtaining government help to survive the present crisis brought about by record inflation, record high interest rates, and across-the-board tariff cuts? [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…]
As to the specific points raised by the Leader of the Opposition, I was unaware that there was a crisis in transport in relation to Tasmania. [More…]
The fact is that because of the energy crisis and because of the increase in oil prices there has been a totally unprecedented redistribution of the world’s wealth and the money markets of the world have shifted from their traditional sites and the petro-dollar, which is as good a dollar as any other dollar, is to be found in unexpected places. [More…]
The Australian Government needs immediate access to substantial sums on 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 in regard to supplies of minerals and energy and to deal with current and immediately foreseeable unemployment in Australia. [More…]
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 in regard to supplies of minerals and energy and to deal with current and immediately foreseeable unemployment in Australia. [More…]
People should be aware that in the last 12 months this industry, although not in as dire straits as the beef industry perhaps, has suffered a pretty serious crisis. [More…]
There are exceptional circumstances, however, on which Senator Wright and I agreethe Senate may or may not agree with this- when an Opposition which has the majority of numbers could in some state of very great crisis- I did not want to use the word ‘crisis’ but that is the only word I can think of at the moment- convene the House. [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 loan transaction was for the necessary infrastructure for their emergency development, based on the energy crisis. [More…]
Our offence in the eyes of those international forces is to borrow 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 seek investment yearly, generated by the energy crisis. [More…]
The monies would have been drawn down as the respective parts of the energy crisis programme were implemented on a ‘crash’, and in some cases, ‘turn-key’operation basis. [More…]
The world energy crisis had shown no signs of easing. [More…]
We are to some extent involved, as my colleague Senator Sir Magnus Cormack mentioned earlier, in a constitutional crisis. [More…]
If this kind of thing can happen in so many countries, one cannot help wondering whether it is going on in Australia right now over the current loan crisis, with letters springing up out of the ground in the most unlikely places, such as the Australian Embassy in Washington; people admitting to sending false telex messages, and newspapers offering large sums of money for information which could help to bring down the Labor Government. [More…]
We are threatened with the possibility of what is called a constitutional crisis. [More…]
A constitutional crisis is when the Lords threaten the use of legal powers bestowed on them by the legislation which ultimately trimmed their wings. [More…]
As the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) said earlier today, we are in a position at the moment of economic crisis. [More…]
Perhaps minor crisis is the correct description. [More…]
It may not be a major crisis, but certainly there are elements of economic crisis. [More…]
One of the factors which contributes to that crisis we believe- it is a conclusion which we have come to only very reluctantly- is that there has been excessive expenditure in the non-profitable and non-productive elements of the public sector such as in the field of social welfare including pharmaceutical benefits. [More…]
We would suspend for the period ofthe present crisis the present system in which company tax is paid on a quarterly basis. [More…]
At end of motion, add- , but the Senate is of the opinion that the Budget fails to tackle Australia’s economic crisis because: [More…]
I support the amendment moved by Senator Withers, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, that the following words be added to the motion that the Senate take note of the papers: but the Senate is of the opinion that the Budget fails to tackle Australia ‘s economic crisis because- [More…]
Our present crisis, if ‘crisis’ is not too dramatic a word, arises from a number of causes. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs what requests, if any, whether for manpower, medical supplies or other assistance, has the Portuguese envoy, Dr Santos, made to the Commonwealth Government with respect to the current crisis in East Timor? [More…]
With about two-thirds of its petroleum requirement covered by indigenous crude oil, the direct impact on the Australian economy of the oil price increases has been modest and in the medium and long term Australia stands to benefit from the energy crisis with its abundance of energy resources such as coal, natural gas and uranium. [More…]
Are honourable senators opposite going to lay the blame on world crisis? [More…]
It points out that the Senate is of the opinion that the Budget fails to attack Australia’s economic crisis for 5 very good reasons. [More…]
Perhaps it would have done the Treasurer’s heart good if he had gone to a country such as Japan which until recently had an extremely high inflation rate because of the energy crisis. [More…]
Furthermore, the reversion at the beginning of July to the 1974- 75 income tax schedule, the phasing out of the temporary reduction in sales tax on motor vehicles which was introduced as an emergency measure to counter the crisis in the motor vehicles industry in December last year, and the increases in indirect taxes and charges announced both before and at the time of the Budget raised the prospect that the above average rates of improvement evident in private consumption expenditure in the March and June quarters might not be sustained in the first half of [More…]
An examination of the figures relating to private enterprise over the last year- this was an examination that I was able to make in my previous portfolio of Manufacturing Industry- reinforced by many contacts with businessmen certainly convinced me that private enterprise, especially the manufacturing sector, is indeed in a state of crisis such as it has not faced in the post-war period. [More…]
This Government has done very little to help the beef industry during this time of crisis. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment seeks to add these words: but the Senate is of the opinion that the Budget fails to tackle Australia’s economic crisis because: [More…]
The principal source of this crisis has been the immense growth in Government spending since 1972. [More…]
He points out that those associated with the private sector must realise that there are a lot of stake-holders involved, not just the shareholders, and that there is a crisis in capital accumulation. [More…]
He considers that at the root of the current crisis are 2 basic mechanisms, the reduced economic efficiency of capital and the reduced social efficiency of growth. [More…]
It is interesting to note that whenever a crisis occurs in the Federal Labor Party Governmentwhether it be the loans affair, the Bass byelection or any of the other innumerable consecutive and continuing items- Mr Hawke is overseas or is not available; he is never in the thick of the fight. [More…]
The Government has introduced this Budget against a background of the worst economic crisis that has faced this country since the depression. [More…]
It is no credit to the Government, which went into office claiming that it would change the face of Australia and redistribute the national wealth of the country and provide services and facilities for people, that it finds itself within Vh years of taking office, facing the worst economic crisis since the depression. [More…]
I attach total blame to the Government, because the extent of the crisis and the blame for it are clearly evident in the statistics that are available. [More…]
So we have a situation that is a crisis situation. [More…]
The Labor Government and the Budget which it has put down have caused this crisis in our economy. [More…]
Both organisations point to the fact that the crisis situation in the country at the moment is due directly to domestic causes I quote from page 35 of the OECD document: [More…]
In short, the Government must take and must assume the total blame for the crisis situation in which we are placed today. [More…]
With this sort of background and with this sort of monetary crisis- there have been plenty of acknowledgements by Government speakers today that there is a monetary crisis- one would have thought that the Government would have introduced a budget which would at least have given some lead to the solving of Australia’s economic problems. [More…]
This Budget has been presented at a time which can be described only as one of great economic crisis. [More…]
I must say also that the Government must take a great deal of the blame for the crisis that exists in Australia at present. [More…]
At a time when we have an energy crisis and should be developing all the resources we have in this country, we have basically what could be described as a static situation. [More…]
We have reached the present situation which can be described as a frightening economic crisis, with high inflation, a lack of incentive and a lack of confidence not only in the country but also in the general business and commercial sectors. [More…]
I turn to the energy crisis. [More…]
We did not have to rely upon the importation of many raw materials, including crude oil, unlike other countries such as Japan which were affected by the energy crisis and which suffered from an inflation crisis as a result. [More…]
It is no good members of the Government Party saying that inflation was imported and was caused by the energy crisis, because I remind the Senate of the statement made by the Treasurer in Statement No. [More…]
The Opposition is trying to go one better, but is not providing any real solutions to the inflationary crisis. [More…]
No wonder Parliament and Parties are in such bewilderment, disarray and impotence in the sixth or seventh, and latest, post-war British economic crisis. [More…]
Excessive union demands had caused Australia’s unemployment and inflation crisis . [More…]
You cannot blame the oil crisis for the inflation in Australia. [More…]
Such a meeting was held last Friday- actually in this chamberspecifically for the purpose of considering the beef crisis in Australia. [More…]
But it certainly must encourage some industries to think that it is a government which is willing to hand out the public cash to them in times of crisis. [More…]
The fact is that that Government has brought about the crisis and it is now hoping that industry will push it back into office so it can be rescued from the problems which it has created. [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, governmenttogovernment arrangements on agricultural development, foodstuffs, capital equipment and technology. [More…]
The amendment states that the Senate is of the opinion that the Budget fails to tackle Australia’s economic crisis because it does not provide an adequate program to defeat inflationwhich is a statement that I doubt- and because it does not relieve unemployment, it does not restore confidence in the private sector of the economy, it does not provide real tax relief to provide a proper basis for wage and salary restraint and it fails to restrain government spending. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Social Security been drawn to an article in the Melbourne Age of 26 September in which the Victorian Branch of the Australian Institute of Welfare Officers is alleged to have said that delays of up to 3 months by the Department of Social Security in processing claims for unemployment benefits have forced many applicants into crisis situations? [More…]
The matter of the deficiency payments scheme for wool was introduced by the previous Liberal-Country Party Government in 1970 and 1971 during the then wool crisis. [More…]
When a similar crisis confronted this Government we opted for the floor price principle. [More…]
It wants to look to a time in which there is an oil crisis. [More…]
This Government has exacerbated the oil crisis by turning off oil search. [More…]
The oil crisis in 1973 had the effect of making steaming coal once again competitive in a limited way. [More…]
Was America not affected by the oil crisis? [More…]
It is true that some of this can be attributed to inflation and it is true that some of it can be attributed to the consequences of the oil crisis, but the fact is that the export companies are enjoying financial success beyond even their wildest dreams. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs what requests, if any, whether for manpower, medical supplies or other assistance, has the Portuguese envoy, Dr Santos, made to the Commonwealth Government with respect to the current crisis in East Timor? [More…]
It made reference to the fact that the energy crisis which had affected so much of the world was also adversely affecting the economy of Australia. [More…]
Those figures relate to the period between December 1973 and December 1974, the time of the energy crisis when there was a great escalation in the price of crude oil, a temporary shortage of crude oil and a high cost for shipping and freighting that crude oil. [More…]
In Japan, which was very adversely affected by the energy crisis, the inflation rate came down from 23.4 per cent to some 13.4 per cent. [More…]
It was part of a continuing campaign being conducted by the Opposition and master-minded by the present Leader of the Opposition to scratch around with their fingernails in an attempt to find what he calls reprehensible circumstances’ to justify rejecting the Appropriation Bills and plunging this country into a constitutional crisis. [More…]
But I dare say that neither the facts, the rules of arithmetic, nor the parliamentary conventions which have governed Australia or which have regulated the political system in Australia for the last 70 years will deter the Opposition from circulating untrue statements, from attempting to establish what they call the reprehensible grounds which they are searching desperately to find to plunge this country into a constitutional crisis. [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 three years of waiting for next week ‘s crisis, next week’s blunder? [More…]
So I say that it is quite clear that the attitude of this Government is that nothing which is relevant to any matter in dispute, such as the loan crisis, should be concealed from the public. [More…]
Australia today faces a constitutional crisis. [More…]
It is a crisis of confidence in the Government, a lack of confidence in its honesty, a doubt about its capacity and considerable concern about its purpose. [More…]
Are honourable senators opposite therefore suggesting that America is in a crisis situation, that the American Government should be overthrown by subversive conspiratorial methods, that the American Government is on the downward trend, that the American Government is sliding into bankruptcy and that the whole of the capitalist system in America is in danger of falling. [More…]
Those on the other side of the chamber who say ‘hear, hear’ show to the Australian people the horrible alternative that faces them in the event of the Opposition bringing about the constitutional crisis which it is seeking to bring about in this country. [More…]
Australia today is in a position of crisis and uncertainty- a crisis not caused by the Opposition but caused by the incompetence of the Government, the dishonesty of the Government and the corruption of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
This is a government that lurches not just from crisis to crisis but from scandal to scandal. [More…]
He can create even more unnecessary instability and chaos and make the crisis and deadlock worse or he can take the proper course and let the people resolve this situation quickly and properly. [More…]
That will not resolve the current crisis. [More…]
A half Senate election cannot resolve the crisis because of the 36 senators who would be elected 30 would not take up their seats until after 1 July 1 976. [More…]
Senator Withers went on to say that there was a position of crisis and uncertainty in the Australian community. [More…]
The real tragedy which is most important in this debate is not the sorts of propositions or the people which an alternative government puts forward but the fact that we enter with this decision of the Senate a period of unprecedented political instability with a parliamentary system which no longer has any rules, a parliamentary system in growing crisis and in growing disrepute because the ball game of politics will be changed if this amendment of the Opposition is carried tonight or tomorrow. [More…]
Not only has a constitutional crisis arisen, but the decision plays into the hands of subversive elements. [More…]
As a consequence of this loan situation it was felt that the Parliament had arrived at a point of crisis and that something, should be done about the matter. [More…]
I cannot see how a democracy can be destroyed by giving the people a chance to judge their Government in a time of crisis. [More…]
I believe that this is a time of crisis. [More…]
It is said that we are in a constitutional crisis. [More…]
If there is a constitutional crisis, it is one which the Prime Minister is making. [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…]
They have found since they elected that Labor Government in 1972 and reelected it in 1974 that constantly that Government has been unable to introduce major parts of its program, that most of the things which it was elected to do it has been unable to do and has constantly had to conduct its business in an atmosphere of crisis and under the threat of being driven from office, a situation which is intolerable at the best of times and especially damaging in the situation in which we find ourselves at present. [More…]
-BROCKMAN -I ask the Minister for Social Security: How is it that in times of economic crisis, with austerity drives in government departments, my wife and I received 7 Medibank cards in the 6 weeks’ period I was away from Australia? [More…]
-One of the problems of a government that is kept in a state of permanent crisis is that desirable legislation gets postponed. [More…]
-Before I was interrupted for the second time I was saying that Senator Sheil suggested that the solution to the whole problem of the drug crisis in this country was a free market, an open market, an [More…]
I do not look at any one person in particular, because I believe that there are persons on Bills- I Opposition benches who are capable of acquiring principles for the purpose of assisting the nation to be extricated from this constitutional crisis into which it has been plunged by the blatant and premature grab for power by power-hungry members of the National Country Party- I put them first, Senator Webster- and the Liberals in the Senate. [More…]
It is therefore difficult to predict with certainty which payments could be delayed and those that could cease almost immediately because of the Constitutional crisis and political impasse. [More…]
In conclusion, I can only say I hope that the Constitutional crisis in Canberra will not be allowed to become the threat it could pose to the stability of State government. [More…]
He is just pointing out what it means for Tasmania if we cannot resolve this constitutional crisis in Canberra. [More…]
I could not imagine a worse time, when we are just on the upturn out of the trough of the beef industry crisis, for the meat inspection services to be disrupted. [More…]
In his last desperate bid to keep power in his own hands, the Prime Minister will do everything he can to maintain an artificial atmosphere of crisis and, as usual, he is determined to deceive. [More…]
The Prime Minister is currently trying to establish an atmosphere of great constitutional crisis because of the deadlock between the 2 Houses. [More…]
The Prime Minister is responsible for any current crisis. [More…]
If he genuinely wants the deadlock resolved, if he wants this so-called crisis that he has created brought to an end, if he wants to stop people suffering, he will decide on an election for both Houses. [More…]
The country is entering a crisis, a disaster situation. [More…]
So far so good for him, but if the whole economy comes to a stop and there is a crisis- a defence situation, or a problem in Senator Cavanagh ‘s portfolio in regard to supplying police to airports- who is going to squeal then? [More…]
Let me talk about the present political crisis. [More…]
It has been referred to as a constitutional crisis. [More…]
It is a crisis about whether the people of Australia will be able to vote for a government and whether they will be able to deal at the ballot box with the situation that has arisen. [More…]
The emphasis and the understanding of this present crisis have been placed quite improperly before the Australian people. [More…]
The explanatory memorandum which was attached to it indicated that the Australian Government needed immediate access to 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 in regard to supplies of minerals and energy and to deal with current and immediately foreseeable unemployment in Australia. [More…]
What happened between 20 May and 21 May to change these special circumstancesthe supply of minerals and energy, the unemployment immediately foreseeable in Australia, the world situation, the international energy crisis and so on? [More…]
It is a situation which does not create a crisis because provision is quite specific in relation to a double dissolution mechanism which exists at the present time because some 22 Bills have been twice rejected by the Opposition in the Senate. [More…]
There is a clear duty on the Prime Minister not to create a crisis but to use the constitutional process and to advise the Governor-General that the Prime Minister no longer can govern this country and that he must take his Government to the people for their verdict. [More…]
I again stress the point that the emphasis on the present crisis is in juxtaposition to the real facts as they are, because the responsibility for Supply rests with the Government. [More…]
No one in the community will start an argument if we are to approach an election under crisis circumstances. [More…]
In every speech that is made by a member of the Government, in every public statement that has been made lately, there is reference to the dire crisis, the monetary crisis. [More…]
It is a crisis that can end today, this afternoon or even within an hour. [More…]
The real constitutional crisis arises from the Prime Minister’s determination to follow the lead of Mrs Ghandi in India- a country which had a Constitution to protect it from absolute power. [More…]
This was because of his stand at a time of crisis like this when many of us were drawn to his banner, his purpose and his philosophy. [More…]
To make the position quite clear to organisations involved, will he outline the financial position regarding reimbursement of funds expended by these organisations on RED scheme projects in view of the present financial crisis arising from failure to pass the Appropriation Bills? [More…]
Will the Minister assure the Senate that in the event of a continuing constitutional and financial crisis, caused by the Senate refusing supply, action will be taken to reduce excesses of” this” nature by the Leader of the Opposition who is known to be financially well endowed? [More…]
There is a great deal of apprehension throughout the land at the continued attitude of the Opposition parties, attitudes which indicate clearly that they are endeavouring to create not only a constitutional crisis, a political crisis, but also a financial crisis from which the Australian community may well suffer considerably more damage than from the indecision that has characterised the attitude of the Opposition since the Labor Government came into power in 1972. [More…]
It is very interesting to note that at this very moment in England the Conservatives, or the peers as they are called, in the British House of Lords are considering whether to force a constitutional crisis in respect of government legislation- not Supply Bills, because the House of Lords has surrendered that right. [More…]
It indicates the sort of behaviour patterns and tactics which are being applied in this crisis we are currently facing. [More…]
Of course, as has been said by the Prime Minister time and time again in this last week or so, by making decisions to amend, delay or reject the Appropriation Bills we are placing an elected Government into a twice yearly crisis position. [More…]
That we are fearful that any further delay by the Senate of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democratic institutions. [More…]
That we arc fearful that any further delay by the Senate of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democratic institutions. [More…]
The longer that this constitutional crisis persists the deeper and more permanent will be the wounds that it inflicts on the fragile system of parliamentary democracy. [More…]
I repeat what I have said and what other speakers on this side of the Senate have said throughout this crisis: The issue is not the economy; the issue is the survival of parliamentary democracy. [More…]
If there is any victim of this crisis it surely is Mr Ellicott. [More…]
If honourable senators study the comment in the newspapers around this country, which have not been notably kind to this Government during the period of this crisis, I think they will find that most of them have taken the same view. [More…]
That is not a constitutional crisis; it is a political crisis. [More…]
There is, and has been, much said and much written concerning a constitutional crisis. [More…]
Allow me to raise my voice alongside that of my Leader, Malcolm Fraser, when I state categorically that there is no constitutional crisis. [More…]
So let us have done with that humbug and hypocrisy that we are having a constitutional crisis at the moment; we are not. [More…]
The crisis that we are having is the crisis concerned with the ineptitude and incompetence of a government that has been sitting on the Government benches for the last 3 years. [More…]
So let us have no more of this humbug and mischief that is going on at the moment about a constitutional crisis. [More…]
There is no constitutional crisis. [More…]
The only crisis is that, as I said earlier, the Government is not prepared to face the people of this country and let them pass their judgment on the Government’s record. [More…]
All I say in conclusion is that there is no constitutional crisis. [More…]
I cannot stress that enough, and I want the people of Australia to know that we are not facing a constitutional crisis. [More…]
The only crisis that we are likely to face will be caused because this Government is not prepared to go to the people. [More…]
Despite what Senator Bonner has said, there is a crisis in Australia. [More…]
Whether it be a constitutional crisis or a political crisis is little to the point. [More…]
The fact is that there is a crisis and the crisis was not brought about by rejection of the Budget, as the Opposition has attempted to imply. [More…]
The crisis is brought about by the attitude of the Opposition in continuing to defer consideration of the Budget. [More…]
But there is no need to have a crisis in this country. [More…]
It is not a constitutional crisis; it is a crisis that has been brought about because this Government will not face up to its responsibilities. [More…]
In 1974 the Government was reasonably confident that with the economic crisis that was going to develop it was better for it in many ways to have an election at that stage than for it to have to sit through the economic crisis and uncertainty of the future months. [More…]
Today this country faces an economic crisis or a depression. [More…]
Other countries were more affected by the energy crisis than Australia. [More…]
An end to the bickering, the confidence crisis, the axings and the political panics which have marked the Labor Party’s terms of office. [More…]
We are not in a great constitutional crisis in the sense that has been advocated and argued by Government senators or by Government supporters in another place, but we are in a crisis where the authority of the Parliament is being directly challenged by the Prime Minister who refuses to disclose to the Australian people the elements of corruption which involve him or some of his Ministers, whom he has acknowledged were involved in it in the last 12 months- since December 1973. [More…]
The letter relates to the present crisis in the Federal House and com mences: [More…]
The letters columns have been censored to give a false impression of the anger and strength of Labor’s support in the crisis. [More…]
This is the sort of manipulation that is going on in Australia during this crisis that is causing suffering and will cause greater suffering to thousands of people. [More…]
I wonder if the honourable senator remembers the money brokers in New York who have done a lot to bring about this crisis because they feared that there might have been other areas from which this Government might raise its overseas loan. [More…]
In the course of that tortuous and tedious search for reprehensible circumstances we have had references in this chamber and elsewhere to the loans crisis; to the ACTU-Solo Enterprises Pty Ltd matter; to the Khemlani crisis, the new crisis which has been inflicted on the Liberal Party; to an alleged decline in ministerial standards, the charges being made by persons who have the most reprehensible record in this regard; and today to the post facto suggestion of reprehensible circumstances which arises from the charge of a Budget leak by the Treasurer (Mr Hayden), revealed long after the decision to delay the Budget had been made. [More…]
After dealing at length with Mr Khemlani, after dealing at length in the Senate with the ACTU-Solo matter and the residue of the so-called loans crisis, we are now confronted with a new situation- that of the potato industry. [More…]
If there has been one surprise in this whole affair it has been that ordinary people have understood this constitutional crisis- no matter how much the Opposition tells us it is not a constitutional crisis, it is- and have taken the matter to heart. [More…]
Senator McLaren is a delight and a joy in these times of crisis. [More…]
We have sat in the middle of what has been described as a constitutional crisis. [More…]
I reject the concept of a constitutional crisis. [More…]
1 do say, however, that we are in the middle of a political crisis. [More…]
After all, when we get to the point where an Opposition believes that the country is in such a state that it is necessary to send the government back to the people, I suppose we can properly say: ‘Yes, we are in a state of crisis’. [More…]
But that crisis is not constitutional. [More…]
I quote from what Sir Norman Cowper said in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday because I think it represents the most dispassionate assessment of the so-called constitutional crisis I have seen over the past fortnight. [More…]
He has denied that a constitutional crisis exists, and he has endeavoured to draw upon the experiences of previous Oppositions and governments in the post-war years. [More…]
I think he must accept that there is a constitutional crisis with us; there is a polarisation between the 2 Houses of Parliament. [More…]
We will win the minds and the support of the Australian people in this constitutional-cum-political crisis which has been engineered by the Opposition. [More…]
If the Government can govern without the Budget being passed by the Parliament, what is the constitutional crisis about which the Prime Minister keeps talking? [More…]
The constitutional crisis is quite obvious. [More…]
How can the Minister say, as he did in answer to a question asked by Senator Chaney this morning, that the Opposition’s action in this chamber, in relation to the current appropriation Bills, is unprecendented and constitutes a constitutional crisis? [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to reports that in this current political crisis the Australian Broadcasting Commission has been participating in the distortion and manipulation of news? [More…]
Opposition senators that there is such constitutional power; that there is no constitutional crisis as such, that it is a political crisis. [More…]
Let me put this to the Opposition: After some 4 weeks of debate on this matter, surely the Opposition has come to the conclusion that by a simple act on its part, that is by walking across the floor, the Supply Bills could be passed, this crisis would be over, we could proceed to pass the necessary legislationwe now have a considerable backlog of legislation- and we could have an opportunity to be with our families for the Christmas period. [More…]
Khemlani ‘s name, except as something to bandy about as an adjective before the word ‘crisis’, the word ‘scandal* or something of that kind. [More…]
It is completely improper because all of us ought to know, even if we do not know, that at the present time the whole of the world is involved in an economic crisis and that all governments become unpopular during a period of economic crisis. [More…]
They have said there is a great crisis which must be solved- a crisis relating to Mr Khemlani about whom we have heard so much this afternoon and about whom I would not want to weary the Senate by referring to him at any greater length. [More…]
That we are fearful that any further delay by the Senate of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democratic institutions. [More…]
That the Senate’s delay of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democratic institutions. [More…]
That the Senate’s delay of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democratic institutions. [More…]
That we are fearful that any further delay by the Senate of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on cur democratic institutions. [More…]
That we are fearful that any further delay by the Senate of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democratic institutions. [More…]
Australian manufacturing industry is in acute financial crisis. [More…]
I also wondered what the significance of the light was unless possibly during some period of crisis messages could be sent in Morse code. [More…]
Then he says there is a crisis and that there is such a crisis that the Government has to be removed immediately. [More…]
Now he say that it is only a sort of crisis; it is a crisis which the Opposition Parties will allow to jog along for another 8 months until May or June of next year. [More…]
But there is also a responsibility on the Government in this issue, in this crisis. [More…]
It has been called a crisis by many people- differing crises surely- but in this crisis the responsibility on the Government must be immense. [More…]
It was Senator Georges who said that the simple solution to the crisis- the word comes up constantly- is for the Opposition to pass Supply. [More…]
It would not be a solution that would satisfy the Australian people because the crisis surely must be relevant to the Government’s performance. [More…]
That is how the crisis arose. [More…]
The crisis has not just become what it has been intimated to be- a constitutional or conventional crisis. [More…]
It is a crisis that is totally relevant, I believe, to the performance of the Government. [More…]
The crisis that the Opposition seeks to solve by asking the masters of the Government, the people, to give judgment is directly relevant to the performance of the Government itself. [More…]
The crisis is relevant to the performance or lack of performance of the Government itself. [More…]
That is his answer to the parliamentary crisis that confronts Australians. [More…]
Ultimately it is for the people to decide whether the circumstances which have promoted this action and this crisis are circumstances which were properly recognised and assessed by the Opposition on behalf of the people for whom it operates as a braking force. [More…]
I said earlier that the crisis that confronts us is a crisis that is relevant to the performance of a government. [More…]
I turn to perhaps some matters that have created this crisis. [More…]
That is why the crisis has arisen. [More…]
The crisis that we face in this country today is directly referable to the performance of this Government. [More…]
He then attempted to justify the Opposition’s actions as being responsible by asserting that the present crisis- it is a crisis that Australia faces at the moment- is the direct result of, and relevant to, the Government’s performance. [More…]
On examining the catalogue of events which discloses the conduct of the Opposition from that point of time until this present moment, when as Senator Scott has stated, the country has been brought to a crisis by a desperate decision made by desperate men, it will been seen who in fact is responsible for that crisis. [More…]
Now in 1975 a similar situation has arisen but it turns out to be a great constitutional crisis. [More…]
Instead of racing to a double dissolution he is racing towards a great crisis’. [More…]
The loans crisis, so called, is described as a delusion of this Government. [More…]
We definitely have a constitutional crisis on our hands, and we also have a political crisis on our hands. [More…]
We have on our hands a constitutional crisis. [More…]
We have on our hands a party political crisis. [More…]
Australian manufacturing industry is in acute financial crisis. [More…]
That we arc fearful that any further delay by the Senate of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democratic institutions. [More…]
That we are fearful that any further delay by the Senate of the Loan Bill and Appropriation Bills will bring Australia into a constitutional, economic and social crisis, leaving indelible scars on our democratic institutions. [More…]
I may say that from the outset of the Supply crisis I did my best to avoid any contact at all with the Governor-General. [More…]
But I believed in pursuance of the niceties of the situation that I should try to keep out of his way and not embarrass him during the crisis. [More…]
At that lunch he freely discussed the constitutional crisis. [More…]
On another occasion, he said to me privately: ‘I do not concede that any crisis ‘ - [More…]
The Governor-General said to me: ‘I do not concede that there is any crisis requiring my intervention until the money runs out’. [More…]
He said: ‘I believe that the best contribution that I could make in this crisis would be to call up Mr Fraser and suggest to him that he could save face by agreeing to a suggestion such as that’. [More…]
As a matter of fact, I think it was a perspicacious idea and quite a shrewd way out of the crisis.. [More…]
All in this chamber knew at that time that quite frequently the then Leader of the Opposition was being summoned to Government House to confer with the Governor-General in order, we thought, to overcome the ‘crisis’- I use that word in parenthesisthat had developed because of the Senate’s insistence on deferring consideration of the Appropriation Bills and the Loan Bill. [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…]
At a time when throughout the world an energy crisis had arisen and at a time when our reserves and resources were running down, they turned their backs on Australia. [More…]
But because of the blind politics and ideologies of a certain political party in power, because of the mis-allocation of resources, because of its doctrinaire socialist policies by which the Government was to take in all and spend all, we have had excess spending by that Government and a total mis-allocation of resources culminating in a crisis situation in our economy. [More…]
The Soviet has already used its power in the Indian Ocean, during the Somali crisis in 1970, during the Bangladesh war and in the course of the Arab-Israeli war in 1 973. [More…]
I notice in some of his speeches the source of the outrage seems to be that the Governor-General did not give the previous Prime Minister a warning that if he did not settle the crisis that had occurred in the Parliament he would sack him. [More…]
Nobody suggests that after a crisis which naturally imposed dangers and stresses on the system in operation in this country and which was prolonged there are not problems that are unresolved. [More…]
I would say that as crisis fell upon the Parliament in the latter period and as the economy got into trouble there was perhaps some lessening of this efficiency and that some of the attitude of reasonableness which was to be found in this assembly was lost. [More…]
I’ve never been so certain of anything in my life as I am that the Senate’s money power will be broken as a result of this crisis. [More…]
Nevertheless, whatever figure we look at or whatever time interval we look at, it is in my view a crisis point. [More…]
At 9 a.m. on 1 1 November Mr Whitlam and others and Mr Fraser and others met to discuss a political crisis. [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…]
I now turn to the economic problems of the canning fruit industry which, at the moment, is in a crisis situation. [More…]
Four major factors are contributing to the current crisis. [More…]
A third factor producing a crisis situation is the increase in marine freight costs. [More…]
The fourth and probably the greatest single factor contributing to the crisis is the effect of international currency variations. [More…]
The brief facts and figures which I have cited, while not completely comprehensive, vividly illustrate the present crisis in the industry. [More…]
Unless he says something that is very abusive about individuals who have become spokesmen in this type of crisis, I think Senator Walsh is perfectly within his rights in expressing the extent of his opinion about them. [More…]
I heard about the constitutional crisis- as it was called by the then Government, the present Opposition. [More…]
We were allegedly going through a constitutional crisis. [More…]
There was no constitutional crisis. [More…]
There was no constitutional crisis. [More…]
What we had was a political crisis that was brought about by the absolute incompetence of the Government that was in power at that time. [More…]
We face a financial crisis in this country which will have the gravest implications for every citizen if adequate measures are not taken to control the level of government spending and to slow the rate of inflation. [More…]
I might add that the fact that such measures are necessary is a mark of the extent of the crisis which Australia faces as a result of policies pursued in recent years and which we are charged to overcome. [More…]
However, I believe that the Bill indicates the Government’s determination to overcome the economic crisis so that ultimately we as a Government will be in a better position to provide more extensive health and social security benefits for the community as a whole and particularly for the disadvantaged. [More…]
Australia experienced and is still experiencing the consequences of an unparalleled and unprecedented crisis. [More…]
It was a crisis concerning the very legal and constitutional fabric of our system of government. [More…]
Nobody suggests that after a crisis which naturally imposed dangers and stresses on the system in operation in this country and which was prolonged there are not problems that are unresolved. [More…]
This philosophical trait of the conservative parties, of exclusive reliance on but one element of foreign policy consideration, that a great and powerful friend will always stand ready and able both to conduct Australia’s international affairs and to assist Australia should a crisis arise was the central guiding aspect of our foreign policy standpoint of generations long past. [More…]
We have all this rubbish about undemocratic processes in this crisis. [More…]
When this crisis came on us on 11 [More…]
I suggest that if the author had to write again in the light of this experience he could not write a passage more appropriate to the occasion of this crisis. [More…]
I wish to make only brief reference to the fact that on the day following the dissolution- that is, on 12 November- the editorial in the London Times under the caption of Australia ‘s Crisis’ had this to say: [More…]
Although no doubt uncomfortable and irritating to those principally concerned, the present constitutional crisis in Australia is a marvellous example of the Constitution working well in a crisis. [More…]
That was before the demonstration of the vote on 13 December; but it could be perceived by a distant objective reviewer that these procedures were a marvellous example of the Constitution working well in a crisis. [More…]
We are in the midst of a political and constitutional crisis which was already beginning to cause some hardship and much inconvenience. [More…]
The effective head of state in a parliamentary system is indeed bound to consult his law officers at all stages of a constitutional crisis up to the time when he decides that he is constitutionally required to reject this advice. [More…]
A constitutional lawyer ought to grant that the issues involved in this crisis have nothing at all to do with independence or colonialism, or hereditary monarchy, but everything to do with the rational coherence of the parliamentary system, which requires an effective head of state with the responsibility of acting in the way that Sir John Kerr has acted, in the most unusual sort of circumstances here involved. [More…]
-From those letters it appears, on the authority of no less a person that Professor O ‘Connell, that the Constitution was ably administered by the Governor-General through this crisis, and so the ultimate verdict was sought from the people. [More…]
In the circumstances- the exceptional inflation in which the country was being drowned, the high interest rates, the record unemployment, the depressed rural industries, a tariff decision still operating to an overall cut of 25 per cent, a deficit in the Budget that is now approaching $5 billion, and the wake of the loans scandal, in which there had been an attempt to raise from external sources, by unconventional means, no less than $4,000m- it is a matter of great satisfaction that the public of Australia could be relied upon to solve a constitutional crisis, to give confirmation to the GovernorGeneral, and also to solve a political crisis. [More…]
There are some 42 of these countries described as the countries most seriously affected because of the world economic crisis. [More…]
I want to remind the Senate that what happened in the beef cattle industry after those halcyon days of 1973 was the result almost directly of an immediate and apparently unforeseen energy crisis around the world. [More…]
The effect of the energy crisis on the major meat and beef consuming countries was, in the case of one of our major importers, practically the total use of its foreign exchange on the recovery and importation of sources of energy which, over a period of a few months, suddenly snowballed in cost by something in the vicinity of 500 per cent. [More…]
Senator Scott referred to the energy crisis. [More…]
The energy crisis is just a part of the cycle as is the boom and bust about which I have spoken. [More…]
The energy crisis is a crisis of the capitalist system. [More…]
Among other things, recommendations will be made to assist farmers who are assessed to be viable in the long term, but who require: assistance for debt reconstruction; assistance for farm build-up and improvement to technical and managerial efficiency; and carry-on finance made necessary, on occasions, by a short-term crisis in the industry. [More…]
While Mr Lloyd has correctly drawn attention to the role played by the Victorian Government in ultimately inducing this crisis, he has, of course, neatly sidestepped the fact that the Federal Government of the day, by the provision of irrigation water at well below true market cost and by the provision of taxation incentives designed to expand the agricultural production base, also must be held to be partially responsible. [More…]
I can accept the contention of the industry that it faces a financial crisis. [More…]
This puts the whole of the Australian dairy industry in a state of major crisis. [More…]
So it will be appreciated from those figures that there is a major crisis in the skim milk powder section of the industry. [More…]
Queensland Government taking advantage of the political crisis to pass legislation this week giving mining lease and refinery at Aurukun to wholly foreign owned bauxite consortium. [More…]
These United Nations programs have failed to meet the crisis in these nations much as similar programs in both Russia and China have failed. [More…]
Mr Viner said there was no denial from any section of the community that the country was facing a severe economic crisis and ways had to be found to cope with the massive deficit. [More…]
It is becoming an increasingly more serious problem in the community because so many people are getting to a crisis situation these days. [More…]
We can say certainly that in the post-war years housing began to take on the characteristics of being in a state of continual crisis. [More…]
They created a crisis of funds, and this has caused some loss of confidence in the whole of the building industry. [More…]
This has enabled her, during the critical periods in the energy crisis and despite high costs, to produce fertilisers at a price cheaper than the price of fertilisers produced by other countries. [More…]
Our self-sufficiency in oil, to the extent of about 70 per cent of our needs, has so far shielded us from most of the damaging effects which the oil crisis has had on so many other nations. [More…]
I do know this, and I say it with great humility: We as Australians have failed those who were our allies during our greatest crisis. [More…]
Ms Greig is a foundation member of the Rape Crisis Centre in Perth. [More…]
The Rape Crisis Centre works in close co-operation with the West Australian Department of Health. [More…]
He wanted to make plain that the Australian crisis was due to a coup d’etat having taken place and therefore he welcomed the friendship of the progressive country of Iraq. [More…]
This Government has a submission before it which suggests that unless energetic steps are taken to stimulate housing this country will face the worst housing crisis in the whole of the post-war period. [More…]
Will the Minister ensure that immediate and all steps are being taken by the Minister he represents to avert a further crisis in this important section of the economy which, given certainty in the marketing and distribution of its products, appears to have a more buoyant future than it has had for some time? [More…]
The continuing deferment set the stage for the crisis of government and its consequent climax on 1 1 November. [More…]
But if a Labor nominee had replaced Senator Milliner, there would not have been an extended crisis. [More…]
At a time when there is genuine concern about the degree of crisis that exists in local government funding, it ill becomes a government which is supposedly bringing competence and regularity in government finance into its operations that it should be introducing into this most important third tier of government such a degree of uncertainty. [More…]
When a crisis situation exists it is necessary to go to the maximum of the safety factor to do what is really essential to curb inflation and to get the Australian economy back into a sound position. [More…]
The crisis is great and it is going to take some time and a lot of hard work, as well as a lot of responsible leadership from the Government, for us to fully recover the situation. [More…]
It was when we were confronted with the war crisis that the genesis of these successive organisations on the waterfront began. [More…]
The Government of the day recognised that in times of crisis it is the mother with a family who is in need of help. [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 demonstrations that we have started to see in Victoria and Tasmania will be mounted time and again as the very grave chronic crisis faced by the dairy industry seeps through. [More…]
As it is, at this stage they are having their protest rallies in the areas in which they live because they have been conned into believing that the last 3 years of Labor Government was the reason for the crisis developing within the industry. [More…]
If there had been a specific dairying reconstruction program built up and adjusted over the last 10 years, the crisis in the industry would have been at least partially avoided. [More…]
The dairy industry in Australia is in a state of chronic crisis. [More…]
It is facing the crisis not because of production problems but because of the lack of markets and over production. [More…]
The pity of the whole exercise, I suppose, is that as with most agricultural industries, it is only in times of crisis that some advances seem to be made. [More…]
Of course, the pity of it all is that before the new Dairy Corporation could get under way, another crisis overcame the industry. [More…]
The crisis in the industry, of course, is compounded by severe drought conditions right across the dairy areas of Victoria. [More…]
When this sort of crisis has developed in the past- it has happened almost in the fashion of a miracle- one of the centrally planned economies has moved in and bought extensive stocks of skim milk powder at bargain or give away prices. [More…]
It seems to take a crisis situation before governments move and before farmers will get together and finally decide to agree, even if it is only to disagree, or to come together concerning their differences. [More…]
Again, it took a crisis to bring that situation about. [More…]
There is, of course, an urgent need for greater activity this year because the crisis has become much worse. [More…]
The current crisis was partially unforeseen insofar as the catastrophic decline in the price of skim milk powder, to which I think other speakers in the debate have referred, was not entirely foreseeable. [More…]
Be it remembered that he served with distinction not only in the First World War when, as has been mentioned, he won the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross and was mentioned in despatches, but he served also at the most eminent levels in the Second World War, first in Washington and then, as the choice of no less than Winston Churchill, in Cairo as a member of the British War Cabinet at a time when the crisis was at its peak. [More…]
If he had gone round New South Wales as I have and had been to places such as Newcastle, Wollongong, Lithgow and the other industrialised cities, he would know that unemployment is in a very critical and crisis situation. [More…]
Out of that body, in a crisis situation amongst its members because of the total price structure change between oil exporting countries and oil importing countries, this device was arrived at to try to overcome the great disturbances in their payments and their transfers. [More…]
These were the factors which justified the breaches of convention in the Senate and which created a constitutional crisis in this country which undermined the confidence of half the Australian people in parliamentary government. [More…]
This downturn occurred at a time when the energy crisis prevailed throughout the world and when a great need existed not only to continue such exploration but also for government to give incentive and encouragement in that area of exploration whose development was necessary not only because of the need to supply Australia’s needs but also because of the cost of oil imports with which I shall deal in a moment. [More…]
When an economic crisis occurs with a situation of high unemployment, it is those lowest down the education and skill ladder who miss out. [More…]
That was prior to the advent of the world surplus of skim milk powder which put the dairy industry, particularly in Victoria and Tasmania, in a state of crisis and considerably increased the percentage of poverty stricken dairy farmers in those 2 States. [More…]
They are saying to people who work in motels: ‘You should be paid more ‘, and this at a time when the tourist industry is in a state of crisis. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Social Security give the Senate the actual funding made to rape crisis centres in Australia? [More…]
For instance, I am told that the centre in Sydney has had its allocation reduced from $2,400 to $400 which will prevent the centre from having a telephone, and a rape crisis centre without a telephone is practically useless. [More…]
It would be understood that the funding for rape crisis centres is a matter for the Minister for Health. [More…]
Supporting mothers and single parents who, when they find themselves alone in times of crisis need immediate accommodation. [More…]
As well, emergency temporary accommodation is also necessary for families in crisis or transit until permanent housing can be found. [More…]
I understand that the Prime Minister has written to a State Premier advising him that the Commonwealth Government is concerned that assistance should be made available to those in distress, including women in crisis situations and those who use the women’s refuges and other projects which have been developed under this program. [More…]
Francis West, ‘Constitutional Crisis 1975- An Historian’s View’, Australian Quarterly, Vol. [More…]
can overrule elected representatives of the people but in the ultimate he can check the elected representatives in any rule of law or the customary usages of Australian Government and he could do so by forcing a crisis. ‘ [More…]
When a parliament moves into a crisis situation such as occurred in October 1975 there is a great need for statesmanship on part of Crown ‘s Chief Adviser for this is the Crown’s protection. [More…]
‘He is under a special duty to give that advice which will resolve the crisis without involving the Crown’s representatives in it personally’. [More…]
Early in the piece we warned that a cut back on spending in the public sector would cause a crisis in the employment field. [More…]
Going back to the last economic crisis in the 1930s, Liberal governments under the infamous Premiers Plan argued that a balanced budget was the be all and end all. [More…]
The report of the Presbyterian Church expressed its deep concern for these families which evidence the pressures, privations and severe anxieties occasioned by the present crisis in rural industry and, in particular, in the dairying and beef industries. [More…]
Rarely does it tell the whole story of the basic rural crisis facing our country. [More…]
Let us examine further what has been said by Government spokesmen, even over the past few days since this crisis has broken upon us. [More…]
Moreover, the problems in the industry are due to the energy crisis in Japan. [More…]
This was referable to the energy crisis rather than to a failure to negotiate. [More…]
This is part of a collaborative arrangement with other authorities including the civil emergency services responsible for looking after the community in crisis situations. [More…]
The people of the Australian Capital Territory responded in a very constructive and generous fashion to the crisis over the weekend. [More…]
I agree with the Minister that as far as what happened last weekend is concerned, people of the Australian Capital Territory and people of Queanbeyan may feel confident that the predictions by the Bureau of Meteorology and the organisation provided by the Police and the emergency services are adequate to deal with such a crisis. [More…]
They were begun by women who were committed to assisting other women experiencing the trauma of domestic violence or some other domestic crisis. [More…]
It is certainly true that many of the women in the refuges are poor, they are unskilled, they are in poor physical and mental health, and they are without alternative resources to cope with the crisis which faces them. [More…]
This is one area where we may, in the future, be able to look for some means of assisting the support of refuges and crisis centres. [More…]
By the same token, real concern should be shown by this Government for women who need rape crisis centres, women’s refuges and women’s health centres. [More…]
Unfortunately, I know it is still likely that when one talks about rape crisis centres there is likely to be amusement. [More…]
I believe that the Government knows quite well that women need to have rape crisis centres and that the situation as regards women, the law and rape in our community is serious. [More…]
How many votes can be gained from around women’s centres, women’s refuges or rape crisis centres? [More…]
The Labor Government was in government for 3 years but now the rape crisis centres are turning into pumpkins and the present Government believes that if it shuts its eyes they will all vanish and the problem might no longer exist. [More…]
The Government’s excuse at the moment for not doing anything from a Federal point of view about rape crisis centres, women’s refuges and women’s health centres is that these matters have been handed over to the States. [More…]
Australia now faces an economic crisis of very serious dimensions . [More…]
It has ignored the important Jackson Committee report which refers to the fact that the Australian manufacturing industry is in an acute financial crisis, that unemployment is high. [More…]
The report states that factories are running below capacity, that many farmers have borrowed to the hilt and that manufacturing problems are manifestations of the world economic crisis in which all countries including Australia are enmeshed. [More…]
I refer to 2 meetings to be held in Adelaide next week- one at the Adelaide Town Hall and the other at the Norwood Town Hall- on the subject of last year’s constitutional crisis and democracy in Australia. [More…]
I would like the Senate to know that Queenstown faces a crisis. [More…]
From speaking to the people of Queenstown on Thursday and Friday of last week I know that the announcement of the cutbacks has caused a crisis which is causing heartache and havoc in the area. [More…]
I have taken the unusual step of moving an urgency motion because I believe that action is urgently required to overcome the specific problem and crisis which the [More…]
Notwithstanding an agreement which was made between the Federal and State governments to monitor what was happening at Mount Lyell in case a crisis situation should arise, Mr Neilson did nothing during 6 days to inform the Federal Government of his knowledge of what was pending at Mount Lyell. [More…]
The next point I would like to make briefly is that since the current crisis arose no request has been made by the company to the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
In answer to that I indicate that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) this afternoon stated in answer to a question that no request for assistance had been made since the crisis arose. [More…]
It could more intimately ascertain the facts and get them before us so that we could consider them together with the efforts that will be made in the department to see what can be done in a business-like way to prevent this crisis from causing undue hardship. [More…]
In its latest economic review the Institute believes that because of its strategy of restrictive fiscal, monetary and exchange policies, the Government will face a ‘major crisis’ early next year. [More…]
He is quoted in the Australian newspaper today as blasting a decision by oil industry maintenance workers to continue bans which are now threatening Australia with a major fuel crisis. [More…]
Will the Minister recommend legislation to ban the export of Australia’s much needed natural gas and oil reserves so as to help alleviate the impending crisis. [More…]
For some months in this country a series of glib articles has appeared in newspapers and magazines referring to educational shame and educational crisis. [More…]
But at one minute past eight one night, in a state of great crisis, the Bill to which I have referred was introduced in the chamber without warning. [More…]
I feel that I must quote these remarks at length because they are an indication of what honourable senators opposite did on a previous occasion under a state of crisis, or what they thought was a state of crisis. [More…]
That leads me to the important topic of the current or impending energy crisis and the effect it will have on transport for the next 20, 30 or 40 years. [More…]
I refer now to an article in the Australian of 12 August 1976 headed ‘Farm Crisis will cost votes, PM warned ‘, which reads: [More…]
A confidential report to the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, has warned that entire regional economics in rural areas are at grave risk because of the economic crisis. [More…]
Surely it cannot be argued that during those tempestuous years when we were in office we could have carried out the fundamental examination that was needed in the beef industry as, indeed, is needed in all the other crisis industries of Australian agriculture. [More…]
It is headed ‘Beef Crisis is a Social and Economic Crisis (Extracts from a speech given by the Deputy Leader National Country Party, Ian Sinclair, at a public meeting, Wangaratta, 5th September, 1975)’ and states: [More…]
So there is a crisis in this industry, and it is due to several things. [More…]
No one was to foresee the energy crisis, for instance, and the effect that it would have on the demand for Australian beef in some of our most important traditional markets; nevertheless, that overconfidence did tend to bring a measure of overproduction and it did tend to bring about the use in the beef cattle producing industry in this country of areas of land which basically were not suited to the industry. [More…]
General economic crisis in the Australian beef industry has been more severe in the Northern Territory in its effects than in other beef producing areas. [More…]
At one stage Mr Sinclair said ‘a beef crisis was a social and economic crisis’. [More…]
May I briefly look at the social and economic crisis in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It is another piece of legislation that deals with the effects of the crisis that faces agriculture and does not in any way deal with the causes of the problem besetting so many thousands of our farmers today. [More…]
Without being at all boastful, I point out that in my maiden speech in August 1965 I did lean heavily on the thoughts of Stewart Udall, who was the Secretary of the Interior in the United States, as expressed in a book he wrote called The Quiet Crisis. [More…]
Uranium reserves are finite and are only postponing the energy crisis for a short period. [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for National Resources by reminding him of statements by members on the Government side during the debate on uranium and at other times that uranium was needed to help solve the energy crisis caused by the ever-decreasing reserves of oil. [More…]
In the light of this information which has been supplied by the Minister I ask him how he can justify his Government’s stated policy that uranium is needed to help overcome the energy crisis, especially as uranium reserves will not even outlive oil reserves? [More…]
Will the Government now accept the fact that there is and will continue to be an energy crisis even if uranium is used, and will he therefore urge the Government immediately to appropriate substantial funds to foster research into alternative energy sources? [More…]
That is the whole crisis, and it is the difference between the Parties which make up the Government and the Opposition Party. [More…]
I refer simply to one aspect and that is the interim report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the humanitarian aspects of the Lebanon crisis. [More…]
If Australia has entered into that agreement, what action does the Government intend taking to find alternative markets so as to prevent any escalation of the present economic crisis being experienced by the Australian beef producers? [More…]
Australian manufacturing industry is in acute financial crisis. [More…]
As the crisis on the land had deepend we have seen the farmer and his family turn to off-farm sources of income in an endeavour to stay on their properties. [More…]
I refer, for example, to the decline in consumption of beef in the United States and Japan after the oil crisis in 1973 as the domestic levels of inflation increased in those countries. [More…]
The media release of the Australian Teachers’ Federation of 9 February 1977 titled ‘Crisis in Aboriginal Education’ charges the Government with broken promises in regard to the withdrawal of moneys and the upgrading of schools in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I have helped compile 3 reports: Australia and the Refugee Problem, an Interim Report on the Lebanon Crisis and Australia and the Indian Ocean. [More…]
All Western industrial countries are suffering, to a greater or lesser degree, an economic crisis which has resulted in a combination of inflation and high unemployment. [More…]
It is a government without a plan; it is a government that is staggering from one crisis to another. [More…]
I am the first to concede that in the crisis of those times I had sufficient spirit to absorb a sensitivity and an impulse which I hope registered a consciousness of the high level of importance of those events. [More…]
We remember from the great crisis of 1975 how the Senate demonstrated its power to reject a money Bill. [More…]
It is being conceded also that if the Senate takes some action which would precipitate an election of the House of Representatives, or which may cause a political issue to arise on which the Prime Minister may recommend that the House of Representatives go to the people, or if the Senate is an initiating force in some way of a political crisis which leads to an election, it would be reasonable in those circumstances for half the Senate to go to the people with the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is assumed that the Prime Minister would go to the Governor-General and say: ‘I have no crisis with the Senate and there is no political crisis. [More…]
The whole system of responsible government is founded upon the ability to dissolve the House of Representatives on the advice of the Prime Minister of the day or in the event of some crisis occurring in that chamber. [More…]
The basic political argument is why should the Senate be brought out if there is a crisis in the House of Representatives. [More…]
The fact is that the Senate is part of the political system in the country and if there is a political crisis in the House of Representatives obviously the Senate will be effected by it. [More…]
Honourable senators, as members of Parliament, as members of political parties and as members of the community will be part and parcel of that political crisis. [More…]
Obviously such a crisis would be due to some political instability at the time, some major division not only in the Parliament but also in the general community, and the Government’s view is that in those circumstances the Senate should not be immune from participating in the resolution of that crisis by the electors. [More…]
In the crisis of November 1975, if there had been no stockpiling of Bills which would lay the ground for the application - [More…]
The specific amendment being considered certainly goes a long way to meeting the problems and would provide for the situation where the Senate, by its action, precipitates a political conflict or crisis between the Houses. [More…]
The fact is that in Australia today, as everybody knows, there is an economic crisis and in addition we have what is now being recognised as a political crisis. [More…]
There is an economic and political crisis. [More…]
Voluntary organisations and governments work together in many areas including aged persons homes, services for the mentally and physically handicapped, special services for migrants and youth, crisis centres, such as Lifeline, pregnancy support, women’s shelters and drug contact centres. [More…]
But if this is the main thrust of the Government’s solution to the housing crisis- the emphasis placed on it in the address from the Throne clearly implies that it is- then this is a tragic circumstance. [More…]
The tyranny of the red boxes of which Richard Crossman wrote (Mr Crosland was working on the boxes when he was struck down), the constant apprehension that crisis is no more than a phone call away- these, added to the endless round of journeys, conferences, social engagements, speeches, questions in the House and the rest put even the toughest politicians under strain. [More…]
The Australian manufacturing industry is in an acute financial crisis. [More…]
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 the industry of the current economic crisis. [More…]
Like him I believe that Australia is coming to a crisis. [More…]
It is coming to a crisis for many reasons. [More…]
Hand in hand with this problem, this crisis which is coming forward, this breakdown in the family which Senator Tehan has outlined, is a new cult which is developing in Australia. [More…]
In some of the more depressed areas in our major cities and in certain country areas unemployment has gone beyond tragedy and has reached crisis point. [More…]
Division of the Arts Council of Australia is facing a financial crisis. [More…]
Generally speaking, persons possessing job skills are untouched by the current employment crisis, and I quote that statement from an article entitled ‘Dole Bludger’ which appeared in the National Times on 1 March. [More…]
If we had had an elected president during the time of the constitutional crisis, he would have had the power to do what Sir John Kerr did which was to dismiss us and send us to an election in the event that we could not agree to the carrying on of government by the granting of Supply. [More…]
I want to refer in passing to the energy crisis that has confronted the world, particularly in the last five or six years. [More…]
It might be thought that it is strange to talk of an energy crisis when we are talking about foreign affairs. [More…]
However, I am of the opinion that the energy crisis that came to a peak in 1 973 after the affluence of the 1 950s and 1 960s, through the extreme increase in the price of oil by the relatively few producers who control that product, caused a massive downturn in overall economic standards around the world. [More…]
It is my view that the energy crisis that occurred in those years, and which continues today in no small measure, is going to react unfavourably towards the nations of the Third World and the developing world unless we ourselves react. [More…]
It would raise the possibility that their economies, in sad straits as a result of the energy crisis of the 1973 period, could well start to rise out of that morass. [More…]
Rather ironically, I suppose, the problems there were in no small way related to the energy crisis to which I referred a short while ago. [More…]
Problems were created with the energy crisis not so long ago when the Arab countries raised the prices of oil and virtually caused a shortage of supply around the world. [More…]
It was during the crisis of the 1939-1945 war that we turned to America for assistance and since that time there has been a close alliance between Australia and the U.S.A. [More…]
It should be stressed at the outset that unlike migrants who are selected to meet particular criteria including the demand for their special skills, refugees, as a result of the crisis they have recently experienced need special assistance with their settlement. [More…]
For example, there is listed the telephone number of the Abortion Counselling and Rape Crisis Centre as well as the telephone numbers of the Pregnancy Support Service of Canberra and other welfare organisations. [More…]
Therefore, the apple and pear industries face a crisis. [More…]
I ask: Have the present negotiations, as reported, reached a crisis stage with the threat that a number of developing countries will walk out of the Conference? [More…]
Its withdrawal did not come to light until the crisis blew up. [More…]
The crisis is not over. [More…]
With regard to the second part of the honourable senator’s question, I am aware that overseas countries which are facing this serious and mounting energy crisis are recycling. [More…]
We do not seek, by the moving of this motion, to set up a select committee to create a crisis in Indonesia or an international crisis. [More…]
This factor must surely be extremely significant as part of the explanation for our present economic crisis and our present very grave unemployment crisis. [More…]
At a seminar held in New South Wales last weekend on technical and further education and on the crisis in technical and further education a lot of time was devoted to analysing the access of women to technical and further education. [More…]
They have been the most vulnerable to retrenchment at a time of economic crisis. [More…]
They became unemployed because of the economic crisis and because they did not have any skills in the first place. [More…]
It had some legitimacy in its origin when the trade unionist was disadvantaged by the law of conspiracy because he joined in this combination to advantage his interest; but then to claim complete immunity from the law as he has in England since 1 906 and increasingly here since 1928 is a proposition that no community can accept, and the assertion of the community’s rights in this respect is in no way inconsistent with co-operation between and co-ordination of all the interests of the community for the purpose of solving the present crisis. [More…]
Mr Whitlam said on this subject that excessive union wage demands had caused Australia ‘s unemployment and inflation crisis. [More…]
You cannot blame the oil crisis for the inflation in Australia. [More…]
Any suggestion that the trade union movement will not join in any cooperative, co-ordinated action which the national crisis now demands unless legislation is withdrawn is quite unreasonable. [More…]
It seems to me that the whole question of a crisis of confidence in industrial relations was put very well by Mr Street, the present Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations on 9 September 1975. [More…]
At the time when a statement was made by me on behalf of the Government in October announcing that a very substantial increase would be made in all student assistance allowances to break the freeze that the Whitlam Government had maintained since the June 1974 crisis, a number of supplementary statements was made also. [More…]
All of this leads to a great state of uncertainty in the manufacturing industry which might well be described, and has been described, as a state of confusion and a crisis of confidence. [More…]
I think this is significant because if one looks at the figures for West Germany and Japan one sees that they had high inflation rates during the energy crisis but that they were able to recover their situation. [More…]
We owe Papua New Guinea a great debt because had it not been for the people of Papua New Guinea in World War II Australian would have been in a state of crisis with a very large part almost certainly under the countrol of invaders. [More…]
In view of the world wide energy crisis, does the Minister intend to take advantage of this service and circulate the information to our Australian scientists who are currently working on similar schemes to convert coal into oil economically? [More…]
I suppose that in a week or two when we are perhaps discussing the energy crisis or the Australian environment it will be brought to our attention by contributors to those debates that the motor car is not necessarily the greatest benefaction that has been inflicted on Australian society. [More…]
To point towards the unionists in these plants or to the fuel crisis in Victoria as some sort of explanation for the falling off in the sales of vehicles is to fly in the face of reality. [More…]
For far too long Australians have had to put up with motor cars with poor handling characteristics; which are unsafe at any speed in a moment of crisis; which are especially fast on the open highways and especially dangerous on our open highways; and designed to race from one set of traffic lights to another set of traffic lights at high speed and to come to a sudden halt. [More…]
Sub-committee B- the reference to this sub-committee 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 1 976. [More…]
This leads me to consider, in the atmosphere of the Appropriation Bill, something which I would have thought would signal up the alert who have considered anything about the crisis of the Parliament which occurred as recently as December 1975. [More…]
It is certainly not contemplated that there be a rejection of a whole Appropriation Bill except on occasions of crisis such as occurred clearly in November 1975. [More…]
I think that the Government has to live up to its responsibilities and acknowledge from now on that its policies are directly responsible for the economic crisis with which we are currently faced. [More…]
At that time this country was facing an economic crisis; people were told that we would have a long hard battle but that the Government intended to act responsibly and not try to play politics with the economy. [More…]
Although that it not a depression, we have had an economic crisis from which we are now emerging. [More…]
Not only the United States but also the world at large is facing a crisis at the present time. [More…]
We saw an example of this a few years ago when they created the energy crisis. [More…]
At any time the Arab countries could create a situation with crude oil such as the one I mentioned earlier which caused such an economic and energy crisis throughout the world. [More…]
You are the first to be made redundant in an economic crisis, the first to suffer from the stagnation and cuts in government programs by this Government. [More…]
On a number of occasions he referred to the crisis of Parliament. [More…]
He saw the crisis of Parliament as being illustrated by a number of points which he put forward. [More…]
After the Hungarian crisis in 1956 we took in some 14 000 refugees, and 10 years later as a result of the uprisings in Czechoslovakia 5500 refugees came to this country. [More…]
In view of the decision of the States that I have mentioned, will the Minister endeavour to persuade his Government that there is an impending energy crisis and at the same time persuade the Government to provide for a very substantial increase in federal funds for solar energy research? [More…]
Senator Keeffe spoke of the pending energy crisis. [More…]
Surely in the next 12 months there will be an increase in the number of missions we have in the Middle East, when one considers the oil crisis with which Australia is going to be faced. [More…]
I suggested to him then, and I suggest to the Senate now, that that view was immoral and illogical in the light of the political experiences that have occurred in this century with respect to international crisis and so on. [More…]
These included the Women’s Electoral Lobby, Women’s Liberation, Rape Crisis Counselling, Feminist Bookshop, the Women’s Information Service and the Abortion Counselling Service. [More…]
The Government admits that there is a grave crisis in youth unemployment. [More…]
When the Minister says that so many projects have been approved and so many have not been approved but might be approved, it is an admission by the Government that there is a crisis in youth unemployment. [More…]
I was very interested in reading in a very small country magazine only two or three days ago a statement by a member in another place who belongs to the National Party in Queensland that we would have to do something about the energy crisis. [More…]
These people have fled the country in a time of crisis in unemployment and at a time when we find that there is a great debate going on in the community because of the staff ceilings that have been placed on the Public Service. [More…]
All these matters have reached a crisis situation, yet we find that members of this Government, which says that we must economise and try to set an example, have cleared out of the country. [More…]
The crisis is with us now. [More…]
Hawke adopted a remarkable attitude during this crisis. [More…]
He brought to crisis point an issue which bears particularly on this subject, the issue as to whether or not England should be governed by the House of Commons or by the labour unions. [More…]
I do not go along with the situation that could leave any or all of the difficulties up in the air or not knowing when the next crisis is likely to arise. [More…]
This slump was added to by the problem of the energy crisis around the world which denied some of our major markets sufficient funds to enter into the market for beef cattle. [More…]
1 ) Did the Pritchard Steam Power Company seek Federal Government funding assistance some two years ago, as was claimed in the television program on the energy crisis on Four Comers on 22 April 1977; if so (a) what were the details of the Company’ s submission (b) when was the submission received, and (c) what response has the company received to its submission? [More…]
In view of the world wide energy crisis, does the Minister intend to take advantage of this service and circulate the information to our Australian scientists who are currently working on similar schemes to convert coal into oil economically. [More…]
How does this statement influence the often stated case by pro-uranium miners that Australia has to mine uranium to help such energy hungry countries as Japan overcome their energy crisis. [More…]
We are told that it is because there is an energy crisis in the world. [More…]
We know that there is an energy crisis coming in liquid fuel, but the use of uranium does not help us produce liquid fuels in this world. [More…]
The real energy crisis facing Australia and the rest of the world is not a shortage of energy in general but specifically a shortage of liquid and gaseous fuels which are necessary for our transport, petrochemical industries and lubrication. [More…]
Further reasons are: Waste disposal problems and related health problems; poor safety record in the industry- despite what honourable senators opposite have said; and inappropriateness of nuclear energy as a solution to the real energy crisis. [More…]
In summary, both Australia and the world generally do face an energy crisis during the next 10-30 years as supplies of oil (and, to a lesser extent, natural gas) become scarcer or more expensive or, most probably both scarcer and more expensive. [More…]
This is the real energy crisis: a shortage of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels. [More…]
Solving the coming energy crisis will necessitate two forms of action, the development of alternatives to naturallyoccurring oil, and more efficient use of our fuels. [More…]
As mentioned earlier, the real energy crisis will be a shortage of liquid and gaseous fuels, thus the most urgent energy alternatives are those that will help solve this problem. [More…]
In summary, both Australia and the world generally do face an energy crisis during the next 10 to 30 years as supplies of oil and, to a lesser extent, natural gas become scarcer or more expensive, or most probably both. [More…]
This is the real energy crisis: A shortage of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels. [More…]
-The crisis that Senator Cavanagh cannot get home tomorrow night? [More…]
Mr Hunt said that the Government was concerned that assistance should be available to women and children in crisis situations and that it regarded the funding of women’s refuges as a matter of the highest importance. [More…]
I believe that statement by the Minister shows Senator Ryan that the Commonwealth wishes to discuss with the States the matter of continued funding for women’s refuges and that it shows the continuing concern which the Government has for support for crisis and emergency accommodation. [More…]
It was one of the achievements- I do not mean just of the Australian government or Australia itself but of the world community- that the countries which were brought together at that conference because of what then appeared to be an impending crisis in agricultural development attempted to set up programs which would avert what seemed to be shaping up as a very grave shortage of food throughout the world. [More…]
The first one was the interim report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence entitled ‘The Lebanon Crisis- Humanitarian Aspects’. [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…]
There may be explanations for this situation but I suggest that, at a period when there is quite a considerable crisis in the family law situation in Australia, it is regrettable to see reductions of that sort. [More…]
My purpose in raising this matter, particularly as I am a South Australian, is to get support for the recommendations of the Committee, which is greatly concerned about Australia’s capacity to build ships in the event of some sort of crisis arising. [More…]
Everybody knows that there are immediate matters which could develop into a world crisis. [More…]
A little while ago we went through an energy crisis. [More…]
In 1973, there was a crisis in regard to overseas oil. [More…]
Unfortunately when the crisis passed, a different situation occurred. [More…]
In the light of widespread public interest and concern in Australia regarding the energy crisis, will the Minister consider reporting frequently to Parliament outlining the nature of research, level of funding, level of energy research, and degree of success of this research in all fields associated with the research and development of alternative energy sources in Australia; if not, would the Minister indicate why he would be reluctant to undertake such a worthwhile task. [More…]
Will the Minister undertake to publish these documents and information as soon as they become available, in view of the public interest in the energy crisis. [More…]
I ask: In view of the on-going crisis in the beef and other rural industries, would it not be realistic to say and would not the Minister agree that the 22 months which have expired since the idea of a rural bank was first floated by the Government have been more than enough to develop fully and implement the proposal? [More…]
Has the Minister for Education seen an article in the Sydney Morning Herald today by Sarah Monks, the education reporter for that newspaper, claiming that there is a financial crisis in child and adult migrant education services in New South Wales and that it has been caused by cuts in Federal Government funds? [More…]
If we are to avoid the impending transport crisis of the next decade it is vital that our urban public transport investment programs, begun in 1973, be restored. [More…]
Lone fathers are thus forced to work, even during times of crisis, and have less chance of keeping the family together. [More…]
Urgent need for community support services for lone fathers in crisis periods with a view of self help. [More…]
They are people who are not always capable of ascertaining for themselves in the immediate aftermath of perhaps an emotional, domestic crisis just what it is they need and what it is that they can obtain. [More…]
Mr Wilson said that the shelters were inundated with requests at weekends which seem to be a time of crisis for many families. [More…]
By 1968 France maintained her position that the measures were outside the United Nations’ competence but voted for the resolution because of the vast depth of feeling created by the Rhodesian crisis, the impatience of the outside Africans and the fact that the Rhodesian affair had increasingly assumed the aspect of a general crisis affecting the whole world. [More…]
The first involved attacking the present crisis. [More…]
However, that does not appear to be sufficient justification for disregarding the services which are provided to women in crisis and emergency situations. [More…]
But the fact of the matter, with due respect to the Fraser Government and the Labor Government, is that with the world wide energy crisis it has been quite obvious that coal has been coming back into its own. [More…]
But it has also imposed very heavy additional taxation by way of the increase of 11c a gallon in the price of petrol, and that will add considerably to the inflationary crisis. [More…]
We have a crisis in the beef industry. [More…]
Within the ‘new states’ frequently born ‘from the meagre remains of an exhausted colonial regime’, that same crisis of confidence is expressed in the collapse of the old ‘ nationalist ‘ appeal-of modernisation, high-level, capital-intensive technology, of Gross National Product and the ‘ take-off mentality of the sixties. [More…]
In the Cuban missile crisis an interesting situation developed. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of an interview with Mr Samuel on Monday Conference in which he said that while investigating the allegation that the Australian National University was facing a crisis over cash he was handed a circular distributed from the University which said that it had $90,000 to spare and it did not know what to do with it. [More…]
Whether the action now contemplated will actually relieve the crisis situation facing small businesses remains to be seen. [More…]
The heading was ‘Disaster by 1990: Staggering Oil Crisis Predicted’. [More…]
This, generally speaking, is the crisis period for this country and many other countries. [More…]
They are made from a feeling of sincerity, because the national energy crisis involves every one of us. [More…]
The crisis applies to both sides of the chamber and to everybody in this country, and we ought to be doing something about it. [More…]
It can provide a very significant amount in lower grade energy needs, out it is wrong to hold out to a public that is becoming more and more aware of the impending crisis that solar energy is an alternative to major development of such energy sources as atomic energy. [More…]
I want to put together and put on record a few thoughts which I have expressed both inside and outside this chamber over a period of time on my concern at the energy crisis, as I see it, facing Australia and, indeed, the world. [More…]
Unemployment is the real crisis which is confronting us today. [More…]
They created the crisis. [More…]
There is not some crisis, in Mr Street’s own words, that demands that we get the legislation through this week. [More…]
I think it could be said that the problems of the Lebanon itself and the civil war which has been taking place in the Lebanon were, in themselves, very largely a by-product of the Israeli-Arab crisis. [More…]
As the member of a political faction which is committed to the destruction of a society such as Australia’s, Mr Halfpenny may even welcome another plunge by Australia into crisis. [More…]
The crisis in Victoria is only an indication that the capitalist system relies on people to produce wealth. [More…]
The crisis is over for most Victorians, but tens of thousands of people will still be out of work for at least a fortnight. [More…]
They introduce into the House of Representatives on a Wednesday or Thursday industrial legislation which they claim is urgent and which they imply is required to solve a current industrial dispute and then on the Friday of that week, in an atmosphere of engineered crisis, the Senate has a special sitting and this House of review, with the support of the 36 lackeys and sycophants who sit across the aisle, passes this allegedly urgent industrial legislation which has been introduced into the House of Representatives 24 or 48 hours before. [More…]
We have a stunt as a substitute for policy in an atmosphere of engineered crisis. [More…]
It is all coherently tied in, in a sense, that it is designed to induce and to build-up an expectation or to engineer a sense of phoney crisis for a premature election and false expectations about the economic performance in the future. [More…]
Thus, at any moment, as a crisis unfolds, Omega can go secret and thereon frequent random variations of band can maintain that secrecy; American Polaris-type submarines alone can pick up signals for more accurate targeting fixes. [More…]
The recent report of the Woolgrowers and Graziers Council stated that rural industry in Australia is facing a crisis of confidence on a scale not previously encountered. [More…]
In view of this crisis situation we believe that the extension of the nitrogenous fertiliser subsidy, the matter under discussion, is a useful but insufficient action by the Government to assist rural industry. [More…]
Senator Webster might remember that in October 1975 he was a member of the then Opposition that took action in the Senate to delay the Budget and bring about a constitutional crisis in this country. [More…]
In no instance did these incidents lead to a constitutional crisis“.3 3 Einzig: op cit, p. 304. [More…]
Government supporters assume that the choice lies between provoking a crisis and giving reluctant support to financial measures which they dislike, and they regard the second alternative as the smaller evil. [More…]
It is somewhat remarkable that the great ministerial defeat, recorded in the preceding paragraph, was so quietly accepted by the government, and did not lead to a ministerial crisis. [More…]
But the blockage of Supply, and some of the extreme statements about the nature of the economic crisis . [More…]
From my reading of the policy years ago he did so to try to get over the crisis that was abroad in the LCL. [More…]
This is backed by the United Kingdom union congress itself, the members of which I understand are 10 to one in favour of importing uranium and recently urged their Government to expand its nuclear program in order to avoid an energy crisis. [More…]
One of the consequences of the activities of Mr Justice Fox in the past few months has been a substantial crisis situation for the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
There was a crisis in 1967 and Mr McMahon- he is now Sir William McMahon- took some very resolute action. [More…]
Both Australia and th world face an energy crisis within the next 10 to 20 years as supplies of oil and then natural gas are depleted. [More…]
At the international level coal research has taken on new significance in the past oil-crisis years. [More…]
Australia has been slow to date to respond to the world energy crisis. [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 sufficiency’ in energy. [More…]
The part that amazes me is that there should be this political knuckling down to a vagabond Premier who not only has created this crisis for the Aboriginal people but has created any number of other problems. [More…]
It has been introduced only since it has been apparent to anyone associated with agriculture that the beef industry is in a state of acute crisis, desperation and near-bankruptcy; that the vast majority in the industry, especially in Queensland, because of its dependence on the export market, are struggling to survive. [More…]
I repeat it, it was not until the crisis had almost reached the point of no return that the Government acted. [More…]
Finally, in respect of the matters which we have been debating at short notice and for such a short time today, each time the Opposition raises what it considers to be valid criticisms of the legislative approach to the rural crisis, we get the inevitable bucket from the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Senator Cotton) and from Government supporters about inflation as though the Labor Party invented inflation. [More…]
When cyclical problems of particular industries- such as the beef crisis- are superimposed on the more deep-seated and long-term trends, the income and associated difficulties become immense. [More…]
We have perhaps reduced some of the great heat which existed at the time of the consitutional crisis on 11 November 1975. [More…]
What will happen in another crisis? [More…]
Turning to rural matters the Government said: ‘The Government has taken action to assist the rural community to overcome its present crisis’. [More…]
Fretilin continues the struggle, in spite of famine, lack of clothing, death, and a crisis in understanding and objectives which has surfaced lately. [More…]
The figure of 272,000 for unemployment in November 1976 has now grown to almost 500,000, so the crisis is continuing. [More…]
Unemployment is a crisis period snagged with unexpected problems that make the going rougher than anybody who has a job could realise. [More…]
There are other ways a wife can take away that apprehension so that both come through the crisis with egos and marriage intact. [More…]
There is in sight no relief from the unemployment crisis as the ratio of unemployed to unfilled vacancies increases all the time. [More…]
I thought that these days most of us agree that we live in a time of looming energy crisis. [More…]
This occurred at the time of the Suez crisis. [More…]
In those days it was in unbelievable crisis. [More…]
He set about developing a theory that would enable the system of capital to survive this, its greatest, crisis. [More…]
The people of the north are also frustrated in times of crisis. [More…]
A little later, just a few years ago, there was the Indonesian crisis. [More…]
At times of crisis police have had to charter boats. [More…]
Is the Minister for Administrative Services, bearing in mind the touchingalthough I am sure genuine- concern he expressed yesterday for both the looming energy crisis and the state of the taxpayer’s pocket, aware that Australian Design Rule 27a relating to motor vehicle emission control has had a damaging effect on both these areas far outweighing its environmental value? [More…]
I have given careful consideration to the constitutional crisis and have made some decisions which I wish to explain. [More…]
It has been necessary for me 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 the supply between the two Houses of Parliament and between the Government and the Opposition parties. [More…]
In the wake of the oil crisis the position is that many countries are now making commitments to nuclear energy since it is the only viable energy source available. [More…]
unless some action is planned now water will have become a more serious problem than the energy crisis by the year 2000. [More…]
The two basic problems of the River Murray which have reached crisis point are salinity and sediment loading. [More…]
Add to that combination the known saline ground water structure and the crisis surely must have been predictable. [More…]
Nevertheless in view of the widely acknowledged and demonstrable importance of family support systems in times of crisis ACFOA urges that in the case of refugees: [More…]
In reviewing the IAC report which preceded this matter it is interesting to note that a deal of information emerges about the crisis that faced Australian industry, albeit a relatively small industry, in the last few years. [More…]
The final paragraph states that capitalism is in ‘real crisis’ and ‘only a planned socialist economy can meet the needs of the whole working class . [More…]
The situation had reached a crisis point where, in February, 1976, my predecessor - [More…]
I do not remember any constitutional issue between State and Commonwealth giving rise to such an acute crisis since the Depression days when Mr Lang refused to pay moneys to the Commonwealth Government and the Federal Parliament put through garnishee proceedings. [More…]
The situation has reached crisis point where, in February 1976 my predecessor, the honourable Claude Wharton, MLA, and his director, visited Aurukun accompanied by both the Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, the Reverend P. Wood, and the senior secretary of [More…]
It was not really until the energy crisis that we saw a great escalation in the price of crude oil. [More…]
In the wake of the world energy crisis many countries have no viable alternative energy source other than nuclear power. [More…]
I think that those honourable senators who refused to examine properly the amendments, which were conceded by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) to be genuine and designed to prevent the Premier of Queensland from moving in the way that he did, have now contributed towards creating the new crisis. [More…]
It is no wonder the States are heading for a crisis. [More…]
Far-reaching events and elements such as the 1973 petrol crisis, the 200-mile exclusive economic zones and the complex implications of the proposed new international economic order, make their impact in the South Pacific region and bring these states into greater involvement with the world community. [More…]
That was in a period when the Government was asking all other employees to accept a modified increment to their wages because of the inflationary crisis. [More…]
After all, I think we are all being brought to a realisation of the need to consider energy conservation and we recognise that there is an energy crisis. [More…]
If so, does the Minister agree that they establish that women are severely disadvantaged in the current unemployment crisis? [More…]
The Australian Bankruptcy Clinic can help to get you through the crisis with your dignity, your health, your peace of mind, your assets and your integrity intact. [More…]
That is the image we will get if we do not share and accept our responsibilites towards those countries which are facing what will be in the not too distant future an energy problem and eventually an energy crisis unless something is done to close the gap. [More…]
After all, the world is facing a crisis in energy and the world is looking to Australia, which has an abundant supply of uranium, to help to form a bridge in the energy gap which will be created by the rapidly exhausting fossil fuel supply. [More…]
In the wake of the world energy crisis many countries have no viable alternative energy source other than nuclear power. [More…]
Of course the Mary Kathleen mine in the western part of Queensland is still struggling along, going from one financial crisis to another. [More…]
But we in Australia are very conscious of the fact that there is an energy crisis- a crisis that will get greater and greater unless that gap is filled. [More…]
The world itself has decided that it will go nuclear to make sure that it will avoid that energy crisis. [More…]
In moving this motion the Opposition is not saying that some cataclysmic crisis has been brought about by this Government or anybody else in the affairs of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
There is a need for us in a period of relative calm in this country to face up to the problems of our Constitution- the outdated nature of some of its terms; the fact that there are unresolved issues that have caused a great deal of crisis in Australia in recent years- and regard those matters as urgent matters that should be calling on people of goodwill to find solutions. [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, but to turn to nuclear energy as a means of supplying electricity to their peoples. [More…]
The Parliament is still sitting; the country is in crisis; his Ministers are having problems, he has replaced them; he has a royal commission looking at the problems facing some of them. [More…]
The country is facing a greater crisis today than it did under the Whitlam Government. [More…]
I am one of those people who believe that the Whitlam Government did not face a crisis. [More…]
The only crisis we faced when we were in government occurred when we redistributed the wealth from the people who could afford to do without it to the people who sorely needed it. [More…]
A new crisis crops up every day. [More…]
There has been no greater crisis in the history of this country, apart from the time of war, than that which exists now. [More…]
In another Press release put out on 9 December 1974, Mr Lynch, who has now been relegated, described Mr Whitlam ‘s trip as ‘gross irresponsibility at a time of economic crisis’. [More…]
As I said, we have never had any greater crisis in this country, apart from war time, than today under this Government. [More…]
The Treasurer did not define what he meant, but presumably he was repeating the old myth to which this Government resorts when really cornered, that in fact the unemployed are not victims of the economic crisis but are in fact dole bludgers who are not even looking for work. [More…]
Be it remembered that the Senate had the foreknowledge to create this Committee in, I think, 1936 as a result of a great crisis in 1931. [More…]
Unfortunately urban transport at present is in a state of crisis, with air pollution, traffic jams and huge transport deficits. [More…]
I just remind the Senate that in 1964 we had a terrific crisis here when the Government was kept up all night and had to divide a Bill because of my opposition to discretions which have been seeping into the taxation laws since then like sewage. [More…]
I believe it is possible that this country is facing a decade of greater crisis than it has ever experienced other than at times of war. [More…]
The penalty of not winning through this crisis would be very severe indeed. [More…]
If Australia is to ride out the coming crisis of the Western world it will be only through active interest and knowledge among Australians at large of the great historical forces now operating. [More…]
The question we have to ask in this context is this: Is this legislation an adequate response to the situation, to the crisis of unemployment that confronts us? [More…]
Whilst this legislation will marginally improve the existing CES operations in the ways the Attorney-General has set out, it cannot be seen as the ultimate panacea to the tragic employment crisis in Australia today. [More…]
I stress that even in the current unemployment crisis there are still areas of employment where jobs are available if unemployed persons had the skills to take them up. [More…]
I bring those figures to the attention of the Senate to demonstrate the nature of the unemployment crisis. [More…]
It is a crisis that has come about through the collapse of the manufacturing sector and the building and construction industry. [More…]
Thirdly, he is ignoring, of course, the very real crisis that exists in the Australian building industry. [More…]
These considerations lead us inevitably to ask: What is the cause of this crisis? [More…]
There is no question that the building industry is at a crisis stage. [More…]
This point may seem remote and not grounded in any crisis presently facing Australia, but I believe that not to act now, in this chamber, in a time of relative tranquility without an atmosphere of hysteria, will be to condemn future generations of Australians to cultural genocide, such that acting on individual conscience, the most potent insight of our Judao-Christian and Western tradition, will be as remote a possibility as it is in most of the world. [More…]
Tasmania has also contributed in a substantial way to overcoming the energy crisis in industrialised society. [More…]
Mr Chatterton said that, while the BAE study had not yet begun, the Federal Government was obviously taking no chances on being hurried into avoiding another crisis in 1979. [More…]
I am back now to this great hero of freedom in Australia who, in one particular crisis, took the public interest off the Budget and off Fraser ‘s maladministration of Australia. [More…]
I believe that we are facing a crisis. [More…]
The situation is that many young people have reached a crisis point in their lives. [More…]
The steps have been carefully retraced of how you became involved in it and why you were obliged to make a statement to the Senate about the crisis that had arisen amongst the kitchen staff. [More…]
Tony Thomas, in the Age, dealt with it effectively when he said that it would involve the possibility of a balance of payments crisis, a severe cut in corporate investment and profitability, a 180- degree turn in the direction of monetary policy, forced rises in interest rates, significantly faster wage growth, and adverse effects on consumer confidence. [More…]
For that reason South Australia is facing a crisis of confidence in industry. [More…]
It is clear that the advantage which prevailed before the Dunstan Government came to power in 1970 has disappeared, and clearly the State has suffered a crisis of conscience and confidence in its industrial future. [More…]
Is there any wonder that there is a crisis of confidence in South Australian industry? [More…]
Mr Chatterton said that, while the BAE study had not yet begun, the Federal Government was obviously taking no chances on being hurried into avoiding another crisis in 1979. [More…]
If the answer to any of those questions is in the affirmative, I ask: What steps, if any, is the Government proposing to remedy urgently this financial crisis? [More…]
Will the reduction of lawyers’ fees by a further 5 per cent or 10 per cent, as proposed recently by the Attorney-General, make any significant difference to the overall dimensions of the financial crisis? [More…]
We have a much more immediate crisis on our hands, one which the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations believes will get worse next year. [More…]
The local Rape Crisis Centre was not consulted or invited to join in discussions about changes in legislation for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I will turn for an example in some detail to what the Australian Democrats regard as an important possibility in view of the rapidly oncoming crisis in respect of our supplies of petrol. [More…]
The lead time would be at least 12 years, by which time we would be well into our crisis. [More…]
Whilst the present crisis in the economy is hoped to be temporary, the long run trends indicate that revenue will meet expectations. [More…]
If we are serious about creating new employment opportunities in this country, given the present state of crisis of which we are all aware, then it is obvious that the tertiary sector is going to have to take up a great deal of the slack, and in particular, the tourism industry within that sector. [More…]
That created not merely a sense of embarrassment on my part, but something of a diplomatic crisis with two or three consulates being involved, the plane in question being delayed for two or three hours and the situation being resolved only by my signing statutory declarations, notarised by the appropriate French professionals. [More…]
We would like to draw your attention to the funding crisis which is threatening our refuge. [More…]
Unless this crisis is resolved, we face closure within the next month. [More…]
Will he agree that whatever other measures to solve the legal aid crisis might be in Government contemplation and which may be announced shortly, the immediate backlog problem to which I have adverted can be resolved only by an immediate increase in the legal aid vote by $500,000? [More…]
Australia is facing a technological crisis, and the sooner we come to grips with the need to develop a total policy for science the better it will be. [More…]
Will the Minister undertake to have Australia sponsor a resolution in the United Nations calling for the international peacekeeping force to intervene in the Lebanon crisis and for the withdrawal of all Syrian troops from the region? [More…]
The figures in the Bill, both in total and when dissected into their component parts, reveal quite starkly the dimensions of the crisis which legal aid is now experiencing in this country. [More…]
The key to understanding the dimensions of the current crisis and the way it has come about through the steady erosion of the real value of Commonwealth legal aid funding since it was introduced by the Whitlam Labor Government in 1975 is to refer not just to the figures which are set out on the face of this Bill but also to another set of figures which are concealed within the figures in the Bill and which have been painfully extracted only by long and difficult cross examination of departmental officers and the Minister during the recent Estimates Committee hearings. [More…]
The second way in which the crisis in funding to which I have adverted has really bitten, and bitten hard, on those people in the community who most need legal aid has been evidenced in the number of cases which have been accepted for aid from the Legal Aid Office and, in turn, the private practitioners to whom the Office refers the bulk of its business. [More…]
That number has been growing steadily over the whole three years of this Government’s term of office and it has reached quite gigantic crisis proportions over the course of the last two months. [More…]
It is absolutely impossible to overstate the dimensions of that crisis which has all come about as a result of the mean spirited penny-pinching which is once again embodied or embalmed, perhaps I should say, in this year’s Appropriation Bill. [More…]
To the credit of the Government, the Attorney-General has finally, reluctantly and cautiously, with his usual dilatoriness, come to recognise and concede the dimensions of this crisis and has resolved to take some action upon it. [More…]
Let us appreciate what a sad anti-climax the Government’s action has been for those who hoped that it would grapple imaginatively, effectively and, above all, compassionately with the crisis to which I have referred. [More…]
Let us be clear at the outset, however, about what the Government has not done in its new recently announced solution to the legal aid crisis. [More…]
One is left to assume that the present respite in the legal aid crisis will be at best quite temporary and that within a matter of monthsperhaps even weeks- we will once again have the situation of people being turned away, desperate and distressed, as has been the case so often in the last few months. [More…]
I was discussing the nature of the crisis which has developed in this area of government expenditure over the last three years of office of the Fraser Government and I was referring to the inadequacy and, indeed, general heartlessness of the measures which have been proposed by the Government to resolve, at least temporarily, this crisis. [More…]
Fifthly, and most importantly, there is the employment crisis, especially amongst the young. [More…]
It is the first answer to those who say: ‘When you have a disallowance situation you have a vacuum, you have got yourself a brand new crisis and there is no way out of the impasse ‘. [More…]
I believe that when the fuel energy crisis hits this country, unless we have done something about our transport system it will be too late. [More…]
States is evidence of the inability not only of the Tasmanian Government but of any State government to draw on reserves of finance when a crisis situation such as this develops within its own borders. [More…]
It is not asking too much that at a time of crisis- with a guarantee of repayment given an ascending level of copper prices- that the Federal Treasury help Queenstown through this monetary crisis in its long and successful history. [More…]
It is an article from the Australian of 8 April 1978, only some seven months ago, headed: ‘Beef Exports Crisis. [More…]
There is available a mountain of Press clippings which show that just a few short months ago headlines such as ‘Beef exports crisis’ were the norm. [More…]
Too often primary producers are accused of being interested in their problems only when there is a crisis and of sweeping them aside with the comment that they do not want to do anything about it when things are good. [More…]
The Opposition wishes to draw attention not only to the general crisis of unemployment faced by Australians but also to the particularly discriminatory acts by the Government towards some sections of the unemployed. [More…]
The Fraser Government alone must accept responsibility for the crisis of unemployed youth in the Capital Territory. [More…]
The second need of these young people is intervention, the YMCA calls it crisis intervention’. [More…]
Will the Minister undertake to have Australia sponsor a resolution in the United Nations calling for the international peace-keeping force to intervene in the Lebanon crisis and for the withdrawal of all Syrian troops from the region? [More…]
My invitation is directed to all South Australian Senators and Members of The House of Representatives in the hope that we can collectively discuss the crisis facing the brandy producers and wine grapegrowers of this State as a result of the decision embodied in the Federal Budget to increase the excise on Australian brandy and other spirits. [More…]
Mr Chatterton said the magnitude of this crisis had not yet sunk into the minds of those in the corridors of power in Canberra. [More…]
Does the Australian Government view with any concern the fact that its attitude in this matter is severely prejudicing our good relations with our South East Asian neighbours at a time of great crisis in the region and all for what may well turn out to be quite illusory gains for the vast majority of potential Australian travellers? [More…]
The Government is conscious of the need to emphasise at all times the problems we face in relation to the oil crisis. [More…]
Not since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 has the world felt closer to the ultimate disaster involving major powers. [More…]
There is no doubt that the world is facing a major crisis. [More…]
It is a form of crisis intervention. [More…]
To the extent that the court provides one of the places where people interlock in the system at times of crisis, legal aid is one of the ways to enable this to happen more effectively. [More…]
It is the issue of resources and how resources are allocated, and the kind of crisis which is developing in resource allocation in the area of welfare services generally, of which legal aid is only one part. [More…]
The statement made by the Minister for Trade and Resources, Mr Anthony, in Saudi Arabia on 13 February 1979, pointing out the perilous position the world is moving into because of the present oil crisis, which, in turn, is being exacerbated by the unstable situation in Iran, suggests to me that Australia should be not only looking for alternative energy sources but also preparing a comprehensive and detailed conservation program aimed at lessening Australia’s dependence on imported oil. [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 analysis 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 of 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…]
I suggest that this is one of the great problems of the current crisis in South East Asia. [More…]
We do know that during the 1973 Middle East crisis this base - that is, the North West Cape base- went on to full alert. [More…]
I suggest that one of the first things that should be done by any government concerned about foreign policy and the ability of an Australian government to move in times of crisis is to get rid of those bases. [More…]
So in the event of a crisis blowing up and this country being endangered, we would be placed in exactly the same situation as the American Air Force or, if I remember correctly, the Army commander who at the time of the Pearl Harbour crisis was obliged to get in touch with Washington by telegram through Western Pacific via San Francisco. [More…]
It is only when a statement such as that which has been made today by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) is before us that we come to realise that it is not always from occasions such as this, or emergency situations in the Security Council or visits at one time or another of delegations to crisis spots that results emanate. [More…]
I hope people realise that the Government’s recognition of the present crisis was firmly based on a long-standing analysis of the situation in that region. [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…]
They cannot be divorced from the general strategic and political environment and to the extent that the environment deteriorates, their credibility as instruments of crisis management is diminished. [More…]
The Minister has made a very important reference in his statement to the restraint that has been exercised by the Soviet Union in the current crisis in Indo-China. [More…]
In his statement he makes the point that it is to the Soviet Union’s credit that in the present phase of the crisis it has so far shown restraint. [More…]
As we now look outwards at a potentially major crisis in our own region, then we must question some of the assumptions that have been at the base of our strategic, defence and foreign policy thinking in recent years. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that during the 1975 crisis the argument was put that we in Australia are governed by a Parliament; that the Parliament consists of the Crown, the Senate and the House of Representatives and that members of the House of Representatives are entitled to accurate information. [More…]
I do not think I have made it clear to everyone concerned that because of a sudden and unexpected crisis, which may have stranded many of us - [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 sufficient- the world’s heavy dependence on imported oil, most of which originates from the Middle East region. [More…]
Then I ask: What are we doing about the energy crisis? [More…]
Yet the Minister for Education talks about an energy crisis and a shortage of oil. [More…]
Pham Van Dong returned to find his country in a major crisis. [More…]
We are under no illusions that we can play the pivotal role in resolving this crisis. [More…]
When those on the Government side attack the Soviet Union, perhaps they can give some credit to the Soviets because in the crisis which confronted them and us they showed the utmost restraint in the face of great provocation. [More…]
I could speak of the crisis situations which exist between nations and from which some peoplethe industrialists, the armament makers and armament suppliers- benefit. [More…]
The crisis between Greece and Turkey is reminiscent of the 1920s, when the Greeks were encouraged to go into Asia Minor and became embroiled in a war with Turkey in order to use up the vast surplus of armaments which existed after the First World War. [More…]
The crisis has been created by external forces; yet the people live in a situation of poverty, insecurity and fear. [More…]
The loss of effective demand from such groups has brought small businesses and retailing in Canberra to crisis point. [More…]
Instead of doing something positive about it, the Government has responded to this crisis situation with a continued reduction in the budget available to the National Capital Development Commission for capital works. [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…]
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…]
Unstable government is creating a great crisis in this country. [More…]
Although I have no doubt that economies could be achieved in this type of support, particularly in the naval dockyards whose productivity is appalling and whose likely reliability in a defence crisis is worse, it is not these positions about which I am talking. [More…]
Did the national Government request certain oil companies to play down the seriousness of Australia’s oil supply and cost problems resulting from the crisis in Iran, thus misleading the Australian public? [More…]
Did certain oil companies respond to this request by giving undertakings to the Government to avoid public panic by understating the crisis? [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Transport seen newspaper reports to the effect that both the New York City Council and the Greater London Council have the intention of reintroducing tram services into their respective cities as a means of combating the present energy crisis? [More…]
Nonetheless, does the Minister not agree that this is a matter on which the Federal Government could be of assistance to State governments in view of the present pressing economic crisis that faces Australia, as it does the United States and the United Kingdom? [More…]
People have been critical of this provision, and Senator Ryan asked what sort of crisis would bring this about. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Social Security, and refers to the fact that with increasing youth unemployment it has been found that there is an increased need for the establishment of youth shelters, youth refuges or youth crisis centres. [More…]
Fraser Government at the time of a major economic crisis and an unemployment crisis is a scandal. [More…]
There is this sort of activity by the Government, which consistently and continually tells wage and salary earners that they should accept wage reductions and wage cuts, and that it is because of the level of wages in the community that Australia has an economic crisis. [More…]
A crisis situation has in fact arisen with emergency relief in recent times. [More…]
The joint study recognised that when, in the preamble to the report, it defined emergency relief as temporary assistance in cash or kind to assist people over a financial crisis, and being subject to reassessment each time it is sought. [More…]
One can think of people who are trying to retain youth and women’s refuges in this country, who are desperately short of funds because of the need to provide crisis accommodation. [More…]
Can they also say to what extent the scientists or the specialists in both Departments have been watching those developments and whether they will be involved personally in an examination of that particular crisis? [More…]
Uranium is a very short-term remedy in the world energy crisis. [More…]
Because of the impending energy crisis brought about by both economics and the finite nature of our oil reserves, will the Minister say whether he supports the proposition that a quite considerable loading be placed on all exports of our rapidly diminishing energy resources and that all revenue accruing from the loading be used exclusively for research and experimentation into new energy sources such as the liquefaction of coal, the production of hydrogen, or the development of our intermittent energy sources, for instance, solar, wind or tidal sources. [More…]
The health maintenance concept is a practical proposition, lt could be introduced immediately at only a fraction of the cost of crisis medicine. [More…]
Projects funded in this way include telephone and personal counselling services, programs for mothers and children at risk and a number of neighbourhood centres which provide facilities for crisis relief for parents under stress. [More…]
The primary objective of such an advertisement should be to obtain the services of a person best qualified to care for women and children in crisis situations. [More…]
Unemployment has reached that level because of the economic crisis we are in. [More…]
The Government brought down a miniBudget in response to the economic crisis. [More…]
I suppose there are some people in this place who can remember the Depression, and there are others of us who have studied the effects of that economic crisis on the society of the time. [More…]
They assist with the obtaining of social security benefits and, perhaps just as importantlysometimes even more importantly- they demonstrate an awareness of the need of people in those crisis situations. [More…]
They may have been turned away from two or three refuges or perhaps even four or five because when a woman is in a crisis situation all she is intent on doing is finding accommodation for herself and her family. [More…]
There is nothing as homeless as a woman with children who has decided in an area of crisis that she has to leave her home in the middle of the night. [More…]
The work of these shelters is not just to take in people and look after them during the period of immediate crisis. [More…]
The women who run the shelters accompany their clients to lawyers and doctors and generate a tremendous amount of support after the initial crisis in the follow-up period. [More…]
All this is of great assistance as the figures show that the majority of women return to their home environment after the initial crisis. [More…]
Recently in my State Caroline House was established as a centre for alcoholic women in crisis. [More…]
We should ensure that our defence infrastructure and Defence Force are maintained in a state in which we could achieve the necessary expansion of our defences in the available time if this crisis arose. [More…]
The first-rate will leave and when a crisis comes or there is a need for rapid expansion, the leadership will be in the hands of the second-rate. [More…]
The Army’s role would be to be so mobile that it could get to the critical point before the crisis. [More…]
Are we going to wait until some politician tells Australia ‘Yes, we are short of petrol; it is a crisis’, and then rubbish the conservationists who say ‘Hands off the Great Barrier Reef? [More…]
What I am saying is that Australia, at a time of economic crisis such as we are now in, needs a leader who people can trust. [More…]
We know that in 1971-72, because of the mismanagement by the McMahon Government, which could not handle the economic crisis of that period, the world economy was on the downturn and was having its effects upon Australia and the Australian people took advantage of the situation to change the Government. [More…]
Like Sir John Kerr, Sir Garfield Barwick certainly earned a place of a kind in that history by virtue of the role he played in the constitutional crisis of 1 975. [More…]
The Government is in crisis about this issue, and has been so for a considerable time. [More…]
I will guarantee that now he wishes he had not opened his sweet little mouth about it, because we are in a situation which must be regarded by the Government, and is in fact, a crisis for the Government. [More…]
I agree with Senator Gietzelt that the Government is facing a crisis not only in the electorate but also in its own back benches. [More…]
It is facing a grave crisis. [More…]
She was not able to leave, because the Government was talking about its crisis. [More…]
They were talking about the crisis in the Government. [More…]
Of course, they are now very excited and very unhappy that the crisis has blown up further in this chamber today because two different answers were given to identical questions- one by a Minister in the other place and the other by Senator Webster here. [More…]
In the space of eight years we find that the Liberal Party is again in a crisis situation. [More…]
They must all have been away swarming, trying to avert the crisis that they were facing. [More…]
The document then goes on to deal with other areas in which there is an energy crisis and a big energy gap. [More…]
I am prepared to say, after watching some of the departments, that they are lurching from one crisis to the next with no efficiency, no satisfaction and low morale. [More…]
The simple truth is that worldwide today the energy crisis is the significant economic crisis and due to a number of factors is one that may well continue. [More…]
I acknowledge that it is the same class of Bill as that which- I do not know that the words Senator Georges used are quite accurate, but to use similar words- brought on a crisis in earlier years. [More…]
We consider that this shelter should be established within the city of Launceston boundaries, as there is no crisis accommodation in Launceston for homeless boys. [More…]
There again, we would hope that the planning organisation that we now have would study carefully which methods- bacterial, booming, air drops- have been used in other parts of the world, so that when we do have that oil spill of the future- and it will happen sooner or later, with tankers nearing the end of their useful lives and with greater oil exploration around this country- when that crisis comes we will be operating from a basis of knowledge and preparedness, rather than one of panic and complete ignorance. [More…]
He has also dealt with the crisis that he thinks exists in the Department at the present time. [More…]
Harold Holt’s All the way with LBJ and Menzies’ support for Britain, right or wrong, at the time of the Suez crisis of 1 956, he finds misplaced, ineffective, inappropriate as a means of gaining respect, and dangerous because other countries tend to conclude that Australia is merely a British or American satellite. [More…]
He believes, however, that the department is just now in a state of crisis. [More…]
Only ‘insiders’ can judge the extent to which Renoufs account of his late department’s ‘crisis’ is justified, but the February 1979 Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, - [More…]
Mr Renouf was worried about the crisis in the Department. [More…]
I am certainly worried about what I regard as a crisis within the Department of Foreign Affairs and I will be interested to see the reply of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock). [More…]
As I said earlier, it is an appropriate time because of the publishing of this book on the crisis in the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
For example, I agree that the Department of Foreign Affairs is in a state of crisis. [More…]
I believe that it ought to be more widely recognised that the Department is in a state of crisis and the significance of that fact to this country. [More…]
It was not until the oil crisis of 1973 that the world suddenly became aware that it was dealing with a diminishing energy resource. [More…]
If cars had churned through the powder we could have been faced with a major crisis.” [More…]
If Senator Young had moved a motion today to the effect that Australia had a moral obligation to future generations not to go after the ultimate insanity in uranium but to seek alternative fuels for the energy crisis which will hit our young in the mid-1980s, I would have thought it would serve the Senate better. [More…]
I think we have a crisis of confidence in our country. [More…]
A crisis of leadership is being presided over by this Government. [More…]
It is a tragedy that a crisis situation has developed, and in that regard I refer to the retail industry, which states in its advertisement: [More…]
What effect will it have on our ability to meet a defence crisis? [More…]
Many instances exist where, with access by the telephone to friends, relatives or the family medical practitioner, a crisis situation can be, if not resolved, then moderated. [More…]
People must be able, in a crisis situation, to pick up a telephone and seek to talk with somebody whom they trust. [More…]
I ask whether the Minister is aware of the remarkable claims which have been attributed to this plant in terms of its being one of the viable answers to the world energy crisis, as well as being a substitute for whale oil? [More…]
Thirdly, is he aware of the prediction by Wall Street and the financial world that Australia will weather the energy crisis better than most countries? [More…]
It is equally a fact that Wall Street has commented that Australia has the capacity to survive the energy crisis as well as or better than most countries. [More…]
At that conference, Western industralised states continued to argue that the general economic condition was quite satisfactory and denied that the world economy was undergoing any crisis. [More…]
They argued that the world economy was in a state of crisis as a result of profound structural changes affecting development and international relations. [More…]
On other occasions, because of a crisis, standing committees of the Senate have met in these circumstances. [More…]
As honourable senators are aware, there was a constitutional crisis. [More…]
We, the undersigned doctors, involved in aboriginal health in North Queensland consider that aboriginal health in this region has reached a crisis, and that there is an urgent need to improve this situation by the following measures. [More…]
If it has not already done so, will the Commonwealth as a matter of urgency examine the present constitutional crisis in Tasmania and its possible ramifications for the Commonwealth Government? [More…]
Further, does the Government intend amending the Commonwealth Electoral Act to overcome the present shortcomings following the constitutional crisis in Tasmania? [More…]
In brief, there is widespread acceptance in Australia that there is a state of serious crisis within the population of Kampuchea, a state of deprivation and starvation, which the world wants to alleviate as soon as possible. [More…]
We have a crisis in small business in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
These houses were constructed many years ago by the welfare authorities as emergency accommodation for families in crisis. [More…]
We, the undersigned doctors, involved in aboriginal health in North Queensland consider that aboriginal health in this region has reached a crisis, and that there is an urgent need to improve this situation by the following measures. [More…]
What realistic proposals does the Government see for a solution to the Kampuchean crisis? [More…]
I can see an energy crisis of catastrophic proportions coming upon this nation and a heroin problem which will be too terrible to contemplate. [More…]
I suggest that it will discriminate considerably against people coming to this country at times of crisis situations. [More…]
We have already had a crisis situation in Lebanon when Australian citizens and people who have been residents of this country for a long time wanted to bring out their relatives from a very difficult situation. [More…]
The Government, through Australia’s diplomatic missions abroad, is in close and continuing touch with international agencies, including the ICRC, concerning the Kampuchean crisis. [More…]
Perhaps I could take it up with my advisory councils and seek their views on how one could best survey these homeless people, who may be temporarily homeless, mobile, in a personal crisis and in need of emergency assistance. [More…]
I imagine that those people gravitate to crisis centres or refuges. [More…]
A number of crisis centres are run by voluntary organisations. [More…]
At the moment the Jesus People organisation has a crisis centre which can cater for the needs of some 25 boys and 10 girls, which is a big difference to the 70 people it was accommodating up until May of this year. [More…]
People in the community perhaps would not consider going to a crisis centre and asking for overnight accommodation. [More…]
When I asked them what was the major cause of so many young people being homeless to the extent that they went to crisis centres and to hostels, their spokesperson said, without any hesitation at all: ‘Unemployment’. [More…]
That is just one reason why this legislation is a typical case study of the way in which this Government acts in a crisis. [More…]
Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Dr Mochtar, today defended his country’s handling of the humanitarian crisis in East Timor. [More…]
Dr Mochtar was then asked whether recent reports in the Australian Press about the humanitarian crisis in Timor could affect Australia ‘s relations with Indonesia. [More…]
In particular, I turn to the oil crisis, or the possibility- not just because of Iran but because of the whole Middle East situation- of oil supplies being acutely short in Australia in a very short time. [More…]
I ask whether the Minister is aware of the remarkable claims which have been attributed to this plant in terms of its being one of the viable answers to the world energy crisis, as well as being a substitute for whale oil? [More…]
It is not a substitute for petrol or other liquid fossil fuels and its future as one of the answers to the energy crisis must be held in question. [More…]
Today, if a crisis blows up anywhere in Australian politics, modern day politics demand that we do not worry about the officers. [More…]
It runs, either by funding or by direct administration, the following student services: The loan fund; the newspaper and magazine; the orientation handbook; two campus creches; low-cost accommodation at Lennox House; and crisis accommodation in a cottage, so called. [More…]
Most importantly, at a time of crisis in fuel supplies we will burn off unnecessarily millions of litres of avgas per year. [More…]
We believe that in spite of what we hear about the pressure of time and of Bills in this place, we do not hear enough about the positive actions that could be taken or matters that could be considered by the Government to deal with what has become an urgent major social crisis in this country. [More…]
If there was an economic crisis in 1975 because the Government of the day did not have the money to provide services, such a crisis must equally apply today. [More…]
-Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen reports that the European Parliament criticised its Ministers for being lethargic in implementing a European Community program to combat the energy crisis, stating that it can be described only as getting deeper every day? [More…]
I have seen various reports arising out of the statements from the European Community and the European Commission, all of them emphatically pointing to the fact that the world is moving into a crisis in the short term and into a quite perilous situation in the long term if energy is not developed by alternative means to fossil fuels. [More…]
There is a willingness on this side of the chamber to come up with solutions to the energy crisis, but we are not going to be stampeded into endorsing methods, particularly the production of electrical energy, which do not pay sufficient attention to the needs for safeguards not only in the operation of the reactors but also when it comes to the disposal of the waste products and the circulation of raw materials throughout the world. [More…]
This Government is using the very high unemployment rate that it has brought upon this community as a scare solution to con the people into believing that if we mine uranium we will solve the economic crisis that this Government has got this country into and solve the unemployment problem. [More…]
Yet we find repeatedly that honourable senators on the other side of the chamber say here and go out on the public hustings and say that the mining of uranium would provide a solution to the unemployment problem and to the economic crisis, both of which this Government has involved this country in. [More…]
They are now claiming that they can solve the crisis South Australia is facing- of course, that is a myth, there is no crisis; that has been proven since they have come to office- if they mine Roxby Downs. [More…]
I have been confidentially advised that because of the present crisis as a Ignorant Korean Worker they have more important things to do, so it could be years or NEVER, before a reply is received, the Irian Embassador has more important things on his mind. [More…]
We have, as we all know, a crisis of unemployment in this country. [More…]
Many, for financial or organisational reasons, are in a constant state of crisis. [More…]
For thousands of people the problem has now reached crisis proportions. [More…]
It seems that the whole of the oil producing area in the world is involved in one crisis after another. [More…]