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

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• The purpose of this conference was to formulate a constructive program of peaceful action to facilitate and hasten the process of decolonisation and the elimination of apartheid. [More…]

• Australia is not a party principal to the decolonisation of Portuguese Timor but it is concerned that in that process the best interests of the people of the territory should be of paramount consideration, and Australia has always acted with that viewpoint in mind. [More…]

• I do not believe that it would be helpful to comment further at this stage on what is obviously a delicate and difficult situation, beyond saying that it remains the Government’s strong hope that the political forces in the territory can compose their differences to the extent that they can co-operate peacefully in its further decolonisation. [More…]

• In our view, the program mapped out at Macao, providing for steady forward movement towards decolonisation and free elections for a constituent assembly, went a long way towards the objectives we support for the territory. [More…]

• Nonetheless, the Government understands that Portugal is to make an attempt to retrieve some lost ground by sending a negotiating team with a view to persuading Fretilin and UDT to stop fighting and to agree to negotiate new arrangements among the Timorese parties for orderly decolonisation. [More…]

• For this is almost the last episode in the great post-war, post-imperial exercise of European decolonisation. [More…]

• For this is almost the last episode in the great post-war, post-imperial exercise of European decolonisation. [More…]

• Interest has also been shown in the matter by the United Nations, and this culminated in the Government’s invitation to the United Nations to send to Cocos a Visiting Mission from the Committee of Twenty-Four- the ‘Decolonisation’ Committee. [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the Senate that Australia will support any Portuguese initiative and request which would assist in the decolonisation of East Timor based on the principle of self-determination and free from Indonesian intervention? [More…]

• We will support any proposals which we consider will lead towards decolonisation of Timor and the right to self-determination of the Timorese people. [More…]

• These developments bear out the Government’s long and firmly held view that the best means of resolving the problems posed by the decolonisation of Timor is by talks between the political parties in the colony. [More…]

• I would urge all parties to put behind them the acrimony that has developed over the past few months and to join the Government of Portugal in talks aimed at reaching a solution that would permit the restoration of peace and order and a revival of the process of peaceful decolonisation. [More…]

• It reflects, above all, the immaturity of Timor’s own aspiring political leaders, who in less than eighteen months have succeeded in wrecking Portugal’s decolonisation program, sharply polarising political opinions through the territory, and finally plunging the territory into violent civil war. [More…]

• Fretilin has cetainly now said that it continues to recognise Portuguese sovereignty and the right of Portugal to preside over the decolonisation process. [More…]

• It is in this situation of drift, of Fretilin’s refusal to accept that UDT or Apodeti has anything further to contribute to the decolonisation process, and of Portugal ‘s regrettable inability to reassert its authority in the territory, that we view the various policy pronouncements, newspaper reports and the like from Jakarta and Timor itself. [More…]

• The 2 Foreign Ministers, in their communique, were also reported to have agreed that in the implementation of the decolonisation of Portuguese Timor it would be essential to safeguard the legitimate interests of the countries in the region, particularly Indonesia’s interest as the nearest neighbouring country. [More…]

• We hope that the talks now foreshadowed will lead to the restoration of a decolonisation program like that agreed earlier at Bacan in which the claims of all political parties could be satisfactorily decided. [More…]

• The joint communique expresses the support of the Governments of Portugal and Indonesia for the ‘principles of decolonisation as enunciated in the pertinent resolutions of the United Nations’ and for the ‘scrupulous safeguarding of the principle of respect for the will of the people of Portuguese Timor’. [More…]

• The communique notes the 2 Foreign Ministers’ agreement that ‘fundamental responsibility for the decolonisation of Portuguese Timor’ lies with Portugal which is to pledge itself to the ‘speedy and orderly implementation of the act of self determination by the people of Portuguese Timor’. [More…]

• It was further agreed that there should, ‘at the earliest possible time’, be a ‘meeting between Portugal and all the political parties of Portuguese Timor’ aimed at ‘ending armed strife and bringing about a peaceful and orderly process of decolonisation’. [More…]

• The communique noted agreement that in the process of decolonisation it would be essential ‘to safeguard the legitimate interests of the countries of the region, particularly the interests of Indonesia as the closest neighbouring country’. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that a special committee of the United Nations dealing with decolonisation last year decided to send a mission to investigate the situation in East Timor? [More…]

• We became the guests of the Portuguese authorities who had begun the process of decolonisation, preparing the people for the act of self-determination and for independence. [More…]

• In the subsequent period of approximately 15 months the Portuguese authorities in East Timor began a process of decolonisation. [More…]

• In October 1974, only 6 months after the people of Timor had been given the opportunity to be involved in the process of decolonisation, the Indonesian Security Council decided to set about the process of undermining and subverting the nationalist and independence movement. [More…]

• accordingly Australia appreciates Indonesia’s concern over the future of the territory and shares its belief that voluntary union of Portuguese Timor (with Indonesia) on the basis of an internationally accepted act of selfdetermination would seem to serve the objective of decolonisation and at the same time the interest of stability in the region?’ [More…]

• Nations Decolonisation Committee for this purpose. [More…]

• One was to ensure that the Portuguese authorities who still hold legal responsibility for the territory were given resources to assist in the policy of decolonisation. [More…]

• In Angola we have witnessed nothing less than an outrage against the process of decolonisation as it has been accepted internationally for more than a decade. [More…]

• Winspeare-Guicciardi) and to the United Nations Decolonisation Committee for this purpose. [More…]

• They invited a sub-committee of the Committee of Twenty-Four- the so-called Decolonisation Committee of the United Nations- to send a mission to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. [More…]

• Of course, the other document which was referred to by the Minister in his reply- he said that it was a document entitled ‘The Process of Decolonisation in East Timor’- is a document which the Minister himself said is a publication issued by the Indonesian Department of Information. [More…]

• The Indonesian spokesman, Mr Malik, in a reply to the Committee of Twenty Four of the United Nations concerned with decolonisation said on 12 June 1975: [More…]

• My delegation hopes that the process of decolonisation in Portuguese Timor will be carried out with the broadest participation of all segments of the indigenous population on a non-discriminatory basis. [More…]

• It is fair to say that the Australian government has been more outspoken than any other Western government in support of an orderly process of decolonisation in East Timor. [More…]

• When that coup took place, the Portuguese set about the problem of decolonisation in Timor. [More…]

• They seemed to be keen and looking forward to the decolonisation process which was taking place there. [More…]

• In September Fretilin wanted the Portuguese to return to institute the decolonisation process which it had started. [More…]

• During September and November the Fretilin Party waited in vain for the Portuguese to return and continue with their decolonisation process. [More…]

• As Senator Sir Magnus Cormack said in his contribution, there then began a process of decolonisation or decay of an old colonial empire. [More…]

• Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, in relation to South Africa, has failed to understand that the United Nations, by an overwhelming majority and in many cases by votes in excess of ninety with a small number of countries abstaining and with one or two countries in opposition- often countries like Spain- called upon the rest of the United Nations organisation to assist in decolonisation and in the movement for independence in Africa. [More…]

• The United Nations Committee of TwentyFour, commonly referred to as the Decolonisation Committee, sent a mission to Cocos in August 1974 at the invitation of the Labor Government. [More…]

• That is, the situation- above all, the immaturity of Timor’s own aspiring political leaders, who in less than eighteen months have succeeded in wrecking Portugal’s decolonisation program, sharply polarising political opinions through the territory, and finally plunging the territory into violent civil war. [More…]

• But I must say that undoubtedly Australia and particularly the Cocos-Malay community should be indebted to the ‘Decolonisation’ Committee of the United Nations- the Committee of TwentyFourwhich went to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in November 1974 at the invitation of the then Labor Government. [More…]

• I think that each June the Australian Government has had to report to the ‘Decolonisation’ Committee on the steps that it was taking to achieve political and social reform for these people. [More…]

• I think that Australia and the Cocos Malay community owe a debt of gratitude to the ‘Decolonisation’ Committee or the Committee of Twenty-four. [More…]

• After the ‘Decolonisation’ Committee of the United Nations had visited the Cocos (Keeling) Islands the Australian representative on the Committee of Twenty-four, Mr Duncan Campbell, made a statement to the Committee in November 1 974 setting out the then Government’s policy so far as the Cocos (Keeling) Islands were concerned. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the Fourth Committee, that is, the Decolonisation Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, last considered the Cocos Islands as recently as November and December 1978. [More…]

• If we look at the editorial headed ‘Decolonisation fails in Timor’ in the Courier-Mail of Monday, 8 December 1 975 we will see that it states: [More…]

• The Indonesian invasion is really the culmination of the failure of a decolonisation program. [More…]

• One of the unfortunate aspects of the failure of the East Timor decolonisation from the Portuguese empire is the lack of neighbourhood initiatives in trying to reach a peaceful solution. [More…]

• This was the point raised again and again by Timorese political leaders, UDT as well as Fretlin, who saw integration with Indonesia as ‘recolonisation’ rather than decolonisation. [More…]