defence - hofreps - 1970

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

Minister for Defence will make a statement dealing with the Government’s future defence programme. [More…]
Details of this matter will be contained in the statement to be made by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Government has decided thatI should visit the United States at an early suitable opportunity to discuss the whole matter with the United States Secretary of Defence. [More…]
If in the course of discussion it appeared desirable to do so I would expect to explore the alternatives to the present F111C, and here I would point out that the United States Secretary of Defence himself recently said: [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence seen reports that a sales team from LTV Aerospace Corporation is in Australia? [More…]
This is a branch operating within the Department of Defence and it will be part of the normal functioning and operations of the Department. [More…]
The three matters which I think the honourable member mentioned - the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, war service homes and scholarships - are of course, as he would realise, largely the responsibility of other Ministers. [More…]
J. ask the Minister for Defence a question concerning the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee which he announced before Christmas and which he briefly mentioned again in his defence statement on Tuesday night. [More…]
I ask him whether this Committee is empowered to inquire into defence forces retirement benefits, war service homes for serving and discharged members, and scholarships for the children of members of the forces who are posted from one school system to another. [More…]
Could the Prime Minister indicate what effects these demonstrations will have on the morale of Australian troops serving overseas and does he intend to allow Australian foreign and defence policy to succumb to such pressures? [More…]
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Some of us were curious to know about the defence policy of this brilliant new party. [More…]
One remembers that during the 1939-1945 War the Labor Party opposed the defence of Australia- [More…]
One remembers the Labor Party opposing the defence of Australia until the Germans suddenly attacked Russia. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the Opposition did not like my reference to the fact that the Labor Party was opposed to our defence effort in 1939-1945 until Hitler attacked Russia on 22nd June 1941. [More…]
If the Judge is of the opinion that the applicant is without adequate means to provide for his own defence, he is to certify to that effect to the Administrator, who may, if he thinks fit, make arrangements for the defence of the accused person by counsel or solicitor, and for the payment of the expenses of all material witnesses. [More…]
More generally, as announced by the Minister for Defence recently, the new machinery established in the Department of Defence to deal with pay and conditions of service for the armed forces will ensure that movements which occur anywhere in ‘ the civilian area of employment will be considered for their relevance in the Service situation. [More…]
In what way and lo what extent will the retirement benefits of members of the Defence Forces be affected by the proposals to preserve superannuation rights which he presented to the House on 25th September 1969. [More…]
The proposals for preservation of superannuation rights as announced on 25th September 1969 will be implemented for members of the Defence Forces by amendment of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1969 to be introduced in this session , of Parliament. [More…]
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What special advisers were co-opted for meetings of the Defence Committee in (a) 1967-68 and (b) 1968-69. [More…]
whether the instructions disclose a defence to the charge; [More…]
whether the defence is such that counsel is required to present it adequately; [More…]
Under the Poor Persons’ Legal Assistance Ordinance 1951 a person committed for trial on an indictable offence may apply to a Supreme Court Judge for legal assistance for his defence, and if the Judge considers it desirable that assistance should be provided the Administrator may arrange legal aid. [More…]
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How many times did the Defence Committee meet in (a) 1967-68 and (b) 1968-69. [More…]
Secretary, Department of Defence (Chairman) [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Who are the members of the Defence Committee. [More…]
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What numbers and types of aircraft has each of the five powers available or on order as its contribution to the Malaysia-Singapore integrated air defence system. [More…]
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Who are the members of the Defence (Industrial) Committee. [More…]
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The Press speculation to which I refer arises from the visit by the Minister for Defence, Mr Fraser, to the United States, and after Mr Fraser has returned and there is any statement to be made it will be made in this House. [More…]
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In a statement made on 22nd November 1969, the United States Secretary of Defence, Mr Laird, stated that the total draft call for January 1970, would be reduced from 35,000, the figure announced on 19th September 1969, to 12,500. [More…]
and (2) I refer the right honourable member to the United Kingdom Command Paper ‘Statement on the Defence Estimates 1970’, paragraphs 41 to 59, a copy of which is available in the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
I refer the right honourable member to the statement made in the House on 27th March 1958 by the then Minister for Defence. [More…]
Our defence organisation, like all other aspects of defence, is subject to constant review by the Government. [More…]
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The answer to the honourable member’s question is that, of Defence expenditure totalling SI, 164.7 million in 1968-69, approximately $835 million was spent in Australia. [More…]
What amount of the defence bill was spent within Australia in 1968-69. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: ls he able to provide any reports of long-term plant, animal and human ecology studies of the effects of chemicals used in the Vietnam war. [More…]
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Who arc the members of the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee. [More…]
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I suggest that that thought be carried into this House and that the Minister for Defence be permitted to put his point of view. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister seen the statement by the United States Secretary of Defence, Mr Laird, that America’s combat role in Vietnam will be ended in June next year? [More…]
Mr McMahon is expected to return to Australia on 18th May, and during his absence the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is acting as Minister for External Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will recall a question asked of the Prime Minister earlier this week by the honourable member for Stirling about naval exercises in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
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I want to say a word or two in very friendly defence. [More…]
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As indicated in my recent ministerial statement on the Australian Defence Aircraft Industry, there is some scope for rationalisation of activities in the industry, particularly in relation to the Government Aircraft Factories and Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Pty Ltd. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is so tickled by what he hopes I will say that he has decided to go out into his room and laugh his head off where nobody can see him. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to move together the amendment and the new clause which have been circulated in the name of the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
Will he before the resumption of the debate on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill provide an answerto my question No. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: (1)Is it a fact that a substantial number of changes have been made in the structure and performance of the F111 aircraft since it was ordered by Australia 6 years ago. [More…]
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When will final disbursement of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund surplus be made lo contributors. [More…]
The report of the interdepartmental dockyard docking facility committee is expected at about the end of this month, lt was my hope - I think the hope was shared by my colleague, the Minister for Defence - that the report would have been available at the end of May but, alas, our hopes did not materialise. [More…]
The design of the building w ll be such as to provide a measure of protection from atomic fall-0:,t in accordance with practices discussed with the Director of Civil Defence. [More…]
Civil defence programmes and planning proposals. [More…]
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I ask the Minister for Defence: What arrangements have been made for the projected withdrawal of the 8th Battalion from Vietnam and the training of Vietnamese troops to replace this Battalion? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Supply has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: ti) With the construction of the new Government Clothing Factory at Coburg, the premises at Brunswick are to be occupied by the Defence Printing Establishment. [More…]
This is a further step in the rationalisation of Defence activities. [More…]
The estimated costs of transferring selected items of plant from each of the existing units to the new Defence Printing Establishment are: [More…]
The number of staff presently employed at each unit on the printing activities which are to be transferred to the Defence Printing Establishment are: [More…]
Is the delay in making a decision in the Merchant Service Guild case due to the Minister’s Department or, as the case of the defence services, is it in the Treasury? [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The integrated Campbell Park/Russell Defence complex will draw staff from the whole of the Canberra residential area. [More…]
Is the proposed extension of the Defence complex into Campbell Park in accordance with the plan. [More…]
Why were the extensions of the Defence complex of offices not planned in the Belconnen Valley where most of those to be employed in the complex reside. [More…]
I wish to inform the House of the following appointments of senators and members to be members of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation: Senator Maunsell has been appointed by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Devitt has been appointed by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and Senator Byrne has been appointed by the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party in that House; Mr Jess, Mr Hamer and Mr Bonnett have been appointed by the Prime Minister and Mr Barnard and Mr Crean have been appointed by the Leader of the Opposition in this House. [More…]
Liberal-Country Party politicians and officials whether in New South Wales, Canberra or the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, have realised that their policies on such issues as development, welfare, education, financing of health services, rural problems, defence and foreign affairs are obviously not supported by the electorate. [More…]
He said that, if the time allotted to a member during the discussion of the Estimates was cut down to 10 minutes, on an item such as the defence estimates in which Defence, the Navy, the Army and Air Force are grouped everything a member had to say would be crowded into 10 minutes. [More…]
Pursuant to section 147 of the Defence Act 1903-1970 I present the annual report on the Royal Military College of Australia for the period 1st February 1969 to 31st January 1970. [More…]
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My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In view of the reported postponement of the 5-power defence conference, when does the Minister expect to sign an agreement with the Governments of Malaysia and Singapore regularising the garrisoning of Australian forces in those countries? [More…]
For the information of honourable members, 1 present the Defence Report 1970. [More…]
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What validity is there is Australia’s forward defence policy of containing Communism, which is based on the alignment of Malaysia against Communism and therefore against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China, especially when Malaysia is seeking guarantees from these 2 Communist powers for its own future? [More…]
How does the right honourable gentleman reconcile Australia’s forward defence policy with a policy of guaranteed neutrality for Malaysia? [More…]
Although the Minister foi Defence is not in a position to answer a question concerning episodes at Royal Australian Air Force bases yesterday, I ask him what progress has been made with a long-tanding matter, namely, the new military code which his predecessors successively said in November 1965 that it was intended to introduce at the earliest practicable date, in April 1966 that the Government was making the most extraordinary efforts to bring right up to date, and last September that it was hoped to introduce in the first session this year. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence and is supplementary to the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question without notice. [More…]
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How many Australian scientists and technologists are now employed at each United StatesAustralian defence or scientific installation or facility. [More…]
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Detachments of the Royal Australian Air Force also conducted air defence exercises with the Singaporean Air Force at two monthly intervals between November 1968 and July 1970. [More…]
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I address a further question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: How far has the withdrawal of the Eighth Battalion from Vietnam progressed? [More…]
The Minister for Defence will remember that I have asked him a number of questions concerning the revised pay scale , for senior officers of the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]
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What part is Australia playing in the defence of the United States through the provision of ICBM network tracking stations, aid to U2 Spy aircraft and nuclear submarines and other means. [More…]
Defence, more than one committee has been established to deal with particular aspects of the general subject. [More…]
Could such a highway be useful as a defence highway and as a beef road to provide access to markets, fattening areas or abattoirs for stock from the north. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
On how many occasions has the AttorneyGeneral or a personauthorised by him consented to proceedings being instituted under the Defence Forces Protection Act 1967. [More…]
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The series for ‘persons at work’ used in this calculation was derived, for the period 1948-49 to 1964-65, from the Statistician’s monthly series of civilian employees and defence forces and from Census work-force counts for groups not covered by the civilian employment series. [More…]
This series was linked with estimates for more recent years derived from the civilian labour force as measured by the Labour Force Surveys combined with figures for the defence forces. [More…]
I wish to ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
1 should like to ask the Leader of the House (Mr Snedden) to consider leaving the Defence Statement - Order of the Day No. [More…]
The House has had the opportunity of discussing defence only in the Estimates debate and honourable members have been restricted to speaking for 10 minutes. [More…]
Opposition has been the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) when he replied to the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
We have had no opportunity of discussing the statement and since the Government is all fired up about the importance of defence to Australia, is it not time that the Parliament had an opportunity to discuss this lengthy and detailed statement? [More…]
37 Defence - Ministerial statement - Motion to take note of paper: Resumption of debate on the motion, That the House take note of the paper. [More…]
Assuming that the question relates to reestablishment loans under the Defence ate-establish. [More…]
After the Bankruptcy Bill has been dealt with, the arrangement is that the honourable member for Melbourne Ports should then speak on the Loan (Defence) Bill. [More…]
So far as I knew, I was to speak on the Loan (Defence) Bill. [More…]
I am disappointed that the Defence Statement, which has not been discussed, is to be wiped from the notice paper. [More…]
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In view of the fact that such age groups are those most affected not only by the Federal Government’s defence and foreign policies but also by such policies as recruitment for the Public Service and quotas and fees for higher education, will he give an assurance that such legislation is passed before the next elections for this House? [More…]
There is simply no defence for it available. [More…]
I would like the Minister for Defence to give the House a further assurance that it is not the intention, and it has not been the intention, of the Government to reduce the sum of $500,000 for the housing of members of the Regional Force, or to reduce the other sums that he has mentioned, because of the financial stringency or austerity programme upon which we are now engaged? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
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Have the Commonwealth and New South Wales since held negotiations or delivered documents about the defence properties listed in his predecessor’s answer to me on 24th September 1969 (Hansard, page 1935). [More…]
1 wish to inform the House that the Minister for Defence (Mr. Malcolm Fraser) resigned from the Ministry on 8th March. [More…]
Defence portfolio and the Postmaster-General will also represent the Minister for. [More…]
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I believe, and I say this emphatically, that it is a disgrace that at this hour, with no Minister for Defence, with the whole place in disarray and with the country needing guidance of any sort, we should close down for 3 parliamentary sitting days. [More…]
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The Minister for Air has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: lt is standard procedure on any Air Force Base that guards bc posted on airfield defence duties, and that they be armed. [More…]
guards, some of whom- were armed, w.ere posted at RAAF Richmond for normal airfield defence duties at the lime the merino . [More…]
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In stating defence expenditures for the countries included in the sample, will he arrange for them to be expressed in $US so that they are comparable with the expenditures on foreign aid by those countries. [More…]
As to the basis on which we will be there and the administrative arrangements to be made, I think it would not be wise for me to enter into a debate on this or to go any further pending the return of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
What is the right honourable gentleman’s understanding of how the consultative clause of the new five-power defence agreement for South East Asia will work? [More…]
I will also find out from the Acting Minister for Defence the extent to which Australian people can visit them. [More…]
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Who are the members of the Defence Legal’ Services Committee of Review. [More…]
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Department of Defence: Defence Science Branch (Question No. [More…]
2900) Mr Barnard asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What is the approved establishment of the Defence Science Branch of his department. [More…]
The approved establishment of, the Defence Science Division totals 33 positions. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence, who will recall that as Prime Minister at the Five Power Conference in Canberra in June 1969 he said that the role of Australian forces- in Singapore and Malaysia was based on the concept of ‘the indivisability of defence of Malaya and Singapore’. [More…]
Will the Minister for Defence tell the House why, if Malaysia and Singapore are as anxious to have Australian forces as the Government says they are, we have to pay any money at all for the use of military bases in those countries, particularly as the United Kingdom and Australia paid for the construction of the bases in the first place? [More…]
What concerns me is that today the Parliament is being asked for more money for defence purposes and yet the Government has not accounted to the Australian people and to this House for $20m. [More…]
It is vital that the Government should be required to present a statement to this House on what has happened to past investment which have cost the Australian taxpayer $20m before the Parliament proceeds to allow further funds for defence purposes. [More…]
2) 1971, Income Tax (Withholding Tax Recoupment) Bill 1971, Income Tax (Bearer Debentures) Bill 1971, States Grants (Rural Reconstruction) Bill 1971, Loan (Farmers’ Debt Adjustment) Bill 1971, Papua and New Guinea Bill 1971, Stevedoring Industry Charge Bill 1971, Stevedoring Industry Charge Assessment Bill 1971, Superannuation Bill 1970, Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill (No. [More…]
Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill (No. [More…]
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Pursuant to section 14 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1970, I present the 22nd Annual Report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board on the operation of the Act for the year ended 30th June 1970, together with financial accounts and the report of the AuditorGeneral on those accounts. [More…]
Income Tax (Bearer Debentures) Bill 1971, the Superannuation Bill 1970 and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill (No. [More…]
Before the debate is resumed on this Bill I would like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill (No. [More…]
It is serious to the extent that even under this Bill the people in the defence forces are being denied the opportunity to have their point of view put, and that is creating a grave injustice. [More…]
Amongst these are important proposals to improve social service and repatriation benefits, to provide new forms of assistance for rural industries, notably wool, and to increase considerably our expenditure on defence. [More…]
Your Excellency, 1 have the honour, with reference to our conversation yesterday, to confirm the Australian Government’s offer to send to Viet Nam an infantry battalion of 800 men, with some 100 personnel in logistic support, to serve, with United States forces in assisting in the defence of the Republic of Viet Nam. [More…]
In summary, therefore, the Bill is totally unacceptable to the Government, believing, as it does, in a strong defence capability and, at the same time, accepting that there are those in the community who conscientiously object to military service and whose position should be recognised as, in fact, it is under the present provisions. [More…]
What efforts are being made to achieve standardisation of couplings among fire brigades and civil defence units? [More…]
What priority does this project have in civil defence planning? [More…]
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I ask: Why is it necessary to maintain conscription when the former Prime Minister and former Minister for Defence, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), said recently that he did not foresee in the next 10 years any danger of any invasion of Australia’s shores. [More…]
The Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Treasury, Defence, Trade and Indus try, National Development, External Territories and Primary Industry. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Pursuant to section 147 of the Defence Act 1903-1970, I present the annual report on the Royal Military College of Australia for the period 1st February 1970 to 31st January 1971. [More…]
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On what occasions and in what terms has Australia reported measures taken under paragraph 1 of Article IV of the South -East Asia Collective Defence Treaty to the Security Council of the United Nations. [More…]
Are (a) the Spratly Islands or (b) the Paracel Islands part of the territory of (i) any party to the South-East Asia Collective Defence Treaty or (ii) any Stale or territory which the parties have designated. [More…]
Did be reveal at his press conference on 27th May 1971 that after he had discussed the matter with the Minister for Defence, instructions were issued to revoke the order calling out the Pacific Islands Regiment. [More…]
What were the dates of (a) his discussion with the Minister for Defence and (b) the revocation of the order. [More…]
On what date did the parties to the SouthEast Asia Collective Defence Treaty designate Cambodia. [More…]
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For the information of honourable members I present the Defence Report 1971. [More…]
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What was the expenditure in 1970-71 on defence equipment for the Services and the Departments of Defence and Supply which has been purchased (a) in Australia and (b) overseas. [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence seen a report in the latest issue of Aviation News’ claiming that more Phantom aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force are definitely on the production line at the McDonnell-Douglas plant in the United States of America? [More…]
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asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: What payments were made in 1970-71 [More…]
The Minister for the Navy is the person who led the defence for the now completely discredited Clutha project, who upholds the desecration of Cockburn Sound and who has shown an insensitive attitude to the need to preserve Sydney’s beaches. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
A request was received from the American Ambassador by the Department of Defence on 1st October. [More…]
A request was received from the American Embassy in Canberra by the Department of Foreign Affairs on 30th September and was sent to the Department of Defence on 1st October. [More…]
However, I answer the question by saying that it came to my attention when the letter from the Minister for Defence to the Prime Minister was forwarded to me and I concurred in its being put to the Prime Minister. [More…]
and (2) The national service scheme has been and continues to be a significant element of the effort expended to ensure the maintenance of an effective defence capability in this country. [More…]
Why does the Government continue with the conscription of young Australians in view of a recent statement by the former Prime Minister and Minister for Defence (Hon. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a newspaper report of his meeting last Saturday with the Council for the Defence of Government Schools in Tasmania which represents him as saying that the amount of indirect aid to non-State schools is not fully known? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether a request was received from the Malaysian Government for Sabre aircraft to be provided in addition to those which were supplied in 1969. [More…]
So far as Pine Gap and some of the other Australian and United States joint defence establishments in Australia are concerned, the position is that there is a limit to the very small number of people who have a need to know in this area. [More…]
In view of the fact that the United States Deputy Secretary for Defence, Mr David Packard, is to visit United States establishments in Australia, including Pine Gap and Woomera, can the Acting Prime Minister state whether it is possible to arrange for member of this Parliament to visit those establishments? [More…]
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How many horse depots and farms and stations for the breeding of horses are maintained by the Army under the powers given to the GovernorGeneral by section 63(1) (dc) of the Defence Act. [More…]
The Defence Standards Laboratories regularly test products to examine their suitability to meet various requirements of Government Departments, mainly of the Defence Group. [More…]
Have the Defence Standards Laboratories (a) prepared and (b) published reports on any automotive trade products since the report on Bardah (Hansard, 20th September 1960, page 1123 and 9th November 1960, page 2709); if so, on what products. [More…]
In the case put forward by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard), the Opposition’s shadow Minister for Defence, he referred to the fact that a seaman on HMAS ‘Sydney’, which is used for transporting troops to Vietnam, is not entitled to the benefits of the war service homes legislation. [More…]
I would like to see a bipartisan policy on defence and foreign affairs so long as it was our policy. [More…]
First of ali the Leader of the Opposition, while saying recently that a Labor government would maintain about the same expenditure of resources on defence as the present Government, went on to name a figure of between 3.2 per cent and 3.5 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
If the lower figure of 3.2 per cent were accepted this would immediately mean a reduction in defence expenditure of about $80m. [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence aware that a well known radio commentator stated on Sunday night that the McMahon Government and the Labor Opposition had obviously reached a bipartisan consensus on defence and foreign policy? [More…]
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(2)I am informed thatthe organisation is not ah offshoot of the Burwood Civil Defence Organisation.I am not aware of its functions beyond those referred to in the article quoted by the honourable member. [More…]
I am informed by the Civil Defence Authorities that the organisation docs not use facilities provided from Commonwealth or State revenue. [More…]
If so, can he say whether this association is an offshoot of the Burwood Civil Defence Organisation and is designed to help protect the local residents. [More…]
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The standard of houses and, in particular, CSHA houses is presently being considered by an Interdepartmental Housing Committee convened by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I present an interim report of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation to inform the House of the progress of the Committee’s inquiry to date and to set down the present intentions of the Committee regarding its future programme. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Defence Personnel: Accommodation (Question No. [More…]
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What has been the percentage of Defence expenditure allocated to each of the recruiting branches of the three Services for the year ending 30th June 1961 and each year thereafter. [More…]
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Did Prime Minister Menzies approve in 1960 the establishment of (a) an interdepartmental committee comprising representatives of the Public Service Board (chairman), Departments of the Treasury and Defence and the PostmasterGeneral’s Department to co-ordinate automatic data processing activities of the Commonwealth Government Administration and (b) a policy committee comprising representatives of the Prime Minister’s Department (chairman), Treasury, Public Service Board and Universities Commission to coordinate plans for the development of electronic computer facilities for scientific and technical purposes as between Australian universities and Commonwealth departments, authorities and instrumentalities. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to a statement by the Leader of the Opposition in New Zealand during a recent visit to Singapore to the effect that if his Party came into power at the forthcoming general election in New Zealand it would retain its troops in Singapore even if the Labor Party came into power in Australia and withdrew its forces. [More…]
1 ask the Minister for Defence: Has he any information available to confirm or refute the presence of a United Slates Strategic Air Force aircraft type SR71A - a reconnaissance type - at a Royal Australian Air Force base in South Australia? [More…]
There has been some discussion between the scientific side of the Department of Defence and representatives of the United States on the possibility of carrying out research in that area, but the SR71A aircraft would certainly not be used if such research were conducted. [More…]
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Traffic signals are being installed at the intersection of Fairbairn Avenue with the access road to the new Campell Park Defence offices. [More…]
A joint Defence/ Army team visited Western Australia in August 1970 as the first step in the detailed examination of the feasibility of establishing a task force base in that area. [More…]
The results of that examination are under study in the Defence Department together with the implications relating to the use of alternative sites elsewhere. [More…]
As 60 often happens in this House, we move with great speed from one subject to another which is not really very related to the first, in this case from defence and foreign affairs to domestic airline policy in Australia. [More…]
organisations whose membership is restricted to members of a particular profession, trade, industry, association or union and the Defence forces, are not eligible for membership of the Association. [More…]
the White Paper on defence and on some of the comments which were made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) when that Paper was presented. [More…]
But one thing that I am pleased about is that the presentation of his Paper from the advisers of the Government should, I hope once and for all, put paid to the silly discussion of whether we should have Fortress Australia or forward defence. [More…]
Clearly what has been presented by our advisers is that what we need for the defence of Australia is, firstly, a base in Australia which can be properly defended and, secondly, a capacity to send from that base forces which can operate in cooperation with other countries in the region in order to help them to repel aggression so that aggression will be held farther away from our shores. [More…]
There is no confrontation here as there has been in these arguments in the past between Fortress Australia and forward defence; nor should there be because history has shown us in wars over the years that Napoleon was defeated not by forward defence but by Fortress Britain being able to send forces abroad to overcome a dictator; and that Hitler was defeated not by forward defence but by [More…]
Therefore I believe, and I make no apology for this, that there is some measure of agreement now, which there was not before, between the approach of the Opposition and that of the Government, that what we need is a capacity to defend ourselves, to defend our base and, from that base, to support regional defence. [More…]
The right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell) will remember that in the 1966 election campaign he made statements on defence, that his Deputy Leader made statements on defence, and that they were quite far apart from each other. [More…]
United States Defence Bases in Australia (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
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and (2) The normal close liaison was maintained with the Services to obtain suitable work for the Factory and, in line with the Government’s responsibility to preserve essential defence capacity, special emphasis was placed, as from June 1971, on seeking commercial work from private industry and Commonwealth and State Departments and Instrumentalities. [More…]
and (4) For 1972, the Department of Supply is continuing the policy of actively seeking defence and commercial orders. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Does he agree that personnel undertaking any such study should include representatives of a number of government departments, such as the Departments of Defence, Education, Civil Aviation, etc., and that this wide-ranging inquiry should take place as soon as possible? [More…]
It has been put to study in particular by the Service departments and by the Department of Defence. [More…]
I direct to the Minister for Defence a question relating to the report of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Defence will make a statement to the House on it just as soon as he can. [More…]
Pursuant to section 14 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971, I present the Twenty-third Annual Report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board on the operation of the Act for the year ended 30th June 1971, together with financial accounts. [More…]
Actually the question of an award to Major Clark or any serviceman involves the 3 Services, and therefore the matter comes under the authority of my colleague the Minister for Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many applications were received from each State for assistance under the Defence (Reestablishment) Act between 1st January 1966 and 31st December 1971. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
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asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Can the Prime Minister advise this House when the Government will be in a position to announce a decision in respect of the report of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits legislation? [More…]
The first duty of a government is to ensure the effective defence of its country against external attacks. [More…]
This is a duty which many supporters of the Australian Labor Party all too often forget, yet 1 am sure they would be the first to be viciously critical of defence preparations if danger ever threatened. [More…]
It is very easy for shortsighted or subversive people to sneer at the deeds of defence preparation. [More…]
It is the duty of the Government - of any government - to ignore such people and to provide the defence forces necessary for the freedom and independence of our country. [More…]
It is fatally easy to take a short range view, to say that there is no immediate threat and deduce, therefore, that we should give low priority to defence. [More…]
Clearly the strategic lessons of the Second World War have not been assimilated and neither does Mr Barnard appear to have looked into the reason for NATO’s forward defence posture in Europe. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
i have been misrepresented in the report of an address by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the Defence Report 1972. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: What precautions is the Army taking to prevent arms and explosives from falling into the possession of terrorist groups? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Complete records are not available of orders placed direct on industry by overseas countries, however, some information on defence contracts placed by United States sources is available and the details are as follows - [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was the (a) value and (b) general nature of the defence orders placed by the United States of America in Australia and processed by his Department in 1971-72. [More…]
Can he say what was the (a) value and (b) general nature of any defence orders placed direct on industry in Australia by the United States of America in that year. [More…]
Pursuant to section 147 of the Defence Act 1903-1970, I present the annual report of the Royal Military College of Australia for the period 1st February 1971 to 31st January 1972. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was the (a) value and (b) general nature of the defence orders placed by Singapore in Australia and processed by his Department in 1971-72. [More…]
Can he say what was the (a) value and (b) general nature of any defence orders placed direct on industry in Australia by Singapore in that year. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was the (a) value and (b> general nature of the defence orders placed by Malaysia in Australia and processed by his Department in 1971-72. [More…]
Can he say what was the (a) value and (b) general nature of any defence orders placed direct on industry in Australia by Malaysia in that year. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was the (a) value- and (b) general nature of the defence orders placed by New Zealand in Australia and processed by his Department in 1971-72. [More…]
Can he say what was the (a) value and (b) general nature of any defence orders placed direct on industry in Australia by New Zealand in that year. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was the (a) value and (b) general nature of the defence orders placed by Britain in Australia and processed by his Department in 1971-72. [More…]
Can he say what was the (a) value and (b) general nature of any defence orders placed direct on industry in Australia by Britain in that year. [More…]
For how long has the Defence Standards Laboratories been registered as an approved laboratory by the National Association of Testing Authorities. [More…]
How many commercial organisations have paid the Defence Standards Laboratories to undertake tests in each of the last 5 years and what were the total payments in each year. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I refer the Prime Minister to the statement made by his predecessor to the Five Power Conference held in this Parliament House on 19th June 1969, when the right honourable member for Higgins said that the Australian forces in the Malaysia-Singapore region have ‘the objective of assisting - and I emphasise the word “assisting” - in defence against external aggression or subversion which can be clearly seen to stem from without the region and can be clearly seen to be supported by external regimes. [More…]
Was the large fullscale advertisement extolling the virtues of the Dutch DDG and also the design capacity of the shipbuilding consortia interested in building it which appeared in a defence supplement to the ‘Financial Review’ paid for by the Dutch consortia involved or by some agency of the Dutch Government? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: Is it a fact that the shadow Minister for Defence recently visited Holland for the purpose of inspecting defence equipment. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Expenditure in 1971-72 on defence equipment for the services and the Departments of Defence and Supply amounted to (a) purchases in Australia, $183. [More…]
The value of equipment received by the Services and Departments of Defence and Supply in 1971-72 was: (a) procured in Australia, $167.2m; (b) imported, $58.6m. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was the expenditure in 1971-72 on defence equipment for the Services and the Departments of Defence and Supply which have been purchased (a) in Australia and (b) overseas. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Finally, is the support of the Minister for an all volunteer Army in marked contrast to the views of his colleague, the Minister for Defence, who favours an eternal commitment to conscription? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence,upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Can the Minister for Defence tell the House how many troops will be withdrawn from Singapore this year? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question which is supplementary to the question I asked him earlier. [More…]
I wonder whether he would reconcile for me the answer which he gave to that question when he said the Government alone would determine the defence policy’ with the statement made publicly a week or so ago that it was a democratic process for the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party to direct the policies of a Labor government, with particular reference to troop movements from Singapore. [More…]
Does the Minister for Defence agree that it is strange indeed that a man who had served him faithfully for 6 years should tender a resignation to take rapid effect without giving any reasons whatsoever for such tendering? [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s apparent acceptance of what he regards as the purported democratic direction of the Government by decisions of the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party, will he assure this House that in matters relating to defence the decisions taken by the Government will be determined by the Government alone? [More…]
The honourable member should be well aware that any decisions relating to defence in this Parliament will be made by the Government and those decisions will be conveyed to the people, lt is the Government’s responsibility to make decisions relating to defence. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether he had discussions with the Secretary of the Department of Defence about whether Mr Clem Lloyd was to be included in or excluded from the Australian party which was to have discussions with Lord Carrington and his advisers. [More…]
Did the Minister for Defence receive no information from Mr Clem Lloyd, either volunteered by Mr Lloyd or requested from him by the honourable gentleman, as to the reason why Mr Lloyd was leaving his staff, until the time of Mr Lloyd’s statement made yesterday? [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It is on the minute paper of the Department of Defence and it reads, in part: [More…]
I had in mind also the obligations existing between the 2 Governments that discussions on certain fields of Defence information would take place only in the presence of persons who had been especially briefed about the subject matter. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence, Minister for the Navy, Minister for the Army, Minister for Air and Minister for Supply. [More…]
Secretary of the Department of Defence. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence, Minister for the Navy, Minister for the Army, Minister for Air and Minister for Supply. [More…]
When the honourable gentleman tabled in the House yesterday, a minute addressed to him by Sir Arthur Tange, Secretary of the Department of Defence, did he at the time, of tabling have any reservations about his acceptance of all that was contained in the document? [More…]
If I had been asked whether it had been possible for me to give effect to the Jess Committee’s recommendations within a fortnight of my taking office I would have answered that after consultations with officials of the Treasury and Department of Defence and my colleague, the Federal Treasurer, I had instructed that the recommendations of the Jess Committee be given effect to by way of legislation. [More…]
The former Minister for Supply will understand how difficult it was for him to consult the various Ministers in charge of the defence forces of this country. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Will the honourable gentleman advise the House whether the onerous character of his duties as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Defence, Minister for the Navy, Minister for the Army, Minister for Air and Minister for Supply are such as enable him effectively to discharge the responsibilities which he holds in these various positions? [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for Defence, Minister for the Navy, Mini.ter for the Army, Minister for Air and Minister for Supply. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence and Minister for the Army. [More…]
Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee [More…]
Minister for Defence [More…]
1 just want to point out to the House and to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) that members of the armed services stationed at Butterworth near Penang have mentioned to me lately that they feel that their welfare could be improved considerably if on humanitarian grounds the Government were to organise periodic charter flights so that the relations of those people who are up there for a long term could visit the serving personnel in those areas. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence and Deputy Prime Minister. [More…]
If he genuinely holds the regard for Sir Arthur Tange which he expressed in a television interview last week, particularly as the Prime Minister has since expressed the same high regard for Sir Arthur, will the Minister for Defence take action, which only he can take, to remove the cloud hanging over the reputation of Sir Arthur? [More…]
Senior officers of the Department of Defence and of the Navy also attended meetings of the Committee. [More…]
As the spokesman for defence at that time, I personally gave no such direction myself. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
At question time early this week the Minister for Defence said that Omega was in no way related to the Department of Defence. [More…]
Here We have both the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Foreign Affairs saying that the Omega station is in no way related to thenareas of responsibility and yet it will be referred to the committee by the Prime Minister. [More…]
Can we have some better definition of what is a foreign affairs responsibility and what is a defence responsibility? [More…]
Defence Standards Laboratories [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence representing the Minister for Repatriation and, if necessary, the Minister for Health and the Minister for Social Security: What action has the Government taken to restore the medical benefits of the wives of totally and permanently incapacitated pensioners who were so affected by the last Budget? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Has the Prime Minister any certain information to give this House and the nation in relation to the actual charges laid against these men, the time and manner of their trial, whether the accused were permitted legal representation in their defence, the type and circumstances of their custody, the nature of their interrogation before trial and why the Australian Government was not informed of this event? [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence, Minister for the Navy, Minister for the Army, Minister for Air and Minister for Supply. [More…]
Did the Minister for Defence see the program ‘Federal File* in which it was alleged that Australia had told [More…]
I thank the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair) for his understanding of the situation in relation to the messages from the Senate about this matter and the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister for Defence by stating that in 1951 the Department of the Army made a decision to establish a central ordnance depot in South Australia. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many people residing or wishing to reside on farms have applied for a Defence Service Homes loan during the last 3 years. [More…]
I direct my question to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether there is any truth in a statement which was made in the news this morning that it is possible that the Citizen Military Forces will be disbanded. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Victorian State President of the Returned Services League was reported in the Melbourne ‘Sun’ of 15 January as saying that the Minister for Defence, prior to the election and when he was Deputy Leader of the Opposition and spokesman on defence and repatriation matters, had informed the President of the British subbranch of the Returned Servicemen’s League that if elected the Australian Labor Party would amend the appropriate Act to provide war service homes loans for British exservicemen resident in Australia. [More…]
It should be pointed out at this stage that the future of the Pacific Islands Regiment and its role are matters being discussed between departmental officials from Papua New Guina and officials from the Department of Defence. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence why the Pacific Islands Regiment is still being trained in internal security techniques notwithstanding the Minister’s own denial of such a role in the future. [More…]
That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent (a) a Defence Force Retirement end Death Benefits Bill, a Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill, a Superannuation Bill (No. [More…]
2) and a Defence (Parliamentary Candidates) Bill being presented forthwith and read a first time together and one motion being moved without delay and one question being put in regard to, respectively, the second readings, the committee’s report stage, and the third leadings, of the four Bills together, (b) the consideration of the Bills in one committee of the whole, and (c) messages from the Governor-General recommending appropriations for the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Bill, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill and the Superannuation Bill (No. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: Have the merits of the new Australian developed automatic rifle been brought to his notice? [More…]
Have officers involved in defence production had an opportunity to assess the value of the weapon? [More…]
If not, will an evaluation be made and if the weapon meets defence requirements will arrangements then be made to have the weapon manufactured at the Commonwealth Small Arms Factory, Lithgow? [More…]
Before the debate is resumed on these 4 Bills I would like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering these Bills, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill and the Defence Force (Papua New Guinea) Retirement Benefits Bill as they are associated measures. [More…]
by leave - The purpose of this statement is to provide the Parliament with a broad view of the decisions that this Government has taken and the measures it has initiated to give effect to the Government’s defence policies. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
138 of 1972), which were being conducted within the Defence group of Departments, yet been completed? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
-I have received advice from the Leader of the Opposition that he has nominated Mr Peacock to be a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in the place of Mr N. H. Bowen. [More…]
Before I do so, might I be allowed the luxury of saying as a former fighter pilot that, if I heard the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) correctly, I would hate to be flying a Mirage into the 1980s. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The committee referred to has completed its work which was to provide advice to the Defence Force Development Committee. [More…]
The latter Committee which has the responsibility to advise the Minister for Defence on Defence Force structure matters has in turn presented its advice to me. [More…]
In the course of that statement I revealed that those decisions were based on the recommendations of the Defence Force Development Committee. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
319) Dr Forbes asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Will he make available to the Parliament the Defence advice he receives on this matter . [More…]
Determination of the level of defence expenditure arbitrarily by reference solely to some previous level or as proportion of an economic aggregate such as Gross Domestic Product is unrealistic. [More…]
The level of defence expenditure determined by this government will take into account the size, composition and capabilities appropriate to our evaluation of the strategic situation. [More…]
In this regard a number of studies now being made, such as the location of defence facilities, will have an important bearing. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Did he say that the defence expenditure under the evel of expenditure is to be arrived at (a) as the level it was under the McMahon Government; if so, has he carried out any examination of die number of years that that rate of expenditure would be held before it was reduced. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Can the Minister for Defence explain his proposals with respect to the new disciplinary code for the armed services, so that those prepared to seek publicity but not knowledge may be reassured? [More…]
I wished to direct my question to the Minister for Defence but I cannot see him in the House. [More…]
Defence placed an order for 79 houses to meet the needs of naval personnel at HMAS Stirling’ on Garden Island, Cockburn Sound. [More…]
The matter has been the subject of some controversy between the Department of Defence and the Western Australian housing authority, the former preferring land at Kwinana and the latter preferring land at East Rockingham. [More…]
Whether or not the provision of the houses is to be delayed will depend upon the priorities of the Department of Defence. [More…]
In view of the statement made by the Minister for Defence on 22 August last, is the Minister for Housing in a position to say when the houses will be constructed, how many are involved, where they will be located and the standard of the homes to be built? [More…]
Is the Minister for Air aware that there is no national aircraft museum and that many of the sole remaining examples of various types of service aircraft adorn the entrances of our defence establishments? [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence seen reports that Russia has established supply buoys in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia, apparently as part of the Indian Ocean supply system for Russian submarines and warships? [More…]
Can the Minister assure the people of Western Australia that the defence services in that State are adequate for the continuing security of Western Australia? [More…]
The Department of Defence had not made any submission to me about a proposed alternative site for Sydney’s second airport. [More…]
Since the site at Galston was chosen for Sydney’s second airport I have had some discussions with the Department of Defence. [More…]
At this stage no information has been received officially by me from the Department of Defence or the Department of Air concerning any interruption to airport operations at Richmond. [More…]
I have asked for information from the Department of Defence and when that information is available it will be given due consideration. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Mr Speaker, I seek the leave of the House to make a brief statement on the matters covered by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) in reply to a question asked of him. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Is it a fact that the defence policies of the present Government, coupled with the breaking of its clear pre-election pledge to maintain defence spending at 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product, has caused a drop in morale in the 3 Armed Services? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
These followed decisions made by the Department of Defence concerning some cutback in the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
I have not yet received a reply from the Department of Defence concerning these representations but I will undertake to obtain information about the request made by the organisation. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What committees have been established to inquire into the future of the defence aircraft industry. [More…]
The question of the Omega installation in Australia was referred by the Government, as one of the 2 initial matters for inquiry, to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
‘For the information of honourable members, I present the interim report of the Director of Defence Service Homes with statements and balance sheet for the year ended 30 June 1973. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
With reference to his statement that there will be retrenchment of employees at munitions establishments due to the reduction in orders from the Defence Services, will he state what steps he has taken, or proposes to take, in order to provide sufficient orders from other sources to ensure continuity of employment at the Bendigo Ordnance Factory which also relies heavily on the Defence Services to provide continuous employment. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Did he at any time give an undertaking or commitment of any kind to the British Minister for Defence, Lord Carrington, to the effect that Australia would maintain its forces in Singapore under the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
Does the Minister for Defence recall my question to him on Tuesday of this week concerning the resignation of senior Army officers? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
In January 1973 the Joint Force Papua New Guinea, established in February 1972, was redesignated as the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. [More…]
The uniformed strength of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force at 31 July 1973 was approximately 4,100. [More…]
The total number of expatriate officers in the Papua New Guinea Defence Force at 31 July was 270. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many officers of the Australian Armed Forces or officials of the Department of Defence are currently employed in defence-related tasks in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Government has decided that the vessel is to be built at Williamstown Naval Dockyard and this was announced in the Defence Statement presented to the House on 22 August 1973. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
There are no current plans to remove RAAF activities from Richmond, but you will be aware that I have instituted a special committee to review the location of al Defence establishments against current and foreseeable requirements, with full regard to be given to environmental and other community aspects. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
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asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
My question to the Minister for Defence concerns the gathering of defence information. [More…]
Does the honourable gentleman acknowledge that in the collation of information relating to this nation’s defence it is legitimate for the nation to use such sources as may offer relevant information irrespective of the political complexion of those sources? [More…]
Will he give this House an assurance that in the gathering of defence information it will be defence exigencies which will be in command and not political prejudice? [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
On 19 December 1972 the Minister issued a statement giving information on the proposed reorganisation of the defence group of departments. [More…]
The merger of all defence departments bar the Department of Supply into one department was to have been completed by the end of 1973. [More…]
How far has this defence group reorganisation progressed? [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the report of the Defence Legal Services Committee of Review dated November 1971. [More…]
Is he also aware of demands by the Victorian Premier at a recent Premiers meeting for an additional $70m to finance his State Budget and of demands by front bench members of the Opposition in this chamber that defence spending should be increased by $300m? [More…]
On behalf of the Minister for Defence I present for the information of honourable members the Defence Report 1973. [More…]
The Department of Defence, through the Department of Supply, placed period contracts with ISI Pty Ltd and other contractors to perform clerical work for the Cataloguing Authorityin converting the Services’ inventories of equipment to the Defence Cataloguing System. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Did the Department of Defence have a contract with a firm called ISI Pty Ltd to supply clerical staff. [More…]
A recommendation came to me from the Department of the Navy and the Department of Defence on whether HMAS ‘Sydney’ should undertake a refit which would involve the Department of Defence in the expenditure of more than $lm to extend the life of the ‘Sydney’ until 1974. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: Why is the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney’ being paid off and dismantled when it would have been ideally the most economical way to freight the Chinook helicopters from the US, as was originally intended, and also the most economical way to withdraw the Australian troops and equipment from Singapore? [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence - (Honourable members interjecting) - [More…]
I wish to ask a question of Minister for Defence. [More…]
For the information of honourable members and in accordance with an undertaking the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) gave recently in answer to questions by the honourable members for Barker (Dr Forbes) andFlinders (Mr Lynch), I present a statement making available further information on the re-shaping of defence activities. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I suggest that the order agreed to by the Committee on 12 September for the consideration of proposed expenditure be varied by postponing the consideration of the proposed expenditures for the defence services. [More…]
figures include the Maritime element of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. [More…]
I have listened to 2 speeches by Opposition spokesmen on defence. [More…]
Firstly, everything should be done to prevent a repetition of this kind of incident, and secondly, we should look at the possible defence deficiencies to which the Minister has referred. [More…]
Here is equipment that the defence people should have but did not have. [More…]
The decision to cut back the number of Army apprentices entering the the course was once again, a decision made by the Defence Force Development Committee, and I acepted its recommendation. [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence aware that his colleague, the Minister for Labour, announced on 13 November a national scheme to increase the number of apprentice training programs? [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Where and when is this dismantling of Australia’s defences going to end? [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the low morale that the actions of this Government have created in the defence forces in general and the Navy in particular? [More…]
by the present Government in terms of defence and improving the conditions of serving members of the forces in the last .1 1 months than was done in the 23 years of office of the previous Government. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In view of the importance of the provision in the future of additional national parks, and the promises made by the previous Government that rationalisation of land presently used for defence purposes on the Sydney Harbour foreshores would permit the granting of that land to form part of the Sydney foreshores national park, will the Minister assure the House that this proposed plan is not being shelved, that the land will be made available on just terms and that the proposed national park will not be jeopardised by the use of the proposal as a bargaining point with the New South Wales Government on other matters? [More…]
I ask leave to make a statement on the reorganisation of the defence group of departments. [More…]
I ask for leave to make a statement on the reorganisation of the Defence group of departments. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What were the findings of the Defence strategists following the completion of Operation Dark Moon as to the involvement of various Service units which participated. [More…]
Did the exercise reveal the need for the purchase of advance Defence equipment, particularly in relation to personnel carriers and troop transport aircraft. [More…]
Following a review of defence activities, a 20 per cent reduction is to be made to previously, planned Naval steaming time. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
If the position is as stated, is this course being taken in an endeavour to further cut defence expenditure. [More…]
Has the Attorney-General’s attention been drawn to reports that members of the Commonwealth Police Force stationed in Bendigo may be forced to transfer to other places as a result of recent Budget cuts in Defence expenditure and the possible effect on the Ordnance Factory in Bendigo. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the plight of Mr F. J. Stephens, Leathergoods Manufacturer, of Rivervale, Western Australia, over cost increases affecting Defence contracts. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice [More…]
Tabled by Mr Barnard: Re-organisation of the Defence Group of Departments. [More…]
Tabled by Mr Barnard: Defence Legal Services - Report of the Committee of Review (November 1971) - 7 November 1973. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Can the Minister state whether persons who were insured under the Defence Service homes insurance scheme are being compensated? [More…]
The honourable member in his question referred to the Defence Service homes insurance scheme. [More…]
A total of 900 claims were made on the Defence Service homes insurance scheme arising out of the floods in Brisbane, all of which were met at a total cost of approximately $2m. [More…]
It seems to me that some consideration could be given to expanding this principle to insurees other than those who are covered by the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
I call the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will remember that on a number of occasions he has quoted the advice of the Defence Forces Development Committee as justification for the Government’s defence decisions. [More…]
In directing my question to the Minister for Defence I refer to the publication of 24 February this year of the ‘Sunday Independent’, a Western Australian newspaper. [More…]
Will the Minister for Defence inform the House of the extent of the Royal Australian Air Force assistance given during the recent floods in north Queensland and the total cost of such assistance? [More…]
The Minister for Defence will have noted that Admiral Peek, who recently retired as Chief of the Naval Staff, has even more recently criticised the Government’s strategic assessment, particularly the assessment that there is little threat to Australia for the next 10 to 15 years. [More…]
I have pointed out to the House before that the strategic basis document was compiled by the Defence Committee. [More…]
Its membership embraced the Secretary of the Department of Defence, the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, the Chief of the Naval Staff, the Chief of the General Staff, the Chief of the Air Staff, the Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Department, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
So the honourable member will appreciate that this was a wide ranging committee which comprised not only the top members of the defence forces but indeed the secretaries of the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of the Treasury and the Prime Minister’s Department as well. [More…]
In view of the many fields in which the Australian Government has insurance undertakings, such as the Export Payments Insurance Corporation, the Housing Loans Insurance Corporations and the Defence Service homes insurance scheme, which were in the main created by professedly non-socialist Liberal-Country Party Governments, does the Minister agree that there is an urgent need to rationalise these undertakings? [More…]
When the present Government came into office steps were also taken to reshape the Commonwealth’s participation in a natural disaster organisation, upon which the Minister for Defence, the Deputy Prime Minister, has reported to the House. [More…]
I have been misrepresented on 4 counts by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
I referred to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. [More…]
Bui within the Papua New Guinea Defence Force there is still a Pacific Islands Regiment as one element of that Force. [More…]
Can the Treasurer say how public spending could be reduced while simultaneously undertaking additional expenditure in excess of S 1,000m for defence and other activities, and reducing taxation by at least $600m, as promised by the Leader of the Opposition and other Opposition spokesmen? [More…]
Has the Minister for Education seen reports of Opposition spokesmen promising to cut public expenditure and reduce taxation by at least $600m while simultaneously stepping up very greatly government outlays for defence and health insurance? [More…]
Does the Minister for Defence recall that in a reply given to the honourable member for Gellibrand by him in this House on 23 May last he said: [More…]
Recently I have made a number of statements concerning the defence of continental Australia and, more particularly, Western Australia. [More…]
The report on this matter has now been completed and is available for my consideration, together with the Defence Force Development Committee. [More…]
I address my question to the Deputy Prime Minister in his capacity of Minister for Defence. [More…]
I refer to the 5-year defence procurement plan announced last night and reported in this morning’s Press. [More…]
In view of the increasing naval activity in the Indian Ocean and the increasing significance of the Indian Ocean region to the defence of Australia, I ask: Will the 8 long range reconnaissance planes which he is to procure be stationed in Western Australia? [More…]
If not, where will they ‘be stationed and what will the Minister do for the defence of Western Australia? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Ever since the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) took up his portfolio he has been defending the country with words and very little else. [More…]
He added formidably to that record this afternoon with 28 more pages of words in his swan song as Minister; for Defence. [More…]
The Minister rushed out ‘ of a Cabinet meeting and announced the Government’s decisions to the Press on Sunday night, and it has taken until today for the Department of Defence officers to write the statement that he made today. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Civilians are not employed in the Defence Forces as such. [More…]
The total reduction in the civilian manpower strength in the Defence Department (including those attached to the Navy, Army and RAAF) and the Department of Supply from 30 June 1973 to 31 December 1973, was 2,521. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was the reduction in the civilian manpower strength of the Defence Forces in the last six months of 1973. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
When will the Government increase the loan limit on defence service homes loans from $12,000 to $15,000 as promised. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present annual reports for 1972-73 of the following research and development establishments: Aeronautical Research Laboratories; Central Studies Establishment; Defence Standards Laboratories; Weapons Research Establishment. [More…]
The honourable member was referring, of course, to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
I have received messages from the Senate concurring in the resolutions of the House relating to the appointment of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Joint Committee on Prices, Joint Committee on the Northern Territory and Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory, and agreeing that the resolutions have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I remind the Minister of his statements that Papua New Guinea is virtually exercising control over its defence forces. [More…]
Bearing in mind that those forces have many hundreds of Australian servicemen seconded to them, what restraints has this Government placed on their activities within those defence forces? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The estimate was given on 24 February 1974, the date when I opened the first stage of the Defence Service Homes estate at North Rocks. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What were the intakes of each defence training establishment in (a) 1970, (b) 1971, (c) 1972, (d) 1973 and (e) 1974 to date. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
No charge is made to the Department of Defence. [More…]
Alternative arrangements would entail cost to the Department of Defence in terms of finance and manpower. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How much does the provision of this train cost the Department of Defence each year. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Certain specialised garments of heavier materials are issued to members whose duties involve exposure over long periods to heavy rain or spray, but the normal Naval foul weather clothing used by the large majority of Naval personnel is very similar to that provided for the other two Services and is made from material to a Defence Specification which is common to all three Services. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What proposals are at present under consideration for Defence establishments or facilities in Western Australia. [More…]
I wish to inform the House of the following nominations of senators and members to be members of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence: Mr Berinson, Mr Coates, Mr Cross, Mr Dawkins, Mr Fry, Mr Kerin, Dr Klugman and Mr Oldmeadow have been nominated by the Prime Minister; Mr Connolly, Dr Forbes, Mr Giles and Mr Peacock have been nominated by the Leader of the Opposition; Mr Corbett and Mr Lucock have been nominated by the Leader of the Australian Country Party; Senators Drury, Mcintosh, Primmer and Wheeldon have been nominated by the Leader of the Government in the Senate; Senators Carrick and Sim have been nominated by the Leader of the Opposition in that House; and Senator Maunsell has been nominated by the [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the interim annual report of the Director of Defence Service Homes for the year ended 30 June 1 974. [More…]
-In that case I will not say anything about the Budget, but I will say something about defence. [More…]
Let us have a look at the defence situation. [More…]
I think the only comment I could make about the Budget without being out of order is that defence was the last item in a Budget which was not in alphabetical order. [More…]
Pursuant to section 147 of the Defence Act 1903-70 I present for the information of honourable members the annual report on the Royal Military College of Australia for the period 1 February 1973 to 31 January 1974. [More…]
Did Senator Bishop, acting on behalf of the Minister for Defence, intimate in December 1973 that Australian servicemen would not be permitted to accept or wear foreign awards in relation to the Vietnam war. [More…]
How often are exercises in civil defence preparedness conducted in Departments, for example, in evacuation procedures of office buildings in the event of fire. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I announced in a Press statement on Wednesday, 25 September- yesterday that pensions granted in respect of members of the defence forces who retired before 1 July 1974 are to be increased. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I refer to the annual pension adjustments for pre-October 1972 for Defence Forces Retirement Benefit pensioners. [More…]
These flights are in addition to patrols made by the Departments of Customs and Excise and Defence, which are mounting near continuous patrols in and around the highest risk areas during the August to October and March to May periods when the majority of intrusions occur. [More…]
Which sections, branches, divisions, and authorities which were part of the former Department of Supply have been transferred since its abolition to the Department of Defence. [More…]
In the meantime, administrative and operational control of the Research and Development Division of the former Department of Supply has been transferred to the Department of Defence. [More…]
Department of Defence. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to reports that the activities at the Woomera rocket range in South Australia are to be phased down and the range is to be placed in mothballs? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
A program of research into over-the-horizon radar and its application to Australian defence- known as Project JINDALEE- was announced in April 1974. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The Government’s priorities have necessitated staff reductions in the Defence Research Laboratories and these are being achieved by non replacement of wastage. [More…]
All available manpower resources are now required for essential Defence activities. [More…]
The activities of the Space Research Group were non-Defence in nature and its activities have been terminated and the staff redeployed to other defence research duties. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
-For the information of honourable members I present the Defence Report 1974. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many (a) resignations from, (b) transfers from, and (c) promotions out of the Department of Defence were there during the period 2 December 1972 to 2 December 1973 at the following classifications: (i) Class 9, (ii) Class 10, (iii) Class 1 1, (iv) Level 1, (v) Level 2, and (vi) Level 3. [More…]
How many unfilled vacancies are there in the Department of Defence at each of these classifications at present. [More…]
1 ) Was he referring to the Minister for Defence when he made his recent accusation that a number of his colleagues were peddling lies. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I wish very briefly to take what remains of the last minute of this adjournment debate to express to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), who is in the chamber, my disappointment at the recent flooding of the Murrumbidgee River which has had a most serious effect on the Mountain Maid asparagus farms. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence aware of recent suggestions that anti-riot operations should become the top priority task of the Australian armed Services? [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621), in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
Unemployed persons; redundant workers; persons threatened with redundancy; women returning to the workforce; widow pensioners; ex-national servicemen; former regular servicemen; defence and war widows; Aboriginals. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: ( 1 ), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) The Government’s present thinking and intentions regarding the future defence relationship between Australia and an independent Papua New Guinea was detailed in my Statement on Australian Defence Estimates 1 974/75 tabled in Parliament on 24 October 1 974. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Did he indicate to a group of senior defence officers in August 1974 that when Papua New Guinea becomes independent there would be no automatic involvement of Australian Forces there. [More…]
Did he further indicate that there would be continuing close relations between Australia and Papua New Guinea in defence matters. [More…]
What form of future defence co-operation is being planned. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Does the Government support the view, that has been put to me by disabled people, that the criteria of the Defence Service Homes Scheme, for example, should be eased to overcome the difficulty the disabled ‘have in raising the necessary deposit money. [More…]
Relevant information is also contained in the 1974 Defence Report tabled on 22 October 1 974. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Has be stated on numerous occasions that a self reliant defence capability in keeping with Australia’s independent foreign policy is an objective of the Government. [More…]
If so, what steps has the Government taken to achieve this objective with respect to (a) the combat forces; (b) logistic support; and (c) defence industry. [More…]
Relevant information is also contained in the 1974 Defence Report tabled on 22 October. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Is it an objective .of the Government to provide more adequately for the defence of the Australian mainland. [More…]
If so, what steps has the Government taken to achieve this objective with respect to (a) Force structure; (b) Force dispositions; (c) equipment; (d) defence infra-structure; (e) communications and transport facilities; and (!) [More…]
civil defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
S48 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 18 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in the Department of the Media. [More…]
Department of the Media: Civil Defence Exercises (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I do not know whether the Standing Orders make any provision for this request to be met but I trust that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) will at least respond by way of letter or in some other way and be courteous to that extent to those honourable members who have taken part in the debate. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence aware that a Bailey bridge has been used for some time at a town called Candelo and has recently been replaced by a permanent bridge? [More…]
-This matter has been brought to my attention and has been considered by the Department of Defence. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 18 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
What I in fact said was that this Labor Government is pursuing a foreign policy which is aggressive and which purports to advance Australia’s defence role and capacity, and yet it runs down Australia’s defence capacity to the point that if there should be a grave national threat a government of any persuasion would be in the position of having to consider seriously reintroducing national service because there would be no alternative way of building up the defence forces of this country adequately to meet such a grave national threat. [More…]
But this is the Government that has done more for exservicemen in respect of pensions, defence forces retirement benefits and housing than any government in our history. [More…]
Pursuant to section 50b (3) of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918-1973, I present the annual report of the Director of Defence Service Homes of operations in relation to insurance for the year ended 30 June 1 974. [More…]
The alarming rate of resignation of officers from the Services and the failure of the Government to implement defence policies which would remove the underlying cause of such resignations. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Defence indicate to the House the improved conditions under which officers of the armed forces retire today as compared with the conditions that existed prior to the election in 1972? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
-Pursuant to section 14(1) of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1973, I present a supplement to the twenty-fifth report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board on the operation of the Act for the period 1 July 1972 to 30 September 1972, incorporating financial accounts and the report of the AuditorGeneral on those accounts. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
As the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits legislation introduced by him in 1973 included the recommendation that annual adjustments would be made to pensions received by members covered by the legislation to offset rises in cost of living, and as the scheme became effective as from 1 October 1972 and no adjustments have been made to date, when will the adjustments be made, and will they be retrospective. [More…]
The Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill 1 974 which has now been passed by both Houses of Parliament provides for adjustments of pensions granted under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1973 and under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1 973- 1 974 with effect from and including the pension payday of 4 July 1 974. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Defence seen an advertisement for the December issue of the ‘Pacific Defence Reporter’ carried in the current edition of that magazine? [More…]
Department of Defence: Training in Financial and Auditing Procedures (Question No. [More…]
As Gross National Product figures are no longer available expenditure on defence has been given as a percentage of the Gross Domestic Product. [More…]
Actual expenditure on defence during 1973-74 represented 2.8 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product for 1973- 74. [More…]
The estimated expenditure on defence for 1974-75 at current prices represents 2.9 per cent of the latest Department of Treasury estimate of Gross Domestic Product for 1 974- 75 at current prices. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
869 (Hansard, 24 September 1974, page 1764), to what nongovernment, defence-related research and development projects or programs does the Government (a) provide financial assistance or (b) otherwise support. [More…]
(a) The Government is not at present providing financial support to any defence related research and development projects in the non-government area. [More…]
Technical advice is frequently provided to the non-government area although the incidence of specific defence related projects or programs in that area is very limited. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in the Postmaster-General ‘s Department. [More…]
Tests by the Materials Research Laboratories* in the ordinary course of their defence work usually relate to quite specific aspects of technical performance, composition, or function against specifications, often for one consumer. [More…]
- Formerly known as the Defence Standards Laboratories. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Did the present Minister for Labor and Immigration state on 1 7 September 1 972, with the authority of the present Prime Minister, that reports by the Defence Standards Laboratories relating to tests made on a wide range of consumer products should be published and made available to the Australian Consumers’ Association. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What was expenditure on defence during 1 973-74 as a percentage of the Gross National Product. [More…]
the undeveloped land purchased during 1973/74 by the Director of Defence Service Homes and listed in the interim report on Page 15 and [More…]
In addition, the Department of Defence has plans for the establishment of a recruiting centre, and the Department of Agriculture intends to establish a fruit inspection facility in Shepparton. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
I would repeat that the Minister for Defence, the Foreign Minister, the Ministers assisting those 2 gentlemen and I myself have had full clearances for all members of our staffs. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: Has the Department of Defence been able to keep a constant check upon the movements and effects of cyclone Trixie? [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Has the Department of Defence decided to recall all .303 rifles from cadet units? [More…]
The constitutional, defence, shipping and all other relevant aspects are at present under examination, and the interests of all parties concerned with the Torres Strait are being given full consideration in the course of this examination. [More…]
Of course, this is a matter for the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Would the ceding of the uninhabited islands of the Torres Strait raise serious defence implications for Australia. [More…]
-For the information of honourable members I present a statement, an exchange of letters and schedules relating to the transfer of defence power to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1)to (4) The attached schedule provides information relating to civil defence exercises conducted in premises occupied by the Australian Taxation Office. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Who are the members of the Defence Science Board, [More…]
1 ) The composition of the Defence Science Board is: Chairman: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
In relation to finance, which arises from the question, I point out that as far as the vote for defence purposes is concerned, in the last financial year of the previous Liberal-Country Party Government- that is 1971-72-the expenditure was $1,2 17m. [More…]
This year the defence vote will reach $ 1 ,800m. [More…]
Will the anticipated huge cost cause the Government to decrease pensions and spending on such matters as education and defence. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Does the Government propose to establish an Australian Defence Force Academy. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
-Can the Minister for Defence tell me the amount of surplus funds in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund? [More…]
On the other hand the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) may be prepared to indicate that he will take up this matter with the Tasmanian Government through the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) with a view to asking the Commission either by - [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Has the Minister seen recent statements on Australia’s military aid to Indonesia by the Opposition’s spokesman on defence, the honourable member for Moreton? [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Housing and Construction been drawn to the delays which many approved applicants for loans under the Defence Service Homes Act are now experiencing? [More…]
He will be able to read the recommendation made by the Defence Committee. [More…]
The honourable member is well aware of those people who represent the Department of Defence on the Defence Committee. [More…]
What I have said in relation to the no threat period is that all the areas that have been examined by the Defence Committee show no likelihood of a threat to the Australian mainland in that period. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: Is it a fact that he said this week that he had never made a statement that there would be no threat to Australia for 10 to 15 years? [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Committee of Reference for Defence Forces Pay titled ‘Reserve Forces Pay and Allowances’. [More…]
-For the information of honourable members I present a statement on the appointment of a Development Council for the Australian Defence Force Academy. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1463 I stated that there are officers in the Department of Defence and the Attorney-General’s Department who are knowledgeable in United States procurement law. [More…]
In relation to the Department of Defence or the Defence Group of Departments, that was also the position throughout the period covered by the honourable member’s question. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many lawyers are employed (a) part-time and (b) full-time on defence procurement from the United States of America in (i) the Department of Defence and (ii) the Attorney-General ‘s Department. [More…]
How many lawyers were employed (a) part-time and (b) full-time on defence procurement from the United States of America in (i) the Department of Defence and (ii) the Attorney-General’s Department as at 30 June 1971, 31 December 1971, 30 June 1972, 31 December 1972, 30 June 1973, 3 1 December 1973 and 30 June 1974. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I seek leave to make a statement relating to defence. [More…]
That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the statement by the Minister for Defence being brought on immediately for debate. [More…]
With reference to the answer to question No.548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 18 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the interim report on the operations in relation to the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme for the year ended 30 June 1975. [More…]
Will the Minister for Defence inform the House of when he proposes to announce the permanent methods to be adopted for adjusting defence force retirement benefits pensions and defence force retirement death benefits pensions? [More…]
As foreshadowed in my second reading speech on the Superannuation Bill 1975, I now introduce the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Bill 1975 that makes certain necessary changes to the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973-1974 consequent upon the introduction of the new superannuation scheme for Australian Government employees and certain other changes. [More…]
and (7) The property was acquired under the provisions of the Lands Acquisition Act for defence purposes and comprises a complex of administrative, industrial and ancillary buildings eminently suited to that purpose. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether his attention has been drawn to a statement in the Press attributed to Admiral Sir Richard Peek, which reads: [More…]
Will the Minister say whether or not this is an accurate assessment of the state of the equipment of our defence forces? [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence not to take his place for a moment. [More…]
-On behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence I bring up the Committee’s report on the Omega navigational installation. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The report on Defence Legal Services Committee of Review was tabled by me in the House of Representatives on 7 November 1973, (Hansard pages 2887-8). [More…]
What hypocrisy it is on the part of people like him who strongly support the huge benefits which are paid under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme to officers of the Services who are trained at our expense, resign at the age of 40 to 50 with amounts of about $40,000 and then get on their high horse to complain about public servants. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister give an assurance that Dr Cairns, if he is replaced as Treasurer, will not be named as Minister for Defence? [More…]
Will he also tell us what is likely to happen to the present Minister for Defence? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many civilians were employed by the Defence Services on: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I very much regret that tonight the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) has sought to make a mockery of a piece of legislation that is very relevant to the defence of this country. [More…]
May I just take up a couple of points he made which are not relevant to the defence of this country but which were raised because the honourable member for Moreton has had little else to do but to pick up a few scant phrases in his preparation for this debate. [More…]
Nowhere in the Bill and nowhere in the old Defence Act is there any reference to the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Regrettably, his thinking and that of the Opposition on defence is of exactly the same vintage. [More…]
Let us look at what has really happened with respect to the reorganisation that has been recommended by the Secretary of the Department of Defence and that has been supported by the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff. [More…]
I did not appoint Sir Arthur Tange as the Secretary of the Department of Defence. [More…]
1 ) Exercises in the nature of those understood to be of a Civil Defence character have not been undertaken in my Department in the last 18 months. [More…]
With reference to the answer to question No.548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
I would also draw the honourable member’s attention to the technical reports listed in the annual reports of the defence science establishments, which have been tabled in Parliament each year by my predecessors in this office. [More…]
Recently these establishments were made the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Defence. [More…]
If this is still the intention of the Government, when does he propose to give notice to the United States Government of termination of the agreement covering the Joint Defence Space Research facility at Pine Gap. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I refer to the symposium on defence which is to be held at the University of Sydney next Saturday, 30 August, and which will be addressed by some of the most distinguished and knowledgeable retired officers of the Australian defence Services. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I am endeavouring to say here that the Bill is early because the drawing of defence expenditure is substantial- two-thirds approximately of the total projected expenditure. [More…]
The recommendation by the Committee on the extension of the Defence Services Home Scheme to members of the Army Reserve is under consideration and an announcement will be made when a decision is reached. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Yesterday his attention was drawn to a symposium on defence being organised by a group of retired defence force officers. [More…]
Can he say whether this rush of interest among people, some of whom have been retired for many years, reflects any significant change in the defence situation of the nation? [More…]
Mr Speaker, in the last, dying years of the Liberal-Country Party Government, the essential needs of the defence forces of this country were ignored or neglected, largely as a result of false perceptions of Australia’s national interest. [More…]
The Labor Government, on the advice of its senior military and civilian defence planners, has the task of shaping the defence force to sharpen its capability to provide a strong and valid defence of Australia, and to demonstrate beyond all doubt Australia’s intention to defend herself and her vital interests. [More…]
This year’s defence budget demonstrates clearly our determination to carry out this task. [More…]
Australian Defence- Ministerial statement, 28 August 1975. [More…]
-I call the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Mr MORRISON (St George-Minister for Defence)- I wish to make a personal explanation. [More…]
I cited the defence figures. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
That is the only defence I can use. [More…]
I have received advice from the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) that he has nominated Senator Gietzelt to be a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in place of Senator Wheeldon. [More…]
The Military, Naval and Air Boards have considered the question and the advice to me was that there was no military value in terms of the defence area in maintaining the cadets. [More…]
I reiterate that the advice to me of the competent military advisers to the Government was that the expenditure involved in the army cadets, navy cadets and air training cadets was such that its place among the priorities for the defence preparedness of Australia was low. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: Has any decision being taken to disband the Air Training Corps and the Naval Reserve Cadets? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
-The Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) seems to be wandering around in a rather odd and strange manner. [More…]
1 ) At no stage has the Government considered any proposal to abolish the commutation provisions of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits legislation. [More…]
and (3) At present an examination of the commutation provisions and other areas of the benefits scheme is being undertaken at the direction of the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee, a Government Defence advisory committee which includes as members the Chiefs of Personnel of the Services. [More…]
Should that Committee, after consideration of the results of the examination, make any recommendations concerning the overall conditions of the DFRDB Scheme then, as with recommendations from all established Defence advisory committees, I will consider them and if appropriate make a submission to Cabinet for consideration. [More…]
-I have received advice from the Prime Minister that he has nominated Mr Young to be a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr Berinson. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the interim report of the operations (other than insurance) in relation to the Defence Service Homes scheme for the year ended 30 June 1975. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The Defence Budget estimate for advertising in 1975-76 is $2,264,000. [More…]
Of this total figure, $2,1 18,750 is the estimated expenditure for advertising by Defence Force Recruiting. [More…]
Department of Defence advertising expenditure for the last five years was as follows: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The only grants administered by the Department of Defence that relate to the above Parliamentary Question are as follows: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the annual defence report for 1975. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Further to the answer given by the Treasurer earlier, is the Minister for Defence able to say what will be the consequences to the defence forces of delay in passing the Budget? [More…]
He came into the Parliament saying that there is no opportunity to debate defence and that the Government had been lackadaisical. [More…]
He did not even come in with the defence estimates. [More…]
I hope they can do a little bit better on defence. [More…]
It is fair enough for him to put emphasise on that part if he feels very strongly about the cadet question, but what we are talking about is defence and that is what the advice of the Chief of the Defence Force Staff is all about. [More…]
But on reading the Liberal-National Country Party manifesto on defence, I find that this quite clearly is no longer the case. [More…]
They have no intention of applying $ 1 1 .5m of the Defence vote to school cadets. [More…]
So, it is quite clear from the phraseology that they have used in their policy statement that they have no intention of reinstating the school cadets and undertaking an expense of $1 1.5m which the Defence advisers to the Government have pointed out detracts from the efficiency of the Australian Defence forces. [More…]
We believe that a single department co-ordinating and directing defence activities will best promote efficient and economic defence planning and operations [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence aware of Press reports that there are dumps of mustard gas and phosgene from World War II at various locations throughout Australia, including the Blue Mountains? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence aware of any moves to reinstate the school cadet system. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Defence inform the House whether there has been any recent support from an unexpected source for the Government’s defence policy? [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the following documents relating to interim defence arrangements between Australia and Papua New Guinea: A joint, statement by the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence, Foreign Relations and Trade and the Australian Minister for Defence on interim arrangements, a letter to the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence, Foreign Relations and Trade from the Australian Minister for Defence and the four annexures thereto, and the reply from the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence, Foreign Relations and Trade. [More…]
I have conveyed those letters to the Minister of Defence (Mr Morrison). [More…]
I received yesterday a letter from the Minister for Defence, Foreign Relations and Trade of Papua New Guinea that gives his Government’s views on matters relating to the Torres Strait. [More…]
where the amount of advance which could be made available in accordance with the Defence Service Homes Act having regard to the value of a property, was less than the maximum statutory amount. [More…]
The number of applicants assisted through the Defence Service Homes Scheme to build or buy new dwellings in the year ending 30 June, 1975 was 4,443. [More…]
The number of loans to applicants to purchase or build new homes in 1975-76 from the funds provided for Defence Service Homes purposes is estimated to be 4,344. [More…]
The average cost of homes built or financed under the Defence Service Homes Scheme rose from $17,929 in 1972-73 to $22,587 in 1973-74. [More…]
1 ) How many dwellings were built during 1974-75 when advances under the Defence Service Homes Scheme totalled $130m. [More…]
What sum was lent under the provisions of the Defence Service Homes loan scheme during 1974-75. [More…]
1 ) The total amount allocated for expenditure under the Defence Service Homes Scheme in 1974-75 was $ 130m. [More…]
Administrative expenses relating to the operation of the Defence Service Homes Scheme were met from the general appropriation for the Department of Housing and Construction. [More…]
What is the delay for applicants seeking first mortgage finance through the Defence Service Homes Scheme for home building or home purchase. [More…]
275 of the Senate asserts that the action of the Senate in delaying the passage of the Loan Bill 197S for the reasons given in the Senate resolution is contrary to the accepted means of financing a major portion of the Defence Budget of this country and therefore requests the Senate to reconsider and pass the Bill without delay. [More…]
It is significant that the first Bill associated with this year’s Budget that the Opposition, in its grab for power, should seize upon to achieve its purposes was a Bill for an Act to authorise the raising and expending of moneys for defence purposes. [More…]
It has, by its actions, deliberately sought to sabotage Australia’s defence. [More…]
Apart from the administration of the Defence Service Homes Scheme, what other work is being undertaken by the Corporation. [More…]
My understanding is that the Minister for Defence has a second statement to make. [More…]
Quite obviously the Premier of Tasmania came to the defence of his State, as he ought. [More…]
If he can give that assurance, will he take this opportunity to correct the report that the Australian delegation to the International Weaponry Conference at Lugano has been instructed to keep its options open about the potential use of napalm by Australia’s defence force? [More…]
The two people I bring to my defence are you and the honourable member for Bendigo because I was in your company for quite a considerable time. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a further question. [More…]
I ask the honourable gentleman whether the document was accurate in stating that the Department of Defence at that time wished to keep open the option of acquiring such weapons and read Australia’s 1973 declaration as not closing off that option. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
Was the document by the Department of Foreign Affairs of 29 January last, which the Foreign Minister has just confirmed, accurate in stating that the Department of Defence at that time wished to keep open the option of acquiring napalm-type weapons and read Australia’s 1973 statement as not closing off that option? [More…]
There is no proposal by the Department of Defence to acquire any of the weapons to which the honourable gentleman has referred. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In view of the changing nature of our defence posture and major new developments in naval weaponry, is there a strong case for rapidly ordering a new fleet of patrol boats with long-range detection systems for surveillance of our north-west and northern coastlines? [More…]
-The Minister for Defence will be aware that the re-equipment, remodelling and modernisation of HMAS Perth has made it entirely different from its former sister ships. [More…]
Will the Minister indicate whether modernisation and maintenance of essential defence equipment has been postponed by the Government? [More…]
If that is the case, will he state what effect this will have on the defence preparedness of the ships considering that one aspect of the refit authorised by the previous Government was to install vital electronic warfare equipment in the 2 destroyers? [More…]
Government’s acceptance and the implementation of the Millar Committee ‘s report calls for an amendment to the Defence Act,, and that is currently being studied by the Government. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence and concerns the Army Reserve. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether he has seen the article in yesterday’s Australian Financial Review in which it was stated that a 38 000-man Australian Army was aimed at. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Does the Minister recall the Clausewitz dictum that the most important element in defence is self-defence? [More…]
We seek, in the present 5-year defence program, to raise that figure to 34 000 persons by the year 1978. [More…]
We seek to put the emphasis upon defence equipment at the moment and at some time in the future to gain the ultimate, the desideratum in terms of the size of the Australian Army. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What defence equipment has been purchased from the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation or its associated companies in the last 20 years. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
As foreshadowed in my second reading speech on the Superannuation Bill 1976, I now introduce the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment Bill 1976 that makes certain necessary changes to the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973-1975 consequent upon the introduction of the new superannuation scheme for Commonwealth Government employees, and some other changes. [More…]
have received messages from the Senate concurring in the resolutions of the House relating to the appointment of Joint Committees on the Parliamentary Committee System, Foreign Affairs and Defence, the Australian Capital Territory and the New and Permanent Parliament House and agreeing that the resolutions have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Australia will be represented at the funeral by senior representatives of the Australian defence force in London. [More…]
The party will be headed by Major General Graham, head of the Australian Defence Staff in London. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence aware that an Opposition member of the State Parliament in Western Australia stated yesterday that he had information that nuclear weapons are to be stored on Garden Island in Cockburn Sound? [More…]
The role of the Defence Force in coastal surveillance/patrol is to provide assistance to the responsible civil authorities on an agreed basis. [More…]
My understanding is that my colleagues are satisfied that the appropriate level of Defence Force effort is being provided. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
At question time the honourable, gallant and learned Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), in an aside - [More…]
The Minister for Defence, in what I thought was an uncharacteristic aside, quoted the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) as an authority for a comment he made. [More…]
The Minister for Defence said that it was untrue to claim that a previous coalition government in 1971-1 said that it was in 1971; I am told that it was in 1971 or 1972- took a decision which resulted in nuclear powered ships being excluded from Australian ports and that that decision was taken by the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) when he was Prime Minister. [More…]
Before the debate is resumed on this Bill I would suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill, the Superannuation Amendment Bill and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment Bill as they are related measures. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
-Can the Minister for Defence inform the House of the present position regarding the updating of the defence force retirement benefits pensions? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Defence give me any information regarding the amount of surplus in the old DFRB fund and whether it is the intention of the Government to distribute any surplus among the contributors? [More…]
The Superannuation Bill 1976, the Superannuation Amendment Bill 1976 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment Bill 1 976, which provide for the new superannuation scheme, were introduced into the Parliament on 18 March 1976. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence a question about the defence force retirement benefits scheme. [More…]
Can the Minister dispel or confirm the rumour that members of the defence forces will not be able in future to commute part of their pension after 20 years service as is now the case, but will have to fulfil the additional requirement of attaining the age of either 50 or 55 years? [More…]
-Has the Minister for Defence seen the Press report that claims that the Government has reneged on its promise to reintroduce the school cadet training system? [More…]
I would like to follow the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was the total expenditure of funds on the Department of Defence (Air Office) and services under its control in 1974-75 and 1975-76. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Has consideration been given to the closure of the Defence installation on Rottnest Island, Western Australia; if not, how long is it anticipated that it will be required for Defence purposes. [More…]
For what purpose is it currently used, and how many Defence personnel are normally stationed there. [More…]
The matter has been carefully and thoroughly investigated and continued use of this Defence installation for the foreseeable future is confirmed. [More…]
Defence (Army) controls approximately 106 hectares of which only SO hectares are not available to the public. [More…]
1 ) ‘Appropriate’ implies that the present Defence Force effort is assessed as cost effective by the relevant authorities. [More…]
It is not of course the maximum which could be provided should priorities change in the amount of effort allocated to assistance to the civil authorities as against purely Defence matters. [More…]
As I indicated to the Parliament on 31 March 1976, it is hoped that a decision on the arrangements to apply in the Defence Force Cadet organisation will be announced in the near future. [More…]
335) Mr Lloyd asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
128 concerning patrol boats, quarantine and foreign fishing vessels, does his statement that the appropriate level of Defence Force effort is being provided refer to the possibility that the number mentioned is the maximum that can be provided or to the possibility that the level of activity is adequate to protect this country from either threat. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Now that the Government has decided to transfer the Point Nepean Quarantine and Defence Reserve to Victoria as a national park, will he make arrangements to restore the historic forts at Point Nepean as a tourist attraction. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Is it correct, as reported, that there are serious shortages of some equipment and spare parts in the defence forces at the present time and, if so, why? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: Is it the intention of the Department of Defence to take over Lawley House for Department of Defence uses? [More…]
1 ) Mr David Hay has a distinguished record as a diplomat, Administrator of the Territory of Papua New Guinea, Secretary of the former Department of External Territories and more recently as Defence Force Ombudsman Designate. [More…]
Mr Hay will continue to receive the salary and allowances which he receives as the Defence Force Ombudsman Designate. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill 1976. [More…]
The Finance Branch of the Regional Secretary, Department of Defence, Sydney, is the paying authority. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Is consideration being given to handing over the administration of the Defence Service Homes Act to State institutions. [More…]
5 ) If consideration is being given to such a transfer of administrative responsibility, what discussions have taken place with representatives of the Defence Service Homes Staff or representatives of unions affected. [More…]
If this suggestion is to be proceeded with what will be the effects on the employment future of Defence Service Homes staff employed in (a) head office and (b) State offices. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether he is able to define for the House his decisions about the future of the cadet corps of the armed forces and its relationship to schools throughout Australia. [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence aware of reports that Taiwanese fishing vessels are continually violating Australian territorial waters off the Queensland coast, particularly on reefs off the coastline of Gladstone and adjoining areas? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence concerned about the growing presence of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shipping in the Indian Ocean? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Is he, as reported, pleased with the level of recruitment to the Defence Forces so far this year. [More…]
Is it a fact that despite a general cut-back in Government advertising a recruiting campaign for the Defence Forces has been launched this year at an estimated cost of $2m; if so, why has the campaign been undertaken, especially in the present economic climate. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
-Has the Prime Minister seen reported statements by the Queensland Premier that some of the funds allocated to defence should be made available for housing? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
-You had better get a good defence. [More…]
-The Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund (Distribution of Surplus to Pensioners) Bill 1976 provides for certain procedures to distribute a surplus in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
( b ) defence spending, (c) transfers to personal sector and ( d ) other public spending for each year from 1938 to 1975 inclusive. [More…]
How many loans for the construction of defence service homes in the electoral division of Batman have been approved since 1969. [More…]
How many defence service homes now exist in the electoral division. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a review of the Defence Service Homes Scheme, its nature, history and operations. [More…]
Has advice been received from the Department of Defence that facepieces should be personally fitted. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to the editorial in today’s Sydney Morning Herald in which certain claims are made with respect to expenditure on Service equipment this financial year? [More…]
These expenditures are pan of the Defence budget. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What stores or equipment has been given by the Defence Forces to individuals, civilian groups, State Governments or other Commonwealth Departments during natural disasters in the past 3 years. [More…]
Are these expenditures part of the defence budget; if not, what efforts have been made to recoup the costs from the authorities or departments normally responsible for this outlay. [More…]
-The attention of the Minister for Defence has no doubt been drawn to statements by the honourable member for Oxley claiming that the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence had, for political purposes, accused Russia - [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to reports that more than 50 specialist shipbuilders at the marine division of Hawker De Havilland Australia Pty Ltd at Bankstown face the prospect of unemployment in October because of a tangle of red tape in Canberra? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
-Mr Acting Speaker, I seek leave to table a document which is a transcript of a tape recording prepared by the Parliamentary Library of an item taken from the 7.4S a.m. Australian Broadcasting Commission news program on 23 August 1976 which indicates that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) - [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The Defence Minister, Mr Killen, said yesterday- [More…]
The Defence Minister said that Australians should understand that in future they were on their own. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
To say that he supports ANZUS but rejects its military emphasis is to ignore that it is essentially a security pact concerned to co-ordinate the efforts of the 3 parties for collective defence. [More…]
To say that one is for the Treaty but against its military or defence aspect is probably as sensible as saying that one is for whisky but against alcohol. [More…]
Since the establishment of the Joint Defence Space Research Facility was announced in 1966, a number of public statements have been made by Ministers of different Governments. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister Was the Fretilin radio at any time informed that the wave length upon which it was operating was identical with an Australian Government defence wave length? [More…]
Since the honourable member concerned is the deputy chairman of the Government members’ Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I also ask whether the Government approved of the visit. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I have been speaking with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) as I was interested to know whether the Bill would cover females who might want to join the Air Training Corps. [More…]
However, recent consideration of the overall accommodation situation at Puckapunyal by the Department of Defence has led to the conclusion that the project should be deferred for the present pending the completion of a detailed review of living-in accommodation availability and requirements for all 19 units in the Puckapunyal area. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, is the same as the question asked by the honourable member for Bonython of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
-On behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence I present the report of the Committee on dual nationality. [More…]
I ask leave of the House to make a statement relating to the establishment of an Australian Defence Force Academy. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I propose to submit the petition for examination by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence with a request that it explore ways and means of obtaining from the Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics some advice as to the policy of his Government on the matters raised in the petition and also in regard to the reality of freedom of religious worship and instruction for the Jewish and other religions in the U.S.S.R. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a copy of Moonbi 30, the newsletter of the Fraser Island Defence Organisation, which was recently circulated to all members of Federal Parliament? [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present a White Paper on Australian defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
-I seek leave of the House to make a short statement on behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
No doubt arrangements can be made with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) at a later time tonight. [More…]
I would put the position in this way: The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) said all that there was to say. [More…]
MrHOLTEN (Indi) ( 10.19)- I should like to comment very briefly on the remarks of the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) who was critical of the statement of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
I would like to compliment the Minister for Defence on the statement he has just given the House. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) How many members of the Australian Defence Force are on secondment to the armed services of other governments. [More…]
and (2) The White Paper ‘Australian Defence’ was tabled on 4 November 1976. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What is the present position on the promised White Paper on defence. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to allegations contained in today’s Bulletin about leakage of classified information from Russell Hill? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What contracts for the supply of materials and equipment to the Defence Services have been placed outside Australia during 1976. [More…]
Defence once again, but I commend him for a restrained and balanced statement on this matter. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Because of the fiasco of the interrupted debate on the White Paper on defence last Thursday, I have decided to speak in this grievance debate. [More…]
I strongly support the White Paper on defence and congratulate the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) on it. [More…]
It is the most comprehensive document on defence presented to this Parliament. [More…]
-As a member of the sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that drew up the interim report let me say that the figures in the report were figures from the Department of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar). [More…]
-I present the interim report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into the Lebanon crisis. [More…]
Why did the Australian Government grant a visitor’s visa to former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan. [More…]
Pursuant to section 147 of the Defence Act 1903 1 present the annual report on the Royal Military College of Australia covering the period from 1 February 1975 to 31 January 1976. [More…]
-There is not a great deal of time left for this debate and I do believe that the issues of defence have been fairly well canvassed in this long and protracted discussion. [More…]
Although I have condemned some of them in the past, I know that some honourable members opposite have as much interest in defence as we have on this side of the House. [More…]
We should like to see a bipartisan attitude adopted towards defence, but there are particular reasons why honourable members on the other side of the House cannot adopt a bipartisan attitude. [More…]
There is nothing more serious to which our attention should be directed than the matter of defence. [More…]
I remind the House that this is a debate on the defence statement. [More…]
-The Minister for Defence has sought leave to make a statement. [More…]
That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Minister for Defence making a statement regarding the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund legislation forthwith. [More…]
-On behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence I bring up the Committee’s report on the Torres Strait Boundary. [More…]
I ask leave of the House to make a very, very short statement regarding the defence force retirement benefits legislation. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the Defence Report 1 976. [More…]
-We welcome the statement of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
Nonetheless I am prepared to accept the acknowledgments of the Minister for Defence for what they are worth. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Defence, on notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I think it is unfortunate that this debate should evolve into a general defence debate. [More…]
We could congratulate the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) or say that someone else should have taken this action at some other time, but we do not believe in wasting the time of the House with superfluous debate on matters which could easily be raised elsewhere. [More…]
It indicates the thorough and completely dedicated attitude of the new era in matters of defence. [More…]
It is a minor Bill which has been presented by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) to correct what has been the cause of some difficulties within the Department of Defence. [More…]
We have a new highly efficient approach to and a sense of responsibility for matters of defence. [More…]
-I ask the Minster for Defence: Is it a fact that the Government is preparing to re-introduce compulsory military service, both for men and for women? [More…]
Defence Amendment Bill 1976. [More…]
-This Bill provides an initiative on the part of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), which is welcomed. [More…]
-I seek leave to make a short statement following what has been reported to the House by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
-My question to the Minister for Defence is supplementary to the one asked by one of his supporters on Tuesday last relating to the able seaman who has been charged with an offence relating to the damage of aircraft at Nowra. [More…]
Paragraph 85 page 24 of the Defence White Paper states: ‘ It is expected that, subject to all of the necessary evidence being accessible, a decision on the generic type of aircraft will be made in this financial year . [More…]
The situation on role priority remains as expressed in the Defence White Paper ( paragraphs 90 and 9 1 , page 24 ). [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]
1 ) Did he say in his recent White Paper on Defence that a decision on the generic type of aircraft will be made in this financial year? [More…]
If so, (a) when is the generic decision now likely to be made, (b) what is the present schedule for the overseas mission, (c) is the thinking still in terms of a split force, with air superiority the priority and ground attack secondary, as the Defence Force Development Committee decided under the then Labor Minister for Defence, the Hon. [More…]
-The Defence Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
2) 1977 is one of the more important achievements in the career of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) as a member of the Fraser Government. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 16 March 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1 977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]
How many First, Second, Third and Fourth Division officers are there in the Department of Defence, and what is the breakdown between civilian and military staff members. [More…]
As at 31 January 1977, there were 32 234 civilian staff members in the Department of Defence. [More…]
1) The 5 facepieces referred to by the Minister for Defence in answer to question No. [More…]
557 (Hansard, 18 August 1976, page 340), in which he advised that facepieces were regularly serviced, except prior to 1974 at Fremantle and prior to March 1975 at Port Adelaide, where did the facepieces referred to by the Minister for Defence in answer to question No. [More…]
The Minister for Defence. [More…]
Approval was requested on Saturday, 12 February, and was given by the Minister for Defence late on that day. [More…]
That, bearing in mind the fundamental principles contained in section 92 of the Commonwealth Constitution, this House is of the opinion that it is alien to the concept of federalism if deliberate industrial strike action is instigated for the purpose of interfering, hindering or preventing freedom of trade and commerce between the States or for the purpose ofeffectively isolating one State from the other States and accordingly this House is of the opinion that in defence of the federal system in Australia legislation should be passed by this Parliament at the earliest opportunity to ensure thatthose who choose to contravene the principles of section 92. by isolating States and in particular the State of Tasmania, shall be called upon to publicly answer for their actions and shall be subject to appropriate sanctions in accordance with the law. [More…]
The Minister for Defence and the Minister for other purchasing Departments may be co-opted as appropriate. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 April 1 977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 March 1977: [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
That during the remainder of the present period of sittings the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and its sub-committees be granted leave to meet during sittings of either House of the Parliament. [More…]
20 of the Senate relating to the granting of leave to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and its sub-committees to meet for the remainder of the present period of sittings during sittings of either House of the Parliament. [More…]
-Will the Minister for Defence tell the House when HMAS Stirling, the naval base on Garden Island in Western Australia, will be manned by defence personnel and in operation? [More…]
-by leave-The report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is one of the most important documents ever tabled in Parliament. [More…]
It represents the most exhaustive, detailed and comprehensive independent investigation into defence industry in Australia since the Second World War. [More…]
If implemented by the Government they will give real substance to the present shadowy claim that industry is the fourth arm of defence. [More…]
It points out that the Committee is greatly concerned by the failure of the Department of Defence to have more of its equipment developed in Australia. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 30 May 1977: [More…]
This figure does not include the 70 400 members ofthe Defence Force. [More…]
Defence: S2E and S2G Tracker Aircraft (Question No. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence is not responsible for any statement made by the honourable member for Oxley. [More…]
Calculation of an expected implicit deflator for defence expenditure requires an estimate in ‘outturn’ prices.TheBudgetestimatefordefencespendingisbased argely on prices and wages ruling at the time the estimate was made, namely in May 1977, and does not purport to be an estimate in ‘outturn’ prices. [More…]
There is a bulk allowance of $90m included in the Budget estimates for prospective increases in wages and salaries during 1977-78 which includes defence; where appropriate, supplementation will be sought in Additional Estimates for other cost increases. [More…]
The estimates provide for an increase of one per cent in total defence expenditure in real terms in 1977-78. [More…]
Details of the composition of defence expenditure- at May 1977 price and wage levels-are set out in Statement No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 August 1977: [More…]
1 ) In view of the statements in the Budget Speech and papers that expenditure on defence is to increase by 7.4 per cent in 1977-78 relative to 1976-77, and that this is an increase of one per cent in real terms, is the expected implicit deflator for defence expenditure during 1 977-78 6.4 per cent [More…]
Since manpower costs are over half of total defence spending, and average weekly earnings are expected to increase by 10.S per cent, is the deflator for all other expenditure about 2.S per cent. [More…]
Are certain categories of defence expenditure to be cut, is the number of defence personnel to be reduced, or is the pay of defence personnel expected to increase by less than 10.5 percent. [More…]
The figures shown for civilian employment in the Depanment of Defence in response to Senate Question No. [More…]
997 of 8 De-ember 1976 referred to terminal strengths as at the end of June each year for total civilian employment within the Depanment of Defence. [More…]
The figures shown in the Budget papers referred to average strengths throughout each financial year and only to that civilian employment which is charged against civilian salaries appropriations within the Defence vote. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 August 1977: [More…]
I refer the Minister for Defence to the Treasurer’s Budget Speech in which the Treasurer stated that defence expenditure for 1977-78 would represent a one per cent growth in real terms. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the criticism in the Press and by the shadow Minister for Defence that this is mythical and patently false? [More…]
Will the Minister explain the basis of the Defence estimates for 1977-78 to clear this matter up once and for all? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 September 1977: [More…]
1 ) There are 95 libraries in my Department and Defence Force. [More…]
The activities of the majority of these libraries are coordinated by the Defence Information Services Branch which also provides centralised services. [More…]
In addition to local requirements, the Defence Central and regional libraries are intended to provide support to the small branch libraries and to minimise duplication of more expensive material. [More…]
Many Defence libraries hold only very small collections and are tended on a part time basis by junior staff. [More…]
A complete list of Defence libraries and their locations follows. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Bill in front of us is to authorise the borrowing for defence purposes. [More…]
Even apart from any defence component there are capital works and capital advances to the States included in the Treasurer’s figure of $2.2 billion which he calls the deficit and which I think is more properly referred to as the public sector borrowing requirement [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 18 August 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 September 1977: [More…]
Is it intended to conduct further investigations into the role of airships for Australian defence purposes. [More…]
the defence of those areas in regard to Australia. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 September 1977: [More…]
If so, what are the changed circumstances that would make the Government consider the Engine Works no longer a national defence asset. [More…]
1295, the Budget estimate for defence spending is based largely on prices and wages ruling at the time the estimate was made, namely in May 1977, and does not purport to be an estimate in ‘outturn prices. ‘ [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 5 September 1 977: [More…]
Pursuant to section 147 of the Defence Act 1903 I present the report on the Royal Military College of Australia for the period 1 February 1976 to 31 January 1977. [More…]
-In 1962, on the very first occasion on which I had the honour to accept a brief as counsel for the defence in a criminal trial in the Supreme Court of Tasmania, a very wise old lawyer gave me some very sound advice. [More…]
The matter is under review to determine what additional land (if any) will be required by Defence from the former CSL area. [More…]
Does the Public Service Board intend to institute a ‘nopoaching’ policy which will inhibit the transfer or promotional opportunities of civilian Defence Department personnel to positions in other Public Service departments. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 14 September 1977: [More…]
I suggest that the order for the consideration of the proposed expenditures agreed to by the Committee on 20 September be varied by next considering the proposed expenditure for the Department of Defence. [More…]
Department of Defence [More…]
Government supporters talk about defence and then they gag the debate. [More…]
-On behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I present the Committee’s report on and transcript of evidence of its inquiry into Industrial Support for Defence Needs and Allied Matters. [More…]
-For the information of honourable members I present the Defence Report 1977. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for Construction (Mr McLeay) on advancing this defence Service housing project. [More…]
Minister for Defence and Foreign Affairs? [More…]
Are the political and administrative responsibilities of the Minister for Defence such that he could also act as Minister for another major department? [More…]
It is pleasing to hear the deputy leader of the delegation from one side of the House coming to the defence of a member of the delegation coming from the other side of the House. [More…]
Firstly, I thank the Leader of the House (Mr Sinclair) and the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay) for allowing the legislation to come before the House today. [More…]
Other parts of the legislation are aimed at overcoming anomalies and technical defects in the Defence Force retirement and death benefits legislation. [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence satisfied as to the adequacy of surveillance measures presently implemented around Australia’s coastline? [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Defence, concerns the future of the Army Survey Regiment located in Bendigo. [More…]
I am sure that the House will join with me and associate itself with the good wishes extended by the Minister for Defence to the right honourable member for Lowe. [More…]
If there is any suggestion that the Government has not been aware of activities of this kind over a considerable period, I would like to refer honourable gentlemen to the speech on foreign and defence policies which was made in this Parliament on 1 June 1976- some considerable time ago. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to a recent Press report that suggests that the Defence Force should procure Grumman Hawkeye aerial surveillance aircraft which would enhance considerably our detection capabilities in the northern part of Australia? [More…]
-Has the Minister for Defence seen recent reports that the radar at Amberley Air Force base is virtually useless because of a spare parts shortage and could be out of operation for over 12 months? [More…]
I have received messages from the Senate concurring in the resolutions of the House relating to the appointment of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory and the Joint Committee on the New and Permanent Parliament House, and agreeing that the resolutions have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders. [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence aware of reports that equipment at the Darwin radar centre operates for only 12 hours a day? [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to newspaper comments, in particular that in the National Times at the weekend, with regard to ex-service personnel who are in the employ of large companies that supply equipment to the defence Services? [More…]
That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for investigation and report: Construction of the proposed Defence Force Academy in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The military accommodation and mess buildings are to be constructed to the Defence Services scales and standards. [More…]
The Defence Service Homes Corporation has developed 21 hectares of land at Campbelltown, New South Wales, with an estimated average cost of $7,500 per block and 5.7 hectares of land at Wantirna, Victoria, at an estimated average cost of $ 1 1 ,300 per block. [More…]
944 (Hansard, 2 June 1977, page 2530), been purchased for Defence Service Homes; if so, what was the purchase price. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
That the amendment to regulation 7 of the Defence Force Salaries Regulations, as contained in Statutory Rules 1978 (No. [More…]
3) made under the Defence Act 1903, the Naval Defence Act 19 10 and the Air Force Act 1923, be disallowed. [More…]
Department of Defence: Expenditure on Travel and Subsistence (Question No. [More…]
What was the estimated value of damage which the Fire Board has received from the Department of Defence concerning the fire at HMAS Albatross on 4 December 1976 (Hansard, 1 9 April 1977, page 99 1 ). [More…]
The estimated value of damage advised by the Department of Defence to the Fire Board is as follows: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
1 ) What percentage of the Defence Budget is allocated to research and development. [More…]
What percentage of the research and development component of the Defence Budget is allocated to avionics research. [More…]
In May of that year, and in each subsequent May, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has undertaken a Survey of Earnings and Hours of Employees covering all employees, full-time and part-time, including managerial staff, with the exception of: members of the defence forces; employees in agriculture; employees in private households; waterside workers employed on a casual basis; persons employed by private employers (other than hospitals) not subject to payroll tax; employees on workers’ compensation. [More…]
-The Minister for Defence announced to the House in October 1976 that he would introduce legislation to establish a Defence Force Academy. [More…]
What action has been taken, or will be taken, on recommendation 26 of the report on the Middle East tabled in June 1977 by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which urges that Australia, as a member of the world community, should participate fully in the development of international measures to counter terrorism. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 February 1 978: [More…]
1 ) The amounts spent by the Department of Defence during the periods nominated, on advertising and services, are: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
For example, there are some 20 natures of small arms ammunition many of which do not share commonalty between field force and non-field force units and some 20 natures of artillery ammunition used by field, medium and air defence units, according to role. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
-Mr Deputy Speaker, on behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I present the Committee’s report entitled Observations and History of the Committee. [More…]
Attorney-General’s Department (2 officers) Department of Defence Department of Foreign Affairs Department of Industry and Commerce Department of Overseas Trade [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether he is aware of reports of proposed Australian and United States naval exercises in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [More…]
Is he also able to say whether (a) the Society Council is chaired by Sir Peter Garran, (b) its Director is MajorGeneral William Campbell, and (c) one of its VicePresidents is a former Defence Minister of the United Kingdom Government and one time High Commissioner to Australia, Lord Carrington? [More…]
am asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [More…]
When Dr W. A. S. Butement resigned as chief defence scientist did he seek or receive the approval of the then Minister for Supply to become a director of Plessey Pacific Pty Ltd. [More…]
The Government has not given approval for any work or undertaking which would require the application of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1 978: [More…]
Has the Government given approval to any work or undertaking which would require the application of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947; if so (a) what are the works and undertakings and (b) when was approval given for each. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 May 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 May 1 978: [More…]
-Does the Minister for Defence recall that yesterday he stated: [More…]
-Has the Minister for Defence noted the public comment of the Head of his Department, Sir Arthur Tange, that it is normal for technical information not to be passed up to policy level? [More…]
Both the Chief of Defence Force Staff and the Secretary to the Department of Defence, Sir Arthur Tange, with my knowledge and approval, have given an appropriate instruction to all officers to be, as it were, a little more critical in making a determination and an assessment as to when something may move from a technical consideration into something that has policy significance. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence: Did the Secretary of his Department indicate in an interview that policy areas of his Department were not aware as late as 1 1 May of proposals to change communications equipment at North West Cape? [More…]
Pursuant to section 16 (2) of the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973 I present the fifth report of the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Authority dealing with the general administration and working of that Act and of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948- other than part III of the Act- for the year ended 30 June 1 977. [More…]
Pursuant to section 14 ( 1 ) of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 I present the fourth supplement to the 25th report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board on the operation of the Act for the period 1 July 1972 to 30 September 1972 dealing with progress in the final actuarial examination of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
and (2) Australia is a party to the 1971 Five Power communique in which Ministers undertook to ‘co-operate, in accordance with their respective policies’, in the field of defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say whether Malaysia has reached the stage of self-reliance in the provision of defence aircraft at which the Australian Government stated that the RAAF Mirages would be withdrawn from Butterworth Air Base. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
Like many honourable members I was entertained to listen to the defence by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), even though what he said did not seem to be terribly relevant to the matters raised. [More…]
The Minister for Defence suggested that I table the letter if I wished. [More…]
Will he ask the Prime Minister to vigorously promote the Searchm aster version of the Nomad to the Minister for Defence and senior RAAF officers. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 16 March 1978: [More…]
What cost effects has the devaluation of November 1976 had on defence procurement, in particular on major equipment acquisitions. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 April 1978: [More…]
Has the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence seen reports of Government secrecy over moves to phase out the Australian Services Canteens Organisation? [More…]
In respect of land used for Defence purposes the Commonwealth paid the following amounts to the respective Councils in the years shown: [More…]
What (a) local government rates and (b) ex gratia payments in lieu of rates are paid to (i) Liverpool, (ii) Sutherland and (iii) Campbelltown Councils, N.S.W., in respect of land held for Defence purposes. [More…]
Pursuant to section 147 of the Defence Act 1903 I present the report on the Royal Military College of Australia for the period 1 February 1977 to 3 1 January 1978. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May 1978: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 May 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 May 1978: [More…]
1 ) What action has been taken, or will be taken, to implement recommendation 20 of the report on the Middle East tabled in June 1977 by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which urges the Government to encourage the development of all feasible energy sources including the complete abolition of the Federal tax on liquefied petroleum gas which raises little revenue. [More…]
Joint-Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 June 1 978: [More…]
by leave- I will be making a statement on planned defence expenditure to the House during the Estimates debate. [More…]
I state them now as they impinge on conditions of service in the Defence Force. [More…]
1 ) and (2) At the end of July there were 142 officers of the Department of Defence, and 2,762 members of the Defence Force (Navy 347, Army 642 and Air Force 1,773), posted outside Australia. [More…]
About 400 personnel are normally on posting in connection with Australian defence co-operation programs in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji and Tonga. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 March 1 978: [More…]
How many (a) officers of the Defence Department and (b) members of each of the defence forces are posted outside Australia. [More…]
Reference should be made to the full comment by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on this aspect viz: [More…]
1 ) What action has been taken or will be taken on recommendations 17 and 18 of the report on the Middle East tabled in June 1977 by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which urged the development of policies to deflect from Australia some of the consequences of the possible future conflict in the Middle East. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 May 1978: [More…]
Is coverage of the various armed service and defence committees proceedings and reports part of the responsibility of officers of his Department in Washington. [More…]
Were reports on the Congressional hearings at which documents disclosing the proposal to locate an expanded satellite facility at North West Cape, reported upon by the Australian Mission in Washington: if so, was this information transmitted to the Department of Defence. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that many Cabinet submissions are dreary, routine and innocuous documents that have no bearing on defence or national security and contain nothing that is detrimental to public interest. [More…]
Did he receive this advice from the Minister for Defence? [More…]
Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
-In directing my question to the Minister for Defence I refer to his public statement last Thursday about a discrete mass of plutonium buried at Maralinga. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to the statement by the then Minister for Supply on 14 September 1972 that ‘the radioactive material present in these areas’- that is, Maralinga and the Woomera controlled area- ‘has, in the main, a half life of some 15 or 20 years’? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: In what respect was the assumption upon which the question asked by the honourable member for Parramatta was based, to use his term, quite false? [More…]
The funds for any expenditure necessary by Defence relating to the purchase of the two Boeing aircraft will be provided as an addition to appropriations in support of the Defence function. [More…]
A separate appropriation item will be provided in the Defence Estimates for the acquisition of the aircraft including fitting out costs, support equipment and initial spares. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 May 1978: [More…]
Did he state that the funds for the purchase of these aircraft will not be provided from Defence appropriations; if so, will ownership of the aircraft be vested in the RAAF. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Defence says that there were no explosions after 1956 and the then [More…]
The Minister for Defence, not the Opposition, raised this matter in a Cabinet submission which mentioned a discrete mass of plutonium of about half a kilogram. [More…]
In a letter to me on 3 February 1977 the Minister for Defence said that it was essentially a matter of long term environmental management. [More…]
The pointtaken by the Minister for Defence is not irrelevant. [More…]
The Minister for Defence is in error if he believes that the honourable member for Hindmarsh is speaking to a point of order. [More…]
Finally, I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard- the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) agreed to this when he was in the House- an outline of the initiatives of the Fraser Government in the area of social security. [More…]
What defence associations does Australia have with the Association of South East Asian Nations? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 June 1 978: [More…]
1 ) What action has the Australian Government taken in respect of recommendation 22 of the report on the Middle East tabled in June 1977 by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which urges that both Commonwealth and State Governments should have at all times, in advanced preparation, the necessary legislation to implement the conservation of scarce energy products. [More…]
What action has the Government taken to revise and amend the Liquid Fuels (Defence Stocks) Act. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence: Under what circumstances are Australian servicemen permitted to serve with forces other than Australian or associated services when on leave from the Australian Defence Force. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
The Government has not refused Department of Defence requests for funds for the development of Mulloka. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1978: [More…]
Has the Government deferred the Casey University Defence Academy for 12 months. [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice, on 19 September 1978: [More…]
His Honour imposed that sentence after hearing submissions by the prosecutor and the defence counsel concerning the circumstances in which the offence was committed and expert testimony concerning tribal punishment inflicted upon the members of Mamarika ‘s clan by members of the deceased ‘s clan while Mamarika was in custody before the committal proceedings in this case. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 7 August 1 978: [More…]
What leasing or other arrangement covers the use of Commonwealth land at (a) the Harold E. Holt naval communication station, North West Cape, Western Australia and (b) the Pine Gap Joint Defence Research Facility, Alice Springs, Northern Territory. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 November 1978: [More…]
What are the staff ceilings of both civil and uniform establishments of the Department of Defence (Navy). [More…]
This has involved seeking out defence work, overseas orders and commercial work of an appropriate nature from Australian customers. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 10 October 1978: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the interim report of the Defence Service Homes Corporation for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]
The purpose of this amendment is to alter the proposed paragraph 45D (18)(a) which gives a defence to conduct challenged under new sub-section 45D ( lA). [More…]
Paragraph 45D ( IB) (a) is designed to give a defence to proceedings under new sub-section 45D (1A) where conduct is specifically exempted by the authorisation or notification provisions of the Act. [More…]
The provision, as it now appears, is unnecessarily wide and possibly would have the unfortunate and clearly unintended effect of requiring a defendant actually to prove a breach of other provisions of the Act and thus incriminate himself so as to fit within this defence provision. [More…]
This amendment will make it abundantly clear that new paragraph 45D (IB) (a) gives a defence only to conduct that is authorised by the Trade Practices Commission or is the subject of a notification to the Trade Practices Commission which has not been revoked. [More…]
The Defence Press and Broadcasting Committee, under whose authority ‘D’ Notices are issued to the media, is currently reviewing the ‘D’ Notices and I will consider whether it would be appropriate to table the revised’D’ Notices themselves when the Committee has completed its review. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the Defence Report 1978. [More…]
Proposals for canteen systems to meet the basic and essential needs of the defence force are still being examined. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on11 October1978: [More…]
Pursuant to section 48 of the Australian Housing Corporation Act 1975 and section 50B of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918 I present a further copy of the annual report of the Australian Housing Corporation for the year ended 30 June 1976. [More…]
Pursuant to section 48 of the Defence Service Homes Corporation Act 1976 and section 50B of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918, 1 present a further copy of the annual report of the Defence Service Homes Corporation for the year ended 30 June 1977. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government received a request from the Australian Services Council that personnel having Defence Service Homes dwellings be permitted to transfer their loan to a replacement dwelling. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government received a request from the Australian Services Council that Defence Service loans be made available to purchasers of flats, home units and town houses in all States. [More…]
1) No specific request has been received on this matter but I am aware that it forms pan of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
In view of the Government’s decision to proceed with the proposed Ranger uranium mining venture under the Atomic Energy Act which inter alia provides for the application of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947 to all works carried out by or on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission, will the Government give an undertaking that the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act will not be applied to the proposed new Ranger mine. [More…]
As was made clear during the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Act 1978 in the Senate on 29 May 1978, the Government’s policy is that penal provisions enacted for defence purposes would not be applied to the Ranger Project. [More…]
-Does the Minister for Defence accept the Westminster doctrine of ministerial accountability to the Parliament? [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to the suggestion in this week’s Bulletin that Australia can learn a lot from Israel’s defence? [More…]
Can I express my appreciation of the sustained interest the honourable member for Henty shows in defence matters? [More…]
I can add nothing to what was said by my right honourable friend, the Prime Minister, on 22 February when he indicated that the Government had under consideration the whole gamut of strategic defence matters. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister will be aware of the resolution passed last Saturday by the Victorian State Council of the Liberal Party recommending an increased level of spending on defence so that Australia may be adequately defended. [More…]
What action is the Government taking on this critical matter, particularly in view of the concern expressed during the debate on the resolution that any increased funding be directed to improving the effectiveness of the actual Defence Force? [More…]
The Government endeavours to ensure that there is an appropriate level of Australian industry participation in all defence purchases. [More…]
Current Departmental Instructions require that each proposed major Defence purchase from overseas sources be examined to ensure that opportunities for Australian industry participation are fully explored. [More…]
Chinook Helicopters Sea King Helicopters Submarine Fire Control Equipment Naval Combat Data Systems Replacement ESM Equipment Computers for Defence (several) Destroyers FFG-01 and 02 Destroyer FFG-03 [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 August 1978: [More…]
1 ) With respect to Government policy that 30 per cent of all defence purchases should be offered for Australian industrial participation, how many contracts entered into by his Department for the purchase of defence or other equipment, contained clauses specifying an offset arrangement with the vendor for the purchase of Australian manufactured goods, components and/or technology during the last 10 years. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 20 February 1979: [More…]
Has the new uniform Defence Services Disciplinary Code been finalised. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Defence seen reports in the media to the effect, firstly, that the DDG class destroyer with all its sophisticated weaponry could not sink a 63-year-old barge off Sydney recently and, secondly, that the FFG patrol frigates currently on order from the United States of America have been referred to as ‘cheap kill’ ships because they can be knocked out by a rifle bullet or shock from an underwater explosion? [More…]
If not, can the Minister assure the House that these ships form a credible part of our naval defence? [More…]
My question which is directed to the Minister for Defence is supplementary to the question asked by the honourable member for Bradfield. [More…]
Is the Minister at present receiving sufficient funds from the Government to enable Australian defence forces to defend the thousands of miles of Australian coastline from the ‘enemy’? [More…]
For a start, it is not the Department of Defence that called for tenders. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Defence seen claims made by the managing director of an Australian computer company that $500,000 worth of tenders called by the Department of Defence specified United States brand names only, thereby excluding Australian companies? [More…]
What studies has the Government undertaken to determine the feasibility of introducing solar energy water systems as standard requirement for all new homes approved or built by the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
1 ) No study has been undertaken or initiated by the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
The view has been taken that the type of water system to be installed in a Defence Service Home is a matter of individual preference. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 16 November 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 February 1979: [More…]
1 ) On how many occasions in the last four years has the Defence Industry Committee met. [More…]
Has the Committee had referred to it the question of offset payments owing as a result of defence purchases with a request to advise on the use of these funds in respect of Australian manufacturing defence potential; if not, why not. [More…]
In deciding to dispose of the Works the Government has fully considered Defence aspects, particularly the lack of direct Defence requirements for the types of engines manufactured there. [More…]
The committee last reported to me formally on 5 September 1977 when it presented a comprehensive report on the ‘Capability of Australian Industry to Meet Defence Needs’. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 February 1979: [More…]
1 ) Was the decision of the Government to close the Australian Engine Works ever referred to the Defence Industry Committee for the purpose of deciding whether it was appropriate for (a) retention of existing capacity and (b) development of new capacity. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 February 1 979: [More…]
and (3) In March 1978, the Committee of Reference for Defence Force Pay, an independent advisory body to the Minister for Defence under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Coldham, a Deputy President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, advised on the correct pay levels to which all Service other rank employments, including the airman aircrews categories, should be allocated. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1 979: [More…]
I am advised that the tests were carried out for defence purposes. [More…]
-I draw the attention of the House to the presence of Mr Chalid Mawardi, Chairman of the Indonesian Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security. [More…]
I am informed that the threat of sabotage against such installations is low and where these support the Defence Communications system the allocation of costly resources to provide additional physical protection would not be justified. [More…]
The Department of Defence has embarked on a phased program to instal a secure communications system for voice communications throughout Australia (as well as for other purposes). [More…]
This network will embrace the majority of Defence establishments and also will be available to other senior Government persons. [More…]
February 1979, this network is to be known as the Defence Integrated Secure Communications Network (DISCON). [More…]
1 ) Two parcels of surplus Defence Service Homes land have been sold. [More…]
It is the Government’s intention to sell all of the surplus Defence Service Homes land. [More…]
1 ) Did the Government in the last 3 years sell for private home building land previously assigned for Defence Service Homes purposes or is it the Government’s intention to sell the land. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the report tabled in December 1976 by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence entitled ‘The Lebanon crisis- Humanitarian aspects’ in which the Committee made a number of recommendations regarding the broadcasting of inflammatory commentary by community access stations in Australia, including the need for satisfactory monitoring procedures. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 March 1979: [More…]
Is he satisfied that adequate security exists to protect telephone communications to the Department of Defence and other national key points in Canberra. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 February 1 979: [More…]
1 ) How many defence forces personnel have attended briefings or courses at the instigation of Australian foreign affairs and defence authorities or the authorities of recipient nations in (a) the United States of America, (b) the United Kingdom and (c) other countries for each year since I January 1970. [More…]
1 ) The numbers of members of the defence forces who have attended scheduled training courses overseas are set out below: [More…]
-I address my question to the Minister for Defence, who yesterday in the House said that he would inquire into the matter of the Special Air Services Regiment being invited to attend a birthday function held for Mr Lang Hancock of Western Australia. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the House whether there is any validity in the suggestions which were made yesterday by the shadow Minister for Defence? [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to a statement by a wellknown political leader on defence and communications bases? [More…]
The need for defence and communication bases to operate effectively in Australia for this country ‘s protection. [More…]
Civil coastal surveillance is not a military problem even though the Defence Force provides a large measure of assistance to civil authorities. [More…]
Pursuant to section 147 of the Defence Act 1903,I present the report of the Royal Military College of Australia for the period 1 February 1 978 to 3 1 January 1 979. [More…]
b) The tests conducted at Holsworthy were part of a noise assessment study initiated by the Department of Defence in 1976, in conjunction with the National Acoustic Laboratories, to measure and evaluate the effects of noise on communities surrounding the range as a result of activities at the Holsworthy range. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 May 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 May 1 979: [More…]
-I call the Minister for Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 May 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 June 1978: [More…]
Consistent with this policy, the Government has decided to amend section 60 of the Act to provide for prior notification of those ‘works’ of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to which the provisions of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947 will apply, and to repeal sections 54 and 58 in Pan IV of the Act. [More…]
Which of the penal provisions contained in the Atomic Energy Act and the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act will not apply to the proposed new Ranger Mine. [More…]
Was the advice of the Minister for Defence sought prior to the decision being taken; if so, what were the details of the advice provided. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 August 1979: [More…]
) What sections of (a) his Depanment, ( b) the Defence Forces and (c) other Departments were represented. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 August 1979: [More…]
Are members of the Defence Forces who participate in exercises of a non-defence nature, with official approval and/or funding, covered against death or injury; if so under what Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
If so, in view of this commitment, what is the justification of the recently announced increase in Australia’s defence expenditure. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 August 1 979: [More…]
As I have previously indicated, the Government’s decision regarding a higher level of defence expenditure in the 1979-80 Budget took account of the volatility of international events and the likely consequences for Australia. [More…]
It is an unfortunate fact that, much as we would have liked to reduce expenditure on defence, the Government has felt it needed to place greater emphasis on purchases of new defence equipment, and the proportion, and quantum, of defence expenditure on equipment has been steadily rising. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 29 August 1979: [More…]
Pursuant to section 50b of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918, 1 present an interim statement on operations under the defence service homes scheme 1 978-79. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 September 1979: [More…]
That the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence be requested to conduct an urgent inquiry into- [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 12 September 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 29 August 1 979: [More…]
-The Minister for Defence has indicated to me that he wishes my indulgence. [More…]
We did want to pursue the matter but the Government has obviously decided that its defence is to gag the debate. [More…]
The frequency and the extremely high cost of defence accidents. [More…]
I believe that a question along those lines ought properly be directed to the Minister responsible for Public Service matters or possibly the Minister for Defence rather than to me as the Minister for Post and Telecommunications. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 August 1 979: [More…]
Defence Housing in Sydney (Question No. [More…]
The South-East Asia Collective Defence Treaty (Manila Treaty) was signed in Manila on 8 September 1954 and entered into force on19 February 1955. [More…]
Depending on the contingency each Party would be required to ‘act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes’ or to ‘consult immediately in order to agree on the measures which should be taken for the common defence’. [More…]
Can the Minister for Defence inform the House whether there was any irregularity involved in the recent appointment of a former officer to a company that may enter into a contract with the Government? [More…]
-Mr Speaker, I have nothing to add to what the Minister for Defence has already said on this issue. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 19 September 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 29 August 1979: [More…]
How many major items of the Defence Force equipment have been lost or seriously damaged (a) in joint service exercises involving other national forces, (b) in Australian exercises and (c) when being operated by persons who were not members of the Australian Defence Force in each of the last 5 years. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 August 1979: [More…]
Has he on any occasion, and in any way, in correspondence or in conversation, indicated to the Government of the United States of America that it had an obligation to provide trade access for Australia, or otherwise assist Australia in trade negotiations, because of the presence on Australian soil of American defence installations; if so, when and why did this occur. [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Finally, is this an example of standard practice of project management under the defence policies of the present Government? [More…]
I refer the Minister for Defence to his admission in this House on 20 September this year that the prototype naval patrol boat and possibly the first three naval patrol boats to be built in Australia would be approximately 20 tonnes overweight. [More…]
Department of Defence [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to an assertion that the military exercise Kangaroo III was to a large extent a hollow shell? [More…]
Employment Levels at Defence Installations (Question No. [More…]
As mentioned in the second reading speech on the Defence Amendment Bill 1979, the purpose of this Bill is to make amendments to the Air Force Act 1923, which are consequential on those proposed to be made to the Defence Act 1903 by the Defence Amendment Bill. [More…]
As mentioned in the second reading speech on the Defence Amendment Bill 1979, the purpose of this Bill is to make amendments to the Naval Defence Act 1910, which are consequential on those proposed to be made to the Defence Act 1903 by the Defence Amendment Bill. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 October 1 979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 October 1979: [More…]
Will the removal of Defence installations in Victoria from Seymour to Puckapunyal result in any loss of employment opportunities in the Seymour region. [More…]
Defence Installations in Victoria (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 October 1979: [More…]
1 ) Will proposals to reduce or cease operation of defence installations at (a) Marrangaroo, NSW, (b) Ettamogah, NSW, (c) Penrith, NSW, (d) Gladstone, SA, (e) Springhill, WA and (f) Macrossan, Qld, result in employment levels being reduced. [More…]
2 ) Are the defence installations referred to in part ( 1 ) the major or only employment available in those locations. [More…]
Will the changed defence arrangements remove from all or any of these centres all employment available. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 13 November 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 October 1979: [More…]
He sought to propagate a case in defence of these extended powers to an organisation that he knew already was totally discredited and had been properly discredited by a royal commission set up by the Government. [More…]
I understand that the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) is agreeable to treating in cognate fashion this Bill, the Naval Defence Amendment Bill and the Air Force Amendment Bill. [More…]
I understand that he wishes the Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) Bill (No. [More…]
In short, it would mean taking the Defence Force into the whole ambit of industrial legislation. [More…]
Pursuant to section 50B of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918I present the annual report of the Defence Service Homes Corporation 1977-78. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I table the Defence Report for 1 979. [More…]
Defence Science and Technology Organisation ReviewMinisterial Statement, 13 November 1979. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 29 August 1979: [More…]
How many (a) flats, (b) houses and (c) other dwellings were leased or obtained (i) from State and Territory public housing authorities and (ii) on the private rental market by (A) the Navy, (B) the Army, (C) the Air Force and (O) other defence establishments as at 30 June 1974 and at the end of each financial year up to 30 June 1979. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 October 1 979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 8 October 1 979: [More…]
-For the information of honourable members I present a statement on the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Australia and the South Pacific. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a statement on the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Australia and the Indian Ocean Region. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a statement on the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Torres Strait Treaty. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a statement in response to the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Middle East. [More…]
Following a request earlier today from the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi), I formally present a statement on the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Torres Strait Treaty. [More…]
Following a request earlier today, from the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi), I formally present a statement in response to the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Middle East. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 20 November 1979: (Question No. [More…]
A comprehensive statement on Australia’s defence policy will be made to the Parliament in the early days of this Session by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
New proposals will be made for the Defence infrastructure, and for new equipment in the years ahead. [More…]
The strength of our industrial base is of vital importance to our defence. [More…]
My Government believes that our defence aid, which includes approved programmes amounting to $4Sm, and the gift of ten Sabre aircraft to Malaysia, is a real contribution to the defence capacity of both countries. [More…]
The Drought Bonds Scheme, which became operative last November, has provided a new line of defence against the financial burdens of drought, and financial assistance by my Government to drought affected farmers in Queensland will amount to about $15m in the current financial year. [More…]
This question should properly have been put to my colleague the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In the last part of his question he raises a matter that is currently under negotiation and the Minister for Defence, I am sure, would be able to give the information to him. [More…]
If he wishes to draw inferences in relation to the stationing of our troops in Malaysia, as newspaper reports that I have seen suggest he does, or from the fact that Terendak is a very fine establishment that could be and is at present being used by the Malaysians, I would remind him that in the short term the problem of positioning our own troops has been solved and that our long term involvement in the area and accommodation for our troops will be dealt with by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I think that it has become quite clear that the honourable member is seeking to use his background of alleged responsibility in this area to try to cast doubts on the defence arrangements which have been made between the countries concerned and to try to lead people to believe that there are substantial difficulties between ourselves and the Malaysians or the Singaporeans. [More…]
We have been examining for some time the way in which Australian forces can be kept to the level that is necessary for the defence of this country and we have come to the conclusion -I believe the correct conclusion - that the only way that can be done is by the existence of a scheme of national service and we propose to continue this scheme while it is necessary to do so, asI believe it will be for long ahead. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The only things they did not believe in controlling were defence and foreign policy. [More…]
Of course, if the House of Assembly and a Cabinet had control over defence and foreign policy they would have complete independence. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to validate certain payments made to members of the three Services during the period 1st April 1961 to 4th February 1966 and to civilians employed under the Naval Defence Act during the period 1st April 1961 to 18th June 1969. [More…]
The period in respect of which this action is required commences on 1 April 1961 because all payments made prior to that date were validated by the Defence Pay Act 1961. [More…]
The Naval Defence Act authorised the employment of civilians and provided that the terms and conditions of employment shall be prescribed in the regulations. [More…]
The payments made to civil employees under the Naval Defence Act included payments for: Fares and allowances incurred in overseas visits; travelling allowances on temporary transfer, allowances paid to staff on trials of ship afloat; meal allowances; and special rates for disabilities, etc. [More…]
There is hardly any need for denial because the standing of the Commission, its independence and its judicial status go without the need of defence for anybody except somebody like the honourable member who is looking for a political vehicle. [More…]
He said, firstly, that a comprehensive statement would be made on Australia’s defence policy in the early days of this session by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
Since the time that Mr Robert Menzies, as he then was, made the first announcement about the Fill Australia has expended on defence oyer S6,000m. [More…]
I would commend to honourable members - and particularly to new members - of this House the 17th November 1969 issue of a publication called the ‘Current Affairs Bulletin’, which was issued after the recent general election, entitled ‘Defence Hardware’. [More…]
For the purposes of this ‘Current Affairs Bulletin’, defence hardware is taken to mean physical defence military resources. [More…]
If the Government is now blithely to say - $6,000m later, without the linchpin, the Fill, and not knowing whether we are going to get it or not - that it is going to embark on a new, comprehensive resurvey of the defence forces, I think the Australian public ought to be a little critical of it. [More…]
If we are to exert any influence, it is the belief at least of my side of the House that our influence will be valuable only if it is orientated around the economic development of those areas rather than around the form of military aggression called defence procurement. [More…]
In matters of national interest such as defence it is well nigh impossible to avoid the charge; on questions of a domestic nature we come closer to the waitress in the San Francisco restaurant - more, even all, can be revealed. [More…]
Captain Sam Benson, the former member for Batman, belonged to the Defend Australia Committee which endeavoured to see that Australia had sufficient defence services and that Australia’s foreign affairs and defence policies were adequate. [More…]
What is the defence policy of the Labor Party? [More…]
Its defence policy seems to me to be something that will certainly not give Australia strength and standing in the South East Asian region. [More…]
Good topographic maps are of course essential1 for defence planning and defence operations. [More…]
Maps are produced by both agencies to mutually agreed basic specifications and when each map is printed enough copies are provided for both civil and defence purposes. [More…]
There are two other specific defence proposals. [More…]
The Minister for Health devoted four columns of Hansard of his statement to a philosophical defence of what he called the ‘voluntary’ principle. [More…]
The Government refuses to contemplate even the suggestion that the initial volunteer period might be reduced to 2 years, though the present Min- ister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) throws out the suggestion that the period of service for conscripts might be reduced to 18 months. [More…]
There is not one aspect of the many sided task we have to do in New Guinea - in defence, in development, in commerce, in welfare, in education - in which the value of the Australian contribution will not be enhanced when we cease also to be rulers. [More…]
by leave- Mr Speaker, the last occasion on which a Minister for Defence made a hurried visit to the United States of America was in 1963 to order the F111. [More…]
Now, 6 months after the last federal election to be held in this country - that was in October 1969 - the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is to make a trip to the United States ostensibly for the purpose of investigating the F111 but quite obviously, from what the Minister has said, for the purpose of cancelling the project. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has had his nose well and truly rubbed in the whole sorry mess of the F111. [More…]
To develop this version - the so-called RF1 1 1 - an appropriation of $US15m was made in the United States defence budget. [More…]
But the Minister for Defence must clearly understand that the Opposition in this Parliament and the people of Australia will want to be informed, indeed they should be informed, on what arrangements this Government will make if it decides not to proceed with the Fill purchase and what arrangements will be made to recover the $207m that has been committed by the taxpayers of this country towards the purchase of the Fill. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has had to make a very abject about-face from his confident remarks of December. [More…]
by leave - I propose in the course of my remarks to provide a broad view of our defence policy and the considerations that have contributed to it. [More…]
1 shall refer to the Government’s defence objectives and to our planning arrangements which support them; to the capacity of our armed forces and to our proposals to increase that capacity. [More…]
I shall also mention the organisational changes which are still continuing in the defence structure which, I believe, are important in helping the Government to come to decisions in defence matters. [More…]
Some of what I say will not be new but I feel it would be useful if the House could have as full a view as possible of our approach to defence policy. [More…]
Defence policies and the decisions we take to give effect to them must have meaning not only for the immediate present; they must also fit the situation that we assess will face us in the future. [More…]
Yet if we are to take the right decisions, we must have a defence organisation which is equipped to analyse all the facts, and perceive as best it may what lies ahead. [More…]
I shall confine myself to describing in brief terms the strategic setting against which the Government has made certain decisions and in the context of which we are elaborating our defence policies. [More…]
But when these requirements have been reviewed, it falls to the Government of the day to decide the resources that can be devoted to defence. [More…]
We have learned long ago that defence needs cannot be divorced from other community needs. [More…]
No country can meet every possible defence contingency. [More…]
I do not suggest that we can afford to devote resources to defence, unmindful of Australia’s needs in other areas. [More…]
He said nothing really about the defence of this country. [More…]
I do not propose to speak at great length on the question of defence or the lack of defence arrangements as put forward by the Leader of the Opposition because we have just had a defence statement from the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolmn Fraser) and this will be debated next week. [More…]
That will be the appropriate time to go into details on the matter of defence. [More…]
There is only one valid principle to govern the allocation of government resources - Federal or State - and that is the satisfaction of the real requirements of the Australian people, from adequate defence to day nurseries. [More…]
However in saying that I must hasten to add that they have at the same time indicated that they no longer support the bungling defence and foreign policies of this tired, divided, lost and hapless coalition, but instead have consciously opted for a united, positive, virile and progressive movement, which does have due regard for the importance of external affairs and defence, including, I am sure, the posting of career diplomats to all embassies and consulates. [More…]
That a man of the capacity of the former member for Adelaide could feel confident of becoming Minister for Defence and eventually Prime Minister, because his modest assessment of the talent offering was such that he could come to no other conclusion, in itself should be judgment enough. [More…]
My electors have expressed their rejection of the blunders that have been made in the field of defence, especially with the FI 1 1 fiasco and scandal. [More…]
We residents of Forrest are distressed at the blunders made in the fields of defence and foreign affairs. [More…]
It was rather striking tonight when the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made a very important statement on defence that the Leader of the Opposition did not bother to enter the chamber. [More…]
That is what the Opposition thinks of this very serious problem of defence. [More…]
1 direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In a defence statement in this place last night the Minister listed the major pieces of equipment which are to be purchased in the next defence programme. [More…]
It is remarkable that in a country of Australia’s maturity it is next to impossible because of the default of the Government, to have a rational and reasoned debate on defence policy during an election campaign. [More…]
It is an intellectual tragedy that the defence policies of the contending parties cannot be forcefully debated without charges of treachery and lack of patriotism being raised in the most scurrilous fashion. [More…]
The GovernorGeneral’s Speech was cursory on defence because of the expected defence statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
In his statement the Minister for Defence said his Department was making a full examination of the total service manpower problems including national service. [More…]
This amounts to a very substantial hidden cost which does not show up in the budgetary costing of the defence forces. [More…]
But this paper increase in defence spending is actually a shift in the tax burden from a small number of conscripts to the whole taxpaying community at large. [More…]
Taxpayers pay more in cash for their defence forces but this is achieved by elimination of a vicious tax in kind borne by a handful of 20-year-olds. [More…]
The benefit of this tax goes to all taxpayers in the form of a lower defence payroll budget. [More…]
In this context the manpower study announced by the Minister for Defence can be used only to determine the future levels of conscripts required. [More…]
This is a dismal outlook for Australia’s defences and for the career serviceman in particular. [More…]
The honourable member for Macarthur can read the Labor Party’s platform on defence. [More…]
It is unnecessary to outline to the House the soldiers’ complaints about pay, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, Service housing, the disruption and expense caused by frequent repostings, separation from families, repatriation and resettlement problems. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has emphasised the two areas of housing and repostings. [More…]
He referred to these areas last night in his defence statement. [More…]
On the subject of pay and conditions generally, the Pay and Conditions of Service Branch established in the Department of Defence is a commendable innovation, but its work must be associated with a fresh approach to the pay and conditions of servicemen. [More…]
In summary, there is little benefit in taking a few isolated sources of Service dissatisfaction and looking for remedies, but this is apparently what the Minister for Defence did last night. [More…]
He said that Australia should be in a position to have an all volunteer defence force. [More…]
The very success of the Government’s policies has made it impossible for it to maintain Australia’s defence forces at a satisfactory level by voluntary enlistment. [More…]
The point is that for forward defence planning in any constructive and responsible sense it is necessary to know how many troops one will have at any given time and how many will come in at a later date. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the Government is not prepared to abrogate its responsibilities by putting itself in the position in which it is not able to plan for the future defence requirements of this country. [More…]
I imagine we will have a chance to debate the defence aspect more fully later in the session and therefore I shall devote the rest of my speech to the subject on which I intended to speak tonight. [More…]
Before analysing the contents of the Governor-General’s Speech I want to refer to the remarks of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) who occupied almost all of his speaking time in referring to our defence. [More…]
It was very refreshing last night to hear the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) say that we in Australia would never adopt isolationism as our policy. [More…]
Not only are our servicemen entitled to repatriation benefits, but they are also covered by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
In turning to the Governor-General’s Speech I wish to express my satisfaction that due emphasis has been placed on the important matters of defence and security, our role in South East Asia and our concern to assist the people of Papua and New Guinea along the road to economic stability and nationhood. [More…]
Whilst we must continue to support the United Nations and its principles in the hope that mankind will learn to live in peace and harmony, we must, in the circumstances of world tension and conflict, do all in our power to establish an effective defence preparedness. [More…]
EarlierI said that in order to play our part in South East Asia and to have a sound defence structure we must continue to grow sound and strong economically. [More…]
Section 3 of the Defence Force Protection Act of 1967 states: (1.) [More…]
by leave - On 17th December last I announced that the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board had commenced the distribution of surplus assets in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund that were disclosed by an investigation of the Fund carried out by the Commonwealth Actuary in respect of the S-year period from 1st July 1959 to 30th June 1964. [More…]
As the responsible Minister, it is my duty to put the facts before the House in proper defence of this officer. [More…]
After ali, the honourable and gallant gentleman some years ago was prepared to risk his life in defence of that very Territory. [More…]
By way of example, legislation in the tax field to close loopholes or to provide concessions - for example under the recent drought bonds scheme - legislation for superannuation, for defence forces retirement benefits and for regulating trade practices is most intricate and has demanded a great deal of time and attention from the few experienced draftsmen available. [More…]
Perhaps the best example of this problem was the guidance given on the future of the machine tool industry which was built up with such great difficulty and which is so important to our defence capacity. [More…]
The continued absence of sophisticated weapons and the reliance on conscripted soldiers for military adventures to the detriment of Australia’s defence will lead to dissent. [More…]
Not a voice of concern for Laos has been raised by the anti-war fanatics, the banner wavers, the demonstrators, the deluded academics, the misguided churchmen or the left wing peace bodies always so eager to denounce the defence of South Vietnam. [More…]
The invasion of Laos is, as much as anything else, an attempt to force the President of the United States by pressure from within to speed up the American withdrawal before the South Vietnamese are fully prepared to take the major share of the burden of their own defence. [More…]
Australians, whenever they go to vote, must be ever conscious of the weakkneed, isolationist defence policy of the Labor Party. [More…]
The defence statement that has been made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is the first significant defence statement made since 2nd May 1968. [More…]
On that occasion the former Minister, now Sir Allen Fairhall, delivered to the House an abridgment of what was intended to be a new defence review. [More…]
The normal procedure would have been for a major defence review listing the important items of defence spending to be delivered to the House either during the final sessional period of 1967 or during the first sessional period of 1968. [More…]
The practice of defence reviews extending over a period of years was established by the Labor Government in 1947. [More…]
The general pattern of 3-year defence reviews was followed during the administration of Sir Robert Menzies, culminating in the 1964 statement, which re-established conscription and which was designed as a prelude to Vietnam. [More…]
However, in 1968, with the accession of the present Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), this sort of defence planning was scrapped. [More…]
The review which had been drafted by Sir Allen Fairhall was shorn of its defence purchases and whatever strategic assessments it might have contained. [More…]
Nor is there any acknowledgement of the role of strategic aircraft which has dominated the Government’s defence thinking over the past 7 years. [More…]
Another quite remarkable feature of the statement on defence is the cursory treatment given to Vietnam. [More…]
I will deal with these notable omissions from the defence statement in some detail later in this speech. [More…]
For the past 2 years there has been a remarkable hiatus in defence planning produced by the Prime Minister’s scrapping of the old programming pattern. [More…]
While the right honourable gentleman re-examined his sense of priorities and tried to grapple with domestic problems, defence planning was allowed to languish. [More…]
A new concept of rolling defence programmes subject to regular revision and replacing the 3-yearly defence review was announced. [More…]
Little was done to flesh out the bare bones of this concept apart from a handful of defence purchases announced in the last Budget. [More…]
This meant that for a period of 5 years there had been no re-assessment of defence objectives with consequent defence spending designed to implement them. [More…]
Defence planning and policy did exist on an ad hoc, day to day basis while the Government employed diversionary tactics, mainly on Vietnam. [More…]
This situation persisted through the course of the election campaign despite repeated efforts by the Democratic Labor Party to coerce the Prime Minister into an aggressive defence stance. [More…]
Basic defence planning was not a key issue in the election because the Prime Minister deliberately adopted a low key attitude to constructing national defence policies. [More…]
As part of this effort to burnish a new image the Prime Minister decided it was urgent that he do something about defence. [More…]
To borrow the right honourable gentleman’s phraseology, it was important not only that he be doing something about defence but that he be seen to be doing something. [More…]
The result was a crash campaign announced by the newly appointed Minister for Defence, but initiated by the Prime Minister. [More…]
The Services and the defence departments were told that the Prime Minister had to have a list of defence purchases prepared by the start of the session. [More…]
There had to be evidence that the Government was active in defence planning and defence buying. [More…]
The so-called rolling defence programmes had to be given substance. [More…]
The burden was shared by the officers of the Service departments and in particular by the staff of the Department of Defence. [More…]
This reorganisation had replaced the former inter-Service committee system with joint staffs drawn from the 3 Services but based in the Department of Defence. [More…]
A Systems Analysis Branch had been established with the purpose of testing alternative defence programmes in cost effectiveness terms, and projecting future streams of defence operating costs. [More…]
Many features of the reorganised Department of Defence were at an extremely rudimentary stage when the new Minister took over. [More…]
Against this background, its biggest task in 5 years was pitchforked into the lap of the Department of Defence. [More…]
The defence programme has been deferred for 2 years. [More…]
This would have given the Services and the newly organised structure time to deal adequately with a new defence programme. [More…]
I believe that this adds up to an extremely reckless and irresponsible approach by both the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It is no credit to the Prime Minister or the Minister for Defence that this panic approach has not produced bad results. [More…]
It reflects great credit on the restraint of the Service officers at a time when the Government was anxious to spend and spend lavishly on prestige defence consumption. [More…]
Further it reflects very great credit on the officers of the Defence Department who have responded superbly to demands which should never have been imposed on them. [More…]
In this light the defence statement emerges as an elaborate exercise in public relations and window dressing. [More…]
In this way decisions designed to implement defence objectives can be tested and a choice made of the most effective programmes or purchases. [More…]
In terms of this defence statement, it is completely obvious that such an analysis could not have been applied with the time scale dictated by the Minister. [More…]
These lists were then thrown to the experts in the Defence Department who were not given time to apply their techniques and make cost benefit assessments of alternatives. [More…]
This is a complete perversion of what the much publicised re-organisation of the Defence Department was designed to achieve. [More…]
Such ferreting out of information negates the whole purpose of establishing these specialist branches in the Defence Department. [More…]
The need for mobility and flexibility in the organisation of the defence forces has been written into Australian Labor Party policy for several years. [More…]
The logistic cargo ship will increase the sea-lift capacity of the forces and its employment by the Australian National Line when not required for defence is an interesting innovation. [More…]
This adds up to a vast defence programme which will have a substantia] impact on future defence spending and on the Budget provisions. [More…]
The Minister is rather more successful in his statement of the guiding principles of the development of defence capability. [More…]
The Opposition would not quarrel with most of these principles, which are in harmony with the defence sections of the platform of the Labor Party. [More…]
This was the context of the Minister’s application to this part of the defence programme. [More…]
On the most crucial defence issue confronting this country, the Vietnam war, the Minister is singularly tongue tied by contrast with the verbal excesses of the rest of the statement. [More…]
The inescapable conclusion to be drawn from recent statements by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence is that the Government wants to maintain the commitment until the other side capitulates. [More…]
It was his clear duty to indicate how defence capability could be varied ii the Fill was scrapped. [More…]
As I said quite recently, this will be the second occasion on which a Minister for Defence has made a hurried visit to the United States of America. [More…]
In 1963 the purpose of the visit to the United States of the then Minister for Defence was to purchase the Fill aircraft, which was then still on the drawing board. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has dismissed the importance of the Fill. [More…]
Surely one would expect that in a responsible defence statement - and one assumes that the Minister was making a responsible defence statement on behalf of his Government - he would have at least offered some alternatives if he knew that he was to go to the United States to renegotiate the agreement to purchase the aircraft. [More…]
But the Minister for Defence offered no alternatives. [More…]
What will be Australia’s fighter attack capability if the Fill is not to be made available to Australia’s defence forces? [More…]
He made no reference at all to this important question in his defence statement. [More…]
I believe it was his clear duty to indicate how defence capability could >be varied if the FI 1 1 was scrapped. [More…]
In future the expertise which has been developed in the Department of Defence must be used with greater efficiency and effectiveness. [More…]
My friend the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) has taken some 36 minutes to read a speech, giving his Party’s view on defence. [More…]
Apart from one or two cutting remarks like that, the honourable gentleman left me with the distinct impression that he wanted to intrude a mild note of partisanship into his assessment of the defence statement of my colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
I hope my honourable friend will get an opportunity in a moment or two of high confidence which we enjoy to explain to me why it is, after having roundly criticised the Government and the Minister for Defence for the shopping list and for not having taken part, as he put it - and this is a shorthand account of what the honourable member said - in sufficient analysis, that he turns round and agrees with it. [More…]
What my honourable friend is dealing with here is the strategic assessment given by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence described - I would hope in exemplary language of moderation, restraint and clear perception - the position of this country. [More…]
If my honourable friend would like to trouble himself to read Article II of the ANZUS agreement he will notice expressed in simple uncluttered language that all the parties to the agreement undertake jointly and collectively to improve their respective defence postures. [More…]
The Labor Party puts itself in one fortunate position from the view point of any defence statement and from the viewpoint of any foreign affairs statement. [More…]
It has but one assumption and this assumption underlines the whole of its foreign and defence policies. [More…]
At the conference it was said that it was no longer feasible - I think that is the precious language used by that holy body, the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party - to leave any troops, any squadrons or any defence force in South East Asia. [More…]
Even to the brilliant new member for Robertson (Mr Cohen), who will be here, I hope, for a short time, it is a very elementary principle of international law that any country is entitled to act in its own self-defence and to invite aid. [More…]
The Government’s policy is summed up by my honourable friend the Minister for Defence and by the Prime Minister - this has consistently been the case - as being to strive for, to seek and to find those means in the world that will enable countries to have their independence, to maintain their national integrity, and to ensure that the inviolability of human rights is held in honour. [More…]
And that, dear friends, was the Minister for the Navy (Mr Killen) taking part in a serious debate on defence. [More…]
In his 20 minutes not one word did he say about the defence of Australia; not one serious criticism did he have to offer of what was said by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard). [More…]
But is that approach not appropriate to a debate of this sort, a debate that was led off by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser)? [More…]
The Minister in his statement said that he proposed in the course of his brief remarks - they covered fifteen pages in Hansard - to provide a broad view of the considerations that have contributed to the Government’s defence policy. [More…]
That was the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Australia’s defence policy has no relation to strategic appreciation, or common sense. [More…]
Everything in the statement, as I saw it, was irrelevant to an analysis of our defence needs and the foreign policies that were laid out before us. [More…]
The aspect that should really upset the people of Australia is the failure of the Minister for Defence and the Minister for whatever the Minister for the Navy considers himself to be Minister for, to examine and explain the tragic continuation of the present operations in Vietnam. [More…]
Let me say that I regard it as tragic folly and that it is irresponsibility on the part of the Minister for Defence and the Minister for the Army to allow those operations to continue. [More…]
I see this defence statement as a statement without conclusions. [More…]
It is time for a serious critique of the Australian defence system. [More…]
But I do have some feeling about the Australian defence forces and when month after month goes by and year after year passes and there are tragic episodes and incidents which lose young Australian lives; when the Army in Vietnam shoots up its own men and the Commander says: ‘No, there will not be any inquiry, it is just one of the fortunes of war;’ what have we come to? [More…]
What has happened to the Australian defence Services? [More…]
That is not good enough because when we commit young Australians to the defence Services we commit the most precious possessions that any of us have and every Minister of this Government, and every member of Parliament - particularly honourable members opposite - has to answer for it to the people of Australia when they waste young Australian lives, not having been careful of what their trust and duty is. [More…]
My criticism is that in the past 20 years, with all the wealth and woe and weight of work that has been poured into it we have never attempted to produce a defence capacity to satisfy Australia’s own needs. [More…]
We have never laid down a defence objective because we have been able to escape it by using the phrases the Minister used here the other night. [More…]
Switzerland has a defence objective. [More…]
Sweden has a defence objective. [More…]
Israel has a defence objective, to keep the Arabs at bay. [More…]
It is time we started to think constructively and with a modern attitude that our neighbours are not warlike and that in the logic of human endeavour we ought to prepare a defence system - an insurance - which will protect us and which will assure anybody around about that we can protect ourselves. [More…]
Then we come to this other mystique, the one which is associated with forward defence. [More…]
Forward defence? [More…]
Of course, if the purpose is to supply a social service to the people of Singapore, go ahead and do it, but do not claim that it has anything to do with the defence of Australia. [More…]
I believe that no matter how good they are, nine battalions are completely irrelevant to any defence requirement. [More…]
That is an indication of the irrelevance of the whole defence debate. [More…]
Is there any reason why in the Rockhamptons, the Warrnambools and other coastal cities of Australia we could not base upon part time services all the defence equipment which we buy and keep. [More…]
I wish the Parliament would set to and do some homework on it or establish a select committee to examine how we can develop the civilian defence capacity of Australia with its tremendous resources in every town, in workshops, in naval yards and so on, into a viable defence capacity which does not waste people’s time but which still can be an effective mobilisation point for the nation if ever we come to a point of crisis. [More…]
That is the only defence that has any sense in the present day. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) could not criticise the defence statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) so he ridiculed it. [More…]
I congratulate the Government on the clearest defence statement that I have heard in this House for a long time, lt stated the defence needs and it stated the defence priorities. [More…]
The Government has made it quite clear in the statement of the Minister for Defence that Australia is not going to retreat into isolation, that Australia realises that it lives in this region of the world and that within our limited capacity, as far as we can, we will stand up to support our allies and play our part in the defence of the security of this region. [More…]
He said that he was not going to deal with defence, but spent almost the entire time at his disposal in talking on 2 matters. [More…]
But they were related to defence. [More…]
The United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence, Mr Healey, said the other day that he was seriously concerned at the way recruiting was falling off because Britain could not keep her reduced forces up to standard. [More…]
lt has a very great deal to do with the defence of the whole of the west coast of Australia. [More…]
It has a very great deal to do with the defence of both the Indian and Pacific oceans which wash our shores. [More…]
So it is very difficult for the ordinary person to understand the ins and outs of these international movements and the necessity for defence. [More…]
As I said at the outset, I believe that it is the best statement on defence we have had in this House for a very long time. [More…]
The statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was notable for three omissions. [More…]
The Minister for Defence referred to the inviolability of human rights and quoted the United Nations Charter. [More…]
I want to refer to the inviolability of the human race and the fact that the main thing to be discussed in defence is the question of human existence, the survival of the human race itself and the inner plans and plots of this Government. [More…]
I should hope that we would use our defence funds and endeavour to secure for this country some measure of atomic or hydrogen defence . [More…]
Australia should expand and protect all those industries on which defence ultimately rests, and so equip ourselves to defend our lives and country with the most sophisticated and effective weapons that man can devise - with no type excluded. [More…]
The United States will insist on Japan shouldering a heavier share of responsibility in Pacific and Asian defence. [More…]
The report by Sir Keith is certain to mean a basic reappraisal of Australian foreign policy, forward defence planning and Asian relations. [More…]
Sir, that report is the most devastating and explosive document received by the Australian Government since the correspondence between the late John Curtin and the British Prime Minister of the day in relation to the return of Australian divisions from the Middle East for the defence of this country. [More…]
If the Government is not prepared to put it before Parliament - the people of Australia are entitled to know what is in that report - it will be because its whole defence statement will tumble into ruins the minute that report is published. [More…]
We are entering a new era in relation to defence procurement and manufacture. [More…]
Sweden, with less than two thirds of our- population, is capable of making the whole of its defence requirements. [More…]
After all, what does our present defence procurement amount to in terms of military hardware? [More…]
Australia has the men and the technology to make the whole of its defence requirements. [More…]
So far in regard to defence we have been trying to keep up with the United States Joneses. [More…]
It is not necessarily true that the United States has the final answer to what are the defence needs of this country. [More…]
Reference was made in the statement by the Minister for Defence to the need to obtain another aircraft carrier to replace the obsolete ‘Melbourne’. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, for a man who did not discuss the defence statement presented by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in any significant fashion at all, I think that the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor) used some very unnecessary language. [More…]
The Opposition has not mounted any valid criticism of the defence statement. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) actually agreed with the defence statement. [More…]
I wish to quote from the defence debate a year ago. [More…]
The Leader of the Party said nothing of this in his speech on defence made in this chamber 12 months ago. [More…]
Tonight the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said in this chamber that the Labor Party has had a defence policy for the last 3 years. [More…]
I commend the Minister for Defence for his detailed and thorough statement on defence. [More…]
It clearly shows that, although there is great emphasis on the mobility of our armed forces, the Labor Party idea of a Fortress Australia defence has been strongly rejected. [More…]
The defence statement we are debating indicates that Australia is prepared to live in South East Asia and with the people of the South East Asian region. [More…]
This defence statement should hearten our friends in Malaysia and Singapore, and reassure them that we are conscious that our security is bound Up with the whole area of South East Asia. [More…]
The defence policy, outlined recently by the Minister, shows clearly that the Government realises that our future lies in cooperation with the small nations in the South East Asian region. [More…]
The development of Cockburn Sound, the cost of which was not included in this defence statement, will enable our ships to operate in the Indian Ocean as well as in the Pacific Ocean. [More…]
The reorganisation in the Department of Defence, with the establishment of a policy planning branch, should help to ensure that the best possible solutions to defence problems are found and applied. [More…]
The pay and conditions of the Service Branch recently established in the Department of Defence should be of great benefit to all servicemen, for their domestic affairs such as pay, housing, schooling of their children and posting problems are of paramount importance to the morale of the Services. [More…]
This arm of the defence forces is most necessary to supply back up and expansion in the case of emergency. [More…]
For this we must have forward and regional defence because the rumble of guns and the howl of rockets finally is getting closer. [More…]
By ‘serve’ I mean that we must make some personal sacrifice to assist in the development, the defence and protection of the tremendous assets now being unfolded in Australia. [More…]
J believe that the statement of the Minister for Defence was a clear, concise and comprehensive statement of what this Government proposes to do with the financial resources available. [More…]
For a little over 2 hours, honourable members have been listening to a debate on defence which is, of course, the first responsibility of this Parliament. [More…]
The GovernorGeneral in his Speech dealt with many items relating to defence, and many items relating to the economic and social wellbeing of this nation. [More…]
It is these defence matters, economic matters and social matters which are so important to Australia at this time. [More…]
Here again we in Western Australia note with dismay that no provision is made in the proposed legislation to seal this very important trade, tourist and defence link. [More…]
Yes, it is a defence link. [More…]
We would be one of the few countries in this modern age which have to wait until it stops raining and the road dries out before ground support units can be moved by road interstate for the defence of the country. [More…]
When one considers that the Government now proposes to spend $165m on defence, and has not made provision for the 9m esti mated to seal this road, it shows the shortsighted thinking that has existed for 20 years and continues to exist. [More…]
Of course we appreciate that these units may be transported by air or rail, and that in due course sufficient bases may be available to supply sufficient defences in the west. [More…]
But it is to be appreciated that we in Western Australia have been for so long forgotten and neglected on defence matters while the Government adventures overseas. [More…]
We demand an adequate and urgent rectification of our defence problems, particularly now that we have proven that value does exist in Western Australia with our vast development projects and overseas investments. [More…]
We do not want more overseas adventures which detract attention from our own parlous defence position. [More…]
In fact, a pre-Senate election broadcast by a former Prime Minister stated that the escalation of national defence expenditure by over $700m since 1963 had not upset the Australian economy. [More…]
The civil defence procedures and the communications system should be tightened up. [More…]
In fact no proposals have been put to me as Minister for the Interior or, as T understand it, to the Minister for Defence or to the Department of Defence on such a proposition. [More…]
Labor’s defence policy is amateurish. [More…]
1 must say that it was like an essay by a high school student because it had no bearing at all on the normal problems of defence. [More…]
But the defence policy of the ALP does not exist. [More…]
Such a slump has overtaken us in recent years, due to the decline in the demand for our goods resulting from droughts in the eastern States and in my own State and to other causes such as the transfer of resources to defence spending overseas. [More…]
I am angry that just when we needed more funds the South Australian share of the Commonwealth public works programme and of defence spending was declining. [More…]
1 turn now to the matter of defence, a subject that the Government virtually sidestepped in His Excellency’s Speech by saying, inter alia: [More…]
Australia’s defence policy will be made to the Parliament in the early days of the session by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It is just a play on words re-espousing the much over-worked Liberal Party shibboleths on defence plus an inadequate procurement list. [More…]
This Government has an appalling defence record. [More…]
It has failed to defend Australia after holding office for 20 years, yet it has the audacity to charge the Labor Party with irresponsible defence policies. [More…]
The Labor Party’s defence record is solid gold. [More…]
Let us have a look at the Liberal Party’s defence record, and we might start by looking at 1963. [More…]
The original decision to buy the swing-wing bomber was made by Sir Robert Menzies on the eve of the 1963 elections, lt was a cynical votecatching strategy which paid little heed to Australia’s long-term defence needs or to costs. [More…]
Statements in the past by US defence chiefs suggested .this was not the case, and that Australia would have to pay a sizeable penalty if it was to get off the contractual hook. [More…]
Future defence contracts must also specify that where goods are not delivered within a reasonable period of time, or where they fail to meet specified conditions of airworthiness and reliability, the contract is null and void. [More…]
A cornerstone of the Swedish defence posture is the Swedish Air Force, currently equipped with large numbers of SAAB Draken supersonic fighters. [More…]
Even before the first production Draken was delivered to the Air Force in the late 1950s, however, work was well under way to determine the next phase in the country’s air defence. [More…]
Time does not allow me to elaborate on this, but at another time I would like to take up this point of comparing Sweden with Australia in the manufacture of defence equipment and the encouragement of an aircraft industry. [More…]
I wish him well through some of the stormy passages, especially in the realm of defence, that I can see him encountering later. [More…]
Since the Minister for Defence is to visit Saigon soon, presumably to discuss, among other things, troop withdrawals with American and South Vietnamese officials, does the Minister still intend to visit Saigon next month for the same purpose? [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence noted a statement by the New Zealand Minister for Defence that the South Vietnamese Government is ready to take over operations in the Phuoc Tuy Province? [More…]
It is only a very short while since I spent the best part of a day in lengthy discussions with the New Zealand Minister for Defence and also Mr Thomson’s advisers including the Chief of the New Zealand Defence Staff who had been accompanying Mr Thomson on his recent visit to South Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor had a good deal to say this afternoon about defence. [More…]
He was highly critical of the statement made last week by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
I and many people outside this Parliament think the statement on defence was an excellent one. [More…]
He must know that the Government has decided to send the Minister for Defence to the United States in the next week or two to investigate the present situation regarding the Fill. [More…]
Since they have so much to say about defence and since the honourable member for Lalor was so critical of the Government’s activity in this field, why is the subect of the defence of this country listed 23rd in order of importance in the Labor Party’s platform? [More…]
We on this side believe that the defence of this nation - its safety and security - should have top priority. [More…]
As I said earlier, the defence and the security of Australia must, at all times, be paramount. [More…]
It is distressing to see the situation which has developed in the parliamentary procedures of this country whereby Ministers work so assiduously to avoid informing the Australian public, as it is their elected responsibility to do, on what developments have taken place in the administration of important national matters such as health, the economy - which is most important of all - primary industry, defence and the other subjects which the honourable member for Lalor mentioned when speaking to the amendment which is before the House. [More…]
I would have thought that under the defence power in the Constitution the [More…]
The Fill was the subject of a statement, by leave, by my colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), on 5th March. [More…]
The Government has decided that I should visit the United States at an early suitable opportunity to discuss the whole matter with the United States Secretary of Defence. [More…]
On 10th March the Minister for Defence submitted a long defence statement, and a good one which has been the subject of debate in this Parliament. [More…]
But he did not do so because the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is closer to the Prime Minister, so the first slot was given to the ministerial statement on defence, and the Minister for External Affairs has to wait until tomorrow night to make his statement. [More…]
We heard a lot from the Minister for Labour and National Service, in defence of the Government, about measures taken by the Government to bring before the Parliament debates on primary industry. [More…]
Right through I listened with interest to see if anything would be said on what 1 hold to be the most important responsibility of the government today, and that is defence. [More…]
Do we take it from that that the Opposition is satisfied with the Government’s policies on defence and with the progress made? [More…]
Of all the matters for which this Liberal-Country Party Government is responsible defence has absolute priority. [More…]
The Governor-General then passed immediately to the subject of defence and forecast that a statement would be made on the subject by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
It listed the priorities and new proposals for the infra structure of the defence forces, lt dealt with fixed installations necessary for any possible military operations. [More…]
That is the basic theme of our entire defence strategy. [More…]
In raising the subject of defence now, I do not want anyone to believe that in my view this is its proper position in my speech. [More…]
Defence is the most important subject of all. [More…]
I would like to draw the attention of the Parliament to the positioning of defence in Labor’s platform. [More…]
It contains 29 items and defence is twentythird and foreign affairs is twenty-fourth, lt is a little like the Melbourne Cup. [More…]
Anyone who had his money on a horse that came in twenty-third or twenty-fourth would not be very happy and I suggest that the people of Australia have every reason not to be very happy with the way that Labor treats the subjects of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
If we turn the page we see another reference to defence. [More…]
Some 61 items are listed and our involvement in Vietnam, which Labor so violently opposes, is fifty-fifth and defence is fifty-sixth. [More…]
In it defence and foreign affairs run a very poor last. [More…]
Coming away from that situation, we have heard much being said by the Country Party members about defence because they do not want to talk about the rural population. [More…]
This has been a government of discrimination - discrimination against migrants, discrimination against the farmer, discrimination against the worker, discrimination against the pensioner and discrimination in the matter of defence. [More…]
Fancy this Government saying anything about defence. [More…]
Government supporters have often alleged that the Labor Party was not interested in the defence of this country until Russia became involved in the war. [More…]
The approved or eligible organisations include non-profit religious organisations, charitable or benevolent organisations, organisations of former members of the Defence Forces and local government bodies. [More…]
The Government is to provide $200,000 a year for the care of people when it can spend $ 1,200m on defence. [More…]
I know his dilemma is that the defence budget has eaten the guts - pardon the expression but that is the truth - right out of the Australian economy. [More…]
My friend and colleague, the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), drew attention to the fact that some $ 1,200m will be spent this year on defence. [More…]
Examples of these volunteers are members of the Air Training Corps, the Australian Cadet Corps, the Naval Reserve Cadets and the Australian Sea Cadet Corps, volunteer bushfire fighters in the Australian Capital Territory, volunteers attached to units of the civil defence organisation in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, members df the repatriation volunteer workers groups serving in “repatriation institutions, and persons who, under the control or direction of an officer of the Commonwealth, voluntarily take part in air or sea search and rescue operations conducted by the Department of Civil Aviation or the Department of Shipping and Transport. [More…]
I wish to inform the House that the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) left Australia on 30th March to visit Vietnam and the United States. [More…]
On 4th April Mr Fraser arrived in Washington to have discussions with the Secretary of Defence, Mr Laird, on aspects of the Fill projects and contracts. [More…]
Mr Fraser is expected to return to Australia on 14th April and during his absence the Postmaster-General (Mr Hulme) is acting as Minister for Defence and will represent the Minister for Supply in this House. [More…]
When I first read the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act and references made in section 39 (2.) [More…]
(b) of that Act to the Board’s making a decision regarding the acceptance of an application to meet the needs of the Service, T took the view - and 1 am sure that my honourable friend would agree with me that it was a reasonable one to take - that the ‘Board’ in that sense was the Naval Board, but the ‘Board’ in that sense T found on further examination was the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board. [More…]
I want to point out to my honourable friend and to the House that the ultimate decision rests wilh the Defence Forces Retirement [More…]
by leave - I will be referring to Indonesia in the resumed debate on international affairs but in the defence context and therefore I speak immediately on the economic aspects to which the Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon) has just referred. [More…]
The Government cannot rely on the defence that Australian aid goes to Indonesia in grant form. [More…]
It is all very well for the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to give us 7 columns in Hansard under the heading ‘Strategic Assessment’, which was more geography than strategy. [More…]
Other nations, too, noting the preoccupation by the honourable member for Moreton with African governments and his evidence before the Rhodesian regime’s Constitution Commission, will draw their own conclusions from the fact that he has now been appointed to the Australian Ministry, and a defence portfolio at that. [More…]
Knowing how anxious the Prime Minister now is to ingratiate himself with the Democratic Labour Party, other nations place sig nificance on the statement by Senator Gair to the National Press Club last October that the Government should examine the possibility of a naval arrangement with South Africa for defence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Yet even now, when we have had the benefit of the foreign affairs statement by the Minister for Defence, and the Minister for External Affairs’ postscript, it is not quite clear what the Government’s attitude really is to each of these 3 matters. [More…]
We can only assume that the contradictions revealed by comparing the statements by the Ministers for Defence and External Affairs show that the Government as a whole is confused and uncertain. [More…]
Of course, I reject with deserved contempt the Press speculation that these contradictions reflect personal rivalry between the immediate Ministers for Defence and External Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Defence made it quite clear that in his belief the British policy of withdrawal from our region was irreversible. [More…]
Ministers like the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) who went to sleep during the statement by the Minister for Defence might reflect on the sufferings of the pressmen who were physically imprisoned with it for 5 hours beforehand. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister for Defence felt he had to protect the shares of General Dynamics. [More…]
However, the Minister for Defence plainly accepts the irreversibility of British disengagement. [More…]
The Government’s defence policy is presently based on such a position. [More…]
This is not merely a decision by a government of a particular party, nor, as the Minister for Defence seemed to imply, is it purely a decision of economic exigency. [More…]
Here again we find divergence between the Ministers for Defence and External Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Defence seems to be proposing some sort of interventionist military role for Japan. [More…]
The blunt truth of the matter is this: There is not a country in Asia which would invite Japanese military intervention in its defence, and there is not a country in Asia to which Japan would be prepared to send troops. [More…]
The new and crucial part of this Doctrine is Statesclause 3, which states: the United States will look to the nation directly threatened to assume the primary responsibility of providing the manpower for its defence. [More…]
I agree with the Minister that the 3 factors he mentions - British withdrawal, the role of Japan and the Nixon doctrine - are 3 of the most significant factors in determining Australian foreign and defence policies. [More…]
These 3 great powers - 3 of the 4 nations, with Indonesia, with which Australia is most concerned - each abdicate voluntarily from the role of providing troops for the defence of foreign countries. [More…]
And yet, in such a situation, the linch-pin of our defence policy is a battalion - 1,000 men - in Singapore. [More…]
I believe it was deliberately intended to achieve that result; but once that crucial decision was made, the facesaving compromise was made between the Prime Minister and the former Minister for Defence that they should go only as far as Singapore. [More…]
The logistic problems involved in such an operation have never been re vealed to this House; the Minister for Defence avoided mentioning them. [More…]
It cannot be said too often that the basts of regional co-operation in our neighbourhood is Indonesia; it cannot be said too often that defence arrangements which exclude or bypass Indonesia are completely unbalanced. [More…]
I can think of no significant country in the world which plans its foreign and defence policies with so little reference to its nearest and greatest neighbour as Australia does in relation to Indonesia. [More…]
Both the Ministers for External Affairs and Defence express their abhorrence of what they call isolationism. [More…]
In February the Minister for Defence, speaking in Perth to an assemblage of Young Liberals - estimable enough young people who get far more frankness from Ministers than this Parliament ever does - said that the trouble was that the people of Australia did not understand the Government’s attitude. [More…]
Yet the Minister for Defence believes that majority opposition to continued commitment is simply a ques tion of better public relations. [More…]
While tonight we are debating the statement of the Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon) we need also to take into account the recent statement of the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
In outlining his strategic thinking behind the new approach to the defence of Australia he covered much of the ground also covered by the Minister for External Affairs. [More…]
After the strategic assessment has been made and accepted, perhaps with some variations by the Government, it is then for the Minister for Defence to determine, in the light of that appreciation, what should then be our defence forces and equipment. [More…]
The first point is that, in this 40,000-word review of the whole range of American foreign policy and defence commitments, Australia and the ANZUS Treaty do not get any mention at all. [More…]
the Japanese Government to increase radically its self defence forces. [More…]
The extreme pacifism of the Japanese people following the disasters they were led into by the militarists in World War II is quickly waning, and the Japanese people are increasingly sensing the need for military forces for defence, like other peaceable countries. [More…]
They are raising the proportion of their gross national production spent on defence above the present low level of 1%. [More…]
They plan to treble the amount of money spent on defence in the next 5-year programme compared to the 5 year defence programme they have just completed. [More…]
Firstly, the Government is not talking about the whole Asian region; it is not talking about stationing our forces in Indonesia, India, Burma or Ceylon, because those countries do not want our forces; it is not talking about joining an Asian regional defence organisation, because there is not one, and if there was Australia would not be invited to join. [More…]
Our troops are already in Singapore, yet the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has told us that discussions with Singapore about the final location of the troops are continuing. [More…]
Our forces will be stationed in the area under existing arrangements, the terms of which are governed by our association with the AngloMalaysia Defence Agreement. [More…]
Let it also be clearly understood that Singapore is not a signatory to the AngloMalaysia Defence Agreement. [More…]
The Labor Party is opposed to the 19th century garrison mentality that typifies the present Government’s approach to foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
And this is the organisation that successive Liberal Party leaders have described as a cornerstone of our foreign and defence policies. [More…]
This Government goes into the 1970s as it emerged from the 1960s without a foreign policy and without a defence policy. [More…]
Did he receive reports from the Minister for Defence before he left us and the Minister for the Interior following their promise to 10,000 farmers, who marched in Melbourne to protest against the continuing crisis in the countryside, that they would convey to the Prime Minister without delay the farmers’ protest and their request for action? [More…]
The Minister for Defence and the Minister for the Interior took the first opportunity available to them to report to the Cabinet on the meeting which they attended in Melbourne to which the honourable member has referred. [More…]
This is of enormous assistance both to our defence and to our economy and, I think, is a monument to the wisdom of the assistance provided in order to enable oil to be discovered. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Defence Act to provide that the pay and annual allowances payable to the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee, the Chief of Naval Staff, the Chief of the General Staff and the Chief of the Air Staff shall be such as the Parliament provides. [More…]
The Defence Act enables the GovernorGeneral to make regulations providing for and in relation to the fixing of the rates of pay of members of the defence forces who are paid for their services. [More…]
As with other members of the defence force the rates of pay of the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee, and the Chiefs of Staff are prescribed in the Military Financial Regulations, the Naval Financial Regulations and the Air Force Regulations. [More…]
I have said in this House on many occasions that of the two greatest priorities in this country the first is defence. [More…]
The Ordinance does not require that a firearm that is the property of the Crown or the Administration and is carried by a member of the Defence Forces, of the Public Service or of the Police Force should be registered or licensed. [More…]
(a) Expatriates - Under the Papua and New Guinea Migration Ordinance 1963-1969 all immigrants (the term includes all persons not born in the Territory, whether entering for short visits or for longer term stay) other than members of the Defence Forces of Australia, certain diplomatic and consular officials and members of the crew of certain vessels during the stay of their vessels in Territory ports, are required to be in possession of entry permits. [More…]
Under current planningaircraft that can be called on in the Malaysia-Singapore integrated air defence system after the British withdrawal will be: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The Chiefs of Staff Committee is to bc responsible to the Minister for Defence for: [More…]
and (2) Specialist advice for both the Defence Committee and the Chiefs of Staff Committee is provided by specialist staffs from the Defence Group of Departments (Defence, Navy, Army, Air and Supply), and by senior advisers from other Commonwealth Departments and Authorities depending on the subject before the Committee. [More…]
Additionally high level specialist advice is available to the Defence Committee and the Defence Department through outside membership of such bodies as the Defence Business Board, the Defence (Industrial) Committee and the Defence Research and Development Policy Committee. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Who are the members of the Defence Administration Committee. [More…]
Secretary, Department of Defence (Chairman) [More…]
Review the progress of the Defence Programme; [More…]
Consider reports of the Defence (Industrial) Committee remitted by the Chairman; [More…]
Overall Defence Vote control. [More…]
(also Chairman, Defence (Industrial) Committee) - Managing Director, Broken Hill Pty [More…]
R. Moor - Department of Defence. [More…]
To furnish advice on business matters of common interest to the three Services or important subjects on which the collective opinion of the Board is desired from the business aspect with a view to promoting efficiency and economy in the execution of the Defence Programme. [More…]
To serve on the Defence (Industrial) Committee at the invitation of its Chairman when matters are before it to which members might make a special contribution. [More…]
To advise the Defence Department in respect of particular problems, either as Chairman or Members of working parties which may be wholly members of the Defence Business Board or include civilian or Service personnel from the Defence complex. [More…]
Defence Representative Wellington - Captain J. [More…]
I put it to you, Mr Speaker, by way of illustration that if we were to propose a motion of censure against the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) for failing, among other things, to cancel the Fill contract on favourable terms it would be appropriate, if the present amendment before the House is accepted as appropriate, to move by way of amendment that not the Minister for Defence but Joe Bloggs should be censured for our failure to cancel that contract on favourable terms, Joe Bloggs being the lawyer on our side who allowed us to enter into that contract on unfavourable terms. [More…]
This is a very serious charge and one would have thought that the Australian Labor Party would have been most anxious to come to the defence of their Leader and explain if they could his conduct or his failure to act. [More…]
He was expelled from the Australian Labor Party because he dared to support the defence of Australia. [More…]
I think it would do justice to the defence policy of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
For it is a time for anyone who believes in the rule of law to speak out in its defence. [More…]
That is the South Africa, shortly to be altered to Southern Africa, Defence and Aid Fund. [More…]
In matters of foreign defence policy - should not give the false and damaging impressions that under a Labor Government foreign policy would be determined at mass meetings or by public petitions. [More…]
Let me read from 2 documents which are appropriate and which clearly indicate that the members of the ALP who signed the Moratorium and who are associated with Communists should be expelled by their own Party in the same way as the former honourable member for Batman was expelled from his own Party for being interested in the defence of Australia. [More…]
They make the same kind of defence for the North Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia as was made for the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia for which the Leader of the Opposition blamed not Russia but America and her activities in Vietnam. [More…]
One such organisation is the Defend Australia League, which was set up to see that Australia had defence. [More…]
The only person that I know of who has been expelled from the Labor Party in the last 10 years is the former honourable member for Batman, who stood up for the defence of Australia and who joined the Defend Australia League. [More…]
On 24th May 1962 the then Minister for Defence, in announcing the dispatch of a group of military instructors to Vietnam, referred to an invitation by the Government of the Republic of Vietnam, but the very volume in which that statement appears does not print any such invitation. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party may need to take a hard look at its defence and foreign policies as they apply to Vietnam. [More…]
What play on the letting of Australian contracts the Minister for Defence made in his recent statement in this House. [More…]
In spite of the so-called overfull employment position, there are in South Australia industries that one could regard as defence industries which have been laying off men during the last couple of weeks. [More…]
Did he say that no statement could be made until the Minister for Defence returned to Australia when a statement would be made in this House? [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence, in a joint statement with the United States Secretary of Defence, earlier today announced that such an offer had been made and accepted? [More…]
Did the Minister for Defence exceed his authority in making this arrangement without the approval of the Government or of the Prime Minister? [More…]
Subsequently the Minister for Defence and Secretary Laird issued a communique which covered the matters that had been discussed over a broad field and indicated that should the Australian Government so wish, Phantoms would be available to the Australian Government. [More…]
I can only repeat that after the Minister for Defence returns and after the whole field has been discussed a statement will be made by the Government on the question asked me yesterday by the honourable member for Bonython as to whether the Australian Government in all the circumstances would or would not accept the question of possibly getting Phantoms as an interim aircraft. [More…]
I do remember that, when the Australian Labor Party had a majority in the Senate, it set up a parliamentary committee of the Senate to examine the defence forces and it sought to call before it the Chairman of the Chiefs of [More…]
Staff and the other Chiefs of Staff and to get all documents relating to defence capacity. [More…]
Do these clubs play an important part in training riflemen in safety and defence measures? [More…]
Other increases are taking place in such fields as homes for the aged, housing for Aboriginal advancement and housing for defence personnel under the Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement. [More…]
That will certainly involve not just my own Department but also the Department of Defence’ and it will involve discussions with other State governments. [More…]
Is it retained only for the purposes of defence? [More…]
But in listening to the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) indicating the great rapidity of technical change and in looking at the 48 pages of the circulated copy of the defence statement that he made in this House, it appeared to me that it was more an exercise in English prose than a look at the needs of the defence of the nation or the value of the money that might have been expended. [More…]
I would say that the defence statement leaves much to be desired because no real defence force is available. [More…]
The last Budget was apparently to refer to the replacing of 8 landing craft but that reference was first inserted in and then deleted from the defence statement. [More…]
It seems that the defence statement was written some months before the last Budget. [More…]
It is no use saying, as was said in the defence statement, that we cannot confront the Soviet Union. [More…]
It would provide for an improvement in the mobility of our defence forces. [More…]
I now refer to the defence aspect. [More…]
Although priorities for this expenditure on defence have not been set very high, nevertheless preparedness is essential to any de- fence. [More…]
In Western Australia there are many who feel that their significant defence requires the utmost in mobility. [More…]
The United States is now expecting her allies to bear a greater share of the burden of regional defence. [More…]
The costs surely are not great when compared with the cost of economic and defence aid for Malaysia and Singapore, but the rewards can be significant. [More…]
One result of the departure of the British from this part of the world should be to make us realise our greater degree of defence nakedness, and should help to draw the two Anzac nations closer together. [More…]
To be fair to the Minister his speech was circumscribed by the flashy statement delivered a fortnight earlier by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
Despite the shallow content of the analysis of the Minister for Defence, he did have a list of new defence hardware to announce. [More…]
Naturally, this aspect was a popular and, I believe, desirable part of the speech of the Minister for Defence on that occasion. [More…]
The Minister for Defence prefaced this shopping list with a series of notes on the strategic setting which preempted much of the ground of the Minister for External Affairs. [More…]
The ties and alliances that I have mentioned would enable Australia to increase its defence capacity and its ability to help the developing South East Asian countries and to ensure a sound basis for their ecoonmic and political stability. [More…]
The Minister has confirmed that the Australian Government will continue to encourage the same responsible effort by the Asian and Pacific countries to develop their own resources for their own defence and regional cooperation towards collective security. [More…]
It has assisted the Malaysian Government during the confrontation with Indonesia and has undertaken defence support of Malaysia and Singapore after the United Kingdom withdrawal in 1971. [More…]
Australia’s objectives and role should be to continue to grow strong economically - only in this way can we increase our own defence capacity - to populate our country and to increase our overseas trade. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) had no hope, as far as I could infer from his earlier statement, for a continued British presence east of Suez. [More…]
The defence of the Indian Empire was the rationale of policy. [More…]
Why do honourable members opposite assume, for instance, that America is likely to be involved in a war in defence of Australia? [More…]
I agree with the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) rather than with the Minister for External Affairs (Mr . [More…]
Did the Department of Defence consult with other departments before it established the Pacific Islands Regiment, before it put in the barracks where it put them or before it decided what kind of educational training the PIR would have? [More…]
On page 419 of Hansard on 12th March of this year, when speaking on the defence statement, he said: [More…]
What the honourable member is saying, in effect, is that the South Africans are not bad chaps really, that they are the bulwark against Communism and that we in Australia should overlooktheir little idiosyncrasies about not liking blacks and join with them in a defence pact as we are also threatened by the downward thrust of Communism through South East Asia. [More…]
In granting permits, the State Minister would act in accordance with the decision of (he Commonwealth in respect of such distinctively federal matters as external affairs, defence, overseas and interstate trade including navigation and shipping, fisheries beyond territorial limits, and postal telegraphic telephonic and other like services. [More…]
However, despite the clashes, Mr McEwen’s 40 minute defence of Federal Country Party actions appeared narrowly to head off an all out rejection by the conference of the principle of coalition government in Canberra with the Liberal Party. [More…]
We spend considerable sums on defence yet the only road that connects eastern Australia with Western Australia is not completely sealed. [More…]
From his many years of experience in Government does he agree that matters concerning Australian foreign and defence policies are best decided with balanced judgment? [More…]
Cyclone ‘Ada’: Civil Defence Services (Question No. [More…]
What was the reason for the breakdown of Civil Defence Services in the Mackay district during Cyclone ‘Ada’. [More…]
Under what conditions has the Civil Defence Service authority to take positive action in an emergency. [More…]
The Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology provides warnings of dangerous weather conditions to all relevant State authorities, including the police department, which are responsible for civil defence. [More…]
In 1944 Chauvel directed ‘Rats of Tobruk’ dealing with the Australian Army’s heroic defence of Tobruk. [More…]
The second case concerns industrial advisory committees of various types which the Government has formed, lt has a defence advisory committee, an industrial advisory committee and others. [More…]
Of course, the Royal Australian Navy has been concerned with defence matters but as so much of its research can be applied to civil marine science and technology I would hope that the Interim Council will be giving much thought to co-ordinating the efforts of the Royal Australian Navy and that the Royal Australian Navy in turn will be as cooperative as security will permit. [More…]
This honourable gentleman of whom I speak decided on one occasion to join an organisation concerned with the defence of Australia. [More…]
I do not speak in the House very often on this subject simply because it does not happen to be my ministerial responsibility, but I assure honourable members and others in the chamber that I, like many of my colleagues - indeed, all my colleagues on this side - believe that it is tragic that an insidious propaganda campaign is undermining the minds of men and women in the Australian community against what we see as the absolutely essential necessity for a defence effort which is capable of preserving this country for the future. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
General de Gaulle said that the farmers of France had in their keeping the character of France, the honour of France the defence of France and the glory of France. [More…]
I do remember - I think it came from an honourable member of the Opposition in private conversation - that we had our attention drawn in a defence speech to the constant use of ‘maritime capacity’ instead of the old fashioned ‘sea power’ which seems to mean much the same thing. [More…]
The Government has always regarded a sound aircraft industry as being a vital part of the industrial support lying behind Australia’s general defence effort. [More…]
But because of the nature of military orders is is very difficult to maintain an even flow of orders for factories that rely entirely on defence orders. [More…]
Additional appropriations totalling $30.8m are sought for defence Services, including approximately $20.0m for increases in Service pay and allowances and increases in salaries of civilian staff. [More…]
It is therefore expected that: total expenditure from the Consolidated Revenue Fund and Loan Fund on defence Services in 1969-70 will not exceed the Budget estimate. [More…]
One of the most depressing and yet interesting aspects of the defence of the Government’s scheme and the attacks on Labor’s plan has been the faceless men preparing handouts for the Minister and the AMA. [More…]
Defence Expenditure in Australia (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
At the request of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam, Australia is participating in military operations in defence of the Republic of [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
ns asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Can he say whether the entire United States’ production in 1967 and 1968 of some 14 million pounds of the defoliant or weedkiller 2,4,5-T was bought by the United States Department of Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Who are the members of the Defence Research and Development Policy Committee. [More…]
A. Wills, O.B.E., Chief Defence Scientist Members - [More…]
O.B.E., Deputy Secretary, Department of Defence [More…]
R. G. Prowse, Assistant Secretary (Defence and Works Division), Department of the Treasury [More…]
Programmes and Operations Branch, Defence Science Division, Department of Defence [More…]
I.S.O., First Assistant Secretary (Programme and Budget) Department of Defence. [More…]
However, they are at present under scrutiny as pan of an examination to determine whether any changes in the modus operandi of the Committee are desirable now that the Defence [More…]
Science Division of the Department of Defence has become established. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The functions of the Branch are broadly as I described them in my statement to the House on 10th March- to study functions, organisations and activities within the Defence Croup of Departments and the Services with a view to developing, where appropriate, proposals for rationalisation through integration, co-location, single managership or standardisation of equipment, methods and procedures. [More…]
a review of the communications systems of the 3 Services and the Departments of Defence Group; [More…]
The Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee is under the Chairmanship of the Secretary of the Department of Defence, the other members being the Permanent Heads of the Departments of Navy, Army and Air and a senior representative of Treasury. [More…]
The functions of the Committee are to consider and make recommendations to the Minister for Defence and, in the case of major proposals, to the Treasurer concerning rates of pay and financial conditions of service of personnel of the Defence Forces. [More…]
Is he aware that many of the personnel of the 3 defence forces are in urgent need of the rebate from the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund which they expected to receive by the end of April? [More…]
The House will be aware that the disbursement of the surplus in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund is in 2 parts. [More…]
The last time I had cause to inquire as to how the distribution to existing contributors to the Fund was faring I was informed that the validation of all necessary records, the calcu lations and the arrangements for distribution by the different paying agencies - that is, the defence forces, sub-Treasury and Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board were near completion and that the bulk of payments should be made in June. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
We should at least seem to be interested in the personnel who are good enough to take an interest in the defence of this country. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingsford-Smith referred to defence factors and said that defence personnel are entitled to be considered. [More…]
Let us face facts: We need airports and airstrips for the defence of this country in the event of an emergency. [More…]
This would not do much for the defence of Australia, f am sympathetic with what the Opposition is trying to do but I consider that its aim is not practical under present arrangements. [More…]
I have repeatedly put questions to the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon), the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and every Minister who has any say on this matter, but they have repeatedly refused to make any statement or express any opinion as to whether our allies in Vietnam have broken the laws concerning the treatment of prisoners of war. [More…]
In his report to the 101st Session of the Council, the Acting President of the Union, Mr Abderrahman Abdennebi (Tunisia) stated that on 16th May, 1967, he had sent a telegram to the Head of the Greek Government requesting that imprisoned members of Parliament be treated in accordance with the principles of humanity, enjoy guarantees for their defence, and be released as soon as possible. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to bring the formula that determines the category entitlements of more senior members contributing under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act into line with the corresponding formula in the Superannuation Act. [More…]
The change now to be made to the formula in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act will have a similar effect. [More…]
The change does, however, have some implications for the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
Unlike the superannuation scheme or that part of the defence forces retirement benefits scheme relating to members who entered the scheme before 4th December 1959, the contribution rates of members who have entered the scheme since that date, that is, post-1959 members, are fixed as percentages of pay. [More…]
As the rates of contribution for post-1959 officer members have been determined separately from those applying to post-1959 other rank members, the contribution rates applicable to post-1 959 officer members will be examined in conjunction with the quinquennial investigation of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund as at 30th June 1969 to see whether there is a need to vary the rates because of the change in entitlement levels. [More…]
I hope that the Government will give an assurance that if a merger takes place in this industry in the name of rationalisation the Government Aircraft Factories will retain a controlling interest in any merged industry, because it is an industry which at this stage is engaged solely in operations of a defence nature, lt is an industry which can justify its existence only by defence needs. [More…]
If periodically those people who have developed skills in the industry are to be wiped out by retrenchment or the up and down nature of employment in the industry over recent years we will not have an industry if and when we require it - heaven forbid that we do - for national defence purposes. [More…]
Since coming to this House I have been subjected to a conscious and co-ordinated attack by both the Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
I have been appalled by the immaturity of the attack - by the petticoat pettiness of the Minister for External Affairs and by the fourth form prefect posturing by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I find it reprehensible that senior Ministers should devote so much of their time and that of certain officers to such pettiness instead of revamping foreign and defence policies which have become demonstrably bankrupt. [More…]
Let us unite in defence of the Australian egg or be prepared to take what someone else gives us for breakfast in the future. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I wish to address my remarks to that section of the Appropriation and Supply Bills which relates particularly to our Departments of External Affairs and Defence. [More…]
The campaign reached such a stage in the United States that President Johnson, who had been so stoic, so firm, so loyal in the defence of these poor people of South Vietnam, was brought to say that he would not again contest the Presidency. [More…]
It has assumed greater and greater responsibility for its own defence as each year has passed. [More…]
The Minister for Defence said, as 1 understood him, that there are 2 factors, either 1 or another. [More…]
Did the Acting Prime Minister or the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) mention anything about the 4 boys and girls who were shot dead in America because they dared to dissent about the filthy war in Indo-China? [More…]
However, we had the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who is the member for Wannon and a wool producer, taking the Labor Party apart because it apparently dares to suggest that the people who support the Moratorium should march through the streets of the capital cities. [More…]
The same gentleman - the Minister for Defence - did not say one word about the 10,000-odd farmers who marched through the streets in Melbourne a month or so ago. [More…]
Responsible for systematic examination of objectives and of the alternative ways of achieving them, having regard to benefits and costs, to assist in decision-making in relation to defence policy as a whole and, particularly, the determination of forces structure and the evaluation of proposals for major expenditure taking into account intelligence, planning, equipment, scientific and economic aspects. [More…]
Defence: Project ‘Mallard’ (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
This amounts to only SAl.lm and this is less than any other commitment T specifically mentioned in my Defence Statement. [More…]
The Leader of the House wilt be aware that some time ago the Minister for Defence made a long statement on defence policy and also on new defence equipment. [More…]
The Defence statement by my colleague the Minister for Defence was, as honourable members who have spoken in the debate acknowledged, an excellent one. [More…]
The problem is to provide enough time for debate on major national issues, such as the defence statement and the foreign affairs statement, yet get the legislation through. [More…]
I indicate to the honourable member for La Trobe that it is my great hope that we will be able to pass the legislation and still have time to debate the defence statement. [More…]
Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), the Acting Prime Minister, the Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who have said repeatedly that the 3 conditions laid down by the Australian Labor Party in 1967 for peace in Vietnam would never be acceptable to the Australian Government or the United States Government. [More…]
From my recollection of speeches by successive Ministers for Defence and Ministers for External Affairs this question has never been exploited, lt has always been a minor artery off the main course of the Vietnam war as seen by the Government. [More…]
Instead, the Government speakers were the Acting Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Certainly if the Acting Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence are to speak on an important subject it is remarkable that the fact should be concealed in this way. [More…]
I enter a gentle caveat, with all respect to the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), as to what he said about this policy in his speech last night. [More…]
Have any approaches been made to the Commonwealth Government by persons in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, South Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea or Taiwan or in communist countries for diplomatic, military or other help in defence of their democratic rights; if so, willi what result. [More…]
I am one who always believes th:tt I effective form of defence of a country is to build better relations with neighbours and we are more likely to have better relations with our neighbours if they feel that we are assisting them with know-how and other facilities which we have but they have not. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has made to the House a highly complex statement with many ramifications. [More…]
Even with the leeway which the Minister for Defence gave me it has not been possible for me to assess fully the significance of all aspects of his statement. [More…]
I refer to clause 2 of the Agreed Minute which states that the ‘special Australian position in relation to defence within the South East Asian region calls for a strike aircraft’. [More…]
And no-one has been more adamant in the House on the question of the Fill and its capability and in denying that there was an agreement in existence which would prevent the Australian Government and the Australian people from being able to reach a satisfactory solution to the problem than was the Minister for Defence when he was Minister for the Army. [More…]
One need only refer to the Hansard record to accept the proposition that the Minister for Defence, together with his colleagues, the then Ministers for Defence, Navy and Air, who were all honourable members of this House at that time, accepted the Fill as being the best aircraft available in the world and that it would be soon flying in Australia. [More…]
Now, in 1970, we are told by this new Minister for Defence, who has taken the opportunity, of course, to tip the bucket over the previous Minister for Defence and his predecessor, that we may be able to get the aircraft in 18 months time; but he is not certain. [More…]
But having listened to the Minister for Defence tonight one could hardly blame those who happen to be sitting in the gallery if they delayed in getting any advice about taking either the money or the box. [More…]
Yet the Minister for Defence, if one could accept the statements that he made after he returned from the United States of America, had been able to secure a deal which would be satisfactory not only to the Government and to this Parliament but also to the people of Australia [More…]
There is a long tradition of congressional paring of the United States defence vote. [More…]
So whichever way one looks at the statement, and construes and examines the statement made by the Minister for Defence tonight, it is a complete apology for a Government which set out in 1963 to purchase the F111 without any consideration for the country, without any consideration in terms of protection to be gained in return for the cost of the F111, and without having been able to accept as positive proof that the F111 aircraft which this country will finally receive, if it does receive it - the Minister expressed his doubt tonight - would be able to reach the performance in terms of range, bomb carrying capacity and all the other conditions set down by the United States of America in 1963 when the plane was on the drawing board. [More…]
The statement made by the Minister for Defence tonight can be accepted by honourable members on this side of the House only as a complete apology for the mistakes made by the Government and the Minister for Defence of 1963 and which have been accepted by those who succeeded the then Minister for Defence in his responsibility. [More…]
Did the former Minister for Defence just prior to the last Federal election foreshadow a naval exercise off the coast of Western Australia? [More…]
I suggest that if the honourable member wishes to know what steps already have been taken and what plans are in hand for this project, he should ask the Minister for Defence with whose portfolio it would rest. [More…]
What he forgot to mention was that total expenditure in these services is extremely small in relation to civil defence expenditures. [More…]
The less bright ones, such as the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), did not even know their history. [More…]
The Minister for Defence referred to the ‘Reds’ in the Australian Labor Party attacking Prime Minister John Curtin in 1939. [More…]
I suggest that the Minister for Defence should go back to his job of school prefect. [More…]
The Leader of the Country Party, the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen), and the Minister for Defence ranted about the Communist threat. [More…]
The Minister for Defence, allegedly the heir apparent in the Liberal Party, abandoned the role of head prefect and became the embodiment of a rather arrogant stormtrooper. [More…]
I had intended tonight to deal with a statement on the Fill aircraft which was made last night by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
Since that date various Ministers for Defence have no doubt sent little notes to Mao Tse-tung saying: ‘Wait a little while. [More…]
Not only have they wasted this amount of money in the most shocking manner but they have infact denied this country any form of defence from the air. [More…]
The amount of money that this Government has expended on defence since it has been in office in comparison to the amount of hardware we have to defend this country with is nothing less than absolutely scandalous. [More…]
Not only have they failed this country in the matter of defence but they have failed the very people whom they purport to represent, that is, the members of the farming community of Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), this tall, aristocratic, wealthy gentleman from Victoria who never has to pay any regard to his own personal budget sees fit to pay less regard to the budget of the taxpayers of this country. [More…]
In defence of my point of view, and the view of the constituents whom 1 represent and who had asked me to put it, I issued a modest statement of about 20 shots strong. [More…]
I took the one commonsense step that I should take in defence of my position, in defence of my colleagues and in defence of the policies that we espouse. [More…]
That this House considers that the construction of the naval base at Cockburn Sound should receive high priority on the defence programme and that negotiations should be undertaken with the British Government to base two aircraft carriers on Cockburn Sound after 1970. [More…]
Judging by the question asked yesterday by the honourable member for Stirling (Mr Webb) it would seem that for once both the Government side of the House and the Opposition are in agreement with regard to one particular item of defence on a very vital matter. [More…]
I speak subject to correction here but I understand that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in his policy speech also made pointed reference to the importance of Cockburn Sound as a naval base, and in the second last defence statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in this House there was a small reference, shall we say, to the question of the defences of the western coast of Australia. [More…]
It is not only a question of Australian defence. [More…]
It is also a question of the defence of our main sea trade route to Europe, which may well be the only sea trade route if disturbances occur which block the Panama Canal as effectively as the Suez Canal has been blocked and closed for years past. [More…]
The route via the Cape of Good Hope is the only allweather route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian and Southern O Jeans and therefore the action taken for the protection of this route is of vital importance to us, not only from the point of view of trade but also from the point of view of defence. [More…]
In that respect Cockburn Sound becomes part of the linking of the defence system with the Simonstown base in South Africa. [More…]
We have had the British Labor Government abrogating the Simonstown agreement, and as a result the shopping for hardware and the building up of munitions and defence requirements in South Africa have been considerably handicapped. [More…]
On the other hand, if we expect other nations to come in and help us with the protection or to partly fill the vacuum, or to supply sufficient force to deter other people from using the Indian Ocean as a means of world conquest, then we have to play our part and stand our share of the cost of the defence. [More…]
I do not for one moment suggest that as a result of giving this a higher priority the defence expenditure on behalf of the Navy, or any other defence expenditure, should be curtailed. [More…]
We have a long shopping list to fill in the gaps on the defence pantry shelves and it will’ take some time before we receive the goods. [More…]
Therefore, as I say, I do not want priority given at the expense of what has already been stated in the defence programme, but I do feel that we should take for granted that we will have to take on the burden of this extra expense by expediting the building up of a naval base at Cockburn Sound. [More…]
But today when we look around the world and find that brush/ire wars or wars of liberation are conceived in the dark processes of the Kremlin in Moscow and behind the Gates of Heavenly Peace - a modern misnomer in Peking - and are then born in a hospital branded ‘peaceful cooperation’ in order to deceive other people as to the strategy and tactics used for world conquest, unfortunately we still have to expend large sums of money on defence that could bc better expended on social services, both here and in other countries in this region. [More…]
Therefore my hope in moving this motion has been that this matter will be discussed freely from the point of view of the importance of west coast defence. [More…]
Therefore Australia must play her part in the world today and share the burden of defence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Defence is fundamental and this motion urges the Government to give the highest priority to consideration of naval defence on the western seaboard and in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
In the past many Australian Labor Party speakers have shown genuine interest in our defence but that is not the position today. [More…]
This proposed naval dockyard facility at Cockburn Sound will add to that defence capacity. [More…]
Adequate defence is the rock on which national security stands. [More…]
Over the years ahead wc shall maintain and increase our defence capacity. [More…]
Thus the facilities suggested by the Government will be in line with its stated policy of linking defence and national development together where possible. [More…]
The responsibilities giving rise to this base which the Australian governments must recognise are the responsibilities of strategic and tactical defence in the Ind:an Ocean. [More…]
I refer to the statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) recently when he said: [More…]
We must take into account other Indian Ocean activities in our defence policies and planning. [More…]
I would also request the Minister for Defence to urge that committee to give top priority to making an early decision so that an urgent start can be made on implementing these plans. [More…]
Arising out of naval power in the west, is the whole question of the evaluation of air power in our defence forces. [More…]
Of course, a responsible Government must fix priorities in relation to the vast sums of money involved in building a defence force in order to get the best return for money. [More…]
It has been widely felt that not enough consideration has been given to defence in Western Australia. [More…]
In the past they have felt cut off from Australian defence efforts and have even felt isolated. [More…]
I feel - perhaps nol quite as strongly as other honourable members - that what we are hearing in this debate is the Australian Labor Party’s defence policy. [More…]
That policy could, not have been more effectively put than it has been by the defence spokesman for the Labor Party who is not in the chamber at the present time. [More…]
Going back into the pas[, 1 remember listening to some of the defence spokesmen for the Opposition, in particular the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) assuring us when he came back from one of his many travels - I think it was through Mongolia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - that Australia could defend itself, that if the Australian militia were recruited it could put men around the periphery of Australia and that it could withstand the might of any attacking force. [More…]
Even if we have a fortress Australia policy and even if we decide that the defence of this country should be governed by such a policy, I think it is wise to attack the enemy or at least to endeavour to put the enemy out of action at a greater range than that covered by a fighter aircraft. [More…]
The supremo of the Labor Party’s defence forces would be waiting for the enemy to arrive off the shores of Australia before he would take any action. [More…]
Surely that is not a reasonable defence policy for Australia. [More…]
I do not wish to take the matter further but I would like to refer to the point which has been made clear by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his statement on the Fill this week. [More…]
Australia or her allies, or the areas which are essential to Australia’s trade and defence, unless those people know that we have the ability and the equipment to offer some threat to their own homeland or cities they w 11 not be particularly impressed by anything that Australia may say with respect to alliances, defence or anything else. [More…]
We in Australia have to look at defence much more strongly and substantially than we have in the past. [More…]
we have to realise that if Singapore was not available to Australia or to any friendly navy that may come to our aid or be prepared to play a part in the defence of the Indian Ocean area, the only alternative base where ships could receive major servicing and repairs would be around on the east coast of Australia. [More…]
As I was saying, if we were in a situation where we wished that our strong and powerful friends or whoever else it may be would come to our aid, in the event of Singapore not being available, surely it would be indicative of our concern for our own defence and for the role that we may have to play in the future that we had constructed an efficient naval base at Cockburn Sound on the western coast ot Australia. [More…]
The honourable member for Curtin (Mr Garland) very capably discussed the fact that a defence base on the west coat of Australia also has great advantage to Western Australia. [More…]
This is my defence policy and 1 put it in those words. [More…]
I think when we talk about a 2-ocean navy we have to start thinking much further ahead than we have done in the past in respect to our defence forces. [More…]
The Minister for Defence was quite honest in saying that there could be other problems associated with it of which we do not know as yet. [More…]
So, Mr Deputy Speaker, I feel at this stage there is a requirement, from the defence and other viewpoints advanced by honourable members who have spoken, for the Government to raise the priority of Cockburn Sound. [More…]
I appreciate the opportunity that has been given to me by the non-existent defence policy of the Opposition to discuss the motion moved by the honourable member for Chisholm because 20 minutes ago I had no idea I would be given this opportunity. [More…]
But as I said earlier, it does not concern me that there is silence from the Opposition because for many years we have known that, apart from getting an occasional clue on defence from what it may read in topical tabs in the newspaper or hear on ‘Four Corners’, it has not had any constructive defence policy. [More…]
It has not made a constructive contribution to a defence debate in the 10 years I have been here. [More…]
That the construction of the naval base at Cockburn Sound should receive high priority on the defence programme and that negotiations should be undertaken with the British Government to base 2 aircraft carriers on Cockburn Sound after 1970. [More…]
To give continuity to the debate and to follow on the comments of the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) I would like to make some comments on the references he has made to the lack of a Labor Party defence policy. [More…]
I think the honourable member for La Trobe looks at Labor’s defence policy in terms of the Government’s appreciation of the threat to Australia. [More…]
That is their view and it is upon that basis (hat their concept of a defence policy has evolved. [More…]
The Labor Party not only does not encourage Asian countries to adopt this point of view but has gone to great lengths to make it quite clear that it is part of its defence policy that Australian forces should not be in countries like Malaysia and Indo-China, for their very presence in those countries, whether actually involved in operations or not, constitutes an aggressive military attitude and an expression of policy by the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
The Cockburn Sound concept, which has been very clearly defined by my honourable and gallant friend from Chisholm is part of the maritime strategic defence plan for the Indian Ocean. [More…]
With all respect, I am talking about the basis upon which the Labor Party’s defence policy has evolved. [More…]
The honourable members for Stirling (Mr Webb), Fremantle (Mr Beazley), Swan (Mr Bennett) and Kalgoorlie (Mr Collard) no doubt will have comments to make about the significance of the defence posture to Western Australia. [More…]
I do not believe for one second that he would assert that the planning for defence against the maritime super power, the USSR, ought to be on a basis that ignored reality. [More…]
I visited, in company with the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Cockburn Sound site earlier this year. [More…]
If it was not the case, if charity did not pervade his being in that form, no doubt he said in his own mind: ‘Well, I must give the defence spokesman for the Opposition an opportunity to state his view’. [More…]
The Minister for the Navy (Mr Killen) expressed support - I apprehend that every honourable member in the House would now express it - for the proposition that a high priority on the defence programme should be given to the proposed naval base at Cockburn Sound. [More…]
In 1965-66 the Commission installed production capacity to meet what was then termed defence and national emergency demands for a number of key products. [More…]
There is sound justification for providing this facility for young men whose careers have been interrupted by the need to undertake service in the defence forces. [More…]
further the development of Australian resources necessary for the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It says that it is concerned with economic stability, economic welfare, proper uses of resources and, of course, the welfare of the whole country in terms of defence. [More…]
Also, farmers found it difficult to swing to the support of the Labor Party because of their distaste for weak defence policies reminiscent of Munich and because the Labor Party has unfortunately always had the image of being soft on Communism. [More…]
(d) of the Bill states that one of the objectives of the Corporation shall be to: further the development of Australian resources necessary for the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I think this clause is admirable and I am certainly very defence minded. [More…]
Many a sin can be conveniently sold under the guise of its necessity for the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
If a venture is a bona fide defence venture, well and good. [More…]
But let us make absolutely sure that the ventures are bona fide defence ventures. [More…]
He came into the debate with a defence which seemed to me to be the weakest defence of all. [More…]
It seemed to me that in defending his leader on this occasion the honourable member for Evans may well have placed his finger on the essential weakness in this matter because the whole defence of the Prime Minister was that he could have misunderstood, the honourable member for Farrer could have misunderstood, everyone could have misunderstood. [More…]
Surely that is the issue and the defence of the Prime Minister that was put up by the honourable member for Evans was not, I feel, a defence but in fact an indictment because he placed the whole of the responsibility on the Prime Minister. [More…]
This is an incredible situation in which the only firm defence of the Prime Minister has come from the honourable member for Evans in those terms. [More…]
We remember that the former Minister for Defence, Mr Fairhall, found it necessary to resign and gave as his ground ill health. [More…]
I can only hope that these great nations, representing - as they do - 250 million people of the Asian region will be able to bring their influence to bear on other countries, particularly the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in an attempt to make some contribution towards the defence of freedom and of independence in South East Asia. [More…]
I promised yesterday week that the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund would be reconstituted so as to provide non-contributory pensions to all ex-servicemen and to adjust those pensions periodically in accordance with adjustments in rates of pay applicable to current servicemen. [More…]
Nevertheless, the whisper is that something is to be done about the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: What regulations apply to correspondents covering the Australian task force in Vietnam? [More…]
The right honourable gentleman also said that the Corporation may further the development of Australian resources necessary for the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Maybe that is a foolish example, but I am just wondering what wilt be brought in under the cloak of a defence industry. [More…]
Perhaps it starts a defence industry. [More…]
1 direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I regret that he has not done so because on all sides I hear the Parliament denigrated as a charade, a farce, a hollow shell, a puppet show, and it is remarkably difficult in all honesty to construct a defence to this criticism. [More…]
The only defence open to the small farmer who grows for the export market is to try to increase productivity and so decrease his average costs of production or to hope for higher export prices. [More…]
The Navy always wifi make its judgments in accordance with its defence responsibility, and that is very proper. [More…]
I am afraid that, in the long run, the only argument to which we can return in order to try to obtain some sort of rationalisation about this process is to compare the amounts which countries spend on defence with what they spend on economic aid. [More…]
At the moment, Australia spends approximately 4% of its gross natonal product on defence. [More…]
1 ask the Treasurer whether it is true that he and the Minister for Defence have agreed to meet a delegation of primary producers from western Victoria later today. [More…]
Apart from the obvious need for the Australian States to establish a Federal government responsible for defence, external affairs, immigration and other matters, in which Commonwealth influence is becoming progressively greater, I believe that few problems could have influenced the founders of federation more than the hotchpotch of railway systems of that time, with various gauges in various States. [More…]
I thank the honourable member for Newcastle for his support of the Port AugustaAlice Springs link, because this is a vital link for produce and also for defence. [More…]
I rise, like my colleagues on this side of the House, to support the Bill and clearly indicate that it is our belief that rail gauge standardisation ought to have top priority as it affects commerce and defence. [More…]
We do so in the full knowledge that not only will it play a vital role in the economic development of South Australia, but it is a valuable and necessary contribution to this nation’s defence. [More…]
To use a better term, why would it not be the first line of defence? [More…]
The former Minister for Education and Science, who is now the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), at the very least has completely denied that there is any such intrusion by the Commonwealth in that respect or that there is any excessive supervision of the size of windows, doors, the heights of walls and so on to which the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith specifically referred. [More…]
Is he able to say in what States persons involved in civil defence work during an emergency are covered by workers’ compensation. [More…]
Is he also able to say whether any guarantees are given of compensation for loss or repairs to vehicles, craft, etc., involved in civil defence work during an emergency. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that such an inland highway would be of great defence value? [More…]
He mentioned the defence aspect. [More…]
This, of course, is within the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Defence. [More…]
As an illustration of what is happening, the Prime Minister of Thailand today announced that his Government will provide troops for the defence of Cambodia and we already have intimations from other governments that they now wish that they had attended the conference instead of declining invitations. [More…]
I informed the House that arrangements for distributing the surplus assets of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund to eligible contributors were near completion and that the bulk of the payments should be made some time this months. [More…]
1 have now been informed by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board that payments will commence next week. [More…]
For those who are no longer serving, payment will be by cheque through the Department of Social Services, if the person is now a pensioner, or otherwise by cheque through the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board. [More…]
The persons who will benefit are being notified through their Service department or directly by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board. [More…]
In March he suggested committees on external affairs and defence; transport and communications; trade, industry and labour; legal, constitutional and home affairs; health, welfare, education and science; and national finance and development. [More…]
This would be a briefer process, possibly restricted to no more than 3 speakers to a side, with a defence by the Government of the position it finally adopts, and either agreement or final criticism and disagreement by the Opposition. [More…]
Until the advent of the Snowy scheme we had, in the 70 years since Federation, spent on all of the water projects in this nation less than we have spent on so-called defence projects in 1 year. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence and refers to the impending withdrawal of the 8th Battalion from Vietnam. [More…]
Given the secrecy which shrouds so much of what is done by Government departments which are noi associated with strategic factors, such as defence - health cannot be put into this category, nor can social welfare - and given the fact that when the Government does make an inquiry it keeps its information confidential, it is awfully difficult for ordinary members of Parliament - back benchers on the Government side, and front and back benchers on this side - to delve out the sort of information they need if they are to make valid conclusions on important matters of legislation in this House. [More…]
principle - the principle that finances social services, age and widows pensions, hospitals, defence and even the conduct of the police force? [More…]
If we exclude such fields as defence and social services and look at what might be called the working field, the tendency has been for expenditure to rise more rapidly in the States than in the Commonwealth. [More…]
In Australia this is exemplified by a situation in which the States have the chief responsibility for nearly all the major functions of government other than defence, external relations, cash social service benefits and economic policy, while the Commonwealth controls the major sources of taxation and loan revenue. [More…]
On the other hand, the local governing authorities and the semi-governmental bodies do not have that kind of defence available. [More…]
On what basis was the $900,000 in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund distributed prior to Christmas 1969 among the approximately 3,500 eligible former members of the Permanent Defence Forces. [More…]
surplus assets in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, an actuarial basis was used to calculate the payment to be made to or in respect of each eligible pensioner. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The figures quoted in the tables for wage and salary earners exclude defence forces, employees in agriculture and private domestic service. [More…]
I know that my colleagues on this side of the House, including the Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), share my great concern at the current financial situation of wool growers and would join me, I feel sure, in expressing the hope that in recognition of the similarity between the problems faced by the wool and dairy industries the Government will initiate policies on broadly similar lines to attack these problems and that the wool industry too will have access to long term finance at reasonable rates of interest as provided in this legislation. [More…]
This change will bring the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act more into line with the Superannuation and the Defence Forces [More…]
This Bill seeks parliamentary approval to borrowings by the Commonwealth of up to $ US 100m for the purchase of general defence equipment in the United Slates. [More…]
Under the Loan (Defence) Act 1966. the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US450m to assist in the purchase of defence equipment in the United States. [More…]
Those borrowings were almost completely committed by orders placed up to last December, and the Government wishes to make provision under the present Bill for further borrowings to finance orders placed from the beginning of this year for additional purchases of defence equipment in the United States. [More…]
They were used for the purchase of general defence equipment and for some payments on the F111 aircraft. [More…]
The Loan (Defence) Act 1968 provided for the boro wing by the Commonwealth of a further $US75m to assist in financing the purchase of F111 aircraft. [More…]
Since the borrowing is for defence purposes the approval of the Australian Loan Council is not required. [More…]
Of course, if one takes defence aspects, that is a qualitative matter that does not come into the argument. [More…]
As far as the tariff is concerned the argument is not relevant to defence. [More…]
They have acted by forming themselves into a self protection organisation and they hope, as I do, that people throughout Australia will take up the call for self defence in this matter and form other organisations in other States to help themselves, firstly by collecting signatures for a petition to Parliament and secondly by taking what other necessary action may be required. [More…]
operational efficiency which would follow such a move having in mind the transport rule of the Richmond Base in the overall concept of iiic air defence of the Newcastle/Sydney/ Wollongong industrial complex. [More…]
The failure of the Government to promote design and construction of Australian aircraft and helicopters for defence and commercial purposes. [More…]
The failure of the Government to promote design and construction of Australian aircraft and helicopters for defence and commercial purposes. [More…]
In his defence review the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) touched on aspects of the industry’s future. [More…]
But the last debate of any consequence on the aircraft industry was in this House early last year during an Opposition urgency motion on defence procurement. [More…]
During that debate the former Minister for Defence cast grave doubts on the chances of setting up a viable aircraft industry in this country. [More…]
That argument has been reinforced by the present Minister for Defence. [More…]
If aircraft of this kind are essential to Australia’s defences - and I remain to be convinced that they are - they will have to be procured overseas. [More…]
This is the sort of tentative industry indicated by the Minister for Supply in his statement on the defence aircraft industry. [More…]
It would be completely wrong to suggest that defence orders should be made just to keep an industry going. [More…]
The procurement of helicopters and support aircraft is gathering momentum, as disclosed in the posture statement made by the Minister for Defence in March. [More…]
The first is to maintain basic defence aircraft facilities capable of supporting the Services. [More…]
In answer to a question placed on notice by the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) the Minister for Defence has confirmed that the amalgamation of the Government Aircraft Factories and the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation is receiving close attention. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for Defence will agree that Sir Lawrence Harnett has had considerable experience in building up essential Australian industry. [More…]
There has been some progress made here but the contracts obtained are negligible compared with the glowing words of successive Ministers for Defence about building the industry into the fourth arm of defence. [More…]
These countries have been able to design and produce aircraft for defence and commercial purposes with very great success. [More…]
So with defence orders for operational aircraft it is just not going to be possible to phase the orders over a considerable period. [More…]
This highlights the problem of an industry that is largely dependent on defence orders. [More…]
It highlights the need for the industry itself to be more aggressive and to show more initiative in achieving orders outside the defence complex. [More…]
It is very difficult to establish an industry which is entirely dependent on defence orders and have that industry established in a fully viable sense with an even work flow which, of course, is desirable. [More…]
It has, I believe, done a great deal, but the industry itself needs to get out into a wider field to try to achieve much larger commercial orders than has been the case in the past This would do much to overcome the unevenness which is inevitable in defence orders. [More…]
In raising the question of the depressed state of the Australian aircraft industry and the Government’s failure to promote the design and construction of Australian aircraft, the Opposition wishes to bring to the people’s attention the fact that Australia is forfeiting an important segment of its defence capacity because this Liberal-Country Party Government, and its predecessors, have failed to come to the decision that Australia should have its own aircraft industry, and that that industry should, where possible, equip our armed Services with locally manufactured aircraft. [More…]
The event that reinforced the Labor Party’s decision to raise as a matter of public importance the Government’s neglect of the aircraft industry were the recent statements by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Supply (Senator Anderson) concerning the cancellation of the joint Anglo-Australian project for the development and production of a variable geometry supersonic attack trainer known as the AA107. [More…]
Contrary to what the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Supply say, the AA107 concept would seem to have considerable market potential. [More…]
A dire situation exists when defence production establishments like the three I have mentioned are forced to survive on ancilliary work including the production of buses and pleasure boats. [More…]
This was the greatest slap in the face the aircraft industry here had had till that point of time, but it was typical of the classic Liberal defence approach of last minute panic buying. [More…]
This could be so, but in fairness to the RAAF, it has had a difficult task in trying to assess the roles for its aircraft within the ambit of the Menzies, Holt and Gorton Governments’ stop gap defence and foreign policy objectives. [More…]
In these circumstances, it is imperative that we should develop our own defence capacity. [More…]
This Government and its predecessors have been criminal in their neglect of Australia’s defence industries. [More…]
Our aircraft industry, our electronics industry, and the other ancillary industries that are so important to a viable defence capacity have been bypassed by the Government. [More…]
We should take a lesson out of Sweden’s book in relation to defence planning and, in particular, aircraft manufacture. [More…]
Sweden, a country with 8 million people, can afford to develop and manufacture its own relatively sophisticated aircraft because it has one clear defence policy, and that is to defend Sweden against the might of Soviet Russia, to the last Swede if necessary. [More…]
With this clear defence objective, the Swedish Government and its defence forces, have been able to standardise and minimise the variety of equipment so that it has been possible to produce defence equipment far more cheaply that it could have been procured overseas. [More…]
Australia’s problem is that the Government has never defined a consistent and continuous defence policy, and therefore it has been impossible to standardise defence procurements. [More…]
Sweden’s defence requirements are sensibly programmed on a 7-year rolling budget basis, adjustable at 12- monthly periods, to allow defence industries and the aircraft industry, in particular, to plan its production on a full workload basis. [More…]
During a recent speech in Melbourne the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) explained quite clearly why the Australian Government had decided not to participate in this project; it was because the RAAFs experience in Vietnam had demonstrated that for close support operations helicopter gunships had many attractions. [More…]
So this Australian organisation which has been in existence for some 35 years went to work on it as a joint defence project with the British Aircraft Corporation. [More…]
To me it appears to be running a commentary by various Ministers for Defence and various Ministers for Supply who make a statement and think that that will tide us over for the next 6 months. [More…]
The former Minister for Defence, Mr A. Fairhall, made a statement in Newcastle on 7th February. [More…]
Then there was a statement recently by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in which he said: [More…]
The Government is to set up new machinery to work closely with Australian industry in a programme to achieve increased sales to the American and other overseas defence industries as an offset against Australian purchases of defence equipment. [More…]
A lot can be said about the defence requirements of the Australian forces but I want to talk about commercial aircraft requirements. [More…]
I believe it is essential that when we place orders for defence equipment overseas we have an agreement that many of the components that can be made in Australia shall be made in Australia. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill, which is in the nature of a precautionary measure, is to obtain authority to borrow from the Reserve Bank the amount required to complete the financing of the deficit in 1969-70, if this proves to be necessary, and to expend the proceeds of the borrowing for defence purposes. [More…]
The borrowings for which authority is now sought will be made for defence purposes, and the proceeds of the borrowings will be applied to finance expenditure from the loan fund on defence services. [More…]
It provides for expenditure on defence services, which has already been authorised by Parliament in the Appropriation Acts, to be charged to the Loan Fund instead of to the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]
Provision for charging part of our Defence expenditure to the Loan Fund has been made in previous years when the net amount available from loan proceeds and other financing transactions has not been adequate to finance the deficit. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Defence Act to bring into line the allowances payable to the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, the Chief of the Naval Staff, the Chief of the General Staff and the Chief of the Air Staff with those of the First Division officers of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Indeed, we approve of the recommendation made by the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances which investigated this aspect of the payment now being made to certain members of the defence forces. [More…]
It has been argued that under the Governor-General’s regulations alterations can be made to the payment of allowances for members of the defence forces, but the report of the Senate Committee on Regulations and Ordinances was quite explicit. [More…]
In its opinion the payment of allowances for senior members of the defence forces should be the subject of legislative action by the Parliament. [More…]
We support the point of view expressed by the Minister for Defence when he introduced the legislation. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp), who is handling this matter for the Minister for Defence, would agree that I have not had a proper opportunity to consider what the amendments propose and their implication, therefore I ask him to take the opportunity to explain the amendments not only for my benefit but for the benefit of all honourable members on this side. [More…]
We believe that the Government has adopted a proper course of action in ensuring that in future the payment of allowances to senior members of the defence forces will be as a result of legislation introduced into the Parliament. [More…]
There is payable to an officer of the Defence Force in respect of service by the officer as - [More…]
New clause 4 provides for the payment to the Chairman of the Chiefs of Stiff Committee, the Chief of the Naval Staff, the Chief of the General Staff and the Chief of the Air Staff of an annual allowance at the rate of $1,000 for the period commencing on the date of the disallowance of the regulations and ending on the day before the day on which the amendments to the Defence Act proposed by this Bill will come into operation. [More…]
The purpose of new clause 4 is to authorise the payment of the annual allowance at the rate of $1,000 per annum from the date of disallowance of the regulations until the day before the date proclaimed for the commencement of the amendments to the Defence Act. [More…]
Thereafter payment will be authorised by virtue of the provision which this Bil] will insert in the Defence Act and the operation of the Appropriation Act. [More…]
I am sure that if my colleague, the Minister for Defence, were here he would do 2 things. [More…]
Has the Minister considered widening the scope of national service to include matters of civil defence such as natural disaster relief and a coastguard service which would at once constitute a constructive contribution to the national welfare and obviate the protests of those who oppose national service as a means by which they can be involved in a particular war? [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
So, the development of this defence installation has meant an increase in cost by the provision of additional drainage facilities to the Brisbane City Council. [More…]
It is designed to remove differences between the Superannuation Act and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act in the formulas determining entitlements for senior members. [More…]
It does reveal in miniature the extremely complex nature of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund legislation. [More…]
Any honourable member who has frequent contact with servicemen knows that by far the most common gripe is the application of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
In its submission to the Treasurer on the Commonwealth Actuary’s report, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board said the complexity of the legislation and the general lack of understanding of the scheme were very well known. [More…]
Before the suspension I was referring to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and was pointing out that it could now bc classified actuarially as one of the most successful superannuation schemes in existence with assets valued at about $108m. [More…]
I believe that members of the Government Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund Committee which has done much valuable work on the scheme will agree with me on the need for reform. [More…]
For this reason honourable members on this side of the House believe that the solution of this problem, to ensure that there is not only an equitable contribution to the scheme but also an equitable return to those who served in the Services upon retirement invalidity or death, and to ensure that the scheme is placed on an equitable basis lies in the establishment of a joint committee of this Parliament to investigate fully the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
There are very few honourable members who have had the opportunity to discuss the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund with serving members of the Services who have not been convinced that in far too many cases their contributions are beyond their resources. [More…]
For these and other reasons which I have already put to the House we believe that the Government should seriously consider the establishment of a joint select committee of this Parliament to investigate the areas of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund to which I have referred. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: whilst not opposing the provisions of the Bill, the House is of opinion that a Joint Committee of senators and members of the House of Representatives should be appointed to investigate and report on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund’. [More…]
I support the Bill and welcome it as a further move along a rather slow and tortuous track that the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act has taken through this House over the period of years that I have been here. [More…]
I could not speak on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund without giving considerable credit, as the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) gave credit, to the former member for Maribyrnong who was most assuredly the main spokesman on the Fund from this side of the House. [More…]
He worked most vigorously with the Defence Forces Retirement Welfare Association on all matters and became its consultant on amendments and suggestions to the Government on how the Act should best be altered for the welfare of the Services. [More…]
He has left his mark here in the gains and advances that were made in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act in his time. [More…]
I am not referring to the present Treasurer (Mr Bury) because 1 have not yet tested him, but previous Treasurers when confronted, have almost said - I do not attribute this as a direct statement to them - that they did not understand the Act and for goodness sake get in touch with the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board which would endeavour to sort it out for me. [More…]
I have here a circular from the Regular Defence Forces Welfare Association. [More…]
When the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act was originally introduced it was modelled on the Commonwealth Employees Compensation Act. [More…]
There are other anomalies in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
I would like to think that the House was unanimous in agreeing that something needs to be done to investigate the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act with a view to drawing up clearer and more precise legislation so that every soldier will know exactly where he stands and what his future is. [More…]
Did the Commonwealth Actuary in his report covering the investigation of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund over the period 1959-64, presented to the House on 29 May 1968, indicate that certain statistical and technical data were not available to enable him to calculate suitable rates of contribution and that the absence of information made it difficult to verify the accuracy of data supplied to him. [More…]
Was an internal auditor added to the staff of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board; if so, when. [More…]
When one looks at the table in front of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act one finds that there have been 22 attempts to amend it in recent years. [More…]
In many ways the analogy of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and the Public Service Superannuation Fund is irrelevant. [More…]
Probably no condition of service has been more heartily condemned from time to time than the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme. [More…]
If the complications of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act are beyond him I gather from the report of the Public Service Board that the Department of the Treasury has adequate staff to handle such a matter. [More…]
Let us look at pay scales for the defence forces and see how many servicemen are on that kind of salary scale. [More…]
Their Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund does not operate with the same security as the Superannuation Fund. [More…]
The requirements of the legislation have continued to be met and, by the end of the period under review, the problems associated with the introduction of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme, including those associated with the transfer of contributors from the Commonwealth Superannuation Fund, had been largely overcome. [More…]
The Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act has caused much confusion over the years, and at this stage I want to pay tribute to the former honourable member for Maribyrnong, Colonel Stokes, for the great work and research that he put into this Act. [More…]
We as members of the Government Members Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Committee have been responsible for having many of the anomalies rectified, but many anomalies are still under consideration by the Treasury and the DFRB Board. [More…]
It is pleasing to see the relatively impartial manner in which the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Irwin) is approaching this legislation and the proposal made by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) that a joint committee of senators and members of the House of Representatives should be appointed to investigate and report on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
Colonel Stokes, like the honourable member for Mitchell himself, frequently has drawn attention to the anomalies in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
The Bill confers benefits on the more senior members - the officer members - of the defence forces who contribute to the Fund under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
We wonder why the Government has been so intent over the period I have mentioned on providing a comparable relationship between the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and the Commonwealth Superannuation Fund. [More…]
Much of this legislation is designed to bring the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund back to parity with the Commonwealth Superannuation Fund. [More…]
In the defence Services - the Navy, the Army, and the Air Force - only 1 in 1 100 reaches a comparable classification measured in terms of salary, which is up to a senior officer’s classification. [More…]
The significance of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme is demonstrated by the fact that the number of contributors is in excess of 84,000. [More…]
In Australia our serving members of the forces, as I understand it, contribute 20% to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and the Commonwealth meets the balance. [More…]
He received no compensation at all for the loss of his leg but he was paid an A class pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act at the rate of 13 a fortnight. [More…]
He went to work under difficult circumstances and he continues to do so, but because his salary has now reached the level of $2,329 he is deprived of any benefit whatsoever under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
However, your attention is invited to section 53a of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act (please see copy attached) in which provision is made for the suspension of pension when the rate of remuneration exceeds two-thirds of the current equivalent of Service pay at retirement; that is, Service pay at retirement as increased by subsequent variations in the Services Pay Code. [More…]
I assume from this letter that all the people who are receiving the invalid pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act are similarly plagued and similarly threatened that if they succeed in overcoming the disadvantage to which they are put, their pension will be taken away. [More…]
Since there are such a large number - 1,701 to be precise - of persons who, according to the report of the Department for the year ended 1969, receive invalid pensions under the provision of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act, it is likely that that number of people are being threatened with the loss of their pension if they succeed in earning incomes. [More…]
1 can speak with some personal authority and sadness of the defects of the present Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
We need a special review of what we are trying to achieve with our defence forces retirement benefits and how best we can achieve it. [More…]
If they have not already elected to limit their future contributions under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1963-68 they may now contribute for the full increase in pensioner entitlement now provided or, alternatively, elect to limit their contributions to what they are already pay ng. [More…]
The honourable member also referred to the complexity of the existing scheme and quoted recommendations contained in the report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board to the Treasury transmitting the Actuary’s report in respect of the quinquennium ended 30th June 1964. [More…]
The requirement for this investigation is contained in section 22 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1949-69. [More…]
The procedure is explained in sections 32 to 35 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-58, which is included in the repr, nt to which the Deputy Leader of the Opposition referred. [More…]
of section 17 of the Act authorising the distribution, namely, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act (No. [More…]
He also said that lack of knowledge about the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund was a complaint common throughout the defence Services. [More…]
can be completed and up to date booklets issued throughout the defence forces, an action of which i am sure the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would approve. [More…]
This Bill does not amend the legislation relating to repatriation or to compensation the benefits of which may be paid to servicemen in appropriate cases in addition to the benefits under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
The only way that the Snowy Mountains scheme could be initiated was under a defence power. [More…]
It is perfectly obvious that th;s defence power would not hold water now. [More…]
Such a defence’ power would not be accepted by the courts now. [More…]
Of course, the defence power was used first of all, and then the New South Wales and Victorian Governments passed special Acts Which gave constitutional authority for the construction of the Snowy Mountains scheme. [More…]
The most extraordinary statement made by the honourable member for Farrer who, after all, was the Minister for National Development in charge of this project, was that the project could not be carried out under the defence powers of the .Commonwealth. [More…]
That is right; could not today be carried out under the defence powers of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Their Leader, then Mr Menzies, now Sir Robert Menzies, declared in this House that it could not be carried out because the defence powers would never permit it - that it could not be founded upon the defence powers. [More…]
There has been reference to defence powers and constitutional approaches but fundamentally there was a starting point which made the scheme possible. [More…]
When will we discuss the appointment of a select committee, which was promised yesterday, to inquire into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund? [More…]
It was included in the Defence Bill which was debated recently because a regulation concerning allowances paid to Chiefs of Staff had been disallowed. [More…]
The Liberals were concerned at such public admiration and with a feeling of frustration and in defence of their timehonoured and somewhat misguided protection of the false god of private enterprise, and having in mind the Bill now before the House, curtailed and thereby restricted public inspection of the Snowy scheme. [More…]
Never mind about the hypocrisy we heard last night from some honourable members on the Government side of the chamber who said that the Labor Party used its defence powers to begin the Snowy scheme and who pointed out that the Stales had certain powers. [More…]
Is it not a fact that what the Government is seeking to do is to place members of Parliament on an equal basis in regard to superannuation- -with every, other section of the community, particularly retired public servants and retired members of the Defence forces? [More…]
Regarding the recent legislation, the House will remember that it removed the disability facing retired Commonwealth public servants and, more particularly, retired members of the Defence forces so that they could accept Crown employment without reduction of their superannuation benefits. [More…]
The object of the recent draft Bill which I brought before the House is to apply to former members of Parliament the same principle as that which Commonwealth public servants and retired members of the defence forces have enjoyed for some years. [More…]
For some time past representations have been ‘ made by honourable members from both sides of the House to make the position of members of Parliament similar to that of retired public servants and exservicemen receiving payments from the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether it is his intention to make a statement on the acquisition of the Phantom aircraft before the Parliament rises.. [More…]
I can think of nothing worse than a person not being able to put his own view forward in his defence. [More…]
It is not generally known that when the Federal Government, through Sir Archdale Parkhill, the then Minister for Defence, acquired the ‘Southern Cross’ on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia he made a solemn promise that it would be housed in Canberra. [More…]
In the Committee stage, particularly when the Thirteenth Schedule is before us, I shall bc happy to engaged in defence of the Government and the Minister and. [More…]
prominently, a defence of the Tariff Board for the quality of the report on man made fibre. [More…]
The Minister for Trade and Industry said in this Parliament on one occasion: ‘You can have cheap cars but you will have no motor industry; you can have cheap clothes but you will have no secondary textile industries; you can have cheap everything if you want it, but if you want to be able to afford it you have io make sure that Australians are working and the only way to do it is to see that industries are efficient, economic and adequately protected in coping with the demands we make on them to maintain the workforce in reasonable conditions and, at the same time, to add to the development of the defence potential of the nation’. [More…]
I would say at this stage that I did not think the honourable member for Wakefield (Mr Kelly) put up a very effective defence of the Board or that the Minister put up a very effective defence of the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen). [More…]
I indicate that the Opposition intends to oppose the Loan (Defence) Bill, under which it is proposed to borrow $10Om from the United States of America, although I will only formally oppose it tonight as I do not want to divide the House. [More…]
Regarding the Opposition’s reasons for opposing the loan from the United States of America of $100m for defence purposes, basically we think that defence should be paid for as we go. [More…]
Australia has a deficiency of reserves at present, if we have to procure defence equipment overseas. [More…]
I maintain that for defence we should pay as we go. [More…]
In 1969 the then Treasurer had from the United States more than $62m in defence credits. [More…]
A. much more sophisticated and responsive climate for discussion of defence issues is emerging in Canberra and will become increasingly important in the next few years. [More…]
It is appropriate that Duntroon plays an important role in the more informed evaluation of defence policies. [More…]
The employer’s defence was that the shop steward had been dismissed because of a reduction in her output of work. [More…]
The agreement provides that the airlines will not avail themselves of the defence, provided in Article 20 (1) of the Warsaw Convention, that they have taken all necessary measures to avoid damage or injury to passengers or that if it was possible to take such measures. [More…]
On 2nd June l70 I matte a statement in the House concerning the .second pari of the distribution of the surplus assets from the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund to eligible contributors. [More…]
My Department uses a current figure of approximately 8,000 for direct employment in the defence aircraft industry. [More…]
Pty Ltd, with about another 1,000 persons employed on defence aircraft work in such contractors as the Aviation Division of Dunlop Rubber, A.N.I. [More…]
He was greatly concerned about the defence and security of the country for which he bad fought with such distinction in 2 world wars. [More…]
He was a man of the highest integrity whose life was spent, in the main, in the defence of Australia both as a soldier and as a parliamentarian. [More…]
He was to further his education, he said, on the way other people thought and felt on such matters as foreign affairs, defence and Che ability of Australia to help people in South East Asia, Africa and elsewhere. [More…]
Did the Commonwealth Actuary in his report covering the investigation of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund over the period 1959-64, presented to the House on 29th May 1968, indicate that certain statistical and technical data were not available to enable him to calculate suitable rates of contribution and that the absence of information made it difficult to verify the accuracy of data supplied to him. [More…]
Was an internal auditor added to the staff of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board; if so, when. [More…]
The inability of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board to supply data relating to the movement of contributors and pensioners for the 2 years 1st July 1959 to 30th June 1961 did not prevent the Commonwealth Actuary from calculating suitable rates of contribution. [More…]
The Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board made copies available to the Service Departments for distribution to members. [More…]
and (8) In accordance with section 22 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948- 1958, the first and second quinquennial investigations were conducted only into the state and sufficiency of the Pensions Account within the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
Until 1959, in accordance with sections 32 to 35 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1958, the share of each pension met by the Fund out of the Pensions Account was related to the capital value of the pension payable and the accumulated value of the contributions paid by the particular member, the balance being met by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Considerable progress has already been made in an overall review of the organisation and functional arrangements within the Office of the Superannuation and Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Boards. [More…]
The changes progressively being made should enable the Office to meet the greatly increased work load resulting from the extensions of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme in recent years. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
Who were the members of last year’s Defence Industries mission to the United States of America. [More…]
Which United States defence contactors did the mission visit. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
On this point I refer you to the discussion in 1958 by Sir Philip McBride, the then Minister for Defence, regarding the tabling of the Morshead Report, (Hansard of 27th March 1958, page 776). [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What sub-contracts of defence purchases from the United States have been awarded to Australian companies since 1966. [More…]
What offset arrangements to defence purchases from the United States have been negotiated since 1966. [More…]
On matters of defence it would want its representative in the Senate to be heard, lt has no representative there. [More…]
That a Joint Select Committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits legislation in relation to - [More…]
the frequency of and delays in actuarial investigations on the state and sufficiency of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, and [More…]
On 9th June the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill was before the House. [More…]
The Opposition welcomes the setting up of a joint parliamentary committee to look at the operation of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
This committee derives from an amendment moved by the Opposition in this House on June 9th to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill 1970. [More…]
The amendment was designed to set up a joint committee to investigate and report upon the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
These increases were granted on the following day by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) after a lengthy examination by the Conditions of Service Committee of the Defence Department. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has pointed to the work of the Defence (Conditions and Service) [More…]
But it has the signal disadvantage that it is an internal committee of the Department of Defence; its functions are prescribed by the Department of Defence and this must restrict its effectiveness. [More…]
Unfortunately, the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee as it is now constituted does not fill the bill. [More…]
What I want to say at this stage is that we welcome the opportunity that has been given to this House to consider the ramifications of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and the decision of the Government to set up a Committee to investigate the Fund. [More…]
It is because of these circumstances that we believe it is necessary to look at the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
The Minister who proposed this motion acknowledged that it was because of action taken by members of the Opposition in moving an amendment to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill that was then before the [More…]
add: ‘and in relation to the whole defence force (i) pay and allowances of all personnel, (ii) provision for the retraining of officers and men, (iii) housing and (iv) educational facilities for the children of service men.’ [More…]
The amendment moved by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is not relevant to the motion, which relates only to a joint select committee on benefits payable under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act, and is out of order. [More…]
I have always had a preference for complete frankness and neither my colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) nor I is going to make any pretence about the fact that there had been a delay. [More…]
I would like the honourable gentlemen and the House to know that where there exists a grievance the Minister for Defence, my other colleagues responsible for the Services and myself take the view that the case should be stated and that wherever possible we will try to see that the grievance is removed with all practical speed. [More…]
I have no desire at this stage to repeat what I have already said to the House because I had an opportunity before the amendment was ruled out of order to put to the House some of the reasons why I believe that the powers of the proposed joint select committee ought io be widened to enable it to investigate not only the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act itself but also the pay and allowances of servicemen, which are causing great dissatisfaction amongst servicemen. [More…]
I uphold the point of order raised by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I think that a prima facie case has been made out for the holding of an urgent discussion on the subject matter of the addendum moved by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) and in relation to the whole matter of the defence forces - their pay and allowances. [More…]
During his remarks, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard), after mentioning the Minister for the Navy (Mr Killen) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) - the 2 Ministers concerned with defence who are in the House - referred to the honourable member for La Trobe as one who had raised the question of Service conditions and who had spoken in support of the matter. [More…]
I think justification exists in what the Opposition suggests but to relate this to the joint select committee that is to inquire into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund is ridiculous. [More…]
That a Joint Select Committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits legislation . [More…]
in relation to the whole defence forces (i) pay and allowances for all personnel, (ii) provision for retraining of officers and men, (iii) housing and (iv) educational facilities for the children of servicemen. [More…]
The Opposition, having spent the whole morning and part of the afternoon dealing with a Bill which it was quite entitled to bring forward, now seeks to foist another debate which is totally unrelated to defence forces retirement benefits onto this House and so occupy the whole day with [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, the Opposition did not challenge your ruling that the amendment which was moved by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) to the motion to set up the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Select Committee could not be extended to cover the amendment he moved. [More…]
Examination of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act and the operations of the retirement provisions for servicemen will be a large and complex task and will take up a good deal of time of the members who will be on the committee. [More…]
I am allowing the Minister for Defence to reply to similar points. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) who was very vocal in opposition to this item has a motion before the House seeking standing committees on foreign affairs and defence, finance and trade, health and welfare, primary industry and national development, transport and communications, education, science and the arts, legal, home and internal territory affairs. [More…]
It comes out of court cases where defence counsel on previous occasions have used photographs and films to assist their cause. [More…]
The police have found themselves in the position of having unofficial photographs being used to support the case of the defendants, and they therefore adopted the practice in their own defence of taking photographs themselves. [More…]
It is also well known that usually, when in the defence of the citizens of this country those demonstrations, if they pass ali bounds, are stopped, there are screams of police brutality and it seems not unreasonable that there should be a defence for the police by actual photographs of what goes on. [More…]
3ut the aircraft still does not meet the technical and operational assurances that will be required by the Royal Australian Air Force and which the United States Department of Defence has indicated would be necessary. [More…]
As this can clearly result in the threat of an economic moratorium in Australia in the same manner as the Opposition and Mr Hawke have been instructed to participate in a Vietnam moratorium in September, can the Prime Minister assure the House that domestic as well as foreign and defence policies will not be paralysed by Tuesday’s events, not by those proposed for September, in the same manner as has occurred in a number of countries, even though the Leader of the Opposition is intimately involved in both series of demonstrations. [More…]
The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence; [More…]
So the following divisions are suggested: A standing committee on foreign affairs and defence, a standing committee on finance and trade, a standing committee on health and welfare, a standing committee on primary industry and national development, a standing committee on transport and communications, a standing committee on education, science and the arts, and a standing committee on legal, home and internal territory affairs. [More…]
Legislation on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund is one example, the Repatriation Act is another and great areas in education are others, in my time here some of the most fruitful examination of legislation has been as a result of the tabling of legislation some months before it is finally considered. [More…]
This industry arose during the Second World War to meet the gap created by reduction of overseas supplies and Australia’s internal defence and civilian requirements and in later years developed to the point where it has manufactured about 25% of the books sold in Australia- < [More…]
Can the Minister for Defence say what steps are being taken to have Service representation on the committee in his Department which deals with the pay and conditions of servicemen? [More…]
A number of decisions have come from the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee in recent times concerning military skills - that was earlier in the year - flying pay, flight pay and a number of trade grouping decisions including the application of the Maritime Industry Award. [More…]
I think that, roughly at this time last year, a decision was made to get this area of activity out of the Department of the Treasury and largely into the Department of Defence, but with equi valent responsibility, because the recommendations come to the Treasurer and to myself and not just to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It had one meeting only under the previous Secretary of the Department of Defence because he was retiring and was trying to finish some other matters. [More…]
Therefore, the Committee really began work when the present Head of the Department of Defence took up office in March of this year. [More…]
The timing of the 8th Battalion’s withdrawal from Vietnam remained cloaked in secrecy until a cryptic statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in answer to a question asked by the honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay) last Thursday. [More…]
the Minister for Defence, in answering a question put to him last week, pointed out that the 8th Battalion would march through Brisbane on 1 2th November next. [More…]
There can be no doubt that hopes of an early return were raised by the Prime Minister; they have since been cruelly dashed by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Now the Minister for Defence has made the bald statement that it will nol be back before mid-November. [More…]
In the absence of any explanation from the Minister for Defence it must be concluded that the situation in the task force area is lagging sadly behind the Prime Minister’s expectations in April this year. [More…]
Malaysia at the very time when the United Kingdom Defence Minister was in those 2 countries beginning to work out the terms and conditions and circumstances in which there will be a continuing military presence of the three arms of the British Forces, arms which are welcomed very much by these 2 countries and by Australia as adding once again to the general security of the region and as continued acceptance of traditional British responsibility in this part of the world. [More…]
This is the sort of thing one would expect if the Opposition were in charge of defence and foreign policy of this country. [More…]
When listening to the speech of the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) it occurred to me that it was strange to present the point of view that be holds and for Australia to be withdrawing a battalion from Vietnam instead of putting in a division. [More…]
The Minister for Defence made great play of the terms of aggression. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence mentioned, we cannot act unrelated to our allies. [More…]
I think that what the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said is true, that every man in this House would want to see peace come to Indo-China and remain in our part of the world, but it is one of the lessons of history that when a war is over all of the people concerned have to be rehabilitated. [More…]
So, for example, an honourable member protesting at the disgraceful level of pensions in this Budget will be accused of wishing to cut back on, say, defence. [More…]
Yet if Indonesia were to collapse we would be asked to provide billions of dollars more for defence. [More…]
Defence [More…]
The defence set-up represents the extreme of Liberal confusion of financial, political, social and human values. [More…]
The defence appropriation makes it quite clear that the Government will not this year be making adequate provision to ensure that Australian armed forces will attract and retain men in sufficient numbers to reach the targets the Government itself has set. [More…]
The Liberals still resort to conscription to secure defence on the cheap. [More…]
He ought to indicate whether, in this misallocation or reallocations of resources, defence would suffer and whether a cut in defence expenditure would be seen by his Party in the same way as the Labour Party in Great Britain saw it as a solution to its economic problems. [More…]
The British Labour Party made great alterations in defence expenditure. [More…]
I am concerned with what he did not say, and in particular with what he did not say about defence and external affairs. [More…]
It seems to me that these matters of the defence of this country and our relationship with other countries are at least important, if not pre-eminent. [More…]
In the whole of his 65 minutes the Leader of the Opposition dealt with defence for 1 minute and dealt with external aid not at all. [More…]
I am sure that some of my very capable colleagues who will follow me in this debate will explain many other deficiencies in the Leader of the Opposition’s speech, but I am concerned with the questions of defence and external affairs. [More…]
I refer honourable members to pages 5 and 12 of the Budget Speech where they will see that Australia will spend about S2,000m on defence and external aid, which are things that T consider important but which the Leader of the Opposition does not consider important enough to give moto than 1 minute of his time. [More…]
I want to talk about defence and external affairs because 1 consider these matters to be important. [More…]
The Government has been criticised for an alleged lack of defence planning. [More…]
Part of our defence planning has to include efforts to reach mutual understanding with like-minded neighbours. [More…]
We cannot have worthwhile defence without worthwhile diplomacy. [More…]
It is what they call a crash defence policy and what the Prime Minister (Mr Garton) has described rather more accurately as a crash non-defence policy. [More…]
We all remember the so-called crash defence policy outlined by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) when he spoke to the Fabian Society in Melbourne last year. [More…]
They believe in such things as a fixed percentage of the gross national product being spent on defence and aid. [More…]
It would not be in America’s self-interest to defend a country which, although capable of making a worthwhile contribution to its own defence, was too selfish, too cowardly or too disinterested to undertake such obligations. [More…]
For these reasons I urge the Government to examine in Australia’s self-interest the possibility of negotiating mutual defence arrangements with those of our neighbours who have not yet succumbed to the onslaught of Communism. [More…]
Both have links with the Defence and Aid Fund which is the international agency strongly supported by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
The honourable member for Boothby referred to the Government’s defence programme in recent years and to the grave problem of our survival in a hostile environment which bids fair in the next decade or so to become more sensitive to the intrusion of naval forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
I do not think these would be used for maritime defence unless they were equipped with dunking sonar, in which case they would not be of troop carrying size. [More…]
I apologise for detaining the House but I must respond to some matters which have come to my notice regarding the South Africa Defence and Aid Fund and some statements which have been made in criticism of it by the honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay). [More…]
He has referred to the South Africa Defence and Aid Fund as a typical Communist front organisation. [More…]
For example, Mr St. John who was recently the honourable member for Warringah in this House, is an official of- the South Africa Defence and Aid Fund. [More…]
Let us look at what is being done by the South African Defence and Aid Fund. [More…]
Let us not identify as Communist front propoganda everything said by the South Africa Defence and Aid Fund. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: How many Royal Australian Air Force pilots have resigned since the recent increases in flying pay were announced? [More…]
Persistent matching of weak representatives of any position against strong opponents can be a more devastating destruction of the former viewpoint than a total lack of its defence. [More…]
Ardent advocates of increased immigration have been quick to rush to the defence of the present policy and have actually called for the Government to up the ante. [More…]
The defence allocation is 3.1% greater than last year. [More…]
Members of the Government cry out with regular monotony about their concern for the defence of this country. [More…]
Let us now turn to this question of disorder - or rather, to be more specific, law and order, lt is notable that the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen), and his heir apparent, the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony), have time and time again concerned themselves not with the tottering primary industry of Australia but with propping up their discredited and outworn policies by suddenly becoming the champions of foreign policy and defence. [More…]
He spoke on defence and foreign affairs - this master of the world. [More…]
He also gave us his views in regard to defence, housing, local government authorities and matters concerning rural industry. [More…]
An examination of the Budget will reveal that 36% of the proposed expenditure will go to the States; 14% has been allocated to defence purposes; 23% to expenditure on national welfare and repatriation measures; and 2% to external aid. [More…]
By how much would he reduce defence expenditure to provide money for something else? [More…]
Within that framework the role of the Budget each year is to direct a reasonable allocation of the nation’s resources towards meeting social, developmental, defence and other aims. [More…]
Not even in regard to defence does he have the courage of his convictions and suggest a cut. [More…]
He even goes so far as to say that the Government is making inadequate provision for defence. [More…]
Wc will probably have to pay more heavily for defence, for local government services and right across the board. [More…]
As I mentioned in my maiden speech earlier this year this is a vital defence link. [More…]
Australia would be one of the few modern countries in the world where one would have to wait for the rain to stop and the road to become trafficable before ground units could be moved interstate in defence of the country. [More…]
I can appreciate that the Government has cut its defence spending in this Budget but if it does not want to consider this as a defence item then we should consider it as an item for trade and tourist development. [More…]
At least that is reasonable even if the Government is not concerned with this road as a defence item. [More…]
I shall refer now to defence. [More…]
At the 53rd minute he set aside 1 minute 12 seconds to the subject of this nation’s defence. [More…]
Yet here we have under the heading of defence a total expenditure of $1,1 37m out of a total Budget of $7,883m. [More…]
Defence is No. [More…]
55 and Defence Forces No. [More…]
So much for the ALP’s care for the defence of this nation. [More…]
I might say that defence was lucky to even get a mention by the Leader of the Opposition because it must have been a most difficult and unpleasant moment when he had to face this reality, the defence of this nation. [More…]
Without a strong defence and without our allies we may as well forget about everybody - let alone the pensioners - because there will be no Australia to look after. [More…]
The two-faced attitude of this Government is amply demonstrated in the area of defence, especially in relation to the war in Vietnam. [More…]
I wish to refer to three main areas of the Budget - social services, primary industry and defence. [More…]
1 had hoped to have more time to deal with a third matter which I believe is of the utmost importance to this country, and that is the matter of defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) told us that we might lose only $150m if we did not proceed with the contract. [More…]
The counsel for the defence pointed out that they had been denied legal representation and that the charge had not been remanded. [More…]
We have a budget conferring personal income tax reductions worth S289m in a full year and increasing defence spending to Si, 1 37m. [More…]
They say that we must have more schools, more hospitals, more social services, more defence, more subsidies, higher tariffs but less income tax, no sales tax, no payroll tax, tax exemption on this and tax exemption on that. [More…]
The proposed expenditure of $l,137m on defence is 3.1 per cent greater than the expenditure in 1969-70. [More…]
Please introduce amendments to the Federal Budget to (a) provide an increase in the old age pension of $5 a week per pensioner and (b) reduce the expenditure on defence by the amount incurred in the increase in pension payments. [More…]
But it is interesting to note that to increase pensions by more than the proposed amount would require a reduction in defence expenditure. [More…]
Anybody who has any thought for the safety of Australia would realise that this is something we cannot do, because the most important thing in this world to us at the moment is the defence of Australia. [More…]
The Budget was a slap in the face to rural Australia but its defence by Government supporters is strong and consistent. [More…]
It is appointed by the Trade Unions Defence Council. [More…]
If we look at the Trade Unions Defence Council we see that it is composed of activists - I think this is what they are called - who run the trade unions from the platform at trade union meetings. [More…]
The Trade Union Defence Council in Victoria, which is made up of Paisleyites - that is a new term - Muscovites and Maoists, can get a special executive elected. [More…]
The Budget proposes a defence vote of $l,137m. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made a comprehensive statement on these aspects in March and his remarks were fully canvassed in this House. [More…]
In future the defence vote will be susceptible to the impact of the 5-year rolling defence programme. [More…]
It is too early to judge what effect the new system of planning will have on defence spending and administration. [More…]
The House will have a better opportunity to look at the new concepts of programming and planning in the Department of Defence after the defence report which I understand outlines the organisation in some detail. [More…]
The first significant point to be noted about the defence vote is that it represents a lower share of total Commonwealth spending. [More…]
The estimate of defence spending in the current financial year is about 14.4 per cent of Commonwealth spending, compared with 15.56 per cent of spending last year. [More…]
As a percentage of the gross national product defence spending is fairly steady at around 3.7 per cent. [More…]
Opinions may vary on what is an acceptable level of defence spending, bearing in mind the need to allocate resources over a host of Commonwealth agencies, ft does not accord with repeated statements by successive Treasurers and Ministers for Defence that there would be a steady increase in defence spending in the interests of long-term security. [More…]
This defence spending contains a disguised element - the Vietnam war. [More…]
There has never in any Budget been an attempt to assess the impact of Vietnam on the defence budget. [More…]
Certainly the defence forces had to be built up and reequipped in the early 1960s. [More…]
This makes it impossible to sift out from the items of defence spending how much was unavoidable spending on re-equipment and how much was spending generated by the conduct of the war. [More…]
With the course of the war changed dramatically in the past 2 years and with the Government reluctantly acting to liquidate the commitment, there are signs that again the Government will put the squeeze on essential defence spending. [More…]
The table on the defence services at the end of the Treasurer’s Budget Speech is most revealing in this aspect, lt shows that the estimate for spending on :i Vii salaries in the Department of Defence is up by 14 per cent. [More…]
It is reasonable to assume that civil workers in the Service departments would be getting comparable salary increases to their colleagues in the departments of Defence and Supply. [More…]
There are other elements of defence spending which show the influence of these distorting elements. [More…]
There may be specific reasons for this very great decrease but it is hard to reconcile with the emphasis on expansion in the March speech of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
No doubt the Minister for the Navy (Mr Killen) will be able to explain the reason for the drastic reduction in the naval section of the defence vote and certainly the Minister will have the opportunity to give some indication as to why other essential defence services, particularly those areas upon which the defence Services are so dependent, will receive consideration as outlined in this Budget but no mention is made at all in relation to Cockburn Sound. [More…]
In his March statement the Minister for Defence referred to the need for a greater maritime capability in the waters around Australia, the Pacific Ocean and the seas of the north. [More…]
The whole emphasis of defence planning has been towards the equipment of one division, again motivated by the Vietnam war and the Malaysia/Singapore commitment. [More…]
With the major effort of the Regular Army geared to support the Vietnam war and to a lesser extent the Singapore post, only meagre resources of equipment and manpower arc available to the CM”F. In March the Minister for Defence imposed a major emphasis on the role of the CMF stressing that follow-up forces were essential in defence planning was to have credibility and substance. [More…]
Last year’s Defence Report states the composition of the Australian Army in the following terms: [More…]
The Minister for Defence seemed to recognise the importance of the CMF in his March statement: unfortunately identification of the problem does not constitute a solution. [More…]
Another source of disappointment with the defence aspects of the Budget is the absence of any intimation that procurement from Australian industry is to be stimulated. [More…]
The Minister for Defence and his predecessor have made great play over the past few years of new policies to obtain offset and co-production agreements and sub-contracting arrangements for Australia’s industry. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, prior to the suspension of (he sitting I had begun to discuss the Government’s policy in relation to offset agreements and the procurement overseas of defence orders. [More…]
Another source of disappointment with the defence aspect of the Budget is the absence of any intimation that a procurement from Australian industry is to be stimulated. [More…]
The Minister for Defence and his predecessor have made great play over the past few years of new policies to obtain offset and co-production agreements and subcontracting arrangements for Australian industry. [More…]
I questioned the Minister for Defence earlier this year about sub-contracts and offset arrangements negotiated with the United States since 1966. [More…]
This is a distressingly small counterweight to throw into the scales against the mass of defence spending which has flowed to the United States over the past few years. [More…]
In broad terms it is doubtful whether even a half of 1 per cent of the Governments defence spending in the United States has been offset in any way since 1966. [More…]
This was put in stark terms by the Minister for Supply (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) in the Senate last Wednesday when he outlined the situation at each of the 3 major defence aircraft establishments. [More…]
I have raised these alternatives in this debate because one of the most important defence issues in the next few years will be aircraft procurement. [More…]
The Fill has ensured that never again can the debate over choice of an aircraft be confined to the Cabinet room and the upper echelons of the Royal Australian Air Force and the Department of Defence. [More…]
The debate on the Budget and, one would hope, the debate on the Estimates which will follow will provide opportunities not only to consider in greater detail the Government’s defence programme as it relates to the Royal Australian Air Force, the Navy and the Army - the branches of the Services with which I have dealt in some detail today - but also to discuss at greater length the need to establish, as I pointed out during the last session of the Parliament, an aircraft industry in Australia. [More…]
I hope that both the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Air (Senator Drake- [More…]
The honourable gentleman spoke about defence. [More…]
I do not quibble with bis right or the right of any other member in this House to speak about defence but I have thought, with great respect to my honourable friend, that the most appropriate time for an argument on defence to be delivered to the Parliament would have been either on a statement on defence made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) or, alternatively, on the defence estimates. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman does not mind my saying so, he has a rather quaint view of the way in which defence procurement proceeds. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, it was surprising that the Minister for the Navy (Mr Killen) took the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) to task for talking about defence. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition confined himself to certain subjects and was attacked by the Minister for the Navy for confining himself to the subject of defence. [More…]
If I take random headings from the Treasurer’s speech, I see: ‘Defence’, ‘Payments to the States’, Social Welfare’, ‘Sheltered Workshops’, Repatriation Benefits’, ‘Mental Health Institutions’, ‘External Aid’, ‘Assistance to Woolgrowers’ and ‘Aboriginal Advancement’. [More…]
But you have gone on and on and on with no defence of your administration of the Department at all. [More…]
While an exception to this rule may be upheld on grounds of defence or social need, the exception should be sparingly conceded and only after stringent evaluation of the case proposed; not as now when the public purse is unrepentantly pilfered by the Government to buy political patronage. [More…]
I have received a message from the Senate concurring in the resolution of the House relating to the appointment of a Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits legislation and agreeing that the resolution have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders. [More…]
We know - and we know to our cost - that some of our old securities are no longer with us and that a Treasurer, a Minister for Defence and a Minister for External Affairs working under a Prime Minister must have some kind of recognition and cognisance of this new fact. [More…]
Then there has been what I regard as sheer wasteful so-called defence expenditure. [More…]
But that is only a dramatic instance of wasteful defence expenditure and the involvement of this country. [More…]
We have spent millions and we still have a very inefficient defence system in this country. [More…]
The second major allocation in this Budget is for defence. [More…]
The defence vote in this Budget is $ 1, 137m and represents about 14 per cent of our total expenditure for the year. [More…]
The 3 items I have mentioned, payments to the States, defence and social welfare, represent about 72 per cent of total expenditure for this financial year. [More…]
The people who want to downgrade the wool industry even further in this country should not only look at the economics of this country and the part the wool industry plays but they should also look at the very defence of the western world. [More…]
In 1949, price control which had been administered by the Chifley Government under the terms of its defence powers was challenged in and ruled out by the High ‘ Court of Australia. [More…]
It is the instrument for carrying out the Government’s policies in the fields of social welfare, health and education, defence, the development of the nation’s resources and other essential areas. [More…]
Labor means a sell-out in South East Asian defence and a yes vote for galloping decline in public morality. [More…]
As usual, the Opposition could well be asked how it would finance its vast but indefinite expenditure on defence, social welfare, local government, education and overseas aid, without increasing taxation. [More…]
We look down the list at the Post Office, defence and immigration. [More…]
Of course, honourable members opposite, the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and all his minions flowing through the 3 services, will say: [More…]
The Government should say what sort of defence Services Australia wants. [More…]
Nobody has defined the Australian defence tasks. [More…]
Therefore the Government should recast the defence Services and the national service system. [More…]
I only hope that in this session of Parliament we can repeal it and recast the defence system. [More…]
When I visited that country in 1966 the only soldier I saw was one on guard outside the gate to the defence ministry. [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence aware that the United States Army has an official known as the SergeantMajor of the Army who acts as an ombudsman to investigate complaints of servicemen about pay and conditions of service? [More…]
ls the Minister also aware that this official investigates hundreds of complaints each year in acting as an effective link between the men in the field and the defence machinery? [More…]
Of course, Labor had very little to say on defence. [More…]
The statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) contains some useful improvements to the complex structure of service pay and allowances. [More…]
In the first week of the sitting the Opposition moved to extend the terms of reference of the Select Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund to cover pay and conditions of service. [More…]
The honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett) has since given notice - presumably with the consent and blessing of the Minister for Defence and the other Service Ministers - that he will move for the setting up of a joint select committee to report on the pay, conditions and housing of the defence forces. [More…]
State Government and the Department of Defence. [More…]
So Australia’s strategic position and consequent defence requirements need to be examined, if necessarily briefly. [More…]
Meantime, our highest possible defence capacity will be our chief influence on events. [More…]
It has provided defence consultants and practical co-operation of forces on South East Asian matters which go beyond ANZUS in making defence contacts in the United States itself, and the opportunity to learn procedures and practices. [More…]
It is a mistake to think the relationship is our defence need only: It is much deeper than that. [More…]
Our defence forces will and must, as a continuing process, seek the best use of that vote among the array of priorities presenting. [More…]
Naturally, as one who lives less than a mile from the Indian Ocean, I am interested in the defence capacity’s relation to Western Australia. [More…]
May such defence expansion and training continue. [More…]
Japan, with its population of 100 million and defence capacity 10 times bigger than Australia’s already, is of rapidly increasing importance in the strategic forces to be felt in the region. [More…]
It can be demonstrated that Labor’s pleas are always to do less in defence. [More…]
Occasionally members of the Labor Party speak as though they favour defence measures, but I remind the House that their contributions to debates in recent times lead us to see that they wish an Australian withdrawal from South Vietnam and Malaya. [More…]
They want less done on defence, though they show a perhaps understandable interest, as we have just heard, in servicemen. [More…]
They criticise everything - Australia’s overseas service, its forward defence concept, conscription and army adequacy, Fill aircraft, Phantoms - they praised them before this Government leased Phantoms - most major defence purchases, Vietnam and SEATO obligations. [More…]
The Labor Party is historically against defence preparations and ignores external threats and realities of aggression because of bogies about big business and United States imperialism. [More…]
We must realistically judge the position from day to day and not be reluctant to resist aggression and plan and build our defence, even at cost. [More…]
If international law and order existed disarmament would be everybody’s aim - let no-one doubt that - but without it Labor’s policy is a policy of diminishing defence, which at this moment is a policy of recklessness. [More…]
One would have hoped for at least a lessening of the deep differences in defence policies between the major political parties. [More…]
The repeated excuse of defence offered by the Government for its negative refusal to adjust progressively the levels of farm production to realistic market demands is that such action is the exclusive right under the Constitution of the States. [More…]
As I said in my own speech on the Budget, the fact is that if, say, Indonesia were to collapse we would be asked to find billions more for defence. [More…]
In the Defence estimates we have the Department of Defence, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Army, the Department of Air, the Department of Supply and auxiliary services. [More…]
Yes, and in the Defence estimates we would have to deal with 5 departments. [More…]
However the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) brought up a matter about which 1 want to deal with specifically, and that is the question of the time for consideration of the Defence Estimates, those for the Department of Supply and the Service departments. [More…]
1 suggest for the consideration of the Leader of the House (Mr Snedden) that a suitable division might be ‘Defence and Supply’ under one heading of the Estimates and the 3 Service departments under another heading. [More…]
Members of the Party in matters of foreign defence policy should not give the false and damaging impressions that under a Labor Government foreign policy would be determined at mass meetings or by public petitions. [More…]
The 3 Ministers who spoke in that debate - the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr McEwen), the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon) - never even expressed an opinion on the issue. [More…]
In 1967, with similar drama and frenetic performance by the Government, the Defence Forces Protection Act was introduced into this Parliament. [More…]
But the fact that Australia’s security is at stake and there is necessarily a need for Australians to recognise that they are very much alone in a world with which traditionally they have been associated means that, if we in this part of the world do not recognise that there are many thousands of people living in lesser developed countries very close to our shores and do not adopt a responsible attitude towards defence against the insurgence of Communism in that part of the world, we ourselves may ultimately be put at risk. [More…]
Will 25 members be able to alter the fundamental provisions of the Defence Ad? [More…]
Apart from the 3 hour period for Repatriation and Social Services the alloted times for other groupings are as follows: External Affairs, 5 hours; Customs, Primary Industry and Trade and Industry, 5 hours; Defence Services, 5 hours; and 2i hour periods for Civil Aviation, Education and Science, Health, National Development, Postmaster-General’s Department and Shipping and Transport. [More…]
For the estimates for the Defence Services - the Departments of Defence, Navy, Army. [More…]
This Government and previous governments have been squandering public money since 1963 on one aspect of our air defences. [More…]
But the Department of Air is fourth on the list under Defence Services and 5 hours has been allotted for the total discussion on Defence Services. [More…]
This section of the Estimates involves the Departments of Defence. [More…]
Admittedly the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made a statement on this matter in this House a short time ago. [More…]
Expenditure by Australia on defence has amounted to about $ 1.000m a year for a number of years. [More…]
Today, although honourable members on the Government side say that Australia has a dire defence need, Australia has never been more defenceless, in spite of the vast sums squandered. [More…]
From memory last year we spent 4 hours on the Defence estimates and the year before we spent 4 hours and 17 minutes. [More…]
This was the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]
The subjects of these committees will be foreign affairs and defence; finance and trade; health and welfare; primary industry and national development; transport and communications; education, science and arts; and legal, home and internal territory affairs. [More…]
I have noticed an improvement over recent years concerning information on defence and its allied branches. [More…]
No longer does defence rely on having some sort of secret weapon. [More…]
I know that some members of the public and the Press have criticised past trips and no doubt will go on criticising any future trips, but this is an important suggestion because these countries have a close and growing association with Australia in trade - after all, we are the tenth trading nation of the world - and in defence where we have defence arrangements or, I might suggest, potential defence arrangements. [More…]
There has been criticism by bodies that purport to represent education in this country and by numerous other bodies demanding more and more government services in health, education, defence, roads and social services. [More…]
It has been seen exclusively in terms of defence policy. [More…]
Indeed, in the misguided belief that Australia’s defences were best guarded by having American troops held down indefinitely on the Asian mainland, the Australian government has helped to distort America’s own foreign policy, particularly her efforts to achieve a detente with the Soviet Union. [More…]
We are properly involved in defence arrangements with Singapore and Malaysia - that is to say, it is proper that we should have arrangements, not that those proposed by this Government are the appropriate ones. [More…]
But defence arrangements in this region which exclude and ignore Indonesia are altogether out of balance. [More…]
What orders for the textile requirements of the Defence services have been placed with Australian mills this year. [More…]
Although Defence expenditure in this Geld has decreased, the above totals represent a very small proportion only (approximately 4 per cent) of the overall value of production of Australian mills. [More…]
It is therefore considered unlikely that the reduction in Defence ordering would constitute a threat to employment in the industry. [More…]
However, the effect on individual mills would vary according to the extent of participation in defence orders. [More…]
There has been no increase in the imported content of the Defence group’s textile requirements for the year 1969-70 either absolutely or percentage-wise. [More…]
These however represent a very small portion of the total Defence textile requirements as previously stated. [More…]
Is he further aware that this technique helped to debilitate many overseas countries and to destroy their capacity for self defence? [More…]
I believe the Government must look at this problem of the Australian production of sulphuric acid from pyrites for the following reasons: The necessity for Australian supplies; our defence requirements; the need to preserve hard currency for expenditure within Australia; and with a view to assessing total future requirements - a matter which is very difficult to deal with without proper projections and proper statistical information. [More…]
military or other help in defence of their democratic rights? [More…]
The Council reaffirmed that the responsibility to maintain peace and security in this crucial area rests on all free nations in the Asian and Pacific region and strongly recommended that any proposed reduction of United States or United Nations defence forces be so planned and executed as not to impair regional or national defence capabilities of free Asia and such steps be taken only with prior consultation with the governments concerned. [More…]
The millions of lives lost and the countless billions spent on defence have left the world, some 25 years later, more divided and out of balance than at any time this century. [More…]
Over the years, too great an emphasis has been placed on defence - and it just has not worked out. [More…]
They are human problems and countless billions spent on defence have not provided any lasting solution, and they never will. [More…]
This brings me to the point that, if the same effort that has been channelled into defence over the past 50 years had been channelled into economic assistance, many of the great human tragedies that confront us today would not exist. [More…]
For these reasons, I am anxious to see far greater government assistance in the field of economic aid, yes, even if it has to come from the defence allocation. [More…]
In an address delivered at the headquarters of the United Nations peace keeping force in Cyprus, known as UNFICYP, to visiting members of the Imperial Defence College shortly before I arrived on the island Peter McAulay said that the force’s duties have taken it into all of the villages on the island to search for trouble, and having found it, to settle it on the spot. [More…]
When I went back there in 1966 the only soldier I saw was one on guard outside the defence ministry gates. [More…]
Mr Malik said Asian countries should not be aligned to international defence pacts. [More…]
Nor should they formulate a regional defence pact of their own. [More…]
This is not the work of the present Government, because it goes back to the Chifley Government when, under the ANZAM agreement, Australia and New Zealand together with Britain committed themselves to defend Malaya because they considered it to be vital to the defence of Australia. [More…]
I do not discount these things because 1 believe that Australia has a responsibility to maintain a defence capacity over areas adjoining the Australian mainland. [More…]
In a speech on defence I outlined in detail the oppressive laws which exist in South Africa. [More…]
Defence Act 1903-1970 [More…]
Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1969 [More…]
Liquid Fuel (Defence Stocks) Act 1949-1966 [More…]
This area of land is retained by the Holsworthy military camp in connection with the defence of Australia and 1 understand it has been agreed with the State Government- [More…]
The United Kingdom Minister for Defence has very speedily visited all the countries concerned, indicating the new British Government’s views and seeking the views of Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence and I refer to the withdrawal of the 8th Battalion from Vietnam in the near future. [More…]
The increase in pensions would have been higher had we cut down on our expenditure on defence, on national development, on education, on overseas aid, on Aboriginals, on housing or on health. [More…]
There is the old Socialist theory of linking things to things and of spending a fixed percentage of the gross national product on, for example, defence, foreign aid and so on. [More…]
I am quite sure that if the Labor Party was in power it would be more than happy to scrap all expenditure in the field of defence. [More…]
I only hope that he will be as ready to go out into his electorate and speak to the various pensioner organisations and retired people on superannuation so eloquently in defence of the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
On the other hand I believe that the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Department of Defence, supported by the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Hughes) and no doubt the Minister for the Navy (Mr Killen) and the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), have a different attitude because we know that the Prime Minister has not only a Baxter mentality but also the policeman-on-the-beat mentality when it comes to interfering in the internal affairs of Asian countries. [More…]
I believe that Japan has been getting defence on the cheap. [More…]
That country has been spending a very small proportion of its gross national product on defence. [More…]
The sums of money that are spent on defence, apparently without much question, are in considerable contrast. [More…]
It seems that nations are reluctant to increase their economic aid abroad as against what they spend on defence. [More…]
We debate at great length and in great detail the expenditure of more than $l,100m on defence, and I think as well as asking ourselves what we defend ourselves with we should also keep asking the question: ‘What do we have to defend ourselves against?’ [More…]
Surely this is what economic aid ought to be about and there should be just as much serious attention given to the mechanisms of aid as is given to what is called logistics and similar aspects of defence. [More…]
Lawyers were provided where possible as prosecutors and for the defence. [More…]
In the debate which took place in this House in 1955 when the appeals system was set up there was testimony by wartime Defence Ministers that they had considerable doubts about many of the convictions of courtsmartial, particularly during World War IT. [More…]
I am prompted this evening to rise to my feet in defence of the address given in this chamber a few minutes ago by the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder). [More…]
But in spite of what the Deputy Prime Minister tries to cover up, many well informed Australians know that the real cause of our trade problem is the fact that the Commonwealth Government has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars purchasing defence requirements from the United States without a thought for the fact that the United States will not admit our primary products except in token amounts. [More…]
We have bought more than $ 1,000m worth of civil and defence aircraft alone from the United States since 1958. [More…]
The Budget position would then have to be adjusted by one means or another, perhaps by reducing Government expenditure on things such as pensions, education, defence, national development and health. [More…]
The Opposition might not object to a reduction in the spending on defence, but I think they would be the first to squeal if that reduction occurred in pensions and health. [More…]
In defence of the increases I think that we should have a look at a few figures and make some comparisons. [More…]
Just how far do we accept a continued subordinate status in our trading relationships with the United States, particularly in the light of our defence purchases from her? [More…]
Would he consider it even more serious to reject the authority of the commanders of Australia’s defence forces than to spread disaffection for democratic authorities among the body politic, as has been advocated? [More…]
If Australia wants to progress it must have population for many things, including defence. [More…]
The growing vote for the organisation which calls itself DOGS- the Defence of Government Schools Organisation - is also a sign of a growing conviction about the neglect of State schools in the poorer areas of our country and failure to establish an educational system which will eliminate inequalities in education. [More…]
I very much suspect that it is the younger section of the community which votes for the Defence of Government Schools organisation. [More…]
The alternative condition imposed was that the applicant pay tax first, because if he won his court case his legal defence would be overcome by retrospective legislation. [More…]
Australia’s future defence is closely tied up with having a well ordered, friendly nation on our doorstep. [More…]
We are told that the Prime Minister, the Attorney-General, the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Treasurer (Mr Bury) are kind and considerate men. [More…]
The cause of most of the troubles in Australia at the moment in relation to defence and law and order is the fact that conscription was introduced in 1964. [More…]
Despite these very firm and forthright statements against the introduction of national service on 10th November 1964 the then Prime Minister made a defence statement in the House and announced the decision to introduce selective compulsory service. [More…]
As one famous American general said in respect to Vietnam ‘The North Vietnamese have the most powerful propaganda machine in the world but it does not cost them a cent’ because indeed certain sections only of the publicity media, and now the Opposition, and now even further the Leader of the Opposition, appear to be carrying out perhaps unwittingly what they most seek to gain and that is the ineffectiveness of our defence forces, the lack of morale of our people and the complete lying down of our will to resist. [More…]
therefore, becomes the duly of His Majesty’s Opposition, and every member of it, not merely to oppose this measure in Parliament with all the force of the arguments at their command, but also to exhaust every effort to rouse the people outside the Parliament to a tremendous defence of their own liberties and rights. [More…]
I saw the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on television the other night. [More…]
I have here a copy of the Canberra Times’ of 8th November 1967 which shows a picture of the Soviet Ambassador to Australia, Mr N. Tarakamov, and the charming Minister for Defence with their glasses tilted, full of vodka or rich red wine, toasting the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. [More…]
If the people who were 100 or 200 yards from the Leader of the Opposition contaminated him with the Vietcong flag, it is time for the internment camp for the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Without an adequate defence force, a reliable defence force, Australia could not fulfil a treaty obligation. [More…]
Who would sign or maintain a treaty of mutual defence with a nation that did not enforce its own military laws? [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) would not come into this debate today. [More…]
They are frustrated at the complexities of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
Hansard will demonstrate that I have shown as consistent an interest in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, war service homes, pay and allowances, training for ex-soldiers and educational opportunities for their children as any man who has served in this Parliament. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 of 1964, page 36) the then Minister for Defence announced that at the invitation of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam Australia was sending a group of military advisers to that country. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
irns asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Does the Defence (Industrial) Committee actually attempt to co-ordinate military and indus-‘ trial needs. [More…]
The vital facts that require the suspension of standing orders in order that this can be tested are these: If it is true that the Information Bureau was in attendance, as we were told in order to catch pictures of people in conflict with the police so that the police would have a defence against other pictures that might be produced against them, then why were pictures taken of the Leader of the Opposition when he was nowhere near a police officer, nowhere near a scuffle and nowhere near any disorder? [More…]
It is obvious that it was nothing more than a defence, nothing more than an alibi, to cover the situation when the Prime Minister realised that he was in an embarrassing position. [More…]
The reason why we fight for our country and spend millions on defence is to prevent this country from becoming a police state. [More…]
What will we have achieved, what will the enormous wealth we have poured into defence have meant and what will the lives of those who have died have meant to us if, after their sacrifice, we finish up with a system of government with all the evil features for which we have every right to condemn those countries which are police states. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition raised that important matter of the very survival of the RAAF in the defence of the nation and the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) having said nothing in reply, we were back to the circus again. [More…]
So that is perhaps why we have been faced with this farcical situation today, why the work of Parliament has been set aside for today; why the most serious processes of Parliament have been prostituted to try to provide a smokescreen over the actions of the Leader of the Opposition who, on his own admission, has gone out to advise young men to ignore the decisions of this Parliament, to flout the provisions of Acts democratically enacted by the Parliament for the nation’s defence, to scorn the law enforcement bodies and especially those in them honourably discharged from the Queen’s service and to advise the troops in the field in the face of the very enemy, to refuse to continue to fight. [More…]
Has the attention of the right hon.urable gentleman been drawn to the resolution which was carried unanimously at a recent meeting of the Asian Parliamentarians Union, at which nearly all the freely elected governments in the vicinity of South Vietnam were represented, opposing any reduction of United States or United Nations defence forces in the Asian and Pacific region unless carried out with prior consultation with the governments concerned and planned so as not to impair regional or national defence capabilities? [More…]
It is an unusual government instrumentality because it handles such diverse matters as local transport, garbage, housing, kerbing and guttering, nature paths, adoption of children, welfare, agricultural services, animal and bird protection, architects’ registration, boiler inspection, bush fire control, the Canberra Tourist Bureau, registration of dogs, civil defence, drivers’ licences, electoral offices, forest management, fruit inspection, registration of hawkers, lake administration, meteorology, testing and registration of motor vehicles, the News and Information Bureau, the police, scaffolding and lifts, street cleaning, the War Memorial, weights and measures, and workers compensation. [More…]
There is a need for one person, whether it is the Minister for the Interior (Mr Nixon) or the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), to co-ordinate emergency services in time of disaster. [More…]
Also, I think it is time that the Commonwealth and the States met to define the functions and powers of civil defence organisations in Queensland. [More…]
When cyclone Ada struck Mackay there was some confusion as regards the real function and power of civil defence units. [More…]
It seems strange that we have a variety of committees including the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory, the Joint Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Joint Committee on the New and Permanent Parliament House, the House of Representatives Select Committee on Aircraft Noise and the House of Representatives Committee on Wildlife Conservation and others, yet on this important subject the Minister cannot see fit to give us an all party committee of both Houses on probably the most important national project of our time. [More…]
As I said, we need them for defence purposes. [More…]
With regard to the authority of the state to wage war, it is explicitly stated that Christians may lawfully wage war upon just and necessary occasions’, and that God has ordained that the civil authority has been given ‘the power of the sword for the defence and encouragement of litem that are good and for the punishment of evil doers’. [More…]
I maintain that this in itself is an indication that in our society today, for all the noise, the fury and the furore of the militant vocal minority, there is a great and wide acceptance of the necessity for national defence and, as part of it, for national service. [More…]
Yet in this society it is fondly expected by our opponents that young men would volunteer in sufficient numbers to take upon themselves the onerous duties of national service for national defence. [More…]
I refer honourable members to the statement of the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr McEwen) that history has proved over and over again that a rich nation .without defence cannot remain free. [More…]
1 am sorry that debates are not held as frequently as they should be in this chamber about the whole basis of our defence system. [More…]
National service has dragged the: whole idea of service in our armed forces and the defence of. [More…]
Is it true that the High Court of Australia over a period of years has said that the defence power increases or decreases according to whether there is war or peace? [More…]
As there has been no referendum on conscription, as there is no state of war and as there are a number of servicemen who are prepared to defend this country but who are unable or unwilling to serve in Vietnam, will the Minister arrange for a test case, by way of a stated case, to be submitted to the High Court to determine whether the legislation which compels servicemen to fight in Vietnam in a time of peace is within the ambit of the defence power of the Constitution? [More…]
As to the main purpose of the question, the honourable gentleman apparently thinks that there is some shortage of defence power to authorise the legislation. [More…]
The defence power certainly does expand according to the degree of danger. [More…]
Australian scientists and technologists areemployed at the joint United States/ Australian defence or scientific installations or facilities shown hereunder. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Sir Robert had discussions with the Prime Minister and the Ministers for External Affairs and Defence. [More…]
He also had a series of discussions with the members of the Defence Committee and other senior officials and Service officers, and took part in several seminars and discussion groups attended by a total of about 180 officials and Service officers from several Government departments. [More…]
1 ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
I ask: What legal or financial safeguards had Australia secured against the unilateral cancellation of this project of which no inkling was given in the Minister’s Defence Report circulated lust month? [More…]
1 ask a question of the Minister for Defence, ls it a fact that an inquiry has been in progress for some time into the consolidated rates of pay of senior officers of the Citizen Military Forces? [More…]
Here the Chief Justice, Sir Garfield Barwick, interpreted the language of the provisions to mean that the conscientious belief must be all embracing in relation to soldiering, including soldiering in any capacity in the defence, or in aid of the defence, of this country in any circumstances. [More…]
In other words, to qualify for exemption, a conscientious objection had to be to all military service at any time and in any circumstances, even in the country’s defence in the direst circumstances. [More…]
The recklessness of that proposal - the destruction of the confidence and morale of an Army, of a Navy or of an Air Force charged with the defence of this country - would be recklessness to a degree that one would not expect it to be brought up for any other reason than an attempt by the Leader of the Opposition to harm and to divert attention from the recklessness of his statement of 2 weeks ago. [More…]
Australia’s initiatives produced the Suez affair in 1956, an automatic Australian reflex action in defence of imaginary jugular veins, lifelines and vital routes without which our economy would be gravely damaged, demonstrating how deep in the thinking of the older Australian generation are imperialist and racist assumptions. [More…]
The crowning irony was that the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) worked himself into his usual synthetic indignation and patriotism on this matter - patriotism being the last refuge of a scoundrel - by performing in front of a delegation of senators and congressmen from the Philippines which, of course, withdrew its contingent from Vietnam in 1968. [More…]
At least today we have been spared the arguments put on television by the Minister for Defence and the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and in the Parliament by the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr McEwen) that the Citizen Military Forces is an alternative to service in Vietnam for those who conscientiously object to it. [More…]
I have a letter from the Minister for Defence himself which exposes the falsity of the claim. [More…]
Apart from drawings on credit arrangements for defence purchases in the United States of America, loan proceeds from other countries through the issue of Commonwealth securities are available for capital purposes or for loan redemptions and repayments. [More…]
In 1969-70, excluding amounts available from credit arrangements for defence purposes, redemptions and repayments of official borrowings overseas exceeded overseas loan proceeds by S128m, compared with net proceeds of P8m in 1968-69: [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The evaluation and recommendation of defence equipment procurement is not confined to any one Department in the Defence Group, but ls carried out by combined teams made up of officers from the Departments of Defence, Supply and the Services. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Has the attention been drawn to the recommendationscontained in the Sydney Region Outline Plan produced by the State Planning Authority to the effect that an early decision should be made about the future release of this 85 square mile defence area so as to permit development of 2,000 acres of industrial land and accommodation for 250,000 persons. [More…]
Firstly there is the need to build an efficient army capable of playing a vital role in the defence of the Territory and secondly we have to provide for the future a well disciplined, stable and reliable indigenous force completely loyal to the Administration or government of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
the Secretary of State, and Mr Laird, the Secretary of Defence, have both indicated that between 40 per cent and 60 per cent of that 284.000 will be combat troops. [More…]
It occurs to me that the same sort of process applies to military service and that those persons who recognise that the future of Australia depends on the survival and the maintenance of a defence policy should acknowledge that national service is predicated on that basis so that we can enjoy the benefits of a future strong Australia. [More…]
He is aware that the Commonwealth, particularly the Department of Defence, retains large quantities of land on the foreshores of Sydney Harbour. [More…]
The honourable member is quite right when he states that I know that the Commonwealth Government through its Defence Department, or its Service departments, has title to a great deal of land around Sydney Harbour. [More…]
I also know that the Commonwealth has stretched every nerve to endeavour to return to the State Government those areas which it can return without affecting the defence efforts which it needs to make. [More…]
Whilst it is the right of the Opposition and the right of any citizen to make such a request, the Government has the responsibility of deciding where the priorities will go and how much will be spent on the major heads of education, social services, defence and health. [More…]
Nor in my belief was there ever any defence strategy with respect to Vietnam. [More…]
However, some doubt has arisen because it is thought that this might in some way affect the relationships that exist between Australia and Malaysia and particularly any relationship that might grow in the future as a result of any post AngloMalaysia Defence Agreement arrangements. [More…]
Is it true that the Government’s forward defence policy has traditionally relied upon Malaysia’s alignment with the West against Communism? [More…]
We have troops stationed in Malaysia and Singapore because we believe that this will give to these countries the confidence to continue with the policies not only of development but of steady improvement in their own defence capabilities. [More…]
If that happens it will be the reason for us to have another look and see whether we can change in any way our policy with regard to helping the defence of these countries and stationing troops there. [More…]
Can the Minister for Defence indicate to the House the cor*rect position concerning reports of a decision by the United States of America to alter the draft as it applies to its armed forces? [More…]
Can he indicate also the likely implications, both social and in the defence sense, for Australia were we to follow suit? [More…]
In blunt terms one of the implications of the United States objective to bring its draft down to what is called a zero draft call could be that ultimately a greater defence effort might be required of this country. [More…]
Although press reports of the decisions that have been announced by the Secretary of Defence in the United States generally have referred to abolition of the draft by 1973 the reports do give a false impression because the decision has been made to keep the framework and structure of the draft - the legal right to re-establish the draft - if an emergency made it necessary but to try to get to the situation where there is a zero draft call. [More…]
Defence is a prime responsibility of government and this Government will never settle for anything less than it believes necessary for Australia’s defence merely because there may be some political difficulties that some people perhaps associate with the establishment of a proper level of defence. [More…]
But even if we could establish by voluntary means alone forces of the size that Australia believes to be necessary, this is not the only consideration that should be borne in mind, because a government or a country that depended only on volunteers for its defence is appealing to those with a particularly developed sense of patriotism. [More…]
If we were a country that sought to buy defence, which is what the Labor Party would do if it wanted any defence, we would have to pay higher salary and wage rates in an attempt to attract people into the armed forces to get the numbers we needed. [More…]
If you could do this it would mean that we would then be insulating the privileged, the better educated and the wealthy from the obligations of defence and from the obligations of doing something to protect their own country. [More…]
A system that insulates the wealthy, privileged, better off and higher educated from the implications of obligations for defence is an unjust system. [More…]
United States authorities, in defence of their actions - this in fact could be true - state that they are not banning any Australian meat works because of political pressure. [More…]
However, in a prosecution or a Commonwealth claim for clean up costs, it will be a defence that their failure to comply with the notice was in order to save life at sea, or because it was not possible to comply with the notice. [More…]
I intend also to introduce later this day a companion Bill to amend the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1970 to extend the preservation arrangements to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
This Bill is a companion measure to the Superannuation Bill 1970 that I have just introduced and amends the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1970 lo give effect to the Government’s proposals for the preservation of superannuation rights. [More…]
Because the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme is different from the superannuation scheme, there are 2 important differences between the provisions of this Bill and the Superannuation Bill that 1 should explain. [More…]
The first important difference is in the way credit is given for a transfer value paid to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
For example, another rank member, who is entitled to receive a deferred benefit in the form of a pension and has completed 20 years eligible employment, will commence receiving that pension as from the date he would have completed 20 years service for pension had he remained in the defence force. [More…]
In the case of an officer, his deferred pension will generally become payable when he reaches the retiring age for the rank that he held on leaving the defence force or, if he would not have completed 15 years service for pension at that time had he remained in the defence force, then from the time that he would have completed 15 years service for pension. [More…]
In common with the Superannuation Bill, the Bill provides for the benefits of preservation to be available to or in respect of persons who have entered or left the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund since 1st January 1970. [More…]
In terms of defence technology, it is a matter of notoriety that in the United [More…]
Examples of Commonwealth measures include: a broad range of assistance to the ‘naturally decentralised’ rural industries (bounty/subsidy payments, tax concessions, marketing arrangements, special rural credit); the financing (in whole or in part) of a large number of development projects, such as the Snowy Mountains Scheme, Rail Standardisation, the Townsville-MountIsa railway, Beef Roads, the Brigalow Scheme and the Ord River Scheme; provision of financial assistance by way of loans to help finance the construction of a thermal power station at Gladstone; the establishment of Commonwealth defence installations at Salisbury and Edinburgh leading to growth of Elizabeth and Commonwealth investment at Woomera; provision of finance for rural roads under the Commonwealth Aid Roads arrangements; a petroleum price equalisation scheme which reduces price differentials between metropolitan and rural areas; provision of mining and mineral exploration incentives; and financial assistance for travel by rural workers under certain circumstances. [More…]
It has come to the conclusion that the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee is not best suited to the task of large scale examination these matters require. [More…]
Since it began effectively to function less than 7 months ago, the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee has done much important and constructive work in the area of pay and general conditions of employment of Service personnel and it will continue to do so. [More…]
However, a major review would place intolerable demands on the time the permanent heads of the Defence and Service departments and a senior member of the Treasury, and of the personnel members of the Service boards. [More…]
As requested by the Minister for Defence during the course of the inquiry, to inquire into and report on any existing specific allowances intended to cover financial costs which from time to time fall upon service men and service women when meeting Service requirements. [More…]
To inquire into and report on such other aspects relating to terms and conditions of employment as may be referred by the Minister for Defence after consultation with the Prime Minister and Treasurer. [More…]
I stress that the process of examination of some aspects of conditions of Service employment by the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee will continue during the currency of the inquiry. [More…]
The Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee is well placed to consider and to bring forward prompt recommendations on a number of matters related to terms and conditions of service. [More…]
The Government’s objective is to develop further the defence force Australia requires and in the words of the terms of reference ‘to attract and retain men and women with needed qualities, skills and experience for the Australian forces’. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said in the opening sentence of his statement that the House is aware that for some time he has been very concerned to ensure that there is a detached and comprehensive review of some of the more fundamental aspects and financial conditions of service of the armed forces. [More…]
He gave notice as recently as 12th August that he would move that a select committee of this Parliament be appointed to inquire into and report upon the pay, conditions and housing of the defence forces. [More…]
Earlier in this session a select committee to review the defence forces retirement benefits scheme was set up. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the Minister for Defence begged the RSL to defer the matter for 3 months; in other words, to get the heat off him. [More…]
In the past the Minister has always dismissed complaints about pay and conditions by reference to the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee. [More…]
But this Committee has the signal disadvantage that it is an internal committee of the Department of Defence; its functions are prescribed by the Department of Defence and this must limit its effectiveness. [More…]
He has abandoned his reliance on the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee. [More…]
Given the present inflammatory mood of the Services this is much too long to wait for effective action, even if other improvements flow from the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee. [More…]
If the Minister for Defence has any lingering doubts about this he should study again the letters columns of the ‘Canberra Times’ in recent months. [More…]
He has made a tacit admission that the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee is not up to the job of restoring equity and sanity to pay and allowances. [More…]
That all words after That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘this House is of opinion that, instead of the proposed committee, a joint select committee of both Houses be appointed to inquire into and report upon the Australian Defence forces in relation to (i) pay and allowances of all personnel, (ii> provision for the retraining of officers and men, (iii) housing and (iv) educational facilities for .the children of servicemen’. [More…]
In my opinion in the 10 years I have been in this Parliament and over a long period of parliamentary government in Australia the Defence Services have never been understood and have never had the consideration that they should have had from governments or from oppositions. [More…]
It is interesting that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has now decided to take a great interest in the Defence Services. [More…]
When I speak during that debate I intend to draw to the attention of honourable members the fact that a defence statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) many months ago has not been debated. [More…]
It is claimed that this defence statement is the most far reaching that we have had presented in this House, but there has been no demand from the Opposition to discuss it. [More…]
Today during the Estimates debate we will be discussing the 6 Defence Services. [More…]
This means that we will have 1 minute 50 seconds to speak on each Defence Service. [More…]
When we look at the Notice Paper we find that there has not been one move by the Opposition to discuss matters relating to defence. [More…]
I give credit to the Minister for Defence - and I do not give credit when I do not think it is deserved. [More…]
I think he has endeavoured to move the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee to bring forward quick decisions. [More…]
It has been pointed out that on these committees there is always a representative from the Treasury, from the Department of Defence or from the Department of External Affairs. [More…]
At the present time, together with the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, I am a member of the Joint Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]
I think that the servicemen should be reassured that this matter is now to be looked into and that the other matters - such as disturbance allowance and the educational allowance, about which I will speak when we are debating the estimates for the Defence Department - about which they are concerned at the moment are at present under review and close to a decision. [More…]
Today in the statement of the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) we have a confession of guilt. [More…]
The Minister indicated in his statement in the House yesterday that only if we have a pool of unemployed can we attract people to join the defence services. [More…]
If we were a country that sought to buy defence, which is what the Labor Party would do if it wanted any defence, we would have to pay higher salary and wage rates in an attempt to attract people into the armed forces to get the numbers we needed. [More…]
Mark those words, ‘the better educated’ - and the wealthy from the obligations of defence and from the obligations of doing something to protect their own country. [More…]
So he argues that, if you improve conditions and pay, those people whose intellectual capacity has been developed - the better educated - would be too wise to join the defence forces even then. [More…]
What is wrong with the defence Services under him, that the better educated people would not want to join even with better pay and conditions? [More…]
If he argues that better pay and conditions will attract only the underprivileged of the community - this statement appears at page 2200 of Hansard - what sort of people does he argue will be attracted now to the defence Services when the pay and conditions are so gravely inadequate and totally unacceptable to the men of the fighting Services? [More…]
It is totally unworthy of the Australian Minister for Defence to regard the men of the fighting Services in this way. [More…]
The effect of this defenceless neglect by the Conservative Federal Government is dramatically revealed by its failure to meet recruitment targets; its unsuccessful, albeit expensive policy of seeking to pilfer manpower from the ranks of Britain’s Services; and the dismayingly high and rapidly increasing resignation rate of commissioned officers below retiring age. [More…]
In 1969-70 the recruitment target set for Australian defence forces was 2,864. [More…]
If this clearly apparent and distressing rundown of manpower is not halted and reversed the capacity of our armed Services to maintain their function of a meaningful defence preparedness will be seriously impaired. [More…]
Even more startling is his declaration that this organisation should have a strength of 40,000 to 50,000 men to fulfil a meaningful role in our defence arrangements. [More…]
The Minister for Defence rose to unprecedented heights of arrogant offensiveness when he said of the RAAF claim to have pay rates strike parity with Department of Civil Aviation personnel: [More…]
Out of this contributions to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund will claw off about $1. [More…]
The ratio of civilians in defence departments to servicemen is 73.96 to 100, a glaring lopsidedness. [More…]
Further, the five man Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee - all members arc public servants - should have high level representation from each of the Services. [More…]
The Labor Party proposes a practical programme of reform aimed at rooting out the grave debilitating defects which now impair and pose a critical threat to the operation of our defence forces. [More…]
I call the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Commonwealth Public Service ‘equivalent status’ is that normally regarded as operative in the defence group of departments. [More…]
The view that I rejected yesterday was the view that the only consideration that the Government should have is that it should buy defence and that there were no obligations on the people of Australia and no obligations to see that the burdens of defence fall equitably on the people- [More…]
I was only saying that yesterday I was rejecting the view that the only consideration the Government ought to have in mind is that it can buy defence, establishing a position in which the privileged can insulate themselves from the effect of defence. [More…]
If we were a country that sought to buy defence, which is what the Labor Party would do if it wanted any defence, we would have to pay higher salary and wage rates in an attempt to attract people into the armed forces to get the numbers we needed. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), has not attempted to disguise his and the Government’s anxiety as far as the Services are concerned. [More…]
There was an occasion when it was observed for the dubious benefit of the country that the best defence measure we could take would be to ensure we had a railways system of uniform gauge throughout the entire continent. [More…]
That was a view on defence. [More…]
I do not say this unkindly, but I thought that was a rather cranky view on defence. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will recall on one occasion in this House - I rarely interject and when I do I try to do so with the utmost courtesy - the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James) was making a powerful forward-looking speech and he said that the country was spending 204m on defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has given that assurance. [More…]
That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the honourable member for Wills making a statement on defence in reply to the Minister for the Navy as was arranged with the Government. [More…]
The fact is that there was an arrangement with the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) and the Minister for the Navy (Mr Killen) from the Government side would speak on the statement that the Minister made this morning and that equal speaking representation would be allowed to the Opposition side. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) is well known in this House as a man who has a keen and informed interest in defence matters. [More…]
He served for 26 years with the Australian defence Services and saw 6 years of active service. [More…]
He has been wounded in the defence of this country. [More…]
If we are to continue to have a rundown of the defence Services in Australia as we have seen occur in the past several years . [More…]
because of the relative neglect df conditions of service and pay on the part of the Government, the capacity of our defence forces to represent suitably the interests of this country ‘will be gravely eroded. [More…]
The Parliament will be presented with a gravely diluted report which will in no way upset the Government or distress it by exposing the truth of the causes for the dissatisfaction in the defence forces. [More…]
I second the motion, and in speaking to it I want to make it quite clear to the House that since the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made his statement this morning I have been preparing to participate in the debate. [More…]
This morning the Minister for Defence made his statement, in accordance with long standing practice, without interruption and spoke for whatever length of time he thought was necessary. [More…]
Yesterday the Minister for Defence had this to say: [More…]
If we were a country that sought to buy defence, which is what the Labor Party would do if it wanted any defence, we would have to pay higher salary and wage rates in an attempt to attract people into the armed forces to get the numbers we needed. [More…]
On this occasion there was enough time for preparations to be made and sp the Deputy Leader of the Opposition followed the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I am informed by my colleagues, the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) and the Leader of the House (Mr Snedden), that they are not aware of any arrangement that has been made. [More…]
-For 20 years this Government has deluded the Australian people into believing that it had a defence policy but for a policy it has substituted slogans; for information, lies; and for discussion, pronouncement. [More…]
If we delve a little deeper we find that as from 1st July 1969. in an obvious attempt to minimise the expenditure related to the overseas commitment, the Government has transferred the expenditure on stores purchased in Australia and forwarded to Australian defence forces abroad from Division 666 ‘Forces Overseas’ to Division 670 which deals with armaments and stores. [More…]
It distorts not only our defence expenditure but also the whole Budget expenditure. [More…]
We would prefer to channel this money to meet more urgent needs in the defence vote and in the general Budget. [More…]
Why is not the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Minister for the Army (Mr [More…]
The Minister for Defence in response to a series of questions which I put to him on this subject has completely evaded the issue. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: What is the economic justification for the establishment of a tri-Service academy? [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I would have thought that the honourable member had been in this House long enough to have read the Commonwealth Constitution which, of course, illustrates quite clearly that this Government has no power whatsoever - except under the Defence Act - to fix prices. [More…]
Our capacity in these respects could easily exceed that of Sweden, but the Government will not think in terms of an independent capacity for defence construction. [More…]
Australia could make defence aircraft. [More…]
Our defence thinking needs recasting. [More…]
Civil defence needs rethinking and it needs a professional component. [More…]
If a civil defence organisation is justified at all it is justified on the assump tion that there could be an attack on Australia. [More…]
There should clearly be a CMF component for the defence of cities and industrial concentrations. [More…]
An efficient unified concept of defence with a respected and fully professional place for the CMF ia the Air Force, the Navy, a coast guard service, the Army and civil defence is overdue. [More…]
Australia’s defence east, west and south is oceanic. [More…]
Our defence policy is bedevilled by controversy over the Vietnam war but that will not always be so. [More…]
We are looking for a rationally based defence policy, rationally explained and, if possible, bi-partisan. [More…]
What ought not to be in controversy is the industrial capacity for defence construction and defence experience given to Australian firms in that construction. [More…]
We are now dealing with the Defence estimates for which the total proposed expenditure is $1,024,480,300. [More…]
We are concerned not only with the estimates for the 6 Defence Departments. [More…]
As I said when I spoke last Friday on the Defence Minister’s statement the Parliament has yet to discuss what is claimed to be the most far reaching statement on defence. [More…]
Also, the Defence Report 1970 has been tabled. [More…]
There are many matters concerned with defence but we have been given no time in which to discuss them. [More…]
It is of great concern to me that this year this Parliament has hardly had a defence debate. [More…]
In my opinion this Parliament has little interest in defence. [More…]
But I agree with the honourable member for Fremantle that the time is coming for a review of our defence policy from the top to the bottom. [More…]
We are still equipping our defence Services for action in what has been called a brush fire situation - a situation where we had to get quickly to the point, hit and contain the offensive action. [More…]
The point I am trying to make is that I think the time has arrived when we now have to plan for a balanced defence force for the defence of the mainland of Australia in addition to whatever outside commitments we may have. [More…]
But I think also that in view of the current world situation, we now have to plan for the ultimate defence of (his country, lt is all very well to say that our defence advisers say this and that they recommend that. [More…]
In debates in this place I have always said that we hear only a fraction of what our defence advisers advise, because the section which is used for Government policy is extracted and that is put in as the ultimate. [More…]
Having had some discussions with our defence advisers over many years, I know that this is the way it works. [More…]
I remember a Minister for Defence going there and wearing a uniform of Indonesia. [More…]
It comes down to some hard practical reorganisation in order to achieve an effective balanced defence force for the ultimate protection of Australia. [More…]
No-one is to tell me that we necessarily have 7 or 10 years in which to plan, which according to certain experts, is the basis of defence planning. [More…]
The break-up of the expenditure of over $ 1,000m on defence is presented in a somewhat different form in the ‘Defence Report 1970’ than that which appears in the Estimates. [More…]
I draw the Committee’s attention to the tables which appear on pages 59 and 60 of the ‘Defence Report 1970’. [More…]
Defence expenditure is divided into what are called major categories. [More…]
All I am submitting is that that shows what a dreadful hole was made in Australia’s defence balance by that ill-fated escapade with the Fill. [More…]
At least it is gratifying to read on pages 9 and 10 of the ‘Defence Report’ what are called new proposals for evaluating future plans. [More…]
I submit, with all respect, that the episode of the Fill was an instance of the Government making an unsupported judgment, and it involved this community in a hiatus in its defence planning for a considerable number of years. [More…]
I commend the Defence Department on the amount of information which is contained in this ‘Defence Report’ and on the manner in which it is presented. [More…]
All that this points to is the great deal of rigidity that exists in our defence expenditure. [More…]
The other day the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) spoke in this House about the plans for higher pay and allowances. [More…]
There he raised some matters that seem to me to be of fundamental concern, such as whether there are people in the Army who perhaps ought to be on the civilian side of defence activities, and vice versa. [More…]
With all respect to those who speak - some of them with great knowledge - about the types of aeroplanes and naval vessels, the reality is that well over two-thirds of what is spent on defence is not spent on the things that frighten the enemy at all. [More…]
In the very few minutes that are left to me I want to say something about the aircraft industry in Australia, lt is my belief that what has been called the fourth arm of defence is just as important as the other three. [More…]
At least the whole emphasis of the Defence Report this year is on the need for forward planning. [More…]
lt was my original intention in the debate on the defence estimates to speak of the need for the highest level inquiry into all aspects of service in the defence forces. [More…]
It is now my pleasure to congratulate the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on his statement in the House a few days ago. [More…]
Defence expenditure on pay and allowances represents approximately S333m. [More…]
Over recent years there has been a massive re-equipment programme for all 3 Services to enable Australia to undertake the growing defence responsibilities both at home and overseas which changed circumstances are forcing on us. [More…]
The Government h;is made clear time and time again that the Australian Labor Party’s negative defence attitude of limiting Australia’s defence contribution to Australia itself - a policy which in all honesty I must restate has been made and forced upon the parliamentary members of the Australian Labor Party by their non-elected masters - is a repudiation of the responsibilities that we must show we are ready to share if we are to play the role in our geographic region made possible by our economic, industrial and technical power. [More…]
I note in the recent Defence report that the establishment of an Army facility in Western Australia is under consideration. [More…]
This debate comes at a most fertile time in the evolution of Australia’s defence forces. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made some comments on these issues in answer to a question in the House last Thursday. [More…]
This argument was expressed in very crude terms but as it goes beyond purely defence concepts, it is outside a debate on defence estimates. [More…]
The Minister went on to criticise the Labor Party on the grounds that it sought to buy defence; that is, to provide defence by paying better salaries and providing better conditions so that Service ranks could be filled. [More…]
What the Minister was putting to the House was the cold cash argument that buying defence absolved the privilege, the better educated and the wealthy from defending the country. [More…]
He went on to say that the wealthy, the privileged and the better educated must pull their weight in the defence of Australia. [More…]
How has the Government assured that these social groups do not avoid their defence duties? [More…]
I will leave the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to handle the rubbish that has been spoken by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard). [More…]
Turning to the Defence Report I see that at page 10 there is a considerable list of hardware, lt has been announced in the last 12 months that we are to have 2 Oberon submarines. [More…]
This has all to do with defence. [More…]
[ turn now to the statement by the Minister for Defence in which he said that a review is to take place of the group pay system whereby industrial award rates are taken into account, to examine the demands and exigencies of the Services. [More…]
The Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee is well placed to consider and bring forward prompt recommendations. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is exhibiting the same traits as when he was Minister for Education. [More…]
From the scanty and guarded references in the Minister’s Defence Report 1970 who would have thought that discontent over service pay and conditions had reached the stage where the Flag Officer Commanding the Australian Fleet would have had to leave his office to persuade 200 sailors from 5 ships at Garden Island to return to their duties; where 50 ground staff at our main fighter base, Williamtown, would walk off the job; where a memorandum circulated within the Royal Australian Air Force and also apparently to the Press would declare: [More…]
The former Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Henry Bland, in the Roy Milne Lecture delivered in Perth last month, pointed out that ‘no organisation gives more attention to, or devotes more resources to, or spends more money on training than the Armed Forces’. [More…]
What has been the response of the Minister for Defence to this deteriorating situation? [More…]
Before Christmas he established the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee. [More…]
When I asked him in March whether it was empowered to inquire into defence forces retirement benefits, war service homes for serving and discharged members and scholarships for the children of members of the Forces who are posted from one school system to another, he superciliously replied that these matters were, of course, as 1 would realise, largely the responsibility of other Ministers. [More…]
They have voted against my Deputy’s motions to have parliamentary committees inquire into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and into (i) pay and allowances for all personnel, (ii) provision for retraining of officers and men, (iii) housing and (iv) educational facilities for the children of servicemen. [More…]
The Defence Services must be recognised to be as necessary and their conditions must be made as attractive as any other pursuit in the community. [More…]
They are entitled to a more enduring advantage from their years of service than they can get from the archaic and restrictive provisions of the Repatriation, Commonwealth Employees Compensation, Defence Forces Retirement Benefits and War Service Homes Acts. [More…]
Yet the Minister for Defence claims it to bc a matter of democratic principle for our army to rely on a pool of conscripts. [More…]
Mr Deputy Chairman, this evening, we have heard the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) indicate, on one of the rare occasions on which they do indicate it, some concern for defence. [More…]
You can appeal to a person’s sense of patriotism lo try to attract those people into the armed forces so that all those with a less highly developed sense of patriotism can go with a clear conscience about their daily business with no obligation or concern for Australia’s defence. [More…]
Firstly, I say it is unfair to appeal specifically to those with a particularly highly developed sense of patriotism and let others go untouched without any concern or obligation for the defence of this country. [More…]
Nothing can deny the fact that that approach to defence, as Senator Kennedy indicated in the United States Senate a short while ago, will make the privileged immune from the obligations which arise as a result of defence policy and place the full burden of defence on the under-privileged in the community - people who are working with their hands, people who have been less fortunate in relation to their education and people who are less well off. [More…]
If it is thought to be a just and honourable course to make other people in the community - the better-off, the privileged, the wealthy, the better-educated - immune from the obligations of defence in that area, that is not a philosophy which I can embrace. [More…]
Why else have a parliamentary inquiry into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund? [More…]
He knows very well that no matter what smokescreen he may raise in defence, no matter what devious ways he may use to. [More…]
If Australia ever has the misfortune to have him on this side of the House it might be interesting for him to know what servicemen think of him when he has to negotiate with them concerning defence policies and the activities and dispositions of Australia’s armed forces, in Australia or overseas if the necessity were to arise. [More…]
defence. [More…]
He had some odd things to say about defence when he spoke on these estimates last week. [More…]
Ever since he came into this House he has sought to discredit the defence arrangements that this Government has sought to make with Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
The charge has been made that he has dragged these defence arrangements into the internal politics of this country and of course this is precisely what he has done. [More…]
As much as one might prefer to have a bi-partisan defence policy, while the Opposition persists in the attitude that it has adopted that is quite a remote possibility on the Australian scene. [More…]
He suggested also that the money we spend on defence in those areas should be spent on other matters not related to defence. [More…]
I would like honourable members to recall the remarks he made earlier in this debate when in speaking about the defence efforts in Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam he said: [More…]
Of course they do because they regard any expenditure on defence as a waste because its members are completely and utterly isolationist in their approach to defence. [More…]
It distorts not only our defence expenditure but also the whole Budget expenditure. [More…]
We would prefer to channel this money to meet more urgent needs in the defence vote and in the general Budget. [More…]
The only implication that can be drawn is that he would like to reduce the defence vote by$l00m and divert those funds to social services. [More…]
During the 1950s and now in these times we have the Opposition coming out in true colours and suggesting that the defence vote should be cut and that defence moneys be spent on other internal domestic matters. [More…]
But if honourable members think that we live in the sort of world in which we can dramatically reduce the Australian defence vote and at the same time maintain the sort of posture that we need, maintain the self-respect that we must have, and maintain an ability for our own defence which is essential for survival, then that is a nonsense proposition which I am sure will attract no support. [More…]
I would like to know whether the Leader of the Opposition will have the honesty in the next campaign or the one after that to get up and say: ‘It is our purpose to reduce the defence vote’ because if that were clearly stated in an election campaign - and it has been very clearly stated by the honourable member for St George - I suggest that it would very quickly lead to further defeat of the Labor Party at the polls. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has tried to make the point that I had sought to reduce the defence vote. [More…]
1970 - was that we would prefer to channel the money that is being wasted to meet more urgent needs in the defence vote and in the general Budget. [More…]
Mr MALCOLM FRASER (WannonMinister for Defence) I also wish to make a personal explanation. [More…]
I must make it quite clear thatI was quoting the very remarks of the honourable member for St George.I did not misrepresent what he said because the only example of alternative spending which he gave when he was talking about reducing the defence vote was to spend the money on social services. [More…]
One can only hope that the strategy of the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is better than his logic, but I am afraid that all the evidence of the past 5 or 6 years shows that is is not and that he is weak in both logic and strategy. [More…]
During the course of his speech the Minister for Defence mentioned one or two other things. [More…]
In that, he exposes the whole basis of both the defence and foreign policies of this country. [More…]
The Government has raised the issue of defence and foreign policy until there is no question of patriotism involved. [More…]
Another cliche which the Minister and his friends opposite have used constantly relates to the question of the Labor Party and defence. [More…]
We have not time tonight, in the 10 minutes to which we have been reduced on the Estimates debates, to debate this, but I refer honourable members to the defence programme which appears on page 6 of the ‘Defence Report 1970’. [More…]
It is very much like the defence programme of the Australian Labor Party which can be found in our Federal platform almost with the same phraseology. [More…]
First, it is not the procurement of material which is the great issue in the Australian defence system, but the procurement of men. [More…]
We have not had this explained to us tonight, yet the Minister for Defence has unlimited time. [More…]
We must start by asking what are the objectives of our defence forces. [More…]
I believe that we should be setting up a defence system under which we are able to watch the seas around Australia, control the skies above Australia and respond on land with the forces that are necessary to combat anybody who is likely to arrive here. [More…]
Of course, the errors of our defence system are that we have never applied ourselves to these tasks. [More…]
In the last few years, in fact for the last 20 years, we have had no overall defence plan. [More…]
We have been the satellite of other people’s defence and foreign policies. [More…]
We have gone shopping for our defence equipment and we have ignored the civilian component of the Austraiian defence forces and have come forward with other things. [More…]
We hear of forward defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence mentioned nothing about our neighbourhood. [More…]
It has failed to produce a rational, logical national defence policy, and I believe that to that extent it has destroyed a great deal of the national unity and national spirit that has always made service in the Australian Services something worth while and something of which people could be proud. [More…]
Honourable members opposite know full welt that nobody on this side of the chamber is any less mindful of the defence of this country than they are, yet they are continuously dragging into this House remarks such as those 1 am about to mention. [More…]
He said that the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) had referred to Senator Kennedy. [More…]
I would like the honourable member for Wills :o know that the Minister for Defence was talking about John’ Kennedy, the former President of the United States. [More…]
By the end of 1972 we shall have cut our defence expenditure by one-third. [More…]
We shall have cut our commitments by one-half and our defence manpower by one-fifth. [More…]
The only point on which 1 agree with the honourable member for Wills is that we do not get enough time to discuss the defence estimates when we have only 10 minutes in which to speak. [More…]
The United States Secretary of Defence noted in a speech to the Associated Press annual luncheon in April last in America: [More…]
1 remind honourable members that North West Cape is closer to Saigon than it is to Sydney, closer to Djakarta than Djakarta is to Darwin, and I make the serious proposition that this area could well be established as a major defence complex, including Army training facilities. [More…]
I do not intend to deal with any of the matters raised by the honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay), including that of a Russian presence in the Indian Ocean except to make the point that this Government and this country can do little about it because our defence forces are vastly inadequate. [More…]
I would like to have the opportunity to debate the general aspects of Australia’s defence, but as we are limited to a 10 minute speech I can make only a few specific points on the defence set-up as it currently exists. [More…]
We might have had the opportunity to discuss Australia’s defence if we had had a chance to discuss the statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in March, but the debate has been postponed, lt is about No. [More…]
The Government’s estimate for the expenditure necessary to ‘ meet Australia’s defence needs for the year 1970-71 is just on $1,1 37m. [More…]
This amount represents an increase of $33m on last year’s defence expenditure. [More…]
The defence appropriation for the coming year will decrease by 1.1 per cent as a proportion of total annual Commonwealth spending. [More…]
This is evidence of a situation that is a far cry from the attitudes expressed by the Minister for Defence who has repeatedly stated that the Government would continue to spend more and more money each year on defence as a measure of long term security. [More…]
Not only is the defence appropriation itself receding but one has to doubt if the people are getting value for the money spent anyway. [More…]
An analysis of Australia’s defence organisation and preparedness leads one to the plain realisation that the Liberals should no longer be entrusted with Australia’s defence. [More…]
Statements made recently by Sir Henry Bland, the former permanent head of the Department of Defence, quite clearly indicate that the present defence structure leaves a lot to be desired. [More…]
In a speech to the Western Australian Branch of the Australian Institute of International Affairs Sir Henry advocated a restructuring of the defence group of departments bringing the existing 5 departments - Defence, Navy. [More…]
In his plan the Department of Defence would continue to exercise its present functions but would include some of the functions now discharged by the 3 Service departments. [More…]
Implicit in Sir Henry’s statement is that the existing defence set-up is inefficient and inadequate. [More…]
The Labor Party believes this to be the true position and “has constantly advocated a restructuring of the defence machine. [More…]
I think it is fair to assume that Sir Henry’s statement is a direct slap in the face for the Minister for Defence and the Cabinet in general. [More…]
In his lecture Sir Henry referred to the fourth arm of defence concept as outlined by the Minister for Defence in a speech to this Parliament last [More…]
On that occasion the Minister took time to advise the House that he was involving industry in Australia’s defence administration. [More…]
The major industries that are always heavily dependent upon defence orders are being starved almost to the point of extinction. [More…]
The Government, realising the lack of encouragement and support it has given to Australia’s defence industries, has made a great noise about what is termed off-set and co-production. [More…]
These terms refer to what would be the Australian manufactured component of items of defence equipment procured from overseas for our armed forces. [More…]
Any overseas company answering Australian military tender invitations should be quite certain that if it wants our order it is mandatory that off-set work roust be provided to assist Australian defence industries. [More…]
The use of the gas turbine as a means of marine and road transportation will, T believe, increase dramatically in the near future, ft is imperative that Australian skill and technology in this field is assured so that in the defence sense we will not be dependent upon another country for spares of replacement units. [More…]
When we consider the defence of Australia we cannot do this in isolation from world affairs. [More…]
Recently there have been 2 significant announcements - announcements which I believe we must take into account when we are assessing the future defence needs of this country. [More…]
The other significant announcement affecting Australia’s defence policy was that of President Nixon who stated that a further 40,000 American troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam. [More…]
I instance these matters because I believe they show the attempts which are being made to take the decisions regarding the defence of this country out of the hands of the duly elected Government. [More…]
This Government believes that Australia should have a strong defence policy, and we make no apology for it. [More…]
We believe that matters affecting the defence of this country should be made by the duly elected Government with the guidance of its defence experts, and not by mobs of wharfies and students demonstrating in the streets. [More…]
As long as we remain the Government of Australia the defence of this country will not be allowed to fall into such hands. [More…]
The point is that the Liberals’ foreign policies and their defence policies are hairbrained, consisting mainly of humbug and appeals to all sorts of old-fashioned and outdated emotion and patriotism. [More…]
On 23rd September I asked the Prime Minister how he reconciled Australia’s forward defence policy with the new policy statements that have been made by Tun Abdul Razak? [More…]
So we put a question to the Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon) asking how he reconciled the traditional justification of forward defence with the change in the Government’s policy. [More…]
As we debate the estimates for the Department of Defence we know that Australian men and women at this time are serving in a very commendable manner in areas not only within Australia but also outside Australia. [More…]
When it comes to Australia’s financial contribution, we are now debating the estimates which show that there has been an increase in defence expenditure of $34m in the last year, or a 3.1 per cent increase over the previous year, bringing it to a total of $1,1 37m for this financial year. [More…]
This, notwithstanding the statement in the Budget that it will be next financial year before we feel the full impact of expenditure on the major capital equipment projects for the Services which were announced not only in the Budget last year but in the speech of the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in March. [More…]
The Defence Report states: [More…]
I have just read a paragraph from the Defence Report which throws a very good light on this problem. [More…]
If a member of the citizen forces picked up the Defence Report, which is a public document, and read it he would have to be pardoned for feeling that he is not being made out to be a very important cog in the machine. [More…]
There is very little space allotted in the Defence Report to the citizen forces. [More…]
In the Defence Report we read that members of the Naval Reserve Forces, the main training component of the CNF, have continued to make good use of the support” craft attached to their training establishments. [More…]
I cannot pick up any reference in the Defence Report to requirements concerning organisation, role or establishment. [More…]
Secondly, I hope that the interest displayed by the Minister for Defence in his March ministerial statement dealing with the CMF is translated into action and that we see the result of this action in the next Defence Report. [More…]
Firs: of all he has attacked my colleague, the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock), about Lieutenant-Colonel Forward and my colleague’s defence of him. [More…]
I want to say to the honourable gentleman that it is a pretty old defence as far as our existence is concerned that one can fall back on provocation. [More…]
I want to refer to the speech, adverted to by one or two honourable members, which was made by the former head of the Department of Defence, Sir Henry Bland. [More…]
One of the very real difficulties that my colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and my other colleagues in the armed Services face to day is facing up to what I would describe as being one of the difficulties of decision in the past. [More…]
I would like this Committee to know and I would like the country to know that the Minister for Defence is quite determined, and all of the Service Ministers are determined, to see that if a decision has to be made it will be made and it will be made with a measure of promptness. [More…]
Here we have the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), the honourable member for Lalor and the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), who have the most synthetic interest in defence of any trio that I can imagine on the other side. [More…]
I want to come to what has been a fundamental assumption of the Labor Party in the matter of defence. [More…]
The one simple dominating assumption of me Labor Party in defence matters is simply this: Let the rest of the world go by. [More…]
1 commend to him as compulsory reading the Fabian lecture given by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition on Australian defence last year, when he said, among other things - this is the keynote; this is the basis upon which the whole of the honourable gentleman’s argument rests: [More…]
The Australian Labor Party says: The nation’s defence must be no arranged- [More…]
The nation’s defence must be so arranged- [More…]
The nation’s defence must be so arranged that the intention of Australia to defend herself to the limits of her ability is clear beyond all doubt to her own people, to her allies and to any potential aggressor. [More…]
that 1 would make about this is the reference of the Australian Labor Party to periodically reviewing defence treaties and alliances. [More…]
The Labor Party says: ‘Australia must periodically review its defence treaties and alliances to meet new circumstances as they arise’. [More…]
One of the very real difficulties today so far as the Navy is concerned, not merely of planning but also all defence planning, is the complexity of it. [More…]
The very real difficulties about defence planning today are the complexity and the cost. [More…]
The Government for a long time has beat the drum of patriotism frequently and resoundingly and with complete lack of sincerity where matters of defence are concerned. [More…]
It is rather remarkable to find that the defence forces today are easily in the most demoralised and the most run down state that they have ever been in in the postwar history of this country. [More…]
In any event, since this Government has been in power there has been this deterioration in the defence forces, and it has manifested itself in a most acute form in the past 5 or 6 years. [More…]
So we are losing more than $56,000 worth of training in these men because for every year, every week, every minute they are training they are improving their skills and their efficiency as officers in the defence of this country. [More…]
What has happened to the defence Services under this conservative Government in Canberra? [More…]
It is clearly inconsistent with the role of patriots in the defence of the defence services and the fighting men of this country. [More…]
Just how patriotic is the Government in representing the interests of our defence personnel? [More…]
The Minister for Defence has said: [More…]
In blunt terms one of the implications of the United States objective to bring its draft down to what is called a zero draft call could be that ultimately a greater defence effort might be required of this country. [More…]
He then went on further to say, in opposition to any suggestion that there ought to be an increase in pay for defence service people, in spite of the fact that we will clearly require a greater defence effort in the view of this Government: [More…]
If we were a country that sought to buy defence, which is what the Labor Party would do if it wanted any defence, we would haveto pay higher salary and wage rates in an attempt to attract people into the armed forces to get the numbers we needed. [More…]
Apparently the Government wants to gear the intellectual level of members of the defence Services to that of junior Ministers of the Services. [More…]
If in fact the Government- argues that increased pay and improved conditions will attract this sort of person, what sort of person is presently being attracted to the defence Services? [More…]
But what could one expect with such representatives of the defence Services as the Minister for the Queen’s Navee? [More…]
Australian armed forces are a clear indication of the objectives of the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Minister for the Navy, (Mr Killen), the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) and the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman). [More…]
The cost of the investment in defence equipment for all Australians is higher than ever before in our history.. We must seek to convince those people responsible for government, in this Parliament and outside it, that Australia’s very survival as a nation will be substantially affected by the international reputation of Australia’s armed forces. [More…]
This concept is of profound significance, for those people responsible for Australia’s defence policy and future survival. [More…]
Since that date the Joint Defence Space Communications Station has been established at Woomera under joint Australian/United States control. [More…]
Reference is made to this Article in agreements which cover the United States Navy Communications Station at North West Cape, the Joint Defence Space Research Facility at Alice Springs, and the Joint Defence Space Communications Station at Woomera. [More…]
These projects are considered to assist in some way the defensive posture of the US and to express the desire of the 2 countries to co-operate further in collective defence and for the preservation of peace and security. [More…]
saying that the requirements of defence of Western Australia would need to be taken as paramount in this matter and therefore the interests of the Navy and the capacity of the Navy and the naval base which will help to defend Western Australia would not be able to be influenced by matters which the honourable member has mentioned. [More…]
In : regard to the -question of Cockburn Sound; I spoke on this -recently to my colleague -the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Accommodation and facilities are in accordance with approved defence scales and standards of accommodation. [More…]
However its use is at present being considered by the Defence Accommodation Standards Committee and the final choice of material will be deferred pending the Committee’s report and recommendations. [More…]
The State Planning Authority has, in this Sydney Region Outline Plan, made a very strong recommendation to the Government’ that it should move towards the shifting of the defence area which is in the southern part of Sydney and which comprises about 85 square miles of land. [More…]
The Report contends that if this area were released, by the removal of the defence activities to another area, it would result in the housing of no fewer than one quarter of a million people. [More…]
The State Housing Ministers also made strong representations about the need to eliminate the provisions which divert some of the money provided under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement to the provision of houses for members of the defence forces. [More…]
I do not know whether honourable members know but, in aggregate, there is as much money provided by the Australian public for premiums in the general field ot insurance each year - that is insurance other than life, such as fire, accident, motor car, marine, underwriting and so on - as is spent annually on defence by Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has set an all time low in the understanding and the comprehension of the portfolio that he administers. [More…]
But neither in this debate nor in the Minister’s statement on defence, have we ever been given a systematic account of the threat to our security and a detailed and logical exposition of the sort of defence arrangements, including the type of equipment in all Services, that we require to meet this threat. [More…]
lt seems to rae that the notion of the Government on defence is rather like that of the newlywed who goes shopping in a supermarket and responds to impulse buying rather hoping that the purchases that she makes will add up to a meal. [More…]
But a pile of military equipment, no matter how expensive it is, does not add up to a defence policy. [More…]
The Government has been incredibly naive in the defence shopping list. [More…]
the United States Defence Secretary McNamara. [More…]
The decision on the FI 1 1 was made by the United States in terms of highly sophisticated demands by a much more highly sophisticated defence establishment. [More…]
This must be the only assembly in the world where a newly elected Government has introduced a defence statement before a foreign affairs statement. [More…]
After the defence statement was made the Government proceeded to haul in a foreign affairs statement to justify it. [More…]
This Government has proclaimed time and time again that it has a policy of forward defence, but what it is in fact is a policy of backward withdrawal. [More…]
When speaking earlier in this debate I listed a series of questions, but the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and other Ministers have refused point blank to comment on them. [More…]
When are we going to have these satisfactory barracks which the Minister for Defence has talked about? [More…]
What an indictment of our defence planning when we just do not have the facilities to accommodate all our Mirage squadrons in Australia. [More…]
The British last year took away its airfield defence units, and our ‘ planes and personnel in Butterworth are largely unprotected from air, sea and land attack. [More…]
The 1970 Defence Report points out that the experience of allied forces in South East Asia has shown that the enemy has been successful in inflicting damage to Air Force assets and bases by limited ground attack. [More…]
The report pointed out that 2 airfield defence units have been sent to Vietnam but not one word has been said about Butterworth, where half our fighter force is stationed. [More…]
The Air Force defence at Butterworth is virtually nil. [More…]
It is not more than a day and a half’s march from the area which our defence forces have indicated could be an area of guerilla activity, and yet 1 repeat that there are no acceptable airfield defence units placed at Butterworth. [More…]
And so the process of backward withdrawal has proceeded and in the meantime this Government presumes to attack the Australian Labor Party which stands very firmly on the basic premise that the basis of any defence policy is to protect our shore. [More…]
The basic question that should be under discussion in this debate on the defence estimates is whether the incredibly large amount of money appropriated for defence is being spent in the implementation of the right defence policy. [More…]
He went so far as to say that that neutrality should bc protected and preserved and guaranteed - I think that was the word he used - by the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Communist China, lt is not very surprising that the Opposition should over the last few days have seized upon this statement as evidence that there is some sort of collapse in this Government’s defence policy, that there is some sort of basic change in the defence and foreign policies of Malaysia, and that the whole situation politically in South East Asia has changed dramatically and basically. [More…]
When we look at what he has said we realise that there is hardly enough to justify the allegations of the Opposition that there has been a change in the foreign or defence policy of Malaysia or that there is any danger of collapse or adverse effects on the defence policy of this country. [More…]
One might describe them as qualifications and important restrictions on his call for neutrality in South East Asia and his plea for a neutral and non-aligned Malaysian defence and foreign policy. [More…]
I have very grave doubts whether Communist China is interested in the slightest in maintaining or guaranteeing neutrality in South East Asia so 1 venture to suggest that members of the Opposition are perhaps somewhat misguided, with all respect to them, in thinking that in this statement from the new Prime Minister of Malaysia is an indication of a change in his foreign or defence policy and that, consequently, there will be changes in our foreign or defence policy. [More…]
This is a mistake which we have made in our foreign policy and defence policy in the past, but I do not intend to follow this up now. [More…]
I want to discuss the question of the money we spend on defence and our policies on defence and to ask whether the moneys we spend are expended wisely and whether what we do in the field of defence is the best that can he done. [More…]
One of the arguments which we have heard repeated most often in this debate, especially by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and by the Minister for the Navy (Mr Killen), is that so much of what is done is done on the best military advice and that this is something which is not to be questioned. [More…]
Had he been listening, he would have heard my colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Hasluck), tell him in this House the other day that there are no major difficulties. [More…]
Yet the then Minister for Air said that because the then Minister for Defence had said that this would be so, it would be so. [More…]
I think that we want to be careful about what the present Minister for Defence says at the present time, and not accept what he says as being so merely because he has said it. [More…]
A few months later, on 25th August 1964, when the former Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, was speaking he quoted what was said by the then Minister for Defence, Senator Paltridge, as follows: [More…]
In speaking on the estimates for the Defence Services I must say that I was somewhat surprised to see the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Kirwin) in typical Australian Labor Party fashion looking back over his shoulder to the days of the Wirraways and quoting what was said by the then Ministers and not dealing with present day conditions. [More…]
But in speaking on the estimates for the Defence Services I want to devote my observations to the very important question of pay and conditions of our servicemen, because I recognise that the morale and well being of servicemen is fundamental to the adequacy of our defence system. [More…]
The whole foundation of a defence system rests on the men and women who through their dedication to the service of their country provide the manpower to handle the sophisticated weapons system without which our whole expenditure would be valueless. [More…]
For these reasons 1 am comforted by the fact that the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has devoted much of his effort, since he has taken over the portfolio, to this very important question of pay and conditions. [More…]
Firstly, there was the setting up of the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee and then there w.is the announcement last week of the setting up of an inquiry into the financial terms and conditions of Service employment. [More…]
Last year the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), the Treasurer (Mr Bury) and the then Minister for Defence agreed to establish this Pay and Conditions of Service Committee within the Department of Defence. [More…]
There has been considerable dissatisfaction with housing made available for servicemen of all ranks and I believe any inquiry should study this problem in depth, whether it is an inquiry by the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee or the committee of inquiry. [More…]
Mr Jess (La Trobe) (9.7)- It has been most interesting to listen to the speech of the young Messiah from Robertson (Mr Cohen) who has just spoken on the defence estimates. [More…]
When I spoke to the Defence estimates yesterday I said that the time was coming when we should review our defence structure. [More…]
I said that the time could be coming when we would have to look at the mainland defence of Australia. [More…]
They are saying that there is no threat and that there is no need to do anything in the way of defence. [More…]
The honourable member for St George said that he would prefer to put the money spent on defence into social services. [More…]
It may be remembered that this morning I asked the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) about certain pay revisions for the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]
I agree with what the Minister for Defence said about an inquiry into the pay code of the Services. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Defence and the junior Service Ministers will see that this is not so. [More…]
lt is my opinion that for far too long the Treasury and certain other areas in the administration of defence have been restricting the serving officer and the serving soldier to such an extent that he has become a second rate citizen. [More…]
It is not just a question of pay, when allowances are given, according to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board and the Taxation Office, they are added to the pay of the soldier and taxed accordingly. [More…]
This is the farce of the debate on the Defence Services estimates. [More…]
But 1 would like to make it clear to the Service Ministers, to the Treasury and to the Department of Defence that the morale of the Services at this time is not high and that servicemen are concerned about their conditions. [More…]
At the present moment it appears to me that the Department of Defence might just as well be a supplicant for social services as far as defence is concerned. [More…]
If we are to deal properly with the matter of defence we ought to display a much more serious attitude than that which has been displayed to this point of time. [More…]
What ought to be asked in this debate is: What are we getting for the tremendous amount of money that has been expended on defence over recent years? [More…]
Government supporters attempt to intrude the matter of the Indian Ocean into debates on defence all the time. [More…]
The Government in its thinking and in its expenditure of money has not realised the change of conditions which Australia faces from a defence point of view. [More…]
If we want to continue to talk about defence weaponry and so on, in the manner in which we have been talking, we should realise that Australia is in no different position from many other smaller countries of the world - indeed we cannot measure ourselves as a great world power - and that our whole thinking on defence has to be completely changed. [More…]
Tn speaking of defence why should we not think in terms of perhaps having a look at the other side of the coin? [More…]
I suggest to honourable members opposite that they turn their minds, when considering matters of defence, to matters of survival. [More…]
When honourable members opposite start talk of defence and the capability of the defence force that this country can supply itself with, they are conning themselves that it will defend them. [More…]
They virtually leave themselves defenceless. [More…]
But before I do I would like to point out that the current Government defence policy was spelt out very clearly in the defence statement made by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in 1969. [More…]
Defence - the Australian Way - Forces of friendship. [More…]
Those were the comments of a highly informed man such as Denis Warner in those times, and since those days the recent 1970 statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has been along the same lines. [More…]
We have heard the statement made to the Fabian Society by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) in which he spoke of the paradox of the socialist time and day and how we cannot possibly equate it with a defence programme. [More…]
The only thing that dictated the defence policy of the Opposition was: ‘When will the next election be held? [More…]
Our policy on defence and on economic development for developing countries is clear. [More…]
There is just one point I would like to deal with, and it is the question of forward defence which has arisen over recent weeks. [More…]
The fact is that the Government cannot recognise that the policy of Malaysia, on which our forward defence policy is based, has changed. [More…]
That means that our forward defence policy - always, in my view, irrelevant - is becoming even more patently irrelevant now. [More…]
If the Australian Government cannot recognise this basic fact, that Malaysia’s policy towards China is changing, then it does not know the world in which we live and it simply cannot plan defence policies for this country, because they will be based upon a fallacy. [More…]
Honourable members might take a look at the statement of the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
and (3) The defence value of a highway is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I desire to direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
As the Australian Government disagrees with the Malaysian Government’s new attitude on the question of the admission of Communist China to the United Nations, what effect does this have on our relations with Malaysia and our concepts of forward defence in Malaysia? [More…]
One of the things that annoys the Opposition, I think, is that it realises that the Prime Minister, in a speech in February of 1969, made a commitment on behalf of Australia for the support of the regional defence in the Malaysian-Singapore area, believing then that the British were going lo withdraw their forces from the area. [More…]
I presume that hs has made a recommendation to the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee regarding senior serving officers of the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]
This matter is before the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee, which comprises representatives not merely of my Department but of the other Service departments, the Department of Defence and the Treasury. [More…]
No decision has as yet been arrived at for formulation to the Minister for Defence and the Treasurer, who have prime responsibility for its implementation and acceptance. [More…]
It is my hope that, as the Minister for Defence indicated himself some week or so ago, the matter can be brought to fruition without too much delay. [More…]
When war pensions were introduced the purpose was to provide some compensation for a disability that was suffered by a serviceman in the course of carrying out his duty in the defence of Australia and which could, and probably would, affect his earning capacity for the rest of his life. [More…]
All the way through the policy of the Labor Party this atmosphere of Socialism keeps pushing through, lt states that defence should be a percentage of the gross national product. [More…]
In speaking on the estimates for the Department of Social Services let me say briefly to the honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay) that his speech was the weakest defence of Government Estimates that I have ever listened to. [More…]
That is its defence policy to which the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and his Party are opposed totally. [More…]
When he was advised that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), and the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcom Fraser) of his own party, had appeared on the session the night before he was quite put out. [More…]
Does this mean that if, for example, a hypothetical state secessionist movement in Australia resorted to terrorisation the Commonwealth would not be able legally to invoke its defence power- [More…]
I content myself with saying that the scope of the defence power depends on circumstances. [More…]
It would be incorrect to say that the defence power could not be invoked in the case of widespread civil insurrection or civil war in the type of situation to which the honourable member adverts. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has 34 questions on notice to which he has not replied. [More…]
Also, this could be a very urgently needed defence link. [More…]
From a defence point of view, it is away from the main waterways. [More…]
Defence has also been a strong motive force in shipping. [More…]
We know that at defence establishments there is always a contingent of Department of Works employees, and the volume of work rises and falls from time to time. [More…]
In these circumstances, and with present planning, it is difficult not to have to retrench from time to time, but I believe that there should be some more wide ranging plan for Department of Works employees so that when jobs are completed on defence establishments, whether they be at Puckapunyal, Williamtown air base, the Singleton Army camp or somewhere else, the employees can be transferred to other work in the regions. [More…]
The Perth airport, I believe, has been extended and improved facilities are being provided at the Wagga defence establishment. [More…]
I feel there should be some allocation for defence. [More…]
I am sorry that a greater opportunity is not given to honourable members to debate these matters because I think they are just as fundamental to Australia’s welfare as are questions such as defence. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills once was only too willing to admit that this was a fact, but lately, obviously under pressure from organisations like the Trade Union Defence Committee, he has become intimidated and no longer has the courage to express his thoughts. [More…]
This representative of the Trade Union Defence Committee and the junta-ridden body will be sitting as an endorsed candidate on the platform with the Leader of the Opposition tonight. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Minister for Labour and National Service was able to estimate the likely costs and inflationary effects of wage and salary increases arising from the possible introduction of a shorter working week, can the Treasurer with equal facility and precision inform the Parliament of the cost and likely extent of inflationary effects of the following 6 factors: Current record interest charges; monopolistic private price fixing and collusive tendering arrangements; unbridled land and share speculation; record profiteering, particularly in basic industries; budgetary increases in fuel taxes and postal and telegraphic charges; and the unproductive millions of dollars spent outside the country on such defence items as the Fill? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Did members of that Battalion do as was suggested yesterday and can the Minister indicate what significance these actions have for Australia’s defence forces? [More…]
He is not claiming yet that the Minister for Defence has misrepresented him. [More…]
If he would listen to the Minister for Defence he might have his remedy then. [More…]
I now ask leave to quote from Hansard a passage of a speech by Senator Wheeldon who was also mentioned by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Department of Defence also operates ostensibly on the basis of programming and budgeting forward defence expenditure over 5 years; the results of this system hardly support the claims made for it by the Minister. [More…]
The Bill seeks parliamentary approval to borrowings by the Commonwealth of up to $US125m for the purchase of defence equipment in the United States of America. [More…]
Under the Loan (Defence) Act 1966, the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US450m to assist in the purchase of defence equipment in the United States. [More…]
Under the Loan (Defence) Act 1970, the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US89m to finance orders for general defence equipment placed with United States suppliers for the remainder of 1969-70. [More…]
They were used for the purchase of general defence equipment and, in the case of loans arranged under the 1966 Act, for some payments of the FI 1 1 aircraft. [More…]
The Loan (Defence) Act 1968 provided for the borrowing by the Commonwealth of an amount of $US75m to assist in financing the purchase of FI 1 1 aircraft. [More…]
It is similar in all respects, except for the amount and the title, to the Loan (Defence) Act (No. [More…]
Since the borrowing is for defence purposes the approval of the Australian Loan Council is not required. [More…]
The constitution, rules and regulations of the Buyers’ Association give power to a committee to refuse membership to any buyer, to call upon any member to resign, and to expel any member for any reason that the committee thinks fit, and the member has no redress or any right to take legal action in defence of his rights. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Is it true that this year’s defence budget provides for more than 42 per cent greater expenditure than the average yearly expenditure on defence during World War II? [More…]
On the other hand the United States with its Congressional system recognises very much the importance of having elected representatives of the people on all sorts of bodies determining policy, whether it is in regard to education, defence or anything else, and I do not believe that the trend in the Westminster system of Parliament is a healthy one. [More…]
For the Com monwealth they are defence, if we should continue to go on spending and spending, social services and health. [More…]
The Opposition intends to oppose the Bill which provides for the borrowing of $US125m for the purchase of defence equipment in the United States of America. [More…]
As indicated in the second reading speech of the Treasurer (Mr Bury) the Loan (Defence) Act 1968 provided for the borrowing by the Commonwealth of an amount of $US75m to assist in financing the purchase of Fill aircraft. [More…]
Defence purchases are expendable items. [More…]
The item ‘War and defence’ shows that an amount of $151m was spent overseas on this category in 1965-66. [More…]
As I indicated in the debate on the defence estimates the other night, when one deducts from the defence expenditure the categories of wages, salaries and maintenance one is still left with a fairly significant defence expenditure on what might be called the capital aspect. [More…]
It is rather glibly said that the fourth arm of defence - besides the 3 Services - is the capacity of Australian industry to supply the sinews of defence capacity. [More…]
This was talked about when the former honourable member for Paterson was the Minister for Defence, and that is some time ago. [More…]
If we find that the Export-Import Bank will lend us some money for some purpose that we cannot quite define at the time we say: ‘Oh well, we will say it is for defence’. [More…]
Defence does not come within the province of the loan agreement so we do not have to get the consent of the Premiers. [More…]
We camouflage it on the pretence that it is for defence purposes. [More…]
Since the borrowing is for defence purposes the pproval of the Loan Council is not required. [More…]
The pay entitlements for equipment assistants and other musterings in the RAAF are under active review by the Trades Grouping SubCommittee and the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee. [More…]
The Minister for Defence recently announced that an independent enquiry is to be made into Service pay and conditions. [More…]
It has been our objective to return to the people of Sydney as much of the foreshore land held by the Commonwealth as could be done provided the defence requirements and the other responsibilities of the Commonwealth Govern ment were not impeded. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware of a report tabled this week at the National Congress of the Returned Servicemen’s League by Air Vice-Marshal F. M. Bladin, the Chairman of the Defence Subcommittee of that body which stated that internal protest movements in Australia and America have prolonged the Vietnam war causing unnecessary death and suffering and that these protest movements have in fact weakened the free world defence structure in South East Asia? [More…]
The first Loan (Defence) Bill was debated in this House at a very advanced hour on 12th June. [More…]
In essence these Loan (Defence) Bills derive from the logistic arrangements between Australia and the United States of America. [More…]
According to the 1970 Defence Report, credits totalling $A549m have been negotiated since 1965. [More…]
I refer to the first Loan (Defence) Bill introduced in June this year. [More…]
When this was put to the House, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports criticised the necessity for such a loan and made the point that defence purchases should be paid for as they are made. [More…]
I turn now to the second Loan (Defence) Bill introduced by the Treasurer on Wednesday night. [More…]
This traces through the history of the amount borrowed in the first Loan (Defence) Bill. [More…]
The obvious implication is that it was used to finance the purchases announced in the Minister for Defence’s statement to this House early in March. [More…]
This $US89m was disposed of very quickly because now this Bill has been put forward seeking the approval of the Parliament for spending another $US125m on defence equipment from the United States. [More…]
According to the Auditor-General’s report for 1969-70, the total dealings under the initial Loan (Defence) Act of 1966 were $US407.808m. [More…]
We have not been told what this spending is for, although it would be possible to get some rough idea from looking at defence estimates and the reports of the Auditor-General. [More…]
In 1969 a Loan (Defence) Bill was passed by this House providing for an amount of $US75m to assist in financing the purchase of the Fill aircraft. [More…]
If this $US75m is not needed for the Fill why has it not been switched over to other defence buying? [More…]
These are very important matters with serious consequences on overseas payments and defence arrangements in the years ahead. [More…]
They deserve much more detailed explanation than ever given to this House or contained in annual Defence Reports or Auditor-General Reports. [More…]
There must be grave dangers with such a volume outstanding for defence purchases from the United States of supply creating its own demand. [More…]
This is not conducive to prudent defence planning and procurement. [More…]
I agree completely with the attitude of the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean): We should not finance our defence purchases in this way. [More…]
We should treat defence purchases as an expendable item for which we should not incur debt or borrow overseas. [More…]
We should pay for our defence as we go and with enphasis on satisfactory delivery and terms of payment. [More…]
The whole approach to defence procurement under this sort of arrangement is completely wrong. [More…]
The Opposition will no longer sanction defence spending in this way. [More…]
The vagueness of these arrangements is an open invitation to irresponsible and incompetent defence spending. [More…]
There can be no trust in the effective use of credit arrangements by a government which has made disastrous mistakes in defence purchases from the United States. [More…]
This all adds up to $US739m for procurement of defence equipment from the United States. [More…]
Earlier this year I asked the Minister for Defence what subcontracts had gone to Australian companies from our defence purchases in the United States since 1966 when the credit arrangement started. [More…]
Certainly, this is a very complex and difficult question but the Minister and his predecessor have put very strong public emphasis on this whole question of defence procurement and offset policy. [More…]
On any assessment of the figures the Government has managed to offset less than one-half of one per cent of the money poured into United States defence purchases. [More…]
In particular, arrangements of this sort put defence procurement completely beyond any sort ot effective surveillance of this House. [More…]
The Government has a responsibility, in view of its programme of borrowing generally for the purchase of equipment, largely from the United States of America, to explain to the House how this money is to be expended and the value that Australia is receiving in terms of defence procurement, having regard to the fluctuating rates of interest to which I have referred and the enormous cost to the Australian taxpayer, particularly when one looks at the purchase of the Fill aircraft. [More…]
These are some of the reasons why the Opposition believes that a Bill of this nature deserves a far greater explanation and a more concise and objective explanation from the Minister for Defence, particularly when the Bill involves this kind of borrowing and having in mind the unhappy situation which has applied in this country in relation to the procurement of defence equipment overseas by this Government. [More…]
I simply want to emphasise that this Bill is essential to Australia’s defence effort. [More…]
It seeks parliamentary approval for borrowings by the Commonwealth of up to $US125m for the purchase of defence equipment from the United States. [More…]
The effect of what the Labor Party has been saying in relation to the Bill would be to defer the purchase of these essential items of defence equipment because they cannot be paid for out of cash savings. [More…]
The only consequence of accepting what the Opposition has been saying in relation to the Bill would be to impair Australia’s defence capacity. [More…]
The only effect of what the Opposition has been saying would be to defer that purchase of essential military equipment and through that deferment to impair Australia’s defence capabilities. [More…]
If one reflects on the Loan Defence Act 1968 under which the Fill loan was negotiated, it will be clear that the loan can be used only for the purchase of the Fill which, of course, is a matter for discussion and a matter which has been the subject of comment by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for the Navy (Mr Killen) have been less than enlightening. [More…]
In his defence statement on 10th March the Minister for Defence stressed the need for a greater maritime capability in the waters around Australia. [More…]
On 14th May in this House the late Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes moved a motion calling for urgent priority to be given Cockburn Sound on the defence programme. [More…]
There was no reference to the project in the Budget although other construction work for the defence Services was outlined. [More…]
It is a very great pity that a comprehensive statement on Cockburn Sound has not been made to the House by either the Minister for Defence or the Minister for the Navy. [More…]
Apart from the defence aspects of the issue there are environmental aspects which are important. [More…]
Those days are gone forever and it is now a matter of urgency that the two-ocean capability of our defence forces be given teeth. [More…]
The east of the Suez embargo, which was the product of a previous British Labor Government, has now been changed and if we are to think of defence in this new contemporary situation we should probably have regard as to whether there will be utilisation of the Singapore facilities. [More…]
Subsequently on 19th October the Prime Minister was asked: ‘Finally, Prime Minister, on defence. [More…]
Strangely enough the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) came into the act. [More…]
I hope however that we do not engage in this impetuous decision-taking in the future and that we have more regard for the preservation of environment, ecology and the best interests of the Australian people when we take into account the serious matters which concern us about defence. [More…]
Mr Speaker, there are one or two things that 1 would like to say about this project which is a particularly important one not only for Western Australia but also for the whole of Australia in relation to defence and other measures within Australia. [More…]
People in Western Australia who are conscious of their need for defence also are aware of the need to ensure the preservation of public amenities such as holiday resorts like Garden Island wherever possible. [More…]
I feel that, at this juncture, the Government needs to look at the questions raised by public demand with a view to reaching a solution acceptable to experts, conservationists, shire councils and the general public, and which fits into the defence needs so urgently in need of revision in Western Australia, and so long awaited. [More…]
This project could fall victim to similar defence delays as have been experienced in our air defence system. [More…]
If the 2 governments could reach agreement there would be unrestricted access to an attractive part of the foreshore now largely denied to the public, thus providing some compensation for the demands of industry, commerce and defence on Cockburn Sound. [More…]
Personally I’ am against vast expenditures of public money on defence. [More…]
Until nations take a positive stand, until the time when vast defence expenditure is avoided and the hungry peoples of the world are properly clothed, properly fed and properly housed - which as a member of this national Parliament I hope to see - I shall strive towards that end. [More…]
I suppose in private all members of this House would agree that to denounce public expenditure on defence for this nation would be an electoral loser. [More…]
How shabby can we as members of this national Parliament be in our approach to hospitalisation, education, homes for the aged and satisfying the needs of aged people when we continue to pour vast defence expenditure down the drain? [More…]
The Bill does not cover the whole defence subject or matters of external affairs; it relates to a recommendation of the Public Works Committee. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has also put forward the suggestion that as the Government believes in forward defence the naval facility to be established at Cockburn Sound might instead be provided at one of the islands under the control of this Government such as Cocos Island. [More…]
If the Government was consistent in its belief in forward defence and in the maintenance of a strategic military force in Malaysia then there is a powerful argument for the setting up of this naval base at Cocos Island so that the great populace of Perth would never suffer in the event of a nuclear attack upon the base - and may we hope that this never occurs. [More…]
One wonders how urgent the project really is when one looks at the statement made by Sir Allen Fairhall when he was Minister for Defence, shortly before he retired from office. [More…]
The Minister for Defence made a statement, earlier this month, suggesting that the matter is not really one of top urgency for the Government I cannot understand the necessity for the sudden urgency. [More…]
From a defence point of view surely it would be an advantage to decentralise and perhaps shift the base out to Albany. [More…]
Since Worthing’s case it is true that a number of cases have come before the courts where defendants have pleaded the defence that is based upon the reasoning in Worthing’s case. [More…]
This is not uncommon because defences of this sort become fashionable once it becomes known to lawyers the success that can attach to them. [More…]
We do not believe that this Parliament should take away any of those defences by changing the law retrospectively. [More…]
We believe that if a person has a good legal defence, because the High Court has said so, he should not have it taken away from him retrospectively unless there are extremely compelling reasons, and we do not believe that sufficient reasons exist in this case. [More…]
He was Minister for the Interior from November 1937 to 1939; Minister for External Affairs from March 1940 to October 1940 - if I may interpose, I think he was always had a frustrated ambition to be Minister for External Affairs in that it is something I know so much interests him - Minister for Air and Minister for Civil Aviation from October 1940 to October 1941; member of the Australian Advisory War Council; member of the War Cabinet from 1940 to 1941; Minister for Commerce and Agriculture from December 1949 to January 1956; Minister for Trade from January 1956; Deputy Prime Minister from 26th March 1958; Acting Prime Minister on many occasions; Acting Treasurer; Acting Minister for External Affairs; Acting Minister for Defence and Prime Minister from 19th December 1967 to 10th January 1968. [More…]
Of this total, $43m was in respect of redemption from Loan Fund; S62m related to redemptions and repurchases by the National Debt Sinking Fund; $17m represented cancellations by the Loan Consolidation and Investment Reserve; $13m was redeemed from the Swiss Loan Trust Account; $37m represented repayments of borrowings under the Defence Credit arrangements with the United States of America; and $28m was repaid in respect of borrowings on behalf of Qantas, the Australian National Airlines and the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority. [More…]
Of this amount 361m relates to the timing difference between payments for and delivery of major items of defence equipment purchased overseas, this amount being itself offset in part by the delivery of other capital items (particularly civilian aircraft) purchased overseas for which part-payment had been made in advance. [More…]
Did the Minister for Defence say in answer to a question from Senator Keeffe on 21st October last year that he was not aware .of a problem involving sales of Australian military equipment on the blackmarket in South Vietnam? [More…]
These reductions are spread right across the board, but it will be observed that the areas where the more substantial savings have been made are defence, capital works and capital advances, and departmental running expenses. [More…]
In 1969-70 the comparable increase was 4.8 per cent, whilst the increase in total civilian and defence forces employment in the community was 4 per cent. [More…]
The reason for the restrictions is that many Commission employees have access to classified information of commercial or defence importance. [More…]
Forestry Departments, Civil Defence Organisations and other public bodies and also by private individuals and organisation having a need for short range communication in connection wilh such activities as building construction, properly management, sporting events and for safety and rescue purposes. [More…]
Has his attention also been drawn to the claim of a former South African naval gunner in the South Africa Defence and Aid Fund’s Sydney Newsletter for October 1970 that an officer instructed him and others that their chief function was to oppose all Africa, except Rhodesia and Portuguese colonies, to prevent persons escaping and terrorist landing in southern Africa and to act as marines to defend white civilisation in Africa in the case of a black uprising. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Defence Equipment (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
What ate these figures expressed as a percentage of the total amount spent by the Defence group of departments on equipment procurement during each of those years. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
(b) of section 80B of the Defence Act provides that it is an offence for a person falsely to represent himself as a person who is entitled to wear or have in his possession a service decoration. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many civilians were employed in each of the Departments of Defence, Navy, Army and Air during each of the same years. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The Joint United States/ Australian Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap is located on 4,398 acres 20 perches of Commonwealth land. [More…]
The land is made available in accordance with Article II of the Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the United States of America relating to the establishment of a Joint Defence Space Research Facility. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
What was the expenditure in 1969-70 on defence equipment for the services and the departments of Defence and Supply which has been purchased (a) in Australia- and (b) overseas. [More…]
Expenditure in 1969-70 on defence equipment for the services and the departments of Defence and Supply amounted to: [More…]
The value of equipment received by the services and the departments of Defence and Supply in 1969-70 was: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was (a) value and (b) general nature of the Defence Orders placed by the United States of America in Australia and processed by his Department in each of the last 3 years. [More…]
Does he know the (a) value and (b) general nature of any Defence Orders placed direct on industry in Australia by the United States in any of those years. [More…]
(a) The value of defence orders placed by the United States of America in Australia and processed by the Department of Supply in each of the last 3 years is as follows: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was (a) value and (b) general nature of the Defence orders placed by Britain in Australia and processed by his Department in each of the last three years? [More…]
Does he know the (a) value and (b) general nature of any Defence orders placed direct on industry in Australia by Britain in any of those years? [More…]
(a) The value of defence orders placed by Britain in Australia and processed by the Department of Supply in each of the last three years is as follows: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was (a) value and (b) general nature of the Defence orders placed by New Zealand in Australia and processed by his Department in each of the last three years? [More…]
Does he know (a) value and (b) general nature of any Defence orders placed direct on industry in Australia by New Zealand in any of those years? [More…]
(a) The value of defence orders placed by New Zealand in Australia and processed by the Department of Supply in each of the last three years is as follows: [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was (a) value and (b) general nature of the Defence orders placed by Malaysia in Australia and processed by his Department in each of the last 3 years. [More…]
Does he know the (a) value and (b) general nature of any Defence orders placed direct on industry in Australia by Malaysia in any of those years. [More…]
(a) The value of defence orders placed by Malaysia in Australia and processed by the Department of Supply in each of the last 3 years is as follows: [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was (a) value and (b) general nature of the Defence orders placed by Singapore in Australia and processed by his Department in each of the last 3 years. [More…]
Does he know the (a) value and (b) general nature of any Defence orders placed direct on industry in Australia by Singapore in any of those years? [More…]
(a) The value of defence orders placed by Singapore in Australia and processed by the Department of Supply in each of the last 3 years is as follows: [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many civilians were employed in the Defence, Service and other Departments to support the armed forces during those years. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Within the Department of Supply a small number of scientists is charged with the responsibility for keeping up to date our technology of defence against chemical warfare and this involves some research work, as well as keeping in touch with allied activity in this field. [More…]
However, within the Defence Group of Departments, a small effort at Defence Standards Laboratories is devoted to trials for evaluation of commercial herbicides in order to provide advice on the materials best suited for control of particular weed and plant growths; incidental to this work has been the determination of persistence of the control materials in the soil. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many civilians were employed in the Defence, Service and other Departments to support the armed forces during those years. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Simultaneously the Minister has announced cuts’ in defence spending. [More…]
This was one of the reasons whyI directed that any economies that were to be found in the defence area should not affect relationships that we have in Vietnam or in the SingaporeMalaysia area. [More…]
We have a cynical, sleight-of-hand suggestion that reductions in overseas aid and overseas defence purchases will damp down inflationary prices. [More…]
Defence expenditure was to be Sl.lOOm but this will be reduced by $21m. [More…]
An exception to this rule must be our defence industries. [More…]
Where an industry is essential to our defence capability it must be protected whatever the tariff cost may be. [More…]
We see defence spending cut by $21. [More…]
I have no doubt we can prune a great deal off our defence expenditure which has increased in the last 6 years from $400m a year to$1, 200m a year because of the myth of fear of the north. [More…]
The former Secretary of Defence in the United States, Mr Wilson, said when he was chairman of directors of General Motors: ‘What is good for General Motors is good for America’. [More…]
It has refused to recognise the defence potential of this road. [More…]
As the Minister must be aware it is vital to get on with the constructive job of meeting fully our developmental, tourist, trade and defence responsibilities. [More…]
The fact is that from the defence point of view, as was mentioned by one of my colleagues earlier, it is a disgrace that the highway has not been sealed. [More…]
Additionally, a national serviceman contributes to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Fund which provides him with a gratuity on discharge and insurance against the risks of invalidity or death. [More…]
He may also receive various other benefits on discharge such as entitlements under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act and the War Service Homes Act. [More…]
He would also know that in consultation with the State authorities and the Civil Defence organisations the Commonwealth authorities, and particularly the Army, have been co-operating in an endeavour to mitigate the effects of this natural disaster. [More…]
This is the Defence directive. [More…]
The Defence Pay Bill is a rather curious measure. [More…]
The Bill is described as a Bill to validate certain payments made to or in respect of members of the Defence Force and to persons employed in a civil capacity under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1952 or under that Act as amended. [More…]
I must confess that no detail has been given in the second reading speech delivered by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) as to how these amounts are made up among the various items that I have listed or in what years most of the items fell. [More…]
I do not think that the Minister for Defence who introduced this Bill is here when we are debating it. [More…]
… Of course, no Treasurer, or no Minister, can set aside the law, and if the true position is that under the Defence Act the rates of pay have to be prescribed by regulations, then they have to be prescribed by the regulations, and no other authority er person has any jurisdiction to say otherwise. [More…]
The question that J still wish to ask is: Have any payments been made not only in the defence forces but in any of the ramifications of government between 1969 and 1971 under regulations’ which it is presumed will be gazetted but which have not yet been gazetted? [More…]
This Act may be cited as the Defence Pay Act. [More…]
This is the Defence Pay Act. [More…]
The honourable member for Bendigo is concerned with the pay of members of the defence forces. [More…]
My reading of the Bill is that it validates certain payments made to or in respect of members of the defence force and to persons employed in a civilian capacity. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has already mentioned the problems associated with military civic aid in South Vietnam. [More…]
No member of any labor organisation may be fined, suspended, expelled or otherwise disciplined except for non-payment of dues by such organisation or by any officer thereof unless such a member has been (A) served with written specific charges; (B) given a reasonable time to prepare his defence; (C) afforded a full and fair hearing.’ [More…]
So far from my being reluctant to take pressmen around the Northern Territory, the Leader of the Opposition might know that not very long ago the Minister for Defence and 1 did take a group of pressmen around the Northern Territory. [More…]
It was said that ,they were necessary for the defence of this country because they would permit the transmitting of warnings to the United States of America which, of course, is the country responsible for the construction of these installations, with the good graces of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
The honourable member might comment that there should not be censorship in this field, but he should not in this debate cover the subject matter of international agreements and defence arrangements, as 1 believe he was doing. [More…]
We have a sum of money for the administration of the Taxation Office, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board and the Bureau of Census and Statistics. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Before the Government supported this project to the extent of $3.2m to enable 2 prototypes to be built and flown a panel of .the Defence Industrial Committee did make a survey to assess the commercial prospects for this aircraft. [More…]
Of course, within the defence group the Army does have a requirement and has in service now light aircraft of the Cessna and Pilatus Porter type - the Pilatus Porter being the more recent addition. [More…]
This requirement was very much in mind in the initial support that the Government provided for this project, but now that we are approaching the stage when the first prototype will be flying and the claims of the designers and the manufacturers will be tested, we are again, through the Defence Industrial Committee, going to approach commercial organisations to have a further check made of market prospects. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has described the objective of the . [More…]
The Minister for Defence has chosen to tie the civil aid programme in with the whole process of military Vietnamisation. [More…]
It would destroy Australia’s reputation as a reliable ally and, as the extreme left of the Australian Labor Party - but not the Deputy Leader of the Party - wants, it would also destroy every defence and treaty alliance that Australia has. [More…]
One of the points we have raised in this debate, and on which the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) stands indicted for his lack of action, is the plan for civic aid and rehabilitation in IndoChina. [More…]
Seeing that the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has been caught out recently on whether there is or whether there is not to be. [More…]
We can take an example the Minister for Defence has mentioned, the $500,000 special aid for housing. [More…]
If he had taken note and thought of this discussion today I am sure that what he said would have been true as far as many members of the Opposition are concerned because it shows a complete lack of an appreciation and an understanding of many of the things that have happened in this House in the last few days, in particular of some of the statements made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
In conclusion, 1 commend to this House and to the Australian people the final words of the Minister for Defence when he spoke of peace. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who happens to have left the chamber for some reason or other, and the honourable member for Lyne have missed the point altogether. [More…]
A study of the defence system shows that the rising costs in the defence bill have been pretty well contemporaneous with the Vietnam commitment. [More…]
But the Minister for Defence, a very powerful and important man in this country, had nothing to say about the future. [More…]
That is the basis on which we are there, and as my colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said, we will stay there. [More…]
But as my colleague, the Minister for Defence, says, in terms of the future and a long range programme, no person can say with certainty what the outcome will be. [More…]
This Bill seeks to amend the Naval Defence Act in two respects. [More…]
Firstly it seeks to repeal the existing Part V of the Naval Defence Act which covers cadets. [More…]
The present Part V of the Naval Defence Act covers naval cadets. [More…]
The origin of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve cadets goes back to 1903 and the introduction of the first Defence Act in that year. [More…]
The 1903 Defence Act dealt with military cadets and with naval cadets. [More…]
The next change to the cadet structure occurred in 1909 when the Defence Act was altered again. [More…]
It was the introduction of the first Naval Defence Act by the then acting Prime Minister and Attorney-General, William Morris Hughes. [More…]
If the honourable member examines the debate of 1910 he will see that there was some measure of controversy between William Morris Hughes and Joseph Cook about the rights and wrongs of who established the first naval defence concept in Australia. [More…]
William Morris Hughes, during the course of the debate, said that the Defence Acts of 1903 and 1909 and the Naval Defence Act had to be read in conjunction. [More…]
This is apparent when one reads the speech of William Morris Hughes in 1910 when he introduced the first Naval Defence Act. [More…]
The Defence Act applied to cadets and it has continued to apply to cadets ever since, although it has applied to a dwindling body of young men. [More…]
In point of fact, for more than 2 generations the Naval Defence Act and the Defence Act covered cadets. [More…]
They have made a singular contribution in a very direct sense to the defence quality of this country. [More…]
The Navy League has sought, as did those who were responsible for administering the Defence Act and the Naval [More…]
Defence Act, to stimulate, encourage and arouse the interest of cadets in naval matters. [More…]
This recognition is contained in section 39 of the Naval Defence Act. [More…]
Did the Australian Government know in advance of the decision announced by the British Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons on Tuesday and simultaneously by the South African Minister for Defence concerning the sale of arms to South Africa in defiance of the United Nations embargo on such sales? [More…]
We are prepared to continue sitting on that committee should all the other members still wish it to go ahead and we retain the same position we have had all through, that this is a matter for Britain’s decision in her own interests and what she considers to be her defence and the defence of the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Naval Defence Bill has been consolidated up to 1964. [More…]
Paragraph 54 of the report describes how criminals in some countries base their defence on alleged cannabis intoxication, but many of them combined it with opium, heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates or alcohol and it is impossible to identify which drug, if any, was to blame. [More…]
1 priority in this country always should be defence. [More…]
Therefore, no man in his proper senses would deny that defence is our No. [More…]
But on the latest estimates $200m a year is being wasted in the war in Vietnam - $42m in defence expenditure, $50m on pay for the troops there, about $75m for all the concealed maintenance along the line and another $10m or $20m on other things. [More…]
I do not disagree with the concepts advanced by the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) as to the proper functions of the Minister for Defence vis-a-vis the Services and the Service Ministers. [More…]
I do not think that the former Minister for Defence can claim that at any time he was interfered with or in any way obstructed or not supported in carrying out that general concept of the functions of the Ministry of Defence visavis Service functions. [More…]
Certainly he has not done so now, and certainly I agree with the statements of how the defence Services of Australia should be run. [More…]
They are expected to refrain from any political activity and to make no public comments or statements themselves even in their own defence if they see themselves denigrated in the newspapers. [More…]
If that happens the ‘ Government has a duty to come to their defence and to refute that criticism. [More…]
And, further, the charges by the author of the article were, I believe, falsely placed tn the mouth of Mr Fraser, the Minister for Defence. [More…]
For example, I know that when the Army left their province to go to Bien Hoa in the Tet offensive, although that was in the area which their directive covered, yet the Army had rung up the Minister for Defence to say this was going on. [More…]
and the Minister for Defence had rung me up in the middle of the night to check that with me. [More…]
The first point I made was that there was nothing to go on alleging that these accusations had come from the Department of Defence or Mr Fraser since they were based purely on rumours in the Press gallery. [More…]
In this, of course, I was in no way, I gather, departing from the views of the former Minister for Defence who has just told this House that he had confidence in the Army and its commanders. [More…]
Baudino but it did not attribute these criticisms directly to Mr Fraser as Mr Baudino had done and the suggestions against the Army had already been refuted by the Minister for Defence, so 1 therefore paid little attention to it. [More…]
But the Minister for Defence refuted the article point by point entirely on his own initiative. [More…]
At this point, Mr Speaker, let me divert a little because I think one should be fair to the former Minister for Defence. [More…]
But the former Minister for Defence was disturbed by the allegations in it, and on checking with Mr Baudino he was told that Mr Baudino had used as a basis for his story the article which was subsequently going to be published by Mr Samuel. [More…]
So the former Minister for Defence, being disturbed at the allegations in Mr Baudino’s story, asked to see Mr Samuel’s story in order to see whether it followed the same lines. [More…]
Had General Daly come to my office to discuss alleged Army versus Defence matters? [More…]
As far as I know, there was never any ill feeling in any of the discussions we had - the Minister for Defence and 1 - on this matter. [More…]
I had, I thought, a perfectly amicable, constructive discussion with the former Minister for Defence on the Tuesday on which he came to see me. [More…]
Up to that point of time I did not have knowledge that there was resentment and a feeling in the mind of the former Minister for Defence on this matter. [More…]
I now have to come to make some comments on some of the matters which the former Minister for Defence raised and which I did not know were going to be raised. [More…]
The note on this which has been given to me is that on Tuesday, 14th July 1970, the Minister for External Territories approached the Prime Minister and the Ministers for Defence, External Affairs and Army for their concurrence on the call out of the Pacific Islands Regiment, see teleprinter message. [More…]
On Wednesday, 15th July, the Defence Committee considered the possible call out of the Pacific Islands Regiment and concluded that, on the information available, and having regard to the legal requirements, it did not appear that the Minister for Defence would be justified in seeking to move the Governor-General to authorise the call out. [More…]
Those present were the Minister for External Territories,, the Attorney-General, the Minister for Defence, the then Minister for Primary Industry and, to my recollection, a number of others. [More…]
On that occasion - we were then discussing both the legal position and what should be done - it was indicated by the Minister for Defence that the decision should have the backing of more Cabinet Ministers. [More…]
Later, the former Minister for Defence said that the Defence Committee could review its advice and then its advice. [More…]
1 would not deny that when the former Minister for Defence was talking to me on this matter I was doubtful whether the group of Ministers concerned was sufficient to do this or whether there needed to be a full Cabinet meeting. [More…]
The Minister for Defence pressed his view that there should be a full Cabinet meeting. [More…]
For myself, I think he has been a good Minister for Defence. [More…]
This House has been engaged this afternoon in considering something which relates to the position of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and a senior Minister, the former Minister for Defence, in which one has alleged against the other serious disloyalty. [More…]
Civil defence does this in some States. [More…]
In Queensland, the civil defence organisation is recognised only when a national emergency, for instance, an atomic attack, occurs. [More…]
The civil defence organisation has no legal power, for instance, in relation to a cyclone. [More…]
The civil defence organisation has not (he same power in Queensland as it has in New South Wales. [More…]
Because of this deficiency in our makeup, I believe that in relation to national disasters of this type the laws relating to civil defence at least should be uniform throughout the continent. [More…]
In the first place, when a disaster occurs - and we have had experience of this in the last few weeks - the civil defence organisation goes into action. [More…]
In my own State of New South Wales there is a very effective civil defence organisation/ In times of flood or other national disaster the civil defence organisation in New South Wales does a magnificent job. [More…]
I would not disagree with anyone who argued that there must be co-operation between the Federal Government, the State governments and local government authorities working through the civil defence organisation. [More…]
The civil defence organisation is geared to move into action the moment a flood, a fire or other national disaster occurs. [More…]
I will leave aside the fact that civil defence can come to the aid of the people. [More…]
On my recommendation, the Right Honourable J. G. Gorton was sworn as Minister for Defence on 10th March. [More…]
The Liberal leader and deputy leader have changed places and the former Prime Minister supplants his destroyer as Minister for Defence. [More…]
He does not want the Parliament to know the composition of the new Ministry, to know whether the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has been rewarded, whether the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) will serve with the honourable member for Wannon, or what rewards and punishments are to be meted out to the chief participants in last week’s conspiracy. [More…]
The former Prime Minister, the New Minister for Defence, is to go to Vietnam if this motion is not carried. [More…]
Yet while these most serious charges are unresolved the man against whom they art- made has been made Minister for Defence. [More…]
In the face of allegations such as that by the man who had prime responsibility, how can it be borne that the new Minister for Defence should go to Vietnam? [More…]
It may be that there could be criticisms of the methods of the former Minister for Defence. [More…]
The personnel are the same except that there is a different Minister for Defence. [More…]
This harm is compounded by maintaining the present Ministry, particularly the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I mention the fact that when we came into office we said that we would strengthen the defence forces. [More…]
The first relates to defence. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), shortly will be visiting South Vietnam for these reasons: We know that in April the President will be making another announcement relating to American forces in that country. [More…]
Not only the operations in Phuoc Tuy but also the operations that have been taking place succesefully iin Laos make us realise :*ut the South Vietnamese are becoming increasingly capable of looking after their own defence and ensuring that once the other forces have been reduced they will bc able to handle the North Vietnamese themselves. [More…]
I want to make it clear also that as and when Australian forces ure reduced we hope we will be able to increase our civil aid programme and do what we can to assist the South Vietnamese though not to the same extent as defence expenditure. [More…]
Both the former Prime Minister and the former Minister for Defence were men who had a potential of compassion and a breadth of vision who could have played a part together in achieving this, but not if they were pulling apart. [More…]
It was ostensibly occasioned by the resignation of the then Minister for Defence and by the public statements of the then Minister for Defence that the then Prime Minister had been disloyal to him. [More…]
It is impossible to see in the speech of the former Minister for Defence any substantial ground against the former Prime Minister. [More…]
The former Minister for Defence, now the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his speech leaves the House confused as to what parts of Mr Peter Samuel’s article in the Sydney Bulletin’ of 6th March actually came from the former Minister’s briefing and what parts did not. [More…]
In the ‘Bulletin’ of 13th March, Peter Samuel accuses the former Minister for Defence of denying parts of the article which the Minister had given to him. [More…]
We were informed by the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the former Minister for Defence, that he gave a briefing to the journalist Peter Samuel and that this briefing appeared in some form in the Packer weekly the ‘Bulletin’ on 6th March. [More…]
If this is genuinely the view of the former Minister for Defence, then the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) is declared to be criminally remiss, and the entire Cainet is responsible for putting armed forces into Vietnam and losing interest in them. [More…]
It is hard to believe that the former Minister for Defence said this, but on 13th March Peter Samuel wrote another article in which he alleges that the former Minister for Defence asked if he would deny having received a briefing. [More…]
He further asserts that the former Minister for Defence issued a statement which ‘denied the truth of statements that Mr Fraser had in fact given to Mr Samuel’. [More…]
The tragedy is that the former Minister for Defence, whom 1 respect greatly, trapped himself. [More…]
According to Peter Samuel, Samuel was given a tour of the Russell Hill Defence complex, inevitably meaning that he was the favoured envoy of the Minister. [More…]
I am sure that the former Minister for Defence must recognise that the former Prime Minister was put into an intolerable position by the ‘Bulletin’ article. [More…]
We have a new Prime Minister and a new Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton); there is no Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
The crisis which has shattered the Government in the past 10 days stemmed in large measure from interpretation and implementation of defence policy. [More…]
This generated the series of Press stories which ended in the confrontation in this House between the former Prime Minister and the former Minister for Defence. [More…]
In the House last Tuesday both Mr Gorton and the former Minister for Defence included in their speeches statements of their philosophies on relations between the Executive and the Department of Defence. [More…]
The statement by the former Minister for Defence was a conventional account of the existing structure of the defence departments; it was much the same as the descriptions appearing in annual defence reports and statements the Minister had made to the House. [More…]
The former Minister for Defence was due to go to Vietnam 8 days ago to plan the future of his Government’s commitment to Vietnam. [More…]
This means that the Minister for Defence is unlikely to get to Saigon before late Friday morning. [More…]
There is no reason why the Minister for Defence should not stay in Vietnam until the House resumes. [More…]
It is a matter for great regret that the Minister for Defence cannot make a proper assessment of his Government’s Vietnam commitment, particularly as he lacks first hand experience of the course of the war. [More…]
In a broader sense, the malaise afflicting the Vietnam commitment extends through the whole defence structure. [More…]
The new Minister is the third Minister for Defence in 3 years. [More…]
What chance have the Services to thrive or settle into a stable relationship with the overriding Department of Defence in such an atmosphere of violent change? [More…]
The advent of the new Minister even jeopardises the transformation of the Defence Department which Sir Allen Fairhall. [More…]
The predicament of the defence structure is the predicament of all levels of administration under this dishevelled Government which has lost the confidence of the Parliament and the confidence of the electorate. [More…]
It is a motion that is not required to be changed in any way since the present Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) took over from his predecessor, who Ls now the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton). [More…]
It is around the personality of that individual and the one who is now the Minister for Defence that so much of this debate is generated, lt is hard for those on the other side of the House to appreciate the extent to which individuals on this side of the House are different from members of the Opposition. [More…]
The Labor Party has stood firm on this position, and only last week its viewpoint was endorsed by no less a member than the former Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who said, as headlined in the ‘Australian’: ‘Australia must walk alone’. [More…]
The Prime Minister in his capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs and the new Minister for Defence in his former capacity as Prime Minister have lightheartedly sold Australia down the river. [More…]
The only changes that can be seen in the personnel of this Government which is in charge of Australia today is the rise of the new Prime Minister and I suppose the rise of the new Minister for Defence. [More…]
We did increase greatly the expenditure on defence. [More…]
Of that criticism I say only this: I was charged by innuendo with supporting the Chief of the General Staff personally against the former Minister for Defence. [More…]
That is not to be confused with supporting a Service Chief against a Minister for Defence on matters of policy. [More…]
I believe that in the light of the great concern of the Administrator of Papua and New Guinea and the Minister for External Territories (Mr Barnes) I did discuss and take a different point of view to that taken by the former Minister for Defence on the urgency of that matter. [More…]
Indeed the former Minister for Defence wrote to the Minister for External Territories in November 1970 on the subject, as a result of this machinery discussion, saying that he saw no current need to bring the question before the Cabinet but thought it should be looked at again early this year. [More…]
The proposition that the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) puts forward that the Government is morally entitled to lead the country is obviously on this basis discredited because this Government is composed of the same sort of people with the same sort of outlook as was the previous Government. [More…]
It was stressed with great passion in the peroration of the honourable member for Wannon as he announced his resignation as Minister for Defence. [More…]
That was a quotation from the statement of the honourable member for Wannon on his resignation - a voluntary resignation - as Minister for Defence, lt was not made by honourable members of this side of the House but by a senior colleague of the former Prime Minister who bad worked with him for some time in the Cabinet. [More…]
The unhappy nature of this Liberal Party discord has been exposed by the discreditable attempted manipulation of the Press by the former Prime Minister and the former Minister for Defence, in each case, by one to embarrass the other; and this, more than anything else, is the substantial issue upon which the attack of the Opposition rests, because it symbolises the grave defect or the serious failure of the previous Government to carry out the constitutional requirements developed through tradition and handed down to us from Great Britain and upheld by the system of government in this country of collective responsibility of the Cabinet. [More…]
These requirements have been completely jettisoned and have been violated by the behaviour of many Ministers, more especially because of the dramatic publicity which has been attracted by the behaviour of the former Minister for Defence and the former Prime Minister. [More…]
If anything, the former Prime Minister is less guilty than the former Minister for Defence of the thoroughly discreditable and contemptible behaviour of trying to use the Press, one against the other, to embarrass, to expose and to discredit one and the other. [More…]
Let us go through these steps relating to the situation which led to the announced resignation of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The substance of Samuel’s article was based largely on briefing from the Minister for Defence. [More…]
This is the first point, and although one cannot be- certain that the Minister for Defence provided the information for both stories he certainly provided it for Mr Samuel’s article, and one strongly suspects that it was from somewhere near the same source that the information for Mr Baudino’s article came. [More…]
He claims to have telephoned the then Minister for Defence to advise him of his intention. [More…]
It is reported that Prime Minister Gorton refused to discuss General Daly’s allegations against the then Minister for Defence; and these were serious allegations. [More…]
General Daly accused the Minister for Defence, Mr Fraser, of leaking to the Press, of disloyalty to the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) and of shelving blame on to the Army and, by implication, on to the Minister for the Army. [More…]
Before I move on to the case of the then Minister for Defence one must pose a question as to just how genuine was the moral outrage of the Minister for Defence at the behaviour of the former Prime Minister - the outrage which caused him to resign, when, in fact, as late as Sunday evening he was able to arrive at the Prime Minister’s Lodge, as claimed by the then Prime Minister - which can be easily verified by checking the police visitors book at the [More…]
There was every evidence, according to the Prime Minister, that the relationship between him and the Minister for Defence would continue as a working thing and as a partnership in the Cabinet. [More…]
Then we come to the role of the then Minister for Defence. [More…]
This is a totally different thing from a briefing or a background explanation of developments in the Department of Defence, in a particular defence service or in Vietnam. [More…]
This, in the crude jargon in this environment in which we operate, was a leak and this is what the then Minister for Defence had set about. [More…]
When the security of a defence unit is involved, I suggest that there is not much difference between ‘misleading’ and inadequate’. [More…]
In fact, according to the article from which I have quoted in the ‘Bulletin’, the former Minister for Defence did imply directly that the Army was wrong to move out of this area. [More…]
What had really happened was that the former Prime Minister and the former Minister for Defence had been caught out in a thoroughly discreditable performance of one using the Press against the other, a practice which has been resorted to by many Ministers in the Government. [More…]
Tonight in this chamber we heard the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) so pledge himself. [More…]
What of the howl of dismay that went up during the last Senate election campaign when Mr Whitlam dipped into his Pandora’s box of tricks and pulled out Indonesia as the forward line of defence? [More…]
The Party cannot speak with accord on conscription unless it ignores the defence issues, and it finds this the preferable course. [More…]
1 ask the Minister for Defence a question which concerns the authority which he announced when Prime Minister on 20th July last had been given to the Administrator of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea to call on the assistance of the Pacific Islands Regiment. [More…]
I ask: Has this authority been varied since the new Administrator, the Minister for External Territories and the former Minister for Defence recommended in midSeptember that the call-out order be revoked, and, if so, in what respects has it been varied? [More…]
Finally, since the Defence Act and the Australian Military Regulations and Orders make express provisions for applications by the States for Commonwealth protection against domestic violence, what steps are being taken to amend them to regularise the situation in New Guinea? [More…]
After a Cabinet discussion in September, held because letters had been received from the former Minister for Defence and the Minister for External Territories, the Cabinet decided to vary that authority so that the Administrator must consult with Ministers before he is able to take any action under that Order-in-Council - not with a higher military authority but, in fact, with the Government. [More…]
In regard to the last matter mentioned by the Leader of the Opposition, which was a general discussion on amending the Defence Act as it affects the States, to the best of my knowledge that is not under discussion. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I address to the Minister for Defence a question which is supplementary to the one asked by my colleague, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether units of the 3 arms of our defence Services have already been deployed in respect of civil distrubances on the Gazelle’ Peninsula. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), who was at that time the Prime Minister, pointed out when he met the Premiers, the States would now, after the rearrangement of June - -of course which was after the survey - be in a much better position to discharge their own responsibilities than they were before that renegotiation of the agreement. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I desire to inform the House that the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) is leaving today for South Vietnam in order to assess the military situation and the progress made towards Vietnamisation. [More…]
He is expected to return to Australia on 21st March and during his absence the Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme) will bc Acting Minister for Defence. [More…]
My question is directed to the Prime Minister and is supplementary to the question which I asked yesterday of the Minister for Defence and in which I suggested bringing forward the helicopter programme. [More…]
I ask the right honourable gentleman: Will he arrange an early conference with his Minister for Supply, Minister for Defence and Minister for Labour and National Service, who are involved in fhe future of this industry, with a view to establishing stability in its operations, bearing in mind Australia’s needs, defence and civil, and halting the imminent dismissals in the industry? [More…]
As the Minister for Defence said yesterday, arrangements have been made for part of the helicopter programme to be developed at the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation. [More…]
I will also speak immediately to the Minister for Supply, the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Labour and National Service to see that once again a submission is put to Cabinet so that we can give the matter further consideration. [More…]
Does he consider that General Sir Thomas Daly behaved with propriety when he accepted the invitation of the former Prime Minister to meet him and discuss allegations about the conduct of the former Minister for Defence? [More…]
Does he consider that the actions of the former Minister for Defence were sufficiently serious to justify this unprecedented procedure? [More…]
Has he made, representations to the new Prime Minister to ensure that he or the Minister for Defence is not again by-passed in this way? [More…]
It was then to be discussed by Army officers, then by the Ambassador and then by the Minister for Defence and myself. [More…]
It is well worth remembering that the present Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) entered a debate some years ago in relation to wool and was definite that there was a defence to be made of the present system and the present operation of the market forces which have brought us to this state. [More…]
Mr Justice Kerr is on a committee which is dealing with defence pay and conditions. [More…]
I have no doubt that if the jury, the judge, the crown prosecutor and the counsel for the defence do their jobs fairly and squarely the persons now standing trial will receive a substantial sentence. [More…]
I said to my client: What is the defence?’ [More…]
That person told me that he would conduct his own defence. [More…]
Unfortunately, local government in South Australia is elected on a property franchise, and the elected councillors consequently are concerned only with the defence and interests of property. [More…]
Mr Speaker, in welcoming the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) to the august body of which you are the chairman, I express the hope that he will continue the practice of the former Prime Minister, the present Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), in permitting and encouraging free votes by members of the House on questions relating to the Standing Orders. [More…]
If the former Prime Minister goes into the office of the former Minister for Defence he will find that in the top right hand drawer there are 33 knives, all of different lengths. [More…]
In 1952 the Naval Defence Act was amended so that the Board could give direct assistance to the Sea Cadet Corps. [More…]
The Opposition believes that ultimately we must attract in this country a completely voluntary system of defence forces. [More…]
The amendment to the Naval Defence Act which is now before the House is designed to change 39 Navy League Sea Cadet Units into Naval Reserve Cadet Unite and to transfer responsibility for them from the Civilian, voluntary Navy League to the Naval Board in Canberra. [More…]
Can it be said that the only Ministers who can leave this place this afternoon confident in the belief that they will be Ministers in the next few weeks or so are those 5 Country Party Ministers and perhaps the Prime Minister himself, in the absence of the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton)? [More…]
Minister for Defence, the Right Honourable J. G. Gorton; [More…]
In the Senate, Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson will be my representative and will also represent the portfolios of Defence and Treasury. [More…]
1 ask the Minister for Defence whether his Department’s submission on the establishment of a ‘tri-Service academy has been redrafted as directed by Cabinet last October? [More…]
Consequently the Department of Defence was asked to make further studies and put forward a further submission to Cabinet. [More…]
What resemblance is there between these aircraft and the aircraft which Australia ordered, as an urgent defence necessity, in 1963? [More…]
This review follows from the policy stated by the then Prime Minister, now the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), in April 1970 when, in announcing the withdrawal of one Army battalion, he said that ‘Should the progress of pacification and Vietnamisation succeed as the President (of the United States) hopes and believes that it will, then at some stage during the 12 months period we will consider phasing additional troops into the planned withdrawal’. [More…]
During his recent visit to Vietnam, the Minister for Defence had valuable discussions with Vietnamese leaders and with the [More…]
It was the political situation of February 1968 that induced the present Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), then Prime Minister, to announce immediately after the Tet offensive that no more troops would be sent to Vietnam. [More…]
The immediate past Prime Minister, the present Minister for Defence. [More…]
this announcement - the Minister for Defence’s farcical visit to Vietnam. [More…]
His predecessor had created a Cabinet convulsion because of allegations that the Army had unilaterally decided to curtail civil aid; so the new Minister for Defence, having himself chosen that portfolio to give the honourable member for [More…]
Does anybody believe that today’s announcement owes anything to such insights or knowledge as the Minister for Defence may have gained in his 4 days in Vietnam? [More…]
Nothing so fully epitomises the Government’s total lack of understanding of the Indo-China catastrophe as the Minister for Defence’s statements on the operation in Laos. [More…]
These aircraft have all been manufactured, but, in accordance with the Agreement dated 14th April, 1970 Mr Fraser signed with Mr Laird, United States Secretary of Defence, will not be accepted until they achieve certain specified technical and operational criteria. [More…]
Defence: F111C Aircraft (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
to complete the Diploma of Clinical Pathology at the University of London or a course at the Royal College of Defence Studies). [More…]
I might add that this mutter has in fact been recently studied in a most comprehensive way by the Government Members’ Defence Committee.- [More…]
Finally and one of the most significant criteria which I believe ought to be referred to in this House, it certainly must not erode the primary function of national service which is, of course, to provide the Army with the number of personnel it requires to carry out the defence obligations imposed upon the armed services by this Government and to provide the Citizen Military Forces with sufficient reserves of trained men who will be available for use in a defence emergency. [More…]
As requested by the former Minister for the Interior the report by the Department deals with such matters as the storm and its effect on the Woden Valley, the police and civil defence response, loss of life, damage to property, possible action to prevent such a disaster happening again, and whether changes are needed in the warning systems and emergency procedures. [More…]
To meet this situation it is proposed to give a candidate a defence against a prosecution if he proves that, at the time when he made the gift, donation, prize, etc., he believed on reasonable grounds that the polling would not be within 3 months. [More…]
Are they suggesting that we should cut down on health services, national development, defence, housing or aid to underdeveloped countries? [More…]
The previous Prime Minister, the present Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), stated that the standard should be what he called one of frugal comfort. [More…]
It seems appropriate that I should answer this question rather than the Minister for Defence, who obviously is involved. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has leave to make a statement. [More…]
I know that the former Prime Minister, the present Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), was under very considerable pressure to reduce question time because of the very great number, possibly a record number, of petitions which were presented, last year in particular. [More…]
The level of productivity thus affects what we obtain for expenditure on education, health, social services, defence and so on. [More…]
If their defence of that policy in past years was justified, why has there been a change on this occasion? [More…]
On his accession to power the former Prime Minister, who has recently become Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), announced the emergence of a new philosophy in relation to pensions under the Liberal Party. [More…]
It does not matter whether that money is being spent on something else, whether it be a defence vote of $ 1,100m or SI, 200m a year - and not so many years ago the defence vote was about one-fifth of that amount - or whether it be on particular aspects of the defence vote such as the purchase of Fill aircraft or of guided missile destroyers from America at 4 times the price at which they could be made here. [More…]
This would mean accepting the Liberal laissez-faire approach of ad hoc planning, based on what little finance was left after defence, dairies and debt payments had been met. [More…]
I consider that the first priority should be defence and the second priority should be irrigation. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) gave the reason for this in an answer to a question asked of him in the House earlier this week. [More…]
1 have referred to the answer which was given by the Minister for Defence earlier this week. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence recently spoke of moves that are being made in regard to the Commonwealth Aircraft Factories. [More…]
These issues are to be found in statements made by the present Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) and his predecessor, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), relating to ministerial control of the armed forces. [More…]
I do not want to traverse again the whole ground of the wide-ranging wrangle between the Minister for Defence and the honourable member for Wannon. [More…]
Their arguments can best be summarised in the following way: In his memorable denunciation of his former Prime Minister on 9th March the honourable member for Wannon outlined his conception of the duty and responsibilities of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I assert that any Minister for Defence who seeks to do his duty will have to seek to move people from old views and from views that may not embrace the total defence concept. [More…]
The first was that Mr Gorton was encumbered by old views and outmoded concepts, and that his viewpoint did not embrace a total defence concept but instead reflected biased attitudes towards individual services. [More…]
In simple terms he alleged the former Prime Minister had backed the generals against his overriding authority as Minister for Defence. [More…]
Fraser and the generals, it is worthwhile to recall another incident which gave a dramatic illustration of how these two gentlemen conceived their roles in formulating and carrying out defence policy. [More…]
A submission was presented by the honourable member for Wannon to Cabinet in October last )’ear putting the Defence Department’s case for joining the Army, Navy and Air Force officer cadet colleges in a single college. [More…]
He implied that these departments had been leaned on by the Defence Department to accept the joint academy. [More…]
During question time on Tuesday this week the Minister for Defence confirmed his objections to Mr Malcolm Fraser’s submission when he said the Government had required more detailed information and a good deal more facts before it could agree to the proposal. [More…]
In this incident can be seen the seeds of the remarkable events which shook the Government and the whole defence structure earlier this month. [More…]
We find Mr Malcolm Fraser putting forward a total defence concept with the full support of the three defence Ministers and the Service chiefs. [More…]
In his speech of 9th March the honourable member for Wannon at considerable length delineated his conception of the chain of command linking down from the Defence Department through the Service departments to the Army, Navy and Air Force. [More…]
This was based on a statement made by Sir Robert Menzies to the Parliament 13 years ago and a subsequent confidential directive on how the Department of Defence was to assure a clear and commanding authority over the three Service Departments and the Department of Supply, interpreting these statements by Sir Robert Menzies, the honourable member for Wannon stressed the co-ordination of policy and the chain of command down from himself through the structure. [More…]
In his view Mr Gorton had breached this chain of command by allowing direct appeals from the individual Services to the Prime Minister, detouring around the Minister for Defence. [More…]
“It would be an impossible task to trace through the history of relations between the Department of Defence and the individual Services in the past few years. [More…]
However, it has produced extraordinary strains between the Army and the Department of Defence, strains which culminated in the upheavals of early March. [More…]
In the 1950s the Army bore the brunt of the rundown in defence spending which slumped from 5 per cent of the gross national product to around 2 per cent. [More…]
At the same time as the Army was over-extended in this way it began to feel the full impact of a new defence structure and the demands of a new, thrusting and politically ambitious Minister for Defence. [More…]
This would have been a trivial and even ludricous incident if it had not illustrated the very grave breakdown of relations between the then Minister for Defence and the Army. [More…]
When it was revealed that $7,000 had been spent on providing a guard of honour the then Minister for Defence made a statement accusing the Army of stupidity and extravagance in the light of the current economic situation. [More…]
The third and most significant example of tensions between the former Minister for Defence and the Army came with the controversy over civil aid in. [More…]
The second point to be made concerns the attitudes of the former Prime Minister to the Department of Defence and the individual Services. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon showed commendable drive and verve in carrying through the reorganisation of the Department of Defence. [More…]
At the other pole is the argument stressed by the present Minister for Defence, and that is the need for Government loyalty to the Services and the assurance that they will not be embroiled in the manoeuvres of ambitious politicians. [More…]
In relation to the first of these I would reiterate that a Prime Minister, a Minister for Defence or a Minister for a Service is under an obligation to defend that Service against attacks which are not properly based and to deny allegations which are false. [More…]
I think, is to examine the roles of the Minister for Defence, the Service Ministers and the Chiefs of Staff. [More…]
I have little quarrel with what was placed before this House by the former Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) as to the role, in general, of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence is the coordinating Minister, Not as a result of any law but as a result of an administrative arrangement order made by a Prime Minister, quite properly, he is the head of the Defence Services as a whole and is responsible for seeing that should this country need to be defended, plans have been made to cover various contingencies and that agreements have been made as to the kind of equipment the various Services would want. [More…]
That is the role of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Indeed, I have not noticed any great desire on the part of past Ministers for Defence to jump to their feet, for example, when a charge is made that bad boots have been issued to the Army, that some water torture has been carried out by the Army, that there has been a collision in the Navy or that something is wrong in the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
It is their duty to provide that military advice to their Ministers and to the Minister for Defence through the defence complex. [More…]
I believe that just as it is quite proper for a Service Minister not to have to ask the permission of the civilian head of his Department before he speaks to the head of the works division, just as it is not necessary for him to ask the permission of the Chief of the Naval Staff, for example, before he speaks to somebody in charge of construction, so it is not at all wrong or unnecessary for a Minister for Defence to speak to others down the line. [More…]
Secondly, there is no question but that the paramount control lies in the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Thirdly, there can be no question but that the Service Ministers themselves are responsible for their Services to this Parliament and - this is an important point - have, and always have had since Sir Robert Menzies put forward his administrative order, the right to ‘ approach the Cabinet if some decision made by the Minister for Defence is ohe which a Service Minister believes should be discussed in the Cabinet because it is against his own views of what his Service should provide. [More…]
I know that a Minister for Defence will require from time to time to move people from old views. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) demonstrated adequately why he is no longer the Prime Minister and why he should not be the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Apparently the Minister for Defence this morning expects us to believe that by his simple assertion of the fact that parliamentary control is effectively exercised through the present Ministry we should believe this is so. [More…]
is so important that the Defence Ministers step into the arena and make themselves completely aware all the time and accept total responsibility. [More…]
One found that the one great wish of former Ministers for Defence when one talked with them in private was Australia could get on with the design and manufacture of its own military hardware. [More…]
In this instance I believe that the former chief defence scientists went off to private industry because the armed Services were able to fob off the Ministry. [More…]
The Minister for Defence, who was formerly Prime Minister, said that the Opposition has not produced any evidence. [More…]
One would think that, unless the Minister for Defence has been sleeping for the last 20 years, the evidence’ would flicker across his mind like a film. [More…]
I have only to refer to the points which were raised by the former Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) including the stationing of troops. [More…]
It is quite laughable to suggest that we would have anything of a defence effort. [More…]
It is not here to question policies that have been implemented by the Ministers concerned with defence and the armed Services. [More…]
Over the last 3 years it has moved into a position collectively, not necessarily individually, where it has tried to ensure that Australia’s capacity to maintain a reasonable defence effort is undermined by insidious propaganda, by destroying the morale of the individuals who are the fine upstanding sailors, soldiers and airmen. [More…]
First, the authority of the Government over the armed forces: There is no doubt from the speech of the present Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) and the statements made in this House by the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on his attitude when he was Minister for Defence, about the relationship between the Minister for Defence and individual Service Ministers. [More…]
It is a relationship which ensures that in terms of the civilian command there is a responsi bility from each one of the Service Ministers to the Minister for Defence and collectively through each of them to Cabinet and to the Prime Minister. [More…]
He is a member of the panel of Chiefs of Staff which meets for discussion on the attitudes and postures to be adopted collectively by the defence forces. [More…]
In addition he has a responsibility to his own Minister and through his Minister there is a similar responsibility to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It is a pattern of command that has existed since the days when Mr Dedman was Minister for Defence in the post-war Labor administration. [More…]
Constantly in this House we are subjected to statements which, to my mind, demonstrate the real dilemma which the Opposition has in equating reality in foreign policy and reality in defence policy with the sort of support that many of them would like to give to those policies. [More…]
I deplore the hysteria that is worked up about defence when you come to see the lack of sincerity on the corresponding part of what people do in terms of that hysteria. [More…]
He can pay lip service to the need for strong defence and foreign policies - he can believe in it himself- [More…]
It is utterly laughable to see the Party, which so frequently in public and in private puts forward this sort of tenet, coming into the House today and suggesting that the actions of this Government in trying to ensure that there is a realistic defence ‘effort and in trying to ensure that the security pf Australia and Australians is preserved is in any way being lessened by the actions of individual members of the Cabinet. [More…]
I think we have been most fortunate in the calibre of the men we have bad to serve us as Ministers for Defence and as Ministers for the individual armed services. [More…]
The real problem for the nation is the lack of a defence policy and this is highlighted by the fact that there is so much dissention within the Government ranks. [More…]
This discussion of a matter of public importance is merely to indicate to the people that defence has been the party plaything of the present Government. [More…]
When the former Minister for Defence made his resignation speech in this House he did not once mention the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) and yet the Minister for the Army was obviously the man whom Brigadier-General Daly had to defend. [More…]
One would have thought that the former Minister for Defence could have said something about the matter at that time or indicated what was the trouble. [More…]
This is how the defence policy is run. [More…]
Do not tell us that the Australian Labor Party is not interested in the defence of the nation. [More…]
When I hear the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) standing up and saying that Labor is not interested in defence 1 ask: ‘Has he been around lately?’ [More…]
Have members of the Government ever spoken to the men on the ships to find out what they think of the defence policy of this Government? [More…]
What has the Government done from the point of view of defence? [More…]
We have none, lt is strongly hinted and obviously correct that the present top echelon in the Royal Australian Air Force do not think that we should have an aircraft industry That is their view and this comes into what is termed ‘defence’. [More…]
We have no defence We allocate millions of dollars each year - one-seventh of the Budget goes to defence - yet morale in the Services has never been lower. [More…]
Personnel are prepared to resign, so how can it be said that there is morale in the Defence services? [More…]
Australia has no defence programme. [More…]
Where is the policy of defence in this situation? [More…]
What about the morale of those people who now say: ‘Look, we have 1,500 men employed and we may have to sack 1,000 because no more defence orders are being, received.’ [More…]
This industry developed, without any feasibility survey, the Ikara missile, which is the most intelligent weapon we have from the point of view of Australia’s defence. [More…]
Why is not more money given to the aircraft industry, from the point of view of an intelligent approach to defence? [More…]
There is a Minister for the Army, a Minister for the Navy and a Minister for Air as well as a Minister for Defence. [More…]
If a man becomes Minister for Defence he perhaps has a chance of becoming Prime Minister. [More…]
And if he becomes Prime Minister he has a good chance of becoming Minister for Defence when he is demoted. [More…]
He submitted that there was authority for what are termed the new members of the Government dealing with defence, and the point 1 was trying to make was that I could not see how the Government could get any better authority now than it had before. [More…]
This would apply also to the former Minister for Defence. [More…]
It is possibly a matter of concern for the future, if the Minister for Defence is in the Cabinet and the others are in the Ministry, that whatever they may say, however valuable it may be, he can override them. [More…]
This seems to be the position because the Minister’s famous statement on defence which, I might comment, was submitted to the Parliament on 10th March 1970, has never been debated. [More…]
If defence is so important surely this great Government would have encouraged a debate on that statement. [More…]
Over 12 months have elapsed and a statement of the Minister for Defence has never been debated. [More…]
He talked about a joint staff committee and about intelligence at the joint level to assess matters related to defence. [More…]
If the present Minister for Defence is defeated in a selection ballot, what about morale then? [More…]
What about the defence of this country? [More…]
Talk to the backbone of the defence of this country, the men in the Services. [More…]
The Government’s real ‘ intelligence in the Department of Supply could do much for defence but if is discouraged. [More…]
The Government cannot claim that it has a defence policy simply because it allocates one-seventh of the Budget to defence. [More…]
The Cockburn Sound base is more related to politics than it is to defence. [More…]
The Government will not have any real defence unless there is loyalty and team work among its own members. [More…]
There has been no collapse in the morality of the Army or in its morale as such but I regret to say that there has been a collapse in the honourable member’s reputation, undeserved as it was, as an expert on defence matters. [More…]
more directly, vis-a-vis that of any Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence is primarily responsible to the government for Overall defence policy and the Army is an adviser. [More…]
Clearly, the initiative, as I said earlier, was the Army’s, with the full backing of the Department of Defence, of the Department of Foreign Affairs and, indeed, of the Government. [More…]
If any members of the RSL happen to be listening to the debate or happen to read it in Hansard I caution them, before being carried away with the apparrent support for the thoughts and policies of the RSL, to remember some of the defence policies and foreign policies of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Commonwealth is responsible for the important functions of defence and immigration. [More…]
Additional appropriations from the Consolidated Revenue Fund totalling $55m are sought for defence services, including about S35m for increases in Services pay and allowances and increases in salaries of civilian staff, arising mainly from the national wage case and other determinations. [More…]
However, it is expected that there will be savings of $26m in other defence appropriations and $17m in the Loan Fund. [More…]
In part these arise from a lower than expected rate of expenditure under the United States Defence Credit Agreement and as a result of rephasing of and lags in both orders and deliveries of defence goods, and to agreed reductions in Commonwealth expenditure in response to the request of February 1971. [More…]
It is expected that total expenditure from the Consolidated Revenue Fund and Loan Fund on defence services in 1970-71 will exceed the Budget estimate by about $12m. [More…]
Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), spoke on 13th May 1970 in support of the Liberal Party candidate in the Australian Capital Territory by-election. [More…]
The only defence I have read of key money, whether it be called a premium or reserve price, is by Professor Arndt who suggests that the only satisfactory method of apportioning land is by use of the price mechanism because, he says, the only alternative is rationing of land and that would bring about bureaucratic methods. [More…]
Our capacity to assist the needy sections of our community and to strengthen our defence capability hinges on our productivity performance. [More…]
The interdepartmental committee, set up under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister’s Department, includes the Departments of the Treasury, Defence and the Navy, as well as representatives from my own Department. [More…]
He has attributed some defence significance to an item that is purely and simply a navigational system that is in use in quite a number of parts of the world today. [More…]
The final report has been considered by the Board and me but it is now the subject of interdepartmental consideration by the Department of Defence and my Department. [More…]
It seeks to provide an efficient army capable of playing an effective role - indeed, a vital role - in the defence of the Territory and to provide for the future a reliable, well balanced, disciplined and stable force loyal to the duly constituted authority of the day. [More…]
In 1967 the restored Attorney-General introduced the Defence Forces Protection Bill. [More…]
On how many occasions has the AttorneyGeneral or a person authorised by him consented to proceedings being instituted under the Defence Force Protection Act 19677 [More…]
We know that it will be no more used than the Crimes Act of 1960 and the Defence Forces Protection Act of 1967. [More…]
Perhaps he could step into the court and show that this has something to do with ;ne naval and military defence of Australia. [More…]
Perhaps he could explain how taking these young men to court is in fact an exercise of the power of the Commonwealth over the naval and military defence of Australia. [More…]
Cook Island - Self governing (New Zealand continues to be responsible for external affairs and defence) [More…]
Mr Speaker, I wish to inform the House that the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) left on 12th April to represent Australia at the 5-power ministerial conference in London on 15th and 16th April and to hold talks with Ministers and defence officials in the United Kingdom. [More…]
He will then go to Washington for talks with defence officials, returning to Australia on 30th April. [More…]
During his absence the Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme) will be acting Minister for Defence. [More…]
It concerns recent statements relating to Australia’s overseas wheat trade, this country’s defence policy and diplomatic relations with Peking China. [More…]
lt is over a year now since I wrote to the former Prime Minister, now the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), and asked whether - and there had been one precedent for this since f entered this place - statements could not be distributed in the House when the relevant Minister rose to speak. [More…]
That definition is quite a wide one and is often referred to by people who interest themselves in that breach of the law as similar to the defence charge of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline - a dragnet charge which encompasses a multitude of sins. [More…]
I feel sure that if honourable members took the trouble to do this they would find that the Speaker of this House was indeed more than tolerant in the situation which developed when the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) was answering a question asked by the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) concerning wheat trade, defence policy and diplomatic relations with Peking China. [More…]
‘We must expose its nationalisation plank and its attitude towards defence and foreign policy. [More…]
Their defence’ was section 125 of the Russian Constitution. [More…]
The Attorney-General has been telling us a lot about the way in which our liberties have been defined and enlarged under the provisions of this Bill, but what sort of lawful excuse would he expect a court to accept as a defence as set out in sub-clause (2.) [More…]
It is a much narrower excuse, defence or exemption from the general offence that is created than, say, an exemption on the grounds of reasonable excuse. [More…]
It is a wider exemption and it does not bring about the enactment of section 21c of the Commonwealth Crimes Act, to which I directed the attention of honourable members, which puts the burden of proving excuse fairly and squarely on the defence. [More…]
Surely in dealing with the evils of inflation, but more particularly its effects, a responsible government with any semblance of sensitivity, concern or compassion is politically, socially and morally bound to ask itself: What section or sections of the community suffer the most from its effects and have the least defence against it? [More…]
Examples of these volunteers are - members of the Air Training Corps, the Australian Cadet Corps, the Naval Reserve Cadets and the Australian Sea Cadet Corps; volunteer bushfire fighters in the Australian Capital Territory; volunteers attached to units of the , Civil Defence Organisations in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory; members of the Repatriation volunteer workers groups serving in Repatriation institutions; also persons who, under the control or direction of an officer of the Commonwealth, voluntarily take part in air or sea search and rescue operations conducted by the Department of Civil Aviation or the Department of Shipping and Transport. [More…]
The fact that cover will be provided in the last two sets of circumstances I have just described will be of particular interest to members of the defence force. [More…]
They will be covered by the legislation at all times when they are in camp and, though not on duty, are not free to leave the camp, or when they are free to leave camp, if their being in camp is reasonably incidental to their employment in the defence forces. [More…]
The Prime Minister and his predecessor, now the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) are in conflict over the 5-power arrangements. [More…]
The Minister for Defence set out for London in a spirit of self vindication. [More…]
On the other hand, the Prime Minister prefers that the Australian role be verbally vaguer and wider; not, be it noted, because of any appraisal of Australia’s or the region’s requirements but because these arrangements are the last vestige of so-called forward defence, the Liberal preoccupation of the 1950s and 1960s. [More…]
It was obvious from an answer ho gave yesterday that the Prime Minister is not sure that the Minister for Defence has been loyal to Cabinet instructions in London. [More…]
We who have been so ideologically preoccupied can hardly complain about the special preoccupation of the coloured ex-colonial countries with whom we must increasingly associate in trade, in defence, in diplomacy, if we are to have any worthwhile future at all. [More…]
We are now working out new defence arrangements between the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand and ourselves for that particular region. [More…]
Up to the present the United Kingdom has provided an absolute United Kingdom guarantee for the defence of that area. [More…]
This applies particularly to the area of defence. [More…]
If the only naval ships to sail through the Straits of Malacca carried the Russian flag what would Singapore and Malaysia think el the defence arrangements we are now developing? [More…]
The United States Secretary of Defence, Mr Laird, stated in a subsequent Press conference on 13th April that United States ground combat responsibilities will be turned over to the South Vietnamese armed forces during the coming northern summer. [More…]
As the Prime Minister remarked in Brisbane on 8th April, President Nixon’s announcement indicates ‘the growing capacity of the Republic Of Vietnam to provide its own defence’. [More…]
Of course it cannot be dissociated from our defence policy because without a defence policy to back it a foreign policy cannot be pursued with any confidence, credibility or sense of purpose. [More…]
foreign affairs and defence by the responsible Minister have set the future course of this Government. [More…]
Australia is held in respect but not in fear, respect because of our considerable economic significance and the fact that we are a good example of what can be achieved by a relatively small population; respect because of our considerable defence capacity but not in fear because it is universally recognised that we have no expansionist ambitions. [More…]
Camus’ description fits them admirably: indomitable men devoted to the unconditional defence of liberty’. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The total amount sought in this Bill is $1,21 9,758,000 comprising departmental, $706,396,000; defence services $488,362,000; and advance to the Treasurer, $25m. [More…]
On the other hand, the defence and security of this country also are important because without the security of this country our main benefit - our economic security - is in danger. [More…]
I must confess that I am a little disappointed in the New South Wales newspaper, the ‘Countryman’, because it has not given as much emphasis to this matter of defence and security as I feel it should. [More…]
Of course, we also know that there were men and women of Rhodesia who served in the Services in the defence of those things that we held dear in those times. [More…]
As announced by the then Minister for Defence in March 1969, the composition of the Committee was: [More…]
This matter was the subject of a joint departmental discussion between the Department of Defence and the Department of the Army. [More…]
It is one of a number of matters which I will be taking up for discussion when the Minister for Defence returns from overseas. [More…]
In special circumstances successive gov ernments have from time to time given the Board directions in relation to a particular industry being reviewed - for example, ship-building and machine tools for defence reasons. [More…]
Examples are where factories in decentralised locations provide major employment opportunities, or where an industryhas defence significance. [More…]
These are very great responsibilities, probably second only to the defence and the security of the country. [More…]
Therefore, I suggest to the Government that it should strongly temper its enthusiasm for general tariff revision until it has really considered the impact on Australian heavy industry in relation to its defence and developmental potential. [More…]
The Departments of Foreign Affairs, the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Defence, the Treasury and Trade and Industry are represented on the Inter-Departmental Committee on Japan. [More…]
These vary from day to day but range across such matters as the state of the economy, the Commonwealth’s role in welfare, relations with the States - so important in a Federation - and external relations and defence. [More…]
4 attached to the Budget Speech, notice was given that authority would be sought in a Loan Bill to borrow for defence purposes such amounts as are necessary to complete the Commonwealth’s financing requirements. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is, therefore, to obtain authority to borrow from the Reserve Bank an amount necessary to complete the financing of the deficit in 1970-71 and to use the proceeds of the borrowing for defence purposes. [More…]
This practice of charging part of bur expenditure on defence services to Loan Fund has, of course, been followed in previous years where borrowings from the Reserve Bank have been necessary to complete the financing of a Budget deficit. [More…]
If Australia gave the same attention to the development of the undeveloped areas as it gives to its own internal defence arrangements, I think that as a country we would be a much safer place. [More…]
General Moshe Dayan, the Israeli Defence Minister, said yesterday that there could easily be a resumption of war. [More…]
He did not know whether the Government should cut down defence expenditure so that he could extend his expenditure on social services and Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
He was fearful that the Red hordes would come down on us, but he knew that the Government would have to cut down on defence expenditure if he was to get more money for social services and Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
He was a man who worried about red hordes coming down from the north and was an advocate for greatly increased defence expenditure. [More…]
From reading the second reading speech of the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) I find, among other things, that the defence services vote for the 5-month period is $488,362,000. [More…]
I do not question the spending of money which is necessary for the defence of Australia. [More…]
It should be spent if it is providing adequate defence for this country. [More…]
We should know how it is being spent and just as during the Second World War we had the War Expenditure Committee probing matters of this kind I believe that today there should be a defence expenditure committee to examine the expenditure of vast sums like this. [More…]
It could also have been asking why necessary defence equipment that can be made in Australia is not being made here. [More…]
I have referred to the importance of their manufacture here on many occasions and I should like to think that the Government would heed my pleas and expand our defence production capacity and employ Australians to undertake these important works which are so essential to our defence. [More…]
I want to stress to the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock), the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and the Government as a whole that any continued inaction on their part will lead to a continuing decline in morale, and that the possibility of stronger industrial action cannot be ruled out unless the Government wakes up to itself. [More…]
After this go-slow, on 7th December I sent telegrams to the Ministers for Defence and the Army, Treasurer and Prime Minister. [More…]
On the next day, 8th December, I received a telegram from the then Minister for Defence saying that he was investigating the cause of the delay in meeting pay claims and that he would advise me of the outcome. [More…]
On 15th December I sent a detailed letter to the then Minister for Defence outlining the situation as I understood it. [More…]
With the concurrence of honourable members I incorporate in Hansard the letter which I sent to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Later on 22nd January the Minister for Defence sent me a telegram. [More…]
I refer to your recent telegram about the pay of service personnel in the Lithographic trade stop the pay of these categories is based on rates laid down by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in the Graphic Arts Award and a thorough examination of the matter in August 1969 by the Defence Forces Trade Grouping Sub Committee on which the Department of the Army is represented comma did not support changes in the pay df the servicemen involved stop it was concluded that the changes in rates could not be achieved within current basic trade grouping principles and that any variation of these principles would demand examination in depth that has implications for pay of many other servicemen stop a review of these principles is presently being undertaken stop complex and far reaching issues are involved: which require careful consideration stop I note the points raised in your telegarm comma but pending finalisation of the review I can give you no further information stop. [More…]
If that is not the fact, I would like the Minister for Defence or the Minister for the Army to show me that I am wrong. [More…]
If he was nol a liar - and I do not suggest that he was a liar - he most certainly stretched the word ambiguity’ to great lengths, in relation to the amount of money that has been wasted by this Government - allegedly required by it - in respect of so-called defence matters. [More…]
I do ask the Government this question: In excess of $ 1,000m has been spent each year on defence. [More…]
I am not saying that we should not appropriate money for expenditure on defence requirements. [More…]
Previously, the British had the Anglo-Malayan Defence Agreement which was quite definite and quite specific that they were required to take certain action in certain circumstances. [More…]
It is the desire of members of my Department to have this matter examined in detail by the members of the Kerr Committee, and the previous Minister for Defence forwarded this matter to that Committee for examination. [More…]
We must not overlook the great defence value of Qantas. [More…]
It may be better if I did not say anything further about this aspect because I do not know how restricted is the information about Qantas in regard to defence. [More…]
Such ‘ an arrangement would materially assist the case we are considering; it would materially assist Australia from a defence point of view. [More…]
This Bill is described as a Bill for an Act to authorise the, raising and expending of moneys for defence purposes. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is, therefore, to obtain authority to borrow from the Reserve Bank an amount necessary to complete the financing of the deficit in 1970-71 and to use the proceeds of the borrowing for defence purposes’. [More…]
suggest that it is virtually a fiction in that whether the money that is to be borrowed from the Reserve Bank - I will say something about that in a moment- goes ultimately to defence, reimbursements to the. [More…]
States or some other activity is a matter of the totality of the result rather than of defence in particular. [More…]
But if the Government says that moneys have been borrowed for defence it gets , around the inconveniences of the Loan Council because the Commonwealth is allowed to borrow moneys for defence without having to receive the prior approval of the Loan Council. [More…]
I will move on from that to have one last word about the way we should be heading, particularly as this is a Bill which, for some reason which the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) may be able to explain, is supposed to relate only to defence expenditure. [More…]
Yet in fact it does not relate only to defence expenditure. [More…]
For some reason, which I ask to be explained to me, it relates to defence expenditure. [More…]
This afternoon we are debating a Bill which, in the words of the Minister, seeks to obtain authority to borrow from the Reserve Bank an amount necessary to complete the financing of the deficit in 1970-71 and to use the proceeds of the borrowing for defence purposes. [More…]
I am dumbfounded that the Government, has the impertinence to ask the Parliament for further funds for defence purposes when, through an appalling dereliction of duty, it has failed to safeguard an Australian multi-million dollar investment in military bases in Malaysia. [More…]
That Australian investment for defence purposes amounted to some $7m. [More…]
Yet we are being asked today to vote more funds for defence purposes. [More…]
It was not my intention to enter this debate but this afternoon in question time a matter was raised relating to a very large item of defence expenditure. [More…]
Within the last week, a decision was made by the Japanese Diet to double Japan’s defence expenditure in one year. [More…]
I am greatly concerned at and disappointed with honourable members on my side of the Parliament because for one week we have nol raised our voices and expressed our condemnation and concern about the doubling of Japan’s defence expenditure overnight. [More…]
I say that it is not in the best interest of Australia and that every Australian should show his concern at the doubling of Japanese defence expenditure overnight. [More…]
I am not even sure which Ministry has the responsibility for civil defence, but I believe that it is the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth). [More…]
The question refers to civil defence, and I ask the relevant Minister - whether it be the Minister for Social Services or the Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt) - to have a look at this problem and I hope he will give me a reply before the Parliament rises. [More…]
Will the Minister for Defence inform me whether this Committee is making progress in its investigations? [More…]
Further there are the areas of social welfare, works, the defence Services and so on. [More…]
In fact one has to go back to the term of the new Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) before one comes to a Minister who has held the Navy portfolio for any length of time, and that right honourable gentleman, during his recent 3 years on the bridge, almost took the ship down with him. [More…]
All honourable members are familiar with the arguments for consolidating some of the defence departments. [More…]
If, for instance, some personality on the other side of the House was chosen to assist the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) and a few weeks ago he had helped him on the way out, it would make a farce of the situation. [More…]
Ministers for Defence and 9 Ministers for the Interior. [More…]
I cannot accept that a Ministry that is a kaleidoscope of tourism, the environment and of so many other extraordinary sorts of responsibilities will be able to carry out effectively and efficiently the contribution and the assistance to the arts that was enunciated by the former Prime Minister, now the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton). [More…]
If the Government has a defence of the proposals, if they are sound and constitutionally based, if men are to be appointed who can add to the lustre of the Government, if such be possible, why is it that the Leader of the House gags this debate again and again? [More…]
We should not have to put up with this without some explanation or some defence by Government members. [More…]
superannuation and defence forces retirement benefits legislation. [More…]
1 would remind honourable members that it was because of repeated motions by the Opposition that a committee to investigate defence forces retirement benefits was set up. [More…]
I would need 21/2 hours to point out to honouraoble members opposite how dismally they have failed in regard to social welfare, education and defence, you name it. [More…]
The measure in relation to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund is one. [More…]
At the time when this Bill was before the House last year Government Ministers were running up and down the corridors adjacent to this Parliamentary chamber to try to prevail upon the then Prime Minister, the present Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), to show some courage in his attitude. [More…]
Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill (No. [More…]
One of the problems probably is that the Army is much more richly endowed in so many ways, being directly a part of the Australian defence system, than other forces in Papua New Guinea such as the police, which are supplied from the Administration funds. [More…]
That country will be important, not so far as defence is concerned but in as much as it has 2i million to 3 million people. [More…]
We cannot ignore the importance of the Territory from the defence angle, both for the defence of our own country and for the defence of the people up there. [More…]
When some of us explained to them that self-government was the control of every function of government except probably internal security and external defence they tended to believe that they were ready for that now. [More…]
In December 1969 the nucleus of a section was established in the Logistics Division of the Defence Department to study supply organisations, policies and procedures in the Defence Group of Departments with a view to determining the extent of re-organisation, co-ordination, rationalisation and standardisation required. [More…]
In the same month a high level Steering Committee was established under the chairmanship of a Deputy Secretary,- Department of Defence with terms of reference which consisted, inter alia: [More…]
The Defence Procurement Steering Committee has recognised that, apart from common supply terminology (in which area considerable progress continues to be made), the development of standard demand and issue procedures and the codification of service holdings to the Defence Codification System, are essential prerequisites to the proliferation of single manager arrangements. [More…]
Additional staff have recently been engaged by the Department of Defence to carry out studies in selected commodity areas and assist the Services and Department of Supply in the implementation of single manager arrangements. [More…]
Has it been drawn to his attention that the amount of expenditure by Japan on war or defence has been more than doubled? [More…]
If the honourable member cares to look at the percentage of gross national production that is applied by the Japanese Government to internal defence by the Defence Agency, he will find it is about 1 per cent, which is not a large amount when compared with that country’s gross national production. [More…]
Also, what the honourable member will see is that most of its operations or activities are concerned with defence requirements. [More…]
Vicious attacks have been made upon the Commission by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon), the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Bury), the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) and the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch), all for the purpose of influencing the Commission. [More…]
The debate may have been cooled by the measures announced in May last year by the former Minister for Defence, Mr Malcolm Fraser. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon then relinquished his portfolio and was succeeded by the present Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton). [More…]
This was the situation when the Minister for Defence went to Washington a week or so ago. [More…]
The whole tone of the statement by the former Minister for Defence on the FI 1 1 to this House in May last year was that the Phantom would replace the F111C if the deal were cancelled. [More…]
Now the former Minister for Defence has raised the possibility that a European aircraft might replace the Fill. [More…]
It is likely that there will be further reassessment of the relevance of such an aircraft to Australia’s defences in the years ahead. [More…]
If the RAAF has to tie in more closely with the Navy and the Army in its procurement policies, the F111C would prove increasingly irrelevant to our defence posture. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has had recent contact with United States Secretary Laird and the higher echelons of the Pentagon. [More…]
It is a great pity that the Minister will not have the opportunity before the Parliament rises tomorrow to discuss some of the important matters that are relevant to the defence situation of Australia as a result of his visit overseas. [More…]
The continuing waste of public money, frustration of skilled personnel and disruption of the defence programme in Australia due to the Fill contract. [More…]
Nor was there any attempt to argue that the defence programme was being disrupted due to the FI 1 1 contract. [More…]
The matter we are discussing states that there is disruption of the defence programme in Australia due to the F111 contract but, as the Deputy Leader of the Opposition pointed out, interim strike aircraft have been brought to Australia pending the delivery of the F111. [More…]
Those aircraft are assisting and not disrupting the defence programme of Australia and while they will not, in themselves, do as much as the F111 will do, nevertheless until the F111 is presented they are an extremely good aircraft for the role for which they are required. [More…]
As the former Minister for Defence indicated in his statement, sufficient arrangements have been made for tanker aircraft to enable them to fulfil the role the Air Force wishes them to have. [More…]
Any suggestion that there is a frustration of skilled personnel or a disruption of the defence programme because of the F111 contract cannot be, in any degree whatever, sustained. [More…]
When the former Minister for Defence spoke in this House previously he pointed out quite frankly and quite rightly that it would not be until December 1971 at the earliest - I emphasise that - that we would be able to make a decision on the F111. [More…]
Surely it is wise and proper that the Government, having made, through the former Minister for Defence, an arrangement with the United States that if this aircraft did not overcome its technical problems to a degree where it could meet the operational requirements of our Air Force, should say that we would not have to take delivery of that aircraft. [More…]
There has been no argument advanced to show that there has been a disruption in the defence programme of Australia, but rather an argument showing that we now have good strike aircraft the possibility of getting better. [More…]
Neither, I would think, are they matters that the United States Defence Secretary is competent to discuss. [More…]
The continuing waste of public money, frustration of skilled personnel and disruption of the defence programme in Australia due to the Fill contract. [More…]
The arguments put forward by the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) are very similar in character to those which have been advanced in this House during that period of time. [More…]
We have had assurances from each of the Ministers of Air and Defence in turn from 1963 up to the present that what was done was right and that the right decision was made for this country. [More…]
The Minister for Defence is known for his specious arguments. [More…]
The answer is contained in the speech made last year by the then Minister for Defence which reads as follows: the practical effect of these documents was that, taken together, they gave the United States the overriding authority to modify or downgrade the aircraft’s specifications if for some reason it felt that it became necessary or unavoidable. [More…]
It would be bad enough if this were an isolated incident, but I believe that the Fill incident epitomises the sort of decision making that is indulged in by the Government, especially in the field of defence. [More…]
That is the sort of defence we have had under Liberal-Country Party governments. [More…]
I point out to the House that the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), in speaking first for the Government, mentioned the 3 aspects of the motion which are, firstly, the continuing waste of public money; secondly, the frustration of skilled personnel in the Royal Australian Air Force; and, thirdly, the disruption of the defence programme. [More…]
To make the 1963 election an election on the question of defence, Sir Robert Menzies hastily raced in to purchase the Fill on the advice of the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
The Opposition has raised this matter to illustrate the dilemma which is facing the Parliament and to point out that the defence preparedness of this country has been hampered severely by the fact that the delivery of our most strategic weapon, a strike bomber, has been delayed for so long. [More…]
In a major statement to this Parliament last year, the then Minister for Defence, Mr Malcolm Fraser, virtually apologised for the hash the Government had made of the Fill project. [More…]
He completely exposed the realities of the purchase and virtually denounced the previous Ministers for Defence - Athol Townley, Sir Shane Paltridge and Sir Allen Fairhall. [More…]
The whole fiasco is symptomatic of the Government’s cavalier approach to defence. [More…]
The Liberal approach is for the Government to put its hand in the Treasury purse, pull out a great fat cheque, go to any country in the world that can offer us equipment and, whether it suits Australia’s needs or not, buy it, and then say to the Australian people: ‘We are looking after your defence’. [More…]
In relation to the role of the Fill, the former Minister for Defence said: [More…]
Or will it do what the previous Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said, namely, consider the options to get out of the FI 11 contract? [More…]
The Government talks about Australia’s defence, but we have not had a defence debate in the House since the major statement in March last year. [More…]
We have ordered 24 planes that are not worth a cracker for our purposes and the Government has the hide to say that it is the Party that cares about defence. [More…]
If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the honourable member for Bass (Mr Barnard), had been Minister for Defence in a Labor Government at the time would he have ignored the advice of his technical experts in the RAAF. [More…]
I turn now to the alleged disruption of the defence programme. [More…]
With the prospect that delivery of these aircraft would be delayed until nearly 1973, the Government decided to lease 24 F4 Phantom aircraft from the United States, to cover any gap in our total defence capability for the time being. [More…]
I can assure you, Mr Speaker, that we are all looking forward to hearing the speech of the former Minister for Defence on this subject. [More…]
We will spend $4,000m in 4 years on defence, including foreign aeroplanes that do not fly. [More…]
The maintenance of national service is a key element in the current defence policy and as such has been clearly before the electorate in elections which have resulted in return of the Government. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been directed to the recent statement of the Vice-President of South Vietnam, Vice-President Ky, that President Thieu was disloyal and led a corrupt government? [More…]
Will the Minister for Defence assure the House that the Vice-President’s statement was in no way related to any discussions that he recently had with the Minister about his own treatment by his one-time deputy, the right honourable gentleman who was described by an ex-Minister for the Navy in the House the other evening as ‘he who presently leads the Government’, or was he prompted by his description to the VicePresident of the current political situation in Australia under the present Prime Minister? [More…]
I do not think that the rest of the so-called question requires any answer other than the request to know whether there would be a statement on defence. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Before he left was he given a. briefing by the Royal Australian Air Force on the state of the Fill project in the expectation that he would raise it with the United States defence officials? [More…]
Before leaving on the overseas visit which I have recently concluded, I had a discussion with members of the Air Board, with the Minister for Air, with technical officials and with the Secretary to the Department of Defence on the technical stages of the Fill and certain steel which went into that aircraft. [More…]
The Committee was intent on making the point that this was the first line of defence and that unless this was done great success would not be attained in alleviating the health conditions which many Aboriginal people experience. [More…]
The Reverend Downing said that, of every SO Aboriginal children born in the Northern Territory, 11 will die in early childhood .We were told also that there is a deficiency of personnel, particularly nursing sisters in the Territory in this front line area of defence which is regarded so significantly- [More…]
Clause 13 provides a person with a defence to a prosecution, in the event of failure to comply with the provisions of the Bill limiting the possession of interests in bank shares being due to ignorance of a relevant fact or occurrence. [More…]
At the same time the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) was absent from the Parliament. [More…]
For the income tax Bills, instead of having lj hours, they will have 1 hour, and for the Superannuation Bill and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill (No. [More…]
The Prime Minister is embarrassed by the presence of the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton). [More…]
He fears the personal embarrassment which will unavoidably follow either the success of the Minister for Defence or the right honourable gentleman’s failure. [More…]
The Prime Minister told my Deputy a fortnight ago that he wished to wait until the Minister for Defence returned from his overseas tour before making any comprehensive statement on the S-power arrangements. [More…]
On Monday the Minister for Defence made it quite clear that the differences between him and the Prime Minister about the role of Australian forces under the 5- power arrangements are unresolved. [More…]
The Prime Minister has said in private conversation that the Minister for Defence twice caused serious embarrassment to the Australian Government during his absence overseas. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has made it known that he will use the occasion of his appearance at the National Press Club as a forum to settle, in his own words, a few old scores. [More…]
What about the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton)? [More…]
The time for the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill (No. [More…]
It is clear that the Act was not framed to cover members of the defence forces. [More…]
The Repatriation Act is much more appropriate to cover members of the defence forces from the time that they enlist until their discharge, not only when they are overseas but also when they are in Australia. [More…]
The Bill applies to members of the defence forces - members of the Royal Australian Navy, the Army and the Royal Australian Air Force - in the same way as it applies to all other Commonwealth employees, except that it does not apply in situations where a member of the defence forces is covered in relation to the service involved under the Repatriation Act. [More…]
Although these Bills - the Superannuation Bill 1970 and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill (No. [More…]
When the former Treasurer introduced these Bills he circulated an explanatory memorandum dealing with the Commonwealth Superannuation Fund and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund which stated: [More…]
The purpose of these 2 Bills is to give effect to the Government’s proposals for the preservation of superannuation rights of contributors to the 3 contributory retirement benefits schemes established under the Superannuation Act 1922-1969 and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1970, namely, the Superannuation Fund, the Provident Account- [More…]
Those who do not qualify for the Superannuation Fund on medical grounds are still able to subscribe to what is called the Provident Fund - and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
This evening we are dealing with the Superannuation Bill, which also covers the Provident Fund, and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill. [More…]
If my memory serves me correctly, the then Senator Gorton, who became Prime Minister, who subsequently became Minister for Defence, and who may become Prime Minister again for only a short period, decided that the honourable member for Casey would be relieved of his portfolio. [More…]
Public employment is not defined but the Bills in proposed sections 119q of the superannuation legislation and 82v of the defence forees retirement benefits law provides that the Treasurer may, by instrument under his hand published in the Gazette’, declare employment by a person or persons specified in the instrument to be public employment. [More…]
of proposed section 119d, insert the following sub-paragraph: - “ (ia) in the case of the superannuation scheme constituted by the provisions of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971 and the other Acts relating to retirement benefits for members of the Defence Force - to a transfer value payable in respect of the employee under Division 3 of Part VIc. [More…]
of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971 or to a refund of contributions and a gratuity payable to the employee; and “. [More…]
An election under section 82z of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971 by a person to whom sub-section (1.) [More…]
of section 9 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1971 applies also has effect, in relation to a person to whom sub-section (1.) [More…]
The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971. [More…]
), omit “this Act”, insert “the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971”. [More…]
of this section applies makes an election under section 82z of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971, any election made by him under subsection (1.) [More…]
of section 82zd of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971 does not apply in relation to a person to whom sub-section (1.) [More…]
I do not like the defence of Government Schools propaganda because it falsely suggests that the way to lift the children in the State schools is by tearing down children somewhere else. [More…]
In regard to the Maralinga Prohibited Area my Department, in consultation with Department of Defence, is currently reviewing both- the extent to which this area might be reduced and the extent to which restrictions can be eased within the localities which need to remain . [More…]
Did the Secretary, Department of Air, refuse to answer a subpoena and to appear before the court, and only attend when defence counsel requested that he be committed for contempt of court. [More…]
So far as I am aware, no member or exmember of any part of the Defence Force, and indeed no person in Australia, is subject to arbitrary arrest and detention at any lime. [More…]
- Defence Equipment (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
What are these figures expressed as a percentage of the total amount spent by the Defence group of departments on equipment procurement during each of those years. [More…]
The -Minister for Defence will continue to be represented in , the Senate by Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs by Senator Wright who will also continue to represent the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Was he correctly reported as threatening the former Minister for Defence: ‘If you won’t cut the defence vote I’ll get someone who will’? [More…]
Can he say whether these disclosures were inspired as part of a systematic campaign to exact acceptance of a cut in the defence vote which the former Minister regarded as contrary to the national interest? [More…]
The Minister for Defence will remember that last year I asked bis predecessor for a revision of the pay scale for senior Citizen Military Forces officers. [More…]
A decision was made in October of last year as a result of a recommendation from the defence committee dealing with pay and conditions of service. [More…]
When did the right honourable gentleman’ first learn that the ‘Sunday Australian’’ on 8th August .would contain an article by the then Minister for Defence refuting Mr Alan Reid’s account of Cabinet decisions during the Minister’s period as Prime Minister? [More…]
Why did he take so long to act in defence of the principle of Cabinet solidarity and unity? [More…]
Can he recollect any statement by either the first Minister tor Defence, whom he appointed, or the first Minister for Foreign Affairs, whom he appointed, which did not represent the policy of his Government? [More…]
We have this extraordinary situation where the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, the third man in the governmental heirarchy, the Minister for Defence, the previous Prime Minister, a man who was better known than his colleagues in our region, has been summarily dismissed although the article which he was writing, asserted to be in breach of Cabinet solidarity and unity, was in the Prime Minister’s hands at 4.30 the afternoon before it was made available to the public. [More…]
In the course of these few months the Minister for Defence and the Minister for’ Foreign Affairs have both been dismissed. [More…]
Higgins (Mr Gorton) and the Honourable member for Wentworth in their posts of Defence and Foreign Affairs he just slid away from the question. [More…]
Further changes in coming months are expected to affect the Defence Minister, Mr Gorton . [More…]
The right honourable member for Higgins - the right honourable John Grey Gorton, Companion of Honour, Privy Councillor, former Minister for the Navy, former Minister for Education and Science, former Prime Minister, former Minister for Defence, former Leader of the Liberal Party, former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party - should have seen the portent and should have recognised the ominous sign. [More…]
He wrote an article, or in this case undertook to write a series of articles in his own name and in his case in his own defence. [More…]
The Prime Minister himself wrote an article only a few months ago which appeared in the Melbourne ‘Sun’, in defence of apartheid and racially selected sporting tours. [More…]
We have the evidence that Consolidated Press itself gave ostensibly in its own defence only last Sunday in a full page apologia headed The Telegraph and Mr Gorton’, sub-headed ‘Setting the Record Straight’ in the following words: [More…]
The former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, the former Minister for Defence, the former Prime Minister, has held office continuously for nearly 13 years in this country. [More…]
We have also made progress with the 5-power defence arrangements for Malaysia-Singapore and we have become a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. [More…]
The Prime Minister made no attempt to answer the charge that he had removed from office a former Prime Minister and former Minister for Defence, as well as a former Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
It should be remembered that the former Prime Minister, who was also the former Minister for Defence - I refer to the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) - had a mandate from the people to govern this country. [More…]
The pity of the right honourable gentleman’s dismissal is that he was doing a reasonable job as Minister for Defence, a portfolio ideally suited to his experience and administrative capacity. [More…]
Certainly during his brief time at Russell Hill there was none of the rancour and turbulence between the defence administration and the Services which marred the closing months of the term of the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) as Defence Minister. [More…]
The right honourable member for Higgins’ handling of the Kerr Committee’s report will benefit many thousands of servicemen, although it seems important recommendations have also been shelved, lt has even been reported that the Prime Minister privately paid tribute to the way the right honourable member for Higgins was shaping in defence. [More…]
This means there have been three Ministers for Defence within 5 months. [More…]
It is no reflection on the present Minister to say that this unjustified reshuffling puts impossible demands on the whole defence structure. [More…]
A process of reconstruction and reform of the defence structure was initiated 3 years ago by Sir Allen Fairhall who was then Minister in tandem with Sir Henry Bland who was then permanent head of the Department. [More…]
This was continued by the honourable member for Wannon and presumably the member for Higgins when they occupied the defence office. [More…]
This Committee into service pay and conditions was appointed by the honourable member for Wannon as Defence Minister. [More…]
The new Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) resigned once before after a difference with his then Prime Minister. [More…]
The effect of these rapid changes must be to confuse the processes of reform in the defence administration and in the pay and conditions of servicemen. [More…]
The personal frustration this leak seems to have produced in the Prime Minister may well have hastened his aspirations to do away with his Defence Minister. [More…]
It is impossible not to feel sorry for the former Prime Minister and Minister for Defence for his slip of the pen. [More…]
much of the Press and members of the Liberal Party, it is common knowledge that as late as Wednesday afternoon, the Prime Minister still had not summoned the fortitude to sack the Minister for Defence. [More…]
He desperately wanted to get rid of the Minister for Defence but he did not think enough of his own Party would back him. [More…]
I have tried to trace through something of the impact of this lack of trust and the pervading presence of outside influence on Cabinet on one important sector of public policy, that is the defence of this country and the welfare of members of the forces. [More…]
I have listed the impact on defence and foreign affairs. [More…]
He could have told this Parliament the real reasons for the dismissal of the former Minister for Defence but he failed to do so. [More…]
Packer sacked the Foreign Minister and the Defence Minister in 1971 and Packer intends to take the preselection away from the honourable member for Berowra (Mr Hughes) if he can. [More…]
Quite early in its inquiries the Committee decided that it was necessary to give priority attention to the particular term of reference relating to the pay of other ranks in the Services and this approach was endorsed by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Government had the benefit of the views of the Services and its defence advisers and all supported the changes now introduced. [More…]
by leave - The statement of the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) outlines pay increases for other ranks of the armed forces. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What heavy defence equipment is supplied for these forces. [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many members of the Australian defence forces were charged with (a) dangerous driving, (b). [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: - [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What defence purchases have been negotiated by the Chief Purchasing Officer of his Depart- . [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What purchases of defence equipment have been made from (a) France, (b) Italy and (c) Sweden in each of the past 5 years. [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied, the following answer: [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
A complete statement was presented to the House on 12th May 1970, by the former Minister for Defence on the Fill project The statement included the Agreed Minute between the United States, Secretary of Defense and the Australian Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Agreed Minute refers to confirmation by the Australian Minister for Defence that certain operational and technical criteria which were mutually agreed to are fundamental requirements for the Australian strike aircraft and that an F111C that meets those requirements will be suitable for operational use. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
Reciprocal purchasing arrangements have been discussed with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (Navy) and prospective tenderers. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What Australian firms have been assisted to study the possibility of producing transportable radio relay terminals for ‘ the Army as indicated on page 2 of the Defence Report 1970; [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
The study is being carried out by a working party chaired by Defence and with representatives from each Service. [More…]
Reports on both aspects of the study are close to completion for consideration at a higher level in the Defence Department. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Who is making the long-term study of naval and air power referred to on page 11 of the Defence Report 1970? [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
The Study is being conducted under the overall control of the Department of Defence. [More…]
A Study Group to direct the work has been set up comprising representatives of Defence Department, the three Service departments and the Department of Supply. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
In addition, procurement from Singapore has been a, useful reciprocal purchase, in view of the defence orders placed on Australia by that country. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What items of Australian defence procurement have been made available for New Zealand bidding since the Defence Supply Co-operation Arrangement was negotiated with New Zealand. [More…]
What items of New Zealand defence procurement have been made available for Australian bidding since the agreement was negotiated? [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
Tenders for New Zealand defence requirements are issued by New Zealand authorities on commercial basis direct to Australian firms and details of tenders issued prior to November 1970 are not available. [More…]
It is known, however, that some significant New Zealand defence purchases have been made locally as a result of Australian tendering, e.g. [More…]
In November 1970, arrangements were made for the Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand to forward copies of -tender documents for defence requirements to the Department of Trade and Industry. [More…]
(a) In the field of defence production Australia is giving New Zealand every assistance to develop its own capacity for self-reliance. [More…]
Standardization of defence equipment is a continuing process. [More…]
It had been proceeding effectively for a considerable period prior to the conclusion of the Defence Supply Co-operation Arrangement and will be progressively developed in the future. [More…]
asked, the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
The study is being undertaken by representatives of the Department of Defence; Foreign Affairs; External Territories; Navy, Army and Air at the direction of the Defence Committee. [More…]
In what circumstances is a dependency to be placed on the Pacific Island Regiment or other units of the defence Services. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The former Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) supplied the following answer: [More…]
Would he agree that such conduct on his part, if correctly reported, represented a threat to Cabinet solidarity and unity graver by far than the articles by the former Minister for Defence? [More…]
In the light of these circumstances in late 1964 and early 1965 the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of the Australian Cabinet met frequently. [More…]
It had advice from the Defence Committee and from the Chiefs of Staff Committee, and on the basis of all that advice and all the information which it had it considered the national interests of Australia at that time. [More…]
This is the substance of article IV of the South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty. [More…]
As I thought I had made reasonably clear in my earlier answer, the considerations which impelled the Australian Government to send troops to Vietnam were deep and long considerations of the national interests of Australia, carried out over months, with frequent meetings of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of Cabinet and with the best military advice that could be obtained. [More…]
As the honourable member will be aware the Department of Supply carries out research into defence equipment and development. [More…]
I believe that the State of New South Wales has, in association with the Civil Defence Organisation under General Sir Ivan Dougherty, some organisational machinery to do it, but there is no such organisation in any of the other States and there is no such organisation in the hands of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The package will include civil projects of an economic development character as well as defence aid in the form of military training and equipment. [More…]
These factors have implications for the composition of our defence forces. [More…]
The major portion of our defence manpower is obtained by volunteer recruitment. [More…]
The extent of our defence manpower is measured not simply by the size of our Regular forces, but by the totality of the Regular, Citizen and Reserve forces. [More…]
At the same time, we see changes in the defence posture of our close allies, particularly the United States. [More…]
We must maintain a defence capability that is evident both to friendly countries and to potential enemies, and which we could develop in adequate time should more immediate threats arise. [More…]
The Government will review force levels as necessary as part of the 5-year defence rolling programme. [More…]
It is important against the strategic outlook for the 1970s and the 1980s to have the right balance of equipment and men in the defence forces as a whole. [More…]
And while we acknowledge that in the national interest the right must be retained to raise national service forces should the security of Australia be threatened, we accept the assessment by the Minister for Defence once removed that there is no foreseeable threat to Australia in the next 10 years. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition said that there had never been a request to Australia for military assistance under the South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty. [More…]
Look at the way in which the defence forces have been built up by the South Vietnamese. [More…]
We think that we are expending quite a lot of money on defence in this country and we are. [More…]
Whilst this number is directly under arms full time there are, of course, other organisations - the home defence forces for example - which are not under arms full time but are still armed. [More…]
Over the last 4 years $24m has been spent on accommodation; we have built 21,700 houses; and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund is being investigated. [More…]
No one knows this better than the new Minister, for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), despite what he may have been told to the contrary in his recent visit to that country. [More…]
Looking beyond the withdrawal from Vietnam, the Prime Minister’s statement raises questions of the future pattern of Australian defence planning through the I970’s and into the 1980’s. [More…]
Defence planning and the whole military effort in the past decade have been geared to the Vietnam commitment. [More…]
From the build-up in defence procurement in the, early 1960’s to the reintroduction of national service and the dispatch of troops in the mid 1 960’s all defence planning has been geared to an active combat role in Asia. [More…]
Vietnam has distorted the evolution of our defences and diverted it into sterile channels. [More…]
This re-assessment and re-organisation to give more coherent and balanced defence policies can no longer be deferred on the grounds of preoccupation with Vietnam. [More…]
In conclusion 1 would like to refer briefly to a statement made by the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) just after he was appointed Defence Minister late in December 1969. [More…]
If one listened to the speech of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) I think one might have gained some idea of what this nation might have been if its foreign and defence policies had been common to both sides of the Parliament. [More…]
We remember the trouble that he got into with a certain Mr Chamberlain when he came back and said that the Labor Party should review its defence policies and when, for the first time, he admitted that there was aggression from the North whereas his colleagues had said that at no time was there any aggression from the North. [More…]
We are now confronted with the great need to do what the Prime Minister has said - to equip the Australian defence forces on a balanced basis for what may confront Australia in the future. [More…]
If the Labor Party intends to cut out national service, to reduce the Army and to reduce our defence programme, this should be communicated to the Australian people. [More…]
The first thing that has suffered has always been our defence forces. [More…]
I think without any doubt that we have to realise that a threat to Australia might not occur within 10 years, but if we look at what is happening around us there are many matters which we should consider in respect of defence. [More…]
Then there is the future development of Papua New Guinea and what part we may be expected to play in its defence. [More…]
All these matters are now vital to our defence. [More…]
These are matters vital to our defence and I say to the Minister for Defence (Mr N. H. Bowen) who is sitting at the table and to the Prune Minister: Do not think that war and threats are over and that we can buy our streamers and dance around the maypole. [More…]
I listened to our colleague the Minister for Education and Science and Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), our multi-hatted Minister, spending his time by consoling himself with a reiteration of the cynical mythology of the Liberal Party over the last 6 or 7 years - a litany to the God of War - as to exactly how one solves the problems of South East Asia by military action. [More…]
I believe it is completely uneconomic and I am supported in that view by a recent publication of the ‘Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence‘.I will not read it all as I have only a few moments left, but it is an article written by a Mr McGurr. [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe and the Prime Minister have implied that it is necessary and essential that for its defence Australia should have 9 battalions of infantry. [More…]
I am not decrying the power of the Australian infantry battalions and I am not decrying the strength or the morale or anything else of the battalions in Vietnam, but in what possible way can they control the seas of Australia which are the only valid and relevant parts of Australia’s defence? [More…]
I say it is a piece of utter rot; it has no relevance whatsoever to Australian defence and nobody has yet explained to me how that could be so. [More…]
They are as Australian as the Minister for Defence who now sits at the table. [More…]
It has to be a number which will base a sound defence force in this country if and when it is required. [More…]
There were 58 platoons of Vietnam Popular Force troops for village defence commanded by village chiefs. [More…]
I do not believe in forward defence. [More…]
1 hope that the Government will arrange its foreign policies in such a way that we do not have to be involved in the defence of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia or any other such place. [More…]
I hope that it will reconsider Australia’s defence strategy. [More…]
I have no objection to the building up of a strong defence force in this country. [More…]
I was a Minister in a wartime government that conscripted kids and other people to fight for the defence of this country and I would agree to that policy being adopted again if this country were threatened with an invasion by people who were near our shores. [More…]
It is unfortunately true that fluctuations in employment are inevitable in the defence aircraft industry. [More…]
The Government’s policy, as has been expressly stated, is to maintain a small viable defence aircraft industry, but by nature that industry is subject to fluctuations. [More…]
The reduction of the term of service to 18 months seems to be a rather feeble compromise between the political requirements of the Government, the demands of the Army and the actual requirements of the Department of Defence. [More…]
There is evidence to suggest that the Department of Defence believes 1 year is adequate for national service. [More…]
In July this year no less an authority than the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who, for a brief but unforgettable period was Minister for Defence, made this point. [More…]
Indeed, they leave the impression that this debate is taking place only because there is an atmosphere of contradiction and ignorance of the essential goals and objectives of national defence surrounding Labor Party policy on defence in general and on national’ service in particular, and within which the policy was recently refrained. [More…]
This is one of the central planks of its defence platform. [More…]
Our defence capability would be thereby considerably impaired, with obvious implications for our national security. [More…]
The Government’s decision and consistent policy to maintain national service on a continuing basis is a policy which is in the best interests of the defence security of Australia and is certainly a policy which has been endorsed by the majority of Australians, as evidenced in continuing gallup polls which have taken place on this subject in recent years. [More…]
This therefore is one of the major areas of disagreement between the Government and the Opposition in terms of defence. [More…]
It is not enough to say that should the need for defence arise the men and capability will be forthcoming or, as is sometimes suggested, that a reservoir of men established by a short term of basic training could be brought to the necessary level of proficiency in sufficient time. [More…]
As the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) said last evening, we must maintain a defence capability that is evident both to friendly countries and to potential enemies and which we could develop in adequate time should more immediate threats arise. [More…]
National service must be seen as one aspect, an important aspect, of the defence effort expended in this country to ensure national security by maintaining effective defence forces and in particular an Army of a size consistent with this goal. [More…]
The repeat presentation of this Bill is in fact no more than a manifestation of its contradictory, inadequate and misinformed approach to Australian defence requirements. [More…]
Those people who place their faith in pay increases as a panacea for defence manpower problems must accept that the supply of volunteer recruits to the armed forces is a primary function of fixing rates of pay levels in those forces - if you raise the pay you generate additional recruits to the armed forces on that basis - and moreover, that the supply of recruits is elastic, that is, it does not require major changes in pay to obtain an adequate number of additional recruits. [More…]
He has given no consideration to the real defence of the nation and has made no attempt to understand the moral issues or the position in which the young men to whom he was referring find themselves. [More…]
When the chips are down, the defence of Australia is involved and we are under attack, they will be there. [More…]
Deep in the heart of these young men is the very spirit that this nation needs in its defence, and the present situation is most distressing. [More…]
We have fallen for this defence by political gimmick. [More…]
Any conscientious consideration of the defence of Australia at the present moment, in the light of all the existing circumstances, would not include having 9 infantry battalions as the way to do it. [More…]
I believe that an effective citizen force with adequate background training, and materia] support could produce the same effective military and defence result in the light of existing circumstances. [More…]
I am not one of those who say that because one cannot name a specific enemy at this point of time one should disband the defence Services. [More…]
I might add on this matter that America similarly has a mutual defence treaty with Chiang Kaishek, concluded in 1954 and covering Taiwan and the Pescadores. [More…]
No normal government will ignore the fears, even if irrational, of the voters, just as it will take no risks about defence. [More…]
I will now speak in defence of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
I have the honour to refer to your letter of today’s date confirming the Australian Government’s oiler to send to Vietnam an infantry battalion of 800 men, with some 100 personnel in logistic support to serve wilh United States forces in assisting in the defence of the Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
I have the honour, with reference to our conversation yesterday, to confirm the Australian Government’s offer to send to Viet Nam an infantry battalion of 800 men, with some 100 personnel in logistic support, to serve with United States forces in assisting in the defence of the Republic of Viet Nam. [More…]
I have the honor to refer to your letter of today’s date confirming the Australian Government’s offer to send to Viet Nam an infantry battalion of 800 men, with some 100 personnel in logistic support to serve with United States forces in assisting in the defence of the Republic nf Vietnam. [More…]
Last night the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) tried to argue about land reform. [More…]
It will mean that the defence of Western Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, is of no account and could not be put into effect. [More…]
That was in January 1950, but in June North Korea invaded the South and right from the beginning Peking declared its support for the aggressors, ls it any wonder that the United States acted quickly both in terms of Security Council action and in terms of its own defence? [More…]
It had already delineated its perimeter of defence so that never again would it be in such a situation of treachery. [More…]
A continuing British presence has been accepted in South East Asia in the form of a combined ANZUK force which is being established in Singapore and a 5- power consultative agreement on the defence of Singapore and Malaysia. [More…]
They were building a defence force in case they were invaded again. [More…]
Owing to her history, China is reluctantly pouring more money into defence than she would like to do. [More…]
Nevertheless, the position of orphans and children will be given special consideration when the results of the quinquennial investigations of the Superannuation and Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Funds become available during the next 12 months. [More…]
This Bill which is a companion measure to the Superannuation (Pension Increases) Bill that I have just introduced, gives effect to the Government’s proposals to provide increases in certain defence forces retirement pensions. [More…]
As with pensions paid from the Superannuation Fund, pensions payable under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act were last increased in 1967 when the notional salary method of adjustment was used. [More…]
Deferred pensions that may have become payable before 30th June 1971 in accordance with the preservation provisions of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1971 will be adjusted as appropriate. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to increase existing parliamentary and ministerial pensions payable under the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act in accordance with principles similar to those incorporated in the two Bills already introduced into the House providing for increases in existing superannuation and defence forces retirement benefits pensions. [More…]
Over on the back bench there is the right honourable member for Fisher (Mr Adermann) who is a former Country Party Minister for Primary Industry, there is a former Prime Minister, a former Minister for Foreign Affairs, a former Leader of the House and Minister for Air, a former Minister for the Army and for Defence, a former AttorneyGeneral, a former Minister for the Navy, the right honourable member for Moreton who was also another former Minister for the Navy and a former Minister for the Army. [More…]
The Government is spending thousands of millions of dollars on defence, but we are the most defenceless area in South East Asia. [More…]
to unite as one and to make common effort to assist the People’s Liberation Army to put down the rebellion quickly, to consolidate national defence, to assert the interests of the people of all nationalities, to declare social order and to strive for the building of the new democratic and socialist Tibet’. [More…]
The Directorate of Civil Defence appreciates the need for standardisation so that all available equipment could be used in a major disaster and to this end the Directorate co-operated with the Commonwealth Fire Board in producing the adaptor in 1965. [More…]
However, the finance required to standardise couplings throughout Australia is not available from the resources allocated to Civil Defence. [More…]
In fact, it was always known and accepted that in the event of a decision to send trops to Vietnam, because of Article IV of the South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty Australia would require a written request. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
At which defence establishments throughout Australia are premises provided for servicemen under the Commonwealth/States Housing Agreement? [More…]
At each defence establishment (a) what is the maximum waiting period for this accommodation (b) how many servicemen are accommodated in private premises and (c) what sum was spent in rent subsidies for private premises in 1969-70? [More…]
In such cases, houses are built and owned by the Defence Services. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Mr Fraser takes over this portfolio from Mr Fairbairn who retains his portfolio of Minister for Defence. [More…]
1 refer the Prime Minister to the policy enunciated by the former Minister for Defence during a speech at the Imperial Service Club at Sydney on 18 June when he advocated a fortress Australia policy for Australia’s defence similar to the defence policy of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
To what extent did this speech bear upon the decision to remove the right honourable gentleman from the Defence portfolio? [More…]
I think a careful reading of the right honourable gentleman’s speech before the Imperial Service Club will indicate that he was dealing with philosophical problems and not with the specifics of an Australian defence policy. [More…]
If he carefully reads the statement that was made by me - and I attached to it copies of both the letter we wrote to the then Prime Minister of South Vietnam and his reply - he will see that on at least 3 occasions prior to that there were requests by the South Vietnamese Government, from the proper authorities, that we and others should provide forces for the defence of that country against blatant and naked aggression from the north, assisted by the Soviet and China. [More…]
After he has read the statement I believe he will be as convinced as every person on this side of the House that not only was a legitimate request made but also that we were entitled to make our contribution to the cause of Vietnam in exactly the same way as he wanted us to make our contribution to the defence and support of Cambodia. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Defence, although perhaps I should be addressing it to the Minister who is in charge of the archives. [More…]
I understand that 26 years ago a committee was set up to investigate a defence services disciplinary code. [More…]
Secondly, can the Minister inform me on the situation concerning the memoirs of the former Secretary for Defence, Sir Frederick Shedden? [More…]
Does the Minister for Defence agree with a former Minister for Defence - that is, the Minister twice removed, who is now the Minister for Education and Science - that an Army task force is necessary in Western Australia to provide a better defence on the west side of the Australian continent? [More…]
The South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty does not require a report to the Security Council of requests received under Article 4 paragraph 3 under which we received the request although it does require a report of measures taken under paragraph I of Article 4, that is, measures taken to assist in defence against aggression where there is an armed attack in a treaty area, and in point of fact on 4th May 1965 a message was passed by the Australian Acting Permanent Representative of the United Nations, Mr Dudley McCarthy, to the President of the Security Council in compliance with that obligation which was not an obligation to report letters. [More…]
I have the honour to inform you that the Australian Government has decided to despatch forces to South Vietnam in order to assist in securing its defence against the hostile activities, including armed attacks, which have been supported, organised, and directed by North Vietnam. [More…]
Not long ago a Minister for Defence left the Ministry as a result of differences that arose because he gave briefings to a certain journalist. [More…]
This is a fact of life which demands recognition in the formulation of our foreign and defence policy. [More…]
Forward defence was such a concept and it has served us well. [More…]
The relevance to Australia’s defence needs of their continued presence there for any prolonged period of time ought to be considered, as I would think it is being considered. [More…]
The only other way in which the foreign policy of the Opposition could acquire popular support would be for Australia to reject completely the philosophies which have determined our economic and defence attitudes since many years prior to the Liberal-Country Party coalition coming to power in 1949. [More…]
This has been and is the foundation stone of Australian foreign and defence policies. [More…]
Regrettable as the necessity for international defence pacts is, history shows us clearly the need to choose strong and reliable friends with a common interest. [More…]
I would like to move on to other subjects which the Minister for Foreign Affairs referred to in his ministerial statement on international affairs and 1 would also like to touch on the speech of the right honourable member for Higgins, the former Prime Minister and Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton). [More…]
Will the Treasurer advise me whether expenditure in relation to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund is deducted from the Defence vote? [More…]
Why should expenditure for the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund be deducted from the Defence vote? [More…]
My recollection is that the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund expenditure is included in the totality of the Defence vote. [More…]
What do we need to do to persuade the Government to initiate a sensible and balanced defence system for the west? [More…]
But it is a senseless situation when one half of the area of Australia is left without proper defence planning. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will be aware that the Budget provides a total of S32.3m for maintaining Army and Air Force units overseas in 1971-72. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Priorities have been carefully examined and essential expenditure on education, defence, social services and payments to the States has been considerably increased over expenditure in the previous financial year. [More…]
The Government has wisely given defence an important priority in the Budget. [More…]
It is good to see the Government expending more money on defence measures - in men, materials and equipment - because Australia is a very fine country and one that would be a rich prize for any invader. [More…]
Therefore I feel sure that honourable members will agree with the increased vote in defence expenditure. [More…]
Day by day our foreign, defence and trade policies will grow more difficult to formulate as we search for and define Australia’s deep and unique national interests. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: What is the present position of the Australian order for the FI 1 1 aircraft? [More…]
The situation is that under the agreement between Mr Laird and the former Minister for Defence, Mr Malcolm Fraser, the Government has until approximately the end of this year to make a decision on whether or no it will accept the Fill. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
But it was made clear that the removal of the 10 per cent surcharge, and the resumption of convertibility of United States dollar balances, would be dependent on certain objectives being achieved by the United States as a result of negotiation in the fields of international trade and finance and the sharing of defence burdens. [More…]
Superimposed on this has been the heavy defence burdens of the United States. [More…]
Defence expenditure abroad by the United’ States has recently been running at the level of about $US5 billion annually. [More…]
They concern the dates and terms on which the Administrator was authorised to use the military forces of the Commonwealth and the dates on which the Prime Minister discussed the matter with his predecessor, who had become Minister for Defence, and on which the order was revoked. [More…]
This is a mater - particularly in regard to the Citizen Military Forces - for discussion by the Minister for Defence, the Leader of the House and me. [More…]
For example, there are pressures for extra outlay on defence. [More…]
The Budget in fact provides for substantial increases in social welfare, defence, education and the arts, assistance to rural industries, and other areas of essential activity. [More…]
1 wished to refer to a number of other matters in relation to this Budget Speech but, as time is very short, I will content myself with a reference to those defence matters which I feel have been defined by the Prime Minister in this Budget as ‘sustaining our conviction that the security of [More…]
1 wondered whether the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in particular, as he is the shadow Minister for Defence, would have been prepared to make criticisms about the distribution of funds for the defence services. [More…]
I therefore hold the view that the Government and the Parliament ought to be prepared to make at the earliest opportunity arrangements for a marked increase in the defence capacity of Australia. [More…]
This is a suggestion which I think ought to be of interest to people in our defence Services and in the Department of Defence. [More…]
I am indebted to a correspondent who wrote in the ‘Canberra Times’ on 16th August and who pointed out that with an undeclared war in Vietnam we have had in the last 6 months 3 Defence Ministers. [More…]
What I plan to do is to take a very quick look at the principal issues confronting Australia today in a totally novel situation, particularly in the field of our foreign relations and defence arrangements and in regard to some of our more pressing domestic problems. [More…]
So far as the situation in regard to our foreign affairs and defence is concerned I would point out that this is a novel situation in 1971 that we have never faced before, where our great and powerful friends are in the process of departing from our area. [More…]
First of all, I should like to distinguish between foreign policy and defence policy. [More…]
It is an optimistic policy but a defence policy is a pessimistic policy. [More…]
So far as defence is concerned - the pessimistic policy - we have to consider, first of all, the likely threats and then we must build or acquire equipment and train personnel to meet those threats. [More…]
Australia from the point of view either of our defence or prosperity, materially, spiritually or otherwise. [More…]
Will he prepare a table indicating the (a) Budget outlay, (b) social service expenditure and (c) defence expenditure for each financial year from 1960-61 to 1970-71 inclusive, using an index of 100 for the first year. [More…]
I intend to concentrate my remarks concerning the Budget on the last element of the Opposition amendment; that is the Budget’s impact on the defences of Australia. [More…]
This Budget provides for estimated spending on defence services of $1,252. [More…]
There was a wideranging debate in the Press on the size of the defence vote and what cuts would be made. [More…]
Depending on what leaks you chose to believe, the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) had jumped on the former Minister for Defence and made him trim his submissions, or the former Minister had won a stirring victory on behalf of his brass against Treasury cuts. [More…]
The Treasurer’s comments on the defence vote are lacking in illumination. [More…]
This was subsequently elaborated by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
Apart from these plugs for the Minister for Defence and the Prime Minister the treatment of defence in the Budget Speech was meagre. [More…]
It was confined to a statement of the total defence vote and the amount to be spent on new capital equipment and works, a quick run through of items of equipment to be delivered this year, and passing references to Cockburn Sound, Learmonth Airfield and defence aid programmes. [More…]
This cursory treatment was rather disappointing because the Parliament has not had the benefit of a major statement on defence policy since March last year. [More…]
The defence report for 1971 will not be available for at least another month. [More…]
Unlike governments of other parliamentary democracies this Government has shunned the custom of printing regular White Papers on defence. [More…]
The only information oh Australia’s defences in this Budget is the few brief paragraphs in the Budget Speech and the Estimates and brief explanatory notes in the schedule headed ‘Item No. [More…]
1 - Defence Services’ which is contained in the Budget papers. [More…]
The over-riding aim of defence policy in the next few years must be to bring these two objectives into balance. [More…]
The Treasurer said that the defence vote proposed for 1971-72 was $ 1,252.4m, an increase of $11 7m or 10.3 per cent more than the previous year. [More…]
As a proportion of Government spending this year’s defence vote is much the same as in 1970- 71. in real terms defence spending has shown little significant variation in recent years. [More…]
The Government seems to have accepted a level of defence spending, around $1.2 billion or just over 3 per cent of gross national product as electorally acceptable. [More…]
Analysis of the various components of the defence vote is much the same as in 1970- concern. [More…]
The most significant is the large part of defence spending absorbed by civil salaries and other administrative and maintenance costs. [More…]
If the total defence vote is kept at its present percentage of the national income this allocation is unlikely to fall. [More…]
If concepts of job values in the Services are recast then additional increases in pay rates are inevitable, lt is difficult to see pay, allowances and other benefits for servicemen absorbing less than a third of the defence vote in the next few years, allowing for the recommendations of the Kerr [More…]
This amounts to $177m or about 14 per cent of the total defence vote. [More…]
In total, paying servicemen and giving them appropriate equipment account for less than half of the defence vote of this Budget. [More…]
If the Government contribution to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund is excluded, the remaining half of the defence vote is soaked up by the extremely long administrative tail of our defence structure. [More…]
Civil salaries, administrative expenses, maintaining forces overseas, repairs and maintenance of equipment, maintaining inventories, running the Department of Defence and the Department of Supply account for half of our defence spending. [More…]
This leaves the other half of the defence budget for Service pay and production and procurement. [More…]
Provision for new equipment in the Budget is revealed under several items of the statement for the defence vote. [More…]
The total provision for new equipment for the 3 Services is $177m or about 14 per cent of the total defence vote. [More…]
The amount allocated for new production and procurement amounts to 14 per cent pf the total defence vote. [More…]
As part of the 5-year rolling defence programme the Government has accepted definite requirements and commitments for a number of new ships. [More…]
In March of last year Mr Malcolm Fraser, the then Minister for Defence, said the Government would buy 2 new Oberon submarines at a cost of $37.2m. [More…]
The then Minister for Defence, Mr Gorton, in an answer to a question on notice, informed me that reciprocal purchasing arrangements had been negotiated for the order and that tenders for offset orders were under consideration by the Department of Supply. [More…]
This programme is already behind the time schedule announced by former Defence and Navy Ministers. [More…]
Reconnaissance aircraft are important not only for defence purposes but also because of the non-military role they play in the surveillance of coastal waters and in searescue operations. [More…]
Mr Gorton, when Minister for Defence, told me in answer to questions that the placement of a firm order for the medium lift helicopters had been deferred and that contracts for the gunships and the utility helicopters are still being considered. [More…]
I have tried to point to the gaps in budgetary provision for new defence equipment. [More…]
If it is to continue its defence budget on the lines of 1970-71 defence budget then one or other of these 2 important components has to suffer. [More…]
The first is the obvious course of a significant lift in overall defence spending. [More…]
As a proportion of the gross national product, the defence vote in the Budget is less than it is in countries such as Britain, Sweden, West Germany and Norway. [More…]
It is arguable, however, whether the political and social climate in this country in the next few years is conducive to more of the national income going to defence. [More…]
With so many urgent domestic requirements and the sour aftertaste of the Vietnam venture higher defence spending will be extremely hard to sell in the years ahead. [More…]
Undoubtedly a defence system which sops up half of the defence vote in non-Service salaries and administrative costs is not operating at peak efficiency. [More…]
This is the area where cuts can be made by reorganising and rationalising the whole defence structure, which is riddled with duplicated and often wasteful spending. [More…]
Accurate comparisons are difficult to make, but any sort of comparative study of defence organisation in other countries emphasises the waste and inefficiency inherent in the Australian structure. [More…]
An example is the British defence budget as outlined in Lord Carrington’s statement on the defence estimates for 1971. [More…]
On a rough comparative basis Britain allots 28 per cent of defence spending to Service pay compared with 32 per cent ot the Australian vote. [More…]
The British Budget devotes 36 per cent of spending to civilian pay, administrative services, stores and supplies compared with around SO per cent in the Australian defence vote. [More…]
But the basic point is valid that Australia is not spending enough on re-equipment because the housekeeping costs of the defence structure are much too high. [More…]
1 have sought to draw attention to many of the features of the Budget defence vote which need clarification and resolution. [More…]
Opposition will have another chance to look at specific features of defence spending in the Estimates debate. [More…]
However, the overall picture of the present state of our defences and their future role and effectiveness is dispiriting and depressing. [More…]
Naturally I have had to draw comparisons between what the Government is spending on defence procurement and what it is spending on Service pay and conditions. [More…]
For these reasons I believe that the Government deserves to be condemned for its policies on the question of defence generally and that the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition should certainly be accepted by this House. [More…]
Three main sections of the Budget account for some 56,231 m. They include defence, the first responsibility of a national government, which will require SI, 252m, and the national welfare fund and repatriation, over $2,000m. [More…]
That small percentage of people pays 471 per cent or 47c in the dollar in income tax which goes primarily to the welfare funds and which is spent by the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), lt goes to the States and to defence. [More…]
The government adjusted things here and there; it raised a bit of revenue out of customs or something such as that for the public account; it organised some defence services and it did something about the Post Office; but it cared nothing about education. [More…]
We have heard a stirring defence of humanity from the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant). [More…]
It is widely accepted in units of this kind in colleges and institutions generally whether they be defence or otherwise, that there should be what we would term barracklike accommodation or institutionalised accommodation. [More…]
National ser vice has been and continues to be a significant element of the effort expended to ensure the maintneance of an effective defence capability in this country. [More…]
Adopted at the end of 1964, its immediate purpose was to increase within an acceptable time span the essential strength of our Army from its then low level of 23,000 men to a level that would be adequate to allow the Army to fulfil its role in national defence. [More…]
A secondary objective of the national service scheme is the encouragement of stronger Citizen Forces to ensure the support that the regular forces will require in time of a defence emergency; to this end men can elect at the time of registration for national service to undertake part-time service in the Citizen Forces as an alternative to full-time national service. [More…]
Equally relevant in any realistic and complete assessment of the contribution of national service to our defence manpower is the position of our reserve forces. [More…]
Yet it is, I observe, an essential plank of the Labor Party’s defence platform that national service should be abolished. [More…]
It is vital that it be maintained because the alternative would be a significantly reduced full-time military force unable to meet its defence obligations. [More…]
1 understand it is a plank of the Labor Party’s defence platform adopted at the Launceston Conference that it would retain the ‘right to raise a national service force should the security of Australia be threatened’. [More…]
It would use a force in the national interest only under threat of defence emergency. [More…]
However, if Australia’s defence manpower requirements cannot be met by volunteers, any Government would invite condemnation of its policies if it were to refuse to require men to serve, for this would entail dependence on an Army of inadequate strength. [More…]
However, I remind the House that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard), the Labor Party’s defence spokesman, averred on 19th August that ‘a soldier can be fully trained in 6 months’. [More…]
But, in any case, is 6 months a realistic period on which to base a nation’s long term defence preparedness? [More…]
One would have expected an alternative government to adopt a more responsible attitude to the need for continuing defence of national security and to ensure that it was, in fact, achieving strong forces through the measures it would take to attract volunteers before it placed our defence interests in jeopardy. [More…]
The essential issue is one of defence preparedness [More…]
In summary, in the present Australian context national service is an indispensable factor in maintaining the Australian Army at a size adequate for our defence obligations. [More…]
The Government for its part is not prepared to place Australia’s defence effort at risk in a dubious exercise of this type. [More…]
We must maintain a defence capability that is evident both to friendly countries and to potential enemies and which we could develop in adequate time should more immediate threats arise. [More…]
That the overall framework within which defence manpower requirements are determined should change is inexorable. [More…]
The decision to introduce national service, a decision which was not without courage, has been proved by the successful manner in which the scheme has provided the manpower that the Army needs to fulfil its role in our national defence strategy. [More…]
Then there is the cost involved in the Vietnam war and the exhausting efforts of our defence forces, the Fill fiasco and so on. [More…]
I believe - and I genuinely say this - that this Government has, after careful investigation and consideration, granted increases to pensioners after having listed government priorities in order of national importance, having had due regard to other important items of government such as education, defence, health, housing and matters concerning the development of Australia. [More…]
The people who listen to the broadcast of the debates tomorrow will probably hear honourable members on the opposite aide talking about the problems of city development, highways, beef roads, defence - although they rarely ever talk about that one - primary industry and Australia’s contributions to underdeveloped nations which depend on us for foreign aid. [More…]
Dealing with defence, everyone wants a secure Australia. [More…]
This year, expenditure on defence is up by $117m to Si, 252m. [More…]
These 4 items alone - payments to the States, social welfare, education and defence - account for $6,983m out of a total anticipated expenditure of $8,833m. [More…]
On previous occasions in this House I have attempted to raise the fact that the American Defence Department, because of the attitude of this Government, has situated in this country bases at Pine Gap and at other centres which means that Australia will become a prime nuclear target. [More…]
Their only purpose in the overall scheme of things is connected with the American defence system. [More…]
There can be no doubt in the minds of honourable members opposite after what was revealed yesterday on the programme PM’ of the existence in this country at Pine Gap of part of a global communication system which will not add to the defence effort of Australia. [More…]
I would defy any honourable member opposite to try, and I would take to task any member of any defence committee in Australia who in fact tried to inform me that the existence of these bases in Australia will serve Australia’s defence. [More…]
Has the Government, in acceding to the United States request for the establishment of these bases which are designed not to defend Australia but to make it a prime nuclear target, abdicated its responsibility for the preservation of the people of Australia in its attempt to curry favour by acceding to every request made by the United States in relation to that country’s defence interests? [More…]
We in Australia have not been considered by the United States so far as the provision of a nuclear deterrent for Australia’s defence is concerned. [More…]
In addition, there is no evidence of an American interest in providing a protective umbrella, such as that which the United States provides for her own defence in the North American area generally. [More…]
This is made obvious by the fact that the defence experts of the Washington Pentagon are interested only in this continent in the interests of the American defence system and consider that Pine Gap in Australia will provide the necessary warning for the United States to take defensive and retaliatory action in any nuclear war for the purpose of American defence. [More…]
It has done so because, by our geographical position and by the placement here of a base such as Pine Gap, we can provide adequate warning for an American defence system. [More…]
In fact, he spelt out quite clearly that it could well be that the Australian Government and the defence officials of this country may not be aware of what they have let themselves in for by permitting the construction of this base in the centre of this country. [More…]
We now know that because of its existence we do not have an adequate defence system. [More…]
Then we can relate it to what we consider ought to be necessary for our own defence instead of acting, in this part of the world, as a defence satellite of the millions of people who live in America, at the expense of the people who live in this country. [More…]
When one looks at the debates on defence in this House one cannot find a very convincing defence policy put forward by the Australia Labor Party. [More…]
I think it would be reasonable to say that the Labor Party has lost most Federal elections on its foreign policy and its defence policy. [More…]
After all, our whole defence concept at present rests primarily upon the ANZUS pact. [More…]
Some of the things which were said by members of the Labor Party during defence debates and at other times prior to the last war about Papua New Guinea and threats of war are really quite incredible. [More…]
In every defence debate the Labor Party voted against any increase in expenditure. [More…]
I admit that when the war came along the Labor Party did for various reasons - they were not all defence - go into office. [More…]
If we are to have mutual defence treaties and alliances with others and expect them to come to our aid surely to goodness we must accept some responsibility for defending ourselves. [More…]
Surely to goodness if we are going to have alliances with other countries and expect those countries to have obligations to us it will be necessary for us as a nation to accept some responsibility and to play some part in the organisation of our own defence. [More…]
In my opinion the establishments to which the honourable member for Sturt referred have not only a defence concept but also a very important peace concept. [More…]
There are very few things in respect of direction finding equipment or beam systems for shipping that do not also have a defence concept. [More…]
All I can say to the Opposition is that if it were to go out and propound this line to the Australian people’ it would only get the same result as it got in respect of the Malaysian defence agreement, the North West Cape issue and the Cuban situation. [More…]
Has he had sufficient time to have consultations with the Minister for Defence and others who may be involved in this matter so that we can have a jolly good debate on the Citizen Military Forces? [More…]
The honourable member can be his own expert on defence but certainly this Government would not want to follow his prognostications. [More…]
Secondly, if the honourable member for Wills cares to read the second reading speech on the National Service Bill which I introduced yesterday he will see the reasons why this Government believes and knows that -national service is an indispensable factor in the maintenance of those defence forces which Australia requires at this time to meet its defence obligations. [More…]
Ministers whose duties require them to spend long periods in Canberra have been allocated government dwellings since the then Prime Minister approved the procedure in 1956. rn 1958 the Government decided that immediate housing should be provided for Commonwealth officials, both civilian and defence, who came to Canberra with the central administrations. [More…]
Allocations have been made to the defence forces Chiefs of Staff and to other senior defence force officers, as well as to high ranking civilian administrators in the Public Service, as part of the recognised need to provide adequate accommodation in Canberra for people responsible for maintaining the efficiency of national administration. [More…]
There is no need to look for an eminent ex-serviceman in the community to be chairman when an eminent exserviceman who has been Prime Minister and Minister for Defence is sitting on the Government back benches. [More…]
The only joint committee currently functioning on an important issue is the Joint Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation and its business is nearing completion. [More…]
It asserts secondly, and I believe quite rightly, that a firm commitment was made by this nation to ali men and women who went to serve in the nation’s defence. [More…]
One of the things that particularly impress me is the fact that these young men returning from service in Vietnam, where they have chanced their lives in the defence of Australia - whatever we might have thought personally about their involvement in Viet nam - complain bitterly about the inadequate rehabilitation treatment that has been provided for them. [More…]
After all, as I have said, they have chanced their lives in the defence of Australia. [More…]
For some time the possibility of rationalisation of the defence aircraft industry in the Fishermens Bend area has been under study as was indicated by my predecessor in another place in a statement which he made early last year. [More…]
The aim of the amalgamation is to achieve greater effectiveness, stability and economy consistent with Government policy to maintain a small but viable defence aircraft industry. [More…]
Will the Minister inform Mr Johnson that he is not expressing the policy of this Government and draw his attention to the fact that, amongst others, the Minister for Education and Science, the Minister for Defence, the Minister for the Army, the present Prime Minister and the previous Prime Minister are all prominent members of the Melbourne Club which also practises racial discrimination? [More…]
Other amendments proposed by the Bill will give effect to certain income tax exemptions provided for in the agreement between the Australian and United States governments relating to the establishment of the Joint Defence Space Communications Station at Woomera. [More…]
The amendments proposed will extend to the Joint Defence Space Communications Station the exemptions now authorised in respect of those projects. [More…]
Another aspect of postal services which is subsidised by the users of the Post Office is the defence service. [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence been advised of details of a recent accident in the United States of America involving an Fill aircraft, whilst that aircraft was flying low at high speed on tactical reconnaissance training? [More…]
This will be done in order to ensure that the land is kept for recreational purposes and also to ensure that if at any time the Commonwealth does need the land for temporary defence purposes it can be resumed for those purposes. [More…]
In 1967 the Defence Force Protection Bill was passed. [More…]
To my knowledge, no-one has been charged under the provisions of the Defence Force Protection Act, despite the fact that people deliberately flouted the Act and deliberately broke the provisions of the Act and brought that fact to the attention of the Attorney-General. [More…]
I now touch on that section of the Budget dealing with allocations to the Joint Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap. [More…]
On 18th May this year I was in Alice Springs and I called in at the office of the Joint Defence Space Research Facility as it is called as it was common talk around Alice Springs that the facility was along the lines now revealed by Phillip Klass. [More…]
On calling back that afternoon, Mr Snooker told me that an officer in Canberra had said I had to apply in person to the Minister for Defence, and that his personal request to the Minister would not suffice. [More…]
Fortunately, I had my FMA card with me, so I asked if the Minister was at his office, 1 was told he was and accordingly I immediately rang through to the office of the then Minister for Defence in Canberra. [More…]
I was also told that the facility had no relationship whatsoever to nuclear research or defence and, of course, that is contrary to what has now been revealed by Phillip (Class. [More…]
I also believe it is a ridiculous situation that we have to learn of the purpose of this facility from scientific writers in the United States and not from our own Government in Australia, and it also should be remembered that United States Congressmen are given the right to visit any defence or research establishment associated with their country’s defence, including bases in another country. [More…]
The grants to the States will account for $2,93 lm, social services - taking in repatriation and health - $2,095m, and defence $l,252m. [More…]
Those 3 items, grants to the States, social services and defence account for 72 per cent of Budget expenditure. [More…]
What about defence? [More…]
I suppose all of us in our hearts would like to think that one day we will arrive at the stage when not a cracker will be spent on defence. [More…]
A lot of nonsense has been spoken recently about the Joint United States-Australian Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap as a result of a book written in the United States of America. [More…]
He claimed that these installations will not add to the defence effort of Australia and that their only purpose in the scheme of things is connected with the American defence system. [More…]
Pine Gap is a joint defence space research facility. [More…]
The Australian defence representative from the staff of the Chief Defence Scientists, Department of Defence, shares with the United States Department of Defence’s Chief of Facility in the joint management of the project. [More…]
Results of research activities are made available to the Department of Defence, Canberra, as the Australian co-operating agency. [More…]
Let me make it quite clear that the installation at Pine Gap is a part of the free world’s defences. [More…]
Premature disclosure of classified information could only be prejudicial to Australia’s defence interests. [More…]
We are a small nation and have sought the assistance of powerful allies by treaties to improve our defence capabilities. [More…]
Treaties give advantages, but they also impose obligations for us to undertake our fair share of defence preparations if we are to expect assistance in our hour of need. [More…]
Where does the ALP really stand on the matter of defence bases and facilities? [More…]
The tenure of these bases and facilities by other powers should not be of such a character as to exclude properly accredited access by authorised Australians charged with the duty of evaluating Australian defence policy, whether members of the Australian Parliament, defence departments or armed services. [More…]
In either case, the defence of Australia and the free world would be adversely affected. [More…]
Some members of the Opposition believe that the House should be told everything about all our defence installations and that the people should then have the opportunity of deciding which ones they would be prepared to have. [More…]
If we do not disclose these, why should we disclose military secrets about our defence establishments? [More…]
I enter the adjournment debate for a specific purpose but I must say, following the remarks made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), that my colleague the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Foster) at present is in Adelaide on unavoidable urgent personal business. [More…]
I make that point as a prelude to a statement which I think will bring the Minister for Defence slightly closer to me. [More…]
1 am delighted that the Minister for Defence is here because I did refer this matter today to the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock). [More…]
I rise this evening to answer the criticism levelled by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) against the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Foster) who raised a matter of public importance in this House last Thursday night when he referred to the joint defence space research facility, as it was called I the Minister for Defence, at Pine Gap. [More…]
The Minister for Defence said that the honourable member for Sturt wanted to raise the matter because he is a near pacifist. [More…]
If this is an early warning system in defence of the United States it could involve Australia in a nuclear war. [More…]
The Minister spoke about a joint defence space base. [More…]
We are entitled to know how we share the responsibilities of this joint defence space research facility. [More…]
Conference protests at the Federal Government’s refusal to inform the Parliament and public of the general purposes and possible consequences of the joint defence installations and facilities at Pine Gap and Woomera. [More…]
Over the years in this House we have listened to the honourable member for Reid speak on just about every defence installation within Australia and every defence commitment beyond Australia, and the views that he has propounded are, I think, clearly known to the Australian people We know also the repu tation of the honourable member for Reid in respect of the Moratorium marches and the various protests. [More…]
If the honourable member for Reid was prepared to say: ‘Although we do not give away our defence secrets and although the United States does not give away its defence secrets, my friends in the Soviet have told me everything, every location of their Polaris missiles, every site of their weapon bases and everything about their satellites that are flying over the earth at this time’, that would be a different matter. [More…]
Do not let anyone be naive enough to think that satellites do not have a defence capability and a defence effectiveness. [More…]
As I said last week - I am s:;re the honourable member for Sturt accepted it - if we want friends and if we have defence agreements with friends, we surely must accept some responsibility and a quid pro quo because we, as a small nation, are not yet able to stand by ourselves without friends. [More…]
I find it incredible that the honourable member for Reid, the honourable member for Wills and other honourable members opposite should say: ‘Tell us everything about every defence establishment and every secret that we have with our allies’. [More…]
Before we all pass on 1 should like to hear the honourable member for Reid ask one day that the Soviet Union make available all information about its defences. [More…]
I say: Let him go; let him ask the Chinese exactly what their defence secrets are and what their provision for the defence of their homeland is; and let him bring that information back to the Australian people. [More…]
1 have sat in this Parliament while 3 Ministers have held the portfolio of Minister for Defence. [More…]
They are the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn) who is temporarily and currently the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Each one of those honourable gentlemen in the portfolio as Minister for Defence has apparently had some mystic capacity to know these things and not betray the country. [More…]
In directing a question to the Minister for Defence, I refer to the joint United States-Australia defence space research facility at Pine Gap. [More…]
If anyone has tried to betray anything at Pine Gap, it is the people who have tried to breach security and to betray to our enemies or to our possible enemies the secrets of the Pine Gap installation which are vital for national defence. [More…]
It has been committed by those in the Press and some in the Opposition who have sought to uncover secrets which are vital to the defence of this country. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I claim that the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) in his reply reflected upon members on this side of the House; he did not name them but nevertheless he reflected upon them. [More…]
During the course of the adjournment debate in this chamber last night, in my absence - I had approached my Party Whip because I had to return to Adelaide on a personal matter - in a somewhat delayed reply the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) addressed the House. [More…]
I understand that last night the Minister for Defence referred to a speech which I had made during the adjournment debate last week and said that 1 had in fact stated that ‘we can only suffer as a result of our association with the United States of America’. [More…]
The Opposition supports these measures, which seek to make adjustments to the superannuation payments made to former contributors to the Commonwealth superannuation fund, the defence forces retirement benefits scheme and the parliamentary retiring allowances scheme. [More…]
The report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board for the year ended June 1970 shows that there were 5,533 pensions in force at 30th June 1969. [More…]
There were some thousands of members of the Forces contributing to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and in the case of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Fund, a much more limited fund, of course, there were something like 200 contributors. [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess), one or two other honourable members and I happen to be on a committee which at the moment is investigating the future of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
The inquiry of the Joint Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation, which is working in a limited sphere has extended over nearly a year. [More…]
The Treasurer has also given an assurance that the position of orphans and children will be given further consideration when the ninth quinquennial investigation of the Commonwealth Superannuation Fund and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund is completed. [More…]
We are all aware of the situation of those people in receipt of superannuation under the Commonwealth scheme, Defence Forces Retirements Benefit scheme or private schemes. [More…]
I think it is right and just that the Commonwealth Government has made provision in this Bill, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill and the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances (Increases) Bill for people who are in this situation. [More…]
I think that the honourable member for Melbourne Ports, I and other honourable members who serve on the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation are aware of the great complexities involved in any superannuation scheme. [More…]
I think that we all agree that the widows and children who suffer under the Commonwealth scheme, the defence forces scheme and the parliamentary scheme, as well as those under private schemes, should receive the benefits which are now being offered to them. [More…]
Perhaps I could introduce it in speaking to a Defence Bill or a Bill relating to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
I refer to the cost for the full year of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits increase which will be $3,400,000. [More…]
A matter which concerns me and which I do not quite understand is that it appears that this amount of money is to come out of the defence vote. [More…]
I can see no reason whatsoever why costs associated with the defence forces fund should come out of the vote for the defence expenditure of this country. [More…]
As I understand it the appropriation for defence is to pay the salaries of the members of the fighting forces and to purchase the equipment to be used by those forces in the defence of this country. [More…]
If one looks at the Estimates one will find that for 1971- 72 the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund is expected to cost in the vicinity of $20,550,000. [More…]
I cannot see that this is a true and rightful cost against the defence services of this country. [More…]
Why should this practice apply only to the Department of Defence? [More…]
We think that we are getting a full bottle for defence and defence equipment but find that from defence expenditure $20m is to be paid in pensions to gentlemen who have served the Commonwealth in the defence services. [More…]
I see no reason for any difference in the way superannuation is charged to a department, and it should not matter whether the superannuitant was a member of the defence services or a civil servant. [More…]
I do not think it is correct to make this charge against the defence vote. [More…]
The machinations of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act and the DFRB scheme have been found to be very difficult to understand. [More…]
The honourable member queries the reason why the expenditure in respect of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act was classified as part of the Defence vote. [More…]
I want to turn now from this aspect of the Australian economy to make one or two comments on defence. [More…]
I want to comment also on one other aspect of defence. [More…]
I thank the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) for moving for an extension of time. [More…]
It was in these aspects that the Department of Defence and the Service Departments were drawn into the Committee’s discussions, and the Minister for Civil Aviation has stated that the advice of these other Departments was of great assistance to the committee. [More…]
The Department of Defence, for instance, would have the right to appoint an observer. [More…]
We know that Richmond is a centre of absolutely vital importance to the defence of Australia, ft would be completely wrong for anyone to try to move this base from its present location and you could not operate at Richmond a joint civil and Air Force establishment as is done in Canberra. [More…]
It is in a main strategic position to support the defence requirement of Sydney and Newcastle. [More…]
Last night I could not attend in the chamber because I had to be in Adelaide, but the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) saw fit to reply belatedly to me on a matter I raised in the House last week. [More…]
The Minister for Defence is yapping to the Minister for Housing (Mr Kevin Cairns), who does not know anything about housing. [More…]
The honourable member for Farrer, the present Minister for Defence, had gone to the then Prime Minister looking for a plum of office in London. [More…]
You in fact last night in attacking me agreed with what I had to say in regard to the matter, that is, that the bases did not afford any defence to Australia. [More…]
Their only purpose in the overall scheme of things is connected with the American defence system. [More…]
There can be no doubt in the minds of honourable members opposite the existence in this country at Pine Gap of part of a global communication system which will not add to the defence effort of Australia. [More…]
Last night the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) said about Pine Gap: [More…]
If men like Klass and Ryan are correct Pine Gap is a defence base. [More…]
lt is a defence facility. [More…]
Honourable members opposite will not take any notice of my statement that it is a defence facility. [More…]
The honourable member for Sturt said that it will not add to the defence of Australia and that a base of this type should not be here. [More…]
A Protocol to the South-East Asia Collective Defence Treaty (the ‘Manila Treaty’), which entered into force on the same day as the Treaty, namely 19th February 1955, designated Cambodia as a State to which the provisions of Article III and Article IV of the Treats were ici he applicable. [More…]
The Order in Council authorising the callout of certain members of the Defence Force in aid of the civil power in Papua New Guinea was made on 19th July 1970 and revoked on 22nd April 1971. [More…]
The elements of the force could not be used to assist the civil authorities unless requisitioned by the Administrator and, as indicated in the reply on 16th March 1971 by the then Minister for Defence (Hansard, page 888) a requirement was added from September 1970 that before the Administrator could requisition forces he would have to obtain approval from Australian Ministers. [More…]
I have the honour to inform you that the Australian Government has decided to despatch forces to South Vietnam in order to assist in securing its defence against the hostile activities, including armed attacks, which have been supported, organised, and directed by North Vietnam. [More…]
1 suggest that it is because education is a State responsibility that the Commonwealth tends to think that education is less important than civil aviation, the Postmaster-General’s Department, or defence. [More…]
Society has a second line of defence if this one failed: This was to say ‘Oh yes, that, we’ve heard all that before’. [More…]
It is shocking to think that the former Prime Minister is there on the back bench because of the machinations of Sir Frank Packer, the Press baron, who made it clear to the present Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) that he should dismiss him from the position of Minister for Defence. [More…]
I would point out - and here again I must specifically refer to my own electorate of Kennedy - that the Government gave magnificent support to the construction of the Fairbairn Dam - it is very pleasing to see the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), whose name has been given to that dam, sitting in the House at this time - and soon the Emerald irrigation area will be the centre of a flourishing, expanded, prosperous farming and grazing community. [More…]
The Party even numbers in its ranks prodigal sons like the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), who is at. [More…]
In less than 4 years Australia has had 3 Prime Ministers, 4 Ministers for Defence, 5 Ministers for Foreign Affairs and 3 Treasurers. [More…]
Since March we have had 3 Ministers for Foreign Affairs, 3 Ministers for Defence, 3 Ministers for Health, 3 Ministers for Education and Science, 3 AttorneysGeneral, 2 Treasurers, 2 Ministers for Labour and National Service, 2 Ministers for Immigration, 2 Ministers for the Navy, 2 Ministers for Housing, 2 Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs and 2 Ministers for Supply. [More…]
This afternoon I asked Mr Gorton, the Minister for Defence, to see me about his decision to write a series of articles for the ‘Sunday Australian’, the first of which has already been published. [More…]
Now I come to the Minister for Defence who is at the table. [More…]
Malcolm Fraser, the new Minister for Education, and former Defence Minister is a wealthy grazier from Victoria’s western district. [More…]
The Prime Minister has already indicated his leanings when writing for the resignation of the former Minister for Defence. [More…]
1 priority is loyalty and the defence of this country; my No. [More…]
Of course, without defence we would be hopeless. [More…]
Without loyalty we would not care whether we bad defence. [More…]
These indicate that in 1954 the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed to Secretary of Defence, Charles E. Wilson, that: [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Navy: Having regard to the fascinating events now taking place in London involving the accredited representatives of a for eign power and what is termed ‘industrial espionage’, does the Minister assure the House of the security of naval establishments, dockyards and construction centres to design and build Australia’s new destroyers for our future defence at sea? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question which is supplementary to the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
Also there are the South Vietnamese self defence forces in that area. [More…]
Not content with confining himself to the administrative matters within the ken of his Department, the Minister ranged broadly over issues of defence policy which surely fall within the jurisdiction of the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) who, of course, is absent from this debate this afternoon. [More…]
His speech was in many ways the speech of a de facto Defence Minister. [More…]
He devoted much time to the national service and defence policies . [More…]
That is the Labor Party - would use a force in the national interest only under threat of defence emergency. [More…]
On the face of his words the Minister is saying that the Government would use the defence forces in the national interest in circumstances other than a threat to defence emergency. [More…]
If I read the Minister rightly, he is criticising the Labor Party because it would use defence forces in the national interest only when Australia is threatened by a defence emergency. [More…]
However, the Government’s more flexibe approach would allow it to use the defence forces in the national interest in other circumstances, and for this reason conscripts are always needed. [More…]
According to the Minister it was necessary for defence preparedness that Army strength be maintained at 40,000. [More…]
Anything less would put our defence interests in jeopardy. [More…]
At the rate projected by the Minister it would take 12 years - that is, until 1983 - to bring the Army up to the level considered by the Minister as essential for defence preparedness. [More…]
Under these conditions if conscription were abolished the strength of an all-volunteer army would not be significantly below the target strength defined by the Minister as constituting defence preparedness. [More…]
To quote the Minister’s jargon: “That the overall framework within which defence manpower requirements are determined should change is inexorable’. [More…]
On the figures I have quoted, it would be possible to form an all-volunteer Army by 1975 not significantly different from the terms of defence preparedness set out by the Minister. [More…]
The Minister for Labour and National Service who has accepted the role of the Minister for Defence, as I pointed out when I commenced to speak on this matter, remains silent on these matters. [More…]
And well he should, as should other members of the Government, because it is no credit to them that they have allowed the conditions of serving members of the forces to deteriorate and that, together with the question of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, they have refused to accept their responsibility. [More…]
Again the Minister for Labour and National Service, who has accepted the role of spokesman for the Minister for Defence in this matter, remains silent on the question of recruitment. [More…]
One hopes that some of this hypocrisy which Government members indulge in when they speak in this House on the matter of conscription will be explained by those who refuse to accept their responsibility in relation to some of the more important aspects of recruitment of the defence forces of this country. [More…]
Having had an opportunity to visit Army establishments or defence establishments in every State and to talk to those who are in a position of responsibility in relation to these matters I believe that a great deal of dissatisfaction exists within the Services. [More…]
It produced heavy social costs which do not show up in conventional accounting of defence spending; for example the cost of detecting and punishing offenders under the Act. [More…]
Two examples are the work done by Mr A. D. MacGuarr, a former systems analyst in the Department of Defence and Mr Glen Withers of Latrobe University. [More…]
Its present pre-occupation is to maintain an army of 40,000, presumably to maintain one battalion or more in Malaysia and Singapore in accordance with its stubborn adherence to the discredited forward defence policy. [More…]
It also clings to the conscript system on the very dubious ground that it provides defence preparedness. [More…]
It is difficult to see how a mixed force of 40,000 volunteers and conscripts, with all the waste and effectiveness inherent in the conscript system, provides greater defence preparedness than an all-volunteer army of 34,000 which could be raised in 2 or 3 years. [More…]
For any major threat to Australia what the Minister calls the defence preparedness provided by a few thousand conscripts in the Army and the pool of trained men on the reserves would not be a decisive factor. [More…]
He started off by stating that the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) when he introduced the Bill had given, in addition to details of the machinery involved in the Bill, a coverage of the strategic position and had taken over the role of the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
He made reference to me and to the inadequacy of the Government’s treatment of the Defence forces. [More…]
He did not suggest that it had moved for that in conjunction with a joint select committee of inquiry into the Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Fund. [More…]
I voted against it because as chairman of the Joint Select Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund I have seen just how much is involved in inquiring into that matter alone and 1 would have thought a joint select committee into pay and conditions in the Services would not have had a chance of bringing down a report for a considerable number of years if it did the job that is necessary. [More…]
We got the old story about the death and glory boys, the fighters who fought for Australia’s defence, those who in the 1930s had never opposed a Defence vote, those who bad . [More…]
encouraged the defence of this country. [More…]
Until 1939 it was the Labor Party which on all occasions had opposed expenditure on defence and if this country was in a parlous state it was because the Labor Party would not support defence expenditure. [More…]
I quote from Hansard of 3rd November 1938 at page 1215 - let it be remembered that war was declared in September 1939 - when Mr Holloway, later a Minister in the Labor Government, said: 1 do not charge the Government with not expending enough money on defence; I make it clear at the outset that I think it is expending too much. [More…]
When a government begins to expend on defence money which should be used for the internal development of the country, then, in my opinion, it is doing wrong. [More…]
There is no need to sacrifice the living standards of the people for the sake of this panicky defence scheme. [More…]
The Government is expending much too rapidly on defence. [More…]
It is making plans for more than the adequate defence of Australia. [More…]
Defence expenditure must depend entirely upon the conditions which prevail in the world from time to time. [More…]
I say that any increase of defence expenditure after the Munich Pact so far as Australia is concerned appears to me to be an utterly unjustifiable and hysterical piece of panic propaganda. [More…]
That was a magnificent speech given for the Labor Party in relation to recruiting and defence expenditure in 1938. [More…]
At that time he was talking about defence expenditure. [More…]
What magnificent speeches made by men who were looking after and at that stage debating the defence of Australia. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is regarded by honourable members opposite - and I think by very few other people - as the Minister for Defence in a Labor government. [More…]
I wonder as to the sense of reality of members of the Labor Party in respect of defence. [More…]
Has the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, as a potential Minister for Defence, any idea how many effective fighting troops there would be out of an Army of 28,000 when there were deducted the logistic forces, the back-up forces, the reserves, the finance people, the ordnance people, the electrical and mechanical engineers and other technical branches of an army? [More…]
Does he not think that we may have to undertake some joint defence with Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Then there is Australia’s commitment to Malaysia and Singapore, and the validity of her policy of forward defence where nations wish the support which this can give. [More…]
We think that you have got to form a regional agreement, that you have to undertake your own defence. [More…]
There is a great similarity between the speeches being made by leading Labor men today and the speeches which were made back in 1938 when, as I said before, the Labor Party voted against and spoke against any form of preparedness and any improvement of the Army and the defences of this country. [More…]
Is this their idea of defence? [More…]
If the Kerr Committee’s report is as I think it should be, and if the report of the Joint Select Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation is as I think it should be and as I am hoping it will be, there may be an accelerated rate of recruitment into the Services. [More…]
In my opinion those members of the Labor Party who apparently seem unconcerned about the defence of this country and unconcerned with the protection of our national heritage and our national responsibility are the ones who have moved for cutting out conscription. [More…]
They are the ones who have moved that we should spend less on defence. [More…]
There are many things I would like to say about our requirements for defence. [More…]
We have commitments under the Nixon doctrine to do more for our own defence. [More…]
There is an obligation on the young men of this country to stand for the defence of this country and be prepared to play their part. [More…]
The Minister for Defence in particular included references to the important need for Australia to develop air defences - that was not entirely backward thinking in 1936 - and to the fact that it was evident even at that time that Australia could not expect assistance from the United Kingdom in the event of any future war and would have to look elsewhere. [More…]
The events, in which Australia played a major part, involving the United States in the land war in Asia have cost us the future possible support of the United States in any defence situation. [More…]
The reason why the 6 months reduction is taking place is that the Government could not finance its defence expenditure with a 2-year period of national service and found that the cheapest and easiest way out was to reduce the period, by 6 months, to 18 months, lt is purely a budgetary reduction in the period of national service. [More…]
That budgetary reduction, when 6 months can be cut off the period purely to satisfy the political requirements of drafting an annual Budget, shows just how seriously the Government treats the need for national service in our defence system. [More…]
He did not refer to the fact that in J 941 the forces were placed there without the benefit of air support and were placed there in a practically defenceless situation and, because of the manner in which they were supplied, were virtually in a suicidal position. [More…]
We obtained no benefit whatsoever from that piece of forward defence, and if anyone can stand up in this House and suggest that that was in Australia’s best interests I would like to hear him. [More…]
There appears to be on the Government side some suggestion that 20-year olds have a moral obligation to serve in the armed forces because the defence of the country is involved. [More…]
If morality is the question then where is the morality in choosing a significantly small proportion of the community to carry the entire burden of defence or, as the honourable member for La Trobe put it, effective defence because - if his speech means anything - we have ineffective defence’ if we have only 28,000 men. [More…]
It is necessary, according to the Government, that 12,000 young men should spend 18 months in the Army in order to provide us with effective defence. [More…]
There is also some serious lack of morality in a situation in which we call on young men to train to kill their fellow human beings, not in defence of their country but in defence of the political policies of the government of the day. [More…]
Today we do not hear anyone, other than possibly members such as the honourable member for La Trobe, suggesting that the Vietnam war was in defence of Australia. [More…]
It was in defence of the political judgments of the Government, but to suggest that it was in the actual defence of Australia is, I think, stretching the imagination a long way. [More…]
But the fact of the matter is that no-one seriously suggests that Australian troops were or are in Vietnam in defence of Australia. [More…]
prepared to take the same types of actions to maim and kill his fellow man in defence of political judgments with which he may or may not agree. [More…]
Apparently the Regular Army is the train-, ing, background and logistic support for national servicemen who, in the effective 6 months period which they will serve will be asked to carry any future defence of Australia. [More…]
I suggest that this legislation proves, firstly, that the Government still considers, as it has always considered, that national service is an essential and integral part of Australia’s defence policy and, secondly, that it adopts a flexible attitude to the actual working of the national service scheme. [More…]
On the other hand, the honourable member for Corio and the Australian Labor Party have made it completely clear that they adopt a totally inflexible attitude - that is, they are totally opposed to providing adequate, defence forces for Australia by means of national service. [More…]
The honourable member for Corio referred to the small proportion of the community which is called upon to carry the burden of defence. [More…]
Over the last several years, no issue has more clearly defined the differences between the sides of the House than the defence issue. [More…]
1 suggest that the attitude of members of the Australian Labor Party to the defence of Australia can be summed up in the phrase: ‘They hope for the best’. [More…]
This is illustrated clearly in the extraordinary tenet of the Labor Party’s defence policy - that Australia’s strategic frontiers are her natural boundaries. [More…]
However, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) has admitted on previous occasions that it takes at least 6 months to train a man adequately and, at the present voluntary rate of engagement in the Australian armed services, it would take approximately 12 years to reach the number in the Army which our defence advisers consider essential for the adequate defence of this country. [More…]
This illustrates, as few other things could do, the hopeless inability of the Australian Labor Party to understand the problems of defence and the role of national service in defence. [More…]
I think it was the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) who expressed this perhaps in another way in a debate on defence in this place some years ago when he said that what we want is that all troops on foreign soil should go home and stay home. [More…]
The defence policies are the central pillar around which all of our domestic policies must be built. [More…]
All of us have fresh in our memories statements by Ministers and former members of the Government, not least of them the previous Prime Minister and the recent Minister for Defence who stated in several speeches which were circulated to honourable members that Australia faced no challenge in the next 10 years, that happily we were in a situation where it seemed that we would not be threatened in what one might almost say the foreseeable future. [More…]
He quoted to us speeches made by various Labor members of the Parliament at that time who suggested that wc in Australia ought not to be carried away by emotionalism and devote too much of our resources to defence. [More…]
It is true that if honourable members go through the Hansard record they can single out speeches made by Labor members before World War II who suggested that it was undesirable to devote too much of the resources of this country to a defence effort. [More…]
I do not think we should try to make party political capital out of some of these things because my Party, the Australian Labor Party, has nothing to be ashamed of in the attention that it has devoted to the defence of Australia at any time that this country has been threatened. [More…]
He said that members of this Party had said that Australia’s frontiers lay at its natural boundaries, that the stationing of defence forces overseas was no longer acceptable and that we would not accept the advice of the chiefs of staff or the senior people in our defence forces. [More…]
Is not this the time that the Government, given the fact that it has appointed 2 committees to look at Service pay and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, should try out its own policies and see whether it can develop responsible policies which would encourage decent young Australians, physically fit young Australians, to join the armed forces and serve their country in this way? [More…]
I am happy to see that the Government has responded to an Opposition initiative to look at some of these matters of pay and defence forces retirement benefits. [More…]
There is no argument from the Labor Party side of the House about the defence of Australia. [More…]
Again I make the point that the previous Minister for Defence and other honourable members on the Government side have said that they can see no threat to Australia in the next 10 years. [More…]
National service was introduced to ensure that the level of Army manpower was maintained at a strength consistent with our defence requirements and, of course, with the population of this country. [More…]
While the Bill provides for a reduction in the time to be served in the Army by a national serviceman it will not reduce the reserve of over 20,000 trained men whom national service has made possible and who are available in the event of an emergency arising in the defence of this country. [More…]
The Government does not desire to disrupt the careers of young men any more than is absolutely essential to maintain adequate numbers in our defence forces. [More…]
That is an absurd suggestion because there would be no doubt that this Government on its record down the years has ensured that priority in expenditure was given to maintaining an adequate defence for this country. [More…]
But this is not sufficient to justify any lessening of the strength that is required to maintain an adequate defence force in this country. [More…]
One only has to imagine some flare-up in that area to see that Australia would be in a position where it would have to strengthen its defences fairly quickly and by having reserves available in our trained national servicemen Australia could get these people into service and be ready to protect this country in times of national emergency. [More…]
Also a country is respected much more if the numbers of its defence forces are consistent with what is reasonably regarded as adequate. [More…]
Turning again to the Citizen Military Forces, it is a very effective and very essential part of our defence forces and does provide an alternative for those young men who do not want to serve in a ?articular war and who do not want to undertake ordinary national service training and perhaps be sent overseas. [More…]
I believe that one of the great weaknesses of the Labor Party down the years has been its attitude to defence. [More…]
One of the things which the Australian people have refused to accept over the years has been the Labor Party’s defence policy. [More…]
The people do not regard the Labor Party’s defence policy as having the strength that has always been provided since this Government came into office. [More…]
All that we and I think the great majority of Australians want is a satisfactory defence force, and the numbers which the Labor Party proposes should be in the Army - whether they are professional soldiers or not - are not consistent with what might reasonably be expected that the Australian nation should provide in its own defence. [More…]
Australia has a national responsibility to provide an army and a defence force at a level consistent with what Australia can reasonably be expected to provide. [More…]
If we are to expect other countries, as I believe we will, to come to our aid in time of need, then we should show our willingness and determination to have in this country a defence force of a strength which we should reasonably be expected to provide. [More…]
I believe that it is very much in the interest of the Australian people that we should keep our defence forces at least at their present level. [More…]
If I were to have any criticism of the Government’s policy in this field, it would be that we do not have as strong an army or as strong a defence force as we should have. [More…]
I believe that Australia’s economy justifies even greater strength in our defence forces than exists today, but certainly the position is a long way better than what is proposed by the Labor Party in its amendment to this Bill. [More…]
However, I believe that the Australian people should have the opportunity to show, as they have done in the past very clearly and decisively, that they require a government to keep our defence forces up to the level which this country can reasonably carry. [More…]
If I had any criticism at all of the Government’s policy it would be along the lines that the strength of our defence forces is not as great as it should be. [More…]
We cannot afford to take a risk, so the strength of our defence forces is of vital importance to Australia. [More…]
That is the basis upon which the strength of our defence forces should be fixed. [More…]
That is the criterion to be used to decide whether Australia is doing as much as she can in her own defence. [More…]
Perhaps the honourable member has forgotten - so many things have happened in a short space of time - that the right honourable member for Higgins was Prime Minister of Australia and for a period was Minister for Defence and, as such. [More…]
I believe would have expert knowledge of the defence situation. [More…]
Those young men, and those not so young, who would defend their country against an aggressor but who could not convince themselves that they should be involved in the rape of Indo-China were denied the reasonable and acceptable defence of a conscientious objection to immorality. [More…]
Government members are convinced that they are taking a magnanimous attitude by reducing the period of service from 2 years to H years - still on a pot luck basis, still with the threat of imprisonment as the alternative and still with the lack of grounds for defence by draftees. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is being berated by honourable members on the Government side of this House for not being realistic about the defence of this country and yet in the two great wars in which Australia has been involved - the 1914-18 war and the 1939-45 war- It was an Australian Labor Party government that carried the day. [More…]
This is the sort of numbers game that Government supporters play and this is the sort of arrogant attitude that the Government and Government supporters adopt towards this whole question of defence. [More…]
When we speak about defence we speak not only about those men who make up the numbers of the armed forces. [More…]
This Government is very nggardly and very remiss on the whole question of defence and one of these days it will find the problem wrapped right round its neck. [More…]
The roads that are necessary for national defence are a disgrace. [More…]
This is the sort of defence policy that this Government is obviously trying to prop up and the only purpose of national service training is to prop up a defence system that is badly calculated and quite wrong. [More…]
The honourable member is today chairing an all party committee inquiring into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
He is chairman of the Government members defence committee. [More…]
He asks questions on defence matters. [More…]
But they are opposed to a great many attempts made by the Government to try to improve Australia’s defence. [More…]
This is the contribution that the Labor Party makes to Australia’s defence. [More…]
The attitude of the Labor Party to service in our defence forces is that there should be complete volunteer service. [More…]
There are, however, developments within and without the area which complicate the strategic situation, particularly the withdrawal of American forces and the reduction of the number of British forces in that area, which point to the need to maintain our defence capability. [More…]
This capability must be such that we could develop it in adequate time should more immediate threats to our security arise, and for these purposes the Government considers that the scheme as now adjusted is an important element in our defence preparedness. [More…]
The fluid strategic situation in which we find ourselves demands flexibility in our strategic policies and the progressive development of selfreliant forces and an evident defence capability. [More…]
The strength of our defence forces is not measured solely by the numbers actively serving. [More…]
Defence services can not be turned on and off like a tap, as the honourable member for Brisbane seemed to imply. [More…]
By providing Australia with fully trained and experienced reservists national service has had an impact on our defence potential far beyond increasing the strength of our full time Army. [More…]
As the Prime Minister said in the House on 18th August, the Government will review force levels as necessary as part of the 5-year defence rolling programme. [More…]
It is important against the strategic outlook for the 1970s and the 1980s to have the right balance of equipment and men in the defence forces as a whole. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has his facts wrong and his heart in the wrong place. [More…]
The Minister for Defence also said that the Opposition is opposed to national service. [More…]
The Minister for Defence says that we must ensure against emergency and that we must have a reservoir of trained soldiers. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has told us that we cannot turn our Services on and off like a tap. [More…]
We on this side of the House have never opposed adequate defence for Australia. [More…]
We had the best record of any nation of conscripting and volunteering men to serve in the defence of freedom. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has told us that students can get a deferment. [More…]
If he had men trained and with certain skills who would be useful in the defence of this country he knew what those skills were. [More…]
However, honourable members opposite should listen to some of these people instead of making grand statements such as that made by the Minister for Defence who said that opposition to the call-up has not been shown by those affected directly. [More…]
Just as the Minister for Defence was when he made the stupid statement, that those directly affected do not oppose it - and thereby loses a precedent for respect of those rights he regards as his own. [More…]
The Government, says the Minister for Defence, has taken all reasonable steps to make it possible for people to avoid service in Vietnam by deferring callup and by resettlement loans, etc. [More…]
I think that if that was not the position and if some of these clergy and students were serving members of the armed forces they would be searching their consciences a little more closely, as I have suggested the Minister for Defence should, and speaking to some of these young gentlemen who have objected to this Act. [More…]
The Minister for Defence suggested that it is because we must have a reserve of skill. [More…]
We have heard this question which is posed by the National Service Bill discussed in terms of attacks upon , and defences of John Curtin. [More…]
We have heard an attack upon the Melbourne Club, and we have heard a defence of the Melbourne Club. [More…]
Yet the indisputable fact is that if the amendment which is proposed as representing the cornerstone of the Opposition’s attitude towards this great matter of national service were carried, the effect would be that whereas on the 31st December 1971 the size of the Australian Regular Army would be 44,000 men, on the 1st January 1972 it would be reduced to 28,000 men - a number of men which the Opposition, by concession, admits would be inadequate for our defence purposes. [More…]
The plain fact is that it is the prime duty of any government, as is admitted on the other side of the House, to make proper provision for the defence of the country against external aggression and this matter of what is proper provision is not a matter of mere political judgment. [More…]
But this area of defence policy is, above all areas of policy, an area in which we on both sides of politics should try as hard as we can to be statesmen rather than mere party politicians. [More…]
The question of what level is necessary to be maintained in the interests of the defence of the country is not just a question of political judgment. [More…]
Events over the last 7 years have shown that notwithstanding the most substantial improvements in pay and conditions of service we would not have now an Army of the size that our military advisers now say is necessary if we are to retain the necessary defence capability - the necessary capability to cope with the contingent risks that are in prospect. [More…]
The defence advisers of the Government presumably go along with the idea - I have no doubt of this - that we can get by for the lime being with an Army of 40,000 men instead of an army of 44,000 men. [More…]
Until the Opposition can present to the House and to the country alternative practical proposals in lieu of conscription it is the height of folly and, 1 would venture to say, something bordering on political irresponsibility for it to be proposing that overnight on 31st December 1971 conscription should be abolished and the Army reduced to a size that the Opposition admits would be inadequate to preserve a proper defence capability for this country. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) referred to the fact that the United Kingdom and Canada have no national service. [More…]
National Service has been and continues to be a significant element of the effort expended to ensure the maintenance of an effective defence capability in this country. [More…]
Adopted at the end of 1964, its immediate purpose was to increase within an acceptable time span the essential strength of our Army from its then low level of 23,000 men to a level that would be adequate to allow the Army to fulfil its role in national defence. [More…]
It would have been more correct if the Minister had substituted for the words ‘to fulfil its role in national defence’ the words to fulfil its role in nationalistic offence’. [More…]
In summary, in the present Australian context national service is an indispensable factor in maintaining the Australian Army at a size adequate for our defence obligations. [More…]
Their big objective is to have us reduce our effective defence It is all very well to say that we do not want to call up our young people. [More…]
There has been an infiltration of ideology and attitude into the western world which has caused many people no longer to think in terms of the defence of their country and of patriotism. [More…]
The destruction of patriotism as we once knew it has led to a lack of awareness in our young people of the need for defence. [More…]
If national service had nothing to do with defence but was purely a system of training it would pay handsomely. [More…]
I again say that if this Government were to abandon one iota of the firm stand it has taken in regard to the defence of Australia it would deserve to go put of office. [More…]
I also advise them to obtain from the Parliamentary Library, in their quieter and saner moments, a book on Australia’s defence edited by Gelber in which they will find an article written by the honourable member for Isaacs (Mr Hamer). [More…]
I refer honourable members opposite to both those authorities, one a former Prime Minister and Minister for Defence and the other a former professional serviceman. [More…]
The Government has this responsibility and, because war is not imminent in the foreseeable future, now is an ideal time for us to be spending some of the money, which we are now spending on defence and wasting in other areas, to bring about conditions of peace. [More…]
One ground which all Christians - those who are pacifists and those who are nonpacifists - hold in common is the belief that peace is something that has to be pursued; that peace is not something that just happens; that- peace is not just an absence of war temporarily; but that peace is something which must be fought for and as much spent on fighting for it as is spent on defence so-called. [More…]
Mr Morrison asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice:. [More…]
What was the (a), value and (b) general nature of the defence orders placed by the United States of America in Australia, and processed by his Department in 1970-71. [More…]
Does he know the (a) value and (b) general nature of any defence orders placed direct on industry in Australia by the. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (la) The value of defence orders placed by the US in Australia and processed by the Department of Supply in 1970/71 was $7.100m. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was the (a) value and (b) general nature of the defence orders placed by New Zealand in Australia and processed by his Depart- ; ment in 1970-71. [More…]
Does he know the (a) value and (b) general ; nature of any defence orders placed direct on industry in Australia by New Zealand in that year. [More…]
The answer to the hon ourable member’s question is as follows: :” (la) The value of defence orders placed by New Zealand in Australia and processed by the Department of Supply in 1970-71 was $0.110m. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What- was the (a) value and (b) general nature of the defence orders placed by Britain in Australia and processed by his .Department, in 1970-71. [More…]
Does he know the (a) value and (b) general nature of any defence orders placed direct, on industry in Australia by Britain in that year. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (la) The value of defence orders placed by Britain in Australia and processed by the Department of Supply in 1970-71 was $6.555m. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: (1) What was the (a) value and Cb) general nature of the defence orders placed by Malaysia in Australia and processed by his Department in 1970-71. [More…]
Does he know the (a) value and (b) general nature of any defence orders placed direct on industry in Australia by Malaysia in that year. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question, is as follows: (la) The value of defence orders placed by Malaysia in Australia and processed by the Department of Supply in 1970-71 was $0.958m. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What was the (a) value and (b) general nature of the defence orders placed’ by Singapore in Australia and processed by his Department in 1970-71. [More…]
Does he know the (a) value and (b) general nature of any defence orders placed direct- on industry in Australia by Singapore in that year. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (la) The value of defence orders placed by Singapore in Australia and processed by the Department of Supply in 1970-71 was $0.S36m. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
That the Commonwealth consider this road as a Defence Measure for the whole of Australia and road link connecting the two coasts of the Continent, and consideration to the sealing from the aspect of the increase of Trade and Tourism within Australia, thus encouraging the retention of the finance in Australia which is now going overseas. [More…]
This is not the time to assess what our military commitment in Vietnam has done to Australia and what impact it has had on the defence and security of this country. [More…]
Flowing from the engagement last week, subsequent statements made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) and the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock), and the answers given by the Minister for Defence to questions in the Parliament yesterday, the Opposition wants to look at the disposition of Australian forces in Phuoc Tuy Province and the security of their withdrawal. [More…]
The Minister for Defence did nothing to dispel this impression in the Parliament yesterday. [More…]
The Minister for Defence said yesterday that South Vietnamese regional and popular forces were already responsible for a considerable proportion of the province. [More…]
What is plain is that the area of responsibility defined by the Minister for the Army is not the more remote areas of the province as stated by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
This is the only way of clearing up these flagrant contradictions between the Minister for Defence and the Minister for the Army. [More…]
Every action is taken by the Opposition to reduce the strength of our defence and our commitment in Vietnam. [More…]
What we are discussing today is far too important and far too serious for the pitiful attempts at pedestrian debating made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
Nothing that the Prime Minister has said and nothing that the Minister for Defence has said indicates to me that the South Vietnamese Regular Army will help us. [More…]
But over the last fortnight the Australian Labor Party has been asking me, the Army, the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) and, indeed the Government as a whole, to disclose not only the dates of the return of 3 and 4 Battalions but also the disposition of our own forces, enemy forces, movements into the province and all the information that would jeopardise the security of our Task Force in South Vietnam. [More…]
However, I am not concerned whether that, in itself, is not sufficient for the honourable member because he is seeking a great deal more information than any Minister, whether he be the Minister for the Army or the Minister for Defence, can possibly provide in a situation such as presently exists. [More…]
It must not be forgotten that to date we still retain a responsibility towards the Vietnamese in the Phuoc Tuy province and this has been mentioned already by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In reply to a question yesterday, the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) said: [More…]
Also there are the South Vietnamese self defence forces in that area. [More…]
This incident which has happened raises the question of whether the security of Phuoc Tuy province is as soundly based as both the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence have led us to believe. [More…]
In other words, throughout the defence areas and in the home bases we had very strong warnings that at all times security had to be protected. [More…]
Does he want it to be said that the defence perimeter around that area is of such-and-such depth? [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has already referred to one question asked by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, not relating, as the honourable member for Brisbane seemingly took it, to a Vietcong minefield but to an Australian defence minefield surrounding our area. [More…]
When one looks at the question asked by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition yesterday one just wonders if he was Minister for Defence what the devil would happen to the defence of this country and anyone with whom we are allied. [More…]
What does he expect the Minister for Defence to say in reply? [More…]
Let us get back to the defence area. [More…]
The matter of carpeting sleeping accommodation will be pursued to determine whether there is justification for amendment to the approved Services scales and standards of accommodation which will of course affect all future proposals for sleeping accommodation at defence establishments. [More…]
One of the problems that is apparent at all of the permanent defence establishments in the various States is the large amount of sub-standard accommodation. [More…]
I really cannot understand why the Opposition has gone to such pains in preparing an amendment to this very simple Bill, which seeks to reduce the period of service required of a national serviceman from 2 years to 18 months and to reduce the strength of the defence forces from 44,000 to 40,000. [More…]
The Labor Party does not apply these theories to arbitration, but it applies them to anything which relates to the defence of our country. [More…]
Many great soldiers when they returned to Australia seemed to be submerged in the Australian Labor Party, which was not particularly concerned about defence or, for that matter, the terms and conditions of service under which men of the defence forces served. [More…]
I was a serving officer, the defence allocation was the princely sum of 3m. [More…]
Of course, it is not required because there is unemployment in both of those countries and, of course, when there is unemployment people are prepared to serve in the defence forces. [More…]
Then we heard the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Kirwan) deplore the amount of expenditure on defence. [More…]
Of course, we would all like to live in a world where defence was not required, but in this uncertain world it is necessary that we should be prepared. [More…]
Any government responsible for the defence of Australia must be in a position of preparedness to meet any situation that may arise. [More…]
To date 51,000 national servicemen have been called up to fulfil, as the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) says, our role in national defence. [More…]
1 would like to examine the question of national defence in relation to the call-up. [More…]
The national defence the Minister speaks of is the Australian commitment to Vietnam. [More…]
What are the lessons of history in relation to the Labor Party and Australia’s defence? [More…]
The Government of Sir Robert Menzies, and the Lyons Government prior to that, had let Australian defence industries and defence Services run down to such an extent that the Labor Party had to come to the assistance of the country and had to very quickly upgrade our defence forces to meet the Japanese threat. [More…]
So the Labor Party’s record on defence is solid gold and always has been, and honourable members Opposite know it. [More…]
This whole national service debate hinges around Australia’s defence. [More…]
This Government has never had a consistent and continuous defence policy. [More…]
In the 2 years I have been a member of this Parliament there has been no debate on Australia’s defence. [More…]
A major Government statement on defence was made on 10th March 1970 by the Honourable Malcolm Fraser, who was then the Minister for Defence. [More…]
When we look at the consistency of the Government’s policy we see that the Government is just not credible on the subject of defence. [More…]
The Honourable Malcolm Fraser, when he was the Minister for Defence, said this - and this is basically the Government’s defence approach: [More…]
He was having a poke at the Labor Party’s defence policies. [More…]
He subsequently resigned his portfolio and was followed as Minister for Defence by the right honourable John Gorton. [More…]
On the same subject, in a speech he made as Minister for Defence to the Australian Imperial Services Club, he said this about Australia’s defence: [More…]
He was talking about Fortress Australia, whereas his predecessor had been talking about forward defence - it is not one of retiring behind the moat of the oceans which surround us: There to wash our hands of responsibility for what happens outside our continental limits. [More…]
For such a concept would indeed badly serve the future defence of Australia. [More…]
Should we not therefore regard the provision of strong defences for that base, for Australia, as the primary but by no means the only task for our defence. [More…]
One Minister for Defence says we must have forward defence and that we should forget the Fortress Australia approach. [More…]
Then the next Minister for Defence said: ‘The forward defence concept is out. [More…]
What we need is a strong Australian defence base’. [More…]
What does the present Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), the man to whom the former Prime Minister referred as being pedestrian, say? [More…]
What has the pedestrian Minister had to say about defence? [More…]
The Parliament has not been told of his personal attitude to Australia’s defence. [More…]
Over 24 years this Government has guided the defence capacity of Australia on an ad hoc basis. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that the basic requirement of any defence capability is an independent industrial capability. [More…]
This Government has neglected all its defence industries. [More…]
Basically this has come about because there has been no government defence policy. [More…]
None of the Services has been able to foresee its hardware requirements because there has been no consistent defence policy whereby it could tailor its hardware requirements for a particular role. [More…]
Therefore we have seen all our defence industries decreasing in manpower and technological skill. [More…]
I would like to refer to a statement made by a former Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Henry Bland, who on leaving the Department spoke about the way in which Australia selects defence equipment. [More…]
As is well known, compatibility of weapons and equipment with those of the USA has been a cardinal principle of Australian defence policy for some time. [More…]
If we can surmount this mental block the projection of these possibilities would add immensely to the importance of the new machinery for industry’s connection with defence administration and policy, lt would offer unique scope for defence to foster a real burgeoning of research and technology, in Australia. [More…]
This requires us to develop our defence industries to the point where we can keep the equipment of our Services in a condition where they can compete with any other nation which may turn out to be an aggressor. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) when he was Minister for Defence, said: [More…]
That is the attitude of the Government towards our defence industries. [More…]
Let us have a look at the defence equipment this Government has selected. [More…]
Again our defence industries - shipbuilding, electronics and aircraft industries in relation to weaponry - will be the losers in the event of such a decision. [More…]
In every field of Australia’s defence, looking at the defence industries and at the general premise on which our defence organisation is based, we find there is an ad hoc approach. [More…]
Its foreign policies have been designed and tailored towards a political end and that political end has been well served in the past by the Government’s tying itself to the defence umbrella of the United States. [More…]
The whole point now is that, after the Nixon Doctrine announced in Guam, Australia has to stand on its own two feet in relation to its defence. [More…]
If they were highly trained and if the Army were sufficiently mobile we would have sufficient strength to suit Australia’s defence needs. [More…]
The whole emphasis on Australia’s defence should be on mobility, speed and hitting power. [More…]
Basically all of our defence requirements and Services should be tailored towards a defensive and not an offensive role. [More…]
While ever there is no consistent defence policy there will always be malaise in Service thinking. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) who was under attack yesterday, would be a good example. [More…]
National service has been and continues to be a significant element of the effort expended to ensure the maintenance of an effective defence capability in this country. [More…]
This is just as inconsistent as the attacks made recently by members of the Opposition on the Joint United States-Australian Defence Space Research Facility at Alice Springs. [More…]
During the debate on that issue members of the Opposition quoted Dr Klass and Peter Ryan who both said in their assumptions that Pine Gap was part of an early warning defence system; in other words, it was a defence project. [More…]
Yet speaker after speaker supported the denunciation by the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Foster) of this defence project. [More…]
Australians should never forget that this Government, which said that our security and future independence was challenged by the menace from the north - and Vietnam was cited as an example - saw fit to call up only a section of the 20-year olds of this country and place on them the full responsibility for the defence of this nation. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has refused to agree to an amendment which would have released some of these men from gaol. [More…]
Because this debate relates to defence, I repeat, as honourable members know, that in the last 4 years there have been 4 Ministers for Defence. [More…]
In fact, in the last 6 months, there have been 3 Ministers for Defence. [More…]
Since March, there have been 3 Ministers for Defence and changes in policy. [More…]
Yet the Government is boasting about what it is doing in regard to defence, is criticising the Labor Party and is changing its Ministers almost monthly. [More…]
Even during the last 4 years when the Government said it had a reasonable amount of stability, there have been 4 Ministers for Defence. [More…]
The Government consistently tells us how much it is spending on defence, how much it has boosted up the amount allocated in the Budget for national service training and all these kind of things. [More…]
However, what is important is not how much is spent on defence; but what is actually done with the money. [More…]
At least I do agree with the former Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), when he stated in his article ‘I Did It My Way’ that he did not want Australia to be involved in every second rate war in Asia and elsewhere. [More…]
of the debate Contributions by honourable members on the Government side, from the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), who has held a number of other portfolios, to the last speaker have centred around criticism of the Labor Party Opposition. [More…]
But the criticism has been made on the basis that nobody in the Opposition gives one damn about the defence of this country and that nobody in the Opposition in fact gives any consideration to what ought to be done by government in regard to defence. [More…]
It is almost a hate session directed at members on this side of the House in which it is alleged that we would sell out the country, that we would have no regard for its defence, that by our opposition to this Bill and by our action in putting forward the amendments we would be reducing the armed forces of the country in peace time to such an extent that it could be considered that we were in fact nothing more than treacherous traitors. [More…]
Because the defence of this country was so shocking and so deplorable in the country’s hour of need in 2 world conflicts honourable members opposite have to indulge in this type of recrimination against honourable members on this side of the House. [More…]
I want to say something about our defence position in 1971 in the light of our involvement in Vietnam since 1964. [More…]
There is not one military brain in this country and, indeed, hardly one military assessor in the world who is prepared to stand up and say that as a result of Australia’s involvement in Vietnam our defence position now, in 1971, is one iota better than it was in 1964. [More…]
Where is their sincerity as far as the defence of this country is concerned? [More…]
The Government does not realise that the first prerequisite of a defence policy is not necessarily that we must have tens of hundreds of thousands of military personnel. [More…]
We could have every able bodied man conscripted tomorrow into the Australian Army but it would not make our defence potential one skerrick better unless it was backed by an industrial complex which is necessary to carry out a proper defensive role. [More…]
I want to say to the honourable member for Reid and to other honourable gentlemen opposite that we on this side of the House - and, I believe, the Australian people - are sick to death of the hypocrisy which characterises the Australian Labor Party’s policy on defence. [More…]
Honourable members opposite talk about a defence policy for Australia. [More…]
They say inside and outside this House that they are interested in defence, but by their very words they are condemned as a party which is prepared to sacrifice the defence security of Australia. [More…]
Two Ministers, an Assistant Minister and Government supporters who have made a particular study of defence matters and, of course, the Opposition’s defence spokesman have participated in the debate and have provided what I believe to be a very comprehensive coverage of the major issues which face Australia and this Parliament in this debate. [More…]
As my colleague the honourable member for Berowra (Mr Hughes) put it, the issue is the making of proper provision for the defence of this country against external aggression. [More…]
In their efforts to fill the vacuum that is Opposition policy on this important aspect of national defence, Labor Party speakers, to a man, have accepted the need - to use their own words - for an adequate Army as part of our defence capability. [More…]
But again, as the honourable member for Berowa has pointed out, not one has gone so far as to say that an Army of the present volunteer element, 28,000 men, would meet our defence requirements. [More…]
It is rather one aspect, an important aspect, of the effort expended in this country with regard to long term national security by seeking to maintain effective defence forces on a permanent, continuing basis, in particular by enabling the maintenance of an army of a size consistent with a permanent and continuing defence capability. [More…]
Honourable members on both sides of the House will know of the substantial efforts which have been made to attract enough volunteers, to which my colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has referred in detail, but it has not proven possible to attract sufficient volunteers to give us an army of sufficient size. [More…]
Again I say that I have listened with great interest to the arguments advanced by the Minister for Labour and National Service who has spoken, as I pointed out last night, as with the authority of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Having regard to what the Minister said about the attitude of honourable members on this side of the Parliament, I say that the foreign and defence policy of the Australian Labor Party is based on the firm conviction that war can and must be prevented and any responsible Australian government has a part to play in that prevention. [More…]
At the same time we make it perfectly clear that we believe there is a necessity for a strong defence force in this country. [More…]
Let me remind the Minister for Labour and National Service that his colleague, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), quite recently during a very short but unforgettable career as Minister for Defence, twice removed, himself admitted that, if we doubled the number of conscripts, reduced the period from 2 years to 12 months and spread the responsibility, it would be a much more equitable burden on the people of this country. [More…]
I hope that I have quoted the former Minister for Defence correctly. [More…]
We on this side of the House have never suggested that it is not essential to maintain the defence forces in this country to guarantee our security. [More…]
Who caused an inquiry into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund to be set up? [More…]
If this Government decided to build up the defence forces of this country on a voluntary basis it would find it could be done. [More…]
I do not quite know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) referred to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and the other matters he brought in towards the end of his speech on this clause but it must be quite obvious to him and to the other members of the Opposition that this amendment is unacceptable to the Government because to accept it would completely negate the concept of national service altogether. [More…]
It is not a matter of Vietnam; it is a matter of Australia, of building up Australia’s defence and keeping it at a certain level and standard of preparedness. [More…]
At no stage - I did not hear the honourable member for Reid or the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) say it - has the Opposition propounded or dared to- propound the idea that a defence force or a regular army of only 28,000 men is adequate for our present purposes. [More…]
the defence of Australia is an Army of 3 battalions. [More…]
It has absolutely nothing to do with military strategy or defence policy. [More…]
It is purely because the defence estimates, when presented to Cabinet, were in excess of that amount which could be fitted into the Budget, and it was felt that a reduction of 6 months in national service would be the easiest and most popular way in which to accommodate a reduction in defence expenditure. [More…]
It deprives the nation of the skills which it needs in order to satisfy by the easiest possible means the requirements of our defence forces. [More…]
I suggest that it is totally cynical to stand in this Parliament and say that this Bill is based on the defence needs of Australia and that these reductions have been made on military advice when we all know that they have been made on the advice of the Budget strategists who drafted this year’s national Budget and found that the defence expenditures were in excess of what the Government was prepared to put before the Parliament. [More…]
Does, the Minister for Defence propose to make a defence statement before the debate on the defence estimates or at all - a. statement as informative as the excellent and illuminating one made by his predecessor, the present Minister for Education and. [More…]
Finally, can he say whether several series of articles on defence matters recently appearing in the Press were inspired by the Service departments themselves, by interested purveyors of equipment or by journalistic fancy? [More…]
The timetable on which 1 am working at the present time and which I hope I will be able to maintain is that during the next few weeks I will be bringing to the Cabinet a paper which Cabinet will have an opportunity of looking at and discussing, and subject to the views expressed I would hope shortly after then to be able to produce in the House a paper on defence. [More…]
We are expecting very shortly the defence report which has been in the hands of the printer for some time. [More…]
Of course, the defence estimates will also be coming up shortly for debate, and I will be making statements then, as I have spoken twice this week on matters pertaining to defence. [More…]
But it will certainly be my intention and that of the Government to keep the House as closely informed on matters of defence as we possibly can. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to a newspaper article attributing to the Minis;ter for the Army the statement that he had directed that only national servicemen who wished to go are to be sent to Vietnam from now on? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence and is, in a sense, supplementary to that asked by the honourable member for Bradfield. [More…]
In view of the escalation of the assessed cost of the construction I ask: Has the Government made provision for the allocation of funds in the rolling Naval defence budget for the construction of the vessels in 1973-74? [More…]
However, a scrutiny of the changing conditions - and they are changing rapidly in terms of Naval hardware and sophistication in major navies in the world- has led defence experts in Australia to revise the original plans and they have been updated. [More…]
Have any Australian workers in defence establishments been prosecuted for breaches of security in recent years? [More…]
Does the Prime Minister consider that Australian defence secrets would be better kept in British, Japanese or United States shipyards than in Australian shipyards? [More…]
I have drawn the comparison of costs today with those in 1945 for 2 very good reasons: Firstly, had Labor been reelected in 1949, it would have gone ahead immediately with the standardisation as a Commonwealth responsibility, as a cost not to the State but to the Commonwealth, because of its defence value. [More…]
And whereas in order to assist in the defence and the development cf the Commonwealth of Australia to facilitate interstate trade and commerce and to secure maximum efficiency and economy in railway operations, it is desirable that there should be a standard gauge railway between Kalgoorlie and Perth and other places in the State of Western Australia. [More…]
Defence and development, interstate trade, maximum efficiency and economy would all be met. [More…]
When we remember that the standardisation between Kalgoorlie and Fremantle is, as is pointed out in the Schedule to the Agreement, desirable from both the defence aspect and the genera! [More…]
development and economy of Australia we cannot cease to be amazed that a major part of the cost was not provided from the defence vote and at least the bulk of the remainder by the Department of National Development and the Treasury without any or very little charge to Western Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has seen fit to refuse funds for an all-weather road so it is important that the proposed standard gauge lines linking with the main railway system should be developed for defence, trade and tourist purposes. [More…]
These areas, I would remind honourable members, are relatively close to our own shores and of significance to us in terms of naval defence. [More…]
All sorts of difficulties, including financial and defence difficulties, were said to be in the way. [More…]
They have subsequently, been advised by myself and by the Minister for Defence of the forces that will be remaining and what they will be undertaking during the few months for which they remain in Vietnam after Christmas. [More…]
I will take this matter up immediately with the Minister for Defence and the Minister for the Army arid, if necessary, with the other Service Ministers to see what can be done. [More…]
When we see events such as Australia being embarrassed by having to bring Centurion tanks back to Australia by means of the shipping of another nation because our own waterside workers refuse to unload tanks not going to Vietnam but coming back to add materially to the defence capacity of this country, I believe there is added reason for concern at the presence in our work force of men who openly claim to be and are leaders of the Communist movement. [More…]
This is a problem that must be looked at over a wide perspective and I believe it is one of the major problems that confront this country in terms of its naval defence construction programme. [More…]
In 1901 there were 9 Ministers, including the Prime Minister, the other ministries being External Affairs, Home Affairs, Trade and Customs, Defence, PostmasterGeneral, the VicePresident of the Executive Council, and 2 Ministers without portfolios. [More…]
I cannot say any more at this moment except that the best demonstration of the ineffectiveness of this Parliament is the appointment in the other place of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
We spend not very much less on insurance other than life assurance than we do on defence expenditure and I think this is too large a sum to be allowed to run in the haphazard fashion in which it has been allowed to continue. [More…]
It is a part of our defence structure. [More…]
I turn now to the matter raised in genera] concerning the defence aircraft industry. [More…]
It is the Government’s stated policy to maintain a small, viable defence aircraft industry. [More…]
By its very nature the aircraft industry - the defence aspect of it in particular - is subject to a fluctuating work load. [More…]
Clearly, each generation of defence aircraft lasts longer than the time taken to produce it. [More…]
Defence specifications against which tenders are invited for the DefenceGroup of Departments require that vehicles conform with the Australian Design Rules for Motor Vehicle Safety. [More…]
Defence tyre specifications have until recently called for normal commercial standards. [More…]
What my colleague very rightly did was to point out that we on this side of the House believe in a policy of forward defence and for that reason we will keep our troops stationed in Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
In other words, it no longer regards this Treaty as crucial to the defence of this country. [More…]
It is a defence treaty and we want to retain it that way. [More…]
1 therefore must state - I am sorry to have to reiterate it - that the way in which I was received in Japan by the Prime Minister and all relevant Ministers in the political, defence and economic fields is well known to the Government. [More…]
He was in command of the 2/ 17th Light Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battery in New Guinea and Brigade Major with the Anti-Aircraft Defence, New Guinea Force administration command. [More…]
The break-up of the proposed expenditure of $103,984,000 for the Department of the Treasury is shown under the headings of Administration, Commonwealth Taxation Office, Taxation Board of Review, Office of the Superannuation and Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board and the Bureau of Census and Statistics. [More…]
The proposed expenditure for the Office of the Superannuation and Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board has been discussed recently in other debates in this Parliament. [More…]
The Opposition is looking forward to the report of the committee which is now examining the question of defence forces retirement benefits. [More…]
My own feelings are that any committee inquiring into estimates or expenditure should spend perhaps a year looking at how the estimates are compiled for the Departments of Defence or Social Services or Works. [More…]
It was not my intention to get up here and take a bit of the little time I have to speak on this but I do not want to see my colleague in the State House criticised without saying something in his defence. [More…]
There may be excuses because of the terrible time the Government has been suffering with its clash of personalities; whether the Prime Minister would be the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) or the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon); and whether the right honourable member for Higgins would survive as Minister for Defence and so on. [More…]
Furthermore they give assistance to organisations such as civil defence organisations and the police force. [More…]
Nor is it any defence by the Commonwealth to point to extra sources of revenue open to the States. [More…]
The then Minister, who is now the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), finally, with some reluctance attended that meeting and no doubt he got the story, if he read the signs correctly, as to what the meeting of almost 2,000 people thought of the manner in which he addressed them on that occasion. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has assured the House that these men will be home by 25th December, for which assurance I thank him. [More…]
It is true that aircraft are used in this defence manoeuvre for bringing these men out. [More…]
If permanent defence forces in Australia and overseas and members of the Regular Army Supplement are included, the percentage of all employees becomes approximately 25.2. [More…]
In view of the important role that the shipbuilding industry plays in defence and merchant shipping, when can the Parliament expect to receive the report and the Government’s decision on that report? [More…]
Did the Minister for Defence see an Australian Broadcasting Commission television programme on Tuesday night in which a graphic description of Australian forces’ movements in Vietnam was given, even down to their distances from certain places? [More…]
This Bill seeks parliamentary approval to a borrowing by the Commonwealth of up to $US90m from the Export-Import Bank of the United States to assist in financing the purchase of general defence equipment in the United States, and approval for the execution of the loan agreement on behalf of the Commonwealth for this borrowing. [More…]
Under the Loan (Defence) Acf 1970, the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US89m to finance orders for general defence equipment placed with United States suppliers in 1969-70. [More…]
Under the Loan (Defence) Act (No. [More…]
2) 1970, the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US123m to finance orders for general defence equipment to be placed with United States suppliers during 1970-71. [More…]
The loan agreement with the ExportImport Bank which is set out as the schedule to the Bill, follows the usual form of agreements with the bank for defence loans. [More…]
Since the borrowing is for defence purposes the approval of the Loan Council is not required. [More…]
On 25th March 1970 the former Minister for Defence informed the 10,000 farmers who assembled in Melbourne, that, ‘acquisition is the only sensible way to market the Australian wool clip,’ and that, ‘he would work his guts out for the industry’. [More…]
I believe we ought to put our defence priorities on a more reasonable level. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Arrangements will then be made by the Australian Defence Representative for the assessor to have the necessary access to interview witnesses and to make relevant inspections. [More…]
I think what the honourable gentleman will remember is thatI commended the policy decisions made by the right honourable gentleman from Higgins whilst he was a member of the Cabinet, and that included the time when he was the Prime Minister as well as the time when he was Minister for Defence during the last Budget discussions on the state of the economy and the measures which should be taken in the national interest. [More…]
Minister for Defence: Has it been drawn to his attention that a report has appeared in a normally authoritative publication ‘Janes’ indicating that an American station in Australia is being used to spy on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
These installations are part of the defence of the free world. [More…]
I should like the Minister for Defence to say this in a place where I could make him also the subject of a similar action. [More…]
Firstly, it implies that the Minister for Defence did not say what he did say. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) said very deliberately that there were members of the Press and members of this House who were trying to undermine the security of this nation. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) asked a question and the Minister for Defence, in his reply, implied that the honourable member for Lalor was undermining the security of this nation. [More…]
It may be that the Minister for Defence was flustered when he was replying to the question and possibly he would wish to make the position clearer. [More…]
Normally the Minister for Defence is not one who engages in this practice but there are other members opposite, from the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) down, who do not hesitate in making accusations by smear or by innuendo against members of the Opposition. [More…]
Whether the Minister for Defence intended it, there was an implication against the honourable member for Lalor which I believe should be withdrawn. [More…]
We in Australia would be speaking as Mr Arek spoke if the same decisions we are imposing on Papua New Guinea were being debated in the British House of Commons in relation to Australia, In defence of the perpetuation of these decisions we of course say that they are not ready and by some mysterious judgment of the wise man say that at some future, distant, undefined date they will be ready [More…]
The Ministerial members and the Assistant Ministerial Members make the final decisions in many areas such as education, public health, tourism, co-operative societies, business administration, posts and telegraphs, Territory revenue, taxation, shipping, civil defence, and corrective institutions, which is a tremendous responsibility that they carry out very well indeed. [More…]
The Commonwealth has retained control in only a very limited area, namely, in the area of law and order, internal security, international affairs, defence and international trade relations and civil aviation. [More…]
Since February when the Commander of the Integrated Air Defence System was appointed, the RAAF has co-operated closely with the Malaysian and Singaporean airforces in working up the Integrated Air Defence System to operational status preparatory to it being inaugurated on September 1st, 1971. [More…]
RAAF Mirages have participated in air defence exercises throughout the period during which numerous sorties were controlled by Malaysian controllers; [More…]
With the formal inauguration of the Integrated Air Defence System on September 1st this year it may be expected that activities such as those instanced above will become part of the normal day to day activities of the RAAF in Malaysia and Singapore [More…]
It is important that our best brains, engineering and otherwise, should be engaged actively in industries like the motor industry because it has some direct relativity to defence and the type of research involved in defence. [More…]
The honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Bury), who just resumed his seat, made a very unconvincing defence of foreign investment in, and foreign exploitation of, Australia. [More…]
1 priority is defence. [More…]
It is no good having all the good things we have - a democratic government, a democratic Parliament, good houses, motor cars and all the other things that make for good living - unless they can be protected, so the first priority must be defence. [More…]
The decision was made that as part of Australia’s defence forces we should own a substantial hospital ship. [More…]
My suggestion would be a much better form of defence. [More…]
How many determinations have been made under section 42a of the Naval Defence Act during (a) 1968, (b) 1969, (c) 1970 and (d) 1971, to date. [More…]
Determinations have been made under section 42a of the Naval Defence Act 1910-1971 as follows: [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What were the terms of the order of 19th July, 1970. calling out those members of the Defence Force serving in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea for the protection of the Territory against domestic violence? [More…]
(a) has a decision yet been made whether the position in the Territory under the Defence Act and Australian Military Regulations and Orders should be on all fours with the position in the States (Hansard, page 889); (b) if so, what decision was made; (c) if not, when is it expected that a decision will be made? [More…]
Since my predecessor’s statement in the House of Representatives on 16th March, consideration has continued of the procedures for the employment of elements of the Defence Force in aid of the civil power in Papua New Guinea, should this become necessary. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
That The Commonwealth consider this road as a Defence Measure for the whole of Australia and road link connecting the two coasts of the Continent, and consideration to the sealing from the aspect of the increase of Trade and Tourism within Australia, thus encouraging the retention of the finance in Australia which is now going overseas. [More…]
Some of this information, such as from a low trajectory missile, is of such a nature that action must be taken within split seconds if there is to be any effective defence. [More…]
I was very pleased to hear such loud praise because only recently I was able to ascertain from the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) by way of an answer to a question on notice an indication of just how incompetently the Government is looking after the housing needs of these people. [More…]
At which defence establishments throughout Australia are premises provided for servicemen under the Commonwealth/States Housing Agreement. [More…]
At each defence establishment (a) what is the maximum waiting period for this accommodation (b) how many servicemen are accommodated in private premises and (c) what sum was spent in rent subsidies for private premises in 1969-70. [More…]
The Commonwealth has been prepared to pay a total of $840,420 in that 12-month period by way of rent subsidies into the pockets of the hungry landlords instead of knuckling down and providing the housing that these people require in the defence establishments throughout Australia. [More…]
Beyond that the United States has claimed that some of its troubles have been due to the fact that it has been shouldering an undue share of the free world’s defence burdens. [More…]
Defence expenditures abroad by the United States have recently been running at around $US5 billion annually. [More…]
Australia is probably in as good a position as any country to appreciate the size of the defence expenditures the United States has been assuming. [More…]
When President Nixon announced his measures on 15th August, reference was made, as I have mentioned, to trade and defence issues. [More…]
They also seek some undertakings from some of their trading partners on trade and defence mat ters. [More…]
Similarly, one might expect them to be chiefly interested, as far as defence burden-sharing is concerned, in the policies of such countries as Japan, Germany and Canada. [More…]
However that may be, what is clear is that even if trade and defence issues are left aside the attitude of the United States appears to be that the realignment has not yet gone far enough. [More…]
1 pointed out that similar committees existed such as the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory and the Joint Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation and others. [More…]
In the growth of Australia, controlled migration was developed to increase our population, our defence and development capabilities and to develop the Australian race. [More…]
Because migrants constitute a higher percentage of the work force relative to their total population than does the rest of the community they contribute substantially to taxation revenue and help to spread public expenditure on certain items - for example, defence - over a larger number of taxpayers. [More…]
Included in the reasons generally adduced were economic, defence, humanitarian and other reasons. [More…]
It increases the anticommunist, anti-Russian, anti-labor and pro-fascist proportions among our voters, thereby committing us more uncompromisingly to the capitalist bloc and destructive defence policies. [More…]
As I am led to believe, the situation is that there has been a request to the Minister for Defence for some time that Australia participate in the training of Cambodian personnel in Vietnam. [More…]
This matter has been before the Minister for Defence and he wrote to the Prime Minister but, unfortunately, the Prime Minister had not seen this correspondence before he left for America. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
A request was received from the American Ambasador by the Department of Defence on 1st October. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence has said that the request for Australian assistance to train Cambodian and Laotian troops in Vietnam is now a matter for discussion between the Prime Minister and the President of the United States of America, I ask: How much information will the Prime Minister have to aid his discussion and decision in view of the fact that he was unaware of the proposal when he left Australia or, indeed, when he reached New York? [More…]
Will the Acting Prime Minister confirm to the House in clear terms the implication conveyed earlier this afternoon by the Minister for Defence that no written request for military advisers has been received from the Cambodian Government either directly by Australia or through the American Government? [More…]
One of the areas which is of prime importance to the defence of Sydney Harbour and to its security not only now but also as far as we can see into the future is the South Head installation. [More…]
This is an area which, during the last war, was the focal point of the harbour defences of Sydney. [More…]
The first point that must be taken in establishing a sense of proportion is the necessity to defend the port and to enable the ships which will carry out our maritime defence to be efficiently maintained and equipped. [More…]
It is a vast city and it requires defence. [More…]
The Harbour is the site of a tremendous city and port which require defence. [More…]
We in the Commonwealth are responsible for defence and also for the health of the people in terms of such essentials as quarantine. [More…]
If it is necessary, ways and means must be found to provide it there, whether or not it is vital for the defence of Sydney Harbour or the defence of Australia. [More…]
They are not interested in the defence of Australia. [More…]
In regard to the question of defence the honourable member gave gratuitous insults to two of my colleagues, the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) and the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), who both fought for this country. [More…]
I wish to quote several things in answer to the argument that this building is a defence necessity. [More…]
The siting has nothing to do with the defence purpose. [More…]
They could be sited elsewhere and the defence of the Commonwealth be done just as effectively. [More…]
No evidence has been placed before us that is convincing that there is a need to stay here for defence purposes, lt has been vaguely suggested. [More…]
Let me place on record that he went on to say that if the Commonwealth required for defence any lands which are under State control at any time the Commonwealth would be able to acquire them immediately. [More…]
He said that in that sense there is no irrevocable removal of defence establishments. [More…]
We have established that it is not essential for defence purposes. [More…]
The Minister for the Navy gets up here and talks about defence. [More…]
This is a ridiculous argument from the standpoint of defence. [More…]
Botany Bay, which has the greatest number of oil tanks in the Sydney area, would be a prize defence target and overnight would become a fire furnace if anyone wanted to- [More…]
-I say that, as a responsible Minister, the Minister for the Navy should have got a defence expert to back him up. [More…]
As I have said, 2 State experts have stated that there was no defence evidence in support of this proposal and also Ministers in the New South Wales Government were opposed to it. [More…]
As the Minister for the Navy, (Dr McKay), who is at the table, and also the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Bury) have already pointed out, the overriding consideration in questions of this sort involves the defence and security of the country. [More…]
We have heard that considerations of defence were closely taken into account when this decision was made and I believe that this was the right decision to make. [More…]
As I have said, my overriding consideration must be the defence and security of this country and I believe that this requirement is satisfied. [More…]
To this end the Council and I discussed this matter at quite some length and I undertook to write to the Minister for the Navy and also to the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) to put forward some suggestions as to how this tactical trainer building could be made less obtrusive. [More…]
In any deliberations concerning the future of the foreshores of Sydney Harbour involving the changing of defence facilities, prime consideration must be given to whether or not the security of the country will be threatened by their removal or diminution. [More…]
Having said this, however, I believe that we can go a long way towards a spirit of co-operation between defence requirements and other obvious requirements of the people of Sydney and of Australia. [More…]
I have spoken about defence requirements. [More…]
Having said that,I think the use to which the land is then put - if it is not used for defence requirements - must be closely assessed. [More…]
It has been our objective to return to the people of Sydney as much of the foreshore land held by the Commonwealth as could be done provided the defence requirements and the other responsibilities of the Commonwealth Government were not impeded. [More…]
It has said that initially we must safeguard the defence security of Australia but within that requirement we will release land around Sydney Harbour. [More…]
Another amendment proposed by the Bill will give effect to certain income tax exemptions provided for in the agreement between the Australian and United States Governments relating to the Joint Defence [More…]
In view of the tremendous expenditure that this Government has forced upon the taxpayers for the defence of Australia over the last decade, is it not corrtct that, in this day and age, the people of Australia should be informed as to who is threatening us? [More…]
When one realises that this figure averages about SI, 200m a year and when one considers Australia’s position in regard to military hardware, measured in terms of the defence potential which this finance could provide, I think most reasonable minded people who are not concerned with pressure politics would arrive at the conclusion that the general public has been had on the matter of defence expenditure. [More…]
There is wasteful expenditure; 1 have already discussed defence. [More…]
That the House has no confidence in the Minister for Defence because of the damaging and dangerous treatment of the request for assistance in training Cambodian and Laotian troops in Vietnam. [More…]
That the House has no confidence in the Minister for Defence because of the damaging and dangerous treatment of the request for assistance in training Cambodian and Laotian troops in Vietnam. [More…]
This motion arises from answers given by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) to questions in the House about the training of Cambodian soldiers by Australian training teams in Vietnam. [More…]
It is evident from this material that even the most menial messenger boy at Russell Hill knew more of what was happening in the Department of Defence during the past month than the Minister for Defence. [More…]
He said that this request had been received from the American Embassy by the Department of Foreign Affairs on 30th September and had been transmitted to Defence on the following day. [More…]
This initiated a process of what the Minister termed discussions between the departments of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Army on the extent to which this request for assistance could be met. [More…]
He said it was ‘low key’ because it was made verbally by an officer of the American Embassy to Foreign Affairs who passed it on to Defence. [More…]
That in short is the sequence of events revealed by the Minister for Defence yesterday. [More…]
Instead this message with its request for assistance was shuffled over quickly to the Department of Defence. [More…]
When the request from the Department of Foreign Affairs was received the Minister for Defence acknowledged that there had been a slip-up. [More…]
From my recollection of his answer at question time he said ‘the Department’ which can only be taken as Defence. [More…]
But in this case it is completely inexcusable that a major request of this sort should circulate through 3 departments, including the major policy departments of Defence and Foreign Affairs, without even a whisper getting to one of the responsible Ministers or to the Prime Minister. [More…]
This is completely the fault of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
This meant the Prime Minister was subjected to the highly humiliating experience of denying in Canberra and New York any knowledge of the request while a letter from the Minister for Defence setting it out in detail was in his office and in his brief case on the plane. [More…]
This is not the low key matter which the Minister for Defence tries to paint. [More…]
Yet this is the issue that the Minister for Defence described in this House and to the nation on the television programme ‘This Day Tonight’ as a low key issue, an issue involving Australian troops training Cambodians in South Vietnam. [More…]
I can only repeat to the House that this is the issue that the Minister for Defence has described to the nation as only a low key issue. [More…]
As I pointed out only a few moments ago, when the Minister felt that he could bring about the downfall of the former Minister for Defence, the right honourable member for Higgins, he did not hesitate to send a telegram to the Prime Minister and he made sure that the Prime Minister received it without any delay. [More…]
Apparently a very few senior members of the Department of Foreign Affairs knew a very little about the issue and either the Minister for Defence was just not interested or he did not care. [More…]
It is ironical that the Department of Defence is not represented among the legion of advisers the Prime Minister took with him. [More…]
If the Prime Minister had known that this request would form such an integral part of his discussions with President Nixon he would have, given more emphasis to defence in the composition of his team. [More…]
In summary, the Opposition believes that it is unnecessary to look beyond the Minister for Defence in sheeting home the blame for this debacle. [More…]
Whatever the bungling at the low levels of the Department of Defence, the Minister ultimately is responsible for the delay of almost a month in a major matter of defence policy reaching his desk. [More…]
Beyond this administrative shambles, the Minister for Defence has displayed gross incompetence in not conveying the request for assistance immediately to the Prime Minister and to Cabinet. [More…]
The Minister for Defence is responsible for it and he warrants the censure of this House. [More…]
It was an oral request from the Embassy and it was transmitted the Department of Defence on 1st October. [More…]
As 1 said, an oral request was received from the American Embassy, and this was transmitted to the Department of Defence by the officer on 1st October. [More…]
This was backed up by the First Assistant Secretary (Defence Planning), who rang the Prime Minister’s Department and also informed him that this letter had been placed there and that it was urgent. [More…]
As the Prime Minister has said and as has been said in the Defence Report’ of 1971 Australian military aid to the Khmer Republic will continue this year and will include an offer of a number of places for personnel of the Cambodian Army forces at training establishments in Australia. [More…]
Every Australian must feel ashamed and humiliated by the sequence of events which the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has detailed. [More…]
It is just as well that Australia is threatened by nobody in the foreseeable future, as the previous Minister for Defence said. [More…]
A request was received from the American Ambassador by the Department of Defence on 1st October. [More…]
Yesterday he said the approach was made to the Department of Defence. [More…]
The man responsible not just for this humiliation of a Prime Minister but for the humiliation of Australia is the Minister for Defence. [More…]
At question time he said the request had been received from’ the Ambassador by the Department pf Defence. [More…]
Last night he said it had been sent to the Department of Defence by the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Defence was asked last night by incredulous pressmen why he bad not informed the Prime Minister directly and personally of the contents of his letter. [More…]
At question time today, the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen), who returned on 15th October, said that he did not learn of the matter until 26th October, when he discussed the letter from the Minister for Defence, which he proposed to send to the Prime Minister. [More…]
Yet the Minister for Defence tells us that he thought there were more pressing matters before the Prime Minister than a proposal involving the dispatch of Australian troops to Vietnam, a matter involving a switch in Australia’s declared intention to disengage by Christmas from Indo-China, a matter involving our international relations and a matter which he must have known would be at the forefront of any discussions the Prime Minister would have with the United States Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense and maybe the President himself. [More…]
To justify this conduct both the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence yesterday sought to downgrade the significance of the proposal. [More…]
A proposal which has been treated in so cavalier a fashion, a proposal about which the Prime Minister was kept in the dark until he left for the United States, is not one which we may fairly assume that even the Minister believes crucial to the defence of the free world. [More…]
Today was the first time he has spoken without using that cliche since he became Minister for Defence, the third this year. [More…]
After the very interview on Monday in which the United States Secretary of Defence officially raised with the Prime Minister in the United States the instruction proposal, Mr Laird was reported as saying that the United States regarded the conflict in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos as one and indivisible’. [More…]
On 24th May 1962 the then Minister for Defence, the late Athol Townley, announced that ‘at the invitation of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam Australia was sending a group of military instructors to that country’. [More…]
At the very lowest, the Minister for Defence failed utterly to exercise proper control and authority over his department, in his duty to the Prime Minister, in his duty to the Cabinet and in his duty to the people of Australia. [More…]
For it to say that this is a substantial issue or that there could be a substantial charge against the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) warranting the suspension of Standing Orders and a censure motion, it must be hard put to find issues to raise against the Government. [More…]
The third issue, which is of far greater significance than either of the first 2, concerns the fundamental principles underlying the Government’s policy in relation to the defence of South East Asia and its understanding of the nature of its responsibilities to the people of South East Asia. [More…]
There is nothing unusual in the way the matter was then considered by officials of the various departments likely to be concerned, lt was also normal and accepted procedure for this thorough-going departmental consideration to be carried out before the matter was considered by the Minister for Defence so that the Department of Defence, following consultation with other departments, would be able appropriately to advise the Minister for Defence on the matter. [More…]
It would then be normal procedure, in a matter of this kind, for the Minister for Defence either to bring the matter before the attention of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) or to bring it before Cabinet. [More…]
But unfortunately he was not and, as has been explained by the Minister for Defence and myself, there was an unfortunate delay in the matter being brought to the Prime Minister’s attention before he left Australia. [More…]
But, as the Minister for Defence said, the Prime Minister was under pressure, he had many things on his mind, and the message did not get through to him. [More…]
But the Minister for Defence had done his job. [More…]
This delay should not have occurred, and the Minister for Defence has explained that he intends to see that it does not happen again. [More…]
The Minister for Defence is an experienced and able Minister, and this is not a substantial charge which the Opposition has laid against him. [More…]
If the support offered for such a claim is that (his would represent the start of another Vietnam type involvement, I must repeat what I and the Minister for Defence said yesterday, that there are no Australians in Cambodia, and there is no intention to send any Australian military personnel to Cambodia. [More…]
But as I and the Minister for Defence have stated, we have no intention of sending any military personnel to Cambodia itself. [More…]
Is it to send advisers to a country to participate directly in the defence of that country? [More…]
I deplore the fact that this censure motion has been brought down upon the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Let us have a look at how this matter has been handled and why the Opposition seeks the removal of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence said that the request was then forwarded to the Defence Committee on 1st October. [More…]
The Minister for Defence then said that the proposal went through the departments of Foreign Affairs and the Army and the Chiefs of Staff and that on 25th October it was sent to him by his Department. [More…]
The Minister for Defence then went on to say that it was unfortunate that the request did not reach the Prime Minister. [More…]
The Minister for Defence said that he did not hide the fact that a bit of a slip up occurred. [More…]
The Minister for Defence said that it was not a novel request. [More…]
Irrespective of whether the Minister for Defence is personally responsible, it is his duty to take the responsibility for the actions of his departmental officers in not bringing this matter to the attention of the Prime Minister. [More…]
It is true, as honourable members know, that since the beginning of the year we have had 3 Ministers for Defence. [More…]
Proof of the prime muddling of this Government in respect to defence is the fact that the Prime Minister did not know what was happening in regard to a request for the commitment of men to a war. [More…]
Let us hear from the right honourable member for Higgins about what he thinks of the present Minister for Defence. [More…]
In his memoirs he said that the Minister for Defence could not in anyone’s imagination be thought to pose a competitive threat. [More…]
That is why the Opposition seeks the dismissal of the Minister for Defence on the ground of his incompetence. [More…]
Let us ponder very seriously on this matter and on the motion that has been moved relating to the competence of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
No doubt he is a nice man personally, but his competence to administer the affairs of this country as Minister for Defence is in doubt. [More…]
Regrettably I have to say that I believe the motion censuring the Minister for Defence is merited because he has failed to administer his Department competently on an issue that is vital to this country. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has admitted this and has said that he will see that, to the best of his ability, it is not committed again. [More…]
I would have said that if it were to have been treated on a high key - as a matter on which the President of the United States would question the Prime Minister of Australia - the Ambassador himself would have contacted the Prime Minister or would have contacted directly the Minister for Defence or the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen). [More…]
I refer honourable members, as I did in the debate a fortnight ago, to what was said by Labor Party spokesmen in respect of defence in 1938 - what they would not do and what there was no need to do. [More…]
We are not reprimanding the Department today; we are reprimanding the Ministry, in particular the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
On this the Government has been evasive and the Minister for Defence has not even known. [More…]
I refer to the Foreign Minister (Mr N. H. Bowen), the Minister for Defence, the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and the Government itself. [More…]
So we have a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Defence. [More…]
There is no need to outline again what has happened - the confusion between the various departments, the failure of the Minister for Defence to talk directly to the Prime Minister. [More…]
Time and again we have heard, particularly from the Minister for Defence, evasion and secrecy when he is concerned with the affairs of Australia. [More…]
The question I want to ask is: Is the Minister for Defence a Minister of the Australian Parliament or is he an appendage of the American State Department? [More…]
Having put in the first small team you end up with defence forces to protect them - 200 or perhaps 300 men. [More…]
First of all we should replace forward defence with forward diplomacy. [More…]
The Prime Minister and his Ministers in general are indicted, particularly the Minister for Defence for the fumbling way in which he is handling one of the most important departments of State. [More…]
That the House has no confidence in the Minister for Defence, because of his damaging and dangerous treatment of the request for assistance in training Cambodian and Laotian troops in Vietnam. [More…]
Department of Defence and of the Minister for Defence, the Honourable David Fairbairn, D.F.C. [More…]
He said that the processes of the request referred to in the motion had begun from the United States Embassy, proceeded through the Department of Foreign Affairs and thence to the Department of Defence, arriving there on 1st October, and that it was 3 weeks before the Minister for Defence, on 25th October, was in receipt of this important information. [More…]
Basically the Deputy Leader’s case was an administrative criticism which has subsequently been admitted by the Minister for Defence, but no point was taken by the Deputy Leader - the alternative Minister for Defence in the shadow Cabinet - about the substance of the issue. [More…]
The Minister for Defence accepted the criticism that such a politically sensitive issue should have been assessed by the Labor Party as of such importance and created an opportunity for members opposite to indulge in irresponsible histrionics, exaggerating trivia and wasting the time of this House. [More…]
The Acting Prime Minister (Mr Anthony), in reviewing the confidence of the Government in the Minister for Defence, established 2 essential differences between the Opposition and the Government in this place. [More…]
The honourable and gallant member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) made a statement which could not be misunderstood and which must have indicated that the Minister for Defence has been carrying out some disciplinary action against those who let him down. [More…]
Is it an acceptance that here was an opportunity to take some political advantage because somebody in the Department of Foreign Affairs or the Department of Defence had failed to realise that here was a matter that could be blown up into some great political cause celebre? [More…]
AH I can say is that they deserve no respect, and this motion ought to see all members on the Government side showing their indignation and their dis respect for such stupidity by voting in support of the honour, integrity and the ability of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) pleaded that he was sorry that he did not have time to comment on this episode. [More…]
On 24th May 1962 there was an announcement by the then Minister for Defence. [More…]
Yesterday in a debate the Acting Prime Minister indicated that he would be prepared to consider tabling the letter which passed between the Minister for Defence and the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon). [More…]
I am not worried about the Minister for Defence in his personal position but I am worried about what happens to the Australian people. [More…]
I will not reflect on the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) but 1 would describe what has happened administratively as a grand imperial display of bungling about which I hope something will be done. [More…]
We have inevitably and invariably subordinated diplomacy to defence. [More…]
Likewise, we can think only in terms of defence when we speak about Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
This Bill seeks parliamentary approval to a borrowing by the Commonwealth of up to $US90m from the Export-Import Bank of the United States to assist in financing the purchase of general defence equipment in the United States, and approval for the execution of the loan agreement on behalf of the Commonwealth for this borrowing. [More…]
Our second reason for opposing the measure is that defence should be a payasyougo job rather than something which is straddled out over a term of years. [More…]
Defence is an expendable item and it should not be the basis of loan commitments. [More…]
If anything can be said to characterise defence programming in recent years it has been a series of rolling plans that have been very indefinite in rotation to their ultimate end. [More…]
1 noted recently when the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) delivered his statement on his recent journey overseas and his discussions with international monetary authorities that he suggested that America was placing some pressures not only with regard to trade but with regard to defence commitments on countries such as Japan and Canada. [More…]
No good reason seems to have been advanced as to why this payment could not be made as we go, particularly when it is related to defence expenditure, which does not build any assets that produce fruits in the future except a vague sort of idea that what we are buying overseas may help to frighten an enemy that the Government has been very careful not to define. [More…]
From the production not only of defence aircraft but also of civil aircraft, the Government Aircraft Factories have received $160,000. [More…]
I propose to say something about its defence significance in relation to the future of Australia and to relate Qantas to the problems of world civil aviation today. [More…]
He will remember that the Australian defence industries mission and an interdepartmental committee visited the United States in 1970. [More…]
I would have liked to take up the question of defence which was raised by the honourable member for North Sydney, but time does not permit me to do so in detail. [More…]
However, I would point out that Qantas has at its own expense purchased 21 Boeing 707 aircraft which can be converted in 2 hours to defence capability aircraft, that is, aircraft capable of carrying tanks, guns and men. [More…]
I was somewhat surprised to hear the Assistant Minister speak so eloquently in defence of a socialist industry. [More…]
I congratulate him for his defence of an example which could be well followed by the Government. [More…]
for Civil Aviation when he indicated quite clearly - and I refer to this because the Offsetting arrangements were initiated at a time when I was the Minister for Civil Aviation - that these arrangements were made in conjunction with the Department of Defence and, as has been indicated, the Australian defence industries mission which visited the United States has had some substantial success in this field. [More…]
The Acting Prime Minister will further recall that the Minister for Defence told the House on Tuesday that: [More…]
I now ask the Acting Prime Minister: Did he and the Minister for Defence mislead this House when they stated that all Cabinet had decided was that there should be discussions, or did the Prime Minister mislead the President when he said that Cabinet had recently made the decision in principle? [More…]
TRAINING OF CAMBODIAN TROOPS Mr BARNARD - I address a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I may state, by way of preface, that the Minister for Defence has admitted that the procedures of his Department were inadequate to keep him fully informed about discussions being held within the Department on the training of Cambodian troops. [More…]
In this particular instance I think my Department acted promptly in passing to the Department of Defence, which was the principal Department concerned, this low key approach as to whether Australia would be concerned about or interested in the matter raised. [More…]
My Department acted very promptly but, as this occurred prior to a long weekend, the letter took from 1st October to 5th October to reach the Department of Defence. [More…]
I am not prepared to criticise the judgment of my officer on 1st October to send that communication promptly to the Department of Defence. [More…]
1 turn now to the question of defence and matters of foreign exchange and ask the Minister whether, at any time, he or the Tariff Board gave consideration to ensuring that Australia had a secure source of supply of sulphur, independent of any world shortages, for at least a portion of its requirements of this essential commodity. [More…]
We need in the nation orderly development so that everybody is aware of and works towards the use of our total resources, our defence preparations and the things that make up national cohesion. [More…]
Labor will not use the development of a nuclear industrial capacity for the purpose of creating a nuclear weapon component in Australia’s defence force. [More…]
We could well be destroying our fishing industry in the west because of defence considerations. [More…]
The role of the new authority would be to set guidelines for atomic research at the Lucas Heights atomic research establishment; to make recommendations on the development of atomic power plants; to formulate a nuclear fuel policy; to give advice about Australia’s role in the world uranium enrichment industry; and to examine the relationship of atomic research to Australia’s defence requirements. [More…]
I am very loath to refer to this matter, but in defence of Ministers of my own Government I feel I have no alternative but to raise the matter of the use by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) of a VIP aircraft to fly to Brisbane to open a swimming pool in one of the suburbs there a few weeks ago. [More…]
1 understand from the Minister who was in charge of it when it was formed that it was designed to protect Australia’s defence establishments. [More…]
You only have to hear the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) talking about us to see what its values are. [More…]
I have in mind the visit to China of the Leader of the Opposition and the defence statement, for instance, made since his return. [More…]
If the honourable member for Sturt believes that Australia can be completely isolated, as the defence statement of his Leader would seem to indicate, that Australia can call down the curtain at the 3 mile limit, that it needs no interchange with our great and powerful neighbours, our great and powerful enemies, our trading partners or anyone else, it is high time those views were made abundantly clear to the rest of the Australian population. [More…]
This is consistent with our ANZUS understanding and the Government is very pleased to co-operate and negotiate with the Americans to have defence bases in Australia. [More…]
Americans having bases in Australia I suppose is consistent with the attitude of the Australian Labor Party whenever we discuss any defence installation in this country. [More…]
There are many aspects of defence policy that warrant consideration in this debate. [More…]
The 1971 Defence Report describes the DDL as a light, generalpurpose destroyer of about 4,000 tons and powered by gas turbines. [More…]
At a Press briefing in March last year before a defence statement made by the then Minister for Defence. [More…]
The DDL programme is a prime example of the upgrading of a comparatively modest item of defence equipment by adding more requirements to cope with more contingencies. [More…]
It is far too costly to be provided in adequate numbers unless other parts of the defence budget are drastically revised. [More…]
Defence of the community against external threats is probably the oldest function of govern ment, and it is still the most vital. [More…]
The great problem of defence planning is the time scale. [More…]
We must think a long way ahead in our defence planning, not concentrate on the past, as is the habit of honourable members opposite. [More…]
These so called light destroyers will not only be the biggest destroyers we have ever built, but also probably the costliest defence programme on which this country has ever embarked. [More…]
We on this side are far from satisfied that the Government is using the money allocated for the very purpose that it is allocated - Australia’s defence. [More…]
In the short time that we are allowed in this debate I would like to take up some of the history and some of the present activities of the Department of Defence, and its subsidiary departments, in Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
In a reply to a question I put on notice, on 13th September the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) said: [More…]
As I am in a fairly generous mood today I should like to praise the former Minister for Defence, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), for standing up at the Five Power meeting in London in April and not bowing down to the absurd request that the Singapore Government was making at that time. [More…]
All told the maintenance of our forces and garrisons overseas is a very heavy charge to our defence vote. [More…]
This is a great confidence trick that the Government has put forward in what it calls a forward defence policy. [More…]
But that forward defence policy has meant that we have not been able to establish on Australian soil the very bases that we have paid for on the soil of other countries. [More…]
If we had a Butterworth in north Queensland or in Western Australia how much more effective would it be for Australia’s defence? [More…]
From the strictly defence point of view of course the estimates should be larger but from the national point of view, and remembering all our competing claims, they are, I think, as large as we could expect. [More…]
I want now to discuss the matter of defence against the background of my firm belief that if turmoil develops in the region to our north there will be no United States involvement in that area and there may, according to the circumstances, be no British involvement. [More…]
I express the hope once again that public discussion of Australia’s defence requirements will not be confused by parrot cries of ‘forward defence’ from some people and ‘Fortress Australia’ from other people, for much of the public discussion of this matter over the years has gone no deeper than support for such unthinking slogans and approval of some slogan called ‘forward defence’ and condemnation of some other called ‘Fortress Australia’. [More…]
I believe that those who conduct these discussions in those terms do a great disservice to the rational consideration of what defence material Australia needs, and I believe that those who seek to portray a concept of forward defence as being incompatible with a concept of Fortress Australia and suggest that they are opposed one to the other do a real disservice to the planning of Australia’s defence and therefore to Australia itself. [More…]
The prime object of Australia’s defence is the preservation of Australia itself from military attack and subjection. [More…]
I presume that what I have just said is what is meant by those who advocate what they call forward defence. [More…]
The defence of them and of our cities and of factories producing war material calls for fighter and missile protection, for a capacity to move ground troops inside Australia and for a capacity to call an army quickly into being by calling up trained reserves such as are now provided by the national service scheme. [More…]
Yet only by adopting that concept can Australia properly be defended, for I repeat there can be no effective forward defence which does not depend entirely on a secure, well defended base in Australia itself. [More…]
Proper defence planning would, as far as our resources allow, provide for both requirements but would regard the protection of Australia itself as a secure base as the first and overriding requirement - a sine qua non. [More…]
It is realising that a secure and well defended Australia is an essential basis of any defence policy. [More…]
I think there is more nonsense talked about this than about any other matter connected with defence. [More…]
But people speak as if retaining a battalion of troops there was in itself a forward defence policy. [More…]
Retaining our ground troops there now is one facet of such a forward defence policy but it does not of itself provide such a policy, and removing them I would hope would not mean the abandonment of a concept of forward defence. [More…]
We should not seek to stay one minute after this becomes evident, but when that time comes it would be tragic if we become so obsessed with the matter on both sides that we abandoned planning for regional assistance as I earlier defined it and thought that merely because our troops had come from Singapore we could no longer have forward defence. [More…]
There is much I want to say about defence which cannot possibly be said in the time allotted for an Estimates debate. [More…]
I hope therefore that a defence statement will not be too long delayed and I hope that when it is made and debated it will not be marred by being conducted in terms of slogans or of insult or of cries of ‘war.mongers’ from one side of the Parliament and ‘traitors’ from the other. [More…]
In moving that motion I think it is necessary for the Parliament to understand that any discussion on defence estimates which does not include discussions of the appropriate base for defence is a discussion of irrelevancies. [More…]
If Australia is not prepared to maintain the vital defence services, such as an aircraft industry, we may as well reject the total estimates for the defence of this country. [More…]
Without the back-up supplies, which would not be readily available from overseas in wartime, as has already been proven, no defence in fact exists. [More…]
The Government Aircraft Factories were brought into being during the Second World War, when the Government felt that this type of operation was necessary to Australia’s defence requirements. [More…]
I think it is ludicrous to suggest that a defence industry can be merged with a private company which, because of its shareholdings and mode of operations, must be involved mainly in profit making. [More…]
I think these propositions are comparable to a proposal to merge a government defence operation with a private company. [More…]
They are as vital to Australia’s defence as are any persons in the armed forces. [More…]
I do not believe that it is compatible for an organisation which is founded on the making of profit to be fitted into the defence pattern. [More…]
I point out that the Government Aircraft Factories have a record of service to Australia’s defence which is second to that of no other industry in the world. [More…]
However, my concern is that there is a large reservoir of highly skilled personnel who have proved themselves capable of manufacturing - in some cases, better than the original makers - and maintaining and modifying any aircraft which Australia’s defence requires. [More…]
I believe that the defence content of the industry is far more important than profit taking. [More…]
In discussing the Estimates for the Department of Defence, I should first like to deal with a matter which was raised by the honourable member for St George (Mr Morrison) concerning the 2 Mirage squadrons currently based in Malaysia. [More…]
After all, this area has the most northern defence bases in Australia and I would welcome these aircraft, as would everyone else living up there, a couple of thousand miles away from this quiet part. [More…]
This year’s estimate for defence show a rise of $117m to a total of $l,252m which is an increase of 10 per cent in military spending. [More…]
If my figures are correct, the largest single amount of the Defence estimates is for service pay and allowances. [More…]
However, if the Labor Party supports this policy it should support the Fill programme because this is an aircraft which will project the defence of this country 2,000 or 3,000 miles away from our coast. [More…]
Also, the Labor Party should be supporting defence bases at such places as Pine Gap near Alice Springs. [More…]
Okay these installations are part of the defence system of the free world. [More…]
In the concept of the defence of Australia frsm Australia the presence of this ‘spy in the sky* and the long range tactical strike aircraft, both of which are attacked very strongly by the Labor Party, is essential to the policy they are advocating. [More…]
We would like the same sort of opportunities as are given to United States Congressmen to visit these places so that we can be better informed on these defence installations in Australia. [More…]
I take this opportunity of speaking on the defence estimates to direct attention, of necessity very briefly in this debate, to matters surrounding which there are political differences, namely, the need for forward defence as it is called and the further integration of the armed Services and the subject of conscription. [More…]
We must have smaller, expert working committees to which we can call outside advisers and really seek information about the estimates rather than use the occasion to make some general points about defence as I am forced to do but which I would prefer to do in a general debate on defence if sufficient time were given in this chamber for such debates. [More…]
The first point I want to make concerns the argument about forward defence and fortress Australia’ - both of them inadequate phrases as indeed the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) said only half an hour ago - rendering most of the arguments concerning them fairly irrelevant. [More…]
I want to say quite clearly that, along with my colleagues on this side of the House, I am a strong proponent of a mobile defence force based at home. [More…]
This can be, and in my concept is, in itself forward defence. [More…]
He made it clear in that speech, firstly, that the stationing of troops abroad is not the only way in which forward defence . [More…]
We can engage in joint planning with other countries who are willing to plan common defence. [More…]
And all of these actions contribute to forward defence and would do so even if our forces were not actually stationed overseas. [More…]
I have had the opportunity to speak privately to some of those Ministers and to put our position on forward defence - not fortress Australia but forward defence - in a nutshell, and I quote from a defence statement of my leader as long ago as 5th March 1969 but which is still relevant today. [More…]
A Labor government would re-organise Australian defences around highly-trained, highlymobile professional forces. [More…]
We -would maintain that capacity and affirm our involvement in regional defence by entering into joint training arrangements with our neighbour nations. [More…]
A Labor government would, as a matter of the highest priority, negotiate arrangements designed to achieve a maximum standardisation of defence equipment throughout the region. [More…]
These are policies more practical by far and more advantageous both to our neighbours and to ourselves than the pieties of the Prime Minister and the procrastination of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The debate on integration and restructuring which has made defence organisation more effective and economic in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and western Europe has barely touched Australia. [More…]
Vague gestures have been made to defence reorganisation but little has been achieved. [More…]
I remind honourable members that in 1957 a committee was established under the late General Sir Leslie Morshead to examine defence organisation. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) to tell me whether it still needs to be classified as a secret document. [More…]
The Morshead committee recommended that the separate departments of Defence, Army, Navy and Air be amalgamated into a single Department of [More…]
Defence under one Minister. [More…]
This would have restored the basic direction of defence policy which existed until World War II, the demands of which created separate Service departments. [More…]
I believe that those demands do not exist today; that there would be better co-ordination and better forward defence planning if there was integration and that the Morshead committee’s report should be public property and available to this Parliament as an additional aid in the thinking of this nation on defence. [More…]
I intend to deal with what at least potentially is the most significant item of the estimates - the fact that the Navy aims to toss a huge sponge into the very shallow pool of available defence resources. [More…]
But the subject I wish to deal with in connection with this matter is one which really belongs to the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) with his wider conceptual responsibilities rather than to the Minister for the Navy (Dr Mackay) with his rather more narrowly confined responsibilities. [More…]
The programme is obviously conceived in technical naval terms rather than on the basis of Australia’s resources available for defence. [More…]
A united effort of defence cooperation with our neighbours along these lines could in fact make the whole area and all the countries in our part of the world very much safer, and it would be extremely difficult and costly, in terms of losses and casualties, for any other power, however big. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), if he has not gone into these matters as yet - and I do not think he has because no decision has yet been made - will explain to this chamber the DDL programme now suggested by the Navy and also examine the alternative which, in the terms of Australian resources in the broad sense, may be a better investment for Australia. [More…]
I think that the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Bury), as a back bencher, has done this chamber a better service in questioning the defence programme of this country than he ever did while he was highly placed in the Ministry. [More…]
The right honourable member for Higgins - a former Minister for the Navy, a former Prime Minister and a former Minister for Defence - now finds that 500 lives later it was an error to go into Vietnam. [More…]
As far as I could tell, the right honourable member for Higgins defined all the need for defence out of the argument. [More…]
It would be a good idea if during the debate on the defence estimates and in foreign policy debates we were to hang on the walls of this chamber a very large map of the area involved. [More…]
None of us is going to say that because we cannot see any threates now we will not see them in the foreseeable future and that the defence budget should be removed altogether. [More…]
Even the present Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) will probably know it is coming. [More…]
In the Defence Report it is stated to be our major scientific effort. [More…]
That is precisely why a nation needs defence. [More…]
I agree with the honourable gentleman that it is a matter of looking sensibly and realistically at the defence threats posed to this nation. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) at the earliest opportunity to give the House an opportunity of discussing, on a defence statement, the relationship between defence and foreign affairs. [More…]
I think it is quite absurd to discuss defence considerations and to put to one side attitude* regarding foreign affairs. [More…]
The second point I want to make concerns defence organisation in the general sense. [More…]
A young man is not interested in this, and one of the difficulties that I feel at liberty to say that I would see in the establishment of any joint defence college is that we would get precisely the young man who goes from school at an impressionable age with all the enthusiasm in the world and who is interested in a particular Service. [More…]
I believe that this is the dominant factor in the defence of Australia today. [More…]
I believe - and it is no disrespect to Mr Nixon to say this - that there in its inchoate state was the Nixon doctrine, and 1 believe that all of our defence planning must be based upon the fact that we are substantially on our own. [More…]
The defence significance of it is stark, it is clear and it is emphatic. [More…]
In the consideration of our defence responsibility and capability it would be unreal to place heavy reliance or, indeed, much reliance upon British involvement. [More…]
We are not going to make it if we believe that we can, by looking back in some sentimental fashion to the past, find the encouragement and the wherewithal to sustain our defence effort today. [More…]
In so doing I want to draw the attention of the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) to a situation that is arising in South Australia. [More…]
Minister with copies of letters that have been posted up within the precincts of that establishment and also the names of a number of people within my electorate who are expressing grave concern that the Commonwealth Government is not measuring up to its responsibility insofar as the employment of Australians in defence projects generally is concerned. [More…]
It is time that the Government realised its responsibility to Australians who are contributing to the defence of the country. [More…]
Honourable members on this side of the House get sick and tired of hearing honourable members opposite suggesting - we heard it again from the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) - that nobody on this side of the House has any regard for the defence or the security of this nation. [More…]
It would appear that those who sit on the Government benches feel that they and only they have the God-given right to murmur anything about the defence of this country. [More…]
May I remind honourable members opposite that the political party that has played the most important role so far as the defence of this country in its hour of greatest need is concerned is neither of the Government Parties and they should always remember that. [More…]
This is the wrong approach to the whole question of a united defence force. [More…]
The ultimate in defence from a Service point of view - and I remind honourable members opposite of this - is a combined operation, and the proper concept of a combined operation is to have the 3 Services welded together. [More…]
My reply to that is that we ought to get away from the concept of the 3 Services because the ultimate in a defence concept is that the 3 Services will work closely together. [More…]
So why the hell should we continue to live in the past by keeping them separated from almost every purpose but the most crucial of ail from the defence point of view? [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Moreton that it is time the Minister for Defence made a statement on defence in this Parliament, so that it might be debated, instead of raising matters of defence during the adjournment debate. [More…]
This Government’s defence policy is totally inadequate to the needs of this country even accepting, as I do, that at this point of time we will not be trodden underfoot tonight by a great horde of Asiatics. [More…]
If this is the way honourable members opposite approach questions relating to our defence how can they claim to be members of the only Party in the Commonwealth to whom the security of this nation can be entrusted? [More…]
He may nol have been a member of the Cabinet at that time but the question 1 pose to the present Minister for Defence is: Why did he stand in this House during the course of most of last Wednesday afternoon, along with other members of the Government, making excuses for this intolerable mess over the training of Cambodian forces in South Vietnam. [More…]
The grovelling attitude of the Prime Minister on his trip overseas in regard to the defence of this country is nothing short of shocking and I do not say that because of the fact that we will not regard certain treaties as being on the basis on which they ought to be regarded. [More…]
He took up the question of the Government’s attitude to defence and its foreign policy when he suggested that the Opposition was every bit as interested in defence forces as is this Government. [More…]
The Government has a responsibility to be more realistic than that, so it is natural that when the Opposition claims that it wishes to see built up the defence capacity of this country, Government supporters will say that it is interested only in- [More…]
1 wish to point out, as has been said by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) on occasions, that it is silly to think in terms of building a defence capacity simply in order to provide jobs. [More…]
Firstly, he said that he could not see that a private profit organisation - he was referring to the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Pty Limited - could be fitted adequately into the defence pattern. [More…]
The Government’s policy concerning the aircraft industry has been, and continues to be, to maintain an effective defence aircraft industry in Australia. [More…]
A brief look at the past workload of the industry will clearly demonstrate the outworking of the Government’s policy to support an effective defence aircraft industry. [More…]
It is recognised by the Government that the defence aircraft industry relies heavily on defence orders for its basic workload. [More…]
At the same time we find that workload peaks and troughs occur in meeting defence orders because the life of an aircraft is longer than the period of manufacture and the difficulties in staffing and management are a cyclical. [More…]
Further, efforts have been made by the Government in developing workload opportunities for the defence aircraft industry through off-sets, coproduction or sub-contracting and they have been substantial with prospects for a greater increase. [More…]
It is being made apparent to the overseas suppliers of major defence and other equipments that a great deal of attention will be given to the opportunities offering to Australian industry from proposals received. [More…]
The Government believes that the defence aircraft industry needs to be more commercially oriented and that there is some scope for rationalisation of activities in the industry, particularly in the Fishermen’s Bend area where the Government Aircraft Factories and the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation operate on adjacent sites with much of their plant being complementary. [More…]
But I emphasise that any rationalisation scheme that might be adopted will have, as its aim, the achievement of a more effective and economical defence aircraft industry which it is the policy of the Government to support. [More…]
Earlier today we had a number of discussions on the foreign policy aspects of defence policy in Australia. [More…]
Later I shall refer to the position of the Citizen Military Forces in Australia and comment on some of the ways in which the Government’s defence force policy is affecting people in my electorate. [More…]
It is high time Australia evolved a foreign policy which placed its first consideration not so much on the defence interests of Australia but on getting on well with our neighbours. [More…]
Unfortunately for 20 years the Government has been obsessed with the primacy of defence policy in its foreign policy. [More…]
Indeed, defence policy has been raised to the level of the absolute goal in foreign policy. [More…]
In view of the comments I have been making it is clear that the policy of forward defence we have been pursuing is now archaic and should be abolished entirely. [More…]
As one who believes in having a strong defence force and who also believes very strongly in the voluntary principle in defence, I am very impressed by the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]
I think this drop perhaps can be put down partly to the fact that the Government has been shadow boxing with defence. [More…]
It has been obsessed with the idea of forward defence. [More…]
If we spend all our time organising and equipping our army for the defence of South East Asia and if we pursue that mirage, we will be put in a position where the domestic forces within Australia will be downgraded. [More…]
Even if each of these ships is going to cost something of the order of $100m over the next 15 years or so, it is my firm conviction that time will reveal that the programme is vital, that there will be a need for the ships and that they will play a significant part in the future defence of Australia. [More…]
In this environment it will be absolutely essential for the people of Australia, irrespective of rising costs, to find the courage, the capacity and the dedication to the welfare of their country to put forward their own best capacity in the defence of Australia. [More…]
However, it has asked those people who are bound to it by alliances to do the utmost they possibly can to make the greatest possible contribution in terms of their own defence, so as to be worthy of the defence effort of the United States. [More…]
In these circumstances, what a poor and miserable lot Australians would be if they were prepared to avoid that necessary defence effort which will earn the respect of our powerful allies. [More…]
We are to spend $l,255m on defence this year. [More…]
Apart from questions of whether the amount is enough or too much, there is the very important question of whether we shall get good defence value from the money. [More…]
One of the very important costs in defence expenditure, of course, are those associated with the training and employment of personnel themselves. [More…]
I understand that it takes about 62 per cent of the defence budget just to maintain the machinery as it is without the purchase of any new equipment. [More…]
I want to raise questions tonight of the defence training methods, some aspects of defence administration and, if time permits, the issue of conscription. [More…]
The former Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Henry Bland, raised some very important questions in a talk in Perth in September 1970 during the 21st Roy Milne Memorial Lecture when he called for a review of military training. [More…]
He reminded us that a very large proportion of our defence forces is devoted to the training of others and large numbers are always undergoing training. [More…]
On the matter of the training of people in the higher ranks of our defence forces, apparently Australia still looks to other countries, chiefly the United Kingdom, in regard to its most senior training. [More…]
He has questioned how relevant it is to our particular needs to have the higher echelons of our defence personnel being trained overseas. [More…]
Very much more importantly, Sir Henry went on to question how extraordinary it is that with all the training that is done in our defence forces there has been no real examination of training methods for quite a number of years. [More…]
Possibly the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), who is at the table, might answer this when he gets up to speak in this debate. [More…]
He might be able to tell us what review there has been of training methods in the defence forces of Australia. [More…]
Sir Henry says that despite the plethora of reviews of training in many other fields such as universities, technical colleges, schools and industry itself, little has been done in the defence forces. [More…]
He suggests that we ought to be looking at the character of the training, its value, what methods are used, whether they are up to date, what resources are devoted to training; what continuity is provided in the way of instruction, what the content is of the courses, and whether it is relevant to those defence needs. [More…]
These are very important questions that ought to be asked in a defence estimates debate. [More…]
Therefore, I ask the Minister - and I hope that he will answer - to inform me what has been done to answer this query raised by the former Secretary of Defence in regard to a review or re-examination of training methods in the defence forces. [More…]
He asked how feasible these are; whether they could be of distinct value to the Services: and what the defence departments are doing in respect of recruitment of graduates from outside as officers in the Services. [More…]
He questioned also the use the defence forces are making of normal civilian establishments such as universities, technical colleges and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
He asked: Are the defence forces making adequate use of those facilities for their professional and subprofessional training? [More…]
It has been pointed out in other reports that this system often leads to an abnormally high number of resignations and failure on the part of many defence personnel to reengage after their term has expired. [More…]
Interestingly enough, the former Defence Secretary also referred to the ‘quasi monastic life’ led by military men separated in their training and everyday living apart from the ordinary flow of community life. [More…]
He asked whether it would not be better for people who are concerned with defence to be more associated with the ordinary run of community life. [More…]
We have tried to integrate our defence hardware with that provided in the United States. [More…]
Therefore the questions of training, research, procurement and management have all been raised by no less a person than an expert in the field - the former Secretary of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I trust that the issues that he raised about a year ago are now being researched by the political heads of the defence forces. [More…]
I have indicated that manpower is a very important part of our defence budget. [More…]
Indeed, 62 per cent of our defence grant goes simply in maintaining the defence structure. [More…]
Are many of our young men who go into the defence forces being essentially undertrained and underemployed? [More…]
Commands in turn make their applications to the Department of Defence through the Department of the Army. [More…]
If it were to require urgent defence equipment by land at the wrong time of the year - when it was raining - would this Government call ‘Parley’ to the opposing forces so that the road could dry out and the equipment could be brought across? [More…]
It is important that this area of defence mobility and manufacture is investigated immediately not only to ensure adequate defence but also to bolster and retain the development of the Australian industry, and so prevent these estimates from being a year to year record of overseas expenditure with no coherent plan for the future. [More…]
It is useless for honourable members opposite to talk of outside threats without paying attention to the internal defence policis. [More…]
An assurance from the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) is required in this matter. [More…]
We are allowed 10 minutes to speak on the defence estimates which appropriate money for 5 departments. [More…]
In my opinion it is a complete waste of time, as I have said every year when debating these estimates, to expect to have a realistic debate on defence when honourable members are allowed a period of 10 minutes in which to deal with defence matters. [More…]
But after listening to the debate that has taken place in this chamber today I believe it is interesting to see the dilemma in which the Opposition Party appears to be placed in advocating a uniform defence policy. [More…]
Perhaps one could say that it is intriguing to listen to the various facets being put forward by honourable members opposite in the socalled defence estimates debate. [More…]
Let me refer to the defence policy of a Labor government. [More…]
On defence policy Dr Cairns said: ‘To be spending S 1,300m a year on war and defence is completely unjustified. [More…]
This is the basis on which the Labor Party tries to present to the people of Australia a defence policy, lt talks about cutting out conscription. [More…]
The Opposition claims with its war of words - they are nothing but words - that it would not reduce the defence vote. [More…]
So what the Labor Party has said about defence in its pre-election conferences is that it considers that an infantry force of 5,500 in the field force is approximately what is necessary at this particular time. [More…]
The people of Australia must accept that we have to spend more money on defence. [More…]
Indeed, the right honourable member for Higgins said that either we have to spend more on defence or we have to cut down our manpower or our capital equipment. [More…]
In 1968 defence expenditure was 4.6 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
I am glad to find that the right honourable member for Higgins now believes that the defence vote should be kept up. [More…]
I support what the right honourable member for Higgins said when he hoped that a defence statement would be made that could be debated fully in this House. [More…]
The last defence statement made in this House was in March 1970, and 6 people were allowed to debate it. [More…]
I am merely agreeing with the right honourable member for Higgins that there is a need for a full debate in respect to defence. [More…]
I agree with what he said about forward defence and the Fortress Australia policy. [More…]
Over the last 10 years I and others in this chamber have said that there is a need for Australia to form a balanced defence force. [More…]
There is a need to have a force that can carry out the role of defence of the homeland as well as meet our obligations overseas. [More…]
If we just pulled in behind what is called Fortress Australia’ - I do not agree with it though, I agree with defence of the homeland - and did nothing, who would believe us? [More…]
We must assess our whole defence policy - of the army, navy and air force - to see that we are capable of defending the homeland and at the same time maintaining our lines of communication and logistics, as well as being able to provide for any threat or commitment in which we may become involved overseas. [More…]
I believe that we have to spend more on defence. [More…]
I think that the people expect us to spend more on defence and I think that they will repudiate the Labor Party for the policies it has propounded. [More…]
The Soviet presence fluctuates but that is the most recent reading unless my defence colleagues have something more up to date. [More…]
Why does our policy always have to be defence first and diplomacy last? [More…]
I think it is time our altitudes on defence were completely rethought. [More…]
I believe it is quite impossible for honourable members coherently to discuss a defence matter in a debate of this sort in 10 minutes. [More…]
As I stated earlier, it is my intention, if this is possible, that either I or the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) will make a defence statement during this sessional period. [More…]
our defence policy? [More…]
I believe that the ultimate purpose of our defence policy is to maintain Australia’s independence and, more than that, to seek to prevent or remove threats to our independence. [More…]
In this our defence and our foreign policies march together. [More…]
I believe that today Australia’s defence forces are at the highest level of professional skills and are using the most modern equipment that this country has ever possessed in peace time. [More…]
Modern defence requires vast sums of money and planning of a very high order because the decisions we are making today affect the equipment that is to come into service in the next 5 or 10 years and which will remain with us into the 1980s or perhaps even later. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that previously we had a 3-year defence programme under which we made what we hoped were going to be the decisions for 3 years but it never really worked out that way because some equipment did not come forward as expected and other equipment was substituted. [More…]
To give honourable members an example of the problems that are faced in defence planning, today the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Bury) and others drew attention to the effect on this programme of the DDL project. [More…]
This is the sort of thing that is being looked at and assessed by the Defence Forces Development Committee. [More…]
sorts of decisions that the Department of Defence and eventually the Cabinet have to face up to. [More…]
I say now, and I have said it before, that I feel it is a great pity in the matter of defence and in the matter of foreign affairs that Australia, unlike some of the great countries overseas, has never been able to get a bi-partisan policy on either defence or foreign affairs. [More…]
There have been some honourable members opposite who have said that we want more defence. [More…]
There have been other honourable members like the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant), whose speech I listened to - this is as far as I could assess his speech - who have said that there is absolutely nothing that we are doing today that we need to do and therefore we do not require any defence at all. [More…]
But I ask ‘What is the difference between our defence policy and the defence policy of the Labor Party?’ [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for La Trobe is chairman of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation and I believe that he will soon be bringing in a report on this subject which we will be able to look at. [More…]
Canada expends a very much smaller proportion of her gross national product on defence than we do. [More…]
That is the first difference between our defence policy and that of the Labor Party. [More…]
The defence of the free world would suffer through Labor Party policy. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Defence without notice, arises from the discrepancies between answers which he gave to my colleagues and me last week and the facts of the approach for Australian participation in the training of Cambodian forces as they are now known to a great many people. [More…]
Does he now assert that neither the April approach nor the request of 30th September have been discussed by the Defence Committee which consists of the Chiefs of Staff and the permanent heads of the Department of Defence, the Prime Minister’s Department, the Treasury and the Department of Foreign Affairs? [More…]
This request was made to the then Minister for Foreign Affairs and was handled by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Defence, who turned the request aside consistent with our policy. [More…]
We agreed to train Cambodians in Australia and this was announced in a defence statement in about July. [More…]
In order that the nation can understand the position, when will the Acting Prime Minister make a statement to this House and when will he table the famous letter of the Minister for Defence of 26th October together with the 2 cables that he, as Acting Prime Minister, sent to the Prime Minister at Blair House? [More…]
In view of the fact that the Labor Party has said that it would not cut defence expenditure I wonder whether these might be the answers in which Labor would try to raise this sort of finance. [More…]
The Commonwealth must demonstrate its interest in industrial development, defence development and tourist potential by taking action along the lines T have outlined. [More…]
He may or may not know and honourable members may or may not know that it is a vital defence link as well as a vital tourist link between any part of southern Australia and northern Australia. [More…]
One could easily allocate some money from the defence expenditure towards such a highway system. [More…]
I will deal with the American highway system which was built basically for defence. [More…]
Also affected by corrosion is the whole range of Commonwealth-owned defence equipment. [More…]
more particularly, to the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) the need for taking proper protective measures against corrosion in all the hardware that this nation owns. [More…]
The Indian Government has prepared a law allowing it to comandeer private transport for defence us:, according to officials in New Delhi. [More…]
It goes on to say that Indian defence chiefs say that Mrs Gandhi was not indulging in diplomatic hyperbole when she said in New York that India has reached the limit of her endurance in trying to cope with the influx of refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]
That the Commonwealth consider this road as a Defence Measure for the whole of Australia and road link connecting the two coasts of the Continent, and consideration to the sealing from the aspect of the increase in Trade and Tourism within Australia, thus encouraging the retention of the finance in Australia which is now going overseas. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I refer the Minister to a report in the ‘Auckland Star’ of 4th November quoting the New Zealand Minister for Defence, Mr Thomson, as saying that no agreement, even in principle, had been made by New Zealand to train Cambodians inside Vietnam. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Did the Department of Defence advise the Prime Minister that New Zealand had made this decision in principle to train Cambodian troops in Vietnam? [More…]
This will be over and above the defence assistance vote which is normally given to Malaysia. [More…]
The truth is that Australia’s defence is part and parcel of an international pattern and is bound up with the United States of America. [More…]
On 25th November 1968, Defence Minister Chiang Ching-kuo stated: [More…]
Two of these countries are members of the 5-power defence arrangement. [More…]
I would also say that Australia’s defence forces should be looking at the same sort of ships to operate in the same sort of waters to our north. [More…]
They do not oppose our 5-power defence arrangements, but, needless to say, are not part of them. [More…]
But there is no possible threat to Australia whether we are prepared or not, and I am not one to write the defence system out. [More…]
Then we have that wonderful demonstration of democracy at its best by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), who says that only those people who need to know may visit the foreign bases. [More…]
This just gets back to where I started in relation to the defence arm as the servant of foreign affairs and its policy. [More…]
We talk so much about forward defence in this country. [More…]
I quoted what Mr Curtin said in 1937 about increased expenditure for the defence of New Guinea. [More…]
The Government wants Australia to live in good relations with those coustries and to assist them as far as it possibly can, but should it repudiate the United States in respect of the ANZUS treaty and our other defence agreements? [More…]
The Labor Party says: ‘Yes, we will have defence but we will not have a complete sellout to our great and powerful allies. [More…]
We do not want them walking into Pine Gap on our territory telling us how to run it, telling us what it is for when it suits them, allowing their members of Parliament to walk in when it suits them, allowing our people to go and take some part only when it suits them and telling us that it is not necessary for defence purposes for us to know what is going on.’ [More…]
The Opposition talks of independence in foreign affairs and defence matters, but the Government has been practising it. [More…]
Le: me say this: The old concept of foreign affairs based on defence, as it used to be, has gone forever. [More…]
Clause 7, sub-paragraph (e) and 1(c), include defence provisions which should reasonably be available to a defendant charged with an offence under this section. [More…]
The Aviat, Paga, and Papuan Aero Clubs (all in Port Moresby) are situated within Defence Reserves. [More…]
He will be aware of the confusion which has been created in his absence by answers which the Acting Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence have given on the training of Cambodian troops. [More…]
In regard to giving a full answer to the balance of the question, I can add nothing to what my colleague the Acting Prime Minister said or what was said by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In listening to the Opposition on this subject of defence I find that what one needs apparently is a bad memory and a short memory. [More…]
About a month ago the Deputy Leader of the Opposition made certain statements in terms of the defence of Australia. [More…]
He stated that our defence posture should be that of defending the Australian mainland, air space, coastline and the territorial waters. [More…]
He and another person were interviewed about what had taken place in the defence committee with which Sir Ian was working. [More…]
What sort of road system do we have in terms of our defence system? [More…]
Defence was the reason why the intercity highway system was introduced in the United States. [More…]
In fact, it was introduced not as a safety measure but as a defence measure. [More…]
In the United States, I had lengthy and very frank discussions with President Nixon, Secretary of State Rogers, Defence Secretary Laird, Deputy Secretary Packard, Dr Kissinger, Under Secretary of the Treasury Volcker, Chairman of the Council of Environmental Quality Russell Train, and Senator Fulbright, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. [More…]
None of this must suggest any easing off in our determination to strengthen and enlarge our defence capacity. [More…]
On my way home I discussed defence strategy in the Pacific with the United States Commander-in-Chief, Pacific, in Honolulu. [More…]
In my talks with the Secretary for Defence and Deputy Secretary Packard, who has recently visited this country, I raised the question of the security of the Indian Ocean. [More…]
In London I had detailed discussions with the Prime Minister, Mr Heath; the Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home; the Minister for Defence, Lord Carrington; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Barber; the Minister responsible for the British relations with the European Economic Community, Mr Rippon; and the Governor of the Bank of England. [More…]
Mr Health and I agreed - and this was followed up later in my talks with the Minister for Defence and the Foreign Secretary - that even closer consultation and communication should be effected between the two Governments. [More…]
I had useful and wide-ranging discussions on defence matters with the British Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence and the Foreign Secretary. [More…]
I was assured that the Heath Government intends to maintain its political interests and defence commitments in South East Asia. [More…]
We reviewed the five-power defence arrangements for assistance in the defence of Singapore and Malaysia. [More…]
I am aware that the British Government is actively considering, with other Governments in the five power arrangement, further areas of co-operation in the defence field. [More…]
Ibis reaffirms his statement to the conference of Commonwealth Heads of Government in Singapore last January, We also had useful opening discussion directed lo increasing defence co-operation in the Indian Ocean area and work is proceeding on proposals about improved procedures for coordinating resources and surveillance. [More…]
I emphasised the role we were seeking to play in regional economic co-operation and regional defence co-operation in South-East Asia. [More…]
It not only contains mutual guarantees which go as close as countries with federal constitutions such as our own and America can go towards positive commitment, but, as the Prime Minister has pointed out, it furnishes the framework of continuous co-operation and exchange of military information directed to mutual security and defence. [More…]
In essence, the situation boils down to the difference between the Government and the Opposition on the defence of Australia, and the difference of international approach between the businesslike attitude of the Government and the showy public relations exercises of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
In this changing world, matters of defence, trade, and foreign affairs are paramount topics and it would be an abrogation of ils responsibilities foi thU Government not to engage in regular dialogue and contact with its friends. [More…]
This means that in the case of countries with mutual defence pacts with the United States substantial reductions of United States armed forces personnel have been occurring. [More…]
In its effect and potential, therefore, the Nixon Doctrine is a momentous change in America’s Asian outlook, and one which is of particular concern to Australians, especially in regard to defence. [More…]
What a great guarantee of alliance in defence are the President’s words, yet it is the sort of guarantee which the Australian Labor Party seeks to wave airily aside. [More…]
Of course, the Opposition’s defence attitude, or rather its lack of a viable defence policy, is well known. [More…]
There was the recent public difference of opinion on forward defence between the Leader of the Opposition and the Singapore Prime Minister. [More…]
view of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition with other international defence views. [More…]
Finally we have the statement by the Deputy Defence Secretary of the United Slates, Mr David Packard. [More…]
Indeed, a Western presence in the Indian Ocean would seem common sense to all but the Opposition as a logical back-up to our ANZUS and SEATO Treaties and the 5-power agreements for the defence of the Singapore-Malaysia area. [More…]
In his mission the Prime Minister covered 3 vital fields - defence, trade and the international monetary situation. [More…]
The important statement delivered by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) covered a wide sweep of the nation’s affairs, not only our defence and foreign policies but also international trade and monetary problems. [More…]
Insofar as he talked about anything, he seemed to be discussing defence. [More…]
1 would like, therefore, to discuss some of the defence issues raised by the Prime Ministers statement and the reply by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
The defence of this country is of vital concern to all of us. [More…]
In an ideal world we would not need defence forces and could devote the resources we now devote to defence to peaceful purposes. [More…]
The maintenance of adequate defence must be the first concern of any government. [More…]
Our neighbours to the north are independent and reasonably stable and surely it must be the first object of our foreign policy, and our defence policy which derives from our foreign policy, to keep them that way. [More…]
But although Australia does not face any immediate threat, I am concerned at the attitude of members of the Opposition who seem to deduce that because there is no immediate obvious threat, therefore defence is of low priority. [More…]
What we need, bearing in mind the long lead time of defence equipment and defence organisations, is to plan forces now which could meet the conceivable threats running into the 1980s and 1990s. [More…]
Therefore the maintenance of Indonesia’s strength and independence must be a high priority of our economic aid, and our foreign and defence policies. [More…]
The former Secretary of the Labor Party in Victoria - a member of the group which advised Australian troops in Vietnam to mutiny - has recommended that Australia cut back its defence expenditure. [More…]
But most important of all is one of the questions which concerns the whole of Australia’s forward defence policy in Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
Yet according to the honourable member for Isaacs, forward defence is one of the cardinal principles of Australia’s policy. [More…]
We also have statements that can be quoted from officials of the Department of Defence and the Department of [More…]
Defence colleagues have something more up to date. [More…]
It is not under Defence’ but under ‘General Principles’. [More…]
We sometimes forget that there was a United Kingdom defence guarantee in categoric terms to the SingaporeMalaysian area in earlier times, but now we have an arrangement of equal partnership between the 5 countries which are concerned. [More…]
As it happens, and in spite of the Prime Minister’s heavy emphasis tonight, defence is not one of them. [More…]
We also have the word of the previous Prime Minister and Minister for Defence for it. [More…]
Yet what w.i <-.f national life, defence included, is in such obvious need of help today? [More…]
The question of using only biodegradable detergents in HMA ships is the subject of a current investigation with which Defence Standard Laboratories have been requested to assist. [More…]
Is it a fact that the complete manufacture of motor cars in Australia gives rise to the expansion of basic engineering facilities and the training of a skilled labour force which add considerably to our industrial and defence potential? [More…]
I am not saying that in defence of all that goes on within this sphere. [More…]
I refer the Minister for the Navy to a statement made in the House of Commons on 11th March this year by the Minister of State for Defence, Mr Kirk. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Whom does he consider the more reliable authority - a British Tory Defence Minister or a commercial organ whose objective is to promote sales of warships? [More…]
You have fought valiantly in defence of the ideal of freedom. [More…]
1 want to look briefly at the record of Australian troops in Vietnam and the impact of the war on our defence structure. [More…]
The Army was the principal victim of the defence rundown of the late fifties. [More…]
In the article by Peter Samuel in the Sydney ‘Bulletin’ which touched off the crisis in the Government, and which was held by Peter Samuel to have been inspired by the former Minister for Defence, now the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), it was said that Cabinet was indifferent to the fate of the Army in Vietnam. [More…]
The present Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) in the course of his statement spoke about the overthrow of the government of South Vietnam. [More…]
I want to congratulate the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) on his comments in this debate. [More…]
There is also the likelihood that most young servicemen will return to their former employment without suffering any substantial disadvantage because of the retention given by the reinstatement in employment provision in the Defence Act. [More…]
I forget the figure he used but it was probably a bit less than the defence vote. [More…]
My colleague, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard), who is the spokesman for defence in our Party, is to make a few words of contribution to the debate. [More…]
‘Member of the forces’ is defined in the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act as meaning a’ person who while a member of the defence forces has served on special service. [More…]
If honourable members look at the report of the Department of Defence, they will see that in the year 1971 there were no fewer than 123,000 serving members of the forces made up of 23,000 in the Navy, 76,000 in the Army and 24,000 in the Air Force who will benefit at the present lime. [More…]
In fact, the defence estimates for 1971-72 run close to $ 1,000m. [More…]
When we can spend that kind of money on defence it ought to be reasonable for this Committee to support the allocation of money which will enable members of the Services to derive some benefit from the career that they have undertaken and the great sacrifices which they have made overseas. [More…]
Fraser) sings again the same note let me say at the outset that we are putting this amendment forward quite genuinely and I hope we do not have a repetition of no defence of the Government’s position against our proposal whilst denying our. [More…]
The question of defence expenditure is, I think, almost totally irrelevant. [More…]
The trial lasted over a 4-week period and the jury were allowed to go to their homes each night prior to the commencement of the addresses of the Crown Prosecutor, defence counsel and the judge’s summation to the jury. [More…]
For instance, an abortionist under trial in the Sydney criminal court has been quoted by a leading Sydney Queen’s Counsel $2,000 as a retainer to take the case and $6,000 for his defence. [More…]
But I do not suggest that he is throwing his political career to the winds to encroach on the rich preserves of defence counsel who appear for prominent wealthy abortionists. [More…]
Mr Imron Rosjadi, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of the Indonesian ‘ Parliament (DPR), and a Vice Chairman of the Nahdatul Ulama (Muslim Scholars) Party. [More…]
There has not as yet been any work declared by notice published in the Gazette of a civil administrative or civil clerical nature for the purposes of section 42 of the Naval Defence Act. [More…]
The Department has under examination a possible form of notice for the purpose of section 42 of the Naval Defence Act. [More…]
A. Hillier, Chief Executive Officer, Defence Facilities Branch, Department of Defence, will also attend meetings as an observer. [More…]
suggest that the Minister for Defence confine himself to answering the first part of the question. [More…]
The question put to the Minister for Defence at this stage concerns differences of policy. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman had been listening when 1 was speaking during the debate on the estimates for the Department of Defence he would know that I said then that it was extremely unlikely that it would be possible to prepare a White Paper or a ministerial statement before the House rises. [More…]
We have had discussions in the Cabinet on our future defence programme. [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe is chairman of .the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation Committee. [More…]
In those days - this would be no infringement of an oath as an Executive Councillor - I discussed it with members of the Department of the Navy and we put various views to the Department of Defence. [More…]
As I have said, I want a permanent defence service, unlike members of the Opposition who feel that money should be expended on something else. [More…]
I want to maintain the numbers in the defence forces, not cut them down or cut them out. [More…]
As Chairman of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Committee, I am conscious that there is a requirement to do something for them and it should be done. [More…]
Until February of this year, when ambition among some people in this place was no longer trammelled by reason, 1 thought there was a solution, and it ill becomes the honourable member for Lang to say that I did nothing about it because when I was Minister for the Navy papers on this issue were prepared and had been put to the Department of Defence.It just shows the fanciful view the honourable member has of the way that the Service departments operate. [More…]
The 3 of them operate together, under the Department of Defence, and the story has to be sold to them. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), who is also an ex-serviceman and who was a young Turk in 1949-50, the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Irwin) who is an exserviceman, the honourable member for North Sydney (Mr Graham) who is also an exserviceman and also all other exservicemen, including those in the Australian Country Party such as the honourable member for Mallee (Mr Turnbull) who is an ex-serviceman and who was here in 1949, to support this amendment. [More…]
The Opposition always makes the cry: ‘We will cut down on our defence expenditure to provide for expenditure in other fields’. [More…]
As far as I am concerned and as far as the Government is concerned, we want adequate defence for this country and we want adequate education facilities, too. [More…]
But we have to provide both and therefore as a responsible government we have the problem of seeing that we do the best for the people and that we do not cut our defence expenditure so as to jeopardise the security of this country. [More…]
The Opposition has indicated that it would not be reducing defence expenditure, so that removes that area as a source of funds for educational expansion. [More…]
Today a lot of our economic problems are due to the fact that we have been buying big ticket defence items which are by no means relevant to the true defence of Australia. [More…]
The precept and example that we need to follow is that of Sweden, which is capable of making almost the whole of its defence needs whether they be for the army, the navy or the air force. [More…]
Let the Government remember also that it was in 1941 that wa faced the moment of truth in matters relating to our defence in that we could not rely on our former friends and protectors. [More…]
They were industrial affairs - 1 am sure the Labor Party has not forgotten about that one; defence; immigration - the honourable member lor Grayndler (Mr Daly) would not have forgotten that one; cities and decentralisation; education; and health. [More…]
Tuesday the Minister for Defence was asked whether the Government and the Opposition had reached a climate which might be described as bipartisan on defence and foreign policy. [More…]
I draw his attention to reports that the Government is seeking defence co-operation with Indonesia. [More…]
There is no intention of entering into a defence arrangement with the Government of Indonesia. [More…]
In other words, if an approach were made, it would be quite certain that the Indonesian Government would indicate that it was not interested in any kind of defence arrangement. [More…]
1 address my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
What are the peculiar conditions of Australian defence which require 9 battalions of regular infantry and the consequent continuance of conscription when at the height of confrontation and all the uncertainty of it 10 or 11 years ago we needed only three or four? [More…]
The Government assesses regularly, as a result of the strategic assessment of our future problems and difficulties in the defence area, what the size of the defence forces should be. [More…]
lt has made an assessment that it can reduce slightly this year the size of the defence forces, or of the Army, and as a result it has reduced the period of national service from 2 years to 18 months. [More…]
When he was Minister for Education and Science, the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) spoke at a well attended and publicised meeting in Adelaide on 16th June 1971 and said that all the Commonwealth Government was waiting on was further information on priorities from a couple of State governments. [More…]
But the present Minister for Defence, when he was Minister for Education and Science, made no mention of the new financial arrangement. [More…]
Because the Australian Government will remain responsible in certain areas, such as defence, it is important that there should be members who understand the position and who can watch it not only in our interests but also in the interests of the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is important from a defence point of view - not only for our defence but s.’so for the defence of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
A French Government spokesman has said only that ‘France was continuing its defence effort and was organising its experiments and the carrying out of the effort accordingly”. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will recall that under the 5-year rolling programme the Service departments have projected existing commitments and proposals for new equipment up to 1975- 76. [More…]
In these circumstances why should it take up to 6 months to prepare a White Paper on defence? [More…]
What is the point of having a 5- year rolling programme if it cannot be used in the preparation of a comprehensive report on defence commitments and equipment in a short time span as requested by the Prime Minister? [More…]
In terms of the Federal powers relating to customs, immigration, disease control, defence, poaching and fishing the control of these waters is obviously a Commonwealth responsibility. [More…]
I will be most interested to hear the Government’s defence on this matter because as far as I am concerned there is no valid defence whatsoever. [More…]
It also involves matters of defence - it involves naval matters and that involves control of devices which may be put on the sea bed either for offensive or for defensive purposes. [More…]
If one stops there and repeats that it is not a suitable piece of legislation to be debated in this House on party lines, one would also advance the argument that the abortion issue alone should not be a party issue; the homosexuality issue is probably not a party issue; the mental element in all crimes - over and above regulatory crimes - is probably not a party issue; the tinkering and fiddling with the law of theft and the tinkering and fiddling with (he law of assault and the tinkering and fiddling with the defence of insanity which will probably rule out the defence of what lawyers call non insane automatism should not be a party matter. [More…]
We do not allow pacifists to opt out of paying any taxation that goes towards defence; or allow single people and childless couples to opt out of paying taxation used to finance child endowment and education; or permit a man who is healthy to opt out of paying taxation to meet the cost of the health scheme. [More…]
But this is a proposal that is equivalent to allowing all who benefit from defence, child endowment, education and health to opt out of meeting their share of the cost of these benefits simply by expressing their disapproval of paying compulsory taxation. [More…]
One of the interesting spectacles we have witnessed since the present Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) took office has been his readiness to spring to the defence of the Tariff Board at the slightest provocation and virtually to defend it tooth and nail come what. [More…]
It is, firstly, to develop an efficient Army capable of playing a vital role in the defence of the Territory and, secondly, to provide for the future a well balanced, disciplined and reliable force completely loyal to the Government and the Administration of the Territory. [More…]
I say to the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), who is at the table, that it is about time we woke up to ourselves in relation to our slipshod handling of overseas visitors to Australia. [More…]
It goes on to say that it is a defence for the person to prove that he did not know that the goods in his possession had been imported into Australia in contravention of the Act. [More…]
It is not my purpose here to enlarge upon the strategic situation and the basis of defence planning, but 1 feel that by way of background to my remarks on the CMF and its importance to our overall defence structure, I should attempt to sketch in, very briefly, the situation in which we find ourselves in what is fast becoming the post- Vietnam era. [More…]
It is clear that we as a small but highly developed nation, must accept an increasing share of responsibility in defence arrangements with our friends and allies in the region - and for our own defence. [More…]
The basic function of the Army remains the same - the conduct of operations on land for the defence of Australia and Australia’s interests. [More…]
There is an obvious need for a strong and viable CMF to augment the Regular Army in time of defence emergency or war and, with the Regular Army, to provide the basis for expansion of the whole Army upon general mobilisation. [More…]
Let me make it quite clear that the very essence of the CMF’s role and value is that its members are liable for call-up for service overseas in a period of defence emergency. [More…]
It is a vital part of our defences; those who serve in it, whether as a consequence of their national service obligations or not. [More…]
Historically, citizen soldiers have taken a leading part in providing the military forces for the defence of Australia. [More…]
The needs of defence must be weighed against the needs of other high priority tasks, lt is against this background that the Government has fostered the development of Regular forces, which are within the capability of Australia to maintain. [More…]
However, the Government accepts that the Regular Force, by its very nature and because of manpower limitations in peace time, can provide only the first element necessary to meet a major defence emergency. [More…]
The Citizen Military Forces, trained in and capable of playing their part in a defence emergency or war, are an essential element in our defence planning. [More…]
Here f wish to mention one important concept which could improve the CMF’s capability of contributing quickly in response to any situation of defence emergency. [More…]
I would now like to refer to the decline in CMF strength, mentioned in the recent Defence Report, which has been the subject of study over the past months. [More…]
One can only hope that an increasing awareness of the CMF’s role and value as an essential part of our defence system, and as a means of developing the individual’s own capacities, will encourage employers generally to facilitate, in the national interest, CMF service by members of their own staffs. [More…]
Enough has been said to demonstrate to honourable members and the public in general that the Government regards the CMF as a vital link in our defence arrangements and that the Army, as a result of careful studies, has laid bare many of the problems relating to CMF effectiveness and is endeavouring to the best of its ability and within prevailing financial limits to meet the challenge with imaginative and practical ideas. [More…]
With the infusion of new ideas and attitudes, such as the Ready Reaction Force I have mentioned, and with the enthusiastic support of all members of this Parliament andthe people of Australia, I have no doubt that the Citizen Army will become an even stronger and more viable force on which we can rely for an adequate and purposeful contribution to our defence and of which Australia can be justifiably proud. [More…]
In the past 15 years the CMF has been a principal victim of chopping and changing in defence policy. [More…]
But every time a person writes about the Parliament, about the Leader of the Opposition, about the Minister for National Development, about the Minister for Defence or about such unsuspecting souls as myself - the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has just collapsed with excitement - is it seriously suggested that we should say: ‘Look, I feel upset; 1 feel as though my privilege has been invaded’? [More…]
2), the Loan (War Service Land Settlement) Bill (1970) and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill .1970. [More…]
The first priority is defence; because what is the good of having anything in this country - a democratic government or parliament - if it cannot be protected? [More…]
The amount of premiums is getting pretty close to the amount which the Government spends annually on defence. [More…]
Government defence expenditure is about $l,200m. [More…]
This amount is getting close to the magnitude of defence expenditure, but nevertheless up to date it has not been subject to any overall regulation. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has announced the commitment of about 150 Australian soldiers to South Vietnam after the withdrawal of the Task Force. [More…]
lt is plain that this arrangement resulted from a direct approach by the United States Government to the Department of Defence, although all sorts of vague proclamations have been used in retrospective justification. [More…]
In October last year, the former Minister ‘ for Defence, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said that the school at Nui Dat would be training 400 to 500 junior leaders for the South Vietnamese forces by early 1971. [More…]
This was- made quite clear in successive statements by Prime Ministers and Defence Ministers and in statements given to the Press. [More…]
Earlier tonight I perhaps put the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) and my colleague the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) in an embarrassing position in this discussion. [More…]
I believe that it is bad parliamentary practice to produce in this House an important document on defence or anything else that has to do with our associations and international commitments in this part of the world in such a way that it cannot be adequately discussed. [More…]
Discussion of foreign affairs and defence matters has been most inadequately treated. [More…]
Schemes that have been declared eligible superannuation schemes are the Superannuation Fund and the Provident Account established under the Superannuation Act 1922-1971 and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund established under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971. [More…]
Precise figures are not available but it is estimated that the effect of the recent increases provided under the Superannuation Act and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act in each of the categories mentioned, was as follows: (a) 9,100, (b) 1,100, (c) 1,200. [More…]
The Department also lets contracts on behalf of the Defence Group and some other Departments. [More…]
As mentioned in my reply to Question 4817, all States are given an equal opportunity to participate in defence business. [More…]
Docs the Government have a commitment to provide military aid to Pakistan in 1971/72 under the South-East Asia Collective Defence Treaty or any other agreement; if so, what form of assistance will be provided. [More…]
On 21 August it was announced that Mr Allahbux Brohi, a Karachi lawyer, had agreed to act as counsel with full rights of defence. [More…]
Services Scales and Standards provide the authority for these facilities on a rental basis paid by the Australian Services Canteen Organisation (ASCO), subject to approval by the Departments of Defence and the Treasury, who will take into account the following factors: (!) [More…]
Will the Government take appropriate steps for a referendum to be held to increase the powers of the Commonwealth Parliament so that valid laws can be’ enacted to protect the victims of bushfires, floods, droughts and other natural disasters that are exercisable under the defence power in time of war and are described in legal terminology as being due to acts of God. [More…]
and (2) 1 replied to the Shire’s letter on 27th September and advised the Shire Clerk that a decision on the 18 acres of land at Belmont currently held for defence purposes would be made as soon as practicable. [More…]
The Defence authorities are currently considering a number of prospective land holdings in Western Austrafia related to possible future requirements there. [More…]
In view of the acknowledged need to provide adequate defence for Australia and to maintain full employment, will the Minister give preference to government defence establishments in the procurement of defence supplies? [More…]
Finally, I ask the Minister to maintain the skilled defence workforce in employment and, where necessary, to engage in peace time production for government departments and industry. [More…]
Is he aware that recommendations contained in that report relating to the grading and classification of inspectors employed in Defence departments are causing concern and discontent among these officers? [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, came to the defence of BHP yesterday in the national controversy over the 5.3 per cent rise in steel prices. [More…]
The Australian Government has enjoyed a very close relationship with the Government of the Republic of Viet Nam, and Australian forces have fought side by side with Vietnamese forces for the defence of the Republic. [More…]
and (6) Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and the United States committed troops to the defence of South Vietnam. [More…]
1 published In February 1971 by the Defence Standards Laboratories. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The Prime Minister obviously needs defence and I think he is exposing himself more and more in the ridiculous situation that this ma’ter over BHP has become. [More…]
The question reads as follows: 4932 Mr Calwell: To ask the Minister for Defence - [More…]
But I made a great mistake on this occasion and I want, to put the record straight because apparently the Department of Defence cannot find any of the records nor can the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many (a) migrants and (b) defence personnel were carried on (i) scheduled services and (ii) charter flights by Qantas in 1969-70 and 1970-71. [More…]
Sir Henry Bland was the Permanent Head of the Department of Labour and National Service from 1952 to 1967 and the Permanent Head of the Department of Defence from 1967 until his retirement from the Commonwealth Public Service in 1969. [More…]
1 am very determined and straightforward in stating that a man who is prepared to go anywhere to assist in this country’s defence should not be disadvantaged. [More…]
As far as I am aware, the committee in the Department of Defence, comprising members of the Departments of the Army, Supply and Air, is still meeting to see whether there is a military need for this aircraft and whether that need is in the Air Force or the Army. [More…]
I propose now to quote from a Press statement issued tonight by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) on the same matter. [More…]
It is a pity that the Minister for Defence did not take the opportunity to make the statement in the Parliament because this matter is of importance to the Parliament. [More…]
The Minister for Air says that it does and the Minister for Defence says that it does not. [More…]
I wish the Minister for Defence would say Go ahead and build the aircraft’, because that is the critical factor. [More…]
I think the answer would be when it is a Defence forces retirement benefit. [More…]
A peculiar set of circumstances prevails in that servicemen pay into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and if they retire or become ill before completing 20 years service they are graciously awarded a pension. [More…]
The pension is suspended, but the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board kindly remembers that such men do not cease to have a right to a pension. [More…]
I appeal to Service Ministers and to the Minister who has responsibility for the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund - I think it is the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) - togo right into this matter and to give justice. [More…]
Has he been resisting pressure from certain professional Communophobes belonging to a fanatical right-wing political faction in matters affecting the defence of this nation; if so, will he continue to do so. [More…]
Can he say whether the members of this group who presume to give the Government their unsought advice on the question of defence are men who have never seen service in any war and have sons who have avoided service in Vietnam. [More…]
The Government’s Defence Programme is decided following consideration of recommendations by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Again the Prime Minister was silent and left it to a subordinate to provide his defence, to defuse this issue. [More…]
That is the practice to which the Prime Minister resorts in self defence. [More…]
The crux of the Prime Minister’s defence this afternoon was that the statement he made in the House on 6th April was in substance true - that he had sent a communication. [More…]
If this can be done on matters of economic policy it can clearly be done on matters of foreign policy, defence policy or any other kind of policy on which the militant unionists might like to establish their own views. [More…]
It indicates the weight which this Government places upon representations made from business in defence of capital, compared with its attitude to the people who are employed in industry. [More…]
I deplore the fact that at times the Government uses those kinds of words and the sort of piffling defence that was given this afternoon in the name of the Government against the attack which I launched the other evening on the economic statement of the Treasurer (Mr Snedden). [More…]
No defence was made in this House this afternoon on behalf of the Government as to why the absorptive capacity for total employment of Australia is declining. [More…]
How many people realise that the defence of Australia is almost entirely dependent on what BHP does in the future, with all the industrial strife that it has to put up with? [More…]
He will recall saying on the programme ‘Monday Conference’ on 6th December last year that defence would be the key issue at this year’s election. [More…]
He will recall also directing the Minister for Defence to prepare a defence White Paper and expressing publicly his disappointment at the delay in presenting this paper. [More…]
If not, has defence been relegated as an election issue by the deterioration in the economy and the decline in the Government’s electoral support? [More…]
Answering the last part of the question first, I can assure the honourable gentleman that defence will be one of the most important issues that the Government and the Opposition will face at the next election. [More…]
That will be undertaken when I have the responsibility as Minister for Defence in the next government. [More…]
Rationalisation as applied to defence organisation and production usually means the integration of common functions. [More…]
But in the present climate of making defence cheaper by cutting out duplication, I feel it does not go far enough. [More…]
This might not correspond with our defence requirements or the national interest. [More…]
This raises also the question of possible conflicts of interest between overseas companies and Australia’s defences. [More…]
In the circumstances where in this country we have a viable aircraft industry which should be built up and which has such a clear and close relationship to the defence of Australia - no-one should appreciate this more than the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) - the Opposition will not tolerate a situation in which the Australian Government does not retain at least 51 per cent of the shares in any industry or undertaking of this nature. [More…]
Yet, in this Parliament, the Minister for Air made a statement virtually condemning the aircraft and preventing any future expansion of production and, far more importantly, preventing possible purchasers from being able to place firm orders for Project N and, shortly afterwards, the Minister for Defence made a statement contradicting the Minister for Air. [More…]
One would hope that the Minister for Defence will be in a position to give some indication to the Parliament and, more particularly, to the people of Australia what the Government intends to do about the Australian aircraft industry and about Project N. Project N is an aircraft that has been designed by Australians to meet Australian needs as well as offering a fair proposition for companies overseas. [More…]
As far as I am aware, the committee in the Department of Defence, comprising members of the Departments of the Army, Supply and Air is still meeting to see whether there is a military need for this aircraft and whether that need is in the Air Force or in the Army. [More…]
There must be an assessment by the Department of Defence of the need for such an aircraft. [More…]
It might be the best aircraft in the world, but if there is an assessment by the Department of Defence and by the various Services that there is not a requirement for such an aircraft, we are not going to force the Services to take something just because it bs produced in Australia and just to provide some employment, if the Services do not believe that it has a high priority. [More…]
It is made initially by the Department of Defence. [More…]
Eventually, as ail honourable members know, every decision to purchase any form of equipment is made finally by the Government in the light of all the information it can get from the Services and from the Department of Defence and also in the light of financial and other assessments. [More…]
The Defence (Industrial) Committee has met recently and is assessing the possibilities in these fields; in other words, it is assessing the expected cost of Project N and, of course, this depends very much on the number of orders for the aircraft. [More…]
All these matters will be drawn together and discussed by the Defence Forces Development Committee, with perhaps some additions, and then a recommendation will be made to the Government. [More…]
In fact, if the honourable member for Blaxland is interested I can give him figures which indicate that the share of Australian production in defence orders has increased very markedly over the last 4 years. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has made some remarkable statements. [More…]
Later that same evening the Minister for Defence felt obliged to present a statement to the Press. [More…]
It is a project which so obviously is desirable for Australia’s defence forces. [More…]
Let us not have crocodile tears shed about getting the best value for our money, in view of the amount of defence expenditure in recent years that has gone to pay for the increased cost of the flying ostrich. [More…]
The Australian aircraft industry is important to Australia’s defence and it must be retained within the control of the [More…]
The future of the industry is not important only to defence. [More…]
Both of these companies, and especially the Government Aircraft Factories, have proved themselves over many years to be one of the most worthwhile defence industries in Australia. [More…]
If the Minister for Defence has not the courage to do this he should not occupy that position. [More…]
The honourable gentleman said by way of interjection to my colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), a moment ago that the debate was about the future of rationalisation and he wanted to know what was going on. [More…]
As we well know, the present problem is that the defence aircraft industry, which includes the 3 establishments I have referred to, employs some 7,000 men and the industry includes maintenance as well as the capacity of the commercial airlines. [More…]
It is an industry which, unfortunately, as the Minister for Defence has said, has its peaks and troughs. [More…]
The Hawker Siddeley 1182 and the Alpha-jet are 2 that the Government is looking at, and others are making representations to the defence group. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has mentioned the circumstances in relation to it. [More…]
But such work has to be practical, economic and really beneficial to our defence capacity. [More…]
We have to consider, together with the Services and the defence group, whether a particular aircraft offered is one which will fit into our programme and is part of our requirement. [More…]
I believe that the left wing members of the Opposition are opposed to defence expenditure but that they realise that to cut it off would result in men losing their jobs and that they do try to have a bit each way. [More…]
I suppose the Opposition wants to appear to be sympathetic, hoping to please those who are employed in defence industries. [More…]
I suppose it is some assurance to hear the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) say that he believes in the necessity for a viable aircraft industry and the Minister for Supply (Mr Garland) indicate that the Government is apparently hastening slowly insofar as the working out of terms of any new arrangement is concerned. [More…]
The Minister for Defence claimed that we need a viable aircraft industry. [More…]
I think that the Government has itself from time to time said that there are really 4 arms of the defence activity. [More…]
The fourth arm is the defence capacity of Australian industry. [More…]
Here, at least, is part of that defence capacity of Australian industry which is not very certain about its future. [More…]
At least we have received some assurances from both the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Supply that they believe an industry is necessary and that they will not transact any mergers without some consideration being given to the public interest. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) and the Minister for Supply (Mr Garland) would fully support those comments. [More…]
The RAAF has been the principal supporter of the aircraft industry in Australia for the past 30 years Both the Government and the RAAF have supported the industry because they have recognised that aircraft production and, indeed, all Australian industry must in times of emergency provide many of the weapons, ammunition, equipment and supplies needed to sustain the defence of this country. [More…]
Local manufacture of aircraft might mean some delay and possibly, as has been stressed by the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Supply, some increase in costs, but the Government and the RAAF believe that the many benefits to be derived from keeping a great Australian industry in being more than compensate for these disadvantages of delay and an increase in cost. [More…]
Therefore, if it receives them from the Government - it is the Government that can provide this work - the industry can continue to expand and prosper and provide this country with a very important defence industry. [More…]
The statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), when he said that the Services must consider the performance of Project N before they can make a decision on whether to recommend to the Government that it be purchased and proceeded with, astounds me. [More…]
Surely, before the prototypes were designed and developed to their present stage, the Department of Defence, the Department of Air and the Department of the Army discussed with the Government Aircraft Factories what they would like to have incorporated in the aircraft and what they would want it to do. [More…]
As with the Ikara missile and the other important defence components that have been built by the Government Aircraft Factories over the years, one of the things that has hindered the manufacturers year after year has been the fact that they have received orders in tens and twelves. [More…]
I would have thought that the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), the Minister for Supply (Mr Garland) and the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten) had given an ample and satisfactory explanation to the House on the few points that had been raised by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard), who led for the Opposition in this debate. [More…]
In reply to the first point, that is the rationalisation for the merger of the Government Aircraft Factories and the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, I thought the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Supply made the position very clear. [More…]
However, the material is available in such publications as the ‘Defence Report 1971’ and Supply 1971’. [More…]
Finally, may I make reference to one point that arose in a running exchange during the debate, namely the amount of money expended on defence equipment contracts in Australia compared with what has been spent overseas. [More…]
If you look at the figures it is very clear that in recent years the percentage of the defence contract vote spent within Australia has been increasing. [More…]
If I may just refer briefly to some of the statistics, you will see that, for instance, in the year 1968-69 expenditure in Australia on defence equipment contracts was $193m whereas considerably more was spent overseas, namely $245m. [More…]
An amount of Si 84m was spent on defence equipment contracts within Australia in that year and only $150m was spent outside Australia. [More…]
This stems from a lack of a consistent defence policy. [More…]
It has been difficult for the Service departments to set down requirements for equipment when the Government has not been able to provide them with a consistent defence policy. [More…]
Even if everything were moving smoothly in the defence group of departments for Project N, to become a viable proposition the aircraft must be able to be sold on a commercial basis, lt has already been mentioned during this debate that this is impossible unless finance is offered at rates of interest better than normal overdraft rates, rates resembling those offered by the Export-Import Bank. [More…]
When I questioned the former Minister for Defence, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), he told me that the total research development and production costs up to the prototype stage for the Ikara was $15m. [More…]
The reason why Lockheed and the American companies are in trouble is because of the terrific control that the military and defence machine has in the United States. [More…]
Aircraft industries such as the Swedish aircraft industry, which is tailored to fit the defence requirements of Sweden, do not have these peaks and troughs and if we took the lesson from those industries and moved into the manufacture of equipment that we perhaps could use for our own Services and sell to Services in other countries in the South East Asian region, we would find that we would not have an aircraft industry bedevilled by this problem of work load. [More…]
It always criticises the Australian Labor Party for its lack of credibility on defence and it confuses the issue of defence and foreign policy. [More…]
This Government has no defence policy. [More…]
The Govvernment cannot say to the Australian people: ‘We are credible on defence when a key industry is falling apart. [More…]
How can the Government purport to have a defence policy when the aircraft industry is losing its design staff and its technology is falling off? [More…]
as late as yesterday, that the Public Works Committee is examining the problem of the buildings there and that if people wish to have a right of access they can make their views known to that Committee and the Committee will pass them on either to me, the Minister for Defence or the Minister for the Navy. [More…]
Yesterday afternoon, the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) took nearly half an hour to tell us how difficult it is to make the aircraft industry viable. [More…]
It was then found that it was necessary, for national defence and national preservation, to manufacture in Australia a lot of things that we had been used to importing. [More…]
It is a sorry state of affairs when a national government makes no attempt to provide a defence, trade and tourist link between its major seaboards. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister now will base his defence of his attitude on the comments of 4 senior gentlemen who made a leisurely trip of survey across this dirt track to report to the Australian Automobile Association. [More…]
Since 1945 no military engagement involving the defence of Australia has taken place, so I think any other military service would be irrelevant. [More…]
Financial assistance in the form of grants has been given to the States for their respective decentralisation programmes, for the establishment of defence installations in decentralised locations such as Salisbury and Townsville, and through the petroleum prices equalisation scheme which was designed to make the price differential for petrol no greater than the equivalent of 4 pence a gallon in any part of Australia. [More…]
Such a programme not only would alleviate the problems in the metropolitan areas of Melbourne and Sydney but also would be an adjunct to our defence system. [More…]
In the defence field Labor in government has been active. [More…]
Labor in government has not only served the people in war but it has also built defence establishments in peace time which provided for the decentralisation of industry. [More…]
It was the Chifley-Curtin Administrations which built up factories in various parts of this continent and particularly in New South Wales to provide the necessary munitions for those engaged in the defence of (his country. [More…]
During an interview last year Sir Ian McLennan was questioned about development in the defence industry. [More…]
The Department of Social Services has advised that by virtue of the normal eligibility conditions, a total of approximately 1,100 age, invalid and widows pensioners ceased to have entitlements under the Pensioner Medical Service due to recent increases in Commonwealth superannuation and Defence Forces Retirement Benefit payments. [More…]
The post-1959 defence forces retirement benefits scheme incorporated this contribution principle. [More…]
When introducing the Superannuation (Pension Increases) Bill, the Government said that the position of orphans and children would be given special consideration when the results of the quinquennial investigations of the Superannuation and Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Funds become available. [More…]
Treasurer knows, which is investigating another such scheme under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Act. [More…]
He disliked the lean and hungry look as exemplified by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Bury) and the honourable member for Berowra (Mr Hughes). [More…]
Has the Prime Minister’s attention been drawn to a statement made in Singapore by the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee that the right honourable gentlemen’s latest statements on China were unwise, in fact stupidity? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Will he include in the statement information about the conditions existing in Vietnam which prompted us to go to the assistance of the South Vietnamese when they were fighting desperately for their freedom from Communist aggression, and about the conditions now existing which enable them to mount and maintain their own defence? [More…]
In other words, will he let all Australians know what our defence forces helped to achieve, and that this is not a withdrawal from a conflict but the completion of a job well done? [More…]
In addition, they have regional forces, popular forces and people’s self defence forces. [More…]
I think the significance of the change in Labor policy at Launceston needs to be considered because the effect of that decision is to eliminate the military aspects, the defence and security aspects, of ANZUS. [More…]
I think the Treasurer should be congratulated because he did not behave like the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who when Minister for Defence, resigned in similar circumstances when the Prime Minister criticised him just because he was a member of the Cabinet. [More…]
He asked whether the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) or the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) had seen a report, supposedly made somewhere in Malaysia, of a statement made by the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
But are not the rights involved in the provision of welfare services just as powerful in their demands for adequate financing as are the rights of the people who command and operate our defence Services? [More…]
The diversion of funds which organisations like the Council for the Defence of Government Schools require from those schools for whatever reasons, and the reasons vary, would eliminate private investment in education through the ultimate closure of those schools and thereby increase the tax burden on those who, according to the anti-aid protagonists, can least afford to have such an increase in the tax burden. [More…]
Instead, they have resorted to direct action thus interfering with a wide range of Commonwealth activities such as the essential services provided by the Post Office, work in defence production establishments, the naval dockyards and the operations of such bodies as the Commonwealth Railways, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Works. [More…]
So much money would need to be channelled to education that social services, defence and other facets of government would go by the board. [More…]
As reported in the ‘Sun’, Senator Sim is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, member of the Joint Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee and Chairman of the Committee’s SubCommittee on the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Its overseas trade is the same as that of the whole of the People’s Republic of China and it is now largely able to look after its own defence. [More…]
To correct this impression I would therefore seek leave to incorporate in Hansard the letter which the Secretary of the Department of Defence sent to the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs of the Senate on 9th November. [More…]
This letter sets out the provisions of the Australian Defence Act, and the Naval Defence Acts the Air Force Acts and the Army Acts of Britain which are incorporated within the laws applying to Australian forces and also raises the issue of the Geneva Conventions. [More…]
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE [More…]
Members of the Defence Force, who, after trial by courts martial, have been convicted of certain offences can be sentenced to death. [More…]
Section 96 of the Defence Act, which applies to ail three services, provides that every person, tried by court martial for an offence for which the punishment is death, shall, unless the exigencies of the time preclude it, be defended by counsel provided at the expense of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Section 98 of that Act which likewise applies to all three Services, provides that no member of the Defence Force may be sentenced to death by a court martial except for mutiny, desertion to the enemy, traitorously delivering up to the enemy any garrison, fortress, post, guard, or ship, vessel or boat or aircraft, or traitorous correspondence with the enemy. [More…]
The Defence Act contains no provisions creating offences for which the penalty is death. [More…]
By virtue of Section 34 of the Naval Defence Act, the Naval Discipline Act 1957 of the United Kingdom, subject to adaptations, is applied in the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]
Sections 54 and 55 of the Defence Act apply to members of the Military Forces at any time serving overseas, and at all times during war, the provisions of the Army Act (UK) as it was at the date of its repeal in 1956 but subject to amendments affected to it by Australian Military Regulations. [More…]
A problem of some complexity, and to which no close consideration has been given, is raised by the provisions of Parts I and II of the Geneva Conventions Act, and the provisions of Section 41 of the Army Act, when read together in the light of Section 98 of the Defence Act. [More…]
Section 24 of the Crimes Act applies to all and the Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970, in its own terms, extends to all Commonwealth places, including defence establishments, all State laws carrying the death penalty. [More…]
On 26th August last year the honourable member for Berowra asked the next Minister for Defence, Mr Fairbairn: [More…]
The present Government, successive Ministers for Defence and successive Attorneys-General have considered both these matters - the abolition of the death penalty in the civil and the military context - for 7 years. [More…]
Since 1965 successive Ministries, successive Ministers for Defence, have had to consider this matter of the death penalty under Australian legislation and incorporated Imperial legislation. [More…]
It simply is not true that Singapore’s partners in defence have outstayed their welcome, and Singapore and Malaysia will be glad to see them go. [More…]
If the Australian Labor Party are our friends they can prove it by dropping their gleeful threat to abandon the Commonwealth defence agreement the moment they have power to do so, and to withdraw all Australian troops. [More…]
I think this Is going to work mainly because after the communique between the US and China, this area, South East Asia, will not be in the foreseeable future an area either of conflict or confrontation among the big powers … it makes the five-powers defence arrangements fairly irrelevant. [More…]
They were made during the visit of the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) to the region. [More…]
I said in Singapore, and I repeat here, that neither the Malaysians nor the Singaporeans regard this Government as being fair dinkum about the S-power defence arrangement. [More…]
A rather Gilbertian situation occurred when the 5-power defence conference was held in Canberra. [More…]
I have said that the people of South East Asia do not regard Australia’s role in the 5-power defence arrangement as fair dinkum. [More…]
The people of South East Asia realise that the 5-power defence arrangements are so qualified by the Australian Government that they are not going to involve communal activities, communal dissension or internal dissension. [More…]
They regard the 5-power defence arrangements purely and simply as temporary arrangements because they are now organised towards a neutralisation programme whereby they are setting out to establish a zone of peace - the Minister for Defence talked about this - in the South East Asian area. [More…]
So the 5-power defence arrangements are transitional. [More…]
He went to Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia and spoke to a number of senior members of foreign affairs and defence departments. [More…]
Indeed the honourable member played an important part in the drafting of key sections of the Labor Party platform as a member of the ALP’s Federal Executive Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee. [More…]
On this subject I would like to refer briefly to a complete and deliberate distortion of Labor policy made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) in Singapore last week. [More…]
It even supports the Government’s policy to carry out joint defence exercises with Indonesia and possibly other countries in the area. [More…]
What confidence do we engender by breaking up the 5-power defence arrangement and scrubbing the only security arrangement we have with” Thailand and the Philippines? [More…]
It is about forward defence. [More…]
What does forward defence of Australia means? [More…]
I am not suggesting that he should be sent back to the Defence portfolio because people would accuse me of not being concerned about the defence of this country. [More…]
The Labor Party has promised to maintain defence expenditure at its present proportion of gross national product to increase vastly expenditure on almost every other government activity, and its front bench spokesmen are also advocating reduced taxation. [More…]
If approaches have been made, will he confer with the Minister for Defence to ensure that if the town is not to be retained for its original purpose, alternative proposals will be considered as soon as possible? [More…]
Shortly afterwards the Government concluded that Australia had no defence use for those facilities. [More…]
On 9th March I asked the Prime Minister a question without notice in which I drew attention to a statement by Senator Sim, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, that the right honourable gentleman’s last statements on China were unwise, in fact a stupidity. [More…]
My concern is that the wide currency of the allegation is evident not only by a report from London that the British Defence Department was aware of the allegation but also by the extract from which I have just quoted. [More…]
Patterns of relations between countries, and the nature of formal international defence arrangements may change. [More…]
Mr BARNARD (Bass) (3.52)- The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has given us a lengthy account of Australian participation in the war in South Vietnam. [More…]
The final force approached 10,000 men, quite a considerable contribution to what the Minister for Defence describes as a limited war. [More…]
The Minister for Defence still adheres rigidly to the conventional view of his Government - that the cause was just and that time has been ensured to give the South Vietnamese Government a chance to bring stability and economic transformation to the country. [More…]
But it is not possible to see a solution in the form put by the Minister for Defence; that is, the growing strength and ascendancy of the Saigon regime going hand in hand with resignation and acceptance by the communists. [More…]
Yet the terrible dimensions and depth of this problem are acknowledged neither by the Minister for Defence nor his Government. [More…]
I do not think there is anything more criminally absurd in Australia at the moment than to see the position of what might be called the ‘defence based industries’. [More…]
That the Commonwealth consider this road as a Defence Measure for the whole of Australia and road link connecting the two coasts of the Continent, and consideration to the sealing from the aspect of the increase of Trade and Tourism within Australia, thus encouraging the retention of the finance in Australia which is now going overseas. [More…]
by leave - I wish to lay before honourable members the Government’s strategic outlook and the programme by which successive steps in a defence programme for the 1970s and 1980s will be taken. [More…]
They have examined the more predictable situations in the 1970s and the contingencies for the longer term future to which we must equally address ourselves in our defence planning. [More…]
I here refer particularly to the preparation for the Government of a recommended programme comprehending future equipment purchases during the next 5 years and the other provisions which are part of our total defence effort. [More…]
I have authorised the issue of an Australian defence review which has been pre pared by the Department of Defence in consultation with the Services and other departments. [More…]
In deciding the extent to which it would be wise for the Government to announce decisions which in some cases would affect the level of fighting efficiency and technological efficiency of our Services as far ahead as 20 years, I have been mindful of the emphasis which our advisers place, as will be seen in the defence review, upon the importance of timing of decisions. [More…]
The first requirement is to make a reasoned definition of the Australian interests needing to be pursued by our defence policy, and of the strategic situations against which we should build our defence capabilities. [More…]
It is also clear, I suggest, that we should not found our defence policy, or our willingness to engage ourselves to assist others, on a simple faith in the success of diplomatic efforts of mighty powers or on the benign intentions of rivals for ideological supremacy among communist powers. [More…]
It addresses itself primarily to the strategic issues which underlie our defence policies. [More…]
The Chiefs-of-Staff and the Department of Defence are together analysing the programme which will be the physical expression of those defence policies. [More…]
They will in mid-year put before the Government a recommended programme for 5 years of total defence activity and expenditure. [More…]
The purpose of tonight’s statement then is to define the strategic environment which, in the view of the Government, is most likely to exist during this decade and could potentially exist in the 1980s; to describe how in general we believe Australian defence capabilities should be shaped in accordance with the responsibilities of an independent country; to make clear the Government’s policy of strengthening and not withdrawing from our international defence associations; to describe the burdens and the gains and the clear balance of national advantage which we believe flow from these associations. [More…]
It aims as well to remind the House of some of the perils which will arise if any Australian Government should flout our commitments or jeopardise confidence in our word or our endurance, or seek refuge from contemporary burdens by reducing the country’s defence capabilities and retreating from a military role in helping to maintain the security of the external environment in which Australia is destined for all time to live. [More…]
It is axiomatic that the defence of Australia calls for the. [More…]
best defence of Australian interests. [More…]
This embraces far more than fighting in defence of Australia’s territory and dependencies for by then we would be in extremis. [More…]
This is a fact of cardinal importance for Australian defence. [More…]
As the Department of Defence review points out, its strength in the Pacific Ocean is vast but American resources are not unlimited and the United States Administration has set conditions for its assumption of further responsibilities. [More…]
While others have preached withdrawal, negativism and isolation, the Government by positive diplomacy and defence cooperation has achieved a unique standing in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. [More…]
From these developments the Five Power defence arrangements embracing Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom have grown. [More…]
The physical presence of those forces is an integral part of the only Five Power defence arrangements that make sense in the present and in foreseeable circumstances - a fact which the present British Government immediately recognised upon coming to power, and a matter upon which there seems to be a measure of bipartisan agreement in New Zealand, our close neighbour. [More…]
Bilaterally, the Government is also conducting practical defence co-operation with Indonesia. [More…]
This does not require, nor is it the wish of either Government to have, any formal defence arrangement. [More…]
In the present situation of uncertainty about the intentions of China and the Soviet Union, and the aggressive militancy of the North Vietnamese throughout IndoChina, and widespread insurgency in our northern neighbourhood, a positive Australian policy founded on an adequate defence effort and on defence arrangements or understandings with our neighbours may contribute to confidence and stability in the region in which we live. [More…]
There is a duality in the requirements of a national Australian defence policy: On the one hand, we need defence equipment and manning giving Australian Services an increasing measure of self-reliance and ability to act alone in certain situations. [More…]
On the other hand, we seek an intensification of our defence understandings with the United States and with our northern neighbours in the expectation that the United [More…]
To lay stress on dangerous contingencies against which Australian defence efforts must steadily prepare over the longer term is not inconsistent wi.h the hopes entertained by the President of the United States of progressively negotiating understandings which will reduce tensions among the 4 great powers: The Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, the United States and Japan - and particularly among the 3 great military powers in this group. [More…]
It is, of course, no part of Australian defence policy to prepare for massive defence by ourselves - whether by conventional or nuclear means - against an onslaught by one of the great military powers. [More…]
What can be achieved by a defence programme giving us the ability to project Australian armed strength beyond our continental shores is twofold: It will give future governments options to have some influence on events in our strategic environment so that we may contribute to the greater security of all countries in that area. [More…]
The accompanying defence Review which I am presenting suggests situations in relation to which, irrespective of present requirements for action, this Government believes that it must retain military capabilities adequate in quantity as well as in quality. [More…]
The Defence Review refers to the Soviet Naval presence in the Indian Ocean and points to the present and potential strategic importance of this new manifestation of power. [More…]
The Defence Review has pointed to the expansion of China’s conventional naval and air forces and to the modernisation of all three of the Services. [More…]
While these forces are organised today essentially for the defence of China’s borders, they already possess some offensive potential and it is clear that this capability will be developed further. [More…]
I wish to say something of Australia’s defence obligations in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
What has perhaps been insufficiently appreciated is the major expansion of Australian defence capabilities which has been brought about by the decisions of this Government and its predecessors over the past decade. [More…]
This is a sound base on which we can proceed with confidence to the further improvement of our defence capabilities. [More…]
With the ending of our combat involvement in Vietnam we have an opportunity to give greater weight now to long term factors in the shaping of our forces, and to move progressively to a national defence capability appropriate to the demands which might fall on us later in this decade and into the 1980s. [More…]
It means a general level of competence in defence which enables us to develop and evaluate concepts and equipments related to our own national needs. [More…]
The ratio between expenditure on capital items and expenditure on the maintenance of the forces is always a critical element in defence programming. [More…]
There is a need during the mid and later seventies to spend very substantial sums on modern weapon systems and capital installations and facilities which represent long term investment in defence capabilities. [More…]
We will develop our ability to give defence aid and cooperation over a wide spectrum of training, technical assistance and support and equipment for our regional allies or friends. [More…]
The Royal Australian Air Force has played an effective role in helping to develop a Bloodhound Missile system as an essential part of Singapore’s air defence. [More…]
There will be a continuing need for air defence capability. [More…]
On the basis of these considerations the Chiefs of Staff and the Department of Defence are currently together analysing some 70 larger weapons systems and major equipments on which decisions are said by the initiating Service to be desirable in the 5-year period 1972-73 to 1976-77- although delivery and payment would, in many cases, be spread over many years later. [More…]
The equipment proposals under study are closely related to the foreseen end of life in the latter part of this decade of some of the defence capabilities now in service - such as the aircraft carrier ‘Melbourne’ and its helicopters, Neptune long range maritime aircraft, anti-aircraft guns and tanks and many more such cases. [More…]
In addition other matters are under examination, including the review of the defence forces’ retirement benefits scheme by a parliamentary select committee, and the future machinery for the assessment and determination of Service pay and other conditions of service. [More…]
The Government will continue to foster defence industry in Australia. [More…]
The extent to which actual contracts will result from these opportunities created by Government initiatives must ultimately depend upon the efficiency and competitiveness of our defence industry. [More…]
We will, of course, continue to look for situations where the skills developed against defence requirements have a value in accelerating the technological growth of other segments of industry. [More…]
Other issues not calling for Government decisions now are set forward in the Defence [More…]
I refer to the response which the Government believes we should adopt to the continuing defence burdens which are borne by the United States. [More…]
The Government will continue to give defence cooperation to the United States. [More…]
They are the foundation for maintaining an effective balance of power in relation to a nuclear arming China - a consideration of great concern for Australia in the years immediately ahead as will be seen from the description of the subject in the Defence Review. [More…]
The cost of keeping up the deterrent and general defence capacity borne by the American taxpayer and economy have been and are of prodigious size. [More…]
We are aware of the arguments and pressures inside the United States against present levels of defence spending and defence aid. [More…]
This is not a time for carping or sniping about American defence policies. [More…]
We are resuming a debate which began last Thursday on a statement made in this House by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) spoke after the Minister for Defence had concluded his statement and I think his response was pathetic. [More…]
This was properly referred to by the Minister for Defence in his statement So was born ANZUS, which is of course the greatest arrangement that this country could ever look forward to for its protection. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) presented this statement. [More…]
The Minister for Defence spoke like Colonel Blimp. [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) ever read Douglas Pike? [More…]
So far on the Government side we have had contributions to this debate from the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) and 2 previous Ministers for the Army. [More…]
There are some important lessons to be learnt but they will not be found in the ministerial statement of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Yet this is what we are being asked to believe in the statement by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate on the achievements of the Australian forces in Vietnam which have been so clearly and concisely outlined by my colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) in his statement to ?he House on 23rd March. [More…]
The Parliament is discussing a ministerial statement entitled ‘Australian Forces in Vietnam - 1962-1972’ that was made last Thursday night by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
In it the Minister for Defence purported to trace the history of Australia’s involvement in Vietnam from the beginning to the withdrawal of our combat forces in December of last year. [More…]
Yet we find that the Minister for Defence in his statement on Vietnam in this House, which we are now debating spoke with some degree of pride about our achievements in Vietnam. [More…]
Collections of duty on petrol form part of the Commonwealth’s general revenues from which its commitments are financed, including expenditure on defence, education, social welfare and assistance to rural industry. [More…]
I preface my question by saying that last night the Minister for Defence tabled a paper and made a statement on defence. [More…]
The statement made by the Minister for Defence and the defence paper itself have been widely and well publicised in the newspapers this morning. [More…]
I will discuss the matter with my colleague the Minister for Defence in order to make certain that either in the debate on the motion in the House or in the preliminaries leading up to that debate the differences become well known to ensure that the Australian public understands those differences in policies between the Opposition and the Liberal/ Country Party Government. [More…]
I am rather surprised that the shadow Minister - it is a long shadow - for Defence should ask a question which he obviously knows should be directed to my colleague the Minister for Labour and National Service. [More…]
This provision seems to me to he something lifted out of Army regulations, the Defence Act or the keelhauling provisions of the Navy. [More…]
I remember the then Minister for National Development, now the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), being shocked at the time. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) sees a profound and unbridgeable difference between the defence policies of the Government and those of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
There is little evidence of this in the defence review compiled by the Department of Defence and presented to the House by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
On the evidence of this document the 2 streams of defence policy are converging very rapidly. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has been at pains to give to the House his own summation of the paper, playing down certain features and playing up others. [More…]
In effect this would mean putting a Labor Party defence White Paper to the Parliament. [More…]
In one sense the paper is a compliment to the evolution of Labor Party defence thinking and the work done by the Party un defence and foreign policy in recent years. [More…]
I do not say that the paper is completely derivative; what I do claim is that the Department of Defence in analysing a vast range of defence policy has got to much the same position as the Labor Party. [More…]
Once the Department of Defence lifted its eyes above Vietnam and looked dispassionately at future policy it reached broadly similar conclusions to those of the Labor Party. [More…]
I do not believe for one moment that the Department of Defence is the victim of illusions or delusions about Vietnam. [More…]
I do not blame the Department of Defence for this; the Government has an accumulated record of many years of error and miscalculation to overcome. [More…]
It represents a considerable step towards an objective and impartial view of defence policy but it does not succeed in throwing off the constraints of conventional Government policy. [More…]
It was probably over optimistic to expect a really hard-nosed look at Australia’s defences. [More…]
Now that a start has been made it should be possible for the Department of Defence to use the White Paper format for regular and objective assessments of defence needs and developments. [More…]
It should be possible to analyse defence without the need to look repeatedly over the shoulder at the responses of the Government. [More…]
The British White Papers are weighted heavily towards special areas of defence policy and administration which have been the subject of special studies. [More…]
The Swedish Ministry of Defence breaks the subject into a number of compartments analysing national security policy, the execution process planning, goalsetting procedures, programming and budgeting techniques. [More…]
The Canadian White Papers on defence bear the closest resemblance to the document before the House. [More…]
I do not want to be unduly critical of this side of the document but it is a White Paper issued by the Department of Defence. [More…]
If the political bias and content can be eliminated in future reviews it will bc a most valuable innovation for the analysis and debate of defence issues. [More…]
There is a great amount of work being done within the Department of Defence which in the past few years has built up its special projects and systems analysis divisions. [More…]
There are repeated references in the White Paper to studies which the Department of Defence is undertaking. [More…]
Examples are the future role of Australian forces in New Guinea and the development of the Papua New Guinea defence forces. [More…]
These are issues of defence policy which will have enormous importance as the Territory moves towards independence. [More…]
It would be reasonable to expect that some account of the progress of these studies be included in future defence reviews or supplementary defence statements. [More…]
Criticism of secrecy in government is extremely relevant to the Department of Defence where far too much is restricted and excluded from scrutiny. [More…]
In keeping tabs on this sort of material and giving precise information about the progress of special studies the British statement on the Defence Estimates and its supplementary statements provide excellent models for our Department of Defence. [More…]
With the reservations about form and content I have expressed, the concept of Defence White Papers is a welcome one. [More…]
The paper before the House shows a marked advance on the last full-scale defence statement made in March 1970 by the then Minister for Defence, who is now the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
The divergence between the Minister’s statement and the White Paper is a measure of the greater confidence and maturity developed by the Department of Defence in formulating a defence review of this scope. [More…]
If the present model is further refined it will fill the gaps in our defence structure left by the absence of regular and detailed defence papers. [More…]
lt is true, also, that SEATO has made a useful contribution to defence assistance and economic assistance to a number of Asian countries. [More…]
It has never been invoked for defence purposes for the simple reason that even its members acknowledge its impotence. [More…]
The old policy of forward defence is now labelled the selective forward deployment of forces. [More…]
The only difference from the old policy of forward defence seems to be that under selective forward deployment we have far fewer troops in the region. [More…]
The Minister for Defence puts this up as an area of major difference between his Government and the Labor Party. [More…]
This is correct but the Minister for Defence should perceive that the area of difference is shrinking very rapidly. [More…]
It has been stated quite falsely by the Minister for Defence that a Labor government would immediately pull out these units from Malaysia-Singapore. [More…]
It is a great pity that the Minister for Defence, who claims to show such interest in these matters, is not in the House for the resumption of the debate on the statement which he made to this Parliament and to the nation and which he said was to be an important document. [More…]
Where is the Minister for Defence? [More…]
Because this question of the future of the troops in Malaysia and Singapore has been the subject of a great deal of debate not only in this Parliament but also outside it, and as the Minister for Defence claimed that under a Labor government the troops in Malaysia and Singa pore would be returned immediately to Australia, I want to say emphatically that this is not the situation at all. [More…]
Defence co-operation with Australia would then revert to a bilateral basis. [More…]
Whatever the character of the Australian Government, it is likely that the five-power arrangements will prove transitional and be supplanted by bilateral defence arrangements with South East Asian countries. [More…]
The White Paper referred at a number of points to Australia’s defence links with the United States. [More…]
Australian defence minister. [More…]
He did make certain comments on the imposition of doctrinaire conditions on United States defence policy and somehow or other equated carping and criticism of American policy with treachery. [More…]
The Minister makes it quite clear, that he wants to exploit the question of American bases and facilities in Australia as one of the few remaining areas of defence policy difference between the Government and the Opposition. [More…]
Alternatively, is it the party which wants to debate the issue and wants the information on which it can assess its policies, but is hamstrung by the attitude of a Government which contemptuously refuses to inform the Parliament and the public on crucial issues of defence policy? [More…]
The present Government has restricted information on Pine Gap and Woomera in particular to people described by the Minister for Defence as ‘those with a need to know*. [More…]
Australia has long passed the stage of sophistication when all that a government needed to do was point to a defence installation, whisper ‘Top Secret’ and watch the votes pour in. [More…]
It is most regrettable that studies of future manpower trends and the composition of the Armed Services have been done mainly outside the Defence Department. [More…]
This is one area of defence policy where a Labor government would be committed to immediate action. [More…]
Forty thousand men constitute defence preparedness and deterrence, 32,000 or 36,000 or even 39,000 are equated with treachery and betrayal. [More…]
It is Labor’s argument that if the need to administer national service were eliminated, and if a proper reorganisation of the Army commands were carried out, then an Army strength of much less than 40,000 would be adequate for our defences. [More…]
This sort of argument is reinforced by the recent improvement in the recruiting rate which has been conceded by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
According to the White Paper and the Minister, the Department of Defence is currently analysing some 70 major items of defence procurement. [More…]
It is an old cliche of Government defence policy that only the best is good enough for our defence forces and that we buy only the best whatever the price. [More…]
Tn the procurement of defence equipment techniques of evaluation have made giant strides in the past few years. [More…]
In the area of defence procurement it is possible for an Opposition party to put forward broad concepts of what weapons should be bought. [More…]
This lesson was hammered home in the recent naval exercise when the Singaporean patrol boats theoretically pierced the defence screen of the aircraft carrier HMAS ‘Melbourne’ and sank it. [More…]
Beyond these broad concepts of what sort of weapons systems we should be acquiring, it is not the function of an Opposition party to put up shopping lists of defence purchases. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has also rejected a nuclear capability though in less emphatic terms. [More…]
There is the other argument of cost which is stressed quite strongly in the defence White Paper. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has been given ample time to investigate these allegations and clarify them for the Parliament. [More…]
In summary, I have tried tonight to express the attitude of the Opposition to the concept of defence White Papers. [More…]
This is an excellent innovation and the Opposition hopes it can be continued on a regular basis as an objective expession of the thinking of the Department of Defence, irrespective of party politics. [More…]
Pre-eminent is the future role of Australian defence units in Papua New Guinea and the development of the independent defence forces of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I would ask the Minister for Defence whether a supplementary statement on these issues can be prepared for debate before the House adjourns for the winter recess. [More…]
We hope it will open the way for an independent Australian defence policy which will mean that defence policy is chained no longer to the chariot Wheels of the Pentagon and Whitehall. [More…]
However, there are matters concerned with Australia’s defence which ought to be brought to the notice of the Australian people. [More…]
This should not be forgotten because it is a basic difference between ourselves and the Opposition in our defence approaches. [More…]
This is significant to Australia’s defence. [More…]
I do not overrate the importance of the ANZUS Treaty but I do think that as it stands at present it is a key matter in Australia’s defence. [More…]
Despite its obvious party political bias it is a step towards a more intelligent and informed debate not only in this House, but also among the Australian people on a matter that is vital to us all - the defence and security of the country in which we live. [More…]
Tonight I want to deal with the Government’s defence record. [More…]
This Government has created and perpetuated a myth that it and it alone, is the trusted custodian of Australia’s foreign affairs and defence, but the reality is very different. [More…]
Australia then, as it is now, was hopelessly unprepared and the first job of the then Prime Minister, Mr Curtin, was to ensure the return of Australia’s 6th, 7th and 9th Divisions from North Africa where the Menzies Government, in pursuit of this myth of forward defence, had sent them in eager response to the demands of great and powerful friends. [More…]
What Prime Minister Curtin was, in fact, saying, was that unless we could defend ourselves - unless Australia’s soil was secure - forward defence was a lot of nonsense. [More…]
We need go no further than the Department of Defence Review to illustrate the Government’s appalling irresponsibility and its abject failure in providing for Australia’s defence. [More…]
The Liberal Party intervention in Vietnam has weakened Australia’s defence position. [More…]
My authority for that statement is the Department of Defence Review. [More…]
It seems to me that the Australian people can draw little comfort from the Government’s sorry defence record. [More…]
The hypocrisy of this Government’s claim to be the custodian of Australia’s defence is laid bare by the very terms of its own Defence Review. [More…]
With the money squandered on bases during the futile involvement in Vietnam we could have constructed modern bases in Australia, including the establishment of a defence arc from the northern part of Western Australia around to the northern part of Queensland. [More…]
The Minister for Defence when introducing the Defence Review in this House is reported on page 12S4 of Hansard as saying, and this is after 22 years: [More…]
This is all that this Government has to show to the Australian people in terms of defence preparedness after 22 years. [More…]
It clings desperately to the discredited policy of forward defence which can never be credible certainly not in the eyes of our allies, unless we are capable first of all of defending our own territory, as I previously have pointed out. [More…]
The report by the Government-dominated Foreign Affairs Committee on the Indian Ocean Regions states on page 11 that ‘long-range defence planning cannot ignore the possibility of all forces being stationed in Australia.’ [More…]
This is the record of this Government which maintains that it is the custodian of Australia’s defence. [More…]
I welcome the statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
The great problem with defence planning is the time scale. [More…]
It is therefore essential to look at defence problems in a long perspective. [More…]
It must be the first aim cf our defence policy, our foreign policy and our overseas aid policy to see that Indonesia remains independent and friendly. [More…]
I believe that we should build on this and that we should try to arrange joint defence exercises, investigate joint logistic problems and encourage the training of Indonesians in Australia, particularly officer cadets. [More…]
Our interest in the stability of South East Asia has led us to collective defence agreements - SEATO and the Five-Power [More…]
I hope that the many improvements in pay and conditions suggested by the Kerr Committee and other committees, such as the Joint Select Committee on the Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Legislation, will result in the necessary number of volunteers coming forward. [More…]
But he does not control his own policy; nor does any member of the Australian Labor Party in this House control the defence policy of that Party. [More…]
Labor would presumbly use the Navy as a cordon inside territorial waters, around our coast - a system of defence, as Napolean once said, that is effectively only against smugglers. [More…]
This debate has been valuable for bringing the vital subject of defence before this [More…]
The other political consideration is that this defence review and the defence statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) come in an election year. [More…]
The only time the Liberals ever talk about defence is in an election year. [More…]
A defence statement was made in this House, by the then Minister for Defence, Mr Malcolm Fraser, in 1970 and was never debated. [More…]
The Liberal Party professes to be concerned about defence, but the Government has not initiated any defence debate during this Parliament until today, when only 6 to 12 members will be able to speak on the matter. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) says that defence will be an issue in the forthcoming election. [More…]
How he can regard defence as being an issue which can gain support for the Liberal Party and its policies is beyond me. [More…]
In every aspect of defence the Liberal Party has failed Australia. [More…]
The key difference between the policy of the, Opposition and the policy of the Government on defence is not in relation to the ANZUS Treaty or this business about territorial limits because the Government knows that these issues do not matter. [More…]
The key area of difference is defence preparedness. [More…]
As far as the Opposition is concerned, defence preparedness means defence specifically. [More…]
The Labor Party has always had a solid gold record in the matter of defence. [More…]
The Labor Party’s defence policy, as set out in the platform and rules of the 29th Commonwealth Conference of the Australian Labor Party, which the honourable member for Isaacs mentioned, states: [More…]
All defence policy rests ultimately upon the possible deployment of the armed forces. [More…]
Labor’s policy is to provide a strong regular and citizen defence force which can be rapidly and efficiently, mobilised in time of need. [More…]
That suggests to me that the Opposition would plan a defence force that could defend Australia at any given time. [More…]
I turn to the Australian Defence Review prepared by the Department of Defence and presented concurrently to the Parliament when the Minister made his defence statement. [More…]
Paragraph 3 on page 16 of the Defence Review states: [More…]
At the same time, 10 pages earlier the Defence Review states that if we - do not train manpower and acquire equipment before the need arises we are failing to defend the country. [More…]
The Department of Defence is repudiating the Government’s policy. [More…]
Since the announcement of the Nixon doctrine and since the Government failed in its commitment in the war in Vietnam, the Government is now talking about a role for Australia in achieving greater self-sufficiency in defence. [More…]
It is talking about a fourth arm defence concept by assisting our defence industries. [More…]
The only way a country can have an independent defence capability is to have a strong industrial back-up. [More…]
This Government has never attempted to salvage or assist defence industry. [More…]
During 1970 I asked the then Minister for Defence a question upon notice in relation to the value of military equipment purchased overseas during the years 1954 to 1970. [More…]
As a percentage of the total amount spent on defence, the amount spent overseas on military equipment for Australian forces in 1958 was 32 per cent, in 1969 it was 39 per cent, in 1960 it was 81 per cent, in 1961 it was 47 per cent, in 1962 it was 47 per cent, in 1963 it was 55 per cent, and in 1964 it was 52 per cent. [More…]
Expenditure overseas reached a high point of 61 per cent, of total defence expenditure in 1967 and a low point of 45 per cent in 1969. [More…]
So at least half of the expenditure on defence equipment has gone overseas during that period. [More…]
In his statement in this House on 28th March the Minister for Defence said: [More…]
It is also clear, I suggest, that we should not found our defence policy, or our willingness to engage ourselves to assist others, on a simple faith in the success of diplomatic efforts of mighty powers or on the benign intentions of rivals for ideological supremacy among communist powers. [More…]
The Minister there is talking about defence equipment for the armed services. [More…]
At this point I would like to put on record the policy of the Australian Labor Party as printed in its policy documents in relation to defence mobilisation and procurement. [More…]
I would like the House to understand that the Labor Party is the only Party that publishes a comprehensive policy anyway, and specifically on defence. [More…]
The defence capability of the nation depends primarily upon national development and the resulting capacity to manufacture, procure and maintain supplies and materials. [More…]
encourage the procurement and servicing of defence supplies and equipment wherever possible from within Australia with the aim of promoting the growth of Australia’s defence-aligned industries; [More…]
encourage Australian industries capable of conversion to defence production in time of war under an overall industrial mobilisation plan; [More…]
provide and develop ports, airfields, railways and roads which will contribute to the mobility of the defence forces as well as to the material development of the nation; and [More…]
1 ask you, Sir, does that sound like an irresponsible or short sighted policy - to encourage defence industries so that our armed forces may have a strong defence back-up? [More…]
It has talked about the concept of the fourth arm of defence. [More…]
The root cause of the problem gets back to the lack of a consistent defence policy. [More…]
This Government has never been able to have the Services in such a position as to enable them to tailor their equipment requirements to a consistent defence policy. [More…]
All the time our defence reqirements have been tailored to suit great powers and the end result has been that the Australian defence industry has never had a chance to continually design and manufacture equipment for Australian forces. [More…]
It is worth remembering that Sir Henry Bland, the former permanent head of the Department of Defence who retired only 2 years ago, said that it is folly that we should be tailoring our defence needs in with those of the US, and we should get back to looking at equipment that suits Australia. [More…]
There has not been a defence policy consistent for long enough to allow the Services to develop some sort of equipment plan. [More…]
-I congratulate the Government on the presentation of this paper on Australian defence and also on the statement made the other week in relation to the Vietnam situation. [More…]
The honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) said that the Government talks about defence only at the time of an election. [More…]
This shows the complete folly of the Opposition’s policy in regard to the defence of this country. [More…]
The Opposition’s attitude shows not the gulf but the chasm which exists between the Government and the Opposition in regard to policies on the defence and security of the country. [More…]
So, when the Opposition talks about the withdrawal of troops what it means is that Australia, under the control of a Labor government, would come away from a responsibility in this area and the defence of this area. [More…]
I should like to comment on part of the statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) to this House. [More…]
While others have preached withdrawal, negativism and isolation, the Government by positive diplomacy and defence co-operation has achieved . [More…]
From these developments the Five Power defence arrangements embracing Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom have grown. [More…]
In my visit to this area I visited the fivepower defence headquarters, in charge of which was Air Vice Marshal Ron Susans, a distinguished Australian and a gentleman with whom I have had friendship over many years. [More…]
We can be proud of this distinguished Australian who is in charge of the situation in the five power defence arrangements and we can be proud of the contribution that is being made by Australia to this area. [More…]
These, are the things that are contributing in a major way to the defence of this country and to the defence of other countries in the Asian area. [More…]
We can have a defence policy that is our own. [More…]
But let us face it: They are friends of this country and while we may have differences with them and while we may point to certain aspects of their policy with which we do not agree, let us always remember that they also at some time could stand in the defence of our nay of life. [More…]
In the present situation of uncertainty about the intentions of China and the Soviet Union, and the aggressive militancy of North Vietnamese throughout Indo-China, and widespread insurgency in our northern neighbourhood, a positive Australian policy founded on an adequate defence effort and on defence arrangements or understandings with our neighbours may contribute to confidence and stability in the region in which we live. [More…]
The occasion of a defence review set out in a ministerial statement is always of interest. [More…]
The defence review we are discussing is a curious one in that it reflects certain basic changes in Government defence values and also defers consideration of so many matters. [More…]
From reading the defence review we see that so many matters will be laid before the Parliament at a later point in time. [More…]
The review goes through the record of our equipment needs and our defence personnel. [More…]
These changes were put forward in a speech tonight by the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), who again put the policy on defence that he has propounded for quite a period of time. [More…]
For a start, forward defence was feasible as a policy when our forward defence as far as Vietnam was concerned meant contributing some 7,500 troops when the Americans were contributing over half a million and up to threequarters of a million troops together with a massive air force operating from Thailand and naval support.. [More…]
In other words, forward defence is feasible for Australia when we can go along with and support great countries like the United States; it is not feasible when we have to do it ourselves by ourselves. [More…]
In that statement the right honourable member said that he would withdraw Australian forces from Terendak in Malaysia, indicating at that time that Australia was interested in the -defence of Malaya, conveying that it was interested in the defence of the Malay Peninsula as distinct from Sabah and Sarawak. [More…]
Our forward defence comprises a single battalion together with what we have by way of Air Force support at Butterworth and a naval vessel on rotation to Singapore. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard), who is the Labor Party’s shadow Minister for Defence, has said that there will be no precipitate withdrawal of our forces from Singapore or Malaysia. [More…]
I notice that in the defence report comparisons are made between the strength of our forces now and the strength of our forces in 1950. [More…]
As such it governed this country during the 2 greatest build-ups of our defence forces that have ever taken place. [More…]
The Labor Party would not leave Australia defenceless or without a defence capacity. [More…]
The Labor Party believes that we should have defence forces which are professionally trained, which are equipped with the best possible equipment and, given our long coastline and fairly small population, which have the maximum flexibility. [More…]
I look at the defence establishment at Townsville. [More…]
I well remember the then member for Herbert, Mr Ernie Harding, working very hard in this Parliament to get a defence base established at Townsville and honourable members on both sides of the chamber were pleased when the Government decided to establish a base there. [More…]
So there is not a great deal of difference between the attitudes of the Government and the attitudes of the Opposition on this question of defence. [More…]
We are all restrained and constrained by the realities of the Nixon doctrine and by our own fairly modest defence capacity. [More…]
But within that modest defence capacity - and I do not want to overstate the situation - Australia has a much greater capacity to defend itself than many honourable members opposite realise. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Which Members of (a) the Australian Parliament, (b) the United States Congress and (c) other Parliaments have been permitted to inspect United States defence bases in Australia. [More…]
Although they are not ‘United States defence bases’ the Joint Defence Space Research Facility (JDSRF) at Pine Gap and the Joint Defence Space Communications Station (JDSCS) at Nurrungar, near Woomera have been included in this reply as it is assumed that the intention of the questioner was to include them. [More…]
There can be no question also that if the Labor Party came to power tomorrow or at the next elections he would be a senior Cabinet Minister responsible for defence operations in this country and with access to all the secret negotiations which this country must continue with its allies. [More…]
The attitude of the ALP Left Wing has been clearly shown by the reactions of such notables as the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) and the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) to the establishment of the defence installations at Pine Gap. [More…]
The right of self defence comes in at some point when a people is under attack. [More…]
People have rights in war, and one of their rights is self defence. [More…]
I believe that the regular forces of North Vietnam have now derived that right of self defence against the attack made upon them by the armed forces of the United States and by the armed forces of the Government in Saigon which was set up and controlled by the United States and acting at all times as a co-ordinated part of that attack. [More…]
It makes a mockery of any ALP claim to have a defence policy for Australia. [More…]
He has been a leading Labor spokesman on foreign affairs and defence for years. [More…]
This is a grave matter because he would be a very senior member of any Labor government and would have a great deal to do with its foreign and defence policy. [More…]
With bombs raining on North Vietnam, and with the South Vietnamese army scourging around in Cambodia and Laos, it is not unreasonable to conclude that the North Vietnamese are acting in a form of self defence, Vietnam being one country. [More…]
It is when we arm and build up our defence forces that some honourable members opposite start complaining. [More…]
The Government is assisting not only through contributions to research but also through support of the State advisory and extension services; through maintenance of stabilisation, the strengthening of equalisation and the provision of subsidy; “through the marginal dairy farms reconstruction scheme to assist amalgamation and diversification; and through its efforts to assist in the defence of existing markets and the encouragement of entry into new markets especially in neighbouring Asian countries. [More…]
Every Australian, voter or not, should study this defence debate before the next election. [More…]
He will have Cabinet rank in any future Labor government and he would have a vital say in Australia’s defence arrangements. [More…]
Men like the honourable member for Lalor would use that power to undermine the defence capability of this country. [More…]
Members opposite must somehow persuade Australians that they are the true custodians of our defence and security. [More…]
The machinery of defence is useless, Mr Speaker, if the will to defend is destroyed. [More…]
We have seen Australian Labor Party protest and sabotage of the Government’s defence policies from 1954 onwards, when they joined the Communist Party in denouncing our decision to send troops to help the British defend Malaya. [More…]
This is where the Australian Labor Party stands on defence. [More…]
This is an example of regional responsibility in defence. [More…]
I conclude by repeating that the Australian Labor Party reflects purely and exactly the Communist attitude towards Australian defence: Keep out of their present areas of aggression and await our turn at home; train our youth to jeer at the military and denigrate military service; decry discipline and respect for authority, obedience and other moral essentials for a strong nation. [More…]
In this debate on the defence statement which was made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) some weeks ago we have heard some rather remarkable speeches. [More…]
I think one could sum up what he said by saying that he is advocating that, if we ban all sex in Australia, then our defence forces will be all right. [More…]
I do not think I have ever heard such a lot of rot spoken in the national Parliament by a person who purports to be a Minister in charge of a defence portfolio as we heard earlier this evening. [More…]
He attacked everyone except the present Government which has been responsible for the defence policy of this nation for 23 years. [More…]
Any lack of defence preparedness at this stage and any doubt as to the capacity of Australia to defend herself within its reasonable capabilities can only be landed at the door of the Government. [More…]
It is just idle chatter for a Minister to stand up and suggest that the Australian Labor Party, the university students or someone else in the community is responsible for a lack of defence preparedness. [More…]
The Government’s policies are responsible for such defence as there is and it is Government political decisions which have in fact brought us to a situation where the Australian armed forces, especially the Australian Army, are not highly thought of in the community because we have to compel people to join them. [More…]
The decision to conscript people into the Australian Army - a decision which was said to be wrong by the then Minister for the Army 3 weeks before it was made - has as much to do with the low morale and low standing of the Australian defence forces as has any other policy decision ever made by a government in Australia. [More…]
I want to talk about defence at a basic level. [More…]
It is useless and idle to suggest that a defence policy can be based on having 600 or 700 troops 2,000 or 3,000 miles away in an area where we are not capable of providing the necessary support if perchance they happen to be involved in some military action, which is highly unlikely. [More…]
The ex-Prime Minister is an ex-Minister for Defence. [More…]
The facts of the matter are that in basic defence planning this Government does nothing except talk. [More…]
I suggest that the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) should have, a look at what the Government is doing about the aircraft industry which is a vital arm of defence. [More…]
It is an arm of defence which would be critical in any situation in which Australia had to defend herself, because we could not send aircraft to France, Britain or the United States to have them serviced. [More…]
In the last 3 days 22 tradesmen with up to 20 years experience in the Australian armed forces have been dismissed by this Government which yaps and yaps about defence preparedness but sacks the people who would make the defence of this country possible. [More…]
It is the type, of operation in defence that we had in 1953 when the then Prime Minister was running around the country saying that we had 3 years to prepare for war, but then he reduced the expenditure on defence in the Budget of that year. [More…]
They might also remember why Australia decided to order that wonderful defence weapon - the Fill - which decision has been used to defend this Government against the need to do anything for 10 years. [More…]
The morale of the employees in the defence aircraft industry is so poor that they do not know today whether they will have a job tomorrow. [More…]
These men are vital to Australia’s defence needs. [More…]
A measure of the defence preparedness of this country is the fact that the number of persons working at the Government Aircraft Factory at Avalon has dropped by 45 per cent in 5 years. [More…]
It would be nice to know that the Government is serious about Australia’s defence and that it does not think that it is just a political gimmick to be wheeled out at election time. [More…]
If the Government is serious about defence it will have to get down to planning to ensure that in any defence emergency we shall have trained professional soldiers to enable our armed forces to be expanded quickly. [More…]
The Australian Government has done nothing for 22 years but talk and talk about defence. [More…]
We have a lower defence capacity now with reference to modern technology than we had in 1941 when this Government was thrown out of office. [More…]
The main subject about which I wish to talk tonight is the critical situation of the Australian aircraft industry in the defence field. [More…]
Unless the Government is prepared to show far more leadership than it has the skilled personnel who manufactured thousands of aircraft for the Australian Air Force during the Second World War and who have provided Australia with aircraft for its defence forces since the Second World War will be lost to the aircraft industry forever and the industry itself will collapse. [More…]
I suggest that it is all very well to have a lot of high-falutin talk about moral fibre and other things but the Government is destroying by its lack of decision and lack of action a vital component in Australia’s defence forces. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) criticised the White Paper we are discussing tonight and said that it is not a document issued by the Government; it is a document issued by the Department of Defence. [More…]
Surely the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) is entitled to seek the assistance of his Department in the preparation of a paper for presentation to this House. [More…]
This paper deals with Australia’s defence thinking and planning during the next decade, which will in turn influence the defence policy of Australia far beyond that period - possibly as far ahead as the year 2000. [More…]
The statement by the Minister for Defence emphasised that Australia’s defence should be geared to placing greater reliance then we have done in the past on our own resources. [More…]
There is to be a dual role in our defence policy. [More…]
The Defence Review which was authorised by the Minister for Defence - he also made a statement in the House - emphasises what Australia’s objectives are. [More…]
There is, however, an opportunity for Australia to co-operate in a defence context with its neighbours and its allies in the region to help strengthen their defence capabilities and their sense of security. [More…]
He said that he and the Department of Defence are planning to put Australia in this position. [More…]
The Government’s defence policy which is now being implemented is designed to build up Indonesia’s strength and our co-operation with that country as well as with other countries in the Indonesian archipelago. [More…]
Darwin, in my electorate, is an ideal place to be used as a port for exports and for the defence of Australia. [More…]
In this area the Government has pursued a policy of positive diplomacy and defence co-operation. [More…]
The ALP spokesman on defence, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard), said that if his Party ever occupied the Treasury bench it would honour Australia’s commitment of Mirage aircraft in Malaysia-Singapore and the commitments undertaken by this Government in relation to the formation of the Malaysian air force. [More…]
The Opposition spokesman on foreign affairs, the honourable member for St George, while in the Malaysia-Singapore area recently, was doing his best to torpedo the 5-power defence arrangements. [More…]
SEATO may be scuttled if necessary but first let us have an equally stable defence alliance to supplant it.’ [More…]
The White Paper on defence we are discussing has been described as a refreshing breeze. [More…]
This White Paper seeks to plan our defence policy so that we will not be unprepared if and when the 5-power arrangements which I mentioned before - ANZUK, ANZUS and SEATO- are superseded. [More…]
The ministerial statement and its accompanying White Paper on defence have allowed what has been rather a wide ranging debate on this subject, a debate that has covered the environment in which Australia finds itself, the forces and equipment that Australia has and is likely to need, and the forward planning for the next decade or so. [More…]
During this debate there have been well defined disagreements between the Government and the Opposition on outlook, but the debate itself has been rather more dispassionate than defence debates have been for some time. [More…]
In other words, the debate is being held in an atmosphere in which it is assumed that Australia looks forward to a sustained period of home service for its armed services, with the qualifications that have been given by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) in certain areas. [More…]
It is possible there but it is not possible here, apparently, to have this sort of reserve force or capability in any of the services able to take over a real defence role. [More…]
Surely the work done by the committee of inquiry headed by Mr Justice Kerr into the fundamental conditions of service in the forces would have indicated the need for an explanation by the Minister for Defence of his attitude towards a regular volunteer army and even a comment in the White Paper on this aspect of volunteer forces. [More…]
We take due note of the defence attitudes of the United States in just about every field. [More…]
1 believe that the Minister for Defence should at least have asked in his statement or in the White Paper for an examination and an explanation of the pros and cons of a volunteer army. [More…]
To me his statement and the White Paper are a disappointment and in no way convince me that the Opposition is not correct in sticking to its point of view that volunteer defence forces will serve Australia in the future and serve it well. [More…]
On this occasion it has presented it in the form of a White Paper prepared by its advisers in the Department of Defence, and also by a ministerial statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) setting out what the Government proposes to do on the basis of the advice that it has received. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) - the shadow Minister for Defence - criticised the White Paper and claimed that it was biased in favour of the Government’s point of view. [More…]
I do not accept this criticism by the shadow Minister for Defence in the Opposition. [More…]
Let us take a quick look at our defence policy in the past. [More…]
Then came what might be called the dominion era - the era of imperial defence when we made some contribution, together with Britain as the principal partner and other members of the British Empire. [More…]
At that time we were concerned with keeping the sea lanes open between us and the homeland, and India was the fulcrum, one might say, of the whole imperial defence effort. [More…]
Imperial defence explains all that we have done in 2 world wars. [More…]
The old imperial defence idea was gone for ever, and we faced a new situation. [More…]
President Nixon announced what has been called the Nixon Doctrine at Guam, from which it is perfectly clear that local people will have to look after their own defence in future and that the Americans will come to their aid only if they help themselves and if the forces against them are overwhelming because they are forces of aggression that come from great super powers with which the local forces cannot deal. [More…]
We have to depend upon a great and powerful friend for defence against irresistible forces with which we cannot deal ourselves. [More…]
But we have to look after defence in our own region, and in the immediate environs nobody will doubt that we have to look after our continental shelf and our fishing rights in the area. [More…]
State and local - $5 are collected by the Commonwealth Government, but when it comes to the spending and one takes out of the transactions what might be called the ‘transfer items’ - that is, the responsibility that the Commonwealth has for providing what the statistics describe as ‘cash benefits to persons’ which amounted in the latest Budget to something like $2,000m - and separates also expenditure on defence, which this year will be close to $ 1,200m, there is not any very systematic matching of finance to functions. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
My question which is directed to the Minister for Defence refers to the political decision by the Government in 1963 to purchase the Fill aircraft. [More…]
The cost, of course, has escalated as has the cost of everything else, not only in the defence field but in many other fields, but the cost escalation of the Fill has been considerably less than in other fields. [More…]
Having listened to the fatuous reply given by the Minister for Defence to the last question on the Fill, the Minister will appreciate the importance of a full and frank statement to the Parliament on this matter. [More…]
It is being studied by the Department of Defence and the Department of the Navy. [More…]
If the Government is to proceed to make a decision between various types of ships and is to accept the advice, for instance, of the Department of Supply or the Department of Defence that a particular type of ship can be built in Australia. [More…]
At this stage the matter is completely open and a decision will be made after advice is given to the Cabinet by the Department of Defence. [More…]
Also I would suggest, as I have in the past, that this industry is critical to any possible defence of Australia. [More…]
If the Government is serious about defence it should recognise that it takes a lot longer to train skilled personnel to maintain, service and construct modern aircraft than it takes to train a soldier, sailor or airman. [More…]
It is vital to our defence capacity that the personnel trained in this field be retained in the industry. [More…]
If any serious consideration to defence is to be given by the Government it must recognise that this industry must be maintained and that those persons who are skilled in this type of work must be retained. [More…]
Defence Standards Laboratories in the Department of Supply. [More…]
Additional appropriations totalling $ 15.8m are sought for defence services, including about $2.1m for increases in Services pay and allowances arising from the Government’s implementation of the Kerr Committee recommendations; and $4.3m for increases in salaries of civilian staff, including the effect of arbitration determinations. [More…]
However, it is expected that, for various reasons, there will be savings of $ 16.1m in other defence appropriations. [More…]
I refer particularly to the defence by the Minister for Education and Science in newspapers yesterday morning of a grant of $63,000 to one private school. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science has omitted some very significant facts in his defence of the Commonwealth grant to Clyde. [More…]
This is the significant thing: This section of the Australian Labor Party which has such dominance in the definition of the Party’s defence and foreign affairs policy has this attitude. [More…]
The need for the Government as a matter of urgency to make a statement on the plight of the people of South Vietnam in their courageous defence against the blatant invasion by North Vietnam and its serious implications for the security of Australia. [More…]
The policies and attitudes of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) himself on foreign affairs and defence follow the dictates of the left wing Victorian ALP as predictably as night follows day. [More…]
What nonsense it is for the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) to claim that there is really not much difference between the defence policies of the Opposition and the Government. [More…]
From the brave drum beating of May 1965 to the pathetic claim by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) that Vietnamisation had succeeded - a claim that he made in a ministerial statement only 3 weeks ago - Government statements have harped on one theme and one. [More…]
A country has a right to self defence. [More…]
When we committed combat forces in 1965 there were, according to the United States Department of Defence, no more than 400 North Vietnamese but against people who Vietnam, and they were there in the early part of 1965 for one very simple reason: Following the infamous Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which was a put up job to justify the decision that the United States mil itary had already made, the USA - this was back in 1964 - began aerial attacks on North Vietnam. [More…]
This is a worthwhile change but it is useless unless the Parliament is later informed what action has been taken on the petition, in many cases petitioners have worked hard on questions of great public concern such as health, education, defence, social services and many more. [More…]
If not, one could not blame our allies for feeling that Australia’s bona fides in defence agreements were suspect. [More…]
This applies also to immigration policy, defence and other matters. [More…]
That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the Minister for Defence making a ministerial statement relating to the invasion of South Vietnam by North Vietnam and its security implications for Australia. [More…]
The Government’s usual defence against criticism of its treatment of general rate pensioners is to point to the introduction of the special compensation allowance. [More…]
In fact there has been more time devoted to this debate on the Standing Orders, Including whether the House should sit until 10.30 p.m. or 10 p.m., than has been spent debating education, defence, industrial relations, foreign affairs and other earth shattering matters to the nation. [More…]
The main matter on which I rose to speak tonight concerns what I regard as a major indiscretion committed by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) in this House last Thursday, 13th April. [More…]
The cost, of course, has escalated as has the cost of everything else, not only in the defence field but in many other fields, but the cost escalation of the Fill has been considerably less than in other fields. [More…]
The former Minister for Defence, Mr Malcolm Fraser, a year or two ago in this House said: [More…]
Here is the ‘Armed Forces Journal’ of the United States virtually repudiating our Minister of Defence by saying that the aircraft is a failure as a strategic deterrent. [More…]
11, and, secondly, adjacent to the Russell Defence Offices, which is item No. [More…]
On Tuesday afternoon this week, a matter of public importance was discussed in this House which stressed the need for the Government to make a statement on the ‘Plight of the People of South Vietnam in their courageous defence against the blatant invasion by North Vietnam and its serious implications for the security of Australia’. [More…]
Australia has contributed towards the maintenance of security in South Vietnam and continues to give help in the way of economic assistance, defence aid and training. [More…]
The future protection of Australian interests is not simply directed to the static defence of Australian Territories and dependencies. [More…]
The best defence of our interests is seen to go beyond the defence of our territory alone. [More…]
There was a full-scale debate in this House on a Vietnam statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) on 23rd March. [More…]
The need for the Government as a matter of urgency to make a statement on the plight of the people of South Vietnam in their courageous defence against the blatant invasion by North Vietnam and its serious implications for the security of Australia.’ [More…]
When Government supporters raise Vietnam as an issue of urgency, the Minister of Defence has no trouble in getting the cooks in his Department to whip up the confection he has put before the Parliament today. [More…]
In this confused context the Minister for Defence should have been able to give us a clearer assessment of what is happening in Vietnam. [More…]
A Joint Intelligence Organisation has been operating in the Department of Defence for some years now. [More…]
Yet the best the Minister for Defence has been able to give us about the course of the fighting is a few pitiful scraps which could have been culled from the pages of the Press a week ago. [More…]
It seems pointless to build up our intelligence services within the Department of Defence when at a time of crisis demanding top class intelligence, all the Minister can do is recapitulate superseded Press reports. [More…]
The Government takes the threat so seriously that the Minister for Defence has announced in quite unequivocal terms that Australia will not re-commit troops there, however grave the risk to South Vietnam. [More…]
In summary, it is tragic that the debate On defence should again be reduced to the primitive and stupefying level put by the Minister for Defence this afternoon. [More…]
I had hoped that recent constructive speeches by the Minister for Defence and the Minister for the Navy indicated an elevation of defence debate to a plane of sense and sanity. [More…]
Undoubtedly the Government intends to reduce the defence debate to the level described in American politics as waving the bloody shirt. [More…]
How often have we heard it said that in foreign affairs and defence the policies and philosophies of the Labor Party and the Government are poles apart? [More…]
There is, in fact, very little we do agree upon in defence and foreign affairs issues. [More…]
The Opposition says that we started it, but we have had to respond and say what we think about these initiatives which have been commenced on the Opposition side on the left, because we believe the nation needs to know what should be thought of honourable members opposite and how far they represent the views of the Labor Party when put by that part of it which is dominant in its defence and foreign affairs matters. [More…]
The most telling thing in favour of this is the length of time that the people of South Vietnam have, been prepared to shed their blood in defence of their country even before any allies went to their assistance, the way in which they are still prepared to do so and the way in which there is no support in the country rising up to oust the administration in Saigon. [More…]
Forward defence for the Government means contributing 7,500 or 8,500 Australian troops when the Americans or other allies are committing half a million or three quarters of a million troops. [More…]
That is what forward defence means to this Government. [More…]
Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) in which he said in effect that this matter is open to doubt, that it remains to be seen whether the South Vietnamese will be successful or not. [More…]
The extraordinary postures adopted by the Australian Labor Party on Vietnam are typical of its general attitude towards defence and they deserve exposure. [More…]
It could well be asked by a visitor to this country why it is that the Labor Party always seems to be following the communist line in its defence postures. [More…]
It does not seem to be concerned about the defence vacuum that ALP policies towards Malaysia and Singapore would cause. [More…]
It is in the field of Australia’s national defence that one of the widest differences of opinion exists between the Government and the Labor Party. [More…]
What a great guarantee of alliance in defence are the President’s words. [More…]
Not content with these attempts to scuttle Australia’s alliances, the Labor Party has thrown alarm into our colleague governments in Malaysia and Singapore by its attitude to what is known as the 5-power defence arrangements for that area, to which this Government subscribes. [More…]
In the words of the Leader cf the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard), the Government’s forward defence policy will be ‘discarded’ by a Labor government. [More…]
Late last year, for instance, we saw a public difference of opinion on forward defence between the Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister of Singapore. [More…]
One facet of the ALP’s lack of a credible defence posture is that the Party does not have many men like the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant). [More…]
I want now to describe a case history of communist aggression to pinpoint the perfidy of the Labor Party’s defence poli cies. [More…]
I have no doubt that the Leader of the Opposition will try to paper over the cracks in this latest expose over North Vietnam but what the Australian people are realising more and more is that the ALP simply cannot be trusted in the vital and delicate fields of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
One would have thought that from all that power and heavyweight material we would have received some really effective announcements on what Australia’s foreign and defence policy in this context ought to be. [More…]
It is significant that the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) opened the debate. [More…]
The significance is that the Government is trying to turn the debate into an argument about the defence of Australia. [More…]
We on this side of the House disagree with the view that the war in Vietnam has anything to do with the defence of Australia. [More…]
We do not say that it has nothing to do with the morality of international affairs or with the concern for humanity or such matters as that; but we do say - we have said this for years and now it is obvious that the Government also says it - that the war in Vietnam is not significant to the defence of Australia because if it were significant to the defence of Australia the Government would be sending the troops hack there to hold the line. [More…]
The Minister for Defence who is sitting at the table has just laughed. [More…]
The second point which I think is of interest is to note what was said by the speakers who have taken part in this debate on the defence statement this afternoon. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) rightly said that we support South Vietnam. [More…]
Put that way, can we in Australia observe what is happening in South Vietnam without having some concern about our own defence? [More…]
What credibility can Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, or Malaysia, or New Zealand or any of those countries with which we have alliances - the United States of America, if you like - place on Australia’s future defence policy when all the time the alternative government of Australia - perhaps only a powerful section of it, or the whole of it - is prepared to repudiate our alliance with the United States, to attack the United States and to give succour to the Communist forces in Vietnam? [More…]
But the end decision which the Australian people have to make in respect of themselves, their children and the future of Australia is: Can they place reliance on and trust in the Labor Party when it talks about defence alliances and Communism? [More…]
If it is true that because of events in Vietnam our country is in danger - that is what the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) said - our withdrawal from that area and the Government’s failure to have anything more than a token force there becomes something that the Government is obliged to explain. [More…]
I wish to raise the issue of the approaches being made by the Minister for Civil Aviation (Senator Cotton) and the Ministers for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman), Defence (Mr Fairbairn) and Navy (Dr Mackay) to allow the utilisation of the naval aerodrome at HMAS ‘Nirimba’ at Schofields, New South Wales, as a general civil aviation airport and even possibly as a second airport for the Sydney region. [More…]
There has been an approach earlier this year from the Minister for Civil Aviation to the Ministers for Air, Defence and Navy for a reexamination of the Schofields area, to see whether greater use could be made of it for civil aviation purposes. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I accept the explanation by the Minister even though one cannot help but find it hard to understand how his memory could be so faulty as to forget that the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Civil Aviation, the Minister for Air and himself had had discussions recently - he said ‘earlier this year’ but I think it was fairly recent - and that he had forgotten all about what the discussions were about. [More…]
I am grateful that the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) is present in the chamber. [More…]
The Minister made some disclosures today in his ministerial statement on defence. [More…]
.Referring to the Government’s policy on defence, some remarks were made in connection with the Tet offensive in Hue, that ancient city in Vietnam. [More…]
I insisted on placing some of these facts on the parliamentary record tonight because members of the Labor Party, to my recollection, had not answered the particular emphasis that the senior Minister, in announcing Government policy on defence, put on this situation. [More…]
In part that article states that I had forgotten a conference held earlier this year between myself and 3 other Ministers - the Ministers for Civil Aviation, Air and Defence - about the re-evaluation of HMAS ‘Nirimba’ as a civil airport. [More…]
Our Australian shipping lines are not only our first line in commerce trading, nationally and internationally, but also are our first line of defence. [More…]
Many governments have decided that the operation of a nationally owned fleet is fundamental to independence and defence. [More…]
It has been the policy since 1968 for the defence group to pursue a course of action leading to reciprocal purchasing. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) a few moments ago referred to a speech I made during the adjournment debate last week concerning a reply he made to a question asked by the honourable member for Bonython (Mr Nicholls) in relation to the costs of the Fill aircraft. [More…]
I think it is valid to say that if we had had delivery of the Fill within the period specified by the Minister for Defence at the time of the purchase, Mr Townley, we would not have had to lease the Phantom aircraft. [More…]
Perhaps we could have established an aircraft industry in Australia, comparable with that in Sweden, and we could be designing and developing our own fighter bombers suitable for our own requirements with the massive coastlines and the great distances we need to cover, instead of falling for this furphy of trying to tie in with United States equipment and having five or six Ministers for Defence trying to defend this project and finally saying that we got a bargain and we are getting it cheaper than the United States can get it. [More…]
Is it by coincidence that the paper reports that a determination was made that the Government, because of its defence policy, ought not to receive a huge mandate from the people in the 1969 election and should be held down to about a majority of 6 or 7? [More…]
An increase in the defence vote. [More…]
Prevention of the ALP victory which would have destroyed the national service, the forward defence’ policy, and the presence in Vietnam; [More…]
Reduction of the Government’s majority to a still comfortable 6-7 seats, to ensure that the Government could not claim any popular mandate for its defence or ‘Russian’ policies; [More…]
The Minister for Defence will be aware that a review of the code of military law has been in progress for almost 10 years. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence and it is supplementary to that which was asked recently by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
My question to the Prime Minister is supplementary to the question which I directed to the Minister for Defence and also that asked by the honourable member for Berowra. [More…]
These people were concerned principally with matters of Australian defence and internal security, and had personal policies on these matters substantially similar to those of the Government. [More…]
Then there is reproduced in this paper - and greeted with alacrity by Senator Murphy - some documents dated 7th March 1970, obviously the same date as this meeting, in which among many other points involving defence commitment and the necessity of defeating the ALP is stated one of reducing Government held seats in 1969. [More…]
The total amount sought in this Bill is $1,317,790,000 comprising Departmental, $797,290,000; Defence Services, $495,500,000; and Advance to the Treasurer, $25,000,000. [More…]
It is not intended that it be concerned with questions of defence science except to the extent that these may be related to matters that fall in its own fields of primary concern. [More…]
I am speaking tonight in defence of Senator Gair, strange to say, as he has a DLP candidate standing against me. [More…]
Does the Minister then believe that the Government’s views on defence and internal security are substantially similar to. [More…]
This is because he has already told us this morning that its members were concerned principally with matters of Australian defence and internal security and had personal policies on these matters substantially similar to those of the Government. [More…]
I am hesitant, as I said in my speech during the grievance debate this morning, to bring in such mundane matters as defence and the security of the country when more gripping problems are confronting us. [More…]
Much time is devoted in this House to the very important problems of rural industry, but we seem to get only 3 speakers from each side in debates on defence and other matters which are of vital concern to this country. [More…]
I always believed that Australians felt that they were of the free nations and that their defence alliances were with the free nations and that this was something that should be regarded highly. [More…]
I make it clear that I believe that SEATO is not worth a damn, and I would not waste much time talking about it as a defence arrangement. [More…]
Further to a previous question I asked of him relating to inspectors employed in Commonwealth Government defence departments, 1 now ask: Is the Prime Minister aware that the Inspectorial Grades Review Committee completed its investigations early in October 1971? [More…]
This means that laws made by the Assembly will no longer be subject to veto by the Australian Government; that all matters affecting the welfare of the New Guinean people except defence and foreign affairs will be subject to laws made by the Assembly alone; and that those laws will be administered by a public service responsible only to the House of Assembly. [More…]
He made a violent attack on Bishop Burgmann, then Bishop of CanberraGoulburn - and the Minister for Defence sniggers. [More…]
The Government conducts reviews of defence after it has wasted $3 00m on the Fill aircraft, which has been paid for but which Australia has not received. [More…]
We have been told that we are to have a review of defence. [More…]
In the interim, the Government has spent something like $ 8,000m to $9,000m on goodness knows what because when one looks at the Government’s defence expenditure and takes out of it the manpower and maintenance components, there is very little left that is supposed to frighten the enemy. [More…]
This has been the Government’s record on defence over the last 9 years. [More…]
There always seems to be ample time to debate defence and foreign affairs in this Parliament but little opportunity to discuss foreign aid, at least, until the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) made a lengthy statement in the House this afternoon. [More…]
8m for Defence Services. [More…]
Provision is made in the Appropriation Bills for increased appropriations for Defence forces pay and allowances, particularly arising out of the Kerr Committee report. [More…]
It was mentioned to me by members of the Defence forces that while the living away from home capital cities allowances for public servants were adjusted early in January of this year, similar adjustments had not been made for members of the armed services as late as Anzac Day. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The most recent training (6 officers at the Jungle Training Centre, Canungra) stems from a request for assistance in jungle warfare training made to the Government by the Laotian Delegate for Defence, Mr Sisouk Na Champassak, during the course of his visit to Australia in September 1970. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence yet considered any alternative plan for re-equipping the Royal Australian Navy, other than through the DDL project for which preliminary plans have already been prepared and announced in the House? [More…]
Within the next few weeks I hope to be in a position to bring to Cabinet a paper on this subject setting out the views of the Defence Forces Development Committee. [More…]
If we require defence we have to face the fact that large expenditures are necessary. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to a statement made by the Leader of the Opposition on the radio on Monday night, in which he claimed that if Australia were to adopt the Australian Labor Party’s policy of abolishing national service it would get a better defence of Australia? [More…]
Can the Minister say now how the Leader of the Opposition believes the abolition of national service would improve Australia’s defence? [More…]
I noted that he mentioned that Australia would get better defence if the national service scheme were abolished. [More…]
If this will give Australia better defence then I am a Dutchman. [More…]
From the manner in which he presented his case in defence in the course of this debate I would say it was a snap decision made by a very harassed and tense Minister for Social Services. [More…]
Future action of this type would be most successful if hundreds and thousands of strikers are involved so making it difficult for full police of government defence of the employer’s property. [More…]
has any decision been taken onthe use of these ships for defence purposes. [More…]
However officers from the Defence Group of Departments have witnessed trials conducted by Mr Field, of small craft incorporating this hull design. [More…]
These trials and the information provided by Mr Field have not demonstrated that the design has sufficient potential advantage to the Defence Group of Departments to justify the Commonwealth’s proceeding further. [More…]
Will the Minister reaffirm the Australian Government’s belief in the value of the ANZUS Treaty to the defence of Australia and will he reassure the Australian people that the Government will give all moral support to President Nixon in his efforts to bring a peace to Vietnam which will ensure the freedom of the South Vietnamese people to choose their own form of government? [More…]
Further the age at which it is appropriate to call up males for service in the defence forces might well vary according to the situation, and surely it cannot be seriously contended that the voting age should vary with the military contingency of the day. [More…]
That section provides in substance that where a person who is less than 21 years of age is a member of the defence forces and is on special service, which is defined, he is entitled, provided he meets the other qualifications, to he enrolled as a voter. [More…]
As honourable members will appreciate, this is a reference to another Act which defines in more detail special service overseas and special areas and the substance of the provision for the legislation is that when a man is in the defence forces and is overseas in a theatre of war, if one may refer to it in that compendious way, he is entitled to be enrolled as a voter. [More…]
of proposed new section 27 these words: ‘Where a prosecution is launched under this section it shall be a defence to the prosecution if the person is not available on reasonable grounds.’ [More…]
I do not think the Bill would suffer in any shape or form if some omnibus provision dealing with a situation of this kind were included in the legislation to this effect ‘It shall be a defence to a prosecution under this section where the person requested to attend or required by the conciliation commissioner is not reasonably available.’ [More…]
I understand that the Opposition in the Senate may move an amendment along the lines suggested by the honourable member to provide that it shall be a defence to a prosecution under this proposed new section if a person can show that he had just cause for not attending the conference. [More…]
There are all sorts of reasons for a person being away, lt is not unusual to include in a section which carries such a penalty as a $1,000 fine some indication that a citizen has a defence based upon just grounds. [More…]
The fact that this penalty has never been imposed or that it has never been found necessary to impose it in the past does not convince me that a defence provision ought not be included because we cannot be certain that the kind of men we now have in control of these procedures will always be in control. [More…]
The late Sir Frederick Shedden was carrying out research on Australian defence with a view to writing a book on that subject. [More…]
As an act of courtesy they are at present held on behalf of Lady Shedden in secure storage by the Department of Defence on the clear understanding that there is to be no access to them either by departmental officers or by anyone else. [More…]
5411, the Shedden papers are at present held by Department of Defence in secure storage on behalf of Lady, Shedden. [More…]
Official records of the Department of Defence are transferred to the custody of Commonwealth Archives Office in accordance with the standing arrangements for archival transfer of Commonwealth records and access to them is subject to the normal rules. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether he can give the present position and potential of Project N, the light aircraft, which has been developed at a cost of $4m or $5m by the Government Aircraft Factories. [More…]
The Royal Australian Air Force and the Army have assessed the potential of this aircraft and their assessment was considered by the Defence Force Development Committee early last week. [More…]
There were differences of view about defence burden-sharing, trade concessions, the removal of the import surcharge and the job development tax credit, and the broader issue of how a currency re-alignment would be achieved, who would make a contribution to that, when and how much. [More…]
New Zealand has also granted assistance in education, defence, civil aviation, meteorology and health to Fiji. [More…]
Specific circuits could be set aside for particular purposes, such as defence usage, but the actual configuration for usage of the satellites’ capacity would have to be decided by consultation between the various interests concerned with it. [More…]
The satellites could play a highly significant part in national defence and security as the security and flexibility of satellite communication - which can work to a transportable ground station - would make them a significant asset in defence terms. [More…]
I) covers items for the ordinary annual services of the Government and includes requirements for salaries, administrative expenses, other services and defence services. [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne Ports went on to make a few party political points about defence and other matters that I do not think require comment. [More…]
It covers a large area of departmental expenditure, including expenditure by the defence Services. [More…]
Another matter I would like to discuss is defence. [More…]
I put a question on the notice paper on 2nd December last and I was told by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) that all the records had been destroyed. [More…]
1 thank the Minister for Defence for what he has done in this matter. [More…]
Subsequently I received from the Minister for Defence a letter dated 23rd March 1972 which reads: [More…]
I think the Minister for Defence has given the lie completely to Mr Santamaria’s pretensions and I hope that now he has been exposed he will at last agree to be interviewed by the Press and to appear on television and answer questions, perhaps on This Day Tonight’, or for that matter on any other day or night or even tomorrow on a television programme. [More…]
The meetings of the military advisers to the conference will take place in the Department of Defence buildings at Russell Hill. [More…]
In the defence area, 2 ships are virtually involved in defence oceanographic research almost full-time, and clearly the Government envisages a much greater effort in this area than has been assumed before. [More…]
I would have thought the Leader of the Opposition would be putting a question to me asking why we did not take action when North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam rather than why we did not take action against our allies when the Americans, in defence of their ally, had laid mines outside Haiphong harbour. [More…]
I must first say that the Department of Supply is concerned very largely with defence procurement, though the procurement section of the Department does some purchasing on behalf of the Department of Foreign Affairs in matters of foreign aid, and of course purchases equipment for use in the Antarctic. [More…]
There may be other reasons - one in which the defence group would be particularly interested is that of providing a defence facility in Australia or fostering it. [More…]
On behalf of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation I bring up the report of the Committee together with minutes of the proceedings. [More…]
The Committee’s conclusions were greatly influenced by 2 considerations: Firstly, the special nature of a career in the defence forces. [More…]
Commonwealth superannuation scheme is an appropriate foundation on which to base a retirement benefits scheme for the defence forces. [More…]
We found that few members of the defence forces have a clear understanding of the present DFRB scheme. [More…]
We consider that the Committee of Inquiry into Services Pay and Conditions might profitably examine the whole question of gratuities, and would suggest to the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) that he refer this matter to that Committee. [More…]
The new scheme should be administered by the Department of Defence and the [More…]
Minister of Defence should be the responsible Minister. [More…]
The Committee has been very conscious of the importance of the DFRB legislation to the recruiting and morale of the defence forces. [More…]
I would also like to say that nowhere in any section of the report is there implied any criticism of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board or those who have administered the DFRB scheme over the years that it has been in existence. [More…]
The problem of defence is involved. [More…]
These submarines are ideal for operating in the fairly shallow waters of the continental shelf so in one aspect of our defence it has been recognised that we have these responsibilities. [More…]
It is legislation which, from the point of view of Australia’s national standing and defence, should commend itself to the support of all honourable members. [More…]
There is no point in seeking to try to get some small advantage which might help an Opposition come into Government because in the fields of defence of Australia and in the fields of the good government of Australia and in the fields of having a government which is not controlled by outside bodies and in the fields of having a government which is not controlled by militant left wing unions, this is the most important thing but it does not obviate the requirement that we, being a LiberalCountry Party in government, should continue in government but should also seek to serve the national interests and consider these matters as they have been put and consider this matter as it has been put, and carry it to a conclusion, subject to the Government’s having a reasonable time and being able to make reasonable arguments in return to those of us who wish this Bill to become law. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), who is sitting at the table, will bring what I am saying tonight to the attention of the Minister for Trade and Industry. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Defence will take my complaint to the Minister for Trade and Industry. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
He will be aware that the Joint Select Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation took approximately li years to reach its findings into a most complicated matter. [More…]
There are some trade organisations in existence but a great deal of enthusiasm is not shown in regard to uniting for defence. [More…]
I know that also there are one or two defence treaties and one or two defence organisations. [More…]
These are not wanted to enable it to make war or to attack anyone, but are needed as essential parts of an effective defence system. [More…]
The Australian voters are entitled to know, before they cast their votes in what I believe will be one of the most important elections in our history - an election in which defence and foreign policy must be a major issue - where the Government and the Opposition stand on these matters. [More…]
Until after the United States’ bombing of North Vietnam, following the fabricated Gulf of Tonkin incident - and I am referring here to what was said by the United States Defence Department - there were only 400 North Vietnamese combat forces in South Vietnam. [More…]
It seems to me that we do ourselves - and I think this is important - a great disfavour by creating threats or attempting to make threats more than they are in a mythical sense, because what this does is to distort our own defence preparedness, our own force structures. [More…]
Chasing phantoms and tilting at windmills has no place in the foreign policy or the defence policy of a responsible government. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs in his speech referred to the five Power Defence Arrangements. [More…]
Malaysia does regard the Five’ Power Defence Arrangements as temporary, Singapore would not be overly concerned if our forces were withdrawn, and Indonesia does not care one way or the other whether our forces remain there or not. [More…]
Today, however, the so-called ‘5-nation’ arrangement is meaningless: As Singapore’s Defence Minister said recently to this writer, ‘the 5-nation arrangement is a farce - it is worthless.’ [More…]
A footnote says that Singapore’s Defence Minister said that in Singapore in June 1971. [More…]
Honourable members may also be interested to know that a leading member of the governing party in the Malaysian Parliament, Mr Musa Hitam, in a speech earlier this year in the Malaysian Parliament, fully agreed with the statements that I have made on the Five Power Defence Arrangements. [More…]
I have had reason to comment before in this House on the curious but highly significant procedure of practice of this Government of introducing a defence statement before a statement on foreign affairs. [More…]
I was very disappointed to hear the honourable member for St George downgrade the Five Power defence arrangements that apply with respect to Singapore and Malaysia. [More…]
It was very disappointing to hear him endorse, with approval, statements by an American academic that the Five Power defence arrangements were meaningless and farcical. [More…]
They are a very substantial contribution to the defence of those 2 countries and they are a very substantial contribution to the forces of stability and cautious, sensible progress in this region in which we live. [More…]
I suggest that this is the type of attitude that is now reflected in the Five-Power Defence Arrangement and it is perhaps a pity that it was not seen and recognised earlier in the case of Vietnam. [More…]
However it seems that these radical changes in thinking have not yet greatly influenced the attitudes of the Australian Government in its foreign and defence services. [More…]
In question are those policies that require considerable defence effort and involvement in military treaties or other defence arrangements, often at the expense of the nation’s international reputation for political and military independence. [More…]
The enormous expenditure on defence - (According to the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1970 it was $US204,000m or the equivalent of one year’s income of the entire population of the developing countries - has in most cases complicated national security problems rather than offer solutions to them. [More…]
At the same time, the belief is that good prospects exist for a new, stable balance in international relations, offering in the form of interlocking relationships, perhaps with super-power guarantees, an alternative to heavy defence expenditure as a measure to a better and more realistic security, and a future basis for disarmament and arms control. [More…]
The Australian reactions to the turbulent developments in Asia since World War II have reflected a greater preoccupation with the securing of our own defences than with the seeking of a deeper understanding of the changing scene and the developing of better relations with the countries of the region. [More…]
As a result of these preoccupations the governments have followed a policy that could be described as one of defence before diplomacy. [More…]
Another plank of our foreign policy has been to develop treaty relationships with selected pro-Western countries in Asia, but it is probably fair to say that in reality these treaty relationships have been regarded by the Asians concerned more as efforts towards the defence of Australia, in the sense of a forward posture, than as efforts to help those Asian countries defend themselves. [More…]
Political developments in Asian countries have been followed closely by the Government, but its paramount concern has been to determine whether Australian security has been endangered, whether communist objectives have been furthered and what defence measures should be taken to deter a possible threat. [More…]
This means the undertaking of more purposeful steps to acquire a deeper understanding of the countries of the region and to participate with them in their search for greater co-operation, such as the search for a system of collective security that would obviate the need for heavy defence expenditures. [More…]
This step conceivably would be a radical and constructive alternative to the existing reliance on defence support. [More…]
It is the Australian Labor Party that wants to break down the 5-power defence arrangements. [More…]
The ANZUS Treaty is a defence treaty, but there is not one mention of the word defence’ in the Labor Party’s policy on the Treaty. [More…]
That was a disappointing speech from such a distinguished member of the Government parties, a member of the Cabinet and a former Minister for Defence. [More…]
I believe that the idea that somebody else is crucial to our defence, our welfare and our strength is an abdication of our sense of self-reliance. [More…]
It may be a naval base or some other defence facility. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It is not something simple such as trade, defence or education. [More…]
It is not something which is as readily definable as ‘education’, ‘defence’ or trade’. [More…]
Whether the development of this naval base in the Fremantle area will be a major contribution to Australian defence depends on the nature of the warfare involving the installation. [More…]
In nuclear warfare this naval base may not be the great defence asset claimed. [More…]
In terms of conventional warfare it is a contribution to Australia’s defence. [More…]
I suppose we must balance the claims of defence - even if one may regard this as not being the best site in Western Australia for a naval base - against the other claims. [More…]
The feature clearly welcomed in Western Australia is the development of defence on the western coast. [More…]
This need was recognised first in the days of Lord Kitchener and Admiral Henderson, who were brought out by the Fisher Government in 1911 to report on Australia’s defence. [More…]
by leave - On 26th January 1972 the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) announced that in keeping with the Government’s policy of modernising Australian defence, Cabinet had approved extensive changes in the command and organisational structure of the Australian Army to provide for defence tasks which could arise in the 1970s and 1980s. [More…]
He gave a broad outline of the changes to be made and emphasised that the reorganised Army would be better prepared to carry out its role in the defence of Australia and its Territories, as well as making more efficient use of manpower and funds available to the Army. [More…]
This ignores the fact that a select committee of this Parliament has just spent 2 years grappling with one of the most complex military matters known to man, that is the Australian Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Fund. [More…]
The most notable is the Morshead report on the reorganisation of the defence departments which was made in 1958 and never made public. [More…]
It is very difficult to conduct any sort of an informed defence debate in the absence of detailed information. [More…]
This very valuable document has never been released to those who take an interest in the defence of this country and who want to be informed on these matters. [More…]
I believe it is time that the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), who has some responsibility in these matters, informed the Parliament why so many of the reports which are made by many committees of inquiry set up by this Parliament, the Department of Defence or the Minister for Defence, whichever one one may wish to choose, and which deliberate and consider recommendations that ought to be made to bring Australia’s defence structure into line with some of the more advanced countries overseas, are not presented to the Parliament. [More…]
For some unknown reason, as in the case of the Morshead Report, this latest report is used extensively by the Minister to make his first statement in this House but is not available to those who give urgent consideration to this subject and who believe that they are entitled to be informed on recommendations which affect the whole structure of the defence forces in Australia. [More…]
It is of crucial importance that all of the defence services find ways of diverting resources away from the long administrative tail and getting them to the areas such as weapons replacement where funds are badly needed. [More…]
It is to be hoped that the 3 Services can be brought even closer with a reorganisation of the cumbersome defence administration structure at [More…]
But what I have in mind is the occasion when I heard another Minister for Defence say in this House that the most modern organisational system had been implemented for the Australian Army, which was the pentropic division. [More…]
It was sold to this House and sold to the defence system but it proved to be thoroughly inadequate and unworkable. [More…]
What steps have been taken to make available to researchers the full set of records collected by Sir Frederick Shedden relating to Australian defence outside the 30 year restricted period, in view of the liberalised rules for access to Commonwealth records. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question has been given by the Minister for Defence in his replies to questions 5411 and 5412 (Hansard, 16th and 17th May, page 2635). [More…]
In another three cases, there were some grounds for suspicion that ships might have been responsible but, in each case, the ship in question was not registered in Australia and in consequence the Commonwealth Act did not apply; further, the evidence was not sufficient to warrant Australia exercising its right under the Convention for the Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil to bring the evidence to the notice ofthe country of registry As regards the seventh case, while evidence pointed to a particular ship being responsible for the pollution, the ship, which was not a tanker, was not registered in Australia and the evidence was not transmitted to the country of registry because it was considered that, under the Convention as it then stood, a defence was available to the ship in that, being a non-tanker, it was proceeding to a port not provided with adequate facilities for reception of residues of oil. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
An expected benefit would be less reliance by Australia on sources overseas for its defence equipment requirements. [More…]
the development of the Australian economy in a manner conducive to the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
More particularly, the legislation was introduced to assist Australia in its production of defence equipment. [More…]
The Government should fully pursue the needs of Australian industry to produce our defence requirements. [More…]
At the moment I am in touch with the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) about certain limitations that the defence Service impose on Australian manufacturers, not because they cannot produce the goods - and the Minister for Defence is nodding in agreement - in quantity and quality but because of certain limitations. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for Defence will get me the answer to this problem very shortly. [More…]
We are only at the beginnings in this country of having the Government’s own research and development needs - defence, communications and other areas - carried out within industry. [More…]
The Department of Defence has provided the information below regarding entry to the Regular Forces and discharge from all Forces. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What stage has been reached in negotiations with New South Wales for the transfer or lease of defence properties (Hansard, 23rd February, 1971, page 549). [More…]
How many officers are employed at inspectorial grade in Commonwealth defence establishments throughout Australia. [More…]
At 30th June 1971 the total number of officers employed at inspectorial grade in Commonwealth defence establishments throughout Australia was 841. [More…]
Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fond (Question No. [More…]
What sum was contributed to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund by (a) contributors and (b) the Commonwealth Government during the latest 12 months period for which figures are available. [More…]
During the year ended 30th June 1971, amounts received by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund were as follows: [More…]
Net payments from the Fund, after adjusting for repayments of amounts previously paid to members under section 42a of the Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Act 1948-1971, amounted to $27,480,081. [More…]
Finally, has not Mr Lee’s affirmation of Singapore’s independent defence strength destroyed the last remnants of the Government’s forward defence policy? [More…]
Has the Public Service Board any control over or responsibility for officers of the inspection staff employed by the Department of the Navy under the Naval Defence Act? [More…]
The Naval Board has the authority to determine wages, salaries and conditions of employees under the Naval Defence Act, but these determinations must be consonant with the directions of the Public Service Board with regard to the alignment of salaries and the corresponding qualifications for particular positions. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Government’s top Service advisers consider that an all-volunteer Army strength of about 30,000 would meet the current defence requirements. [More…]
The message does not seem to be getting through - I suppose there are none so blind as those who do not want to see - that we have at the moment a call-up system which has been decided, wisely or unwisely, by those who are closest to the operations of the Army and the operations of our defence forces. [More…]
The pressures are such that it has been decided by those who are interested and dedicated to the defence of this country that the present system is the best system. [More…]
I know that the defence of this country is highly amusing to honourable members opposite; this is perfectly obvious. [More…]
I believe that national service is essential in the interests of maintaining the Army at a strength of 40,000, or even a little greater than 40,000, so that we can not only fulfil any potential international obligations but also play our part in the defence of this country if, unfortunately, we are ever called upon to do so. [More…]
by leave - I wish to outline for honourable members the Government’s decisions for the first year of the 5-Year Defence Programme 1972-73 to 1976-77. [More…]
Before doing so, however, I shall re-state the Government’s conception of the essential nature of Australia’s strategic problem and its objectives for Australian defence. [More…]
Precisely because of the obligations we have assumed under the ANZUS Treaty, it is to be assumed Australia must accept the primary responsibility for the defence of its own interests and must be able, if need be, to act alone. [More…]
All this implies an Australian concept of defence, which, though based on continental strength, will not be limited to the employment of capabilities matched to the specialised requirements of continental defence alone. [More…]
We are developing forces specifically capable of acting in the broad maritime and archipelago surrounds of the continent, if this should be needed, no less than in defence of our beaches and our hinterland. [More…]
My statement in this House of 28th March 1972 on Defence and the Australian Defence Review (Parliamentary Paper No. [More…]
Our defence effort must provide for present needs. [More…]
Therefore we have also to take into account Australia’s likely defence needs in the 1980s in deciding what equipments to order now. [More…]
The planning introduced by the Government will allow our future defence needs to be foreseen better and to be taken into account in financial programming. [More…]
Our defence industries, our research and development capacity and our military and civil infrastructure also contribute significantly to our defence preparedness. [More…]
It has not yet stopped the tests in which the French have millions of dollars invested - they regard them as essential to their defence. [More…]
While I was in Paris recently, the French Minister for Defence went to Washington to try to get certain information from the American Government that the French would otherwise have to test to get. [More…]
It is a great pleasure to welcome the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) and the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) back into the debates on matters of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
I have been asked about the statement by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) on defence that he would put troops or something or other into South East Asia for 3-week periods. [More…]
They have been told not to play a part in debates where the people can work out the policy of the Labor Party in respect to the defence of this country. [More…]
I do so because I think that their presence will give the people of Australia more opportunity to get to the truth of the Labor Party’s policy on defence and foreign affairs than will the remarks of the gentleman who is about to follow me in this discussion. [More…]
If some countries were to devote the same enthusiasm to providing funds for international aid and trade to build up better relations with neighbouring countries as they devote to providing for defence I think that defence would not be quite as necessary in the future as it has been in the past. [More…]
We listened this afternoon to a very desultory statement that took something like 45 minutes to make about Australia’s defence programme for the next 5 years. [More…]
Nevertheless when we take into account that we have a Budget provision of over Si 0,000m this year and that the provision for multilateral bilateral aid and assistance to Papua New Guinea as a separate amount comes to only $220m we can appreciate that this amount really is not very adequate when put against the projected defence expenditure of SI, 300m and the talk of a 5-year programme for defence. [More…]
I think the Government has been very wise to talk about the defence programme for the next 5 years and not the defence programme for the last 5 years, which included the Fill aircraft as its central piece and linchpin. [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne Ports, while making points which were confirmed by the honourable member for Kingston, did make the point early in his speech that there was some connection between defence expenditure and amounts spent on foreign aid. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Defence (Re-establishment) Act (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Defence personnel carried on charter flights by Qantas during the year ended March 1972: 15,940. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
However, I can say that, in choosing the training and equipment programmes of the Australian Armed Forces, we sim to protect them against as many forms of attack as is practicable within a balanced total defence preparedness. [More…]
I have had discussions with my colleague, the Minister for Defence, on the DFRB report and he has made certain recommendations to me. [More…]
I will be further discussing this matter with my colleague, the Minister for Defence, today and I hope to be able to give the honourable gentleman a much fuller reply within the course of the next few days. [More…]
I think it is a good sign for the Government’s chances at the next election when a Federal member of the Opposition sets out to try to confuse those more important issues which relate to Federal Government, which are more vital to people - foreign affairs, defence and questions on education - and which the Labor Party tries to hide from, by talking about the Brisbane City Council. [More…]
1 should be defence. [More…]
So above all, this country should support defence. [More…]
According to the Press report it was resolved that these new ministerial positions were to be created, but in addition there was provision that the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea, Mr Somare, was henceforth the spokesman for defence matters and for the police. [More…]
In the first place, the Chief Minister is to be the spokesman on the matter of defence, which equals, in that area, the Pacific Islands Regiment. [More…]
Our role includes, among other things, defence and external affairs. [More…]
Therefore, in important areas such as the fields of defence and police, where Papua New Guinea itself is contributing the overwhelming majority of personnel in both areas, it is of the utmost importance that the Government of Papua New Guinea be involved in any decisions made in relation to them. [More…]
Honourable members should bear in mind that the spokesman for defence and the spokesman for the police were asked for by the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I would outline to the honourable member briefly, because we have only a moment to conclude the debate on this Bill, the fact that the spokesman will, of course, at this stage not have any powers of decision because the Australian Government will continue to be fully responsible for defence matters which is, as I say, in accordance with the requirements of the charter of the United Nations and, indeed, the New Guinea Trusteeship Agreement. [More…]
So initially the functions of the spokesman will be limited to acting as a spokesman for the Administrator’s Executive Council - the Papua New Guinea Cabinet - on defence matters in the House of Assembly, including answering parliamentary questions and making defence statements. [More…]
He will also be advising the Papua New Guinea Government in the formulation of its views on defence matters when they are referred to it by my colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) or myself. [More…]
He will be the spokesman consulting with the Administrator on matters relating to the development, organisation and training of the Papua New Guinea defence forces and he will be making public statements on defence and attending to ceremonial duties in his capacity as defence spokesman. [More…]
As a consequence he will need and we will be supplying - and he will be enmeshing with those who are training and localising there - a small defence section which will be established within the Department of the Administrator to assist him as a defence spokesman. [More…]
As was pointed out in the communique referred to by the honourable member, the Chief Minister will be the defence spokesman in addition to his other duties and he will also be the spokesman for police. [More…]
As stated in relation to the defence matters and any residual powers which we may hold, we will be exercising them, albeit with final responsibility being vested in us, but nevertheless in conjunction with the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has announced a 5-year defence programme which is dominated overwhelmingly by the requirements of one Service - the Navy. [More…]
In many ways the Navy has been neglected in the defence policies of recent years. [More…]
The most spectacular area of defence procurement in this period was the Royal Australian Air Force with the protracted controversy over the Fill purchase. [More…]
I want to make some general comments about matters raised by the Minister for Defence in his statement. [More…]
The first criticism that needs to be made is that the so-called rolling programme as described by the Minister does not constitute an adequate programme budget for defence over the next 5 years. [More…]
The essence of a defence programme budget is that it projects cash flows on elements of defence spending over a number of years; the usual time span for such a programme is 5 years. [More…]
In this way we can see how spending on a particular defence project or on functional elements of a defence budget vary from year to year. [More…]
The projections of defence spending contained in the Minister’s statement are extremely inadequate. [More…]
We are told that using defence spending of $l,217m in 1971-72 projected defence spending in 1976-77 would be $J,530m. [More…]
Presenting such a sloppy piece of work as a budget for a 5-year defence programme would be laughed out of any other Parliament in the world. [More…]
Undoubtedly an immense amount of forward projection of defence costs has been done by the Department of Defence. [More…]
There is far too much by-passing of the Parliament and the alternative government on this vital area of defence policy. [More…]
Initially this was scheduled for 1 p.m. but this was abandoned when the Minister for Defence learned it would pre-empt his statement. [More…]
It should also be possible for the alternative government to be briefed on a defence issue of such magnitude. [More…]
To return to my initial point, the cost details disclosed by the Minister for Defence are completely inadequate for the requirements of this House. [More…]
There may be difficulties in projecting spending on the basis of an index of defence spending. [More…]
I refuse to believe that this sort of analysis has not been undertaken bv the Defence Department planners. [More…]
As I have stated previously in this House, the 5- year rolling programme is merely a variation on the technique of annual budgeting for defence spending. [More…]
The 5-year rolling programme as announced by Sir Allen Fairhall was intended as a transformation of traditional planning of defence spending and procurement. [More…]
However subsequent statements have revealed that programme budgeting has not been applied as a revolutionary technique on the lines of the defence budgets of the United Kingdom, Sweden, West Germany and a number of other countries. [More…]
The 5-year concept has added little to the overall effectiveness of Australia’s defence planning. [More…]
In the conventional budget framework defence spending is broken up in terms of the 5 Defence departments. [More…]
We have the following headings: Capital equipment for the Services, defence facilities, pay and allowances of Service personnel and civilians, running costs, research and development and foreign defence aid. [More…]
The logic of this sort of breakdown is infinitely superior to itemising defence spending under departmental headings. [More…]
Such an analysis leads to the inescapable conclusion that the present structure of the Defence departments on individual Service lines is old fashioned and inadequate. [More…]
It is a corollary of the organisation of the defence budget on functional lines that the Defence departments should be organised on functional lines with the abolition of the individual Service departments. [More…]
This is the only way in which the pattern of defence spending can be changed and re-allocation of resources made away from basic housekeeping costs. [More…]
With the number of permanent volunteers rising and a stable component of nation.il servicemen the Defence Minister is working himself into a very serious predicament. [More…]
It is impossible to see any sort of rational compromise between the Government’s wish to retain national service, its insistence on a maximum component of volunteers, and the desire expressed by the Minister for Defence to restrain the growth of manpower costs. [More…]
The end result would be an Army on similar lines to the present Navy and Air Force with emphasis on minimum manpower and maximum advanced equipment, lt is ironic that this concept of a capital rather than a labor-intensive Army has been advanced by the Government’s Minister for Defence. [More…]
The concept of the Minister for Defence goes way beyond the abolition of national service, lt implies a sharp reduction in the number of volunteers in a switch to a capital intensive Army. [More…]
On the evidence of this statement the Government is not unduly perturbed about the future of the CMF and its essential role in the defence structure. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, yesterday in this Parliament I sat through the statement made by the Minister for Defence which lasted for 45 to 50 minutes and it seems incredible to me, as I am sure it must to those honourable members and people outside the Parliament who concern themselves about the problems of defence in this country, that in a 5-year plan there could be not one reference to probably one of the most important aspects of defence in this country, the future of the CMF. [More…]
There has been a considerable number of debates in this Parliament on defence matters, normally raised by honourable members on this side of the House and sometimes supported by the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess). [More…]
How often have I heard in this Parliament honourable members on the Government side of the House say, when we have been discussing the problems of national service, as well as the Minister for Defence, the Minister for the Army (Mr Katter) and others in answer to questions, that young men have the alternative of joining the CMF. [More…]
The Minister for Defence must know that one of the problems of the CMF today is that it has been expected to absorb those people who are not prepared to accept responsibility as national servicemen in this country. [More…]
Is it any wonder, Mr Deputy Speaker, that there is this great concern throughout the community about the deterioration of the role of the CMF in Australia and the complete disregard for the CMF by the Government and those on the Government side of the chamber who accept responsibility in this Parliament for matters of defence? [More…]
Surely one can expect that this is an integral part of the defence system of this country. [More…]
Does the Minister for Defence not believe or would he not be prepared to concede that at the time of the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 the CMF made a very significant contribution indeed? [More…]
Had it not been for the cadre of officers, non-commissioned officers and other ranks who enlisted at that time there would have been great difficulty in raising the initial defence force in this country. [More…]
Therefore I say to the Minister for Defence that if this was a deliberate omission, or even if it was an oversight, I hope he will take the earliest possible opportunity to correct it. [More…]
I hope that what I have said will at least ensure that some responsible Minister in this Parliament, one of the Service Ministers, will again make some positive statement about the future of what we regard as one of the most important parts of the defence system in this country. [More…]
On the strategic side the Minister says the concept of air warfare is not confined to the defence of the Australian continent, hi his view Australia’s strategic strike force with its long-range capability is intended as a deterrent. [More…]
The Minister goes on to say that if deterrence failed, air defence would involve all 3 Services. [More…]
Much more important items of defence equipment, such as the replacement of long-range maritime patrol aircraft and the replacement of the Mirages, are ducked completely. [More…]
Although the RAAF has announced its requirement for the Mirage replacement and submissions from potential suppliers have been sought, the Minister stated quite blandly that commitment to a new air defence aircraft would not be required for some years. [More…]
It has become a cliche of defence analysis and commentary in the past few years that the Navy will be the decisive service in th remaining decades of this century. [More…]
Once the doctrine of forward defence was scrapped and it was recognised that Australian defence was essentially continental defence, even the present Government recognised this basic truth. [More…]
The Department of Defence has even coined the dreadful label maritime-archipelago environment’ to describe the new area of Australia’s defence interest. [More…]
The paramount position of the Navy in this sort of defence environment has at last been recognised. [More…]
I have not been alone in questioning some of the assumptions underlying the DDL; Government members including the honourable members for Isaacs (Mr Hamer) and Wentworth (Mr Bury) were rather more critical of the programme than I was during last year’s defence estimates debate. [More…]
Let me state at the outset that it is not irresponsibility or mere bagging to question these defence programmes. [More…]
Despite the lengthy analysis given to the DDL by the Minister for Defence and outside the House by the Minister for the Navy, I am not satisfied that this has been done. [More…]
But does this sort of ship-to-ship comparison assure the overall weapons mix that is the most suitable for the naval defence of Australia? [More…]
If one were diverted to some other role such as area air defence or interdiction of enemy shipping, the escort capability for one major trade route would be obliterated. [More…]
The Minister for Defence stressed repeatedly that the DDLs would have the capacity to operate in an independent role far from Australia’s shores. [More…]
But the helicopter is vulnerable in its own right to effective anti-air defence; furthermore a single helicopter on station needs a considerable amount of luck to pick up a fast patrol boat before it fires its missiles. [More…]
The Minister for Defence insisted that this area-air defence role was one of the three significant roles of the generalpurpose DDL. [More…]
There must be very grave doubts about the effectiveness of the DDL in this area-air defence role without adequate air cover. [More…]
What the Minister has put to the House falls down seriously as a comprehensive and coherent statement of a 5-year defence programme. [More…]
But I suppose as a stimulant to debate of defence issues the statement has its merits. [More…]
This defence statement was made yesterday and we have to debate it today, when those of us who are interested in questions like the DDL destroyer programme have most of our files in our electorate offices. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party welcomes any effort by this Government in the area of defence. [More…]
The 5-year rolling plan, which is very high in the Government’s list of election ploys this year, was introduced by a former Minister for Defence, Sir Allen Fairhall, years ago. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) ran all over South East Asia in the parliamentary recess in order to create an issue out of defence and foreign policy, only to find that the Malaysian Government said that it did not care whether or not we retained Australian troops in that country. [More…]
So the forward defence concept fell apart on the Government once again. [More…]
So with his election strategy in tatters the Prime Minister has only 2 things left: The Budget with which to buy votes and the good old well worn issue of defence. [More…]
An amount of $7,000m is to be spent on defence in the next 5 years. [More…]
Looked at in that context, it will probably mean that less will be spent on defence in the next few years than has been spent on defence in the past. [More…]
This Government has an appalling record in defence, and this whole thing is again a ploy to catch votes. [More…]
I should like to refer to a couple of points which the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) made in his speech. [More…]
We are developing forces specifically capable of acting in the broad maritime and archipelago surrounds of the continent if this should be needed no less than in defence of our beaches and our hinterland. [More…]
The Minister talks about forward defence but, as I said today to the honourable member for St George (Mr Morrison), there is not one over-shore assault ship in the Services of this country. [More…]
So it is ridiculous to talk about forward defence. [More…]
Basically, this is a Fortress Australia approach - keeping our own defence strong and having the capacity io work in the archipelago environment. [More…]
On the question of the DDL destroyers, the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) as reported at page 205 of yesterday’s Hansard described the destroyers in this way: [More…]
The new destroyers will have an area air defence system, a medium range gun, ship-launched antisubmarine torpedoes, appropriate sensors, an automated command and control system to ensure the effective integration of these weapons and sensors, and they will be able to carry 2 helicopters fitted with armament and surveillance equipment. [More…]
He said that it had to have a capability for area air defence, that is, surface-to-air missiles. [More…]
He said that nowhere in the world were area defence missiles fitted to ships of less than 3,500 tons. [More…]
The DDGs were basically area air defence vessels. [More…]
To use the Government’s parlance, it would have area defence capability as well as defence against attacking aircraft. [More…]
This is a classic example of the Government’s lack of control over the area of defence planning. [More…]
The Government appears as a pawn in the games of the Service departments and the Department of Defence. [More…]
1 have never heard this mentioned by the Government, but I know that a number of defence planners are thinking in the direction of a platform ship equipped with Harrier type vertical take-off and landing aircraft. [More…]
Considering the lengthy coast that wc have and our capacity to produce Harrier aircraft in Australia, it would appear that the platform ship is a logical development for our maritime defences. [More…]
In his paper, the Minister for Defence mentioned maritime reconnaissance aircraft. [More…]
This has apparently created quite a stir in defence circles. [More…]
It is all evidence to prove that this Government has not tried to do anything with Australian defence. [More…]
The state of our defence preparedness is no better now than it was in 1941. [More…]
The strength of our defence forces is not measured solely by the numbers actively serving. [More…]
Apart from filling the Regular Army ranks to the level of 40,000 required, a secondary but most important purpose of national service is to insure against emergencies by building up a reservoir of trained soldiers in the community, as was mentioned quite specifically by my colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) in his splendid speech last night. [More…]
The shadow Minister for Defence dwelt quite a good deal on the CMF and the fact that the Minister for Defence did not mention it. [More…]
I remember that just a year or two ago in this House someone mentioned - I cannot recall who it was - that by stimulating cadet training we were making militarists; in other words, from the early beginning the Opposition has been brainwashing our young men not to join the CMF and not to be involved in the defence of this country. [More…]
The CMF, as a back-up force to the Regular Army in times of national emergency, is a vital part of our overall defence structure. [More…]
It is apparent that in this area as well our defence capability would be impaired if not seriously mutilated. [More…]
For the benefit of the Minister for Defence, who obviously needs some recall factor, I point out that, in August 1964, Dr Forbes argued strenuously against the introduction of national service. [More…]
Let us have a look at the statement on defence by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
The first thing that should be said about it is that it is an abject admission of the Government’s failure in defence planning. [More…]
Whilst hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent and squandered in pursuit of the Government’s so-called forward defence policy Australia’s own defences are down. [More…]
The Government has already admitted that its military adventures in Vietnam have seriously distorted our defence structure and weakened our defence preparedness. [More…]
Let us examine the words used in the ‘Australian Defence Review’ itself. [More…]
This point is also admitted in the statement of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The years immediately ahead provide an excellent opportunity for Australia to consolidate its defence infrastructure and to improve existing Service establishments. [More…]
1 received from the Minister for Defence today - he let me have it only today although I sought the information by way of a question 1 placed on the notice paper some months ago - information to the effect that in the last 10 years the Government has invested only $35.3m on new bases in Australia. [More…]
Let us look at our defence preparedness in terms of the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
What an indictment that is of the defence planning of this Government. [More…]
The Government, at page 25 of the ‘Australian Defence Review’, dealing with our air lift capacity, says: [More…]
In about 8 to 10 days a lightly equipped battalion of less than 1,000 men can be transported to within a 2,000 nautical miles radius of Sydney which, as the Australian Defence Review’ points out, still keeps them on the mainland of Australia and in parts of New Guinea. [More…]
He announced with a flourish that there would be a 26 per cent increase in defence expenditure over 5 years. [More…]
But this really means, and merely means, that defence expenditure will be maintained at the present percentage of the gross national product which has been the same for the preceding 2 years - 3.4 per cent. [More…]
If this trend continues defence expenditure will have to increase by 28 per cent but it would be still only marking time with the growth in the gross national product. [More…]
I state emphatically that there is no difference between the attitude of the Liberal Party and the Labor Party on priorities and on funds associated with defence. [More…]
The Labor Party has said that its defence expenditure would range between 3.2 per cent and 3.5 per cent. [More…]
If we examine statistically the argument the Government has put forward on the percentage increase through to 1976-77 we will find that defence expenditure will be below 3.4 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
So there is fundamentally no difference between the priorities attached to expenditure on defence by the Labor Party and by the Liberal Party. [More…]
I was delighted to note that the Minister’s statement last night left out the great myth of forward defence. [More…]
Let us look at this concept of forward defence from the point of view of military strategy and ask the question: Where did forward defence get us in the Second World War? [More…]
First of all he learned the correctness of the very thing on which I was pilloried by the Minister for Defence and by the Government, that Malaysia regards the five power defence arrangements as temporary and transitional. [More…]
This Government has learned of the utter bankruptcy of its foreign policy and the utter bankruptcy of its defence policy. [More…]
It is always a distinct pleasure to follow the honourable member for St George (Mr Morrison) in a debate such as this, but before I begin my speech proper I want to say how sorrowful 1 am that the forecast I made yesterday that the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) and the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) would be back in the clan and engaging in debates on foreign affairs and defence has obviously been proved wrong. [More…]
Would anyone expect any nation which has pride and which was let down by one of its allies to crawl to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and to the honourable member for St George, or to plead with such people who have shown such an outlook on defence and foreign affairs? [More…]
Wilh respect to what has been said today during the defence debate I refer to an article published in Things I Hear’ on [More…]
But has the honourable member any idea at all of what defence means? [More…]
Whenever I listen to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition speak on defence I get the impression that he goes home at night to sleep but has a nightmare, comes into the House next morning and adds something to the policy - but he has not thought it out. [More…]
If honourable members opposite were to think these things out and honestly told the people of Australia that this is what they envisaged in respect of Australia’s defence, I think they would at least get a medal for honesty. [More…]
To do this would be irresponsibility in defence. [More…]
Members of the Opposition who talk about the condition of the Army and other Services in 1941 should read the Hansard debates of 1937, 1938 and 1939 in regard to what it was suggested should have been done in respect of the defence of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Honourable members opposite talk about Australia’s defence unpreparedness in 1941. [More…]
This is the time when the nation must prepare its defence. [More…]
It must build up its defence capabilities and obtain a balanced defence which will be not only protection for our own country but also encouragement for those other nations with whom we wish to live in friendship to play their part. [More…]
I conclude my remarks by saying that so far as I am concerned any defence debate is valuable, but defence is of no value unless we ensure that our lines of communications and our bases are safe. [More…]
Defence is not just a matter of buying equipment and enlisting soldiers; it is a matter of ensuring that the soldiers are supported from behind. [More…]
One does not need to turn back to the Hansard debates of 1937 to look into this matter of defence. [More…]
Take the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), who is sitting at the table. [More…]
The argument tonight is what we are doing now and how we should consider the question of defence. [More…]
I believe that there is a big difference - and the honourable member said so too - in the general concept of defence as we on this side see it and as honourable members opposite choose to speak about it. [More…]
Government supporters talk about expansion of military defence and all the rest of it at a time when the rest of the world is slowing down the aggressive tendencies between nations. [More…]
Nobody on this side of the House and probably nobody in this country would say that we should wipe our defence capability on that account. [More…]
The question of sea defence has been raised. [More…]
1 turn now to the concept of the Government announced by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Surely that is what my friend the Minister for Defence means when he says that we do not need this combat capability. [More…]
The basis of national defence is national unity and national morale. [More…]
I believe we must start to look at the question of defence in a totally different way. [More…]
Our defence services should plan and design armour and it should be given to our automotive industry to develop. [More…]
I would like to turn now to the equipment proposals outlined in the statement of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I was concerned whether this was the most effective way in which to spend our defence resources. [More…]
As the Minister says, we have to keep an air defence capability in being. [More…]
Also the Army clearly needs improved air defence. [More…]
These are all decisions that can be made progressively through the defence machinery. [More…]
But the fact of the matter is that we have before us a statement on defence. [More…]
When it went out of office in 1949 the Australian Labor Party left the defence forces of Australia in good repair. [More…]
In other ways the defence forces of this country were in good repair. [More…]
I think one of the great challenges held out to all of us on both sides of the Parliament, whoever might be governing after the next election, is to restore the CMF to that position which it previously occupied in the defence of Australia. [More…]
When one looks at the question of defence one can get very emotionally involved at Russia’s presence in the Indian Ocean and with what we do in South East Asia. [More…]
But the greatest criticism I would make about this Government is that it has always sought to gain political advantage out of defence. [More…]
While recognising that the Minister has placed before us the ideas of his Government, we would like nobody in this country to think that a Labor government in office next year or this year, however soon that date might be, would neglect the defence of Australia. [More…]
Will the Minister inform the House the variation of expenditure between education in Australia and defence? [More…]
-The honourable member must have in mind that, whilst the defence vote is purely a Commonwealth type vote, the education budget of Australia is a shared one between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
This year the defence budget, as I understand it, is a little over $l,300m and the Commonwealth’s education budget is up by over $70m. [More…]
I would expect them to make a further increase of about the same order, which would give a total education vote, additional to last year, approaching $300m, which is much greater than the actual increase in the’ defence vote. [More…]
I understand that the honourable member’s concern might have occurred because Mr Hawke indicated that the total defence vote was more, or increasing at a greater rate, than the education vote. [More…]
But let me make it perfectly clear, as the Minister for Defence has and as I have done on numerous occasions, that we will retain our present system as long as the requirements of this nation demand what, according to the experts- never mind about the armchair experts- is an Army of an absolute minimum of 40,000. [More…]
Tables Nos 9 and 10 set out details of the cash transactions and the investments of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and the Superannuation Fund respectively, which are made by the statutory boards under the authority of the relevant legislation. [More…]
Of course the Opposition will not agree with what we have done in defence. [More…]
Not a single word was spoken ‘on defence by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
The Treasurer referred to defence and I want now to address myself to the Government’s defence effort. [More…]
In 1963-64 the Fills were ordered supposedly as the linchpin of Australia’s defence system. [More…]
Since the Fills were ordered, in the period from 1963-64 to the projected 1972-73 $9,878m has been expended on defence in Australia, including the sum set aside for defence expenditure this year. [More…]
This is the sort of government that is asking us now to trust it for the next 5 years with another plan involving the spending of $7,000m on defence. [More…]
1 suggest that we ought to be talking about the Government’s past defence effort. [More…]
Skilled men are wandering around defence establishments because no orders have been placed to produce equipment, although a boat may be built in 1975 at the naval dockyard. [More…]
They include economic growth, population growth including immigration, defence, development of industry, Aboriginal advancement, development of education, improvement of health facilities and equity in the tax system including estate duty and personal income tax. [More…]
The defence vote this year is estimated to be $l,323m and social welfare and repatriation are estimated to be $2,529m, making a total of $7,30 lm or about 70 per cent of the total Budget. [More…]
1 would like to see the honourable member for Mallee rise in his place and speak vehemently in defence of the rights of private members, as he constantly was doing so vehemently when he sat on this side of the chamber. [More…]
I believe that the antiquated buildings which the defence forces have had to tolerate have not been conducive to encouraging persons to take up a military career so that we would not have to depend on conscription, which 1 believe is the desire of most Australians. [More…]
The Government is always keen to talk about defence. [More…]
Is it not rather incongruous that yesterday in this Parliament the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) lauded the fact - and we must applaud it, too - that the wheat growers have been able to sell a million metric tons of wheat to Russia for $50m, while almost in the same breath, in the Budget the Government is saying that it must increase the defence vote because of the threat from the Russians in the Indian Ocean? [More…]
The basis of defence strategy lies with the personnel. [More…]
Our defence structure needs to be reconsidered and greater attention paid to the personnel employed in it. [More…]
I set aside, if I may, the Si, 323m allocated for defence. [More…]
There is to be an increase in the defence vote of over $100m. [More…]
Finally I mention the fear of ultimate national insecurity in terms of defence. [More…]
And this change is occurring within the context of a great leap ahead in defence spending and preparedness. [More…]
What is the true policy of the Labor Party in respect of defence? [More…]
I was with the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard), the shadow Minister for Defence, in South Australia at the Returned Services League symposium. [More…]
What is the true policy of the Labor Party on defence? [More…]
As the Minister also ruled out tariff adjustments, does this mean that Cabinet has overruled the Minister’s earlier stand in defence of substantial tariff cuts plus devaluation as an alternative to appreciation? [More…]
It goes to no end of trouble :o encourage industries to remain in the north because it realises that not only is it important from a decentralisation point of view as such but it is also important from the defence point of view for a country that has an extremity which is vulnerable to attack from the most likely enemy of that country. [More…]
I do not think that the cost of this effort should matter to a government that has its eye on the possible defence needs of the future. [More…]
It could very well treat the cost of training and the cost of assisting those industries situated in the north as part of its defence budget. [More…]
At the same time it will give the necessary subsidy to industries that are prepared to go into that area and work with a Labor government’s defence and industrial strategy. [More…]
In the last few weeks the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has presented a lengthy paper on defence and some discussion followed that presentation. [More…]
I want to put forward an idea for public discussion that would be, I believe, a major contribution to world peace, to humanity, to Australia’s relations with the rest of the world and to the morale and efficiency of our defence forces. [More…]
It makes provision for the needs of the States and the needs of defence. [More…]
Now it is not a defence alliance, but simply a kind of economic partnership. [More…]
There is a great difference between the Labor Party’s attitude and our attitude to the ANZUS alliance which, in the last resort, we regard as the sheet anchor of our defence. [More…]
The Budget is aimed at goals of importance to all Australians - growth and development; the adequate defence of our nation; the fostering of industry; the expansion of educational opportunity; and the continued betterment and extension of our social welfare system. [More…]
The Budget provides for a major development in the field of defence, which is to be commended. [More…]
The Commonwealth should take the decision to return this land which was acquired years ago for defence purposes and is not now used. [More…]
After probably 12 years of agitation by way of questions, deputations to Ministers and personal correspondence, I am gratified to know that employees at the Williamstown naval dockyards and the Government Aircraft Factory at Fishermen’s Bend, Melbourne, if the programme set out in the defence statement made in this House is carried out in its entirety, will have some measure of job security in the next decade. [More…]
That is what we are led to believe by the honourable member for Bass (Mr Barnard), the Opposition’s shadow Minister for Defence and spokesman on defence matters. [More…]
People could have examined them and those who are interested could have said: ‘We would have liked to have seen something better done in relation to hospitals, Aborigines or in this defence area or in that education area’. [More…]
Can the Minister for Defence advise me whether prior to recent moratorium demonstrations Service personnel, including members of the Citizen Military Forces, were instructed not to wear uniform on such days? [More…]
J ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he has seen a report in the newspapers of a statement attributed to the United States Ambassador, to Australia in relation to the future of American defence base installations in Australia? [More…]
One related to the fact that he said that the Leader of the Opposition had said he would investigate the role of American defence installations and that he, the Ambassador, was confident that, if such an investigation were made, in the event of a change of government, the new government would be satisfied that these bases should remain. [More…]
He is also strongly in favour of the American defence installations in Australia, which also are Liberal-Country Party policy. [More…]
I am prompted to do so by the question which the Deputy Leader of the Opposition asked of the Minister for Defence concerning the modernisation of the military code, one of the obstacles to which hitherto has been the death penalty in some of the incorporated legislation. [More…]
In the Budget debate I usually examine the incidence of the Government’s fiscal policy on defence spending. [More…]
In many ways, economic policy has supplanted defence as the most emotive issue concerning members of the Government parties. [More…]
Ironically, it seems that we have succeeded in directing the defence debate into responsible and rational channels at the expense of generating hysteria over economic policy. [More…]
Surely it should be possible’ to conduct a vigorous and even partisan debate on this question without resorting to the excesses which have disfigured the defence debate in recent yeaTS. [More…]
Turning to the defence provisions of the Budget we find that the vote proposed is 1,323m. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) made an extensive statement on the 5-year rolling programme after the Budget papers were tabled. [More…]
This allowed a reasonable defence debate which contained some flashes of enlightenment. [More…]
We will again have the chance to debate some defence issues in the Estimates debates which grow more truncated every year. [More…]
I want to look at some aspects of the defence budget, particularly at changes in the balance of spending within the overall appropriation for defence. [More…]
In broad terms it seems that spending on defence as a percentage of the gross national product will be fairly static in 1972-73. [More…]
A level of defence spending of this order would be virtually the same as the proportion of national resources flowing to defence in 1971-72. [More…]
Defence spending has been declining in recent years and it seems to have settled to a steady level of around 3.3 per cent. [More…]
The defence budget built up from a trough of 2.5 per cent of gross national product in 1963-64 to 4.6 per cent at the height of the Vietnam war in 1967-68. [More…]
It is difficult to see any further reduction in the share of national resources allocated to defence maintenance. [More…]
In 1971-72 these components of the defence budget absorbed about 76 per cent of the defence vote. [More…]
Any savings brought by the cut in Army strength are likely to be more than offset by the flow-on from the Kerr Committee reports, so it seems that we can look forward to at least three-quarters of the defence vote going on basic housekeeping costs. [More…]
This makes the rock-bottom level of defence spending without any consideration of new equipment about 2.5 per cent of the gross national product, so an allocation of resources around 3.3 per cent of the gross national product seems probable in the years ahead, whatever the complexion of the Government. [More…]
There has been a world-wide trend to lower defence spending in recent years. [More…]
For example, Canada has cut defence spending by something like 350 per cent, and no one would describe it as a negligible defence power. [More…]
Australia has followed this trend more modestly, but it seems defence spending has now levelled out. [More…]
lt is worth analysing these figures a little further to show how the reduction in relative resources for defence has been achieved. [More…]
The Army has sustained its share of the defence vote pretty well despite the end of Vietnam. [More…]
In the subsequent years its share has been effectively halved, so quite obviously the main weight in the cut-back of defence spending has fallen on the Air Force. [More…]
The future balancing of resources available for defence among the 3 Services will be a very delicate exercise. [More…]
There is very little room for manoeuvre in restructuring defence spending in line with the trends disclosed in the Government’s 5- year rolling defence programme. [More…]
Unless resources can be freed from the administrative side of the defence budget it will be very hard indeed to free resources for the capital equipment items delineated in the 5-year programme. [More…]
It would be utter futility to have defence forces in which all spending was absorbed in administrative costs, yet this is the sort of ‘marking-time’ situation we are approaching. [More…]
This makes it disturbing that so little has been achieved in the reform of the defence structure to make it cheaper and more effective. [More…]
The Australian defence structure is one of the most intensively administered in the world and there is no sign that the process is being reversed or even halted. [More…]
Countries with much more elaborate defence systems get by with fewer administrative units and a much greater level of integration of defence functions. [More…]
Very little has been achieved in reforming our defence structure since the pioneering days of Sir Allen Fairhall and Sir Henry Bland in the Department of Defence. [More…]
This is not intended as a criticism of the individual defence departments: quite obviously, impetus for substantial reorganisation of the existing structure must come from the Government. [More…]
Any sense of the urgency of rationalisation of the defence structure is completely absent from the policy planning of the present Government. [More…]
When we look at the dollar outlay we are putting into defence it often seems that the tangible results fall far short of expectations. [More…]
Admittedly, there are difficulties in maintaining an adequate defence of Australia which are not experienced by comparable defence systems. [More…]
Even making allowance for these difficulties, it is hard to escape the conclusion that too much of defence spending is not getting through to the crucial task of giving more muscle to the fighting Services. [More…]
This is a job that will have to be done in the context of an allocation of national resources for defence spending at much the same level as now applies. [More…]
Any sharp increase in the volume of defence spending would not be acceptable in a period of low- threat and with very heavy demands on Government spending. [More…]
The only solution is a redistribution of resources within the limits of the present budgetary allocation for defence. [More…]
I would like to support these observations by looking a little more closely at the defence vote of the Army. [More…]
The statement by the Minister for Defence on the 5-year programme referred to investigations and evaluations being made for basic items of Army equipment. [More…]
Despite the end of Vietnam and the reduction in the national service intake, the trend of spending on pay for servicemen and civilians with the Army is still absorbing more than 20 per cent of the total defence spending. [More…]
By any token the programmes foreshadowed by the Minister for Defence are important ones. [More…]
These are 2 major items of equipment which will impose strain on the Army’s defence spending which cannot be accommodated within the present pattern of resource allocation. [More…]
It emphasises again the folly of not encouraging our own defence industries for items which could easily by manufactured in Australia. [More…]
With Vietnam out of the way the future of the Citizen Military Forces should be one of the major preoccupations of the Department of Defence and of the Army. [More…]
The Minister for Defence managed to deliver a lengthy statement on the 5-year rolling programme without a single reference to the CMF. [More…]
If one examines the amendment carefully one will find no reference whatsoever to defence, costing or taxation. [More…]
We on this side of the House - I think 1 can speak for us all - put defence at the top of our priorities. [More…]
It was interesting to note that the Leader of the Opposition did not even mention defence in his amendment; nor did he mention taxation, for the simple reason that he would have to increase taxation enormously to finance the promises which he. [More…]
So, the money can only come from direct taxation or by cutting down on the defence vote, because Labor proposes to give more money for everything else, across the whole spectrum. [More…]
What I am asking the honourable member who is to follow me in this debate to do is to be completely honest and tell us where the money will come from, whether or not taxes will be increased and whether or not the defence vote will be reduced. [More…]
The Budget will provide for taxation reductions, pension increases, social services, the lifting of the means test, housing, health, education, child welfare, estate duty, Aborigines, defence, shipping, airlines, gift duty, nursing homes, special grants and fares for the unemployed. [More…]
I think that we also should remind ourselves that a Budget is only one instrument of policy and that there are many instruments of policy of a Federal government - vitally important each and every one of them - for example, foreign policy, defence policy, industrial relations policy and policy on something that is rearing its ugly head in this country, namely, the climate of violence. [More…]
The choice is to leave Australia defenceless or to train men for its defence. [More…]
On the day of the election the silent majority who believe in the progress and future of this country will return this Government to continue the policies in defence and economic matters that it has followed in the past 23 years. [More…]
I do not want to take the prerogative of the very worthy Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) but I do want to say a few words about defence. [More…]
The Opposition’s attitude to the defence of this country is absolutely void of responsibility. [More…]
To all intents and purposes, honourable members opposite would leave our country isolated and defenceless. [More…]
It was interesting to note, Mr Deputy Speaker, that there was absolutely no mention of defence in the reply of the Leader of the Opposition to the Budget. [More…]
In its Federal platform, defence is relegated to the twentieth item, coming after such items as cultural affairs, cities and transport. [More…]
By contrast, defence was one of the first matters to be dealt with by the Treasurer in his Budget Speech, and the defence vote proposed has been increased by $106m to $l,323m. [More…]
The honourable member for St George (Mr Morrison) has advocated an all-volunteer army, with a strength of about 30,000 men, which he claims would meet current defence requirements. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) pointed out recently, a reduction in the strength of the Army from 40,000 to 30,000 - which is a reduction of 25 per cent and a serious reduction in any man’s language - would cause the disbandment of 5 to 6 infantry battalions and would leave this country with an army of very little significance. [More…]
The defence policy of the Government has 3 main objectives. [More…]
There are other issues such as foreign policy and defence. [More…]
A major feature of the reply of the Leader of the Opposition to the Budget was the complete omission of any mention of the important matter of defence. [More…]
A sound defence system is essential to national security. [More…]
This is one of the first duties of any government and when the Leader of the Opposition in his capacity as leader of the alternative government neglects to mention this nationally important subject I think it is cause for concern to every Australian, especially as defence matters featured conspicuously in the Budget. [More…]
Either the Opposition considers it not important enough to mention or it has no definite plans for a sound defence structure. [More…]
If I remember correctly, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, that great spokesman on Labor Party matters, quoted defence matters as number 7 on the list of matters which the Labor Party considered as important for the welfare of Australia. [More…]
Over the last 20 to 25 years we have had plenty of evidence to point to the kind of demands that could be made on us through regional commitments, and because of this we know that there is a definite necessity to build and maintain a defence structure to enable us to sustain any commitment which would be within our means to maintain. [More…]
But apparently the Opposition does not see it this way and is prepared to neglect this vital issue by giving the matter of national defence a low priority in the scheme of things. [More…]
In fact, if we can believe the shadow Minister for Defence, it would reduce the existing structure of the Army and our pool of reserve forces. [More…]
The Army should be an integral part of our whole defence effort, which must rely on a substantial trained reserve which could form the framework of a national army if required, and even this, with trained reservists, would take time - time that we could possibly ill afford. [More…]
Without a substantial number of trained reserves, the very important role our Army could undertake in an overall defence effort would be a practical impossibility, and this becomes obvious if one sits down and studies the proposition. [More…]
I firmly believe that the adequate defence of our country is everyone’s responsibility. [More…]
The system under which we operate at the present moment has, in spite of the emotional red herrings that have been dragged across the trail to fool the people, proved successful, and I would say to those members of the Opposition who would destroy this system, if they were unfortunately to become the Government, that a tremendous responsibility would rest on their shoulders, for the price of their neglect of adequate defence for Australia would be our national security - and this is not hard to understand. [More…]
Our defence preparations have been vitally affected by the United Kingdom withdrawing its forces from South East Asia. [More…]
I want to turn briefly now to the area of defence spending. [More…]
Defence has a fascination for the Government. [More…]
These aircraft are for the defence of this country, yet they are in storage in the United States. [More…]
The Opposition has tried to indicate that it would have a responsible defence policy, but one of the personal policies of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) is to sell the major Army base in eastern Australia - Holsworthy in New South Wales - and make the area available for additional housing. [More…]
It provides for a substantial increase in the defence vote, to match our declared policy of ever-increasing self-reliance, and a sustained capacity to meet our international obligations. [More…]
He is always good for a word or two in defence of removing tariffs or reducing them, and in defence of the Tariff Board. [More…]
I do not think there is much doubt but that a Labor government would jack up taxes and reduce defence spending, thereby endangering the security of this country. [More…]
Another way of providing the money would be by trimming down the defence expenditure. [More…]
Even if the Opposition were to abolish all defence expenditure it could not pay for all of its promises. [More…]
After all, if a man is not trained he would not be very valuable in matters of defence. [More…]
A lot of people say that there is no need to worry about defence because this country could not be invaded. [More…]
How many defence personnel were carried on charter flights by Qantas in its financial year ended March 1972 (Hansard, 23rd February 1972, page 190). [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: What progress has been made in assessing Service attitudes to the proposed new defence forces retirement benefits scheme? [More…]
Will the Government introduce legislation to provide a new defence forces retirement benefits scheme based on the recommendations of the Jess Committee before the endof thissession? [More…]
First of all, I point out that the Minister in charge of defence forces retirement benefits is the Treasurer, not the Minister for Defence. [More…]
They are the words of the then Leader of the Country Party and then Minister for Trade and Industry in referring to the frustrations expressed by members of the Liberal Party in defence of their friends in the marine insurance field and in the field of insurance generally. [More…]
One Labour Member with a very close knowledge of one area of world affairs said he would ask the assistant, whom he would very much like to have, to be a general aide on home affairs; another Labour Member wanted, on the contrary, to share his own special interest in overseas and defence affairs with an assistant who would preferably have a reasonably relevant university degree; a Conservative interested in social policy said that the one-third or half of a research assistant’s service, which he would like, would be best offered by a bright generalist interested in politics, not an expert social scientist*. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), who is at the table, looks nice and attractive but with due respect he is terribly dumb; he has not said a word. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will not answer the points which have been raised. [More…]
During debate on the presentation of Defence Estimates to the French National Assembly on 8th November 1963, M. Messmer, then Minister of the Armed Forces, said that under the Evian Agreements between France and Algeria testing grounds for nuclear weapons and missiles in the Sahara were available to France only until 1967. [More…]
They were codified in an exchange of letters on 9th June 1972 between the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Defence for Malaysia and the Australian High Commission at Kuala Lumpur made pursuant to the provisions of the exchange of notes between the Government of Australia and the Government of Malaysia on 1st December 1971. [More…]
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These Arrangements made pursuant lo the provisions of paragraph 1 (l)(e) of the Exchange of Notes between the Government of Malaysia and the Government of Australia on 1st December 1971 relating to defence arrangements, will be deemed to have come into effect as from the 1st day of April 1970. [More…]
Ministry of Defence KUALA LUMPUR 9lh June 1972 [More…]
1 refer to your letter of today’s date about the Collocation Arrangements relating to the use of buildings and facilities by the Royal Australian Air Force at the Butterworth Air Base the terms of which are as follows: (Herewith follows the text of the letter sent by the Australian High Commissioner in Malaysia to the Malaysian Secretary-General of Defence). [More…]
The particular area from which officers of the Department, in particular of the Weapons Research Establishment, had to exclude miners recently - the area known as Mount Penryn - will have to remain within the prohibited area because of the defence needs and for safety reasons. [More…]
With the establishment of a smaller area, a more stringent permits procedure is to be introduced, for defence reasons, for security and for safety, to provide for the proper use of the reduced area. [More…]
To take the numbers in order: The Postmaster-General’s Department still has 3,152 central office staff located in Melbourne; the Department of Civil Aviation has 1,716; the Department of the Army has 1,156; the Bureau of Meteorology has 805; the Department of Defence has 734; the Department of the Navy has 601; the Department of Works has 591; the Department of Labour and National Service has 542; and the Department of Shipping and Transport has 303. [More…]
If a man came to my home, knocked on the door and said ‘You have a hose on, ergo you are guilty’, I socked him on the jaw and it turned out that the particular ordinance was invalid or unenforceable, is the Minister serious when he says - if not explicitly, by way of implication - that that would be no defence? [More…]
I am not for one moment suggesting that it would be a defence to say: ‘This is connected with the Aboriginal embassy’. [More…]
AH I want to say in conclusion is that I trust the ‘Sunday Mail’, which has given large headlines to the rubbishing of towns in Queensland, will give equal prominence to the defence of these towns that I have put up tonight. [More…]
On the very first day of its existence Israel was invaded by the armies of 6 Arab states and - while the United Nations stood by paralysed - 7,000 of its citizens died in its defence. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The question was directed to the Minister for Defence, and the Minister for Defence arranged for the Minister for Repatriation to answer the question. [More…]
I recognise that defence needs arise and there is the possibility of people making unfair profits out of land speculation. [More…]
The Minister for Repatriation, the Minister for the Army (Mr Katter) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) should move to remedy this situation now. [More…]
But I can assure the honourable gentleman that the defence Services do their utmost to ensure that in no circumstances does any defence equipment fall into the hands of civilians. [More…]
When one takes out of the total expenditure of $ 10,000m covered by the Budget the $2, 000m odd described as transfer payments - that is, cash payments via the social services stream - and takes into account the $ 1,200m for defence commitments, one finds that in many respects the States in aggregate have far more constitutional activity - if one likes to put it that way - to perform than the Commonwealth. [More…]
At the moment the Loan Council is concerned only about State programmes and the amount of money that the Commonwealth believes it is possible to raise in the total economy after taking out amounts for defence loans, if it is necessary to have resort to any such finance. [More…]
It is remarkable that it took 3 Ministers to give a competent reply to 2 simple, reasonable questions which I directed to the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) last Thursday. [More…]
National servicemen, whether or not they are veterans of a foreign war, are eligible for assistance under the Defence (Re.establishment Act 1965-68. [More…]
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I ask the Minister for Defence whether he is aware that a very large proportion of applicants for service in the armed forces are rejected because of failure to meet the educational standard required. [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence any information for this House relating to the Government’s policy to continue to review and improve the conditions of service in the armed forces? [More…]
We have had before us the report of the Jess Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
Whilst one cannot expose to the light of day everything that ASIO is doing for the sake of the defence and security of the country, at least there is a case to be made out for a review of its activities, particularly since there has been a great increase in its expenses in recent times without there being, from what I can see, no great increase in efficiency. [More…]
There is the instance of the pressman in America who stole property and who, when he was charged with stealing, relied as a defence on the constitutional guarantee. [More…]
If so, is it a fact that these reports have not been denied by senior members of the New Zealand Government including the Minister for Defence? [More…]
However, in regard to comparisons with the DDLs, there is a tremendous wealth of evidence to indicate that, although these smaller boats might be faster in calm conditions, they just could not perform such duties as surveillance in particular, escort duties and anti-aircraft defence duties. [More…]
Such a ship would have a valuable part of Australia’s own defence system. [More…]
The evidence taken in relation to the Superannuation Board shows that a position of internal auditor was first created in 1965 to service the needs of the newly integrated Superannuation Board and Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board organisation that had been created in 1963. lt appears that in recent years there has been a considerable growth in the work and responsibilities of these boards. [More…]
The Committee believes that these circumstances reflect an urgent need for improvement in the quality of internal audit within the Superannuation/ Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board organisation. [More…]
However, the Committee has noted with satisfaction the action taken recently by the Department of the Treasury to centralise its interna] audit activities and, within this arrangement, to allocate internal audit teams to the Superannuation and Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Boards. [More…]
Too many people in our community, including many on the Opposition benches - not including, I am glad to say, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) who, although making a good election speech, was out of tune with a large section of his Party - have forgotten the purpose of the repatriation system, which is to repay a debt the community owes to those who risked death or injury in the defence of all of us. [More…]
I think the structure of repatriation pensions represents a fair recognition of what we, the community, owe to these people who fought in our defence. [More…]
We have a debt of honour to those who have suffered death, injury or loss of health as the result of war service in the defence of our country. [More…]
I refer to the future of the Australian defence aircraft industry. [More…]
But I can say that a great deal of work is being done and that I- believe that properly pressed - remembering that many parties are involved and it is a complex exercise - we will develop a small but effective and viable aircraft industry in Australia which will satisfy the defence needs that we undoubtedly have and we will set up an organisation which will be highly cost conscious and competitive. [More…]
I ask: What action does the Government intend to take to find immediate work load for this basic defence establishment to prevent it closing its doors? [More…]
How can the Government claim to be concerned about Australia’s defence when its key defence industries are in a state of disintegration? [More…]
It is pleaded as a legal maxim that ignorance of the law is no defence. [More…]
I too have been critical in the past, but in defence of Qantas I would say that in recent times it has got the message loud and clear. [More…]
That is an indictment of this Government for its lack of planning in the defence, area. [More…]
The Government has made absolutely no attempt to save this basic of all defence industries; that is, the capacity to manufacture aircraft and ancillary equipment. [More…]
The Government has had no consistent or continuous defence and foreign policy. [More…]
One of our basic defence industries is falling apart yet the Government still claims to be interested in Australia’s defence. [More…]
It also said it was interested in Australia’s defence, but we moved into a war in a hopeless state of defence preparedness. [More…]
Our defence industries are falling apart wherever one looks. [More…]
It is basically a defence establishment, whether he likes it or not. [More…]
The Government is always talking about the 5-year rolling programme for defence, but the only time that the 5-year programme gets a spurt on is every 3 years, which is an election year. [More…]
The Government goes for the old cover of foreign affairs and defence by saying: ‘You can trust only us with foreign affairs and defence’. [More…]
This Government has failed in every area of defence and every area of economc planning. [More…]
Unless we save it there is no future for our basic defence industries. [More…]
The honourable member gave us an example of the mediocre thinking we get from the Opposition in our important defence areas. [More…]
The honourable member spoke about the defence aspect of the Australian aircraft industry. [More…]
Unfortunately the government of that day, like the Government of today, spent more time talking about defence than doing anything about it. [More…]
An economic asset and a defence asset are lost to Australia forever. [More…]
This is an important industry which would be vital in any defence situation. [More…]
Qantas would not be satisfied with being only a minimal fitting agency but would be driving the hardest bargain possible, preferably on the high maintenance, high reconstruction sections of the aircraft, to ensure the continued life and development of our own aircraft industry not only for the financial, national aspect but also for the important aspect of defence. [More…]
We as a nation must not be dependent on another section of the world for our parts and planes in times of international emergency, whether they be for civil or defence aircraft and Qantas, which has such an obligation to the nation, must be part of long range planning. [More…]
That is why the amendment which has been moved by the Opposition is so pertinent to the future planning of our aircraft industry and for our defence. [More…]
It would be no secret to this Government or to the public that on each occasion on which matters such as this come before the Parliament the Labor Party moves in an attempt to protect and promote the Australian aircraft industry, for the Australian Labor Party realises it is mandatory that Australia becomes independent of the international arguments which have in the past affected the supply of defence materials to maintain skilled workers and machinery in the aircraft industry to ensure that it is ready to go into action when needed. [More…]
I would be delighted to hear a defence of what the Labor Party has proposed, especially concerning the home State of the shadow Minister for Health. [More…]
Last week the Minister for Defence received a very large deputation. [More…]
Defence and supply factories are being operated in remote areas such as Mulwala, Bendigo and Lithgow. [More…]
I have pursued it since entering the Parliament, and I pay tribute to the interest of the honourable member for Bennelong (Sir John Cramer) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
People were even taken up to Port Essington and to Darwin but eventually, even in those days, this policy lapsed as part of the defence of Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), who was formerly the Minister for National Development, and many others have done quite a lot of study on it. [More…]
I was interested to hear the honourable member for Bennelong suggest that the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) was an expert in this subject. [More…]
The reaction of the Minister for Defence to my motion was in these words: [More…]
The Minister for Defence, who is an expert on this subject, said tonight that he was extremely disturbed about the lack of growth in the Albury area, which is in his electorate. [More…]
Surely as an Australian citizen who elected to undertake a full-time defence role career he should receive maximum recognition. [More…]
In the last silting week the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) misrepresented me in a speech on the Loan (Qantas Airways Ltd) Bill when he raised the matter of the defence aircraft industry which apparently he thought was relevant. [More…]
Let us examine those of the former Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, who in a calculated insult confined the operations of the Five Power Defence Arrangements to a non-existent country that he chose to call Malaya. [More…]
In an interview he gave on television before leaving Djakarta he immediately raised the question of how important the Five Power Defence Arrangements were so far as the Liberal Party was concerned. [More…]
It seems to me that there is little wonder that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Malaysia can say that the Labor Party’s defence policy for South East Asia is acceptable to the Malaysian Government. [More…]
He refused to take up my question about what part of the 5-power defence arrangements authorised Australia to undertake this hapless and objectionable task. [More…]
What misplaced delusions of grandeur have led our foreign policy and our defence policy to interfere so blatantly in other people’s affairs? [More…]
In question are those policies that require considerable defence effort and involvement in military treaties or other defence arrangements, often at the expense of the nation’s international reputation for political and military independence. [More…]
It has been estimated, for instance, that the enormous expenditure on defence in 1970 was equivalent to one year’s income of the entire population of the developing countries. [More…]
Particularly in the years since the Second World War our reaction to developments in Asia has reflected a preoccupation with the securing of our own defences rather than with the seeking of a deeper understanding of the changing scene and the. [More…]
Our policy in a nutshell has been defence before diplomacy and it has been mostly of a negative character. [More…]
Treaty relationships usually have been with pro-Western countries in the area and Asians have regarded our efforts as efforts to improve our own defence rather than help the Asians defend themselves. [More…]
Government but its paramount concern has been to determine whether Australian security has been endangered, whether communist objectives have been advanced and what defence, measures should be taken to deter a possible threat. [More…]
More purposeful steps should be taken to acquire a deeper understanding of these countries and their problems and to participate with them in their search for greater co-operation, such as a search for a system of collective security which would obviate the need for heavy defence expenditure. [More…]
They seek to take away any substance that might be given to the Five Power defence arrangement by wanting to withdraw our limited military involvement in the region. [More…]
They would seek to bring our involvement with the South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty to an end and to convert the ANZUS Treaty to what they are pleased to call an instrument for peace and justice. [More…]
They would end our defence arranagements on which we and our allies rely. [More…]
Interpret full self government for Papua New Guinea as leaving with the Commonwealth of Australia final powers only in the matters of defence and external affairs which it will exercise with the fullest consultation with the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Honourable members will note that the Chief Minister referred to self government as leaving with the Commonwealth such powers as defence, internal security and external affairs. [More…]
In 1972-73, in addition to further .financial assistance for the building of the defence forces in Papua New Guinea, the Government proposes to spend approximately $14m on defence aid to certain developing countries in South East Asia. [More…]
Let me make it clear to the Committee that at the moment about $2Sm of the Australian taxpayers’ money is being spent on the defence resources in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 do not entirely accept this argument, because I believe that we could very well delegate our responsibilities for defence and, indeed, to an extent for foreign affairs, to the Administrator in Papua New Guinea, His Honour Mr Les Johnson. [More…]
Mr Michael Somare is now a defence spokesman. [More…]
J feel it would then be clearer that it would be the Papua New Guinea Government itself - Mr Michael Somare and his Cabinet - which would decide whether this money should be spent on defence. [More…]
But the Government of Papua New Guinea may prefer to spend some of it in another way, or it may consider that it needs more defence and spend more of the appropriation going through the Department of External Territories on defence. [More…]
The Nixon doctrine, as we all know, placed a very much greater emphasis on the need for countries to maintain to a much greater extent the responsibility for their own defence. [More…]
A division of responsibility exists between the defence of the Territories and the maintaining of law and order in the Territories and other forms of government. [More…]
I believe we have a responsibility to ensure that no section - especially the defence forces, which at the moment anyway are our direct responsibility - is placed in the position where it has a distinct advantage in the recruitment of personnel, as has occurred and does occur elsewhere. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will take note of this matter and give it serious consideration, because we do not want happening in New Guinea what has happened in so many African countries because of the elitism which has characterised defence forces. [More…]
Further, during my tenure of the portfolios of Navy and Air, I visited Darwin from 15th-19th March 1954, when I made tours of inspection of defence installations in the area, including the site for the new 11,000 foot main runway at Darwin Airport and Naval facilities. [More…]
Defence Standards Laboratories have held NATA registration as an approved laboratory since 1949. [More…]
I might say that this decision was agreed to by the Defence Forces Development Committee because it felt there were no other projects which should be displaced to make way for this proposal. [More…]
Under these housing agreements, a State was required, if requested by the Commonwealth, to set aside in a financial year an amount not exceeding 5 per cent of the loan funds allocated to its State housing authority for the construction of dwellings for letting to serving members of the defence forces. [More…]
The States are not now required to set aside any portion of the advances allocated to State housing authorities for the construction of homes for rental to serving members of the defence forces. [More…]
The suggestion that CMF men be eligible for the scheme had been vetoed by the committee drawn from the Treasury, Housing and Defence Departments. [More…]
However, one has to come to the defence of the honourable member for Diamond Valley in relation to a reflection that was cast upon him. [More…]
I heard the same view expressed the other day in regard to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
I believe that the House and the nation have a right to know whether there is a connection between the coincidence of the visit to Holland by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the shadow Minister for Defence, and the appearance of this propaganda inside Australia for another type of vessel. [More…]
The Minister for Defence himself has had no discussions with me in relation to any matters of defence and this is not unusual because, quite frankly, I do not think the Minister is informed of the situation himself. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence would well know, I have been to most countries in Europe where weapons systems are under consideration. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence would know, I visited Sweden, for example, to look at the Viggen aircraft. [More…]
Will the Minister for Defence deny that the Viggen has been under consideration by his Government? [More…]
Therefore the Minister ought to say why the shadow Minister for Defence, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Federal Parliament, ought not to have the opportunity to look at a weapons system of this kind. [More…]
The Minister for Defence suggests, apparently, that there was temerity on my part when I suggested that I ought to look at the question of the destroyer programme in this country. [More…]
I am determined as the shadow Minister for Defence - I expect at the end of this year to be in a position to have some final responsibility on this matter - to ensure that there is not a repetition of a situation in which a government can blindly enter into an agreement to cost the taxpayers of this country $125m and find after nearly 10 years that the cost has risen to $400m. [More…]
Let me speak about the DDL programme itself since this was the basis of the question that was directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The provision of 3 destroyers has been suggested by the Government, but the Minister for Defence is well aware that the final order will not be for 3 destroyers. [More…]
As I said this morning by way of interjection to the Minister for Defence, 1 wrote to the Prime Minister and raised this matter because the question of the expenses had been raised by the Minister for Defence in an extremely snide way. [More…]
So I tell the Minister for Defence and this Parliament that I went to look at the destroyer programme in Holland at great expense to myself and no expense to this Parliament or the taxpayers of Australia. [More…]
An assurance was also given to the Minister for the Navy and therefore I assume to the Minister for Defence that if the Dutch agreement to build ships was accepted, they would have been built in Australia. [More…]
Thirdly, the Minister for Defence has agreed that members of his own Department have already had an opportunity to keep themselves informed on the Dutch programme. [More…]
In addition, I had an opportunity to talk to the Dutch Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will be quite aware of the matter because he was a Minister at the. [More…]
If the Minister for Defence believes that I have usurped his authority or that of the Parliament he should explain to the House <why he feels that way. [More…]
First of all, it would have been normal courtesy to have informed me or the Department of Defence of the visit. [More…]
Can the Prime Minister advise me whether it is intended that before this Parliament terminates a state ment should be made to this House on the report of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits which was presented to this House on 18th May 1972, and will honourable members on both sides be given an opportunity to discuss this matter? [More…]
I think it was on 20th August that the Minister for Defence answered a question on this matter in the House. [More…]
This morning I was making inquiries to find out whether anything more had to be done, and I was informed that officials of the Department of Defence and the Treasury were considering the matter this afternoon. [More…]
Clause 5 of this Bill provides that the laws of the Commonwealth providing for benefits, advantages and assistance in respect of members of the defence forces who served during the war shall in the future apply, according to their tenor, in relation to Torres Strait Islands members. [More…]
It is important to the persons who will benefit therefrom and who will henceforth enjoy the same rights under the same legislation as all Australians who were members of the defence forces. [More…]
Yesterday I asked him whether a statement on the report of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits would be made to the House before it rises. [More…]
I left this chamber yesterday- I commenced making inquiries as to when we could expect a statement in the House relating to the defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]
Pursuant to section 14 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971, I present the twenty-fourth annual report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board on the operation of the Act for the year ended 30th June 1972, together with financial accounts. [More…]
We must see that adequate exploration work is going on in the petroleum industry in Australia, which is so important from a defence point of view and from a foreign exchange point of view. [More…]
I want to discuss some matters which are most important not only to the merchant navy of Australia but also to our defence. [More…]
A good argument can be made out to the effect that the defence equipment of shipping could be made more efficient by locating it on the merchant shipping. [More…]
He suggested that the Merchant Navy should be formed in such a way that it could be used as part of our defence forces in times of war. [More…]
I am interested in this question because the case is similar to many which came before the Joint Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]
The terms of reference required the Committee to look at the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act, not the Commonwealth Employees Compensation Act which a regular member of the Service comes under should he be injured in an accident which occurs not in war time. [More…]
We first received a request - I think it is wise to mention this date - on 16th April 1970 from the Foreign Minister of Cambodia in which he asked us to let Cambodia have items of military equipment that Australia could supply in order to ensure Cambodia’s defence. [More…]
There are a number of major topics in the defence context which deserve treatment in some detail. [More…]
This is unfortunate because this will probably be the last chance we get to discuss important defence issues before the election. [More…]
Recent debates on defence have not produced the quality which this House is capable of displaying in consideration of Australian security policy. [More…]
Last year’s debate on the defence estimates produced an excellent example of this with a searching and bipartisan dissection of the DDL destroyer commitment. [More…]
This is the sort of examination which has been all too rare in parliamentary examination of defence, and defence procurement in particular. [More…]
Defence procurement is no longer a highly technical matter which has to be left to the experts in the Services. [More…]
In allocating resources for competing demands from the Services and scrutinising the impact of defence decisions this Parliament must be paramount. [More…]
According to the Defence Report it has been decided not to allow the Australian Army to fall below a level of about 40,000, which would preserve its unique experience in tropical warfare gained in Vietnam. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has suggested that the Government has followed a policy for maximising the proportion of volunteers in the Army. [More…]
The growth of voluntary enlistment reinforces the Opposition’s case that it is possible to reorganise the Army into an all-volunteer Army of dimensions adequate for the defence of Australia. [More…]
Defence Report emphasises the need of the Services for more capital spending and that manpower and administrative costs will have to be curbed if this capital spending is to be achieved. [More…]
According to the Defence Report the civilian manpower level is not now expected to grow as quickly as in the last few years. [More…]
It is obvious from the Defence Report that the Department of Defence wants to finance new capital spending by holding down the growth of manpower and administrative costs. [More…]
The cost of future manpower, both civilian and permanent forces, seems to me to be very unrealistically projected in terms cf the S-year defence programme formulated by the Government. [More…]
The defence vote for the pay of servicemen and civilians is shown at $605m for 1972-73; this figure is projected forward by simply adding $5m for each of the subsequent years, so we wind up with a total of $625m in 1976-77. [More…]
I hope it will be possible for pay and administrative costs to be contained effectively in the terms announced rather baldly in the Defence Report. [More…]
Unfortunately there are grounds for scepticism about whether the huge capital spending indicated in the 5-year programme and the Defence Report can be financed by a redeployment of resources within the defence structure. [More…]
It will be a task that will test to the utmost the management skills of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I said a few moments ago that I believe that there had been an indication of some change on the part of the Department of Defence and that it was now much easier for the alternative government and therefore for myself, as the shadow Minister for Defence, to obtain information about important defence matters from the Department of Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has shown little inclination to follow this lead. [More…]
For example, it is monstrous that the alternative government is not supplied with basic intelligence information such as the material gathered by the Joint Intelligence Organisation in the Department of Defence. [More…]
Some day we will get round to a national approach to defence which does not make defence and the defence departments the preserve of one party or even one faction. [More…]
There is no evidence to suggest that back-bench members of the Government parties are any better informed on important defence issues than is the Opposition. [More…]
It is unlikely that defence will play a major role in the election campaign, although the Prime Minister still gives it some sort of priority in the Government’s list of the issues. [More…]
For this reason, the contributions to this estimates debate will be particularly important as reflecting the final attitudes of this Parliament on defence, which does not seem to be a goer in electoral terms. [More…]
As I said at the commencement of my speech in this important consideration of the defence estimates, there are a great many subjects with which one should have the opportunity to deal in a debate of this kind. [More…]
I doubt very much whether during this debate there will be any discussion of this important facet of Australia’s defence. [More…]
Only a few weeks ago, when I had the opportunity to speak to the ministerial statement on defence, which was one of the few such statements that have been made in the Parliament over the last 3 years, I said that it seemed incredible to me that the responsible Minister in this Parliament could speak to the House for 45 minutes - indeed, he was speaking not only to this House but also to the nation - without making one reference to the future of the CMF. [More…]
This might be an opportunity for him to do so, if the Minister for Defence is not prepared to consider the future of the CMF. [More…]
I believe that very grave disquiet exists in this country in relation to the Government’s attitude to what, after all, is one of the most important services in terms of the defence of Australia. [More…]
I do not want to repeat what I have said on other occasions about what would have happened to the defence forces of this country in, for example, 1939 had there not been a citizen military force from which sprang the cadre of officers, NCOs and enlisted men - the privates - who came forward and provided the basis for the 6th Division which was Australia’s first con.ribution to the 1939-45 conflict. [More…]
It alarms me that today, when there is dissatisfaction within the ranks of the CMF - I challenge the Minister for Defence to dispute what I have said in relation to the fall-off in the strength of the CMF - there has been a deterioration not only in the morale but also, I believe, in the equipment and manpower of the CMF. [More…]
But I assure the Minister for Defence that I intend to take every opportunity that is available to me on the public platform to express what I believe is the concern that is felt by most Australians - those who have some relation to defence issues in this country, and particularly those who have served on a voluntary basis in Australia’s Citizen Military Forces - that the Government should suggest that the CMF should be an arm of defence that can be used as an instrument for political purposes. [More…]
I believe that it is time either the Minister for the Army or, more particularly, the Minister for Defence, took the opportunity to make a statement to this Parliament in its dying hours, on what the Government considers should be the future of the CMF in Australia. [More…]
It is always very difficult to follow the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) on defence matters. [More…]
While I accept that defence is an area in which he is most concerned, I trust that he will forgive me if I do not have the same reliance on the attitude of the Party of which he is Deputy Leader. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition said that he would talk about aircraft construction and supply and other great matters of defence. [More…]
An article in ‘The Straits Times’, referring to Dr Goh Keng Swee, Singapore’s Defence Minister, reads in part as follows; [More…]
The defence agreement under which they operate is based on the principle that friendly foreign troops can help a nation preserve its integrity and independence, until the host nation is strong enough to withstand foreign encroachment. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition said that defence will not be an issue at the next election. [More…]
Wo talk about 40,000 men and about our defence preparedness, but I doubt very much, under our present defence organisation, whether we could by ourselves mount anything more than a holding situation on Portuguese Timor for 2 days. [More…]
We must reconstruct and re-structure our whole defence force. [More…]
He made a statement there in which he said that the Soviet Union was welcome in trade matters but he did not want to enter into defence arrangements. [More…]
There are many things I would like to say in this defence debate but the time limit of 10 minutes is absolutely ridiculous, as I have said many times. [More…]
It is impossible to talk on defence in that time. [More…]
defence policy of the Labor Party and the defence policy of the Government at this time and on such matters as collective security. [More…]
Defence is only one area- [More…]
I want to put forward an idea for public discussion that I believe would make a major contribution to world peace and humanity, to Australia’s relations with the rest of the world and to the morale and efficiency of our defence forces. [More…]
Having looked around the entire Western world at the availability of suitable types of ships as replacement destroyers for the Royal Australian Navy, and having been persuaded that the replacement of destroyers by ships of that type is absolutely vital to our defence requirements, the Government has tried to hit upon the solution which most nearly fits the Naval Staff’s requirements for our nation in view of our geography and other considerations. [More…]
I must admit that I was somewhat taken aback to learn, in a roundabout way through the Press, of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition’s secretive trip to Holland which unhappily coincided, though I am sure that it was without his knowledge, with a visit of a mission from the Department of the Navy and the Department of Defence with regard to the negotiations with the Dutch for the acquisition of one of the components we see as desirable for our DDL destroyers. [More…]
In a large country like the United States of America there is every possibility that the defence aspects of an electronics industry are ofl such a volume as to give viability to the industry to enable it to function and keep : up with its research and development and I so be an important part of the defence capacity of the nation. [More…]
We still regard our own electronics industry as an important adjunct to our defence requirements. [More…]
So I would suggest to the Committee that the continuation of a viable electronics industry in this nation is of defence significance. [More…]
This would possibly jeopardise the existence of a sophisticated industry of this kind which is of defence significance to us. [More…]
We are discussing a set of estimates which cover the entire field of defence expenditure. [More…]
I want to deal primarily with the defence aircraft industry which falls under the control of the Department of Supply. [More…]
It now appears that that scheme for rationalisation has completely disappeared without any real comment from the Minister concerned or the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), and a new scheme for a much more grandiose merger has come to the fore. [More…]
All of the incentives in the industry at the moment are for those persons who have skills which are vital to this defence industry to look for more secure areas of employment, even if it means transferring into grades in the Public Service to which they would be entitled to transfer but in which their specialist skills would be of no value. [More…]
It is reasonably well known that at the time of the entry into Australia of Fokker Friendship aricraft for the commercial airlines the Department of Civil Aviation suggested that a production line could be set up for this aircraft in the defence aircraft industry in Australia, and the Government refused to allow it. [More…]
It is well known that an Australian designed aircraft which was brought into being by an Australian company, the Victa aircraft company, is now being bought by the defence departments from a company in New Zealand which is manufacturing that aircraft because the Australian Government refused to give the necessary backing for its manufacture in Australia. [More…]
In the areas of basic defence - that is the back-up services which make defence possible - the Government, if it wished, could have taken action. [More…]
I believe that ‘procrastination’ is the operative word for planning in the Australian defence aircraft industry. [More…]
In speaking to the estimates for the Department of Defence I should like to state that I support the Australian Government’s policy, which is not one of isolation which apparently is the basis of the Australian Labor Party programme. [More…]
The ALP policy would tend to scrap those treaties and leave us without some of our major supporters in defence co-operation. [More…]
Therefore, this Government is rearranging its defence planning more along the lines of selfreliance than it used to be. [More…]
8m for defence co-operation with our nearest northern neighbour, Indonesia. [More…]
All this is part of the $20m programme over the next 3 or 4 years and this will help Indonesia in co-operating in the defence of these 2 countries. [More…]
I get a little sick and tired of supporters of the Government who repeatedly say that members of the Opposition are doing the wrong thing in the area of defence. [More…]
The Opposition has no access to intelligence of the Department of Defence, the Department of Supply or the 3 Service departments. [More…]
Whenever members of the Opposition have to speak on the issue of defence they do their own research, think the issues out for themselves and speak for themselves, unlike Ministers who have their answers to questions on notice prepared by public servants, as are their speeches. [More…]
How Government supporters after the Government has been in office for 23 years can say that it has a credible record in defence matters confounds me. [More…]
In any area the Liberal-Country Party Government and its predecessors - the United Australia Party Government, the Nationalist Party Government, and so on - have never cared 2 hoots about the defence of this country. [More…]
There has been no consistent defence policy since the last Labor government left office. [More…]
There was no consistent defence policy before it came into office. [More…]
The Labor Party took over the administration of this country during the war years when our defence organisation was a shambles. [More…]
It does not matter where you look, at equipment for the Services or the state of our defence industries, right across the board the Government has failed to plan adequately. [More…]
Because of the inconsistencies of its defence policy the Services have not known from one year to the next what ta defence policy will be. [More…]
The Government’s defence policies are determined purely and simply by current domestic political pressures. [More…]
Earlier this year the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) made a clown of himself by running through South East Asia trying to create an issue out of the Five Power Defence Arrangement. [More…]
Once again the Government is trying to raise the issue of defence in an election year in an attempt to save its hide. [More…]
It says that the Labor Party is not credible in the area of defence. [More…]
We would be better employed in making Australia a powerful country in the region in terms of independence in the manufacture of defence equipment and in its defence forces. [More…]
Why could this Government, which has been in office for 23 years, not have a defence organisation like that of Sweden and have an industrial back-up such as Sweden has? [More…]
That situation has come about purely and simply because of Sweden’s consistent defence policy. [More…]
Sweden has had an intelligent government sorting out its defence policy. [More…]
We have a ramshackle broken down excuse for a government that has allowed our defence industries to get into a shocking state. [More…]
We cannot have strong defence forces with morale in that state. [More…]
Again the Government will do something about defence in an attempt to save its miserable political hide. [More…]
At the time of the last election the Five Power Defence Arrangement was the big issue. [More…]
The Prime Minister of the time, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), came out with a policy almost identical to that of the Opposition; that is, based on making Australia self-sufficient in the area of defence. [More…]
This year the present Prime Minister was running around South East Asia trying to make something of the Five Power Defence Arrangement. [More…]
They have come to realise that in every area associated with defence the Government has failed. [More…]
That is what happens with the 5-year rolling defence programme; it gets a spurt on every 3 years. [More…]
There is just no planning and intelligence in the defence thinking of the Government. [More…]
They will not be sold on false issues such as defence and foreign policy. [More…]
They will not be fooled by the paranoic scare technique the Government uses by saying: ‘The Labor Party cannot be trusted with defence. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party wants to see strong, viable defence forces. [More…]
This Government claims to be credible in the area of defence. [More…]
In those years the Labor Governent consistently opposed, as the Labor Party now does, any attempt to build up our defence forces. [More…]
I can say from personal experience that the morale and state of equipment and size of our defence forces now are very much better than they were in 1949, contrary to what the honourable member for Blaxland implied. [More…]
The policy of the Labor Opposition now is that Australia’s defence frontier is her natural boundaries^ - the coast of Australia. [More…]
That has been said by the Opposition defence spokesman, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard). [More…]
I would like to say something about defence reorganisation. [More…]
The most important change we have had recently in our defence policy is the acceptance that it may be necessary in certain circumstances for us to act alone. [More…]
What we should do now is to see whether the organisation of the defence group of departments is suitable for this new role. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) and the Government are aware of the need for change. [More…]
In fact, I understand that the Secretary of the Department of Defence is at present overseas looking at other defence organisations. [More…]
The present structure of the defence group of departments was established when the Department of Defence was merely a sort of secretariat for 3 independent Services and it was possibly adequate for this very limited purpose. [More…]
Our Services provided contributions to the armed forces of other countries, and the co-ordination required in the Department of Defence was comparatively little. [More…]
Recently there has been an attempt to increase the role of the Department of Defence, and this I hasten to say is a highly desirable development; but the consequential changes in the top administration have not yet been made. [More…]
The difficulty of reorganistion stems from the fact that each of the Service boards of the 3 armed Services has independent statutory authority and the control of the Department of Defence over the 3 Service boards stems merely from a letter written by the then Prime Minister in 1958. [More…]
The present organisation works reasonably well in the provision of defence equipment because of the ultimate control of the Department of Defence over the Services estimates. [More…]
I am sure the first step must be to remove the statutory authority of the Service boards and transfer this authority to the Department of Defence. [More…]
But it must be quite clear that authority of the boards is subordinate to that of the Department of Defence. [More…]
If we transfer this authority to the Department of Defence we must see that the organisation there is capable of exercising this authority, and as the Department of Defence is at present constituted it quite clearly is not. [More…]
The first point is that the position of the Secretary of the Department of Defence is an anomalous one. [More…]
To use the words of the present Secretary, he ‘exercises the basic function of policy adviser to the Minister for Defence, joining with the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff, in respect of certain subjects’. [More…]
This is meant in no way as a criticism of the present Secretary of the Department of Defence, who is an able and distinguished public servant, but rather as a criticism of the administrative system which he has inherited. [More…]
If the Department of Defence is to accept overriding control of the present responsibilities of the 3 Service boards, as I am sure it must, we must set up a defence board to exercise these responsibilities. [More…]
I suggest that the defence board should be structured very much like the present Service boards, that is, presided over by the Minister, with one military member and a deputy for strategic operational and staff policies, one military member for personnel, another for maintenance and another for supply, with a civil secretary dealing with finance and departmental affairs. [More…]
Of course, the members of the defence board would have to be supported by integrated professional staffs. [More…]
A properly organised defence board would overcome the defect that the present Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff, the senior professional serviceman in Australia, has no operational authority. [More…]
In fact, no-one in Australia at the moment has overriding operational authority; except the GovernorGeneral, and he cannot exercise t. The operational control of the Services must be clearly established and must be vested in this new defence board. [More…]
The defence board would also overcome the great weaknesses in our personnel affairs. [More…]
The personnel member of the defence board, supported by an appropriate integrated Services staff, would do a great deal, I am sure, to achieve a better utilisation of manpower in the Services. [More…]
I welcome the establishment of such an organisation in the Department of Defence, but I am disturbed at the apparent policy - it may not be the policy; it only appears to be - of automatically appointing an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs as Director of the Joint Intelligence Organisation. [More…]
But this integration must begin at the top by a reorganisation of the Department of Defence. [More…]
But, ‘the old order changeth, yielding place to new’, and the organisation of the Department of Defence must be changed to meet our changing defence needs. [More…]
As I said at the outset of my speech, I am sure that the Minister for Defence is aware of these changing needs and is investigating the best way to meet them. [More…]
In the 16 or 17 years that 1 have been in this Parliament we have always been going to have a defence reorganisation. [More…]
It is a sort of permanent ‘Blue Hills’ or ‘Bellbird’ of the Government in the field of defence. [More…]
One of the most serious differences between our parties, of course, is in the points of view on where Australia’s defence frontiers lie. [More…]
I do not suppose the defence frontiers lie anywhere, but defence responsibilities certainly lie somewhere. [More…]
This afternoon we are discussing the defence estimates and we have a few minutes each. [More…]
What are the defence questions? [More…]
So, what are we attempting to do with our defence system? [More…]
Therefore, on the whole question of defence we should he turning our minds to ensuring that we obtain our money’s worth and that every serviceman who serves receives first class equipment, training and protection in his Service life and in his domestic life. [More…]
They hardly rate a mention in the Defence Report 1972’. [More…]
In chapter 2 of this afternoon’s deliberations I may be able to convince honourable members opposite that the proper and appropriate way to expand the defence forces of Australia is to give real attention, expansion and care to (he citizen forces of all 3 Services. [More…]
The only comment I have to make in regard to the speech just made by the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) is that he has further exposed the contempt which his pseudo Labor Party has for the defence of this country. [More…]
These are significant developments which are part of the overall review which is being undertaken in order to revitalise the CMF, to make it more interesting and attractive to young men and to encourage them to undertake parttime service in defence of this country. [More…]
Armies, like other elements of the defence forces, cannot be produced overnight. [More…]
Let me turn to the Labor Party’s so-called defence policy. [More…]
It is absurd to suppose that Australian military defence can be adequately undertaken with anything less than the structure of a division. [More…]
Does it want us to accept this state of stagnancy in our defence structure? [More…]
I should like to have something concrete stated by either the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) or the Minister for the Navy in regard to future orders to be placed with the Cockatoo naval dockyard. [More…]
This debate revolves around the proposed expenditure of $ 1,300m for defence as opposed to the amount of $l,200m which was appropriated last year. [More…]
In other words, there is to be an increase of $100m this year in the defence vote. [More…]
The right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) who for a time was Prime Minister of this country and for a briefer time Minister for Defence, said that in his view - I suppose as Minister for Defence he was speaking with the advice of experts - there was no immediate threat to Australia in the next 10 years. [More…]
Speaking in this fashion I leave myself open to a charge from the Government parties that 1 do not believe in the defence of this country and that I would sell this country out. [More…]
Many good men died in the 1939-45 war for a just cause - the defence of this country against the Japanese who wanted our mineral resources. [More…]
During the time I have been listening to the defence debates in this Parliament. [More…]
We have had some honourable members opposite say: ‘What do we want defence for. [More…]
We do not want defence of any sort’. [More…]
The honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) said: We do not want defence; all we want is economic and friendly relations with Indonesia and our other neighbours’. [More…]
Many honourable members on the Opposition side seem to think that because we cannot immediately identify an enemy about to arrive on our doorstep that we need no defence of any sort. [More…]
Defence is like insurance. [More…]
It is the same with defence. [More…]
We have to have defence. [More…]
One cannot suddenly turn around and say: ‘There is a threat so let us build up our defence forces’. [More…]
He said that we have no defence and that the Government has never told the nation anything. [More…]
Only a few weeks ago I announced a 5-year rolling defence programme. [More…]
They believe that there is no need for defence of any sort. [More…]
Australian industry has been gaining very considerably because it is a policy of this Government that we should devote more and more of Australian defence orders to Australian industry. [More…]
Today Australia spends 85.5 per cent of its total defence expenditure in Australia. [More…]
I would have liked to say much more on defence. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition chided me or the Government for the fact that there was no adequate opportunity to discuss defence matters. [More…]
We have had for the first time ever a White Paper on Defence. [More…]
Honourable members have had an opportunity during the Budget debate to raise defence matters. [More…]
I admit that the estimates debates are probably the worst means of discussing defence matters and really getting down to tin-tacks because inadequate time is allowed. [More…]
Not only the wives of TPI pensioners would be concerned with any alteration to the means test level of $5.1.50 a week; other classes of pensioners, such as people receiving defence forces retirement benefits and people in receipt of superannuation, also -would be concerned. [More…]
Today I wanted to speak for a second time on the estimates for the Department of Defence and the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) gagged me while I was in the process of speaking. [More…]
We devoted only 2 hours 38 minutes to the Defence estimates. [More…]
One of the pities of the last few years has been the way the Citizen Air Force, the Citizen Military Forces and the Citizen Naval Force have been more or less written out of the defence system. [More…]
This is an area in which the country could make a great advance towards fulfilling its defence needs economically. [More…]
This brings me to a discussion of the citizen forces in general and their relationship to the defence forces.Ibelieve that there should be another department, particularly in respect of the Army, to enable the citizen defence forces to develop into a corps of their own. [More…]
However, the Citizen Military Forces are a very important element of the Australian defence forces. [More…]
One of the serious errors in our defence planning of the last few years and particularly in the year under review has been the failure to appreciate what citizens can do in their amateur part time wayas part of the defence forces. [More…]
In the Navy there has been a move back to naval personnel of the reserve handling craft on their own account and I hope that in our defence planning we are coming to realise that the tremendous resources of the community that are available in both manpower and industrial reserves should be integrated with the Services. [More…]
In discussions in this place, whether at question time or during debates on defence, reference is made to the Army having so many men. [More…]
defence of Government policy and the efficacy of shipping arrangements against what he regards as the ratherjaundiced and unfair presentation of the case by the Australian Financial Review’. [More…]
Another angle which can be put on it is that any nation for its own defence needs an experienced and competent merchant marine. [More…]
of the Social Services Act 1947-1972, a pension or allowance in respect of a child dependant upon the earnings of the employee, a payment other than that part of a pension not attributable to contributions for the pension paid by the employee under the Superannuation Act 1922-1971, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971 or the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948-1968, deferred pay, a payment under section 74 of the Public Service Act 1922-1972 or under section 8 of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1943-1968, and payments for public holidays, annual leave or long service leave under any other law, award, determination or agreement, are not payments, allowances or benefits to which regard shall be had under sub-section (1.) [More…]
of this section, entitled to weekly payments in accordance with either of the last two preceding sections and by reason of his retirement on the ground of invalidity caused by injury or disease, is also entitled to a pension under the Superannuation Act 1922-1971, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948- 197 L or the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948-1968, the liability for the weekly payments shall, if the employee so elects, but subject to the regulations, be redeemed by the payment of a lump sum of such amount as is determined by the Commissioner, having regard to the nature of the injury and the age and occupation of the employee at the date of the injury, and that lump sum shall be paid to the Commissioner for the benefit of the employee. [More…]
If the proposed takeover is judged to be not against the national interest on this basis, the following additional criteria will also be taken into account: Whether, after the takeover, the firm concerned could be expected to follow practices consistent with Australia’s interest in matters such as exports, imports, local processing of materials produced, research and development, and industrial relations, including employee protection; and whether the takeover would have adverse effects on the Government’s defence objectives, environmental protection or regional development. [More…]
If any person fails to undergo such an examination, no damages are recoverable from the Commission in respect of the injury unless the failure to undergo the examination was reasonable in the circumstances, or the Commission was not prejudiced in its defence. [More…]
It is very important from every point of view, not excluding defence, that we should have in this country many people proficient in Asian languages. [More…]
Has the Government rejected the new defence forces retirement benefits scheme recommended by the Jess Committee? [More…]
Would rejection of the scheme represent a flagrant breach of an undertaking given by the Minister for Defence on 20th September that legislation to implement the new scheme would be introduced next year and made retrospective to 17th October? [More…]
Is it a fact that 18 acres of land were resumed by the Army for defence purposes from the Shire of Belmont in Western Australia and subsequently released by the Minister for the Army, for which I thank him? [More…]
1 move: That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the Deputy Leader of the Opposition moving that this House supports all recommendations of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation which afford greater benefits than those already in effect. [More…]
The first question was on the Government’s attitude in relation to the report of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation, known as the Jess report, on DFRB matters generally. [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess), I think the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett) and myself have asked questions of the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) and the Prime Minister on this subject. [More…]
Let the Minister for Defence either deny or confirm what I have said in this respect. [More…]
I believe that the Minister for Defence nas an obligation to do this, because it was the Minister for Defence who in this Parliament answered this question by the honourable member for North Sydney (Mr Graham): [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence any information for this House relating to the Government’s policy to continue to review and improve the conditions of service in the armed forces? [More…]
In the course of his very long answer the Minister for Defence had this to say: [More…]
We have had before us the report of the Jess Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
At this point the Minister for Defence was interrupted but in conclusion he said: . [More…]
I assure the Minister for Defence that this is not the case today. [More…]
If the Minister for Defence reads some of the submissions that were made by responsible members of the armed forces he will agree with the decisions of the Jess Committee. [More…]
It has given every indication when questions have been asked of the Minister for Defence and the Prime Minister that some action would be taken on this matter. [More…]
It is the responsibility of the Minister for Defence to indicate to the Parliament this morning the real position in relation to this matter. [More…]
Any honourable member who represents an area in which there is a substantial defence establishment, such as in my electorate, or an area such as Fabian Sweeney has in Townsville, is vitally concerned with this matter. [More…]
We should not allow ourselves to be put off because Cabinet has been influenced by a powerful, manipulative Public Service which is opposed to the recommendations of the Jess Committee solely, reportedly, because they would provide better retirement benefits for members of the defence Services than are available to public servants. [More…]
I have no doubt whatsoever that that statement will detail additional benefits under the defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]
What I want presented to this House is not the statement to which the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has just referred but the Bill. [More…]
This move by the Opposition for the suspension of Standing Orders to discuss and vote on the report of the Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation places Government members of the Committee in particular in an awkward predicament. [More…]
Finally, I accept what the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has said. [More…]
Mr BARNARD (Bass)- I wish to give the House an assurance that the Opposition will not require a vote to be taken on this motion because the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has given an assurance that a statement will be made on the defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]
He was prepared to strike out responsibly in defence of the public’s right. [More…]
The speeches of the honourable member for Prospect and the honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun) remind me of a statement by a prominent politician in the United Kingdom who is quoted as saying that an army general did not necessarily make the best Minister for Defence, and a doctor not necessarily the best Minister for Health. [More…]
He seemed to include in it about 4 kinds of national interest, some of which seem to be major, some of which seem to be comparatively minor and many of which seem to be merely afterthoughts to pay deference to such things as regional development, defence strategy and environmental protection. [More…]
I do not know whether everybody realises that the annual premiums payable in the field of insurance other than life insurance are nearly as great as the Australian defence bill - something in excess of $1,1 00m. [More…]
It must be considered whether the takeovers would have adverse effects on Australia’s defence, environmental protection and regional development. [More…]
Anyone would have thought that he was the one presenting the case in defence of the action taken against the company. [More…]
In the case of tankers, where the oil or oily mixture is not a discharge from the machinery space bilges of the tanker it is a legitimate defence if the discharge was made when the tanker was more than 50 miles from the nearest land. [More…]
The various factions of the Communist Party, the Australia Party, the Australian Labor Party, the Defence of Government Schools, the Socialist Youth Alliance, Workers’ Action, the Builders Labourers’ Federation, the New South Wales Teachers’ Federation - all these are committed to radical change of our present society and its institutions and standards. [More…]
Labor Party, the Australia Party and the Council for the Defence of Government Schools. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will recall that some time ago 1 asked him about the possibility of introducing an efficiency or long service decoration for members of the regular Services. [More…]
by leave - I am now able to inform the House of the outcome of the Government’s consideration of the report of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation tabled in the House on 18th May 1972 by the Chairman of the Committee, the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess). [More…]
It commenced in 1948 after an inquiry by an interdepartmental committee under the chairmanship of the Honourable J. J. Dedman, then Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Government is attracted to the concept of a simple, comprehensible scheme as outlined by the Jess Committee, but, in a letter to the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbarn), the Committee expressed the strong opinion that if any of the Committee’s recommendations were detrimental to any section of existing contributors, special short term arrangements should be made to ensure that no detriment occurred. [More…]
The Government accepted this view and on 20th September last the Minister for Defence announced that no-one would be disadvantaged by participating in the new scheme, that everybody would have a right by election to ensure that by participating he would not be disadvantaged. [More…]
The Jess Committee in a letter to the Minister for Defence recommended that these officers, in addition to receiving the surplus of their contributions above 5i per cent of salary, should be allowed to purchase back notional service to bring the pension they would be contributing for under the Jess scheme up to the level for which they were contributing under the post-1959 scheme. [More…]
We have also given careful consideration to the Committee’s recommendation that the DFRB scheme be administered by the Department of Defence and that the Minister for Defence should be the responsible Minister. [More…]
Defence Forces Retirement Benefits - ‘Ministerial statement, 26th October 1972. [More…]
Probably the most remarkable statement made by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) relating to a remarkable chain of events was the one upon which he concluded when he referred to 3 honourable members on the Government side, ignoring completely the fact that the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation was an all-party committee, a joint select committee of the Parliament of which my distinguished colleague the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) was Deputy Chairman. [More…]
At least the Prime Minister, the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) have caved in to a remarkable extent. [More…]
That the present Defence Forces Retirement Benefits legislation (referred to hereafter as the DFRB legislation) be repealed and a new scheme introduced without delay. [More…]
The most remarkable feature of this meeting appears to have been a monumental climb-down by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
As I pointed out yesterday, the Minister for Defence gave a clear commitment in the Parliament on 20th September to introduce what he described as the Jess scheme and make it retrospective to 1st October. [More…]
Yet when it came to the crunch, the Minister for Defence engaged in what can only be described as a sell-out of Australia’s 80,000 servicemen. [More…]
Servicemen will be able to draw their own conclusions about the peculiar behaviour of the Minister for Defence and assess the genuineness of his commitment to improving the conditions of service. [More…]
I thank the House and the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I would like to refer to the history of the investigation of the Joint Select Committee of this Parliament into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
The Minister for Defence and the Prime Minister may like to claim that they are responsible for solving the problem but there is a repetition of the crisis that developed in this Parliament as far back as 1970. [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe and the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) will recall the Minister for Defence was not interested in the proposal at that time - that in 1970 in reply to a statement on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund I moved a motion in this House to set up a joint select committee of the Parliament to investigate the Fund. [More…]
As the shadow Minister for Defence in this Parliament I had accepted the responsibility of talking to servicemen throughout the length and breadth of the country. [More…]
Army and all-volunteer defence forces. [More…]
To achieve that end it was necessary to do something about the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
1 want to say now quite clearly and unequivocally to the servicemen of this country that I confidently believe that the Minister for Defence will not have an opportunity to introduce legislation on this matter into the Parliament. [More…]
As an instruction to the Government that it should move immediately to accept the recommendations of the Joint Select Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation I move: [More…]
That all words after That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: this House is of the opinion that all the recommendations of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation should be adopted but that accrued rights should be preserved where they are more advantageous than the recommendations of the Committee. [More…]
I want to start by saying that 1 am sure that the Prime Minister did not in any way intend to reflect on the members of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation whom he did not mention. [More…]
I give credit to the Prune Minister and to the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) for having agreed that a statement would be made. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, I do not retract one statement of the report of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]
This person will not check the whole scheme; he will check whether the recommendations of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation Committee can be carried out without detriment to the servicemen involved. [More…]
1 believe that DFRB matters should be in the hands of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I think that Defence would handle it capably and to the benefit of the servicemen I would like to make some comment on other factors. [More…]
But in my opinion, if a man is invalided in his service to the Commonwealth in the defence forces and is in receipt of such a benefit, he should not be subjected to a means test. [More…]
As Chairman of the Committee and as a Government supporter I am not impressed one iota with the support that this scheme has been given by the Department of Defence whose, job it is to stand and speak on behalf of the defence forces. [More…]
In my opinion, in any Cabinet discussions or any meetings with Treasury officials, representatives of the Department of Defence, are there to represent the views of the services and of the soldiery from wherever they come. [More…]
I should like to suggest that we should and will expect in the future a much stronger stand by the Defence Minister on behalf of the servicemen when it comes to a fight with the Department of the Treasury or whatever other factors may be involved. [More…]
Indeed, I question what the Departments of Defence and Treasury have been doing in respect to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund over the period from May, when we introduced our final report until now, when it is almost November. [More…]
The Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation was set up by a resolution of the House on 2nd September 1970. [More…]
Since the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) has mentioned some political aspects related to this matter, let me recall to honourable gentlemen that this Committee would never have been established at all had my Deputy, the honourable member for Bass (Mr Barnard), not moved on 9th June 1970 as an amendment to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill then being debated in the House that: whilst not opposing the provisions of the Bill, the House is of opinion that a Joint Committee of senators and members of the House of Representatives should be appointed to investigate and report on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
In view of the political comments that the honourable member for LaTrobe has made, he knows that the same fate befalls him under any Liberal government because he has spoken in favour of existing and former members of the Forces and their benefits under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
We moved an amendment to the Defence Forces. [More…]
The Opposition appointed to the Committee its Deputy Leader, the honourable member for Bass, who will be the next Minister for Defence, and the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), who will be the next Treasurer. [More…]
Only the income tax legislation is more complicated than the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
The Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act is usually amended right at the end of a session when it is impossible for honourable members to read the amendments and understand what differences they make to the legislation or to consult people outside the Parliament in the Services or in the Public Service. [More…]
On Tuesday the Minister for Defence gave me a reply to an annual question I have been putting on the notice paper about the number of resignations from the various armed forces. [More…]
by leave - For the information of honourable members I present a report on the fourth quinquennial investigation as at 30th June 1969 into the state of sufficiency of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
As announced by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) in his statement on defence forces retirement benefits, I have received from the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board, in accordance with section 22(4) of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act, a report on the results of the fourth quinquirnial Investigation of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund for the period 1st July 1964 to 30th June 1969. [More…]
In the circumstances I am asking the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board to take into account the changed situation and submit a further report. [More…]
That Act created the Commonwealth offence of hi jacking in respect of aircraft engaged in interstate flights, aircraft, including defence aircraft, owned by the Commonwealth and foreign aircraft that were engaged in a flight ending in or commencing in Australia. [More…]
These other circumstances are: (a) the hijacking of an aircraft on a flight in the course of trade and commerce with other countries or among the States or on a flight within a territory, between two territories or between a State and a territory; (b) the hijacking of a Commonwealth aircraft, including a defence aircraft; (c) the hijacking of an aircraft of the government of a foreign country in Australia or on a flight commencing or ending in Australia; and (d) the hijacking of an aircraft outside Australia by an Australian citizen. [More…]
It provides for an extension of an armed forces base and facilities at Townsville in that part of Australia which is vital to our defence. [More…]
During the war, from 1940 onwards, when the Commonwealth became closely associated with Townsville, that centre was one of the most active areas in Australia in terms of attack and defence. [More…]
For avoidance of doubt, it is by this Act declared that consequent upon the enactment of the Native Members of the Forces Benefit Act 1972, the laws of the Commonwealth providing for benefits, advantages and assistance in respect of members of the Defence Forces who served during the war apply, according to their tenor, in relation to Torres Strait Island members. [More…]
1 have said that the first priority in this nation is defence. [More…]
1 priority is defence. [More…]
The honourable member for Mallee (Sir Winton Turnbull) talked about defence. [More…]
If a country does not have fuel, it has no defence. [More…]
I heard the honourable member for Mallee (Sir Winton Turnbull) refer earlier to defence. [More…]
Primary energy resources are necessary to develop our country, to provide our manufactured goods and to supply our defence forces. [More…]
Since the corresponding occasion 3 years ago there have been 2 changes in the positions of Treasurer, Attorney-General and Ministers of Health, Labour and National Service, Immigration, Navy and Army and 3 changes in the portfolios of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Education and Science. [More…]
Consideration was given to this matter in 1970 by the Attorney-General’s Department and the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Treasury and Defence, and the Public Service Board. [More…]
Test series 1970: Defence Standards Laboratories Report AWTSC No. [More…]
Test series 1971: Defence Standards Laboratories, Report AWTSC No. [More…]
Test series 1970: Defence Standards Laboraories, Report AWTSC No. [More…]
Test series 1971: Defence Standards Laboratories, Report AWTSC No. [More…]
Fallout from the 1972 series will be published in Defence Standards Laboratories Report AWTSC No. [More…]
Test series 1969-70: Defence Standards Laboratories 1970: Report AWTSC No. [More…]
Results from the 1971 series of test will be published in Defence Standards Laboratories Report AWTSC No. [More…]
One of the most unsavoury aspects of the Minister for Defence and the [More…]
Lloyd affair has been the involvement of the Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Arthur Tange. [More…]
My Department, together with the Department of Defence and the Parliamentary Counsel, has been working for some time, on, but has not yet submitted proposals relating to, a draft Royal Warrant which would provide for proposed Australian regulations for submission to The Queen. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
My Government will continue to co-operate with all other parties in such arrangements to advance the concept known as the ‘Guam Doctrine’ designed by President Nixon to help all countries in our region to develop their own defence capabilities. [More…]
My advisers believe that the newly emerging situation in our region involves fundamental changes in the nature and purpose of Australia’s defence forces. [More…]
Legislation will be introduced to implement the Report of the Joint Select Parliamentary Committee on retirement benefits; to provide improved re-settlement benefits; and to appoint an Ombudsman for the Defence Forces. [More…]
The Government has undertaken a reorganisation and modernisation of the administration of the Defence Group of Departments. [More…]
In defence procurement, emphasis will be given to placing orders with Australian industries. [More…]
Determined as they are to maintain strong defence forces, my advisers are deeply aware that the basic strength and welfare of the nation depends on Australia’s ability to develop the skills and talents of her people. [More…]
Legislation will also be introduced to reform the system of War Service Homes, which will be known henceforth as Defence Service Homes. [More…]
He served as Minister in charge of war service homes from 1934 to 1936, as Minister for Defence from 1937 to 1938, as Minister for Civil Aviation from 1938 to 1939 and as Postmaster-General and Minister for Health from March 1940 to October 1940. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether the Government, in considering proposed changes to the border between this country and Papua New Guinea, has taken into account the significance to Australia of the great North East Channel particularly in relation to defence and also trade and shipping. [More…]
The defence of Australia is certainly involved in transit of the Torres Strait; so also is the defence of Australia’s neighbour, Papua New Guinea, which I expect will be independent within the lifetime of this Parliament. [More…]
It ought to be possible for these 2 neighbouring countries, particularly in the light of their long association ex tending throughout this century, to achieve a border which will ensure that this transit with its defence significance is available to both countries. [More…]
However, under a special provision, a member of the defence forces serving in a war zone outside Australia, who is under 21 years of age, is entitled to vote at a Federal election. [More…]
The first revaluation of the Australian currency was carried out after discussions between 3 Ministers - the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), the Treasurer (Mr Crean) and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
The Government has ended military aid to South Vietnam and the Khmer Republic even though the present Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Bryant) are on record as having recognised the aggression against both countries. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has confirmed that what the Labor Party conference dictates in July the Prime Minister will pursue and follow. [More…]
I wish to advise the House of some decisions that have been taken in respect of certain installations with defence implications which have at one time or another been established in Australia following an approach to the Australian Government by the United States. [More…]
We must, however, insist on seeking renegotiation of certain treaties where this is necessary to obviate the complete exclusion of Australia from any effective control over a defence installation on Australian soil or to obviate any possibility that Australia could be involved in war - and a nuclear war at that - without itself having any power of decision. [More…]
There are other installations which are related to defence. [More…]
Information so obtained has defence and civilian application in the study of ionospheric and auroral disturbances in the upper atmosphere. [More…]
These are known as the Joint Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, and the Joint Defence Space Communications Station at Nurrungar near Woomera in South Australia. [More…]
Defence co-operation cannot be conducted on any other basis. [More…]
With the exception of the very few people directly associated with the central execution and control of the defence programmes of Australia and the United States, no person will have greater access. [More…]
Honourable members will recognise that these installations are defence projects. [More…]
My concern has been to ensure not only that these installations do not conflict with our defence interests, but also that they contribute specifically to the improvement and development of Australia’s defence system. [More…]
When I go there, I shall further discuss these and other aspects of management and control of the installations with the United States Defence Secretary and his advisers. [More…]
Except with the express consent of the Australian Government, the station will not be used for purposes other than purposes of defence communication, and appropriate Australian authorities nominated by the Australian Government shall at all times have access to the station. [More…]
United States Defence Installations in Australia - Ministerial Statement, 28 February 1973. [More…]
to highlight another item of the Government’s programme - that relating to defence. [More…]
For years in this House members of the former Government said: ‘You cannot trust the Australian Labor Party with Australia’s defence’. [More…]
Yet we heard again in the GovernorGeneral’s Speech yesterday the Government’s enunciation of its plans to develop Australia’s defence forces. [More…]
The Government intends, along with that, to develop Australia’s defence industries. [More…]
The last Government allowed all of our defence industries to lapse into a state of decay. [More…]
Our shipbuilding was virtually non-existent in the defence area. [More…]
Our aircraft industries are falling to pieces and a defence electronic industry is also non-existent. [More…]
The Government intends to carry out this programme very quickly so that it can save this Industry, halt the massive brain drain of people who are leaving it and going overseas and provide what is really the basis of defence - that is, an industrial backup. [More…]
Again, in the area of defence elec tronics the Government intends to do the same thing by re-invigorating this industry. [More…]
We have heard all this talk - the shibboleths that the Liberals have dragged up over the years and which kept them in office for 23 years - about how one cannot trust the Labor Party with Defence. [More…]
The honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) spoke about defence. [More…]
I wonder what he feels about the defence we may need in the years ahead. [More…]
We will not decide what form our defence will take. [More…]
I believe that this Government has taken all the sinew and muscle out of our defence system which has been built up over the last 10 years. [More…]
There are indications already that in the next Budget the defence vote will be about $80m less than it was in the last Budget. [More…]
whole campaign was built on cutting down the sinews and muscle of America’s defence system and building up a welfare ethic so that everybody gets something for nothing. [More…]
This is in the area of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
Here the Government has started out by asking itself the question: ‘What can we do to weaken Australia’s defence forces, her security and her alliances with her traditional allies?’ [More…]
Of course it is an expensive programme but defence is expensive and half measures are no good. [More…]
Because of the defence environment in which we exist, the Liberal Party gave this programme the highest of all priorities. [More…]
As a responsible government we had a policy in the field of intelligence that, where national security was involved we did not confirm or deny any speculation about defence installations. [More…]
But now the present Prime Minister is rushing in to try to curry favour with some members of the, Press and Labor’s left wing by making security leaks and disclosures about Australia’s defence installations, even though he later admitted that some of the information obtained was extremely useful to Australia. [More…]
Now pressure is being brought to bear on the Government for a further disclosure of defence secrets - this time concerning the joint Australian-American bases. [More…]
The reorganisation of the defence Services is one with which I am basically in agreement and in fact I had written to the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) suggesting to him a reorganisation along fairly similar lines to that undertaken by the present Government. [More…]
‘It’s time’ has become a time bomb which has exploded and we are now contemplating the wreckage of our foreign affairs and defence policies. [More…]
He spoke and always does seem to speak in terms which confuse defence and offence. [More…]
You would know, Mr Deputy Speaker, as the honourable gentleman would know, that last year $ 1,300m of taxpayers’ money was spent on defence. [More…]
It seems to me that all he has ever said on the question of defence is that, without any cause or reason at all, the [More…]
In the area of defence and in the area of selling our country these people still have not learned that we have dignity as a nation and we do not have to drag along at somebody else’s coat tails. [More…]
In the short time that the Government has been in office the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) - he has numerous other portfolios but I will confine my description of him to that - celebrated the signing of the first commercial sale of the Nomad aircraft. [More…]
This would give benefit to Australia from the point of view of defence capacity. [More…]
The statement made tonight by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) completely exposed how insupportable this approach had been for many years in the past. [More…]
He detailed how bases in the central part of Australia could not justify the extreme status to which they had been elevated in security classification to the point where it seems - one clearly interprets this from the statement of the Minister for Defence - that the current Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) had not been aware of the basis on which these bases operated and had to wait until this Government was appointed before he could receive his first briefing on their purposes. [More…]
What he was saying is this: ‘Is it not true that there are papers properly classified as secret or top secret - papers which deal with defence matters, foreign policy matters and matters of sensitivity of that kind? [More…]
Equally, we will not stand by passively and watch the Prime Minister and the Government eroding our defence capacity, our relations with trusted and valued allies, our international reputation and our fundamental democratic institutions. [More…]
On 5th February the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) repeated the policy promise that the Government had decided to honour the full terms of the Five Power Arrangements and that this had been confirmed to Lord Carrington, British Defence Minister, on his visit to Australia. [More…]
On 5th February 1973 the Minister for Defence said that he had always indicated that there would be a need for some continuing Australian logistic and training assistance in the area after the withdrawal of the battalion and battery. [More…]
The statement by the Minister for Defence yesterday, in answer to a question, is at variance with that statement of the Prime Minister. [More…]
The very next day it was reported that Left wing Labor members of the Parliament wanted to challenge the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence about the Army support force to remain in Singapore. [More…]
He said that this electronics intelligence unit had been a major factor in the Whitlam Government’s decision to retain between SOO and 600 defence personnel in Singapore despite the withdrawal of the Austraiian battalion. [More…]
That Defence officials were understood to have told the Government it was not possible to replace the Singapore intelligence unit by using alternative sites until 1975; that the unit had 160 personnel; that it had 10 New Zealanders in its ranks. [More…]
The Council endorsed a motion from its leftwing faction which ‘noted with regret’ statements by the Minister for Defence ‘concerning the retention of a large number of support troops in Singapore’. [More…]
The Minister for Defence said on 12th February that he had never put any figure on the number of troops who were to remain. [More…]
Are we to assume that the Prime Minister said ‘500 to 600’ without consultation with the Minister for Defence? [More…]
This was a clear attempt by the Minister for Defence to dilute the commitment of the Prime Minister. [More…]
He then gave the selected journalists in his room classified security information about an Australian defence intelligence system which is regarded by defence experts as critical to this nation’s defence requirements. [More…]
Minister has revealed the existence of a defence intelligence network and has claimed the troops will be kept in Singapore in order to disguise them’. [More…]
Do you still say that Dr Cairns’ foreign policy and defence statements are acceptable to you? [More…]
Did you give any undertaking to Lord Carrington, British Secretary of State for Defence, which would be negated by your actions? [More…]
Or Cairns’ foreign policy and defence statements are acceptable to you?’ [More…]
Did you give any undertaking to ‘Lord Carrington, British Secretary of State for Defence, which would be negated by your actions? [More…]
Yesterday the Minister for Defence told the House that the Government will bring another 180 troops home by the end of this year, in addition to the battalion and the battery. [More…]
The Minister for Overseas Trade and Minister for Secondary Industry could not agree to this decision of the Minister, for Defence. [More…]
This is of great importance to us and our defence obligation. [More…]
Now we have a Prime Minister providing information directly bearing on our defence intelligence system, but not on the basis of ‘need to know’, about which he was so pious yesterday in this House. [More…]
We have the situation in which our allies have to wait for the all-powerful Labor Conference to instruct the Prime Minister how this country will act in relation to defence policy. [More…]
As the defence spokesman for the Australian Labor Party when it was in Opposition, I indicated that I believed that facilities ought to be provided for regular exercises in our region. [More…]
Briefly, the first is to cooperate with the other nations involved in the Arrangements in the field of defence in accordance with each nation’s respective national policy. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition pointed out, I recently held extensive talks with the British Minister for Defence, Lord Carrington, during which this Government’s attitude to the Five Power Arrangements was fully explained. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon regards himself as an expert on defence. [More…]
He knew nothing about it when he was the Deputy Prime Minister, despite the fact that the then Minister for Defence, Mr Fairbairn, then did know about it. [More…]
That is what the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence said the other day. [More…]
The Minister for Defence, of all people, was proclaiming the power of the backroom boys of the Labor Party over the Government’s defence policy. [More…]
What he did in that ham-fisted way was to deny a substantial part of Malaysia the security to which Malaysia as a member of the Five Power Defence Arrangements was entitled. [More…]
When he got to London he was asked about the possibility of conflict between Asian countries in terms of the Five Power Defence Arrangements. [More…]
It is not the style that Australia adopts under the new Government led by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), who has been overseas, and by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), and it is not the style that any responsible country should adopt. [More…]
The next Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, in one of his more memorable remarks in an interview in Indonesia on 12th June 1972 said the Five Power Defence Arrangements did not really matter because it is only an obligation to consult and it doesn’t take us any further’. [More…]
The Five Power Defence Arrangements are a consultation mechanism. [More…]
Prime Minister McMahon at that stage made a most remarkable observation on the meaning and significance of the Five Power Defence Arrangements He said: [More…]
Let us get back to the one correct statement that former Prime Minister McMahon made - that the Five Power Defence Arrangements are a mechanism of consultation. [More…]
I quote from a statement by a former Minister for Defence following talks in London in 1971. [More…]
I think what we have to get down to is whether the efficacy of the Five Power Defence Arrange- [ ments is dependent upon having a handful of people in Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
What an extraordinary indictment it is of a defence policy when half of the fighter force of Australia is situated thousands of miles away from Australia. [More…]
In the event of a crisis, and the countries of this area were either hostile or neutral, we could never get these aircraft back to Australia to carry put their basic function, the defence of the Australian continent. [More…]
It is fundamental to the Labor Party’s approach to defence that not only must we be able to defend ourselves, but we must be, seen to be able to defend ourselves, Unless we are capable of securing Australian soil, notions of forward defence and of commitments to other countries north of us are a complete nonsense. [More…]
us look at the previous Government’s record in defence. [More…]
The Defence Review that was brought down by the previous Government last year stated explicitly that our involvement in Vietnam had weakened Australia’s defence position. [More…]
I quote from page 52 paragraph 26 of the Defence Review. [More…]
Again I refer to the Defence Review brought down by the Government in the last Parliament. [More…]
The Defence Review very profoundly pointed out that 2.000 nautical miles from Sydney would take us to the northern part of Australia and parts of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In the event of a crisis, on the basis of the previous Government’s attitude towards defence, we would not at any stage have been capable of undertaking and honouring our commitment. [More…]
We are turning our attention wholeheartedly to developing an Australian defence force which has as its primary objective the security of Australian soil. [More…]
On the basis of the security of Australian, soil our defence force will have the mobility and flexibility to assist any allies with whom we have commitments. [More…]
The shadow Minister for Defence says: ‘Let’s spill*. [More…]
There is a great deal of difference in security information on the part of public servants and people who are involved in the defence mechanism. [More…]
Except with the express consent of the Australian Government, the station will not be used for purposes other than purposes for defence communication, and appropriate Australian authorities nominated by the Australian Government shall at all times have access to the station. [More…]
Referred to in Article 3 - connoted no more than consultation and was not intended to establish Australian control over use of the station nor to imply any Government of Australia design to restrict at any time United States Government use of the station for defence communications including, for example, communications for polaris submarines. [More…]
The Minister for Defence who spoke earlier made the most pathetic attempt that I have ever heard a Minister make in my 17 years in this House to answer these charges made by the Opposition. [More…]
The only answer that the Minister for Defence would give us to the very well made and searching accusations of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) about undesirable disclosures by the Prime Minister was that everybody knew about this. [More…]
If this was so unexceptionable and so well known, why did the Prime Minister or the Minister for Defence - I am not sure who it was but I am reliably informed that this happened - reissue the D notice imposing a voluntary security restraint on the Australian Press and other media in relation to this matter? [More…]
One of them reissued the D notice and yet the Minister for Defence said that this was unexceptionable because everybody knew about it. [More…]
Yet the first time that the new Australian Government, and important people in it - the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence - get their sticky fingers on it we get disclosure. [More…]
It has been suggested that it came from the office of the Minister for Defence and not from a career public servant, one of those people whom in a way he has brought into question by bandying around this group of 5,700 people. [More…]
How many more defence secrets will be . [More…]
Minister for Defence on this issue stands up. [More…]
Let me go through some of the events which have led us to this serious charge which the Government has to answer, namely the subordination of the vital defence interests of the Australian nation to the claims of domestic party pressures from an ideologically motivated, unrepresentative and unelected junta. [More…]
Let me take the House through the events relating to the Five Power Arrangements for which the Minister for Defence was unable to give any explanation, and to Australian forces in Singapore. [More…]
He would want to know where the Government stood Apparently without consulting any of their colleagues the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence decided, no doubt after taking advice from the Departments of Defence and Foreign Affairs, that it was in the defence interests of Australia to leave the logistics support force in Singapore. [More…]
In the light of subsequent events I want to emphasise that this was a decision taken on defence grounds and in the best interests of the security of the nation. [More…]
I pledged on behalf of the Opposition in a statement at the time that we would support the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence in the fight that the Prime Minister obviously had on his hands against his left wing colleagues both in the Parliament and in the Party outside. [More…]
The Minister for Defence let it be known that, in acordance with this decision, 900 men would be left in Singapore. [More…]
At this point, defence considerations and the security of the country, which had been rapidly diminishing in importance anyway in the minds of members of the Government in their approach to this question, completely disappeared. [More…]
I refer to the incident in which the Prime Minister deliberately leaked defence secrets to the Press of this country, not because it was in the interests’ of Australia - as I said earlier, I believe that he knew it was not - but in the hope of creating a situation which would ease the pressure from his own left wing. [More…]
A decision made by the Government, announced after due consideration, and after taking advice from the Department of Defence can, and probably will, be reversed by a beer swilling, floral shirted bunch of new leftists in some sleezy Surfers Paradise pub- [More…]
Defence co-operation cannot be conducted on any other basis. [More…]
We believe that it is quite improper that any other country should operate a defence unit in our country unless we share in the management of it. [More…]
We do not believe that we should operate a defence unit in another country unless that other country shares in the management of it. [More…]
It is remarkable, of course, that the most vociferous, most articulate former Minister for Defence, who has now been told to beat bis swords into ploughshares, does not say anything about off-the-record briefings. [More…]
It was he, as Minister for Defence in March 1971, who gave confidential background briefings to selected journalists in which he made accusations against senior Army officers - accusations which led to one of the many notorious and demeaning conflicts within the late Government. [More…]
Mr BARNARD (Bass - Minister for Defence, Minister for the Navy, Minister for the Army, Minister for Air and Minister for Supply) - by leave - The honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) raised a point in relation to the Leader of the Australian Country Party. [More…]
But the time of testing is at hand and I have not the slightest doubt after today’s performance that in a serious debate the Government would not allow an opportunity for previous Ministers for Defence, previous Prime Ministers or interested back benchers to take part in it. [More…]
At the end of 1968 those 950 local government authorities employed slightly more than 100,000 people or about 10 per cent of all employees of government bodies, other than the defence forces, and about 1 in 40 of the total work force of Australia. [More…]
Today I listened to the honourable member for Fisher (Mr Adermann) say that he regarded as a security risk the fact that civilian employees in defence establishments were being asked to join unions. [More…]
Did the present Prime Minister, when Leader of the Opposition, receive any briefing on defence, foreign affairs and other matters, or was he considered a security risk? [More…]
In other words, it says that the whole focus of the defence system must be in this country. [More…]
So, forgetting the absolute importance of this matter from an economic point of view to the Northern Territory, to Queensland and to the whole of this nation, we can argue on the basis of defence, alone that this road should be completed, with national finance. [More…]
It is quite clear to me now that discussions took place between an official of the Department of Defence and Mr Lloyd. [More…]
In the meantime I take the opportunity to table the full documentation and the result of the investigations which I requested from the Secretary of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I might add for the information of the Leader of the Opposition, that I said at the conference in Devonport that at no time had my Press Secretary advised me that directions had been conveyed to htm that he would not be able to attend the briefings which were to take place between me as Minister for Defence and Lord Carrington, the British Minister for Defence. [More…]
If it is suggested that I had discussions with the Secretary of the Department of Defence, that is quite correct. [More…]
It is indicated in this document that the reply of the Secretary of the Department of Defence was that it was not normal for members of a Minister’s staff to be present at such discussions. [More…]
I reiterate that in matters of defence, as with any other matters, the Cabinet, the Caucus and the Government will make the decisions relating to policy. [More…]
Those policies appear to have been under some pressure from some people - at least within the Australian Labor Party - who over recent days have sought to create a problem between the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) and the Secretary of that Department. [More…]
The very distinguished Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Arthur Tange, is well known internationally. [More…]
It would be a monumental tragedy if, for parry political reasons, there were any great conflict between the Minister, who carries on his shoulders the problems of the defence of Australia, and the head of his Department. [More…]
From my own point of view, if there has to be a Labor government in power, I would prefer to see in charge of our defence a man who has flown the Fill and had served at the battle of El Alamein rather than someone less conspicuous. [More…]
If there is any doubt about this, I believe that Australia’s interests are best served by remaining, at the request of the Government in Port Moresby, closely associated with the Territory and accepting responsibility in its defence and its political development. [More…]
In the course of human history we have progressed from the family unit to the tribe, to the village, to the city state, to the nation state and now to the amalgamation of nations into various defence and economic arrangements. [More…]
I also refer to the brown coal deposits which provide our power resources throughout Victoria and which I undertook as a candidate to have researched as potential liquid fuel resources as a defence measure. [More…]
Today his Deputy, the Minister for Defence, Minister for the Navy, Minister for the Army, Minister for Air and Minister for Supply (Mr Barnard) disagreed with him publicly in this House. [More…]
This new Parliament, the old and new members, have the huge burden in all issues of national responsibility from defence, social welfare to education in plotting the course for the future. [More…]
If the opposition had proceeded with the motion of lack of confidence in the Deputy Prime Minister - who is the Minister for Defence - to which it devoted its debate this morning honourable members and the country as a whole would have seen that I have not only as great confidence in my Deputy as I have had in the 18 years we have served in this Parliament together but that I have greater confidence than ever. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for Defence, Minister for the Navy, Minister for the Army, Minister for Air and Minister for Supply, and refer to the document tabled yesterday by him which he described as ‘the full documentation of the investigation which I requested from the Secretary of the Department of Defence’, and which he then used as a basis for answering a number of questions in this House yesterday. [More…]
I tabled the document because it was the version of the Secretary of the Department of Defence for which I had asked. [More…]
At no time since have I reflected in any way on the Secretary of the Department of Defence. [More…]
The Bill proposes an amendment to the relevant section that will also allow a request for redemption to be made by a totally incapacitated employee who is in receipt of a pension, such as superannuation or defence forces retirement benefits pension, on account of invalidity due to his compensable injury. [More…]
In the first place it provides for the extension of the war service homes scheme to members of the forces who complete a specified period of defence service. [More…]
At the same time this measure will afford practical recognition of the significant contribution made to national defence by servicemen who undertake full-time Service commitments of a substantial duration. [More…]
the title of the Principal Act to be amended to ‘Defence Services Homes Act 1918-1973’. [More…]
As a consequential amendment, the name of the body corporate established by the Act will be changed from Director of War Service Homes to Director of Defence Service Homes. [More…]
However, before I do I am bound to say that I have listened with a great deal of interest to some of the contributions made by Opposition members on such subjects as defence, tariffs and revaluation. [More…]
that the installations in central Australia are not part of a weapons system and are not able to be used to attack any country and that the United States naval communications installation at North West Cape is used for the purpose of defence communication; [More…]
But, as has been widely recognised in the public debate that has ensued since the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) made his statement - I am sorry that he is not here tonight - this statement is the shadow and not the substance. [More…]
The Minister for Defence said: [More…]
We must, however, insist on seeking renegotiation of certain treaties where this is necessary to obviate the complete exclusion of Australia from any effective control over a defence installation on Australian soil or to obviate any possibility that Australia could be involved in war - and a nuclear war at that - without itself having any power of decision. [More…]
Some time this year, the Minister for Defence will travel to the United States to have discussions with the United States Secretary of Defense and his advisers. [More…]
The Minister for Defence went on to say that the United States is prepared to make the North West Cape installation a joint installation. [More…]
We are told from other sources that a message from the United States authorities arrived just in time to save the Minister for Defence from acute embarrassment in his own Caucus or Cabinet, or both. [More…]
So I will content myself by quoting briefly from Mr Toohey who, until recently, was the private secretary, loyal servant and confidant of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
That statement was by Mr Toohey who, as I mentioned, until recently was a confidant and secretary to the present Minister for Defence who made this statement on the United States defence installations in Australia. [More…]
As an example, I should like to quote from a statement made by the present Minister for Defence on 1st September 1971. [More…]
These are the sorts of life and death issues, thundered the former Deputy Leader of the Opposition, now Minister for Defence, which Government secrecy has kept from the electorate. [More…]
To put this to a test let me compare a statement made in this House by the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn) when Minister for Defence on 1 4th December 1971 about Pine Gap with the present Minister’s statement last week. [More…]
Premature disclosure of classified information could only be prejudicial to Australia’s defence interests. [More…]
The previous Minister for Defence had this to say: [More…]
The Minister for Defence said in his statement: [More…]
The honourable member for Farrer, the previous Minister for Defence, had this to say: 1 must stress that the facility is entirely defensive and it cannot initiate offence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence in his statement that we are debating tonight said: [More…]
The Minister for Defence had this to say: [More…]
I could go on in this way quoting bit by bit from the statement of the Minister for Defence and what had been said, in one instance, by the Minister for Defence in the previous Government and what had been stated also by other Ministers for Defence before, but I think I have said enough to make the point that it was sheer hypocrisy to suggest while in Opposition that in some way, when the Opposition became the Government, it would make revelations which we were not prepared to make. [More…]
I refer to an out-of-hand declaration made by the Opposition that the Australian national interest and independence are not jeopardised by the continuance of the agreements under which United States defence installations remain in Australia. [More…]
Except with the express consent of the Australian Government, the station will not be used for purposes other than purposes of defence communication, and appropriate [More…]
After a full and complete discussion regarding consultation on use of the station with Minister for External Affairs, it was clearly understood that consultation connoted no more than consultation and was not intended to establish Australian control over use of station nor to imply any Government of Australia design to restrict at any time United States Government use of station for defence communications including, for example, communications for polaris submarines, lt is also understood that it was not intended to give Australia control over or access to the contents of messages transmitted over the station. [More…]
It is not true to say that it is impossible that this station can be an involvement of Australia in nuclear war without its consent and it is not true to say that the words the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) who led for the Opposition, quoted from the speech by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), are a sop to some sort of opinion in the Labor Party. [More…]
We must, however, insist on seeking renegotiation of certain treaties where this is necessary, to obviate the complete exclusion of Australia from any effective control over a defence installation on Australian soil or to obviate any possibility that Australia could be involved in war - and a nuclear war at that - without itself having any power of decision. [More…]
The expression weapon of defence’ has been used. [More…]
Heavens above, what is defence with a Polaris submarine? [More…]
I presume that would be defence. [More…]
That also could be called defence. [More…]
In this particular context the word ‘defence’ is a very difficult one to follow. [More…]
The Government rejects entirely the second clause of the amendment moved by the Opposition because we regard it as a deliberate attempt to prejudice negotiations which would restore Australian authority on its own soil in a defence installation in which it has every right to equality and every right to be consulted. [More…]
At present we have before us a motion to take note of the statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
I was interested to hear the views of the Minister for Education on Indonesia under Sukarno, or even the value of the Polaris missile as a weapon of defence, and would be quite happy to debate those subjects with the Minister at some appropriate time. [More…]
Tonight we are discussing the statement made by the Minister for Defence about United States bases in Australia and the amendment which has been proposed by the Opposition. [More…]
The statement by the Minister for Defence covered 5 installations, of which the North West Cape naval communication station was only one. [More…]
It is now quite clear from what the Minister for Defence has said that the present Government no longer holds that view, but rather holds the view which the previous Government held about the North West Cape installation, that it should be maintained, subject only to one qualification, that is, Article 3, the only relevant matter on which the Minister for Education dwelt. [More…]
The Minister for Defence certainly has made the point that he will consult the United States Government to ensure that the agreement between the United States and Australia regarding North West Cape is literally applied and that letters exchanged 10 years ago interpreting Article 3 will in some way be altered or superseded. [More…]
I do not think the present Minister for Defence has suggested that there is this objection to it. [More…]
I only hope that in the interests of Australia the Minister for Defence will be able to stand up to the perfervid critics within his own Party who have shown their dislike of America and who criticised the policy of my Party when it was in Government and who may now, I fear, become his critics because he has given precisely the same reasons as my Party gave. [More…]
Perhaps it could serve as an example and a precedent for other defence and foreign affairs subjects because this is an area where in a democratic country, it is certainly in the interests of the country if the contending political parties can arrive at bipartisan policies. [More…]
The Minister for Defence puts forward in his statement precisely the reasons that the Opposition put forward earlier. [More…]
As to the Five-Power Arrangements, it seems that there is a new found disposition, at least on the part of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence, to appreciate for the first time the significance of these regional arrangements. [More…]
So, I suggest to the House that we should welcome the substance of the approach adopted by the Minister for Defence as outlined in his statement which is the subject of this debate. [More…]
I rather thought that the speech by the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr N. H. Bowen) was the more interesting of the 2 mainly because of the way in which he stressed the fact that the Opposition - that group of parties - was pleased with an approach which could be described as representing some sort of bi-partisan attitude in matters of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
But in the period that I have been a member the previous Government when in office attempted to extract every ounce of political advantage that it could from foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
The honourable member for Parramatta said that he welcomed the substance of the approach by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), that the Minister for Defence was being responsible and that the Opposition wished to support him. [More…]
Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Defence have a new found disposition towards the FivePower Arrangements and that there is a new attitude towards consultation with our near neighbours. [More…]
We do not expect the Opposition to agree with us on every aspect of defence or foreign affairs policy. [More…]
In his Ministerial statement the Minister for Defence said as reported at page 68 of Hansard : [More…]
Now we find the former government parties in Opposition welcoming the responsible attitude of this Government, welcoming the substance of approval given to previous arrangements insofar as they have been approved in statements which have been made by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
They are now saying that the Minister for Defence is acting responsibly and, of course, the latest example of this attitude is the suggestion that we might be able to move towards some bipartisan approach in matters of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
The agreement relating to the North West Cape installation was signed in 1963 by the then Minister for External Affairs and the then American Ambassador, lt was signed only a few months before the election in 1963 - an election in which the Labor Party substantially improved its majority in this parliament through a vote on the issue of defence. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the Minister for Defence has made a statement which has been welcomed by Opposition spokesmen for being responsible, balanced and well informed. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has indicated that there are some matters the honourable member for Fremantle drew attention to them - which have yet to be explored with the United States Government. [More…]
The Labor Party has not had 23 years in government during which it could sit down and talk to the United States Government, but the Minister for Defence intends to take the earliest mutually convenient opportunity to explore the attitude of the United States on this matter and to make sure that the United States Government understands the Australian attitude. [More…]
It means an intelligent response to the Nixon doctrine and that the Australian Government intends to see that Australia has an obvious personality of its own in this part of the world which does not reflect only in the matters of foreign affairs and defence but also in many more subtle areas such as in attitudes to migration, foreign aid and the like. [More…]
So we have before us a statement by the Minister for Defence which places before the Parliament a great deal of information which has never before been presented to the Parliament indicating that the new Leader of the Opposition, unlike the previous Leader of the Opposition, now the Prime Minister, has been briefed on the functions of these installations so that he might go to his party and tell the many other people on the Opposition side of the Parliament who also do not know what these installations are all about a little bit more than we now on this side of the House were told in erstwhile days. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will go to the United States and put an Australian Government point of view. [More…]
That is the purpose of the statement which was made by the Minister for Defence and it is precisely for that reason that the Government rejects the amendment moved by the Opposition. [More…]
But what we do not want to happen now is for the left wing of the Labor Party to change that policy which is still being espoused by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
When the Joint Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap near Alice Springs was proposed in 1966 there were many of us in Alice Springs who were overjoyed. [More…]
The other base in Alice, as I have said before, is the Joint Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap which is known locally as the space base. [More…]
The Minister for Defence in his statement said that members would recognise that these installations are defence projects. [More…]
Therefore I would think that it is of tremendous importance to have this base and the other bases operating in the Australian defence system. [More…]
But members of the Minister for Defence’s party demanded the removal of these bases when they were in Opposition. [More…]
Because changing circumstances have brought about some knowledge of these bases and the Minister for Defence has been briefed he is able to see the vital importance of these bases to Australian security. [More…]
I would take to task any member of any defence committee in Australia who tried to inform me that the existence of these bases in Australia will serve Australia’s defence. [More…]
That is the sort of thinking that has come from the other side of the House and I commend the Minister for Defence who was at the table for taking the stand he has taken and for producing a report on United States defence installations in Australia. [More…]
The Minister is accused of being under the control of the Department of Defence and the United States of America. [More…]
I hope that the Government sees fit to approve the amendment moved on behalf of the Opposition and that Australia will renegotiate the treaties so that it will have a greater control over these defence installations. [More…]
I recognise that the bases are important and, 1 say again, I hope that the Minister for Defence will be able to withstand the left wing pressures. [More…]
I mentioned to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), who was Acting Prime Minister at the time and who released a Press statement 2 days later concerning the flood damage that took place, that I wished to draw his attention to the matter. [More…]
Although the Minister for Defence was Acting Prime Minister at the time of the flood I think this matter really concerns the Treasurer more than the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I merely wish to say this: Sir Arthur Tange, one of the most experienced and competent men in the service of the Commonwealth, is now at last able to pursue a consistent, co-operative attitude with the Minister for Defence instead of the succession of 20 Ministers who proceeded through various Defence portfolios before the Deputy Prime Minister took over the position of Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has indicated that I failed to answer questions directed to me. [More…]
I indicated, as Minister for Defence, that I would be making available to this Parliament a statement on the full structure, strength, duties and responsibilities of the armed forces. [More…]
As I pointed out to the honourable gentleman yesterday, I have no intention of treating members of the Opposition in the same shabby way that they treated the Opposition when they were in government in relation to information that should be conveyed to the shadow Minister for Defence. [More…]
I advised the honourable gentleman yesterday that if he wished members of the Department of Defence to speak to and advise the Opposition’s defence committee, I would be happy to make the arrangements for him. [More…]
I told the shadow Minister for Defence that if he wished to speak to the Secretary of the Department of Defence, I would arrange that for him- also. [More…]
I know from the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), who has authorised me to reveal this to the Parliament for the first time, that there was no control at all over spares for the Fill. [More…]
The purchasing of pencils, motor cars, defence requirements could be subject to similar conditions to what is proposed by Senator Cavanagh. [More…]
I would like to place on record my appreciation of the Minister for Defence, who is sitting at the table, for the action he took, and I am sure that the widow also would like me to place on record her gratitude in that respect. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), who represents in this chamber the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop), for seeing that this area of anomaly between the Department of Social Security and the Repatriation Department has been straightened out. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) referred to the gazetted increase in funeral benefits from $50 to $100 for war pension exservicemen. [More…]
This will affect some 50,500 widows, according to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I commend the measures to the House and congratulate the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) who represents him in this chamber on introducing this legislation at such an early stage in this new Government. [More…]
Of course, they are concerned not only about the welfare policies of the Labor Government but also about its defence and security policies. [More…]
This is vague in the extreme and I ask the Minister for Defence, who represents the Minister for Repatriation, to arrange for a clear and detailed statement to be made on the future rates of pensions and other allowances that are referred to in this section of the policy speech. [More…]
However, on a second glance through the second reading speech of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) I feel that there are one or two things I would like to say. [More…]
First and foremost I think I can compliment the Minister for Defence, who represents the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop) in this chamber, on some of the moves that have been made in the legislation before us. [More…]
So too in our defence and foreign affairs, this Government, to use the words of the present Prime Minister, lurches from crisis to crisis. [More…]
I draw the Prime Minister’s attention to the examples of Sweden and Switzerland, which have been able to preserve their neutrality for more than a century because they never neglected their defence. [More…]
It is rather interesting to note that the Government believes in compulsion where unionism is concerned but does not believe in compulsion where the defence of this country is concerned. [More…]
They are primary production, coal, and defence. [More…]
One of the most significant changes the Government will effect will be the combination of the 5 former defence departments into one for administrative purposes. [More…]
Given the nature of defence heirarchies and the implications of Nixon’s Guam Doctrine, it seems to me that we should also review our procedure for the collection and assessment of intelligence so that it assumes a more relevant aspect. [More…]
Defence is too important to be left entirely to defence personnel and decision makers, who by the very nature of defence planning must be less informed than they should. [More…]
The defence Budget is the resources constraint. [More…]
But the defence Budget is really the way in which a multitude of economic political and social factors manifest themselves in the defence planning process. [More…]
If we are concerned with the defence of Australia - and I doubt that such a study has ever been done in modern times - it may well prove that our Navy needs to go increasingly under water or that we need more small ships and attack through deck cruisers with vertical take-off and landing aircraft. [More…]
He and his Deputy, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), are still having the same problems today. [More…]
It is a strange reversal for a Party which opposes conscription for the defence of Australia to seek to justify conscription of wage earners into unions. [More…]
The dry rot which is evident in the Labor house is the result of a long term sickness in 2 major areas - the trade union movement’s influence on the political wing of the Party and the Party’s attitude to defence and foreign policy. [More…]
If ever it was suggested that the major parties were basically the same, certainly the Government’s actions on defence and foreign policy must explode that myth. [More…]
In just 3 months we have witnessed a retreat towards isolationism, an attempt by a section of the Labor Party to destroy the American alliance, and the intensification of a campaign to terminate the Five Power Defence Arrangements. [More…]
If there is one consistent thread running through the present Government’s foreign and defence policies it has been its actions to embrace the communist countries of the world, whilst maintaining a distinct move away from our former friends and allies. [More…]
Government which has a balanced foreign policy and which believes that our defence forces should be made up of volunteers. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr .Barnard) has come in for a great deal of criticism and personal vilification in this House over the past week. [More…]
I estimate that the requirements of civil departments in that period will be about $23m and, of defence departments, $8m. [More…]
It is not a defence of the present position to give a point of view about the behaviour of 18 to 20-year-olds. [More…]
It is not a defence to delay this Bill through an argument of costs in extending the rolls, although this excuse applies more at State level. [More…]
Our institutions and entrenched values ought constantly to be challenged, as well as defended, and out of the polemics of this challenge and defence should emerge a new consensus of what is valuable, real and important to our community interests. [More…]
I did work briefly as a clerk on a defence project and joined the Clerks Union as a routine matter. [More…]
We should remember some of his exploits, especially during World War II when he commanded a volunteer defence corps and was asked by his commander to carry on certain exercises at Cronulla in order to demonstrate whether or not an enemy would be able to take possession of the Cronulla foreshore. [More…]
He then dressed up some of volunteer defence corps members as tram conductors and approached the Redfern police station. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has not been straight with this House. [More…]
foreign affairs and defence generally; and [More…]
by the Minister for Defence; or [More…]
The motion I have moved to establish a Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence - with a similar composition to that of the former Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs but with considerably enhanced effectiveness compared with that which our predecessors were prepared to concede - is an earnest of our desire to give Parliament its proper role in the study of 2 important areas of national interest and concern. [More…]
Our purpose in the motion before the House is to establish a new and effective Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence made up of 14 members of the House of Representatives and 8 senators chosen along the lines set out in paragraph 2 of the motion. [More…]
It is our hope and intention that the new Joint Committee will come to play an active and useful part in the national debate on important issues of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
The establishment of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is another much more important step in this process of informing Parliament about the issues on which it will have to deliberate. [More…]
If things go wrong he can seek refuge and defence in his official rule book. [More…]
It is in the perspective of an overhaul of the War Service Homes Act, now to be called the Defence Services Homes Act. [More…]
Before I come to the subject on which I rose to speak I want to say a few words in defence of Mr Norman Foster, a former colleague of ours who served with distinction in this Parliament and was honourably defeated at the last election. [More…]
Did the Minister for Defence say in a speech to the National Press Club on 15th March that decisions about the future structure of our armed forces and the kind of equipment which they need must be made in the light of our new national goals? [More…]
At the National Press Club luncheon I referred to a number of matters, particularly, of course, in relation to defence. [More…]
I think it is quite Clear, and ( think the 2 Ministers who preceded me as Minister for Defence would be able to advise him, that at no time did the Department of the Army indicate what the size of the armed forces should be. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
For the benefit of the honourable member I repeat that this matter is in no way related to the Department of Defence. [More…]
He could hardly be blamed because, even after the stripping down and sharing out by the numbers, he was Minister for Defence. [More…]
ANZUS is our primary defence treaty and anyone who damages it in any way damages Australia’s national interests. [More…]
I was interested to hear the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), who has 5 portfolios - a regular Pooh-Bah in Australian politics. [More…]
He shuffled around in answer to the question I asked him but he ended up supporting the view that the Omega Station will be no defence hazard. [More…]
Q.: Mr Whitlam, until 101 days ago when Labor was in Opposition, Labor members spoke frequently about the defence significance of Omega. [More…]
Q.: Is it of defence significance, Sir? [More…]
PRIME MINISTER: I would believe it would have some defence significance. [More…]
But, as rational men, you will know that there are very few navigational aids which don’t have some defence significance. [More…]
PRIME MINISTER: He has responsibilities in defence matters. [More…]
I come now to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) who is also Minister for the Navy, Minister for the Army, Minister for Air and Minister for Supply. [More…]
But the Minister for Defence occupies 5 portfolios. [More…]
The position was, I think as cogently as it can be stated, that one minute the Press secretary resigned and the next minute the Minister for Defence said to him: ‘No, do not resign next week, go now’. [More…]
I conclude by reading paragraph 14 of the minute obtained from the Secretary of the Defence Department and tabled in this House by the Minister and which I believe will repay careful study. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) had this strange separation from his Press Secretary and instilled into the position of the Minister are certain elements. [More…]
I pointed out in my earlier remarks that this is a very strange matter and I drew attention in particular to a very telling paragraph in the document supplied by the Secretary of the Department of Defence at the request of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The importance of this matter to the Government is not Mr Lloyd, the Press Secretary; its importance is that it brings into question the whole competence, if that is the word and not the opposite to it, of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Honourable members opposite will find that we are on our feet tonight in defence not of Mr Anthony as such but of the Leader of this Party and the status and standing of the Austraiian Country Party. [More…]
They seem to have the opinion - they have expressed the view - that to ask a person to join a union, if that person is an employee of a defence establishment is, to quote one honourable gentleman, a security risk. [More…]
One can imagine that proceedings could be televised when the Prime Minister or another Minister makes a very important statement - a defence statement or a foreign affairs statement- or when the Leader of the Opposition is replying or when some matter of great public interest such as what is often called an urgency motion is being debated. [More…]
If we were to televise Parliament we should not televise only the proceedings in this chamber but also, if we did that on an occasional basis, the parliamentary comittees at work, committees such as the Joint Committee on Public Works, the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and no doubt, on occasions* the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which is a matter to be discussed later this day. [More…]
Many foreign affairs debates are very interesting, as are defence debates .and debates on the environment. [More…]
I refer to committees such as the Public Works Committee, the Senate Select Committee on Securities and Exchange, the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory and indeed the Joint Committee on the Northern Territory when it comes into existence. [More…]
The Opposition will support this motion to appoint a Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and will join in the appointment of members to take part in the work of the committee. [More…]
I note particularly in paragraph (1) (a) of the motion that the Committee will be appointed to consider and report upon foreign affairs and defence generally. [More…]
This appears to give it in its constitution and charter some width in its capacity to inquire into matters of foreign affairs and defence generally. [More…]
Paragraph 1 (b) speaks of matters being referred to the committee by the Ministei for Foreign Affairs, by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) or by resolution of either House. [More…]
In answer to a question in the House on this subject the Minister for Defence said that these stations were not a matter for him and that they came under the portfolio of the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones). [More…]
The significant alteration is to add the word Defence’ to the title of the proposed committee so that the joint committee would consider matters of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
I do not think that anyone would disagree that these are very closely related subjects and that very often our foreign affairs posture is dictated by defence considerations. [More…]
Also it follows from this that matters may be referred to the committee by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) or by resolution of either House of the Parliament and the question of resolution by either House of the Parliament is, as I said earlier, to make this committee a more effective instrument of the Parliament. [More…]
The Australian Country Party supports the motion to set up a joint committee on foreign affairs and defence and also welcomes the Government’s announcement that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs which operated under the previous Government will be reestablished and that the scope of the proposed committee, as has been pointed out by other speakers, will be widened to cover defence as well as foreign affairs. [More…]
Mention has been made that as well as the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) being able to refer matters to the. [More…]
Does this mean that every time a reference comes before the committee on the initiative of the Government through the Minister for Foreign Affairs or the Minister for Defence that reference will automatically be. [More…]
I wish to speak in support of the proposition to set up a joint committee on foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
I think that it is extremely important that as many honourable members as possible become acquainted with the fairly intricate aspects of foreign affairs and defence and do not leave it all to the executive Government to make decisions which then have to be accepted by this Parliament and by the nation. [More…]
The honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) raised the question as to whether the Omega installations were a matter of shipping, transport, foreign affairs or defence. [More…]
I think that if somebody claims that a particular issue is one of foreign affairs and defence it is reasonable for the joint committee on foreign affairs and defence to examine it to see whether there are foreign affairs and defence aspects involved. [More…]
If the committee is convinced that the Omega installations have nothing to do with foreign affairs and defence I assume that the committee will make that sort of recommendation to this House. [More…]
I strongly urge this House to support the establishment of this committee so that it can be an active committee and so that it can call many experts before it and be able to make intelligent appraisals of what our foreign policy and our defence policy ought to be. [More…]
I notice that matters may be referred by the Minister for Foreign Affairs - this was the case previously - and now by the Minister for Defence or by resolution of either House of the Parliament. [More…]
I hope that the proposed new Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence will be considerably better than the previous Committee. [More…]
Reference has been made to the reasons why Omega should be referred to the Joint Parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. [More…]
Surely the difficulties and the controversy about Omega are related to the defence and foreign affairs aspects. [More…]
If it is an issue for the Leader of the Opposition to accuse the Labor Party of favouring unrepresentative institutions, I can demonstrate the Liberal Party’s defence of unrepresentative institutions in every State of Australia. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: Has the Government yet decided its continuing policy under the Five Power Defence Arrangements with Singapore and Malaysia with respect to the defence of that region? [More…]
Since I became the Minister for Defence I have made 3 decisions. [More…]
In the debate on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence last week the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron), in a dastardly attack, grossly misrepresented me. [More…]
The honourable member for Farrer rushed to the defence of quite a number of his friends who are leaders in the mining world. [More…]
He had 2 spells as a private member - one before his dismissal as a Minister and another during the interregnum till he got back into the Cabinet as the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Bill authorises that borrowings be made for defence purposes so that defence expenditures in the remaining months of the year can then be charged to the Loan Fund rather than the Consolidated Revenue Fund, thus utilising funds available in the Loan Fund and avoiding a deficit in the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]
The Bill does not, I should stress, seek to authorise any additional expenditures; its purpose is simply to re-allocate part of expenditures on defence services specified in the relevant Appropriation Acts for 1972-73 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund. [More…]
The Opposition’s defence is that there is no time at which that can be achieved in all its pristine purity. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) would rather cloud the issue and allow one electorate to be twice as large as another than speak in defence of the principle of one vote one value, the most basic principle of democracy. [More…]
If there is defence of buying and selling cheap, those who want to defend it are welcome to that defence. [More…]
I myself have taken a great interest in the Northern Territory, particularly when I was Minister for National Development and in charge of northern development, although I visited it on many occasions when 1 was Minister for Air, Minister for Education and Science and Minister for Defence. [More…]
Alice Springs is the hub of a secrets industry but increasingly, I think, the Northern Territory will assume more defence importance. [More…]
I believe the Northern Territory will assume greater defence importance. [More…]
The same thing happened in the defence forces many years ago when they had dry canteens. [More…]
They disgraced their uniforms until the progressive thinking heads of the defence forces realised that they had to face common sense and reality and put wet canteens on the Army and Air Force establishments where these young men could be supervised by long term serving officers. [More…]
If we fail to accept our responsibility in this regard we are failing Australia, for the development of the north can bring great prosperity to the people of northern Australia; indeed, it can also secure the defence of the people of the southern parts of Australia. [More…]
This is achieved by borrowing up to$300m, the amount required to complete financing of the deficit in 1972- 73 and to expend the proceeds of the borrowing for defence purposes. [More…]
The Bill provides for expenditure on defence services which have not already been authorised by Parliament in the Appropriation Acts to be charged to the Loan Fund instead of to the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]
Provision for charging part of our defence expenditure to the Loan Fund has been made in previous years when the net amount available from loan proceeds and other financing transactions has not been adequate to finance the deficit. [More…]
An allied provision under a similar agreement and provisions provides that the Commonwealth Government does not have to submit to the Loan Council for approval amounts to be spent for defence purposes. [More…]
1 said the other day that it is not much of a defence afterwards to say that when you saw a lion in your path you did not recognise what it was, particularly when you might be finishing up inside it. [More…]
An employee who is already receiving superannuation or a defence forces retirement benefits pension will be given the right to request a lump sum payment in redemption of the Commonwealth liability to make weekly payments even if he is totally incapacitated. [More…]
He asserts, in misguided defence, that he never saw this document, as if that were enough. [More…]
The Defence Minister, Mr Barnard, got into trouble and implied that Sir Arthur Tange was not telling the truth. [More…]
It will enable us in the Parliament to return to a consideration of those very important problems of defence, inflation and economic management that are facing this nation. [More…]
It was a bad law and we will change it in defence of the unity and indivisibility of Australian citizens. [More…]
This figure covers members of the Commonwealth Public Service, employees of Commonwealth authorities, members of the armed forces and other people covered by such Acts as the Naval Defence Act and the Supply and Development Act. [More…]
One involved Sir Arthur Tange of the Defence Department and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) when the Minister was involved in a serious staff problem over a briefing with Lord Carrington, the British Defence Minister. [More…]
An employee who is also receiving a superannuation or Defence Forces Retirement Benefits pension will be given the right to request a lump sum payment in redemption of the liability for weekly payments even though he is totally incapacitated. [More…]
Dependency may result from trade ties, reliance on capital for investment, lack of vital raw materials, the need for defence arrangements or the need for technical assistance. [More…]
In addition, if he cannot present a better defence than he has presented this afternoon in respect of this matter, then certainly I would not want to be defended by him in a court of law. [More…]
Over the years it has come to be regarded as some form of consideration given by a grateful government for a member’s personal contribution to the defence of his country. [More…]
We are all aware that the strength of the Army, for instance, will be depleted by approximately 4,000 within 12 months when the serving national servicemen take their discharge, and we are all aware that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) and, in fact, the Government itself will be over a barrel if they cannot maintain Army strength at a reasonable level by their proposed volunteer system. [More…]
But does the Government want numbers only, or an effective defence force? [More…]
For a long time I have considered that the Labor Party’s defence policy has been suspect in this regard. [More…]
If by the introduction of this Bill the Government hopes to entice young men to join the Services and if after 3 years service they give the Services away and walk out with a concession of $12,000 at the lowest interest rate in the country, then the Government deserves to be censured for not maintaining an adequate and effective defence force. [More…]
I wonder whether the Government has considered just what 3 years service means in regard to contribution to the defence of this country, especially on a volunteer system. [More…]
It takes just on 12 months to train a serviceman to the stage where his work as part of a team can be classed as productive in the defence structure. [More…]
How can the Government expect to maintain anything like the respectable defence force that is vitally necessary for this country when the numbers of serving personnel are well below a satisfactory level and there is every possibility of a great number of Service personnel coming and going who have enlisted just to take advantage of the $12,000 loan at a subsidised interest rate? [More…]
The very fact that there could be a constant turnover of personnel taking advantage of the 3-year service decision in order to obtain a service homes loan must be extremely frustrating to the Service chiefs who are worried about maintaining a sound defence structure and arc doing the best they can under the present Administration. [More…]
If the Government is so concerned about maintaining an effective defence structure, as it would have the people believe, and wishes to improve conditions of service in order to retain personnel in the Services, why has it not given any thought to that very important person, the Citizen Military Forces member? [More…]
I would have thought that when the Government was considering making the provision of a service homes loan available and deciding that 3 years effective service was sufficient for a Regular soldier, some thought would have been given to those citizens who voluntarily devote their time to assisting in the defence of this country. [More…]
This Citizen Military Forces member plays an extremely important part in our defence structure, and his contribution to such a cause should be recognised and rewarded in some definite manner. [More…]
But we must remember that they devote their spare time and energy to the defence of this country purely in a voluntary manner. [More…]
One could say that they are men with a mission, their mission being to play their part in seeing that this country has an adequate defence force. [More…]
But if, as the Minister for Defence has stated, he intends to improve the conditions of service for CMF personnel in order to boost the strength of that organisation, I feel the inducement be has offered to regular soldiers after 3 years effective service should also be offered to the CMF member. [More…]
I submit that Australia would be better served in the maintenance of a reasonable defence force by adopting the amendment recommending that 3 years effective service be altered to 6 years. [More…]
Further appropriations totalling $57m are sought for the Defence Services. [More…]
Estimated savings in other Defence appropriations amount to some $51. [More…]
Of the $39.9m now sought for capital works and services the major requirements are $6m for loans under the Defence Service Homes Act to meet the increased loan limit and to reduce delays in meeting applications; $ 10.7m for buildings, works, plant and equipment at overseas posts including $7m for purchase of a new chancery site in Paris and SI. [More…]
I notice in the second reading speech that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has given consideration to the question of supplementary assistance. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) who is sitting at the table to place the points just expressed before the Minister concerned because I think it is very important that if a particular party at election time makes a promise and does not fulfil that promise the people have a right to know why the promise has not been fulfilled. [More…]
I plead with the Minister for Defence to suggest to the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop) that he make a clear cut statement indicating the intentions. [More…]
My talks with Mr Heath, Sir Alec DouglasHome, Lord Carrington, Lord Hailsham and other Ministers covered a wide range of matters of mutual interest in the foreign affairs, defence and constitutional fields. [More…]
In addition to that, of course, he certainly detained the debate on the Defence Service Homes Bill. [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence seen recent Press reports that a conflict exists between him and the Department of Defence over a desirable size for the Australian Army? [More…]
The House will be aware that I had initially asked for an inquiry to be conducted by the Department of Defence into the size and shape of the Australian Army. [More…]
The inquiry was headed by Dr John Farrands of the Department of Defence and consisted of representatives of the departments of Defence and of the Army. [More…]
The correct procedure is for the committee conducting the inquiry to make its report to the Defence Force Development Committee, which consists of the Secretary of the Department of Defence, the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chiefs of Staff. [More…]
The report on the inquiry I asked for has been received by the Defence Force Development Committee; it has not been received by me. [More…]
May I add that I have my own views about the size and shape of the Army, but I will make my judgment as a result of the views that will be submitted to me by the Defence Force Development Committee. [More…]
May I also say that previous Ministers for Defence had indicated to the Parliament that the minimum size of the Army in Australia should be around 40,000 but no such recommendation was ever made to the Government by the Defence Force Development Committee. [More…]
Let me say in conclusion that my decision on the size and shape of the Army will be made as a result of the consideration which I will give to the recommendation that will come to me from the Defence Force Development Committee, and I believe it will be made having regard to other requirements and what I believe are the strategic requirements of Australia in the seventies and the ‘eighties. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence and is supplementary to the question asked earlier by the honourable member for Adelaide. [More…]
Does the Minister’s reply to the honourable member for Adelaide really mean that he has no knowledge of the recommendation of the Defence Force Development Committee when it is an open secret, even to me, that that Committee recommended an Army of 38,000 personnel? [More…]
I reiterate that I have not received the recommendations of the Defence Force Development Committee and until that report is made available to me I would not be in a position to indicate to this House what the Government believes should be the size and shape of the Army in the future. [More…]
I had in mind that our expenditure on defence was less than 2 per cent of America’s expenditure on defence and that our gross national product at that time was less than 4 per cent of America’s gross national product. [More…]
The motion by the Leader of the House, as I comprehend it, is designed to ensure that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence shall not be required to elect as its Chairman a member of a particular House. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I have much pleasure in supporting the Defence Services Homes Bill 1973. [More…]
It changes the name of the War Service Homes Act, which has stood since 1919, to the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
In that spirit, of course, it had a different connotation from what it has now, because the proposed Act, the Defence Service Homes Act, the Bill which we are discussing, will bring in all regular servicemen who have served for 3 years. [More…]
We know that the Labor Party’s policy on defence has changed considerably. [More…]
It believes that all the preparation for defence should be for the defence of Australia within the bounds of Australia, and it disdains to give any special recognition for service outside the shores of Australia. [More…]
He may buy or build subject to approval, but the mortgage loan makes him a tenant of the Director of the Defence Service Homes. [More…]
As the Minister for Housing (Mr Les Johnson) advised the Parliament in his second reading speech the Bill has four main purposes: Firstly, to make provision for the extension of the war service homes scheme to include those members of the forces who have completed a specified period of defence service; secondly, to make provision for an increase in the maximum loan under the scheme from $9,000 to $12,000; thirdly, to make provision for the granting of war service homes benefits to certain unmarried female persons with qualifying service under the Act; fourthly, to provide for the extension of eligibility to certain persons who served overseas with the Australian forces in the 1939-45 war, or in war-like operations subsequent to that war, as accredited representatives of a welfare organisation. [More…]
The extension of the war service homes scheme to include those members of the forces who have completed a specified period of defence service should surprise no one, for when the Australian Labor Party was in Opposition we said we would abolish conscription. [More…]
While the implications of these changes are more important than the changed name of the Bill, which will now be known as the Defence Services Homes Bill, the extent of the changed implications certainly justifies the changed name. [More…]
The Defence Service Homes Bill has in many ways a very historical significance. [More…]
The change in the wording of the title is that it is now called the Defence Service Homes Bill and not the War Service Homes Bill. [More…]
This could therefore have a detrimental effect on the people who form the hard core of our permanent Regular Army, ft must be agreed that the principle of making war service home loans - or defence service home loans as they are now to be called - available to serving servicemen, is a reasonable proposition. [More…]
Continuing the debate on the Defence Service Homes Bill 1973 that was in progress before the suspension of the sitting, it is interesting to reflect on many of the attitudes that have been expressed by members of the Opposition who are, as we have found in the short time that my party has been in office, once again giving an indication of all the wonderful things they want to do now that it is too late. [More…]
I remind honourable members that it is appropriate that the spirit of the original proposals previously reflected in the War Service Homes Act is now to be reflected in the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
It is also interesting to look at how his Government looked after the members of the Defence forces while they were serving the nation and how it looked after them by way of the provision of accommodation. [More…]
This Bill is designed to extend eligibility for what were formerly known as war service homes but which are now to be called defence service homes. [More…]
Initially the Australian Government set up war service homes loans as compensation to our citizens for their active participation in the defence of this country. [More…]
Most ex-service women have given meritorious service in our defence forces in many fields. [More…]
The Bill also extends eligibility for defence service home loans and benefits to national servicemen and officers who stayed in the Services after 7th December. [More…]
However the real implication of the extension is somewhat obscure but one must agree that this departure from the former eligibility for benefits is reasonable when one considers the necessity to maintain a reasonable number in our defence forces. [More…]
in our opinion, is getting a sop to stay in the forces to build up the numbers within the defence forces. [More…]
It is a description of long standing within the community and is recognised as something associated with the defence of this country- I think it is an insult to those people who served in the First World War and the Second World War to alter the name of the Act at this stage just because the Government wants to include national servicemen, who do not go away, as a sop to keep them in the armed forces. [More…]
The housing commission homes that are being built at Tammoy town are quite adequate for what is required in that area, and 1 think the defence service homes authorities could build the same sort of home. [More…]
I think that 30 to 40 more ex-servicemen who are eligible to them could have war service homes or defence service homes built on Thursday Island. [More…]
The building regulations are very poor indeed, but defence service homes of the standard presently being built in Tammoy town by the housing commission could be built. [More…]
1 would like the Minister to have a look at the condition of these homes at the present time if he has a chance or get information regarding them and see if they can be adopted as a model for defence service homes for people who are eligible to them. [More…]
I hope that the defence service homes authorities will take into consideration what I have said and see if it is possible for these people to receive the home to which they are entitled. [More…]
It parades itself as a government of generosity, a government which is out to help people; but I would suggest that in the defence forces morale has become so low that the Government considers that if it does not initiate a form of a bribe the number of members in our armed forces will, by the lime of the next election, fall so drastically from the number at the time of the last election that is will prove a complete and utter embarrassment. [More…]
Tonight we are talking about this new Defence Service Homes Bill. [More…]
Any increase in the maximum loan, such as is provided in the Defence Service Homes Bill brought forward by the Minister, is appreciable and is acknoledged as such by the Opposition. [More…]
But what happened is that earlier this year the Thai authorities wrote to the Department of Defence and asked whether a permanent position could be made for a Thai officer at the Queenscliff College. [More…]
The Department of Defence informed the Thai authorities that the application would be considered, together with all other applications, in August of this year. [More…]
Hie Minister said in the House in defence of his actions that this was done because the tenders of Evans Deakin and Adelaide Ship Construction were higher than the tender submitted by the Newcastle State Dockyard. [More…]
I refer in particular to the recent occasion when the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) had accepted an invitation to address the Coral Sea dinner in Sydney which for some years has been staged by the AustralianAmerican Association. [More…]
On Monday last a dinner was held for this celebration at which the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence was invited, as the leading representative of the Government, to make the main speech of welcome to the visiting astronaut and to address the guests. [More…]
When the dinner actually took place the chair, which should have been filleJ by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, was vacant. [More…]
As honourable members are aware, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), the Minister for Works (Senator Cavanagh), the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones), and I have, since this Government took office, had discussions with the Papua New Guinea Government, both in Australia and in Papua New Guinea, on the development of that country to self-government and independence. [More…]
While matters such as defence and foreign affairs will not be transferred until independence for constitutional reasons, some other matters are under consideration by the Constitutional Planning Committee. [More…]
What government would not stand condemned if it failed to provide a defence force commensurate with the contemporary military strategy and technological advances? [More…]
Mr Speaker, may I inform the House that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, left Australia last Friday to discuss the Five Power arrangements with Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
In a prosecution for an offence arising under paragraph (f) of sub-section (1), it is a defence if the employer satisfied the court that - [More…]
Alternatively, they are determined to continue their historic role of rushing to the defence of the people they represent in this Parliament. [More…]
Under clause 6 the onus is put upon the employer to prove his defence. [More…]
If they were brought out to listen to the Minister speaking in defence of individuals like the honourable member for Moreton, it would be legitimate for people to defend their own rights in considering what they had to consider in terms of legitimate union business. [More…]
Once he is able to prove the facts it becomes, as a consequence of this amendment and not of anything which is already contained in the Act, a defence on the part of the employer to satisfy the court that: [More…]
In a prosecution for an offence arising under paragraph (c) of sub-section (1A), it is a defence if the employer satisfies the court that - [More…]
So it is quite clear that the section as amended by the Bill will still place the onus upon the employee or the union official to prove all the facts and to prove all the circumstances constituting the alleged offence, and when that is done the Bill, not the Act as it now stands, gives the employer for the very first time another defence. [More…]
The defence is that which is set out in proposed sub-section (2a) and sub-section (2b). [More…]
The Minister says that his proposal under proposed sub-section (2b ) is a specific defence to the offence created by proposed sub-paragraph (c) of sub-section (1a) of section 5. [More…]
lt applies, of course, but it applies to other sections, and what the Minister’s Bill does is specifically to provide for a special defence in the special circumstances proposed by the Bill. [More…]
I did not believe that the onus would ever fall on me of standing in this Parliament to say a word in defence of the employers, particularly to defend them against a move by the Liberal-Country Party group in this Parliament which would deny them a defence under a prosecution pursuant to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
The Defence Press and Broadcasting Committee was formed comprising representatives of the national Press and broadcasting stations, with a minority of Government nominees. [More…]
My Deputy, the Minister for Defence, has seen such a document about which I corresponded with the right honourable gentleman about a month ago. [More…]
A provision of $15m has been included for the payment of defence forces retirement benefits under the proposed revised procedures in legislation to be introduced during the current session of Parliament. [More…]
I have drawn attention over many years to the potential role of the Defence Standards Laboratories in the Department of Supply. [More…]
The Defence Standards Laboratories has, for example, tested kitchen knives, bicycle components, hacksaw blades, herbicides, shoelaces, toothbrushes, pencils, detergents and cleaning components, sunglass lenses and floor tiles. [More…]
The standard for sunglass lenses is based on research conducted in the Defence Standards Laboratories. [More…]
The Defence Bill (No. [More…]
Defence of the right of life of the foetus must rest on the conscience of every individual and I would join those who place that right high in their conscience. [More…]
The humane sound that has been uttered in its defence of groundless abortion is the suggestion that it will get rid of backyard abortions. [More…]
Both Bentham and Mill held that the use of the criminal law is an evil which could be justified by only showing that the conduct punished was either directly harmful to individuals or their liberty, or jeopardised the collective interest which members of a society have in the maintenance of its organisation or defence. [More…]
This concept of a national pipeline system also takes account of wider issues - of defence, of decentralisation, of population growth, of national development, of the importance of interconnected supplies to meet increasing long term demands, emergency situations and the exhaustion of particular regional energy sources, and the possible export of liquefied natural gas. [More…]
It may be in the interests of Australia’s survival not to forgo our own concept of nationality but to maintain the links which will give us defence protection, evidence of which in the eyes of the world may protect us from attack, because these outward signs may give to countries which might have aggressive intentions against us the lively apprehension that we would have powerful friends, powerful kinsmen, to come to our aid. [More…]
If one has defences one can do without powerful friends; if one has powerful friends one may well be able to do without defences. [More…]
I refer to the delay in the passage of the Defence Services Homes Bill, which was passed through this House, I think, 2 weeks ago. [More…]
I have just been passed a note to say that the Defence Forces Homes Bill was passed in the Senate tonight. [More…]
They started off basically as a means of defence against enemies, but now they mean much more. [More…]
It is also interesting to note that Professor Pollard had been asked in his terms of reference to conduct an inquiry into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
-I wish to inform the House of the following nominations of senators add members to be members of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence: Mr Berinson, Mr Coates, Mr Cross, Mr Duthie, Mr Kerin, Dr Klugman, Mr Luchetti and Mr Oldmeadow have been nominated by the Prime Minister. [More…]
For the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill (No. [More…]
Finally the Minister, in a time of undoubted peace, seeks to draw on the defence power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
If nothing more would show the purpose, drawing on the defence power in a time of undoubted peace indicates what the Government is all about. [More…]
The Commonwealth should be very concerned with natural resources and works that: (1) Are important for defence; (2) involve land acquisition on a large scale; (3) involve (potentially) harm to the environment; (4) are situated in areas remote from seats of State Government; (5) involve a large capital investment; (6) play a potentially large role in the maintenance of balance of payments; (7) involve the seabed around Australia; (8) are national in scope but are subject to conflicting State laws; (9) are situated on Federal territory; (10) are required by citizens in Federal territory; and (11) promote decentralisation. [More…]
One would have expected that he would have been above that but he restricted himself almost exclusively to an attack on wages and to a defence of the present system of doing nothing. [More…]
I am satisfied that as a result of the deliberations of the committee and the report that will eventually be made available to this Parliament the Citizen Military Forces in Australia will be given the status which I believe it ought to have in this country in terms of our defence requirements for the 1970s, the 1980s and beyond. [More…]
I think also of the way the Prime Minister insulted the Indonesian Government and was rebuked by Dr Malik; of the way that he and his deputy, the Minister for Defence, (Mr Barnard) managed to insult the Prime Minister of Singapore over the socalled ‘spy-unit’; of the way that his Ministers, I think 10 of them, and 25 private members of the Australian Labor Party have finally and totally insulted everyone who has ever served in Vietnam by their entertainment of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese, even in the parliamentary dining room. [More…]
Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill (No. [More…]
There are also very important questions affecting international relations; questions affecting the maritime boundary in the Torres Strait, for example, which is a matter of some concern; questions of defence such as the provision of early warning devices on the seabed - the United States Government has sought to deal with some problems in this area - matters over which the Commonwealth has undivided responsibility and matters which are of great concern to every member of this House. [More…]
Accordingly, the control of the oil resources of the sea-bed beneath the territorial sea would normally appear to fall wholly within State authority, subject of course to such Commonwealth powers as those with respect to defence. [More…]
When this nation is involved in any conflict, men leave its shores and serve in its defence not in the spirit of being New South Welshmen, Victorians or Western Australians, but as Australians - one people, one nation, one destiny. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Defence Re-establishment Act 1965-1968 to provide for some of these benefits. [More…]
The benefits concerned which are provided for by this Bill are presently available to national servicemen under the Defence Re-establishment Act. [More…]
Part IV of the Defence Re-establishment Act is in very wide terms, and desirably so. [More…]
The Bill further provides for rehabilitation treatment and training benefits under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act to be extended to former regular servicemen as defined in the Bill. [More…]
The Bill is complementary to other measures such as defence service homes and repatriation benefits which the Government is in the process of extending to servicemen not only in recognition of their occupation in present day circumstances but also in pursuit of the Government’s determination to provide an adequate volunteer force. [More…]
However, I was wondering whether the people associated with Flag Motor Inns and others who are so much opposed to the expansion of the Australian people’s airline - TAA - and who now come to the defence of private enterprise had the same concern when means were made available to Ansett Airlines of Australia and others to expand and whether they then forwarded telegrams and made protests about that. [More…]
I instance in particular the contact made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) on his recent visit to Indonesia. [More…]
The cast iron cannons were restored by the Defence Standards Laboratory in Melbourne. [More…]
Full details of the restoration are given in Defence Standards Laboratory Report No. [More…]
The ‘Endeavour’ anchor is being restored at the Defence Standards Laboratory in Melbourne. [More…]
Of this sum, a figure of $12m had been notionally predicated by the former Government for defence aid to South Vietnam, of which approximately $3. [More…]
What charges were preferred against Vlasnovic and who undertook his defence. [More…]
What assistance has been offered by Australia for their defence. [More…]
Department of Defence and that study has now been completed. [More…]
We need only to look at the danger in which the present Government is placing Australian primary industries by the careless and inconsiderate way in which both the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) return from overseas on VIP flights. [More…]
There are no defence or security implications in an inter-departmental committee report on revaluation compensation. [More…]
If there is to be a discussion about actions taken by the previous Government which caused uncertainty let us see what was said previously by the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) and the honourable member for Riverina who are now so great in defence of the wool growers. [More…]
These preservation arrangements will operate retrospectively from 1 January 1970, the operative date of the preservation provisions in the superannuation and defence forces retirement benefits schemes. [More…]
This change will bring the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act into line with the superannuation and the defence forces retirement benefits Acts from which corresponding re-employment provisions were removed in 1965. [More…]
Consistent with what is to be done with the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund as recommended by the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation, the Bill provides for the assets of the parliamentary and ministerial retiring allowances funds to be transferred to the Commonwealth. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Repatriation. [More…]
Honourable members know what has been done under the Defence Service Homes Act - very generous embellishments. [More…]
An approach to foreign policy, however, which is solely an extension of defence policy, a foreign policy aimed only at securing the defence perimeters wherever they are set or however defined, will, in the long run, distort both foreign and defence policies. [More…]
The positive constructive role of foreign policy - and equally of defence policy - is to strive to ensure that the assumption proves correct. [More…]
An important element of our co-operation with our neighbours is defence co-operation. [More…]
Australia believes that the tactics of containment, forward defence and ideological confrontation are not only no longer relevant but are counter-productive. [More…]
Australia is involved in regional defence arrangements, some of long standing, whose continued functioning and value were accepted without question by previous governments. [More…]
Our program of defence co-operation with Indonesia is very much in accord with the Australian Labor Government’s philosophy and will serve as a model for future arrangements of this kind. [More…]
It does not favour the permanent stationing of Australian .military forces abroad, but looks to the development of relations in the defence field through cooperation in such areas as technical aid, training assistance, joint exercises and continuing consultation. [More…]
It is on this basis that Australia and Indonesia have together worked out a program of defence co-operation which will continue to be further developed. [More…]
Our civil aid however - 2i times the value of our defence aid - is an even more important element in our relations with Indonesia. [More…]
Our civil aid and defence policies will have a particular bearing on Australia’s future relationship with Papua New Guinea, whose independence will be achieved, I confidently expect, in the closest consultation with the Government and House of Assembly of Papua New Guinea by 1975. [More…]
We have previously informed the public that the Joint Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap near Alice Springs and the Joint Defence Space Communications station at Nurrungar are related to satellites and that they analyse and test data. [More…]
have also stated that neither installation is part of a weapons system and neither can be used to attack any country, and we have been convinced that they contribute specifically to the improvement and development of Australia’s defence system. [More…]
The importance of ANZUS has tended to overshadow the variety and strength of our relations in other fields, such as trade, finance, investment, technology, aviation and culture, which, no less than our defence links, have brought us substantial rewards and benefits. [More…]
As I mentioned when speaking on the second reading of the Housing Bill and also on the Defence Service Homes Bill, the fact that nearly 100,000 families are waiting for homes is something that needs urgent and immediate attention. [More…]
But this was proved to be an outrageous lie, because after the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion during which some hundreds of American mercenaries were arrested by the Cuban defence forces and were imprisoned, the Cuban Government told the American authorities that they would let their prisoners out of gaol if certain life saving drugs were sent to Cuba. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence and it follows a question asked by the honourable member for Wimmera - it is a follow on. [More…]
These Bills represent the culmination of steps I initiated in this House some 3 years ago to have developed a retirement benefits scheme for members of the defence force that is both capable of understanding and alive to the special features inherent in a military career. [More…]
The Bills give effect to the Government’s decision announced last year to implement the recommendations of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]
The Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act came into force in 1948 following the Government’s consideration of a report of a committee chaired by the then Minister for Defence and Post-war Reconstruction, the Honourable J. J. Dedman, M.P. [More…]
I well recall referring at some length to this very matter and to other unsatisfactory features of the scheme during the debate on a Bill to amend the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act in 1970 and, if any member of this House is interested in what I had to say on that occasion, I invite his attention to Hansard of 9 June 1970. lt was against this background that during that debate 1 moved for the appointment of a joint committee of senators and members of the House of Representatives to investigate and report on the DFRB scheme. [More…]
The Government of the day agreed with my proposal and the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits legislation, under the chairmanship of Mr J. D. Jess, C.D.E.. [More…]
It is of more than passing interest that on 22 December 1972, shortly after this Government assumed office, I announced publicly our intention to implement a new non-funded retirement benefits scheme for members of the defence forces, based on the recommendations of that Committee. [More…]
It will apply to all serving members of the defence forces as at J October 1972 and to all members retiring after that date. [More…]
The Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, with assets totalling some $l74m, will, in effect, be frozen as from the commencing date of the new scheme and my colleague, the Treasurer (Mr Crean), will be examining the arrangements necessary for winding it up. [More…]
Consequently, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board appointed under the existing Act, which exercises a trustee role in relation to the Fund, will continue in existence for the time being for that purpose, although there will be a minor change in its composition arising from the transfer of responsibility for the DFRB scheme from the Treasurer to myself as Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Bill to amend the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-71 does precisely that. [More…]
2) 1973, makes provision for those contributors to the superannuation fund who become liable to contribute under the Defence Forces scheme. [More…]
The existing provisions provide that a superannuation fund contributor who is required to contribute to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund on entering the defence force on continuous full-time service for 12 twelve months or more, has his contributions under the Superannuation Act deferred and they become payable on his ceasing to be a member of the forces. [More…]
The Bill to amend the Defence (Parliamentary Candidates) Act 1969 makes such machinery amendments as are necessary to take account of changes in the DFRB scheme. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to increase existing pensions under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971. [More…]
When I introduced the Bill for a new retirement benefits scheme for members of the defence forces a short time ago, I explained that provision had not been made in that Bill for the adjustment of retirement benefits as proposed by the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits legislation, and that the whole question of adjusting benefits paid under both the old and the new schemes was still being examined. [More…]
The main reason for this is that there have been recent developments in pension updating arrangements in other Commonwealth pension schemes and I want these developments investigated and assessed in relation to their implications for the defence forces scheme. [More…]
The only difference in this legislation is that no means test is to be imposed upon houses sold to the Director of Defence Service Homes under the scheme that has been just set up. [More…]
As a matter of fact there had been correspondence, as I understand it, between the Department of Defence and the inventor of the weapon, since 1968 until on 30 May last year the Department of Defence wrote to the inventor to ask him whether the weapon could be made available for testing purposes. [More…]
In relation to the second part of the honourable member’s question, obviously that would have to wait until the Defence Department has had the opportunity to test the weapon and to take into consideration the merits of the weapon. [More…]
If the Department assesses it and regards it as being a weapon that could be incorporated into the defence system, consideration would be given to having it manufactured in Australia. [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence (a a position to indicate what orders and prospective orders are available for the Government’ Aircraft Factories’ aircraft Nomad? [More…]
1) appropriates $1,556,348,000 for departmental expenses, defence services and advances to the Treasurer. [More…]
The cost during 1972-73 of some of the major expenditure commitments undertaken by the Labor Government include: Increased social security pensions, $57m; increased war pensions, $8; defence Services pay, $28m; Aboriginal Advancement Trust, $llm; defence service homes, $5ra; State housing assistance, $6m; and State employment grants, $26m. [More…]
Where is the great honour that we hear about from the Opposition on the hustings, this great privilege that is given to the individuals of the country in defence of their liberty and in defence of their right to be represented properly in this place? [More…]
P. flight bringing back to Australia the Minister for Defence and the party accompanying the Minister. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I have made it perfectly clear to the Department of Defence that there will not be a repetition of some of the circumstances and incidents which developed previously, particularly in relation to bastardisation. [More…]
Just in passing I think of the Postmaster-General, the Minister for Defence - because there are factories under his control - and some of my other colleagues who have direct responsibility for instrumentalities which employ large numbers of migrants. [More…]
Here we are getting into complex legal areas, but in a nutshell it is quite likely that the Commonwealth can over-ride State objections to an almost unlimited extent through, for example, the Commonwealth defence powers. [More…]
Many members on this side of the House both past and present have over the years fought for acceptance of the point of view that whatever else our defence effort comprises, adequate and effective ground forces are essential to the credibility of the armed forces generally. [More…]
This we believe applies to any of the roles in which our armed forces may be cast - whether it is the defence of the Australian mainland, the defence of our Territories, our interests overseas or fulfilling our obligations in a United Nations peacekeeping role. [More…]
The Chief of General Staff in the same lecture to which I have referred cogently put the reasons why that is so and no doubt this will provide the reasons why, as the Minister said in his statement, the Chief of General Staff dissented from the views of the sailors, the airman and the civilian on the Defence Forces Development Committee. [More…]
I would add with certainty that so has every member of our defence forces. [More…]
I now make that charge again with regard to the defence forces retirement benefits legislation that is before the House at present. [More…]
The Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Legislation - the Jess Committee - from its very first meeting stressed the necessity for simplicity in the framing of any new legislation on this matter. [More…]
The Minister for Defence, Minister for Navy, Minister for the Army, Minister for Air and Minister for Supply, (Mr Barnard) mentioned during his second reading speech the necessity for simplicity. [More…]
Surely the inclusion of Service representation during the drafting stages is a basic principle to abide by, for servicemen understand the problems of the Services far better than do their civilian counterparts in the Department of Defence. [More…]
Since the inception of the DFRB scheme in the late 1940s our defence force has been integrated with the Commonwealth Public Service, which I think is completely wrong. [More…]
The defence force and the Commonwealth Public Service are 2 major but entirely distinct arms of our national government service and to continue to link those 2 organisations together can only add to the confusion and dissatisfaction which this integration has already caused over the years. [More…]
who, on his retirement, had not attained the retiring age for the rank held by him on 30 September 1972, but in respect of whom the Authority is satisfied that, but for the enactment of this Act and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1973, paragraph 39 (2) (b) or (c) of the previous Act would, on his retirement, have applied. [More…]
I would suggest that the Minister for Defence study this in conjunction with clause 25 (1) and sub-clause (3) for it is my interpretation that some hundreds of service members could be penalised by the inclusion of these words ‘but for’, which would deprive them of the right of making an election referred to in sub-clause (3). [More…]
Another portion of the Bill which I doubt will be accepted with any joy is that portion of clause 8 which states that there will be a Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority which, ‘subject to the directions of the Minister, shall have the general administration of this Act’. [More…]
If the views of the Services are pushed into the background on a matter such as their own retirement benefits scheme, I hate to think what will happen with the proposed reorganisation of the defence forces. [More…]
Finally, may I say that I regard it as a privilege to have served on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation Committee and more than pleased to have our recommendations accepted, and in some cases improved, by the Government. [More…]
I realise why the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme for the Papua New Guinea Forces - that is another Bill that should have been introduced years ago; it is time it was introduced - is a funded scheme whereas the previous Government’s scheme was non-funded. [More…]
In conclusion, I should like to take the opportunity to thank the members of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board for their patience and assistance over the last few years with my queries on DFRB matters. [More…]
In my opinion, their task in implementing the old Act has not been easy and I trust that the new Act, which I hope the Minister for Defence will introduce next session, will make their task a lot easier. [More…]
What the main Bill does is effectively to introduce the provision and the recommendations of the Jess Committee, of which I was a member, as was the honourable member for Herbert and, of course, the present Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for Defence on thus honouring an election promise he made on behalf of his Party. [More…]
The earlier Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund legislation had many admirable features, but it failed in its purpose because it was not understood by the average serviceman. [More…]
Jess Committee very strongly felt that there should be a single Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund Act, simple in form and comprehensible to servicemen. [More…]
For reasons I do not agree with, the Government has chosen to retain the old Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund Act in existence as a means of continuing to pay benefits to pensioners who left the Services before 1 October last year. [More…]
The recommendation of the Jess Committee in its supplementary report, in a letter to the then Minister for Defence, which the Government has not adopted, was that any late entrant officer who found that his future entitlement was being reduced should be entitled to buy back notional service to bring his entitlement under the new scheme as high as it was under the post- 1959 scheme. [More…]
The right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) as Prime Minister had promised to expand the scope of the investigation of Professor Pollard to cover the defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]
This takes out one of the principal purposes of the invalidity provisions of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
I accept that tha; provision should continue, but I think that the meshing in of the Repatriation Act and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act with respect to the invalidity pension should be looked at. [More…]
This is twice as generous as the provisions of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme. [More…]
The whole area of death and invalidity benefits should be looked at to see whether we really need a repatriation system, a defence forces retirement benefits system, a Commonwealth employees compensation system and ordinary invalid pensions. [More…]
I fear it may well be a very severe attrition of officers in their late 30s and early 40s, who will take their defence forces retirement benefit entitlement and establish themselves in new careers. [More…]
Surely it is not the purpose of a defence forces retirement benefits scheme to encourage early retirement. [More…]
My final point concerns the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority. [More…]
I believe this Bill is an honest attempt to implement the findings of the Jess Committee and the election promises of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I urge the Government not to regard the defence forces retirement benefits question as settled and put it at the bottom of the priorities of the Parliamentary Counsel but to keep the Parliamentary Counsel ready at short notice to draft the many amendments that I am sure will be necessary to make this Bill work in the manner in which it is intended to work. [More…]
Last Friday afternoon the Minister for Defence, Minister for the Navy, Minister for the Army, Minister for Air and Minister for Supply (Mr Barnard) introduced these Bills, one of which is a 79 page Bill containing 131 clauses. [More…]
To introduce these 3 Bills last Friday - particularly the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Bill which contains 139 clauses and covers 79 pages - and to expect the House to debate them now is not giving honourable members a fair deal. [More…]
Basically the Bills are the result of the efforts of the Jess Committee which was formed in 1970 and which had the express and overriding objective of simplifying the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme. [More…]
Originally a request was made by the Government Members Defence Committee to the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), when he was Prime Minister, to set up the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Legislation. [More…]
The major Bill - the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Bill - does not achieve simplicity. [More…]
The final glaring anomaly which indicates that this is either a complete abrogation of responsibility to the widows of the ex-servicemen of this country or a complete lack of co-operation between the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron), is that the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Bill which was introduced in this Parliament placed the widow of a member of the Public Service who died during the course of his duties, or while travelling to or from work, on full pay for life plus adjusted payments according to the rise in salary for the particular class in which the member of the Public Service was employed. [More…]
1 am glad also to have the opportunity of saying a few words because while I was not directly responsible for retirement benefits for members of the Services when 1 was Minister for Defence - the Treasurer was the responsible Minister - it was my responsibility to put the views of the Services, and in particular 1 was closely associated with the Government’s assessment of the Jess report and with its attempts to try to get a workable scheme and an agreed scheme that would be acceptable to the House, to the public and to the servicemen in particular. [More…]
Most of the recommendations of the report of the Jess Committee have been implemented, but I feel that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) might have been a bit more magnanimous in his second reading speech and might have paid a tribute to those who are responsible, and in particular to John Jess, the former honourable member for La Trobe. [More…]
In fact we went to the extent, when I was Minister for Air, of sending a senior officer round to all the bases to explain the defence forces retirement benefits scheme and this had some effect. [More…]
1 am afraid that the present Minister for Defence, while he called for implementation of the report last year, was not prepared to see that there were problems if the report were implemented. [More…]
We then set up a committee to advise use of the criteria by which the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits pensions should be adjusted annually after retirement to maintain relativity. [More…]
The other point is that the administration and the responsibility for the DFRB Fund is now to be transferred to the Department of Defence from the Treasury. [More…]
But it was one of the recommendations which I, although I was Minister for Defence at the time, did not agree with. [More…]
The second reading speech of the Minister for Defence, Minister for the Navy, Minister for the Army, Minister for Air and Minister for Supply (Mr Barnard) is rather remarkable in its tone. [More…]
So I hope that 12 September 1972 the present Minister for Defence referred in a question he asked to the subject matter of this legislation as ‘the Jess report’ and now he refers to it as the culmination of steps he initiated. [More…]
Irrespective of what the Minister claims, the Jess report is the result of a committee which was set up by the Gorton Government at the request of the then Government members defence committee and the returned soldiers committee. [More…]
The main recommendation that was contained in this report was that a completely new scheme should be introduced to replace the existing pre-1959 and post-1959 defence forces retirement benefits schemes. [More…]
The Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act is usually amended right at the end of a session when it is impossible for honourable members to read the amendments and understand what differences they make to the legislation or to consult people outside the Parliament in the Services or in the Public Service. [More…]
I deplore it because it is legislation which affects the lives of many people who are dedicated to the defence of this country. [More…]
It is important for all defence force personnel who are in receipt of retirement pay and those who serve and are looking forward to participating in retirement benefits eventually. [More…]
This Administration has had almost 6 months to have this legislation drafted but it has shown its obvious neglect for the welfare of our defence forces. [More…]
Indeed the whole area of defence has not received the attention that it deserves by this Government. [More…]
We had to wait until this afternoon to hear a report on this vital matter from the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Surely the defence of our country should have top priority, not the very low priority that appears to be given to it by the present occupiers of the Treasury bench. [More…]
The defence forces retirement benefits scheme is important to my area because there is within the electorate of Darling Downs the $10m Army aviation complex at Oakey, the 7SD at Hamilton in Toowoomba and the Army establishment at Cabarlah outside Toowoomba. [More…]
There needs to be some rationalisation in these spheres so that these widows and those who are injured in the performance of defence duties are not disadvantaged. [More…]
We heard in a statement on defence this afternoon by the Minister [More…]
I would suggest to the Minister, notwithstanding his great anticipation that he would fulfil the recruitment target by June of this year, that one of the best methods of attracting the young men of Australia into the various arms of the defence forces is to have an adequate defence forces retirement benefits fund. [More…]
I certainly do not want to enter into a debate on the historical background of the defence forces retirement benefits legislation, but it is quite clear that the honourable member has not studied the legislation. [More…]
I must confess that I had great difficulty in deciding or determining whether the honourable member was speaking on DFRB legislation or on the defence statement that I made this afternoon. [More…]
What I say in answer to that is that I have publicly acknowledged outside this Parliament on a number of occasions the contribution made by the Chairman of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation as well as by the honourable members for Isaacs (Mr Hamer) and Herbert (Mr Bonnett), both of whom have some experience in this matter. [More…]
Indeed, as a result of discussions which I had with departmental officials back in January of this year when I issued instructions that the legislation should be introduced in this session of the Parliament - these meetings involved not only officials of the Department of Defence but representatives of the certain respective Services, the Treasury and the Attorney-General’s Department - some adjustments were made to the original recommendations of the Jess Committee. [More…]
The appeal tribunal will hear appeals from ex-members of the defence forces or serving members of the defence forces who believe that they have been disadvantaged. [More…]
A contributor to the defence forces retirement benefits fund and another member will be appointed to it. [More…]
We are now evaluating a proposal that the land might be developed for various housing purposes including the housing needs of students, migrants, young married couples, aged persons and potential beneficiaries under Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
Closer to home we have witnessed the efforts by the left wing of the Labor Party to destroy the United States-Australia alliance and to have the joint United States-Australian defence bases in Australia removed. [More…]
He says that an approach to foreign policy which is solely an extension of defence policy is bad and he will avoid that. [More…]
The first is whether there is not an irreconcilable inconsistency between our attendance at such a conference as an observer on the one hand and on the other hand our maintenance of ANZUS and the Five Power Defence Arrangements and the continuance of American bases in Australia, including the North West Cape signal station. [More…]
The Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, referred to this yesterday in his defence statement. [More…]
The Minister for Defence in his statement yesterday referred to the strategic assessment that no direct threat to Australia was seen as being likely for the next 10 years. [More…]
The lesson is that this is not the time for us to relax into an ideological or theoretical dreamtime in foreign affairs or defence. [More…]
In this respect the Deputy Prime Minister has claimed that the ‘treatment of India by the previous Government is a prime example of neglect due to India’s perceived irrelevance to Australia’s defence’. [More…]
There is now an urgent need for the Government to make clear what its foreign policy and its defence policy - if one can be decided upon - amount to. [More…]
On the contrary, what we have done is solidly based on a clear appreciation of the gradual but nevertheless real shift in international affairs which has been going on for years and which can be summed up as a change from the bipolar world which characterised the years of the Cold War to the multipolar world which emerged from such events as the split between the Soviet Union and China, the integration of Europe through the European Common Market, the emergence of Japan as a major power and the Nixon Doctrine of greater self reliance in defence preparedness. [More…]
After all, our relations with the United States span a far wider spectrum than the matters of defence that are relevant to the ANZUS Pact. [More…]
As I have said previously, we continue to value highly the great contribution to the development of our defence capability which flows from our close association with the United States in various areas of defence. [More…]
In security matters our closest relationship is with the United States of America, but that does not rule out participating in the peacekeeping operations of the United Nations, honouring our obligations to our partners in the Five-Power Arrangements, including Malaysia and Singapore, encouraging the development of Association of South East Asian nations and the concept of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in South East Asia and engaging in defence co-operation with other countries in our region. [More…]
As I have argued elsewhere, even in defence policy, a negative approach is inadequate when it is possible to combine a policy of maintaining strong national defence forces at home with a policy of active defence co-operation with other countries through aid, training, technical assistance, joint exercises and continuing consultation. [More…]
Much of our defence aid to other countries contributes in a positive way to development. [More…]
One question that could be asked about our defence co-operation with the countries of our region is whether this does not conflict with our support for the ASEAN concept of a zone of peace, neutrality and freedom in [More…]
One of the ways of helping it to come about is for the various countries of the region to take more responsibility for developing their own defence capability. [More…]
The sort of defence co-operation which Australia now extends to these countries on an equal and friendly basis is well-designed to help raise national confidence by the gradual development of defence capabilities, which is one of the prerequisites of neutralisation. [More…]
So I do not see any contradiction between the sort of defence co-operation which Australia now offers and the ASEAN concept. [More…]
Of course, I know that what developing countries need in terms of assistance as much as or even more than defence aid is economic aid. [More…]
I have already mentioned that much of our defence aid in the region has an economic value to our neighbours and helps them in their development. [More…]
Also, the more defence aid that we provide the more they are relieved of the need to devote their own resources and scarce foreign reserves to building up their own defence capability and to use them for national development. [More…]
If this can be achieved by a constructive and positive defence policy, how much more can be achieved through our foreign policy. [More…]
I refer honourable members to the fact that our civil aid to Indonesia is 21/2 times the value of our defence aid, that we shall be giving even more economic aid to South Vietnam in the coming year than the previous Government did in the past, and that we intend to raise Australia’s level of official economic aid programs until they comprise 0.7 per cent of the gross national product by the end of the decade. [More…]
As I have indicated on a number of occasions both publicly and in this Parliament - in this context I have been supported by the Prime Minister - defence will follow foreign affairs, rather than vice versa as in the past. [More…]
The target strength of 31,000 was based on the advice of the Secretary, Department of Defence, the Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chiefs of Staff of the three Services who recommended, in December 1972, interim manning and organisation arrangements for the Australian Army pending the outcome of a study, for the first time, of the future size and shape of the Australian Regular Army. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The report will not be made available generally, but conclusions from it will be made public as appropriate when decisions are made and announced by the Government in the context of future Defence Programs. [More…]
Committee appointed to study the implications of the proposal, with special reference to the practical measures that may be taken to implement United Nations resolution 2832 (XXVI) of 16 December 1971, entitled Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace, will he indicate (a) the Government’s attitude towards the concept of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace in the terms set down in resolution 2832, (b) the implications for Australia of this proposal with particular reference to foreign and defence policy, (c) how many meetings the ad hoc Committee has held and how many of these Australia has attended and in what capacity and (d) what action Australia has taken as a member of the ad hoc Committee to date. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice; [More…]
What studies are under way with respect to the future role of submarines in our defence. [More…]
The size of the DDL is determined not only by, the need for range but also by requirements for sea keeping qualities the ability to deploy an area defence surface to air missile sytem and a medium calibre gun, the ability to operate two helicopters in all but the worst sea conditions and to accommodate at modern standards the ships company needed to operate and maintain the ship. [More…]
No studies specifically concerned with the future role of submarines in our defence are currently underway,, but it is planned to initiate a study on these lines shortly. [More…]
Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement (Servicemen) - Advances are provided by the Commonwealth to meet the full cost to the States of the provision by the State housing authorities of new dwellings, and the improvement of existing dwellings, rented to serving members of the Defence Forces. [More…]
undertaking, as a matter of urgency, construction of these standardised rail links in the interests of national defence and national development and [More…]
It is part of the Platform of the Australian Labor Party to undertake the construction of the North-South standardised rail link in the interests of national defence, national development, and to provide feeder services for the cattle raising resources of the Northern Territory and the western area of Queensland. [More…]
It came through in his defence in the electorate of the policy of the Government at the time he was a member and also in the way in which he championed many policies which in some regards were opposed to the interests of the people of his own electorate. [More…]
-I ask the Prime Minister: In view of the fact that security organisations must be answerable to Parliament in some manner, will he consider making the Australian Security Organisations answerable either to a subcommittee of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence or the appointment of a special parliamentary authority consisting of the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and one other member of the Government? [More…]
-The Opposition supports this measure which, as was pointed out by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), has 2 purposes. [More…]
Having said that, I believe that out of all responsibility I must comment on this legislation in the context of what the Government is doing in relation to defence spending and the defence of this country as a whole. [More…]
In the last sentence of his second reading speech the Minister for Defence states: [More…]
The Bill is complementary to other measures such as defence service homes and repatriation benefits which the Government is in the process of extending to servicemen not only in recognition of their occupation in present day circumstances but also in pursuit of the Government’s determination to provide an adequate volunteer force. [More…]
We have the extraordinary situation that on the one hand the Government, by means of this measure, is spending money in providing these benefits- I do not know how much; the Minister did not put any cost on the proposals- but, on the other hand, in the interests of economy and in order to find money to finance the vast welfare proposals which this Government has it is ruthlessly cutting back on defence expenditure as a whole. [More…]
It seems to me to be quite extraordinary to say, as the Minister has said, that the Government is providing the measures contained in this legislation in order to provide an adequate volunteer force and that, because the Government gives such a low priority to defence as a whole, it puts a limitation on the manpower for the Services in the interests of the economy. [More…]
It is not based on the interests of the security of the country but it is based purely on a desire to economise and to reduce defence spending. [More…]
We all know that the Army and the Department of Defence have advocated an army of 38,000 men. [More…]
If the Government were prepared to accept the recommendations of its defence advisers it would at the very least be accepting every recruit that comes forward. [More…]
It is now clear in the total picture that I have presented why he gave these particular undertakings, all wrapped up in the guise of the suggestion that the Labor Party is interested in the welfare of servicemen and in the defence of the country. [More…]
He gave these undertakings at that time because he wished quite deliberately to allay public disquiet about the prospects of a Labor government in charge of the defences of this country and particularly in the context of an undertaking to abolish overnight the national service scheme. [More…]
As in so many fields, the Government set out in a deliberate attempt to mislead the country about its bona fides in the defence field and to quieten public distrust of the Labor Party. [More…]
One of the reasons for that was that servicemen in those electorates instinctively knew that a Labor Party government could not be trusted with defence; that, whatever the Labor Party might do about providing marginal benefits of this sort as a vote winning device, when it came to establishing priorities defence would be very low down on the list. [More…]
It has even been suggested that the inadequate Army of 34,000, which the Minister for Defence announced as the Government’s decision only a few months ago. [More…]
Just as importantperhaps more important- in persuading people in the community to volunteer for the armed Services is the creation of a feeling that the government of the day will not renege on its obligation to maintain adequate defence forces; that if a person comes into the Services he will have an assured career; that the Services operate on a scale which guarantees him an assured career; that there are opportunities for advancement; and that he will have interesting and gainful training and things of that sort. [More…]
This is what servicemen had under the defence policy of the previous Government. [More…]
Over that period people were able to see for themselves that the Government meant business, that there was a career that meant something, that the Government was serious about the Army and defence. [More…]
I believe that despite the honouring of these commitments, made partly as bribes in certain key seats and partly to allay public disquiet about the defence policies likely to be pursued by the Labor Party if it came to office, the other actions in the defence area taken by this Government demonstrate without a shadow of doubt that it has very little interest at all in defence; that defence comes very low in the priorities it has set. [More…]
The feeling in the community and in the armed forces that this is the attitude of the Government to defence will more than compensate for any recruiting advantages that this sort of measure will have. [More…]
We do not oppose the Bill because we are genuinely interested in defence and the welfare of servicemen. [More…]
Anything that is done to improve the conditions of service and the welfare of servicemen will receive our support but we condemn the Government for its overall approach to defence. [More…]
-The speech made by the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes), the shadow Minister for Defence, was extremely interesting from a number of points of view. [More…]
Then he launched an attack on the Labor Government for its entire defence policy, particularly in relation to manpower and equipment. [More…]
I found his speech interesting because one does not have to be very old to recall the parlous state of Australia’s defence forces in 1963, at the time of confrontation between Indonesia and Malaysia, and the situation that was arrived at after 14 years of Liberal-Country Party rule. [More…]
The Labor Party in government does not pretend that it can sort out the problems of Australia ‘s defence forces in a very short space of time. [More…]
It will take quite a number of years to overcome the effects of the policies of the previous Government and its neglect of equipment, accommodation and decent working conditions for our armed forces, together with proper pay scales and a decent defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]
The new proposals of the Government will be the subject of statements to be made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) in this session. [More…]
One recalls that the report of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation, which was chaired by the previous honourable member for Latrobe and of which the Deputy Chairman was the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) who is now the Treasurer, was brought down last year but that it was not accepted by the previous Government. [More…]
The defence forces must be shown to be as necessary, and their conditions as attractive, as any other pursuit in the community. [More…]
Defence pay and allowances will be automatically adjusted each year to preserve their purchasing power. [More…]
The report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Committee, on which our shadow Minister for Defence and Treasurer served, will be adopted without equivocation or delay; those who have greater benefits under existing legislation will retain those benefits. [More…]
the defence forces of Australia in the policy speech which I have just read. [More…]
The date 2 December 1972 was a watershed in the history of the defence forces of this nation. [More…]
Of course now we have the shadow Minister for Defence talking about the fact that the Government has the luxury of more recruits offering for the Australian Regular Army than are actually needed. [More…]
I have referred to the new pay scales introduced by this Government and, as the Minister for Defence who is at the table has correctly said, in this legislation- and this will be reflected in the Budget that comes down this evening- all of the commitments made to the serving forces of this country will have been carried out by the Labor Government. [More…]
I would like to take the opportunity of paying a tribute to the Minister for Defence for the vigorous way in which he has given leadership to the defence forces of this country. [More…]
In the comparatively short period of time that he has been the minister he has brought to his duties a capacity for hard work, a clear understanding of the defence problems of this nation, a sympathy for serving personnel and an understanding of the problems of our defence forces. [More…]
As a result of this the defence forces of this country are about to make very great progress under the Labor Government. [More…]
We followed the comments that were made by the honourable member for Barker, the shadow Minister for Defence, who was the previous speaker, about the results of the last election. [More…]
The honourable member for Brisbane (Mr Cross) who has just resumed his seat waxed eloquent, and was supported by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) who is at the table, in talking about the Labor Party’s efforts since it has been in Government in building up our armed forces. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence said in his speech this measure has been designed in pursuit of the Government’s determination to provide an adequate volunteer force. [More…]
I put to the Minister for Defence, the Government and the people of Australia that there are dangerous signs with respect to the weakening of Australia’s defence forces. [More…]
I think that these implications parallel the insults he has already served on many officers in the armed forces and the insults in his recent speech of 30 May when he implied that the Defence Forces Development Committee was currying favour with the Government. [More…]
He referred to the members of this Committee as the Secretary of the Department of Defence,2 sailors,1 airman and1 solitary soldier. [More…]
During the recess I was privileged to engage in a tour of Service establishments with my colleagues on the Government’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. [More…]
Part IV of the Defence Re-establishment Act is very wide in its application, and this is desirable as it enables the Minister to make arrangements for post-discharge vocational training where it is considered necessary or desirable for effective re-establishment. [More…]
Provisions in this Bill delete means test provisions for regular servicemen where the Social Services Act 1947-1973 already applies to national servicemen under the existing Defence Re-establishment Act. [More…]
Although the means test provision of the Social Services Act will still apply to former national servicemen, pursuant to Part V of the Defence Re-establishment Act, it is not considered that this will disadvantage former national servicemen in practice. [More…]
In the first place, the few persons eligible for benefits under Part V and Part V/A of the Defence Re-establishment Act will almost invariably be eligible for invalid benefits available under other legislation anyway. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
As part of the Government’s re-organisation of Defence administration, the separate Service Departments are to be abolished. [More…]
The relative position of senior Service and civilian officers in the future Defence structure is an integral consideration in the re-organisation studies now being carried out. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon, notice: [More…]
Similar provision will be included in the Defence (Discipline and Justice) Bill. [More…]
Department of Defence, Canberra 6 Engineer Stores Regiment, Penrith [More…]
Joint Defence Space Communication Station, Woomera [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The Department of Defence does not have any authorities in rented premises. [More…]
The details regarding accommodation rented for the Department of Defence would have been covered by the reply given by the Minister for Services and Property to Question No. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Has the Department of Defence prepared adequate contingency plans to be ready to deploy forces in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, New Britain or Bougainville if any rebellion breaks out there after independence and proves too strong for the authorities at Port Moresby to deal with? [More…]
It is also important to mention that last night we heard the Government dishonour its pledges on defence expenditure, a point that seems to be overlooked in some commentaries today. [More…]
Far from maintaining defence expenditure the Government has provided only 2.8 per cent to 2.9 per cent of gross national product to be spent on defence in the current financial year, compared with the provision of 3.3 per cent last year. [More…]
Given the rate of inflation which Labor continues to condone and has come to depend upon, the amount provided clearly will be inadequate to enable realistic development of our defence forces. [More…]
In real terms it amounts to a serious diminution of our defence effort. [More…]
Our diplomacy and international reputation will be in question if we do not show others that we are prepared to make a proper effort towards our self defence. [More…]
by leave - The defence vote for 1973-74 is$1, 345m. [More…]
My purpose this evening is to set out some of the Government’s thinking on defence, with particular reference to the strategic situation we now find, the capabilities which exist in our forces, and in the light of these the financial and other provisions which should now be made for defence. [More…]
Labor policy calls for a strong and valid defence capability that will demonstrate beyond all doubt the nation’s intention to defend itself and its vital interests. [More…]
There can be no neglect of defence. [More…]
In determining policy regarding the shape and size of the defence force and its capabilities, at any time the government of the day will give first consideration to the strategic prospect facing the nation. [More…]
It will assess the possibility of military pressure or threats against Australia and of other situations which might require evidence of defence strength or some involvement of the defence force. [More…]
The principal findings, however, are clear and I believe that they allow us to plan our defence policy with a good measure of confidence. [More…]
We shall regularly review the asessment made now to allow timely decisions for the development of the defence force should future assessments indicate a requirement for this. [More…]
We and our advisers do not at present foresee any deterioration in our strategic environment that would involve consideration of the commitment of our defence force to military operations to protect Australia’s security or strategic interests. [More…]
We are maintaining the defence co-operation program with Indonesia begun under the previous Government and I have said that we shall support a successor program. [More…]
Close defence understanding with the Government of Indonesia is at all times important to Australia and I much welcome our fruitful and friendly exchanges with Indonesia in this field. [More…]
In Papua New Guinea there is now a clear movement towards final independence and we are closely involved with the Government there in discussions about the development of its defence force. [More…]
Regarding internal security, honourable members will have noted the important statement on 20 August by the Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations in the Papua New Guinea Government, Mr Kiki. [More…]
As I have said, we shall review it regularly so that as any changes are discerned they can, as necessary, be reflected in defence policy and in the development of our military forces. [More…]
In the meantime, it sustains contact and co-operation in a variety of practical defence fields and in consultations about defence and security matters that are of advantage to all 3 partners in the alliance. [More…]
This assessment of the situation Australia is likely to face in the next decade does not, of course, mean that Australia can dispense with defence strength. [More…]
We must maintain a defence capabilty that accords with our foreign policy. [More…]
We must maintain our ability to be a source of military advice, technology and training which are helpful in the development of the defence capabilities of other countries in our region with whom we maintain defence co-operation and aid programs. [More…]
But the favourable strategic prospect allows us an opportunity to review and rationalise, to promote more efficient and economical defence capabilities. [More…]
After the more or less continuous defence expansion of the last 10 years, it is a time for taking stock, for pruning back activities whose original purpose has changed and for eliminating redundancies that have crept into our force structure. [More…]
Where new acquisitions of equipment and other costly defence expenditures can be reduced or deferred without prejudice to the essential capabilities of our defence forces, we intend to use the resources for higher community priorities. [More…]
But it must have sufficient modern defence components and skills and be of the size and organisational framework that would permit expansion in time of need. [More…]
We should all be conscious of the fact that Australia has developed over the past decade a very significant level of defence capabilities. [More…]
There has been a very substantial growth in manpower and equipment, and in some forms of defence facilities, although not in others, Much modern and complex equipment has been introduced or is on order. [More…]
Along with this, we ought to reduce or retire any defence capabilities which we believe have a lower priority in the future or which can be readily re-developed. [More…]
All these considerations are leading to a thorough re-assessment of our defence forces. [More…]
I turn now to the current provision that is being made for maintaining and developing the capability of our defence forces. [More…]
The main elements of the maritime force are the ships and other vessels and maritime aircraft which provide for maritime defence, surveillance, patrol and other maritime roles. [More…]
The naval component has the type of units which contribute - especially in conjunction with maritime patrol aircraft and aircraft providing strike attack and defence - to meeting the appropriate fundamental requirements for the protection of Australia and its immediate environment. [More…]
The Government recognises the importance of naval strength to Australian defence preparedness, and has endorsed the need for a new destroyer acquisition program for the Navy to maintain its strength in the 1980’s. [More…]
We have to bear in mind that a high proportion of defence expenditure is already committed to strengthening our maritime capability rather than other needs. [More…]
In the light of that decision I have directed the Defence Navy investigators to examine naval development overseas, taking into account also the current strategic assessment to which I earlier referred. [More…]
aircraft and 87 Mirage air defence and ground attack fighters. [More…]
We have carefully reviewed the present provision for air defence capability. [More…]
While recognising the dual role of air defence and ground attack for the Mirage fighters, and the need to maintain complex skills in both these areas, our strategic situation can no longer justify maintaining four squadrons of costly Mirage flying effort. [More…]
Our Mirage aircraft provide Australia with an air defence force that is very unlikely to be outclassed in our strategic area of concern. [More…]
In 1973-74 some $7 13m, that is, no less than 53 per cent of the $ 1345m appropriation for defence, is expected to be spent directly on Service and civilian pay. [More…]
It is essential to make more money available for major equipments, for much needed improvements to Service accommodation, for improvements to defence bases and for other capital projects that will put Australia in a better position in future years to meet a threat should one arise. [More…]
Flowing partly from the review of Service activities which I have already discussed, and partly from achievable economics in the use of manpower, reductions in defence manpower will be effected. [More…]
Civilian manpower in the Defence group of departments will be reduced by about 4,500 or 9 per cent during 1973-74. [More…]
These reductions will include the Defence Research and Developments Laboratories, supply factories and naval dockyards, to which I will refer later. [More…]
I am satisfied that these cuts in manpower represent necessary and indeed in some cases overdue economies and will not impair the defence capabilities we need in present circumstances. [More…]
Construction work will be undertaken at Williamstown Naval Dockyard to offset the results of the various decisions taken in reviewing the defence program on the workload of this dockyard. [More…]
The second thing that happened in the House, and I make only a passing reference to it, is that we had a defence statement which virtually set out the liquidation of any effective defence capacity. [More…]
Australia’s defences seem weaker by this. [More…]
Exemption of a motor vehicle under item 135 in the First Schedule to the Sales Tax (Exemptions and Classifications) Act is available to a person who has served in the Defence Force or in any other armed forces of Her Majesty and who, as a result of that service: [More…]
In view of the controversy which has arisen in Western Australia over transport difficulties of prisoner-of-war survivors of the United States vessel ‘Houston’ going to Western Australia for a reunion and appeals which have been made to give them financial assistance, will the Minister for Defence clarify the past practice in these matters? [More…]
With characteristic behaviour a former Miinster for Health, now the Opposition spokesman on, 1 think, defence, although I am not sure we have heard from him on that subject, was exaggerating when he wrote that letter. [More…]
Can the Minister for Defence advise whether the present orders for Nomad aircraft placed with ‘the Government Aircraft Factories are sufficient to maintain the workload in that establishment, and whether additional orders have been received for Ikara missiles and other products of GAF? [More…]
Will the measures announced in the Minister’s defence statement last night affect the projected delivery dates for orders of Nomad aircraft? [More…]
There will be no alteration to the existing program regardless of any decisions that the Government has made and which I announced last night in the defence statement. [More…]
I ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether he recalls stating in the preelection period that a Labor Government would accept the responsibility for ensuring that ‘its target for defence spending will not fall below the level of 3.2 per cent to 3.5 per cent of gross national product set by Liberal-Country Party governments in recent years’. [More…]
However, I ought to make it perfectly clear in the House this morning as I did last night in my statement that when I assumed responsibility as Minster for Defence I immediately began an investigation into all aspects of defence, it being the first occasion on which we were in a position to deal with all segments of the defence administration; that is, the 3 separate Service ministries as well as the [More…]
Defence Ministry. [More…]
Again I should point out that a government has a responsibility to determine what amount of gross national product or gross domestic product should be spent on defence, but it has to make that decision together with other decisions that the Government finds necessary, particularly in relation to our existing program to improve education facilities in this country and to provide greater security opportunities for the citizens of Australia, and indeed in all of the domestic programs. [More…]
There has been a fluctuation in the defence expenditure in this country. [More…]
This morning on the Australian Broadcasting Commission ‘AM’ program the Leader of the Opposition said that he believed that the spending of the previous Government on defence was correct. [More…]
In 1962-63, when the previous Government was talking about confrontation and the danger that arose to this country as a result of confrontation, the defence expenditure was only 2.6 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
Because the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has made an accusation that I did not mention in my defence statement what percentage of GNP or GDP defence expenditure would actually be this year, I say quite unequivocally that it will be 2.9 per cent of GNP. [More…]
I have set out a clear statement of policy in relation to defence. [More…]
It has been accepted without equivocation by the Department of Defence, which has been most co-operative in the discussions I have had with it over a very long period. [More…]
We have arrived at what we believe to be a realistic figure, in a no threat period, to provide for the defence of this country. [More…]
As many honourable members know, the Commonwealth under the Constitution is able to acquire land only for defence purposes or for special Commonwealth purposes. [More…]
By agreement with Papua New Guinea, defence and foreign relations will remain reserved to Australia until Independence. [More…]
Recently, at the request of the Chief Minister, I created the portfolio of Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations. [More…]
But, it seems to me that if the country is oceanic and depends mainly on naval defence which does not press down on it the monarchy does not become completely identified with militarism and therefore monarchies have survived better in fringe or oceanic countries around the world. [More…]
I simply say that in defence of the action that has been taken. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
In view of statements made in the House by himself and his colleagues that in recent years too little defence expenditure was on hardware, has he examined in what way he will increase the percentage of the defence vote for hardware. [More…]
Based on the review of the strategic situation by this Government, an examination is being made of all aspects of Australian defence. [More…]
These include size, composition and capabilities of the forces, location of defence facilities and industrial base. [More…]
Anintegral part of these investigations is consideration of the proportion of defence expenditure on hardware. [More…]
Other investigations currently underway include the Committee of Inquiry into the CMF, location of defence facilities and the Light Destroyer investigation. [More…]
The results of these investigations will be reflected in future provisions for defence expenditure, and may, where appropriate, be made public. [More…]
Defence Expenditure: Items Manufactured in Australia (Question No. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Did he say that he would ensure that a greater proportion of defence expenditure would in future be spent on items manufactured in Australia? [More…]
It is the Government’s intention to place a greater proportion of defence orders in Australia. [More…]
In opening the 1973 Industrial Mobilisation course at Westernport on 12 February 1973 I re-affirmed the importance of Australian industry to the nation’s defence capability and said that given the current strategic situation the opportunity is available to develop the industrial sector as an integral part of the nation’s defence potential. [More…]
This implies that the ability of Australian industry to provide or modify equipment to meet new threats is a vital element in any attempt to achieve self sufficiency in our defence efforts. [More…]
It is therefore for sound strategic reasons that the Government is determined to increase the proportion of defence expenditure which goes to Australian industry as suppliers of equipment to the nation’s defence forces. [More…]
I am confident that as Australian industry gains more experience in the production of modern defence equipment there will be improvements in its ability to produce, economically, equipment with performance equal to the stringent requirements of our Services. [More…]
In the longer-term a stronger and better balanced total defence capability will result, with Australian industry able to take initiatives in design of advanced equipment of unique characteristics for our use and possible export. [More…]
Each case will be treated on its merits in the light of the total costs and benefits to the nation’s defence capacity before decisions are made on local production of defence equipment. [More…]
I believe equally that if the right honourable member for Higgins had not displayed very great persistence and some political courage in the months immediately following his departure from the Prime Ministership to the Ministry for Defence, the project would certainly have been dropped by his successor. [More…]
It relates not only to the peaceful use of atomic energy; it also must have some implications in the defence field. [More…]
I would like to say something briefly about the implications in the defence field. [More…]
680) Mr Garland asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Has he received representations from the Western Australian Government for land held by the Australian Government for defence purposes to be handed to the State Government for tourist development. [More…]
Service Act, together with the Defence Forces, but excludes persons in the above categories employed overseas and persons employed in other Commonwealth bodies such as statutory authorities. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Did he, in answer to a question by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition directed to elicit whether one man was capable of handling all 5 Defence portfolios, say that the Moreshead Committee had recommended the system that the Government had introduced [More…]
-for integration of the Defence Group of Departments when they are announced later in 1973, will he make public the Moreshead Committee Report. [More…]
A central recommendation of the Moreshead Committee was that the Minister for Defence should have the pre-eminent authority for Departments in the Defence Group. [More…]
My answer on 7 March this year to the question by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition about the ability of a single Minister to carry the responsibility for all the Defence Group Departments made clear that the Government has given effect to that recommendation. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
This was after consideration of the matter by an inter-departmental committee consisting of representatives of the Departments of Defence, Treasury, Works and the Services. [More…]
Such accommodation was considered outmoded and inadequate in the context of a modern all volunteer Defence Force and comparable facilities provided in the civilian area. [More…]
That cost will be met from within the allocation made for expenditure on Service works proposals within the total Defence Vote. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Did he, or someone acting under his authority, issue a directive within the Department of Defence to the effect that, in respect of all correspondence and all intra-departmental memoranda dealing with the conditions of employment or with any industrial matters, an extra copy of such correspondence and memoranda be prepared and forwarded to the President of the ACTU. [More…]
Where the Australian Defence Services own or rent a number of housing units in State housing commission areas - again, as is the case in my electorate - would it be possible to use them for emergency ‘ housing purposes when they are vacant, as I have been advised is not uncommon? [More…]
In fact, I would regard it as quite immoral not to utilise it for other purposes in the event of defence personnel not having a proper requirement for those facilities. [More…]
It will have been noticed that our defence forces are being so reduced that there is no likelihood that any intelligent person will be able to look at our defence forces and regard our foreign policy as significant because it might be backed by some credible force to represent an Australian effort of support for some friend who was in need. [More…]
Although this has been done deliberately, and at a time when defence expenditure has been reduced in order to provide vast social services that will further inflate the economy, it has managed to dovetail into the aims of the foreign policy change of posture. [More…]
It seriously weakens Australia’s defence capabilities by reducing expenditure to 2.9 per cent of gross national product in contradiction to the promised level of 3.5 per cent. [More…]
The Opposition says that we should have increased defence spending. [More…]
After all, it was only the other night that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) said that there were plenty of jobs in the city areas. [More…]
Shall I speak of defence and refer to the sickening humiliation suffered by each of our armed Services all because a group of fanatics compelled by a dedication to foreign ideologies wants to throw into jeopardy the safety and security of our people? [More…]
I return now to a subject I referred to when I opened my address, namely, the critical defence of this nation. [More…]
I have spoken about our economy and our quality of life, but all of this is of little consequence if we do not have the capacity at least to provide a realistic base on which our defence can be quickly mobilised and the security and protection of our people assured. [More…]
I accuse and indict the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) who, with almost a drooling satisfaction, has emasculated our defence capacity. [More…]
Soon there will not be a career serviceman left in any of these defence forces. [More…]
The civilian defence staff is to be cut by 4,600. [More…]
The basic contradiction between our new defence policy and our new foreign policy - and the broken promises involved - will be dealt with on the debate on the defence statement. [More…]
Secondly, the proposal appeared to rest on the assumption that neutral countries need no defences. [More…]
As Cambodia and Laos know only too well, an expressed desire for neutrality is no defence. [More…]
The price of neutrality, as Sweden and Switzerland know, is sufficient defence to deter aggression It is dishonourable for Australia, in order to withdraw its own commitment, to try to foist on the area a concept of neutrality which is unworkable and probably dangerous. [More…]
The idea is one that could open up an enormous area for development, tourism, transport and defence, but it has to have the backing of governments if it is to succeed. [More…]
As a defence road the highway would be invaluable. [More…]
It is no wonder that Government supporters who have spoken in this debate have found it impossible to present logical arguments in the Budget’s defence. [More…]
It is not a defence Budget because defence spending in real terms is to be cut down. [More…]
I refer to the disgraceful way that this Budget is running down our defence capability. [More…]
I would like the Minister for ‘Defence (Mr Barnard) or someone who has the capacity to tell me what would happen if a situationand I think this could well happen - developed in Papua New Guinea whereby there was some major disturbance such as a civil war, perhaps an invasion or some threat to Australian expatriates in that country. [More…]
I suggest that the way this Government is heading, in scrapping defence and putting emphasis on welfare, we will see the day when we will be as ill-prepared to defend ourselves or to honour our commitments as we were in 1939. [More…]
Secondly, there is the Defence Services homes program. [More…]
Honourable members opposite often accuse us of being indifferent to the defence needs of the country and those who serve in our defence forces but who can continue to say that in the face of these revelations: The allocation for defence service homes has increased by 37 per cent to $102m; the provision for housing in the territories is up by 31 per cent to $5 1.3m; and Aboriginal housing funds have increased by 123 per cent to $32.4m. [More…]
There is also an increase of 20 per cent in the sum appropriated for defence service homes. [More…]
We have seen a cut in defence expenditure and the brazen demolition of the nation’s defences. [More…]
Perhaps the biggest joke of all is the amalgamation of the Departments of the Army, the Navy and Air with the Department of Defence. [More…]
Under the amalgamation the Deputy Prime Minister will be responsible for the Army, Navy, Air and Defence Departments. [More…]
The Labor Party said that it would hold spending on defence at 3.5 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
Then the poor little embattled Deputy Prime Minister came up with that worried look over his face and said: ‘I confess we have cut down spending on defence from 3.5 per cent in real terms to 2.6 per cent in real terms’. [More…]
Yet the Government has the cheek to go around and say: ‘We are going to defend Australia; we are going to play our part in regional defence arrangements; and furthermore we are going to walk the stage of the world and be a powerful middle power.’ [More…]
Notwithstanding this the Deputy Prime Minister will now be responsible for Army, Navy, Air and Defence. [More…]
During the last 6 months we have seen the depletion of our national defence forces. [More…]
Repatriation benefits will be extended to members of the regular defence force. [More…]
These changes, Mr Speaker, are an indication of the responsibility that this Government accepts in relation to those who have served their country in time of need, and now those who voluntarily make up the country’s defence forces. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to make the changes necessary in what will become the Compensation (Australian Government Employees) Act - in lieu of the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Act - to complement the new provisions to be included in the repatriation legislation that will put into effect the Government’s decision to extend repatriation benefits to members of the Defence Force in respect of disabilities related to defence service on and after 7 December 1972. [More…]
The members of the defence force who will benefit from the extension of repatriation benefits to peace time service were described in general terms by my colleague, the Deputy Prime Minister, in the course of his second reading speech on the Repatriation Bill (No. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that complete details of the new benefits to be provided by this Government for members of the forces and the necessary requirements to be fulfilled for eligibility were given by my colleague when he was introducing the Defence (Re-Establishment) Bill on 22 May 1973. [More…]
The former provides that the Compensation Act does not apply in relation to service of a member of the defence force in respect of which provision for the payment of a pension is made by the repatriation legislation. [More…]
It has the undoubted responsibility for the defence of the superjacent waters, the control of navigation and the apprehension of smugglers and wrongdoers in these waters. [More…]
I have always opened my election campaigns on the subject of defence. [More…]
The defence and the feeding and clothing of people, I feel, are the first duties of any government. [More…]
I have much to say on defence. [More…]
I prefer to leave my comments at the moment until the estimates for the Department of Defence are considered. [More…]
To finance this type of exercise and to help towards balancing the books, we have action on one hand to disadvantage private enterprise, which really generates the nation’s wealth, to discriminate particularly against the primary producer and the mining industry and to downscale the defence capacity and, on the other hand, to inflame inflation further by increasing indirect taxes. [More…]
Whilst no one believes there is an external threat to Australia at the present time, Labor has a responsibility to maintain adequate defence capacity. [More…]
Labor has deliberately downscaled our defence capacity particularly in the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force in order to assist it to pay for its socialist policies. [More…]
Then there is the deplorable defence vote. [More…]
It is a national tragedy being acted out by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
It ranges from taxation of old age pensioners to sociological and economic discrimination against Australians in country areas to promotion of greater inflation and reduction in our defence effort. [More…]
It is also a disaster for Australia generally and for our defence system. [More…]
I preface my question, which I direct to the Minister for Defence, by informing him that townspeople and primary producers along both sides of the Murray River system have been striving for days to contain the worst floods in that area in living history. [More…]
However, today the districts of Kerang and Swan Hill are facing a renewed and critical threat and I ask the Minister: If a request is forthcoming from civil defence officials who are meeting this morning will he make available Army support to the hundreds of exhausted volunteers who are reaching the end of their physical endurance patrolling and reinforcing flood protection measures? [More…]
The Australian Government, as its predecessors have done, has always recognised that a contribution can be made by defence forces when a national disaster occurs. [More…]
In this situation if a request is received from the Victorian civil defence authorities, the Victorian Government, or indeed the honourable member, I will be happy to give it consideration and to ensure that support is available if it can be used for that purpose. [More…]
Will the Minister for Housing inform the House what further progress has been made in proposals to develop the 18 acres of Belmont Shire land which was resumed for defence purposes but has since been declared redundant for defence and is now required by the Belmont Shire for aged persons housing? [More…]
But let me just start off with the promise that a Labor Government would spend 3.5 per cent of the gross national product on defence. [More…]
On the subject of defence that publication stated that an Australian Labor Party Government’s defence concept would be to allocate not less than 3.5 per cent of Australia’s gross national product for defence in each annual Budget. [More…]
One could go on with the disastrous situation relating to defence. [More…]
This in the matter of defence service homes. [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister is aware of this, but it has been put pretty definitely to me that defence service homes or war service homes loans, as we knew them, are becoming dirty words in a number of localities. [More…]
But I do question this Government and the present Minister for allowing it to continue, especially in view of his statements that young people would be encouraged to purchase their own homes and his introduction of legislation to ease the qualifications of eligibility for servicemen to take advantage of the defence service homes loans. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister that regional offices of the Department of Housing be established and so geared that they can deal with applications for defence service homes loans on the spot, and do away with the necessity of forwarding all applications to a capital city for processing, which in some instances could be more than 1,000 miles away. [More…]
Even though we are now out of Vietnam, even though the Republican President of the United States has forged a new detente with China and with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and even though there is not a country within 1,000 miles of Australia that appears to be remotely aggressive or expansionist - unless of course one thinks that New Zealand, since it went socialist, is a threat to Australia - clearly the Liberals would have spent some hundreds of millions of dollars more on defence. [More…]
The first of the 2 broad objectives is rapidly to expand the public sector by direct spending on goods and services, education, hospitals - or at least one hospital, in Parramatta - health services and the cities, but not defence. [More…]
The promise to maintain defence expenditure at about 3.5 per cent of gross national product is not kept. [More…]
The article states that public servants in the Departments of Defence, Primary Industry, Immigration, Housing, the Taxation Office and Repatriation will be transferred to new jobs. [More…]
They have criticised the fact that the Government has decided to keep expenditure on defence within reasonable limits and to spend what is consistent with our actual rather than our imagined needs. [More…]
The only defence available to that man was that of intoxication, to seek to reduce the charge to manslaughter. [More…]
The depositors with savings banks have for many, many years made it possible for people who get savings bank loans to build houses, to do so at lower interest rates than are available to any persons other than those who receive defence service housing. [More…]
Savings bank housing loans are the cheapest in Australia except for defence service housing loans. [More…]
I believe that a Government has a right to order killing in defence of the community. [More…]
These stem from Acts of the British Parliament which have been adopted under our various service defence Acts. [More…]
For example, the Defence Act of Australia creates certain offences by way of adapting to the purposes of the Australian Defence Forces the provisions of the Naval Discipline Act of the United Kingdom and the Army Act of the United Kingdom. [More…]
The Defence Act contains no provisions creating offences for which the penalty is death; these offences are created in the bodies of law which apply separately to the 3 Services. [More…]
By virtue of section 34 of the Naval Defence Act, the Naval Discipline Act 1957 of the United Kingdom, subject to adaptations, is applied in the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]
Sections 54 and 55 of the Defence Act apply to members of the Military Forces at any time serving overseas, and at all times during war, the provisions of the Army Act (U.K.) as it was at the date of its repeal in 1956 but subject to amendments effected to it by Australian Military Regulations. [More…]
No wonder the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) the other night called the Treasurer (Mr Crean), the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) three blind mice’, because they cannot see what they are doing. [More…]
It will not be a bought defence. [More…]
I think the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) would agree that tribunals are established for this purpose. [More…]
I believe the Minister for Defence and one senator have received complaints about the attitude adopted by a tribunal chairman. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence in his capacity as representative in this House of the Minister for Repatriation to pass on my comments to the Minister in the hope that in future the tribunal chairmen will adopt a more reasonable attitude. [More…]
Although the Minister for Defence introduced the Bill relating to benefits, the rumour persists in Sydney, Brisbane and north Queensland. [More…]
During a recent discussion between Sir Arthur Lee, who is the national President of the Returned Services League, and the Minister for Defence the Minister is reported to have said that, as far as he personally was concerned, the Repatriation Department would not be done away with. [More…]
There is no objection to their being used otherwise, provided that this specific purpose is not disturbed because the men and women whom the Repatriation Department was instituted to assist have, through their actions in defence of this country, earned the right to receive this assistance. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence to pass on these suggestions to the Minister for Repatriation. [More…]
When he was asked whether the Repatriation Department would be absorbed and abolished he said that as far as he and the Minister for Defence were concerned, they would strongly resist any attempt to bring that about. [More…]
On this point I urge the Returned Services League and other ex-service organisations to speak up loud and clear and to demand that the Repatriation Department be retained as a specialist organisation responsible for and to the 800,000 ex-service men and women who defended their country when defence was needed. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), who represents the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop) and who is now at the table, will answer those allegations categorically when he gets a chance later in this debate. [More…]
Of course, this legislation comes on top of what we are doing for the housing of servicemen, the vastly increased amount of money that has been made available for them, the increase in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme, the increase of salary payments and so on. [More…]
I want to explain to the honourable member and to the House that before the decision was made about Galston I had received no information on this site from the Department of Defence. [More…]
However, subsequent to the Government taking its decision I did receive a short statement through the Department of Defence and a submission from the Chief of the Air Staff. [More…]
However, as a detailed study is now being undertaken of the proposal to establish the second Sydney airport in the Galston area, the full implications for the Department of Defence will be considered at that time. [More…]
A further and more detailed in-depth study will be undertaken at the same time by the Department of Defence. [More…]
The honourable gentleman knows full well, because he is an avid newspaper reader, the concern and apprehension which many responsible groups and persons throughout this country feel about decisions which he and his Department have taken to reduce markedly Australia’s Defence Forces. [More…]
I do not want to make a political point about a situation in which the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence in this country comes into this House and apologises with candour and frankness. [More…]
Will the Minister tell the House - .because he has the responsibility for the defence forces of this country - whether he believes, as a result of reports which may be forthcoming in the House, that the decision which has been taken will have a retrogressive impact on the Royal Australian Air Force base at /Richmond? [More…]
Will he say if he is prepared to go back to the Cabinet, raise this matter again and ask the Cabinet, for the first time on this significant issue, to take into account the defence implications; to take into account the many representations which the Government has received; to take into account for the first time the views of the international consulting group which I understand was commissioned at a fee of some $500,000; and to take into account the views of the interdepartmental committee which has been sitting at both Commonwealth and State levels? [More…]
In other words is the Minister prepared for the first time in the history of this issue to tell the House that all of the facts will be put before the Cabinet and that the Cabinet will review this decision, or is he saying that the decision has been made and that, as Minister for Defence, he has to live with the results? [More…]
And is he therefore saying, against the background of what he has already said about the cutback in our defence forces, that the men and women at Richmond are to be sacrificed to a sloppy piece of decision making by a Government which has been in operation long enough to have done better? [More…]
Any Prime Minister who can claim - as the Prime Minister did yesterday - that the recent Budget provided the main defence against inflation, is capable of saying anything. [More…]
I hope the Australian people, whom the Prime Minister is asking to give him very strong powers, will weigh very carefully the credibility of his claim that the Budget, more than anything else, set up excellent defences against inflation. [More…]
The Australian Government was given powers for defence purposes. [More…]
I know that this is an extreme case but I have no doubt that if, for one reason or another, our founding fathers in 1900 had not seen fit to give the Australian Parliament power with respect to defence and we were now seeking such power because of some threat, the same voices would be heard from the Country Party and the Liberal Party saying: Do not give the Australian Parliament power. [More…]
Section 51 provides that the Parliament shall, subject to the Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to 40 different functions of government, such as taxation, naval and military defence, banking, currency, coinage and legal tender, and insurance. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will recall informing this House yesterday that the siting of Sydney’s second airport at Galston will cause - I use his words - difficulties for the Royal Australian Air Force base at Richmond. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Does the Minister agree with Major Peter Young, a member of the Australian Labor Party Federal Executive Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, who yesterday referred trenchantly to the Government’s slashing of the defence vote? [More…]
Will he reverse the trend, publicise and build up the Services and recognise that if his claims for a more independent defence force are to be achieved the Government must spend more on defence and not less? [More…]
I have not yet had the opportunity to look at the transcript of the statement made by Major Peter Young yesterday, but in any case Major Young is not the defence spokesman for my Party. [More…]
I am the Minister for Defence and the decisions will be made by this Party and by this Government and not by Major Young. [More…]
I offer no criticism about Denis Warner’s attitude towards defence and his ability probably to be able to comment on defence, but I merely say that honourable members ought to remember and probably take the opportunity to read some of the articles Denis Warner has written about South East Asia in recent years. [More…]
So I can dismiss Denis Warner’s attitude because what he has done is to set out deliberately ito lower the morale of the defence forces. [More…]
I take one issue as an example - the question of the defence forces retirement benefits legislation. [More…]
That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the honourable member for Kooyong from moving that this House condemns the Government and the Minister for Defence for damaging the morale of the armed forces and significantly reducing Australia’s defence capacity. [More…]
After all the invitation was extended to me by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) during his endeavour to answer a question that I posed. [More…]
It was bad enough for the Minister for Defence not to recognise that Galston was 15 miles from Richmond and that 2 direct consequences would flow from his dereliction of duty, namely, that the residents of Galston could be affected and - and the point so far as this resolution is concerned - the armed forces could well be affected as a consequence of the establishment of an airport at Galston. [More…]
No study has been made and therefore I move this motion because of the damage which will be done to the morale of the armed forces and the reduction in Australia’s defence capacity. [More…]
Comments have been made on the morale damage since this Government took office not merely by Mr Denis Warner but also by other correspondents and more particularly yesterday by the man the Minister for Defence had ghosting most of his speeches last year and during the 1969 election campaign. [More…]
I assume that the Government would not have him on the Australian Labor Party Federal Executive’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee unless it thought that he could make valuable contributions to the defence thinking and the defence posture of Australia. [More…]
Morale has been affected not only in the Services but also amongst those people who are working at defence establishments. [More…]
Honourable members do not have to rely on my word, they have only to ask the President of the Australian Labor Party and President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions who saw the Minister for Defence in a deputation a couple of days ago. [More…]
He indicated that workers are alarmed at the effects of cutbacks not only on Australia’s defence capacity but also on their own vocations. [More…]
Despite its many words in Opposition concerning the need for an increased proportion of defence procurement to be carried out in Australia, the Government is cancelling many orders that were placed by the previous Government. [More…]
There have been significant reductions in all areas of defence activity. [More…]
No wonder the Government prize possession on its foreign affairs and defence committee says that the morale is only 2 inches off rock bottom. [More…]
What about the Governments statements that it would retain defence expenditure at 3.5 per cent of gross national product? [More…]
I assume that the Minister for Defence will support the motion for the suspension of Standing Orders. [More…]
The Minister says that he wants a more independent defence policy. [More…]
How can he have a more independent policv if he is reducing defence expenditure? [More…]
The Opposition wants to expose it in detail by moving urgently today that so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent me from moving that this House condemns the Government and the Minister for Defence for damaging the morale of the armed forces and significantly reducing Australia’s defence capacity. [More…]
If the Minister visited defence establishments he would know it to be true. [More…]
The overwhelming reason why this House should now proceed to debate the motion of the honourable member for Kooyong is the fact that a clear invitation was extended to the honourable gentleman by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
I think the Minister was replying to matters which the honourable member raised, but I ask .the Minister for Defence to deal with the reasons why the Standing Orders should not be suspended. [More…]
Since I have assumed the responsibility of Minister for Defence I have made it perfectly clear not only in the Parliament but also outside the Parliament that as a result of the Government’s decision we will have an all volunteer army in Australia and that the size and shape of the Army for the 1970s had already been determined by the Government. [More…]
I suggest that the Minister for Defence should deal with the reasons why Standing Orders should not be suspended. [More…]
The first is that a defence statement was made in this House nearly a month ago and no opportunity has been given to this Parliament to debate it. [More…]
The motion moved by the honourable member for Kooyong has suggested that we should be given a chance to present the facts behind the reduction in the morale of the armed forces and the complete neglect by this Government of re-equipment programs which are so essential to enable Australia to maintain its defence capacity. [More…]
The second reason why Standing Orders should be suspended is that Major Peter Young, the pre-election spokesman on defence for the Australian Labor Party, has come out and condemned the Government, of which he would have been a member had he been elected, and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) for the way in which they are administering the defence portfolio. [More…]
It is essential that Standing Orders be suspended so that the Minister for Defence can demonstrate to us whether he has any competence. [More…]
When we have those 3 grounds for the suspension of Standing Orders - the defence statement that has not been debated; Major Peter Young, the principal spokesman for the Australian Labor Party prior to the election coming out and condemning the Labor Party and the Government for their inability and their failure in the defence field; and, finally, the Minister for Defence offering to debate the issue - it is absolutely imperative that there be an adequate opportunity for us to demonstrate in this Parliament how the morale of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force has been affected. [More…]
Even during question time today, the Minister alleged confidentiality in a defence report on the siting of the Galston airport. [More…]
I wonder whether perhaps the reason the Minister for Defence claims that the report is confidential is that it might suggest that Richmond no longer would be useable in an operational sense should Galston airport be proceeded with. [More…]
That is a typical form of defence of those interests by those honourable members. [More…]
The Commonwealth would of course still be responsible for the exercise of its constitutional powers such as defence, navigation, customs, exports and imports, etc. [More…]
External affairs and defence would remain a Commonwealth responsibility. [More…]
It was thought that the power over external affairs and defence would naturally remain with the metropolitan power - the administering authority - but that it may be wise to retain some area of responsibility over internal security. [More…]
Basically the Committee feels that it could be assumed that external affairs and defence would remain the responsibility of the Australian Government and that as far as other areas of government are concerned arrangements would be negotiated between the Territory Government and the Australian Government at the time. [More…]
While Australia would remain responsible for the Territory’s defence and external affairs, arrangements might be made for sharing of some police and internal security matters between the Governments of the Territory and Australia. [More…]
The next matter is not this Minister’s responsibility but that of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) who, I would remind the House, consistently criticised the previous Government on an unfounded basis for not making known sufficiently frequently the future standing, deployment and structure of the forces known as the Pacific Islands Regiment. [More…]
The Minister for Defence referred to the Pacific Islands Regiment in but one paragraph in a lengthy defence statement in this House. [More…]
He has a prime duty to advise the Parliament as to what program of defence arrangements related to Papua New Guinea is being determined by his Department, by the Department of External Territories and of course by the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Cabinet has agreed to a further destroyer program and this has been accepted in principle by the Department of Defence. [More…]
I suggest to you that the interests of this Parliament, the interests of parliamentary democracy and the interests of sticking to the rules of the House require you to say today to the honourable member for Sturt: ‘You are correct’, and then to say to the Minister for Defence: ‘You shall table today the whole of the document, and not that selected part which you have torn off from the document’. [More…]
But yesterday the Minister for Defence tabled as a document a single page. [More…]
In seeking your ruling this morning I wanted to obtain from you an indication whether as a member of this House I at this stage was entitled to seek your assistance to require the Minister for Defence to table the whole document which he tabled yesterday, the request for the tabling of which was never at any stage withdrawn. [More…]
They referred to the question of the gross national product in terms of defence spending in this country. [More…]
The document, according to the heading, relates to defence expenditure as a percentage of gross national product. [More…]
The top part of the paper refers to the percentage of gross national product in terms of defence spending from 1960 until 1974 in the same way that the only part I quoted in answer to the question relating to the strength of the defence forces related to 1959-60 to 1972- 73. [More…]
They show that in the financial year 1959-60 defence expenditure in this country was $387. [More…]
Yesterday at question time the Opposition was critical of the Government’s proposed defence expenditure as a proportion of gross national product. [More…]
The document shows just how much of the gross national product this Government has spent on defence. [More…]
I referred only to that part of the document which related to defence expenditure and to the size and shape of the Army from 1960-61 to 1972-73. [More…]
by inserting after sub-section (2) the following sub-sections: “ (2a) In the prosecution for an offence arising under paragraph (f) of sub-section (1), it is a defence if the employer satisfies the court that - [More…]
(2b) In a prosecution for an offence arising under paragraph (c) sub-section (1a), it is a defence If the employer satisfies the court that - [More…]
What the honourable member is doing is saying that it is a defence if the employer satisfies the court. [More…]
it is a defence if the employer satisfies the court that - [More…]
He has adequate grounds for defence. [More…]
His grounds for defence are enshrined in the statute. [More…]
That is a perfect defence and it gives the employer all that he needs. [More…]
If he looks at proposed sub-section 2B he will see that it goes on to state that in a prosecution for an offence arising under paragraph (c) of sub-section 1A, it is a defence if the employer satisfies the court of the matters set out in paragraphs (a) and (b). [More…]
It is a complete defence for the employer to be able to say that he acted reasonably having regard to the unlawful nature of the act which the person was performing or that he took the action because what the person was doing was unlawful under the civil and crimi-nal law. [More…]
In fact what the Opposition seeks to do is to remove from the Bill those sections which grant to the employer a defence in a prosecution against the abuses which it foresees. [More…]
When we introduced legislation to improve Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Fund payments for servicemen the Liberals said that they were going to do that. [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence received any reports of the reaction of the Royal Australian Air Force, Port Stephens Shire Council or the residents of the surrounding district to the disbanding of 76 Squadron at Williamtown? [More…]
The Weapons Research Estabishment at Salisbury and the Woomera range, which is associated with it, are both committed to programs of work concerned with approved Australian defence projects. [More…]
The joint project, which involves work for the Department of Defence, will proceed as planned. [More…]
I have received a report which indicated that a man had gone to gaol because there was complete confusion both on his part and the part of his defence about what the exact position was. [More…]
At that stage I was referring to the lack of information provided by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) about the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. [More…]
Last week I referred to the Force as the Pacific Islands Regiment and I am grateful to the Minister for reminidng me that in fact on 26 January an announcement was made that thereafter it would be referred to as the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. [More…]
I believe it is more than time for the Minister to advise this Parliament on the stage of negotiations reached between Papua New Guinea and Australia on the future structure, deployment, size, etc., of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. [More…]
I referred, for example, to consideration of organisation, training and other matters relative to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force which could be accomplished now without prejudice to its size and shape. [More…]
I referred to the need for study and consultations with and increased responsibility by Papua New Guinea authorities in defence matters right up to the time of independence. [More…]
Papua New Guinea now has a Minister for Defence, Mr Albert MaoriKiki. [More…]
We have heard little or nothing from the Minister for Defence about either the matters I have mentioned or the financial arrangements on defence between Papua New Guinea and Australia in the period of internal selfgovernment and at independence - that is, between 1 December and whatever date is agreed upon for independence. [More…]
Between 1 December and independence Australia will be dealing with defence and foreign affairs matters on behalf of Papua New Guinea but in conjunction with it. [More…]
With the attainment of self-government in Papua New Guinea Australia will still look after defence and foreign affairs but there is the matter of internal security. [More…]
It wants to throw that Government on to the international arena as far as foreign affairs, defence, internal security and currency are concerned. [More…]
I was delighted to hear the remarks of the honourable member for Kooyong about Albert Maori Kiki, who is the Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
By agreement with Papua New Guinea, defence and foreign relations will remain reserved to Australia until independence. [More…]
I notice, as the honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock) said that no pattern has been laid down for the future relations between the Papua New Guinea defence force and the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
I am not at all concerned about that situation because it encourages me to believe that the Government of Papua New Guinea, during the year or so prior to independence and in the years following independence, will be loath to spend money on military equipment and also to believe that the Australian people prefer to be in the position where they are able to recognise, in some way or another - perhaps by some mutual defence treaty or agreement - that we will be prepared to look after the external relations of Papua New Guinea conjointly in the future. [More…]
We have established also in the last few months a Ministry of Foreign Relations and Defence. [More…]
Several references were made in the course of the debate to defence. [More…]
It was for one of these reasons that the Ministry of Foreign Relations and Defence was established. [More…]
I might point out to honourable gentlemen opposite that it was because of their complete neglect and their complete incompetence that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) and I have had to put a great deal of effort into ensuring a sensible program in the defence relationships between Australia and Papua New Guinea in the future. [More…]
We called it the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. [More…]
As my colleague, the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, said on that occasion: [More…]
We have had these discussions with Papua New Guinea through the Minister for Defence as a result of his visit there within the first month - in January - of assuming office. [More…]
In these discussions with the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea it was agreed that consultations on defence matters would commence in March between officials of the Papua New Guinea Government and the Australian Government. [More…]
We have made it our firm view - our firm conviction: - that the ultimate decision concerning Papua New Guinea’s defence capability, its structure and role will rest with the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
Our role in these consultations has been to advise and to assist in the decision making processes and to bring to the attention of the Papua New Guinea authorities all factors relevant to the formulation of a suitable defence policy for an .independent Papua New Guinea. [More…]
So all the questions of organisation, role, size, localisation and training of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force is now a matter for close and continuing consultation with the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
In fact in May 1973 the Papua New Guinea Government issued policy guidelines in proceeding with the defence arrangements after the achievment of independence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has been in close consultation with the Papua New Guinea Government and we are convinced that this is the right way to proceed because the nature of the Defence Force for Papua New Guinea is primarily a matter for the Papua New Guinea Government itself to decide. [More…]
Other Ministers who have statutory responsibility in Papua New Guinea, such as the Minister for Defence, have been asked by the Prime Minister to consult with the Minister Assisting in discharging their own responsibilities so as to ensure adequate coordination. [More…]
The Government’s handling of the Hill End hostel has been so inept and studded with contradictions, bungles and indecision that even the staunchest Labor Party supporters in the area have long since ceased to play the pollyanna game in defence. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Defence Minister Lance Barnard may have lied to Parliament this week when he claimed Army recruiting was on the rise. [More…]
We have already had the rejection of a promise on defence spending by the [More…]
We had a statement on defence after the Government had reduced our defence forces to next to nothing. [More…]
That statement was answered by one member who was the spokesman on this side on defence matters. [More…]
Perhaps we willhavea debate on the Defence Estimates with 10 minutes allotted to each of 5 speakers. [More…]
I refer now to the parliamentary committees, and in particular the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
As a result of the separation of functions in the United States there is a system in which powerful congressional committees have been established with the right to summon and question the presidential appointees to particular positions, whether they be the Secretary of State, foreign affairs, defence or whatever the home affairs in that country are called, and the multifarious Cabinet positions in the United States. [More…]
I can remember one of the Defence departments on one occasion running out of travelling funds. [More…]
Consequently, whilst I appreciate many of the constructive suggestions that have been made tonight, I must point out that the Government’s record in the conduct of this Parliament needs no defence. [More…]
Would they cut back on defence? [More…]
-I desire to ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
I recently received a reply from Senator Bishop, the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence, which said: [More…]
I see it also as one of our greatest provisions for the defence of this country. [More…]
Perhaps Government members do not realise or subscribe to the view that we need a defence and security measure. [More…]
The Demo cratic Labor Party’s obsessions are defence and intrigue. [More…]
Did he at any time give an undertaking or commitment of any kind to the British Minister for Defence, Lord Carrington, to the effect that Australia would maintain its forces in Singapore under the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
Then there is the basic contradiction between our new foreign policy and our new defence policy. [More…]
But we cannot debate the statement of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) because the Government is not prepared to bring it on, when all its faults and absurdities would be revealed for all to see. [More…]
I want to point out that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden), the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch), the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony), the Deputy Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Sinclair) and other front bench members of the Opposition who have said repeatedly that there should be a cut down on Government expenditure have also said that the Government should increase the defence vote by $3 00m and the social services vote by over $100m. [More…]
It has diverted money from expenditure on defence and in other areas in which normally Australian people would expect it to be expended. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The information that had been conveyed to me by the Department of Defence was that enlistments were running at a satisfactory level. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member that if figures are available and have been supplied to him from the Department of Defence I will have no difficulty in obtaining them myself. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Northern Development as well as the Minister for the Northern Territory, if he be a different person, will consider this aspect because beef roads are of tremendous importance not only for the development of the Territory but also for the defence of Australia. [More…]
Before mentioning tonight an issue that is vital to hundreds of towns throughout Australia, I wish first of all to thank the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) for his immediate attention to my request for Army support in the flood stricken areas of the electorate of Mallee recently. [More…]
The arrival in Kerang of some 100 Army personnel the morning after I made a plea in this House for support was a great morale booster to the hundreds of volunteers, civil defence organisations and local, shire and State government authorities which had been battling for weeks to contain the worst floods in this district’s history. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence the following question: In view of the damage that could be caused by the threatened locust plague in New South Wales, could he give details of measures that have been taken to combat this plague? [More…]
Will the Minister for Defence provide the House with information on the many measures designed to achieve economies in defence expenditure, particularly those relating to cuts in training activity which He chose not to disclose in his statement on 22 August and in relation to which information has been dribbling out ever since with shattering effect on the morale of the Services? [More…]
Will he provide this information, together with the estimated savings, before the debate on the defence estimates takes place? [More…]
I did indicate in the defence statement that there would be some cut back, particularly in those areas of support to the Department of Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence and myself have had a number of discussions as late as yesterday on this matter and we are hopeful that at a very early date satisfactory orders will be placed with Walkers shipyard so that it can go on with the job of building ships. [More…]
As I said, the Minister for Defence and myself are hopeful of having before the end of this week a very satisfactory answer. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence and is supplementary to the question asked of him by my colleague the honourable member for Barker. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will be aware of the very serious concern throughout the Defence Services about the marked cutback that has taken place in training activities. [More…]
Further, in the context of the reduction in the training activity of the Defence Services, is he aware that his reported decision to provide Royal Australian Air Force assistance to the world gliding championships is deeply resented by senior officers as a political misuse of the RAAF? [More…]
Before 1 refer to the matters about which I am concerned in this grievance debate I should like to make passing comment on the answers given by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) a few moments ago in response to questions asked by the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) and to say how much I personally deplore the run down in Service activities, particularly in relation to the Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]
I trust that the Minister for Defence will have a look at the matter. [More…]
More than 9 per cent is in the pensioner medical service; 3 per cent is in repatriation services and the defence forces provide medical care for nearly 1 per cent. [More…]
There were 6 or 7 figures from the Federal Catholic Schools Committee; 5 representatives from the National Council of Independent Schools; 5 from the Council for the Defence of Government Schools; 3 from the Commonwealth Secondary Schools Libraries Committee and 2 from the Commonwealth Committee on Facilities for Non-Government Schools. [More…]
They are public administration and defence, community and business services, and ownership of dwellings. [More…]
Public administration and defence should be excluded because none of the product of this sector is sold on the market and the Commonwealth Statistician values the gross pro duct of this sector at the value of wages and salaries paid. [More…]
It is a shame that the Opposition cannot work up the same fervour in defence of people’s rights where private funds are concerned, where there is much more opportunity for abuse and prying and meddling in the medical records of private people than there will ever be under the program which we are introducing and which will have iron-clad guarantees to preserve the individual privacy of members. [More…]
I hope that some of the representations from the Council for the Defence of Government Schools will be absorbed by the buffer - the boards in the States - in addition to the Schools Commission being deluged with representations. [More…]
Last week the Minister for Defence and Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard) visited the Army installation in Townsville and made a statement to the effect that the married quarters for serving personnel, which we know were built by the Queensland Housing Commission and some private contractors, were su’b-standard. [More…]
If he had said that he and the Minister for Defence would see that these RAAF quarters were brought up to the standard of Army homes and other RAAF quarters as soon as possible, I would have supported him all the way. [More…]
An apology to the Army personnel and the civilians of Townsville would be in order and might undo some of the damage to public relations that the Minister for Housing and the Minister for Defence have caused. [More…]
Homes produced by a State Housing commission or by the Defence Service Homes Division may be of 16 different designs. [More…]
It is no use the honourable gentleman quibbling because I have the correspondence from the Queensland Minister and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) and can make it available to the honourable member. [More…]
At Townsville 142 houses have been programmed for Army use and 66 for Air Force use, that is a total of 208 houses for the year 1972-73, but none of these has been started and there is a contention by the Department of Defence that they should have been started. [More…]
I hope there will be fewer complaints about some of these houses in Townsville in the future and I hope I am aided and abetted in my efforts by the honourable member and that I get cooperation from the Queensland Housing Minister because our intentions, as expressed by the Minister for Defence, are genuine. [More…]
We must look at this problem in the same way as we would look at defence needs in a major war. [More…]
In Queensland there is a system of poor prisoners defence which is administered on a permanent basis by employees of the Crown. [More…]
They spring to the defence of the people who want $5,000 an acre for land that cost them $32 an acre. [More…]
Committee of Reference for Defence Forces Pay. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for Defence about his concepts of open government. [More…]
Is it true that the naval officer - I understand a lieutenant-commander in the Navy Reserve - who is the editor of Navy News’ is to be reprimanded for views expressed by him in the last edition of ‘Navy News’ concerning the Labor Government’s defence policy? [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence checked to see whether the Prime Minister is going to reprimand his, the Prime Minister’s, principal economic adviser, Dr Coombs, over some statements that Dr Coombs made at the weekend concerning the budgetary tactics of the Government? [More…]
This Govern ment has no intention of directing an editor of this or any other Defence paper to report merely the policy of the Government. [More…]
There has been consultation between the various Defence departments, the Department of Supply, the Postmaster-General’s Department, the Department of Science and the Department of Minerals and Energy, and some of the universities also have been consulted. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence and refer to the establishment of the Western Australian naval support facility HMAS Stirling at Cockburn Sound and the Minister’s statement on 22 August that certain works will be deferred for later decisions. [More…]
In my statement to this House about defence matters generally I referred to Cockburn Sound and indicated that the Government had decided that it would extend the period over which this facility would be completed. [More…]
The changes made by the Government to the defence forces retirement benefits scheme were intended to provide retirement benefits to older officers which were equitable and which would allow a reasonable level of turnover in order to provide promotional opportunities for younger officers. [More…]
Several years ago the Department of Defence and the Department of the Interior agreed upon the terms upon which servicmen could leave houses in Canberra when posted elsewhere. [More…]
I will discuss the matter with the Minister for Defence to see that servicemen are not disadvantaged. [More…]
The failure of the Government to provide more adequately for the defence of the Australian nation. [More…]
The Opposition brings forward this matter of public importance because it is gravely and genuinely disturbed by the rapidity of the decline in Australia’s defence capability since this Government took office. [More…]
It has been said by some that there are no votes in defence these days. [More…]
That there have been substantial cuts in our defence capability, both in manpower and in equipment in being and proposed to be acquired, is not in question. [More…]
We were told as much by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) in his statement on 22 August. [More…]
He has admitted, in answer to a question in this House, that he deliberately dishonoured an election undertaking to keep defence spending above 3.3 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
He has told us that the proportion of the defence vote to be spent on new equipment has fallen to the lowest level in history. [More…]
They include: The consequences of the decision to slash expenditure which are dribbling out bit by bit as servicemen, stung by a sense of outrage, reveal the facts; the disbanding of units; the reduction in flying and sailing hours which are so essential to the high standards of the Australian Services; the voluntary resignation of highly trained people both in defence industries and the Services - there is a report only this morning of the imminent retirement, on the grounds of dissatisfaction and concern over morale, by no less a person than a major-general - and the compulsory retirement of valuable people to meet manpower ceilings, despite the Minister’s assurances that this would not happen. [More…]
Denis Warner feels it necessary to write the articles which he did, and when the Minister for Defence feels it necessary to traduce Mr Warner under parliamentary privilege, something is wrong. [More…]
When such a committed ALP supporter and apologist as Major Peter Young says that if morale in the Services has not reached rock bottom it is only 2 inches from it, and when he describes the Governments actions as ‘the worst body blow ever dealt to Australia’s defences’, something is gravely wrong. [More…]
What is the Minister’s justificaton for all this damage he has done to our defence capability? [More…]
I have seen enough of defence appreciations to know that they can be subject to widely differing interpretations. [More…]
In the absence of specific evidence I must conclude that the Minister has put an interpretation on the defence appreciation to suit the ideological proclivities of himself and his left wing colleagues. [More…]
I do not believe that we have suddenly drifted into a safer and more tranquil world which justifies the Government’s drawing the conclusion that threats or situations will not arise in the foreseeable future which will require Australia to have a significant defence capability. [More…]
Defence expenditure must depend entirely on the conditions which prevail in the world from time to time. [More…]
I say that any increase of defence expenditure after the Munich pact as far as Australia is concerned appears to me to be an entirely unjustifiable and hysterical piece of panic propaganda. [More…]
I found when I was visiting those countries that in every one of them the defence cuts by this Government have been carefully noted and have received wide publicity. [More…]
Does anyone really believe that the Minister’s belief that we can base our defence planning on a trouble free period for the years ahead stands up when we contemplate the current Arab-Israeli conflict - a conflict in which great power rivalries are deeply involved? [More…]
The whole concept on which the Government’s so-called defence planning is based defies the most elementary tenets of common sense. [More…]
We must maintain a defence capability that accords with our foreign policy. [More…]
Yet almost every defence cut the Government has made makes us less, not more, self reliant. [More…]
The cuts include the virtual scrapping of the DDLs; the phasing out of HMAS Sydney’ with nothing to take its place; the deferring of a decision on a replacement for the Neptunes; the go-slow policy at Cockburn Sound; no decision on the replacement of the Centurion tanks, the failure to make a decision on the aircraft industry; the dismantling of large sections of defence industry in general; and the scrapping of a Mirage squadron. [More…]
There is not a shadow of a doubt that Labor cannot be trusted with the defence of this country. [More…]
The honourable member for Barker has suddenly discovered with a sense of urgency that Australia’s defence is such as to warrant the debate which we are now engaged upon. [More…]
I made a statement to this House on the defence of the Australian nation on 22 August. [More…]
The honourable member talked about the failure of the Government to provide more adequately for the defence of the Australian nation. [More…]
If he is ever to have a hand in the planning of Australia’s defence he will need to speak in terms of concepts which have some real meaning. [More…]
The honourable member talked about the defence of the Australian nation. [More…]
It is odd that the Liberal and Country Parties have the temerity to raise the question of the adequacy of this Government’s defence of the Australian nation. [More…]
They know that its policy is to base the structure of our forces on the requirements of the defence of this continent and that the Government expects from within such forces to have a modest but adequate capability for the unlikely contingency of such overseas deployments as would be in the interests of this nation. [More…]
The task of organising our defence force structure on the basis of the requirements of the defence of Australia itself is very difficult. [More…]
The reason why it is so difficult is that in all the years that they were in office the Liberal and Country Parties never studied the requirements for the defence of Australia. [More…]
Again one must ask: Defence of the nation against what? [More…]
No member of the former Opposition was given the opportunity that the honourable member for Barker and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) have been given for access to matters that concern the defence of this country. [More…]
Using the information available to the Joint Intelligence Organisation, the Defence Committee at my request prepared a strategic assessment. [More…]
The Defence Committee consists of the Secretary of the Defence Department, the Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Department, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff, and the Chiefs of Staff of the Army, Navy . [More…]
Their assessment is the basis of our defence planning. [More…]
No wonder he feels sore about defence. [More…]
The ‘Australian Defence Review’ published by the Defence Department in March 1972 said this: [More…]
The defence management system is designed to give effect to those policies in terms of a physical program sufficiently flexible to enable our force size and force structure to be changed well within the warning time of the development of any threat. [More…]
I am not going to waste the time of the House recounting again all the details of that capability contained in my Defence statement. [More…]
December 2nd of 1972 was a date on which the Australian people decided it was time to review our defence policies. [More…]
We have also reduced the number of civilians employed in defence support tasks because these numbers had grown at a ridiculous rate over the last 10 years. [More…]
I believe that any responsible government and any responsible Minister for Defence would have taken the same attitude. [More…]
No Australian government and certainly no Minister for Defence has been responsible since Federation in this country for providing so many opportunities in terms of professional service, and this has been done in the brief space of 10 months. [More…]
I think that over the last 10 months all of us have become more and more concerned about the degree to which there has been in Australia a marked run down in our defence capacity. [More…]
However, it is important that this House be given an opportunity to consider just what this Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has done for the defence of this country. [More…]
Is he suggesting that defence is not a matter of importance? [More…]
On the other hand the Minister has said that there is a meaningful reason for us to run down our defence capacity because there is no foreseeable threat in the next 15 years. [More…]
But the favourable strategic prospect allows us an opportunity to review and rationalise, to promote more efficient and economical defence capabilities. [More…]
After the more or less continuous defence expansion of the last 10 years, it is a time for taking stock, for pruning back activities whose original purpose has changed and for eliminating redundancies that have crept into our force structure. [More…]
lt is quite obvious that this man does not really know where he is going in the administration of Australia’s defence forces. [More…]
I believe that he has set into his own particular responsibility a desire to run down our defence capacity in a way which does not coincide with the expression of foreign policy that his Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) is asserting. [More…]
That is one of the tragedies of the administration of the Defence portfolio. [More…]
Yet in the alienation of our relations with the United States, in the marked withdrawal from Singapore and Malaysia, in the withdrawal from our ANZUK commitments and in the presentation of a strategic assessment that comes down as there being no defence threat for 15 years, the Minister for Defence is denying Australia the capacity to meet the foreign policy stance which the Prime Minister is asserting. [More…]
My colleague, the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes), already has referred to the 3.5 per cent promised by the Australian Labor Party in its policy speech as the percentage of gross national product that would be allocated to defence expenditure by its regime yet here in its first Budget allocation we have a 2.6 per cent expenditure - a marked reduction on the 3.5 per cent promised. [More…]
It is interesting to note the expenditure of a number of other countries with a low defence expenditure. [More…]
Ethiopia expends 1.4 per cent, Colombia 1.2 per cent and Tunisia 1.5 per cent of their gross national product on defence. [More…]
This is the sort of arena into which the Minister for Defence seeks to put Australia in terms of the defence financial allocation. [More…]
Another real problem that must be recognised within the administration of the Defence portfolio is the rampant inflation that this Government is inciting. [More…]
This means that although there has been a reduction in actual allocation of percentage funds for the defence forces, the amount to be gained from the expenditure of the money allocated is likely to be further reduced because of the inflationary spiral which the Government is inciting by the level of government expenditure in other domestic areas. [More…]
So in the field of finan cial allocation the defence forces are to be seriously threatened. [More…]
The right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), in making a personal explanation a few moments ago, adverted to the program of preceding administrations, stating the necessity for taking into account the extraordinarily long lead times needed in equipping adequately a highly technical defence corps which is necessary in terms of the sort of military engagement to which Australia might be committed in the future. [More…]
In respect of the Navy the Government has already taken a series of significant decisions which materially reduce not only the present capacity of the Navy but also are likely to mean that our Navy will be unable to fulfil its allocated task if a defence threat were to emerge not tomorrow but in five or even ten years time. [More…]
Regarding the Army, the sort of defence effort that is considered necessary has seen the equipment available in terms of defence and army personnel, carriers and helicopters all denied from the viewpoint of long term planning. [More…]
In terms of manpower we have seen and heard of the conflict between those who are the responsible executive officers of the Army particularly and who have stated their manpower requirements and the Minister for Defence and the Government who have applied marked reductions. [More…]
Numbers of senior officers have tendered their resignations and the whole of the confidence of this nation in a defence corps which has enjoyed such a high and outstanding reputation has been prejudiced. [More…]
He said, as the honourable member for Barker expressed earlier, that he would see our defence forces designed to ensure our security and independence. [More…]
I would like at the commencement of the discussion on this matter to take up the point that the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair) just made when he spoke about the need for an Australian defence role commensurate with the new initiative that the Government is taking in foreign policy. [More…]
If the honourable member did not say that it was certainly implied when he suggested that the defence policies of the Government were not keeping pace with its foreign policy. [More…]
The fact that this fairly modest increase is not of the level of increase that has been made in some previous budgets recognises, of course, a change in the defence commitment which Australia had to the war in Indo-China and which happily no longer exists. [More…]
It also takes into account the fact that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) is trying to get in his Department a complete assessment of the future defence needs of Australia, something which was not made for many years under the previous Government. [More…]
I would like to give the lie very clearly and distinctly to any suggestion that there is any complacency on the part of either the Minister or the Australian Labor Party Government in this vital area of defence. [More…]
Some of the matters that have been so far cast into this debate today show that honourable members have distorted what the Minister said in his defence statement on 22 August last, and I point out that it has taken the Opposition 2 months to bring this matter before the Parliament. [More…]
This assessment of the situation Australia is likely to face in the next decade does not, of course, mean that Australia can dispense with defence strength. [More…]
We must maintain our ability to be a source of military advice, technology and training which are helpful in the development of the defence capabilities of other countries in our region with whom we maintain defence co-operation and aid programs. [More…]
Is that the attitude of a Minister who is selling out the Australian defence program? [More…]
Is that the attitude of a Minister who feels that no attention should be devoted to defence because there is no immediate implied threat to Australia? [More…]
It has been suggested that the present developments in the Middle East invalidate the assessments on which the Australian Government is basing its defence policy. [More…]
The accommodation is a complete disgrace and is very much worse than the accommodation at Kapooka, Amberley or many other defence establishments around Australia. [More…]
I went with the Labor Party’s defence committee to Garden Island more than 5 years ago. [More…]
We have inherited from the previous Government a defence situation which, instead of being the rosy picture that has been painted here this morning, is nothing less than a disgrace. [More…]
I commend the Minister for the energy and the determination with which he is looking at the Australian defence program and the problems that face this country in the near future. [More…]
I am sure that the results of the planning which has been done to very much improve the structure of the Australian defence forces, and the good relations which the Minister has with senior members of the defence forces will become apparent in the immediate future and will show how this Government has moved forward. [More…]
I deplore that the Opposition should raise this matter in the House at this time and also make statements elsewhere in an attempt to destroy the morale of the Australian defence forces. [More…]
The remarks that we have heard from the 2 Government speakers, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) and the honourable member for Brisbane (Mr Cross), have been of mind-bending superficiality. [More…]
The failure of the Government to provide more adequately for the defence of the Australian nation. [More…]
The Minister for Defence described this proposal as frivolous. [More…]
The Minister made a statement on defence to this House on 22 August last. [More…]
It is buried because the Government is frightened to have the subject of defence discussed. [More…]
What charges are there against the Government for lack of defence preparations and what answers if any has the Government made? [More…]
The first charge is that the Government was guilty of a clear deception of the community in its promise as to what proportion of our resources it would allocate to defence. [More…]
On 28 November 1973, 4 days before the election for the House of Representatives, the present Minister for Defence said: [More…]
Mr Whitlam and I have stressed repeatedly that a Labor Government would maintain defence spending at the levels of the past few years- that is, about 3.3 to 3.5 per cent of the GNP. [More…]
I refer next to the ‘It’s Time’ pamphlet which, on the subject of defence, states: [More…]
An Australian Labor Government would allocate not less than 3.5 per cent of Australia’s gross national product for defence in each annual Budget. [More…]
This year it has allocated 2.9 per cent of the gross national product to defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence seemed faintly surprised that anyone should believe Labor Party policy. [More…]
The second criticism of the Australian Labor Party’s defence policy is that its whole strategic basis is fallacious. [More…]
The important thing about this aspect is that Mr Curtin was a quite perceptive defence critic, certainly much more perceptive than the present Minister for Defence. [More…]
If Mr Curtin could not predict a war 9 months before it broke out, how can the present Minister for Defence say that there will be no war for 15 years. [More…]
This is the whole rotten basis of our present defence strategy. [More…]
Two months after that promise was made, the present Minister for Defence had this to say at the Industrial Mobilisation Course in February of this year: the Services may have to accept weapons systems they regard as less than satisfactory, this shortcoming can be accepted now because of the low probability of major hostilities. [More…]
Instead of that, for doctrinaire reasons, the Government cuts back on defence. [More…]
I agree with some of the remarks made by the Minister for Defence, though his actions never match his words. [More…]
At the same industrial mobilisation course, the Minister for Defence said: . [More…]
it is the ability of a nation’s industry to provide, or modify equipment as it is needed to meet new threats, which is the only satisfactory test of increased ‘self-reliance’ in defence. [More…]
But all the measures the Minister for Defence has taken have been to decrease our selfreliance. [More…]
He is dismantling all our defence industries, cutting back on our dockyard effort and destroying our aviation industry. [More…]
Honourable members will remember that last May the present Minister for Defence said he would very shortly announce a plan for the rationalisation of our aircraft industry. [More…]
In Townsville 2 weeks ago the Minister for Defence, in a rather embarrassing parody of Winston Churchill, said that he had not accepted his portfolio in order to oversee the dismantling of Australia’s defences. [More…]
If he means that, and in view of what this Government has done to the defence forces, he should resign his portfolio now. [More…]
Debates on defence in this House are rarely centred on the defence of Australia or national security. [More…]
In fact, prior to this Government taking office, no study had ever been carried out on the defence of Australia. [More…]
Every time a shaking up has taken place in the defence establishment there have been loud wails about morale, without any definition or analysis. [More…]
In an editorial headed ‘A Neurotic Shambles in Defence’ it states: [More…]
Partly through an unusual concatenation of circumstances and partly as a by-product of the almost unstoppable force meeting the almost immovable object, the state of morale in Australia’s defence establishment at the moment can only be described as a shambles: [More…]
This appraisal was of course followed by the 1972 Budget when the honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) was Minister for Defence. [More…]
The defence chiefs fought the Budget. [More…]
Fifty million dollars was cut from defence expenditure. [More…]
It had followed the dramatic times of the resignation of the then Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
The moves the right honourable member for Higgins tried to implement within the defence establishment - I agree with much that he said at the time about pay and conditions^ - were unsuccessful. [More…]
As a recent detailed publication has outlined, we are virtually designing our future defence on a blank canvas. [More…]
When we look at the shocking position that the Defence Department has been put into we see that we are faced with a situation where we need to double capital expenditure in the budget for the mid-1970s and early 1980s. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has said that we will get destroyers, and we will. [More…]
Foreign affairs forms a major part of our defence policies. [More…]
Even if that is right, the defence situation can never be certain. [More…]
The United States itself is cutting back on defence. [More…]
In its’ latest budget it cut $3.5 billion from defence expenditure, shut down or nearly shut down 274 bases, of which 40 were major bases, and sacked 40,000 people in the Services and the civilian elements in its defence forces. [More…]
The Government has decided to rationalise its defence structure administratively and to review critically all procurement programs. [More…]
When it is presented it will represent the Government’s and its defence advisers’ priorities in terms of the defence of Australia and not outmoded myths that haunt honourable members opposite. [More…]
In foreign policy and defence policy in the 1970s and 1980s Australia must satisfy at least 3 criteria. [More…]
Other countries such as Canada and Sweden, which do think their defence situations through, are not thinking of making the mistakes that the Opposition would have us make. [More…]
What we have done in our first defence budget is spend more on salaries and on housing, and this was long overdue. [More…]
The previous Government would not even bring in the Defence Forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]
Let us look at the defence situation apart from as it is as stated in the motion. [More…]
As I said, no study on the defence of Australia has ever been done. [More…]
Sweden, which does think its defence policies through, is a model for much of what we should do. [More…]
They also have 1,000 tanks because they have used their heads in thinking out defence policy. [More…]
Just as we necessarily are no better defended by buying all equipment now, our defence is not necessarily guaranteed by having large numbers of soldiers just for the sake of having large numbers. [More…]
Let us look at our defence situation. [More…]
The A4 aircraft has little air to air fighter capability - this being mainly for self defence - because it lacks the avionics and weaponry as well as the performance for offensive counter air operations. [More…]
The Government has major responsibilities demanding its attention in the traditional areas of social welfare, education, defence, and so on. [More…]
This leaves Israel in the greatest peril and explains her monumental efforts and sacrifice in self defence. [More…]
I have heard it said on many occasions that attack is the best defence. [More…]
There has been no intention on my part or on the part of the Department of Defence not to make figures available. [More…]
The figures as to the total number of applications that are before the Department of Defence in terms requesting a resignation are not available to me at the moment, but I undertake to obtain the figures for the honourable member. [More…]
One fact which is quite clear from the resignations that I have personally studied and of which the honourable gentleman will be aware is that when a resignation is put before the Department of Defence by a senior officer it normally comes to the Minister for his signature before it goes to the Executive Council. [More…]
It is quite clear that for the great majority of those who are now seeking to resign the attractiveness of the defence forces retirement benefit provisions has had some influence on those who believe that they would be advantaged not only in terms of their retiring allowances but also in terms of a full employment economy, that is, that they would have greater opportunities by retiring somewhat earlier than at the ages at which they would retire if they completed their terms. [More…]
With respect to the search that is continuing, thanks to the co-operation of the Services - the Department of Air and the Department of the Navy - through the Minister for Defence, 4 Royal Australian Air Force planes and 2 Navy tracker aircraft have been made available and they will continue to carry out the search. [More…]
As soon as question time is concluded, I will confer with the Minister for Defence to arrange for as many Service helicopters as are available to take part in this search. [More…]
One must be impressed by the continual defence of the life assurance funds and the reference to overseas corporations. [More…]
His only defence is to try to bring forward more falsehoods when he is cornered. [More…]
There have never been any defence pacts or treaties between any Australian government and the Indonesian Government. [More…]
There is, however, a considerable degree of defence co-operation between the Indonesian and this Australian Government. [More…]
For example, the Tariff Board report on colour television is being considered by the Departments of Secondary Industry, Overseas Trade, Customs and Excise, the Media, Science, the Post Office, Defence, Supply and Treasury as well as by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
Only in this way can social reform be achieved without inflation reducing the standards of living and without cutting down on national development, defence and all the other essential requirements and in fact responsibilities of this national Parliament. [More…]
It is also to be considered by the Department of Overseas Trade, the Department of Customs and Excise, the Department of the Media, the Department of Science, the Post Office, the Department of Defence, the Department of Supply and the Treasury as well. [More…]
Unlike the Government which seeks to hide such significant reports as those on the Berowra airport decision, the Galston airport decision and the recommendations of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), we are happy to have these reports brought to the public eye. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a statement by the present Prime Minister when Leader of the Opposition, in February 1972, that the Australian Labor Party believed the Commonwealth should take a more active role in civil defence and that a Labor Government would establish a National Emergency Aid Service to replace the Directorate of Civil Defence. [More…]
and (2) I draw the honourable member’s attention to the public statement I made on 19 December 1972 when I outlined proposals for the reorganisation of the Defence Group of Departments. [More…]
This included the following reference to Civil Defence and a National Disaster Organisation: [More…]
The Civil Defence Directorate has been transferred to the Department of Defence. [More…]
Papua New Guinea - As members of the PNG Defence Force are enlisted as members of the Australian Armed Services, it is not possible to provide completely the breakdown sought by the Honourable Member. [More…]
its neglect of national security and defence, [More…]
its neglect of national security and defence, [More…]
Australia’s defence system is threatened to be reduced to a mere token gesture. [More…]
Both foreign policy and defence have become matters of controversy since 2 December. [More…]
I turn now to defence and the hapless Deputy Prime Minister. [More…]
In no field has the Government misled the Australian people to the extent it has in defence. [More…]
It has cut back defence spending and manpower in our defence industry contrary to the wishes of the Australian people. [More…]
Last year the Labor Party promised to spend 3.5 per cent of the gross national product on defence. [More…]
In fact, in the first Budget brought down by the Treasurer, the Minister for Defence succeeded in achieving an expenditure appropriation of only $ 1,266m. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will not answer questions on these matters. [More…]
It is one of the basest political motives to whip up a xenophobia when the government itself is to blame for the economic situation, the confusion, the industrial chaos, the foreign affairs shambles, the defence backtracking and the administrative inability. [More…]
In the meantime I read that there would be raised the general subject of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
It is making a virtue out of telling those countries affected by that war that its Constitution won’t let it spend more on defence.’ [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition includes in his motion something about the defence forces. [More…]
If that is not what the Liberals are worried about, what is the meaning of their complaints about defence? [More…]
It said: ‘We will not be reducing expenditure on defence’. [More…]
Yet the right honourable gentleman opposite wants to increase defence expenditure by $300m because it would represent some mythical figure cited as 3.2 per cent of the gross domestic product. [More…]
This country since 1963 - during 10 years of which period, honourable members opposite were in office - has spent SI 0,000m on defence. [More…]
During that 10 months what we have had in defence has been largely what we inherited from them as it will be for the next 2 or 3 years. [More…]
In the field of defence the Government has deliberately dishonoured its pre-election commitment to maintain Australia’s defence expenditure above 3.5 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
In fact, defence expenditure has been reduced to 2.9 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
The Labor Party’s expenditure commitment was so consistently emphasised in the pre-election period that defence was not a major issue at that election. [More…]
An Australian Labor Government would allocate not less than 3.5 per cent of Australia’s national product for defence in each annual Budget. [More…]
The Opposition spokesmen so far have demanded that more should be spent on defence, that more money should be given to the States and that there should be a restoration of funds and benefits for the rural sector of the economy. [More…]
It mentions also the Government’s neglect of national security and defence. [More…]
It has been recalled that the Labor Party has broken its promise to continue to spend 3.5 per cent of the gross national product on defence. [More…]
Where are the fighters which the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) went overseas to look at but which he knew beforehand he would not buy. [More…]
We know of the broken promise in relation to defence in that 2.9 per cent and not the promised 3.5 per cent of the gross national product has been allocated for defence purposes. [More…]
Decisions made in this area have been decisions to defer, to cancel or to postpone certain defence requirements. [More…]
The next on the list is the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
I think it is deplorable that a man who is responsible for the defence forces of this country should have pioneered the complete dismantling of our defence capacity. [More…]
The Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) is opposed to private enterprise making money out of defence contracts. [More…]
I believe that in the Australian Army, particularly in some of the professional corps, such as the Army Engineers, the skills which are available for development projects of a civilian character in overseas countries - I am referring specifically to civilian aid - could be used at times when there is not a high defence risk in Australia. [More…]
Who from the other side would dare to campaign for the reintroduction of conscription, even amid the climate of misrepresentation and fear which has characterised the recent debate on defence, ignoring as they do the planned and streamlined policies on voluntary recruitment and career encouragement? [More…]
I believe Australians should have the courage, at least in relation to Papua New Guinea, to face the future and say: ‘We will stand with you and by some formal contract we will undertake to look after your defence, internally and externally, over the next 15 years’. [More…]
When previously protection against a military threat was the main concern, coalitions of nations held and the subordination of special economic, political and cultural interests to the requirements of common defence was readily accepted. [More…]
The disintegration of global bipolarity has allowed greater interchange between countries formerly in the common defence bloc as before the superpower was always heavily involved. [More…]
The Department of Defence has been prepared to consider advice. [More…]
I am now referring to those countries with which Australia has been associated traditionally in terms of our defence requirements, particularly the United Kingdom, the United States of America and some other countries. [More…]
Although I have no knowledge that advice has been received by the Defence Department from that country, my own assessment would be that this would be a matter which would concern the Prime Minister as the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
Those honourable members who are now in the Opposition who had some association with the defence forces of this country would recognise that this was the proper procedure. [More…]
Let me say finally to the honourable member that any advice which is received from those countries with which Australia has a traditional relationship in terms of defence naturally receives the consideration to which it is entitled. [More…]
I think it might be opportune even for discussions to be held or consultation to be taken between the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Defence. [More…]
In certain instances our defence forces could be used in ferrying aid to some countries. [More…]
I will have something further to say about that when the Committee considers the Defence estimates. [More…]
As I said, I will have more to say in regard to these matters in the debate on the estimates of Department of Defence. [More…]
In the Budget Speech presented last August the Treasurer (Mr Crean) informed the Parliament of the Government’s proposal to increase external aid, including defence aid, from $257m in 1972-73 to $334m in the current financial year. [More…]
Previously details of Australia’s external economic and defence aid to developing countries had always been set out in statement No. [More…]
To assist the promotion of greater regional security and co-operation in South East Asia and in the South Pacific, Australia is providing defence aid to a number of friendly neighbouring countries of immediate strategic interest to us. [More…]
Table 6, which summarises the rapid growth in expenditure by Australia on external, economic and defence aid programs over the years, shows that we have a record of which we can well be proud. [More…]
I want to put on the record of the Committee, in relation to future defence relations with Papua New Guinea, the words of Professor J. D. B. Miller who, earlier this year, had this to say: [More…]
Defence aid, is of course, a very special case. [More…]
Frantic efforts are being made to separate them out, but it is proving a much harder task than it would have been even a few years ago: as the Australian defence organisation has grown more complex, so have run deeper the roots which have to be pulled up in order to make a Papua New Guinea defence organisation a separate body. [More…]
I am thus suggesting that Australia will need to face the preparation of both a general independence treaty and a defence agreement, the terms of which should be worked out with the Papua New Guinea government and publicised in both countries so that people can digest them. [More…]
An agreed ground-plan for relations between the two countries would serve us well in future; what we have to guard against above all is misunderstanding, especially in the aid and defence fields. [More…]
If, for example, we do not have a clear and precise defence agreement which describes the circumstances in which Australia would be prepared to consider a Papua New Guinea government’s call for armed intervention, say in a case similar to the East African mutinies in 1964 or in the event of regional insurgency, we shall be in real trouble. [More…]
I understood the attitude of the previous Government and, in relation to these particular defence matters, I am of the view that there is a great deal of similarity between the policy restrictions upon the present Minister and the policy judgments of my Party in the past. [More…]
But this is the man who when he was Prime Minister had his own Minister for Defence resign and who provoked massive rows with the generals. [More…]
This is the man who had $50m peeled off him in the 1971-72 Budget when he was Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Fairfaxisation of our defence policies was recently spelt out in articles- [More…]
He is being assisted by the Secretary of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I hope to be in a position before the House adjourns at the end of this year to be able to make an announcement to the Parliament concerning the progress of the integration of the Defence and Service Departments. [More…]
I anticipate that it will be possible for me as Minister for Defence to introduce legislation in the autumn session of the Parliament in 1974 which would provide for the complete integration of the Service Departments. [More…]
It has always been envisaged that that part of the Department of Supply which relates to the procurement and evaluation of defence equipment would be integrate.! [More…]
into the Department of Defence along with the other three Service departments. [More…]
I rise to put to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) a problem which has been concerning me for some time. [More…]
I think it is grossly unfair and I ask the Minister for Defence to have another look at the situation .and see whether it can be corrected. [More…]
I have made repeated applications to successive Ministers for Defence without success. [More…]
I ask this Minister for Defence whether he can do something about it. [More…]
the Governor-General has, by order, declared that the work is for defence purposes and that the reference of the work to the Committee would be contrary to the public interest. [More…]
Some of the contributions this evening from Government supporters in defence of actions of this Government in relation to trade and primary industries were some of the weakest I have heard since I came into this place 15 years ago. [More…]
There was a useful exchange of views on developments in Papua New Guinea in which that country’s Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations, Mr Albert Maori Kiki, participated. [More…]
He mentions specifically the useful exchange of views on developments in Papua New Guinea in which that country’s Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations, Mr Maori Kiki, participated. [More…]
The Industrial Court upheld their defence - their view - and the Commonwealth, to test the constitutional basis of the legislation, took the decision of the Industrial Court to the High Court. [More…]
In addition, there are such important projects as the Gore Hill studio extensions, the Bradfield Park national standards laboratory and even defence establishments. [More…]
Will this not put this country at the mercy of overseas interests charging prices for imports at a level which the market will bear, as witnessed by the higher import prices for many items following the recent 25 per cent tariff cuts, thus resulting in higher priced television sets anyway - and all this apart from the crucial importance of this industry for Australian defence? [More…]
The evidence shows that the Central Drawing Office did not have a viable work load after the transfer of much of its work and staff to the Defence Printing Establishment and productivity at the clothing factory had been adversely affected by a change in location and the Victorian electricity strike. [More…]
If we exclude Queensland, where hospital treatment is already free without a means test, over 83 per cent of the population are members of the voluntary insurance scheme; 9.6 per cent are members of the pensioner medical service; 3 per cent are covered in the defence forces. [More…]
This was an entirely new move, something different, to give encouragement to those who joined the Services to work and act in the defence of Australia should the need arise. [More…]
It is now known as a defence service homes loan. [More…]
I note that in relation to defence service homes - I draw the Minister’s attention to this fact - some insurance companies are now disclaiming any responsibility for meeting the cost of damage if a roof of a house has not been breached, if a window has not been broken. [More…]
For defence services homes the increase this year is $27.7m making $102m for the full year. [More…]
We are told - and the Minister is very proud of it for he has just mentioned it - that $290m is to be made available to the States at 4 per cent interest and $102m to the Defence Services Homes Scheme at 3i per cent interest. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I refer to reports that the Government is likely to appoint a civil servant as defence ombudsman. [More…]
The Government has decided to appoint an ombudsman for the defence Services but at this time no decision concerning an appointee has been made. [More…]
I take the opportunity to say that, in respect of the recent storm in Brisbane on 5 November, the Department of Housing was very anxious to give every possible service, particularly to the people whose homes were financed by the Defence Service Homes Division. [More…]
The Defence Service Homes Division takes a very great pride in the attention that it gives to people who makes claims under the defence service homes insurance scheme. [More…]
The premium for a brick home insured for $15,000 under the defence services homes insurance scheme would be $10.86 compared with the premium payable to a private insurance company, for the same amount, of $37.65. [More…]
The premium for a timber home insured for the same amount under the defence services homes insurance scheme is $10.86 and the comparable coverage from a typical private insurance company would be $82.65. [More…]
So honourable members who may be interested in these figures can be assured that they are on very safe ground when they advise the people who are able to take defence services home loans to avail themselves of that service because it is to their advantage. [More…]
These jobs involve telephone exchanges, defence projects, many great projects that concern public welfare. [More…]
The last time I mentioned this matter, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) gave the answer that the Government had not considered it and that was not part of Labor policy. [More…]
I should like first to remind the Government that the first principle of repatriation is compensation, and that there is a responsibility on governments to recognise that an individual’s service in the armed forces in the defence of his country is worthy of compensation when, as a result of that service, he suffers some disability. [More…]
So that we will not have to do any guessing, I ask you on behalf of this Committee to request the Minister for Defence, who is responsible for the Navy, to make available to this Committee all papers concerning the Naval service of Leslie Leonard Shaw, and in particular of medical examinations and medical and psychiatric opinions relating to his discharge from the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]
I dismiss the defence that the honourable member for Denison (Mr Coates) has put forward. [More…]
According to figures I have, 83.2 per cent of the Australian population are voluntary members of health insurance funds; 9.6 per cent are in the pensioner medical service; 3 per cent are in the repatriation medical benefits service and almost one per cent are covered by defence forces benefits. [More…]
They stutter something about cuts in government expenditure, but on other occasions they have asserted, for instance, that defence expenditure as a percentage of gross national product should be restored to the level which applied last financial year. [More…]
They have asserted that there should be an increase of some $300m in defence expenditure. [More…]
Their stand has been a critical one for the defence of the people’s rights. [More…]
It is part of the Platform of the Australian Labor Party to undertake the construction of the NorthSouth standardised rail link in the interests of national defence, national development, and to provide feeder services for the cattle raising resources of the Northern Territory and the western area of Queensland. [More…]
I have to pay a tribute to the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) for coming to the defence of his country cousins. [More…]
If so, will the Prime Minister advise this House of what influence Mr Young will have on future defence policy decisions by his Government and how he sees the WhitlamYoung combine in relation to theWhitlamBarnard combine? [More…]
There was an inference probably not an intentional inferencethat the problems were due to the failure of departmental officers and members of the military forces to give sufficient consideration to major contracts of defence procurement. [More…]
I think that it should be clearly understood by the House as I am sure it is, certainly by those who have preceded me as Minister for Defence or as Service Ministers that the final responsibility for major defence procurement orders rests with the Minister in the first instance and with the Government in the final analysis. [More…]
The then Minister for Defence, the late Athol Townley, was in the United States of America and cabled back to the then Government the memorandum of understanding which involved the purchase of the F111C aircraft. [More…]
Two of the recommendations already have been adopted by the Department of Defence. [More…]
The third, relating to defence procurements which have occurred in the past and about which there is some legal dispute, is now under investigation. [More…]
I conclude by repeating to the House that decisions on major items of defence procurement rest quite clearly with the Minister and the Government and, except for the advice which Ministers and the Government receive from them, no responsibility should be directed to departmental officials or members of the defence forces themselves. [More…]
The Government has downgraded defence and has had flirtations in the area of foreign affairs. [More…]
The May 1973 amendment to the Defence Service Homes Act provided that in the future women will be eligible for home loans in the same way as men. [More…]
In my view the Bills are a smokescreen to cover Labor’s failure with its economic, industrial, defence and other policies and to confuse the issues at the next Senate election, and also the election in 1974. [More…]
I rise to expose the way in which the Leader of the Opposition seeks to disown the conscription policies to which every Liberal Minister for Defence and every Liberal and Country Party Minister for the Army have repeatedly committed the parties to which they belong; conscription policies on which successive Liberal Prime Ministers have campaigned at successive elections for the House of Representatives and for the Senate; conscription policies to which each and every honourable member opposite has repeatedly dedicated himself. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon, as Minister for Defence, told the Western Australian State Conference of his Party on 6 July 1970: [More…]
It is vital that it be maintained because the alternative would be a significantly reduced full-time military force unable to meet its defence obligations. [More…]
The honourable member for Farrer, again on the same day and in the same debate but as Minister for Defence, said: [More…]
The scheme as now adjusted is an important element in our defence preparedness. [More…]
The fluid strategic situation in which we find ourselves demands flexibility in our strategic policies and the progressive development of self-reliant forces and an evident defence capability. [More…]
I believe the honourable member was as stunned as other honourable members opposite who heard their Leader repudiate the foundation stone on which Liberal defence policy is based. [More…]
If national service had nothing to do with defence but was purely a system of training it would pay handsomely. [More…]
I again say that if this Government were to abandon one iota of the firm stand it has taken in regard to the defence of Australia it would deserve to go out of office. [More…]
The Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) was quoted in the ‘Australian’ on 29 November - 3 days before last year’s election - as saying: The abolition of national service would decimate our defence forces. [More…]
In the course of this inquiry, it was claimed that justification had never been accepted by Committees of Privilege as a defence. [More…]
I believe that he has been held open to ridicule and contempt and I want the record to contain this defence of him. [More…]
There are 5 partners to this Five-Power defence agreement and I think 4 of them are more or less in accord; [More…]
Later the Prime Minister at first refused to allow Papua New Guinea’s Defence and Foreign Relations Minister, Mr Albert Maori Kiki, to travel with the Australian delegation to Japan and to participate in discussions. [More…]
The implications of this are among the subjects which the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) will shortly discuss with and in the United States. [More…]
Our defence aid and economic aid have continued undiminished. [More…]
In the article, Professor Burns, who has been one of the leading figures in the Australian Labor movement, asserts his concern at the direction in which the foreign policy and the defence policy of Australia are taking us. [More…]
The consequence of this for Australia is quite frightening, both in the defence and in the foreign policy sense. [More…]
I have the honour to refer to your letter of today’s date confirming the Australian Government’s offer to send to Viet Nam an infantry battalion of 800 men, with some 100 personnel in logistic support, to serve with United States forces in assisting in the defence of the Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
But when those letters were published at the insistence of the United States Ambassador we found in them provision to prevent the Government of Australia from restricting at any time the United States Government’s use of the station for defence communication, including Polaris submarines. [More…]
The current instrument by which in pursuance of Section 7 of the Naval Defence Act 1910-1971, the Naval Board is appointed, states, inter aiia, that the Minister of State for the Navy shall be the President of the Naval Board and shall preside at all meetings of the Naval Board at which he is present. [More…]
In summary, that statement made it clear that consistent with the Government’s policy of developing integrated defence management, the Department of Defence would exercise greater authority and control over the execution of defence policy and the attainment of defence objectives. [More…]
Further the Secretary of the Department would be the principal adviser to the Minister for Defence on policy, resources and organisation and the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee would be the Minister’s principal military adviser. [More…]
So it obviously follows that were I as Minister for the Navy, for so long as that portfolio exists, to preside over meetings of the Naval Board and thereby associate myself with its deliberations, I would find myself in the incongruous position of taking decisions, as Minister for Defence, on those deliberations when they involved matters that are subject to advice to me from the Secretary to my Department or the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. [More…]
In summary, that statement made it clear that consistent with the Governments’ policy of developing integrated defence management, the Department of Defence would exercise greater authority and control over the execution of defence policy and the attainment of defence objectives. [More…]
Further, the Secretary of the Department would be the principal adviser to the Minister for Defence on policy, resources and organisation and the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee would be the Minis ter’s principal military adviser. [More…]
So it obviously follows that were I as Minister for the Army, for so long as that portfolio exists, to preside over meetings of the Military Board and thereby associate myself with its deliberations, I would find myself in the incongruous position of taking decisions, as Minister for Defence, on those deliberations when they involved matters that are subject to advice to me from the Secretary to my Department or the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Defence, concerns patrol boats. [More…]
The decision to provide 2 Attack class patrol boats to Indonesia is part of the defence aid program to that country. [More…]
They have taxation commitments, defence responsibilities and other obligations similar to those enjoyed by the people of the States. [More…]
In a matter of public importance which the Opposition raised earlier this month we criticised the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) for slashing defence expenditure. [More…]
Incidentally, I make the point in the context of speaking to these estimates that the amount of reduction in defence expenditure was considerably greater than was admitted by the Government because the Government failed to take account of the amount by which it reduced defence expenditure in the second half of the financial year by the decisions it made immediately after coming into office. [More…]
Nevertheless, we criticised the Government for the slashing of defence expenditure, for running down the defence forces, for cancelling or deferring vital equipment expenditures and, above all, for breaking a clear election promise to spend 3.5 per cent of the gross national product on defence. [More…]
He stated that he had not become the Minister for Defence for the purpose of dismantling this country’s defences. [More…]
Anyone who did not accept his assessment of what the defence forces required was living, in the past, according to the Minister, as he upbraided the members of the RSL Congress and anybody else who would criticise him. [More…]
I do not support a mindless process of determining defence policy by a reference to defence spending as a proportion of the gross national product. [More…]
Really, for a person, who had run around the country for some years before the last election in order to reassure Australians about the Australian Labor Party’s defence policy, to make such a statement before a body like the RSL Congress I believe needs no further comment from me. [More…]
If any confirmation of the criticism we and others have made is required it is contained in the statement that the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) on behalf of the Minister for Defence sneaked into the House yesterday. [More…]
The Opposition had alleged that all sorts of decisions had been taken which were detrimental to our defence capability and which the Minister had not announced in his statement in August. [More…]
We alleged that these decisions had played a large part in the decline of the morale of the defence forces; and we were right. [More…]
It is clear from Government statements that its new concern with continental defence and its confidence in a low threat environment is based substantially on the latest strategic estimates which came this year from Defence Department planners. [More…]
My fears and suspicions are confirmed by the Minister’s refusal, despite my request in writing, to permit me as Opposition spokesman on defence, to see the strategic assessment on a confidential basis. [More…]
The fact is that the Government is not fair dinkum on defence. [More…]
All this talk of the absence of threat is a smokescreen for a decision to save money from the defence vote for other purposes. [More…]
The Government should be honest enough to come out and say so; to tell the people that it has chosen butter rather than guns and not pretend by hiding behind its interpretation of the strategic assessment that adequate defence is being provided when it is not. [More…]
Let us assume too what is in fact the case, that the Government wishes to put a ceiling on defence expenditure, and indeed to slash it, in the interests of other expenditure programs. [More…]
On the other hand, it has bitten deeply into the long lead equipment items - for example, DDLs and replacement for the Neptunes - so that the proportion of the defence vote spent on capital equipment has fallen to its lowest level ever. [More…]
This is why we say that the Government is not fair dinkum, that it is motivated by ideological bias and not the proper defence of this nation. [More…]
Firstly, the new defence cuts, so termed by the newspapers and others, are not new at all. [More…]
There are many important points one could develop in detail when reviewing the progress the Government has made in developing a coherent defence policy in little less than a year. [More…]
The need for, and the potential to develop, a logical defence policy has in the past been clouded by the unfortunate rhetoric of the scare campaigns run by the Opposition when it was in government. [More…]
This threat-mongering, linked with the occasional purchase of a few items of flashy hardware, was allowed to pass as an excuse for defence planning. [More…]
In contrast, in the time since the Government came to power we have witnessed the beginning of a period of basic investigation and planning of defence needs and capabilities which is without precedent in the peacetime history of this nation. [More…]
In my opinion, one of the main things for which the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) is to be congratulated are the steps he has taken to restore sanity to the discussion of defence matters in Australia and thus create a situation where fear and deception can never again be used to mislead the Australian people for the narrow interests of a conservative government. [More…]
This Government is 100 per cent ahead of the previous Government in making available defence information to the Opposition. [More…]
Nevertheless, what the Minister for Defence has been able to achieve even in the last 10 months may be looked upon in future as a watershed, not just for defence policy and planning, but for Australian history in general. [More…]
For the first time in many years we have a Government which recognises that the totality of this nation’s security lies in the complete integration of its foreign policy, defence planning, international trade; indeed all aspects of our relations with the outside world, lt is in this totality of how we see the outside world and how the outside world sees us, that the true security of Australia must be planned. [More…]
This has done much to destroy the old hysterias and set the background in which a more sane and rational analysis of Australia’s defence problems and requirements can take place. [More…]
The calm and rational defence analyses instigated by the Minister for Defence and his explanation of these to the Australian public has done much to consolidate the awareness of these developments amongst the Australian people, although its long term importance has been overlooked. [More…]
It is obvious that the present Minister for Defence has been able to do a great deal to foster this new awareness amongst the Australian people. [More…]
In two major statements to this House and many other speeches around the country he has explained not only the strategic situation but has done much to show the Australian people the means by which the current situation and possible future developments are assessed so that our defences can be rationally planned. [More…]
In this regard the speech the Minister gave to the RSL National Conference of the 29th October has a significance beyond what was said since, for the first time, the Australian people were taken into the Government’s confidence on basic matters of defence planning. [More…]
The hollow rhetoric which in the past has been delivered as an excuse for defence policy will never again be acceptable to Australian people, and future governments, of whatever colour, will have to explain far more fully the reasons which have led them to adopt defence policies. [More…]
In future, only such carefully reasoned arguments will be acceptable to the Australian people who have, under this Government, witnessed for the first time what defence policy debate is really supposed to be like. [More…]
It is simply because defence policy must now be, and be seen to be, based on logical arguments developed from accurate informa tion that the Government is pushing ahead with more basic studies of defence requirements than has ever been the case in the past. [More…]
The Central Studies Establishment of Supply is only one example of the machinery which was starting to provide much of the hard information needed for sound decision making in defence. [More…]
For these types of studies to be truly effective a coherent overall defence policy framework is needed, if only to determine what type of equipment is relevant. [More…]
To provide this necessary framework the Government commissioned a new paper on the strategic basis for defence policy making and has since initiated further work to refine thinking about the areas shown by this document to be crucial in the development of the nation’s defences in the future. [More…]
For the first time a detailed investigation of the requirements for the defence of the continent itself has been ordered so that the force structure needed for the defence of the nation can be determined, should it ever come to be required. [More…]
As a further part of this effort to define the real defence priorities for national security, the Government has ordered other studies to find the most efficient locations around Australia for the various defence facilities required by the armed forces. [More…]
Similarly, the Government has commissioned a study of the Citizen Military Forces as a basis for the development of policies which will allow this essential element of our armed forces again to play the significant role in national defence policy which it once did. [More…]
This painstaking process is the inevitable consequence of the general paucity of the defence debates sponsored by past governments in this country. [More…]
What is now significant is that for the first time an Australian Government is prepared to ask for, and listen to, cold, rational analysis of the defence needs of the nation. [More…]
What a stark contrast this is with the previous situation, where a degree of secrecy which was completely unnecessary totally shrouded defence debates in this country in a cloak of ignorance. [More…]
Certainly one thing which will make a return to past habits difficult, even under the most reactionary of administrations, is the Government’s decision announced in March this year, to endow 2 fellowships in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. [More…]
The stimulation of public debate on defence policy in ways such as this will make it very hard for any future government to masquerade the emotionalism of fearmongering as sane defence analysis. [More…]
Significantly, honourable members opposite should benefit from the Government’s determination to pursue rational, logical analysis in defence policy-making. [More…]
Unlike them when they were in power, this Government has no fears of giving the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) or his relevant spokesman access to defence planning documents if they have the wit to request them. [More…]
The Government obviously is frightened of a debate on this subject of defence. [More…]
When we raised a matter of urgency some weeks ago, the statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) was item No. [More…]
All that the Government will allow us is a very brief time - I think that the debate will soon be gagged - to discuss the defence estimates. [More…]
A few weeks ago in Perth the Minister for Defence quoted partially and misleadingly from a paper on the strategic basis. [More…]
It is always the tactic of Treasuries and people opposed to effective defence preparations to ask: ‘What is the threat? [More…]
Then we can provide the defence.’ [More…]
The trouble is that with the lead time of effective defence forces, threats arise much faster than the equipment, troops and trained manpower can be provided. [More…]
The Minister for Defence claims that he is able to look ahead 10 or 15 years. [More…]
Now the Government is talking about the defence of the mainland. [More…]
If we have an effective defence policy the question of the defence of the Australian mainland will not arise. [More…]
Surely the establishment of an effective defence policy should be the object of the Government. [More…]
If we had any sense we would be not only making extra defence preparations, but also encouraging in this country exploration for oil which the extraordinary policies and the economic primitivism of the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) have virtually stopped in Australia. [More…]
In regard to equipment, in its notorious document entitled ‘Its Time’ which was pub:lished before the last election, the present Government promised that the defence forces would have excellent equipment. [More…]
On 12 February this year - 2 months later - the Minister for Defence, at an industrial mobilisation course, said: [More…]
If the Government can cut down on our defence equipment it will do so. [More…]
This is equipment which our defence forces will need not immediately but which will make them effective forces in the 1980s. [More…]
In regard to the Navy, the Minister for Defence in his recent statement said that the equipment in the Navy would not be below a level which seriously - I repeat, seriously - impaired the capability of the Navy. [More…]
In regard to defence infrastructure, there is the question of our ability to be self reliant. [More…]
The Minister for Defence is making a study of the integration of the defence group of departments. [More…]
When this change is made I hope it will be to convert the Department of Defence into a proper professional department. [More…]
While the 3 Service Departments had statutory responsibility for the running of their own Services it was acceptable that the Department of Defence should merely be a co-ordinating body. [More…]
Let me say to those who talk about defence procurement that the Cabinet has determined that there will be a destroyer program but we are not satisfied and indeed we were not satisfied - the honourable member for Isaacs shared this concern, as I have already pointed out - that the Government had sufficient information and detail to allow us to go ahead with a program of such magnitude which would involve this country and indeed this Government in an expenditure of no less than 25 per cent of the defence vote for a number of years. [More…]
In those circumstances how could a responsible government talk in terms of defence procurement? [More…]
One would have thought that the honourable member for Barker would have taken the opportunity to spell out what he would do if he had the responsibility of the Minister for Defence in a Liberal government. [More…]
Every honourable member knows what has been done in terms of pay and allowances and in terms of the defence forces retirement benefits scheme, which is now probably the best scheme of its kind that could be found anywhere in the world. [More…]
At that time no new defence forces retirement benefits scheme was adopted. [More…]
I would be a most competent Minister for Defence if I had been able to rectify in 11 months the problems relating to the housing shortage for ex-servicemen. [More…]
There was a committee that was representative not only of the Service departments but also of the Defence Department and the Joint Intelligence Organisation. [More…]
When he held that portfolio in the former Government, I had the responsibility as shadow Minister for Defence to put forward the point of view of the Opposition on defence matters. [More…]
At that time, I was denied access to any defence information. [More…]
When I became Minister for Defence, I took 2 actions in this respect. [More…]
The honourable member for Barker, the defence spokesman for the Opposition, was told that he would be able to have information from the Department of Defence at any time he requested it. [More…]
I invite honourable members to contrast my attitude and my actions in relation to informing members of the Opposition on these matters with the attitude of members of the Opposition who, when in government, denied to me and to the then Leader of the Opposition any information relating to security and defence matters. [More…]
What I said was that defence expenditure this year will exceed the expenditure by the previous Government in 1972-73. [More…]
It was not until the Vietnam involvement and the need for conscription, in the opinion of the former Government, that a need arose to increase the percentage of the gross national product devoted to defence. [More…]
But we will not be stampeded into purchasing equipment merely for the sake of spending the defence appropriations. [More…]
We will ensure that, whatever equipment is purchased for our defence forces, that equipment will be purchased on the basis of the advice of those who are charged with the responsibility of conducting a complete and thorough investigation into our requirements. [More…]
Looking back over the record of this Government in its 11 months in office, I believe that there can be no basis for criticism by the Opposition or by the Australian people regarding our actions on defence matters. [More…]
I am sure that, at the end of the next 12 months, we will be able to speak about the question of procurement and particularly those items of procurement which I believe are essential and necessary to provide an adequate defence force in this country. [More…]
This man, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) on behalf of the Labor Government has just provided a closure for us in the middle of a debate on the Defence estimates. [More…]
The Minister has accused my colleague, the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes), a former Minister in the preceding Government and now the Opposition spokesman on defence matters, of not presenting a positive case. [More…]
What earthly chance would anyone have of analysing effectively and totally either of the 2 ministerial defence statements that have been delivered, neither of which we have been given an opportunity to debate in this Parliament, and the Defence estimates, and then present a positive alternative Opposition defence program? [More…]
The problem, of course, is that the defence statement yesterday, coming on the Defence estimates which we are now debating, sets the stage for a further run down in Australia’s defence capacity. [More…]
The Minister has begun setting the stage by announcing, supposedly in private, the fact that there is a strategic assessment which indicates that Australia will be under no forward defence threat in the foreseeable future, and certainly not for 15 years. [More…]
The Minister for Defence, in a letter to the honourable member on 14 November last, said: [More…]
After careful consideration of your request that I- and these are the words of the honourable member for Barker - make available to me- that is to Dr Forbes - for my perusal- that is for Dr Forbes’ perusal - the strategic assessment which was prepared by the Defence Committee at your request, together with the terms of your request’, I have decided that it is not appropriate- [More…]
If one thinks this is unusual it is interesting to note that Rear Admiral Crabb found it necessary, in correspondence to Australian daily newspapers, to comment on the fact that this man, this Minister for Defence, disclosed in public statements confidential material - material which he now holds to be confidential. [More…]
I believe it is important that we realise that that strategic assessment is made on the basis that we do not know, but we have it on the say-so of the Minister for Defence, that there is no forward threat for the next 15 years. [More…]
I very briefly - I too have only 10 minutes, unlike the Minister for Defence, who has unlimited time - want to refer to an article by Professor Arthur Burns, on which I have commented now on 2 previous occasions in this Parliament, in the ‘Bulletin’ of 10 November in which he refers to the conflict which might emerge between China and Russia from the confrontation of 67 divisions on the ChinaSoviet border. [More…]
He speaks of the greater necessity today than ever before to maintain out alliance with the United States, and yet the Minister for Defence, this man, suggests that there is no forward defence threat. [More…]
The Minister for Defence said, in a way in which many of us on this side of the House believe might well have been worthy of him had he been able to substantiate his undertaking, that Australia would be prepared to send a peace-keeping force to the Middle East under the auspices of the United Nations. [More…]
That is certainly a state, that has resulted from the 1 1 months of maladministration of the present Minister for Defence. [More…]
Let us look at the general field of defence procurement. [More…]
We are told by the Minister for Defence that that is something he will worry about. [More…]
In an article that was written some months ago on Australian defence policy under Labor, Dr Robert J. O’Neill, a senior fellow in international relations and head of the Strategic and Defence Study Centre in the Research School of Pacific Studies of the Australian National University, Canberra, said: [More…]
Yet the major consequence of this Government’s defence statements and this Minister’s defence decisions is that we are now in a position where that lead time has been extended beyond the bounds of reasonableness and beyond the bounds where we might well be able to rely on the procurement program at a time when that equipment might have to be used for defensive purposes on behalf of Australia. [More…]
In other words, the decisions taken by this Government and the decisions that are covered by these Defence estimates seriously prejudice our nation’s ability to undertake anything of a defence campaign if such should be necessary within anything less than the 15 years on which the Minister has committed himself. [More…]
The tragedy of this Minister is that he sees his task, not as the maintenance of an Australian defence component but as the elimination of it. [More…]
Because he persists in his pomposity, the only solution for the defence of Australia is that this man should resign as a protest at what his Government has done to him, if he seriously believes in the statement he made tonight that he is advancing Australia’s defence cause instead of destroying it. [More…]
I am sorry to see that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has left the chamber. [More…]
One of the many actions that has been taken by the Minister for Defence in his capacity as Minister for the Army, in order to keep his expenditure within the amount of money he was allotted in the Budget, was the disbanding of four Regulary Army corps bands. [More…]
Last week I went to the Minister for Defence and told him of the high regard in which the band was held, and of the vacuum that would be created if the band was disbanded. [More…]
What the Army Board had in effect said was that if the defence vote was to be reduced from 3.5 per cent of the gross national product to less than 3 per cent of GNP, one of the many ways in which such a reduction could be achieved was by getting rid of the bands. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member, as a former Minister for Defence, would appreciate that this is a very significant and large expenditure. [More…]
As far as I am aware this was a unanimous decision of the Defence Committee, that is, of the Chiefs of Staff. [More…]
But I must reiterate what I said a few minutes ago, that it was the unanimous recommendation of the Defence Committee that a certain number of bands should be disbanded. [More…]
But I am sure that the Defence Committee itself had considered the increasing cost of maintaining so many bands in the defence forces. [More…]
It is not an easy decision to make but I must repeat that it was a recommendation from the Defence Committee, and I am sure that the decision would have been made sooner or later whether or not there had been any reduction in funds. [More…]
However, I appreciate the honourable member’s concern because I know that the Kapooka band has a very good reputation and, like all other Service bands, I believe that it would have done much to improve public relations between members of the defence forces and the civilian population generally. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It arose out of an assurance I gave to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and one other honourable member who had asked for information concerning the decisions that were initially made in relation to some changes in the defence program. [More…]
Naturally, some decisions have still to be made, but they are not new decisions in the terms of the decision that was taken at the time of the Budget by the Government to effect some alterations in defence expenditure. [More…]
Does the Minister for Defence have any information concerning the attitude of the United States of America to his policy of providing information to the parliamentary Opposition on security matters, in particular, the sensitive issue of United States’ bases in Australia? [More…]
I think he had in mind, as I said last night, indeed as I have said before in this House, that this Government has taken the opportunity to keep fully informed the Leader of the Opposition and the shadow Minister for Defence on matters that concern Australia in terms of its security. [More…]
While paying lip service to the integrity of Australia as a nation, he persistently advanced the concept of a trade-off of Australia’s mineral resources in return for some hypothetical defence gains. [More…]
Does the Minister for Immigration recall my question of 30 May last and my suggestion that Commonwealth instrumentalities such as the PostmasterGeneral’s Department and the Defence Department should set an example in teaching English to migrant employees. [More…]
Most incredible of all, why was the raft not found when the defence forces mounted this very large operation? [More…]
Why, why, why were the defence authorities incapable of finding it? [More…]
That last question is one that should concern the House because the whole of our defence appreciation is based upon our ability to find objects at sea. [More…]
If one cancels from the defence appreciation the possibility of finding objects at sea, then the defence plans for Australia might have to be quite significantly revised. [More…]
If there is that kind of unreality at the base of our defence appreciation, this complete unreality which has been shown up by our enemies or potential enemies, it should be taken notice of by our authorities. [More…]
What I am doing is saying that this House has to take some notice of defence realities, irrespective of Party. [More…]
It may be that we should be having on rafts heat sensors and infra-red sensors which are available, and perhaps this is some kind of reflection on the technical ability of the defence forces that were doing the search. [More…]
The enemy is not incapable of looking for ways and means of outwitting your defence. [More…]
The honourable member for Mackellar asked what the defence authorities were doing. [More…]
On 20 October 1954 the then Minister for Defence, Sir Philip McBride, introduced the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Bill 1954 info Parliament on behalf of the then Mr John McEwen. [More…]
It is fair to say that in the first 10 years, and I have said this many times in defence of the wheat industry, it has contributed heavily, virtually subsidising the taxpayers of Australia to the tune of $390m. [More…]
We cannot allow a situation to develop in which our traditional consumers and purchasers of grain are denied access to a supply because of the trading policies, the foreign policies and the defence policies of a Labor government. [More…]
The 2 points that I want to make to illustrate what I am saying are related to the estimates for the Department of Defence and the estimates for the Department of Minerals and Energy. [More…]
I refer to the Department of Defence first of all. [More…]
We have had 3 statements from the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
It may be that, because of the number of contradictions in the Government’s defence policy, it does not want to give the Opposition time to make those contradictions obvious. [More…]
Perhaps that was an appropriate means of transportation because of the amount of bull in the present Government’s defence policy. [More…]
I wonder whether this is one of the major reasons why there has been this limitation of time, particularly on the Defence estimates. [More…]
On the Defence estimates 3 Opposition members were given the opportunity to speak. [More…]
The Department of Defence is another vital department to this country. [More…]
He became Minister for War Organisation of Industry in 1941, Minister for Postwar Reconstruction in 1945 and Minister for Defence in 1946. [More…]
He was the second last remaining Minister of the Curtin Government, the Government which took over responsibility for the defence of this country when we were under threat. [More…]
The question of using the various factories that are operated by the Department of Supply and which of course are geared largely to the maintenance of a defence potential also has been under very detailed study. [More…]
A committee of inquiry into work loads was established in October at the direction of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
A committee within the Department of Supply is working with representatives of the unions involved to ascertain what are the best ways of utilising the production capacity of the factories and of obtaining civilian or non-defence orders to maintain the capacity. [More…]
The Supply factories have a level of quality built into them because of the defence role which they play which makes it not easy for them to convert to this new role. [More…]
As to the honourable member’s concern about the people in the Gulf Country having food supplied to them, if it can be shown that air transport is necessary to transport food there for their requirements I am certain that my colleague the Minister for Defence will be only too happy to make defence aircraft available. [More…]
He would be prepared to make defence aircraft available to transport food there for the people if they get into a situation where normal means of transport cannot carry it; in fact, I myself would even have a look at providing DCA aircraft for the purpose. [More…]
In 1906 the Australian Government found it necessary to appoint a representative to look after its interests in the United Kingdom, especially in connection with the purchase of defence material. [More…]
Canada does not need for its defence a special relationship with the United Kingdom, because geographically it shelters under the umbrella of the United States. [More…]
I desire to raise the subject of the effect upon the defence of Australia of the scrapping by the Government of the DDL program for the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) made a number of points about how this program has been criticised by honourable members on this side of the House and he named the honourable member for Isaacs (Mr Hamer) and myself. [More…]
We have, in fact, asked questions about the cost of this program in relation to our total defence commitment. [More…]
The Navy notably is our first and most important initial arm of defence. [More…]
The lead time for the Navy is longer than for all other arms of defence. [More…]
Our naval dockyards are a vital part of our defence. [More…]
From what has been indicated so far, the Minister is not looking for a fresh conception of naval defence but at alternative vessels. [More…]
In thinking of Australian naval defence in terms of individual ships and their ability to sustain themselves over considerable distances, a number of factors are important. [More…]
The defence statement upon which we were once promised a debate is now No. [More…]
We were allowed about 4 speakers only during the debate on the Estimates, and the Minister for Defence took up a great deal of the time available. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether he proposes to appoint a committee to advise him on the construction of a series of destroyers. [More…]
On Sunday night I shall be meeting with the Chiefs of Staff and other members of the Department of Defence at the Department of Defence complex. [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence received any approaches or had any reports from any source advocating the provision of a free defence force for Australia by selling Australia’s natural resources to overseas interests and so attracting various foreign armed forces to Australia to defend those foreign owned resources? [More…]
I must say that I was surprised that a man of his position and with his authority would suggest that Western Australia would be better served if it were able to raise its own defence force. [More…]
I do not believe that anyone with a proper sense of responsibility to the defence of this country would take Sir Charles Court’s suggestion very seriously. [More…]
As one who comes from the frontier parts of this nation, I have my mind firmly set on our defence. [More…]
It is not necessary for me to tell anyone in this House how much the defence of this nation depends upon the availability of reliable oil and fuel supplies generally. [More…]
Is it not quite obvious that we have here a rather appalling and terrifying cocktail of national disaster, that is, the mixture of a reduction of our defence capabilities to something that is a joke internationally with the freezing of oil exploration in Australia? [More…]
What would be a greater formula for disaster than a cutting down of our defence capability and a reduction in our oil resources? [More…]
It is probably related to what we understand to be the urgency that the Government sees for our defence requirements. [More…]
I presume, therefore, that it springs from the Government’s assessment - as spelt out by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) - that there is no foreseeable threat for 10 to 15 years. [More…]
Defence expenditure must depend entirely upon the conditions which prevail in the world from time to time. [More…]
I say that any increase of defence expenditure after the Munich Pact so far as Australia is concerned appears to me to be an utterly unjustifiable and hysterical piece of panic propaganda. [More…]
in reply - I think the honourable member for Wakefield (Mr Kelly) would be the first to concede that a committee such as the Joint Standing Committee on Public Works does not exercise the preprogative of determining such matters as defence and foreign policies. [More…]
That is not to say that the Goverment underrates the significance of defence in any way. [More…]
In fact, the Australian Labor Party has always had as a very prominent part of its policy the firm and precise commitment to provide adequate defence for Australia. [More…]
I rose mainly to make it quite clear that the Government is mindful of its defence obligation and is setting about it in what we regard as a far more contemporary, desirable and efficient way than the way in which our predecessors in office sought to do it. [More…]
What part of the costs were properly attributable to defence and national development? [More…]
I do not know of any appropriate nickname but what he does in this place is to wield a rollicking steamroller over all matters brought up for discussion in the House, particularly matters of defence. [More…]
Tonight I want to refer to the neglect by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) of our maritime reconnaissance forces. [More…]
Maritime reconnaissance is one of the most important elements of our defence. [More…]
Hitherto, in the defence sense, we have thought of it primarily as a matter of anti-submarine defence. [More…]
The departments concerned with Defence and also customs and fisheries and a number of other government departments have a close interest in the general subject. [More…]
In the defence estimates there is no real provision for continuing the re-equipment of our air squadrons for this purpose. [More…]
This is really not good enough for Australia’s defence. [More…]
This afternoon, when we heard from the Minister for Defence, he said that he was appointing another committee to advise him on a number of destroyers. [More…]
So I should like to emphasise, which I could not do on the defence estimates or in a defence debate - such a debate never takes place - that we need to devote greater attention to what is happening in maritime recon.naisance. [More…]
I acknowledge that it has made available, I think, defence auxiliaries costing about $60,000 and that it has offered, I think, $500,000 as a dollar for dollar subsidy to the States. [More…]
I think of, firstly, inflation, secondly, the broken promises that children should have per capita education grants; thirdly, the promises to the wine industry which, in the view of the Premier of South Australia have been broken; fourthly, the wrecking of the defence structure of Australia; fifthly, the wrecking of the mineral industry and the petroleum exploration industry. [More…]
Between 1 December and independence Australia will be dealing with defence and foreign affairs matters on behalf of the Papua New Guinea Government and its people but also in conjunction wim them. [More…]
The recent creation of the portfolio of Defence and Foreign Relations in Papua New Guinea and the appointment to it of a Papua New Guinean Minister, Mr Albert Maori Kiki, is proper recognition of the fact that Australia will retain reserve powers in foreign affairs and defence only until Papua New Guinea is fully independent. [More…]
In addition to the defence and population imbalance factors, there is a third reason why we must endeavour to slow down, stop, or even reverse, the growth of the big capital cities. [More…]
Since the war years, mainly because the Australian Government gained taxing powers by means of the Defence Act, the position of the States within the framework of the governments of Australia - Federal State and local - has greatly lessened and weakened. [More…]
The time that this House has spent on the vital subject of defence under this Government has been ludicrously small. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) made a statement on defence in August. [More…]
Then the debate on the defence estimates was gagged by the Government after only 3 Opposition members had spoken, and even these three- [More…]
As the honourable member for Griffith said, they had only 10 minutes each and 10 minutes is a ludicrously short time in which to develop an argument on such a complex subject as defence. [More…]
In my brief remarks on the defence estimates I touched on a subject of very great importance - the amalgamation of the defence group of departments. [More…]
The authority of the Department of Defence is very tenuous, being based largely on a letter written more than 10 years ago by the then Prime Minister. [More…]
Of course the Department of Defence has greater influence because of its control of the ear of the Minister. [More…]
Then the major contacts were between our Services and the corresponding Service authorities of other countries, with our Department of Defence acting as a sort of secretariat. [More…]
If the Government merely expands the present basically non-professional Department of Defence, with a token infusion of Service personnel as advisers at subordinate levels, it will be totally rejected by the Services and the result on Service morale will be catastrophic. [More…]
My remarks on this subject are, I can assure the Minister for Defence who I am glad to see is in the House, intended to be constructive, aimed at avoiding some highly undesirable consequences that I can foresee. [More…]
It is obvious that the Government is thinking in terms of having a 2-man team - a diarchy of one military and one civil member - at the top of the Department of Defence. [More…]
If the system is to work, it must be made clear by statute that they have joint control of the affairs of the Department of Defence. [More…]
Firstly, I should have preferred a broader based committee - a Defence Board - instead of a diarchy, but this is an option that apparently the Government has evidently already rejected. [More…]
In the past, the position of Secretary of the Defence Department has been relatively unimportant, but with the transfer of much greater responsibility to the new Department, the Government will have to look for Secretaries of outstanding calibre and experience. [More…]
The new Chief of Defence Staff clearly must have effective operational command of our armed services, working through the Chiefs of Staff of each service in peace time, but with the right in wartime to issue orders direct to Unified Commanders - Commanders who are in charge of all armed services involved in a particular operation. [More…]
I should be very reluctant to see the Chiefs of Staff Committee given wider responsibility than for operational matters, for this would subvert the chain of responsibility through the functional divisions of the Defence Department. [More…]
If the reorganisation is properly done, we should be able to eliminate the plethora of Committees which have clogged defence administration in recent years. [More…]
One committee which must remain, though, is the Defence Committee, through which the Services, the Defence Department, Foreign Affairs, the Prime Minister’s Department and the Treasury get together to consider defence problems jointly. [More…]
I believe the Minister for Defence must be the Chairman of this Committee, probably wit hthe Chief of Defence Staff and his deputy. [More…]
I assure the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), who is at the table, that it is purely coincidental that 2 concerned Australians - the honourable member for Isaacs (Mr Hamer) and myself - should select the same subject on which to speak on the same night during the debate on the motion for the adjournment of the House. [More…]
It is one of the blackest periods because our Minister for Defence has decreed more and more defence cutbacks which sap our military strength and imperil the security of every Australian. [More…]
Our defence effort has been cut back savagely. [More…]
In the election campaign last year the Minister promised, as did all other Australian Labor Party candidates, that a Labor government would spend 3.4 per cent of the gross national product on defence. [More…]
In its first Budget, this Labor Government has reduced that figure to 2.9 per cent and has proved conclusively that this Labor Government and this super whiz kid ALP Minister cannot keep their promises when it comes to defence, let alone keep their principles regarding Australia having an effective defence force. [More…]
Just recently the Minister announced another round of defence cut-backs. [More…]
First of all, there has been a 35 per cent reduction in the Army strength and a 10 per cent reduction in the defence civilian staff. [More…]
Surely it should be obvious that instead of reducing our defences, we should be strengthening them to protect our vital resources. [More…]
How could the Defence Minister boast that he identifies himself with the Australian fighting man when he has proved himself to be the greatest .sham fighter of all time? [More…]
If he has a streak of sincerity left in him, there is no alternative for him but to resign his portfolio, and in doing so, draw the attention of all Australians to what has happened to defence. [More…]
It is a coward’s excuse to justify these cutbacks on the ground that a strategic study shows that Australia faces no defence threat. [More…]
Talk of no possibility of aggression in the foreseeable future reminds me of Mr Chamberlain and his umbrella when, in 1939, he visited Hitler in Germany and was assured that there was no threat to the defences of Britain. [More…]
He has allowed the country to retreat into the field of defence isolationism and combat sterility, let alone operational impotence. [More…]
I heard someone mention the morale of our defence personnel? [More…]
Of course, the honourable member for Isaacs at least has some knowledge of defence matters and I very often respect his opinion. [More…]
But I have never listened to so much complete and absolute nonsense as I have just listened to from the honourable member who claims to be an expert on defence. [More…]
I asked the Department of Defence some time ago to look at the question of land that is available and now occupied by the various defence departments. [More…]
I remind the honourable member that not only is it a matter for determination by myself as the Minister for Defence but also it is a matter for consideration by the Minister for Urban and Regional Development and the Minister for Services and Property. [More…]
I am sure that my colleague, the Minister for Urban and Regional Development, will move to ensure that, when and if there is a transfer of property from the defence departments and probably also from the Department of Supply, this matter will receive the attention that it deserves. [More…]
Within the framework of the Department of Defence the three Service Boards will continue to operate on a temporary basis. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will remain President of the Military Board and the Naval Board but the civilian members of all three Boards will now be nominees of the Secretary of the Department of Defence. [More…]
The Department of Supply continues in existence, financed from the defence vote, under a directive from the Prime Minister maintaining at least for the time being a relationship with the Department of Defence through which the Minister for Supply and the Minister for Defence collaborate in the execution of relevant defence policies. [More…]
The Department of Supply will continue to participate in defence committees. [More…]
All this is preliminary to the introduction - which can only occur after the drafting and entry into effect of necessary legislation and regulations - of a new distribution of functions including those defence functions carried out in the Department of Supply. [More…]
It is proposed that this office should be entitled Chief of Defence Force Staff’, a title based on Part 111 of the Defence Act describing the defence force, and that he should be given command of the defence force and authority over the Chief of Naval Staff, Chief of the General Staff and Chief of Air Staff who will be the professional head of each Service. [More…]
The Chief of Defence Force Staff will be a statutory officer in the Department of Defence responsible directly to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The responsibilities of the Chief of Defence Force Staff will be: [More…]
He shall be the Principal Military Adviser to the Minister for Defence to whom he shall be responsible. [More…]
He shall command the Defence Force in accordance with the provisions of the legislation. [More…]
Together with the Secretary, Department of Defence, he shall be responsible for providing advice to the Minister on matters in which there are joint responsibilities.. [More…]
He shall command his Service, under the authority of the Chief of Defence Force Staff and subject to the provisions of relevant Acts, regulations and ministerial directives. [More…]
He shall be responsible to the Minister for Defence, through the Chief of Defence Force Staff: [More…]
For the implementation in his Service of prescribed or approved defence policies, directions and programs; [More…]
He shall consult the Chief of Defence Force Staff on major matters related to his Service. [More…]
He shall advise, through the Chief of Defence Force Staff where necessary, the Minister for Defence on matters within his responsibilities. [More…]
These changes carry the full recommendation of the Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee, the Chiefs of Staff of Navy, Army and Air, as well as the Secretary of the Department of Defence. [More…]
The staffs of the separate departmental organisations will be rearranged in functional groupings in the Department of Defence supporting the 3 Services. [More…]
As a result the Secretary of the Department of Defence will be responsible for advice to the Minister on general policy, and on the management and utilisation of defence resources. [More…]
Some responsibilities will be shared between him and the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]
Firstly, the allocation of exclusive statutory functions to the Chief of the Defence Force Staff and the Chiefs of Staff, for example, for the command and discipline of members of the Services; secondly, directives by the Minister as to the responsiveness expected of the Public Service structure to the operational priorities of Chiefs of Staff; thirdly, the integration of Service officers into various parts of the Defence Department organisation; and fourthly, a committee system to give proper distribution of representation of various responsibilities and to reconcile the competition among the Navy, Army, Air Force, Scientific Service and the production and civilian elements of resources. [More…]
In coming to its decision the Government has had the benefit of a report prepared by the Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Arthur Tange. [More…]
As regards those functions of the Department of Supply, other than scientific which the report recommends for transfer to Defence, the Government has decided to withhold decision on those particular recommendations until it receives the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Government Procurement, headed by Sir Walter Scott. [More…]
As regards the defence research and development activities the Government has agreed to their transfer to Defence at a later date which will be determined by the passage of legislation. [More…]
The future disposition of civil work in these establishments will be reviewed taking into account the report of the Scott Committee and the requirements of civilian departments for assistance from the Defence Scientific Service when those requirements are formulated. [More…]
I have made clear the Government’s intention that Chiefs of Staff will always enjoy right of direct access to the Minister for Defence, in company where necessary of the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]
Thus the new organisation not only promises greater effectiveness in the management of Defence. [More…]
For too long defence administration has remained entangled in cumbrous procedures, working in an atmosphere which encourages division and contest, because of the fatal error 16 years ago in not abolishing the single Service departments as was recommended even then. [More…]
The new organisation will be the basis for more direct participation by officers from the Navy, the Army and Air Force in the business of planning capabilities on a defence rather than a single Service basis to satisfy the country’s strategic needs. [More…]
We will ensure that our strategic policies and defence relations are developed in close collaboration with the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
We shall certainly have a better application of all sources of advice - military, scientific, and other civilian - that ought to be brought to bear on recommending the total defence force of the country, its composition, its equipment and back-up, and the strategic concepts and policy objectives that defence expenditure is to serve. [More…]
In conclusion, having tabled the report for the information of honourable members, I pay a tribute to the Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Arthur Tange, and to his assistant, Mr Bruce White, who have given effect to the recommendations I laid down last December and who have worked assiduously since then to produce a report which, in general terms, will give effect to the recommendations that were first made to a government about 17 years ago. [More…]
It should not be necessary to make that observation, but I am mindful of the fact that the Government has permitted the Opposition little time to debate defence matters. [More…]
The House will also recall that, although initially it was programmed that we would have 3 hours to debate the defence estimates, the debate was cut off after a little over one hour during which only two or three Opposition speakers were allowed 10 minutes each, the remainder of the time being taken up by the Minister in defending his very sorry record in the defence field. [More…]
The Opposition fully supports the integration of the defence group of departments, and I place that on record. [More…]
We regard the integration of the defence group of departments as a logical extension of the process that started when the Morshead Committee report was brought down. [More…]
Defence and the Department of Defence greater powers and control than they had ever had. [More…]
I regard the final step of the integration of the defence group of departments as the logical extension of that process. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting for lunch I was making the point as to how important it was in relation to these far-reaching proposals for re-organising the Defence group of departments for the Ser vices to believe that they have a proper role in the organisation in relation to their expertise, status, training and so on. [More…]
I was making the point that although the Opposition supports in general terms the integration of the Defence group of departments it is the details in respect of this which are all important, and giving our general approval to the proposals does not imply that we agree with the details. [More…]
The point I am making is that already reports of differences have been filtering through in the Minister’s statements, in the report of the Secretary of the Department of Defence and even more so in Press reports. [More…]
The first is that the legislation to which the Minister for Defence refers, defining the responsibilities of the Chief of the Defence Services Staff and . [More…]
others, is absolutely vital because, given the innate suspicion of the Services of the Department of Defence and the civilian members of the Department of Defence, the Services will not be satisfied that their role is properly implemented and protected unless it is there in black and white in the legislation. [More…]
But no doubt because he does not want to be accused of breaking yet another promise on defence, the Minister has made this statement today, ahead of the legislation which is so vital to it. [More…]
In respect of the other aspect that I mentioned, namely, that it is vital that the uniformed servicemen have the opportunity of presenting a point of view before this Parliament finally agrees on the legislation, I believe that there would be a great deal of merit in the Minister referring this matter to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
I have not had the opportunity of reading the report itself, but from just a preliminary reading of the chart I have seen that there are a tremendous number of servicemen in Australia who will see the proposed amalgamation of the Defence Departments as setting up an organisation designed to have a whole lot of civilians with their feet firmly placed on the neck of the servicemen in relation to matters which they will regard as being of particular importance to them, particularly in the case where reservations have been made, namely, the field of manpower. [More…]
I am saying to the Minister for Defence that if he wants to see this proposal work smoothly and if he ultimately wants the acceptance of his legislation by the Parliament, it would be a wise course for him to use this Committee, which the Government took the initiative of setting up, to investigate the matter thoroughly. [More…]
For instance, the purchase of Defence Service homes is an important commercial enterprise with very special implications. [More…]
Another example is the invention patented by the Defence Standards Laboratories relating to a part of the Xerox copying equipment. [More…]
I understand this product has been approved by the New South Wales Rescue Squad, the Flood Relief Rescue Organisation, which is a branch of the Civilian Defence Department - by the way, I am not getting any commission for advertising this invention, if anyone has any thoughts that way - and the Power Boat Surflifesaving Association of Australia. [More…]
Another benefit will be the greater ability of Australian industry to service and manufacture the increasingly complex requirements of modern defence. [More…]
These are elements and it may be that because of some defence requirements a takeover should be welcomed because we do need- [More…]
For some years before this the Commonwealth had been providing hearing aids free to children, repatriation cases, serving members of the defence forces, persons in receipt of allowances under the Tuberculosis Act and in cases where the Commonwealth had a liability under the Commonwealth Employees Compensation Act. [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many vehicles driven by (a) Army (b) Navy and (c) Air Force personnel but not owned by the Defence Forces were involved in accidents in each of the years 1970, 1971 and 1972. [More…]
How many (a) civilians and (b) Defence Force personnel were (i) injured and (ii) killed in these accidents. [More…]
Defence Forces: Assistance in Fire Prevention (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Will he investigate the possibility of the Defence Forces being directed to clear firebreaks where assistance is requested by Government and semi-government bodies. [More…]
Will he equip and have trained members of the Defence Forces to assist with firefighting and burning off in the summer of 1973-74. [More…]
Fire is a weapon which has long been used in warfare, and the Services are organised and trained in methods of defence against it. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Will he investigate the possibility of declaring some isolated roads to be Defence roads. [More…]
If so, will he permit the Defence Forces to work on the construction and maintenance of the roads so declared. [More…]
The term ‘Defence road’ is not used for any formal purpose of road classification. [More…]
The national interest requires however that, when developing civil facilities, such as the transport system, that could contribute to the infrastructure supporting the Armed Forces in a defence emergency, the defence needs be taken into account. [More…]
The Defence Forces of course already carry out a wide range of activities that assist the civil community during civil emergencies and at other times. [More…]
The use of defence resources or the expenditure of defence funds on the development of civil facilities must be carefully considered in relation to defence priorities and the national interest. [More…]
To date the priority accorded to the construction and maintenance of roads for economic and other development needs is considered to have taken adequate account of defence requirements. [More…]
Pursuant to section 14(1) of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1973, I present the twenty-fifth report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board on the operation of the Act for the period 1 July 1972 to 30 September 1972, together with financial accounts and the report of the Auditor-General on those accounts. [More…]
Pursuant to section 16(1) of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits [More…]
Act 1973, I present the first report of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority dealing with the general administration and working of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1973 for the period 1 October 1972 to 30 June 1973. [More…]
Pursuant to section 14 (2) of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1973, I present the first report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board dealing with the administration of Part III of the Act for the period 1 October 1972 to 30 June 1973, together with financial accounts. [More…]
There are some defence items. [More…]
’ DEFENCE [More…]
Is it not true that, by running down our defence forces, Australia is encouraging American withdrawal from the region, because we are seen to be irresponsible in not providing adequately for our own defence capacity, contrary to the concept of the Guam Doctrine? [More…]
That would be one of the weakest arguments I have heard in defence of the present situation, that we have woken up too late. [More…]
In fact, I have come to his defence in this respect on one or two occasions. [More…]
Health insurance coverage for ordinary Australians is not a matter of choice; it is an economic necessity and, as a social utility, it should be financed in just the same way as is education or defence. [More…]
These champions of the vested interests of the establishment have indulged in a continual recitation of blatant untruths and a long campaign of deception, of protection of privilege and of misrepresentation and fear, in defence of a patched up, propped up scheme that bears heaviest on those least able to pay and leaves over one million Australians without proper medical coverage. [More…]
I read with amazement the statement of the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) that he would go to the barricades in defence of the right of people to choose between insurance organisations. [More…]
I have always been concerned with the defence of individual freedom but the right to choose between the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia and the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia is the most insignificant freedom I have ever heard of and the honourable member’s preparedness to fight for it must be the most ludicrous campaign since Don Quixote tilted at windmills. [More…]
My final comment is to make a brief defence of the Premier of Queensland. [More…]
Tonight I wish to support my colleague, the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh), in his defence of a very successful company which has been operating for many years in the capital of the Darling Downs, the garden city of Queensland, Toowoomba. [More…]
Due to reduced Defence requirements the outstanding balance will not be re-ordered, and I am unable to offer any solution to the firm’s problems, other than that already agreed - cancellation of the contract without penalty. [More…]
In the area of defence they want to spend at least another $200m, because they want to spend at least 3.5 per cent of the gross domestic product on defence. [More…]
It will operate to the disadvantage of persons in the middle and higher income brackets and to the disadvantage of persons in the defence forces who at present do not have to insure for hospital or medical benefits. [More…]
In this area of total cost the proposed Labor Party scheme has no credible defence to offer at all. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
It invokes the interstate trade and commerce power, the overseas trade power and the defence power as well as the right of the Commonwealth to make laws in respect of Territories. [More…]
Australia should strive to develop its own scientific and technical knowledge to enable it to maintain its defence and welfare standards. [More…]
If we had a double dissolution the issues would not be just this narrow issue, although I .am prepared to fight an election on that issue; but the real issues would be defence and foreign policy. [More…]
The only defence to having their grants reduced is to sack teachers to increase the student-teacher ratio so that the school can be put into a lower category such as D or C instead of staying in A simply because the parents are prepared to make that greater sacrifice for their children. [More…]
However, before a specific site area can be selected or even finally eliminated, the engineering studies, which were deferred pending the inquiry by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, would need to be reactivated and taken to a more advanced stage of investigation. [More…]
My Department has indicated in a submission (dated 25 June, 1973), to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence Inquiry into Omega, that the preferred general location for the Australian station would be Tasmania, with the Central Murray River District as second preference. [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence seen reports in the Press suggesting that Australia is likely to acquire the United States destroyer, the patrol frigate, as a destroyer replacement and claiming that this vessel is quite unsuitable for Australian conditions? [More…]
Let me answer the honourable gentleman’s question by pointing out that, as I have already announced, the question of a destroyer replacement is under consideration in our own Department of Defence. [More…]
I am afraid that those of us who sit on this side of the House had as much faith in Labor implementing this promise as we had in it implementing its promise to continue to spend 3.5 per cent of the gross national product on defence. [More…]
We merged the Service Departments with the Department of Defence and Civil Aviation with Transport. [More…]
Nothing reveals more clearly the difference between us - the Government’s forthright commitment to equality; the Opposition’s rearguard defence of inequality and privilege. [More…]
That cause is the defence of vested interests. [More…]
4 December: Re-organisation of the Defence Group of Departments - Tabled by Mr Barnard. [More…]
Departments of Secondary Industry, Transport, the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Overseas Trade, Defence and the Treasury. [More…]
In addition the Minister for Defence made public during his visit to Indonesia in April this year that Australia would supply four aircraft to Indonesia as part of the Defence Aid Program. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many Service personnel will be transferred from the Weapons Research Establishment at Woomera as a result of his statement of 20 November 1973 on the reshaping of defence activities. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Did he state in the House on 14 November 1973 that the final responsibility for major defence procurement orders rests with the Minister in the first instance and with the Government in the final analysis. [More…]
Did he also state in the House on 26 November 1973 that the decision to cut back the number of Army apprentices was a decision made by the Defence Force Development Committee and that the decision was not his. [More…]
If he made these statements, does it indicate that he holds ministerial responsibility for matters relating to defence procurement and not for defence training. [More…]
to (5) The level of apprentice enrolments at Balcombe for 1973-74 was recommended by the Defence Force Development Committee. [More…]
In reply to the right honourable gentleman’s specific queries: <a) The Departments represented on the committee are those of Secondary Industry, Transport, the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Overseas Trade, Defence and the Treasury. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
This was in the context of criticising the refusal by the Government of which the honourable gentleman was at that time a member to debate the question of US defence installations in Australia and to give any hint of the potential benefits and possible risks of the US bases. [More…]
I made arrangements at that time for the Leader of the Opposition to have access to information relating to the US defence installations. [More…]
If so, did their defence counsel say that their crime had been made easy for the men because of the manner in which the cheque had been sent. [More…]
The defence counsel is reported to have said that ‘the crime had been made easy for them all along the line in the way the Government had sent the cheque and the way the bank cashed it.’ [More…]
a Commissioner for Housing loan, a loan from Government funds advanced to co-operative building societies, a War Service (now Defence Services) Homes loan or who had purchased a Government house on terms. [More…]
Applicants are eligible for Defence Services Homes loans, [More…]
The rules were tabled by my colleague the Minister for Defence earlier this year (Hansard, House of Representatives, 1 March 1973, pages 134-135). [More…]
Department of Defence: Special Deputy to the Permanent Head (Question No. [More…]
Is the classification, Special Deputy to the Permanent Head, which will be used in relation to the Department of Defence, a new classification. [More…]
to (4) The designation Of Special Deputy of the Permanent Head, Department of Defence, is new. [More…]
It is being used in connection with the reorganisation of the Defence group of Departments. [More…]
Green (who is an unattached First Division officer following the abolition of the Department of Air) is Special Deputy of the Permanent Head, Department of Defence (Navy Office) and Special Deputy of the Permanent Head, Department of Defence (Air Office). [More…]
B. R. Livermore (who was Acting Secretary to the Department of the Army prior to the abolition of that Department) is Special Deputy of the Permanent Head, Department of Defence (Army Office). [More…]
These officers are responsible to the Secretary to the Department of Defence; they exercise powers delegated by him and by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In Defence, my Government will proceed with the major re-organisation and other reforms begun last year. [More…]
The amalgamation of the former Service departments into the Department of Defence will be completed. [More…]
Legislation will be introduced to establish a uniform code of discipline and justice for the Defence forces. [More…]
Provision will be made for two ombudsmen - one for civilians and one for the Defence Forces. [More…]
Direct assistance began immediately, with the defence forces rendering most praiseworthy help with evacuations, provision of emergency supplies and in many other ways to minimise or alleviate hardship and damage. [More…]
Is the Minister for the Environment and Conservation aware that defence personnel are at present on Lord Howe Island to commence shortly construction of an airstrip suitable only for light aircraft? [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Is it true that during the recent Queensland floods either the Minister, as the Acting Prime Minister or as the Minister for Defence, or an officer of his Department declined an offer by the United States Government to provide helicopters and helicopter crews to help in flood relief work in spite of a critical shortage of aircraft at that time? [More…]
There was no shortage of aircraft and no request came to the Department of Defence for assistance with aircraft - helicopters or transport aircraft - without that request being met. [More…]
However I will inquire from my Department whether a request was received or whether an offer was made to the Department of Defence by the United States authorities. [More…]
It was during this discussion that I indicated to the Mayor and to the manager of the company that I would be prepared to recommend to the Department of Defence that engineers be provided to assist in restoring the railway line to Mount Isa, which was their greatest problem. [More…]
It is a fact that the Minister recently officially opened the North Rocks Defence Service homes scheme which, when completed, will provide hundreds of top quality homes for eligible applicants at prices very much below the ruling market rates? [More…]
In other words, if the Defence Service Homes Section of his Department can organise the construction of such high quality buildings and achieve very worthwhile economies of scale, what is to stop the Government attempting to extend these benefits to a greater number of people in the community? [More…]
It is true that a fortnight ago I opened the first phase of the Defence Service project at North Rocks which is a northern part of Sydney. [More…]
In that regard I should mention that there is some spread-eagled constitutionality which could be brought together since the Commonwealth has the constitutional prerogative in regard to housing in the Territories and for such categories of people as Aborigines, students, public servants and a wider range of defence personnel than at present are covered by the Defence Service Homes Act and for certain recipients of social security benefits. [More…]
All I can say to the honourable member is that whoever told him those things ought to be ashamed of himself because what the Acting Prime Minister did at an important, urgent conference was to make provision for Caribou aircraft to go to Gunpowder, to make provision for Army engineers to work on the Mount Isa railway and to give an undertaking to the people that the defence forces would continue to work for as long as they were required in the Gulf country of Queensland. [More…]
I was also informed that the Department of Defence advised that there was no real need for the assistance as Navy Wessex helicopters held in reserve had not yet been called upon for assistance. [More…]
I understand that 3 days later the Acting Director of Civil Defence discussed future air transport requirements with the Director of the New South Wales State Emergency Services and the officer in charge of Queensland Police operations. [More…]
1 am indebted to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) for having amplified an answer in which, on my recollection, he gave something of an opposite impression earlier today. [More…]
As to the capacity of the Australian defence forces to meet the circumstances of providoring and supplying the flood needs in Queensland, the Minister and his officers are of course in a far better position than anyone else to make a judgment. [More…]
It is regrettable that the run-down in our defence capacity that has been instigated as a result of the actions of this Minister for Defence has seriously impaired that capacity. [More…]
It is unfortunately true that friends and allies such as the United States, no doubt being aware of the run-down in our defence capacity, felt that this may well be an area where additional help was required. [More…]
The position of course was that at that stage adequate fuel supplies were available at Townsville which was in no way affected by the stringencies of supply that affected Mount Isa, and part of the other reason for my question was to highlight the fact that, albeit the Minister for Defence visited Mount Isa for which no doubt the people of Mount Isa were grateful - I do know something of the consequences of his visit - it was unfortunate that he found it necessary to refuel his aircraft during his visit there instead of refuelling it at Townsville. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) was invited to go to Mt Isa to solve some very important pressing problems, which he did. [More…]
Mt Isa also received an unqualified undertaking by the Minister for Defence that the Royal Australian Air Force and the defence forces would continue to help the people of Mt Isa. [More…]
Mt Isa also obtained an undertaking from the Minister for Defence that Air Force Iroquois helicopters would be made available in the region of the Gulf of Carpentaria. [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister for Defence by saying that I understand that all servicemen who work additional hours outside their usual hours of work are subsequently reimbursed with time off provided that time off is taken within 28 days. [More…]
The Commonwealth has a prescriptive right to take moneys for defence purposes and, I think, 20 per cent of the balance. [More…]
It has power in relation to coinage and in relation to the raising and maintaining of military forces for the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I think many Western Australians would be glad to have the defence power of the Commonwealth over the territory of that State referred to the State of Western Australia. [More…]
What has been under consideration within the Department of Defence - I have been interested in this project - is the acquisition of an area of land in the Yampi Sound district. [More…]
As the honourable member knows, the Government has determined as a result of the recommendations contained in the strategic base document that we would be devoting our attention to the defence of continental Australia. [More…]
Those who have had the positions of responsibility as Minister for Defence or Minister for the Navy, Army or Air Force in this Parliament will know that any project that is ordered must inevitably be subject to an escalation of costs because of the normal factors that apply to it. [More…]
I believe that I acted responsibly when I asked that the Defence Force Development [More…]
There was no opposition from the Defence Force Development Committee on that question. [More…]
But I say to honourable gentlemen opposite that since the decision was taken to defer the program - I acknowledge that the Defence Force Development Committee did accept the project under the previous Government - there has been long, careful and useful consideration of an alternative destroyer program. [More…]
I believe that I have indicated to the honourable member the reasons that these questions were re-examined by the Defence Force Development Committee and why it determined in both cases that the programs should be deferred. [More…]
The honourable member is suggesting that this Government should accept automatically defence procurement programs which were undertaken by the previous Government. [More…]
If the Fill purchase is an example, it is quite clear that we should thoroughly examine every defence procurement item that was under consideration by the previous Government. [More…]
Yes, I have been misrepresented along with everybody on this side of the House by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
They are the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, the Public Accounts Committee and the Public Works Committee. [More…]
If that was not the case, where the Government sought to reduce Government expenditure in terms of defence and subsidies, the Opposition opposed it in every single case. [More…]
I am quite sure that as time goes on the sorts of things that are mentioned in Her Majesty’s Speech will come into fruition and will be of great benefit to the people of Australia; for instance, the protection of consumers against restrictive trade practices and the setting up of ombudsmen, one for civil personnel and one for defence personnel. [More…]
Where is the party which promised to maintain a credible national defence capability? [More…]
The tragedy of the Whitlam Government is that Australia as a nation is now, as a consequence of misguided government policies and general mismanagement, confronted by crippling inflation and economic instability; a severely impaired defence capability; a crisis in the housing industry, excessively high levels of industrial unrest; a massive erosion in the purchasing power of fixed income earners and pensioners; uncertainty and stagnation in the mineral and oil exploration industries; the highest interest rates in the history of this country; and huge increases in personal income tax. [More…]
The Government said that everything was being done with the co-operation of the State authorities and the civil defence authorities, who only had to ask for something and they would get it. [More…]
I would like to quote what was contained in the Speech in regard to defence. [More…]
In Defence, my Government will proceed with the major re-organisation and other reforms begun last year. [More…]
Well, they are sad words, are they not, for the defence of this country? [More…]
One would expect that even the Labor Party would understand that the national security is paramount and that one has to have a sufficient defence capacity if one is to have national security. [More…]
During the term of office of this Government we have seen a dangerous diminution of defence capacity and a lowering of morale right throughout the defence forces as indicated by the substantial resignations that have occurred at very senior level during the past year. [More…]
It does not have a mandate to weaken our defence capacity. [More…]
An ex-member of this House described the civil defence organisation as being worse than Dad’s Army. [More…]
In other words, Mr Speaker, your defence in this situation, in which it is attempted to censure you this afternoon, was that your attention was not drawn to the words, a point of order was not taken or a personal explanation was not made and that in the case of the honourable member for Gippsland your attention was drawn to the use of the words. [More…]
Since that Bill was introduced, rates of salary, pay and allowances, both of members of the defence force and of civilian employees, have been extensively affected by a variety of new awards, determinations and related decisions. [More…]
3m is for pay and allowances payable to members of the defence force and $127.2m for salary and payments in the nature of salary for civilian employees of the Australian Government. [More…]
The additional funds for Defence Services are to meet increased rates of pay, reengagement bonuses and other allowances for members of the force. [More…]
The newly emerging situation in our region involves fundamental changes in the nature and purposes of the Australian defence force. [More…]
Earlier both the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) had specifically stated that they would retain defence spending at around 3.2 per cent to 3.3 per cent of our gross national product. [More…]
Far from ensuring the promised successful restoration of strong highly professional all volunteer armed forces in fact the defence vote in the first Whitlam Budget has been reduced to 2.9 per cent of gross national product - not the 3.3 per cent or 3.2 per cent promised. [More…]
Actual estimated defence outlays will be $ 1,266m or 2.7 per cent of gross national product. [More…]
The Minister for Defence, with his wealth of experience and knowledge of the Navy, scrapped the plan to build 3 DDL combat ships and one support ship in Australia. [More…]
He did this on his own initiative, not on the recommendation of the Defence Force Development Committee. [More…]
Our well-disposed and reliable allies are well aware of the fact that we in this pretty well endowed, moderately sized, and wealthy country have only a 2-battalion field force, no operational tanks and no antiaircraft defences. [More…]
So within a year the Whitlam Government has abandoned the combination of realism and idealism on which our defence program has been steadily developed since the middle 1960s. [More…]
The Minister for Defence was guilty of a miserable concoction of empty promises and irrelevant flights of imagination when in January 1974 he said in Washington: [More…]
There is a clear need for us to be more self reliant in defence. [More…]
The supremely important defence commitment to Australia and the area in which we live has been dishonoured. [More…]
So much for Labor’s new approach to foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
In McMahon’s case at least he was a trier, but somehow he never could quite get it right His last visit to South East Asia was meant to highlight the importance of Five-Power Defence. [More…]
But in Jakarta he was primed to say defence pacts were unnecessary. [More…]
I come to defence. [More…]
The Government promised in its policy speech of 1972 that it would spend 3.5 per cent of the gross national product on defence. [More…]
Inflation will cut back the spending on defence, but there are other cutbacks that have been made deliberately as an act of policy. [More…]
In government we will restore defence spending, build up the armed forces, ensure military control of military decisions, reassess the armed forces equipment program and put special emphasis on the development of sophisticated research and development programs. [More…]
Then we have example of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) in whose field we have seen the dismantling of the defence structure, a reduction of expenditure, the collapse of morale and record resignations. [More…]
pursued defence and foreign policies which have seriously weakened our defence capacity; and [More…]
But, incredibly, members of the Women’s Royal Australian Air Force are not eligible because of the way in which the Defence Service Homes Act is worded. [More…]
The present Government made an alteration to the Act to make national servicemen eligible for defence forces homes. [More…]
I have been informed by one of these ex-servicewomen that a recent advertisement for the recruitment of WAAFs stated that they will become eligible for defence service homes. [More…]
In addition to those to which I have referred, I could have referred to Labor’s broken promises with respect to defence spending and the visit of the Vietcong representatives during Anzac Week which I believe to be an insult to Australian exservicemen. [More…]
It is possible, of course, that a Liberal government will have to reduce expenditure in all sorts of areas without necessarily reducing the amount of income tax collected - if the Liberal Party follows its previous philosophy of increasing Defence expenditure, as we have been told it will. [More…]
He says that the Government is not spending enough on defence, and that again means government spending. [More…]
One method by which the operation of the hovermarine could be extended to areas.- such as Ermington and Rydalmere which presently lack suitable transport facilities would be for the Department of Defence to make available wharf facilities that it has adjacent to the Silverwater Bridge at Ermington. [More…]
But the Australian Government is anxious, as my colleague the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence, has already informed the House, to come to arrangements for the Australian Government to be involved where it has resources. [More…]
The Minister is making the arrangements for this natural disaster organisation to be on a contemporary basis largely to provide that what used to be the Civil Defence Organisation should be concerned not primarily or solely with the possible consequences of nuclear attack but also the certain consequences of recurrent natural disasters. [More…]
Does anybody seriously believe in this country at the moment that a government could increase expenditure on defence by some hundreds of millions of dollars and at the same time reduce taxation by $500m to $600m. [More…]
The Government, when it deals with its own superannuation funds, makes no mention of, say, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and the people who have contributed to that. [More…]
This takes away the ability of the Government to deal with the really important problems - the social service matters and questions of defence. [More…]
In answer to a question by the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Ashley-Brown) in this House on 5 March last the Minister suggested that houses made avail able to defence personnel cost between $23,000 and $27,000 and were said to be valued at between $40,000 and $47,000. [More…]
The land on which these defence Service homes were built has been owned by the Commonwealth Government for many years. [More…]
His speech makes it quite clear that he believes that the defence vote should be increased by one per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
In matters such as defence, primary production, interest rates, postal services, Aborigines, pensions and the referenda or referendums - however one likes to say it - that have been put before this House one can see a degree of confusion and haste in most of the Government’s legislation and in most of its actions. [More…]
pursued defence and foreign policies which have seriously weakened our defence capacity; and [More…]
The first is the matter of defence. [More…]
What has happened to the defence of this country since this Government came into power? [More…]
The morale of the defence services of this country has never been lower. [More…]
Yet the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) comes into this House and says literally that everything in the defence sphere is lovely. [More…]
I say quite frankly that, if he thinks that, it shows that he knows nothing about the defence services and nothing about the factors relating to the defence of this country. [More…]
Let him go out to some of the defence installations in Australia and talk to the servicemen who are engaged there. [More…]
He will then find out their feelings about what this Government has done to the defence of the country. [More…]
I have said enough about defence. [More…]
Would they have us reduce spending on defence or overseas aid or do they prefer just to stand up and say ‘reduce spending’ and not indicate where? [More…]
The local Red Cross, civil defence organisations, the police and the St Vincent de Paul Societies did tremendous work at very short notice. [More…]
It was not to be unexpected, I suppose, that faced with a disaster of this magnitude the civil defence organisation was not geared to controlling it. [More…]
We went to check the situation in respect of the defence Services homes insurance scheme. [More…]
I have told the House that in that regard we have an impeccable record with about $2m worth of claims met by the defence Services homes insurance scheme despite the sorry record of some of the private insurance companies. [More…]
Then, of course, there is the question of the unbridled support of the defence Services. [More…]
We must take control of our defence forces and already we are in fact deciding policy questions regarding those forces. [More…]
Papua New Guinea has been, as honourable members are aware, increasingly involved in the field of defence and Australia has fully consulted it on all aspects of defence policy. [More…]
A senior Minister in the Papua New Guinea Government, Mr Albert Maori-Kiki, is responsible for defence matters as well as for foreign relations. [More…]
The first is the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) who is culpable to the Australian nation for not advising this Parliament and the Australian people of what steps have been taken to determine the size, structure and role of the Papua New Guinea defence forces during this period of self-government prior to independence when I would remind honourable members that we are still internationally responsible and answerable to the United Nations for matters of internal security but particularly of defence security. [More…]
One short paragraph was all the Minister for Defence gave us in his oblique defence statement last year. [More…]
I do not need to dwell on the circumstances of the need for the Pacific Islands Regiment as an element within the Papua New Guinea Defence Forces. [More…]
This Parliament has not been informed by the Minister for Defence at any time on what he views as the role of those officers in the Papua New Guinea defence forces. [More…]
By intruding these views regarding the role of the defence forces in Papua New Guinea during this period I in no way imply that they could be misused. [More…]
The Minister for Defence is answerable to this Parliament. [More…]
I share the concern that my colleague expressed about the future defence policy and the role of the former Pacific Islands Regiment in an independent New Guinea. [More…]
I am now referring of course to the position of the defence forces of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The honourable member for Kooyong referred to the question of the defence forces in Papua New Guinea and what should be the attitude of the Australian servicemen serving in that country. [More…]
It has not been the prerogative of this Government to determine what should be done with the Australian defence forces in Papua New Guinea and the extent to which they should be used or integrated into the Papua New Guinea Defence Forces. [More…]
More particularly, it has been a matter for discussion between the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations, Mr Kiki and myself. [More…]
Indeed, I think that probably the first visit I made outside Australia as the Minister for Defence was to Papua New Guinea for the purpose of discussing with the then Executive Council, with Mr Maori-Kiki and with the Chief Minister, Mr Somare, the question of defence. [More…]
We discussed questions concerning that country in terms of defence, what the Australian attitude should be in relation to the assistance that we would provide to Papua New Guinea and the extent to which members of the Australian defence forces would continue to operate and serve in that country. [More…]
If the honourable member for Kooyong had carried out some research into what has been said on this subject, he would remember that when I made a statement to this House on 22 August 1973 concerning this region and the position of the Australian defence forces, I had this to say: [More…]
Honourable members will have noted the important statement of 20 August by the Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations in the Papua New Guinea Government, Mr Kiki. [More…]
In the words of Mr Kiki, the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations, Papua New Guinea was determined to look after its own security problems in the future’. [More…]
Surely in these circumstances what one should do as a responsible Minister for Defence in the Australian Government is to ensure that there are continued discussions and negotiations with officials of the Papua New Guinea Department of Defence. [More…]
As I indicated to the House a few moments ago, we agreed during discussions on my first visit to Papua New Guinea that there would be continued discussions between representatives of the Australian Department of Defence and the administration in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The discussions related to the question of defence and the matters we had raised on a number of occasions. [More…]
However, in addition, we discussed the continuing aid to be provided by the Australian Department of Defence to Papua New Guinea after independence, particularly in terms of essential equipment that would be required by that country. [More…]
On every occasion the proposition has been put to me as the Minister for Defence, I think responsibly and in the way that these things should be done, by the Minister for Defence of Papua New Guinea, Mr Albert Maori-Kiki. [More…]
I am happy to assure the honourable member for Kooyong that those discussions were mutually advantageous and, as a result of our last discussions, Australia will take part in a continuing defence aid program for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As I said, it has been made clear by both the Chief Minister and the Minister for Defence of Papua New Guinea that the question of the internal security arrangements of that country will rest primarily with the Papua New Guinea police force. [More…]
In conclusion may I say that it is quite clear that the Australian Government has acted quite properly in meeting the wishes of the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations and of the Chief Minister on all occasions when he has sought discussions with me on this question. [More…]
New Guinea Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations, it was agreed that I should visit Papua New Guinea in the very near future - I hope to visit that country some time in April or early in May - in order that these matters might be further considered. [More…]
I conclude by pointing out to the honourable member for Kooyong that it would not be possible for one to make any statement in the House on what are very important matters for the Papua New Guinea Government, particularly in relation to defence and our aid program for defence to Papua New Guinea after independence which, as I have said, will continue, until these discussions with the responsible Ministers in Papua New Guinea have been concluded. [More…]
Secondly, the Minister indicated to me in his address that I was not aware of the discussions that had occurred between the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
On the personal explanation where the Minister misquoted me, he indicated to me that defence matters were now, in his viewpoint, the responsibility of the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I said that we were internationally responsible and answerable under the terms of the trusteeship agreement not only for education and other matters, but also for defence matters. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) recently acknowledged that the United States North West Cape installation is an essential element in Australian security. [More…]
Diego Garcia is complementary to the North West Cape installation in overall United States defence planning. [More…]
The Government’s criticism of the United States decision on Diego Garcia is therefore totally inconsistent with the Defence Minister’s views on the North West Cape base. [More…]
It may not be accepted by the Left, but it has been publicly accepted by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It is this perverse approach to foreign policy that has contributed to the Labor Party’s off-handed treatment of Australian security and defence forces. [More…]
When returned to government we will discuss with the other partners the whole question of regional defence co-operation. [More…]
At present new great power relationships are emerging, new super power defence concepts are being discussed as SALT II gets under way, the international monetary and trade situation is increasingly complex, the oil crisis has raised new and uncertain problems, and the broader matter of resources and energy intrude more into foreign policy. [More…]
Whitlam’s inability to see Five-Power Defence, the ANZUK task force and long-term hopes for neutralisation as being essentially three complementary cards in the same basic hand disappointed Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. [More…]
I believe that that is a natural conclusion that many of us must draw from the product of the journeys of the Prime Minister - that he is taking us away from what was an involvement in a region to an area which was a more complete commitment in Australia as far as our whole economic, social and defence policies are concerned. [More…]
The Opposition says it wants to revive the debate on foreign affairs and defence - harking back to the past again, 1 am sure. [More…]
We do not regard the South East Asian countries as buffer states any more, but as countries having virtually the same sort of defence problems as we do and a need for some sort of common defence interest. [More…]
I think to get away from this buffer state mentality towards these nations to our north and to accept that they are independent nations with a common defence interest is making a lot of progress. [More…]
Incidentally, in that speech he quoted the United States Secretary of Defence at the time, Mr McNamara, who said: [More…]
To alleviate political tension around the world should be a prime purpose of any political party but it is not the only purpose and it is not the premise on which either the foreign policy or defence policy of the Opposition is based. [More…]
That is why the Congress will pass, almost without question, Defence Secretary Schlesinger’s Budget. [More…]
If the situation since the first of the strategic arms limitation talks were to continue where Russia consistently increased her defence expenditure and the United States reduced its expenditure, the world would be placed in a position of jeopardy and there would be little point or strength in the negotiating position of the United States under the broad umbrella of detente. [More…]
There is a clear distinction between the Government and the Opposition on questions of credibility in foreign policy and a credible defence stance. [More…]
I pose these questions not merely as distinctions but as fundamental to the Opposition’s attitude on foreign policy and defence policy. [More…]
As I have said time and again, there is no credible foreign policy without a credible defence policy. [More…]
The Government’s foreign policy, disastrous as it is on its own, is made even worse when it is linked with the structure which it is reducing in the defence forces. [More…]
While I am on my feet I wish to offer the suggestion that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) should examine whether there is any possibility of the inflatable gasoline tanks which were on the strip at Tindal during one of the exercises being used to float supplies across the overflow at Lake Woods and Newcastle Waters. [More…]
If the Minister for Defence cannot And the inflatable tanks that were used on that occasion he could probably deploy a number of engineers to erect a pump on either side and a plastic line underneath the water for the pumping of fuel from the north to the south. [More…]
I draw attention to the Government’s disastrous mining policy, its attack on the farming and pastoral industries and its non-defence policy. [More…]
I think the only thing that we are relying on for our defence is the much maligned Fills. [More…]
They are probably the only means of defence in the north at the moment. [More…]
He refers to the projected deficit and bemoans its extent, but then in the next breath he says that taxes should but cut by $600m and that defence spending should be lifted. [More…]
I can understand, quite sensibly, that nobody should pin himself to a percentage of the gross national product, but the Opposition has put very few dimensions on the increase in defence spending that it would like to see take place. [More…]
The Opposition is generally cagey on defence. [More…]
If the Opposition were to cut taxes by $600m and spend 5200m or $300m more on defence, that would add another $900m to the deficit. [More…]
As an example of this I refer to the defence reorganisation. [More…]
If a government cuts down on our security, whether through disarming our defence forces or through undertaking an unwise foreign policy, the good things which we have and most of which we still have in spite of this Government can all be put at jeopardy. [More…]
On pensions, social welfare or defence? [More…]
pursued defence and foreign policies which have seriously weakened our defence capacity; and [More…]
Indeed, on alternate days the Opposition argues that there should be increases in public expenditure, for example, on defence, pensions or health services which it almost totally ignored when in office, and a range of other areas. [More…]
It has pursued defence and foreign policies which have seriously weakened our defence capacity. [More…]
A couple of weeks later he proposes to move to condemn the Government for allowing a run down in the defence services and defence capacity of Australia. [More…]
In these debates on defence, foreign affairs and world oil supplies the Opposition showed its weakness of not having reviewed its outdated policies which were rejected overwhelmingly by the people at the last election. [More…]
It puts paternity leave for male public servants before defence; it puts the painting ‘Blue Poles’ before country telephones. [More…]
What was the Government’s main defence? [More…]
I want also to speak about that aspect of the amendment which relates to defence and which says that the Government has pursued defence and foreign policies which have seriously weakened our defence capacity. [More…]
This indicates the deep distrust we feel about the Government’s actions in the defence field. [More…]
Expenditure on defence has been reduced to 2.9 per cent of the gross national product in money terms; probably 2.5 per cent in real terms. [More…]
Our future maritime defence has been placed at risk by the scrapping of the DDL project with no substitute in sight. [More…]
It is the Government’s style in defence matters which has nurtured and gained distrust. [More…]
If it gives a low priority to defence in relation to what it regards as other and more pressing needs for expenditure, I would be the last to dispute its right to do so. [More…]
What I would dispute, however, is its right to say that these decisions flow from its defence advisers. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) did it in answer to a question from me the other”day. [More…]
Let me take as an example the strategic basis or strategic assessment which the Government uses so often to justify, the low priority it gives to defence. [More…]
defence advisers. [More…]
It may or may not be true that this document says that there is no discernible threat for the next 15 years, as the Minister for Defence has so often asserted. [More…]
But even if it is true that the conclusion in the document is that there is no discernible threat for 15 years, this does not mean that the Government’s Defence advisers draw the same deductions about the shape of our forces as has the Government. [More…]
Yet the Government has clearly implied that its defence advisers concur in the deductions that it has drawn from the strategic basis. [More…]
Is it any wonder that we distrust the Government on defence? [More…]
This ship was selected after the most vigorous examination of the requirement and the cost effectiveness of alternatives in Australian defence history. [More…]
Whatever may have been said about the Fill, we have the finest aircraft of its type in the world as a deterrent to an aggressor, and a Government which gives such a low priority to defence spending must be darned glad and very relieved to have the Fill. [More…]
Whatever may be said about the process by which the Fill was chosen, in no way can that be applied to the DDL which, I repeat, was submitted to the most vigorous examination of the requirement and the cost effectiveness of alternatives in Australian defence history. [More…]
The honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) was carrying on again about defence. [More…]
Referring again to defence, there is an inquiry into the future shape and structure of the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]
I advised the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) that I would be raising this matter and I am very glad to see that he is now in the chamber. [More…]
During my discussions with the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence in Malaysia it was quite clear that they wanted the Mirage aircraft to remain there. [More…]
The third charge I would like to deal with is that the Government has pursued defence and foreign policies which have seriously weakened our defence capacity. [More…]
It is indisputable that the Government has broken a clear election promise, which fooled many people, over defence expenditure. [More…]
It was explicitly stated in its election material on defence that defence spending would be maintained at 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product. [More…]
Defence expenditure was this year assessed as 2.9 per cent of gross domestic product, but with the enormous inflation which this Government has generated it seems likely to be as little as 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product. [More…]
Our defence forces which, when we left office, were of a strength and morale unparalleled in peace time, are now run down and depressed. [More…]
The Prime Minister talks of independence as if he had just invented it or we had just achieved it, and his colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) busily destroys one of the fundamental requirements of effective independence. [More…]
Quite clearly the charge that the Government has pursued defence and foreign policies which have seriously weakened our defence capacities is proved beyond all reasonable doubt. [More…]
Excluding expenditure on defence services, civilian Public Service salary and related income charges in the full 1973-74 year will rise to $802.3m compared with $569.9m in 1972-73. [More…]
There is a lesson to be learned from every disaster, and I make an appeal to all to co-ordinate civil defence arrangements. [More…]
I note that reference is made under Division 647 of the Bill to expenditure on civil defence personnel. [More…]
Since the House assembled for the autumn session, previous speakers have passed disparaging remarks - and quite rightly so - about the morale of our defence forces. [More…]
Shorn almost completely of any encouragement by the Labor Government to be the most vital component of Australian life in its widest concept, it is about time that the Government treated the members of the defence forces as first-class citizens. [More…]
Housing is of the utmost importance to defence personnel who lead a rather migratory existence and are always the victims of rising costs and shortages. [More…]
On behalf of all the defence personnel within the electorate of Darling Downs, (I request the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr’ Les Johnson) to increase the present maximum defence service housing loan of $12,000 to a figure which will be consistent with modern costs and modern standards of housing. [More…]
It is one of several Bills which must necessarily be passed through Parliament each year, and that is normal in the sense that funds are required and are authorised by Parliament in a series of Bills for the payment of government services such as welfare, grants to the States, administration, defence and so on. [More…]
There was no defence against this money inflow - the previous Government left us defenceless. [More…]
Members of the Opposition are very critical of the fact that we allowed expenditure on defence to diminish slightly and, in their terms, they will bring it back to what it was. [More…]
Some powers, other than defence and foreign affairs, have not been transferred to the Papua New Guinea Government as the Application of Laws Act alone is not the appropriate vehicle. [More…]
It represents further steps in the Government’s program adequately to compensate those who have served in the defence force of this country and their dependants. [More…]
Urge intervention to end victimisation of 40 Griffith women thrown out of work as a result of black ban by Food Preservers Union of Victoria on onions peeled by Nugan staff members for delivery to frozen foods and other preservers stop this ban is in defiance of court ruling and victimised women who are trade unionists covered according to the law by the union recognised by the law stop Griffith unemployment has long been matter of concern particularly for women and this is an irresponsible and harmful ban for purely administrative reasons and would urge strongest possible action in defence of women who are my constituents and full trade unionists stop would appreciate your advice on possible action regards.’ [More…]
However, in relation to the social sciences, medical sciences and defence science, there were divergences of view as to what the nature of the council’s role should be. [More…]
His performance in this part of his comments reminded me somewhat of the defence one hears about in some celebrated defamation cases: ‘I did not say it; if I did say it it was true; if it was not true it was privileged’. [More…]
I seek the assurance of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) that this particular category of repatriation pensioner will not suffer financially. [More…]
The legislation also provides an important improvement in the conditions for service in Australia’s defence forces and will help to ensure that a Service career holds as many advantages and attractions as possible to young men and women. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence has reminded me, those pensions are not taxable. [More…]
They are the women whose husbands gave their lives in the defence of their country. [More…]
I point out to the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) that the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds), who is on his own team, spoke for his full 20 minutes and waffled on about the same things to which the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) referred in his second reading speech when introducing the Bill. [More…]
There are one or two questions I should like the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) to answer. [More…]
The Minister for Defence may recall that on the last occasion on which the House was considering repatriation matters I raised this matter but did not receive a reply. [More…]
It is for the Minister for Defence to make the position clear by way of answer. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for Defence is interested also in this report as [More…]
Having said all that - a great deal more could be said if so much time had not been taken up by other matters - in tentative defence of the plan I repeat my request to the Public Works Committee for openmindedness on the plan put before it. [More…]
by leave - For the information of honourable members I present the report of the 1973 Working Party on the Defence Force Disciplinary Code. [More…]
The report which has been presented to the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Murphy) and myself by the Working Party has annexed to it a draft - and I stress the word ‘draft’ - prepared by the Working Party of a proposed Defence (Discipline and Justice) Bill. [More…]
I would therefore like to pay a tribute to the Chairman, Mr A. R. M. Watson, and members of the Working Party who have now developed proposals for a disciplinary code which is modern in concept and which the Working Party considers to be suitable for application to the Australian defence force. [More…]
However, in the interests of open government, the report is being tabled to enable honourable members and others, including members and former members of the defence force, to study the draft provisions and to submit any comments they may wish to make on them. [More…]
Although it would be naive to promote a greater development effort at the expense of defence responsibility, it is nonetheless a sad commentary on the state of international relations that the financial resources made available for the constructive role of development assistance represent only a fraction of the amount spent on military expenditure. [More…]
In 1968, for example, developed countries spent $168, 800m on defence while a mere $8,500m was spent on all forms of economic aid. [More…]
Honourable members will note that the preface to those remarks was that it would be naive to promote a greater development effort at the expense of defence responsibility. [More…]
All reports which the Government has commissioned have been tabled; for example, the Coombs Task Force report; the Priorities Review Committee report; the Green and White Papers on Health Insurance; the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission - First Report; the Protection Commission Inquiry; a report from the Social Welfare Commission concerning Aged Person’s Housing; the First Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Land Tenures; the Re-organisation of the Defence Group of Departments; the Care and Education of Young Children - a report of the Australian Pre-schools Committee; report of the Advisory Committee on CES Employment Statistics, and many others. [More…]
Whether or not Indonesia is now a military dictatorship does not seem to me to be as relevant as the fact that we are expending too much on defence aid to the country. [More…]
Qf an aid program of $69m under the 3 categories of program aid, commodity aid and Colombo Plan projects, some S20m worth of defence aid is being offered currently. [More…]
Australia and Indonesia certainly do have many defence problems in common. [More…]
But increases in the sophistication of defence equipment gained by Indonesia may mean that her neighbouring countries may feel induced to spend also more on equipment. [More…]
Further appropriations totalling $23 .4m are sought for the defence Services. [More…]
7m is required for maintenance of defence production capacity in government factories and industry. [More…]
Estimated savings in other Defence appropriations amount to some $41. [More…]
Our first aim is the defence and extension of our independence. [More…]
Some are appropriately described as having defence communications significance and others are properly described as pure scientific stations. [More…]
Another is concerned with the liability to tax of allowances and benefits received by members of the defence force under the new pay code. [More…]
The amendments relating to defence force allowances are in the main the result of changes in the service pay structure based on recommendations in the final report of the Committee of Inquiry Into Services’ Pay - the Woodward Committee. [More…]
One change of particular significance from the tax standpoint is the withdrawal of the general entitlement of members of the defence force to receive free rations and quarters when living in service establishments, or substituted benefits in the form of cash allowances when living elsewhere. [More…]
This development, together with a proposal to provide a specific exemption for the value of rations and quarters that are still provided free of charge in a limited range of circumstances, has made unnecessary a provision that fixes the taxable value of defence force allowances in the food and shelter category at $2 a week. [More…]
Another provision of the income tax law governing the exemption of dependants’ allowances and exchange allowances of defence force members is to be amended. [More…]
Another purpose is to facilitate the provision, or continuation, of exemptions for allowances paid in reimbursement of certain abnormal expenses incurred by defence force personnel in. [More…]
In the same way, it is proposed to prescribe, pursuant to this amendment, that a re-engagement bounty payable to a member of the defence force is to be exempt from tax. [More…]
Under recent legislative changes, contributions for retirement benefits by members of this Parliament and by members of the defence force are paid directly into Consolidated Revenue. [More…]
Clause 27 ensures the secrecy of any information provided by corporations, and clause 28 provides a corporation with a defence to prosecution for failing to comply with the legislation if the corporation was not aware of a relevant fact or occurence. [More…]
Perhaps they also would observe that Australia spends more than twice as much on defence assistance to Asian countries as it does on economic assistance. [More…]
Some question was raised on the score of defence aid. [More…]
Reference to the definition in clause 3 makes it clear that defence aid is entirely outside the ambit of the Agency. [More…]
So the answer to the question raised by some Opposition speakers is that this Agency has nothing to do with defence aid. [More…]
In a recent statement submitted to the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) the consultants claimed that primary producers had always adopted the policy of using profits earned in periods of prosperity for reinvestment in productive resources as a defence against future adversity. [More…]
The following Ministers have replied: Minister for Transport, Minister for Defence, [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
How many units in the Defence Forces have been disbanded or reduced in strength since the Government came into office. [More…]
What additional services to the public, such as collection of telephone accounts, sale of postal orders, sale of tax stamps, collection of wireless and television fees, bulk postage rate, income derived as agent for the Commonwealth Savings Bank and the Defence Service Homes Commission, were carried nut from these offices. [More…]
In 1964, legislation was enacted to permit the CMF to be called out for continuous service, by proclamation, in a time of defence emergency. [More…]
Regarding the Committee’s general commentary on strategic factors, although there is much in the report with which everybody could agree, some judgments differ from those of the Government and its Service, defence and foreign affairs advisers. [More…]
It suggests that the Army Reserve be responsible with the Regular Army for the ground defence of the Australian continent, that existing roles in defence emergency or mobilisation be retained, that in the event of commitment beyond the resources of the regular Army the Army Reserve be activated as the next force to be employed and that the Army Reserve have a role in civil emergencies. [More…]
There is no practical alternative to the re-shaping of the CMF, if it is to be revitalised and be of value to our defence effort. [More…]
The Army and the Defence Force Development Committee have not yet had time to consider the report in the depth it deserves. [More…]
The acceptance of this concept, which the Committee calls the total force concept, will give the citizen soldier a much clearer understanding of his role and place in our defence forces; it will mean that his training, function, equipment and other support will closely resemble that of the Regular Army. [More…]
Of course, such matters, involve other portfolios as well as defence, and it will be necessary for me to consult with my colleague the Treasurer (Mr Crean), and other appropriate Ministers. [More…]
The Minsiter for Defence (Mr Barnard) can correct that if- [More…]
These were people who were informed by the duly elected government of the country at the time that if they exercised the CMF option to national service they would be behaving in an honourable way and in the interests of the defence of the country. [More…]
The Minister has used words which suggest a Government commitment to the CMF, as he always does when he is talking about defence, but as always those words are not action - they are a substitute for action. [More…]
It is easy enough to accept recommendations which do not cost money, but these ones in relation to conditions of service cost money, and money is something that this Government is not prepared to find for defence. [More…]
Some powers, other than defence and foreign affairs have not been transferred to the Papua New Guinea Government as the Application of Laws Act alone is not the appropriate vehicle. [More…]
I should like, of course, at another moment of time to raise the question of the transfer of powers related to foreign affairs and defence, but I will not do so during the debate on this [More…]
The Labor Party promised to spend 3.5 per cent of the gross national product on defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) had to come into this chamber during debate on the last Budget and admit that that promise was broken and that the amount to be spent would be only 2.9 per cent of the GNP. [More…]
We would strengthen and honour our alliances and rebuild our defences. [More…]
We would make sure that our defence forces can answer the claims likely to be put upon them. [More…]
When we go to an election we will put clearly before them the alternatives - this in the economic and social field, and this in the foreign affairs and defence field. [More…]
We can do this only if we have a responsible attitude to the security of this nation by maintaining our strong alliances with our allies and building up a defence service that will be capable of giving some protection to the Australian people if it is ever called upon to do so. [More…]
As a nation we are now confronted with massive inflation and severe economic instability, the highest interest rates since federation, excessive increases in direct and indirect taxation, a crisis in the housing industry unparalleled since the immediate postwar period, record levels of industrial unrest, a severely reduced defence capability, a massive erosion of the purchasing power of fixed income earners and pensioners, uncertainty and stagnation in the mineral and oil exploration industries, an immigration policy which has heaped confusion upon confusion and a breakdown in communication between the Government and the major constituent groups in the Australian community. [More…]
Either today or tomorrow, probably tomorrow, on defence. [More…]
The Defence Force Development Committee made a recommendation to me. [More…]
It can be argued that Clause 9 of the Bill limits the performance of the authority’s functions to various specified places and matters, e.g., in a territory; in relation to the natural resources of the submarine areas of the Australian land mass; for purposes facilitating territorial, interstate and overseas trade; for the purposes of defence; and finally, any associated areas. [More…]
I referred to the praiseworthy work of the defence forces in helping with evacuations, providing emergency supplies and in other ways assisting to minimise or alleviate hardship. [More…]
There have been massive increases in relation to defence service homes. [More…]
He brought with him his own audience, which is important, and then gave a handout to the Press and to the media in which he described himself as the Liberal Party spokesman on defence and foreign policy, which no doubt be would like to be. [More…]
But of course the Party does not trust him as its spokesman on foreign affairs and defence because of his quite extremist views; so they shut him up. [More…]
by leave - I wish this afternoon to say something about the strategic prospects and the conceptual thinking which underlie this Government’s approach to defence; to announce some particular equipment decisions which have been taken by the Government; and to touch on a number of other areas of defence activity and of developments in our defence relations with our neighbours and allies. [More…]
I shall begin by restating some of the fundamental factors which govern the allocation of national resources to defence and among various defence objectives. [More…]
The start point is the current strategic forecast, and the implications we may draw from this for the kind of defence capability required in our Services and production facilities. [More…]
The development of new technology and of Australia’s defence industry will have a bearing. [More…]
Flowing from these considerations the Secretary of Defence, Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff and the Chiefs of Staff of the 3 Services collectively prepare a draft 5-year defence plan for my consideration. [More…]
This, sets out, by years of expenditure, the levels for defence manpower works, stores, maintenance, industrial support, research and development effort and new equipment acquisition which in their judgment should have first claim on the finance over the succeeding 5 years. [More…]
These statements were firmly based on the advice of the Defence Committee, which had recently reviewed long-term prospects and policy. [More…]
The Committee consists, I remind the House, of the Secretary of the Defence Department, the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, the three Chiefs of Staff and the Secretaries of the Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Foreign Affairs and the Treasury. [More…]
The Director of the Joint Intelligence Organisation was also present at the Defence Committee’s considerations. [More…]
The Defence Committee also emphasised that uncertainty increases over long-term assessment, and that continuous monitoring and regular review of strategic developments and prospects are essential if the Government is to be apprised of any unfavourable developments in time for it to make any necessary adjustments to our defence posture. [More…]
Our defence policy is not geared simply to some specific threat or pressure against Australia’s national security or immediate strategic interests. [More…]
In this connection the defence force in being should be adequate to indicate our resolution and our ability to defend Australian interests and to support others, should the need arise. [More…]
As to the nature of this core force, our geographical position as an island continent, with- a vast oceanic and archipelagic environment, suggests some fundamental defence requirements and skills to be developed and preserved in all 3 Services. [More…]
Our continuing study of the concepts and problems of a continental defence, although an attack upon Australian territory is a remote contingency, will also provide useful guidance for the type of defence force we should hold in readiness against a later requirement for expansion. [More…]
Our defence policy and force structure must have regard to this. [More…]
However I do not share the attitude, apparent in some public comment on our defence posture, that change in our strategic environment means that we shall necessarily be less secure, and that we must now act on the assumption that, when uncertainties resolve, things will be worse. [More…]
I shall not be pushed into much larger demands on the taxpayer to satisfy those who are either unwilling or unable to state a case for defence expenditure that we may all examine and debate, but rely instead on vague assertions about future possibilities of threat and shaky analogies from the past. [More…]
No regional power has or is likely to acquire for many years the capability and motive that might require an Australian defence response. [More…]
The possibility of low-level situations on relatively short notice, for example in our maritime resources zone, continues; insofar as these were not susceptible to political handling, they must be met by our defence force in being. [More…]
Our alliance and working defence relationship with the United States continue important of course - in terms of the global balance, of our regional standing, of the long-term contingency of serious deterioration in our strategic situation, and of defence force in several important practical respects. [More…]
Therefore, we must keep in being a viable national defence force with manifest capability for expansion, and maintain its development at the modest rate now required by the assumption of larger national responsibility, by the current strategic guidance, and by longer term uncertainties. [More…]
It is against this background that the 5-year defence plan is prepared and specific proposals are brought forward each year for approval. [More…]
As I have previously stated in this House, the low threat probability at present requires some restructuring of the defence force and economies in some areas of defence. [More…]
But even after the manpower economies I announced in August, defence Service manpower will still be 39 per cent above the 1963 level. [More…]
All this is being achieved without impairing in any significant way our real defence capability. [More…]
The aim is by efficient and economical management to reduce expenditure on maintenance and current consumption so that resources may be freed for capital purposes, particularly for the acquisition of necessary new equipments which are the basis of our defence capability in the decades ahead. [More…]
The 5-year forward defence plan which has been prepared by the Secretary of the Department of Defence, the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chiefs of Staff - the Defence Force Development Committee - accords with the principles I have been outlining. [More…]
The plan contemplates the allocation of very substantial resources to defence to ensure an adequate defence capability - approximately $8,000 in 1974 prices over the 5- year period 1974-79. [More…]
Previous Ministers for Defence who are now members of the Opposition should know that destroyer and long range maritime patrol aircraft submissions had long been in preparation for last year’s Budget. [More…]
That was done and recommendations were made to me by the Defence Force Development Committee on 28 March. [More…]
The attempts of Opposition spokesmen to dismiss those decisions as electioneering displays either a woeful ignorance of the processes of defence decision-making or a contemptuous view of the gullibility of the Australian public. [More…]
The work of this group was reviewed by the Defence Force Development Committee, which, on 28 March, submitted its final recommendations for the 1974-79 defence program, including the decision to purchase the ships at this stage. [More…]
However, the previous Government received no recommendation from its Minister for Defence on tank replacements. [More…]
1 received a recommendation from the Defence Force Development Committee on 28 March confirming the ability to include the replacement of tanks in the 5-year defence program. [More…]
In the case of all the equipment decisions reached by the Government the Defence Force Development Committee recommendation preceded the Opposition’s decision to deny Supply. [More…]
In the case of all these decisions the Defence Force Development Committee was able to draw on the results of extremely detailed studies that were conducted and carried out by Service personnel and officers of the Department of Defence. [More…]
The Opposition pays those people a gratuitous insult by stating that those defence decisions were made simply as a last minute electoral expediency. [More…]
Following further detailed investigation of this and other projects, the Government has taken decisions in respect of three major equipment proposals recommended to me by the Defence Force Development Committee. [More…]
The Government has accepted the recommendation of the Defence Force Development Committee that we should, as the first step, acquire 2 destroyers of United States design, known as the patrol frigate, and the Government has agreed that negotiations should be opened with the United States Government for this purpose. [More…]
The ship will also have a 76mm gun and anti-submarine torpedo tubes and provision for fitting at a later stage a close-in weapon system for point defence against aircraft or missiles. [More…]
On the basis of advice from the Defence Force Development Committee, the Government has decided that the Neptune aircraft will be replaced by 8 modern long range maritime aircraft of a type to be decided. [More…]
The desirable characteristics of various types of armoured vehicles have been the subject of detailed study in Army and in the Defence Department. [More…]
This round of equipment decisions - and of course more will follow under the 1974-79 program that provides for some 40 equipment decisions spread over 5 years - accords with the total Defence Plan, the strategic prospect, the capabilities needed, the equipment going out of service, military doctrines and technology, and the resources available. [More…]
The Defence [More…]
It is this policy of selectivity which will bring industry into contact with the advanced technology which is a feature of modern defence equipment. [More…]
Our defence industry is presently going through a period of major readjustment. [More…]
To cope with present problems of adjustment, my colleague, the Minister for Secondary Industry and Supply (Mr Enderby) has been most active in efforts to obtain alternative commercial work loads of a suitable type for defence factories. [More…]
In the area of defence research and development, Australian defence scientists and engineers have a deservedly high reputation and it is our intention that the capability built up over many years should be retained and fostered. [More…]
This program, the largest research and development project ever undertaken in Australian defence establishments and industry, promises to provide our maritime forces with a sonobuoy without equal. [More…]
I turn now to the area of defence manpower in which the Government has done so much in the comparatively short time since it came to office. [More…]
We have set up a Committee of Reference for Defence Forces Pay. [More…]
This Government also adopted the recommendations of the Joint Select Committee of Inquiry into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation (the Jess Committee). [More…]
Benefits under the Defence Service Homes Act were extended to all permanent members of the defence forces, and the amount of the loan has been increased from $9,000 to $12,000. [More…]
It has been decided to appoint a defence forces ombudsman. [More…]
On 2 April 1974, this Government tabled in the Parliament a report and draft Bill on the Defence Force Disciplinary Code. [More…]
It will ensure effective discipline in the defence force, but at the same time it will ensure that the rights of individual servicemen are preserved. [More…]
The Government has recently approved - what our predecessors failed to do - the establishment of an Australian Defence Academy. [More…]
In previous statements I have referred to an inquiry in hand concerning the future disposition of bases and facilities within Australia for our defence forces. [More…]
The first stage of that review has been completed and is under examination in the Defence Department. [More…]
To effect the integration of the staffs of the former departments of Navy, Army and Air into a new defence organisation under a Chief of Defence Force Staff and Secretary to the Department, establishment proposals have been made to the Public Service Board. [More…]
The organisational arrangements and establishment for defence procurement will be finally decided when the Government has received the report of a committee headed by Sir Walter Scott. [More…]
Already the interim steps taken by the Government towards the new defence organisation for the country have greatly increased consultation and a sense of common purpose among all the Service and civilian advisers and administrators assisting the Minister in the control and support of the Navy, Army and Air Force. [More…]
Last week we received in Canberra distinguished guests from both New Zealand and Papua New Guinea - the New Zealand Minister for Defence and the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence, Foreign Relations and Trade. [More…]
Defence co-operation with both these countries is basic to our long term perspective. [More…]
With Papua New Guinea, the talks last week with Mr Kiki provided valuable guidance for the defence relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea after Papua New Guinea becomes independent, and what contributions will be welcome and useful from us. [More…]
We are maintaining full support to the Five Power Arrangements, and the 2 Royal Australian Air Force Mirage squadrons in Malaysia comprise the largest single contribution of the 3 external powers, Australia, Britain and New Zealand, and they help Malaysia and Singapore in developing their air defence capability. [More…]
Our defence aid and co-operation programs with these 2 countries and with Indonesia, an associate of the greatest importance to Australia, continue. [More…]
When I was in the United States early last January, I was able to re-affirm publicly in New York and privately in Washington, to the Secretaries of State and Defence, Drs Kissinger and Schlesinger, and to other senior members of the United States Administration and the United States Armed Services, the importance I and my colleagues in the Government continued to attach to Australia’s alliance and practical working defence relationship with the United States. [More…]
The record I have reported to the House this afternoon represents solid achievement by this Government and by the Department of Defence and the 3 defence Services. [More…]
Compared with a decade ago, our state of defence preparedness is relatively high and we are making prudent provision to allow timely expansion should this become necessary in the future. [More…]
With the greater responsibilities we now face, Australia cannot simply run down its defence effort because the present period is one of relative tranquility. [More…]
However, the present strategic prospect does allow us to control the defence burden on the nation, to favour capital investment over current consumption, to institute more efficient and economical management and to give the taxpayer more value for his dollar. [More…]
What I am submitting to the House, therefore, is a record of achievement in regard to the nation’s defence capability; major improvements in conditions of service of our servicemen and women; greater efficiency and economy in defence organisation and spending; and a prudent and responsible defence posture for present circumstances and the future strategic prospect. [More…]
Australian Defence - Ministerial Statement, 9 April 1974. and move: [More…]
The Minister for Defence will withdraw that remark. [More…]
The Minister said at his Press conference on Sunday that these decisions will defuse defence as an issue at the coming election. [More…]
Apart from providing an interesting insight into the Government’s motives for making the decisions - I will have more to say about that in a moment - I wonder whether the Minister is right and whether it will defuse defence as an issue. [More…]
Does the Minister really think that they will think that the leopard has changed its spots just because he has chosen to announce the spending of a miserable $350m on defence equipment on the eve of an election? [More…]
It will represent no more than a fraction of one-tenth of a percentage point of the proportion of the gross national product spent on defence. [More…]
I would be surprised if it added 2 per cent to the proportion of the defence vote spent on equipment, a proportion that under this Government has dropped to a disastrous all-time low of 8 per cent. [More…]
Will they forget the shameful dishonouring of an election promise to spend 3.S per cent of the GNP on defence? [More…]
Will the public forget the cuts in flying time, steaming time and training expenditure that ultimately must have a devastating effect on the morale and efficiency of the defence forces? [More…]
I could go on with this catalogue almost indefinitely, but it does most graphically make the point that the Government has only itself to blame if the Australian people treat with profound scepticism the sudden conversion of the Government to an interest in defence. [More…]
For nearly 2 years he has been using this absence of a threat to justify the Government’s monstrous decimation of our defence capability. [More…]
The document, as is becoming well known, of course was written in haste, at the Minister’s direction, by 2 officers with no defence experience. [More…]
It is no good the Minister saying that this decision has the support of the Defence Force Development Committee and that the Navy thinks the patrol frigate is a good ship. [More…]
The fact is that the Government’s failure to make a decision on the DDL - the most carefully examined project in Australian defence history - its prevarication, its delays, its overseas missions and task forces have created a situation in which the patrol frigate bought overseas is the only means of providing ships when the Darings go out of commission. [More…]
The Defence Force Development Committee was faced with a fait accompli of the Government’s making. [More…]
The honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) referred to the Millar Committee as having a differing strategic assessment of the defence situation facing Australia. [More…]
As the secretary of the Government member’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee I can vouch for the fact that this, matter has been talked about constantly since we came into Government. [More…]
Everything was included on it, but what it meant was that to pay off the capital we would need to have a gross national product figure for defence of at least 7 per cent by 1980 and 1981. [More…]
As detailed by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), the savings on an equal buy for the patrol frigate manufactured in the United States amount to some $73m, assuming that the DDL program had proceeded without any difficulties. [More…]
I am not aware of the naval air power study in full, but I do hear some rather sombre rumblings from the Department of Defence and I should like to congratulate the Minister for Defence for taking the wider view of his advisers’ and his own personal attitudes on this matter as well as the advice of the Government’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. [More…]
I think the Minister for Defence is to be congratulated on the thoroughness of the statement and the fact that it is well researched and gives all the reasons why we have opted for this mix. [More…]
What is unique about the statement is that the Minister said that inherently this is part of the rolling program of defence procurement which will continue for ever in Australia. [More…]
Indeed, there is no area of this Government’s responsibility which is more defective than that of defence. [More…]
It is interesting that, in the presentation of this statement, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) found it necessary and fit to make a revision of his former assessment of a forward defence need and of a former strategic position for Australia’s defence forces. [More…]
Tragically, that is the product of this statement and of his administration - that there has been over 18 months a progressive reduction of the size and the ability of Australia’s defence forces down to a corp force whose present ability and structure one must seriously question. [More…]
As to the forward defence strategic assessment, the Government has tried to make a great deal of its assessment of Australia as a growing nation which, even in this statement is said to be independent of other countries. [More…]
Yet the very product of the Australian defence effort is to lessen that ability and tragically the result even of this defence re-equipment program is that in the 1980s, our defence forces are to be less efficient and less competent to assert that independence than they have ever been before. [More…]
Unfortunately, I am sure that in the Australian Labor Party the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing because I am quite sure that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has never heard of the nuclear balance even if the Minister for Defence has. [More…]
Having recognised that in a short term there is a possibility of low level situations occurring, he still in the implication of his policy fails to provide the sinews of war, of defence - to meet those low level situations. [More…]
Government supporters might pooh-pooh the entire consequences of this drift, but they need to recognise that we are talking about Australian defence and, if we have a look at Australia’s strategic position, it is important to see from where and in what way a defence threat is likely to emerge. [More…]
Even there in this supposed assertion of Australian nationalism the very substance of this defence statement denies Australia’s ability to pursue or to implement anything of the defence independence that we should be able to implement. [More…]
Let us turn now to the actual details of the statement itself and the implementation of this new major capital equipment program which the Minister for Defence has announced in such a brave way to the House this afternoon and, of course, to the Press about a week ago. [More…]
In regard to defence re-equipment, on page 10 of the statement we are told: [More…]
So much for the advice of those who are members of the Defence Department and who justifiably should be making the judgment. [More…]
The Minister will say: ‘Oh, I have said that I have accepted the recommendation of the Defence Forces Development Committee’. [More…]
Then perhaps we will be able to see just to what degree the Defence Forces Development Committee and those others who do not feel committed to act just as sycophants to the Minister might be prepared to make a judgment as to the relative capacity of this patrol frigate, the DDL. [More…]
It is not intended, however, to operate in the areas and to the degree to which Australia’s defence independence and defence posture may require it. [More…]
I commend to the Minister an analysis of an article written by Mr Frank Cranston, the defence and aviation correspondent for the ‘Canberra Times’, in this morning’s edition of that paper. [More…]
We are talking here about a single-screw vessel which will be called on to cruise around the extensive coastline of Australia in its defence commitment - even the Minister himself acknowledges in his statement that it will be called on - a task which is surely beyond its ability.. [More…]
It is interesting to note that there have been other judgments made of the degree to which Treasury already rules the Minister’s ability to determine the purchases for our defence forces. [More…]
The 5-year rolling program which was introduced by the previous Government evaluated the long-term defence needs of this country and, after considerable examination of the alternatives, arrived at a basis by which there could be a continuing re-equipment of each of the services. [More…]
Perhaps we should be thankful for small mercies, but small mercies are not a basis upon which independent defence capacity can be maintained or asserted. [More…]
There is no area in which this Government stands more condemned than in this area for which the Deputy Prime Minister, - who is also the Minister for Defence, is unfortunately responsible. [More…]
In the meantime, the responsible Department is working with local industry groups for the identification of the kind of components which have defence or technological and telecommunications significance so that this program of subsidy can be applied in practice. [More…]
I was glad that the Treasurer (Mr Crean) referred to the splendid work done by the defence forces and the many voluntary organisations which came so quickly and effectively to help those in distress. [More…]
Many home owners were dismayed to find that, except in respect of defence service homes, cover for damage by storm and tempest does not cover damage by floods. [More…]
Finally, I should like to pay a tribute to the defence forces, the police, the civil defence services, the people themselves and the Service organisations which for weeks and weeks toiled to help people. [More…]
Indeed, in discussions with the Minister for Social Security and in later discussions with the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) as well as in the sending to Brisbane of the Minister for Science (Mr Morrison), as the then Acting Minister for Defence, the Prime Minister showed an intimate concern with what had happened in Brisbane and, of course, Queensland. [More…]
Before the Prime Minister went away he instructed the Department of Defence and made the offer, in personal communication with the Premier of Queensland, to place all Commonwealth assistance at the disposal of the State Government. [More…]
I would like very briefly to say that Queensland owes a very great debt to certain Ministers of the Crown - to the Minister for Social Security, who was acting as the Treasurer in the early stages, to the Prime Minister, to the Minister for Science, to the Minister for Defence and to the Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory as well as other Ministers. [More…]
Defence Service Homes Section for people who occupy defence service homes. [More…]
We would be ungracious indeed if we did not at the same time pay a tribute to the Queensland Public Service, to the Queensland Police, to the civil defence organisations, to the leadership of Police Commissioner Whitrod and to the programs being operated from the new operations room at police headquarters in Brisbane - a remarkably efficient and well-conducted organisation. [More…]
The Queensland Government subsequently has held a conference to review the effectiveness of its civil defence organisation in the light of the recent flood experience. [More…]
But it is a recognition of the fact that this organisation was not perfect and that, in responding to the greatest crisis which the civil defence authorities have ever had to face, it found that considerable room for improvement existed in a number of fields. [More…]
I am sure that the Australian Government will co-operate with the Queensland Government and its civil defence authorities in order to learn from the problems that were faced in the immediate past and so to ensure that in a similar crisis in the future we will have benefited from that experience. [More…]
The first thing she did when she arrived was to offer her services to the civil defence authorities making tea and biscuits for those who were assisting people marooned in flooded areas. [More…]
It is very gratifying to know that during the height of the floods there was so much co-operation between the State civil defence authorities and the Commonwealth civil defence authorities as well as between the Australian Government and the State governments. [More…]
People rang the civil defence authorities and asked for five or six tents whereas the plane which was flying to the area could provide them with only one tent. [More…]
The Treasurer (Mr Crean) made reference to the defence forces in his second reading speech. [More…]
What he said was correct because the defence forces continually have been of assistance on the Gold Coast not only in regard to floods but also in regard to the threat of erosion. [More…]
Another point I make - this is about the 156th time I have made it - is to ask the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) to give serious consideration to bringing into the area under discussion heli copter units or sub-units for training during the period from December to March. [More…]
The third instance of the duplicity of the Government was a statement yesterday by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) relative to the ordering of 2 patrol frigates for the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]
I, in a question to the Minister for Defence, referred to a statement by him on 23 May to the effect that whatever the outcome of the cancellation of the DDL order the replacement vessels would be built in Australia. [More…]
What particular taxes would be cut and for whom, and where would the vast cuts in public expenditure take place, particularly when they seem to be committed to increasing one level of Government expenditure, that is, the defence vote? [More…]
Is the Minister able to tell the House of any new orders from the Government or private industry which will give confidence to defence workers that their jobs are secure? [More…]
I thank the honourable member for Macquarie for his question concerning defence factories. [More…]
There can be no doubt that problems do exist with them in the sense that at a time of peace, a time of general relaxation in international tension as far as Australia is concerned, they pose a difficulty in relation to the obtaining of nondefence work. [More…]
Some time ago I began a course of action designed to encourage the acquisition of commercial work, non-defence work. [More…]
In the case of some of the factories there has been a very considerable percentage increase in the nondefence work that the factories have been able to obtain. [More…]
The general saving to the defence forces excess capacity vote is very considerable. [More…]
They include $45m for expenditure under the National Capital Development Commission Act, $42.5m for defence service homes and $100m for expenditure under the Post and Telegraph Act [More…]
Some of these situations are direct outcomes of government migration, employment, development and defence programs. [More…]
The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) It has been long-standing practice to attempt to develop non-defence workload for the defence production factories in period of low defence demand. [More…]
Although certain factories are highly specialised, there are skills and plant which can be brought to bear for non-defence purposes. [More…]
A Cabinet Submission dealing generally with matters relating to the defence production factories, including that of workload, is currently being prepared. [More…]
The Departments represented at the meeting were Supply, Defence, Northern Development, Northern Territory, Services and Property, Tourism and Recreation, Transport and the Treasury. [More…]
Legisation will be introduced to establish the office of Australian Ombudsman, together with Deputy Ombudsmen, having special responsibilities for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, and to establish a Defence Ombudsman. [More…]
Regional co-operation, including defence co-operation, will remain a principal objective of my Government’s policies, especially in the Asian and Pacific regions. [More…]
Under the direction of the Minister for Defence, my Government is creating the most effective, mobile and professional defence force in Australia’s peace-time history: The Services are also being equipped to play a greater role in case of emergencies and natural disasters within Australia. [More…]
As the Minister responsible for the administration of the defence service homes scheme, will the Minister tell the House whether there is any truth in a claim by the New South Wales State President of the Returned Services League, Mr Hines, that the Government proposes to limit eligibility for defence service home loans to 10 years after discharge? [More…]
Mr Hines, .the New South Wales President of the Returned Services League, contended that the Government planned to limit eligibility for defence service home loans to, I think, ten years after discharge. [More…]
The Government regards defence service home loans as a reward for service and as a process by which ex-servicemen can be rehabilitated in respect of their housing needs. [More…]
Quite frankly, I do not believe, although acknowledging that we do have a mixed economy of Government and private enterprise, that the area of health - perhaps like defence - is one that should be managed by private enterprise. [More…]
The Committee believes that some form of federal control of a resource as important to Australia as petroleum, both economically and for defence purposes, is desirable. [More…]
Another is concerned with the liability to tax of allowances and benefits received by members of the Defence Force under the new pay code. [More…]
The amendments relating to defence force allowances are in the main the result of changes in the Service pay structure based on recommendations in the final report of the committee of inquiry into Services’ pay, known as the Woodward Committee. [More…]
One change of particular significance from the tax standpoint is the withdrawal of the general entitlement of members of the defence force to receive free rations and quarters when living in Service establishments, or substituted benefits in the form of cash allowances when living elsewhere. [More…]
This development, together with a proposal to provide a specific exemption for the value of rations and quarters that are still provided free of charge in a limited range of circumstances, has made unnecessary a provision that fixes the taxable value of defence force allowances in the food and shelter category at $2 a week. [More…]
Another provision of the income tax law governing the exemption of dependants’ allowances and exchange allowances of defence force members is to be amended. [More…]
Another purpose is to facilitate the provision, or continuation, of exemptions for allowances paid in reimbursement of certain abnormal expenses incurred by defence force personnel in complying with duty requirements. [More…]
In the same way, it is proposed to prescribe, pursuant to this amendment, that a re-engagement bounty payable to a member of the defence force is to be exempt from tax. [More…]
The provision of the law that authorises the allowance of income tax deductions for contributions to superannuation funds needs to be amended because, under recent legislative changes, contributions for retirement benefits by members of this Parliament and by members of the defence force are paid directly into Consolidated Revenue. [More…]
Tonight I speak in support of the remarks made last night by my colleague the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) in his spirited defence of the meat [More…]
Mr McVEIGH (Darling Downs) (10.31) - Tonight I speak in support of the remarks made last night by my colleague the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) in his spirited defence of the meat industry, with particular emphasis on the meat producer. [More…]
I want to make a spirited defence of the meat producers of Australia who seem to have had meted out to them by the Government a diagnosis which says: ‘In the final analysis you people must be the people who have to put up with our economic decisions, which are based on a policy of centralised, socialistic control’. [More…]
One is for the work to be for defence purposes and the other is for this House to resolve that the work is urgent. [More…]
It seems obvious to the Opposition that the provision with respect to defence will not apply. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Is it true that the Labor Government cannot account for a substantial sum of money paid by servicemen into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, as disclosed by the Commonwealth Actuary in the fourth quinquennial report for the period ended June 1969? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Regular Defence Forces Welfare Association is establishing a fighting fund to brief senior counsel and obtain a legal opinion on the recovery of the surplus for the benefit of the people to whom it rightfully belongs - pre- 1 959 contributors, retirees and widows as at 30 June 1969? [More…]
Will the Minister assure the House that the defence forces personnel will receive the same bonus from their superannuation fund as public servants? [More…]
It also seeks to bring the Income Tax Assessment Act into line with an amended pay structure in the armed forces and proposes a technical amendment related to contributions under the defence forces and parliamentary retirement benefits schemes. [More…]
The Bill also gives effect to a decision by this Government to exempt from income tax bounties of 1,000 payable to defence force personnel whose service is to continue for at least 3 years after the completion of a qualifying period of service. [More…]
We hope it may encourage reenlistments in the armed forces and will perhaps in small measure assist in offsetting the downturn in defence enlistments caused by the Government’s general downgrading of the armed forces of this country. [More…]
The Income Tax Assessment Bill 1974 takes account of the present changes to the Defence Force and Parliamentary Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
In past years, members of the Australian Parliament and members of the defence forces have been entitled to deductions subject to a maximum limit of $1,200 for life insurance premiums and contributions to a superannuation fund. [More…]
Firstly, its purpose is to close avenues for avoidance of withholding tax on interest on foreign loans; secondly, it is designed to deal with the liability to tax of allowances and benefits received by members of the defence forces under the new pay code; thirdly, it will deal with the deductions for contributions for retirement benefits by members of the Australian Parliament and members of the defence forces; and, finally, it involves the phasing in of arrangements for the collection of company tax by quarterly payments. [More…]
Specifically, the re-engagement bounty payable to a member of the defence forces is to be exempted from taxation. [More…]
The Public Service Act as well as the Defence (Reestablishment) Act and the Industrial Research and Development Grants Act - all of which are pieces of legislation on the Commonwealth statute book - are pieces of legislation which the Statute Law Revision Bill in fact relates to. [More…]
But 1 would agree also that the Currency Act, the Defence (Re-Establishment) Act and the Extradition (Commonwealth Countries) Act are all pieces of legislation within the Bill and I think there is a necessity for us to see the degree to which these Bills as well as the Statute Law Reform Act fit within the Commonwealth Constitution. [More…]
My question is to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I refer to Mr Hawke’s latest demonstration of his power to dictate the policies of this Government, that is, the reversal of the Government’s announced decision to run down the work force in certain defence factories in the absence of orders to keep them properly employed. [More…]
Will the Minister say whether this will be paid for out of the already inadequate defence vote or will additional finance be made available to appease Mr Hawke? [More…]
When does the Minister intend to apprise the House of the Government’s plans, if it has any, for the control and future of the whole range of defence industries? [More…]
At that time it was decided that there would be a further review of the employment of workers in the Government defence industries as well as those in the naval dockyards. [More…]
That committee has already reported to the Government, but it reported in the short term on alternative work for the defence industries. [More…]
The committee has now been reconstituted and it is looking at the problem from the point of view of providing alternative work in the defence industries in the long term. [More…]
The honourable member raised the question of the funding of the defence industries and asked whether the Department of Defence would be compensated for the amount that would be required to maintain the defence industries at their existing level of employment. [More…]
I can understand honourable members opposite not wanting to hear a defence against the propositions that are being put forward. [More…]
foreign affairs and defence generally; and [More…]
by the Minister for Defence; or [More…]
That the committee have power to consider and make use of the minutes of evidence and records of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, appointed in the previous Parliament, relating to any matter on which that committee had not completed its consideration. [More…]
The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence had 2 references before it in the last Parliament and a great deal of preliminary work had been done in respect of them. [More…]
In regard to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, therefore, as with other committees which are being re-established today, the Government does not propose either to move or to support any motion which would give further references to the Committee. [More…]
I support this motion particularly because, in the new circumstances as they have emerged in the last 18 months, the good results which could flow from a committee such as the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence have been emphasised and underlined. [More…]
If honourable members look at page 11 of the printed copy of the Speech delivered by the former Governor-General, they will see in small type mention of defence. [More…]
Under the direction of the Minister for Defence, my Government is creating the most effective, mobile and professional defence force in Australia’s peacelime history. [More…]
The defence force is certainly mobile. [More…]
The defence force can be moved anywhere at any time by the use of a couple of caravans. [More…]
As for being professional, if one studies the figures coming from the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) one will find that increasingly the professionals, the real people who are required to operate and control our armed forces, are retiring. [More…]
The strength of the defence forces fell further behind targets in May. [More…]
Australia’s defence strength has fallen by more than 1,500 servicemen in the first 5 months of this year. [More…]
On 7 June 1974, in his opening address to the Premiers Conference, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made a statement with respect to the defence situation, in which he said: [More…]
1 point out to the House that last year the Minister for Defence - he was also Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Supply, Minister for the Army, Minister for the Navy and Minister for Air; and he was so successful that he lost all but one of those portfolios - promised the world to a delegation that I brought here to see him. [More…]
I point out also that this legislation, which the Government says is so important, is being represented -at 5.30 p.m. on this Tuesday by one Minister - the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) - and that not one other member of the Labor Party is present in the House. [More…]
No doubt they have gone to an early dinner or to something of that kind and have left the Minister for Defence here as their sole representative. [More…]
I ask: Can the Minister inform the House what success his Department has achieved and what difficulties it has encountered in establishing an alternative program of non-defence work for the Government defence establishments to offset the rundown in orders for defence materials and equipment? [More…]
Does he expect that with the advice of the reconstituted alternative work committee and the experience of nondefence work already gained the defence establishments will be able to proceed on a sound basis and that substantial retrenchments will be avoided? [More…]
The honourable member’s concern about the situation that has existed in the Government’s defence factories for some time is well known. [More…]
The diminution in the workload coming from the defence factor has posed a problem for the Government’s defence factories. [More…]
If they were completely dependent upon defence work that problem would continue . [More…]
because, from all accounts, the overseas situation as far as the defence of this country is concerned remains good. [More…]
The long term solution surely depends upon the finding of a non-defence type of work for them to do. [More…]
The Government is also investigating, and studying the relationship that exists between the Government’s defence factories and other Government departments when their procurement policies come into operation. [More…]
As far as the most recent problem is concerned, the Government recently reconstituted the Committee to investigate the medium and long term problems of obtaining non-defence work for the factories. [More…]
However, if he sues under State law the trader will have a constitutional defence. [More…]
The defence will be that the State law is inconsistent with the Federal law and so the consumer will be plunged into constitutional challenge. [More…]
Subject to sub-section (2), in a prosecution under this Part in relation to a contravention of a provision of Part V, it is a defence if the defendant establishes - [More…]
If a defence provided by sub-section (1) involves an allegation that a contravention was due to reliance on information supplied by another person or to the act or default of another person, the defendant is not, without leave of the Court, entitled to rely on that defence unless he has not later than 7 days before the day on which the hearing of the proceeding commences, served on the person by whom the proceeding was instituted a notice in writing giving such information that would identify or assist in the identification of the other person as was then in his possession. [More…]
In a proceeding under this Part in relation to a contravention of a provision of Part V committed .by the publication of an advertisement, it is a defence if the defendant establishes that he is a person whose business it is to publish or arrange for the publication of advertisements and that he received the advertisement for publication in the ordinary course of business and did not know and had no reason to suspect that its publication would amount to a contravention of a provision of that Part. [More…]
In a proceeding under this Part in relation to a contravention of Part V committed by the supplying of goods that did not comply with a consumer product safety standard or in relation to which the supplier did not comply with a consumer product information standard, it is a defence if the defendant establishes - [More…]
A person is not, without leave of the Court, entitled to rely on the defence provided by subsection (4) unless he has, not later than 7 days before the day on which the hearing of the proceeding commences, served on the person by whom the proceeding was instituted a notice in writing identifying the person from whom he acquired the goods. [More…]
If contributory negligence had been a defence, he might have received nothing. [More…]
The phrase is: The Government is creating the most effective, mobile and professional defence force in Australia’s peacetime history’. [More…]
I should know for I coined it when I was Minister for Defence. [More…]
The strength of our defence forces is measured by a number of factors - the number in the armed forces, the number in the reserve and their quality and training, the quality and quantity of equipment, the state of bases, the strength of industrial backup. [More…]
When I handed over to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), the Army had 41,290 men and today it has 30,080, or 11,210 less. [More…]
Then, to add insult to injury, it sent the Minister for Defence and a number of hangers-on in an RAAF [More…]
Does this lead one to believe that the Government is creating the most effective, mobile and professional defence force in Australia’s peacetime history. [More…]
The Minister for Defence, of course, has broken 2 specific promises. [More…]
The first one was a government commitment to spend at least 3.5 per cent of the gross national product on defence. [More…]
The only explanation that has been advanced to me as to how the Minister for Defence can claim that he is building the most effective, mobile and professional force in Australia’s peace time history is a very devious legal quibble. [More…]
I hope the House and the country will take note of this utter disregard of the nation’s defences by the Labor Government. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to a report which cites the report on the Army Cadet Corps by the Committee of Inquiry into the CMF as saying that private schools which maintain cadet units are entitled to compel students to serve in the cadets? [More…]
The question of dual nationality was referred to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in the last Parliament. [More…]
It is bigger than the outlay on defence. [More…]
Most people tend to think that the outlay on defence is the biggest outlay that the Australian Government has, but under this Government it is not. [More…]
The financing of services to the aged far exceeds outlays on, for instance, defence. [More…]
That is some $200m more than we outlaid on defence and that is the difference in priorities that we have established. [More…]
I can imagine that if the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) ever went through Mutdapilly it would automatically go through his mind and he would say: ‘I must go and ring up Jim to prove that I can ring at a cheaper rate’. [More…]
In 1971-72 - our last year of office - the average indirect tax payable by persons aged 15 years or more in the civilian population of Australia excluding defence personnel was $270. [More…]
These ladies are the women whose husbands gave their lives for their country in various conflicts in the defence not only of their country but also of freedom around the world, and widows of ex-servicemen who suffered some illness or injury, broadly speaking, which was judged or assessed as being caused by war service and from which they subsequently died. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the increased interest rates directly flow from a decision taken by himself, the Prime Minister and the then Deputy Prime Minister and present Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, on a Sunday evening last year and announced as being a matter of policy adopted by the Government to control inflation? [More…]
The Minister now comes out in defence of these people. [More…]
Eleven aircraft are committed to the Australian Army, four to the Indonesian Navy - Defence Cooperation, six to the Northern Territory Aerial Medical Service, twelve to the Philippines Air Force, one to Nationwide Air Services, one to Aeromaritime Italia SPA and two to the Peruvian Army. [More…]
Not their defence or foreign aid expenditure, not their new departments, increased salaries, health schemes . [More…]
The construction of such a system also has to be considered from a defence point of view. [More…]
I think that in looking at a national roads policy we also have to take into account the defence potential of roads. [More…]
The first committee consisted of representatives from the Departments of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Attorney-General’s, Customs and Excise, Defence, Foreign Affairs, Health, Labor and Immigration, Northern Territory, Agriculture, Special Minister of State, Transport and Treasury and the Public Service Board. [More…]
The Commissioner for Housing loan is not available to applicants who have sufficient means to finance their own homes or who are eligible to receive Defence Service Homes loans. [More…]
In defence of his Party’s vested interests in this Parliament and throughout the country he has deliberately sought to abandon a vital aspect of Australian democracy upheld by successive Labor Prime MinistersWatson, Fisher, Scullin, Curtin and Chifley. [More…]
Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, and the capital of northern Australia, is in fact our front line of defence. [More…]
Defence demanded that we federate, and the prudence of the day compelled an agreement between the 6 States to federate on the terms of the Constitution. [More…]
Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, the blanket condemnation of the scheme produced- as a reasonably natural reaction- a blanket defence of it. [More…]
For example, it must cut down our capacity to spend on education, conservation, defence, roads, urban improvement and pensions. [More…]
To put it in some form of perspective, if this scheme were in operation today the extra cost would mean that the entire Commonwealth spending on defence, plus the entire Commonwealth spending on education, would be totally obliterated. [More…]
The total spending on defence and education by the Commonwealth was $2,200m but the extra cost of this scheme is $3,000m. [More…]
Cut out education and defence spending entirely and we still have not got the $3,000m that would be needed, on the clear statement of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), to meet the cost of the scheme. [More…]
To put the position in perspective, we claim that to fund the scheme would take all present Commonwealth spending on defence and education. [More…]
Does that mean that all those doctors who work in repatriation, in the defence forces and all the residents in public hospitals- many of them paid by the Governmentare second rate doctors handing out second rate treatment because they accept a salary? [More…]
The legislation in relation to the States onshore minerals stands on the basic constitutional powers of the Australian Parliament to regulate overseas trade and interstate trade, and also, at appropriate times, the general powers for the defence of Australia. [More…]
I ask the House to compare it to the defence power. [More…]
The best defence that these recipients of part of the rewards reaped by these overseas exploiters can put forward is that the Bill is wicked socialism and enshrines socialist principles. [More…]
Amongst other things, it says: … for the purpose of ensuring the availability when a state of war, or danger of war, exists, of adequate reserves and supplies of petroleum, petroleum products, petrochemicals, minerals and refined substances capable of being used for the purpose of the defence of Australia. [More…]
He is as broken as the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
1 ) Subject to sub-section (2 ), in a prosecution under this Part in relation to a contravention of a provision of Pan V, it is a defence if the defendant establishes- [More…]
If a defence provided by sub-section ( 1 ) involves an allegation that a contravention was due to reliance on information supplied by another person or to the act or default of another person, the defendant is not, without leave of the Court, entitled to rely on that defence unless he has not later than 7 days before the day on which the hearing of the proceeding commences, served on the person by whom the proceeding was instituted a notice in writing giving such information that would identify or assist in the identification of the other person as was then in his possession. [More…]
In the proceeding under this Part in relation to a contravention of a provision of Pan V committed by the publication of an advertisement, it is a defence if the defendant establishes that he is a person whose business it is to publish or arrange for the publication of advertisements and that he received the advertisement for publication in the ordinary course of business and did not know and had no reason to suspect that its publication would amount to a contravention of a provision of that Pan. [More…]
In a proceeding under this Pan in relation to a contravention of Pan V committed by the supplying of goods that did not comply with a consumer product safety standard or in relation to which the supplier did not comply with a consumer product information standard, it is a defence if the defendant establishes- [More…]
A person is not, without leave of the Court, entitled to rely on the defence provided by sub-section (4) unless he has, not later than 7 days before the day on which the hearing of the proceeding commences, served on the person by whom the proceeding was instituted a notice in writing identifying the person from whom he acquired the goods. [More…]
A new defence is provided in clause 85 for a natural person- but not for a corporationwhere the person acted honestly and reasonably and in the court’s view ought fairly to be excused. [More…]
I made it quite clear that what was under consideration was the acquisition of a large training area in the vicinity of Yampi Sound as part of the Government’s policy in relation to the defence of continental Australia. [More…]
and (4) There are at present no proposals for new major Defence establishments in Western Australia but a number of existing facilities are being improved or modified in the course of the normal works program. [More…]
The Army occupied land continues to be required for defence purposes. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
If he is unwilling to do that, will he quote the paragraph with certain words omitted, with an indication of where any words are omitted, a technique used by the United States Government in publishing some defence documents. [More…]
and (3) There are various paragraphs in the document with reference to the fifteen year period of the assessment I do not propose to risk distortion of the presentation by quoting them out of context I refer to the honourable member to my statements to the House of 22 August 1973 and 9 April 1974, both of which drew substantially on the Defence Committee’s paper on the ‘Strategic Basis of Australian Defence Policy’, 1973. [More…]
This also drew on the Defence Committee paper and quoted extensively from it [More…]
Strategic and foreign policy aspects of the proposed Omega installation in Australia are under examination by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
1 ) Does he support the claims by ex-servicewomen’s associations for amendment to the Defence Service Homes Act to cover service within Australia during the Second World War. [More…]
The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) Upon taking office in 1972, the Labor Government undertook a comprehensive review of the then War Service Homes Scheme and made several major changes which were incorporated in the Defence Service Homes Act 1973. [More…]
Among other things, the changes included an extension of the eligibility provisions to include a person who has served on continuous full-time service as a member of the Defence Force, not being service that ended before 7 December 1972 and, during that service, has, whether before or after that date, completed three years’ effective fulltime service as such a member. [More…]
In the course of the review, the question of extending the Defence Service Homes Scheme to members of the Citizen Military Force and the Women’s Forces, who served in Australia during the 1939-4S War, was considered, but it was decided that, for the time being at least, there would be no change in the eligibility conditions relating to service in these Forces in the 1 939-45 War. [More…]
The matter is, of course, being kept in mind for consideration along with other possible future changes in the Defence Service Homes Act, but as it involves a question of future Government policy I cannot give any indication whether the Act will be amended to cover service within Australia during the 1939-45 War. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
) The orders of dress for the Army are under continuing review by the Department of Defence (Army Office). [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What has been the result of the Government’s intention to place a greater proportion of Defence orders in Australia, referred to by him in a speech to the Industrial Mobilisation Course at Westernport on 12 February 1973. [More…]
2 ) Does the current strategic situation still provide an opportunity to develop the industrial sector as an integral part of the nation’s defence potential. [More…]
In 1973-74, 62.3 per cent of defence equipment expenditure was local, compared to 58. [More…]
Australian defence production is nearly always for much smaller quantities than is the case in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom. [More…]
Nevertheless, apart from the obvious benefits resulting for our defence preparedness, there are considerable advantages in the employment given in highly skilled operations and in the introduction of new technological processes. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The decision to make the offer was taken by the Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
Due to the cooperation of the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Science who was Acting Minister for Defence at the time this amount of distillate was made available. [More…]
Firstly, will he immediately set up a committee of Ministers, comprised of such people as the Ministers for Minerals and Energy, Transport and Defence, to consult the oil industry, the unions and State authorities with a view to building some safeguards into the storage and distribution system? [More…]
I ask: Have the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, the honourable member for Wilmot, Mr Duthie, and the honourable member for Braddon, Mr Davies, been to see the Minister to explain to him the very serious downturn in the economic conditions in the State of Tasmania? [More…]
If they have not done those things will he call upon each of them- the Minister for Defence and the honourable members for Wilmot and Braddon to make clear to him their personal experiences of the very bad situation that exists in Tasmama? [More…]
The serious disruption of the community, of industry and of Australia’s defence capacity by continuing fuel shortages. [More…]
There were reports recently that the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) had told the Government that Australia had only one week’s supply of fuel, including defence stocks. [More…]
The Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) apparently prevailed on the Government to release some fuel from our defence stocks for some areas, but the problem remains. [More…]
We now have the shocking situation in which our defence forces are virtually immobilised. [More…]
The attitude of this Government to the defence of Australia is well known, but the position becomes quite unacceptable when the small amount of defence capacity we do have is sabotaged by lack of fuel. [More…]
Our defence forces clearly ought to have bigger fuel reserves. [More…]
This means that there would need to be co-ordination of arrangements between defence forces and other users of fuel. [More…]
I think everyone will agree, and I am sure the Government will accept, that we just cannot have this continuing interference with the flow of fuel to the community and to our defence forces. [More…]
He brushed off the shortages, the inconvenience, the unpreparedness in our defence forces with which we are left as a result of this action in our defence forces. [More…]
It is intolerable to me that as a result of the current wave of industrial anarchy in Australia this Government should sit idly by while the front line of Australia’s defence, the brains and ships and planes of the Navy and the Air Force - [More…]
They were there not because they wanted to be there, not because that was the best disposition of our defence forces, but because of the utter inaction of this Government in providing them with sufficient fuel to carry out their activities. [More…]
-Because the Government did not want a major industrial upheaval and it knew that the defence of the country was involved, the pride of the country was involved, this Minister, who is going to be the Acting Prime Minister - [More…]
The defence of this country was involved, the pride of this country was involved, the commitments of this country were involved, our position in the world was involved; yet this Minister who for 8 days is to be left as Acting Prime Minister of Australia says: ‘We did it because we did not want to create industrial upheaval’. [More…]
Indeed, its growth over recent years owes much to Australian Government decisions, such as the location of defence installations, the establishment and growth of the James Cook University and work now in progress on the Institute of Marine Science at Cape Cleveland. [More…]
With the advent of self government in Papua New Guinea on 1 December 1973 authority over all functions of government passed to the control of Papua New Guinea with the exception of a small number of functions which were reserved to Australia- the most important of these being defence and foreign relations. [More…]
The provision for defence outlays in 1974-75, including defence-related activities of the Department of Manufacturing Industry and other departments, is $1,498.7 million compared with actual outlays of $1,334.1 million in 1973-74. [More…]
This provision for defence purposes enables the Government to continue its policy of maintaining Defence Forces which, in conformity with the present strategic outlook, sustain a proper level of defence capability and potential for future expansion. [More…]
New budgetary arrangements for providing financial assistance to Papua New Guinea in respect of defence are being introduced with effect from 1 December 1974. [More…]
An amount of $12.5 million is being provided for defence cooperation with, and defence financial assistance to, Papua New Guinea from that date. [More…]
Estimated expenditure on defence in Papua New Guinea this year, prior to 1 December, is $ 10.2 million. [More…]
Expenditure on continuing defence cooperation with a number of other friendly countries in the region of immediate strategic interest to Australia is estimated as $ 12 million. [More…]
The 1974-75 Defence Program provides for reductions in civilian support manpower additional to those achieved in 1973-74. [More…]
It is intended that legislation will be brought down later this year to enable the reorganisation of the Department of Defence to be put into full effect. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Defence, will be making a more detailed statement on defence matters at a later time. [More…]
The growing list of officers retiring from the defence forces must be causing great problems for the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) and the Department in general. [More…]
After all, many of the officers who are retiring from the defence forces are retiring not because of their age but because it is time for them to get out. [More…]
They realise that there is no longer any future in the defence forces system, which is breaking down in every direction. [More…]
One of the defence areas that has been brought forward for discussion is the purchase of tanks from the United States of America. [More…]
It appears that the Government is going off half-cocked in relation to defence procurements. [More…]
It is an intolerable situation and it will, of course, continue because we will need other defence equipment and obviously the Government will purchase it from overseas. [More…]
The cost of maintaining these tanks in the long term would be much greater than it would be to replace them, quite apart from the fact that they are no longer regarded as satisfactory equipment for the defence inventory of Australia. [More…]
That may be only the first pan of the order that is required by the Department of Defence and by the Australian Army. [More…]
If he has been advised by someone from the Department of Defence then he has been badly advised. [More…]
No decision has yet been made because, as I have said frequently in this House and publicly, whatever equipment we require for the defence forces of Australia we will ensure that it is acquired under the best possible terms and conditions. [More…]
It will not be only a question of whether that item of equipment is the most suitable for the defence forces but also there will be the guarantee that there is a maximum amount of flow-back to this country in terms of expertise and offset arrangements. [More…]
That indicates that the honourable member has a complete lack of understanding of the problems involved in defence procurement in this country. [More…]
I fully agree with the reply that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) gave to the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier). [More…]
I am sympathetic to the honourable member for Bendigo and I am grateful that the Minister for Defence only mauled the arguments that he put forward and did not reach the full heights of his own mental and physical ability as a debater. [More…]
With great respect to the honourable member for Bendigo, I believe that he did not intend to speak on defence. [More…]
Yesterday the Minister for Defence was sitting in this House feeling desperate. [More…]
Is this to enable him to be protected from answering the question that was posed yesterday by my friend and colleague, the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) the shadow Minister for Defence, who spoke about the inability of the armed forces to sail ships, put aircraft in the air or to have the tanks moving because of a fuel shortage? [More…]
These people live in a situation where the telephone is their one means of defence and security - [More…]
In the broad they are in 2 areasforeign affairs and defence. [More…]
I thought that we would have heard more of the negotiations between the Government of Australia and the Government of Papua New Guinea in regard to these 2 specific areas of foreign affairs and defence before any likely date of independence was announced. [More…]
I would like to feel that matters which are outside the province of the Minister for Science, who is the Minister in charge of Papua New Guinea affairs and the former Minister for External Territories, and which are primarily matters within the jurisdiction of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) will be put to us clearly and unequivocally. [More…]
Minister for Defence apart from frequent apologies for not being able to do other than say that negotiations are taking place. [More…]
I just wanted to flag the fact that I am concerned that for almost 20 months now I have been standing here asking for information about the defence arrangements between Papua New Guinea and Australia, and I ask for it again in the course of this debate because the Minister himself has said in his own speech that this legislation is part of the movement towards independence. [More…]
I am concerned that we will reach independence and we will not know clearly what the role of Australian forces seconded to the Papuan New Guinea defence force will be. [More…]
I have not asked the Minister for Science to give me any answers, but I have asked the Minister responsible for defence matters to advise us at some stage very shortly about defence arrangements between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This self-proclaimed party in government which is so interested in keeping white faces out of Asia and the Pacific is prepared to allow a minimum of 600 Australian servicemen to be seconded to the Papua New Guinea defence force and not even state a role for them. [More…]
The other matters to which I referred in the domain of the Minister of Defence I shall not raise again in this peroration. [More…]
I simply hope that the Minister for Science will bring the matter to the attention of the Minister for Defence in the hope that this House and the people of Australia will be fully informed as to the role of Australian servicemen in that area. [More…]
As I have assured the honourable gentleman on many occasions, I can assure him now that discussions on defence are going on. [More…]
No doubt he will be aware of a statement made by Mr Albert Maori-Kiki, the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence, Foreign Relations and Trade in April. [More…]
He may also be aware- if he is not I advise him now- that the Minister made a statement a couple of days ago announcing that a Papua New Guinea Department of Defence would be established on 1 October and that as from 1 December 1974 that Department would administer funds provided through the Papua New Guinea Budget. [More…]
-I wish to speak briefly tonight on a defence matter. [More…]
As a matter of courtesy I sent to the office of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) a telephone message to let him know that I was proposing so to do. [More…]
This afternoon I received some very disturbing news from Brisbane which indicates a further downturn in the effectiveness of our defence forces. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence- perhaps the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) would be good enough to convey this request to him- whether he will at the first opportunity advise the House whether he has any information that he can give regarding this report. [More…]
In a Press release dated 9 September 1974 the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes), who is the shadow Minister for Defence, mentioned that a few days earlier he had been in Darwin and several Fills and a squadron of Mirages had been prevented from returning to their home bases in Queensland and New South Wales. [More…]
It has been done certainly in respect of Defence Service, Aboriginal housing, housing in the Territories, aged persons’ housing and in many other ways, including the proposal to establish a new housing development corporation. [More…]
The Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence said in December 1973 that there is no possibility of providing additional awards, either British or foreign, for service in Vietnam. [More…]
Department of Defence: Special Deputy to the Permanent Head (Question No. [More…]
Information in respect of the powers delegated to each person holding the designation of Special Deputy of Permanent Head, Department of Defence, is set out below. [More…]
Special Deputy of Permanent Head, Department of Defence (Navy Office)/(Air Office): delegations by the Permanent Head under the Public Service Act in respect of Navy Office and Air Office; appointment by the Public Service Board under the Public Service Act as a Chief Officer in respect of Navy Office and Air Office to exercise the powers and functions of a Chief Officer under the Public Service Act and Regulations; the Public Service Board has also delegated to Chief Officers further significant personnel management functions; authorisations by the Minister under the Audit Act, Treasury Regulations and Treasury (Overseas Accounts) Directions in respect of Navy Office and Air Office; delegations by the Permanent Head under the Naval Defence Act, Clause 4 of the Naval Defence (Wages Employees) Determination and Clause 5 of the Naval Defence (Salaried Staff) Determination in respect of Navy Office only; delegations by the Commissioner for Employees’ Compensation under the Compensation (Australian Government Employees) Act in respect of Navy Office and Air Office; appointment by the Permanent Head as a member of the Naval Board and the Air Board. [More…]
Special Deputy of Permanent Head, Department of Defence (Army Office): delegations by the Permanent Head under the Public Service Act in respect of Army Office; appointment by the Public Service Board under the Public Service Act as a Chief Officer in respect of Army Office to exercise the powers and functions of a Chief Officer under the Public Service Act and Regulations; the Public Service Board has also delegated to Chief Officers further significant personnel management functions; authorisations by the Minister under the Audit Act, Treasury Regulations and Treasury (Overseas Accounts) Directions in respect of Army Office; delegations by the Commissioner for Employees’ Compensation under the Compensation (Australian Government Employees) Act in respect of Army Office; appointment by the Permanent Head as a member of the Military Board. [More…]
We no longer talk about defence and foreign affairs in this place. [More…]
No defence co-operation exists. [More…]
Sir John Bunting and Mr M. J. Wilson (Prime Minister and Cabinet), Sir Arthur Tange (Defence), Mr B. C. Hill and Dr S. Fitzgerald (Foreign Affairs), Mr J. R. Short (Treasury), Mr J. T. Smith (Overseas Trade), Sergeant B. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The establishment has absorbed five positions from the former Directorate of Civil Defence which has been abolished. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The RAAF is an effective, well trained organization which maintains a state of operational preparedness appropriate to assessed defence requirements. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Research and development on specific defence projects. [More…]
Consultancy and investigation work for the Defence Forces and Government Departments or industries engaged on Defence work. [More…]
Background research required for the proper execution of the above functions or which is significant to the defence requirements of Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Defence, on the recommendation of the Defence Science Board, decides the nature of the programs as a whole and also the major projects undertaken in research and development work. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the interim report of the Director of Defence Service Homes on operations in relation to insurance and financial statements for the year ended 30 June 1 974. [More…]
He certainly made it quite clear that he did not believe the Government was spending enough on defence. [More…]
I presume that he would want to increase the defence vote by the 3.5 per cent that he rather regularly mentions. [More…]
He mentioned such projects as the defence installations, the university, the Marine Science Institute, the prospective provision of an international airport and the grant of $ 1.5m in 1973 towards the cost of constructing stage 1 of the dam. [More…]
I refer to decisions such as that on the setting up of defence installations. [More…]
The recommendation from the Department of Defence certainly was not to put the defence installation at Townsville. [More…]
The development of industries concerned with mining and abattoirs, the defence installations, the James Cook University and the Institute of Marine Science, for which the honourable member for Herbert again worked very hard over a long period of time- he must be delighted that that project is going ahead- will increase the size of Townsville and increase the necessity for the construction of this dam to go ahead. [More…]
I think the decision to make a grant for the Ross River Dam was made originally because it was felt that the Commonwealth, through its defence installation and its university and other installations in the area, would be responsible for using a considerable part of the water and therefore it should make a grant. [More…]
My colleague, the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes), drew the attention of the House to the great problems created for defence manoeuvres because of lack of suitable fuel- [More…]
Consequential amendments were made subsequently by a previous government to the Superannuation Act and provisions were made in the Defence (Parliamentary Candidates) Act 1969. [More…]
They were enacted to extend similar rights to members of the defence forces. [More…]
Concerning the Defence Service Homes Bill, it is a progressive and constructive step for the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson) to introduce legislation that will allow the transfer of an existing loan from one home to another. [More…]
I am sure that all the men in this House will be pleased to see that this amending legislation also gets rid of the discrimination single men have suffered under the previous defence service homes legislation. [More…]
No government can meet the great clamour from the people for better services, better education, better welfare services, better defence, better roads and all the rest of it, while it does so many things to damage the nation’s productive capacity, to discourage people from investing their earnings and their savings in producing industries, and to persuade people that they are wrong, if not stupid, to seek to advance themselves and their families through hard work and thrift. [More…]
One example which the Opposition has used to the point of tedious repetition is defence. [More…]
The Government has acted reasonably to contain the growth of spending by cutting out the fat which fuelled the Vietnam war, by ending national service, by reorganising the clumsy and inefficient group of defence departments into a single integrated Department. [More…]
The capital spending programs on defence to which the Government is committed are the same programs which the Opposition deferred and duckshoved when it was in Government. [More…]
We have held defence spending to what we consider is a level justified by present strategic considerations and at the same time we have made it more efficient and economic. [More…]
The only conclusion to be drawn from Mr Snedden ‘s policies here is that he would add from $500m to $ 1,000m to the defence budget. [More…]
If we extend this principle to the Budget and exclude these 4 areas, add in defence and payment to the States, we quickly find that there is no slack left. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has been working on this one ever since Ansett Airlines of Australia announced that it is going to pull out of the service. [More…]
The Minister for Defence and I helped it to get a spare engine recently when its engine had to go in for maintenance. [More…]
He was Vice-President of the Executive Council, Leader of the House of Representatives and Minister for Defence Production from 195 1 to 1956. [More…]
He was Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1944 to 1949 and Minister for Defence from 1949 to 1 950. [More…]
I well remember him as Minister for Defence Production. [More…]
In addition, we have control over uranium in the States by virtue of the defence power. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence aware that the effective strength of the Australian Army Reserve is now no more than 12,000, a reduction of more than 100 per cent since December 1972, and is falling week by week? [More…]
He is in a position and has the right at any time to be fully briefed on these matters by officers of the Department of Defence. [More…]
Let us face the fact that what we know and describe as beef roads could have been called defence roads, tourist roads or classified as the ordinary sort of road which permits a man and his family to get into their motor vehicle and drive, for instance, from Mount Isa to Brisbane, on bitumen all the way. [More…]
The roads have an incidental defence benefit which is not inconsiderable. [More…]
Honourable members would be well aware of the handicaps under which we have laboured in directing our defence forces to our most exposed areas, which coincidentally seem to be those least populated and least normally maintained. [More…]
I received a long apologia from the member for Bass, the Minister for Defence, the former Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard). [More…]
Let us look at Launceston, the heart-land of Bass, the electorate of the former Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Is it any surprise that the honourable member for Bass- the former Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence- the honourable member for Braddon (Mr Davies) and the honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Duthie) are not in the House when the ‘Launceston Examiner’ can say- and it is worth repeating- [More…]
Certainly the Minister for Defence knows all about it. [More…]
These men whom I have enumerated- the honourable member for Braddon (Mr Davies), the Minister for Defence and the honourable member for Bass, the honourable member for Wilmot, the honourable member for Denison and the honourable member for Franklin- purport to support a Government that claims to have the solution to urban Australia. [More…]
I will now repeat what I said earlier I cannot understand how he, the honourable member for Braddon and the Minister for Defence can continue to sit with that Party which has done so much damage to Tasmania and to its people. [More…]
I initiated the next move with the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) who agreed with me that we should propose to the Treasurer that the Australian Government should offer extra revenue assistance to the State if the tax were abolished. [More…]
The Minister for Defence took the matter up with the Treasurer and eventually, after much negotiation, the Australian Government offered extra aid to Tasmania if the tax were dropped. [More…]
I am pleased that my initiative and that of the Minister for Defence in particular with our other colleagues supporting us has led to the agreement of the Australian and State Governmentsan agreement with which everyone involved now seems to be satisfied. [More…]
I approached the honourable member for Bass, who is sitting at the table- the former Deputy Prime Minister and now Minister for Defence- and I asked him across the table whether he intended to speak in this debate and he told me that he would if the Leader of the House - [More…]
Its S representatives in this House, including the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), have stood aside while Tasmania’s economy has been systematically debilitated by this Government’s economic policies. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, the simple fact is that the members for Denison (Mr Coates), Braddon (Mr Davies), Wilmot (Mr Duthie), Franklin (Mr Sherry) and the member for Bass, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) have been totally ineffective in seeking to have the decision reversed. [More…]
Mr Speaker, as I mentioned before the course of that last interjection, the members for Denison, Braddon, Wilmot, Franklin, and the Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Bass, have been totally ineffective in seeking to have those decisions reversed. [More…]
Rail rates have been increased by between 25 per cent and 33 per cent, and I challenge the honourable member for Bass, the Minister for Defence, who will follow me in this debate, to indicate to this House whether he accepts as reasonable the problems to which the State of Tasmania has been subject and which have led directly to the forcing up of so many State charges throughout Tasmania because of the absence of effective policies from the central administration in Canberra. [More…]
1 ask the Minister for Defence, who will follow me in the debate, to tell the honourable members on both sides of this chamber and the people of Tasmania if the position is as bad as the objective economic indicators reveal that it is, and to tell the people of his State who bears the responsibility. [More…]
Unemployment due to the Government’s 25 per cent across-the-board tariff adjustment is having serious localised effects in places such as Launceston, which is in the electorate of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Members of the Opposition claim that the Australian Government has failed in the defence area. [More…]
I note that defence expenditure in 1971-72 when a LiberalCountry Party Government was in power totalled $1,1 64m. [More…]
The proposed expenditure in the Budget now before the House on defence is $ 1,499m. [More…]
The honourable member for Swan (Mr Bennett) should know that the dollars that we were spending on defence meant something and that since this Government has been in power those same dollars have depreciated in value by approximately 40 per cent. [More…]
He also ought to know unless he has been wilfully blind that the defence capacity of the Australian forces is virtually nil. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition said: ‘The second Labor Budget once again neglects Australia’s defence needs’ and suggested that we should be devoting 3.5 per cent of gross national product to defence. [More…]
But that would necessitate an additional increase in defence spending of over $600m in the current financial year. [More…]
If more is to be provided for defence, more for the States, more for child endowment and child care, more for restoration of rural subsidies and reductions in taxation and all the rest of it, where is the huge cut back to fall? [More…]
We have the word of the Leader of the Opposition that it will not be defence. [More…]
I have had very strong representations made to me by the Minister for Defence and by the honourable members for Braddon, Denison, Franklin and Wilmot. [More…]
We have only one internal control over those deposits and that is related to defence. [More…]
It is quite obviously a defence mechanism that he indulges in every time he is asked to debate the policies of his Government. [More…]
Ex-service personnel who had war-time service in the defence forces of other countries of the British Commonwealth and who are now residing in Australia, and have done so for at least 10 years, will be eligible to apply for service pensions. [More…]
I turn briefly to the field of Defence Service Homes and I welcome the increase in the maximum loan from $12,000 to $15,000 and the easing of the eligibility conditions. [More…]
One should not overlook that under the heading ‘Defence’ this Budget provides money for 8 long-range maritime patrol aircraft to replace the Neptunes at Townsville. [More…]
Of course expenditure on defence matters is important to the security of Queensland and the rest of Australia. [More…]
But for the first time in Australian history, I should think, the education budget of this Parliament is greater than the defence budget. [More…]
For the first time in Australian history, the education allocation exceeded that spent on defence . [More…]
but, at the same time, we have protected the traditional importance of defence expenditure. [More…]
I will deal with the matter of defence in a short while. [More…]
In these nationally uncertain times defence cannot have that sort of priority. [More…]
I am shocked as I think most young people would be shocked to learn that the Government has these priorities in relation to defence. [More…]
I would like to know what the Government’s advisers on defence say about the situation now. [More…]
I would like to see a defence statement that sets out priorities. [More…]
I believe that if a statement were prepared by the Government’s advisers concerning defence problems and the uncertain future that our nation faces it would be a frightening statement in the eyes of the Australian people. [More…]
It would highlight in their minds the way in which this Government is ignoring defence, allowing our defence forces to run down and really jeopardising the future not just of the young people but of families like mine. [More…]
Even if it is a matter of being unpopular, if one is talking about a reduction in education programs, a reduction in social service programs and a reduction in defence programs, one has to face up to the situation because if this country’s inflation rate goes to 20 per cent and if inflation is allowed to run riot for 2 years we will find that Australia will be collapsing around our ears and we will have hordes of people unemployed simply because those who provide employment for them in free enterprise will have become bankrupt and no longer will be able to provide the employment that is the absolute lifeblood of the workers of this country. [More…]
I am informed that Townsville has remained under the responsibility of the Commonwealth Government only because it is a defence base. [More…]
You should see the defence that is there. [More…]
The Committee found that there was a failure for some years to have gas masks on issue to quarantine staff periodically checked by Defence Standards Laboratories as required in departmental instructions. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Did he state when introducing the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits legislation that the scheme was bound to have some defects and that he would be willing to look at any anomalies. [More…]
There are a number of matters raised by and on behalf of serving and retired members of the Forces thai are already under examination by the Defence Department in consultation with the Services and the DFR & DB Authority. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What is the surplus amount of moneys obtained from the previous Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
) Will this amount be transferred to the present Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Fund. [More…]
‘Defence Hardware’: Expenditure (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What has been the percentage cost of Defence hardware to the total Defence expenditure during each of the last 10 years. [More…]
I ) The term ‘Defence hardware’ has been taken to mean capital equipment items, excluding buildings, works and acquisitions. [More…]
Total defence expenditure, expenditure on Defence hardware and expenditure on hardware as a proportion of total defence expenditure during each of the last ten years is then as follows: [More…]
This expenditure now represents 60 per cent of total Defence expenditure. [More…]
expenditure on the Antarctic Division of the then Department of Supply was included in total defence expenditure This variation has not caused r.ny significant changes in total amounts or r ventages. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What procedures are followed to prevent entry into Australia of plant and animal diseases by returning Defence personnel, vehicles, aeroplanes, vessels and equipment. [More…]
In his absence the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) acts as Minister for Education. [More…]
-I ask a question of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I have already asked the Department of Defence to advise me whether there are surplus aircraft available for which Air Tasmania may be able to tender. [More…]
Did he see a report, reportedly from Tasmanian members of the Labor Party and reportedly in particular the Minister for Defence, that if the Prime Minister had turned to the next page of the report from which he got his figures he would have found more up to date information showing 780 and possibly 900 sackings? [More…]
It wants to reduce the growth of public spending on everything except defence which it wants to increase in complete defiance of the logic of its overall economic policy. [More…]
Under a Liberal Treasurer, then, we can expect cuts in defence expenditure, in education, in health, in housing, roads, sewerage programs, in law and order. [More…]
Perhaps the previous Minister overspent I mention the Defence Service Homes maximum loan, which is to rise from $12,000 to $15,000. [More…]
However successive Australian Governments have, over the years, agreed to pay, as an act of grace, the equivalent of municipal rates on housing erected or purchased by the Government solely for domestic purposes, on other property where an element for rates is recovered in rents charged to tenants and on Defence Service Homes. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 18 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
The term ‘international conference’ has been taken to apply broadly to all multilateral inter-governmental conferences involving formal official meetings between representatives from Australia and other countries, except those of a purely technical or defence nature and seminars, study groups and the like in which Australian representatives have participated as personally invited technical experts or in some non-official capacity. [More…]
I do not think the case really needed any defence but I hope I have put on record some of the facts and some of the reasoning behind the Government’s decision. [More…]
The Treasurer has based his reply to the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) on simply a quantitative defence of what the Government has spent without- with respect to him- a proper recognition of the inflationary pressures of the past 2 years. [More…]
While not included in this Bill, another improvement to be granted by the Government is in the amount available by way of loan for the re-establishment of ex-national servicemen and former members of the regular defence force. [More…]
All honourable members will be aware that the rate of pension paid to war widows and defence widows was increased by an unprecedented $5 to $31 as from 1 August 1974. [More…]
For any who, due to war or defence service, have suffered the amputation of a limb or limbs and/or the loss of an eye, an amount additional to the pension is payable. [More…]
The domestic allowance, payable in addition to pension to about 98 per cent of all war widows and defence widows, will be increased by $2.50 to $12. [More…]
The Opposition would expand defence expenditure on a mighty scale. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 162 1 ) in which he indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 18 months have exercises in this nature been conducted in his Department [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
As indicated in the Treasurer’s Budget Speech on 17 September it is proposed to make a number of important changes to the Defence Service Homes Act, including an increase in the maximum loan to $15,000. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
Practice fire evacuation- also valid for evacuation of building for civil defence, in the event of a bomb threat. [More…]
That of course is part of the Treasurer’s defence today. [More…]
It would revitalise our trade, encourage overseas investment through participation and technical knowledge, stimulate employment and immensely strengthen Australia’s defence position. [More…]
Certainly we have heard questions being asked about why we do not cut Government expenditure and why we do not increase expenditure on defence. [More…]
An allocation of $145,000 was made in respect of an item entitled ‘For the Defence of Impecunious Persons’. [More…]
1) to (5) As from 1 July 1974 administrative control of the Research and Development Division of the Department of Manufacturing Industry, including the Weapons Research Establishment, the Central Studies Establishment, the Defence Standards Laboratories and the Aeronautical Research Laboratories, was transferred to the Department of Defence pending legislation relating to the reorganisation of the Defence Force. [More…]
Answers to the right honourable member’s question as they concern the Research and Development Division were provided by the Minister for Defence in response to Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The bulk of the surveillance effort in support of law enforcement agencies is provided by the Defence Force. [More…]
The composition of the Patrol Craft Force is reviewed periodically in the context of the development of the five year defence program. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 18 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in the Department of Agriculture. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
As I have already explained in this House, in reply to the honourable member’s earlier question on this matter, there are a number of matters raised by and on behalf of retired members of the forces that are already under examination by the Department of Defence in consultation with the Services and with the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority. [More…]
At the New South Wales State Congress of the Returned Services League in Sydney in 1973, the Minister stated that neither he nor the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) was aware of any such plan for amalgamation. [More…]
He gave an assurance that both he and the Minister for Defence would resist any move of this nature. [More…]
The only other point I wish to raise concerns the proposal of which the Government has given notice with respect to the amount available by way of loan for the re-establishment of exservicemen and former members of the defence forces. [More…]
He has stated, I think unreservedly, that it is for the defence of New South Wales. [More…]
Of course, he did not consult the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) on this issue but he did consult that well-known democrat, the Premier of New South Wales, Sir Robert Askin. [More…]
Will he ask his Minister for Defence to go to Queensland and state his policy in a defence-conscious State? [More…]
-For the information of honourable members I present a statement entitled ‘Australian Defence Estimates 1974-75’ together with the memorandum of arrangments between the United States and Australia on the patrol frigates. [More…]
On page 1282 of Hansard, during his Budget Speech, the Treasurer referred to a more detailed statement on defence matters being made in this Parliament. [More…]
I therefore ask the Minister for Defence, through you Mr Speaker, whether this is the statement which he intends to make in the Parliament or does he intend to make a statement in the Parliament at a later time? [More…]
There is no defence whatsoever for the sorts of increases which are demanded in the letters I have quoted. [More…]
In a prosecution of a person under this Act for, or in relation, to, making a false or misleading statement, or for, or in relation to, presenting a document that is false or misleading in a particular, it is a defence if the person charged shows that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the statement or document was false or misleading, respectively. [More…]
I am wondering about the definition of ‘employee’ which includes a member of the defence forces. [More…]
It has usually been thought that there is some kind of equality and comradeship in the defence forces. [More…]
As the Director of Defence Service Homes noted in his annual report last week, the average cost of dwellings financed by his Department rose by almost $5,000 last year. [More…]
One other area about which I wanted to have a word is homes for defence personnel. [More…]
I believe that it was right and proper that this Government allowed single men the same right as we have allowed single service women to buy defence homes. [More…]
Previously the Department of Housing, as it was then known, was responsible principally for defence Service homes, making grants under the housing grants scheme and various other peripheral matters. [More…]
They are: Welfare housing, changes in the Defence Service Homes scheme, housing for the aged, indicative planning, the Australian Housing Corporation, the Australian Housing Research Council, the housing information and advisory service, modern housing techniques, uniform housing standards and housing tax relief. [More…]
Under the Australian Housing Corporation, the functions, assets and liabilities of the Director of Defence Service Homes will be taken over. [More…]
The corporation will cater for all persons who come within the Government’s constitutional responsibility, that is, the people who work for the Government, defence personnel and so on. [More…]
In addition we will be debating the defence service homes legislation which is very wide in its ramifications and which even the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr Ruddock) will acknowledge represents a great improvement on provisions that prevailed in bygone times. [More…]
Everything we have done in respect of the defence services home scheme is aimed at facilitating home ownership. [More…]
The Department of Defence is scattered over 2 1 different sectors of Sydney. [More…]
I am endeavouring to negotiate with the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) the supply of a proper barge at Newcastle Waters to allow for the transportation of essential materials. [More…]
Now my friend, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), comes in to answer as the acting Minister for Education. [More…]
I do not seek to embarrass my honourable friend, but I remind him of the fact he is at the moment answering for 3 armed Services and the Department of Defence - [More…]
I say to my honourable friend from Bass, the Minister for Defence- I am not seeking to reflect on him in some bitter partisan fashion; I am talking about the facts of life- that no Minister unless he has dealt with a department in a very intimate fashion can possibly hope to understand what is going on. [More…]
For the first time in Australia’s history we are now spending more on education than on defence and, as Minister for Defence, I must acknowledge that the priority is right. [More…]
For the first time in Australia’s history we are now spending more on education than on defence and, as Minister for Defence, I must acknowledge that the priority is right. [More…]
I presume that the honourable member is referring to the remarkable statement made by the honourable member for Barker, who is the Liberal Party spokesman on defence. [More…]
In that statement he did list as a first task for the defence force in the late 1970s operations in aid of the civil power, involving antiriot operations where the police are forced to ask for help from the defence forces. [More…]
Based on the 1974-75 financial year, a cut of 8 per cent in the defence vote would mean a reduction of $ 128m. [More…]
If the 8 per cent cut had to be spread over other departments, the reduction in the defence vote could well be $200m. [More…]
This could only mean a reduction of manpower in the Department of Defence and a re-organisation of the Department in terms of equipment procurement and other matters. [More…]
The implications of what the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said on the television program about cutting expenditure by 8 per cent across the board show clearly and conclusively that the effect on the Department of Defence and other departments would be disastrous. [More…]
The first of the reasons, however, is that there has been in this Parliament for some 6 years now a practice which was originally negotiated between the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) and, I believe, the present Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
We have been told for nearly 2 years now that we are living in a different world, that our foreign policy had been based on the assumptions that detente was sure to work, that the international atmosphere was rapidly brightening and that a threat to Australia during the next decade and a half was scarcely conceivable, and it was, after all, these assumptions alone that gave any plausibility, such as it was, to a policy characterised by a carelessness towards allies, a global busyness which no interest required and no power supported and the rapid rundown of our defence forces. [More…]
Surely they stand in stark contrast to what has been given to the people over the past 2 years- the delusion and romantic illusions of the Government in its rundown of defence forces and its conduct of foreign affairs. [More…]
I deplore the present state of our defences in Australia. [More…]
I appreciate that we are discussing the estimates of the Department of Foreign Affairs but I believe it is essential that we should have defence forces capable of contributing to the protection of our trade routes if that should become necessary. [More…]
If we expect to be allied with other countries, as we must be to adequately protect the security of Australia and its people, we should be prepared, as other countries are prepared, to spend a reasonable proportion of our national income on retaining our defence forces in a reasonably strong position. [More…]
Australia should not ask for support from other countries which are contributing much more than we are contributing to our defence. [More…]
We should upgrade our defence forces. [More…]
It is amazing when one listens to members of the Opposition, particularly members of the Country Party, to realise how unreal they are sometimes on the question of foreign policy, and even on the matter of defence. [More…]
For instance, the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) advocated increased expenditure on defence whereas earlier the Deputy Leader of the Country Party (Mr Sinclair) advocated a reduction of such expenditure by 8 per cent. [More…]
I commend to the Minister’s attention, while talking of defence properties that have ceased to have a value in real terms, the properties owned by the Department of Defence at Ermington and, I think, at Silverwater and also the Newington armaments and explosive depot which is across the Parramatta River from my own electorate. [More…]
That armaments depot, according to the honourable member for St George (Mr Morrison) when he was acting Minister for Defence, poses a threat to my electorate by its very existence in terms of the safety arcs that are necessary to maintain it there. [More…]
With reference to the promises of the Minister for Defence in 1973 that there would not be further retrenchments of employees at the Bendigo Ordnance Factory and that he would also take steps to provide extra contracts from both Government and private sectors in order to maintain production and employment, will these promises be honoured; if so, what action has been taken to promote extra contracts. [More…]
Because of the special action taken by the Government to seek alternative workload to replace falling defence requirements, retrenchments have been avoided in all the Australian Government factories, including the Ordnance [More…]
Defence requirements have been falling for several years. [More…]
The Joint Committee of representatives of departments and employee organisations which was established by the Minister for Defence in September 1973 to seek workload for the factories so as to avoid retrenchments on 1973-74 has been reconvened with broader terms of reference. [More…]
The Joint Committee is examining medium and long-term workload prospects in the defence and non-defence government areas and in the private sector. [More…]
Defence: Stand-off Air-to-Ground Missiles (Question No. [More…]
( Bass - Minister for Defence)- I present for the information of honourable members a statement on the investigation into the incident at the School of Artillery at North Head, Sydney, on the evening of Friday, 30 August 1974. [More…]
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-We are about to get, I suppose, the one and a half hours a year we get to talk about defence. [More…]
This is the first opportunity we have had to talk specifically on defence for more than a year. [More…]
Even the customary practice which had been followed for so many years of the Minister for Defence making a statement to the House and of it being possible to debate it has not been followed. [More…]
I believe this to be absolutely scandalous, particularly because defence is one of the fields- no doubt this is why we do not get adequate time to debate it- in which the Government is most vulnerable. [More…]
The Government, particularly the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), does not seem to understand the enormity of what it is doing in the defence field. [More…]
This is quite obvious, as the Minister had made 2 major speeches lately- one which he tabled in the House and the other which he delivered on Monday to the Returned Services League Congress- and in both of those statements he was most sensitive to criticism of the Government in relation to its defence policy. [More…]
In fact, he took the RSL to task for daring to criticise the Government in respect of defence. [More…]
Every time they do that and every time the fact is brought home to us that we have an inflation rate of over 20 per cent a year, it demonstrates with absolutely sickening force how completely and utterly the Government is neglecting defence. [More…]
A contrast is drawn between what Government members boast they are doing in very many fields- this is underlined by the highest inflation rate that Australia has had in this century- and what the Government is doing or is not doing with respect to defence. [More…]
It is this which makes the attempt by the Minister for Defence to suggest that a LiberalCountry Party Government would cut defence expenditure so ludicrous and so pathetic. [More…]
-Look, I have only 10 minutes to speak on defence. [More…]
To suggest that we would cut further expenditure on something as important as defence, which this Government has cut and cut and cut, is absolute nonsense. [More…]
We are committed quite specifically and without qualification to substantially increased defence expenditure when we come into government. [More…]
Who is this Minister, by means of a Dorothy Dix question from the honourable member from Bonython (Mr Nicholls) who has never thought about defence in his life, to talk? [More…]
He is the man who promised specifically and solemnly when in Opposition, in an attempt to win government, that the Labor Party would spend 3.5 per cent of the gross national product on defence. [More…]
In the first Budget of the new Labor Government after that promise to spend 3.5 per cent of the gross national product the expenditure on defence represented 2.9 per cent; in this year’s Budget it has been reduced to 2.6 per cent. [More…]
I refer to the fact that in the 1974-75. defence estimates the Government provides only $9 1.8m for new equipment. [More…]
That is 6 per cent of the defence vote. [More…]
In his statement on the 5-year program made in 1972, the then Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn), forecast that in 1976-77 expenditure on new equipment would rise to $325m, at 1972 prices. [More…]
If total expenditure is to be cut by 8 per cent- and we accept his assurance that defence expenditure will not only be not cut but increased- this means severe cuts elsewhere. [More…]
The concept of this Government is to put the defence services of Australia on a modern and proper basis. [More…]
His Excellency the Australian Amassador to Ireland, when Leader of another Party in another place, aptly summed up the LiberalCountry Party approach to defence. [More…]
He said that they left the defence of Australia in the hands of boy scouts and girl guides. [More…]
We reject the concept that there is need to continue to spend more and more on defence without reason or logic. [More…]
This Government believes that the Australian defence forces- our Army, Navy and Air Force- should be modernised. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has made it clear in recent statements that that program is progressing extremely well. [More…]
The military experts in this country- those who have spent their lifetime training for the defence of Australia- believe there is no immediate threat and that there will be no outbreak of military hostilities in this region of the world. [More…]
The Australian Government’s concept for defence is to establish- it has been established- a corps style force into which an immediate army can be assembled if need be. [More…]
If the Opposition’s policy were adopted it is inevitable that those who are poor and underprivileged will have to go without while we build a more massive defence force. [More…]
People will have to go without certain things in order to build a more massive defence force’. [More…]
Before the May 1974 elections the honourable member for Barker insisted that the Government spent too little on defence. [More…]
During that campaign he said that the Liberals would not increase defence expenditure. [More…]
The realities of life are that this Government will have a defence force which is capable of defending Australia. [More…]
Australia will have defence services consistent with urgent priorities that need to be adopted. [More…]
Australia will have a defence force of men who are volunteers. [More…]
He said that the Government was modernising the defence forces of Australia. [More…]
He would know that many of the programs have been cancelled by the Government and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
If it does, it will be that and that alone for which this Minister for Defence is remembered. [More…]
By way of introduction I say the Minister must provide proper training programs for the Fl 1 1 and other defence equipment. [More…]
To have them used in an inadequate way is to make a mockery of defence and of the defence services and will serve only to lower morale still further. [More…]
What an idea of defence preparedness. [More…]
Yet here we have a government which tries to say: ‘We do not need any defence, but we have done a lot for defence’. [More…]
The implication is always that the Government has increased the effectiveness of defence. [More…]
Any thinking person knows that half of the Labor Party does not believe in any defence and the whole of it is short of money. [More…]
We have seen during the period of this Government a disgraceful run down in defence preparedness and effectiveness, a disgraceful run down in morale and, in those events to which I have referred, an incredible display of misplaced priorities. [More…]
The honourable gentleman also suggested that in the last election campaign we said we would not increase defence expenditure. [More…]
Because the Minister felt vulnerable in defence matters he leapt on our defence policy and made a statement or had a statement issued from his office. [More…]
None of this in any way contradicts the assertion made in our defence policy statement that there would have been no substantial increase in defence spending in the next two or three years. [More…]
You cannot buy major defence equipment off the shelf. [More…]
In the years ahead there is no doubt that this would have involved substantial increases in defence expenditure. [More…]
He said that he does not get enough time to speak on defence in this chamber. [More…]
This seems to me to be a rather shabby tactic if he is saying that he is not getting enough time to speak on defence in this chamber and then uses the opportunity he gets to speak to quote from speeches he has already given. [More…]
I should like to take this opportunity to point out that there is quite a confused picture emanating from the Opposition with regard to defence. [More…]
None of this in any way contradicts the assertion made in our defence policy statement that there would have been no substantial increase in defence spending in the next two or three years. [More…]
There had been so many non-decisions made in the defence buying area. [More…]
So just where would the Opposition cut spending if it is not to be in the defence area? [More…]
I am not so sure that the Opposition does not intend to cut expenditure on defence. [More…]
The reason that I asked a question of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) the other day was that I was rather alarmed that no qualification was given by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
This is constantly done to confuse the issue while claiming that the Opposition is supposedly developing defence policy. [More…]
I think all the work done by the Minister for Defence and the Department of Defence on the many studies will show some concrete results. [More…]
The honourable member also queried, in relation to the defence of continental Australia, why there is not more urgency about the replacement of the Neptunes and why the decision was made to replace them with even less aircraft than at present. [More…]
If the view of the Government is that a little money can always be chopped off the top of an allocation when we are working out our Budget, in the defence area I think it is a very wrong atitude. [More…]
But if an amount of money in the defence estimates is just taken off, this comes directly from the capital expenditure appropriation and with a 5-year rolling program it makes it very difficult indeed. [More…]
Let me look at the present operational capacity of the Australian Army, which is the branch of the defence forces that I know best. [More…]
Let me now do 2 things: Firstly, set out clearly how we on this side of the chamber regard the defence requirements of this nation and the measures which we say are necessary to give the [More…]
Australian people, God bless them, effective protection and assured security; and, secondly, at the same time expose the manner in which this present Government, hell bent on a snivelling subservience to every little tin-pot communist country, has emasculated the Army, ripped out its heart and wounded- as yet not mortally, but near enough to it- the proud morale of our defence forces. [More…]
The first thing we would do is to look for the closest co-operation with New Zealand, co-ordination with its defence Services and, where possible, standardisation of equipment. [More…]
We would have the closest liaison in defence preparedness with Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea and the exchange of personnel for defence training. [More…]
But what really concerns me and creates an area of potential threat to Australia is the announcement by this Government that all of our defence forces will be withdrawn from Papua New Guinea after independence. [More…]
Let me say quite specifically- this is absolutely verified by my experience when I was Minister for the Army-that there was a splendid understanding between Chief Minister Somare and our Department of Defence. [More…]
In fact, Michael Somare stated- I am sure he will confirm this- that he would desire a continuation of our relationship in regard to 2 matters, namely, foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
The third thing we would aim at is the strengthening of our ties with the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the utmost cooperation with these countries which are our traditional allies in military training and defence procurement. [More…]
Our fourth objective is to promote the active functioning of regional defence arrangements to maintain the security of South East Asia, South West Pacific and the Indian Ocean areas. [More…]
The Minister for Defence told us some time ago that the CMF had never been in better condition. [More…]
The tenth objective is the continuing procurement of technically advanced equipment for the armed forced and the maximum possible manufacture in Australia of defence equipment either in part or as a whole. [More…]
The eleventh objective is co-ordination with the private sector of the economy to build up industrial capability for defence procurement. [More…]
The twelfth objective is the coordination with Australia’s allies in the development, testing and research of modern defence equipment and weapons systems for the use of - [More…]
-In rising to support the Defence vote I want to draw attention to the nonsense that we have just heard from the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter). [More…]
On the other hand I want to congratulate the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) who is carrying out an extremely difficult task very well indeed. [More…]
I must say that their difficulty is snared by all those who work in the very honourable area of defencethose members of the armed Services generally and civil servants- because, frankly, it is much much easier to build up morale in a time of threat or war than it is in a time of peace and when we have friends. [More…]
One of the most important concepts of a defence policy is the recognition that the situation as we know it at present could change. [More…]
I need only quote from the 1974 Defence Report to show this. [More…]
The report has been written not by politicians but by senior pubhe servants in this country, heads of the armed Services, heads of the Joint Intelligence Organisation, the head of the Prime Minister’s Department and the head of the Defence Department. [More…]
No regional power has or is likely to acquire for many years the capability and motive that might require a substantial Australian defence response. [More…]
However, if we bear in mind that the primary object of having armed forces is to defend the Australian mainland, it is clear that a defence policy must aim towards providing the essential sea and air power to enable sufficient forces to be available to ensure adequate control of the seas close in to Australia, to be able to patrol well out into the ocean areas and to strike if necessary. [More…]
No one will deny that there has been a gradual fall in the percentage of the defence vote spent on equipment. [More…]
The defence vote itself has been increased from $ 1,334m last financial year to $ 1,4098m in this Budget. [More…]
The plain fact is that in peacetime in a low threat situation the important thing is to keep manpower to minimum levels commensurate with the basic function of the defence vote, that is, the maintenance of skills and the ability to man the warships and aircraft available to which I referred earlier. [More…]
Defence expenditure as a percentage of the gross national product in a number of countries which are acutely aware of their responsibility to ensure national security but which at the same time, like ourselves, really have no aggressive intentions- and perhaps I should first of all point out that Australia’s percentage is approximately 2.4 percent- are as follows: Canada 1.8 percent; [More…]
It is not really fair to make comparisons of this type because Australia’s defence situation is very different from that of any other nation. [More…]
If we make a comparison with a country such as this it is apparent that Australia spends a most substantial percentage of gross national product on her defence. [More…]
A feature of Australia’s defence situation which will continue to influence planning is her strong position in comparison with other nations in the South East Asian and Asian areas. [More…]
In any consideration of defence one thinks of the fundamental principle that long term planning based upon a concept of the general security of the Australian mainland is the only basis which is sound. [More…]
But I would like to draw attention to the fact that the Australian Government, through the Minister for Defence, whom I have already congratulated, is concentrating in providing all 3 of the armed services across the board with basic items and bringing their equipment up to date. [More…]
-We have just heard from the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) a pitiful series of excuses for the defence failures of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
We were told that it is quite all right if we spend only 2.4 per cent of gross national product on defence. [More…]
The honourable member said nothing about the fact that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) and the present Government, when in opposition, promised that the Labor Party would spend not less than 3.5 per cent of gross national product on defence. [More…]
We have seen defence expenditure drop more and more until now it is only 2.4 per cent of gross national product. [More…]
As another excuse the honourable member compared our defence expenditure with that of European nations which have a long history of keeping out of any war. [More…]
The honourable member also mentioned that only 7 per cent of the defence vote is being spent on new equipment, yet he congratulated the Minister on the way in which he was modernising equipment across the board and not going in for glamour items like Fills. [More…]
This so-called glamour item is about the one major item of equipment in Australia today which is first class by any world standard and on which Australia’s defence can rely, provided the communists agree to let us have the necessary petrol. [More…]
If there is a certain amount to be spent on defence in Australia it can be spent best by outlaying the highest possible percentage on new equipment and on improvement of bases. [More…]
It is true that when I took over ministerial responsibility for the Department of Defence we were not spending what was regarded by many of us an adequate percentage on new equipment. [More…]
It is shocking that only 7 per cent of total defence expenditure is being spent on new equipment. [More…]
They said that on the basis of this there is no need to spend so much money on defence. [More…]
They said: ‘Let us spend it on welfare and cut down defence expenditure’. [More…]
Let me read from one of the defence reports which I presented and which at the time was believed on the best advice available to be sound advice. [More…]
Uncertainty about future developments in a fluid situation requires that we keep under close review the dimensions and the character of our defence capabilities as a whole. [More…]
There is a need for close attention to the proper balance between expenditure directed to short term defence capability and other expenditures which will enhance defence potential in the longer term, and provide a basis for a military potential which can be realised in adequate time should circumstances require. [More…]
Changes in our strategic environment affect our options for defence strategies, but they do not alter the need for adequate defence and national military capabilities. [More…]
I am saying that the whole of this South East Asian area is one of the most unstable areas in the world and we have got to have adequate defence capabilities; we are just not getting those adequate defence capabilities at the present moment. [More…]
In a speech I made in the House on defence only a few months ago I pointed out the way in which our whole defence forces were running down. [More…]
In the current rather difficult financial situation, with a Labor Government keen to develop its social welfare programs, I would have hoped that the Cabinet would be a little more sympathetic to the claims of the defence forces in this year and in the years ahead, because we all accept that there is a need for a long lead time in these matters. [More…]
The Neptunes have been obsolescent, or nearing obsolescence, for a substantial period, and the decision on their replacement as honourable members will know from having read the defence report which is before them at the present time, is about to be made. [More…]
I am not sure whether it was the honourable member for Farrer, but I do remember that in a defence debate very much back in history one of the Ministers for Defence said that one of the top items in the then Government ‘s program at that time was a replacement for the Neptunes at Townsville. [More…]
It is one thing to come in here and blame this Government or its Minister for the way in which the defence forces have been treated, but I always consider that it is very poor to say things which have the effect of reducing the morale of the defence forces. [More…]
This Government is dedicated to getting its defence forces by the voluntary system of recruitment. [More…]
In the document which the Minister for Defence has but recently circulated to us, dated a week ago, is the longest statement that I recall in any defence document on Australia’s projected defence relations with New Guinea for the year ahead. [More…]
The document sets out a continuation of that close consultation and co-operation with Papua New Guinea and the major developments that have taken place recently in that country, which is setting up a defence administration in its own right. [More…]
It also sets out Australia’s continued role in co-operation with the Papua New Guinea defence forces in the years ahead. [More…]
I fail to see how anyone could take exception to the terms in which the Minister for Defence has spelt out the position on this matter. [More…]
But I deny that there would be any reluctance on the part of a Labor Party government in this country to accept responsibility for the defence forces in Papua New Guinea because, frankly, given the fact that Australia has continuing responsibilities for assisting Papua New Guinea, we would not- I put it to honourable members opposite that they would not eitherwant to see a newly emergent Papua New Guinea devoting an over-large amount of its money to defence preparedness when there are so many more urgent things for it to do. [More…]
I recall when the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton)not very far back- said that his advice at that time was that there was no projected defence threat for 10 years. [More…]
It is not just the message which has been coming through from the Department of Defence since the present Government was elected. [More…]
But, commensurate with the present defence assessment in our part of the world, we have a highly effective defence force. [More…]
I think that we are all very proud of the capacity of our defence force. [More…]
It is clear, as the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) and other honourable members on this side of the chamber have said, that unfortunately defence has a relatively low priority under the present Government and that the proposed expenditure falls short of what in fact was promised before the Australian Labor Party came to power in terms of the gross national product. [More…]
In its 1974 report the Department of Defence warned that Australia must maintain an adequate defence force because of the continuing possibility of what it described as low level situations developing. [More…]
I suggest that we need a highly moblie hard hitting and well integrated defence force which is capable of coping with any emergency. [More…]
A very senior Army officer, Brigadier Hooton who last year resigned as the head of Army intelligence in protest against cuts in defence expenditure, has pointed out that Japan, China and India, as well as the Soviet Union, have the nuclear capacity to threaten Australia. [More…]
Brigadier Hooton has expressed concern that at the highest levels professional servicemen have been isolated from the Government and that advice on defence is now the province of public servants. [More…]
I am happy to be able to make a contribution to this debate on the estimates for the Department of Defence. [More…]
As my mind goes back over a considerable period of years I am utterly disgusted by the unjustified criticism by the Opposition of the Government’s defence policies. [More…]
The ‘ Opposition has made feeble attempts to denigrate the Australian Government in connection with its defence policies and its provision for expenditure, which we are now debating, in the Budget. [More…]
Obviously he meant, but was not prepared to say, that he would slash defence expenditure. [More…]
But, on the other hand, we find that the shadow Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes), purporting to be critical of the Government for not spending sufficient on defence. [More…]
Further, I read criticism of the Australian Government for allowing Australian defence requirements to run down. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party when it came to office during World War II found Australia virtually defenceless. [More…]
This is the result of the policies of this Government and of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), for whom I have the utmost respect. [More…]
The former Government took notice of some of the defence chiefs and said that it would need to use conscription. [More…]
Every time I think of that, I am reminded that your defence policies are so immoral and so filthy that they stink like a Turkish wrestler’s jockstrap. [More…]
The former Government sent a former Minister for Defence, Mr Athol Townley, who served under Sir Robert Menzies, to America to buy aircraft because it feared that criticism would be levelled at it in the forthcoming election in 1963 on the ground that the defence chiefs -had told the Government that the outmoded Canberra bomber was of no further use in modern warfare. [More…]
You are afraid that some Australians might be influenced by the factual details that I am giving in connection with the tories’ defence policies. [More…]
I influenced them not to register because I felt so strongly about those defence policies on Vietnam at that time. [More…]
My contribution will be concerned with making a number of observations on that part of defence, the Army, which I believe are pertinent when considering these Defence estimates. [More…]
I am afraid that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) either knowingly or unknowingly misled the House. [More…]
The truth is- surely when we speak about the defence of this country we deserve to hear the truth- that the task forces referred to have only 2 battalions each of which are at reduced strength. [More…]
The honourable members for Phillip (Mr Riordan), Adelaide (Mr Hurford), Hunter and Brisbane (Mr Cross) all pursued the argument that we have a highly effective defence force. [More…]
Those honourable members do not understand the business of defence but, with all due respect, they should, because, when operating, the Services are no more than a well trained team, no different in essence from a cricket team, football team, Olympic track team or a debating team. [More…]
Unfortunately, if their rationale in the defence arena were applied, they would. [More…]
Again, on their defence rationale, they would. [More…]
No matter where one looks in reports submitted by the Minister for Defence one finds that he argues against the obvious and against what is, in fact, true. [More…]
He says that it simply is not true that our defence forces are being allowed to run down to unrealistic levels. [More…]
We must look realistically at the problem of defence. [More…]
It is suggested that it is not true to say that defence expenditure is being cut, but the Minister said: [More…]
Why must it be in the area of defence that the [More…]
If we are to continue on the reckless path on which we have embarked with respect to the defence of this country we will all see a very sad day in the future. [More…]
I called the Minister for Defence. [More…]
When I became Minister for Defence I set out, as a matter of policy, to determine what should be the size and shape of the Army in this country. [More…]
I received a recommendation from the Defence Committee that the strength of the Army should rise to 34,000 by 1976 and that it should be reviewed in 1976. [More…]
The amount has been gradually falling but it is not a matter of concern for Ministers for Defence in Australia alone. [More…]
I think this problem is being experienced by all countries where defence procurement is beyond their control in terms of the amount of equipment that must be purchased from other countries. [More…]
He is the shadow Minister for Defence. [More…]
When I was the shadow Minister for Defence I set out to make a number of recommendations and to put forward a number of propositions about what should be done in terms of defence and the reorganisation of the Department of Defence itself. [More…]
All these issues were dealt with by me as the shadow Minister for Defence. [More…]
More has been done in this 2-year period than was done by any Minister for Defence from the Opposition side in the last 20 years. [More…]
I made the point about the shadow Minister for Defence. [More…]
Anyone who had the opportunity to listen to the honourable member for Barker this afternoon and, indeed, during the last 2 years, would know that he has not made one practical contribution to defence in this country. [More…]
He is, of course, responsible on behalf of the Opposition to make statements in relation to defence. [More…]
So, what does one accept from the so-called spokesman on Defence? [More…]
I repeat that there has not been one positive or constructive suggestion during the whole of the period when he has been the shadow Minister for Defence that the Government could even consider as being worthwhile for incorporation into the defence legislation of this country. [More…]
They certainly spoke with much more sincerity and purpose on matters relating to the Department of Defence and our defence policies than did honourable members on the other side of the House. [More…]
If one examines the expenditure for defence for the financial year 1974-75, which is now under consideration, one would see that it is still much higher in terms of the gross domestic product, than the honourable member was referring to earlier, than was being spent by the then Government, that is, those who are now in Opposition, during the 1960s. [More…]
Despite the priorities in terms of social policies and other domestic policies that we enunciated to the people of Australia in 1972 and again this year and the commitments and new directions in relation to those policies, we will not neglect the defence of Australia. [More…]
Some amendments of a consequential nature are also included because of the enactment of the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 18 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present 3 reports prepared for the Department of Supply entitled: ‘Central Studies Establishment Annual Report 1973-1974’; ‘Defence Standards Laboratories Annual Report 1973-1974’; and ‘Aeronautical Research Laboratories Annual Report 1973-74’. [More…]
Honourable gentlemen who spoke out this morning in praise and in defence of human freedom not only have lived with this situation of the monopolisation of communication in Australia ever since they came to power in 1949; they have actively abetted the process by which consolidation increased. [More…]
In the few minutes remaining to me I wish to refer to a matter which I was unable to mention during the Estimates debate because the gag was applied before I could raise it I refer to 4 people who were refused loans under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
If there was a fault in the law when we were in government and that fault continues under this Government let us get together to produce appropriate amendments to the Defence Service Homes Act because it seems quite ludicrous for Vietnam ex-servicemen to be discriminated against because they choose to live outback in the country. [More…]
The honourable member indicated that Mr Lloyd has run into difficulties presumably because of the structure or regulations of the Defence Service Homes Act in relation to land values of the property on which he wants to build a home. [More…]
Therefore I now wish to raise it in defence of someone who is no longer in Australia. [More…]
In the first 6 months there was one by the mini-Cabinet comprising the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), and we had two in the next 6 months. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974 page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 18 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
Limitations are in accordance with Australian Government policy on the export of defence equipment. [More…]
There is also additional money for defence service homes purposes and an additional $8m for the Queensland Housing Commission. [More…]
While I have been talking about a small area, the area which I want to pass on to before moving to the basis of the strategic assessment contained in the Defence Report is a territory of Australia which is smaller in area than Papua New Guinea- the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. [More…]
I question, for example, the substance of the Government’s planning of its foreign policies and its defence policies. [More…]
The Defence Report goes on even further and says: ‘If there were any threats we would all have plenty of warning’. [More…]
The honourable member also mentioned the defence debates. [More…]
There have been several debates in this House on defence. [More…]
We have been told that the Government’s foreign and defence policies which of course should always be interrelated are based on the principle that Australia is not likely to face a threat for some 10 to IS years. [More…]
If we sent our entire fleet of small ships up there we would leave the rest of Australia more or less denuded of naval defence. [More…]
I do not wish to discuss defence in the context of this debate but the fact remains, as the honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock) so rightly pointed out, that no country in today’s world is able to sit back and say with any conclusive reliability that no likely threat will occur within the next 1 0 to 1 5 years. [More…]
We have seen in the last few months the enunciation of a new doctrine of nuclear war by the United States Secretary of Defence. [More…]
It is relevant to Australia’s defence, especially when we see the nations to the north of us- India, and Indonesia in particular- already, in the last 2 months, coming out with a statement which to say the least was ambivalent but which would give reasonable expectation that they too are now prepared to get on the nuclear bandwagon if they can do so. [More…]
I think that we all accept the principle that the people of Australia, generally speaking, are not well informed on foreign affairs or defence matters. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to increase certain pension benefits payable under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1973 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973-1974. [More…]
Honourable members may recall that when I introduced the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill in May of last year I explained that the increases, which applied in respect of servicemen who contributed to the defence forces retirement benefits scheme, were an interim measure only. [More…]
There were, however, some difficulties in the way of applying the same adjustment method to pensioners under the new defence force retirement and death benefits scheme, the legislation for which was introduced at the same time as the pension increase Bill. [More…]
To meet this situation, it is proposed to give a candidate a defence against a prosecution if he proves that, at the time when he made the gift, donation, prize etc. [More…]
The purpose of these changes is to enable civil aircraft registered in Australia which are being flown by members of the Defence Forces in the course of their duties to continue to be subject to the Air Navigation Regulations. [More…]
These aircraft have been flown by members of the Defence Forces in the course of their duties for such purposes as flying training and surveys. [More…]
For instance, the Defence Force has been expected to institute its own maintenance procedures for hired aircraft. [More…]
Therefore, it is most desirable that the provisions of the Air Navigation Regulations should continue to apply to civil registered aircraft which are under the temporary control of the Defence Force by virtue of a contract of hire or charter and are being flown by members of the Defence Force in the course of their duties. [More…]
On the other hand, honourable members may be assured, if an aircraft is hired or chartered by a part of the Defence Force for a lengthy period, or if for any special reason it is desirable that it should not be subject to the provisions of the Air Navigation Regulations while under hire or charter, the registration of the aircraft can be cancelled on the application of the owner. [More…]
If the 8 per cent cut across the board about which the Opposition likes to speak so blithely is put into effect, bearing in mind that the Opposition has said it will increase defence spending and hold education spending, the States will collect a bonanza of a $50m cut in their spending. [More…]
The Constitution laid down quite definitely and without equivocation the Commonwealth responsibilities such as defence, foreign affairs, trade, customs and excise, etc, and State responsibilities which are those not specifically given to the Federal Government in 1901. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
969 on 24 October 1973 (Hansard, page 2664), what further consultations have now been held with Canada concerning the feasibility of joint purchasing of defence equipment. [More…]
During my visit to Canada last January I had further discussions with the Canadian Minister for National Defence on possibilities for closer co-operation between Canada and Australia on defence procurement. [More…]
Also, as opportunity offers, there will be discussions on defence procurement co-operation during visits of Ministers and officials to Ottawa and Canberra. [More…]
The foregoing will supplement existing arrangements between Canada and Australia under which there is a regular exchange of defence information, including on equipment. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Whilst no consideration has been given to Australian participation in the development of an advanced Harrier aircraft in association with Britain and the United States of America the VTOL concept has been under Defence evaluation along with fixed and rotary wing contenders in the context of the possible long term needs of the Services. [More…]
Since this question was put on notice I have tabled on 24 October 1974 a statement on the 1974-75 Defence Estimates. [More…]
If you refer to pages 8, 9 and 10 of my statement on the Defence Estimates it contains a full explanation of action taken so far on the recommendations of the CMF Committee. [More…]
There would also be a reduction in the number of defence service homes loans made. [More…]
That is to say, some 800 ex-servicemen would be deprived of the opportunity to take their defence service homes loans. [More…]
I believe that this area needs to be considered by the relevant authorities, perhaps the Department of Defence, and an overall plan drawn up for its eventual development. [More…]
Department of Defence could have erected a row of nissen huts made of galvanised iron. [More…]
It is said in the evidence that those who live adjacent to this land were satisfied that the Australian Government and the Defence Department had shown a great deal of concern for their neighbours and had constructed buildings that their neighbours had found to be satisfactory. [More…]
The overall plan for the development of the Army land is something, I suppose, for the Defence Department. [More…]
In all honesty, I must say that the Department of Defence did not give evidence to the Committee, but a plan was made available to the Committee. [More…]
I believe that those who were present at the Committee hearings on those 2 days when the plan was before the Committee did take note of the planned development by the Department of Defence. [More…]
Those people who live adjacent to the land in question and who are now complaining bought the land knowing that the Watsonia military camp was there and that the land was set aside for defence or military purposes. [More…]
It seems to me incongruous that those people who bought this land knowing that the land adjacent to them was set aside for defence or army or military purposesone of the witnesses said that his land backed on to the land about which we are talking- should now raise a complaint that the development for which it was set aside should not go ahead. [More…]
Provision is made in the Defence Service Homes Act whereby the Director of Defence Service Homes may, in special circumstances, reduce the deposit below the normal minimum deposit of 5 per cent of purchase money. [More…]
Of course, above all, there is the question of defence. [More…]
That is a Liberal-Country Party coalition government- quite specifically and without qualification to substantially increased defence expenditure when we come into government. [More…]
That was said by the Opposition spokesman on defence. [More…]
Of course one links that statement with his earlier remark that defence spending should be at the level of 3.5 per cent of gross national product. [More…]
To those areas I would say, I hope very clearly, the area of defence, because I believe that the problems associated with Soviet operations in the Indian Ocean must compel us to build up our defence and we must give that a priority as well. [More…]
One day it might be defence; the next day it might be something else. [More…]
The findings showed an overall desire to double education expenditure, health and foreign aid, increase social welfare outlays by one-quarter and slash- by two-thirds- defence spending and spending on economic development. [More…]
And the Department of the Media, which might in our Utopian Budget vanish altogether with defence, is firmly set on an inflationary course. [More…]
When someone asks: ‘What about defence? [More…]
’, they say, ‘Oh, yes, we will increase expenditure on defence’. [More…]
I regret that the Minister was not here to present this Bill himself because if he had done so the House would have been spared what I would describe as a rather graceless speech made by the then Acting Minister for Education, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
Minister for Defence, as Acting Minister for Education, should say: ‘It will be interesting to discover the attitude of the Opposition to this Bill ‘. [More…]
It is interesting to reflect that the Opposition spokesman for defence in this House some few months ago spoke of increased expenditure in the defence field if the Opposition parties were to come to government. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Minister for Education to a question asked by the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Hewson) of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) when he was Acting Minister for Education during the absence of the Minister. [More…]
I am also well aware of the enormous areas of land in Darwin occupied by the Department of Defence- by the Royal Australian Air Force, by the Army and by the Navy. [More…]
Defence Standards Laboratories Report AWTSC No. [More…]
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Defence Standards Laboratories Report AWTSC No. [More…]
Defence Standards Laboratories Report AWTSC No. [More…]
Defence Standards Laboratories Report AWTSC No. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1632) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency or exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
1 ) No exercises in civil defence preparedness have been conducted by the Department of Northern Development in the last 18 months. [More…]
No doubt the question of the form and frequency of exercises in civil defence preparedness will be raised at this meeting. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in the Department of Customs and Excise. [More…]
1 have asked the Committee of Reference for Defence Force Pay, which is considering Reserve Force pay and certain related matters, to include in its consideration an assessment of the effectiveness of tax exemption in terms of the attraction and retention of Reserve personnel. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) In October 1 97 1 in Brisbane I stated that the target for defence spending would not fall below the level set by the Liberal-Country Party in recent years which was 3.2 per cent to 3.5 per cent of the then Gross National Product. [More…]
It is difficult to compare defence expenditures in real terms because there is no price index entirely suitable for the task. [More…]
However using the Consumer Price Index it can be calculated that in December 1971 prices the 1973-74 Defence Outlay was 3.2 per cent less than the 1971-72 Defence Outlay. [More…]
The only valid comparison between 1 973-74 Defence Outlay and 1 974-75 Defence Outlay is between the two estimated outlays at the times of the respective budgets. [More…]
Again using the CP1 index, it is calculated that the 1974-75 estimated Defence Outlay in June 1973 prices, is 3.4 per cent greater than the 1973-74 estimated Defence Outlay. [More…]
Thus, as well can be judged, the 1974-75 Defence Outlay is equivalent in real terms to the 197 1-72 Defence Outlay. [More…]
It is estimated that Defence Expenditure for 1974-75 will be 2.77 per cent of Gross Domestic Product. [More…]
-The Chair is not in the position to know what the Minister for Defence wants to do. [More…]
The changes which were subsequently made by the Defence Service Homes Act 1973 were the most significant since the enactment of the original War Service Homes Act, which received the royal assent on Christmas day 1918. [More…]
This amendment will remove all discrimination in the Defence Service Homes Act against single persons, thus giving full recognition to the principle that defence service homes benefits are granted not only as a measure of repatriation, but also as a reward for service. [More…]
In conformity with this intention, the Act provides that the Director of Defence Service Homes shall not grant to any one person a loan in respect of more than one property, except with the approval of the Minister. [More…]
Under the existing provisions of the Act, when a purchaser or borrower sells his defence service home and discharges his liability, the amount received must be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund and is not available for allocation towards the building or purchase of another home. [More…]
While the Act empowers the Minister to approve the grant of assistance for another property, the loan must be provided from the annual appropriation of funds for defence service homes. [More…]
In general, approvals will be limited to cases where the applicant is compelled to move from his present defence service home through circumstances beyond his control. [More…]
At present the only leasehold interests on Norfolk Island which can be accepted under the Defence Service Homes Act are leases in perpetuity or leases for a term not less than 99 years. [More…]
In reviewing the interest rate to be charged on defence service homes loans, the Government noted that loans were being made to eligible persons such as widows, totally and permanently incapacitated pensioners, persons living on an age or invalid pension or small superannuation payment who ordinarily could not meet the obligations of home ownership except under the concessional conditions presently provided in the Act. [More…]
The defence service homes scheme has now been in operation for more than 55 years. [More…]
The provisions of this Bill will enable the valuable contribution made in past years by the defence service homes scheme to the housing of the Australian people to be maintained and improved upon. [More…]
The matters presently reserved to Australia are defence, foreign relations and certain matters specified by proclamation under the Papua New Guinea Act. [More…]
These paragraphs reserve to Australia the matters of defence and foreign relations. [More…]
Papua New Guinea has already introduced its defence legislation in the House of Assembly and when this has been enacted Australian defence legislation will need to be amended to enable the completion of the transfer of authority. [More…]
The exercise of responsibility by the Government of Papua New Guinea in the areas of defence and foreign relations until formal independence must be subject to Australia’s treaty obligations and responsibilities in international law and to the United Nations under the Charter and the Trusteeship Agreement. [More…]
-The provisions of this Bill are confined to increasing defence forces retirement benefits and defence forces retirement and death benefits to compensate, I suppose you would call it, for inflation. [More…]
There are 2 matters in which the Government is dragging its feet in the general area of defence forces retirement benefits. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard ) in replying to this debate to give the House a report of when he believes it will be possible to introduce the automatic adjustments. [More…]
That is, letters to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Incidentally, I do not believe that this is correct because I believe that the Minister knows a great deal about this scheme, particularly as he was a member of the Joint Select Committee on the Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Legislation. [More…]
But nevertheless it describes the feelings of this warrant officer after he had been in receipt of communications signed by the Minister for Defence or the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison). [More…]
We support the suggestion made to the Minister by that group and by the Regular Defence Forces Welfare Association that a new committee be constituted to make recommendations in relation to servicemen who retired prior to October 1972. [More…]
When the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) introduced the pension increases for defence force retirement benefit recipients 17 months ago he explained that those increases were an interim measure only and, in keeping with his promise, when he introduced the new Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill indicated that the increases would be automatic annual adjustments. [More…]
Yet the report indicates that on the basis of the old Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Fund the surplus of assets over liabilities is $3,065,000 in respect of pre-1959 pensioners, $11,828,000 in respect of pre-1959 contributors and a net deficiency of $544,000 in respect of post-1959 contributors and pensioners combined. [More…]
I will go even further and inform the Minister that, when we become the Government, that joint committee to investigate the anomalies existing now in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act will be formed immediately. [More…]
I am certain that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) is aware of that just as much as I am. [More…]
We had the spectacle of the then Minister for Defence coming into the House and saying: ‘We do not intend to introduce the legislation now to give effect to the recommendations of the Committee, but when we do make a decision- goodness only knows when that will be- we will make it retrospective to 1 October 1972’. [More…]
I accepted the statement of the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn) when he was Minister for Defence that the legislation should be made retrospective to 1 October 1972. [More…]
It is a defence if the person charged with an offence under the sub-clause proves that he had a reasonable excuse. [More…]
It is a defence if a person charged with an offence under sub-section (4) proves that he had a reasonable excuse relating to the availability of Australian short films for not complying with the requirement to which the offence relates. [More…]
It is a defence if a person charged with an offence under sub-section (4) proves that he had a reasonable excuse relating to the availability of Australian short films for not complying with the requirement to which the offence relates. [More…]
At present I understand this process is too expensive for the Department of Defence but there does seem to be an argument which can be advanced that if the drying of meat is the proper way to conserve meat this should be undertaken at this particular centre. [More…]
The honourable member for Bowman interjects but I want to say to the Minister at the table that he ought to be careful because we have seen what has happened to the Minister for Defence one day, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs the next day, the Treasurer the next day, and so on. [More…]
We have very great disturbances and discontent in the defence services of this country. [More…]
Some of the rumours that are from the defence Services are quite alarming. [More…]
We see our defence Services running downhill and the trade unions having a greater influence on Government decisions. [More…]
Under previous governments there have been 8 Ministers for Defence, 7 AttorneysGeneral, 8 Ministers for External Affairs, 9 Ministers for Civil Aviation, 7 Ministers for Shipping and Transport, 12 Ministers for Air, 7 VicePresidents of the Executive Council and 7 Ministers for Immigration. [More…]
The Bill authorises that borrowings be made for defence purposes so that, to the extent necessary, defence expenditures in the remaining months of the year can then be charged to the Loan Fund rather than the Consolidated Revenue Fund, thus avoiding a deficit in the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]
The Bill does not, I should stress, seek to authorise any additional expenditures; its purpose is simply to reallocate part of expenditures on defence services specified in the Appropriation Acts for 1974-75 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1632) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in the Department of Repatriation and Compensation. [More…]
This Fund was originally administered by the Department of Treasury, Defence Division, and in 1973 the balance was taken over by the Prisoners of War Trust Fund as indicated at ( 1 ). [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence: Is it a fact that Air Vice Marshal Hurditch, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, has tendered his resignation? [More…]
Can he say whether these further resignations of extremely valuable senior officers reflect the frustration and the intense dissatisfaction in the Services with the Government’s handling of defence matters and, in particular, its handling of the reorganisation of the defence group of departments? [More…]
When will the Minister wake up and recognise that we will have no defence forces left if this situation is allowed to continue? [More…]
-It is true that I received yesterday a minute from the Department of Defence indicating that Air Vice Marshal Hurditch was submitting his resignation. [More…]
He indicated that he had expressed some opposition to the reorganisation of the defence departments. [More…]
It would be unusual, of course, if there were not some officers and indeed some civilians within the Defence Department who did not express opposition to the reorganisation. [More…]
But the great majority of the personnel of the Defence Department- servicemen and civilians- have accepted the reorganisation. [More…]
As a result of the changes in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits legislation, an officer can now retire before what would have been his normal expiration of service and can receive his entitlement. [More…]
There have been a number of resignations over the years since the defence forces retirements benefits legislation was introduced. [More…]
Finally, I want to say to the honourable member for Barker, who is interjecting, that he is smarting from the announcement by the Leader of the Opposition of his Party’s decision in regard to defence spending. [More…]
The honourable member for Barker said during the debate on the Estimates that the Opposition would actually increase defence expenditure, yet the Leader of the Opposition said last week that there would be a cut in Government expenditure right across the board. [More…]
But the plain fact is that if the honourable member for Barker happened to become Minister for Defence, and I doubt that very much- even the members of his own Party are not satisfied with his performance in that respect- he would be faced with a drastic cut that would not only reduce defence expenditure but also would certainly bring about a spate of resignations that would alarm even the honourable member. [More…]
These new provisions will ensure that such persons will not lose the very real benefit of a defence service homes loan. [More…]
The Government also proposes to lift the upper limit of a war service loan or a defence service home loan from $12,000 to $15,000 and charge a higher rate of interest on the $3,000 increase. [More…]
In fact, the defence services homes mortgagor on the maximum loan is being subsidised by as much as 8V4 per cent on most of the advance and by 4% per cent on the balance, which I believe is a saving of about $1,000 a year when compared to most others in the community- perhaps to people buying a home through a bank of through a co-operative permanent building society. [More…]
The director of the Defence Service Homes Division noted in his annual report that the cost of building a house for the Division had increased by more than $5,000 in the last year. [More…]
We are suggesting, although it is not in the amendment, that the amount should be $18,000 and I am sure that the Government will end up doing that at some stage in the near future- and (b) all former members of the forces with an honourable discharge should be entitled to Defence Service Loans. [More…]
The Opposition also intends to extend the eligibility for war service home loans to all those ex-servicemen and women who served in the defence forces in World War II irrespective of whether they served in a theatre of war. [More…]
We hold the view that the Government altered the whole philosophy of the war service homes legislation when it introduced the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
I have also heard of others who have been refused a defence service home loan on grounds which I think are basically quite reasonable. [More…]
So the defence service homes section thought the case was a risk and the State Bank thought it was not a risk. [More…]
They find their income has diminished, they are near the age when they will become eligible to receive a pension, and they find it extremely difficult to get a second loan, certainly under the conditions that prevail under the defence service home loans scheme. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
to (4) The Department of Manufacturing Industry attaches considerable importance to civil defence preparedness, which is closely linked with the safety programmes and procedures of the Government factories operated by the Department Each establishment has developed plans to be put into effect in emergency situations. [More…]
Selected staff attend the civil defence training centre at Mt Macedon. [More…]
It is not practicable to separate civil defence from general safety exercises in the establishments. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Did paragraph 1 95 of the Report of the Defence Legal Services Committee of Review say that there is not even one lawyer in the Attorney-General’s Department or in any of the Defence Group of Departments who has specialised knowledge of the United States procurement law. [More…]
1 ) Paragraph 195 of the Report said: ‘So far as the Committee can ascertain there is not even one lawyer in the Attorney-General’s Department or in any of the Defence Group of Departments who has specialised knowledge of United States procurement law ‘. [More…]
There are officers in the Department of Defence and in the Attorney-General’s Department who are knowledgeable in United States procurement law. [More…]
Arrangements with the States for the provision of forecasts and warnings will be closely examined, as will arrangements for services to Australian Government departments including Transport, Defence and the Australian Post Office. [More…]
Such agencies include the Department of Transport, the Department of Defence, and the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I take it that the honourable gentleman is referring to the newspaper reports of a meeting early in March 1971 by my predecessor as Prime Minister and the Chief of the General Staff who accused the then Minister for Defence of being guilty of disloyalty to the Army. [More…]
Hansard records at the time that the Minister for Defence concerned said: ‘One sentence would have killed the report. [More…]
I am wondering whether the former Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Wannon, now finds such disloyalty tolerable or not to be endured. [More…]
Let us remember that the Opposition is proposing an 8 per cent cut in public expenditure at the same time as it is proposing to increase the level of defence expenditure. [More…]
The increase in defence expenditure which the Opposition is proposing indicates clearly an overall cut of 12 per cent in public expenditure excluding defence. [More…]
I know that the Defence Services are run down. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) took a BAC111 around the world. [More…]
In its inquiry the Committee took evidence from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, the Department of the Army, the Department of Defence, the Postmaster-General’s Department, the Department of Supply and the Department of Works. [More…]
Then there is the defence service homes initiative which we talked about last night. [More…]
At the same time it is proposing a substantial increase in defence expenditure, which means accepting defence expenditure as an increased expenditure item. [More…]
-The improved conditions relate largely to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
In addition, as the honourable member will know, since this Government accepted responsibility for defence it has initiated a number of reforms for serving members of the armed forces. [More…]
The Government has provided the benefits of the defence service homes legislation to all serving members of the forces. [More…]
One could list many areas in which this Government has accepted the responsibility that it acknowledged prior to becoming the Government for improving the conditions and pay and allowances of serving members of the forces so that we would be in a position to establish in this country a defence forcecomprising the Army, the Navy and the Air Force- on a volunteer basis. [More…]
the Commonwealth or a State, when made for purposes of defence; [More…]
The Treasurer’s logic is at fault, his interpretation is at fault, and his defence of the Government is culpable in the extreme. [More…]
This means that an average of more than 49 officers a month have voted with their feet against the defence policies of the Whitlam Government. [More…]
There is not one informed commentator who does not regard this massive loss as disastrous to the future defence of this country. [More…]
My second quotation is from Major Peter Young who, the House will remember, was a Labor candidate for the seat of Lowe, I think, in the 1969 election and the senior adviser to the present Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) when he was shadow Minister for Defence while in Opposition. [More…]
Yet all the Minister does is puff out his chest and talk about the generosity of the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits scheme as if the loss of all these officers- this experience, this expertise, this essential element in our capacity to expand in time of war- does not matter provided the Government has been generous to them in their premature retirement. [More…]
The Minister is the Minister for Defence. [More…]
There is not a shadow of doubt that his natural motivation, shared by most other officers, would lead him to continue to serve his country in the career to which he has devoted his life if he felt that any good purpose would be served, if he felt that the Government believed that defence mattered, if he felt that the Government gave defence any sort of priority and if he felt the Government had the slightest interest in instilling a sense of purpose in national defence. [More…]
There are many reasons associated with the Government’s neglect of defence which have led officers in all 3 Services to resign in such large numbers. [More…]
For the moment I want to say something about the reorganisation of the Defence group of departments, the dissatisfaction with which, as the Minister has admitted, played a large part in Air [More…]
I hasten to make the point that I do not know a single Service officer who is not in favour of the integration of the Defence group of departments. [More…]
It was refused, I am told, by a decision of the Prime Minister himself, who was more interested in giving an impression of activity on the part of the Government than in sound decisions in a matter vital to the defence of this country. [More…]
They were disposed to believe, as Denis Warner has put it, that here the no threat doctrine was being given a son of perpetual status, with the Public Service taking over the ultimate control of the defence forces. [More…]
Their fears were confirmed by the fact that the proposed reorganisation, in contrast to the United Kingdom, provided the Chief of the Defence Force Staff with very little staff backing in contrast to the large high powered machine the Secretary had behind him. [More…]
Their fears have been underlined by the fact that it has been virtually impossible for the Chiefs of Staff to gain access to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It was not necessary for the Government to abdicate its responsibility and thereby signify to the Services that under this Government decisions on defence matters by civil servants would be rubber-stamped by the Government. [More…]
The Government could have instituted a defence council comprising Ministers, the Chiefs of Staff and senior civil servants. [More…]
It could have provided that many of the senior positions in the Department of Defence would be filled by either civilians or servicemen, whoever was best qualified. [More…]
The shadow Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes), as he usually does in these debates has neglected to offer any suggestion about what he would do about reorganisation and about the conditions he says apply in the Services today. [More…]
There was nothing from the shadow Minister for Defence; he never had an idea. [More…]
I am satisfied from what he said that, apart from making some accusations against civilians in the Department of Defence- those who happen to be civilian public servants- and speaking in a detrimental way about them personally, he had nothing at all to suggest. [More…]
He has suggested that the council ought to comprise myself as the Minister, the Chief of Defence Force Staff, Sir Victor Smith, the Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Arthur Tange, and the 3 Chiefs of Staff. [More…]
But if he had read the report he would have seen that when referring to a defence council Sir Arthur Tange said: [More…]
I suggested to the Chiefs of Staff that a Council be established, presided over by the Minister for Defence, and having as members the Minister or Ministers Assisting the Minister for Defence, the Secretary of the Department, and the Chief of Defence Force Staff; the object being to provide the Minister with a system of collective policy advice and information and to facilitate the issuing by turn of policy directions to the Department. [More…]
If the shadow Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Barker, had read the report he would have seen that reference to a council in a statement made by Sir Arthur Tange. [More…]
As I have said, I regularly meet with the Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of the Department of Defence and the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. [More…]
After all, he was in great difficulty last week, having predicted an increase in defence expenditure. [More…]
But he has never said to what extent a government, in which the honourable member would expect to be the Minister for Defence, would increase defence expenditure. [More…]
No reference to any increase has been made by the shadow Minister for Defence. [More…]
He has not said by how much he would increase the $l,500m being spent on defence during 1974-75, nor has he compared the expenditure with the gross national product. [More…]
That across the board cut would obviously include expenditure on defence, because when he said that there would be a cut in government expenditure he indicated 3 areas that would receive priority. [More…]
So quite clearly from the statement made by the Leader of the Opposition, the Department of Defence would be included in any examination which was made for the purpose of reducing government expenditure. [More…]
When I made my statement on defence reorganisation on 19 December 1972 I announced 5 major objectives which this Government had to modify and improve in the form of defence administration which was bequeathed to us by our predecessors. [More…]
These objectives and the defects in defence administration to which they are related were developed further by Sir Arthur Tange in his report to the Government on defence re-organisation. [More…]
As honourable members will know, the Government adopted the Tange report progressively and in its entirety, and defence administration has since been developing progressively towards the final steps which can be taken when, as I plan, the amending defence legislation is introduced into the House early in the autumn session. [More…]
It is curious that the defects referred to by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, for example, and the measures it has proposed to correct the defects in most cases merely restate the Government’s objectives as announced in 1972 and the detailed translation of these in the Tange report into re-organisation activity and in the progressive implementation of its recommendations. [More…]
The task of reorganisation of a very large and complex activity such as Australian defence has necessarily been slow, particularly where considerations such as departmental structure and classification have to be submitted and approved by an external authority- the Australian Public Service Board. [More…]
In addition, the Government has amended the defence forces retirement benefit scheme to permit easier retirement from the Services after 20 years service and to provide adequate resources to establish defence personnel in second careers should they so wish. [More…]
I would like to turn now to the last part of the motion moved by the honourable member for Barker which relates to the implementation of defence policies which would remove the underlying cause of such resignations. [More…]
-The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has me completely confused. [More…]
He has made a number of contradictory statements regarding defence as it exists today in Australia. [More…]
He said, first of all, that the Government is not particularly perturbed about the number of officer resignations and that it is accepting what is happening because of a nothreat philosophy developed by the planners to suit what is going on in the defence field today; yet in a statement he issued on 27 November the Minister pointed out that the 3 Services were still seeking suitable recruits and that the Army required large numbers of fit young men for its expansion program. [More…]
He stated that there was a rehabilitation and reconstruction scheme, that the Defence Service Homes Bill had been passed, that there were certain repatriation benefits and that conditions, pay and allowances had been improved. [More…]
Service officers are now confronted with an improved Defence Forces Retirement Benefit scheme but at the same time there has been a healthy increase in the payment received on the job. [More…]
In the defence area the answer is fairly simple. [More…]
It is of no use for Government members to stand up in this House and voice platitudes about how much is being done in regard to the defence forces retirement benefits scheme and in regard to pay and allowances. [More…]
-The honourable member for Riverina (Mr Sullivan) who has just resumed his seat concluded his address by talking about platitudes in regard to the defence forces retirement benefits scheme and pay and allowances. [More…]
I can only say, as one who spends some time in defence establishments, that one of the matters that has been raised with the members of the Labor Party’s Defence Committee everywhere we have gone is appreciation by the members of all the Services of the very great improvements that have been made in Service pay and conditions under the present Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
In this matter of officer resignations we are suffering- experiencing might be a better word- the effects of the improved Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme. [More…]
Many officers and men who retired from the defence forces in former times suffered very severely from the niggardly attitude of the former Government. [More…]
The Royal Australian Air Force has participated in international and joint Service exercises over Darwin, the Queensland coast, and in Malaysia and Singapore where we are continuing to provide the main air defence capability to help our neighbours move towards their own defence capacity. [More…]
Over 5,500 troops, including 1,500 United States Marines, more than 50 aircraft from 4 nations, and 38 warships took part in this major landmark in the development of our defence expertise. [More…]
The Minister for Defence dealt with figures relating to the retirement of officers but I think it is important to look at the other side of the coin, enlistment to defence forces. [More…]
I mentioned before that the Minister for Defence had dealt with officers, but I think it is not inappropriate to mention other ranks in terms of re-engagement rates. [More…]
I hope that members of the Opposition, in bringing this matter forward, will not continue to try to exaggerate differences between civilian and military personnel in the re-organisation of the defence departments. [More…]
When the Minister introduced the Tange report on the reorganisation of the defence group of departments in December 1973, the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) said that it was the logical extension of the process that started when the Morshead Committee report was brought down. [More…]
Inevitably in a range of departments as complex and important as Defence changes will take some time. [More…]
I give him credit for the progress that has been made and I commend the personnel in the defence departments- not only the civilian personnel but also the military personnelfor the loyal way in which the overwhelming majority of these people have accepted the proposed re-organisation of the Defence Department as a good thing. [More…]
With something as important and as complex as defence it is inevitable that some of these problems will occur. [More…]
But nothing is to be gained by trying to divide civilian personnel and military personnel in the defence forces. [More…]
The honourable member for Barker, speaking in his capacity as defence spokesman and representing the Opposition, welcomed this re-organisation. [More…]
I take great exception to the fact that other people- I am not suggesting that either of the Opposition honourable members who has spoken today has this motive in mind- are trying to divide the civilian and military defence personnel on the basis of dissatisfactions that have been expressed. [More…]
I have every confidence in the way the Minister for Defence is handling these difficult matters. [More…]
We live in fairly difficult times, but the recruitment rate and the rate of retention of our forces indicates that the future of our defence forces is assured. [More…]
-Pursuant to section 16(2) of the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1 973- 1 974, 1 present the second report of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority dealing with the General administration and working of the Act for the year ended 30 June 1974. [More…]
Pursuant to section 14 (2) of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1 948- 1 973, 1 present the second report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board dealing with the administration of part III of the Act for the period I July 1973 to 30 June 1974. [More…]
Has any one of these honourable members ever spoken in this Parliament in defence of his own electorate’s industries; in defence of his own people; in defence of employment, of job opportunities for the average Australian? [More…]
Was he referring to one of the other members I have mentioned who had been speaking of defence of employment and of Australian industry which is being destroyed by the policies of this Government? [More…]
There is no need to defend the Government in this position because the Government’s actions do not need defence. [More…]
This means that we are transferring two most important reserve powers to Papua New Guinea, namely, the power over defence matters and the power over foreign affairs. [More…]
If that is the case, I should have thought that, if not the Minister for Science, at least the man who ran away from the responsibility of answering for both the administration of defence services in Papua New Guinea and more importantly the arrangements between Australia and Papua New Guinea in a postindependence scene ought to have been prepared to tell us in this Parliament what the arrangements will be either after this Bill is passed and in due course is proclaimed or after independence what the relations between Australia and Papua New Guinea will be in the defence sphere. [More…]
It is important because after this piece of legislation apart from, as I understand it, certain Australian defence legislation that applies equally to Papua New Guinea and will have to be eradicated so that it applies only to Australia, there will be an independence Bill and the final obliteration of the remnants of the Papua New Guinea Act which is being amended by this Bill, and little else. [More…]
The second and most important aspect is that on which I touched earlier concerning the question of our defence forces and the relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In clause 3 of this Bill Australia proposes to transfer the power over foreign relations and defence to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
These powers will cease to be reserve powers to Australia- reserve in the sense that when Papua New Guinea achieved self government on 1 December 1973 certain powers remained with the metropolitan powerAustralia namely, defence, foreign affairs, the supreme court and certain other stated matters. [More…]
I put it to the House that other than the 5 pages of the statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) on 24 October, we have heard virtually nothing from this Government in regard to defence arrangements between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It tells us that the Papua New Guinea defence force will have a strength of 3,500 uniformed servicemen, with 2 infantry battalions, an engineers company, a patrol boat squadron and a landing craft squadron. [More…]
There can be no question that ultimate responsibility Tor the defence of Papua New Guinea will lie with Australia until the trusteeship agreement is terminated. [More…]
So, it matters not that the Minister for Defence says: . [More…]
ultimate responsibility for the defence of Papua New Guinea will lie with Australia until the Trusteeship Agreement is terminated. [More…]
It has 650 Australian servicemen at present serving within the ambit and control of the Papua New Guinea defence force, as I understand it. [More…]
-My figure is as at the date the Minister for Defence produced his statement. [More…]
If the Minister for Science has any doubts about the capacity of the Minister for Defence to put the proper information, those doubts are shared by me. [More…]
But how many of these men will be integrated within the Papua New Guinea defence force? [More…]
How many will be under the direct control and order of the Papua New Guinea defence force itself? [More…]
The remaining 423 persons will be playing a role along the guidelines produced by the Minister for Defence in Papua New Guinea, Mr Albert Maori Kiki, if there is any need to bring out the Papua New Guinea defence force in support of the police- in other words, in support of the civil power or to put down any form of uprising. [More…]
But the Minister for Defence in Papua New Guinea- as the honourable member for Boothby reminds me by saying that it is a possibility- has put down guidelines as to the circumstances in which servicemen could be used. [More…]
Is it $25m or $28m for defence alone? [More…]
But I have no advice from the Minister for Defence. [More…]
But I would like him to send me more than a speech which he made in Parliament on 24 October because I believe that many Australian are concerned about the way in which our defence arrangements are being carried out in this country, let alone in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I simply say that the same degree of what has been termed delinquency in defence which has occurred in Australia applies as an accurate assessment of the defence relationship between Papua New Guinea and Australia. [More…]
The single exception is the deletion from the principal Act of the reserve power over defence and foreign affairs. [More…]
The caveat which I inject on the latter 2 matters, defence and foreign affairs, is not that I believe that they ought not be transferred. [More…]
When the Government introduces legislation providing for the areas of defence and foreign affairs to be withdrawn from the Papua New Guinea Act in order that Papua New Guinea can rightly introduce its own legislation- I understand that it has a defence Bill before the House of Assembly now- the Minister ought to tell us what the Government is doing about foreign relations between Australia and Papua New Guinea, not only in the lead up to independence but also in the post-independence period when these matters will be beyond our control. [More…]
Also the Minister ought to tell us what the role, the size, the structure and the cost of defence arrangements between Australia and Papua New Guinea will be. [More…]
The attitude they have is consistent with their viewpoints on defence and their involvement with other countries. [More…]
If I make no point other than that, I ask that, prior to legislation coming into this Parliament, the Minister at the table, who is the Minister Assisting the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Matters Relating to Papua New Guinea, advise the Minister for Defence that I expect when he brings in Bills amending Australian legislation applying in the defence area, which also extends into Papua New Guinea, that he will let us know that he has completed discussions or that he has entered into arrangements. [More…]
I am not talking about a specific defence agreement, which the Minister has already ruled out. [More…]
What is to be our defence association? [More…]
As with defence so too with your country generally. [More…]
At the very moment we are talking here the Papua New Guinea defence legislation is before the House of Assembly. [More…]
I think it was only this morning that the House of Assembly in Papua New Guinea was discussing one of the chapters of the Constitutional Planning Committee’s Report which also deals with defence. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea House of Assembly- not just the Government but the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly- is giving very detailed and very thoughtful consideration to how it sees defence relations between Australia and Papua New Guinea, how it sees the defence of Papua New Guinea- the defence forces, the structure and the role of the defence forces of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In taking over this portfolio and in co-operation and discussions with the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), we had to make some very drasticchanges in the thinking that was prevalent In our relations with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
One of the basic concepts and attitudes that we had to change was the view that was held that Papua New Guinea’s defence forces- the indigenous platoons and companies, the Pacific Island Regiment- were in fact a part of the Australian defence structure. [More…]
The Government moved very rapidly and in January 1973, just a month after it took office, renamed the composite group the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. [More…]
The quotation I just read was from the decommissioning of HMAS ‘Tarangau’ and its recommissioning as the Papua New Guinea Defence Force Patrol Boat Base. [More…]
We have now reached the situation in Australia where there is no longer the old attitude that the Papua New Guinea Defence Force was an integral part of the Australian Armed Forces. [More…]
We sought the best and most effective ways possible of building up the police so that they and not the defence forces would play this role- I think it is a role that the police must play in any democracy- of the control of the internal security situation. [More…]
In doing this perhaps the Government has passed on its philosophies and concepts to the Papua New Guinea Government which it has applied in developing its concepts and attitudes towards the role of a defence force in a democratic country. [More…]
I am sorry that the honourable member for Kooyong should have denigrated the views expressed by my colleague, the Minister for Defence, in his statement. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Kooyong is aware of the statement made in August 1973 by Mr Maori Kiki, who is now the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence, Foreign Relations and Trade, when he said that the Papua New Guinea Government has repeatedly stressed its view that the Papua New Guinea Defence Force should be used as a last resort for the maintenance of internal security. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea defence legislation is now before the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. [More…]
The net result is that the Government transfers the money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund into the Defence Trust Account so there is no surplus to be distributed. [More…]
On this occasion, rather than there being a surplus out of which money comes from the Consolidated Revenue Fund into the Defence Trust Account, the Consolidated Revenue Fund will be in deficit very substantially. [More…]
According to the second reading speech of the Treasurer the purpose of the Bill is to allow all the defence expenditure from 1 January 1975- that is for half the financial year- to be funded out of the Defence Trust Account. [More…]
The Parliament passed legislation to appropriate money for defence of the order of, for simplicity, $ 1,500m. [More…]
Half of that amount- the amount that accumulates from 1 January 1975- is to be spent out of the Defence Trust Account; so there will be the incredible situation of half the total spending on defence coming out of the Trust Account. [More…]
The money will come out of the Defence Trust Account but sooner or later it has to be put back. [More…]
Then there can be further internal manipulations to try to bring the Defence Trust Account into balance also. [More…]
Pursuant to section 50B (3) of the Defence Service Homes Act 1 9 1 8- 1 973 I present the annual report of the Director of Defence Service Homes for the year ended 30 June 1974, together with financial statements and the report of the AuditorGeneral on those statements. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Does he know that the plans for the Australian defence forces made by his Government will permit only token resistance within that time if Australia should face a threat in isolation? [More…]
Finally, will he employ this parliamentary recess to prepare a proper defence plan for Australia to give us protection over that short term so that when the House meets on 1 1 [More…]
The statement made by the British Minister for Defence clearly outlined the decision of the Defence Department of the United Kingdom in relation to its commitments east of Suez. [More…]
At the same time the United Kingdom Minister for Defence made it quite clear that his country would continue to co-operate with Australia and New Zealand and the other countries which are parties to the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
You have ruined the defence forces of this country. [More…]
The Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr. J. F. Cairns) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) were there. [More…]
If the proposed takeover is judged to be not against the national interest on this basis, the following additional criteria will also be taken into account: Whether, after the takeover, the firm concerned could be expected to follow practices consistent with Australia’s interest in matters such as exports, imports, local processing materials produced, research and development and industrial relations, including employee protection; and whether the takeover would have adverse consequences in terms of the Government’s objective for defence, environmental protection or regional development. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
548 (Hansard 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of a mobile van for use by service groups catering for shows and sporting, civil defence and other functions submitted by the Dumbleyung Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that former members of the Armed Forces, now on the Retired List, have been included in the Defence Reserve. [More…]
Strengths of Defence Reserves at September 1974 are set out below: [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises of Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 18 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) and (2) There are no records within the Department of Defence of any requests from voluntary organisations for financial assistance to establish or maintain a federal headquarters. [More…]
Defence disciplinary code- tabled in Parliament on 2 April 1974(Hansard,p.815) [More…]
Will he arrange for statistics to be extracted which will reveal the reasons for the high withdrawal rate of applications for loans under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
No statistics are kept showing the reasons why applications for loans under the Defence Service Homes Act are withdrawn and the compilation of the details requested by the honourable member would require an examination of several thousand individual case files. [More…]
Defence Service Homes Scheme [More…]
One of the special features of the provision of homes under the Defence Service Homes Scheme is the purchase and development of land in broad acres for group housing estates. [More…]
Upon the Labor Government taking office in December 1972, special action was taken to increase the stock of land to meet the demand for land and homes under the Defence Service Homes group housing scheme. [More…]
In all there are now more than 40 Defence Service Homes Estates in various stages of development. [More…]
In addition to the lower land cost, reductions are effected ‘ by the practice of calling tenders and letting contracts for the construction of groups of dwellings within Defence Service Homes estates, thereby obtaining the benefits of economies of scale. [More…]
There has been a big increase in applications for the allocation of a group home or an allotment of land in a Defence Service Homes estate and this reflects the significance of the cost reductions that are being achieved through the group housing program. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 18 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
to (4) No exercises in Civil Defence preparedness have been carried out at Operational Headquarters. [More…]
At that time, however, it appeared likely that we would be vacating our present premises and no further action regarding civil defence exercises was taken at that stage. [More…]
Superannuation Bill 1970: Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill (No. [More…]
Defence Forces Retirement Benefits ( No. [More…]
Mr D. D. Wood; Department of Defence [More…]
D. Wood- Department of Defence [More…]
Mr D. D. Wood Department of Defence [More…]
There is a Minister failed, the honourable member for Bass (Mr Barnard), the Minister for Defence who was formerly the Deputy Prime [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), the honourable member for Bass, who has a very large textile firm- Patons and Baldwins (Australia) Ltd- in his electorate, said anything to the Minister for Labor complaining about the notice the Minister has served on the 3 industries I have mentioned? [More…]
Disasters Organisation received from the Northern Territory Emergency Services Organisation in Darwin and which included representatives of private and Government interests, the Northern Territory police, the Australian Defence Services and community organisations. [More…]
A handful of officers representing my Department and the Departments of Defence, Manufacturing Industry, and Housing and Construction ensured the continued coordination of transport of goods and personnel in the most effective and efficient way. [More…]
I want to make clear our view in regard to the Indian Ocean- an area which presents the greatest possibility of instability in terms of the defence and security of this country. [More…]
ANZUS has always represented more than a defence alliance. [More…]
This is the essence of the Guam doctrine which must be taken into account in Australia’s defence and foreign policy. [More…]
Diego Garcia and the North- West Cape station are regarded by the United States as complementary and as links in their global defence system. [More…]
I remind the House that the Germans are very active and committed and dedicated members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and that is part of the Western defence system. [More…]
They have run down our defence forces to such an extent that we are more dependent on other countries than we have been before. [More…]
We will again tie certain concepts of defence planning to our strategic assessments. [More…]
The Government has utterly failed to develop any sort of coherent and effective defence policy. [More…]
If this Government had in fact deliberately set out to destroy Australia’s defence capabilities it could hardly have done a more efficient job. [More…]
We are spending less of our gross national product on defence in real terms than at any time in the last decade or more. [More…]
He saw the Deputy Secretary of Treasury; the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs (Treasury); the Acting Secretary of State; the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; the Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs; Representative Pierre Dupont, member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Dr Wade, Deputy Assistant Secretary of International Security Affairs, Department of Defence; and William Clements, Acting Secretary of Defence. [More…]
I would like to thank the men and women of the Northern Territory Police Force as well as the civil defence workers who went out during the cyclone and again afterwards consoling the shocked, getting medical attention to the injured and comforting the bereaved; the men and women of the Darwin medical, paramedical and nursing professions and ambulance service who displayed at all times the highest dedication to duty, great compassion and efficiency in bringing kindly assistance to the injured and the sick; the men and women who worked at getting the public utilities such as water and electricity operating whenever possible, cleared the roads to allow the entry of rescue vehicles, checked homes for the trapped, the injured and the dead, organised themselves into working parties, helped in the distribution of food and necessary supplies, such as medicine, and helped to organise evacuation; members of the religious profession who gave spiritual comfort; the airport and airline personnel who cleared the airport and rigged emergency flare paths. [More…]
The men and women of the defence servicesthe Navy, the Army and the Air Forcewho whether on duty or off duty responded bravely to the crisis and displayed outstanding heroism in bringing practical assistance to their fellow Darwin citizens. [More…]
I would also like to mention the defence services. [More…]
We know that it is the view of many people that the locations of the airport and the defence establishments leave a lot to be desired. [More…]
The target dates set for clearing main roads and clearing building allotments were beaten primarily because of assistance from the Defence Services. [More…]
Many cars were in bad condition with badly worn tyres and so forth when they arrived in Port Augusta and the evacuees were able to receive a great deal of assistance from the Port Augusta civil defence organisation backed up by the local community. [More…]
The enormous amount of physical work and planning by my colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), deserves very special mention. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Copies of press releases issued by the Defence Minister are distributed by hand to the Press Gallery from the Defence Minister’s office, by distribution from the Ministerial Document Reproduction Unit, by publication in the Australian Government Digest, and by mail to interested organisations and individuals. [More…]
There is a list of people who regularly receive copies of the Defence Minister’s press statements and this list is constantly changed. [More…]
Part of the cost of producing and distributing press releases for the Defence Minister is included in costs relating to salaries and administration of the Depanment. [More…]
The Depanment of Defence has advised that all wanarn officers and commissioned officers travel first class by air. [More…]
Other members of the Defence Force generally travel economy class though there are some exceptions for certain female and junior categories. [More…]
The Depanment of Defence has advised that in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada extensive use is made of service passenger aircraft. [More…]
The Depanment of Defence has advised that the estimated cost of air travel for Servicemen in 1973-74 was $8. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 18 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Depanment. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 1 8 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
to (4) Exercises in civil defence preparedness have been conducted in some offices and buildings occupied by the Department of Services and Property in 3 states as listed hereunder: [More…]
By way of preface, I express the appreciation of the people of Hobart for the speedy way in which the Government committed itself to reimbursing Tasmania for the cost associated with repairing the bridge, the upgrading of what is now the shortest route and the provision of defence services so early in the piece. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has approved the provision, through the Army, of sufficient Bailey bridge material to allow construction of a temporary bridge upstream from the existing vehicle punt to carry essential commercial vehicles. [More…]
On 3 December the honourable gentleman and I were interviewed by Mr Bill Keyes of the Returned Services League about, in particular, defence service homes matters. [More…]
For example, the Minister at the table at present is the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
We thought that the New South Wales Government would renew the lease, particularly in the light of the fact that we have defence powers and could acquire the land at any time. [More…]
But no; Mr Lewis, as Minister for Lands, took the bullying approach that this matter was negotiable and that the future of the Sydney Harbour foreshores depended on whether he signed the lease over to the Australian Government for defence purposes. [More…]
Clause 12 is also needed to ensure the effective transfer to Public Service Act employment, as part of the defence re-organisation, of staff presently employed under the Supply and Development Act and the Naval Defence Act. [More…]
It takes over the responsibilities of the Director of Defence Service Homes, which will be continued without diminution. [More…]
The Corporation will have powers similar to those at present contained in the Defence Service Homes Act, including the powers of construction. [More…]
It will be able to provide housing assistance to persons other than eligible exservicemen, much in the same way as homes are provided to ex-servicemen under the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
The Bill provides for the corporation to operate the defence service homes scheme from the date the Act comes into operation, so that it will have a large revolving fund. [More…]
The capital of the Corporation will consist of assets taken over from the Director of Defence Service Homes, together with any amounts paid to it by the Treasurer out of moneys appropriated by Parliament for its purposes. [More…]
What is the defence? [More…]
It is a defence to a prosecution - [More…]
Under this provision, it would be a defence to a prosecution that when I made the offer, promise or gift the date of polling had not been fixed. [More…]
The defence would have to be made. [More…]
One defence of the Bill is specious. [More…]
If a wife is deserted and defends her right to maintenance she will pay for that defence. [More…]
Violence is being done to democracy and the Premiers of those free States are the last line of defence. [More…]
True, we have moved apart from Britain in other ways: but our leaning to America on defence, to Asia in trade, has been dictated ostensibly by economic and strategic pressures. [More…]
It seems to me quite paradoxial indeed that the Prime Minister and members of the Governmentwho have asserted their independence of the United Kingdom, who have suggested that in some way we on this side of the House were acting against the best interests of the Australian community in maintaining defence ties and close and meaningful ties in so many other forms with the United Kingdom and with other countries of the Western world, and who have denied the right and the meaningfulness of those associationsshould introduce into this Parliament and seek our approval of a piece of legislation which is so reminiscent of the days of the complete colonial subservience of this country to the Government of Westminster. [More…]
The Departments of Customs and Excise, Defence, my own Department, and the Department of the Northern Territory, as well as the Governments of Western Australia and Queensland, actively participate in the operation of this scheme. [More…]
Naturally, the National Disasters Organisation has been in direct contact with the State Emergency Service centre in Western Australia and the Department of Defence, as in the case of Darwin with cyclone Tracy. [More…]
The Natural Disasters Organisation has indicated that whatever assistance is required from the defence forces will be made available. [More…]
Then he resorted to the ploy of a man whose defence is weak and he said that I should check my facts by talking to his Department. [More…]
-Yes, the Department of Defence has recalled from the cadet corps units throughout Australia the .303 rifles. [More…]
Indonesian Defence Ministry officials today dismissed as totally untrue Australian newspaper reports that Indonesia planned to invade Portuguese Timor within the next few weeks. [More…]
An official in the Defence Ministry said in reply to a question that the reports were false and totally without foundation. [More…]
In this debate, notwithstanding some emphatic denials from the Indonesian defence authorities, the Opposition’s argument is based on newspaper reports. [More…]
Mr Horta and the Opposition Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee also had discussions but I would not like members of the Opposition to create the impression that Mr Horta discussed these matters only with them. [More…]
The Natural Disasters Organisation and the Defence Force, the Departments of the Northern Territory, Housing and Construction, Social Security, Manufacturing Industry, and elements of other departments all contributed to the relief operations. [More…]
There were very significant contributions by the Defence Force, repair gangs whose equipment included equipment lent by various State authorities and the trade unions’ Darwin volunteer aid program. [More…]
An amount of $19.5m is being provided for the purchase for defence purposes of the Leyland site at Waterloo in Sydney. [More…]
I think it is a reflection on the present state of the Opposition that the honourable member for Fisher (Mr Adermann), the new shadow Minister from the Australian Country Party, has to come to the defence of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden). [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In 1943 Cabinet took a decision, at the request of the Defence Committee, to establish a chemical warfare field experimental station at Proserpine in Queensland. [More…]
It so happened that it was on 15 January 1975, a long time ago now- I again, unfortunately, have to reveal this and it will help Mr Stonehouse to know it, but it would not have had to be revealed today if it were not for the action taken by the Opposition in this matter; however I am not going to be made by my silence to appear to be hiding something or to be sheltering Mr Stonehouse when I am not- that directions, and I can now say this in my own defence, were issued to my Department that immediately Mr Stonehouse ceased to be a member of Parliament he was to be given 3 days to get out of the country voluntarily and if he did not leave the country within 72 hours of his ceasing to be a member of Parliament he would be deported. [More…]
I point out here that the AttorneyGeneral’s first line of defence, if I might say so, was that we should not take these words too seriously. [More…]
That really is not a good enough defence. [More…]
I would like to thank the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) for his spirited defence of me and other honourable members. [More…]
Quite clearly- I might well do this- if I asked every Minister who is in charge of expenditure programs whether program cuts would occur in his area of responsibility I am sure I would get the same reply as that spirited defence that came from the Minister for Urban and Regional Development, because obviously the Government does not have any intention of curbing expenditure. [More…]
Protective measures to be taken by our Forces will be kept under study so that all possible design developments can be incorporated in our defence systems to meet any future threat. [More…]
The only alternative would be to savagely prune other government expenditure, for example, education, social welfare, defence or development [More…]
Therefore, even to add all education spending ($l,535m) plus all defence spending ($ 1,500m) would not pay Labor’s health services bill. [More…]
With new methods and cheap land now held in stock by the defence service homes scheme the Corporation will hope to offer lower priced homes than are now available. [More…]
All it has mentioned is that the defence service homes loan funds are to be transferred to the Corporation. [More…]
Equally, what right has the Government to use land already purchased for defence forces homes for other purposes? [More…]
Quite apart from the initial $25m and the Defence Service home loan funds, vast sums of public moneys will be required to finance the project around the Commonwealth. [More…]
Quite apart from the initial $25m and the defence services homes loan funds it will use, vast sums of public money will be required to finance the project around all the States and the Territories. [More…]
I have heard again around some of the Returned Services League Clubs in Brisbane the story of the fear that is injected into the minds of people about how this legislation spells doom for the defence service homes organisation, suggesting to ex-servicemen that the Labor Government is not really interested in giving them homes under the favourable conditions which had been available in the past and that this, as has been described, is the thin end of the wedge as far as ex-servicemen are concerned; that before long defence service homes, as ex-servicemen know them today, will no longer exist. [More…]
The fact is that the defence service homes scheme has expanded under this Government. [More…]
We have changed the whole philosophy and righly so because we have enabled people who were previously discriminated against, men and women who have served their country well, to come within the provisions of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
We have lifted expenditure on defence service homes from about $70m when we came into office to approximately $ 1 30m at the present time. [More…]
I am confident that the good officers who are currently operating in various sections of the Department of Housing and Construction- I know some of them associated with the defence service homes in Queensland- will be involved in the implementation of many of these important policy aspects under the new Corporation once this legislation is passed. [More…]
This, of course, presumes we have left aside Territories and defence aspects. [More…]
It retains the identity of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
It is true that the defence service homes scheme will move into the Australian Housing Corporation but it will not disappear as an identity. [More…]
The Australian Housing Corporation in fact will operate together with the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
It will use the momentum and the experience of the defence service homes scheme, already extended and expanded under this Government, to cover returned personnel who were not covered previously. [More…]
But the defence service homes scheme will be retained as a separate unit within the Corporation. [More…]
It may be an administrative one which would gather under its umbrella all the housing areas which are at present administered by the Commonwealth Government, such as housing for Aborigines, certain immigration procedures and defence service homes. [More…]
Will the Minister make a distinction in the rate of funds which are returned according to whether they are defence service home funds or funds utilised for the other purposes for which the Corporation, under this Bill, when and if it becomes an Act, would become an administrative organisation. [More…]
That is, with regard to territories, defence Services, defence forces and other things. [More…]
I have already pointed out that the Australian Housing Corporation will become responsible for those activities which are presently being carried out under the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
The administrative and technical expertise in the field of direct lending which the Corporation will possess as a result of employing the staff who have operated the defence service homes scheme will make it easy for the Corporation to develop procedures for making loans to home-seekers for whom the Australian Government has constitutional responsibility. [More…]
Because of this, the individuals, beyond those eligible under the defence service homes scheme, to whom the Corporation could be empowered to make direct loans would necessarily be selected with great care. [More…]
for the purpose of the provision of housing for members and former members of the Defence Force and for other persons who have participated in the defence of Australia; [More…]
The Bill we are discussing is another example of the Government’s bringing to itself power to deal with certain people in the community- and that is what has happened- while we abrogate our responsibility to deal with foreign affairs, immigration, defence- all the matters for which we have specific responsibility, about which I feel very concerned and on which I rarely have an opportunity to speak. [More…]
It could still pursue all its objectives in the field of providing finance under the Defence Service Homes Act, for homes for pensioners, for homes for Aborigines and for public servants and others for whom the Government may legislate under its constitutional powers. [More…]
There are state regulations in respect of self defence. [More…]
I maintain in principle that the state will do well to leave people to manage their own domestic affairs, intervening as an umpire mainly in defence of other interests or of individual members if the association abuses its powers. [More…]
This censure motion is a defence of the Parliament itself. [More…]
Some of us, myself included, have experienced the power which the Parliament can wield in its own defence, but all of us who have transgressed against the Standing Orders and the dignity and decorum of the House have been dealt with as required by the rules, the customs and the traditions of the Parliament. [More…]
To quote from an editorial in the ‘Canberra Times’ of last Friday, this action by the Government ‘left the Parliament impotent to act in defence of its privilege’. [More…]
There is no departure, of course, from our intention to see Darwin develop as a great city in the north which will meet our defence requirements, and which will represent a port for the agricultural and mineral resources of that region. [More…]
I remind the Minister- he might check with his officers in this respect- that one of the great problems with the War Service Homes Act for many years and in the Defence Services Homes Act has been the desire by many people to obtain a loan or an advance for the purpose of buying out an existing loan or advance. [More…]
Under this provision, how does the Minister apply what he proposes in respect of this Bill to the requirements of the Defence Service Homes Act? [More…]
To what extent will this provision negative and cut across the provisions of the Defence Service Homes Act which in some respects is in direct contradiction to the provision which he proposed to insert in the Bill. [More…]
I hope the Minister will give us an explanation of the situation in which a person, who has bought a home but did not take advantage of the war service finance that he could have obtained in the past, because of changing circumstances or pressing exigencies due to health or change of employment desires to obtain a defence force homes loan to pay out his existing home loan. [More…]
We want to know from the Minister whether the type of situation in which that person sought to obtain a defence force homes loan at the cheaper interest rate of 4V4 per cent to repay that original loan is covered in the legislation. [More…]
However, I have been asked to give an assurance about how this legislation will affect the provisions that at present prevail in regard to the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
The Defence Service Homes Act remains intact in every shape and form. [More…]
for the purpose of the provision of housing for members and former members of the Defence Force and for other persons who have participated in the defence of Australia; [More…]
In sub-clause (2) (b), after ‘dwellings’ insert ‘in accordance with the requirements of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918-1975;’ [More…]
However the Corporation would be able to build dwellings for Commonwealth employees, migrants, students, those who are in receipt of family allowances for these purposes and those who are also in receipt of advances or loans from the Director of Defence Service Homes. [More…]
I know that the Director of the Defence Service Homes has that capacity in a number of sections of the Defence Service Homes Act under which he operates, namely, sections 17, 18, and so on. [More…]
The honourable gentleman seems to be seeking to draw some distinction between the Defence Service Homes activity in this area and other activities. [More…]
I certainly hope he is not trying to disparage or discourage the very beneficial work that has been undertaken by the Defence Service Homes Corporation in the provision of project homes and the development of estates which has brought very great benefit to people. [More…]
The sub-clause then states that the Corporation may perform its functions in a territory; for the purpose of the provision of housing for members and former members of the defence force; by way of, or as incidental to, the provision of family allowances- that is the matter about which the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson) had a small altercation a moment ago- for the purpose of the provision of housing for the Aboriginal people of Australia, immigrants to Australia persons employed in or by departments or authorities of Australia and persons engaged in work for Australia or any authority of Australia. [More…]
In fact if one looks at the financing of this Bil at the moment one sees that no funds are available to it other than those funds that are available for defence, service homes. [More…]
He tries to say: Do not believe that we are cutting down on our defence service homes obligations He tries to say, as he has said in his Press statements, that we must accept that the Corporation Will make second mortgage loans to cover deposit gaps, that it will provide special hardship assistance to home buyers temporarily out of work, that it wil make loans for private enterprise buildings and so on and that it Will lend to co-operative building societies. [More…]
Upon its establishment the Corporation will administer the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
Personnel administering the defence service homes scheme will bring to the Corporation experience and momentum gained over more than a half a century. [More…]
There are approximately 186 000 homes subject to existing loans under the defence service homes scheme, with loan balances outstanding in the vicinity of $ 1 billion. [More…]
With an annual budget in excess of $100m the defence service homes scheme will constitute a stable and substantial part of the Corporation’s activities for many years to come. [More…]
In many respects the Australian Housing Corporation Bill is an emulation of the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
As is the case with the Defence Service Homes Act, it is necessary to prescribe ancillary powers to enable this primary function to proceed- for example, power to purchase or take on or hire and dispose of plant, machinery, equipment or other goods; to enter into contracts; to erect buildings or to demolish buildings; to set out, construct and maintain roads; to make accessible and transfer land in an area being developed for housing, for use as a park or recreation; to sell or lease land, to charge interest; to take mortgages; to make charges for work and so on. [More…]
Even in the context of the defence service homes scheme, which principally exercises its function by lending at extremely low rates of interest, these powers are available and utilised. [More…]
It is particularly important to clarify the position of the defence service homes scheme because this has been subject to some misunderstanding. [More…]
The Corporation builds upon the foundation of defence service homes. [More…]
Since coming into office the Government has amended the Defence Service Homes Act on 2 occasions and has extended the nature and scope of the scheme. [More…]
In effect, therefore, the Corporation will be providing housing assistance to new groups in the community on lines similar in many respects to those under the Defence Service Homes Act for servicemen and ex-servicemen. [More…]
Under the Defence Service Homes Act the Director is required to pay all money he receives into the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]
I stress that these staff are already in existence and are attached largely to the Defence Services Homes Division ofthe Department of Housing and Construction. [More…]
I point out that the defence service homes administrative costs have always been carried by the Government as a benefit to ex-servicemen. [More…]
I suggest that as the capital of the Corporation is derived from 2 sources- it is derived in one sense from the surpluses or from an amount contributed to it for the administration of defence service homes or the old war service homes- a rate of interest be chargeable by the Treasurer in accordance with the rate of interest which is charged to borrowers under the old War Service Homes Act and under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
When capital is contributed to the Corporation from such sources, a differential rate of interest ought to be charged on the capital utilised for the purposes of administering defence service homes. [More…]
Also I place on record my deep appreciation of the Federal Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
The Department of Defence came rapidly to the rescue. [More…]
A helicopter service was provided by the Department of Defence to enable ambulance cases to be flown across the river. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Defence will be introducing a Bill to establish a Defence Force Ombudsman and the Australian Ombudsman is not authorised to investigate matters within the jurisdiction of the Defence Force Ombudsman. [More…]
Such a refusal must be backed by the certificate of a Minister furnished to the Ombudsman certifying that the disclosure of information concerning a specified matter would be contrary to the public interest because it would prejudice the security, defence or international relations of Australia, relations between the Australian Government and the government of a State, or that it would involve the disclosure of deliberations or decisions of the Cabinet or of a committee of the Cabinet, or that it would involve the disclosure of deliberations of the Administrator’s Council of the Northern Territory. [More…]
I do not know how people can stand up in defence of the present system and say that it is a good rail system and something of” which we ought to be proud. [More…]
The railways, being a service industry, have opened up previously inaccessible lands and resources, extended the area of pastoral holdings, are part of our defence system and have made mining an economic proposition. [More…]
How these men of yesteryear would despair at the attitude being taken today on this very issue, at the resistance being shown to the introduction of some form of standardisation and improvement in rail services for passenger, trade and defence purposes by placing the responsibility for those rail services with the main taxing authority, the national Government. [More…]
Petty points have no place in the blending in of the railways in the interests of Australia’s defence alone. [More…]
In view of developments in South East Asia and the Middle East, does the Prime Minister still subscribe to the view that it is reasonable and prudent to base Australian foreign affairs and defence policies on the expectation of a stable world order and no threat for the next 10 to 15 years? [More…]
The general question of our defence needs is under constant review. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Bearing in mind the desire to have the Indian Ocean as an area of peace and the Government’s reported disapproval of the move by the United States of America to strengthen defences at Diego Garcia, I ask the Minister whether any official protest has been made with regard to the growing strength of the Soviet navy in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
-I direct to the Minister for Defence a question which refers to the constant use by the media and by the Opposition of the unqualified catch cry: ‘No threat for 10 or 15 years’. [More…]
-The strategic basis document which the defence advisers provided for the Government in 1973 pointed out that on trends at that time they had not been able to detect the likelihood of any threat to Australia in that period. [More…]
It was provided at a time when the right honourable member for Higgins, who was formerly the Prime Minister, was the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The right honourable member for Higgins addressed the Imperial Services Club in Sydney in 1971 as the Minister for Defence. [More…]
This was said by the right honourable member for Higgins in 1971 as the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I point out that when this statement was made by the then Minister for Defence in 1971 it must be remembered that we still had troops in Vietnam. [More…]
The United States’ Defence Secretary, Dr Schlesinger, said on 31 March that it was Saigon’s withdrawal rather than a communist general offensive which was the primary cause of the Government of Vietnam’s present difficulties. [More…]
These attitudes have consistently been expressed over the past 15 months by me and by the Foreign Minister at the highest level, and by personal contact between Vietnamese ministers and officials and some of my colleagues, including the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen), the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
It was a defence speech delivered by the then Minister for Defence. [More…]
As a result of what is happening we clearly need a greater effort in our own defence. [More…]
The Government speaks a great deal about independence in defence but does not realise that there is a cost for independence in defence and that if you can have allies standing with you the total defence cost is less than if you stand alone. [More…]
In any case there can be no real independence in defence, because in this interdependent world we are all much too much dependent upon each other. [More…]
Australia must look to its defence preparedness, the Government has that duty to the nation. [More…]
In the short time available to me I want to say that it had been our intention not to discuss defence matters or defence policies but to talk about the need for refugee relief. [More…]
The effort and resources spent on maintaining adequate defence forces and keeping alliances in good repair are not wasted if these forces and alliances are not in the event called upon. [More…]
But he was the very man who was the Minister for the Army when the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I do not think we need go through the history of the fight between Mr Gorton and Mr Fraser at that time, but the end result was that the honourable member for Kooyong as Minister for the Army and the Leader of the Opposition as Minister for Defence stopped the civic action in Vietnam- the group of Army people who were building schools, providing water supplies and teaching the kids. [More…]
Defence $152.8m is sought for the Department of Defence. [More…]
Of this, $70m is for payment to Papua New Guinea to facilitate the purchase from Australia of defence assets associated with the transfer of the responsibility for the defence function to that Government. [More…]
A further amount of $12.9m is included under the Department of Manufacturing Industry for expenditure related to defence, again mainly due to general price rises. [More…]
Defence Service Homes [More…]
A further $ 15m is sought to meet increased requirements for advances under the defence service homes scheme, following the decision to increase the maximum loan to $15,000 and the liberalisation of eligibility conditions. [More…]
All recommendations made to the Minister for Defence for Australian gallantry awards in Vietnam have been.determined and awards promulgated. [More…]
These establishments with their headquarters at Canberra comprises the former Research and Development Division of the Department of Manufacturing Industry which was transferred to the control of the Department of Defence as from 1 July 1974. [More…]
The Division has now been incorporated together with the research, development design and trials establishments previously operated by the Australian Defence Services, into the Science and Technology Organisation of the Department of Defence, thus bringing all defence scientific activities under one central control. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
This was an answer actually given by the Leader of the Opposition to the present Minister for Science when the Leader of the Opposition was Minister for Defence on 25 September 1970- Mr Malcolm Fraser in answer to Mr Morrison. [More…]
Later in his career the NCC said ‘Fraser gets Defence. [More…]
We cannot have anyone who is a bit wobbly on Defence’. [More…]
So he got the Defence portfolio. [More…]
Of course the bogy of defence comes out. [More…]
His only client has to go elsewhere and the Queensland gaols are emptied out because he is handling defence. [More…]
Territories, local government bodies and other interested bodies, should, except as provided by the proposed Act or the Defence Service Homes Act, be required to comply with all laws of the States and Territories in which it operates. [More…]
There does not seem to be any problem with this matter because it has always been the practice of the Australian Government, particularly in respect to the defence service homes legislation, which is to be administered by the Housing Corporation, to meet the requirements of State and local government authorities. [More…]
The Government indicated in the Senate that it was prepared- to accept this amendment with the proviso that the provision which has always existed in the Defence Service Homes Act whereby the Director has power to acquire land in a State should be retained. [More…]
In other words, we acknowledged the merit of the proposition put forward by the Opposition in the Senate and, since there has been no problem in respect of this matter in the operation of the Defence Service Homes Act, the view was put forward, contended and acquiesced in by the Opposition in the Senate that we should not affect or in any way alter the arrangements which have operated under the Defence Service Homes Act over many years. [More…]
It seems to me that the honourable gentleman has talked with a forked tongue in relation to this matter in that the provision has been in operation for many years- I should imagine that it was in operation for the 23 years in which the Liberal-Country Party Government, of which he was a supporter, was in office- being incorporated as it was in the defence service homes legislation. [More…]
The honourable gentleman has, probably for the first time, expressed concern about this matter, which also has been enshrined not only in the defence service homes legislation but also in the Lands Acquisition Act, which remains there at this moment and which has been there for decades. [More…]
The Bill provides a perfectly fair and equitable defence for the candidate placed in this position. [More…]
There were also provisions for candidates to declare changes of name, for banning misleading how-to-vote cards, for granting candidates a defence on charges of gift giving, for the renaming or renumbering of streets, for the regulation of electoral posters in certain places, and more realistic penalties for breaches of the electoral law. [More…]
Entry of these professions into the Defence Force at a cost of $5, 100. [More…]
(Civil Defence) (Question No. [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September 1974), page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 18 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
1 ) No exercises in civil defence preparedness have taken place within the last 18 months in my department. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Nor is it a defence to argue that deficit financing of the present order is justified as a stimulus to the private sector. [More…]
The Library points out that this could be a wise drafting approach as in particular circumstances other sources of power, for example, the defence power, may become operative. [More…]
I hope that the Authority will take the example of the civil defence body based at Mount Macedon as its example. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
and (2) The only program administered by the Department of Defence that may relate to the above Parliamentary Question is that for the annual grants to the United Services Institutes of Australia. [More…]
Branches submit detailed annual reports on their activities and audited financial statements to the National Council of the Institute which in turn submits this information to the Department; the grant made is authorised by the Minister for Defence within the Appropriation for this purpose. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The honourable member would know that an investigation is now under way to ascertain the amount of surplus that will be available from the defence force retirement benefits scheme. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Housing and Construction, relates to the defence service homes insurance scheme. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the House of the range of cover provided for policy holders under the defence service homes insurance scheme? [More…]
During those periods, did the Minister receive applications and inquiries from members of the public wishing to insure under an arrangement similar to the defence service homes insurance scheme? [More…]
-At the time of the Brisbane floods, a very considerable number of people were covered by the defence service homes insurance scheme. [More…]
That incident exposed to a great number of people the virtue of the defence service homes insurance scheme. [More…]
As a result, there was an inundation of inquiries from people who were responding to a suggestion that the defence service homes insurance scheme should be expanded to accommodate the needs of people other than exservicemen. [More…]
Of course the defence service homes insurance scheme has stood on its own; it has been selfsustaining. [More…]
Having said all that, I must acknowledge that the defence service homes insurance scheme is no longer under my administration. [More…]
I have no doubt that even though the defence service homes insurance scheme will stand independently, it will act virtually as an agent for the Australian Government insurance office, that it will continue to run efficiently and effectively, and that its principles will be conferred upon a very large number of potential beneficiaries. [More…]
I wish to inform the House that the Leader of the Opposition has nominated Mr Killen to be a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in place of Dr Forbes; nominated Mr Hyde to be a member of the Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties in place of Mr Wilson; and nominated Mr Hodges and Mr Jarman to be members of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in place of Mr Bourchier and Mr Wilson. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) was appointed the coordinator of Federal assistance to Tasmania. [More…]
Let me ask it of the Minister for Defence who is at the table. [More…]
Have we no Bailey bridges in our defence force? [More…]
The Minister for Defence, who has control over these Bailey bridges and our up to date defence force, should have sent the Bailey bridge down there before the middle of April to lessen the inconvenience that the people of Hobart are suffering. [More…]
I know that other honourable members want to speak in this debate and that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) is intending to speak also. [More…]
I am glad to see the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) sitting at the table because he is the man who bears the burden of the guilt. [More…]
The Army is here for the defence of Australia. [More…]
Let us realise what this means in respect of” the defence of Australia. [More…]
If that is the kind of Army we have, if that is the kind of defence that is available to us in the event of enemy action against a bridge, the sooner the Minister and this Government are removed from office the better it will be for the security of Australia. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether the failure to do what should have been within the capacity of any army looking forward to the possibility of enemy action- to make the resources of the whole of Australia available for this one place- occurred because the Minister tied the Army up in red tape- I believe that is possible- or because the Minister has allowed the Army to deteriorate to the point where it did not have the resources- that also is possible. [More…]
I commend to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), who is at the table, the questions that have just been asked of him by my colleague, the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth). [More…]
Some criticism has been made of my own actions in relation to the defence forces and the part they played in the disaster. [More…]
In addition to reaching an agreement with the Tasmanian Premier, as I have already indicated to the House, to provide an amount of up to $13m to assist in the reconstruction that was required for the bridge and for other purposes, I also provided immediately assistance which the Premier felt was necessary from the defence services. [More…]
I immediately promised whatever assistance could be given from the defence forces. [More…]
The request which I received as the Minister for Defence and also because of my other responsibility of liaising with the Tasmanian Premier, was to provide the Bailey bridging by 14 April- that is, that portion of the Bailey bridge which was required by the Public Works Department of Tasmania at that time. [More…]
One of the most tragic results of this Government’s lamentable record which relates in a special way to the whole northern frontier of this nation is its almost complete failure to develop any defence capability. [More…]
Has there been any further defence contribution which would in any way at all contribute to the security of this country, to the protection of our northern frontiers? [More…]
If the Government has not abandoned the defence and security of this country the least it should do would be to build up the Army to divisional strength. [More…]
The immediate response from the spokesman of the Fraser Island defence organisation is noteworthy. [More…]
The present Leader of the Opposition was the Minister for Defence at the time, and he is the guilty man responsible. [More…]
He wanted to keep his job as Minister for Defence more than he wanted to comply with his conscience or those principles, if he had any, which conflicted or violated against this useless wastage of manpower and material. [More…]
4m to the purchase of ships, materials and equipment and $70m to special assistance to facilitate transfer of the function of defence to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
6 the figure in respect of defence service homes is $15m and PMG cost increases $127m. [More…]
When we look more carefully at the present Appropriation Bill we realise that not one member of the Opposition has told us whether he wants to reduce expenditure in the field of defence which is an item which has been mentioned in this legislation. [More…]
We would give high priority to protecting the Australian national heritage, to protecting and defending both our cultural and material heritage, and that would involve a higher priority for defence, which today has no priority at all. [More…]
Defence spending is up $142m. [More…]
What else is the consequence of the demands by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) for increased defence spending, or by the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) for even more generous assistance to rural industry than we are already providing ? [More…]
Last year the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch)- he has remained Deputy Leader although the Opposition has had a couple of leaders since- spoke of an 8 per cent cut across the board except in defence, where he intended to make increases. [More…]
-These Appropriation Bills and Supply Bills deal in part with the allocation of funds for the Department of Defence. [More…]
New Guinea for the purchase of defence assets, salaries and pay, and to cover general price increases. [More…]
It is a worthy enough request but one which I fear the Government submits without any degree of enthusiasm for the defence problem. [More…]
fence (Mr Barnard) that in 1971-72 the defence allocation was $ 1,200m and that this financial year, 1975-76, it will be $ 1,800m, leaves me cold. [More…]
The allocation for defence will have to be greater than that to meet the escalation of costs. [More…]
In fact the Government is hardly increasing the defence vote at all; it is only trying to keep pace with rising costs. [More…]
It is common knowledge that our defence capacity is of grave concern to the people of Australia because this Government has allowed it to run down at an alarming rate since it took office. [More…]
What we should be doing is debating an Appropriation Bill, for many times the amount that is presently requested, aimed at attempting to restore our defence creditability. [More…]
In the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence there is a paragraph which states: [More…]
If this Government persists in allowing our defence capacity to deteriorate at the present rate we could finish up with a capacity inferior to that of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In order to curtail expense in the area of defence this Government has reduced the training flying hours of our operational aircraft, it has reduced the sea-going time of our naval vessels and it has allowed the Army to continue using outdated and outmoded equipment. [More…]
If the Government is so keen on saving money in this area I suggest that it do away with half of the civilian empire it has allowed to build up in the Department of Defence. [More…]
Over the last few years, the percentage of defence funds available for equipment procurement has declined. [More…]
The Committee is quite right when it views this with disquiet and recommends that defence expenditure be increased to replace ageing and worn equipment and the introduction of new weapons to meet operational requirements. [More…]
These are not my words; they are the words of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
The reserve forces are of fundamental importance to the nation’s overall defence capability. [More…]
I would have thought, in view of the present Asian situation, that this Government would have become a little more defence conscious and sought funds to bolster our defence capacity as soon as it possibly could. [More…]
I hope that the Government will give the needed consideration to a much greater defence allocation in this year’s Budget. [More…]
I also note that in these Appropriation and Supply Bills $15m is sought to meet increased requirements for advances under the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
I have no quarrel with that request but I question the fact that the request for supply to continue to finance defence service homes satisfactorily was not made prior to this time. [More…]
Only this morning I was informed that the Queensland branch of the Department of Housing and Construction had run out of money to lend for the purchase of defence service homes. [More…]
The report from the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, to which I referred previously, states that the Committee is disturbed about the current quality and quantity of Army housing, and there is no doubt that there is a serious shortage of married quarters in a number of areas. [More…]
Under the terms of the Commonwealth-States Housing Agreement, the Commonwealth advances money to the State housing commissions for the purpose of constructing dwellings for rental to serving members of the defence forces. [More…]
There is nothing wrong with that situation, but has the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) or the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson), or any other Minister for that matter, ever seen a suburb of housing commission homes that have been allocated to serving personnel? [More…]
-The previous speaker dealt with the question of defence homes, and he was the exception rather than the rule because most of this debate has centred around the Government’s economic policies. [More…]
Their defence spokesmen in succession have asserted that defence expenditure as a proportion of gross domestic product would be restored to the level it was in the period of the Vietnam war, namely, about 3.5 per cent. [More…]
Its increase in defence expenditure, by the commitment of its defence spokesmen, will be about $400m. [More…]
The Opposition is also saying that there will be no cut in Defence and that there will be cuts in some other vague and not specified fields. [More…]
They were also influenced by the United States Interstate Commerce Commission of 1887, which has been modified to the extent nowadays that it is now charged with the responsibility of developing, co-ordinating and preserving a national transport system by water, highway and rail, as well as by other means, adequate to meet the needs of the commerce of the United States, of the postal service and of the national defence. [More…]
Whenever one mentions airlines one can rest assured that the Airlines Agreement Act will come into it and that the Opposition will come post-haste to the defence and support of certain people. [More…]
-The $115m made available for the purpose of the defence service homes scheme has been expended due to the fact that the Government has greatly improved the scheme, increasing the amount of loan from $9,000 to $15,000 since it has been in office and greatly extending eligibility for the scheme in respect to members of the permanent forces, single men, single women and a limited range of national servicemen. [More…]
6) which is before the Parliament at the present time provides for an additional amount of $ 15m for the purpose of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
It is only a recent development that funds have become unavailable to meet such claims, and it would seem to me to be a reasonable expectation that the defence service homes scheme should again be operative in an effective way immediately the Senate passes the legislation. [More…]
The first inquiry about patrol boats for Indonesia was made through the Department of Foreign Affairs to the Department of Defence in 1970. [More…]
The negotiations continued to the stage where the then Minister for Defence, Mr Fairbairn, met the Minister for Defence from Indonesia. [More…]
On 8 June 1972 the then Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, said in Jakarta that the Government hoped that under a $20m 3-year defence aid program 2 Attack class patrol boats would be made available to Indonesia, and also that patrol boats for surveillance purposes would be made available as well. [More…]
The honourable member’s knowledge of defence is about as good as his knowledge of history. [More…]
But out of this, and from what I have said to the House today, it comes through quite clearly that the Opposition would do much better to put Dr Forbes back as the shadow Minister for Defence. [More…]
I wonder whether the new Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) will advocate, as did his prede..cessor cutting back on Commonwealth funds to local government in order to facilitate his much vaunted proposals for increases in expenditure on defence. [More…]
They sell them for the purpose of destroying the Australian film industry, aided and abetted by some of the paragons of virtue to whom the honourable member for Kooyong and others from the Opposition side run very quickly in defence. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to a report in which it is alleged that the efficiency of his administration has been plagued by illness and that it suffers from a lack of good personal staff? [More…]
He was formerly research officer on defence and foreign affairs in the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
He served with the Defence group of departments for 22 years and served with Ministers from the other side of the House when they were in government. [More…]
The final reference I make to this article is to Mr Samuel’s reference to the Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Arthur Tange. [More…]
Australia is to play in our strategic environment and of the requisite size and structure of the defence force. [More…]
Defence planning is based upon the maintenance of substantial defence forces and support that are adequate for present tasks and provide backing for. [More…]
On this basis the Government has in the last 2 years made considerable progress in the reorganisation, restructuring and re-equipment of the defence force. [More…]
Major investigations have been carried out into practically every aspect of defence planning and preparations. [More…]
Let me assure honourable members that adequate Australian defence preparedness is of considerable importance to my Government; it should be important to any government, to any people. [More…]
That commitment is part of the Labor Party’s platform- a living commitment to which the present realities of Australian defence policy bear witness. [More…]
The speech made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) today has done a great deal to vindicate the reputation that he holds in defence matters. [More…]
His reputation in defence matters, as apprehended by the Services, is that he is living evidence of life after death, and his speech today at least gave an indication that at long last the honourable gentleman has sought to move. [More…]
We thought that for the first time the honourable gentleman had been persuaded to say something about defence matters. [More…]
But today the honourable gentleman has put down a statement on defence which one must acknowledge for its massive modesty. [More…]
Having received the document but a short time ago, I want to turn to some of the conspicuous features of it in the hope that the House, and possibly the country, may have a better understanding of the honourable gentleman’s assertion that all is well in this country as far as defence is concerned. [More…]
At the beginning of his speech the honourable gentleman said: … the Government has in the last 2 years made considerable progress in the reorganisation, restructuring and re-equipment of the defence force. [More…]
I want to turn to the first part of that contentionthe reorganisation and the restructuring of the defence services. [More…]
In November 1973 a report on the reorganisation of the defence group of departments was presented to the honourable gentleman. [More…]
No answer was given to the contention of Brigadier Hooton, that with the amalgamation of the 3 Service departments under the Defence Department, civilian control of planning had reached a level where wrong information on Australia’s defence requirements was reaching the Government. [More…]
It is all very kind of my honourable friend the Minister to say that he is making speeches on defence up and down the country. [More…]
Today he has made a speech to the Parliament on defence, but I hope the House and the country will acknowledge the fact that there has not been one sustained debate on defence since this Government took office. [More…]
There has not been one day’s debate on defence in the last 29 months. [More…]
But since when has the House had an opportunity of considering all the ramifications of defence? [More…]
Does this not indicate the futility of the Government’s philosophy with respect to defence? [More…]
Moving on to some of the more conspicuous features of the Minister’s statement I wish to say something about defence expenditure, because the Minister sought to make great play of this. [More…]
That is the Labor Party ‘s- target for defence spending will not fall below the level of 3.2 to 3.5 per cent of the gross national product set by the Liberal-Country Party governments in recent years. [More…]
Defence spending in 1973 was 2.9 per cent of gross national product. [More…]
The Government said: ‘We will not allow defence spending to fall below the level of 3.2 to 3.5 per cent’, and in the space of 2 years it has contrived to reduce it to 2.75 per cent. [More…]
Was he haunted by that undertaking when he made his statement here today, or was the sense of equanimity that consumes the honourable gentleman on defence matters even able to blot out the recall of that promise? [More…]
When the honourable gentleman speaks about defence expenditure let me remind him that in 1970-7 1 the percentage of the defence vote spent on equipment was 12.7 per cent. [More…]
Using any measuring stick whatsoever in relation to defence expenditure, we find the same pitiful story emerging. [More…]
Defence outlays as a percentage of total Commonwealth Budget outlays in the last year of the kidney of government which I support, 1971-72, was 12.8 per cent. [More…]
In relation to defence expenditure I say to the honourable gentleman: Yes, you can take hold of the aggregate figure. [More…]
Probably the honourable gentleman in the course of the next 2 weeks will be able to go up and down the countryside beating up goodwill and making speeches about defence Services whose morale has never been lower simply because there is no trust in the Government. [More…]
If the Government had had its way the most significant piece of defence equipment we have in this country would have been abandoned. [More…]
May I say to the honourable gentleman that it is a field in which he moves with ease and accomplishment because, as Minister of Defence, he has established himself as the most complete tragedy the nation has ever known. [More…]
When the arrangement was made by the former Prime Minister regarding the Indonesian defence agreement- I hope that is the correct description of the agreement- there was nothing in the Government’s consideration regarding the scrapping of the DDL project. [More…]
Let me turn to equipment as a measure of Australia’s defence capability. [More…]
The extraordinary thing about it, I remind the House, is that he did not mention one piece of equipment that had not been ordered during the time of the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) as Minister for Defence or during the time of the honourable and gallant member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn) as Minister for Defence. [More…]
Of course, he put up a stoic defence against the purchase of the Fill aircraft. [More…]
I would have thought that my friend, the Minister for Defence, would have given us some understanding of why 53 Leopard tanks had been ordered. [More…]
A few short days ago I asked the honourable gentleman whether or not an instruction had been issued concerning the cancellation of travel arrangements which involve expenditure on postings, on defence schools or on school cadets. [More…]
Without enthusiasm the defence forces cannot operate. [More…]
The Minister for Defence today referred to the strategic assessment which has been made. [More…]
I defy any honourable member who heard the speech of the honourable member for Moreton- the Opposition shadow Minister for Defence- to define for me what constitutes the Opposition Parties’ views on defence. [More…]
Was there any glimmer during the 34 minutes in which the honourable member spoke of propositions being put forward by the Opposition in relation to a defence policy? [More…]
The only positive statements that he has made on defence have admitted his own mistakes. [More…]
Let us recall that he was the last Minister for Defence of the former Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
How far has the Opposition come from the days of that extravagant attachment to a notion of forward defence? [More…]
This was said by the honourable gentleman who in the previous Government was the Minister for Defence. [More…]
He quite blithely asserted that the relationship between defence and the gross domestic product, expressed in a percentage term, was 2.75 per cent. [More…]
The actual percentage for the relationship between defence and GNP is 3 per cent. [More…]
Is the honourable member really suggesting- I think that this is the proposition we have to examine- that the commitment on funds and the level of forces in the Australian defence area should be maintained at exactly the same level in peacetime as the level maintained in a period of war? [More…]
But let us examine what the level of expenditure on the defence forces were when the Opposition was in Government prior to the Vietnam commitment. [More…]
In 1962-63 the level of expenditure on defence in relation to the gross domestic product was 2.6 per cent. [More…]
I think this reflects great credit upon the Minister for Defence who, in the period when he was in Opposition, placed great emphasis on the terms and conditions of members of the armed forces. [More…]
For years there was a requirement from the military forces for an updating of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
This Government introduced the defence forces retirements benefits scheme which was effective back to October 1972. [More…]
We have said that this is a volunteer defence force. [More…]
What we are seeking to do is to build up a force in Australia that is capable of expansion in the event of any threat in the defence of Australia. [More…]
I quote from a document entitled ‘Australian Defence Review’. [More…]
I think that the Leader of the Opposition would be well aware of this document because it was published when he was Minister for Defence. [More…]
There have been, as we all know, important changes in Australia’s strategic situation since the days of forward defence policy. [More…]
Defence policy- I want to stress this point- is now focused primarily on the defence of Australia and Australia’s interests. [More…]
The shift from a forward defence posture to a more national defence posture has very substantial implications. [More…]
It means that we must now look to handle our defence affairs with greater independence and be more self-reliant in our defence effort. [More…]
We must examine and master our own national defence involvement. [More…]
We must examine the implications of a defence posture based primarily on the defence of Australia, its Territories and the sea and the air space around us, for training, equipment and the deployment of our national forces. [More…]
We must develop and practice an operational doctrine suited to this environment and to a national defence task. [More…]
This amounts to a major change in emphasis in our national defence planning. [More…]
The orientation of the ground forces has been changed from a counter-insurgency role related to the jungles of South East Asia to roles more specifically related to the defence of Australia in the Australian environment. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has indicated, we have placed on order 2 patrol frigates, 8 long range maritime patrol aircraft, and the medium tanks. [More…]
He made a claim- this is one of the grave errors that is so obvious in the Opposition’s statements on defence -that by 1981 we will be able to deploy only 3 destroyers with operational capability. [More…]
From the statements made by the Leader of the Opposition and by the shadow Minister for Defence, nobody could even get the vaguest glimmer of what constitutes the defence policy of the Liberal and Country Parties. [More…]
The statement made today by the Minister for Defence, the statements that he has made previously and the action that is being taken by the Australian Government revolve around one thing, and that is the responsibility that we as a government are prepared to undertake for what is the basic responsibility of any governmentthe defence of Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Science (Mr Morrison) has tried to do what the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) thought irrelevant to a defence debate, and that is to give some indication that changed strategic circumstances could have some implications for defence policy in Australia. [More…]
He pointed to a changed role for the Army for the continental defence of Australia, but at the same time he did not say how the Army’s training manuals, training techniques and equipment were going to meet that changed role. [More…]
The statement made by the Minister for Defence this morning is the first statement he has made in the period of about a year. [More…]
The error of the Minister for Defence was just as great but of a different quality. [More…]
But those words hardly indicate an understanding of the strategic basis of Australia’s defence policy. [More…]
He did say that there was need for a clear definition of the role of Australia’s defence forces, but unfortunately he said nothing about that role- what it was or what it ought to be. [More…]
One paragraph at the end of his speech indicated that he is following a policy more of continental defence than one that might indicate some regional responsibility, but he did so only in the vaguest and broadest of terms. [More…]
Any statement on defence, any statement on foreign policy, is inadequate unless there is an analysis of events surrounding Australia which impinge upon Australia’s own future and which have implications for us of a serious kind. [More…]
There is no indication in the speech of the Minister for Defence of the impact changed ASEAN attitudes may have on the strategic environment in which we live. [More…]
Is that one with which the Minister for Defence agrees? [More…]
Does he not understand that these matters have defence implications for Australia. [More…]
But other events in the Middle East could have even greater implications for Australia’s defence than the immediate events in South East Asia. [More…]
It has already been demonstrated that events in the Middle East have grave economic and defence implications around the world. [More…]
Does not the Minister for Defence think that these things have any implications for Australia’s defence policy? [More…]
This ought to be supported by Australia because Australia should conduct a foreign and defence policy in a manner which encourages sensible, reasonable and appropriate United States world involvement. [More…]
He speaks of the nuts and bolts of defence. [More…]
The Defence Force Development Committee said that we should have an army of 34 000. [More…]
In my last year as Minister for Defence we spent $ 1, 138m. [More…]
At the rate of expenditure and the activities of the present Government we will have a mothball defence force. [More…]
The defence industry is running to a standstill. [More…]
We made a decision in our time that by 1977 the objective would be that 28 per cent of the defence vote would be spent on defence equipment. [More…]
The Minister, the Government and the Prime Minister has spoken of independence in defence. [More…]
They do not realise that independence in defence requires a greater effort, not a lesser effort; that if we have like-minded allies standing with us, our total defence requirement is less than if we have no allies. [More…]
We have just listened to two confused speeches from the Opposition, one noted for its attempt to combine humour with defence and the other noted for its fears, sums and erroneous claims. [More…]
He invited the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) to do more sums. [More…]
Roughly, what the Minister for Defence has been saying is that in 1971-72 $ 1,200m was spent on defence and this year the figure was $ 1,800m, a 50 per cent increase since December 1972. [More…]
They are the sums of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Since the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) has been the shadow Minister for Defence I have listened with great interest to anything that he has said, to anything that could possibly be instructive, decisive, intelligent or inspired. [More…]
When the Minister for Defence said that he had been going up and down the country telling the Australian people of the virtues of our defence forces, the honourable member for Riverina replied: ‘That would not take you long’. [More…]
That is a rather poor reflection on our defence services, particularly from a man who was a member of them. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition is very evasive every time he is questioned about how much he would spend on defence. [More…]
He excuses himself from the necessity to increase expenditure on defence because by so doing he would really be admitting the failures of the Liberal-Country Party government in its last years in office. [More…]
If it will be 5 to 8 years, as he claims, before any equipment that is ordered will appear in the defence vote, it must equally be the case that if expenditure is not in the defence vote at present it is the result of policies of 4 to 8 years ago. [More…]
In March 1970 when he was Minister for Defence, the Leader of the Opposition presented to the Parliament a shopping list of defence items. [More…]
This occurred directly as the result of the loss of support suffered by the Liberal-Country Party coalition in the 1969 elections and the threatened withdrawal of the support of the Australian Democratic Labor Party unless the government showed a tougher line on defence. [More…]
The DDL project was so badly handled that it was no longer practicable for Australia’s defence. [More…]
Obviously, from the vagueness of the statements made by the Opposition speakers, one has to look at the Opposition’s performance in government to see its real attitude to defence. [More…]
In 1969, when the country was still embroiled in Vietnam, Mr Fairhall cut the defence vote by 5 per cent in real terms. [More…]
The then Minister for Defence had the hide to justify that cut by saying: ‘The forces are now better equipped than they have ever been in peace time. ‘ [More…]
Liberal-Country Party governments have not been slow to choose the defence vote as their first target. [More…]
In February 1971 the cut in Government expenditure as an anti-inflationary measure saw the defence vote receive the first and largest cut. [More…]
From a total of $75.5m cut from Government expenditure, the defence vote cut was $2 1.5m. [More…]
Can there be any doubt, in view of the vague and evasive defence policies being articulated, Particularly last Monday night by the Leader of the Opposition, where the burden again would fall under a Liberal-Country Party government program to reduce government expenditure? [More…]
As I asked earlier with respect to the honourable member for Moreton, the shadow Minister for Defence, where was his analysis today? [More…]
-I believe that this debate began, not with the statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) entitled ‘Australian Defence- the Reality’ but more particularly with the answer which the Minister gave to a question without notice asked by the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Whan). [More…]
In this answer the Minister made a very spirited defence of his personal staff, and I commend him for that. [More…]
But I was appalled to hear that only the last mentioned member of the Minister’s staff had any personal knowledge of defence- of war. [More…]
But I do not believe that they are capable of giving sound advice on matters pertaining to the defence of this country. [More…]
Not one statement, suggestion or word has been spoken by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) or the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) about possible future events in this region. [More…]
Of course, it is because of these unpleasant facts and the unpleasant scenario in South-East Asia, with its doubts, its ever-changing political events and its real dangers, that thinking people from practically every section of the Australian community question the wisdom of the present defence policy of this Government. [More…]
They must be delighted with the disintegration of Australia’s defence forces. [More…]
If this trend is not halted immediatelyand even now irreparable damage may have been done- the Australian armed Services will be incapable of defending anything, and the tongue-in-cheek reference by the shadow Minister for Defence may be closer to the truth than many people realise. [More…]
The third event is the current reorganisation of the defence organisation and planning staffs, which is achieving no more than dividing the Services, destroying the trust between servicemen and their civilian counterparts and lowering the morale of many servicemen who work in the Russell offices. [More…]
These 3 events, all attributable to the defence policies of this Government, have disintegrated Australia’s defence forces, and nothing the Minister said in his statement alters these harsh facts. [More…]
This is the reality, and what was stated in the Minister’s statement is in fact the reverse of what really is now current in the defence structure of this country. [More…]
Let me now point to some further areas of concern in our present defence policy, matters which should be debated in this House. [More…]
First let me refer to a document presented by the Minister referring to a tri-Service academy, and the appointment of a development council for the Australian Defence Force Academy. [More…]
That is a rare sight these days, despite the fact that the Minister for Defence has said that there has been no significant drop in the number of servicemen. [More…]
I regard it as most regrettable that in the first defence debate that we have had an opportunity to have at any length we have found it impossible for the shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, for a former Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn) and other members of the Opposition even to get a guernsey. [More…]
The failure of the Government to facilitate adequate Parliamentary debate on defence and to acknowledge and respond to Australia ‘s changing defence responsibilities. [More…]
At present, we have mortgage loans insurance in respect of low cost housing provided by the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation under the Housing Loans Insurance Act; insurance in respect of defence service homes provided within the Defence Service Homes Act- shortly, of course, to be provided by the Australian Housing Corporation; insurance provided by the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation in respect of a highly specialised field covering Australian exports; and insurance provided by the Commonwealth Banking Corporation as a service for clients who are financing the purchase of their homes or other property through their Bank. [More…]
The Government does conceive that insurance presently provided under the Defence Service Homes Act could be brought under the Australian Government Insurance Office. [More…]
The Bill as presented to the Parliament does not specifically include this aspect at the present stage, for as honourable members are aware the defence service homes scheme is being transferred to the Australian Housing Corporation and substantial changes are occurring. [More…]
It is the Government’s intention that, while those changes are occurring, the full scheme, whereby the Australian Government Insurance Office will undertake the provision of insurance cover under the Defence Service Homes Act, will be developed and incorporated into the AGIO in due course. [More…]
The present intention is that the AGIO will write this business, invest the reserves and generally provide cover in accordance with the general principles at present applying under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
The clients- that is, those persons financing their home purchase through the defence service homes scheme- will not therefore in any way be affected, nor will their present method of communicating and obtaining their premiums and lodging their claims be changed in any way. [More…]
Apart from appointments to the Board and staff there will be the general planning of operations strategies for the organisation and the further development of those special areas related to defence service homes and to the housing loans insurance scheme. [More…]
We know that if a person goes to borrow his entitlement under the Defence Service Homes Act for what is commonly known as a war service home, he will be told to go to a bank or a building society to borrow the money and the Government will guarantee to pay back the loan when it is able to do so. [More…]
I say to pensioners very clearly and seriously: ‘Pay full attention to the remarks of the new Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) when he says that a Liberal-National Country Party Government would reduce spending in all areas, except that of education, and increase spending in the area of defence’. [More…]
That is probably where I got so upset because some of those people who were waiting for defence service home loans had to take out quite expensive bridging finance because the Senate did not sit on and pass the legislation. [More…]
To revert to the Repatriation Acts Amendment Bill, I commend in particular the increase in pension rate for war and defence widows. [More…]
Things have happened during the 2lh years of the Whitlam Labor Government that I think many people would never have expected from a government that was supposed to be a pacifist government- a government allegedly not interested in defence. [More…]
The war and defence widow’s pension will be increased by $5 a week to $36 a week and the standard rate of service pension, which has already been mentioned as equivalent to an age or an invalid pension, will be increased by $5 a week to $36 a week. [More…]
Members of the defence forces of British Commonwealth countries are now eligible for Service pensions providing that they have been resident in this country for 10 yean. [More…]
It also authorises an increase in the war and defence widows pension fate. [More…]
Even this week, Mr Clark Clifford, who was a Secretary for Defence for President Johnson, said in ‘Time’ magazine of 12 May: ‘The fall of Saigon means a civil war has ended’. [More…]
The propositions that are corning from the Government are treason to Australian because they are inciting our American friends to abandon us if we face the kind of situation which Vietnam has faced and against which we have no protection in our own power of defence at the moment. [More…]
Our defence forces are a joke- a very bad joke, a joke which none of us likes to contemplate. [More…]
This Government has been betrayed that security by permitting the defence forces to be eroded and by the insults it has given to our allies 6n the very point of intervention to protect an innocent country from communist aggression because it was communist aggression. [More…]
Is there any requirement of secrecy by the Department of Defence which would make impartial consideration of these repatriation claims impossible or difficult. [More…]
Does the Minister receive full co-operation from the Minister for Defence in matters of repatriation claims with regard to the experiments at an official level. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I went on to say that the Army occupied land continued to be required for Defence purposes but that the Prime Minister had asked the Premier of Western Australia for details of how his Government intended to use the areas on Rottnest Island, including the area occupied by the Army, and had proposed an in-depth study which would have regard to all interests involved, the object being to arrive at a mutually acceptable solution to the question of general community and Army use. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What percentage of the value of the output of the Government defence factories is now represented by nonmilitary production, and what was the percentage 6 months ago. [More…]
In March 1975, non-military output represented 50 per cent of the total value of output in Government Defence Factories. [More…]
Military output includes defence equipment supplied to the Australian Defence Forces as well as that sold or given as aid to other countries, e.g. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Housing and Construction: Is it true that the Defence Service Homes Division is running at a loss of approximately $2m this financial year? [More…]
Is it also true that the defence service homes insurance premium rates have been increased 3 times in the last 12 months? [More…]
In answer to the first question raised by the honourable member, it is true that the Defence Service Homes Division has exhausted its appropriation. [More…]
6), which provides for an additional appropriation of $ 15m for defence service homes, it is necessary to defer settlement of existing property purchases and the discharge of mortgage applications until the extra funds become available. [More…]
Of course, in those cases where the vendor is not prepared to agree to a deferment until the defence service homes loan becomes available, the applicant is being authorised to complete the purchase with temporary finance. [More…]
The only people who were covered against damage in those floods were those who had defence service homes. [More…]
Not only has the defence service homes insurance scheme been a profitable scheme over the years, but also it has provided lower premiums than those provided by any other insurance scheme in Australia. [More…]
Insurance should not be limited within the Federal jurisdiction to those who have obtained loans under the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
I have no doubt that the previous Government, with its defence establishments at Lapstone, certainly had a great deal to do with the scarring of the escarpment. [More…]
-The estimate in the United Kingdom is that nine out of ten do not report rape because of the vigorous cross-examination they must face by defence counsel in their desire to obtain acquittals for their clients. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill and the accompanying Superannuation Act Amendment Bill 1975 and Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Bill 1975, which I will introduce shortly, is to give effect to the Government’s decision, announced on 4 December last year, to provide a new superannuation scheme for Australian Government employees. [More…]
The Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Bill 1975 makes a number of essential machinery amendments to the principal Act to take account of changes being effected by the Superannuation Bill and to ensure that arrangements already in existence continue in force. [More…]
They deal with persons whose contributions to the superannuation scheme have been deferred on their becoming eligible members of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits scheme, the preservation of rights provisions as they relate to persons transferring from one scheme to the other and, in accordance with past practice, the ex-officio appointment of the Commissioner for Superannuation, in lieu of the President of the Superannuation Board, as [More…]
Chairman of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority and of the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Board. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to establish the office of Defence Force Ombudsman and to define his powers and functions. [More…]
On 6 March 1975, my colleague, the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby), introduced the Ombudsman Bill 1975 to establish the office of the Australian Ombudsman and, as may be expected, the provisions contained in the Defence Force Ombudsman Bill follow very closely those in the Ombudsman Bill. [More…]
The function of the Defence Force Ombudsman will be to investigate complaints made by members of the defence force, former members of the defence force or their dependants with regard to any action in relation to a matter of administration which arises from the fact that a person is serving or has served in the defence force. [More…]
The Defence Force Ombudsman is also given power to investigate any of these actions even though a specific complaint has not been made to him. [More…]
The jurisdiction of the Defence Force Ombudsman covers not only actions which may be taken by the defence force or the Department of Defence but those which may be taken by other departments and authorities. [More…]
Thus the jurisdiction of the Defence Force Ombudsman will encompass a very wide range of matters affecting a serving member, an exmember, or their dependants. [More…]
Because there are adequate review and appeal provisions already in existence, the Defence Force Ombudsman will not be authorised to investigate matters arising out of disciplinary action taken against a member of the defence force. [More…]
While it is the intention that complaints arising out of a person’s service in the defence force will come within the jurisdiction of the Defence Force Ombudsman, some matters will no doubt arise which are common to all Government employees. [More…]
Provision has therefore been included in the Bill for the Defence Force Ombudsman to refer matters to the Australian Ombudsman for investigation if the Defence Force Ombudsman considers that they could be more effectively investigated by that office and if the Australian Ombudsman agrees. [More…]
Honourable members will appreciate that the relationship between those in command and those under command in a disciplinary force such as the defence force is a very important and particular relationship. [More…]
Because of this, provision has been made in the Bill requiring a serving member of the defence force to attempt to have his complaint dealt with by the Services authorities before submitting the matter to the Defence Force Ombudsman. [More…]
The Defence Force Ombudsman is, however, given a discretion to deal with a matter which has not been so submitted if he considers that there are special circumstances justifying the member from refraining from so submitting bis complaint. [More…]
A further protection for the serviceman is a provision permitting a matter to be referred to the Defence Force Ombudsman if the member of the defence force has not received an answer to his complaint within 28 days of submitting it to the Service authorities or if the member is not satisfied with the decision given. [More…]
Provision has been made in the Bill for the Defence Force Ombudsman to report to both the principal officer of the defence force and the principal officer of the department or authority concerned in the matter that he intends to investigate. [More…]
This provision will ensure that the defence force is aware of matters affecting its members. [More…]
The powers of the Defence Force Obudsman in connection with his investigation of a matter are similar to those contained in the Ombudsman Bill. [More…]
In addition the machinery provisions relating to the appointment of the Defence Force Ombudsman and his staff are the same as those of the Australian Ombudsman. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in November 1 973 the Prime Minister (Mr Whitiam) announced that it was proposed that Mr D. O. Hay, the former Secretary to the Department of External Territories, would be appointed as Defence Force Ombudsman when the necessary legislation had been passed. [More…]
As honourable members will know, for years, for 2 generations, the War Service Homes Division which is now called the Defence Service Homes Division has provided insurance. [More…]
I rise to say a word in defence of those people who have recently been appointed to courts by this Government. [More…]
The lawyers in this chamber do themselves a great disservice when they spring to the defence of some aspects of legal procedures in the way they do. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) and (2) As the honourable member is aware, the Defence Service Homes Act 1974 (No. [More…]
125 of 1974) which came into operation on 6 December 1974 effected a number of significant improvements to the Defence Service Homes Scheme, including an extension of eligibility for benefits under the Scheme and an increase in the maximum lending limit from $12,000 to $15,000. [More…]
To meet the cost of these improvements, an amount of $1 15m was provided for Defence Service Homes in 1974-75 compared with allocations of $102m for 1973-74 and $76m for 1972-73. [More…]
6 for the allocation of a further $ 1 5 m for Defence Service Homes. [More…]
As a result of the delay by the Senate in dealing with the Bill, it was necessary to defer the settlement of some 1000 applications for Defence Service Homes loans. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
My question concerns the reorganisation of the defence services. [More…]
It would not be a defence for his spouse to say that the marriage was not a marriage at all under Australian law. [More…]
Pursuant to subsection 7 (7) of the Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973-1974 I table a determination by the Remuneration Tribunal of remuneration payable, first, to the Chairman of the Australian Defence Force Academy Development Council and, secondly, to the part-time members of the Petroleum and Minerals Authority. [More…]
Defence (Mr Barnard) since 1954. [More…]
At the present moment even though this Act was passed by the present Government, one of its agencies, the Defence Service Homes Insurance Corporation, is now $1.3m in the red. [More…]
I am glad to see the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) in the chamber as I know him to be a sincere man who can be impressed by facts and by an argument that, beyond bounds, is not only persuasive but is also conclusive in terms of real proof. [More…]
by reason that it would prejudice the security, defence or international relations of Australia; [More…]
Moreover if one looks at clause 36, sub-clause (3) of the Bill one finds that there is power there for the Tribunal to overrule a decision by a Minister that information should be withheld from an appellant unless the information relates to defence, national security, international relations or Cabinet proceedings. [More…]
The numbers which perish because of pastoral industry conduct is also used as a defence. [More…]
In view of the subversive, irresponsible and politically motivated statements about Australia’s defence program by armchair strategists among the Opposition and their cohorts around Australia, will the Minister for Defence give figures on the preparedness of Australia’s defence forces today as compared with the last year of the Liberal-Country Party coalition Government, 1971-72? [More…]
Mr BARNARD The state of the permanent defence force is that the current strength is higher today than it was at the height of the Vietnam conflict. [More…]
He said that he believed there ought to be a debate in this Parliament on 2 aspects of defence- firstly conscription and secondly nuclear weapons. [More…]
He was on that occasion representing the shadow minister for defence who had been invited to attend the symposium. [More…]
I think it is remarkable that the last Liberal Minister for Defence, responsible for sending us to the barricades in South Vietnam, is now being brought into service, called to the colours, to encourage insurance employees to rally to the barricades against the Australian Government Insurance Corporation. [More…]
Nobody doubts that the employees of those insurance organisations which the Australian Government already conducts, such as in the Defence Service Homes Division of the Department of Housing and Construction or the Commonwealth Savings Bank, are as well treated as employees in private insurance companies. [More…]
Yes, twice by the Minister for Defence in reply to a question by the honourable member for Wilmot. [More…]
Had the Minister for Defence remained at the symposium in Cooma after delivering a very pitiful address on Australia’s defences he would have - [More…]
The Minister stated in his reply to the question here this morning that I was representing the Opposition shadow Minister for Defence at the symposium. [More…]
Do we hear them say that they will decrease the defence vote? [More…]
The Leaders and Deputy Leaders of the Opposition Parties are continually crying out ‘Cut Government spending drastically in most areas bar defence’; but many members of the Opposition, such as the honourable member for Mackellar, are calling for increased spending. [More…]
Whether the takeover would be consistent with the Government’s objectives in relation to such matters as defence, the environment and conservation, urban and regional development and the preservation of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
Here I pay a compliment to the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham), the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) who have seen fit, as I would say most Ministers generally have, to go out to the electorates, to the grass roots levels, to see the effects of their policies and to find out at first hand what is going on. [More…]
Honourable members come into this chamber projecting exactly the same philosophy and reaching the point where they advocate union bashing, conscription, nuclear defence, snobocracy, phoney money policies, the gerrymandering of electorates and blatant dedication to vested and sectional interests. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The Opposition has consistently asserted that there should be wide ranging cuts in public expenditure and at the same time has given firm pledges to increase expenditure substantially in particular areas, such as defence. [More…]
-The statement by Sir Richard Peek would have been more or less correct had it been prefaced by the qualification ‘in the absence of any defence equipment purchases in the next 15 years’. [More…]
The 5-year rolling program within the Department of Defence allows decisions on equipment purchases to be made each year. [More…]
It is quite incredible that a former Chief of the Naval Staff, who was for a long time acquainted with the method under which equipment is purchase for the Department of Defence and who should have had some knowledge of the 5-year rolling program, should display quite a lamentable lack of knowledge and understanding. [More…]
The exchange of notes followed discussions which the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) had in Washington in January 1974 with the United States Secretary of Defence, Mr Schlesinger. [More…]
I spring to Mr Withnall’s defence by saying that the Minister was most unfair in his criticism. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence: Has his attention been drawn to a report in the National Times’ of 25 May in which it is stated that the Secretary of the Department of Defence has issued a written directive in which the Defence Chiefs have been told to stick to the ‘no threat’ doctrine? [More…]
Does the article also suggest that the Minister has still not received a full report on the implications of the continental defence policy as opposed to the forward defence policy adopted by previous governments? [More…]
I find it quite extraordinary that an article purported to be written on current defence issues can be so inaccurate and lacking in substance. [More…]
Firstly, the statement that our Defence Chiefs have been told to stick to a ‘no threat’ doctrine is a complete fabrication. [More…]
In answer to the second part of the question, I can say that work on the implications of a national defence posture as distinct from the forward defence policy adopted by previous governments is proceeding in my Department. [More…]
As the studies progress and reach conclusions, we will be looking for guidance from these studies regarding strategic concepts, force structure and capabilities, defence infrastructure and so on. [More…]
The author of the article claims also that the Government has a major problem with the study because the opinion of the Department of Defence remains wedded to the traditional forward defence view. [More…]
I am not able to confirm or deny the accuracy of that part of the article, but I refuse to believe that my predecessors- Ministers for Defence in any other government- would issue such a directive. [More…]
The writer claims that despite amalgamation, the Department of Defence has the staggering number of 254 officers in the second division, compared with 41 second division officers in the Treasury, 21 in the Department of Urban and Regional Development and 26 in the Department of Overseas Trade. [More…]
On whose side was the Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Bass (Mr Barnard), or the honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Duthie), having in mind that there is a textile industry in Tasmania? [More…]
For understandable reasons exclusions are available for some aspects of defence purchasing but, to my mind, this does not go far enough. [More…]
When one contemplates the submission to the original inquiry on the need to establish the Commission, the points made by the Department of Defence are valid when viewed against the technical complexity and confidentiality of the equipment that Department is buying. [More…]
There has been a good deal of public debate about this matter- not unnaturally, as it is an important one- which relates to the procurement principally of defence equipment. [More…]
Sixthly, in the case of Defence procurement - [More…]
The Department of Defence is another very large purchasing agency. [More…]
Has it gathered to itself a quality and a quantity of expertise peculiar to media administration that distinguishes it, say, from the Department of Defence? [More…]
But when it comes to Defence, they are all stupid ‘. [More…]
Western Australia pays 62.8 per cent of the member’s pension and under the defence forces retirement benefits scheme the figure is 62 te per cent. [More…]
Before the debate is resumed on this Bill, I would like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill, the Superannuation Act Amendment Bill and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Bill, as they are related measures. [More…]
-The 3 Bills which are being debated together cover a proposed new superannuation scheme for Commonwealth Government employees and consequential amendments to the present scheme and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits scheme. [More…]
What hypocrisy it is on the part of people like him who strongly support the huge benefits which are paid under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme to officers of the Services who are trained at our expense, resign at the age of 40 to 50 with amounts of about $40,000 and then get on their high horse to complain about public servants. [More…]
I do not believe one should argue that the Defence Force Retirement Benefits scheme or the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits scheme are better than this one and, therefore, the rest of the Public Service should be brought up to that standard. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
and (4) Information on the ‘D’ Nonce system was made publicly available on 11 December 1973 following a meeting of the Defence Press and Broadcasting Committee of which I am Chairman. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
Has his attention also been drawn to indexed item 27- Defence Standards Laboratories consumer products tests. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
The results of this continuing action have been reflected, in general terms, in the civilian and military manpower statistics contained in the annual ‘Defence Reports’ since 1965. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Has his attention also been drawn to indexed item 89- Report on defence legal services. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Has his attention also been drawn to indexed item 90- Report on the defence services flying training program. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
Has his attention also been drawn to indexed item 96- Administrative directive on the responsibilities of the Department of Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Greater effort is being put into developing all sources of work, including the local proportion of defence requirements, work for other departments, overseas sales of the products of the factories and commercial work for private enterprise. [More…]
-The figures that the honourable member has requested naturally are not available readily, in my mind, but I can assure him that they are available in the last Defence report which I tabled in this Parliament. [More…]
-Does the Minister for Defence regard the decision to buy the Orion reconnaissance aircraft as an important one? [More…]
The shadow Minister for Defence is most indignant, but he will remember that only a few days ago I offered to him a privilege that I gave to his predecessor but which was never accorded to me when I was shadow Minister for Defence in the Opposition for years. [More…]
I offered to the honourable gentleman the opportunity to be briefed by officers from my Department on any matter relating to defence at any time he should make a request to them except of course on matters of policy. [More…]
As a result of the evaluation by experts from the Department of Defence over a period of 12 months the decision was finally made to purchase the Orion aircraft. [More…]
I am sure, since it was the unanimous decision of the Defence Force Development Committee, that the honourable member for Moreton would hardly quarrel with the decision of that Committee. [More…]
Do the Government’s programs envisage that any such measures or attitudes would contribute to the defence of Australia? [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the defence legislation to give effect to reorganisation of the higher management of the Defence Force and of the Department of Defence. [More…]
The Bill makes amendments to some 14 Acts, though most of these changes are consequential upon the significant changes introduced into the Defence Act. [More…]
When the Government took office, I announced- on 19 December 1972- the intention of the Government to move towards integrating defence management, firstly, by providing more effective central military control of operations and related military activities and, secondly, by creating a single Department of Defence comprehending the staff in the 4 existing departments. [More…]
In December 1973, I announced the abolition of the separate Departments of Navy, Army and Air, and the intention to create by statute the office of Chief of Defence Force Staff with power of command of the Defence Force and located in the Department of Defence as a very senior statutory officer; and to redistribute, by legislation and regulations, the functions performed by the Naval, Military and Air Boards. [More…]
The general control and administration of the Defence Force is to be vested in the Minister. [More…]
A new office of Chief of Defence Force Staff, directly responsible to the Minister for Defence, is created and the present office of Chairman, Chiefs of Staff, provided by administrative means and lacking statutory function or authority, disappears. [More…]
Subject to the Minister’s directions, the Chief of Defence Force Staff will have command of the whole of the Defence Force and, under him, each Chief of Staff will command the arm of the Defence Force of which he is the Chief. [More…]
The administration- as distinct from command- of the Defence Force is to be vested jointly in the Secretary and Chief of Defence Force Staff, subject to, and in accordance with, any directions of the Minister and except for matters falling within the command of the Defence Force or other matters that may be specified by the Minister as a further exception. [More…]
This integrated organisation will then replace the 5 government departments and 3 boards of administration previously responsible for defence administration. [More…]
It also ensures clear definition of the responsibility falling upon individual office holders- the Chief of Defence Force Staff, the individual Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary to the Department- as compared with the anonymity of Service Board decisions. [More…]
Under new section 9 (3), as proposed to be inserted in the Defence Act by clause 7 of this Bill, the 4 statutory officers created by this legislation will have right of access to the Minister in respect of their responsibilities- something which they have today only by administrative arrangements. [More…]
The legislation will make clear that the Chief of Defence Force Staff (CDFS) and the Service Chiefs under him are the advisers on military matters to the Minister. [More…]
Four heads of departments under the old systemleaving aside a fifth, the head of the Department of Supply which administered defence science as well as other matters- will be replaced by one Permanent Head. [More…]
On 28 January this year, the restructuring of the Department of Defence into the functional groupings approved by the Government was implemented to the extent possible pending the abolition of the Service Boards. [More…]
There has already been a significant increase in the direct participation by officers from the Navy, Army and Air Force in the Defence Department business of strategic assessment, works and equipment programming, and advising on the use of total manpower. [More…]
Naturally I accept that further changes to the defence organisation may be required from time to time. [More…]
Defence Act [More…]
I have already referred to the main proposals to implement the Government’s decisions contained in amendments to the Defence Act. [More…]
I should also mention that the Chief of Defence Force Staff will have the command of the Defence Force subject to the command in chief vested in the Governor-General by section 68 of the Constitution. [More…]
The appointment of an officer of the Defence Force to be Chief of Defence Force Staff will be made by the GovernorGeneral and provision is also made for the Governor-General to appoint an officer of the Navy to be Chief of Naval Staff, an officer of the Army to be Chief of the General Staff and an officer of the Air Force to be Chief of the Air Staff. [More…]
A Chief of Staff will exercise the command of his service under the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]
As a basis for binding instructions on matters of administration, including those with financial implications, to be issued by each Chief of Staff to his subordinates, provision is made for the Secretary and the Chief of Defence Force Staff jointly to authorise a Chief of Staff to administer matters relating to his arm of the Defence Force. [More…]
The Secretary and the Chief of Defence Force Staff would be concerned principally with important matters of defence policy and administration particularly those affecting the whole of the defence forcethe aggregates and the common policies- which I, as Minister, and the Government look to them to co-ordinate in the interests of consistent application of policy requirements, including financial requirements. [More…]
I should draw honourable members’ attention to clause 46 of the Bill which amends section 98 of the Defence Act to prohibit the passing of the death sentence by any Service court-martial. [More…]
Naval Defence Act [More…]
The long title of the Act is being amended to bring it more into line with the Naval Defence Act and the Defence Act, and the Air Force Regulations relating to the Air Board are being repealed. [More…]
This Act and the Defence Act are being amended to enable defence research and development activities to be transferred to the Department of Defence and to permit other changes in the responsibilities of the Department of Manufacturing Industry. [More…]
The amendments to the remaining Acts are consequential on the abolition of the Service boards and on the changes in the formal designations of the arms of the defence force. [More…]
The amendment to the Remuneration Tribunals Act substitutes the office of Chief of Defence Force Staff for the office of Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee. [More…]
For too long, defence administration has remained entangled in cumbrous procedures, working in an atmosphere which encourages division and contest, because of the fatal error 16 years ago in not abolishing the single Service departments as was recommended even then. [More…]
The new organisation will be the basis for more direct participation by officers from the Navy, Army and Air Force in the business of planning capabilities on a defence, rather than a single Service, basis to satisfy the country’s strategic needs. [More…]
-We have just heard an impassioned and blustery speech by a Minister who shortly hopes to be the Minister for Defence. [More…]
We have increased the defence service homes allocation from $74m to $11 5m. [More…]
I have had the privilege of administering not only the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation but also the defence service homes insurance scheme. [More…]
As the Minister responsible for administering the defence service homes scheme, I was able to tell the House after the Brisbane floods that that scheme controlled the policies of 200 000 policy holders and that, because of the Brisbane floods, 900 claims had to be met, and were met almost instantaneously, at a cost of $2m. [More…]
I suggest that the Minister look at the Regional Employment Development scheme, the National Employment and Training scheme or even the defence service homes scheme for socalled efficiency. [More…]
I want to conclude, with the consent of the Minister and the Opposition members at the table, by asking that some consideration be given to those people who at present are trying to obtain a defence forces homes loan and who, through no fault of their own, have had to obtain bridging finance at a very high rate of interest. [More…]
I think it is an eminently feasible request to make of the Minister at the table that he should ascertain whether the funds of the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation can be used for the specific purpose of providing insurance cover for the interim period when people who anticipate getting a defence forces homes loan within a month or 2 months have to take out bridging finance. [More…]
Briefly, the facts are that Mr Sinclair, on behalf of the Fraser Island Defence Organisation, appeared before the Mining Warden and was heard on environmental matters. [More…]
In the debate yesterday on the Superannuation Bill the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) stated that he saw me in the House and he then said: ‘What hypocrisy it is on the part of people like him the honourable member for Riverina- who strongly support the huge benefits which are paid under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme to officers of the Services who are trained at our expense, resign at the age of 40 to 50 with amounts of about $40,000 and then get on their high horse to complain about public servants. ‘ [More…]
I draw to the attention of the House an answer to a question given by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) on 27 November 1974. [More…]
Anyone who looks at any of the Government’s activitieswhether they be in the field of employment, the control of inflation, defence, the effective management of our economy, open government, our international relations or a dozen and one other bills or administrative actions- is forced to come to the conclusion that the Government does not know how to administer the country; that it does not know the kind of laws that the people of this country want and need; and that it does not know of the aspiration of the people of this country and their desire to be left alone. [More…]
I want to speak in sorrow at the departure from the Parliament of Mr Barnard, the former member for Bass and Minister for Defence. [More…]
It was over that period that he, as Minister for Defence, tried to assert a role in which his colleagues apparently were not prepared to back him. [More…]
It is a tragedy that a man as sincere as the former member should have been the Minister responsible for the Australian defence forces at a time when they have so run down. [More…]
We have the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) who could not wait to quit, who could not wait to split from this rabble who sat behind him and who are doing this to the country. [More…]
A significant part of the unemployment is in the electorate of Bass, which has been vacated recently by the present, though only for a short while, Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
Following assessment of relative departmental needs the property was acquired for defence purposes. [More…]
Defence authorities have judged that the property is ideal for their purposes and would result in a net financial advantage to the Government of $22.5m. [More…]
The total offsets were $54m and the net financial advantages from the occupation of the Zetland site by the Department of Defence at current prices is $22.5m. [More…]
The acquisition and use of the property for defence purposes will enable substantial areas of land currently occupied by the Department of Defence at Randwick, Marrickville and Wooloomooloo to be made available for more suitable land use for the benefit of the community generally. [More…]
I was quite clear in saying that the improvements were there, but I also said that the Government resumed this land for housing purposes and right at the last moment raised this fictional defence issue within a few days - [More…]
548 (Hansard, 19 September ‘974, page 1621) in which the Prime Minister indicated that the form and frequency of exercises in Government Departments in civil defence preparedness are as determined by individual Departments, on what dates in the last 18 months have exercises of this nature been conducted in his Department. [More…]
The matter is an elementary one because already under the Constitution- and this is the main thrust of the Petroleum and Minerals Authority legislation- the Commonwealth can, through its overseas trade powers, its interstate trade powers and its defence powers, on appropriate occasions and for appropriate purposes definitely engage in mining and acquire an interest in a mining company. [More…]
There is, for example, defence. [More…]
The Bill, as it presently stands, will permit a Minister to deny the Ombudsman access to files and information only where the disclosure of such information and the furnishing of such files would, in the opinion of the Minister, prejudice the defence, security or international relations of Australia or might lead to a disclosure of Cabinet deliberations or Cabinet secrets or might preju-dice relations between the Federal Government and the State governments. [More…]
It is not only a matter of defence or security but also matters which would otherwise be contrary to the public interest. [More…]
If I may make just a passing reference, I welcome the fact that the Government has decided to introduce a Bill to establish a defence force ombudsman in Australia. [More…]
action that the Defence Force Ombudsman is authorized to investigate; or (0 action taken by a Department or by a prescribed authority with respect to the appointment of a person to an office established by or under an enactment, not being an office in the Australian Public Service or an office in the Service of a prescribed authority. [More…]
by reason that it would prejudice the security, defence or international relations of Australia; [More…]
1 ) Neither my Department nor, I understand, that of the Minister for Defence, has been able to confirm press reports alleging the use of ‘asphyxiation bombs’ in the last days of the war in South Vietnam. [More…]
My Department participates in a surveillance operation off the north-west coast of Australia in co-operation with the Australian Government Departments of Defence, Agriculture, Police and Customs, Immigration, Foreign Affairs, and the Western Australian Department of Fisheries and Fauna. [More…]
He served the Parliament as a member of numerous committees, including the Library Committee, the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and, not unexpectedly, the Printing Committee- later known as the Publications Committee- of which he was Chairman. [More…]
He has sought to avoid a judicial inquiry because concealment of the essential facts, which are yet to be uncovered, is his only defence. [More…]
The fact that the loan was not raised cannot be seen or be interpreted to represent any form of defence, because what was being proposed was unlawful. [More…]
I answered it in clear and sincere belief that what I said is true and I rest my defence upon that belief. [More…]
It knows that it is a breach of our Constitution to be raising money overseas other than for defence purposes or temporary purposes. [More…]
The Governor-General has no defence and the citizens of Australia have no defence except in this Parliament. [More…]
To maintain at least until the Industries Assistance Commission report on Professional Electronic Equipment is considered by the Government, the production in Australia of selected electronic components which are or could be important for defence, telecommunications or technology. [More…]
The situation would be worse than that which existed with defence forces retirement benefits from 1959 until 1972. [More…]
The honourable gentleman has had the gall to say in defence of the action of his colleagues in the Senate that they are trying to save the taxpayers’ money and that they are trying to think of other interested groups in the community. [More…]
After Pan VII of the proposed Schedule, insert the following Part:- ‘ PART VIIa-DEFENCE FORCE RETIREMENT AND DEATH BENEFITS ACT ‘7a. [More…]
(1) Applications may be made to the Tribunal for review of a decision of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority established under section 8 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973-1974 in a case where, but for this Part, a request in relation to the decision could be made to that Authority under section 1 0 1 of that Act. [More…]
‘(2) A person is not entitled to make a request to the Authority referred to in sub-clause ( 1) of this clause under section 101 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973-1974 in relation to a decision in respect of which an application may be made to the Tribunal by virtue of that sub-clause. [More…]
In what circumstances are the Bartons living in Paraguay, and can he say whether (a) they are living on money which may belong to the creditors of their own bankrupt companies and (b) any money, the property of the creditors of their bankrupt companies, is being used in their defence against extradition proceedings being brought by the Australian Government. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The Committee’s recommendation is being studied by the Department of Defence with a view to implementation as soon as possible. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: When can we expect him to inform the House of the amount of surplus moneys in the old Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and of any arrangements that have been made for the automatic adjustment of defence force retirement and death benefits pensions? [More…]
the disclosure of a specified document or of documents included in a specified class of documents, would be prejudicial to the defence or security of Australia or would otherwise be contrary to the public interest, an officer shall not, either directly or indirectly and either while he is, or after he ceases to be, an officer, except as provided in subsection (5)- [More…]
In sub-clause (4), paragraph (b), omit the words ‘be prejudicial to the defence or security of Australia or would otherwise’ substitute ‘for a reason specified in the certificate being a reason referred to in paragraphs 9(3) (a), (b), (c) or (d) [More…]
It is for that reason that the Government has moved its own amendment which would take out the words ‘would be prejudicial to the defence or security of Australia or would otherwise’ and substitute the words ‘for a reason specified in the certificate’. [More…]
This Bill is a machinery measure which is required to secure authority to borrow amounts for the financing of defence expenditure which will need to be charged to the Loan Fund during the financial year 1975-76. [More…]
That is the purpose of this Bill which will authorise borrowings for defence purposes so that defence expenditures from appropriations approved by the Parliament can be charged to the Loan Fund rather than to the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]
The Bill does not authorise additional defence expenditures. [More…]
It will simply allow us to reallocate from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund part of the expenditures of the Department of Defence already authorised in the Supply Act (No. [More…]
1) 1975-76, to permit defence expenditure specified in that Bill to be charged to the Loan Fund. [More…]
It is not possible at this stage of the financial year to be at all precise as to the amount of defence expenditure which will have to be charged to the Loan Fund. [More…]
Instead, like similar Bills introduced in recent years both by this Government and by previous governments, the Bill seeks authority to borrow, to finance defence expenditures authorised by the Parliament, amounts not in excess of what is considered necessary to avoid a deficit in the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]
If the proposed takeover is judged not to be against the national interest on this basis, the following additional criteria will also be taken into account: Whether, after the takeover, the business concerned could be expected to follow practices consistent with Australia’s interest in matters such as exports, imports, local processing of materials produced, research and development and industrial relations; and whether the takeover would be consistent with the Government’s objectives in relation to such matters as defence, the environment and conservation, urban and regional development and the preservation of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
If the proposed takeover is then judged not to be against the national interest, additional criteria will be taken into account, namely, whether after the takeover the business concerned could be expected to follow practices consistent with Australia’s interests in matters such as exports, imports, local processing of material produced, research and development, and industrial relations, and whether the takeover would be consistent with the Government’s objectives in relation to such matters as defence, environment and conservation, urban and regional development, and the preservation of Aboriginal land. [More…]
Whether the takeover would be consistent with the Government’s objectives for defence, the environment and conservation, urban and regional development or the preservation of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
-The House turns its attention to a Bill which is compendiously described as the Defence Force ReOrganisation Bill 1975. [More…]
But it is, nevertheless, a Bill which in terms of the defence services of this country is most certainly the most far reaching Bill which has ever been introduced into this Parliament. [More…]
May I proceed to give on behalf of the Opposition our stand and our attitude with respect to defence? [More…]
Quite crucial to Australia’s defence is our defence organisation. [More…]
We must have a defence organisation that meets the requirements of contemporary circumstances. [More…]
Unless there is a defence organisation that has an efficient administrative capacity, nothing availeth. [More…]
I would like to assure my honourable friend opposite, the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison), and all his colleagues and supporters, that in no way have I sought to elevate what one might regard as one’s own opinion on this matter. [More…]
I have turned away from what may have been my own opinions and my own disposition as to the significance of administration in defence matters. [More…]
The Minister for Defence takes the same view as Stalin did of the Pope. [More…]
This Bill is concerned with defence administration. [More…]
I hope the Minister for Defence will pay some heed to that. [More…]
I will tell the Minister for Defence this: I have been through this Bill with the anxiety and the discipline of one given over to examining the creations of the Government of which he is a member and I have found, for example, that clause 112 of the Bill seeks to amend section 4 of the Courts- Martial Appeals Act by dropping the term ‘Royal Australian Commonwealth’. [More…]
It does not avail the Minister or any of his supporters to say: ‘Oh, well, my predecessor- the former Minister for Defencedid not worry very much about this ‘. [More…]
It seeks for the first time in the experience of this country to establish a Chief of Defence Force Staff- a supremo. [More…]
It seeks for the first time to create in defence what is described by one of the authors of the Bill as a diarchy. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to what may be described, I think not inappropriately, as being the very centrepiece of this legislation, and that is clause 7 which on the one hand proposes to repeal sections 8, 9 and 9A of the Defence Act and at the same time revives those sections in new form. [More…]
One of the proposed new sections says that the Chief of Defence Force Staff shall command the Defence Force. [More…]
I invite my friend, the Minister for Defence, to consider just that. [More…]
There is to be provided a joint administration of the armed Services of the defence forces between the Secretary of the Department of Defence and the Chief of the Defence Force Staff. [More…]
One is matters falling within the command of the Defence Force and the other is any other matter specified by the Minister. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence quite purposefully: What is described or defined as a matter of command? [More…]
If one were to look, for example, at annex E of the Report on the Reorganisation of the Defence Group of Departments- the Tange Committee’s report- one would find, for example, that a great variety of matters have been conferred upon the civilian side of the authority at the disposal of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I refer to matters, for example, such as strategic policy and force development, supply and support services, resources and financial programs, defence manpower, organisation and management services, defence research and development and so on. [More…]
May I indulge myself to this extent in the luxury of observing: What a curious way to run a defence force that the Minister of the day may seek to say: ‘Well, here is a matter which in my opinion comes within one of the exceptions ‘. [More…]
I do not seek to recapitulate upon some of the very profound disquiet which has been echoed in a variety of ways throughout the defence Services of this country. [More…]
I hope that my friend, the Minister for Defence, will find it within his disposition to agree with what has been expressed. [More…]
I am sure that honourable members on this side of the House were generally pleased when the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) was appointed to the high position of shadow Minister for Defence on the Opposition side of the Parliament. [More…]
I should like to direct the honourable member’s attention to the Defence Act as it stands at the moment; the term ‘Royal’ is not used. [More…]
The Labor Party’s policy is to carry out that sort of re-organisation of the defence forces to which this Bill gives effect. [More…]
Was it because the then Goverment, the present Opposition, was too concerned with inter-Service rivalries to give the Australian defence forces a modern administrative structure? [More…]
We on the Government side will heartily oppose the amendment because this re-organisation of the defence forces has been under way for some time since the report was tabled in the Parliament in November 1973. [More…]
I speak only for the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence when I say that we sought briefings from Sir Arthur Tange and from Sir Victor Smith, the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. [More…]
If the Opposition defence committees have not been similarly briefed it is its own fault, because this Government, unlike the previous Government, has made available senior officers of the Department of Defence to brief Opposition Parties. [More…]
I would not have thought that the Opposition would have suggested that at this stage there is a need to refer the Bill for a further report, because this defence re-organisation is substantially under way and it is working very well. [More…]
But whilst those boards will exist until they are abolished by this Act, the fact is that the defence forces reorganisation is working well. [More…]
All of us who have had contact with people in the defence forces know that those people recognise that the Australian armed forces are being given a modern administrative and command structure- a structure which makes clear the principle, which all honourable members of this House would support, that the forces are responsible to a Minister but that the military side of the structure, the command structure, is responsible not to a Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee but to a Chief of the Defence Force Staff. [More…]
I am pleased that the former Minister for Defence, the former honourable member for Bass, had the opportunity of introducing that legislation before his resignation from the Parliament. [More…]
It was clear that the Chief of the Defence Force Staff and the service chiefs under him are advisers on military matters to the Minister. [More…]
There has been some attempt to play off the military versus civilian aspects of defence, to suggest that this legislation is a means of involving a much greater civilian role in the administration of the defence forces. [More…]
Surely it is a fact of life that the effective administration of the defence force requires a co-operative role between the serving personnel and all of those very competent public servants who have been associated with the Department of Defence and with the previous service departments which have been merged into the Department of Defence. [More…]
It is very much to the credit of Mr Barnard, our former Minister for Defence, that he was able to bring this about. [More…]
I believe that in the years ahead the Bill that we are putting forward today will be regarded in the defence forces as an historic document. [More…]
-The matter we are discussing this evening and to which we are giving our very earnest attention is the defence of this nation. [More…]
It is not a matter of integration of the defence forces, which the honourable member for Brisbane (Mr Cross) seemed to raise as the main argument for this piece of legislation. [More…]
I think the discussion is about how it is to be done, how it is to be operated and how it is to be effective, so that in times of peace we have vigilance on the part of our defence forces, we have training going on and we have equipment assembled ready for use and people competent to use it, and that in times of war we have great activity and protection for the nation. [More…]
Under these circumstances it would hardly seem reasonable that the sole objective of this piece of legislation is to gear our defence forces for times of peace alone so that they will work smoothly in times of peace but when war comes, should it ever come again, there will be a big fiddle to find out what happens next. [More…]
I start with clause 8, which provides that the Minister shall have the general control and administration of the defence force. [More…]
I bring to the attention of the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) and of the House that under these circumstances it would appear that the role of the Governor-General is thrown into doubt. [More…]
Whether or not the Governor-General is to remain the Commander-in-Chief of our defence forces has to be settled. [More…]
I refer the House to the evidence given to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence by Air Vice-Marshal Hartnell. [More…]
The Governor-General has a special role in the distribution of Defence authority. [More…]
Under Section 68 of the Australian Constitution, and separately under Letters Patent, he is vested with command-in-chief of the Defence Force as the Queen’s representative. [More…]
Under clause 9 the Governor-General may appoint the Chief of the Defence Force Staff. [More…]
As a nation we suffer in the defence field because there is no understanding of where supreme authority lies. [More…]
It would appear from the legislation that it may very well he in the Chief of the Defence Force Staff provided there is action and activity, but in all other fields it is a most nebulous area. [More…]
Does it rely on the Secretary of the Department of Defence? [More…]
The list includes material for the 3 Services, defence industry policy, contracts and quality assurance, supply and movements of transport of all services. [More…]
I think that this nation would like to see its representative being truly its representative and, in that role, the elected head of the defence Services. [More…]
In times of peace when there is no need for great activity or build-up the Minister could convey the will of the nation to the defence Services in that way and not have somebody interposing his will or his ideas. [More…]
I continue with the list and refer to Navy, Army and Air Force technical services, all Service facilities and accommodation, resources policy, planning and programming, budgeting and financial services, defence manpower, pay, recruitment, conditions of service, the personnel policy, training and education policy, organisation and management services, defence research, development and evaluation, and the Joint Intelligence Organisation. [More…]
That is the responsibility of the civil part of the defence forces. [More…]
One wonders what is left to the Chief of the Defence Force Staff. [More…]
The public service and military components of the Defence machine are closely interwoven but there is no single line of authority. [More…]
The Departmental Secretary (currently responsible for advising the Minister on ‘policy, resources and organisation’) cannot issue instructions to the armed forces while the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, or the Chief of Defence Force Staff under the proposed re-organisation of the Defence Department, cannot command the public service component. [More…]
I would like to see the Chief of the Defence Force Staff having a say in the promotions in the civil section of that service. [More…]
The proposal is to establish a single supply and support organisation within the Department of Defence and to appoint a senior executive to be chosen from persons both within and outside the Australian Public Service to head that organisation. [More…]
( 1 ) Subject to section 8, the Secretary and the Chief of Defence Force Staff shall jointly have the administration of the Defence Force except with respect to- [More…]
matters falling within the command of the Defence Force by the Chief of Defence Force Staff . [More…]
Any defence force must have a command structure under which the various levels of authority have the ability to give lawful commands within their sphere of responsibility and to enforce obedience. [More…]
In the Australian Defence Force, the command structure operates efficiently outside Canberra. [More…]
The former Minister for Defence in introducing the legislation said: [More…]
In these circumstances the Secretary epitomises to me the Public Service section of the Defence forces. [More…]
Are they to work alongside Defence personnel? [More…]
I come back again to the fact that the Minister is the link between society -our community, the people of Australia- and the defence forces. [More…]
Indeed I would press upon the Minister the need for a defence council which would incorporate all the Chiefs of Staff, the Minister and the Secretary so that there would be proper consideration of these matters, so that there would be proper policy and financial control and so that there would be organisation, policy development and proper programming. [More…]
Let us have in time of peace a defence force where there is not competition, where there is not diversity of purpose but where there is a single goal, one that is aiming for something that can be achieved in time of war- security for this nation. [More…]
One moment he seemed to think that the Minister had the control, the next moment he thought it was the Secretary and the next moment the Chiefs of Staff of the defence forces. [More…]
The Americans have a presidential system and the Senate has the right to veto the defence vote- the allocations of money. [More…]
Let me state quite openly that no government in this country in peace time has ever set out to achieve or has ever achieved a cohesive, thought-through, consistent logical defence policy. [More…]
The Government has been criticised for it I think that the processes that are now in train represent the most fundamental rethink of defence policy, structure and administration that this country has ever undertaken. [More…]
If honourable members opposite are doubtful of the facts I am sure that their doubts could be settled by contact with the Minister, with officials in the Department of Defence and with the Service chiefs in uniform in the Department. [More…]
This is inherent in any defence structure in any democracy such as ours. [More…]
They do not like being challenged by people with limited experience and often they can far more easily absorb the processes inherent in defence thinking, situations and strategies than can some of the civilians. [More…]
Reference was made to the powers of the Secretary of the Department of Defence. [More…]
We all know that Sir Arthur Tange is regarded by some people as having a very powerful intellect but we also know that people in the uniformed sections of the defence structure have powerful intellects. [More…]
I do not think that there are many problems relating to the defence structure of this country that we cannot solve. [More…]
To the extent that specific powers are given in the Defence Act to the Chief of Defence Force Staff and the Chiefs of Staff these powers of the Secretary must be read down. [More…]
In particular, under the new section 9a( 1), the administration of the Defence Force is vested jointly in the Secretary and the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]
Under the proposed new section 9(3) the Chief of Defence Force Staff and the Chiefs of Staff are given the responsibility of advising the Minister on matters relating to the command which is vested in them. [More…]
He also says that the assumption is that one set of people- the central organisation- should advise on defence policy and that another set of people- the armed forces- should carry it out. [More…]
For instance, the Chiefs of Staff play a significant role in the development of policy through their membership of higher defence committees. [More…]
The twohatted arrangements whereby some senior Service officers have, at the same time, a responsi.bility within Defence Central for policy advising and a responsibility to their Chief of Staff for implementing is another example. [More…]
No one would contend that the exact form of defence organisation required in war would or should be set up in peace time. [More…]
In particular, it provides for the position of Chief of the Defence Force Staff, responsible to the Minister, and for the command of the total defence force in peace or war. [More…]
It places centralised control of military operations and related military activities with the Chief of the Defence Force Staff while the Service Chiefs of Staff remain responsible for single service operations and their support. [More…]
It provides new functional arrangements in the Department of Defence which lead to improvements in administration, including better force structure planning and resource allocations and financial management. [More…]
For large scale conflicts changes may be necessary, not only in defence but also in areas such as a war Cabinet, munitions production, manpower controls, etc. [More…]
The new organisation increases considerably the direct influence of service officers in the formulation of defence policy advice and recommendations to the Minister and the Government. [More…]
The Chief of the Defence Force Staff is made responsible to the Minister for the command of the Defence Force and each Chief of Staff for command of his Service. [More…]
The Chief of the Defence Force Staff and the Chiefs of Staff of each Service will have access to the Minister either individually or through the Chiefs of Staff Committee. [More…]
The use by the Secretary of his powers as a Permanent Head under the Public Service Act will be qualified by the statutory powers of the Chief of the Defence Force Staff and by ministerial directive requiring responsiveness by the departmental structure to the needs of the Defence Force. [More…]
A substantial increase is recommended in the number of service officers directly participating in the work of the Department of Defence including the preparation of policy advice and recommendations to the Minister. [More…]
For example, since December 1973 Service positions in the Central Defence Organisation have increased from some 130 to some 490. [More…]
But successful formulation and implementation of defence policy requires inputs from both Service and civilian officers. [More…]
The Chairman, Chiefs of Staff and, with small exceptions, the 3 Chiefs of Staff supported the proposed functions of the Chief of the Defence Force and of the Department of Defence. [More…]
The Chief of the Defence Force Staff at present, General Hassett, has also promoted various changes in the armed Services over many years. [More…]
Under the proposed legislation the Minister has the general control and administration of the Defence Force. [More…]
He may issue directions to the Chief of the Defence Force Staff and to the Chiefs of Staff in respect of the command vested in them and to the Secretary and to the Chief of the Defence Force Staff jointly in respect of their administration of the Defence Force. [More…]
Again we are setting up a more clearly defined line of command and a more clearly defined situation between the various arms of the defence structure. [More…]
A further matter raised by the honourable member for Mitchell was in respect to the need for a defence council. [More…]
I would have thought that the legislation had quite clearly spelled out that there was no longer any need for a defence council, if there ever was one. [More…]
It is difficult to see how a defence council could be constituted as a fully executive body in the normal sense. [More…]
The carefully devised higher committee structure in the new organisation, as well as the provisions for access to the Minister by the Chief of the Defence Force Staff and the Service Chiefs of Staff ensure that collective and considered professional military advice will reach the Minister in written form. [More…]
Moreover, it is specified that the advice from the higher defence committees to the Minister must include any dissenting views of either service or civilian members if the dissenting member so wishes. [More…]
Finally I must clearly state the objectives of this legislation and why I believe that it is in the interests of this nation’s defence that they must be carried through. [More…]
Perhaps we all know here tonight that the Opposition already intends to put this measure before a committee in the Senate, but I am quite sure that the Bill before the House will stand any examination because basically the ideas behind it are sound and essential for Australia’s defence. [More…]
As I said at the beginning of this speech, there is a great need for Australia to look thoroughly at its defence structure in peace time. [More…]
For the first time we are looking at defence in terms of being rather bigger boys. [More…]
The Government is orientating its defence effort towards the defence of Australia for the first time. [More…]
Many factors have contributed to the decline of the defence capacity of this nation. [More…]
The most fundamental, of course, is the political philosophy of the Labor Government which relegates defence to a priority so low that if the people on the other side of the House were frankly prepared to admit it, they would say that they are not seriously concerned with the defence and security of Australia. [More…]
Apart from the general attitude of this radically socialist Government towards defence, the most significant specific move it has made is its acceptance of what may be termed the Tange concept. [More…]
He criticised the abolition of single Service ministries in the newly integrated Department of Defence structure as inadequate to advise the Cabinet in major defence procurement matters. [More…]
A single Minister for Defence, no matter competent, dedicated and hard working, has not the time to do these things. [More…]
Shortly before he resigned his Cabinet post and parliamentary seat recently, the Minister for Defence, Mr Lance Barnard, introduced a Bill in the House of Representatives designed to re-organise the Department of Defence, the 3 former service departments (Navy, Army and Air), plus elements of the old Depanment of Supply, into a single Defence Department. [More…]
He had his advisers but he had to go to a government which was unsympathetic towards the defence question generally. [More…]
Hence we have this fragmentation, this integration and this sad almost ending to what was once a magnificent defence force. [More…]
The point about it is, of course, as my colleague and splendid friend the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) who is our shadow Minister for Defence has pointed out, that an attempt was made to present us with a complete fait accompli, but fortunately we were just able to stop it somewhere along the line. [More…]
Mr Barnard understandably saw the re organisation as a climax to the improvements in defence he had sought to introduce during his 2V4 years as Minister. [More…]
I have regretfully come to believe that despite the greatly increased service input into the Defence Department, the proposed re-organisation is a mistake of unprecedented magnitude- far beyond that of the short-lived pentropic division and with far greater implications for the defence and security of Australia . [More…]
For the first time in Australian history the Minister for Defence is given statutory authority for ‘general control and administration of the Defence Force’ (i.e. [More…]
Previous private secretaries have been very fine people indeed but their planning of some sort of strategic defence or attack could be a little questionable. [More…]
First, it is basic to policy, whether it be defence policy or any other national POliCY such as transportation policy, that it be made by the Government on the advice of the appropriate Minister. [More…]
This BUI, together with the Tange report, over-emphasises the role of the Secretary as a defence policy maker. [More…]
Fourth, defence policy advice and analyses related to grand strategy are a joint civil and military task ranging over a whole spectrum of issues, international, economic and military. [More…]
I say to honourable members in this House that it is with a great deal of pleasure that I vigorously support the amendment as moved by our shadow Minister for Defence, the honourable for Moreton. [More…]
It is for that reason that we do bring into question all aspects of defence which have been affected by Government policy. [More…]
All of this has been hidden below the concept of a better defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]
The fact is that I have on either side of me 2 colleagues who resigned from the Australian Army because they were sick and tired of the way in which the present Government was administering the defence forces. [More…]
Earlier, the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) made reference to the concept of no foreseeable threat for 15 years’ a reference which the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) found, to say the least, very upsetting. [More…]
I use this as an additional leavening to add to the total incapacity of our defence forces to carry out the effective defence of ‘Fortress Australia’ another term which has been used by the Government. [More…]
We are in a position today where we must consider seriously exactly what the Government is doing for the defence of Australia and what is the administrative backup and formulation of policy upon which this defence is supposed to take place. [More…]
Therefore, any defence reorganisation policy must be based on the prime requisite that through that reorganisation and administration of the Department of Defence we will have the most efficient, and effective military force that this country can possibly muster. [More…]
Perhaps I should add also that if we are to have integration, which is the essence of this legislation, between the military and the civilian arms of the Department of Defence, it is not difficult to imagine in times of defence crisis the difficulties that will arise in handling such a situation when no fewer than 12 committees which are to be established in accordance with the Tange report must be dealt with. [More…]
They include: The Defence Co-ordination Committee, the Defence Program Committee, the Chiefs of Staff Committee- that is fair enough- the Defence Management Committee, the Plans and Operations Committee, the Defence Force Structure Committee, the Defence Operations Requirements Group, the Programs and Estimates Committee, the Defence Conditions of Service Committee, the Defence Science Board, the Dockyard Policy Committee and the Defence Research Development (Trials and Evaluation) Review Committee. [More…]
The Minister shall have the general control and administration of the Defence Force . [More…]
But, when we are talking about the defence services, with all due respect we are not talking about the general Public Service model which is there to carry out civilian administration, not military administration. [More…]
1 ) Subject to section 8, the Secretary and the Chief of Defence Force Staff shall jointly have the administration of the Defence Force except with respect to - [More…]
I find it fascinating that the Secretary and the Chief of the Defence Force Staff shall jointly have the administration of the Defence Force. [More…]
I do not see any suggestion that the Chief of the Defence Force Staff should jointly administer the Department of Defence with the Secretary of that Department. [More…]
It is the Secretary of the Department of Defence who ultimately will have the final word on every aspect of administration relevant to the defence services. [More…]
Of course, we agree that there is a need at this time to co-ordinate the three defence Services. [More…]
There is a case for the establishment of one Department of Defence. [More…]
It simply cannot be done efficiently, therefore, we should have a Minister for Defence and 3 Assistant Ministers, all of whom would be responsible for various elements of the totality. [More…]
At least we can then control through this Parliament the administration, and the defence forces. [More…]
Although I am not suggesting for a moment that that necessarily will be the outcome in Australia the fact still remains if the lessons of history are to be learned I sincerely hope that they will be, at least by the members of this Parliament- that we will be prepared to take the obvious steps which this House requires and let there be effective responsibility to the Parliament through the Minister and through his assistants for all aspects of the defence administration. [More…]
Another point I wish to make is relevant to the question of the establishment of a defence council. [More…]
With the destruction of the 3 Service boards, which probably was necessary within the context of establishing a united Department of Defence, the Opposition believes and with good reason that the links now between the Minister on the one hand and the heads of the Services on the other and their capacity to control the administration relevant to their Services are, to say the least, very tenuous indeed. [More…]
We believe that one way in which this could be assisted to some extent would be the establishment of a national defence council, which would deal and act directly with the Minister and which would be made up of the 3 Service chiefs and the Secretary of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I have the greatest respect for the Secretary of the Department of Defence, but the fact of the matter is that we have grave doubts about the effectiveness of this legislation. [More…]
It is only right that evidence should be taken at this stage by the Parliament of Australia, pro and contra, that the present Chiefs of Staff should be allowed to give evidence and that this Parliament should be given the opportunity of making up its own mind as to whether or not this legislation establishes machinery that we want for the defence of our country. [More…]
Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee Department of Defence Canberra, A.C.T. [More…]
However, the article appears to be based on conclusions which you have reached from studying the Tange Report and the Defence Force Reorganisation Bill only. [More…]
The present texts of the Ministerial directive to each Chief of Staff in respect of the latter ‘s responsibilities will state ‘advising the Minister for Defence through the Chief of Defence Force Staff, or directly in appropriate circumstances, on matters within your responsibilities.’ [More…]
You mention that the philosophy and details of the proposals should be subject to scrutiny by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
You may not be aware that the reorganisation proposals have already been examined by the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence at which evidence was given by senior officers. [More…]
Again, the Head of the Department of Defence has important advisory responsibilities. [More…]
It is relevant to mention here that in the present text of the Ministerial directive to the Secretary is stated, ‘ Where advice to the Minister for Defence would affect the functions and responsibilities of the Chief of the Defence Force Staff, it is expected that joint advice will be prepared.’ [More…]
The Secretary of the Department of Defence was appointed not by the Labor Government but by the former LiberalCountry Party Government. [More…]
One just cannot run any form of defence force by a committee structure of boards. [More…]
What we have done is to imbue the man who is the commander of the defence force with a statutory authority. [More…]
-I will come to the Defence Council in a moment. [More…]
They are holding the defence organisation of this country to ransom for just petty party political purposes. [More…]
This is an Opposition which shows no concern at all for the defence of this country. [More…]
The Opposition is made up of the very people who sent Australian defence forces to Vietnam; the very people who wasted hundreds of millions of dollars in defence establishments overseas and completely ignored the defence of Australia. [More…]
These are the people who are now trying to delay and to obstruct a reorganisation of the Australian defence forces- a long overdue reorganisation because of their utter neglect. [More…]
I was glad to hear the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman) point out that under a democratic system any person who occupies the position of Minister for Defence has an authority from the elected representatives of the people through this Parliament. [More…]
The honourable member for Kennedy seemed to think that just because he did not happen to be the Minister for Defence, any powers given to the Minister were completely undemocratic or completely against the Services. [More…]
The administration of the defence force is to be the joint responsibility of the Commander of Defence Force and the Secretary of the Department of Defence except- I will spell this out clearly- in relation to matters coming within the command, going back to the definition, vested in the Chief of Defence Force Staff and the Chiefs of Staff or in relation to matters specified by the Minister to be the responsibility of either the Secretary or the Chief of Defence Force. [More…]
Under this legislation the power of the Secretary- the Permanent Head- of the Department of Defence is read down because part of the powers that would be exercised under the normal Public Service concept of a Secretary or Head of a department, such as powers in the field of administration, are exercised by the Commander of the Defence Force. [More…]
Dr Millar forgets in the arguments that he put forward that under the restructuring proposals there is right throughout the Defence Department an intermingling and an interchange of the positions. [More…]
There are people involved in materials, in appropriations and in the whole range of matters concerned with defence. [More…]
But there is necessary interweaving to provide an effective defence force, an effective defence back-up for our defence force in Austrafia. [More…]
Another matter to which I want to refer is the Defence Council. [More…]
The honourable member for Bradfield put forward another Dr Millar proposition for a Defence Council. [More…]
If he reads the legislation he will see that apart from the Chiefs of Staff Committee, which provides for the military side under the chairmanship of the Commander of Defence Force, there are a number of other committees. [More…]
The British have a Defence Council that never meets. [More…]
Let the honourable member table the minutes of the last meeting of the British Defence Council. [More…]
The organisation is I believe based upon the wisdom and the expertise of Australia’s chief defence experts. [More…]
They have gone back 3000 years, which is just about their concept of defence structuring, and they have sought to create obstacles and to postpone and delay the provisions that we have put forward in this legislation. [More…]
We will oppose it here and I hope that a little common sense will prevail with the colleagues of honourable members opposite in the Senate and that they will not seek to delay this very important measure which is designed to ensure that the defence organisation of this country has the improvements that are very necessary and long overdue. [More…]
I must apologise to the Committee for having succumbed to the taunts of the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison). [More…]
It is all right for the Minister for Defence to interject and to say ‘rubbish’. [More…]
Who was it who consciously set down and said: ‘I want the word ‘Commonwealth’ estinguished from the Defence Act’? [More…]
A report on the activities of the Chemical Defence Board is given in Chapter 17 of ‘The Role of Science and Industry-Australia in the War of 1939-45’ by D. P. Mellor. [More…]
This procedure would conform to the normal and necessary Defence practice of holding individuals responsible for protecting information, the release of which would be prejudicial to national security. [More…]
The Minister for Defence in the House of Representatives on 9 April 1974 stated that it was intended that Australia would fit the system to the LRMP replacement aircraft. [More…]
This intention was reaffirmed in a statement by the Minister for Defence on 28 May 1975 on the selection of the Lockheed P3C Orion aircraft. [More…]
There have been no press releases on Project BARRA apart from that made by the Minister for Defence on the LRMP aircraft on 28 May 1975. [More…]
Surveillance of the area was undertaken on an ad hoc basis by defence units on passage through north-west waters on defence tasks. [More…]
As you pointed out in your letter, there has been a historic link between the RSL and the Defence Services Homes Division. [More…]
You may be assured that considerable importance is attached to maintenance and development of the Defence Services Homes Scheme as an integral and major part of the task of the Corporation. [More…]
I believe that the housing benefits which have been introduced by my government under the Defence Service Homes Scheme since December 1972, are indicative of the importance that the Australian Government attaches to this aspect of its policy initiatives. [More…]
I noted the comment in the newspaper which is not usually regarded as a socialist journal, making this point in defence of the position of this Government. [More…]
He has established his position in defence of a privileged minority in the community. [More…]
He has a rather curious argument to the effect that his defence is in support of the thrifty- those who save, those who work hard, those who keep their nose to the grindstone. [More…]
I ventilate this matter in the hope that Parliament- the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) and those who speak for this Parliament on these matterswill seek to stir the States into activity to take a stand in defence of these people who in their closing years deserve justice and not burdens of the type that I have illustrated. [More…]
-When this Bill was in Committee last evening I asked the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison)- I thought, in terms of politeness and reason- to give the Committee an explanation of why the nomenclature in many parts of the Bill had been altered. [More…]
It seeks to repeal sections 8, 9 and 9a of the principal Act, namely, the Defence Act. [More…]
That central feature is the purported conferment upon a Chief of Defence Force Staff of command of the Defence Force. [More…]
Again I asked, during the course of my speech in the second reading debate, whether the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) would give an explanation of the apparent conflict- I put it no harsher than that- with section 68 of the Constitution. [More…]
Subject to section 8, the Secretary - meaning the Secretary of the Department of Defence- and the Chief of Defence Force Staff shall jointly have the administration of the Defence Force except with respect to - [More…]
I also invite the honourable gentleman to give an account of how he assesses possible difficulties of Ministers coming and goings and changing their minds so that a matter is not within the joint control of the Secretary of the Department and the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]
I believe that this is quite crucial if we are to have a fluctuation of ministerial edict as to what comes within the second exception, I think we will have a very curiously administered Defence Force. [More…]
I could have a full consultation with the Minister for Defence but one could not reasonably draw from that the conclusion that we were in splendid agreement about the matter. [More…]
If a man of the eminence of Field-Marshal Wavell puts administration ahead of tactics, then I think it is at least incumbent upon the Commonwealth Minister for Defence to offer an explanation to us why it is in this apparently confused area, the Government is reluctant to give information. [More…]
In this area of command and administration, the Bill provides that the Minister shall be responsible for the administration of the department and the defence forces under the Act. [More…]
Two people would assist him in that administrationone being the Chief of the Defence Force Staff and the other the Secretary of the Department. [More…]
Perhaps here there is the element- I agree with the honourable member for Moreton- of the way that the defence re-organisation must be administered. [More…]
It has, for as long as I can remember, been a problem to persuade military people and civilians that they must cooperate with one another if both groups are to make a significant contribution to the formulation of defence policy. [More…]
It is simply the case that neither purely military officers, nor purely civilian officers, can provide the country with what it needs in the defence field. [More…]
What we are being guided by here is the element of co-operation, the element of commonsense, and the notions of command and of administration that have applied in the defence forces structure. [More…]
-The Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) expressed the difficulty a Minister has in his position as administrator and as the person responsible for the general control of a department. [More…]
It provides that the Chief of Defence Force Staff shall command the defence force. [More…]
They cover things like defence manpower, pay, recruitment, conditions of service, personnel policy, and training and education policy. [More…]
It would seem that if the matter is to be cleared it is not for the Minister to say to us in Opposition: ‘Why don’t you go along and talk to the Secretary of the Department or the Chief of the Defence Force Staff and find out what they have in mind?’ [More…]
What are the directives you are going to issue for the operation of the defence forces? [More…]
We were told last night, and indeed it is in the documents, that the reorganisation of the defence forces has been going on for something like 2 years. [More…]
I feel that in defence reorganisation the Government has done the same as it has done in other areas. [More…]
The only way under this Bill and particularly under clause 7, which we are considering, that we can understand the Government’s intention and allay the ever-present fears that are welling up within the defence forces themselves as to how much say the Public Service is going to have over their actions it is for the Minister to tell us what his directives are, how the thing is going to work. [More…]
I will not repeat the argument I pressed upon the Committee last night, but I ask the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) whether he will give an explanation. [More…]
It is true that the Defence Act does not use the term ‘ Royal Australian Air Force ‘, but do not tell me that it is because of symmetry of drafting or a passionate desire to have a splendid sense of uniformity running throughout all defence legislation that the term ‘Royal Australian Air Force’ is being deleted from the CourtsMartial Appeals Act. [More…]
There shall be an Air Force, to be called the Royal Australian Air Force, which may be raised, maintained and organised by the Governor-General for the defence and protection of the Commonwealth and shall be part of the Defence Force constituted under the Defence Act. [More…]
The Opposition supports the Defence Force Ombudsman Bill. [More…]
Its purpose is to establish an ombudsman to examine complaints in the area of defence administration. [More…]
I suppose one would be at liberty to foresee some difficulty, should the matter of administration come up, if a person in the defence area says: ‘No, this is not a matter of administration; it is a matter of command ‘. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill was summed up by the previous Minister for Defence quite succinctly in his second reading speech. [More…]
The function of the Defence Force Ombudsman will be to investigate complaints made by members of the defence force, former members of the defence force or their dependants with regard to any action in relation to a matter of administration which arises from the fact that a person is serving or has served in the defence force. [More…]
May I make clear for my part and for the Opposition’s part that the Bill does not give to the Defence Force Ombudsman the power to interfere in respect of matters which are disciplinary in nature. [More…]
It is amendment (7) which deals with clause 5 relating to the jurisdiction of the Defence Force Ombudsman. [More…]
The Defence Force Ombudsman is not authorised by this Act to investigate- [More…]
action taken by way of, or in connexion with, proceedings against a member of the Defence Force in respect of a naval, military or air force offence. [More…]
Where, at any time during an investigation into action taken by the Defence Force or a public authority, the Defence Force Ombudsman becomes of the opinion that the action was taken in the course of giving effect to a decision of the Cabinet, of a Committee of the Cabinet or of a Minister and that the Defence Force or the public authority, as the case may be, did not act improperly in the course of giving effect to that decision, the Defence Force Ombudsman shall not investigate the action further. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) to what would seem to me to be, with great respect, some mild conflict in the Bill, that is that if the Ombudsman cannot investigate an action taken by a Minister it would seem to me, a fortiori, that he could not investigate an action taken by a collection or a grouping of Ministers. [More…]
As the Opposition shadow Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), has pointed out, we do not oppose this Bill at all. [More…]
In fact we will be delighted to see it at least pass through this House because in effect the concept of a defence force Ombudsman was accepted quite some time ago. [More…]
I share the pleasure of the honourable member for Moreton, that the appointment of the Defence Force Ombudsman will in no way affect the discipline that is an integral and critical part of the forces. [More…]
It is because of this respect and understanding which inevitably grows between a good NCO and a good officer and their men that I am pleased to see that there is special mention in clause 7 of the Bill in relation to a provision that a serving member of the defence force can have a complaint dealt with by the Service authorities before submitting the matter to the Defence Force Ombudsman. [More…]
I do not consider that an ombudsman is responsible to anybody other than the Parliament, and in that respect I think in it is the wrong term to use in view of the role to be played by the Defence Force Ombudsman. [More…]
I trust that this will not be the case, but I sincerely press the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) to give us the reassurance we need in regard to that clause. [More…]
A number of amendments were made to that Bill, and because the Defence Force Ombudsman Bill follows very closely the Ombudsman Bill we felt it necessary to make the same amendments to the Defence Force Ombudsman Bill as were made to the Ombudsman Bill. [More…]
The second criticism is that, if the intention is merely to exclude cases where no independent discretion at all is exercised in giving effect to a Cabinet or ministerial decision, it is too wide and is unnecessary having regard to paragraph (a) of clause 5(3) of the Bill which excludes actions taken by a Minister from investigation by the Defence Force Ombudsman. [More…]
In addition, the clause is inconsistent with sub-clause 1 7( 1 ) of the Bill which contemplates that the Defence Force Ombudsman can investigate actions taken in accordance with an ordinance or regulation, in which case he can call into question the reasonableness of a decision of the Executive Council. [More…]
a person appointed by the Defence Force Ombudsman to be an authorized person for the purposes of this Act; or [More…]
a person included in a class of persons appointed by the Defence Force Ombudsman to be authorized persons for the purposes of this Act; [More…]
Department’ means a Department of the Australian Public Service other than the Department of the Senate, the Department of the House of Representatives, the Department of the Parliamentary Library, the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff and the Joint House Department; dependant of a member of the Defence Force’ means- [More…]
in relation to action taken under an enactment- a person who is, or is claiming to be, a dependant of a member of the Defence Force for the purposes of that enactment; or [More…]
in any other case- a person who is wholly or partly dependent on a member of the Defence Force; enactment’ means- [More…]
in relation to the Defence Force- the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee; [More…]
in relation to action taken by the Defence Forcethe Minister for Defence; [More…]
For the purposes of this Act, action that is taken by a member of the Defence Force shall be deemed to be taken by the Defence Force if the member takes, or purports to take, the action by virtue of his being a member of the Defence Force, whether or not- [More…]
the action is taken in connexion with, in the course of or as incidental to his service as a member of the Defence Force; or [More…]
b) the taking of the action is within his duties as a member of the Defence Force. [More…]
Subject to sub-section (4), for the purposes of this Act, action taken by the Governor-General to appoint a person to be an officer of the Naval Forces, the Military Forces or the Air Force, to promote such an officer, to terminate the appointment, or cancel the commission, of such an officer, to accept or refuse to accept the resignation of such an officer, to transfer such an officer from one branch or part of the Defence Force to another branch or part of that Force or to place such an officer upon an unattached list, a reserve of officers list or a retired list shall be deemed to be taken by the Defence Force but any other action taken by the GovernorGeneral in relation to the Defence Force shall be deemed not to be action taken by the Defence Force. [More…]
Action taken by any person or persons by way of, or in connexion with, the appointment of a person to be the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee, the Chief of Naval Staff, the Chief of the General Staff or the Chief of the Air Staff is not action taken by the Defence Force or the Department of Defence for the purposes of this Act. [More…]
In this Act (other than in sub-section (2)), unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to a member of the Defence Force or of a part of that Force includes a reference to a person who has been a member of the Defence Force or of that part of that Force. [More…]
10) For the purpose of this Act, a report shall be taken to have been made or furnished to the Defence Force if it is made or furnished to the principal officer of the Defence Force. [More…]
Where, at any time during an investigation into action taken by the Defence Force or a public authority, the Defence Force Ombudsman becomes of the opinion that the action was taken in the course of giving effect to a decision of the Cabinet, of a Committee of the Cabinet or of a Minister and that the Defence Force or the public authority, as the case may be, did not act improperly in the course of giving effect to that decision, the Defence Force Ombudsman shall not investigate the action further. [More…]
A complaint shall be made to the Defence Force Ombudsman in writing. [More…]
Subject to this Act, a person attending before the Defence Force Ombudsman has the same protection, and is, in addition to the penalties provided by this Act, subject to the same liabilities, as a witness in proceedings in the High Court. [More…]
An authorised person is not entitled, by virtue of this section, to inspect documents on premises occupied by the Defence Force or a public authority except by arrangement with the principal officer of the Defence Force or authority. [More…]
A reference in this section to an authorised person includes a reference to the Defence Force Ombudsman. [More…]
The first report under this section shall be submitted as soon as practicable after 30 June 1 975, and shall relate to the operations of the Defence Force Ombudsman during the period that commenced at the commencement of this Act and ended on that date. [More…]
Where the Defence Force Ombudsman refers in a report prepared by him in pursuance of sub-section ( 1 ) to an investigation made by him under this Act, the Defence Force Ombudsman shall not, in referring to the investigation, set out opinions that are, either expressly or impliedly, critical of the Defence Force, a public authority or a person unless the Defence Force Ombudsman had complied with sub-section 10 (5) in relation to the investigation. [More…]
The Defence Force Ombudsman may, by instrument in writing, delegate to a member of the staff referred to in sub-section 30(1), or, with the consent of the Minister, to any other person, any of his powers under this Act, except this power of delegation or the power to report under section 17,18, 19 or 20. [More…]
the Defence Force Ombudsman; [More…]
another person, not being a person referred to in paragraph (b), to whom the Defence Force Ombudsman has delegated any of his powers under section 33. [More…]
In Clause 3, after sub-clause ( 1 ), insert the following subclauses: (1a) An unincorporated body, being a board, council, committee, sub-committee or other body established by, or in accordance with the provisions of, an enactment for the purpose of assisting, or performing functions connected with, the Defence Force or a public authority shall not be taken to be a public authority for the purpose of this Act, but action taken by the body, or by a person on its behalf, shall, for the purpose of this Act, be deemed to have been taken by the Defence Force or that public authority, as the case may be. [More…]
On and after the date fixed by proclamation under section 2 of the Defence Force Re-organization Act 1975 as the date of commencement of section 7 of that Act, a reference in this Act to the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee, shall be read as a reference to the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]
to have forwarded to the Defence Force Ombudsman, without undue delay, a sealed envelope delivered by him to the person and addressed to the Defence Force Ombudsman. [More…]
Where a sealed envelope is delivered to a person under sub-section (2) for forwarding to the Defence Force Ombudsman, neither the person in whose custody he is detained nor any other person performing duties in connexion with his detention is entitled to open the envelope or inspect any document enclosed in the envelope. [More…]
would disclose legal advice furnished to a Minister, the Defence Force or a public authority, but his answer to any such question is not admissible in evidence against him in proceedings other than proceedings for an offence against section 35. [More…]
For the purposes of an investigation under this Act, an authorized person is entitled to inspect any documents relevant to the investigation kept at premises entered by him under this section, other than documents in respect of which a Minister has furnished a certificate under sub-section 1 1 (3), at a reasonable time of the day arranged with the principal officer of the Defence Force or public authority concerned. [More…]
( 1 ) The Defence Force Ombudsman may, from time to time, submit to the Minister, for presentation to the Parliament, a report of the operations of the Defence Force Ombudsman during a part of a year or a report concerning a particular investigation or particular investigationscarried out under this Act. [More…]
Where the Defence Force Ombudsman refers in a report submitted under sub-section (1) to an investigation made by him under this Act, the Defence Force Ombudsman shall not, in referring to the investigation, set out opinions that are, either expressly or impliedly, critical of the Defence Force, a public authority or a person unless the Defence Force Ombudsman has complied with sub-section 10 (5) in relation to the investigation. [More…]
from making a record of, or divulging or communicating to any person, information acquired by him in the performance of his duties as an officer and for purposes connected with the performance of the functions of the Defence Force Ombudsman under this Act; or [More…]
if the information was furnished by a member of the Defence Force or an officer of a public authority in the performance of his duties as such member or officer- with the consent of the principal officer of the Defence Force or authority or of the responsible Minister; or [More…]
the making of a complaint to the Defence Force Ombudsman under this Act; or [More…]
I wonder whether it will require companies overseas, perhaps those from which we purchase our defence equipment and aircraft, to produce detailed statements of all their costs. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) will notice that the term ‘Commonwealth of Australia ‘is used. [More…]
I am delighted that the Minister for Defence has said that that is the case. [More…]
The present Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) said in his second reading speech on 26 May: [More…]
Today we are dealing with a Bill in which the test of loyalty is the continuation of the defence association with the United States. [More…]
This indicates what the ANZUS Treaty has meant to Australia in terms of our access to American weapons of war, in terms of American intelligence and the technology that has become available to us through the presence of American installations on our soil, and in terms of the interchange of information which takes place not only between serving defence personnel, but between defence scientists and the like. [More…]
So it was that our Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Defence went to the United States to discuss the operation of the United States Naval Communications Station. [More…]
I, together with other members and the former member for Bass and former Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, was a member of the Labor Party’s Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence when these matters were reported to the Party. [More…]
There are divergences on matters like this just as there are divergences on matters without a defence significance. [More…]
All of us on the Government side of the chamber look forward to a continued happy association with the United States within the framework of the defence treaty, particularly the ANZUS Treaty which is such an important part of the Labor Party platform. [More…]
He said the Defence Minister, Mr Barnard, would renegotiate the agreement with the U.S. in a few months. [More…]
What sort of attitude is it, if security is any form of concept to be taken into account in defence policy or foreign policy, to determine in early 1974 that no matter what the circumstances in 1985, when the agreement supposedly comes to and end, the agreement will not be extended? [More…]
Minister for Defence concluded on, namely, that what really counts in relations between nations is the reservoir of goodwill that exists, not the formal documents alone. [More…]
We made that point time and time again when the Agreement was renegotiated by the former Minister for Defence and Ambassadordesignate. [More…]
The station is a vital component of the United States’ defence communications and also of Australia’s communications. [More…]
Mr Barnard, the then Minister for Defence, and the United States Secretary of Defence, Mr Schlesinger, saw the status of the station as a bilateral arrangement in the framework of the ANZUS Treatywords that must have been written for Mr Barnard by members of the Opposition Partiesfundamental to the ANZUS alliance, fundamental to the ANZUS Treaty and a part of the bilateral arrangement between 2 countries which share a common approach to the world’s problems today as stronger members of the Western industrialised democracies. [More…]
The tenure of these bases and facilities by other powers should not be of such a character as to exclude properly accredited access by authorised Australians charged with the duty of evaluating Australian defence policy, whether members of the Australian Parliament, defence departments or armed services. [More…]
He went on to say that the North West Cape base agreement with the United States was obnoxious and that the then Defence Minister (Mr Barnard) would renegotiate the agreement with the United States within a few months. [More…]
What change has the former Minister for Defence secured? [More…]
Indeed the present Minister for Defence- we have heard little of him- and his predecessor, have been trying to deny the use of Australian resources and materials and manufacturing capacity in the re-equipment and extension of the Australian armed forces. [More…]
Indeed, the changes to the agreement, even down to the very minor amendments that have been written in by the re-negotiation of which the former Minister for Defence was so proud and of which the present Minister for the Capital Territory is so critical, are so minimal that it is laughable that the Bill comes before us at all. [More…]
It is interesting to conjecture on the form that the present expression of the philosophy and policy of the Labor Party will take- disengagement and disarmament, and the complete denigration of defence arrangements which provide some type of cover against the run-down for which they have been responsible. [More…]
We do not believe in warmongering, but we do believe in security and defence. [More…]
And if the answer to those questions was yes, then quite clearly we had to allow the United States to have this facility so that the United States could play its part not only in the ANZUS Treaty but in world security- the western defence system. [More…]
This amendment gives us the opportunity to reaffirm that we will look after the security of this country by means of treaties with our allies, and that we will give to our allies complete assurances that they can rely on our committed word and our willingness, at least on this side of the House, to defend Australia and to make our contributions to the western defence system. [More…]
Australian peole would not accept the argument for to accept it would be to prejudice very seriously the defence capacity of this country in alliance with a great ally, the United States. [More…]
His word, I am afraid, in respect of foreign affairs and defence cannot be relied upon. [More…]
I thank the Minister for Defence for his effective work on behalf of our country in this matter as in so many others. [More…]
We know what happened to the Minister for Defence so shortly after that. [More…]
In fact, during the last 2 nights members of this House have had more opportunities to discuss Australia’s defence preparedness than we have had probably in the entire 2Vi years of the present Government’s term of office. [More…]
Only those who live in a world of fantasy can deny the vital importance in peace-time of such a system of communication as an item of defence preparation and preparedness. [More…]
Does he really believe it or is he just trying to pander to an electorate which he should know as well as we do is very conscious of the need to build up sufficient defence capacity in this country and through our alliances so that Australia’s future can be secure. [More…]
Then I went a step further and said to the State Department and Defence Department officials I was talking to: ‘Under what conditions will you consider the ANZUS Treaty to be no longer- of effect?’ [More…]
Our defences in a sense are gone. [More…]
Our only real defence at present lies in the existence of the United States fleet in the Indian and Pacific Oceans and without that we are virtually defenceless. [More…]
This is nonsense and the tragedy is that it is being uttered by supporters of a government which has no intention of allowing Australia to regain any defence capability, a government which brought in’ a Budget only a couple of nights ago which provides for a diminution in the manpower of the Australian forces, a government which knows that by ourselves we have no adequate capacity to determine the continued existence of the Australian nation. [More…]
Yet this is a government which, embarrassed by its pro-communist left wing, is out to break what ties we have with the United States and to provoke the United States, insofar as it lies within its power, into abandoning the defence of Australia and the reality of the ANZUS Pact. [More…]
It would be very strange indeed if I, as an Austraiian Minister, did not from the Australian point, see issues in a perspective different from the way my counterpart in the USA, the Secretary of Defence, would see them. [More…]
In the arrangements which were entered into by my predecessor and Dr Schlesinger, the United States Secretary of Defence, in January 1974 these things were achieved: Agreement that the station would be operated as a joint facility; the appointment of an Australian deputy commander with status in the management of the station; the posting of Australian servicemen to key operational posts in the station. [More…]
That is contained in a document signed by my predecessor and by the Unites States Secretary of Defence. [More…]
If we were realistic we would see that this proposition as pan of our defence effort. [More…]
It is envisaged that areas will be used for Defence Service housing, family housing and aged persons homes. [More…]
The Department of Defence is re-examining its requirements and the extent of other Australian Government requirements is being determined. [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence, it is necessary for me to ensure that every dollar which is spent in the defence vote is used to the utmost benefit of Australia’s defence preparedness. [More…]
I repeat that the advice of the military advisers to the Government in relation to those defence force functions for which the Minister for Defence is responsible was that the funds that were used for school cadets and the Regular Army men used in training school cadets- there are some 385 of them- could be better used for the defence preparedness of Australia. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Has the Australian Government reversed its policy about joint bases with the United States and taken the decision to extend the agreement providing for the continued operation of the joint defence base research facility at Pine Gap? [More…]
Does this change in policy apply also to the joint defence base communications station at Nurrungar, near Woomera? [More…]
On top of that, there have been commitments from some spokesmen on the Opposition side in the field of defence to restore expenditure as a proportion of the gross domestic product to somewhere near the level that existed at the height of the Vietnam war. [More…]
It could be said in response to the interjection that after 3 years of neglect of our defence forces we have nothing significant to deploy without dangerously denuding our forces at home. [More…]
-I am certainly not aware of any invitation having been extended by the Defence Council or defence group to serving members of the armed forces. [More…]
I am certainly not aware of any invitation having been extended to me as Minister for Defence to participate in the conference, but I would be very happy to do so if such an invitation were extended to me. [More…]
As for the last observation made by the honourable member, this Government is prepared to stand by its defence policy. [More…]
It is a defence policy which is making up for the neglect of the previous Government in running down the expenditure on capital equipment. [More…]
The Australian defence position requires a greater investment in capital expenditure at the present stage- I will be informing the House about this matter tomorrowbecause of the lack of decision on equipment by the Liberal-Country Party Government 4 or 5 years ago. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Is he aware of any alternative defence program having been put forward in this country? [More…]
Can he say whether such proposals involve a substantial increase in defence expenditure? [More…]
I am not aware of any alternative defence program being put forward by the Opposition. [More…]
I am also not aware of any costing of the Opposition’s defence proposals. [More…]
I have certainly heard nothing to the contrary so, in response to the honourable member’s question, I can say only that in the absence of any alternative program, in the absence of any alternative costing, in the absence of any explicit criticism of the Government’s defence program the Opposition must be supporting the Australian Government ‘s defence program. [More…]
-The Bill before the House seeks authority to borrow amounts for the financing of defence expenditure during 1975-76. [More…]
This particular item is handled in this way to link with defence. [More…]
This Bill authorises the transfer of loan funds to Consolidated Revenue for defence purposes. [More…]
Loan funds can be drawn on for defence expenditure or temporary purposes- a familiar phrase of late- and for such amounts as are agreed by the Loan Council under the Financial Agreement. [More…]
Because it is provided by the Financial Agreement that funds can be drawn for defence purposes, this is a reasonably convenient method of supplementing the deficit that otherwise would appear in the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]
Loans for Defence purposes approved by the Parliament of the Commonwealth shall not be included in the Commonwealth’s loan program or be otherwise subject to this Agreement. [More…]
This Bill is substantially about that proviso in that clause of the Agreement in respect of defence expenditure and therefore a transfer is necessary. [More…]
1) 1975-76, to permit defence expenditure specified in that Bill to be charged to Loan Fund. [More…]
If he takes from that the second figure at the top of the column, the credit item of $ 1 96,800, which is repayment of a previous loan, he will get the figure which appears on page 7 against Defence under the column ‘Net transactions of Loan Fund’ of $1,1 5 1.9m. [More…]
This Bill in fact authorises certain defence expenditures from approved appropriations to be charged to that Fund. [More…]
As I have said, the Bill itself is not opposed nor is there any equivocation on the part of my Party, the National Country Party of Australia, or our coalition colleagues about approval for provision of defence expenditure. [More…]
I am not asking for impossible precision, but if the deficit in the Consolidated Revenue Fund does exceed the estimates by even more than the estimated amount- I do not think that is an unreasonable hypothesis or supposition- how much or how little of the estimated defence appropriation will be able to come from Consolidated Revenue, or how inadequate will be the Consolidated [More…]
Revenue Fund to meet, for instance, our defence expenditure? [More…]
The Government has used defence as the vehicle. [More…]
Is it not reasonable to ask how much of our defence expenditure is going to depend on appropriations from loan funds? [More…]
Why defence? [More…]
I suppose constitutionally it is the safe way to appropriate defence expenditure from the Loan Fund because it is doubtful just what other avenues of expenditure can be so appropriated. [More…]
Defence does come into this Bill, and because it does that worries me. [More…]
This Bill tells us: ‘We are not going to be able to meet all of our expenditure so we have to authorise some of our defence expenditure to come from the Loan Fund’. [More…]
In other words, defence expenditure in toto will not be able to be met by Consolidated Revenue. [More…]
This worries me, because if we did not experience a chill down our spine at some of the attitudes and remarks of particularly left wing Government members on aspects of defence in debate in this House, I would be most surprised. [More…]
Is it naive to believe that our defence should be adequately attended to in a budget from Consolidated Revenue and that we ought not, at least at this time of the year, to have to worry about Bills such as this? [More…]
The only thing that is definite in this Bill and the only thing which we can accept without any equivocation is that this Bill does not indicate that there will be any over-expenditure or additional expenditure on defence. [More…]
The Government might over-expend everywhere else but we know that there is no danger at all of its squandering any money on the defence of this country. [More…]
The only thing I can say is that I fervently hope the loan funds will prove pretty robust if the defence of our country and other appropriations are to be heavily dependent on it. [More…]
The Commonwealth can borrow without the Loan Council’s sanction for temporary purposesthat is an expression we have heard recently in this Parliament- or it can borrow for defence purposes. [More…]
What is happening under this Bill is that the Government is really intending to borrow for the deficit by the simple device of charging all of the defence expenditure of whatever character not against the Consolidated Revenue Fund but against the Loan Fund. [More…]
Under this Bill the whole of the defence expenditure, including all current expenditure, could be chargeable against the Loan Fund up to the limit of the total deficit in the Budget. [More…]
Of course, the total deficit in the Budget is likely to be far higher than the total of the defence expenditure, so that limit does not really have any practical significance. [More…]
But what the Government is doing- I do not want to describe it as underhand because it does not seem to me that the Government has really made its position clear in the matter- is in some way giving itself the opportunity of charging the whole of the defence expenditure against the Loan Fund and thus fiddling the accounts. [More…]
Why is it that the Bill seeks to give a facility to charge the whole of the defence expenditure against the Loan Fund? [More…]
If that is so, why would not the mere avowal that the money is for defence purposes similarly take it outside the ambit of the Financial Agreement? [More…]
It does not allow all the defence expenditure to come from the Loan Fund; it allows such an amount as is determined by the deficiency between the Consolidated Revenue Fund receipts and the projected outgoings from that Fund during the year. [More…]
The other point is that the money spent on defence, whether it comes out of Consolidated Revenue or the Loan Fund, cannot be of an amount greater than the total provided in the Budget. [More…]
We cannot spend more than that amount on defence. [More…]
It is true that the limit on the defence expenditure which can be charged to Loan Fund is the deficiency in the Consolidated Revenue Fund as a whole. [More…]
But since it may well be that this year the deficiency in the Consolidated Revenue Fund will exceed the figure of, I think it was, $ 1,700m the Minister cited as the defence expenditure, there is in point of practical fact no limitation. [More…]
Contrary to what the Minister said, there will be in the Government’s hands, if we pass this Bill, the capacity to charge the whole of defence expenditure against the Loan Fund. [More…]
Will it enable or induce the private sector to turn its attention once again to growth, development and new horizons, with all that that means in terms of providing jobs for Australians and a higher standard of living and the very capacity the better to meet those aspirations in the education, health, welfare, defence and other fields where community demands have outrun the ability to provide? [More…]
I was particularly pleased to note that the defence budget amounted to over $ 1,800m this year. [More…]
I believe that the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) when he explains this in greater detail will be able to point to real rises in expenditure on capital items. [More…]
As he explained today at question time, it is essential that the capital component of our defence budget goes up. [More…]
I point out that expenditure overseas on capital items for defence is not inflationary. [More…]
The defence services homes allocations are also being cut. [More…]
At the moment I believe the waiting time for a first mortgage loan under the Defence Service Homes Act is almost 12 months. [More…]
I include education and sewerage and, in an uncertain changing world, adequate defence. [More…]
Even now, Opposition members are crying out for more and more money for defence and at the same time are telling us that we should spend less and less on every other section of the Australian community. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Are officers and other ranks of the Defence Force now entitled to retire after 20 years service and to receive a lump sum payment equivalent to 4 years pension. [More…]
The general position is that officers and other ranks who leave the Defence Force after twenty or more years service with a pension entitlement (other than an invalidity pension) are eligible to receive a lump sum equal to four times their annual pension on exit; but, of course, payment of the lump sum results in a reduction in the amount of pension otherwise payable. [More…]
The Government has no plans to vary the current arrangements for separation from the Defence Force. [More…]
I will be accompanied at that time by the members of Parliament to whom I have referred already and also by some of my ministerial colleagues, including the Minister for Defence, affectionately known among his friends as the honourable member for St George. [More…]
The first point that the Government would like to make is that it welcomes public debate on the issues confronting Australia in the defence area. [More…]
One of the strange things is that many of the participants in this Defence Council held very high office during the early 1960s, when Australia’s defences were down. [More…]
Another representative on the Defence Councilagain a retired gentleman- is Air Marshal Sir Alister Murdoch. [More…]
It is quite obvious that these gentlemen have more than a passing interest in defence matters. [More…]
We have within the Department of Defence and within the Australian Services to-day’s men, men who have the experience and the expertise and who are in a position in 1975- not in 1965- to tender advice to this Government. [More…]
It is on the basis of that expert advice that this Government will formulate its defence policies. [More…]
What about the $10m that the Opposition spokesman on defence has promised to restore school cadets? [More…]
by leave- The defence of Australia rightly occupies a high priority in the thinking and planning of the Australian Government. [More…]
It is a priority reflected in the defence outlay in this year’s Budget. [More…]
The amount of this year’s defence outlay- some $ 1,800m- represents a proper and just acknowledgement of the importance of maintaining a meaningful defence capability; it is a carefully thought out response to the needs of the defence community, taking into consideration the necessary containment of public expenditure in the current economic climate. [More…]
It is based on a realistic assessment of the international situation and not on a resort to deliberately generated appeals to fear and panic which in the long run can only distort the nature of our defence preparedness. [More…]
Unlike the wasteful expenditure on foreign adventures undertaken by our predecessors, this is a defence budget designed explicitly and expertly for the defence of Australia and its direct interests. [More…]
It demonstrates beyond aU doubt Australia ‘s intention to defend herself and her vital interests.This concept of continental defence is reflected throughout the details of expenditure. [More…]
Defence capability is a matter of well trained men, modern equipment and adequate support. [More…]
We must ensure that the defence force, its equipment and its logistic, industrial and technological support provide an adequate base from which to expand in a timely fashion should the need arise. [More…]
Costs of defence manpower, both Service and civilian, have been rising very rapidly. [More…]
At the same time, largely because of the failure of the previous government to take sound equipment decisions in its last years of office, the resources devoted to capital items in the defence vote, namely equipment and infrastructure, have been falling. [More…]
As a result of these 2 trends the proportion of the defence vote devoted to capital items had fallen to a quite unacceptably low level. [More…]
The first series of decisions was announced last year by the then Defence Minister, Mr Barnard, namely negotiations for the purchase of 2 patrol frigates for the Royal Australian Navy, now known as guided missile frigates, and the purchase of 8 Orion long range maritime patrol aircraft for the Royal Australian [More…]
It was made clear that these were only the initial steps to ensure that our Services have the modern conventional equipment they need, and that further decisions would be made each year as part of the five-year rolling program of the Defence Department. [More…]
Uninformed critics of Australia’s defence have sought to question the morale and capacity of our defence forces. [More…]
All signs indicate that the standing of the defence forces is high and the armed Services are regarded as a worthwhile career. [More…]
Nothing could more conclusively prove the validity of the Government’s policy of a justly rewarded, all-volunteer Defence Force. [More…]
All objective data therefore indicates that our nation is well served by a skilled, highly motivated defence force. [More…]
This more efficient use of defence personnel is paralleled by strict economies in civilian manpower, which will see a reduction of 230 employees in the coming year. [More…]
These steps have succeeded in reducing the proportion of the defence vote allocated to manpower from 6 1 per cent in the 1973-74 financial year to 56 per cent in this Budget. [More…]
Expenditure on capital equipment in this year’s defence outlay covering continuing payments on equipment approved last year and in earlier years, as well as initial payments on proposals approved this year, will be $182m. [More…]
There has not hitherto been a capability of this kind in the Aus.tralian defence force, or in the civil fleet. [More…]
In antisubmarine warfare, Australian defence science and industry are developing a new active sonar, called Mulloka, especially for operation in Aus.tralian waters. [More…]
For many years, Army has had to make do with an air defence capability based on the Bofors gun. [More…]
The choice of an air defence missile system for Army has been a lengthy and arduous process but I am now satisfied that the selection of Rapier is right in the Australian context. [More…]
There will be local involvement in production work for the mediumrange transport aircraft, the medium tank and the air-defence weapon, but in these projects more emphasis will be placed on offsets. [More…]
Details of the third important component of the defence vote, namely defence facilities, are given in a document which I ask the permission of the House to have incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
-I begin by thanking the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) for his courtesy in making available to me last night a copy of the statement he has just read to the House. [More…]
I would feel under an obligation to congratulate the honourable gentleman on having made his first statement to this House as Minister for Defence. [More…]
Nevertheless, I would feel under a kindred obligation to point out to him that it will be my plain determination to ensure that it is his last statement to this House as Minister for Defence. [More…]
I would hope that the maturity of this nation is of such a character that we have moved quietly but nevertheless perceptibly towards being able to embrace a bipartisan policy upon defence matters; but alas, the statement which has been delivered to the House by the Minister, far from encouraging a bipartisan attitude to defence, vigorously discourages it. [More…]
I remind the honourable gentleman that the startling ungenerosity of language that he has used in this House this afternoon, and indeed this morning, takes those of us who serve in the Opposition most consciously away from the idea that it would ever be possible to have a bipartisan approach to defence matters. [More…]
That is desperately sad not merely for any political party in this country but for the whole nation, because the startling fact of life is that for this country our whole defence environment has changed. [More…]
During the first debate in this Parliament on defence matters in 1901 a very distinguished member of the Parliament, Sir George Reid, observed to this effect: The strength of this nation and its interests will always be protected by the glory and the strength of the British Empire. [More…]
The term which the honourable gentleman has used, ‘continental defence’, is not a term that upsets me in the least, but I do implore him and I do implore those who use it to be conscious of the fact that continental defence does not simply mean that we start to defend this country at the edge of the territorial sea. [More…]
The fact of life today, as far as this nation is concerned in defence matters, is that the doctrine of self-reliance is assuming a greater degree of relevance month by month, day by day, and indeed hour by hour. [More…]
I am concerned to find that the Government adopts the approach it has to defence. [More…]
I remind this House that it has not had the opportunity of having one day’s debate on defence matters in nearly 3 years. [More…]
To use the language in the Minister’s opening paragraph: Does defence occupy a high priority in the thinking and planning of the Australian Government? [More…]
If it is a high priority that we have not had one day’s debate on defence matters, goodness only knows what a low priority would offer. [More…]
I will warrant him this: At every opportunity I get on any platform in this country I W111 remind the audience of what the Minister for Defence said about 2 very distinguished officers with very distinguished records of service to this country. [More…]
It is a priority reflected in the defence outlay in this year’s Budget. [More…]
Defence expenditure as a percentage of gross domestic product reflected in this year’s Budget is down to 2.5 per cent. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) declared that the Australian Labor Party’s target in defence spending would not fall below the level of 3.2 to 3.5 per cent of gross national product set by the Liberal-Country Party governments in recent years. [More…]
I find it agreeable that the percentage of defence vote upon equipment is up, but it deserves to go up further. [More…]
In the few minutes left at my disposal I want to refer to one clear area of activity to illustrate the approach of this Government towards defence matters. [More…]
This nation deserves to have a sustained debate upon defence matters. [More…]
without an application from the electors concerned; substituting ‘8 kilometres’ for ‘5 miles’ as the requisite qualifying distance in order to apply for a postal vote; changing from 21 years to 18 years the qualifying age for appointment of Presiding Officers and Assistant Presiding Officers; providing a defence against prosecution where a candidate unwittingly makes a donation to a club or association etc. [More…]
-That is a regrettably fatuous remark by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Les Johnson), exacerbated by the former Minister for External Territories and present Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison), who is sitting at the table. [More…]
I have received the approval of the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) for this and I assume that the Minister for Defence has no objection. [More…]
My reason for quoting that is that we come to the stage where Papua New Guinea- albeit she has had her own Foreign Relations and Defence Minister and has had her own staff at missions abroad- will now in law as well as in fact be conducting her own foreign policy and conducting it as it suits her interests and not necessarily Australia’s interests. [More…]
Secondly, the Papua New Guinea BUI transfers to Papua New Guinea the administration of the Pocklington Reef Islands, a matter announced by the Minister for Defence in 1974. [More…]
I assume that in the area of defence quite a considerable amount has been done. [More…]
In addition to that, of course, there is defence aid which is not included in the figure of $500m. [More…]
I am surprised from looking at the list of speakers that apparently the only honourable member on the Government side to speak on this subject is the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison). [More…]
Even though the Minister for Defence has described us as a colonial power, we were not a colonial power in the true sense of the term. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has made excuses or given reasons, according to which way you look at it, for this allocation. [More…]
With so much to be spent on development, it is likely that Papua New Guinea will have little left over to provide for its defence. [More…]
It is only a matter of months ago that this Government and its then Minister for Defence were telling us: ‘Don’t worry. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) said that there would continue to be on the part of Australia substantial and significant amounts of aid to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The recent difference between Australia and Papua New Guinea which has been the subject of debate between the Minister for Defence and the shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs has been most regrettable. [More…]
But it includes defence expenditure, which has not previously been included, and substantial superannuation payments to Australian public servants ‘localised ‘ in mid-career- which Papua New Guinea has never accepted as a component of aid. [More…]
It is a pity that the development of such essentials as housing, education and defence will be slowed down because of these past extravagances. [More…]
It was pleasing to note that defence expenditure was not cut back, although the 10.6 per cent increase is well below that required to keep pace with the rate of inflation. [More…]
I believe that it is extremely important and vital for Australia that defence matters should be taken on a bipartisan approach. [More…]
It is necessary that we have better defences and have them quickly. [More…]
You will remember, Sir, that yesterday I addressed a question regarding a defence symposium to the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison). [More…]
The Minister deliberately tried to denigrate and belittle a conference which was meant to be a bona fide conference directed towards bringing the need for defence more into the consciousness of the Aus.tralian people. [More…]
I am afraid that I have to say that this is not the way in which the Government can achieve a bi-partisan approach to these matters of defence. [More…]
I was not surprised to hear a further smear against our defence forces by the previous speaker, the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth). [More…]
No wonder the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) has ignored his rantings about rumours produced by the Liberal Party. [More…]
This is the reason why it has not been sealed to connect Western Australia to the east even as a defence measure. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Was it a recommendation of the Report that the Army Reserve be given a greater relevance in the defence planning of Australia. [More…]
Acceptance of the recommendation was indicated by the then Minister for Defence in his statement when tabling the Report in the Parliament on 4 April 1 975. [More…]
The role of the Army Reserve is under consideration by the Defence Force Development Committee- the most authoritative source of advice available to the Minister for Defence on defence capability matters. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
This recommendation is under examination by the Defence Force Development Committee as part of its consideration of the roles of all Reserve Forces. [More…]
Yesterday the Minister for Defence and I and the heads of our Departments spent the better part of the day with Dr Almeida Santos, the Portuguese Ambassador, the Portuguese ConsulGeneral and some others accompanying them. [More…]
-The Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) has totally failed to answer the charge. [More…]
He sends his lap dog, the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison), into the Parliament in an attempt to defend him. [More…]
The Minister for Defence was talking about the troubles of Ireland. [More…]
Let us consider some of the economies proposed in the Budget and evident in the Government’s defence policy. [More…]
-Before the suspension of the sitting the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen), in defence of the Government’s Budget, talked about what he regarded as the intellectual dishonesty of speakers on this side of the House in addressing themselves in a critical sense to the economic policies which the Government has followed since it assumed office in 1972. [More…]
The Fraser Island Defence Organisation, the Queensland Conservation Council, the Cape York Conservation Council in the north, the Williamstown Conservation Planning Society, the Port Phillip Conservation Council and the Westernport Peninsula Protection Council are just a few of the bodies which have turned to the Australian Legal Aid Office for assistance. [More…]
In the few minutes I have left I shall turn to the statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) the other day. [More…]
He mentioned that the defence program was being designed to spend a lot of money on equipment. [More…]
I am led to believe on very good information that in the defence forces the number of officer resignations in the month of July was thirty-one. [More…]
I had occasion to draw this to the attention of the previous Minister for Defence, but of course it washed off his back at that time. [More…]
Surely this proves that there is an acceleration in resignations of top class members of the defence forces. [More…]
Many of them are resigning because they are sick of the lack of incentive coming from this Government, the lack of initiative and the lack of a decent attitude towards defence. [More…]
Since we have had this division in the Services where there is a parallel control of the defence Services by the Public Service as well as by the Army, the situation has arisen where a number of the defence forces cannot be posted to Defence Central unless the appointment is approved by the Public Service. [More…]
The other reason for the resignation problem relates to the defence forces retirement benefits plan. [More…]
I have been told in my electorate that the men are being told that the total commutation of defence forces retirement benefits is going to be refused. [More…]
When the honourable member refers to the problems of the Department of Defence and officer resignations, I think he would present a more balanced and fairer argument if he were to indicate at the same time that the re-signing of other ranks is running at a very high level indeed. [More…]
So it is not all dissatisfaction in the defence forces. [More…]
-The honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) devoted his speech to the defence of the coal export tax. [More…]
If he had studied defence matters more seriously and in depth he would know that the primary role of the soldier is the protection of his country and its people. [More…]
If he were to study military history and matters of defence as I have suggested, I am sure he would regard the role of our soldiers in a different and far more understanding light. [More…]
They have made themselves unpopular with our defence Services because of their attitude to defence. [More…]
Savings obviously cannot be made in the field of defence because every time there is a debate on defence in this House members of the Opposition advocate greater expenditure. [More…]
I refer now to the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
I turn now to the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison). [More…]
I hope that the present Minister for Defence will look at this matter seriously and will take some positive action to help the people in this area who are trying desperately to obtain some relief from this terrible problem that has been hanging over their heads for so many years. [More…]
The fact is that he has no defence. [More…]
Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which has yet to report on its inquiry into the administration of the island? [More…]
From the letter that the Prime Minister wrote to me it was not clear that there was any good reason why the report ought to be published, especially as Mr Kerr was a member of the Public Service and in a position to give oral evidence to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which he has done. [More…]
It may be, of course, that the survey is being done as a Department of Defence exercise to provide an alternative in case use by Australia of the Great North East Channel becomes impossible in an emergency situation. [More…]
That would then allow the Government in Canberra to hand over jurisdiction north of 10 degrees south to Papua New Guinea without risking any accusation that Australia’s defence capacity was thereby being jeopardised. [More…]
Department of Defence. [More…]
I turn now to the question of defence. [More…]
What the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) has been saying is aimed at allaying the very real fears of Australians that Australia is virtually undefended. [More…]
Why does this ‘ Government continue to turn its back on the defence of the nation and close its eyes to the slaughter being organised around the worldnow in East Timor- by its acknowledged friends, the various communist parties and their fronts? [More…]
But Darwin should be developed into a major air defence base. [More…]
Darwin should be the centre of north Australian surveillance and defence. [More…]
When we asked whether they would slash defence expenditure, members of the Opposition said: ‘Oh, no’. [More…]
Retired school teachers, public servants and defence force personnel will not risk their superannuation because of careless operations in the stock exchanges and loose State laws- laws that have loopholes a pregnant diprotodon could jump through. [More…]
Do not believe the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) when he demands vastly increased defence expenditure. [More…]
The question of sufficiency of Defence effort needs also to take into account aerial surveilance provided by the Services. [More…]
Though some routine coastal surveillance activity is required for specifically defence purposes, the major requirement is oriented to the support of the civil authorities -with particular concern for fisheries, health and customs. [More…]
Law enforcement activity, like the surveillance that is undertaken for civil purposes, is also not a direct responsibility of the Defence Force. [More…]
I have received no advice from either the State or the Australian civil authorities which would suggest that they are not satisfied with the Defence Force assistance that is provided in support both of civil oriented surveillance and of civil law enforcement. [More…]
If he reads those details carefully, he will .find that $60m of that expenditure was in the category of defence. [More…]
Does he believe that we are spending too much on defence? [More…]
I can understand the defence of commercial groups, industrial groups and so on. [More…]
In sheer self defence, I believe that Australia has to begin to do the same sort of thing. [More…]
Does anyone mean to tell me that it takes the Department of Defence all this time, since January, to put in a bridge? [More…]
He claimed that the Department of Defence had taken too long to set up the Bailey bridge. [More…]
Let me remind the honourable member that the Department of Defence provided the Bailey bridge spans. [More…]
I think the Army could have done it If the Army could not have done it, that throws a lurid light on the state or our whole defence forces. [More…]
Many of the colleagues of these members and their friends paid the supreme sacrifice in defence of their country and of freedom. [More…]
I have been asked to give an assurance about how this legislation will affect the provisions that at present prevail in regard to the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
The Defence Service Homes Act remains intact in every shape and form. [More…]
To the best of my knowledge, the promise made by the honourable member for Hughes has never been withdrawn; yet the Minister in charge of defence service homes, the honourable member for Reid, has said that at no time was there any commitment by the Government to the RSL. [More…]
Should the RSL be happy at the state of our shrinking deomoralised defence forces or should it remind the public of its motto: ‘The price of freedom is eternal vigilance’? [More…]
But, when Opposition members have to debate a specific issue- whether it be medical research, defence, the welfare area, education or anything else- they say that we should have given more money. [More…]
Honourable members will remember that Mr Morrison was pushed out of Science into Defence in June, at the time when there was a massive attack upon the independence and the totality of the CSIRO. [More…]
Prior to the Budget debate, Opposition members spoke about the need for increased expenditure on defence and on a whole range of other areas which, if the projected Budget deficit were not to be exceeded, would involve further cuts in Government expenditure. [More…]
In 1972-73 additional administrative costs of $10m, or $ 11m counting increased defence salaries, were included in the Treasurer’s Advance. [More…]
In 1973-74 the equivalent figure was $15m, or $19m including defence administration, and in 1974-75 it was $4. [More…]
7m, or $9.5m including defence administration. [More…]
The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN (Mr Keith Johnson)- In my own defence, I did not hear what the senator said, I was so entranced with your eloquence. [More…]
I am advised that it is a very long struggle to obtain assistance to purchase a home by way of a defence service home loan. [More…]
-Last week a matter concerning the defence services homes scheme was drawn to my attention by one of my constituents, and I should like to bring this matter before the House and before the Minister concerned. [More…]
This constituent, an ex-serviceman, lodged a written application for financial assistance under the defence service homes scheme and was assured that he was eligible. [More…]
Australian Housing Corporation received some $ 122.5m this year for advances under the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
In other words, this year’s allocation for defence service homes is quite a dramatic curtailment in size as well as making no allowance for any future growth in demand. [More…]
I am informed that it is because the Government has restricted its allocation in the area of defence service homes that the administration of the scheme has been obliged to impose an 1 1 -month wait, and in effect to postpone eleventwelfths or 95 per cent of all applications for assistance for purchase of existing homes. [More…]
This means that the largest single part of the whole defence service homes scheme, which is the provision of financial assistance for the purchasing of existing homes, has been deferred for a considerable time. [More…]
This Government has effectively arrested the defence service homes scheme by curtailing its budgetary allocation. [More…]
It is not easy to obtain detailed figures of aU those eligible and eager to benefit under the defence service homes scheme, but it is clear that there are many now and in the future who will be adversely affected in either having to buy their own home or being obliged to resort to commercial bridging finance over the 11 -month or 12-month waiting period at rates sometimes 10 per cent in excess of their normal interest payments under the scheme as eligible applicants [More…]
The defence service homes scheme is widespread in its operations and significant in the assistance that it has provided. [More…]
It is certainly noteworthy that under a retrospective order of this Government early in 1973 the basis of eligibility for defence service homes was significantly widened, retrospectively coming into operation from December 1972. [More…]
The defence service homes scheme has traditionally been a part of the recognition for service within our armed forces. [More…]
The scheme has been an integral part of our defence Services and indeed one could say an inseparable part of such Services. [More…]
I call upon him as the Minister who is responsible for defence service homes to take action immediately to rectify the situation which has occurred. [More…]
Quite frankly, nothing would make me more happy than to be able to make the $175m that I believe was needed to meet aU requests for defence service homes. [More…]
The Defence Service Homes Division is one of those sections which has had to come within the constraint of the commitments that we have made. [More…]
In those days, of course, the amount provided was reduced because the loan was not sufficient to meet the commitments of those who were eligible I am not trying to say that the $ 1 5,000 that we make available now solves all the housing problems of those people who are eligible for a defence service homes loan. [More…]
I believe that people in defence service homes are getting a good deal, particularly those who have been on the welfare homes list for so many years. [More…]
Many people who wish to avail themselves of their entitlement under the defence service home loans scheme look for the house of their choice. [More…]
They indicate to the agent that they are entitled to a loan under the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
In some circumstances specific mention is made of the contract being subject to defence service home loans division approval. [More…]
The availability of loans under the defence service home loans scheme will now be extended to 1 1 months. [More…]
The question I have is: Will directors be authorised to make loans available within a 6 to 7 weeks period in all those cases where contracts were written by prospective purchasers in the belief and expectation that their defence service homes loan would be available within the 5 to 6 weeks period, which has been the practice over recent months? [More…]
As the honourable member for Deakin said, interest rates charged to these people for bridging finance is in excess of 10 per cent more than the interest rate on their defence service homes loan. [More…]
I have not had time to check the Budget Papers on this issue, but I would forecast that the money coming in from existing defence service homes loans certainly would be more than the money that is going out - [More…]
That under the provisions of standing order 316, this House orders that there be laid before it the following papers which were compiled with the advice of some of the most distinguished experts in the field, and which were presented to the Australian Defence Conference recently held in Sydney: [More…]
A paper entitled What Measures are Necessary in the Next Decade for Australia to Acquire a Self-reliant Defence Capability?, presented by Colonel R. C. Garland who retired from the Australian Regular [More…]
A paper entitled In What Way Should Current Defence Allocations be Varied?, presented by ViceAdmiral Sir Alan McNicoll KBE, CB, CBE, GM, formerly Chief of the Australian Naval Staff. [More…]
That in the opinion of this House this order should be made promptly, so that the material in these papers may be placed before honourable members when the defence estimates are being debated. [More…]
That party will comprise the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) in his capacity as Minister concerned with Papua New Guinea matters, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Leader of the National Country Party of Australia (Mr Anthony) and me. [More…]
I join with the Minister for Defence in offering the Opposition’s warmest congratulations to the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea and also to the people on the achievement of their independence. [More…]
Even though the utilisation factor is probably closer to 25 per cent, the recent Darwin cyclone disaster evidenced that such essential services were indeed essential and quite as important as say, the Defence Forces. [More…]
Tenders are being called at the moment for an aircraft at Nowra- at the instigation of Mr Barnard, the former Minister for Defence, before he resigned from the Parliament. [More…]
Apart from their importance to defence, they are essential for carrying our primary produce and tourists and generally for opening up these parts of Australia. [More…]
We believe that the Australian Government has a basic national responsibility to provide an airways system for the purposes of intrastate, interstate and international communication, national defence and national emergency. [More…]
When we join the armed forces we are participating in socialised defence. [More…]
The young Australians of this nation might well remember the bitter experience of the 1960s, when the Leader of the Opposition was the Minister for Defence and his concept of freedom was the right to be conscripted and sent off to fight in a tragic, useless political war to salve the political consciences of supporters abroad and supporters who profited from that political war. [More…]
It can be said, I think in a very real sense, that Australia’s strongest defence apart from military defence in an unstable region rests in a strong diversified economy with a wide spread of international investments acting as a supplier of raw and processed materials to numerous consumer nations. [More…]
This is no criticism of the Australian system of justice, or of the British system of justice on which it is based, but the very nature of our courtrooms to one unfamiliar with them immediately puts a defendant or a witness at a marked disadvantage with the magistrate, the judge, the police, Crown prosecutors or the counsel for the defence. [More…]
If the safety and security of this country, both in the economic and defence field, are at stake and at risk, then my personal opinion- I believe it is the opinion of many people to whom I have spoken in recent weeks throughout Queensland and New South Wales- is that any action that we might take to ensure the safety and security of this country should be taken. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I preface it by informing the Minister that in May of this year in answer to a query the former Minister for Defence said- I believe that he was referring to the ‘no detriment’ clause in the Jess Committee report- that amending legislation to the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act of 1973 would be introduced, allowing serving members of the forces who had previously frozen their contributions to buy back those frozen contributions. [More…]
-As the honourable member will be aware, the whole question of defence force retirement benefits has been dependent upon the progress through this Parliament of the Commonwealth superannuation legislation, with which it was closely associated. [More…]
The only argument that has been advanced has come from the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) who issued a Press statement on this matter. [More…]
What is the principal argument that was advanced by the Minister for Defence? [More…]
Yet today when a sum of $10m in the defence vote- in fact it is $ 11.5m when navy and air cadets are added- is part of the consideration not one reference is made to funds, not one reference is made to the effective utilisation of funds. [More…]
We are talking about a defence vote, about the effectiveness of the way the taxpayers’ money is utilised for the basic purpose of defence, the defence preparedness of Australia. [More…]
It is very clear that the funds spent on cadets could be spent in ways which would add more to Australia’s present defence capacity. [More…]
These are the essential features that any Minister for Defence has to take into calculation in allocating the resources that are available to him. [More…]
We have to calculate, and any responsible government has to calculate, the net advantage within the defence vote of the expenditure of not just every million dollars but of every dollar. [More…]
We have a defence vote this year, a very sizeable defence vote, of $ 1.800m. [More…]
We have sought to get rid of the superfluous expenditure within that vote so that every taxpayer’s dollar spent on defence is used for the primary purpose of any defence budget- the defence preparedness of Australia. [More…]
The Committee has stated very clearly, very concisely, that the funds spent on cadets could be spent in ways which would add more to Australia’s present defence capacity, and that is what concerns this Government. [More…]
I understand it does not concern the Liberal-Country Party Opposition because the only comments that the shadow Minister for Defence seems to have made in the last few months are not on defence but just on cadets. [More…]
Surely the important question is how taxpayers’ funds- we are talking about taxpayers’ funds and how they are utilised for the defence preparedness of Australia- can be most efficiently utilised. [More…]
I do not have to quote public servants here, I can quote from one of the major bodies that have served all governments with advice on defence matters. [More…]
The most important of these, in the context of personnel management, is the Defence Force Development Committee. [More…]
This is the most authoritative source of advice for any Minister for Defence. [More…]
The cost and effectiveness of cadet training cannot be justified from the viewpoint of its contribution to the defence of Australia. [More…]
What we are discussing today is not manipulation, not orchestration, but the defence of Australia. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Parties are saying that they will slash public expenditure, and yet in an area which the Millar Committee, which was set up to report on this, and the Government’s defence advisers found was not effective they are going to reintroduce the cadet corps. [More…]
Are they going to take that $10m from more effective use towards the defence preparedness of Australia? [More…]
Are they going to follow the advice of their military boards or of the commander of the defence forces? [More…]
‘Well, for political purposes, because we have orchestrated protests over the cadets, because we have become politically involved, we are going to take that $10m out of more effective programs for the defence preparedness of Australia’? [More…]
The members of the Opposition are not concerned about the effective defence of Australia; all they are really concerned about is gimmicks- gimmicks, gimmicks and gimmicks. [More…]
We made the decision- the Cabinet made the decision, the Government enacted the decision- on my recommendation, that in terms of the defence preparedness of Australia we could not afford the luxury of the cadet corps, that we could not afford the expenditure of funds on cadets when there was a much more effective defence use for those funds. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Speaker, for the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) to speak about humbug and political advantage or gimmickry is almost hypocrisy in the utter definition of the word. [More…]
He has tried to narrow this debate purely into a defence argument of whether $10m spent on cadets from a defence vote is getting cost effectiveness in the defence vote itself. [More…]
That, of course, is not the argument here today, The money does not come only from the defence vote. [More…]
It is a question of how the taxpayer wants his money to be spent, not a question of how the Minister for Defence sees fit to divide up the money given in the defence vote itself. [More…]
With a deficit of at least $2,800m for this financial year the Minister for Defence starts to argue a trifling point about $10m, as if the Treasurer said: ‘Bill, it is up to you to find $10m because the electorate will accept $2,800m deficit but it will not accept $2,8 10m.’ [More…]
Well I’ve been Minister for Defence for the last 2 months. [More…]
Now through a back door method, using the excuse of financial trickery in the defence vote itself, the Government has found a reason to disband the cadet corps. [More…]
Will the Government really be blinded by political expediency and influence from an Army solely concerned with its minimal defence budget? [More…]
It is always interesting that the defence of these issues is always taken up by the Country Party. [More…]
In fact, in no way are they competent to draw priorities between areas of education- for instance, the Schools Commission is not able to draw priorities that will bind the Government in the amount of money that will be allocated to schools as opposed to the amount available for tertiary education in universities- let alone to influence the proportion of the total Budget which goes to education in relation to the proportion of the total Budget that is available for expenditure on defence or in other areas. [More…]
-My question to the Minister for Urban and Regional Development refers to the present non-availability of finance for the funding of existing homes under the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
Will the Minister state whether he proposes any action to afford assistance to those applicants for defence service housing finance for whom approval had been granted prior to the Budget as distinct from fresh applications? [More…]
Finance under the defence service homes scheme will be made available immediately to all applicants who applied up to 3 1 July, but for applications made after that date there will be a waiting period of 1 1 months, except in hardship cases. [More…]
It is quite easy for the Opposition to isolate the defence service homes sector but we have taken a decision in the whole budgetary position because we realised that if we had too great a deficit we would have to look at the overall housing situation, including interests generally. [More…]
Consequently sectors of housing other than defence service homes would have been penalised greatly. [More…]
We believe it is a reasonable proposal that the $122m that we have made available for defence service housing is a good contribution in the overall context. [More…]
-After the present Government took office in 1 972 1 consistently made representations to Mr Barnard, the previous Minister for Defence, regarding the injustices and anomalies suffered by ex-members of the Services which became evident during the hearings conducted by the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation which was known as the Jess Committee, which injustices I hoped the Government would attempt to overcome. [More…]
Briefly, the Committee’s job was to investigate the old Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act which had become very complex in terms of administration and if necessary to introduce a new scheme based on simplicity which could be understood by all ranks. [More…]
Having served on the Committee with the previous Minister for Defence, I was aware that he knew of those anomalies, and I had a number of personal discussions with him on the problem. [More…]
The terms of reference submitted at that time to the then Minister for Defence were compiled after studying correspondence from individual ex-servicemen and ex-service organisations detailing some of these anomalies, which incidentally amounted to quite a number. [More…]
The terms of reference were as follows: To establish, first, whether there are any anomalies, inequities or injustices suffered by beneficiaries under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act of 1948-1973 who retired prior to 1 October 1972; and, secondly, what measures should be taken to correct the anomalies, inequities or injustices, if any, revealed by such inquiry. [More…]
Unfortunately again the Government, through the then Minister for Defence, refused to cooperate. [More…]
Since the adoption of the Jess Committee report in May 1973, when the then Minister for Defence publicly recognised that anomalies existed, this Government has been asked to implement its promise to provide for the automatic adjustments of retirement pay for exservice members. [More…]
Also under the new Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Act, any surplus contributions made by serving members in excess of 5.5 per cent of pay are being refunded. [More…]
I speak now on completely non-party lines when I say to the present Minister for Defence and to the Prime Minister that we of the Opposition can see the need for such a joint party committee of investigation. [More…]
The Regular Defence Forces Welfare Association can see it. [More…]
Ex-members of the Jess Committee, which included the previous Minister for Defence, can see it. [More…]
I will not accept the excuse of the present Minister for Defence in regard to the delayed legislation that this Act is closely allied to the Superannuation Bill and because that legislation was rejected nothing can be done about the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973. [More…]
Once again I submit my request to have this committee of investigation established and ask that the present Minister for Defence give his earnest consideration to the matter. [More…]
The Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) is responsible for $633m; the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) for $l,800m; the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) for $ 1,908m; the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) for $2,778m; and at the top of the list is the Minister for Social Security and Minister for Repatriation and Compensation (Senator Wheeldon) who is responsible for $4,772m. [More…]
I must pay tribute to the Army for the way in which it has not sought over the years to intrude into this area except so far as has been absolutely necessary for defence purposes. [More…]
This followed repeated offers by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) of such a force. [More…]
The Department of Foreign Affairs insists that Australia’s offer of troops is still open and we know that the Prime Minister and Minister for Defence have reaffirmed this offer. [More…]
For over a decade official Labor policy has been that Australian defence forces should be capable of deployment as part of the United Nations force. [More…]
Indeed, for many members of the Australian Labor Party it would seem that the possibility that troops would be used in this way constituted one of the strongest moral justifications for the maintenance of Australia’s defence forces. [More…]
Not only was the Prime Minister confused about Liberal-Country Party commitments to United Nations peace keeping but much more recently has been the Minister for Defence. [More…]
We were and still are in Cyprus, as the Minister for Defence has said. [More…]
The Minister for Defence said in Washington just 2 months ago that he had advised United [More…]
A glance at Schedule 2 on page 3 reveals that the expenditure in the Department is the third largest of all the departments, only the Department of Defence and the Department of Social Security claiming a greater share. [More…]
Outlays from the Budget on foreign aid excluding defence co-operation are estimated to increase from $334m in 1974-75 to $385m in 1975-76. [More…]
The two distinguished gentlemen who have spoken have shown that at least the Liberal and National Country Parties still hold firm to the idea of looking after the safety and security of this country, not only in relation to its defence but also in relation to its economy. [More…]
I only hope that the people of Australia will very soon be given an opportunity to show that they also are concerned about the safety and security of this country, both from an economic and a defence point of view. [More…]
This attitude has proved incorrect in respect of defence as well as in relation to the economy. [More…]
The value of this organisation in the defence context has been argued by many people. [More…]
There are many aspects in relation to defence in respect of which this movement makes a valuable contribution. [More…]
Eligibility for service pensions has been extended to veterans of the defence forces of British Commonwealth countries who have lived for 10 years in Australia. [More…]
Notable exceptions are the larger departments with a number of libraries, e.g., Defence, some of which have already implemented computerbased cataloguing systems. [More…]
Yet the allocation to it- other than for the defence service homes scheme- is to be used mainly for administrative purposes. [More…]
In other words the transfer of the defence service home loans activities from the Department of Housing and Construction to the Australian Housing Corporation transfers that expenditure to the Department of Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
The total cost of furniture and fittings, rent and the acquisition of sites and buildings for the Australian Government (excluding amounts spent under the Defence appropriation) increased from $64,324,807 in 1973-74 to $89,851,141 in 1974-75. [More…]
This is only the peak of the iceberg, because members of the Opposition have also suggested in various ways that there should be other increases in expenditure such as the increase in the superphosphate bounty, assistance to beef growers, increases in defence expenditure, etc. [More…]
One at Woomera was run by the Department of Defence, so I will ignore it. [More…]
The simple fact is that members of the Parliament have been deprived of participating in any sustained debate on defence for approximately 3 years. [More…]
I think it is disgraceful, as the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett) will agree, that honourable members with an interest in defence matters are not given an opportunity to participate in a sustained debate. [More…]
It is a clear indication of the curious,lackadaisical- one could indeed say indifferent- approach of the Government to defence matters, that for nearly 3 years there has not been an opportunity for members of the Parliament to take part in a defence debate. [More…]
I have always found the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) and his predecessor to be courteous and to show a respect for Parliament. [More…]
It staggers me to find that the honourable gentleman will not facilitate at least a day’s debate on defence in this Parliament. [More…]
When the Minister put down his statement on defence a few weeks ago there were 2 speakers. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister even at this late stage to facilitate a debate on the Defence Report which he tabled in the Parliament yesterday. [More…]
This afternoon when I launched the Opposition’s defence policy I made the observation- I made it with complete genuineness- that I hoped in my lifetime to see developed in this country a bi-partisan approach to defence matters. [More…]
One of the reasons that we are a distance from that attainment is that there is so little parliamentary debate on defence matters. [More…]
The character of defence debate throughout the country has not been distinguished necessarily for the indifference or the rationality of approach- indeed, quite to the contrary. [More…]
A great deal of our debate on defence in this country proceeds from slogan uses, slogan shoutings and the resort to shibboleths. [More…]
I understand that it is to be terminated at about 6 o’clock, so we have barely another hour in which to provide honourable members with an opportunity to debate the Defence estimates. [More…]
It is literally impossible for honourable members on both sides of the chamber who have an interest in defence matters to debate the Estimates as such. [More…]
But beyond that, the Department of Defence would then be faced with the difficulty and the task of seeking to get access to comparable equipment, and that will not be very easy. [More…]
Beyond that I appeal to the Minister on a personal basis to seek to secure a sustained debate on defence in this Parliament in the very near future so as to give honourable gentlemen on both sides of the chamber an opportunity to take part. [More…]
House (Mr Daly) at least a day’s debate on defence this will earn him the gratitude of the Opposition. [More…]
I direct the attention of the honourable member for Moreton and members opposite to the Defence Report 1975 which I tabled yesterday. [More…]
I would like to congratulate the honourable member and the Liberal and National Country Parties for the defence policy issued this afternoon. [More…]
In fact, on behalf of the Australian Government and the Australian Labor Party I welcome the new defence policy of the Opposition. [More…]
It is refreshing to note that for the first time the Liberal Party and the National Country Party have adopted the main tenets of the Australian Labor Parry’s defence policy. [More…]
It is very refreshing not only for this Parliament but for the whole of Australia to recognise that for the first time the Liberal Party and the National Country Party have adopted a defence policy that is based upon a sober and realistic assessment of the requirements of Australia. [More…]
Not one word remains of the old outmoded and futile concept of forward defence. [More…]
Throughout the statement there is no mention of the notions of forward defence that ended so disastrously with our involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
The whole concept and orientation of the policy of the Liberal Party and the National Country Party is now firmly aligned with the concept that the Labor Party sought to introduce for many years and which it has now introduced- the notion of Continental Defence. [More…]
It is very necessary for any Minister for Defence, for any government, to maintain a continuous review of the strategic environment and the strategic situation so that any threats that do emerge can be monitored in terms of lead times and warning times. [More…]
Earlier this year when we introduced the Defence Force Re-Organisation Bill the Liberal and National Country Parties in this place and another place opposed the legislation. [More…]
We believe, however, that a single department coordinating and directing defence activities, will best promote efficient and economic defence planning and operations. [More…]
It seems to me also that over the last 2 days the Liberal Party and the National Country Party have had time to reflect on the unjustifiable expense from the defence viewpoint of maintaining the school cadets, and it is the defence viewpoint we are arguing about. [More…]
What we now find in this defence policy issued by the Opposition is that it will provide some sort of assistance to schools that maintain cadet units. [More…]
But as I said, from the viewpoint of the military advisers on Australian defence to any government the advice was loud and clear that in terms of defence spending the expenditure of $1 1.5m on school cadets was not justified. [More…]
It is also interesting that the Opposition has moved away from that rather facile concept of devoting a fixed percentage of the gross domestic product to defence. [More…]
Anybody who has ever been involved in the administration of defence would agree with these views. [More…]
Undertakings to spend a fixed percentage of gross domestic product upon defence can give rise to significant difficulties. [More…]
In conclusion, I believe that the people of Australia will welcome the defence policy of the Liberal and National Country Parties. [More…]
It is the very first time that the Liberal and National Country Parties have moved away from slogans and into the realms of realism, carefully assessed the defence problems confronting Australia and accepted the policies of the Australian Labor Party in defence. [More…]
-Just referring for a moment to the speech of the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison), if he thinks that we have adopted the Australian Labor Party’s policy on defence he flatters himself considerably. [More…]
My allotment of time in this debate will be confined to that portion of the defence allocation where the Government intends to reduce expenditure as from 1 January next year. [More…]
It was, I think, on 28 August this year that the Government made an announcement in this chamber through the Minister for Defence that, without exaggeration, sent shock waves through a large section of our community and brought immediate discredit upon itself, the depth of which, regardless of what the Minister says, is still being determined. [More…]
What the Government hopes to save by doing away with our cadet training system is a very small drop in the defence finance bucket and the matter is worthy of reconsideration. [More…]
The Minister expressed the view that this decision would be accepted by those who are genuinely concerned with the need to protect our national interests by ensuring that defence resources are not used for activities which do not contribute to our defence capability. [More…]
Does he mean by this that those who would maintain our cadet scheme are not genuine in their concern for our defence interests or is he referring only to the number of Australian Labor Party supporters who place national defence in a very low priority in the scheme of things? [More…]
And how does he arrive at the conclusion that these activities have not contributed to our defence capabilities? [More…]
The Minister stated that he made this decision on the recommendation of the Department of Defence, which assured him that the cost effectiveness of the school cadet scheme could not be justified. [More…]
My answer to that is that if this Government had given the defence of this country the priority thinking it should have given, if it had maintained its promise during the 1972 election campaign that the defence allocation would be nothing less than 3.5 per cent of the gross national product and if it had ensured that the Services were not scratching at the bottom of the bin for funds, I am positive that the recommendations that he states have been made would not have been made and our cadet system would have been maintained. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, if the Government had allocated sufficient finance for the maintenance of our defence Services from the time it took office there would have been no talk of disbanding the school cadet system. [More…]
As one of the larger daily newspapers has put it bluntly, regardless of what the Minister for Defence may do he will always be remembered as the Minister who killed our cadet training system, and in so doing also destroyed a great Australian institution and tradition that has existed for over a century. [More…]
What we are talking about is defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) was a little bit too kind to the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen). [More…]
At least for the first time we see some elements of erudition, some, elements of relevant thinking in the defence area, but what we got in the honourable member’s defence policy released today was loosely argued and to my mind represented an ad hoc grab-bag of popular academic and eclectic themes stolen equally from the Government and from the academics. [More…]
The honourable member has not pointed out where our defence situation is relevant and where the defence situation spoken about in his paper is relevant to what he is trying to get at. [More…]
The Defence Report shows that defence expenditure devoted to capital equipment fell between 1967-68 and 1974-75 mainly as a result of a lack of sound new equipment decisions during the first 5 years of that period. [More…]
From page 78 onwards in the explanatory notes for the estimates for the Department of Defence, is itemised very clearly some $293m worth of new equipment orders for this year. [More…]
I think the present estimates for the Department of Defence show some $38m for the purchase of these missiles. [More…]
-I wish to consider the banishment of the cadet corps and remarks of the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) about the cost of the cadet corps. [More…]
Before speaking to the estimates, I should like to thank the 3 Services- this is mentioned in the Defence report, and I have thanked them previously in personal letters to commanders- for their tremendous effort during the Darwin cyclone Tracy catastrophe. [More…]
This place is only a few hundreds of miles away from Darwin which should be one of our northernmost defence bases but really is not despite the fact that it has the potential to be one. [More…]
The defence report does not consider that Australia faces any military threat. [More…]
We read in the defence report that there is no possible danger- that we are living in a world of peace and that the prospects of direct strategic pressure against Australian interests by a major power remains remote. [More…]
With regard to the defence of northern Australia, what is being thought of with regard to the port facility in Darwin? [More…]
These are things I want to know because they are so relevant to the defence of northern Australia. [More…]
I think we should be gearing our defences to defend the north. [More…]
I do not think that very much in the Defence estimates indicates that this Government is interested in that area. [More…]
I am sure the honourable member for Moreton would agree with me that if one responds to fears that are unfounded or to fears that do not occupy a place in our assessment of what affects Australia the end result is a gross distortion of our defence preparedness- of the ordering of equipment, of strategy and tactics and of the doctrine of our armed Services. [More…]
I want to repeat and to make very explicit the position that anybody occupying the portfolio of Minister for Defence has to take in ensuring that every defence dollar of the taxpayers ‘ money is used in the most efficient way. [More…]
That position must be defined in terms of the defence preparedness of Australia. [More…]
Let me repeatbecause it does not seem to get through least of all to the newspapers- the advice that I received from the Defence Force Development Committee, which is the most authoritative source of advice available to any Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Chief of the General Staff and the Military Board said ‘the cost and effectiveness of cadet training cannot be justified from the viewpoint of its contribution to the defence of Australia’. [More…]
It is advice that any Minister for Defence must certainly take note of. [More…]
If any Minister for Defence happens to disagree with it he has to have very good reasons for doing so. [More…]
As I say, today is a remarkable day in this Parliament for discussions on defence. [More…]
As far as the honourable member for Moreton is concerned, and it would seem by the time members of his Party have thoroughly digested the Liberal-National Country Party’s manifesto on defence that they will agree, we have reached a position where in the essential features of our defence, in terms of abandoning the futile concept of forward defence, in terms of concentrating our attention on the defence preparedness of continental Australia and in terms of providing for the type of equipment needed not only to maintain our forces but also to develop their expertise and their know-how, there is now a consensus of views and agreement. [More…]
I refer to their attitude to the reorganisation of the Department of Defence and the cadet corps. [More…]
I think this is a great advance and one which we should all welcome, because the Opposition- the Liberal and National Country Parties- after many years of following a defence policy that was disastrous for Australia has now seen the light. [More…]
-In speaking to the estimates for the Department of Urban and Regional Development I confine my remarks to the problems of financing the defence service homes loan scheme- problems which this Government appears to be experiencing and which should not have happened. [More…]
6) which, among other items, included a sum of $ 15m to be supplied to meet the Government’s commitment under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
On 22 April this year in reply to a question from the honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay) regarding the administrative delays in completing payments for approved applicants the responsible Minister went into a great song and dance act about how the $1 15m which had been made available for the defence service homes scheme had been expended due to the Government’s improvements to the scheme and that it was requesting $ 1 5m to meet any delays in payments. [More…]
We are now faced with the mess of hundreds of applicants for defence service home loans being left completely out on a limb, embarrassed and frustrated, with no prospect of the situation improving in less than 12 months. [More…]
The opportunity for those people who are eligible under the Act to apply for and to receive a defence service homes loan is a right under law which was made by previous Parliaments and upheld by this Parliament. [More…]
On 14 May, in reply to a question from the honourable member for Ryan (Mr Drury), the Minister who was then in charge of the defence service homes scheme stated that some May and June cases which were due for settlement in those months would be deferred until after 30 June and that others which were due for settlement then could not be effected until July. [More…]
But how does the Minister who is presently responsible for the defence service homes scheme feel about this matter? [More…]
Is he happy about the fact that the Government cannot meet its obligations regarding defence service homes loans? [More…]
It would be interesting to know whether the present Minister considers the inclusion of defence service homes loans in his area of responsibility as only a very minor responsibility of his portfolio, considering the Minister’s preoccupation with his ultraexpensive dream of growth centres such as Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst-Orange and a couple more. [More…]
It would be very nice and no doubt very comforting to think that some growth centre in future may be named Urenville but in the meantime, while that dream is being pursued, hundreds of ex-servicemen and their families are being forced to accept financial hardship because of this Government’s lack of foresight and its maladministration affecting the defence service homes loans scheme. [More…]
It may be a fine legal point to claim that the Government has not abandoned its commitments to defence service homes loans applicants but will meet its commitments some time in the future. [More…]
The Government’s administration of the defence service homes loans scheme has been clumsy and inadequate and I suggest that it move at all possible speed to correct the latest injustice which it has inflicted on the approved applicants before the situation and the Government’s credibility and integrity deteriorate even further. [More…]
Recently the Department of Urban and Regional Development took over the administration of the Housing Corporation which deals with defence service homes. [More…]
In conclusion I want to reply to the honourable member for Herbert who raised the question of defence service homes. [More…]
I knew that defence service homes would be coming under my direct responsibility so we kept the expenditure at the level of $ 122.5m. [More…]
It was decided that those people who applied for defence service homes after 31 July would have to wait 1 1 months, except in cases of hardship. [More…]
If we had decided to give the full amount immediately to the applicants for defence service homes it would have been necessary to allocate a further $50m to wipe out the 1 1 months waiting time. [More…]
If that had occurred, those people outside the defence service homes scheme may have had to pay much more for their home loans. [More…]
It makes provision for expenditure for defence purposes to be covered by the Loan Act 1975. [More…]
A few of these boys in Western Australia saw fit to endeavour to put their case both to the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) and to the public. [More…]
He had been on a tour of inspection throughout quite a portion of Western Australia viewing various defence installations. [More…]
I also asked the Department of Defence to investigate the claims. [More…]
I am very happy to say that there has been support for the Government’s defence policy from none other than the Liberal Party and the National Country Party. [More…]
The first feature of the statement is that they have abandoned the futile and outmoded concept of forward defence and they have accepted wholeheartedly and fully the concept that has been basic to the Australian Labor Party’s policy- the Government’s policy- on continental defence. [More…]
There is no longer the wild, woolly and emotional statements, the playing up of fears, that have epitomised the Liberal-Country Party’s defence policy in the past. [More…]
This is important because if one bases one’s defence preparedness and one’s defence planning on wild and woolly statements the one thing that is distorted is the very notion of the defence policy. [More…]
I was delighted to see it made because only weeks ago in this House the Opposition sought to defeat the legislation that the Government brought in for the reorganisation of the Department of Defence. [More…]
It was only through the intervention in the Senate of the Independent senators that the Government was able to bring into effect the defence reorganisation. [More…]
Deductions for residents of zone A and zone B and members of the defence force serving overseas will be replaced by rebates equal to at least 40 per cent of the deductions formerly allowable. [More…]
That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969-1974, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for investigation and report: Development of a navy supply centre and army workshop facility at Defence Establishment Zetland, New South Wales. [More…]
The proposal is for the redevelopment of the exLeyland car manufacturing plant at Zetland for defence purposes to provide a Navy supply centre and an Army workshop and servicing facility. [More…]
Almost every time I have pleaded with both the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee and the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) to have regard to post independence relations. [More…]
In a way, the Government and the Opposition have changed their stance on defence. [More…]
They are both talking now not in terms of forward defence which was better while we could envisage it, but which has been abandoned not through our choice but through force of circumstances. [More…]
They talk now rather in terms of continental defence. [More…]
If it does not imply this, then our whole defence system is meaningless. [More…]
If we mobilise for defence the population up to the age of 50 yearsthat would be a minimum- then we may have to train them 30 years in advance. [More…]
I put it that if we have changed our fundamental concepts of defence- and we have changed themthen we should also be changing our fundamental concepts of manpower. [More…]
In my view, the changed concept of continental defence which we have now adopted makes necessary, as a corollary, universal training from the age of 18 or 20 for a couple of years. [More…]
He is allowed no defence and no opportunity to explain to the Parliament or to the people. [More…]
He has been hoodwinking us for years and years, having got dispensation, no doubt, from the Kremlin to make these attacks on the Communist Party because this is the way he can suck us in and make us believe that here we have a friend, a man we can trust, a man we can talk to, discuss defence problems with, discuss the secrets of our atomic potential and all this kind of thing, knowing all the time that whatever we tell him is safe in his hands because he is always such a devout anti-communist. [More…]
There were no adequate defences. [More…]
Because Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey had the audacity to ridicule the suggestion that our defences were not at the ready all the time, what did the honourable gentleman do but kidnap Sir Thomas Blamey. [More…]
It demonstrated, in a way that nobody else had up to that time been able to demonstrate, just how vulnerable was the defence system in Australia. [More…]
The increases in the war and defence widows’ pension rate provides a further example of the concern shown by the Labor Government for the dependants of veterans. [More…]
I cannot see how the Defence forces will operate at all because included in those Appropriation Bills which are being delayed- or rejected- by the action of the Senate is $ 1 ,7 1 Om for that purpose. [More…]
In defence it would mean the end of recruitment and a reduction in strength as a result of such a policy, of 6 000 men. [More…]
The conclusion of the Department of Defence is that the peacetime operating capability of the armed forces would completely vanish. [More…]
If it did there are all the calamitous results that the Treasurer (Mr Hayden) told the House about today- the defence forces are in jeopardy, Medibank is in jeopardy, pensions are in jeopardy and the whole nation comes to a standstill. [More…]
Every person who has looked at the Financial Agreement knows that if a loan is raised for defence purposes it does not go to the Loan Council; if a loan is raised for temporary purposes it does not go to the Loan Council. [More…]
It is because the Prime Minister has thrown down the gauntlet in defence of parliamentary government that I stand proudly beside him. [More…]
In 1973 the Institute for the Study of Conflict showed that between 1485 and 2146 Soviet official representatives in Europe over a 10-year period were involved to some degree with elements of commercial, industrial or defence spying. [More…]
Pursuant to a Resolution passed this day the Senate transmits to the House of Representatives the following Resolution agreed to by the Senate on 15 October 1975 during consideration of the Bill for ‘An Act to Authorize the Raising and Expending of Moneys for Defence Purposes ‘: [More…]
They are: The Judiciary Act, the High Court Rules, the Defence Act, the Bankruptcy Act, the Re-Establishment and Employment Act, the Interim Forces Benefits Act, the Courts Martial [More…]
We have just heard from the honourable member a very elaborate defence of the Opposition’s intentions in regard to this Bill and an argument purporting to establish that the Opposition is sincere in its attempt to have a committee established to investigate all the implications of the Bill. [More…]
For instance, the Minister for Defence has indicated that the defence forces would be paralysed. [More…]
-I am afraid that the difficulties that would confront the defence forces would be such that the defence preparedness of Australia would grind down. [More…]
The record Budget of $ 1,800m for defence, including a record amount of funds for equipment, would no longer be operative. [More…]
This is a very serious problem and it is brought upon this House, upon this Parliament and upon the Australian people by the rapacious ambitions of just one man who is prepared to hold Australia and the defences of Australia to ransom. [More…]
No Prime Minister has smashed our defence organisations, even the cadet corps, as Mr Whitlam has. [More…]
Those who are waiting on defence service loans also are going to find themselves in trouble. [More…]
This was said by the shadow minister for defence, the honourable gentleman who has just spoken. [More…]
The method implicit in the Bill for funding defence expenditure has been used by a succession of governments for decades. [More…]
In introducing the Loan (Defence) Bill 1968 he said: [More…]
That is the usual practice of the Liberal and Country parties- to charge part of our defence expenditure in the Loan Fund when loan proceeds are not adequate to finance the excess of expenditure over receipts. [More…]
The Bill should be seen as a mechanical measure to meet the legal and constitutional requirements associated with financing the Government’s defence transactions. [More…]
The Minister for Defence wishes all Service personnel to know that the present position is that there are sufficient funds only to meet pay and allowances until 30 November 1975. [More…]
Defence co-operation programs with Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore will be devoid of funds. [More…]
A reduction in the defence budget of 12.5 per cent would correspond to approximately $235m. [More…]
Since the vast majority of defence expenditure is already committed, the $235m cut which the Liberal and National Country Parties are demanding would result in the following circumstances: First, some manpower reductions would have to take place, contributing to the unemployment situation for which the Opposition has sought to blame this Government. [More…]
I quote here advice that I have received from the Department of Defence. [More…]
The results of the $235m cut over the period would be: Cessation of all recruitment, involving a reduction of service strengths of about 6000 men; cessation of all ordering of major equipment and most minor equipment, including replacements of the CI 30s, the Hercules, additional tanks and the destroyer program; the cancellation- this is precisely what the Opposition’s budget would involve for defence- of defence facilities and housing programs; reduction of Service activities well below ordinary peace time training levels; the elimination of operational training and probably all Australian and international exercises; consequent reductions in repair overall, with resulting effects on dockyards, factories and industries; further substantial restrictions on travel, almost to a zero level; and a nearly complete reduction of the administrative activities which incur significant expenditure. [More…]
But in order to reach the $235m, which is the amount that the Liberal and National Country Parties have indicated they would cut right across the board and which necessarily involves the defence vote, it must also include cancellation of existing commitments to capital expenditure which would involve financial penalties and create problems in factories and industry. [More…]
I suppose the most refreshing part about the speech of the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) is that at long last we have a Minister for Defence in a Labor Government who has expressed a concern for defence. [More…]
If the Minister for Defence has such a desperately genuine concern for the defences of the country all he has to do is to go to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and say: ‘Look, we have been together for a long time. [More…]
But at least it is refreshing to find the Minister expressing a concern for defence. [More…]
I am dealing with the simple and central argument as put to us this evening by the Minister for Defence, that by holding up this Bill the Senate’s action will have some effect upon the Services which, put shortly, could be described as disastrous. [More…]
Did the Minister for Defence say ‘Oh, this is a matter of tremulous moment’? [More…]
Did the Minister for Defence, the honourable member for St George, beat himself into a fit of fury and say: ‘Oh, this is disastrous’? [More…]
Let me turn further to the argument advanced by the Minister for Defence this evening. [More…]
The cheque would be written out for the Minister for Defence. [More…]
If there is substance in that point of view the fears of the Minister for Defence are to no avail and he has come into this House this evening complaining upon meagre, improper grounds. [More…]
But if on the other hand there is substance in the view of the Minister for Defence he is rebuking and repudiating his Deputy Leader. [More…]
The Minister for Defence can use his powers of persuasion upon his colleagues. [More…]
Yet here is Senator Baume saying that this Bill, which is clearly entitled ‘A Bill for an Act to authorise the raising and expending of moneys for defence purposes’ is taking away money from local government. [More…]
The borrowings for which authority is now sought will be made for defence purposes and the proceeds will be applied to finance expenditure from the Loan Fund on defence services. [More…]
It is proposed that, of the estimated expenditure on defence services authorised by the Appropriation Act (No. [More…]
Provision for charging part of our defence expenditure to the Loan Fund has been made in previous years when the net amount available from loan proceeds and other financing transactions has not been adequate to finance the deficit. [More…]
He did say that funds would be used for defence purposes. [More…]
The Bill that we are debating, which has been delayed and rejected by the Senate, is entitled ‘A Bill for an Act to authorise the raising and expending of moneys for defence purposes’. [More…]
Were they to put fear into the minds and hearts of all Australians that our defence forces would be allowed to run down, or were the motives even more sinister? [More…]
Did the Opposition want to put fear into the men and women in our defence forces so that they would believe that their salaries, their allowances and other expenditure would not be made available to them? [More…]
-The constant regurgitation by the Government that this is a Bill solely for defence purposes and that it is akin to legislation introduced when the Opposition parties were in power simply is not true. [More…]
The Minister for Tourism and Recreation (Mr Stewart) quoted from the preamble to the Bill, saying that this is a Bill to authorise the raising and expending of moneys for defence purposes, but he does not recognise the fact that the preambular passage to the legislation that was introduced by the former Government stated the amount of money itself. [More…]
When the previous Government provided funds to be expended by way of loan for the Department of Defence it was put on that basis and that basis alone. [More…]
Moneys borrowed under section 3 shall be applied only for the expenses of borrowing and for services specified under the heading ‘Department of Defence’ in the Supply Act (No. [More…]
This is a ruse to supply moneys allegedly for defence purposes to be appropriated elsewhere should the Government so desire. [More…]
If the Government wants the money for defence purposes let it state the amount and relate this Bill solely to that. [More…]
The reality is that the Minister tonight has talked at great length- I refer not to the Minister who has just spoken but to the Minister for Defenceabout the way in which the defence services will be run down. [More…]
-It is disgraceful, as the Opposition spokesman on defence says. [More…]
It is the most extraordinary statement relating to defence preparedness that I have heard. [More…]
They are leaving the defence forces in unparalleled numbers. [More…]
They should not tell me that the rejection of this legislation on the basis on which it was put by the Senate will bring about the disaster about which the Minister for Defence has talked. [More…]
He is the living repository of disaster in the defence field. [More…]
They should not come in here under the guise of legislation being rejected and tell us of their intrinsic interest in the defence preparedness of this country. [More…]
The Government will be the first to offer peace-keeping forces if there is a need for them and the moment its bluff is called and it is asked to provide them it scuttles, just as it scuttled the defence forces of this country. [More…]
A few weeks ago I gave details of the lead-up to the undertakings offered to the United Nations for peace-keeping forces and the retreat which was made, which is consistent with the retreats that have been made in every area of defence expenditure since this Government came to power. [More…]
During their election campaigns Government supporters said there would be the same percentage of defence expenditure as under the previous Government. [More…]
So they should not say that this legislation, which is so open-ended in regard to the application of the moneys to be borrowed, will not have such a dire effect on the defence forces of this country. [More…]
By its very attitude to defence expenditure since it has been in office this Government has brought about that effect- not only by this piece of legislation, this open-ended commitment, this subterfuge and operation which it wishes to implement. [More…]
When the Government tables documents relating to interim defence arrangements between Australia and Papua New Guinea it should’ not sweep aside the reality that for 2Vi years it was warned that upon Papua New Guinea’s independence it ought to have firm arrangements to determine the relationships between the 2 countries and should not wait until after independence. [More…]
So whether it is in the area of strategic assessment, in the area of application of funds for the Army, the Navy or the Air Force or between our closest independent neighbour, Papua New Guinea, and ourselves, the defence expenditure does not stand up to the analysis that Government supporters were putting forward tonight. [More…]
Simply to say, ‘We introduced defence Loan Bills and will apply the money solely for that purpose’, is just not on and is just not acceptable. [More…]
This Bill does not specify that the money will be used solely for defence purposes but gives a leverage to the Government to get around the legislation and to get around its own budgetary problems. [More…]
First of all, he tried to give us some very elegant arguments that this was not a Loan Bill for defence. [More…]
It was sickening also to hear tonight the Minister who is euphemistically called the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) in a Government which has not cared one iota for the adequate defence of this nation now accuse the Senate of being irresponsible in the matter of defence. [More…]
In speaking to this Bill tonight the Minister for Defence talked great words about defence. [More…]
Appropriation for defence purposes was not made in the right and proper way. [More…]
I have had in my office in recent times people who have said: ‘Why is it I am told by the defence service homes people that I cannot have the advance for my home for 1 1 weeks or more?’ [More…]
The honourable member for Fisher, who just resumed his seat, said he did not accept precedent because the money being raised under this Bill would not be entirely for defence purposes. [More…]
The Government raises money for defence purposes under the heading of Defence because that is a purpose unassailable under the Federal Constitution. [More…]
Under the financial agreement the Australian Government raises money not only for its own purposes, for defence and capital works, but also for the States. [More…]
In the current Budget, under the heading Defence, there is provision for $182m for capital equipment and $123m for defence facilities. [More…]
In the Bill that I introduced in 1966 I ensured that we stated it as ‘An Act to authorize the Raising and Expenditure of a sum not exceeding One hundred and fifty million dollars for Defence Purposes’. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill that we are now considering is ‘To authorize the Raising and Expending of Moneys for Defence Purposes ‘. [More…]
1) 1965-66 under the heading ‘XXII-Defence Services ‘. [More…]
In addition, clause 4 of the Bill that is now under consideration includes the words ‘Department of Defence’, and then states: . [More…]
It applies not only to defence, which is the reference at which clause 4 of the Bill that I introduced ended. [More…]
We sought a particular amount for a particular purpose- a defence purposeand in respect of a particular part of the defence Services. [More…]
But this Bill seeks money not only for defence purposes, as is set out in the preamble, but also for any other purposes for the ordinary services that are set out in various other Acts that can be passed. [More…]
It is demonstrated by the potential effect of rejecting this Loan Bill which finances the defence effort in this country. [More…]
We heard earlier today from the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) of the almost immediate effect on the defence forces which continued rejection of this Loan Bill would involvesalaries for the armed forces unpaid, aircraft grounded, naval patrols immobilised. [More…]
Let them judge the Senate for its extraordinary and reprehensible lunge for power; taken regardless of national security as exemplified by its rejection of this defence Loan Bill; taken without regard to national political stability, without regard to the national economy and without regard to individual welfare either; as exemplified by the salaries which will not be paid to the armed forces, nor to the Public Service; as exemplified by pensions which will not reach pensioners and social welfare payments which will not reach social welfare beneficiaries. [More…]
However, 1231 positions have been transferred from the Defence Service Homes Division of the Department of Housing and Construction, to the Department of Urban and Regional Development and are presently on loan to the Corporation. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence aware of allegations of bias in the official publications of the Defence Department? [More…]
In particular is he aware of a description in the West Australian of 9 October of the Defence Report 1975 as ‘a politically biased Defence Department report? [More…]
The West Australian made the claim in its editorial about the tabling of ‘a politically biased Defence Department report’. [More…]
The Defence Department report was tabled in the House and I think all honourable members have seen it. [More…]
I strongly object to the charge that the Defence report is politically biased. [More…]
In fact, the two senior advisers to the Government and to the Minister for Defence- the Secretary of the Department, Sir Arthur Tange, and Admiral Sir Victor Smith, the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff- were not appointed by the Labor Government. [More…]
The Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff was appointed by the then Minister for Defence, the current Leader of the Opposition, and Sir Arthur Tange was appointed by the Liberal Party. [More…]
This means that we provided in new equipment over 3 years twice the amount of money provided over 5 years by the Liberal and Country parties It is quite obvious that the reason the Opposition is opposing the defence budget is that it wants to get back to a stage where it was in the last five years of its administration from 1967 onwards, when the defence forces of this country were not provided with adequate equipment to conduct and to prepare for the defence of Australia. [More…]
That is in short the meaning of its opposition last night to the Loan Bill and to the whole concept of providing sufficient funds for the defence of Australia. [More…]
The special or totally and permanently incapacitated rate is to increase from $68.10 to $74.10; the intermediate rate is to increase from $48.05 to $5 1.05 a week; the war and defence widows pension is to increase from $36 a week to $38.75 a week; and service pensions are to increase from $36 and $30 a week respectively for single and married persons to $38.75 and $32.25 a week, which of course is the same as the age pension. [More…]
Indeed, to judge from the behaviour of the Opposition, some members have gone well beyond what can be gleaned from within the Bills to conjure all sorts of false conspiracies and fears in relation to the purposes of the Appropriation Bills and ancillary legislation such as the Loan Bill for the defence Services. [More…]
In the Department of Defence, for example, this action would result in the retrenchment of something in excess of 10 000 servicemen and civilians. [More…]
The Bill authorises the raising and expending of moneys for defence purposes and as such it can originate only in the House of Representatives and may not be amended by the Senate. [More…]
The Loan Bill aims to allow this to be done by permitting the transfer of part of our defence expenditures from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund. [More…]
It would authorise borrowings to finance the defence expenditure so transferred. [More…]
They simply reallocate approved defence expenditures between the Consolidated Revenue Fund and the Loan Fund. [More…]
In drafting Loan Bills, it is long established usage followed by both this Government and previous Liberal-Country Party governments that defence expenditures are chosen to be transferred to and financed from the Loan Fund. [More…]
As is known, borrowings for defence purposes are specifically exempted from the provisions of the financial agreement relating to control by the Australian Loan Council. [More…]
Secondly, and more importantly in the current context, the amounts borrowed can be utilised only to finance Defence expenditures incurred after the passage of the Bill into law. [More…]
Such Defence expenditures must, at the same time, have been approved by Parliament under other Acts which are mentioned in the Bill or expressed by Parliament to be subject to the Loan Act. [More…]
Once Defence expenditure has already been charged to the Consolidated Revenue Fund, this Bill will not authorise its subsequent transfer to Loan Fund. [More…]
Out of a potential total of $1,7 11m expenditure under the heading ‘Department of Defence’ close to $500m has been charged to the Consolidated Revenue Fund already and that amount, of course, increases as the days go by. [More…]
The Loan Bill 1975 is essentially, put very simply, to assist in the financing of our defence expenditure. [More…]
The Opposition Parties have always given great emphasis to the fact that they are advocates of defence, although the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) showed clearly in this House this morning that this Government has spent far more on defence. [More…]
As a matter of fact, in 3 years we have spent twice as much on defence as the previous Government spent in 5 years. [More…]
We can claim a credit on this question of defence. [More…]
But the Opposition always gives Up service to defence. [More…]
Yet the first item, the first Bill which the Opposition delayed in the Senate in respect to this constitutional crisis was a Bill the purpose of which is to provide finance for our defence expenditure. [More…]
(Quorum formed) As I said, the Opposition, which gives great lip service to the issue of defence, chose as the first item of legislation which it delayed in the Senate in respect of this constitutional crisis that we have today a Bill to provide finance for our defence expenditure. [More…]
These funds will be augmented soon by a proclamation which will allow the Corporation to retain repayments of capital which come to it from existing Defence Service Homes advances. [More…]
As I was saying before the suspension of the sitting the funds will be augmented soon by a proclamation which will allow the Housing Corporation to retain repayments of capital which come to it from existing defence service homes advances. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
It is no defence against the charge that the President of the Australian Labor Party could have used the information for his own personal financial gain or for that of his colleagues. [More…]
Once again this is no defence to the charge which the Opposition makes. [More…]
Clearly there is no defence on this score. [More…]
They cover matters such as: Salary and wages for public servants and other employees of departments and of statutory authorities; student assistance programs; health services, including amounts for the operation of the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory hospitals; employment training and assistance and expenditure on projects for the relief of unemployment; maintenance of Australian representation abroad; payments to international organisations; aid programs; grants for aged persons homes and hostels; defence services and the reconstruction of Darwin. [More…]
-Pursuant to section 14(2) of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1 948- 1 973, 1 present the third and final report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board on the administration of Part III of the Act for the period 1 July 1974 to 30 June 1975. [More…]
Pursuant to section 14 ( I ) of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-73 I present a further supplement to the 25th report of the Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Board on the operation of the Act for the period 1 July 1972 to 30 September 1972 dealing with progress in the final actuarial examination of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
Pursuant to section 16 (2) of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1 973-74 1 present the third report of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority dealing with the general administration and working of the Act for the year ended 30 June 1975. [More…]
What impact will the delay in passing the Budget have on the administration of the Defence Service Homes Act? [More…]
-The honourable gentleman knows quite well that I was referring to matters such as defence secrets or the revaluation of currency. [More…]
There are obviously some matters, such as defence secrets and currency secrets, which no leader of a government could divulge without the concurrence of the other persons whose secrets they are. [More…]
I, as the Federal member, have often been at the butt of that type of defence. [More…]
They knew, for example, that at times policemen would come in to apprehend lawbreakers; they went through the experience of the Second World War when defence establishments were set up in many part of Aboriginal reserves, in Arnhem Land and elsewhere in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Maybe, as in the case of defence, people were there for a substantial time but then they went away. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1) On 26 October 1973 the Acting Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, said that, if the proposal to set up a United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) led to a request to Australia to provide a contribution, the Government would consider such a request sympathetically. [More…]
Every three months the Department of Defence reviews the schedule of units referred to and an up-dated version is passed to the United Nations in New York. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It is very clear that the funds spent on cadets could be spent in ways which would add more to Australian’s present defence capacity. [More…]
What I am asking is: If honourable members opposite would only read that report and put themselves in the position of the Minister for Defence who has to make a decision, in the light of the defence preparedness of Australia, on the expenditure of $11. [More…]
I am happy to say that the Opposition in its manifesto on defence has come to exactly the same decision as the Government. [More…]
To imagine that spying in 1 975 is all about uncovering defence secrets is totally to misunderstand the importance of the current economic order. [More…]
What about all the other committees, such as the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, the Joint [More…]
The Prime Minister, in coming to the Treasurer’s defence, says: ‘That is normal. [More…]
The Senate transmits to the House of Representatives the following Resolution agreed to this day, during consideration of the Bill for ‘An Act to Authorize the Raising and Expending of Moneys for Defence Purposes’, viz. [More…]
The Prime Minister in his defence said the Premiers get the same information, all the information. [More…]
Morale and efficiency of the defence forces could be seriously and adversely affected by the travel restrictions which have already had to be placed upon them and their families. [More…]
He stood firm in defence of the people’s House against a challenge to its authority, first from the Senate, and subsequently from the representative of the Crown itself. [More…]
The record will show that Mr Speaker Scholes took his stand in defence of the great central principle of our system of governmentthat the will of the people resides in this, the people’s House, and in this House alone. [More…]
It will maintain and foster the valuable defence relations with Australia’s allies and other friends, including close associates in the neighbouring region. [More…]
The Government will ensure that the nation has at its disposal an adequate defence force that is properly trained, equipped and supported. [More…]
Thorough assessments of equipment needs are being undertaken as part of the review of the Defence Program. [More…]
The Government places importance on improving the Defence infrastructure, and has directed that a number of studies be undertaken in relation to our Western seaboard. [More…]
The new Defence organisation established by the Defence Reorganisation Act will facilitate the development of a Defence Force in keeping with Australia’s needs. [More…]
A Defence Council has been established to facilitate the access by the Minister for Defence to all relevant advice and information concerning the control and administration of the Armed Services and to ensure that the views of the services are reviewed by an appropriate body. [More…]
In 1957, on Malayan independence, Tun Razak became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence and National Security. [More…]
In 1970 Tun Razak became Prime Minister and Defence and Foreign Affairs Minister. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Lockheed Corporation is revealed as a major source of this sort of corrupt action, will the Prime Minister cause an investigation to be made into its activities in Australia where it has been the major supplier to civil airlines and defence forces? [More…]
Has the Minister any information to give the House in relation to progress towards the establishment of Diego Garcia as a defence establishment? [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Members will be aware that in our preelection Defence Policy we said that we would give priority to a review of the previous Government’s cancellation of the light destroyer (DDL) program. [More…]
It might be remembered that at the time of the coalition Government’s approval in 1972 the DDL was to include essentially the same weapons and sensor capability as the then patrol frigate- area air-defence weapons, helicopter operation, anti-ship missile- except that the DDL was planned to have a larger gun. [More…]
The Woomera village will continue to provide accommodation and social facilities for people employed at the range and at the Joint Defence Space Communications Station. [More…]
-Firstly I express the appreciation of the Opposition for the courtesy of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in circulating early the information that he would give to the House so the matter could be studied. [More…]
It is gratifying to note that the coalition Government has finally accepted that our decision to replace the DDL with the patrol frigate was the only possible decision to make in the best interests of the defence of Australia. [More…]
If honourable gentlemen have any curiosity about the vessel I suggest they look at the Defence Report 1975. [More…]
However the Minister for Defence was less than gracious in his reference to our decision to consider the FFG. [More…]
He gave a passing but concealed tribute to the acumen of the then Defence Minister, Mr Lance Barnard, when he said: [More…]
The terms and conditions of the memorandum of arrangements covering the purchase of the frigates are unprecedented for an Australian defence acquisition and unprecedentedly advantageous. [More…]
While rightly paying tribute to officers of the Department of Defence for their negotiating ability, I feel it is proper to note that the coalition did not give evidence in the Fill travesty of an ability to obtain very advantageous conditions. [More…]
It is in the Defence Report 1 975. [More…]
I wish to say one thing about Woomera which has been a very important area for Australian defence science since it was at Woomera that the Ikara, probably one of the best anti-submarine weapons in the world, was developed. [More…]
The previous Government intended to appoint a task force of outside experts to examine whether the work of Salisbury and Woomera could be diversified into other useful activities involving the defence forces. [More…]
Woomera is a facility of superb potential and its contribution to Australia’s defence science has been unique. [More…]
By inhabiting the coastline and the hinterland of north Queensland private citizens have provided the only defence against the foreign invader. [More…]
I say to this question that any investment that this Government cares to make to improve the road and the bridge system would be rewarded by the provision of an all weather road along the entire coast of Queensland which could be used for 12 months of the year for trade and tourism and which would be capable of being used for defence purposes if ever the need arose. [More…]
Regrettably, for too long, and certainly in the last 3 years, the people of Australia have been allowed to believe that, while we can insult and denigrate our allies, at the same time we can expect them to give their youth, their blood and their treasure in our defence. [More…]
In the last 3 years we have seen a Government, fortunately now the Opposition, embark upon a direct policy to break down Australia’s defences under the glorious guise of building bridges into the Third World. [More…]
It is because nations like Australia for too long- this certainly applies also to Western Europe- have not been prepared to face the reality that we alone are responsible for our own defence. [More…]
Today, as never before, the new Australian Government is faced by the fact that because of the run down in our defences we now have to cover in a very short time and at great expense projects which should have been carried out in the last 3 years. [More…]
NATO exists, in quite fundamental terms, only because the United States regards it as being a forward line of defence. [More…]
There is no doubt that, in spite of all the civil defence assistance there will be a terrible loss of stock and as much property damage, as there was during the last flood. [More…]
I have tried to explain to him that the aid comes from the State civil defence organisation which must ask the Federal Government for assistance. [More…]
We had borrowed a civil defence aeroplane to have a look over the area. [More…]
Most of them rose in defence of the multi-national mining companies. [More…]
Medibank will involve expenditure approaching $ 1 ,500m this year which would make it one of the largest single cost items for the Government approaching closely the nation’s defence budget. [More…]
Although the Australian people accept the desperate and almost dangerous state of the economy I do not believe that they accept that as a justification for the desperate and almost dangerous state of the defences of this nation. [More…]
I think the time is long overdue for legitimate efforts to be made by both sides of the House to try to reach a bipartisan approach to defence. [More…]
I would also like to see the community reassured in respect to defence, as I think they must have been by the Governor-General’s Speech and by the fact that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) was the first Minister to make a ministerial statement, and by other activities of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I think this has been arrested, but the first thing is for every member of the Australian armed forces to know that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and every member on the Government side of the House and I would hope every member on the other side believes that his service is honourable, is worthwhile, and is welcome by the Australian community. [More…]
It is difficult when reading the defence Budget to divine how training time or time for exercises is set out. [More…]
Amendments to the Defence Act are long overdue to ensure this purpose. [More…]
I appreciate the difficulties of continental defence, which was the previous Government’s policy and which in fair measure is part of the policy of this Government. [More…]
I know we must make allowances for the other Services because it may well be said that they are our first line of defence. [More…]
But if we are going to take continental defence seriously we have to accept the possibility that we may actually have to defend this continent at some time, and that may mean the use of ground forces here- I would certainly hope not. [More…]
There was a clear commitment on a previous occasion by the Minister to ensuring that we have an adequate defence force in being, whatever proportion of national resources is required or whatever structure is required. [More…]
Of course he will find it very difficult to live up to the record and the reputation of the former honourable member for St George and Minister for Defence, who was of course very highly regarded by all the defence chiefs and departmental heads. [More…]
I think they would find it very hard to find anything wrong so far as my personal attitude on the defence of this country is concerned. [More…]
They will have to do that in defence. [More…]
Tied up with the consideration of the activities of the CIA is the defence of this nation. [More…]
If the CIA is acting for the defence and the protection of this nation and the free world I would stand four square with it, and make no apology, but not the honourable member for Chifley. [More…]
It is about time Australians realised what it is all about when they talk about defence. [More…]
If the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) were here this evening he would say that the guns I am moving to are pretty muted popguns. [More…]
I think it ought to be noted that the honourable gentleman may well need to look to his own house first because he may not be aware that one of the various defence Ministers, or was it the Prime Minister at the time, was responsible for ordering Lockheed aircraft in the period of the previous Administration. [More…]
An advisory council on intergovernmental relations and a joint Federal and Northern Territory Legislative Assembly committee will be set up; a task force has been established to make recommendations on Australian Capital Territory reserve powers; a review has been established on the income security system as a whole; committee has been established to investigate the possibility of expanding the area of choice in services available to the disadvantaged; a Medibank review committee has been established; a tertiary education commission is proposed; a committee has been established to investigate how to run and re-establish the cadet corps on the cheap; a Defence Council has been established and an investigation has been set up to examine the completion of HMAS Stirling in Cockburn Sound. [More…]
I think we must regard them in the same light as we regard defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has just made his second speech to this Parliament. [More…]
When it comes to facts, he has had to eat the words he uttered as Minister for the Navy and as shadow Minister for Defence. [More…]
As His Excellency outlined in his speech, the Government is implementing a foreign affairs and defence policy aimed at securing our continued enjoyment of our hard-earned freedom. [More…]
The Government, in its defence policy and indeed in the major steps which it has already taken to upgrade Australia’s defence capability, has shown a clear recognition of the vital need for strong preparedness in the face of aggression by the Marxist anti-freedom forces in so many parts of the world. [More…]
Furthermore, the Government has demonstrated its recognition that Australia cannot risk stagnation in its defence capability. [More…]
It cannot even assume that there is no short term threat in our region and it cannot afford to ignore our traditional defence alliances and the obligation which those alliances place on us. [More…]
As well as maintaining our traditional alliances I venture to suggest that there is room for many foreign and defence policy initiatives in the southern hemisphere- initiatives designed not only to strengthen our national security but also to preserve the security of our vital trade routes. [More…]
I turn now to defence. [More…]
Everywhere I go throughout my electorate people express concern about our inadequate defences. [More…]
Because of my long and varied experience in the defence forces this as a subject in which I will take a continuing interest, encouraged by the people of Leichhardt who realise that they live, once again, in the front line of Australia ‘s defence. [More…]
I am very pleased that expenditure on defence was not cut in the recent economy measures. [More…]
There was absolutely no room for further economies in defence spending. [More…]
I would like to congratulate the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) on the views which he expressed on defence last week. [More…]
It is very good to see a member of the younger generation of the Services with such a sound grasp of and interest in defence. [More…]
I ask all honourable members to take a similar interest in defence, to create a national awareness of the importance of those in uniform who serve the nation. [More…]
Will the Minister confer with the Minister for Defence, who has recently announced a scaling down of operations at Woomera, in order to seek an arrangement whereby road transport may pass northwards from Pimba to the Mount Eba woolshed, via the rocket range instead of the longer journey via Kingoonya, thus saving a considerable distance in travel? [More…]
Certainly I will confer with my colleague the Minister for Defence to ascertain whether it is at all possible to allow transports to use the route the honourable member suggests. [More…]
To use an English expression, it is for the defence of the realm. [More…]
That leads to the defence of what would most often be an indefensible proposition. [More…]
I have not seen in what has been revealed circumstances that really would lead me to have substantive doubts about their capacity as security organisations but I do have doubts about their capacity as organisations to function well in the defence of the free world. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: How did it come about that a private commercial organisation was allowed to- use Laverton air base for a motor cycle race meeting and to charge for admission to this defence facility? [More…]
The Loan Bill proposed by our predecessors was designed to overcome that prospective deficiency in the Consolidated Revenue Fund by authorising the transfer of defence expenditures to Loan Fund to the extent necessary for this purpose. [More…]
These transferred expenditures were to be financed by borrowings for defence purposes. [More…]
As has been said in this Parliament on many occasions in the past, the traditional procedure adopted by successive governments to cope with a prospective deficiency in the Consolidated Revenue Fund has been to charge defence expenditures to the Loan Fund and to borrow to finance the expenditures so transferred. [More…]
The Loan Bill authorises borrowings for defence purposes, but it does not authorise additional defence expenditures. [More…]
It will simply allow the reallocation from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund of Defence expenditures which are yet to be made and which are authorised by Parliament in Appropriation Act (No. [More…]
The Bill proposed by our predecessors prescribed no specific monetary limit on the borrowings for defence purposes that could be undertaken under it, that is, outside the jurisdiction of the Loan Council. [More…]
I should make it clear that that limit is estimated to be sufficient to permit all relevant defence expenditure in the remaining months of the financial year to be charged to Loan Fund and financed by borrowings authorised under this Loan Bill 1976 after its enactment. [More…]
Whilst this may on the surface appear to be no different to an open ended borrowing authority in a loan Bill authorising borrowing for defence purposes, there is in fact a very important difference. [More…]
2) 1976 will not be for defence purposes and will, as a consequence, have to be within the limit of borrowing authority approved for the Commonwealth by the Loan Council. [More…]
None of these bases is relevant to the defence of Australia. [More…]
Cockburn Sound is a vital part of our defence system- there is no denying that- but the decision to open it to nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed United States warships is not. [More…]
It is a Government strong in character, resolute in purpose, determined to beat the twin problems of inflation and unemployment whilst not forgetting about the defence of our country. [More…]
There is a crisis in our economy but I hope that by concentrating on it we do not forget our defence system. [More…]
It was gratifying, therefore, to see so much space devoted to defence in the Governor-General’s Speech. [More…]
There is a vital inter-relationship between economic, social, migration, environmental, education, defence and other issues. [More…]
They are people who were entitled to defence service homes loans but whose loans were deferred indefinitely. [More…]
They are paying interest on bridging finance at usurious rates and they have been given no indication of when they are likely to be able to obtain their defence service homes funds. [More…]
Of course there is an obvious defence need. [More…]
The Government’s responsibility to fund the cost of low utilisation facilities for the purposes that I have mentioned may be justified to a considerable extent on the basis of maintaining a capacity to deal with national disasters and defence in general. [More…]
For instance, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) spoke about the development of a joint Services base at Yampi Sound. [More…]
On 23 August 1974, the then Minister for Defence, Mr Lance Barnard, made that statement. [More…]
I do not wish to go into the Yampi Sound question, but I wish to make one or two points about defence. [More…]
The very large French naval forces in the Indian Ocean, which at first sight is an ocean that appears to have absolutely nothing to do with the strategic defence of Fance, are there simply so that nuclear missiles on submarines or on other vehicles are deployed on Soviet Donets Basin cities so that if the Soviet Union were to use nuclear weapons on France, France might have this deterrent to be able to retaliate and not be beholden in any way to the United States of America. [More…]
I was a little horrified to hear the Minister for Defence reduce the status of Her Majesty’s Australian Navy to what I can only call Her Majesty’s prawn patrol. [More…]
The function of the Navy, if it is to retain its dignity, must be the defence of Australia. [More…]
The conception that Sir Charles Court has, that something should be patrolling up the coast, seems slightly outmoded as a form of defence. [More…]
A sum of $60m may sound a lot but after all the 2 ships which we of the Labor Party considered when we were in government and which the Minister for Defence has confirmed, cost $150m each. [More…]
Defence hardware today is of that order of expensiveness. [More…]
The first thing that happened was that in May 1973. the then Prime Minister referred the issue of Omega to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence heard a series of objections from various people. [More…]
The cost effectiveness of Omega was not referred to the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee and the Committee heard no evidence on it. [More…]
The installation of a station in Australia was overwhelmingly endorsed by the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which comprises members of all parties. [More…]
I refer, of course, to the defence of this countrytrie Government’s desire to strengthen and improve Australia’s defence and the Government’s directive, as outlined in the GovernorGeneral’s Speech, that a number of studies of our western seaboard be undertaken, including the quicker completion of HMAS Stirling in Cockburn Sound, and the early establishment of joint Services training area at Yampi Sound. [More…]
They are national concerns, as must be their defence. [More…]
In the light of these facts, we in Tangney are naturally concerned about the defence of Australia’s western seaboard. [More…]
We in the whole of Western Australia are concerned about the defence of Australia’s western seaboard. [More…]
For too long the defence of Australia’s western seaboard has been ignored. [More…]
However, in the last 3 years we have witnessed not only the lack of any western seaboard defence but also the abandoning of even a pretence at providing defence for the rest of the country. [More…]
Defence and foreign policy are closely linked. [More…]
It is the aim of defence to support foreign policy by seeing to it that one never has to argue from a position of weakness, which will be exploited, but always from a position of strength, which will be respected. [More…]
Contrary to these diplomatic truisms we have experienced over the last 3 years a situation where foreign policy and defence were subordinated to ideological considerations. [More…]
In terms of defence it adopted a policy which can be analagously likened to saying that if we he down unclothed we will not be raped. [More…]
I return to the more important points of defence and foreign policy. [More…]
Before 1972 the Opposition made great play of the fact that the Liberal-Country Party Government of the day was neglecting defence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The defence and estimates debates of this chamber show the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) stating that Australia must be not only a Pacific power but also an Indian Ocean power. [More…]
Successive Western Australian State governments also have recognised the need for more defence in the Indian Ocean and, of course, it was under a Liberal Federal Government that work on this vital base actually began. [More…]
Yet Australia’s defence can no longer continue to be treated as a political football. [More…]
It is the Chinese who are paying very serious attention to defence. [More…]
Western Australians applaud the defence initiatives announced by the Governor-General and being undertaken by the Government. [More…]
For my part, while I remain in this House I will continue to urge that Australia undertakes more than ever before the defence of her own shores. [More…]
However, in the final analysis we must be selfreliant and self-dependent for our defence. [More…]
In the last Hayden Budget we saw deferments in education, in aged persons housing, defence service housing, capital works for social security and postal and telecommunication facilities. [More…]
Prices on the internal market can be raised, and this has been the industry’s main defence in the situation - [More…]
I referred to a report known as the FarrandsHassett report which was prepared by 2 very distinguished Australians, the present Chief of the Defence Force Staff and the Chief Defence Scientist, Dr Farrands. [More…]
Nevertheless I can assure the honourable gentleman that it does remain the Government’s intention to respect that objective and as a consequence we propose, in the present 5-year defence program, to try to secure a figure of 34 000 by 1978. [More…]
The Loan Bill 1976 authorises the raising of loans to finance defence expenditure. [More…]
Through this device defence expenditure which would otherwise be a call on the Consolidated Revenue Fund is financed from loan raisings in the Loan Fund. [More…]
The effect of the Bill is to transfer up to $700m of defence spending from a fund which is short of cash, the Consolidated Revenue Fund, to another one which is not so short, the Loan Fund. [More…]
It seems that even after the transfer of $700m of defence spending to the Loan Fund, the Consolidated Revenue Fund will still be in deficit. [More…]
Once defence expenditure has been charged to the Consolidated Revenue Fund, it cannot then be transferred to the Loan Fund by means of a Loan Act such as the Government is now seeking to have approved. [More…]
That happens to be an amount which is more than defence spending is likely to be in the rest of the financial year. [More…]
The real constraint will be the amount of defence spending that is done. [More…]
The Bill proposed by our predecessors prescribed no specific monetary limit on the borrowings for defence purposes that could be undertaken under it, that is, outside the jurisdiction of the Loan Council. [More…]
As those answers pointed out, the Loan Bill for defence purposes referred only to defence outlays in Supply Act (No. [More…]
In other words, the total to be charged to Loan Fund cannot exceed the total expenditures of the Department of Defence to be incurred during 1973-76 after the enactment of this Bill and which have received parliamentary authorisation in the 1 975-76 Supply and Appropriation Acts. [More…]
There was no substance in the Treasurer’s frequent implications to this House, to the community and to the Press gallery, the members of which did not seem to be too industrious in seeking out the details and the real functions of this system of public financing, that we were trying to use the Loan Bill, as we put it before the House in 1975, as a fiddle to raise money from overseas for purposes other than defence. [More…]
The first is to make certain funds for defence purposes chargeable not from the Fund but from outside the Fund. [More…]
The amount which can be charged for defence purposes will not be able to satisfy the legal requirements of the Consolidated Revenue Fund- as has been the case in the past-for the simple reason that these days not enough money is spent or is projected to be spent on defence. [More…]
We have the paradoxical situation that if we had a far greater projected defence effort these other measures may not be necessary to the extent to which they are. [More…]
We have $3, 000m on the statement of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch); we have $470m-odd from the National Welfare Fund; and $700m will be available under the defence loan procedures. [More…]
The sum can be devoted only to defence expenditure. [More…]
I suppose that some points should be noted, in defence of the meat industry, that are not always obvious to people who are not as close to the industry as I am. [More…]
I say in defence of the meat industry and of producers that the way we have traditionally paid for meat inspections via taxation is the logical way in which consumers and not producers pay the costs. [More…]
This morning we have heard a defence. [More…]
What we heard was not concerned with the matter of public importance in the terms submitted to the Parliament; it was a defence of the man who has just presented it to the Parliament. [More…]
They include the reintroduction of the superphosphate bounty, the removal of meat export charges, the forgoing of massive amounts of taxation revenue involved in the granting of an investment allowance of extremely dubious economic value, and finally and pathetically the reintroduction of school cadet corps for reasons totally unrelated to defence requirements. [More…]
We must press on with the defence studies mentioned in His Excellency’s Speech and develop capabilities on our western seaboard. [More…]
I welcome the announcement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) of the purchase of 2 new destroyers. [More…]
I believe that, by our concern for events in the Indian Ocean, by our support of the United States development of Diego Garcia and by our support of United States efforts to balance the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean, we can give reassurance and encouragement to the United States in its efforts to curb Soviet power and contribute to the defence of the free world. [More…]
I include in those national interests certain industries which are vital to the economic base of the country; industries vital to defence; industries which hold the future of technology - [More…]
I include in these national interests certain industries vital to the economic base of the countryindustries vital for defence, industries which would hold the future of technology and particularly those industries in which highly skilled labour is employed. [More…]
So far as the defence aspect is concerned, I am not satisfied with the position whereby we have one of the most expensive and inefficient privately owned chemical industries in the world, yet fail to support a government owned aircraft industry or a shipbuilding industry. [More…]
This pseudophilosophy is nothing more than a pathetic attempt to provide principle where none exists, to disguise blind and selfish reaction to the redistribution of income and resources as the defence of freedom. [More…]
The Liberal and Country Parties believe Australia must maintain an independent capacity to provide and service the relevant requirements of our commercial shipping and our defence forces. [More…]
To this must be added its contribution to our defence capacity, an important factor in a world of fluid and unstable relationships in the international sphere. [More…]
foreign affairs and defence generally, and [More…]
by the Minister for Defence, or [More…]
That the committee have power to consider and make use of the minutes of evidence and records of Joint Committees on Foreign Affairs and Defence, appointed in previous Parliaments, relating to any matter on which those committees had not completed consideration. [More…]
The motion I have moved is identical with the resolution regarding the constitution of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which was passed during the previous Administration. [More…]
It would have no pensions and no welfare of any kind, perhaps just a small defence force and a police force as well, which is being just slightly socialist. [More…]
When all the evidence for the prosecution and the defence has been taken - [More…]
When all the evidence for the prosecution and defence has been taken - [More…]
But, in the case before Mr Kilduff, having said that a prima facie case had been established, the magistrate did not then proceed to take evidence from the defence. [More…]
Public interest demands that at least the defence should have given evidence and been able to be crossexamined as to who owns that money and from which bank account it came. [More…]
In my submission, the magistrate can do that only on the basis that he has complied with the provisions of section 94 and has taken evidence from the defence. [More…]
Having served on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in the previous Parliament, but regrettably being unable to do so on this occasion as I am also a member of another Parliamentary committee, I would like to make some remarks on the substance of this Committee and compare its great expectations with the work it has in fact performed. [More…]
Above all, of course, consideration needs to be given to the whole question of defence. [More…]
I join with other honourable members in supporting the reconstitution of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
He attacked the Australian Labor Party because the members it appointed to the Committee when it was in government disagreed on the defence significance of the Omega base and the control of it. [More…]
It does not mean that we have to agree on every point of defence. [More…]
If honourable members opposite look at things and investigate things they may form an opinion different from that of their leader, their Minister for Foreign Affairs or their Minister for Defence. [More…]
There has been demonstrated a very great need for the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence because aside from one or two statements in the last Parliament there was not one day’s debate on the topic of defence from the time that the Australian Labor Party came into office in 1 972 until this date, and that is a national disgrace. [More…]
I think that Mr Barnard, the former Minister for Defence, would have hoped that there would have been more public discussion on defence because on 23 April 1975, referring to matters of real national importance, he said: [More…]
I do not know why the Labor Party downgraded the defence of this nation so drastically in 3 years. [More…]
But why could they not come out and be honest about it and say: ‘Get rid of defence entirely and spend it where in conscience we believe it should go’. [More…]
Perhaps there are other persons much further to the Left who really have an underlying interest in seeing that this country is in fact defenceless. [More…]
Might I be sufficiently presumptious to suggest a short list of headings which could be considered by the Committee in open discussions in the hope of developing a bipartisan policy on the defence of this country. [More…]
The first subject for discussion should be a short strategic assessment because there is a need nowadays to define clearly the meaning of the term ‘defence of Australia’. [More…]
Very importantly there should next be an assessment of a defence force structure in the context of both those budget aspects. [More…]
There should be an assessment of capabilities of the defence force structure. [More…]
It is possible to prepare sound, sensible, conventional plans for the defence of this country against, at the worst, an invasion, against an incursion into our shipping areas, against offshore installations or other facilities in the local region. [More…]
These costs, often to be weighed against our economy, must be considered when considering defence matters. [More…]
If the public are made aware of these matters properly they will understand that it is necessary not only in the interests of our skins but in the interests of our pocketsthat seems to be the dominant consideration nowadays- that we have a proper defence policy. [More…]
The Committee might make some contribution to preparing an ambitious outline plan for the defence of Australia, as defined, in the hope that perhaps in the near future a White Paper will be presented to the Parliament and we will have a few days’ solid debate on it. [More…]
Somehow within the next 3 years, before the boat starts rocking, we must get some semblance of a rational defence plan into the public mind and into action in Australia. [More…]
I should think that one of the reasons that the morale of the defence forces has slipped a bit is the nonsense talked by people like the honourable member. [More…]
The suggestion that defence has been totally neglected is utter rubbish. [More…]
I suggest that the honourable member looks at Jane’s Aircraft, Jane’s Fighting Ships and other books and he will see the strength of our defence, relative to our population, compared with the strengths around the world. [More…]
I believe that this is one of the matters which the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence will have to consider but I deny the continuous assertion that the previous Government- actually I mean ‘the Government’ and not the usurping operators who are there now- neglected defence. [More…]
There has been an enormous change in our defence attitude and structures since we inherited the situation when troops were involved in Vietnam. [More…]
The other point I would make is that committees should have a budget of their own, particularly a committee such as the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
For example, on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence a Party position was taken. [More…]
Apparently this was in sharp distinction from the attitude taken by members of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, whose appointment we debated here this afternoon. [More…]
It is accompanied by the Superannuation Amendment Bill 1976 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment Bill 1 976, which I will introduce shortly. [More…]
The Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment Bill 1976 makes a number of essential machinery amendments to the principal Act to take account of changes being effected by the Superannuation Bill and to ensure that arrangements already in existence continue in force. [More…]
The opportunity has been taken also to include in the Bill some formal and miscellaneous amendments, including provision to allow applications to be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for the review of decisionsmade by the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority. [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence aware that since December 1972 there has not been one day’s debate in the Parliament on the defence of Australia? [More…]
It is a fact that there has not been one day’s debate on defence in this Parliament since December 1972. [More…]
The Government does take the view that it is wrong and immature that the country has been denied a sustained parliamentary debate on the question of defence. [More…]
As a consequence of taking that view the Government will seek, at an appropriate time, to put down a White Paper on defence. [More…]
There are differences between the Government and Opposition members regarding defence. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present copies of the directives that set out the responsibilities to me of senior service and civilian officers of the defence organisation and relationships between various areas of responsibilities of those officers. [More…]
These directives came into force on 9 February 1976 with the implementation of major provisions of the Defence Force Re-Organisation Act. [More…]
I should like to deal now with defence. [More…]
I hope that is to be carried out because I see Darwin as a pivot to a defence area in the ASEAN group of countries in South East Asia. [More…]
So I say to the Goverment: Do not turn your back on the defence of the north. [More…]
It would certainly take that time to organise Darwin as a defence base, which it should be. [More…]
Before we get to the aspect of the amendment dealing with the constitutional crisis, I think it is important to mention that the Australian Parliament has an important place in the world of defence and foreign affairs. [More…]
It is very significant that at present, particularly in the world of foreign affairs directly related to defence or aggression in areas other than Australia, we do not seem to be speaking with an effective voice. [More…]
I made the point that the financial pre-eminence of the House of Representatives gives it the ability to have the financial resources for defence and for the implementation of foreign affairs policy. [More…]
In other words, without money allocated to defence or foreign affairs we have no policy in either of these areas. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
During the many visits he has made to various defence force establishments throughout the Commonwealth has the Minister been queried at all as to proposed changes in the commutation of defence force retirement fund benefits? [More…]
This is a matter of some seriousness to those who serve in the defence forces. [More…]
May I make it quite clear that there is no proposal before the Government to disturb the commutation provisions of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act and to my knowledge there is no such proposal in contemplation. [More…]
It is rather remarkable that honourable senators opposite always rush to the defence of their friends. [More…]
The war and defence widow’s pension rate is payable where a veteran’s death is related to his service or where he was, at the time of his death, receiving or would have been entitled to receive the special T & PI rate disability pension. [More…]
I suggest that Australia is far too dependent on other nations in other areas, such as defence, and we should not become dependent on them for the supply of such scarce resources as nitrogenous fertilisers. [More…]
The Labor Party, in its opinion and in the opinion of the man, elected the greatest barrister this country had to put the case for the defence. [More…]
It was swept from office because the case put forward by the defence was not good enough. [More…]
When one considers what Australia spends on defence, and what the Middle East countries or Britain or America or Russia spend on defence, one can understand why the amount spent on armaments in the world today would be $200 billion. [More…]
If for example a person has not got his defence service home loan through, it may be possible to bring an action against the Government. [More…]
Other countries of the region, namely Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela, gave medical supplies, a field hospital, medical teams, rescue teams, foodstuffs, communications equipment and personnel and civil defence experts. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to reports in the Australian newspaper dated 13 March and the Sydney Sun newspaper of 25 March of this year that the costs of the two FFG frigates for the Royal Australian Navy have soared to $500m- an increase of $ 170m- since his announcement of about a month ago? [More…]
The Bureau of Customs, in conjunction with the Department of Defence, has maintained a significant surveillance, both by air and by sea, of the coastline to prevent this type of occurrence. [More…]
I am advised that during the past 14 days two such surveillance exercises have been carried out with the co-operation of the Department of Defence. [More…]
If we have not got pre-eminence how can we plan ahead in defence, our foreign affairs policy, our trading policy and indeed in relation to our internal problems such as the announcement in Cobar that there are to be further retrenchments in the Cobar copper mines? [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It should never be forgotten that the first principle of repatriation is compensation and that there is a responsibility on governments to recognise that an individual’s service in the armed forces in the defence of our country is worthy of compensation when, as a result of his service, this individual suffers some disability. [More…]
Some Australian journalists have expressed in a fairer way the presence of the Soviet navy in the Indian Ocean than have our political opponents, including the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
These scares are thrown out to condition the taxpayers of the United States and Australia into permitting the expenditure on defence in the Indian Ocean of greater sums than would ordinarily be spent. [More…]
We know that Diego Garcia was used by the British in World War II as a fueling base and that the United States Government entered into a long term agreement as far back as 1966 to take over Diego Garcia and to build up its defence forces there. [More…]
Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence [More…]
I wish to bring a matter to the attention of the Government, particularly to the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
Yesterday the Minister for Defence replied to the honourable member for Tangney (Dr Richardson). [More…]
Dealing with the United States, he stated that the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence have said on several occasions that the use of facilities in Western Australia by the United States will be welcomed by this Government. [More…]
From the attitude of the Minister for Transport and the Government as a whole, the Minister for Defence should have added that with the entry of FESCO into Australian trading we welcome our great friend the Soviet Union into Australian trade and its use of Australian ports, because that is what it means to have Australian ports used by Soviet shipping. [More…]
The Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment Bill likewise seeks to amend the principal Act to take account of changes being effected by the Superannuation Bill 1976 and to ensure that arrangements already in existence continue in force. [More…]
There is a clause in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefit legislation that when a change was made there should be no detriment to a particular contributor by reason of the new scheme as against the old. [More…]
How many members of the Government Parties will come across the floor of the House and vote with us in defence of pensioners? [More…]
Whenever this subject comes up, I have a feeling, perhaps because of the generation to which I belong, that one should say something in defence of the repatriation system. [More…]
I appreciate his defence of the repatriation system and I do not say that with any sense of propriety or self indulgence. [More…]
We are aware that the defence ministry in Paris has announced that an underground nuclear test was held at the Mururoa test site in French Polynesia, I think on 2 April of this year. [More…]
I am glad to be able to inform the honourable gentleman that the Government has authorised me to prepare legislation to update pensions paid out of the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Fund and Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Fund. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, I have been misrepresented by the Acting Minister for Defence in relation to the use of Cockburn Sound - [More…]
I am referring to the shadow Minister for Defence, who will remain in the shadows at least as long as he remains in this Parliament. [More…]
The fact is that in 1972, when I was the Prime Minister, I received a report from a special technical committee of the Defence Committee which advised that the Committee as a whole was unable to determine conclusively the security considerations attached to nuclear powered and nuclear armed ships going into Cockburn Sound. [More…]
Given as I then was to prayer, I decided to rely upon that method of obtaining a solution rather than to implore the technical committee of the Defence Committee to do something which was manifestly in the interests of this country. [More…]
I suggest that it is equally disgraceful that the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits fund superannuation scheme had not had an adjustment in payments for 3 and a half years. [More…]
I must say I am glad to hear today’s news from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) that such an adjustment is now on the way. [More…]
I submit that unfortunately this new superannuation scheme, in its effect on the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Fund, does not correct all of the old anomalies. [More…]
For interest sake I add that the Regular Defence Forces Welfare Association has communicated with my constituent saying: [More…]
Our submissions to the Minister for Defence have been duly acknowledged by him. [More…]
I also want to raise a serious point that concerns mi y of my constituents, and that is that defence forces service does not count as government service for superannuation purposes unless the superannuee was in the Public Service before he entered the defence forces. [More…]
It is extraordinary that if a person is a clerk and joins the defence forces, he gets total benefit. [More…]
I am certain that there are many people in the defence forces who feel badly done by. [More…]
There is no doubt of course that there has been an overwhelming feeling of dismay for the last 3 years among the defence forces about the manner in which they have been handled by the previous Government. [More…]
There are nonetheless, particularly in respect of the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment Bill, many more amendments which I believe we need and many more which I wish to see. [More…]
I am determined to join with other honourable members on this side of the House to press for a better deal for people contributing to the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Fund who have been so seriously disadvantaged in the past. [More…]
I rise to support the passage of the Superannuation Bill, the Superannuation Amendment Bill and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment Bill. [More…]
The defence forces have such an arrangement to enable those who have served this country well to retire with a minimum of disruption and disadvantage to themselves and their families. [More…]
I, as a former member of the defence forces retirement benefits scheme, am very much in favour of the system of paying a contribution fixed on a percentage of pay. [More…]
That principle was introduced first into the defence forces retirement benefit scheme. [More…]
The matter raised by, I think, the honourable member for Macarthur regarding transfer between the defence force retirement benefits scheme and the superannuation scheme will be looked into. [More…]
I trust that the Queensland Ministers- the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson), the Minister for Defence (Mr [More…]
I am sufficient of an idealist to believe that where freedoms and basic human rights are threatened anywhere in the world it is the duty of those who support those basic freedoms and human rights to stand up in their defence. [More…]
His government’s strong denunciation of Soviet and Cuban involvement in Angola, its support for the American build-up in the Indian Ocean and most lately the joint defence talks with New Zealand have received favourable publicity in the government-controlled Press in China. [More…]
It said: ‘The decision by Australia and New Zealand to strengthen joint defence is a most explicit reply to Soviet social imperialist expansion and threat in the Indian Ocean.’ [More…]
Other Australians benefit from Defence Service Homes loans, and they would have benefited from the programs of the Australian Housing Corporation. [More…]
He did not recall to the House the problems with defence forces home ownership under his stewardship. [More…]
A review of rentals and other aspects of Service housing was conducted in 1974 and 1975 leading to the introduction of the Defence Group Rent Scheme which takes effect on 15 April 1976. [More…]
The Defence Group Rent Scheme uses the aggregate of Service housing rentals to set a scale of average rentals which are related to the quality of the house provided and to the rank of the Service tenant. [More…]
In 1970 the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) elicited the information that in the House of Representatives election in 1969 Liberal Attorney-General Hughes and former Liberal Attorneys-General Snedden and Bowen and the other Liberal lawyers in the Ministry who are now the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) and the Minister for Defence did not complete and file Form G. [More…]
It is true that the Bill provides a defence to a prosecution for an offence against the sub-section that if the defendant proves that at the time he made the offer, promise or gift the date for the polling had not been fixed and he believed on reasonable grounds that that date would not be a date within a period of 3 months after the making of the offer, promise or gift. [More…]
So we will be making the choice between say defence and education, if the government says that so much should be spent on education. [More…]
At the 1975-76 figure of $l,908m it is larger than the defence outlay and is nearly as large as the Medibank outlay, or what is predicted will shortly be the Medibank outlay. [More…]
there should be a properly designed and maintained national highway system connecting capital and major provincial cities, including freeways wherever possible, financed by Australian Government grants ( this has been shown to be effective in reducing accidents as well as providing for defence, social and economic needs. [More…]
has accident reducing potential as well as economic, defence and social benefits. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What adjustments should be made to ensure comparability in view of (a) the alteration made in Budget listings in 1 974-75 and ( b ) the merger of the Defence Group of Departments in December 1 975. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What (a) vessels, (b) aircraft and (c) vehicles of each of the 3 Defence Services have been engaged in the surveillance patrols of foreign fishing and prawning vessels off the Australian coast since 1 July 1975. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) By agreement with the civil authorities having responsibilities for law enforcement in Australia’s maritime environs, the Defence Force allocates some specific effort to surveillance primarily for civil purposes. [More…]
In addition all Defence vehicles which operate off the Australian coast are instructed to report items, including foreign fishing vessels, which might prove of interest to the civil authorities. [More…]
The formal commitment of Defence effort to coastal surveillance is of some training benefit to Defence and the principal criteria for additional effort are operational availability and compatibility with other training aims. [More…]
Surveillance assistance provided by the Defence Force to the civil authorities is currently funded entirely from within the Defence Vote. [More…]
In its inquiry the Committee took evidence from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Departments of Defence, Education and Manufacturing Industry. [More…]
Evidence was taken from the Department of Defence relating to the purchase, on behalf of the Department of the Army, of 61 earthmoving tractors that were meant to be capable of being transported by air. [More…]
Again in relation to the Department of Defence, the Committee inquired into the purchase, on behalf of the Department of Air, of 114 transportable/demountable houses at RAAF Base Tindal, Northern Territory, which proved not to be readily demountable and transportable as was required in the specifications. [More…]
The only area in which the Opposition cut down expenditure when it was in office was in the area of defence, to its eternal discredit. [More…]
It cannot claim credit for our uranium policy because we above all had deep in our philosophy and in our policies the defence and security of this country which are very much tied up with uranium. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), my fellow Queenslander, in the quickest possible time made sure there was vigilance in this area. [More…]
In fact, minerals lying dormant in the ground do nothing but constitute a grave defence threat to Australia. [More…]
It amends the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Act and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act. [More…]
The difference between the 2 Acts of Parliament can be recalled by the House by going back to the Jess Committee’s report of 1972 when a new Defence Force Retirement Benefits Act was proposed by that Committee. [More…]
The first part is preliminary, the second part deals with the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act and the third part deals with what I may describe as the post- Jess Committee’s Act, namely the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefit Act. [More…]
In the case of the defence force retirement benefit pension recipients the method of alteration is related to the Government’s share of the pension. [More…]
But in the case of defence force retirement and death benefits recipients it will be one times 17.6 applied to the whole of the pension. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board, together with a report to the Board by the Australian Government Actuary on the assets and liabilities of the Fund at 30 September 1972. [More…]
-I think the honourable member for Oxley is having a slight dig at the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund- Ministerial Statement, 28 April 1976. [More…]
But in defence of and explanation for my friend and colleague who was mentioned by the Treasurer- Mr Don Dunstan, the Premier of South Australia- I say that I believe that his reactions have not been properly analysed. [More…]
lm is required for the Department of Defence- $43.9m for salaries and payments in the nature of salary, which is part of the amount of $88.9m for salary increases which I have already mentioned, $ 12.6m for administrative expenses, $20.2m for equipment and stores including their repair and overhaul, and $8.3m for other Defence services. [More…]
It is important that people of responsibility in the business community and the private sector contribute to the general debate on the defence of the free enterprise system. [More…]
We are criticised by our friends opposite for our defence of it. [More…]
Let these people contribute because it is important in the’ national interest and for the defence of our way of life and the free enterprise system that they do so. [More…]
According to the Parliamentary Handbook, the only committee on which he has served is the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs on which he served for 4 years, from 1 962 to 1 966. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Lockheed Corporation is revealed as a major source of this sort of corrupt action, will the Prime Minister cause an investigation to be made into its activities in Australia where it has been the major supplier to civil airlines and defence forces? [More…]
I think it ought to be noted that the honourable gentleman may well need to look to his own house first because he may not be aware that one of the various defence Ministers, or was it the Prime Minister at that time, was responsible for ordering Lockheed aircraft in the period of the previous Administration [More…]
The only orders that we placed for defence aircraft were for 8 Orions that were versions of aircraft which had been ordered- successfully and properly- by previous governments. [More…]
It is interesting to note that last week in Adelaide the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), when asked a question about the 2 frigates purchased from the United States, said that they could not have been built at Whyalla because we lacked the expertise to do the work. [More…]
Moreover, it is no longer considered appropriate that the AuditorGeneral have the responsibility of deciding that recovery should be made in a particular case and without there being a requirement for proof of guilt or for a defence by the person at fault. [More…]
For example, prior to the period 1973-74 the British Committee brought down reports on public expenditure and economic management, the relationships of expenditure to needs, the revision of the form of Supply estimates, public money in the private sector, youth employment services, employment of women, employment services and training, diplomatic staff and overseas accommodation, various aspects of defence expenditure, the British Council and further and higher education. [More…]
Whereas the British Committee had a number of subcommittees covering trade and industry, employment and social services, defence and external affairs, education and the arts, etc. [More…]
The Parliament’s review mechanism through the committees must also take into account such recent developments as oneline appropriations for statutory authorities, triennial appropriations for departments such as Defence and Education and the likelihood of program budgeting being introduced on a more general scale. [More…]
The industry may be needed for defence purposes, it may form a necessary technological base, it may be needed because it is labour intensive or it may be an infant industry which should be fostered. [More…]
In Sweden, where the Government allowed its clothing industry to be almost destroyed by import competition, the same Government has now embarked upon a program of buying back the industry to maintain a production capacity in clothing for defence and other national emergency requirements. [More…]
His defence of the man Sankey and his accusations against me were equally as unjust, miserable, false and vitriolic. [More…]
Where sandbags for levee bank strengthening are provided, as appropriate, by the Department of Defence to local government authorities, the costs are initially charged to the local authorities concerned. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence: Is it a fact that under long-standing arrangements members of the Australian Army Reserve travelling to and from parades have been paid travelling allowance on a mileage basis? [More…]
That recommendation was considered by the steering committee of the Defence Conditions of Services Committee, which recommended against accepting the $1.20 for each parade attendance. [More…]
The Defence Conditions of Services Committee in turn did not accept that recommendation. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I approach a simple, short explanation of the proposed system of adjustment of the defence force retirement benefits scheme and the defence force retirement and death benefits scheme with some qualms for fear that the record may not be quite as straight as it ought to be by the time I have finished explaining the matter. [More…]
The simple principles of the schemes are as follows: The DFRB scheme, as it is generally known, applies to pre-October 1972 retirees from the defence forces. [More…]
I move now to the defence force retirement and death benefits scheme, which I believe was introduced in October 1972. [More…]
-1 join in this debate for the express purpose of recording my pleasure that the long awaited adjustments to the pensions of recipients under the Defence Force Retirements Benefits Act and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act will now be undertaken. [More…]
I commend the decisive and speedy action of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the Government in having the unjust situation that previously existed in this respect rectified after only 4 months in office. [More…]
Many recipients of pensions under the defence force retirement benefits scheme depend entirely upon their pensions as their source of income, and the delay in the adjustment of those pensions has caused unnecessary hardships in quite a number of instances. [More…]
It is not as if it was unaware of the situation because on quite a number of occasions I brought this matter to the attention, both publicly and privately, of Mr Barnard and Mr Morrison when they were successive Ministers for Defence. [More…]
I think that the sensible thing about the present Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill, to give it its proper title, is that, like the new Superannuation Bill, which is not yet through the Senate and in relation to which there does not seem to be any reason why it should not be through the other place, it now places the contributions on a flat rate basis rather than a unit basis. [More…]
I was a little intrigued to hear the words used by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in his speech. [More…]
1 will say no more about the fact that in the following 3 years nothing was done about it but I commend the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and this Government for introducing it. [More…]
I make a point to the Minister concerning members of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Fund who join as married serving men, whose wives subsequently die, who marry again and who leave the Services. [More…]
-It is pretty apparent that the Parliament, or at least this House of the Parliament, supports the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in what he is doing. [More…]
As I recall the history of the defence force retirement benefits scheme, the situation had been swinging for many years, with people attempting to have readjustments made and new systems introduced, until finally a report was produced during the term of office of the Government prior to December 1972. [More…]
Having said that, let me assure the honourable member for Oxley and my honourable friend, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), that it certainly would be my anxiety and that of the Government to get a simple formula for the updating of defence force retirement benefits and defence force retirement and death benefits. [More…]
Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee [More…]
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Mr Speaker, in this place there is not great protection from or great defence against slander of people in this place, and under the rules there is not much protection from slander against the dead. [More…]
Then we must allocate that amount of money among all our competing welfare functions, in much the same way that there is an acceptable figure for the amount of money that ought to be spent on defence. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether his Government will extend Mr Martins’ visa and arrange for the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to interview Mr Martins concerning the death of the 5 newsmen at Balibo in East Timor. [More…]
It could be said that we are not talking about insurance, we are not talking about civil defence or war damage; we are talking about a fund to cover flood, cyclone, drought, land-slip, earthquake, bushfires and any other disaster not readily or properly insurable. [More…]
In the interests of decentralisation and defence some of the burden for cyclone damage will have to be borne by residents in the south of Australia. [More…]
Let me say by way of slight digression that one of the things the Labor Government said in making a plaything of this natural disaster cover was that the only people who were properly covered were those in defence forces homes or homes which were subject to war service loans. [More…]
Lynch) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) are going through a whole series of charades, one might say, chanting one after the other certain forms of public advice about how they will save Australia from the past. [More…]
I do not want to spend too long in defence of the Department of Social Security. [More…]
One such department is the Department of Defence. [More…]
From my recollection, Defence expenditure was to be about 2.8 per cent of GDP this year. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Lockheed Corporation is revealed as a major source of this sort of corrupt action, will the Prime Minister cause an investigation to be made into its activities in Australia where it has been the major supplier to civil airlines and defence forces? [More…]
I think it ought to be noted that the honourable gentleman may well need to look to his own house first because he may not be aware that one of the various defence Ministers, or was it the Prime Minister at the time, was responsible for ordering Lockheed aircraft in the period of the previous Administration. [More…]
The only orders we placed for defence aircraft were for 8 Orions that were later versions of aircraft which had been ordered successfully and properly by the previous governments. [More…]
My colleagues Mr Beazley and Mr Jones have now asked the Prime Minister questions without notice on 18 February 1976 (Hansard, page 32), and 24 February 1976 (Hansard, page 187) and my colleague Mr Morris has received answers to questions on notice from the Ministers for Defence and for Transport on 1 6 and 1 7 March 1976 (Hansard, pages 693 and 767). [More…]
I am reminded of the comment of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), as he now is, in my electorate during the last election campaign, when he said: [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence reported in favour of a treaty framework in 1973. [More…]
In my view, it should be put to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs. [More…]
In my view, the proper course is for Mr Martins to be invited to appear before the Joint Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs of this Parliament. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence: Can he inform the House whether there has been any delay in settling the well publicised industrial disputes at the Garden Island Naval Dockyard in Sydney Harbour? [More…]
Therefore in theory when a government wants to start a new program or wants to spend more money on defence, immigration or whatever it may be, it has to go out and defend that proposition before the public. [More…]
-I hope that in his absence the honourable member for Port Adelaide, with his usual skill and ability, will spring to the defence of the silver haired orator, a man who is I think affectionately regarded by honourable members on both sides of the chamber. [More…]
I turn to defence. [More…]
We must provide adequate defence for Australia. [More…]
Do we have no defence at all? [More…]
From some of the statements I hear it would seem that members of the Opposition do not care whether we have any defence at all. [More…]
The Liberal and Country Parties believe Australia must maintain an independent capacity to provide and service the relevant requirements of our commercial shipping and our defence forces. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
As Minister for Defence: 30 to 3 1 March 1970, 1 7 to 19 June 1970. [More…]
This year we are spending approximately $ 1,800m in the defence estimate for the purpose of protecting our country from the enemy without. [More…]
The demonstration in Melbourne on 23 March 1970 was addressed by the now Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who was then the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The logic behind the Treasurer’s defence of the investment allowance runs as follows: Additional capital investment will stimulate higher production and employment which will in turn make a higher standard of living possible. [More…]
I mention this matter at this stage to give the Government and the Treasury officials time to prepare before the next appropriate occasion, a defence, if there is one, to this indefensible system of taxation. [More…]
If his information on these matters is inadequate, will he contact his colleague the Minister for Defence to see what intelligence can be provided. [More…]
-Will the Prime Minister confirm or deny reports that the Government is seeking to transfer to the States responsibility for defence service homes, home savings grants and other housing activities? [More…]
It will remain responsible for what we used to call war service homes and what the previous Administration termed defence service homes. [More…]
Unfortunately that shipyard was not prepared to accept the contract, together with contracts for 2 other landing craft heavy ships that the Department of Defence had decided to have built. [More…]
The report of the Australian Automobile Association relating to new model defects is alarming, but rather than comment at this stage I would prefer to hear the defence of the industry. [More…]
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The Government has recognised that defence expenditure has been unduly constrained in recent years. [More…]
Important capital equipment items have been deferred, spares and stocks have run down and there have been restrictions on exercise activities, which are the essence of the morale of an effective defence force. [More…]
To overcome these deficiencies, we have approved the planning and development of a defence program to provide for a marked increase in expenditure on defence during the next 5 years, 1976-198 1, particularly on capital equipment and Service activities. [More…]
Defence cannot be totally immune from the general budgetary retraints however, and some reductions have been made in the forward estimates. [More…]
Defence force personnel will be eligible for relief from the levy on the same lines as is proposed for repatriation beneficiaries. [More…]
4 ) The Prime Minister announced on 2 February that the Returned Servicemen’s League would be consulted on the best method of administering the Defence Service Homes Scheme consequent on the decision to abolish the Australian Housing Corporation. [More…]
The League has advised the Government that it is opposed to devolution of the Defence Service Homes Scheme to the States. [More…]
5 ) All staff and all unions represented among the Defence Service Homes staff have been informed of the study of alternative administrative arrangements and have been assured that they will be consulted in relation to the outcome of the study. [More…]
In defence of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories I have to say that CSL was the first laboratory in the world to develop the vaccine. [More…]
by leave- There has been a significant run-down in the defence capability of Australia in the last 3 years. [More…]
This has not been the fault of the Service Chiefs or of the defence advisers to the country. [More…]
Defence preparedness under Labor was given a low priority. [More…]
Apathy to defence problems was a distinguishing feature of the Labor Administration. [More…]
On assuming office the Government resolved that the state of affairs with respect to the nation’s defences would not be tolerated. [More…]
The Government is firmly determined to ensure that defence planning and preparedness are restored to their proper role. [More…]
Meanwhile, I may observe that the singular feature about contemporary Australia is that it is passing through a fundamental period of transition with respect to its defence obligations. [More…]
We accept, however, that we will take the prime responsibility for our own defence- the defence of Australia and its national interests. [More…]
It is against that background that I inform the House that the Government has decided to embark on a defence program which will involve the expenditure in real terms of more than $ 12,000m in the next 5-year period and the acquisition will create additional financial commitments carried forward into the later 1980s. [More…]
The Government reached its view that an expenditure of $ 12,000m is needed to give the country a credible defence capacity after receiving reports from its advisers, These reports detailed our present military capabilities, their limitations, and the extent to which they need to be developed or varied as we move from the 1970s into the 1980s. [More…]
On the advice available to it, and corresponding with the long lead times for major equipment and construction, the Government has concluded that the greater portion of the sum to which I have referred should be spent in the last 3 years of the 5-year defence program. [More…]
In terms of the Budget next August this will mean a Budget provision for defence in the region of $300m above the expenditure approaching $ 1,900m expected to be incurred in 1975-76. [More…]
The Government’s defence advisers are deeply involved in determining what priorities and what options should be included by the Government within the 5-year defence program with respect to equipment, manpower and facilities in the present state of technology and on the present outlook. [More…]
Modern defence involves very complex and expensive technologies. [More…]
Moreover, access to modern defence equipment involves very long lead times in securing that equipment. [More…]
In the last 6 months I have approved a number of equipment acquisitions for the Australian Services including the purchase of the British Rapier surface-to-air guided missile system, the ordering of additional Leopard tanks from the Federal Republic of Germany, the selection of the landrover as the replacement vehicle for Army’s light truck fleet, and air defence radar control and reporting facilities for the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
It has long been accepted that the defence preparedness of Australia will include the availability of strong and competent industrial support for defence needs. [More…]
Consequently, I have requested that the Defence (Industrial) Committee report on the ability of Australian industry to provide industrial support for the Services with emphasis on the support of equipment, production of consumable and minor capital items and the ability to cope with an intensification and diversification of this activity. [More…]
The Defence (Industrial) Committee is chaired by Sir Ian McLennan and has as members senior industrialists and top level Service and civilian staff from my Department. [More…]
For the purpose of this study the Defence (Industrial) Committee has been augmented for the period of the study by the appointment of a number of industrialists who are leaders in their field. [More…]
The Government intends that increased provision be made for the development of defence infrastructure, including the modernisation of naval dockyards, improvements in airfields and related support facilities, and in accommodation and educational and training facilities. [More…]
1 expect soon to announce what further works are necessary in order to increase the defence capability of this important naval base. [More…]
I have stated the Government’s intention to produce a White Paper on defence. [More…]
By that time considered advice on the equipment, manpower and fixed defence facilities in Australia, contemplated for decision during the 5-year program period, will be ready for Government consideration and incorporation, as appropriate, in the White Paper. [More…]
At a time when the nation faces serious economic difficulties, a decision to spend substantial sums of money on defence in the next 5 years does not make the resolution of those difficulties any easier. [More…]
Defence-Ministerial Statement, 25 May 1976. [More…]
-The statement just made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is a non-statement. [More…]
The Minister accuses the previous Government of neglecting defence, of allowing it to run down, but he offers no evidence of that because there is none. [More…]
Almost 14 per cent of the defence vote went to training. [More…]
The fact is that the total of $ 12,000m to be spent on defence over the next 5 years does not represent any change in defence policy. [More…]
It carries on with the sound decisions related to long term defence preparations initiated by Mr Barnard as Minister for Defence in the first and second Labor Governments, and developed subsequently by Mr Morrison as Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Labor Government initiated action to consider a fighter replacement, and the former Minister for Defence spelled out the details of that consideration on more than one occasion. [More…]
On one occasion the present Minister for Defence tentatively suggested a target of 38 000 personnel, but he has retreated from that. [More…]
On this is no great dissimilarity between what the Labor Government had committed itself to and what the Minister for Defence presumably has in mind. [More…]
The Minister for Defence’s statement is certainly simple- very much so. [More…]
That decision was scorned by the present Minister for Defence when he was in opposition. [More…]
The present Minister for Defence, when in opposition, frequently made fairly inflated claims, garnished as usual with fairly florrid rhetoric, but now he is in government he has an opportunity to deliver the goods. [More…]
The proportion of total defence expenditure devoted to capital equipment and facilities fell from 37 per cent to 13 per cent. [More…]
The percentage outlay this year, as the last Minister for Defence in the last Labor Government pointed out, will almost double that of the preceding year. [More…]
It was the BarnardMorrison administration of defence that progressively and, comparatively, fairly rapidly sought to reverse that situation. [More…]
The present Minister for Defence is trying to get an easy ride on the momentum which Barnard and Morrison set in motion during their period of* administration. [More…]
Finally, I regret there seems to have been some effort on the .part of the Minister to inject a little emotionalism into this debate because I think that that is the most unhelpful and unhealthy ingredient which could be injected into defence considerations in this country. [More…]
I believe that not only the community but also the defence services were not well served in previous years when this sort of rampant emotionalism ran wild, when professional patriotism was used to oppress and duress other people. [More…]
-I quote from page 5 of the defence report which states: … the prospect of direct strategic pressure against Australian interests by a major power remains remote. [More…]
No regional power has or is likely to acquire for a number of years, the capability that might require a substantial Australian defence response. [More…]
I am not suggesting for a minute that there is any room for complacency in the issue of defence; what I am asserting, though, is that mature, balanced, reponsible consideration ought not to be disturbed by emotional inputs. [More…]
The frenzy which is engendered by the sort of emotionalism we have seen associated with defence discussion in this community in the past leads too often to the wrong sorts of decisions. [More…]
I take the interjection of the Minister for Defence: There are long lead times, but that does not in any way detract from the point I have been making. [More…]
What we ought to be doing is using the breathing space ahead of us for mature consideration of the development of a defence doctrine based on the development of answers for our special needs, to confront the sorts of problems that could arise in our near area, problems which might affect this country at some future time. [More…]
It is most unfortunate that on the first attempt -and I stress the word ‘attempt’- in a statement on defence the Minister for Defence first of all should have sought to take credit for wearing someone else’s clothes. [More…]
I believe that there is room for a very sound defence policy to be developed over the years ahead according to a 5-year program and longer and that this policy be much broader than policies that have been developed in the past. [More…]
An extra ship in the defence budget or the gross and anti-egalitarian hand outs of superphosphate bounties did nothing to improve the suburban families’ standard of living. [More…]
There will be a marked increase in defence expenditure. [More…]
So I welcome the increase in defence expenditure, some details of which were given today. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
It is against that record that this Government proposes to take action and to bring back some credibility and some realism into the defence of this country. [More…]
Is it true that the decision of the Fraser Government to reduce the amount of money allocated to the Australian Housing Corporation for defence service homes purposes from the $ 122.5m appropriated in 1975-76 to $110m in the next financial year means that the waiting period will not be reduced from one year but, in fact, will be increased? [More…]
That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969-1974, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for investigation and report: Development of a navy supply centre and army workshop facility at defence establishment, Zetland New South Wales. [More…]
The proposal is for the redevelopment of the exLeyland car manufacturing plant at Zetland for Defence purposes as: (a) a Navy supply centre, and (b) an Army workshop and servicing facility. [More…]
-After that scintillating defence of the Government’s economic package, perhaps we can look at what is really behind it. [More…]
I am talking about the intention of the Government to increase the interest rate on defence service homes. [More…]
Although some minor liberalisation of citizens ‘ rights and duties was achieved, the basic points- that is, the socialist character of the state, the role of the Polish United Workers Party and the country’s reliance on the Soviet Union for political support and defence- remain in force. [More…]
My question, directed to the Minister for Defence, has a bit of a kick in it. [More…]
In January this year I announced that I had instructed the Department of Defence to draw up proposals for a new scheme. [More…]
This is particularly so at the present time when priority in defence expenditure must be given to equipment and the infrastructure essential to an adequate basis for expansion of our defence capability. [More…]
That was a heavy charge on the defence vote. [More…]
Features of future Commonwealth financial assistance are: Provisions of appropriate military uniforms; full defence force support for annual camps of up to 7 days for all cadets- at these camps rations, accommodation and equipment will be provided; reimbursement of up to an average of $10 per cadet to schools and sponsoring authorities for travel costs associated with annual camps, provision by the Navy, Army and Air Force of 141 regular servicemen and some 20 Department of Defence civilian staff to supervise and provide assistance in the activities of cadets; Commonwealth compensation cover; and payment of annual allowances to cadet instructors. [More…]
This is stressed in our decision to adopt a common aim for all 3 organisations, which has been formulated bearing in mind the fact that the organisations will be funded from the defence vote, and that the public submissions received strongly favoured the maintenance of a military flavour in cadet activity. [More…]
The common aim of the Australian Services’ cadet schemes is, by predominantly voluntary effort, better to equip young people for community life by fostering initiative, leadership, discipline and loyalty through training programs also designed to stimulate an interest in a particular arm of the Defence Force. [More…]
The level of that allowance and the conditions under which it will be paid is a matter that will be examined by the established defence machinery for pay and conditions of service. [More…]
-On Tuesday night the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) appeared as the national defence policy mendicant trying himself out in Labor s old clothes. [More…]
This undertaking is nothing more than a cosmetic to try to save face for the Minister for Defence who, in his rather grand and extravagant ways in Opposition, frequently made florid undertakings with that accentuated type of rhetoric in which he indulged about what he would do in government as Defence Minister. [More…]
I do not believe that $8m as a face saver for the Minister for Defence can be justified. [More…]
… it is very clear that the funds spent on Cadets could be spent in ways which would add more to Australia’s present defence capacity. [More…]
But let us stick with the defence area. [More…]
The defence Services, to the extent that this sort of money is diverted from other hard, useful types of programs, have their efficiency weakened and their effectiveness subject to deterioration. [More…]
They would be far better off, if the money is to be used for defence purposes, having it available for purposes related to their continuing function in the regular service area and in the citizen military service area. [More…]
The previous Minister for Defence in the Labor Government, Mr Barnard, announced that under Labor joining the cadets would be voluntary and that any school forcing pupils to join would have its unit disbanded. [More…]
On 28 April 1976 I tabled in this House the report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board together with a report to the Board by the Australian Government Actuary on the assets and liabilities of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund as at 30 September 1972 -the effective date of the transfer of the Fund to the Commonwealth. [More…]
I emphasise that the investigation relating to former DFRB contributors who transferred to the new Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme is not yet complete. [More…]
Relief is provided for certain repatriation beneficiaries and defence force personnel. [More…]
The rich are the ones who should pay most in tax to meet the general cost of keeping the whole of our population in good health, as they are now required to meet a greater share per dollar earned than the poor meet, for the cost of defence, roads, schools, and the other items of public expenditure. [More…]
To begin with, I say in their defence that I have a great admiration for the medical profession. [More…]
I am not sure whether that was one of the occasions on which the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) threatened to go to the barricades and leave his carcass impaled if necessary in defence of the private health insurance fund, but it was one of those celebrated occasions of emotional opposition to the propositions we were putting forward. [More…]
Honourable members may recollect that I staunchly defended the firm action in defence of the public evidenced on that occasion by Mr Gorton, who as Prime Minister was one of the first Ministers in a very long period of government in this country prepared to oppose a very powerful vested but minority interest group in the form of the Australian Medical Association in the interests of the community. [More…]
Honourable members, and the public, will recall the vibrant moments of drama in this House and outside as people declaimed their preparation to lay down their bodies and souls in defence of the right of the people not to have a levy imposed upon them. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) gave the game away. [More…]
On Tuesday he said there would be a 5 per cent real increase in defence outlays in the next financial year. [More…]
That means a 10 per cent deflator in terms of defence expenditure. [More…]
We still suffer a high rate of inflation, and in the expectation of the Government as inadroitly revealed by the Minister for Defence on Tuesday, we will still have a high inflation rate next year at a time when just about every other advanced industrial country in the world has brought inflation down to reasonable levels and when their economies are recovering. [More…]
I would give these things higher priority than the honourable member for Moreton, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), gives to defence. [More…]
The Government has increased defence expenditure to an all-time high, which the overwhelming majority of my constituents believe should not have that high priority at this time when Australia is not threatened by any enemy and is not likely to be involved in war for many years. [More…]
When you do knock the public sector as with their ideology, those on the other side of this Parliament do, then you are knocking these things: Better roads, better pensions, better overseas aid, better family law administration- and even better defence. [More…]
I add the last for the benefit of the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Newman), who is at the table, and who spent a great part of his career in the defence forces. [More…]
Russian naval activity in the Indian Ocean is the idee fixe about which the whole of the Fraser Government’s foreign and defence policies revolve. [More…]
This phobia about Russian ships is presumably the justification for defence expenditure of $ 12,000m over the next 5 years- for a 5.5 per cent per annum increase in real terms in the defence budget at the expense of funds for health, cities, roads, the environment, child care, education. [More…]
The facts about the Soviet naval presence were provided to the Parliament a month ago by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
But if we are going to base our whole defence and foreign policy on such assertions let us at least have the evidence for them. [More…]
It would be absurd to base Australia’s defence efforts on developments at such a distance from us. [More…]
She may even have attempted to invoke the South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty. [More…]
On the contrary, we recognise that generosity and realism often go hand in hand, and this recognition is reflected in the way in which both defence and aid have been essentially exempt from the cuts we have been forced to make in almost every other area. [More…]
In a sense the Fraser Government’s foreign policy is a return to a concept of defence before diplomacy. [More…]
What must be recognised is that the questioning of detente needs to be looked at in the perspective of the American presidential election campaign, and continuing efforts by the Department of Defence, particularly the navy section, to present a case for a substantial increase in expenditures. [More…]
The Soviet Union has a much greater land mass to defend, and perceives major defence problems both in Eastern Europe and on the Asian front, where nearly half of the Soviet army is now stationed. [More…]
An answer given by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in April this year indicated, as was pointed out by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) a few moments ago, a fairly steady Soviet naval presence in the Indean Ocean- between 17 and 19 ships is scarcely a formidable armada of naval ships- over the past 4 years. [More…]
But in case the Minister for Defence is not regarded as a terribly reliable or influential source of information of that sort, and in view of the fact that the Prime Minister is now trying to distort the situation, let me. [More…]
What this statement represents is a return to the stormy emotions and social divisiveness generated by foreign affairs and defence debates in the 1960s. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has direct responsibility with regard to defence, industry, growth centres, housing, transport infrastructure and offices, to name a few. [More…]
Each financial year we must seek to replace those leaving our Defence Force with high quality young men and women to maintain it at the level set by the Government. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Federal Government remove all administrative impediments so that the Aeronautical Research Laboratories can be utilised for appropriate road safety research whenever defence commitments permit. [More…]
In case there are a growing number of people in the community who think that they can make it by themselves, that they can be self-reliant and that there is some substance in the frequently expressed philosophy of the Prime Minister in these things that ‘public spending spoils people’ or in the philosophy of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) that ‘it makes them too soft’, I should like to remind them that few actually could afford the cost of extended, expensive treatment in a hospital at present if they met the full market cost of that sort of service. [More…]
Whatever may happen in the case of an individual judge- of course, that is a matter for an appellate court to deal with- I want to conclude with a defence of the Family Court judges. [More…]
This is a very strict rule of liability and, apart from the very narrow defence available to the carrier under Article 20, it is almost absolute liability. [More…]
Last week the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) announced the introduction of a new cadet training scheme. [More…]
The announcement of the Minister for Defence caused officials of several organisations concerned with imbuing young people, both male and female, with the same qualities stressed by the Minister to contact me. [More…]
The officials point out to me that their organisations encourage young people to develop the qualities mentioned by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I think all honourable gentlemen know, and all Queenslanders know, that for 3 years defence expenditure was cut to the bone and beneath the bone by the previous Administration. [More…]
What the Minister for Defence has announced, having won Government support- a remarkable effort, I think, in the present circumstances- for a significant increase in defence spending over the next 5 years is a realistic assessment of what this nation needs to spend on defence, having in mind our understanding of the world we live in. [More…]
In the period from December 1972 to December 1975, the number of Commonwealth Government employees, excluding those in the defence Services, increased by 43 000 or 12. [More…]
This phobia about Russian ships is presumably the justification for defence expenditure of $ 12,000m over the next 5 years- [More…]
For that reason there is a very real need in considering major tariff alterations to consider the defence potential that is involved. [More…]
But above all we must consider our defence potential. [More…]
I have had the honour to sit in this House for over 13 years and to listen to some of the diatribes from the Government side on piddling matters, but when you come right down to the fundamentals it is our defence potential, our ability to stand as a nation, our ability to stand on our own feet and to rely upon our own ability and our own productivity, that is all-important. [More…]
I do not wish to continue this debate because I promised the Minister that I would speak for only a short time, but things had to be said in his defence and in the defence of this Government. [More…]
A member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence can also be a member of the Privileges Committee, but a member of the Senate cannot be a member of the House of Representatives at the same time. [More…]
The appropriation for the defence homes saving scheme is being slashed. [More…]
In furtherance of the objective of ensuring that matters affecting the environment are fully examined and taken into account, the Government has given very careful consideration to a classified draft environmental impact statement prepared by the Department of Defence. [More…]
Defence and Australian Atomic Energy Commission scientists have participated in the examinations and relevant matters have received consideration by the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council. [More…]
Nevertheless, I wish to make this point: Towards the end of last year the position had arisen in consultation between the Department of Defence and the Department of Environment where my Government was about to make an approach to the governments of New South Wales and Western Australia, to consult them about the environmental aspects of nuclear powered ships- in this case nuclear powered allied warships- visiting their ports. [More…]
I, of course, do not assert- it would be most uncharacteristic of me to assert- that the Australian Government did not have constitutional authority in matters of the environment arising out of defence or trade with other countries. [More…]
This matter could have been referred to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence where confidentiality is required. [More…]
I was informed by both sources that there was a difference of opinion within the defence machine itself, and that in those circumstances it would be unwise to give approval until the Defence Committee had made up its mind what the best decision would be. [More…]
I am not turning my remarks to this particular case, but if I may go to the case of an action for defamation which has a defence of a fair and accurate report of parliamentary proceedings, clearly enough in such a case it would be appropriate to produce in court the Hansard record for the purpose of establishing what was said in Parliament m order to determine whether the report in the Press, the alleged defamatory report, was a fair and accurate report of what was said in Parliament. [More…]
For Parliament to claim privilege in relation to such a matter of evidence would be, quite clearly, to impede the administration of justice, as it would mean that a party who had an adequate defence under the law would not be able to establish it unless he first established what was said in Parliament. [More…]
I, too, regard the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund (Distribution of Surplus to Pensioners) Bill 1976 as a machinery measure, and my comments will be very brief. [More…]
I commend the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the Government on their prompt action in dealing with this matter of the distribution of the surplus funds under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
The fact that the compound interest component of the accumulated amount will be included in the amount available for distribution will, I am sure, indicate to the personnel of the Services, both retired and still serving, that this Government does concern itself with matters affecting the defence Services. [More…]
I join with previous speakers in the debate in supporting the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund (Distribution of Surplus to Pensioners) Bill 1976. [More…]
Sub-sections (3) and (4) of proposed new section 22a provide that where both the prosecution and the defence agree and where the magistrate thinks it appropriate the lower court may deal with the matter summarily. [More…]
When we used to ask a villainous criminal lawyer what was going to be bis defence at a trial, he always used to say, off the record: ‘I will hear what you say in the low court and I will cut my cloth to suit’. [More…]
My point is that I should like to see the Attorney-General if not now, then at some future date giving serious consideration to the proposal that an accused person in a magistrates court, after the Crown evidence is given, should have to give some indication of his defence which he will tender at the superior court sitting. [More…]
The Attorney-General may, under clause 9, give the Ombudsman a certificate that disclosure to the Ombudsman of certain information would be contrary to the public interest, by reason of prejudice to security or defence, or to CommonwealthState relations, or of disclosure of deliberations of Cabinet or of the Northern Territory Executive Council. [More…]
Clause 1 4 of the Bill also provides that his access to premises may be restricted where this would prejudice national security or defence. [More…]
It is interesting to note that this is the first debate of its kind on defence since 1972. [More…]
Apropos of that, I congratulate the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) for the sense of urgency and responsibility to this nation and its people that he brought to his department when we took office. [More…]
I cite his reply to the Defence Minister on 25 May. [More…]
In any defence and security assessment we must now accept the concept that forward defence is out and mainland strategy and the immense problems involved is the reality. [More…]
Military authorities have theorised as to what should be the order of priorities in our mainland defence planning. [More…]
However, the much more effective eyes and ears of our defence must be static new generation systems particularly the sonar systems remotely controlled providing us with constant vigilance. [More…]
But let be repeat that these weapons and defence systems are a reality and setting aside the nuclear element they would most certainly be used in the case of wholesale warfare. [More…]
When we ponder on this line of thought, the $ 12,000m defence funding is anything but excessive. [More…]
One of the serious consequences of the manner in which the Labor Party when in office downgraded matters of defence was the reaction of the Australian people. [More…]
It is encouraging to note that informed sources, informed observers, now claim that all this has changed, and not since the Vietnam war has there been a greater defence awareness amongst our Australian people. [More…]
It is the duty of every member of this House to arouse his people to responsible defence and security alertness. [More…]
It is well known that the Minister for Defence was most conscious of the necessity to reintroduce the cadet system. [More…]
The future defence and security of Australia could well depend on our relationship with certain countries and on developments in other potential trouble spots near and not so near to this country. [More…]
In any assessment of Australian foreign relationships and defence there is a growing belief that Papua New Guinea could well become a problem area of worrying proportions. [More…]
-After viewing the performance of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and studying his statement, I am certain that he is convinced that Napoleon was speaking to him personally when he made his famous statement: ‘Every private carries a general’s baton in his knapsack’. [More…]
Defence gets his feet back on to the ground, I can see him, dressed in a general’s uniform and with his aide-de-camp, perhaps a batman and a member of the women’s army, all suitably attired, following him in single file down the passageway and into the House. [More…]
In that stance, taken together with the moustache that he wears, he will have a striking resemblance to 2 infamous and defeated defence chiefs of yesteryear. [More…]
The honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), in his reply to the Minister’s statement, pointed out the shallowness of the Government’s defence policy. [More…]
Outside of the promise to allocate more than $ 12,000m for defence purposes over the next 5 years, nothing new appeared. [More…]
The Government’s defence advisers are deeply involved in determining what priorities and what options should be included by the Government within the 5-year defence program with respect to equipment, manpower and facilities in the present state of technology and on the present outlook. [More…]
In order to substantiate my statement I shall quote from a speech made by the then Minister for Defence, the Honourable Bill Morrison. [More…]
That statement was made by the then Minister for Defence in the Labor Government, the Honourable Bill Morrison, on 25 October 1975- only a few weeks before the Labor Government was summarily dismissed. [More…]
The Government has taken ad hoc, hastily considered decisions on defence, Medibank, taxation, family allowances, depreciation and investment allowances, funeral benefits, legal aid, the cadet scheme, child care and many other things. [More…]
I warn the Government that the Opposition and the public will be scrutinising closely the spending of the promised $ 12,000m for defence purposes. [More…]
We expect to get far more than the rhetoric that has been given to us in this statement by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
1 turn now to mention briefly the new cadet scheme that was announced recently by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Nevertheless, it is very clear that the funds spent on Cadets could be spent in ways which would add more to Australia’s present defence capacity. [More…]
-The Government is to be congratulated for its decision to reaffirm publicly our policy that it is a fundamental responsibility of the Government to safeguard the integrity and the defence of the State. [More…]
I challenge the honourable member for Lang (Mr Stewart), who has tried to equate the present Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) with some historic figures, to deny- if he has ever bothered to read history- that in no period of human endeavour has it been possible to foretell the threats of the future. [More…]
What we do know as a government is that it is our fundamental responsibility to ensure that every possibility is covered in our defence planning, in our strategies. [More…]
It is a sad fact that in the last 5 years, since previous governments were in power, having, on the advice of the Department of Defence, changed the emphasis from forward defence to that of the defence of Australia and her interests, we still are not in a position to say precisely what are the ramifications of the defence of Australia. [More…]
Ever since the 1930s the defence planners have looked at the problems of Australia in relation to the environment in which we live but very little consideration was given to the territorial defence of the continent. [More…]
We still do not have the infrastructure so that we can get our forces which are mainly concentrated on the eastern seaboard over to the west or the north or the north west which obviously are the areas in which we have to consider future defence planning. [More…]
On the contrary, defence was given such a low priority by the last Government of compassion and concern- words which it regrettably applied in so many areas of its policy to no avail. [More…]
The defence structure which is based essentially on the quality of personnel was allowed to run down in terms of morale, equipment, opportunities for training, facilities and so forth, to the extent that during the last 3 years we lost some 13 per cent of our officer corps. [More…]
Today we have to pick up the remnants of our defences and slowly but surely blend them and increase their efficiency to meet the requirements of Australia for at least the next 20 years. [More…]
Our strategic appreciation which is the essence of defence planning must examine the whole range of possible situations. [More…]
Therefore it is quite clear that in developing one’s strategic concepts we have to build up a series of plans of the defence of Australia and Australia’s interests which by definition goes beyond the mere seaboards of the Australian coast. [More…]
The Australian Defence Review of 1972 was regrettably the last occasion on which this Parliament was given the opportunity to debate in full the strategic concepts upon which the Australian defence structure was based. [More…]
In my final concluding remarks I must make the point clear that in an effective defence structure we need to have the full co-operation of the 3 defence Services and, of course, the Department of Defence. [More…]
That is what I think about this whole stupid defence debate. [More…]
What we are discussing is Australia’s defence, and at the moment Australia has no nuclear weapons and no nuclear powered ships. [More…]
Nevertheless it is worth remembering that in the 3 years of Labor rule the Labor Government did not debate defence at all. [More…]
This will be only the first of several debates on defence. [More…]
No doubt when the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) brings in his White Paper there will be a wide ranging debate on it, and I hope the House will take full notice of what is said and discussed. [More…]
No doubt the strategic basis of our defence, our strategy, will be discussed in that White Paper but I would like to make some preliminary remarks, perhaps as a hint or suggestion to the Minister. [More…]
We have managed to get rid of some of the rubbish that bedevilled defence strategy during the years of Labor rule, particularly the assumption, the wild and foolish assumption, that in some way there would be no threat for 15 years. [More…]
The Labor Party tried to get away from that assumption at the end, but that without doubt, for a considerable time, was the basis of its defence policy. [More…]
Australia should lessen its defence preparation. [More…]
Any defence policy based on such an assumption is bound to be a bad policy. [More…]
I am quite certain that our aim in shaping our defence forces should be to do the things we may have to do on our own or, at best, with the support of minor allies. [More…]
This should be the central role of our defence forces, not the defence of the mainland of Australia on the mainland but the defence of Australia as far away from it as we possibly can. [More…]
But if we are threatened with an invasion, the second role of our defence forces must be a deterrent force to make the invasion of Australia an extremely expensive and unprofitable operation. [More…]
Proper surveillance of our coastline is a vital and cental defence requirement. [More…]
It is the saga of how defence equipment can go wrong. [More…]
Next, someone was unkind enough to point out that this was a rather large and very valuable ship but it had no defence against air attack. [More…]
Then it was pointed out that the Tartar missile system had a marginal performance against missiles and that the ship had no anti-missile defence. [More…]
We must see that our defence preparations are kept in perspective, because if we are to defend this country properly not only must we have quality, which undoubtedly we need, but also we must be geared to the task and we must have numbers. [More…]
I welcome this debate because it is a recognition by the Government that defence is the first task of the government of a nation. [More…]
Did the Government reverse the previous Government’s policy of favouring a nuclear-free zone; if so, does this mean that its primary defence consideration is to safeguard United States interests in the Pacific region. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Other than the Government Aircraft Factory and the Department of Defence who is authorised to use the facilities of the Avalon airfield. [More…]
Who is entitled to authorise use of the facilities by persons or authorities other than the Government Aircraft Factory, the Department of Defence and commercial airlines. [More…]
Private aircraft are not entitled to use the airfield, which is part of the Government Aircraft Factories provided basically for test and development flying of defence aircraft and aircraft developed or built by the Factories. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The percentages for defence expenditure relate to defence expenditure on a payment basis. [More…]
1 ) Particulars of Defence Service Homes loans are not recorded on a basis which would make it practicable to identify those granted for the construction of homes in a particular electoral division. [More…]
It is possible to identify by post-code area all homes for which assistance under the Defence Service Homes Act has been granted. [More…]
On this basis it has been established that there are approximately 600 homes currently subject to a security under the Defence Service Homes Act in the Batman electoral division. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
The following answers are in respect of Defence Service Homes acquisitions: [More…]
All the land acquired for Defence Service Homes purposes can be resold. [More…]
The land was acquired for the purpose of developing Defence Service Homes estates. [More…]
The land will be sold by the Australian Housing Corporation to persons eligible under the provisions of the Defence Service Homes Act at its capital cost plus holding charges, development costs and such other expenses incurred in respect of the land by the Corporation prior to its sale. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Not enough attention was given by the Labor Government to Defence expenditure nor to assisting the under-privileged and disadvantaged. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Prime Minister to the policy of his Party, as printed, which states: ‘We regard industry, particularly shipbuilding, as the fourth arm of defence’. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Does the Department of Defence agree with his decision to close the shipyards of Australia? [More…]
-The honourable gentleman should be aware that ships built for defence purposes and ships built for normal trade purposes have very different characteristics and have generally been built in separate specialised yards. [More…]
On many occasions- I did this and I know the present Minister for Defence has looked at the question- there have been attempts to get some arrangement which would enable normal commercial yards to build defence ships. [More…]
Because of the specialised nature of defence ships, it has so far been found difficult to achieve this. [More…]
It did not take that opportunity just as it did not take the opportunity to have ships built for defence purposes in Australia. [More…]
If I may refer again to the National Times of the past weekend, I think it is nonsense to suggest that Sir Arthur Tange could tell the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), when he was the Minister for Defence, that the Minister could not talk to his officers or that they could not talk to him. [More…]
The 2 principal changes are that everybody except those on the lowest incomes, most pensioners and certain defence personnel and repatriation beneficiaries and those who privately insure, will be paying 2Vi per cent of their taxable incomes towards meeting the cost of some of their health care. [More…]
Since you are so keen to raise the matter, the previous Government ran down the defence of this country. [More…]
The Liberal and Country parties believe Australia must maintain an independent capacity to provide and service the relevant requirements of our commercial shipping and our defence forces. [More…]
The resort was taken over by the defence forces during World War II and was re-established after the war. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
What proportion of the membership of each of the defence services is comprised of ex-cadet corps or ex-reserve cadet personnel. [More…]
I have to say also in defence of the air terminal that neither of the airlines has come to me complaining about that facility. [More…]
This Bill will authorise borrowings for defence purposes in order that defence expenditures, which would normally be met from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, may instead be met from the Loan Fund. [More…]
The Bill authorises borrowing for defence purposes, but it does not authorise any additional defence expenditures. [More…]
It will simply allow reallocations between the Consolidated Revenue Fund and the Loan Fund of defence expenditure to be made during the remainder of the financial year- defence expenditures which have already been authorised by Parliament in Supply Act (No. [More…]
I should also mention that, as borrowings under this legislation will be for the purpose of financing defence expenditures, those borrowings will not require approval from the Australian Loan Council. [More…]
Our defence authorities over the years have said that the defence industries are the fourth arm of defence. [More…]
The July issue of the Pacific Defence Reporter refers to the way in which this Government has treated the fourth arm of defence. [More…]
I quote from page 32 of the July issue of the Pacific Defence Reporter. [More…]
And in case you think that advice to Ministers has been improved by the proliferation of government organisations concerned with industrial support in Defence and Industry and Commerce, it appears that nobody of Assistant Secretary level or above has visited the aircraft industry or held formal discussions on the IAC Report since its release. [More…]
Remembering that the lAC’s first recommendation was that ‘the local industry be involved in the planning process for procurement of defence equipment at the earliest possible stage ‘, the ministerial platitudes about the ‘fourth arm of defence’ should be the cause of acute personal embarrassment. [More…]
With all the resources of skilled labour now in this industry I am looking to the Government to make an announcement of what it will do for the industry in the immediate future, until such time as reasonable defence contracts can be achieved. [More…]
The honourable member for Phillip- in the ringing tones which Government supporters generally bring to the defence of some abstract concept like small business or motherhood- said much the same thing. [More…]
I foreshadow that we propose to move an amendment to clause 9 which relates to defence to prosecution. [More…]
It will be a good enough defence if he says ‘I did not know that the person was an internationally protected person’ or ‘I did not know the position of the status of the property’. [More…]
That will be a good defence because it will show that there was no intention in accordance with article 2. [More…]
But we seem to have watered that down and weakened the defence by saying ‘and had no reason to suspect’. [More…]
It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against this Act if the defendant proves that he did not know, and had no reason to suspect, that the person in relation to whom, or in relation to whose premises, accommodation or means of transport, the offence is alleged to have been committed was: [More…]
I was making the point that the Attorney-General believed that a person saying that he did not know would be an adequate defence to serious crimes. [More…]
What I am trying to suggest is that the onus of proof shifts on to the defence. [More…]
Therefore his defence falls to the ground and it leaves the defendant in a very difficult position indeed. [More…]
My attention has been drawn to the editorial in today’s Sydney Morning Herald and I would observe that it is a very great pity that a newspaper which has had such a long and distinguished interest in the defence of this country should be so grossly in error. [More…]
I would like to say by way of conclusion that I do not object in the least to criticism regarding the Department of Defence. [More…]
Indeed, it is my fond hope that this country will eventually reach that mature state where there will be a genuine bipartisan approach to defence problems but to use figures in such a mischievous way or- to put it in a generous and charitable fashion- to use them in an erroneous way, does not contribute towards that end. [More…]
One is operated by the Department of Defence. [More…]
The grounds for such a decision include prejudice to the security or the defence of the Commonwealth, the disclosure of Cabinet deliberations and such like. [More…]
However, he is not able to go to certain specified defence establishments or areas without the consent in writing of the Minister concerned. [More…]
There is also a provision for the Attorney-General to certify new places on defence grounds. [More…]
action that the Defence Force Ombudsman is authorized to investigate; or [More…]
The same Liberal hypocrisy is apparent in the vote for defence. [More…]
For 3 years the Liberals asserted that the Labor Government was running down our defences. [More…]
In the Fraser Budget funds for defence have been effectively cut. [More…]
Defence expenditure has fallen as a percentage of gross domestic product compared with the Hayden Budget despite a substantial increase in expenditure on capital equipment. [More…]
A continuation of the Labor defence program would have involved an outlay of some $2,230m if last year’s estimates for expenditure on capital equipment had been fully expended. [More…]
What would have happened if the Liberals had maintained Labor’s defence program at its existing rate? [More…]
In that case, the defence estimates should have been of the order of. [More…]
The construction of defence facilities has been effectively cut in real terms. [More…]
Let it not pretend that defence will do better under this Government than before. [More…]
There has never been a time when our isolation from the rest of the world carried with it more dangers, not from the imagined military threats which preoccupy and divide the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), but from ignorance and insularity- a separation from the economic and social values which guide the free industrial nations of the northern hemisphere. [More…]
It gives real increase in dollar terms in such priority areas as defence, which is up by 17.6 per cent, education, which is up by 15.3 per cent, and social security and welfare, which is up by 23.5 per cent. [More…]
The Defence Minister, with a burst of purple prose, asserted we have a maximum 3-hour warning period of any Soviet attack on Australia. [More…]
Indeed the manpower strength of the 3 armed services are virtually set at last year’s level and yet the Defence Minister was an unremitting critic of those levels. [More…]
The Minister for Defence, Mr D. J. Killen, said today that he wished to amplify - [More…]
Mr Speaker, it is quite obvious that I should have said that the Minister for Defence had given 3 hours notice that he intended to change his mind and I apologise for the error. [More…]
, as a fourth arm of defence … Of equal importance is our shipbuilding industry which has been allowed to fall into disuse by the Labor Government . [More…]
I will say something about the question of defence a little later. [More…]
Let us look at the question of defence. [More…]
A minute ago in this chamber we heard from a very angry, remonstrative Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
Let us look at what the Tariff Board said about the importance of shipbuilding to defence. [More…]
How the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Overseas Trade (Mr Anthony) can sit idly by in Cabinet and allow a decision to be taken to destroy this nationally important industry bewilders me. [More…]
The evidence from the Department of Defence indicated that the Government’s essential defence requirements are for efficient and strategically placed dry docking and other repair facilities, and for yards capable of the fast production of a number of relatively small ships. [More…]
The maintenance of a viable commercial shipbuilding industry was thus an important factor in Australian defence preparedness. [More…]
Let us look at what the Minister for Defence says. [More…]
He is our Minister for Defence. [More…]
Who is running the defence of this country? [More…]
Under this year’s Budget, $2, 100m is to be spent on defence. [More…]
If it is Liberal Party policy that the shipyards are a fourth arm of our defence, could that $31m not be easily put aside as part of our defence expenditure? [More…]
With the investment we are to make in our defence, that obviously could be done. [More…]
An extraordinary feature is that the Minister for Defence 2 days before the Government decided to close our national shipyards, issued a Press release stating that the Government was calling tenders for a 6000 ton naval ship. [More…]
I have news for the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
In defence of the honourable member for Newcastle, there is nothing on the record that proves that; but the Tasmanian Minister has made his claim and the honourable member for Newcastle has not denied it publicly. [More…]
It is apparently ignoring the importance of the industry as a part of our defence setup. [More…]
Whilst the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has stated that no naval ships will be built in those two main yards, they would certainly be called on to play a very significant part in our defence setup should this country be in some danger. [More…]
We are concerned for defence. [More…]
All of us who live in Australia’s front line in the far north are concerned with defence. [More…]
I strongly support the increases in the defence budget. [More…]
They are the minimum required to keep the defence force going. [More…]
3) 1976 seeks authority for the raising of loans to finance mainly defence expenditure. [More…]
It was a constraint only because that was all the defence expenditure left for the year that could be charged against loan raisings. [More…]
Again it is fairly obvious that this figure is simply an estimate of the amount of defence spending available for charging against loans. [More…]
As he said, the purpose of the Bill is to authorise borrowings for defence so that a part of the projected 1976-77 defence expenditure, which would normally be met from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, may instead be met from the Loan Fund. [More…]
To the extent that defence spending is financed to that amount from the Loan Fund, it reduces the call on the Consolidated Revenue Fund which otherwise would have had insufficient funds. [More…]
The Minister Assisting the Treasurer (Mr Eric Robinson) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) who are both from Queensland know that there is a great deal of unemployment in the home building industry and in the building industry generally. [More…]
In the 1976-77 Budget stg70m was cut off hospital expenditure; stg146m off housing expenditure by increased charges; stg30m off education expenditure, including universities; f stg175 off capital expenditure by government owned industries; and stg100m off defence. [More…]
He spoke of growth centres, social security, women, health, migrants, farmers, defence, urban and regional development. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether he has noted that Budget Statement No. [More…]
Development of Navy supply centre and Army workshop facility at defence establishment, Zetland, New South Wales. [More…]
However, I recognise that the shipyard industry of this country is a critical one and is of particular concern with regard to defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), who is sitting in the chamber, is a trained and, I understand, successful criminal lawyer. [More…]
This Bill does not evoke the same colourful language or anecdote as did the Bill just introduced by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
As a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee’s sub-committee on defence industry, I spent about 20 days altogether visiting factories. [More…]
When one looks at the Budget Papers one finds that the main items of expenditure are education $2,204m, which represents an increase of 15.3 per cent on the 1975-76 expenditure; social services $6, 187m, which represents 25 per cent of the total outlay; defence $2, 178m; and payments to the States during 1976-77 of $3,7 16m, which is 21 per cent more than the payments in 1975-76. [More…]
Is he in fact the representative for the Opposition in this Parliament in relation to defence or is he seeking, for some purpose peculiar and best known to himself, to trample across the economic representation held on the other side of the House by the honourable member for Adelaide? [More…]
In addition, of course, there were great increases in the allocations to the States for public housing programs, aged persons homes, defence service homes and the Australian Housing Corporation. [More…]
The Defence Minister again refuted claims that Australian servicemen had behaved dishonourably in past conflicts. [More…]
Mr Killen said the Queen’s uniform had never been sullied by those wearing it and would not be sullied while he remained Defence Minister. [More…]
The reason I raise this matter is that the Government has given great emphasis to its contention that the whole defence of this country is dependent upon the ANZUS Treaty, the ANZUS alliance. [More…]
I think the Minister for Defence has made this point on numerous occasions. [More…]
This brings in the whole issue, of course, that we are, according to the Minister for Defence, the Government and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), essentially dependent upon the United States of America and other countries for the defence of Australia. [More…]
I do not know when the Minister for Defence made his statement. [More…]
I call the Minister for Defence. [More…]
-The year 1976 is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing of the ANZUS treaty, a treaty which has been the cornerstone of the foreign affairs and defence policy of this country for a quarter of a century under governments, both Liberal and Labor. [More…]
Neville Wran knows that the visit of the Truxtun, the visit of the Enterprise and the visit of the Long Beach are all part of operation Kangaroo II- an ANZUS operation which has been planned for a considerable period of time and which is of the utmost strategic importance to the defence of this country. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Prime Minister, relates to the incredible decision of the New South Wales Premier to meddle in Australia’s defence and foreign affairs by banning visits by U.S.S. [More…]
Can the Government take any action to avoid a situation again arising where a State Premier can determine an issue involving Australian defence and foreign policy? [More…]
If some honourable gentleman asks why, he ought to know that we have a defence treaty with the United States of America. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government cannot accept a position in which any State government or other people outside this Parliament determine the foreign and defence policies of this country. [More…]
Such people will thus be given an exemption comparable to that provided for repatriation beneficiaries and members of the Defence Force. [More…]
The levy ceilings will be appropriately reduced for defence personnel and repatriation beneficiaries who have dependants who are not entitled under defence or repatriation arrangements to free medical treatment. [More…]
Pensioners who have an entitlement to pensioner health benefits will, like people covered by repatriation and Defence Force arrangements, be freed from the levy, Age pensioners entitled to pensioner fringe benefits, as well as repatriation beneficiaries and Service personnel, will thus continue to receive the special consideration that has long been extended to them in the field of health care. [More…]
To those who are prepared to defend what another place did on a recent occasion I say that all you do in these 2 Bills is basically to legitimise the payment of money to people whom you cannot sack, payments to the defence forces which you do not want to reduce, but the remainder goes on independently of either House. [More…]
Under the terms of the agreement, borrowings by the Commonwealth and State governments, except for temporary and defence purposes, are subject to approval by the Loan Council. [More…]
Perhaps most importantly of all it is a government which has brought back a sense of perspective into our foreign affairs and defence policies. [More…]
It is a government which is sensitive to the defence needs of this country. [More…]
It is a government that no longer denigrates armed service in the defence of this country. [More…]
It is a government which I believe has brought back both perspective and responsibility to the conduct of our foreign relations and our defence. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, in conclusion I say that it is encouraging to all right thinking Australians that having set out to build a better Australia, our defence funding has been increased by 1 7 per cent to ensure that what we have we hold. [More…]
I had hoped I would have sufficient time to make a few comments about defence matters, but I am afraid my time has been cut rather short. [More…]
It will help to stimulate business whilst protecting the needy and protecting also the key areas of expenditure, health and welfare, including pensions of all kinds, education and defence. [More…]
I am mystified to understand how the Deputy Prime Minister could expect to sell any meat to Russia when we had the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) apparently ready to declare war on that country at the same time. [More…]
The Prime Minister made certain suggestions in China that the Chinese Government is our friend- the present Prime Minister was Minister for Defence at the time of our sorry record in Vietnam. [More…]
I have received advice from the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Withers) that he has nominated Senator Young to be a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in the place of Senator Durack. [More…]
As a matter of policy, the Government should accept this as being a commitment to Australia, just as it does with the funds for defence, which are unproductive in themselves in their revenue earning capacity. [More…]
The honourable member for Adelaide knows only too well that it is because the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) keeps on conducting himself as though he is more than the Opposition’s spokesman on defence, which is a subject on which we hardly ever hear his views, and making irresponsible and extraordinary statements on the economy. [More…]
I want to refer to the contribution of 2 people, the shadow Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and the so-called shadow Minister for Defence who wants to get back to the position of shadow Treasurer again. [More…]
Either directly or by inference, he said he would increase expenditure on schools, roads, health services, sewerage, environment, women and children, Aborigines, the unemployed, public works, construction, shipbuilding, Medibank, State funds, growth centres, pensions, supporting mothers, unemployed school leavers, aged persons homes, destitute and lonely men- that includes most of the Opposition- supporting fathers, migrants, defence, nursing homes, hospitals, school dental services, refuges for women, national highways and last but not least, women. [More…]
It is not my wont to rush to the defence of the Sydney Morning Herald or of any of its journalists. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Defence seen reports that claim that the expenditure pattern of this Government on defence is the same as or similar in economic terms to that which was set by the previous Labor Government? [More…]
The expenditure on defence by the previous Government was of the order of 2.7 per cent of gross domestic product. [More…]
Has any reply been received to date from the Tasmanian Government on this vital defence matter? [More…]
I understand that under the Standing Orders I should take the first opportunity to rectify that misrepresentation by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
In the course of question time the Minister for Defence questioned a statement attributed to me, and which I did make over the weekend, that defence expenditure as a proportion of gross domestic product for this year is set at about the same level as actually occurred last year. [More…]
At page 3 defence expenditure is further dealt with. [More…]
On the basis that defence expenditure in 1975-76 was $ 1,853m and that Gross Domestic Product, calculated from the figures I have cited, was $69,600m, expenditure was about 2.66 per cent of GDP. [More…]
This year defence expenditure amounts to $2, 178m. [More…]
Defence expenditure represents 2.68 per cent of GDP. [More…]
If the Minister for Defence asserts firmly that defence expenditure this year amounts to 2.9 per cent of GDP, that means that there will have to be a recasting of the rate of growth in the economy to a figure somewhat below that which has been quoted by the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) as his anticipated figure for this year. [More…]
The honourable member for Oxley claimed that he had been misrepresented by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In the circumstances elaboration of the financial factor which was referred to by the Minister for Defence is, I think, sufficient explanation. [More…]
That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969 it is expedient to carry out the following proposed work which was referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works and on which the committee has duly reported to Parliament: Development of a navy supply centre and army workshop facility at defence establishment, Zetland, N.S. [More…]
The proposal is for the redevelopment of the exLeyland car manufacturing plant at Zetland for defence purposes as a Navy supply centre and an Army workshop and servicing facility. [More…]
He is the official Opposition spokesman on defence in this House. [More…]
They are age and invalid pensioners, repatriation beneficiaries, defence personnel, families earning less than $4,300 yearly and single people earning less than $2,605 yearly. [More…]
I have spoken with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) on the matter. [More…]
The solicitor acting for the man now seeks to have the Australian Government not use as a defence certain clauses that are available to it. [More…]
I have suggested to the Minister for Defence already that he should take some cognisance of the wisdom I have tried to propound and in the future ensure that every serviceman is fully advised that he had better not just rely on the Army, the Navy or the Air Force to look after his interests if he is injured. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In view of the AuditorGeneral’s report on the extraordinary looseness of the financial administration of the Department of Defence which has resulted in $34m in spares for Mirage aircraft being lost and defence supplies from overseas paid for in advance never being received, will he institute a full inquiry into the financial administration of the Department of Defence, including all the Services. [More…]
It would be incorrect to charge the present Department of Defence with any maladministration in relation to what is in the Auditor-General’s report because at that time there were separate Service departments. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence is not responsible for statements made by any members of the Opposition except insofar as they may relate to some decision which he has made in relation to the department over which he has control. [More…]
I have a statement from my research, albeit hurried research, which was put out by an old friend of us all, now the Australian Ambassador to Sweden, at the time when he was the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence. [More…]
That is the defence aid project - [More…]
You do not know whether your accounting is right or your defence is wrong. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question supplementary to that which he has just been asked. [More…]
Popular though those concessions were with so many people in the community, the really important acceptance of this Lynch Budget related to the tax indexation of personal incomes, together with the decision to increase social welfare in real terms, to accept a greater financial responsibility in the field of education, again in real terms, and to bring back some realism in the field of defence spending. [More…]
For repatriation personnel, for defence forces personnel we have in the relevant legislation an exemption. [More…]
He seems to take the attitude that whereas Australian people generally accept the proposition that many things that are important to individuals and to the nation at large should be financed on a capacity to pay principle- I am referring to such matters as social welfare benefits, child endowment, widow pensions, age pensions, even the defence of the country and many others that come under the administration of State governmentswhen it comes to health we ought to depart from that principle and revert to a philosophy whereby people have to look after themselves and whereby a levy ought to be paid. [More…]
Can honourable members opposite think of a more simple proposition than paying from the proceeds of taxation so that the rich pay more than the poor as is the case in respect of widows’ pensions, child endowment, defence, education and all these other services for which we legislate from time to time? [More…]
Pensioners who have an entitlement to pensioner health benefits will, like people covered by repatriation and defence force arrangements, be freed from the levy. [More…]
Such people will thus be given an exemption comparable to that provided for repatriation beneficiaries and members of the Defence Force. [More…]
A week ago on Tuesday in this House the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) put down in argument the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage). [More…]
(Moreton-Minister for Defence)- For the information of honourable members I present details of special Royal Australian Air Force flights for the period 1 June 1976 to 31 August 1976 together with supplementary details for the period 26 July 1975 to 17 August 1975. [More…]
If a person wants to dispute or defend that debt then he must pay a fee on filing a defence or a notice of intention to defend. [More…]
We should welcome overseas investment when it brings us access to new markets for our exports, or to technology otherwise unavailable, or where it has a defence significance. [More…]
In my own capacity as a member of a sub-committee of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence dealing with industrial back-up under the chairmanship of the honourable member for Isaacs (Mr Hamer) I have visited a number of shipyards. [More…]
I for one would think there would be some resistance on this side of the House to a policy that would not properly take into account all the aspects of that industry, including defence, before the Government makes a decision, but I know that the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) has said that this is only one of the number of reports that will be taken into consideration and I am heartened by that. [More…]
That further consideration is required of industrial relations, unemployment, recapitalisation and defence aspects of shipbuilding. [More…]
That repair and overhaul and limited shipbuilding capacity are necessary for defence. [More…]
Not only will the Government implement that recommendation, but responsibility for defence service homes and for the War Graves Commission will lie with the Department of Repatriation as soon as the Administrative Arrangements Order can be changed appropriately. [More…]
I am reminded of the workload of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), who is sitting at the table. [More…]
Basically I share the view held by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), namely that the Senate should not be the House which controls money matters. [More…]
In response to your request for advice as to whether my Department has any plans to expand the use of Schofields Aerodrome by general aviation, I can inform you that this matter is receiving the joint consideration of my colleague the Minister for Defence - [More…]
Here comes the Minister for Defence again - and myself. [More…]
I think he ought to be on his feet here tonight supporting me in my protest against such a proposal by the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
-It is very curious that when one starts to make an assault on the Premier of Queensland the person who springs to his defence is the honourable member for Griffith. [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that yesterday the National Congress of the Returned Services League adopted unanimously a resolution advocating nuclear weapons for the Australian defence forces? [More…]
It may even be just the person who wrote the last pamphlet of the Liberal Party of Australia on defence, who considered the shipbuilding industry to be so important to Australia. [More…]
There was one thought that he never failed to express and that was that should independence come about he would hope that in matters of defence and foreign affairs we would still be considerably involved in that country. [More…]
I am basing my support for some of the appropriation on the assumption that at least we are going to commence the long haul to self-reliance in defence. [More…]
Perhaps surprisingly I do not attach all the blame for our present state of defencelessness on the Opposition- only 95 per cent of it. [More…]
All defence and foreign policy is based, I believe, on the sound doctrine of a nation’s permanent interests. [More…]
I quote from the Pacific Defence Reporter of September this year which states: [More…]
He has attacked the Government for not reopening the consulate in East Timor, but he fails to say that constituents of mine pleaded with the former Minister for Defence, my predecessor as the honourable member for St George, and the former Government on a number of occasions to re-open the consulate and they were turned down flat. [More…]
The Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits scheme still remains in the Defence Department and I am hopeful that in the near future it, too, will be administered by the new Department. [More…]
The establishment of the new Department of Veterans’ Affairs will make no difference to future estimates of expenditure for repatriation, defence service homes or the Australian War Graves Commission. [More…]
That is a tremendous amount of money for any nation to spend on social welfare and health, particularly when we compare it with the education expenditure of $2, 204m and the defence expenditure of $2, 178m both of which represent approximately 9.6 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
But, if one may judge from what happens to historians in the People’s democracies of today, that historian would not be given the paper on which to write his defence, let alone the opportunity to publish it. [More…]
-I want to support my colleague the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) in his defence of Professor Manning Clark. [More…]
I spoke in defence of this gentleman. [More…]
I take this opportunity to mention that the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, with its additional responsibilities for defence service homes and war graves, is identified under its new name in an issue of the Administrative Arrangements Order approved today by the Executive Council. [More…]
At the outset, to my recollection there are only 2 government departmentsthe Department of Defence and the Department of Education- in which expenditure in real terms has grown. [More…]
On the last adjournment debate 12 nights ago my colleague the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) spoke poignantly in defence of Professor Manning Clark. [More…]
He recalled an adjournment debate in the Victorian Parliament in 1 947 in which he had spoken in Manning Clark’s defence. [More…]
Our fishing industry needs a strong defence organisation so that it can be protected. [More…]
Again we must think of our defence capabilities in those areas. [More…]
The IAC made some comments on the defence nature of the shipbuilding industry. [More…]
It may be that the Government committee, looking at the defence capacity of our industries, ought to have been spoken to about the social scan that should be left. [More…]
The Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard) is a lawyer and he knows that ignorance of the law is no defence. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
He is no doubt aware of developments in Thailand, resulting in a coup by the Minister for Defence in that country. [More…]
Will he assure the House that he will not attempt to emulate the Thai Minister for Defence and stage such a coup? [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence seen reports that Royal Australian Air Force Iroquois helicopter pilots serving with the United Nations peace-keeping force in the Middle East have been criticised for refusing to fly at night and that Navy helicopter pilots have been sent to the Middle East to do night flying for them? [More…]
I should like to remind honourable members that this Bill must be considered along with and in the context of other recent announcements by the Government, in particular the recent statement by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) confirming the Government’s intention to retain the repatriation system and emphasised by his announcement of the change in the name of the Ministry and Department from that of Repatriation to Veterans’ Affairs with the additional functions of defence service homes and the Australian war graves. [More…]
All these changes indicate the Government’s interest in the welfare of those who have served their country in the Defence Force in war and peace. [More…]
There are about 50 000 widows at present receiving the war and defence widow’s pension, which is payable where a veteran’s death is related to his service or where he was, at the time of his death, receiving or would have been entitled to receive a special rate of pension under Schedule 2 or under any of the first 8 items of the table in Schedule 5 to the Repatriation Act. [More…]
The war and defence widow’s pension will be increased by $2.25 a week to $43.50. [More…]
I think the whole of this nation was acutely aware of the action of the previous Government, in accordance with its general attitude towards the defence of this country, in cutting out the cadet system. [More…]
It is to the credit of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) that he reintroduced the cadet system without delay. [More…]
The Canadian Commercial Corporation, which is wholly owned by the Canadian Government, and is responsible to the Canadian Minister of Supply and Services, was established to act as the contracting agency when other governments wish to purchase defence or other supplies and services from Canada on a government to government basis. [More…]
He has contradicted his Foreign Minister (Mr Peacock) and contradicted his Defence Minister (Mr Killen). [More…]
The Prime Minister has not even reached agreement with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) on whether there is a direct Russian military threat to Australia. [More…]
Even the Liberal Party Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has rejected the Prime Minister’s view. [More…]
Let me read again the communiques of the NATO Ministerial Council in May and the Defence Planning Committee on 1 1 June because they show that their view is our view. [More…]
The communique of the Defence Planning Committee stated: [More…]
Can Australia feel any sense of pride in our defence of political and social freedom in the world today? [More…]
Whilst the war has continued defence aid from Australia to Indonesia has been increased. [More…]
Some 50 000 East Timorese perished in defence of our servicemen, directly and indirectly, out of a population of about 600 000. [More…]
The Natural Disasters Organisation (an established Division within the Department of Defence) is responsible for co-ordination of Commonwealth Government assistance in natural disasters or civil emergency situations. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence told the Opposition Whip that his question was one for the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs and as the latter failed to answer the question when I put it to him, I now ask the Prime Minister: Has Indonesia reinforced and strengthened its military forces in East Timor as is publicly reported? [More…]
The sole reference by the Government to this major upheaval in Thailand -one of our closest neighbours, one of the few democratically elected governments in Asia, and formerly an ally of the Liberal-Country Party Government in the Vietnam War- the only reference by this Government has been a facetious question by the member for Kennedy to the Minister for Defence designed to elicit a crude and tasteless joke at the expense of the people of Thailand. [More…]
I shall be taking this matter up as a matter of urgency with my colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
That would be the responsibility of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: Is Australia monitoring closely Russian naval presence in the Indian Ocean? [More…]
When it became impossible to keep the lid on the situation by issuing more bland Press releases, and prompted finally by pressure from a sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, he acted, and relief has arrived in Nicosia in the shape of the Waterman task force under the direction of Mr Waterman, who is a very skilled and experienced officer. [More…]
It is sufficient for me to say that the proposed increases in repatriation pensions are most welcome, covering as they do the totally and permanently incapacitated pensioner, the intermediate rate pensioner, the general rate pensioner, the war and defence widow’s pension and the Service pension. [More…]
Even the failure to receive award conditions or an employer’s immoral behaviour to a female employee do not constitute a defence against this embargo. [More…]
The holders of that view may on occasion allow us to have some tariff or other protection for manufacturing for defence purposes but otherwise they do not believe that manufacturing has a place unless it can be competitive internationally and does not require protection. [More…]
In particular, has he recently expressed his concern about these matters to the Minister for Defence? [More…]
In reaching this conclusion the Committee took account of the role of the Department of Defence in northern surveillance. [More…]
The Committee noted that while the Department of Defence co-operates with Customs, there are sometimes delays between requests for assistance and the time patrol boats and aircraft are on station. [More…]
The Committee believes that the declaration of the 200 nautical miles resources zone will dramatically reduce the Department of Defence ‘s ability to meet requests for assistance from Customs. [More…]
Again, there is a very wide field of associated interests, such as defence scientific research, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Bureau of Mineral Resources. [More…]
For defence purposes we must know at least as much about ourselves as others do. [More…]
Knowledge gained from satellites has an important defence significance and can influence foreign policy. [More…]
In fact, they can be quite frightening, it is my hope that the Government’s White Paper on defence will in part refer to the place satellites and satellite information have in the defence of this country. [More…]
So when the honourable member for St George makes his puny defence of the Government and the Attorney-General he ignores completely what was told to us in the Vinson report. [More…]
It is a matter for which he is now the responsible Federal Minister, namely, efforts to achieve standardisation of fire couplings among fire brigades and civil defence units. [More…]
Australian Defence Force Academy- Ministerial Statement. [More…]
-The Opposition welcomes the statement of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) as an affirmation of initiative taken by a previous Labor government. [More…]
I wish to announce the Government ‘s decision in principle to establish a Defence Force Academy to provide education at university level in a military environment for selected members of the 3 Services. [More…]
Mr Barnard, as Minister for Defence on 1 7 April 1975 stated: [More…]
Last year I announced details of plans to establish the Australian Defence Force Academy. [More…]
I suggest that that is a rather generously free play with the facts because Mr Barnard, as Minister for Defence in a Labor government, in the same speech on the date I mentioned, stated: [More…]
The initiation of the concept by a government was first undertaken, it would seem from the record, by a Labor government, by a former Defence Minister, Mr Barnard. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the discussion, if not dispute, in the earlier coalition government on the future, if there were to be any, of an Australian defence force academy was one of several ingredients at a period of rather turbulent dissension within the Cabinet. [More…]
Those honourable members who were here at that time, as I was, can cast their minds back and recall one of the many ingredients of the brawl- I think that is a fair enough description- which broke out and which resulted in one Minister, the Minister for Defence, resigning from the Government. [More…]
On that occasion the Minister for Foreign Affairs was successful in obtaining the ear of the Prime Minister on that and other issues which were part of the conflict over military matters between the Prime Minister and the then Minister for Defence. [More…]
It would seem that on this occasion the present Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has been much more successful than his predecessor in maintaining the continuity of the undertaking that Mr Barnard gave. [More…]
Another observation I want to make from the record is that the Minister for Defence said today: [More…]
The only consolation I find in it is that it is once again an affirmation of faith in the Labor Government’s initiative in matters of defence. [More…]
On the other hand, I recognise the great need for university standard education among our leaders in the defence Services. [More…]
It seems to me that one way in which the issue might be resolved is to consider making places available at the Defence Force Academy for non-Service people as students. [More…]
I conclude by welcoming the statement of the Minister because once again it does affirm faith in another initiative taken by the previous Labor Government in the field of defence. [More…]
An Australian shipbuilding and repair industry is essential to the national interest The Liberal and Country Parties believe Australia must maintain an independent capacity to provide and service the relevant requirements of our commercial shipping and our defence forces. [More…]
It is completely ignoring the defence aspect of our shipbuilding industry. [More…]
It is all right to say that the defence aspect is of no concern to our shipbuilding industry but if Australia were in trouble tomorrow those same shipyards and workers who today are being condemned would make a great contribution to our defence capacity. [More…]
-The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), armed to the teeth with metaphors, many of them mixed, has sought to create the impression that the Government is undertaking a more vigorous, broader commitment to defence. [More…]
The Budget shows that defence expenditure this year will be about 2.7 per cent of the gross domestic product, which is about the same level of expenditure in relative terms as it was last year. [More…]
Indeed, it would seem that certain measures have been taken to impose restraint within the defence forces, I suspect largely at the expense of serving members of the defence forces, so that capital expenditure items can be acquired and payments met. [More…]
A succession of Labor Ministers for Defence reversed that trend, and the upshot was that capital expenditure assumed “a greater proportion of the total expenditure on defence than was occurring immediately before we came into office and in the initial period we were in office. [More…]
Again, it seems as though the income levels of members of the armed Services are going to suffer as part of the Government’s efforts to juggle total defence expenditure in order to meet the costs of capital equipment. [More…]
I quote figures which show that, on average, wages for serving members of the defence forces are going to increase by about 7 per cent compared with a projected 12 per cent increase in average income for the rest of the community. [More…]
This matter has been drawn to the attention of the Minister for Defence at Question Time in this House. [More…]
To date, no answer has been provided why this apparent discrimination is to be exercised against serving members of the defence forces. [More…]
It would seem that activity in the armed Services is certainly not going to burgeon forth, as the Minister for Defence would have had us believe before he was elected to his ministerial office, and as he has implied very heavily with those rather dramatic metaphors that he uses from time to time. [More…]
The Minister has been kind enough to suggest from time to time that a bipartisan approach to defence would be desirable in this country. [More…]
Australia to attend more adequately to their defence preparation, a perfectly reasonable sentiment. [More…]
Accordingly, if there were to be any sort of conflict, then very largely we have to consider the way in which we would handle our defence ourselves. [More…]
Unfortunately, Mr Deputy Chairman, I have a good speech which I would like to develop, and if there is enough generosity in the heart of the Minister for Defence I might be able to pick up another 10 minutes. [More…]
-The moneys provided in this Budget for defence - $2,036,64 1,000-reflect the tenacity of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
If we add to that the fact that he was able to announce that over the next 3 years $ 12,000m will be available for expenditure on defence, we will understand that when the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) chose this man to be the Minister for Defence, he evaluated not only his capacity and integrity but also his tenacity. [More…]
But it is interesting to note that a writer in this month ‘s edition of the Pacific Defence Reporter states, among many other complimentary things, regarding the Minister: [More…]
How can we possibly hope to deal with the all important matter of defence in that time? [More…]
However, one point I should stress, and it is my responsibility to bring it before the Australian people, is the tremendous importance of having a defence capability and I should explain what that capability stands for. [More…]
Unless we are prepared to build up a realistic defence capacity, no other country in the world is likely to look in our direction - [More…]
I listened to the shadow Minister for defence, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden). [More…]
Let us look for a moment at the defence situation as it is seen by people whose business it is to know the requirements for a realistic force to defend this country. [More…]
But there is the possibility that we can, within a short space of time or a comparatively short space of time, with the new spirit in the various defence forces build up a capacity to enable us to hang on until a powerful ally could come to our assistance. [More…]
I wish to quote some further facts in relation to the defence of our coastline which have been compiled by people who once again have thought about these things with a sense of responsibility and reality. [More…]
The defence planners have been thinking in terms of a craft similar to that used by the Israeli forces in the defence of their very limited coastline. [More…]
This is the sort of defence that has been visualised. [More…]
Under this Minister at least we have debated the subject of defence in this place. [More…]
We know that he is preparing a White Paper and that there will be a full-scale debate on the defence of this country for the first time in many years since the previous Liberal-National Country Party Government went out of office. [More…]
We realise that without a defence capacity nothing else would matter very much. [More…]
I do not dispute the technical superiority of the Fl 1 1, but I put the simple proposition that in terms of Australia’s defence, more adequate defensive arrangements could have been made for an even smaller outlay than was involved with the Fl 1 1 . [More…]
Many changes in defence technology which are taking place at this time may well lead to radically different decisions in 5 years time as against the decisions we make now. [More…]
We have plenty of time up our sleeves to make wise decisions which will give us a sound defence capacity in the future. [More…]
-Before the suspension of the sitting the Committee was discussing the estimates for the Department of Defence. [More…]
We had heard an interesting speech from the spokesman on defence matters for the Australian Labor Party, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden). [More…]
He referred to recent ministerial statements and to the attitude of the Labor Party to the defence programs that are reflected in this enormous commitment which is set out in the estimates. [More…]
Whilst we look at our appreciation of the future we ought at the same time to look at some of the other problems which are not dealt with by the Department of Defence but which create an environment from which come other problems that are vital to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
It is also evident in regard to the significant factor of nuclear energy which is of tremendous interest to our defence scientists. [More…]
We must concern ourselves with this sort of internal problem as well as with the overall problem of looking at the cost of replacing equipment and at the issue, with which the Department of Defence must wrestle year after year, of providing in Australia the maximum degree of return for the investment that the Australian people through their Government will make in purchasing defence equipment for the armed forces. [More…]
I suppose that the last comment I could make about the query of the honourable member for Oxley would be that if the events that were reflected in the phrase ‘the domino theory’ had begun to take place in the way desired by those who were responsible for the internal subversion of these other nations and if they had been successful, most Australians today would have an entirely different outlook on defence matters and a far greater sensitivity. [More…]
It is true that we are spending an enormous amount of our treasure, to use that word, on defence- $2,000m this year and every year, which is 2Vi times the total cost of the Snowy Mountains scheme. [More…]
One of the misfortunes of our parliamentary procedures at the moment is that we cannot have a full engagement on defence. [More…]
The debate on the estimates for the Department of Defence is simply a skirmish in which we can raise a few issues. [More…]
He spelt out the actual physical realities of Australia’s defence situation vis-a-vis its neighbours at the present moment and he said that there was time for a mature consideration of the situation. [More…]
I think we are at the stage of a totally new debate on defence. [More…]
It is a totally new environment in which we now live insofar as defence is concerned. [More…]
It seems to me that Australia’s history has been of the order of ad hockery in relation to defence and I am not using that word in a derogatory sense. [More…]
I do not think that we have had an effective actual policy in relation to defence since about 1910. [More…]
So I think we can look at self defence. [More…]
I remind the honourable member for North Sydney that it was the Australian Labor Party that was talking in this Parliament about air defence back in the 1930s. [More…]
In the next few moments I would like to say how very important it is that we protect the industrial base of the Australian defence system. [More…]
I believe that a great deal of the defence preparedness is multi-purpose planning. [More…]
As a member of the defence industry sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence I have had a good look at shipyards, workshops and the electronics industry over the last few months and I have been astonished by the versatility of the situation, the capacity of it and the way in which it is underrated and undernourished. [More…]
We need all these things to keep ticking over so that come the day that buttons are pressed, the defence system will go into full fighting trim. [More…]
Away from the dreadful reality of war there always is some sense of unreality about a debate on defence. [More…]
Firstly, we always tend to think in terms of the last war rather than the next; secondly, in a way the defence staff always seem to think that the enemy is bound by its appreciation of the situation and will not do anything unexpected or unforeseen. [More…]
Therefore I say it is pure common sense, as a defence measure, to see that at least we have that security. [More…]
We should not have our Melbourne defence factories which depend on gas entirely vulnerable to unsophisticated off-shore operations. [More…]
At sea the attack has overwhelmed the defence, so big vessels which are worth a missile will not live. [More…]
This must mean that we should be thinking in quite different terms of our local defence supplies. [More…]
If we are serious about defence we must take this kind of thing seriously. [More…]
It may be that our defence Services are needed for quite a different kind of war. [More…]
I do not mind listening to abstruse conjectural arguments but I remind the Committee that we are debating the estimates for the Department of Defence. [More…]
Some of the speeches made here this afternoon would be more appropriate if we were discussing the White Paper which was promised in May this year on how this Government would spend $ 12,000m on defence in the next 5 years. [More…]
I rather prefer to look at the record of Labor governments in matters of defence as compared with the record of Liberal-Country Party governments. [More…]
I find that the general community believes, for some unknown reason, that the Australian Labor Party has never been interested in the subject of defence. [More…]
At that stage our defence forces were run down. [More…]
Our defence equipment was run down. [More…]
After 23 years of Liberal Government when we again came into power we found that our defence forces and equipment had again fallen away quite drastically. [More…]
Between 1967-68 and 1974-75 the percentage of our total defence expenditure on capital equipment and facilities fell from 37 per cent to 1 3 per cent. [More…]
The only thing worth mentioning on defence in those years is the debacle of the Fl 1 1 aircraft. [More…]
Mr Chairman, I remind you that in buying defence equipment or capital equipment there ,are years of lead time in making decisions and in deciding what sort of equipment to buy. [More…]
To verify my statement that the Liberal-Country Party Government of those years neglected our defence forces in relation to capital equipment I cite these figures. [More…]
A lot of the defence equipment which has been ordered or which is being delivered to Australia was ordered during those 3 years of Labor Government. [More…]
Even the defence expenditure this year as a proportion of the gross domestic product in this Budget is about the same as it was in the last Budget of the Labor Party. [More…]
We adopted the Jess report *on defence retirement and death benefits. [More…]
We introduced the automatic income adjustments for our defence forces in line with other Public Service pay movements. [More…]
We reorganised and rationalised the Department of Defence, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy and the Department of the Air Force into one department. [More…]
We extended repatriation benefits and defence service homes eligibility to members of our peacetime forces. [More…]
The principal goal of the Australian defence policy is the security of the nation and its interests and not until this present plan was announced were the defence Forces properly able to look forward to a planned program. [More…]
They now know that in real terms there will be $ 12,000m available and in an essentially anarchic society of nations it is absolutely imperative that our defence forces are able to plan ahead. [More…]
The moneys that have been provided will enable the Government and the forces to provide a proper defence of this nation. [More…]
We heard before 1972 some reasonably respectable policy programs on defence from the Labor Party but when it was in office the reality was different and those who were reasonable and moderate were outvoted. [More…]
In the short term or the long term there could at times be international chaos which is totally unpredictable and the aftermath of that international chaos might involve Australia in defence activities. [More…]
Another comment that was made on the other side of the House was that this Government has neglected the defence forces over a period of time. [More…]
What honourable members opposite seem to forget when they talk about figures for equipment procurement in the last one or two years is that during much of the 1960s and early 1970s this country in regard to the use of its defence forces was at war. [More…]
Wages went up until they comprised approximately 65 per cent of the defence vote and that is where the money was used as a result of the burst of inflation provided by the Labor Government. [More…]
The Labor Government could not keep its promise of 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product being set aside for defence expenditure. [More…]
It broke that promise immediately and defence expenditure went down to a level that was totally inadequate. [More…]
We are building up that expenditure generally although we do not specify a particular percentage of the gross domestic product for defence. [More…]
The whole defence of this country must be planned carefully and sensibly and I would suggest- it is not my own suggestion for it has been canvassed before- that we need a Cabinet committee for national security and that all defence policies be co-ordinated with other major decisions we make so that they interlock and defence decisions accompany major economic considerations. [More…]
We will then build the nation as well as help build the infrastructure for our defence purposes. [More…]
It is obvious that we must look at 2 areas, in the maritime area and continental defence. [More…]
We will then have the wherewithal to keep Australia surveyed, to keep people well away from us despite whatever level of threat there may be and to ensure that our first lines of defence are secure. [More…]
Secondly, we have to settle the structure of the continental defence force as soon as possible. [More…]
I wish to say a few words on defence following my experience when in the last Labor Government from the point of view of Australia’s security, its future and its ability to take part in world discussions related to future conflict perhaps, or the easing of tensions as we would much prefer to advert to here. [More…]
I think it is important that we recognise that we must have a bipartisan policy in defence. [More…]
In the politics of the question- that is the tough, hard part: that is the part we will not agree on- we make a fair bit of political capital out of the words on defence. [More…]
I have never forgotten, after I was first elected to this chamber in 1969, that the then Minister for Defence, the Honourable Malcolm Fraser, on 10 March 1970 brought down a very impressive paper called the Statement on Defence. [More…]
One does not see that intelligence in the defence statement I mentioned. [More…]
-We are discussing tonight the estimates for the Department of Defence of $2,036m, and while he is still in the chamber I should like to commend the previous speaker, the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen), for what he said about bipartisan defence policies. [More…]
The Opposition’s shadow Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), was critical of the fact that the allocation for lubricants and logistics and so on. [More…]
We hear a lot of airy-fairy nonsense about defence, but when we get down to the practical side of flying aeroplanes or driving tanks or sailing ships, that is what this Minister is all about. [More…]
The allocation is to get Australia ‘s defence forces back into a position where they can defend Australia and have the men with which to do it. [More…]
If we do not start to reform our defence forces and put together the men, the ships and the planes, we will have no strength on which to back our argument, no strength with which to back up any decision we may take in an area in which we should be strong. [More…]
The shadow Minister for Defence said that we should not rush into buying replacements for the Mirage. [More…]
We have to look ahead, and that is what the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the Government are doing. [More…]
It is important that our defence people should be involved in these conferences. [More…]
It is important that Australians understand what is happening in the world from the point of view of defence and how the position should be looked at in a total context. [More…]
Certainly, we need continental defence. [More…]
We want a very effective defence force in Australia. [More…]
In the 5 minutes remaining to me, I wish to look at other aspects of defence, including our internal position with industries directly associated with the defence concept. [More…]
The manufacturing industries were wondering what would be their future in defence. [More…]
I make no criticism of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen ). [More…]
I can say this to the Minister in all sincerity: There was a feeling that the procurement officers from the defence personnel could not care less about the Australian manufacturing base. [More…]
There has been no plan on what we could do with the intelligent Australians in the defence back-up position. [More…]
We will become run down from the point of view of a second line of defence if we do not support our own intelligence and our own scientific brains. [More…]
The defence people worked closely with those making the appliances here. [More…]
Unfortunately it was again sabotaged on the basis that it was going to detract from somebody’s power to procure defence equipment. [More…]
I mention that to illustrate one deep sense of personal commitment I have, that is, my determination to see that this country will eventually get to a bipartisan approach on defence matters. [More…]
Time has caught up with us and we are now beckoned by circumstances and by history to understand that we can no longer indulge ourselves in partisan argument- mean, petty bickering- about our defence obligation. [More…]
We must seek to ensure that every cent we spend upon defence is spent properly, frugally. [More…]
I have listened to defence estimates debates in this place now for 2 1 years and I cannot recall a defence estimates debate so singularly free of what I would describe as a harshness, an acerbity of language. [More…]
But today, for the first time, I will be so bold as to say that I have been led to the conclusion that given a little bit of goodwill, we can reach a bipartisan policy on defence matters. [More…]
He said that he would like to see a bipartisan defence policy. [More…]
We can only do so by ensuring that our defence capacity is such that that will follow. [More…]
If there is no threat, why do we find ourselves getting so involved in defence matters?” [More…]
’ I do not wish to punctuate what has been a most agreeable debate with any unpleasant note, but defence is not concerned with perceived threat. [More…]
Defence is concerned with contingencies. [More…]
I always look with puzzlement at people who say to me: ‘Oh, Killen, why do you not model yourself defence-wise on the lines of the Swedes?’ [More…]
I say to my friend from Oxley and to all of my honourable friends opposite: Our great task in defence today is to maintain access to the skills which will enable us to deal with an infinite variety of contingencies. [More…]
That is where the problem of contemporary defence takes its centre piece: How to maintain access to the skills. [More…]
I only hope that this country will be spared the day when it will have a Minister for Defence who is so stupid that he will direct what sort of equipment should be bought for the Services. [More…]
The honourable and gallant gentleman from North Sydney has done us a service in reminding us that it is the sheer, massive uncertainty that attends our everyday existence, which places us under such an obligation to consider defence problems in terms not of certainties but of uncertainties. [More…]
If defence planning was on the basis of a certainty, how much easier it would be. [More…]
Again it encouraged me towards the view that the goal of genuine bipartisanship in defence matters is very much within our reach. [More…]
Nevertheless in those difficult years the defence planners were faced with the problem of what to buy. [More…]
The pertinacious attention of the honourable member for St George to defence matters has, of course, made a very deep impression upon honourable members on both sides of the chamber. [More…]
I am indebted to him not merely for the courteous way in which he draws my attention to defence matters but for the very forceful and direct way in which he does so. [More…]
Defence today is not concerned with perceptive or perceived threats. [More…]
I hope that its presentation, irrespective of whether people are for it or against it, will encourage them to take one step forward along the path to securing a genuine, bipartisan policy on defence for this country. [More…]
This is disturbing news to say the least and I am delighted that the Department of Defence is having these matters investigated. [More…]
The textile industry, an important defence industry and an important industry generally in regard to raw materials in Australia, needs urgently a positive statement of Government policy which will support the development of a viable textile industry in Australia. [More…]
The Prime Minister dismissed my question without notice concerning the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister if he would be good enough to put an end to speculation that he is about to replace Dr Cairns as Treasurer, will the Prime Minister give an assurance that Dr Cairns, if he is replaced as Treasurer, will not be named as Minister for Defence? [More…]
Was the Prime Minister on that occasion concerned with the great issue of national defence. [More…]
-Does the Minister for Defence consider the recent coup in Thailand of any special significance to the defence situation in South East Asia and adjacent areas or to any defence agreements or arrangements which we may have with our South East Asian neighbours? [More…]
This points to the uncertainty into which all defence plans are thrust. [More…]
May I also take this opportunity to say that we very much appreciated the prompt and humane action last night of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in making an HS748 available to bring Mrs Nicholls and one of her sons from Edinburgh to Canberra early this morning. [More…]
Can the Minister confirm or deny widely published reports that his Government intends to renegotiate the Commonwealth and States Housing Agreement with a view to increasing interest rates for welfare housing, raising interest rates for defence service homes, selling off land for defence service homes estates and doubling the period of service to establish eligibility for defence service homes? [More…]
There has been some speculation in the newspapers on defence service homes. [More…]
I gave him a categorical denial that I or my colleague the Minister for Defence had recommended that interest rates should be set at one point, I think, be) the bond rate. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
-The honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) deserves to be commended for seeking to mobilise a vigorous albeit unconvincing defence for a very weak case. [More…]
When we compare that funding with the funding of education and defence, both at approximately $9,600m, we see that this Government really has concern for the aged and the disadvantaged. [More…]
I rose only to make those few points, particularly in defence of the Queensland Government. [More…]
The Government has recently taken great unction to itself for spending $12 billion on defence in the next 5 years. [More…]
If one divides $12 billion by five, one finds that as much is spent on defence in a single year as has been spent in the past 10 years on official assistance overseas. [More…]
I sometimes wonder when people are debating these issues whether Australia would be less safe or more safe if it spent another $250m on aid to these countries and spent $2S0m less on defence. [More…]
If Australia reduced defence expenditure by onetenth and doubled its assistance overseas, would Australia be safer in consequence? [More…]
When we talk about these great sums for defence expenditure we never ask ourselves against what we are supposed to be defending ourselves. [More…]
Unfortunately, it is typical of the attitude of the Parliament to these great problems that we become involved in all sorts of heated debates about the cutdown on defence expenditure and whether a certain proportion of the gross domestic product should be spent on defence. [More…]
I would like an honourable member to justify one night why it is so much better to have a S-year plan for defence and to spend $12 billion. [More…]
The House is discussing the expenditure of $ 12 billion or an average each year of $2,400m on defence, as much as has been spent in the past 10 years on international aid. [More…]
I wish to speak briefly about the Australian Defence Force Academy- or Services university- the establishment of which was announced in this House by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) on 20 October 1976. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Current Defence Force policy is that: [More…]
Defence Force military and brass bands are to play God Save the Queen as the National Anthem on all Service occasions and on civil occasions unless the organisers request in lieu of the National Anthem one of the three musical salutes. [More…]
Defence Force bands performing at civilian functions when requested by the organisers may play any one of the following as a musical salute: [More…]
What (a) defence and (b) scientific installations and facilities are operating in Australia and her overseas territories under the (i) joint control of Australia and another country and (ii) sole control of another country. [More…]
Discussions are being held at the present time between the Minister for Defence, his Department and myself in relation to coastal surveillance in respect of quarantine matters. [More…]
Does the Minister for Defence have any information which would indicate that the Taiwanese Government has the capacity to stage an Israeli-type Entebbe raid into Australian territory in order to reclaim the 4 clam fishing trawlers and crews presently held in custody in Mackay, Queensland? [More…]
I would like to commence my answer by saying that the article, of which I am very aware, gives a totally untruthful view of the meeting that I had with the Fraser Island Defence Organisation in Maryborough. [More…]
I expressed concern that a group like the Fraser Island Defence Organisation could publish such unsubstantiated material. [More…]
Mr J. Sinclair, President, Fraser Island Defence Organisation, P.O. [More…]
I have not had the advantage of receiving a detailed assessment from the Chief of Defence Force Staff and his colleagues on Kangaroo II. [More…]
It seeks to encourage the development of a genuine bipartisan approach to defence matters. [More…]
Australian Defence-Paper, dated 4 November 1976. [More…]
I appreciate the calmer and more reasonable tones in which this paper has been presented to the Parliament -calmer and more reasonable than generally we have been used to in defence debates in this country and especially in this Parliament. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) suggests that his paper may provide the basis for the development of a genuine bipartisan approach to defence matters, and it may just do that. [More…]
Certainly, in view of the warm rhetoric in which we have all indulged in this House in the course of this Parliament on the few occasions on which foreign affairs and defence matters have been debated, I believe it is not necessary to raise those differences. [More…]
We are faced with the enormously costly implications of providing adequate defence arrangements for a small medium-sized power like Australia. [More…]
But the enormous cost implications of providing adequate defence equipment for this country are such as to encourage all members of this Parliament to try as much as possible to engage in restrained and responsible discussion as to how this country should prepare itself for its defence. [More…]
The discussion should cover the sort of outlays we ought to be making and the costs that are involved- not only immediate costs but the opportunity cost of undertaking a particular expenditure program in, say, one service, at the expense of other programs that that service would otherwise have undertaken or at the expense of other programs for other Services, so that overall the program in the defence area is balanced. [More…]
Furthermore, we should also be looking at the opportunity cost of undertaking increased defence expenditure at the expense of other public programs such as education or health or programs for a better environment, better roads, better harbours or better railways. [More…]
These are important ingredients in a balanced defence-oriented development of a country. [More…]
I am not suggesting for a minute that there has been any conscious effort to understate the costs which are involved, but rather that the cost escalation for defence equipment, especially that purchased from overseas, has well exceeded the cost allowances generally provided for in this sort of program up to the present. [More…]
For instance, at page 2 paragraph 1 1 of the statement entitled Australian Defence presented by the Minister, the following statement is made: [More…]
Allowance must be made for USSR’s perceptions of its requirements for defence. [More…]
I believe that we must have clear perceptions of what we are talking about when we are trying to understand our strategic basis for developing our defence preparedness. [More…]
I was pleased to note, without getting involved too much on this point, in paragraph 3 of page 3 of the statement on Australian Defence the Minister saying: [More…]
Previous Defence Ministers in the Labor Government, Messrs Barnard and Morrison, engaged in certain undertakings which will very largely contribute to this bulking. [More…]
I observe here after a period of experience in government that there seems to be a much greater degree of similarity and continuity in defence policies in office between the parties than an outsider would ever dare believe from the sorts of rhetorical comments which are made by various sides of the Parliament from time to time. [More…]
There was even some fudging in the recent Budget to try to make savings in the defence vote so that the defence outlays could fit within the general program parameters for capital items which have been set by previous Defence Ministers and by the present one. [More…]
I sympathise with the problems of both the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) and the Defence Minister in trying to fit these things together. [More…]
Under the new federalism policy, because the States and local authorities receive a certain proportion of additional revenue, a 9 per cent increase in tax will be necessary to provide that sort of money for defence after the States and local government have received their shares. [More…]
That the White Paper on Australian Defence presented to this Parliament today be referred to the House Expenditure Committee so that the fiscal implications of the proposed program, especially in relation to its effects on other programs and its requirements for additional revenue collections can be investigated and reported upon to the House and that such report be available to this House no later than the last sitting day of this House in March 1977. [More…]
I believe that the Minister has sought seriously to lay the basis for some common ground to be developed between both sides of the Parliament on the very important issue of the defence of the nation. [More…]
In fact, it could very substantially facilitate the objective that the Minister is seeking, that is, the movement towards a better understanding between honourable members on both sides of the Parliament and perhaps eventually a closer identity between the parties on defence policy. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: the white paper of the Minister for Defence presented to the House entitled ‘Australian Defence’ today be referred to the Standing Committee on Expenditure so that the fiscal implications of the proposed program, especially in relation to its effects on other programs and its requirements for additional revenue collections can be investigated and reported upon and that such report be available to this House not later than the last sitting day of this House in March 1 977 ‘. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) said that the Prime Minister will have no defence to the criticism from the States which will inevitably follow. [More…]
It is a most significant inquiry as so much of the development of the nation, including its defence capacity, depends on a strong and viable aviation industry with its support facility. [More…]
The Department of Defence is also involved in briefing Australian industry on the program and aims for Australian participation in the project and in providing assistance to local firms in responding to Request for Quotations from U.S. shipyards and industry. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, on notice: [More…]
This is a small procedural Bill which seeks to amend the Defence Act. [More…]
Therefore, ‘Air Office’ will become ‘Air Force Office’ and ‘Defence Instructions (Air)’ issued by the Chief of Air Staff under the Defence Act will become ‘Defence Instructions (Air Force) ‘. [More…]
It seeks to amend section 9A of the Defence Act and also makes routine amendments to the Defence Act. [More…]
It will be a defence to a parking prosecution if the vehicle was stolen or not in control of the owner. [More…]
While section 8 provides that these circumstances provide a defence against fines being levied on the owners, the Bill as drafted makes it possible for a vehicle to be stolen, or used in an unauthorised way, parked illegally in an airport and then be, firstly, damaged or lost by an officer of the Department when removing it, without a right to sue for remedies or damage or loss and, secondly, disposed of at a price suitable to the Department which may involve substantial loss on the market value of the vehicle. [More…]
The Labor Government provided these grants in recognition of and support for the valuable work being done by the community action groups in defence of our environment. [More…]
Let me come to the defence of the Queensland Government in relation to the establishment of national parks and wildlife reserves. [More…]
I would like to take the opportunity of saying a few words in defence of a much maligned member of the Australian fauna, namely, the Australian dingo. [More…]
Unions have been let run wild and the situation is now where they are dictating not just industrial policy but foreign policy, defence policy and a whole host of other things that are not properly within the concept of bona fide trade unionism. [More…]
The defence of the Senate’s action rests on the proposition that the Senate is a popularly elected House and, except in certain limited matters specified in the Constitution, enjoys equal powers with the House of Representatives. [More…]
During our period in office the vote for education exceeded the vote for defence for the first time in our history. [More…]
I used to say that the time would come when education would take as high a priority as anything else and I used to quote the defence figures. [More…]
There has to be an end to the shoddy rationalisation and unceasing defence of the indefensible. [More…]
I should like to pay some tribute to the work of the Army and to thank the Minister for Defence for the co-operation he has given the team in central Australia. [More…]
They have organised a staff association which includes all employees, not just the professional officers, to act in their own defence. [More…]
There is a real need to know the potential and limitations of water resources; and Water resources have a bearing on population growth, decentralisation of population and industry, increasing exports, improving standards of living and national defence. [More…]
In the export and manufacture of aircraft, that Government assists the manufacturers in the basic design of the aircraft, using defence commitments and the like. [More…]
But I want to say a few words along the lines that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) followed when he introduced the Bill on 26 August. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I am sure that the attention of the Prime Minister will have been drawn to the cover, which states ‘Exclusive: Canberra Leaks Defence Secrets to Russians? [More…]
’, and to the story inside, which alleges that the Prime Minister is deeply dissatisfied with certain aspects of the present administration of the Defence Department’, in particular ‘security and evidence of communications between Australian Defence officials and Soviet authorities’. [More…]
If not, will he inform the House what measures are being taken to remedy the allegedly inadequate security within the Department ofDefence? [More…]
To use the honourable gentleman’s terms, if the article quoted me as being deeply dissatisfied with some aspects of the Defence Department’s administration, that would be completely and utterly false. [More…]
I have great respect for both the Minister for Defence and the head of that Department. [More…]
It would have been very unfair to the administration of the Department of Defence had I not done so. [More…]
-My question which is directed to the Minister for Defence is on the same subject as the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
The cover of the magazine and the article represent an unconscionable slur upon every person who wears the Queen’s uniform and upon every person who serves with the Department of Defence. [More…]
I join with the Prime Minister in saying that, to the best of my knowledge, I am not aware of any classified defence material which has in any way been improperly disclosed since the advent of the first Fraser Government. [More…]
It has been impossible to find one single reason why the rate has been so disturbingly high, but if the author of the article would care to look at the White Paper on defence, which he seeks to disparage in a rather anaemic fashion, he will find the answer which repudiates his contention in most explicit terms. [More…]
Can the Minister for Defence advise why female recruits are not accepted into Army bands, at least in Western Australia, when many other sections of the Army accept female recruits? [More…]
The Defence Force Ombudsman, Mr D. 0. [More…]
Might I spend a moment making a short defence of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), although I am sure he will make a defence for himself. [More…]
Rogerio Lobarto, the Minister for National Defence, and Mari Alkatiri, the Minister for Political Affairs, of the Democratic Republic of East Timor have been refused entry visas into Australia. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence aware of Press reports that he has initiated an inquiry into the allegations made by MajorGeneral Stretton? [More…]
The Minister for Defence advises me that he has read the book - [More…]
The national emergency operations centre was activated and the defence force alerted at the direction of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The 3 branches of the defence force played a major role in the relief operation. [More…]
-It is likely that I am the last speaker in this debate and I am very conscious that there are other issues on the notice paper of this House, particularly the debate on the defence statement. [More…]
He may be aware of what happens in the courts and whether there is any cross-examination by counsel for the defence when the prosecution states that large amounts of money are involved. [More…]
-When this White Paper was presented to the House it was almost like going into a new era in our history because there had been very little debate recently on the subject of defence. [More…]
It has been many years since we have seen a White Paper, Green Paper or any other paper presented to the House on defence. [More…]
I commend the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) for this aspect of the White Paper. [More…]
While on the subject of commendations may I say that the Minister and his civilian and uniformed staff have done a magnificent job in producing such an analysis of the subject of defence as it applies to this nation. [More…]
The first is that we no longer think in terms of forward defence. [More…]
Hence we have a completely different aspect and concept of defence. [More…]
It is interesting to note the accent which this Government has put on defence. [More…]
No doubt the House will recall that when the Minister for Defence made his statement to the House after the Budget he pointed out that he had secured this sum of $ 12,000m and said that it would be in terms of real money. [More…]
The matter of additional air bases was mentioned in one of the submissions made to me and the group I had the privilege to serve with on the Government parties defence committee. [More…]
It points out that although we may consider the present concept of defence and may work out all sorts of approaches to our strategy, all these things could become obsolete in future warfare. [More…]
Hence the Army Reserve is an extremely important body when considering our future defence. [More…]
Warning lights go on and we are able to take the necessary steps for our defence. [More…]
I suppose if we examine the time allotted to this debate and related it to the time available for other Bills we have had a fairly generous bite of the apple but the important thing is that we have to send out a message to this nation, loud and clear, that the responsibility for the security and defence of this country, and dealing adequately with it, falls on its citizens. [More…]
-In debating the White Paper on Defence which the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) brought down a few weeks ago, I wish to refer the House to what was said in the introduction: [More…]
At this stage of the debate I wish to make it clear to the House and to the rest of the nation that the consistent attacks upon the Labor Government’s defence policies are quite erroneous. [More…]
The facts are that the Labor Government set the defence forces of Australia and the whole defence establishment upon a very solid course of progress. [More…]
In its 3 years in office the Labor Government took very effective steps towards the maintenance of an effective defence capacity in this country. [More…]
I should like to address myself to what I call the defence problems. [More…]
We have to find out where we are going, what it is all about and what is the new defence environment and foreign policy environment. [More…]
So Australia is challenged to think for itself, probably for the first time since about 1910 or 191 1 when the first Labor Government established new defence priorities and new defence policies. [More…]
We have to keep the people who are concerned with defence, whether m a civilian capacity or in the forces themselves, on the alert and ready, properly equipped mentally and in every other way, so that they know they will not be left behind in any great change. [More…]
It is part of the continuing theme of Australian conversation to look at our defence forces and underrate them. [More…]
We are inclined to overlook the fact that in sheer numbers we may not be so very large, but in the actual equipment which is available to our defence forces, by comparison with the equipment of most of the other nations of the world, and I exclude the very large nations, we are well able to look after our own. [More…]
The Government has chosen to make our relationship with Indonesia pre-eminent in both its foreign affairs and its defence policies. [More…]
A continuing debate is going on throughout the whole system of international defence about what is needed at sea. [More…]
In the course of this debate I would like to pay a tribute to the Australian defence science and its ancillary services in private industry with regard to the capacity to challenge and take up some of these issues. [More…]
With regard to sea defence, we do not know what the equipment ought to be. [More…]
I have no doubt that this debate has been going on pretty thoroughly within the defence Services but, in the final analysis, defence is a question for the whole community. [More…]
At the present time, I would say, the greatest challenge we face in the field of defence is to maintain the industrial base and its capacity to take up the strain when we want it to and when we decide what is to be done. [More…]
I think we must concentrate more on developing selfsufficiency in every part of the defence area and put a lot more faith in the civilian capacity of Australia to support a defence effort. [More…]
-The publication 2 weeks ago of the Australian Defence White Paper gives rise to this debate on Australia’s defence capacity, which provides a few minutes for each member to give brief views on defence preparedness and expenditure. [More…]
Going back to first principles we might well ask the question: Why have defence? [More…]
Obviously, Australia sees defence as a form of insurance against threats or situations leading to threats when our diplomatic effort, as we understand it, breaks down. [More…]
However, we must not always envisage defence in situations of the last resort. [More…]
The future, is, of course, unknown but the testing of motives of other countries is part of our diplomatic effort and our defence effort. [More…]
We will never get the full answer to that question so it is absurd not to have a substantial defence preparedness. [More…]
Obviously, defence preparedness strengthens the hands of our diplomats in bargaining and dealing. [More…]
Significant defence forces in the modern world is important to their stature and as a backing to their diplomacy. [More…]
We often hear arguments raised in this House about the number of schools and hospitals that could be built if expenditure on defence were not undertaken. [More…]
The logic of that argument is that we should have no defence or a negligible defence and it really only has to be stated for its absurdity to be seen. [More…]
The amount of expenditure allocated to defence depends to a great degree on evaluations by the defence group and then the Government of the most likely situations and threats to Australia. [More…]
Honourable members are, of course, aware of a number of the defence needs. [More…]
We must see that the defence force is as effective as possible, and I interpose that Parliament has not, in my view, succeeded in those objectives so far. [More…]
It is also necessary for us to encourage the defence forces and to contribute as much as we can to raising their morale. [More…]
It was notable that the Opposition spokesman on defence, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), when making a few comments when the White Paper was presented, suggested that his main interest was the cost of defence. [More…]
The conclusion is inevitable- the Australian Labor Party does not want all of this money spent; it wants a good deal less spent and it is not prepared to build up the defence forces to a higher level. [More…]
Money is not spent on defence for pleasure; it is spent because defence is essential. [More…]
Too small an expenditure on defence is irresponsible to the people of Australia; too much can greatly weaken Australia’s economy and the logistic support of the defence forces themselves, particularly if those forces are engaged for a protracted period. [More…]
It is the fashion to deride defence preparedness, and to exaggerate likely threats to this country. [More…]
I believe that there needs to be a long peaceful period to convince us that our responsibility would be to reduce defence expenditure. [More…]
What has happened as a result of that diplomatic effort is a weakening of will in the countries of our allies and ourselves to keep and renew a defence capacity. [More…]
The defenceless have so far in history suffered the most. [More…]
-The White Paper presented by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) on 4 November sets out - [More…]
The White Paper sets out in fairly great detail the general philosophy of the Minister and, I presume, the Government in regard to defence matters. [More…]
I also believe that the White Paper makes presumptions in some areas, which are just that- presumptions- and could well have some examination from a defence point of view as opposed to other points of view. [More…]
I do not think that anyone would question that the defence forces need new equipment. [More…]
In this case obviously the defence forces cannot have what they would like; they can have what the Government can at any given time afford. [More…]
The Minister and the honourable member for Curtin (Mr Garland), who was the last speaker from the other side of the House, have both indicated an amount of money which is to be expended in meeting the requirements of the White Paper on defence. [More…]
In presenting a program such as this and remembering that continuing suggestions are coming from the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that the tax burden will be in fact reduced and not increased, I think some explanation of the financial background to the defence White Paper should be made to the House. [More…]
I do not accept that that is the responsibility of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
His responsibility is to put forward the Government ‘s program on defence. [More…]
The second thing I question is the way in which the report skates over two of the basic requirements of defence. [More…]
One must remember that when a defence force is required no additional planning can be undertaken. [More…]
The first proposition which I think ought to be discussed and examined fairly deeply by the Department of Defence is the capacity of Australian industry and technology- this is mentioned in the White Paper but not in any depth- to meet war time emergency requirements of maintaining a defence force. [More…]
In a defence situation first class design capacity, especially at an industrial level, is absolutely essential. [More…]
The Australian defence aircraft industry has for a number of years been limping from one crisis to another. [More…]
It seems that the major defence aircraft industries are prepared to talk about amalgamation when they do not have orders and when they need something to prop them up. [More…]
They are skills which would be vital in any defence emergency to this country. [More…]
The skills required m that area of production are quite different from those which would be required in a defence emergency. [More…]
I think it is proper to put before the House, when considering a defence White Paper, the absolutely essential proposition that no amount of armed forces, no amount of equipment and no amount of military skills can maintain a defence force in the field unless it is supported by highly skilled persons able to quickly produce, maintain and repair military equipment of the most sophisticated type. [More…]
In a defence situation the electronics industry would be crucial. [More…]
We may agree or disagree on them, but defence is about a lot more than just soldiers in the field. [More…]
The defence White Paper envisages the purchase of a considerable amount of new equipment. [More…]
One of the unfortunate things about production of defence equipment relates to guided missiles. [More…]
I think that the Treasury is most likely to blame for that and not the Department of Defence. [More…]
The Opposition would hope that defence could be an area in which a proper and rational approach from both sides of the Parliament could be achieved. [More…]
It is usual in defence debates for people to talk about soldiers, airmen or military equipment. [More…]
If a defence emergency arises, the soldiers, sailors and airmen- the trained personnel who will be available- will perform as they are expected to perform. [More…]
They are not as available as would be necessary in a defence emergency. [More…]
I think that as a serious consideration the Minister for Defence and his department should be looking at the preparedness that Australian industry has to meet a defence requirement. [More…]
-The Government is to be congratulated on the production of the White Paper on defence. [More…]
Secondly, I reject the concept that a country, for the purpose of defence, must spend what it can afford. [More…]
The White Paper is the culmination of this year’s activities by the Government to reinstate defence to its true position in the Australian political and social scene. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and his assistant Minister, the Minister for Construction (Mr McLeay), are to be congratulated. [More…]
Together with the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), they have been instrumental in providing the drive that obtained the money which is so vital to the future development of our defence forces. [More…]
We have seen during this year that the defence forces themselves have proved themselves in exercise Kangaroo II and in other exercises. [More…]
The task now is for the nation in general, but in particular for the Department of Defence- the defence planners- to give us now the decisions that are required to put the nuts and bolts into those parts of the White Paper which do not go into detail. [More…]
The current requirements for defence capabilities are set out, but we do not have the force structure established. [More…]
I suggest that it is vital that we now develop the timetable and a plan for the all-round defence of Australia within our strategic assessment. [More…]
Our land defence forces ought to be based around one regular division and 2 reserve divisions. [More…]
They are not solely related to defence. [More…]
It is absolutely vital that our electronics and design facilities m particular are operating, that the skills are maintained and that we build our industries and their defence capability. [More…]
It is vital that we recognise the fine role of our soldiers, sailors and airmen and that we have a combined foreign, domestic and defence policy that is integrated to plan for the future. [More…]
This evening we were in the middle of a debate on defence matters. [More…]
I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on the defence White Paper. [More…]
I consider that it is significant because for the first time a government document- a defence White Paper- has come out with a very clear message to the people of Australia that we cannot continue to rely on the support envisaged in the ANZUS Treaty. [More…]
That is very significant because for many years it has been stressed on the Australian public that the ANZUS Treaty is the linchpin of Australia’s defence and many people in recent years have questioned just how strong is that linchpin. [More…]
However, it also is significant because of its negative aspects and although it points out the different situation in which we are now placed strategically and says that we have to take a more independent role in the continental defence, it does not tell us how we are to do that. [More…]
The White Paper in fact shows up glaring deficiencies in both our defence organisation and defence equipment. [More…]
One of the most glaring shortcomings, and I say this in a non-partisan way because it is not something which has happened recently, is the low proportion of our defence expenditure which is devoted to equipment compared with other nations. [More…]
So we are spending considerably less than are other nations and much less than half of our defence budget goes on equipment. [More…]
There is a grave inconsistency here because the White Paper points out the new defence environment in which we live and says that we have to be more independent, less dependent on the United States and we have to organise ourselves for more joint force operations; but there is no reassessment of how we should do this. [More…]
In chapter 7 there is no discussion on the vulnerability of defence facilities. [More…]
There is no reassessment of how they can be made less vulnerable and despite the vulnerability of some of our defence being disclosed by cyclone Tracy in Darwin, we find that those facilities have been replaced by the same sort of facilities in the same situations. [More…]
Although I know that many people will justify this there are others who question the propriety of Australia giving approximately $30m of taxpayers’ money m defence aid to Indonesia which is likely to use this aid, even in an indirect way, to subsidise acts of aggression on defenceless neighbours. [More…]
There is a chapter on what the objectives should be in relation to defence capability but there is no assurance that the plans outlined in the White Paper go any way towards achieving those objectives. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is endeavouring to correct this deficiency and I hope he persists with it. [More…]
What we should be really concerned about in this paper is that there is no overall strategy set out for our continental defence. [More…]
There is no indication of how we are planning to handle this continental defence and to meet contingencies. [More…]
There is a lack of clear direction and purpose in our defence planning. [More…]
There is no existing command control organisation in the Australian defence organisation. [More…]
There is no Australian defence command. [More…]
-Tonight I welcome the opportunity to raise with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), who with characteristic courtesy is in the House as a result of my advising him that I would raise these matters, the rights of serving members of the defence forces to participate in political parties. [More…]
Queries come to me frequently, because of my responsibility to speak for the Opposition on defence matters, largely through correspondence. [More…]
Defence Force Members on Secondment (Question No. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I seek leave of the House to incorporate in Hansard 2 pages supplied by the Defence, Science and Technology Group of the Legislative Research Service of the Parliamentary Library concerning the dangers of nuclear accidents. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
In defence of some people who might be accused of speculating, let me point out to the House that there are people who have imported goods from overseas, who have bought on traders’ credit and who will be paying in 6 to 8 weeks time at the different rate of” currency. [More…]
Yes, my attention has been drawn to the third of a series of articles in the Bulletin concerning allegations relating to defence secrets. [More…]
As honourable members are aware, Major-General Stretton, the Director-General of the Natural Disasters Organisation within the Department of Defence, has recently published a book on the first 7 days of relief operations in Darwin following cyclone Tracy in 1974. [More…]
I remind honourable members that on 6 March 1975 the then Minister for Defence, the honourable Lance Barnard, tabled in this Parliament a documented report prepared, as was to be expected of him, by Major-General Stretton. [More…]
This factual report described the way in which the people of Darwin, the Natural Disasters Organisation, the defence forces, various Commonwealth and State authorities, and indeed the nation as a whole reacted to provide immediate and generous assistance following the worst natural disaster in our history. [More…]
I have already given the House one example of the inaccuracy by Major-General Stretton in his description in the book of the non-availability of the then Minister for Defence, that is to say Mr Barnard, to exercise his authority. [More…]
The House may recall that in the book the author said that the then Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, was incommunicado. [More…]
I should comment here on another matter raised by Major-General Stretton in his book, because it bears on the defence preparedness of this country. [More…]
Major-General Stretton referred to the temporary failure of defence communications and on page 24 of his book observed: [More…]
It was unbelievable that the Defence Forces, with all the millions of dollars spent on signals equipment, could not communicate with their units in Darwin. [More…]
Upon inquiry I have been informed that, in the course of a short de-brief soon after he returned from Darwin, MajorGeneral Stretton did mention this matter to General Sir Francis Hassett, now the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]
It is a defence to a charge under sub-section ( 1 ) if the person charged proves- [More…]
In proceedings for an offence against sub-section (2) or (4) it is a defence if the person charged proves- [More…]
With proper respect for my colleague the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) and his impassioned defence of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, let us transfer this to another medium. [More…]
Inevitably, some questions on defence are left unanswered. [More…]
After over 30 years of wide and varied experience in the defence forces, I am very well aware of the immense complexity of the issues and of how little any one man can know and understand unless he is engaged full dme in this field. [More…]
Because of the vital importance of the security of the nation and the immense cost of effective defence, it is of the first importance that the national aims and objectives should be clearly and simply stated. [More…]
All those concerned with the defence of the nation are facing a fundamentally new, challenging and exciting task. [More…]
Now for the first time we as a nation have a firmly stated and accepted responsibility for the defence of our whole continent. [More…]
Until these are decided we cannot get the right answers on the shape and size of our defence forces or on the most effective level of technology and the related problems of logistics and local defence production. [More…]
The key to our defence policy remains the strength of our alliance with the United States and the ANZUS treaty. [More…]
It is imperative that we should have an independent defence against potential threats which might arise in our area or neighbourhood. [More…]
If we accept that in some circumstances the United States may not always be willing or able to support us, we must be capable of conducting an independent military defence and of possessing a credible, independent military deterrent. [More…]
Our first priority is to provide forces for the most effective independent defence of Australia, its islands and its seas, within our capacity to do so. [More…]
Our second priority is for a defence readiness in situations where we would have the support of a great power. [More…]
The defence of Australia requires very different forces from those required for our old posture of forward defence. [More…]
The very high cost of modern defence equipment makes a clear definition of national strategic aims and objectives very important indeed. [More…]
The shape, size and the equipment of the defence forces must be able to cope with quite unexpected contingencies at short notice. [More…]
I have considerable respect for the procedures within the Department of Defence which evaluate policies and requirements and which advise the Government. [More…]
I wish to make one point about defence planning. [More…]
In the organisation chart of the policy divisions of Defence Central I note there are very few senior military planners and large numbers of senior civilians. [More…]
This could lead to inadequate military input into defence policies and planning. [More…]
Unless national aims and objectives are clearly stated by the Government these defence planners will operate without adequate guidance. [More…]
However, there will always be a difficult argument in favour of a few technologically advanced and very expensive pieces of equipment against the counter argument that our independent defence capacity would be best served by having a large number of cheaper, less sophisticated pieces of equipment. [More…]
I have not mentioned the most important part of our defence forces- the men and women of the Services. [More…]
It would seem to me that the Australian Defence Force continues to be a bastion of such discrimination. [More…]
In May of this year I took up with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) the case of a constituent of mine, Miss Elizabeth Palmer, who is currently a matriculation student. [More…]
Paragraph 15 of chapter 5 of the Defence White Paper recently tabled in this House states that the Government intends that women in the Services should now have greater job opportunities and closer equality with men in training and conditions of service. [More…]
The prime purpose of this Bill is to reconstitute the Australian Housing Corporation in accordance with the Government’s announced policy and to change its name, nature and function so that its sole responsibility will be the administration of the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
On the other hand, the Government is wholeheartedly committed to the preservation and continuation of the Defence Service Homes Scheme, which we see as a scheme of historical and social importance for a large number of Australians. [More…]
This Bill therefore provides for the establishment of a Defence Service Homes Corporation, the affairs of which will be conducted within the departmental framework by the Secretary to the Department of Veterans ‘ Affairs. [More…]
Those provisions of the Australian Housing Corporation Act concerned with the powers and functions of the Corporation, other than those related to the provision of assistance under the Defence Service Homes Scheme, are repealed. [More…]
The Corporation will be renamed the Defence Service Homes Corporation and continue its existance as a corporate entity solely for the purpose of administering the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
The Australian Housing Corporation Act as amended will be renamed the Defence Service Homes Corporation Act. [More…]
When the Australian Housing Corporation was established, the assets and liabilities of the Defence Service Homes Scheme were taken over by the Corporation and new financial arrangements were developed to facilitate the provision of benefits at that time under the proposed Scheme. [More…]
To ensure that there is no break in continuity in the administration of the Defence Service Homes Scheme, the finance and staffing provisions contained in the Australian Housing Corporation Act will be retained for the time being and the present staff will continue in employment under the new Corporation. [More…]
Government members know that the Government tried to do this even in relation to war service homes, which had been a traditional area of Commonwealth involvement under our defence legislation. [More…]
I have spoken to retiring servicemen who were wondering about their eligibility under this scheme and under the defence service home loan scheme. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I refer him to page 33 of his White Paper on defence, on which the following statement appears under the heading ‘Reserve Manpower’: [More…]
However, Parliament may well wish to consider whether the purpose of better training and better sense of participation would justify provisions authorising compulsory call-up of Citizens Reserves for limited periods in international situations proclaimed as requiring augmentation of the forces, but not proclaimed as a state of war or time of defence emergency . [More…]
The honourable gentleman will acknowledge the fact that the defence power of the Commonwealth in time of peace is a very restricted power. [More…]
But in order to use the Army Reserve at any time on the basis of emergency action we would need to have either an emergency, that is to say an actual state of war, or we would need to have a substantial amendment to the Defence Act. [More…]
Nevertheless, if the country at any time in the future wished to consider taking the total force concept to its ultimate extent, it would warrant an amendment to the Defence Act. [More…]
The Sub-Committee on the Middle East of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has now reported that its Chairman, the honourable member for Fremantle, wrote on 24 August to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to the effect that there are strong humanitarian reasons for the re-establishment of a reasonably sized immigration team in Damascus and that he wrote on 1 October to the Foreign Minister concerning diplomatic representation in Damascus and aid to Lebanese refugees in Syria and Cyprus. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: Is he aware that some persons, who I am led to believe are members of the media, have undertaken independent tests to check the security of Navy ships? [More…]
I would like to take the opportunity to say that we have received excellent co-operation from the Minister for Defence and from the Army, which has brought into the northern part of South Australia mobile theatre and a mobile unit to assist the task force in carrying out surgical work in the field. [More…]
There is a continuing defence requirement for an aircraft repair and overhaul facility in the Sydney area; [More…]
I am very glad to have the opportunity to support this motion for the consolidation or rationalisation, as it has been known, of 2 segments of the defence aircraft industry in the metropolitan area of Sydney. [More…]
I make bold to suggest that he has displayed an interest in defence, and aircraft in particular, quite apart from the needs of his constituents. [More…]
I must say that I believe a former Minister for Defence, the Honourable Lance Barnard, did all that he could in 1973 to hasten the rationalisation. [More…]
While welcoming the proposal and supporting all the reasons given by the Minister for Construction and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay) who moved the motion, I draw attention to these delays which have taken place and what I believe is the unfortunate downgrading in priority over many years of the defence aircraft industry. [More…]
No doubt, if this country is ever in a position of requiring defence and military aircraft production capacity, there will be great complaints about this Government not spending the time and proceeding with such matters urgently. [More…]
As has been said in the report which came from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Works, there is a need for some defence aircraft capacity in the metropolitan area of Sydney. [More…]
As for the main matter referred to by the honourable member for Blaxland, the capacity at Bankstown is a problem but I do not believe it is a matter which should influence us at all in a consideration of this change because there is already an existing defence capacity at Bankstown. [More…]
Hopefully the day is not too far off when we will see an expansion and rationalisation in the wider sense of the term throughout the whole defence aircraft industry in Australia. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers), has considered this matter and has agreed that it would be reasonable to provide a defence to a charge brought in such circumstances, and an amendment to achieve this will be moved at the appropriate time. [More…]
Sub-clause (2) of that clause sets up a defence for a person who fails to give the required notice with regard to the discovery of a wreck. [More…]
It makes it a defence against a prosecution if the person charged can prove that someone else has given the necessary notice. [More…]
It has been suggested that it should also be a defence if a person has reasonable grounds for believing that the necessary notice has already been given. [More…]
It is now proposed to spell out expressly that self- incrimination constitutes a reasonable excuse for the purposes of sub-clause (5), thus confirming that this is a defence to a prosecution for failing to comply with a requirement to answer a question under sub-clause (1). [More…]
Loans under Defence Service Homes Act (Question No. [More…]
What expenditure has been incurred and what repayments have been made under the Defence Service Homes Act since its inception. [More…]
Since the inception of the Defence Service Homes Scheme to 30 June 1976, total capital expenditure was $ 1,920.4m and total repayments of principal and interest $ 1,482.2m. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Each Arm of the Defence Force is interested in using the facilities at Woomera but no final decisions have yet been made. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Did he, and other Ministers, repeatedly claim during and after the 1975 election campaign that recruitment to, and re-enlistment in, the Defence Services would increase if a Liberal-Country Party Government was returned. [More…]
If so, why have these predictions come unstuck, and what action is being taken to maintain our Defence Forces at a satisfactory strength. [More…]
Total enlistments in the Permanent Defence Force for the six months ending October 1976 numbered 3927, an increase of 236, or 6.4 per cent, on enlistments for the same period in 1975. [More…]
It is expected that with the intakes planned for January 1977 the Defence Forces should reach their target strengths for June 1977. [More…]
1 ) What land is held in each State for Defence Service Homes projects. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Drafts of the recent so-called White Paper on defence were leaked many weeks before the final governmentauthorised version was tabled in parliament. [More…]
It just does not do to run a little publicity campaign in favour of security for the nation’s defence secrets. [More…]
Pursuant to section 14 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 I present the third supplement to the 25th report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board on the operation of the Act for the period 1 July 1972 to 30 December 1972, dealing with the progress of the final actuarial examination of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
Pursuant to section 16 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973 I present the fourth report of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority, dealing with the general administration and working of that Act and of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 other than Part III for the year ended 30 June 1976. [More…]
I draw attention to the fact that as long ago as 18 April 1967 a member of the present Cabinet, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), as the honourable member for Moreton asked a question of the then Treasurer, the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr William McMahon), on this very subject. [More…]
The debate on 18 November supplanted the debate on the White Paper on Defence. [More…]
The White Paper on defence calls for the most wide-ranging debate in the community on an extremely important topic which the White Paper points out is the first priority or first duty of the Government, namely, the security of the nation. [More…]
The defence debate was shoved over and eventually a few hours will be found for it I think today. [More…]
-I will not repeat my speech on defence although, no doubt, the honourable member for Lilley would like to hear it again. [More…]
I do not feel any threat from my rear, but it was suggested that I had no sense of urgency, that I had interrupted a defence debate. [More…]
When it is all said and done the matter about which we are talking is not scheduled to be debated until the House has dealt with the Defence Services Homes Amendment Bill. [More…]
In proceedings for an offence against sub-section ( 1 ), it is a defence if the person charged proves that his entry or remaining on the land was due to necessity. [More…]
Apart from these innovative programs that were designed to help those in need of special forms of housing assistance, one of the Australian Housing Corporation’s main responsibilities was the ongoing administration of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
It was a step which was intended to regularise and to improve the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
There actually is a report on the whole war service homes scheme, or the defence service homes scheme as it is now known, which is a report of the Housing Corporation in which certain recommendations are made. [More…]
By holding back the report and by ignoring the recommendations of the now defunct Australian Housing Corporation the Government is seeking to ignore the problems which have been apparent for some time in the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
The bureaucracy will take steps to ensure that the mode of operation and the administration of the defence service homes scheme, as it existed prior to 1975, will be reconstituted. [More…]
It means that Parliament will not have access to the detailed accounts and analyses of the operations of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
In the last 12 months, for the first time in 57 years, people involved in the administration of the defence service homes schemes have been given the opportunity to use their own initiative. [More…]
Another area of the defence service homes scheme which caused the Australian Labor Party in government great concern and which led to the amalgamation of the scheme into the Australian Housing Corporation was the problem of land purchases by the old administrators of the defence service homes scheme and its lack of interrelationship with either Federal, State or local governments in urban and regional development strategies. [More…]
Obviously, when the maximum loan obtainable under the defence service homes scheme was $15,000 the ordinary serviceman or exserviceman on the average wage or even well above the average wage could not afford to purchase a home on such an estate unless he had owned a home previously and transferred the money from the sale of that home into the new war service home. [More…]
In talking about high interest rates I exclude the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
It concerns me that this Government, when in Opposition, was critical of the Labor Government for introducing a waiting period for defence service home loans. [More…]
I have already said that the administration of the defence service homes scheme, while an important function of the Australian Housing Corporation, was only one function of that body. [More…]
However, I think I should remind the Deputy Leader of the Opposition that the purpose of this Bill is to reconstitute the Australian Housing Corporation in accordance with the Government’s announced policy and to change its name, nature and function so that its sole responsibility will be the administration of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
Fears have been expressed that the principles of the original Defence Service Homes Act will be removed. [More…]
the Government is whole-heartedly committed to the preservation and continuation of the defence service homes scheme, which we see as a scheme of historical and social importance for a large number of Australians. [More…]
But whilst this has been appreciated by many, I believe it is the general consensus on the Government side that we do not want to see any alteration or interference with the original claimants of the old defence service homes. [More…]
At the same time, I certainly welcome the opportunity of tying the defence service homes to that Department where, in my opinion, it should have been many years ago. [More…]
The Bill is designed simply to take that Housing Corporation, with all its great objectivity and characteristics designed to assist people to obtain houses in Australia and to whittle it down to an authority which will do nothing more than administer the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
It was to have powers similar to those contained in the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
Indeed, it was to administer the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
Again to make sure that the record is absolutely clear in Hansard, I point out that in August 1975 the Labor Government provided only $ 1 22.5m in its Budget, and that was substantially less than the amount required to meet the anticipated demand under the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
I say once again that it was the last Government which produced the waiting time of 1 1 months for defence service homes. [More…]
I must say that I was very encouraged by the support for a bipartisan defence policy which was expressed by the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden). [More…]
I would like sincerely to congratulate the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the Government on the White Paper. [More…]
It is the most comprehensive document on defence produced in this Parliament. [More…]
After more than 30 years of wide and varied experience in the defence forces, I know very well the immense complexity of the issues and how little any one man can know and understand unless he is engaged in this field full time. [More…]
In this Parliament we can best contribute to the defence of Australia by a broad and informed understanding of the wider issues and by using the Parliament as a forum in which to impress on the nation the vital importance of the defence forces and their place in the national and international scene. [More…]
Because of the vital importance of the security of the nation and the immense cost of effective defence, it is of the first importance that the national aims and objectives should be stated clearly and simply. [More…]
All those concerned with the defence of the nation are facing a fundamentally new, challenging and exciting task. [More…]
Generations of Australians have been conditioned to a forward defence policy. [More…]
Since 1972 all battalions of that Regiment have been serving in Australia, concentrating on the defence of this country. [More…]
Now, for the first time, we as a nation have a firmly stated and accepted responsibility for the defence of the whole continent. [More…]
Until these are decided we cannot get the right answers on the shape and size of our defence forces or on the most effective level of technology and the related problems of logistics and local defence production. [More…]
The key to our defence policy remains the strength of our alliance with the United States and the ANZUS Treaty. [More…]
We cannot expect the United States to help us in a defence emergency unless we show that we are prepared to do our utmost to defend ourselves. [More…]
Therefore it is imperative that we should have an independent defence against potential threats in our area or neighbourhood. [More…]
These circumstances add greater emphasis to the importance of an independent defence capacity. [More…]
If we accept that the United States may not always be willing or able to support us we must be capable of conducting an independent military defence and of possessing a credible, independent military deterrent. [More…]
Our first priority is to provide forces for the most effective independent defence of Australia, its islands and its seas, within our capacity to do so. [More…]
The second priority is for our defence readiness in situations where we would have the support of a great power. [More…]
The defence of the Australian continent requires very different forces from those required for our old posture of forward defence in co-operation with major allies. [More…]
The high cost of modern defence equipment makes a clear definition of national strategic aims and objectives so important. [More…]
There will always be constraints on the freedom of action of our defence planners in that there must be limits to defence spending. [More…]
The shape, size and equipment of the defence force must be able to cope with quite unexpected emergencies at very short notice. [More…]
I have considerable respect for the procedures within the Department of Defence which evaluate policies and requirements and advise the Government. [More…]
I wish to make one point about defence planning. [More…]
In the organisation chart of the policy divisions of Defence Central I note that there are very few senior military planners and large numbers of senior civilians. [More…]
This could perhaps lead to inadequate military input into defence policies and planning. [More…]
Unless the national aims and objectives are clearly stated by the Government these defence planners must work with inadequate guidance. [More…]
However, there will always be a difficult argument between the conflicting desires to have a few technologically advanced and very expensive equipments and the counterargument that our independent defence capacity would best be served by having a larger number of cheaper and less sophisticated equipments. [More…]
Only the defence experts can provide them, but they will be assisted by a clear direction from the Government and an informed and concerned Parliament and people. [More…]
Therefore the essence of any effective defence policy is the provision of a credible military capacity to deter the possibiltiy of attack and invasion. [More…]
I have not talked about the most important part of our defence force- the men and women of our services. [More…]
The White Paper of the Minister for Defence presented to the House this day entitled ‘Australian Defence’ be referred to the Standing Committee on Expenditure so that the fiscal implications of the proposed program, especially in relation to its effect on other programs and its requirements for additional revenue collections - [More…]
More and more people and members of this Parliament are coming to realise that Australia is not getting value for its defence buck, for a dollar spent on defence in this country. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is loyal to his Department and that he has some conscience in these matters. [More…]
Australia which provide industrial backup for our defence services. [More…]
The honourable member for Chifley is attempting now to tie in his remarks to the debate on the defence statement. [More…]
This is the most important change in the new defence White Paper. [More…]
It is helped, too, by another change in recent defence planning- that is, the announcement of expenditure of $ 12,000m over 5 years to provide for the defence of Australia which, for the first time, allows the 5-year rolling program to be effective. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) will draw the attention of his Cabinet colleagues to the fact that devaluation will necessitate an increase in this amount for the equipment to be derived from overseas because the undertaking was that $A12,000m would be in 1 976 prices. [More…]
When we are providing the defence forces with equipment to do what we have to do on our own it is important that they should be equipped properly but not excessively for this role. [More…]
What might the defence forces have to do on their own? [More…]
Our assessments of the international situation have not revealed any present likelihood of our being called upon to provide any direct military assistance to our allies or other defence associates. [More…]
Any defence strategy which does not recognise this is not truly founded. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for Defence does realise this. [More…]
However, I think we should state clearly in this House that the Indonesian archipelago is the key to our defence and we must always recognise that fact. [More…]
In our defence planning we should look at this situation. [More…]
Again I think that the defence White Paper is a little bland in this area. [More…]
We have to examine what our defence industrial situation would be in the aftermath of such a nuclear exchange. [More…]
This is an area which the defence White Paper does not explore, perhaps for security reasons; but I think it is one that we should keep in mind. [More…]
I merely draw to the attention of the Minister for Defence the fact that the state of the art does not necessarily dictate that we should have a tiny force of highly sophisticated weapons of every type. [More…]
I would like to make a couple of remarks about the Department of Defence. [More…]
I am delighted that the Minister has established the Defence Council. [More…]
I hope that it soon will grow into a body established by statute and one which has collective responsibility for all the affairs of the Department of Defence; that its members will be chosen on a functional basis; and that the number of professional people on it, when its structure is changed, will be appropriate to the profession of arms. [More…]
I would like to say one other thing about the Department of Defence: We seem to be getting an enormously top heavy structure, with deputy secretaries, first assistant secretaries, and so on. [More…]
-The White Paper on Australian Defence is a significant and important document. [More…]
It marks a turning point, or perhaps even a starting point, for modern realistic defence thinking and planning in this country. [More…]
Not since the days between Federation and the First World War has an Australian Government in time of peace, established a coherent, intelligent or intelligible defence policy. [More…]
Since the Second World War we have had a socalled forward defence policy based on great mobility, until of course the events in South East Asia, and more particularly Vietnam, demonstrated the weakness of this stance. [More…]
Irrespective of its morality, militarily the main problem with this confused thinking was that we did not possess the substance to maintain a worthwhile defence policy and even less the capability of mobility to sustain it. [More…]
However, building on this implicit apology the White Paper more importantly now provides the basis for a coordinated defence policy which is the first that Australia has had since the period of 1901-1914. [More…]
It is a basis which is surely needed considering the almost complete run down of our national defence over the last few years. [More…]
The policy is of course based on the concept of the continental defence of the Australian homeland. [More…]
It was very pleasing to see that there was a defence exercise in the Pilbara this year. [More…]
Defence infrastructure and relevant civilian infrastructure are still limited in the north and the west. [More…]
These and other improvements are welcomed in the west as a start in a real policy of continental defence. [More…]
To have a real policy of continental defence our defence improvements must be relevant and, above all, we as a nation must be self-reliant. [More…]
Western Australians feel isolated and there is real concern for defence there. [More…]
A principal theme of the summer school at the University of Western Australia in January 1 976 concerned Australia’s defence. [More…]
Dr K. Foley was critical of the lack of direction given by Australian governments during the post- World War II period as to what the country’s defence posture should be. [More…]
He suggested that no clear and co-ordinated or rational direction had been given, either to the armed Services or to the defence bureaucracy, as to what its political or strategic policies were. [More…]
Dr Foley also commented that the Defence Department, whilst probably relatively efficient, was simply not effective and, as a consequence, the defence planning as presently constituted was in disarray. [More…]
Dr 0 ‘Neill outlined the various options available to Australia in the type of defence structure most suited to its requirements, ranging from a nuclear deterrent to the use of highly trained irregulars who could be used to harass enemy occupation forces. [More…]
Our defence forces need to be specially geared for continental defence. [More…]
The ANZUS Treaty will remain an essential element in Australia’s defence considerations, but one could not have understated the true position more subtly than the White Paper. [More…]
By all means we should continue to draw on our allies, Great Britain and the United States, as important sources of intelligence and assessment of military doctrine and defence science and technology. [More…]
The White Paper recognises realistically that until a position is reached in which we can supply our defence needs from within self-reliance cannot be spoken of with confidence. [More…]
However, the call to increase our defence manufacturing, which I make, will bring them out of the woodwork. [More…]
I have spoken previously in this House on defence, welcoming government initiative to improve the security of our nation. [More…]
I have spoken now and will speak again on defence in future with more confidence. [More…]
It is a confidence based on the White Paper which I believe presents a sound basis for this country’s defence planning. [More…]
-This is the first debate on a White Paper on defence that this Parliament has had for very many years. [More…]
I pay a compliment to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) for arranging its organisation and for being there to listen to the debate tonight. [More…]
First, I think it is necessary to quote one or two very telling phrases from that White Paper because I think those phrases really determine how we ought to approach any debate and further thinking on the subject of defence. [More…]
The national defence effort is expensive, and it counts for a substantial proportion of the Government’s annual expenditure. [More…]
Notwithstanding the priority given by the Government to its efforts to reduce inflation and revive the national economy, it has undertaken to increase the Defence Vote over the next five years, the period the Defence Department uses for its forward programming. [More…]
What I think it means is that we need to have a very close review indeed of our basic thinking in relation to our defence posture and our defence requirements. [More…]
Because of Australia’s situation in the world we have to look very closely at our domestic defence capacity. [More…]
Many people say that what we need to have is a vast array of defence industries. [More…]
That is a simplistic view because, in my opinion, the greatest defence capacity that any nation can have is a sound and broadly based industrial structure. [More…]
Too often we separate the economics of development and the development of our manufacturing sector from our defence requirements. [More…]
What that in turn means to me is the need for a much greater co-ordination and a much better relationship between the defence sector of our economy, in terms of the Department of Defence, and private industry than we have had in recent years. [More…]
Like the honourable member for Chifley and others who have spoken in this debate, I am a member of a sub-committee of the Parliament which is looking at industrial backing for Australia’s defence requirement. [More…]
I think we have all been impressed, as we have moved around Australia looking at this matter, at the lack of communication which appears to exist between the private sector of the economy and those within government who are involved in the defence industry. [More…]
I believe that it forms a very useful basis for public debate, both within and outside this Parliament, on the whole subject of defence. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In May of this year the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence decided to investigate the boundary between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The departments from which the Committee has taken evidence during the year in connection with the Auditor-General’s report and Treasurer’s Advance include Aboriginal Affairs, Administrative Services, AttorneyGeneral’s, Capital Territory, Construction, Defence, Education, Environment, Housing and Community Development, Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Industry and Commerce, National Resources, Overseas Trade, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Science and the Treasury. [More…]
It is a defence to a prosecution of a person for an offence against sub-section (1) if the person proves that a notice setting out a description of the place where the remains are or the article is situated, being a description that is sufficient to enable the remains or article to be located, was given to the Minister by another person before it was practicable for the first-mentioned person to give such a notice. [More…]
In clause 9, after sub-clause (4), insert the following sub-clause: (4a) It is a defence to a prosecution of a person for an offence against a provision of this section in relation to an article if the person proves- [More…]
This sub-clause sets up a defence for a person who fails to give the required notice with regard to the discovery of a wreck. [More…]
It makes it a defence against a prosecution if the person charged can prove that someone else had given the necessary notice. [More…]
It has been suggested that it should also be a defence if a person has reasonable grounds for believing that the necessary notice has already been given. [More…]
The proposed amendment will provide this additional defence. [More…]
It is proposed to spell out expressly that self-incrimination constitutes a reasonable excuse for the purposes of sub-clause (s) thus confirming that this is a defence to a prosecution for failing to comply with a requirement to answer a question under subclause ( 1 ). [More…]
But it was felt that we ought to put this matter beyond doubt and so we have added subclause (sa) to make it clear that this will be a defence. [More…]
In this instance all he had to do was sit down and to let the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) have his say, and honourable members on our side have their say on the adjournment debate and there would be no trouble. [More…]
I am pleased to inform the House that the Government has decided upon permanent methods of annual adjustment to Defence Forces Retirement Benefits and Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits pensions. [More…]
I am delighted to see- I have not yet been able to read- the defence report which my good friend, the honourable, learned and gallant Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has tabled tonight. [More…]
I want to pay a tribute to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) because I find that he has cut the 5-year defence program, which he announced - [More…]
I want to pay tribute to the Minister for Defence for the economies he is achieving in the administration of his portfolio. [More…]
I am assured, on very high authority, that he has cut the 5-year defence program from $ 12,000m to $ 1,200m. [More…]
I am not relying on any scurrilous information, such as defence leaks in recent copies of the Bulletin. [More…]
I am not relying on anything that Norman Minister for Defence might have said at the National Press Club today- and I appreciate his tributes to me. [More…]
I find, on the highest authority, that he has effected economies in the administration of his 5-year defence program of 90 per cent. [More…]
He has cut the 5-year defence program- emphasising new equipment, too- from $12,000m to $ 1200m. [More…]
and (3) The Treasurer on page 14 of his Budget Speech on 17 August 1976 announced that the outlays from the Budget on overseas aid, excluding defence co-operation, would increase to $400 million in 1976-77 and that this would be an increase of 14.6 per cent over 1 975-76 expenditure. [More…]
With reference to the interim report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into the Lebanon Crisis, and the quoted figure of 1835 [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
One Act relating to the defence forces had many sections. [More…]
But not to be daunted, the shadow Treasurer, hunted and haunted by the shadow Minister for Defence, put forward the Hurford plan. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
In recent years, Defence Force aircraft have visited only Bahrain, the Seychelles and Diego Garcia. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: Is there a significant component in his defence budget of imported material for the 3 defence Services? [More…]
In general terms the effect of devaluation upon the defence appropriation was of the order of some $46m. [More…]
I may observe, not in passing, that approximately 60 per cent of the total defence expenditure comes from Australian sources. [More…]
Following the Government’s decision regarding devaluation, the Department of Defence has- [More…]
-With great respect, if the honourable member for Oxley were to devote a little more attention to defence and a little less attention to budgetary matters we would all be better off. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle may be reassured that the Government’s decision regarding devaluation has been and still is being carefully considered by the Department of Defence. [More…]
Can any honourable member tell me that the policies of the Labor Party and the Liberal Party in relation to health, foreign affairs, defence, industrial relations and the Treasury are not diametrically opposed? [More…]
It occurs to me that it is passing odd, as the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) would say, that we refer in this legislation to political parties. [More…]
As the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) has pointed out, the purpose of this Bill is to reaffirm the situation in the defence force compact of the Royal Australian Air Force and, in particular, the confusion which has occurred in the past by the use of the words ‘ Air Office’ which will now be replaced by virtue of this legislation with the words ‘Air Force Office ‘. [More…]
The ‘Defence Instructions (Air)’ issued by the Chief of the Air Staff under the Defence Act will become ‘Defence Instructions (Air Force)’. [More…]
In introducing the Bill the Minister for Defence, (Mr Killen) in his own inimitable style said: [More…]
I will not abuse any privilege which you extend to me, Mr Deputy Speaker, to allow me to address a few remarks m this regard because I do regard it as extremely important at this point in time- I note that the Minister for Defence is present in the chamber- to assess the situation of the RAAF and in particular in respect of the security and surveillance of the State of Tasmania. [More…]
Firstly, it deals with an extremely important aspect of the morale and efficiency of the defence forces. [More…]
It is a tribute to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) not only in relation to the efficient running of the forces but to his meticulous attention throughout the past year to matters of morale. [More…]
The morale of the forces is the most important initial task of the Government in the reconstitution of a proper defence force structure for this country. [More…]
When we came into office it was apparent that there had been serious dints in the morale of the defence forces. [More…]
It was public knowledge and a number of former members of the defence forces, including the present Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), publicly stated that their political ambitions were prompted by their concern for the country and the neglect of the defence forces in which they were serving. [More…]
Although it is not expressly stated in the second reading speech, it can be clearly seen that one of the areas of concern must have been the area of defence procurement. [More…]
Obviously, as we have at present a fairly complicated system of defence procurement it is important to avoid confusion. [More…]
In order to contract with the Government to provide defence equipment it is necessary for a prospective contractor to deal with a large number of government departments or organisations within the government including the Air Force. [More…]
However, I point out that in the first sentence of the second reading speech the Minister for Defence said that this was a small procedural Bill which seeks to amend the Defence Act and that it arises from a suggestion made. [More…]
If a contractor has to deal with the Department of Defence, the Air Office, the Purchasing Office, the Department of Industry and Commerce and now the Department of Productivity- the problem has arisen particularly with regard to the Air Force- he may have a processing of paper work over many months, often in circumstances in which that contractor’s business may well founder if the contract is not proceeded with speedily. [More…]
In removing such confusion the Minister has produced not only more efficiency but a much greater boost to the morale of the defence forces, in particular the Air Force, so that people know with whom they are dealing. [More…]
The term ‘(Air)’ at the end of ‘Defence Instructions’ can also cause confusion within the Defence Department itself not only in relation to Air Force matters but also in relation to other Services, particularly when they deal with air. [More…]
As the Minister said, it is clear that the problem has arisen because of the amalgamation of the Department of Civil Aviation with the major Transport portfolio and the failure of the former instructions to carry the full words (Air Force)’ after the words ‘Defence Instructions’. [More…]
But that ought to be sufficient to point out the implications of the Bill and to enable a consideration of the history of the Bill, particularly as it relates to confusion between civil aviation and defence and what is required to deal with the matter from now on. [More…]
All I have talked about is civil aviation, the Department of Defence and the confusion that has been caused by contractors who might want to contract to the Department of Civil Aviation, which no longer exists, or who might want to contract to the Air Force, which is not properly described, but whose contract documents may be held up. [More…]
-On 9 November 1976 the Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Moreton, Mr Killen, said: [More…]
This is a small procedural Bill which seeks to amend the Defence Act. [More…]
Therefore, ‘Air Office’ will become ‘Air Force Office’ and ‘Defence Instruction (Air)’ issued by the Chief of Air Staff under the Defence Act will become ‘Defence Instructions (Air Force)’. [More…]
It seeks to amend section 9A of the Defence Act and also makes routine amendments to the Defence Act. [More…]
Under the heading ‘Defence Amendment Bill’ appears the name Hayden’ as spokesman for the Labor Party. [More…]
Just before I was interrupted I was recalling a speech made on 9 November 1976 by the honourable member for Moreton and Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
I make it quite clear that the Opposition has supported the measure put forward by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
The Minister for Defence when introducing the Bill suggested that the changes are being made following a request by the Chief of Air Staff because confusion is occurring. [More…]
It appears we have to have this clarification with the Air Office and the Defence Instructions. [More…]
I think this demonstrates the desire by members on both sides of the House to take part in a debate on defence. [More…]
The areas covered by this Bill are very narrow, and enthusiastic members from both sides of the House tried to expand the breadth of the Bill and debate general defence matters. [More…]
I will relay to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) the matter raised by the honourable member for St George. [More…]
Yesterday I exacted from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) the first admission that the defence budget has in fact been cut in purchasing power for equipment produced overseas by devaluation because the sum of money appropriated has not been changed. [More…]
I point out by way of explanation that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is in Western Australia on Government business and I am introducing this Bill in his absence. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to increase pension benefits payable under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that my colleague, the Minister for Defence, made brief reference in this House on 9 December last to the proposed introduction of the necessary legislation in the autumn session of the Parliament to give effect to the Government’s pension increases undertakings. [More…]
The increases in defence forces retirement benefits and defence force retirement and death benefits pensions for the year 1976-77 and in the future will be related to the percentage increase in the consumer price index during the period of 12 months ending 31 March immediately preceding the date of effect of each annual adjustment. [More…]
A more detailed explanation of their practical effects will be made available to beneficiaries by the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority when the increased rates of pension become payable. [More…]
It was intended also to provide in this Bill beneficial amendments to section 25 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act designed to remove an anomaly affecting certain officers who were detrimentally affected by their transfer to the DFRDB scheme in Ocotber 1972. [More…]
The pension updating provisions are therefore being introduced now and drafting of the amendments to section 25 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act is proceeding for introduction as quickly as possible into the House. [More…]
I believe on this issue, as on so many issues which arose in 1975 in this Parliament or on the part of persons appointed by the Government responsible to this House, the words of the honourable and learned member for Moreton, the present Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) are succinct and apposite. [More…]
We engage them in military service for the defence of this country. [More…]
Members of that Committee included the present Deputy Premier of Victoria, the Honourable Lindsay Thompson; our Minister for Defence in this Parliament, the Honourable D. J. Killen; Senator James McClelland; the Honourable S. D. Einfeld from New South Wales; the Honourable Ren DeGaris from South Australia; the present leader of the Labor Party in Western Australia, the Honourable C. J. Jamieson, M.L.A. [More…]
It is true that unions grew up within the capitalist system, admittedly and properly, to counter abuses in the capitalist system as a defence mechanism, but they have gone far too far. [More…]
The only principle that I heard raised by the Opposition related to its defence of privilege. [More…]
The Opposition is well known for its defence of privilege in the higher echelons of the trade union movement which manipulate the working people of Australia in many instances, so of course it was proposed new section 4SD that was the subject of most of the attack. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the following documents relating to defence arrangements between Australia and Papua New Guinea: A joint statement by the Australian Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea; a status of forces agreement which will be registered with the United Nations; and two separate exchanges of letters between the Australian Minister for Defence and the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence, Foreign Relations and Trade, concerning: Consultations regarding the use of Australian loan personnel in politically sensitive situations; and an arrangement for the supply support of the Papua New Guinea Department of Defence by the Department of Defence, Australia. [More…]
They demonstrate, in a practical way, the importance Australia and Papua New Guinea attach to a continuing and close relationship in the defence field. [More…]
The agreement between the Australian and Papua New Guinea governments to sustain their close co-operation in defence matters and the joint affirmation of their intention to consult at the request of either about matters affecting their common security is not the less historic because so readily agreed, nor the less significant- for each and for others- because their friendship is already so firmly and so openly established. [More…]
This Parliament may look with pleasure and with no little pride upon the fact that in this new era of Papua New Guinea’s independence and national sovereignty it has joined with Australia to re-affirm a clear and mutual interest in close co-operation and consultation in defence matters. [More…]
In a statement on 1 1 January, Sir Maori Kiki identified his Government’s view of the defence relationship. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government continues to seek by direct negotiation between the two countries continuing support and co-operation in defence matters with Australia, not by any formal defence treaty but by mutually acceptable arrangements between the two Governments and by frequent consultations. [More…]
Honourable members will note that, under the arrangements, Australia will continue to assist in the development of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force through the Defence Cooperation Program. [More…]
I commend the Australia-Papua New Guinea defence arrangements to the House. [More…]
All the evidence that has come before the defence committee which is looking into this matter indicates of course that Australian dockyards ought to have been re-equipped years ago. [More…]
I know that the Minister is the builder and that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) might be expected to know more about these things than the Minister for Construction, but the Government has an obligation to make out a case in these times when it is possible to spend $24m in ways that could be extremely advantageous to many areas of deprivation in Australia. [More…]
The Department of Defence and the Department of Construction should consult further to ensure that the proposed extension to the Melbourne Harbour Trust Wharf is really necessary. [More…]
The Government accepts this recommendation and arrangements will be made for the Department of Defence and the Department of Construction to re-examine the need to extend the Melbourne Harbour Trust Wharf. [More…]
Each arm of Australia’s defence Services will send representatives to the United Kingdom to take part in various events there during the year. [More…]
At that time we had come through a conflict and we found that we could not produce certain types of items which were necessary for our defence. [More…]
During his second reading speech the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay) said ‘the adjustment provisions incorporated in the Bill are detailed and complex’. [More…]
I rise very briefly to associate the National Country Party of Australia with the Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) Bill 1977 which is before the Committee. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay) referred to the fact that he was speaking only in broad terms on the provisions of the Bill for the simple reason that a lot of technical detail would be forthcoming as a result of the Bill. [More…]
It was intended also to provide in this Bill beneficial amendments to section 25 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act designed to remove an anomaly affecting certain officers who were detrimentally affected by their transfer to the DFRDB scheme in October 1972. [More…]
The pension updating provisions are therefore being introduced now and drafting of the amendments to section 25 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act is proceeding for introduction as quickly as possible into the House. [More…]
When unions take industrial action to put pressure on an employer in defence of the rights of trade unionists they will have to be conscious not only of the sections of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act but also of the sections of the Trade Practices Act, particularly proposed section 45D. [More…]
It is surprising in view of all the hawks on the other side- quite a number of new hawks became members of this House in 1975- that in all the discussions on the shipbuilding industry, the need to preserve employment in Australia and the need for economic recovery, none of those hawks made reference to the second part of the submission by the Department of Defence to the Tariff Board in 1971 which said that in a long term international conflict a major shipbuilding industry was vital to our security. [More…]
All I can assume is that our defence hawks on the other side of the House expect that any conflict in future will be a 48-hour affair. [More…]
We need those men for defence purposes. [More…]
by leave- I wish to inform the House that the Chief of Defence Force Staff, General Sir Francis Hassett, A.C., K.B.E., CB., D.S.O., M.V.O., will retire on 20 April 1977. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
Does the Civil Defence School provide courses specifically related to earthquake mitigation or earthquake damage. [More…]
The provision of house insurance cover at premiums comparable with those being offered by the Commonwealth Banking Corporation and the Defence Service Homes loans schemes; [More…]
Be supported by an adequate defence willingness on the part of the people. [More…]
I now turn to the question of defence and foreign policy. [More…]
The Government must be congratulated on its publication of the White Paper on a defence policy for Australia. [More…]
The size and physical characteristics of our continent require a unique defence capacity which cannot be achieved simply by grafting onto accepted doctrines ad hoc concepts which may or may not meet our requirements. [More…]
The perspective in which Australia’s defence needs to be examined cannot ignore the relationship between the great powers or the likely impact of changing circumstances in South East Asia, the Pacific and the Indian Ocean areas in particular. [More…]
With the virtual removal of the United States defence umbrella from South East Asia, the continuing incursions being made into Thailand from both Laos and Cambodia, the reemergence of a clandestine communist movement in Malaysia and the potential problems which could emerge in Indonesia, it is abundantly clear that Australia cannot cut itself off from the region in which we must form a part. [More…]
I am just pursuing the logic as put by a gentlemen who ought to know and who writes in defence of this private enterprise system. [More…]
I would also like to say in tribute to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) that yesterday we saw an excellent parade of the armed forces representing the honour of this nation, bringing the colours of the units of the Royal Australian [More…]
I compliment the Minister for Defence and, through him, the armed Services upon the splendid parade that we witnessed here in Canberra yesterday. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) needs no defence at all. [More…]
The report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Australian refugee problem which was recently published- the Committee included members of the Austraiian Labor Party- said that the former Government deliberately delayed bringing Vietnamese refugees into Australia in order to minimise the number of refugees with which Australia would have to concern itself. [More…]
It is a petition to the President of the United States of America which refers, inter alia, to his recent statement with respect to his defence of prisoners of conscience in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, his comments in relation to the recent tragic events in Uganda, and in particular his remarks with respect to the situation in East Timor, which is our nearest neighbour. [More…]
We have stuck by our commitments on defence. [More…]
In 1975 it looked as if it would not be too long before the typical fear of the socialists about defence forces would bring about a run down of the forces which would leave us completely with our pants down. [More…]
It was obvious to us that we had to find money to spend on defence. [More…]
No Federal Government would consider throwing away our defence strength in such a manner. [More…]
The defence of this country is now secure. [More…]
I intend to dwell at least for a minute or two on the matter of the defence and security of this country. [More…]
Unless we accept that proposition the defence of this country will become of no consequence. [More…]
Pensions for war and defence widows will increase by $3.60 to $47.10 and standard Service pensions will have a similar increase, all to be paid on 5 May and having an annual cost of $53.2m. [More…]
I rise this evening mainly to respond to a question asked in the Senate yesterday by a very distinguished senator, a former President of the Senate and the present Chairman of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
For the first time we in Australia must think independently and for ourselves in both our foreign policy and our defence policy. [More…]
There is a need for us to have clearly stated aims and objectives in both foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
The task of surveillance and defence of this vast new area is an immense responsibility. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is very concerned about the solution to this problem. [More…]
United States Defence Department figures show that since 1960 the United States has built 122 ships over 3000 tons while the Soviet Union has built only 57. [More…]
It was clear that the Government was then seeking to incite and escalate an American presence there, in the misguided expectation that Australia could once again cling to the slipstream of an American presence instead of developing its own foreign policy and its own defence doctrines. [More…]
Defence Minister Killen, armed with a bristling moustache and a brace of metaphors, warned that there was a Russian build-up and that it was a threat to Australia, but he amended the comment 3 hours later by saying the threat was not a direct one. [More…]
Then someone put his Fleet Air Arm to the torch and presumably the Russians accommodated the indisposition of our defence arrangements by arranging some sort of discreet armistice. [More…]
He talked about the problems of neutrality in the Indian Ocean and referred to the comments of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) about a possible threat. [More…]
It has been government policy to try to commit the United States to a military presence in the area, as it tried previously through the instruments of the Vietnam war and the United States defence intelligence facilities in Australia. [More…]
President Carter’s recent call for super-power disengagement from the Indian Ocean while the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) have been arguing for an expanded American presence is outstanding only for the stark way in which it contrasts differences. [More…]
These differences have been apparent for some time, as evidenced in the quite lukewarm response which the Minister for Defence received to his proposals last July for a joint United StatesAustralian naval presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Such bases have ceased to be strategically necessary to the defence of the United States. [More…]
Although, because of the inertia of the United States defence establishment, the withdrawal may be gradual, the logic of new naval technologies may eventually be manifested in a virtual abandonment of fixed establishments overseas. [More…]
Until it is guaranteed, Australia must have regard to its own defence situation. [More…]
We must ensure that we have proper defence installations and proper military associations and connections with our allies to ensure the security of Australia. [More…]
To do so really could do us nothing but good from the point of view of trade and defence and from the cultural point of view. [More…]
Even the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) gave away using that sort of an argument a long time ago. [More…]
The attitude of the conservative governments over the years- in fact down through the centuries has always been that their foreign affairs and defence policies have been inextricably mixed. [More…]
Russia can be talking about peace while multiplying up to 400-fold its defence expenditure and extending its military tentacles throughout the world. [More…]
We support the establishment of the Cockburn Sound base because it is urgently needed for the defence of this country in the present circumstances. [More…]
The defence implications, of course, are well known and have been well publicised. [More…]
We in this country realise that, following the drastic rundown of our defence forces during the period of office of the Labor Government, the tremendous task of building those forces again to some viable size is going to be made all the more difficult as a result of the extra sea area that will need to be policed. [More…]
-On behalf of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), I move: [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to remove the requirement under section 80b of the Defence Act 1903 for collectors of Service decorations to obtain permits for that purpose. [More…]
In order to meet circumstances where it is in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia to permit the recruitment in Australia of persons to serve in particular armed forces, the Minister will be authorised to exempt recruitment for such forces. [More…]
Three-canal boats are absolutely essential to the defence of the United States. [More…]
(I am Chairman of the Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Labor Party in the Parliament of Australia. ) [More…]
One of the unresolved questions in Australia is the industry that needs to be retained for defence purposes. [More…]
Obviously there are industries which relate directly to our defence capacity. [More…]
I have heard the same thing said about defence, migration and population. [More…]
I think sufficient figures are available already to indicate that if Australia is to sustain its population and if it is to provide the population expansion which is necessary from many points of view, including the point of view of defence and point of view of getting effective utilisation of our generously endowed resources, it ought to be at this stage laying the basis for an immigration program which will contribute to the well being of this nation, to the growth of our economy and to the prosperity of the Australian Community. [More…]
They should not be asked to make a judgment on what are the needs of roads or education because to do so, given that all cakes are finite, they are then being asked to make a judgment on the needs of defence, social services and other matters that are not germane to their skills. [More…]
Internal jealousies among the Lithuanian and Polish princes caused the neglect of defence and foreign policies. [More…]
In relation to the matter brought by the northern State of Queensland the defence has already been put in and the Commonwealth will uphold the validity of the legislation. [More…]
So far as Western Australia ‘s challenge is concerned the defence has not yet been put in but I can assure honourable members that when it goes in it will also uphold the validity of the legislation that allows the honourable member for [More…]
I have said previously that I believe that Australia’s defence would be much more adequate if we reduced our total defence expenditure by something like $200m and increased our aid in real physical terms by something like the same amount. [More…]
I think that in the long run Australia’s best defence is in showing not that it can be aggressive but that it can be socially useful to those against whom we somehow believe we must defend ourselves. [More…]
I think it is time we must acknowledge that we must have defence, but we must ask repeatedly what we are supposed to be defending ourselves against. [More…]
The economy is ploughed into a deeper and more depressing furrow of recession while Government spokesmenlike the Prime Minister who was Minister for the Army and then Defence Minister at the time of our dishonour in Vietnam- tell us things are getting better and better and soon they will be quite good. [More…]
It has promised a no growth Budget, which inevitably implies substantial cuts in some programs to give room for promised growth in others, such as defence, or to cover commitments easily made last Budget but which have to be paid for in the next Budget. [More…]
Finally, an Australian government must attempt to maintain a degree of balance in manufacturing industry so that shifts in technology and terms of trade allow Australian industry to take up market opportunities and to maintain a measure of national independence through the capacity to supply the defence forces in times of bad international relations. [More…]
to have adequate time and facilities for the preparation of his defence and to communicate with counsel of his own choosing; . [More…]
It removes an unnecessary requirement under the Defence Act that collectors of defence decorations obtain permission for that purpose. [More…]
One person- I will not give his name because sometimes the Indonesian authorities do not appreciate people putting different viewsmade the point very clearly to me that Indonesia did not want aid for defence, for arms or for aeroplanes but it needed aid to improve the health standards of its people. [More…]
At the moment there are many thousands of people in Australia who have purchased equipment- possibly in good faith or in ignorance which is no defence to the consequences of the law- whose entry into Australia the Government has facilitated and in respect of which the Government has taken no action despite its quite definite powers to restrict the entry of this equipment. [More…]
This has been helped by the findings of last December’s report by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the plight and circumstances of Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
That the White Paper of the Minister for Defence presented to the House on 4 November 1976 entitled Australian Defence be referred to the Standing Committee on Expenditure so that the fiscal implications of the proposed program, especially in relation to its effects on other programs and its requirements for additional revenue collections, can be investigated and reported upon and that such report be available to this House as soon as possible. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Countries gave assistance for the purpose of deriving direct regional advantage, sometimes in consideration of defence requirements and matters of that kind. [More…]
Foreign aid, particularly within the South East Asian region, within the South Pacific area, must always be regarded as a means of trade for Australia but more importantly as a means of defence. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills indicated that he was disillusioned at the fact that much of the exports from developed nations to underdeveloped nations was in cold hard cash which was required for munitions and for defence. [More…]
If we do it in this other way by exporting expertise and management and monitoring projects we can make sure we are catering for the needs of these people and not simply providing the items which we think they need then I believe we will go a long way in our foreign policy and particularly in our defence. [More…]
It gives dispensation to any person acting in the course of his duty to the Commonwealth in relation to the defence of Australia. [More…]
It is well worth noting that during the 1960s the Conservative Government led by the most ultraconservative Prime Minister Australia has had until the present one declared that Australian soldiers were engaged in the defence of [More…]
The words used are ‘in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia’. [More…]
It has to allow to the Attorney-General of this country the power to make exceptions and to make judgments according to the foreign policy or the defence requirements of Australia. [More…]
Delete those words- that is the sum total of the rationale of the amendments moved by the Opposition- and we would make Australian foreign policy and Australian defence policy the plaything of random and erratic actions by any Australian overseas. [More…]
If the Minister has, by instrument signed by him and published in the Gazette, declared that it is in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia to permit the recruitment . [More…]
Over a considerable number of years it has been a regular practice- I do not think it could be denied that recruitment has taken place in Australia- for persons to leave Australia and join the armed forces of Israel as part of the establishment of the Jewish state and also to assist in the defence of that country against incursions by other governments. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 16 March 1977: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I presume that when the leader writer used the term ‘service pension’ he was referring to pensions that flow under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act, that is to say, pensions for servicemen in the 3 Services who contribute 5.5 per cent of their salary to the fund. [More…]
A person does not commit a crime if the Minister has, by instrument signed by him and published in the Gazette, declared that it is in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia, to permit the recruitment in Australia, etc. [More…]
The Government has taken the view which I outlined in my second reading speech, that people in Australia ought to be able to go and join defence forces overseas. [More…]
However, the report emphasises that it is undesirable to interfere with the freedom of an individual to enlist in a foreign defence force. [More…]
He can do this only where he says it is in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia to permit recruitment in a particular case. [More…]
An Attorney-General who used that provision in a way which was clearly not in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia would be subjected to an attack. [More…]
His duty is to act within the responsibility that is laid upon him by the Parliament in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia. [More…]
For instance, if we were not at war but there was some threat that could involve Australia, say an attack on Canada and the Canadian people wanted to recruit Australians to fight in Canada and we felt it was in the interests of our defence that we should go to the assistance of our Canadian friends, then of course a government or an Attorney-General instructed or moved by his government would be justified under such a clause as sub-clause 9 (2) to take the step of permitting recruitment. [More…]
If we are to have a defence force we want the taxpayers to pay for it and we want it to be brought together in a legitimate way. [More…]
If the Minister has, by instrument signed by him and published in the Gazette, declared that it is in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia to permit the recruitment in Australia, either generally or in particular circumstances, of persons to serve in or with a specified armed force, or to serve in or with a specified armed force in a particular capacity, sub-section ( 1 ) does not apply, or does not apply in those circumstances, as the case may be, to or in relation to recruitment to serve, or the publication of an advertisement containing information with respect to service, in or with that armed force, or in or with that armed force in that capacity, as the case may be. [More…]
Sub-clause (2) gives the exception that if the Attorney-General decides that it is in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia to permit recruitment in Australia of persons to serve in or with a specified armed force in a particular capacity- it is assumed that this would be in relation to a foreign government or a foreign countryhe is able to do so. [More…]
I do not think it is appropriate that any country should allow the recruitment of people to serve in armed forces on the basis that it is in the interests of defence or international relations. [More…]
In the case of sub-clause (2) of clause 9 he has to have regard for the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia. [More…]
The question of what is in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia is a political question. [More…]
If the Minister has, by instrument signed by him and published in the Gazette, declared that it is in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia to permit the recruitment in Australia, either generally or in particular circumstances, of persons to serve in or with a specified armed force, or to serve in or with a specified armed force in a particular capacity, sub-section ( 1 ) does not apply, or does not apply in those circumstances, as the case may be, to or in relation to recruitment to serve, or the publication of an advertisement containing information with respect to service, in or with that armed force, or in or with that armed force in that capacity, as the case may be. [More…]
They are exceptions that will occur only on the ground of being in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia. [More…]
The advantage to the defence system is invaluable. [More…]
It had been my intention to enter the grievance debate to speak on matters affecting the Department of Defence. [More…]
Their knowledge, and the objectives which ADAA supported, will be subordinated to the Government’s foreign policy and defence policy. [More…]
I do not wish on this occasion to talk about the regrettable economic shambles which we inherited, but it would be absurd for me to continue in defence of the Government’s foreign aid policies unless I emphasised once again, that our inheritance in December 1975 made it essential that all areas of government expenditure be very carefully examined and, where necessary, reduced. [More…]
To the extent that our aid can help to achieve those aims, it becomes as effective a defender of our security as of some of our defence spending. [More…]
I believe also that there is a tendency within the Department of Foreign Affairs to see money which is budgeted for aid programs as money which is not available for defence programs and for foreign affairs programs. [More…]
I suggest that money spent on aid is much more conducive to the peace and future welfare of this nation than money spent on defence in many respects. [More…]
What Mr Booker, who is a Foreign Affairs diplomat of 35 years experience, is saying is that our best defence is to develop good relations with our neighbours, particularly with the developing countries with whom we have an opportunity to develop good relations through aid programs. [More…]
One can see from the extent of our defence budget and our aid budget that that policy has not been followed in the past by any means whatever. [More…]
Even this aspect of the Minister’s defence was wrong. [More…]
What Australia does in relation to uranium will influence every decision it makes on the economy, on defence and foreign affairs, on equity and on the distribution of income. [More…]
For example, we have frozen Commonwealth hostel costs and increases in rents of defence forces housing. [More…]
In the area of foreign policy and defence they constitute a very pragmatic approach to our future needs. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 10 March 1977: [More…]
However, in so far as the Defence Force is involved in these matters it will bear in mind in its activities the need to guard against such devices. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 March 1977: [More…]
What power does the Commission have to obtain the use of Defence Service personnel and equipment during a plague. [More…]
It is anticipated that when fully established, the Commission will not require the assistance of the Defence Services in Plague Locust control. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 March 1977: [More…]
What arrangement is there with the Plague Locust Commission and/or the State Governments for the use of Defence Service personnel and equipment during a locust plague. [More…]
1 ) It is a long-standing arrangement with the States that the Natural Disasters Organisation or the Defence Force do not become involved in disaster situations in the States, except at the request of the appropriate State authorities. [More…]
Unless there are special circumstances, it is the policy to seek recovery of the additional costs incurred, that is, those costs which would not have been incurred by the Defence Force had assistance not been given. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 March 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 March 1977: [More…]
Generally the price per unit for major defence equipment items is supplied by manufacturers ‘in confidence ‘. [More…]
852 (Hansard, 2 November 1976, page 2255) relating to defence and scientific installations and facilities, should he have included some reference to electronic intercept stations in Australia. [More…]
The Department of Defence has advised the Commonwealth Fire Board that a formal report will be submitted following the findings of the Naval Board of Inquiry. [More…]
I would be surprised if it has not been consulted because it is the practice of my Department and of the Department of Defence to keep on side with local authorities. [More…]
Recent comments and statements by people who are looking at our whole defence structure, particularly at mainland defence and not forward defence, show very clearly and very specifically that the whole road system has to be looked at again not only in terms of availability both north and south and east and west but in terms of quality. [More…]
The honourable member for Kennedy made one intelligent remark during the course of his address to the House when he spoke about the defence needs of this country. [More…]
I will not follow his jingoistic line on defence but one must be realistic enough to realise and to understand that any emergency situation- never mind about people coming to this country with arms- such as the national disaster in Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, is every bit as much a function of the armed Services as when the Japanese threatened to land in this country in 1 94 1 and 1 942. [More…]
If we are to look at roads as part of our national defence system they may be seen differently by - [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence and preface it by drawing to the Minister’s attention 2 items on the radio program AM this week concerning 2 American magazines. [More…]
Another provision of the Bill will amend the income tax law to ensure that all pensions paid under the superannuation arrangements for members of the defence force are liable to tax. [More…]
The need for the amendment, which was announced on 15 April 1977, arises from a recent decision by the High Court involving an invalidity pension paid under the defence forces retirement benefits scheme to a former officer of the Navy who was prematurely retired as the result of an accident sustained in the course of duty. [More…]
lm for defence equipment as a consequence of cost increases, including those resulting from the devaluation of the Australian dollar, and faster contract progress than was expected. [More…]
The objective of the program, within the constraints of practicability and cost, is to secure workload which will: broaden the capabilities of industries of strategic significance to Australia in order to provide in depth defence supply capability; and stimulate technological advancement in key Australian industries. [More…]
They would: be likely to stimulate continuing activity in the same field of technology; involve transfer of technology in areas of significance to Australian defence or industrial development; exercise Australian design and development resources; and provide workload for underutilised sectors of Australian industry of defence or technological significance. [More…]
Such an arrangement could be extended to the manufacture in Australia of additional quantities of these or other types of equipment for sale to other customers of the overseas contractors; a type of coproduction arrangement; a collaborative proposal is sometimes practicable and this could involve the overseas prime contractor in making arrangements for the Australian industry to participate through the conceptual, design, development and production stages; another type of arrangement involves the overseas contractor in an undertaking to purchase Australian products of defence or technological significance to Australia. [More…]
Defence Purchases [More…]
Suppliers of defence equipment are required to report quarterly to the Department of Supply on the progress of implementation of Australian participation commitments. [More…]
It is through the influence which the United States exercises in the western world monetary system and its defence arrangements that the United States is the pivotal point for change in the direction which the international nuclear industry should take in the future. [More…]
Has the new Indian Government expressed any views regarding its proposed relationship with the Soviet Union and its own attitude towards the future development of defence installations in the Indian Ocean? [More…]
There is the prosecution and there is the defence. [More…]
In view of the fact that the defendant was employed by a company which contracts for joint AustralianUnited States defence installations will the Prime Minister draw this matter to the attention of Mr Justice Hope who has been inquiring into the intelligence and security services for him to make an investigation and report? [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that the aerospace firm of TRW Incorporated, which employed the defendant in the Los Angeles spy trial, is one of the 2 principal contractors for the joint United States-Australia defence space facilities in central Australia? [More…]
-Bearing in mind the likelihood of Australia’s declaring a 200 mile economic zone at some time in the future, does the Minister for Defence intend to order more patrol boats and surveillance aircraft than indicated in the White Paper on defence? [More…]
My question, which I direct to the Treasurer, follows the question asked of the Minister for Defence by the honourable member for Higgins. [More…]
Will the Treasurer demonstrate to the House that he is a true patriot by giving the House a firm assurance that he will support completely the efforts of the Minister for Defence in the next Budget? [More…]
I have the strongest possible rapport with my colleague the Minister for Defence and I am sure that he would certainly be enjoined in that statement. [More…]
I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Defence, by pointing out that in 1975-76 some $148m of a total defence vote of $1.8 billion was allocated to defence equipment and stores- hardware, as it is called- according to the publication Public A Authority Finance: Federal Authorities released by the Australian Statistician. [More…]
Would the Minister agree, as an example, that if the provision of golf courses on Army bases was discontinued, this would not represent a cut in defence expenditure? [More…]
Would the Minister agree that there are many aspects of the Government’s defence spending that are not directly related to the defence effort? [More…]
If he does agree, would he give consideration to presenting the defence budget to Australians in such a way as to distinguish between uniformed service and hardware expenditure and other defence expenditure, so that the overall defence budget can become the subject of more critical examination? [More…]
I am sure that if the honourable gentleman looks at the White Paper and the Defence Report he will find that the suggestion he has made has been substantially, if not completely, met. [More…]
I am sure that he would have regretted that under those circumstances he would not have been able to obtain the superannuation benefits that he probably gets as a result of his service in the defence forces. [More…]
I often wonder whether our reaction or our defence towards illegal intrusion into our waters would be more rigorous than it is if the illegal intrusion took place on our land mass. [More…]
I bring this matter to the attention of the House, of the Federal Ministers for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock), Defence (Mr Killen) and Health (Mr Hunt) because in the intrusions are the seeds of a potential disaster for the Australian industry, the environment and the Australian citizen. [More…]
The next largest is the Department of Defence. [More…]
For expenditure on allowances and other expenses for the purpose of employment training and re-training (including the training and re-training of widow and repatriation pensioners, migrants, Aborigines, and ex-members of the Defence Force) to meet the needs of the labour market. [More…]
I shall enumerate them again: Widows- and the Government is very good at bashing widows and the widows mite; it has a reputation for that not only in Australia but around the world- repatriation pensioners, migrants, Aborigines and exmembers of the Defence force. [More…]
Some would cut the defence vote but not 1. [More…]
But there must be a growing body of opinion on both sides of the House which starts to question defence expenditure. [More…]
Defence expenditure appears to be able to go on without proper assessment of how efficient is that expenditure. [More…]
It points out that when asked by both the Whitlam and Fraser Governments, the Defence Department’s own assessment was that there was no discernible military threat to Australia in the foreseeable future. [More…]
I remind the House that, in February 1976, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) announced the decision to buy two of the American FFG-7 patrol frigates. [More…]
I understand that nobody in the Department of Defence believes that that will be the cost when they come into service in 1982, but that it will be at least $500m. [More…]
We might well carry out an assessment of the role in Australian defence and the increasing cost of the types of naval vessels being purchased, despite the ‘Modest Member’s’ reservations in treating the matter as a holy cow. [More…]
I think it is amusing that the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) should say that there is no discernible threat to Australia in the near future and go on to question the Defence vote. [More…]
Defence expenditure must depend entirely on the conditions which prevail in the world from time to time. [More…]
I say that any increase of defence expenditure after the Munich pact as far as Australia is concerned appears to me to be entirely unjustifiable and an hysterical piece of propaganda. [More…]
Thus approximately 60 per cent of total outlays are involved in carrying out programs in the Departments of Defence, Health, Education and Social Security. [More…]
Defence man briefed Kerr. [More…]
Except where the certificate is given on the ground that the disclosure would prejudice security, defence or international relations or would disclose proceedings in Cabinet, an Attorney-General’s certificate may be challenged before the Tribunal and may, if the Tribunal so rules, be set aside. [More…]
I am also intrigued to find that there is to be a saving in our appropriations this year of $1,065,000 in respect of our defence cooperation with Indonesia. [More…]
The sum of $9m is sought for the May referenda; $9m for Aboriginal programs; $38m for defence equipment cost increases, $32.5m for student allowances and $6.6m for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
For example, real defence spending is to increase by about 5 per cent and education by some 2 per cent a year. [More…]
The amounts vary up to as much as the $30m extra which we will have to pay for defence expenditure because of that devaluation. [More…]
I know that Government members constantly talk about the need to increase defence expenditure. [More…]
Indeed he would possibly pay more attention to the defence sector, because the Labor Party had grossly ignored it. [More…]
The persistent, false and virulent attacks on me by the Foreign Minister and the Prime Minister on this issue have had one purpose, namely, to goad me into breaching long established rules of diplomatic confidentiality, betraying defence secrets, and harming Australia’s reputation as a trustworthy nation. [More…]
The points calling for the withdrawal of Indonesian troops and the ending of hostilities were blatantly contradicted by the business-as-usual ‘ defence relationship between Australia and Indonesia. [More…]
Throughout 1976 Australia continued military aid and co-operation with Indonesian defence scientists and military training programs. [More…]
Some people, when examining these 2 Bills, take fright at the additional expenditure for defence. [More…]
The item of about $63m, which is appropriated for additional defence expenditure, must be viewed in context and regard must be had to a similar amount which has been saved in deferred capital expenditure on defence. [More…]
The first of the 2 biggest items in the estimated savings of $406m is $67.75m Ibr defence. [More…]
In other years, the usual thing was to show against the Department of Defence the sums that were thought would have been expended when the Budget was drawn up and to match those items with sums that had been expended. [More…]
The Government is claiming that it is saving $67m on defence, but in the same breath it is spending a further $68m. [More…]
So the net effect is that the Government is spending more on defence than it budgeted for at the beginning of the year. [More…]
But those schemes represent costs to the revenue in the same way as there is a cost against the revenue when, in line with the increase in consumer price index, pensions and unemployment benefits are increased and the costs of health, education, defence and payments to the States are also increased. [More…]
Lawyers under the present situation are often involved in the most detailed tactical battles, one with the other, to keep a confession out of evidence, if that is the defence in any case. [More…]
I know that at times allegations are made that inadvertently judges tend to sum up in one way or another, favourable to the prosecution or to the defence. [More…]
He was employed by a company which contracts for joint Australian-United States defence installations. [More…]
The Australian Government agreed to share joint defence space research facilities with the Government of the United States. [More…]
We now know from the publication of a secret telex message from the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation representatives in Washington to the Director-General that Mr Richard Stallings who was in charge of the construction of a facility in Australia and was the first head of that facility, was not an employee of the Defence Department but of the Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]
Simultaneously press coverage in Australia was such that a number of CIA members serving in Australia have been identified- Walker under State Department cover and Fitzwater and Bonin under Defence cover. [More…]
Defence Department saying that Stallings is a retired Defence Department employee. [More…]
I quote 2 sentences from that cable: ‘Stallings is a retired CIA employee’, ‘Defence Department has been saying that Stallings is a retired Defence Department employee ‘. [More…]
After some pressure the Department of Defence acknowledged the true nature of his employment. [More…]
I have made it plain- the most recent occasion was yesterday- that even if it would be to my own advantage I shall not break the oaths of secrecy applying to Executive Council proceedings or diplomatic confidences or defence secrets, either my own country’s secrets and confidences or those of other countries with which it deals. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), in defence of the Government’s position on this matter, made what unfortunately was a palpably inadequate defence of Australia’s rights or Australia’s capacity. [More…]
The Minister for Defence made out a case that the Parliament was incapable and should not be allowed to participate in an examination of the activities of these organisations in Australia. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition was quoted by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) as saying that he knew of everything that was going on in Australiaall the activities of the CIA. [More…]
I agree with the Minister for Defence, who said that this debate is quite unworthy of this Parliament and quite unworthy of the Opposition. [More…]
Clause 4 ensures that certain defence force retirement benefits and other Service pensions which a recent High Court decision may have rendered tax exempt in fact will be subject to taxation. [More…]
I am afraid that I do not agree with the comments of the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Baume) in regard to the amendments in the Bill relating to the taxing of pensions paid under superannuation arrangements for members of the defence forces. [More…]
After all, Lieutenant-Commander Goodfellow was contributing to a superannuation scheme within the defence services. [More…]
All that the Government is doing, and I commend it, is making it clear that pensions paid to persons in the defence forces are to be treated in exactly the same way as those paid to people outside the defence forces. [More…]
A person who is injured in action in the defence of his country at a time of war receives a pension to compensate him for those injuries. [More…]
The amendments to the Act at the present time are to alter that situation to put pensions paid to contributors to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund in exactly the same situation as pensions paid to contributors of all other superannuation funds. [More…]
The honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Baume) raised a matter concerning the tax liability of the defence forces retirement benefit and defence forces retirement and death benefit pensions. [More…]
I would also like to indicate at this stage that the trachoma campaign which is now being conducted, I think, in the northern part of the Northern Territory is still receiving assistance from the Department of Defence. [More…]
I am happy to advise the House that as a consequence of the most vigorous representations to me and to my colleague, the Minister for Defence, which have been made by the honourable gentleman- effectively representing on this issue, as he has done for some time and will continue to do for a very long period, the interests of the electors of Bendigo- I have recently informed the Minister for Defence that there is no objection to negotiations proceeding for the acquisition. [More…]
A clear decision by the people in a referendum on this issue would be a powerful propaganda weapon for the moderate to use against militants in defence of his position. [More…]
-by leave-By the authority vested in it by resolutions of both Houses of the Parliament, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is empowered to investigate and report on matters referred to it by either House, by the Minister for Foreign Affairs or the Minister for Defence, and it may initiate its own references. [More…]
The main Committee itself has met regularly and has been briefed on a number of important matters regarding both foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
Sub-committee C was authorised to investigate the question of industrial support for defence needs as seen by the full Committee and is drawing to the end of its inquiry. [More…]
Accordingly, the Government has decided that there should be a special committee of Ministers comprising the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Treasurer, the Leader of the House, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister for Defence and the Attorney-General to set overall policy and oversee the work of the intelligence community. [More…]
Ministerial Committee should be supported by a committee of Permanent Heads, comprising Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet as Chairman, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of the Department of Defence, Chief of Defence Force Staff, Secretary to the Treasury, Director-General of Office of National Assessments and the DirectorGeneral of Security. [More…]
The Office will consist of the DirectorGeneral and an Assessments Staff of officers who will include seconded officers from the Commonwealth departments, the defence force and the intelligence agencies. [More…]
The Royal Commissioner recognised the continued need for an intelligence capacity in specialised areas of defence, working in close conjunction with the new Office. [More…]
The Government has accepted that the defence organisation needs to retain an intelligence capacity. [More…]
This applies particularly to the intelligence requirements of the defence organisation. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 19 April 1977: [More…]
Do the conditions of payment of Defence Force Retirement Benefit pensions to widows differ from those applying to widows under the Commonwealth Superannuation Fund. [More…]
I have not for one moment detected any suggestion in President Carter’s statement that he believes that the international stance or the defence of the United States should be in any way weakened. [More…]
As part of our defence relationship with the United States, there have grown up extensive arrangements for exchanging information and views with a wide range of United States Government agencies including those in the intelligence and security field. [More…]
Another is an Australian computer programmer, Mr P. L. Kealy, who worked at the joint defence space research facility near Alice [More…]
Noting allegations made during the past month that the United States Central Intelligence Agency has engaged in improper activities in Australia, including deception of the Australian Government, especially in relation to the operations of the joint defence space research facility; manipulation of political events in Australia in 1975; channelling of funds to Australian political parties and interference in trade union activities in Australia; [More…]
A former Australian employee at the Joint Defence Space Research Facility told the Canberra Times that he doubted whether Australian politicians were told all about the functions of the Facility. [More…]
We believe it is equally so in foreign and defence matters which of course cannot be determined solely by the Parliament because they necessarily involve negotiations with the representatives of other countries; they necessarily involve participation in international conferences. [More…]
However, all the purple prose and sophisticated machinery in the world will not go one iota towards resolving the plight of the refugees and other similarly affected people throughout the world unless the Government applies the spirit of the United Nations convention and the spirit of the report which was presented by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence instead of, as it has done up till now, paying lip service to the principles of the convention and hiding behind the legalisms and the literal interpretation of the United Nations definition of ‘refugee ‘. [More…]
Unfortunately, the statement of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) fails to implement the most significant of the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
In the Department of Defence members of the audit staff of at least one of the Services have indicated that some of the files which normally would be put away by persons engaged for that purpose most likely will never be found again after they have been taken out of their normal laces. [More…]
There may be other reasons why one would put industries such as infant industries or defence capacity industries in a special section. [More…]
The defence service homes scheme is another program that is under review. [More…]
I am sure- and I confidently predict- that it will not be long before we hear about the dire consequences of interdepartmental committees which are considering raising interest rates and disposing of defence service homes estates and so on. [More…]
In defence of their operations, no-one- not even Swanson or the Government- has torn down the arguments advanced by the Commission. [More…]
1 ) The Department of Productivity was established for the following purposes- the achievement of continued improvement of the productivity of all sectors of Australian industry for the purpose of providing to Australian consumers goods and services of required quality at acceptable cost, of improving the international competitive position of Australian industry, and of providing a more satisfying work experience for Australian workers the development, maintenance and operation of the Government’s munitions and aircraft factories to meet Australia’s defence needs the development and maintenance of an Australian defence aircraft industry to meet Australia ‘s defence needs the encouragement and assistance of invention, innovation and technological development in Australian industry. [More…]
The present responsibilities of the Department are to- provide advice to the Government on matters of policy and strategy formulation as they affect productivity promote, including undertake where necessary, research into measures of productivity; interpret measures of productivity, both nationally and within industry determine and undertake research into the continuing needs of industry for productivity improvement including- employer/employee relationships the physical and working environment management practices technology and its application training promote and participate in the development and implementation of national programs for productivity improvement co-operate with and, as appropriate, co-ordinate and stimulate the activities of other departments, authorities and organisations which relate to the above functions publicise, disseminate, and otherwise promote material and ideas relating to the above functions manage assigned government factories for the production of defence material and the provisions of services as required for defence purposes oversee the activities of the defence aircraft industry manage an office for the examination and granting of patents and the examination and registration of trade marks and designs. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 March 1977: [More…]
1 ) Who was the prime American contractor or contractors for the Joint Defence Space Communications Station. [More…]
1 ) The prime contractor for the construction of the Joint Defence Space Communications Station was the Australian firm of A. V. Jennings. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Too frequently, criminals out on bail commit other robberies to pay for their defence or merely to continue their comfortable life styles. [More…]
The new defence provision is essentially in line with that recommended by the Trade Practices Review Committee which is more clearly known as the Swanson Committee. [More…]
How shameful it was that in that defence of section 49 and in that defence of the price discrimination laws of this country we were not assisted by one Government member in the debate earlier this year. [More…]
I remember that the same guffawing from the same quarters joined the weak defence of the proposal to repeal section 49. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 April 1 977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 April 1 977: [More…]
The AUS has a campaign to end the 5-power Defence Agreement. [More…]
When examining the Treasury minute the Committee was not satisfied with the comments provided by the Department of Defence in response to the Committee’s conclusions in paragraphs 84 and 85 of the report relating to the purchase of trailer-mounted refrigerators and paragraph 123, which dealt with a cleaning contract. [More…]
The Treasury subsequently sought additional information from the Department of Defence and redrafted comments were substituted for those previously provided for paragraphs 84, 85 and 123. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in December 1976, Parliament passed the Defence Service Homes Amendment Bill which abolished the Australian Housing Corporation and established the Defence Service Homes Corporation as the corporate entity to administer the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
This Bill repeals the Defence Service Homes Corporation Act, establishes the Corporation under the Defence Service Homes Act and effects amendments to the Defence Service Homes Act to provide for changes to the staffing and financial arrangements relating to the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
Arrangements are therefore being made to appoint or engage, under the Public Service Act, all Corporation staff who were appointed or engaged under the Defence Service Homes Corporation Act. [More…]
A trust account under the Audit Act, to be known as the Defence Service Homes Trust Account, will be established. [More…]
Payments will be made into the trust account from the following sources: Moneys appropriated as advances to the Corporation for the purpose of expenditure under the Defence Service Homes Scheme; and receipts by way of rent and loan repayments from tenants and mortgagors. [More…]
The moneys which are presently held by the Defence Service Homes Corporation are to be credited to the new Trust Account to be used for capital purposes. [More…]
Under the proposed new arrangements payments under the Defence Service Homes Act will be made from the Trust Account and the Corporation ‘s administrative expenses will be funded in the usual way through the departmental appropriation. [More…]
The Defence Service Homes Insurance Trust Account, which has operated since 1919, will continue to be maintained separately. [More…]
At present, there are 4 special appropriations paid under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
These are now set out in the proposed section 39C and they relate to payments made from the excess credits of purchasers and borrowers and to payments of surplus proceeds resulting from the sale of properties by the Defence Service Homes Corporation as mortgagee-in-possession. [More…]
That section provides a defence to prosecutions under Part V, which contains the consumer protection provisions. [More…]
Section 85 at present provides that reasonable conduct may be a defence to a consumer protection prosecution, and that section will be restructured to provide separate defences of reasonable mistake, reasonable reliance on information supplied by another person, and default of another person which could not reasonably have been prevented. [More…]
The Swanson Committee’s consideration of defences to consumer protection prosecutions occupies no more than 3 paragraphs or 2 pages in a report of 260 pages. [More…]
Yet it makes mere assertions that the existing defence operates in a unduly harsh fashion and considers that a major change is desirable. [More…]
Just as the Opposition, in a large and generous fashion, has conceded that the Government has responded well to many of the suggestions of the Swanson Committee in expanding the provisions of part V to cover objectionable behaviour in the market place, now we say that all that good work, all the filling of holes in relation to consumer protection, will have been destroyed if this defence is allowed to be weakened. [More…]
I think honourable members would do well to look at the existing defence. [More…]
It is a defence under that section if a contravention is due to a mistake, to reliance on information supplied by another person, as a result of an act or default of another person, or due to an accident or some other cause beyond the control of the defendant. [More…]
There has been a considerable weakening and softening of this defence. [More…]
The defence now proposed is much too easy. [More…]
In all those circumstances, having regard to the way the Government has commendably reacted to the Swanson Committee recommendations to fill holes and improve gaps in the legislation, all that work will be undone if we now weaken the defence and make a defence easier to establish. [More…]
-In my view the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam) is wrong in his comments on section 85 of the Act and the amending clause in relation to these defences. [More…]
When one is talking of onuses of proof and defences against the Act one must have some degree of certainty. [More…]
We have a whole range of possibilities between strict liability where there is no defence for an action on the one hand- I think this is unfair, we must be speaking of fairness and equity- and proof of negligence on the other. [More…]
But when the Trade Practices Commission comments on a defence in an Act such as this, it is fair for me to say that it has some sort of vested interest in the matter. [More…]
The honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam) does not fully comprehend these facts: Firstly, due diligence is totally irrelevant to a defence of accident. [More…]
Now the defence is being broken up. [More…]
There is no doubt that the defence now to be provided will be a more liberal defence. [More…]
I do not accept and nor does the Government accept that the defence has been made unreasonably liberal. [More…]
I believe that in some circumstances the present defence under the Act can cast an unfair burden on people who are the subject of prosecutions. [More…]
If indeed companies are to be exposed to the quite substantial penalties of this Act, the basis of any defence to actions against companies should be quite explicit. [More…]
It is a more liberal defence, but the Government believes it has been done in a very well balanced sense. [More…]
I put it to the Committee and particularly to the honourable member for Grayndler in response to his criticism, that if it is reasonable to rely on the information of another person, with which existing paragraph (b) deals, why should companies have to take further actions of precautions, etc., upon pain of possibly losing that defence? [More…]
I think that the restructured defence creates a fair balance. [More…]
The Government is conscious that the severity of the offences will vary and, accordingly, provision has been made in the Bill that by agreement between the prosecution and the defence, and subject to the court being satisfied that it is proper to do so, less serious offences can be dealt with summarily by a lower court, in which case the maximum penalty will be $500 or 6 months ‘ imprisonment. [More…]
A survey of Earnings and Hours of Employees was conducted in May 1 976 and covered all wage and salary earners except: members of the defence forces; employees in agriculture; employees in private households employing staff; waterside workers employed on a casual basis; persons employed by private employers (other than hospitals) not subject to payroll tax. [More…]
I must say a word in defence of the old Meat Board. [More…]
It establishes the Defence Service Homes Corporation as the body to administer the Defence Service Homes Act and also effectively brings the complete administration of the Act under the one umbrella, the Department of Veterans Affairs. [More…]
I forget the number of departments that war service homes or defence service homes schemes have been operating under since their inception many years ago. [More…]
I can also add that it is good to see that the defence service homes scheme has been brought home under the administration of ex-servicemen’s affairs, where it always should have been. [More…]
I also commend the establishment of the Defence Service Homes Trust Account which I feel will assist the administrative process considerably. [More…]
However, there are still a few matters concerning the Defence Service Homes Act which must be looked at closely and in my opinion adjusted by amendments as soon as possible. [More…]
Foremost of these matters is the clause relating to eligibility for a defence service home which was introduced by the previous Labor administration. [More…]
In my opinion this legislation completely destroyed the original concept of eligibility for a war service home, which was compensation for active service overseas in the defence of this country. [More…]
-The Opposition does not oppose the Defence Service Homes Amendment Bill 1977. [More…]
Once the Parliament passed the Defence Service Homes Amendment Bill 1976 abolishing the Australian Housing Corporation last December action such as this became a natural flow-on to clear up the administrative machinery involved. [More…]
In effect this Bill ends the statutory corporation status of the Defence Service Homes Corporation and brings the administrative machinery ultimately under the Public Service Board. [More…]
Recent Press speculation, if one can believe it, indicates that this Government intends in the Budget session to hand over the new defence service homes loans to the State building societies. [More…]
That could mean that those people who are eligible for defence service home loans will have the interest rates on those loans increased by up to three times the present rate. [More…]
If the permanent building societies or even the terminating building societies were to administer these loans, which has been suggested and which is certainly under discussion by the Government, it would mean that those eligible for defence service home loans could have to pay something like lite per cent interest on their loans. [More…]
However, I would like to associate members of the National Country Party of Australia with this legislation for the simple reason that over the years we have taken a very close interest in defence service housing. [More…]
Any honourable member who has been in this chamber for any length of time will fully appreciate the many problems that have been associated with defence service homes over the yearsproblems concerning interest rates, the amount of money that has been available and so forth. [More…]
There shall be credited to the Defence Service Homes Trust Account- [More…]
all moneys received by the Corporation under this Act, not being payments that are required by section 40 to be credited to the Defence Service Homes Insurance Trust Account. [More…]
The purpose of that, in a nutshell, is to provide for moneys that are being repaid from existing loans to be paid into the Defence Service Homes Corporation instead of their going straight into the Treasury. [More…]
I think that every member who has had anything to do with defence service homes will appreciate the personal problems that are created as a result of people not being able to secure a second loan. [More…]
Once they have sold their existing defence service home, they can receive a second loan only in exceptional circumstances. [More…]
When that Corporation was abolished the Defence Service Homes Corporation was established as the corporate entity to administer the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
This Bill, of course, seeks to repeal the Defence Service Homes Corporation Act. [More…]
It is confusing to ex-servicemen and it certainly is very confusing to the personnel who have been in the Housing Corporation and who now will go over to the new Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
The legislation establishes the Corporation under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
It will just be another routine government department incapable of meeting the housing needs of the people and using the resources that are available for defence service homes purposes in the best possible way. [More…]
One of the developments under the Labor Government was to consolidate the land holdings of the Defence Service Homes Division. [More…]
I want to tell the Minister that a great deal of concern is being expressed about the present administration of the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
I know that the Minister in this chamber is not responsible for the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
However, he certainly has a very big responsibility for the destruction of the Australian Housing Corporation which accommodated the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
Branch of the RSL is concerned, that despite denials by the Commonwealth Government, there are, from time to time, media reports of proposed changes to the existing Defence Service Homes Benefits. [More…]
The alleged media comments have referred to proposals to increase interest rates and dispose of residential land which has been purchased for the erection of Defence Service Homes. [More…]
We request your support in preserving the interests of veterans and their widows who expect the Defence Service Home Scheme to be maintained in accordance with the conditions of service promised to them at the time of their enlistment in the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I believe it is the obligation of this Government to maintain the momentum of reform and progress which the Australian Labor Party undertook in relation to the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
We changed the name of the legislation from the War Service Homes Act to the Defence Services Homes Act. [More…]
That was regarded as one of the great reforms under the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
I have mentioned just a short number of reforms but together they add up to the most significant package deal of reforms to occur since the defence service homes legislation was first introduced in 1918. [More…]
The reason for a waiting time for people seeking defence or war service homes loans was because of legislation brought in by the government in which he was a Minister. [More…]
We are trying, with this legislation as part of the scene, to bring some reality back to the whole situation of defence homes. [More…]
The reality, from my own knowledge of the staff within the Department, is that the staff is quite delighted with the prospect of coming within the broader ambit of the Public Service Act instead of being under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
In the 3 years in which the Australian Labor Party was in government it brought in some interesting and well needed alterations to the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
First of all, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is worried that we might be transferring the administration of the defence service homes to the States through the permanent building societies. [More…]
the Government does not have any plans to increase the interest rate on defence service homes. [More…]
the Defence Service Homes Corporation . [More…]
Of course the Labor Government had to introduce first of all increased amounts for the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
Certainly it was the Government of which the honourable member for Hughes was a member, and the reason why the appropriation of about $ 122.5m was not enough to cover the anticipated annual requirement for assistance under the Defence Service Homes Act in 1975-76 - [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 April 1977: [More…]
Recalling that the then Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, agreed in December 1 974 to an extension of the deployment to the Royal Malaysian Air Force base, Butterworth, of two Mirage squadrons of the RAAF, and that a further review would take place by the end of 1976, has a review occurred; if so, what were its conclusions. [More…]
The Exchange of Notes between Australia and Malaysia (see Question 1 and 2 above) which provides the formal basis for the RAAF presence at Butterworth, was made pursuant to, and explicitly related to the Five Power Communique issued at the conclusion of the Ministerial Meering in London on the 1 6 April 1 97 1 , to consider matters of common interest relating specifically to the external defence of Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
In that communique, Ministers declared: ‘in relation to the external defence of Malaysia and Singapore, that in the event of any form of armed attack externally organised or supported, or the threat of such attack against Malaysia or Singapore, their Governments would immediately consult together for the purpose of deciding what measures should be taken jointly or separately in relation to such attack. ‘ [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the recent High Court ruling that Defence Forces Retirement Benefits pensions earned as a result of incapacitation outside the arena of war are no longer to be subject to income tax. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It is my recollection that the former American Secretary for Defence, Mr Rumsfeld, presented to the Congress a 200-page report on this very subject. [More…]
It will be conducted by Mr R. J. Perriman, at present a First Assistant Commissioner in the Department of Veterans ‘ Affairs and by Mr G. P. Temme, Assistant Secretary, Department of Defence, who will deal with the legal and administrative matters as they affect the Defence Forces. [More…]
Service rents are below market rents but the gap is closing and if significant increases continue the Committee warns that more and more servicemen could rent on the market rather than from the defence stock on a value for money basis, thereby leaving the Commonwealth to foot the bill of dead rents payable to the States. [More…]
There are also recommendations for the Commonwealth to divest itself gradually of the existing defence stock by selling the stock it owns and returning other stock to the States. [More…]
While this stock lasts we recommend that the rent concession servicemen receive- that is, the difference between market rents and defence housing rents- be set in a rational way so that they will not be eroded by massive rent increases which are, to an extent, the result of uneconomic decisions on building or acquiring defence housing. [More…]
Servicemen would benefit particularly because the defence housing stock is generally below standard. [More…]
It then suggests that such action should be taken in respect of the Russell Hill defence complex in Canberra. [More…]
By agreement between the prosecution and the defence and subject to the court being satisfied that it is proper to do so, less serious offences can be dealt with summarily by a lower court and a lower penalty imposed. [More…]
I have a telegram from the Fraser Island Defence Organisation. [More…]
It would guarantee that assistance would be given to organisations such as the Fraser Island Defence Organisation and the others involved in environmental issues. [More…]
Those who seek to share the nation’s resources should clearly indicate the priorities of government expenditure in the fields of roads, transport, communication, social security, welfare, health, defence and education. [More…]
by leave- Successive governments have repeatedly stated that the nature of the research programs at the Joint Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap, its operation and the information derived from the programs are classified and must remain so. [More…]
The senior Australian on site is the Australian defence representative. [More…]
Programs are actively monitored, both at the facility and by the Department of Defence in Canberra, to ensure compatibility with Australian national policy and interests. [More…]
I might add to this statement that, subject to his obligation to preserve secrecy, which he renewed in the House on 4 May, my friend the honourable the Leader of the Opposition is welcome at any time to refresh his briefing on the facility in the Department of Defence and to raise any questions regarding it. [More…]
Joint Defence Space Research Facility at Pine GapMinisterial Statement, 2 June 1977. [More…]
-On behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I present the Committee’s report on the Middle East together with extracts of the transcript of evidence. [More…]
-by leave-This report is a substantial one and is the third report that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has presented to the Parliament on the general region known as the Middle East: the first 8 years ago; the second last year and the present one. [More…]
A sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence heard evidence from or held informal discussions with over 40 witnesses. [More…]
Priority in the meantime should be given to improving stock holdings related to the defence capacity of Australia. [More…]
Early priority should be given to the amendment of the Liquid Fuels (Defence Stocks) Act. [More…]
-On behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I present an interim report on ‘Industrial Support for Defence Needs and Allied Matters’. [More…]
by leave- The report on Australian defence industries is the result of what, I am sure, is the most thorough investigation of the subject ever undertaken by a parliamentary committee. [More…]
Practically every plant or establishment of defence industrial significance was visited by the sub-committee. [More…]
In considering the requirements for defence industry, it is necessary to decide first the scale and warning time of any possible conflicts and whether overseas supplies would be available during such conflicts. [More…]
In one regard we have gone further than the last defence White Paper would suggest. [More…]
The report deals with some general issues applicable to all defence industries and then concentrates on 4 key defence industries- shipbuilding, aerospace, electronics and munitions. [More…]
The Committee has made many recommendations in order to widen our defence technological base. [More…]
I hope that this report will be of value to Australian defence and I commend it to the House. [More…]
This morning a report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Middle East was presented. [More…]
The risk was apparent and great, but international relations (including trade, diplomatic and defence considerations) were involved and a decision as to the correct strategy had to be made by those equipped to make it. [More…]
I said so in my last major speech in the Parliament on the subject that the policy of the United States is important because of its pervasive influence in the West, in the nuclear industry, in technology, in the monetary system and in global defence. [More…]
I am interested to observe that neither the Department of Defence nor the Department of Foreign Affairs made any submission to the Fox inquiry in relation to this important consideration, that is, the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the non-proliferation Treaty. [More…]
It seems to me that by either design or omission Fox has been recreant to his responsibility or the Government has been recreant to its responsibility by not ensuring that the Departments of Defence and Foreign Affairs gave evidence on this important matter. [More…]
-In the few minutes available to me I should like to make some reference to the plight of the Australian shipbuilding industry, and in particular to the interim report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on industrial support for defence needs and allied matters which was presented today. [More…]
I should like to commend the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the justice of its report. [More…]
He referred to the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Industrial Support for Defence Needs and Allied Matters. [More…]
He failed to say that what he was talking about was referred to in the report in a defence context. [More…]
He did not refer to a comment by me in the report, namely, that one of the main problems in the shipbuilding industry in Australia in times gone past was that the defence and commercial interests did not get together. [More…]
1401, (Han sard, 7 December 1976, page 3454) been purchased for Defence Service Homes; if so, what was the purchase price. [More…]
The Defence Service Homes Corporation has developed 8.2 hectares at Adamstown, New South Wales, with an average cost of $10,900 per block and 18.4 hectares at Runcorn, Queensland, with an average cost of $7,800 per block. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]
The only role that the Defence Force might have would be in relation to existing arrangements and procedures for providing assistance to the civil authorities in circumstances where these authorities could not cope. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 19 April 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 May 1 977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May 1977: [More…]
Defence Central Complex: Wearing of Uniform by Personnel (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 30 May 1977: [More…]
1 ) Are Service personnel in postings in the Defence Central complex required to wear uniform when on duty. [More…]
1) Service personnel posted to Defence Central Staff and the three Service Offices are encouraged, but not required to wear uniform while on duty, except as directed for specific occasions. [More…]
and (4) Service personnel in the Defence complex are under the direction of the individual Services with regard to the wearing of uniform. [More…]
The Chiefs of Staff Committee reaffirmed as general policy in 1974 that the wearing of uniform by Service personnel in the Defence complex should not be compulsory. [More…]
The participants in the Five Power Arrangements in the Ministerial communique issued on 16 April 1971 “declared, in relation to the external defence of Malaysia and Singapore that in the event of any form of armed attack externally organised or supported or the threat of such attack against Malaysia or Singapore, their Governments would immediately consult together for the purpose of deciding what measures should be taken jointly or separately in relation to such attack or threat”. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to reports that the Defence Service Homes Scheme is to be abolished; if so, are the reports accurate. [More…]
Is the Department of Veterans’ Affairs presently engaged in negotiations to sell land held for the Defence Service Homes Schemes to building societies and State housing authorities. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to reports of the growing discontent and lack of morale of the staff of the Department as a result of the uncertainty with regard to the future of the Defence Service Homes Scheme and also because of the large number of unfilled positions within the Department and the seemingly non-existent promotion prospects for most officers. [More…]
1 ) I am aware of recent reports that the Defence Service Homes Scheme is to be abolished. [More…]
1 understand that during June uncertainties associated with the structure and staffing of the Defence Service Homes Organisation, following the recent transfer of this responsibility to my Department, should be resolved generally to the satisfaction of the staff. [More…]
The Board of Inquiry was convened by the Flag Officer Commanding East Australia Area under the authority of the Naval Defence Act and was directed to examine the security arrangements and fire prevention measures which existed before the fire, how the fire was fought and action taken to minimise loss after the fire started, and to make recommendations to prevent a recurrence. [More…]
There can be no doubt that the fire at the Naval Air Station, Nowra, was a severe blow to our defence capabilities at the time. [More…]
The most significant lesson from this unfortunate affair is that the security of valuable defence assets rests primarily in the hands of the users. [More…]
But it is the personal and continual watchfulness of every officer and man that is our foremost defence for the security of our assets. [More…]
The Chiefs of the three Services share my views in this regard whole-heartedly, and immediately following the fire they took steps to improve security awareness and training on the part of all members of the defence force. [More…]
While the conclusions indicated that there was much that could be done to improve security by way of modern protection devices, firefighting equipment and provision of security personnel, all these must be weighed against competing demands for limited defence resources of money and manpower. [More…]
-by leave-I join with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in commending publicly the courage of those members of the armed Services who displayed great courage and dedication on the night of the fire at the Nowra air base. [More…]
This is a most curious set of security arrangements for one of the key defence establishments in this country. [More…]
The Minister is a man who makes a profession so often of being a stern patriot in defence of the security of this country. [More…]
He will not have a word of criticism levelled against the defence Services, more especially against the Department of Defence. [More…]
He is quick to take defence in their defence. [More…]
Yet here is more than ample justification for the most stern criticism to be levelled against the Department of Defence, against a section of the defence forces and against the political administration, however far back it goes and whatever area of the Navy it covers. [More…]
How does such an unsatisfactory set of circumstances ever develop in one of the key defence establishments of the armed services of this country? [More…]
It seems to me that, as a simple principle, the Defence Services would apply some unexpected random checking procedure so that from time to time unexpected checks could be made of the standard of security at armed services bases throughout this country. [More…]
The Minister is the person responsible for this section of the Department of Defence. [More…]
Why have we not been provided with the substantial evidence from the investigation indicating how this grave deterioration in standards has occurred in the defence forces of the country? [More…]
But in a situation where there is an absence of clarity as to who is responsible for action and when such a damning indictment is tabled in the Parliament with such a short and superficial comment being made by the Minister about it, how can we have any confidence in the defence Services? [More…]
We are used to hearing from this Minister dissertations about the powerful readiness, alertness and defence preparedness of the defence forces of Australia. [More…]
On that score alone it seems to me that there should be a follow up inquiry to find out who is responsible for that and what sort of decisions took priority over decisions about fire protection at the base and to determine whether this sort of thing occurs in other Australian defence establishments. [More…]
Fourteen years ago in Townsville there was a fire at a sugar terminal and the local fire brigade was unable to quell the fire and called for assistance on other authorities, such as the Department of Civil Aviation and the Department of Defence, including the Royal Australian Air Force Base at [More…]
The sort of patriotism that the Minister likes to throw about so easily on issues of defence is not a sufficient substitute for the information we require now. [More…]
We are concerned about standards in the Department of Defence as well as in the defence services. [More…]
Security arrangements for all defence establishments in Australia; [More…]
Security arrangements for all defence establishments in Australia; [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1 977: [More…]
The only mode of Defence Department transport utilized to provide transport overseas to the Governor-General, Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and other Ministers consists of the special aircraft of RAAF No. [More…]
The costs attributable to operating these aircraft and other associated costs, although initially a charge to Defence Appropriations are ultimately recovered from the Prime Minister s Department and constitute a charge to that Department. [More…]
The amounts recovered by the Department of Defence from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet for overseas travel by VIP aircraft of RAAF No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 May 1977: [More…]
Public Servants Employed in Defence (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May 1977: [More…]
1 ) How many public servants in each of the First, Second and Third Divisions are employed in the (a) Defence Central Complex and (b) Department of Defence? [More…]
) What is the total salary per division of public servants employed in the (a) Defence Central Complex and (b) Department of Defence? [More…]
What is the total (a) number in each rank and (b) salary per rank of Service officers in the Defence Central Complex? [More…]
Figures shown in the following tables for employment in the Defence Central Complex comprise employment in all Departmental elements, wherever located, other than those directly controlled by the Service Chiefs of Staff. [More…]
The figures include service and civilian personnel in overseas posts except those in Defence aid, co-operation or loan appointments [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 June 1977: [More…]
In the long run, if we removed these barriers- physical, social and economic- that exist, perhaps we would have far less need to have defence expenditure as the biggest item in our Budget after social welfare expenditure. [More…]
There is also the aspect of eventual trade opportunities and defence possibilities that these bring with them. [More…]
Australia, with its large shoreline, vast sea area and small population, must look at reciprocal benefits in defence when going into this type of aid. [More…]
-The subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which produced, the report we are discussing worked with tremendous intensity. [More…]
At present Israel has to spend 36 per cent of its gross national product on defence. [More…]
Because of the importance of the situation I commend those members of the subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence whose report we are now considering for their extensive work and excellent report. [More…]
I have no doubt that in the annals of human endeavour the achievements of Israel will be seen as a demonstration of the power of man to overcome insurmountable problems, to achieve the right to exist and to establish a state which, in the Middle Eastern context, remains to this day one of the most unified and one of the most prosperous, despite the fact that Isreal is facing a rate of inflation of some 30 per cent, that over 40 per cent of her gross national product is directed at defence and over recent years she has had to absorb nearly 2 000 000 immigrants. [More…]
The report of the Sub-Committee of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee has given the Parliament an excellent opportunity to debate this most important question and I should like to congratulate the members on their excellent work. [More…]
I think it would be reasonable to say that the report we are discussing here tonight- the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence- even though there might be some qualifications expressed in regard to the Palestinian question, is substantially correct in fact and opinion as evidenced by the fact that both sides in the Middle East criticised us. [More…]
As a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence I wish to congratulate particularly the Sub-committee of that Committee, of which I was not a member, upon a very sound and logical report. [More…]
In the case of Israel 35 per cent of gross national product was being spent on defence. [More…]
In Syria, which had two budgets- a current expenditure budget as well as a development budget-70 per cent of her current expenditure budget was being spent on defence with a proportion as well - [More…]
Also, a proportion of Syria’s development budget was indirectly linked with defence. [More…]
-As a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence I am very pleased to be able to say a few words tonight concerning the issues raised by that Committee’s report. [More…]
For all these reasons, this report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence dealing with the Middle East is a very important report. [More…]
I congratulate the sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the excellence of its report on the Middle East. [More…]
Insofar as we believe that we should develop our own defence potential we should at least have an understanding, as expressed through the eyes of military men, of the techniques and skills being adopted by countries that have the greatest degree of military build-up of any region in the world. [More…]
I should have thought that a competent Minister would have been suitably equipped with the sort of information which would allow him immediately to present himself in a debate of this nature and to present a defence of the Government ‘s position. [More…]
Yesterday I found that his office could not answer a simple question as to how it was possible for defence expenditure to increase in real terms by one per cent, as the Treasurer said in his Budget Speech, when in fact the increase is only 7.4 per cent and inflation certainly will not be less than 10 per cent and probably will be closer to 12 per cent or 13 per cent on this Government’s statement - [More…]
A few months ago- in late May- there was the release of a report by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
The report states that on 4 May 1976 the whole Committee resolved that a subcommittee to be known as the Sub-committee on Industrial Support for Defence Needs and Allied Matters investigate and report on those matters with particular attention being given to manufacturing, backup industries and research facilities. [More…]
It is not too often that we get all the senators from a State on the one side and in this case the senators, both Liberal and Labor, combined to sign a joint letter and issue a joint Press statement to the effect that they supported the adoption of the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and recommended the acceptance of the package deal contained in the report part of which was that a committee of all interested parties in the industry be formed. [More…]
The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence suggested that this committee be formed to find out what can be done to ensure that effect is given to its recommendations, that is that Australia should maintain a viable shipbuilding industry as part of its defence program. [More…]
In the time of the Woodward investigation the land councils were completely dominated by their white advisers and had been for a long time but I would say in their defence that they have evolved to such an extent that on one occasion when this Committee was taking evidence in Darwin they wished their white advisers out of the room while they spoke to us. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 May 1 977: [More…]
7) Is there any equipment either in, or to be fitted to, the S2G aircraft to be purchased by Australia, which has not been previously used by the Australian Defence Forces. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Defence been advised of criticism related to expenditure on defence equipment for the three Services and the present budgetary proposals? [More…]
Even better, will he consider making a detailed and precise statement that one should hope would lead to a debate on defence in the House? [More…]
I would be happy to consult the Leader of the House and seek to facilitate a general debate on defence. [More…]
I excuse myself from seeking to explain some of the criticism that has been launched against the figure given by the Treasurer in his Budget Speech concerning the defence vote. [More…]
Defence expenditure in 1976-77 was $2, 182m. [More…]
I think we have heard from the other side of the House a kind of defence of the thought that somehow the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission is wrong and the Government is right. [More…]
With the help of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the Department of Defence- in particular Colonel De Lehunty- I visited the 3rd Cadet Brigade at annual camp in the state forests at Puckapunyal on Friday, 19 August. [More…]
Having worked on the defence and foreign affairs committee of my party and in both the Regular Army and the Reserve Army in the United Kingdom, I was able to assess some of the valuable work being done at that camp. [More…]
They are interested in the defence of this country. [More…]
It is that every person in the Army as a cadet should be able to maintain himself in the field, handle weapons, read a map, navigate by day and by night, fire on the ranges and at least see some of Australia’s new defence weapons, in particular the tanks, in action. [More…]
It seems to me that above everything else the training of young cadet officers with the regular and reserve Army is something of which this Party, the Minister for Defence and all those connected with the defence of this nation can be exceptionally proud. [More…]
I hope the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) takes note of what the honourable member for Holt had to say. [More…]
Many of those who are thought to be in the JIO have gone back to other departments such as the Department of Foreign Affairs or the Department of Defence. [More…]
Production at these sites was exported to the United States and the United Kingdom both for defence purposes and for electric power generation. [More…]
The Ranger Inquiry recommended against the use of the Atomic Energy Act on the grounds that this legislation was enacted largely with defence considerations in mind. [More…]
But today, as Vince Wallace pointed out in his statement, a person charged with a corporate crime can remain silent in the dock or he can make from the dock a statement invariably couched in very impressive terms which have been suggested by his defence counsel. [More…]
One of the many repressive aspects of the Atomic Energy Act is that all works carried out by or on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission are as if those works were approved defence projects within the meaning of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act. [More…]
Under that Act, and therefore in relation to uranium mining at Ranger, a person can be fined $1,000 to $10,000 or gaoled for from six months to 12 months for doing anything that hinders or obstructs the uranium mining project if that mining is deemed to be under the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act. [More…]
The first major contradiction was disclosed by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition ( Mr Uren) yesterday when he showed that the Government was using the Atomic Energy Act and the associated Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947-73 in relation to uranium mining. [More…]
Is it not a contradiction for this Government to argue that we are mining uranium for nonmilitary purposes and that it will not be used by anybody else for military purposes when it intends using defence legislation in relation to the mining of uranium? [More…]
I draw his attention to the fact that this Act is based on the defence power. [More…]
Such things must be for the Commonwealth’s purposes of defence and these uranium contracts are in no way related to defence. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Act is related to defence and the defence power is where it can be based. [More…]
If honourable members look at the provisions of section 17(4), section 34, section 41 and section 44 they will find that all of them are based on the defence power and all of them say that the Act can be used only for the purposes of the defence of the Commonwealth and no other purpose. [More…]
Tonight’s performance proved that he was prepared to go on national television and publicly canvass issues which are at present before a court of law, issues upon which he says- we must accept his wordthat he has a complete defence. [More…]
At that time he can put his defence and at that time, hopefully, if the evidence is insufficient he will be cleared. [More…]
-Far be it from me to hurt the feelings of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Contrary to the advice of the Inquiry, the whole issue was then brought within the scope of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947-1973 and the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1956. [More…]
The Approved Defence Projects Protection Act, which was brought in in 1947 and amended in 1973, provides penalties for any person who acts as follows: … by boycott or threat of boycott of any person, property, work or undertaking prevents, hinders or obstructs, or endeavours to prevent, hinder or obstruct, the carrying out of an approved defence project [More…]
In those few words an ‘approved defence project’ was mentioned. [More…]
As I understand it, a uranium mine would not be an approved defence project per se. [More…]
The Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947 - [More…]
That is the Act from which I just quoted- applies to and in relation to all works carried out by or on behalf of the Commission as if those works were approved defence projects within the meaning of that Act. [More…]
So if the Atomic Energy Commission carries out any works they will be, by definition, approved defence projects and will carry with them the penalties previously mentioned. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) will be able to tell me that because he is quite knowledgeable in history. [More…]
My expectation is that in the course of the next two weeks I will be able to put down a statement on defence. [More…]
This Bill will authorise borrowings for defence purposes in order that defence expenditures, which would normally be met from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, may instead be met from the Loan Fund. [More…]
The Bill authorises borrowing for defence purposes but it does not authorise any additional defence expenditures. [More…]
It will simply allow reallocation between the Consolidated Revenue Fund and the Loan Fund of defence expenditures to be made during the remainder of the financial year, following the enactment of this legislation, defence expenditures which have already been authorised by Parliament in Supply Act (No. [More…]
I should also mention that, as borrowings under this legislation will be for the purpose of financing defence expenditure, those borrowings will not require approval from the Australian Loan Council. [More…]
We just heard the most pathetic defence of them by the honourable member for Macarthur, a man who knows better, a man who can understand and a man who, unlike the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), is able to read 100 pages in a report and get to the next sentence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]
Federal and State Parliamentarians, metropolitan and provincial Press, libraries, ex-Service organisations, and Defence and Service personnel. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]
Members of the Defence Force are required to pay the same rent for housing of similar quality, regardless of its location. [More…]
This is an important principle of the Defence Group Rent Scheme which was introduced in April 1976. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 7 August 1 977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]
1 ) Do widows in receipt of a pension from the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme lose their pension on re-marriage. [More…]
Will the Government take the necessary steps to place Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme widows on the same conditions that apply to widows in receipt of a Superannuation Scheme pension on their remarriage. [More…]
1 ) Is the deflator for defence expenditure during 1977-78 expected to be 6.4 per cent. [More…]
and (2) No; the deflator for defence and all public expenditure in 1977-78 is expected to be somewhat greater than 6.4 per cent. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 18 August 1977: [More…]
I am pleased that my friend from Queensland, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), has spoken. [More…]
I am pleased that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) spoke in the way that he did of Les Haylen ‘s attributes. [More…]
No doubt the Minister for Defence will be talked of in the same way in many years to come. [More…]
I have received advice from the Right Honourable the Prime Minister that he has nominated Mr Martyr to be a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr Garland, now Minister for Veterans ‘ Affairs. [More…]
We can talk as much as we like about the defence needs of the country and about how we need new customs officers and all the fancy things in which we as the Federal Parliament get involved, but people do not believe that the country is being run effectively when they cannot get funds for priority needs such as kerbing and guttering, sewerage and drainage and when women are pushing prams through dustbowls in summer and quagmires in winter. [More…]
Townsville ‘s growth over recent years owes much to Australian Government decisions such as the location of defence installations, the establishment and growth of the James Cook University and work now in progress on the Institute of Marine Science at Cape Cleveland. [More…]
Those departments, the defence organisation and established intelligence agencies which at present collect and collate intelligence will continue to fulfil their present functions. [More…]
The Office will include seconded officers from departments, the defence force and other authorities as well as a permanent core of career officers professionally qualified in the assessment of intelligence on international developments in the political, strategic and economic fields. [More…]
-The Minister for Productivity will no doubt be aware of a recent report to the Defence Minister detailing the grossly inadequate capability of Australian manufacturing industry for defence production. [More…]
The honourable member has referred to the report to my colleague, the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In the second Ranger report the commissioners pointed out that the question of proliferation- the most, important question of all- involved aspects of international relations including trade, diplomatic and defence considerations. [More…]
The observation is as fatuous as would be the remark of a Minister who, in 1943, said that in the last four years the numbers of defence personnel had increased rapidly. [More…]
You all know the categorical denial from Jakarta, but five days later the Indonesian Defence Minister was forced to publicly admit that Indonesian forces were engaged in what he euphemistically described as a mopping up operation [More…]
Despite these cuts in revenue, the funding of health, education, transport, defence and welfare has been maintained at very adequate levels. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
He will remember that in the Budget, defence expenditure, in nominal terms, is shown as increasing by 7.4 per cent this financial year. [More…]
I ask: Has the Minister seen that in answer to a subsequent question on notice the Treasurer has now said that the deflator for defence expenditure is expected to be somewhat greater than 6.4 per cent? [More…]
Does this mean that real defence spending will grow by somewhat less than 1 per cent? [More…]
If so, will there be any increase in real defence spending this year? [More…]
I have here schedules which came from the office of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
by leave- In November last year I tabled a White Paper on ‘Australian Defence’. [More…]
That White Paper was a declaration of the Government’s aims and intentions with respect to the defence of this country. [More…]
The paper remains the basic reference for discussion of our national defence. [More…]
However, the issues with which defence policy is concerned are not static. [More…]
They are constantly developing and we must keep them under continuing review and ensure that our defence planning is responsive. [More…]
What I propose to do is to set out shortly some views on contemporary and prospective defence issues. [More…]
The 1977-78 defence budget outlay of $2,343m is an increase of one per cent in real terms over actual outlay in 1976-77. [More…]
But the stated objectives in the White Paper of what defence capabilities we intend this country to have in sight in the early 1 980s remain. [More…]
In considering the Government’s expenditure on defence for this year I hope that it will not be lost from sight that the year 1976-77 saw a significant real increase in defence outlay. [More…]
Having regard to that, a one per cent increase in real terms shows the importance the Government attaches to defence. [More…]
I shall shortly give details of the new equipment and defence facilities decisions made by the Government in the context of the 1977-78 Budget. [More…]
These are most important components of our long term defence preparedness and the Government is determined to ensure that new investment in these areas is sustained at an acceptable level. [More…]
But it is not so high as the cost of defence neglect would inevitably be. [More…]
Our present peace-time strategy is to support as best we may over a range of policies the continuation of the presently favourable prospects for our national security; to maintain effective defence relations with our friends and allies, especially the United States and in our neighbouring regions; and to maintain a substantial and efficient force-in-being that demonstrates our military capability to deal with situations that could develop with short warning and to expand in time should the need for this arise during the longer term. [More…]
A clearly perceived threat would enable defence planning and development to proceed in a specific way. [More…]
We study contingencies and from this study, together with other factors, we can derive judgments about the development of the Defence Force and the defence infrastructure. [More…]
But, as in many other countries, the study of a representative selection, with different timings and characteristics, helps our defence planners to explore strategic and operational concepts, requirements for military capabilities, questions of command and control and such matters. [More…]
In recent years, such contingency studies in our Department of Defence have focused on the defence of Australia. [More…]
The studies are manifold and involve continuing exploration of our defence problems in the light of strategic developments, changing technology and infrastructure, and changes over the years in the defence force itself. [More…]
Some comment has seemed to be calling for some particular threat to be adopted as the basis for our defence development. [More…]
What we need is a mix of capabilities against various possibilities, none of which can now be foreseen with sufficient confidence to allow the sort of specific defence planning called for. [More…]
There is a great temptation for some observers of the defence scene to say: Country X does so-and-so therefore we should follow suit’. [More…]
This is an extraordinarily simplistic approach to Australia’s defence problems. [More…]
-Every time one hears from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) one is confirmed in the impression that he has an absolute fascination with words but a total horror of fact. [More…]
It is a confession that the five year defence program is broken and discredited and now has to be discarded. [More…]
One assertion is the fictitious one per cent real increase in defence expenditure for this year. [More…]
Let us compare the defence expenditure for 1976-77, at $2,182m, with what defence expenditure would be for 1977-78 if it increased according to inflationary movements and according to a real increase of one per cent in that expenditure, that is, of the order of 12 per cent. [More…]
That is, the actual allocation in this Budget is about $100m less than it should be if the Budget is to achieve a one per cent real increase in defence expenditure for the year. [More…]
Let us take that from another direction, from the direction of the much vaunted five year program outlined in the White Paper, with which the Opposition largely agreed and for which I happen to believe the Defence Minister on that occasion deserved credit for its presentation, its content and its quality. [More…]
If defence expenditure this year were to reach the target which had been set in the White Paper- that is, a five per cent real increase-the level of expenditure for the year would be in excess of $2,700m. [More…]
In terms of the White Paper, government defence expenditure is some $360m lower than what had been proposed only 12 months ago in the five-year defence program outlined in that White Paper. [More…]
How many Manly ferries could the Minister for Defence buy for that? [More…]
I suspect that there are false estimates in these defence appropriations. [More…]
If one looks at page 666 of the Hansard report of Senate Estimates Committee A for 16 September 1977 one finds Mr Hyland of the Department of Defence saying this: [More…]
As to the amount by which the rest of the Budget would increase, that is speculation, although salaries and wages account for about half the defence budget. [More…]
From what Mr Hyland says here in this official document- the Senate record- it is clear that a full and candid statement has not been made of the true level of defence expenditure for this year. [More…]
In the discussion before Senate Estimates Committee A the witness from the Department of Defence said that the FFG program, in January 1977 costs, costs $4 14m which is an increase of 25.5 per cent since January 1976. [More…]
That is $45m, not $71m as the Defence Department claims. [More…]
I hope that he will take the matter up with the Department of Defence and arrange for a written communication to be sent to me so that I will understand how this discrepancy of $26m can be accounted for. [More…]
The statement confirms what we all realised once we saw the Budget Speech: Defence was to be slashed back; the Five-year program was dismembered. [More…]
Nevertheless there is a practical fact limiting the Australian defence forces capacity to absorb extra expenditure. [More…]
I repeat the practical fact that the defence forces cannot absorb a sudden, massive increase in defence allocations. [More…]
But I suspect that an equally substantial amount of the cut arises because the defence forces cannot absorb rapid, substantial increases in allocations. [More…]
Of course, budgetary measures have had something to do with it, but the capacity of the defence Services to absorb these sorts of rapid increases is limited. [More…]
On page 8 of the roneod copy of the Minister’s statement he refers to the defence forces operating in a supporting role to civilian authorities. [More…]
What are the implications in terms of the addition of equipment exclusively for civilian purposes or, more likely, the provision of defence types of equipment which will be quite inadequately used in a largely civilian role situation? [More…]
If the Defence of Australia Study had been completed, it is inconceiveable that this sort of mess we are in now, as indicated by the Minister’s statement, would have arisen. [More…]
In 1973, Mr Barnard, the then Minister for Defence, gave an instruction to the Department of Defence to undertake, and as speedily as possible complete, a thorough analysis of the defence of Australia. [More…]
This project was called the ‘Defence of Australia Study’ and it dealt with the needs of this country in terms of defence structure, doctrine and so on. [More…]
This is in spite of the fact that Mr Morrison as Minister for Defence in 1975 indicated that a replacement was required and initiated a study on this matter we still have nothing. [More…]
We then come to the eventual retirement of the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne which is the Nellie Melba of the Australian defence Services. [More…]
The naval air power study for the five year defence program for 1974-79 indicated a direct and indirect costs of $230m which is probably closer to $300m by now. [More…]
This aircraft carrier is unsuitable to the defence needs of this country. [More…]
But in the meantime the justification for this sort of enormous outlay fails to be made and it creates distortion and imbalance to our defence arrangements. [More…]
When we were in government in 1973 we were told by the defence advisers that it was absolutely imperative that the Wessex utility helicopters be replaced. [More…]
In the Commission’s view there is need for a publicly stated Government policy on the productive capability required for defence purposes. [More…]
Whenever we of the Labor Party spoke about extending the life of these aircraft, when the Minister for Defence was the spokesman on defence for the then conservative coalition Opposition, we were roundly criticised by him for making such a suggestion. [More…]
This reveals the nature of the savage paring which has occurred within the Department of Defence as a result of the Minister’s statement. [More…]
Where are all the joint patrols of which the Minister for Defence spoke so grandiloquently a little earlier than this time last year? [More…]
On page 20 he referred, rather liberally but with no basis in fact, to limited support for Australian industry for defence purposes. [More…]
By and large, he fairly roundly trounced Australian industry for wanting a better share of defence manufacturing. [More…]
Urgent action is required to minimise our dependence on other nations for the supply of defence equipment. [More…]
The honourable member for St George (Mr Neil), the shadow Minister for defence in the Government ranks, is lurking in the wings, waiting to take over, because of his outrage at the way in which he has been let down so badly with the falsification of so many promises by the present Minister. [More…]
On 6 December last year the Minister said in a defence Press release: [More…]
There is not enough allowance for civilian needs and there is too much disruption to defence needs in the way that these vessels have been designed. [More…]
Accordingly, they wil not function adequately for either civilian or defence purposes. [More…]
After hearing this statement I am certain of one thing: Whenever the next Federal election is held it certainly wil not be fought on defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will be one Minister of whom we Will not see much around the traps, largely because his colleagues will want to keep him out of the way. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has become totally discredited as a result of the statement he made today. [More…]
A task force comprising officers from the Postal and Telecommunications Department, the Department of Finance, the Department of Defence, the Department of Transport, the Aus.tralian Telecommunications Commission and the Overseas Telecommunications Commission will be established. [More…]
I remind him that in 1953 and 1954 he wrote a couple of pamphlets entitled ‘Time and the Bomb’ and ‘Survival is a Part of Defence’. [More…]
How could one tolerate the acceptance of thermo-nuclear bombs as a legitimate means of defence? [More…]
It is a sad situation that the National Country Party no longer can be regarded, as it once was, as the voice and defender of rural interests in all circumstances, regardless of what disadvantage or criticism it may suffer in their defence. [More…]
They are terribly disturbed that no voice is raised by the Country Party in their defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 September 1977: [More…]
Has he considered the recommendation in the report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence entitled “The Middle East-Focal Point of Conflict’ that Australian Armed Services Attaches be posted to some Middle East countries; if so, what does he propose to do to ensure that Australia can independently assess the latest military technology for which the Middle East has unfortunately become the main proving ground. [More…]
I have noted with interest the recommendation in the report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence entitled ‘The Middle East-Focal Point of Conflict’ that Australian Defence Attaches be posted to some Middle East countries. [More…]
This recommendation is under study in the Department of Defence in the context of a more comprehensive review of Defence representation overseas which is now in progress. [More…]
Bearing in mind the need for restraint in the growth of departmental staffs overseas- a need recognised by the Standing Committee on Expenditure- all proposals for new or increased Defence representation overseas must be assessed on the basis of their importance compared with other Defence requirements for overseas representation. [More…]
The recommendations of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence with regard to representation in the Middle East are being assessed on this basis. [More…]
The running seems to have been left to the shadow Minister for Defence who is also the socalled spokesman for economic matters, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden). [More…]
The Government is drawing on this loan to enable it to borrow for defence purposes. [More…]
But, by the same token, this measure does not authorise any additional defence expenditure. [More…]
I draw attention to the title of the Bill, namely, ‘A Bill for an Act to authorize the borrowing and expending of moneys for defence purposes . [More…]
One of the reasons why the wording in the title of the Bill is so carefully chosen is that borrowings for defence purposes can be made outside the mechanisms of the Loan Council. [More…]
But the only reason why this particular measure comes before us is that it does allow us to allocate part of whatever funds might be determined in the course of 12 months and to say that these funds are for defence purposes and they do not have to form part of the allocation by the Loan Council. [More…]
There has been a lot of iteration about what is temporary and what is permanent, but as far as loans for defence purposes are concerned, these funds do not form part of the allocation by the Loan Council. [More…]
Let me come back to the title of this Bill which is a Bill ‘to authorise the borrowing and expending of money for defence purposes’. [More…]
It has been added to with characteristic good humour by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) by the comment he made in Canberra last week. [More…]
It also gives us an opportunity to discuss the value of borrowed funds for defence purposes. [More…]
Just because mistakes were made when the Liberal and National Country parties were in Opposition and they discussed from the Opposition benches a Bill such as this, do not let us pretend that setting an arbitrary limit like $ 1 , 100m on this transfer from Consolidated Revenue to the Loan Fund for defence purposes means anything at all. [More…]
The actual running expenses of Australia, for the day to day running of such things as the defence system, payments for education and pensions, was about $ 17,000m. [More…]
1 ) Yes, and the problems of surveillance of a 200 nautical mile maritime resources zone, should one be declared, have been the subject of detailed and on-going investigations both within the Department of Defence and in conjunction with other departments. [More…]
The Defence Forces do already possess many of the elements necessary for surveillance of a 200 nautical mile zone and any examination of additional defence resources necessary to meet this commitment must await an assessment made in the light of operational experience under the new regime, and of Government policy on the role of the Department of Defence in overall surveillance. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 14 September 1977: [More…]
1 ) and (2) No such term as ‘red alert’ is in general use in the Australian Defence Force, although it is possible that some units or individuals use it colloquially to imply a high state of readiness. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 September 1977: [More…]
1 ) The present method of salary fixation for females in the Defence Force provides for equal pay where it has been established that men and women do perform equal work. [More…]
Defence Force. [More…]
For example, equal increases are applied to men and women when national wage case increases are extended to the Defence Force. [More…]
The whole question of pay fixation for female members of the Defence Force, including the question of equal pay, is currently under consideration by the Committee of Reference for Defence Force Pay. [More…]
The defence forces are already utilised extensively by my Department in its drug enforcement operations. [More…]
Defence and Customs personnel was established to ensure further that the co-operation was at a maximum level. [More…]
Under clause 6 of the Bill the composition of the Board has to include an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs, an officer of the Department of Defence, a member of the Defence Force and an officer of the Australian Public Service not being an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
The officer on the board from the Department of Defence might be a public servant. [More…]
Of course there would be one member of the defence force. [More…]
Director of the Joint Intelligence Organisation might best be the person named in clause 6 (2) (b) in heu of an officer of the Department of Defence [More…]
I suggest that the Director of Joint Intelligence be substituted for the member from the Department of Defence. [More…]
If we look at our own assessment of intelligence and address it particularly to clause 6 of the Bill we see that the group comprises an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs, an officer of the Department of Defence, a member of the Defence Force and officers of the Australian Public Service. [More…]
That could not really have been deemed a threat to this nation but we based the whole of our defence structure on the assessment that there would be a downward thrust by China. [More…]
In the hearings of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence we do not hear anybody saying that there is something wrong with that approach. [More…]
I had some involvement with government factories which support our defence forces. [More…]
So we are not able to function on an intelligence basis to determine how our government factories can support our defence forces. [More…]
Mr Justice Hope undoubtedly was correct when he criticised our past assessment arrangements as being too much under the influence of the Department of Defence and the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
They are two members with defence backgrounds and I assume, therefore, that they have some kind of intelligence background. [More…]
At present, the intelligence assessment process suffers from too great control by the Defence Department and Defence Committee on the one hand, and the Department of Foreign Affairs, on the other. [More…]
It will be seen that that Board, which is to be dominated by the Department of Defence and the Department of Foreign Affairs, has to concern itself with matters not primarily involving economic considerations. [More…]
However, I feel it is regrettable that the Government has felt that it has had to buckle under to the foreign affairs-defence establishment and to establish quite unnecessarily two boards to assist, supposedly, this Office of National Assessments. [More…]
The intelligence function is relevant to the formulation of national policies in a number of areas outside the area of defence and politics. [More…]
We need more than just defence information. [More…]
At the moment our Defence Forces are very thinly spread. [More…]
As long as the Joint Intelligence Organisation remains a section of the Department of Defence as it is at present it would be expected that the Director would fill the position referred to in clause 6 (2) (b). [More…]
an officer of the Department of Defence; [More…]
a member of the Defence Force; and [More…]
an an officer of the Australian Public Service, not being an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs or the Department of Defence, who has expertise in economics. [More…]
According to the second reading speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Bill itself, membership of the National Assessments Board is evidently to consist of the Director-General of the Board, with members from the Defence Force the Department of Foreign Affairs and an officer with expertise in economics. [More…]
Evidently that gap is to be filled by the person referred to in clause 6(2) (b), as an officer of the Department of Defence. [More…]
Therefore I have moved the amendment so that that position is to be held by the Director of the Joint Intelligence Organisation instead of a member of the Department of Defence. [More…]
The major areas of government expenditure are as follows: Defence, 8.7 per cent; education, 8.8 per cent; health, 10.5 per cent; social security and welfare, 27.2 per cent; and States and local government, transfer of payments, 21.8 per cent. [More…]
Those areas, with the possible exception of defence are what have been termed the motherhood areas. [More…]
I am not suggesting that there ought to be cuts in expenditure on defence. [More…]
The Treasury traditionally develops a stonewall defence mechanism to any suggestion of reduction in sales tax and excise duties. [More…]
-During the taking of evidence by the sub-committee on the Middle East of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, of which I was a member, I pressed the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock), because of the huge military arsenals in some Middle East countries, for an answer as to why we had not one military attache assigned to any Australian embassy throughout the Middle East. [More…]
On 7 September I put the very same matter to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the reply I received from both Ministers was that the matter was being considered. [More…]
First, in the area, of equipment and technologies, all branches of Australia’s defence forces could learn much from the deployment and use in the Middle East of conventional weapons which are not only the most sophisticated now in existence but which are also directly related to Australia’s defence. [More…]
To sum up: There were very good reasons for the sub-committee of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to recommend that Australian ambassadors in Israel, Egypt and Syria should have available to them Australian armed services attaches. [More…]
I trust they will not only be taken into consideration by the Department of Defence and the Department of Foreign Affairs but also will lead to action in conformity with the considered opinions of the Committee. [More…]
I would like to refer to one or two points that the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) made in relation to the subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
The Army is more important in politics than it is in defence in that country. [More…]
There is a very real need to have more debates on these matters, particularly when it is realised that these days defence and trade have become so interwoven with foreign affairs. [More…]
It mattered not at all that concurrent with this figment being presented for the Australian public the Australian Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) had released to the Australian Parliament in about April or May of last year details which showed beyond any doubt that not only had the Russian naval presence in the Indian Ocean been maintained at a consistently low level for several years but also that the number of ship days had declined in recent times. [More…]
It is always cheap if the Government can get someone else to pay for our defence. [More…]
Apart from the United States, Australia has no formal defence arrangements with countries referred to by the honourable member. [More…]
-In view of that pending situation, we can understand the tremendous relief felt around the world that there is to be a mechanism whereby a price defence arrangement will be achieved by quotas being placed on production as well as stocks held. [More…]
In defence of the Ministers who the previous speaker suggested should resign from the Cabinet, I point out that when one examines the way in which the distribution commissioners have utilised this new 10 per cent tolerance rule throughout Australia one finds that in Tasmania the division that has the highest margin above the quota is Denison. [More…]
Perhaps I should explain that a service pension is not to be confused with a Defence Force Retirement Benefit Fund pension for regular servicemen at the end of their service; it is some recompense for people who have suffered some of the rigours of war. [More…]
I refer now to defence service homes. [More…]
The functions of the Department now cover defence service homes and war graves in addition to repatriation. [More…]
Although the Australian Government Engine Works is part of the defence factory group administered by the Minister for Productivity, its mam activity has been the manufacture of marine diesel engines for the commercial shipbuilding industry and associated engine repair work. [More…]
Virtually none of the output has been for defence. [More…]
Over recent years, the Engine Works has required a significant and increasing subsidy from defence outlay. [More…]
In the absence of a viable commercial workload, there is no alternative defence workload to allow operations to continue. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 September 1977: [More…]
Opportunities to achieve such training are judged against the practical benefits which they confer upon the Australian Defence Force. [More…]
The land commissions and urban land councils have been run down; the scheme for defence service homes has been interferred with. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has a specific responsibility in homes for the aged, Aboriginal housing and defence service housing. [More…]
With regard to defence service homes it was his Government which brought in a waiting period of 1 1 months for people requiring a defence service home loan. [More…]
The Minister holds up a piece of paper that mentions something about defence homes at Craigieburn. [More…]
I will go along with some industries being given assistance if it can be proved that a particular industry is vital to Australia’s future development, defence needs, large scale employment and a host of other factors, but already there is adequate machinery to argue their case to the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
If the Prime Minister’s friends from the Melbourne establishment want to come to his political defence, let them do so without the prestige and cover of an official government committee. [More…]
Then a few months ago a sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence presented to this House a report which recommended the continuation of the Newcastle and Whyalla shipyards. [More…]
They sat down and discussed the recommendation of the subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence regarding the retention of the shipyard. [More…]
This is private enterprise- 5m in profits over and above a company’s normal profits in fulfilling a defence contract to the British Government. [More…]
Another, the Ferranti Co. in Great Britain in fulfilling a defence contract in making the bloodhound missile some years ago similarly ripped off 6m, I think it was, in excess profit over and above their normal profits. [More…]
It is something that we need in Australia to make sure that our expertise in providing defence force mechanisms and defence force supplies does not slip. [More…]
There is no argument that there must be a degree of protection to protect employment, to ensure that we maintain an industrial base and for defence purposes in particular industries. [More…]
A decision to bring Commonwealth per capita employment (including defence forces) to the same per capita levels in Tasmania as the other States would involve an increase of approximately 5,000 jobs directly and would stimulate up to an equivalent amount in various other industries indirectly as a result of increased capital (construction) and consumer spending. [More…]
They are in the fields of defence and training. [More…]
Defence Expenditure (Question No. [More…]
I think it is worth noting that the Soviet Union in these particular matters continues to spend 12 per cent to 14 per cent of its gross national product on defence, not only for direct offensive weapons of a great variety but also for the construction in very large measure of strategic nuclear shelters for a large part of the Soviet population. [More…]
States about civil defence over a long period. [More…]
Why is the Defence Service Homes Corporation subject to a lower ceiling on the loans it makes than any bank, building society or other financial institution? [More…]
Successive governments have reviewed the operations of the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
I find this a very easy brief to accept, firstly, because the prosecution case is so weak and, secondly, because the defence case is so strong. [More…]
What excuse can one offer in defence of the honourable gentleman’s lack of knowledge or distortion of the facts? [More…]
by leave- The House will recall that on 9 December 1966 the Australian and United States Governments entered into an agreement regarding the establishment of a Joint Defence Space Research Facility. [More…]
Having regard to the importance- acknowledged I believe, by both sides of the House- of the Joint Defence Space Research Facility to the interests of Australia and the United States; to the importance of the co-operation of our two countries under the ANZUS Treaty; and having regard to the requirements for security of tenure at Pine Gap to protect substantial investments in buildings, machinery, skilled manpower and effort, and the requirement to support long term planning in these respects, we have decided to accede to the United States Government’s request. [More…]
I do want to say that a sound and co-operative relationship with the United States is fundamental to this Government’s foreign and defence policies and that the Government and, I believe, the great majority of the Australian people welcome this opportunity to extend our collaboration with our American friends and allies. [More…]
I have not heard either of you speak in an aggressive way in defence of the needs of the people of that area. [More…]
No one in the National Country Party has spoken up in defence of the beef producer. [More…]
The need, with the changing emphasis in defence policy, to have an understanding of the transport system throughout Australia and the need to know in detail the weight carrying capacity of various railway lines and roads, the capacity of various sea ports and airports and the fuel facilities that would be needed in times of emergency appeal to me as being a reasonable function of the Department of Transport, in co-operation with the Department of Defence, with the Federal Government providing additional support for State and local authorities to fulfil something of an internal defence arrangement. [More…]
We are also to have George Ball, former United States Secretary of Defence during the Vietnam period and who is now with Lehman Brothers Corporation; William Agee, Chairman of the Bendix Corporation; and Herbert Cornuelle, Chairman of the Dillingham Corporation. [More…]
I am equally sure that the Australian people have also had enough of the Opposition defence of this indefensible situation. [More…]
It is in no position to say that we should have less defence expenditure and more education expenditure. [More…]
The Committee includes officers of the Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Administrative Services, Treasury, Defence, Attorney-General’s and the Office of the Public Service Board. [More…]
22 on the Notice Paper, the ministerial statement on the Pine Gap Joint Defence’ Space Research Facility. [More…]
As honourable members would know, this statement relates to the extension of the Pine Gap Joint Defence Space Research Facility arrangements by virtue of the tabling of correspondence. [More…]
The Pine Gap facility is a defence installation of tremendous significance to Australia’s defence arrangements with the United States of America. [More…]
Fifthly, there are other parts of the book which are incomplete and misrepresent the facts, such as his allegation on page 185 relating to the appointment of Mr Gorton to the Defence Ministry and the influence of Sir Frank Packer. [More…]
-by leaveMembers may recall that on 10 November 1976 I informed the House on behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that the Committee had agreed under section la. [More…]
It has therefore been decided by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to rename the Sub-Committee on the Petition regarding Soviet Jewry as the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I make this statement with the authority of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
-Mr Chairman, if defence expenditure were to increase by one per cent in real terms this year it would have to increase by $ 100m more than has been proposed in this Budget. [More…]
If defence expenditure this year were to be as great as proposed in the White Paper of only 12 months ago it would be some $360m more than it is in this Budget. [More…]
This means very simply that, by whatever measure one uses, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has been forced to make a major retreat from the position which he asserted so confidently in Opposition and nearly as firmly in his early day in government after 1 975. [More…]
I suppose, in mitigation, one could say that if Napoleon had his Waterloo, Cardigan his Crimea, Haig his Somme and Kitchener his Gallipoli, the Minister is entitled to his Nowra naval station fire and his White Paper on defence. [More…]
We are really saying, of course, that now is the sobering up, the morning after, the extended Walpurgisnacht after the rhetoric that we have had on defence matters until fairly recently. [More…]
His statement of 22 September is probably the most important that we have had on defence for some time. [More…]
I want to rivet this discussion on defence more in terms of economic realities. [More…]
A simple fact that often is lost sight of is that what we can spend on defence is regulated by a number of factors- the level of threat that we perceive or may perceive at the time or into the near future and, in terms of that, the resources which can be made available, bearing in mind that resources are limited. [More…]
So I move from that to talk more specifically about the nature of some of the dismantling of the five-year defence program outlined in the White Paper for which the Minister was responsible and which he presented to this Parliament on 22 September this year. [More…]
Let me move to the next point which I want to make broadly in economic terms and relate it to what the Government has decided in its program covered by the defence review of September this year. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Chairman, let me respond and explain to you that, while the Minister for Defence may be very good at pleading in courts of petty sessions on stolen bicycle cases, he understands very little about defence and much less about economics. [More…]
I make the point that I am establishing the case that the substantial cutbacks in defence expenditure outlined in the fiveyear program- the White Paper, as it is calledare a result of the economic circumstances of the moment and, more especially, of the chronic balance of payments deficit which we are running at present. [More…]
I do not ask the Minister for Defence to understand economics. [More…]
I sometimes ask him to understand defence. [More…]
The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN- The point is well taken; but, as we all know, the estimates for the Department of Defence or for any other department, with the indulgence of the Committee, covers a wide-ranging debate. [More…]
I turned to economics, found that I could do it well, saw that the Minister for Defence did passably well on an easy day in law, took it up and found that I was made for it. [More…]
Accordingly the Government has scrapped major components of its five-year defence program, especially those related to the import of capital equipment such as essential replacement aircraft for the Air Force and no doubt major capital items for the Navy and the Army. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) should be commended for his frequent warnings to this Parliament that the democracies have never been properly ready to protect themselves. [More…]
Minister personally believes this, and whilst he is reasonably satisfied with the expenditure, of course, being a Minister for Defence, he would like more. [More…]
It is possible that in the future we may be able to do all of the things which the Minister has spoken about previously in a statement on defence and which, of course, are absolutely vital if we are to maintain any sort of preparedness. [More…]
The stated objectives of the defence policy still exist and will be pursued. [More…]
Our present peace-time strategy is to support as best we may over a range of policies the continuation of the presently favourable prospects for our national security; to maintain effective defence relations with our friends and allies, especially the United States and in our neighbouring regions; and to maintain a substantial and efficient forceinbeing that demonstrates our military capability to deal with situations that could develop with shorter warning and to expand in time should the need for this arise during the longer term. [More…]
In recent years, such contingency studies in our Department of Defence have focussed on the defence of Australia. [More…]
The studies are manifold and involve continuing exploration of our defence problems in the light of strategic developments, changing technology and infrastructure, and changes over the years in the defence force itself. [More…]
The most efficient machines of defence are, of course, nuclear but we are presently excluded from having them for a number of reasons which I will not canvass. [More…]
Defence science will be a most important part of future expenditure. [More…]
All of this betokens a self-reliance in defence, which points to a selfreliant defence production. [More…]
The foreseeable contingencies that we face demand a defence response with lead times of eight to ten years. [More…]
Prior to 1967-68 the proportion of Federal budgetary expenditure on defence was 17.1 per cent. [More…]
It is essential that we do all we can for those Service men and women and their backups in defence science and all the other ancillary departments which are necessary to keep our forces in the field. [More…]
I should like to remind honourable members of the Labor Party’s record on defence during its three years in office. [More…]
It is part of the furphyism in the community arising out of the continual denigration of Labor’s efforts by honourable members opposite to say that we neglected defence. [More…]
Many millions of dollars had been spent on defence and we finalised that re-equipment. [More…]
We set out on a re-organisation of the defence system; something that was years overdue. [More…]
It was a difficult matter to carry through and I pay a tribute to the defence services because they behaved much more creditably than did their colleagues in Canada on this matter. [More…]
One is in the defence industry and the other is in what I choose to call still the citizen forces. [More…]
I pose the question: How self-sufficient ought Australia be in the defence industry? [More…]
My own view is that we ought to be basically self-sufficient in all areas of need as far as the defence industry is concerned. [More…]
So our electronics industry ought to be maintained not just for the purposes of employment in this country, which I regard as important, but because of its vital nature with regard to defence. [More…]
What we have to ask is: How much of our defence is actually military? [More…]
-It is with great pleasure that I rise to support the estimates for the Department of Defence. [More…]
I would also like to congratulate the honourable member for Swan (Mr Martyr) on an excellent speech outlining the broad strategic problems in defence which face us over the next few years. [More…]
That a Reserve of partly-trained army units and personnel is an essential component of the defence of Australia. [More…]
But the world has changed in the nearly 30 years since the end of World War II, and the needs of defence have changed. [More…]
As a result of recognising the fact that the Reserve had a different role to play in the sort of society and the sort of defence circumstances we have today, the Committee recommended a number of changes and made a number of recommendations to upgrade the organisation, administration and operating efficiency of the Reserve. [More…]
I am pleased to say that, due to the energy and dedication of the present Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) virtually all of those 29 recommendations made by the Millar Committee back in 1974 have either been implemented or are well on the way to being implemented. [More…]
I think that it speaks highly of the way in which the present Minister for Defence has been performing his job in that portfolio that so much has been achieved in that period of time. [More…]
In that context one also has to recognise the important role played by the Government members foreign affairs and defence committee. [More…]
The purpose of the Army Reserve, as pan of the Australian Army, is to participate in the defence of Australia and its interests in times of war and defence emergency. [More…]
The second area that must be defined more clearly is the way in which the five-year defence program will benefit the Reserve, particularly in those areas where the Reserve traditionally has been short of effective equipment such as the heavy equipment, artillery and armour areas. [More…]
The extent to which that five-year defence program will benefit the Reserve specifically is not too clear at this stage. [More…]
I am quite sure that once we have those two initiatives- a clear, precise and detailed statement of the role of the Reserve in the future and also a statement as to the way in which the five-year defence program will flow through the Reserve in the way of equipmentthe Reserve will be able to go on to further strengths and continue to play an integral part in the defence of this nation. [More…]
-For some considerable time there has been a subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence- [More…]
The sub-committee has been investigating the level of industrial back-up required from Australian industry for the Defence Force. [More…]
The report works on the assumption contained in the defence White Paper, which is that Australia no longer can depend upon ‘powerful friends’ for protection. [More…]
Quite frankly, to date the reception from the Government, particularly the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), has been anything but what was desired. [More…]
The Committee’s report- this is a report of the full Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence because the sub-committee’s report has been adopted by the full Committee- has recommended the maintenance of two of the large shipbuilding yards in Australia, at Whyalla and Newcastle, based on their being economic propositions. [More…]
I am deeply concerned that the reaction to date of the Minister for Defence has been virtually negative. [More…]
If that is the case, we will find ourselves in a peculiarly difficult position because we are becoming less and less self-sufficient year by year so far as defence equipment is concerned. [More…]
Much has been said about actual expenditure on defence items. [More…]
In my opinion we have spent far too much time trying to relate defence to the expenditure of dollars and cents. [More…]
I believe honourable members have to go no further than across the waters of Lake Burley Griffin to the defence headquarters to see how few of the men are in uniform. [More…]
Unless we do this the Defence Force itself will dwindle in importance and it will not be long before those responsible for expenditure on defence will start to question even whether we should put out any money at all for defence. [More…]
I would like to spend a couple of minutes on the Reserve Army- the citizen soldiers who are perhaps the most neglected part of our defence structure. [More…]
They are neglected because they are seen as second best when in fact they are a vital part of our defence. [More…]
We have to lay down quite clear guidelines, in my opinion, to the Defence Force chiefs so that they know exactly what their role is in this regard so that they alter existing priorities. [More…]
Unless we do this the Reserve itself will not ever become an efficient force because it does not have the capacity from within to survive in a modern defence set-up. [More…]
I press upon the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) that this cause is an urgent one and one we must face. [More…]
The cadets are part of the expenditure under the Defence vote, but if honourable members were to watch the cadets today they would assume that we do not spend anything on them. [More…]
The reply given by Defence was that in fact in 1975 the cadet corps was disbanded, and an Army spokesman said: [More…]
Defence lawyers usually ensure that cases of this nature are tried by jury. [More…]
I would like to register, first of all, a protest at the fact that we are proceeding with the estimates for the Attorney-General’s Department and not proceeding for much longer with the estimates for the Department of Defence. [More…]
That we should have debated the estimates of the Department of Defence for so short a period is a serious indictment of the community’s attitude, as reflected in this Parliament, towards the security of this country. [More…]
Before I go on to deal with the topics that are relevant to these estimates I want to take this opportunity to say something about the legal aspects of one or two matters that are relevant to defence. [More…]
The profession recently looked into two particular aspects of legislation or potential legislation that bears upon the defences of this country. [More…]
The second matter I raise is the whole area of union activity as it relates to the Defence Force. [More…]
I state quite clearly that I believe that the legislation in relation to defence emergencies that is presently on the statute book ought to be used in appropriate cases. [More…]
I always have maintained that there is a right to strike and that that right should be maintained, but when essential defence requirements are perverted we should use the legislation instituted by a former Labor government, under the direction of Dr Evatt, to overcome problems that may be involved. [More…]
Legislation is necessary to ensure that we properly protect, in particular, our defence, scientific and research industries. [More…]
This expenditure includes payments on contracts which existed pre-cyclone, but does not include administration or defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 October 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 October 1977: [More…]
precisely what categories of employees are involved whose salaries are charged against appropriations or trust accounts other than appropriations within the Defence vote; [More…]
precise details of those appropriations, or trust accounts other than appropriations within the Defence vote, in respect of which salaries of employees mentioned in part (a) are charged against, and [More…]
All civil salary costs are debited to appropriations within the Defence vote. [More…]
Average employment levels and salary costs debited to other appropriations within the Defence vote are excluded from divisions 232, 238 and 241. [More…]
There was an urgent summons to the inner seven and heartburning amongst the senior Ministers for whom the bell did not toll- the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock), the Minister for Defence (MrKillen) - [More…]
I am concerned that such reports have already been issued because I believe that Mr Justice Hope went into these matters with a great deal of care and a greaf deal of concern for the civil liberties of Australians, as one would expect, and I would believe that was one of the reasons the Leader of the Opposition, in his time, in government appointed Mr Justice Hope to examine Australia’s security intelligence services- not just ASIO but the Australian Secret Intelligence Service and the Defence Signals Division. [More…]
The Government has no doubt that a more effective and efficient ASIO is of fundamental importance to Australia’s internal security just as it has no doubt that it needs ASIS and the Defence Signals Division, as the judge also strongly recommended. [More…]
I should like to raise some aspects of the role of the Defence Force, by pointing out something I have pointed out before in this House. [More…]
In this case what I want to say is that in my view our defence forces must be organised,- structured and designed to do the things that they will have to do on their own. [More…]
This requires the Department of Defence to create realistic scenarios of the sorts of things we might have to do on our own- what types of operations, against what level of opposition and what external supply we can expect during such operations. [More…]
This is very difficult and requires some complex assessments, but we must do it if we wish to have a coherent design for our defence forces. [More…]
If we design our defence forces in that manner and if we become involved in wider operations that we are not capable of dealing with on our own and we are operating with allies, our defence forces might not be ideal but they will still be a useful contribution. [More…]
This is a major task for our defence forces and for our nation. [More…]
The cost of such a system would be about $350m a year, which is more than the Defence Force spends on its total capital program at the moment. [More…]
The problem with the Defence Force being involved in surveillance is, firstly, that its operations tend to be uneconomic. [More…]
On the other hand, if the Defence Force acquired simple aircraft, simple patrol craft capable of domg the role economically, such equipment would be very unsatisfactory in a military role. [More…]
The second point of concern is that surveillance of this type in peace time is not an official role of the Defence Force. [More…]
If the Defence Force is to be used with special equipment for such a role as fishery surveillance, then I think it would be appropriate for that to be charged to the votes of the relevant departments. [More…]
We are distorting our defence effort if we acquire special equipment for nonmilitary purposes. [More…]
We may delude ourselves that it is something to do with defence but in fact it has nothing to do with defence. [More…]
If the Defence Force is used for fishery protection, we will run into the constitutional problem that the Commonwealth fisheries Act is applicable only outside the 3-mile limit At least, so far that is all that has been applied. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Defence Force must make a contribution to the proper surveillance of the surroundings of this country, but have to see that they are used in the most economic and effective way and not to the detriment of their prime role, which is the defence of this country. [More…]
They rallied in the defence of freedom not only for themselves but for us all. [More…]
One sub-committee is inquiring into the expenditure of the Commonwealth Department of Health and another sub-committee is investigating the defence services homes scheme, its efficiency as well as alternative methods of delivery of the loan benefit either through equivalent cash grants or second mortgages. [More…]
The Committee has now been led to conclude that Australia is now more heavily dependent on overseas sources for supply of its defence, electronic, electro-mechanical equipment and supporting spares than at any time since World War II. [More…]
It seems to the Committee that, in the course of Industries Assistance Commission inquiries into electronics equipment, there has been completely inadequate recognition given to the considerable defence importance of the electronics industry. [More…]
The Committee is firmly of the view that there is not now the capability in the industry to perform the range of tasks seen by the Department of Defence as being the rriinimum necessary and that there is not sufficient defence use being made of the industry to allow it to achieve even that minimum level. [More…]
It considers this to be an untenable position and recommends that an examination be undertaken as a matter of urgency by the Defence (Industrial) Committee into the present shortcomings of the industry, the range of electronic and allied technologies in which, from the defence viewpoint, it should be involved and the actions required to ensure the achievement and sustenance of an adequate level of competence and capacity. [More…]
The Committee repeats these recommendations as being of equal importance in the potential to run a substantial work load of defence significance in the electronics industry. [More…]
It strongly maintains that reasonable assistance in meeting these costs should be given by the Department of Defence because frequently the industry has had to put a lot of effort, much of it wasted, into meeting the tendering requirements of several potential overseas suppliers for a particular item when only one supplier can ultimately succeed in obtaining the order. [More…]
The Committee has concluded that, as a means of increasing its competence, the electronics industry should be given greater exposure to more up-to-date defence electronic and avionic-type equipment by a larger input of appropriate maintenance work by the Services. [More…]
The Committee cannot conclude its consideration of this industry without expressing its deep concern at the present seriously inadequate state of defence capability in general, particularly its quite limited competence in design, manufacture and support of multi-discipline type equipment that plays such a major part in current weapons systems. [More…]
Electronics in one form or another is the key to the Defence Forces’ ability to deploy and to fight. [More…]
This report on the electronics industry completes the Committee’s survey of the key areas of the Australian defence industry. [More…]
It would be exaggerating to suggest that the Committee was impressed with the reply to its interim report by the Defence Department. [More…]
In this, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) said, in effect, that the report was worthy but, as it was based on a strategic assessment his Department did not accept, he did not propose to do anything about it. [More…]
Personally I would be happier about the Defence Department’s rejection of the Committee’s strategic assumptions if I believed that it had some strategic assumptions, perhaps necessarily secret, of its own. [More…]
If one does not have a coherent defence planning framework, the whole defence machine wobbles off in meaningless disarray. [More…]
We have provided such a framework and have made many suggestions as to the consequences of such a framework on defence industry. [More…]
We wish to see a proper response to our suggestions from the Department of Defence. [More…]
A further concern is that we have not been satisfied that the past submissions from the Department of Defence to the IAC have properly represented the needs of the defence industry, perhaps because the Department feared that if it was too persuasive it would find the cost of that assistance charged to the Defence vote. [More…]
But an accounting procedure introduced during the reign of Charles II must not be permitted to destroy our defence industries. [More…]
The Committee intends to monitor future Defence Department submissions to the IAC on key defence industries and if it is not satisfied with the submission it will make its own. [More…]
As my friend the honourable member for Isaacs (Mr Hamer) has pointed out it is certainly the most comprehensive examination of the defence industry carried out in this country by a parliamentary committee and it is probably the most searching one that any committee associated with the defence industry has brought down. [More…]
Today’s report is of course about the electronics industry and the keynote of that is the continuing decline in the capacity of that industry to support Australian defence services right across the board. [More…]
As the honourable member for Isaacs has pointed out, we have no specific guidelines, one might say, as to what defence is about. [More…]
Therefore we have to decide at this stage, until we have decided on other terms for a defence system, that we will aim at selfsufficiency in the defence industrial area. [More…]
The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has worked very hard. [More…]
We are confident that a lot of other factors are concerned with this industry apart from those concerned simply with defence because there is the intellectual spin-off from the work that is done by our defence scientists. [More…]
I hope that all members of this House will make a careful study of this document because I think this is one of the prerequisites for their continued employment in this place and that the suggestions that the honourable member for Isaacs, who was the chairman of the subcommittee, has placed before the House will be pursued with tenacity in the new parliament so that whoever is the Minister for Defence, and, of course, it will be one of my colleagues after the elections, will at least know that there are people in this place who are concerned to ensure that the work of this Committee is carried through. [More…]
It relates to the incredible announcement yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) that if he is returned to office- a wild delusion that could happen only by some outrageous mischance- the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) would probably be the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence. [More…]
The ministry of defence now consists of parts of three or four departments. [More…]
It nearly broke the back of a respected former Defence Minister who is now an ambassador overseas. [More…]
Siortfolio and it is a tribute to the present Minister or Defence (Mr Killen) that he has handled it so well. [More…]
If any Minister should become the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence there would be disastrous results for this country. [More…]
I rise tonight to deal with the question of pressures that have been brought to bear on both the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) and, of course, their two departments, to allow the airport at HMAS Nirimba to become a general purpose airport. [More…]
The position as I understand it is that whilst it was receiving some encouragement from the Department of Transport the proposal was strongly opposed by the Department of Defence on defence grounds because HMAS Nirimba is, of course, a defence establishment. [More…]
I was very perturbed to read a letter I received only this week when I came back to Canberra from the Schofields Flying Club Ltd inviting me to be among the official guests at the Schofields Silver Jubilee air show to be held as an official part of the Silver Jubilee commemorative celebrations at Schofields aerodrome- that is the HMAS Nirimba defence establishmenton the weekend of 12 and 13 November 1977. [More…]
The Minister for Defence, the Rt Hon. [More…]
In other words, there is or there would appear to be a unity ticket between the two Ministers with the object of converting to a general aviation airport this aerodrome at a defence establishment at which the movement of private planes has been very carefully kept down to a low level because of defence requirements. [More…]
In his defence I should say that yesterday he raised this matter with me in my capacity, I took it at the time, as the shadow Minister for Transport. [More…]
I raise that in defence of the honourable member for Denison- I think what I have said is accurateand in rebuttal, on his behalf, of the remarks made earlier by the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil). [More…]
In the debate the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam), who is a well known litigant in this country, sought to act as counsel for defence for the honourable member for Oxley and on page 1558 of Hansard of 4 October 1977 the Leader of the Opposition, referring to certain economic matters in October last year, is reported as having said: [More…]
Heaven forbid, but the man whom this House convicted of economic subversion- we know what those words mean, Mr Deputy Speaker- is actually to be put in charge of the defence of this country. [More…]
I simply make the point that it seems inconceivable to me that any man who has been censured by this House in accordance with the words of that motion, which is indeed public property, could even be considered to be put in charge of the defence of this country. [More…]
At 30 April 1977, following the transfer of Defence Service Homes and War Graves Administration to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Department employed 11,878 full-time staff, (11,382 operative and 496 inoperative) and 628 part-time staff. [More…]
A few days later the Leader of the Opposition said publicly that the honourable member was to have responsibility for foreign affairs and defence matters because he had indicated that he no longer wanted to be involved in economic affairs. [More…]
It is difficult to understand exactly what is happening on the Opposition benches in regard to this matter, but apparently the honourable member for Oxley is still to take charge of defence matters, except that he now wants to become involved in economic planning- long term, medium term and short term. [More…]
After what he said, I have no doubt at all as to why the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) was thinking of sending him to the Foreign Affairs portfolio or the Defence portfolio should Labor come to office. [More…]
On Tuesday last week the honourable member for Oxley was shadow Minister for defence and economic development Last Wednesday he had lost the economic development portfolio and was shadow Minister for foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
The Prime Minister has also decided to scrap that, despite a recommendation of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence of this Parliament that the dockyard should be maintained. [More…]
Apart from these Bills, I notice, for example, that the Government’s own statement on defence lies undebated. [More…]
It was one of the shames of this Parliament that we did not have an opportunity to debate the defence estimates, which were slammed through. [More…]
I believe that one of the things that has gone into discard is the need for us to do something about Australia’s defence policy. [More…]
This Bill amends both the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973. [More…]
First it introduces significant improvements to the reversionary benefits arrangements of the defence forces retirement benefits and defence force retirement and death benefits schemesthose benefits which are extended to the family of a contributing or retired member upon his or her death. [More…]
Second, it incorporates an amendment to the commonly known ‘no detriment’ provisions of section 25 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act. [More…]
Thus, the defence and public service prescriptions will be very largely on the same footing, so maintaining the longestablished principle of common treatment amongst the general body of former employees of the Crown. [More…]
Turning now to the amendment to section 25 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act, I should first explain that the Act already contains ‘no detriment’ provisions to protect certain late entrant officers transferred to the new scheme against any possible diminution of their pension entitlements for which they were contributing at the time of transfer. [More…]
The Committee recommends that the RAAF carries out a comprehensive survey throughout the Service and in consultation with Service welfare officers to establish what recreational facilities are suitable to a modem integrated defence force. [More…]
In regard to these three recommendations, the Department of Defence will undertake further investigations into the provision of recreational faculties on the lines recommended by the Committee and will be in contact with the Committee again to resolve these matters. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 March 1978: [More…]
1 ) How many vehicles owned by the Department of Defence were involved in accidents during (a) 1975, (b) 1976 and(c) 1977. [More…]
How many (a) civilians and (b) defence personnel were (i) injured and (ii) killed in these accidents. [More…]
How many vehicles driven by defence personnel but not owned by theDepartment were involved in accidents in (a) 1975, (b) 1976 and (c) 1977. [More…]
How many (a) civilians and (b) defence personnel were (i) injured and (ii) killed in these accidents. [More…]
How many defence personnel were charged with offences arising out of these accidents. [More…]
He is too preoccupied with whether he is economic spokesman for the Opposition, whether he is to take the portfolio of Treasurer, the portfolio of economic manager or the portfolios of Defence and Foreign Affairs combined. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 August 1 977: [More…]
Can he say how many of these personnel have been, or are now, in the employ of companies active in the defence or defence industrial areas; if so, what are the names of these personnel and for what company or companies have they worked, and for what periods. [More…]
How many ex-Service personnel of one-star rank or above work, or have worked, for companies which have had contractual, including sub-contractual, dealings to the value of $100,000 or more with the Defence Force, the former Defence group of departments or the present Defence Department during the period 1 July 1970 to 30 June 1977, inclusive. [More…]
1 ) Has he at anytime since assuming administrative responsibility for the Australian Housing Corporation Act 1975 and subsequently the Defence Service Homes Amendment Act 1976 received the first annual report of the Australian Housing Corporation in accordance with sub-section 48 ( 1 ) of the Australian Housing Corporation Act 1 975. [More…]
Further, as promised, the Government has committed itself to a continuing and separate government department for repatriation matters, expanding it to include the defence service homes scheme and war graves functions. [More…]
The potential Minister for Foreign Affairs, Defence, Economic Development or Control, or whatever happens to be in the mind of the Leader of the Opposition at the moment, is continuing on the path he has pursued quite consistently over the last 1 8 months. [More…]
If a country is to survive it has to have defence. [More…]
I believe that anyone who is aware of public administration in Australia would well know that the Defence ministry carries very heavy administrative responsibilities. [More…]
After all, for a long while there were in that area Ministers for the separate Services and a Minister for Defence. [More…]
How the Minister for Defence can preserve his calm and undertake in full the responsibilities formerly undertaken by four Ministers, I sometimes find difficulty in understanding. [More…]
It is worth noting that in the United Kingdom where there is a unified structure, in many ways not dissimilar from our structure, there are a number of junior Ministers and Assistant Ministers- I think, from memory, about five in all in the United Kingdom contextassisting the Secretary of State for Defence. [More…]
There must be 100,000 people in the defence services and its subsidiaries. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 12 October 1977: [More…]
A review of the grading system applying to Research Scientists in the Department of Defence will provide up-to-date experience in possible approaches to personal classification. [More…]
Review of Technical/ Professional Areas (R.206)- Reviews into areas of professional/sub-professional overlap are being or have been conducted in the Departments of Defence, Transport, National Resources and Science. [More…]
What expenditure has been incurred, and what repayments have been made, under the Defence Service Homes Act since its inception. [More…]
From the inception of the Defence Service Homes Scheme to 30 June 1977, total capital expenditure was $2,0 10.5m and total repayments of principal and interest amounted to $l,596.7m. [More…]
I turn to defence service homes. [More…]
A Labor government will also urgently review the present administration of the defence services homes scheme with a view to making second mortgages available to eligible persons through the re-established Australian Housing Corporation. [More…]
A Labor government will also review the ceilings on advances to eligible persons under the defence services homes scheme, which at this stage are by far the lowest available from any financial institution in Australia. [More…]
That this House does not share the view that the menace of overseas communism can be disregarded, and expresses alarm at the inadequacy of Australian defence plans. [More…]
That this House is of the opinion that the Government should implement the recommendations of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on defence industry. [More…]
He legally meets the defence that he had to sign a document which provided that he could not take action. [More…]
This brings us back to the importance and relevance of the Australian shipbuilding industry, as was recognised in the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on that industry. [More…]
-The Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) Bill (No. [More…]
2) 1977 is part of the long and continual liberalisation of the Defence Force retirement benefits system; so the Opposition side of the House supports it. [More…]
In a way I suppose that they introduced some of it, but this is one of the more interesting pieces of legislation of this Parliament in the long haul to obtain reasonable retirement provisions for the people in the defence services. [More…]
They were the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties and the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
In addition to driving Ministers, senators, members and officials, Commonwealth car drivers, in the course of their duties, are at times required to convey classified matter and to enter restricted areas such as munitions factories, Defence science and Service establishments. [More…]
The symposium was officially opened by my colleague, the Minister for Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 12 October 1977: [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a report in the West Australian of S October 1977, in which Government spokesmen are reported as stating that a bid from a Western Aus.tralian firm for the contract for the 22 new work-boats to be built in Australia for the Army and Navy had been refused because the Navy considered that single screw boats could be dangerous in some situations, and that the Navy preferred aluminium hulls to fibreglass; if so, does the statement represent defence requirements. [More…]
If the statement represents defence requirements why did the tender documents state that boats could be manufactured from aluminium, GRP (fibreglass), wood; steel, or any other approved material, and why was the tender not restricted to twin screw vessels. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 13 October 1977: [More…]
If so, has any State Government requested Federal financial assistance tor aerial inspection of likely areas, or for defence service planes or helicopters to be used for these inspections in the past [More…]
I am not aware of any requests by State governments for financial assistance for aerial inspection of possible areas of illicit cultivation or for Defence aircraft to be used for this purpose. [More…]
There have been joint operations by officers of my Department and State police forces where aircraft chartered with Federal funds and Defence aircraft have been used in aerial surveillance reconnaissance and surveys. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 4 October 1977: [More…]
As a result of the Government’s decision in November 1976 to devalue the Australian dollar and also taking into account subsequent fluctuations in the exchange rate, what were the additional costs, in November 1976 prices, borne by the Defence vote for procurement of items of capital equipment for which contracts had been let to overseas suppliers. [More…]
I refer to the order by the Governor-General dated 13 February 1978 and published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette for 14 February 1978 calling out the defence forces following the bomb incident at the [More…]
Is it a fact that the terms of the order would permit the use of the Army and other defence forces in domestic political matters such as strike breaking? [More…]
These will impose additional strain on New South Wales police resources and, with the agreement of the Prime Minister and the Premier of New South Wales, members of the Australian Defence Force will be used to supplement police resources. [More…]
I travelled back to Sydney from Bowral by road and not by helicopter specifically so that I would be able to see for myself how obtrusive or evident were members of the Defence Force. [More…]
I should also like to see defence production brought more into this equation. [More…]
We might need to be more adventurous in the kinds of things we buy in Australia and perhaps there should be some cost penalty and some substantial increase in the defence budget as a proportion of the whole. [More…]
The office of Mr Speaker does not even appear on the VIP flight list that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) holds in his office to determine who shall be entitled to a VIP flight when the urgency of the situation demands it. [More…]
Everywhere one went one could not help being impressed by the way they thought that national defence was the most important thing for their country. [More…]
We never imagine that we have any problems of national defence at all. [More…]
I am amazed to think that the French have a boat which they are able to use in attack and defence or to land commandos and which is escorted by a frigate and a supply boat. [More…]
The important point is that unless we are prepared to co-operate with our neighbours in defence and take our defence seriously nobody will take us seriously. [More…]
Therefore, any demands that the Minister for Defence makes upon this nation should be treated seriously and with respect. [More…]
That means that, as we are interlocked with the world powers- the United States of America and those other countries which support us- anybody who suggests that we should withdraw in any way from the defence capability which we have is making a great mistake. [More…]
If our nation is to have any credibility in world affairs it certainly must take its defence capacity seriously and must cooperate with its neighbours in every respect. [More…]
How can one take its attitude to defence seriously when it has been busy dismantling the shipbuilding industry and has given most of Australian industry a very severe knock? [More…]
Those people who are interested in defence will recall the decision to order the Leopard tanks and the conclusion of the Fl 1 1 deal and so on. [More…]
Secondly, there is doubt whether the Act applies in relation to installations which, while used for defence or naval purposes, are not Commonwealth-owned property, such as piers leased from harbour authorities. [More…]
The Bill rectifies these deficiencies and provides that the Governor-General may declare as naval waters, waters of the sea, including waters within the ebb and flow of the tide, that are within two nautical miles of defence land or five nautical miles of a defence installation. [More…]
‘Defence land’ is defined as meaning land used by the Commonwealth for defence purposes. [More…]
A ‘defence installation’ is defined as including a naval establishment or any fixed structure, apparatus or equipment used by the Commonwealth for purposes related to the naval defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Let me move oh to one or two issues, and particularly to Australia’s foreign policy and defence posture. [More…]
The matter in the Governor-General’s Speech that concerns me somewhat is the very small proportion of the Speech, which was otherwise excellent, that was devoted to the defence of Australia. [More…]
I have noticed from the White Paper on Defence and from previous Government statements that the Government has always maintained that its first responsibility is to provide the nation with security from armed attack and from the constraints on independent national decisions imposed by the threat of such attack. [More…]
The seventh is: ‘To secure the defence of our nation and act as a positive force for world peace’. [More…]
At present we have an increase in public concern, at the localised level at least, about matters relating to defence. [More…]
Honourable members on the Government side will recall that recently the Government Parties Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee produced a report on the use of the Army reserve in limited circumstances particularly natural disasters and, one would envisage, terrorist situations. [More…]
An amendment was proposed in that regard, and I know that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is considering it. [More…]
Some decisions will now have to be made by the Government in relation to defence to build on the good work of the past two years. [More…]
There have been noticeable improvements in Australia’s defence preparedness. [More…]
Various criticisms are made sometimes of the Defence Department. [More…]
I think we should look at them and review how the new structure of the Defence Department is working. [More…]
There is a need for Cabinet to support the Minister further in his endeavours to obtain additional finance for the whole area of the defence budget. [More…]
Under the Guam doctrine, Australia will have to take additional steps in its own defence. [More…]
A reasonable assessment might conclude that Australia must aim to have its own self defence forces capable of carrying out continental defence roles and regional interest roles as defined by the Government. [More…]
The White Paper set out the force structure characteristics but did not of itself set out the force structure necessary to carry out that role as I would define it of continental defence with appropriate regional responsibilities as well. [More…]
Continually there is less room to move and continually the defence budget is squeezed further and further into the small and shrinking controllable area of the Budget. [More…]
Defence would have its proper claims in proper perspective if this were the case. [More…]
A thorough review of the real cost of defence should be undertaken. [More…]
It is ridiculous to view defence simply in regard to the outgoing side of the Budget. [More…]
The real cost has to be looked at in resources and in what is taken from the civilian community and also in what is expended in the defence budget that contributes to the production and the civilian community itself. [More…]
A simple example is the fact that the defence budget provides much for housing and other resources that would otherwise have to be provided by the civilian budget. [More…]
We must recoup costs for services that the Defence Department provides to other departments and to State governments. [More…]
Economists might differ as to many of the ways in which we should go about these things but in the whole question of the defence budget, the assessment and review of it, a farsighted approach is necessary. [More…]
At this stage I do not intend to make solid statements about defence or defence capacity. [More…]
It is my intention, however, to draw attention to some of those matters relating to defence which I think it proper that this Parliament should consider and discuss and about which the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) should make clear the position of the defence forces and the Government. [More…]
The honourable member for St George has already mentioned the rating that defence has in the Government’s order of priorities, but I draw the attention of the House to another part of the Governor-General’s Speech in which the only significant mention of defence really occurs. [More…]
The Government will continue its policy of increasing the proportion of defence spending allocated to capital investment and new equipment purchases. [More…]
The statement in itself is most likely a logical one and in line with the best advice which the Government obtains on defence needs. [More…]
However, given that the defence budget is not altering, given that the cost of the existing manpower is increasing and given that the Government has indicated an increase in that manpower, I find it difficult to understand how that statement can be given any force at all. [More…]
If the cost of the human resources in the defence area is to increase- those human resources are to be increased- and the total funds are not to be increased- that is the import, I would give the statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in an interview on Four Corners last Saturday night- then how are the ratios changed in the manner indicated in the Governor-General’s Speech? [More…]
In November 1976 the Government presented a White Paper on defence. [More…]
It does not argue the validity of those assertions, and I think that in itself is also important because in any situation there are alternatives and in any major decision of the nature of a White Paper on defence or a strategic review there will be differing opinions among the experts and the advisers to the Government. [More…]
In an area such as defence I think it is important especially for the Parliament to be given at least some information concerning the alternative points of view because they might well be correct. [More…]
I am concerned about a number of matters within the area of defence and I raise those matters today without making specific statements on where I stand with regard to them because I believe that they are matters in which one is entitled to give the serious consideration which cannot be given in five minutes. [More…]
The White Paper makes fairly clear that surveillance is the accepted responsibility of the defence forces. [More…]
If our defensive position is to make it extremely expensive in equipment, lives and effort for anyone to seek to invade part of Australia or to engage in activities such as harassment of the continent, then our defence equipment has to be able to perform the tasks of making the cost unacceptable. [More…]
Another is that, irrespective of which party is in office, the government of the day and those people who advocate defence as a major issue will not in peacetime, especially without an obvious threat, obtain sufficient funds to meet what are seen to be the defence requirements of the country. [More…]
The questions that ought to be raised are: What role do we see aircraft playing in the defence positions that we are developing, and what type of aircraft can meet that role best? [More…]
I emphasise that they could provide for Australia a better defence capacity, given the circumstances in which we are likely to use that capacity. [More…]
Certainly we would have difficulty in meeting the defence forces of the United States of America or the Soviet Union in open combat, but we are hardly likely to expect to do that. [More…]
I am fairly certain that the defence forces are now seeking to opt out of the surveillance role. [More…]
The nation will lose out because a second rate civilian service and a poorly manned, equipped and financed military service will not give any real defensive capacity in what we would see as our major defence requirement and certainly will not give the protection that our fisheries officials and other people such as narcotics agents will expect and are entitled to expect. [More…]
It is one that can add usefully to the defence structure, not detract from it. [More…]
Without technical expertise any expenditure on defence is a waste. [More…]
I want to raise one or two specific matters relating to defence expenditure. [More…]
We hear a great deal about defence and the importance the Government places on defence. [More…]
In the last months we have been through a series of events which have not been good for the image of the Defence Force. [More…]
The recent issue of faulty ammunition had nothing to do with the Defence Force but was concerned solely with the manufacturers. [More…]
I am fully aware that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence does carry out those sorts of functions. [More…]
If one looks at the Hope report’s summary of the situation made by the British, particularly by Lord Denning, one sees that it raises a question of security being the fourth arm of defence. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that even the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) was not involved in the Cabinet meeting that made that particular recommendation. [More…]
We would not have had sufficient members of the Defence Force to police the two directions. [More…]
Given the additional strain on New South Wales police, the Premier and I agreed that members of the Australian Defence Force would be used to supplement police resources, and the extent of the use of Service personnel was determined in close consultation between the Commonwealth and the New South Wales authorities. [More…]
The relationship between the Defence Force and civilian authorities in the matter of civilian security. [More…]
On the same day Major Peter Young, the defence correspondent for that newspaper, stated: [More…]
These will impose additional strain on NSW Police resources and, with the agreement of the Prime Minister and the Premier of NSW, members of the Australian Defence Force would be used to supplement Police resources. [More…]
We both discussed the matter with State and Commonwealth police officials at the time, but any suggestion that either the Premier or myself assumed charge of the police forces and issued orders to the police forces or the defence forces used for the purpose of securing the 100 miles or so of road from Sydney to Bowral is an absurdity in the extreme. [More…]
I was thinking of touching on security and defence matters in relation to the GovernorGeneral ‘s Speech. [More…]
I regret that I will not have time to speak about the general aspect of defence. [More…]
As has been remarked in some of the newspapers, it is probably a shame that we cannot spend more time during general debates in the House and in debating the GovernorGeneral’s Speech discussing this most important aspect of defence. [More…]
I regret that security and defence cannot be debated more strongly than they are at the present time. [More…]
There are some anomalous areas of employment which are hard to classify- printing, defence, police and health care. [More…]
Defence personnel perform a variety of roles which should be classified under secondary, tertiary, quaternary or quinary as appropriate. [More…]
It concerns the defence of the nation. [More…]
Several speeches have been made today about defence. [More…]
I was concerned that the GovernorGeneral ‘s Speech gave such cursory recognition to defence- one or two short paragraphs. [More…]
This subject was covered yesterday by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
It is an isolated area and unless we improve surveillance we will experience many problems, not only defence problems but also problems of drugs and refugees coming into the area. [More…]
There are two types of surveillance- defence surveillance and civilian surveillance. [More…]
Defence surveillance is selfexplanatory. [More…]
Civilian surveillance at the moment is covered by a number of government departments assisted whenever possible by the defence forces. [More…]
The obvious organisation to do this is the Department of Defence through the defence forces. [More…]
The defence forces have the organisation, the communications and the training to do this work. [More…]
I do not believe it is fair to ask that this expenditure come out of the defence vote. [More…]
It is not to do with defence, although it may well be that the equipment required will be some sort of defence equipment. [More…]
Defence equipment must be chosen for performance rather than economy. [More…]
That was mentioned briefly yesterday by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
This zone is going to cause many problems in surveillance and defence. [More…]
I think it is regrettable that in the latter part of the twentieth century the West has to have a bogyman nation to justify the vast expenditure on defence to which we in the West resort. [More…]
On page 10 of the printed copy of his Speech the Governor-General refers to strengthening defence and security. [More…]
If narcotic trafficking can continue in that way we must have some doubts about the ability of the defence forces in Australia to carry out adequate surveillance of such areas. [More…]
We are told that this Government will deal with the defence of Australia. [More…]
The Government, by way of its economic restrictions, has cut down on the mid term and long term programs for defence. [More…]
All the problems of narcotics, smuggling, illegal migrants and defence are tied up in those vast areas. [More…]
First of all I mention defence. [More…]
So much for defence and foreign policy. [More…]
I should like to say much more on the subject of defence, but time simply does not permit. [More…]
The East Timorese stood by us in the Second World War and we should now acknowledge their struggle in the defence of our servicemen at that time. [More…]
-Extolling Sir John Kerr’s virtues in this matter now is no defence for the matter which the Opposition has raised. [More…]
It is still the case with defence. [More…]
Some of the major companies, such as Civil and Civic, Mobil Oil Australia, Imperial Chemical Industries, Mayne Nickless, and James Hardie and Co., have supplied people to government departments on an exchange basis, and in return people from certain government departments, such as the former Department of Overseas Trade, the Department of Defence, the Department of Transport, the Attorney-General’s Department and the Foreign Affairs Department, have been provided with short term employment in private companies. [More…]
I believe that the Prime Minister in control of this country today- he is in control of this country, not the Executive; the Executive is a rubber stamp for the Prime Minister- has an obsession for the use of the Defence forces, the use of authority and the use of Service personnel. [More…]
His obsession is the reason why Defence personnel were brought into and around the parliamentary building on the opening day of the Parliament. [More…]
All Federal politicians present, representing both sides of parliament, agreed that they would support certain proposals and recommendations that were put forward in the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
I have discussed tonight with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) the possibility of incorporating a document in Hansard. [More…]
In conjunction with this, Mr Brown would be very pleased if the defence forces could see fit to lend some assistance by way of communications, logistic support, command operations and all associated factors. [More…]
if the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) could see fit to lend his support to the proposal, I believe it would be an excellent opportunity for the defence forces to foster relationships and cooperation between themselves and the community. [More…]
The aircraft to which the honourable gentleman has referred has a very distinct defence role to play. [More…]
I have asked for an assessment to be made as to whether, in a non-defence surveillance situation, that aircraft would have any role to play. [More…]
-I will not delay the House long but I would question the combination of the areas of foreign affairs and defence in this Committee. [More…]
I think it is apparent to all members that the question of defence will be one of the major considerations, financially and otherwise, of this Parliament in the next few years. [More…]
At this stage there are two items alone before the Department of Defence and, I would presume, before the Government, which could cost in excess of $4 billion. [More…]
Consideration and discussion of the actual expenditure of money in the defence area and also the restructuring and reformation of the defence forces will be taking place as a matter of course in the next few years. [More…]
We are probably, at this stage, entering a period of the greatest change in the structure of the defence forces in this country that has ever taken place. [More…]
I think it is worthwhile that this House should consider whether or not defence and the future planning of defence should stand alone. [More…]
Parliament, preferably this House which is responsible for the appropriation of funds, should have a defence preparedness committee or a defence committeecall it what you will- to examine those items relating to defence as well as a foreign affairs committee to concentrate on that area alone. [More…]
I know that sub-committees have been formed and that the Committee operates in some areas almost on a dual committee basis but I think this subject matter is of sufficient importance and the ramifications for the future expenditure and structure of the defence forces in Australia are such that a separate committee ought to be formed. [More…]
Whilst it is true that the Foreign Affairs Department and the Defence Department have enormous areas which overlap a commonality of association, one with the other, it is understood in the processes of government that there should be a Department of Foreign Affairs and a Department of Defence. [More…]
We hope to continue inquiries into matters such as defence service homes and into the Department of Health which were instituted towards the last months of last year. [More…]
It acknowledges that control over naval facilities, as with other defence facilities, is a proper function and something with which the Parliament should deal. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Minister for Construction and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay) to the fact that the Bill does not appear to give protection to the public against obscure proclamations or regulations made with short lead times. [More…]
-In speaking to the Control of Naval Waters Amendment Bill I should like to remind the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes), who has just resumed his seat, that when legislation for the control of naval waters was first introduced into this place on 2 1 November 1918 by Mr Poynton, who apparently at one time was a member of the Australian Labor Party but who at that time was the Assistant Minister for the Navy and a National Party member, he pointed out that there were four provisions of the legislation, which I shall not read because I think the Minister for Construction and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay) has made them clear. [More…]
In the wars since that legislation was introduced various forms of aircraft, including sea planes and flying boats, have appeared on the defence scene. [More…]
This is a real problem because the business of security and surveillance of the north, even going so far as the defence of the north, is a real problem. [More…]
I remember serving on the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence when it was looking at the industrial back up necessary for the defence forces. [More…]
It was attended by Sir Arthur Tange, Secretary, Department of Defence; Mr R. W. Cole, Secretary, Department of Finance; Mr S. Burton, Deputy Secretary, Department of Overseas Trade; Dr R. J. Cameron, Australian Statistician; Mr P. J. Lanigan, Director-General, Department of Social Security; and Mr G. J. Yeend, Acting Secretary, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
The facts of this statement have been checked with all relevant permanent heads- namely, the Chairman of the Public Service Board, the permanent heads of the departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Trade and Resources, Defence, Administrative Services, Social Security and Finance, and the Australian Statistician. [More…]
For instance, as just one illustration of the point I wish to make I remind the House that in November last year the honourable member for Werriwa (Mr E. G. Whitlam) received an answer to a question on notice from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
That includes the series of events- the chronological record of events- including all the correspondence and all the communications between each of the companies, the members of the Government and the Prime Minister - have been checked with all relevant permanent heads, namely, the Chairman of the Public Service Board, the permanent heads of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Trade and Resources, Defence, Administrative Services, Social Security and Finance, and the Australian Statistician. [More…]
On that date he asked a question of my colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), about the extent to which Service personnel were involved in contractual, including sub-contractual, dealing to the value of $100,000 or more on behalf of the Defence Force. [More…]
On the day after a question from the Leader of the Opposition about the contractual dealings of former members of the Defence Force, that man was offered employment outside the Public Service. [More…]
On the day before Mr Harragan received the first approach from the initially successful tenderer concerning a job, the Leader of the Opposition suggested that a member of the Public Service, albeit a member of the Defence Force, should not accept a job wherein he might be able to contribute confidential information because of previous experience in the defence field. [More…]
AU aspects of government have their effect on people- defence, taxation, the environment, foreign relations and public works, among others. [More…]
One of Australia ‘s greatest defence hazards is the flood vulnerability of its northern and western highways and the deficiencies of its long distance rail systems. [More…]
Canberra should now be prepared to contribute, through the Defence vote, to the cost of a jobincentive road improvement program in the far north. [More…]
Twenty-one years ago the then honourable member for Wannon, the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), in his maiden speech talked of defence and of the importance of improving our roads. [More…]
As Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Wannon, in his defence thinking, seems only to have got as far north as the Bowral line. [More…]
Freight costs would be reduced, defence needs strengthened, communications improved and the neglected north would have some sign of interest from a government which is distant in every respect. [More…]
With the sole exception of Australia which supported the United Nations resolution of December 1975 in condemning Indonesian military aggression in East Timor, none of the Western democracies at that time were prepared to come to her aid let alone utter one word in her defence. [More…]
Since my election to this honourable Parliament I have been out-spoken in the defence of human rights whenever they have been violated, be it behind the Iron Curtain, in Cambodia, Laos and Vietman: in Uganda and other parts of Africa- indeed wherever it has arisen throughout the world. [More…]
In a devastating article in the Pacific Defence Reporter in October 1977, a great Australian, Major General Paul Cullen, C.B.E., D.S.O. [More…]
Is the projected price of these aircraft competitive with that of similar aircraft and less than the $45 million-odd quoted for another aircraft last week by the Minister for Defence? [More…]
For the Minister for Defence to make a choice of two or three different aircraft types is fairly easy, but in this area of tariffs, quotas and bounties very difficult decisions have to be made. [More…]
They made certain pledges that they would support the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the retention of both Whyalla and Newcastle as shipbuilding centres. [More…]
It was very much a speech in defence of the pluralist society and of individual choice. [More…]
This could be a mere tactic- a back bencher giving notice of a motion in an attempt to malign the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden), who has a perfect defence in this situation, and then closing the debate. [More…]
I do not propose for one moment to trace all the labyrinth of the Opposition’s statements in the debate this morning but only to refer the Opposition to the last page of the statement I made to this Parliament where I made it plain that the facts of that statement had been checked with the relevant permanent heads, namely, the Chairman of the Public Service Board and the permanent heads of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of Trade and Resources, the Department of Defence, the Department of Administrative Services, the Department of Social Security, the Department of Finance and the Australian Statistician. [More…]
In order to meet circumstances where it is in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia to permit the recruitment in Australia of persons to serve in particular armed forces, the Minister will be authorised to exempt recruitment for such forces. [More…]
Irrespective of what the other 117 members may say, Australia depends on those 7 members to a great extent for its security, its defence, its wealth, its productivity and its decentralisation. [More…]
To secure the defence of our nation and act as a positive force for world peace. [More…]
It is vital not only to our civil and military defence but also to our moral defence that steps be taken to strengthen our northern borders and the coastline which is not far from countries in the north. [More…]
Not only are those roads important for trade and commerce and their tourism potential but also they have a defence significance. [More…]
I suggest that the reverse argument should be used, that we might be able to get our defence forces on the spot a lot earlier. [More…]
Those roads are important not only for military reasons but also for the other aspects of security and defence that I mentioned earlier. [More…]
His eloquent defence of the free institutions of Republican Rome uncannily represents the present position in which the Parliament seems to find itself. [More…]
I do these things in self-defence, says Antony. [More…]
Finally he spoke of the right to secure the defence of this country and to act as a positive and responsible force for world peace. [More…]
But I say to the honourable gentleman and to the House on the specific point that in the procurement of major defence equipment in this country, some 15 malor steps must be taken from the time that there is, shall I say, the first glint in the eye - [More…]
I take the view that there are probably few countries in the world as well served in the preservation of the integrity of civil servants in the matter of defence procurement as is Australia under its existing defence procurement system. [More…]
The last committee before the matter goes to the Minister of the day, whoever he may be, or to the Cabinet, no matter of what kidney the government may be, is the Defence Force Development Committee which consists of the Secretary of the Department of Defence, the Chief of Defence Force Staff and the Chiefs of Staff. [More…]
Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence [More…]
This reduced media scrutiny is achieved by appointing ABC commissioners and chairpersons calculated to respond to or be sympathetic to the Government, and I instance Mr Norgard who came from the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd and Sir Henry Bland who came from the Department of Defence. [More…]
To liquefy coal will cost twice as much as it costs to import oil but, for reasons of defence or resource allocation, it may be the thing to do. [More…]
In 1967-68, 17.1 per cent of total expenditure was provided for defence. [More…]
These expenditures no doubt are necessary because these are areas of need- there is no denial of that- but obviously if they receive almost 50 per cent of total expenditure other areas must suffer, including defence, transport, roads, communication, water supply, electricity supply and national development. [More…]
United Nations where frequently we have stood witu maybe one or two other countries in the defence of Israel against those who would seek to implement or support the charter of the Palestine Liberation Organisation which is specifically aimed at the destruction of that state. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence aware that on 15 March 1973, five years ago today, the then Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, indicated that he was shocked and concerned that no study of the requirements for the defence of Australia was in existence? [More…]
I invite him to reflect on the fact that if this country could perceive a threat, defence planning would be made that much easier. [More…]
The difficulty of contemporary Australian defence planning lies in the fact that, whereas there is no clearly perceived threat, clearly the country must take into account all sorts of contingencies. [More…]
That the founding fathers foresaw the desirability for defence purposes of a national railway system is evidenced by their inclusion of placitum (xxxii) of section 5 1 which states: [More…]
I am further convinced that as a defence facility an efficient railway system linking all parts of Australia is an absolute must. [More…]
In any situation involving hostilities this must be one of the major links as far as the defence of this country is concerned. [More…]
The Industries Assistance Commission has pointed out that there is a defence reason for wanting such an industry to continue. [More…]
Yet such assistance is warranted only because of the special defence characteristics of the industry. [More…]
The Department of Defence is asked by the Commission to keep its requirements in regard to this industry under review. [More…]
I believe that there is probably a case to be made out for this bounty not to come out of any appropriation for the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs- I make this recommendation to the Minister- but out of the appropriations for the Department of Defence. [More…]
When the Minister is conducting his wars with the Department of Finance over the next few months about the appropriations for his Department for the next financial year he could at least suggest that appropriations such as this one might come out to the Defence vote. [More…]
It hopes that some security will be given to this industry which is important to defence, and it trusts that the Bill will have a speedy passage. [More…]
Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation- the Jess Committeewhich looked into the defence forces retirement benefits scheme as it applied in the years before 1972. [More…]
In the last few minutes available to me in this debate I want to make some comments about defence policy and the problem of surveillance. [More…]
The cost of the task, in its entirety, should not be charged against the Defence vote, in my judgment. [More…]
I think this Parliament ought to debate what sort of defence and surveillance forces we should have and how they should be manned and financed. [More…]
I do not think it is something that should be tucked away in a back room where a number of departmental officers with axes to grind and seeking to gain favour for some later project by agreeing with someone else and playing tradeoffsthat is what this is all about- should make a decision which has severe implications for the budgetary, defence and national sovereignty policies of this country. [More…]
We do not have the funds to provide those facilities for our defence forces, let alone a subsidiary coastguard force. [More…]
It would be far better to maintain the existing type of arrangement or adopt a new arrangement whereby the defence forces carry out the actual physical duties on an agency or similar basis. [More…]
I know how the defence forces treat incursions into their budgets. [More…]
I do not think it is a defence to put up spurious arguments about incapacity when the capacity exists and, I think, the responsibility exists. [More…]
I think the defence forces should be engaged in shooting wars and should have a direct responsibag to protect the sovereignty and integrity of Australia and its territorial areas. [More…]
Then came the unfortunate bomb blast at the Sydney Hilton Hotel and the Prime Minister assumed the Chief of Staffs role over the Australian Defence Force, the Commonwealth police, the New South Wales police and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation for the rest of the time that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting was being held in Australia. [More…]
This decision does not mean, of course, any diminution in the Government’s interest in the welfare of those who made sacrifices in the defence of our country. [More…]
The attitudes that I have expressed in relation to the policies of the Soviet Union originally in June or July 1976 have been echoed on many occasions since in more cogent and more powerful terms by the Foreign Ministers and the Defence Ministers in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and in recent times by a fine editorial in the Melbourne Age. [More…]
An initial interim planning committee was set up which involved people from all walks of life, such as university people and people from my Department and from the Department of Defence, who were interested in this area. [More…]
A public statement was made when it was announced that the Government had decided to build the Australian Defence Force Academy. [More…]
Recently in a Four Comers program the Leader of the Majority Party in the Northern Territory Legislative Council indicated- I think quite properly-that he considered the Commonwealth had a responsibility to provide for the defence and surveillance of northern Australia, a responsibility which at this stage has not been accepted by anyone. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), who unfortunately cannot take part in this debate because of another commitment, has made a number of statements, including some in answer to questions in this House, which I hope were meant to be funny but which unfortunately I feel I must take seriously. [More…]
A number of other statements by the Minister both inside and outside this House clearly have been designed to make the point that the defence forces should not accept this responsibility. [More…]
I want to make it absolutely clear that in my opinion the protection of Australia’s sovereignty is a defence responsibility and should be undertaken on that level. [More…]
The Government should make it quite clear that that is its policy decision and should then require the defence forces to meet that obligation. [More…]
I understand the reluctance of the defence forces. [More…]
It is that we set up a separate independent coastguard force to carry out what the Minister for Defence has termed ‘civilian surveillance’. [More…]
I do not know exactly what civilian surveillance’ is or how it would be defined as against defence surveillance. [More…]
Anyone in this House or outside who suggests that that type of force could be set up financially or otherwise within the Australian context I think has not heard of the Treasury and certainly is not aware of the amount of Australian budgetary funds available to defence and which could be made available for additional requirements in providing civilian surveillance. [More…]
We could set up some low level force which would do a job of some nature with equipment which would be paid for either by reducing the amount of funds available to the defence forces for their operations or by an additional appropriation of funds. [More…]
It would be operated by a civilian structure which would have to duplicate many of the communications, command and training structures that exist already in the defence forces and which would almost certainly and inevitably be manned by persons who would leave the defence forces in order to take up senior positions in that area. [More…]
The other alternative is for the actual work to be done by the Australian defence forces which have the training, the capacity and certainly the need in the public eye to undertake this type of work at a time when there is no obvious defence threat. [More…]
The defence forces need an area of actual identifiable activity at this stage, and this is one area in which that can be done. [More…]
The Defence budget does not allow for that type of alternative expenditure. [More…]
It may be necessary to purchase different types of sea-going craft to those which the defence forces would want in a normal defence situation. [More…]
I would say to this House, and I think most members would agree, that the protection of the territorial integrity of continental Australia and its territorial waters- they are shortly to be expanded for economic purposes if not for total claims- is the responsibility of the defence forces. [More…]
There is a back room haggle between departmental representatives about who will receive the spoils and there is a public debate in which it is suggested clearly by the Minister responsible that the defence forces should not carry out this role because it is not a proper role for them in that it does not involve direct defence against an invader or an attacker. [More…]
The Minister has suggested on a number of occasions recently that his requests for funds to provide adequately for the defence forces are not receiving a hearing in Cabinet. [More…]
The situation is that at least one section of a department- it is not the first time this has come up- is seeking to establish a second subliminal defence operation for a specific purpose in the surveillance area. [More…]
Where does defence end and civilian surveillance start? [More…]
I do not know how anyone would make the determination that that was a civilian problem because the people on the boats were refugees or that it was a defence problem because they were terrorists possibly seeking to wreak havoc in Darwin for some obscure or obvious political reason. [More…]
The surveillance will be paid for either by additional funds being made available- this would get over the major defence organisational opposition- or by the money being taken off the defence budget and provided through another department. [More…]
In this area the defence services which are opposing at this stage the undertaking of the work are showing poor political judgment. [More…]
The Minister is also showing poor political judgment in that he is seeking to shed a function which the defence forces ought to be carrying out and be seen to be carrying out. [More…]
Even though this may not be part of a shooting war defence proposition, it is part of our territorial integrity and part of the defence of Australia. [More…]
The White Paper on the Government’s fiveyear program for the defence of Australia, which I am assured is still current with some modifications, sets out that one of the capacities the Australian defence forces must have is a capacity to provide defence against minor incursions. [More…]
These are functions which have to be undertaken and which the Government has indicated will be undertaken but which at the moment the Minister for Defence is suggesting should not be undertaken by the defence forces. [More…]
There will never be enough money available for the functions of government and certainly there cannot possibly be sufficient funds to meet the requirements of any modern defence force which wants to be in readiness to counter any contingency. [More…]
If the Minister for Defence abrogates the responsibility for the protection at all levels of Australian territorial integrity, the chances of successful argument even for relatively adequate funds within the budgetary consideration decline. [More…]
It is the first time over the last threeodd years that we have seen any member of the Opposition take any interest at all in the defence of this nation. [More…]
That is the introduction to the White Paper introduced into the last Parliament by Mr Killen, the Minister for Defence, in November 1976. [More…]
The primary purpose of our defence- this is the point which I think the honourable member for Corio was trying to make- according to the defence establishment, is based essentially upon the prospect of military threat which involves entirely different considerations in terms of Australia’s territorial sovereignty. [More…]
In recent years, dating back to the time of the previous Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, there has been an increasing community interest in drugs which have been dropped off our coast and in refugees who have arrived in small boats. [More…]
They do not just cover the question of defence: but transcends foreign policy, domestic policy and, of course, primary industry policy. [More…]
Let me refer more specifically to the question of defence and whether responsibility for our coastal surveillance should be a primary defence function, or a function of some other department such as the Department of Transport which currently provides the chairman for the interdepartmental committee which is examining this issue. [More…]
I emphasise that the White Paper is still the basic document upon which the defence policy of this administration is based. [More…]
Whether a coastguard could be one means of achieving this or whether we should have a component added to the defence establishment- by calling it a coastguard’ if we wish- or whether we should have a coastguard type facility established within the Department of Transport or the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs, which is responsible for customs arrangements at the present time, has to be decided. [More…]
Whilst it is very easy for the electorate to take the view that in matters of health, education and social welfare, for example, governments should be prepared to spend whatever is necessary, it is extraordinary that when we start to debate matters of defence, suddenly we hear the cry from the Opposition: ‘What is the Government doing about it? [More…]
This comes from an Opposition which during its three years in government did nothing at all to demonstrate the slightest degree of interest in the defence of this nation. [More…]
I only hope that the honourable member for Corio, now that he has the shadow portfolio of defence, will bring to the Opposition a greater degree of interest in this matter than we have seen previously. [More…]
Appropriations for defence represented 8.8 per cent of Government outlays, education represented 8.9 per cent, health represented 10.6 percent and social security and welfare- wait for it- 27.2 per cent. [More…]
What are you prepared to go without so that Australia can have a truly effective defence structure?’ [More…]
As this Parliament will realise in the not too distant future when it hears from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) when he announces a decision on the TFF, we are speaking of enormous sums of money for which the average citizen probably will not see in the foreseeable future any direct results. [More…]
Our defence establishment at the moment needs every cent it can get its hands on to make sure that it has adequate training facilities and equipment to perform its primary task, which I put to this House is the physical defence and the territorial integrity of Australia in time of threat. [More…]
The role performed by the defence establishment in recent years in the context of coastal surveillance certainly is well up to its capability. [More…]
A possible alternative would be to have a totally new concept, for example, a coastguard, whether it be an adjunct of the defence services, or whether it be a totally civilian operation run by the departments which I mentioned earlier. [More…]
He claimed that we have not shown any interest in defence over the past three years or so. [More…]
It is difficult to show interest publicly in matters of defence or anything else which is debated in this Parliament when debates are constantly gagged, when Ministers never come into this chamber and make statements about anything, or, if they do so, as soon as they start to lose an argument they close down the debate. [More…]
Honourable members on this side of the House have much the same interest in defence as have our friends opposite, except that when we were in government we did something practical about the matter. [More…]
It was the Labor Government which ordered the Leopard tank and took a number of other initiatives to secure the defence position of Australia which prevailed at the time. [More…]
But it still intrigues all of us to consider that, with our enormous array of facilities in the defence system, the transport system and so on, we can be sneaked up upon by fishing ships which have come all the way from Vietnam. [More…]
I am not intrigued by the argument that surveillance is a defence function. [More…]
On the question of whether surveillance is a civil or a defence responsibility, I think that whilst the actual policing of the system, the final management of the system and what is done about it should be civil decisions, perhaps the actual Defence Force has the apparatus with which to carry out the job. [More…]
I do not think the decision as to whether surveillance is a civil or a defence function is mutually exclusive. [More…]
I suppose this is a subjective value view of what might be called the Australian temperament, but I do not think the people who join the Australian defence services are properly conditioned to spending their lives doing very little. [More…]
I am absolutely certain that the morale of the Australian defence forces would be raised by the use of personnel constantly in operations which they think provide gainful employment. [More…]
I do not think any member on either side of this House, the people in the defence forces or the people in the civil section of the structure have yet conditioned themselves to look at a new Australian environment in this regard. [More…]
The resources for the actual surveillance are more readily available in the defence forces than anywhere else. [More…]
It seems to me on the simple logistics of the matter that this matter of surveillance ought to be one for the Department of Defence. [More…]
I am disappointed that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has not chosen to take part in this discussion. [More…]
The honourable member for Bradfield chided the Opposition and said that we do not take much interest in defence. [More…]
If we raise a matter such as this I do not think it is asking for too much to ask the Minister for Defence to take part in the debate. [More…]
I think we have before us a very important decision to make, and that is: What kind of defence force and what kind of apparatus should we design to cope with the problem which is ahead of us? [More…]
We have in Australia a very large defence research capacity, both for the development of new ways of conducting surveillance and in the manufacturing of equipment, but mostly it is underemployed. [More…]
I believe we could not at this stage make out a good case for anything else but for the Department of Defence to be responsible for the principal operational role in this field. [More…]
The actual structure of the Defence Force makes it the appropriate choice to do the job. [More…]
-It is most important to obtain a bipartisan attitude to defence matters. [More…]
In the 1975-76 Budgetthe last Labor Budget which was brought down by the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden); the horrific Hayden Budget- the Defence vote was 8.5 per cent of the total Budget outlay. [More…]
On it we have the Department of Primary Industry and the former Department of Customs and Excise, which now comes within the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs, as well as the Department of Health, the Department of Transport and, of course, the Department of Defence. [More…]
The Department of Defence is the main provider of equipment. [More…]
The most recent annual figures available to me show that 2,000 flying hours and more than 800 patrol boat days were provided by the Department of Defence. [More…]
The Government members’ foreign affairs and defence committee will be sending between six and eight members, as soon as the House rises at the end of this two-week period, to inspect first hand our facilities in the north and west to provide assistance to the Government in that regard. [More…]
If the defence forces were recouped for the services they provided instead of being forced to provide those services without recouping money they would be able to carry out those activities quite well. [More…]
I am also reminded by the honourable member for Higgins (Mr Shipton) of the excellent work carried out by the territorial boundaries sub-committee of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
Before I conclude my speech I want to refute the attacks that regrettably were made on the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
Thirdly, the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) even pointed out why the Minister for Defence regrettably was not able to take part in the debate today. [More…]
It was an act of self-defence by a sovereign state to protect its citizens. [More…]
In case there is any doubt about the position of the state of Israel, I refer honourable members to a report on the Middle East of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which was chaired by the former member for Fremantle, who was a highly respected member of this House. [More…]
Is he able to say whether the Prime Minister of Thailand, General Kriangsak, made a courageous statement on 1 March 1978 that he valued and supported a defence pact with Australia and New Zealand among other nations, and that the mutual defence understanding of the SEATO Treaty remained fully operative. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Was replacement of the obsolete Honeywell computers of the Department of Defence authorised by the Government in 1972? [More…]
Have delays in the implementation of the initial decision to purchase the Univac replacement computers resulted in severe criticism of the Department of Defence by the Auditor-General and in a de facto reversal of the Government’s original replacement decision and the decision to award the replacement contracts to Univac over Honeywell? [More…]
-Between 1962 and 1972, eight Honeywell computers were installed within the then various defence departments- the Department of Defence, the old Service departments and the Department of Supply. [More…]
In 1 972 the Defence (Administration) Committee resolved that the existing computers were inadequate for the task which lay in prospect, namely, the reorganisation of the departments. [More…]
For a variety of reasons, not the least being the reorganisation of the defence departmentsany move made before then would have pre-empted the decision of this Parliament- they were not installed. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence aware of the high turnover rate among lower ranks of the Australian Army Reserve? [More…]
Are existing funding arrangements for the Australian Army Reserve so restrictive as to seriously jeopardise the defence effective capacity of the Australian Army Reserve? [More…]
In assessing the demands for the Australian Army Reserve in a year, the Department of Defence works on the basis that some 36 days will occupy one Army reservist. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
If Aboriginals are prosecuted the same law can be used as a defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 February 1978: [More…]
1395 which first appeared on the Notice Paper on 7 September 1977 relating to the recommendation in the report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence entitled The Middle East- Focal Point of Conflict, that Australian Armed Services Attaches be posted to some Middle East countries. [More…]
Announcement of a decision on the specific case of Defence representation in Middle East countries will be possible after Cabinet has considered the overall report. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 February 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 February 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
All members of the Defence Force remained under military command. [More…]
The forces engaged in security operations near Bowral and on the route from Liverpool to Bowral were assigned to the Command of Brigadier D. M. Butler, the Commander designated by the Chief of Defence Force Staff (General Sir Arthur MacDonald ) for the purpose. [More…]
The line of military authority was from the Chief of Defence Force Staff, to Brigadier Butler. [More…]
The Leopard tank contract with Krauss Maffei requires the firm to offer work in the form of Leopard tank coproduction or alternatively offsetting orders of defence or technological significance to Australia. [More…]
There has been a learning process associated with this first major Defence purchase from Germany involving offsets but there is no reason at this stage to assume that the offset target will not be met within the time allowed by the contract. [More…]
1 ) Did he suggest that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence should undertake an inquiry into the Middle East. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
These capabilities include air defence, air superiority, interdiction including maritime strike, tactical reconnaissance and close support. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
and (2) The Defence Force operates a system of secure communications for both strategic and tactical purposes. [More…]
In the strategic area you will recall the Government gave its approval in 1977 to the first stage of a new multi-purpose system known as the Defence Integrated Secure Communication Network (DISCON) which will include a secure voice capability. [More…]
When was the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Dual Nationality tabled in the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Department of Science has recently taken over from the Department of Defence as the Australian Government ‘s co-operating agency for the joint management of the Alice Springs seismological station. [More…]
The take-over follows the station’s declassification as a defence establishment and comes under the terms of an international agreement with the United States of America. [More…]
Since this Parliament resumed just a few weeks ago it has established committees on such important matters as road safety, tourism, Aboriginal affairs, environment and conservation, foreign affairs and defence, public works, expenditure and a new and permanent Parliament House. [More…]
On the previous occasion we discussed this matter we also objected to the fact that under clause 9 the Minister may, by instrument signed by him and published in the Gazette,- declare that in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia it was in order to permit the recruitment in Australia, either generally or in particular circumstances, of persons to serve in a specified armed force. [More…]
All it states is that ‘armed force’ does not include an armed force forming part of the Defence Force of Australia. [More…]
Does the armed force of another country include only the defence force of that other country or does it include the police or paramilitary organisations? [More…]
A negative definition of ‘armed force’ which states only that it does not include the Defence Force of Australia is not sound and in fact does not lead directly to what I believe it ought to lead to, that is, a definition of defence forces, military forces, at the least paramilitary forces, or perhaps police engaged in defence operations. [More…]
For example, if a country near Australia- it may be New Zealand or Papua New Guinea- wanted to obtain a senior defence scientist, a computer operator for its defence force or some specialist, but not a person who will engage in warlike activities, why cannot that country place an advertisement in an Australian newspaper? [More…]
We have an office of defence scientist, just as Australia has. [More…]
We want an assistant defence scientist. [More…]
The desperado could put up a defence and say: ‘I had no intention of breaching that particular section. [More…]
Australians have their own Defence Force, their own style of defending this country. [More…]
If the Minister has, by instrument signed by him and published in the Gazette, declared that it is in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia to permit the recruitment in Australia, either generally or in particular circumstances, of persons to serve in or with a specified armed force, or to serve in or with a specified armed force in a particular capacity, sub-section ( 1 ) does not apply, or does not apply in those circumstances, as the case may be, to or in relation to recruitment to serve, or the publication of an advertisement containing information with respect to service, in or with that armed force, or in or with that armed force in that capacity, as the case may be. [More…]
There is already a very great division between the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
Of course, Mr Killen is correct in saying that the diversion would interfere with our defence arrangements. [More…]
I imagine that the Department of Defence would have a few words to say about that. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that in the Defence White Paper tabled in the House in November 1976 the Government stated that it had decided to proceed now with project development for the acquisition of new tactical fighters. [More…]
At the same time, the Air Force and the Department of Defence have been actively reviewing the strategic need, the financial programming implications of satisfying it under various options, the level of air capability appropriate for Australia in order to secure its interests, and the phasing by which that capability might be acquired. [More…]
This project is potentially the most costly single defence project ever undertaken by Australia. [More…]
Tactical fighter force capabilities encompass air defence, air superiority, interdiction including antishipping capability, tactical reconnaissance and close support of ground forces. [More…]
What has to be assessed, against the strategic situation of the country, is the standard and quantity of aircraft that we need to acquire, how quickly we need to acquire them, and the cost which the community should bear while satisfying other defence needs as well. [More…]
The Mirage would continue to have a limited air defence capability beyond that time and its surface attack capability would be maintained. [More…]
Air superiority is to be given priority in the acquisition of a new fighter because of the fundamental importance of this capability, both for defence against air attack, in ensuring the freedom of our own operations, and to enable our surface attack aircraft to operate effectively against an enemy. [More…]
Priority also stems from the fact that there are several other capabilities in the Defence Force that can contribute to the surface interdiction and close support roles. [More…]
The Government in coming to these conclusions believes that the retention of a threesquadron structure together with an operational conversion unit is a desirable planning objective for the Defence Force. [More…]
The Government is conscious primarily of the need to safeguard this country; to ensure that we maintain the level of air defence capability that we need now and in the shorter term, and that future governments be placed in a position to enlarge that capability in a practical way should unforeseen circumstances in any longer term future make that necessary. [More…]
-The announcement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has been expected for some considerable time. [More…]
I am not sure that we accept that the statement made by the Minister fulfils the strategic announcements already made by the Government and the defence role for our armed services set out in the White Paper. [More…]
There is every appearance in this statement that we are in fact opting for a fashionable air-to-air fighter aircraft rather than a defence capacity aircraft to carry out the roles set out in the White Paper. [More…]
These capabilities include air defence, air superiority, interdiction including maritime strike, tactical reconnaissance and close support. [More…]
The statement indicates that these roles have been narrowed in the last few days to a primary air-to-air defence role. [More…]
We are not satisfied that that fits the statements contained in the White Paper on Australian Defence. [More…]
The basic need, as I understand it, of Australian defence strategy is self-dependence and a minimum of reliance on the interference or the availability of an ally to provide areas of defence which are not available to Australia. [More…]
As I read the document, our defence capacity is supposed to be based on our ability to maintain and provide a major strike capacity in order to increase the cost and thus reduce the probability of any form of incursion against Australian territory. [More…]
The air-to-air capacity which is referred to tends to presuppose that as a primary defence task we will be involved in air-to-air dog fight roles. [More…]
I doubt very much whether that is the major and most significant strategic consideration in Australia’s defence role. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has said that this is potentially- I note the use of the word ‘potentially ‘-the most expensive defence procurement likely to be made in the near future. [More…]
It would appear that they, along with the FI 8 aircraft, would provide something of a balanced capacity in the aircraft types needed to enhance our defence capacity if our strategic assessment of protecting Australia from an incursion is, in fact, the primary role. [More…]
This statement by the Minister indicates that the Government has opted for a piece of equipment about which I would express extreme doubts as to whether it fits an actual defence role of the significance which the cost of procurement indicates. [More…]
We believe that the most pressing air need at the moment for the Australian defence forces, given the strategic announcements which have been made about the strategic role which we would expect our forces to undertake, would be an aircraft with a substantial air strike capacity against maritime targets. [More…]
I believe that such an item of equipment must be chosen on the basis of how it fits in with all the defence forces and with what the Government and professional defence advisers see as the means by which the defence of Australia will be carried out. [More…]
But it is essential that the equipment we have serves the purpose for which we see our defence forces being used to the best possible advantage. [More…]
What is essential to national defence in accordance with the best strategic advice that is available to us from all advisers and sources of information? [More…]
Recently the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is reported to have made a statement- the Minister for Defence may deny it or otherwise- that he does not care what aircraft we buy as long as it is American. [More…]
We should buy the best aircraft to fit our defence needs, but we should ensure also that in doing so we do not close off our options in advance with statements such as that it must be American. [More…]
The Opposition does not believe that airtoair capacity is the primary need of our defence forces at this stage. [More…]
The likelihood of dogfights over the Australian mainland or airtoair fights being the primary means of any defence operation I believe to be lower in priority than the need to provide a defence capacity which will deter any potential enemy from seeking to make inroads on the Australian mainland. [More…]
In spite of that, not only was the authority under the Racial Discrimination Act not adopted but also the evidence is that the Minister prevented it from being adopted in defence of Aboriginal rights. [More…]
The Aboriginal Legal Aid Service on the basis of this legislation has put in a defence and the prosecutions have been promptly withdrawn. [More…]
He should not send a letter, as it were, to members of the Parliament by way of the media indicating what his defence may or may not be. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I am suggesting that the Minister should be required to state in this Parliament exactly what is his defence. [More…]
It is not acceptable for him to fabricate some sort of defence, and it is justifiable to say ‘fabricate some sort of defence’ in view of the serious allegations made against him and the Prime Minister, who has got dirty hands in this matter, on the basis of what the honourable member for Fadden (Mr Donald Cameron) has said. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
The honourable member would appreciate that expenditure by the Department of Defence on Travelling and Subsistence includes expenditure incurred by Service personnel as a result of postings policy, discharges, and recreation leave, and in respect of field exercises. [More…]
It also includes travel undertaken by Natural Disasters Organisation personnel and students attending the Australian Counter Disasters College at Mt Macedon Victoria, and Defence Science and Technology personnel. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
) To which unions, Federal and State, do employees of other Defence establishments and laboratories belong and how many employees belong to each union. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
Would this proposal be cheaper and more effective for quarantine, migration, anti-drug and customs purposes than the proposed Defence Department contracts for 14 patrol boats costing $5m each to be delivered from 1982 and frigates on order at $2 50m each. [More…]
Will he consult with officers of his Department and the Departments of Health, Northern Territory, Transport, Post and Telecommunications and others with a view to prompt revision of the priorities for a coastguard service, including u fleet of Nomad aircraft, more Tracker aircraft and a network of unmanned radar beacons, as a Defence function. [More…]
The acquisition of the patrol boats and the frigates is based primarily on the requirements of national defence, although use of defence capabilities for peacetime civil purposes is a secondary role. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 March 1 978: [More…]
1 ) and (2 ) Where aid to the civil power is sought which involves the likelihood of the Defence Force being involved in the use of force, it is necessary to call out the Defence Force before that aid is provided. [More…]
A call out at the request of a State must observe the procedure set out in section SI of the Defence Act which implements section 1 19 of the Constitution. [More…]
Where the Defence Force is called out to safeguard the Commonwealth ‘s own interests, the procedure set out in section SI of the Defence Act does not apply. [More…]
However, the Government has been advised that the step of invoking the assistance of the Defence Force to safeguard the Commonwealth’s own interests should be taken by the GovernorGeneral acting upon the advice of Ministers. [More…]
Where the likelihood of the Defence Force members being involved in the use of force does not exist, for example, to deal with a natural disaster, or to carry out a bomb disposal task under such circumstances, there is no requirement for call out. [More…]
The Defence Force acts only in response to requests from the responsible civil authorities in accordance with guidelines and instructions endorsed by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 March 1 978: [More…]
1 ) Research and development is estimated to comprise about 4.4 per cent of the 1977-78 Budget of $2432.3m for Defence Function Expenditure. [More…]
It is estimated that 1.4 per cent of the research and development component of Defence Function Expenditure is allocated to avionics, defined as electronics installed as part of the airborne platform. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 March 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice on 8 March 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1 978: [More…]
Did any former senior officers of the Armed Services, after resigning or upon retirement, accept business appointments with companies which tender for defence contracts during the period December 1975 to December 1977; if so, what are the names of the officers and the companies involved. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 March 1978: [More…]
1 ) What action is proposed to reduce the proportion of Defence expenditure taken up by manpower, as foreshadowed in the Defence White Paper of November 1976 and repeated in the Governor-General’s speech on 2 1 February 1978. [More…]
What was the total expenditure on defence during 1 976-77 and what is the estimated sum for 1 977-78. [More…]
1 ) In my statement to the Parliament on 22 September 1977,I indicated that the Government Defence Policy is to maintain the manpower, equipment and skills that will allow us to be ready in time to defend ourselves should this ever become necessary. [More…]
The total Expenditure on Defence Function during 1976-77 was $2,256.330m. [More…]
In 1976-77, 54.6 per cent of total Defence Function Expenditure was allocated to manpower expenditure (i.e. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 March 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 March 1978: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 6 March 1 978: [More…]
But speaking in a less broad context about economic policy, the 1977-78 Budget specifically introduced tax cuts and upheld the health, education, defence and social security budgets in very difficult times. [More…]
The Ranger Inquiry recommended against the use of the Atomic Energy Act on the grounds that this legislation was enacted largely with defence considerations in mind. [More…]
for the purposes of the defence of the Commonwealth; or [More…]
The ramifications of its use are quite frightening especially when one considers that UHF and VHF frequencies are used in this country by police forces, defence personnel, other law enforcement agencies and a number of organisations to whom confidentiality on their radio frequencies is important. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, I just wish to observe that, with the Minister for Defence wishing to be involved in a lonely lane, it is not only the right honourable member for Lowe who has ‘a fire burning warmly down below’, as the Minister for Defence observed a few weeks ago. [More…]
We are aware of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism to which the Report on the Middle East of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence refers. [More…]
Clique, withdraw all its armed forces and military installations from Taiwan and the Taiwan Straits area and abrogate its so-called mutual defence treaty with the Chiang Clique’. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence who will be aware of a report in the Brisbane Courier-Mail expressing concern at the number of people serving in the citizens defence forces. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence: Has the office of Defence Ombudsman been vacant for some considerable time? [More…]
I just pose to the House the question: If it is good enough for a Minister to be in receipt of a sum of $4,800 as a consultant’s fee while a Minister of the Crown, is that a standard which the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) now says can apply to the present Minister for Immigration (Mr MacKellar) or to the present Minister for Defence (Mr Killen)? [More…]
On this occasion the Prime Minister has sought, in the cowardly way in which he has so often in the past, not to answer the challenges to his Administration, to his capacity to handle the affairs of this nation, but rather to desert the Parliament and go elsewhere, by refusing to make a defence for the mess in economic management for which he and his Government are responsible. [More…]
It appears to me by the way in which Government supporters have sought to absent themselves from the chamber today in this debate in such obvious, organised large numbers that they either do not understand the serious and disturbing implications of reduced export income on the Australian economy and the very worrying effects it will have on business and the welfare of people or- I believe this is the more likely explanation- they find themselves totally ill-equipped to present a defence to the way in which they are handling the economy in the light of this development, reinforcing the general decline in the level of economic activity in Australia. [More…]
In considering the specific recommendations of the Standing Committee, the Government has been mindful that Australia needs a competent and properly positioned diplomatic and consular service; that it needs to take positive action to locate outlets for trade; that it needs to develop sound economic and financial relations with other countries; and that its defence requirements include a substantial degree of involvement and therefore contact with other countries. [More…]
The report states only that defence personnel will not be increased. [More…]
That means that again the Department of Defence was successful in snowing the Committee in the usual tradition. [More…]
Well over half our staff in London and Washington are defence people or people providing services for defence staff. [More…]
If the Minister for Defence wants to put that to me, I am going to reject it. [More…]
Surely the Minister for Defence has read the report. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) that he obtain copies of Privileges Committee reports that have been presented to the House in the last two or three Parliaments. [More…]
It is for this Chamber and no other body to consider whether it will accept those recommendations and, as the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has said, to determine what action should then be pursued. [More…]
This Bill provides for the establishment and incorporation of an institution which will be both a university and a Defence Force Academy. [More…]
It was first envisaged under a previous coalition government following the report of a committee set up under Sir Leslie Martin by the then Minister for Defence, Mr Fairhall, now Sir Allen Fairhall. [More…]
It was endorsed by the Labor Government in 1974 when Mr Barnard announced plans to establish a Defence Force Academy. [More…]
In October 1976, 1 announced that the present Government had decided that the institution would be established to provide a university education in a military environment for selected members of the Defence Force. [More…]
The full title- Casey University- Australian Defence Force Academy- spells out that the new institution will be both a university and a military academy. [More…]
As a military academy it will be required to sustain an environment appropriate to the induction of cadets into the discipline and values of the profession of arms, and give them their first training before they go out to their chosen arm of the Defence Force for specialised training in that service. [More…]
The Academy Council will be responsible for maintenance of an appropriate military environment at the Academy, and for military education and training conducted there to meet the requirements of the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]
He will command the members of the Defence Force, both staff and students, posted to the Academy and in exercising the command function he will be responsible to the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will be responsible for administering the Act, and funds for the operation and maintenance of the academy will be appropriated from the defence vote. [More…]
Advice on the funding of the military functions and activities of the Academy will be provided by the Department of Defence. [More…]
Arrangements will be made to ensure that these sources of advice co-ordinate their activities so that the Minister for Defence is provided with integrated advice to accompany the presentation by the Council of its decisions and recommendations. [More…]
In initiating this Bill to establish the Defence Force Academy, I should record my particular gratitude to three universities which, to serve a national purpose, have made special arrangements over the years to provide university education to a significant proportion of officer cadets of all three Services, and which have agreed to continue to do so until the Academy opens. [More…]
The concept of the three Services forming the one Defence Force is not assimilated early. [More…]
I am glad to acknowledge the initiative and vision of Mr Lance Barnard who, as Minister for Defence in 1974, did much to crystallise the concept of one academy to serve the needs of all three Services. [More…]
Its intention is to create, in one location, a new national institution of learning which will educate a significant proportion of the officers of the Defence Force in the years to come. [More…]
Eminence in the profession of arms requires qualities of leadership; it also involves participation in the highest levels of defence management, and the provision of policy advice to government. [More…]
It is essential that our Defence Force is intellectually equipped to meet the challenges of the future to the security of this nation. [More…]
This would ensure that members may serve, for example, with the Defence Reserve. [More…]
Australia has entered into defence contracts. [More…]
This country has defence contracts for the construction of two destroyers with offset potential of $80m each. [More…]
The honourable member is interested in defence and I suggest that he ask questions about this matter of his own Ministers. [More…]
The major amendment is designed to preclude foreign fishermen using a defence available to Australians in the present legislation to avoid prosecution for certain offences against the Act on technical grounds. [More…]
The section also provides that it is a defence to a prosecution for such an offence if it can be proved that the relevant activities were not carried out for commercial purposes. [More…]
One of the incidents that makes us particularly uneasy about this defence of States rights and the falling in with the wishes of the states occurred in Mareeba in Queensland. [More…]
He has no confidence in his ability to mobilise an argument in defence of what the Government is doing. [More…]
I mention, for example, the new archives building, the new national museum, the Australian Defence Force Academy, or Casey University as it is now known, and also we hope in the future there will be other national buildings such as a national convention and meeting centre which will be used by people from all over Australia. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the situation revealed by the Minister for Defence on 2 November 1977 (Hansard, page 2746) that, once his service is terminated, an RAAF officer is no longer bound to comply with Air Force Orders requiring him to obtain the approval of the Air Board before accepting a business appointment within 2 years of retirement or resignation and that there is no requirement in Naval Regulations for a naval officer to seek approval to accept a business appointment. [More…]
The other bodies then represented on the Committee were the Public Service Board, the Departments of Finance and Defence and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. [More…]
On 1 December 1971 Exchanges of Notes between Australia and Malaysia and Australia and Singapore (constituting the Five Power Defence Arrangements) were signed which inter alia concerns the status of Australian forces in those countries. [More…]
Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947, section 4 [More…]
Defence (Special Undertakings) Act 1952 [More…]
Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1 946 [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
In calling out the Defence Force the Commonwealth acted in pursuance of its responsibilities under the Constitution, in particular, the defence and external affairs powers (section 5 1 ( vi) and (xxix) ) and the executive power (section 61). [More…]
Did the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence write to the Prime Minister on 20 April 1976 to express concern at the termination of the survey in spite of the modest sum of $20,000 required to complete a two-year study program. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]
What is the (a) total area, (b) value and (c) value of improvements of the land used by the Department of Defence at the Holsworthy, Moorebank and Ingleburn areas. [More…]
1 ) Why was the Order by the Governor-General dated 1 3 February 1978 and published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette of 14 February 1978, calling out the Defence Forces following the bomb attack at the Sydney Hilton, expressed to be in force without limitation as to time. [More…]
Were the terms of the Order broad enough to permit intervention by Defence Forces into domestic political situations such as industrial disputes. [More…]
1) At the time when the Order was made it was impossible to predict how long the situation giving rise to the Order and requiring the use of the Defence Force would continue. [More…]
Not only were members of the Defence Force stationed outside New South Wales used under the Order but also some Heads of Government attending the Regional Meeting visited States other than New South Wales. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
Were the design specifications tailored to fit the requirements of the Australian defence forces. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
Statistics are not available from within the Department of Defence as such persons are dealt with by the Civilian Authorities. [More…]
Our Standing Orders- indeed, gentlemanly behaviour- dictate that such a charge be the subject of a substantive motion in relation to which evidence may be called and the accused have the right of a defence so that others may judge. [More…]
He proposed that there should be regulations prohibiting, except under licence, the mining of prescribed minerals in the Territories, the milling of prescribed minerals in the States under the defence power, and the production, possession, treatment and use of prescribed substances. [More…]
It was designed to enable the Australian Government, via the Atomic Energy Commission, to control the exploitation of uranium in the Territories and throughout the Commonwealth for defence purposes. [More…]
Under section 60 of the Act, all projects of the AAEC are to be regarded as defence projects for the purposes of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act of 1 947. [More…]
Under this latter Act it is an offence to boycott or threaten to advocate the boycott of an approved defence project. [More…]
The effect was that because the Atomic Energy Commission became the agent of the Government in the Ranger venture, the full security provisions of the Atomic Energy Act, including powers under the approved Defence Projects Protection Act, came to apply to any exploitation of Ranger uranium. [More…]
Similarly, speaking or publishing leaflets urging workers not to mine or transport Ranger uranium and not to construct a mine site could be construed as an offence under section 4 of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act. [More…]
Both the Atomic Energy Act and the associated Approved Defence Projects Protection Act could be used in a heavy-handed attempt by the Government to repress the opposition to uranium mining and to stifle public discussion of the hazards, dangers and unresolved problems of the nuclear industry. [More…]
The Commission would retain its authority to engage in uranium and nuclear energy research, development and exploitation for defence purposes. [More…]
At present, the Minister has control of uranium only for the purposes of the defence of the Commonwealth and in relation to activities carried out in Territories. [More…]
The Act is fundamentally concerned with the control of defence-related operations. [More…]
proposed waste disposal locations and waste management practices; and the lack of demonstrated technologies for the safe disposal of existing commercial and defence high level waste. [More…]
The Swedish defence department estimates that it takes between 30 and 40 high calibre experts many years and an expenditure of millions of dollars to produce a nuclear bomb. [More…]
One of the many repressive aspects of the Atomic Energy Act is that ‘all works carried out by or on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission’ including uranium mining at Ranger- are viewed ‘as if those works were approved defence projects within the meaning of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act.’ [More…]
This is because the Atomic Energy Act- the Act which this Bill seeks to amend- is based on the defence power. [More…]
Let us suppose that someone suggested that the Army undertake a mining operation and that a learned judge then said that it was inappropriate because the Army’s authority was related to defence only. [More…]
It is totally undesirable for any amendment of the Atomic Energy Act to be brought in here with the defence power only remaining as its basis, just as it is inappropriate for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to remain its own watchdog. [More…]
Its establishment under the defence power of the Constitution reflected the close relationship of the defence and civil nuclear programs. [More…]
Howard Beale, in a speech in 1953, said that the Atomic Energy Commission would concern itself with ‘uranium and atomic energy for industrial as well as defence purposes’. [More…]
In fact, many of those involved in setting up the AAEC had been involved with allied nuclear defence activities and the Manhattan project. [More…]
Commission sought for Australia an independent approach to nuclear industrial and defence capability. [More…]
Those provisions require an intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth, and one would think that that might be reasonable. [More…]
However, the old section 47 (B) states that the onus of disproving an intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth is on the defendant. [More…]
Section 47 (a) provides that a person can be convicted of an offence even though he has not been proved to have committed any act with an intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
He can be convicted and sent to prison for 20 years if from his character it appears that he acted with intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Section 60 of the Act applies the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947 to all works carried out by or on behalf of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I would have thought that the truth of the matter would be that Austraiian companies, in defence of their own enormous investment, would need to maintain the highest standards. [More…]
The same restrictions also operate to Army’s disadvantage in that it is the Government’s policy that the Defence Force will comply with statutory requirements except where such compliance results in an unacceptable limitation on operational efficiency. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 March 1978: [More…]
1 ) Has a short list of aircraft to replace the Mirage been recommended to the Government by the Defence Department. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence aware of Press reports indicating that the Richmond air base in New South Wales may be moved to Dubbo? [More…]
In a country so dependent on air travel, internally and externally, the Government recognises that the use of special transport aircraft owned and operated by the Defence Force offers a positive advantage in isolating from normal commercial traffic what could at any time be attractive targets for terrorist activity. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has been sent into the House on a mission for the Prime Minister. [More…]
This is not a defence matter in the proper sense of the word. [More…]
It is a matter of government policy whereby the Department of Defence operates a fleet of aircraft on behalf of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, with ministerial control resting with the Minister. [More…]
I return to the subject matter of the statement of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I should like to raise a matter that is not set out in the paper but I would hope that the Minister for Defence can advise me. [More…]
Is it an appropriation taken from the capital expenditure of defence or will it be a special appropriation made by the Treasury for this specific purpose? [More…]
The Government considers that the problems associated with defence service housing exceed, in some aspects, the terms of reference of the House of Representatives Committee. [More…]
It has therefore decided that the inquiry and investigation arising out of the Committee’s report should be made more wide ranging and comprehensive to cover all aspects of defence housing and will include an examination of the scope for selling a proportion of the housing stock, particularly where such accommodation is frequently unoccupied. [More…]
The Standing Committee’s basic recommendations are aimed at the discontinuation of many plans for the construction or acquisition of housing for use by married servicemen; the introduction of explicit rent allowances and or concessions to compensate servicemen for housing related disabilities that are not compensated for by other schemes- this is contrasted with the present situation where the difference between market rents and the rents servicemen pay represents an implicit subsidy or rent concession; the gradual divestment by the Commonwealth of part of the existing defence stock by selling some Commonwealth-owned houses and returning some stock to the States. [More…]
Until 1955 it was not the general practice to provide housing for married members of the Defence Force in metropolitan areas except for a limited number of houses for ‘key’ personnel. [More…]
By 1955, the size of the Defence Force had considerably expanded, and lack of housing for married members had become so critical as to cause a serious morale and re-engagement problem. [More…]
Consequently, in 1956, the government of the day approved a vigorous program of providing married quarters for servicemen to enable the Defence Force to be deployed readily across Australia. [More…]
The Standing Committee on Expenditure has recommended not only the continuation of building or acquiring new housing other than in on base’ situations or elsewhere where the private housing market cannot meet the Service demands, but additionally the gradual reduction of existing defence stock. [More…]
An important issue is therefore whether this far reaching change in established policy would adversely affect the ready deployment of the Defence Force or the morale and welfare of Service families. [More…]
When the Committee of Inquiry into Financial Terms and Conditions of Service for the Regular Armed Forces- the Woodward Committeereported to the Minister for Defence in December 1972, it noted that there was a series of variable and confusing rent situations met by servicemen as they moved from post to post, and it recommended a greater consistency of treatment both in standards of accommodation and in rental contributions. [More…]
From 1972 to 1975 intensive study within the Department of Defence was directed at a system which would: Disassociate rents from salary as far as possible and relate them instead to the quality of the dwelling provided; apply standard rents to houses across Australia regardless of their source, location, type of construction or actual cost; prevent frequent rent increases to some Service tenants. [More…]
The Defence Group Rent Scheme-the GRSincorporating the above principles, commenced in April 1976. [More…]
In considering the Committee’s report, the Government confirmed the Committee’s view that Defence housing policy had direct bearing on deployment and efficiency of the Defence Force. [More…]
I believe that these changes will not only lead to more economical ways of building or acquiring Defence housing, but that greater use of the private rental market will provide satisfactory accommodation for a substantial proportion of servicemen. [More…]
There are also problems related to Defence Service home loans. [More…]
The availability of Defence Service loans has a bearing on the amount of housing that is required for the Defence Forces, especially by servicemen who feel that they are likely to be permanently stationed in one place or intend to retire to a specific area at the end of their period of service. [More…]
Therefore, if adequate Defence Service loans were available, the demand for Defence provided homes would be reduced by that amount. [More…]
The Northern Territory regulations provided for the vote for serving or former defence force members but not for wards declared under the Welfare Ordinance, which was another paternalistic provision. [More…]
His concern was immediately and proximately with defence. [More…]
We are concerned now with immigration because we are concerned with the economic defence of Australia. [More…]
In the mining and milling of uranium- and this is not at the stage where it is likely to be made into some sort of nuclear weapon, we are talking only about the mining and milling of it- we have reached the point where the project is already part of the defence system. [More…]
Secrecy provisions in the legislation infringe basic civil rights and penal clauses for defence purposes are not appropriate for a civilian industry. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that legislation was adopting the provisions of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act. [More…]
A search of records held by Defence archival authorities in Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane and of other possibly relevant records in Australian Archives (including files of the Departments of External Territories, Defence, AttorneyGeneral’s, Prime Minister’s and Foreign Affairs) has failed to find any trace of the documents or any reference to their disposition. [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence aware that postings of Royal Australian Air Force personnel scheduled for May and June have now been deferred until July? [More…]
Have these postings been cancelled because of the lack of funds in the Department of Defence in the current Budget? [More…]
I am glad to receive this question from the honourable member because a great deal of interest has been shown lately in what my colleague the Minister for Defence may be doing with regard to coastal surveillance. [More…]
It also needs to be recalled that in the last war the Aboriginal population in these areas was of great service to the defence forces of the country. [More…]
Against that background, I can inform the House that already I have received from the Chairman of the Northern Land Council, Mr Galurrwuy Yunupingu, and from other people in the northern parts of Australia an expression of interest in directly involving the Aboriginal population in the surveillance of those areas in conjunction with the activities of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) yesterday said: [More…]
The only way in which the Government can obtain a suitable second hand aircraft is if it says that the aircraft is for defence purposes so that it can get through the noise limitation problems. [More…]
No matter what rationale the Minister for Defence would like to put, it does not absolve the Government from the blame that this Prime Minister will spend any amount of money on himself to justify his own glories and vanities while half a million people in Australia are living at subsistence level. [More…]
Let me, after having listened to the plaintive pleading from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), simply draw to his attention a statement by his own Prime Minister in this House just two years ago. [More…]
No more need be said of the case put by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
A few moments ago we heard the Minister for Defence detailing some figures that sought to show that less had been spent on overseas travel by this Government than by the previous Labor Government. [More…]
Mr colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) quoted the number of trips taken by the previous Prime Minister and his Ministers in a comparitive study of the trips of the present [More…]
As I understand it, it is a well known phenomenon amongst lawyers who work in the field of criminal law that they develop a persecution or defence mentality. [More…]
So perhaps I can be allowed one in defence of the proposition that I am putting regarding the Curran case. [More…]
Is the Deputy Prime Minister aware of the following statement reported to have been made on 1 8 February by Keicchi Ito Director of the Japanese Defence Bureau: ‘If in the future we should hypothetically, cease to be a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, then we can own nuclear weapons within the constitutional limits. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will be aware of the great concern in the community about the Prime Minister’s decision to spend $26m on the purchase of two aircraft for his own purposes to travel internationally. [More…]
The Minister for Defence also has made it perfectly plain that, as 727s come into service, the rest of the fleet and its use set against modern requirements and present Australian security requirements will be assessed with a view to future rationalisation. [More…]
The Commissioner of Taxation has further informed me that in any defence of particular assessments he will not seek to reduce the allowable costs below their commercial level. [More…]
The other thing that I should like to say about the amount involved- I say this in defence of the criticism which has been made of the Taxation Office during this debate, and I say it in all sincerity- is that the real evidence of the abuse by these schemes in the tail end of the 1976-77 tax year did not come to the attention of the Commissioner of Taxation until the early part of this year. [More…]
I say that sincerely because I think it is proper that that be said in defence of the action of the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]
I have no doubt that the detailed costings, which could be estimates only at the moment, might well be available and I shall consult with my colleague the Minister for Defence to see whether any firm figures can be given in relation to the actual costs of running the aircraft. [More…]
While I fully agree with the Minister for Defence that the exercise to be undertaken in the Indian Ocean is normal in terms of United States-Australian defence cooperation, I believe that it has particularly welcome aspects at this time. [More…]
I have heard that the terms of reference reflect self interest and the objective of defence against threats from the Third World. [More…]
Perhaps I should direct a question to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has said that we ought to achieve this recovery by way of defence expenditure, perhaps suggesting that we call in the troops. [More…]
3) that there has been an increase in the appropriations for the Defence Department for the Navy and Army cadet schemes. [More…]
In the time available to me I want to deal with some specific expenditure proposals by the Department of Health, the Department of Defence, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Transport. [More…]
3) makes a total provision of $36.357m for travelling and subsistence by personnel of the Department of Defence and Defence Service personnel. [More…]
Expenditure under division 233.1.01 includes movement of defence staff and personnel within Australia by commercial transport services. [More…]
I want to relate this 12 per cent increase in travel funds to almost $36.5m for the Department of Defence to the $ 1.705m being made available under division 504.01 to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet for conveyance of the Governor-General, Ministers of State and others by the Royal Australian Air Force and Department of Transport aircraft. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) said yesterday: ‘We are buying two because that is cheaper than buying one.’ [More…]
In a dazzling display of financial acrobatics the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, says that the Government can fly two VIP 727 jets as cheaply as one. [More…]
I do not want to delay the House, but as far as the Department of Defence is concerned it is true to say that sometime ago it indicated that there was a need for tanker aircraft. [More…]
Last year certain Liberal Party and Labor Party senators were invited to Whyalla to discuss the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the retention of the shipyards. [More…]
This will arouse the interest of the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Birney) and the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) both being former successful criminal defence counsel. [More…]
I want to deal with a matter which arose at the St George defence forum conducted last weekend and which I was able to sponsor. [More…]
Factors in establishing the new system of Service cadets were that it retain the best features of the previous scheme but achieve them at a lower cost to the Defence Vote. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 April 1978: [More…]
Although he cannot give the number of employees by Unions in the Defence establishments and laboratories other than the Naval Dockyards (Hansard, 7 April 1978, page 1253), can he give the unions to which they belong, as the Minister for Productivity did for the munitions, aircraft and guided weapons establishments (Hansard, 6 April 1978, page 1202), or the unions which cover their employment categories, as the Minister for Transport did for Qantas, Australian National Railways (Hansard, 4 April 1978, page 975), Trans-Australia Airlines (Hansard, 5 April 1978, page 1074), and the Australian National Line (Hansard, 5 April 1978, page 1075). [More…]
Employees in Defence establishments and laboratories other than Naval Dockyards, could belong to the unions and associations listed below. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 12 April 1978: [More…]
Has he received representations from the Victorian Citizens Military Forces Association seeking to have changes made to the form of awards made to members of the Australian Defence Reserve Forces. [More…]
The National Medal is awarded to recognise diligent service by all members of the Defence Force. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 12 April 1978: [More…]
If so, would such a course increase the efficiency and capacity of the Defence Forces. [More…]
3 ) Would the transfer of funds to training of national service personnel reduce defence capacity. [More…]
and (3) The effect on the efficiency and capacity of the Defence Force of re-introducing national service would depend on the nature and objectives of the particular scheme proposed. [More…]
If funded from within the present limits of Defence expenditure, such a scheme would reduce our defence capacity. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 12 April 1 978: [More…]
What are the requirements for the award of the National Medal to members of (a) the permanent defence forces (b) ancillary services and (c) the reserve defence forces. [More…]
Is it a fact that prior to the introduction of the National Medal members of the permanent and reserve defence forces were eligible for separate and distinct long service and good conduct awards. [More…]
If so, will consideration be given to introducing an appropriate Australian decoration for members of the reserve defence forces. [More…]
The regulations governing the award of the National Medal provide that members of the Defence Force, of an Australian police force, of an Australian fire service and of an Australian ambulance service are eligible for the award. [More…]
The Defence Force comprise the Regular and Reserve Forces. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 13 April 1978: [More…]
What proportion of total lending for housing is from (a) savings banks, (b) trading banks, (c) building societies, (d) life offices, (e) finance companies, (f) other private sector institutional lenders and (g) Defence Service Homes and other Government schemes. [More…]
In the face of such a tragic and barbaric incident we can all resolve again that democracy can be protected and will finally prevail only by a firm defence against terrorists. [More…]
My question, which I address to the Minister for Defence, relates to the Minister’s responsibility for the VIP fleet and the Government’s decision to embark on a $40m program to equip the fleet with new aircraft, commencing with the purchase of two Boeing 727 120-passenger aircraft. [More…]
Let me take in defence of the position that I am upholding today a figure of impeccable conservative credentials- Winston Churchill- and to make it even more attractive to Government supporters I will quote him in his liberal phase in 1909. [More…]
John Gorton was refused time to reply in his own defence. [More…]
He made it clear that in relations between America and Taiwan the defence treaty was not to be abrogated. [More…]
-The Minister for Defence will be aware that on Monday of this week a question was asked of the Leader of the Government in the Senate relating to a United States of America communications satellite installation, and that on that occasion the Minister gave an incorrect answer which he corrected the following day. [More…]
In the corrected statement, which was a considered statement from the Minister for Defence, the Minister indicated that the station concerned was a replacement for a station closed in 1973 and had in fact been constructed in 1977. [More…]
In all areas of defence, security, health, immigration, foreign affairs and drug trafficking we should be alert to the dangers and change accordingly. [More…]
Lack of proper defence and a positive attitude towards these refugees is concerning many northern people. [More…]
Our defence surveillance should be brought to a level to enable the boat people to be intercepted and accompanied to such a base. [More…]
I wish to talk about a matter which is closely related, but not directly related to that which has been raised by the honourable member for Dawson (Mr Braithwaite), that is, the manner in which the surveillance of Australia’s coastline and resources zones is to be undertaken and the position of the defence forces in that undertaking. [More…]
I am concerned- I have expressed this concern in this House on a previous occasion- about the continual statements of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in which he has made it quite clear that he is seeking to remove surveillance of the nature mentioned by the honourable member for Dawson, that is, coastal surveillance of territorial integrity, from the function of the Defence Force, despite the fact that in the Government’s White Paper on defence that function is clearly set out in a number of places as being an accepted function of the Defence Force. [More…]
My concern is that the defence forces, through the professional advisers to the Minister, are seeking to protect their budgetary arrangements by the device of shedding what could become a growing encumbrance on their funds unless other financial arrangements are made. [More…]
The fact that the defence planners feel it necessary to oppose this proposition because they see it as a threat to the funds available to them for what they see as proper defence functions indicates the necessity for the Government not only to make a decision but also to make clear the funding arrangements and the sources of those funds. [More…]
Certainly no one could suggest that the defence forces would be carrying out civilian police roles in this area. [More…]
It has a number of small ships and large ships, far in excess of the total number of Australian Defence Force ships. [More…]
It should also be pointed out that if the Defence Force, which has the technical capacity in communications and logistics command arrangements, does not undertake the actual physical surveillance tasks, new arrangements will have to be implemented. [More…]
New command authorities, new lines of command and a totally new bureaucracy will have to be established in order to carry out a function which is being carried out at the moment substantially by the Defence Force although without the necessary equipment or funding. [More…]
I repeat that I am concerned that practical discussion about how this function can be carried out does not appear to be taking place, certainly not at the defence level. [More…]
I should have thought that in any budgetary discussions where funding for defence was going to be a serious problem if a low threat situation were to continue over a period of years an actual functional operation would be of assistance to the budgetary claims of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I think it is bad politics for the Department of Defence to be seen to be shedding a role which most Australians, especially those in northern Australia, see as one of its functions and as a responsibility which ought to be undertaken. [More…]
Everingham, who is the Majority Leader in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, made the point that northern Australians are part of Australia and, as such, are entitled to expect that they would be defended by the Australian Defence Force. [More…]
This statement was repudiated by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The pressure on budgets will be back on the Department of Defence because it will not be one of its functions: It will be a function which will be competing with its military surveillance operations. [More…]
I think it politically unwise of the Minister for Defence and of his advisers to seek to have the Department opt out of this role. [More…]
Again the Minister uses in his defence of this provision the role of factions within the trade union movement. [More…]
Our resources for defence and surveillance run only so far. [More…]
It is a move which will highlight the appalling inadequacies of the Australian defence system and the inefficiency of the long-ignored Australian fishing industry. [More…]
I will not utilise my knowledge as a member of a sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which is looking at Australian territorial boundaries including Antarctica. [More…]
At present the equipment used by the defence forces for surveillance is designed primarily for other military purposes. [More…]
The Defence Force personnel rightly regard such duties as a diversion from the role for which they were trained. [More…]
So often in Tasmania, whenever any capital construction work needs to be done, the only defence the State Government has is to say: ‘We have not got enough money from the Commonwealth’. [More…]
His first Prime Ministership was from 1939 to 1941, and in that time he administered the portfolios of Treasury, Defence Co-ordination, Trade and Customs, and Information. [More…]
Since that time significant areas of consultation and cooperation have opened up between Australia and France and continue to develop steadily, including our relationship with the European Communities, nuclear matters, cultural relations, defence exchanges and our interests in the South Pacific, Antarctica, the Middle East and Indochina. [More…]
Dr W. A. S. Butement was Chief Scientist (not Chief Defence Scientist), Department of Supply. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 April 1978: [More…]
1 ) What expenditure has been incurred by his Department for maintenance and improvements to existing domestic accommodation used by the Defence Services at the (a) Holsworthy, (b) Moorebank and (c) Ingleburn areas, since December 1975. [More…]
1 ) In that context the expenditure incurred by the Department of Defence on maintenance and improvements to housing in the Holsworthy, Moorebank and Ingleburn areas since December 1 975 is $354,648. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 April 1 978: [More…]
Why do ex-servicewomen fail to qualify for Defence Service Homes loans when they fulfil the same criteria as exservicemen who are eligible under the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
The provision of the Defence Service Homes Act apply equally to men and women. [More…]
Preventive officers are involved in the use of Defence Vehicles from time to time in pursuing specific Customs alert situations. [More…]
This figure relates to the programs undertaken by the Department of Construction for all Civil Departments, the Defence Department and the Postal and Telecommunications Commissions, but does not include programs for other authorities, and some of which the Department may carry out on an agency basis. [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
-Did the Minister for Defence state on 16 May that the Government had taken the position that no statement officially commenting on the United States plans should be issued pending confirmation by the United States authorities of the Government’s existing understanding of those plans and their implications? [More…]
When was the Government’s required information received from the United States Government and if, as indicated by the Secretary of the Department of Defence, the information was not available in the policy areas of that Department as late as 1 1 May, when was that information considered by the policy committees within the Department of Defence and when were their findings conveyed to the Minister? [More…]
I sum up by saying that there is no proposal whatsoever, in existence to my knowledge, to the knowledge of the Australian Government or to the knowledge of the Department of Defence which would in any way alter the role or the function of the North West Cape base. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The other day the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) made a much shorter statement in order to pay $40m for two VIP aircraft so that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) will have a nice trip overseas. [More…]
When the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) made his statement about the tactical fighter force there was no opportunity for most of us on this side of the House or in any part of the House to debate the matter. [More…]
I think it is very important for the House to know who requested, and on whose authority approval was given, for the use of defence personnel on that occasion. [More…]
I believe that either the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) or the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) should make a statement to the Parliament and to the people and indicate whether troops were required because of the inadequacy of established services and the extent to which this Government believes in involving martial law type situations in the future. [More…]
I am not seeking to rebuke my predecessors in office one bit for this, but to the best of my knowledge it was in September 1972 that this matter at a technical level was brought to the nonce of an Australian defence force. [More…]
would not have any facilities to control the allocation of Satellite Communications capacity to users of the Defence Satellite Communication System [More…]
this transmission and reception would be done by the MSC61 through the US Defence Satellite Communication System of which it, like the TSC54 terminal would be a pan. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]
More specifically, I ask the Minister: In view of the fact that he acknowledged yesterday, and confirmed again today, that the discussions between the United States of America and his Department commenced in 1972, how is it that after nearly six years the Australian Minister for Defence can still say that the Government had not been informed by the Department of Defence about what was happening in this matter, which has a very high policy content? [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Defence, follows upon an answer he gave me a few minutes ago in which he will recall stating that he believed that the proper channel of communication on the matter of the American proposals towards North West Cape was on a direct government to government basis. [More…]
At the outset I should say that a sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence presented a report to this Parliament in December 1 976. [More…]
Of necessity, it had to assess the limits of its territory and territorial jurisdiction, the rights of freedom of movement of its people, their freedom of access for the purposes of trade and commerce, its requirements for defence, both national and international, and its freedom of access to the seas adjacent to its mainland for the purpose of exploiting the natural resources on or beneath the seabed. [More…]
Strategic and Defence Considerations- The evidence indicates that in so far as our strategic interests are concerned the transfer of any other of the islands and islets north of 10S would not affect Australia’s strategic interest in unimpeded navigation of the Strait. [More…]
The Defence Department made quite clear in its submission to the Sub-Committee that the over-riding defence consideration in Torres Strait was to prevent an unresolved boundaries dispute becoming a source of friction in a general sense between Papua New Guinea and Australia. [More…]
The two countries presently enjoy an unusually close identity of defence interests, and co-operate effectively in safeguarding those interests. [More…]
Proof of this is contained in the documents printed on pages 1 16, 133 and 143 of the report on the Torres Strait Boundary by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence Subcommittee on Territorial Boundaries, 1976. [More…]
The evidence received by the sub-committee was to the effect that for strategic and defence purposes there would be no problem, as it lies within the protected zone and therefore would be subject to joint administration. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Loan Act 1977 to increase by $300m the amount which may be borrowed for defence purposes to meet a prospective increase in the Consolidated Revenue Fund deficit for 1977-78. [More…]
Honourable members were informed that a Loan Bill is the simplest and the traditional means of providing appropriate legislative authority for avoiding a Consolidated Revenue Fund deficit, by enabling defence expenditure to be reallocated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund. [More…]
The Loan Bill sought authority for borrowings for the purpose of financing defence expenditures to a limit of $ 1,100m, to provide a relatively small margin over the estimated Consolidated Revenue Fund deficit. [More…]
This Bill seeks Parliament’s authority to charge up to an additional $300m of defence expenditure in 1977-78 to the Loan Fund, bringing the total to $ 1,400m, and to endorse the necessary increase in borrowing authority. [More…]
I emphasise that the effect of the Bill is simply to permit the reallocation of defence expenditure between two of the funds which record the Commonwealth ‘s financial transactions. [More…]
The Bill does not authorise any defence expenditure over and above that approved and appropriated by the Parliament in the Appropriation Bills. [More…]
Borrowings under this Bill, as with previous similar legislation, will be for the purpose of financing defence expenditure and will not, therefore, require approval from the Australian Loan Council. [More…]
On present indications it is our belief that the existing authority, which enables defence expenditure to be reallocated to the Loan Fund, will be fully availed of by the end of this month. [More…]
May I first remind honourable members of the important place the defence service homes scheme holds in the array of Commonwealth programs of assistance to various sections of the community. [More…]
The principal purpose of the Bill now before the House is to amend the Defence Service Homes Act 1918 to implement decisions taken by the Government in the context of its deliberations on the 1977-78 Budget and as a result of a more recent review of certain aspects of the scheme. [More…]
One of the decisions announced at the time of the 1977-78 Budget was the extension of the qualifying period to be served by members of the Regular Defence Force in order to be eligible for a defence service homes loan. [More…]
Persons who commence full-time service in the Defence Force on or after 17 August 1977 will become eligible for a loan on the completion of six years’ continuous full-time service, subject to a commitment to render further full-time service. [More…]
1 emphasise that persons who commenced their full-time service before 17 August 1977 will continue to qualify for a defence service homes loan on the completion of three years’ continuous full-time service. [More…]
The proposed amendment will extend the qualifying service to a period more commensurate with the benefits offered through defence service homes loans, and it will be consistent with, and will strengthen, the prevailing conditions of service for the Defence Forces that are designed to encourage longer service. [More…]
By the proposed insertion of a new section 27B in the principal Act, the Bill will permit the Defence Service Homes Corporation to give a measure of preference in the allocation of loans to those whose eligibility is based on war service. [More…]
In addition to the changes which have already been announced the Bill makes two other major amendments to the existing defence service homes arrangements. [More…]
The terms and conditions of the cover are all contained in the Defence Service Homes Act and Regulations, with the result that amending legislation is required before even a minor change may be made. [More…]
Clauses 1 1 and 15 of the Bill contain the proposed amendments affecting the defence service homes insurance scheme and are to come into operation on a date to be proclaimed. [More…]
The second of the further amendments to which I referred is the recognition, for the purposes of the Defence Service Homes Act, of de facto relationships. [More…]
The remaining provisions of the Bill are of a financial nature and are required either to overcome procedural problems and technical omissions or, consequential upon the Defence Service Homes Amendment Act 1977, to facilitate the operation of the financial arrangements applicable to the Corporation as from 1 July 1977. [More…]
The latter amendments include authority for the transfer from the defence service homes trust account to Consolidated Revenue of fees and other moneys of a non-capital nature. [More…]
Whether by expansion of our defence forces we could ensure that sufficient surveillance is maintained or whether we should establish a coastguard or fishing patrol are questions that could be properly investigated. [More…]
The following departments are represented at the monthly meetings of the council: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Department of Defence, Department of Health, Department of National Development, Department of Primary Industry, Department of Science, Postal and Telecommunications Department and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
the disclosure of information that would, in the opinion of the Minister, be contrary to the public interest by reason that it would prejudice the security, defence or international relations of the Commonwealth or relations between the Commonwealth and any State; or [More…]
That gets away from the whole point of clause 6 which deals with the possibility of not reporting under certain circumstances which would prejudice the security, defence, international relations or relations between the Commonwealth and any State. [More…]
Some telex operators could stop work at the Department of Defence in Canberra. [More…]
I rise to join with the Papua New Guinea Defence Minister, Mr Mona, in denouncing the disgraceful actions of the honourable member for Lalor (Mr Barry Jones) in recent times in mounting a campaign for publicity purposes which has failed to elicit any new information and which has cast a slur on the Australian Armed Forces, a slur on historians in this country and a slur on the archivists of this country. [More…]
They may well have felt that they were protecting the Army’s reputation by destroying the files, but in fact the absence of files makes it difficult to make an effective case in the Army’s defence. [More…]
It was developed after consultations with my colleague, the Minister for Defence, and detailed discussions between representatives from my Department, the Department of Defence and the Defence Forces. [More…]
However, former members of the Regular Defence Forces who are not eligible for training under this Scheme, may seek resettlement training through the National Employment and Training Scheme (NEAT). [More…]
The great majority of these taxpayers would have been exempt because they were adequately covered by private health insurance, but the number includes other taxpayers who are not liable to levy as pensioner medical card holders or members of the defence forces or for other reasons. [More…]
Louis Mona, the Minister for Defence in Papua New Guinea, for the grant of a lump sum of $3m tobe paid to the Papua New Guinea Government to be administered by a Trust. [More…]
-The Minister for Defence will recall saying yesterday that Air ViceMarshal Jordan received a briefing last year in the United States about United States intentions at North West Cape but that he did not properly communicate the policy implications of that briefing to his Department. [More…]
Did he communicate the policy aspects of that briefing to the appropriate areas of the Department of Defence? [More…]
-My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I remind him that every day of the week literally hundreds of discussions are held all over the world by officers of the Department of Defence with various officers of other countries. [More…]
The starting point of the attack by the honourable member for St George was the statement alleged to have been made in the Papuan New Guinea Parliament by the Minister for Defence, the Honourable Louis Mona, M.P. [More…]
This means that the Commonwealth Government’s outlays on housing, which include spending on defence service homes, housing for people in need, housing grants to the States, housing for Aboriginals and migrants, as well as expenditure on urban renewal programs and growth centres, has been virtually cut to the bone. [More…]
In recent weeks, honourable members have been treated to the clear revelation that the Minister for Defence has lost control of .his Department, the biggest spending unit of the entire Government and one of critical importance to our international relations and our national security. [More…]
Neither the Minister nor the policy areas of the Defence Department was informed, over a period of years, of American proposals to install a new satellite communication system at North West Cape. [More…]
Yet still we have had nothing from the Prime Minister or the Defence Minister to indicate that action is being taken to rectify the obvious faults that led to this fiasco. [More…]
The most desirable system we have had- it has been amended a bit- was the original Defence Service Homes Scheme, or the War Service Homes Scheme as it was known up until not so long ago, which created the opportunity for people to achieve home ownership in the most flexible way. [More…]
the non-transfer to the Department of the functions of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme and the Australian War Memorial; [More…]
to transfer to the Department the functions of the Defence Service Homes Scheme and the Office of the Australian War Graves; [More…]
When I asked a question the other day on whether there had been consultation between the governments concerned on the subject of strategic weapons, or in this case submarines which would use that base, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) did not appear to know anything about it. [More…]
Expenditure on defence in the underdeveloped countries increased from about $15 billion to $40 billion. [More…]
We cannot exercise that responsibility without spending money on defence. [More…]
If we lived in Utopia, if we did not live in a very troubled part of the world, perhaps we could cut down on our defence expenditure. [More…]
It seeks to amend the Loan Act 1977 to increase the amounts which may be borrowed for defence purposes to meet a prospective increase in the Consolidated Revenue Fund deficit for this year. [More…]
Normal procedure is to transfer some defence expenditure to the Loan Fund and the defence expenditure is used simply because that avoids the necessity to go to the Loan Council. [More…]
In the Loan Act 1977, which was passed in October last year, the Government obtained the right to borrow up to $ 1,100m for defence purposes to cover the expected deficit in the Consolidated Revenue Fund of $90 lm and still leave some margin for error. [More…]
So the Government is seeking to increase the amount of defence expenditure that can be reallocated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund from $ 1 , 1 00m to $ 1 ,400m. [More…]
The Loan Act 1977 authorised borrowings for defence purposes of up to $ 1,100m so that expenditure on defence which would otherwise be met from the Consolidated Revenue Fund could be met from the Loan Fund. [More…]
This method of avoiding the Loan Council- that is, by using the excuse of providing funds for defence purposeshas been used by governments in the past and the Opposition does not really quibble with it. [More…]
When I spoke on the Bill on 4 May I spoke in rather unusual defence of Mr Hamer, the Premier of Victoria, who had sent a telegram. [More…]
It refers to nuclear activities being carried on by or on behalf of the Commonwealth or an authority of the Commonwealth for the purpose of trade or commerce with other countries or among the States, to nuclear activities carried on for purposes related to defence, to activities carried on by foreign corporations, by trading corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth and to activities carried on in, or in connection with, a Territory or carried on in the territorial sea of Australia. [More…]
By reason of its various constitutional powers, notably with respect to defence and overseas trade, the national Parliament is not without some effective legal powers at the present stage of nuclear development in Australia. [More…]
Expected developments in the use of nuclear energy for constructive and destructive purposes will, however, reveal serious deficiencies in Commonwealth legal power, particularly if it should be sought to promote a self-contained integrated nuclear power industry serving the needs of industry and national development as well as defence. [More…]
If it were the Defence Act and the procedures or a court martial were used, the people involved failed to carry out the correct procedures. [More…]
Section 98 of the Defence Act provides: [More…]
No member of the Defence Force shall be sentenced to death by any court-martial except for mutiny, desertion to the enemy, or traitorously delivering up to the enemy any garrison- [More…]
My reading of that Act is that it is probable that at that stage the people involved presumed that the people of Papua New Guinea were subject to the Defence Act and subject to military authority. [More…]
For how much longer can the Australian nation ignore the statement by our own Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) that in 1 977 Soviet defence spending exceeded that of the United States of America by about 25 per cent. [More…]
While we do not discount the real defence needs of the Soviet Union, we cannot fail to be concerned at the apparent Soviet military build-up. [More…]
Mr R. K. Thomas, Department of Defence [More…]
That the Minister for Defence no longer possesses the confidence of the House for his failure to maintain proper ministerial authority of the Department of Defence. [More…]
That the Minister for Defence no longer possesses the confidence of the House for his failure to maintain proper ministerial authority of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I do so in all seriousness because I believe it has been amply demonstrated in the last three weeks that the Department of Defence is completely without ministerial authority, does not answer to the Parliament, does not answer to the Minister and fails to deal adequately with any policy matters which properly should be the responsibility of the elected Government and the Parliament of the country. [More…]
Fifteen months ago, according to information given to the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) last week, the matter clearly had become one involving policy considerations. [More…]
Yet the Minister for Defence had no knowledge whatsoever of the matter only three weeks ago. [More…]
Consultations between the United States and the Department of Defence had begun in 1972. [More…]
Clearly the Department of Defence believed in doing nothing which would tamper with the state of ignorance shared by the Government and the Minister. [More…]
It had not bothered to inform the Prime Minister’s office and the Minister for Defence had not bothered to acquaint himself with the background of such a potentially controversial matter reported that morning for the first time in Australia in the Australian Financial Review. [More…]
The Minister was not aware of this basic fact; neither was the Defence Minister whom he was representing; nor was the Prime Minister’s office which was briefing him; nor the Cabinet; nor the Ministry. [More…]
Not one person in the Government of this nation knew what the Department of Defence knew. [More…]
The Minister for Defence admits, after persistent questioning, that his Department’s conduct reflects a ‘significant blemish’. [More…]
More importantly, it took four days to prize this inadequate explanation out of the Department of Defence. [More…]
The Minster for Defence himself does not emerge with clean hands from this effort to keep the Government and the Parliament in ignorance on an important policy matter. [More…]
Does it mean that he picked it up “om a reference in a back number of the Pacific Defence Reporter! [More…]
The United States Ambassador responded by writing to the Defence Minister on 16 May stating: [More…]
That was a clear rebuke to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The issue is dereliction of duty in public office by the Defence Department and the Defence Minister. [More…]
Nobody could believe seriously that it is proper practice for the Department of Defence not to convey to the Minister, at the earliest stage, details of any technical proposals put to them in this way? [More…]
The Defence Minister brushes this important point off as if it were of no consequence. [More…]
The Defence Department let the Government and the country down and the Minister is posturing in an attempt to side-track responsibility. [More…]
Lieutenant-General Lee Paschall, Director of the Defence Communications Agency, in testimony before the American Senate Armed Services Committee, makes nonsense of the Minister’s soothing assurances. [More…]
Who is in charge of the Defence Department- the Minister, the Department head or anyone? [More…]
Is that why he has embarked upon this perplexing course of unjustified and unsustainable defence of gross dereliction of public duty by his Department? [More…]
Australia maintains about 90 armed Services and Defence Department personnel in Washington. [More…]
Do not any of them monitor defence developments in the United States Congress, especially when they affect Australia? [More…]
If the United States proceeded to acquire the equipment for installation at North West Cape without properly seeking Australian Government approval, in the way in which it did seek that approval from the German Government, it has been guilty of a far more serious breach of conduct towards Australia than that described by the Minister for Defence as merely being ‘ not treated with proper courtesy’. [More…]
It rejects the criticism by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The credibility and reliability of the United States is in grave question by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The reputation and confidence of the Department of Defence has been put at stake by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The propriety and competence of the conduct of the Minister for Defence has been brought under censure, properly, by his own behaviour. [More…]
It is a motion taken reluctantly against the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) who has qualities of integrity and candour not conspicuously shared by many of his colleagues. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has one but not the other. [More…]
It has been a bad month for the Minister for Defence- snowed by Sir Arthur Tange, compromised by Senator Withers, patronised by the United States Ambassador and praised by Don Chipp. [More…]
I hope from the sound of the cannon outside that the Department of Defence has not decided to take pre-emptive action against the Parliament. [More…]
The Secretary to the Department of Defence is not answerable to this Parliament but he is answerable to his Minister. [More…]
In an earlier ministry, as Minister for the Navy, the present Minister for Defence paid the price on 22 March 1971 for the deficiencies of others- deficiencies in naval administration as revealed by the royal commission into the Voyager disaster. [More…]
the extent to which Australia becomes a mere puppet in vital matters of defence and security, told only what we are permitted to be told rather than what we are entitled to be told. [More…]
The Minister for Defence should be out on this basis as well. [More…]
The Department of Defence maintains such stringent security that it excludes the Minister from access to information too. [More…]
How is it possible that the United States public at large can be informed of material through the Congressional Record while in Australia the Minister for Defence himself is excluded from access to such information? [More…]
We find, for example, in the military construction appropriations for 1978 hearings before a sub-committee of the Committee of Appropriations of the House of Representatives 95th Congress, First Session, published in 1977, there is an indication of the installations that were to be set up under the defence satellite communications system. [More…]
A battered but recognisable figure- the Minister for Defence- wanders away from the United States Base at North West Cape, raises a finger and intones ‘I am your leader’, while public servants hidden behind barbed wire entanglements and teacups ask ‘Is he one of ours?’ [More…]
Under the heading ‘The Russell Hill Government’, referring to the Department of Defence at Russell Hill, it points out: [More…]
It is commonly assumed that the Defence Department dances to the tune of its political masters some mile or so down the road. [More…]
But the current issue of a new United States satellite defence communication system at North West Cape in Western Australia shows that this is far from true. [More…]
The Defence Department, on the issue of the new satellite defence system, has presumed that it, not Cabinet or Parliament, is the Government of Australia. [More…]
And what is more, when details of the new US facility were published in the Press the Defence Department misled both the Prime Minister’s Department and the Minister for Administrative Services, Senator Withers. [More…]
The Defence Department no doubt intended at some future stage to take the Fraser Government into its confidence on American intentions at North West Cape. [More…]
The point is, however, that after months of ‘informal’ liaison with the Pentagon, and after facts about a new installation had been publicly revealed in the US Congressional Record, the Defence Department had not bothered to inform its masters. [More…]
It should tell the US Administration that all future changes to any US defence installation in Australia should be made in consultation with the Australian Government, not the Defence Department. [More…]
It should then put the cleaners through the Defence Department. [More…]
The Fraser Government is suffering acute embarrassment on the ‘faceless’ Defence Department ‘s significant upgrading of that station. [More…]
In 1974, Lance Barnard, the then Minister for Defence, and Dr James Schlesinger, the United States Secretary for Defense, renegotiated the North West Cape agreement to achieve what purported to be full consultation on operating objectives. [More…]
We can illustrate this by the initial confusion on the part of the Minister for Administrative Services in another place and the Minister for Defence and the subsequent contradictions in the Minister’s statements. [More…]
Is it not good enough for the Department of Defence to inform its own Minister so that he can be aware of the situation when it is raised in the Paliament? [More…]
It is because these two requirements have not been fulfilled that reluctantly I second this motion of censure against the honourable Minister for Defence. [More…]
Australia gets new US defence station. [More…]
A person reading that would say: ‘that was Killen, the Minister for Defence’. [More…]
Despite clear evidence to the contrary, the Defence Minister Killen insists that there has not yet been any agreement to build a new satellite ground station at North West Cape. [More…]
In the 157th report the Committee had been critical of the Department of Defence, the Department of Education, the then Department of Manufacturing Industry and the then Australian Council for the Arts. [More…]
Tractors were required by the Department of Defence to be air-portable but were subsequently found to have insufficient clearance to fit in aircraft intended to carry them. [More…]
The Committee also notes that the differences in rules and regulations for the 75,000 defence forces personnel may justify the establishment of a separate system for the defence forces rather than its inclusion in Mandata. [More…]
and (3) Very close liaison exists between the Minister for Defence and myself, and our two departments, and I have no doubt that Nomad will be used by the Defence Services wherever it is suitable. [More…]
-On behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence I present an interim report on Australia, Antarctica and the Law of the Sea. [More…]
-In speaking to this report which was prepared by the Territorial Boundaries Sub-Committee of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I note that this is the third committee report tabled in this House today. [More…]
In presenting the interim report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Australia, Antarctica and the Law of the Sea, I express appreciation to the Deputy Chairman of the main Committee, Senator the Honourable Reginald Bishop, who chaired most of the final meetings of the Committee which approved the report, in the absence overseas of the Chairman, Senator the Honourable Sir Magnus Cormack. [More…]
-On behalf of the Standing Committee on Expenditure I present the report of the Committee on the Defence Service homes scheme together with minutes of the proceedings, the transcript of evidence and published exhibits. [More…]
As honourable members would know, the Defence Service Homes scheme- DSHS- came into operation in 1919 as part of a series of repatriation measures for those who served their country in the First World War. [More…]
-by leaveThe Defence Service Homes scheme has been operating almost 60 years. [More…]
Defence Service homes benefits have thus applied to serving members of the forces for more than half a century as part of repatriation benefits. [More…]
We suggest also that the Auditor-General should conduct a review of the efficiency or otherwise of the Defence Service homes scheme, for instance, in 1 979-80. [More…]
When the Defence Service Homes scheme came under the responsibility of the Australian Housing Corporation, the then Government looked at this question of administrative costs. [More…]
Therefore I warn the House against accepting this proposal because it is a long term attempt by the bureaucracy to do away with this concessional interest rate of 3% per cent available to defence personnel. [More…]
There is another aspect at which this Committee and the House must look as regards this Defence Service Homes scheme. [More…]
It seems to me that this question of the means test would be a much better proposal to look at when dealing with this defence services homes proposal. [More…]
Those regulations will nevertheless be validated for the future so that in any new proceedings the technical point will not be available as a possible defence. [More…]
The Loan Council approves the borrowing program for the Federal Government and each State Government, except in the case of temporary and defence purposes. [More…]
External affairs, defence in some aspects at least, and customs tariffs are obvious cases, but others might need to be added, such as coinage and legal tender as well as, of course, the major matters of Aboriginal land rights, uranium and related matters. [More…]
Did the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence recommend the establishment of an advisory body to be known as the Australian Refugee Policy Council under the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
1 ) The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence recommended the establishment of an advisory body to be known as the ‘Australian Refugee Policy Council ‘ for the purpose of assisting the Government to formulate an Australian policy on all aspects of refugee resettlement and to review and continually assess its implementation and effectiveness. [More…]
More than that, the Commonwealth, through the Queensland Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, funded litigation by the community first of all to the Queensland Supreme Court and then, when the judgment of that Court in favour of the Aurukun community was under challenge by the Queensland Government in the Privy Council, the Commonwealth funded the defence by the community. [More…]
“(3) It is a defence to a charge under sub-section ( 1 ) if the person charged proves- [More…]
“(7) In proceedings for an offence against sub-section (2 ) or (4) it is a defence if the person charged proves- [More…]
The position is that about 18 months ago, perhaps 24 months ago, the Minister for Defence asked me to look at the problems of the Organisation. [More…]
A group comprising representatives of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, ASCO itself, the Department of Defence and the Public Service Board was appointed to assist the ASCO Council in the winding down of ASCO. [More…]
I direct a question, which relates to the question asked by the honourable member for Bendigo, to the Minister for Construction as Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Pursuant to section 48 of the Australian Housing Corporation Act 1975 and section 50b of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918, I present the annual report of the Australian Housing Corporation for the year ended 30 June 1975. [More…]
In defence of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) I agree that he has conformed with the convention in the sense that when a statement is to be made it is provided a couple of hours beforehand. [More…]
He is always missing when issues that call for public explanation or public defence of his Government’s actions come before this House. [More…]
Defence Establishments: Local Government Rates (Question No. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Defence repudiate General Stretton ‘s claim that his conversation with the Chief of the General Staff was secretly recorded and that the tape was tampered with in Watergate fashion? [More…]
The only defence for the Government would be that it did not know that fact on 7 April. [More…]
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. [More…]
This Parliament has been engaged in the defence of human rights and the propagation of the belief in freedom and in rights for all people. [More…]
For example, in October 1977 the sub-committee on human rights in the Soviet Union of the Parliament’s Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence widened its initial terms of reference to include the following: . [More…]
One of the co-founders of the Helsinki group in the USSR, Ludmila Alexeyeva, in the paper The Orlov Defence ‘ stated: [More…]
The Ukranian Dr Leonid Pluysh appeared before the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee and gave evidence publicly. [More…]
The judges, fearlessly rejecting the adage that no man ought to be a judge in his own cause, took the view that the trial was exemplary; that his actions proved that Bhutto was a liar, confirmed his guilt and invalidated his defence. [More…]
The first two statements were made, although they were absolutely irrelevant in answer to questions under Section 342, and the last statement was allowed to be dictated after the close of the defence evidence when all legal avenues for the making of such statement before the Court were legally closed and yet he came out with allegations that the statements were not fully recorded. [More…]
Much of the criticism is based on misinformation and given that Australia is an island continent distant from most of its major markets and suppliers the criticism is short sighted and against the national interest in terms of long term economic security and defence needs. [More…]
It was interesting to see how seriously China takes defence. [More…]
My wife and I were taken for a walk for two and a half miles under the city of Peking to observe and see at first hand China ‘s defence in the event of a nuclear war. [More…]
Defence Act 1903 [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 May 1978: [More…]
to (3) As part of a major reference I put before the Committee of Reference for Defence Force Pay, an independent advisory body to the Minister for Defence under judicial chairmanship, that Committee has presented its report to me on the allocation to appropriate pay levels of all Service other rank employment categories. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 16 March 1978: [More…]
What cost effects has the devaluation of November 1976 had on defence procurement, in particular on major equipment acquisitions. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: ( 1 ), (2 ) and (3) While I had not personally seen the report to which the honourable member refers, I have been informed by my colleague, the Minister for Defence, that it was intended to be a lighthearted account of a very minor event on the Navy’s exercise calendar which lasted a morning. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has further informed me that prisoner interrogation is not a function for which the RAN is trained and that, in this instance, the photographs portraying such hypothetical interrogation were the result of an uninformed, imaginative embellishment of the exercise scenario and of a staff reporter’s sense of the dramatic. [More…]
With the exception of the Defence Service Homes Corporation which has compulsory acquisition powers under its own Act, the legislative provisions of the Lands Acquisition Act 1955 apply to all compulsory acquisitions effected under the Act on behalf of all Commonwealth departments and all other Commonwealth statutory authorities. [More…]
Employment of Women in Defence Services (Question No. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 May 1978: [More…]
In the Air Force servicewomen are not employed as aircrew or in the defence ground category or mustering. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 May 1 978: [More…]
1 ) Does the Government intend to extend the payment of Defence Force Retirement Benefit contributions from 20 to 25 years ‘service. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 May 1978: [More…]
If so, (a) will it decrease the use of Holsworthy by the Department of Defence as a field firing training base and (b) what measures does the Government propose to take to ensure that noise pollution by military training activities in the Holsworthy area is reduced. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 June 1978: [More…]
If he really stands by that then there are serious implications flowing from that statement which require a defence from him. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is left out, the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) is left out, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) is left out. [More…]
Has he received and had examined by the relevant Government departments the final report of the R. N. Bonnett Inquiry into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act; if so, when is it expected that the Government will act on the recommendations of the report. [More…]
I have received Mr Bonnett ‘s final Report of his inquiry into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme. [More…]
Defence Service Homes Commission [More…]
The range of properties includes a number transferred at Federation, pans of the Holsworthy Army Manoeuvre Area acquired in 1913, housing for Defence personnel, telephone exchanges (and extensions), post offices and an aerodrome. [More…]
Defence. [More…]
National Disasters: Provision of Stores and Equipment by Defence Forces (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 May 1978: [More…]
1 ) What stores or equipment have been given by the defence forces to individuals, civilian groups, State Governments or other Commonwealth Departments during national disasters since March 1976. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 May 1978: [More…]
34 Squadron are those which were tabled in the House of Representatives on 6 March 1973 by the then Minister for Defence, the Honourable Lance Barnard, M.P. [More…]
The Department of Defence raises quarterly accounts on the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in respect of hours flown and other costs incurred by No. [More…]
Other charges recovered include the actual costs of rations consumed, aircraft handling and landing fees, cleaning costs, and any other marginal or extra costs associated with the carriage of entitled persons which are not normally the responsibility of the Department of Defence. [More…]
War Pension Assessment Appeals Tribunals; and Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
Defence Service Homes Corporation [More…]
Funds appropriated in the Budget for the Defence Service Homes Corporation were as follows: [More…]
The appropriations for the Defence Service Homes Corporation in 1975-76 and 1976-77 were on a one line basis and in 1977-78 on an itemized basis. [More…]
The Commonwealth Auditor-General audits the activities of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (and where considered necessary, the Repatriation Commission) and the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
The Defence Service Homes Corporation is the successor to the Australian Housing Corporation, which was established on 24 June 1975 under the Australian Housing Corporation Act 1975. [More…]
On 13 December 1976 the Defence Service Homes Amendment Act 1976 reconstituted the Australian Housing Corporation as the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
Subsequently, the Defence Service Homes Amendment Act 1977 which came into operation on 1 July 1977, repealed the Acts, and re-established the Defence Service Homes Corporation under the Defence Service Homes Act 1918. [More…]
The most recent review into the Defence Service Homes Corporation was carried out by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure and the report of that Committee was tabled in the House of Representatives on I June 1978. [More…]
Defence [More…]
This Bill will authorise borrowings for defence purposes in order that defence expenditure, which would normally be met from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, may instead be met from the Loan Fund. [More…]
The Bill authorises borrowing for defence purposes, but it does not authorise any defence expenditures additional to those which have already been authorised by Parliament in Supply Act (No. [More…]
It will simply allow reallocations between the Consolidated Revenue Fund and the Loan Fund of defence expenditures to be made during the remainder of the financial year, following the enactment of this legislation. [More…]
I should also mention that as borrowings under this legislation will be for the purpose of financing defence expenditure, those borrowings will not require approval from the Australian Loan Council. [More…]
However, the Bill includes a specific limit to the amount of such borrowings that may be undertaken; this limit is directly related to the level of defence expenditure which is expected to be made from the date of enactment of the Bill to 30 June 1979. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 4 May 1978: [More…]
The Defence Department issued, in August 1976, a Noise Exposure Forecast (NEF) for both RAAF Base Williamtown and the Range. [More…]
Thus, control is proposed to be exercised through the Defence Areas Regulations which are currently being prepared for promulgation. [More…]
The Department of Defence has concluded agreements with the Department of Transport for Military Air Space in the Williamtown area. [More…]
These agreements, now incorporated in the ‘Joint Aviation Standards and Procedures’, are sufficient to protect the Defence interests for the foreseeable future. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 May 1978: [More…]
1 ) How many incidents of robbery or misappropriation of arms, explosives and weapons from defence stores have occurred in the last year. [More…]
Are security arrangements for the storage of weapons and ammunition at unpatrolled locations, such as Australian Defence Reserve depots, adequate to prevent weapons falling into the hands of criminals or terrorists. [More…]
The anti-personnel mines excepted, the small amount of Defence Force material which was lost was of a kind that could have been acquired from the many commercial and industrial premises which stock firearms, explosives and the like. [More…]
On the whole the incidents reported do not support a suggestion that criminals or terrorists would see Defence depots as a more readily exploitable prime source of weapons of interest to them. [More…]
Nonetheless, the Defence Force takes all such incidents very seriously and all are thoroughly investigated. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1978: [More…]
1 ) Were members of the Defence Force deployed in respect of traffic control, maintenance of security or other duties on the occasion of Sir Robert Menzies’ funeral at Melbourne on 19 May 1978. [More…]
If so, what was (a) the number of personnel involved, (b) the defence unit or units involved and (c) the prescribed objective of the deployment. [More…]
Was the Victorian Police Force considered incapable of performing the duties undertaken by Defence personnel. [More…]
What authority is vested in Defence personnel utilised on such occasions to (a) regulate the behaviour of civilians, (b) apprehend and charge civilians with offences, (c) complement the traditional responsibilities of State Police and (d) use weapons or defence equipment in the discharge of duty. [More…]
What are the essential differentials between such defence service deployment and martial law. [More…]
Other Defence Force assistance was directed to meeting the military ceremonial requirements for the funeral at the request of the Depanment of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
Depanment of Defence. [More…]
It is an established practice for elements of the Defence Force to perform a military ceremonial role at state funerals when requested to do so by the responsible civil authority. [More…]
Use of other Defence Force equipment is authorised to meet the requirements of the particular event. [More…]
by the Victoria Police and by the civil courts) were not affected in any way by the arrangements for Defence Force assistance in the state funeral. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 June 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 June 1978: [More…]
Did his Department recently place orders for laser rangefinders for the Defence Forces with a Norwegian firm. [More…]
I raise for the consideration of the Parliament, the Minister for Productivity (Mr Macphee) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) the future of the Australian Government Engine Works at Port Melbourne. [More…]
The previous Government at all times envisaged that the Australian Government would maintain a continuing financial interest and involvement in the workshop because of the very specialised technology available there and its relevance to Australia’s future defence commitments. [More…]
According to a memorandum produced on behalf of the Government the Department of Defence- and note it is the Department of Defence and not the Minister for Defence, and I invite the Minister to consider this matter at some stage- without proffering any detailed reasons, indicated that as far as it was concerned the workshop has no significant defence potential. [More…]
If that is the position, I find it extraordinary that we in this Parliament can accept a situation in which a workshop that has this very specialised capacity and which, in my view, has defence potential, can be summarily dismissed as a result of the contents of a departmental memorandum. [More…]
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence stated at page 191 of its October 1977 report: [More…]
Who gives some public servant in the Department of Defence higher priority, in terms of the basis upon which the Government makes its decision than an all-party parliamentary committee? [More…]
As I have said, the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence was made in October 1977. [More…]
The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in reality made a very strong, very firm and very positive recommendation on the future of the engine works and that recommendation has just been blithely ignored. [More…]
One does not have to be a defence expert to realise that Australia is an island nation. [More…]
The future of our shipbuilding industry, our capacity to service both our merchant and our naval requirements, is absolutely critical to our future defence capacities. [More…]
I ask both the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Productivity to stay their hands. [More…]
Once this very important facility is disposed of we have disposed of a facility, a technology and a working experience which was absolutely critical to the past defence needs of this nation. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister resorted to a defence that is related to a discussion on legislation that was put to the Parliament at the time of the Whitlam Government about the establishment of a similar authority. [More…]
to maintain the present eligibility of members of the Defence Services for housing finance from the Defence Service Housing Corporation; [More…]
to permit Parliament to maintain adequate scrutiny of the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme; [More…]
The Defence Service Homes Scheme is one of the longest standing programs dealt with in this Parliament. [More…]
The principal purpose of this Bill is to amend the Defence Services Homes Act 1918 to implement decisions taken by the Government in the context of its deliberations on the 1977-78 Budget. [More…]
Later in my speech I will deal with the necessity to regard the defence service homes area as a part of the overall housing industry. [More…]
The first matter to which I refer is the qualifying period that a member of the Regular Defence Force has to serve before he is eligible for a defence service home loan. [More…]
One of the decisions announced at the time of the 1977-78 Budget-I stress again that this was the Budget delivered a year ago, not the Budget we heard presented last Tuesday night- was the intention to extend the qualifying period to be served by members of the Regular Defence Force in order to be eligible for a defence service home loan. [More…]
Persons who commenced full time service in the Defence Force on or after 17 August 1977 will become eligible for a loan on the completion of six years continuous full time service, subject to a commitment to render further full time service. [More…]
By the proposed insertion of a new section 27b in the principal Act the Bill will permit the Defence Service Homes Corporation to give a measure of preference in the allocation of loans to those whose eligibility is based on war service. [More…]
This is the first time in the history of the Defence Service Homes Scheme, or the War Service Homes Scheme as it was known for many years, that a fee has been charged on an application. [More…]
The terms and conditions of the cover are contained in the Defence Service Homes Act and Regulations, with the result that amending legislation is required before even a minor change can be made. [More…]
The fifth proposal is the recognition for the purposes of the Defence Service Homes Act of de facto relationships. [More…]
It is this Government which we have seen decrease in real terms by over 50 per cent in the last three years the amount of money made available for defence service homes. [More…]
In 1975-76, $122m was made available for defence service homes. [More…]
Expenditure on defence service homes has dropped to $7 9m this year compared with an expenditure of $90m last year. [More…]
Not only does this decision represent a cutting back in expenditure of about $10m; it also adds to the waiting time for ex-servicemen and other people who are eligible for defence service homes. [More…]
For the first time, the legislation will discriminate between an officer who accepts a career appointment and who may resign at any time and other ranks on the basis of service for eligibility for a defence service home loan. [More…]
For example, an officer who has served six years and one day may be eligible for a defence service home loan. [More…]
Mr Adermann also said that the Government had decided not to proceed with a plan, previously announced, to grant a measure of preference in the allocation of Defence Service Homes loans to applicants who qualified because of war service. [More…]
In the few minutes I have left in which to speak in this debate I want to deal with defence service homes as part of the overall housing industry. [More…]
The Australian Government has direct responsibility for the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement under which welfare houses are built as well as for defence service homes. [More…]
Its policy on defence service homes is no exception. [More…]
For example, as I said earlier, in 1975-76, the last year of the Labor administration, $122m was allocated for defence service homes. [More…]
As I said earlier, that is a 50 per cent cut in real terms on the amount of money made available to defence service homes in 1 975-76. [More…]
Defence service homes is not the only area of housing that is under attack by this Government. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I was dealing with the inter-relationship between defence service homes and housing in general. [More…]
Defence service homes are part of the overall policy of the Government. [More…]
I was indicating that the Government is as consistent in its policy on the home savings grant as it is in its policy on defence service homes. [More…]
I point out that for many years there has been a delay in the payment of government loans under the war service homes scheme and then the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
I am not at all sure of the equity of having a system under which the home savings grant would seem to have a preferred position in relation to that of the defence service homes grant. [More…]
Many of them are still alive and some of them are still serving in our defence services today. [More…]
The initial defence service homes measures were introduced in recognition and appreciation in a national sense of those people who paid a sacrifice in regard to their careers or futures by meeting the call that was made on them by the nation. [More…]
The criticism which has been recognised by the Government is the basis for making some of the changes which are currently before us in the Defence Service Homes Amendment Bill 1 978. [More…]
The defence service homes legislation has not been introduced for the purpose of encouraging people to join the Services. [More…]
If the terms and conditions of service are not satisfactory and if the number of men coming forward to play their part in the defence Services is insufficient, other measures should be adopted; we should not be adopting this measure which is a traditional one for assisting those who are being paid a tribute by the nation. [More…]
Other provisions contained in this legislation will give the Defence Service Homes Corporation the capacity to apply a needs test to those who have served. [More…]
I would like to draw the attention of the House to the comments it made on the large staff used to administer this program, and to the comment that it made about the need for a better definition of what the defence service homes scheme really should be about. [More…]
That would then become an entitlement to purchase a home under the provisions of the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
When a person wished to buy a home it would be quite easy for him to go to a building society, bank or other approved lending organisation, present his defence service homes entitlement and state to the providers of the additional finance: ‘There is my contribution, which has been given to me in recognition of my service to the nation’. [More…]
The fact that some 80 per cent of loans are for $15,000 or above indicates that maximum funding is required by the majority of users of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
The welfare role adopted by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Defence Service Homes Corporation is notable and one that should continue. [More…]
They include a provision that persons who commence full-time service in the Defence Force on or after 17 August 1977 will become eligible for a loan on completion of six years’ full-time service subject to a commitment to render such service. [More…]
Again, the Defence Service Homes Corporation will give a measure of preference in the allocation of loans to those whose eligibility is based on war service and, I understand, need. [More…]
They have given time and training, dedicated their lives to important areas of our defence and sacrificed many family pleasures and enjoyments that the average citizen benefits from in order to take part in a fine and proud career in the service of the nation. [More…]
I am not sure that that is a bad thing because this legislation is not designed to vest great benefit in the people who would be applying under the provisions of the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
The Bill is bad news for servicemen and ex-servicemen who seek assistance from the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
Servicemen can only deplore that fact, as must ex-servicemen, who also will be required to wait for their defence service homes benefits. [More…]
The conditions of the defence service homes insurance scheme are to be eroded. [More…]
The Budget also contained bad news about the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
Whereas in 1977-78 $90m was made available for the purposes of the Defence Service Homes Act, the allocation is reduced by $ 11.2m to $78.8m. [More…]
We on the Opposition side are subjected to incessant disparagement, but any serviceman will tell honourable members that the defence service homes scheme was greatly reformed during the time of the Labor Government. [More…]
I suppose it is significant that our legislation even changed the name of the relevant legislation from its old name of the War Service Homes Act to the Defence Service Homes Act so that the serving members of the forces could derive continuing benefit. [More…]
It is not generally understood that all the great benefits of the defence service homes schemethe old war service homes scheme- have been provided without significant cost to the Government. [More…]
But even with the application of an exceptionally low interest rate under the defence service homes scheme- the lowest interest rate in the country- these loans have been made available without liability to the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Labor Party made the scheme available to serving members of the forces by changing the name of the scheme from the war service homes scheme to the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
As honourable gentlemen will recall, on 24 June 1975 responsibility for the defence service homes scheme was transferred to the Australian Housing Corporation. [More…]
In the Labor Government’s first full financial year- 1973-74- capital expenditure on defence service homes was $102m, compared with $74.3m for 1972-73 and $65m for 1971-72. [More…]
The Liberal Budget in 1971-72 gave $65m to the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
it will be consistent with, and will strengthen, the prevailing conditions of service for the Defence Forces that are designed to encourage longer service. [More…]
The Opposition is very concerned about clause 27 (b) of the Bill, which will provide a discriminatory waiting period for defence service home loans. [More…]
The provisions about the defence service homes insurance scheme give concern. [More…]
From time immemorial it has been the case that ex-servicemen and servicemen who have been insuring their defence service homes have been able to get coverage on better terms and conditions than were available elsewhere. [More…]
Ex-servicemen and servicemen who have insured their homes under this insurance scheme have enjoyed such conditions for a long time, but under this legislation there is every indication that the defence service homes insurance scheme will be watered down so that it is no better than any other. [More…]
I remind the House that a stock of approximately 12,000 hectares of land with a value of $39.4m was conscientiously built up by the Labor Government to ensure that houses could be made available in decently planned estates at the lowest possible prices to exservicemen and servicemen who were benefiting under the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
We are anxious to know why in this Budget the Government has announced its intention to sell off that estate, probably to some exploitative developers who will require the same servicemen and ex-servicemen to pay a lot more than they would have had to pay under the defence service homes legislation. [More…]
One of the incentives offered was the entitlement to the defence service homes loan. [More…]
This Bill is another example of the Government paying only lip service to its oftrepeated assertion about the great debt of gratitude we owe our ex-service men and women and the serving members of our defence forces. [More…]
In this Bill, for the first time, a fee is levied on applications for loans under the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
The defence service homes scheme, which was known previously as the war service homes scheme, has always been a politically administered scheme rather than an efficiently and economically administered scheme. [More…]
The Defence Service Homes Act now covers veterans from World War II and from other designated campaigns, for example, the Korean War. [More…]
From 1973 exservice men or women who had three years continuous regular or national service in the defence forces were covered. [More…]
Continual changes have been made to the defence service homes scheme since 1919. [More…]
The present aims and objectives of the scheme appear to be to reward those who served their country in time of war, to attract and retain regular servicemen in peacetime, to recognise the significant contribution made to national defence by servicemen who undertake full time service of a substantial duration and to compensate regular service men and women for the considerable disadvantages they suffer in acquiring a permanent home when compared with other members of the community. [More…]
There has also been very wide variation over the years in the amount of money made available for fulfilling the policy objectives of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
Papers for the last few years- show that in 1975- 76 the net payment for defence service homes was $47. [More…]
In 1978-79 the estimated net payment to the Defence Service Homes Corporation is $ 10m and the interest subsidy is $25.6m, making a total of $35.6m. [More…]
Under the Labor Government the Defence Service Homes Corporation was getting $70.24m, and under this Government- the Government that says that defence is paramount and that its gratitude to our ex-servicemen is unbounded- the figure this year has been reduced to $35.6m. [More…]
The capital advance to the defence service homes scheme this year is $10m. [More…]
In other words, this Government has decreased by $37.9m the capital advance to the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
Let me take the Budget allocation for the Defence Service Homes Corporation a little further. [More…]
In addition, the Defence Service Homes Corporation is expected to pay to the Consolidated Revenue Fund $6m, estimated to be the proceeds from the sale of surplus building blocks and land, and further repayments of $7.8m for other reasons. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind nor in the collective minds of the members of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure that the defence service homes scheme is due for a thorough overhaul. [More…]
This report represents the first in-depth and searching examination of the Defence Service Homes Scheme (DSHS ) which came into operation in 1 9 1 9, almost 60 years ago. [More…]
the Minister for Veterans ‘ Affairs define and explain the objectives of the Defence Service Homes Scheme to the Parliament . [More…]
the long title of the Defence Services Homes Act 1918 be amended to read as follows: An Act to assist eligible persons to acquire a residential dwelling . [More…]
the Defence Service Homes Act 1918 be amended to allow eligible persons to choose to receive either a housing loan or a cash grant which would also be used to acquire a residential dwelling . [More…]
I seek leave of the House to incorporate in Hansard the remaining nine recommendations which appear on page 6 of the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure into the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
that the Minister for Finance determine that the interest rate payable by the Defence Service Homes Corporation on its total accumulated capital be the current long-term bond rate, so that the Interest Subsidy item in Appropriation Bill No. [More…]
the numbers of staff used in the processing of new applications in the Defence Service Homes Corporation State Officers of Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania be reduced by 8 staff, 4 staff and 2 staff respectively. [More…]
the Defence Service Homes Corporation undertake a cost-effectiveness study to determine whether magnetic tape units should be used- to obtain cost savings by sharing the computer facility with departments; and as an alternative to microfiche in registry work. [More…]
annual reports of the Defence Service Homes Corporation include information on unit costs of processing new applications and maintaining securities in each State Office and information on the number of man-days taken to process new applications in each State Office. [More…]
appropriate changes be made to relevant legislation to allow persons who obtain loans under the Defence Service Homes Scheme to insure their properties with the company of their choice. [More…]
Recommendation 4 is an absolutely new approach to the defence service homes scheme and deserves serious and urgent consideration by the Government. [More…]
At the outset I state that we fully support the Defence Service Homes Amendment Bill as introduced by the Government and we are totally opposed to the amendments moved by the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren). [More…]
Previous speakers, as is their right, advanced criticisms of the Government’s activity in the area of defence force housing. [More…]
So we have Opposition speakers in this House loud in defence of the ex-servicemen of Australia but the Leader of the Opposition wants to abolish the portfolio of Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]
Previous speakers have detailed the wonderful achievements in the general area of defence service home loans. [More…]
However, I think it is appropriate to remind the House and the people of Australia that because of the fact that we have encouraged home ownership in this country as against the policy and platform of the Australian Labor Party of encouraging home rental- it even has the temerity to suggest that we should have an imputed value on home ownership as far as rental is concerned- many of the people who are at present in the defence forces have, on account of security, cost containment and a deliberate emphasis in the area of home ownership, already obtained their own homes. [More…]
Whilst less finance is available this year compared with last year, it is appropriate to remind the House that on account of the emphasis on home ownership many people in the defence forces who do not meet the eligibility requirements under the present legislation have purchased their own homes and will not be waiting until the completion of their service to take advantage of the generous allowances under this scheme. [More…]
They have been altered only as far as the extension of service is concerned for people who join any of the defence forces after 17 August. [More…]
I ask the Minister to give special consideration to a couple of aspects in the general area of defence service home loans. [More…]
I should have thought that one of the Opposition speakers would have taken note of that point and would have commented that insurance premiums generally for defence service home loans have been reduced. [More…]
Many of the homes which suffered damage were covered by defence service home loans insurance. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May 1978: [More…]
1 ) Who in the Defence Depanment was responsible for not briefing him in relation to the Harold Holt base at North West Cape. [More…]
1 ) In the Defence Organisation the responsibility for conveying information required by the Minister rests with the Secretary on policy matters and the Chief of Defence Force Staff on military operational matters. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May 1 978: [More…]
Is the North West Cape facility locked into Australia’s long term defence program; if so, was the decision an Australian initiative and when was it taken. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May 1978: [More…]
1 ) Are the Australian defence forces capable of containing any consequences from hostile countries reacting to a full alert. [More…]
1 ) Present and planned capabilites of the Australian Defence Force are considered appropriate in presently assessed strategic circumstances. [More…]
The Joint Statement issued by the Australian Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) and the US Secretary of Defence (Mr Schlesinger) on 10 January 1974 stated ‘The Ministers recalled the provisions of Article III of the ANZUS Treaty and confirmed the importance to both Governments of urgent consultations in case of a developing international crisis’. [More…]
Mr Barnard said that in the discussions he had raised the question of prompt advice to Australia should the alert status of any US Defence installation in Australia be changed. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1978: [More…]
Article 3 (2) of the Agreement states ‘Except with the express consent of the Australian Government the Station will not be used other than for the purposes of defence communications . [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1978: [More…]
1 ) Is it normal practice for matters of significant policy content to be discussed at a technical level within the Department of Defence, without any notification of, or report on, the discussion being made to policy and other sections of the Depanment. [More…]
Was the Government or the Depanment of Defence notified in advance of the intention (a) to let tenders for equipment and (b) to appropriate funds for the Australian installation in the 1977 United States defence vote. [More…]
1 ) It is normal practice for discussions to occur at technical levels between defence officers and their counterparts in other countries without automatic reference to policy levels in the Defence Depanment when the substantive matters under discussion are understood to fall within the limits of established policy. [More…]
Defence Personnel located in Washington, D.C. (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1978: [More…]
How many Defence personnel are located in Washington, D.C. [More…]
Are Defence Force officers answerable on a single service basis. [More…]
Do any of the Defence personnel located in Washington have responsibility for reporting on policy developments. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1978: [More…]
1 ) Which officers of the Defence Department or Forces are responsible for monitoring and reporting upon hearings of defence matters before United States Congressional committees and sub-committees. [More…]
On what date and to whom were the hearings of the Congressional Sub-committee on Defence Construction at which documents were tabled relating to new facilities at the North West Cape Base reported upon by the Australian Defence officers who had the responsibility of making these reports. [More…]
For these reasons monitoring and reporting of such matters, arising in these hearings, can only be a part of the wide span of duties of the Head of Defence Force Staff Washington. [More…]
The US Administration did not inform any Australian defence official of the relevant hearing or of the tendering of the document. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1978: [More…]
1 ) What was the composition of the delegation from the Defence Department which went to Washington, D.C. in November 1977. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 June 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 June 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 June 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 June 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 June 1 978: [More…]
An AN/MSC-61 satellite terminal if installed at H. E. Holt would form part of the Defence Satellite Communications System. [More…]
The Australian Government considers that where US technical planning in respect of H. E. Holt bears actually or potentially upon the policy concerns of the Australian Government the fact of that planning should be brought directly and in a timely way to the attention of the Australian Defence Department through agreed and designated US Department of Defense and Australian Department of Defence policy channels. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 June 1 978: [More…]
The primary focus of Australian defence planning is- of necessity- Australia’s own region, although we have wider strategic interests elsewhere. [More…]
The effect of an Australian contribution would also need to be considered in the light of our own defence capabilities and the consequences for our military effectiveness if our limited military resources were to be depleted by a decision to contribute a key, if limited, element to a force in Namibia. [More…]
There could be substantial costs, at a time when our fiscal policies require tight budgetary restraint on defence as well as other areas of government expenditure. [More…]
It is that our own defence structure should be capable of deployment for maintaining and supervising peace as part of a United Nations force or for carrying out international peace-keeping agreements. [More…]
The Opposition is concerned to learn from newspaper articles by experienced journalists that the Department of Defence is opposed to any such commitment because we cannot afford it. [More…]
The nature of our defence structure at the moment is such that we cannot afford to be committed. [More…]
The restrictions and stringency measures contained in the Budget are clear evidence that our defence structure is rather weak, if in that context alone, we cannot subscribe to international arrangements. [More…]
We understand that there is disagreement on this issue between the Government departments, that the Department of Defence holds the view that we ought not to be involved and that the Department of Foreign Affairs holds the view that perhaps we should be playing a role. [More…]
I hope that when the Minister again delivers a joint statement he will inform us as to whether there is any disagreement between his Department and the Department of Defence on the basis of involvement. [More…]
My fellow shadow Ministers are of the opinion that there could be support for the attitude of the Department of Defence of not wanting to be involved because it can well affect its obligations in other areas. [More…]
Before I get into the details of that, let me remind the House that the purpose of this Bill is to provide legislative authority for the Treasurer to borrow up to $2,000m during 1978-79 to meet the anticipated deficit in the Consolidated Revenue Fund and to apply the borrowed funds to defence purposes. [More…]
Therefore, this Bill authorises borrowing for defence purposes so that expenditure on defence which otherwise would be met from the CRF may instead be met from the Loan Fund. [More…]
Defence expenditure is used simply because that avoids the necessity to go to the Loan Council. [More…]
-The particular defence expenditure which is at the moment in the CFR could be revenue expenditure. [More…]
I mentioned earlier, in response to an interjection by the honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin), that part of the defence expenditure relates to the purchasing of weapons overseas. [More…]
Basically, it enables defence expenditure, which is already included within the Consolidated Revenue Fund, to be transferred to the Loan Fund. [More…]
The amount which is chargeable to the Loan Fund- that is, defence expenditure- this year is $ 1,903m, the amount which was so chargeable and transferable last year was $ 1,359m. [More…]
The defence expenditure transfer- if I can use that term- from the Consolidated Revenue Fund is to be increased this year, yet the proposed deficit of the Government, both overall and domestic, will enjoy a substantial decrease. [More…]
This task will involve a major research program which must take many months and possibly years and the task of answering some of the questions posed by the honourable member is one for legal, military, defence and other experts. [More…]
It gagged debate and scuttled for cover in the coward ‘s castle of saying nothing in its own defence. [More…]
He made those remarks in a speech of resignation as Minister for Defence, a speech which 24 hours later was the catalyst for the removal of the former friend and party colleague, of the member for Wannon, Prime Minister John Gorton. [More…]
What a pathetic and tragic defence it was. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s only defence has been that he knew nothing of it. [More…]
What a miserable, hopeless defence. [More…]
What a defence for a man who claims to be an honourable man! [More…]
No defence whatsoever has come from a man whom we on this side of the House believe is unfit to be Prime Minister, a man who lacks any integrity whatsoever and a man who should not enjoy the confidence of his own Party let alone the confidence of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
-I am somewhat at a loss to know why the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) felt the necessity to make a statement on these three points concerning the Government’s general policy decisions in relation to conditions of service and defence matters. [More…]
But when income may accrue to the Government- according to the estimates of the Department of Defence the amount anticipated to be saved this year by more frequent adjustments is $21 1,000- the Government changes the period between adjustments from 12 months to six months. [More…]
I make one point, however: If the reenlistment bonus has any significant effect- I would like to see the evidence that it has not- in retaining persons who have already completed a period of service and therefore are trained for the jobs which they are expected to do in the defence forces, it is a saving for the Government, not a loss. [More…]
The cost of training any person for any of the complex tasks within the defence Services is extremely high. [More…]
I do not know that either measure has any additional effect on defence. [More…]
It should be remembered that last year the Government decided to extend from three years to six years the qualifying period for defence service homes loans. [More…]
In this year’s Budget, despite a statement made in May by the Minister for Construction and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay) that an inquiry was being undertaken into whether the defence housing system would be continued, the Government has withdrawn $15m from the provision for defence housing. [More…]
In the areas of defence establishments where houses are not to be provided or are to be disposed of if the report of the Expenditure Committee is carried through to its conclusion, it will create competition for rental accommodation which is in very short supply in most cities of Australia. [More…]
It will thus force up rentals not only for Service personnel who may gain some subsidy through other schemes within the defence system, but also for civilians in the same areas, and thus add to their costs. [More…]
Moreover, it is no longer considered appropriate that the Auditor-General have the responsibility of deciding that recovery should be made in a particular case and without there being a requirement for proof of guilt or for a defence by the person at fault. [More…]
Rescue boats have been carrying people backwards and forwards and performing the tasks that the civil defence people perform so ably in these times of emergency. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 10 May 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 May 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 May 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1978: [More…]
Statutory Authorities responsible to the Minister for Defence (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 29 May 1978: [More…]
(a) Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority; [More…]
Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board; [More…]
National Security Information 2.1 National security information is information affecting the defence, security or international relations of Australia. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 August 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 August 1978: [More…]
Will he table for the information of members of the parliament, the results of tests conducted by the Defence Standards Laboratories which would provide information likely to aid consumer protection. [More…]
Tests by the Materials Research Laboratories* (MRL), on products which may be of general consumer interest are carried out for the Armed Services, Commonwealth and State Departments and Instrumentalities, and product manufacturers and wholesalers interested in defence contracts. [More…]
If requested the Department of Defence will provide, through the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs, such ‘consumer interest’ information as can properly be made available. [More…]
- Formerly called ‘ Defence Standards Laboratories ‘. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 17 August 1978: [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether he is aware that the agreement between the Department of Defence and the University of New South Wales has broken down over the matter of academic appointments to the Faculty of Military Studies at the Royal Military College, Duntroon. [More…]
Is it true that many appointments, including at least two Chairs, cannot be filled because of a breakdown in the original agreement, and that courses for 1979 may be disbanded because of the hiatus between the Department of Defence and the University of New South Wales? [More…]
I refer the Minister for Defence to his Department’s reported issue of a certificate of expediency for the lease of the new IBM computer. [More…]
Pursuant to the open tender procedures, in 1973 an IBM 168 computer was leased and installed in 1975 at the Defence research centre at Salisbury. [More…]
I assure the honourable gentleman that there is no intention on the part of the Department of Defence, nor indeed on the part of the Government, to resile from the undertaking given that a new computer processor to be installed at Salisbury will go to open tender. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to public accusations that he has been disloyal to his Joint Chiefs of Staff? [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Does Dillingham Constructions have a contract to erect a $14m building for the Department of Defence at Victoria Barracks in Melbourne? [More…]
-The Minister for Defence has asked me to handle this question. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to the AuditorGeneral’s report concerning the inadequacies of fire protection services at Air Force bases, particularly at Amberley where the F 1 1 1 aircraft are based? [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence a question which is supplementary to that asked by my colleague the honourable member for Griffith. [More…]
Although it may be difficult to say the defence creating provisions such as section 1 70 apply to section 22 of the Act- [More…]
As a direct consequence of Government measures the defence service homes program now involves a waiting time of something like 14 months before an application for a loan is satisfied. [More…]
It cut back the money for the defence service homes scheme this year by another $10m. [More…]
It means that the waiting time to get a defence service home has been increased from 11 months to 14 months and creates a further slowing down of the housing industry. [More…]
In relation to zoning, the Committee is satisfied that the Government has the authority to use the proposed site, which is zoned ‘Special Uses: Defence’ for other than defence purposes. [More…]
I noted in paragraph 55 of the report that the Crown Solicitor had advised that the original defence acquisition was in 1915 and in 1917 was a lawful acquisition for a public purpose and that therefore there does not appear to be any constitutional or legal reason why the Commonwealth should not use the land for any purpose within its competence under the Constitution. [More…]
I want to move from the subject of social security to the subject of defence. [More…]
Defence in my view is the primary responsibility of a Commonwealth government. [More…]
After all, no other level of government can attend to defence and we cannot expect private enterprise to attend to the defence needs of Australia. [More…]
There has been a 5.2 per cent increase in defence expenditure in the Budget. [More…]
Whilst this increase is sufficient to keep pace with inflation and to provide for some new capital equipment I believe that as a community we are becoming more aware of Australia’s position in the world and the greater need we have to attend to our own defence needs. [More…]
A number of incidents over the last two or three years has drawn the Australian community’s attention to the defence needs of this country. [More…]
There have been other incursions of one sort or another which have not necessarily in themselves had a defence significance. [More…]
But the fact that these problems exist I think is bringing home to the Austraiian people an appreciation of the need for us to make much greater provision to attend to our own defence needs. [More…]
I do not believe that it is a proper function of the defence forces of this country to attend specifically to surveillance needs. [More…]
For one thing, the equipment used by our defence forces is of a high technology nature and is very expensive and its use for lower level surveillance activities is not justified. [More…]
Moreover, the training of members of the Defence Force is different from the training which is required of people who are fundamentally performing a police role. [More…]
It has been put to me by someone who has been involved in Defence Force training that our defence forces are trained to some extent to use the maximum force to achieve an objective as quickly as possible with maximum casualties to the other side and minimum casualties to our own side. [More…]
Therefore to throw members of the defence forces, who have received entirely different training, into a police role could possibly have some unfortunate consequences. [More…]
Also, from a civil liberties point of view I do not think it would be wise to allow members of our defence forces to be thrown into a situation where they may be required to apprehend people on the grounds of an alleged breach of civil law and where they may become used to that type of activity. [More…]
I refer to scandals such as the Withers affair, the Facom affair and another one in the Department of Defence which is right now in the offing. [More…]
Professor Ford of the University of New South Wales, Brigadier Macready, a representative of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), Dr Kelsall of the Mount Eliza Staff College and many people connected with youth affairs all agree that something of this sort should be done. [More…]
There is one aspect which is most disturbing in New South Wales and that is the development of the criminal defence system whereby the private legal profession is to a very great extent now almost without a real role in criminal defences. [More…]
In my opinion the pendulum has swung much too far towards the provision by the state of the defence. [More…]
We have the state carrying out the prosecution and we have the state carrying out the defence. [More…]
In New South Wales for many areas of public defence there is no means test. [More…]
The lack of a means test means that aid is going to persons who would otherwise be able to afford their own defence and the situation has become totally unbalanced. [More…]
Department of Defence. [More…]
There would be more of an employment creating effect if $ 10m was spent in the area of the Minister at the table, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) who is responsible for the building and construction industry, than if that same $10m was spent to buy another piece of defence equipment from overseas. [More…]
Finance for defence service homes has been cut by $10m. [More…]
A report on the defence service homes scheme was presented to this Parliament by a committee of the Parliament during the 1977-78 financial year. [More…]
For instance, if a large majority of honourable members took the view that more money needed to be spent on defence or that less money needed to be spent on defence, the Cabinet would be able to take that into account and would be able to say: ‘The Parliament takes this view about the matter and we as a Cabinet are prepared to implement in broad terms the sort of thing about which the Parliament is concerned’. [More…]
The logical reason for allowing members of parliament the facility to visit other areas of the world is that they can meet other politicians, other parliamentarians, and look at questions of defence, foreign affairs and economics. [More…]
In the Commonwealth sphere, particularly in the defence sphere, and in relation to properties that are looked after by the Department of Administrative Services for the Department of Defence, we are well aware that better fire protection is necessary. [More…]
It has copper and nickel refining; a railhead and a port; a meat works; growing and widespread light industry and commercial interests; and large defence establishments. [More…]
It would be a huge complex but not necessarily as large or as ornate as the Russell defence headquarters which manages the defence of this nation. [More…]
I understand that there are about three people at Russell for every man in the defence forces. [More…]
In that sense I am concerned that the parallel ombudsman for the defence forces has I think still not been appointed in a permanent sense. [More…]
I think someone is acting in a temporary capacity as the defence forces ombudsman. [More…]
I urge that the Government, which is quite properly expressing its concern for the people by substantially increasing the allocation for the Commonwealth Ombudsman, should mirror that concern in regard to the defence forces by resolving speedily the problem relating to the defence forces. [More…]
The quantities of these products produced by the factory vary from time to time and are dependent on Defence munitions requirements. [More…]
The scale of operation varies with the Defence demand. [More…]
The utilisation varies from time to time and is dependent on Defence munitions requirements. [More…]
Prime Minister and Cabinet or Department of Defence under established arrangements- [More…]
-I ask the Prime Minister whether he is correctly reported in a letter in the Pacific Defence Reporter which appears above his name. [More…]
Does he confirm the statement in that report which indicates that the long term future of defence procurement items for Australia rests with overseas suppliers rather than Australian suppliers? [More…]
That applies in the surveillance area, the transport area and the defence area. [More…]
The plain fact is that for some types but not all types of defence equipment it is likely that the principal sources of supply for the foreseeable future are overseas countries. [More…]
I know quite well that my colleague the Minister for Defence, within the broad thrust of government policy, within specific Defence Force needs and to the best of his capacity within the funds available, has sought to make sure that as much as possible of the Department of Defence vote is spent on the purchase of Australian equipment. [More…]
I will check my recollection of that letter that appeared in the Pacific Defence Reporter and I will see if there is any need to add - [More…]
-Mr Speaker, I seek your indulgence to add to an earlier question about the foreword that I did write for the Pacific Defence Reporter in relation to the Farnborough Air Show edition. [More…]
To: Pacific Defence Reporter [More…]
Australia with its large area, small population and long lines of supply from overseas has chosen to provide its armed forces with high technology equipment to make the most effective use of its resources for defence purposes. [More…]
Our industry already manufactures much of our defence material with more than half our expenditure on equipment and stores in 1977/78 being in Australia despite the major overseas expenditure high cost items such as Frigates, Hercules and Orion aircraft and Leopard tanks. [More…]
That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the Minister for Industry and Commerce responding immediately in his own defence to the grave charges levelled against him by the honourable member for Lalor. [More…]
The Minister for Industry and Commerce responding in his own defence to the matters affecting him raised by the honourable member for Lalor today and which have not been satisfactorily answered by the Treasurer. [More…]
Possibly the Reef is the biggest untapped reserve for commercial fishing and, as a result, we have foreign intrusion into these areas which is a danger not only to the defence but also to the security of this country. [More…]
In addition to those economic considerations, I suggest that defence, foreign affairs and humanitarian considerations- particularly in view of our place in this region of the world- may well justify Australia seeking a higher population by the end of this century. [More…]
Our defence, our security, our health, and also the problem of drugs are all areas of concern in this regard. [More…]
-I rise in this debate more out of sorrow than in anger to see that another young man on the Government side is involved in the defence of the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch). [More…]
Coverage of armed services and defence committee proceedings and reports are not a part of the responsibility of Foreign Affairs officers. [More…]
There are, however, certain aspects (such as SALT and troop withdrawals from Korea) which require political input as well as some broader issues in the defence budget that have foreign policy implications. [More…]
Foreign Affairs officers have also assisted in matters relating to Australian defence purchases under the Arms Control Act and defence purchasing offset arrangements. [More…]
Foreign Affairs officers did not attend or report on Department of Defence budget hearings for FY78. [More…]
In the event that the Embassy was aware in advance that hearings were to be held specifically on any aspect of Australia/United States defence relations, particularly relating to joint facilities, the Embassy would certainly cover them. [More…]
The 35 volumes of hearings relating to the FY78 Defence Budget, including 8 volumes on House Appropriations Subcommittee Hearings, were not transmitted to the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
I personally would like to see- again, I hope the Minister will understand- a lot more money spent on defence and a little less spent on foreign affairs. [More…]
I hope that the Minister is right but I sometimes worry when I realise that our defence expenditure as a proportion of Budget spending has dropped to half of what it was 10 years ago. [More…]
The power is subject to a qualification that the Ombudsman is not entitled to information in certain circumstances described in section 9, for example, where it would prejudice the security, defence or international relations of the Commonwealth, and the Attorney-General issues a certificate to this effect. [More…]
The Department of Defence is examining a possible requirement for 12 hectares of the land for defence housing purposes. [More…]
The balance of the land, being 29.6 hectares is surplus to the requirements of the Department of Defence. [More…]
Other than the defence housing proposal, there is no other known Commonwealth requirement at this stage. [More…]
Is the Government under any constitutional obligation to accept as policy any report of the sub-committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which is inquiring into implications on Australia’s foreign policy and national security of proposals for a new international economic order? [More…]
The Government is not under any constitutional obligation to accept as policy a report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
In brief, the Task Force was required to take into account the use of such a system to provide high quality radio and television broadcasting and other telecommunications services to all Australia, its application in the areas of health, education, science, transport and defence; its use by the private sector for improved communication information and other services; and the implications of a satellite on current radio and television services and the terrestrial communications system. [More…]
The report also identifies potential improvements with communications associated with defence, transport, health, welfare, and education. [More…]
It makes recommendations on inclusion of Defence channels in a satellite system. [More…]
to maintain the present eligibility of members of the Defence Services for housing finance from the Defence Service Housing Corporation; [More…]
to permit Parliament to maintain adequate scrutiny of the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme; [More…]
Bill correctly, distributed a document containing amendments to be moved by the Government to the Defence Service Homes Amendment Bill 1978. [More…]
We acknowledge that there is a need for defence forces. [More…]
The Bill, in my opinion, places too much responsibility with the Defence Service Homes Corporation and takes the administration of the scheme away from parliamentary scrutiny to a very large extent. [More…]
We need to revert to a position where Parliament is able to maintain adequate scrutiny of the defence service homes insurance scheme. [More…]
Servicemen and women who serve for three years and then re-engage are eligible for a defence service homes loan. [More…]
-The Defence Service Homes Act is one of the most historic and important pieces of legislation that the Parliament has passed. [More…]
That was the provision that any member of the Services who served for three years would be entitled to the war service or defence service home loan. [More…]
In broad terms the changes provide that to be eligible for the loan a person who has not had war service must be a member of the defence forces for six years and then undertake a commitment to sign on for a further period. [More…]
It has not raised an outcry and it could not be said in any way to be an attack by the Government upon the conditions or the entitlements of members of the defence forces. [More…]
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure referred to this matter in its report on the defence service homes scheme and made suggestions for administrative changes. [More…]
First of all, there is an allegation that there is no maintenance of the present eligibility of members of the defence services for housing finance. [More…]
That is where the main wastage of the defence forces occurs. [More…]
In response to other statements that were made, it is necessary to point out that because of the different engagement and re-engagement arrangements of the Services it is just not practical to nominate a total period that a member of the defence forces must undertake to serve in order to qualify for a loan. [More…]
It has been alleged also that there will be inadequate scrutiny of the defence service homes insurance scheme. [More…]
When an application is withdrawn or is unsuccessful, the Defence Service Homes Corporation may refund whole or part of that fee. [More…]
I note also that the Government has maintained the present highly concessional interest rates on defence service home loans and the long repayment period of 32 years. [More…]
In the years between 1945 and 1952 the interest rates on defence service home loans were slightly above the long term bond rate. [More…]
The honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) said that there was to be an erosion of the defence service homes insurance scheme. [More…]
The honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Stewart) was a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure which held an inquiry into the defence service homes scheme throughout most of 1977-78. [More…]
by adding at the end of sub-section ( 1 ) the following definition: “Widow”, in relation to an eligible person who died after the commencement of section 3 of the Defence Service Homes Amendment Act 1978, includes a woman who lived with the eligible person as his wife on a permanent and bona fide domestic basis, although not legally married to him, for not less than 3 years immediately before his death. [More…]
Legal doubts have arisen as to the effectiveness of certain longstanding ministerial directions relating to the administration of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918. [More…]
Three such directions, two of which were issued as long ago as 1946 and 1948- the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson), who was critical of them, ought to remember which government was in office then- affected the eligibility of persons for a defence service homes loan. [More…]
We believe that a greater total amount should be made available for defence service homes and also that it is long overdue that the loan be increased. [More…]
The defence service homes scheme in the old days was called the war service homes scheme. [More…]
I think that it is highly fortuitous that he has come into this portfolio to administer a matter which is very important to the welfare of ex-servicemen and indeed servicemen who, as a result of initiatives taken by the Labor Government referred to by the honourable member for Reid, are also eligible for assistance under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
Lurking somewhere, I am inclined to think, in the Government ranks or indeed in the bureaucracy- although I must say that the bureaucrats who administer the defence service homes legislation are a very modern group of people- is somebody who has the sneaking idea that some servicemen or servicewomen who may not comply with all the technicalities possibly could qualify for a loan at 3% per cent interest. [More…]
To make certain and to tie up the legislation in a legally watertight way so that these people cannot get a defence service loan unless they have served in a combat area at a time when the country was at war. [More…]
In the first instance the legislation is to make it more difficult for serving members of the forces to get a defence service home loan. [More…]
Prior to this legislation going to the third reading stage and getting the assent of His Excellency the Governor-General serving members of the forces needed to complete only a three-year period of engagement to qualify for a defence service home loan. [More…]
I refer in particular to the intention of the Government to dispose of land which is held for the purpose of defence service homes estates. [More…]
The clauses of the Bill which relate to this matter expose a regrettable Government intention: No longer will servicemen and ex-servicemen who qualify for defence service homes be able to obtain one of these estate homes, which have been built in an aesthetic setting, with the benefit of town planning and architectural design, on land acquired on a bulk, raw acreage, basis and which hitherto have been made available without profit to the Crown, on advantageous terms to ex-servicemen. [More…]
It is a deleterious and backward step that the provisions of the Defence Service Homes Bill should do away with that scheme, which has benefited many hundreds, if not thousands, of servicemen and ex-servicemen over the years. [More…]
I am glad to say that there has never been even a suggestion of that kind of thing in regard to defence service homes. [More…]
If, for the reasons stated, it is not his intention to give effect to section 27B, I would ask him to tidy up the legislation and withdraw that iniquitous provision, which creates discriminatory classifications as between applicants for defence service homes. [More…]
Perhaps at another time the Australian Labor Party will have an opportunity to restore the beneficial terms that enabled serving members of the Defence Force to enjoy the benefit of defence service homes, so that that provision, which encouraged recruitment and enticed into the services men of great calibre, can again become a feature of the defence service homes legislation. [More…]
And if I may add my own words- who, by reason of that process of being discharged becomes ineligible for the purposes of the Defence Services Homes Act. [More…]
Why should a man who lands at Gallipoli or Balikpapan and serves his country voluntarily in an outstanding way and who, perhaps in a mood of celebration comes back and jobs his major, be ineligible for a defence service loan? [More…]
Undoubtedly it has been the case that such a person has been deprived of eligibility under the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
After so many years, among other things, I can have a defence service home’. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Defence seen the assertion in the Australia Financial Review that he suggested to Parliament yesterday that there might be no need to do anything about the radioactive waste buried at Maralinga other than to upgrade the police guard? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence familiar with the formula known as the implicit price deflator? [More…]
Applying that formula and any other relevant formula, can he say whether defence is continuing to obtain a fair share of available resources? [More…]
The presence in the Speaker’s Gallery today of my old friend the Honourable E. G. Whitlam, the emeritus member for Werriwa, reminds me of the occasion when I was first introduced to the implicit price deflator in relation to defence expenditure. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Moreton, the Minister for Defence, would agree that a woman some day could become the Minister for Defence, and that women should be given - [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Defence will take up this question. [More…]
I am sure that we can envisage women in the Defence Force performing tasks such as those of a pilot, as well as others. [More…]
All insurers authorised under the Insurance Act 1973, State Government Insurance Offices, the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme, and other Commonwealth agencies which insure property would be eligible to participate. [More…]
matters relating to defence, internal security, confidential communications with other countries and with the States [More…]
The allocation for defence service homes has been cut by $ 10.7m. [More…]
The Repatriation Act, as currently framed, allows for the main disability pensions, namely, the Special Rate- totally and permanently incapacitated- pension, intermediate rate and general rate as well as the war and defence widows’ pensions and Service pensions, to be adjusted automatically in May and November of each year, in accordance with movements in the consumer price index over the prior six months ended 3 1 December and 30 June respectively. [More…]
I believe that the defence service homes scheme in particular comes within the area we are talking about as an example of the special arrangements we have made to provide for the needs of country people. [More…]
I turn now to the defence service homes scheme which comes within the portfolio of the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Mr Adermann). [More…]
Ex-servicemen are waiting for defence service homes. [More…]
I believe that the defence services homes scheme is a weapon that the Government could use to assist to stimulate the building industry as a whole. [More…]
If there is now a matter that needs some action it is because of the vigilance of this Government and of the Minister for Defence, a vigilance that apparently was not shown under the previous Administration. [More…]
It is simply no defence to claim that the surcharge is only temporary and that it is just something which is to apply for a few months only. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May1978: [More…]
What defence-related facilities (a) operated by a foreign power and (b) jointly operated by Australia and a foreign power existed in Australia as at (i) 1 July 1968, (ii) 1 July 1970, (iii) 1 July 1972, (iv) 1 July 1974, (v) 1 July 1976 and(vi)1 May 1978. [More…]
Does Australia operate either solely or jointly any defence-related facilities in foreign countries; if so, (a) where, (b) for how long has each facility operated, (c) what is the purpose of each facility and (d) under what authority or agreement does each facility operate. [More…]
The facilities described in this answer are those which, whether or not precisely required by the language of the question, are considered to be properly included having regard to their direct relationship with Australian Defence concerns and with foreign involvement at one dme or another in the period covered by the question. [More…]
Agencies involved include the British and US Armies, US Coast and Geodetic Survey, and US Defence Mapping Agency. [More…]
Activities jointly undertaken with the US are covered by the Memorandum of Mapping, Charting and Geodesy Arrangements of 29 August 1973 which designates the United States Department of Defence and the Australian Depanment of Defence as respective cooperating agencies. [More…]
Department of Aboriginal Affairs; Department of Administrative Services; Attorney-General’s Department; Australian Bureau of Statistics; Australian Electoral Office; Australian Taxation Office; Department of Business and Consumer Affairs; Department of the Capital Territory; Department of Construction; Department of Defence; Department of Education; Department of Employment and Industrial Relations; Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development; Department of Finance; Department of Foreign Affairs; Department of Health; Department of Home Affairs; Department of Industry and Commerce; National Capital Development Commission; Department of National Development; Department of the Northern Territory; Postal and Telecommunications Department; Department of Primary Industry; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Department of Productivity; Public Service Board; Department of Science; Department of Social Security; Department of Special Trade Representations; Department of Trade and Resources; Department of Transport; the Treasury; Departmentof Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]
By way of preface I point out to the right honourable gentleman that last night I contacted former Prime Minister Whitlam and two former Ministers who served in the Defence portfolio- Mr Barnard and Mr Morrison. [More…]
The Defence Minister, Mr Killen, who only two weeks ago obtained Cabinet acceptance of the view that action had to be taken, suggested to Parliament yesterday that there might be no need to do anything other than to upgrade the police guard. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has since that time been ministerially responsible for those records. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has directed that an inquiry be conducted into all aspects of the material buried at Maralinga as a consequence of the tests conducted under the auspices of the memorandum of arrangements between the United Kingdom and Australian Governments. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Senator Withers The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
There were issues to be addressed of Commonwealth and State powers and responsibilities and of suitable administrative arrangements, bearing in mind that the area does not have relevance to any practical, contemporary Australian defence purpose. [More…]
A joint Defence-AIRAC reconnaissance of the Monte Bello site will, in fact, commence later this month. [More…]
The statement read by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is some 26 pages in length. [More…]
Therefore, we have to look at what the defence of the Government is. [More…]
In other words, he was misled by the Defence Department. [More…]
So why would Mr Barnard go off suddenly in 1973 and 1974 to find out whether there was plutonium there when the answer was given by the Defence Department- or the Minister for Supply in that case, and it is not exempt- as to what the position was? [More…]
I want to put it on this basis, not on the basis that we were supposed to find out something, but there could have been people in the Defence Department who did go to the trouble of finding out something. [More…]
It comes from the Chief Defence Scientist, Dr Farrands, and I would wager now that Dr Farrands was not satisfied at all and he was in a position to find out after the Labor Government left office. [More…]
I would say it was because there was a person, another scientist in the Defence Department, who said: Let us have another look at this situation. [More…]
You are not exempt at any stage, by bringing in the defence here that: ‘You should have known’. [More…]
At least he created it and encouraged it to do something about the matter, and the Minister for Defence admits that. [More…]
If we look at what was happening then in the defence area, and perhaps this is relevant today, there are people in Australia who deem that they have more responsibility to their own group than to a parliament or to a Minister. [More…]
That situation can flow through a defence structure, and a parliament can be denied accurate information about what happened. [More…]
The Defence Minister last night admitted that dangerous plutonium waste existed at Maralinga in South Australia ‘in a potentially recoverable form by potential terrorists’. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister for Defence, who is sitting opposite, is exempt from responsibility in this respect because he was not a member of Cabinet at the time. [More…]
If we now look at the answer given on 16 February 1977 by the Minister for Defence to a question on notice from E. G. Whitlam we find that he revealed that the waste from Christmas Island nuclear tests which resulted from washings of the British aircraft that flew to Edinburgh airfield in South Australia, were buried at Maralinga. [More…]
Answer by Minister for Defence [More…]
We have had no explanation by the Minister for Defence of his statement in the House on 9 December 1976 and his letter to me on 3 February 1977. [More…]
We do not know whether the Minister for Defence has been fully informed by his Department- and it seems that he has not yet been properly informed- or whether his Department has been fully informed by the British authorities. [More…]
This contradicts the statement by the Minister for Defence on 9 December 1976. [More…]
For a start, the Minister for Defence says that there are 20 kilograms of plutonium at Maralinga; but I am privately informed that actually 41 kilograms is buried at Maralinga. [More…]
In a letter to me on 3 February 1 977 the Minister for Defence made reassuring remarks about surveys of the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee, but we know how reliable they were. [More…]
The Minister for Defence also mentioned the 1968 report of the British Government’s waste which remains at Maralinga. [More…]
Since I do not claim capacities in that field I merely want to bring back to this debate the degree of logic which was introduced into it by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
I commend the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) for the lucidity of his explanation. [More…]
In view of the recent assertions in this House by the Minister for Defence and the Prime Minister that Ministers in the former Labor Government would have had full access to all the information in relation to radioactive storage at Maralinga that is available to the present Government, such as the manner in which the half-kilogram of discrete mass of plutonium came into existence, the detailed method of its storage and the physical form of the discrete mass and its potential recoverability, will he advise in what sources that information is available, when it first became available to an Australian government and whether access to these sources could be made available to me today as I certainly have not been able to establish this information from sources available to me? [More…]
In conclusion, might I therefore thank the Minister for Defence for allowing me access to the Pearce report, which I have carefully considered. [More…]
-As the honourable gentleman acknowledged, the Minister for Defence made the Pearce report available to him yesterday, I think very shortly after there was a request for information. [More…]
The only point of relevance in the remark which I made about this matter yesterday and which the Minister for Defence also made was that whatever information was available to us by and large was available to the Ministers of a previous government. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Defence, will determine what other documents might also be made available at an appropriate time. [More…]
Again I would have thought that Mr Barnard as Defence Minister might have been provoked into asking questions in relation to the matter. [More…]
I accept absolutely what the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said about the former Defence Minister. [More…]
There is only one other point I seek to make, and the documents which demonstrate this will be shown to the Leader of the Opposition appropriately, as the Minister for Defence determines, with whatever other material he believes should be made available. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence whether reports are correct that Vickers Cockatoo Dockyard Pty Ltd is the only Australian shipyard to have received tender documents for building a replacement for HMAS Supply. [More…]
Because allegations were made that Mr Barnard should have done something about the matter, in his defence I said in the course of the debate yesterday that I had checked the position with Mr Barnard who said: [More…]
I was referring to the present Minister for Defence ( Mr Killen)- knows very well that we were misled in 1972 . [More…]
-I realise that, sir, but I am bound to say in my defence and with deference to you- and I will come to clause 8- that - [More…]
The point that I wish to make is that the Opposition has been regarded as being anti-defence and amireturned soldier for a great number of years. [More…]
Just recently the Government introduced a provision which makes it essential that our permanent serving members of the forces serve six years, with a guarantee of extra service, before they are entitled to a loan under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
If the honourable member for Fadden looks at the history of the defence service homes scheme he will find that he knows nothing about the Defence Service Homes Act or the War Service Homes Act, as it used to be called. [More…]
One of the reasons why we introduced the three-year period of service in the permanent defence forces as the qualifying period for a war service home loan was to encourage people to remain in the Services. [More…]
In terms of Australia’s defence associations with members of ASEAN, it is true that we provide a range of assistance not only in the defence spectrum, which is more in the ambit of my colleague the Minister for Defence, but also in the aid area. [More…]
In the defence sense, those associations that have been continued with ASEAN countries are deliberately intended to assist in the development of measures of self reliance. [More…]
Indeed, I believe that throughout the days when the Whitlam Government was in office no significant change was made to the defence arrangements which are now being criticised by members of the Australian Labor Party and by the Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence whether a decision has been taken not to continue with the installation of Australiandeveloped sonar equipment on FFG frigates being constructed for the Australian Navy. [More…]
Sir Basil Osborne, a retired businessman and former Lord Mayor of Hobart, was commissioned in July 1975 by the then Minister for Defence to review the canteen requirements for the Defence Force. [More…]
It was subjected to close examination within ASCO, the Services, and the Department of Defence. [More…]
Many but not all of his proposals were attractive to the Defence Force but as a general scheme it was not acceptable, particularly against the background of economic restraint. [More…]
The report of Sir Basil Osborne has been requested on a number of occasions- My understanding is that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), at least on one occasion, indicated to a delegation that it was not available because it had been presented to a previous government. [More…]
1 ) Did he appoint a committee of inquiry into anomalies in the Defence Forces Retirements Benefits scheme relating to persons who retired prior to 1972. [More…]
1 ) and (2) In August 1 976 I agreed to a proposal by Mr Bonnett, a former member of this House, that he conduct a personal inquiry into possible anomalies in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act of 1948-73 relating to persons who retired prior to 1 October 1 972. [More…]
Employment of Public Servants and Defence Personnel after Hours and during Leave Periods (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 20 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 September 1978: [More…]
Did the Defence Force Ombudsman, Mr D. O. Hay, CB E., advise Sergeant Grade on 18 November that such a request, i.e. [More…]
The independent arbitration to which the Chief of the Air Staff referred in his direction to Sergeant Gracie alluded to the results of an inquiry into Sergeant Grade’s case by the Defence Force Ombudsman. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
Alternatives to the Australian Services Canteens Organisation are canteen systems that are more closely aligned to the basic and essential needs of the Defence Force in present day socio-economic circumstances. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1 978: [More…]
The Department of Defence has been in close consultation with the Public Service Board and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
and (2) The delay in the payment of revised salaries following this Government’s decision to grant equal pay to women in the Defence Force stems from the need to provide legal authority for the payments. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
1 ) and (2) Ranks and classifications in the Defence Force recommended for reduction in pay rates by the Committee of Reference for Defence Force Pay presided over by Mr Justice Coldham, a Deputy President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission are set out in the following table: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 September, 1978: [More…]
Until the return of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock), Senator Carrick will act as Minister for Foreign Affairs and will be represented in this chamber by the Minister for Defence ( Mr Killen). [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence: Were three officers of the Naval Technical Services Division of the Department of Defence who prepared a report critical of the Division’s operations interviewed late last year by a senior officer of the Department of Defence? [More…]
Finally and most importantly, what action has been taken within the Department of Defence to meet the criticisms contained in that report, which I understand are substantially valid? [More…]
It was in January 1975 that the General Secretary of the Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia wrote to the Secretary of the Department of Defence concerning the relationship between professional engineers and technical officers. [More…]
A Government members committee, as opposed to the Government, has indicated that the aircraft should be utilised more fully as a reconnaissance aircraft to maintain surveillance, for civilian and defence purposes, of the Australian coastline. [More…]
Removal of large engine capacity repair and maintenance in Australia will substantially reduce our response to and ability to deal with defence needs in this country. [More…]
It is a facility which, irrespective of its economic base, provides skills that are essential to our national wellbeing and to any defence effort that we may have to mount in the future. [More…]
I hardly need to remind honourable members of the critical need for standard roads in Australia- for trade, for decentralisation, for defence, and for various other purposes. [More…]
I refer to the current High Court challenge by an organisation named Defence of Government Schools, or more commonly known as DOGS, against the Federal Government’s right to fund independent schools in Australia. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 June 1978: [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that audit statements of the Australian Services Canteens Organisation from 1959 to 1977 all show profits; if so, why has the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence stated that the Organisation is being shut down because of repeated losses. [More…]
The answer given by the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence to a question without notice by the Member for Blaxland on 7 June 1978 explained that he did not make such a statement. [More…]
Two significant factors were the changed socio-economic circumstances of members of the Defence Force and the proximity of Service bases to regional and commercial centres. [More…]
) The Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence tabled a copy of the memorandum given to each member of ASCO’s staff on 7 June. [More…]
The Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence informed Parliament in his reply to the Member for Blaxland, that the question of superannuation and other benefits was a part of the program which will be developed. [More…]
The Chief of Defence Force Staff(General Sir Arthur McDonald) is consulted on all important decisions affecting the Defence Force. [More…]
Firstly, I want to deplore the sectarian challenge of the well-named DOGS- the Council for the Defence of Government Schools- to elementary justice for independent schools. [More…]
If one looks at other allocations for housing one finds that defence service homes expenditure is down by $ 10.7m over last year and housing expenditure in the Territories is down by $5. [More…]
Expenditure on defence service housing has been reduced by 26.6 per cent. [More…]
The Government has cut into the funds that were to be made available for defence service homes. [More…]
At the moment the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has a total of nine staff members. [More…]
The Defence sub-committee, for instance, has an extremely heavy work load but a staff of two. [More…]
A situation in which the chiefs of our defence forces claim we cannot contribute to a United Nations force is intolerable. [More…]
by leave- Two points are central to what I have to say today about the Defence appropriation of $2,501m for 1978-79. [More…]
Firstly, notwithstanding an overall Budget strategy calling for the most stringent economies throughout the public sector provision has been made for a defence outlay larger than any achieved since we withdrew from Vietnam. [More…]
This year’s amount for defence is larger in real terms than any since the last Budget of the McMahon Government. [More…]
Secondly, the outlay this year, even though it is higher than any achieved in the last six years, and conspicuously larger in real terms than any achieved by our predecessors in office, will not be large enough for us to achieve, in the time that we originally contemplated, all of the objectives and projects in the Defence White Paper of 1 976. [More…]
There was a crucial question to be addressed this year in framing the Defence budget, and it was this: Could we defer some of the defence development provisionally proposed for 1978-79. without there being a serious effect on the security which the defence program is designed to afford to the nation now and in the future? [More…]
Indeed, our national capacity to support defence would itself benefit over the longer run. [More…]
Our conclusion is reflected in the appropriation figures that have been presented and in the level of defence forward commitments that we will have this year. [More…]
order to maintain a steadily rising level in our defence outlay while avoiding sharp movements, there has been selective rescheduling and revision of some components of the defence program as described in the 1976 White Paper. [More…]
Some defence facilities or capabilities which we contemplated having in our possession one to two years hence will not now be in our possession until somewhat later. [More…]
But let me emphasise that the enhancement of our defence capabilities will continue. [More…]
We said in the White Paper in 1976 that we saw no credible threat in the short term of an attack upon our territory, But we concluded that we needed to maintain a defence force so structured that it would be capable of timely expansion, should longer term international uncertainties develop unfavourably. [More…]
International developments do not warn us that we must divert our defence effort to the achievement of significantly greater readiness in the short term. [More…]
It is the reason why the Government, when allocating defence funds between, on the one hand, consumables such as ammunition, spare parts, and fuel against, on the other hand, investment in long life, highly effective weapons and infrastructure, has sustained a preference for this latter kind of investment, expensive though they be. [More…]
It is easy for critics to say that we should spend more money on ammunition, fuel and other consumable stores to enable an increased number of flying hours, greater steaming time, more interesting and testing exercises and thus higher levels of training for the Navy, Army and Air Force, and at the same time to build up incountry stocks, and put capital and equipment into our defence industries to produce them. [More…]
Moreover, the Defence Force is at the same time making an increased contribution to non-military objectives by way of support of the civil authorities in coastal surveillance, disaster relief and many other ways. [More…]
But the pause which we have imposed on some areas of defence expenditure will benefit the economy and thus, in the longer run, the defence effort itself. [More…]
Much of that equipment will contribute to a more comprehensive defence capability in the maritime environment- air, surface,- and sub-surface- of our continent and of our neighbourhood. [More…]
-The statement delivered by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is one on which I congratulate him. [More…]
However, it contains no reference at all to the real situation in defence. [More…]
On first hearing, the statement gives the impression that everything in the garden is rosy, that there are no serious problems confronting our defence forces and no serious problems confronting Australian defence. [More…]
The first thing I want to say is that this statement, following on the statement made last year, buries the five-year defence program and the White Paper on defence presented in 1976. [More…]
It has reduced the training levels, especially in the reserve force, to levels which would render that force almost totally impotent and must bring up the question whether the reserve force is seriously considered to be part of the Defence Force. [More…]
I make that statement quite clearly, and I make it quite clear that I support the training and use of the reserve force as an adjunct to the permanent military force and consider that it has a potentially effective role in bolstering the national defence effort. [More…]
One would have thought, after watching the advertising campaigns which took place a little earlier this year, that a serious effort would have been made to ensure that the co-operation with the reserve force that was sought from civilian industry, the input that was asked of officers who give a considerable amount of their time to the reserve force and the participation in that force that was sought from young men and women would have been accompanied by a serious effort by the Government to make that force not only attractive but also a functional and effective means of providing additional Defence Force personnel in times of any need. [More…]
The Minister for Defence depended for justification of the present statement and the financial situation on past expenditures by past governments. [More…]
The defence budget brought down in 1972 included a component of 1 1,000 national servicemen in addition to a Regular Army force and other regular service personnel which was basically equivalent to the numbers engaged at the present time. [More…]
At that time 1 1,000 additional salaries were being paid which would have had an effect on the defence vote. [More…]
In terms of the gross domestic product, which is a measuring stick usually used in determining these things and one which I note the Minister used to criticise the Labor Government’s lack of input when he was the Opposition spokesman, the defence expenditure in 1973-74 was 2.61 per cent; in 1974-75, 2.68 per cent; in 1975-76, 2.6 per cent; in 1976-77, 2.65 per cent; and this year it is estimated at 2.63 per cent, allowing for the changes in monetary adjustments to the GDP as set out in the Budget. [More…]
I have some concern, as I think have most people who think about defence equipment, at the replacement syndrome- the continuation of a form of weapons system because the weapons system which is becoming obsolete was in that form. [More…]
It is a desirable capacity, but I doubt whether it is a $500m priority in a restricted defence expenditure program. [More…]
If, as is set out in the White Paper- I have seen no statement to contradict it- the aim of Australian defence is to protect the Australian continent from an unlikely but nevertheless possible incursion on to the Australian mainland and to exercise a role in the immediate area which would have a correlation to the defence of Australia, an air to air, land based fighter is not the weapons system that we ought to be looking at. [More…]
Those guns seem to have slipped right out of the defence program. [More…]
A number of aspects in the defence area other than equipment and personnel ought to be discussed by the House in some detail. [More…]
The facts are- I put these clearly to the Minister- that there is an urgent need for a review, similar to that which the Hope Commission carried out into the securities area, into the whole structure and operations of the Department of Defence. [More…]
The Department of Defence was exempt from the Coombs report on the Public Service. [More…]
The computer problems within the Department of Defence require an independent inquiry and reassessment. [More…]
The whole efficiency and capacity of the Defence Force and of the Department of Defence could well rely on the response capabilities of its computer sections in this modern day and age. [More…]
I suggest that without increasing personnel but with a proper approach to modern management processes by bringing in a team capable of dealing with computer programs and of setting the computer section of the Department of Defence in proper order, there could be great savings in personnel, funds, equipment costs and in other related areas within the Department of Defence. [More…]
Given the problems that the Minister has outlined in his budgetary statement, I wonder what is the justification for the maintenance of two Mirage squadrons in Malaysia which it was indicated in evidence in the Senate add $ 18m to the cost of defence. [More…]
One of the problems that face defence in Australia at the moment is a loss of morale of a very significant magnitude. [More…]
There is also a concern at the public level about defence. [More…]
There is no significant defence capacity in Australia from the Cape York Peninsula to Perth. [More…]
This statement by the Minister has, I think, contributed more to the discussions on disarmament than to those on defence. [More…]
I think that this statement follows a long history of conservative governments ‘ attitudes towards defence- a lot of talk and rhetoric and very little practical input. [More…]
I remind the House of the period immediately before the Second World War when expenditures on defence and defence preparedness were consistently cut by conservative governments whilst the hawks in conservative governments marched around the country telling us how important and necessary defence preparedness was. [More…]
One of the areas which is vital to any defence effort is our capacity to undertake research development and design of defence equipment and to maintain and to have an input into that equipment, given a defence emergency when those inputs are not available to us. [More…]
The White Paper clearly sets out that one of the most important single factors about our defence is our capacity to provide technicians who understand, assess and can give the necessary advice to Service personnel who are not technically qualified in the use and the maximising of the effectiveness of modern weapon systems. [More…]
Of the approximately 600 personnel who will be removed from the Public Service sector of the Department of Defence, in excess of 200 will go from the scientific research organisation at Salisbury. [More…]
The total staff in that area is something less than 2,000, but over onethird of that number will go out of the technical and scientific areas where extremely long lead times in the development of skills exist and in which a greater input and output are absolutely essential if a defence effort of any magnitude is to be maintained within any country. [More…]
FFGs is an example of the fairly regular dismissal of Australian developed projects in our defence areas where those projects are equal to or better than those developed outside Australia. [More…]
I understand that this project is potentially one of the most important electronic defence systems to be developed in the world and could have an immense market potential if its final development capacity is achieved. [More…]
For example, raising tariff levels can lead to reprisals and cripple export possibilities, and huge increases in defence spending might be politically unacceptable. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission and defence science and technology should certainly be subjected to the sort of inquiry which examined the CSIRO. [More…]
It consisted of 3 members drawn from the Overseas Telecommunications Commission, one member from Telecom, 2 members from the Department of Defence, 2 members from the Department of Transport, and one member from each of the Departments of Health and Finance. [More…]
Did the Minister for Defence note at Question Time yesterday how upset the Leader of the Opposition appeared when he asked the Prime Minister about a dinner given by some 40 Government back benchers in honour of the South African Ambassador in a private dining room in Parliament House? [More…]
To continue the humorous atmosphere created in the House by the Minister for Defence, I direct an artistic question to the Prime Minister. [More…]
We urge the Minister and other ministers, particularly the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), with responsibility for strategy and disarmament and arms control, to begin to take part in the debate in the Australian community on these issues. [More…]
By insisting on looking at the new problems in the old perspective, the Government is destroying all defence capacity while convincing itself that it must have massive forces to meet unforeseen contingencies. [More…]
None of our neighbours can, any more than we can, afford massive defence costs. [More…]
Australia ought to be a pacesetter in moderating defence expenditure rather than in acquiring sophisticated defence equipment. [More…]
The Australian people are disturbed about Indonesia’s military policies, but the next Minister to visit Indonesia will be our unsure Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
Responsibility for these matters is divided between a confrontationist Prime Minister, a Defence Minister with no need to know, a Foreign Minister with no power, a Trade Minister who has no ideas and a Special Trade Negotiator who has increasing difficulty negotiating his way aboard various aircraft. [More…]
The major issues- trade, investment, industry development, human rights, migration and refugee matters and defence co-operation- are the responsibility of as many Ministers. [More…]
If we look at the issue of defence we see that there has been a remarkable degree of co-operation over a very long time. [More…]
-The defence estimates, which the House is debating, provide for the expenditure of a massive amount of money in absolute terms. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), in particular, is to be congratulated on the way in which he has been able to obtain a one per cent increase in real terms in defence expenditure this year. [More…]
The Minister has been candid enough to point out that the Defence White Paper and the $ 12,000m expenditure promise have not been able to be kept in the terms in which they were set out. [More…]
It is to the credit of the Minister that he has raised the morale of the Services very considerably and, I think, he has raised very considerably the interest in the community in defence. [More…]
But there is still too low a degree of public interest in defence matters generally. [More…]
The statements by the Minister about the participation of Australian defence industry in orders are very welcome. [More…]
I have noticed public criticisms of the Department of Defence following hearings of a sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
We will be waiting to hear submissions from the Department of Defence and other relevant departments, not only in general but also in respect of submissions that have already been made to the sub-committee. [More…]
-We are debating the estimates of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I cannot agree with the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) that the situation is reasonable or that the estimates set out in this year’s Budget represent anything other than a substantial long term reduction in Australia’s defence capacity. [More…]
I do not intend to go through the debate on the defence review that took place last night. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), in answer to a question last week, indicated that the Mulloka sonar system would not be available for the three FFG frigates which are being constructed in the United States. [More…]
The need to maintain and encourage technical and design capacity in respect of specialised weapons is important to Australia’s defence. [More…]
-First of all, might I take this opportunity to express thanks to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
I do not want to talk about the Sub-Committee of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which I have the privilege of chairing because eventually its report will be produced and tabled and that will be the correct time to bring up matters that are coming forward and that will come forward in relation to this inquiry. [More…]
Before I depart from this particular subject, might I say that I think the present Minister for Defence has based his approach and his attitude on two matters- money and morale. [More…]
Each branch of the Defence Force was in a very sorry state in regard to the matter that is of most importance as regards the defence of this country, that is, the morale of the people involved. [More…]
We- and when I say ‘we’, I mean all people in this chamber who were involved, whether on government committees or standing or select committees- co-operated in getting behind the Minister to try to provide for him as much money as possible for the Defence vote. [More…]
This year’s amount for defence is larger in real terms than any since the last Budget of the McMahon Government. [More…]
So, if we are using that time as a touchstone, how much more difficult it now must be for the Minister and those associated with him to provide this nation with the sort of defence that is required, even at an actual minimum. [More…]
This Government will have no pan of any procurement organisation which does not, from beginning to end, directly involve the Chiefs of Staff and their advisers and experienced Defence officers in the defence equipment acquisition process. [More…]
But, for heavens sake, it would be a sad day for this nation and for the Department of Defence if these people should be isolated, if they should be given a particular command which would not associate them as closely as possible with the uniformed Chiefs of Staff. [More…]
That brings me to the matter of this continuing conflict which appears to exist between civilians and our Defence personnel. [More…]
I am afraid that we who have been associated with the defence picture in one way or another over a period of years have never been able to get away from that particular problem. [More…]
We see this inevitable conflict between civilians and the uniformed people of our Defence Force. [More…]
There was an attempt to bring across to the defence forces generally a great measure of civilian control. [More…]
Anyone who would suggest for a moment that the defence of this country is something that has to be merely a gesture- something that has to be dressed up and ready to provide some sort of an emergency force if some sort of a threat is forthcoming- does not read the newspapers, does not study international affairs and is not at all aware of the various pressures that are building up dangerously. [More…]
If they have no feeling for what is happening in those areas then let them look at what is happening with the various defence pressures that are building up. [More…]
I turn now to our own particular situation and refer to our own Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
One of the Committee’s responsibilities was to look very closely at the matter of civilian participation in defence surveillance. [More…]
If the words civilian participation’ are uttered, one can almost feel the defence chiefs bristle. [More…]
It is possible to name a dozen or so countries where in the past 40 or 50 years there has been a successful blending of civilian participation with the formal defence forces. [More…]
-Today I wish to deal particularly with the lack of cooperation that the Defence Department is giving Sub-Committee C of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
That subcommittee is charged with the responsibility of inquiring into the defence procurement programs of the Department of Defence and into the question of coastal surveillance, keeping in mind that we now have a 200-mile economic zone sea limit. [More…]
I can only say that from what I sawwithout going into detail, because I do not think it is in the interest of Australia to go into the precise detail of this- I was absolutely shocked at the complete lack of defence in Darwin, the most forward part of this country. [More…]
This is a very serious situation because it means that Darwin has not only an ineffective defence force but also an inefFective surveillance force. [More…]
My comments relate to concern at the question of cooperation of the Department of Defence with this Committee. [More…]
I believe that there has to be a far more realistic approach on this matter by the Department of Defence. [More…]
I believe that I know completely what Pine Gap is all about, just as I have always known- despite the lack of information from successive Ministers for Defence in the Parliament- what the North West Cape base is all about. [More…]
The fact is that the Committee is not being given the co-operation of the Department of Defence. [More…]
Therefore I cannot see how it can usefully carry on its inquiries, until there is a complete reappraisal of the attitude of the Department to the Parliament, to the representatives of the people and especially, of course, to the committees which are placed in a particularly privileged position- these committees that are inquiring into special defence aspects of this nation. [More…]
He has since used the argument in defence of the proposal that economic efficiency and equity in the tax system demand that these measures be taken. [More…]
-I support the appropriation for the Department of Defence and wish there were millions of dollars more. [More…]
I know the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) feels exactly that way too. [More…]
I want to support some of the comments made earlier by the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) about the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It is terrible when a government of our basic philosophic convictions about defence finds itself in a difficult situation. [More…]
He says that we have had a modest but significant real increase of 1 per cent over last year’s outlay on defence. [More…]
Like others, I regret that we have had to curtail some of our defence objectives, as set out in the White Paper. [More…]
I regret even more- I think we are all responsible for this- that over the last 10 years defence spending as a proportion of total [More…]
I wish to spend a moment now discussing Western Australia’s feelings about defence. [More…]
Western Australians have had an historic concern with defence. [More…]
Defence is the subject about which we are worried today. [More…]
The need for that base has been in the minds of the defence establishment almost since Federation and it has taken 78 years and two World Wars to get this naval base. [More…]
I believe that the major part of defence expenditure should be on equipment and service personnel rather than on what others have referred to as a ballpoint bureaucracy or even something such as Casey University, which has been in the minds of all honourable members recently. [More…]
I suppose that I am one of those people who say that we should assess our basic needs for defence and then find the money to satisfy them. [More…]
That has always been the way defence establishes itself. [More…]
At this point I wish to make a few basic reflections about the present defence criteria. [More…]
The sooner this country is equipped with its full defence equipment, part of which should be nuclear, the better it will be. [More…]
Meanwhile the present demands our attention and I commend the appropriation for the Department of Defence. [More…]
It gives me somewhat a sense of deja vu to come back here after nearly three years and to speak on defence matters. [More…]
I am here today representing another electorate which has a large defence component. [More…]
In the three years that I was privileged to represent HMAS Albatross, I found that I had a great deal of admiration and respect for the officers and men in the armed forces and for their real and sustained views on the defence of this country. [More…]
I do not come here to seek to wreak any revenge on the honourable member for Moreton, the present Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), but I would like to point out, whatever the intentions of anyone who holds this very diffcult job and no matter what his enthusiasm may be, that other things get in the way. [More…]
When we were in government, despite all the attacks on Lance Barnard, we found that we could not do many of the things that we wanted to do with regard to defence. [More…]
When I was previously a member of this place I was also privileged to be the secretary of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence under Mr Barnard and Mr Morrison. [More…]
I well remember what the then Opposition said about its expectations for the defence forces. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton asked two questions on defence in 1972, said nothing in 1 973 and said almost nothing in 1 974. [More…]
Of course, he was not the shadow spokesman for defence at that time. [More…]
When the honourable member for Moreton assumed the responsibilities for defence for the Liberal Party he at least treated us to Burkean phraseology, good humour and allusions to past generals such as Theodosius who, I think, was from the fourth century A,D. [More…]
No one has ever doubted the honourable member for Moreton ‘s interest in defence but I put on the record, now that he is in the hot seat, that some of these comments were most unfair. [More…]
There is this interminable debate about the percentage of gross national product going to defence and I do not think there is much sense in boring the chamber again with figures. [More…]
This is the problem with defence equipment- there is a very long lead time. [More…]
Even in the last few days we have seen headlines such as ‘Naval Bungling’ and ‘Defence Plans Undermined by Treasury’. [More…]
An article stated that a Liberal MLC said that planning procedures currently practised by the Department of Defence are inappropriate and a major impediment. [More…]
I am not saying that that is all the fault of the Minister, but I would like him to admit that there are massive problems and, no matter what the ambitions and enthusiasm are of a single Minister for Defence, that he has great problems and needs the support of all of us in this chamber. [More…]
In this regard also we find it difficult to understand why there is provision for regulations to exclude from efficiency audits such bodies as the Defence Force, the Commonwealth Teaching Service, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the Commonwealth Police Force and the Australian Capital Territory Police Force. [More…]
I would have thought that recent revelations in the Press regarding the Department of Defence would have made it a prime area for commencement of such efficiency audits. [More…]
However, because of difficulties associated with establishing default or neglect and the fact that the Auditor-General had to be judge and prosecutor, which is unfair and inappropriate Ibr an auditor, and because the person accused had little opportunity to give evidence in his own defence, these provisions are now being repealed and a new procedure is being introduced. [More…]
It is proposed therefore that legal aid for custody, access and injunction proceedings will initially be granted by the Australian Legal Aid Office only up to the filing of a defence. [More…]
That is the point at which the defence has been filed. [More…]
But once the defence is filed merely means that there is a defence. [More…]
If there is a defence, there is a contest. [More…]
So we get to the ridiculous situation that once a defence is filed that is the end of legal aid, unless one can make some special pleadings. [More…]
That clause also provides that it is a defence to that conduct if the conduct is not a contravention of other sections of the Act, or that the dominant purpose for which the defendant engaged in the conduct was to preserve or further a business carried on by him. [More…]
-I support the proposed expenditure for the defence of Australia but recommend that it be increased. [More…]
In Australia at present there is a developing consciousness of our defence needs. [More…]
People are becoming more and more concerned about defence matters. [More…]
Some of their concern has arisen from events which are not specifically related to defence, such as the incursions that have occurred to the north of Australia, the drug runner who came into Australia and was pursued by a Royal Australian Air Force Hercules aircraft, and small vessels of a type that do not pose any defence threat coming to Australia. [More…]
These events have pointed out in the minds of Australians the defence needs of this country and particularly the need for surveillance of our coastline and surrounding waters. [More…]
I do not believe that it would be an appropriate role for our defence forces. [More…]
There are many things which a surveillance organisation would be called upon to do which do not require the level of equipment sophistication that is needed by our defence forces in their specific defence role. [More…]
There are a number of police-type activities required in surveillance which, I believe, it would be unwise to hand over to defence personnel. [More…]
Such an organisation would have defence significance and that is why I mention it in the context of the estimates for the Department of Defence. [More…]
A coastguard operation, with personnel properly trained and equipped, would be a very valuable reserve or back-up force in any defence emergency. [More…]
It could be very quickly upgraded for a specific defence role if need be. [More…]
So, from that defence point of view, I believe that a coastguard organisation will be very desirable in this country in the near future. [More…]
I make some comments about defence policy. [More…]
At present the defence policy of this country is bogged down. [More…]
I cannot see that any clear strategic assessments and strategic objectives are being fulfilled in our defence policy. [More…]
I get the impression that the Government and the Defence Department are bogged down in assessments, surveys and feasibility studies of various items of equipment- studies which have been going on in some cases for many years. [More…]
One can hardly say that the five-year program set out in the 1976 Defence White Paper is proceeding full steam ahead. [More…]
One wonders whether the Government and its defence advisers have come to a new assessment of our defence needs. [More…]
What is likely to happen then is that either the replacement costs will be bunched into one enormous bill at one time or the Defence Force will be forcibly reduced by economic pressure from one which has a limited but useful capability at present to one which has no capability. [More…]
Quite often it is said that we are too small a country to provide all the defence equipment we need. [More…]
We certainly cannot base our defence policies, our procurement policies, on the easy assumption that any action that we take will be taken in conjuction with great and powerful allies. [More…]
If we feel the need to take action, if we feel the need to take a foreign policy attitude which, to be effective, needs a defence back-up force, we will need to have the capability to do it ourselves. [More…]
I believe that in this respect we have to consult a great deal more than we do with our near neighbours to find out what Australian industry can provide in the way of defence equipment so that we are looking not only at providing trucks or training aircraft for the Australian forces but also at supplying equipment to friendly neighbours in our region, thereby providing the production runs which will be necessary for the development of a viable and economic Australian defence industry. [More…]
Defence policy has very real economic and employment consequences for Australia and it must not be regarded as some alternative to economic development policies. [More…]
Defence policy in this country is very much wrapped up with our economic development. [More…]
-This defence vote is for $2,329,185,000 or $6.38m per day. [More…]
Are we getting value for our defence dollar? [More…]
I invite the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), through his proxy at the table, in the course of his pastoral duties to inspect Service housing with me. [More…]
In approaching Budget estimates for the Defence Department the Parliament is uniquely disadvantaged. [More…]
This Parliament is very poorly informed about defence matters. [More…]
During the Menzies era the Parliament was told very little about defence and the Australian community was told even less. [More…]
This is standard operating practice in the Defence Department which likes to clutch its secrets close to its collective breast, even excluding the Minister for Defence from scrutiny on occasion. [More…]
Pine Gap was called from the start ‘Joint Defence Space Research Facility’ while Nurrungar was called ‘Defence Space Communications Facility’; as has been seen, such passive titles don’t convey the operational diversity of the roles of the two stations. [More…]
But the Australian Department of Defence bureaucrats, having decided on the ‘research’ cover, one hardly likely to have deceived the Russians, have never faltered under any government. [More…]
2/ 1975 JIO AUSTRALIA WORLD OIL: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT Not to be released to any other government except Britain and NZ only Joint Intelligence Organization Department of Defence, Canberra, ACT TOP SECRET TOP SECRET UMBRA [More…]
UMBRA is the code word used to designate reports or analyses which contain material derived from the Defence Signals Division. [More…]
I suspect that the Department of Defence shares this view and might be inclined to put every desk calendar under a top secret classification. [More…]
There has been a remarkable change in Australian attitudes towards defence and foreign policy. [More…]
Ten years ago defence and foreign policy were among the most contentious and most bitterly divisive issues in Australian public life and in the Parliament. [More…]
Until 1972 the prevailing philosophy in Australian government policy was forward defence’. [More…]
I think, perhaps, in retrospect, that one of its most remarkable achievements- I think that this would be recognised in Tasmania- was in making Australian foreign policy and defence policy bipartisan. [More…]
There was a recognition in Australia that many of the factual assumptions on which our defence policy had been based were simply not sound. [More…]
From 1972 to 1975 the Ministers for Defence- the Hon. [More…]
Bill Morrison- put forward the doctrine of ‘continental defence’. [More…]
The policy of the present Government, which is expressed in its White Paper of November 1976 called ‘Australian Defence’, is essentially a policy of ‘self-reliance’. [More…]
That self-reliance policy is almost indistinguishable from the ‘continental defence’ policy put forward by the Labor Party. [More…]
I draw to the attention of the House a very interesting and worthwhile book entitled The defence of Australia- fundamental new aspects, edited by Robert O’Neill and published by the Australian National University in 1976. [More…]
Dr O’Neill writes that there are two major points to be made about Australian defence. [More…]
First there is no basis for continuance of a forward defence policy- Australia must now plan to defend herself by forces based essentially on Australian territory. [More…]
Second Australia has to assume prime responsibility for her own defence in situations of regional conflict and, probably, in higher level contingencies. [More…]
So much is agreed ground between major participants in the debate on Australian defence policy. [More…]
What son of defence infrastructure will Australia need to sustain chosen strategic posture? [More…]
I relate my remarks on the defence estimates particularly to divisions 234 and 235, which deal with equipment and stores. [More…]
There is an estimate in excess of $600m for this financial year; that is to say, it is going to cost this nation over $ 10m a week for equipment and stores for our defence forces. [More…]
If we as a nation are to possess a selfreliant defence capability, in my view we must also have a defence industry policy. [More…]
This Government, like many others, has been faced by huge increases in the costs of the latest defence equipment. [More…]
That is a question which I believe we as a parliament have to pursue on another occasion when there is more time, but I certainly share the views which have been expressed by other speakers from both sides of the chamber with respect to these defence estimates. [More…]
I raise these cost factors now simply to point out the huge outlays involved in the purchasing of expensive and sophisticated overseas hardware which may be more than appropriate to our immediate defence needs. [More…]
Certainly they come at a time when there is no coherent Government policy aimed at developing a technology and a capacity for our own defence industries. [More…]
What is more important, from my recent experiences in dealing with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), I doubt quite seriously whether the internal bureaucracy of the Department of Defence is capable of assessing or is responsive to the development of a significant input for the formulation of a manufacturing policy related to defence industries. [More…]
Suffice it to say that an all party parliamentary committee- I refer to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which reported in October 1977- made a specific recommendation in respect of the engine works. [More…]
Part of the problem is that there is a view within the Defence Department that says: ‘Well, while we might like to see these engine works retained, we do not believe they have any immediate defence relevance’. [More…]
In the light of the fact that it seems to predominate over the recommendations of the all-party parliamentary committee, and the fact that it is a view that affects substantially the future of a very important factory in Port Melbourne- it certainly affects a large number of people who, over the years, have built up technologies and skills which I do not want to see dissipated- I asked the Minister for Defence, very properly and respectfully, I believe, to make that file available. [More…]
I do not know whether the bureaucrats in the Defence Department regard government files as eggs they have to sit on and hatch or whether they believe they ought not to be made available to members whose constituents are vitally affected. [More…]
Last week there was a leaked report written by the Minister’s favourite journalist in his favourite newspaper, which indicated that an internal Defence Department report reviewing naval technical services had severely criticised the national defence preparedness of the Navy. [More…]
Amongst the allegations made in that report- I point out that it is an internal Defence Department report, not a Labor Party report or a Liberal Party reportwas a statement that, firstly, the Navy was not aware of local shipbuilding capabilities. [More…]
The suggestion that within the Defence Department there is not the capacity to make the recommendations that the Australian Government Engine Works is of defence relevance is very serious indeed. [More…]
The Defence Department cannot have it both ways. [More…]
If it says the Australian Government Engine Works does not have a great defence relevance, obviously there is nothing in the file that can be classified. [More…]
I assure the Committee that I propose to pursue this matter because, like many other honourable members in this place, I am far from satisfied that we as Australian citizens are getting the best value for our dollar in terms of this country’s defence preparedness. [More…]
Firstly, I would like to apologise for and explain the absence of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
This morning after Question Time the Minister, accompanied by senior officers and service personnel from the Department of Defence, left for Indonesia where he wil be until the end of next week. [More…]
I just want to make a couple of observations, particularly in respect of the work which was referred to by nearly every member of the Subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which has been sitting in Canberra in recent weeks and receiving quite a deal of media attention. [More…]
When I was a back bench member of the previous Liberal Government, I was a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. [More…]
It was the report of the Sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence relating to the Indian Ocean and was published in 1971 or 1972, if any honourable member would like to look at it. [More…]
It concerns me that so much of the time of the Parliament and certainly so much space in the media is devoted to criticism of officials of the Department of Defence or ‘bureaucrats’ as they have been referred to in this debate giving evidence before the subcommittee. [More…]
I was a little less pleased about the honourable member’s reference to some other matters, particularly his reference to Mr Richard Hall as an authority on defence matters. [More…]
The honourable member used material contained in that gentleman’s book to attack the Department of Defence and the Government. [More…]
I do not know whether I personally would regard Mr Hall as an authority on defence matters. [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Holding) spent some little time also making what I thought was perhaps an unnecessarily severe attack on officials of the Department of Defence. [More…]
The honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) expressed concern when speaking in the debate yesterday at what was being said by witnesses to the sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
I would hope that all members of the sub-committee will keep an open mind because so far as I am aware up to date the only principal witnesses who have given evidence- certainly those who have been reported- have attacked the Department of Defence. [More…]
Much of the criticism of the Department of Defence, the Government and the Minister, comes in my view at any rate from people who have given evidence of dubious relevance. [More…]
Some members of the sub-committee, even before it had a single witness from the Department of Defence, sought to act as judge, jury and executioner. [More…]
As the only member of Sub-Committee C of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee in the chamber at the present time, as one who levelled some criticism at the Department of Defence for its lack of cooperation with the Committee during the debate on the Defence estimates, and in view of the remarks of the Minister for Construction (Mr McLeay) here today when he said that some members of that sub-committee were being parochial and, inferred we were being political - [More…]
From the Department of Defence. [More…]
People will be provided with a level of legal aid until such time as the defence is filed and then a determination will be made, whether they will continue to receive legal aid and, if so, the extent of it. [More…]
Just imagine, for example, the position of an ex-serviceman dependent on a defence service homes program. [More…]
Expenditure for defence service homes is down from $22m to $ 1 0m. [More…]
Of course servicemen have now been told that instead of having to serve for just three years they now have to serve for six years and sign on for another three years to be eligible for a defence service home loan. [More…]
The plant and equipment vote has been cut by $387,000 and the Defence service homes vote, as I have mentioned, has been cut by $12m. [More…]
Last year, a sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence brought down a recommendation with regard to the shipbuilding industry. [More…]
It recommended that the Whyalla and Newcastle shipyards be retained as a defence back-up. [More…]
Mr KEVIN CAIRNS I am being pressed by the Minister for Defence as to whether I want an extension of time. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) might shake his head, but people who are looking for community health programs in various electorates are shaking their heads in wonderment. [More…]
The Industries Assistance Commission accepted that the machine tools industry should be maintained at least at its present level because of the defence significance of the industry. [More…]
In fact, we welcome the notion of temporary assistance for an important defence industry. [More…]
One of the main reasons for giving such assistance is the special defence requirements. [More…]
Perhaps this should be an item in the defence budget. [More…]
At any rate, the Department of Defence should keep its requirements in regard to this industry under review at all times. [More…]
It also will ensure the maintenance of the nucleus of this industry, with all its defence significance. [More…]
The IAC has stated that in this instance the machine tool industry is defence related and as such plays an important role in the Australian defence capacity. [More…]
It seems to me to be elementary that we should all support assisting this industry, which employs so many people and which can give great backup to the defence industry. [More…]
On the matter of defence, a number of members from both sides of this Parliament served on a committee which considered the industries that ought to be maintained in order to give us that sort of industrial complex that is needed to back up our defence capacity. [More…]
The committee from this Parliament which said that the machine tool industry was important also said that the shipbuilding industry was important to the defence capacity of Australia. [More…]
I am surprised to hear Government supporters talking about the need to divert defence resources into various forms of industry in order to maintain the defence basis of those industries. [More…]
It is fair to say also that the industries we are talking about tonight are important not only for the defence capacity that they may engender but also for the basic skills and the capacity to do basic design, tooling and machining work that they provide. [More…]
The Government’s record on defence industries, if it cares to claim one, is not very good. [More…]
Already it has moved against the shipbuilding industry which is vital to any suggestion of a defence capacity and has done so quite ruthlessly because the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was unable to achieve an employment circumstance where employees would have been required to pay for any over-run on contracts whether it was caused by the employees, management incompetence or the failings of suppliers or other persons in the field. [More…]
This is the only operation of its kind in Australia and certainly would have very significant defence importance, but this is of no concern to the Government. [More…]
The suggestion by the Government of a concern for defence industries is fairly hollow. [More…]
There are criteria relating to defence. [More…]
I suggest that the honourable member should look at what the Government is doing to the scientific and weapons research complements of our defence capacity in Salisbury, South Australia. [More…]
Under this year’s Estimates, just over 600 public service positions are to be abolished within the defence area and one-third of those positions will be positions of technical skill without which no reasonable capacity for defence in an electronic and technological age such as we are in now can exist. [More…]
The Government is padding the situation, is failing to deal with very serious weaknesses which are appearing in the defence area, and is applying staff ceilings to the skilled technical people who would carry the burden of this aspect of our defence capacity. [More…]
The suggestion being made in this House that some industry justifies support out of the defence budget is very hollow because it is not something that is seriously contemplated or supported by the Government. [More…]
The Government supports industries on an industry to industry basis and defence in that context is a secondary consideration. [More…]
Only two weeks ago in this House, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) suggested that certain people who prepared a report on the naval technical service in the Department of Defence were persons with a low level of skills or persons without skills. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
On 2 April 1974, a Working Party Report, including a draft Defence (Discipline and Justice) Bill, was tabled in’ Parliament. [More…]
I have myself had discussions with members of the Working Party, the Service Judge Advocates General and senior officers of the Defence Force and the Department of Defence about aspects of the Code which I wished to see given further attention before I put it to the Government. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 September 1 978: [More…]
It is envisaged that at that time the ceiling level to cover employees at the Range and in the Defence Support Centre will be of the order of 300. [More…]
Following a review of all of the demands on the funds available for defence purposes this year, the Government decided not to include financial authorisation for the construction of Casey University- Australian Defence Force Academy in the first year of the current defence program. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1978: [More…]
Replacements are under consideration within the Defence Program of new capital equipment acquisition. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1978: [More…]
These reclassifications stem from recommendations of the Committee of Reference for Defence Force Pay, an independent body under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Coldham, a Deputy President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
I indicate by way of preface to the answer that my friend the Minister for Defence, sitting next to me on the front bench, said that he would be pleased to take the brief on behalf of the Commonwealth. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Defence any information on why armoured reconnaissance vehicles or armoured cars cannot be manufactured by the Australian motor industry? [More…]
It was a strange hearing, for both the defence and prosecution spent a great deal of their time praising ‘these heroes’ who had ‘sublime patriotism flaming in their breasts’. [More…]
improve movement between defence production centres, defence supply and storage locations, and defence establishments generally. [More…]
I do not feel that our roads at present could be expected to serve any defence purpose whatsoever. [More…]
But I do not find that to be a very good defence argument. [More…]
We talk in this Parliament of paying $2m each for torpedoes for defence purposes. [More…]
-I am sure that we have all enjoyed the discourse from the right honourable member for Lowe (Sir William McMahon) who led the defence on behalf of the Government. [More…]
I say he led the defence for the Government because this Bill is utterly indefensible and honourable members opposite know it. [More…]
It concerned the sale of some existing holdings of land held by the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
It disturbed me to some extent because I knew that a lot of this land had been garnered and collected with a view to the future for defence service homes by my colleague the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) in his time as the exalted Minister for Housing. [More…]
They had heard that they could apply to the nearest office of the Defence Service Homes Corporation to see exactly what they had to do and to put in a tender. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
Is it a fact that certain technical problems with the Mulloka sonar system have not been solved because of lack of funding, brought about by cuts in the annual Defence Department budget since 1976. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
Is it a fact that the Mulloka sonar system has the potential to be a big dollar earner for Australia when exported to navies which operate in similar climatic conditions to the RAN, and that the successful development of the system would be a considerable and much-needed boost to the international reputation of Australian defence scientists who are frustrated and demoralised by the lack of Government support for Australian scientific developments in the defence area. [More…]
Mulloka does have potential for overseas sales and its successful development has given a boost to the international reputation of Australian defence scientists and engineers which is already high with overseas sales of Ikara to the UK, and Brazil, and Jindivik to the UK, US and Sweden. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
Is it a fact that the Government has refused on 2 occasions, specific requests by the Department of Defence for funds to complete the Mulloka project. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
Is it a fact that, of 600 Defence Depanment personnel who will be dismissed in the next 12 months because of Federal Government budget cutbacks, by far the greater number of this 600 will be sacked at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation at Salisbury, South Australia. [More…]
Inevitably some of this reduction will be taken in the Defence Science and Technology Organisation. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
What effect will the staff cutbacks at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation have on the development effort going into the Mulloka sonar system at the present time. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
Is it a fact that contract development work performed by the Honeywell Corporation has on 3 occasions been rejected by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation as unsatisfactory, and that these delays have seriously retarded the successful completion ofthe Mulloka project. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
What periods have elapsed since Honeywell was first commissioned to perform research or development work on any aspect of the Mulloka system and the time that this work was completed and presented to the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury SA. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
My Department has no knowledge of any such relationship or arrangement, although it would not be unusual for major companies involved in defence contracts to have direct or indirect commercial arrangements of some sort. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
How many Defence Department personnel, including the Defence Science and Technology Organisation staff, were engaged on the Mulloka sonar system project during the years: [More…]
The numbers of Defence Science personnel engaged on Mulloka have varied according to the activities in hand from time to time. [More…]
To these figures must be added the ship and submarine trials team and the Navy Project team of about 3, and the part time involvement of many other Defence Department staff. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]
Is it a fact that the United States SQS 56 sonar system is considered by international defence experts to be less efficient than the Mulloka system and not as well suited to Australian climatic conditions. [More…]
One of those aircraft is tied up with defence matters in Melbourne at the moment. [More…]
But it has also been through the defence laboratories and through academic institutions. [More…]
(a) and (b) The arrangements are defined in Article 2 ofthe Agreement in 1963 relating to the establishment of a United States Naval Communication Station in Australia, as amended in 1968 and 1974, and in Article 2 of the Agreement in 1966 relating to the establishment of a Joint Defence Space Research Facility, as amended in 1977. [More…]
The co-operating agencies are the Australian and United States Departments of Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 19 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September, 1978: [More…]
1 ) If the question is intended to refer to the report by Committee of Reference for Defence Force Pay on Placement of Other Rank Employment Categories, the answer is yes. [More…]
The Committee of Reference is an independent advisory body to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 September 1 978: [More…]
How long has the position of Defence Force Ombudsman been vacant. [More…]
1 ) Since 3 1 December 1 976 when Mr D. O. Hay, the Defence Force Ombudsman Designate, was appointed Secretary, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, the Office of the Defence Force Ombudsman has functioned under the Executive Director of the Office. [More…]
The appointment of a Defence Force Ombudsman is being considered by my Department. [More…]
Although a Bill providing for the appointment of a Defence Force Ombudsman lapsed on the change of Government in December 1 975, Service personnel are aware that subject to compliance with the provisions of that draft legislation they may refer complaints to the Defence Force Ombudsman ‘s Office staff for additional investigation. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1 978: [More…]
We have had the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Staley) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen)- that is Killen of Cunnamulla and the Condamine- at the table for the Government and now we have the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) there. [More…]
This House set up the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which in turn set up a sub-committee chaired by Senator Wheeldon dealing with human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The honourable member for St George is a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and postures greatly, but he never attends meetings of the sub-committee, although he is entitled to do so. [More…]
All he is ever concerned about is getting defence contracts for some small concerns in his electorate. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 8 October 1 978: [More…]
1 ) Did the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence recommend in its report entitled “The Middle EastFocal Point of Conflict’ that Australian Armed Services attaches be posted to some Middle East countries so that Australia can independently assess some of the latest military technology for which the Middle East unfortunately has become the main proving ground. [More…]
The departmental study of Defence representation overseas completed in January 1978 recognised, as did the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, that the Middle East had been a proving ground for much current military technology and that access to the experience gained with this could on occasion be of military benefit to Australia. [More…]
The study reached the conclusion, however, that an increased number of short-term visits to the area by specialists with specific interests in mind would go a long way towards meeting the total Defence technological interest there and that permanent resident representation was not justified by reference to military technology alone. [More…]
It was concluded further that there was only a limited need for the performance of other defence attache functions in the [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 October 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 October 1978: [More…]
Bearing in mind that impartiality between the communities in Lebanon is very important, but that humane and timely aid to the people is even more important, will the Australian Government encourage and even support nonGovernment welfare organisations to dispatch medical teams to Lebanon, to work in any areas where they are needed and welcomed, as recommended in the report entitled ‘The Lebanon Crisis- Humanitarian Aspects’ tabled in December 1976 by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]
1 ) Have the recommendations of the report of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration been studied for relevance to the Department of Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]
Mr Speaker, in view of answers given at Question Time, I ask whether you will investigate why an undertaking was given by the Department of Foreign Affairs to the Soviet Union that no members of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union would be included in any parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
He made reference to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and to the sub-committee which is chaired by Senator Wheeldon and which is currently investigating human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Yes, on the same grounds as my colleague the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Simon) which related to the attendance at the sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which is investigating human rights in Russia. [More…]
Our involvement is attributed to our geography, the distance of transportation, trade and also, I should mention, defence which I think is particularly important and mutual assistance. [More…]
Our assistance to Indonesia also is most vital as far as this Government is concerned not only in the giving of foreign aid to lift its development but also for defence purposes. [More…]
Certainly they are in assisting developing nations but I think we have to look at the question from the point of view of our trade opportunities and certainly our present and future defence. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Defence seen reports of a recent speech made by Dr Robert O’Neill of the Australian National University in which Dr O’Neill made some highly disturbing remarks concerning Australia’s defence preparedness? [More…]
A leading expert on Australia’s defence needs told a conference in Sydney today that the country’s armed forces were woefully ill equipped. [More…]
According to the ABC he criticised the Federal Government, saying that it was creating a long term defence crisis by adopting short term policies. [More…]
He made a speech which was precisely the type of speech that I have been seeking to engender in the country in terms of a mature debate on defence. [More…]
The Defence Service Homes Corporation has purchased and is completing the installation of a separate system of 5 computers- one in each mainland capital city. [More…]
ICL 2903 owned by Defence Service Homes Corporation- New South Wales, $0.14m. [More…]
the ICL 2903 computer system is required for the administration of the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
the ICL 2903 computers hold financial and personal data for the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
The installation of the Defence Service Homes system is expected to result in a saving of 35 positions. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1 978: [More…]
1973- Review of ASCO operations by Interdepartmental Committee (Defence, Navy, Army, Air, ASCO and Treasury). [More…]
1977- Review commissioned by Chief of Defence Force Staff of the requirement for a Defence Force Canteen Service. [More…]
As the number and dates of the above reports and investigations show the decision on ASCO was reached after lengthy and detailed examination of modern requirements for a Defence Force Canteen Service in the light of socioeconomic changes which have affected servicemen and servicewomen over the last decade. [More…]
The Government does not wish to deny a canteen service to members of the Defence Force. [More…]
why an undertaking was given by the Department of Foreign Affairs to the Soviet Union that no members of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Sub-committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union would be included in any parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
The facts are that his party’s representatives, not merely the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) -some members are disagreeing with the views he put forward today- but also other members of the Australian Labor Party on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence were told of the matter by my officials when they went before the Committee. [More…]
The honourable member for Corio made an incorrect statement last week when he said that the Department of Foreign Affairs gave an undertaking to the Soviet Union that no members of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Subcommittee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union would be included in any parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Pursuant to section 48 of the Australian Housing Corporation Act 1975 and section 50B of the Defence Service Homes Act 19181 present the annual report of the Australian Housing Corporation for the year ended 30 June 1976. [More…]
Pursuant to section 48 of the Defence Service Homes Corporation Act 1976 and section 50B of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918 I present the annual report of the Defence Service Homes Corporation for the year ended 30 June 1977. [More…]
As part of its inquiry into the AuditorGeneral’s reports, the Committee also heard evidence from officers of the Department of Defence, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, the Australian Wheat Board and the Superannuation Board. [More…]
( le) In a proceeding under this Art in relation to a contravention of sub-section ( 1 A), it is a defence if the defendant proves- [More…]
The amendment provides for defences to the prohibition in certain circumstances and the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Fife) has already foreshadowed an amendment to the Bill before us which will clarify the Government’s intention in that respect. [More…]
The amendment will make it abundantly clear that the new section 45D(1B)(a) gives a defence only to conduct that is authorised by the Trade Practices Commission or is the subject of a notification to the Trade Practices Commission which has not been revoked. [More…]
There is also a defence in that a defendant may claim a predominant purpose for which he engaged in the conduct concerned was to preserve or further a business carried on by him. [More…]
Proposed new sub-section (IB) of section 45d provides a defence where the conduct did not constitute a contravention of other restrictive trade practices provisions or where the dominant purpose for which the defendant engaged in the conduct was to preserve or further a business carried on by him. [More…]
The Government has not rushed to the defence of what is regarded as an exclusive carrier in this field. [More…]
1 ) How does the present salary of the Permanent Head of the Departments of (a) the Treasury, (b) Defence, (c) the Attorney-General and (d) Foreign Affairs compare with the present salaries of the respective Minister administering those departments. [More…]
Is that a defence in the breaking of this election commitment? [More…]
The Government is a shameful, cynical and corrupt government; a scandal-ridden government that fails to defend itself, a Government that cannot coax its senior ministers to its Parliamentary defence. [More…]
I draw attention to the document entitled ‘Services, Scales and Standards of Accommodation’ published by the Department of Defence and which states, among other things, in paragraph 2 1 (E) regarding swimming pools: one pool on any military installation may be heated and covered if training requirements and/or location justify it subject to prior approval by the Departments of Defence and Treasury. [More…]
This legislation is really being grafted on to an Act which was essentially related to the defence powers of Australia and extending its use to a commercial mining venture - [More…]
This is a strange philosophy for the Government of an isolated nation, a nation which the International Civil Aviation Policy Review found, in its recent report, should, at least on defence grounds, maintain its own international airline. [More…]
1 ) Is the Small Arms Factory at Lithgow, NSW pan of Australia’s defence infra-structure; if so, what proportion of its output is currently directly attributable to defence purposes. [More…]
1 ) Yes; approximately 73 per cent of its output is directly attributable to defence purposes. [More…]
The Government plans in the short term and the long term to retain the Small Arms Factory, Lithgow as a production facility to meet Defence production needs as required. [More…]
Staff ceilings have not affected output of defence work. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Does the enhanced new look of the Minister for Defence as advertised in the 1979 Pickering calendar herald a new era for the defence forces? [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the Government’s response to the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence relating to industrial support for defence needs and allied matters. [More…]
pursuant to section 14 ( 1 ) of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 I present the fifth supplement to the twenty-fifth report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board on the operation of the Act for the period 1 July 1972 to 30 September 1972, and pursuant to section 16(2) of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973 I present the sixth report of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority, dealing with the general administration and working of that Act and of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 (other than Part III of the Act) for the year ended 30 June 1 978. [More…]
by leave- On 1 June 1978 the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure tabled the report on its inquiry into the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
Before dealing with the individual recommendations I should like, on behalf of the Government, to thank the Standing Committee for conducting its examination of the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
Recommendation 1 of the Standing Committee called for the appointment of a qualified person from outside the Public Service to assess the relative effectiveness of programs designed to attract persons into and retain them in the Defence Force and for methods to be devised to enable continuing measurement or assessment of the effectiveness of these programs. [More…]
This would no doubt facilitate decisions being taken as to whether Defence Service Homes loans should continue to be available to members of the peacetime Defence Force, as one segment of an overall conditions of service package. [More…]
The Government accepts that the availability of Defence Service Homes loans is a valued condition of service and, as such, it could have a beneficial effect on attraction and retention rates in the armed Services. [More…]
In arriving at this conclusion the Government was conscious that the Committee of Reference for Defence Force Pay and the Defence Conditions of Service Committee machinery is available to monitor continually the overall package of pay and conditions with a view to ensuring their currency in present day conditions. [More…]
In its second recommendation, the Standing Committee called for a restatement and explanation of the objectives of the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
Since then the eligibility provisions of the Scheme have been expanded from time to time to include persons who served in the Second World War and later warlike operations in which Australian Forces were involved and, since 1973, certain members of the peacetime Defence Force. [More…]
It is clear that there are now two broad categories of persons eligible for the benefits of the Defence Service Homes Scheme; namely, those who served, or volunteered to service, overseas in wartime and those who serve in peacetime. [More…]
The Defence Service Homes Scheme exists as part of a wide range of benefits available to servicemen and exservicemen and its current objectives can be defined in their simplest form as: To provide a housing-specific benefit, firstly, to discharge the nation’s obligation to those who served, or volunteered to serve, overseas in wartime and, second, to attract and retain regular servicemen in the Defence Force in peacetime. [More…]
The Standing Committee’s third recommendation proposed that the long tide of the Defence Service Homes Act should be amended. [More…]
Perhaps the most innovative and challenging proposal put forward in the 60 years existence of the scheme is the Committee’s fourth recommendation, namely, the amendment of the Defence Service Homes Act to allow eligible persons to choose to receive either a housing loan or a cash grant which would also be used to acquire a residential dwelling. [More…]
Further, as a matter of principle, the Government cannot accept the proposal by the Standing Committee to hypothecate to grants under the Defence Service Homes Scheme any administrative savings that might be achieved in future by the introduction of a grant option. [More…]
In recommendation eight the Standing Committee proposed a new method of identifying the extent of the concession involved in Defence Service Homes loans. [More…]
The concession or interest subsidy is represented by the difference between the interest charged by the Defence Service Homes Corporation on its outstanding loans and the interest payable by the Corporation on the capital appropriations it has received over the years. [More…]
In its ninth recommendation, the Standing Committee dealt with staffing arrangements with the Defence Services Homes Corporation. [More…]
On balance, the Government has decided that it will continue for the time being to make available this facility to persons who have earned eligibility for a defence service homes loan. [More…]
The publication of specific physical performance data related to the operational efficiency of the Defence Service Homes Corporation was the subject of the Standing Committee’s twelfth recommendation. [More…]
The Standing Committee’s thirteenth recommendation called for legislative changes to permit persons who obtain loans under the Defence Service Homes Scheme to insure the properties with the insurer of their choice. [More…]
Legislation will be introduced next year to amend the Defence Service Homes Act as necessary. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I take this opportunity to refer briefly to another matter which, whilst not directly related to the Committee’s report, does have a bearing on the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that one of the recommendations of the Committee of Inquiry into the Citizen Military Force was that the provisions of the Defence Service Homes Scheme be extended to include Citizen Force soldiers as an incentive to service. [More…]
A considerable range of pay and related matters has already been implemented as a result of the Millar report and, in current circumstances, the Government has decided not to extend the Defence Service Homes Scheme to members of the Reserve forces. [More…]
It is disappointing not only to me and to the Opposition in general but also especially disappointing to the needy members of the defence forces. [More…]
It shows up particularly the lack of understanding of the Minister for Construction for the problems of needy members of the defence forces. [More…]
At a time when ample tradesmen and resources are available this Government is cutting back on defence service homes. [More…]
I refer now to the activity within the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
In 1 974-75 the Labor Government spent $ 1 30m on the Defence Services Homes Scheme. [More…]
The period of service necessary to qualify for a loan also has been extended from three years to six years- the additional proviso is that the ordinary defence service personnel now must serve more than six years. [More…]
The amendment introduced by this Government to the Defence Service Homes Scheme also includes the penny-pinching imposition of a $75 loan application fee. [More…]
More broadly, I accept that the defence service housing scheme is not working equitably or efficiently. [More…]
Therefore I can only condemn the Government generally for its whole approach to defence service homes. [More…]
It could provide money to make defence service home loans more readily available and to do away with the 14-month waiting period. [More…]
It is in the Department of Veterans’ Affairs that the Defence Service Homes Act is presently administered. [More…]
In passing, one would say that if one of the objectives of the Defence Service Homes Scheme is to attract and retain regular servicemen in the Defence Force, and if there is really no method of assessing the effectiveness of this and other programs which are designed to do a similar job, then one might as well pull policies and money values attached to these policies out of a hat and treat them appropriately. [More…]
The second recommendation was to explain the objectives of the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
The third recommendation referred to the title of the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
It is in this way that I think it may be demonstrated that the response of the Department which the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay), acting for the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, has read, has been mean. [More…]
This recommendation was made because the Committee felt that the long title of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918-‘. [More…]
Although some broad judgments are required, the Committee provided arguments which suggested that a grant of about $5,000 would not increase the cost of the scheme to taxpayers, and yet would prove attractive to many Defence Service Homes Scheme beneficiaries, particularly those who now must take out bridging loans or who might be unable to take advantage of the defence service home loan because of a deposit gap. [More…]
Recommendation 8 concerns the interest rate payable by the Defence Service Homes Scheme on the accumulated capital. [More…]
It simply states that the Defence Service Homes Corporation’s on-going manpower review programs have led to greater staff reductions than those recommended by the Committee. [More…]
We suggested that the annual reports of the Defence Service Homes Corporation include information on unit costs of processing new applications. [More…]
We believe that the major parts of our recommendations, if adopted, would be very valuable to those people who are eligible for a defence service homes loan. [More…]
The matters I want to raise are directly related, although not directly arising out of, to the ministerial statement of the Minister for Construction and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr [More…]
Persons who served outside Australia and who did not necessarily face the same risks have Defence Service loans available to them. [More…]
I draw his attention to the almost total lack of adequate maintenance of defence homes as opposed to Defence Service homes. [More…]
I draw specific attention to the defence homes in Darwin which were damaged during cyclone Tracy. [More…]
I draw the Minister’s attention to the fact that it is an unsatisfactory situation that defence personnel in Darwin are required to live in houses which, on the basis of the standards laid down for civilian housing in that area, are sub-standard. [More…]
Fairly constantly I receive complaints about the almost total lack of maintenance to defence houses or the proper upkeep of those houses. [More…]
In its inquiry the Committee thoroughly examined the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
Today we find that the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay) has grudgingly accepted one of the 13 recommendations that were brought down. [More…]
He admitted that the main recommendation concerning the optional grant was innovative and a major recommendation made by the Committee and that it represented a major alteration to the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
The other matter of some significance is the amount charged by the Australian Postal Commission to collect moneys on behalf of the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
Much of what he had to say concerned defence forces homeshomes for people in the services- which has nothing to do with the present statement. [More…]
We would admit that the quality of some of the homes that are owned by some of the defence forces is not as high as it ought to be. [More…]
In the first place, there is a continuing committee within the Department of Defence which is called the Conditions of Service Committee. [More…]
In dealing with the third recommendation, the long title of the Defence Service Homes Act, the Chairman of the Committee, the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns), said- I think I quote him correctly; he said it in a somewhat grudging way, if I might say so- that this was to be left to the Parliamentary Counsel. [More…]
For the purpose of answering the series of questions 1773-1799 as Minister responsible for the Department administering and co-ordinating the Offset Program I have provided information which was sought from the other Ministers to whom the question was directed with the exception of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Defence, will provide a detailed reply to question number 1773 regarding offset obligations required and discharged for major defence purchases. [More…]
Offsets were first sought against purchases of defence equipment and civil aircraft. [More…]
It achieves its objectives by obtaining tasks that either stimulate continuing activities in the same field of technology as the equipment being purchased or that result in a transfer of technology in areas of significance to Australian defence or industrial development. [More…]
Encouragement is also given to the purchase of Australian products of defence or technological significance by overseas firms or Governments. [More…]
Since its inception in 1970 the program in total, including Defence buys, nas resulted in offsets for Australia amounting to more than $220m. [More…]
In defence and public communication spheres conditions are written into contracts where appropriate, requiring that certain tasks and work content be undertaken locally. [More…]
The whole defence of the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) has been one of a faithful son doing his best with a complex estate. [More…]
That is the basic defence of the Government- one of a faithful son doing his best with a complex estate. [More…]
Do I come in here and lay down my defence? [More…]
Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence Report: The Middle East-Focal Point of Conflict (Question No. [More…]
When will he be reporting to the Parliament on the action that the Government has taken and proposes to take in accordance with the Prime Minister’s direction of 25 May 1978 in relation to the report tabled in June 1977 by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on The Middle East- Focal point of conflict. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the statement of the Minister for Defence that he was the custodian of the records relating to the Maralinga Tests and that is where his ministerial responsibilities started and ended. [More…]
Changed timing of lump payments to schools and tertiary institutions and for some defence items, boosted outlays in the September quarter. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 October 1978: [More…]
What contribution is made to Australian defence preparedness by school cadets. [More…]
Is it appropriate that cadets are a charge against the Department of Defence vote. [More…]
These attributes are very helpful in maintaining our defence preparedness. [More…]
The Cadet Forces Regulations which are the operating authority for the new scheme are made under the Defence Act It is, therefore, appropriate that the costs of the scheme are a charge against the Defence vote. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 October 1978: [More…]
How many times and on what occasions and dates have US Defence installations in Australia been placed on alert status since 1965. [More…]
I do not therefore propose to answer the honourable member’s question in the detail which he has sought I can advise him, however, that there have been no changes in the alert status of US forces at Joint US/Australian Defence Facilities in Australia since October 1973. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]
1 ) No; it is not customary to make decisions concerning the Defence Force on the basis of plebiscites. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1 978: [More…]
2328 (Hansard, 17 October 1978, page 1983) will he state in detail what are the sort of canteen systems that are more closely aligned to the basic and essential needs of the defence force in the present socio-economic circumstances. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]
Naval Technical Services- Review of Manpower Requirements to Implement the Five Year Defence Plan Program. [More…]
Some minor amendments have been made to allow the organisation to function satisfactorily in the re-organised Defence Department [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1 978: [More…]
How many classification levels are above that of the Chief of Naval Technical Services in the Defence structure. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 12 October 1978: [More…]
and (7) My Department’s investigations have indicated that Mr Robinson’s TASS proposal offers no practical solution to defence surveillance problems and the Government is not proposing to take up the development of his idea for defence purposes. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 17 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 November 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 17 October 1978: [More…]
(i) The central mainframe computer is used principally for financial and management accounting, payroll and payments, processing, estimates consolidation and analysis, Superannuation and Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits scheme processing, analysis of insurance company statutory returns, investment analysis and econometric modelling. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 16 November 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 16 November 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 August 1978: [More…]
No funds from the Defence Vote are provided for this purpose. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 9 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 October 1978: [More…]
The civilian staff ceiling currently allocated to Navy Office is 10,41 1, comprising 5,909 employed under the provisions of the Public Service Act and 4,502 employed under the provisions of the Naval Defence Act. [More…]
Defence Tender No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 14 November 1978: [More…]
Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence: Sub-committee on Defence Matters (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1978: [More…]
1 ) Has bis attention been drawn to statements made by the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) at public hearings in Darwin of the sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence concerning briefings given to the sub-committee at Pine Gap. [More…]
The conditions relating to visits of this nature were announced by a former Minister for Defence on 28 February 1973 and are still observed. [More…]
As the Minister at that time announced, ‘With the exception of the very few people directly associated with the central execution and control of the defence programs of Australia and the United States, no person will have greater access ‘. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 October 1978: [More…]
If so, can this cost be justified as a priority defence commitment [More…]
The matter is, of course, reviewed periodically, including in the normal annual process of reviewing the Defence Five Year Rolling Program. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 19 October 1978: [More…]
1 ) Reports on Maralinga, Emu Field and Monte Bello by the Australian Ionizing Radiation Advisory Council will be received by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development The final report of the joint Australian/British technical assessment team on the buried half Kg of plutonium at Maralinga will be received by the Minister for National Development I will be receiving a report from the Defence element of the joint Defence-AIRAC reconnaissance of the Monte Bello Islands which took place late in October. [More…]
The Defence element report on the Monte Bello reconnaissance is expected within a few weeks. [More…]
As the Defence element report is not intended to be an authoritative statement on the Monte Bello Islands, but rather to contribute towards the Government ‘s consideration of the future of the Islands, it is not proposed to make this report public. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 5 November 1 978: [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that uniformed instructors attached to cadet units are subject to the control and direction of their respective branch of the Defence Force. [More…]
If it is subject to income tax why are these instructors treated on a different basis to other part time members of the Defence Force. [More…]
Regulation 5 ( 1 ) of the Cadet Forces Regulations permits a Chief of Staff in the Defence Force to appoint suitable persons as officers or instructors of cadets to supervise and control the training program for, and activities of cadets. [More…]
Officers and instructors of cadets in the Australian Services Cadet Scheme are all volunteers and as members of the Scheme are not members of the Defence Force. [More…]
Thus income tax exemptions applicable to some sections of the Defence Force do not apply. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 October 1978: [More…]
That a list of Australia’s defence interests be drawn up in light of the strategic assessment. [More…]
That the Department of Defence be further streamlined to ensure it is capable of supporting military activity of any level directed by the government. [More…]
That recent restrictions on Defence Force training and activities be reversed and that exercises, promotion and specialist courses, and joint forces training be increased. [More…]
That the government announce the expenditure of a minimum of 3.5 per cent of the gross domestic product on defence and a willingness to expend further if necessary to maintain Australia’s primary interest of survival as a democratic nation. [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence seen reports of alleged changes to the conditions or tax rates for the commutation of defence force retirement benefits and reports that such changes might lead to early resignations? [More…]
I would say to the honourable gentleman and to the House that there is no proposal whatsoever currently before the Government to disturb in any shape or form the provisions of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether he has seen newspaper reports indicating that there is to be a reduction in scale of the proposed relocation to Bonegilla of the Army Apprentices’ School, the School of Military Survey and the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps Training School. [More…]
It may well be that at some time in the near future a technical alteration could be made to, say, the invalidity provisions, but there is, I repeat, no proposal before the Government to alter the commutation or taxation provisions of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act. [More…]
Our defence forces have been given instructions to pay the fullest regard to the safety of Australian personnel who may be deployed to Namibia. [More…]
I want to be assured about one thing in the light of certain newspaper speculation based, it seems, on informed information available from the Department of Defence. [More…]
Nevertheless, I do believe that the loop has enormous potential tourist appeal and it may have great defence significance. [More…]
What offsetting investments in Australian technology or expertise were made under the Australian Industries Participation Scheme for (a) major defence, and (b) civil aviation purchases during 1977-78. [More…]
For a general outline on offset matters in relation to defence I refer the honourable member to my colleague, the Minister for Defence’s reply to question number 1773. [More…]
If the honourable member wishes to obtain further information relating to defence I suggest he could make a direct approach to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 1 May 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 June 1978: [More…]
The B707 has a range of defence applications. [More…]
The aircraft would be able to move freight and personnel within Australia and overseas in Defence Force operational circumstances and will be used for moving freight and personnel between Australia and Butterworth in Malaysia to replace charter arrangements costing the government over Sim a year. [More…]
The above information refers only to buildings for civil and defence departments and does not include buildings owned or leased by statutory authorities. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 November 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 November 1 978: [More…]
1 ) Are disposal stores able to obtain and sell new army clothing and stores; if so, should this be regarded as an indication of waste and inefficiency in defence forces purchases. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 November 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 November 1978: [More…]
The Australian Defence Health Services have no documented cases of personnel who have been in contact with Agent Orange. [More…]
The Australian Defence Health Services have no record of any claim for a pension based on contact with Agent Orange. [More…]
The long term effects of Agent Orange are not fully known to the Australian Defence Health Services, but see the answer to Question (5). [More…]
The Australian Defence Force did not use Agent Orange in Vietnam, and in these circumstances no comment is offered on the Question. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 November 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 November 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 November 1 978: [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to an article in a weekly publication by Malcolm Booker about Australia’s defences? [More…]
I find myself exposed to mild criticism that we are taking our time making up our minds on what will be the most expensive defence project in the history of this country. [More…]
I think the sooner Mr Booker gets lost on defence the better. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Does that amount represent a substantial reduction in real terms and equipment terms on the projected amount of $ 1,200m as set out in the Australian Defence Statement 1976? [More…]
I think it is a fair comment to make that most departmental heads jealously guard the public image of their respective authorities or departments and, for that reason, will take up at the highest level the defence of their officers and organisations on all occasions. [More…]
The surcharge provisions place a responsibility on the Auditor-General akin to that of a judge without providing proper means for the person surcharged to give evidence in his defence. [More…]
I draw the attention of honourable members to the presence in the House of Mr Duwabane, the Minister for Defence in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 November 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 October 1978: [More…]
1 ) What development projects are currently being undertaken at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury, South Australia. [More…]
Have these projects been approved or considered by the defence equipment procurement committees. [More…]
The following provides information that can be made available on projects of this kind currently being undertaken in the Laboratories comprising the Defence Research Centre, Salisbury, SA- [More…]
Of the development projects listed, Mulloka and Karinga have been considered and endorsed by the relevant Higher Defence Committees. [More…]
The honourable member will be aware that current work on the BARRA Sonobuoy, a major development project initiated at the Defence Research Centre, Salisbury (DRCS), is now being carried out primarily in industry, although research and development support is still being provided, as necessary, by DRCS Also Project JINDALEE, experimental Over-the-Horizon Radar, another major task to which DRCS is devoting considerable effort, is at this stage still concerned primarily with demonstration of operational feasibility and it has therefore not been classed as a development (or hardware) project in terms of the definition used above. [More…]
In view of this speech, I ask the Prime Minister whether the ANZUS treaty can be regarded as still having the strength and security which a credible defence policy for Australia demands? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether he is in a position to advise the House about resignations of professional officers from the Services, and whether he has had reports about morale and the concern of these officers regarding the future of the career concept within the armed Services. [More…]
It is important to obtain such an assessment if we are to make sure that our defence forces are adequate to cope with the problems ahead. [More…]
The assessment will provide the basis for the Government’s decisions on the type and capacity of Australia’s defence force. [More…]
I inform honourable members that in view of recent events and in anticipation of the outcome of that review, the Government has already taken decisions involving a greater rate of defence expenditure than involved in the last Budget. [More…]
I should also note that in the past three years greater emphasis has been given to purchases of new defence equipment. [More…]
Over this period orders have been placed for a number of major items of defence equipment, including three guided missile frigates- FFGs- which are to enter service progressively from 1981; construction in Australia of the 6,000-tonne amphibious heavy-lift ship, HMAS Tobruk; construction in Australia of 14 patrol boats; twelve C130H Hercules medium transport aircraft, which have already entered service; modification of four F111C aircraft to provide a reconnaissance capability; two P3C long range maritime patrol aircraft; 1,200 additional light general service trucks to improve mobility. [More…]
Estimated defence expenditure on capital equipment for the armed Services this financial year is 12.9 per cent of the defence outlays, compared with expenditure of only 4.8 per cent in 1975. [More…]
Current planning is for increased expenditure on capital equipment items to enhance the capability and effectiveness of the defence forces. [More…]
While this has placed pressure on the other areas of the defence infrastructure and spending the proposed acquisitions will enhance the operational effectiveness of the defence forces. [More…]
Let me move on to defence, a matter always of great concern to the Prime Minister who was, after all, Minister for Defence in an earlier Liberal-Country Party Government and before that Minister for the Army. [More…]
He ought to be aware that under his Prime Ministership the defence policy has become a policy of attrition. [More…]
In 1975 the Liberal-National Country Party pledged that it would ‘move to restore defence expenditures, in particular defence equipment expenditures, to appropriate and realistic levels ‘. [More…]
Following that, on 25 May 1976 the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) announced a $ 12,000m five-year defence program. [More…]
He said that it was of the amount needed to give the country a credible defence policy’. [More…]
We now have a defence system which is thoroughly disabled. [More…]
It is true that capital expenditure fell to 4.8 per cent of total defence outlays under the previous Labor Government. [More…]
That is because of cutbacks for which the Prime Minister, when Minister for Defence in an earlier LiberalCountry Party government, was responsible. [More…]
The 12.9 per cent capital expenditure of total defence outlays this year is a result of orders initiated under the previous Labor Government. [More…]
Modification of the FI 1 1Cs was certainly announced by the present Minister for Defence. [More…]
In relation to the FI 1 1 we ought to note the statement of the present Minister for Defence when in Opposition in October 1975. [More…]
Let us look at the five-year defence plan that the Minister for Defence outlined. [More…]
Let us look at what was really achieved under the inspiring leadership of the Prime Minister who has always asserted his premier concern to be the need for adequate defence of this country. [More…]
We must bear in mind that the Minister said that the amount he outlined was necessary to have a credible defence policy. [More…]
The next year it was $430m below the credible defence policy that the Government had outlined. [More…]
So much for a credible defence policy; so much for the concern of the Government on this issue! [More…]
Expenditure on new capital equipment is $350m to $410m down on the White Paper commitment for what was a minimum credible defence policy for this country. [More…]
We understand that there will be an uplift in the level of expenditure available for defence. [More…]
We understand that the new five-year defence program will amount to $ 14,000m. [More…]
Let us inflate the $12,000m five-year defence program of 1976 according to the gross national expenditure deflator. [More…]
The amount proposed in 1976 was the minimum for a credible defence policy. [More…]
We must now have, under the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), an incredible defence policy. [More…]
The serious deficiencies which are eroding the capacity of our defence forces are beyond belief. [More…]
The final point I want to make on this issue is that the craven way in which this Government is handling defence is creating extremely difficult fiscal problems for this country. [More…]
The implications of that simply for defence purposes are that we cannot afford the enormous outlays that loom immediately ahead of us- not in 10 years time but immediately- for decisions which should be no longer deferred. [More…]
The Parliament deserves an outline exactly how the Government intends to pay for these programs and exactly how it will provide adequate defence for this country in the future. [More…]
As a result of the low priority accorded the defence services by this Government, naval steaming time has had to be reduced, 20 of the Army’s tanks are being mothballed, 20 per cent of the armoured vehicles on issue are being withdrawn and ammunition supplies are being cut. [More…]
Yet on the very day that the defence service cuts were announced the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) was able to announce also the Government’s purchase of two Boeing 707 jetliners for use by the Prime Minister and his Ministry in what can only be described in kind terms as global gallivanting. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has since confirmed that the money will come from a yet to be defined special vote. [More…]
On the figures of operation given by the Minister for Defence, which are 700 hours per year, the cost per aircraft will be $2.1m per year or $4.2m for both aircraft. [More…]
Last May the Minister for Defence told the Parliament that the present BAC Ills were unsuitable for long international flights. [More…]
We have seen the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch), rapped by the Minister for Defence for using VIP flights to excess. [More…]
( 1) That paragraphs (2) and (5) of the resolution of appointment of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence be omitted and the following paragraphs substituted: [More…]
Employment in public administration and defence has increased by 30,000 people and employment in the entertainment and recreation field has gone up. [More…]
Australia’s changing economic structure then is not irrelevant to the Australian Government’s support of the foreign and defence policies of the United States which itself represents the interests of big American corporations in the region. [More…]
I did not intend to participate in this debate at all but the Prime Minister during the course of his speech made what I thought were some very quiet, considered and non-contentious remarks on the matter of defence. [More…]
I thought to myself that if that is to be the form, if the Leader of the Opposition is to talk about defence in that way, I should say something about it. [More…]
I do not know who prepared the part of his speech on defence for him, but, if I may, let me use an old homely expression: If the person who did the research did it for me I would give him one right up the bracket. [More…]
The honourable gentleman was saying to the House and to the country this afternoon that of all the departments of State in existence the Department of Defence can be considered in isolation. [More…]
I say to the honourable gentleman that that is not real life and that, if the policies of the Labor Party had been pursued, the country’s economy would have been ruined and the prospects for sound defence planning would have been ruined with that ruination. [More…]
Two points are central to what I have to say today about the Defence appropriation . [More…]
Firstly, notwithstanding an overall Budget strategy calling for the most stringent economies throughout the public sector provision has been made for a defence outlay larger than any achieved since we withdrew from Vietnam. [More…]
There was a crucial question to be addressed this year in framing the Defence budget, and it was this: Could we defer some of the defence development provisionally proposed for 1978-79, without there being a serious effect on the security which the defence program is designed to afford to the nation now and in the future? [More…]
The Government committed itself to precisely that program and, I would say, to the benefit of the nation and to the benefit of defence planning. [More…]
If inflation had continued unabated at that rate, it would have made the whole vision of sensible defence planning absolutely one of tatters. [More…]
Wanting to give a touch of verisimilitude to his observations about defence, he said this: [More…]
But the point I am trying to make to the House is that the speech given by the honourable gentleman this afternoon in the field of defence was grossly inaccurate and grossly disconcerting to all responsible-minded Australians. [More…]
I should have thought that in the matter of defence, the honourable gentleman would be better advised leaving the activities of the Australian Labor Party to the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) because he at least has taken the bother to inform himself as to the accuracy of the major issues. [More…]
-There was a time when the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) was a hard act to follow. [More…]
I would remind the Minister for Defence that in the three years in which Labor was in office the deficits totalled $6.6 billion. [More…]
The Minister also criticised the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) for attacking this Government over its defence policies. [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister was fortunate enough to see the program on northern defence the other night, but if he was able to see it he will recall the two tired old DC3s defending Australia. [More…]
I do not honestly know how the Minister had the gall to stand up in this chamber and defend his Government’s defence policy because after the program the other night, he must have been severely embarrassed. [More…]
The last person in this House whom I would want to see embarrassed is my learned friend and colleague, the Minister for Defence, because despite his incompetence as a Minister, he is still the most popular member on the other side of the House. [More…]
The Prime Minister has set out the Government’s positions on foreign affairs, the Government’s assertions on defence and the economy and, as has been the case on almost every major occasion when the Prime Minister has spoken on these matters, he has told the nation that recovery is just around the corner. [More…]
The Prime Minister made considerable comments about defence. [More…]
The facts are that between 1972 and 1975 capital expenditure in the defence area was low. [More…]
It was low because during the period the Prime Minister was Minister for Defence, during the latter period of a previous LiberalNational Country Party Government in 1970 to 1972, a very low commitment to new capital equipment was made, with the result that the deliveries which had to be paid for did not fall due in that three-year period. [More…]
In fact, the first major increase for capital costs- because of deliveriestook place in 1976, and they have been increasing since then because of the ordering and the procurement proposals which were inititated during the period Mr Barnard and Mr Morrison were Ministers for Defence. [More…]
In fact, in the 1977-78 capital equipment purchases for defence, $220m worth of capital equipment purchases were in fact ordered prior to the present Government coming to office. [More…]
The fact is that one does not go to a supermarket to buy defence equipment. [More…]
The reflection is on the Prime Minister for his failure during the period he was Minister for Defence to maintain Australia’s capital purchasing program of defence materiels. [More…]
-The Opposition supported the proposition, but there have been reports- I think they are accurate reports- that there was opposition to the commitment by the Department of Defence. [More…]
If so, I think it is important that the reasons for that opposition are made known to us, especially if those reasons have to do with the security or the capacity of the defence forces to carry out their likely functions in Australia and if their capabilities are in any way reduced by that commitment, or if the forces themselves are in any way likely to be placed in danger because of the structure of the force which is being committed. [More…]
In both instances, I believe the Parliament is entitled to know why the defence establishment and, I presume, the Minister of Defence (Mr Killen) are concerned about this commitment. [More…]
But it is a commitment of the part of the defence forces. [More…]
If the Department of Defence is concerned that that commitment will in some way affect its capabilities to perform the tasks for which it is responsible then I think the Parliament is entitled to know to what extent and under what circumstances the Government has decided that those risks are worth while. [More…]
I think Parliament is entitled to know what the risks are and what arguments were put forward by the Department of Defence for not sending the force. [More…]
I would like to speak about the defence of the nation. [More…]
I have been involved in this field of foreign affairs and defence since 1942. [More…]
1 ) and (2) No specific request has been received on this matter but I am aware that it forms part of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
No specific request has been received on this matter but I am aware that it forms part of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
The Australian War Memorial and the Department of Defence hold a considerable number of aircraft of historical interest. [More…]
That is why there were the resignations of Churchill over Gallipoli; of Wilson and Bevan over rearmament; and of Malcolm Fraser in this Parliament over former Prime Minister Gorton and defence policy. [More…]
The difference is that former Defence Minister Fraser explained the reasons for his resignation, such was the importance of that principle. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) said of the resignation of the Minister for Finance: [More…]
In 1971 the present Prime Minister, then Minister for Defence, upon resigning said: [More…]
I remind the Prime Minister again of his own words to this House on 9 March 1971 when, in his speech of resignation as Minister for Defence, he said: [More…]
That was the analysis of what was called a forward defence policy. [More…]
We saw Sir Paul Hasluck, he was then Minister for Defence, also encouraging involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
Even when they differed with the United States they did so with their minds filled with delusions of grandeur created by their absorption with our ally’s defence and intelligence information. [More…]
I quote, for the benefit of honourable members, the 1979 report of the Secretary of the United States Department of Defence. [More…]
Furthermore, current intelligence estimates are that between 1964 and 1977 the Soviets spent an average of about 10 to IS per cent of their defence budget on forces oriented towards the Peoples Republic of China. [More…]
At least 22 per cent of the increase in the Soviet defence budget during those 13 years has been attributed to the build-up in the Far East and the remaining 78 per cent, according to intelligence estimates, has gone to the strategic nuclear forces and the theatre forces oriented towards western Europe. [More…]
Instead, Australia should commit itself seriously and consistently to the cause of peace and order, the resolution of conflict and the defence of human rights. [More…]
I had the privilege- and I will be reporting on this aspect in due time to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence- of conferring with people in the Pentagon over a period of five days. [More…]
-I do not very often come into debates on foreign affairs even though I have been a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence for about five or six years. [More…]
I raised the point that the Soviet Union indicated to this country last year that it would invite a parliamentary delegation to visit that country only on the basis that no members of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Sub-committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union would be on that delegation. [More…]
I ask that because the international situation has changed so dramatically and so quickly that, if Australians continue to be apathetic, unconcerned and unwilling to sacrifice, financially and otherwise, in order to have sound defence preparations, we will not be able to guarantee in the long term that this country will remain lucky. [More…]
Therefore, if we do not revamp our defence forces we are going to be in serious difficulties if a lead time threat of any significance arises. [More…]
I have said previously that this country must be prepared to spend a minimum of 3.5 per cent of the gross domestic product on defence. [More…]
The Liberal Party through Dr Forbes, the former defence spokesman, announced that to meet our obligations we would have to spend about 3.3 per cent at least. [More…]
We must stand up for ourselves and it is only by increasing expenditure on defence that we will earn the respect of our allies and of any potential enemies. [More…]
I will refer quickly to the report on the Middle East tabled by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, and published in 1977. [More…]
As was mentioned previously, the facts are that the Labor Government introduced nearly all of these policies concerning defence. [More…]
In 1976 a White Paper on defence was delivered. [More…]
In 1978 we cut the defence budget and we destroyed much of the value of that White Paper. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) fought very hard to retain his defence program, but he lost out to other priorities. [More…]
But the defence vote has fallen progressively every year from 16.6 per cent to 8.7 per cent. [More…]
In the 1978 Budget the defence vote was cut leading to the delay of some long term purchases. [More…]
Therefore, the cuts fell on training, maintenance of equipment and the nuts and bolts of a well prepared defence force. [More…]
Fortunately, in the last few days there have been announcements that some of the defence expenditure will be restored. [More…]
The end product of a foreign affairs policy is a defence force of the appropriate size, shape and strength. [More…]
The Fill aircraft are our first line of defence. [More…]
The defence experts predicted in the White Paper that we needed a regular Army of 34,000 men. [More…]
I would like to talk very briefly about the defence organsiation. [More…]
The re-organisation of the Department of Defence was undertaken some years ago. [More…]
Instead of having five Ministers- a Minister for Defence, a Minister for the Army, a Minister for the Navy, a Minister for Air and a Minister for Supply- we now have one Minister for Defence with an assistant Minister. [More…]
It is no good having a defence department organised for peace when we could be getting closer to war. [More…]
I call for a complete reassessment of the organisation of the higher defence machinery. [More…]
I believe that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has a quite impossible task to fulfil. [More…]
If we are to get things going again and to put the defence forces into a reasonably operational shape we will need to look very closely at where we are going and how we are going to do it. [More…]
We have changed the scene and, because we have changed it so drastically, the civilian elements of the Department of Defence have an over-riding control of the uniformed elements. [More…]
We should determine where we can cut expenditure to provide more money for the defence forces. [More…]
I hope that all members of Parliament, on both sides of this House, will adopt a bipartisan approach for the security and defence of Australia. [More…]
While sub-clause 7 (3) has the effect of applying to such acts the criminal laws of the State or Territory which the offender enters or to which he is brought, subclause 7 (4) makes it a defence that the act constituting the offence would not have constituted an offence under the law of the country of which the offender is a national. [More…]
I would like to say a few words tonight about Australia’s defence preparedness and, more specifically, about public attitudes towards that preparedness. [More…]
In recent years the general thinking in this country on Australia’s defence has been that this nation would face no military threat for at least a decade. [More…]
Defence complacency existed after the demise of that Government but now, against the background of the current world situation, which was correctly outlined this afternoon by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock), I contend that that complacency must be eradicated and the rationale that gave rise to it completely overturned, discredited and dismissed. [More…]
It is in that context that we must plan and provide for Australia’s defence. [More…]
If that argument is accepted there at present exists a vital and continuing need for increased defence expenditure in this country. [More…]
Some increase in defence expenditure has recently been announced. [More…]
But importantly, there needs to be a public realisation in the Australian community at large, concurrent with that increased expenditures, of the seriousness of the global situation and the need for increased defence expenditure. [More…]
In terms of the limited budgetary cake, defence expenditure has fallen as a percentage of the total budgetary outlay. [More…]
It must embark on a course to make defence an issue in this country, to improve our defences and to be able to live with some measure of security in a threatening world environment. [More…]
No specific request has been received on this matter but I am aware that it forms part of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
1 ) No specific request has been received on this matter but I am aware that it forms part of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
1 ) No specific request has been received on this matter but I am aware that it forms pan of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
1 ) No specific request has been received on this matter but I am aware that it forms part of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
1 ) No specific request has been received on this matter but I am aware that it forms part of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
1 ) No specific request on this matter has been received but I am aware that it forms pan of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
1 ) No specific request has been received on this matter but I am aware that it forms pan of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
1 ) No specific request has been received on this matter but I am aware that it forms pan of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
1 ) No specific request has been received on this matter but I am aware that it forms pan of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
Under the present financial operating arrangements a substantial proportion of the funds available for lending under the Defence Service Homes Scheme is derived from the repayment, in pan or in full, of loans previously granted. [More…]
1 ) and (2) Defence Service Homes loans have been made available for the purchase of flats, home units and town houses in all States since 1968. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government received a request from the Australian Services Council that the means test for Defence Service Pensioners be progressively eliminated at an age 5 years less than that at which it is eliminated for age pensioners. [More…]
1 ) No specific request has been received on this matter but I am aware that it forms pan of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government received a request from the Australian Services Council that the Defence Service Homes Act and/or other relevant legislation be amended to widen the eligibility for a Defence Service home to all ex-servicewomen. [More…]
No specific request has been received on this matter but I am aware that it forms part of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council’s Repatriation and Resettlement policy. [More…]
There were approximately 60,000 members of the wartime Women’s Services who did not qualify for Defence Service Homes benefits. [More…]
Do loan repayments now exceed loans for Defence Service Homes. [More…]
The cost of Repatriation pensions (including war /defence widows’ pensions), in respect of these three cases, is approximately $9,500 per year. [More…]
I refer the Prime Minister to his speech of resignation in this House as Minister for Defence on 9 March 1 97 1 in which he said in part: [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to a news report today which stated that the Royal Australian Air Force is converting four of its F111s into spy planes? [More…]
My thanks go also to the honourable member for Berowra (Dr Edwards) and to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) for arranging my being able to lead for the Opposition on this matter of the statement by the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch) concerning the export facilitation measures introduced into the motor vehicle local content plan. [More…]
One can express admiration for the extraordinary defence capability which has been developed by the Israelis, but I hope that writers on that theme would observe the discipline that there are significant differences between Australia and Israel. [More…]
I think it is a matter of regret that the writer of the article is so prejudiced in his views as to say that the defence capability of one country is significant and the defence capability of this country is insignificant. [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence aware that concern is being expressed, particularly in Western Australia and no doubt in other places, at the large number of civilians employed by the Department of Defence in comparison with the number of Service people in defence forces? [More…]
If this is the case, will the Minister explain why we need such numbers of civilians and could, steps be taken to reduce the civilian element in the defence forces? [More…]
In 1973 the number of civilians employed within the Defence Department was of the order of 37,300. [More…]
There are some 6,000 civilians employed within the Army throughout the whole of Australia doing a multitude of tasks, the Air Force employs some 3,900 and approximately 4,900 are employed in the Defence Science and Technology Organisation. [More…]
At Defence central here in Canberra some 2,300 civilians are employed. [More…]
This Bill has its origin in some difficulties associated with the statutory interpretation of the statute to which the Bill refers, namely, the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Act. [More…]
The provisions of the two Acts- the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Act and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act- deal with the classification and reclassification of former members of the Defence Forces who have retired on grounds of invalidity or physical or mental incapacity to perform their duties. [More…]
As part of its classification and reclassification responsibilities, the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority determines in respect of each invalidity retiree a percentage of incapacity in relation to civil employment. [More…]
Indeed, they had the general support of the 1972 joint select committee on Defence Force Retirement Benefits legislation which I am sure is known to most honourable members as the Jess Committee. [More…]
Indeed, my learned and esteemed colleague, the honourable member for Moreton and Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), has in the past in his legal capacity expressed the view that there is a certain amount of illegality about the whole imposition of this levy. [More…]
I do not profess to have the deep understanding and knowledge of this subject that perhaps the honourable member for Fraser and the Minister for Defence have, but I do believe that all in the farmhouse is not well and that the cackles that are heard should not be dismissed; that the industry, or the producers, are uneasy about this 100 per cent increase. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the need for justice to be manifestly seen to be done when the Government is both the prosecution and the funder of the defence? [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence whether it is a fact that the major proportion of Australia’s defence liaison officers is posted in the United States of America. [More…]
How many defence liaison officers are posted in Middle East countries to observe developments, the use of weapons and military undertakings? [More…]
I am sure that my honourable friend will understand that Australia has very significant defence arrangements with the United States of America. [More…]
The retention of Qantas as a viable and efficient operator provides essential defence capacity for times of peace and of national emergency. [More…]
Ignorance is no defence under the law. [More…]
Certainly when I look at the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), quite clearly I see that he is a much more physical man now than he was a few years ago. [More…]
A number of people have expressed concern that their place of birth is shown in their passports, and the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence recommended in its 1976 report on dual nationality that consideration be given to deleting the ‘place of birth’ from Australian passports. [More…]
In this particular case the work concerns a defence industries facility. [More…]
It may be in the interests of the House when we are discussing an item involving some $7m to change facilities at Garden Islandrecognising that not dissimilar facilities exist at Williamstown in Victoria and that there is some doubt about future work loads in defence industries in Australia- for the Government to indicate what are its proposals for future naval works and constructions in Australia, in addition to maintenance. [More…]
If it was, it would have been given to the Committee in confidence, not necessarily because it is confidential information but because the Department of Defence and its related offices tend to deal on a confidential basis with matters which, in other circumstances, especially in the United States, would be open to public debate. [More…]
However, I would like to see a more frank and open indication of the proposed work load and usage of this facility and other defence facilities which receive considerable sums of money. [More…]
In such circumstances information on a particular project may be available to committees for assessment but information on the total intentions of the Department of Defence or the total defence needs of the country is not available for assessment. [More…]
I cannot be absolutely certain, but I am 99.9 per cent certain that these works and all other works would have appeared in the defence works program at Budget time. [More…]
Secondly, there is no question of Department of Defence officers giving their evidence in private; the hearings are in public. [More…]
I defer to the superior knowledge of my colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), on this matter, if not on all matters; but I am 99.9 per cent certain that the details of this project will be found in the White Paper on Australian Defence which was put down last year. [More…]
He said that it was treated in confidence; that the defence officers always give their evidence in confidence. [More…]
The officers from the Department of Defence and the Department of Construction gave their evidence in public, and the questions were asked in public. [More…]
It does not impinge on any future development of Garden Island, which is the subject of additional planning by both the Department of Defence and the Department of Housing and Construction. [More…]
I also point out to the House that in the White Paper on Australian Defence of November 1 976 the Government spelt out that it intended to develop the Garden Island facility. [More…]
I refer to page 44 of that document which was put down by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
Mr SCHOLES (Corio)-by leave-Neither the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay) nor the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, the honourable member for Canning (Mr Bungey), listened to the remarks I made. [More…]
-The Opposition does not oppose the Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) Bill. [More…]
The situation which has developed as a result of a court case would enable this Act to be utilised for purposes for which it is not intended, and in the long term, because of the financial implications of those changes, could have serious effects on the future benefits available to members of the Defence Force. [More…]
The Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act and its predecessor, the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Act, have been studied extensively by this Parliament in recent years. [More…]
In 1975 the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) appointed the then honourable member for Herbert, Mr Duke Bonnett, now retired from this Parliament, as a single member committee of inquiry to inquire into the anomalies which existed in the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
-I support the Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) Bill which amends the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Act 1948 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973. [More…]
For example, a former member of the Defence Force could be granted further benefits for a disability which in fact was not connected with his original disability. [More…]
If the former Defence Force member’s condition is proven to have been connected with the original disability he will, of course, be in a position to have his situation reclassified. [More…]
However, I ask the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) to take a closer look at some of the things that ought to have been done, in particular that which was mentioned by the honourable member for Corio. [More…]
I promised Sir Mervyn Brogan, the Chairman of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council, that I would raise a matter with the Minister. [More…]
Such Appeal Tribunals should have the independence, powers and status proposed for the projected Administrative Appeals Tribunal and, ideally, should be constituted as a Repatriation and Defence Division within that Tribunal. [More…]
Both the Toose report and the substance of the proposals in the Bill have been discussed very extensively with the veterans’ organisations, especially the RSL and the Australian Veterans’ Defence Services Council. [More…]
As a matter of fact, Mr Justice Toose made a suggestion about legal representation, but when we referred that to the veterans’ organisations, especially the RSL and the Australian Veterans Defence Services Council, they were very much opposed to that type of representation. [More…]
Common law permits of a defence to an action on a foreign judgment on the ground that the rendering court - [More…]
and (2) I presided over a meeting on 17 November 1978 to discuss outstanding matters relating to the proposed Defence Force Disciplinary Code for the three Services. [More…]
Present at the meeting were- the three Judge Advocates General of the three Services; a representative of the Chief of Defence Force Staff; Chief of Personnel (Army); Chief of Naval Personnel, and members of the Working Party on the Defence Force Disciplinary Code. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Defence seen reports that the Queensland Government has offered the Federal Government land at Cairns for the permanent establishment of a patrol boat facility? [More…]
When I first came here we did not debate matters concerning education or health or Aboriginal affairs, but we did have lengthy debates on foreign affairs, defence policy and the like. [More…]
the capacity of Australia’s defence forces to meet the criteria of substantial self-reliance set out in the Guam doctrine; [More…]
the appropriateness of the existing organisation of Australia’s defence forces; [More…]
the capacity of the defence forces to achieve defence readiness in a short period; [More…]
the effectiveness of expenditure of funds appropriated for defence; [More…]
carry out a continuing examination of the extent to which announced defence programs are implemented, and [More…]
examine such other matters related to the defence of Australia and the defence services as may be determined by the committee or referred by Parliament. [More…]
The terms of the motion are meant to be allembracing, to cover the whole subject of defence and to ensure oversight by this House of expenditure by this Parliament, which is required to appropriate funds for defence at fairly high levels, even though arguably those funds are not sufficiently high insofar as our actual defence needs are concerned. [More…]
Last year the appropriation in the Budget for defence represented 8.7 per cent of the total government outlays. [More…]
In other words, close to $9 out of every $100 spent last year by the Government was devoted to defence. [More…]
There is very little public debate or examination of the manner in which decisions within the defence area are made, or of the appropriateness, the methods of choosing and the roles of given pieces of equipment, some with extremely high capability and possessing very high value. [More…]
This Parliament, in common with the public, is discouraged from making a real examination of significant areas of the operation of defence because of an over-use of secrecy and a lack of insight and public discussion of the aims, intentions and justification for actions taken in the defence area. [More…]
Figures published today indicate that there are 70,400 uniformed members of the Services in Australia and that approximately 30,000 persons are engaged in civilian employment of various types that is directly related to defence. [More…]
billion to defence but has no adequate capacity to examine that expenditure, the organisation which is responsible for it, or whether it adds to the real defence capacity of the nation. [More…]
That does not alter the fact that this Parliament has to appropriate funds, has to make decisions and is responsible to the Australian people for the defence of this country and for ensuring that the funds so appropriated are spent properly. [More…]
In one instance last year, matters on which the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) placed a D-notice were published in magazines. [More…]
I would contrast that with the situation last year in which a series of supposed disclosures by a journalist in Austrafia became headline news all over the country as major leaks or disclosures of secrets from the Department of Defence. [More…]
That must have damaged the standing of our defence forces and defence administration, yet not one of the items that were disclosed in those articles should have had any significance at all if there had been a free flow of information between the defence administration and the Australian public. [More…]
The sensationalism and the ensuing embarrassment that was caused to defence in this country was not the result of the disclosures but of the fact that they were able to be rendered sensational because of over-secrecy and the nondisclosure of information which had no right to be withheld from any section of the Australian public. [More…]
I repeat, most of the Toohey disclosures last year, which caused a considerable number of problems, became scoops only because so much secrecy surrounds the ordinary day-to-day operations of defence. [More…]
Most of those questions- the present Minister for Defence did not hold that portfolio at the time- were put aside on the ground that they concerned confidential or security information. [More…]
We are entitled to know on what the money, which we are asked to appropriate, is spent, whether it is spent appropriately and whether, as a result of that expenditure, the Defence Force is capable of carrying out the tasks which are set for it. [More…]
Already we have the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
I suggest that that is not a sufficient staff to carry out any sort of inquiry into defence procurement or into other aspects of defence in this country. [More…]
I make the other point that the significance of defence to this country, to its security and to the. [More…]
Budgets which are the responsibility of this House, is such that it is appropriate that a separate standing committee should exist to carry out continuing investigations into areas of defence. [More…]
Last year the Minister complained about old soldiers making statements which were not helpful to defence. [More…]
I think one of the problems we have is that contemporary soldiers and persons do not have enough access to public debate on matters relevant to the development of our defence forces and their administration. [More…]
An inquiry was conducted within the Department of Defence into problems which quite clearly existed between civilian and service personnel operating in a technical area. [More…]
He now performs no useful task within the defence area. [More…]
The argument is whether we want significant discussion, significant parliamentary investigation and real information provided on the defence of Australia. [More…]
I certainly think that Parliament wants to know whether that sort of time lag can be afforded by Australian defence. [More…]
In moving the motion I am seeking to advance, not retard, defence and defence debate in this country. [More…]
Nothing but good can come out of a properly constituted, properly staffed parliamentary committee with members dedicated to defence, examining expenditures, examining proposals and examining the needs of Australia’s defence. [More…]
The structure of the defence force and of the Department of Defence, and the procurement decisions that are made now, will have long term and consequential effects on our capacity to defend ourselves. [More…]
If we make a mistake on the ground structures of our Defence Force and what shape they will be, it is not easy to correct that mistake. [More…]
It will advance the interests of defence debate in Australia. [More…]
It will enable this Parliament to participate more fully in the defence debate and to discharge its responsibilities both to defence and to the Australian people in a far more adequate manner. [More…]
The Opposition believes very strongly that there should be a joint committee on defence separate from the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that we now have. [More…]
the capacity of Australia’s defence forces to meet the criteria of substantial self-reliance set out in the Guam doctrine; [More…]
the appropriateness of the existing organisation of Australia’s defence forces; [More…]
the capacity of the defence forces to achieve defence readiness in a short period; [More…]
the effectiveness of expenditure of funds appropriated for defence; [More…]
carry out a continuing examination of the extent to which announced defence programs are implemented, and [More…]
examine such other matters related to the defence of Australia and the defence services as may be determined by the committee or referred by Parliament. [More…]
The number of defence debates in this House in a year can be counted on one hand, apart from specific debates on machinery Bills on a range of matters that come before us. [More…]
This is the only Parliament in Australia in which defence is debated, notwithstanding the occasional ambitions of Sir Charles Court and Mr Bjelke-Petersen. [More…]
When in Opposition the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) was most eloquent in his concern that defence ought to be debated more frequently. [More…]
One only needs to point to his speeches, for example, those on 23 April 1975 and 8 October 1975, when he pleaded for more defence debate in this House. [More…]
Yet now, the honourable member for Moreton as the Minister for Defence has not followed his own wishes to the extent that we on this side of the House would have hoped. [More…]
For example, his defence statement on 24 October 1978 in which he announced a slow-down of the Government’s previous aims- they have since been speeded up- has not been debated. [More…]
The effect on the Department of Defence of this to-ing and fro-ing with respect to procurement is a very good reason for a committee to examine to a greater degree where we are going in defence. [More…]
Last month the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) spoke of a real increase in defence spending of two per cent. [More…]
In the last Budget a real increase of one per cent in defence spending was announced. [More…]
The combined increases of one per cent and two per cent together with the cutback in expenditure on the Department of Defence of 2V4 per cent mean that we are up one-half of one per cent in the process. [More…]
In peacetime we have to make up our minds as to the relative importance of strategy and administrative considerations in arriving at our defence policy. [More…]
There is wide concurrence in the House amongst those who are specifically interested in defence on the proposal to form a defence committee. [More…]
They refer to the Minister’s belief in the importance of administration in respect of our peacetime defence forces. [More…]
I believe that our defence preparedness should be oriented towards an administration based on a strategy or strategies rather than administration per se. [More…]
House to defence. [More…]
The great debates for and against Australia’s involvement in Vietnam should no longer poison the atmosphere when we speak on defence. [More…]
I would hope that the maturity of this nation is of such a character that we have moved quietly but nevertheless perceptibly towards being able to embrace a bipartisan policy upon defence matters . [More…]
The fact of life today, as far as this nation is concerned in defence matters, is that the doctrine of self-reliance is assuming a greater degree of relevance month by month, day by day, and indeed hour by hour. [More…]
The people within the defence forces and the Returned Services League are captive audiences. [More…]
The then Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, was subject to a number of attacks. [More…]
The present Minister for Defence when referring to Mr Barnard said that he was living evidence of life after death, and the most complete tragedy that the nation had ever known. [More…]
Whenever I came into the House to speak on defence the debate would develop into an argument. [More…]
There is too much cut and thrust in this House on defence matters on the few occasions when we debate them. [More…]
We on this side often wish to assist the Minister in putting defence matters into the right perspective. [More…]
It is our duty in this House to see that our defence is as strong and as efficient as our resources will allow. [More…]
The issues in defence in peacetime centre on preparedness and a need for public awareness to overcome the natural apathy on the matter. [More…]
There needs to be more informed debate, more informed awareness of the real issues in defence. [More…]
The Defence Department should not allow its processes to be shrouded in secrecy simply for bureaucratic convenience. [More…]
One of the things that has prompted this motion from the Opposition is the evidence being put before a sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which is chaired by the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter). [More…]
I am concerned to hear of attempts being made within the Defence Department to stifle constructive criticism by way of the sworn evidence being given before this Committee. [More…]
For example, I understand that there is a Defence Intelligence Estimates Staff that is now part of the Joint Intelligence Organisation and that that has grown to being bigger than the Office of National Assessments. [More…]
Defence experts are critical of the administration of the Defence Department. [More…]
Even a Liberal member of the Legislative Council in Victoria has been extremely critical of the administration of the Defence Department with respect to weapons procurement. [More…]
I know Dr Foley well and have read his Ph.D. thesis on defence procurement. [More…]
We just do not get enough debate in this House on the defence procurement processes. [More…]
We need to know what effects the Government’s overall Budget considerations are having on our defence planning. [More…]
They have said that there should be a standing committee of the Parliament on defence to examine a whole host of things that are recited. [More…]
One conspicuous feature is left out of that examination which forms the basis, the essential, the fundamental, of all defence planning. [More…]
Were the honourable gentlemen serious when they said that a standing committee of this Parliament on defence should be allowed to question the intelligence-gathering systems of this country and make that public? [More…]
We cannot have any defence planning in this day and age without a strategic assessment. [More…]
I say that, for all my weaknesses, I answer to this Parliament for what happens in the Department of Defence. [More…]
But when we come to the wider vision, the wider debate on defence, I am bound to say to honourable gentlemen that I am surprised at the poor quality of the interrogation that goes on in this Parliament. [More…]
The Public Accounts Committee makes inquiries into defence activity, as do the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, the Public Works Committee, the Senate Estimates Committee and the House of Representatives Expenditure Committee. [More…]
But no, we must have a standing committee on defence that is going on some frolic to make inquiries about all sorts of things when the fundamental of defence planning is to be ignored. [More…]
I can say in my own defence that in nearly 24 years in this Parliament I have never asked for anything said about me to be withdrawn. [More…]
The honourable member for Corio well knows that I have put at his disposal, and without any sense of restriction at all, officers of the Department to discuss with him any aspect of defence planning. [More…]
That committee- a sub-committee of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defenceexamined quite a number of people. [More…]
He said that we are spending a lot of money on defence. [More…]
Is he suggesting that we should spend more on defence? [More…]
I have never known a Minister for Defence who would seek to have a lower defence vote and I am not seeking some curious place in history by becoming the first in this nation to so move. [More…]
If we are spending large sums of money on defence- I do not deny it- and if that is an argument for the establishment of a committee, why not establish a standing committee of the Parliament on health, a standing committee of the Parliament on social security or a standing committee of the Parliament on education? [More…]
Both honourable gentlemen, I hope consciously, were alluding to the difficulties of defence planning. [More…]
Mr SCHOLES (Corio) -Be fore you put the question, Mr Deputy Speaker, I want to make an explanation because I think the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) misrepresented my remarks. [More…]
The learned Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) mentioned a moment ago that we have a plethora of parliamentary committees; but we do not have any committees dealing with the rights of people and how the laws we pass affect them. [More…]
As the honourable member for Hawker has indicated to me that I should utilise the time that is remaining for General Business matters, let me point out that the whole gamut of what I have been saying is set out in Article 14 of a convention of the United Nations which, in part, says that all persons shall be equal before courts and tribunals; they will be entitled to be informed promptly and in detail in a language which they understand of the nature and cause of the charge; they will be entitled to have adequate time and facilities for the preparation of defence; they will be entitled to be tried in their presence and to defend themselves in person or through legal assistance of their own choosing. [More…]
The new fighter should have high performance capabilities not only in its principal roles of air defence and air combat but also in air-to-surface roles. [More…]
After both teams return to Australia there will be a necessary period of consultation and assessment of information by the RAAF and the Department of Defence in concert. [More…]
The Government is determined that this important and costly element of our Defence Force will be the product of meticulous, timely and thoroughly professional evaluation. [More…]
-by leave-The announcement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is not unexpected. [More…]
A number of factors concerning the total air defence capacity of the Royal Australian Air Force, and to a lesser degree the Royal Australian Navy, will directly affect this decision and the total air defence capacity of Australia. [More…]
I do not think that anyone inside or outside this House would seriously suggest that our air defence capacity can be neglected or that it is at the moment, of a nature which we would look upon as satisfactory. [More…]
The total concept of Australia’s air defence includes the maintenance or development of existing aircraft to a capacity which will ensure that in the short and long term we have adequate air defence. [More…]
If the Government intends to proceed to a three-squadron situation, the amounts of money involved will have to be made available fairly quickly and most likely would have to be offset against adaptions and changes which could be made to the rest of the air defence force. [More…]
It is absolutely essential for Australia’s defence, given the numbers of aircraft that we are likely to purchase, that this aircraft not have exclusively air to air superiority but have very substantial air to surface capabilities, especially air to surface capacities in the maritime sense. [More…]
by leaveHonourable members will recall that in May last year it was decided that the canteen arrangements for the Defence Force were to be changed. [More…]
The Army and Air Force Canteen Service will operate as a statutory authority under the direction of the Minister for Defence, as did ASCO. [More…]
The new Board is to comprise four senior Service officers, two each from the Army and Air Force; a senior Defence departmental officer; and two businessmen with experience in marketing and retailing. [More…]
Similarly to ASCO the new service will be required to present to the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Finance and the Auditor-General an audited profit and loss account and balance sheet, covering its operations, at least once each financial year. [More…]
It has come about as a result of a report commissioned by a former Minister for Defence and presented in January 1976 to the present Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
His recommendation, apart from the structural side of it, was that a general service canteen organisation be established to cover all on-shore canteen services provided within the defence forces. [More…]
At this stage, according to the statement of the Minister for Administrative Services and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay), they are not even in their final form. [More…]
The particular legal point involved in the case was whether there existed in law a defence of necessity to a charge of murder. [More…]
The defence treaty between the United States and Taiwan has been unilaterally abrogated by the United States with the appropriate notice. [More…]
We should be working with these ASEAN countries on the defence of the region. [More…]
Of all the super powers I believe that the Soviet Union is the only one which is building up an offensive capacity well beyond its needs for defence. [More…]
It may be that the Minister for Foreign Affairs is relying very heavily on the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), who is sitting at the table, to persuade Cabinet to increase defence expenditure to the point where Australia can play a much stronger military role within the world. [More…]
I believe that we are in a difficult situation because we have tended to base almost all of our defence and foreign policy on the fundamental belief that American assistance would be forthcoming. [More…]
The events of the last few weeks in Iran and the emergence and intensification of the Sino- Vietnamese conflict, I think should have proved the difficulties implicit in any endeavour to formulate a coherent foreign policy and, more importantly, to relate the objectives of that foreign policy to the production and practical implementation of a sophisticated defence strategy. [More…]
Rather it should be to get down to the very difficult task of trying to formulate a foreign policy strategy and to relate it to a defence policy strategy. [More…]
At the moment, one of the real criticisms that I have of this Government is that, looking at the operation of our Defence Department, there seems to be little that is coherent and certainly little that is related to the implementation of practical defence strategy objectives in accordance with the very fast movement in the Foreign Affairs area. [More…]
It is also very important at this stage to view foreign policy assessments and strategy frankly and candidly, to argue our way through them and then relate them to the defence strategies which have to be adopted by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
The invective, admonitions and sermons of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden), the Deputy Leader of” the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen), the shadow Foreign Minister, Senator Wriedt, and the shadow Minister for Defence, the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes), are said to be built on the proud foundation of knowledge, accurate analysis, sound judgment and logic. [More…]
The debate underlines the fact that we cannot ignore questions of self-preservation, of defensive capacity and mutual defence arrangements in our region. [More…]
Its intrinsic defence capability, its intrinsic offensive capability, were not disturbed. [More…]
Australia is judged not by what we say about Malaysian aeroplanes or about the export of merino rams or about almost any other question that has to do with defence or foreign affairs. [More…]
Has the Government purchasing committee before it tenders for the construction of an underway replenishment ship for the Department of Defence? [More…]
The Government has concluded that the installation of a GSC-39V ( 1 ) satellite ground terminal, formally designated AN/MSC-61, to replace the existing AN/TSC-54 satellite ground terminal would depart in no way from the agreed purposes of defence communication for which the station was established. [More…]
The Government accepts that a need exists for the communication equipment at Harold E. Holt to be sustained at levels of technical performance fully compatible with the US Defence communication system of which it forms an integral element. [More…]
would not have any facilities to control the allocation of Satellite Communications capacity to users of the Defence Satellite Communication System [More…]
this transmission and reception would be done by the MSC61 through the US Defence Satellite Communication System of which it, like the TSC54 terminal would be a part. [More…]
-by leave-The statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) brings at least temporarily to a close one of the less satisfying episodes in Defence administration and the Minister’s own administration of the Department of Defence during his tenure, and possibly an earlier period. [More…]
This information was important to Australia and important to Australia’s defence. [More…]
I am very concerned about remarks made by the Minister in another debate here less than a fortnight ago, when he indicated that, whilst it was all right for the Opposition spokesman to be briefed on defence matters, he did not feel that information should be readily available to the Parliament for assessment and consideration, even though the Parliament appropriates the funds that are spent by the Department. [More…]
I am concerned- we do not have the information on which we can judge this-that money being spent on defence policies in this country may not be being considered in the best circumstances, the most efficient circumstances; nor may it be being spent in a manner that will ensure that in fact we do have defence. [More…]
I accept that, but I wonder what would have happened or what relevance it would have had if the French National Assembly had called itself together in 1.940, when the Germans were invading Belgium, to censure the French Minister for Defence because defence planning was out of date and adequate money for defence had been spent badly. [More…]
-I suggest that it is an irrelevancy in a matter such as defence, where long term planning is necessary and where information is necessary, for anyone to suggest that there might be a censure motion if we fail. [More…]
We have a very substantial defence establishment- not as big in the civilian areas as the Press would have us believe; nevertheless, very substantial. [More…]
The Minister for Defence says pretty well what Sir Arthur wants him to say. [More…]
That quotation is disturbing, not because it may or may not be right- the Minister disputes that it is right- but because a senior officer in the Defence Force thinks it is right and other senior officers also think it is right. [More…]
The famous English case of R. v. Dudley in 1884, where the castaways killed and ate the cabin boy, rejected necessity as a defence. [More…]
With the exception of Menhennitt and Levine, it has never been accepted as a defence since. [More…]
In 1978 in R. v. Dawson the full Court of the Supreme Court of Victoria (Starke, Anderson and Harris J.J.) had occasion to consider the legal principles applicable in the defence of necessity. [More…]
The trial judge directed the jury, inter alia, that the defence of necessity was not open. [More…]
Dealing with the defence of necessity, a passage in Halsbury’s Laws of England, 4th edition, Vol. [More…]
Although there are cases in which it is not criminal for a person to cause harm to the person or property of another, there is no general rule giving rise to a defence of necessity, and it seems that, outside the specified cases mentioned, it is no defence to a crime to show that its commission was necessary in order to avoid a greater evil to the defendant or to others ‘. [More…]
Specific cases mentioned are self-defence defence of property, force used in the prevention of crime, duress and marital coercion and a few exotic other examples are given. [More…]
The defence of necessity is thus almost completely without reliable authority. [More…]
It is, however, sufficient to say that there are virtually no reported cases where the defence of necessity has succeeded and the dicta of Coleridge C. J. in R. v. Dudley & Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273, indicates that even in the most extreme circumstances necessity it not a defence to a charge of murder and a number of cases, e.g. [More…]
665 at p. 688: 1971 2 All E. R. 254 at p. 258 and Southwark London Borough v. Williams ( 1971) 2 All E. R. 175 at p. 179, likewise tend to negate the existence of such a defence in respect of far lesser offences. [More…]
The text books abound hypothetical situations in which it is submitted that the defence of necessity should succeed.These examples are cases in which, in order to avert some catastrophic situation such as the spreading of a fire or the foundering of a ship, the destruction of property might be justified. [More…]
I am not concerned to say in what circumstances the defence of necessity would arise. [More…]
We are equally unprepared to suggest that necessity should in no case be a defence. [More…]
Just as the Commissioners and the Judges in R. v. Dudley & Stephens, were deterred from formulating a code in relation to the defence of necessity, so, to, do I refrain from rushing in where other have declined to tread. [More…]
It is proper to say however, that very few, if any, of the elements would be required to found the defence of necessity are present in this case. [More…]
Mr Justice Harris also commented on the defence of necessity in the above case. [More…]
In addition, in my opinion, it is at least doubtful whether there is any defence of ‘necessity’ known to the law. [More…]
Text book writers (or some of them) have recognised the necessity as a defence (see Archbold 39th ed. [More…]
There is no general rule giving rise to the defence of necessity’. [More…]
72-4 where the author observes (at page 72) ‘that there is no English case in which the defence has actually been raised with success’. [More…]
In our opinion, the R. v. Dawson case must be regarded as authority for the following propositions in respect of the defence of necessity: [More…]
1 ) There is no general rule of law giving rise to a defence of necessity, and outside specified cases mentioned, necessity is no defence to a crime to show that its commission was necessary in order to avoid a greater evil to the defendant or others. [More…]
2 ) If there is a defence of necessity known to law ( and in our opinion there is not) then the circumstance must include, inter alia: [More…]
We note that the Full Court in Dawson’s case does not refer to the procurement of a mis-carriage as being a specified case in which the defence of necessity may be raised. [More…]
We are further of the opinion that the legal reasoning in R. v. Davidson cannot be regarded as a proper application of the defence of necessity. [More…]
In summary it is our opinion that the legal reasoning of Mr Justice Menhennitt, relying on the principle of necessity, as a defence to a criminal charge in R. v. Davidson would not be confirmed by the Full Court of the Supreme Court of Victoria. [More…]
There is not any authority of a Superior appellate Court in the English speaking world which upholds the doctrine or ‘necessity’ as a defence. [More…]
In summary it is our opinion that the legal reasoning of Mr Justice Menhennitt, relying on the principle of necessity, as a defence to a criminal charge in R. v. Davidson would not be confirmed by the Full Court of the Supreme Court in Victoria. [More…]
There is not any authority of a Superior appellate Court in the English speaking world which upholds the doctrine of ‘necessity ‘ as a defence. [More…]
When I raised with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) as to whether HMAS Attack or one of her sister ships could be based permanently in Tasmania, I gained the impression that Tasmania might be regarded as a suitable base for several more patrol ships. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Defence is receptive to the suggestion that Tasmania should have Royal Australian Navy vessels based permanently in its waters. [More…]
The Departments of Administrative Services, Business and Consumer Affairs, Defence, Health, Housing and Construction, National Development, Post and Telecommunications, Primary Industry, Science and the Environment, Transport and Veterans ‘ Affairs. [More…]
1 ) Information relating to the voyage has been traced in the records of the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Defence, Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Australian War Memorial. [More…]
For instance, pacifists are bound by law to pay their share for defence. [More…]
What sort of defence did that man have? [More…]
This Parliament should stand firm in the defence of human life. [More…]
A fatal strike might be justified if it could be said to be a reasonable reaction in the defence of my life or the life of my family or others close to me. [More…]
Therefore I state my conviction that each human is innately equal and should have the opportunity of continued life subject only to the natural human right of self-defence. [More…]
If that doctrine were to apply, there would have been no Nuremburg war crimes trials; it would have been an implicit defence for a person who perpetrated some of those crimes to point to the proportionate and serious disadvantage to be visited upon him were he not to obey his superior commanders. [More…]
Further, and more regrettably, some honourable members have tried to debunk the Menhennitt decision because, they allege, it interferes with the longstanding proposition that necessity is no defence to a crime. [More…]
The Menhennitt decision does not say that necessity is a defence to abortion. [More…]
There was a clear implication by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), in reply to a question which I put to him, that I had over-indulged. [More…]
Secondly, I did not gain any inference from the answer of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) that could lead to any such implication. [More…]
I am quite sure that the Minister for Defence did not intend any such implication. [More…]
His whole defence now concerns whether or not ‘play down’ or ‘undertakings’ or any of the import of the story, are in fact accurately portrayed in the ‘hush up’ headline on the front page, or the editorial on the second page. [More…]
How fatuous and how tragically pathetic a defence that is from a Minister of the Crown. [More…]
What a stupid, foolish defence to be advanced by this Minister who does not have the decency or the gumption to resign his commission. [More…]
I regret that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is not available to answer on the matter at this stage. [More…]
States Defence Department which are substantially unchanged since the fiasco in relation to the price of the Fl 1 Is. [More…]
Is the price escalation justified as an exercise in financial management and what reliance can be placed in future defence orders for major items of equipment placed in the United States in view of what has occurred with the two most recent orders? [More…]
Another cost not yet determined is that of putting the Phalanx defence mechanism for close-in defence against precision missiles on the ships. [More…]
In other than meteorological aspects of water resources, the Commonwealth’s direct responsibility is a secondary one- mainly where water matters have implications for defence or interstate trade. [More…]
In addition to activities relating to the six reports presented by the Committee, quite a number of the 49 occasions on which the Committee met during the year were for the purpose of its inquiry into the proposed Defence Force Academy which the Committee hopes to report on in the near future. [More…]
Included in the report is a summary of the progress of works previously reported on by the Committee; the likelihood of the Committee examining proposed works of selected statutory authorities in the future; a review of some aspects of the non-reference of defence works to theCommittee; and a comment concerning changes to works proposed which have occurred after the Committee’s report to Parliament. [More…]
The defence story would not wash, but this has not deterred the Prime Minister. [More…]
Was security again at risk- after all, the aircraft are only pieces of defence equipment- or was it the Prime Minister’s face it was trying to save? [More…]
It is not the practice for special Bills to be introduced to authorise the Government to purchase particular items of defence equipment or indeed other major items of equipment. [More…]
On 13 December 1978 the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) made a Press announcement of the decision to buy two Boeing 707 aircraft. [More…]
Eighty per cent of their time will be used for the normal defence transport purposes.The aircraft will be based at Richmond which is the headquarters of the transport base in Australia. [More…]
On 5 May last year, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) announced in the House a decision to purchase two aeroplanes for the overseas trips of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
On 13 December the Minister for Defence said that the funds for the purchase would not come from the Defence budget. [More…]
Because of the failure to recognise the need for modification, the extra cost above $14.5m will come from the Defence budget. [More…]
Some of it will come from this year’s Defence budget and some of it will come from next year’s Defence budget. [More…]
That will also come from the Defence budget. [More…]
The Government has said that it will spend money from sources other than the Defence budget. [More…]
In December last year the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) said that it would be appropriated by a special vote. [More…]
The Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay) has acknowledged that it will cost $4.5m a year to maintain and service these aeroplanes. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle, the second speaker for the Opposition, in his last words admitted that there was a case for VIP aircraft of this type being made available to help Prime Ministers and other senior officials of the Australian Government and also to be used for defence purposes. [More…]
There will be requirements for these aircraft to take Australian troops to Canada and to South East Asia and to be used for defence purposes, defence exercises and so forth. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) made it clear in May last year that our objective was to purchase two aircraft. [More…]
The promise made in the White Paper in 1976, to this stage has not been fulfilled and there is no indication that either the Department of Defence or the Minister’s Department has such a project under consideration. [More…]
He is responsible only for the carrying out of the work once the planning has been completed by the department concerned, in this case the Department of Defence. [More…]
Most people in northern Australia feel they are being neglected by the Commonwealth in the defence area. [More…]
Delays in providing basic facilities for the operation of defence forces and surveillance forces for the protection of those areas are looked on as being evidence of a complete lack of concern by Canberra. [More…]
As for defence facilities, for instance, the Federal Government’s view is that Tasmania is an area of low strategic priority. [More…]
I believe that the Premier of Tasmania has a letter from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) saying this very thing. [More…]
The Minister for Defence said: ‘Tasmania has a low strategic priority. [More…]
There will be no further placement of defence personnel in Tasmania’. [More…]
In addition, because of the distance from Tasmania of existing defence bases, the Government argues that it is not well suited for training purposes. [More…]
So much for defence. [More…]
The honourable member for Blaxland claimed that the defence forces in Tasmania would not be increased and said something about a letter from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) to the Premier. [More…]
Does the Minister for Defence accept as a fact that he should be possessed of information that will enable him to inform the Parliament accurately of the amounts owing by way of offset payments for particular defence contracts, pursuant to stated government policy that 30 per cent of all defence purchases should be offered for Australian industry participation? [More…]
We believe it is about time someone stood up in the the defence of the rights of the ordinary, common people of Australia. [More…]
It is highly objectionable when the Leader of the Opposition moves a motion condemning the Prime Minister for his misrepresentations that the Prime Minister leaves his defence to the Treasurer and has not the courage to defend his own actions. [More…]
At the end of the speech made by the Leader of the Opposition, in a very moving statement he said: ‘It is time somebody stood up in defence of the rights of the ordinary people of Australia’. [More…]
by leave- In October last year, I said that, in the present fiscal situation, we could no longer proceed with all the objectives in the 1 976 Defence White Paper at the pace we then contemplated. [More…]
I pointed nevertheless to: The provision in 1978-79 for a defence outlay larger in real terms than any achieved since the last Budget of the McMahon Government; and a continuation of the work that has rescued our defence capabilities from the downwards slope on which they were launched in 1973. [More…]
The Government has lately reviewed the content of the Defence program, and given the Defence Administration directions within which it is to plan the spending program in the remainder of this year and the years ahead. [More…]
Nevertheless the new program provides for a continuing growth in real terms in defence expenditure. [More…]
The maintenance and improvement of the operational effectiveness of the defence force in the years ahead is to be the first aim. [More…]
Discussion about the capacities Australia may need in the future, the threat contingencies we supposedly might not be able to meet, and the supposed deficiencies today, must never overlook that we already possess substantial defence assets. [More…]
There will be a subsequent strategic review to discern whether change in our defence capabilities needs to be planned for the future. [More…]
They suggest seven requirements that our defence effort must satisfy: [More…]
We must sustain a defence force which supports our diplomacy so that both in combination effectively deter interference with Australia’s sovereignty by the military forces of a foreign power. [More…]
We must sustain a defence force containing men with the right skills, possessing the right weapons, that could train and develop an expanded force as and when a major threat to Australia begins to emerge. [More…]
We need a defence force that will protect our supply lines in the maritime areas near to Australia’s principal ports; or that could make some contribution to assisting allies protect our more remote sea routes should there be no significant local threats. [More…]
We need a defence force with capabilities affording the Government of the day the option of giving defence help to regional friends with whom we have common security interests, should they wish this- whether this be the south-west Pacific, Papua New Guinea, or other countries to our immediate north. [More…]
Subject to our giving priority to capabilities needed for operations in our own environment, our defence force should also provide the Government of the day with the practical option of contributing to Pacific defence in accordance with the ANZUS Treaty. [More…]
The size and shape and equipment of our Defence Force should be assessed in Australia’s own geopolitical environment- and this for three reasons: [More…]
Australia’s isolation from other continents, and our physical environment of sea and air space and archipelagic territories, carry a number of pointers for our defence capabilities; as do the physical characteristics of our own continent. [More…]
Moreover the objective of both our diplomacy and our defence policy is to sustain the mutual interest that Australia and these countries all possess in protecting ourselves from armed attack by external powers. [More…]
If there is success in sustaining the recognition of a common interest Australia has the prospect of an environment which adds protection to the defence of Australia, rather than creates a defence hazard for us. [More…]
Yet in the context of Australian defence she represents for several years to come an important defence asset. [More…]
We plan a program of construction, in our own dockyards, of new surface vessels for maritime defence. [More…]
Also relevant to our maritime capabilities is a plan to increase the hydrographic survey work that we undertake around our coast both for defence and national purposes. [More…]
Many parts of the defence program command less attention because they are less glamorous. [More…]
New air-to-air missiles will be acquired with the new fighters; and the Mirages too will be equipped with new air-to-air missiles to maintain air defence capability through the 1980s. [More…]
More helicopters will need to be ordered in the next three years to carry out a wide range of tasks in the Defence Force. [More…]
The Department of Defence is working with Australian aircraft industry as we define the fixed wing aircraft to be acquired in the late 1980s for basic and advanced air training. [More…]
May I refer again to our need to have a defence force with the men in the right skills, possessing the right weapons, that can train and develop a force expanded in size, should a direct threat to Australia begin to emerge. [More…]
In the interest of rational defence debate, we must resist a somewhat old fashioned concept of measuring the country’s military capability in terms of the number of men in our Army, or the number of men we could contribute to overseas expeditionary forces in a major conflict in a distant theatre. [More…]
It is the core of leadership and skill around which, in some future defence emergency, we would build. [More…]
Please let us have a sensible and serious debate about defence, and about how thousands of millions of taxpayers’ money should responsibly be spent, which is based on worthy propositions, not a competition in scare mongering or political grandstanding. [More…]
She will give the Defence Force a capability for moving men and equipment to any location around our coast without the use of port facilities. [More…]
I mention some further planned developments applying to the Defence Force as a whole. [More…]
What is being done comprehends an efficiently managed and thoroughly thought-through review of this nation’s defence capabilities, setting priorities right within the financial limits that have to be imposed. [More…]
Some honourable members may be aware that each month I chair a meeting of the Council of Defence. [More…]
It comprises my colleague the Minister assisting me, the Minister for Administrative Services (Mr McLeay), the Secretary of the Department of Defence, the Chief of Defence Force Staff and the three Service Chiefs. [More…]
The meeting discusses a monthly summary of defence business. [More…]
It covers, to mention but a few examples, the main exercises in hand and in prospect; progress in service training programs; Defence Force activities in assistance to the civil community; surveillance operations; dealings with our allies on strategic matters; progress in scientific research; progress with equipment projects; problems with tenders or quotations; recruitment trends; service activities abroad, for example, with the United Nations; and the effects of budgetary constraints, labour disputes, accidents, impending legislation and other matters. [More…]
I relate this not out of complaint but because I appreciate the enormous span of activity which is managed daily and with great professional competence by the commanders of the Defence Force and the officials of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I have actively encouraged debate in this country about defence issues. [More…]
Perhaps I have had too much faith in the proposition that taking party politics out of the defence debate is an objective that can be achieved, and that discussion of defence matters will rise above the level of sensationalising the views of the precious and the disgruntled. [More…]
I am personally distressed by the prejudice that I sometimes hear expressed towards defence administrators. [More…]
Let me be clear about one thing: It will always be easy to point to areas of our defence structure that need, or will sooner or later need, attention. [More…]
These judgments- the defence decisions- will be made in the Cabinet rooms, or the offices of the two Ministers in charge of defence matters. [More…]
I want to add something about distribution of spending in the defence budget. [More…]
We need to refresh our perceptions of some of the fundamental matters involved in defence administration. [More…]
Manpower is our largest single defence cost, and our most important asset. [More…]
In 1977-78 it accounted for 54 per cent of all defence spending. [More…]
Yet ours is not a manpower-intensive defence posture and there are obvious reasons why it cannot be so in peacetime, which I should not need to dwell upon. [More…]
The quality of manpower needed pushes defence further into the high cost bracket. [More…]
It is sometimes said that our peacetime defence force is ‘top heavy’. [More…]
It is always to be remembered that the task of defence administration under peacetime standards of financial efficiency and scrutiny, properly demanded by this Parliament and by law, calls on experience and professionalism in the Public Service as well as the Services. [More…]
The nature of defence administration has been attracting the attention of some commentators. [More…]
This, of course, is nonsense, and it might be an appropriate stage for a few words on the committee structure within the Department No one person is the complete expert on any major defence issue. [More…]
Indeed the skills and knowledge of a number of uniformed and civilian experts can be required to make a sound judgment on a matter which might call into play strategic considerations, operational requirements, defence science and technology, the capabilities of industry, financial programming and contractual aspects. [More…]
Committees are a necessary part of defence as they are of any large organisation, in order to bring together the range of views which need to be taken into account in determining complex questions. [More…]
Incidentally, contrary to popular opinion, there has not been an increase in the proportion of civilian to service personnel in defence. [More…]
I would also like to take this opportunity to make one point perfectly clear I do not believe that the role of the Public Service in the department is as all powerful as many outside defence say it is. [More…]
Those are the views offered on one narrow but very important aspect of defence administered by General Sir Arthur MacDonald, the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]
Our defence manpower costs in this country are about the same as in other countries with which we might compare ourselves. [More…]
Our Defence Force development polley has insisted, nevertheless, that the manpower expenditure rates must continue to come down. [More…]
Thirteen per cent of all defence expenditure today goes to civilian salaries and wages. [More…]
Something like 6,500 defence civilian jobs have been given up or transferred to other functions in recent years. [More…]
Comparing like with like, there are in the Australian Defence structure 450 civilians to every 1,000 servicemen. [More…]
Some 2,300 civilians- Public Servants- occupy positions in the central divisions and branches of the Department of Defence, which, contrary to the most obstinate myth, do not comprise a massive bureaucracy. [More…]
The fact is that 68 per cent of defence civilians are employed directly under the service chiefs of staff. [More…]
The fact is that, did they not exist, the functions they perform would have to be carried out by servicemen diverted from tasks more directly relevant to the role of the Defence Force. [More…]
Five years ago, total manpower costs stood at 6 1 per cent of defence expenditure. [More…]
The 7 per cent reduction in manpower costs has been achieved even while well-deserved improvements to service terms and conditions were being made and while qualitative improvements, in the nature of long-term investment, were also being made- and continue to be made- in Australian defence manpower. [More…]
The defence force is very much like the rest of our society in these respects, and one would not have it otherwise. [More…]
Even if they seem to exercise one or two observers whose own resignations from the Defence Force did not leave the unbridgeable gaps they might have supposed. [More…]
I have spoken about manpower and 54 per cent of defence expenditure. [More…]
The money feeds, clothes and houses the Defence Force, buys the consumable stores and maintenance spare parts, the computing services, and the maintenance services. [More…]
In Russell Hill jargon it finances the activities of the Defence Force. [More…]
The Defence Force is a busy force. [More…]
There exists a very high-level technicalapprenticeship training scheme, producing tradesmen for the benefit of the Defence Force and, indeed, the nation as a whole. [More…]
Time will not permit me to do more than mention defence cooperation with other countries, which takes up a further one percent of the defence Budget. [More…]
Nearly 2,000 members of the Defence Force serve in neighbouring countries, transferring knowledge and expertise. [More…]
With 54 per cent of the defence expenditure allocated to manpower, 27 per cent to running costs and 1 per cent to defence co-operation programs, we are left with 18 per cent for capital equipment and facilities, including 14 per cent for equipment. [More…]
It has gone up every year since then; and in the context, moreover, of larger overall defence budgets. [More…]
As I have said we possess substantial capabilities and the core of the Defence Force we may need in the future exists in the Navy, Army and Air Force. [More…]
As long as it can be assesed that no potential military adversary of Australia has a significant long-range capability, the present limitations in the size of our continent-wide surveillance and air defence systems can be accepted. [More…]
The defence programe is currently and in the immediate future allotting unusually large sums to various technologies for gathering data and information about our maritime and terrestial neighbourhood. [More…]
I believe it is right to continue to place this emphasis on surveillance and information gathering in our defence program even though not insignificant sums are thereby diverted from direct combat capabilities, whether manpower or weapons. [More…]
In the event of a deterioration to the point of a threat to Australia, we have many requirements which would need to be satisfied but we would have the singular advantage of a defence force that has mastered the very high technology equipment which is now held in the Navy, Air Force and Army and around which the country would build as the threat developed. [More…]
Meanwhile, I want to give the House an assurance that the intrinsic defence capability of the country has not been impaired by such shortages as exist. [More…]
It deserves to be acknowledged that some 55 per cent of defence expenditure on equipment, spares, maintenance, repair and overhaul is spent in Australia. [More…]
The Government will sustain the campaign against inflationwhich I may say would be no friend of the defence effort of the country if it defeated us. [More…]
Australia today has a defence capability which is consistent with our responsibilities and our circumstances. [More…]
There is in the service of the Defence Force of this country a professionalism quite exceptional in the country’s history. [More…]
That professionalism has put at the disposal of this country a defence capability which is certainly not under-estimated by people who live outside it. [More…]
It is my hope that that defence capability will not be diminished by those who live in it. [More…]
-The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has made a long and detailed statement on the Government’s defence considerations. [More…]
I think the statement is something less than a policy statement on defence. [More…]
One was that he hoped the defence debate in Australia would be a bipartisan debate on a high and significantly non-political plane about the actual performance or otherwise of defence. [More…]
I presume that it came from the same place as the money will come for some of the things that the Minister has not mentioned in his program which the defence budget will have to meet in the not too distant future. [More…]
In 1969 the then Minister for Defence, Mr Fairhall, in his speech on the Budget made the point that the Government had been forced, because of economic circumstances and the relatively advantageous equipment position of the Defence Force to make a real reduction in defence expenditure of 5 percent. [More…]
In 1970 when the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was the Minister for Defence he announced a program of defence procurements which included a light destroyer patrol, 84 observation helicopters, 42 utility helicopters, 1 1 vertical take-off and landing aircraft, four support helicopters, a naval communications station at Darwin, the overhaul and modernisation of gun mounts on guided missile destroyers, two Oberon class submarines, six low cover radars, one logistic cargo ship for the Army, 10 additional Skyhawks for the Navy and two twin engine support and training aircraft. [More…]
I think the Minister for Defence was a Minister at that time. [More…]
Since the present Government has been in office, the percentage of gross national product devoted to defence has fallen. [More…]
By way of comparison, the percentage of gross national product devoted to defence during three years of Labor Government was 2.63 whereas it was 2.6 during the period of the Liberal Government. [More…]
In the last Budget, the percentage of Budget outlays on defence, which most likely is the most relevant figure, fell from 8.9 to 8.7. [More…]
On that occasion the Minister made it quite clear that the Government felt that more effort must be devoted to defence and that a new program would be developed for defence expenditure, the total cost of which was estimated at $ 12,000m. [More…]
I am glad that the Minister was able to inform us that he has a clear undertaking from the Cabinet that there will be a 2 per cent increase, in real terms, in defence expenditure. [More…]
I would have preferred it if he had been able to tell us that defence would hold its share of Budget outlays or of the gross national product because those two areas tend to differ. [More…]
Defence expenditures are not necessarily relevant to domestic prices in Australia. [More…]
In our major defence purchases, we do not necessarily operate within Australia. [More…]
The Minister made a fairly extensive statement on what he saw as the likely threats or the likely defence contingencies facing Australia in the not too distant future. [More…]
Defence has always been an area in which there will be people who seriously and conscientiously believe that every man between the age of 18 or 19 and 90 should at least serve in the military forces for at least a large part of his life. [More…]
That concept has not a great deal of relevance to current defence requirements. [More…]
It has very little relevance to Australia’s defence position at the moment. [More…]
I think that unfortunately those who advocate such a policy, no matter how well-meaning, are in fact advocating a policy which would weaken rather then strengthen Australia’s defence position. [More…]
The equipment which would have to be made available and the time for professional training of senior officers and officers who would be required to engage in such an activity would be such as largely to render impotent the Defence Force as a real military force in time of need. [More…]
Those are threats which the Defence Force has to and must take into account and which we, as a nation, must be prepared to meet. [More…]
Although it mentioned planning for the retirement of HMAS Melbourne, it did not give any significant indication of the advance planning for the maintenance of the Austraiian naval force, which is the major maritime defence capacity that Australia has. [More…]
In setting out what the Minister sees as the real needs of an Australian defence force and the contingencies for which we must be prepared, there have been some strange statementsstatements that concern me. [More…]
I refer to statements like: ‘We must sustain a defence force which supports our diplomacy so that both in combination effectively deter interference with Australian sovereignty’that is a reasonable proposition- and ‘We need a defence force with capabilities affording the Government of the day the option of giving defence help to regional friends with whom we have common security interests’. [More…]
This statement sounds very much like a movement back to forward defence, but I am not sure that our Defence Force can be adequately planned, structured and equipped to fight on overseas territory or to defend Australia. [More…]
It is extremely important for us to make a decision on whether we are involved only in the defence of Australia or whether our Force has to have a multi-role capacity which would require a totally different concept in planning. [More…]
This concept is not envisaged at the moment and, if adopted, it would significantly change the manner in which our Defence Force would develop. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has effectively dismissed major threats against Australia. [More…]
Currently those purchases form a major part of the equipment and the potential of our Defence Force. [More…]
If during a short period a government spends a low proportion of its defence budget on capital equipment it is reasonable to assume that that is because the government which preceded it did not initiate equipment programs in the major areas. [More…]
The Leopard tanks, the Orions and other equipment which the Minister indicated as being satisfactory were actually ordered, or the projects were substantially concluded, during the period when Mr Barnard and Mr Morrison were Ministers for Defence. [More…]
The reserves are very much in the limbo of the defence areas. [More…]
I spoke about this matter on the last occasion when defence was before this House and I do not intend to do so in any significant fashion today. [More…]
The means by which the role of the Melbourne is to be undertaken is of very considerable concern especially to the Navy but also to anyone who is interested in a balanced defence force. [More…]
This effectively means that in the next 12 to 15 years we will have to look to replace those vessels which are now potentially our frontline defence weapon against maritime forces. [More…]
The Minister mentioned the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Co. Pty Ltd which is seeking to interest the Defence Department in an ongoing program of replacement of those submarines when it falls due. [More…]
I do not think that anyone who is seriously interested in defence would suggest that we can afford not to replace or to add to our submarine fleet. [More…]
It is made difficult by the lack of real information which is made available on Australia’s defence and the lack of advanced discussion on Australia’s defence needs and intentions. [More…]
He may be extremely well informed of what is going on in defence areas. [More…]
The Minister has made it quite clear that he does not believe that this Parliament should carry out investigative work in the defence areas. [More…]
With the sort of decisionmaking necessary in defence I do not think it is reasonable that he and I- given that he makes it quite clear that I can have such briefings as I wish- should be the only persons in this Parliament to have access to major discussions or information on defence matters. [More…]
Other countries can discuss their defence matters publicly and in great depth without any serious threat to their security; without any serious threat to their actual defence force. [More…]
In fact the defence force ultimately becomes stronger because these sorts of public discussions encourage and lead to better understanding. [More…]
Australia lacks- this statement does not seem to indicate any cure- significant defence potential in the whole of the northern area of Australia. [More…]
I understand that we have just purchased a new area for defence/exercises and if we can maintain it against the mineral companies we will have a valuable asset for training. [More…]
They gave the then Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, quite a bad time in regard to the non-foreseeable threat propositions, which came as a shock to the system at that time but which have been confirmed in each strategic review since that time. [More…]
You look at what was said on defence from 1972 to 1975. [More…]
The Opposition hopes that the statement and the Minister’s indications in the statement represent a change of heart in public debate on defence. [More…]
It does not contain what I would suggest are any concrete suggestions for the manner in which defence expenditure in Australia is to be managed or guaranteed. [More…]
The question of major capital equipment items should be the subject of legislative appropriation on an individual basis, rather than general appropriation from an overall defence budget. [More…]
It is a means of control and allocation which may stabilise defence equipment on major items. [More…]
In the next 1 5 years- that is not very long- this Parliament and the Australian Defence Force will be faced with the need to retire what, at today’s prices, would amount to something between $3,000 billion and $4,000 billion worth of capital equipment. [More…]
I want to deal particularly with the section of the second reading speech of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) concerning the rejection of the recommendation of the report produced by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
I was Chairman of the Sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which dealt with dual nationalities. [More…]
I quote the final paragraph of the recommendation from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
The discussion was based on the Government’s action in disposing of Defence Service Homes Corporation land in five electorates- electorates represented by the four back benchers and a Minister; the senator took only a passive role in the meeting. [More…]
The background to the story is that on 8 November last year the then Minister for Administrative Services, Senator Chaney, and the Acting Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, the honourable member for Curtin (Mr Garland), released a statement that the Commonwealth Government would dispose of 950 hectares held by the Defence Service Homes Corporation by selling it at public auction; a departure from the usual procedure. [More…]
The land together with about 950 hectares of undeveloped and partly developed land is surplus to the requirements of the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
These blocks would first be offered by tender to people eligible for a Defence Service Homes loan. [More…]
People who are unsure of their eligibility to tender for building lots should enquire at the nearest office of the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
I have discovered that the Defence Service Homes Corporation has land in five areas, namely, Bracken Ridge, Runcorn, Tiagum, Wishart, Thornlands and Rochedale. [More…]
The time for processing Defence Service Home scheme loans has been increased from 1 1 to 14 months, thus imposing an additional cost on the borrower of anything up to $4,000 and adding greatly to the cost of houses under the scheme. [More…]
It is not hard to understand the growing suspicion amongst returned servicemen that a deliberate attempt is being made to sabotage the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
The Department of Transport quoted the substance of the submission made by the Department of Defence in its Report which was tabled in Parliament on 1 1 October 1978. [More…]
In summary, the Defence submission said: [More…]
National Defence planning relies on the existing infrastructure of civilian transport modes. [More…]
Australian airline resources provide essential capacity to Defence air transport requirements both in peace and in times of national emergency. [More…]
b) An Australian based and supported airline industry is vital to Australian defence. [More…]
If suitable charter aircraft are not available in the QANTAS fleet for Defence requirements, then Defence would support: [More…]
Defence would oppose the subchartering of foreign international air carriers. ‘ [More…]
Did his colleague, Senator Durack, in his capacity as Acting Minister for Veterans ‘ Affairs, inform the Minister for Defence that the Government was considering the Toose report and recommendations concerning the repatriation system insofar as it relates to conditions of eligibility and benefits of merchant seamen who served in a war zone in World War II. [More…]
My colleague, Senator Durack, informed the Minister for Defence that the Government was considering the Toose report recommendations and that the report recommended that the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances legislation be reviewed with a view to bringing conditions of eligibility and benefits as close as possible to those in Repatriation legislation. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Three weeks ago in this place not one honourable member on the Government side of the House objected to a statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in which he made it quite clear that he considered that the Parliament had no role in the policy making function of government and had no right to examine expenditure proposals until after they had been made. [More…]
For instance, the Department of Defence calls in every expert in that Department- the Army, the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal Australian Air Force, the munitions manufacturers and the range of people who could have an input into that area of budget expenditure. [More…]
I support the action the Government is taking in this matter and I deprecate as strongly as I can the ineffective defence that has been put up in this debate by the Opposition. [More…]
easily accessible from the point of view of a national rail linkage in the light of future defence considerations. [More…]
In transportation, freight, communications, energy conservation, defence and tourism, the railways of Australia in the 2 1st century will play a very major role in the development of this country. [More…]
1 ) The Defence Industry Committee (DIC) has met formally on thirteen occasions during the last four years, viz. [More…]
These include frequent meetings by six industry Study Groups, each chaired by a Business Member of the DIC, in the course of a major study of the defence capability of Australian industry completed in 1977. [More…]
In its major report on the capability of Australian industry to meet Defence needs, which was presented to the [More…]
The Committee recommended in particular that the present policy of using procurement of defence materiel to selectively develop essential defence industry capabilities through Australian industry participation including designated programs and offsets should be extended as far as practicable. [More…]
The Committee also recommended that the Department of Defence should continue and intensify its efforts in support of the offset program and that the Committee should review ways of making the offset program more effective in developing defence capabilities. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 March 1979: [More…]
A Defence Attache resident in a country would be but one of several sources of our military information on that country. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 March 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 March 1 979: [More…]
Does he propose to take action to eliminate the excessive delays in actual payment of increased salaries to Defence Force personnel. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 March 1979: [More…]
Have any of the Defence Force been put on red alert or told to be prepared for a red alert or similar exercise since the end of World War II; if so, when. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 March 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 March 1979: [More…]
-I understand that the parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is examining this matter. [More…]
Whilst the British Department of the Environment did not believe that whale species were endangered, a junior Defence Minister announced in June 1978 that the British armed forces would no longer use sperm oil. [More…]
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, HPK 1964; politician and lawyer, Pakistan; Prime Minister of Pakistan, 1973-77 (President of Pakistan, Dec. 1971-73); Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, 1971-77; Founder and Chairman, Pakistan People’s Party, since 1967; b Larkana, S Jan. 1928; s of late Sir Shahnawaz (Can Bhutto; m; two s two d. Educ: Univ. [More…]
of Pakistan 71-73, Minister of Foreign Affairs 71-77, of Defence 71-77, of Atomic Energy 72-77; Prime Minister 73-77, deposed in coup and imprisoned July 77, released July 77, detained again; Sentenced to death on murder charge March 78; Chair. [More…]
One might well ask why a man with his academic accomplishments chose to develop that line in defence of the Hamer government. [More…]
-by leave-On behalf of the Standing Committee on Expenditure, I thank the House for the opportunity to comment on the Government’s response to the Committee’s report on the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
Honourable members might recall that the ministerial statement was made by the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay)- the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) being overseas at that time- in the small hours of 24 November 1978. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, the Australian Postal Commission charged the Defence Service Homes Corporation a commission of 2.3 lc in the dollar for collecting repayments from borrowers. [More…]
The Committee recognises that it should have obtained the views of the Department of Defence on this matter before deciding on the appropriateness of the recommendation. [More…]
Recommendation 3 called for a change in the long title of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918 to read as follows: An Act to assist eligible people to acquire a residential dwelling. [More…]
Most of the remaining recommendations deal with the efficiency of the administration of the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
There is also the evidence of the General Manager of the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
Recommendation 12 sought the publication of specific performance measures in annual reports of the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]
This money is used to pay for social services, education, defence, health and all the other expenditures incurred by the Commonwealth in its Budget. [More…]
Under the ‘Other Services’, heading, $ 1 6.5m is sought for the Department of Defence for replacement equipment and stores and a further $48.2m for new equipment and stores. [More…]
This amount represents an addition to that which otherwise would have been decided upon by the Government for defence purposes. [More…]
-(Moreton-Minister for Defence)- We pause today from our contest, our contention and conflict to recall the life and work of Frank Stewart and to express our sorrow to his widow and family. [More…]
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administrative responsibility for the Defence Service Homes Scheme and the Office of the Australian War Graves transferred to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]
Air Commodore K. Tongue, Commonwealth Department of Defence (Air) [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 March 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 April 1979: [More…]
1 ) Are sufficient funds being received by his Department to enable the Australian defence forces to defend the Australian coastline. [More…]
Are funds presently available to his Department being used to the best advantage for the defence of Australia. [More…]
to (5) The Government’s objectives in the development of the Defence Force were outlined in my statement to the House on 29 March 1979. [More…]
They relate to the defence of Australia as a nation, and not only to the protection of our approximately 36,800 kilometre coastline. [More…]
Against current strategic assessments, the Government believes that the funds presently allocated for defence purposes provide an appropriate level of insurance for Australia against the risks inherent in the potentialities and uncertainties of our strategic environment. [More…]
Again, for strategic reasons, for defence reasons, we need to exercise control over some exports. [More…]
In the appropriations for the Department of Defence one can see an item covering special purpose aircraft and associated initial equipment and stores. [More…]
Even the Australian Financial Review, which is a great friend of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), was prompted recently to state: [More…]
If one adds the education bill and the defence bill to that tally one finds very little scope for budgetary flexibility in other areas. [More…]
Today, the Treasurer (Mr Howard), during Question Time, produced what can be described only as a flimsy alibi in defence of the runaway condition of money supply. [More…]
The appropriation for the Department of Defence has been increased by $ 10.2m. [More…]
In a publication which I referred to earlier in my speech the author stated that the total coastline of America, including Alaska, is approximately the same as Australia and that if soldiers from the United States defence forces stood shoulder to shoulder along that coastline they still would not be able to overcome the drug problem. [More…]
Director and Chairman, Defence Industry Committee; (d) 11.6.76-10.6.79. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 March 1979: [More…]
Defence whether it is a fact that arrangements have been made for the Special Air Service regiment to provide entertainment at the birthday party of Mr Lang Hancock. [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister for Defence by referring to reports that the permanent head of the Department of Defence may shortly retire. [More…]
It is true that the Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Arthur Tange, is due to retire in a few weeks or months. [More…]
I think it would be useful if the honourable member for Newcastle were honest enough to admit that before they were bought the major single user, in charter terms, of those 707s was the Australian defence forces, when they were used in flights to Butterworth, that the major single user after their purchase will remain the Australian defence forces and that in terms of passenger miles each year that will clearly be the major use of those two aircraft. [More…]
I wrote to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) about this matter and I received a reply from him. [More…]
It is certainly not in the mellifluous prose that one might expect from the Minister for Defence and I do not think it shows his usual logic. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 April 1 979: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I am deeply convinced as to the truth of the matter, but, after considering the application, I think I will make a recommendation to the Prime Minister that Daly take the job of Minister for Defence and I will join Daly’s staff. [More…]
It is scarcely worth spending much time replying to the rather vacuous defence by the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Staley) in response to the rather formidable indictment presented against him by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden), but I want to say just a few words about what he said. [More…]
He now denies having said that and plays around with words as the best defence he can produce. [More…]
I suggest that that is not much of a defence either. [More…]
The main one has been that the Commission was essentially created as a defence service establishment. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Act is an inappropriate vehicle for the commercial mining of uranium, or for any commercial mining, because under that Act any project can be declared a defence project. [More…]
The declaration of any project as a defence project robs people of civil liberties connected with that project. [More…]
Those people can be caught up under this defence label. [More…]
It is still basically a defence-oriented research establishment. [More…]
If the Government comes to any construction problems with this project, it calls up the defence powers of that Act and uses them against any Australian who objects to its construction, its operation, or the like. [More…]
In 1953 the Atomic Energy Commission was set up for the primary purpose of ‘ensuring the provision of uranium or atomic energy for the defence of the Commonwealth’. [More…]
It was a defence Act and it was intended to allow the supply of Australian uranium to Britain and to the United States of America for the purpose of making atomic weapons. [More…]
Now, in 1 979, a further amendment is being made to the Atomic Energy Act- an Act designed to make provision for the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Under the extremely repressive provisions of the Atomic Energy Act and the associated Approved Defence Projects Protection Act, the Government has the power to deny ordinary industrial rights to the workers and unions involved in the mining, handling and transportation of uranium. [More…]
That is fair enough in times of war if uranium is to be used for purposes of defence or purposes of aggression against an opponent. [More…]
As was made clear during the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Act 1978 in the Senate on 29 May 1978, the Government’s policy is that penal provisions enacted for defence purposes would not be applied to the Ranger project. [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Has the Minister divided the Materiel Branch of the Department of Defence Army Office and has he created an additional post of Chief of Logistics? [More…]
The section will also provide carriers with a defence to a prosecution if the vessel was forced into Australia due to stress of weather or in circumstances of emergency, or where the carrier reasonably believed that when a person last boarded a vessel for travel to Australia, the person was an Australian citizen, a visa holder or an exempt person. [More…]
Expresses amazement that a major policy change concerning the Pine Gap, Nurrungar and North West Cape defence and communication stations should be announced on behalf of the Opposition to an audience of the AICD found to be acceptable; [More…]
Declares that this proposal can only humiliate the United States of America and is not in Australia’s best foreign policy or defence interests. [More…]
I would adopt this language with respect to the bases in question: ‘This Government will not yield to pressure to break the American alliance, withdraw from the ANZUS treaty or divulge secrets about American defence bases in Australia’. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: What capabilities do member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations, particularly Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, have to conduct aerial surveillance for Vietnamese refugee boats? [More…]
Does he consider that the acceptance in Australia of United States defence installations of strategic significance gives us an obligation to put views to the United States? [More…]
The facts remain that, firstly, South Korea is a country with an understandably great concern for its defence and which cannot be considered to have excluded from its future plans the acquinon of nuclear weapons. [More…]
Mr Madigan of Hamersley Holdings Ltd has told the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that there could be serious implications for Australian industries, but more particularly mineral processing industries, which might otherwise have established themselves in this country, arising from what the Prime Minister has been saying. [More…]
What arrangements have been made with the Defence Department for the surveillance and policing of the proposed 200-mile economic zone. [More…]
The Department of Defence is represented on the committee together with representatives from the Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Primary Industry, Health, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and Business and Consumer Affairs. [More…]
The level of utilisation on Defence force facilities is agreed within the Committee. [More…]
1 ) Does the Barton, ACT, telephone exchange serve (a) Parliament House, (b) the Treasury, (c) the Department of Foreign Affairs, and (d ) the Defence Department. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in October 1977 pointed out that if the engine works were closed no capacity would be left in this country to produce large marine diesel engines for defence purposes? [More…]
In view of that fact, I ask whether the honourable gentleman will give an undertaking to postpone the sale of the engine works for at least six months on the following grounds: defence vulnerability and the loss to Australia of a vital skill at a time when the new found responsibility of a 200-mile offshore zone raises questions of surveillance, fishing resources, and ship repair and maintenance. [More…]
The Government does not accept the proposition that those engines are in fact essential for defence purposes, nor does it accept the proposition that the fishing and economic zone is a relevant consideration justifying the works being maintained as a government engine works. [More…]
I believe that the interests of all the employees and the interests of the Australian industry in relation to defence and surveillance of fishing zones will be protected by our decision to sell the engine works to a private consortium. [More…]
Quite clearly, the Minister did speak strongly and effectively in defence of a capital gains tax. [More…]
Therefore, the concern of this House with respect to legitimate defence and peace would have been intensified. [More…]
It is also quite clear that the shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, Senator Wriedt, proposes that that stability be taken away. [More…]
It is quite clear that he proposes that the guarantees given by the former Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam- this was pointed out by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) yesterday- in the Budget session of 1975, that there would be no disclosure of what happens at those bases, will be repudiated. [More…]
The fourth question is: What conceivable possible legitimate aim for Australian defence and foreign policy is involved in these proposals? [More…]
I asked when the next round of defence consultations would commence. [More…]
Instead of attacking the Opposition, the Government should be pressing the United States to take the sane and positive step of ratification in defence of the world’s interests, particularly Australia’s interests. [More…]
He talked about the problems that have arisen in the Parliament because of what has happened in the Defence Department. [More…]
I am happy to see that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is in the chamber. [More…]
Senator Wriedt made the point that the reference to the upgrading of facilities no longer being carried out in secret was a direct consequence of the display by the Government last year when the Minister for Defence criticised the United States Government for not advising the Australian Government of intended changes in the North West Cape base. [More…]
Mr Barnard, our Minister for Defence, made a statement in the House of Representatives on 28 February 1973. [More…]
Our own Minister for Defence at that time was saying: We were never told anything; it was a matter of secrecy; it was a matter of special privilege for a small coterie of so-called intelligent Australians in the Government’. [More…]
Looking to events since the Labor Government there has not necessarily been consultation within the Department of Defence. [More…]
As the United States has said, our Defence Department did not even demonstrate the capacity to recognise that it had been consulted by the United States. [More…]
It was a speech correctly described yesterday by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in this House as the speech of a man who had entered a highly dangerous field. [More…]
The Minister for Defence called upon the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) to make a clear statement on the position of the Labor Party in respect of this matter. [More…]
His Government- win not yield to pressure to break the American alliance, withdraw from the ANZUS Treaty or divulge secrets about American defence bases in Australia. [More…]
My criticism of defence in this country and of the bureaucracy that surrounds defence is its obsession with secrecy. [More…]
In recent months I have had the opportunity to have close dealings with the Defence Department through the Joint Committee on Public Works and this obsession with secrecy comes through all the time. [More…]
All they have to do is read the record of evidence given to the American Senate Armed Services Committee before which LieutenantGeneral Lee Paschall, Director of the Defence Communications Agency gave testimony. [More…]
The American approach towards defence is not like that of the small-minded people who unfortunately have been in power for too many years since 1970. [More…]
I think the Deputy Leader of the Opposition led a very good defence- not that defence is really needed- of the actions of the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. [More…]
The Department of Defence has a mania for secrecy. [More…]
Whilst attending public hearings on construction works to be carried out by the Department of Defence, I have had the opportunity to speak to Army officers. [More…]
If I were to break those confidences, I would lift the lid off the whole of the Department of Defence in Australia. [More…]
So, the Liberal Party holds the view that the Australian community is not to be trusted with knowledge relating to the defence of its own land. [More…]
People thousands of kilometres away across the Pacific Ocean can stand up in public and talk about affairs relating to the defence of Australia. [More…]
The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN (Mr Giles)-The honourable member for La Trobe will not get the defence or the protection of the Chair if he continues to interject regardless of what the honourable member for Port Adelaide says. [More…]
I am astounded by what the Minister said in defence of the efficiency in which the Government has been running the Public Service. [More…]
The vast majority of people in the Public Service are complaining in defence of their case. [More…]
The honourable member for Diamond Valley and the honourable member for Barker were two of the four speakers whom the Government put forward in defence of the legislation. [More…]
In doing so, I direct my remarks to what I believe is an example of the failure of the Government and its attempt to mislead the Parliament and to mislead the people of Australia in the important area of defence procurement. [More…]
It is, I think, well known in this Parliament that from time to time the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has indicated that it is the Government’s objective in respect of defence procurements to secure for local industry in Australia offset contracts which constitute some 30 per cent of the procurement policy pursued by the Government in respect of Department of Defence purchases. [More…]
The Government and the Department of Defence had a stated policy of 30 per cent offsets for Australian manufacturing industry, which simply meant that, as a condition of buying expensive overseas hardware for defence purposes, there had to be a 30 per cent work content available to local industry. [More…]
The Department of Defence and the Minister have deliberately endeavoured to create the belief that the 30 per cent content has been achieved and maintained. [More…]
The Department of Defence has been extraordinarily reluctant, as has the Minister, to provide the Parliament with the detailed information by which the Department’s performance can be measured against objective standards. [More…]
I seek leave of the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Groom), who is at the table, to incorporate the answer of the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Productivity and a table which virtually takes those figures and does some subtractions and additions which prove my assertion. [More…]
For the purpose of answering the series of questions 1773-1799 as Minister responsible for the Department administering and co-ordinating the Offset Program I have provided information which was sought from the other Ministers to whom the question was directed with the exception of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Defence, will provide a detailed reply to question number 1 773 regarding offset obligations required and discharged for major defence purchases. [More…]
Offsets were first sought against purchases of defence equipment and civil aircraft. [More…]
It achieves its objectives by obtaining tasks that either stimulate continuing activities in the same field of technology as the equipment being purchased or that result in a transfer of technology in areas of significance to Australian defence or industrial development. [More…]
Encouragement is also given to the purchase of Australian products of defence or technological significance by overseas firms or Governments. [More…]
Since its inception in 1970 the program in total, including Defence buys, has resulted in offsets for Australia amounting to more than $220m. [More…]
In defence and public communication spheres conditions are written into contracts where appropriate, requiring that certain tasks and work content be undertaken locally. [More…]
It is interesting that it took the Minister for Defence, with all the resources of his Department, more than six months to provide any reply at all and the answer that was provided was in fact no answer at all. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 August 1978: [More…]
1 ) With respect to Government policy that 30 per cent of all defence purchases should be offered for Australian industrial participation, how many contracts entered into by his Department for the purchase of defence or other equipment, contained clauses specifying an offset arrangement with the vendor for the purchase of Australian manufactured goods, components and /or technology during the last 10 years. [More…]
The Government endeavours to ensure that there is an appropriate level of Australian industry participation in all defence purchases. [More…]
Current Departmental Instructions require that each proposed major Defence purchase from overseas sources be examined to ensure that opportunities for Australian industry participation are fully explored. [More…]
Computers for Defence (several) [More…]
The total value of offset work placed in Australian industry since March 1 970 is more than $220m, which includes a significant element resulting from Defence contracts. [More…]
It is not feasible to attribute this figure to particular purchases or even to Civil and Defence categories. [More…]
Suppliers are permitted to aggregate offset obligations against all purchases including civil and Defence contracts and they continue to place work in Australia against a combined total. [More…]
He stated in that article that $2 14m was the total in offset orders against defence purchases since the offset policy was adopted. [More…]
One is entitled to pose the question: If Mr Eltringham knew that information- it was available and could be made available in an article given to the Press- why, when a member of this Parliament sought that sort of basic information from the Minister for Defence, did it take six months to provide an answer which suggested that this basic information was not available to a member of parliament because of confidentiality and because of the amount of research that would be involved? [More…]
But that, we are told, is not the position with the Department of Defence. [More…]
Note: The figures for Defence expenditure are from reports covering financial years. [More…]
Australian defence purchases from 1970-71 to 1977-78 constituted $ 1,243m. [More…]
According to the statements made by an officer of the Department of Defence, the value of the offsets achieved was only $220m. [More…]
When one looks at it as a percentage of total government purchases it is nonsense to say, as has been suggested by the Minister for Defence in his glib handling of this matter, that we have maintained an offset purchasing component of around 30 per cent. [More…]
What has occurred in the past is that the Defence Department has entered into contracts for sophisticated and expensive hardware without first ensuring the degree and extent to which Australian industry could participate. [More…]
Some of the sophisticated hardware can cost millions of dollars and obviously the Defence Department wants the most sophisticated equipment it can get. [More…]
There is no way that he can competitively tender against an overseas company which has already gone into the area and, in the production of the commodity which the Defence Department is buying, has written off the cost of its capital equipment. [More…]
Then it becomes a matter of the Defence Department and the Minister saying to the Australian manufacturer. [More…]
The implications of that both for Australian manufacturing industry and our own defence requirements can be tragic. [More…]
One has only to look at the extent to which it is possible for the Defence Department, on the basis of security, to resist any objective standards by which its procurement policy can be objectively tested. [More…]
As a nation obtaining more sophisticated defence equipment, we have to ask ourselves whether our local manufacturing industries are geared, equipped and able to participate in the continuing manufacture of some of the components involved and, more importantly, whether they are able and have the resources to keep that equipment functional and in service in a crisis. [More…]
Given the approach of both the Minister for Defence and his Department, these are questions which cannot be effectively asked in this House simply by virtue of the fact that the Department refuses to make available to the average member of this House the basic information which allows for any proper assessment and consideration of the appropriate standards. [More…]
The Defence Department hopes that the member concerned will say: ‘I will have to be content with that because I am not likely to get any more information.’ [More…]
One has only to look at a recent fashionable journal of political comment to find a twopage spread which is virtually a public relations shopping list which indicates that all is well with Defence Department procurement and that Australian manufacturing industry is doing very well through existing Government policy. [More…]
If it is good enough for the Defence Department to involve itself in that kind of specious public relations exercise because it can see some benefit flowing to it, it ought to be good enough for that basic information to be made available to members of Parliament. [More…]
I am talking about making the Parliament responsible in carrying out its duties and seeing that this monolithic structure which has to play a critical role in the defence of the nation is responsive and responsible to the Parliament. [More…]
The Defence Department must be impossible to run but I believe that to lend himself to what has occurred in this situation constitutes very real problems for the Parliament. [More…]
More importantly, it would lead any honourable member to the view that the Defence Department cannot and should not be accepted as fulfilling its very important role. [More…]
Some real cognisance has to be had of the problems which are currently bedevilling Australian manufacturing industry and of the need to examine completely the role that Australian manufacturing industry will play in our future defence requirements. [More…]
At a time when this Government is looking at potential expenditure of over $2,000m on the purchase of a tactical fighter force, we as a parliament have to be satisfied that there exists within the structure of our Department of Defence an awareness and a realisation of the role that Australian manufacturing industry can and has to play. [More…]
I think there has to be an objective appraisal of what is occurring in the whole area of defence policy procurement. [More…]
I for one am not satisfied, for example, that given the competitiveness that now exists among overseas suppliers in terms of the supply of a tactical fighter force, that by hard bargaining and proper involvement of our defence manufacturing industries we are not able to produce in Australia an industry with more than the 30 per cent content. [More…]
We ought to be asking ourselves in this new situation whether a 30 per cent content is still appropriate, but when we ask that question it is necessary for the Department of Defence and the Minister to indicate to the House not glib generalities but the appropriate mechanisms, structures and methods by which he as a Minister and his Department will be operating in this area. [More…]
The Australian taxpayer is entitled to have some knowledge that he is getting the very best in terms of defence equipment for the dollar that he as a taxpayer has to pay. [More…]
The issues we are dealing with go to the future defence of this nation, which is one area about which we are entitled to have frankness from the Minister, honesty from the Department and some integrity so that we as a Parliament will know that what is being pursued in terms of government policy is not only realistic and will meet the needs of this nation in terms of its defence requirements but, more importantly, will involve some real and meaningful involvement in the purchase of new technologies, the expansion of our own manufacturing base and the provision of - [More…]
The ministerial statement on defence review has not been debated in depth at all. [More…]
I have never yet seen a sustained and logical defence of division 7 taxation. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) on the other hand has been very wise. [More…]
It is quite incongruous that parliamentary committees examine all major aspects of government such as foreign affairs, defence, environment, immigration, public works and expenditure, yet there has been no inquiry into energy by any committee of this Parliament. [More…]
The only one that I can recall is a Sub-Committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence of which I was a member and which inquired into the situation in the Middle East. [More…]
Perhaps the Government is afraid that its members might suffer from shock- and some of them, I suggest, members of that Sub-committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, did- if they are exposed to the energy situation facing this country and the neglect, if you like, by their Government in preparing for that situation. [More…]
Bearing in mind that for economic, defence and foreign policy planning the short-term is any period of time less than 18 months or two years, acknowledges that mutual defence arrangements between Australia and the United States of America must not be of such short-term duration; [More…]
Calls for the guarantees concerning the Pine Gap, Nurrungbar and the North West Cape communication and defence bases to be long term; [More…]
I do not think that any honourable gentleman opposite foreshadowed what was going to happen in Indo-China, which led to a need for increased defence expenditure, which will be an increased charge on the Budget for the next financial year. [More…]
We all know that defence is and always has been a laughable matter to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The frivolity with which the Australian Labor Party greets matters of a serious kind involving defence is totally and utterly disgraceful and totally and utterly irresponsible. [More…]
If changing circumstances during the course of the year require greater defence expenditure by this Government we will see that those funds are provided, as they will be provided. [More…]
As every honourable member sitting on the Government side knows, including the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) who just read us a little homily about schoolboy economics, this Government in the eyes of this nation stands condemned as a government upon which we cannot rely. [More…]
This was the basic theme of the speech from the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Australia’s social and economic objectives- rising living standards and adequate provision of proper welfare services for the disadvantaged and the poor- together with the acceptance of our responsibilities on the world scene, in terms of aid to developing countries and fair trade in their products, and in respect of defence- we have to pull our weight in these matters and not just look to our friends for help- require a sound economy with inflation under control. [More…]
-The Opposition is not concerned with the opinion expressed in this debate by the honourable member for Berowra (Dr Edwards), the Treasurer (Mr Howard) or the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) [More…]
We are not concerned about what the Minister for Defence says. [More…]
On 21 August 1975, the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Fraser- I can understand the Minister for Defence being annoyed- stated: [More…]
The Minister for Defence knows there was no truth in the commitment made by the Prime Minister in December last year. [More…]
If the Minister for Defence is asked in the party room about the cost of the VIP aircraft and he opts to tell the party room the truth, he will say that the Government will spend $30m- the $30m which it has taken off the pensioners- to pay for VIP aircraft for the Prime Minister to fly around the world. [More…]
This Prime Minister, as the Minister for Defence so dearly likes to call him, will say anything at election time. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide knows perfectly well that for 80 per cent of the time those aircraft are to be used for the transport of defence personnel. [More…]
Defence also takes about 9c in the dollar. [More…]
It is only the long and close relationship that I have had with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) which prevents me from putting him in the same class. [More…]
Those people concerned with defence of our nation want defence expenditure increased to 3.5 per cent of the gross domestic product, an increase in expenditure of $ 1 billion per annum. [More…]
Because of living standards of the people of those countries are rising much faster than our own and because their capacity for aggression or defence is growing relative to our own, it is advisable to ask why. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 20 February 1979: [More…]
-Has the Prime Minister indicated in any way to the United States Government that it has an obligation to provide trade access for Australia or otherwise assist Australia in trade negotiations because of the presence on Australian soil of American defence installations? [More…]
That was not foreseen by anyone, Accordingly, this government has properly made decisions to spend more in real terms on defence. [More…]
In addition, the amendment moved by the right honourable member for Lowe (Sir William McMahon) may place a serious obstacle in the path of the well known common law rule that the prosecutor has an obligation to bring evidence before the court, being evidence which may assist the defence in any regard. [More…]
Prior to July 1978, coastal patrols were primarily carried out by Department of Defence aircraft supported by civil aircraft chartered as required by individual Departments. [More…]
My question to the Prime Minister follows the question asked by the honourable member for Werriwa a few minutes ago and answered by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Prime Minister will recall that in his reply the Minister for Defence stated that the decision of the Government to purchase, rather extravagantly, Boeing 707 aircraft largely for the Prime Minister’s use was based on security considerations. [More…]
In addition to that- and I think this has been lost very much in this debate- there is a very considerable defence use for those aircraft. [More…]
The Air Force recognise the aircraft as a very real addition to the defence inventory. [More…]
If the media want to film the aircraft fulfilling their defence role they can do so. [More…]
I think it is perfectly plain that the decision that was made- having in mind the fact that Qantas Airways Ltd was getting rid of 707 aircraft, and the fact that those aircraft would at the same time have a very considerable defence usagemeant that that was the best purchase for the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I think it needs to be understood that by far the greater part of the use to which these aircraft will be put is for defence purposes. [More…]
Tax indexation was never meant to rule out a real increase in tax if national necessity demanded it to consolidate the economy and meet national needs in respect of defence, capital spending and so on. [More…]
The first Labor Government Budget in which the education vote became greater than the defence vote was regarded by me as a major social and economic achievement in Australia. [More…]
This would cover such areas as welfare, culture and sporting grants, civil works programs and growth of the Public Service to include the defence services. [More…]
A decision to proceed with the Casey Defence Forces Academy and the National Biological Standards Laboratory. [More…]
The surveillance of the area by the defence forces depends entirely on aviation gasoline. [More…]
I ask the defence forces not to use aircraft which require Avgas if they have to be refuelled in areas where there is a shortage of supplies. [More…]
The defence lost and the clam boat was confiscated. [More…]
-On behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I present the Committee’s report on the Torres Strait Treaty. [More…]
The basic concept of the Defence Force Academy was to replace the degree stream component of the Royal Military College, the Royal Australian Air Force Academy, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Darling Downs Institute, and the Royal Australian Navy College with a single academy that would provide a balanced and liberal university education in a military environment for officer cadets of the three Australian services, concurrently with a program of professional military training. [More…]
The Committee agreed that there is a need for a greater proportion of tertiary educated officers in the Defence Force and that cadets should be involved in a military environment as much as possible during their tertiary studies. [More…]
The Committee has put forward a number of suggested arrangements for the three Services which should be examined as a means of providing cost effective tertiary education towards the training of highly skilled professional officers of the Defence Force. [More…]
I also thank the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) for his personal assistance to the Committee on the several occasions on which his help was requested. [More…]
Early in the hearings it was clear that certain witnesses were reluctant to give their opinions to the Committee, based on their own expertise and experience, apparently because of fear of jeopardising their advancement within the Defence organisation. [More…]
I am aware that undue public criticism of departmental policy and decisions is undesirable in organisations structured in the manner of the three Services, and with the important responsibilities of the Department of Defence and the Services. [More…]
When the expenditure on defence, payments to the States and public debt interest are added to this, there remains a measly 15c in every dollar of expenditure available for all the other funding responsibilities of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Let me say quite clearly that the honour.able member for Calare (Mr MacKenzie) who has just spoken and the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) who I think will be following me in this discussion seem to have taken the line that attack is the best form of defence. [More…]
I remind the Minister for Defence of the continued representations by many members of this Parliament, notably by the honourable member for Henty, and by various service organisations and numerous individual servicemen for the restoration of the traditional Reserve and regular forces awards. [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence aware of the importance of the Casey Australian Defence Force Academy project to the economy of the Australian Capital Territory in relation to both employment in the construction industry and the forward planning for transfer of Government employed people to this city? [More…]
I am aware of the importance of the Australian Defence Force Academy to Canberra. [More…]
The first is that the Committee, in reporting against the Academy, has not- with due respect to the honourable members who serve on it- given sufficient weight to the fact that there is in existence an agreement between the Department of Defence and the University of New South Wales whereby- [More…]
I quoted from the Press release of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
Let me repeat again and again that 80 per cent of the usage of the 707s that have come into the VIP fleet will be for defence purposes. [More…]
Eighty per cent of their usage will be for defence purposes. [More…]
The Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence confirms that. [More…]
I point out that on 13 December 1978 the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) issued a statement which made it abundantly clear that the weight of security advice left the Government with no alternative. [More…]
Then on 5 June 1979 the Minister for Defence presented to this House a most detailed statement. [More…]
We do have in those two aircraft a valuable defence asset and it is a fact that Qantas was divesting itself of those aircraft. [More…]
I stress that there are some other areas of government involvement where only governments can do the job- in areas of diplomacy, defence, the basic maintenance of our roads, to name a few. [More…]
The United States/Taiwan Mutual Defence Treaty will be allowed to lapse at the end of this year. [More…]
In this situation the Minister for Defence took a point of order and I had no alternative but to uphold that point of order because it is consistent with the Standing Orders and not with the practices which in many respects have become somewhat questionable. [More…]
Quite plainly, the Minister has a responsibility to come to the defence of the Nomad when inaccurate accusations are made about an aircraft which is a fine Australian achievement, well designed, well constructed and well received by the customers. [More…]
-The Minister was very properly coming to the defence of the Nomad, and the Labor Party quite plainly by its interjections and points of order does not want to hear that. [More…]
It is perfectly plain that the Opposition, and the Leader of the Opposition in particular, do not want to allow this Parliament to be used as a proper forum for the defence of a very fine Australian achievement. [More…]
Indonesian Navy- Initial acquisition- six Searchmaster B Nomads, repeat six Searchmaster B Nomads two years later (The Indonesian Government has recently requested the provision of a further six Nomads- to a total of 18- under Defence Aid; these last six to be Searchmaster L) [More…]
When the baddies got a faster aircraft the Department of Defence would have asked for a faster aircraft still. [More…]
I also referred to the Minister for Productivity and some input from the Department of Defence. [More…]
As the report of the Law Reform Commission in 1 978 points out, there is evidence that in some cases A- 10 did not investigate complaints because police commanders sometimes too readily came to the defence of their subordinates. [More…]
I have discussed this amendment with the Minister for Administrative Services and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay). [More…]
Defence Act, 1903 s. 73a [More…]
Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act, 1 949 s. 9 [More…]
Defence (Special Undertakings) Act, 1952 s. 3 1 [More…]
s. 34, applied by the Naval Defence Act, 1910 s. 34 and Naval Forces Regulations, r. 8 [More…]
s. 36, applied by the Defence Act, 1903 s. 55 and Australian Military Regulations, r. 9 [More…]
More importantly, the Government required a police protective service in respect of embassies, airports, official residences and risk installations such as the Atomic Energy Commission and Defence munitions depots. [More…]
It is on all fours with that sort of defence for the Minister to say: ‘They were technical breaches. [More…]
Whilst we are all members of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, as the report sets out, we went as individual members of parliament and not as representatives of a committee or of the Government. [More…]
Secondly, there are the constitutional provisions which make it quite clear that there is minority white control over the affairs of the Government of that country, in the public service, in the police force, in the defence services, in the cabinet and so on. [More…]
I assume from the remarks of the Minister for Productivity (Mr Macphee) that the response is made not only on behalf of the Department of Transport but also on behalf of the Department of Defence, the Department of Science and the Environment and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
In the past the enrichment of uranium has been part of the war machine, part of defence expenditure. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 March 1 979: [More…]
What are the grades and functions of redundant civilian Defence personnel positions referred to in his answer to a question without notice on 1 March 1979. [More…]
In my answer to a Question Without Notice, I informed the House on 1 March 1979 on the steps taken to reduce the civilian element in the Defence Forces. [More…]
I said that in 1973 the number of civilians employed within the Department of Defence was of the order of 37,300. [More…]
Many of the staff positions which were abolished and others which were created arose from the reorganisation of the Departments of Defence, Navy, Army, Air and Supply in 1 975 and 1 976, the transfer of some 6,000 staffs employed under the Naval Defence Act and Supply and Development Act to the Public Service Act in 1975 and 1976 and changes to a number of functions and activities undertaken by Defence. [More…]
It is not possible to calculate staff grades because of the lack of comparability between Public Service Act grades and the staff grades of personnel previously employed under the Naval Defence Act and Supply and Development Act referred to above. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 March 1979: [More…]
and (3) Under an agreement with the Department of Defence, ASCO provides a management service in operating the community store. [More…]
Special Services such as burglar alarm lines, datel lines, lines for transmitting data for computers and other devices, and special lines such as for Defence and Aircraft Control. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 29 March 1 979: [More…]
Is a continuation of mineral exploration and resultant extraction compatible with the use of the area for defence exercises. [More…]
1 ) As notified in Commonwealth of Australia Government Gazette S241 of 20 November 1978 and G49 of 12 December 1978 the Commonwealth acquired an area of land at Yampi Sound for defence purposes. [More…]
having regard to the estimated frequency of Defence use of the training area, the present scale of mineral exploration in the area, and the limited discoveries of commercial deposits made in the past, it is believed that mineral exploration and exploitation would not unduly affect Defence use of the area. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 April 1979: [More…]
With reference to the Government’s 10 point policy package for Tasmania announced in November 1977, has he carried out an examination of the scope for increasing defence activity in Tasmania. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 May 1 979: [More…]
(i) To assist in the study of the capability of Australian industry to meet Defence needs ( 1 975 ). [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 May 1979: [More…]
1 ) Has any damage been caused to roads adjacent to the Holsworthy Field Firing Range in the last ten years as a result of present or past Defence Forces activity; if so, what was the cause of the damage and the cost of repairs. [More…]
1 ) In the last ten years no damage has been caused to roads as a result of the Defence Force activity on the Holsworthy Field Firing Range, with the exception of the incident which occurred on 14 July 1978, when a 105mm shell impacted on the Heathcote Road. [More…]
Further, in accordance with the requirements of the Defence Act, before live firing occurs, warning notices are published in the press, picquets are placed on roadways and at gates giving access to the range and red flags are flown. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 May 1979: [More…]
1 ) Is Cloncurry Airport to be abandoned as a strategic alternate airport for defence purposes in the north of Australia. [More…]
Is Cloncurry Airport still the best defence airport in north-western Queensland. [More…]
Is the nearest largest airport at Mount Isa still inadequate for defence purposes. [More…]
1 ) There has been no significant Defence use of Cloncurry Airport since World War II. [More…]
It is not ‘a strategic alternate airport for defence purposes’, and is not likely to become so in the future. [More…]
Mount Isa is used on occasions for Defence purposes. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 June 1 979: [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that defence force personnel are presently en route to the United Kingdom to participate in the yachting classic called the Admirals Cup. [More…]
1 ) Defence Force personnel will be participating in the Parmelia Yacht Race, from Plymouth to Fremantle, as part of the Commonwealth contribution to the Western Australian 150th Anniversary celebrations. [More…]
However, the Defence Force personnel comprise all ranks down to Army private, or equivalent. [More…]
Anaconda II is participating as a Defence Force entry in the Parmelia Race, and the personnel involved are undergoing an official Defence Force activity known as Adventure Training. [More…]
The Commonwealth negotiated an agreement with the owner for use of the Anaconda II by the Defence Force specifically to compete in the Parmelia Yacht Race. [More…]
Currently the estimation of noise levels on RAAF bases is a priority so as to assist the Department of Defence to meet its deadlines. [More…]
Department of Defence- Hearing conservation surveys RAAF Bases- Edinburgh, East Sale, Laverton, Amberley, Townsville, Butterworth, Richmond, Fairbairn, Wagga Wagga and depots at Kingswood, Regents Park and Villawood. [More…]
Department of Defence- Estimates of aircraft noise for building siting and design at RAAF Bases- Pearce, East Sale, Richmond and N.A.S. [More…]
Department of Defence- Environmental noise, Holsworthy. [More…]
Department of Defence- Noise survey in HMAS Melbourne. [More…]
Department of Defence- Building attenuation measurement at HMA S Nirimba. [More…]
Department of Defence-Noise survey of Puckapunyal Workshop Company. [More…]
Department of Defence (Navy)- Assessment of office noise, Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Branch, Garden Island. [More…]
Department of Defence (Navy)-Noise measurements in an audiometric booth, Area Medical Centre, Garden Island. [More…]
A primary surveillance effort is provided by air and surface units of the Defence forces. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the second report by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board, together with a companion report to the Board by the Australian Government Actuary, on the assets and liabilities of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund at 30 September 1972. [More…]
In 1973 following a report from a joint select committee of the Parliament, legislation was introduced to establish the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme with effect from 1 October 1972. [More…]
That scheme superseded the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme. [More…]
Provision was made in the legislation for the assets of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund totalling over $160m at book value to be transferred to the Commonwealth. [More…]
An undertaking was given by the Government of the day to arrange an actuarial investigation of the fund, i.e., the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
The administration of the affairs of the superseded scheme is vested in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board. [More…]
-by leave-The Opposition does not quarrel with the statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
I do not think it is unrealistic to say that those who did in fact transfer from the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund to the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme would have obtained substantial benefit from that transfer and from the introduction of the new fund, far in excess- I would have thought- of the possible excess contributions that they may have made prior to the introduction of the new scheme under the terms of the new scheme, had it been applied in retrospect, which I am not sure is a good policy. [More…]
Persons who retired from the defence forces in 1972 or earlier are getting older and if the Government waits long enough it will not have to act on the report; there will be no one left as a beneficiary of the fund. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence to take these matters into consideration. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 March 1979: [More…]
1 ) What capital defence equipment items have been the subject of firm procurement orders placed since 1 January 1976. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 10 May 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 May 1 979: [More…]
The terms of the agreement between the Government of Australia and the United States concerning arrangements for the establishment and operation of the joint defence facilities to which the Honourable Member refers do not encompass the matter of US servicemen undertaking civilian employment in their off duty hours. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 May 1 979: [More…]
To provide the information requested would require the examination of in excess of 260,000 individual files or posting advices in respect of present and former members of the Defence Force. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 30 May 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 4 June 1979: [More…]
34 Squadron are presented regularly to the Parliament by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 June 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on5 June 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 June 1 979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 June 1979: [More…]
Defence Housing in West Heidelberg Area (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 June 1979: [More…]
1 ) No houses or flats are owned by the Department of Defence in the West Heidelberg area. [More…]
Defence funds were provided towards the capital cost. [More…]
Serving members of the Defence Force and their families. [More…]
However, the Services’ requirements for housing in the area is under continuing review and if other dwellings become surplus to Defence housing needs they will be offered for return to the Victorian Housing Commission. [More…]
United States Defence Installations in Australia (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 June 1979: [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that the network of 20 American installations in Australia run by the United States of America Defence Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the United States Air Force and Navy includes the largest computer complex in the southern hemisphere and the biggest communications base for the US Navy’s submarine strike force. [More…]
1 ) and (2) I refer the honourable member to my answer to Question 1253 (Hansard, 10 October 1978, pages 1658-63) in which I listed the number of defence related joint Australia/US defence facilities as five. [More…]
The practice of successive Australian Governments concerning speculation and assertion about certain of the joint defence facilities (at Pine Gap and Nurrungar) should be well known to the honourable member. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 June 1 979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 June 1979: [More…]
Which ships conducted exercises with Australian defence forces in the Indian Ocean prior to or immediately after their visits to Western Australian pons. [More…]
What were the dates of the exercises and the composition of the Australian defence forces involved. [More…]
and (5) US Navy ships excercising with Australian defence forces in the Indian Ocean, the dates of the exercises and the composition of forces involved are shown in Table II. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether he can advise the House of the facts concerning a report to the effect that a Royal Australian Air Force F111 aircraft- the first of such aircraft recently modified in the United States for special reconnaissance work- was forced on its return to Australia to land at Kwajalein in the Pacific Ocean, allegedly because of a tropical storm. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Does the Minister feel that last night’s Budget facilitates a greater degree of very necessary self-reliance on the part of the Australian Defence Force, especially in the areas of equipment and training? [More…]
It would be my hope and expectation that I will be able to make a statement on defence expenditure, probably tomorrow if that meets with the convenience of the Leader of the House and the House itself. [More…]
This Bill will authorise borrowings for defence purposes in order that defence expenditure, which would normally be met from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, may instead be met from the Loan Fund. [More…]
The Bill authorises borrowing for defence purposes. [More…]
I should make it quite clear, however, that it does not authorise any defence expenditures additional to those which have already been authorised by Parliament in Supply Act (No. [More…]
It will simply allow reallocations of defence expenditures between the Consolidated Revenue Fund and the Loan Fund to be made during the remainder of the financial year, following the enactment of this legislation. [More…]
I should also mention that, as borrowings under this legislation will be for the purpose of financing defence expenditure, those borrowings will not require approval from the Australian Loan Council. [More…]
This limit is directly related to the level of defence expenditure which is expected to be made from the date of enactment of the Bill to 30 June 1980. [More…]
I have been very surprised to see the extent of pennypinching that takes place, especially now, at a time when expenditure for defence generally is being increased so extensively. [More…]
The pennypinching includes things like servicemen’s housing which is at an appalling level and the deterioration in the qualifying requirements for defence service homes. [More…]
I wrote to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in this regard and in his usual respectful way he sent back a reply which I do not regard as satisfactory. [More…]
Did the Secretary of his Department tell Mr Waller that he was speaking to him at the request of the office of the Minister for Defence and that he understood Mr Waller’s difficult financial circumstances. [More…]
1 ) Surveillance flights over the Great Barrier Reef area are carried out by both Defence Force and chartered civil aircraft. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 4 June 1 979: [More…]
a ) to convey the then Chief of the Air Staff (Air Marshal Sir James Rowland) accompanied by Lady Rowland and officers from the Department of Defence to Amberley, Queensland, for the opening of No. [More…]
-I refer the Treasurer to the defence estimates contained in his Budget Speech. [More…]
Is the inclusion of an allowance of $30m for prospective wage and salary increases in Defence a departure from the standard budgetary procedure? [More…]
If this procedure had not been adopted, would the increase in defence spending in real terms have been 1.4 per cent instead of the 2.6 per cent claimed in his speech? [More…]
Without this substantial allowance for wage increases would the share of government outlays devoted to defence have been 9 per cent- the same as last year’s expenditure- not 9. [More…]
In respect of the actual report on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and the fact there was no distributable surplus, I stated: [More…]
I do not think it is unrealistic to say that those who did in fact transfer from the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund to the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme would have obtained substantial benefit from that transfer and from the introduction of the new fund, far in excess- I would have thought- of the possible excess contributions that they may have made prior to the introduction of the new scheme under the terms of the new scheme, had it been applied in retrospect, which I am not sure is a good policy. [More…]
My good friend the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), as a lawyer, will know that it has to be renegotiated. [More…]
by leave- In March this year I foreshadowed increased defence expenditure in 1979-80. [More…]
I outlined the directions given by the Government to the defence administration as to the priorities that should be observed. [More…]
My colleague, the Treasurer (Mr Howard), last Tuesday informed the House of an allocation to the defence function of $2, 887m. [More…]
From a level of 6 per cent of defence expenditure of 1974-75, investment in capital items has increased in each of the intervening years. [More…]
However for some time, in order to release funds for new capital equipments, certain constraints were applied to that part of the defence outlay which supports training activities. [More…]
This country has invested considerable sums of money in defence facilities. [More…]
This year, expenditure on repair and maintenance of defence establishments will rise considerably above that of 1978-79. [More…]
Money is being allocated to enable more realistic training and exercising of the Defence Force. [More…]
Manpower costs will continue to account for just over half the total defence expenditure. [More…]
This year some $45 5 m are allocated under this heading, or 15.4 per cent of expenditure on the defence function. [More…]
A new mobile tactical air defence control and reporting system will be acquired to train our air defence fighter force in deployments around Australia. [More…]
New high frequency radio antennas will be acquired for defence communications. [More…]
The new Discon network will provide substantially increased communications capability to the defence force. [More…]
Four survey motor launches will be built in Australia to accelerate charting of waters of defence and national importance in the Barrier Reef and north west areas. [More…]
I now inform the House that, subject to satisfactory contractual arrangements being concluded by the departments of Defence and Administrative Services with French interests in respect of the supply of certain documentation, and with Vickers Cockatoo Dockyard Pty Ltd, that Australian Shipyard will build, to a French design, the new fleet-underway replenishment ship required for the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]
I might point out to the House that this will be the third major defence shipbuilding contract awarded to Australian firms in recent years. [More…]
Beyond these considerations there remains the fundamental one, namely, the defence interest of this country. [More…]
Government’s views of the importance of defence are emphasised once again by its significant increases in the Defence Appropriation. [More…]
It will be possible to both move ahead in our plans for increasing the efficiency of the Defence Force and to prepare for the greater program of capital acquisition that lies ahead of us. [More…]
When the Government has examined the advice from the Defence Committee deriving from the recent strategic review and has considered its consequences for Australia, I propose to make a further defence statement. [More…]
-by leave-The statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) can be described only as one which leaves one with a feeling of almost hopelessness for the future of our Defence Force. [More…]
According to the figures published in the Budget Papers- I look forward to the Minister’s explanation of them- approximately 9 per cent of total Budget outlays will go to defence. [More…]
The Budget figures show that the cost of defence equipment and the cost of maintaining the Defence Force are advancing at a rate significantly faster than was set out by the Minister when equating the increase in real terms. [More…]
Whilst that figure was part of the total defence vote for last year it was placed elsewhere in the estimates at that time. [More…]
I do not think that those sorts of figures help our consideration of defence matters. [More…]
This year’s share of gross national product diverted to defence is approximately 2.55 per cent. [More…]
That represents the lowest share of gross domestic product devoted to defence since 1949-50. [More…]
Enormous problems are accumulating because the Government continues to defer the placing of major orders for defence requirements. [More…]
Its lack of action will mean that in the mid-1980s the capital equipment budget for defence will be of such a size that regardless of which party is in government it will probably be unable to be met. [More…]
Since the 1976 White Paper on defence was brought forward new equipment orders have consistently fallen behind the program set down by the Government. [More…]
Still further behind are replacement orders or orders for new equipment required by the Defence Force. [More…]
I wish to point to some of the problems which will confront the Minister for Defence, whether it be the present Minister or some other person, in the very near future. [More…]
All the other vessels have had half life refits and can be said to be moving towards the time when their continued operation will be at the expense of defence capacity. [More…]
Approximately 75 aircraft are desirable in order to provide a reasonable air capacity for our Defence Force by the end of the 1980s. [More…]
In 1969 the then Minister for Defence, in a statement delivered at the same time of the year as the current statement, outlined a list of requirements which would be met for the defence forces. [More…]
Today, because of that decision not to proceed with equipment purchases in 1 970, the Minister for Defence is able to say that there is to be a substantial increase in the amount of money spent on equipment this year as compared with 1974-75. [More…]
If the average expenditure in real terms remains the same but fluctuates wildly because of the way in which payments and budget allocations are made, effects must flow through to recurring expenditures within the Defence Force. [More…]
Nevertheless, it has not been corrected and therefore we have a situation in which in one year 6 per cent or 7 per cent of the defence vote may be required to meet existing debts or repayments for equipment and in another year the figure may grow to 1 4 per cent. [More…]
It is not as easy to manipulate other sections of the defence budget to meet that requirement. [More…]
-I am fully aware of that but I think that on some occasions, even if the Government cannot meet the requirements of the Defence Force, the House is entitled to know exactly the problems that confront the nation. [More…]
If the helicopters are a vital part of the defence mechanism of the vessels, as I am sure they are, it seems to me that this would place the vessels at risk. [More…]
There are contradictions among the last three defence statements announced in this House, and they are very serious. [More…]
This also is a deficiency which no defence force that is required to defend itself could afford to have continue. [More…]
I would have thought, given the limitation on the availability of funds, the capacity of these aircraft and the importance of their role in the current concept of our defence, that the changing of the computer capacity and electronics of the Fill aircraft and the equipping of them with modern precision weapons would have been a very high priority in the estimates for the Department of Defence. [More…]
Until such time as they have a capacity to deal with a target they are a useless defence platform. [More…]
-I note that the Minister has arranged his briefing at exactly the same time as the Defence Sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is holding public hearings. [More…]
A reading of speeches made in 1974 and 1975, 1 think, will indicate the shortfalls in performance which are at present evident in the defence area. [More…]
The Government is now, as it was in the late 1960s and early 1970s, depending on what it plans to do, claiming credit for what has already been done, and, I am sorry to say, regularly reducing the share of the gross national product which is to be allocated to the defence vote. [More…]
The Opposition views this statement with extreme concern and draws the attention of the House to the fact that in future years other Ministers will be criticised because of the shortfalls which are occurring in the Government’s defence program at this time. [More…]
He suggested, in fact, that the future of United States defence facilities in Australia could be jeopardised unless this country received better treatment from America in the multilateral trade negotiations. [More…]
In an article entitled ‘Some Military Uses for Omega’ published in the Pacific Defence Reporter of June 1977 Ball said: [More…]
This is not only dishonest, but the record also shows that Governments of both political persuasions have been unnecessarily secretive, uninformative, equivocal, disingenuous, and themselves quite ill-informed and technically ill-equipped to comprehend the system and its strategic and defence implications. [More…]
Ball is a well recognised authority on defence installations and the Omega base. [More…]
It is the fact that the Omega base will ultimately be an integral part of the American military defence communications system, particularly communications systems with nuclear submarines, that needs to be considered when one is making an assessment of the importance of that base. [More…]
It is the importance of that base militarily for the United States and the entanglement that that would involve within the American nuclear defence capability that causes people to have what I believe to be a justifiable concern. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, the Treasurer (Mr Howard) has provided me with a written answer to a question which I asked on Thursday of last week relating to the defence vote as stated in the Budget Speech. [More…]
On 23 August you asked me a number of questions without notice in the House concerning Defence estimates in the 1979-80 Budget. [More…]
The inclusion of an allowance for the costs of prospective wage and salary increases for defence personnel (S30m for 1979-80) has been standard budgetary procedure since 1 974-75. [More…]
In previous years, however, the allowance relating to defence personnel has been included in the Budget estimates, together with a similar allowance for non-defence employees, as a single bulk allowance for prospective wage and salary increases under the outlays heading ‘Not Allocated to Function’. [More…]
As the defence component of the allowance for prospective wage and salary increases is large ( accounting for almost half of the total allowance) and can be readily identified, it was decided to show that component separately under the Defence function in the 1979-80 Budget estimates. [More…]
The figures shown for the Defence function in the 1979-80 Budget should therefore more closely estimate the actual expenditure which will be made on that function during the year than budget estimates have in the past. [More…]
The allowance of $35m for prospective wage and salary increases during 1979-80 for employees other than those paid from votes included under the Defence function continues to be shown at budget time under the heading ‘Not Allocated to Function’. [More…]
As with the defence allowance the individual amounts required in the light of actual wage and salary increases will be reflected in additional appropriations later in the year. [More…]
The inclusion of a $30m allowance for prospective wage and salary increases in the 1979-80 Defence outlay estimates does not bear upon the fact that the 1979-80 Budget estimate for Defence outlay represents a real increase of 2.6 per cent over actual Defence outlay in 1 978-79. [More…]
The 2.6 per cent real increase in Defence outlays has therefore been derived after the $30m for prospective wage and salary increases (and other effects of price increases) have been excluded from the figures for Defence outlay. [More…]
The estimated total Budget outlay includes allowances for prospective wage and salary (and other) cost increases outside the Defence area, and the inclusion of the $30m for prospective wage and salary increases in Defence outlay to derive the proportion which Defence outlay represents of total Budget outlay for 1979-80(9.1 percent) provides a more accurate assessment of that proportion than calculations which exclude the allowance. [More…]
Furthermore, it is valid to compare this proportion with the proportion of actual Defence outlay to total budget outlays for 1978-79 as the costs of wage and salary increases that occurred during 1978-79 are, of course, part of the actual outcome for 1978-79. [More…]
At that dme the honourable member for Moreton, the present Minister for Defence ( Mr Killen), said: . [More…]
In order to take up the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) on that I ask for leave to incorporate in Hansard a table showing unemployment as a percentage of the civilian labour force in the countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. [More…]
Let me raise one or two points in connection with what the Minister for Defence said. [More…]
-The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) dealt adequately with the 50 minutes of personal abuse which came from the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden). [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), who is always long on rhetoric and short on reason in these matters, made all sorts of statements. [More…]
The Minister for Defence talked about Government profligacy leading to some sort of economic disaster. [More…]
In addition, the Navy has released 1800 tonnes to the local market in Cairns pending the arrival of these shipments and my colleague, the Minister for Defence, has arranged for a further 500 tonnes to be made available on a standy-by emergency basis. [More…]
On 1 1 October last year he had a few things to say about overseas borrowings- not ‘those’ overseas borrowings, but the overseas borrowings that this Government has quite properly resorted to over the past two years in defence of the Australian dollar. [More…]
I think it is typical of the attitude of this Government to this Parliament that the honourable member for Darling Downs should refer to the Press statement of the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) rather than to that twoparagraph insult which the Minister gave us as his only defence in his second reading speech. [More…]
I think it is typical that we are referred by honourable members to outside statements by the Minister rather than to the defence given in this House which constituted two paragraphs. [More…]
It means even more take home pay to the skilled shearer referred to last night by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and in the upshot it means that the level of taxation paid by the average taxpayer will be significantly lower than it would have been had the Hayden tax scales of 1975-76 still prevailed- indeed, some $ 1 6 a week lower. [More…]
The tough tax policies have been industrially provocative, perhaps deliberately so as a defence mechanism. [More…]
When the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) was at the table, I got his permission. [More…]
We were told by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) yesterday the wonderful news about a large project in the Newcastle shipyards for the construction of a ship- a major piece of defence equipment. [More…]
Department of Defence [More…]
Mr A. T. Griffith First Assistant Secretary, External Relations and Defence Division, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
Mr M. E. Lyon Assistant Secretary, PNG Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs, First Assistant Secretary, Defence Division, Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
Since the passage of the Act in 1953 there has been a growing emphasis on the utilisation of uranium resources for non-defence purposes which has broadened the potential application of the secur.ity provisions of the Act beyond their original defence related purposes. [More…]
The provision amends section 41 of the Act so that, other than with the consent of a State, the power conferred by that section to authorise mining in a State can only be exercised for defence purposes. [More…]
In relation to the security provisions of the Atomic Energy Act, the Government’s policy that penal provisions which were largely enacted for defence purposes would not be applied to ordinary commercial undertakings, was made clear in the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
Clause 6 of the Bill repeals section 60 of the principal Act which applies the stringent provisions of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947 to all works of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission including commercial undertakings. [More…]
The clause substitutes a provision which requires that a notice be published in the Gazette, by the Minister, if the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act is to apply to a work of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The petitioner further seeks leave of the House to make reference to and otherwise to use in its defence the official records which it has requested be provided to the court. [More…]
Some people on the other side of the House do not believe that a very important sector of the Australian community, the defence forces of Australia, should be receiving any degree of assistance. [More…]
As a member of the Government Members Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, I am delighted to be a supporter of a government which has increased expenditure in the defence area- which is a very important area- by $28 lm, bringing the total allocation of defence spending to $2,887m this financial year. [More…]
While I am discussing this matter, as a person who is very keen on Australian manufacturing industry let me say that, whereas when we came into government in 1976 the shipbuilding industry of Australia was on the rocks of depression; I am pleased to welcome and acknowledge the announcement which was made by my colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) to the effect that we will be spending $70m on building a new vessel in Australian shipbuilding yards. [More…]
I look forward to joining with other members of this side of the House in welcoming the decision of the Minister for Defence and the Cabinet to provide the front line fighter aircraft of which this country is in need at the present time. [More…]
I am delighted that the honourable member comes to his defence. [More…]
One can see that it has gone sour in the House simply by examining the comments of the speakers in its defence. [More…]
Apart from the Treasurer (Mr Howard), only three Liberal speakers have attempted either a comprehensive defence of the Budget or a defence of its major provisions against the charges that have been brought against them. [More…]
I think the adequacy of their defence leaves much to be desired- I will examine it in due coursebut at least they made an effort to defend the Budget. [More…]
Let me examine the kinds of defence that they have presented. [More…]
It is no defence of this Liberal Budget simply to go back to the period 1972-75. [More…]
The tactic of simply bringing up the years 1972-75 or of simply savaging the speech of the Leader of the Opposition was led, needless to say, by that merchant of froth and bubble, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
There was no defence of the Budget. [More…]
A second response from the Government benches was what I call the parochial response, that is, to abandon any defence of the broad economic policies of the Budget and to talk about the particular themes of the Budget in a parochial context. [More…]
Let me say that all these things were, no doubt, worthy causes but none of them constituted a defence of the third Howard Budget. [More…]
Let us look at those few members- very few indeed- on the Government side who have attempted any real defence of this Budget. [More…]
I remember that about two years ago my colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), brought to the Government a proposal to buy a major replenishment ship for the Navy at a cost of $70m or $80m. [More…]
Our colleague was able to come back and only a short while ago announce that the contract had gone to an Australian tenderer, Vickers Cockatoo Dockyard Pty Ltd. No subsidy at all was required because the Australian firms undercut the best overseas tender available to the Australia Defence Forces. [More…]
Despite that, we have met major commitments in defence, in social welfare and in the development and support of Australian industry. [More…]
In defence we are providing an extra $28 lm, nearly 1 1 per cent more than last year in money terms. [More…]
That has enabled us to lift the percentage of the defence vote going on capital equipment from Labour’s average 7 per cent to over 15 per cent this year. [More…]
So, we are providing for national goals in areas of social welfare, in defence and in support of industry. [More…]
1 ) Did he say in his address to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Disarmament on S June 1978 that his Government had recently informed the Secretary-General that it was willing to submit its defence budget for analysis as part of a pilot project on military budgets. [More…]
Did the Australian Government submit, or offer to submit, its 1978-79 defence budget to the United Nations for analysis. [More…]
and (3) Just before the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament Australia indicated to the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations that it was prepared to provide information for the pilot study in the form of past and currently approved budgetary data as published in appropriate bills and the Annual Report of the Department of Defence. [More…]
The above figures do not include Defence general service (operational) vehicles. [More…]
The survey is being managed by an interdepartmental working group consisting of representatives from the Department of Transport, Department of Health, Department of Defence and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. [More…]
However, in a joint statement with the Northern Territory Minister for Transport and Works I recently announced that a study would be undertaken into the benefits and costs of a standard gauge rail link between Darwin and Alice Springs, and that in addition to economic aspects, the study would examine defence considerations, social impacts and the overall effects of such a railway on the future development of the Northern Territory. [More…]
I say to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) who is in the chamber tonight that I do not have any evidence in my archives about him as yet. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), in his speech on the Budget, mentioned that because of our increased international competitiveness we are now able and can afford to build a ship for our defence forces in Australia without subsidy. [More…]
The honourable member will appreciate that the acquisition of all major capital items of Defence equipment is preceded by examinations conducted in various ways and at various levels both within the bidding Service and within the Depanment at large. [More…]
Last year, my Depanment formed a Defence Naval Destroyer Group (DNDG) to draw together more recent work and to consider specifically matters influencing the characteristics of new construction destroyers. [More…]
Defence Central and Navy have the central interest in the immediate development of the studies, and there is liaison with Army and Air Force Offices. [More…]
Yes- members of the Defence Forces who participate in exercises of a non-defence nature with official approval and/or funding are covered against death or injury, under the provisions of the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971, the Repatriation Act 1920 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1 973 provided that, in the case of the Compensation and Repatriation Acts, each exercise of this nature is individually approved and the participants are certified as being on duty during the event. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 August 1 979: [More…]
1 ) Were Defence fuel stocks released for private use in Queensland during the period 2 1 May to 2 1 August 1 979. [More…]
Do procedures exist whereby Defence fuel reserves can be diverted to civilian use; if so, what are the guidelines. [More…]
Are oil companies under contract to supply fuel for Defence requirements in Queensland, able to divert this fuel to private sources. [More…]
How did recent claims that the Defence Forces had commandeered fuel needed for private users arise and was any supply contractor responsible for these claims. [More…]
Requests are handled on a case by case basis but the underlying principles are that the fuel is required to meet an essential community need; it can be spared without detriment to short term defence requirements and alternative supplies from commercial sources are not available to the borrower. [More…]
Yes, under normal circumstances oil companies are free to determine the sequence of delivery and allocation of stocks to all their customers including defence installations. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 August 1 979: [More…]
Were Defence fuel oil stocks reduced during 1978-79 as set out in the Departmental estimates for that year. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 29 August 1979: [More…]
Ultimately security concerns the defence of the realm, both domestically and externally. [More…]
When the Profumo scandal hit the United Kingdom, the inquiry under Lord Denning of the Court of Appeals made it perfectly clear that that investigation was concerned ultimately with the Profumo affair because it was concerned with the defence of the realm. [More…]
When a charter which is designed to balance corporate responsibility and personal rights is given to a security organisation the ultimate purpose of that charter is the defence of a country. [More…]
Therefore, for these reasons, the Opposition will not simply bow down to the kind of vacuous rhetoric- reasons of state, defence of the realm, national interest- which has been used down the centuries to prevent and inhibit inquiry into the secret actions and agents of government. [More…]
I acknowledge that the Organisation, by virtue of clause 5 of the ASIO Bill, is to be responsible for ensuring that there are no activities directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance by the Defence Force of its functions or the carrying out of other activities by or for the Commonwealth for the purposes of security or the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
In addition, the Government has elected to proceed, contrary to the recommendations of the Fox Commission, with the mining of uranium at Ranger under the repressive Atomic Energy Act and the related Approved Defence Projects Protection Act. [More…]
In the four years from 1968 to 1972 instances occurred over and over again which led me to the conclusion that Defence and other sections of the bureaucracy felt that there was no need to let Cabinet or the Prime Minister know what was going on. [More…]
As to the nature of the advice given to the Minister, I do not think it is right and proper that it should be the Director-General who decides on the nature of advice to be given in the communications that take place between ASIO and the government and its agencies, such as the Department of Defence. [More…]
Subversion is defined as including activities that involve, will involve or lead to or are intended or likely ultimately to involve or lead to the use of force or violence or the unlawful acts- we can imagine what would occur in the situation of an unlawful act in Petersen country- which might cause the destruction of the Government, hinder the activities of the Defence Forces or promote violence or hostility between groups so as to endanger peace, order and good government. [More…]
The Australian people should be protected against terrorism, but the best form of such defence is to build up a strong social system of security where the people are prepared to defend the common interests. [More…]
That the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence be requested to conduct an urgent inquiry into- [More…]
I refer the Minister for Defence to reference in the Auditor-General’s annual report to the current procurement of patrol frigates for the Navy. [More…]
What are Australia’s financial arrangements with the United States of America about those and other defence purchases? [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence aware of recent reports which state that Australia’s defence policies are not meeting the strategic demands of the north west region of Western Australia? [More…]
Finally may I say that possibly no other country in the world has such a clear need for mobility in establishing its defence structure and infrastructure. [More…]
It was led by the honourable member for Prospect and included a previous member of this House, whom I never knew to be interested in repatriation until then; the very optimistic Labor candidate for the seat of Moreton, which is the seat of my colleague, the Minister for Defence; and a member of the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia. [More…]
In defence of the appointment of Mr Georgiou to this extraordinarily sensitive, political position, the Minister has read out letters or telegrams of support. [More…]
It is hope arising above expectations to expect Australia irrespective of its political leadership or democratic consequences to remain aloof from world affairs, the consequences of world trade and our own defence requirements throughout the world. [More…]
In that case counsel for the defence- a newspaper- asked the plaintiff about a security report. [More…]
It is absolutely necessary that the Government be supplied with correct information for the proper defence and protection of the country. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 June 1979: [More…]
Can the Minister for Defence inform the House on progress with construction of 15 new patrol boats for the Navy which are being built in north Queensland? [More…]
A number of recommendations concerned defence training areas. [More…]
In association with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Defence Department is continuing its program of regenerating areas damaged by defence training activities. [More…]
Environment impact statements on the establishment of new defence training areas include consideration of the effects of vehicles on the terrain. [More…]
That is a non-defence area. [More…]
The Minister’s statement referred to activities by the Department of Defence in respect of areas under its control. [More…]
But the Minister makes no reference to other areas of land under the control of non-defence departments of government. [More…]
Firstly, it proposes to give effect to those recommendations which were made by the House of Representatives Expenditure Committee which looked at the defence service homes scheme and which were accepted by the Government in November last and require amending legislation. [More…]
Secondly, it provides for the removal from the Defence Service Homes Act of a number of restrictive lending conditions. [More…]
Since the inception of the scheme in 1919, it has been compulsory for defence service homes to be insured and for the insurance to be effected under the defence service homes insurance scheme. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that last November, the Defence Service Homes Act was amended to authorise the Defence Service Homes Corporation to provide insurance cover under terms set out in a statement of conditions, thereby enabling changes to the terms and conditions to be made by administrative rather than legislative process. [More…]
The amendment to section 40a proposed in clause 10 is in keeping with the Audit Amendment Act 1 979 and provides for interest on the investment of moneys of the Defence Service Homes Insurance Trust Account to be credited directly to that Account. [More…]
Consider the insertion of the word ‘unlawful’ at the beginning of paragraph (b), which reads: activities directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance by the Defence Force . [More…]
activities directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance by the Defence Force of its functions or the carrying out of other activities by or for the Com monwealth for the purposes of security or the defence of the Commonwealth; [More…]
Nobody would have any objection to the principle that there should be no hindrance to the performance of the Defence Force in looking after the security of the nation. [More…]
The point I am trying to make is that there is no objection at all to the whole weight of the clause being applicable to activities that are directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance by the Defence Force of its functions. [More…]
In our view it is appropriate to define the activities as being unlawful activities which will hinder the Defence Force and prevent it from looking after the security or the defence of the nation. [More…]
A union dispute on the waterfront about a vessel being a health hazard because it had not been fumigated could be interpreted by somebody to be in some way, remote as the dispute may be from subversive activity, to be hindering the performance of the Defence Force because the vessel is being used for carrying supplies somewhere up north. [More…]
It seems that, in determining whether an activity is interfering with the performance of the Defence Force or of its function, the activity must be identified on an intelligent basis as being an activity that is related to the overthrow of the nation or interfering with the security of the nation. [More…]
If people were to engage in that sort of activity would it be deemed to be hindering the function of the Defence Force? [More…]
-Clause 5 (b) deals with activities directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance by the defence forces of their functions or the carrying out of other activities related to the security and defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Opposition is proposing that this clause be qualified by stating that the activities which obstruct or hinder our defence forces must be regarded as unlawful before the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation would be in a position to take some notice of them and to obtain, correlate or evaluate intelligence about them. [More…]
What he is saying in effect is that even though such activity may obstruct, hinder or interfer with the performance of our defence forces it is, in his view and in the view of his Party, defensible. [More…]
The defence forces may be genuinely involved in the defence of the country. [More…]
Some people in the trade union movement might picket or refuse their labour in order to undermine the effort of our defence forces. [More…]
The Opposition is saying that our security force would not be able to carry out its function of obtaining, correlating and evaluating intelligence in order to protect our defence forces. [More…]
But if its activities are directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance of our defence forces, surely we want information about them? [More…]
No consequences flow from a person’s directly obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance of the defence forces except the consequence of allowing the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to collect and evaluate information about people who are carrying out those activities. [More…]
How can the Opposition find that consequence objectionable in the context of our defence forces whose function it is to protect the security of the country? [More…]
It is a responsible function of the Security Organisation to protect our defence forces and collect information to ensure that it is free and able to carry out its proper role of defending and protecting this country. [More…]
I strongly urge the Committee to reject this amendment and certainly not to curcumscribe this clause in such a way that would prevent ASIO from protecting our defence forces in the role they have to carry out for us all. [More…]
It was not against the defence effort or anything else but against the working conditions at the time. [More…]
In the atmosphere of the times the honourable member for Dundas would have said that was subversion and interfering with the defence effort. [More…]
So anything can be obstructing the defence forces. [More…]
If there is a petrol strike or the people who are supposed to be handling the petrol at Fairbairn Air Force Base stop the RAAF taking off after a few days, they would be obstructing the Defence Force. [More…]
People such as myself, who took part in the demonstrations and who gave the encouragement to people not to register during the Vietnam conflict, would be obstructing the development of the Defence Force because we discouraged people from joining up. [More…]
Communists, by definition, were people who were against the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
We have the Crimes Act, the Defence Act and probably other areas where these matters are defined. [More…]
He cited as an example his experience when coming back from the defence of Darwin. [More…]
-He was a soldier who had served overseas and in the defence of Darwin. [More…]
The fact is that the shipping of armaments to men involved in the defence of Darwin and men fighting in the Pacific and in Europe, men who were laying down their lives in the name of this country and in the name of freedom, could well have been affected because some stupid shortsighted people back here decided to pull on a strike. [More…]
Sub-clause (b) states that it relates, among other things, to ‘activities directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance of the Defence Force’. [More…]
I must admit that it is harder to think in this case, where something relates specifically to the Defence Force. [More…]
Perhaps some of the state crimes Acts or some defence Acts need to be broadened. [More…]
But let us examine a very well informed criticism of the Defence Force. [More…]
Supposing we take the criticisms expressed in another place by Senator Hamer, for example, about the ramshackle nature of our defence operation and how ineffectual it is. [More…]
If those words were uttered outside the Parliament- they were certainly trenchantly critical and were very deeply resented, as we all remember, by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen)- would that be regarded as an activity which hinders or interferes with the performance of the Defence Force? [More…]
Department of Defence [More…]
The clause at present provides that activities regarded as subversion will include: activities directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance by the Defence Force of its functions or the carrying out of other activities by or for the Commonwealth for the purposes of security or the defence of the Commonwealth; [More…]
The defence forces, in the course of their duties, may be obstructed by something on the road which had got there for whatever reason - [More…]
For example, there has to be an intention to obstruct the defence forces in the performance of their duty, not just some activity that they may be engaged in but activity which is for the purposes of security or defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) has suggested- and I am grateful to him for raising this example- that there could be industrial activities which could obstruct the Defence Force in the performance of its functions. [More…]
One could easily imagine something happening on the wharves, as the honourable member suggested, which might make it impossible for the Army or the Navy to receive materials which may be essential for a particular defence purpose. [More…]
I think that it would be possible to have a trade union activity which in itself was lawful but which was being engaged in with the objective of obstructing the defence forces in the performance of their legitimate duties. [More…]
It is conceivable that such people could make use of an industrial situation to carry out activities which were designed to restrain the defence forces in their legitimate activities. [More…]
As this legislation presumably will last for a number of years and as it is not inconceivable- perish the thought- that there could be a change of government, and as the principal Opposition party has decided at its annual conference that the trade union movement will be removed from certain judicial restraints, legal restraints, it is quite possible that trade unionists could be in a position of being able to indulge in certain activities which are quite legal under Commonwealth law but which quite clearly could obstruct the defence forces in their essential duties. [More…]
Within that context, I think it would be essential for a security intelligence organisation to be able to make a determination of its own as to whether activities, which under the statutory arrangements were lawful or unlawful, were directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance by the Defence Force of its functions out of other activities by or for the Commonwealth for the purposes of security or the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I should think that under the various defence Acts- again, I am not totally familiar with all aspects of the law- activities directed to obstructing, hindering, et cetera would be, ipso facto, illegal. [More…]
I cannot imagine that the Defence Act or the various laws relating to the defence forces would allow members of the general population to obstruct, hinder or interfere with the performance of those forces when they were engaging in activities for the purposes of security or the defence of the Commonwealth, without deeming them to be acting illegally. [More…]
We are sometimes involved in a situation in which the Defence Act might be called into operation and the Services called upon to aid the civil power. [More…]
Under this legislation this is one action which could be interpreted as obstructing the Defence Force. [More…]
Relating this clause to defence, and specifically to defence contracts, paragraph 244 of the report states: [More…]
This could be the case in respect of the disruption of undertakings carrying out defence contracts, but it could be in other cases as well. [More…]
If I may illustrate this point by way of analogy, Australia has a key points’ system in its defence organisation. [More…]
These ‘key points’ are places the destruction of or damage to which would affect Australia ‘s defence and security. [More…]
The paragraph goes on to say that these key points include defence installations and essential features or services, such as water and power services. [More…]
Some clearly represent legal or lawful actions which honourable members on this side of the chamber regard as being undesirable if they obstruct, hinder or interfere with the performance of the defence forces. [More…]
The nature of some of the examples given would not be harmful even to the extent that they may obstruct, hinder or interfere with the performance of the Defence Force in certain circumstances. [More…]
Whilst we may be able to gather some examples of circumstances in which there would be a lawful act which we would not regard as being undesirable, the very fact that there are numbers of lawful activities- or as I put it earlier, permitted activities, because they have not been made unlawful by any specific statute- does not mean that it may not be very undesirable that such activity which obstructs, hinders or interferes with the performance of the Defence Force in its functions is not to be brought under notice. [More…]
Why should our intelligence organisation look at activities which in this clause relate to our defence forces carrying out their functions as defence forces for the purposes of the security and defence of the Commonwealth? [More…]
We have to look at all its elements because in addition to establishing that the activities are directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance of the defence forces in carrying out their activities, it must also be established that the functions of the defence forces in that instance are for the purpose of security or the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
This is not an exercise but it is something that is involved directly in the security and the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is not all of the activities in which people might be involved that obstruct, hinder or interfere with the performance of the Defence Force. [More…]
This legislation is asking the Director-General to continually involve himself in areas which in fact do not really go to the defence of the realm or to problems related to the role of our armed services. [More…]
The fact of the matter is, as the honourable member for Dundas well knows, that the attitude of the courts to the defence powers has always been one of wide interpretation. [More…]
Whenever there has been a tendency to extend the power of the Commonwealth over the States or anyone else there has always been the tendency to look at the defence powers and at the traditional breadth of decision that the courts have always taken. [More…]
Let me look at the operations of the Department of Defence in relation to its handling of information for this Parliament and this Government. [More…]
Its attitude towards the Parliament is that because it is a defence matter none of us have any rights at all. [More…]
So when we are talking about the defence powers we are talking about a tradition of judicial interpretation and about an attitude within the bureaucracy towards what constitutes the defence of the realm. [More…]
On one view of the matter within the framework of this interpretation one could say that if Senator Hamer had made his statements in a public place or if he had repeated the same speech within the councils of the Liberal Party at its State conference it would be open to argument- and is certainly not an argument that could be lightly rejected- that that was an activity which interfered with and hindered the performance or functions of the defence forces. [More…]
I do not think that the Director-General of Security ought to have imposed on him the power to act in all those situations which arise in the community and which can have incidental effects on the defence forces. [More…]
In relation to the meaning ofsubversion, clause 5 ( 1 ) (b) states: activities directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance by the Defence Force of its functions or the carrying out of other activities by or for the Commonwealth for the purposes of security or the defence of the Commonwealth; [More…]
Therefore, the act which is kept under surveillance must be an act which is judged to be directed to this purpose- to obstruct, hinder or interfere with the performance of the Defence Force. [More…]
Another example given was a speech by Senator Hamer, not in the House but outside it, when he criticised the administrative competence of the Department of Defence. [More…]
They are innocent activities, known to everyone, which are not directed to obstructing, hindering, or interfering with the performance by the Defence Force of its functions. [More…]
If someone who wished to obstruct the performance by the Defence Force of its functions put a bomb against the hull of HMAS Melbourne and by remote control triggered that bomb and blew it up, the act of blowing it up would be unlawful. [More…]
The Opposition is suggesting that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation could not keep that person under surveillance prior to his placing the bomb and triggering it off with the purpose of obstructing the performance by the Defence Force of its functions. [More…]
Quite obviously ASIO has to have the authority to keep under surveillance activities, lawful or unlawful, which are directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance by the Defence Force of its functions. [More…]
They are activities ‘directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance by the Defence Force of its functions or the carrying out of other activities by or for the Commonwealth for the purposes of security or the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
That is not an unlawful act but that person can come under notice because, according to the Minister’s own classification, he is directing his remarks to hindering the Defence forces. [More…]
But who are the innocent people who will be brought under notice and never know about it, who will never have the opportunity to know that a file has been prepared on them because they happened to take particular action on the waterfront in Sydney and some question arose about hindering the Defence Force? [More…]
The Defence Force has its own ideas on how to look after itself in these matters. [More…]
The Hope report shows clearly that if there is proper intelligence the Defence Force will be well aware of the people who have the motivation and deliberate intent to hinder it. [More…]
Let us not put ourselves in the stupid situation in which the passing of a resolution by a particular union that its members will not load a ship is regarded as an overt act directed at hindering the Defence Force. [More…]
-I want to make it clear right from the outset that, as far as I am concerned, any person who wilfully sought to interfere with the activities of the Defence Force in a manner which would in any way inhibit its ability to defend this country or endanger - [More…]
Anyone who in any way inhibits- that means in any way interferes withthe ability of the Defence Force - [More…]
Anyone who in any way inhibits the ability of the Defence Force in its carrying out of its functions in respect of the security of Australia or Australia’s defence is a person who should and would be dealt with. [More…]
The Commonwealth Crimes Act, which I am sure he understands, was significantly amended as far back as 1 96 1 to make it an illegal act to approach a defence establishment. [More…]
The preparation and planting of any device for the purpose of sabotage would contravene the Crimes Act, certainly the defence Acts, and the Control of Naval Waters Act. [More…]
-Mr Chairman, we should keep in mind the very wide net of laws which protect our security organisations, our defence forces and those other activities which have to do with the security and defence of Australia. [More…]
Given that no protection exists in the legislation for a person, given that a person has no defence, I think it is not unreasonable for this clause to contain a provision that before an activity is deemed to be an act of subversion, before the step of restricting his future civil liberties in this country is taken- it is a severe restriction to establish a file on a person- that person should at least have been charged with or deemed to have undertaken an illegal act. [More…]
The fact is that by implication the thrust of the Minister’s argument is that an activity, in order to fall within the definition of subversion, has to be primarily directed to obstructing or interfering with the performance of the Defence Force. [More…]
In this clause there is also the definition of acts- this ties in with unlawful actwhich fall within the ambit of this clause and which has nothing to do with the security or defence of Australia. [More…]
I think it should be made clear in this Committee stage that this clause can be used by the Government for civilian purposes which have no significant security or defence capacity. [More…]
I refer to the oft repeated threats of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to use the Defence Force. [More…]
If they come to fruition the Defence Force will be involved in civilian activities in this community. [More…]
It is a threat which I suggest to the House is a danger to the standing of the Defence Force and can bring it into disrepute. [More…]
Those persons would have been guilty of subversion had the Defence Force been brought in either to move that pig iron over the wharves or to protect the movement of that pig iron over the wharves and other activities which were being picketed. [More…]
It is an offence under the Commonwealth Crimes Act and other Acts of Parliament to approach a defence establishment. [More…]
-No one has ever been charged, but under this legislation persons can be deemed to be subversives without being charged, without the right of defence and without committing any illegal act. [More…]
The proposition put forward by the Opposition was that it would allow to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation only the authority to keep under surveillance anybody who had in mind an activity, such as bombing HMAS Melbourne which obstructed, hindered or interfered with the Defence Force when an illegal act had been committed. [More…]
I think that in the exercise of common sense one would say that ASIO ought to have the authority to keep under surveillance a person who is engaging in an activity which falls short of an unlawful act but which is directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the functions of the Defence Force. [More…]
What would they say if they directed the Defence Force to carry out a certain task in the defence interests or security interests of the country? [More…]
Would not the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) or any member of this House expect a Labor government to tell its security organisation to inform it about any persons activities, either lawful or unlawful, which are directed towards obstructing the very function which it had commanded the Defence Force of this country to carry out in the interests of the defence of this country? [More…]
Would a Labor government say to its security organisation that it is not interested in getting advice on any activity which is directed towards obstructing the very purpose for which the Government had sent the Defence Force on its way? [More…]
In the defence of the Roman republic, he once said: [More…]
It seems sensible that they should have the same defence force and an external affairs minister in Suva. [More…]
) The Department endows a Research Fellowship at the Strategic and Defence Study Centre, Australian National University, at a cost of some $30,000 per annum. [More…]
Aspects of disarmament, along with many other defence related matters, may be studied under this Fellowship. [More…]
I ask the right honourable gentleman: Did his Press secretary strongly deny to Inside Canberra a statement which is now reported as being made by Mr Alan Renouf, a former ambassador, that the Prime Minister had hinted to the United States Government that if Australia did not receive adequate treatment in the Multilateral Trade Negotiations the future of United States defence installations in Australia could be jeopardised? [More…]
In the course of these discussions there was again reference to the broad-based Australia-United States relationship going back over many years and the co-operation between our countries, including joint defence facilities. [More…]
But it would be entirely wrong for whatever remarks were made at that discussion in February to be construed as implying any threat of action by Australia in relation to defence facilities. [More…]
I think that is evident from the vehement defence of the inquiry by Mr Syd Einfeld, the Minister for Housing in New South Wales, in sections of the Press this morning. [More…]
Another matter which comes to mind as being skimmed over by the Minister in his statement is the defence and surveillance problem. [More…]
Rather than worrying about these capital vessels and accommodating those people in the defence establishment who are trying to fit Australia up with superior kinds of vessels which would be more appropriate to military situations in other parts of the world, the Government should be concentrating on what I see as the effective task- the naval establishment may see it as a menial task- of adequate surveillance of the Australian coastal territories. [More…]
Anyone could point to the words said at the weekend by the Minister for Finance (Mr Eric Robinson ) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
At the ACTU congress, Mr Hawke made a strong defence of his belief that Australian uranium should be mined. [More…]
One policy that would have made Mr Curtin turn in his grave is the policy that the Labor Party would prevent the Defence Force from ever being involved in any industrial dispute. [More…]
Labor governments used the Defence Force in 1949 in the coalfields and when Ermolenko was flown out of the country by the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
This morning we have heard from the former Minister for Primary Industry, the right honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair), an extensive defence of certain aspects of findings and conclusions by the Finnane inquiry into alleged business malpractices on the part of the former Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]
So the Prime Minister has maintained a persistent attitude of defence of the right honourable member for New England. [More…]
Are we to say that the Minister for Defence can represent in the courts only members of the Liberal Party? [More…]
The Prime Minister and other Government spokesmen have endeavoured to turn this attack from the real issue- that is, the question of the Prime Minister’s responsibility to maintain the integrity of his Cabinet- to a defence of the right honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair), to an attack upon the New South Wales AttorneyGeneral, and then to an attack upon anybody and everybody. [More…]
I would say, in defence of the Attorney-General of New South Wales, that he is under an obligation to see that the provisions of the Companies Act are observed. [More…]
During his defence he got down to the stage of attacking in this Parliament a former business colleague- one talks about privilege- on the basis that he lent some lady in Hong Kong a sum of money. [More…]
They are an absolutely indispensable feature of defence science activity. [More…]
-by leave-The Opposition does not disagree with the decision just announced by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) to discontinue the Turana target aircraft project. [More…]
Defence technology and technology in general have to be put in such a position that experimentation with new systems can take place so that those on whom we depend for the advanced technological advice which may be required in a defence emergency can be exposed to problems. [More…]
Without trying to challenge the major powers in relation to major weapons systems, Australia has a very good record in defence technology for evolving and developing systems which are within a reasonable price range and which perform functions that have to be carried out not only by our own [More…]
Defence Force but also by the defence forces of other nations. [More…]
During the period in which it was evolved its technical capacity was increased and the technical knowledge available to the Australian Defence Force and to Australian industry in general was advanced. [More…]
Other projects in the defence area have been highly successful. [More…]
The Opposition does not oppose the statement made by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
I think that what the Budget has provided for defence is adequate. [More…]
Having visited the armoured regiment at Puckapunyal last week to watch firing on the range and also having travelled in the Leopard tank I am satisfied that the readiness of Australian Armed forces, considering the size of the nation, is adequate, is perfectly valid and is a very valuable defence deterrent. [More…]
The Bill authorises borowings for defence purposes so that the approval ofthe Loan Council is not required. [More…]
A simple and now traditional procedure for providing adequate legislative authority for borrowing to finance a deficit is through a Loan Act which authorises borrowings for defence purposes, so defence expenditure already approved under an Appropriation Bill can be transferred out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and charged to the Loan Fund. [More…]
Its purpose is also to ensure that defence expenditure is allocated appropriately. [More…]
I wish to deal with four main headings: Firstly, the economy; secondly, social security; thirdly, defence and foreign affairs; and fourthly, the bitter alternative that would otherwise be provided by the Labor Party and that will be completely rejected by the Australia people. [More…]
They are defence and foreign affairs. [More…]
I will speak further on these matters in the consideration of the estimates for the Department of Defence. [More…]
While there is that possibility this Government must ensure that we have adequate defence expenditure. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr. Killen) is to be congratulated on the 2.6 per cent increase in expenditure in real terms on defence in this Budget. [More…]
-Perhaps the most feeble part of the Minister’s whole defence was to resurrect the tired old argument about the comparisons between the performance under the Whitlam Government and the performance under this Government. [More…]
I would have thought that the lesson of natural justice and the lessons of the rule of law that were taught last week in this House by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) would have registered. [More…]
I would have thought that natural justice and the rule of law which honourable members heard about from the lips of the Minister for Defence would have made them understand that in this legislation the Full Bench makes the decision, not the Minister. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 29 August 1979: [More…]
A report by a Departmental working party established to consider uniform disciplinary legislation for the three services was presented to the then Minister for Defence in December 1973. [More…]
On 2 April 1974 the working party’s report was tabled in the Parliament by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
This report contained a draft Defence (Discipline and Justice) Bill, prepared by the working party. [More…]
The working party later considered the matters raised by the Ministers together with numerous other comments received, particularly from members of the Defence Force. [More…]
It submitted a further report in January 1 975 to the then Minister for Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 19 September 1979: [More…]
What has been the (a) average rent for defence service housing stock under the group rent scheme on a year by year basis since the scheme’s inception and (b) the percentage increase from year to year. [More…]
House that increased expenditure on tourist promotion, depreciation allowances for the tourist industry as well as other support such as cheaper overseas air fares to Australia negotiated by the Minister for Transport, will make it unnecessary for the Minister for Defence to take any steps to dissuade the Banana Republic from nonpeaceful action in the foreseeable future? [More…]
In response to the final part of the honourable gentleman’s question, I am sure that the strength of the Government’s support to the industry, which will be of major assistance to Coffs Harbour, will certainly dissuade my honourable friend the Minister for Defence from taking any precipitous action in relation to Coffs Harbour or giving any consideration to an incursion into that territory. [More…]
It notes that the population of 688,771, which was recorded by the Diocese of Dili in 1974 had declined to 329,271 at the end of 1978, based on an assessment completed at that time by the Indonesian Defence and Security Authorities responsible for East Timor. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 12 September 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Defence and I issued a statement on this issue the night before last. [More…]
The primary purpose of this Bill is to rationalise in a beneficial way the provisions of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits and Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Acts relating to Class C invalidity retirees from the Defence Force. [More…]
In summary, the Bill reflects initiatives favoured by members of the Defence Force which are consistent with the basic benefits philosophy of the DFRDB Scheme. [More…]
I take this opportunity to make clear that allied veterans will not, under repatriation legislation, be eligible for income tax concessions, a defence service homes loan, or repatriation medical treatment benefits. [More…]
The pensions affected by this change are the special rate- totally and permanently incapacitated- pension, intermediate rate and general rate pensions as well as the war and defence widow ‘s pensions and service pensions. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Post and Telecommunications been drawn to a media report relating to the acceptance by a recently retired senior member of the defence forces of an important position with Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation? [More…]
Does the Minister accept that there may be a conflict of interest for the brigadier resulting from his new employment and his recent employment as a Department of Defence representative on the Government task force which recommended a domestic satellite for Australia? [More…]
The AttorneyGeneral has a complete defence to the Parliament. [More…]
It is interesting that there has been so little defence by the Government of this legislation. [More…]
In the Defence Signals Directorate clerks working on the UMBRA classification receive an additional salary loading by way of danger money. [More…]
If that is the best defence that the Government can produce on this clause, there is certainly not much to be said for the clause. [More…]
He is talking about New South Wales- of $ 1,420m for 1978 is well over half of Australia’s total national defence budget of $2,430m for 1977-78, and somewhat under half of the New South Wales State revenues of $3,200m. [More…]
There is no provision that I am aware of in the Defence Act which would preclude any former member of the Defence Force entering into private employment anywhere in Australia. [More…]
This Parliament has not legislated to prevent former members of the Public Service or former members of the Defence Force from entering into private employment. [More…]
I would say that how a former member of the Defence Force behaves upon entering into private employment would be essentially a matter for his own sense of fitness and integrity. [More…]
I would regard it as a startling proposal to seek to place a complete embargo on all former members of the Public Service or the Parliament or of government or of the Defence Force entering into private employment. [More…]
Bearing in mind paragraph 3.2S of the guidelines issues by the Public Service Board, which were read out by the honourable member for Melbourne yesterday, can the Minister for Defence indicate whether the recently mentioned Army officer sought permission or guidance from the permanent head of the Department of Defence or the Public Service Board prior to taking up employment with Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation? [More…]
I am not aware of any obligation upon that gentleman to seek the approval of the present Secretary of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I ask a question of the Prime Minister which follows questions to the Minister for Defence and answers by that Minister in relation to a senior military officer who has accepted an appointment with a firm which is likely to be a supplier to the Government of expensive electronic equipment of a nature with which he has had intimate policy association on behalf of the Government. [More…]
by leave- On 14 October 1976 the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) presented to the House on behalf of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the Committee’s report on The International Legal and Diplomatic Aspects of the Situation of Australians Possessing Dual or Plural Nationality’. [More…]
Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that the Hague Convention was of the opinion that a person should have only one nationality. [More…]
Between 1 July 1977 and 30 June 1979, 14 vessels were apprehended by the defence forces, 8 vessels were apprehended by civil craft chartered by the Department of Primary Industry, and 1 vessel was apprehended as a result of combined operations between a chartered civil vessel and a defence force vessel. [More…]
I turn to defence considerations. [More…]
The working group wholeheartedly endorsed defence use of the satellite. [More…]
It suggested that the nation’s defences would be more secure because of it; that our defence communications would be impregnable, with ground attack having little effect. [More…]
If the Government is going to rely on satellites for defence communications, that is exactly what it is doing. [More…]
I put to him this proposition about the defence facility and what would be its effects. [More…]
1 ) (a) The Depanment of Defence controls 56. [More…]
The Department of Defence uses the 49.4952 hectares comprising the Kingstown Barracks/Bickley Battery areas. [More…]
The three Services train on the Defence controlled areas as well as on the adjacent beaches and other sectors of the Island by arrangement with the Rottnest Island Board. [More…]
The married quarters, except for the one occupied by the Army caretaker at Kingstown Barracks, are used as holiday homes on a rental basis by members of the three Services and their families and civilian staff of the Defence Department. [More…]
A merchant seaman is eligible for a Defence Service Homes loan if he was employed between 3 September 1939 and 18 April 1946 in sea-going service on a ship engaged in trading between a port of an Australian State or Territory and any other port, or on a troop transport or hospital ship and was, during that employment, domiciled in a State or a Territory of Australia. [More…]
Eligibility for Returned Services League membership or the Australian Service Medal are the responsibility of the Returned Services League and the Department of Defence, respectively. [More…]
As far as Australia is concerned, we have no problems other than those referred to on previous occasions by the Minister for Transport- in his capacity as Minister for Transport- so far as surveillance of the fishing zone is concerned, and added to by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
We cannot have six little armies simply because we decided by agreement under the defence power that each State would raise its own army or air force. [More…]
Have both his Department and the Department of Defence recommended that penicillin should continue to be manufactured in Australia in the national interest. [More…]
I urge the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) to take this matter up and pursue it to the extent that we hope to have a report tabled fairly shortly. [More…]
The two Ministers at the table, the Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), are good Ministers. [More…]
They are two of the few Ministers who know what it is all about, although the Minister for Defence does not seem to have a tremendous interest in his department. [More…]
The major reason for the application of the sub judice rule is to enable a person to have a fair trial and to prevent a case being built up against a person without that person having the opportunity to say something in defence of himself. [More…]
I look at the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) who is sitting here. [More…]
I hope that next year the Minister for Defence will be given an easier time by the Committee. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) who was sitting here a moment ago is a man of great capacity. [More…]
He cannot possibly control and conduct all the affairs of the Department of Defence on his own. [More…]
The honourable gentleman takes such a passionate interest in defence that he is a scratching from Kangaroo III tomorrow, and I would say that that is one of the cheer-up features of the exercise. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Foreign Affairs now received official confirmation of the savage gaol sentences imposed in Prague upon the distinguished Czechoslovakian playwright, Vaclav Havel, and four other members of the Charter 77 sub-group, the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted? [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
It is a matter of some astonishment to me that a person who holds himself out as a defence expert should have offered such a churlish criticism. [More…]
I am aware also of the affection of the Minister for Defence for some reporters. [More…]
From the very beginning of this controversy I hoped that it would have been understood that the Department of Defence held the records of the tests at Maralinga and was in a very pure sense the archivist only of the records, undertaking to meet such requests for safeguarding of the material as would be appropriate. [More…]
The term ‘disarmament’ is most usefully seen as shorthand for ‘disarmament and arms control’, and covering a wide range of activities which could be put under these six headings: Firstly, the negotiations between the superpowers to control nuclear armaments and otherwise limit or control the development of the strategic environment or particular weapon systems; secondly, the discussions in international organisations, particularly at the United Nations, among wider groups of countries to seek the elimination, or ban the use of, particular categories of weapons; thirdly, the diplomatic conferences sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross to improve international law relating to humanitarian rights in armed conflict; fourthly, the various activities underway to prevent the diversion of nuclear material to military or explosive use; fifthly, regional negotiations to secure limitations to or a reduction of force levels, or to establish procedures for war avoidance; and finally, unilateral actions by countries to shape their defence forces and their diplomatic posture to diminish the prospects of conflict and enable reallocation of national resources in their region to social purposes rather than military expenditure. [More…]
I said then- if it has been corrected since, well and good- that our Government should be pressing the United States to take the same and positive step of ratification, in defence of our Australian national security interests. [More…]
My Government has recently informed the SecretaryGeneral that we are willing to submit our defence budget for analysis as pan of a pilot project on military budgets. [More…]
In the first instance we would hope to see an analysis done by Australia of the relationship between our Defence Force structure and arms control objectives. [More…]
More than half a million scientists, according to the Worldwatch Institute’s estimates, are working on new weapons and defence systems; that is, about 15 out of every 100 scientists who have ever lived are working on military projects. [More…]
In the Australian Government, defence science and technology establishments are estimated to cost $98m in the current financial year. [More…]
That figure in the Budget Papers would not cover the full cost of administering defence research and the large research and development component in the cost of capital items purchased by the defence forces. [More…]
We invite the Government to provide an analysis to the Parliament of its defence spending and to address disarmament and arms controls issues in a broader context, the like of which we have proposed. [More…]
This Bill amends the Defence Act 1903 to give the power to make standing appointments of officers to act as Chief of Defence Force Staff or a Service Chief of Staff during any absence of the holder of the relevant office. [More…]
Standing appointments are necessary to ensure that officers are available to act in any unexpected absence of the Chief of Defence Force Staff or a Chief of Staff. [More…]
The Bill will also expedite the payment to members of the Defence Force of approved increases in salaries and allowances and other financial benefits. [More…]
At present, salaries and allowances of members of the Defence Force are required to be prescribed in regulations made under the Defence Act 1903, the Naval Defence Act 1 9 1 0 and the Air Force Act 1 923. [More…]
The Defence Force is the only area of Commonwealth employment where all financial benefits are required to be prescribed in regulations. [More…]
This is especially aggravating to the Defence Force, where frequent movement of members and their families is a feature of service life and there is a range of benefits provided in recompense. [More…]
The Bill proposes to resolve these problems by empowering the Minister for Defence to make formal determinations of these financial benefits for members of the Defence Force. [More…]
Nothing in the Bill is designed to alter in any way the policies governing the fixation of Defence Force pay and other financial benefits or the machinery by which fixation takes place. [More…]
The proposal is that the Minister for Defence, during the interim period only, will be authorised to amend or repeal such regulations by interim determinations. [More…]
The Bill also makes formal drafting amendments to the Defence Act. [More…]
The Naval Defence [More…]
Amendment Bill 1979 and the Air Force Amendment Bill 1979, which I will also introduce, will make amendments to the Naval Defence Act 1910 and the Air Force Act 1923, respectively, which apart from some formal drafting amendments, are purely consequential. [More…]
It is my belief that the revised procedures provided for in this Bill will not only speed up the payment to members of the Defence Force of changes in rates of, and other improvements to, financial benefits, but will also enhance the revision and consolidation of the existing law on this matter, a task which has hitherto been hampered by the regulation-making process. [More…]
The Committee also recommended that every effort be made by the Department of Defence to advance the date for the transfer of the naval stores from the Royal Edward Victualling Yard to Zetland before the relocation of the Royal Australian Navy research laboratory. [More…]
Honourable members might ask: Why does one stand here and make these comments if they are not in defence? [More…]
I sit or stand, whatever one does, on *he Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and I work pretty hard at the job. [More…]
When honourable members take on a department like the Department of Defence- a handful of us were there for a couple of hoursthe questions are so general that the answers do not mean anything. [More…]
The rebates that will be affected by this amendment are those for a spouse, a daughter-housekeeper, a housekeeper, parent or parent-in-law, an invalid relative, as a sole parent, the zone rebate and the rebate for overseas service of members of the Defence Force or for service with a United Nations armed force. [More…]
Employment Levels at Defence Installations (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1979: [More…]
I have no reason to believe that the effectiveness of that Defence Force contribution would be enhanced by a new unit in the RAN. [More…]
His Government achieved remarkable improvement in the living standards of the people of the Republic of Korea while shouldering a major defence burden, to provide security in the face of serious external threat. [More…]
The Minister for Defence will recall his characteristically flatulent reply to my question on 25 October in which, amongst other things, he said that the Bofors gun being mounted on the new naval patrol boats was not obsolete. [More…]
During the inquiry, the Committee sought submissions from several departments and government authorities and held public hearings into matters relating to the Departments of Defence, Education, Primary Industry and National Development as well as the Canberra Commercial Development Authority. [More…]
The committee examined the AuditorGeneral’s reference to the handling by the Department of Defence of rental charges on Royal Australian Navy pipelines at Fremantle. [More…]
The Committee has commented on the response of the Department of Defence to the difficulty of introducing procedures to ensure adequate commitment control. [More…]
The only way Australia can organise its defence, manage its economy and conduct its trade, is at the national level through the national government. [More…]
What action has the Government taken on a number of recommendations in the report presented in June 1977 by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Middle East reference, which urged the Government to make Australia less dependent on Arab oil supplies and on the unpredictable Middle East situation. [More…]
The measures introduced to achieve this broad objective cover the substantial energy recommendations in the report by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Middle East. [More…]
(i) defence-$30 million. [More…]
non-defence- $35 million. [More…]
These sums are the allowances included in the Budget estimates of outlays for the costs of prospective wage and salary increases of Commonwealth employees, including defence force personnel, paid from appropriations for salaries and payments in the nature of salary. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Administrative Services aware that his Department is in the midst of disposing of large parcels of land in my electorate, in other areas of Queensland, and possibly elsewhere in Australia, which formerly were purchased for Defence Service Homes Corporation purposes? [More…]
Did he approve of the strong defence by Mr Besley of the Narcotics Bureau in his evidence to the Commission? [More…]
The devastating significance of those remarks is that in his defence Mr Besley did not seek to repudiate the challenge of Mr Hampson. [More…]
These included agriculture, defence technology and nuclear energy. [More…]
-The Opposition welcomes the concept in the Defence Amendment Bill and the associated measures. [More…]
The other portion of the Bill, that which empowers the appointment of acting chiefs of staff to the Defence Force or an arm of the Defence Force, is a clarification of what would be a necessary appointment in the absence of the person who for the time being held that position. [More…]
The Opposition moves this amendment because it believes that the defence forces should be substantially on the same ground and have their pay fixing made in the same way as other government employees. [More…]
I reiterate- I do not intend to labour the point-that I believe that it should be that the tribunal is an independent body that fixes conditions by determination and that the Minister, who is the administrative head and in fact the head of the defence forces should not be seen to be the person who ultimately makes the decisions which in all other areas of the Public Service, except the Parliament if I may say so, are reserved for independent tribunals. [More…]
My brief speech will be taken up with an expression of appreciation for the concern which the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has shown. [More…]
After all, when we are dealing with the Defence Act of 1 903, the Naval Defence Act of 1 9 10 and the Air Force Act of 1 923 we are probing pretty deeply into history. [More…]
The Minister and the Department of Defence have seen fit to remove these very tedious procedures. [More…]
There is little doubt that the defence force will greatly welcome these measures. [More…]
The purpose of my contribution is merely to pay tribute to the Minister and the Department not only in respect of this legislation but also in regard to the way in which they have been examining the whole system of benefits for the participants in the defence force. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the rate of resignation in the defence force is very much less than the rate of resignation in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Recently I put to the Minister at an Estimates committee a question on how we were attracting people to train for the new generation warfare and he was able to tell me- I am sure that everybody who is interested and involved in defence matters would be delighted to know this- that the interest in participation in that terribly important section of our defence requirements is very high. [More…]
There is one other matter I wish to raise- I do not intend to detain the House for long- and that is the continued failure of the Government to give any indication of its consideration of what is known as the Bonnett report on the anomalies between pensions under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Fund and others under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
Mr Marcus Einfeld wrote a very lengthy defence of Mr Finnane and attacked members of this House who debated the matter some weeks ago. [More…]
That defence appeared in page 7 of the Australian of 6 November. [More…]
What interpretation or guidelines does the Public Service Board put forward as a result of the effects of the changed Act, for example, (a) is an officer working in the Department of Health deemed to be in breach of the Act if he/she comments publicly on a specific defence issue or (b) is an officer working in any department, other than the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, deemed to be in breach of the Act if he/she comments publicly on the current levels of unemployment. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the case of Fletcher v. Seddon Atkinson Australia Pty Ltd (1979), INSWLR 169, in which the New South Wales District Court decided that the enforcement and application (except possibly by way of defence) of certain provisions of Part V, Division 2 of the Trade Practices Act 1974, as amended, fell within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Court of Australia. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Defence: Can he give an assurance that the prices currently being quoted by potential suppliers of aircraft under consideration for the Australian tactical fighter force program represent an accurate projection of the price Australia will actually pay for the aircraft? [More…]
The newspaper refers to Mr Einfeld ‘s article as a stinging defence of Mr Michael Finnane. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the interim report of the Defence Service Homes Corporation on operations under the Defence Service Homes Act for the year ended 30 June 1 979. [More…]
For Australia the ANZUS Treaty underpins the ultimate defence of the country. [More…]
For instance, this morning a number of us from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence were briefed by General Norman [More…]
The United States Congress, I believe, needs to be reminded of the joint defence facilities that are shared by Australian and United States armed forces in Australia. [More…]
-On behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign AfFairs and Defence I present the Committee’s report on Human Rights in the Soviet Union, together with the transcript of evidence. [More…]
-by leave-The report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence entitled ‘Human Rights in the Soviet Union’ is based on the evidence given to a sub-committee of the Joint Committee. [More…]
-by leave-As a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence but not a member of the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union I think it is important that the House take note of the fact that a number of dissenting reports have been published as well as the report which has just been tabled. [More…]
World commentators will examine this report and critically analyse whether the findings and recommendations from the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence should be taken seriously or, if there are weaknesses, distortions or inaccuracies, whether this report and consequently the reports of all other committees emanating from this Parliament should be ignored in the future. [More…]
The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence could either lack credibility or lack standing within Australia and internationally as an arm of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia seeking truth and morality in international relations. [More…]
It will be noted that some members of the full Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence have expressed some concern with one paragraph in the report and others have questioned whether the Parliament should have accepted this reference and referred it to the Joint Parliamentary Committee. [More…]
In Annex H of the report we note, for example, that Pastor Grivans was sponsored by the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia, that it helped to bring that gentleman to this country; that Mr Victors Kalnins was sponsored by the Latvian Relief Society of Australia; that Leonid Plyushch was sponsored by the Victorian division of the Ukrainian Committee for the Defence of Human Rights; that the Rev. [More…]
As a member of the Sub-Committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which prepared the report on human rights in the Soviet Union, I would like to make a few points. [More…]
I think that the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that has just been put down is plain evidence to everybody in this Parliament that going there would be a useless exercise. [More…]
-In 1977 when the proposition was put to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence for this reference to go to the sub-committee, I asked then that my name be recorded in the minuteswhich it was- as having very decisive reservations on such a decision. [More…]
It was with regret that I noted that the reservations came from three members of the full Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
I recognise the limitations upon the Sub-Committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
About 20 per cent of the population are in the pensioner, Defence Services, disadvantaged and veterans’ groups. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]
Is it a fact that there is in existence in the Department of Defence, at the Russell Hill headquarters in Canberra, a very complex electronic data processing system which services the defence forces throughout Australia and overseas? [More…]
If anything should happen to immobilise the costly equipment and this electronic data processing system, what effect would this have on the defence of Australia? [More…]
The maintenance of the Defence Force does not rest substantially upon electronic means alone. [More…]
by leave- I wish to inform honourable members of a review of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation which I have initiated. [More…]
The Defence Science and Technology Organisation, which is part of the Department of Defence, employs some 4,900 staff and has a budget of about $90m. [More…]
The Defence Science and Technology Organisation enjoys a fine international reputation. [More…]
The review will help the Government obtain the greatest value from this talent and help to ensure that Australia makes the best use of modern technology in its Defence Force. [More…]
An external review will concentrate on defence science and technology work as science and an internal review will cover special defence aspects of the Organisation including its objectives and interactions with the rest of defence. [More…]
The external review will cover the quality and research content of the work of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, its effectiveness in meeting program objectives and its relationships with industry and other science in Australia. [More…]
The internal review will examine the objectives of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, its interaction with the Services and other elements of the Department, its management procedures and the value of its association with defence science overseas. [More…]
The external review will be conducted by three distinguished scientists external to the Defence Department. [More…]
He is currently on a contract appointment as Chief Defence Scientist on loan from the University of New South Wales, where he was Dean of Engineering. [More…]
(retired), formerly Assistant Chief of Defence Force Staff, and Mr R. B. Finnegan, an assistant secretary in the Department of Defence. [More…]
Science technology, its availability and the competence of that area of defence are extremely important to any rational defence program, given the advances that are taking place in technology, electronics and other areas of offensive and defensive warfare. [More…]
I draw to the attention of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) the fact that those persons who have been appointed to undertake the external review are all persons of scientific or technical background. [More…]
The Defence Force technology and science area and the terms of reference which the Minister had incorporated in Hansard relate to economic viability. [More…]
One of the offsets of defence science has to be at least a consideration of marketing or the capacity to market the results of scientific investigation. [More…]
Australia produces a very low amount of new technology in the defence areas but it has been very successful in limited areas in the past. [More…]
Some successes have been made in the past in this area but it should not be the basic criterion of defence science. [More…]
It is also important that any review should cover the area of adequacy of the available research and scientific backup given to the Defence Force in a situation of emergency. [More…]
Defence science and technology has been one of the areas which has suffered most by staff cut backs in the defence area in the last two or three years. [More…]
Nevertheless, the infrastructure which the agreement and the work we did with the British provided to defence was a valuable asset. [More…]
I pay tribute to Senator Wheeldon for his great sincerity and the sincerity of the other members of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in producing a document which so exposed the question of human rights. [More…]
Is it to cause us to abandon our future, our security, our defence and our relations with the one country that could stand between us and what is an ever-growing threat in the north? [More…]
I briefly draw the attention of the House to this seminar because it highlights one of the many aspects ofthe Defence forces of our country which do not often surface in debate in this place, or indeed in debate conducted by the commentators on defence policy in Australia. [More…]
We tend to concentrate on major defence purchase items such as the tactical fighter force or the possibility of a replacement for our aircraft carrier. [More…]
Matters which concern the ability of our Defence Forces to function and to be resupplied and sustained are not often mentioned. [More…]
This caused severe disruptions to the harvest which were offset only by the release of some defence fuel supplies to farmers. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1979: [More…]
The report, parts of which are classified, looks at counter-terrorist machinery in Australia and the considerations relevant to the effective relationships between law enforcement and intelligence authorities at both the Commonwealth and State levels, the arrangements and procedures for handling terrorist incidents, the protection of VIPs, the use of the Defence Force in civilian security situations, and protective and security arrangements in Commonwealth departments and authorities. [More…]
Honourable members will note the report’s proposals for legislative changes dealing with the use of the Defence Force in aid of civilian security raise very significant constitutional, legal, civil rights and practical issues. [More…]
These are being carefully studied by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the law officers. [More…]
So when we use our police forces or our Defence Force we want to have a clear understanding, philosophically, of how we see their roles being fulfilled. [More…]
I do not believe that we could ever be fierce enough in the defence of our freedoms and of the standards which we require to ensure that the systems of authority within our community are answerable; even at times of crisis, they can be made accountable. [More…]
Armed encounters of this involved kind are properly matters for members of the Defence Force whose training fits them for the task. [More…]
The Defence Force should be used only as a last resort, and an overriding principle is that ‘troops should never, in any circumstances, be used to confront political demonstrators or participants in industrial disputes’. [More…]
I refer especially to those activities which prevailed under the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]
In defence of the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman), I say that all of us know that he is a most honest and frank person. [More…]
The Committee was again established in 1 95 1 under the chairmanship of Professor Bland, who is the father of Mr Harry Bland, who was the permanent head of the Department of Defence, amongst other departments. [More…]
One old faithful which has received a lot of attention from the Joint Committee of Public Accounts is the Department of Defence. [More…]
I am sorry that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is not in the chamber, because I know that he is concerned and has been concerned at the number of occasions on which the Joint Committee of Public Accounts has found it necessary to investigate the affairs of the Department of Defence. [More…]
I would like just to instance a couple of incidents that occurred in the investigations of the Department of Defence. [More…]
During the time of the Vietnam war the Department of Defence, through the then Department of the Army, decided that for the better care of the troops in Vietnam, who were doing a good job, it needed such equipment as transportable refrigerators. [More…]
After a lot of work the experts in the Department of Defence and other authorities drew up the design plans for these transportable refrigerators, which were to be used primarily in Vietnam. [More…]
There is another matter which again happens to concern the Department of Defence, and the Army authorities. [More…]
I have instanced these two cases which were investigated by the Joint Committee of Public Accounts concerning the Department of Defence. [More…]
The Minister has some reasonable defence for the attitude that he has taken. [More…]
What matters remain outstanding that would prevent an amendment to the operation of the Defence Service Homes Scheme to extend eligibility to members of the Citizen Military Forces and Women’s Forces who served in Australia during the 1939-45 war. [More…]
The question of extending eligibility for Defence Service Homes benefits to persons who served in Australia during the 1939-45 War in the Citizen Military Forces or Women’s Services was fully considered by the Government last year. [More…]
As a result of that consideration, the Defence Service Homes Amendment Act 1 978 incorporated certain Ministerial directions which had been followed since 1948 and which prohibited the granting of assistance to such persons if they did not serve outside Australia. [More…]
What percentage of the average cost of all houses built or financed under the Defence Service Homes Scheme was covered by the maximum loan in (a) the Commonwealth and (b) each State during (i) 1974-75, (ii) 1975-76, (iii) 1976-77,(iv) 1977-78 and (v 1978-79. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence aware of recent news items which state that the United Kingdom has now completely severed itself from activities at Woomera in South Australia? [More…]
We have a Minister who comes into this place in defence of a colleague’s conduct and simply dismisses the concept of ministerial responsibility as ‘highfalutin’. [More…]
In the Senate we find that Senator Guilfoyle in her defence said: Well, I knew nothing about telephone taps. [More…]
I cannot see how some papers alleged to belong to a political party and which refer to the Leader of the Opposition can be enjoined in a defence by the Leader of the House (Mr Viner) of the thrust of his argument in response to the motion which is concerned with ministerial responsibility in respect of a particular item which is before the House. [More…]
-by leave-In 1978 Mr R. N. Bonnett, the former honourable member for Herbert, reported to the Government on the terms and conditions under which the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act operates and the way its terms and conditions apply to the beneficiaries under the Act. [More…]
I briefly make the point that it was an all-parties committee report which was compiled following very extensive inquiries throughout Australia and throughout the whole of the Defence Force. [More…]
A consequence of that report was that the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act came into being. [More…]
-Many retired ex-servicemen will be very disappointed with the statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
In this case we have the situation in which former members of the Services- some of whom in fact paid a considerably higher percentage of their salaries than that which currently applies under the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme- receive lower rates of pension because of the accident of date of retirement and not because of any differential in actual contribution. [More…]
A member of the Services who retired in late 1972 under the Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Scheme and who joined at approximately the same time and obtained approximately the same rank as a person who retired in early 1973, now could be in receipt of pension entitlements involving a difference of up to $2,000 a year. [More…]
The then Minister for Defence and the present Minister for Defence, at that time and in office, have both given undertakings that they would review the position of persons who were virtually left out because of the dates of their retirement. [More…]
That accident of date is costing retired members a considerable amount of money and is disadvantaging a section of retired members of the Defence Force. [More…]
The other relevant factor is that prior to 1973 salary ranges within the Defence Force were at an artificially low level. [More…]
They were not brought up to what should have been the reasonable expectations of members of the Defence Force, especially professional officers, until 1 973-74. [More…]
In addition, the conditions of retirement of members of the Defence Force at that time were less than beneficial. [More…]
I know that it was the subject of criticism of the former Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, that there was an excessive number of retirements from the Defence Force. [More…]
If invalidity retirements were tax free under the Defence Force retirement scheme- I do not think we should differentiate between that scheme and a superannuation scheme because it is in fact a superannuation scheme- they would of necessity have to be tax free under all superannuation schemes. [More…]
Members, and particularly older members, of the Defence Force, some in this House, will be extremely disappointed with the Government’s decision. [More…]
It is utterly wrong for him to say that the Government was responsible for expectations being encouraged among Defence Forces Retirement Benefits pensioners, that is to say, those people who served in the professional forces of Australia during the period from 1948 to 1972. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) said, it represents about 100 per cent in terms of cost. [More…]
Before 1948 there was no such thing as a Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme. [More…]
In 1948 those people who were in the interim forces before the regular forces were finally established were entitled, when they came into the regular forces, to become contributors to the scheme known as the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme. [More…]
Members of the Labor Party, in particular my late friend the honourable member for Lang, Mr Stewart, and the former honourable member for Bass, Mr Barnard, who was the Minister for Defence in 1973, would have been familiar with these facts. [More…]
During the period from 1950 to 1959 all sorts of problems were put up to Ministers for Defence, at that time largely Sir Philip McBride and later on Sir Allen Fairhall. [More…]
Between 1959 and 1972 the same problems again emerged, and they were well known to the then Minister for Defence, who retired in 1969, and to the Treasurer of the day. [More…]
I remind my honourable friend the Minister for Defence, who at that time had ceased to be the Minister for the Navy, that certain stresses were resultant of the circumstances at that time. [More…]
When the Government changed in 1972 and Mr Barnard, the then honourable member for Bass, became Minister for Defence, consideration was given to this matter and the Labor Party changed its view. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has indicated that he is prepared to engage in discussions between the returned soldiers and the Regular Defence Forces Welfare Association on aspects of these matters as the Government’s decision is studied. [More…]
I am not upbraiding him but if I mention the mining of Haiphong harbour I am sure that the present Minister for Defence will rise to his feet and bow to the House. [More…]
-by leave-I make this statement on behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which, as you know, Mr Deputy Speaker, is composed of both Government and Opposition members of the Senate and the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Joint Committee is also continuing its work on two other major references, namely, Southern Africa and Defence. [More…]
The Defence sub-committee’s report entitled Australia’s Defence Procurement’ will be tabled in the Parliament this coming Thursday. [More…]
To this end, and in addition to controlling the way in which shares may be acquired by an offeror, controls are placed on target company management to restrict the use of unreasonable defence tactics such as unjustifiable profit forecasts, unjustifiable revaluations of assets, unconscionable service agreements or wilful non-disclosure of information needed by shareholders to assess a bid for their shares. [More…]
They were all designed at very short notice again to try to ensure the most effective defence that we can provide, for private citizens in relation to the misuse of the information secured by bugging and tapping. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice on 7 June 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 29 August 1 979: [More…]
1 ) Expenditure through the Department of Defence (including expenditure by Department of Housing and Construction) on research and development of military technology is estimated to be $1 17.9m in 1977-78 and $1 14.1m in 1978-79. [More…]
These amounts include actual expenditure by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation and estimated expenditure by the Services on research and development activities conducted within their normal operations. [More…]
About 600 separate tasks are covered by the Defence research and development programs for the years 1977-78 and 1978-79 of which the main components and the approximate extent of resources used as a percentage of outlay are as follows: [More…]
Maintenance and improvement of the Defence Force e.g. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 13 September 1979: [More…]
What was the value of the implicit price deflator for Defence equipment expenditure (ships, aircraft, armour and other equipment and plant) each year from 1973;74 to 1 978- 79 using the last year as the base year. [More…]
No implicit price deflator is maintained for Defence equipment expenditure; rather, assessments of real growth in Defence function capital equipment expenditure are made each year relative to the achievement in the previous year. [More…]
Using the data maintained for these purposes an index for Defence function capital equipment expenditure has been constructed which enables the assessment of expenditure in previous years in real terms relative to the expenditure in 1978- 79. [More…]
The assessment excludes from Defence function capital equipment expenditure the acquisition costs of the Boeing 707 aircraft. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 13 September 1979: [More…]
1 ) What was the value of the implicit price deflator for all Defence expenditure each year from 1973-74 to 1978-79 using the last year as the base year. [More…]
No implicit price deflator is maintained for Defence expenditure; rather, assessments of real growth in Defence outlays are made each year relative to the achievement in the previous year. [More…]
Using the data maintained for these purposes, an index for Defence function outlay has been constructed which enables the assessment of outlay in previous years in real terms relative to the outlay in 1978-79. [More…]
The assessment excludes from Defence function outlay the acquisition costs of the Boeing 707 aircraft. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 October 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 October 1979: [More…]
Does the Industrial Instruction (Department of Defence), issued on 14 September 1979, set guidelines issued by the Public Service Board for consultation with respect to the introduction of technological change. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 October 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 October 1979: [More…]
Are any Defence personnel housed in official accomodation which does not have such basic facilities as (a) toilets and (b) showers under the same roof as sleeping areas. [More…]
Temperatures shown are the monthly mean minimum temperatures for the coolest month as advised by the Bureau of Meteorology and are as recorded at the Meteorology Station closest to the Defence base concerned. [More…]
It is my understanding that President Kaunda ‘s action is allegedly a defence measure taken in response to the escalation in the last fortnight of attacks by Rhodesian forces on important Zambian economic and communications targets. [More…]
I refer the Minister for Defence to a question I asked him in the House on 19 September concerning the cost of the new patrol frigates for the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]
by leave- I wish to inform the House of the further steps the Government has taken in regard to the selection of an aircraft to meet the future tactical fighter force needs of the Defence Force. [More…]
The Government recognises that all aircraft could to varying degrees provide capabilities not only in the roles of air defence and air combat but also in the air-to-surface roles including maritime interdiction and strike, and in tactical reconnaissance and close support of ground forces. [More…]
-The Government’s decision to reduce the number of aircraft currently under consideration to fill the tactical fighter force role has been anticipated for some considerable time, and the speech by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) would indicate that it has been accompanied by some significant trauma within the Government. [More…]
However, given the lead-up and the general approach to the program, and the obvious preference for American equipment expressed last year by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), and expressed very strongly within the Defence organisations and, to a lesser extent, the defence forces, it was to be expected that the Government would bring down this type of decision. [More…]
However, they would prevent any input by or basic advantage for defence-oriented industries in Australia and for the general aircraft industry in this country. [More…]
The F-16 is designed for a specific narrow role within the total United States air defence network. [More…]
It does not in its present form meet requirements of the Australian Defence Force, nor will it do so unless it is modified significantly to give it greater all-weather capacity. [More…]
It will be four to five years old as a production aircraft, and the span of its likely operation as an aircraft within the Australian Defence Force before obsolescence takes over, will be reduced by at least that period. [More…]
It should be remembered that at the same time as second orders are being considered, we will be required to look seriously at other areas of the Defence Force, where obsolescence will be a major problem by the end of the 1980s and about which announcements have not been made, even on projected collective costing, by the Minister or the Department of Defence. [More…]
The other disadvantage is one which Australia, unfortunately, has to live with daily in the defence area. [More…]
I understand that we are being offered the aircraft at a lower price than that but I understand that our purchasing arrangements with the United States are that we purchase aircraft through the United States defence network at the cost paid by the United States. [More…]
We can only indicate that we have to place our trust in those people who advise the Minister and the Cabinet that they have made a decision which is in the best interests of the Australian Defence Force in the future. [More…]
Earlier I mentioned the problem which concerns me of the tendency in this country to consider only United States equipment because of availability of spare parts and the capacity to plug into the defence stores and replacement networks. [More…]
It may well be that Australia, because of costs and defence capital equipment budget commitments in the next 10 to 12 years, could end up with a very good aircraft but an inadequate number of those aircraft to meet the realistic defence needs. [More…]
Additional factors in support advanced by other witnesses included encouragement of Queensland tourism, the Defence need and the current inability to instal certain guidance systems. [More…]
One of his last contributions was in relation to a commission given to him by Forrest, when he was Minister for Defence in this place. [More…]
It may be argued, I guess, as a flimsy defence, that this is the product of a leak. [More…]
Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on both the Middle East and the Torres Strait. [More…]
The Australian defence authorities are giving close consideration to all aspects of the physical security and legal protection of Australian soldiers taking part in a Commonwealth ceasefire monitoring force in Rhodesia. [More…]
According to the daily program, that is, the blue sheet, the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence was due to come on before the discussion of a matter of public importance. [More…]
-I believe this is the only fair way in which the Chair can make a decision in this matter in view of the fact that the presentation of the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence was deferred. [More…]
-On behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I present the Committee’s report on Australian defence procurement, together with the transcript of evidence. [More…]
I point out to the House that it seems that, when matters of defence come forward, by a conspiracy of circumstance, time is cut short to a point where there is practically no debate at all. [More…]
The precise terms of reference for the present report were: ‘The implementation and effectiveness of Australia’s announced defence programs, with particular reference to procurement policy’. [More…]
It examines the procurement process from the initial strategic analysis right through to the acquisition of equipment for the defence forces. [More…]
We have expressed our full agreement with the strategic assessment as set out in the 1976 defence White Paper and as subsequently updated and restated by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
These centre on our concern for the capacity of the Defence Force to expand rapidly enough to meet some contingencies. [More…]
Our concern is sufficient to prompt us to recommend that a high-level inquiry into the expansion capability of the Defence Force be undertaken. [More…]
This Committee reported two years ago on Australian defence industry, and we have followed the matter up in the present report. [More…]
We maintain our view that our defence industry base is not as good as it might be, and that we should develop it to make Australia as free as possible from dependence on foreign suppliers. [More…]
We suggest that this can be achieved through the provision of stable workloads, acceptance of apparent cost disadvantages where these are not excessive, improved communication between industry and the Department of Defence and, importantly, by Government and the Department sticking to decisions previously announced. [More…]
We recommend that these capabilities be introduced over a 10-year period, and wish to make the points that this will require a bipartisan approach to defence. [More…]
This funding would be separate from the annual defence budget. [More…]
I repeat it: This funding would be separate from the annual defence budget. [More…]
The Committee received convincing evidence that there is a problem in procedures which apply to the purchase of defence equipment in Australia. [More…]
We are persuaded that these procedures act as a deterrent to Australian industry and to the Department of Defence. [More…]
We have made an exhaustive study of the Defence Department’s decision-making system. [More…]
According to standard Defence Department procedures it can take up to eight years from the issuance of a major equipment proposal, and rarely takes less than three or four. [More…]
These lead times exceed likely periods of warning for some defence contingencies we may have to face. [More…]
Our examination of the organisation of defence procurement revealed that for several reasons aspects of this function have been dispersed between various departments or agencies. [More…]
For this reason, we have recommended that functions related to the procurement of major military equipment now with the Department of Administrative Services be transferred to the Department of Defence. [More…]
The development of the Defence Force should be based on a deterrent posture to show that the cost of interference with Australia or her vital interests would be prohibitive and should seek to demonstrate that Australia is concerned to contribute to the security of the region. [More…]
The approach used by the Defence Department to define the Defence Force requirements- the core force concept- has much to commend it in a period of financial stringency. [More…]
The Committee agrees with the introduction to the 1976 White Paper on Defence which stated: [More…]
If this objective is to be attained, it will require the allocation of additional financial resources to defence, particularly for the timely acquisition of new equipments. [More…]
The system for procurement from Australian sources is excessively cumbersome and complex and that it poses serious problems for both the Defence Department and local industry; [More…]
The Government should direct relevant Departments and agencies to produce an improved system for local defence procurement, and that this should be a matter of high priority; [More…]
The expenditure overseas of large sums on defence equipment should in principle be supervised by Australians; and [More…]
The Department of Defence should investigate ways of reducing the contribution of departmental decision-making processes to equipment acquisition lead times, which often exceed the five year warning period spoken of before, without degrading the quality of decisions. [More…]
Divides responsibility between too many departments and agencies, with a consequent lack of consistency and loss of fast reaction time; fails to take account of the fact, recognised in overseas reports and organisations, that procurement is a specialist activity in its own right; and so far as local procurement is concerned, is based on requirements and practices which tend to erode our defence industrial base. [More…]
Australia is separated from its overseas suppliers of defence equipment by long lines of communication. [More…]
In a conflict with a regional country, overseas suppliers may be unwilling to provide Australia with its defence requirements. [More…]
For these cogent strategic reasons the Committee recommends that Australia should become increasingly self-reliant for its production of defence equipment. [More…]
It is necessary that there should be informed discussion in the electorate and the Parliament with a bipartisan approach developed in respect of defence policies and strategies, the essential requirements of the Defence Force, and the extent to which these resources should be allocated to provide these requirements. [More…]
The Parliament, through its committee structure, should monitor all defence programs, and the Department of Defence should be encouraged to make a positive and continuing contribution to the informed nature of the debate by its active participation in and promotion of public seminars and by its briefing of the Parliament on defence issues. [More…]
In determining priorities for development of the Defence Force consideration should be given to the following elements: [More…]
Our two consultants, Commodore Ken Gray and Gary Brown justified the reputation they both have for their knowledge and understanding of the defence scene. [More…]
The vast and valuable experience of Ken Gray and the observations and monitoring of defence activities here and abroad by Gary combined to provide most valuable assistance to the Sub-Committee. [More…]
The Minister for Defence, the Honourable Jim Killen, and the Minister assisting him, the Honourable John McLeay, never hesitated to make every possible facility available to the SubCommittee to assist our inquiries as a result of Minister Killen ‘s co-operation Defence Department witnesses of the highest possible calibre appeared as witnesses before the Sub-Committee. [More…]
I have to inform the House that the Subcommittee expresses concern about remarks made in the House on 26 October 1978 by the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence and on 8 March 1979 by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
We consider that the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence over-reacted to criticism which had been levelled at the Department of Defence by witnesses who appeared before the subcommittee at public hearings and which in some cases had received Press publicity. [More…]
The subcommittee considers that, to a lesser degree, the Minister for Defence also over-reacted to such criticisms. [More…]
We are pleased to note that, as further evidence was received and evaluated, far better understanding obtained between the Minister for Defence and the Department of Defence on the one hand and the sub-committee on the other. [More…]
People from the Defence Department of the very highest calibre, appeared before the Committee by authorisation of the Minister, including Sir Arthur Tange and Sir Anthony Synnot. [More…]
The Minister for Defence responded in detail in this House in November 1978 to the previous report of the Committee on defence industry. [More…]
I look forward to comment by the Minister for Defence in debate in this House after he has had opportunity to consider the matters raised in the report. [More…]
-This report covers one of the important areas of government responsibility, especially in the area of defence. [More…]
Firstly, this sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is seriously understaffed in view of the type of task it is required to carry out and the level and quality of reports it should be expected to produce on behalf of the Parliament. [More…]
It is unfortunate that this House has decided that a separate committee on defence is not warranted, as I consider this subject is of sufficient importance to warrant such a committee. [More…]
The last two major reports of this subcommitteethe first on Australian defence industry and this one on Australian defence procurement- have examined two of the most difficult and important areas of government responsibility both nationally and internationally. [More…]
I think they have been treated very badly by the Department concerned and by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), who is responsible for that Department. [More…]
If there is to be an honest examination of procedures, if the procurement of defence equipment in Australia is to proceed on a basis which is above any form of criticism and which is to the advantage not only of the Australian Defence Force but also of the Australian nation, continuing examination of procedures and of the results and decision-making processes is necessary by this Parliament. [More…]
The status of the various negotiations is currently under review by the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1979: [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the economic disadvantages experienced by many ex-servicemen whose total income is derived from funds paid under the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Scheme. [More…]
Was this matter the subject of an inquiry by the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation (the Jess Committee) and later by the Bonnett Inquiry whose report dated 10 February 1978 was referred to him in March 1978. [More…]
1 ) and (2) I am aware of the suggestion that there are anomalies and inequities under the Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Scheme, and these have been among the subjects investigated by the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Legislation and the R. N. Bonnett Enquiry into the Defence Forces Retirements Benefit Act 1948. [More…]
See the statement in the House of Representatives by the Minister for Defence on 20 November 1979 (Hansard, pages 3 187-8). [More…]
Has a Legal Defence Fund to support Australian Aboriginal liberation struggles been established by the International Conference for the Eradication of Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]
I should, however, note that legal defence for Australian aboriginals involved in both criminal and civil legal matters is provided by eleven independent Aboriginal legal services operating from nearly fifty offices in all States and the Northern Territory. [More…]
Twelve Nomad Searchmaster aircraft have been supplied to Indonesia as part of an integrated Defence Cooperation program to assist the Indonesian Government’s ability to deal with smuggling, illegal entry, protection of fisheries and search and rescue within its archipelago waters. [More…]
There has been one accident involving Nomad aircraft provided under the Defence Co-operation program. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 13 November 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 13 November 1979: [More…]
1560 (Senate Hansard, 8 June 1979, page 30 14) that statistics of drug and alcohol addiction in the Defence Forces are not maintained. [More…]
Members of the Defence Force may be discharged for drug offences falling well short of addiction. [More…]
They were either extracted from or comprised updates of data made available by the Depanment of Defence during a public hearing of the Williams Royal Commission nearly two years ago, or else were drawn from related data. [More…]
4568 (Hansard, 16 October 1979, page 2084), is the formal framework referred to the same as the early warning system, referred to by the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, whereby trading partners were told of intentions to increase barriers against their exports ( Weekend Australian, 27-8 October 1979). [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 20 November 1 979: [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that official defence records indicate that 12 per cent of members of the Defence Force have a serious alcohol problem. [More…]
Were figures to support this provided to the media by his Department or officers of the Defence Force. [More…]
The Defence Force is not, and does not expect to be, immune from problems that affect the community at large. [More…]
To my knowledge there is no objective survey which, based on common criteria, would indicate where the Defence Force would stand in relation to the community as a whole, or where its various components would stand in relation to (say) regions, age groups, sexes, religious groups, ethnic groups, occupational groups etc. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 20 November 1979: [More…]
1 ) Did he authorise a private briefing on Defence Force drug abuse for a reporter of Playboy magazine. [More…]
) and (3 ) The officers named participated in discussions arranged by the Director of Public Information in the Department of Defence following an approach by a journalist, Mr Lee Patterson. [More…]
and (4) Both the Defence Science and Technology Organisation and the Director, Australian Armoured Corps, were involved in the development of requirements, trials and assessment of contenders, and the final selection of Leopard (including its infra-red night sight) as the medium tank for the Australian Army. [More…]
Each State is responsible for its own civil defence and emergency services. [More…]
The matter of coverage for workers’ compensation of volunteers engaged on civil defence work during an emergency and compensation for loss or repair of vehicles, craft, etc., is determined by the respective State Governments. [More…]
In all States except Victoria civil defence volunteers are covered by an insurance policy which provides for payment for accidental injury and loss of income resulting from participation in organised civil defence training or operations. [More…]
This project has come to an end not because of any wish of the United States Department of Defence, but because of a decision of the US Congress which was unwilling , to vote further funds despite the best arguments put forward by the US Department of Defence. [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence seen reports of Communist guerilla activity, including the blowing up of a railway line only 7 miles east of Butterworth Air Base? [More…]
I asked the same question 3 years ago of Sir Allen Fairhall when he was Minister for Defence. [More…]
Project N is currently under examination by Departments of Defence, Air and Army. [More…]
I informed the Deputy Leader of the Opposition yesterday that I had received a document from the Department of Defence concerning the Richmond air base. [More…]
As I indicated yesterday to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the studies that will be conducted by the Department of Defence at the same time will be considered in conjunction with that feasibility study. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for Defence. [More…]
The Department of Foreign Affairs, in consultation with the Departments of Defence, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Trade and Resources, National Development, and Education, has given detailed consideration to the Joint Committee’s report and its recommendations. [More…]
asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 20 November 1 979: [More…]
Did the Australian Defence Science and Technology Division provide advice on the form of gunsights needed. [More…]